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| 7 | ->''"I ♥ _____"'' |
| 8 | |
| 9 | An [[OmnipresentTropes exceedingly common]] {{love trope|s}} that stipulates the following: |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Apparently, the heart (being the organ responsible for powering the circulation of blood around the body) is an extremely romantic thing. Hence, "hearts" are equated with positive emotions, such as love, kindness, and compassion. According to this logic, someone that lacks ability to sufficiently feel such emotions is "heartless," and someone that has recently experienced a romantic tragedy is "heart-broken." |
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| 13 | When a HeartSymbol is used for this, it's traditionally pronounced "love," as in "I love New York" for "I '''♥''' NY," although recent convention has been to actually pronounce the symbol as "heart" -- for example, the film ''Film/IHeartHuckabees''. This in turn has led to the Internet {{meme|ticMutation}} of typing "I less-than-three X," in reference to the mathematical meaning of "<3". |
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| 15 | In Animation and Graphic Novels, a cloud of hearts drawn floating near a character's head sometimes indicates a character falling in love and/or lust. [[EyePop Eyes popping out]] [[WingdingEyes in the shape of hearts]], [[HeartBeatsOutOfChest oversized heartbeats]], and the like are all some of TheOldestOnesInTheBook. |
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| 17 | The reason for this goes back to ancient days when people could do little more than guess at why people had so many different weird bits inside them, let alone which ones did what. Different cultures decided on different organs as being the seat of emotions and/or intelligence; Some went with the intestines (such as the Hebrews of the Old Testament), some went with the kidneys, some went with the liver, etc. The Ancient Greeks were among the ones who went with the heart, and such was the strength of their influence on Western civilization that many of our idioms and figures of speech still reflect the notion of the Heart being the cognitive organ, even though we've known it to be untrue for centuries. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | It's possibly a DiscreditedTrope, as subversions, deconstructions and parodies seem more common than playing it straight these days. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | Note that HeartSymbol is for just the stylized symbol itself. A ProjectileKiss may involve this trope. It may also be used with SayItWithHearts to convey love, or at least liking. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | !!Examples: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 27 | |
| 28 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 29 | * The commercial slogan for UPS: "WE ♥ LOGISTICS." |
| 30 | [[/folder]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 33 | * Every other line during the steamy portions of {{Hentai}} manga will end with one (or more) of these. |
| 34 | * ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' played with it. [[{{Satan}} Hild]] blows a '''♠''' kiss at Keiichi. Belldandy counters it with a '''♥''' kiss, sending the two symbols ricocheting all over the room until they're caught by their mutual owners. Good thing she did, since '''♠''' kisses are apparently destructive. |
| 35 | * [[StalkerWithACrush Grell]] gets these when flirting over Sebastian in ''Manga/BlackButler''. There's also episode 15 when Aleister does it while thinking of Ciel DisguisedInDrag. |
| 36 | * In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', the smoke from [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]]'s neck [[http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/9885/heartt.jpg periodically formed a heart]] while Shinra defended her [[spoiler:[[RelationshipUpgrade and their recently upgraded relationship]]]] from his father's criticisms. |
| 37 | * In ''Anime/{{Daltanious}}'' when Judela winks at Earl, she's surrounded by hearts as her eyes close and turn Earl all red and blushing. |
| 38 | * Heart symbols emanating from Kitsuburami's WingdingEyes in episode 5 of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''. This may be due to what she is [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/FLCLheartSymbol.jpg looking at]] (reflected in Canti's screen). Despite what it looks like, it's a giant hand in a trench coat. Really. |
| 39 | * Hachiko in ''Manga/{{NANA}}'' has them floating out of her whenever she gets a new love interest (she goes through a lot). |
| 40 | * Lucia from ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' uses them as an attack after she finishes a song in the anime. |
| 41 | * In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', when Rock Lee meets Sakura for the first time, he blows a physical heart symbol at her. She even manages to dodge it and it splats sadly on the pillar behind her. |
| 42 | * In ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' when [[spoiler:Naoto]] tells the group she was scared, [[SweetOnPollyOliver Kanji]] gets these floating around him. |
| 43 | * Naturally, in a show starring a self-proclaimed warrior of {{love|Freak}} and {{justice|WillPrevail}}, ''Anime/SailorMoon'' has a lot of them. |
| 44 | * In ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' Itoshiki is once given a chocolate heart as present, but it's not very well-made and looks ugly, so the perfectionist Chiri gives him [[spoiler:an anatomically correct chocolate heart]] instead, freaking everybody out. |
| 45 | * Copiously used in a completely unstraight way by Subaru when she [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanoha-subaru-having-a-gay-old-time-with-teana.jpg reunites with Teana]] in ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX''. |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', Himespetchi gets heart-shaped eyes whenever she is thinking about her crush, Mametchi - which happens ''a lot'', by the way. Usually it's conveniently timed with her saying her distinctive catchphrase "Gigakyun!", an exclamation of her love. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': When Clorofoamaster uses clorofoaming Emp as something like love, with {{Heart Symbol}}s at the edges of his speech bubbles in [[http://www.empoweredcomic.com/comic/volume-3-page-64 Volume 3: Page 64]]. |
| 51 | * ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'': Multiple: |
