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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:250:TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest… but wounds can heal.]] |
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| 8 | ->''Sorry, girl, but you missed out\ |
| 9 | Well, tough luck, that boy's mine now\ |
| 10 | We are more than just good friends\ |
| 11 | This is how the story ends.'' |
| 12 | -->-- '''Music/AvrilLavigne,''' "[=Sk8er=] Boi" |
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| 14 | "FirstLove is the Best Love", that's what they say. Who "they" are is a mystery, but they are (occasionally) wrong. In reality, many people fall in love a second, third, or even fourth time. Despite the FirstGirlWins trope, there are many cases when the second girl (not necessarily [[LastGirlWins Last Girl]]) ends up with the guy. This happens with the guy as well, but not as often. This is not to say that first love can't ever work out, this trope applies to when the first love does not work out and is relevant. |
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| 16 | Reasons for the first love not working out vary. The person may have cheated on their significant other, turned evil, or even died. Widowing is popular, as it allows the old love interest to be "[[DeathOfTheHypotenuse out of the way]]" without ruining the dignity or reputation of either of the pair (especially if the deceased is played up as having been TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth). Often, for added tension, the first and second loves know each other, or may have been sworn enemies. In some more supernatural cases, the second love happens [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest to look exactly like the first one.]] |
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| 18 | A common ploy is to find the second love to be "true" or "real" love, compared to the first. But unlike TheCasanova, the CasanovaWannabe and even the ChivalrousPervert, they definitely felt something for the first love. |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Quite often the result of WrongGuyFirst -- which may make SillyRabbitRomanceIsForKids complicate this. SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan is more likely to succeed AllGirlsWantBadBoys than the other way round. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Compare AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder. Contrast YouHaveWaitedLongEnough, TheMourningAfter. Occasional overlap with DecemberDecemberRomance. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 29 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 30 | * ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': |
| 31 | ** Hahari's first love died from a terminal illness when they were thirteen. Years later, she meets Rentarou, and upon discovering that they are soulmates, becomes his sixth girlfriend. |
| 32 | ** Yaku's husband and first love died years before she met and fell in love with Rentarou. |
| 33 | * [[MaybeEverAfter Implied to be the case]] in ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'', as the ending hints that [[spoiler:Yukiatsu and Tsuruko might have gotten together, and that Jintan and Anaru will probably do so in the future as well. This is after [[TheOneThatGotAway Menma]]'s ghost is able to move on.]] |
| 34 | * In the ''Manga/Area88'' manga, Sela serves as this for Mickey. Years before in New York, Mickey and Tracy broke off their engagement, and Mickey became a mercenary in Asran shortly thereafter. Later in the manga, Mickey falls in love with Sela, who defected from Project 4 to the Asranian pro-government forces. |
| 35 | * In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', the main character's uncle, Nobuhiro Mashiro, and Miho's mother, Miyuki Haruno, corresponded via letters for a long time, but could never admit how they felt to each other, possibly because they were waiting for the other to say it (and in Nobuhiro's case, he was unwilling to do it until he was sure he had a hit). Eventually, Miyuki moved on to fall in love with and marry Mr. Azuki, having two daughters with him; Miho and Mina. |
| 36 | * Casca from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' eventually falls in love with Guts. Though it's debatable whether she just had a case of [[HeroWorshipper hero worship]] with Griffith or if she genuinely was in love with him. However, the good times didn't last for long [[StarCrossedLovers for these two]]. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'': |
| 38 | ** Sayaka had once been in a GayRomanticPhase relationship with her senpai from her previous school, but they broke up because the older girl merely saw it as a phase. Sayaka was heartbroken, and briefly intended never to fall in love with a girl again. Then Sayaka met Touko, and fell in love with her at first sight. [[spoiler:Touko rejects Sayaka, but in the years after they graduate, Sayaka gets into a relationship with a girl named Haru]]. |
| 39 | ** When Riko was in college, she broke up with her boyfriend. On the rebound, she met and gradually fell in love with Miyako Kodama, a classmate who went on to own a coffee shop. |
| 40 | * Tsukushi Makino from ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'' eventually falls in love and ends up with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Domyoji]] instead of her first love, [[IneffectualLoner Rui]]. She undoubtedly would have ended up with Rui if he hadn't been so smitten with [[CoolBigSis Shizuka]] for most of the series. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/CandyCandy'': Candy's first love was Anthony, who died tragically. Then she meets Terry, who becomes her second love, [[spoiler:but their relationship didn't end well.]] |
| 42 | * ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': |
| 43 | ** Both Sakura and Syaoran's first love was [[EvenTheGuysWantHim Yukito]]. They later find out it was just a passing crush and get together. |
| 44 | ** Yukito himself is the second love of ''Touya'', Sakura's older brother. |
| 45 | ** Touya's first love, Kaho, gets a second love in [[spoiler:Eriol.]] |
| 46 | * In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Sato [[spoiler:lost her FirstLove Matsuda to a terrorist attack]]. Since she's in a LoveTriangle with Takagi and Shiratori, either of them will be her Second Love. [[spoiler:Takagi is the one she falls for]]. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', Chrono was originally in love with a woman named [[spoiler:Mary Magdalene, who he accidentally killed.]] The main bulk of the story, however, is concerned with Chrono's relationship with his partner, Rosette Christopher. In the anime he says [[spoiler:to Mary's ghost]] that he's grown to love Rosette so much that "Rosette's taken over the place [she] used to occupy in my heart", but the manga occasionally implies that Chrono never fully gets over his first love, but grows to love Rosette just as much. |
| 48 | * In ''Manga/DaytimeShootingStar'', this is a big theme. [[spoiler: Minagawa is this for Yuyuka after being rejected, while Suzume is this for Shishio after his breakup with Tsubomi. Mamura and Suzume start going out in chapter 61, although Suzume isn't sure about her feelings for both Mamura and Shishio. It is in the last chapter where Suzume finally hears Shishio's confession and acknowledges that Shishio was her first love but has already realized that her current feelings remain with Mamura.]] |
| 49 | * In the manga ''Manga/TheDevilDoesExist'', Kayano's first love was [[NiceGuy Kamijou Yuuichi]]. She later falls in love with and marries Jerkass Takeru, because AllGirlsWantBadBoys. |
| 50 | * In ''Manga/DNAngel'', Daisuke's first love was Risa. He eventually falls in love and ends up with her [[SiblingYinYang twin sister]], Riku. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/DragonBall'''s Bulma starts out as Yamcha's girlfriend, a relationship that continues until about halfway into ''Manga/DragonBallZ''. At some unknown point, they split up for good and Bulma ends up having a family with Vegeta. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' featured two examples by way of a LoveDodecahedron. Before getting together, Holland and Talho each had a lover, [[spoiler:Renton's sister Diane and Holland's own brother Dewey, respectively.]] |
| 53 | * In ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'', as shown in a side story in ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke is Kaname's second love - her first being Fuwa, a senpai she dated during junior high. Interestingly enough, Tessa, the other part of that LoveTriangle, was initially the girlfriend of Bunny Morauta (the whispered that built the Arbalest). However, he died, and she ended up meeting and falling in love with Sousuke. |
| 54 | * Mitsuki from ''Manga/FullMoon'' first loved Eichi, who was her childhood friend. However, she later finds out [[spoiler:that he died]]. She eventually falls in love with Takuto, and they end up together (which may be rather [[{{Squick}} Squick-worthy]] to some, considering that [[spoiler: Takuto was fourteen when she was born, saw her as a baby, and was even the one that ''named'' her. But as "the cool older boyfriend" is common in shoujo manga, this is rather overlooked by many Full Moon fans, and the author herself who claims "Takuto is a pure-hearted young man who heals Mitsuki's wounds". Added to this, Mitsuki turns 16 (a legal marriage age in Japan) in the manga before revealing her feelings for Takuto.]]) |
| 55 | * In the [[BoysLove BL]] manga, ''Manga/FutureLovers'', Akira's first love is a straight man, making it an IncompatibleOrientation. Akira cries over him at an early point in the story. |
| 56 | * In ''Manga/{{GALS}}'': |
| 57 | ** Ran has gone on many casual dates with boys, but the first guy she fell in love with turns out to be paid by her rival to humiliate her. Her current boyfriend Tatsuki is her second. |
| 58 | ** Yuya falls in love with Ran right off the bat, but never manages to confess until Tatsuki got to her first. He continues to carry the torch for her even after [[spoiler:he finds himself dating Mami, but in the second-to-last volume, he finally moves on from Ran and falls in love with Mami for real.]] |
| 59 | ** Also, [[spoiler: it turns out Rei liked Ran from the start as well but after they agree it wouldn't work (because Ran is dating somebody else) he goes out with Aya]]. |
| 60 | * In ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'', Valentine's first love had been her fiancé, Franz. However, Franz in turn had an unrequited love for Albert, and ignored her most of the time. She later falls in love with and marries [[BigGuy Maximilien]]. |
| 61 | * In ''Manga/{{Gantz}}'', Kei Kurono's first love was Kei Kishimoto. Unfortunately for him, she fell for Kato instead of him. He eventually gets over it, and falls in love with Tae, who becomes his official girlfriend. The same happened with Clone Kurono, who decided to hook up with Reika after he realized that his feelings for Tae would never be requited. |
| 62 | * Yuki Eiri of ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' was in love with his tutor Kitazawa when he was younger and more innocent, and still carries a torch for him after six years even after [[spoiler:Kitazawa almost has him raped by his friends and Yuki killed him in self-defense.]] Only when he meets Shuichi does he begin healing from the pain of his first love. Hiro is Ayaka's second love, Yuki being her first and depending on how one sees Hiro's feelings for Shuichi, Ayaka could be Hiro's second love also. |
| 63 | * In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' Kira Yamato's first love was Flay Allster. [[TheLostLenore It ended horribly.]] He eventually falls in love with Lacus Clyne. There's also Murrue Ramius, who is mourning her late fiancé for much of the series until she gets together with Mu La Flaga near the end. |
| 64 | * In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', Shinn Asuka's and Lunamaria Hawke's respective first loves are Stellar Louissier and Athrun Zala. Stellar dies tragically, Athrun, along with Lunamaria's sister, Meyrin, defect, are shot down by Shinn and presumed to be dead. [[spoiler:They got better.]] Lunamaria and Shinn end up together but due to the way it was handled, they are widely believed to have been StrangledByTheRedString (''even by the fans who ship them''). |
| 65 | * Van of ''Anime/GunXSword'' continues to love his fiancée after her tragic death, but the last episode of the series hints that he may have found his second love. This is a case where the first love was most definitely "the real thing;" so much so that the second love comes off looking like a consolation prize in comparison. |
| 66 | * Although the title character of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' could end up with his first love [[spoiler: Athena]], it's been strongly hinted that he won't, thus, applying this trope to the young woman he does choose out of his UnwantedHarem. He's [[{{Promise}} promised]] that he still will care for his first love though. |
| 67 | * In ''Manga/HighSchoolDebut'', the main girl (Haruna) falls for Fumi, a friend of the main guy at first. And the main guy, Yoh, is even helping her to date him! Then, Fumi dates Yoh's sister, Asa, who only dated him because Haruna liked him. It's all very confusing. |
| 68 | * In ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', Issei's first love was with a girl named Yuma Amano, and went out of his way to be a gentleman to create the perfect first date. However, he quickly learns that his girlfriend is a Fallen Angel named Raynare, who then breaks up with him in [[FirstEpisodeResurrection the worst way possible]]. This would haunt Issei for some time before realizing that he's in love with his master Rias Gremory. |
| 69 | * Hatsumi from the ''Manga/HotGimmick'' manga ends up with Ryoki Tachibana because her first love, Azusa, tried to [[ReunionRevenge get her raped as revenge]]. And if we follow the novels, [[spoiler: she actually ends up with her ''third'' love, Shinogu]]. |
| 70 | * In ''Manga/ImmortalRain'', Machika is Rain's second love (Freya was his first). There may have been others (he's really old) but these are the ones shown. Eury might be this for Ayla...maybe. |
| 71 | * ''Manga/InuYasha'': Inuyasha and Kikyou had vowed to marry before being torn apart by [[BigBad Naraku]]. Kagome heals Inuyasha's heart, but their romance is complicated by the resurrection of Kikyou by dark magic. Being officially obliged to both women, Inuyasha cannot give up either, a situation only resolved when Kikyou is able to rest in peace, allowing him to move on with Kagome. However, while Kagome and Kikyou are two different women, Kagome is Kikyou's reincarnated soul. Her very existence is the result of Kikyou's lingering desire to meet Inuyasha again. This results in a strange combination of FirstGirlWins and Second Love at the same time. |
| 72 | * ''Manga/{{Lady}}'': George thought he would never fall in love again after his first wife Frances died. However, one day he had a work trip to Japan and couldn't speak Japanese, so an English-to-Japanese interpreter named Misuzu Midorikawa was hired. George fell in love with her and they had Lynn. |
| 73 | * ''Anime/JeanieWithTheLightBrownHair'': Diana is this to Frederick after his first wife, Angela, died of an illness. However, his daughter Jeanie doesn't accept her and it causes chaos in the household. |
| 74 | * ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[spoiler: Mitsuyo was this to Kentaro/La Gohl, as his first love was Lozaria, his Boazanian wife who died in childbirth. Sadly, Mitsuyo also died when he was fighting in the resistance.]] |
| 75 | * ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'': |
| 76 | ** ''Anime/Jewelpet2009'': it's implied that Rinko has a PrecociousCrush on Tatewaki but this gets phased out after Akira is introduced and Rinko develops a more mutual crush on him. [[spoiler:They manage to overcome a third suitor and become the OfficialCouple at the end.]] |
| 77 | ** ''Anime/LadyJewelpet'': Romeo falls in love with Momona, but since she's in love with Cayenne, she turns him down. Romeo gets over it fast since he knew he didn't stand much of a chance, and later falls in love with [[spoiler:Elena and it's reciprocated]]. |
| 78 | * In the manga ''Manga/{{Juline}}'', Juline's first love was her guardian Ryoku. However, Ryoku [[spoiler: dies]]. She eventually reciprocates her [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend best friend Kio's]] feelings. |
| 79 | * Something of a theme in ''Manga/JunjouRomantica''. Usami is shown to have been in love with his friend Takahiro for ten years before falling for Takahiro's younger brother Misaki. Hiroki, in turn, suffered from unrequited love for Usami [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend from early on in their childhood acquaintance]], but found his second love with Nowaki. And Miyagi spent years not letting himself get over his first love (a teacher who died of a terminal illness while he was still in high school), before finally unthawing when he met Shinobu. |
| 80 | * Ishigami deconstructs this in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' when talking with Maki about what would happen if she started dating her crush Tsubasa, pointing out that anything they did together would be compared to his current girlfriend Kashiwagi. |
| 81 | -->'''Ishigami:''' Think about it. All the places you wanted to take him on dates - they're going there now. When you two go to an amusement park for the first time, won't he be thinking, "I came here before with my ex..."? When you cook for him, he'll be comparing it to he ex's. When it's your first kiss but he's already experienced, and when he already knows where all the love hotels are... |
| 82 | * In ''Literature/KokoroConnect'': |
| 83 | ** Quite a bit of drama between Aoki and Yui is drawn from this, when it's revealed that [[spoiler:Aoki used to love a girl similar to Yui, Nana Nishino]]. |
| 84 | ** Taichi also ends up falling in love with [[spoiler:Inaba, after getting dumped by Iori.]] |
| 85 | * ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'': |
| 86 | ** Kyoko eventually gets married to Yusaku after being widowed from her first love and husband, Soichiro. |
| 87 | ** Shun Mitaka initially was in love with Kyoko, but eventually reciprocated his [[ArrangedMarriage fiancée Asuna Kujou's]] feelings and married her. |
| 88 | * In ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'', Ginta Suoh and Arimi Suzuki are each other's second loves after they [[OperationJealousy team up]] to get their first loves's affections and fail. As they mourn their losses together, they become genuinely fond of each other and hook up, becoming one of the two {{Beta Couple}}s (the other being Meiko and Namura). |
| 89 | * ''Manga/MeguroSanWaHajimeteJanai'': Koga is this for the titular Meguro. She had a first love, but after it ended badly she bounced around several boyfriends that she had no emotional attachment to, until she fell in love with Koga. |
| 90 | * Ilulu from ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' initially starts off interested in Kobayashi, though she admits in chapter 52 that she doesn't really have a chance with her and instead switches her attention to Taketo. |
| 91 | * In ''Anime/TheNightIsShortWalkOnGirl'' an odd version happens. Don Underwear is madly in love with a girl when both of them got hit in the head by falling apples. He's still in love even when find out that the "girl" is actually his male friend, the Director of the Festival who reciprocates out of loneliness. Don Underwear's playwright assistant Noriko, is in love with Don Underwear but won't stand in their way. The Senpai sees this is wrong (Don only loves the Director because he's in love with the moment of the fateful encounter of the falling apples) and knocks the Director through a secret door. Then a whirlwind happens and falling koi hit Don and Noriko in the head, causing Don to fall in love with her. |
| 92 | * ''Manga/{{Oishinbo}}'': Morisawa and Yamawaki. |
| 93 | * ''Manga/OnaniMasterKurosawa'': As part of a major PlotTwist, [[spoiler:Kurosawa, after his first love Takigawa gets together with Nagoka, and he has a redemption arc, eventually falls for a ThirdOptionLoveInterest, the ReformedBully Sugawa.]] |
| 94 | * In ''Manga/PeachGirl'', Momo was first in love with Toji, but later falls for (and ends up with) [[spoiler: [[ChivalrousPervert Kairi]]]]. |
| 95 | * Considering that Ringo Oginome from ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}'' starts crushing on Tabuki-sensei, the trope will come in if she falls for Shouma Takakura, whom she's had quite a bit of ShipTease. [[spoiler:It does, in the GrandFinale. [[HeroicSacrifice And then Shouma]] is {{Ret Gone}}d [[DyingMomentOfAwesome to save Ringo]], with his last words doubling as a DyingdeclarationOfLove for her.]] |
| 96 | * In the anime version of ''Anime/{{Pretear}}'', Takako fell in love with [[spoiler:Hayate]], but was rejected by him. She didn't handle it well (understatement), but eventually ends up with [[spoiler:Sasame, who had loved her from the beginning.]] |
| 97 | * ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has a spoileriffic example: [[spoiler:Ahiru originally loves Mytho, but grows closer to Fakir throughout the show, and is implied to end up with him after Mytho chooses Rue to be his princess in the GrandFinale.]] Also, a childhood friend of Fakir's, Raetsel, is shown struggling with a love for his foster father, Karon, but eventually ends up marrying another man. |
| 98 | * [[BelligerentSexualTension Akane]] from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' ends up falling in love with [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ranma]] after getting over her first love, Doctor Tofu. Additionally, Ryoga falls in love with Akari and gives up on [[ObliviousToLove Akane]]. |
