Intimate Healing / Video Games

• In Brutal Orchestra, the boss Ouroboros has three actions that it cycles through. Two of them are attacks (and one of them deals a usually lethal amount of damage), and its other action involves giving the character in the position in front of its head a smooch, which heals that character.
• This isn't exactly a 'magical' instance, but in the video game Bully, unless you feel like running around like an idiot for a while the favoured way of most players to regain main character Jimmy's health is as the result of passionately kissing the nearest sympathetic student, be they boy or girl. Hence, a LOT of yaoi moments, and a LOT of very happy female players.
  • Of course, one can't forget prostitute-powered healing in Grand Theft Auto. When Bully's protagonist grows older it seems he can still recover using the same tactics, if taken to a more extreme level.
• In one of Dead to Rights: Retribution's Escort Missions, you have to escort a wounded character to safety. Unlike other escorts, she bleeds out over time instead of having Regenerating Health. The only way to restore her health is for Jack to shield her with his own body...which effectively means Jack Slate can heal people by basically hugging them.
• An Inquisitor who romanced Solas in Dragon Age: Inquisition will have the Anchor removed with a kiss at the end of Trespasser, instead of Healing Hands like everyone else.
• Alluded to in Fire Emblem: Awakening, when Gregor suggests this to The Avatar when she or he isn't feeling well during their supports.
• Ganbare Goemon: Kuru Nara Koi! Ayashige Ikka no Kuroi Kage: Goemon's injury prevents him from being able to drink the required medicine, leading to the use of this trope. The game makes it seem like the beautiful kunoichi Yae will be the one to perform the act, but she instead asks pudgy, Ambiguously Gay Ebisumaru to do it. Goemon is not pleased with this.
• The main ways of healing in the NES game Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode are to kill enemies or to just die and continue, but at a few points in the game Golgo gets nookie. As the lights of the hotel window dim, his health meter fills to full. This might on the other hand just be a sexy, sexy Trauma Inn, since we never see him sleeping alone.
• Alyx is badly wounded during Half-Life 2: Episode Two, and the cure involves a Vortigaunt ritual, binding her and Gordon's life together with some Antlion larval extract.
• Kay and Yu from Haven (2020) can share a kiss when left idle for long enough which restores the health of the more injured one to the same amount as the other.
• In the "Requiem" mission of Hitman: Blood Money, 47 is afflicted with the fake death serum. Diana administers the cure for it by applying it to her lips like lipstick and then kissing him.
• Used a lot in various Kirby games that give you allies - after consuming a healing food item you can kiss (or hug, in some games) your teammates to heal them. The manga goes back and forth on whether this is an actual kiss or the healer throwing the food up in the patient's mouth, whichever is funnier at the time. By the way, half of Kirby's allies are male.
• NetHack shows that ASCII graphics get in on this. The "Nurse" NPC type will state "Please undress so I can examine you." and cause damage if she encounters you wearing armor or clothing, but when you comply, her 'attack' will heal you instead. Since this can bring you above maximum HP, this has resulted in the common pastime of "Nurse Dancing" to raise the HP cap.
• In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Ms. Mowz's Ultra-rank skill is a kiss move that allows her to restore health to Mario. This isn't surprising, given that Ms. Mowz loves to flirt with Mario, even before she joins the party.
• Perfect World has an interesting take, probably based on the Daoist belief described above in the Mythology folder. Apart from health and mana, characters also have a meter for Chi, which basic attacks and some skills generate, while other skills consume it. Use of the game's "Embrace" function, which may be performed by any two opposite-sex player characters in any overworld area and in instanced dungeons that allow it, results in mutual Chi gain over time for the characters. This function is represented on-screen by the man involved holding the woman in a Bridal Carry.
• In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game Kim Pine can call Knives Chau to give her a kiss that heals her for a fair amount of health.
• Rescuing a Damsel in Distress and receiving a kiss during the between-levels sequence is the most common way to regain health in Spelunky.
• This was used by Princess Elise to revive Sonic in Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
• A suggested explanation for how Lois Lane instantly restores Superman's powers after he loses them by touching a Kryptonite meteor in the Atari 2600 game Superman.
• Tales of Xillia heavily implies that direct-tethering (giving Mana) between a human and a spirit is this. Jude doesn't get why it's treated like a big deal, when he shared his mana with a weak Muzét. The sequel makes the implication even heavier, though now Jude gets it and insists it didn't mean anything.
• Practiced by Sorceress Philippa Eilhart on Saskia the Dragonslayer in The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, as part of the healing spell against a rare poison she presses a rose petal on her lips with her own lips. Lampshaded by a crude onlooker: ""My favourite type of magic: Lesbomancy." Subverted in that this was actually part of a different spell to control Saskia (through intense love) tacked onto the healing spell.
• At one point in Xenoblade Chronicles 1 Seven is unconscious and dehydrated, and the only person nearby is their Love Interest. The latter character gets some water and gives it to Seven via mouth to mouth.
• This trope is fans' favourite explanation for how the Lady in Red restores Link's health in Zelda II.

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