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Unwanted Spouse

589 statements
111 feature instances
108 referencing feature instances

Unwanted Spouse	type	FeatureClass
Unwanted Spouse	label	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse	page	UnwantedSpouse
Unwanted Spouse	comment	The Unwanted Spouse is a character, usually in an Accidental Marriage, Arranged Marriage, or Shotgun Wedding, who is completely unwanted by their spouse, so much so that it becomes a plot point. This character can be heroic—unhappily married to a villain and made so miserable by the marriage that they turn around and betray them, joining the heroes—or villainous (often the case if she's the woman standing between the story's two main lovers). This character is female more often than male. Note that when an action hero's wife is like this, she usually ends up Dying for the Ship. Not to be confused with The Masochism Tango, which describes a couple who hate each other but ultimately choose to remain married. Awful Wedded Life is a version that's Played for Laughs and generally implied to be universal that — everyone, or at least every man, wishes they could be rid of their spouse. Compare Mal MariÃ©e, when a young woman ends up unhappily married to a much older man. Examples
Unwanted Spouse	fetched	2024-04-14T13:17:25Z
Unwanted Spouse	parsed	2024-04-14T13:17:25Z
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Unwanted Spouse	isPartOf	DBTropes
Unwanted Spouse / int_19984c1a	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_19984c1a	comment	Pavilion of Women: Wu Fengmo accedes willingly to an Arranged Marriage with Kang Linyi only to find they have nothing in common. He goes to America to study and falls seriously in love with an American girl but chooses to return to China - and Linyi. Luckily for this unwanted spouse her husband feels strongly obligated to her - having after all chosen to marry her - and works hard to make her feel needed and happy.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_1aacbbc9	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: In Dragon Age II, a major plot arc begins with a dissolute husband seeking his runaway libertine wife. It's quickly apparent that they mutually don't want each other. In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dorian's parents have this relationship with each other. Halward Pavus and Aquinea Thalrassian were placed in an Arranged Marriage with no concern for the fact that they hated each other, solely because uniting their bloodlines would produce a strong mage. Their hatred of each other is why Dorian is an only child, and why Dorian is so determined not to end up in exactly the same situation with his betrothed, Livia Herathenos.
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Dragon Age (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_1aacbbc9
Unwanted Spouse / int_1b021fcb	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_1b021fcb	comment	In Tokyo Ghoul:Re, Matsuri Washuu is unhappily married to a woman that he describes as "dull" and completely uninteresting. It was an Arranged Marriage that he actively tried to avoid, spending a decade living in Germany and only writing to his fiancÃ©e when forced to do so. The lack of interest seems to be mutual since she admits she doesn't really understand what he does for a living and doesn't really care to learn. Their marriage was purely a political matter, solidifying ties between the Washuu Clan and another influential family. The fact that he's only interested in men probably has a large amount to do with it as well.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_1b386512	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: Ranma has no unwanted spouse but a dozen unwanted fiancÃ©es, and several storylines revolve around getting rid of the majority of them. For worse, if he openly rejects any of the girls, there will be SEVERE trouble. As far as Shampoo and Cologne are concerned, Shampoo is already married to Ranma per the traditions of her village (he defeated her in a fight); all they need is to have an official ceremony for him to admit it too. Shampoo even outright states that they're married in her home village's newspaper.
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Ranma ½ (Manga)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_1b386512
Unwanted Spouse / int_1e2c4217	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_1e2c4217	comment	In The Joy Luck Club, we get two unwanted spouses: Lindo is put into an Arranged Marriage at the age of 16 to a 12-year-old boy. Neither of them wants the other, and the situation is ultimately resolved quite humorously. Ying-Ying, on the other hand, is the abused and unwanted wife of a man she thought she'd be happy with.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_2192aeb3	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Victor and Cigyun of Velthomer were this to each other, since Victor was by all accounts a nasty piece of work and cheated on her repeatedly, not to mention raping her favorite maid in a drunken stupor, so it's no wonder that Sigyun ended up having an affair with Prince Kurth which produced Deirdre. King Desmond of Bern in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade viewed his wife Hellene as this, and it extended to their son Zephiel. He clearly favored his (unseen) mistress and their daughter Guinivere, openly having them in the palace while Hellene and Zephiel had to stay at the royal manor.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_22119589	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_22119589	comment	Lauren Reed of Alias.
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Alias	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_22119589
Unwanted Spouse / int_22126d33	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_22126d33	comment	Andor: Mon Mothma and her husband Perrin Fertha were forced to get married at 16 due to their native planet's tradition of Arranged Marriage. Mon clearly can't stand Perrin, an opinion not helped by his complete indifference to The Empire's tyranny, but she can't leave him without causing a scandal that would risk exposing the fact that she's funding the rebellion.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_22147342	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_22147342	comment	Played for drama in Arrow. Ra's al Ghul has his daughter Nyssa marry the supposedly Brainwashed and Crazy Oliver. Nyssa, being a lesbian who openly dislikes Oliver, is completely opposed to it, but Ra's doesn't care. Oliver (though clearly uncomfortable with the idea) goes through it as part of a gambit to learn what Ra's master plan is. Oliver doesn't seem to consider it valid marriage, possibly explaining why he never bothered to end it...or apologize.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_261c8d3f	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_261c8d3f	comment	Happens in The Simpsons when both Homer and Flanders drunkenly marry two cocktail waitresses in Vegas and a waitress shows up in a later episode as an unwanted spouse.