| 52 | ** The early parody "[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Starchie]]" got facetious with them: |
| 53 | --->"Don't be silly, Bottleneck!... Just because you see those hearts floating around her head it doesn't mean she's got a crush on me!... In cartoon language, those hearts could mean platonic friendship!" |
| 54 | ** Another parodied the "I ♥ NY" bumper sticker with a sticker responding: "So did I until someone ♣'d me and stole my ♦s". |
| 55 | * For a while, the Stepford Cuckoos from ''ComicBook/XMen'' were [[EmotionlessGirl unable to feel emotions]] because their hearts were made of diamond. That's not a metaphor, it was literally the case. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 59 | * ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'': The cover image of this "romantic cringe comedy" has a HeartSymbol-shaped balloon. |
| 60 | * In the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9048346 Bullets For My Love]]'', the other handlers rib Jose over the ''H+♥+J'' graffiti on the wall of the Killing House, put there by his [[PrecociousCrush cyborg Henrietta]]. Jose scrapes it off with a multitool. |
| 61 | * In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanart, the kanji symbol on Gaara's forehead (which means "love") is often replaced by a '''♥'''. |
| 62 | * ''Fanfic/PsychedelicEpiphanySeries'': ''Psychedelic'': In multiple chapters: |
| 63 | ** From [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/267654/4/psychadelic/before-oblivious-now-grasping-objectives "Before Oblivious Now Grasping Objectives"]], Hearts and Hooves Day, as a MythologyGag to the original show's [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay "Hearts and Hooves Day"]] episode, a FictionalHoliday of effectively Valentine's Day. |
| 64 | ** As it's a Romance story, the implication is this is the meaning of Hearts in the chapter called [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/267654/6/psychadelic/hearts-analyze-nebulous-destinies-pondering-attitudes-nextwave "Hearts Analyze Nebulous Destinies Pondering Attitudes Nextwave"]]. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 68 | * In ''Film/BadlyDrawnRoy'', the heart-pounding-out-of-the-chest variation occurs when Roy first sees [[LoveInterest Ruth]], along with WingdingEyes. She found it to be very sweet. |
| 69 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'': |
| 70 | ** In his admiration for the Tengkotak gang, hearts float around Adu Du as he looks upon their signal on his radar, as it indicates that they are coming to Earth and he can meet his idols. |
| 71 | ** Adu Du sees Kiki Ta for the first time in a heart-adorned CrushFilter, followed by an ImagineSpot where hearts come off both of them as they run across a beach. He then falls on the floor with hearts in his eyes. |
| 72 | * ''WesternAnimation/CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie'': After Captain Underpants (while disguised as Mr. Krupp) flirts with Edith the Lunch Lady, she's left flustered as hearts pop up around her. |
| 73 | -->'''Edith:''' Ooh! (''fans herself'') Flirt Alert! |
| 74 | * In ''Anime/Interstella5555'', Music/DaftPunk have a brief CreatorCameo, losing to the main characters in a music contest. One of the two members has [=LEDs=] on his helmet forming a broken heart symbol. |
| 75 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when Mei turns into a giant red panda in the bathroom, at Abby's request, using her lust for Robaire and mermen, little heart shaped poof clouds show up right after the main poof cloud dissipates. |
| 76 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': While watching Eddie and his girlfriend, Dolores, make up, Roger not only has heart pupils, he also forms a heart-shape with his ears. |
| 77 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': |
| 78 | ** Hearts appear around Felix and Calhoun when they kiss, courtesy of long vines of Laffy Taffy. |
| 79 | ** They also bloom in thin air around the couple when they share TheBigDamnKiss of victory at the end. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 83 | * ''Film/IHeartHuckabees''. The director insists it's pronounced, "I Heart Huckabees." |
| 84 | * In ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', Gadget's hat incorporates a scrolling marquee that normally displays such things as MirandaRights. Heart symbols go sliding across it during an intimate moment. |
| 85 | * In ''Film/TheMask'', the living-cartoon title character has his heart-symbol pounding out of his chest when watching Cameron Diaz's character sing at a nightclub. |
| 86 | * A verbal example from ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' where the characters literally say "heart" instead of "love" while discussing the band The Clash at Demonhead (who's lead singer is Scott's ex girlfriend). |
| 87 | -->'''Knives''': "I heart them so much."\ |
| 88 | '''Scott''': Yeah, I hearted them too..." |
| 89 | * ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. Anyone who has physical possession of Davy Jones' heart can command him, but the sea goddess Calypso is able to wrest control when Davy Jones admits that his heart has always belonged to her. |
| 90 | [[/folder]] |
| 91 | |
| 92 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 93 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 94 | ** As illustrated by Paul Kidby, Twoflower's [[JapaneseTourist Agatean Tourist]] gear in the first two novels includes a hat proclaiming "I ♥ A-M". |
| 95 | ** In ''Mrs Bradshaw's Guide to the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway'', a sticker available from the town of Big Cabbage proclaims "I <cabbage symbol> Big Cabbage". (StealthPun: the inner part of a cabbage is called the heart.) |
| 96 | * The main plot point in ''The Wizard's Hairy Heart'', a short tale and [[ShowWithinAShow Book Within a Book]] in the [[Franchise/HarryPotter Harry Potter universe]]: A twisted wizard seeks to remove all emotion from himself in order to become stronger, and so uses dark magic to physically extract his heart and store it in a container. [[GoneHorriblyRight It works better than he ever intended]]. |
| 97 | * ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': Apparently, a heart that was two sizes too small was responsible for The Grinch's lack of fondness for Christmas. The trope is played straight in the most literal sense possible. |
