Basic Trope: A marriage that's dysfunctional and unhappy, yet the two remain together.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are a married couple who don't get along and are unhappy with each other, yet they are still married.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob have been married for 30 years and they really HATE each other so much that they desperately want to kill each other.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob bicker constantly, but deep down they truly care for each other.
- Justified:
- Alice and Bob remain married for respective reasons — for Alice, she wants to leech off of Bob's money to buy whatever she wants while Bob wants to keep Alice to increase his social status.
- Alice and Bob's parents arranged for them to marry each other to continue the family's wealth and lineage despite their dislike for each other.
- The nation can't take the scandal of King Bob divorcing in addition to the already present issues, so he and Queen Alice will have to suffer for the sake of the nation.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob are a blissful and harmonious couple but for some reason never got married.
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice and Bob do love each other and are happy together when no one is looking.
- Double Subverted: It also turns out that they hate each other when they're alone together.
- Parodied: A television commercial plays where a man tells the audience that marriage is a trap and demonstrates it by showing Alice and Bob bickering with each other despite being labeled as a married couple.
- Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob's marriage vary from bitter to sweet depending on the episode.
- Averted: Alice and Bob's marriage is relatively normal.
- Enforced: "Marriage isn't all that's cracked to be. Let's make Alice and Bob miserable together."
- Lampshaded: "Why are you guys still married?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Various men and women have affairs with Alice and Bob, knowing that both are itching to cheat but there is no potential to be homewreckers.
- Defied:
- Alice and Bob learn to be happy together in spite of their differences.
- Realising just how dysfunctional they are together, Alice and Bob divorce, not wanting to be in an unhappy marriage any longer.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "This episode might teach kids a valuable lesson on what happens when you get married."
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