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Heir-In-Law
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Sometimes, royal title in a male-favouring system can't be inherited by a king's daughter, but can be inherited by the man who marries her. The throne can be passed on via a princess, but not solely to her. She'll instead be placed somewhere on a scale of royal wives—if she's lucky, perhaps as co-ruler, but if she's not, perhaps just as a convenient tool who ceases to be useful as soon as the marriage goes through. In some cases, this is even retroactive: a woman who has already inherited will be demoted to consort if she later marries. This can be involved in a number of plots. The princess in question is even more likely than usual to be subject to Arranged Marriage and Altar Diplomacy. Good luck being allowed to Marry for Love when your choice will determine the future ruler of the kingdom. Social Climbers and other ambitious people will Compete for the Maiden's Hand, possibly through an Engagement Challenge (or by winning a Standard Hero Reward, since the princess who is usually included may come packaged with a ticket to inherit). The more villainous suitors may tell the princess that Now You Must Marry Me, like it or not. This can work even if the villain has already taken over the kingdom, because The Usurper may gain legitimacy by marrying the previous king's heir. Alternatively, a villain may simply want a princess dead so that her potential nuptials can't cause a Passed-Over Inheritance or turn someone into a Returning Rightful King. If the marriage greatly changes the financial situation of one of the parties, things like Nobility Marries Money and Rags to Royalty may be in play. Money, not the throne, might be someone's main motive—people may see a princess as a Meal Ticket, or an Impoverished Patrician may trade on lineage to achieve success as a Gold Digger. Princesses who don't know that they're princesses can still be subject to this, so when people get a Really Royalty Reveal, it may coincide with learning that someone wants them married/dead because of this trope. Similar things occur with royal widows. Another variant is when instead of the husband claiming the throne directly, he becomes regent to a son who he produced with his chosen princess for that purpose. A downplayed version is where the husband isn't actually going to inherit anything through the marriage but thinks lineage makes for a good Trophy Wife. |
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This is the norm in The Confines of the Crown, with it being a matter of law that sons-in-law take precedence even over actual sons. Marrying an eldest daughter makes you heir, while the sons who would be heirs in a more traditional set-up have to go princess-hunting in the hopes of becoming king somewhere that way. | |
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Dune: The Bene Gesserit's initial plan was to ensure the current Emperor only had daughtersnote they are capable of controlling the sex of their offspring, and then marry one of them to the Kwisatch Haderach, The Chosen One and end product of their millennia-long breeding program, so they could have control over the throne. When events result in the Kwisatch Haderach — now Paul — being born a generation early, Paul hijacks the plan, marries the Emperor's daughter, and becomes Emperor himself, to their great dismay. | |
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Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte: Originally, this is what Marquis Bruno Riefenstahl plans for his distant nephew Baldur that Baldur will inherit the marquessate from Bruno, conditioned on Baldur marrying one of Bruno's several daughters. However, since it's revealed Fiene is the illegitimate and only child of Bruno's older brother, she was named the heir to the position of the head of the Riefenstahl household, but the position of the marquis will fall to her husband. | |
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In Aladdin (2019), Jasmine is constantly refusing suitors because she wants to avert this trope and rule as Sultana in her own right, much to the displeasure of male politicians who want her to Stay in the Kitchen. Jafar later tries to invoke this by blackmailing Jasmine into marrying him to legitimize his overthrow of her father. In the end, Jasmine gets her wish when her father abdicates and lets the succession devolve upon her, at which point she takes Aladdin as her consort. | |
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In Crusader Kings the downplayed trope is very common, as characters get a prestige bonus from marrying landed characters or their close relatives (whether they are set to inherit or not). Otherwise this trope is averted as females either can't inherit at all (under completely agnatic systems) or inherit fully as rulers (agnatic-cognatic or fully cognatic systems) with whoever they marry being their spouse and nothing more or less. It is possible to marry female rulers in order to put your dynasty on the throne from the next generation onwards (and is the norm) but your character does not gain any influence in your spouse's realm simply by marrying her (until they die and you start playing their heir, at any rate). | |
