History Main / PlatonicDeclarationOfLove

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys'', Wolf and Snake's reconciliation at the end of the film is this. [[spoiler:Considering they're falling to their presumed deaths in the crater, this doubles as a DyingDeclarationOfLove.]]

* One chapter of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' has Matsuri [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove making an emotional spectacle]] in stating how important his [[SempaiKohai senpai]] Soga is to him. It's played [[{{Bathos}} for equals parts humor and pathos]], mostly playing on the [[ShipTease romantic overtones]] between the two Matsuri remains completely oblivious to.

* A tragic subversion in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Linka's cousin Boris, addicted to the narcotic Bliss, steals Linka's power ring and tries to pawn it to Verminious Scumm in exchange for more of the drug. Scumm asks him to bring in ''Linka'' instead, in exchange for all the Bliss he wants. Boris replies with the trope... and Scumm replies that, in that case, Boris can just ''live'' with the agonizing Bliss withdrawal. Boris gives in and ''gets Linka addicted to Bliss''.

** In one issue, Superman and Franchise/WonderWoman are transported to Valhalla to fight in a war against demons and are prevented from leaving until the war is concluded. The war ends up lasting over a thousand years, but in all that time and despite a growing attraction to Diana, Clark remains faithful to Lois. On the eve of their last battle, the two acknowledge that it'll be their last night together. Clark admits that despite all the time that's passed, Lois is still the only person for him, which Diana approves of. The two embrace and share the following conversation.

* ''Fanfic/SisterFloriana'': The [[ProtagonistTitle title character]] gets this from her best friend, Sister Eulalia in [[https://www.wattpad.com/958668974-sister-floriana-the-pinata The Pinata]].

-->'''Kim''': "Hey I misspoke earlier, and I don't mean to lead you on but... I love you so much."
-->'''Ron''': "I love you too KP. You going to be okay?"
-->'''Kim''': "Yeah. Long as I'm with you."

* In ''Fanfic/LokiAgentOfDoomgard'': At end of a conversation with [[spoiler:Paradise!Loki]], Loki tells them that he loves them and considers them as family.

** In the climax [[spoiler:When Peter-1 aka the MCU Peter decides to pull a HeroicSacrifice and {{Unperson}} himself once and for all, Doctor Strange warns him “everyone who knows and loves you, we'd… we'd have no memory of you”.]]

** In the episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E4BadTimeOnTheBorder Bad Time on the Border]]", when he's calling [[MysteriousWaif Maria]] to reassure her that they'll get her mother back soon, [[FriendToAllChildren B.A.]] tells her "I love you." Given that he's been treating her like a daughter/little sister, it's clear it's meant to be platonic.

** During Mac's limbo period in "Near Death," he subconsciously encounters his colleagues, including the Messers who are also his goddaughter, Lucy's, parents. Lucy toddles away, Lindsay follows her off-screen, leaving Danny & Mac side by side, both staring out the window. Danny states simply, "I love you, Mac," and Mac replies, "I love you, too, Danny."

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother:'' In "Little Minnesota", Robin is feeling down as she can’t go home for the holidays, and Marshall got her thrown out of a bar that reminds her of Canada because he was jealous of the attention she was getting. He later finds her eating ice cream on her doorstep and they reconcile, with him giving her one of these.
-->'''Marshall:''' I’m so sorry for what happened back there. I--I acted like a total jerk. I, I shouldn’t have said anything.\\

** "[[Recap/MonkS2E2MrMonkGoesToMexico Mr Monk Goes to Mexico]]": when Captain Stottlemeyer, Monk's FriendOnTheForce, gets the (erroneous) report that he's been killed, he tells Randy that he will resign if Monk doesn't get a police funeral with full honors (despite having been discharged from the force) and declares, "I'm going to tell you something, Randy, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I loved that man." A few minutes later, he gets the news that it was a lookalike and not Monk who was killed, and his mood flip-flops:

-->'''[=BoJack=]''': And I wish you didn't get so distant after you moved out.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': Two examples occur in Woody's songs. First he declares in "You've Got a Friend in Me" that no one will ever love his owner Andy like he does; then in "Strange Things," he laments that he still loves Andy but the boy has replaced him with Buzz.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The titular girls and their father/creator Professor Utonium say "I love you" to one another several times throughout the series, but the most poignant and dramatic instance of it by far happens in the episode "Knock it Off." The professor's old college roommate Dick sees dollar signs when he first meets the girls, and it isn't long before he's mass-producing clones (most of them very slipshod) to sell all over the world. When the girls try to stop him, they're captured and drained of the Chemical X within them so Dick can continue to use the secret ingredient to make more clones. The professor begs to trade places with them, but Dick simply captures him as well. As he's being taken away, he yells out to the girls that he loves them and they respond weakly with "we love you too" before seemingly passing out/dying. This show of affection makes the clones realize that they never received any love themselves, and they turn on their creator. The professor's love ends up revitalizing the girls in the end.

* In ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'', Kanna gives [[ParentalSubstitute Kobayashi]] a hug tells her that she loves her after finding out that she'll be attending the sports festival (Parents' Day in the manga).

