...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Engagement Challenge
- 626 statements
- 119 feature instances
- 133 referencing feature instances
Engagement Challenge | type |
FeatureClass | |
Engagement Challenge | label |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge | page |
EngagementChallenge | |
Engagement Challenge | comment |
"You want to marry my daughter? Prove yourself worthy; go and kill yon dragon," the King proclaims, and the heroes gather to win the fair damsel's hand — a Fairy Tale scenario still used today. Historically, used straight, as a way to get the story going. The reason for the challenge varies. |
|
Engagement Challenge | fetched |
2024-03-07T09:00:50Z | |
Engagement Challenge | parsed |
2024-03-07T09:00:50Z | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to ACivilCampaign: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to AbhorrentAdmirer: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to AllThereInTheManual: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to BestHerToBedHer: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to CrazyPrepared: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to CuttingTheKnot: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to DependingOnTheWriter: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to ExactWords: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to FourthDateMarriage: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to FracturedFairyTale: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to GenderFlip: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to HugeSchoolgirl: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to ImpossibleTask: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to ImpoverishedPatrician: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to InLoveWithLove: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to IntellectualAnimal: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to ItMakesSenseInContext: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to LiteralMinded: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to RealLife: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to RebelliousPrincess: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to SecretTestOfCharacter: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to TwentyBearAsses: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingComment |
Dropped link to backstory: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
Engagement Challenge | processingUnknown |
ACivilCampaign | |
Engagement Challenge | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
Engagement Challenge / int_13998e73 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_13998e73 | comment |
MapleStory treats this like a quest. And like any quest in MapleStory, it requires you to collect 20 Bear Asses to earn a Proof of Love. Males have to earn 6 of those Proofs of Love (And have the materials to make the ring), while females have only have to earn 2. That's as far as you can get for free, the actual wedding is going to cost you real money. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_13998e73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_13998e73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
MapleStory (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_13998e73 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1567f203 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1567f203 | comment |
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Kaguya-hime imposes several of those to her own suitors (one of them being the Emperor of Japan), giving each one completely impossible tasks to follow and fulfill if they wanted to marry her. She does it as a plan to discourage them from courting her since she's supposed to return to the Moon. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1567f203 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1567f203 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_1567f203 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1a7918e3 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1a7918e3 | comment |
In Terranigma, the King of Loire gives the hand of the mute princess to the man who makes her speak again. However, there is a twist: She's not really his daughter but a child from a village that he destroyed in search of the village treasure. The King only wants her to speak again so she can tell him where the treasure is. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1a7918e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1a7918e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Terranigma (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_1a7918e3 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1b8faf92 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1b8faf92 | comment |
A double example occurs in the Nibelungenlied — Siegfried will only get her brothers' permission to marry Kriemhild if he helps the eldest, Gunther, to woo Brunhilde. And whoever wants to marry Brunhilde has to defeat her in a three-part athletic contest of throwing a javelin, throwing a boulder, and a long jump or die. Using his Tarnhelm (helmet of invisibility and shape-changing), Siegfried helps Gunther to win by cheating. It does not end well. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1b8faf92 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1b8faf92 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nibelungenlied | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_1b8faf92 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1c25dba1 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1c25dba1 | comment |
In Suikoden V, the Queendom of Falena traditionally chooses the Queen's husband (the Commander of the Queen's Knights) through a tournament. Normally, Falena's nobles use gladiators as champions, but the current Commander Ferid, Queen Arshtat's husband, was a foreigner who won the Sacred Games in an upset. In the tournament for Princess Lymsleia's hand, Lymsleia favors Beowulf, another foreign warrior, but Gizel Godwin cheats to drug Beowulf before the final match with his champion Childerich, and later launches a coup to force Lymsleia to go through with the marriage. In the end, the Games are abolished and it's an open question who Lymsleia will marry. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1c25dba1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1c25dba1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Suikoden V (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_1c25dba1 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1f140feb | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1f140feb | comment |
In The Silmarillion/Beren and Lúthien, the Elvenking Thingol tries to get rid of his daughter Lúthien's human suitor Beren by tasking him to get one of the holy Silmarils from the world's Satan-equivalent (who wears it constantly), thinking Beren'll either back off, fail, or die trying. Beren accepts the task, but in a variation on the usual trope, his lover Lúthien is instrumental to the quest; she follows him, repeatedly saves his ass, and vanquishes his much more powerful foes. Not that Beren's a slouch — he's a badass who accomplishes quite a bit himself along the way. He also uses Exact Words to pull it off; he was told to return with a Silmaril in his hand, and he did so. Even though the hand was in the stomach of the werewolf Carcharoth. This makes Thingol feel pretty guilty over the whole thing. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1f140feb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_1f140feb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Silmarillion | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_1f140feb | |
Engagement Challenge / int_220c8c36 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_220c8c36 | comment |
In The Adventures of Strong Vanya, Grand Duke Dimitri plots to force the Tsarevna Vasilissa into marrying him to take over the throne. Aware that the Grand Duke is despised by his daughter and hated and feared by the common follk, the old Tsar invokes one law which allows him to launch an engagement challenge: Anybody who intends to marry the princess must bring the Armor of the Tsar Ivan Vasilievich within seven years, seven months and seven weeks multiplied by seven. Meanwhile, he secretly mentors one guy who looks decent to undertake the challenge. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_220c8c36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_220c8c36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Adventures of Strong Vanya | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_220c8c36 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2268de37 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2268de37 | comment |
The Grimm episode "Maiden Quest" presents this as a tradition of a lynx-like Wesen called the Weten Ogen. The one seen in the episode has a number of twists: the father is a mob boss who offers his daughter's hand to whoever kills his rival, the first two challengers are killed by the daughter herself who hates the whole thing, the third challenger turns out to be gay and forced into it by his mother, and the whole thing turns out to have been a Secret Test of Character for the daughter, who's proven herself determined enough to be his heir. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2268de37 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2268de37 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Grimm | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_2268de37 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_22c403ac | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_22c403ac | comment |
Erstwhile poses one to a young girl in "The Farmer's Clever Daughter". | |
Engagement Challenge / int_22c403ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_22c403ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Erstwhile (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_22c403ac | |
Engagement Challenge / int_261c8d3f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_261c8d3f | comment |
This idea was played with on The Simpsons when Manjula calls Apu out for being a workaholic and not spending enough time with her. He lays the challenges on himself in an attempt to make it up to her, which works wonders but also causes a lot of marital problems for all the other guys in town. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_261c8d3f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2826c18 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2826c18 | comment |
The "The Princess on the Glass Hill" could be won only by a man who climbed the hill. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2826c18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2826c18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Princess on the Glass Hill | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_2826c18 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_282a12f2 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_282a12f2 | comment |
Played with in the final bonus chapter of Ojojojo where Haru has to beat her father in a game of golf to be able to have his blessing to marry Tsurezure. Her father secretly admits to Gramps that he's planning on giving permission even after he beats them since he knows that they would just elope otherwise. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_282a12f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_282a12f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ojojojo (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_282a12f2 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a15962e | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a15962e | comment |
In Beelzebub, Aoi's grandfather refuses to let her date anyone he doesn't consider worthy—generally, by fighting them and evaluating their skills. Oga is the only one he has ever acknowledged. Later, during the school trip, Oga wins a fight with the right to date Aoi as the prize. Oga seems completely unaware of the consequences of either of these events, and Aoi is too embarrassed to explain it. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a15962e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a15962e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Beelzebub (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a15962e | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a842e3a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a842e3a | comment |
The Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story "The Trials of Tara", a pastiche of Shakespearian tropes, has Queen Strella of Tara set tasks for her suitors to avoid marrying any of them since she believes that King Reynart is still alive. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a842e3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a842e3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Doctor Who – Expanded Universe (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_2a842e3a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2e79ce7a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2e79ce7a | comment |
Variation in Odin Sphere. In order to obtain the MacGuffin, Demon Lord Odin requested his former enemy, Oswald the Shadow Knight, to slay a dragon. He offered him a castle as a reward at first, but Oswald wasn't interested until Odin decided to offer his daughter Gwendolyn. Having fallen in love at first sight with her earlier, he decided to accept the task, though not without being skeptical at first. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2e79ce7a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_2e79ce7a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Odin Sphere (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_2e79ce7a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_31677f1c | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_31677f1c | comment |
The He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) episode "The Return of Granamyr" had a variation. A dragon had fallen in love with a human girl. Her wizard father consented to the union and offered to make him human if he could pass his test, but the test was designed for humans, so He-Man was volunteered to be his substitute. He-Man had to enter a maze and retrieve a silver apple from a tree in the center. In the maze, his path gets blocked by a wall of fire, but He-Man realizes it is an illusion and continues. Then, he gets confronted by a beautiful woman who offers him the apple, but He-Man remembers the apple is on the tree and dismisses that illusion. The final obstacle was a centaur who demanded a test of strength. He-Man was unwilling to fight him, so he proposed a tug-of-war, which the centaur accepted and lost. On the way back, He-Man gets attacked by an evil wizard who wanted the girl for himself, but he quickly defeats him and returns with the apple to win the challenge. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_31677f1c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_31677f1c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_31677f1c | |
Engagement Challenge / int_32625652 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_32625652 | comment |
An unusual version occurs in volumes 4-5 of Dance in the Vampire Bund. The only three vampires of sufficient rank to be a socially acceptable match for Mina decide that they're tired of waiting for her to decide which of them she's going to marry (Despite being prepubescent and thus being ineligible for marriage to anyone at this time) and so they come up with and execute an Engagement Challenge without her knowledge or consent. Made worse by the fact that the challenge in question is to see which of them (Or rather, whose champion) is able to murder her closest friend. Fortunately, Akira kills two of them and subdues the third, winning Mina the right to order them back to their estates until she's ready to decide who she wishes to marry (Which, if she gets her way, won't be any of the Grand Dukes — she's despised them for centuries). | |
Engagement Challenge / int_32625652 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_32625652 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dance in the Vampire Bund (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_32625652 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_33860f9f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_33860f9f | comment |
Although he's only dating Ramona, this is still the situation Scott Pilgrim finds himself in, courtesy of her last boyfriend, Gideon Graves. The challenge? Defeat every person Ramona's ever dated in a duel, made extra difficult by most of them having superpowers. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_33860f9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_33860f9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Scott Pilgrim (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_33860f9f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_36039a26 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_36039a26 | comment |
In Red Queen, future queens are decided through Queenstrial, a contest in which eligible noble daughters compete to best show off their superhuman abilities. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_36039a26 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_36039a26 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Red Queen | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_36039a26 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3663ba6 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3663ba6 | comment |
Most will also agree with the heroine in "Catskin", although she only faced an Arranged Marriage to "a nasty rough old man" there. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3663ba6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3663ba6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Catskin | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_3663ba6 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3828a884 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3828a884 | comment |
Played nastily by Shakespeare in Pericles, Prince of Tyre: Antiochus decrees his daughter's suitors must attempt to answer a riddle, and if they fail they will die. Since the solution of the riddle is "Antiochus is in an incestuous relationship with his daughter", those who answer it correctly will also die. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3828a884 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3828a884 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_3828a884 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3845aa1f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3845aa1f | comment |
In "The Three Aunts", the queen mother retroactively declares that the tasks were proof enough of her domestic skills, and lets her marry the king. Whereupon the three aunts show up again to scuttle the need for her to try the work again. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3845aa1f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3845aa1f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Three Aunts | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_3845aa1f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_387e826a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_387e826a | comment |
Heroics for Beginners: When the Ancient Artifact Model Seven is stolen by Lord Voltmeter, it immediately becomes clear to everyone that Princess Rebecca's hand must go to the man who retrieves it. There's no other way. Which is a problem for her boyfriend Prince Kevin, since Prince Logan—and his army—is clearly the most qualified man to retrieve the artifact. Kevin has only his copy of The Handbook of Practical Heroics on his side. Due to the Artifact being destroyed in the final battle, the challenge is rendered void and Rebecca is free to marry Kevin (despite Logan being the one to defeat Lord Voltmeter). | |
Engagement Challenge / int_387e826a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_387e826a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Heroics for Beginners | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_387e826a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_38fa34eb | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_38fa34eb | comment |
Wonder Woman Vol 1: Kenyah imposes a challenge for Nubia that is encouraged by her guardian expecting to fight other men for ownership of her more than anything resembling marriage, instead she furiously answers him with: | |
Engagement Challenge / int_38fa34eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_38fa34eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wonder Woman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_38fa34eb | |
Engagement Challenge / int_395f90c6 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_395f90c6 | comment |
In Jenufa, Števa, the titular character's initial Love Interest, is told by her stepmother he'll only marry the girl if he stays sober for a year. It isn't a case of Wicked Stepmother, quite the contrary, because Števa is a selfish irresponsible jerk and drunkard. He abandons Jenufa on the same day anyway, so it never comes to the challenge. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_395f90c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_395f90c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jenufa (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_395f90c6 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3c38c613 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3c38c613 | comment |
The Merchant of Venice: When Portia's father died, he set up a lottery — anyone who wants to win Portia's hand must be given the choice of three chests, gold, silver, and lead. If a man chooses the one that contains her picture, he gets to marry her immediately—but if not, not only does he have to leave her forever, he's bound by oath never to marry anyone else. Portia's father wanted a man who wasn't blinded by the lure of gold and silver; the correct choice is lead. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3c38c613 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3c38c613 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Merchant of Venice (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_3c38c613 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3fbe5a51 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3fbe5a51 | comment |
In East of the Sun and West of the Moon, the heroine wins the hero from the troll bride by washing his shirt clean. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3fbe5a51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_3fbe5a51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
East of the Sun and West of the Moon | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_3fbe5a51 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4b187e74 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4b187e74 | comment |
The Odyssey: Queen Penelope was under pressure to remarry after her husband Odysseus had been missing for twenty years. Eventually, she tells her many suitors that she will marry whoever can string Odysseus' bow and then fire an arrow through the holes of twelve axes that have been lined up. None of them can string the bow, because it is a recurve bow that requires skill as well as strength. Penelope's son Telemachus tries, saying if he succeeds, the suitors have to go home, but he fails as well (but got closer than anyone else did). Then, Odysseus shows up (in disguise) and passes the challenge before he and his allies slaughter the suitors for harassing his wife and mooching off his estate. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4b187e74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4b187e74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Odyssey | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_4b187e74 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f57b33a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f57b33a | comment |
In Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo's father challenges Aoyama to a kendo duel in order to let him continue seeing her. After Ichigo learns that he had been subjected to a similar challenge to continue seeing her mother, she, like her mother before her, runs in and offers to continue the duel on Aoyama's behalf, convincing her father to accept him. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f57b33a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f57b33a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tokyo Mew Mew (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f57b33a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f82dd49 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f82dd49 | comment |
In The Empress Game, Prince Ardin is required to marry whichever princess wins a special gladiatorial tournament (the titular Empress Game). In fact, he's already in love with a perfectly good princess, but she isn't any good at fighting — thus, a scheme is hatched for Kayla to impersonate Isonde in the arena and win them the marriage that they both want anyway. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f82dd49 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f82dd49 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Empress Game | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_4f82dd49 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5101b879 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5101b879 | comment |
