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Marriage Before Romance
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Maybe it is an Arranged Marriage, maybe an Accidental Marriage, maybe it is a Marriage of Convenience like a Citizenship Marriage or a Mail-Order Bride. Whatever the case, our couple has been married for non-romantic reasons, and they may see it as a temporary thing, or a thing to get over with and ignore as much as possible. Instead, they start to fall in love. This is an easy way to turn the normal tension in a Romance plot on its head, and the trope lends itself very well to Romantic Comedy. It is very easy for the people around the newly-wedded couple to have, form, and get all sorts of mistaken impressions. Or impressions that are correct when formed, but invalid a few days later. Or receive mixed messages from the married couple. Proponents of Arranged Marriage loop in this trope to justify the practice to their Marry for Love-minded friends. Most studies on the subject paint it as Truth in Television. Indeed, this trope seems to have been the (expected) norm for much of human history. Compare Perfectly Arranged Marriage when two characters engaged against their will discover true love. Also compare It Meant Something to Me and Becoming the Mask. If the couple pretended to be in love when they married, it is a Romantic Fake–Real Turn. May also overlap with Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other. Note that this trope is Newer Than They Think since it presupposes that attempting to Marry for Love is the norm. Examples |
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I Am J: J's parents had a Shotgun Wedding. His father loved his mother, but it was unrequited. Eventually, it became mutual. | |
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The Columbia Pictures bio-drama Marie Antoinette (2006) starts with the marriage of King Louis XVI of France to Princess Marie of Austria. The two had never met until their wedding, which was made to solidify a treaty between France and Austria. Nevertheless, Marie and Louis grew to love each other during their short reign. | |
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In Analogue: A Hate Story, the Kim family try to tell the Pale Bride that this will happen. | |
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In Fiddler on the Roof, the marriage of Tevye and Golde was arranged and they have been together for a quarter of a century, having already raised several of their children to adulthood; but it isn't until their daughters start pushing back on the tradition in favor of marrying for love that they start thinking about romance with one another. Their duet "Do You Love Me?" lampshades, describes, and plays out the trope. | |
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Ranma ½: The title character is betrothed to Akane while they are both teenagers, and although it's clear that there is a potential for romance between them, romantic progress is constantly derailed by Not What It Looks Like situations, other fiancées, a curse that makes Ranma turn into a girl when splashed with cold water, other martial artists coming after Ranma and/or Akane and, most often, the two's own egos. Although the relationship never developed beyond Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moments and a denied Anguished Declaration of Love, the ending does imply that they will get married of their own will eventually. | |
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In Crusader Kings and its sequel, random events and certain decisions allow a married couple to become lovers. This has the benefits of turning it into a Seduction-Proof Marriage and also increases fertility of the couple, as well as adding a rare event where your loving marriage cures the characters of depression or stress. | |
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Karolina and Xavin of Runaways are really devoted to each other after they head off for the wedding Before Xavin got Put on a Bus and Karolina ended up dating someone else, that is. | |
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In Shadowlands, the Bio Pic about C. S. Lewis, he marries Joy in a civil ceremony so that she can live and work in the UK. Then he falls in love with her, and after she develops bone cancer, they get married for real. This was Truth in Television. | |
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In The Simpsons, Apu had an arranged marriage he tried to get out of only for himself and his fiancée Manjula to instantly hit it off at their wedding. Although, as it turned out, neither of them liked the idea of being forced to marry a near-total stranger, they decide to go through with the wedding and effectively "date" as husband and wife, since if they're not compatible they can always get divorced. | |
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Most of the plot of the rom-com The Wedding Planner revolves around the fact that the father of the eponymous wedding planner made an Arranged Marriage between her and the son of an old friend of his. Near the end of the movie, she calls him out on this, evoking his marriage to her late mother, only for him to tell her that was also arranged. He goes on to tell her that when they were younger, he was in love with someone else, and she didn't really like him. They spent the first years of their marriage despising one another (since they lived and got married in Italy, it's heavily implied that societal tradition levied a heavy taboo on divorce.) One day he got incredibly sick and she nursed him back to health, and with that experience, they slowly but surely learned to love one another. | |
