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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:249:[-So, wait, did he hook up with the cat thing too?[[note]]WordOfGod [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120129053539/tenchi/images/f/f3/Fukuhumanoid.png says yes.]][[/note]]-] ]] |
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| 4 | ->'''Anime Tenchou:''' If you're a man, score all the heroines at once!\ |
| 5 | '''Hayate:''' Please hold on. "Score all the heroines at once"? Am I a rapist?\ |
| 6 | '''Maria:''' You don't like it? |
| 7 | -->-- ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' |
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| 9 | 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 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. |
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| 11 | So if FirstGirlWins, LastGirlWins, and/or CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds clearly aren't where the plot is going, there's another way to resolve the situation: Instead of choosing one LoveInterest, the protagonist simply [[{{Polyamory}} marries them all and they all live as one large family]]. |
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| 13 | The happiness of those involved depends on where on the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism the series is; the ''only'' way (excluding large amounts of [[Franchise/{{Naruto}} Shadow Clone]] [[PowerPerversionPotential abuse]]) this kind of ending will not end in a perpetual warzone of a DysfunctionalFamily with an emotionally-dead HenpeckedHusband (''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'') or a bloodbath within the year (''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'') is if the various spouses/partners in question are also close friends who love ''each other'' like siblings ([[PairTheSuitors or something]] [[YuriGenre else]]). |
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| 15 | Some {{H Game}}s will reward the player for getting a happy ending with every girl by making it possible to get an ending where they get all the girls. |
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| 17 | May require ExoticExtendedMarriage if the marriage is literal. In RealLife, such a thing is called polygamy, and it is illegal in most of the world. |
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| 19 | See also OneTrueThreesome when it happens in fanon and {{Polyamory}} for group marriage in general. Contrast DumpThemAll, where the main character chooses none of the LoveInterests, and/or chooses someone outside the circle, and NoRomanticResolution where there is no conclusion between the love interest and the circle and they remain a ([[HandsomeLech usually]]) CelibateHero. This is almost AlwaysMale, due to longstanding {{Double Standard}}s. However, there is nothing stopping the trope from being applied to a female lead in the right setting, and this has become more common over time. |
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| 22 | !!Examples: |
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| 26 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDr5wIcGLR4 This Lynx/Axe commercial]] depicts an average every guy who becomes the sole object of attraction to a literal tribe of Stone Age warrior women, thanks to the titular product. [[AManIsAlwaysEager He doesn't seem too bothered by it]]. |
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| 30 | * ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' has this {{Discussed}} in a brief StoryArc. After about two pages of tension over [[{{Tsundere}} Karane]] proposing to Rentaro first, all the girls immediately agree they'd love to be part of a polyamorous marriage, daydream about living and raising children together, and hold a mock wedding with Rentaro, complete with [[PimpedOutDress pimped-out dresses]] and cake. |
| 31 | * ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'': In the final episode of the anime, Eris suggests this as a resolution to the LoveDodecahedron between her and the other two girls in Kiho's UnwantedHarem. It's a common practise among Catians, due to their having a gender imbalance of 20 women per men. And since Kiho's house is the official Catian embassy and therefore subject to Catian law rather than Japanese law, it's even legal. The show doesn't confirm if they ever go through with it. |
| 32 | * The anime ''VideoGame/ConceptionPleaseGiveBirthToMyChild'' has the protagonist, Itsuki, come to the mystic realm of Granvania, where he must sire children with 12 specially selected maidens to create an army that will protect the realm. Once it's done, he returns to Earth, but the maidens and their children follow him, leading to this trope in the final scene. |
| 33 | * Happens in ''Manga/DearS'' by default, as Takeya ends up the only guy on a spaceship full of horny alien slavegirls in heat, which is going on a tour of the galaxy (two of them -- Ren and Miu -- were explicitly in love with him while still on Earth and two others -- Nia and China -- had previously expressed attraction). |
| 34 | * ''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'': At the end of episode 14, Kazuki is made to go alone into space, with both Mizukis, Yayoi, and D (all the girls in love with him) as his official staff, at the actual instigation of the all the major parental authority figures (the Sanada and Rara parents) in the series. No big surprise, since it's from the same company that made ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'', and is in fact canonically considered to be connected to ''Tenchi Muyo'' by TheMultiverse concept. |
| 35 | * In ''Manga/FujimuraKunMates'', much to Fujimura's dismay he ends up living together with all the girls. Himuro even goes as far as becoming the President of Japan just to change the law to allow polygamy! |
| 36 | * In ''Manga/HappyLesson'', all 5 of the hero's "mothers" decide that he's outgrown the need for a parental figure, so obviously what he needs next is wives. |
| 37 | * In the hentai manga ''Tayu-Tayu'' by Yamatogawa, this option is forced on the OfficialCouple by, basically, all the other girls in the harem. |
| 38 | -->'''One of the girls:''' "Hey, Midori! We're stealing your man!"\ |
| 39 | '''Midori:''' (after being screwed into exhaustion) "Aw, hell... Do whatever you want..." (slides to the floor out-of-panel) |
| 40 | * ''Manga/IonoTheFanatics''. [[YuriGenre Queen Iono loves every single girl]] in her harem and they love her back. All 50,000+ of them. |
| 41 | * ''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 after [[BabiesEverAfter having nine kids, three with each of them.]]]] |
| 42 | * Hazumu from ''Manga/KashimashiGirlMeetsGirl'' wasn't in any hurry to choose between Yasuna and Tomari, and they didn't seem to have any problem with that. Then it turns out Hazumu [[spoiler:will die in a few months if she doesn't find a soulmate to share LifeEnergy with]], [[SubvertedTrope literally forcing her to chose one]]. |
| 43 | * Happens at the very end of the [[{{Hentai}} h-anime]] ''Love Princess Koihime''. In the first part a young man goes back to his home town to visit his grandma, and reconnects with his four, female, childhood friends. However it's revealed that his grandma is the last human in [[HiddenElfVillage the village that used to populated by both humans and shinigami]], and that he accidentally proposed marriage to all four of them, who are the daughters of the heads of the shinigami clans. At the end, a vote is held whether to allow the young man to stay or erase his memory and banish him. One of the girls breaks the tie to banish him saying that as a human, they'll outlive him and rob him of a normal human life, and the young man wakes up from a nap and goes home. In the sequel, the young man gets back to visit his grandma again, and reconnects with another friend. However, this new friend is the daughter if a vengeful shinigami who was banned and is seeking revenge against the heads of the clans, who are busy testing the young man whether or not he's worthy to marry any of their daughters. When the banished shinigami kidnap the girls, he goes to rescue them, and after the banished yokai are defeated, a head of one the clans tells the young man that [[BroughtDownToNormal their memories were erased, depowerd, and banished to live as humans]]. Furthermore, because of his courage, he was deemed worthy, and when he asks which one of the girls he'll marry, he's told he can marry the four of them. After an exhausting wedding night, they head out for their new life in the city, while he says that a harem is not all it's cracked out to be. |
| 44 | * By the end of ''Manga/LoveTyrant'', Seiji's accepted the feelings of everybody in the harem (except [[spoiler: [[BigBad Shikimi]]]]). |
| 45 | * 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 virtually entire cast. |
