History Main / MarriedInTheFuture

* Between seasons two and three of ''Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined'', the narrative skips a year, and we return to find that the complex LoveDodecahedron of seasons past has resolved itself into four marriages: Tyrol and Cally, Lee and Dualla, Kara and Sam, and Helo and Sharon. Only one makes it through two more seasons to the series finale.

* A Christmas-themed episode in ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', "A Season to Remember", involved a {{flash forward}} showing Tommy and Kat being married. [[ShipToShipCombat Some shippers were not]] [[DieForOurShip accepting of this development]] [[FanonDiscontinuity and tend to ignore it]], although WordOfGod states that the event ''does'' happen. In fact, Catherine Sutherland (Kat's actor) has verified that she was in talks to appear in both ''[[Series/PowerRangersWildForce Wild Force]]''[='s=] [[MilestoneCelebration "Forever Red"]] and ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]]'' as Mrs. Oliver (the former was scrapped during rewrites while the latter fell through due to Sutherand's pregnancy at the time).

* ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to the Future, Part II]]'' has Doc taking Marty and Jennifer into the future where she sees their future home and kids, but everything else sucks. [[spoiler: In Part III, however, Marty manages to avert the event that led to that timeline.]]

* ''Series/StargateSG1''. In "There But For the Grace of God" and "Point of View", Alt!Jack and Alt!Sam are engaged and married respectively. In "The Road Not Taken", Alt!Sam married Rodney [=McKay=] at one point but they got divorced.

* The [[DistantFinale epilogue]] of ''{{Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}'' has Harry and Ginny married, as well as Ron and Hermione, with their respective children heading for another school year at Hogwarts.

** In a rather inexplicable example, the Doctor uses the final moments before his regeneration to visit various past companions, and finds Martha and Mickey years after their travels with the Doctor, fighting a Sontaran together - and ''married''. This came across to some viewers as an uncomfortable instance of PairTheSpares, since Martha and Mickey were the only two dark-skinned companions in the revived series, and had never shown any noticeable interest in one another before. It is especially strange considering the fact that Martha had been established as having a fiance in one of her earlier appearances, and his disappearance from the narrative is never explained.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}''. In a Season 2 episode, the sisters travel ten years into the future where they discover that Piper and Leo had been married, had a daughter together, and then divorced during the ten intervening years. After returning to their own time, Piper and Leo do get married in Season 3, but the daughter and divorce never happen. Instead, they have two sons and are shown to still be happily married 30-40 years later in the series finale's DistantFuture.

* ''{{Charmed}}''. In a Season 2 episode, the sisters travel ten years into the future where they discover that Piper and Leo had been married, had a daughter together, and then divorced during the ten intervening years. After returning to their own time, Piper and Leo do get married in Season 3, but the daughter and divorce never happen. Instead, they have two sons and are shown to still be happily married 30-40 years later in the series finale's DistantFuture.

* On {{Phil of the Future}}, Phil uses a future gadget to look up Keely's future as a journalist, after they fail a huge test in school and take a re-test. In the first future, Keely is a crazy cat lady who is convinced one of her cats was abducted by a UFO. In the second future, she's a reporter...and (as the young Keely notices) she's wearing a wedding ring. It's never revealed who her husband is in the future and Keely stated that she'd rather wait for the surprise than use the gadget to look it up. But given the massive amount of ShipTease in the series as a whole, it's heavily implied that it's Phil.

* Seth and Summer in the four or five-year flash forward in {{The OC}}. We get to see their wedding, with Ryan as the best man.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', [[BigBad the Anti-Spiral]] traps Team Dai-Gurren in a LotusEaterMachine called the "Alternate Space Labyrinth," in which they live out their hearts' inner desires (for example, [[spoiler:Simon's fantasy is getting to tag along with with the [[PosthumousCharacter already]]-dead [[TheObiWan Kamina]] much like they did in the beginning of the series, whereas Viral gets to realize [[IJustWantToBeNormal his dream of having a family,]] which is impossible due to him being effectively immortal and Beastmen can't reproduce)]]. One of these what-if scenarios (shown on a TV screen in this case) depicts Yoko and Kittan on their wedding day. [[spoiler:What makes this so poignant is that, by that time in the series, Kittan [[DyingMomentOfAwesome had just died]] one or two episodes ago after giving a LastKiss to Yoko. The implication is that, had Kittan not [[HeroicSacrifice knowingly sacrificed himself]] to help the group escape from the Sea of Despair and things turned out differently in the battle against the Anti-Spiral, they ''might'' have become a couple ''for real''.]]

