History Main / EveryoneMustBePaired

Sister trope to WeddingsForEveryone, where the story ends with multiple couples getting married, but despite the name, doesn't necessarily involve all, or even most, of the major characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': {{Discussed|Trope{{ by Marge in "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love". She states that she can't stand seeing someone she knows being single, and when Lisa argues that some people enjoy the single life, insists that "everyone should be paired up".

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->'''Marge:''' It's about time Mr. Burns found a woman. I can't stand to see a man single.
->'''Lisa:''' Some people enjoy being alone, Mom.
->'''Marge:''' No, everyone should be paired up.

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', the [[BigGood Purpose]] absolutely ''loves'' pairing people off, and thus most of the heroes end up in relationships by the end.

** The Literature/EndersGame series ends in ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheMind'' with a double marriage that seems to serve little point but to pair up all the remaining single characters of young adult age, among them an embodied fragment of another character's psyche and the recently created biological avatar of the future-internet's artificial intelligence.
* Creator/AgathaChristie enjoys pairing her characters, even when her stories rarely focus on romance, and several of her novels end with all the remaining, innocent suspects getting paired off with each other.
** The Literature/HerculePoirot novel, ''Literature/AppointmentWithDeath'' mostly focuses on the family drama among the Boynton family, particularly between the tyrannical Mrs. Boynton and her four children. By the end of the book, all four children are HappilyMarried, even though Carol and Ginevra had no romantic subplot prior to the epilogue.
** ''Literature/TowardsZero'' features a cast dealing with AllLoveIsUnrequited: with Ted Latrimer being in love with Kay, who is married to Nevile Strange, who is still in love with his ex-wife Audrey, who is also pursued by Thomas Royd. Once [[spoiler:Nevile]] is revealed to be the murderer, it is implied that the unrequited love would be resolved with [[spoiler:Ted being free to pursue Kay, Audrey marrying Angus [=MacWhirter=], and Audrey herself asserting that Thomas would eventually get over her and end up with Mary Aldin.]]
* The “19 Years Later” epilogue to ''Literature/HarryPotter'' pairs up almost everyone. Harry is married to Ginny with three children, while Ron and Hermione are married with two children. Draco Malfoy is also married and has a son. And in the younger generation, Lupin and Tonks’ son Teddy is paired up with Bill and Fleur’s daughter Victoire.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Discussed by Marge in "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love". She states that she can't stand seeing someone she knows being single, and when Lisa argues that some people enjoy the single life, insists that "everyone should be paired up".

* In the musical ''Film/SevenBridesForSevenBrothers'', this is the premise from the beginning; six of the titular brothers, unhappy that the oldest of them is wed, kidnap six girls they like from the nearby town and try to {{Stockholm|Syndrome}}-seduce them over the winter.

* Done for laughs at the end of ''Film/{{Baseketball}}''. Coop ends up with his love interest Jenna, and Squeak embraces the possible transsexual he has been sharing looks with. Remer on the other hand looks despondent until he meets gazes with Yvette, a character he has had no interaction with throughout the movie. They immediately begin making out.

* The ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'' franchise is adamant that anyone involved in the ''Romance Series'' needs a love interest--and if one isn't given to them, they will have one prepared for them later. Lots of couples were already set in stone, but of the cast, only Koyuki Ayase and Kodai Yamamoto (who both suffered from unrequited love with the same girl) didn't have any clear cut pairings after their year's respective arcs. [[spoiler:In the end, Koyuki was given an upperclassman in college, Ryo Ogino; and Kodai fell in love with Juri Hattori, a girl from the next focus group who reminds him of his first crush.]] The token teacher figure, Saku Akechi, was also given some ShipTease with the school nurse, with one previous Music/HoneyWorks song ("Little Regret") being attributed to their past dynamic. He's later definitely paired up with a fomer student of his.

* Romance and marriage is seen as very important in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. As a result, pretty much ''every'' character in the story (except [[UnpopularPopularCharacter Leah]]) gets a LoveInterest. Even the ''baby'' gets a betrothed in the form of [[spoiler:''[[SquaringTheLoveTriangle her mom's ex]]'']]!

* Averted in ''Literature/BetsyTacy''. Multiple couples and pairings are suggested or named throughout the high school books, but only four of those couples ultimately marry. All other characters marry someone they met after high school.

* The ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'' franchise is adamant that anyone involved in the ''Romance Series'' needs a love interest--and if one isn't given to them, they will have one prepared for them later. Lots of couples were already set in stone, but of the cast, only Koyuki Ayase and Kodai Yamamoto (who both suffered from unrequited love with the same girl) didn't have any clear cut pairings after their year's respective arcs. [[spoiler:In the end, Koyuki was given a junior, Ryo Ogino; and Kodai fell in love with Juri Hattori, a girl from the next focus group who reminds him of his first crush.]] The token teacher figure, Saku Akechi, was also given some ShipTease with the school nurse, with one previous Music/HoneyWorks song ("Little Regret") being attributed to their past dynamic. He's later definitely paired up with a fomer student of his.

* The ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'' franchise is adamant that anyone involved in the ''Romance Series'' needs a love interest--and if one isn't given to them, they will have one prepared for them later. Lots of couples were already set in stone, but of the cast, only Koyuki Ayase and Kodai Yamamoto (who both suffered from unrequited love with the same girl) didn't have any clear cut pairings after their year's respective arcs. [[spoiler:In the end, Koyuki was given a junior, Ryo Ogino; and Kodai fell in love with Juri Hattori, a girl from the next focus group who reminds him of his first crush.]] The token teacher figure, Saku Akechi, was also given some ShipTease with the school nurse, with one previous Music/HoneyWorks song ("Little Regret") being attributed to their past dynamic.