| 99 | |
| 100 | * In ''Manga/Reborn2004'': |
| 101 | ** , Kyoko's best friend, Hana, first had a huge crush on adult Lambo. Later, 10 years into the future, however, it's revealed that she's going out with [[spoiler: Ryouhei]]. So if she indeed ends up with him, he'll have been her second love. |
| 102 | ** As for [[spoiler: Ryouhei]] himself, Hana ''herself'' would also be his second love, as his first love would be the adult I-Pin. |
| 103 | * In ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'', André is a second love for Oscar, after her unrequited love for Fersen. But Oscar was the first (and only) love for André, as well Fersen is the first for Marie-Antoinette. |
| 104 | * Kenshin from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' eventually ends up with Kaoru Kamiya after getting over his guilt of accidentally killing [[spoiler:his first wife, Tomoe]]. Ironically, [[spoiler:he was ''Tomoe's'' second love too, having ''killed'' her fiancé Akira during the war: Tomoe initially wanted revenge on Kenshin for that, but upon finding out that Kenshin was no monster, she fell for him... and sacrificed her life to save him. Too bad her little brother didn't see it that way at least until the very end.]] |
| 105 | * ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Naru Osaka at first falls for Nephrite/Masato Sanjouin, and even willingly protects him from the Sailor Senshi even after finding out he's a villain and was only using her for his own gain. Then he starts reciprocating her feelings, [[DiedInYourArmsTonight and ends up dying in her arms]] [[TakingTheBullet after protecting her]] from Zoicite's youma. This however paves the way for her to get close to her classmate Umino and get together (and ironically, Umino himself was at first in love with Usagi before moving on to Naru). |
| 106 | * ''Manga/SensualPhrase'': Sakuya found love again in Aine, long after his break-up with his first one, Ayako[[note]]he met Ayako when he was just a teenage [[HighClassCallGirl male escort]] and Ayako was one of his clients[[/note]]. |
| 107 | * The [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]] ''A Sister for Each Season'' revolves around a young man who acquires a harem of four princesses that came to his world. The first princess to arrive had been betrothed to a prince she had know all her life, and when she wanted to show him a magic pendant, she caught him with another woman, and when he noticed her presence, he tried to kill her with his sword, which is when the pendant teleported her to the young man's bedroom. Months later, as she eventually reunited with her sisters, she asks them what happened to her ex-fiance, and they answered that they made him go through some [[HumiliationConga public humiliation, and one them even cast a spell that made the prince]] [[TheLoinsSleepTonight impotent]]. After forsaking the prince's existence, they all made the decision to share him, and use [[SexMagic the young man's love to transport them to their world]] to introduce him to the rest of the royal family. |
| 108 | * In the original webnovel, Kirito from ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' actually meets his eventual girlfriend Asuna first, but his first love is Sachi, the female member of the Black Cats of the Full Moon. It took him a while to open up to Asuna because he was still grieving over Sachi's death due to not being able to protect her like he promised. This is {{averted|Trope}} in the later adaptations with him and Sachi being close friends instead. |
| 109 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': |
| 110 | ** While their relationship isn't shown in great detail, [[spoiler: Kittan]] could be considered [[spoiler:Yoko]]'s second love. His appearance in her ideal universe alongside obvious "first love" [[spoiler:Kamina]] and their touching encounter before [[spoiler: Kittan's suicide run]] hint at it, but never really bring closure to the idea. |
| 111 | ** Nia is this for Simon. His first love, Yoko, was admittedly just an adolescent crush, but it was strong enough to drive him crazy when [[spoiler:she and Kamina kissed.]] But then [[spoiler: Kamina dies]], ''then'' Nia comes along, and he falls for her. Their love becomes strong. Very strong. [[spoiler: As in a flying-across-the-galaxy-in-a-[[CoolShip cool-ship]]-to save-her-from-an-evil-God-by-kicking-said-evil-God's-ass level of strong.]] |
| 112 | * In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': Jack, the backstory of Fura during his teenage years reveals that he initially fell for Minami, the beautiful DamselInDistress that gets rescued by them from a ghoul. Unfortunately for him, she seemed to be [[LoveTriangle crushing on Arima]]. Even more unfortunately, [[spoiler:Minami turns out to actually be the ghoul that killed his childhood friend and blinded his other female childhood friend in one eye]]. After this, many years into the future, Fura is happily married to his childhood friend, Aki, and they have a daughter together. |
| 113 | * [[{{Tsundere}} Taiga Aisaka]] and Ryuuji Takasu from ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'' eventually fall in love, despite initially having first loves (Taiga liking Yuusaku and Ryuuji liking Minori). |
| 114 | * ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': |
| 115 | ** Angelica is Julius's fiancée and deeply in love with him, even though he is indifferent towards her and only loves Marie. After finally getting over Julius, she falls for [[spoiler: Leon, and eventually marries him]]. |
| 116 | ** Clarice is bethrothed to Jilk, who does not recipocrate her feelings. After recovering from the broken heart she suffered from receiving a DearJohnLetter, she falls in love with Leon. |
| 117 | ** Serge Sara Rault is introduced being a DoggedNiceGuy to Lelia, but it's eventually revealed as part of his FreudianExcuse that his first love was his adoptive-sister Louise, and him resenting CompetingWithACorpse is what caused the friction between them. |
| 118 | * Morinaga of the BoysLove manga ''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'' was left broken-hearted as a teenager when his first love, Masaki, broke up with him and was [[spoiler: DrivenToSuicide after Morinaga's straight older brother, and Masaki's actual love, caught them having sex. Masaki gets better]]. Morinaga says that his love for his senpai Souichi cured him of his long-term TheMourningAfter. |
| 119 | * ''Manga/UQHolder'' features two post-series examples for its prequel series ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', to wit: |
| 120 | ** [[spoiler:In the actual, post-''Negima'' timeline (where Asuna gets to return), Nagi eventually married Evangeline after being rescued from the Lifemaker. Given that Arika's fate was already a huge case of WhatHappenedToTheMouse, it only raised further questions.]] |
| 121 | ** Meanwhile, [[spoiler:in the Asuna-less timeline (aka the current ''UQ'' setting), Evangeline apparently outgrew her affection for Nagi by falling for Negi.[[note]]Though if one wants to be technical, Negi was actually her ''third'' love (the first being a time traveling Touta).[[/note]]]] |
| 122 | * In ''Manga/VideoGirlAi'', Youta's first love was Moemi, which was unrequited. He eventually falls in love (and ends up) with Ai, whose original purpose was to cheer him up and encourage him to pursue his love. |
| 123 | * Nitori's first crush in ''Manga/WanderingSon'' was her friend Takatsuki in elementary, however he didn't feel the same. Her second crush was an older girl named Anna that she and her sister met during modeling. They begin dating in middle school and continue dating even when Nitori [[GraduateFromTheStory Graduates from the Story]] and starts college. |
| 124 | * In ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'', Yona had been pining after [[ChildhoodFriends Su-Won]] for ''at least'' a decade until he [[spoiler: murdered her father, usurped her throne, and chased her and [[ChildhoodFriends Hak]] out of the castle]]. [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest It took her awhile to heal after the betrayal]], but she eventually finds that she's fallen for [[spoiler: Hak]]--[[BodyguardCrush who'd loved her all along]]. |
| 125 | * It's implied in ''Anime/YuriOnIce'' that Yuuri's FirstLove was his childhood friend Yuuko, who's HappilyMarried to his ''other'' childhood friend Takeshi. Therefore, his second love is [[spoiler: his once CelebCrush, later coach/boyfriend/fiancé Victor Nikiforov.]] |
| 126 | * ''Manga/YuunaAndTheHauntedHotSprings'': Kogarashi's FirstLove was his SexyMentor Ouga. After arriving at Yuragi Inn, Kogarashi gradually falls in love with Yuuna [[spoiler: and marries her years later.]] |
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| 129 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 130 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 131 | ** Bruce Wayne's first love was Vicky Vale, but his second love was much more popular. Three guesses [[DatingCatwoman who]] [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} she is]]. |
| 132 | ** Following his adopted father's footsteps, [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake's]] first love was Ariana Dzerchenko and his second love was with [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]. In fact, Tim is Stephanie's second love -- her first boyfriend, Dean, got her pregnant and abandoned her after he found out. |
| 133 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batwoman}}'': |
| 134 | ** Batwoman herself is this to Maggie Sawyer, after Mags broke up with Toby Raynes. She was married to a man before, but it's implied it was a way to suffocate her lesbian feelings. |
| 135 | ** Maggie is this to Batwoman herself, who had a long relationship with Renee Montoya. |
| 136 | * ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': The ComicBook/HumanTorch's original girlfriend was Dorrie Evans, a teenager he met and dated for the duration of his solo feature in ''Strange Tales''. After his ''Strange Tales'' features ended, Dorrie showed up in an issue of ''Fantastic Four'' just so that it could be revealed that she was now dating other guys. The Torch quickly rebounded when he met Crystal of ComicBook/TheInhumans (introduced in the very same issue where Dorrie broke up with him, no less), who subsequently went on to become his most famous love interest. In a bit irony, this trope applies to Crystal herself, as while the Human Torch was her first boyfriend, the man she eventually ended up marrying was ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}. |
| 137 | * ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': |
| 138 | ** Victor is this for Nico, after her first love, Alex, [[spoiler:betrayed the team and died]]. It takes them some time to get there, though. [[spoiler:And this romance ends once Victor cheats on her with another girl.]] |
| 139 | ** In the BadFuture where Victor became the supervillain Victorious, he was Gert's second love; in that future, Chase died and Gert apparently fell in love with Victor while they were both serving in the Avengers. |
| 140 | ** Xavin is this for Karolina, after the latter's first crush, Nico, rejected her feelings on the ground of being confused about her ''own'' sexuality (though currently Nico and Karolina are now together). |
| 141 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': Antoine D'Coolette's "first love" is Princess Sally. He's much better known for his relationship with Bunnie Rabbot, to the point that his marriage with her carried over to the reboot. |
| 142 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': ComicBook/GwenStacy was Peter Parker's first love (albeit not his first girlfriend), [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied and her death]] is one of the most iconic deaths in comics. With that in mind, for decades, people who never touched the comics were only aware of ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson due to Gwen being omitted from adaptations for a good while. MJ is also an interesting example in that Peter technically knew Mary Jane longer, but their relationship wasn't "love" until long after Gwen died. |
| 143 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'': |
| 144 | ** In the current line of comics, Han Solo is revealed to have been married to a woman named Sana in the past before meeting Leia. [[spoiler:Though it's subverted when it's revealed that they were never really married in the first place]]. |
| 145 | ** In the ''ComicBook/StarWarsTales'' comic ''Lucky: The Curse of Wedge Antilles'', we see that as a teenager Wedge was in love with a Rebel sympathizer named Mala, only for her to be killed by Imperials while he was "[[PlotArmor luckily]]" away hauling cargo; he [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye never got to say that he loved her]]. Flash forward to the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' comics and he has a casual romance with a quartermaster named Reina. Flash forward to the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' novels and he starts getting close to a widow named Iella, only to back off with no hard feelings when they found out her husband wasn't dead; when he died for real, they started romancing each other a little more, but drifted apart. In the ''Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy'' Wedge fell hard for Qwi, a scientist who worked on the Death Star, even writing poetry to her hair, and in ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Starfighters of Adumar]]'' they broke up on good terms and Wedge eventually got back with Iella. He married Iella and they had two daughters. |
| 146 | ** In ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi'', the widowed Nomi Sunrider finds a second love with Ulic Qel-Droma when she becomes a Jedi Knight. Unfortunately for her, Ulic winds up falling to the dark side and making himself an enemy, and she personally cuts him off from the Force [[spoiler:after he kills his brother. She is therefore less than pleased when her daughter seeks training from him a decade later, but they wind up reconciling... before he's shot in the back by a bystander who wants to make history]]. |
| 147 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Superman fell in love with Lois Lane after a boyhood romance with Lana Lang. |
| 148 | * ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'': April and Casey were in the early stages of forming a relationship when he accidentally kills a teenage mugger during the ''City at War'' arc. This leads him into a drunken spiral and the two of them break up almost as soon as they get together. ''Then'' he meets Gabrielle who is essentially his Second Love who, sadly, dies in childbirth. He then returns to New York and reunites with April and eventually marries her. So April is really his first ''and'' third loves. |
| 149 | * ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': ComicBook/{{Raven}} is this for ComicBook/BeastBoy, his first love being Jillian Jackson. |
| 150 | * ''ComicBook/TheVision'': In ''ComicBook/TheVision2015'', Virginia is Vision's second love after ComicBook/ScarletWitch. It's a bit complicated, though, as Virginia's mind was originally modeled after Wanda's. Wanda herself began dating ComicBook/WonderMan after her relationship with Vision ended (the first time). As Vision's mind is based on Wonder Man's, this caused some concern among her teammates. |
| 151 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': becomes this for Superman in ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'', and Superman himself appears to be this for Wonder Woman in the New 52. |
| 152 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': Madelyne Pryor and ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. Complicated by the fact that Madelyne is actually a clone of ComicBook/JeanGrey, the first love, [[TangledFamilyTree and things just get more complicated from there]]. |
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| 155 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 156 | * ''Fanfic/AsFateWouldHaveIt'': After Rosa turns down Nate's LoveConfession, he eventually ends up meeting Yancy. For the rest of the story, their friendship and eventual romantic relationship is covered, with both of them ultimately becoming a couple. |
| 157 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]''. Italy ends up with his second love, Japan - ''[[{{Polyamory}} and]]'' his [[FirstLove first love]] Germany. |
| 158 | * In one ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fanfic, Rachel is told that if you are in love with two people, choose the second one, because it wouldn't have happened if the first love was meant to be. |
| 159 | * In ''Fanfic/AvengersInfiniteWars'' Twi'lek Jedi Knight Aayla Secura to Steve Rogers/Captain America, [[spoiler: especially after Peggy’s death]] |
| 160 | * Another ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fanfic is ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7147109/1/Bless_the_Broken_Road Bless the Broken Road.]]'' It's an AU of Burt and Carole's relationship. The title is a reference to a song that embodies the trope, as well. |
| 161 | * [[Fanfic/HuntingTheUnicorn Yet another]] ''Series/{{Glee}}'' fic {{Cerebus Retcon}}s Kurt into this for Blaine, combining it with TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest ''and'' WrongGuyFirst. The kicker? [[WideEyedIdealist Blaine]] doesn't seem to have any concept of this and [[LoveHurts constantly wishes he'd met Kurt first]]. |
| 162 | * In the ''Looney Tunes'' story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8181755/1/Forever-Loving-You Forever Loving You]]'', Sylvia is upset that Sylvester is marrying Tweety. Fortunately, she finds her love in Tweety's ex-boyfriend, Tyler. |
| 163 | * ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' has Littlepip hooking up with Homage after accepting that she and her childhood crush, Velvet Remedy, [[IncompatibleOrientation would never get together]]. |
| 164 | * In ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'', Sokka finds a third love in ''Azula'' of all people, after it is offhandedly mentioned that he broke up with Suki. Subverted with Zuko and Katara; Zuko tells Mai that he never loved her after finding out that she kept Katara's letters hidden from him. |
| 165 | * In the ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' fanfic ''Reconcliation'', which takes place after Hanako's bad ending, Hisao and Lilly end up as a couple. [[spoiler:Sho becomes this for Hanako]]. |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Aliens}}''[=/=]''Series/OnceUponATime'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Monsters|Aofie}}'': Emma becomes the first person Regina falls in love with after the death of her husband Daniel in her original encounter with the Xenomorphs. |
| 167 | * ''Fanfic/StarsAbove'' is all about this for [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura]], finding a way to come to terms with falling in love with [[Anime/LuckyStar Kagami]] and move on after Madoka is no longer around. |
| 168 | * In ''Fanfic/WeekendAtHisaos'', not only has [[VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo Hisao]] gotten together with Shizune, but his old crush Iwanako has been dating his old best friend Takumi since a few months after he started at Yamaku. [[spoiler:Takumi and Iwanako eventually break up and marry other people]]. |
| 169 | * In the ''Film/DancesWithWolves'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7567695/9/Thunder-Horse Thunder Horse,]]'' the eponymous character invokes this trope with regards to his wife. |
| 170 | -->"I don't want you to ever be alone. If I cannot be here to love and protect you, let yourself love someone. It is what I want for you. Promise me that you will try to be happy again once your time to cry has passed." |
| 171 | * ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'' and ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}'' take place in the same {{verse}} (a slightly chronology-altered ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'') and overlap a character, Ensign Kate [=McMillan=]. In ''RFRP'' she's engaged to an Academy classmate named Jacques Pierre, but in the later-set ''B&S'' she's dating a Klingon lieutenant named K'lak. |
| 172 | * In ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'', [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Dr. Watson]] falls in love with [[Series/DoctorWho Sally Sparrow]], some years after the death of his first wife, Mary. He's not shown to have loved Mary any less, and we really shouldn't be surprised that ''John Watson'', of all people, would have a big enough heart to have loved Mary and Sally equally. |
| 173 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Shatterheart}}'', [[spoiler: R!]]Syaoran believed that he would always love [[spoiler: the original]] Sakura, but eventually moves on and fall in love with Kurogane. |
| 174 | * According to ''Fanfic/AngelOfTheBat'', Cassandra Cain's first love was [[spoiler: Stephanie Brown, but they never got the chance to hook up because Steph had a boyfriend and IncompatibleOrientation.]] She later bonds and is shown in an early romance with OriginalCharacter [[spoiler: Sadie, who shares her affection and interest.]] |
| 175 | * In the ''Hobbit'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/3385085/chapters/7405448 Wear a Flower in Your Hair]]'', Fem!Bilbo first fell in love with an abusive jerk who just wanted to use her for sex because she's infertile, which makes her ineligible for marriage in Hobbit culture. Thorin is her second love. |
