History Main / MarriedInTheFuture

** "The French Mistake" uses the "wedding photo" method to demonstrate that Jared Padalecki [[ItMakesSenseInContext is married]] to Genevieve Cortese, the actress who played Ruby 2.0.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' features an episode in which the crew of the ''Defiant'' meet their distant descendants on a planet with a civilization that was formed by an accident in which the ''Defiant'' is thrown into the past and marooned on the planet. Much curiosity ensues among the crew about who ultimately hooked up with whom, with the descendants more than happy to dish several centuries worthy of gossip. However, the entire civilization is ultimately ErasedFromExistence by an inversion of the GrandfatherParadox. An almost identical episode plays out in a series of episodes of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.

* In ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons,'' [[spoiler:Lewis meets his future wife, a woman named Franny, when he travels to the future. He meets the younger Franny shortly after returning to the present, and gives her an awkward smile]].

* In another Manga/RanmaOneHalf fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2336553/1/After-the-fall-of-Giants After the Fall of Giants]]'', Natsume learns that she and Pantyhose Taro will be married to each other in [[KidFromTheFuture Chi]]'s time.

* The ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2162807/1/Happily-Married Happily Married]]" revolves around Ranma hitting his head on the pond and waking up to find that not only is he six years older and stuck in female form, he is married to Ryoga for some reason.

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "The Dream", not only does Mr. Boynton marry Miss Brooks, but teenagers Walter Denton and Harriet Conklin also get married. Mr. and Mrs. Conklin also have a son. Time flash-forwards many years, where it turns out that Mr. Boynton's and Miss Brooks' daughter is going steady with Mr. Conklin's son Osgood Junior.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]: 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 fiancé in one of her earlier appearances, and his disappearance from the narrative is never explained.[[note]]Creator/RussellTDavies [[WordOfGod said]] that Tom Milligan, the vanishing fiancé in question, was the "rebound guy". Another thing to remember is that he was shown to have a penchant for HeroicSacrifice, and there was a massive Dalek invasion in between his last mention and this episode.[[/note]]

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide "Hide"]], the Doctor meets a scientist and a psychic who are investigating a haunting, and discovers the "ghost" to actually be [[spoiler:a time traveler stuck in a pocket universe. They rescue the girl, and at the end of the episode, the Doctor reveals the time traveler to be one of the scientist and psychic's descendants, even though they aren't married yet.]]

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

* ''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. In another episode, which was supposed to take place ten years in the future, Sam is married to Ambassador Joseph Faxon, who she hadn't even met in the current series.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'' features an alternate universe video log where multiple characters find out who they marry and have kids with.

* ''Otakare Fujokano'' has this as it's FramingDevice, where the entire manga is a flashback the main couple is having on their wedding day.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' features an episode in which the crew of the ''Defiant'' meet their distant descendants on a planet with a civilization that was formed by an accident in which the ''Defiant'' is thrown into the past and marooned on the planet. Much curiosity ensues among the crew about who ultimately hooked up with whom, with the descendants more than happy to dish several centuries worthy of gossip. However, the entire civilization is ultimately ErasedFromExistence by an inversion of the GrandfatherParadox. An almost identical episode plays out in a series of episodes of ''Series/StarTrekenterprise''.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeeSpaceNine'' features an episode in which the crew of the ''Defiant'' meet their distant descendants on a planet with a civilization that was formed by an accident in which the ''Defiant'' is thrown into the past and marooned on the planet. Much curiosity ensues among the crew about who ultimately hooked up with whom, with the descendants more than happy to dish several centuries worthy of gossip. However, the entire civilization is ultimately ErasedFromExistence by an inversion of the GrandfatherParadox. An almost identical episode plays out in a series of episodes of ''Series/StarTrekenterprise''.

* Part of the point of the story ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'' is that the heroine, who is [[PsychicPowers precognizant]], saw a future where she was married to our main AntiHero, and she really wants that to come true.

** The FramingDevice of the entire series revolves around Future Ted revealing to his kids [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin how he]] [[ForegoneConclusion got to]] [[CaptainObvious this point]], [[spoiler:though they don't reveal until the end that he is now a widower]].

** 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, Layla is pulled into a BadFuture and grows into an adult. Her prediction is later confirmed, when a grown-up Layla returns from the future, begins a romance with Jamie, and sure enough, they elope in Vegas.

* ''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 divorce never happens, and the daughter doesn't happen quite the same way. Instead, they have two sons during the series run, the daughter some time after the end of the series (which would have made her much younger than she appeared in the time travel episode), and are shown to still be happily married 30-40 years later in the DistantFinale.

Compare VictoriousChildhoodFriend and HighSchoolSweetheartS.

** One episode has the cast thrown into an alternate universe, where Henry finds himself married to a woman he only knew for 3 minutes in the original universe,. Inverted, sort of, with Jo Lupo, who was engaged to Zane in the original universe, but now completely uninvolved with him.

* ''FanFic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Barry and Iris, according to Eobard Thawne. It still isn't enough to break Barry's I Want My Beloved to Be Happy mindset.

** In "ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast", Wolverine and Storm are a married couple.

-->'''Der Kestle:''' She was your ancetress, you know. So obviously it all worked out ''rather well''.