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* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': [[BadassNormal Tusk]] and [[FallenPrincess Ange]] zig-zag this trope after they share their FirstKiss in Episode 14. Even after admitting to each other they more or less have feelings for one another, [[{{Tsundere}} Ange still remains prickly and occasionally violent, with Tusk usually being on the receiving end of her rage due to his RunningGag of falling in-between her legs.]] It's played straight as of Episode 22, when they finally [[TheirFirstTime make love for the first time, under the stars on a beachside. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, they're married and running a cafe.]]

* Tomoya and Nagisa of ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'' fame (at one point a DiabolusExMachina steps in, with Tomoya being screwed over repeatedly, first with [[spoiler:Nagisa's death, then Ushio]]'s, but then they get better).
* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': [[BadassNormal Tusk]] and [[FallenPrincess Ange]] zig-zag this trope [[spoiler:after they share their FirstKiss]] in Episode 14. Even after [[spoiler:admitting to each other they more or less have feelings for one another, [[{{Tsundere}} Ange still remains prickly and occasionally violent]], with Tusk usually being on the receiving end of her rage due to his RunningGag of falling in-between her legs.]] It's played straight as of Episode 22, [[spoiler:when they finally [[TheirFirstTime make love for the first time]], under the stars on a beachside. In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, they're married and running a cafe.]]
* ''VisualNovel/DaCapo'' plays it straight with [[spoiler:Junichi [[BrotherSisterIncest hooking up]] with Nemu, [[NotBloodSiblings his stepsister]], and all the troubles they had to face afterwards made the series' quality improve ''by orders of magnitude''. Special mention to the [[TearJerker extremely sad]] endings [[DieForOurShip Miharu, Yoriko]], Kotori and Sakura received. Especially Sakura.]] In Da Capo If, [[spoiler:Nemu is dead and Junichi is with Kotori.]]
* An atypical example in ''VisualNovel/DaCapoII'', where Koko and Yoshiyuki hook up ''in the very first episode'' (Is it possible to ''not'' get StrangledByTheRedString when you do that?). [[spoiler:They break up late into the first season, making this the "new set of complications" DownerEnding variant.]]

** ''100 Years Quest'' reveals [[spoiler:Edolas Natsu and Lucy as well as Edolas Gray and Juvia got together over the collective nine years in-universe since they were last seen, and even have kids.]]

** ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' retconned the marriage but they remain very much HappilyMarried in other continuities, including [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl one where they have kids]] and [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManRenewYourVows another]] which came out years later out of public demand where they have another daughter and become an actual crime-fighting family. In the newspaper dailies, the two have been married for well over thirty years, to the point where, when the writers attempted to reverse TimeSkip the series to pre-marriage days, outcry made the sequence AllJustADream. In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, they are both teenagers, and not even death could keep them apart, and both of them discuss marriage and elopement many times [[spoiler:and it's implied, but never confirmed they do this Post-Ultimate Peter's resurrection]].
** Peter and MJ began dating again in the main universe in 2018 when [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer Nick Spencer took over as head writer]], and a recent issue [[spoiler:had Peter almost re-proposing to Mary Jane, with the implication that he'll try again in the near future.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner and Betty Ross had a solid marriage despite everything they went through. It took her death and resurrection as [[spoiler:Red She-Hulk]] to break them up. Betty was earlier married to and divorced [[ColonelKilgore Glenn Talbot]], who was even more rabid about going after Hulk than General Ross.

* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': Asuka and Shinji got married two years and one half after Teri’s birth and five years before the epilogue.

** At the end of chapter 13 [[spoiler:Shinji and Asuka got engaged.]]

** After several weeks of doubts, fears and self-denial (on Asuka's part), Shinji and Asuka kiss. Then Shinji reveals that [[spoiler:he is Franchise/{{Superman}}]] and he likes her. They get together right afterwards.

* ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': Shinji spends the whole story trying to choose between Asuka and Rei. Finally, in the epilogue, [[spoiler:he and Asuka get married.]]

* ''Fanfic/TheSecondTry'': In chapter 4 "Love", Shinji and Asuka make up with each other, get together and [[spoiler:get married.]]