| 176 | * In ''Fanfic/RedemptionKHR'', Sawada Tsunayoshi's actions are a result of [[spoiler:[[TheLostLenore the death]] of his FirstLove, Sasagawa Kyoko]]. In the penultimate chapter, during the party celebrating the end of the war with the Scolgio, he catches sight of [[spoiler:Chrome]], and [[spoiler:at the urging of Kyoko's spirit, telling him to ''live'']], goes over to her and asks her to dance. [[spoiler:The epilogue reveals that he and Chrome eventually married]]. |
| 177 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Micchy]], as with ''Gaim's'' series canon, his first love was [[AllLoveIsUnrequited Mai]]. It didn't go well. After exploring his backstory, he eventually ends up with [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] as [[LoveRedeems a means]] of moving on from Mai. Samus, in turn, learns to share affection and maintains a healthy and mature relationship towards him. |
| 178 | * The audio version of ''Fanfic/BrideOfDiscord'' very heavily implies Fluttershy is this to Discord, who was originally in love with [[spoiler: Celestia.]] |
| 179 | * As in [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition the game]], Mahanon is this for Cassandra in the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series. In the fic, however, she informs him about her first love Regalyan much sooner. |
| 180 | * ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': |
| 181 | ** Ki Seong had an ArrangedMarriage to Cho Yon, and they fell in love, but he was murdered. She eventually gets together with Anguirus. Interestingly, at one point, Anguirus has to wear Cho Yon's unused wedding garment as a disguise to fool Jeog (Cho Yon's murderer), causing Seong to compare the two in her head. |
| 182 | ** Praetorian Guard 098 was married to Controller 011, but he was transformed into Monster X and she was killed, then he developed amnesia. Centuries later, X falls in love with Aria Blaze. His SuperPoweredEvilSide Kaizer Ghidorah doesn't like her and only cares about their deceased wife, but after X briefly sees Kaizer's memories of 011, X decides to move on. The author comments that fate sometimes gives people second chances when X manages to save Aria from a similar situation to what killed 011. [[spoiler:Eventually, after a talk with Controller 011's ghost, Kaizer is finally able to move on and accept Aria.]] |
| 183 | * In ''WebVideo/{{Comatose}}'', Ariel's first love Eric was turned into a statue and then smashed. Ariel later meets Jim, whom she ends up marrying. |
| 184 | * [[spoiler:Bethany is this for Varric]] in the ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' series, although it's not discussed until fairly late in the series. He finally has a conversation with [[Franchise/DragonAge Dorian]] about TheOneThatGotAway, and they both raise a glass "to letting go and holding on, in that order." |
| 185 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Continuance}}'', it's revealed that Souji Seta has had crushes on girls before meeting Yukiko, but since his parents moved around so much, he'd been forced to break up with them. |
| 186 | * It is hinted several times in ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'' that the original Franchise/{{Superman}} hooked up with Franchise/WonderWoman some time after [[ComicBook/LoisLane his wife's]] death. |
| 187 | * In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes Brainiac 5]] break their relationship off, and later they hook up with fellow Legionnaires Dev-Em and Laurel Kent, respectively. |
| 188 | * Lilith for Kaldur in ''Fanfic/YoungJusticeTitans''. It was even laid out in the stars when Conner mentioned that Kaldur hadn't been the same since he lost Tula. |
| 189 | * Early in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Jiraiya becomes this to Tsunade, who takes a while to move past Dan's death and accept she's come to see her old teammate in a new light after living under the same roof and raising a child with him. |
| 190 | * In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Crossover fanfiction, "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13364242/1/Remnant-of-the-Key Remnant of the Key]]", [[spoiler: Ruby eventually becomes the second love to Sora in Chapter 12. The rest of Team SLVR and Sora's friends believe that Ruby is the key to bringing Sora back to his old self after he seemingly lost Kairi during the Second Keyblade War, in chapter 11 Sora and Ruby share their first kiss but pulled away after realizing what he was doing, but the following chapter reveals that he has indeed fallen for her when having a talk with Roxas, Blake, and Yang. During the dance Sora and Ruby confess their feelings to each other and become an OfficalCouple.]] |
| 191 | * The ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/347618/1/Reflection-Of-Love Reflection of Love]]" is about Leo and Karone being this for each other after Karone becomes the second Pink Galaxy Ranger, as Karone's relationship with Zhane didn't work out and Kendrix is obviously dead. Leo recalls a dream he had shortly after Karone's arrival where Kendrix's spirit assured him that it was all right for him to fall for Karone despite his past feelings, as he couldn't spend his life wanting someone he could never have. |
| 192 | * In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', Van-Ol is this for Kara, who formerly was in a relationship with Brainiac 5. |
| 193 | * In ''Fanfic/HeroTheGuardianSmurf'', Smurfette was Hero's first and OneTrueLove. Then came Wonder, his OppositeSexClone, whom he also fell in love with and married, leaving Smurfette feeling jilted and, at one point, hungry for sexual intercourse with Hero. However, since Smurfette can only see herself being happy with Hero as her OneTrueLove, she remained a virgin and unmarried up to her old age, when Wonder passed away and Hero, finding himself lonely and suicidal, ends up falling in love with and marrying Smurfette, giving her a child after years of being denied any pleasure from him through a MysticalPregnancy fertility blessing by Mother Nature. |
| 194 | * In ''Fanfic/BeyondDeath'', after being rejected by Death once and for all, ComicBook/{{Thanos}} falls in love with the human woman who took him in after he crash-landed on Earth. |
| 195 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2945720/1/Amazon-Aid Amazon Aid]]'', [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ryu Kamon]] becomes this to Kodachi after he's duped into both thinking that Ranma is in a relationship with her and performing a RescueRomance. |
| 196 | * The epilogue to ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3406893/1/Infinite-Legacy Infinite Legacy]]'' by Kipling Nori, later expanded into ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8116480/1/Infinite-Memory Infinite Memory]]'' by The-Lady-Isis, has Superman [[EternalLove hooking up with Batman and Diana's daughter]] almost a century after Lois' death. |
| 197 | * ''Fanfic/SecondChancesTheNovelArtist'' has Adrien and Marinette hooking up after losing Chloe and Nathaniel, respectively. |
| 198 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12071410/1/The-Kingdom-Beyond-Midnight The Kingdom Beyond Midnight]]'', Vivian eventually becomes this for [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], after his breakup with Princess Peach. (For Vivian, of course, Mario is her [[OneTrueLove first and only]]). |
| 199 | * In the ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'' doujin, ''[[https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/about_yuusaya_up_to_now_and_beyond#1 About YuuSaya- Up To Now And Beyond]]'', three years after the performance of the SchoolPlay, Yuu and Sayaka are in a relationship. Yuu asks Sayaka whether she still loves Touko, and Sayaka says yes, but says that Yuu is the one she loves now. It is unclear what happened to Touko in this doujin. |
| 200 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5403644/1/Naruto-Asunder Naruto Asunder]]'': Hinata to Naruto after Sakura's death, although it does cause friction between the two. Naruto admits he hasn't got his head on straight and is unclear on how to proceed (and whether or not he should) but is very much attracted to Hinata. Hinata is hesitant to make a move, this trope firmly in her mind and she also doesn't want to press Naruto as he figures himself out. Comes to a head when a {{Brainwashed and Crazy}} Hinata confronts him on his feelings on the matter. |
| 201 | -->'''Hinata:''' I really wanted to talk to you. To let you know how I feel, and why I ran off that night.\ |
| 202 | '''Naruto:''' Why did you run off?\ |
| 203 | '''Hinata:''' I was concerned.\ |
| 204 | '''Naruto:''' Concerned?\ |
| 205 | '''Hinata:''' That's right. I felt like I was a replacement for Sakura, a second prize that you turned to just because she wasn't an option.\ |
| 206 | '''Naruto:''' You shouldn't think something like that Hinata.\ |
| 207 | '''Hinata:''' Then tell me Naruto. Why did you kiss me?\ |
| 208 | '''Naruto:''' I don't know. |
| 209 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'': In his first interlude sidestory, Ash's Butterfree suffers a massive heartbreak when he discovers that his former mate, the Pink Butterfree, not only no longer remembers him, but found herself a new mate and is happy with him. In [[SequelEpisode his second interlude]], he starts sparring with one of Ash's Vivillon, who not-so-subtly drops him a hint that she's attracted to him. |
| 210 | * ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens becomes Bolt's second love interest in this series, beginning with "The Ship." The dog's [[FirstLove first romantic relationship]], with a promiscuous and [[DrugsAreBad drug-addicted]] beagle in "The Wind," was an utter disaster. |
| 211 | * ''Fanfic/GuideMeHome''; Ursa (Zuko and Azula's MissingMom and ex-wife of [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai]]) meets and falls in love with Hakoda (the widowed father of Sokka and Katara) over the course of the fic. |
| 212 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1988140/1/Ranma_the_Second_Time_Around Ranma the Second Time Around]]'': |
| 213 | ** [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Kodachi]] serves as this to Mousse when he accidentally saves her from falling off a roof. |
| 214 | ** Ryouga initially falls in love with Ranma's girl-form. Upon learning the truth, he's not very happy, but gets over it and falls in love with Shampoo (whom he [[AccidentalMarriage accidentally married]]). |
| 215 | ** After finally getting it into his head that neither Akane or "the pig-tailed girl" will ever return his affections, Kuno falls in love with Akari, and ends his playboy ways (for the most part). |
| 216 | ** Ukyo finally accepts that Ranma will never return her feelings, and starts recipocrating Konatsu's feelings for her, ultimately marrying him in order to fulfill the agreement made by her father and Genma long ago (Konatsu has been adopted by the Saotomes, making him a Saotome son). |
| 217 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2336553/1/After-the-fall-of-Giants After the Fall of Giants]]'': |
| 218 | ** [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Shampoo]] finally gives up on Ranma and starts returning Mousse's feelings for her upon learning of her role in the BadFuture. |
| 219 | ** Ryouga falls out of love with Akari and in love with Ukyo, who recipocrates after giving up on Ranma. Akari and Konatsu are initally heartbroken, but fall in love with each other. |
| 220 | ** Kodachi falls in love with Ryu Kamon upon being introduced to him, and Kuno falls in love with Nabiki upon taking medication for his madness. |
| 221 | * ''Fanfic/TheFlowerPrincessAndTheAlchemist'': [[{{Manga/FullmetalAlchemist}} Edward]] gradually becomes this for [[{{Manga/Bleach}} Orihime]]. Things become... complicated when Orihime is still madly in with [[FirstLove Ichigo]]. [[SingleTargetSexuality She's so in love with him]] in fact that she doesn't recognize [[ObliviousToLove her feelings of love for]] [[IfItsYouItsOkay Ed]]. This indecisiveness leads to much [[LoveHurts confusion and anguish]] for both parties with her dealing with [[ConflictingLoyalty Conflicting Loyalties]], and Edward dealing with the [[InsecureLoveInterest insecurities]] and [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] of being her Second Love. |
| 222 | * ''Fanfic/AMoonAndWorldApart'': In chapter 21, in talk with Director Onyx Plate, Guard Captain Flash Sentry reveals that his father died when he was young, and his mother has been quite happily married to her second spouse, his stepmother, for several years. |
| 223 | * ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': |
| 224 | ** [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Fenton]] will become the second boy that girls like [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Violet Parr]], [[Franchise/SailorMoon Makoto Kino]] and [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Musa]] find themselves falling for. |
| 225 | ** [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul Due to her relationship with Danny never going past friendship]], Sam will usually fall for original character Chris Morgan. |
| 226 | ** After turning down Ryo Urawa due to her duties, [[Franchise/Ben10 Ben Tennyson]] would be the second boy Ami Mizuno, Sailor Mercury, would show any interest in. |
| 227 | * In ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeNyame'' and its sequel, ''Fanfic/TheSuperheroGame'', Jason Todd-Wayne (Batman III) and Donna Troy (Wonder Woman II) are this to each other. Jason's FirstLove was Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, who he had a daughter with; but different priorities eventually caused them to drift apart and end their relationship amicably. Donna, meanwhile was in love with Jason's best friend Roy Harper, who tragically died when Jason was nineteen and Donna was twenty-four. His death hit Donna hard, and it was one of the contributing factors to her exiling herself from Man's World for a decade seven years later. She didn't fall in love with Jason until she returned from her exile, and by that point Roy had been dead for decades. |
| 228 | * In ''FanFic/ThomasAndEmilysRelationship'', Rosie finally confesses to Thomas that she loves him, but is turned down. After the Christmas party, she spends the night in Stanley's shed and befriends him, with the implication that she will end up falling in love with him. As seen in the author's other stories, she does eventually start a relationship with Stanley. |
| 229 | * In ''Fanfic/RanmaClub'', [[WesternAnimation/WinxClub Shilly]] seems to be becoming this for [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Mousse]] after he finally accepts that Shampoo is with Ranma. Ranma himself serves as this for [[{{Polyamory}} ''all'' the Winx girls]], due to being the reincarnation of all of the Specialists souls after they made a HeroicSacrifice to save the girls from Valtor. |
| 230 | * ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13445799/1/The-Bargain The Bargain]]'': Millenia ago, on Cybertron, [[WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Megatron]] fell in love with a human named Amicus, only to lose him when the Autobots destroyed the containment unit he lived in, which killed him. In the present day, upon learning that Jack Darby is part of Amicus's lineage, Megatron falls in love with the boy and sets out to court him. |
| 231 | * Unlike in [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse canon]], Luz is this to Amity in ''Fanfic/RekindlingLove'', with Amity's first crush having been expelled years ago over a prank she pulled on their teacher. |
| 232 | * PlayedWith in ''Fanfic/MyHeroesReborn''. While [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku and Ochako]] are their first crushes on each other in their ''current'' life, their past lives were [[Manga/OnePiece Sanji]] and [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Hinata Hyuuga]] respectively, who each was married to Charlotte Pudding and Naruto Uzumaki respectively. Their frequent ShipTease makes the pair second loves to each other if one counts their past-life memories. |
| 233 | * ''Fanfic/IHopeYourePreparedForAnUnforgettableWedding'': [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers]], to each other. Chalmers' wife Rosemary died of illness, and Skinner's fiancée Edna [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E17MyBigFatGeekWedding dumped him at the altar]]. However, they ended up falling in love with ''each other'', and realized that they were meant to be. Heck, when Chalmers is saying his vows, he refers to Skinner as his "greatest second chance". |
| 234 | * "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29880426/ we'll bury these old ghosts here]]" looks at the characters of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' in the aftermath of the Snap (''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''), with a key focus being how Jake and Rosa end up falling for each other after Amy was one of the victims of the Snap. [[spoiler:Subverted when Amy returns to life, but all three go on to [[{{Polyamory}} form a triad relationship with each other]], as Amy understands that Jake had every right to move on when she was dead and Rosa recognises that Jake would never be fully over Amy]]. |
| 235 | * ''[[https://gundamfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_Paradox Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox]]'': [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Flay Allster]] finds one in Akiza Izinski after moving on from Kira, who has since been content living together with Lacus (see above). Akiza is the same person who piloted the Paradox that erased Flay's death from the timeline. Part of Flay's relationship with Akiza what motivates her [[TheAtoner to atone for her mistakes]] and not wanting to see anyone to go down the wrong path she took during the war. [[spoiler:Also, Flay isn't Akiza's first love either. Chapter 9 reveals that she had a relationship with a woman prior to the start of the series, but was captured and was turned into a {{Robeast}}, forcing Akiza to MercyKill her ex-girlfriend.]] |
| 236 | * ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': |
| 237 | ** Soupina's eventual husband, Osmond Cross, after her fiancé Persian Waterson died of Red Plague. The thought of losing Osmond to the Red Plague as well is what finally gets Soupina to break through and dip down. |
| 238 | ** Globgor becomes this for Eclipsa, as she was genuinely in love with her first husband, Edric Flowers, and he only confessed his love for her some time after Edric died in a fire. [[spoiler:She never found out Edric was still alive though, before being crystallized.]] |
| 239 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Splint}}, Rukhash and Cadoc are both this to each other. Cadoc's marriage to his first love, Ingrid, ended in divorce; it failed partly because of her frustration he was [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder always away fighting]], leaving her to raise their son by herself, and is now married to another man. Rukhash once had a mate, Anbagûrz, but he was killed by orc hunters (along with [[OutlivingOnesOffspring their children]]). Rukhash and Cadoc are initially wary of each other, but come to realise they have more in common than they assumed, eventually falling in love. [[spoiler:Rukhash explicitly tells Cadoc she believes he's her shaûk, an Orcish term similar to "soulmate"]]. |
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| 243 | * [[spoiler: [[TheHighQueen Kida]]]] from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' is actually this to [[spoiler:Milo]], according to the film's 2-disc DVD. [[spoiler:Milo]]'s first love interest, according to Disc 2, is a woman named Lisa [=McGrath=]. |
| 244 | * Ellie from the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' series films is this to Manfred, since Manny's first wife and child were both killed by humans, causing the mammoth to distrust humanity as well as fear that he is the last mammoth left. |
| 245 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackofNotreDameII'', Quasimodo finds new love in the form of Madellaine, years after he had given up his unrequited feelings for Esmeralda. |
| 246 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', Calhoun has a TragicBackstory about being WidowedAtTheWedding, but ends the movie with Felix. An odd example, because it's noted that she was "programmed" with that backstory (being a video game character), so whether or not the groom ever existed [[FakeMemories or not]] is unclear. |
| 247 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' is Meg's second love. Her first boyfriend betrayed her and ran off with another girl. ([[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries The animated series]] shows said boyfriend was [[SmallNameBigEgo Adonis]].) |
| 248 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013,'' Anna's first love [[spoiler:Hans turns out have been playing her to get on the throne of Arendelle (he's 13th in line back at home). While she doesn't get married or a real HappilyEverAfter at the end, she does kiss Kristoff, and the sequel mini-movie has him telling her he loves her.]] |
| 249 | * In ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' [[spoiler:Marianne and the Bog King]] are both this for each other, each having dealt with their own respective heartbreaks before meeting. |
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| 252 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 253 | * Depending on the adaptation, certain interpretations of ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'' have Wickham initially be Elizabeth's first love, with her eventually realizing his [[TheVamp true nature]], and falling for and ending up with Darcy. |
| 254 | * ''Film/MustLoveDogs'': Sarah, a slightly embittered divorcée, ultimately falls for Jake, a guy she met from an online dating service. |