"Kate Crackernuts" demands to marry the ill prince before she stays by his bed for a third night. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5101b879 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5101b879 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kate Crackernuts | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_5101b879 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a3533fe | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a3533fe | comment |
On My Name Is Earl, Earl goes to Catalina's village to get her back in the country (because it was technically his fault that she got deported). The way to do that is to have a Citizenship Marriage, but in order to get the blessing of Catalina's male next-of-kin (her uncle; her father got killed), Earl has to pass a series of (allegedly symbolic) tests of worthiness. Because Randy desperately wants to marry Catalina as he's been in love with her since the beginning of the series, Earl deliberately fails the tests so Randy can pass them and marry Catalina. Although she really wanted to marry Earl. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a3533fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a3533fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
My Name Is Earl | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a3533fe | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a49f883 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a49f883 | comment |
A Hero's War: Landar's father actually very much wants her to marry Cato, but since the wider clan is dubious about Cato's inability to use magic, Yan suggests that Cato travel with the army going north to fight zombies, and prove himself on the battlefield. Landar isn't keen, and would be content with the alternative option of simply leaving the Iris Clan, but Cato sees it as a minor obstacle if it means keeping their valuable political support. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a49f883 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a49f883 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Hero's War | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_5a49f883 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5cb7cb01 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5cb7cb01 | comment |
"The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": Subverted at what it happens after the wedding. The main character must fetch three hairs from the head of the Devil so that his royal father-in-law approves of his marriage to the princess. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5cb7cb01 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_5cb7cb01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Devil With The Three Golden Hairs | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_5cb7cb01 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_615d90c6 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_615d90c6 | comment |
In the Speed Racer episode "The Race Around the World" the wealthy Karat Goldminter holds the race around the world with the intention of marrying his daughter, Lovelace, to the winner. Lovelace enters the race herself, hoping to win and not be forced to marry. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_615d90c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_615d90c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Speed Racer | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_615d90c6 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_61d3b6b8 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_61d3b6b8 | comment |
In Fly Me to the Moon it turns out this is the real reason Tsukasa married Nasa. After he said yes to her proposal, she revealed that it was only a test, because she's really 1400 years old note No no — she's been 16 for 1400 years! and her goal is getting to the moon to get Princess Kaguya to reverse her immortality. Nasa actually accepted her challenge but, due to his injuries, completely forgot everything she said about her past. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_61d3b6b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_61d3b6b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fly Me to the Moon (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_61d3b6b8 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_630755ab | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_630755ab | comment |
In Codex Alera every Marat marriage involves one of these. However, since each individual challenge is set by the Marat woman in question the nature of the challenge can vary wildly based on the abilities of the prospective husband, and whether she wants to marry him or not. Tavi points out that, for example, if a woman from the Horse clan did not want to marry a man from the Wolf clan, she could challenge him to a horse race since he would stand no chance of winning. This way the Marat woman effectively exercises a complete marriage veto if she so chooses. In the final book Kitai names her challenge to Tavi as killing the Vord Queen. He does, and the final chapter of the series is their wedding. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_630755ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_630755ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Codex Alera | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_630755ab | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6365ff3a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6365ff3a | comment |
Dragon Quest V features an Engagement Challenge for the hand of Nera, along with a shield the hero needs as a wedding present. You have to complete the challenge and can marry Nera, but Nera's father is willing to let you marry your childhood friend Bianca if you so desire and still get the shield. In the DS Remake, you can also choose to marry Nera's sister Debora, but no matter what, you'll always get the Zenithian Shield. Conveniently, all three girls are descendants of the previous Chosen One, thus allowing your son to be the new Chosen One later in the game. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6365ff3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6365ff3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dragon Quest V (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_6365ff3a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_68ea0c85 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_68ea0c85 | comment |
Subverted in Bakuman。. After Akito Takagi, while meeting with his girlfriend Kaya Miyoshi's parents, mentions the name of his partner Moritaka Mashiro, Kaya's father challenges him to a sparring match to test his determination, but it turns out that it was a ruse to get the two of them away from his wife and daughter to talk about the relationship between Mashiro's uncle and Miho Azuki's mother. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_68ea0c85 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_68ea0c85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Bakuman。 (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_68ea0c85 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_699bb236 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_699bb236 | comment |
The main plot of All's Well That Ends Well is a gender- and time-reversed variant. Helena is married to Bertram by her choice and against his will. He runs away to Florence, saying that he'll only accept her as his wife if she can get his family ring off his finger and present him with his own child. Of course, she does. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_699bb236 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_699bb236 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
All's Well That Ends Well (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_699bb236 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6af83614 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6af83614 | comment |
In A Thing of Vikings, Hiccup annoyingly self-imposes a Challenge on himself before he proposes to his girlfriend, Astrid; he does this because feels that he needs to have a bride price that is not only sufficiently proportionate for what he feels Astrid's value is to him, but what the tribe's (and the rest of the world's) expectations are going to be for "The Hero Of Berk." He succeeds by giving a literal King's Ransom as the bride price, flooring Astrid's family, and everyone who hears about it second-hand. It went down in the history record as indisputably famous and incredible. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6af83614 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6af83614 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_6af83614 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6c39a620 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6c39a620 | comment |
Ascendance of a Bookworm: If women from Dunkelfelger want to marry a man, but know that the chances that the man will propose to them are very slim to none, they are known to ambush the the man and demand a task that that will allow them to prove that they are a worthy wife via its completion. The third queen, who is from Dunkelfelger, is known to have done this to the current king back when he was a Royal Academy professor she was in love with. This also how Hartmut from Rozemyne's generation ends up finding a wife. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6c39a620 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6c39a620 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ascendance of a Bookworm | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_6c39a620 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6d92a167 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6d92a167 | comment |
Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act VI: Arial, who has been acknowledged as Dark's mother in a sense, outright disapproves of Mizore's relationship with Dark and tells her that she will have to prove herself worthy of Dark's hand in marriage. Just a few chapters later, however, she decides that Felucia would make a better wife to Dark than Mizore, and is actively resisting Mizore's attempts to bond with her and prove herself. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6d92a167 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_6d92a167 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_6d92a167 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_72a9864b | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_72a9864b | comment |
Standard practice in ancient India, so of course it shows up in the Ramayana and Mahabharata. In both cases, they're occasions not only to get the hero with his future wife but also to establish just how awesome he is. In the Ramayana, Rama picks up Shiva's personal bow, tries to string it, and snaps it. Most people and some lesser deities aren't even able to lift it. And in the Mahabaratha, Arjuna and Karna both shoot the eye of a wooden fish atop a pole by its statue, and Arjuna goes on to be The Hero while Karna becomes The Dragon. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_72a9864b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_72a9864b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ramayana | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_72a9864b | |
Engagement Challenge / int_75cfb0cb | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_75cfb0cb | comment |
And then, once they've done all that, Ysbaddeden's nephew Goreu beheads the giant before the marriage in vengeance for the deaths of his brothers. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_75cfb0cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_75cfb0cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
"Shaggy Dog" Story | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_75cfb0cb | |
Engagement Challenge / int_76df664a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_76df664a | comment |
The Daughter of Dawn: The chief decides to test the worthiness of Black Wolf and White Eagle by taking them to a bluff and challenging both of them to jump off to prove their worthiness. White Eagle does and wins Daughter of the Dawn's hand. Black Wolf doesn't and is expelled from the tribe. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_76df664a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_76df664a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Daughter of Dawn | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_76df664a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_78a64189 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_78a64189 | comment |