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In the Ah! My Goddess franchise the main character, Keiichi Morisato, encounters a goddess who will grant one wish to him. He wishes that she stays with him forever. As far as the universe is concerned from that point on, the two are effectively married. They couldn't leave one another if they tried. In the process of finding a place to live and domestic life, they fall in love with one another. The manga ends with Belldandy and Keichi being officially married by Belldandy's mother after they pass the trial, and that's when Keiichi is told, straight up, that the wording of his wish in chapter one is explicitly a marriage proposal. | |
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In Grey's Anatomy, Teddy marries a patient because he has a chronic illness and cannot afford surgery so he will be covered under her insurance. She originally had no romantic interest in him but they fall in love, though he unfortunately dies shortly after. | |
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In Fools Rush In, the couple Isabel and Alex have a one-night stand in Las Vegas which results in pregnancy. They decide to get married, move in together, and then actually get to know each other. | |
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Zane and Danica in Hawksong by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. It's a political match — their peoples have been at war for generations, they're the royal heirs, and they decide that they can make peace via a marriage alliance. It works, and they fall in love later. | |
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In The Onedin Line James and Anne Onedin were their own matchmakers so to speak, having found it useful to marry each other to smooth out the legal details of a business alliance. As a bonus they happened to fall in love with each other. But don't tell anyone else. | |
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Happens to the secondary characters Sevinna and Dwaen in Katharine Kerr's Deverry novel Days of Air and Darkness, and apparently it works out. | |
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The 100 fic "A Union" opens with Clarke and Anya's first meeting on the bridge where Anya proposes that Clarke join her in a peace union, which Clarke only later learns is an actual marriage. Once Anya establishes that Clarke didn't know what she was agreeing to, they agree to maintain the appearance of an actual marriage for the sake of the alliance but acknowledge deeper feelings for each other by the time they escape from Mount Weather. | |
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Albert and Eugenie's arranged marriage in Gankutsuou. Within about a dozen episodes, the two are well and truly in love. Too bad both got broken later. | |
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I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up: The premise involves Machi pretending to marry her kohai and friend Hana (who'd previously confessed to her while they were in college and got rejected), in order to satisfy their needs. Machi wants to stop her parents from pressuring her to marry successful men, while Hana needs a place to stay while her apartment is being renovated. Eventually, Machi ends up falling in love with Hana. | |
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The marriage between Ashe and Rasler in Final Fantasy XII is like this, although it is established that they were close beforehand due to being the only heir of their respective thrones of two allied countries. Unfortunately, it doesn't last very long since Rasler is killed just before the start of the game. | |
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Spite Marriage: Trilby marries Elmer, whom she barely knows, in a fit of pique after finding out that her boyfriend Lionel is cheating on her. She later falls in love with Elmer for real after he saves her from bootleggers on the yacht. | |
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Crystal and Ronan the Accuser during War of Kings. Crystal starts off hating Ronan and eventually begins to admire him and understand that he's in basically the same situation that she is. When Black Bolt eventually breaks up the marriage, neither of them takes it well◊. | |
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In the Protector of the Small quartet, this happens between Prince Roald and Princess Shinkokami, once they get to know each other. According to Word of God, this also is the case with Roald's sister, Kalasin, and Emperor Kaddar, as she got to choose among the potential alliance marriages she could make in exchange for not pursuing knighthood, and he is besotted with her. | |
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In Persona 3, Mitsuru says in her Social Link that her parents were wed as a result of an Arranged Marriage, but gradually came to love each other. Mitsuru, however, knows that she will never love her fiancé, and ends up telling him off in a spectacular manner toward the end of her Social Link. | |