| 255 | * ''Film/AlongCamePolly'': Played straight. The main character's second love with the ManicPixieDreamGirl becomes true love. The spontaneity and freedom of the second relationship is contrasted with the caution of the first, which serves as the obvious foil. |
| 256 | * ''Film/HighFidelity'': the #1 in Rob's list of breakups is a childhood love which lasted a total of six hours through three days. On the fourth, she dumped him for another guy. 20 years later, he calls her... and it's summed up by Rob as this: |
| 257 | -->''Alison married Kevin! I am fine now! Married her junior high school sweetheart: kissed me on the bench, kissed Kevin on the bench - MARRIED Kevin. This is great! This has got nothing to do with me! This is fate, this is destiny; it is beyond my control, beyond my fault. I love this!'' |
| 258 | * Charlie proposes to Irene at the end of ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene.'' In the beginning, his wife had left him for the limo driver. |
| 259 | * ''Film/ImagineMeAndYou'' ends like this with the unusual twist that the person falling in love is a woman who falls in love at her wedding - and not with her groom. She falls in LoveAtFirstSight with another woman. |
| 260 | * Carly Spencer from ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'' to Sam Witwicky, due to Creator/MeganFox quitting production of that film. |
| 261 | * Maria was this for Captain Von Trapp in ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'', who had lost his wife and made changes in his household - such as allowing no dancing or singing - to prevent anything from reminding him of her. |
| 262 | * Robert in ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' didn't believe in romance and "happily ever afters" after [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest his wife had divorced him and left him and their daughter]] and it wasn't until Giselle came along that he truly begun to love again. |
| 263 | * ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': Following [[spoiler:the death of Rachel]] in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', Bruce Wayne spends 8 years mourning... [[spoiler: only to learn that ultimately, Rachel didn't even want him anyway.]] Finding a new respect for life, [[spoiler: he makes a fresh start with Selina Kyle In Italy.]] |
| 264 | * In ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' William Wallace's first love was his ill-fated wife Murron, with whom he fell in love in childhood; she was executed shortly after their wedding for getting into trouble which led to a fight with a group of English soldiers stationed at their village who tried to rape her. Subsequently, the Princess of Wales, Isabella, would start to fall for him after hearing of his story, and the two would form a mutual respect and romantic attraction after finally meeting face-to-face. The two would go on to conceive a child as well. However, it should also be noted that as William dies he sees his wife appear to him in the crowd, as if welcoming him into the afterlife with her. |
| 265 | * In ''Film/DeuceBigalowEuropeanGigolo'', Deuce's first love was his wife, Kate, who is later revealed to [[spoiler:have died of being eaten by a shark while honeymooning]]. In the sequel, he eventually found love again in Eva and they end up married. |
| 266 | * In ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' Maximus Decimus Meridius has a wife back at his home in Spain that he is hoping to return to after the war with the Germanians ends. However after Commodus discovers his father's plans to pass power to Maximus rather than himself he kills his father, tries to have Maximus executed, and sends a contingent of men to destroy his home and kill both his wife and son which they succeed in doing. Previously he had been in a relationship with Marcus Aurelius's daughter Lucilla before they had a falling out. Lucilla appears to still have feelings for Maximus at the start, and by the end the two wind up deciding to pursue a relationship, which is sealed with a kiss when Maximus decides to move on with his life again. It's notable that Maximus ultimately dies and as he does so has a vision of entering the afterlife to be reunited with his deceased family. |
| 267 | * In ''Film/ThePatriot2000'' Benjamin Martin's wife has died, apparently of natural causes by the film's start. Her sister Charlotte and he start to develop a mutual attraction on which they are at first hesitant to act. By the end, however, they decide to become a couple. |
| 268 | * In ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven,'' Balian's wife at the start had just recently committed suicide after having a stillborn child, which sends him into major duress to the point of being briefly institutionalized. When he gets to Jerusalem, he winds up having an affair with the sister of the king, Princess Sibylla. Though their relationship becomes strained when he refuses to make himself to take her hand in marriage and make himself party to the killing of her current husband, Guy de Lusignan, at the end of the film they do wind up going off together as a couple. |
| 269 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': Dr. Madeleine Swann is Bond's second love after [[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Vesper Lynd died]] in the Creator/DanielCraig continuity, appearing in both ''Film/{{Spectre}}'' and ''Film/NoTimeToDie''. [[spoiler:And unlike her book counterpart, Tracy, she survives both appearances.]] |
| 270 | * ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle'': Even though the protagonists don't even meet until the end of the movie, it's obvious that Annie will be this to the widowed Sam. |
| 271 | * ''Film/Underworld2003'': According to the extended cut and the novelization, Michael Corvin had a fiancée named Samantha who was killed in a car crash (the reason he moved from the US to his ancestral homeland). He was withdrawn until he met and fell in love with Selene. |
| 272 | * Given their FallingInLoveMontage and the fact that she's genuinely happy with him, ''Film/TheNotebook'''s Lon is this to the heroine Allie following her failed summer romance with the hero Noah, even though he gets turned into a DisposableFiance once Noah resurfaces. |
| 273 | * In ''Film/{{Solo}}'', Han Solo's FirstLove, Qi'ra, ends up [[spoiler:abandoning him in favor of becoming a crime lord]]. Luckily enough, as we all know, his future relationship with Leia ends up being much more successful, or at least up until the rise of the First Order. |
| 274 | * The LoveTriangle in ''Film/TheFly1986'' involves this. Veronica was in a relationship with her editor Stathis for a long time, and he hasn't been able to let it go. When he realizes (via stalking) she's found a second love in sweet, shy Seth Brundle, Stathis's jealousy is such that he tries to sabotage her plans to write a book about Seth's experiments in teleportation. When she goes to confront Stathis about it, Seth realizes they were lovers but mistakenly believes they ''still are''. He ends up getting drunk and making the TragicMistake of teleporting himself, not realizing there is a fly in the telepod with him -- which he is genetically fused with, resulting in a SlowTransformation into a hideous human-insect hybrid. Veronica ends up turning to Stathis as a confidante in order to handle what's happening to her true love (and herself), and his genuine concern for her safety [[spoiler: ends up saving her from Romantic Fusion with the now-deranged Seth when Stathis -- who ''has just lost a hand and a foot'' due to Seth having maimed him with corrosive vomit -- shoots out the wires connecting her telepod to the others]]. |
| 275 | * In ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'', Luther tells Ilsa Faust that Ethan Hunt has only seriously loved two women in his life: his [[AmicableExes now-ex-wife Julia]], and Ilsa herself. Ethan and Julia had split up due to his SamaritanSyndrome, and nearly a decade later he [[Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation met]] and fell in love with Ilsa when their paths crossed on missions to take down The Syndicate. Ilsa implicitly admits that she returns his feelings, but the threat of imminent nuclear vaporization takes priority until the end of the film. |
| 276 | * ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'': Dr. Alexander Hartdegen created a time machine to try to save his fiancée Emma from her death, but in each try, she dies again in a different way. Distraught, he travels to the far future to try to find out why he can't change the past. There, he falls in with a people called the Eloi and bonds with a woman called Mara. After learning why he can't save Emma, he accepts it and sacrifices the time machine to destroy the Eloi's enemies, the Morlocks, then builds a new life with Mara. |
| 277 | * ''Film/{{Dear John|1964}}'': John and Anita are falling in love but are both shy due to failed past relationships. Anita is a single mom because a man once impregnated her and dumped her. John got divorced after coming home early from a trip and finding his wife in bed with his business partner. |
| 278 | * ''Film/YvesSaintLaurent'': Pierre Bergé is living with the surrealist painter Bernard Buffet when he meets young Yves. Despite believing himself part of the "cult of fidelity", he soon leaves Bernard for Yves. |
| 279 | * ''Film/ANewYorkChristmasWedding'': David was this to Jenni after things didn't work out with Gabby in the prime timeline. |
| 280 | * ''Film/Steam2007'': Doris and August were both previously married to much beloved spouses. They find love again with each other in old age. |
| 281 | * ''Film/KuchKuchHotaHai'': Despite initially reluctant to remarry after the death of his wife, Tina, Rahul eventually found love again in his long lost best friend, Anjali, upon meeting her again after being estranged for years. |
| 282 | * ''Film/TheOne'' has Gabe, who lost everyone he holds dear because of [[BigBad Yulaw]], his power-hungry multiverse counterpart coming for him after killing all the counterparts, sent into an idyllic multiverse where Gabe is immediately smitten with the multiverse' version of his wife. |
| 283 | * ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'': The movie starts with Robbie happily singing at a wedding, where he meets Julia who's working as a waitress at the same venue. Days later, Julia's working at Robbie's wedding where he'll marry Linda, the supposed-love of his life. However, [[RunawayBride Linda jilts him at the altar]], and when she shows up at his house later that evening, [[TheReasonYousuckSpeech she dumps him by telling him she doesn't want to marry a broke wedding singer]]. As the story progresses, Robbie who now falls genuinely in love with Julia, wants to pursue her. However, he found out Julia is to be married off to a two-timing {{Jerkass}} investment banker, Glen. After Robbie rejects Linda's attempted to get back together, he intends [[spoiler: to interrupt Julia and Glen's attempt to elope in Las Vegas, and is recomended to a music studio to sing a song written by Creator/BillyIdol]]. Thus, they end up married at the the end of the movie. |
| 284 | * ''Film/MeanGirls'': Despite it is unclear whether [[AlphaBitch Regina]] is Aaron's ''very'' first love or not, but given how Aaron was affected by the fact she's cheating on him (again), it's obvious that [[NerdsAreSexy Cady]] becomes his second love after he manages to get over Regina. |
| 285 | * ''Film/TheGodfather'' trilogy: Michael Corleone's first love is his longtime girlfriend-since-college, Kay Adams. However, when he went to Sicily to find his roots, he met a local girl named Apollonia who [[LoveAtFirstSight quickly stole his heart]]. He decided to marry Apollonia and [[HappilyMarried had a loving happy marriage]] until her tragic death. Upon meeting Kay again, he found love again, thus he decides to marry her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they end up divorced upon realized their irreconcilable differences]]. |
| 286 | * ''Film/LoveAgain'': The premise of the film is about Mira moving on from her fiance's death and finding love again with Rob. |
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| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 290 | * ''Literature/AnimalInn'': Catherine Sparks for Doc Taylor, who proposes to her during a Christmas celebration in book 11, and marries her in book 12. |
| 291 | * In Laurell K. Hamilton's ''Literature/AnitaBlakeVampireHunter'' series, the chaste heroine was engaged to marry her college sweetheart. However, his wealthy parents objected to her being half-Mexican and the engagement was broken. This left her cynical about romance, but primed for a non-human menage-a-trois with Jean Claude the vampire and Richard the werewolf. And then, once she gets started... "Katie, bar the door." |
| 292 | * In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/ArsenalPort'', Heim has not gotten over his wife when Jocelyn approaches him suggesting this. |
| 293 | * In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': |
| 294 | ** Garion's first love was Zubrette, his childhood playmate he grew up with at the farm. However, he ends up with [[{{Tsundere}} Ce'Nedra]], [[YouCantFightFate because fate says so]]. The relationship [[TheMasochismTango was rocky and painful]], but improved a bit once the pair of them had matured a bit. |
| 295 | ** Zakath's first love was a Melcene girl whose involvement in a plot to assassinate him forced him to sentence her to death; afterwards, he learned she had been framed by Taur Urgas, a trauma that transforms him into an EmptyShell hell-bent on destroying the entire Murgo race in revenge. The problem for the heroes is that defeating the Dark Prophecy and saving the world depends on him overcoming his grief, guilt, self-hatred and [[DeathSeeker desire to die]]. It takes ThePowerOfLove to pull that off [[spoiler:with Cyradis herself becoming his second love and eventual wife]]. |
| 296 | ** Polgara loved and lost her [[TheChampion champion]], [[KnightInShiningArmor Count Ontrose]], when Vo Wacune fell, millennia before the main story takes place. She ultimately marries Durnik, who was the kindhearted, sensible, hardworking blacksmith on the farm where she had raised Garion and who followed them on the quest out of [[DeclarationOfProtection love]] and [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]]. |
| 297 | * Terry Brooks tends to use this in his stories. |
| 298 | ** In ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'' trilogy, Wil Ohmsford is in a LoveTriangle with Amberle and Eretria. He and Amberle are deeply connected, and he is left devastated when they don't work out (though the reason they don't work out isn't the usual sort). He goes on to marry and have children with Eretria. |
| 299 | ** In ''Literature/TheHeritageOfShannara'', Morgan Leah is left devastated by how his romance with Quickening ends. However, he later meets [[ActionGirl Matty Roh]] with whom he is able to have a happier future. |
| 300 | ** In the ''Literature/MagicKingdomOfLandover'' series, Ben Holiday is devastated by the loss of his pregnant wife Annie, which kicks off the depression and restlessness that leads him to purchase Landover. In fairy lore, the first man a sylph lays on eyes on will be her true love, and Ben is the man Willow meets. He has a devil of a time moving on from his first wife's death, never mind accepting Willow's fairy tale attitude towards their future, but Willow's loyal persistence eventually defeats Ben's brooding despair. |
| 301 | * ''Literature/{{Caliphate}}'': At the beginning of the story, John Hamilton loses his girlfriend when she dies in an explosion and [[ILetGwenStacyDie spends several years grieving her death]]. When he is hired to infiltrate the titular Caliphate, he falls in love with a Christian slave girl named Petra and risks his mission to rescue her too. [[spoiler:He succeeds at the end and proposes to her in marriage...]] |
| 302 | * ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'': |
| 303 | ** Annabeth has been crushing on Luke for five years when [[EtTuBrute he defects to the Titans' side]] in ''The Lightning Thief''. She later forms a more stable relationship with Percy, but up to ''The Lost Hero'' (more than four years after the defection), her candle for Luke still hasn't completely faded away. |
| 304 | ** Hazel's current boyfriend is Frank, but back when she lived in the 1940s, she had a relationship with a boy called Sammy, with whom she had her first kiss. Imagine her shock when she meets Leo Valdez, Sammy's [[IdenticalGrandson identical great-grandson]]. She essentially has to live out her second life being haunted by an image of the boy she left behind. |
| 305 | ** Nico's first love is Percy, something that is impossible to work out due to their IncompatibleOrientation. After a while, he moves on from this and instead pursues a relationship with Will Solace. |
| 306 | ** Calypso is doomed to live her life in an isolated island where men are regularly stranded to and the only way for them to escape is for her to love them. So everyone she falls in love with in the modern day are second loves for her. In ''The Battle of the Labyrinth'', it's Percy, who is in love with Annabeth, so it goes nowhere. Come ''The House of Hades'', however, the latest guy to get stranded, Leo, promises that he will stop this curse and be with her forever. It works. |
| 307 | * ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Qwill for Polly Duncan, whose firefighter husband was killed in the line of duty less than a year after they married. This was at least fifteen years before she meets Qwill; she never remarried, nor even entered another serious relationship prior to meeting him. Judging by the way she talks about him on one of her early dates with Qwill, [[BrokenBird there's a good reason for this]], but her relationship with Qwill does help her to finally heal. |
| 308 | * ''Literature/ChocoholicMysteries'': Hogan Jones, the chief of police, is this for Jeanette [=TenHuis=]. They start dating at the end of ''Puppy Puzzle'', announce their engagement at the end of ''Bridal Bash'' (right after Lee and Joe have gotten married), and (as revealed in ''Jewel Case'') elope while Lee and Joe are on their honeymoon. |
| 309 | * In ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', Sarah had fallen in love with Johnny Smith, and he was getting ready to ask her to marry him, when Johnny was in a car wreck and ended up in a coma for four and a half years. She met, fell in love with, and married young lawyer Walter Hazlett, and they had a young son by the time Johnny woke from the coma. Sarah and Johnny both felt that they had been cheated out of a life together, and [[spoiler: they spent one grand afternoon together trying to reclaim a piece of that lost future together]], but Sarah loves her husband and doesn't want to lose him. |
| 310 | * ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': Christina loses Will when Tris is forced to kill him in self-defense, while Four loses Tris when she sacrifices herself to save Chicago. In ''We Can Be Mended'', it is mentioned that Four and Christina fall in love, on account of their shared suffering. |
| 311 | * In ''Literature/{{Dracula}},'' the DistantFinale informs us that Arthur is married. Earlier he was engaged to Lucy, who was turned by Dracula and [[StakingTheLovedOne staked by Arthur]]. |
| 312 | * Seen a few times in the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' books; for example, in ''Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern'', Moreta is the second love of Lord Alessan after the death of his first wife. The POVSequel ''Nerilka's Story'' winds up with Nerilka as Alessan's third love. |
| 313 | * ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': |
| 314 | ** Ayla is Jondalar's second love. Although he had ''many'' lovers after losing his FirstLove, Zolena, and cared for some of them, he [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest couldn't ever fall in love]] with another woman [[LadykillerInLove until he met Ayla]]. He ends up marrying Ayla and having a child with her, something he could never have had with Zolena. It's acknowledged that he and Zolena still have feelings for each other, but they both know a relationship would never work out; it's made clear that Jondalar views Ayla as his true love, while Zolena greatly approves of Ayla. |
| 315 | ** Gulec is Serenio's second chance at love (or third or fourth chance, if you get down to the specifics). After both her first mate and her betrothed died, she fell in love with Jondalar, but she [[AllLoveIsUnrequited knew he didn't feel the same way]]. Gulec, on the other hand, fully returns her love; everyone says that she "lights up" in his presence and is happier than she's been in years. |
| 316 | * Inverted in ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles''. In ''The Immortals'', an aged [[spoiler: and immortal]] Twig tells Nate that when the caterbird flew him, fatally wounded, back to Riverrise after the events of ''The Last of the Sky Pirates'', he stayed conscious long enough to see Maugin waving happily at him.... [[spoiler: only to drop dead a second later when Golderyace One-Eye's poison dart hit her in the neck]]. We later learn that [[spoiler: Golderyace had fallen in love with her thoughts from a distance over the last 50 years, and killed her out of jealousy when she remained loyal to Twig]]. |
| 317 | * In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, Caffren lost his sweetheart with the destruction of Tanith, in the BackStory; then he and Criid met. |
| 318 | * ''Literature/GirlsToTheRescue'': |
| 319 | ** Sultan Malik in "Chardae's Thousand And One Nights" believes he can never love again after his first wife, Kalila, dies of illness. Initially he only marries Chardae because as king he's expected to produce an heir to rule well once he's gone. However, after Chardae has completed her ScheherezadeGambit, enough time has passed that Malik has come to love her after all. |
