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"Before she realized his intent, Dally caught her by the arms. His kiss was so sudden and fierce that for a second she thought her front teeth would be knocked down her throat. Then he was gone. She stared after him, incredulous, then pushed the incident to the back of her mind."

You are getting increasingly frustrated. Your Love Interest is ignoring your affections for them, even though you're making it oh so blatantly obvious. And you love them so much, so much that you can't stand it, that you wish they would stop ignoring you, and stop being so oblivious to your love for them. What do you gotta do?

Why, grab them, pull them close to you and plant a big wet one right on those lips that you've been dying to kiss for so long! And of course, you may not think about what possible consequences that your actions could bring you, since you are just too damn excited at being able to be so close to your love.

Engaging in this trope means that you may be a bit overly confident in your attempts to "woo" someone, you may have no idea how to actually do the whole romance thing, or you just couldn't help yourself, and you simply had to get your feelings across somehow.

Sometimes overlaps with "Shut Up" Kiss, Motivational Kiss and Tsundere. It may also happen to a person who is the victim in a I Have You Now, My Pretty moment. May or may not hint at an Attempted Rape, as a non-consensual kiss in Real Life can be charged as sexual harassment or even assault. See also "Take That!" Kiss.


Examples:

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    Comic Books 
  • Archie Comics: In one early comic from when Betty was absolutely obsessed with Archie, Betty went around kissing various girls and running off while dressed in a disguise. This was some roundabout way to force Archie into a kiss.
  • Batman: Poison Ivy, passionate Femme Fatale that she is, often pulls her victims in for a smoldering smooch, regardless of consent. Her favorite kissing partner is, of course, Batman. While there's always an ulterior motive behind it, Ivy unambiguously enjoys locking lips with him, paying no mind to his noncompliance as she savors their steamy embrace.
  • Convergence: The Flashpoint Aquaman plants a kiss on pre-Flashpoint Mera, who she then slaps him on the mouth. He doesn't actually mind this at all as she is no different from his Mera.
  • Death of the Family: Hours after being knocked unconscious by a centrifugal death trap that tears her costume to shreds, Catwoman wakes up to the Joker giving her a non-consensual smooch.
  • Fables:
    • Prince Charming (naturally) gives one to Beauty, and while she does return the kiss and admit she was tempted to cheat on her husband, she very firmly says it will never happen again. She's right; the near-affair with Charming (plus his insistence that one thing he's never wrong about is when a woman is genuinely attracted to him and unhappy with her current marriage,) prompts her to treat her husband much better than she had been, and their relationship is actually strengthened by the near-betrayal.
    • Prince Ambrose, after ages spent dancing around their obvious mutual attraction, finally gives one to Red Riding Hood, after nearly ending the conversation with a carefully formal good-bye. She returns it, and from then on they are an Official Couple.
    • A decidedly unwelcome version comes from Prince Brandish to Snow White. He insists that their Childhood Marriage Promise is completely valid and overrides her subsequent marriages, and thus it is his right to kiss and paw at her whenever he wants. When he kidnaps her and locks her in his room, he doesn't actually rape her (though he does break her arm and then make her cook his dinner), but more because he's totally confident that she will come come "panting" for him on her own accord before too long, rather than because he thinks her consent is relevant.
  • Invincible: The title character receives one by Anissa, a full blooded Viltrumite known for her temper and view of all non-Viltrumite lifeforms. It's completely out of character for her, but it later suggests that she did it to seduce him to being her mate. When it didn't work, she decided to flat-out rape him.
  • Robin (1993): Darla Aquista forced a kiss on Tim Drake in front of most of the student body of their high school and his girlfriend after she refused to believe him telling her repeatedly that he wasn't interested.
  • In Day of Vengeance, Ragman thinks he and Enchantress are having a romantic moment and plants a kiss on her, much to her disgust and anger. She repeatedly mocks him for it afterwards.
  • Runaways: Nico forces a kiss on Chase after mistaking a compliment he gave her earlier as a genuine statement of attraction. He is horrified, and it later comes back to (almost literally) bite her in the ass when Chase's girlfriend Gert finds out.
  • The Sanctuary Tree: Donald Duck tries to use a love potion to make Daisy fall in love with him again (they break up at the beginning of the story), but whoever ends up drinking the potion accidentally is a fat female guard with whom Donald had a disagreement early in the story. She falls madly in love with Donald and tries to kiss him forcibly, much to his horror, who runs away scared (and to make matters worse, Daisy catches them both and assumes the worst, ending their relationship for good).
