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The ultimate way to introduce Parental Issues short of a murder plot. Your dad is revealed to have been hiding a life with a whole other family. In fact, if he's sneaky enough, from that family's perspective, yours might be the Secret Other Family. The secret family might eventually be folded into the main one if the legal spouse dies and the other decides to get Remarried to the Mistress. An occupation that requires one to travel (travelling salesman, ship's officer, pilot, etc.) is a great help in pulling this off. Sub-Trope of Living a Double Life. Compare Polygamy, where it's done openly and the families know about each other. |
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There was an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where a pillar of the community turned out to have maintained two families for a long time. Then two of his children started a relationship, without knowing they were half-siblings. | |
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In Shadow Hearts, this is why Halley has no father. His mother is Koudelka, while his father is heavily implied to be Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany... who, by the time the game takes place, was married to Beatrice Villiers for ten years. At the end of the game, Halley and Koudelka set off to meet with his father. Lady Villiers's reaction is not shown. | |
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Subverted in Desperate Housewives. Lynette gets suspicious when her husband Tom is shown to be falsifying expense reports and follows him on a so-called "business trip" to Atlantic City. There, she sees him embracing another woman and a young girl, and concludes that this trope is in play. Tom later confesses to Lynette that the little girl is his daughter, conceived via a one-night-stand with the woman years before he met and married Lynette. But he only just found out about the lovechild when his old fling got in contact to ask for a decade's worth of child support for a kid he didn't even know he had. Once he got over the shock of finding out he had an eleven-year-old daughter he never knew about, Tom did intend to tell Lynette — she just happened to find out before he had the chance to fess up. | |
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More Than You'll Ever Know is based on the premise of a Gender Inverted take on this. Lore has one family with first husband Fabian in Texas, and another with second husband Andres in Mexico City. Interestingly, the way the story plays out ends up being a sort of Deconstruction of the gender inversion, demonstrating why women virtually never do this. Family life is wonderful, but it's also demanding and taxing — particularly for women, mothers. There are virtually no women (and only a few men, for that matter) who would want to take a break from the duties of family life to go do more family life duties somewhere else. Women want their affairs to be affairs — a respite, a part of their life that's very different than the drudgery of home life. Lore ends up in a second marriage by playing her Business Trip Adultery as an Exaggerated Trope, but the emotional quality of that relationship is still more like an affair. | |
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Taken to deliberately absurd lengths in series 4 of Bleak Expectations, when Harry Biscuit, paranoid about losing his new wife to the villain who stole his last one, marries 92 other women as spares and must then prevent any of them from meeting. For added ludicrousness, this takes place confined to a ship in the middle of the ocean. Upon arriving in America, Harry solves his problem by becoming a Mormon - Whereupon, of course, all 93 wives immediately desert him for the villain. | |
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Bones: A victim of the week had two wives and a kid by each, both with the same degenerative bone condition that he had. Interestingly his two wives and the third woman he'd been romancing were not the ones who killed him. Booth finds out that his mother had one. She met another man, helped raise his kids, and marries him in season 8, much to Booth’s anger. |
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An early case on L.A. Law was about a serial bigamist who concealed his wives from one another. He used false identities in alphabetical order and at one point the firm had tracked the wives through F. That case also introduced the infamous "Venus Butterfly". | |
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Kings: King Silas maintains a second family in the countryside. Of course, since he's the king, his mistress is fully aware that he's married. | |
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Cheers: Carla finds out her second husband Eddie had another wife and children who he'd married at the same time as Carla after he dies. Specifically, she finds out at his funeral. | |
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The Simpsons: Philandering politician Mayor Quimby is the Trope Namer. Snowball V/II was secretly visiting another family that considered her their cat. A commercial of pills to help people sleep had a list of things that make people too worried to sleep. "Secret Other Family" was on the list. The episode "Labor Pains" deals with a Not What It Looks Like incident of this in which Homer delivers a baby Born in an Elevator and secretly helps provide support and babysitting for the mother, who named the baby after him. Although he believes her to be a single parent, the ending reveals that her boyfriend has been away in the army and is happy to assume the responsibilities of fatherhood upon returning, allowing Homer to detach with no harm done. The intro for "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" shows a man laying a flower on a headstone that reads "BELOVED WIFE" and then attending to a grave beside it that reads "BELOVED SECRET WIFE." |