| 46 | * Rudeus Greyrat, protagonist of ''Literature/MushokuTenseiJoblessReincarnation'' goes on to marry all three of his LoveInterests over the course of the story: ChildhoodFriends Sylphiette first, then [[TeacherStudentRomance magic tutor]] Roxy, and finally his [[KissingCousins distant cousin]] Eris. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'', Ikuto is the only male on Airantou Island with an all-female tribe of sexy amazon gals, whose other half mysteriously vanished after getting caught in a storm at sea while fishing. [[spoiler: It is revealed in the last episode of the anime that his sister Misaki is experiencing the exact same situation, ''only gender-flipped'', on the ''other'' Airantou Island, this time ''as the only female with all the missing (also-sexy) amazon guys''. This however gets heavily subverted in the manga version with everything being relatively the same except as shown in the manga version all the men got washed up to the mainland without means of getting back and the sister arrives on the island later and joins the harem group.]] |
| 48 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': This is the resolution to the Final Movie; put on the spot to pick one girl for a full contract, he goes ahead and forms full contracts ''with all thirty-one students''. Even though you ''can't do that''. Somewhere over the door of the Springfield family ranch (which will need expansion) is a sign saying "The Laws Of Magic Can Get Bent." |
| 49 | ** The StealthSequel ''Manga/UQHolder'', [[spoiler: both plays this straight and [[AvertedTrope averts]] it. While official matrimony is never addressed, the finale reveals that Negi had children with Asuna, Nodoka, Yue, Chisame, Setsuna, and Konoka. However, ''[=UQ=] Holder'' takes place explicitly in an [[AlternateTimeline alternate universe]] to ''Negima''. In the PrimeTimeline seen in ''Negima'', Negi ends up in a presumably monogamous marriage with Chisame. Meanwhile, Negi's "grandson" and protagonist Tōta Konoe ends up playing it straight as well through relationships with Kirië, Karin, Kuromaru, and Evangeline]]. |
| 50 | * At the end of the ''Anime/PhotonTheIdiotAdventures'' OVA, our heroes have dispatched the BigBad, and two of the three girls in Photon's [[HaremGenre Harem]] start bickering over who gets him. Photon promptly [[FaceDoodling draws on each of their foreheads]] the same kana for baka that's on his forehead ([[ItMakesSenseInContext it's an in-universe cultural thing, apparently]]), and proudly declares "I'll protect all of you!" |
| 51 | * In ''Anime/SaberMarionetteJ'', Otaru is shown to end up with all three of the girls -- Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry. Subverted in the second season, ''Saber Marionette J to X'', in that [[spoiler: Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry end up getting turned into babies, and Otaru raises them as his daughters.]] However, [[spoiler: ''Cherry's still in love -- and [[FilleFatale lust]]! -- with Otaru anyway'', regardless of their new situation, implying possible future ParentalIncest ala WifeHusbandry.]] |
| 52 | * Often averted/subverted in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', as every single one of his harem are Yanderes (ironically, except for the First Girl, who's actually the driving force for the harem), in addition to being psychologically "toxic" in some way. Even when they do agree to share him, their consensus concept of sharing is more often than not, ''literal physical division'' of the object of their affections. Until the penultimate chapter that is, when the 12 main girls marry him all at once. It's a bit complicated, however. [[spoiler: The crux of the matter is that the First Girl, Fuura Kafuka, had been DeadAllAlong. Her organs had gone to said twelve girls. What ends up happening is that Nozomu (the titular sensei) sees Kafuka in each of the girls, one at a time (how his sister Rin puts it, he's in love with her eyes, then her lungs, then her vocal cords, etc.) On paper, it's an endless cycle of marriage and divorce between Nozomu and the girls. In Nozomu's eyes, he's ''always'' been married to Kafuka and Kafuka alone; in the eyes of outsiders, it certainly looks like this trope, especially since ''all'' the girls have children by him... and the kids ''eerily'' look like Kafuka). It's also implied that by all the girls donating their blood (metaphorically Kafuka's blood) to her, the journalist that was investigating Nozomu and the girls will join the cycle. It's also been implied that there's one guy in the harem as well, who had gotten a blood transfusion from Kafuka's blood. It's more specifically implied that Kafuka was possessing ''him'' when Nozomu first married her.]] |
| 53 | * Averted in the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' anime: Things do not work out between the LoveTriangle and it ends with Makoto [[spoiler:being stabbed to death by Sekai, who just [[BreakTheCutie can't take it anymore]]. Kotonoha later [[AxCrazy kills Sekai with a cleaver]], cuts her open to confirm she wasn't pregnant, and, apparently completely insane, leaves with [[OffWithHisHead Makoto's severed head]] in a gym bag.]] Though it should be noticed that, in the VisualNovel, [[{{OT3}} this can be played straight.]] Not only there's the possibility of having Makoto, Kotonoha and Sekai engage in a three-way sex scene (with bonus LesYay snowballing between the girls), but there is at least one ending in which Kotonoha and Sekai DO reach an agreement and decide to "share" Makoto's affections. It IS hard to get, however[[spoiler:, and if you chose poorly in the last decision it leads to Makoto's death instead]]. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'': |
| 55 | ** The standard trope of having to choose one girl is actually part of the BigBad's [[DeconstructedTrope plan]]. Minato considers this to be a cruel choice, and declares his intention to be with all six of his Sekirei forever. [[spoiler:By the return of Miya's husband thanks to Minato reviving him, he officially marries all 6 in his harem.]] |
| 56 | ** Seo and the twins Hikari and Hibiki seem to have gone with this option, as have Sanada and his PowerTrio. At the end of the series, Seo and the twins [[spoiler:have managed to make two sets of twins, all boys born on the same day, who share their mothers' electric powers]]. |
| 57 | * Non-romantic example ([[HoYay well, probably]]): In ''Manga/SoulEaterNot'', Tsugumi, [[EquippableAlly a weapon]], has two meister friends vying to wield her in a situation that plays out very much like a love triangle. Eventually, she realizes they're capable of three-person [[CombinedEnergyAttack soul resonance]] and decides to partner with both of them. |
| 58 | * In ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'', Sato follows his childhood friend Hime to another world where she is about to marry another man, then takes the place of her original groom when a demon attacks the wedding. He then learns that doing so has made him the Ring King, a hero destined to defeat the evil Abyss King, and that he needs to marry four other girls in order to claim the rest of the power needed to do so. He goes through with the weddings, but his number one priority is Hime, although he is kind and respectful to the other girls. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'': |
| 60 | ** The discovery in the [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVA]] that Juraians practice polygamy implies that Tenchi could do this. In the original series, he tends towards NoRomanticResolution by remaining friendly with all of the girls but not favoring any of them, but in the core continuity's [[AllThereInTheManual tie-in doujinshi]] as well as the fifth ''Ryo-Ohki'' OVA episode "I am sure you have your opinion on the matter, but please consider the matter closed", it is clearly stated that [[spoiler:he did eventually marry them all, though Washu is the first one to bear him a child]]. This trope was originally called the "Tenchi Solution". |
| 61 | ** Both the OVA and ''GXP'' justify this by stating that the marriages are political: Ayeka and Sasami are daughters of the Juraian Emperor Azusa and granddaughters to Seto, the most powerful noble in Jurai who bosses the emperor [[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. |
| 62 | ** In the canon spinoff ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'', Tenchi's brother Kenshi mentions all of Tenchi's girls as his "elder sisters", implying that 15 years after the OVA end, they are still around him. |
| 63 | ** Kenshi himself gains his own formidable harem by the end of ''Geminar''. [[spoiler:Exaggerated in the last episode, where it's revealed ''every'' girl at the Holy Land Academy[[note]]the student body of which is roughly 90% female[[/note]] wants to marry him and they then try to capture him to decide who gets him ''first''. Note that on Geminar, Marriages involving male Seikijin can be temporary breeding arrangements that last just long enough to get the lady pregnant, so it is indeed feasible for him to do it, even if it takes a few years to work through them all.]] |
| 64 | ** As seen in the page picture, in ''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'' Tenchi's friend Seina, in a similar predicament with ''nine'' women (five main, four minor), has his problem solved for him by simply being ordered to "politically" marry his main five love interests. (The other four kidnap him just before the wedding and ravish him to get in on it; it apparently works out somehow.) Tenchi even attended the wedding. |
