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Marriage of Convenience

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Marriage of Convenience	comment	In Real Life, Western citizens of the twenty-first century predominantly Marry for Love. In fiction, that normally tiny proportion of other marriages is inflated because of the intense comedic, dramatic and tragic potential. That is, of course, in Western nations: Arranged Marriage is still not unusual in many other countries; it can still be a form of marrying for convenience, though, typically when a person agrees to an arranged marriage in order to get the arrangers to stop pestering them once they've resigned themselves. In other cases, like in media where the featured arranged marriage is not opposed to, it is simply fulfilling a convention of that media and/or its country, and so will probably not be a Marriage Of Convenience. Historically, marrying for love did not become an option for the majority of people until about the 16th century. They married a good match for social standing and/or money. Additionally, if you wanted to keep the assets in the family, one may arrange a marriage of convenience with a distant-ish cousin. If you were not quite heterosexual, it really didn't matter because you would still pick out a suitable member of the opposite sex to marry. Nowadays, of course, cousin marriage is frowned upon and homophobia is becoming less common, so these good reasons for a purely convenient marriage shouldn't be so prevalent. But they are. Often, a marriage of convenience is a mutually beneficial agreement, with both parties profiting from the binding - it may even involve a contract - but not always. Sometimes, only one of the partners may be in it for something other than love. An expectation is that one or both of the people will fall in love with the other. It is also often a convention used to get two friends who are in love with each other to realise it. Then it may become a Perfectly Arranged Marriage. There are many reasons one may choose to Marry For Convenience, and any instance can be one or more of the following (and others): Social standing - differs from respect as it is typically someone upper class making a good match Respect - including when reputation is at stake Money - including bet winning and to get the partner's money. Green card/citizenship Political marriage To play straight/gay Because the woman is pregnant - frequently "convenient" in the sense of not having that shotgun pointed at your back anymore. To help a single parent For practicalities - when only married couples are eligible for X, and/or to get out of marrying someone else. As a back-up plan To get close for ulterior motives To please parents - this may also be because of any of the above, too. The (creators of the) work may show a marriage of convenience in order to fit in with the period of the story being told or for other reasons - commonly characterisation or as a critique of the society which has forced such a marriage to happen, or as a cheap way to get two characters together without any of that dating and love nonsense. Contrast Marry for Love. See also Arranged Marriage, Fake Relationship, Gold Digger, Heir-In-Law, Marriage Before Romance, Romantic Fakeâ€“Real Turn, Parental Marriage Veto, Child Marriage Veto, Undercover as Lovers. Sub Tropes: Altar Diplomacy: marriage as politics. The Beard: marriage to discourage speculation about one's sexuality. Citizenship Marriage: marriage primarily so that one partner can stay in a particular country. Fallback Marriage Pact: marriage to avoid growing old alone. Give the Baby a Father: marriage offered so a woman can avoid the stigma of having a baby outside of marriage. Honorable Marriage Proposal: marriage offered to preserve a woman's sexual reputation. Mail-Order Bride: typically a Marriage of Convenience for the bride, at least; may overlap with Gold Digger and/or Citizenship Marriage. Marrying the Mark: entering a relationship with someone to con or commit a crime against them. Nobility Marries Money: when a Nouveau Riche Social Climber marries an Impoverished Patrician. Remarrying for Your Kids: marriage for the benefit of one partner's children. Shotgun Wedding: marriage offered under duress, usually from the woman's parents, in order to preserve her sexual reputation. No Real Life Examples, Please! noreallife
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Marriage of Convenience / int_1029dc09	comment	Inkmistress: Ina became engaged to Garen as a means of furthering her prospects in their village. She hoped to become elder. It turns out the other reason is because she'd also become pregnant by him.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_11d89ebb	comment	The central relationship is this in No Need for a Core?, where the three central characters forge a marriage to take advantage of a magical ritual that leaves them bound to each other.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_127571f3	comment	Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story: When Matilda and Brom get caught snooping around Mayor Van Tassel's house by his assistant Judy, they pretend to be in a Secret Relationship to cover up that they are investigating the mayor for murder. When Judy tells them that she's a marriage officiant, she suggests she could marry them so they could legally be together without a public ceremony. Matilda and Brom, who are actually repulsed by each other, are forced to go through with it.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_13867991	comment	The biographic film Marie Antoinette (2006) has Marie of Austria delivered to Louis XVI of France at the age of 15 to cement a treaty between the two nations. Neither was really prepared for marriage, and Marie was despised at the French court as "that Austrian whore." Nevertheless, Marie and Louis grew to love each other during their short reign.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_14e0f4f9	comment	A song in Fiddler on the Roof is called "Matchmaker" and has Chava and Hodel ask Tzeitel to find a perfect husband for Arranged Marriage both because they need to find a man to please the parents and so that they will not be alone.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_16382ed9	comment	The Syrena Legacy: Emma always thought that her mom was deeply in love with her dad, who died of cancer when she was fifteen. But as she learns in Of Triton, her parents were good friends who lived together out of convenience. They had a deal - she would let him study her Syrena physiology, and in exchange he would give her money and a place to live and not break The Masquerade. They got married after Emma was conceived in what her mom calls a "moment of weakness."
