History Main / MarriedInTheFuture

* ''Webcomic/HobbesAndBacon'' (page image) is a {{continuation}} fancomic of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' where Calvin and Susie are maried and has a daughter named Bacon.

* ''Comicbook/XFactor'':
** At one point, Layla Miller and Jamie Madrox have a conversation in which Layla (who is, more or less, a {{Seer|s}}) offhandedly says that they would be married in the future. Keep in mind that, at this point, Layla is ''eleven years old''. Jamie laughs 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.

* A lot of the one-shots in ''Fanfic/AfterTheJungleSeries'' take place during Arnold and Helga’s adulthood and eventual marriage.

* In ''WesternAnimation/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]].

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* 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 it to come true.
* 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 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 episode 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''.]]

* Usagi and Mamoru in ''Manga/SailorMoon'' spend their futures not only married, but king and queen of the planet. Their present-day selves learn about it during TheReveal that starts with the parentage of their KidFromTheFuture.

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': One early chapter has Nobita and Doraemon use the latter's time machine to go to the future, to see who Nobita will marry; they see that he'll eventually marry Shizuka, the GirlNextDoor, and Nobita is very happy for it. At the beginning of the story, however, Nobita's grandson came from an alternate future where Nobita married Giant's sister Jaiko instead and led his family to poverty, so he warned Nobita to become a better person, with him sending Doraemon to help.
* ''Manga/TheQuintessentialQuintuplets'' occasionally flashes forward to Fuutarou's wedding day, where he is marrying one of the quintuplets. ''Which'' quintuplet, however, remains a mystery throughout most of the story. [[spoiler: It turns out to be Yotsuba]].
* A bonus chapter from ''Manga/OshiNoKo'' features a CrossoverPunchline example where Ruby is talking about a photographer worked with at a recent photo shoot. When checking for their name in a magazine, she sees that they're listed as [[spoiler:Kaguya Shirogane]] confirming that [[spoiler:the main couple]] from the then concurrently running ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' got married (at the time of the chapter's publication, the two had only been dating for a few months in their series, though marriage was clearly already on the horizon).
* ''Manga/{{Orange}}'' makes this into a plot point. The protagonist, Naho Takamiya, is married to her high school friend Suwa ten years in the future. This Naho sends back letters to her past self and friends in the hopes of warning them about an upcoming tragedy (that of their soon-to-be friend Kakeru's [[spoiler:upcoming suicide]]) and to reassure them that this will hopefully change their own timeline and not the one where she got married. [[spoiler:It is implied in the live action adaptation that she was hoping Future Naho would save Kakeru and marry him in the changed timeline.]]

* ''Comicbook/XFactor''
** At one point, Layla Miller and Jamie Madrox have a conversation in which Layla (who is, more or less, a {{Seer|s}}) offhandedly says that they would be married in the future. Keep in mind that, at this point, Layla is ''eleven years old''. Jamie laughs 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.
* The ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' had an infamous "Adult Legion" story in 1967 showing that some characters were married in the future. The first pair married for real in 1974 and the second in 1978.

* ''ComicBook/XMen''
** In ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'', Wolverine and Storm are a married couple.
** In "The End", Beast and Cecilia Reyes are a married couple. So are Sam Guthrie and Lila Cheney.

* Although Empath and Smurfette in the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' novel get married in the epilogue that takes place ten years later, Empath in "Days Of Future Smurfed" sees during a time when the marriage has yet to take place that they will become parents, though the rest of what Empath sees are mostly tragedies, such as the future death of his wife Smurfette.
* ''Fanfic/RebootMiraculousLadybug'': In the BadFuture, Marinette had since learned of Chat Noir's secret identity and eventually married him.
* ''FanFic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Barry and Iris, according to Eobard Thawne. It still isn't enough to break Barry's IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy mindset.
* A lot of the one shots in ''Fanfic/AfterTheJungleSeries'' take place during Arnold and Helga’s adulthood and eventual marriage.
* In "And You May Ask Yourself", the second story in the ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1205950 Weird Sisters]]'' series, [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold]] is knocked out during a baseball game and wakes up to find himself twenty-five years in the future HappilyMarried to Helga.

