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Say your wife dies all of a sudden, leaving you a widower, and especially if you have children this can leave them without a mother. Well, if you've been carrying on an illicit affair on the side, just marry your mistress and problem solved! No need to go into the dating scene again when there's someone you already have a relationship with waiting in the wings. Naturally, this is usually seen as quite scandalous, especially if the affair was only rumored and the quick turnaround on remarrying just seems to confirm what everyone already suspected. Even more so if the new bride is already pregnant which leaves no doubt as to what was going on. The level of sympathy the characters involved are expected to receive from the audience depends heavily on where the story falls on the Good Adultery, Bad Adultery scale. More sympathetic examples frequently have the first spouse being unwanted and have the marriage not be totally willing, usually through an Arranged Marriage, in which case the relationship with the mistress might have already existed and the two would have married first if they'd been able to. However, if everyone was aware of what was going on from the beginning and the only reason both relationships weren't legally recognized was because of the laws in the setting and/or to avoid a public scandal, it's Polyamory, and the remarriage to the mistress is usually not played as a negative, especially if she already has a positive relationship with any existing children. Sometimes the first wife even encouraged the two to marry if anything happened to her, often for the children's sake so they can grow up with a mother. Often the Gender-Inverted Trope to the Cuckold. In societies where husbands held all, or most, marital rights and privileges, it was considered a sign of weakness to suffer his wife having an affair. On the other hand, a husband cheating would be justified on the grounds of I'm a Man; I Can't Help It. Thus, the Double Standard was that a woman having an affair was an insult, but a man having an affair was just "natural" unless this trope came into play, and she was at risk of being replaced. It is possible for this trope to be gender-inverted with a woman marrying a man she's been seeing on the side, but it's considerably rarer. The mistress also has a high chance of being a Wicked Stepmother to any children from the first marriage. If the mistress already comes with children fathered by her new husband, it's Secret Other Family, and in some cases, she might not have even known her lover had a legal wife, in which case she's just as likely to be portrayed as a victim to a serial liar. This is nearly guaranteed to get you Parental Issues up the wazoo and make a Parent with New Paramour situation even more awkward. If the first spouse was gotten out of the way specifically so this could happen, it overlaps with Murder the Hypotenuse, especially since Divorce Requires Death and this may be seen as the only way the two can be together. Laser-Guided Karma may strike the mistress if she arranged or was complicit in the death of the first wife and later finds herself being cheated on and eventually replaced. If a man does this serially and is the one killing his wives you're likely dealing with The Bluebeard. Oftentimes, a Trophy Wife starts out this way. Compared Serial Spouse, where an individual has a string of failed marriages that may include this. |
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In Better Days this happens twice: A time-delayed version where Fisk and Lucy's mother Sheila has an affair with her married next-door neighbor Sam, who was also the father of Fisk's best friend, and after this is discovered Sam's marriage crumbles as a result (and was already on shaky footing due to his wife's paranoia which pushed him into the affair in the first place). The two eventually get married when Fisk and Lucy become adults so it's not quite as sudden as most examples, but still counts. Elizabeth catches her husband cheating on her with the head of their homeowner's association and begins a relationship with Fisk, whom she had feelings for years ago but had moved on from, and eventually divorces her husband and marries Fisk, starting a family as seen in Original Life. |
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Rudolf Ushiromiya earned the ire of his son Battler in Umineko: When They Cry by marrying his business partner and lover Kyrie way too soon after his wife Asumu died, causing Battler to move out and live with his maternal grandparents for several years. For worse, Kyrie was already pregnant with Battler's sister Ange when she married Rudolf, showing that even after Rudolf married Asumu he never actually ended the relationship with Kyrie. Despite this Battler actually likes Kyrie, seeing her as a Cool Big Sis, and directs all his anger at his father for his behavior (and it's indicated that Rudolf is still seeing other women even after marrying Kyrie). Kyrie also reveals late in the game that if Asumu hadn't died on her own she would have killed her to be with Rudolf. | |
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On The Simpsons, Homer and Ned go to Las Vegas and end up marrying cocktail waitresses on a bender (despite both being already married at the time). This is explained away as being legal in the state of Nevadanote Except it's not. when Homer goes to have his Vegas marriage annulled, and the judge turns his request down. Meanwhile, Maude Flanders is dead, so rather than having to support two wives, he only has to make the best of things with his Vegas wife. She, however, can't stand Ned's milquetoast lifestyle and leaves him. | |
