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* ''Series/AlexRider2020'': A bit of a recurring theme for Alex. In Season 1, he's interested in Ayisha, a girl at his school, but Duplicate!Alex [[NoodleIncident says something horrible/creepy to her]], completely [[BitchSlap ruining any chance]] he had with her. Then, in Season 2, Sabina ends up thinking that [[StalkerWithACrush he's pretending to be a spy in order to get close to her]]: while she's proven wrong, and they share an AlmostKiss, she tells him he [[UnresolvedSexualTension can't be around her for a while]] as her father's still recovering from his injuries. There's a bit of ShipTease with Kyra too, but it never goes beyond that.
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* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
** Buffy and Angel in Season 3 and then Buffy and Spike in Season 7.
** Buffy and [[PutOnABus Riley]], Willow and [[InstantDeathBullet Tara]], Xander and [[InTheBack Anya]], [[HoYay Andrew and Jonathan]], and Giles and [[NeckSnap Jenny]] for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** Along with Angel and [[DeadAllAlong Cordelia]], [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Gunn]] and Fred, Wesley and [[DemonicPossession Fred]], and [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]] and Wesley all of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Usually because of one of the people involved dying.
* In the BBC version of ''Series/{{Casanova}}'', the titular character [[TearJerker tragically]] did not get the girl. The Hollywood version cheapens the story with a tacked-on happy ending.
** Buffy and Angel in Season 3 and then Buffy and Spike in Season 7.
** Buffy and [[PutOnABus Riley]], Willow and [[InstantDeathBullet Tara]], Xander and [[InTheBack Anya]], [[HoYay Andrew and Jonathan]], and Giles and [[NeckSnap Jenny]] for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** Along with Angel and [[DeadAllAlong Cordelia]], [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Gunn]] and Fred, Wesley and [[DemonicPossession Fred]], and [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]] and Wesley all of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Usually because of one of the people involved dying.
* In the BBC version of ''Series/{{Casanova}}'', the titular character [[TearJerker tragically]] did not get the girl. The Hollywood version cheapens the story with a tacked-on happy ending.
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* Throughout ''Series/TedLasso'', Keeley had intermittently dated [[ReformedBully Jamie]] and [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Roy]]. In the GrandFinale, "[[Recap/TedLassoS3E12SoLongFarewell So Long, Farewell]]", while the three are at Keeley's house after the men got into a bar brawl over which of them she would choose, they tell Keeley that they've made up their minds to leave the decision to her. In the next scene, she's shut both of them out of her house.
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* Throughout ''Series/TedLasso'', Keeley had intermittently dated [[ReformedBully Jamie]] and [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Roy]]. In the GrandFinale, "[[Recap/TedLassoS3E12SoLongFarewell So Long, Farewell]]", while the three are at Keeley's house after the men got into a bar brawl an offscreen BarBrawl over which of them she would choose, they tell Keeley that they've made up their minds to leave the decision to her. In the next scene, she's shut both of them out of her house.
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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has JT's AbhorrentAdmirer Liberty have a crush him for a long time. When they do finally get together, they end up breaking up and he died before they could get back together (shortly after revealing to his best friend he was still in love with her, and this happened on her birthday).
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* Lancelot from ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}''. In this version, Arthur/Guinevere is not a political marriage, but a real love connection. Also Merlin and Freya. [[spoiler:Guinevere doesn't get the guy, with Arthur dying at the end.]]
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* Brian Kinney at the end of the US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk''. Despite having declared his love for Justin and even proposing marriage, which was what Justin wanted even though it went against everything playboy Brian believed in, [[spoiler: the couple split up so that Justin could pursue an art career in NYC]]. {{Word of God}} says this was not a breakup.
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* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' - [[ForegoneConclusion It should be extremely obvious]] to anyone with even a passing knowledge of ComicBook/{{Superman}} lore that Clark and Lana do not end up together.
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!!As this is an EndingTrope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
Times where the protagonist [[DidNotGetTheGirl doesn't get together with whomever they've been pursuing]] in LiveActionTV series.
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* Throughout the first season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', there is considerable ShipTease between Ward and Skye. Then she learns that [[spoiler:he's TheMole]] and rejects him. Her second love interest, Lincoln, [[spoiler:performs a HeroicSacrifice to save the world]].
* ''Series/ANTFarm'': Chyna showed signs of this a la Ranka Lee at the near end of the episode ''[=MeANT=] To Be?'', which implied that she wished she wanted to get a chance of fully loving Fletcher. More worse considering it's the 2nd to last episode, but luckily averted in the finale where Fletcher and Olive (her friend) broke up as well as Fletcher stays in New York, but even then, Chyna still never gets a chance to love Fletcher.
