Examples of Battle Couple in live-action films.
- Assassin's Creed (2016): It is implied that Maria and Aguilar are lovers in addition to being fellow members of the Assassin Brotherhood.
- Jake Sully and Neytiri of Avatar chose each other as mates and confirm it before the Final Battle.
- In Battle of Britain this is a Deconstructed and possibly Unbuilt Trope. Colin is opposed to Maggie serving in uniform and would prefer her to be at home, out of harm's way. Maggie feels driven by duty and tries to get him to understand why she insists. Rather than bonding over war, it's a constant source of stress and a strain on their marriage.
- Calamity Jane: Considering how Calamity Jane and Bill Hickok are skilled gunslingers and like trouble, you'd think they'd turn out to be this couple in an instant, but it's implied to be averted after they get together as both of them want to settle down and raise children. They've been close friends for quite some time, so it's not outlandish to assume that they played this straight at some point.Bill's Friend: I don't know what kinda life you're gonna have living with that catamount, Bill, but it ain't gonna be dull!
Bill: That's fer dang sure. - Conan the Barbarian (1982): Conan and Valeria, a warrior woman, become lovers, after which they fight against foes together until she is killed.
- The Conjuring Universe: Ed and Lorraine Warren fight hand-in-hand against the forces of darkness — though Ed often wishes she'd stay safely out of the fighting instead, not because he thinks she's incapable of taking care of herself but because he can't bear the idea of losing her. Lorraine isn't having any of it, and she's right.Lorraine: [The demon] thinks our love is our weakness, but it's not. It's our strength.
- Daylight's End: Burton and Earnesta are a married couple and two of the group's best gunfighters. They take on zombies together in several scenes.
- The Mutos from Godzilla (2014), in a sense, as they are a mated pair and manage to put up a real fight against Godzilla. One-on-one, they are severely outmatched, although the male one had the advantage of being able to fly.
- Broken Sword and Flying Snow from Hero (2002). As shown in a flashback near the climax, they charged into the Imperial palace and fought off the whole household guard.
- Katniss and Peeta work together in The Hunger Games except he doesn't know she's only pretending to love him in order to gain sympathy from sponsors.
- In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire they are engaged when they go back into the arena. Their actual relationship status is a bit more complicated, as the engagement came about to placate President Snow, but Katniss is actually falling in love with Peeta. By The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 they fight in the same squad during the rebellion, and end up married.
- Jurassic Park:
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park has a male female Tyrannosaurus rex searching for their infant son. The parents cause several deaths during their search for their son including the female and male tyrannosaurs ripping Eddie Carr in half, and the male dinosaur causing all sorts of damage in San Diego towards the end.
- Jurassic Park III, the alpha female and the alpha male Velociraptors are a very good couple together when they go after Grant's group. When Alan eavesdrops on the conversation between them it's shown that the two raptors respect each other.
- Kick-Ass 2 has Dave alias Kick-Ass and Mindy aka Hit-Girl. She has her first kiss with him before she has to leave the city.
- There's also Remembering Tommy, a husband and wife who became superheroes to honor their missing son.
- In Kung Fu Hustle, there is the battle couple of the Landlord and Landlady. Both appear as innocuous, though important characters that later in the film demonstrate incredible martial arts skill.
- The Last Sentinel: Tallis and the Girl kiss after having an obvious mutual attraction, then possibly have sex offscreen. Afterwards, the two continue fighting the drones as a team.
- The Gemini Killers from The Man with the Iron Fists. They also make a cameo in the sequel.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Tony Stark aka Iron Man and Pepper Potts have always been on the cusp of this, with Iron Man 3 Final Battle where Tony and Pepper killing the Big Bad being the most prominent instance. Until Avengers: Endgame where Pepper has her own Powered Armour and she and Tony at one point gloriously twirl around each other shooting lasers and missiles as one, it's just beautiful.
- Peter Quill aka Starlord and Gamora from the Guardians of the Galaxy movies team up frequently, in fact they are the first man and (alien) woman to wield a Infinity Stone together.
- Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne from Ant-Man much like the comics play this straight, as seen in a Flash Back where they work for S.H.I.E.L.D together as a married couple. Scott and Hope follow in their footsteps in Ant-Man and the Wasp and in Avengers: Endgame.
- T'Challa and Nakia in Black Panther, even at the start of the movie they reunite by way of taking out traffickers together.
- Vision and Scarlet Witch in Avengers: Infinity War, fittingly the Avengers couple respectively fight and kill Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight who are villainous example.
- Close -but platonic- example with Hawkeye and Black Widow in Budapest and the battle of New York, also Captain America and Black Widow invoke this in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- Thor and Jane Foster in Thor: Love and Thunder after the latter gets granted the power of The Mighty Thor reconcile their former relationship and battle against Gorr The Godbutcher.
- The Matrix: Neo and Trinity are a downplayed example. While they work and fight together, Neo is The Chosen One and so Trinity can't keep up.