Also Book of Judges 1:12: | |
Engagement Challenge / int_78a64189 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_78a64189 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Book of Judges | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_78a64189 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7d5e43b0 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7d5e43b0 | comment |
The Goodies spoofed the trope in the episode "Scatty Safari" by having "an anonymous Queen" offer the hand in marriage of her eldest son to whoever purged the land of its plague of Rolf Harrises.note The eldest son of said "anonymous Queen" was apparently interested in appearing in the episode as himself, but Palace security voted down the idea. In another episode Tim wins the hand of his bride, but it's literally the hand. Graham is shown snogging with the rest of her, except for the legs which are given to Bill. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_7d5e43b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7d5e43b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Goodies | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_7d5e43b0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7fc78282 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7fc78282 | comment |
In The Lord of the Rings, Elrond will only let his daughter Arwen marry Aragorn if he's King of a reunited Arnor and Gondor and Sauron is gone; quite sensible, as of course Elrond doesn't want his daughter to stay behind on a Middle-earth ruled by Sauron, so he won't let her unless Aragorn helps make it a safer place to live. As Elrond raised Aragorn as a foster-son, it's pretty strongly implied that he badly wants to make sure that Aragorn fulfills his destiny, so he's also using the useful coincidence fate dealt him to do so. It's implied that Elrond (who is the great grandson of Beren and Luthien, and lived through some very nasty events caused by Thingol's challenge) guesses that history is repeating itself, and that whatever challenge he sets, Aragorn will manage it and marry Arwen - so he sets a task which he actually wants done, rather than an "impossible" task. And unlike their mutual ancestors Beren and Lúthien, Aragorn and Arwen seem okay with the condition set on their marriage. Naturally Aragorn wants to save the world anyway, and the allusion to Beren implies he's lucky it's a relatively easier prospect. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7fc78282 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_7fc78282 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_7fc78282 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_811027b0 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_811027b0 | comment |
"Jesper Who Herded the Hares" brings the pearls the king demanded. The king doesn't approve of Jesper and starts piling up the tasks. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_811027b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_811027b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jesper Who Herded the Hares | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_811027b0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_82ebf387 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_82ebf387 | comment |
Eyrbyggja Saga: Styr promises the berserk Halli he will give him his daughter Asdis in marriage if Halli and his brother will do a few difficult work orders for him, which is, to clear a path across a lava field, to build a dyke on the farm boundary, and to build a sheep-shed. However, he already plans to rid himself of Halli and has no intention of actually giving him his daughter. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_82ebf387 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_82ebf387 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Eyrbyggja Saga | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_82ebf387 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_847f5422 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_847f5422 | comment |
In Child Ballad #47 "Proud Lady Margaret", the title character sets riddles and executes those who do not answer. A knight comes and answers them; then he explains he is her brother, come to humble her pride. She says she will go with him anyway, and he reveals that he is already dead. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_847f5422 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_847f5422 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Child Ballads | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_847f5422 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_862e3f86 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_862e3f86 | comment |
"Donkeyskin" is an odd instance in which the reader is supposed to side with the one setting the challenges, rather than the one trying to complete them. Most readers will. As they will in Grimms' "All-Kinds-of-Fur," and "The King Who Wished Marry To His Daughter." Most will also agree with the heroine in "Catskin", although she only faced an Arranged Marriage to "a nasty rough old man" there. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_862e3f86 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_862e3f86 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Donkeyskin | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_862e3f86 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8653458a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8653458a | comment |
Tonin: If the King of Sanvil has no sons, his daughter must marry someone who proves his worth by defeating a champion chosen by the King. King Mipussy got the throne because the champion chosen by his father-in-law threw the fight in exchange for half the royal treasure. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8653458a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8653458a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tonin | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_8653458a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_86c3beca | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_86c3beca | comment |
As evident from the page quote, one of these forms the basis of Girl Genius' Cinderella parody. While Agatha-rella does end up marrying the prince(s), it's because her Science Fair entry is an army of war clanks. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_86c3beca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_86c3beca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_86c3beca | |
Engagement Challenge / int_88b1bb0d | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_88b1bb0d | comment |
Free Spirit (1989), a sit-com, had main character Winnie Goodwin (a witch)'s fiancee (a warlock) show up after a courtship that spans 150 years. He had to cross the Atlantic in a day, and capture a girl's smile without using magic. Modern tech helps him beat most of her father's challenges. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_88b1bb0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_88b1bb0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Free Spirit (1989) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_88b1bb0d | |
Engagement Challenge / int_89147048 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_89147048 | comment |
The Field Guide to Evil: In "The Cobbler's Lot", Tivald goes to the king to ask him for Princess Boglarka's hand. The king initially attempts to dismiss him, but, on seeing that he is serious, he assigns him a task. Tivald must trek through the forest to the loosestrife pool, and return with a single strand of loosestrife. If he succeeds, he will be permitted to marry the princess. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_89147048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_89147048 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Field Guide to Evil | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_89147048 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8b337b70 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8b337b70 | comment |
A variant in Love & Basketball in which the heroine asks this test of the hero. She assumes that if he wants her he will let her win. As it happens the hero wins but marries her anyway. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8b337b70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_8b337b70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Love & Basketball | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_8b337b70 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_91b9b321 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_91b9b321 | comment |
The basis of the romance subplot in The Edge novel On The Edge. Rose has powerful magic but no pedigree, and as such would be treated as a baby-making machine by any noble she married. Declan proves that he's powerful enough to take her by force, and then offers her a deal. "The traditional solution" to their dilemma is three engagement challenges. If he loses any of them, he will leave and never bother her again; if he wins them all, she must come with him and be pleasant and agreeable. Rose accepts. It develops that Declan came up with this plan on the spot as a reasonable excuse for him to be hanging around the area, where he has a mission to complete. In short order it's more than a cover, however. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_91b9b321 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_91b9b321 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Edge | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_91b9b321 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_92916f5a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_92916f5a | comment |
The title character in Shrek saved princess Fiona from a castle situated over a smoldering volcano. She was O.K. with marrying him until finding out he was an Ogre, and he was just working as a champion for Lord Farquaad. In keeping with the whole theme of subverting fairy tales in the movies, she turns into an ogre as well and marries Shrek anyway. On top of that, the (female) dragon who was guarding the princess ends up with Shrek's sidekick Donkey. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_92916f5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_92916f5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shrek | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_92916f5a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_94f77848 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_94f77848 | comment |
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Miorine is at the center of one. Her father, who founded the academy, set the rule that the top pilot would marry his daughter. Since he is the head of the largest corporation and Miorine is his heir, this also means vast amounts of wealth and power. Miorine hates everything about this, not least because the top pilot is the insufferable lout Guel. Suletta only finds all this out after she beats Guel in a duel (she just wanted him to apologize to Miorine), meaning she is now Miorine's fiance. Despite minimal actual romance between the two (at least, at first), Miorine clearly prefers Suletta to any of the other challengers. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_94f77848 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_94f77848 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_94f77848 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_959e6c9 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_959e6c9 | comment |
In Dragon Quest IV, a king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to the one who wins a fighting tournament. His daughter is already in love with someone who isn't a wonderful fighter, unbeknownst to daddy. What's worse, the front-runner in the tournament is viciously cruel. In the end, both king and princess plead with the tomboyish Alena to enter the tournament, since a woman winning it would cause the whole marriage thing to be called off. In the original version, it's just the princess who asks Alena to help her. And when Alena wins, the king briefly jokes about marrying her instead. Considering how clearly she could make her disagreement with that idea known, it's no surprise he backs off. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_959e6c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_959e6c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dragon Quest IV (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_959e6c9 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_977c980a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_977c980a | comment |