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In one episode of Castle, a man is found dead and his wife and fiancee both show up to claim the body. Except that he and the fiancee were both playing each other, in a complicated bit of corporate espionage. | |
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No Tomorrow: Xavier's father took up with another woman while his mother was still alive, and they had a daughter less than half a year after she died. | |
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In the Montague Egg short story False Weight, the late Mr. Wagstaffe had, under various aliases, wooed and married a woman in his every port of call. When the truth came out, there was a blunt object with his name on it. | |
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Speculated by Roseanne in "Kansas City, Here We Come" when they discover their father's decades-long affair. "Roseanne, Dad could have kids with this woman. They would be, like... Darlene's age." "Oh, man, that would serve him right." | |
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An episode of Hawaii Five-0 has a man about to testify on a gang gunned down in an office. His wife says the man had been busted for embezzling from his company and explained he was being forced to steal for a local gang. The team takes the gang down, only for the leader to claim they've never heard of the guy. Digging further, the team discovers the man had a wife and son on a nearby island and was stealing the money to help set them up and cooked up the gang story as an excuse. Grover openly notes how "it takes a certain kind of sociopath to do this." It turns out the killer was the boyfriend of the man's teenage daughter who was outraged at finding out what her dad was doing to her and her mother. | |
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All My Children: Del Henry came to town and rapidly befriended local Dixie Cooney, much to the alarm of Dixie's husband Tad, who feared that Del was a psycho. When the couple confronted Del about his intentions, he denied being in love with Dixie and revealed that he was in fact her brother, the result of an affair their father had had with his mother. | |
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In Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro, Masao, a boy, discovers that his mother has a husband and a daughter and lives with them in another city, while his grandmother told him she was single and worked hard to support him. | |
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Penguindrum: Satoshi Oginome either falls under this or Parent with New Paramour as we find out in Episode 8. His child from his first marriage, Ringo does not take it well. | |
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Attack on Titan: Historia Reiss/Krista Lenz was born from Rod Reiss a powerful noble and the secret ruler of the walls. He fathered Historia with a simple farm woman named Alma, and gave her a life of ease, but later had Alma killed and forced Historia to join the survey corps under the name Krista. Reiss seems like he wants to reconnect with her, but really wants her to take up the Foundation Titan in his place so he will not be possessed by his ancestor, given he has no legitimate children to take the mantle. Reiner Braun was born when his mother Karina had an affair with a Marlayen kitchen worker. Karina convinces Reiner that joining the Warrior unit will result in the two reuniting, but when Reiner tracks him down, he rejects Reiner in disgust, given that if his affair with an Eldian, who are seen by the Marlayan people as evil demons and forced into ghettos, was exposed, he and his legitimate family could be executed. Eren learns from his father's diary that during the latter's time in Marley, he was married to a woman named Dina Fritz and had a son named Zeke. Likewise, Zeke deduced from Reiner's reports that Eren is his half-brother and sought to claim him. |
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Supernatural: Several years after John's death, Sam and Dean discovered that John had a third son that he would periodically visit while he left them in a motel while he supposedly was on a hunting trip. Seeing the effect that hunting had on Sam and Dean, John wanted Adam to have a chance at a normal life, but it didn't work. Adam and his mother were killed by ghouls who wanted revenge, but couldn't get it because John had already died. | |
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Tweeny Witches: Arusu finds out in "Lennon's True Identity" that Lennon is her half-brother from Jidan's secret first marriage to Atelia in the Magical Realm. | |
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In the Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio) radio drama "The Peculiar Persecution of Mr. John Harden", the title character is a millionaire who turns out to have yearned for a simpler life, an urge he indulges by having a secret life and family in a small village in Wales. Neither his Welsh family nor his wife in his own identity is aware of the deception, and his son is extraordinarily pissed off when he finds out. | |