| 65 | ** It has been revealed in the ''IF'' doujins that Tenchi's daughters by Ryoko and Ayeka will marry Seina and Kiriko Masaki's son, while Tenchi and Ryo-Ohki's triplet daughters will all marry [[DoubleInlawMarriage the son of Seina and Amane Kaunaq]], and the two daughters Tenchi respectively has with Mihoshi and Noike will both marry [[ExaggeratedTrope the son of Seina and Ryoko Balta]]. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/UmiNoMisaki'', by the author of ''Manga/AiYoriAoshi''. A Tokyo teen moves to the southern island his late mother grew up on, and finds out that not only is he the prophesied reincarnated Dragon God of the local religious offshoot, the three hot girls that have been treating him badly are shrine maidens dedicated to serving him with their minds and bodies. Oh, and the Dragon God is supposed to give one (at least, it has not been clearly stated) his "favor". Of course, now the three maidens have fallen in love with him and trying their (non-violent) best to get the Dragon God to pick them, while the guy is attracted to and likes the three maidens as well . The story works itself into a [=OT4=] ending, since this is really not a dark series, and having the guy pick only one girl would probably tear the other two to pieces. At the end, despite first the Rising Dragon Festival and then Shizukus [[spoiler:attempted suicide]] trying to railroad him into a choice, Nagi refuses to lose anyone and essentially forces the island [[spoiler:and the Dragon God]] to accept that he will be with all three of them forever. The epilogue chapters show that the four of them are getting along perfectly well despite the oddity of their relationship. |
| 67 | * ''Yomeiro Choice'' ends this way when the male lead gets over his indecisiveness and realizes that he loves his daughters from the future too much to allow any of them to vanish from the timestream. The series ends with the daughters now arguing about which one should be conceived ''first''. [[spoiler:It's even implied that his harem expands to include, not only all of his incestuously lustful daughters, but ''even their various grandmothers/his mothers-in-law'' in one giant aphrodisiac-fueled orgy.]] |
| 68 | * In the ending of manga ''Sex and Dungeon'', Souhei marries all four of his love interests. |
| 69 | * Yasuke ends up marrying all four of his love interests in the ending of ''Manga/MagaTsuki''. |
| 70 | * In the final chapter credits panel of the manga ''Kin no Kanojo, Gin no Kanojo'', it's shown that the male lead married both Erika & Ginka in a wedding ceremony. |
| 71 | * In chapter 34 of the manga ''NEET dakedo HELLO WORK ni ittara isekai ni tsuretekareta'', Masaru marries all four of his love interests, Angela, Elizabeth, Sati & Tilica. |
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| 75 | * In ''ComicBook/SecretSix'', when it was being brought to a (premature) end due to the ContinuityReboot, Creator/GailSimone had its lead, Scandal Savage, marry both her love interests: an exotic dancer named Liana, and a New God named Knockout. Yes, you read that right, it ended with a polygamous lesbian marriage. |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': |
| 77 | ** ''ComicBook/TheAmazingStoryOfSupermanRedAndSupermanBlue'': In a variation, this story that saw Superman be split into red and blue versions of himself allowed one of them to marry Lois and the other to marry Lana. |
| 78 | ** 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. |
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| 82 | * This is how ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'' ended. [[spoiler:After spending months together in a [[{{Polyamory}} polyamorous]] relationship, Italy proposed to both Germany and Japan in front of all the other countries during one of their World Meetings. Everyone cheered as Germany and Japan tackled Italy to the ground and showered him with kisses.]] |
| 83 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13198950/8/Crazy-Trouble-With-Love-Part-8 Big Mom's Daughters and Luffy]]'', most of Big Mom's daughters are drugged with a LovePotion and fall in love with Luffy. After three months of dealing with their attempts to woo him, Luffy challenges the girls to a contest of endurance to see who he'll marry. Luffy loses which causes them to decide that means they all marry him. |
| 84 | * The concept of the {{OT3}} (or [=OT4=], [=OT5=], etc.) in fanfiction is much like an {{OTP}}, but with three or more characters together rather than two. It's quite handy for reconciling opposing ships. |
| 85 | * Creator/{{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. |
| 86 | * ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTheGrimmlands'': By the time they're teenagers, the girls have decided that this is the best solution. Salem thinks Jaune needs to get married because he's the prince, so all four of his sisters think they should just marry him (despite Emerald being a lesbian and Weiss being uninterested in sex) to share the power properly and keep from having to bring in a new "sister." No one bothers to tell Jaune any of this. |
| 87 | * ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': In chapter 8 the main characters meet an alternate Shinji with a very convoluted past: in short, he thought Asuka died; fell in love with another girl and was about to get married when she got murdered; met Asuka again; got killed... and then a bunch of Avaloni imperial troopers showed up in that dimension. Shinji and his fiancée were brought back to life and the two of them, together with Asuka, were transported to Avalon to get rest and healing. When Daniel saw Shinji was conflicted over being reunited with the two women he loved, he mentioned that his country's laws allow someone to have several spouses as long as they agree to "share". |
| 88 | * Done in [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3577149/1/BeastBoys_Catgirl BeastBoy's Catgirl]], where in the end, BB has four girls who love him (Raven and three Furries). First, the guy has a date with each girl to decide whom he likes more, then he decides to make no decision at all. When he announces that, one of the girls announces [[BabiesEverAfter she is pregnant. Skip a few years, all of the girls are moms]]. None are officially married, though. |
| 89 | * In ''Fanfic/DucktalesTwentyYearsLater'', Huey is attracted to all three of Jose Carioca's nieces, but is reluctant to take the relationships further than casual sex, as he doesn't want to have to choose between them. [[spoiler: When the girls learn this, they tell him that they don't have a problem with sharing him (at least with each other - if he tries to add any more girls to the arrangement, he will quickly know their wrath).]] |
| 90 | * Played for comedy in Roleplay/{{DC Nation}}'s [[http://dc-nation.dreamwidth.org/62135.html Heaven or Las Vegas]]. The Zamaraons attempt to figure out what makes the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s of Earth tick and refine the process behind the Star Sapphire rings. To do this, they take the Earth-based lanterns, and put them in a theme-park version of Las Vegas. While most of the Lanterns wake up in the surreal "test environment" with the woman they're currently dating, Hal wakes up in bed with Carol Ferris, Arisia, "Cowgirl Jill," and [[ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}} Zinda "Lady Blackhawk" Blake]] -- ALL AT ONCE. |
| 91 | * It sort of shows up in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' fan fiction ''Fanfic/JusPrimaeNoctis'', but is downplayed. [[spoiler:He doesn't appear to have anything with Kirche or Tiffania, but he officially married Henrietta, magically married Louise using the Albionese flowers, and married Tabitha in his home world. He also discusses marrying Siesta, and whether he does or not it doesn't stop them from being together.]] |
| 92 | * ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': A few omakes set in the future and [[WordOfGod the author]] confirm that Shirou Emiya will get together with all ''23'' girls in his harem. Now it's a matter of the story reaching that point. |
| 93 | * 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 Jaune's mistress being an open secret. |
| 94 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' fanfic ''Fanfic/SorryAboutTheMess'', this is how the love triangle between Kristoff, Anna and Elsa is resolved, as the Trolls who raised Kristoff believe in {{Polyamory}}. |
| 95 | * ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' fanfic does this a fair amount, for people who can't decide between the numerous pairing choices offered or just can't see a way for everyone to be happy otherwise. Ranges from Tamaki/Haruhi/Kyoya {{OT3}} all the way up to [=OT7=] fare which includes ''everyone''. |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/HereInMyArms'' has [[Manga/RosarioPlusVampire Tsukune]] get together with all of his haremettes as of Chapter 6, although he's agreed to [[TheJailBaitWait wait until Yukari's older]]. As of Chapter 28, [[spoiler: he's also gotten Mizore pregnant.]] |
| 97 | * Most ''Literature/{{Hurog}}'' fanfics are about the OT3 of the fandom, Tisala, Oreg and Ward. Strictly speaking, it is Ward who gets to "marry" them both, but Tisala is often portrayed as YaoiFangirl, so everyone is happy. |