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When They Cry: Higurashi: When They Cry has a Gender Flipped version without the spouse actually dying: Rena's mother divorced her father and married her boyfriend, a coworker, because she was pregnant by the boyfriend. This devastated Rena, in part because she actually liked the boyfriend before this happened, not knowing the nature of his relationship with her mother. Rudolf Ushiromiya earned the ire of his son Battler in Umineko: When They Cry by marrying his business partner and lover Kyrie way too soon after his wife Asumu died, causing Battler to move out and live with his maternal grandparents for several years. For worse, Kyrie was already pregnant with Battler's sister Ange when she married Rudolf, showing that even after Rudolf married Asumu he never actually ended the relationship with Kyrie. Despite this Battler actually likes Kyrie, seeing her as a Cool Big Sis, and directs all his anger at his father for his behavior (and it's indicated that Rudolf is still seeing other women even after marrying Kyrie). Kyrie also reveals late in the game that if Asumu hadn't died on her own she would have killed her to be with Rudolf. |
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In an episode of The Outer Limits (1995), a time traveler goes back in time to the last-19th century Austria and becomes the live-in nanny for little Adolf Hitler (planning to kill him). She discovers that the maid is having an affair with her employer, Adolf's father, while his wife is sick in another bedroom. She tells the maid that the man is simply having fun with her and will never follow through on his promise to marry her. The maid counters that the current Frau Hitler used to be the maid as well. | |
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Gender-inverted in Hamlet: after King Hamlet suddenly dies (due to getting poisoned by his treacherous brother Claudius), his wife Queen Gertrude marries the newly crowned Claudius, with whom she is implied to have had an affair with while her husband was still alive. | |
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After Cyclops lost Jean Grey in New X-Men he eventually gets together with Emma Frost, with whom he had been having a Mental Affair when Emma was his therapist. In a twist Jean herself was shown to have psychically pushed the two together from beyond the grave, which didn't sit well with many fans. Emma and Scott eventually broke up in Avengers vs. X-Men with the one-two punch of Emma revealing her affair with Namor and Scott choking her to gain her part of the Phoenix Force. | |
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When Women Were Dragons: Alex's father marries his secretary, who is visibly pregnant with his child, just a month after his first wife dies. | |
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In the backstory of Tenchi Muyo! Prince Yosho combines this with New Old Flame. As a young man, he had a Secret Relationship with a fellow student named Airi (while engaged to his half-sister Ayeka) while both were at the Galaxy Police Academy, but after he ran away and ended up on Earth he eventually married another woman named Kasumi and started a family. After Kasumi inevitably died before him due to his Jurain blood he laid low for several years until Airi reappeared and revealed that she had actually been pregnant with his child and since she was also engaged at the time she ended up breaking it off prior to giving birth. She then introduces him to their daughter Minaho, and Yosho and Airi got back together and became common law married, having another daughter, Kiyone, who was Tenchi's mother. They're both portrayed sympathetically since neither of their engagements was their own choice, and when Ayeka reappears and turns out to have been looking for him all this time, it's evident that he's surprised she's still carrying a torch for him since he never actually took their engagement seriously and, unlike her, realized it was purely to silence those who objected to his mostly human heritage. | |
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Asuka's father in Neon Genesis Evangelion began having an affair soon after his wife Kyoko lost her mind during the Eva contact experiment, and everyone (including Asuka) knew about the relationship, which was with Kyoko's own doctor. After Kyoko killed herself (which is implied to have been at least in part to spurn her husband) he married the doctor, and while Asuka makes it clear she doesn't loathe the lady, she also doesn't particularly like her, and only keeps up a facade of being friendly with her on the phone. | |
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In I, Claudius the relationship between Livia and Emperor Augustus is described this way. Once they're actually married, Augustus ends up being unable to perform sexually with her out of guilt at having stolen her from her first husband, so she arranges for him to have mistresses on the side since the entire marriage is a power play in the first place. | |
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Le Bonheur: Francois, who is Happily Married to Therese, winds up having an affair with Emilie anyway, basically because Emilie is sexy and he wants to. Eventually he confesses to Therese, saying that it's no big deal that he has a girlfriend and he still loves her just as much. Therese disagrees and kills herself. The rather unsettling ending has Emilie simply replacing Therese, moving into Francois and Therese's apartment, sleeping with Francois in the same bed he used to sleep in with his wife, mothering Therese's children, with everybody carrying on as if nothing happened. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry has a Gender Flipped version without the spouse actually dying: Rena's mother divorced her father and married her boyfriend, a coworker, because she was pregnant by the boyfriend. This devastated Rena, in part because she actually liked the boyfriend before this happened, not knowing the nature of his relationship with her mother. | |
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In the novel version of The Manchurian Candidate, where Raymond Shaw's mother was having an affair with John Iselin while still married to Raymond's father, and eventually divorced him to marry Iselin when she became pregnant with Raymond's half-brother. The passage describing this, incidentally, was eventually discovered to have been plagiarized almost word-for-word from I Claudius above, including the bits about the wife arranging for other women to satisfy him when he couldn't perform out of guilt. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: Luke Bankhole had an extra-marital relationship with the main protagonist June Osborne. He left his old wife to marry June and had a new family with her. It's for this reason that when the Gilead regime is established, June is considered an "adulteress" for leading another man astray and is turned into a Handmaid. | |