In The Sleeping Beauty, the Princess Rose's hand is the prize of a great tournament that many princes have traveled to compete in. The thing is, the reason the tournament is being held is the princes being there prevents the kingdom from being attacked until it's strong enough to discourage invasions by other means. Furthermore, the challenges are designed to be completely non-lethal and entirely relevant to ruling the kingdom, and the Genre Savvy Princess Rose and her guardian are hoping that narrative causality will make sure that the winner ends up being someone Rose can love, as well as a good king. It works, with Siegfried solving the final test by hiring dragons to solve the biggest problem of the kingdom. In The Fairy Godmother, Prince Alexander and his two brothers head off to a neighbor's kingdom to take part in one of these ... and two of the three (Alexander and Octavian) flunk before they even get there when they're rude to a disguised Godmother Elena. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_977c980a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_977c980a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_977c980a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98744614 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98744614 | comment |
There's a longstanding tradition in Brave where the first-born children of the local clans compete for the princess in a challenge of her choosing. But since Merida has no interest in marrying anyone and happens to be her own clan's first-born, she chooses archery (which she's very good at) and shows up to compete for her freedom. After quite a bit of arguing, it turns out that none of her would-be suitors are interested in marriage either, so the clans decide to break tradition and let them marry in their own time. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98744614 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98744614 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Brave | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_98744614 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98e97d56 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98e97d56 | comment |
In Rune Factory 3, your chosen bride will disappear the morning of your wedding. You'll have to fight Aquaticus, Dragon God of Water to get her back.note This turns out to be the final part of Aquaticus' master plan to revitalize the Sharance Tree and save the land from ruin: Proving your love is strong enough that you'd be willing to take on a god for your bride. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98e97d56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_98e97d56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rune Factory 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_98e97d56 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_993b173f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_993b173f | comment |
In What is the Name of This Book? Raymond Smullyan uses this many times as the framing device for logic problems that the suitor (and the reader) must solve. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_993b173f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_993b173f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
What is the Name of This Book? | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_993b173f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9aff348f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9aff348f | comment |
In the song "Princess of Pure Delight" from Lady in the Dark, a King demands his daughter's suitors answer the riddle, "What word of five letters is always spelled wrong?" | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9aff348f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9aff348f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lady in the Dark (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_9aff348f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9ba481d0 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9ba481d0 | comment |
In Boots Who Made the Princess Say 'That's a Story!', anyone who tells the princess a tall tale so outrageous she calls them out on it can marry her and get half the kingdom as well. Boots succeeds. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9ba481d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9ba481d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Boots Who Made the Princess Say 'That's a Story!' | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_9ba481d0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9bb5aad4 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9bb5aad4 | comment |
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Both Camyula and Tanya have the hots for two of the boys chosen to guard the keys, but only Tanya makes her duel into one of these. She wins, but considering she's an adult and Bastion's a teenager, the whole plot and its results make some fans uncomfortable. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9bb5aad4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9bb5aad4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_9bb5aad4 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9e202b7b | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9e202b7b | comment |
In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, Elder tells Kenichi that he would only allow him to propose to Miu (Elder's granddaughter) if Kenichi beats him in a fight. Elder is known as "the man without enemies". It's even better in Japanese: "man without enemies" is the literal definition of the word "invincible". Though since in the epilogue he's married and had a daughter who looks like Miu, he's either beaten the elder or the older man has allowed the marriage anyway. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9e202b7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_9e202b7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_9e202b7b | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a495544e | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a495544e | comment |
On Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Mira invokes this when she is suddenly reminded of her Arranged Marriage. She challenges her foppish fiancé to get through Space Rangers Basic Training, knowing that a pampered blueblood like him could never—oh wait, he winds up becoming the most decorated cadet in history. Fortunately, she eventually gets it called off, and the fiancé decides that he would rather go back to the Rangers than settle down anyway. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a495544e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a495544e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_a495544e | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5549ed0 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5549ed0 | comment |
The Bible: David had to bring Saul back the foreskins of 100 Philistines to prove himself worthy of Michal's hand (and not coincidentally, Saul's throne). Some versions claim he brought back twice that number in order to show Saul up. This is less silly than it sounds; the challenge amounts to "Kill one hundred of our worst enemies by yourself" (since, as noted below, they're probably not going to give him their genitalia), and since Jews were/are circumcised, foreskins would be fairly conclusive proof that the part came from some enemy of the Jews. Also Book of Judges 1:12: The Book of Tobit (not to be found in Protestant Bibles) features a woman cursed with a demon so that the men who try to marry her don't survive the wedding night. In a subversion of the trope, her parents are only too eager to marry her off to a young man willing to give it a try — the seven previous suitors didn't make it. With the help of the angel Raphael, Tobias banishes the demon by putting fish parts in the fire and saying his prayers and survives 'til morning. Older still: In Book of Genesis, Laban has Jacob work for a period of 7 years (in lieu of a more conventional bride price) for his daughter, Rachel. Then, he switches her out for her sister Leah under the bridal veil, on the grounds that he didn't think it was appropriate for the younger daughter to be wed before the elder. Daddy agrees that he'll still give Jacob the girl he really wanted...in exchange for another 7 years of servitude. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_a5549ed0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5549ed0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Bible | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5549ed0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5db6eab | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5db6eab | comment |
The Legend of Tarzan: the plot of the episode "Eagle's Feather" centers around this. Tarzan's Waziri friend Wasuli intends to marry her fiancée, but being the son of the chief he has to show his strength and courage as the future leader of the tribe by climbing a mountain nearby with Tarzan and bringing back an eagle's feather before the sunset. He succeeds despite being delayed by his rival Muviro. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5db6eab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5db6eab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Tarzan | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_a5db6eab | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a6543322 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a6543322 | comment |
Touhou Project puts a spin on the aforementioned Kaguya-hime story from Japanese Mythology. In this instance, Kaguya Houraisan was giving her would-be suitors Impossible Tasks because she already had all the treasures she sent them to fetch. When a noble from the Fujiwara clan cheated by bringing back a fake treasure, Kaguya humiliated him in front of his peers, leading his daughter Mokou to swear revenge. Mokou ended up stealing Kaguya's gift for the Emperor of Japan, the Hourai Elixir, and used it to become immortal like Kaguya. The two now routinely, pointlessly murder each other in continuation of this 1300-year feud. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a6543322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a6543322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_a6543322 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a825da3e | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a825da3e | comment |
In the Magic: The Gathering novel The Brothers' War, the warlord ruler of the city of Kroog and the surrounding nation of Yotia wants somebody "strong" to carry on his legacy, so he sets up one of these. He puts a giant statue in an arena — far too heavy for any single person to lift — and promises his daughter and kingdom to the man who can carry it to the other side. Gadgeteer Genius Urza succeeds by building a Magitek robot to do it for him, and the king is unusually willing to keep his side of the bargain. Amusingly, Urza, being a Chaste Hero, is far more interested in the kingdom's supply of magical powerstones than its stunningly beautiful princess; she ends up falling for him long before he develops feelings for her. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a825da3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a825da3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_a825da3e | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a95b5556 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a95b5556 | comment |
"Molly Whuppie" having two older sisters, and the king three sons, she carries out three challenges, marrying off each pair. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a95b5556 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_a95b5556 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Molly Whuppie | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_a95b5556 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_aa37c2ad | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_aa37c2ad | comment |
In Kimagure Orange Road, a flashback reveals that Kyosuke's grandfather set up something like this for his father. The challenge was to bring snow down from the top of a mountain. As a normal human, Kyosuke's father was unable to complete the challenge... without help from the Esper he was seeking to marry. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_aa37c2ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_aa37c2ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kimagure Orange Road (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_aa37c2ad | |