** In "The Late Phillip J. Fry", Leela and [[spoiler: [[ReplacementGoldfish Cubert]]]] got married and divorced several years after Fry went missing. [[spoiler: This happened ''again'' in the next universe, but was changed when Fry returned to the third universe]].

** The FramingDevice of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin entire series]] revolves around Future!Ted revealing to his kids how he [[ForegoneConclusion got to]] [[CaptainObvious this point]].

* The [[DistantFinale epilogue]] of ''{{Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows}}''; Harry and Ginny are married as are Ron and Hermione. No sense complaining about it.

** In the future portion of "All Good Things" it's revealed that Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher got married...and divorced.

* ''Series/StargateSG1''. In "There But For the Grace of God" and "Point of View", Alt!Jack and Alt!Sam are engaged and married respectively. In "The Road Not Taken", Alt!Sam married Rodney [=McKay=] at one point but they divorced.
* An episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' had Kes witness a future where she and Tom Paris were married and had children following "The Year of Hell" but ultimately it didn't happen this way partly because Kes retained her knowledge of the future and was able to warn the crew. By the time the "Year of Hell" actually happened Kes had left the ship and Tom later ended up marring B'lanna who had been killed in the original timeline.

* In an ImagineSpot on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Lisa, despondent over the "Simpson gene" which will make her stupid, imagines herself in the future as trailer trash married to [[RalphWiggum Ralph Wiggum]].

* In an ImagineSpot on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Lisa, despondent over the "Simpson gene" which will make her stupid, imagines herself in the future as trailer trash married to RalphWiggum.

** In "Days of Future Past", Wolverine and Storm are a married couple.

* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', [[BigBad the Anti-Spiral]] traps Team Dai-Gurren in a LotusEaterMachine called the "Alternate Space Labyrinth," in which they live out their hearts' inner desires (for example, Simon's fantasy is getting to tag along with with the [[PosthumousCharacter already]]-KilledOffForReal [[DecoyProtagonist K]][[BigGood a]][[TheObiWan m]][[SacrificialLion i]][[TheAragorn n]][[DeadStarWalking a]] much like they did in the beginning of the series, whereas Viral gets to realize [[IJustWantToBeNormal his dream of having a family,]] which is impossible due to him being effectively immortal and Beastmen can't reproduce). One of these what-if scenarios (shown on a TV screen in this case) depicts Yoko and Kittan on their wedding day. What makes this so poignant is that, by that time in the series, Kittan [[DyingMomentOfAwesome had just died]] one or two episodes ago after giving a LastKiss to Yoko. The implication is that, had Kittan not [[HeroicSacrifice knowingly sacrificed himself]] to help the group escape from the Sea of Despair and things turned out differently in the battle against the Anti-Spiral, they ''might'' have become a couple ''for real''. And then, in KungFuJesus MessianicArchetype fashion, [[SpiritAdvisor the spirit of Kamina]] shows up to help ''all'' of the heroes break free. In Yoko's case, he's seen turning off the TV display of her and Kittan.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'', Simon uses a video time machine to see what the outcome would be if Alvin accepts either a cash prize, or a mystery prize; in both sequences, each of The Chipmunks and their respective Chipette counterpart are married. In fact, Alvin and Brittany are also shown having two sons, ''both'' of whom are named, Alvin, Jr.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Hawkgirl and [[GreenLantern John Stewart]] briefly date and break up in the second season finale. Later, however, John travels into the future to discover that he and Hawkgirl apparently will have had a son, Rex "Warhawk" Steward (previously seen in ''BatmanBeyond'').

** At one point, Layla Miller and Jamie Madrox]] had a conversation in which Layla (who is, more or less, a {{Seer}}) offhandedly said that they would be married in the future. Keep in mind that, at this point, Layla was ''eleven years old''. Jamie laughed it off as a joke, but later, when Jamie visits the future...

* ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back to the Future, Part II]]'' has Doc taking Marty and Jennifer into the future where she sees their future home and kids, but everything else sucks. [[spoiler: In Part III, however, Marty manages to avert the event that lead to that timeline.]]

* While we never actually see them married, in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'' that involved TimeTravel, Wheeler notes that some of the future planeteers look an awful lot like him and Linka. Linka is quick to pick up on the implication and dismisses it as impossible.