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* [[spoiler: Mitsuri Kanroji and Obanai Iguro]] in ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' After the battle against [[spoiler: [[BigBad Muzan Kibutsuji]], both of them are mortally injured with little time to live. Mitsuri tells Iguro that [[DyingDeclarationOfLove if they are reborn as human in their next life, he gonna take her as his wife]] which Iguro accepts. The epilogue showed them, reincarnated in the modern era, as a couple running a restaurant and, in the final volume, are revealed to have [[BabiesEverAfter five children.]]]]

* A [[CompanyCrossReferences cross]]-[[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld series]] example occurs between [[LetsPlay/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]] and ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1. Scott and Jimmy's characters fall for each other and have a CommonLawMarriage in ''3rd Life'', [[spoiler:become TogetherInDeath after both of them are KilledOffForReal by nature of the DeadlyGame premise of the series]], reincarnate in the ''Empires'' world at some point, and fall for each other again.[[note]]Granted, ''3rd Life'' being a past life of ''Empires'' Season 1 started out as AscendedFanon, but it's clearly a good enough idea for Scott the content creator to canonize it.[[/note]]

** In the ''Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy]]'' [[spoiler: Stefan]] is the reincarnation of Tylendel, who died tragically when both he and his lover Vanyel Ashkevron were teenagers and lingers as a ghost for a few years before being reborn. Seventeen years later, he successfully courts the [[FamedInStory now-legendary]] Herald-Mage Vanyel, [[AgeGapRomance by this time in his mid-thirties]].

* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'', [[spoiler: Stefan]] is the reincarnation of Tylendel, who died tragically when both he and his lover Vanyel Ashkevron were teenagers. Seventeen years later, he successfully courts the now-legendary Herald-Mage Vanyel, [[MayDecemberRomance by this time in his mid-thirties]].

* In ''Film/EmbraceOfTheVampire1994'', the title character finds a woman who has the soul of a woman he loved centuries earlier and tries to turn her into a vampire. He also fails.

* In ''Film/EmbraceOfTheVampire'', the title character finds a woman who has the soul of a woman he loved centuries earlier and tries to turn her into a vampire. He also fails.

* Birgitte Trahelion and Gaidal Cain in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime.'' Lanfear and Rand are an interesting aversion, as well. Rand is the reincarnation of the long-dead Lews Therin Telamon, who once had a relationship with Lanfear. She sincerely believes in their ReincarnationRomance despite the fact that she, in fact, is immortal and thus never actually reincarnated. He sincerely wishes that this crazy bitch would go away and stop calling him by someone else's name.

** Possibly subverted by the fact that relationships between future hosts of the same symbiont pair is forbidden by Trill law, and breaking that law means that the symbionts will not be transferred to new hosts when their current ones die, greatly discouraging ReincarnationRomance and ensuring that it will only occur once per couple if it happens at all, which is odd when you consider the recurring theme that there aren't enough Trill symbionts to go around to begin with.

* One fan-setting for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' combined the backstory of Scarab (''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'''s {{Expy}} of Hawkman) with that of Red Phoenix (a reincarnating MagicalGirlWarrior from ''TabletopGame/SilverAgeSentinels''), giving them a Carter-and-Shiera-style ReincarnationRomance. The twist is that in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}} this became a MayDecemberRomance, with the middle-aged Scarab trying to hide his feelings for the 20something reincarnation of his lost love from UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}}. Then in UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, Red Phoenix finds herself in a similar situation with the "new" Scarab.

* Creepy version from the ''Literature/SammyKeyes'' series: [[spoiler: Sammy's mom, an actress, gets a fake ID so she can claim to be younger. Unfortunately, her new birthdate is the day her boss's wife died, and he not only thinks she's a reincarnation of his wife, he's ready to kill them both to facilitate a ReincarnationRomance.]]

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** In VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI, this is what Yuriko thinks [[HelloInsertNameHere the Hero]] and [[TheLancer the Heroine]] are, with herself being Lilith, while the player character is supposedly Adam while the heroine is Eve.

** In VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI, this is what [[DarkChick Yuriko]] thinks [[HelloInsertNameHere the Hero]] and [[TheLancer the Heroine]] are, with herself being Lilith, while the player character is supposedly Adam while the heroine is Eve.

* "Next Lifetime" by Music/ErykahBadu is about meeting a love-worthy man after she's committed to someone else, with the chorus suggesting that perhaps their timing will be better next time. The music video, however, plays the reincarnation theme more strongly, where she and her love interest are shown together in multiple time periods, including AncientAfrica, the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement, and the distant future.

* Happens one-sidedly in ''Film/{{Soultaker}}'', a ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''-victim movie from the 90s. The villain, one of the titular [[GrimReaper Soultakers]], believes that the female lead ( played by the screenwriter) is the reincarnation of his lover from the Old West - and whose betrayal is the reason he's a Soultaker in the first place. Rather than claiming her soul like he's supposed to, he tries to win her over, which doesn't work out too well.

* ''Fanfic/JoJoNewUniverse'': Invovked by Servant Saber Jonothan Joestar ''A Gentleman, A Thief, A King, And A Hero''. As a heroic spirit in the Throne of Heroes, he is unable to reincarnate. When he finds out that his late wife Erina will be reincarnating soon, he plans to use the Holy Grail to wish for a second life so she wouldn't be alone.