| 320 | ** Subverted in "Savannah's Piglets". A widower moves to town with the woman he has been seeing, believing he'll never have another chance at love out in the wilds. The woman, Billie, proves to be a GoldDigger who makes him miserable. Ultimately, he has enough and returns to the farm to be with his daughter. |
| 321 | * Early on in ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', Mrs. Joe is murdered by Orlick. Towards the end of the story, Joe is HappilyMarried to Biddy, [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder much to the disappointment of Pip]]. |
| 322 | * In ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 323 | ** Harry ended up with Ginny Weasley after an ill-fated infatuation with Cho Chang. Ron did this with Hermione, after a disastrous few months with Lavender Brown. Hermione herself briefly dated Viktor Krum. Rowling has said that she ''specifically'' wanted her main characters to not end up with the first person they kissed. |
| 324 | ** Harry himself was this for Cho, as her previous boyfriend was Cedric Diggory, who was [[spoiler:tragically killed during the Triwizard Tournament]]. Part of the reason their relationship broke down was because [[YouRemindMeOfX Cho was unconsciously projecting Cedric onto Harry]], the only person who [[spoiler:saw him die that fateful night]]. According to WordOfGod, after the Second Wizarding War, Cho ended up marrying a Muggle. |
| 325 | ** [[spoiler:Severus Snape]] certainly was Lily Evans' closest male friend from childhood until somewhere around Fifth Year, when they had a messy falling out and Lily ended up befriending, dating, and subsequently marrying James Potter, something that [[spoiler:[[TheOneThatGotAway Snape never gets over]]]]. |
| 326 | ** In the epilogue, Draco Malfoy's wife was not Pansy Parkinson (the closest girl he was with during school and had a degree of ShipTease with) but Astoria Greengrass, whom the readers had never known before. As with the trio, Rowling deliberately did this, as she did ''not'' want Draco's CharacterDevelopment to be wasted away by him marrying another blood supremacist. |
| 327 | ** According to WordOfGod, Percy Weasley broke up with Penelope Clearwater after they graduated and married a woman named Audrey. Angelina Johnson, who dated Fred Weasley, married Fred's twin, George, after [[spoiler:the former's death]]. |
| 328 | * In David Weber's ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, Honor [[spoiler: ends up marrying Hamish Alexander, Earl of White Haven; but in the early books, she was in love with Paul Tankersley, the exec to her biggest enemy in ''On Basilisk Station''. He is killed in ''Field of Dishonor'', and she doesn't have a relationship again until ''At All Costs'']]. Unlike the usual application of this trope, they really were desperately in love with each other - [[spoiler:she named her private yacht after Paul]]. Also unusual in the case of [[spoiler:Hamish Alexander, who is still married to his first wife Emily, a well-known actress. However, having been crippled by a car accident, she doesn't want to stand in the way of her husband's happiness. It all gets resolved, when they decide to follow Grayson law that allows (even encourages) polygamy, so Honor and Emily become sister-wives and are the best of friends]]. |
| 329 | * In ''Literature/{{Hurog}},'' Ward mentions that his first love married another man. This happened prior to the narrative. He meets someone else. |
| 330 | * ''Literature/TheImmortals'': Daine eventually becomes Numair's second love, despite some brief ShipTease between the latter and his old flame Varice. |
| 331 | * ''Literature/ImmortalGuardians'': Seth and Leah meet and eventually fall in love and marry. Seth's first wife and their children were murdered by superstitious villagers afraid of Seth's powerful healing abilities. Leah's first husband and her unborn child were killed in a catastrophic traffic accident when the family was struck by a distracted driver. |
| 332 | * ''Literature/{{Inkmistress}}'': Asra is devastated after her relationship with her girlfriend Ina collapses, who's her FirstLove. She grows to love Hal over time however, with him treating her much better by far. |
| 333 | * ''Literature/InTheMidstOfWinter'': Richard became a widower when [[spoiler: his wife was Driven to Suicide]]. Lucía Maraz's marriage endede when [[spoiler: when her husband was unable to handle her breast cancer diagnosis]]. The novel's RoadTripPlot gives them the opportunity to fall in love. |
| 334 | * ''Literature/IslandBeneathTheSea'': |
| 335 | ** After being widowed, Violette Relais finds a new love in Sancho Garcia del Solar, Valmorain's eccentric brother-in-law. |
| 336 | ** Years after losing Gambo in the mists of the slave revolt and civil war in Haiti, Zarité falls in love with Zacharie after reuniting with him in New Orleans and are HappilyMarried. |
| 337 | * ''Literature/JamesBond'': Tracy [=DiVicenzo=] to Vesper Lynd. While there are a handful of other women he genuinely cares about, possibly to the point of love, Tracy's the only one he took to the altar. Sadly, her end was as tragic as Vesper's. |
| 338 | * In Creator/PGWodehouse's ''Literature/JillTheReckless'', Jill carefully explains to Wally that she knows she will never marry Derek, but she still has to recover from her love before she will be ready for this. |
| 339 | * In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Éowyn didn't get Aragorn in the end. She did, however, get Faramir. (And her love for Aragorn was admittedly LovingAShadow.) |
| 340 | * Creator/DorothyLSayers' Literature/LordPeterWimsey and Harriet Vane were both on their Second Love. |
| 341 | * In ''Literature/{{Loveless}}'': Pip becomes the second love interest to [[spoiler:Rooney]] after the latter moves on from an abusive relationship in high school and engages in casual hookups in college. |
| 342 | * Creator/LMMontgomery uses this trope very well in her novel ''Literature/{{Magic for Marigold}}'', where Marian Lesley, when talking to her daughter Marigold, reflects that her late husband loved his first wife very much (they were childhood sweethearts), but the love he gave to Marian was that of a mature heart. |
| 343 | * ''Literature/TheMazeRunner'': Thomas' romance with Teresa is abruptly ruined in ''The Scorch Trials'' when she betrays him. Even if she didn't mean it, he never forgives her for it. As a result, he ends up becoming closer to Brenda, who debuts in the same book. |
| 344 | * In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', [[spoiler:Luke is the second person with whom Jocelyn falls in love, after her disastrous marriage to Valentine]]. |
| 345 | * ''Literature/NightWorld'': |
| 346 | ** In ''Literature/TheChosen1997'', Rashel Jordan is revealed to be Quinn's second love and his soulmate. Centuries ago, he fell in love with Dove Redfern and wanted to marry her, but [[TheLostLenore she died]] [[spoiler:after Quinn's father staked her upon discovering [[VanHelsingHateCrimes she was a vampire]]]]. Rashel actually bonds with Quinn over his loss of Dove, as her herself has violently lost loved ones (in her case, her mother, great aunt and best friend). |
| 347 | ** In ''Literature/SecretVampire'', Poppy and Phil's stepfather Cliff is the second husband of their mother Phillipa; her marriage to Poppy and Phil's father ended in divorce due to their incompatible personalities and lifestyles, while she and Cliff have far more in common. |
| 348 | ** In ''Literature/Huntress1997'', Morgead Blackthorn is technically the second love (and soulmate) of Jez Redfern. She loved Hugh (or thought she did) before being reunited with [[ChildhoodFriendRomance Morgead]] and realizing she'd actually been in love with him all along, especially when he makes his feelings clear to her. |
| 349 | * In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' novel ''Ashes Of Honor'', [[spoiler:Tybalt]] confesses to having lost his first love to DeathByChildbirth, which made his current love a second love, and he willfully ignored that he was in love again. |
| 350 | * In the ''Literature/{{Petaybee}}'' series, Sean is Yana's second husband. When she's first introduced, Yana clearly misses her deceased first husband. |
| 351 | * In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Dinah first falls in love with Prince Shalem; then, [[spoiler: after he is murdered by her brothers, she moves to Egypt and falls in love with a carpenter named Benia.]] |
| 352 | * ''Literature/TheReluctantKing'': Near the end of the third book, Jorian actually proposes to Margalit, having grown attached to her many qualities during their months spent together. They get married and have a family. |
| 353 | * ''Literature/RichardIIIInThe21stCentury'': Sarah Levine gets married to the titular king, whose first wife Anne Neville originally died in 1485. |
| 354 | * In Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Marianne Dashwood's disbelief in second loves is a major plot driver. Not surprisingly, she [[spoiler:finds her first love unworthy of her, and ends up falling in love again [[MayDecemberRomance with Colonel Brandon]]]]. Her sister Elinor even comments on her sister's feelings on the subject, saying she's not sure how Marianne can disregard the notion of Second Love when their own father had two wives, and it was that second attachment that produced the both of them and their other sister. Elinor herself is also this for the man she eventually marries. |
| 355 | * In Creator/PoulAnderson's ''Literature/TheSharingOfFlesh'', Evalyth realizes she is starting to recover when she thinks that she is young, and there may be another man, and it doesn't feel disloyal. |
| 356 | * In Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'', Alanna and Prince Jonathan are each other's first loves, but they ultimately break up and find happiness with other people. |
| 357 | * In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Sorceress of the Literature/WitchWorld'', Kaththea, having been bitterly deceived, has great difficulty trusting [[spoiler:Hilarion]] but lives HappilyEverAfter in the end. |
| 358 | * ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': Luke Skywalker went through a lot of girlfriends. Mara Jade was his latest (and [[spoiler:longest lasting]]). |
| 359 | * ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Dalinar Kholin finds one in (and is one to) [[spoiler:Navani Kholin]]. He resists this for a time, since in Alethi culture it's highly improper for him to [[spoiler:date his brother's widow, but after he is betrayed by Sadeas and nearly killed, he changes his mind.]] |
| 360 | * ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh Saga'': |
| 361 | ** In the first novel, the girls' earliest ancestors--Alice Larson and Theodore Wakefield--meet and fall in love while on an immigrant ship. Unfortunately, they are separated during intake when he's quarantined. Years later, they have a near miss when his traveling circus comes to her town--she hears the name "Theo W." and wonders if it's him, while he (in the second ''Saga'' novel) sees a little blond girl and wonders if it could be her daughter. They're both correct, but separately decide not to try and meet, as they have long since moved on and are HappilyMarried to others. |
| 362 | ** In the present day, Jeffrey French is Elizabeth's second love after her boyfriend Todd moves to Vermont, even though he soon gets dumped once Todd returns. Jessica also falls in love with AJ, but he dumps her after she cheats on him. She has better luck staying faithful to Sam. |
| 363 | * ''Literature/TheSwordOfSaintFerdinand'': Diego and Blanca start a relationship some time after the former has given up on his crush Elvira and the latter has lost her husband Álvar Pérez. |
| 364 | * ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': A mutual example. Rana's first love didn't work out [[spoiler:because Daniar was interested in the same guy and he choose Daniar over Rana.]] This drove her into self-exile and seclusion. [[spoiler: Then she meets Taurok and is quickly taken with his nobility. Taurok himself has already been married and widowed but nothing is said of what happened to his first wife. They're married in the epilogue.]] |
| 365 | * ''Literature/{{Under Suspicion|Series}}'': |
| 366 | ** Alex officially becomes this for Laurie in ''Literature/EveryBreathYouTake'', once she's finally sorted through all of her mixed feelings about him and her late husband. Laurie realises that falling in love with Alex and choosing to make a life with him isn't a betrayal of Greg, whom she thought of as her "soulmate", and that she is capable of loving someone that deeply again. Laurie [[LampshadeHanging even calls]] Alex her "second and last great love". [[spoiler:They get married at the end of the last book]]. |
| 367 | ** In ''Every Breath You Take'', Ivan was this for murder victim Virginia, whose husband of forty years, Bob, had died three years before she met Ivan. Virginia was initially just looking to have fun with Ivan, but she became increasingly close to him and was seriously considering marrying him hours before her death, while Ivan says he believes she would've accepted his proposal and he was more than ready to commit to her despite her family's objections; they'd also discussed a pre-nup with Virginia's son-in-law/personal lawyer. Virginia's family thought that Ivan was just a [[GoldDigger gold-digging]] [[AgeGapRomance toyboy]] Virginia would eventually get bored of, but based on Ivan's account of [[NotWithThemForTheMoney their relationship]] and Virginia's reflections on the situation, she loved Ivan just as much as Bob (possibly more so, given Ivan appeared to lack some of Bob's more negative traits and encouraged her to put her happiness first despite what everyone else thought). |
| 368 | ** In ''Literature/PieceOfMyHeart'', Marcy notes that her husband Andrew is technically this for her; prior to meeting Andrew she'd been in love with an aspiring screenwriter named Brian - [[FirstLove whom she met in college]] - and had been eager to marry him. Brian kept putting it off for years, saying they should wait until they were both stable in their careers, but when he finally became successful he confessed to Marcy he was no longer in love with her, much to her heartbreak. Marcy admits to herself she never told Andrew how serious she and Brian had been, instead fibbing on their fifth date that she and Brian mutually outgrew each other because she didn't want Andrew to feel he was "a second choice she had settled for". |
| 369 | * Christian Ozera to Lissa Dragomir in ''Literature/VampireAcademy''. Her first love was Aaron, to whom she lost her virginity. But she was eventually bored with him, while Christian is her true love and holds her interest. |
| 370 | * In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/VelveteenVs The Junior Super Patriots'': |
| 371 | ** A blind date for Velma, despite her love for Action Dude, start a second love -- though complications then ensue. |
| 372 | ** Victoria persuades Yelena to let her court her by convincing her that she indeed would be a second love, because of the differences between her and her counterpart. |
| 373 | * Several cases across the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': |
| 374 | ** Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan to one another. Aral's history involves a loveless marriage and a secret male lover in extremely homophobic Barrayar, both relationships which end in tragedy. Cordelia talks circumspectly about an old relationship where she got left behind. Both find as true a love as possible in one another. |
| 375 | ** Given how Elena Bothari never actually reciprocated his interest, Miles finds his actual Second Love with Ekaterin Vorsoisson in ''Komarr'', though he had a few successful flings along with his first love, Elli Quinn. He and Elli broke up mostly over their responsibilities pulling them apart. The tension between first and second loves is deliberately invoked in ''Winterfair Gifts'' when [[spoiler:someone tries to frame Elli for a poisonous gift sent to Miles and Ekaterin's wedding]]. |
| 376 | ** As for Ekaterin, Miles is her Second Love, after a marriage that started off well but ended in constant emotional abuse. It ground her down until love itself seemed horrible, made worse after her husband's death when various suitors wanted her as an eligible Vor widow to marry. Miles got through by being the one who wanted ''her'', and not as a meek and proper housewife. |
| 377 | ** Alys Vorpatril is widowed the same day her son Ivan is born in ''Barrayar'', and though it takes close to thirty years she finally finds (or rather, is able to openly act upon) her Second Love with [[spoiler:medically discharged and retired Simon Illyan]] in ''Memory''. |
| 378 | * In ''Literature/VoyageOfTheBasset'', [[spoiler:Medusa]] winds up being this for [[spoiler:Professor Aisling]]. |
| 379 | * ''Literature/WarriorCats'': |
| 380 | ** Firestar initially fell in love with Spottedleaf. Though they never spoke about their feelings when she was alive, she continued to visit him in his dreams. In the end, though, he fell in love with Sandstorm and became her mate. |
| 381 | ** Graystripe's first love was Silverstream: they were StarCrossedLovers, and she died giving birth to his kits. Many, many moons later - when his children are grown up and thinking about having their own kits - he falls in love with Millie. |
| 382 | ** In the prequel series, Thunder fell in love with Star Flower but she revealed that she was leading him on and she got together with his dad. Later he becomes mates with Violet Dawn. |
| 383 | * In Creator/RobertJordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Rand and Egwene start out essentially happily betrothed. But [[spoiler: Egwene ends up finding PrinceCharming Gawyn, and Rand ends up with [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Elayne, Min, and Aviendha]].]] |
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| 386 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 387 | * ''Series/AgentCarter'': After losing her first love, Steve Rogers, in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Peggy Carter spends several years grieving his loss before falling in love with Agent Daniel Sousa, who works with her at the SSR. The show ends with their RelationshipUpgrade, and WordOfSaintPaul (in this case Enver Gjokaj) confirms that Sousa is indeed the mysterious "husband" mentioned in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. Though Peggy never ''gets over'' Steve (as he was the love of her life), and carries a torch for him all her life, she does move on enough to live a long, happy life with Daniel, whom she clearly loves quite deeply. |
| 388 | * ''Series/{{Amen}}'': Thelma is apparently this to Reverend Reuben Gregory; his backstory includes a fiancée who left him at the altar. |
| 389 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Cordelia with Angel, which is ironic, since Angel used to find the noblewomen of his era (of whom Cordelia is a modern avatar) to be a horrific bore. Cordelia immediately had a crush on him on ''Buffy,'' though, so it's keeping in continuity. |
| 390 | * ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'': |
| 391 | ** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': |
| 392 | *** Oliver Queen ends up marrying Felicity Smoak, after [[ReallyGetsAround having been in a relationship with several other women]]. |
| 393 | *** Oliver himself is this for Felicity. In "The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak", it is revealed that her first boyfriend was a fellow hacker who eventually turns on her. |
| 394 | ** Curtis Holt's husband, Paul, divorces him in the fifth season, because TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife. In the sixth season, he meets with SCPD officer Nick Anastas and dates him. |
| 395 | ** ''Series/TheFlash2014'': |
| 396 | *** Iris West is a weird case, as both her major love interests are technically this for her. While she started a relationship with Eddie Thawne first, and loved him quite deeply, her OneTrueLove is her best friend Barry Allen, and Iris herself admits that she had loved Barry long before she had even met Eddie (they fell in love [[ChildhoodFriendRomance when they were kids, according to her]]), and just hadn't realized it yet. Thus, both men can function as this ''and'' as her FirstLove. |
| 397 | *** Before admitting his feelings for and ending up with Iris, Barry tries dating other women, namely Linda Park and Patty Spivot, but, again, TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife. His refusal to admit to Patty that he's the Flash explicitly leads to her moving away. |
| 398 | ** ''Series/Supergirl2015'': |
| 399 | *** Kara Danvers' first serious relationship is with Mon-El. Unfortunately, she's forced to send him away, after unleashing a lead-based weapon to drive off the Daxamite invasion. [[spoiler:His pod ends up being sucked into a wormhole that throws him into the 31st century, where he lives for 7 years (as opposed to the 7 months that passed for Kara). Unable to send any messages back in time, he resigned himself to a life without her and ends up marrying Imra Adeen, Saturn Girl. He still wears the pendant Kara has given him, but it's a reminder of their lost love and everything she has taught him about being a hero]]. Kara also had some previous attempts at a relationship with James Olsen, but it never went anywhere. |
| 400 | *** Alex's first relationship after coming out is with Maggie Sawyer, and the two nearly marry, but their differing opinions regarding children (Alex wants one, while Maggie doesn't) lead to their split. Later, Alex begins a relationship with James' sister, Kelly. |