| 98 | * ''[[Creator/Foobar137 I Can Only Stay If You've The Will To Keep Me Here]]'': The ultimate solution to the LoveTriangle between Ginger, Baljeet, and Buford, is for the three of them to declare themselves "married". |
| 99 | * In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', the odd situation in Hinamizawa was resolved this way. [[spoiler:This inspired Haruhi to start aiming for it herself, between all the girls in the SOS Brigade and Kyon.]] This is deconstructed and then reconstructed in the same chapter. [[spoiler:According to Rika, the romantic situation at the end of the ''[[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Higurashi]]'' series turned into a NoRomanticResolution situation for several years until Rika was physically old enough to make her move on Keiichi, but [[ClingyJealousGirl the way she tried to catch Keiichi's notice]] nearly destroyed her and Keiichi's relationship with [[FirstGirlWins Mion]] and the rest of their friends (and considering that this is Higurashi, [[MurderTheHypotenuse it's not hard to imagine]] how ''that'' might've played out). Disaster was only averted at the last moment when a Marry Them All solution was proposed by Rena and Satoko and accepted by the rest of the group.]] Even then, it's not an easy relationship to have; it only works because the whole group were iron-clad TrueCompanions before they were a harem, and each of the girls has enough self-esteem and love for their partners to not worry about him ever abandoning them. |
| 100 | * In the ''Manga/LoveHina'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2625069/1/Prince-of-PolPol Prince of PolPol]]'', Keitaro is revealed to be the heir to the island throne of [=PolPol=]. It just so happens that females outnumber males on the island, so men are permitted to take many wives, and that any female who is not blood related to the prince and has lived with him for longer than a year is considered engaged to him, with the wedding ceremony consisting of sharing the Kiss of Marriage and an apple. Upon learning that they all have a chance to marry Keitaro without taking him from his promise girls, ALL the girls proceed to perform the ceremony (although Naru has to be forced into it) and become princesses of [=PolPol=]. Nyamo later marries him as well [[spoiler: and is the first girl to have sex with him]]. |
| 101 | * The ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' one-shot "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5505618/1/ Nanoha's Problem]]" takes this trope to its logical extreme. |
| 102 | * In the ''My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic'' alternate-universe set of fics "[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/291812/sunset-reset Sunset Reset]]", it doesn't end in marriage (more like a herd or OT3), but after spending the entire fic pining after each other, Cadance finally suggests that she, Sunset, and Shining all form a three-way relationship, as any attempt at a relationship with just two of them would all end badly for one, but Cadance's ability to see the future of a particular relationship sees that a three-way relationship is perfect for all of them, so they enter one. |
| 103 | * In ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' fanon there's something called the The Clan Restoration Act which forces the last member of a important family to marry many women just to increase the clan population. This is mainly done if Kekkei Genkai or special techniques are present in the clan. This is normally applied to Naruto, but occasionally with Sasuke or Uzumaki OC's. On occasion, they mention that females just have to have a ton of kids over a short period of time. Who has the best deal? |
| 104 | * At the end of ''Fanfic/ANewHopeDanganronpa'', both [[spoiler: Makoto]] and [[spoiler: Hajime]] enter into polygamous marriages with their partners after escaping the Killing Game. |
| 105 | * Possibly the only option for Rachel Summers in [[http://www.scribbld.com/community/marvel_nextgen/ Marvel Nextgen]]. Current roster of young men courting her include a Shi'ar Imperial Prince, a Logan, and a non-mutant catboy. Franklin Richards is a recurring joke. |
| 106 | * Discussed in ''Fanfic/RosarioToKiva'' -- as Wataru is [[spoiler:Fangire royalty]], he can legally, by the laws of his [[spoiler: people]] marry ''all'' the haremettes. In the end, [[spoiler: he only marries Moka, but not before getting Mizore pregnant like he promised her]]. |
| 107 | * Played with ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' in-universe. Shinji's fan clubs are averse to the idea ("The four points star was not a valid option, dammit."), the Farseer in his head wants this and Rei is practically shoving the idea down his throat. |
| 108 | * ''Fanfic/TekkaDread'': Subverted. After discovering the long-term dangers of Tarak and Mejele's artificial procreation that will result in the extinction of humankind, Magno suggests the solution is natural procreation, ideally with one of them being one who was born naturally (in other words, Slade). Magno jokes to Slade that "for the good of humanity", he should marry Dita, Jura, and Meia, since he's built relationships with them already, and if not, at the very least bed them to ensure children. Slade was not amused by this, but it did got him to thinking of the three Dread pilots more intimately. Before their eventual war against the Radam, [[spoiler:Jura is the first to have sex with Slade. going at it for ''hours''. Next, Meia has sex with Slade, then finally, Dita has sex with him. Jura is the first to get pregnant]]. |
| 109 | * ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': Subverted. For most of the story Shinji clearly considers [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] his girlfriend, Rei his surrogate sister and Misato her surrogate mother. However, Rei's crush on Shinji (and her willingness to talk Asuka into a threesome) and Misato's proclivity to tease him complicate matters. Shinji did not plan getting married to anyone other than Asuka, but when [[spoiler:the four of them ascend to godhood]], Shinji takes the three of them as his wives out of a desire to make them happy. |
| 110 | * The ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6345101/1/Total_Drama_Luxury_Tour Total Drama Luxury Tour]]'' is a JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example. It's a {{continuation}} of the third season, centered on Cody. It had many and many moments of ShipTease with the other female contestants, and the author even created a poll about which contestant you'd like to see Cody with. Then in the end [[spoiler: he gets all five girls anyways: [[OverlyLongGag Gwen, Bridgette, Heather, Sierra, and Courtney.]] And Blaineley ''also'' likes him.]] Even more, the author ''planned'' doing the same thing with Noah or Ezekiel as a sequel, although problems with the harem settup in Cody, the author not wanting to break up two of the (three) BetaCouple[=s=], and what the remaining girls are like ''mostly'' prevent it. |
| 111 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/12000243/chapters/27152133 Beauty in Thirds]]'', if you bond with one member of a seeker trine, you bond with all of them...as Megatron learns when he bonds with Skywarp, and by extension Thundercracker and Starscream. |
| 112 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5955294/1/The-Ultimate-Mate-Hunt The Ultimate Mate Hunt]]'', Starscream goes into heat during battle, and becomes the target of affection from Megatron, Optimus, Soundwave and Skyfire. While he initially tries to escape, he realizes that they (and he himself) are the best specimens the Autobot and Decepticon armies have to offer, and that the CNA of all five of them would create an extremely powerful sparkling, so he chooses all four of them to be his mates. |
| 113 | * Tsukune in the fanfic ''[[Fanfic/RVChronicles R&V Chronicles]]'' marries every member of his no longer unwanted harem. The story takes place in the future, where Tsukune and his wives have multiple children and live in a mansion in Hong Kong, where they perform missions all over the world. |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/MarcBeingInAGangRights'': While Kagami tries to honor the agreement that she would be supportive when Marinette and Adrien start dating, she could not help but feel left behind. After a bit of couching, Marc tells her that they are also seeing Luka and gets it into her head that it wasn't just Adrien she was pining for and that maybe she should be open with these feelings. By the end of the sixth chapter, Kagami has joined their relationship. |
| 115 | * [[DefiedTrope Defied]] in ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'': [[spoiler: Back before Amity was born, Odalia tried to convince Persephone, Skara's mother, to become Alador's second wife as a means to cheer him up. However, Persephone saw right through Odalia's crap and rejected the proposal. Unfortunately, [[RapeAsDrama Odalia wasn't gonna take no for an answer]]...]] |
| 116 | * In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/13528077/chapters/31032834 Ranma's Sudden Wedding]]'', after being hit with the table during his first meeting with [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Akane]], Ranma comes to to find himself at his wedding - where he is marrying all three of the Tendo sisters at the same time. The rest of the story deals with just HOW this situation came to be. |