  • Scott Pilgrim: Played with in Volume 6. Being the most emotionally vulnerable he's ever been, Scott kisses Kim in a desperate attempt to reconnect their lost relationship. Kim is clearly surprised by the kiss, but is initially receptive of it... But soon breaks it off. Kim's expression immediately after the fact indicates that she was scared of how effective it was, but the two finally resolve the lack of closure in their relationship soon after.
  • Spider-Man: Issue #15 of The Spectacular Spider-Man volume 2 introduces a villain called Queen. She easily overpowers Spidey with her mind control powers and sonic scream. After catching the defeated Spider-Man in a hug and telling him not to be ashamed of his defeat, she plants a big wet kiss on his lips while he can't resist her. In the very next issue she flirts with the captured Spidey and forces another kiss on him. He almost accepts the kiss due to her powers, but manages to push her off him. She does not take this well.
  • Star Wars:
    • X-Wing Rogue Squadron: In the arc "The Making of Baron Fel'', Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard kisses the Ace Pilot Soontir Fel, testing his loyalty with a combination of seduction and We Can Rule Together. He shoves her off him and tells her no. Fel is Happily Married and doesn't want anyone knowing that his wife Wynssa is related to a Rebel Ace Pilot.
    • Luke Skywalker is subjected to a number of these in Star Wars (Marvel 1977), probably because he's never really willing to make the first move. A lot of them come from a woman named Dani who he's only interested in as a friend; eventually he stops reacting with shock and dismay and just casually dodges.
  • Superman:
    • In Starfire's Revenge, conman Derek Ames kisses Supergirl abruptly as part of a plan to seduce her.
    • In the cover of Supergirl (1972) #6, a guy kisses Supergirl forcefully (a scene that never happens in the issue).
    • In the last scene of Supergirl (1982), Linda's Old Flame Dick Malverne appears, grasps her chin and kisses her abruptly. Short story Young Love gave that scene its own spin.
    • In Supergirl (2005) #0, Poison Ivy forcefully kisses Supergirl to impregnate her lips in some kind of mind-controlling poison. In reaction, Kara pushes her back angrily.
    • In Girl Power, Kara kisses Nightwing impulsively before flying away to face Lex Luthor.
    • In Supergirl Vol 5 #51 Kara kisses Mon-El as he flies to Brainiac's ship.
    • In a Superman: Doomed tie-in, Supergirl meets a boy called Michael and rescues his parents. Michael impulsively kisses her. Then he starts to say he's sorry, but Kara cuts him off and kisses him again.
    • In The Killers of Krypton, Supergirl and Starfire's brother Ryand'r are fighting an army of Supergirl clones, but Kara is running low on solar power. Kara asks Ryand'r to give her a power boost as quickly as he can, so Ryand'r grabs her and kisses her. Later he assures he wasn't looking for excuses to be a creep, but that was really the fastest way to transfer energy into her cells in the middle of a battle.
    • In Infinite Crisis, Alexander Jr. gives one to Power Girl, supposedly as a means to knock her out.
  • Superman/Batman: In Public Enemies (2004), Lex Luthor abruptly kisses Amanda Waller after explaining his plan. It's unknown if he has feelings for her or he was too delusional from power-boosting Kryptonite injections.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage): Happens in the story entitled "Sky Highway". In an alternate dimension, Raphael lands in the passenger side of Hildagaard Rail's car. She was a blonde German woman who had long legs and wore a dress that exposed her ample cleavage. However, spending time in this dimension mutated her giving Hildagaard gigantic lips that went practically from forehead to chin and ear to ear. When Raphael tried to leave her vehicle she grabbed him by the streams of his bandana, pulled him close and said "Shut up and kiss me, you dumkoff!" Her long passionate forced smooch left a lipstick mark that covered Raphael's entire beak and even got on his teeth. When Raphael managed to get away from her Hidagaard Rail called out, "Unt I was sure you would turn into a prince! Auf Wiedershen loverboy!"
  • X-Men:
    • Shortly after Magma joined the New Mutants, a lout in Rio De Janeiro did this to her. Unfortunately, it made her powers go berserk (a bad case of sunstroke later made it even worse), and might have destroyed the city if her teammates hadn't found her and calmed her down.
    • All-New X-Men (2016): Jean Grey reunites with the team in the last issue. When she meets Cyclops, he's still upset and angry at being made out to be a villain by Emma Frost. After ranting for a bit, Scott all of sudden turns and kisses Jean. He apologizes, but Jean isn't upset.
    • In issue #18 of the X-23 series, Julian grabs Laura and kisses her while she is trying to leave. Laura is visibly hurt by this, and replies that it doesn't change anything: she still doesn't want to be with him.