* 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. Also, Kodachi learns that she and Ryu Kamon are married in the same timeline, having met when he saved her from [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] after being rejected by Ranma.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' 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.]]
* ''Film/TheKid2000'': [[spoiler: Shown to happen with Russ and Amy in the future]].

* Notably averted in ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Mockingjay]]'' where the [[DistantFinale epilogue]] shows Katniss and [[spoiler:Peeta]] together in a lifelong, loving relationship, raising their children together, but there is never a mention of whether or not they got married.
* In Creator/AgathaChristie's novel, ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'', two of the side characters fall in love and forms a relationship. When they re-appear in ''Literature/ThePaleHorse'', they are already married.
* This is the TwistEnding of ''Gowie Corby Plays Chicken'' by Gene Kemp. [[spoiler: Gowie's previously unnamed wife in the FramingStory turns out to be Heather, the girl he was bullying throughout the main story.]]

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'':
** When ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' got a sequel movie set 100 years after the TV series, it's revealed that Daigo and Amy (who got a LastMinuteHookUp) eventually married and have great-grandchildren in the future; and that Souji married his LoveInterest Rin.
** The epilogue of ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' is set fifty years into the future and implies that Kou and Rin eventually married.

* While slipping in and out of consciousness, Crono has a dream of being married to [[LoveInterest Marle]] in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. While this does indeed happen [[spoiler:in one of the endings, there is no guarantee that this ever happens, since Crono dies in a cutscene and bringing him back is entirely optional.]]
* In ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'', if you play through the ending where [[spoiler: Roy becomes President of the USA, Tiffany is his future First Lady]].

'''Luz:''' ''[blushing]'' Spoilers.

* In a episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen travel to a BadFuture where Libby becomes a tyrannical despot and rules over all of the world due to Carl accidentally giving her a megalomania-inducing perfume developed by Jimmy as a present for her birthday party. In this era, [[MyFutureSelfAndMe they meet]] an older Jimmy who is a FutureLoser and married to Cindy, who doesn't seem all too thrilled by this and pretty much treats her hubby as harshly as she did in the past. Although Jimmy [[CannotSpitItOut has his fair share of]] (depending on the episode) ShipTease, SlapSlapKiss, BelligerentSexualTension, and UnresolvedSexualTension with Cindy, [[BigNo he does not take this development well]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, the two hook up for real in the present, [[LastMinuteHookup during the series finale]].]]

* While we never actually see them married, in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' 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.
* Once in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' when Magicka deSpell sent Scrooge into the future he encountered a [[SheIsAllGrownUp shapely Webigale]] and a slimmed down Doofus who tell him they've gotten married. When he gets back to his own time, he tells Doofus to take care of Webby, which causes her to have a disgusted reaction.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' PBS series sometimes shows glimpses into the future where it's hinted certain characters may be married. Arthur is shown being married to Francine a few times. Another example has a grown up Brain and Sue Ellen next to each other with a child that could be Brain's son. Then again, as the future hasn't happened yet, this could be speculation.

* 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/HeyArnold'' episode "Married," both Arnold and Helga have dreams where they grow up and marry each other--while Helga's dream has them HappilyMarried throughout the whole thing, Arnold's dream depicts a more dysfunctional marriage.[[spoiler: WordOfGod has confirmed that Arnold and Helga do end up getting married (and having children) as adults.]]
* In the SeriesFinale for WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor,[[spoiler: it's revealed that Numbuhs 2 and 5 get married while Numbuhs 3 and 4 get married--and this is after viewers are initially led to believe that Numbuhs 2 and 3 got married while Numbuhs 4 and 5 either stayed single or married other people.]]
* In the "Post-Covid Special" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', taking place 30 years after the main storyline, [[spoiler: Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak]] are heavily implied to be married, or at the very least in a stable relationship; unlike [[spoiler: Stan Marsh and Wendy Testaburger]], who despite having a relationship in elementary school, appear to have broken up.

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* In one of the timelines of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', [[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Kaname Chidori]] ends up marrying Sosuke Sagara, making her Kaname Sagara. She also ends up being partly responsible for most of the alternate timeline mess.

* While slipping in and out of consciousness, Crono has a dream of being married to [[LoveInterest Marle]] in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. [[spoiler:There is no guarantee that this ever happens, since Crono dies in a cutscene and bringing him back is entirely optional.]]

