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You Have Waited Long Enough
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Your true love promised I Will Wait for You, but you've just heard she's getting married! Is she really that fickle? No, not really. It's just that she's not allowed not to marry. She may have held out as long as she could and just been forced — or at least coerced — into marriage. They may have told her "You Have Waited Long Enough" — if, indeed, they were even aware that she had promised to wait. Good thing that you can show up in time for the wedding, isn't it? This can be the wedding itself, or even the wedding feast, for maximum drama, as long as it is in time to stop the marriage being consummated. Other works may have the true love arrive with as much as several days to spare. Common in situations where Arranged Marriage is the practice. Though wills with deadlines to marry may also come into play, and family situations where pressure to marry is expected. (If the characters are sympathetic, they may believe the love to be dead, or be unaware of the relationship.) Royalty may face considerable pressure from courtiers and others who expect an heir to the throne; a prince or princess may face double pressure from their parents. The heroine may sacrifice herself because her heart is broken, believing the true love to be dead; in that case, the match can be made very quickly after the reported death. In many Fairy Tales, the hero may be magically induced to forget. The false hero may also force the princess to claim that he rescued her until the true hero shows up to protect her. Compare The Mourning After. Contrast Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder, Second Love. Examples |
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In The Feather of Finist the Falcon, the heroine arrives to find Finist marrying the Tsar's daughter. She bribes her way to him three times, but the Tsar's daughter has put an enchanted pin in his hair to keep him asleep; the third time, she touched him and knocked the pin out. | |
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In one of the endings for Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song, Farah's mother attempts to convince her to move on with her life rather than keep waiting for her missing Love Interest, and tries to hook her up with another guy. Farah refuses, and the very last scene implies Jamil survived the final battle after all and will come back for her. | |
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In Erstwhile, the king persuades the prince to an Arranged Marriage on the grounds that it's been seven years. | |
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In "Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf", after the older brothers have murdered Prince Ivan, he nevertheless arrives in time to stop Helena the Beautiful's forced marriage to his brother Vasilii. | |
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In "The Two Brothers", collected by The Brothers Grimm, and "The Three Princes and their Beasts", collected by Andrew Lang, the false hero forces the princess to claim that he saved her and claims the Standard Hero Reward, but the hero arrives at the wedding and saves her. | |
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Inverted in Harry Potter. Harry believes that he will spend the rest of his life fighting Voldemort and Ginny will end up marrying someone else, and he's cool with that. In the end, he defeats Voldemort and he and Ginny wind up married. | |
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In Road Trip, E.L does this on Josh directing him to Beth. | |
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In "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", the heroine's quest to find her husband succeeds because he is able to hold off the troll he is to marry by demanding she wash an enchanted shirt; only the heroine can wash it and claim him. In some versions, the shirt isn't enchanted; the troll bride(s) just literally can't wash things and have them end up cleaner than they started out. The 'dirt' has also been blessed candlewax, which the troll(s) can't remove. |
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The Odyssey has Penelope being pressured to remarry because her husband is taking too long to come back from his sea voyage. She claims that she'll marry once she finishes weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus' father, meanwhile secretly unraveling the work at night. When her deception is discovered, she says she'll marry the guy who can shoot her husband's bow, that only her husband is strong enough to pull back. Of course, Odysseus arrives in time for the ensuing contest (and righteous slaughter of the pretenders). | |
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In "The Blue Mountains", the hero arrives on the wedding day of the heroine and bribes a servant to bring her to him. As soon as she recognizes him, they marry instead of her new bridegroom. | |
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In "Maid Maleen", the titular princess arrives as the prince is marrying his new bride; her father had locked her in a tower for seven years. | |
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In Cast Away, Chuck makes it through his ordeal by believing that his fiancée is waiting for him back home. Heartbreakingly, she had waited for years after everyone else had given up on him. He's still too late though, as it has still been several years since she gave into the pleas of her family and moved on. Her new life includes a loving husband and daughter. | |
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The Icelandic Sagas: Laxdæla Saga and Gunnlaugs Saga Ormstungu both provide examples of this. There may be even more examples. But in both these examples, the Hero does NOT get back in time and the love of his life goes to another man; with predictable results, we are talking Vikings after all... | |
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In the Gargoyles episode "M.I.A.", Griff, a British gargoyle believed killed in the London Blitz, is rescued by Goliath and travels 50 years into the future. (Destiny, Phoenix Gate, long story...) It was strongly hinted that he and Una were in love in the 40s, but by the 1990s, she had taken Leo as her mate (and they appear to be the only two gargoyles left in the city). Griff seems to take it all in stride, but it would explain why he wasn't in any hurry to return to London after his adventure with King Arthur. | |
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In Legend of the Seeker, there is an alternate future episode in which Kahlan marries Darken Rahl because Richard is trapped fifty-eight years in the future, with no other way to return. | |