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The Simpsons	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_261c8d3f
Unwanted Spouse / int_2d1214a3	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_2d1214a3	comment	Jane Parker of The Other Boleyn Girl is the deeply unwanted wife of George Boleyn, and often creates plot-relevant mischief to alleviate her marital boredom and unhappiness. Also in The Other Boleyn Girl, Catherine of Aragon is downright martyred as Henry VIII's unwanted spouse that he spends half the book trying to get rid of.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_2f389c9c	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_2f389c9c	comment	In Sullivan's Travels, Sullivan is unhappily married to a shrew whom he married on the advice of his business manager. When it's believed Sullivan is dead, his wife immediately marries her lover... that business manager. Which is good news for Sullivan when he turns up alive, as he now has every right to divorce her and settle down with his love interest.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_35760d42	comment	Mr. Rochester's literally insane wife in Jane Eyre.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_35f162a2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_35f162a2	comment	The Roseanne Barr comedy She-Devil is a revenge story from the perspective of the Unwanted Spouse.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_36807c5d	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_36807c5d	comment	Sam of Australian serial Neighbours was this to estranged husband Dan. Seemingly brought in for no other reason than to complicate his relationship with Libby, she hung around, trying to persuade him that they could give it another shot. Dan being the honorable man he is, agreed to try, but it was clear that, though he by no means hated her or wanted her to leave, he would have much preferred it if she had not come back. This is much clearer the second time it happens; after giving up and leaving for a while, Sam reappears heavily pregnant just in time to spoil Dan and Libby's upcoming wedding.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_39fe00f1	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_39fe00f1	comment	In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dorian's parents have this relationship with each other. Halward Pavus and Aquinea Thalrassian were placed in an Arranged Marriage with no concern for the fact that they hated each other, solely because uniting their bloodlines would produce a strong mage. Their hatred of each other is why Dorian is an only child, and why Dorian is so determined not to end up in exactly the same situation with his betrothed, Livia Herathenos.
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Dragon Age: Inquisition (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_39fe00f1
Unwanted Spouse / int_3db944d2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_3db944d2	comment	Corpse Bride: Victoria Everglot's parents, Finis and Maudeline, do get along with each other because of their shared ideas, but it is painfully clear that they don't love each other. They don't even like each other. As far as they're concerned, it shouldn't matter whether their daughter and prospective son-in-law like each other or not.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_3ddf6764	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_3ddf6764	comment	Asayo Katsuragi from Sakura Gari is a very tragic case. Not only is her husband Tomohiko obsessed with the lead male Souma, but he actually is very abusive to her. And it's hinted that theirs was an Arranged Marriage since her father is the owner of the hospital he works in. Even worse, Souma's stepmother Sakurako was this too. And her child Youya was The Unfavorite while Souma was the true heir. She dealt with it by beating Souma and later raping him.
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Sakura Gari (Manga)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_3ddf6764
Unwanted Spouse / int_3e5de40b	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_3e5de40b	comment	Dr Robert Kelso's marriage to his (unseen) wife in Scrubs. Kelso even seems to do the same thing with his mistresses, or maybe that's a subversion. Though to be fair, it appears he did love her at first, even writing a song about her when he was younger.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_4123aeca	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_4123aeca	comment	In Gankutsuou, Eugenie warms up to the idea of being in an Arranged Marriage with Albert, but her father eventually decides to cancel the engagement and arrange for her to marry Andrea instead, whom Eugenie does not like at all. Not to mention that he's her half-brother.
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Gankutsuou	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_4123aeca
Unwanted Spouse / int_4183a3c4	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_4183a3c4	comment	Subverted later Edgar was transmogrified into a hunchback, and had been kidnapped by Lolotte as a baby. Genesta transforms him into his true form, a handsome Fae Prince. In the seventh game, he's kidnapped and transmogrified again. After Rosella saves him, the pair wisely agree to a proper courtship before rushing into anything.
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King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_4183a3c4
Unwanted Spouse / int_41c887f7	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_41c887f7	comment	The entire setting of The Truman Show is scripted save for Truman himself; this includes actors being cast in roles within his life. One such character is the woman plotted to become his wife, but Truman ends up genuinely in love with an extra. Everything about the situation screamed it wouldn't work out, but the marriage happened anyway; Truman married because the extra (Sylvia playing Lauren) got forcibly removed from the show, leaving him with unresolved longing, and the new cast member (Hannah playing Meryl) married to collect the paycheck and fame that came with being Truman's wife, fully aware that he didn't love her and feeling the same for him. Once Truman's paranoia has built too much for her to take, she immediately books it.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_43c93e54	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_43c93e54	comment	Sleepless: Lady Poppy despises her duplicitous, scheming cousin (by marriage) Lord Helder and suspects he's behind a string of attempts on her life, but in the absence of irrefutable evidence of Helder's involvement with the assassins, Poppy is pressured to marry him by the mutual uncle King Surno. As soon as the newlyweds are alone, Helder confirms that he indeed hired the assassins to kill Poppy, but now that they're married, he wants to use her to extort her relationship with Crown Princess Rellen to gain influence over the throne... and then he tries to stab Poppy when she refuses to comply with his plans. Helder gets himself killed by his co-conspirators before he and Poppy have been married a full day.
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Sleepless (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_43c93e54
Unwanted Spouse / int_4617a9f2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_4617a9f2	comment	This was the basis of most of the comedy in Married... with Children, what with Al's dislike of his oversexed wife, Peg.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_469771d2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_469771d2	comment	The Powerpuff Girls has the Mayor's wife. Rarely mentioned and almost never seen, but on the few occasions she does come up it's made abundantly clear that the Mayor doesn't care for her much. He was willing to give her up to a bunch of thugs for them to spare Miss Bellum.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_4a9ecddc	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_4a9ecddc	comment	I, Claudius presents Claudius's marriage to his first wife Urgulanilla as this, with neither being thrilled when they're paired off as a favor to Urgulanilla's grandmother, who's a friend of Claudius's grandmother Livia, and the two women mock them both for their unusual appearances (Claudius is crippled while Urgulanilla is a very tall Brawn Hilda— heck, her name is a feminized form of "Hercules"!). They stay together just long enough to have a child and then pretty much go on to live separate lives. Claudius actually says that there's so little emotion between them that he can't even say they were unhappy, and when he divorces her out of suspicion she was part of a murder plot and because she had a child with a slave she doesn't contest the charge. Claudius in turn goes out of his way to spare the baby by swapping it out with a stillborn child instead of exposing it as is his right as a cuckolded husband, showing he doesn't feel any ill will towards her either. Ironically, of all of Claudius' wives, she's the only one who's never openly cruel or manipulative to him and writes in her will after they're divorced that she knows he's not the idiot everyone thinks he is.