You've all seen it. It's the Alternate Universe episode, there's a [[TimeSkip flashforward]], or we're rejoining the characters after a sizable amount of time has passed. Two characters who were previously only dating, were just friends, hadn't met yet or even hated each other's guts are now happily settled. For one reason or another it's not enough to demonstrate that they're involved in a stable relationship; the fact needs to be established that they are married. This is almost always achieved through an awkward aside, which generally goes along the lines of "That's why I / you married you / me", "You shouldn't have married me", etc. Very occasionally used without dialogue by including an otherwise gratuitous shot of a wedding photo.

* ''Manga/{{Orange}}'' makes this into a plot point. The protagonist, Naho, is married to her high school friend (...) ten years in the future. This Naho sends back letters to her past self and friends in the hopes of warning them about an upcoming tragedy (that of their friend's [[spoiler:upcoming suicide]]) and to reassure them that this will hopefully change their own timeline and not the one where she got married.

* 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 [[TheDitz Ralph Wiggum]].

* 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 Sutherland's pregnancy at the time).

* While slipping in and out of consciousness, Crono has a dream of being married to [[LoveInterest Marle]] in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. [[spoiler: There is no guarantee that this ever happens, since Crono dies in a cutscene.]]

* In the "Post-Covid Special" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', taking place 30 years after the main storyline, [[spoiler: Craig Tucker and Tweek Tweak]] are heavily implied to be married, or at the very least, in a stable relationship; unlike [[spoiler: Stan Marsh and Wendy Testaburger]], who despite having a relationship in elementary school, appear to have broken up.

* In Creator/AgathaChristie's novel, ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable'', two of the side characters fall in love and forms a relationship. When they re-appear in ''The Pale Horse'', they are already married.

* In a episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'', Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen travel to a BadFuture where Libby becomes a tyrannical despot and rules over all of the world due to Carl accidentally giving her a megalomania-inducing perfume developed by Jimmy as a present for her birthday party. In this era, [[MyFutureSelfAndMe they meet]] an older Jimmy who is a FutureLoser and married to Cindy, who doesn't seem all too thrilled by this and pretty much treats her hubby as harshly as she did in the past. Although Jimmy [[CannotSpitItOut has his fair share of]] (depending on the episode) ShipTease, SlapSlapKiss, BelligerentSexualTension, and UnresolvedSexualTension with Cindy, [[BigNo he does not take this development well]]. [[spoiler:Eventually, the two hook up for real in the present, [[LastMinuteHookup during the series finale]].]]

* 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. Also, Kodachi learns that she and Ryu Kamon are married in the same timeline, having met when he saved her from [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] after being rejected by Ranma.

** At one point, Layla Miller and Jamie Madrox have a conversation in which Layla (who is, more or less, a {{Seer}}) offhandedly says that they would be married in the future. Keep in mind that, at this point, Layla is ''eleven years old''. Jamie laughs 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.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode "Married", both Arnold and Helga have dreams where they grow up and marry each other. Helga's dream has them HappilyMarried throughout the whole thing, whereas Arnold's depicts a more dysfunctional marriage.

* On ''Series/TheFlash2014'', Barry Allen (the Flash) and Iris West have a WillTheyOrWontThey situation throughout the first season. When Barry finds Harrison Wells' secret lair and his A.I. from the future, Gideon, it mentions a future news article about The Flash going missing, written by Iris West-Allen.

* 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.

* ''Webcomic/HobbesAndBacon'' provides the page image.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog''. In the "25 Years Later" arc, Tails is married to Mina Mongoose, Sonic is married to Sally Acorn, and Knuckles is unofficially married to Julie-Su. Other characters like Espio and Vector are shown with children, but the [[MissingMom mothers are never mentioned]].

** In the future portion of "All Good Things" it's revealed that at some point in the [[TimeSkip subsequent fifteen years]], Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher resolved their UnresolvedSexualTension by getting married... only to ultimately end up AmicablyDivorced.
** When Worf visited an alternate universe he discovered that he had formed a relationship with Deanna there. When he returned to his universe he decided to pursue it. Possibly because the Alternate Deanna was so distressed at the thought of a reality where Worf "--never loved me."