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6	->''"May the child in your belly fall in love with me in your stead"''
7	-->--'''Maki''', ''Manga/TheStructuralFormulaOfFirstLove''
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9	So you have a LoveTriangle between Alice, Bob and Charles. However, the tension can't be sustained forever, so finally Alice and Bob confess their love and all is happy. Except for Charles; doesn't he deserve true love? Well, okay, but where can we pull out a love interest on short notice? Alice and Bob's baby! It would be like marrying the best qualities of both.
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11	This Trope is about a love triangle being resolved by involving the offspring of the primary couple.
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13	As this is a Love trope largely focused around endings, beware of spoilers.
14	"'''All spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''"
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16	Not to be confused with developing the LoveTriangle into a LoveDodecahedron. Subtrope of LoveFatherLoveSon. See also UnequalPairing, which is likely in these circumstances.
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23	* ''Literature/HalfPrince'': With Gui and Lan [[HappilyMarried happily married]], Zhuo is left to pine for Lan. Well, a good sixteen years later no more, as he gets (forcefully) engaged to [=LanLan=], their daughter.
24	* ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'': Yukino and Arima's eldest daughter, Sakura, falls for Arima's best friend Asaba who has mentioned before that he would marry either, if given the choice.
25	* The {{Yuri}} manga ''Manga/TheStructuralFormulaOfFirstLove'' by Shuninta Amano is about a lesbian whose high school love dumped her for a guy, but her daughter from him fell in love with the protagonist, in turn. It wasn't entirely intentional, however.
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29	* An old Creator/ECComics science fiction story had an astronaut testing a new spaceship. He returns home to find that decades have passed, despite [[TimeDilation his only having experienced a short time away]]. His girlfriend, thinking he was dead, married his best friend, and they're both old now. But their daughter is now a beautiful young woman. The hero falls in love with her and they marry.
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33	* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Played for drama at the end of the story where Spectra (an orphan) discovers the identity of her dead parents. Unfortunately, the one revealing this to her is a jaded kidnapper her mother ''didn't'' pick, and he's decided he'll settle for her daughter...
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37	* In ''Film/{{Sharknado}},'' protagonist Fin is pursued by his younger employee, Nova, though he clearly is carrying a torch for his ex-wife, April. At the end he and April reconcile ([[FirstFatherWins a whole six hours after her boyfriend dies!]]), and while it's not clear, it seems Nova is going to hook up with their son Matt, who is closer to her age.
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41	* A variation is seen in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. Peeta's father had been pining for Katniss' mother when they were young, but when she chose Katniss' father, Peeta's father settled for his wife. In the present, Katniss was being courted by Gale, when the organizers of the Hunger Games paired up Peeta and Katniss as a publicity stunt. At the very end, Katniss tells off Gale for coming up with the idea of hiding explosives in care packages that got hundreds killed, including her sister at the end of the revolution, and she goes back to District-12. [[DistantFinale Years later]] Katniss and Peeta are having a picnic with [[BabiesEverAfter their children]].
42	* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has Littlefinger developing an ever-creepy crush on the daughter of his childhood sweetheart. Please note, however, that is it acknowledged as creepy and not reciprocated.
43	* In Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'' books, the Rowan/Afra/Jeff triangle gets resolved in favour of Rowan/Jeff, and Afra is subsequently paired with their daughter Damia.
44	* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Bella and Edward end up together, but leave poor Jacob alone. Not to worry, when their daughter Renesmee is born he "imprints" upon her, essentially becoming romantically bonded for life with a newborn. It's even suggested that Renesmee was destined to be Jacob's soulmate even before she was born, and the attraction Jacob felt toward Bella resulted from this.
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48	* A ''very'' weird one occurs in ''Series/DoctorWho''. Amy has Rory and the Doctor as potential love interests, and chooses Rory. The Doctor may or may not have some romantic interest in her, and he also may fancy Rory just a little bit -- enough to kiss him once, at least. (Rory, for his part, is [[SingleTargetSexuality completely Amy-sexual]].) Amy and Rory have a daughter, who grows up to be the Doctor's future wife River Song. It's severely complicated by the fact that while they are all time travellers, they are not all necessarily travelling in the same direction or at the same speed. The Doctor meets River before he meets Amy and Rory, on the day River dies, and likes her before anyone except River knows who her parents are. River decided, when she was a kid, to grow up ''together'' with her parents at the same age as them, never telling them who she was. Oh, and River has [[ExtraParentConception another mother]] -- the Doctor's BondCreature, eternal LoveInterest and wife, the TARDIS.
49	* Variation in the original ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' where Robin Maxwell loved Kyle Bates, but he ended up with her rapidly grown child Elizabeth instead (although there was never a triangle in the first generation).
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53	* It is possible for [[PlayerCharacter Robin]] to marry one of the children characters in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. Robin's child, Morgan, will then not be available until rather late in the game... but will eventually grow up even stronger than usual, having inherited the stat bonuses of not two, but three original-generation parents.
54	** The same applies to Corrin in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates''.
55	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims'', this is a very common player tactic. See two sims you think look cool? Marry one now, have your kids grow up with birthday cake and marry the other.
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59	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The Nanase/Elliot/Sarah love triangle is resolved by Elliot getting together with Sarah, and Nanase realizing she's a lesbian and hooking up with Elliot's [[TangledFamilyTree sister/daughter/]]OppositeSexClone, Ellen.[[note]]While Sarah is not Ellen's mother in any biological sense and didn't contribute to Ellen's existence like Tedd did, she can be considered one in an adoptive sense if one considers being in a relationship with someone who has a child puts one in the position of being an adoptive parent of said child. Grace explains this to Sarah [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2006-01-06 here]].[[/note]]
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63	* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' has [=BoJack=] attempt to reconnect with an old friend of his only to find out that's she's married with kids. And while even he's not sure if he was actually going to go through with it, he gets dangerously close to having sex with her teenage daughter, essentially destroying the friendship he had for good.
64	* On ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', [[KidAnova Rallo]] has a PrecociousCrush on [[SiblingTriangle his stepbrother Junior]]'s GirlOfTheWeek, Chanel. Eventually we find out that Chanel and her ex-boyfriend have a daughter together, and Rallo is instantly smitten with her instead. PlayedWith, however, because Junior doesn't wind up with Chanel, instead encouraging her to get back together with her ex-boyfriend for the sake of their daughter.
65	* Corvax's EvilPlan in ''[[WesternAnimation/MuzzyInGondoland Muzzy Comes Back]]''. Since he couldn't get Princess Sylvia in the first movie, he kidnaps her daughter Amanda instead, [[WifeHusbandry to raise her as his future wife and queen]].
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