* Lee "Apollo" Adama on the new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is practically the patron saint of this trope. He blows it with ''at least'' four women over the course of the show: [[spoiler:Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, his [[StarCrossedLovers Star-Crossed Lover]], who marries another man, dies suddenly, comes back, then disappears again leaving him standing all alone in the middle of a field and that's literally the last that's seen of him in the series. Anastasia Dualla, who he sniped away from the show's DoggedNiceGuy Billy Keikeya. She married him, divorced him, then killed herself. Gianne, his ex-fiance, who he ran out on when she was pregnant with his child no less. Shevon, a prostitute he frequents for [[BizarroEpisode all of one episode]] and ReplacementGoldfish for Gianne, who pushes him away because, well, she's a prostitute]].
%%* The ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' episode "Bells".
* In ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', Gordon Brittas ultimately loses Laura, who he had considerable sexual tension with, to her estranged husband, Michael T. Farrell III.
* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
** Buffy and Angel in Season 3 and then Buffy and Spike in Season 7.
** Buffy and [[PutOnABus Riley]], Willow and [[InstantDeathBullet Tara]], Xander and [[InTheBack Anya]], [[HoYay Andrew and Jonathan]], and Giles and [[NeckSnap Jenny]] for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** Along with Angel and [[DeadAllAlong Cordelia]], [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Gunn]] and Fred, Wesley and [[DemonicPossession Fred]], and [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]] and Wesley all of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Usually because of one of the people involved dying.
* In the BBC version of ''Series/{{Casanova}}'', the titular character [[TearJerker tragically]] did not get the girl. The Hollywood version cheapens the story with a tacked-on happy ending.
* ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' ends with [[spoiler: Joey choosing Pacey over Dawson]].
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has JT's AbhorrentAdmirer Liberty have a crush him for a long time. When they do finally get together, they end up breaking up and he died before they could get back together (shortly after revealing to his best friend he was still in love with her, and this happened on her birthday).
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor occasionally does this, although mostly in the Revival. He didn't get together with Rose due to a combination of CannotSpitItOut and her getting stuck in an alternate universe. Even if he does succeed in romance, it's probably not going to last, because of his [[WhoWantsToLiveForever near-immortality]].
** They do get a somewhat happy ending at the end of Series 4. Due to a complicated series of events wherein the Doctor undergoes a partial regeneration which he aborts by channelling into his [[ChekhovsGun spare hand]], the hand later grows into a Half-Human clone of the Doctor after absorbing some of Donna's DNA. The Doctor decides to leave his doppelganger with Rose in the alternate universe, knowing that he can grow old with her and give her a life that he never could.
** Back in the Classic Who days, Sarah Jane was something of an ImpliedLoveInterest for the Fourth Doctor. Despite plenty of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST, nothing happened whatsoever and he eventually abandoned her several hundred miles away from where she was actually from and [[ForgottenFallenFriend never spoke about her again]]. In a Tenth Doctor episode, the Doctor finally confirms that his Fourth incarnation had been in love with her, but he'd chosen not to pursue his feelings because of the MayflyDecemberRomance factor and because he's bad at handling goodbyes. He then [[ReincarnationRomance finally tells her with his new face]], "[[LoveConfession I Love You, Sarah Jane]]", before leaving her again. Even more of a TearJerker after the RealLife passing of Creator/ElisabethSladen from cancer in 2011.
** ''Flux'' starts with Dan and Diane's budding romance which gets sidelined by the series' big StoryArc. In the end, she rejects his offer for another date after all she's been through.
* [[FaceDeathWithDignity November]] and Paul, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Alpha]] and Echo, [[SurvivorGuilt Topher]] and [[OneHitKill Bennett]], and [[EsotericHappyEnding Echo and Paul]], all from ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}''.
* ''Series/ICarly'': Carly Shay doesn't get the guy at the end of "[=iOMG=]", a season finale cliffhanger. By the end of the real finale, [[spoiler:Sam doesn't end up with Freddie either, but Carly ''does'' get the guy right before she leaves]].
* Played for laughs with Simon Cooper in ''Series/TheInbetweeners''. He spends the course of the entire show trying to win her over, usually blowing it in hilarious ways. He does get to kiss her in the final episode of series 2, but she goes back to her boyfriend.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' hinted in early episodes that Shotaro would eventually get together with Akiko, only for her to end up with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Terui]] instead.