* In ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'', Shinji and Asuka spent a good while fighting and arguing, but they eventually opened up to each other and got together. However, [[spoiler:Rei -who had a huge crush on Shinji- managed at the end of the story that Asuka agreed to have a three-ways relationship.]]

* Literature/HarryPotter and his best friend's sister Ginny's TheBigDamnKiss in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' signifies this. The same later happens with Ron and Hermione in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. [[spoiler: In the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue-type DistantFinale, we get to see both couples married and their children.]]
* In a strange variation on a theme, in Hal Duncan's ''Literature/TheBookOfAllHours'', [[spoiler: Jack Flash/Carter and Puck/Thomas really do finally get to be together (without either one being brutally murdered by the other) ... sorta. Considering how by the end of ''Ink'', Reality has been re-written so many times that not even Reynard/Guy/Fox could put the thing back together, and he was the damn book's ''keeper'', the fact that they're present in any shape or form is impressive, to say the least (particularly after what happened to Seamus).]] In any case, they get things their way eventually, [[spoiler: in whatever variant of reality that still includes them.]] If you would like directions on the various interpretations of the situation, you'll find MindScrew on your right, and you can follow that straight down until you hit GoMadFromTheRevelation (after which your confusion will no longer be a problem).
* In ''Literature/TheEyreAffair'', there are great complaints that Jane and Mr. Rochester don't get this. Thursday fixes it. [[spoiler:Then there's her and Landen.]]

** When Durnik [[spoiler: becomes a disciple of Aldur]], the WillTheyOrWontThey between him and Polgara is finally settled in the positive.

* Creator/SimonaAhrnstedt has ended two of her novels, ''Literature/{{Overenskommelser}}'' and "De skandalösa", in this very fashion.
* An interesting case in Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/ALordFromPlanetEarth'' trilogy. Sergey first meets Terri in a park and saves her from a bunch of lowlifes. She gives him a ring and tells him she'll call on him later. A few years after that, she teleports him to her homeworld of Tar. He finds out that Terri is a princess who needs him to be her champion. Subverted in that Terri actually needs him to fight a ''very'' insistent suitor who has chased off all others, including the guy she actually wanted to marry. Against all odds, Sergey manages to defeat the BigBad of the first novel. However, at the end of the novel, Terri tells him that he can't stay on Tar and be with her, as the people would never accept a ruler from a "cursed world" (Earth is considered to be cursed by the [[{{Precursors}} Seeders]]). Sergey gets himself a ship and begins to travel the galaxy. After defeating the {{Big Bad}}s of the second novel, he once again ends up with Terri. This time, not only does she not reject him, but she chooses to go with him [[spoiler:to the future]]. They are happily married in the third novel.
* [[spoiler:Hope and Everell]] in the end of ''Literature/HopeLeslie''.

* ''Literature/TellMeHowYouReallyFeel'': At the end, [[spoiler:Rachel and Sana both admit their love for each other, finally starting a relationship.]]

* ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'': Between Liz Norton and the other critics. [[spoiler: After having a threesome with Pelletier and Espinoza, she leaves both of them for Morini.]]

** [[spoiler:Adama and Roslin]]. Though she died in the finale, his actions afterwards (eg: the ring) would suggest that this still applies.

** Erin and Pete in season 9 after [[spoiler: she dumps Andy for good]].
** As of the penultimate episode of the series, [[spoiler: Dwight and Angela when they get engaged]], after which their wedding takes place a year later during the GrandFinale.
** [[spoiler: Ryan and Kelly]] ''apparently'' in the GrandFinale when they run away together.

** They were also together for much of Season 3, which went pretty well, except [[spoiler:John had been made into two separate, equal copies, and the one she was with performed a HeroicSacrifice. When she was reunited with the surviving John, she didn't want to look him in the eye at first.]]

* Charlie and Amita from ''Series/NUMB3RS''. Hooked up season three or thereabouts and have stayed a stable couple since. [[spoiler: Charlie even asks Amita to marry him in the season five finale.]]

** [[spoiler:Booth and Bones]]

** And even when the final arc of the series [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedAmnesia burns it all to the ground]]]], the invariable truth supported by WordOfGod appears to be that they [[spoiler:''will'']].

* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Finn and Rachel, Kurt and Blaine, and after 5 whole seasons [[spoiler: Quinn and Puck]].