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Marriage of Convenience / int_1785d9d5	comment	Brother Cadfael: In The Rose Rent, the widow Judith receives a number of marriage proposals, one of them from a middle-aged wool merchant who has the decency not to frame it as anything but a sound business move (since his main competition consists of a foppish young man only interested in spending her wealth). She ends up marrying the bronzesmith, the one man who never showed any interest in her fortune and helped her unquestioningly in her time of need.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_18968051	comment	In The Brothers' War, Urza initially had no interest in the Engagement Challenge for Kayla bin-Kroog's hand, thinking it was stupid and a waste of time. Then he learned that her dowry included a rare Thran tome that could be used to further his research on artifice. Cue Urza throwing his hat in the ring. Once he won the competition and consummated the marriage, he set to work studying the tome, treating his new bride almost as an afterthought.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_18c0192b	comment	In Realm of the Elderlings book Dragon Haven, Hest proposes to Alisa because his family is on his case and she's an Old Maid who he thinks couldn't refuse a proposal. Although his elaborate courtship annoys her, she agrees to marry him when he's honest about his reasons.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_223898a5	comment	In the Decoy episode "The Lieutenant Had a Son," a struggling nineteen-year-old single mother marries a man two decades her senior because she needs money and a father for her son, and he's lonely and can't find a wife. It actually works out pretty well - the two of them eventually grow to genuinely love each other, and the boy forms a close bond with his new father.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_2379c677	comment	In Great Expectations, Miss Havisham raises Estella to be a heartless man-eater who woos men only to completely deny them, and then marries the most boring, rich man she can find so that she can continue doing so but with money. She then grows a heart by being cold when a horse kills her husband and questionably finally gets together with Pip. Miss Havisham trains Estella to want these things because she (Havisham) was left at the altar by the man she wanted to Marry for Love, because he is a criminal.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "A Fish Called Selma," Marge's sister Selma starts dating washed-up actor Troy McClure and eventually marries him. It turns out Troy only dated Selma because his agent advised him that being seen in a relationship with a woman could repair Troy's reputation by casting doubt on the rumors of him having a fish fetish (and the implication he was banned from an aquarium for doing something unspeakable with the fish there). Troy drunkenly blabs the truth to Homer at his bachelor party, and Homer blithely tells Marge the night after Selma's married. Marge and Patty confront Selma, who refuses to believe them until she confronts Troy herself. Troy not only happily admits their marriage is a sham, he convinces Selma to go along with it for all the perks she'll get as a celebrity's wife. However, Selma decides to leave Troy when his agent proposes the two have a baby to get more publicity. Selma refuses to raise a child, biological or adopted, in a loveless marriage.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_28724fb2	comment	Rose in Titanic is set to marry a man she utterly despises because he makes a good match and is rich. This initially shows how much she hates the society and seeks adventure — cue Jack.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_2bd40c7f	comment	Satsuki's narration of Ch. 35 of Cellar Secrets discusses this, along with Nobility Marries Money and a deconstruction of Awful Wedded Life, as she wonders if she should get married to someone to delay Nui helping pick up any financial slack.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_2ec0c89b	comment	In The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Grusha's decision to raise an infant abandoned by his mother leads to gossip about where the child came from, so her family persuade her to marry a dying man so she can have a home and an easy answer to questions about where the child's father is. The marriage becomes decidedly inconvenient when her new husband makes an unexpected recovery, leaving her stuck with an unpleasant man who's considerably more interested than she is in moving the marriage out of in-name-only territory.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_2fc254ae	comment	The Cat in the Hat: Lawrence "Larry" Quinn is dating Sally and Conrad's mother, Joan, and is planning on marrying her - because she's a successful real estate tycoon, while he's a lazy bum who pretends to be a respectable businessman, and marrying her would allow him to mooch off her and not have to work ever again.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_31f7e54c	comment	In A Very English Scandal, the "80% gay" Jeremy Thorpe gets married to a woman, mostly as a cover for his (at the time illegal) homosexuality and also possibly insurance for his past affair with Norman, as well as for a move that would improve his public perception. He even considers giving her a baby quickly and then begging off sex forever. Despite this, he ends up genuinely loving his wife (platonically) and new family, and is genuinely devastated at her death; he eventually remarries and forms a great relationship with his second wife as well.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_33c9b4cf	comment	Til Debt Do Us Part: Subin initially agrees to marry Yejun for a year because he had offered to clear the large amount of money she owed him. Yejun only wants a wife to make his ailing grandmother happy before she goes.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_33fdae4d	comment	On Mad Men, Bob Benton offers to marry Joan Harris so that she can avoid the stigma of being a single mother (and so that he can avoid questions about his sexuality.) She turns him down, not wanting to get stuck in another unhappy marriage.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_36c44925	comment	In Leading Ladies, Meg and Duncan are engaged essentially because he was kind to her.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_384a2157	comment	Dixie of CASUAL+Y is one of British TV's longest-running lesbian characters, and this fact is well known - to everyone but her dad. Because she is inseparable from her paramedic partner Jeff, though, he asks her to marry him so that her dad can see her married before he dies. It seems to be going well until the dad catches Dixie with her girlfriend, the officiator, before the wedding - but accepts her, and Dixie and Jeff stay married even after he dies in a best-friends-over-40 style arrangement at least until Jeff dies.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_3db944d2	comment	In Corpse Bride, Mr. and Mrs. Everglot make it clear that they are married for financial reasons, not out of love for each other. They arrange a marriage for their daughter for the same reasons, but the fiancÃ© Victor turns out to be a good man and they are immediately smitten with each other.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_42c05590	comment	Rocko's Modern Life. In "Kiss Me, I'm Foreign", a mix-up involving Rocko's green card and immigration papers revokes his U.S. citizenship, so to avoid him being deported back to Australia, Heffer arranges a fake marriage between him and Filburt; Rocko thinks the idea is absurd, and Filburt actually takes it seriously and turns into a nagging housewife.