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A young couple are all ready for the big day. Only the bride isn't who the groom thinks she is. Maybe it's an Arranged Marriage, and someone else is impersonating the bride he's never seen. Maybe a shapeshifting alien has taken her place. Or maybe she's simply using a wedding veil as a convenient disguise. The wedding rarely if ever goes through, with the real bride (or groom, in gender-flipped examples) bursting in at the last moment. Very occasionally, the groom may fall in love with the "fake" bride and marry her for real. Legal trickery may establish that the false bride can be treated as the true bride's proxy, and so he really did marry the true bride. In many Fairy Tales, the false bride is executed for her attack on the true bride — sometimes substantially after the wedding took place — as a complication in the heroine's Rags to Royalty rise. (This is often a case of Sibling Triangle.) Note that many of these rules are reversed if it's a villain who's trying to marry our plucky heroine for devious and evil reasons. In these cases, the villain often does end up married to the fake bride, usually for the sake of invoking some comedic comeuppance. Compare Bed Trick, which is the less G-Rated version of this trope. Contrast Real Fake Wedding. Has nothing to do with Bait-and-Switch. Necessarily. |
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In one episode of Aladdin: The Series, Jasmine finds herself forcibly betrothed to a demon due to an enchanted necklace that Aladdin gave her. During the climax, he whisks her away into his dimension...only to find that it's Genie in disguise. | |
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On Adventure Time, Finn and Jake keep the Ice King from forcing a princess to marry him by switching her with Jake's finger just before the kiss the beard-touching makes it official. Unsurprisingly, the marriage doesn't last long. | |
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A variant in Bastion. Marriages had been arranged between two sets of twins, but one brother fell in love with his brother's intended wife (and vice versa). Since the four of them were getting a double wedding, they arranged for the grooms to switch brides without their parents finding out until afterwards. Mags is the child of one couple, Bey is the child of the other. | |
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Loki from The Mighty Thor obtained his wife Sigyn by arranging the death of her fiancé at the hands of trolls and using his shapeshifting to take his place at the wedding. Odin temporarily banished Loki for his deception. Sigyn for duty's sake stayed married to Loki, making her the goddess of fidelity. Surprisingly, Loki came to somewhat care for her and when one of his schemes put her in danger, he freed Thor to save her. | |
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Inverted in Much Ado About Nothing. Claudio has been led to believe that Hero has died of grief over his accusations of sluttery, and to atone he has promised to marry her cousin sight unseen. But it turns out that it really is Hero. | |
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In Erstwhile, the bride orders Maid Maleen to take her place. | |
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The Talmud says that Rachel suspected Laban might try this and arranged for her and Jacob to give each other subtle cues at the altar so he would know whom he was really marrying. However, right before the wedding, Rachel realized that Leah would be humiliated if Jacob called the wedding off and revealed the signs to her. | |
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Sub-Mariner #36 (1970s): Llyra tricks the Sub-Mariner into marrying her instead of Dorma, who's been kidnapped. It turns out that Atlantean marriage laws let you use a substitute at your wedding—he is considered to have married Dorma anyway. The official had put Dorma's name down on the wedding document, which is what made Llyra just a stand-in. | |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, “Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words�, Homer gets a job helping people break up. For one of his assignments, he disguises himself as the bride at a wedding and lets the groom down easy. In their retelling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Huck (Nelson) is forced to marry Becky (Lisa) at gunpoint. Huck escapes his dire situation by substituting a pig in a suit for himself. |
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Near the end of The Secret of Monkey Island, LeChuck is about to marry governor Elaine Marley when pirate-wannabe Guybrush Threepwood burst into the church to stop the wedding. Unbeknownst to both villain and hero, Elaine escaped much earlier, and the bride is actually two monkeys in a dress armed with a ghost-destroying seltzer bottle, ready to strike at the right moment. Guybrush naturally manages to mess that up. | |
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Days of Our Lives: On Hope Williams' wedding day to Larry Welch, Bo Brady was desperate to stop the wedding and he enlisted the help of his friend, Howie Hofstetter, a private investigator. In order to trick Larry and buy the couple more time, Bo had Howie dress up in a wedding dress and walk down the aisle to perform the ceremony with Larry. When the veil was lifted, it was Howie who stood before Larry, offering up puckered lips for their wedding kiss. | |
