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* In ''Manhwa/TotallyCaptivated'', a deliriously sick Ewon tells Mookyul the reason he doesn't want to be in a relationship is because Mookyul is like the chocolate on top of a cake that he once stole because it looked so good but melted before he could ever eat it. Mookyul tries to convince him this is stupid and in this case Ewon can have his chocolate and eat it too.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' features an example with a decidedly more tragic bent in its double-episode finale. In the second to last episode, [[CulturedBadass Jet]] delivers a paraphrased version of the [[Creator/ErnestHemingway Hemingway]] short story "The Snows of Kilamanjaro" to [[ByronicHero Spike]] to try and persuade him to leave his fight with [[RivalTurnedEvil Vicious]] in the past. Spike counters this in the next episode by comparing his relationship with [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Julia]], the woman who drove the wedge between Spike and Vicious to begin with, to the popular Japanese children story "The Cat Who Lived a Million Times." The story is about a tiger-striped cat cursed with a million lives, who suffers an oppressive and meaningless existence until he meets a [[LoveAtFirstSight white cat]]. The white cat and the tiger-striped cat live happily together, until the white cat [[TheGwenStacy grows old and dies]]. The tiger-striped cat cries a million times, and then dies again, only this time [[CantLiveWithoutYou he doesn't come back to life]].

* In ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'', Chikane tells the story of a seashell, to which only one other seashell in the entire world will be a perfect fit. Especially poignant, since it is told to her [[ReincarnationRomance destined]] StarcrossedLover Himeko, though she is unaware of Chikane's feelings at that point.

* In ''Manga/AmeIroKouchakanKandan'', Seriho (owner of a teahouse) compares herself to a teapot who wants to make tea for everyone, and Sarasa, to a cosy that keeps the tea inside warm. Sarasa is slightly embarrassed by this story.

A character uses an allegory to describe his romantic relationship with his significant other. Said allegory is usually [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} rather up there]], yet provides precious insight into said relationship from an unusual angle and is [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming often ridiculously cute]].

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' features an example with a decidedly more tragic bent in its double-episode finale. In the second to last episode, [[CulturedBadass Jet]] delivers a paraphrased version of the [[ErnestHemingway Hemingway]] short story "The Snows of Kilamanjaro" to [[ByronicHero Spike]] to try and persuade him to leave his fight with [[RivalTurnedEvil Vicious]] in the past. Spike counters this in the next episode by comparing his relationship with [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Julia]], the woman who drove the wedge between Spike and Vicious to begin with, to the popular Japanese children story "The Cat Who Lived a Million Times." The story is about a tiger-striped cat cursed with a million lives, who suffers an oppressive and meaningless existence until he meets a [[LoveAtFirstSight white cat]]. The white cat and the tiger-striped cat live happily together, until the white cat [[TheGwenStacy grows old and dies]]. The tiger-striped cat cries a million times, and then dies again, only this time [[CantLiveWithoutYou he doesn't come back to life]].

* In ''TotallyCaptivated'', a deliriously sick Ewon tells Mookyul the reason he doesn't want to be in a relationship is because Mookyul is like the chocolate on top of a cake that he once stole because it looked so good but melted before he could ever eat it. Mookyul tries to convince him this is stupid and in this case Ewon can have his chocolate and eat it too.

* Film/TheWayHeLooks In a platonic version Leonardo explains to Giovanni that she's the moon, and Gabriel is the earth during a lunar eclipse. The moon disappears for a while behind the earth but it'll always come back.

* In ''Music/PaulAndStorm'''s song "Your Love Is (Love Song With Metaphor)", the singer's love is variously (and nauseatingly) compared to a butterfly, a sailing ship, and a tiny puppy, while his partner's is respectively likened to an entomologist, smallpox, and ''Creator/ChristopherWalken'' in ''Film/TheDeerHunter''.

* Film/TheWayHeLooks In a platonic version Leonardo explains to Giovanni that she�s the moon, and Gabriel is the earth during a lunar eclipse. The moon disappears for a while behind the earth but it�ll always come back.

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* Film/TheWayHeLooks In a platonic version Leonardo explains to Giovanni that she’s the moon, and Gabriel is the earth during a lunar eclipse. The moon disappears for a while behind the earth but it’ll always come back.

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* In ''Music/PaulAndStorm'''s song "Your Love Is (Love Song With Metaphor)", the singer's love is variously (and nauseatingly) compared to a butterfly, a sailing ship, and a tiny puppy, while his partner's is respectively likened to an entomologist, smallpox, and ''Creator/ChristopherWalken'' in ''Film/TheDeerHunter''.

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* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':

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* In ''KannazukiNoMiko'', Chikane tells the story of a seashell, to which only one other seashell in the entire world will be a perfect fit. Especially poignant, since it is told to her [[ReincarnationRomance destined]] StarcrossedLover Himeko, though she is unaware of Chikane's feelings at that point.

** [[spoiler: This actually ends up being a complete subversion. After telling the story Spike gets up to go to his probable death at the hands of Vicious or his Syndicate lackeys, and Jet asks him if it [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl really is all because of the girl]]. Spike responds that "there's nothing he can do for a dead woman," with the implication that there is something he can do for his friends that are still alive, namely leaving the Bebop to settle things with Vicious once and for all, [[HeroicSacrifice removing them from the crossfire]].]]

* In {{Natsuneko}}'s ''Spicy Sweets'', Yuu compares her relationship with Aki (a baker-in-training) to a cake of which she only takes a bite out of fear it disappears on her. Post-RelationshipUpgrade, she dreams of the same cake and no matter how much she eats, it never grows smaller.

* In ''{{Ame-iro Kouchakan Kandan}}'', Seriho (owner of a teahouse) compares herself to a teapot who wants to make tea for everyone, and Sarasa, to a cosy that keeps the tea inside warm. Sarasa is slightly embarrassed by this story.

-->"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope."

* ''CookingMasterBoy'' qualifies. Pretty much everything cooked has metaphorical elements. For example, in one episode Mao meets an attractive (but shallow) woman who wants to use him to make the dish her ancestor made, but much like her, the dish has the sauce on the outside while Mao shows it being cooked with the sauce inside (inner beauty). This particular theme is a recurring one.

* ''{{xkcd}}'':

* From ''AnnieHall'': "A relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies."

* ''{{xkcd}}'': [[http://xkcd.com/83/ Katamari]].

* HK-47 of ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has a very unusual definition of love:

* In ''KannazukiNoMiko'', Himeko tells the story of a seashell, to which only one other seashell in the entire world will be a perfect fit. Especially poignant, since it is told to her [[ReincarnationRomance destined]] StarcrossedLover Chikane, though she is unaware of Chikane's feelings at that point.