* In ''LightNovel/MirageOfBlaze'', Naoe has spent the past 400 years pining after Kagetora thanks to this trope. [[LoveMakesYouCrazy It doesn't work out very well for him,]] and Kagetora/Takaya [[MindGameShip doesn't really approve.]] Done in a much nicer way with Ayako/Haruie, who is waiting for her lover from 200 years ago to reincarnate.

* [[spoiler:Himeko and Chikane]] in ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden''. [[spoiler:Himeko is forced to kill Chikane to stop the world from being destroyed by appeasing an eldritch god, and despite losing her memories of her temporarily, once she meets her reincarnated vessel she regains them and her feelings of love for her.]]

* Rao Raghunth in ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' wishes for this when he thinks he will be parted for life from the Princess Shakuntala. As [[WartimeWedding it turns out]] [[TheyDo it wasn't necessary.]]

You know the drill. "A love [[ThePowerOfLove so strong]] it [[{{Reincarnation}} conquered time!"]] [-(and took no prisoners!)-]

* ''Fanfic/TheMoonsFlashPrincess'': Averted with Asuna (the reincarnation of Princess Serenity) and Mamoru (the reincarnation of Serenity's lover, Endymion). Asuna see's Mamoru as just her older brother's friend and another older brother figure, and she get's together with Kirito like in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' played with this trope occasionally with Dax and the other Trills, humanoid aliens with slug-like symbionts. When one host body grows old and dies, the slug can be implanted in a new host, bringing along the accumulated memories and personalities of the old hosts, to merge with that of the new host. A couple of times, slugs who fell in love with one generation of hosts will meet up generations later and fall in love again, occasionally with gender switches. Led to Star Trek's first girl-girl kiss.

*** OTOH, that rule was a major law in one episode, and never mentioned before (or since?). It had been broken more than once before it showed up, including in the first Trill episode (''The Host'', TNG).
*** The whole reason for the episode was that the writers wanted to create an LGBT-issues episode in TheNineties, despite full in-story acceptance of LGBT in everyday Federation life. So the in-universe argument became about a written-in issue in ''Trill'' culture about not romantically associating with partners from past lives, framing it for a decidedly human audience by gender flipping only one of the new hosts.

** "The Field Where I Died" has a scene where Mulder, under hypnosis, recounts that he, his sister, Scully, and Cancer Man have been reincarnated into each other's lives over several lifetimes and are always related, and Cancer Man is always evil. Mulder's supposed soul-mate-in-every-life is a woman named Melissa who also channels a guy called Sidney and Lily, a little girl. It's kind of wierd that they are supposed to be ''that'' close all the time, and here she's one off character who's hard to relate to. This kind of falls apart when Mulder talks about being a Jewish woman and Cancer Man being a concentration camp guard in [=WW2=]. Being in his fifties/sixties in the '90s means Cancer Man would have already been alive during the war, as either a child or a teenager and could not have been in the big evil guy in the concentration camp. However, there's also no stated rule that reincarnation is strictly linear in this case - it's possible he was reincarnated into a body that was born several years before the last one dies. Timey-wimey.
** Inverted in the episode "Hellbound". A serial killer has been [[FlayingAlive skinning his victims]] and claimed 4 of them so far. Assisted by the local detective Van Allen, Reyes investigated the case. Looking into the archives, they found that similar incidents have occurred every generation; each time 4 victims, all skinned. Going as far as they could, they found an earliest known case where there was only one victim skinned by 4 robbers. The detective turned out to be the killer, and the original victim - but he couldn't let go of his resentment, it tainted all his future incarnations and always seeking to commit revenge on his tormentors across lifetimes. As added bonus, in his dying breath he remarked how Reyes 'always fails to stop the murders', as Reyes is the reincarnation of the sheriff who failed to solve the case.

* Discussed in a Japanese ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' radio drama. Musashi and Kojiro play two lovers named "Jessie" and "James" who are the {{Sole Survivor}}s of a ship crash. As their oxygen depletes, the duo reminisce on their lives together. A dying Jessie mentions that it was destiny that they met and that they will meet again someday.

* The Literature/AllanQuatermain novels ''Ancient Allan'' and ''Allan And The Ice Gods'' reveal that Allan and Luna, Lady Ragnall were previously Count Shabaka and Princess Amada in AncientEgypt, and Wi and Laleela in OneMillionBC. Interestingly, Quatermain and Lady Ragnall don't have a relationship in the present day; in fact Allan finds his vision of Shabaka and Amada so awkward that he avoids meeting her again.

* Discussed in ''Fanfic/TheStudentPrince'': Merlin wonders if Arthur, Gwen and Lance are destined to have the same TriangRelations as their mythological counterparts. It's averted, of course, since this ''is'' an Arthur/Merlin fic - unless you assume that their previous incarnations were also in love with each other.

* A [[CompanyCrossReferences cross]]-[[ReincarnateInAnotherWorld series]] example occurs between [[LetsPlay/LifeSMP 3rd Life SMP]] and ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1. Scott and Jimmy fall for each other and have a CommonLawMarriage in ''3rd Life'', [[spoiler:become TogetherInDeath after both of them are KilledOffForReal by nature of the DeadlyGame premise of the series]], reincarnate in the ''Empires'' world at some point, and fall for each other again.[[note]]Granted, ''3rd Life'' being a past life of ''Empires'' Season 1 started out as AscendedFanon, but it's clearly a good enough idea for Scott the content creator to canonize it.[[/note]]