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A holiday Rooster Teeth Comics strip had Geoff claims he's got one in Alaska. | |
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The Naked Director: Megumi discovers some mysterious photos in an album in episode 1.4 and then confronts her mother in episode 1.5 about how the two of them live in relative comfort despite having a Disappeared Dad. It turns out that Megumi's strictly Catholic, religious fundamentalist mom was The Mistress of a married businessman, and she and Megumi are the secret other family. | |
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In one episode of The Closer, a man, his wife, and their young daughter are brutally murdered. The only surviving family member, a teenage boy, is initially the prime suspect, but the actual killer turns out to be the man's other teenage son, who had discovered that his dad had another family. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Jake's father at one point confesses to Jake that he has several half-siblings scattered around the country. Downplayed in that he seems to have been just as, if not more, absent from their lives as he was with Jake. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, after his mother dies, Howard discovers that his absent father remarried and he had a younger half-brother who tracks him down. | |
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In Zero Focus, Teiko's investigation into the mysterious disappearance of her husband Kenichi eventually reveals that Kenichi had a second wife hidden away in the county. | |
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In The Mortal Instruments Jace was unaware of Sebastian's existence, which led him to believe that he was Valentine's real son and Clary's blood brother. However, Sebastian spent his whole childhood knowing about Jace, but neither he nor his father knew about his sister Clary, and vice versa. | |
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Mushishi: Ginko helps a woman and her son; the woman's husband is missing, and neither of them knows what became of him. In the end, they find him living with his other family and child. Bittersweetly, the woman will never remember it, because of her anterograde amnesia. But she won't have to deal with the pain of knowing her beloved husband left her, either. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: According to one of the Armsmen, one of the other Armsmen has one family in the city and one in the country. | |
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American Dad! had an episode where Roger, their live-in alien friend, was secretly a part of/spending time with dozens of other families as well. This was treated as if he was having an affair. Later episodes reveal Roger is still a part of multiple families outside the Smiths, like having two adult sons as Jeannie Gold and being the wife of a judge for over thirty years. Unlike before, the Smiths no longer care. | |
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A legionnaire in Codex Alera quips that he had to transfer far away from both of his usual postings when the wife in post A learned about the wife in post B. | |
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Banacek: In "The Three Million Dollar Piracy", Banacek discovers that one of the suspects is married to two different women. A ship's officer, he maintains the charade by telling one wife that he is shipping out a couple of weeks before he actually does and telling the other that he is returning two weeks after he actually does. | |
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Quantum Leap: Sam leaps into a man who has two families, and decides that he's there so both wives will break up with him and go on to lead successful lives of their own. He gets them both to break up with him by admitting to both that he's a bigamist; then just before he leaps the third wife & family show up. | |
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Dynamo5: Captain Dynamo/William Warner was not only was cheating on his wife Maddie Warner with one of his enemies (Chrysalis), but he had a daughter with Chrysalis named Cynthia. He had a second life behind his wife's back as he helped to raise Cynthia with Chrysalis. He was there at Cynthia's birth while missing Maddie Warner's award. He and Chrysalis exposed Cynthia to the same radiation that he used to gain his superpowers and he trained Cynthia to use her powers. | |
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The victim in an episode of Life - "Farthingale" - had two wives under two different names. Turns out he was living a triple life; in reality, an employee of the IRS and was killed by an anti-government bomber. | |
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Along Came Polly: After some prompting from Reuben, Polly reveals that as a teenager she learned that her father had a second family that he'd kept secret from her and her mother. The betrayal soured her on the idea of ever getting married herself. | |
