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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Behold the young bride, blissfully happy with her husband (or sometimes not...) until he dies before his time. Now she's single again, but disinterested in romance. Either her former husband was a jerk, and she no longer trusts men, or she loved her husband so deeply that no suitor can compete with his (possibly rose-tinted) memory. But lo! Enter our protagonist, who wins her heart with his patient ways and teaches her to love again. This is of course a romance trope. Can be a way of bringing in an "older woman" love interest. Once she moves on, the old husband will rarely—if ever—be mentioned again. Can face complications when dealing with the False Widow. If it's a Rescue Romance, she's probably also a Determined Widow. See Widow Woman for more widow tropes. A form of Second Love. Compare Comforting the Widow, when the lover starts putting on the moves way too early, and the Black Widow, where she's single and there's a very good reason for that. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Word of warning to all time-travelers: This could result in you becoming your own Grandpa. Often Truth in Television today and especially in past centuries, when shorter lifespans meant that it was common for people to remarry at least once in their lifetimes due to the death of their spouses. To cite just one famous historical example, James Madison hooked up with Dolley Payne Todd this way after her husband died during the yellow-fever epidemic that hit Philadelphia in the mid-1790's. |
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In some of the later Dune books, the long-widowed Lady Jessica Atreides is said to have found love with Gurney Halleck, although given that they have by that time become the rulers of Caledan and Giedi Prime, respectively, their relationship is kept very low-key to avoid scandal. | |
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Gender inverted in The Silmarillion. Indis loved Finwë from afar even before he married. After he visits her when his first wife dies, she openly declares her love for him. | |
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In Too Many Husbands (1940), when Bill was declared Legally Dead after a boating accident, his business partner Henry helped the widow "in a million little ways," leading her to marry him six months later. This causes awkwardness when Bill returns from being shipwrecked on a Deserted Island. | |
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Lucrezia Borgia of Borgia is surprisingly distraught after the death of her husband, Alfonso de Calabria. Lucky, her longtime lover (the other Alfonso) is still around to marry. | |
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Several Looney Tunes cartoons revolved around this plot, usually the result of the would-be suitor discovering that the widow in question had inherited a fortune. "At Your Service, Madame" - A mother sow is almost robbed blind by a con-man... er... pig (patterned after W.C. Fields) posing as a suitor, and her kids team up trying to stop him. "Hare Trimmed" - Yosemite Sam attempts to woo Granny (called Emma in this cartoon) after discovering she inherited 50 million dollars. Bugs Bunny overhears about the plot, and poses as another suitor in an attempt to keep Granny from being conned. "Honey's Money" - Yosemite Sam (in his only solo cartoon) marries a wealthy widow, but quickly becomes a Henpecked Husband, and to make matters worse, has to put up with his new big-as-a-house stepson, leaving him to wonder if the money's even worth it. He ultimately decides "yes". |
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Alec wants to marry Julie, a young widow, in the film In Name Only. They both fall deeply in love, but the only problem is that his current wife, Maida, won't give him a divorce. | |
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A gender-inverted version is the optional bachelor Jin from Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility and Harvest Moon: Animal Parade. He is the first love interest who was in a previous marriage and ended up a widow/widower. | |
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The Merry Widow is about a baron from the same small country as the title character trying to get her to marry a fellow countryman and not a Frenchman, so that her husband's money doesn't leave the country. They choose her old flame Count Danilo for the job, and Slap-Slap-Kiss ensues. | |
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In the second season of Tyrant, Molly, having been led to believe that her husband Bassam Al-Fayeed has been executed, pursues a short-lived affair with Sammy's lawyer. | |
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Karina from Tiger & Bunny, who has a crush on the widowed lead male Kotetsu, despite him being around twice her age. The scene is from the Grand Finale. | |
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Carth Onasi in Knights of the Old Republic | |
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Dream Daddy: The Main Character that can date any of the dads has lost his previous partner a while before the events of the series. Robert had a wife, but she died in a car accident. He is a romantic option for you to date. Another romantic option, Mat, also had a wife who passed away before she even saw the coffee shop they opened. |
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Monsterkind: A same-sex example. Wallace starts to develop a crush on Ben, his landlord who is still grieving his past love interest. Chapter 4 implies this to not be really one sided anymore, as they Almost Kiss. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: Miles Vorkosigan's love interest Ekaterin is widowed in Komarr, freeing her up for Miles' courtship in A Civil Campaign. Given the five-to-four male/female ratio on Barrayar, however, he quickly finds that he is not her only suitor. And given the unstable and classified circumstances under which the husband died, Miles finds himself slandered of creating a widow for himself... In Barrayar, Count Vidal Vordarian had been courting the recently widowed Princess Kareen as part of his scheme to become Regent for Life for her four year old son Gregor. Emperor Ezar saw through him and arranged for his grandson's regency to be assigned to Lord Aral Vorkosigan instead. |