    Comic Strips 

    Films — Animated 
  • Jasmine to Jafar in Aladdin to distract him from discovering Aladdin so he can get the Genie's lamp. It doesn't work since he's so squicked out that he stops in his tracks, and Jafar sees Aladdin in her crown's reflection.
  • Charlie to Sasha in All Dogs Go to Heaven 2, in order to pass his ability to talk to humans onto Sasha (and because All Men Are Perverts), Charlie removes his collar to turn invisible, then appears before Sasha and surprises her with a long, hard kiss on the mouth. She's understandably pissed by it.
  • In Corpse Bride, after coming back to life and chasing her "husband" Victor through the woods and onto a bridge, the titular character Emily gives him one after saying "You may kiss the bride" and before whisking him away to the land of the dead. Though she doesn't pull Victor towards her for a kiss, instead approaching him slowly while he makes no attempt to get away (though to be fair, he was scared out of his wits and backed up against the side of the bridge at the time).
  • In "Flirty Birdy", a male eagle tries to do this to Tom, who has dressed up as a female eagle.
  • The ending of Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension has Isabella do this to Phineas, just before getting their memories wiped.
  • In "Plane Crazy", Mickey Mouse does this to Minnie.
  • Subverted in Ratatouille: Linguini does this to Colette but only because Rémy prods him into it to keep Linguini from exposing him. Colette almost pepper sprays Linguini, but then returns the kiss and they start dating. A little clip from a French film Linguini is watching earlier shows a man inflicting this on a woman with passionate results — apparently this is just the way things are done in Paris.
  • In Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers, Shaggy falls victim to this courtesy of Sadie Mae, who becomes smitten with him, even though Shaggy still has the mind of a young boy and is not into girls at the time. She first pulls him into the bushes and forces him to make out with her. The second time, she pulls him into a hay loft with her and kissed him repeatedly again, despite his attempts to escape. All of these kisses are off-screen, but it's kind of confirmed that they locked lips later on when Sadie-Mae offers him "...another big kiss!" Shaggy declines and runs away, but the love-struck Sadie just thinks he's playing hard to get.
  • Shark Tale:
    • After Oscar finishes a Sharkslayer stunt, Lola the Gold Digger lionfish swims up in front of the cameras and forcefully kisses him, causing Angie to leave in jealousy, anger, and sadness.
    • After forgiving Oscar for his lie, she lunges at him and catches him off-guard with a kiss. The kiss is much more loving than Lola's earlier forced kiss, in which she pinned him under her and maintained complete control of the make-out session.
  • Shrek 2: Prince Charming does this to Fiona at the ball. In this case, it's not about passion or even attraction at all. His mother concocted a potion that will make her fall in love with the first man she kisses. They need her to fall in love with him so he can become King of Far Far Away. Once she finds out he's not really her husband in human form, he simply drops the pretense of wooing her and cuts to the chase. In response, Fiona puts her hands on Charming's cheeks... then headbutts him, knocking him to the floor—revealing that she never drank the potion after all.
  • Space Jam: At the end of the Ultimate Game, Michael Jordan gives advice to Bugs Bunny: "Stay out of trouble." Bugs responds, "You know I will." At this bald lie, Lola giggles, so Bugs seizes her upper arms, and conducts a fervent Smooch of Victory with her. Lola is initially surprised by this kiss, but quickly warms to it.
  • In Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure, after the Red Fairy says goodbye to Jack, Tom, and Jerry she stays behind to buy them enough time to escape from the giant, she gives each of the gang a kiss, before she can give one to Tom, Screwy Squirrel plants a big kiss on her lips, stealing it from him.
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit: After catching sight of Eddie, Lena Hyena believes he's come to her out of romantic pursuit. After finally catching him, she gives him a big kiss with her Gag Lips, much to his chagrin. The recoil from this kiss sends Eddie flying down the street.