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Stepping on Roses has Sumi Kitamura and Soichirou Ashida marrying only out of convenience: Soichirou needed to get married so he could properly inherit his fortune, Sumi needed money to save her family from destitution. One of the core ideas of the story is seeing whether they'll swear or not by this trope, never mind their massive cultural and personality clashes and all the cap the plot throws at poor Sumi. They do. | |
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Played for tragedy in Magnolia, in which Linda married her much older husband Earl purely for money, and only realises that she's genuinely fallen in love with him when he's in the final stages of cancer and too out of it for her to explain it to him. The combination of grief, and guilt over her earlier unfeeling treatment of him, drives her to a suicide attempt which ultimately fails. | |
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On My Name Is Earl, Joy tricked Earl into marrying her in Las Vegas while drunk, in order to secure someone to provide for her baby. Although the marriage ended, and it was far from perfect, they both look back on the six years they spent together fondly, and have several Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other moments. Earl even mentions that Joy was his favorite wife. | |
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In House, M.D., following his breakup with Cuddy, House agrees to marry a Ukrainian woman so she can get a green card. At first, they live largely separate lives, but they end up having to move in together to pull it off, and they start developing real feelings for each other. Unfortunately, it's not a happy ending: House is so afraid of her leaving that he tries to hide the fact that she's gotten her citizenship from her, and it's this deception that drives her away from him. | |
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In Dragomir's Diary, the titular character meets his wife after they've already been married, and one of the first things she does is threaten to beat him for arriving a day late. Despite that, they eventually do fall in love - enough so that Libby is willing to throw herself into a crumbling castle to save Dragomir, and has to be forcefully removed by a dragon. | |
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The Americans: Philip and Elizabeth. It's mentioned at one point that, when Philip was introduced to Elizabeth for the first time, he was relieved by how pretty she was, but he could tell by her face that she was disappointed in him. It isn't until the third episode that Elizabeth admits that she's starting to feel love for Philip for the first time in their twenty-year marriage. Philip and Martha's fake relationship and fake marriage start to get more real by Season 4, like in season premiere "Glanders", when he's going to Martha for comfort and telling her things he doesn't tell his other wife. |
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In the The Dark Knight fanfic Question of Honor, Bruce and Grace have to get married to help her escape her war-torn homeland. They plan on staying together for a few years and then getting a divorce to ensure that Grace can stay in the States. Things take a different turn, however... | |
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Exalted: A particularly surprising example comes in the form of Ledaal Kes and Ragara Szaya, two Dragon-Blooded Exalted who were married off to each other primarily because they are both Air Aspects with extraordinary Breeding. What makes this particular relationship so bizarre is that both Kes and Szaya are openly homosexual, and yet they care for each other enough that they see each other as the sole exception to the rule. | |
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In Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, half-orc prince Glon Bloodhand gets married to four orc princesses for political reasons. He quickly grows into this trope with three of them and is in the process of winning over the fourth when she is murdered. | |
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Mahir and Nandini in the Newsflesh series. All right, so he chose her after being offered over a dozen other possibilities because she looked a good deal like Georgia, whom Mahir had had romantic feelings for, but the marriage does work out quite well and he falls very much in love with Nandini. | |
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Fly Me to the Moon: Tsukasa falls under this trope; while Nasa falls in Love at First Sight with her, she only goes out with him after he accepts being married to her there on the spot, as a way of making sure he's absolutely serious. While Tsukasa doesn't mind Nasa's company, she's "flippantly serious" about the arrangement, but develops her own feelings for him over time. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: A City Elf Player Character who expresses a desire to Marry for Love is seen as an oddball by the rest of the community and is assured that this will happen by your father, who himself experienced this with your mother. If you're not outright rude to your betrothed when you meet, s/he will also express confidence that this is how your relationship will play out. Your cousin Soris also says that "the humans choose, and their marriages don't seem any happier." | |