** Soon after the book’s release, Creator/JKRowling [[AllThereInTheManual released more details]] online: Draco’s wife is Asteria (or Astoria) Greengrass; Neville is married to Hannah Abbott, while Luna is married to Rolf Scamander (grandson of [[Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem author Newt Scamander]]) with two sons; Percy is married to someone named Audrey, while George is married to Angelina Johnson with s [[DeadGuyJunior son named Fred]]. The only character who definitely remains single is Ron’s brother Charlie.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', main character Harry is paired up with Ginny while the two other parts of the Golden Trio Ron and Hermion are paired up together. In the last installment of the original series, there is a big 19 Years Later epilogue, where they all have children. The same counts for former bully Draco, who now has a son with someone named Astoria Greengrass (pureblood sister of some former classmate). While Neville only gets mentioned as teacher, J.K. Rowling made sure to inform us after that he has got together with herbology-loving Hufflepuff Hannah Abbott. Luna on the other hand got children with Rolf Scamander (the grandson of Newt Scamander, a famous magizoologist only mentioned as an author in the books). No living Weasley brother gets left behind though, as George is paired up with former Quidditch companion Angelina Johnson and Percy gets a wife called Audrey apparently. Even teenagers Teddy Lupin and Victoire Weasley are already paired up in the epilogue. Let alone that both their parents started as unlikely pairings (Remus & Tonks, Bill & Fleur).

Compare NoLovesIntersect, where multiple characters manage to get paired up without the relationships being caught up in a LoveTriangle or LoveDodecahedron. Contrast EverybodyIsSingle and/or AllLoveIsUnrequited.

** Taken to an extreme in the ''Literature/HomecomingSaga''. She's a functionally asexual scientist! He's a gay librarian! TheyFightCrime![[note]]They don't actually fight crime[[/note]] They get married! They have kids!

* Creator/AgathaChristie enjoys pairing her characters, even when her stories rarely focus on romance.

* ''Manga/AnimalLand'' features 5 human characters who are gifted with the ability to communicate with animals, although one of them is evil. After he is defeated, the remaining 4 gets paired up together--even though only one of the couple has any chemistry, while the other two characters never actually interact on-screen.

* The ''Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee'' franchise is adamant that anyone involved in the ''Romance Series'' needs a love interest--and if one isn't given to them, they will have one prepared for them later. Lots of couples were already set in stone, but of the cast, only Koyuki Ayase and Kodai Yamamoto (who both suffered from unrequited love with the same girl) didn't have any clear cut pairings after their year's respective arcs. [[spoiler:In the end, Koyuki was given a junior, Ryo Ogino, and Kodai fell in love with a junior that resembles his first love.]] The token teacher figure, Saku Akechi, was also given some ShipTease with the school nurse, with one previous Music/HoneyWorks song ("Little Regret") being attributed to their past dynamic.

* The ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' manga does a pretty amazing job at this - ''two dozen'' characters all get paired off before the end.

* ''Literature/TaraDuncan'' is a particularly triumphant example, as the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters all end up paired with somebody even if they never interacted before. It include Sparrow and Fabrice, Fafnir and Sylver, Mara and Archangel, Chem and Charm, Lisbeth and Various, Betty and a werewolf and later Jar, Jeremy and Sanhexia, just to name a few).

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': At the end of the series, we see that all members of Team 7 and Team 10 got married and have children. With Team 7 having the obvious pairings (Naruto and Hinata, Sasuke and Sakura), Team 10 had only one obvious pairing (Shikamaru and Temari). Ino got paired with Sai, which at the very least made sense, as Ino did show to be attracted to Sai. But the most fitting example of this trope is Chouji being paired with Karui, a character from another village like Temari, but unlike with Shikamaru and Temari, Chouji and Karui never interacted with each other nor seemed they to even know of the other's existence prior to the revelation. Their two contrasting personalities also made it difficult for the audience to see how the pairing could even work, since there was no opportunities to show their character dynamic, unlike with Shikamaru and Temari who also have contrasting characters, but have an excellent character dynamic with one another. It also doesn't help that Karui is a very minor character whose biggest impact she had was beating the crap out of Naruto (who let her beating him up).

** ''Literature/TowardsZero'' features a cast dealing with AlwaysUnrequitedLove: with Ted Latrimer being in love with Kay, who is married to Nevile Strange, who is still in love with his ex-wife Audrey, who is also pursued by Thomas Royd. Once [[spoiler:Nevile]] is revealed to be the murderer, it is implied that the unrequited love would be resolved with [[spoiler:Ted being free to pursue Kay, Audrey marrying Angus [=MacWhirter=], and Audrey herself asserting that Thomas would eventually get over her and end up with Mary Aldin.]]

* The Literature/HerculePoirot novel, ''Literature/AppointmentWithDeath'' mostly focuses on the family drama among the Boynton family, particularly between the tyrannical Mrs. Boynton and her four children. By the end of the book, all four children are HappilyMarried, even though Carol and Ginevra had no romantic subplot prior to the epilogue.

* Creator/OrsonScottCard:
** Taken to an extreme in the ''Literature/HomecomingSaga''. She's a functionally asexual scientist! He's a gay librarian! TheyFightCrime![[note]]They don't actually fight crime[[/note]] They get married! They have kids!
** The Literature/EndersGame series ends in ''Literature/ChildrenOfTheMind'' with a double marriage that seems to serve little point but to pair up all the remaining single characters of young adult age, among them an embodied fragment of another character's psyche and the recently created biological avatar of the future-internet's artificial intelligence.