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As revealed in Dragon Age: Origins's DLC "Return To Ostagar", King Cailan of Fereldan planned on doing this before he was killed with Celene, the Empress of Orlais, using his wife Anora's alleged infertility as cause to divorce her. You find this out through letters in Cailan's tent, and if Anora's father, Loghain, is with the party at the time, he minces no words at the two of them. Curiously, later games and novels reveal that if such a union happened, it would have been purely political since Celene isn't into men, but she exchanged romantic letters in an attempt to secure hold over Ferelden. | |
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The more benign version is all but stated to have occurred in Fire Emblem Fates with King Sumeragi, who was married to Queen Ikona, the mother of his children, at the time he met The Avatar's mother Mikoto, fell in Love at First Sight with her began a relationship with her (possibly taking her as a concubine, a well-known practice among Japanese royalty from the Heian to the Meiji era). When Ikona died some years later, Sumeragi eventually married Mikoto; she became the stepmother of his children with Ikona and finished raising them after Sumeragi's death and the Avatar's kidnapping. There's no apparent angst on the part of anyone involved (aside from Princess Hinoka saying that she had early objections with the arrangement, but eventually came around and regrets her early behavior), suggesting it was the "everyone knew about it and was fine with it" variant of this trope, and Mikoto is beloved by her stepchildren, her ward and niece Azura, and by everyone in the kingdom. | |
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At the start of Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?, the Viscount von Aschem and his daughter are killed by bandits, after which the Viscount's son-in-law claims the title, marries his mistress, and places their daughter as his heir, supplanting the daughter by his first wife (the protagonist). This eventually became a major scandal, as the title belonged to his first wife's family, meaning that he had no claim to it save as regent for the daughter he was supplanting. | |
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James Gordon in Batman had this with Detective Sarah Essen, with whom he was having an affair in Batman: Year One when the two were working together but broke off after it was discovered. She moved to Chicago for several years until they reunited and got married. In a variation, Gordon's first wife was still alive but had divorced him, and Jim's daughter Barbara actually liked her new stepmother with no apparent ill feelings, and after Sarah's death in Batman: No Man's Land, Barbara was sad that she never got around to calling Sarah Mom. | |
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In The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan's marriage with Teresa collapses due to Jordan's affair with Naomi. Later on, Jordan marries Naomi. This new marriage does not stop Jordan from cheating on Naomi herself with various prostitutes. | |
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In Jennifer Roberson's Chronicles Of The Cheysuli, Niall has his insane wife Gisella sent away and lives openly with his mistress Deirdre; when he receives word that Gisella has died, he marries Deirdre even though he himself is on his deathbed. | |
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In The Duchess, The Duke ends up doing this with his mistress Bess Foster after his wife Georgiana dies at the end of the movie. When she first found out about the affair, Georgiana was not happy with either of them, especially since Bess was previously her best friend but she comes to realize that Bess only had the affair (initially) to regain her children, something she herself experiences later once her own affair with Charles Grey is discovered and she's blackmailed into ending it under the threat of never seeing her illegitimate daughter with Grey again. In the end, Georgiana gives the two her blessing to remarry when she knows she is going to die, while never truly forgiving her husband for his actions. The movie as a whole is an exploration of the Double Standard around a husband's affair versus a wife's. | |
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In Heat Guy J, Kia talks about how his father, a musician named Blues Dullia (an Expy of John Lennon) spent years abusing his wife and cheating on her, then finally ditched her when he found out his mistress was pregnant and started a new life with her. Shortly afterwards, Kia's mother passed away, making this a sort of inversion of the trope: the second marriage happened before the death of Mr. Dullia's first wife. Kia went to inform his father of his mother's death, but couldn't bring himself to do it when he saw his dad playing with the child from that union. It's unknown where Kia went after that, or who (if anybody) was taking care of him. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, King Maegor The Cruel of the Targaryen dynasty, in a direct reference to Henry VIII, had a total of six wives. In particular, Queen Tyanna of the Tower was formerly his Pentoshi mistress before marrying him in the wake of his second wife, Alys Harroway, being executed for (alleged) adultery that resulted in stillborn and deformed children. When Maegor found out that Tyanna had lied about the adultery to get Alys killed, and was the real cause of the stillborn children due to giving Alys poison, he had Tyanna herself executed as well. It also turns out that in a gender-flipped example Jon Arryn's death was a case of Til Murder Do Us Part, with the current spouse Lysa Arryn plotting the death of her husband and then marrying Petyr Baelish, with whom she had been having an affair on the side. Baelish eventually offs her as well once she's no longer of any use to him. |