| 98 | * The ''Literature/LaVitaNuova'' poem "Amore e 'l cor gentil" is all about how love and an open heart can only exist together, as judged by the wise man, legislated by Nature, and executed by Lord Love. For a heart to exist, Love must at least be hibernating within it so that it is ready to act when the heart encounters beauty. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 102 | * ''Series/AlteredCarbon''. In "[[Recap/AlteredCarbonS01E04ForceOfEvil Force of Evil]]", Kovacs is being tortured in VirtualRealityInterrogation, but thanks to his Envoy training is able to take control of the system. In order to [[YourMindMakesItReal stop his heart in the real world]] so the {{Torture Technician}}s will be forced to revive him to full consciousness, he [[AndShowItToYou tears out his heart]] and offers it to a hallucination of his [[TheLostLenore deceased lover]] Quellcrist Falconer, saying his heart has always belonged to her. |
| 103 | * On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Sheldon says the commonly used heart shape is actually modeled on the buttocks, prompting Penny to remark quizzically that she spent junior high drawing butts on her notebooks. |
| 104 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Multiple: |
| 105 | ** This exchange in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E12Helpless Helpless]]", when Angel tells Buffy how he fell in LoveAtFirstSight with her. |
| 106 | --->'''Angel:''' It was a bright afternoon out in front of your school. You walked down the steps... and... and I loved you.\ |
| 107 | '''Buffy:''' Why?\ |
| 108 | '''Angel:''' 'Cause I could see your heart. You held it before you for everyone to see. And I worried that it would be bruised or torn. And more than anything in my life I wanted to keep it safe... to warm it with my own.\ |
| 109 | '''Buffy:''' That's beautiful. ''[hugs Angel]'' [[HugAndComment Or taken literally, incredibly gross]].\ |
| 110 | '''Angel:''' ''[grimacing]'' [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike I was just thinking that, too.]] |
| 111 | ** In a scene laden with HomoeroticSubtext, Faith entices Buffy out of a chemistry test for some vampire slaying by breathing on the window, then drawing a love heart with a stake through it. |
| 112 | ** In a ValentinesDayEpisode, Xander gives Cordelia a heart-shaped locket. Not to be outdone, Angelus gives fellow vampire Drusilla an actual heart that he found 'in a quaint little shopgirl". |
| 113 | * ''Series/CobraKai'': In season 3 episode 3, Sam visits Miguel in the hospital, and gives him a get-well card. While Sam acts like she's only interested in trying to be friends with Miguel, her choice of card is shown to be a smiling octopus holding a heart in its tentacles saying, "You [[{{Pun}} Octopi]] My Thoughts," leading to Miguel remembering their first date at Golf N' Stuff in season 1, on which Sam won a stuffed octopus. |
| 114 | * ''{{Series/Hannibal}}''. Hannibal creates an anatomically-correct origami heart out of a human corpse and leaves it for Will to find. |
| 115 | -->'''Will:''' He left us... his broken heart. |
| 116 | * ''Series/HappyEndings'': Penny Hartz meets a guy named Douglas Hitler. She's initially weirded out, but he's such a great guy that she starts seeing him anyway. She starts imagining what might happen if they got married, and wonders if she could get used to the name "Penny Hitler." Her friend Alex suggests she could hyphenate her name. Penny responds, "Penny Hartz-Hitler. [[SarcasmMode Yeah, that's a keeper.]]" |
| 117 | * ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'': In "[[Recap/LegionS3E3Chapter22 Chapter 22]]", Charles Xavier sketches a heart-shaped tomato as a small gift for Gabrielle to illustrate his romantic feelings for her. |
| 118 | * On the lam in his bathrobe, Hurley buys an "I '''♥''' Shih-Tzus" shirt in the ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episode "[[Recap/LostS05E02TheLie The Lie]]". The cashier is puzzled. "I like shih-tzus," Hurley explains. "It looks like you heart them," the cashier answers. |
| 119 | * ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'': When Alan finally decides to make a love confession to Pipin, he decorates the confession spot with flowers formed into a heart shape. Pipin doesn't get the hint (or possibly doesn't even realize the flowers are making a shape), has the spot swept, and the confession fails before it even starts. Alan tries again later, this time with candles formed into a heart shape. It doesn't work any better. |
| 120 | * ''Series/{{Phoenix}}''. In the first episode, Sergeant Peter Faithful is mocked by his fellow detectives for the heart-shaped balloons his wife sent to him. Inspector Brennan, who is in the midst of a divorce, pops one of the balloons in a fit of anger and has to apologise the next day. |
| 121 | * In ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm,'' the BigBad's TV show in one episode (whoever watches gets brainwashed) was a sitcom called "I Love Lothor," with a heart for the logo... as in the actual, not-very-romantic-looking organ. |
| 122 | * In the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' episode "[[Recap/PushingDaisiesS1E9Corpsicle Corpsicle]]", a boy who was waiting on a heart transplant (because he initially had no heart) was rather mean. A played straight example. |
| 123 | * Lampshaded on ''Series/RedDwarf'' with the song ''TongueTied''. |
| 124 | -->When I saw you for the first time (''first time'')\ |
| 125 | My knees began to quiver (''quiver'')\ |
| 126 | And I got a funny feeling (''feeling'')\ |
| 127 | In my kidneys and my liver (''digestive system baby'')\ |
| 128 | My hands they started shaking (''shaking'')\ |
| 129 | My heart began a-thumping (''boom boom boom'')\ |
| 130 | My breakfast left my body (''huey huey huey'') |
| 131 | * Inversion: when Music/{{Moby}} was the musical guest on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in 2002, he was embroiled in a feud with Music/{{Eminem}}. He appeared in a sketch and wore a T-shirt that read "I heart eminem" given to him by a fan. |
| 132 | * In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "''Hunteri Heroici''", taking the trope into the realm of BloodyHilarious BodyHorror, a RealityWarper is causing CartoonPhysics to take hold in the real world. The first sign of this is a man who goes to meet his mistress[[note]]He was married.[[/note]] and finds his valentine-shaped heart beating so aggressively that it explodes out of his chest, killing him. |