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In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, Carmelita Fox switches herself with Jing King when she is tricked into thinking Sly is planning to take General Tsao's place and marry her. He was really using her to help them bust Tsao for kidnapping his bride in the first place. | |
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This happens again in Power Rangers Samurai when Mia and Emily pull a Batman Gambit on Dayu, who has been kidnapping brides from their weddings. | |
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An episode of Dudley Do-Right had him pull this trick on Snidely Whiplash, who was trying to marry Nell, by replacing Nell with his horse. (It worked!) | |
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In the Dresden Files short story "Something Borrowed", this trope is invoked when Jenny Greenteeth takes the bride's place at Georgia and Billy's wedding. It is noted that this is not uncommon with some malevolent fae. If the mortal spouse goes through with the ceremony not only will it void any True Love the couple might have had and thus potentially damning the swapped spouse to an eternal sleep that needs True Love's Kiss to free them, it will place the mortal in a deep contract with the fae, allowing the fae to warp the spouse and reshape their mind and body. | |
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One time on The Andy Griffith Show, Ernest T. Bass tried to steal a bride away from her wedding but it turned out to be Barney Fife under the veil. | |
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On Space Stars, in the Teen Force short "Trojan Teen Force", Uglor was about to marry Princess Keena, but it was actually Moleculad in disguise. | |
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In On Fairy-Stories, J. R. R. Tolkien discusses the use of this in terms of The Goose Girl and Bertha the mother of Charlemagne — and points out that without evidence to the contrary or fantastic elements, you can't disprove it of Bertha by showing it's a widespread story. | |
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In Maid Maleen, the princess, working as Scullery Maid is asked to substitute herself for the bride by the bride herself, who either wants to hide her ugliness or her pregnancy. Alas for the bride, this means that Maid Maleen can reveal that she's the prince's old love, not actually dead. | |
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In Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, Gren has been promised by her parents to the Hobgoblin War Minister, but by the time he wants to wed her, Gren has been disowned by her family and moved in with her boyfriend. Her parents offer her younger sister Jalla instead and the Minister accepts. However, since Jalla is absolutely NOT okay with that, being in love with someone else, she tracks down her sister and appeals to her conscience to do her duty. So when on the wedding day armor and helmet are removed from the bride (Hobgoblin traditions), both the Minister and the girls' parents are surprised that it is Gren after all. Entrance Gren's boyfriend. | |
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Apple Texts: A recurring plot hook whenever a wedding is central to the plot. Variants range from the groom being in on it (dumping his original fiancée and using the already planned and paid for wedding for his new lover), to the groom's parents supporting and arranging the switch, to the new bride straight up just crashing a wedding in progress with the expectation that the groom will willingly 'trade up'. It actually succeeds more often than it reasonably should, but the aftermath rarely play out well for the antagonist either way. | |
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A throwaway gag in The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has the Professor about to marry Ms. Bellum, who is revealed to be Mojo in disguise. | |
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The Swan Princess has Derek proclaim a vow of everlasting love to Odette, because those are the terms that will break Odette's swan curse. However, the Odette that Derek proposes to is really Rothbart's minion in disguise, meaning that since Derek swore his love to another, the real Odette would die. | |
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The Flash #165 (1966), "One Bridegroom Too Many": At his wedding to Iris West, Barry Allen is replaced at the altar by his Evil Counterpart, Professor Zoom, who uses future technology to disguise himself as Barry. Luckily, Barry is able to stop the wedding in time and defeat Zoom. | |
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In The A-Team episode "Till Death Do Us Part", the team is hired to get the bride out of the shotgun wedding she's being forced into. To get the bride out, they put Murdock in her wedding dress. During the ceremony, when asked, "Do you take this man ...", he pulls back the veil and says, "I didn't go through all this just to see how I'd look in white!" | |