| 401 | *** Winn Schott has a long-standing crush on Kara, but she doesn't sees him as anything more than a friend. He tries dating other women (notably Siobhan Smythe, who becomes a villain), before settling down with Ayla the Lightning Lass after he joins the Legion of Super Heroes. |
| 402 | ** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': |
| 403 | *** Ray Palmer's fiancée, Anna Loring, died during the Mirakuru army's invasion of Starling City. He then forms a relationship with Kendra Saunders, but that ends when he realizes that her true love will always be Carter Hall. Much later, he is given a ShipTease with Damien Darhk's [[DaddysLittleVillain daughter]], Nora, before it turns official. They marry in season 5. |
| 404 | *** Before she settles with Ava Sharpe, Sara Lance had a passionate relationship with Nyssa al Ghul, which we saw in season 2 of ''Arrow''. Even before that, she dated Oliver, betraying her sister, Laurel, who was his very first girlfriend. |
| 405 | * Reid is this for Luke in ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''. [[spoiler:Well, [[BuryYourGays was]].]] |
| 406 | * Nobody who's seen ''Series/BabylonFive'' would dispute that Delenn is the love of John Sheridan's life. She is his second love; he was a widower for some years before they met. Then the tension goes through the roof for a while when there's some dispute over whether the second wife is really dead....[[note]]Technically, she is his third love, but John and Elizabeth Lochley burnt out fast, whereas he was still in love with Anna for years after her "death".[[/note]] Sheridan is also Delenn's second love, not through authorial intent, but because her character was intended as the LoveInterest of the main character, and that role got [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute passed from Sinclair to Sheridan]] in the second season. |
| 407 | * ''Series/TheBarrier'': Luis and Emilia both genuinely love the partners with whom they had children, but their past relationship with each other is heavily implied to have been very meaningful for both of them. Luis is shown to not be completely over the day Emilia told him she was going to marry Ramón more than twenty-five years later, while Emilia's response to a visit from him is to start preparing a dish she used to make for him, minus the meat that has become hard to find. |
| 408 | * ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' is full of these. Since we are dealing with only 50,000 human beings left, most people ended up with people they might not have picked initially as a second choice. In some cases, it leads to the love of their lives, such as with Laura Roslin and Bill Adama. Just before the attacks, Laura had ended a decade-long affair and Bill had found out that his ex-wife (long-divorced) was remarrying. Forced to work together to protect the rest of humanity, the two eventually developed a close friendship that grew into real love. When Laura is kidnapped and presumed dead, Bill quits his job to stay behind on the slim chance she might still be alive, telling his grown son "I can't live without her." |
| 409 | * In a supernatural example, one ''Series/BeyondBeliefFactOrFiction'' segment shows us a man who has lost his wife. He soon meets a new love who looks and acts ''very'' similar too her. When ''she'' ends up dying as well, he happens upon a ''third'' love who is exactly the same. It's implied that this cycle keeps on going, and that it's the exact same woman's spirit. |
| 410 | * ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'': It's a toss-up as to whether Brooke or Taylor is this to Ridge following the death of his beloved first wife Caroline. |
| 411 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': Brennan is Booth's second love. Rebecca, Parker's mother, refused to marry him and they did try getting back together but fought too much. Then he fell badly for Bones, only to have her reject him for a while before they got together. Hannah was in there as well, but she was a rebound thing, a woman he met and turned to when Brennan rejected him. Brennan also had a brief thing with Sully, another FBI agent, before he bought a boat and left, and she refused to join him. |
| 412 | * ''Series/BoysBeforeFlowers'': |
| 413 | ** Geum Jan Di to Yoon Ji Hoo. |
| 414 | ** Gu Jun Pyo to Geum Jan Di. |
| 415 | ** Chu Ga Eul to So Yi Jung. |
| 416 | * ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': Anthony Bridgerton's first love was his long-time mistress, Siena Rosso, in season 1 until they eventually broke up after she dumped him for another man. In season 2, he meets and falls in love with Kate Sharma. Despite he initially tried his best to resist it, he eventually decides to marry Kate out of genuine love. |
| 417 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 418 | ** According to the ''Origin'' graphic novel (the canonical version of TheMovie), Buffy's first real love was Pike. However, Pike feared that he would get Buffy killed, so he left her. Buffy's next serious relationship was Angel. |
| 419 | ** Those who consider Angel to be Buffy's FirstLove, however, also consider Spike to be her second (if they don't beleive she was in love with Riley). [[spoiler: They offically get together in the comics.]] |
| 420 | ** Willow had a serious relationship with Oz for almost two years, until he left because he was afraid the werewolf in him would harm her. She later established an even stronger relationship with Tara... [[spoiler: Until Tara died that is.]] After Tara she got together with Kennedy, though Tara has always been portrayed as her OneTrueLove. |
| 421 | ** Xander's first serious relationship was with Cordelia. After they broke up, he entered a relationship with Anya. Their relationship officially ended when he left her at the altar, although season seven was largely about them struggling with the fact that they still loved each other. [[spoiler:Anya's death in the SeriesFinale was the ''real'' end.]] |
| 422 | ** Although he had been with at least one other girl before starting a relationship with Willow, Oz has said she is the only one he ever loved. After their near-two year relationship ended, he fell in love with another werewolf, Bay, with whom he has a son. |
| 423 | ** Dawn's first serious boyfriend was a demon named Kenny, until she cheated on him and lost her virginity to his roommate. She is now in a relationship with Xander. However, Dawn has been shown to have had a childhood crush on Xander, so one could argue he is not technically her Second Love. |
| 424 | * At the beginning of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', Dr. Patrick Turner, the local GP, is a recent widower. Over time he falls in love with Sister Bernadette, one of Nonnatus House's resident nun-midwives. Needless to say, the whole "nun" thing complicates their relationship significantly despite her falling just as in love with him as he is with her, but [[spoiler:after a bout of tuberculosis, she leaves the Order to marry him, and they remain HappilyMarried throughout the rest of the programme]]. |
| 425 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': Sarah is Chuck's second love after he has spent ''four years'' trying to get over his old college girlfriend Jill. Later in the series, Casey's daughter Alex becomes this for Morgan after his original girlfriend Anna [[PutOnABus leaves him]]. Before Chuck, Sarah also had a relationship with his former friend Bryce. |
| 426 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Christine Whitney, for Mac Taylor. His first love was his wife Claire, and her death on 9/11 devastated him. Peyton was a bit of a subversion; they seemed in love for a while, but it became clear Mac was still not ready, and neither ever verbally expressed love for/to the other. Comparing then with now, it does not seem he was in love with her the way he is with Christine. Especially since he and Christine get engaged during the series finale. |
| 427 | * In ''Series/TheDeadZone'', Sarah and Johnny are engaged and eager to start a family together, until Johnny is in a car accident which leaves him in a coma for six years. Sarah meets Sheriff Walt Bannerman at the hospital, and they fall in love and marry, raising the son Sarah and Johnny conceived just before the accident as though he were their own. When Johnny awakens, Sarah is clearly still in love with him, but she is ''also'' in love with her husband and would never think of leaving him for Johnny. (The writer's bible for the series openly hinted that future seasons might see the three of them [[OneTrueThreesome come to some mutual accommodation]], but the series creator died before that could reach the screen.) |
| 428 | * In the revived ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 429 | ** Rose Tyler is in a serious relationship with Mickey at the beginning of Series 1, but by the end of Series 2 she has fallen in love with the Tenth Doctor and ultimately marries his [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]] [[DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest clone]] at the end of Series 4. |
| 430 | ** Clara Oswald and the Eleventh Doctor's relationship was becoming platonically romantic by the time he regenerated, but when he became the much older-looking, broodier Twelfth Doctor he decided that this was a mistake and pulled back. Clara subsequently fell in love with fellow schoolteacher Danny Pink, [[LoveTriangle but was now torn between ordinary human life with him and her risky-but-exciting life with the Doctor, whom she came to realize she still loved for all that he had changed]]. At the end of Series 8 she decides to stay with Danny...'''but''' [[spoiler: he dies in an accident just as she's giving him the news by phone, ends up a Cyberman, and makes a HeroicSacrifice to save the world]]. The Doctor and Clara separate over mutual IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy lies after this, but the events of "Last Christmas" bring them back together and, having realized they are soulmates, they become an OfficialCouple in Series 9. But Clara never tells the Doctor she loves him, at least not onscreen, to maintain her promise to Danny that she would never say the three little words to any other man. |
| 431 | ** After Clara is [[spoiler: Killed Off for Real, then rendered Only Mostly Dead while the Doctor loses his personal memories of her]] at the end of Series 9, River Song becomes this for the Twelfth Doctor. Although his eleventh self married River at the end of Series 6 and they had offscreen adventures after that, "The Husbands of River Song" reveals she never actually believed the Doctor ''loved'' her, or anyone else for that matter. But Twelve is delighted to cross her path again, subtly jealous of her other husbands, and in the end proves his love for her by [[spoiler: preparing the final night they spend together at the Singing Towers of Darillium, and staying with her for that whole night, which turns out to last '''24 Earth years''']]. If that's not love... |
| 432 | * ''Series/DowntonAbbey'': Very common, both among the Crawley family and the servants: |
| 433 | ** We start with Mary, who has a happy marriage with Matthew, and after [[spoiler: Matthew's death]] falls in love with Henry Talbot. |
| 434 | ** [[LoveMartyr Edith]], meanwhile, is on her third or even fourth love: before the series even starts, she pines after her cousin Patrick who dies on the Titanic; after the war, she attempts to marry Anthony Strallan who jilts her at the altar; later has a relationship with her editor, Michael Gregson, who gets her pregnant before dying in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch; and finally marries Bertie Pelham. |
| 435 | ** For the servants, there's John Bates, who is unhappily married to Vera Bates, but after [[spoiler: her suicide and sundry misadventures and murder accusations]] marries his fellow servant Anna. |
| 436 | ** Former chauffeur Tom Branson has his epic love story with the third Crawley sister, Sybil, who unfortunately [[spoiler:dies in childbirth]] halfway through the third series. After a tentative romance with one Miss Sarah Bunting that [[RomanticFalseLead ultimately doesn't go anywhere]], Tom finally finds lasting love again in the first film in the person of Miss Lucy Smith, Lady Bagshaw's lady's maid. Unlike with Sybil or Miss Bunting, the Crawleys encourage Tom and Lucy's romance because [[spoiler:Lucy is actually the illegitimate daughter and heir of the Lady Bagshaw, and by marrying Tom the fortune of her Crawley branch family would go back to the main one]]. |
| 437 | ** Finally, Thomas Barrow, whose first love was with the very manipulative Duke of Crowborough, develops a mutual attraction with Richard Ellis in the first film; when Ellis goes back into the closet, enter stage right dashing Hollywood actor Guy Dexter, who officially hires Barrow as butler but is pretty clearly asking him to be his life companion (and Barrow readily accepts). |
| 438 | * ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' and her beau (and later husband) Sully are this to each other. Her backstory includes a fiancé presumed dead in the Civil War, while his includes a wife who died in childbirth along with their baby. |
| 439 | * In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', Chiana was this for D'Argo. Crichton was also Aeryn's second love, though both had [[SexualEuphemism recreated]] with plenty of others before. |
| 440 | * ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Tim Laughlin is the second person Hawkins Fuller has fallen in love with. The latter's FirstLove Kenneth Willard died during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 441 | * ''Series/FirstKill'': Jack Burns lost his wife and Theseus' mother to a vampire attack, but he's clearly in love with his second wife Talia when the series begins. |
| 442 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 443 | ** Ross's rarely seen ex-wife Carol might count as his second love, following as she did after his teenage crush on Rachel (or Rachel herself could be the second love, as their relationship did not progress into actual romance until after Carol). |
| 444 | ** Chandler was Monica's third love; her first love was Richard and her second love was Pete. She had other short relationships, but they were the only ones she seriously thought about marrying. The writers specifically hammered it in, when Richard returned wanting to marry her and she decisively picked Chandler, showing how people do move on and your first love isn't necessarily the love of your life, a label she specifically gave Chandler. |
| 445 | ** Monica was also Chandler's third love, as he had serious relationships with Janice and Kathy and was devastated when they ended. Flashbacks reveal both Chandler and Monica had crushes on each other the first and second time they met, respectively, but it wasn't until they got to know each other and had been friends for almost a decade that they fell in love. |
| 446 | ** Monica was also this to Richard. His first love was his ex-wife, who was his [[HighSchoolSweethearts High School Sweetheart]], and after they got divorced, he fell in love with Monica. |
| 447 | ** Mike is this to Phoebe, her first love being David. Like the Richard/Monica/Chandler triangle, both of them proposed to her at the same time, and she turned David down despite being in love with him for years. |
| 448 | ** And, interestingly enough, Phoebe might have been this for Mike, as it was established that the latter had been married before, and the divorce was harsh enough for him to give up on the institution of marriage until he met Phoebe. |
| 449 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 450 | ** Initially, Tyrion fell in love with a girl named Tysha until his father intervened. Later, Tyrion feels this way about Shae until she testifies against him. |
| 451 | ** Catelyn really loved (and was originally betrothed to) Ned's eldest brother. |
| 452 | ** Daenerys slowly accepted Khal Drogo as her husband until she had to give him a MercyKill after Mirri Maz Duur put him into a [[EmptyShell vegetative state]]. Later, she was enamored with the mercenary Daario Naharis, whom she took as her lover during her time in Meereen, though their relationship seemingly wasn't anything serious, since she didn't have any trouble leaving him behind once she set sail for Westeros. In Season 7, Daenerys meets [[spoiler:Jon Snow, who had also [[TheLostLenore lost his first love Ygritte]]]] and the two gradually begin to develop feelings for one another. By the time of the season finale, they both have fallen for each other [[spoiler:[[SurpriseIncest though neither of them knows that they're actually aunt and nephew]]. TheReveal comes in the final season.]] |
| 453 | * In ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', Rory had three loves: Dean, Jess and Logan. According to WordOfGod, she and Jess would have found their way back to each other had the series continued the way ASP had wanted. And her mother Lorelai hooked up with Luke, her Second Love after UnluckyChildhoodFriend Christopher. (Though Luke was actually her Third Love, if you count Max.) |
| 454 | * ''Series/{{Glee}}'': |
| 455 | ** Kurt Hummel and Finn Hudson are both raised by single, widowed parents. When Kurt introduces Burt and Carole, they fall in love almost instantly, and get married in the second season. And it is adorable. |
| 456 | ** Will was married to Terri, his high school sweetheart, and while they were obviously once in love, by the time the series starts it is a very unhealthy relationship that is hanging on by threads. Will's only other major love interest is Emma, with whom he eventually marries and has a family with. Emma is usually portrayed as his true love. |
| 457 | ** An interesting example with Rachel. Her first love is Finn, and he has been portrayed as her true love. While they were broken up in season 1, she dated Jesse before getting back together with Finn by the end of the season. Finn was supposed to be her endgame, but [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim the character died when his actor Cory Monteith died]]. As a result, Rachel eventually (after a long period of grieving) marries Jesse and is shown to be very happy with him. So Jesse ''is'' her second love, but in a roundabout way. |
| 458 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': |
| 459 | ** Blanche disapproves of her father's engagement to a much younger woman, but her father explains that if you can even ''think'' of marrying again after losing the love of your life, you're incredibly fortunate. She thinks he's referring to losing her mother, but he tells her that his fiancée was widowed also and that they're both so grateful to have found love again that their age difference is irrelevant. |
| 460 | ** In the final episodes of the series, Dorothy finds a second love with Blanche's widowed uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth. |
| 461 | * Chuck is this to Blair in ''Series/GossipGirl'', whose first love was Nate. Nate's first love was Blair and his second was Serena. |
| 462 | * ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Adalind, to Nick after having his baby. Their long adversarial relationship always had an element of UnresolvedSexualTension, despite their mutual loathing. A case where the Second Love and FirstLove, Juliette, spent much of the series as mortal enemies. Becomes inevitable after Juliette becomes a Hexenbiest and makes a FaceHeelTurn. Later, the reformed Juliette, now known as "Eve," rightly perceives Nick's love for Adalind even when he is still reluctant to fully admit it. Adalind has by this point made her own full-on HeelFaceTurn. Nick's unexpectedly chivalrous treatment of Adalind after she reveals her pregnancy causes Adalind to fall deeply in love with her former nemesis, and she confesses that love much earlier than he does. Nick and Adalind also had as many as three instances of TheirFirstTime (when Adalind, disguised as Juliette, took his powers; when Juliette, disguised as Adalind, got them back for him; and when they knowingly and passionately made love for the first time in the loft -- well after Adalind gave birth to their son Kelly). At one point, Juliette/Eve and Nick both admit to wondering how things would've turned out between them, had things been different, but ultimately, Julitete/Eve accepts that Nick is with Adalind now. |
| 463 | * ''Series/HoldTheSunset'': Both Edith and Phil have had previous relationships before, with Edith's previous husband being the father of Roger and Sandra, but both Edith and Phil's previous spouses are long dead by the time of the series, allowing the two to get together and become married. |
| 464 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': |
| 465 | ** Although she had been in several relationships before, Ted was the first man Robin ever fell in love with, while Barney was the second. And although, after she and Barney broke up, she had two other serious relationships, she has been in love with Barney since before the second one started (she even cheated with Barney on him) and there's something like a 95% probability that she and Barney are going to get back together for good in the end. [[spoiler:They get married, but they divorce after three years.]] |
| 466 | ** Robin is Barney's second love as well, his love before Robin was Shannon. He dated Shannon in college and loved her with all his soul, but she broke his heart when she left for a wealthy suit. Barney then took up his womanizing ways. He fell for Robin, his close friend. |
| 467 | ** The Mother is the second love for Ted. Ted dated other girls before and after Robin, but he thought that she was his destiny and his one true love. Meeting her helps Ted move on from Robin. None of the other girls he dated were ever serious because he was always obsessed with Robin. |