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CSI-verse: The intended murder victim in the CSI episode "Grissom Versus the Volcano". However, a short in the timing mechanism causes the bomb (planted by one of his wives) to detonate at the wrong time: killing three innocent people in a case of Murder by Mistake that makes it harder for the team to identify the real target. Deconstructed in "Divorce Party" of CSI: Miami, which has a father who has a Secret Other Family murdered by his own son after the son discovered that he had been dating his half-sister. They fell in love and were having a baby together. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gul Dukat had a wife and seven children. He was very proud of them. That didn't stop him from having a Secret Other Family of the most scandalous kind possibly for a Cardassian in his position of power: a Bajoran lover he had a Bajoran betrothal pledge with and their half-Cardassian, half-Bajoran daughter. | |
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¡Alambrista!: Roberto is a Mexican bean farmer whose father Alberto abandoned the family some two decades previously, migrating to the United States for work, and never being heard from again. Roberto follows in his father's footsteps as The Illegal, becoming a migrant farm laborer, and meeting his father at the exact moment that Alberto falls down and dies while picking vegetables. While going through his father's effects Roberto discovers that Alberto, who never divorced Roberto's mother, married an American white woman and had another son. | |
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London's Burning: Mentioned off-handedly in one episode where Area Commander Bulstrode informs Station Officer Georgiadis that a senior officer who specialises in dealing with prisons is coming to the division after a major fire at a Young Offenders Institution. Vaseline never gets around to actually marrying either of them, but he spends most of the first season juggling two girlfriends, both called Marion. It's strongly implied he chose to woo the second Marion specifically so he wouldn't have to worry about accidentally calling either of them by the other's name, earning him a mixture of contempt and grudging admiration from the rest of Blue Watch for his sheer chutzpah. |
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Rizzoli & Isles: In "Family Matters", the Victim of the Week has wives in two different states. The wives team up in order to murder him. | |
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Don Geiss in 30 Rock turned out to have a secret Canadian family and a secret attic family. | |
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Jack's father, Christian, on Lost. During a flashback in season 2, we see Christian arguing with a woman in Australia about having a right to see his daughter and in the third season, we learn the daughter is actually Claire Littleton. Jack doesn't learn about this until the fourth season when Claire's mother attends the memorial service for Jack's father. | |
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Shawn on Boy Meets World discovers that his dad had another family and that he has a half-brother he never knew about. | |
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Chasing Life: Thomas, the recently deceased dad of April and Brenna, turns out to have another daughter living in Florida from an adulterous affair he had which they didn't know about. He had stayed surreptitiously involved with Natalie's life. They soon forge a relationship with her too. | |
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On The Drew Carey Show Drew winds up married to his long-time friend/obvious series-long Love Interest Kate and an old girlfriend at the same time. (This happens shortly after he was in a mental hospital, so he may not have been thinking clearly.) He tries to keep them from knowing about each other until he can figure out what to do, only for them to figure it out and both leave his life permanently. | |
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On Sisters, the titular four sisters learn that they have another sister, the child of their father's mistress when the woman's doctor approaches them in need of a bone marrow donation (she has leukemia). After much pressuring from the sisters to meet the woman, the doctor finally admits that she is their half-sister. When the girls break the news to their mother, she isn't surprised (though she didn't know), as his relationship with the mistress was as long as their own marriage. | |
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Wakfu: Thanks to Amnesiac Dissonance, Sadlygrove ends up worried that he's abandoned lovers and children that he doesn't even know about. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Lois' father had a secret other family that he treated much better than his own. Ida simply cheated on him and conceived Lois with another man. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: In the mythologized history of Westeros, the legendary figure of Florys the Fox is said to have kept three husbands, each ignorant of the other two. Fire & Blood: Sir Lucamore "The Lusty" Strong of the Kingsguard was caught having broken his Vow of Celibacy as thoroughly as possible, having three wives and sixteen children between them. |
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Deconstructed in "Divorce Party" of CSI: Miami, which has a father who has a Secret Other Family murdered by his own son after the son discovered that he had been dating his half-sister. They fell in love and were having a baby together. | |
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Fire & Blood: Sir Lucamore "The Lusty" Strong of the Kingsguard was caught having broken his Vow of Celibacy as thoroughly as possible, having three wives and sixteen children between them. | |