* ''Series/MaddigansQuest'' made it clear from the beginning that this would be how the UnresolvedSexualTension between Garland and Timon, since whether they won or lost, Timon would have to return to the future.
* Lancelot from ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}''. In this version, Arthur/Guinevere is not a political marriage, but a real love connection. Also Merlin and Freya. [[spoiler:Guinevere doesn't get the guy, with Arthur dying at the end.]]
* In the Japanese drama ''Naka nai to Kimeta Hi'', the protagonist loses her love interest when a rival successfully seduces him and ends up marrying him. It is then suggested that she may end up with a senior at work who has sympathy for her and supports her in her career - but that doesn't happen either.
* ''Series/NightCourt'' - though Harry and Christine gave it an honest shot.
* Brian Kinney at the end of the US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk''. Despite having declared his love for Justin and even proposing marriage, which was what Justin wanted even though it went against everything playboy Brian believed in, [[spoiler: the couple split up so that Justin could pursue an art career in NYC]]. {{Word of God}} says this was not a breakup.
* Allan-a-Dale from ''Series/RobinHood'' was given two possible love interests and lost them both to other characters. [[spoiler:[[ShootTheShaggyDog And then they killed him off]].]]
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': In Season 6, Ted is offered a permanent position in the Galapagos Islands and Alexis's PR career starts to take off, eventually prompting a move to New York. After a heartfelt and heartbreaking talk, they realize that, despite loving each other deeply, their lives are taking them in different directions and they break up.
* Happens several times in ''Series/{{Skins}}'':
** Tony and Michelle end up going their separate ways because of different universities.
** Generation 1 ends inconclusively whether Sid reunited with Cassie in the US. "Skins Pure" reveals that they did not get together again.
** Franky ultimately rejects both Levan brothers, which isn't so bad given how unlikable she became in the sixth series.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' - [[ForegoneConclusion It should be extremely obvious]] to anyone with even a passing knowledge of ComicBook/{{Superman}} lore that Clark and Lana do not end up together.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has a few examples:
** ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'': Takeru does not end up with Iyal because she is now the queen of Tube and is forbidden to have a relationship with a human. The hint being Iyal saying to Takeru to "Never look back" was a sign that she meant "Forget about me, you still have your friends waiting for you."
** ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'': Tatsuya and Yuuri cannot be together because she has to go back to the year 3000. Domon has to go too, meaning that he cannot be with Honami - this is played for TearJerker effect when he returns for ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''.
** ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' showed that Sosuke and Miu had feelings for each other, but ultimately nothing comes of it and they return to their respective lives.
** [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger GekiRed]], [[Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger HurricaneRed]] and [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger GoseiRed]] all have movie-only love interests that don't re-appear for the TV series, thus they do not get the girl.
** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'': Yayoi was shown to have a huge crush on Daigo from her introduction, and was determined to win him over. Despite the mild ShipTease between Yayoi and Daigo that followed, including weathering the visit of pop star Mikoto, who Daigo was shown to be very close to and protective of, it was Amy who ended up with Daigo, a romance that was suddenly dropped on viewers' heads during ''[[LastMinuteHookup the last three episodes]]''. Yayoi, who declared early on that she would not lose to Amy, seemed to just suddenly quit pursuing Daigo and was [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy apparently okay with letting Daigo and Amy be together]].
%%* Several from the Franchise/UltraSeries:
%%** Dan from ''Series/UltraSeven''
%%** Komon from ''Series/UltramanNexus''
* Early on in ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', the show seemed to be setting up a relationship between Tori and Beck. When Beck broke up with his girlfriend, Jade, there were several [[ShipTease Ship Teasing]] moments between him and Tori. However, he eventually gets back together with Jade by the end of the series. It should be noted that the show ended unexpectedly, and many plot lines were ended prematurely.
* Jack in ''Series/WildBoys''. Despite sharing a smoldering look in the finale, Mary ends up staying with Mick, and Jack rides off with Dan.
* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' ends with a closing epilogue revealing that, after six seasons, [[spoiler: Kevin and Winnie part ways and he ends up marrying someone else]].
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!!As this is an EndingTrope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
Times where the protagonist [[DidNotGetTheGirl doesn't get together with whomever they've been pursuing]] in LiveActionTV series.
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* Throughout the first season of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', there is considerable ShipTease between Ward and Skye. Then she learns that [[spoiler:he's TheMole]] and rejects him. Her second love interest, Lincoln, [[spoiler:performs a HeroicSacrifice to save the world]].