* Andy and April in the third season of ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''. So much that [[spoiler: they get married just a few weeks after dating]].

* In ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', [[spoiler:Mary and Matthew, Anna and Bates, Sybil and Branson]].

* In ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' where [[spoiler: in the series finale Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter gruesomely murder Francis Dolarhyde together, Will finally admits it's beautiful whilst in a tight embrace by Hannibal and the two fall off the side of a cliff together. Leading up to this, the previous episode states that Hannibal is in love with Will. There's also the matter of the bloody heart left to Will by Hannibal in ''Primavera'' which is stated in canon to be Hannibal having left him his broken heart. Almost every write up of the final episode was treating their relationship as romantic and the scene plays out as a twisted wedding bathed in blood.]] There's also a song written specifically for the moment that spells it out for those who didn't catch what was going on.
* ''Series/NightAndDay'': It took them eighteen months (in real-world time) to get there - but after an unfortunate DemonicPossession, a foray into vampirism and a 'crap, we're siblings' moment which later proved a false alarm, Josh Alexander and Della Wells finally got their happy ending – and even some adopted kids for good measure. Fans were kept hanging until the very last episode, though.
* [[spoiler: Kensi and Deeks]] from ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' got together early in season six and, as of season seven, still seem to be very happy. [[spoiler: Deeks]] proposed in season eight and the couple tied the knot in season eleven.

* ''Series/GilmoreGirls: A Year in the Life'' concludes with [[spoiler:Luke and Lorelai finally eloping in the town gazebo with the reverend, Lane, Rory, and Michel as their witnesses, prior to the big wedding ceremony the town has planned.]]

* ''Series/SWAT2017'': After ''tons'' of sexual tension, flirting and Street openly seeking a relationship with Chris, [[spoiler:she admits her love to him, they kiss and go into his bedroom]].

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': [[spoiler:Raelle proposes to Scylla]] in the third season and they marry, with their relationship being built up over nearly three seasons during which they overcome a lot, particularly Scylla's apparent betrayal which spurred the pair's temporary breakup.

* {{Subverted}} in ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}''. Throughout the whole game, it looks like there's a big WillTheyOrWontThey thing between Chandlo and Snorpy. Just before the final level, Snorpy finally gathers the courage to give Chandlo a love confession... [[spoiler:and Chandlo responds with confusion, wondering why Snorpy is asking him to be his boyfriend, when they'd already been dating for several years. Turns out that Snorpy is so oblivious, he didn't realize that if someone makes out with you and asks you to move in with him, that means you two are probably in a relationship already (Snorpy thought they were just "roommates with benefits"). So it's not "They Do", but "They Did All Along"]].

** Happens offscreen after the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', if Alistair [[spoiler:is made king and]] romanced the female human noble Warden. The DLC ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening,'' which takes place six months after the end of the main game, shows her basically coming back from their honeymoon to take up the mantle of Warden-Commander. It's an extremely happy marriage, as proven by the bridegroom's involvement in the next two games if the world state is imported.
*** Alternately, if the Warden is a male human noble who [[spoiler:arranged a marriage between himself and dowager Queen Anora]], the ''Awakening'' expansion indicates that their marriage has become at least amicable. It's also possible to arrange a marriage between [[spoiler:Alistair and Anora]], although it's not clear whether or not it's a happy union.
*** ''Inquisition'' also gives this to [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins the male Warden]] who romanced Morrigan, since [[spoiler:they have a child together, and she and their son leave the Inquisition after defeating Corypheus to join him on his mission]]. Likewise, if the Warden romanced Leliana [[spoiler:and she's made Divine]], the epilogue slide mentions their reunion. Zevran, meanwhile, is absent from the game because he's traveling with a Warden he romanced.
** Possible for Hawke in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. If Hawke remains in any romance until the end of the game, the ending implies that they and their Love Interest are still together wherever they are. If she's female and romances Sebastian, then a successful relationship ends the game with them either married (if it was a friendly romance) or engaged (if he was rivalmanced, since he "will offer you no less than a Prince" and needs to get his throne back first). [[spoiler:However, his romance gets derailed if she spares Anders, since he and Sebastian are MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers.]]
*** If Hawke [[spoiler:is not sacrificed in the Fade]] in ''Inquisition'', then Varric mentions that their love interest will meet up with them, implying that this trope is still in play.
** The ''Trespasser'' DLC for ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' gives this to the Inquisitor and most of the potential {{Love Interest}}s he or she may have pursued during the game. [[spoiler:If the Inquisitor romanced either Cullen or Sera, they can actually have a wedding during the course of the DLC. The Inquisitor can also discuss marriage with Cassandra or the Iron Bull, with Bull agreeing to it and Cassandra (if she's not Divine) conceding that they might consider it in the future. Dorian returns to Tevinter but remains in his committed relationship with the Inquisitor (or, if he was not romanced, Iron Bull); similarly, Josephine returns to Antiva, but her romanced Inquisitor visits often and is loved by her family.]]
* TomboyPrincess Rosella and [[TheFairFolk Fairy Prince]] [[DistressedDude Edgar]] in the fourth and seventh ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' games take the StandardHeroReward and [[ZigZaggedTrope subvert it, invert it, gender invert it, defy it, and subvert and gender invert it]] ''again''. At the end of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride'', they decide not to rush anything and have a proper courtship. FanSequel ''VideoGame/TheSilverLining'' and the Telltale Games sequel do a TimeSkip and establish that Rosella and Edgar ''finally'' got around to getting married.