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The episode "Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail" of The West Wing had Sam Seaborne deal with his father's infidelity. It was very upsetting to him, such that he'd been working absurd hours and even sleeping at the office. When Leo McGarry tried to comfort him that "my father had affairs", Sam retorts that his wasn't an affair, this was a woman he kept in an apartment for thirty years. | |
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Boone's Lick: Shay's father spends most of his time working for the army out west, only coming back to Missouri to see his wife and surviving children for short periods every year or two. When his family head west to see him, they learn that he has over a dozen children with two Native-American women. This makes his wife, who already plans to divorce him, even more curious. Their kids get along well with each other, though. | |
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In El embarcadero, the whole plot kicks off with Alejandra's discovery that her recently deceased husband Óscar had been living a double life with another woman for eight years, and even had a daughter with her. | |
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The Intimates': One signature info scrolls mentions that when Punchy is 40, erectile dysfunction will threaten both of his marriages. | |
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In Eccentric Neighborhoods, a heartbroken Roque Vernet finds comfort after his son's death by suicide in the arms of seamstress Titiba. Eventually Roque keeps Titiba and their children in a household separate from his own family, keeping his wife Clotilde in the dark. After his own death, Titiba asks Clotilde, his widow, that they share him in death, like they did in life. This forces her to tell Clotilde about her life with Roque. Amazingly, Clotilde agrees and they hold a funeral with two rooms, one for each family unit. | |
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On Drop Dead Diva, Jane represents a woman seeking a divorce, convinced her husband is having an affair after finding records of him paying another woman. that woman drops in to reveal she's married to the guy too. The pair bicker before Jane cuts in with "you want to go after each other or after him?" The man is horrified the two wives gang up on him. Then, at his trial, Jane wins the case by having a very upset woman stand up in court as she's the guy's third fiancee. | |
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Robot Chicken: One sketch has Man-E-Faces from Masters of the Universe having three secret families, one for each face. | |
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In an early episode of Without a Trace, the agents discover that the Victim of the Week had this and that his disappearance was the first step in a plot to officially abandon his first wife and run off with the second one. | |
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When The Bill turned into a Crime Time Soap, DC Ken Drummond was revealed to be living this kind of life. Ken has children spanning almost a generation, with the youngest eight months and the oldest nineteen years old, with all of them making equal demands of him, whether it be financial or emotional. Somewhere along the line, Ken found himself in a second relationship, and he did not have the heart to end his relationship with either woman. When more kids arrived on the scene, Ken found it harder to secretly play the family man to both families. This explains why Ken sees work as a refuge from his hectic home life. | |
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The intended murder victim in the CSI episode "Grissom Versus the Volcano". However, a short in the timing mechanism causes the bomb (planted by one of his wives) to detonate at the wrong time: killing three innocent people in a case of Murder by Mistake that makes it harder for the team to identify the real target. | |
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Criminal Minds: Mentioned in passing in "Pay It Forward." The unsub turns out to be killing hypocrites. After the team looks into the seemingly clean second victim, Hotchner angrily confronts one of his friends who had called him a great family man, asking which family he was referring to: the family in town everyone knows about, or the secret family a few towns away. The unsub in "A Place at the Table" turns out to be the son from the victim's secret family. Though, in this case, the son wasn't aware of who his father was. The relationship between his parents was more of a long-term prostitution arrangement (she had to be available to him as his mistress at all times, and, in return, he provided for her financially), and the son wound up targeting both families when he found out about it. |
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In Girl Shy the cad who is about to marry Harold Lloyd's girlfriend is revealed to already have a wife hidden away in the country. | |
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Warrior Cats: Downplayed when Mapleshade finds out that her mate Appledusk is two-timing her with another she-cat and has also gotten her pregnant. | |
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One A Softer World strip is about this, though the reason it upsets the narrator is that the other family got to have a pet dog and theirs didn't. | |