* ''Literature/GodspeakerTrilogy'' gives us an example which is also a DyingDeclarationOfLove and LoveConfessor. Raklion has a FriendVersusLover conflict with his best friend Hanochek, and his consort Hekat. It's a simmering background problem for a long time. When it comes to a head, Raklion -- very, ''very'' reluctantly -- sides with Hekat, and banishes Hanochek. But at the end of his life, with his LastWords, Raklion wishes he hadn't. This is also an example of LoveConfessor, as he tells this to Hekat, not Hanochek.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''. Lee casually tells Starbuck he loves her during a conversation, and Starbuck [[ThatCameOutWrong gleefully teases him over it.]] It's ShipTease from the audiences' perspective of course, but he actually meant it as this trope.

*** At the conclusion of the quest "All That Remains," Hawke's mother [[spoiler:dies after she]] says, "I love you. You've always made me so proud." Hawke may also, before or after this quest, find a note in their bedroom which amounts to the same wording.

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* "You Light Up My Life" is a fairly chaste love song, with no sex even inferred, which is why many religious groups, including Music/DebbyBoone, had it as a paean to Jesus. The song could apply to a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, favorite great-aunt, whoever.

* In the climax of ''Film/ILoveYouMa]'', Peter and Sydney ping-pong this in an OverlyLongGag at the altar while Peter is marrying his wife, showing their growth from recent acquaintances to HeterosexualLifePartners, with the dead-seriousness of a traditional rom-com confession:

* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', [[spoiler:Peter-2 (AKA [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan the Webb-verse Peter]])]] tells [[spoiler:the other two Peters]] "I love you guys." The movie deliberately portrays the three as being like brothers.

* ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In the series finale, Charles Xavier reassures his son David that he does love him even though David in this timeline was given up for adoption. Now that an AlternateTimeline is being created, Charles vows that he'll raise David and be the father that he should've been.

* In the second season of ''Series/TheWitcher'', Ciri has a conversation with Yennefer in which she describes Geralt as being "the father I never had," and says that she loves him. Geralt, for his part, never actually says the words, but by the end of the season he acknowledges that Ciri is effectively his daughter; when asked by a friend if she is his, he nods and says, "Mine." He also tells Ciri directly that they are family.

* In the climax of ''[[Film/ILoveYouMan I Love You, Man]]'', Peter and Sydney ping-pong this in an OverlyLongGag at the altar while Peter is marrying his wife, showing their growth from recent acquaintances to HeterosexualLifePartners, with the dead-seriousness of a traditional rom-com confession:

-->'''Obi-Wan:''' "You were my ''brother'', Anakin. I loved you!"

* In ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'', as Anne and Diana are saying a forced goodbye after the currant wine incident, Diana says that she'll "never have another bosom friend… I couldn't love anybody as I love you." Anne is buoyed up by the statement as no one had ever said that to her before. She tells Diana that she loves her as well.

-->''Willie:'' I love you. Whatever happens, remember that I love you.

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother:'' In "Little Minnesota", Robin is feeling down as she can’t go home for the holidays and Marshall got her thrown out of a bar that reminds her of Canada because he was jealous of the attention she was getting. He later finds her eating ice cream on her doorstep and they reconcile, with him giving her one of these.

'''[[spoiler: Shiro]]:''' *Momentarily freezes*

'''[[spoiler:Keith]]:''' I love you too, [[spoiler: [[ParentalTitleCharacterization Mom]]]].[[note]]This was particularly notable because it was also the first time Keith called Krolia Mom, thus conveying that he had come to truly accept her as his mother.[[/note]]

* In the young adult novel ''Snowbird'', protagonist Willanna makes one of these to her horse, the eponymous Snowbird. The horse, who is quite young, will have to be ridden to a neighboring farm to get help for Willie's aunt, who has gone into premature labor. Willie knows that it's a risk to the horse; she'll have to go farther and faster than she's ever run in her life.

* ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', Kimmy admits she loves her friend Cindy during one of her first crying fits. Probably hard not to love someone you were locked up in a bunker with for 15 years (although in this case the two characters probably have slept together, still definitely a platonic confession though).

* In the biggest FriendshipMoment of ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'', the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition co-Inquisitors]] reunite after their extended quarrel with a hug, and Mahanon tells his younger counterpart, ''Ar lath, ma da'vhenan.'' This is Dalish for "I love you, my little heart," the latter phrase being his AffectionateNickname for his [[LikeBrotherAndSister honorary sister]].

* In ''Webcomic/PixieAndBrutus'', Pixie declares that she loves Brutus almost immediately after meeting him, directly after calling him her big brother and squealing that they're going to be the best of friends.

** {{Invoked|Trope}} in "Love And/Or Marriage," after Princess Carolyn returns from three blind dates to sign congratulations cards to everyone in [[Characters/BoJackHorsemanHollywooBusinesses VIM Agency]] with the stock words made by her assistant, Judah. She signs them mechanically until she sees [[WellDoneSonGuy the one meant for Judah]]. She's genuinely touched that he so desperately wants her approval.

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* In the last episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', [[IceQueen Rosa Diaz]] of all people, tells her best friend Amy she loves her.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'': The opossum twins do this when the pterosaur they and Buck are riding on gets knocked out and starts falling from the sky.

* Happens a few times in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' series.
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', both Alistair and Leliana may, at different points, tell the Warden that they love him/her even if they haven't been romanced. Sten, in his own odd way, may also say it, not least by calling the Warden ''kadan'' (a Qunari word meaning someone "close to the heart").

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', at the conclusion of the quest "All That Remains," Hawke's mother [[spoiler:dies after she]] says, "I love you. You've always made me so proud." Hawke may also, before or after this quest, find a note in their bedroom which amounts to the same wording.