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In A Brother's Price this is to be expected, since marriages are arranged, and a man marries all the sisters in a family, which with family sizes up to thirty, makes it impossible for everyone to be in love with each other prior to the wedding. The protagonist, Jerin who manages to marry for love is not in love with all of his wives by the end of the book - which is a good thing, considering that some of them are still children. He considers this normal and is optimistic about his future happiness. | |
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7th Heaven features a fake marriage before romance. Diane is a Streetwalker and The Woobie, and she is about to get arrested, so Chico impulsively says she's his wife despite the fact that he just met her. When the cop says they'll be following up to make sure that's true, Chico panics until Diane says she can stay in his apartment and pretend to be his wife until the cops stop by. When the cops finally stop by, Chico and Diane have fallen in love. | |
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In Spock's World, a Star Trek novel by Diane Duane, one of the stories from Vulcan's history is of a girl who is able to kill with her mind when she is angry. She has killed two potential husbands this way. She is forced into a third marriage for political reasons and is sure he will end up as the other two. Then they meet and argue and fall in love. What happens when her husband is killed is the main reason Vulcans have discouraged marrying for love. | |
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Lilium -Sims 2: Horitio was arranged to marry Estella as children. When they meet as teens, Horitio is initially in love with his sister. He pushes aside his feelings and marries Estella due to obligation. Eventually, the two fall mutually in love. | |
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One Life to Live: Todd and Tea have a Marriage of Convenience. Technically, him and Blair. Although they're already friends, they marry only because he thinks she's pregnant (she's pulling The Baby Trap to get her hands on his money), eventually falling in love for real. |
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: In his backstory, Canas married his unnamed wife, a mage, solely to learn more about anima magic. By the time the game takes place, they're Happily Married and have a son - Hugh, from the sequel. | |
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In The Proposal, Sandra Bullock's character makes her assistant marry her to avoid being deported to Canada. After pretending to friends, family, and the INS, they're exposed...only to have him propose so that they can date. | |
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In The Bridge Kingdom Archives Aren, king of Ithicana, and Lara, princess of Maridrina, get married as a part of the peace treaty between the two nations - which have been fighting for generations. Following initial distrust, they fall in love. | |
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A variation takes place in Red River (1995). Near the start of the series, Kail saves Yuri from being made into a Human Sacrifice by pretending he slept with her and thus making her unusable. From there, the two have to pretend she's his concubine (which pretty much means being his wife all but on paper) so he can protect her from his Wicked Stepmother's murder attempts. The two play the part at first, but remain distant as they anticipate sending Yuri home soon... but they do fall in love for real. After Yuri chooses to stay with Kail, the rest of the manga is about them trying to overcome obstacles so they can be married legally and she can challenge the Wicked Stepmother and become the proper Queen. | |
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Happy Marriage?!: The main couple gets thrown into an Arranged Marriage but end up falling in love with each other. | |
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Maria Kutschera, despite what The Sound of Music may tell you, was not desperately in love with Captain von Trapp when they married, although he was in love with her. She married him for the sake of the children and fell in love with him later. She really had meant it when she entered Nonnberg Abbey as a postulant, although she later joked that it was clear she wasn't cut out to be a nun.note When asked whether she'd been as bad in the convent as depicted in the play, she laughingly said, "I was worse!" Obviously, it all worked out, as, by the time they left Austria, she was pregnant with their third child. She later reflected that "I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after." | |
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In Dead West, The Amber Duchess and the Porcelain Doctor; a beautiful, fragile-looking Scottish duchess paired with a young Scottish earl. This trope is played with; this started as an arranged engagement, with none of the parties having too much say in it, then the engagement had been broken up by Arabell's parents. Since she was dismayed with her new groom, who was old enough to be her father, quite rude and not too attractive, the duchess fled to her previous fiancée;, and they got married to lessen the scandal. Granted, it didn't start with mutual love, but they had a lot of respect towards each other, and after getting married, the doctor soon started to reciprocate the duchess' love. The Beast obviously spent a lot of time searching for the perfect lady for his little brother. | |
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Please Teacher!: High school student Kei Kusanagi marries the alien who is posing as his homeroom teacher in order to protect her secret identity. They move in together and quickly fall in love with each other. | |
