History ComicBook / LifeWithArchieTheMarriedLife

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Mr. Lodge goes temporarily mad due Dilton revealing to him the existence of the multiverse.]]

* KarmaHoudini: He had noble intentions (rebuild and modernize the building) but no one apparently ever caught on that Mr. Lodge [[spoiler:hired someone to sabotage and eventually burn down Riverdale High School. That same saboteur]] was never shown getting apprehended either. Especially jarring since [[spoiler:two people might have died in the fire: namely Archie (accidentally trapped in a closet) and Moose (knocked out by the saboteur after being caught in the act).]] It was fortunate that one of Archie's students was there to save both.

* SpiritualSuccessor: A melodramatic comic titled ''Life with Archie'' also ran during the 1960s and '70s, but took place while Archie and his friends were still high schoolers.

** Mr. Lodge does this in both universes, as he actively tries to sabotage Archie and Betty's life together because Veronica is too heartbroken and depressed to become the businesswoman he wants her to be, and also trying to manipulate Archie and Veronica into getting a divorce because Archie's influence is making Veronica too kind-hearted to become the businesswoman he wants her to be. (And yes, that means Archie can't win either way)

* KarmaHoudini: He had noble intentions (rebuild and modernize the building) but no one apparently ever caught on that Mr. Lodge [[spoiler:hired someone to sabotage and eventually burn down Riverdale High School. That same saboteur]] was never shown getting apprehended either. Especially jarring since [[spoiler:two people might have died in the fire: namely Archie (accidentally trapped in a closet) and Moose (knocked out by the saboteur after being caught and Moose knocked out).]] It was fortunate that one of Archie's students was there to save both.

* TheMultiverse: Confirmed as of issue 18.

* BookEnds: Issue #36 starts with Archie's chocolate soda getting knocked by the hand of one of his girls and spilled on the table when he was a child... [[spoiler:and ends with the shot of chocolate soda spilled on the table as a result of his knocking it onto the table before TakingTheBullet for Kevin.]]

* ShoutOut: After Archie marries Veronica, Betty dates a lot of guys who, in her own words, have been "Archie all over again." She name-drops [[Radio/TheAldrichFamily Henry Aldrich]], Film/AndyHardy, [[Series/HappyDays Richie Cunningham]], [[Series/SavedByTheBell Zack Morris]] and [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Troy Bolton]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Mr. Lodge does this in both universes, as he actively tries to sabotage Archie and Betty's life together because Veronica is too heartbroken and depressed to become the businesswoman he wants her to be, and also trying to manipulate Archie and Veronica into getting a divorce because Archie's influence is making Veronica too kind-hearted to become the businesswoman he wants her to be. (And yes, that means Archie can't win either way)

** [[spoiler: Mr. Lodge]] eventually goes through this after he [[spoiler: learns about the multiverse from Married Veronica-verse Hiram Lodge and Dilton, as well as realizing that Fred Mirth is trying to stage a takeover of Lodge Industries]]. He quickly puts Veronica and Jason [[spoiler: in charge of his corporation]] and dedicates the rest of his career to [[UnclePennybags being extremely philantrophic]] to Riverdale.

* AlternateContinuity: Not only do the two stories display different futures, but ''Archie Loves Betty'' sometimes differs from ''Archie Marries Betty''. Most noticeably, Miss Grundy in ''Archie Loves Betty'' dies without seeing Archie and Betty become teachers.

** Most of the Riverdale cast look exactly as they do when they were younger in the main series, except for Dilton, who looked like he aged far more years than his friends. Jason Blossom as well,

** Also [[spoiler: Fred Mirth]].

* MergingTheBranches: Rather than telling the same story twice, [[spoiler:the death of Archie]] is carefully written to make it vague which universe it is taking place in so that it can plausibly be happening in both at the same time. Although not very successfully, as the story showed [[spoiler:Mr. Weatherbee's lady friend, Nancy's pregnancy, and Cheryl still recovering from her breast cancer]], which only happens in the [[spoiler:Betty!verse]].

* {{Multiverse}}: Confirmed as of issue 18.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Ilana looks nothing like she did in her first appearance in ''Archie'' #605 -- there she had black hair and angular features and wore CoolShades to illustrate her blindness, while in this series, she has brown hair, softer and rounder features, and is always drawn with Jughead-style EyesAlwaysShut.

* AdaptedOut: [[spoiler:Achie's children with either spouse doesn't appear due to his untimely death]].

* TookALevelInJerkass: Mr. Lodge does this in both universes, as he actively tries to sabotage Archie and Betty's life together because Veronica is too heartbroken and depressed to become the businesswoman he wants her to be, and also trying to manipulate Archie and Veronica into getting a divorce because Archie's influence is making Veronica too kind-hearted to become the businesswoman he wants her to be.

* BreakTheCutie: Betty undergoes a serious depression after Archie picks Veronica over her. Not even dating [[Series/HappyDays Richie Cunningham]] or [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Troy Bolton]] lifts her out of it.