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In Miracle on 34th Street she's a divorcee, not a widow, but it's the same principle. | |
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The trope is genderflipped in Fire Emblem Fates if a Female Avatar successfully romances Gunther, a man whose wife and child perished alongside his Doomed Hometown. | |
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A Brother's Price has Jerin with the princesses. Since the former husband was a jerk, the widow status is not much dwelled on, though—it is only important insofar as Trini does not really want to remarry, for fear she could get such a jerk again. | |
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The Sin City story A Dame To Kill For has a subplot involving one of the few honest cops in Basin City getting involved in an affair with a recently widowed Femme Fatale. It ends tragically for him and his partner, whom he kills before committing suicide. | |
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Gender-inverted in Something*Positive by Davan's parents. Fred was a widower who had lost his wife and son, which didn't stop Faye from falling in love with him. Despite harsh criticism from Fred's side of the family, Faye and Fred got married and had children of their own. | |
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Thane Krios in Mass Effect 2, and Steve Cortez (as a Gay Option variant) in Mass Effect 3 | |
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The Magnificent Ambersons is about a (grown-up) Spoiled Brat with Mommy Issues who is horrified that his widowed mother is falling for her Childhood Sweetheart. Everyone else thinks he's making a fuss about nothing. | |
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In the Incarnations of Immortality novel "Being a Green Mother," after the stunning Niobe loses her husband, she becomes the immortal Clotho. Some 40 years later, she meets and falls in love again with a different man, many years after his wife also died. He even comments (paraphrased) "It's almost like Fate has been saving you until the time was right." | |
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In the Book of Judith, the title character (who herself is a widow) becomes so famous for her Heroic Seductress role in defeating Holofernes, the leader of the Assyrian army, that many tried to marry her, but she ended up turning them all down and lived the rest of her life as a widow. | |
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In Key Largo, Frank with Nora, although it's mostly on her part. Frank is still dealing with the guilt of surviving the war where his friend—Nora's husband—hadn't. | |
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The main plot of Maison Ikkoku is centered on the trope, since the Love Triangle involves a beautiful Widow Woman who works as a landlady and is courted by a penniless would-be college student and a rich tennis coach. There's even a huge lampshade when she gets together with the first: | |
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Ramon wanted to do this to Vanessa in The King of Fighters. Never got further than being her Dogged Nice Guy. | |
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Sarah and Hull's relationship is like this in Pale Rider. Sarah's husband dies before the plot begins, but it's implied that she's the "loved her husband dearly" variety of widow. | |
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In Finding Neverland, rumors of this arise as a result of all of the time that James Barrie spends with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (a rather scandalous situation, considering that he is married). The reality is a platonic variation, and Sylvia's mother, Emma, is rather annoyed with James because his attentions are keeping this from legitimately happening to Sylvia. | |
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This is the plot of Natsuyuki Rendezvous in which Hazuki is in love with the widowed Rokka-chan, unfortunately for him her late husband is a very clingy ghost only he can see who promptly tries to get in the way. | |
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In Enoch Arden, Philip declares his love to Annie after Enoch has been missing for several years. He has to be very patient, as she is reluctant to give up on Enoch, and even when she finally marries him, it is mostly Remarrying for Your Kids at first. (She does finally come to return his feelings, however.) | |
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Gender inverted and without actual marriage (even if they were seriously considering it) in the Spider-Man comics. Gwen... named a certain trope and left Peter heartbroken. Enter Mary Jane whom helps him by being a supportive friend and the two become closer. A few years after her death, they share a kiss and begin to contemplate a relationship. Then this being comics, a Gwen clone shows up (and of course he spend a good deal of the arc believing it was genuinely her). The clone eventually helps him realize that his relationship with Gwen was NOT as perfect as he thought, her hatred of his alter ego ran too deep, and it was MJ he really in love with. However, he never really stopped angsting about Gwen, leading MJ to sometimes question if she really was his second choice (it's mostly entirely baseless, and they have never shown to have anything but unconditional love for each other, but the "what if I managed to save her thing" gets dragged out A LOT). | |
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In Harvest Moon Ann's father is a widower and Nina's mother is a widow. They have their Ship Tease. If you marry Nina (but oddly, not Ann), then they will get married. | |
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In the British thriller series The Last Enemy, Stephen and his brother's widow, Yasim, fall in love. Things get a bit more complicated when it turns out that his brother was Faking the Dead. Not that their marriage was in the best of states beforehand. | |