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Marry Me (Bobby Crosby). Pop-idol who doesn't want to go back into the dating scene impulsively accepts a marriage proposal by sign and gets married to him on stage that minute. But the guy who was holding the sign didn't especially want to get married to her - it wasn't even his sign. Eventually, they fall in love. | |
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As the World Turns's Simon and Katie entered a Citizenship Marriage so that he could stay close to Lily —and eventually fell in love. | |
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Rome: Jocosta is gang-raped and her father's riches confiscated by the state — as a result, she's not happy that the only candidate for marriage is recently freed slave Posca. But Posca turns out to be quite adept at making money via corrupt political deals and is tolerant of his wife's ditzy ways, so it turns out quite well. It's also implied that Vorenus and Niobe were an arranged match (not that that marriage turned out all too well). In their happier days they're discussing arranging a marriage for their daughter. When she asks about the love she is told "strange sort of marriage when you loved each other first." Octavian and Livia, for all their flaws, are rather happy together. |
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Taxi: A season one episode has Nice Guy John Burns marry a girl he just met on their first date. The two consider divorce but realize they like each other and decide to try to make it work. While John doesn't last much longer on the show, they seem pretty happy together in each subsequent appearance. | |
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Monsoon Wedding starts with the arranged couple feeling very awkward in each other's company, and there's some complications with her old flame, but by the end, the two of them are taking quite a liking to each other. | |
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The premise of Husbands. When gay marriage is legalized, boyfriends Cheeks and Brady Kelly are the first to get married. But they were drunk when they did that. They can't divorce because it's bad for the cause, and so they figure they'd stay married awhile, try it out, and then they divorce. But as they spend more time together, they realize that they do love each other. | |
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Averted in Anne of the Thousand Days. The marriage of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon was thorny from the outset and deteriorated thereafter. One scene shows Henry VIII grousing about this: "I do not love that woman. That was a marriage of state: England married Spain."note This is emphatically not true to real-life history: Henry, then a headstrong new king of only seventeen, quite defiantly married Catherine — his late brother Prince Arthur's widow — because he was in love with her, despite a number of people telling him not to do it. It was only later, after a series of disappointing miscarriages and stillbirths, that their marriage really began to fall apart. | |
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King Fergus and Queen Elinor in Brave most definitely love each other and, at one point, he playfully grabs her butt. While they have completely opposite personalities as a Violent Glaswegian and a Proper Lady, they still have a working marriage. When he has her pretend that she's speaking to their rebellious daughter, Merida, she accidentally reveals to Fergus that she has had misgivings about the betrothal at first. His surprised look reveals that he had no idea. | |
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In The Night Angel Trilogy, Logan and Jenine are shoved awkwardly into marriage because she has a crush and his fiancée slept with the prince. They spend the next two books separated and convinced the other is dead. Logan almost marries again for political reasons, Jenine becomes the wife of the Godking. However, when Logan finds out she's alive and in the hands of the enemy, he marches to war to rescue her. Cue happy ending. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Ned Stark and Catelyn Tully originally only married because Cat's original betrothed, Ned's older brother Brandon, was killed, and their families needed the alliance. By the time the first book begins, the two have been together many years and have come to truly love each other. | |
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Fate/Zero: Irisviel and Kiritsugu are Happily Married, despite their union initially being part of the arrangement for Kiritsugu to work for the Einzbern family. Plus, they had a rather rocky start since Kiritsugu wasn't impressed with Iri at first, but once her father/creator cruelly rejected her, Kiritsugu rescued and nursed her back to health, which is what made them grow closer and fall in love in the first place. Their relationship is even happier in the much more light-hearted Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA. | |
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This trope is used as a counter-argument against Prince Akeem's desire for a love match in Coming to America. Queen Aeoleon says that while her marriage to King Jaffe was arranged (and they first met on their wedding day), she came to love him and their marriage is a happy one. | |