| 117 | * ''Fanfic/DuranAndKiyohimesOmakeTheater'': Mai has entered into an open relationship with Reito and Yuuichi. To Shiho's horror and consternation, Yuuichi seems fine with this, and the bickering between him and Reito for Mai's affections has stopped. Shiho had hoped the proposal would have been the final straw that would have driven Yuuichi back to her. |
| 118 | * In the ''Fanfic/ThePiratesSoldier'', [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Heero Yuy]] begins a relationship with [[Anime/TenchiMuyo Ryoko]], but finds himself at a crossroads when, during negotiations of an alliance between the Jurai Empire and the Seniwa Domain, he's offered to marry Mihoshi to seal the deal. This naturally puts him in doubts as he was raised in a culture where monogamy is the norm, until he's reminded that, as a Juraian Prince, he's allowed to legally have more than one spouse if he wants. Furthermore, he talks about it to both Ryoko and Mihoshi, since he wants to take their feelings into account, and he only agrees to it once both girls make it clear they're fine with the arrangement. |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/LGTSPolyculeFluff'' imagines a route of ''VideoGame/LittleGoodyTwoShoes'' where Elise romances Rozenmarine, Freya, and Lebkuchen all at once after Rozenmarine suggests it. At first it progresses as a harem ending centered around Elise, but then the three love interests start falling for each other and it becomes a four-way. They even literally get married by a pair of open-minded pastors who can keep a secret. |
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| 122 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 123 | * ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'': During one of his "strange interludes", Captain Spaulding (Groucho) proposes marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead at once: |
| 124 | -->'''Spaulding''': What do you say girls? Are we all going to get married?\ |
| 125 | '''Mrs. Whitehead''': All of us?\ |
| 126 | '''Spaulding''': All of us.\ |
| 127 | '''Mrs. Whitehead''': But that's bigamy.\ |
| 128 | '''Spaulding''': Yes, and it's big o' me too. It's big of all of us. Let's be big for a change. I'm sick of these conventional marriages. |
| 129 | * ''Film/TheBigamist'': Guess what this movie is about! After cheating on his wife Eve, and discovering that he knocked up Phyllis the other woman, Harry chooses to marry Phyllis without divorcing Eve, instead keeping Phyllis and the baby as his SecretOtherFamily. It all goes bad, of course. |
| 130 | * The 1926 comedy ''Film/HandsUp'' features Raymond Griffith falling in love with both daughters of a Nevada gold miner. Each sister offers to step aside for the other. Griffith is puzzling about how to resolve the LoveTriangle when a stagecoach arrives. A bearded man exits the stagecoach and introduces the sisters to his wife, who exits the stagecoach behind him. Then a second wife emerges, then a third. Five wives come out of the coach before the man is revealed to be Brigham Young. The film ends with Griffith leaving with both sisters in the stagecoach, which has a sign on the back reading "To Salt Lake City". |
| 131 | * In the final scene of ''Film/HorseFeathers'' the CollegeWidow marries Groucho, Chico and Harpo's characters simultaneously. (Zeppo is left out as his character was Groucho's son, and that would be squicky.) |
| 132 | * In ''Film/My5Wives'', Los Angeles land developer Monte Peterson travels to Utah to open a ski resort, only to learn that he needs to join the local religion (a sort of Mormon-Amish hybrid), and marry the former land owner's three wives in order to purchase the land he wants. He later ends up with two more wives (and several more acres of land) when he marries the widows of a recently deceased resident. |
| 133 | * The film version of ''Film/PaintYourWagon'' has the female lead attempt this during the middle of the movie, living with both of her love interests in a polyandrous marriage. It works for a while, but at the end of the story, she's only living with one of them. |
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| 136 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 137 | * ''Literature/{{Kanokon}}'' has an odd variation in which the guy in question doesn't even make the call; the last episode has Chizuru and Nozomu agreeing to share Kouta. Also, whenever he tries to pick and just go for it, he is interrupted. |
| 138 | * At the end of ''Literature/IsThisAZombie''. Ayumu works as a salaryman and quietly lives with his harem. |
| 139 | * ''Literature/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. |
| 140 | * In ''Literature/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'', it's a ForegoneConclusion that Kazuki Hayashizaki will marry all of his contracted summoners. |
| 141 | * In ''Literature/{{Campione}}'', Godou reunited with his harem at the end. |
| 142 | * In ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte'', 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.]] |
| 143 | * ''Literature/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'' ends with Tigre marrying Queen Regin and becoming King of Brune. Eleonora, all the other surviving Vanadis/War Maidens, his maid Titta, and Eleonora's right hand woman Lim all marry him as well, though they are officially considered concubines. |
| 144 | * In ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', WordOfGod states that "Every heroine will get a happy ending." The normal day-to-day life of the main cast falls into {{Polyamory}}. An "EX Novel" set in one possible future of the series shows that Issei is indeed married to multiple women and has had at least one child with each heroine. |
| 145 | * In ''Literature/HowNotToSummonADemonLord'', Diablo married both Rem and Shera. |
| 146 | * In ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'', polygamy is just as legal in the fantasy world as monogamy, so God nonchalantly proposes that Touya do this with the girls he is travelling with. Eventually, [[spoiler: all the girls in the party confess their love to Touya, and he not only marries them, he also marries Sue, Leen, and the princesses of three other nations. And the prophecy also says that he will father at least one child with each of his nine wives, producing 8 girls and 1 boy as each of the girls' first-born.]] |
| 147 | ** [[spoiler: Melle also end up marrying Ende along with her fellow Nei and Lycee in a bi-sexual harem.]] |
| 148 | * In Aaron Lee Yeager's ''Kharmic Rebound'' we end with [[spoiler:Gerald being forced to marry all six dangerous and violent girls in order to preserve galactic peace. However, since he has fallen in love with them and they with him by this point, and since most of the girls come from cultures where polyamory is commonplace, only Cha'Rolette voices any serious opposition to this arrangement.]] |
| 149 | * At the end of Creator/DianeDuane's ''Literature/TheDoorIntoSunset'' Herewiss, Freelorn, Segnbora, Sunspark (a fire elemental), Hasai (a dragon), Eftgan, and Eftgan's husband Wyn all enter into a group marriage. Some of them have previously been lovers in either the physical or the metaphysical sense. One of them snarks that it will be a wedding where the partcipants outnumber the spectators. |
| 150 | * 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 Jerin 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.) |
| 151 | * ''Literature/ChillinInAnotherWorldWithLevelTwoCheatPowers'': [[spoiler:Soon after Gholl learns Uliminas loves him and desires to marry him despite his own infatuation with Balirossa, he decides to marry them both. Generations of the Demon King have taken multiple brides after all and he sees this as the simple solution to the love triangle]]. |
| 152 | * In ''Literature/CourtshipRite'': Sure, six is ''supposed'' to be the maximum size for a marriage, but the maran-Kaiel aren't exactly sticklers for tradition. By the end of the book, they have enough power and influence to make their ''own'' traditions and add both the girl they've always loved ''and'' the new girl they've come to love to their five-marriage. |
| 153 | * In ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', Lucy Westenra briefly wishes that this was an option when she's proposed to by three men in one day. |
| 154 | * In the FairyTale ''Literature/GoldTreeAndSilverTree'', this is how the prince and two princesses live HappilyEverAfter. |
| 155 | * Happens at the end of M.A.R. Barker's ''The Man of Gold'' with [[spoiler:Hársan, Eyil, and Tlayesha]]. |
| 156 | * In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' novels, [[spoiler:Hamish Alexander chooses this when faced with his love for both Honor Harrington and his own wife, Emily. Initially, he and Honor were having an affair with Emily's knowledge and permission (she's very ill and physically frail, to the point where marital sex ain't happening). When Honor became pregnant, they went open. It helped that Honor was also a Grayson citizen, where polygamy is the norm.]] |
| 157 | * ''Literature/JudgeDee'': |