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I, Claudius	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_4a9ecddc
Unwanted Spouse / int_4b238117	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_4b238117	comment	In Sarilho, Ã‚ngela and Estanislau are in a relationship... Except she literally runs away at the first opportunity, leaving Estanislau to become this.
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Sarilho (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_4b238117
Unwanted Spouse / int_4dbaf4d2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_4dbaf4d2	comment	In Maiden Crown, King Valdemar initially sees Princess Sophie as this before they meet. He's required to marry her to consolidate his alliance with her half-brother Knud (his co-ruler over Denmark), but he doesn't care for the betrothal because he's happy in his relationship with Tove, whom he can't marry because of her status as an illegitimate peasant with no titles to her name. He puts off their marriage for three years before sending for her (as she was thirteen when they were betrothed), and he initially has the castle that becomes Gavngaard built as a place for Sophie to live and be out of his way. He changes his mind significantly when he actually marries Sophie and becomes attracted to her, and gives her Gavngaard as a wedding gift with no mention of its original purpose.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_52bfc9f0	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_52bfc9f0	comment	Spinning Silver: Miryem and the Staryk King become this to each other. To the Staryk, Miryem's careless boast demands a challenge and, when she completes the challenge, no less a reward than the King's hand — never mind that they despise each other. They end up Happily Married by their own choice.
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Spinning Silver	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_52bfc9f0
Unwanted Spouse / int_5319ce6c	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_5319ce6c	comment	In Spy X Family, Mission 75 seems to heavily imply that Melinda Desmond considers her husband utterly unwanted. Upon his name being uttered by Damian, her thoughts turn to how much she loves and hates her son, and only referring to Donovan as 'that man'.
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SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5319ce6c
Unwanted Spouse / int_5666e22b	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_5666e22b	comment	In the Deptford Mice trilogy, Audrey agrees to marry Twit solely because doing so will prevent her from being wrongfully hanged as a witch. While she does care for him as a friend, she has no romantic interest in him and soon regrets the marriage because it prevents her from pursuing her true love, Piccadilly.
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Deptford Mice	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5666e22b
Unwanted Spouse / int_58109d11	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_58109d11	comment	In Rizelmine, the main character is the one with an unwanted wife. He is 100% positive that, no matter what she says, he never got married to anyone.
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Rizelmine (Manga)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_58109d11
Unwanted Spouse / int_5999b1ec	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_5999b1ec	comment	Prince Dolph in the Xanth novel Isle of View has two fiancÃ©es. He is under an obligation to marry them, but he can't marry both, and the one he wants to marry isn't in love with him. The girl he doesn't love will die if he doesn't marry her. Fortunately, Dolph and his fiancÃ©es are underage, so there's time to sort the mess out.
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Xanth	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5999b1ec
Unwanted Spouse / int_5c135763	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_5c135763	comment	On Revenge, Daniel ultimately only married Emily because he thought she was pregnant. When he learned she wasn't, he shot her. She survived that and was able to use that to blackmail him to stay in the marriage until she decided she wanted it to end; she had only married him so she could frame his mother for her murder.
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Revenge	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5c135763
Unwanted Spouse / int_5db577ba	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_5db577ba	comment	Played with in The Dark Knight fanfiction Question of Honor where Bruce marries a friend to get her out of her wartorn homeland. They only plan to stay together long enough for her to earn a right to stay in the States and then get the marriage annulled. As he's still Batman, he doesn't have much to do with her at first until they do manage to fall in love.
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The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5db577ba
Unwanted Spouse / int_5e3f9611	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_5e3f9611	comment	On The Handmaid's Tale, Eden is this to Nick when they are forced into a Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage. This is partly because she's only 15 years old (while Nick is a grown man) and partly because he is in love with Offred/June. His disinterest in her is so obvious that Eden wonders to Offred if he's a "gender traitor". Eden eventually looks for love elsewhere, and runs off with Isaac, only to be executed for adultery. Only at that point does Nick express regret for his neglect of her.
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The Handmaid's Tale	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5e3f9611
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Unwanted Spouse / int_5eee9172	comment	In The Crowner John Mysteries, the marriage between John and Matilda is a bitter and loveless one. It was a political marriage arranged by their parents that neither really wanted. John deals with it by being away from home as much as possible, first by going soldiering in Europe and then joining the Crusade, and later by spending as much time out in the field doing his job as coroner as he can, and by taking mistresses. Matilda focuses her energy and ambition on relentless social climbing.
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The Crowner John Mysteries	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5eee9172
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Unwanted Spouse / int_5f76d763	comment	In Nexus The entire focal point of Jack's and Knock Outâ€™s bond was that it was an accident. Jack even tries to figure out a way to break it without killing himself.
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Nexus (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_5f76d763
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Unwanted Spouse / int_60430ff4	comment	In The Emigrants this trope is the reason why Jonas Petter emigrates to America.
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The Emigrants	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_60430ff4
Unwanted Spouse / int_60591ca8	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_60591ca8	comment	In My Magical Divorce Bureau, this is the basis of each case you deal with (as the game's title would suggest). Here, the marriages were never voluntary to start with, so dissolving them is a fairly simple matter. If you say the right things, however, you can try to steer the couples towards being Amicable Exes (and possibly even to trying to get to know each other properly, which they didn't the first time).
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My Magical Divorce Bureau (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_60591ca8
Unwanted Spouse / int_627b3897	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_627b3897	comment	In Everybody Loves Raymond, Frank and Marie make you wonder if they ever even LIKED each other. The funny thing is, they still do. They just "made room" for hate in their relationship and, in fact, were separated for a time. Basil and Sybil of Fawlty Towers raise similar questions.
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Everybody Loves Raymond	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_627b3897
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Unwanted Spouse / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: High Lords' Arranged Marriages often produce these. Plot significant examples are Gaius Caria, the ignored and unwanted wife of the First Lord, who murders him to be free of him; and Antillus Dorotea the downright despised wife of High Lord Antillus, who often tries to kill her stepson and doesn't mind the collateral damage to her own son.