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_437cbf3b	comment	In Libeled Lady (1936), Bill Chandler and Gladys Benton have a quickie wedding so that Bill can then seduce Connie Allenbury and Gladys can accuse Connie of stealing her husband, thereby defusing Connie's libel suit against a newspaper that called her a homewrecker. Bill sleeps on the couch in their hotel suite during this time, but he and Gladys have to keep up a pretense of being Insatiable Newlyweds whenever any of the staff enter. Eventually, Gladys falls for Bill, but he's already fallen for Connie; Hilarity Ensues.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_43995cc6	comment	A Marriage Of Convenience: Exactly What It Says on the Tin for this Frozen fanfiction, where, to help Arendelle, Elsa must accept Prince Hans as her husband. Nobody is okay with this, but eventually Hans starts to reform and develop feelings for her.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_4ada408f	comment	Alan Ford: Make love to...: Alan is married to Minuette Macon so that she'll receive the Green Card, but she finds him so attractive she's in no hurry to end the marriage and eventually the two are married for real in volume 500. Wedding Tris has Geremia and Cariatide marrying the same woman (following the ceremony of the so called "Tris Religion", purely out of business, so that they can improve their pizzeria business. The Baroness Von Strascen, the titular baroness is in dire financial needs, but she will receive a massive sum of Euro on the condition that she gets married, which is why she goes to Las Vegas, looking for a husband and a quick wedding and hiring Alan and Minuette as bodyguards. When her scheming cousing murders all her suitors, she foils his plans and abuses a loophole by marrying Minuette herself (offering her a large sum of money for her trouble). They do divore two days later after (apparently without really consummating the marriage), though the Baroness is still fond of Minuette.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_4b187e74	comment	A French comic version of The Odyssey has Ulysses' right-hand man, having given up hope during the ten years of Ulysses' absence and sick of watching the suitors abuse their hospitality, propose to Penelope to get them out of having to entertain the wannabe boyfriends. She rejects him like all the others, and when Ulysses shows up they fight.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_524e2e3b	comment	In one Donald Duck comic, Donald finds out that to get the job he wants, he has to be married, so he proposes to Daisy. She is very touched at first until he tells her the reason which pisses her off and makes her throw him out.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_526815a8	comment	Mentioned in Terminal Lance as a repeated idea. Here in 2018, 2015 and all the way back in 2010
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Marriage of Convenience / int_56ed0474	comment	In The Rebound, it's made a point that Aram is too nice/naive to date Sandy because of how he won't divorce his French ex-wife even though she only married him to get a green card.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_59351ffb	comment	This is how the plot for Stepping on Roses begins: Soichirou Ashida needs to get married so he can properly inherit his family's fortune, Sumi Kitamura needs money to pay off her brother's debts and save her family from destitution, they meet pretty much by chance and reach an agreement to get married for anything but love. At least that's how it starts.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_5a3533fe	comment	On My Name Is Earl, Catalina gets deported after she is caught driving without a license and it's revealed that she's The Illegal. Since it was Earl's fault (he was supposed to give her a lift to work, but was too busy gambling), Earl travels to her home country along with Randy in order to get her back into the US. Since Randy had a huge crush on her, Earl deliberately fails the tests that a prospective groom must pass, so Randy can pass them and marry Catalina. He gets her back into the country, but she doesn't want to be married to Randy, so on the advice of Joy, she has really disgusting sex with him...which doesn't turn out the way she hoped. After that, Randy tells her it's just going to be a Citizenship Marriage...and that is never brought up in-series again. It isn't known if they are still (legally) married later in the series, or if they got a divorce or an annulment at some point.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_5c135763	comment	In Revenge: Emily begins to date and then agree to marry the son her own age of the family who killed her father in order to get close to them and enact her revenge. In the fourth season, Nolan marries Louise to free her from her mother's control.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_5d21fab8	comment	In Wolf Hall, Thomas and Liz Cromwell are Happily Married, but it didn't start as a love match. After Thomas proved himself an able and trustworthy business associate for her father, Henry Wykys, Henry told Thomas he could feel free to marry her because she was looking for a new husband anyway, being a widow. Henry is a little bemused when Liz and Thomas decided to talk the matter over first before agreeing.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_5dfb8b20	comment	A Magical Evening: In the new timeline, instead of being outed by Cedric and Nettle, Sofia and Lucida enter into marriages with Brock and Doyle (two gay men), respectively. In it, they will be able to hide their sexualities by having a public marriage while they are free to be with whoever they want to. The partners do remain good friends, though, and do end up having a kid as well. Hildegard and Clio supposedly do the same thing as well.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_60570997	comment	S.S.D.D.: The Watermans got married as part of a scheme to take over Maytec by combining the shares Henry bought by selling his companies to Maytec and the shares owned by Julie's family. They rarely meet in person, Henry is usually on Mars while his wife runs Maytec's Earthside operations, and are known to take various other lovers.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: The episode "Shallow Vows" reveals that Stan only married Francine for her looks, but eventually grew to love her and even blinded himself to prove that he can love her without looking at her. Later, it turns out that Francine in turn married Stan so he can provide for her, and they both decide that they're even.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_695bc26c	comment	In SPYÃ—FAMILY, Loid Forger, aka Agent Twilight, and Yor Briar both need to find a partner for their cover stories. Loid is a spy trying to infiltrate an elite private school by enrolling his newly adopted daughter Anya, and needs someone to play her mother for the admissions interview. Yor is an assassin masquerading as a civil servant, who would attract less suspicion from the government if she wasn't single. When the two learn they're in the same boat, they make a deal to get married and move in togetherâ€”albeit without either actually knowing about the other's clandestine activities.