| 158 | ** The main character is pressured into marrying his Third Lady by First Lady, (it's not that he doesn't like the girl, it's that he's worried about taking advantage of her). In a latter book the Judge buys out two prostitutes to help him resolve a case. After a rocky start his three wives warm to the girls and indicate they are willing to accept them as permanent members of the menage. This time the Judge does ''not'' assent (and has to convince himself the shiny traces on the young woman's face when she hears the news is just a trick of the light). |
| 159 | ** In still another book a young lady the Judge has taken on as a temporary assistant makes a sincere effort to seduce him. She apologizes afterward but adds forlornly; "I like you." The Judge assures her that he likes her too (though he hints it's because he reminds her of her happy childhood days with her father), and because he likes her he thinks she deserves better than being the fourth wife of a District Magistrate. Thankfully she appears very taken with a dashing captain. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'' has a variation. Sadie Kane has the hots for two guys - Walt and [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Anubis]]. At the end of the series, Walt becomes Anubis' host, and Walt/Anubis enters a relationship with Sadie. This also saves Walt from dying of a curse. |
| 161 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 162 | ** While Daenerys Targaryen hasn't ''actually'' used this as a resolution, she has ''thought'' about using it. |
| 163 | ** Aegon the Conqueror was in love with his younger sister, Rhaenys, but had to marry their older sister, Visenya, per tradition. He resolved the issue by marrying both. |
| 164 | ** Saera Targaryen, one of Jaehaerys I's daughters, was involved in a scandal of banging three different men simultaneously, and when confronted by her father, stated that she wanted to marry them all, just like Aegon the Conqueror or dear great uncle Maegor the Cruel (who had six wives, something that was probably responsible for discrediting polygamy in Westeros). Her father responded by locking her up. |
| 165 | * In ''Creator/FritzLeiber'' novel ''Literature/ASpectreIsHauntingTexas'' the hero resolves which girl to marry by taking them both with to a lunar satellite. When accused of bigamy, he assures them that that is the least regarded form of variation in the space colony |
| 166 | * In ''Literature/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. |
| 167 | * ''Literature/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''. |
| 168 | * In Robert Jordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Rand al'Thor is bonded as a warder (i.e. more than married...) to all three of his love interests: Min, Elayne and Avienda. This makes for some awkward sexy times, as all three women can telepathically sense one another. [[spoiler: Of course, of all the important male characters (and all the important female characters as well except the three love interests), in the end Rand is the only one who ''doesn't'' technically get married by the end of the series.]] |
| 169 | * ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': |
| 170 | ** Variant: The Magician Humfrey was a serial monogamist, but all of his wives meet up with each other in death and strike up an agreement to come BackFromTheDead, one each month, in order to spend time with him. They are okay with this because each woman genuinely loves Humfrey in her own way and he's the type of person who's only tolerable in small doses. |
| 171 | ** Nine-year-old Prince Dolph ''wants'' this in ''Heaven Cent'', having become engaged (and very much attracted) to Princess Nada Naga, but is required to marry Electra due to a curse that will kill her on her sixteenth birthday unless she marries the prince who kissed her awake. His mother vetoes this, saying he must choose one (and subsequently making polygamy illegal, which leads to the setup where Humfrey only has one wife living with him at a time a few books later). She also won't let him just wait out the curse (and Electra dying) and then marry Nada, insisting that he willingly choose one before Electra's time runs out (which will be when he's fifteen). He ends up marrying Electra to abate her curse and realizes that he's fallen in love with her, choosing to stay married to her and putting an end to his initial plan to divorce her once her life is saved and then take Nada as his permanent wife. |
| 172 | * The hero of ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' is involved in a line marriage, when an older man or an older woman each marry a younger partner, who is incorporated into the marriage, and continues that way, with all of them marrying alternately a younger man and a younger woman. Due to the shortage of women on the Moon, the most common form of marriage is an older man who marries a younger woman, who later brings a younger man into the marriage. |
| 173 | * 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 fiancees in volume 10, concurrent with his formal coronation. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': Hajime ended up marrying Yue, Shea, Tio, Kaori, Shizuku, Aiko, Liliana, and Remia. Yue is undoubtedly the TopWife. |
| 175 | * ''Literature/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). |
| 176 | * In the light novel ending of ''Literature/WorldBreakAriaOfCurseForAHolySwordsman'', the MC Moroha marries all five of his lovers, [[Main/BabiesEverAfter with Haruka carrying her baby & Elena pregnant.]] |
| 177 | * The ending of light novel ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle'' has Lux marrying five of his love interests, Lisha, Krulcifer, Philuffy, Celistia & Yoruka. |
| 178 | * In the light novel ending of ''29-sai Dokushin wa Isekai de Jiyuu ni Ikita... katta'', Taichi was married to twenty wives and had multiple children with them. |
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| 181 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 182 | * Parodied in a ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvuXu1_iF0 sketch]], where due to a series of {{Accidental Proposal}}s all the men end up marrying the Registrar of Marriages. |
| 183 | -->'''Narrator (Terry Jones):''' ''(over a black and white picture of the five British Pythons, arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-etc.)'' Well, things turned out all right in the end. You mustn't ask ''how'', 'cause it's ''naughty.'' |
| 184 | * ''Series/InPlainSight'': When a witness is caught out as a bigamist, he seems to want both of his families to merge into one big happy one. The wives and kids do not agree. Everyone agrees that they don't want to see the dad very much, if at all, but the end of the episode shows the moms letting the kids play together. |
| 185 | * ''Series/TheTribe'': Ram married [[SiblingTriangle sisters Java and Siva]]. When he meets Ebony (the third sister) he wants to marry her too, not out of love, but to "complete the set". They're not looking forward to this, since Java and Siva hate Ebony, and it goes both ways. [[spoiler:She promises Ram that she will, but later chooses his much kinder subordinate Jay instead.]] |
| 186 | * In ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' episode "Sally's Paradise," a woman impulsively accepts proposals from three different men, all of whom end up on the same cruise ship. When they find out about her, they agree that she'll pick one, and the other two will stay out of her life. She likes having three men pay attention to her so much that she tells each of them that he's the one, and the episode ends with her still engaged to all three, plus a fourth guy she just met. |
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| 189 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 190 | * The Scottish folk song "Willie's Gone Awa'" is about Willie saying goodbye to all the ladies at Melville castle before going away. When they start to fight over who he likes best and who will get to marry him when he comes home, he solves the problem by promising to marry everyone. |
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| 193 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 194 | * In the epic the ''Literature/{{Mahabharata}}'', after the princess Draupadi is won by the archer Arjuna during a contest for her hand, he takes her home proudly to his mother, Kunti, who assuming he and his four brothers have bought home alms, tells him to share it (Draupadi) with his brothers. She willingly marries all five of them in order to obey Kunti and later in the epic, the five brothers' enemies bring this up as evidence that Draupadi is an immoral woman when they attempt to rape her. |
| 195 | * According to the ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'', Jacob works for Laban seven years to marry his beloved Rachel. When the ceremony rolls around,[[note]]and after he [[SexualEuphemism went in to her]] the evening after,[[/note]] he finds out the morning after that his new wife is actually Leah, Rachel's older sister, instead. Laban's solution: you have to work another seven years to get the other girl, too.[[note]]Although (while the wording isn't crystal clear) he seems to have been permitted to marry Rachel a week later and then serve the additional seven years as indenture.[[/note]] Not only that, but both women bring their handmaids into it, too: Rachel because she's barren (for a while), and Leah because, well, she's [[TheUnfavorite the less favored wife]] and has to keep up. So Jacob winds up having four "wives" and a total of 13 children. |