| 133 | * ''Series/WandaVision'': Before he died in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Vision bought property in Westview that he intended for himself and Wanda to live in. On the property deed, he drew a heart over the lot where the house would be built, with a simple message: "To grow old in - V.". It is seeing this that prompts Wanda to break down and in an outburst of grief, transform Westview into one giant sitcom reality. |
| 134 | * Averted (or possibly subverted) on ''Series/TheWire'' with the gangster "No-Heart" Anthony: he got his nickname not from a reputation for cruelty, but because [[spoiler:he once tried to escape arrest by shooting himself in the chest]]. |
| 135 | [[/folder]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 138 | * Countless BoyBand songs like "I'll Never Break Your Heart," "Quit Playing Games With My Heart" and "Deep In My Heart." |
| 139 | ** Parodied in a Magazine/{{MAD}} article, quote: "very few [[SillyLoveSongs successful love songs]] have been written about lungs." Another quote from this article is also the {{Trope Namer|s}}. |
| 140 | * Parodied and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in Music/TomLehrer's "The Masochism Tango", on the album ''Music/AnEveningWastedWithTomLehrer''. "My heart is in my hand... yeeech!" (hence acknowledging that the heart is a rather sticky and ugly thing, hence isn't the best symbol for romantic love). |
| 141 | * Most SillyLoveSongs mention the heart in their lyrics. |
| 142 | * "U Stink But I ♥ U", an AntiLoveSong by Mucky Pup which was originally credited to [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty Billy And The Boingers]], from ''Billy And The Boingers: Bootleg''. |
| 143 | * The song "Hey Soul Sister" by Train, where the singer is in love with a woman. |
| 144 | --> I'm so obsessed, my heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest |
| 145 | * "I ❤ Metal Buildings" in the 2018 soundtrack album of ''Film/TrueStories''. |
| 146 | [[/folder]] |
| 147 | |
| 148 | [[folder:Mythology and Religion]] |
| 149 | * Older translations of Literature/TheBible use not only the heart, but the kidneys as a metaphor for centers of human thought and emotion. If you're not used to it, it can feel mildly sacrilegious to read passages where the original word for "affection" (NIV) is "bowels" (KJV). |
| 150 | ** A Christian comedian Mark Lowry once commented on this, resulting in "Oh, baby, you MOOOVE me! You move my ''bowels!''" He then proceeds to sing exerpts from several songs, replacing "heart" with "bowels." |
| 151 | ** This occurs in many actual old hymns as well, resulting in HaveAGayOldTime. A particularly glaring offender remarks of {{God}}, "To me, to all, Thy bowels move." |
| 152 | [[/folder]] |
| 153 | |
| 154 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 155 | * In a ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'' strip, Mr. Butts, the spokescigarette for the tobacco lobby, has little hearts appear around him as he deceitfully claims he loves children. A fellow lobbyist calls this "the heart thingy." |
| 156 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': |
| 157 | ** A Godzilla-related comic has "I 8 NY". |
| 158 | ** Another ''Far Side'' comic features a surgeon in love. But, being a surgeon, instead of a heart symbol it is represented by an anatomically correct heart. |
| 159 | * ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': |
| 160 | ** Played with in one strip: Jason makes heart-shaped placemats for his parents' Valentines Day dinner, but (being the person he is) makes them anatomically correct. |
| 161 | --->''"The left ventricles are a little off..."'' |
| 162 | ** {{Lampshaded}} in another strip as a MediumAwareness gag: Jason has written a mushy Valentine's card for his mom (so she'll buy him a bigger hard drive), but accidentally given it to Eileen. He's telling himself there's a chance she hasn't seen it or didn't believe it was for her, when he [[http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics/2007/05/11 runs into her]]. |
| 163 | --->'''Jason:''' ...There's a ''chance'' that those things above her head are just moths. |
| 164 | ** Another strip discusses the trope, with Jason wondering why hearts are the universal symbol of love and not brains, since the heart is just a pump and the brain is actually responsible for someone falling in love. His mom snarks that if Jason's dad had tried to woo her with a brain-shaped box of candy, then Jason probably wouldn't exist. |
| 165 | * The title character of ''Comicstrip/{{Lio}}'' once applied a defibrillator to one of these after being turned down for a date. |
| 166 | * In ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'', when Hawthorne hermit crab arranged a meeting between Sherman's shark human enemy, Captain Quigly and another woman. Sherman thinks it's working because he can see the "cartoony love hearts". Hawthorne corrects him by telling him that they're flies. |
| 167 | * Used as a visual gag in ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}''. Jeremy's parents have a bumper sticker reading "We ♥ Our Son," while a dour Jeremy has a sticker on his bag reading "I [Stomach] My Parents." |
| 168 | [[/folder]] |
| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 171 | * Creator/DataEast's ''[[Pinball/TheWhosTommy The Who's Tommy]]'' shows Sally Simpson riding a scooter to go see Tommy, with a flock of heart symbols floating around her head. |
| 172 | * Creator/{{Gottlieb}}'s ''[[Pinball/TeedOff Tee'd Off]]'' shows a lovestruck golfer with heart symbols floating around his head while he gazes at his girl. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 176 | * Parodied by Wrestling/ColtCabana. He has a T-shirt that has a Star of David in between the words "I" and "Colt." Wrestling/CMPunk has even been photographed wearing it. |
| 177 | * For Madison Eagles' match with Wrestling/DaizeeHaze at ''Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls'', she wore a belt that on the back read "I ♥ Me." |
| 178 | * Wrestling/ShawnMichaels usually has one on his gear with a crack down the middle, because he's the heartbreak kid. |
| 179 | * Danny Demanto typically has these adorning his tights. It goes with his heartless perfection moonsault you see. |
| 180 | * Wrestling/DaizeeHaze, sometimes has these patterned into her gear, because she's a hippie. Oh, and because if you don't show her love she'll heart punch you. |
| 181 | * 2015 LLF rookie of the year Baby Love has a mask two heart symbol shaped lenses. |