* ''Webcomic/CheckPlease'': has [[spoiler:Jack and Bitty]], after ShipTease through out the entire Year 1, Bitty's eventual [[spoiler:crush on Jack]] and the various signs that [[spoiler:Jack is also in love with him]], they finally get together on the SeasonFinale of Year 2 "Goodbye To Summer".

* ''WebVideo/VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged'': Despite being an abridged series that constantly spoofs and lampshades canon for comedy, the abridged ending is widely considered to be BetterThanCanon because, unlike in canon [[spoiler:which as a ButNowIMustGo MaybeEverAfter BittersweetEnding]], in this version [[spoiler:Hitomi realizes she can easily juggle life on both Gaea and Earth thanks to her magic "instantly teleport anywhere" pendant, so she and [[EndearinglyDorky Van]] get together]].

** In the series' GrandFinale, [[spoiler:none other than zany businessman/inventor Varrick and his [[BeleagueredAssistant beleaguered]] yet devoted assistant Zhu Li get ''married'']].

** According to Aaron Ehasz, [[OfficialCouple Aang and Katara's]] kiss in the finale is deliberately framed like that of a bride and groom at their wedding, so yeah, them too.

** There's the new Avatar learning Airbending from Tenzin, the youngest son of Aang and Katara. So yeah, they got hitched.

* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': After spending the entire season trying their best denying and fighting their romantic feelings toward each other, Season 2's romantic leads, Anthony and Kate, eventually confess their mutual love followed by the second marriage proposal and get married off-screen.

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'': Bruce Banner and Betty Ross had a solid marriage despite everything they went through. It took her death and resurrection as [[spoiler:Red She-Hulk]] to break them up. Betty was earlier married to and divorced [[ColonelKilgore Glenn Talbot]], who was even more rabid about going after Hulk than General Ross.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': [[spoiler:Raelle proposes to Scylla]] in the third season and they marry, after nearly their relationship being built up over nearly three seasons.

** ComicBook/OneMoreDay retconned the marriage but they remain very much happily married in other continuities, including [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl one where they have kids]] and [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManRenewYourVows another]] which came out years later out of public demand where they have another daughter and become an actual crime-fighting family. In the newspaper dailies, the two have been married for well over thirty years, to the point where, when the writers attempted to reverse TimeSkip the series to pre-marriage days, outcry made the sequence AllJustADream. In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe they are both teenagers, and not even death could keep them apart, and both of them discuss marriage and elopement many times [[spoiler:and it's implied, but never confirmed they do this Post-Ultimate Peter's resurrection]].

* TomboyPrincess Rosella and [[TheFairFolk Fairy Prince]] [[DistressedDude Edgar]] in the fourth and seventh ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' games take the StandardHeroReward and [[ZigZaggedTrope subvert it, invert it, gender invert it, defy it, and subvert and gender invert it]] ''[[UpToEleven again]]''. At the end of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride'', they decide not to rush anything and have a proper courtship. FanSequel ''VideoGame/TheSilverLining'' and the Telltale Games sequel do a TimeSkip and establish that Rosella and Edgar ''finally'' got around to getting married.