| 468 | ** It turns out that [[spoiler:Ted becomes the Mother's second love]] as their meeting allows her to move on from grieving her first love, who died when she was 21. She spent several years being single and later was in a relationship with another guy, but it wasn't love. She and Ted are soulmates. |
| 469 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': |
| 470 | ** Lestat de Lioncourt is Louis de Pointe du Lac's second love, the first man he has developed romantic feelings for since his [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood sweetheart]] Jonah Macon, who had to move away from New Orleans to find work. |
| 471 | ** Louis is the second person that Lestat has fallen in love with after Nicolas, who died a long time ago. |
| 472 | --->'''Lestat:''' Nicki passed on after he and I parted ways. It took me over a century to try again. ''[looks directly at Louis]'' |
| 473 | ** Armand is "the love of my life", according to Louis, who believes the third time's a charm after his relationship with Lestat falls apart. |
| 474 | * ''Series/{{Lewis}}'' has the titular Robbie Lewis, whose wife Valerie was killed during the gap between ''Series/InspectorMorse'' and this series. After years of mourning her, he falls in love with resident pathologist Dr Laura Hobson, with whom he has been close friends for years. It's hinted, though not outright stated, that Laura has been quietly in love with him for quite some time before they finally get together, but never said anything as she knew how much losing Val had hurt him. |
| 475 | * In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Sayid's first and second loves Nadia and Shannon became the subject of disagreement among fans that wasn't limited to shippers. [[spoiler:Both were killed; Shannon in season 2 and Nadia in season 4 or 5, depending on your perspective. Sayid was then reunited with Shannon in season 6 courtesy of the "sideways universe" while Nadia ended up with his brother,]] which annoyed many fans who believed [[spoiler:the character whose name happened to be Nadia]] was the "truer" of the two loves. |
| 476 | * In ''Series/Merlin2008'', Arthur is Guinevere's Second Love after [[FirstLove Lancelot]]. |
| 477 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': Detective William Murdoch's fiancée died of consumption before the beginning of the series. He falls for his colleague, beautiful [[TheCoroner pathologist]] Dr. Julia Ogden. He has to struggle to let his first love go and acknowledge his deepening feelings for Julia, his intellectual equal. |
| 478 | * In ''Series/TheOC'', Ryan had three loves, though the first mostly took place before the start of the series. The first was with his childhood friend Theresa that was never more than on and off again but left them with strong feelings for each other. The second was with Marissa and was stormy and passionate and ultimately tragic, the great romance of his life. The third love with Taylor was never as comfortable as with Theresa or as passionate as with Marissa but it was the first truly adult love and -- depending on how you interpret the enigmatic ending series ending -- the one that might have lasted. |
| 479 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': |
| 480 | ** It was magically revealed by Tinkerbell that Regina and Robin Hood are destined to be each other's second loves. |
| 481 | ** Belle is Rumplestiltskin's second love after his wife Milah leaves him. |
| 482 | ** Emma is Killian/Hook's second love after Milah. |
| 483 | ** Killian/Hook himself is Emma's after Neal/Baelfire. |
| 484 | * ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle'': |
| 485 | ** After her husband went to jail and she filed for divorce, Rose hit it off with Malachy, who is a widower with three grown children. |
| 486 | ** Jake tends to be TheCasanova but it is clear that Nikki was his first big love and it took him a long time to get over their divorce. Leslie is his second big love and while the feelings are reciprocated, she breaks up with him on numerous occasions due to the illegal stunts he pulls. [[spoiler:They end up HappilyMarried in the series finale.]] |
| 487 | * Charlotte in ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' is a firm believer in this trope, stating at one point that she thinks everyone has two great loves in their life, later proving her theory with her [[HappilyMarried happy marriage]] to second husband Harry (who was her divorce lawyer from her first marriage). |
| 488 | * In a rare {{telenovela}} example, ''Simplemente María''. María ends up with her second love, a humble teacher who had been near her since she arrived from the provinces, and stayed at her side as she climbed her way from an illiterate, homeless single mother to a rich and famous fashion designer; instead of the rich and capid biological father of her son, who dumped her as soon as she got pregnant. This was a rare move back in the day. Other writers would have applied LoveRedeems on the rich dude, but here they glanced towards SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan and built towards it. |
| 489 | * ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': |
| 490 | ** Mira is a subverted one to Spartacus. He begins a relationship with her months after his wife's death, but is still in love with Sura and [[TheMourningAfter makes it clear he always will be]]. Spartacus tries to love Mira as much as he can, but it's [[CompetingWithACorpse not enough for her]] and it finally leads to their breakup in ''Vengeance'' (though they remain amicable). |
| 491 | ** In ''War of the Damned'', Sibyl becomes Gannicus' second love years after the death of Melitta, the first woman he ever truly loved (the situation was far from ideal given Melitta was already married to his best friend, which caused both of them a great deal of anguish). Sibyl could be considered his ''third'' love if one counts his relationship with Saxa, whom he leaves for Sibyl, although they were FriendsWithBenefits more than anything (albeit it's implied Saxa did develop deeper feelings for him), while it's made clear that Gannicus falls in love with Sibyl and is prepared to sacrifice himself to guarantee her freedom and safety. |
| 492 | * ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has three notable examples, each involving the deaths of the previous loves. |
| 493 | ** Kasidy Yates, whom Benjamin Sisko marries after years of mourning for his first wife, Jennifer. |
| 494 | ** Jadzia Dax, whom Worf ends up marrying several years after the death of his first love K'Ehlyr. |
| 495 | ** Odo pines after Kira Nerys for years while she's with Vedek Bareil Antos (and later Shakaar Edon, but this is a less serious relationship) before eventually confessing his feelings and entering a relationship with her. |
| 496 | * In ''Series/TeenWolf'', the OfficialCouple of Scott and Allison breaks up in the season 2 finale. Then in season 3B, Scott begins to fall for new girl Kira, and Allison gets together with Isaac. [[spoiler:However, on her deathbed, Allison confesses that she still loves Scott.]] By the final season, Scott has found a third love in [[spoiler:Malia Tate]], with him being ''her'' second love after [[spoiler:Stiles]]. |
| 497 | * Ianto of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' finds love again after the [[TearJerker tragic]] fate of Lisa. Actually, Torchwood being [[EveryoneHasLotsOfSex what it is]], most of the characters fall under this trope, losing people they loved before hooking up with [[spoiler:or at least getting a [[TearJerker heartbreaking]] AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther moment before dying]]. Gwen is really the only exception. |
| 498 | * ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': |
| 499 | ** Stefan is this to Elena. Elena's first love was Matt, also her childhood friend whom Elena broke up with four months before unexpectedly meeting and eventually falling in love with Stefan. After Elena and Stefan break up, she eventually falls for his older brother Damon, and he becomes her ''third'' love. |
| 500 | ** Elena herself is the second love of ''both'' Damon and Stefan after they have spent over a century in love with her ancestor and doppelganger Katherine. |
| 501 | * ''Series/VeronicaMars'' and Logan Echolls were in serious relationships and in love with the Kane siblings, Duncan and Lilly, respectively. Duncan's unexpected breakup with Veronica and Lilly's death set off a course of events that lead to Veronica and Logan falling in love with each other, though their relationship is very much on again/off again until [[Film/VeronicaMars the movie]], in which they finally commit to each other after spending nine years apart. |
| 502 | * ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': Alex Cahill is this to Walker, whose backstory includes a fiancée who was murdered. |
| 503 | * In ''Series/TheXFiles'', the [[spoiler:dying doctor]] Scully revisits in season 7's "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E17AllThings all things]]" seems to have been her first love when she was a student of medicine. (Phoebe Green, mentioned only in [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire one first-season episode]], was Mulder's.) She still has some feelings for him but rejects the idea of restarting their relationship, all but telling him she's moved on and has somebody else. |
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| 505 | |
| 506 | [[folder:Manhwa]] |
| 507 | * In ''Manhwa/ThreadsOfTime'', protagonist Moon-Bin's first love was his loyal servant Chung-War. She reciprocated his feelings, but unfortunately, she was [[spoiler: captured by the enemies and forced to marry one of the higher-up soldiers]]. He got drunk over it, and promptly met his to-be-second-love, Atan Hadas. Although he didn't love her as much as she loved him, they eventually do end up together. Sort of. If you [[spoiler: count her reincarnation in the future as being the same person]]. |
| 508 | [[/folder]] |
| 509 | |
| 510 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 511 | * In the Literature/{{Child Ballad|s}} ''The Famous Flower of Serving Man'', the heroine goes to serve the king as a serving man after her husband and baby have been murdered; there, the king falls in love with her. In some variants, her dead husband, in the form of a ghost, tells the king what had happened to her; in all, the king executes her mother, who had arranged for the murders. |
| 512 | * Sally, in Smokie's ''Living Next Door to Alice'', who too had waited for 24 years... though it's not known whether or not she and the narrator actually do hook up. |
| 513 | * Music/GarthBrooks' song "Unanswered Prayers" tells about a guy who runs into his ex and thanks the heavens that they didn't end up together. |
| 514 | %%* "If I Fell" by Music/TheBeatles. |
| 515 | %%* "You Got It All," by the Jets, praises one. |
| 516 | * Both played straight and inverted in the ''Love & Hate'' trilogy of Music/{{Vocaloid}} songs. Initially, [[ProneToTears Len]] is in a relationship with [[IdolSinger Miku]], but when her career forces her to move to America, they break up so they don’t have to deal with the stress of a long distance relationship. A year later, [[TheCharmer Len’s]] personality completely changes and he develops feelings for [[{{Tsundere}} Rin]], and they start dating. However, when Miku returns, she still has feelings for Len and is crushed when she discovers that she has no chance of rekindling their relationship. Despite this, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she holds no hard feelings towards Rin and gives the couple her support]]. |
| 517 | [[/folder]] |
| 518 | |
| 519 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 520 | * In the supplemental novels for ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething Victor Davion]], a central character, loses his beloved [[StarCrossedLovers Omiko Kurita]] to an assassin in the employ of his wily sister, [[TheSociopath Katherine Steiner]] (who also had their mother and youngest brother assassinated as well). Isis Marik, the illegitimate daughter of Thomas Marik who was exiled and was traveling with them, gives him a "get a hold of yourself" talk in the aftermath to shake him out of his despair. Eventually, the two fall in love, marry, and have three kids. [[spoiler:And Vic later finds out Omi had [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy a son]] by him.]] |
| 521 | [[/folder]] |
| 522 | |
| 523 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 524 | * Shakespeare's ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' has Romeo's first love Rosaline, who only gets mentioned a few times before Juliet's appearance makes her utterly insignificant. |
| 525 | * ''Theatre/MissSaigon''. Chris's wife Ellen, the woman he marries after returning home from the war. |
| 526 | * ''Theatre/{{Bandstand}}'': Donny is Julia's second love; her first was her late husband Michael. |
| 527 | [[/folder]] |
| 528 | |
| 529 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 530 | * [[ShipTease Teased]] through ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga'' and ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga2'' for [[TheHero Rook]] and [[TheLancer Oddleif]]. It [[RelationshipUpgrade finally happens]] in ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga3'', if the player makes the right choices. |
| 531 | * Creator/BioWare seems to have a thing for this trope: |
| 532 | %%** The PlayerCharacter to Jaheira in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2''. |
| 533 | %%** The player character of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' to Carth. |
| 534 | ** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': |
| 535 | %%*** The player character to Aribeth, and possibly a different player character again to Aribeth as her third love in ''Hordes of the Underdark''. |
| 536 | *** Any love interest you could possibly end up with in ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'' series is going to be your character's second at least, after [[spoiler:Alex]]'s unavoidable plotline death. |
| 537 | %%*** The player to Anera in the Shadowlords/Dreamcatcher/Demon arc. |
| 538 | ** The player character to Sky in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', and possibly (alternately) Silk Fox to the player character. (Complicating matters a bit is that they're both bisexual.) |
| 539 | * In the IGA continuity of the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' franchise, Dracula became an immortal due to the death of his wife Elisabetha in order to spite God. [[MayDecemberRomance Several hundred years later]], he would fall in love with a woman named Lisa and have a son named Alucard. Unfortunately, this relationship didn't go well for poor Drac either. |
| 540 | * In ''VideoGame/ChicoryAColorfulTale'', [[spoiler:Beans and Pepper]] are single moms who hook up over asking Pizza for help in finding their respective children. |
| 541 | * Isaac spent almost all of the original ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' trying to find his girlfriend, Nicole [[spoiler:only to find out that she had been DeadAllAlong]]. In the [[VideoGame/DeadSpace2 sequel]], he meets Ellie Langford; they help each other survive for a while, and [[spoiler:Isaac eventually manages to overcome his guilt and sorrow over Nicole's death]]. Sometime between ''2'' and ''[[VideoGame/DeadSpace3 3]]'', Isaac and Ellie had a relationship. His relationship with the two women serve as BookEnds for the series; the opening of ''Dead Space'' had Isaac watching at a recording Nicole had sent, and at the end of ''3'' [[spoiler:as he plummets without sign of rescue]] he looks at a picture of Ellie. |
| 542 | %%* Atoli from ''VideoGame/DotHackGUGames'' to Haseo, at least in the G.U. Film Trilogy. The games themselves have ''no'' canon pairing. |
| 543 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 544 | ** The player character to Zevran or Leliana in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. Furthermore, if the player character is a female Dwarf Noble and the origin was played with her being romantically involved with Gorim, he finds a second love, gets married, and is expecting a child by the time they see each other again. She can then become involved with Alistair, Zevran, or Leliana, making ''them'' this trope. The same goes for a City Elf (of either gender), who was betrothed prior to becoming a Grey Warden, and a Dalish elf, if the player chose dialogue options that suggested s/he was in love with their hunting partner Tamlen. Additionally, the player can help Oghren win over his second love following the death of his first wife, Branka; if his approval of the Warden is high enough, he asks them to accompany him on a visit to old flame Felsi, whom he can end up marrying if the mission is a success. |
| 545 | ** The player character to Anders or Isabela in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. If Hawke is a female mage, a letter arrives during the first act which indicates younger brother Carver had a girlfriend back in Ferelden named Peaches; in Kirkwall, he becomes infatuated with Merrill, making her this trope. In the second act, Hawke can help their widowed friend Aveline woo the man who, if it's done right, will become her second husband. The player character's mother will also have a conversation with her eldest child about the possibility of her finding this trope. [[spoiler:That, however, ends disastrously.]] |
| 546 | ** The player character to Cullen or Cassandra in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition.'' (In Cullen's case, however, it will only be mentioned if the imported world state has a female mage as the Hero of Ferelden.) This could also be the case with Dorian, as party banter with him and Cole implies he was previously in unrequited love with a man named Rilenius; depending on player choices, his second love could be either the Inquisitor or [[spoiler:the Iron Bull]]. |
| 547 | ** In the franchise background, King Maric of Ferelden had at least three serious loves. The first was his elven lover Katriel, as seen in ''Literature/TheStolenThrone''; the second was his wife Rowan, the mother of his son Cailan, whose death sent him into a depression for a few months. The third was Fiona, an elven Grey Warden mage [[spoiler:who became the mother of his younger son Alistair.]] |
| 548 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', Crispin is in love with Nera; but if the Hero chooses Nera as his bride, then Crispin will meet and fall in love with the beautiful dancer Ashlee and later on in the game get married to her. Things seem to work out pretty well for him no matter what. |
| 549 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 550 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Lulu ended up with Wakka, after her first love, Chappu, was killed by Sin. |
| 551 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Locke falls in love with Celes while trying to find a way to ressurect his first girlfriend. She eventually comes back, but [[DeathOfTheHypotenuse dies shortly after]], using her [[FinalSpeech last words]] to [[CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds wish the new couple a happy life together]]. |
| 552 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 553 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'', General Camus of Grust falls in love with Princess Nyna of Archanea [[BodyguardCrush after he protects her from being taken by the Dolhr Empire]]. [[StarCrossedLovers It ends in tragedy]] when he's forced to fight Marth during the War of Shadows [[MyCountryRightOrWrong out of loyalty for his nation]], and is defeated and presumed dead. He actually survives but loses his memories and washes ashore in Valentia, where he's found by a cleric named Tatiana, [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect who nurses him back to health and the two fall in love with each other]]. Camus assumes a new identity as Zeke and decides to stay with Tatiana even after regaining his memory, although he does come back one last time to free Nyna of Medeus' control in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem''. |
| 554 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'': |
| 555 | *** ''Any'' guy who marries Cordelia, since she's had feelings for Prince Chrom for a long time and her romantic supports are, more often than not, about her trying to deal with it. And this certainly includes a male PlayerCharacter. |
| 556 | *** This ''may'' be the case in regards to Cordelia's best friend Sumia too, but it's much less harped on since she ''does'' have a chance to be with Chrom if the player so desires ''and'' her possible feelings for Chrom receive less focus than Cordelia's own. |
| 557 | *** And possibly gender-flipped in in regards to [[CannotTalkToWomen Lon'qu]], if his thoughts and feelings regarding [[spoiler: his [[TheLostLenore dead]] OnlyFriend Ke'ri]] ''were'' romantic in nature. (This includes a female PlayerCharacter, of course.) |
| 558 | *** Also any guy who hooks up with Lissa ([[BodyguardCrush the aforementioned Lon'qu]] included) save for Frederick, her FirstLove. |
| 559 | *** In regards to the [[spoiler:[[KidFromTheFuture kids from the future]]]], Cynthia implies in her supports with Inigo that she's had a crush on him [[ChildhoodFriendRomance since they were children]], so any guy ''save'' for Inigo will be this for her. This may also be the case for Owain and ''maybe'' [[spoiler:Gerome]], in regards to [[spoiler:''Cynthia herself'']], as both boys imply that they might have harbored feelings of their own for the girl in their respective support chains with her. |
| 560 | ** This happens a bit in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' as well: |
| 561 | *** Camilla confesses that she's been in love with the male Avatar since she first saw him, so any other guy she marries will be this to her. [[spoiler: In the localization, things are... a bit complicated in regards to Silas - he once had a crush on her and she ''almost'' liked him back.]] |