| 182 | [[/folder]] |
| 183 | |
| 184 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 185 | * In "Follow Your Heart" from ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'', the entire song has to do about following your heart more or less metaphorically, but one of Bobby's verses walks the line between romance and {{squick}}. |
| 186 | -->'''Bobby:''' Someday I'll meet someone\ |
| 187 | Whose heart joines with mine\ |
| 188 | Aortas and arteries all intertwined\ |
| 189 | They'll beat so much stronger |
| 190 | -->Than they could apart\ |
| 191 | Eight chambers of muscle to hustle\ |
| 192 | The love in our heart |
| 193 | * The duet "My Heart" in Music/PDQBach's ''Oedipus Tex'' uses a series of increasingly awful animal metaphors for the heart. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 197 | * In ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', near the end of the game, one of the [[CallARabbitASmeerp Mimigas]] mentions the great hero Arthur and all of them suddenly have hearts above their heads. [[HeartsAreHealth The hearts can also be grabbed for HP recovery]]. |
| 198 | * ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'': After hunting with Helena in the eastern town, the protagonist may remark on some SweetieGraffiti, that uses this trope: |
| 199 | --> Oh, look, someone carved a heart and some names into a tree...\ |
| 200 | That's sweet. |
| 201 | * Averted in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', where the in-universe symbol of love is lungs. |
| 202 | * ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' uses them for the max level that Dark Assembly members can like you... and just to show how wicked the Netherworld is. |
| 203 | --> Great for chopping heads off♥ |
| 204 | ---> -- "[[{{Pun}} Headhunter]]" axe description |
| 205 | * ''VideoGame/ForgetMeNotMyOrganicGarden'': In multiple ways: |
| 206 | ** The Doctor's quests, who is in love with Irene, have a HeartSymbol for them. |
| 207 | ** The dialogue after delivering 100 Heart organs: |
| 208 | ---> '''Organa:''' The Heart makes a cute fruit. If I gave it as a Valentine's present...that person would be shocked! Hehehe. |
| 209 | * ''VideoGame/FreshMintyAdventure'': A happy creature emits {{Heart Symbol}}s. |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/GoingUnder'': When Jacqueline eats a Peach and gets the ability to charm the first enemy that hits her, she emits {{Emoticon}}s with WingdingEyes of {{Heart Symbol}}s. |
| 211 | * ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': Aphrodite is the goddess of love. Fittingly, her boons and corresponding status effect "Charm" are marked with a pink heart. |
| 212 | * ''VideoGame/IslandSaver'': Bankimals that grow particularly fond of you will emanate little pink hearts as they run up to you. |
| 213 | * In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', heart symbols appear around Nomi's head when they're playfully flirting with you. |
| 214 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': the "Heartless" are composed of the darker and more instinctual emotions, and the "Nobodies" are almost StrawVulcan-type beings with only logic and no feelings. A played-straight example, since the heart is still equated with the "warm and fuzzy" emotions. |
| 215 | * ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' offers (real-world, not in-game) bumper stickers with "I '''♣''' Seals" on them, because of the Seal Clubber class. |
| 216 | * When characters in ''VideoGame/TheSims'' fall in love, they emit hearts to indicate this. |
| 217 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': The game uses this on occasion as a source of visual humor due to hearts being the series' long-standing [[HeartsAreHealth recovery items]]: |
| 218 | ** If Link talks to the fangirls outside the clawshot game in Castle Town after winning at least once, they will squeal in excitement and produce a cluster of cartoon hearts, which will fall to the ground as health pickups. |
| 219 | ** The reunion of the yeti couple after a quick bout of possession results in a huge mass of hearts shooting out of their loving embrace, the largest being a health-boosting HeartContainer. |
| 220 | * ''VideoGame/LuxarenAllure'': A HeartSymbol connected to love, occurs with The True Love Chocolate, stored in a heart-shaped box and: |
| 221 | --> Said to be made by the goddess of Love, this delicacy restores all HP and MP to the party, out of battle. |
| 222 | * In ''VideoGame/NutsAndMilk'', Yogurt and Milk would hold a heart symbol between them at the end of every level. In the {{Bonus Stage}}s, the heart would get bigger and a heart-shaped field of flowers would appear. |
| 223 | * The animation for the infatuation status and the Attract move in the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games is a small floating pink heart. |
| 224 | ** The love-symbolizing Pokemon Luvdisc is basically a living HeartSymbol with a face. |
| 225 | * ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven'': |
| 226 | ** Love Lab is about scientists studying love, and their beakers create hearts when shaken. |
| 227 | ** During the three newspaper pose in Ringside, the Reporter has five hearts above her head, {{impl|ied trope}}ying that she has a crush on [[MaskedLuchador the Wrestler]]. However, it's only on screen for one second, and it's masked by camera flashes, making it a FreezeFrameBonus. |
| 228 | * ''VideoGame/RiverCityGirls'': The Love Letter Accessory has a HeartSymbol on it. |
| 229 | * Typing "love" into ''{{VideoGame/Scribblenauts}}'' makes [[ParodiedTrope a realistic human heart appear]]. [[JokeItem Said heart does nothing]]. |
| 230 | * ''VideoGame/ShantaeRiskysRevenge'': Mermaids can do a [[ProjectileKiss kiss as an attack]], but instead of the projectile being just a variant on their bubble shot, travelling horizontally towards Shantae, it instead creates a cloud of {{Heart Symbol}}s above the mermaid, to discourage jumping over them, StationaryEnemy they are. |
| 231 | * ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'': The second option for Moto Pants says Natural Born Lover with three {{Heart Symbol}}s below it. |
| 232 | * ''VideoGame/ThirdWheelPlayer'': {{Heart Symbol}}s are used to gradate the affection meter of this DatingSim. |
| 233 | * Averted in ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', where Hecatia's "Welcome ♥ Hell" T-shirt is supposed to read "Welcome to Hell". |