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_6ab79c14	comment	In Bend It Like Beckham, near the end of the film, Jess's closeted gay friend Tony suggests to her that they should get married, as this will both help to hide his sexuality from his conservative Indian family and allow her to pursue her dream of playing football in America. Jess refuses on the grounds that she won't let her friend live a lie.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_73d7930f	comment	In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Muse", Lwaxana Troi finds herself pregnant and in the middle of a divorce, resulting in a custody battle. Odo does some research and finds that the laws of her ex-husband's culture specify that the husband of the child's mother has primary legal rights. He then offers to quickly marry Lwaxana himself, legally cutting her ex out of the loop.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_7571c64d	comment	In the 1928 film The Wind, the protagonist moves to Texas to stay with a cousin of hers. His wife, however, thinks that she's trying to steal her husband and kicks her out. With nowhere to go and no money of her, Letty is forced to marry one of the men who she previously declined her hand in marriage. She isn't in love with him but at least she has somewhere to stay.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_75feca12	comment	The New Retcons: The marriage of Elly and John is revealed to be this: Elly feared being a single mother to Michael after Stan left them and John needed a wife to cook and clean. Elly was the only woman who didnâ€™t call him out for his sexism. Itâ€™s speculated that they did develop some form of love for each other, but by the time of Ellyâ€™s death, John had been cheating on her for two years with sex workers and her former employee Kortney. In the end of the fic, Elizabeth and Anthonyâ€™s marriage has become this, as theyâ€™re jaded by everything and need stability for themselves and their children. While they do have some affection for each other, Elizabeth sounds more settled than happy in her final letter.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_789a225d	comment	Ebullient Squire Will Danaher from The Quiet Man has been itching to woo the widow Sarah Tillane, not for love, but because their landholdings combined would make theirs the largest arable tract in the county. Up until Sean Thornton from America comes along, Widow Tillane will have nothing to do with Danaher.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_78e27fa7	comment	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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Marriage of Convenience / int_79f0fa88	comment	The premise of Ned & Stacey: Ned needed to be married to secure a promotion, and Stacey needed to move out of her parents' house and Ned had a great apartment.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_79ff8916	comment	In Murder by Proxy, Phyllis Brunner picks up Casey Morrow in a bar and offers him Â£500 to marry her, so she will have a legal reason not to marry her fiance.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_7a88c855	comment	The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement: Mia needs a husband to inherit the throne, and so arranges a marriage between herself and Andrew, an English duke. Though she could have done worse (as Andrew himself is genuinely kind, accomplished, and understanding of their position) the two have No Sparks. She calls off the wedding at the altar, to both of their relief.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_7a8dc374	comment	The Afterward: Kalanthe needs to pay her debts as a knight, and starts considering an Arranged Marriage to a lord, Edramore, to do so even though it will be loveless given she's a lesbian. When she meets him, it turns out that he doesn't want a romantic union either: he's terminally ill and wants to make sure his children have a good stepmother to take care of them after he passes. Unfortunately, he dies before she can formally accept his proposal.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_7c4f1adb	comment	Our Miss Brooks: In "King and Brooks", an Indian maharajah proposes marriage to Miss Brooks. Miss Brooks refuses to marry for convenience, it's only a marriage for love that appeals to Connie. However, the fact that Miss Brooks would be the polygamous maharajah's fourth wife had something to do with her reluctance! In the cinematic Grand Finale, Miss Brooks refuses a heartfelt marriage proposal from Lawrence Nolan because she likes, but doesn't love him. Miss Brooks again refuses to marry for anything but love, although Nolan is very wealthy. At the end of the film, she finally achieves her Series Goal and marries Love Interest Philip Boynton.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_7ecd450f	comment	Dear America: In A Coal Miner's Bride, Anetka marries Stanley because she needs to go to America after she gets in trouble for speaking and teaching Polish, which has been banned by Russia. Stanley needs someone to run the house and care for his three young daughters after the death of his wife Sophie. In Cannons At Dawn, Abigail's mother's cousin Deborah dies in childbirth alongside her baby. Her husband remarries quickly to a woman named Suzanne despite his grief due to him needing someone to care for the children and her needing a roof over her head.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo parodies the trope in one episode where Pretty decides to get married - to Quack Quack, who she doesn't even like - just to get the chance to wear a wedding dress. When the others try to call her out on this, she goes on a rant about how much pain she had to endure to lose enough weight to be able to fit into the dress.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: Zidane and Garnet get married in Conde Petie so that the dwarves will allow them access to the path to the Iifa Tree. The two aren't in love at the time, though Zidane is trying to romance Garnet. You can also optionally choose to have Vivi and Quina marry.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_88e4b405	comment	Kerry Kross: the issue To the last breath has Melania, Kerry's ex flame, marrying a popcorn tycoon... but as she makes abudnantly clear, only for money, and plans to divorce him as soon as everything's set despite the fact that the man genuinely loves her, and goes as far as to commit suicide. Melania doesn't even care about his death, apparently showing how bad she became since her first appearance.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_8c23bed9	comment	Charlotte Lucas from Pride and Prejudice is a famous example. Despite not really liking Mr. Collins, she marries him for financial stability, as he will one day inherit the estate of Longbourn. Since she's plain-looking and an Old Maid, Charlotte knows a better offer isn't likely to come. She defends her choice of a husband to Elizabeth, who always wanted to Marry for Love.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_8ce2ea35	comment	In I Heard That Song Before, it's speculated that the reason Peter married Kay after a brief courtship is because she had told him about the argument she overheard in the Carrington chapel, the day his college girlfriend Susan disappeared, not realizing she could've overheard Peter and Susan. By marrying her, Peter has ensured she cannot, or at least wouldn't, testify against him if he were ever charged with Susan's murder. Even Kay herself starts to wonder if this is the real reason Peter wanted to marry her, as much as it sickens her. It's not true; Peter wasn't the man Kay overheard arguing with Susan and he married Kay because he truly fell in love with her.