| 562 | *** The male Avatar is this to Flora, and probably Scarlet. Flora is stated to be in love with Jakob, whereas Scarlet is strongly implied to have feelings for Ryoma; however, the male Avatar is their only romantic partner. |
| 563 | *** Any guy who pairs up with Oboro, who's been enamored with her friend and lord Takumi for a long time. |
| 564 | *** Saizo and Kagero are AmicableExes who work together as Ryoma's retainers, so any guy who romances Kagero ''and'' any girl who falls for Saizo and is loved by him will count as this. |
| 565 | * In the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, Kratos's only love was for his wife Lysandra and daughter Calliope. After Ares tricked him into killing them, he became the bundle of UnstoppableRage we know and love. He occasionally has one night stands, but that is just meaningless sex. Centuries later, in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos finally moved on and married Faye, having a son named Atreus. Unfortunately, Faye dies of undisclosed causes before the game starts, but his comments indicate he loved her as much as Lysandra. |
| 566 | * ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade'' has Jin, one of the few and only characters in the series who is a marriageable bachelor and had a previous wife. [[spoiler:She was an ill girl who passed away, and Jin, despite being a doctor, couldn't help her.]] Whether he ends up with the player or his LoveInterest Anissa depends on the player, however. The original UsefulNotes/{{SNES}} version has Ann's father marrying Nina's mother, if you marry Ann. |
| 567 | * In ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', Ethan and Grace divorce over the death of their son, Jason. During Ethan's adventure in finding his other son (Shaun) that was kidnapped, he meets Madison and the two develop feelings for each other. If you have Ethan forgive Madison for deceiving him as a journalist and they both survive at the end, the two of them move into an apartment together. |
| 568 | * In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Sol becomes the second romantic partner to either Anemone or Vace [[spoiler:after breaking up their abusive relationship.]] |
| 569 | %%* The Player Character to Atton in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', depending on how you interpret his feelings for the woman he was talking about. |
| 570 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', the [[FishPeople Zora]] commoner Kodah was in love with Link and competed for his affection with Princess Mipha. Kodah mentions that at one point she demanded that Link make a choice between her or Mipha; it's not clear exactly how Link viewed either of these two ChildhoodFriends, what with him being a HeroicMime and traditionally a CelibateHero, but it's implied that he did reject Kodah as a romantic interest. Following Link's near-death in the Great Calamity and subsequent century-long slumber in the Shrine of Resurrection, Kodah eventually married a Zora man named Kayden; a recently-awakened Link can act as RomanticWingman for their daughter Finley. The Sheikah scientist Robbie also has one with his current wife Jerrin. His first love was a woman named Cherry, after whom he named his mechanical "ancient oven" (though he stopped referring to it by that name after seeing how much this upset Jerrin). |
| 571 | * ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'': Chloe is heavily implied to have been in a same-sex relationship with Rachel Amber, until the latter's sudden disappearance, which was eventually confirmed by the prequel, ''[[VideoGame/LifeIsStrangeBeforeTheStorm Before the Storm]]''. Depending on [[RelationshipValues the player's choices]] in the original [=LiS=], Max can potentially become Chloe's second love interest. |
| 572 | %%* The PlayerCharacter can be this to [[spoiler:Professor Grabiner]] in ''VisualNovel/MagicalDiary''. |
| 573 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 574 | %%** The player character to Thane or Jack in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. |
| 575 | ** [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] him/herself can have one in the second game, if you romance Ashley/Kaidan/Liara in the first game and move on to someone else in the second. This can cause tension in the third game... unless your ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' romance is dead, of course. |
| 576 | ** In the third game, Male Shepard can be one to GayOption Steve after helping him move past the death of his husband. |
| 577 | ** Potentially, [[spoiler:Jacob in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' hooks up with a new woman after his relationship with Shepard. He states that he believed they wouldn't be able to be together after her incarceration by the Alliance and that he still has feelings for her, but stays with his new love.]] |
| 578 | * In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Meryl's first love was Solid Snake. Unfortunately for her, Snake was too concerned with his [[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner Otacon]]. She eventually marries the game's ButtMonkey Johnny Sasaki. |
| 579 | * The player character to Casavir in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. And Gann or Safiya (depending on gender) to the player in ''Mask of the Betrayer''. [[spoiler:Though, given the soul-juggling mechanics, Safiya is a male player's first love and Elanee was his second.]] |
| 580 | * ''VideoGame/PretentiousGame 2'' is about [[PlayerCharacter the blue square]] moving on from [[FirstLove the bright pink square]] and getting romantically involved with the light pink square. It doesn't end well. |
| 581 | * In ''VideoGame/QueenAtArms'', if Marcus romances the court mage Rubus, she is this for him; he tells her that part of what draws him to her is how much she resembles his old mentor, who was also his first love. |
| 582 | * Princess Peach to Mario in the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series games. Mario's original love interest is Pauline, from his debut game, ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''. |
| 583 | * In ''VideoGame/WolfQuest'', you are tasked with raising a litter of pups with your mate in the second episode, Slough Creek. However, should your mate die with permadeath enabled and single parenting turn out to be too much of a burden, you can shack up with a compatible dispersal wolf. This is something wolves have been observed to do even within days of a mate's death. |
| 584 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'', Fei's first love was his [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend childhood friend]] Alice (who was engaged to his other childhood friend Timothy). However, both Alice and Timothy were killed. Later, Fei ends up with Elly. Later in the game, it is revealed that [[spoiler:Elly really is Fei's first love, as they have been lovers for 10000 years via reincarnation.]] |
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| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 589 | * Any of the girls in ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' could be this for the protagonist, Lainie being his first love. |
| 590 | * In ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework'', since Rachel is the protagonist’s first love, choosing anyone else would make her his second. |
| 591 | * Yukitsuki is the unfortunate first love in ''VisualNovel/FragmentsNote''. Thanks to Miu's [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong intervention]], Yukiha ends up with someone else. |
| 592 | * Discussed in ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' with the OfficialCouple. Yuuichi jokes that he hopes Ayu retracts having said that he was her first love, as everyone knows it's only the times after your first that the relationships work. |
| 593 | * In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', there are a few cases of this. |
| 594 | ** Emi has this happen [[spoiler:twice. The first time was with her team captain, [[IncompatibleOrientation who turned out to be gay]], and she later had a boyfriend at Yamaku, but they broke up because she kept him at arm's length (a problem Hisao must resolve to successfully complete her route).]] |
| 595 | ** Lilly had a crush on [[spoiler:her English tutor]], but never acted on it. |
| 596 | ** Hisao himself had feelings for Iwanako, the girl who met with him for a LoveConfession in the first scene, just before he suffered a heart attack. She stops visiting him in the hospital after six weeks [[spoiler:and later sends a DearJohnLetter]], meaning that any girl Hisao winds up with is going to be his second love. |
| 597 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'': |
| 598 | ** Depending on player choice, either Melody, Becca, or Amy could be this to the protagonist, who meets all of them after coming out of a long relationship with Bethany. |
| 599 | ** Also, the protagonist could be this for Melody, who only had one boyfriend before. |
| 600 | ** The protagonist is also this for Becca on her romantic path, since she also had only a single boyfriend before. |
| 601 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}}'': |
| 602 | ** Kayto Shields was in love with his childhood friend Ava Crescentia when they were in high school. She left to join the military right after graduation, and when they finally meet again twelve years later as captain and first officer of the Sunrider, Ava is determined not to renew their relationship on the grounds that it could [[InappropriatelyCloseComrades compromise their judgment]]. Her rejection drives Kayto into the arms of his chief engineer, Chigara Ashada, and the two of them become the OfficialCouple. [[spoiler:Then Chigara gets hijacked by the BigBad and dies.]] |
| 603 | ** In ''Sunrider Liberation Day'', any woman that Kayto hooks up with in the post-game [RE]turn scenario is technically his ''Third'' Love (except for Ava, [[FirstGirlWins naturally]]). In the good endings, Chigara even [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy gives Kayto her blessing to be with his new]] LoveInterest since she herself [[spoiler:is being held indefinitely in solitary confinement to prevent her from causing trouble if the Prototypes take control of her again]]. |
| 604 | * ''VisualNovel/ShinraiBrokenBeyondDespair'': |
| 605 | ** It turns out that Momoko is [[spoiler:her best friend Kamen's]] second or third love, after a female classmate in elementary school, and possibly [[spoiler:Raiko, the main character]]. |
| 606 | ** Runa briefly went out with Hiro before he dumped her for Momoko. She eventually gets together with another boyfriend [[spoiler:in the good ending to the story]]. |
| 607 | * In ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods'', Abigail is this to Madison. Before meeting Abigail, Madison had an ill-fated experiment in dating her best friend Tara, as well as at least one romantic relationship with another woman, the latest of which ended badly. |
| 608 | [[/folder]] |
| 609 | |
| 610 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 611 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dinosauria}}'': In the short "A More Ancient Spring", a male ''Lambeosaurus'' returns to his nest to find his mate has been killed by a ''Gorgosaurus''. After a period of mourning and searching for a new mate, he ends the short having found an unattached female ''Lambeosaurus'' to start again with. |
| 612 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 613 | ** Taiyang Xiao Long was married to his teammate Raven Branwen, who abandoned them shortly after their daughter Yang Xiao Long was born. He then fell for his other female teammate Summer Rose, who raised their daughter Ruby Rose alongside Yang. It was only after Summer's disappearance that Yang learned the truth about her parentage, but she still regards Summer as both her mother and her hero. She tells Blake that Taiyang shut down for a while after Summer's death because of the cost of losing two loves. |
| 614 | ** Blake's first love is Adam Taurus, whom she originally believes symbolises her passion for Faunus equality and justice until she realises he's an abusive, gaslighting monster and leaves him. Adam becomes psychotic in his quest to destroy her and everyone she loves, targeting anyone he thinks is a love rival. [[spoiler:After he severs Yang's arm in Volume 3 to hurt Blake, the trio's rematch in Volume 6 sees him actively viewing Yang as a love rival, forcing them to kill him just to survive. From Volume 7, their increasing closeness is observed by other characters until they finally get together in Volume 9 after their EmpathicEnvironment forces them to confront their feelings.]] |
| 615 | [[/folder]] |
| 616 | |
| 617 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 618 | * Many of the main couples in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' fall under this trope. The titular couple itself is one: Kevin was a divorcée, Kell a widow. Others include Dorothy (divorced) and Douglas (widower), Martha (divorce) and Ralph (unmarried widower), Angelique (Kevin's ex), and George (Martha's ex). |
| 619 | ** George is a bit complicated though. [[spoiler: His second love was Danielle, Kevin's sister, who died during an attack on Rabbit's Revenge, but her human counterpart ended up crossing over into Domain, falling in love with George herself, and eventually married him. So, depending on whether you count the formerly human Danielle as a separate person from the original Danielle, George is either on his second or third love.]] |
| 620 | * Makoto is Miharu's second love in ''Webcomic/RedString'', after her disastrous breakup with Kazuo. Miharu, for her part, is Makoto's second serious relationship after his first girlfriend dumped him and his attempts to love and woo Karen failed. Hanae is Fuuko's second love after Maya figured out she didn't feel the same way for Fuuko. |
| 621 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' Ally is this to Lisa; her relationship with her first love ended due to Lisa never getting the confidence to explain her intimate interests to him; despite them discussing engagement before it turned sour; this causes her moments of doubts and guilt early into her relationship with Ally. |
| 622 | * In ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'': Flora is Trace's second great love after his deceased wife (whose death sparked Trace's original StartOfDarkness).[[note]]His wife's ghost has been shown to be watching over Trace and [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy approves of him and Flora.]][[/note]] |
| 623 | * In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'', this is the backstory of Davan's parents, Fred and Faye. Fred's first wife and son died when he was still quite a young man, and Faye was his second wife. It's made clear, in the strips that explain this, that Fred loved his first wife very much; however, the rest of the comic makes it equally clear that he truly adores Faye. [[spoiler:Her death hits him very, very hard.]] |
| 624 | * ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' We've met Jean's ex-boyfriend, Slick Simmons. Handsome, charming, and successful, but also a lying, arrogant womanizer; she cites her bad experience with him as the reason she fell so quickly for [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan a modest nice guy like Bob.]] |
| 625 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Sam is this to Sarah and Luke is this to Justin. Sarah and Elliot mutually broke up amicably after Sarah reassessed what she wanted out of the relationship and Elliot realized his feelings for Sarah were platonic. Justin and Melissa broke up after he realized he was gay. |
| 626 | * ''Webcomic/WhoMadeMeAPrincess'': Claude was originally in love with (and engaged to) Penelope until [[spoiler: she cheated on him with his brother]]. Some time later, he met Diana and fell in love with her, becoming devoted to her until [[spoiler: she suffered DeathByChilbirth]]. |
| 627 | * ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'': Joe originally has a whirlwind romance with a woman named Maria, who he ends up marrying and later divorces. Some years later, while traveling around the world, Joe meets another woman named Sofi, who he dates and ends up with. |
| 628 | [[/folder]] |
| 629 | |
| 630 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 631 | * In ''A Loaf Story'', an entry from ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary'', after [[spoiler: Emilio is eaten by a pigeon]], Elizabeth finds happiness with this in the most tearjerking way possible. |
| 632 | [[/folder]] |
| 633 | |
| 634 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 635 | * On ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Flame Princess was the second love for Finn, since his old crush Princess Bubblegum considered herself too old for him (even before [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld the reveal of her real age]], seasons later.) |
| 636 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 637 | ** Although he met her first, Sokka only fell in love with Suki after his first love, Princess Yue, [[spoiler: AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.]] |
| 638 | ** [[spoiler:Aang]] to Katara, as the first guy she had a crush on (Jet) was a freedom fighter who wasn't all that concerned about collateral damage. |
| 639 | * The sequel series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has [[spoiler:Korra and Asami, who both dated Mako before getting together in the GrandFinale]]. |
| 640 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', Callum starts off having a young crush on the dark mage Claudia. It is unknown whether or not Claudia felt the same way, but she did at least enjoy his company to a degree. Regardless, once Claudia made her allegiances clear (against Callum and his brother), those feelings he had for her clearly disappear. [[spoiler: As his adventure continues on, a romance buds between Callum and Rayla, and the two [[RelationshipUpgrade officially become]] [[OfficialCouple "a thing"]] by the fifth episode of season 3.]] |
| 641 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Before Timmy Turner's parents got married, Mrs. Turner's first love was Sheldon Dinkleberg. Yes, ''the'' [[SitcomArchnemesis Dinkleberg]]. He ditched her in the name of money once a bunch of scientists decided to invest in his parachute pants, and that's when Mr. Turner swooped in. He even {{lampshade}}s it by introducing himself with "Sorry to catch you on the rebound, but will you marry me?" |
| 642 | * On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' Linda and Lawrence are [[HappilyMarried Happily Re-Married]], each having been a single parent before they met. The creators are [[ShrugOfGod specifically vague]] about their previous spouses. |
| 643 | * ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'': Razer became a Red Lantern because of his wife's death, but he slowly falls in love with Aya during the first half of the series. [[spoiler:And then he completely fucks it up by telling her he loves her and taking it back. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Everything goes to hell after that.]]]] |
| 644 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MyDadTheRockStar'' Willy falls for his best friend Alyssa in the [[LastMinuteHookup last episode]]. Alyssa was the second girl he fell for in the series, with his first love being Angela D'Angelo. While mutually interested, Willy and Angela's relationship never even technically got started due to the actions of Angela's ''extremely'' [[MyBelovedSmother protective parents]], with said parents moving the entire family out of town just to prevent said relationship. |
| 645 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Chas Finster (a widower) and Kira Watanabe-Finster (a divorcée) are this to each other. |
| 646 | * ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Miranda and King Roland (both a widow and a widower, respectively) are this to each other. |
| 647 | * ''{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}}'' never shows us any of Elisa's past relationships, but Goliath's ex-mate [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Demona]] features prominently as an antagonist throughout the series. |
| 648 | * Mr. Gar was set up to be this to Carol from ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' after her first love Laserblast "got blasted" in the past. At the end of "Season Change", they begin to be dating. |
| 649 | * Marco from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' has Jackie as his first love and dates her for a while [[spoiler: but eventually realizes Star is his true love and they become an OfficialCouple in "Here To Help".]] |
| 650 | * It looked like ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}}'' was going to do this when Cheetara turned out to be into Lion-o's brother Tygra and he meets a new girl. [[spoiler:Then she, Pumyra, turns out to be DeadAllAlong and revived by his enemies to infiltrate his gang and betray him.]] |
| 651 | * Emma Frost was set up to be this to Cyclops on ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' after his first love Jean Grey disappeared (after chastising him for getting into a fight with Wolverine no less), but the series didn't follow through on it. |
| 652 | [[/folder]] |
| 653 | |
| 654 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 655 | * In modern (especially Western) Civilization, serial monogamy is so common that some evolutionary psychologists think humans evolved to favor such relationships. |
| 656 | * Many a widowed or divorced person has gone on to find a happy, lasting relationship with a subsequent partner. |
| 657 | [[/folder]] |
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