| 234 | * ''VideoGame/{{Transistor}}'': The Charm-inflicting Switch()'s icon is {{pink|IsErotic}}, with a big pink HeartSymbol in the center with smaller ones around it. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 238 | * ''VisualNovel/ILoveYouColonelSanders'': The {{Heart Symbol}}s on the StartScreen's display of the title, in a Dating Simulator AffectionateParody, that has the word "Love" in the title. |
| 239 | * Subverted in ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo''; the game logo has a bandaged heart, but while it is a DatingSim with five love interests, it also represents the protagonist's heart condition. |
| 240 | * ''VisualNovel/MurderByNumbers2020'': When Tully flirts with Honor after the screwdriver's discovered in Case 1, red {{Heart Symbol}}s come out of his mouth: |
| 241 | --> '''Tully:''' I'll lend you a tool any time you like. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 245 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Kurzgesagt}}'': In [[https://youtu.be/hOfRN0KihOU "How Evolution Works"]], using {{heart symbol}}s floating away from animals' heads to represent love / sex, and new smaller animals appearing. For example: |
| 246 | ** At [[https://youtu.be/hOfRN0KihOU?t=77 1:07]]: |
| 247 | ---> "A species is a community of animals that is capable of producing offspring between one another," |
| 248 | ** At [[https://youtu.be/hOfRN0KihOU?t=320 4:00]]: |
| 249 | ---> "When two creatures fall in love and mate, |
| 250 | * Parodied in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs4.html this episode]] of ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'', a ShowWithinAShow of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. When So and So gets some floating heart symbols from feeling a crush, one of the hearts gets hit by an arrow and screams. |
| 251 | ** From [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs12.html Vamlumtimes Day!]] |
| 252 | --> "Whattaya mean I'm less than B?" |
| 253 | * In ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs'', Doki the rabbit's floating hearts, generated by her love for Nabi, are apparently quite physical and can bury people under them, mainly Nabi. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 257 | * ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'': Seen in Campus Safari when Cilke first met [[spoiler: Chrome.]] They were immediately dubbed "Floaty Love Hearts" by a fan of the comic. |
| 258 | * Played with and lampshaded in ''WebComic/{{Digger}}'': the hyena tribe view the liver, not the heart, as the most important organ and the source of a person's feelings. |
| 259 | -->'''Ed:''' If Mousie is ever starving, Mousie will know. Prey's liver is what hunter craves first. Kill prey, eat liver, get strong. Full of feelings. Life. Heart just muscle.\ |
| 260 | '''Digger:''' But you'd die without your heart!\ |
| 261 | '''Ed:''' Not be getting far without liver, either. |
| 262 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': In the [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-04-23 2003-04-23]] comic, used in the last panel with SayItWithHearts, with those hearts accompanying someone saying: |
| 263 | --> God, I love that woman... |
| 264 | * ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'': Played with in [[http://friendlyhostility.com/d/20081015.html this]] comic, where a character not only notices the heart but ''pops'' it, too. Nice metaphor. |
| 265 | * Characters in ''Webcomic/{{Heartstopper}}'' have hearts above their heads when they feel romantic feelings. |
| 266 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Hearts are used to represent flushed romance -- that is, conventional human romance based on physical attraction and positive feelings. Trolls experience three additional forms of romantic attraction, which are represented using the other three suits of cards -- spades for pitch romance (physical attraction and negative feelings, or "romantic hate"), diamonds for pale romance (non-sexual soulmates and emotional support), and clubs for ashen romance (a three-person affair where one individual mediates between two feuding others). The eye symbol variant appears from time to time -- Vriska gets ♥'s in all 8 of her pupils after watching Creator/NicolasCage in ''Film/ConAir'', while Karkat gets ♠'s in his eyes after falling in hate with John. The emoticon versions are used more often: <3 for flushed, <3< for pitch, <> for pale, c8< for ashen. |
| 267 | * ''ComicBook/MythAdventures'': The Creator/PhilFoglio comic adaptation of the books features signs saying "I ♥ NY"; "I ♣ Seals"; "I ♠ Cats" and "I ♦ ..." and the end of that sign is covered. Years later, Foglio was asked how the last sign ended, and replied "[[TheUnreveal It was cleverly blocked for a reason]]." |
| 268 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Multiple: |
| 269 | ** A single red heart for Elan and Haley's first kiss, in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0400.html "Your Ship Has Come In"]]. |
| 270 | ** When [[MauveShirt Kazumi and Daigo]] share their wedding kiss in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0501.html strip #501]], they each get a HeartSymbol. Like [[SinglePaletteTown everything else from Azure City]], the hearts are blue. |
| 271 | ** Normal pink hearts accompany Belkar's seduction of a female bard in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0611.html #611]]. |
| 272 | * Bay got one in [[http://www.sailorsun.org/index.php?comicID=167 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/SailorSun''. Slightly tweaked at first just because she noticed it, it was [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] even more when she was [[http://www.sailorsun.org/index.php?comicID=175 able to physically grab it]]. Then, when Bay tried to shoo that embodied visual metaphor for her own crush out a window, it turned out to [[http://www.sailorsun.org/index.php?comicID=176 have feelings of its own]]. |
| 273 | * ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'': Multiple: |
| 274 | ** A HeartSymbol is shown when Larissa is asking a girl if she's single, in [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2015/02/23/0661-order-of-merit/ [0661] Order Of Merit]]. |
| 275 | ** In "[[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2016/02/08/0759-emergency-pack/ Emergency Pack]]": |
| 276 | *** Luna's heartbreak is shown by a stabbed HeartSymbol. |
| 277 | *** A cracked HeartSymbol on the packaging for HeartbreakAndIceCream "Break-Up Emergency Pack" ice cream. |