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It takes a while, but in the BBC series "The Pallisers" (from the books Palliser), Lady Glencora and Plantagenet eventually fall in love in a very gentle way. | |
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On an appearance on The Graham Norton Show, The Great British Bake Off alum Nadiya Hussein talked about how her marriage was arranged and that she and her husband gradually fell in love afterward. They had a vow renewal ceremony in order to declare their commitment to one another on their own terms. | |
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Played with in a story in Pet Shop of Horrors. The ghost of a queen tells Count D about how she and her husband were betrothed as children, hated each other for much of their marriage, and cheated on each other constantly. She then fell deathly ill for a period of time and, when she recovered, found her husband at her side. That incident made them realize how much they cared for each other and they were faithful and loving to each other from that day onward. | |
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King Endon and Queen Sharn in Deltora Quest. As per The Rule, they had never spoken before marrying. | |
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Game of Thrones: Daenerys Targaryen was forcibly married to Khal Drogo, and that came with a Marital Rape License. She learns how to seduce him over time though, he comes to treat her better and she comes to love him in the end. | |
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Joan in The Purchase Price is a Mail-Order Bride, so her marriage is rather unromantic with Jim Gordon. Over time she falls in love with him but he remains distant. Then one night their harvested-but-not-sold crop is set on fire, and Joan and Jim fight to save it. Joan is injured, but they succeed — and her determination and dedication finally break through Jim's reserve. | |
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In What I Like About You, Val spots a former employer in a bar and they wake up married to each other. She wants to annul the marriage as soon as possible, but he refuses since he wants to give it a chance. They eventually get married again. | |
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Guiding Light's Danny marries Michelle to protect her from his vengeful mob family. | |
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In The Yeomen of the Guard, Fairfax marries Elise in order to prevent his property being inherited by those who have falsely accused him. She is blindfolded for the ceremony and he is too distracted to remember her face, so when they meet later, neither recognizes the other. They then proceed to fall in love. | |
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In Seven Brides for Seven Brothers a mountain man named Adam convinces a townswoman named Milly to marry him, promising an idyllic life in the woods. But when he gets her home she discovers that he failed to mention his six rowdy adult brothers who would also be living under the same roof. Despite her initial anger, she starts to fall in love with him, but their romance is derailed when he decides that since kidnapping one woman worked so well, they might as well head into town and grab themselves six more. Snowed in over winter, all of the girls warm to their captors, and when spring arrives and their menfolk come to rescue them, they all manage to finagle shotgun weddings instead. | |
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More or less the case with Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games. They had an arranged engagement but once they got married for real they did it because they loved each other. | |
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In Apur Sansar, Apu is jittery at first after being coaxed into marrying a woman he literally just met, and the aristocratic Aparna for her part breaks down sobbing when she gets her first look at Apu's shabby little one-room apartment. But they wind up falling deeply in love. | |
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My Bride is a Mermaid: After Sun (a mermaid) saves Nagasumi from drowning, mermaid law forces him to either marry into her family or be killed. Naturally, he chooses the former option, and a recurring theme in the series is how despite being initially forced together by circumstance they grow into people who truly care about each other. On two occasions, one formally proposes to the other and each time it is accepted. | |
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ER had Susan and Chuck get married after a really drunk night. Originally intending to get divorced, things kept getting in the way, though they ended up getting to know each other better and staying together, even having a son. | |
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In their League of Legends backstories, Ashe the Frost Archer (Warmother of the Avarosan tribe of the Freljord) and Tryndamere the Barbarian King married to form a political alliance between their tribes as the first step in Ashe's ambition to peacefully unite the Freljord. While strictly an arranged marriage, the two have apparently grown at the very least fond of each other since then, although you won't find any of this story in LoL itself. | |