- In Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), becoming a Battle Couple saves their marriage, and their lives, incidentally.
- Rick and Evelyn O'Connell from The Mummy series. They are mummy hunters and by the second movie, they're married.
- Nicky and Joe provide a rare male/male example in The Old Guard. Both are immortal warriors who first met fighting each other on opposing sides of the First Crusade. After trying and failing to (permanently) kill each other several times, they finally called a truce and fell in deeply love, eventually becoming members of the titular team of immortal soldiers.
- One of the possible configurations to operate a Jaeger in Pacific Rim. The Russian pilots of Cherno Alpha, Aleksis and Sasha Kaidonovsky, are married. And so were the Japanese pilots of Tacit Ronin, Duc Jessop and Kaori Koyamada.
- In the soft - core porno Passion and Romance: Ocean of Dreams, Greg and Melinda Arnold met while they were serving in Vietnam. He was a Marine Corps helicopter pilot and she was a Navy nurse.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann get married in the middle of a battle, officiated by Captain Barbossa who is also involved in the battle, and it was the coolest marriage ever on screen.
- Navy surgeon LT. Don Jardian and Navy nurse LTJG Deborah Solomon in Purple Hearts
become this while serving in Vietnam. - The Retreat (2021): Renee and Vel, after breaking free, become this when they go after their tormentors. They successfully kill them as a couple, using whatever weapons they've gotten.
- Riot Girls: Nat and Scratch are a lesbian couple who fight together all throughout the movie.
- The Bounty Hunter antagonists of Slipstream (1989); subverted in that the woman has become disillusioned with her partner. The Determinator characteristics that made him a hero in their younger years have become meaningless in a post-apocalyptic world, and she ends up leaving him for the Loveable Rogue protagonist.
- Hendra and Julie from Special Silencers are on-off lovers, but both of them are capable in kicking all sorts of ass. They have two epic fight scenes side-by-side, one in a forest halfway through where they're surrounded by mooks and one near the end where they're both captured and taken to the villains' hideout... but manage to escape separately, rendezvous later, and battle their way out.
- Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez from the Spy Kids series are a mix of this and Agents Dating. Throw in Carmen and Juni and you have Badass Family.
- Spock and Uhura in Star Trek Into Darkness as they accompany Kirk to a war-torn world in order to track down John Harrison.
- Starship Troopers: Johnny Rico and Dizzy Flores, soldiers of the same unit, share some love before going out to shoot up giant alien bugs.
- Star Wars: Han and Leia go from bickering couple to Battle Couple in Eps. IV-VI.
- The VI quote comes in the middle of a battle right before Leia shoots the two Stormtroopers holding them at gunpoint.
- Leia's parents, Anakin and Padmé, fight together in the arena during the battle in Attack of the Clones, providing a gun-and-sword (well, blaster and lightsaber) combo.
- In perhaps the coolest scene Rey and Kylo in The Last Jedi butcher the Elite Praetorian Guard together as Back-to-Back Badass, however despite their mutual feelings Rey rejects Kylo's We Can Rule Together offer after the Guards are defeated.
- In The Rise of Skywalker, Rey and Ben (the redeemed Kylo Ren) become this when they take down the Knights of Ren and the Sith Cultists together and share a Big Damn Kiss shortly thereafter.
- Totally Killer: Blake and Pam become Sickeningly Sweethearts pretty quickly and fight the killer together during his second and third attacks.
- Burt and Heather Gummer in Tremors team up to fight the Graboids after their home comes under attack.
- Harry and Helen Tasker, at the end of True Lies. She's shown to have joined him as a spy, with them threatening a man together.
- Undercover Blues Jeff and Jane Blue, (not so)-ex CIA, currently on maternity leave for the birth of their daughter, vacationing in New Orleans when they are called back to retrieve some stolen MacGuffin. She complains when he brought their less than one year old daughter to a knife fight, and she has to interrupt the (humorous) interrogation of a bad guy to go to their crying daughter in the next room.
- Selene and Michael in Underworld: Evolution. Besides their supernatural abilities, Selene is a centuries-old warrior while Michael combines the powers of both races.
- The vampire Sonya and lycan Lucian in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Their doomed romance started the war between the vampires and the Lycans. They do quite a bit of swordfighting and monster-slaying, right up until things go south.
- The twins in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End prefer to fight together, among other things. Their parents are an example as well.
- Yamato Takeru and Oto Tachibana, the former a Warrior Prince and the latter a Warrior Monk Kung-Fu Wizard. Destined (and happy) to be together, the two face down even the Physical God Tsukuyomi as a couple.
- Zorro
- The Legend of Zorro has Zorro and Elena picking off the baddies.
- At the end of the Affectionate Parody Zorro, the Gay Blade, Zorro and Charlotte Taylor Wilson become a battle couple to take down the baddie once and for all. Though they also need the help of Zorro's twin brother to succeed.