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_8d3ab19c	comment	Rise of the Third Power: Princess Arielle and Prince Gage's marriage is for the sake of strengthening the alliance between their home countries, Cirinthia and Arkadya respectively. The Resistance kidnaps Arielle to prevent this alliance, since will eventually result in Tariq being set upon by both countries. Later on, Arielle and Gage get married for real, but for the sake of proving Arielle's legitimacy to Cirinthia so she can oust Lord Phillip. Downplayed on Gage's end, since he genuinely loves Arielle, though Arielle admits that she has mixed feelings due to Gage's past misdeeds.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: Frank's marriage to Louise is certainly this. It's joked throughout his stint on the series that he married her mainly for money - Frank himself has pointed out that she owns the house and stocks, and that he's in her father's will, and B.J. also once mentioned that she also owns real estate.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_8d86465d	comment	Waco: Koresh is facing a conundrum with his second 'wife', the teenage Michelle, as polygamy and having sex with a minor you aren't married to are illegal. So he marries her to Thibodeau to ward off questions by authorities, but the marriage is in name only.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_95fdd189	comment	Shtisel: When Akiva's daughter is taken away by the welfare board, Racheli agrees to marry Akiva to put on a good image for the committee, who are more likely to return a child to a couple than to a single father.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_98c961e2	comment	Prince Stolas from Helluva Boss is heavily implied to be married to his wife Stella for political reasons, and neither of them has really cared for each other. Though he does say he did try to make it work once. When he starts sleeping around on her Stella is more annoyed that he's in a relationship with Hell's equivalent of a commoner than the fact he's cheating on her, while his daughter who he cares for deeply is worried that her parent's marriage is falling apart and her beloved father is going to run off with his new paramount, not quite understanding that the marriage was never that strong to begin with.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_990ba067	comment	In Tales of Wedding Rings, Saphir, as one of the five ring princesses, is already obliged to marry Satou, the prophesized Ring King, and help him save the world from evil. Her actual reasons for marrying him are grounded in pragmatism: she wants to keep the Rings of Water out of the hands of The Empire, which has slowly been turning her country into a powerless vassal state; and she wants to give her twin sister Saphira, who might also be obliged to marry Satou, the freedom to be with the man she loves. While Saphir does come to value Satou as a friend and a source of entertainment, she doesn't love him the way his other wives do.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_9bcc183b	comment	In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Esmeralda marries Pierre Gringoire because Clopin, the King of the Gypsies, won't hang him if he is of their people, even by marriage.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_9da6f861	comment	The Abyss: Bud claims that he and Lindsey originally got married because they were due to spend six months on an underwater drilling rig and being married would get them private sleeping quarters instead of bunks.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_9e7de8d6	comment	Laughter in Paradise: In order to inherit Â£50,000, Simon Russell, a penniless womanising con man, has to marry the first single woman he speaks to.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_a144cb39	comment	Moral Orel: The Season 3 episode "Help" shows how Orel's parents, Clay and Bloberta, met and got married, also displaying how dysfunctional their relationship has been from the start. Bloberta's primary motivation for getting married in the first place was because all the other ladies around her were getting married, and she was getting desperate. The two met at a wedding reception and despite the numerous red flags (namely, Bloberta introducing Clay to alcohol and his less-than-stellar behavior afterwards), they went through with their own ceremony from just that initial meeting. The two have been miserable ever since, but because of the ultra-religious town they live in, there's no way they can get a divorce due to the blow their reputation would take.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy Final Fantasy IX: Zidane and Garnet get married in Conde Petie so that the dwarves will allow them access to the path to the Iifa Tree. The two aren't in love at the time, though Zidane is trying to romance Garnet. You can also optionally choose to have Vivi and Quina marry. Final Fantasy X: The concept is discussed by Lulu and Tidus in Guadosalam about the marriage of Yuna and Seymour. If Tidus instead talks to Rikku about this, she mentions that many Spirans marry young to have children because of the looming threat of Sin present in their lives.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_ab24d9c8	comment	In Silver Rings and Golden Hearts, James wants to adopt Penny but the adoption agency won't allow a single person to adopt a special needs child. As a result, James gets his best friend Qrow to marry him.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_ae01886	comment	Looming Gaia: Though Gwyneth and Brogan aren't officially married (very few people in Drifter's Hollow are), they call each other "wife" and "husband". Gwyneth isn't actually in love with Brogan, in fact she is a lesbian, but lets him live with her and call her his wife, because that way she can make him work harder for her. Evan's older sister Abigail married Edmund Galanis, one of Evan's childhood bullies, not because she loved him, but because he's rich and her family was in debt from Evan's medical treatments.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_af10f209	comment	In Portrait in Sepia, Williams, Paulina del Valle's butler, proposes an alternative to being released from her service when she makes plans to move back to Chile. He suggests they marry so that he can keep serving her to the best of her ability. He makes it clear that he does not have romantic intentions and even counsels her to take the necessary precautions to keep her wealth in her name. It works; by virtue of being a man he has access to circles that are off-limits to Paulina, and being her husband improves his status of living. Plus, Paulina loves the idea of scandalizing whoever learns she is married to her butler.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Many marriages are political in nature. Specifically, Walder Frey (who has far too many descendants)'s common price for allowing important people to cross his bridge in times of need is a husband for one of his daughters or granddaughters, Danaerys declared she would marry Hizdahr zo Loraq in an attempt to bring peace to Meereen, Tyrion was arranged to marry Sansa so that he would produce an heir, and Sansa's marriage to Ramsay Bolton was political on both sides - to give the Boltons' rule in Winterfell legitimacy and to allow her to go home.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_b5675131	comment	The Guinevere Deception: Arthur and Guinevere are officially married so she can more easily protect him.