    Films — Live-Action 
  • The Attempted Rape version happens in Alien: Covenant. The android David forces himself on top of Daniels and kisses her, after declaring his intention to implant the new life he's created in her.
  • Bastard out of Carolina: Played for Horror and drama after Bone informs her stepfather Glen she's not moving back home with him, her mom and her half-sister, Glen grabs her by her neck and French kisses her forcibly before sexually assaulting her.
  • In Batman & Robin, Poison Ivy first does this to her former boss Dr. Woodrue (though he quickly returns the kiss after overcoming his shock) and later to the two guards when she breaks Mr. Freeze out of Arkham. All these victims die in a matter of seconds.
    • Subverted when she kisses Robin, whom she had been seducing for most of the film. He kisses her completely willingly to see if she really does love him. Though he does not die because he protected himself from her poison with rubber lips.
  • Black Widow (1987): The kiss the Black Widow gives to FBI agent Alex Barnes at her wedding party. It's part Foe Romance Subtext, part "Take That!" Kiss.
  • Bruce Almighty: Susan Ortega, who had been showing interest in Bruce, finally forces a big one on Bruce's lips after hearing that his and Grace's relationship had been struggling. It backfires after Bruce sees Grace watching the two from afar.
  • In Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve gets forcibly pulled into a kiss with a flirty secretary, only to be caught by his love interest Peggy.
  • In the 2003 Korean film The Classic, the Romantic Runner-Up plants a kiss on the main character's Love Interest, much to his shock and anger. Mainly because they were acting in the middle of a play, with her going off-script, and with a huge audience - including the main character - watching.
  • Death Ring: When Lauren is tied down on the massage table, Ms. Ling grabs her chin and forcibly kisses her.
  • In Doctor in Trouble, the Russian Captain gives one to Dr. Burke, forcing him onto a stairway after he saves the life of one of her trawlermen.
  • In Donovan's Reef, John Wayne (Donovan) kisses Elizabeth Allen (Amelia Dedham). She resists ... at first.
  • The film depiction of Elektra, played by Jennifer Garner, is no stranger to these. In the Director's Cut of Daredevil (2003), Bullseye kisses her while gutting her. She doesn't take it well, giving him a Death Glare, but considering what he did, it's justified. In her own film, she gets a Kiss of Death version from Typhoid Mary. It almost kills her.
  • Eloïse's Lover: Àsia grabs and kisses one of her female friends at a party, to her shock. This is an early sign she's attracted to girls.
  • In the spoof film Epic Movie, while Mystique drags the main character Peter into a tent to have sex, the remaining three orphans continue to party. Edward and Lucy are drinking heavily and try to get Susan to drink a little. After a lot of convincing, she agrees to have just one...and then chugs a keg of beer. After that, she starts to vomit a lot. She pukes all over two guys...TWICE, causing her siblings to have looks of disgust, followed by her saying she's okay. She then starts to puke again, covering two more people, again, TWICE, in puke which disgusts her siblings more. She then burps, clearly not done puking... So she finds a Legolas-Look-alike and pulls him in for a kiss who is resisting heavily and it's not hard to figure out why...the poor man is probably getting puke pumped down his throat. Both her siblings are incredibly disgusted and this one event causes no one to show up to fight with them the next day.
  • In the 1981 horror film Fear No Evil, the teenage Antichrist Andrew Williams is being taunted in the shower by the Jerk Jock Tony as being gay, but eventually Andrew turns the tables on his tormentor by attacking Tony with a very long and forceful kiss on the mouth.
  • First Girl I Loved: Sasha claims Anne forcibly kissed her when a photo of them kissing is put in the yearbook under pressure from her mother, but in fact she initiated it and the kiss was consensual.
  • James Bond
    • Bond's seduction of Pussy Galore in Goldfinger starts this way, until things continue more consensually. In the book, on the other hand...
    • In Thunderball, an attractive Ice Queen nurse is examining Bond, who's standing in front of him with his hands raised. He then brings his hands down and grabs her in a passionate kiss until she pushes him away. Deciding Bond is much better restrained, she then straps him into a stretching machine. After a SPECTRE agent sabotages the machine, Bond then blackmails the nurse into having sex with him.
  • Head in the Clouds: When they reunite, Guy forcefully kisses Gilda, who at first resists this but then reciprocates.
  • In Heathers, done to Veronica a lot by J.D., even though most of those could cross over into the unwanted "Shut Up" Kiss.
  • Hollow Man: It's not entirely clear, but Sebastian appears to do this to Linda. Right before she gives him an electric shock.
  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Indiana Jones does this to Elsa in the middle of an argument. She curses him for doing it, shouting, "How dare you kiss me?!" Then she kisses him back.
  • The kung-fu film Kid from Kwangtung features the female lead harassed by a rich punk, who attempts this trope on her. Unfortunately for him, she happens to be a very capable martial artist who then unloads a full minute of whoop-ass on him, culminating with a Finishing Stomp on the throat... which kills him.
  • In The Karate Kid (1984), one of these leads to relationship troubles for the protagonist.
  • Liar Liar: Fletcher's boss, Miranda, was so turned on from witnessing his Amoral Attorney skills that she suddenly desires to have sex with him. Miranda forcibly shows her interest by pulling Fletcher in for a deep make-out session, which Fletcher gives in to going along with her knowing that becoming Miranda's "partner" at the Law Firm will help further his career.
  • The Little Hours: Massetto gets this multiple times from the nuns.
  • On Mean Girls, Regina forces a kiss on Aaron during a Halloween party and steals him back in front of Cady who runs off heartbroken. Aaron breaks the kiss and reminds Regina that she broke up with him, but Regina firmly denies it and kisses him again.
  • Meine Teuflisch Gute Freundin: The human Samuel kisses the Devil's daughter Lilith forcefully
  • The Mummy (1999):
    • Imhotep plants one on Evy in her sleep. It doesn't help that when she awakens, his mouth has become decayed. Later, there is a subversion where Evy forces herself to kiss Imhotep to prevent him from killing her rescuers.
    • Rick plants one on Evy when she and Jonathan visit him in prison early in the film.
  • In No Kidding, Vanilla gives one to Will in the garden just after he accuses her of being too forward.
  • Auntie Suga does this to Craig in Next Friday since she had a really big crush on him despite the fact that she is sleeping with his uncle. When Suga motions for Craig to give her a kiss on the cheek goodbye she grabs him and forcibly rams her tongue down his throat.
  • The Normal Heart: Ned Weeks, while on his first date with Felix Turner, is ranting about politics to cover up how nervous he is that he is on a date and also to try and cover up how desperately attracted he is to said date. Felix calls him out on it, at which point Ned pretty much gives up on words, grabs Felix, and kisses him. Hard, and passionately. That kiss rather effectively communicates both Ned's desperate attraction and the fact that he has no idea what to do about it. Fortunately, Felix seems to get the point, as they wind up in bed together not long afterward.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Elizabeth is taken to Captain Sao Feng's chambers where they talk for a bit before he plants a violent kiss on her. (An explosion soon interrupts him.)
  • The Princess Diaries: Josh does this to Mia in front of some photographers after they chant for him to do so, publicly humiliating her.
  • Roustabout: While Cathy explains carny lingo to Charlie, he suddenly pulls her to him and kisses her. She's offended and ditches him.
  • Scarface (1983): Tony does this to Elvira, who rebuffs him.
  • Done in a particularly grotesque way by Lord Wessex to Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love.
  • Shotgun (1955): Clay grabs Abby and forcibly kisses Abby when the two of them are camped in the mountains. She initially resists, but then reciprocates.
  • Some Like It Hot: Sugar Kane is performing a sad song after getting dumped by her latest beau, Junior. At that moment, Joe (disguised as Josephine) rushes by, grabs her and kisses her right in front of the audience.
  • Chad, the villain of Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, does this to Allison after tying her to a sawmill.
  • Two from Ian in Twice Round the Daffodils:
    • First, he kisses Nurse Catty on his first day, who tells him that he's only doing it as the tuberculosis makes him feel sexy.
    • After this, he forces himself on Nurse Beamish one night. Chris sees this and rips him off her in disgust.
  • We Are the Night: Louise initiates an intense kiss with Lena without asking. Lena pushes her away, and bites Louise's lip while doing so. Afterward Louise berates herself over going too fast.
  • The Wind (1928): Letty enters a Marriage of Convenience after being kicked out of where she was staying. Her new husband kisses her however she's obviously uninterested. He kisses her several times against her will, before stopping himself after realizing he can't force Letty to love him.
  • X2: X-Men United: Jean turns down Logan's advances three times in less than a minute. He ignores this and kisses her anyway, holding her to him. It's not clear, but Jean appears to pinch his ear to get him to stop.note  He whispers her name and she says, "Please." He takes this as consent and goes in for more, only for Jean to jerk back and plead, "Please. Don't make me do this." He doesn't understand what she means and she makes it clear by walking away from him.