* ''Series/ANTFarm'': Chyna showed signs of this a la Ranka Lee at the near end of the episode ''[=MeANT=] To Be?'', which implied that she wished she wanted to get a chance of fully loving Fletcher. More worse considering it's the 2nd to last episode, but luckily averted in the finale where Fletcher and Olive (her friend) broke up as well as Fletcher stays in New York, but even then, Chyna still never gets a chance to love Fletcher.
* Lee "Apollo" Adama on the new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is practically the patron saint of this trope. He blows it with ''at least'' four women over the course of the show: [[spoiler:Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, his [[StarCrossedLovers Star-Crossed Lover]], who marries another man, dies suddenly, comes back, then disappears again leaving him standing all alone in the middle of a field and that's literally the last that's seen of him in the series. Anastasia Dualla, who he sniped away from the show's DoggedNiceGuy Billy Keikeya. She married him, divorced him, then killed herself. Gianne, his ex-fiance, who he ran out on when she was pregnant with his child no less. Shevon, a prostitute he frequents for [[BizarroEpisode all of one episode]] and ReplacementGoldfish for Gianne, who pushes him away because, well, she's a prostitute]].
%%* The ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' episode "Bells".
* In ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'', Gordon Brittas ultimately loses Laura, who he had considerable sexual tension with, to her estranged husband, Michael T. Farrell III.
* ''Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}'':
** Buffy and Angel in Season 3 and then Buffy and Spike in Season 7.
** Buffy and [[PutOnABus Riley]], Willow and [[InstantDeathBullet Tara]], Xander and [[InTheBack Anya]], [[HoYay Andrew and Jonathan]], and Giles and [[NeckSnap Jenny]] for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
** Along with Angel and [[DeadAllAlong Cordelia]], [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Gunn]] and Fred, Wesley and [[DemonicPossession Fred]], and [[HumanoidAbomination Illyria]] and Wesley all of ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Usually because of one of the people involved dying.
* In the BBC version of ''Series/{{Casanova}}'', the titular character [[TearJerker tragically]] did not get the girl. The Hollywood version cheapens the story with a tacked-on happy ending.
* ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' ends with [[spoiler: Joey choosing Pacey over Dawson]].
* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has JT's AbhorrentAdmirer Liberty have a crush him for a long time. When they do finally get together, they end up breaking up and he died before they could get back together (shortly after revealing to his best friend he was still in love with her, and this happened on her birthday).
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Doctor occasionally does this, although mostly in the Revival. He didn't get together with Rose due to a combination of CannotSpitItOut and her getting stuck in an alternate universe. Even if he does succeed in romance, it's probably not going to last, because of his [[WhoWantsToLiveForever near-immortality]].
** They do get a somewhat happy ending at the end of Series 4. Due to a complicated series of events wherein the Doctor undergoes a partial regeneration which he aborts by channelling into his [[ChekhovsGun spare hand]], the hand later grows into a Half-Human clone of the Doctor after absorbing some of Donna's DNA. The Doctor decides to leave his doppelganger with Rose in the alternate universe, knowing that he can grow old with her and give her a life that he never could.
** Back in the Classic Who days, Sarah Jane was something of an ImpliedLoveInterest for the Fourth Doctor. Despite plenty of {{U|nresolvedSexualTension}}ST, nothing happened whatsoever and he eventually abandoned her several hundred miles away from where she was actually from and [[ForgottenFallenFriend never spoke about her again]]. In a Tenth Doctor episode, the Doctor finally confirms that his Fourth incarnation had been in love with her, but he'd chosen not to pursue his feelings because of the MayflyDecemberRomance factor and because he's bad at handling goodbyes. He then [[ReincarnationRomance finally tells her with his new face]], "[[LoveConfession I Love You, Sarah Jane]]", before leaving her again. Even more of a TearJerker after the RealLife passing of Creator/ElisabethSladen from cancer in 2011.
** ''Flux'' starts with Dan and Diane's budding romance which gets sidelined by the series' big StoryArc. In the end, she rejects his offer for another date after all she's been through.
* [[FaceDeathWithDignity November]] and Paul, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Alpha]] and Echo, [[SurvivorGuilt Topher]] and [[OneHitKill Bennett]], and [[EsotericHappyEnding Echo and Paul]], all from ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}''.
* ''Series/ICarly'': Carly Shay doesn't get the guy at the end of "[=iOMG=]", a season finale cliffhanger. By the end of the real finale, [[spoiler:Sam doesn't end up with Freddie either, but Carly ''does'' get the guy right before she leaves]].