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This is very common in Fire Emblem epilogues, especially those with modular pairings via Relationship Values. But it's most notable in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, which devotes an entire Modular Epilogue to who inherits which nation as the two generations of conflict kills off much of the former ruling families. One of its most notable examples is Erinys, a simple Pegasus Knight with no noble blood, canonically becoming Queen of Silesse during the Time Skip through her marriage to Lewyn. | |
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In The Queen's Thief series, the Queen of Attolia was a minor princess whose fiancé plotted to take the throne by killing her brother, the heir. Once that was done, the fiancé would seize power through her, except that he and his father discussed these plans around her openly, so she poisoned him at their wedding and took the throne herself. However, because Attolia is pretty sexist, the country remained unstable so long as her barons thought they could marry her and seize power themselves, forcing her to enact a brutal regime until she married Eugenides, who puts in enough kinging that she can maintain her rule without a problem. | |
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Arrow: Similar to his plans with Batman in the comics, Ras al Ghul wants to make Oliver Queen his successor and heir as leader of the League Of Assassins after the latter survived their first battle. For doing so he marries Oliver to his daughter Nyssa. It backfires as Oliver has no interest in leading the League, just wanting to get close to Ras to kill him. Malcolm Merlyn ends up leading the League, despite having no familiar bond to the original Ras at all. | |
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Comes up again in Shrek the Third: after King Harold dies, Shrek goes to find Fiona's cousin, Arthur, so he can avoid this trope, as he doesn't want to be stuck with royal duties. Apparently, the idea of Fiona just ruling alone never crosses anybody's mind. | |
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In King's Quest: The Floating Castle (part of the King's Quest franchise), a villain is keeping an underage princess prisoner in order to ensure he's the one to marry her when she's old enough. | |
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Yes, Your Grace: Succession works that way in the game's setting. At some point, it's explicitly stated that since the Player Character doesn't have a son, the next-in-line for his throne is his son-in-law. This can be fixed by him having a new child and arranging for it to be a boy. | |
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Dune: Part Two: In the first film Paul muses that Shaddam has no male heirs, so whoever marries Irulan (or one of her sisters) will be the next Emperor, rather than Irulan ruling in her own right. At the end of the movie, Irulan accepts to become Paul's wife in exchange for her father's life. | |
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Shrek: In Shrek, Lord Farquaad wanted to marry Princess Fiona solely because it would make him a king. When he discovers Fiona's curse, he plans to keep her locked away and never be seen again. Unfortunately for him, his reign doesn't last too long before he becomes dragon food. It is later revealed in Shrek 2: Charming and Fiona had been betrothed so that Charming could become king. This was to repay his mother, the Fairy Godmother, for turning her father into a human so he could be with Fiona's mother. This fails as Fiona had fallen in love with Shrek and married him instead. Comes up again in Shrek the Third: after King Harold dies, Shrek goes to find Fiona's cousin, Arthur, so he can avoid this trope, as he doesn't want to be stuck with royal duties. Apparently, the idea of Fiona just ruling alone never crosses anybody's mind. |
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The Deverry books feature a case where, upon the death of a king, his three mutually antagonistic sons-in-law make bids for power. They stop short of proclaiming themselves kings but do advance claims to be regent for the "rightful" king, their own respective sons (the old king's grandsons). A son of the eldest daughter should have inherited, and might have if her husband's clan were better politicians. | |
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In Sean Russell's The Initiate Brother, Nishima is not only the most visible heir to the previous imperial dynasty, she's the ward of a powerful lord who is not on good terms with the current one. As such, she's an obvious focus for discontent, and the general assumption is that whoever marries her will be put forward as a challenger to the Emperor with her lineage as an excuse. By the end of the story, however, Nishima has actually become Empress in her own right, unmarried. | |