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Codex Alera	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_630755ab
Unwanted Spouse / int_64dc9897	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_64dc9897	comment	Poor Anne of Cleves on The Tudors. It's still not entirely clear what she did wrong that Henry took such a dislike to her, although most explanations hold that it was a portrait that Henry agreed to marry, and the real thing turned out to be uglier than the portrait. In Real Life, while Henry may not have liked the look of her and did divorce her, she was arguably the best off of all his wives; he called her his beloved sister, loved her truly (brotherly love, not romantic), invited her regularly to the palace, and swapped cooks with her. They were dear friends for life. Considering the fates of Henry's other wives, Anne arguably got the best deal.
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The Tudors	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_64dc9897
Unwanted Spouse / int_696b75c2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_696b75c2	comment	A Brother's Price has Jerin as the sort of unwanted husband to Trini. She only agreed to marry him to prevent him from getting married into a family she is convinced is evil. His sweet personality eventually convinces her that he was a good choice for a husband, after all.
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A Brother's Price	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_696b75c2
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Unwanted Spouse / int_6af809ab	comment	Arc Corp: How Jaune's parents got together. Juniper was enamored with Nicholas, who couldn't care less about romance in general, much less a relationship with her. The only reason they got married was because Juniper was able to frame it as a business deal, pointing out that any children they had could be born and raised to follow the ARC Corp mindset. They ended up having eight children, just in case some died on the job.
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Arc Corp (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6af809ab
Unwanted Spouse / int_6bcd58c7	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Ava Lord in Sin City starts off hating her mafia-tied husband and begs Dwight to do something about it. He does but it turns out to be a setup for Ava to inherit her husband's estate.
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Sin City (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6bcd58c7
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Unwanted Spouse / int_6bf150d5	comment	Played with in Vow of Nudity; Ayrwyn (a slave of the Genasi Empire) clearly didn't love Petrichor and only married him for her freedom. But by the time Haara reunites with her, she's suffering so badly from Stockholm Syndrome that she's enthusiastically participating in his schemes and can't fathom being anything but his loyal wife.
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Vow of Nudity (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6bf150d5
Unwanted Spouse / int_6c1d09b2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_6c1d09b2	comment	In Fallout 2, you can get a shotgun wedding. Your spouse is useless except as a very frail meat shield.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_6c1d09b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Fallout 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6c1d09b2
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Unwanted Spouse / int_6ca7ec42	comment	Abusive, controlling, big baby of a husband Earl in Waitress. The whole movie is about the protagonist trying to get away from him. She does by the end.
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Waitress	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6ca7ec42
Unwanted Spouse / int_6d01949d	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_6d01949d	comment	Tess on Roswell.
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Roswell	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6d01949d
Unwanted Spouse / int_6ed7a5ec	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_6ed7a5ec	comment	Game of Thrones universe: Game of Thrones : Robert has never loved Cersei and has no problem saying it to her face. It's to the point where it's a bitter joke for the both of them when Cersei quips that their loveless marriage is the only thing holding the kingdoms together. Like Robert, Stannis is unhappily married for political reasons. (As he returns to his keep after burning the idols of the Seven, Stannis nearly forgets his wife Selyse and then ends up walking off without her anyway. He is never seen with her again in Season 2.) Melisandre claims this while seducing Stannis and he doesn't dispute it, but it's ultimately subverted. When Selyse appears again, Stannis is quite guilty about having had sex with Melisandre. However, she's seemingly fine with it. In the books, arranged marriages are very common among the high nobility of the Seven Kingdoms, usually made as politically motivated decisions to secure marriage alliances. Even Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully were in an arranged marriage, though they later grew to love each other. Stannis's marriage to Selyse was also arranged, per the course. Stannis doesn't really seem to "love" Selyse, but his firm sense of duty means that he wants to behave as a devoted husband, unlike his whore-mongering older brother Robert. In House of the Dragon, Daemon Targaryen is not happy in his marriage to Lady Rhea Royce, whom he derogatorily calls his "bronze bitch". They're as divorced as they can be in a society that doesn't allow divorce. They haven't seen each other in years—she lives in the Vale while he lives elsewhere. He frequents brothels, keeps a long-term mistress named Mysaria, fancies his niece Rhaenyra, and overall conducts his life as if he were not married. The only thing that his marriage stops him from doing is marrying someone else. He tries to get around that by taking a second wife while Rhea still lives and calling it polygamy. After that idea is shot down twice, he resorts to Divorce Requires Death and murdering Rhea. She only appears once in the series and seems equally contemptuous of him when he appears unexpectedly.
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A Song of Ice and Fire (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6ed7a5ec
Unwanted Spouse / int_6f7cfb8d	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_6f7cfb8d	comment	In the novel The Princess Bride (rather than the movie), Prince Humperdinck is marrying Buttercup purely because he's going to be king and he'll "have to." In both the book and the movie, he's looking quite forward to killing her on their wedding night. Give him credit. In the book, he intended to marry the princess of Guilder, but she turned out to be bald.
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The Princess Bride	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_6f7cfb8d
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Unwanted Spouse / int_70a44e8	comment	The Glamorous Imperial Concubine: Xiang Yun for Lian Cheng. He wanted to marry her cousin Fu Ya, but he was forced to marry Xiang Yun instead. Later Lian Cheng becomes an Unwanted Spouse for Fu Ya when he forces her to marry him even though she's in love with Qi You. Du Wan for Qi Xing. She sleeps with him when he's drunk so he'll be forced to marry her. Lian Si for Qi You. He loves Fu Ya, but he's forced to marry Lian Si.
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The Glamorous Imperial Concubine	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_70a44e8
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Unwanted Spouse / int_72262aee	comment	It is revealed in the comic tie-in The Search for Avatar: The Last Airbender that Ursa was pretty much kidnapped to be Ozai's wife.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_72262aee
Unwanted Spouse / int_742d029d	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_742d029d	comment	Used for laughs in Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts. Shouko repeatedly tells her former Only Friend Yuuji that she wants to marry him, and tries forcing him to sign marriage papers, and threatens to kill/hurt him if he refuses. She often goes into Yandere/Clingy Jealous Girl mode if other girls are around him, or she feels he's getting a little too friendly with male friends.