    Literature 

  • Ai no Kusabi: Iason's favorite method to calm Riki down when the Pet Ring doesn't. On at least one occasion it's just to shut Riki up.
  • In Chivalry of a Failed Knight, what does Shizuku Kurogane first do to her brother Ikki when she sees him after years of separation? Kiss his lips in public (and a Spit-Trail Kiss in the anime, to boot). Stella Vermillion's understandably not happy about this.
  • Amelia from John C. Wright's Chronicles of Chaos tends to run into these. It causes her much anguish that her love interest is too much of a gentleman to try this.
  • Gone:
    • Caine forces one on Diana in GONE and PLAGUE.
    • In later books, this goes from being douchey to just plain fridge horror, when you think of all the subtle rape undertones Michael Grant wove into Caine and Diana's relationship;
      Caine: You know I have the power.
      Diana: Of course. I would be helpless. But that's not what you want.
  • Jared forces a kiss on Melanie when he first meets her in The Host (2008).
  • Given Ambrosio believes he is committing rape out of love in The Monk, this isn't surprising. Of course, he only freaks out Antonia.
  • The Parasol Protectorate: Alexia Tarabotti is very surprised when Lord Maccon suddenly kisses her after rescuing her from a kidnapping attempt, as up until then she hadn't suspected he had any feelings in that direction regarding her at all.
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In a desperate attempt to convey her feelings, Annabeth does this to Percy. One year later, Percy and Annabeth start dating.
  • Reign of the Seven Spellblades: In volume 9, Nanao is knocked out of the final round of the combat leagues in a Double Knockout, and Oliver defeats Richard Andrews in single combat and they share a Defeat Means Friendship moment. This makes Nanao irrationally jealous because of the way she fell in Love at First Punch with Oliver, and on their way back to the dorms the next night, she shoves Oliver against a tree and fiercely and possessively kisses him.
  • Rihannsu: Nveid surprises Arrhae with an unprompted kiss—to which she responds by decking him for daring to kiss a senator without her permission. Actually she did it to cover up him passing her a datacard mouth-to-mouth.
  • A Song of Ice and Fire: Sandor to Sansa in A Clash of Kings; Sansa later recalls "how it felt, when his cruel mouth pressed down on her own." Or she would, if the kiss had ever actually happened. Later actually does happen, with Littlefinger. The first kiss, she "remembers" with fondness... the second, not so much.
  • A Storm of Swords: Littlefinger helps Sansa build a snowcastle memento of Winterfell, then forcefully kisses her.
  • Tortall Universe:
    • Both Prince Jon and George Cooper do this to Alanna in the second Song of the Lioness book. Both of them are Love Interests, and she eventually marries George.
    • Rosto does this to Beka Cooper in Terrier. She finds it pretty enjoyable even though she spends the whole book rejecting him.
  • Jacob does this to Bella twice in The Twilight Saga, the second time with a little more calculation.
  • In Venetia by Georgette Heyer, Oswald Denny attempts this as the result of weeks of jealousy, "calf-love", and teenaged sulking. He doesn't know how to make the kiss actually happen, though, and he gets pulled off before he gets very far.
  • In The Wheel of Time, Mat saves an Aes Sedai from Seanchan attention the only way he knows how... by snogging in a corner. Hiding in plain sight, if you will. She's scared out of her mind at the time, and while she goes along with the kiss for the sake of camouflage, afterwards she collapses. Despite being a renowned womanizer in-universe, he has a policy of not getting mixed up with Aes Sedai, even the cute ones, making this one of the most platonic examples on this list.