| 196 | * In the Illiad Zeus has three wives; Dione, Hera and Leto. |
| 197 | * UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} allows men to have up to four wives, provided he can afford to care for all of them, and actually takes care of them all equally. (However, it specifically forbids a woman to have more than one husband at a time, on the grounds that LineageComesFromTheFather, and therefore it's important to know whose kids are whose.) |
| 198 | * UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} is popularly associated with polygamy. Mormon prophet Joseph Smith had around 27 wives and his successor Brigham Young had 55(!). Historically, "plural marriage" was practiced by elite Mormon men, and, though it is now disavowed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is still practiced by members of splinter sects. Plural marriage in the Mormon faith when it was first instituted was more a case of the marriage being one that essentially assigned the Husband to take care of the new wife and her family, as many of those were widows of Mormon handcart settlers who had died on the trek west, rather than any sexual or romantic intent. Polygamy is disavowed by Brigham Young close to the end of his tenure as leader of the Mormon faith and by the largest groups in the movement, the groups practicing it being mostly the various "fundamentalist Mormon" groups such as the FLDS church, which are inhabitants of Mormon Flats, Utah and Creston, British Colombia. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 202 | * In Creator/MarkTwain's play version of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'', Tom can't choose between Amy Lawrence and Becky Thatcher and proposes to both of them at once. |
| 203 | * In ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'', Spaulding proposes marriage to both Mrs. Rittenhouse and Mrs. Whitehead at once: |
| 204 | -->'''Spaulding''': What do you say girls? Are we all going to get married?\ |
| 205 | '''Mrs. Whitehead''': All of us?\ |
| 206 | '''Spaulding''': All of us.\ |
| 207 | '''Mrs. Whitehead''': But that's bigamy.\ |
| 208 | '''Spaulding''': Yes, and it's big o' me too. It's big of all of us. Let's be big for a change. I'm sick of these conventional marriages. |
| 209 | * The stage play ''Up Against It'' (originally written as a screenplay with Music/TheBeatles in mind as the leads) ends with three of the male characters married to the same woman. |
| 210 | * In Creator/GilbertAndSullivan's ''Theatre/TrialByJury'', the philandering defendant proposes that it would solve their dilemma if "I marry this lady today / And I'll marry the other tomorrow!" Unfortunately, this is determined to be the crime of "[[{{Malaproper}} Burglaree]]." |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 214 | * In the final route of ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'', which is focused on Crea[[note]]In the original version it's a straight harem route and doesn't need elaboration[[/note]], in the epilogue [[spoiler:just before Taiga returns from beating up God]] Crea describes all the other heroines to [[spoiler:her son]] as being Taiga's lovers, much to their surprise. Nobody ever said Avatar exclusively practiced monogamy, did they? |
| 215 | * This is the backstory of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia''. Zofia's previous king [[spoiler:and Celica's father]] had a nasty habit of abducting women to be his many brides, even causing a minor scandal when he married a cleric of Mila who was presumably sworn to celibacy. He's regarded in the storyline as a corrupt, decadent man whom no one misses when he eventually dies. |
| 216 | * ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'': |
| 217 | ** {{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 of 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.]] |
| 218 | ** 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.]] |
| 219 | * ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': PlayedForLaughs. When the Traveler and Paimon try to explain a HaremGenre story to Ei, she immediately says that the simplest solution is to have the protagonist marry all seven girls. Since Inazuma is based on Imperial Japan, where this sort of thing ''did'' happen (though usually not with that many mistresses), she has a point. Paimon disagrees. |
| 220 | -->'''Paimon:''' That would be the most boring story ever! |
| 221 | * In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', a male player character can successfully complete the romance plots with both Dawn Star ''and'' [[spoiler: Silk Fox]], but the end-of-game texts subvert it; in this situation the character ends up as [[spoiler:consort to Silk Fox]] and [[spoiler:Dawn Star]] apparently goes her own way. This is apparently a bug as [[spoiler: the completed romance for both was supposed to play in such an ending.]] |
| 222 | * In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1,'' a renegade Shepard can suggest this as a solution to the Ashley/Liara (if male) or Kaidan/Liara (if female) LoveTriangle. The human is not amused, and the game treats it like you chose Liara. |
| 223 | * Parodied in ''VideoGame/NamcoHigh''; while [[MediumAwareness Davesprite]] keeps teasing the existence of such an ending, it doesn't appear to actually be there. |
| 224 | -->'''Davesprite''': just means i wont tell you any of the locations of the ten secret easter eggs that when gathered all together unlock the route to the perfect harem ending |
| 225 | * The sidegame ''VideoGame/SenranKagura: Bon Appetit'' has Katsuragi try and pull this with the nearly-all-female cast. Ikaruga's goal is to try and stop her. |
| 226 | * Since ''VideoGame/ShiningResonance'' is part [[HaremGenre Harem]][=/=]DatingSim, Yuma is free to date as many of the female party members as he wants, or ''all of them'' at once, and none of them will think any less of him for it. The game even encourages it to facilitate seeing all of their character endings. |
| 227 | * ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' doesn't explore its romantic subplot very deeply, but there's some implication of this being the canon ending, as both Aika and Fina have feelings for Vyse, but the only jealousy or competitiveness expressed by the two is when someone other than the two of them expresses feelings for him. In fact, when Fina is directly asked if she's jealous after Vyse rescues Aika with a BridalCarry, Fina flatly states that she isn't because she knows that Vyse would do the same for her if the time came. |
| 228 | * This is an option for Muslim rulers in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII''. Taking women as concubines is an option for a ruler who follows any religion other than Christianity or Islam. Concubines provide heirs just like plural wives, but the concubines themselves don't offer political alliances like wives can, and there is no prestige loss for taking a lowborn woman as a concubine. |
| 229 | * In ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' there are two party members who are in a troubled romantic relationship, Octavia and Regongar. In order for them to get a happy ending, you have to romance them both (otherwise, one makes a HeroicSacrifice for the other). If you did choose to romance them, you actually marry them both (because, it's your kingdom so you get to make the rules!) at the end of the game. You actually get this option whether you play as a male or female character (avoiding some UnfortunateImplications, running into others though), while the other romances in the game are gender-locked. |
| 230 | ** The ''Wild Cards'' DLC introduces tiefling twins Kalikke and Kanerah, who can only exist one at a time on the Material Plane ([[DealWithTheDevil long story]]) and can swap via magical TwinSwitch. Both are romanceable, and if you end up fixing their situation so they can both be present at once, you can get an ending where you [[ALadyOnEachArm marry them both at the same time]]. |
| 231 | * In ''Videogame/XenobladeChronicles3'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:[[Videogame/XenobladeChronicles2 Rex]] ended up marrying and having children with Pyra, Mythra and Nia]]. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 235 | * ''VisualNovel/TheEdenOfGrisaia'': Heavily implied by the ending, which ends up with Yuuji and all five heroines living on an island together. At first, he's pressured to pick one girl and devote himself to her, but Yuuji is indecisive, and eventually resolves to just marry whoever gets pregnant first. [[spoiler:The moment the girls hear about this idea, they all resolve to get pregnant by Yuuji so he cannot choose, and they can all live together.]] |
| 236 | * The Yoru route for ''VisualNovel/IfMyHeartHadWings'' actually involves Aoi realising that he can't choose between Asa and Yoru... only for the two of them, being extremely close twin sisters who were both prepared to do an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, to suggest that he just date them both. Aoi is skeptical at first, let alone everyone else, but the situation goes forward with extremely minimal drama or jealousy. |