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_742d029d
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Unwanted Spouse / int_75c31694	comment	In The A-Team episode "Till Death Do Us Part", to keep an heiress' crooked fiance from getting his hands on her money (the reason he wanted to marry her), Hannibal has Face marry her instead. Face drags his feet the whole way. However, it's not so much objection to Jackie in particular (he does give hints of wanting to date her) as it is the fact that he has major commitment issues.
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The A-Team	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_75c31694
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Unwanted Spouse / int_78e27fa7	comment	King Desmond of Bern in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade viewed his wife Hellene as this, and it extended to their son Zephiel. He clearly favored his (unseen) mistress and their daughter Guinivere, openly having them in the palace while Hellene and Zephiel had to stay at the royal manor.
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_78e27fa7
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Unwanted Spouse / int_7c406cf7	comment	Broken Blade: King Hodr to Sigy. Unlike most examples, Sigyn doesn't hate her husband but marries in order to make his best friend Rygart, the one she actually loves, to do something about it. She tried to love her husband at one point but failed to. Hodr, despite clearly being in love with her, knows full well she thinks of him as nothing more than a friend, which is what helps him agree to a divorce.
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Broken Blade (Manga)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_7c406cf7
Unwanted Spouse / int_82212fb0	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_82212fb0	comment	In the Mrs. Hawking play series: Colonel Hawking, to his wife Victoria Hawking, the series protagonist. In this case it's because Victoria is both asexual and aromantic and because she was forced into the marriage.
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Mrs. Hawking (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_82212fb0
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Unwanted Spouse / int_8502065b	comment	Moonlight Becomes You: Dr. William Lane secretly detests his wife Odile. Any affection he felt for her has long since faded and just about everything she does and says irritates him beyond belief. He only sticks with her out of grudging gratitude, as she got him the position of director of Latham Manor even after he lost his previous job due to his drinking. After learning that she's set him up to take the blame for the Latham Manor murders, he resolves not to spend one more day with her. Malcolm Norton hates his wife Janice (trust us, the feeling is more than mutual) and has fallen in love with his secretary Barbara. He wants to leave Janice and start a new life with Barbara, but he wants to buy Nuala's house first so he has enough money to set himself up after he ditches Janice. Nuala leaving her house to her newly-rediscovered stepdaughter and her subsequent murder complicates things immensely.
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Moonlight Becomes You	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_8502065b
Unwanted Spouse / int_880e128d	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_880e128d	comment	An unmarried variant in Life in Pieces. Colleen and her ex-fiance bought a house together but the relationship fell apart and neither of them can afford to buy the other out so they're stuck living together until they can figure out a solution.
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Life in Pieces	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_880e128d
Unwanted Spouse / int_8d75a87	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_8d75a87	comment	From Beyond the Grave: In "An Act of Kindness", Christopher and his wife Mabel are trapped in a desperately unhappy marriage. She nags and belittles him every chance she gets, while he's a classic Henpecked Husband who responds passive-aggressively or with tantrums. From the few clues dropped, it appears to have been a Wartime Wedding that did not work out as either of them expected, but divorce in middle-class '60s/'70s Britain would have been social death.
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From Beyond the Grave	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_8d75a87
Unwanted Spouse / int_8d817ccb	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_8d817ccb	comment	Jack Shepherd of Lost started off being wanted, but his lack of focus, constantly needing to "fix something" resulted in his wife leaving him for another man that sent him spiraling out of control, to the point he accused his own father of being the "other man".
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Lost	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_8d817ccb
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Unwanted Spouse / int_915b480c	comment	In The Caesars, Emperor Caligula makes his lame, stammering, unattractive uncle Claudius the unwanted husband of his attractive cousin Messalina. Claudius is thrilled at the prospect; Messalina, decidedly less so.
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The Caesars	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_915b480c
Unwanted Spouse / int_93fe76e2	type	Unwanted Spouse
Unwanted Spouse / int_93fe76e2	comment	Anne of the Thousand Days: Henry VIII wants to ditch Katharine to marry Anne. Then Anne herself becomes this and it ends badly for her.
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Anne of the Thousand Days (Theatre)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_93fe76e2
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Unwanted Spouse / int_95e64b13	comment	In Scarlet Heart, Ruo Lan really never wanted Yin Si as her husband because he was indirectly involved with killing her lover. That incident forced her to be stuck in a loveless marraige with a man she despised for years. This is until she's about to die from her terminal illness. She makes Yin Si divorce her because she is terrfied of the idea of being forced to only see Yin Si instead of Qing Shan in the afterlife. Once she got the divorce letter from him, she dies.
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Scarlet Heart	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_95e64b13
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Unwanted Spouse / int_98744614	comment	Brave: Princess Merida has three potential unwanted fiancÃ©s: Young McGuffin, Young McIntosh and Young Dingwall. Being a mix of Rebellious Princess and Celibate Heroine, she isn't thrilled at the idea of having to marry either of them. It's implied that the three boys thought the same: they didn't hate Merida, but none of them wanted to be in an Arranged Marriage with her either...
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Brave	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_98744614
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Unwanted Spouse / int_98c961e2	comment	Stolas and Stella in Helluva Boss are strongly implied to have never loved each other, to begin with, and only married out of obligation than feelings for each other. Though he does suggest that he did at least try to make it work, ultimately the only good thing that he feels came out of their relationship is their daughter Octavia.
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Helluva Boss (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_98c961e2
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Unwanted Spouse / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: Marva Psycho is not in love with her husband Dr. Psycho, but her first attempt to leave him only makes things worse with him treating her like a slave and brainwashing her by using his powers once he's out of prison.
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Wonder Woman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_996edf24
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Unwanted Spouse / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time", Spock and T'Pring are essentially this for each other, due to an Arranged Marriage. Spock is only going through with the marriage because he'll die if he doesn't, and T'Pring is involved with another man and would much rather marry him instead. Her efforts to avoid marrying Spock very nearly lead to Kirk's death.
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Star Trek: The Original Series	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_9a7088bc
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Unwanted Spouse / int_9c4d2a64	comment	In Princess Returning Pearl, in order to save the life of the brother of his One True Love Xiao Yan Zi, Yong Qi is forced to agree to an Arranged Marriage to Zhi Hua.