* Played for laughs with Simon Cooper in ''Series/TheInbetweeners''. He spends the course of the entire show trying to win her over, usually blowing it in hilarious ways. He does get to kiss her in the final episode of series 2, but she goes back to her boyfriend.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' hinted in early episodes that Shotaro would eventually get together with Akiko, only for her to end up with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Terui]] instead.
* ''Series/MaddigansQuest'' made it clear from the beginning that this would be how the UnresolvedSexualTension between Garland and Timon, since whether they won or lost, Timon would have to return to the future.
* Lancelot from ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}''. In this version, Arthur/Guinevere is not a political marriage, but a real love connection. Also Merlin and Freya. [[spoiler:Guinevere doesn't get the guy, with Arthur dying at the end.]]
* In the Japanese drama ''Naka nai to Kimeta Hi'', the protagonist loses her love interest when a rival successfully seduces him and ends up marrying him. It is then suggested that she may end up with a senior at work who has sympathy for her and supports her in her career - but that doesn't happen either.
* ''Series/NightCourt'' - though Harry and Christine gave it an honest shot.
* Brian Kinney at the end of the US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk''. Despite having declared his love for Justin and even proposing marriage, which was what Justin wanted even though it went against everything playboy Brian believed in, [[spoiler: the couple split up so that Justin could pursue an art career in NYC]]. {{Word of God}} says this was not a breakup.
* Allan-a-Dale from ''Series/RobinHood'' was given two possible love interests and lost them both to other characters. [[spoiler:[[ShootTheShaggyDog And then they killed him off]].]]
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': In Season 6, Ted is offered a permanent position in the Galapagos Islands and Alexis's PR career starts to take off, eventually prompting a move to New York. After a heartfelt and heartbreaking talk, they realize that, despite loving each other deeply, their lives are taking them in different directions and they break up.
* Happens several times in ''Series/{{Skins}}'':
** Tony and Michelle end up going their separate ways because of different universities.
** Generation 1 ends inconclusively whether Sid reunited with Cassie in the US. "Skins Pure" reveals that they did not get together again.
** Franky ultimately rejects both Levan brothers, which isn't so bad given how unlikable she became in the sixth series.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' - [[ForegoneConclusion It should be extremely obvious]] to anyone with even a passing knowledge of ComicBook/{{Superman}} lore that Clark and Lana do not end up together.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has a few examples:
** ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'': Takeru does not end up with Iyal because she is now the queen of Tube and is forbidden to have a relationship with a human. The hint being Iyal saying to Takeru to "Never look back" was a sign that she meant "Forget about me, you still have your friends waiting for you."
** ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'': Tatsuya and Yuuri cannot be together because she has to go back to the year 3000. Domon has to go too, meaning that he cannot be with Honami - this is played for TearJerker effect when he returns for ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''.
** ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' showed that Sosuke and Miu had feelings for each other, but ultimately nothing comes of it and they return to their respective lives.
** [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger GekiRed]], [[Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger HurricaneRed]] and [[Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger GoseiRed]] all have movie-only love interests that don't re-appear for the TV series, thus they do not get the girl.
** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'': Yayoi was shown to have a huge crush on Daigo from her introduction, and was determined to win him over. Despite the mild ShipTease between Yayoi and Daigo that followed, including weathering the visit of pop star Mikoto, who Daigo was shown to be very close to and protective of, it was Amy who ended up with Daigo, a romance that was suddenly dropped on viewers' heads during ''[[LastMinuteHookup the last three episodes]]''. Yayoi, who declared early on that she would not lose to Amy, seemed to just suddenly quit pursuing Daigo and was [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy apparently okay with letting Daigo and Amy be together]].
%%* Several from the Franchise/UltraSeries:
%%** Dan from ''Series/UltraSeven''
%%** Komon from ''Series/UltramanNexus''
* Early on in ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', the show seemed to be setting up a relationship between Tori and Beck. When Beck broke up with his girlfriend, Jade, there were several [[ShipTease Ship Teasing]] moments between him and Tori. However, he eventually gets back together with Jade by the end of the series. It should be noted that the show ended unexpectedly, and many plot lines were ended prematurely.
* Jack in ''Series/WildBoys''. Despite sharing a smoldering look in the finale, Mary ends up staying with Mick, and Jack rides off with Dan.
* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' ends with a closing epilogue revealing that, after six seasons, [[spoiler: Kevin and Winnie part ways and he ends up marrying someone else]].
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