History Main / Elopement

* This trope is the story of Lyndis' parentage in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade''. Her mother, Lady Madelyn, was the daughter of the Marquis of Caelin. Her father, Hassar, was the leader of the Lorca Tribe, one of the three tribes of Sacae, a group of nomadic people. In order to stay together, Madelyn left Caelin to live with her lover on the Sacaen plains.

** In episode 5 Crowley drives to Aziraphale's bookshop to try to convince him, only to find that [[spoiler:the bookshop's burnt down and Aziraphale is probably dead]]. [[LostLenore Utterly heartbroken]], Crowley abandons his plans to go to Alpha Centauri and instead [[DrowningMySorrows gets spectacularly drunk]].

** Crowley wants to elope with Aziraphale, '''badly'''. He first proposes it in episode 3 of season one:

** In episode 5 Crowley drives to Aziraphale's bookshop to try to convince him, only to find that [[spoiler:the bookshop's burnt down and Aziraphale is probably dead]]. Utterly heartbroken, Crowley abandons his plans to go to Alpha Centauri and instead gets spectacularly drunk, drowning his sorrows.
** In season 2 [[spoiler:Gabriel]] and [[spoiler:Beelzebub]] surprisingly fall in love with each other and actually elope together. Crowley suggests Alpha Centauri for them, much to the surprise of Aziraphale, who only now starts to realise the true [[spoiler:romantic]] meaning behind Crowley's proposals in season one.

** At the end of season 2, during his extremely [[spoiler:anguished declaration of love]], Crowley once again asks Aziraphale to run away with him. [[spoiler:It doesn't go exactly as planned.]]

--> '''Crowley''': Forces of Hell have figured out it was my fault. But we can run away together! Alpha Centauri!

--> '''Crowley''': It's big universe! Even if this all ends up in a pile of burning goo, we could go off together!..

** In episode 5 Crowley drives to Aziraphale's bookshop in order to try again to change the his mind, only to find that [[spoiler:the bookshop's burnt down and Aziraphale is probably dead]]. Utterly heartbroken, Crowley abandons his plans to go to Alpha Centauri and instead gets spectacularly drunk, drowning his sorrows.
** In season 2 [[spoiler:Gabriel]] and [[spoiler:Beelzebub]] surprisingly fall in love with each other and actually elope together. Crowley suggest Alpha Centauri for them, much to the surprise of Aziraphale, who starts to realise the true [spoiler:romantic]] meaning behind Crowley's proposals in season one.

-->-- '''Crowley''': It's big universe! Even if this all ends up in a pile of burning goo, we could go off together!..
-->-- '''Aziraphale''': Go off... ''together''? Listen to yourself!..

-->-- '''Crowley''': Forces of Hell have figured out it was my fault. But we can run away together! Alpha Centauri!
-->-- '''Aziraphale''': Crowley, you're being ridiculous...

** In season 2 [[spoiler:Gabriel]] and [[spoiler:Beelzebub]] surprisingly fall in love with each other and actually elope together. Crowley suggest Alpha Centauri for them.
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* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': [[spoiler:Sybil and Branson]] [[RunForTheBorder make a run for Gretna Green]] (see below) in Series 2; [[spoiler:Edith, Mary, and Anna interdict them (thank God [[ChekhovsSkill Edith can drive]].)]]
* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Regina's StartOfDarkness was caused by Snow White denouncing to her abusive mother Cora her intention to run with a stable boy to flee an arranged marriage with Snow's father. Far from being supportive, Cora killed the stable boy right in front of her daughter to teach her that LoveIsAWeakness.

* The second half of season two of ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'' has the titular [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibal]] psychiatrist and his [[MadDoctor patient]]/frienemy/[[OneTrueLove soulmate]] Will Graham planning on [[DatingCatwoman leaving their old lives behind together]], complete with plans to go to Italy and to have [[spoiler: their surrogate daughter, whose survival Hannibal had been keeping secret to surprise Will, join them.]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong It doesn't work out according to plan]] [[ConflictingLoyalty since Will's loyalties were deeply conflicted.]]
** In season three, [[spoiler: Hannibal and Will do escape together after viciously killing Dolerhyde together, admitting mutual romantic feelings while drenched in blood before Will throws them into the ocean.]] Although his true intentions ([[TakingYouWithMe whether he wanted them to survive or not]]) aren't know because the show was cancelled in its prime, WordOfGod has confirmed that they did survive and would spend a hypothetical season four on the run as an OutlawCouple.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': in "The Caretaker", Danny Pink accuses his girlfriend, Clara Oswald, of eloping with the Twelfth Doctor. She denies this, however in a later episode, "Last Christmas", her decision to return to travelling with the Doctor is framed in this fashion (by this point, Danny is no longer an issue), and in "Hell Bent", before she and the Doctor are forced to part, possibly forever, as forces gather to prevent their relationship from continuing, Clara invites the Doctor to "just fly away somewhere" with her.
* ''Series/AlloAllo'', Rene and Yvette constantly plan to do this one day, but circumstances keep preventing it. [[spoiler:They finally do it during the DistantFinale]].

* On ''Series/GoodEats'', Alton describes how one of his ancestors met [[Film/SweeneyTodd Mrs. Lovett]], and helped her improve her meat pies. When the police come knocking on her door investigating several "mysterious" disappearances in London, she and Alton's ancestor run away to America, with a secret wedding ceremony along the way. Before too long, Mr. Brown ''also'' ends up disappearing under "mysterious circumstances."
* One notable episode of ''Series/{{Bridezillas}}'' featured a groom who never showed up at the wedding and stole the bride's car. The next day, he called her and apologized to her, and she agreed to meet him in Las Vegas, where they married in a private ceremony at the courthouse. (He also tried to get her to stop talking to her adult daughter, who was one of the bridesmaids, and as of 2017, they are divorced.)
* The final scene of ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' reveals that Nikita and Michael, the series' main couple, had eloped off-screen a short while earlier.

* It's invoked and subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'', where [[spoiler:Ryuuji and Taiga find themselves finally in love with each other, but in dire circumstances; Ryuuji has left behind his mother and the scarce resources he had; Taiga has practically disowned herself from her mother's family after her absentee dad (her monetary sustenance thus far) skipped town following the failure of his business. As such, they only have each other. They decide to wait out the few months left for Ryuuji to turn eighteen so that they can marry unimpeded while living in manga cafés and odd places. Their friends Minori, Ami and Kitamura decide to help them by providing them with food vouchers, money and a roof to sleep; however, in her dejection and after leaving him behind, Ryuuji's mother provides him with a means not to elope by telling him to go to her parents' home. They resort to use this resource, preventing the elopement]].

* Joseph Smith, the founder of UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}}, married his [[UsefulNotes/{{Pennsylvania}} Pennsylvanian]] wife, Emma Hale, by eloping to nearby UsefulNotes/{{New York|State}} in 1827. The reason Emma's father gave for disapproving of the match was that, beside being a stranger, he could not approve of Smith's "occupation", which at the time involved (unsuccessfully) using "psychic powers" to look for minerals and hidden treasure.