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Princess Returning Pearl	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_9c4d2a64
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Unwanted Spouse / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A couple of unwanted marriages are in A Song of Ice and Fire: Cersei Lannister and Robert Baratheon, who would have both preferred to marry people who were by that point dead (Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, respectively) but Cersei at least tried to make it work until Robert mistakenly called her Lyanna on their wedding night. They both cheated on each other a lot, had their children with someone else, and Cersei had a hand in Robert's death. In A Storm of Swords, Sansa Stark is made to marry Tyrion Lannister. Neither want it, although Tyrion is willing to try and make it work while Sansa just retreats behind her Stepford Smiler mask. Visenya Targaryen was this to her brother/husband Aegon I, who was in an Arranged Marriage with her per Valyrian custom, but he later chose to voluntarily wed their other sister Rhaenys and was said to have spent ten nights with Rhaenys for every one with Visenya, making it obvious to anyone who his favorite was. It was even rumored that Visenya was appointed to supervise the Red Keep's construction so Aegon wouldn't have to suffer her presence. In the backstory, Aerys and Rhaella Targaryen were also this in addition to being brother and sister forced to marry to keep their bloodline pure. They both would have vastly preferred to marry Joanna Lannister (the wife of Aerys's hand Tywin, whom he coveted) and Bonifer Hasty, respectively, and they resented the arrangement since their own father and grandfather had instead been able to Marry for Love. While there was no love lost between them on their wedding day, the birth of Rhaegar seems to have improved it somewhat, but then Aerys went insane and pushed it into Domestic Abuse territory, and Jaime Lannister recounts how Aerys would viciously rape her after he had burned someone and poor Rhaella looked like she'd been savaged by an animal afterwards. While the relationship was by all accounts far better than his parents', Rhaegar himself is hinted to have felt this way about his wife Elia Martell, who was similarly betrothed to him. Daenerys thinks it says a lot when Barristan Selmy says Rhaegar was only "fond" of her. If so, it might help explain why Rhaegar took such an uncharacteristically reckless action as allegedly kidnapping Lyanna Stark while still married to Elia and in the process kickstarted the civil war that ultimately brought down the dynasty. Lysa Tully vastly preferred Petyr Baelish, a lowborn who grew up with her, over Jon Arryn, the head of a fellow Great House who was old enough to be her grandfather and was betrothed to her solely to maintain the Riverlands-Vale alliance on the eve of Robert's rebellion. The hatred towards her match festered deep enough that she happily agreed to assassinate Jon, thus sparking the War of the Five Kings, all so she could live out her dream of becoming Littlefinger's wife. In A Storm of Swords, Lysa insists on wedding Littlefinger as soon as he escapes from King's Landing and arrives at the Eyrie. He is incredibly uncomfortable about the whole thing, particularly since he does not love her and never will, having set his sights on her niece Sansa, and he eventually kills her when she threatens Sansa's life. Daemon Targaryen referred to his first wife, Rhea Royce, as the "Bronze Bitch", which should explain what he felt about their arranged marriage. His later marriages to Laena Velaryon and Rhaenyra Targaryen, by contrast, were much more pleasant.
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A Song of Ice and Fire	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_9d47a2a2
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a06328d	comment	All Night Long: Emily tells a depressing story about how Johnny stumbled into a marriage with her when he was drunk, and had to stay married to her because she was underage and it was either stay married or go to prison. Despite knowing he doesn't even like her, and being a Lady Drunk / Broken Bird because of this, she loves him anyway. At the end when she says so, he tells her to get lost, that he can't love anybody, not even himself.
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All Night Long	hasFeature	Unwanted Spouse / int_a06328d
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a144cb39	comment	In Moral Orel (pictured above), Clay and Bloberta Puppington are in a completely loveless marriage that is explored in the third season. In the episode that explains the circumstances of them getting married, it's shown that Bloberta was desperate to be with someone and ended up with Clay after driving him to alcoholism by justifying to herself that he would need someone to help him. They were miserable before they said their wedding vows. They cannot get divorced due to the hyper-Conservative environment of Moralton and in the epilogue, it's hinted that they grow old and miserable together.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a33d74a4	comment	In the Sword of Truth book, Temple of the Winds, Nadine spends most of the story as a Clingy Jealous Girl, only to become an Unwanted Spouse near the end. And then there's Du Chaillu, who declares herself to be Richard's wife in the second book (part of a Prophecy) and follows him around in the fifth book.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: How's this for an example? You get a guy named Jacob who is working for his uncle Laban. (You probably see where this is going, don't you?) He notices his daughter Rachel, who is quite beautiful... enough so for Jacob to offer to work seven years for Laban in order to marry Rachel (It Makes Sense in Context). He does the work, gets married, and learns (after the fact) that he just got hitched to Rachel's decidedly less attractive sister, Leah. And then he works seven more years to get Rachel.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a68c19b8	comment	In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, Victor and Cigyun of Velthomer were this to each other, since Victor was by all accounts a nasty piece of work and cheated on her repeatedly, not to mention raping her favorite maid in a drunken stupor, so it's no wonder that Sigyun ended up having an affair with Prince Kurth which produced Deirdre.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	In samurai RPG Legend of the Five Rings, this is a disadvantage that characters can take. Considering that wives are in charge of the man's finances, this can be especially painful for male PCs, while the male domination of most marriages makes it physically painful for many wives. It's not a nice setting sometimes.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_a825da3e	comment	From Magic: The Gathering there's Kayla who became Urza's wife after he won her hand in marriage by winning a contest of strength with an automaton he built. He was more interested in the relics in her father's vault than her.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	Oglaf: "Bishop of the Love God" has a royal couple ask a priest to cast a spell to make them fall in love with each other due to their Arranged Marriage. The priest points out they hate each other for legitimate reasons, so making them fall in love would only exacerbate those problems. He's then distracted by said god appearing and having sex with him, but the last panel of dead soldiers proves the priest right.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_aafada7a	comment	Cries and Whispers: Karin hates her husband, a cold and cynical man much older than herself. It gets to the point where she cuts her own groin to avoid sex with him.