All week here at The Arcade we’ve been preparing for Valentines Day by telling you about or favourite fictional couples and what makes them so perfectly matched.
We’ve touched on TV, comic books, novels, anime and film and believe me, it took a long time to narrow the list down. We’re a bunch of old sappy romantics at heart.
In case you missed them, here they are collected so you can read about fictional people who are better off in the love department than you or I will ever be.
What? Come on, you needed a reason to inhale that tub of Hagen Dazs anyway.
Dwight & Angela – The U.S Office
“Their incredibly sweet, albeit somewhat formal, forms of intimacy compliment each other perfectly, and in the end isn’t that all we want in a relationship? Someone who makes our good parts look amazing and our bad habits something to endear?“
Balthamos & Baruch – His Dark Materials
Riggs & Murtaugh – Lethal Weapon
Peter Parker & Mary-Jane Watson – Spider Man
Rikka & Yuuta – Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai!
There you have it folks! Our contenders for Most Romantic (fictional) Couple!
Who do you agree with? Who did we forget? Let us know in the comments!
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For my favourite couple I’m going to have to go with a classic from my favourite book, Darcy and Lizzie from Pride & Prejudice, by Jane Austen. They show that love can come from the most unexpected of places and that sometimes that person you think is your exact opposite may not be as different from you as you thought.
Balthamos & Baruch are a close second though. <3
For me, I’d have to say Tidus and Yuna from final fantasy X, to see their relationship go from strangers to parting lovers is a true romance story. FromTidus becoming her guardian and crashing her arranged and forced wedding to the journey that Yuna undertakes in the less favorable x-2 highlights this romance by reuniting the two after a long journey, to see them United again brought on the same feelings as watching squall/Rinoa or zidane/dagger find their way to each other across all odds
Best couple has to be Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the Vampure Queen from Advebture Time!
Celty and Shinra from Durarara, a love that strive against all differences and missing head.
For me it’s gonna have to be Rumpel and Belle (Rumbelle) from ‘Once Upon A Time’. They’re love story is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast and their struggle to be together when the world just keeps getting in the way gives me more feels than I can measure. (So much so I actually own their chipped cup! )
Tricky. Eureka Seven had my favourite anime romance for a long time, but Chuunibyou is a contender too! That one conversation where Rikka couldn’t turn around… I emitted a very high-pitched squeeeeeee throughout.
But then again, the “one more time” scene in Toradora!, even more squeeing, plus I probably crushed a pillow to death, and my face got all wet.
Oh, I don’t know. Those gifs in the article did cause a lot of melting, so aye, Chuu2!