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Discussed in A Song of Ice, Fire and Heart when King Robert Baratheon decides to name his daughter Myrcella his successor and the future Queen on the Iron Throne. When his friend Ned points out the Westerosi lords will expect her betrothed Roxas to rule in her stead, Robert is fully aware of the teenager's distaste for the trappings of royalty and admits Myrcella will likely care for the administrative part — the bulk of day-to-day ruling — while Roxas will happily hunt monsters and outlaws, thus focusing on the "protector of the Realm" part. | |
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In the manga of The Vision of Escaflowne, the king of Asturia has three daughters and no sons. The eldest, Marlene, is deceased and the second, Eries, refuses to marry. As such, the throne is expected to pass to the husband of the third princess, Millerna, who is currently unmarried. Oddly enough, the eldest princess was actually married with a son before her death but neither of them seems to be considered for the throne, presumably because she married the ruler of another country. | |
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In Valkyria Chronicles, Prince Maximillian's plan to take over Gallia involves forcing its princess to marry him. | |
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In Maleficent, Stephan becomes king by marrying the former king's daughter. She doesn't rule and barely even has a presence in the story. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins features Anora, the king's widow. It's a semi-Elective Monarchy, so marrying Anora doesn't automatically grant rulership, but it would provide a public relations bonus and a sense of continuity. It's possible for her to become co-monarch with her late husband's half-brother, joining their respective claims. Player characters who are noblemen can talk Anora into marriage themselves, but lacking royal blood, they only get to be Prince-Consort. (A third option just has Anora become queen regnant in her own right, without remarrying at all.) | |
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In Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse, the Caliph's daughter is due to marry a son of the Al-Hazrad family (you, the protagonist). However, the Al-Hazrads' genie nearly drowns the Caliph in a storm, and he decides that his soon-to-be in-laws aren't content with just securing the marriage — they want him out of the way so that they could seize the throne. The Caliph accepts that you were ignorant of the plot yourself, since you helped rescue him, but the other Al-Hazrads are imprisoned. | |
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In The Swan Princess, Rothbart's motive for cursing Odette is blackmailing her into marrying him. This is his backup plan after he failed to take over the kingdom by force with his magic, saying that if he's the legitimate king he won't have to spend his life defending the position. (Because nobody will object to an exiled criminal suddenly marrying the recently-orphaned princess?) | |
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A Brother's Price contains a gender-flipped version, owing to the setting's Gender Rarity Value. Society is matriarchal, but a father with royal blood confers status, and the protagonist is kidnapped to be such. | |
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Berserk: The king of Midland has only one child, Princess Charlotte, and whoever marries her will become the king's heir. Griffith, an ambitious commoner who hopes to get a kingdom of his own, works hard to impress the king with repeated victories in battle, while at the same time using all his charm to sweep the naive princess off her feet. Since Charlotte is not yet engaged the king's brother Count Julius and Julius's son Adonis are actually second and third in line, but Griffith manages to eliminate them after Julius's unsuccessful attempt on Griffith's life. After winning the hundred-year war for Midland, Griffith blows his chance when he has a Freak Out over Guts leaving the band of the Hawk, and gets himself imprisoned and tortured by the king for deflowering Charlotte. Charlotte helps Griffith's followers to spring him out of prison, and has no choice but to say goodbye. Then come the Millennium Falcon Arc, Emperor Ganishka invades Midland and intends to legitimize his conquest by forcing Charlotte to bear his children. Griffith miraculously returns to rescue Charlotte and all of Midland, with them being none the wiser about the Deal with the Devil Griffith made in the Eclipse. Now a Villain with Good Publicity, Griffith is once again set to marry Charlotte and make his kingship official. | |
