History Main / MarryThemall

* In the updated [[FlashForward first chapter]] of ''Fanfic/IzukusProHeroHaremLife'', Izuku and his massive harem are a week away from their mass wedding, which Japan's recent legalization of polygamy has made possible. The rest of the fic is a HowWeGotHere showing off how Izuku wins the hearts of so many ladies.

* A true example with the final chapter of ''Manga/JoujuuSenjinMushibugyou'': By the time skip finale, [[spoiler: Jinbei ended up marrying Oharu, Hibachi and Kuroageha. It has not yet been decided who’s the legal wife and who’s the concubines. Even [[BabiesEverAfter having nine kids, three with each of them.]]]]

* A true example with the final chapter of ''Manga/JoujuuSenjinMushibugyou'' [[JustForPun coupled]] with BabiesEverAfter.

* In ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', Catarina offhandedly mentions once that there is a "Reverse Harem" route within the {{fictional|videogame}} RomanceGame ''Fortune Lover'', where Maria winds up with all four romanceable targets. However, she still wishes to avoid that route because it still leads to the in-game Catarina's doom.

** Both the OVA and ''GXP'' justify this by stating that the marriages are political: Ayeka and Sasami are granddaughters to Seto, the most powerful noble in Jurai who bosses the King [[spoiler:and Sasami herself [[FusionDance is gradually merging]] with Tsunami, the patron goddess of Jurai and one of three known 11-dimensional entities named the Choushin (literally "super-deity"), into a singular being]]; Noike is the adopted daughter of Seto [[spoiler:and the female half of Kagato, which also means that she is a Naja Akara clone and as result has the same genetic makeup as Seto-no-onihime]]; Mihoshi is a member of the Kuramitsu family, one of the most powerful families in the universe; Washu is [[spoiler:a Choushin]] and sister to [[spoiler:the aforementioned patron deity of the Juraians as well as Mihoshi's ancestor]]; [[spoiler:Tokimi eventually decides to live in Tenchi's house with her sisters, though she apparently doesn't have a romantic relation with him]]; Ryoko is technically Washu's daughter [[spoiler:and therefore technically half-choushin]]; and Ryo-ohki is Ryoko's ship. As the third OVA and ''GXP'' quickly point out, Tenchi's household is ''the'' single highest concentration of power, Physical, Political, ''and'' Supernatural in the universe.

In {{Love Triangle}}s and [[LoveDodecahedron more complicated]] [[UnwantedHarem situations]], selecting just one suitor can prove to be a toughie. After all, the main character usually finds him/herself in this predicament because he/she [[LoveYouAndEverybody likes all of the love interests to a degree]] and doesn't want to break anyone's heart or make anyone leave. Even if he/she likes only one in particular, there's little guarantee that the rest will be [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy willing to accept their choice]], especially in long-running harem series. This often happens when the love polygon devolves into TrueCompanions and infatuations become close friendships instead.

* The manga version of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', with Hikaru declaring she's going to marry both of her love interests. Though what Hikaru actually says is that she wants to be with the ones she loves forever (Which is how Eagle describes marriage), and then defines the ones she loves to be [[LoveYouAndEverybody virtually entire cast]].

* Since men are very rare in the world of ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', each man not [[SexSlave sold to the cribs]] will marry every sister in a family. This turns out happily for Jerin, since [[FirstGirlWins Odelia]], [[SexEqualsLove Ren]], and [[spoiler: later and much to his surprise "[[GoodScarsEvilScars Cira]]"]] are sisters, and he falls in love with their other grown sisters [[DoesNotLikeMen Trini]] and [[ChivalrousPervert Lylia]] after the engagement, too. He also [[FriendToAllChildren gets along well]] with and nurtures [[WifeHusbandry their younger sisters]]. This is a world where sisters are raised to be one unit, sort of; for example the country is ruled by the Queens. Jealousy ''is'' brought up in the context of the man having "favorites" but doesn't seem to be as big an issue as it would be in our world. (And Jen was apparently raised to spend equal time with each of his (future) wives, to avoid the ''appearance'' of favorites; for example, if he were to become married to a family of 30, he should wait to "visit" one until he had spent time with each of the other 29.)