| 237 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Nameless}}'' the [[OmegaEnding Omega Ending]] has all five (male) love interests of Eri [[spoiler: from all five different Good End timelines appear after [[BigBad Nameless]] is defeated. Also, the Big Bad may or may not be part of your new reverse harem. It's not entirely clear.]] |
| 238 | * While the ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' anime does NOT go this route, [[DifficultButAwesome if the player works for it]] he or she can potentially get Makoto to score ''and'' stay with both Kotonoha and Sekai. |
| 239 | * In ''VisualNovel/SharinNoKuni'' if you refuse to enter Sachi or Touka's routes, fail to get enough points with Hinata and finally [[spoiler:choose not to reform society with Ririko]] the girls team up and decide that since none of them could make Kenichi enter a relationship with them, they should just make him follow the path of [[EthicalSlut his father]] and have [[{{Polyamory}} multiple lovers]]. Despite being ''that'' sort of game, though, there is no sex scene for this. |
| 240 | * One pathway in ''VisualNovel/ShojokyuuKurigeNoShiofukiShoujotachi'' involves Haruna, getting together will all the girls who've crushed on her plus some others totaling a harem of eight. |
| 241 | * In ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'', particularly the original [=H-Game/=]VisualNovel, no matter who Rin ends up with, Shin-ou reminds everyone that polygamy is legal in Shinkai. In the sequel/expansion ''Shuffle! Essence+'' this is explicitly the basis for Kareha's ending (Rin agrees to marry both her and her sister Tsubomi) and more specifically Tsubomi's (she refuses to have a relationship with Rin unless he agrees to marry ALL the girls who are in love with him as well). |
| 242 | * ''VisualNovel/UnderTheMoon'' features an ending [[spoiler:on the secret path]] in which the heroine ends up with most of the love interests as her ReverseHarem. Many of these boys have ''intensely'' jealous personalities, so some narrative contrivance is required to make this happen: [[spoiler:namely, the heroine spontaneously masters her tremendous latent magical powers '''and''' realizes that all the boys are in love with her… at the same time.]] |
| 243 | * ''VisualNovel/FunbagFantasySeries'' has Lute rise from being a no-name soldier to the hero and eventually ruler of Edelleland, desired by the ladies he's formed bonds with. By the canon ending, Lute marries three of his original six lovers (Shamsiel, Roxanne, and Luceria) while the other three directly serve under him in positions of royal power (Isis, Gladys, and Emeralia). In its direct sequel, Nellis and Aphrodia are added into the mix, and the second sequel adds in Rosalyn, Estoria, and Serebria. By the full story's end, Lute winds up married to ten of his possible eleven lovers of his harem. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 247 | * A [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0414.htm version of this]] is the solution for Guenevere's affair with Lancelot in the Space Arc of ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', and [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0811.htm seems to be leading to that]] in the Modern Arc, especially as [[spoiler: it seems Guenevere's second child (named Galahad) is Lancelot's]]. Confirmed in [[http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/baiy.htm this]] ''Webcomic/TheHeroOfThreeFaces''. |
| 248 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', after much teasing regarding [[BettyAndVeronica the Veronica, Alisin, and Rumy, the Betty,]] our Archie, Rikk [[{{Polyamory}} chooses them both,]] helped along in no small part by the sexual tension between the two romantic rivals themselves. |
| 249 | * In the [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] comic, ''[[https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/133680/Valley-of-the-Thunder-Ladies Valley of the Thunder Ladies]]'', Curtis, a feline western explorer explores a hidden valley, discovers a civilisation of dinosaur anthros and aids them in a crucial matter. In gratitude, they name him Chief of the grand alliance of the various tribes he help found, and offer him to marry a female of one of the alliance. The cat declines the marriage portion since that would show favoritism to one of the tribes, and the council of tribes concede he has a point. After a conference on the matter, the council cheerfully proclaim that instead Curtis will marry all the females presented, which the cat definitely does ''not'' anticipate they would do. As it happens, all the wives are more than happy with this political arrangement since they get along well and all love the cat themselves. However, that family has a challenge when the cat's old love from the West, Francine, is discovered looking for him, and is less than pleased to learn what has happened. |
| 250 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The Castle ''repeatedly'' suggests this as an alternative to Agatha choosing between Gil and Tarvek. And the castle includes ''harem quarters''. It's implied that this might be the default solution to things for the old Heterodynes: the castle also casually mentions that the Master's bedroom "only sleeps six." |
| 251 | * During the later acts of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Jane and Jake go insane as a result of [[spoiler: Jane [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity engaging Trickster Mode]] through Caliborn and Calliope's combined [[PsychoSerum Juju]].]] The two of them are ''very'' ecstatic about the idea of a polyamorous relationship with Roxy. For her part, Roxy goes so far as to [[spoiler: ask [[TheDragon Her Imperious Condescension]] to put her back in jail to get her away from the two, only to fall to it as well]]. |
| 252 | * ''Webcomic/MobTies'', it is suggested [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Mob_Ties/index.php?p=231247 here]]. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 256 | * WebVideo/ProZD: Tomoko fixes the love triangle in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFyCuKoEGA anime love triangles]]" by suggesting polyamory to her suitors. |
| 257 | -->'''Narrator:''' And so, anime was solved forever! |
| 258 | * {{Invoked}} with the hashtag #whychoose, associated with the Reverse Harem literature genre that emerged in TheNewTens. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 262 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheCookieCarnival'', the judges suggest that the Queen marry all three of them after she rejects every candidate. |
| 263 | * 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]]. |
| 264 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' has a female example. Ruth was a beautiful woman who had a habit of baking [[ImpossiblyDeliciousFood pies]]. This skill, among others left her with an endless line of suitors. She couldn't decide who to marry and the decision was further hampered by the fact that Bubbie inadvertently ate her along with several of the pies she'd made. She remained trapped in Bubbie's belly for many years but upon her escape it is revealed that all of her suitors are still alive and find her just as beautiful. She happily declares "I'll Marry You All!" Much to their delight. |
| 265 | * Not a marriage, but in ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs]]'' Fry falls for Colleen and moves in with her only to discover that she has four other boyfriends who all live together as one big, happy(ish) family. Fry tries to accept the situation but can't take it for long. The same movie has [[BizarreAlienBiology Yivo]] marry ''the entire universe'' (or at least, its biological inhabitants). |
| 266 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E19TheFront The Front]]: An ImagineSpot shows Grandpa Simpson as a Western showgirl, preventing a gunfight between two cowboys by proclaiming, "You can ''both'' marry me!" This shows up in the much later episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E9SimpsonsChristmasStories Simpsons Christmas Stories]], in which we introduced to Abe's brother Cyrus. Who is married to 15 native women in Tahiti. |
| 267 | * Brought up in the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Gem Harvest"; after overhearing Andy's disgust at the fact that Greg and Rose didn't marry before producing Steven, Pearl [[ComicallyMissingThePoint suggests that they all marry each other]]. |
| 268 | * 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 three of his (equally corpulent) daughters wish to marry Buster. |
| 269 | ->'''Buster:''' I can't marry all three of them! That's bigamy!\ |
| 270 | '''Father:''' Naw, that's big o' ''me''! |
| 271 | * ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'': To Cruella of all people. In the finale, a whole bunch of men that Cruella has met throughout the series, including a cult who believe her to be their alien leader, all admit to having feelings for her and want to marry her right away. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
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