Engagement Challenge / int_abfcff6a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_abfcff6a | comment |
Hilariously invoked in one of Rocky and Bullwinkle's Fractured Fairy Tales. A young man is told by the king that in order to marry the princess, he must successfully complete one task. The youth points out that this is unusual, as three tasks is the regular requirement. That show had at least two other sketches poking fun at the trope. One in which the princess refuses to marry the frog-man who could leap to the top of the glass hill she was imprisoned on and ran off with the architect who built it, and one where the Cinderella type refused to marry the invisible prince despite being able to see him because he was even uglier than her stepsisters. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_abfcff6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_abfcff6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rocky and Bullwinkle | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_abfcff6a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ae050a9f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ae050a9f | comment |
Played with in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. After defeating the monster that was making Lord Jabu-Jabu ill, Link is granted the hand of Princess Ruto of the Zoras...which he doesn't want. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ae050a9f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ae050a9f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_ae050a9f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b21cd2c3 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b21cd2c3 | comment |
In The Faerie Queene, Campbell challenges all of his sister's suitors to battle him for the honor of marrying her. The suitors choose three of them to act as champions to defeat Campbell. Two die, but the third battles Campbell to a draw and is able to marry as he intended. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b21cd2c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b21cd2c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Faerie Queene | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_b21cd2c3 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b40d4111 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b40d4111 | comment |
Stardust: Victoria demands that Tristran bring her a falling star. He finds the star, which turns out to be a MacGuffin Turned Human, and falls in love with her instead. (As it turns out, Victoria was just teasing him and was already engaged to someone else.) Of course, the movie made both Victoria and her suitor a bit less honorable than in the book, wherein Victoria thought Tristran dead and was all set to marry her other beau when Tristran returned — and she was willing to honor her promise to him regardless. She was rather distressed, to be quite honest. Not that it was idle characterization, either: the marriage had a rather startling effect on a certain prophecy. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_b40d4111 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b40d4111 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Stardust | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_b40d4111 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b8ec64d2 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b8ec64d2 | comment |
In Your Throne Crown Prince Eros has an "Crown Princess Tournament" organized to pick his future wife out of two noblewomen. The two compete in three tasks, and Lady Medea Solon handily wins against her rival — only for Eros to disregard the contest and announce his engagement with the loser, Psyche Callista, instead, claiming he fell in love with her. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b8ec64d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b8ec64d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Your Throne (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_b8ec64d2 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b9bdc4b1 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b9bdc4b1 | comment |
In Swing Time (1936), after Lucky fails to show up on time for his wedding, his fiancee's father tells him he'll have to earn $25,000 as proof of his good intentions if he wants another chance. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b9bdc4b1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_b9bdc4b1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Swing Time | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_b9bdc4b1 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_bdde27c9 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_bdde27c9 | comment |
Nirvana in Fire: The tournament set up for Nihuang's suitors. The top ten have to pass the final challenge: beating Nihuang herself. This effectively gives Nihuang Child Marriage Veto powers. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_bdde27c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_bdde27c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Nirvana in Fire | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_bdde27c9 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2826f84 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2826f84 | comment |
Some examples from Post Modern Fairy Tales: "The Wrestling Princess" features a rather butch princess whose parents put on an engagement challenge for her: the competing princes had to be stronger, smarter, and taller than her (she's kind of a Huge School Girl), and the only guy who qualified was a Noodle Person she let win their wrestling match (well, how else could they prove they're stronger?) because she was afraid of hurting him. Later that night, the princess meets cute with one of the visiting princes' helicopter pilots (she's a big helicopter buff), and while he is her intellectual equal he's neither as tall nor as strong as she is (she doesn't care, but her parents might, considering their criteria). It turns out that not only is he Noodle Guy's pilot but he's actually the prince — he and Noodle Guy switched places because he (the prince) thought the challenge was silly. Naturally, the prince and princess get a Happily Ever After. Another story, "Georgiana and the Dragon" features the titular princess rescuing a prince from a dragon. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_c2826f84 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2826f84 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
PostModern | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2826f84 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ab3494 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ab3494 | comment |
In Turandot, if one wanted to marry the titular princess he had to correctly answer three questions asked by her; failure resulted in beheading. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ab3494 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ab3494 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Turandot (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ab3494 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ccee93 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ccee93 | comment |
In the 19th-century Finnish epic The Kalevala, Louhi of Pohjola likes to give her daughters' potential suitors nigh-impossible tasks. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ccee93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ccee93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Kalevala | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c2ccee93 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c3d129cd | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c3d129cd | comment |
High School D×D: Issei crashes Rias and Raiser's marriage to take Rias back. Sirzechs then appears and tells him that if he wants his sister, he'll have to defeat Raiser. Naturally, Issei complies. And he brought some stuff with him too. The twist is that Rias wants nothing to do with the marriage and her family are sympathetic but have their hands tied. Sirzechs backhandedly invited Issei to crash the party, and issued the challenge to give Rias a way out. Rias' friend, Sona, has a standing challenge that she'll be willing to marry anyone that defeats her in a chess game. Since she happens to be a very good chess player, she's managed to fend off all would-be suitors so far. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_c3d129cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c3d129cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
High School D×D | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c3d129cd | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c686bb8 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c686bb8 | comment |
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones plays with the trope in how, during Innes and Eirika's A-support, he tells her that he loves her... but that he won't officially propose to her until he defeats her twin brother Ephraim, probably to deliberately invoke the trope. Eirika's reaction is pretty much a Flat "What". Innes and Eirika's shared ending states that the Innes vs. Ephraim duel did take place but ended in a draw, and some time later they got married anyway. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c686bb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c686bb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c686bb8 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c773cdea | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c773cdea | comment |
This trope forms the backbone of How Culhwch Won Olwen, one of the oldest surviving works of Welsh literature. Culhwch is cursed by his Wicked Stepmother that he can marry no-one but the daughter of Ysbaddaden the Giant. Ysbaddaden claims that he cannot prepare for the ceremony until Culhwch hunts the giant boar Twrch Trwyth and retrieves a comb, scissors, and razor from his hair. But he can only be tracked by a certain hound, and the leash can only be made by a certain hero and held by another... the job ultimately involves over forty different tasks and the aid of no less than King Arthur and his warband. And then, once they've done all that, Ysbaddeden's nephew Goreu beheads the giant before the marriage in vengeance for the deaths of his brothers. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_c773cdea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c773cdea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mabinogion | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c773cdea | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c911df7d | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c911df7d | comment |
Strange Magic: Marianne gives a very low bar one to her father, that she'll get married to whichever boy she can look in the eyes, hold hands with, and not want to punch. The irony of her falling in love with the Bog King, whose first meeting with her involved her punching him in the face, is staggering. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c911df7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c911df7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Strange Magic | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c911df7d | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c954afc9 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c954afc9 | comment |
In The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage, the Valkyrie Waltraute says she will only marry Jack if he can climb Yggdrasil all the way up to Asgard. She wasn't expecting him to actually try it, but he does. In a subversion, he ends up falling off halfway, but she catches him and declares him the winner because his determination moved her. They marry. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c954afc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c954afc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Circumstances Leading to Waltraute's Marriage | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c954afc9 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c9b98f4e | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c9b98f4e | comment |