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Child Ballad Young Beichan: In some variants, on arrival, the heroine finds that the wedding festivities have gone on for thirty days without the hero having consummated the union. In some non-English variants, the hero has been magically forced to forget her. |
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In Final Fantasy VI, the opera that Celes is forced to take part in is about a Princess, Maria, forced to marry the prince of the conquerors of her homeland, for her people's good even though she still pines for her lover, the Knight Draco, who is presumed dead. During a ball, Draco turns up, duels the suitor (who dies claiming he did truly love Maria as well), and then the lovers are reunited. Then the prince and knight are knocked out by the adventurous treasure hunter and the octopus king, who proceed to also duel for princess Maria's hand. And then the princess gets kidnapped by a sky pirate. | |
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In BBC's Robin Hood, Marian has put off getting married for an inordinately long period of time, to the point where the Sheriff can make snarky comments about her being "still a maid" at the grand old age of twenty-one. Robin notes her unmarried status with interest when he returns back from five years fighting in the Holy Land, and even Guy of Gisborne (who coerces a promise of marriage from her) isn't immune to the fact that her singleness is due to the fact that "[she was] once betrothed to Robin Hood". | |
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In The Winter's Tale, the king's courtiers attempt to invoke this in the final acts: because he has no heir and is a widower, it is his duty to remarry. Leontes objects, however, that the oracle foretold that he would live without an heir unless his lost child was found, and so remarriage would not succeed. He is heartily supported by Paulina, who knows his wife is still alive. | |
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In Star Trek: The Original Series, McCoy promised to meet up with Natira, his wife from the generation ship Yonada, when it reached its destination; chronologically, it should've done this shortly after the end of the series. He clearly didn't stay with her from the films, and most Expanded Universe novels say that as High Priestess she was obligated to marry someone else, either before planetfall or because he didn't return. | |
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In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Shu Lien had refused to get into a relationship with Mu Bai, because her fiancé (and also Mu Bai's best friend) had died in battle. Mu Bai also refused to get in a relationship with her, to honour his best friend's memory since he felt guilty for not having been able to help him. However, everyone else, including Jen, had invoked this trope to try to get them together. It's a massive Tear Jerker when they finally acknowledge their feelings... when Mu Bai is dying after being poisoned. They can only share a Last Kiss before he goes. And to make matters worst, in the sequel we learn that Shu Lien's fiancee himself faked his death because he believed Mu Bai and her were a better match. | |
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Discussed in The Dead Zone. Awakening from a coma to find that Sarah, whom he intended to propose to, is now married with a child, Johnny tells her that she's had five years to get used to life without him, but that he woke up "the next day" and his feelings for her haven't had time to adjust yet. | |
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In "Bearskin", the young soldier frees a man from debtors prison, and the man promises the hand of one of his three daughters in gratitude. The two eldest refuse him, disgusted by his appearance, but the third agrees, believing him to be a good man. He promises to return in three years to the day to marry her, or else he will be dead and she will be free to marry whomever she pleases. However, he returns a day late having taken the time to dress himself as a rich and important man, and the family does not recognize him. He again offers to marry one of the man's daughters, the two eldest volunteer, but the youngest refuses, as she has gone into mourning. | |
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Buttercup in The Princess Bride is forced to marry Humperdinck when she thinks Westley is dead. Fortunately, he shows up to rescue her. Twice. | |
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Tales of Dunk and Egg: In "The Sworn Sword" by George R.R. Martin, Lady Rohanne (a.k.a. the Red Widow) will lose her lands if she doesn't remarry by deadline. | |
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John Carter of Mars: In Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess Of Mars, Dejah Thoris agrees to marry another prince, believing John Carter to be dead. He appears and leads an attack on the city to free her — carefully assuring that someone else kills the prince since she would be forbidden to marry the man who killed her fiance. | |
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In Petite Princess Yucie, Gunbard and Queen Ercell loved each other, but could not be wed because Gunbard was her knight and a commoner. He set out to piece together the Eternal Tiara and wish for the ability to marry Ercell; knowing the journey was long and dangerous, she agreed to wait for him. While he was gone Ercell remained faithful and refused any arranged marriages—until her father nearly died. With the queen and her people questioning why she would be so cold as to refuse her father's wishes to marry, Ercell was forced to go through with it. Gunbard finally gathered all the pieces and came home to Ercell and her husband. | |
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The Count of Monte Cristo Mercedes does spend some time waiting for Edmond after he is forcibly imprisoned but she does eventually decide to marry Fernand (his betrayer, unbeknownst to her). When Edmond eventually escapes and makes his fortune, he's very unforgiving of her but eventually concedes that she had little other choice. By that time, however, she has changed her mind on the matter. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: In "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", Sherlock is called in when a bride disappears within hours after the wedding ceremony. He deduces the existence of the true love, tracks down the couple — who had actually been married before, but she believed him dead — and persuades them to come clean to the rejected bridegroom. | |
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