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In The Chessmen of Mars, Tara was presumed to be matched with the Jeddak, who appeared to be quite the useless dandy. However, when she got lost in a storm and met up with plain ol' Turan, a panthan (common soldier) who proved to be almost as good a fighter as her worshipped father, she lost her heart to him. Good thing that ornaments and fancy clothing don't make the man... | |
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In A Bride's Story, most of the arranged marriages shown on-screen are this to one degree or another (though it is made very clear that not every arranged marriage ends happily). Amir and Karluk are the most obvious example, being happily engaged despite the eight-year age difference. | |
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In Green Card, Georges and Bronte join in a sham marriage to get a green card to the US and a good apartment respectively. They can't stand each other and are hunted by the INS before they realise they love each other. | |
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In Malediction Trilogy Tristan and Cecile are married only because of a prophecy and have no chance to get to know each other before the ceremony takes place. Still, they fall in love very quickly, probably helped by the fact that troll wedding includes powerful magic to bind the newlyweds. | |
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In the Broken Bow series, this was what Lya hoped her marriage to Armani would become. Sadly for her, it doesn't work out that way. | |
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The World is Still Beautiful has the Sun King Livius ask the Rain Principality to send him one of their princesses to become his wife in exchange for their autonomy - and the youngest one Nike is chosen, via rock paper scissors. She's reluctant about it and the two don't hit it off at first, but they grow to understand and love each other. | |
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Jodhaa Akbar centers around sixteenth-century Mughal Emperor Akbar and his Rajput wife, Jodhaa. The two are forced into marriage because Akbar wanted the Rajputs' allegiance. Akbar is Muslim and Jodhaa is Hindu, but despite their differences they slowly (and charmingly) fall in love. | |
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The movie Lady Jane depicts this between Lady Jane Grey and Guildford Dudley. Jane is not happy with the proposed marriage and must be forced into it through corporal punishment by her parents. At first, Jane and Guildford decide to treat their union purely as a Marriage of Convenience, but then they fall deeply in love. (Not Truth in Television for the real people, sadly; by most accounts, Jane couldn't stand him.) | |
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In the short novel Islands by Eric Flint, Calopidius leaves for war shortly after his Arranged Marriage with Anna. She sets out to visit him to claim a divorce, but they end up having a romance via telegraph as she travels. | |
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In The Ikaris, Shinji and Asuka get accidentally married. Although they already knew and liked each other, several misunderstandings and a bunch of emotional troubles had prevented them from becoming a couple before their accidental wedding. | |
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The Great Snake's Bride: Miyo is made into the bride of a giant snake, Daija, who's revered as a deity by her village. She has never met him before and assumes, like everybody else, that she's really being sacrificed to him. She lives in terror of him at first, but once she understands that Daija truly intends to treat her as his wife and wants her to be comfortable with him, romance blossoms between them. | |
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Raise the Red Lantern could be an example of how this sort of trope does not necessarily result in a happy ending. Songlian marries Chen as his fourth wife. Although she is initially indifferent to him, she soon becomes embroiled in the competition between the wives to seduce him and gain his undivided attention. | |
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Downton Abbey: Robert married the half-Jewish American "dollar princess" Cora Levinson for her money. About a year after their wedding, they ended up falling in love. Years later, they are still very Happily Married. Robert explicitly tells Cora he's embarrassed about his reasons for marrying her while discussing why he had one of their daughter Lady Mary's prospects turned away. | |
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In Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber, this happens to Random and Vialle — where Random was forced to marry Vialle as punishment for past peccadilloes ("as punishment" because she is blind and her parents couldn't marry her off otherwise). When he is arrested for attempting to assassinate his brother, she asks to join him in prison. He explains that they had actually fallen in love. Later on, when Random becomes the new King of Amber, Vialle becomes a responsible Queen. | |
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Dharma & Greg runs on this premise. The pilot episode involves uptight lawyer Greg and Granola Girl Dharma impulsively getting married on the first date, and the rest of the show involves the two falling in love for real as they get to know each other and reconcile their differences as they build a life together. | |
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