* In the hentai, and later [[BleachedUnderpants actual manga]] ''Manga/ImaizumiBringsAllTheGyarusToHisHouse'', the protagonist Imaizumi, after gaining the courage to follow through with it, takes on Yukina, Ruri, Reina, and Lisa as his romantic partners for the rest of his life[[note]]he can't legally marry them all due to Japan having laws against polygamy[[/note]], having decided to take them all as his wives.

* Seiji marries all three of his love interests in the manga ending of ''Manga/LoveTyrant''.

* In the hentai, and later actual manga Imaizumi Brings All The Gyarus To His House, has the protagonist Imaizumi, after gaining the courage to follow through with it, he takes on Yukina, Ruri, Reina, and Lisa as his romantic partners for the rest of his life[[note]]he can't legally marry them all due to Japan having laws against polygamy[[/note]], having decided to take them all as his wives.

* In ''LightNovel/EndoAndKobayashiLiveTheLatestOnTsundereVillainessLieselotte'', Kobayashi explains that the only route where Lieselotte (the titular "Villainess") survives in the {{Fictional|VideoGame}} RomanceGame ''Love Me Magically!'' is the harem ending where she enters into a relationship with [[PlayerCharacter Fiene]] alongside everybody else. Endo finds it an EsotericHappyEnding, believing such an arrangement could never work out in the long run and with so many nobles, including the crown prince, vying for the attentions of a commoner would plunge the country into chaos. Kobayashi agrees that they were probably not meant to think about it very hard. [[spoiler:This turns out to be an accurate assessment: Not only does the above problem exist, but it also relies on Fiene falling under the control of her evil maternal grandparents.]]

* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/ForgedDestiny''. At the end of the story, Jaune wants to marry his girlfriend Blake, but for the sake of politics he can only take one wife, and that wife has to be [[spoiler:Ruby, since they both were instrumental [[KillTheGod in killing Salem]] and them falling in love afterwards would make for a powerful narrative to build the future of Vale on.]] None of them are particularly happy about this at the time, but the epilogue chapter reveals that they've managed to settle into a comfortable polygamous relationship, with Blake's role as mistress being an open secret.

* In the hentai, and later actual manga Imaizumi Brings All The Gyarus To His House, has the protagonist Imaizumi, after gaining the courage to follow through with it, he takes on Yukina, Ruri, Reina, and Lisa as his romantic partners for the rest of his life (note: he can't legally marry them all due to the laws of Japan), having decided to take them all as his wives.

* How Tomoko fixes the love triangle in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFyCuKoEGA anime love triangles]].
-->'''Narrator''': "And so, anime was solved forever!"

* Parodied and reversed in the ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' episode "Trio's Company" which ends with Gigi marrying Harvey, Peanut, Phil, her friends Vince and Terry, and a bear. Of course, Gigi has a habit of [[ReallyGetsAround flirting/sleeping with every man she comes across]]… except [[ButtMonkey Harvey]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' movie "[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMyVacation How I Spent My Vacation]]", Buster and Babs encounter a family of alligators living on a Louisiana plantation. The rotund father explains that all 3 of his (equally corpulent) daughters wish to marry Buster.
->''Buster:'' I can't marry all 3 of them! That's bigamy!\\
''Father:'' Naw, that's big o' ''me''!

* In the hentai, and later actual manga Imaizumi Brings All The Gyarus To His House, has the protagonist Imaizumi, after gaining the courage to follow through with it, he takes on Yukina, Ruri, Reina, and Risa as his romantic partners for the rest of his life (note: he can't legally marry them all due to the laws of Japan), having decided to take them all as his wives.

** In ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlfriendLoisLane'' #57, Lois and Lana find that Superman had been changed into a child and both decide to condition the kid into proposing to them when he's older. It turns out that it was actually a version of Superman from another dimension where polygamy is legal, so he wound up marrying both of them.

* ''LightNovel/TheTestamentOfSisterNewDevil'': The light novels conclude with Basara consummating all of his relationships with his harem, in an orgy. Including [[KissingCousins his biological cousin]] Mio and [[ParentalIncest his aunt]] Chisato. Each of them becomes pregnant and will eventually give birth to his offspring, once the protective barrier around each embryo expires. The barrier also ensures that the girls can continue to have as much sex as they want in the meantime, without risk of miscarriage.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has a special sidestory entitled ''There is but One Ultimate Way'' where Asuna and all of Kirito's female friends basically pull him into the Underworld VR realm to ''share'' him, so that they all can tell him how they really felt about him and ''get married''.

* ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Hajime ended up marrying Yue, Shea, Tio, Kaori, Shizuku, Aiko, Liliana, and Remia. Yue is undoubtedly the TopWife.
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Leon is officially engaged to Angelica and Olivia. When he meets Noelle, she falls in love with him but is heartbroken when she finds out he already has two fiancées, until she finds out that polygamy is legal and even encouraged in the Holtfort Kingdom, and Angelica herself encourages him to get engaged to Noelle as well for the benefit of their nation (as she is the Priestess chosen by the Sacred Tree sapling and Leon is the chosen Guardian).

** {{Deconstructed}} in the backstory of the Kingdom of Nohr, showing what would probably be a far more logical (if highly grim) conclusion to this. King Garon was incapable severing ties with a woman he'd once liked, and he ended up with a vast extended family of children from many different women. However, the infighting for his favor didn't result in a very happy home life, and while he once tried to be a good father to all of his children, many of his mistresses ''murdered'' one another's kids for political gain. The whole situation more-or-less only sorted itself out once most of his women were dead, and the surviving kids banded together and bonded while arranging matters amongst themselves. It ultimately left him the bitter, paranoid tyrant he is at the start of the story. [[spoiler: Or, rather, it provided a convenient cover for Anankos-using-the-already-dead-Garon's-body to neglect and abuse the princes and princesses for its own ends.]]
** It may (emphasis on ''may'') have been played considerably straighter in the backstory as well, but between [[spoiler: King Sumeragi, his first wife Queen Ikona, and his second wife Mikoto.]] [[spoiler: According to Hinoka's supports with the Avatar, Mikoto showed up one day with "a newborn baby"—the Avatar—and married Sumeragi. Problem is, Takumi and Sakura are younger than the Avatar—they couldn't have been born yet, meaning their real mother (Queen Ikona) was still alive at the time. Since Hoshido is modeled after MedievalJapan, where Emperors and highranked noblemen were allowed to have wives ''and'' mistresses (plus many capable noblewomen made careers for themselves out of being lovers to powerful men), it's likely that Sumeragi had Ikona as his official consort ''and'' Mikoto as a mix of advisor and concubine, and was savvy enough to sire children only with Ikona (plus adopting Mikoto's child) so no in-fighting would be had. As a result, when Ikona died [[RemarriedToTheMistress Mikoto married Sumeragi]] without lots of opposition from the court, and became the official Queen after his murder.]]

* A ForegoneConclusion in ''LightNovel/HowARealistHeroRebuiltTheKingdom'': [[ExoticExtendedMarriage both polygyny and polyandry are commonplace in Elfrieden]], which Souma's first fiancee and future TopWife Princess Liscia (whom he was [[HeirInLaw engaged to by her parents]] to legitimize them [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicating to him]]) points out to him when they're out on the town in volume 1. Despite her own feelings for him, she'd long since come to terms with the fact that AltarDiplomacy would be a fact of life for Souma as King. Souma holds a group wedding with his then-five fianceees in volume 10, concurrent with his formal coronation.

* Crossoverpairinglover's fanfiction does this, a lot. Out of all his main stories, only one of them lacks Polygamy (It instead points out one character has Polyandry and gets lampshaded in his comments). It's to a point that the characters aware of the Multiverse actively ask why it happens. Though the writer goes out of his way to explain why it happens and give it logic, as opposed to having the characters blindly accept it like most writers.

* A ForegoneConclusion in ''Literature/HowARealistHeroRebuiltTheKingdom'': [[ExoticExtendedMarriage both polygyny and polyandry are commonplace in Elfrieden]], which Souma's first fiancee and future TopWife Princess Liscia (whom he was [[HeirInLaw engaged to by her parents]] to legitimize them [[AbdicateTheThrone abdicating to him]]) points out to him when they're out on the town in volume 1. Despite her own feelings for him, she'd long since come to terms with the fact that AltarDiplomacy would be a fact of life for Souma as King. Souma holds a group wedding with his then-five fianceees in volume 10, concurrent with his formal coronation.