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The George of the Jungle movie features this trope at the climax, with Lyle trying to forcibly marry Ursula when they enter a dark tunnel. Upon exiting the tunnel he learns that he actually married an amorous gorilla instead. | |
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In the Child Ballad "The Lord of Lorn", the young lord has his position stolen by a treacherous servant. Fortunately, although he promised to never tell any human, he can tell a horse. | |
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In Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard The Hammer of Thor, Sam gets engaged to Thrymr III, who has the eponymous hammer, a scenario not unlike the original story with Thor and Thrymr. Alex pretends to be Sam, which is fortunate because Thrymr III learned from his grandfather's mistakes and magically checked the heritage of his bride-to-be to ensure he's marrying Loki's daughter. | |
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Happens in Spellbinder, when Ashka is convinced (with some difficulty) to take the place of the princess whom the barbarian leader is forcing to marry him in order to legitimize his takeover of The Empire. Just as the bride is expected to say "I do", Ashka lifts the veil and tells the shocked barbarian that she'd rather marry his horse. | |
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In Faux Pas, swapping out Dusk for Cindy is suggested -- Randy, having said, "I do", would stick by it. | |
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One Piece: Mentioned. When the Giant prince Loki fell in love with Big Mom's daughter Lola, Big Mom pushed the wedding forward to forge an alliance with Elbaf, the land of giants. However, Lola, wanting to find her own love, snuck off. Not wanting to lose the alliance, Big Mom replaced Lola with her twin sister Chiffon, but Loki saw through the deception. Relations between Big Mom and Elbaf soured completely, leading Big Mom to taking her frustrations out on Chiffon for reminding her of Lola. | |
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At the end of Coming to America, Prince Akeem returns home to the Arranged Marriage he left in the first place to escape. When he lifts his bride-to-be's veil at the start of the ceremony, it's not his arranged bride, but Lisa, the love interest he'd left behind in New York. | |
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There's a double example in The Merry Wives of Windsor: Master and Mistress Page disagree on which man their daughter Anne should marry, so they both make arrangements with their preferred candidates to elope with her — only to find out that Anne and her preferred suitor Fenton have pulled this off twice and the other two have accidentally married boys. Giuseppe Verdi's opera Thheatre/{{Falstaff}], based on this play, has a slightly different variation. Here, Nannetta is the daughter of Master and Mistress Ford, and her mother supports her choice of Fenton as her husband. Her father arranges for her to marry his preferred candidate, Dr. Caius, in a pantomime of "the Fairy Queen's Wedding." But Nannetta and Fenton disguise themselves as "an unknown couple" in masks, who ask to join the ceremony and be married as well, while Bardolph secretly takes Nannetta's place in the Fairy Queen's gown and veil. |
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The Bible: The story of Jacob, who labored for seven years without pay for the right to marry the woman he loved, Rachel. The next morning he discovered that his bride was Rachel's older sister Leah and that the deception was orchestrated by their father Laban because he thought it was improper for the younger daughter to be married before the elder. He did get to marry Rachel too the next week, but then he had to work another seven years for her retroactively. To avoid this happening again (Defied Trope) the Ashkenazi Jewish wedding ceremony includes what's called badeken, a Yiddish word meaning "check" or "confirm". A bride wears a veil at her wedding—but her fiance is the one who puts it on her, so he can check that this is indeed the woman he wants to marry. The Talmud says that Rachel suspected Laban might try this and arranged for her and Jacob to give each other subtle cues at the altar so he would know whom he was really marrying. However, right before the wedding, Rachel realized that Leah would be humiliated if Jacob called the wedding off and revealed the signs to her. At least one straight-to-video live-action series drew heavily from both sources in portraying the patriarchs; for this story, it had Leah imitating a certain tongue-clicking noise Rachel and Jacob had regularly used as a means of sounding each other out in the dark. |
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The Goose Girl is actually a princess, whose servant has usurped her place as the bride. Fortunately, things get straightened out before the actual wedding. | |
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When Prince Charming overcomes a mind-wipe to wed Cinderella in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, Lady Tremaine magically disguises Anastasia as Cinderella instead and sends the real one far away with a cursed coach. | |