** Jughead and Midge.
*** Or Jughead and Big Ethel.

* BreakTheHaughty: Veronica undergoes a serious depression after Archie picks Betty over her. It becomes so severe, Mr. Lodge tries bribing Archie to leave Betty for Veronica.

* CanonWelding: The more fantastical Little Archie stories were canon in the sense that they were being told through the filter of childish imagination [[spoiler:and in the sense that they actually happened thanks to Ambrose being a powerful dimensional slider who inadvertently took the gang to alternate realities where their imagination could play out for real.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Lodge, at least for the first half of the story arc. Sabotaging Archie's marriage to Veronica in one universe and destroying Archie's musical career in revenge for breaking Veronica's heart in the other. [[spoiler: He gets better, though, and eventually dedicates himself to philantrophy around Riverdale]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Archie dies in issue #36.]]
** More like a BittersweetEnding, [[spoiler:as Wendell, the busboy who killed Archie and now intends to do the same to Kevin, is stopped by the police and apprehended, but still...]]

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Archie himself towards the end of the story.]]

* MergingTheBranches: Rather than telling the same story twice, [[spoiler:the death of Archie]] is carefully written to make it vague which universe it is taking place in so that it can plausibly be happening in both at the same time.
** Although not very successfully, as the story showed [[spoiler:Mr. Weatherbee's lady friend, Nancy's pregnancy, and Cheryl still recovering from her breast cancer]], which only happens in the [[spoiler:Betty!verse]].

* {{Multiverse}}: Confirmed as of ish 18.

* SavedByCanon: Subverted, thanks to the multiverse, the fact that Life With Archie is an expansion of a storyline that ends with Archie and his wife living happily together with two kids [[spoiler: does nothing to protect Archie from being killed before he can have kids.]]

* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Chuck and Nancy make a comic based on their adventures at Riverdale High (named "Smalltown High" in one continuity and "Smalltown Kidz" in the other). In a slight subversion of the trope, everyone thinks it's a great idea and the comic becomes a success.

** {{Subverted}}, because [[spoiler:the prime universe simply splits in two at the juncture of whether Archie marries Betty or Veronica. Whichever option eventually happens in the prime universe, Archie still has to die because that's the constant between the universes.]]
** Not really subverted because it is still an {{AlternateContinuity}} of a ''possible'' future. In fact, as mentioned in the {{SavedByCanon}} section, the story this is expanded from (which this is an {{AlternateContinuity}} to) ended with Archie raising his kids with his wife. The constant between the universes is that Archie chooses either Betty or Veronica.[[spoiler:The fact that he dies is not the constant because the Archie Prime universe's Archie hasn't died. The future of the Prime Universe (if we ever see it) is unknown and if Archie getting killed before having kids is considered a constant between the universes, than so is him having a {{HappyEnding}} where he isn't shot and raises his kids.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Mr. Lodge. Sabotaging Archie's marriage to Veronica in one universe and destroying Archie's musical career in revenge for breaking Veronica's heart in the other.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Jughead, of course, but Ilana is also drawn like this.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: [[spoiler: Mr. Lodge, due to the multiverse.]]

* TookALevelInKindness: Although he remains a bit edgy, Reggie is essentially a very nice guy in both stories.

** Not really subverted because it is still an {{AlternateContinuity}} of a ''possible'' future. In fact, as mentioned in the {{SavedByCanon}} section, the story this is expanded from (which this is an {{AlternateContinuity}} to) ended with Archie raising his kids wife his wife. The constant between the universes is that Archie chooses either Betty or Veronica.[[spoiler:The fact that he dies is not the constant because the Archie Prime universe's Archie hasn't died. The future of the Prime Universe (if we ever see it) is unknown and if Archie getting killed before having kids is considered a constant between the universes, than so is him having a {{HappyEnding}} where he isn't shot and raises his kids.]]

''Life With Archie: The Married Life'' is an ongoing storyline in Franchise/ArchieComics. It was launched in its own series in September 2010.

The comics differ from the norm in several ways, being printed in magazine format and having DarkerAndEdgier storylines, with SoapOpera plot twists and situations. The series came to an end in issue #37.

** Cheryl Blossom is stuck waiting tables. Until [[spoiler: she has breast cancer and has to come back to Riverdale]].

->''Love or hate...life or death...[[BettyAndVeronica Betty or Veronica]]...the end or just the beginning...[[Creator/RobertFrost the road taken or the road not taken]]...''

The comics differ from the norm in several ways, being printed in magazine format and having DarkerAndEdgier storylines, with SoapOpera plot twists and situations. The series came to an end in issue #37 with [[spoiler: the death of Archie in both Veronica and Betty universes]] and the fallout from it.

* MergingTheBranches: Rather than telling the same story twice, [[spoiler:the death of Archie]] is carefully written to make it vague which universe it is taking place in so that it can logically be happening in both at the same time.