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_af3c88ad	comment	The Cormoran Strike Novels: With great reluctance, Robin marries Matthew at the end of Career of Evil but finds absolutely no joy in the marriage. She finally finds it in her to dump him towards the end of Lethal White after about a year of marriage after discovering that he is again cheating on her with Sarah Shadlock.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_afaa1b42	comment	In A Storm of Swords, Sansa Stark is made to marry Tyrion Lannister. Neither want it, although Tyrion is willing to try and make it work while Sansa just retreats behind her Stepford Smiler mask.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Henpecked Hou of Jade Empire only stays married to his wife because he's terrified of her. She's pretty much ruined his life. The Open Palm ending reveals that he manages to take a job as a deliveryman in a faraway city and leave her.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_b1c94339	comment	In the Horatio Hornblower series, the main character marries Maria, a girl he considers a bit silly and overly emotional, out of guilt because he can't bear to hurt her feelings by turning down her largely unwanted affections. He spends as much time at sea avoiding her as possible and sets himself up for misery at home by never once correcting her on any of her habits that annoy him, such as calling him "Horry" or cooking food he doesn't like.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones : Robert has never loved Cersei and has no problem saying it to her face. It's to the point where it's a bitter joke for the both of them when Cersei quips that their loveless marriage is the only thing holding the kingdoms together. Like Robert, Stannis is unhappily married for political reasons. (As he returns to his keep after burning the idols of the Seven, Stannis nearly forgets his wife Selyse and then ends up walking off without her anyway. He is never seen with her again in Season 2.) Melisandre claims this while seducing Stannis and he doesn't dispute it, but it's ultimately subverted. When Selyse appears again, Stannis is quite guilty about having had sex with Melisandre. However, she's seemingly fine with it. In the books, arranged marriages are very common among the high nobility of the Seven Kingdoms, usually made as politically motivated decisions to secure marriage alliances. Even Eddard Stark and Catelyn Tully were in an arranged marriage, though they later grew to love each other. Stannis's marriage to Selyse was also arranged, per the course. Stannis doesn't really seem to "love" Selyse, but his firm sense of duty means that he wants to behave as a devoted husband, unlike his whore-mongering older brother Robert.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_b96564e6	comment	Basil and Sybil of Fawlty Towers raise similar questions.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_bce8560e	comment	Played for laughs during a series of skits on In Living Color!, where an elderly couple pretend to be the standard for lasting marriage, but behind close doors throw insults and try to kill each other. The skit ends with someone walking in on them and mistaking what they see as an elderly couple nearly having sex, instead of witnessing attempted murder.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_c02ce5b4	comment	In House of the Dragon, Daemon Targaryen is not happy in his marriage to Lady Rhea Royce, whom he derogatorily calls his "bronze bitch". They're as divorced as they can be in a society that doesn't allow divorce. They haven't seen each other in years—she lives in the Vale while he lives elsewhere. He frequents brothels, keeps a long-term mistress named Mysaria, fancies his niece Rhaenyra, and overall conducts his life as if he were not married. The only thing that his marriage stops him from doing is marrying someone else. He tries to get around that by taking a second wife while Rhea still lives and calling it polygamy. After that idea is shot down twice, he resorts to Divorce Requires Death and murdering Rhea. She only appears once in the series and seems equally contemptuous of him when he appears unexpectedly.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, Seymour asks Yuna to marry him. She agrees to it, but only to get close enough to confront him about murdering his father. Later in the game, he forces her to marry him while the rest of the party are held at gunpoint watching. Even stranger and squickier is the fact that said wedding and Seymour's planting of a Forceful Kiss takes place while he is technically dead; Yuna's reaction is to angrily wiping her mouth with her sleeve.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_c59abec0	comment	Isabelle of France, mentioned above under Braveheart, was not averse to becoming queen of England but with another king. Edward II basically ignored and humiliated her during their marriage, and he possibly/allegedly cheated on her with his squires and other (male) "friends". There are various theories that she may have murdered him, possibly in retaliation for this, though the popular story that the method of assassination was being buggered to death with a red hot poker has no basis in contemporary accounts.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_cc2a7289	comment	Charlie is this to Stella in The League of Gentlemen. Although he has grown to despise her too, the extent of her hatred (and verbal abuse) is much greater. While he still tries to make peace with her (especially in the Christmas special) she sees him as little more than a burden and never misses an opportunity to say so.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_cecf4edb	comment	Wyatt Earp's laudanum-addicted wife in Tombstone is another heroic example.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_cffa1bda	comment	Hunding in Wagner's Ring cycle (Die WalkÃ¼re), whom Sieglinde had to marry against her will. She drugs him to facilitate her incestuous love for her brother Siegmund.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_d747b558	comment	Carry On Henry posits that King Henry VIII (Sid James) had another wife, Queen Marie (Joan Sims), a garlic-loving wife he alternately wanted and unwanted as the political climate changed around him.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_d8534d26	comment	Sarima and Fiyero in Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. This one works both ways. They were promised to each other as children without even meeting each other, so she doesn't really want Fiyero either.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_dd3fe595	comment	Lillian Rearden in Atlas Shrugged.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: Regina married Leopold because her mother basically forced her to. After the marriage, it wasn't long before Regina manipulated someone into killing him. The Dark Curse brought Charming and Abigail, who had previously called off an engagement because both loved other people, together as David and Kathryn Nolan. When the Curse started breaking, David found himself drawn to his real wife, and Kathryn eventually realized she wasn't happy in the marriage either; after the Curse completely broke, their marriage was never brought up again.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_dfd1d70	comment	Cyber Joly Drim starts with the protagonist avoiding sex with her husband. Odd in that they married for love—she simply never expected him to become such a bore afterwards.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, a major plot arc begins with a dissolute husband seeking his runaway libertine wife. It's quickly apparent that they mutually don't want each other.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_e7e37776	comment	Saffron of Firefly is one of the rare women unwanted by a protagonist, due to the protagonist not knowing about the wedding customs of the planet they were on and her stowing away on the ship. Mal Reynolds spends most of the episode desperately trying to unload her (Justified, however, when she turns out to be a villainous con artist that married him in order to steal his ship.).