In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Empath's Honeymoon", Papi Utopi challenges Empath to fight the Utopi Champion so that he could win his right to "marry" Smurfette (despite the fact that Empath and Smurfette were already married before meeting the Utopii), and if he loses, Smurfette will remain with the Utopii forever. Empath is easily defeated by the Champion in the first match, but on the rematch, Empath resorts to ground-pounding the Champion's head repeatedly in order to wear him down so that he could defeat him and win Smurfette. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c9b98f4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_c9b98f4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Empath: The Luckiest Smurf / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_c9b98f4e | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ca5d97f1 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ca5d97f1 | comment |
Monty Python's Flying Circus spoofed this with a sketch in which a king keeps telling his daughter's courtiers to go to the tallest tower in the land and hurl themselves off it. If they survive they can marry the princess. All of them do it, not one of them survives, until eventually the queen gets so fed up with this that she makes him stop it. The final courtier's impossible task is to go to the shops and get the king a packet of cigarettes. Ironically, he fails as well; he gets hit by a bus on the way home. In an alternate version of the sketch, the prince succeeds, but a better-looking prince shows up and slays a 'dread dragon' (a plastic toy on a string), at which point the king hands him the engagement. This causes the rejected prince to get an evil witch to curse everyonenote including herself, which she realises too late to turn into chickens in revenge. At which point the kingdom is invaded by chicken prospectors. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_ca5d97f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ca5d97f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Monty Python's Flying Circus | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_ca5d97f1 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cb6abea3 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cb6abea3 | comment |
It's common in Yu-Gi-Oh! and its Sequel Series for villains to challenge someone to a duel with marriage, a date, or anything in-between (or more explicit) as the stakes: Jean Claude finds Mai (who at first doesn't even remember him) in Battle City and reminds her that they met on a cruise years ago, and when he proposed to her, she told him to ask her when he could beat her in Duel Monsters. She was absolutely joking, though, and is shocked that he took her seriously and is trying to hold her to it. She agrees to duels him anyway and marry him he she loses. She wins, which just makes him move on to attempted kidnapping. During the Kaiba Corp Grand Prix, psychotic fangirl Vivian Wong injures Yugi's grandfather and refuses to help him unless Yugi duels her and if he loses: in the dub, he has to go on a date with her; in the original, he has to become her "love slave." The audience is only shown the last two turns, where Yugi wins, of course. Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Both Camyula and Tanya have the hots for two of the boys chosen to guard the keys, but only Tanya makes her duel into one of these. She wins, but considering she's an adult and Bastion's a teenager, the whole plot and its results make some fans uncomfortable. Later in GX, after Chazz develops a crush on Alexis, he makes the mistake of turning to her love-crazed brother for help and takes his advice to challenge her to a duel where she has to: in the original, go on a date with him; and in the dub, become his girlfriend. To make sure she can't refuse, Atticus has him steal the 7 keys they've been trying to protect all season and put those on the line as well. Thoroughly annoyed by the whole Zany Scheme, Alexis wins. Yu Gi Oh 5Ds: During their duel, Jack's Brainwashed and Crazy love interest Carly shows him a vision of what will happen if she defeats him — instead of him losing his soul like all other losers of Shadow Games in this arc, she'll get to keep him by her side as the Ruling Couple over a conquered world. Jack accepts the terms but fights off the illusion and refuses to surrender. Ultimately, the real Carly is able to take control long enough to make a move that causes her to lose because she knew Jack was planning a Together in Death ending. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_cb6abea3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cb6abea3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_cb6abea3 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cc22fae4 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cc22fae4 | comment |
Gender-flipped in Once Upon a Mattress: Queen Aggravaine has declared that nobody in her kingdom can get married until her son Dauntless does. Unfortunately, she keeps setting impossible tests for the Princesses because she believes that nobody is good enough for him. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cc22fae4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cc22fae4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Once Upon a Mattress (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_cc22fae4 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ce596e8c | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ce596e8c | comment |
In Honey Honey, the princess herself sets up the quest. She has rich suitors from around the world after her fabulous fortune, and frustrated at her options, she sticks her enormous diamond ring into a cooked fish and throws it outside. The main character's cat eats the fish, swallowing the ring, and runs off. The princess says whoever can retrieve the ring will marry her, setting off the events of the series, which is a wacky chase across Europe for a poor young waitress and her cat. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ce596e8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ce596e8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Honey Honey (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_ce596e8c | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cefe086 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cefe086 | comment |
Subverted in The Legends of Ethshar novel With a Single Spell where the erstwhile dragon-slayers were promised a bag of gold and a princess for defeating the dragon. Upon returning successfully, one of the heroes tries to refuse the princess and take the gold only to find that it's a package deal. There are too many princesses and the gold is her dowry. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cefe086 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cefe086 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legends of Ethshar | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_cefe086 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cffa1bda | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cffa1bda | comment |
In Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner, Walther must win the Nuremberg's Got Talent time-honored singing contest before he gets the hand of Eva. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cffa1bda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_cffa1bda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Richard Wagner (Music) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_cffa1bda | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d29994ae | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d29994ae | comment |
Live A Live: The beginning of the Middle Ages chapter has Oersted and his friend Streibough take part in the tournament, the winner of whom will earn the right to marry Princess Alethea of the Kingdom of Lucrece, and the last part of tournament pitted Oersted and Streibough against each other. Oersted was victorious. But as it was revealed the end of chapter, Streibough did not take the loss well and, Driven by Envy, organized the events that would lead to him wooing Alethea by saving her from demons, while Oersted would lose all of the public's fame by tricking him into slaying the king. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d29994ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d29994ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Live A Live (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_d29994ae | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30d27d | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30d27d | comment |
Should you choose to marry Mana in Rune Factory 2, her final request will involve fighting her crazy father. In Rune Factory 3, your chosen bride will disappear the morning of your wedding. You'll have to fight Aquaticus, Dragon God of Water to get her back.note This turns out to be the final part of Aquaticus' master plan to revitalize the Sharance Tree and save the land from ruin: Proving your love is strong enough that you'd be willing to take on a god for your bride. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_d30d27d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30d27d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rune Factory (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30d27d | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30e0145 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30e0145 | comment |
"The Princess and the Pea" has the princess' prospective parents-in-law testing her claim to be a princess by seeing whether she's so sensitive that a pea-sized lump would irritate her through multiple mattresses to the point of being unable to sleep. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30e0145 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30e0145 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Princess and the Pea | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_d30e0145 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_da9348f | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_da9348f | comment |
In Clash of the Titans, part of the curse placed on Joppa by Calibos required any potential suitor to Andromeda solve a riddle; failing to answer correctly meant death by fire. Unfortunately, the incredibly hard-to-answer riddle was chosen by Calibos himself and changed each time. Perseus not only answered correctly after learning the current one, he fought and grievously wounded the villain, sparing him only when he lifted the curse. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_da9348f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_da9348f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Clash of the Titans (1981) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_da9348f | |
Engagement Challenge / int_daff6a21 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_daff6a21 | comment |
Yu Gi Oh 5Ds: During their duel, Jack's Brainwashed and Crazy love interest Carly shows him a vision of what will happen if she defeats him — instead of him losing his soul like all other losers of Shadow Games in this arc, she'll get to keep him by her side as the Ruling Couple over a conquered world. Jack accepts the terms but fights off the illusion and refuses to surrender. Ultimately, the real Carly is able to take control long enough to make a move that causes her to lose because she knew Jack was planning a Together in Death ending. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_daff6a21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_daff6a21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_daff6a21 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e22c949c | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e22c949c | comment |
Dragon Quest: In Dragon Quest IV, a king offers his daughter's hand in marriage to the one who wins a fighting tournament. His daughter is already in love with someone who isn't a wonderful fighter, unbeknownst to daddy. What's worse, the front-runner in the tournament is viciously cruel. In the end, both king and princess plead with the tomboyish Alena to enter the tournament, since a woman winning it would cause the whole marriage thing to be called off. In the original version, it's just the princess who asks Alena to help her. And when Alena wins, the king briefly jokes about marrying her instead. Considering how clearly she could make her disagreement with that idea known, it's no surprise he backs off. Dragon Quest V features an Engagement Challenge for the hand of Nera, along with a shield the hero needs as a wedding present. You have to complete the challenge and can marry Nera, but Nera's father is willing to let you marry your childhood friend Bianca if you so desire and still get the shield. In the DS Remake, you can also choose to marry Nera's sister Debora, but no matter what, you'll always get the Zenithian Shield. Conveniently, all three girls are descendants of the previous Chosen One, thus allowing your son to be the new Chosen One later in the game. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_e22c949c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e22c949c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
