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7	A fairly common staple of Western Animation, this trope involves a character being so enamoured with another, their [[HarmlessLiquefaction whole body turns into a puddle of goo]]. Can be used as the [[DistaffCounterpart female equivalent]] of SomethingElseAlsoRises (and often is, as seen in a lot of 1990s Warner Bros. Animation cartoons, like ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'').
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9	Male characters can experience this too, but it's either used as a CensorDecoy if the censors don't want implications of erections to be shown or if the writer wants to move past metaphorically showing an erection or ejaculation and go straight to metaphorically showing an orgasm/post-coital come-down or if the writers want to show that a male character isn't as masculine as he appears to be (this is going by the knowledge that if the SomethingElseAlsoRises trope is shorthand for an erection, then the Lustful Melt is almost always the female equivalent and putting feminine traits in a masculine character is almost always good for a laugh or some character development).
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11	A SubTrope of ImMelting, HarmlessLiquefaction and a (sometimes) DistaffCounterpart of SomethingElseAlsoRises. Contrast ShamefulShrinking.
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14	!!Examples:
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18	[[folder:Advertising]]
19	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZsALbEtcys An ad]] for raspberry flavor Advertising/MAndMs Premiums features Green making a passionate speech regarding the candy - and finding that Red, Yellow and Blue are all melting [[ArousedByTheirVoice in response to her performance]].
20	* A series of humorous ads for Norton Antivirus 2011 involved celebrities (representing cyber criminals) wanting to do bad things to critters/inanimate objects/etc (representing the viewer's PC/identity/etc.). The viewer had the choice to deny or allow this to happen. One of these was David Hasselhoff and an oscillating fan. One of the "allow" outcomes was Hasselhoff seducing the fan, causing it to melt. Viewable [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za0-Q33rLtE here]]
21	--> '''Hasselhoff:''' ''[in German]'' I am a sex machine. You are a wind machine. Let's get it on. ''[fan melts]''
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* In episode 14 of the ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' anime, while holding a bag of ice and dreaming about getting a kiss from [[TeamMom Mamori]], Monta's ice melts.
26	* ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': During Iino's introduction to Shirogane, [[HeroWorshipper she sings constant praise of Fujiwara]], much to Shirogane's and Ishigami's chagrin. Fujiwara melts into a puddle of gratitude due to how much Iino was "[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything stroking her ego"]].
27	* In ''Manga/LoveTyrant'', Yuzu becomes a green puddle of happiness after receiving a thank-you kiss from her "[[BrotherSisterIncest crush]]".
28	* In ''Manga/MonsterMusume'', a certain ''really comfy'' couch turns whoever sits on it into metaphorical "mush". Cue fanservice.
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31	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
32	* In the ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Tutti Frutti", several male townsfolk notice Tutti Frutti and immediately show signs that they've fallen in love with her. A popsicle bystander melts upon seeing her.
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35	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
36	* A ''ComicStrip/{{Nemi}}'' strip shows the title character doing this while watching [[Series/GameOfThrones Khal Drogo]], to her boyfriend's displeasure.
37	-->'''Grimm:''' I think I'd prefer you to watch Khal Drogo alone.\
38	'''Nemi:''' ''[on the floor]'' But why?
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41	[[folder:Fan Works]]
42	* ''Fanfic/TheForbiddenDrink'' has Amity do this as a result of Luz turning into an AmazonianBeauty after drinking Titan Blood in a desperation move to stop Belos from using it. The rest of the cast teases her relentlessly for ''literally'' melting into Abomination Goo, a rather advanced magical technique, over Luz's physical changes.
43	* In ''Fanfic/TheOwlLadysChick'', after Amity kisses Luz on the cheek for getting her library card back, Luz, who was wearing ComicBook/TheMask and thus subject to ToonPhysics, melts into a puddle.
44	* [[https://www.instagram.com/p/CQAJENuJWO0/ This parody]] of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Pearl having some, ahem, issues with her physical form upon seeing Rose in a pretty bikini.
45	-->'''Pearl:''' You look resplendent.
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48	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
49	* ''Film/{{Amelie}}'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIGJRXK5LDQ but here it represents heartbreak rather than lust]]. You could say that she dissolved into tears.
50	* Happens to animated Lizzie in ''The Series/LizzieMcGuire Movie''.
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55	[[folder:Music]]
56	* Music/BarryLouisPolisar:
57	** In "With A Giggle and A Hug and A Tickle and A Kiss", the singer describes his unexpected falling in love as "melting in [the beloved's] arms".
58	---> ''It's hard to think I'd let myself be captured by your charms''\
59	''In the middle of a snowstorm I'm melting in your arms.''
60	** "You're As Sweet as Sugar On A Stick" has a line where after kissing his beloved, the narrator expresses his pounding heart as "Like water down a drain, dropping drip by drip".
61	* Music/RascalFlatts: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "I Melt."]]
62	-->''I melt every time you look at me that way\
63	It never fails anytime, any place\
64	This burn in me is the coolest thing I've ever felt\
65	I melt''
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70	* This is a quirk of Muko in ''Webcomic/FurryFightChronicles'' when surrounded by attractive females or aroused to a certain level. Weirdly enough for a comic that doesn't rely very much on ToonPhysics, it later becomes treated in-story as a weakness that needs to be addressed after Muko undergoes CharacterDevelopment and realizes that her lust is preventing her from becoming a true Combagal.