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Unwanted Spouse / int_e8d13e52	comment	Urusei Yatsura, another series by Rumiko Takahashi, centers on a young man who accidentally marries an alien princess. He wants someone else. Anyone else. (Except when he doesn't.)
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Unwanted Spouse / int_ea00100f	comment	Ragyou is this to her husband in Kiryuuin Chronicles and vice versa for a good reason, considering that A) he's abusive and B) due to being pregnant (by someone else) with her daughter, Satsuki, she was forced into this marriage by her family, and it was either that or be disowned.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_ea4f62db	comment	In one episode of Family Guy, Quagmire gets drunk and accidentally marries an elderly hooker. He can't divorce her because legally he could lose his home to her. Of course, in the end, the hooker consents to divorce when she realizes that Quagmire isn't happy with her. In "Married...With Cancer", Brian enters a relationship with a woman dying from cancer named Jess and eventually decides to marry her so that she won't die alone. Then immediately after the wedding, her cancer miraculously goes into remission and Brian is stuck having to deal with her obnoxiously happy personality all the time, made worse when she lets herself go (due to her celebrating that her digestive system is working again by overeating) and becomes a constantly farting Fat Slob. And since Brian had previously paraded around on TV, telling everyone how much he loves her, he can't divorce her without looking like he only dated her for the attention. In the next episode, "Dead Dog Walking", Peter convinces Brian that married life isn't all bad, but he instead adopts self-destructive behavior by way of massive weight gain, resulting in him dislocating his hip. Rather than take him to a vet for surgery, Jess has him scheduled to be put down instead. After Peter saves him, they both believe that they may be truly meant for each other since they both wished each other dead.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_eaeeea9b	comment	Matt Horner of StarCraft II accidentally got married to Mira Han after winning a poker game (he didn't know she was the stake). When Raynor meets her via videoscreen, Matt hides out of sight making very energetic "I'm not here!" gestures. For her part, Mira seems very fond of Matt; of course, it's not entirely clear if this is genuine affection or if she just enjoys screwing with him. Considering that she kissed him while he was high on painkillers in the novel Flashpoint, it's implied that her affections are genuine.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_edcefc41	comment	In the almost legendary Czech TV series Arabela, princess Xenia is this for prince Vilibald. Although in love with Sleeping Beauty, the prince was pressured by Xenia into marrying her because she is the king's daughter, and appears to have genuinely tried to get along with her, but her personality and behavior made that impossible. They end up hating and despising each other.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_f5799bd9	comment	In The Critic, Jay was an unwanted spouse of his ex-wife Ardeth. She even admitted to his face about regretting marrying him during their wedding day.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_f655ed11	comment	Maris on Frasier eventually turns into this before the divorce storyline. She's so horrible that all of the other characters dislike her and are vocal about it, but her husband Niles (despite his crush on Daphne) genuinely loves her before he's made to realize just how badly she treats him.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Discussed in the Friends episodes "The One with the Lesbian Wedding," and "The One with the Two Parties." Rachel's mom comes to visit in the first episode and casually announces that she and her husband are getting a divorce. When Rachel calls her out on being so casual about it, her mom responds that she knew she didn't love her husband when Rachel left Barry at the altar and that she (Rachel's mom) married her own "Barry." In the second episode, the gang sets up two birthday parties for Rachel to keep her parents away from one another, since the divorce was recently finalized. When she goes back and forth between the parties, all her parents do is voice their frustration on how they stayed married to someone they didn't love for such a long time.
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Unwanted Spouse / int_f74b5f80	comment	Londo Mollari of Babylon 5 is married to 3 women (via Arranged Marriage). Londo makes jokes about how his work on Babylon 5 keeps him away from his wives is a good thing. He is granted a divorce by the Emperor—two divorces, actually—and two constantly fawn on him to ensure that they won't get the metaphorical axe. They also plot to kill him. His first wife, Timov, doesn't participate in the scheming and is openly hostile—and in the end, Londo chooses to keep her, as he prefers her open hostility to their cloying faked affection. Also, she didn't try to kill him (in fact, she saved his life, but she never tells him that).
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Unwanted Spouse / int_fdd5c1d6	comment	In Margin for Error, Sophie despises her husband and is desperate for him to grant her a divorce. Her husband's threats to turn her and her father over to Nazi authorities for execution are what keeps her from running away from him with her lover, Denny.
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Black Dagger Brotherhood / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Book of Genesis / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Codex Alera / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Endo and Kobayashi Live! / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Evensong / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Hollow Kingdom Trilogy / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Horatio Hornblower / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
I, Claudius / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Kings and Assassins / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Lethal White / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Lowlands of Scotland Series / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Mara, Daughter of the Nile / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Masters of Rome / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Mommy Sleeps in the Basement / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Moonlight Becomes You / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
October Daye / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Pavilion of Women / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Redwall / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Spectral Shadows / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Spinning Silver / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Cousins' War Series / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Crowner John Mysteries / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Death Of Ivan Ilyich / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Emigrants / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Goblin Emperor / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Iliad / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Other Boleyn Girl / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Overstory / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
This Sunday / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Twelve Houses / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
MaraDaughterOfTheNile	seeAlso	Unwanted Spouse
MaryTudor	seeAlso	Unwanted Spouse
TwelveHouses	seeAlso	Unwanted Spouse
WhyAreTheyMarriedAtAll	seeAlso	Unwanted Spouse
Chinpui (Manga) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Dawn of the Arcana (Manga) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Sakura Gari (Manga) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Chess (1984) (Music) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Arabela / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Da Ali G Show / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Deceptions / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Ekaterina / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
El corazón nunca se equivoca / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Horrible Histories / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
House of the Dragon / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Life in Pieces / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Melrose Place / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Princess Returning Pearl / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Robin Hood / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Scandal / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Scandal (2012) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Borgias / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Caesars / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Curse (2023) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Magnificent Seven (1998) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Tyrant (2014) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
William of Orange / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Mrs. Hawking (Theatre) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Six: The Musical (Theatre) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Crusader Kings (Video Game) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Funbag Fantasy (Visual Novel) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
A Killer Party (Web Video) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
U Realms Live (Web Video) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Sarilho (Webcomic) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Webcomic) / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
The Critic / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse

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