    Pro Wrestling 

    Puppet Shows 
  • Fraggle Rock: In "We Love You, Wembley", a love potion makes every Fraggle and Doozer in the Great Hall fall madly (and temporarilynote ) in love with Wembley, to his horror. Boober calls him "sugar lips" and starts planting kisses all over his face.
    Wembley: Yuck-o!
  • Sesame Street: A number of episodes from very early in the run have segments where characters forcibly kiss others. Notable examples:
    • Several times, Cookie Monster is seen forcibly kissing Kermit the Frog after the monster ruins several of the frog's lectures.
    • A cartoon segment involving Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes – involving her tryin to explain the difference between wet and dry – is interrupted by a large monster, whom after he dumps the contents of a filled bathtub onto Alice grabs her and kisses her on the lips. The segment was often followed up by an Ernie and Bert sketch where after watching the aforementioned, Ernie thinks that the monster's actions against Alice were funny, while Bert doesn't think so. Just then, the Beautiful Day Monster sneaks in, grabs Ernie and kisses him on the lips, to which Bert finds humor. Surprisingly, the segment appeared uncut from Noggin reairings in 1999 and 2000, even after sexual harassment was making news and no longer being tolerated; the current status of the segment is unknown for future airings on HBO Max.

    Theatre 
  • Anastasia: Despite her pleas, Dmitry still insists that he and Anastasia can't be together due to their social statuses once it's revealed that she is the Anastasia. Since she can't get through to him with words, she marches over and kisses him on the lips which leads to him finally accepting their relationship, society be damned.
  • In The Most Happy Fella, Joe, wiping tears from Rosabella's face, suddenly sweeps her into a passionate embrace and kisses her until she stops struggling against him and gives in.
  • Calaf does this to the Ice Queen Turandot in Puccini's opera of the same name. She promptly melts.

    Video Games 
  • Absented Age: Squarebound: Karen Alias hits and forcefully kisses Tarte when he protests the real Karen losing the rest of her Heart Fragments and disappearing.
  • In Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls, Monaca's forced kiss on Nagisa combined with her Breaking Speech to him is enough for him to fall completely under her control.
  • In Detroit: Become Human, the player is given an option to force North into a kiss in order to blend in from the police.
  • Weaponized by the recurring Lips/Kisser monsters in Dragon Quest series. They are a type of slug-like monsters with huge, plump Gag Lips and their main form of attack consist in hopping in front of a player and smack him with their large lips.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • In the trailer for the PSP port of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, there is a quick scene where Kain's dark side gives Rosa one of these—or almost does, it fades to white 'juuuust' before the actual lip-lock. Nonetheless, many found it quite intriguing.
    • Happens at Yuna and Seymour's wedding in Final Fantasy X. It is incredibly squicky for several reasons: How much Yuna doesn't want it, how much Seymour on the other hand does, Tidus' reaction, and the fact that Seymour is dead at the time. A moment later she angrily wipes her lips on her arm as a non-verbal "fork you".
  • In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, this happens to Rean twice in two different bonding events. The first time this happens, it happens in Laura's first bonding event where after Rean confesses that as a "sacrifice", he might have to die at the end of the "Seven Rivalries", Laura, using one hand, forcefully lifts him up, pins him to a wall inside a cave, and plants a kiss on him. The second time this happens, it happens on Musse's third bonding event where they're at the beach in their swimsuits and Musse sneaks in and kisses Rean at his lips while he's caught off-guard, thinking that she was going to hand him over something.
  • In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Flurries gives one to Mario as thanks for finding her necklace, knocking his partner and Punio out of the way in order to get to him. Her Lip Lock attack has her force a kiss on an enemy in order to steal its HP, adding it to her own in the process.
  • Attempted unsuccessfully at the end of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. Fortunately, the Prince still has the time-rewinding dagger.
  • Both times during Psychonauts. Firstly, Lili to Raz, and then Raz to Lili.
  • Tira's Critical Finish in Soul Calibur IV is basically this, except it kills you.
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic: During one conversation in Vette's Romance Sidequest, the male Sith Warrior PC can decide she's "overcomplicating" things and sweep her off her feet for their First Kiss, leaving her breathless. After all, the first line of the Sith Code does say "Peace is a lie; there is only passion."
  • In the adult Bara Genre game Strange Flesh, once you pick up a Joe, you have the option to give him a smoke kiss and turn him into one of your henchmen. (The strongest, hulkiest Joes you encounter in the Den of Lust cannot be taken captive, however.)
  • In Yakuza 2, Shindo forcibly kisses Yayoi Dojima when he attempts his coup of the Tojo Clan, resulting in her being visibly disgusted and slapping him.

    Visual Novels 
  • If you choose to be a male in the Death Room, you can give one to Ambrosia. Dev will knock you out shortly afterwards for that.
  • In War: 13th Day, Night tells Ambrosia that he won't send Arsenik to jail in exchange for a kiss. While she's hesitating, he takes the initiative. She doesn't entirely dislike it.
    Ambrosia: His kiss was... rough. Hard and possessive would be the best way to describe it.

    Web Animation 
  • Pucca, of course. She's a Stalker with a Crush who forces-kisses Garu quite often.
  • RWBY: In A Night Off, Nora and Ren are arguing about their relationship while the latter is falling into a depressive state. After Ren has enough of talking Nora exclaims "screw talking" while pulling him into an unwitting Big Damn Kiss that breaks him out of his funk.

