History Main / GuessWhoImMarrying

** An early continuity nod had Aunt May, shortly after learning Peter's secret identity, witness a fight between Spidey and Ock, and ''finally'' realise who Octavius was. However, this was a RetCon imposed by the RuleOfFunny; in the Silver-Age stories Aunt May, despite her CloudCuckooLander tendencies, was quite aware of who Otto was. One could say it was a case of the StockholmSyndrome at work as she first developed feelings for him when he charmed the socks off her while holding her and Betty Brant hostage. She found his polished manners much better than those of "that awful Spider-Man".

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* The "comedy" ''Film/MrWoodcock'' with the villain being a former DrillSergeantNasty gym teacher.
** [[spoiler:Subverted: it turns out that, rather than Mr. Woodcock being the bad guy, he's just kind of a JerkAss, while the son is actually an asshole who has an unforgiving grudge toward his teacher. After realizing this, he forgives his teacher for 'molding him into what he is today']]
* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' with the marriage of Lorraine Baines and Biff Tannen in 1985-A. It begins with them already married, but Marty has the typical reaction since he possesses RippleEffectProofMemory - and since he isn't the Marty from this timeline, who is apparently in Switzerland. It's also unconventional in that it shows that Biff and Lorraine have an AwfulWeddedLife, with Biff hitting Lorraine and being implied to have repeatedly raped her.

[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/SpiderMan https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/img_3774_9472.jpg]]]]

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #131 [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1119:with-this-ring-i-thee-web&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32#content centered on the nuptials of the widow May Parker and one Dr. Otto Octavius.]]

** For added BrainBleach fodder, Dan Slott had Peter Parker exchange bodies with Doctor Octopus and forced him to relive Otto engaging in a bit of pre-marital sex in ''Amazing Spider-Man'' #699.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': Etta Candy invites [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana]] and ComicBook/{{Steve|Trevor}} to her wedding to a man neither have had the opportunity to meet beforehand. When they get there Diana learns right away her fiance is lying when she spots him with another girlfriend before Etta even introduces them, and she and Steve are certain due to his mustache-twirling ways he's not who he says he is at all. He turns out to be a Nazi spy who got engaged to Etta to better facilitate his sabotage of the oil fields near the Candy Ranch.

* A [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' plot of yore [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1119:with-this-ring-i-thee-web&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32#content centered on the nuptials of the widow May Parker and one Dr. Otto Octavius.]]

** An early continuity nod had Aunt May, shortly after learning Peter's secret identity, witness a fight between Spidey and Ock, and ''finally'' realise who Octavius was. However, this was a RetCon imposed by the RuleOfFunny; in the Silver-Age stories Aunt May, despite her CloudCuckooLander tendencies, was quite aware who Otto was. One could say it was a case of the StockholmSyndrome at work as she first developed feelings for him when he charmed the socks off her while holding her and Betty Brant hostage. She found his polished manners much better than those of "that awful Spider-Man".

* Literature/Graciosa and Percinet: Princess Graciosa's widowed father announces to his daughter that he is to marry the Duchess Grognon. This terrifies Graciosa since she knows the duchess is [[GreenEyedMonster hatefully jealous]] of her.

* [[Literature/Graciosa and Percinet]]: Princess Graciosa's widowed father announces to his daughter that he is to marry the Duchess Grognon. This terrifies Graciosa since she knows the duchess is [[GreenEyedMonster hatefully jealous]] of her.

* In Film/{{Stepmonster}}, Dad's going to marry the eponymous monster (in disguise as a pretty woman). [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} at the very end, when [[BigDamnHeroes Dad himself appears]] with the monster's WeaksauceWeakness (that the children discovered during their OnlySaneMan time) and deals with the monster.]]

* Cornelia Pitt from the ''Literature/AmericanGirl'' books with Samantha Parkington is a heroic version of this trope. Samantha fears that Cornelia’s marriage to Uncle Garth will mean that he will spend less time with his niece. Gradually, Sam comes to accept Cornelia as her aunt.

* Happened in ''Film/{{Nanny McPhee}}'': The great-aunt was willing to cough up money only if t Cedric, the children’s father was married, and as Cedric was almost broke, he was desperate... but he didn't quite catch the level of hate between his children and his fiancée, Mrs. Quickly. All the more because the kids are ridiculously ill-behaved, and so he didn't quite catch the deliberately malicious undertones to their antics.
** In a bit of a subversion, Cedric didn't like Mrs. Quickly at all either. The only reason he was marrying her was that the alternative was the family going broke and his children being sent to workhouses, or who knows where in the case of the younger ones. [[spoiler:Subverted even more at the end, when he marries Evangeline, whom he and the children all love.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper'', the villain Preminger was planning to marry princess Anneliese (Franchise/{{Barbie}}), but given that events forced him to pretend she had died, he settles for her mother, the widowed queen, in order to seize the throne.

-->-- '''TheNarrator''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', "Mommy Fearest"

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', supervillainess Sedusa sidles her way into the Professor's life in the guise of "[[PunnyName Ima Goodlady]]". [[note]]Who then proceeds to seduce "daddy" into imposing a curfew on the girls. Guess why.[[/note]] Needless to say, once again, the day is saved thanks to... The Powerpuff Girls! The episode plays with the trope - the girls are perfectly happy with the Professor dating "Ima Goodlady" and even give him dating tips and encourage things as best they can. It's not until they notice that her groundings on them coincide with the nights that Sedusa robs the Mayor that they start to get ''really'' suspicious.

* Cornelia Pitt from the ''Literature/AmericanGirls'' books with Samantha Parkington is a heroic version of this trope. Samantha fears that Cornelia’s marriage to Uncle Garth will mean that he will spend less time with his niece. Gradually, Sam comes to accept Cornelia as her aunt.

* Happened in ''Film/{{Nanny McPhee}}'': The great-aunt was willing to cough up money only if the dad married, and as the dad was almost broke, he was desperate... but he didn't quite catch the level of hate between his children and his fiancée. All the more because the kids are ridiculously ill-behaved, and so he didn't quite catch the deliberately malicious undertones to their antics.
** In a bit of a subversion, the father didn't like his fiancée at all either. The only reason he was marrying her was that the alternative was the family going broke and his children being sent to workhouses, or who knows where in the case of the younger ones. [[spoiler:Subverted even more at the end, when he marries Evangeline, whom he and the children all love.]]

** Her obliviousness can be justified by her very demanding work schedule, which she has to keep up to care for Hogarth and herself. [[AdultFear Kent even brings this up at one point, telling Hogarth that his mother is under a lot of strain as a single mother and that it would be not hard to make it look like she was too neglectful to keep custody of him.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePrincessAndThePauper'', the villain Preminger was planning to marry princess Anneliese (Barbie), but given that events forced him to pretend she had died, he settles for her mother, the widowed queen, in order to seize the throne.