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Everland: In Ozland, part of Katt's plan to become Queen of Germany involves marrying Prince Jack, as she knows the populace won't accept her, a foreigner, as ruler otherwise. | |
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In Curse of the Golden Flower the Emperor is heavily implied to be this. He was a brilliant and recently widowed general who appeared to marry the previous emperor's only daughter, the now Empress. But he had to get rid of his beloved first wife to do so. | |
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Batman: Ra's al Ghul has tried to offer heirship to his criminal empire to both Batman and Bane by way of marriage to his daughter Talia, mostly due to him finding her a poor heir to him due to her gender. It didn't work out in either case. | |
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This is the point of the Throne of Miscellania quest in RuneScape; in order to become the prince/princess regent of Miscellania, the king, Vargas, requires you to marry his son, Prince Brand (as a female player) or daughter, Princess Astrid (as a male player). It is downplayed, however, since you only have to get engaged to the royal child in order to become regent and you never actually have to marry them. Though you can marry them later on, it's your choice and will not affect your regency if you don't and you remain regent even after they die. | |
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Shigurui: Iwamoto Kogan, founder of the fearsome Kogan-Ryu style of swordsmanship, is ever more obsessed with securing the future of his school. Much to his frustration, his only child Mie is a girl. Therefore he makes his two best students, Irako Seigen and Fujiki Gennosuke, compete for the honor of marrying Mie and inheriting the dojo. While Gennosuke genuinely admires Mie and wants to serve his master, Irako is deceitful and wants it all for himself. Old Master Ichidensai Funaki didn't use to have any problem with the succession of his dojo, since he had twin sons to carry on his style, but when they are slain by Gennosuke and Irako on orders from Kogan, Ichidensai is left only with his daughter Chika. Chika is in fact a Lad-ette Action Girl whose skill is mightier than any of her father's remaining male students, but tradition still requires that her father pick a husband for her and make him the heir to the dojo. As the Engagement Challenge, Ichidensai holds a "Helmet-Throwing" contest to see which student can best cut through a thrown helmet in midair. This plan runs into some snags: one is that Chika has some intersex genitalia that she doesn't want anyone to know about, leading to apprehension about her wedding night. The other is that she's got a Yandere stalker in the grotesque, toad-like ex-student Gannosuke, who starts murdering each new husband Chika gets before they can even consummate the marriage. |
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This is initially the case for Princess Yumina Urnea Belfast in In Another World with My Smartphone. (A male cousin would've been higher in the line of succession, but Yumina only had a single female cousin.) As such, her parents are eager to push her into an Arranged Marriage with main protagonist Mochizuki Touya after he foils an assassination plot on the King's life (and passes a Secret Test of Character via Yumina's Mystical Eyes). Touya is initially hesitant about marrying Yumina, but she eventually grows on him (as do his other eventual fiancées), but he has no interest in ruling the Kingdom of Belfast. Later in the light novels, this last point is subverted twice, as the King and Queen of Belfast eventually have a son to take over as the Crown Prince, while Touya himself becomes the ruler of a small Duchy that's established for him. | |
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In Shrek, Lord Farquaad wanted to marry Princess Fiona solely because it would make him a king. When he discovers Fiona's curse, he plans to keep her locked away and never be seen again. Unfortunately for him, his reign doesn't last too long before he becomes dragon food. | |
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It is later revealed in Shrek 2: Charming and Fiona had been betrothed so that Charming could become king. This was to repay his mother, the Fairy Godmother, for turning her father into a human so he could be with Fiona's mother. This fails as Fiona had fallen in love with Shrek and married him instead. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Ramsay Snow has used marriage twice to acquire (or legitimise his acquisition) of power. One of these instances utilizes trickery — he claims to be married to Arya Stark, strengthening his position in the lands the Starks used to rule, but in fact, the girl in question is not Arya Stark at all but is actually Jeyne Poole posing as Arya. Lord Tywin's desire for Tyrion to go through with a marriage to another member of the Stark family, Sansa, has a similar rationale. Robb Stark goes so far as to disinherit Sansa to stop her marriage from being used as an excuse for House Lannister to rule the North. Ironically, this trope once applied to the Lannisters themselves. When an old Lannister king died without male heirs, his son-in-law took the Lannister surname and was crowned as the first King of the Rock (the old royal title of the Lannisters before the Conquest) of Andal descent. There is also the tale of the Lannister's mythical progenitor Lann the Clever, who originally took the Rock from the Casterlys (now only remembered for the name Casterly Rock). While folklore attributes the feat to many elaborate scams, they all boil down to "impregnating and marrying the last Lord's daughter." Alys Karstark runs away from home to Castle Black in order to prevent herself from being married to her Evil Uncle who wants to inherit her title and home, the Karhold, when her brother dies (an event which they don't intend to be very far off) and who she fears will murder her as soon as she gives him an heir. Alys agrees to marry the Magnar of Thenn in an alliance brokered by Jon Snow, which he does to save Alys from her Evil Uncle (who comes after her to carry her off against her will) and so she can retake her home, the Karhold. They form a new house — House Thenn. Generally in this verse, however, an in-law is not considered a "full" heir but receives the title of Lord Protector. This is a regential title that allows one to rule until an heir who is related by blood to the ruling house matures. There are two Lords Protector in the books, Petyr Baelish of the Vale and Ser Bronn of the Blackwater. |
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In One Piece, Sterry, Sabo's adopted younger brother, became king of Goa Kingdom via marrying the kingdom's princess, Sarie Nantokanette, and then inheriting the throne after her father and brother mysteriously died. It's heavily implied Sterry killed his in-laws to get to the throne. Since we never see them in their kingdom, it's unknown whether Sterry does all the ruling or whether he and Sarie share power. Sabo's biological parents and Sterry's adoptive parents meant for Sabo to marry Sarie Nantokanette, however Sabo's rebellious streak and apparent death nixed those plans, so they invested in adopting a higher-ranking noble child. |
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Fate/Grand Order: Adamska Violet is the current boss of the Violet Family which he married into. The fiancé of his eldest daughter Juliet would be next heir of the Violet Family due to Cain, the only son, being mentally handicapped and unsuited for the leadership role. After all potential marriage candidates of Juliet ended up murdered, Cain steps forward and reveals to his family that he was not mentally handicapped at all and that he will take responsibility as the heir of the Violet Family and Goldie Family (due to his engagement between him and the Goldies' daughter Lorie). | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, this is revealed to be Princess Mandie's reason for wanting to marry Mark Chang; her plan was to marry Mark, get rid of his father, and then set Mark aside, so she could be the queen of both their worlds and used the combined strength of both to conquer the universe. The plan would have succeeded, but luckily for Mark, Vicky put a stop to it out of love for Mark. | |
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The Courtship of Princess Leia: This is gender flipped from the usual examples. A man cannot inherit the throne of Hapes personally, but his wife becomes Queen. Prince Isolder thus comments how in a way he has ultimate power due to this, as it's his choice who succeeds his mother. Leia internally dismisses this as a rationalization. | |
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This is the driving force of Enchanted, Queen Nerissa wants to stop her stepson, Prince Edward from marrying Giselle for fear of losing the throne to them. Though Edward would presumably be the actual ruler, Nerissa focuses all her attention on Giselle and throws all her accusations of her throne being stolen at Giselle, not Edward. | |
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Discussed in Jade Empire; Silk Fox fears that Death's Hand will try to convince her father to invoke this trope on her. she's wrong, for a number of reasons. This happens to the player themself if you romance Silk Fox. Though, the text suggests you're more of a Ruling Couple. |
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The Children of the Black Sun trilogy features confusion between a culture where this can happen and one where it can't. Mira is the daughter of a clan chief, and a Mesentreian noble thinks that bargaining with the clan to marry her is the same thing as securing eventual rulership for himself. Ricalani clans don't actually work like that, and all he'd get out of the marriage is Mira herself, but unfortunately for Mira, her clan is quite happy to take advantage of his misunderstanding and strike a deal. | |