    Webcomics 
  • In 19 Days, He Tian forces a kiss upon Mo Guan Shan as a show of dominance and tries to pass it off as no big deal. Mo is understandably upset and yells at He Tian, leaving him to realize his actions have consequences.
  • Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Fed up with Mike constantly rejecting her advances, Daisy finally resorts to this. It backfires. Spectacularly.
  • In Gifts of Wandering Ice Rita does this to Tim after shouting at him for calling her "little chief" again.
  • Homestuck:
    • Vriska does this to Tavros when they're FLARPing. Poor guy never saw it coming, since he's so damn terrified of her.
    • Happens again when Roxy throws herself at Dirk in order to make him become a Trickster. This is after Dirk threatens her with a sword.
  • Housepets!: This is how Jessica the opossum kicks off her relationship with Zach the rabbit.
  • In Juathuur Veithel receives a definitely unwanted kiss.
  • Happens a few times in Ménage à 3, of either the same-sex variety or the heterosexual variety.
  • The Order of the Stick:
  • Questionable Content:
  • In RPG World, Diane does this to Hero, simply because Hero wasn't exactly the brightest bulb in the box when it came to emotional stuff.
  • Sly Cooper: Thief of Virtue: Ice gives one to Sly, who shoves her away. She calls out if he didn't want it, he wouldn't have taken ten seconds to finally start resisting her.

    Web Original 
  • The Nostalgia Critic:
    • In a game of charades, an improv guy bent Doug Walker back and kissed the hell out of him. Doug did the same thing to the next dude.
    • In , while we don't see it, implied to have happened with Hyper and him, as she mentions kissing his face like "an aggressive pet" and after calling her his psychotic kinda ex, he says he has worse tastes than her to wash out of his mouth (i.e the movie he's doing).