| 278 | * ''Webcomic/StrangeSchool'': Multiple: |
| 279 | ** For the TheBigDamnKiss [[https://strangeschoolnotsogreat.tumblr.com/post/135407726752 update]]. And the "Kiss" has a HeartSymbol for the dot of the "i". |
| 280 | ** [[https://strangeschoolnotsogreat.tumblr.com/post/135408606362 After]] TheBigDamnKiss, the kissed has HeartSymbol-type WingdingEyes pupils. |
| 281 | [[/folder]] |
| 282 | |
| 283 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 284 | * ''Website/NobodyHere'': A flashing heart shows up in the background after completing the minigame in "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/socks.here Socks]]". Jogchem did say that socks were his greatest love, after all! |
| 285 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic wears a shirt that says "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment I [donut] Donuts]]" when reviewing nostalgic commercials. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 289 | * A Valentine's Day card made by Jimmy to Cindy in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' included a holographic realistic heart. |
| 290 | * In the Valentine's Day episode of ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'', Phil complains that hearts aren't even really shaped like that. |
| 291 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingChanAndTheChanClan'', Chu-Chu the dog has hearts coming out of his eyes for a magician's poodle assistant Fifi. |
| 292 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' radiate hearts [[HoYay in the presence of Cool Guy Todd.]] |
| 293 | * Played annoyingly straight in ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'', "heart" refers to warm and fuzzy feelings and is also a ([[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway rather lame]] or [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower rather awesome]]) superpower. |
| 294 | * Played with in a ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode, where the hearts that pop around the characters' heads are ''[[{{Squick}} anatomically correct]]''. |
| 295 | * Used as a visual gag in ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic''. On an especially lonely Valentines Day, Jay notices a newspaper with the headline "New York to New York: I ♥ You!" with a smaller blurb underneath reading "Mayor Has ♥ Attack." |
| 296 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': |
| 297 | ** Seen in an episode where Danny is surrounded by them when he falls for [[LoveInterest Sam]] via a [[LovePotion Love Guitar]]. |
| 298 | ** It shows up in another episode when Jack and Maddie hugs the enormous check given to them by the Guys in White. |
| 299 | * Used constantly on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' whenever one character is swooning over another. |
| 300 | * Used in ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', when [[RichBitch Jez]] is actually swooning over Lucius for once. |
| 301 | * Deconstructed in ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' episode "Love Bugs". Flapjack meets a girl selling seashells and discovers that little hearts pop out of his head whenever he thinks of her. Peppermint Larry starts harvesting them and selling them to his customers as "sweethearts". Then it turns out that the hearts are actually [[spoiler:heart-shaped parasites called "bloodgnats", which Flapjack got from the seashell the girl gave him.]] |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': A familial example in "Art From the Heart." Randall has drawn a heart for Uncle Jack and Aunt Merna, but can't think of what to put inside it. |
| 303 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 304 | ** Parodied on season 11 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E13SaddlesoreGalactica Saddlesore Galactica]]": Moe meets a beautiful woman at a horse racing track, mutters "You're BEAUTIFUL," and his heart starts beating out of his chest like in the older, wackier [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation Golden Age of Animation]] cartoons (particularly the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM]] cartoons directed by Creator/TexAvery). When he notices this, he immediately says "Excuse me, this is a serious heart condition, I gotta go!" Also counts as something of a PG-rated SomethingElseAlsoRises. |
| 305 | ** A ValentinesDayEpisode also {{Deconstructed|Trope}} this by having the school cafeteria serve ''beef hearts'' for lunch on Valentine's Day. Needless to say, this did not make things more romantic. |
| 306 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': |
| 307 | ** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E10CultureShockFUN F.U.N.]]", when Spongebob is chasing Plankton, who had just run off with a Krabby Patty, Spongebob chases after Plankton who is using a propeller to fly away. Spongebob takes a policeman's baton and spins it around, flying into the air. The cop's reaction is to [[HoYay swoon over Spongebob, complete with heart bubbles]]. |
| 308 | ** Lampshaded when Spongebob gives Squidward a shirt with "I ♥ U" woven into it, Squids reads it as "I Heart You." |
| 309 | * At the end of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' episode [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Loved_Powerglide "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide"]], in a bit of InterspeciesRomance Powerglide reveals an LED heart, showing he does indeed have compassion. This made it into a toy of him... twenty odd years after the episode aired. |
| 310 | [[/folder]] |
| 311 | |
| 312 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 313 | * Valentine's Day typically plays this trope straight--thankfully, for those who might be a little more cynical when it comes to love/romance/Valentine's Day (or at least just sticklers for scientific/anatomy-accuracy), there ''are'' chocolatiers out there that make and sell [[LiteralMinded anatomically-correct chocolate hearts]] (e.g. [[http://www.pushindaisies.com/candypress/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=224 here]]). |
| 314 | * [=ThinkGeek=].com offers heart themed items of geeky romance, including a pair of T-shirts with a bar of Zelda-esque hearts that light up when their wearers are near, and an anatomically correct gummy heart. It also features items with the "less than three" (<3) netspeak variant. |