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The Bishop's Heir (one of the Deryni books) features a king who, troubled by rebellion in one of the territories he rules, tries to resolve it by marrying the heir of its former rulers (whether she wants it or not). It doesn't really go according to plan. Somewhat unusual for this kind of story, the person insisting on the marriage is the protagonist. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, the plan to take over the kingdom begins with kidnapping Princess Zelda for marriage purposes. | |
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This is the plan in The Horse and His Boy. A Calormene prince wants to marry Queen Susan of Narnia so he'll be able to take over the country. That he has the hots for her doesn't hurt. | |
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At the end of Final Fantasy Tactics, the winner of the Succession Crisis known as the War of the Lions marries the daughter of the late king to establish legitimacy for a crown he'd won by virtue of military might and Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. The princess, unable to trust her husband because of his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, tries to knife him, and is killed in self-defense. | |
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In Disney's Aladdin, this is Jafar's (the Evil Chancellor) Plan B after failing to get the magic lamp. By using his magic on the Sultan, he plans to secure a marriage to Princess Jasmine, the Sultan's daughter, and gain the throne through his marriage to her. It doesn't seem that he intends for his new wife to live long after his ascension. | |
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The Riftwar Cycle has two cases where the marriage-causes-demotion variant is relevant: In the Empire Trilogy, Mara is the Unexpected Successor to the leadership of House Acoma, but for political and social reasons, it's expected that she will marry someone and transfer lordship to him, especially because of her youth. She chooses a well-connected but easy-to-manipulate husband, which works for a while, but his abusiveness and incompetence eventually prompts her to navigate him into a situation where he publicly loses honour and has to kill himself, reverting formal control back to her. She later has other romantic arrangements, but makes a point of only ever taking a consort (who has no claim on her family titles) rather than a husband. In the final book, she marries her second son to the daughter of the recently murdered Emperor to restore stability to the Empire in the aftermath of Ichindar's murder. In the Riftwar Saga, the relationship between Tomas and Queen Aglaranna of the elves is of worry to the latter's people, since they think he might try to make himself king through it. In the end, however, he just becomes her consort, and her child from a previous marriage remains heir. |
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In Dr. STONE, the position of Village Chief is gained by winning a fighting tournament and then marrying the Village Priestess, who is always the daughter of the chief and previous priestess. This is important in the early part of the manga, as the strongest warrior in the village, Magma, is a Jerkass who doesn't care for the current priestess, Ruri and just wanted the throne. This motivates the various members of the Kingdom of Science, most of whom are close to Ruri, to join the tournament in order to save her. In the end, Senku wins but immediately divorces her, both for the sake of Chrome, who he knows loves her, and because he doesn't want to be married, though he still becomes village chief after curing her pneumonia. | |
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In King's Quest VI, the Evil Vizier has killed the king and queen and is trying to force their daughter to marry him. He doesn't care about the real princess, being willing to achieve his ends with a shapeshifting genie if required. In the end, the hero marries the princess instead. | |
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WIEDERGEBURT: Legend of the Reincarnated Warrior: Gender Flipped in the Backstory. Empress Hilda of Nevaria requested the right to marry the former Emperor of Nevaria's son as her prize for winning the Grand Spiritualist Tournament. The Emperor later abdicated the throne to her, and she's been The High Queen ever since. | |
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The Chronicles of Dorsa: This is mentioned as one option for Emperor Andreth-his future son-in-law could become his heir. However, he ends up instead making his daughter heir. That's because making his son-in-law heir would entail his adoption into House Dorsa as a full son. Since Princess Tasia, his daughter, has been targeted for assassination, they risk adopting a man who's involved with the plot. Tasia later lets her husband Mace take the throne after she's believed dead. | |
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