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_b60f87d1	comment	Near the end of the first Arcia Chronicles duology Shander Gardani proposes to Princess Ilana. They don't love each other, but he, having recently been elected king by the people, needs to start a dynasty, while she is on the verge of becoming a nun, having lost pretty much everything. Ultimately, their purely pragmatic marriage results in a genuine love and becomes surprisingly happy for both parties.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_b7e37bb2	comment	Ghosts and Dreams: This is the reason why Rhaegar and Lyanna got married. Lyanna didn't want to marry Robert, while Aerys forced Rhaegar to take a second wife that would give him a third child by threatening not just him, but Elia and Rhaenys as well. The two of them didn't really fall in love until their stay together in the Tower of Joy.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night: King Arthur and Guinevere married solely because the perfect king needed the perfect wife. Unfortunately, Guinevere had absolutely no idea how to do anything since she had been raised to be little more than a pretty bauble, and Arthur didn't help because she was a woman herself and certainly didn't know how to be a husband. Lancelot fell in love with Guinevere and seduced her almost on accident because Guinevere had no defense against such things. Arthur forgave Lancelot, but Mordred was able to take advantage of the problems this caused to stage a rebellion and bring down Camelot.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_b9f6e365	comment	Gordy: Henry Royce is a wealthy industrialist, and his daughter Jessica is engaged to his public relations director, Gilbert Sipes. At first, it appears that Sipes is sincere in his attempts to help boost Jessica's career as being "the face" of Royce Industries, but we later learn his real intentions is taking over the business after they're married, because he stood a chance at inheriting it all.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: The concept is discussed by Lulu and Tidus in Guadosalam about the marriage of Yuna and Seymour. If Tidus instead talks to Rikku about this, she mentions that many Spirans marry young to have children because of the looming threat of Sin present in their lives.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: In "The Queen of Spain's Beard" Edmund is first betrothed to the Spanish Infanta and later is married off to a princess of Hungarynote who is only eight years old because of his father King Richard's political machinations.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Flowerbell's Love Triangle", Flowerbell the woodnymph seeks to marry Papa Smurf in order to avoid marrying the greedy treasure hunting imp Avarice from "Smurfette's Dancing Shoes". The two end up marrying to surprise Avarice, although, by the time the wedding is finished, Flowerbell flies away from Papa Smurf, finding herself now free from Avarice.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_cbbe55ae	comment	At the beginning of Wylder's Hand, Mark Wylder and Dorcas Brandon have agreed to get married as a means of combining their two families into one and thus settling a long-standing feud over which family rightfully owns certain valuable property. It's strictly a business arrangement; neither loves the other and in fact, each has somebody else they'd rather be with if they had their preference.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d0f88d21	comment	In Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, Phryne reveals to Jack that she married the Maharajah to help him secure his kingdom while he was in love with another man.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d2c82417	comment	In Giraffes On Horseback Salad, this is the nature of Jimmy and Linda's engagement — he marries her to get access to her father's fortune, while she gets to ride his entrepreneurial success and become famous as a result.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d31cdea	comment	In The Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta are sold as a couple in order to gain popularity so that one of them can survive the games. When they both survive, they're expected to marry. Whether or not they actually do is left unsaid in the books but they spend their lives together in a loving relationship and have children.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d33d17cf	comment	A Long Petal of the Sea: A number 8 example. After the Spanish Civil War is over, VÃctor marries his late brother's wife Roser so that she and her son can go with him to Chile and start a new life. He is motivated by loyalty to his late brother, not romantic intents.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d488032e	comment	Zus & Zo: Nino's gay, but he's marrying a woman, Bo. Why? Because he has to in order to inherit a hotel worth $1.9 million, which he and Bo will split.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d4f9ccf	comment	In Aladdin, Iago suggests that Jafar marry Jasmine in order to become Sultan, instead of Jafar's original plan to either kill whoever marries her or plant someone under his control to marry her. Jafar thinks this is actually a good idea and sets about trying to make it happen, but given the film's not called Jafar, it's obvious how that all works out.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, the marriage between Ashe and Tryndamere started as one. As Warmother, she was expected to take multiple husbands from subordinate clans as a political manuever to strengthen their ties, but she did not wish to marry. So she picked Tryndamere, a terrifying, deadly berserker, as her husband to ward off any other suitors. It worked, and they grew to love each other over time.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d64a9ab5	comment	Batman: Beyond the White Knight: Harley married Bruce during his incarceration so that she would legally be allowed not to testify against him. While they do have feelings for each other, Bruce points out that what they have isn't genuine and is more like two desperate loners in need of companionship.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d736423c	comment	An engagement of convenience is suggested to Harriett and Arcturus in The Rigel Black Chronicles, to protect Harry from a proposed law that would require half-bloods to accept any marriage proposal from a pure-blood. The intent is that they won't actually marry, but it will insulate Harry from any proposals until she's at least of age.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d77bd5a0	comment	The Apple Dumpling Gang: Donovan and Dusty marry for the sole purpose of adopting three orphaned siblings to give them a stable home, thus saving them from the rest of the townsfolk who would've taken them in as more of servants or farmhands than treating them like their own kids.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_d8b36fad	comment	Lord Admiral Porter comes aboard the H.M.S. Pinafore to court Josephine, the daughter of the ship's captain. However, when it's revealed that the captain was Switched at Birth, it renders Josephine too low on the caste ladder for an admiral to woo. Lord Admiral Porter heaves a sigh and avers that he will propose to his second cousin Hebe instead so that his time aboard the Pinafore won't be a total waste.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_db30cf92	comment	In Warrior Cats, Crowfeather and Nightcloud's relationship has been described by the authors as one: he knew that with a mate and kits he'd be trusted more by his Clan again, and Nightcloud figured that he was a strong young cat that was going to be "going places".