    Western Animation 
  • Adventure Time: In "Storytelling", Finn forcing Mr. Fox and Boobafina to kiss has negative effects on them both, with Boobafina crying that she's been "soiled" and Mr. Fox crying that Boobafina will never like him back.
  • Avatar:
  • Batman: The Animated Series:
  • The Beatles: In "Eight Days A Week," Paul fills in for screen kisser Lips Lovelace, who has lost his ability to kiss. But Paul's co-star, Bridget Buildup, is a chronic kisser, who puts Paul through the wringer as he and Bridget escape an actor playing her jealous boyfriend. At the end, Lovelace gets his lips back in form, and before the Beatles leave the studio, Bridget wants to reward Paul for helping out—with a "great...big...kiss!"
  • Subverted in one of Classic Disney Shorts, where Pluto and Dinah end up in a big, wet, slobbery kiss on the lips in "Canine Casanova". Pluto licks his lips clean and grins at her in a dopey expression, only for the disgusted Dinah to bark at him angrily.
  • Code Lyoko:
    • Aelita does this to Jérémie at the end of "XANA's Kiss". It's more surprising than forceful and ends with Jérémie in a Post-Kiss Catatonia.
    • Sissi also does this to Ulrich in episode "Ultimatum" — knowing that if she was going to forget about it because of the Return to the Past, Ulrich wouldn't.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy frequently endure this at the hands of the Kanker Sisters. Not to mention the kiss delivered by Eddy to Edd in the episode "Your Ed Here", thanks to Kevin blackmailing Eddy.
  • Family Guy: Meg tongue-kisses Connie in "Dial Meg for Murder" to humiliate her in front of everyone in the lunchroom after knocking her out.
  • In Futurama, Fry is on the receiving end of one from the decapodian alien Edna, who has fallen in love with him. It's kinda... squicky.
  • Harley Quinn (2019): To convince herself that her kiss with Ivy meant nothing like Ivy says, Harley starts kissing her crew and Batgirl at random, to their discomfort and confusion.
    Harley: I'm Harley Quinn. I'm impetous! I kiss people at random!
    Batgirl: What's happening?
  • Hazbin Hotel: In the "ADDICT" music video, Valentino forces Angel Dust into a kiss despite the latter being visibly uncomfortable.
  • Hey Arnold!:
    • Helga does this to Arnold in The Movie.
    • In "Arnold Visits Arnie", Lulu, a lookalike of Lila, attempts to do this to Arnold once. And fails.
    • But in "Deconstructing Arnold" Curly succeeds after Rhonda, taking Helga's advice, "professes" her love to him in an attempt to repulse his amorous advances:
      Rhonda: Okay, Curly, I admit it — I'm your secret admirer. And the truth is, no matter how hard I try and fight it, I'm [reading notes on her hand] really, really wild about you. In fact, I've fallen crazy in love. So whadda you say — how does that make you feel?
      Curly: [grabs Rhonda in a passionate embrace and says] Give Daddy some sugar... [and lays a big fat wet one on her]
    • Curly kisses Rhonda a second time in "Curly's Girl". This time, it's on the lips. (The first kiss was on her cheek.)
  • Kaeloo:
  • Kim Possible: In the episode "Homecoming Upset", Bonnie forces a kiss on Ron when he rejects her advances and says that Kim is the only girl for him.
  • In Miraculous Ladybug, Ladybug (reluctantly) forcibly kisses Cat Noir while he's under the influence of Mind Control that's making him hate her to snap him out of it.note  Not to mention this is their First Kiss, Cat Noir immediately forgot about it, and Ladybug at this point still does not realize that Cat Noir's Secret Identity is Adrien, the boy she has a crush on.
  • Pepé Le Pew is not at all shy about doing this to any animal, be they male or female, so long as they have black fur with a white stripe down their back. Conversely, in one episode, Penelope Pussycat lays a bunch of these on Pepe Le Pew after she is put under a Love Potion-type effect.
  • Spider-Man: The Animated Series: In the episode "Day of the Chameleon", Chameleon disguises himself as Peter Parker as an attempt to escape from the authorities. However, he is stopped by Mary Jane, who thinks that he's the real Peter. As the authorities are getting close to him, he forces MJ into a kiss in order to blend in, which MJ thinks is simply Peter flirting.
  • In Steven Universe, Lars does this to Sadie in the episode "Island Adventure", which she quickly accepts.
  • Superman: The Animated Series:
    • Metallo does this to Lois Lane in "The Way of All Flesh", only to be disgusted when he doesn't feel a thing from it.
    • Livewire did this, simply for fun, to Inspector Turpin, in another episode, and it was kind of bizarre. Turpin was discussing her escape from prison at a press conference:
      Turpin: If she comes within a hundred feet of here, I'll...
      Livewire: [from the radio next to him] Pucker up and plant a big wet one directly on her lips.
    • And then she appeared in front of him and did exactly that, shocking him into unconsciousness. As you might expect, Superman was not amused.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures has these happen fairly often, usually from the girls.
    • Babs has done this to Buster quite a bit, including when they first met. She seems to enjoy inducing Lustful Melting on him. He plants one on her in the final episode.
    • Fifi has done it to Furball, Clamity, and even Buster in a Blade Runner parody.
  • Total Drama: Because everyone is after the grand cash prize, forceful kisses largely overlap with Relationship Sabotage and Motivational Kiss.
    • Heather becomes concerned about Gwen's and Trent's developing romance in "Search and Do Not Destroy", because a relationship equals an alliance and that's competition she can't afford. So she arranges for Gwen to walk in on her and Trent kissing by means of a fake letter. She lures Trent to the Dock of Shame and tearfully spits out lies that Gwen confessed to the other girls that she dislikes Trent and only uses him to get ahead in the game. After having broken down Trent emotionally, Heather grabs Trent's chin to pull him into a kiss when Gwen appears on the scene. Gwen leaves heartbroken and although Trent tries to get away, Heather keeps him locked into the kiss until she's sure Gwen's truly gone.
    • In the race for a new prize of a million dollars in "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island", all contestants collide into a pile. Courtney is among the first to wrestle herself free and she stops to help Duncan out too. Then, full of energy, she shouts how they'll get the money, grabs hold of Duncan, and plants a kiss of excitement on his lips. Duncan is very pleased.
    • In "2008: A Space Owen", Beth wrongly gets the idea that Harold is into her, but as she just received a ring from Brady she considers herself off the market. However, after acing a particularly harrowing challenge, she reconsiders if she wants to settle for Brady. Before Harold realizes it, she's already hauled him in by the chin and is planting a vomit-covered kiss on his lips.
    • Because Vito is being uncooperative during the challenge in "Finder Creepers", Anne Maria promises him he'll "get more of this" if he gets moving. Having uttered that line, she quickly turns him towards her and gives him an intense kiss.
    • More by preventing her a chance to resist than true force, Cameron kisses Courtney in "Zeek and Ye Shall Find". He is cajoled into doing this by Mal, who believes he and Cameron need a third ally and Scott's a good pick. But to get Scott on their side, they need to destroy the budding romance between him and Courtney. Hence, upon kissing Courtney, Mal and Cameron play it off that she kissed Cameron and is two-timing both Scott and Cameron.
    • Sky ends up with Dave as her helper in "Lies, Cries and One Big Prize". After her earlier rejection of his advances, she knows he'll be a worthless ally unless he has a motivation of his own. Thus, she takes him by the shoulders and pulls him in for a kiss and suggests they can go on a date after she's won the finale.
  • This happens to Woody Woodpecker in a Fine Feathered Frenzy. Gorgeous Gal had a sexy voice but was an overweight and elderly crow who fell in love with Woody Woodpecker. When he accidentally ran into her arms Gorgeous tried to kiss him on the lips twice but he turned his head so she got both of his cheeks instead. Later she grabs her 'dream boy' while she is sitting on a couch and puckers her giant red lips getting them ready for action. The smitten senior citizen holds him down and kisses the Woodpecker on the lips twelve times.
  • Used in Young Justice (2010) when Cheshire forces herself on a grimacing Red Arrow. They wind up getting married.


 
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"Like I Want to Be Treated". The Sith Warrior PC decides that Vette is overcomplicating the way they feel about each other and decides to force the issue, leaving her breathless. As the Sith Code says, "Peace is a lie; there is only passion." (Video by troper StarSword.)

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