| 315 | * [[OlderThanDirt The ancient Egyptians]] took this trope one step further: they believed the heart was not only the center of the soul, and thus the "seat of emotions and will", but also [[ScienceMarchesOn the center of the nervous system]]. |
| 316 | * The heart has long been thought of as the seat of the emotions, while the brain was regarded as little more than "head stuffing". This thinking goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who preserved the heart of the dead ''but threw out the brain''. It wasn't until the 6th century BCE that the idea of the brain as seat of intelligence was even forwarded, and Aristotle believed that the brain served to cool the blood (humans being superior to animals because, since our blood-coolers were larger, we were less [[HotBlooded hot-bloodedly]] irrational). Head wounds bleed profusely, so that being a good way to kill people was no contradiction. |
| 317 | ** The heart being the seat of the emotions is cultural. Some cultures use the kidneys, some the liver, and, yes, some use the bowels. The only reason we went with the heart is because the Ancient Greeks did. See also the Biblical examples in Literature above. |
| 318 | * The heart does influence the nervous system more than the brain in formative years, it can take as long as seven years for a truly rational (and calorie hogging) brain to develop while the heart takes much less time to get there. Testable proof that the brain was the main thought center caused many people to disregard the heart's influence on behavior for centuries, showing fields in science often regress a little before truly moving forward as we now know all emotions have measurable effects on the heart's electrical field. More than a blood pump that produces a lot of electricity, the heart is also a hormonal gland that produces its own neurotransmitters, dopamine, epinephrin, norepinephrin, the catechlomines. |
| 319 | * Since heart transplants became viable, some recipients have reported changes in their personalities, tastes and desires that seem to mirror the donor's lifestyle. Comparing reported changes to the lives and preferences of the heart donors reveals no correlation. |
| 320 | * Starting with the ancient Greeks, the liver was claimed to control human passion. Later, medieval Europeans developed the idea that "humor," -- blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile -- controlled health and temperament, and that a lack of yellow bile (anger, courage, spirit) would make the liver pale as a side effect. This is the origin of the insult "Lily Livered" since a pale or white liver was a weak one thus without emotion or courage. Humors are the justification behind blood-letting, as well. |
| 321 | * The heart being responsible for delivery of oxygen to the body's active tissues, disorders that impair its efficiency can have an indirect, but genuine effect on a person's moods, making them feel more tired and sluggish. ''Not'' a state of mind normally associated with intense romantic desire. |
| 322 | * A possible explanation for this may be the increase in heartbeat when in the presence of someone you have a crush on, or maybe the fact that, for a good part of history, the heart was known as the "main life organ". [[labelnote:❤]]The one that means instant death if lost; nowadays that organ is the brain, since you can live for up to four minutes if your heart stops. Also, while replacing a heart is possible, a replacing the brain at the moment is not.[[/labelnote]] |
| 323 | ** The idea that the heart is the seat of emotions is often attributed to the Greek philosopher Empedocles, though he may not have been the first to suggest it. |
| 324 | ** Note that not all cultures equated love with the heart. The people of Elizabethan England, for instance, believed that the passions were seated in the liver, and the residents of Ancient Israel thought the bowels held such emotions (hence the term, a "gut feeling"). |
| 325 | * Parodied with Gallagher's "I '''♣''' My Wife." |
| 326 | ** And real-life bumper sticker "I '''♠''' My Pets." |
| 327 | ** And T-shirts saying "I '''♣''' Seals". |
| 328 | ** And "I (Franchise/{{Godzilla}}) Tokyo." |
| 329 | ** And (back when he was alive) Apple fanboys and fangirls would carry signs with "I (Apple symbol) Steve Jobs" to MacWorld keynote addresses. |
| 330 | ** There's [[DudeNotFunny a particularly offensive shirt]] online that says "I [Plane] NY". |
| 331 | ** The writer of ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' created one that says "I [Squiggle[=/=]Knot] Unparsable Symbols". |
| 332 | ** Popular fandom T-shirt "I '''♥''' '''♥''' [[Series/DoctorWho DW]]" |
| 333 | ** Or another fandom t-shirt which is also "I '''♥''' '''♥''' [[WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}} DW]]" |
| 334 | * The seed of the extinct [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium#Connection_with_the_heart_symbol silphium]] is believed by some to be the origin of the symbol, namely due to its contraceptive properties. |
| 335 | * The Literature/{{Discworld}} Emporium offers a FunTShirt which declares "[Eyeball] [realistic heart] [[TheIgor Igorth]]". |
| 336 | * It remains to clear up why the heart ♥ does not look especially heart-shaped. As always, watchers of the German [[Series/DieSendungMitDerMaus Mouse]] know it all. <tl;dr> version: The "heart" is a leaf. [[http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Die-Sendung-mit-der-Maus/Sachgeschichte-Herzsymbol/Das-Erste/Video?bcastId=1458&documentId=42815528 Long version.]] |
| 337 | * The company Locum attempted to incorporate the heart symbol into their logo, replacing the O in their name with the heart, and it caused a few laughs because it made their company name sound like they love... something else. |
| 338 | * Anthropologist Desmond Morris, in his book ''Manwatching'', speculated that the mystery of the heart symbol looking nothing like an actual heart, and its association with romance, has to do with a part of the body a long way away from the heart. He demonstrated that the human buttocks mimic the heart symbol, and pointed out that humans are hardwired to look for a nicely formed bottom as an indicator that a potential mate is both desirable and healthy. This behavior, Morris pointed out, is also prevalent in higher primates such as apes and monkeys. |
| 339 | * A mural on a block wall near the Watts Towers, in South Central Los Angeles, declares love for Watts with an anatomically correct heart. |
| 340 | [[/folder]] |
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