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Marriage of Convenience / int_deb93f00	comment	In Earthlings: As a result of past abuse, Natsuki has no interest in marrying and even less in having sex, but her family is obsessed with making sure she turns out "normal," marriage and kids included. In desperation to get them off her back, Natsuki goes to a website which is specifically designed to help people find these, and meets Tomoya, who is in much the same boat. She decides to meet him because his listing makes it clear he wants no sex, completely equal division of chores and bills, and no discussion with anyone else of what the arrangement is. When we see their domestic life, they appear to be fairly happy, if a bit annoyed at having to perform the role of "normal" married couple for their friends and families.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_e01924bc	comment	Deadpool and Shiklah. They literally got married as a way of thwarting Dracula. Without being able to marry Shiklah, he's unable to merge their kingdoms and take over. Deadpool later outright admits it again. He states he loves Shiklah, but did not marry her for love, or lust, but strictly to cock-block Dracula. Word of God has also stated exactly the same.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_e03ee171	comment	Hollow Kingdom Trilogy: Although not in the trilogy proper, this is the ending for one of the villains. Thorn, after having spent a lifetime abusing his wife and bullying the small group of elves he leads, is punished by the goblins for trying to steal back his wife, with the same afflictions he had hurt his wife with or abused her for. This goes on for several years until he is found by the Elf King, who forbids him to remarry due to his history. Thorn attempts to live as a good elf until the day an elf woman is widowed. Because of elvish society, only children take their own shares of food, while men take their and their wife's shares. So that she isn't humiliated, Thorn takes a share for her. The Elf King decides that it can only continue if the elf woman chooses to marry Thorn, which she does. This finally seals Thorn's redemption.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_e0cda557	comment	Badhaai Do: A gay man and a lesbian get married so that their families and friends will stop pressuring them. After the ruse is found out, they remain married so they can adopt a child (since LGBT couples can't adopt in India), though now with their respective same-sex relationships out in the open.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_e10d2c9	comment	Queens of Mewni: Eclipsa's marriage to Shastacan is presented this way, as her first husband and daughter died in a fire, so she needed to produce another heir, and Shastacan's brother made marriage with him a condition of continued Spiderbite support in the war. Being in a marriage she hated caused her to turn to Globgor more and later run away with him. The worst part? Reports of her first husband's and daughter's deaths were greatly exaggerated. But by the time she realized this, she was imprisoned and frozen in crystal, and then Luna erased any memory of herself from Eclipsa's memory.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_e70f54fe	comment	Frostbitten Flower: Celia's parents wrote up a betrothal between Marlin and Celia, for when he was 26 and she was 18, stating that Marlin would marry Celia when she turned 18. The marriage was brought up because Celia's parents don't have much money. In a subversion, Celia ended up marrying for love with another man. Unfortunately, her husband died not even a year into their marriage, leaving Celia to go back to living with Vesta and her brother Marlin.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_e7f7b0e7	comment	Ishii and Miya from Is Love the Answer? aren't attracted to each other and were never dating, but are close friends and co-workers who decided to get married after Miya got seriously sick and Ishii couldn't visit him in the hospital at first due to not being family. With neither of them having other family, they decide to get married in case any issues came up in the future.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_ebcaeb5a	comment	In Nanny McPhee, Cedric Brown is being made to marry by the end of the month or else his aunt-in-law cut off his allowance, the only thing supporting himself and his children. With the children having spoiled his previous attempts at finding someone else to marry, he's left to marry a local serial-widower — on the last day of the month. Ultimately subverted, when the Brown children end up ruining the wedding, causing Selma Quickly to leave. They then encourage him and Evangeline — the former scullery maid — to admit their feelings for each other, leading them to marry on the same day.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_f0a86c12	comment	In How I Met Your Mother, Barney's mother had a health scare some years ago, and he hired an actress to play his wife. Unfortunately, his mom lived, so he had to keep up the charade every time he visited her for the holidays, even hiring a young actor to play his son too.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_f17b6117	comment	Frontier (2016): Mrs. Carruthers needs a new husband to be the official face of her fur trading business since she is unlikely to be taken seriously as an independent businesswoman in the 18th century. She uses her influence to get the Brown brothers released from prison after they were arrested on trumped-up charges, on the condition that one of them (she doesn't care which) agrees to a platonic marriage. This later becomes a Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_f38f5664	comment	The Lion Guard has a downplayed example between Rani and Kion. There were romantic feelings involved, but the two hadn't known each other for very long and weren't even in a relationship before she proposed. Her reasoning basically went "I know we're just teenagers, but I really don't want to shoulder the burden of ruling on my own, and if we end up falling in love, that's fine too."