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In the second season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, the bride-to-be, Princess Cadence, is replaced by a shape-shifting imposter. (Plus a little brainwashing to make sure the groom doesn't notice his bride-to-be isn't quite herself.) | |
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In The Love of Three Oranges, a slave turns the bride into a bird and then claims to be her and the victim of a Forced Transformation herself. | |
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The iCarly revival did an unusual version. Nevel invites Carly and friends to his wedding, but Prunella, the supposed bride, is actually an actress; the real bride is actually Carly. (At least until Prunella announces she fell in love with Nevel for real, and then Nevel realises he feels the same way). | |
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In Power Rangers RPM, the good guys do this, the bride to be Summer, the Yellow Ranger is replaced by Dr. K after the bride realises that not only does she really not want to go through with her Arranged Marriage but that she needs a diversion because the enemy has infiltrated the wedding. This happens again in Power Rangers Samurai when Mia and Emily pull a Batman Gambit on Dayu, who has been kidnapping brides from their weddings. |
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Played with in Princess Belle-Etoile. The king's mother tries to convince him to annul his marriage to his wife Blondine and marry a young princess to produce an heir. When the king's three children and nephew arrive and tell their story, the king takes Blondine back. He gives the false bride some precious stones as a reward, and marries his daughter Belle-Etoile off to his nephew Chéri. | |
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In Lois & Clark, Clark Kent thinks that he has married Lois Lane the first time they try to marry, only that it turns out he married a frog-eating clone of Lois. The real Lois was kidnapped by Lex Luthor and then for a time lost her memory and was made to believe she was in love with someone else. | |
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Played with in 2 Broke Girls. Max and Caroline cater at a wedding, but the bride runs off right before the ceremony. Since they don't get paid if the wedding is cancelled, Max wears a wedding dress and walks down the aisle as the bride (with the veil covering her face so that nobody recognizes her) until Caroline gets the check for their service. | |
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A Diabolik has a rather unusual example involving the title character: as part of his current plan, Diabolik has disguised himself as Ginko, who is invited to a wedding, and when the wedding gets bombed Ginko's fiancee Altea, who has been wounded, has 'Ginko' marry her. The story ends with Diabolik explaining his lover Eva that neither he nor Ginko is legally married to Altea, as Benglait's laws don't allow for a stand-in and he was there under a false identity, with a later story making things even stranger by revealing that Altea's late husband actually faked his own death to prevent being discovered as a terrorist leader (Diabolik kills him for real by the end of the story). | |
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The Red Tent has a variation - Leah stands in for her sister Rachel on her wedding day because Rachel is young and afraid of the whole sex-and-babies obligation. The groom is well aware of the switch but pretends not to be because he is equally attracted to Leah. | |
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In the 1934 version of Babes in Toyland, Little Bo Peep agrees to marry Barnaby so that he'll settle the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe house. However, he's tricked into marrying Stanley Dum, who had dressed up as the bride and hidden his face with the veil. | |
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In Fantastic Four #300, Johnny Storm marries Alicia Masters, but a later retcon made the Alicia he married really a Skrull shapeshifter. | |
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Marcus Didius Falco pulls this to stop a forced marriage involving his Love Interest Helena Justina. The villain says he can just get the marriage annulled, whereupon Marcus grins and points out that he won't live long enough to do so (as he's bleeding from a fatal wound and Marcus is preventing him from getting help). | |
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On Charmed, Paige's old friend/on-and-off boyfriend is getting married, and having been turned insane by some sort of magic (as usual), she winds up trying to get rid of the bride and turns herself into a copy. Thankfully Leo rescues the real bride and sets everything straight just in time. | |
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At the climax of The Little Mermaid, Prince Eric schedules a wedding with Vanessa, not knowing she is really the sea witch Ursula in disguise and wearing the voice that Ariel had given up. | |
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