71	* In ''Webcomic/SidekickGirl'', Illumina does this after [[https://sidekickgirl.net/maelstrom-ii/ meeting the mysterious Maelstrom]] ... not realizing that [[SelectiveObliviousness his secret identity is her boyfriend]].
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75	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' also utilises this repeatedly.
76	** It happens to Dot (and some aliens) in "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode15 Space Probed]]" after their inner fantasies are projected on a screen,
77	** In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode30 Moon Over Minerva]]", after Minerva Mink [[TheTease teases him]], Wilford melts into a puddle, not even seeming to mind when she reveals she was leading him on and rejects him. Minerva herself melts into a puddle when she sees [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Wilford's]] Hunk form for the second time.
78	** In "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode54 Meet Minerva]]", Minerva melts into a puddle as part of her WildTake while reacting to Trudy'a Cousin's hotness.
79	* This happens to the titular character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bonkers}}'' in the short "Ski Patrol", when his love interest Fawn Deer kisses him after he winds up in the hospital following a skiing accident.
80	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'': Happens to Lizabeth in "[[Recap/CaptainFlamingoS1E25ABurrInTheHandBlindsided Blindsided!]]" when she hears Otto's [[ArousedByTheirVoice "Suave Voice".]]
81	* ''WesternAnimation/DroopyMasterDetective'': Happens to Rumpley in a Screwball Squirrel short called "A Screwball Romance", when he sees the cute poodle Fifi.
82	* The ''Film/DumbAndDumber'' [[AnimatedAdaptation cartoon series]] episode "Top Dumbs" features [[ADogNamedCat Kitty]] melting while interacting with a [[{{Hunk}} muscular]] male beaver.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Happens to both Eddy and Kevin in "[[Recap/EdEddNEddyS1E3PopGoesTheEd Pop Goes the Ed]]", when they first see Nazz in her bikini.
84	* Used in a demonstrative sense in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Twelve Angry Men," Quagmire has his fellow jury members [[ItMakesSenseInContext simulate the positions of an orgy]]. He then takes his position, "the butterpat", climbing on top of the pile and literally melting all over them.
85	* Dexter the octopus does this once in ''WesternAnimation/FlipperAndLopaka'', while being seduced by a jellyfish posing as an octopus.
86	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', the principal's face ''melts off and exposes his skull'' at the sight of Sperg's mom.
87	* In ''Groove High'', Zoe melts into a puddle of water when Dom (Tom in disguise) compliments her.
88	* This happens to Charlie Horse in the Creator/BobClampett cartoon ''It's a Grand Old Nag'' after his Hollywood crush Hay-dy La Mare kisses him as thanks for saving her from a fire.
89	* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:
90	** Quite possibly the earliest example of this trope is the 1944 short "WesternAnimation/SwoonerCrooner", where the singing of a Music/FrankSinatra {{Expy}} rooster causes one hen to melt where she stands.
91	** The above would be neck and neck with ''Plane Daffy'', also from 1944. Daffy gets kissed by spy Hata Mari, lights up like a Christmas tree, then goes all liquid, dribbling down a flight of stairs and through a crack in the floor. These two cartoons were both directed by Frank Tashlin.
92	* Happens to Kellaway and Doyle after seeing Cookie [=BaBoom=] without her suicide belt bikini in the ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' episode "Flight as a Feather".
93	* In the 1956 ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Parlez Vous Woo": When Popeye [[IKissYourHand kisses her hand]], Olive turns red, [[HighPressureEmotion blows steam out of her ears]], then melts into a thin flat Olive-Oyl-shaped puddle conforming to the contours of the staircase. Her comment: "I'm just like butter in your hand!"
94	* In the ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'' episode "Heavy Dental," Huey melts into a puddle of steaming water after getting a good look at the gorgeous Agent X.
95	* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''. During a FantasticVoyagePlot, Ren encounters and falls in love with a female bacterium. He collapses into a puddle after the first kiss... because she sucked out his skeleton.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':
97	** The titular character in the episode "S.W.A.K", after he learns that the person he thought was his crush's boyfriend is actually her brother.
98	** He also pulls a variant when he melts with pleasure at the sight of a "sad crying clown in an iron lung" for sale, as he's always wanted one.
99	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'' episode "News at 11AM", Vana melts like wax when she first meets Allan Amazing.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'': Happens to Patricia in "Amazon", when she first sees Eduardo.
101	* Happens to Casper in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpooktacularNewAdventuresOfCasper'' episode "Poil Jammed" when Poil sweet-talks him into helping her be scary so Spooky will like her.
102	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': In "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E11Fractured Fractured]]", Larry does this after getting a hug from Starfire.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' used this a lot. It happens to Buster Bunny in the {{Pilot}}, to Babs during the ChristmasSpecial (after both are kissed by the other) and Plucky during the "Acme Bowl" and "Pluck Twacy" episodes (both times after being fondled by an attractive female).
104	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'':
105	** In the first half of the "Sludge King" two-parter, Felix does this when he sees Candy Kitty for the first time.
106	** He also does this in "Love At First Slice" after being fondled by Nastassia Slinky.
107	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWackyWorldOfTexAvery'': In the ''Power Pooch'' segment "P.P. Loves Fifi," Power Pooch melts after the beautiful Fifi passes by. Though the actual melting happens offscreen, the puddle he becomes is seen after Fifi leaves.
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