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In the Doctor Who Series 3 episodes Human Nature/Family of Blood, the humanized Doctor falls in love with a widowed nurse working at the school where he teaches. She remarks at some point that it's not fair how the world expects widows to just disappear after their husbands die. | |
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In Single Father Dave and Sarah's burgeoning romance is taut with the presence of Rita's memory and how quickly they seem to have gotten together after her death. Rita was also Sarah's best friend and further complicates things by having a boyfriend at the time when she and Dave first get together. | |
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In Mitsumete Knight, this is the scenario of one of the winnable girls, Claire Majoram. | |
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In Book of Corinthians from New Testament , the only circumstance where one can legitimately marry a widow is if the widow's spouse was deceased, which the widow is no longer bound to the spouse and can seek a Second Love as they want. A widow, by definition, has their spouse deceased. |
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Atretes, the hero of As Sure As the Dawn, is an ex-gladiator embittered by a failed Destructive Romance who strikes up a partnership with a widow named Rizpah who had previously adopted the child whom he had thought his previous lover had aborted. Despite hating one another's guts at first, they eventually fall for each other; she pulls him out of his nihilistic cynicism and he is able to help her experience true love for the first time (she was a prostitute as a child and her first husband was a kindly older man for whom she never had romantic feelings). | |
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Harvest Moon: In Harvest Moon Ann's father is a widower and Nina's mother is a widow. They have their Ship Tease. If you marry Nina (but oddly, not Ann), then they will get married. A gender-inverted version is the optional bachelor Jin from Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility and Harvest Moon: Animal Parade. He is the first love interest who was in a previous marriage and ended up a widow/widower. |
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Wild River has Chuck the TVA man falling in love with beautiful Carol, whose husband died three years ago and who was left with two small children. Complicated in that Chuck, on behalf of the federal government, is trying to get Carol's family off their land so the badly-needed dam can proceed. | |
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The film Bébé's Kids starts with Robin Harris dating the newly widowed Jameeka, but it turns out he bit off more than he could chew, as he ends up babysitting her friend's incredibly rambunctious kids. | |
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Clive Cussler's The Mediterranean Caper. Dirk Pitt does this with Teri von Till, who is still in mourning for her car-racer husband. It later turns out that she's actually an undercover Federal Bureau of Narcotics agent named Amy, so her story may have been fake. | |
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Edward towards Angela in 7 Faces of Dr. Lao; it takes a little magical assistance from the eponymous wizard for her to finally come around. | |
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Long Live the Queen begins with player character Elodie's mother, Queen Fidelia, suddenly dying. Her father, Joslyn, is subsequently approached by multiple suitors throughout the game; as the King Dowager and the Duke of Caloris, he makes an attractive partner to anyone looking. By default he remains uninterested in remarrying despite having no heir to his title (since Elodie is the crown princess, she can't also inherit Joslyn's title), but if Elodie's choices have gotten the nobles talking about the importance of heirs, he may be pushed into marrying in order to ensure the succession remains safe. | |
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Patrick Jane of The Mentalist lost both his wife and his daughter when they were brutally murdered by a serial killer, which was kind of his fault. He feels incredibly guilty about it and continues to wear his wedding ring years later, all while bent on revenge. Consequently, any woman attempting to date him in the series falls into this, as he has a lot of issues and is extremely cagey about starting up with anyone new. Eventually he gets past this and starts a relationship with Libson. It ends very, very well. | |
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ElfQuest has two very different examples: Clearbrook's husband One-Eye is murdered during a sneak attack, and their old friend Treestump immediately takes care of Clearbrook emotionally during her Heroic B.S.O.D. to make sure she doesn't go insane with grief. When it turns out One-Eye is in a kind of magical coma, Treestump makes sure his friend's soul gets all the closure it needs, and he and Clearbrook gradually become lifemates after One-Eye is put to rest. A second, less conventional example happens when Cutter's family is kidnapped 10000 years into the future (far beyond his own natural lifespan) and he decides to at least keep on living normally for as long as he can. His childhood friends Nightfall and Redlance ask him to become their lovemate and live with them for as long as he wants, because the loneliness would otherwise consume him completely. (Interestingly, Nightfall is the best friend of Cutter's kidnapped lifemate Leetah, and it was thought by the entire tribe that she would end up with Cutter because they were born around the same time. Also interestingly, Nightfall's daughter Tyleet ends up becoming the lifemate of both Treestump's daughter Dewshine and Clearbrook's son Scouter.) | |
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Frasier: Martin starts dating the widow of a friend and wonders whether he should feel guilty about it. | |
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Messenger has a sinister version. Mentor trades away his true self to become young and handsome in order to romance Stocktender's recently-widowed wife. | |
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Mary Crawley of Downton Abbey, after Matthew dies. After a short bout of deep depression, she recovers surprisingly quickly. | |
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