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Marriage of Convenience / int_f39c217d	comment	This is done in Aldnoah.Zero, with Slaine Troyard personally arranging a marriage to Princess Asseylum Vers Allusia except it was her half-sister Lemrina Vers Envers masquerading as her at the start of the second season. At the end of the show, Princess Asseylum announces that she would take Count Klanclain Cruhteo as her husband in marriage in order to secure a lasting peace between the Earth and the Vers Empire.
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Marriage of Convenience / int_ff7b68ba	comment	In the second season of Night Court, Mac marries a woman named Quon Le Duc that he helped out when he served in Vietnam in order to keep her from getting deported. However, he quickly realizes that she genuinely has feelings for him. The two end up staying married for the remainder of the series.
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Marriage of Convenience	processingCategory2	Fanfic Tropes
Marriage of Convenience	processingCategory2	Marriage Tropes
Marriage of Convenience	processingCategory2	Romance Novel Tropes
Marriage of Convenience	processingCategory2	Wedding and Engagement Tropes
Aldnoah.Zero / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Devil May Cry: The Animated Series / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Batman: Beyond the White Knight (Comic Book) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Doctor Strange (2023) (Comic Book) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Giraffes On Horseback Salad (Comic Book) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Marvel Star Wars (2015) (Comic Book) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Star Wars (Marvel 2015) (Comic Book) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich (Comic Book) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Im Giving You A Night Call / Fan Fic / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
A Lion's Duty (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Danny Phantom: Visited (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
For a Diamond Is a Marveled Thing (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
For Love of Magic (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
High Tide (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
In the Bleak Midwinter (TheLoud) (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
It's an Arrangement (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
one day at a time (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
one day at a time (Nyame) (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Blacks, the Greens and the Reds (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Force Is Not A Quirk! (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The New Retcons (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Same Moon Shines (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Vow (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
There Something Wrong With Us (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
There's Something Wrong With Us (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Wearing Robert's Crown (Fanfic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
A Christmas Prince / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
And God Created Woman (1988) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Badhaai Do / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Bobby / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Bye Bye Blondie / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Carry On Loving / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Cry Wolf (1947) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Im Juli / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Libeled Lady / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Murder by Proxy / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Out of Africa / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Purple Hearts (2022) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Rose / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Stowaway (1936) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Abyss / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Apple Dumpling Gang / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Crime Is Mine / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Last Duel / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Promised Land / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Wedding Banquet / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
You Only Live Twice / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Anne of Green Gables / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Arcia Chronicles / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Book of Isaiah / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Cinderella Is Dead / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Consider The Lily / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Convenience Store Woman / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Dad Is a Hero, Mom Is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Dear America / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Deptford Mice / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Earthlings / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Eugénie Grandet / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Fahrenheit 451 / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Great Expectations / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Harsh Tales / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Hidden Legacy / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Hokuou Kizoku to Moukinzuma no Yukiguni Karigurashi / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
I Heard That Song Before / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Imperium / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Jacob Have I Loved / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Mansfield Park / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Mother of Learning / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
No Need for a Core? / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
On the Street Where You Live / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Pachinko / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Ruler of the Magical Keys / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Alloy of Law / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Cat in the Stacks Mysteries / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Charmed Sphere / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The City We Became / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Comfortable Courtesan / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Grisha Trilogy / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Guinevere Deception / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The House of the Spirits / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Hunger / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Hunger Games / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Journeyer / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Lady From Zagreb / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Mystery of the Blue Train / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Princess Bride / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Queen's Thief / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Selection / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Villainess Lives Again / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Witch of Blackbird Pond / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Wolf Den Trilogy / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Tommy and Tuppence / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Valley of the Dolls / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke's Mansion / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Wolf Hall / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
MarriageofConvenience	sameAs	Marriage of Convenience
Children of the Sea (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Even Though We're Adults (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
How Do We Relationship? (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Is Love the Answer? (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Spirit Circle (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Yuureitou (Manga) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Aflame Inferno (Manhwa) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
American Justice / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Another Period / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Bridgerton / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Cadfael / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Everything's Gonna Be Okay / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Frontier (2016) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Happy Endings / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
King the Land / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Recht Op Recht / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Saramandaia / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Shtisel / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Strange Empire / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Sullivan & Son / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Buccaneers (2023) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Gilded Age / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The New Statesman / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Thunder in Paradise / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Tomorrow With You / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Upstart Crow / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Victoria / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Waco / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Waiting for God / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
& Juliet (Theatre) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Hedda Gabler (Theatre) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Leading Ladies (Theatre) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Expeditions: Rome (Video Game) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Grim Tales (Video Game) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (Video Game) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Desire & Decorum (Visual Novel) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Long Live the Queen (Visual Novel) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Oops I Said Yes (Visual Novel) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Nanny Affair (Visual Novel) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story (Web Video) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Athena Complex (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
50 Tea Recipes from the Duchess (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Magick Chicks (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
My In-Laws are Obsessed with Me (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Recursion (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Teaching Fear (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
The Duchess' 50 Tea Recipes (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
There Must Be Happy Endings (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Til Debt Do Us Part (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
What Happens in Carpediem... (Webcomic) / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Magical Girl Friendship Squad / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Moral Orel / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience

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