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Secret Identities: The Front Line's resident speedster Runabout has a wife and daughter in Nova Scotia, and another wife and daughter in California. He uses his superspeed and excuses of frequent business trips to be with them both. At the end of the series he marries and impregnates another woman in Florida. | |
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In the Midst of Winter: After Lucia's father dies, she and her mother learn that he had a second family, including a son with the same name as her brother Enrique. Lena Maraz is so angry that she destroys all his pictures (except those Enrique hides in time) and discourages any mention of him. | |
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The House of Flowers: Ernesto has his "main" family with wife Virginia and adult children Paulina, Julián, and Elena. Then he has a secret second family with mistress Roberta and adolescent daughter Micaela (and Claudio, Roberta's adult son from a previous relationship). The Inciting Incident is when Roberta commits suicide and Ernesto has to tell his family the truth and bring Micaela to live with them. The family initially assumes that Roberta was an affair that turned serious when contraception failed and they conceived Micaela. They're stunned to eventually learn no—Micaela was conceived very intentionally and at great difficulty, via expensive fertility treatments. | |
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In Dragons: Race to the Edge, Tuffnut acts as though this is what is going on when he discovers that his pet chicken has been sneaking out to visit a rooster and has a number of chicks. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "secret identity", Strong Bad claims to have a "secret second family" whom he sometimes visits as "Vance Mudgeman". "Claims" being the operative word. Ol' SB has a tendency to just make crap up and an... overactive imagination, and in any case his "first family" is just him, his two brothers, and The Cheat. | |
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Troubled Blood: A bit of comic relief early in the novel has detective Robin Ellacott tailing a man her firm has nicknamed "Tufty" because of his Dodgy Toupee. Tufty's wife in Windsor suspected he was cheating on her. It turns out that while Tufty does have a mistress, he also is a bigamist with another wife. And Robin discovers that their client and her children are actually the secret other family, as the other wife is the legal wife that Tufty has been married to for twenty years. | |
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Family Guy did a joke about Peter having one where Peter was the mother, and somehow had three children with a husband in what was implied to be a sitcom-style family. Another episode had an extended Nike commercial parody that eventually descended into Peter having a second family and a gay lover, then ended with him murdering everybody and getting the electric chair. |
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On Third Watch, after a much-publicized rescue, police officer Ty is approached by a young woman. Assuming she's romantically interested in him, he takes her to dinner, only for her to reveal that she's his sister—the child of a woman with whom his father had a long-term affair. When he reveals this to his other sister, she admits that she already knew and had met the girl for lunch several times, then informs him that their mother knows as well, citing a weekend when they were abruptly sent to stay with an aunt as a time when their parents were trying to work things out. When Ty confides in his partner Sully (who had been his father's partner), it turns out HE knew also. Ty is left utterly disillusioned with the memories of his father and infuriated at everyone for concealing the truth from him. | |
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Weekend Pussy Hunt: Dirty Dog calls his visibly pregnant wife and three kids to tell them that he's going to be late coming home because he's chasing a cat that made fun of him. After having a fierce argument with his wife about him chasing Cigarettes the Cat, on how much trouble he can get in and refusing to come home, Dirty calls his second wife, who is more supportive of him chasing Cigarettes. | |
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Cate Randa is pretty stunned (and hurt) to find out that her Disappeared Dad had a double life with another wife and another child in Tokyo that was clearly going on for decades, as are the half-brother and their father's other wife whom she's only just met. | |
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The premise of Brothers & Sisters. Rumor has it that the spare illegitimate daughter is eventually revealed to have another father altogether. | |
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The Legend of Xiao Chuo: Xian takes a concubine and has a child with her without telling Yan Yan about it. | |
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On 9-1-1 fourth season Christmas episode, a woman is at a Santa Claus event with her daughter, talking about missing her pilot husband. At which point, the girl spots her father...with another woman and sons. It's after the guy runs away from them and is hit by a trolley that the first woman realizes the other woman's kids are older, meaning she's his second wife. They're still fighting at the hospital before it hits them they're both better off without him with Athena dryly telling the guy he "should ask Santa for a lawyer." | |
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