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman: Deconstruction. Charles McCarter planned to do this with his mistress, Brenda, whom he had an affair with for years and even two children. Charles kicked his wife Helen out of their house on their 18th anniversary, justifying it, saying that the two of them were miserable; he's sick of treating Brenda this way, and Brenda is the mother of his two children. And because Helen signed a prenup, Charles doesn't have to support her financially and can kick her out of the house, though eventually, he agreed in court to support her mother at the senior citizen center. However, when Charles is shot and taken to the hospital, Brenda reveals her true colors when she asks the doctor to take him off of life support, justifying it by saying she doesn't want Charles to live as a cripple, but it's clear that she's after his money he doesn't want to take care of him. However, because Helen was still technically married to Charles, she had power of attorney and told the doctors to keep him alive. Brenda just straight up abandons Charles, takes as much money as she can, and leaves with their two children. Charles was in denial and demanded to know where Brenda and his children were as Helen was taking care of him; Helen, losing patience with him, informed Charles that Brenda left him for dead and as for his children, she wanted to have children with him, but because of the stress of their marriage, she had two miscarriages. Later, Helen informs Charles that Brenda took all his money, so all his servants left and took some of his things with them. Charles eventually accepted that Brenda never loved him and that he was mistaken in treating Helen the way he did. He apologized to Helen for his actions, with her forgiving him, and Charles accepted that Helen had moved on to another man. | |
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Fresh Off the Boat: Jessica’s best friend is Honey Ellis. Before the Huangs moved to Washington DC, Honey had an affair with Marvin Ellis, who ended up leaving his old wife Sarah to marry Honey. All the other wives blame Honey for breaking up Sarah’s marriage, even though the former Mrs. Ellis had issues long before the affair started. | |
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Gender-inverted in the Arcia Chronicles, when Duchess Martha Tagere marries her long-time lover Cesar Malvani after her husband, the Duke of Orgonda, is murdered by the mob. | |
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In Blindsprings, Asher Thorne is implied to have done this, since Word of God says that in the events leading to him arresting and imprisoning his first wife for teaching their daughters about their Orphic heritage he brought other people into the marriage, and after arresting her divorced his first wife and married Giselle, who's implied to have been his mistress. Giselle is definitely the Wicked Stepmother variety and makes her disdain for Asher's first family quite clear. | |
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Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Due to Leon's legal wife Lady Zola's family reneging on their responsibilities to take up arms for the kingdom in volume 3, they lose their titles. Lord Bartfort promptly divorces her and gets engaged to his mistress, Leon's mother. | |
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One episode of Criminal Minds has the team interviewing the mother of a suspected victim. They gradually realize during the interview that he's probably the unsub, especially when his mother points out that he and his current wife were both married to other people when they started dating. After their respective divorces and remarriage, he became consumed with jealousy, convinced that "If she cheated with me, she'll cheat on me." His controlling behavior led to the marriage failing and pushed him over the edge. | |
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Gossip City: Masaki found his wife Himari's medical report and after seeing her cancer diagnosis, he insists that she take Sumomo to visit her parents' house in summer. However, the diagnosis was at least a decade ago, rendering Masaki's plans moot. | |
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Elizabeth catches her husband cheating on her with the head of their homeowner's association and begins a relationship with Fisk, whom she had feelings for years ago but had moved on from, and eventually divorces her husband and marries Fisk, starting a family as seen in Original Life. | |
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Seen in Nerilka's Story, a side novella of the Dragonriders of Pern series which takes place during and after the events of Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern. Nerilka's father is one of the Lord Holders of Pern, and after he loses his wife (Nerilka's mother) to the plague which besets Pern for a time, he almost immediately moves his mistress in to take her place — along with her entire family. Nerilka is not pleased and makes a point of removing her mother's personal effects from her rooms before her new stepmother can arrive and claim them for herself. | |
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In Pretty Little Liars, all of the Liars' fathers except for Emily's commit adultery. Two of them—Aria's father Byron and Hanna's dad—divorce their first wives (Ella and Ashley, the girls' respective mothers) and remarry their mistresses (Meredith and Isabel, respectively). | |
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In Crusader Kings II this can be easily done by a ruler who used the Seduction focus to run around on his or her spouse, and even recommended because the +40 to your spouse's opinion for being your lover means they're both less likely to support plots to kill you and more likely to produce children. The only thing to be careful of is that marrying a character of low rank costs the ruler Prestige. | |
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