DragonQuest | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e22c949c | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2a42120 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2a42120 | comment |
The World is Still Beautiful does this twice in regards to Nike and Livius, interestingly enough since it's actually an Arranged Marriage that was initially approved by at least Nike's dad who is the leader of the Rain Dukedom: To prove herself to the priest of Livi's kingdom, she must retrieve a ring from a deep crypt to prove herself. It was a trap as there was no ring and the priest had men there ready to detain and kill Nike. Livi saved her and they got around the lack of formal ring with Everythings Better With Rainbows. What gets foisted on Livius by Nike's grandmother after the plan to hypnotize him into forgetting Nike fails. Overlaps with Impossible Task, given the ridiculous conditions he has to face — finding the key to the tower where Nike is held from a muddy swamp, in the middle of a massive thunderstorm summoned by said grandmother. This means that, if he takes too long looking for the key, there's a chance he might drown due to the rising waters. When he is finally pulled out, he had found the key and put it in his vest so he did not drop it. |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_e2a42120 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2a42120 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The World is Still Beautiful (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2a42120 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2ade9fb | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2ade9fb | comment |
Older still: In Book of Genesis, Laban has Jacob work for a period of 7 years (in lieu of a more conventional bride price) for his daughter, Rachel. Then, he switches her out for her sister Leah under the bridal veil, on the grounds that he didn't think it was appropriate for the younger daughter to be wed before the elder. Daddy agrees that he'll still give Jacob the girl he really wanted...in exchange for another 7 years of servitude. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2ade9fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2ade9fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Book of Genesis | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e2ade9fb | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e3f0daf4 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e3f0daf4 | comment |
A Growing Affection: Hinata's grandfather (named Hyouta in this story) decides if Hinata is going to keep dating Naruto, she will have to prove she is a worthy successor to Hiashi by defeating Neji and Naruto will have to prove he is a better suitor than the man Hyouta has chosen a Jonin and a noble who is older than Hiashi. And when it looks like Naruto and Hinata have succeeded, he does some rules lawyering, resulting in a third challenge Naruto vs. Hyouta which is definitely not what the old man was looking for. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e3f0daf4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e3f0daf4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Growing Affection / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e3f0daf4 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e4d1ce93 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e4d1ce93 | comment |
A variant in Shakugan no Shana. Crimson Lord Merihim was in love with Mathilde Saint-Omer, the Flame-Haired, Blazing-Eyed Hunter, who had no interest in him — she was in love with Alastor, and they were on opposite sides in the Great War. Mathilde agreed to a duel where the loser would have to do whatever the winner wanted, knowing that Merihim would ask for her love if he won. He lost, and instead was recruited to protect and train the next-generation Flame-Haired, Blazing-Eyed Hunter after Mathilde's death. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e4d1ce93 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e4d1ce93 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shakugan no Shana | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e4d1ce93 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e57f8f36 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e57f8f36 | comment |
The opera Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber is based around this. Max, the protagonist has to shoot true in a hunting contest to get a job and the allowance to marry his love Agathe. To make sure of that, he delves into dark arts. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e57f8f36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e57f8f36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Der Freischütz (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e57f8f36 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e5bcaba6 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e5bcaba6 | comment |
The Fruit of Grisaia: When she was little, Sachi told Yuuji that she wouldn't marry anyone that couldn't kick their shoes off farther than she could. She was only trying to cover her embarrassment and when it turned out he couldn't do it even when she was going easy on him she regretted coming up with that kind of stupid challenge. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e5bcaba6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e5bcaba6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Fruit of Grisaia (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e5bcaba6 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e8d13e52 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e8d13e52 | comment |
Invoked and played for laughs in Urusei Yatsura, where Tsubame Ozono is frequently challenged by his fiancee Sakura's disapproving uncle, Sakuranbo ("Cherry"), to prove his worth. At least once this results in the two actually holding a summoning-based Wizard Duel. The source of Tsubame's struggles is that Sakuranbo disapproves of him for going to America and Europe to study Western Black Magic instead of traditional Japanese magic like Sakuranbo and Sakura. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e8d13e52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_e8d13e52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Urusei Yatsura (Manga) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_e8d13e52 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ee5e6821 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ee5e6821 | comment |
Parodied in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, where a man asks his girlfriend to set him one of these. Once she realises he's serious, she challenges him to shoot a panda. When he protests that this is cruel and illegal ("You didn't say 'legal', you said 'possible'"), she instead challenges him to spend ten years in the Arctic, although she's not going to wait for him, because she'd look pretty silly if he died. He doesn't like that idea either and, rather fed up with the whole thing ("You’d do anything for me, so long as it isn’t unpleasant or inconvenient! That’s very good to know!") she asks for a glass of water. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ee5e6821 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ee5e6821 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (Radio) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_ee5e6821 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_eeac804a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_eeac804a | comment |
In the Emergency! fic ""The Right of Combat", there's a variation on this, not a challenge of the suitor per se, but of the engagement itself. Dr.Brackett, Johnny, and Chet are cat shifters, and after Chet is infected, he is told he must take a mate because of the People's dangerously intense sex drive. Chet had already been flirting with Brackett's sister and they pledge themselves. But, Brackett doesn't like the idea of Chet, a 'brought in', marrying her because they are members of an old, well-respected family. Brackett demands the Right of Combat and ends up battling her champion, Johnny, to first pin. Johnny wins and Kel must accept the pairing. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_eeac804a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_eeac804a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Emergency! | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_eeac804a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ef91eab | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ef91eab | comment |
In Ruslan and Ludmila, Prince Vladimir announces that whoever rescues Ludmila will get her hand in marriage. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ef91eab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_ef91eab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ruslan and Ludmila | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_ef91eab | |
Engagement Challenge / int_f502a38a | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_f502a38a | comment |
The Smurfs (1981): In "The Gallant Smurf", to prevent her son Godfrey from marrying the peasant Priscilla, Queen Felicity promises his hand to anyone who can show her something she hasn’t seen before. Of course, since she has lived a long time, she “has seen everything�. Hogatha tries to win the challenge by kidnapping Grampa Smurf, since Smurfs are still an unknown species to most. But when Godfrey and Priscilla swear their love to each other in front of the Queen, she remarks with disgust that she has “never seen such true love before�. An escaped and hiding Grampa Smurf points this out to Godfrey while hiding behind his head, and Godfrey uses his mother’s Exact Words, saying that Priscilla has shown her something she has never seen before, and thus has won the challenge. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_f502a38a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_f502a38a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Smurfs (1981) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_f502a38a | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fa3ca713 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fa3ca713 | comment |
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey: In the final phase of the game, Penelope challenges the suitors to shoot an arrow through a setup of axes and shields, bouncing it off the axes correctly and missing the shields until it hits the target at the end, with the winner becoming her new husband. Wishbone, naturally, passes in order to beat the game and escape from the Combobulator. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fa3ca713 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fa3ca713 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_fa3ca713 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fc2c6dc5 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fc2c6dc5 | comment |
The Book of Tobit (not to be found in Protestant Bibles) features a woman cursed with a demon so that the men who try to marry her don't survive the wedding night. In a subversion of the trope, her parents are only too eager to marry her off to a young man willing to give it a try — the seven previous suitors didn't make it. With the help of the angel Raphael, Tobias banishes the demon by putting fish parts in the fire and saying his prayers and survives 'til morning. | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fc2c6dc5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fc2c6dc5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Book of Tobit | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_fc2c6dc5 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fe5f7909 | type |
Engagement Challenge | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fe5f7909 | comment |
Parodied in Guards! Guards!, in which barbarian heroes refuse to try and slay the dragon plaguing Ankh-Morpork unless they get "the king's daughter's hand in marriage and half the kingdom", despite the fact that Ankh-Morpork is a republic and its Patrician is unmarried. He's got an aunt though. And a dog. One of the heroes asks what kind of dog before deciding "Nah." |
|
Engagement Challenge / int_fe5f7909 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Engagement Challenge / int_fe5f7909 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Guards! Guards! | hasFeature |
Engagement Challenge / int_fe5f7909 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.