* ''Series/TheWilds'': After much {{belligerent sexual tension}}, Shelby kisses Toni, and then has sex with her offscreen. Later it's implied the two are now a couple.

** Peter and MJ began dating again in the main universe in 2018 when [[ComicBook/NickSpencersSpiderMan Nick Spencer took over as head writer]], and a recent issue [[spoiler:had Peter almost re-proposing to Mary Jane, with the implication that he'll try again in the near future.]]

* In ''Roleplay/DeptHeavenApocrypha'', flagship couple Milanor and Nessiah stumbled into a relationship quite early on. Even though they're together and that's (probably) not going to change, between [[RapeAsDrama one thing]] and [[SanitySlippage another]], there's still been plenty of drama to go around.
** As this relationship actually happens to be a ''threesome'' with ''TheMillstone'' as its third member, there's no way the drama will ever be lacking. (Although she ''is'' [[CharacterDevelopment getting better]].)

** ''100 Years Quest'' reveals [[spoiler:Edolas Natsu and Lucy as well as Edolas Gray and Juvia got together over the collective nine years in-universe since they were last scene, and even have kids.]]

* Side characters Bisca and Alzack from ''Manga/FairyTail''. They even have a little girl.

** While they don't really do anything formal (they are even too tired for TheirFirstTime), the ending of ''[[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Batgirl]]'' reunites Stephanie Brown and [[ComicBook/RedRobin Tim Drake]], and they both conclude that they've been through too much together to want to lose one another again.

* Literature/HarryPotter and his best friend's sister Ginny's TheBigDamnKiss in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' signifies this. The same later happens with Ron and Hermione in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. [[spoiler: In the WhereAreTheyNow DistantFinale, we get to see both couples married and their children.]]

** ComicBook/OneMoreDay retconned the marriage but they remain very much happily married in other continuities, including [[ComicBook/SpiderGirl one where they have kids]] and [[ComicBook/RenewYourVows another]] which came out years later out of public demand where they have another daughter and become an actual crime-fighting family. In the newspaper dailies, the two have been married for well over thirty years, to the point where, when the writers attempted to reverse TimeSkip the series to pre-marriage days, outcry made the sequence AllJustADream. In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe they are both teenagers, and not even death could keep them apart, and both of them discuss marriage and elopement many times [[spoiler:and it's implied, but never confirmed they do this Post-Ultimate Peter's resurrection]].

* Tamora Pierce's Literature/TortallUniverse has something like this in the ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' series where we see Alanna get with numerous men, including the [[BetterAsFriends handsome prince]], and the [[OneLastFling tribal warrior]], before finally marrying the charming rogue who had loved her all along. In the later series we see them [[HappilyMarried growing]] [[BabiesEverAfter old together]], too.

* ''Manga/GirlFriends'' After a few volumes and a lot of WillTheyOrWontThey, [[SchoolgirlLesbians Mari and Akko]] finally get together for real.

* The OfficialCouple of ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' is a fantastic instance of this trope; most of the interesting conflict starts ''after'' they become boyfriend and girlfriend in the manga version. In the anime it's the other way around, due to the amazingly bad [[GeckoEnding last handful of episodes]] after the author threw a fit over the anime's comic elements and the director quit.n

* Kotaro and Natsumi from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' got married in 2015 according to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. [[SchoolgirlLesbians Konoka and Setsuna]] both got married in 2017, [[TrollingCreator but it didn't say if it was to each other]].

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Kaylee and Simon at the end of ''Film/{{Serenity}}, or so it is implied.''

** Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon finally marry in ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} and ComicBook/{{Oracle}}'', after years of dating on and off.

* Kotaro and Natsumi from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' got married in 2015 according to the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue. [[SchoolgirlLesbians Konoka and Setsuna]] both got married in 2017, [[TrollingCreator but it didn't say if it was to each other]].* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': As seen in the closing credits of the final chapter, Jordy and Chururu got married several years after the war.

* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': [[spoiler: The last couple of pages for Part 1 are of Izzy, Tanya, and Darcy's wedding.]]