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* Unlike in the book (see below), the 2002 adaptation of ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo The Count Of Monte Cristo]]'' has Mercedes marry Dantes's enemy almost immediately after hearing he was dead. He's not too pleased with her, but does forgive her when she shows that she has always woren a ring he made for her years ago. [[spoiler:It turns out there was a reason she didn't wait longer. Her son was actually Dantes's kid, not her husband's.]]
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* Unlike in the book (see below), the 2002 adaptation of ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo The Count Of Monte Cristo]]'' has Mercedes marry Dantes's enemy almost immediately after hearing he was dead. He's not too pleased with her, but does forgive her when she shows that she has always woren worn a ring he made for her years ago. [[spoiler:It turns out there was a reason she didn't wait longer. Her son was actually Dantes's kid, not her husband's.]]
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** Downplayed: in Season 5, while in the underworld, Mary Margaret accidentally kisses David's twin brother James on the lips, thinking he is David.
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* An IThoughtYouWereDead version occurs on ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''. Kit Walker, committed to the criminally insane asylum for the supposed murder of his wife Alma, falls for another inmate, Grace Bertrand, and has a romantic and sexual relationship with her. Upon his release, he takes Grace home, to discover [[spoiler:Alma alive and well; she had been abducted by aliens and returned years later.]].
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* An IThoughtYouWereDead version occurs on ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''. Kit Walker, committed to the criminally insane asylum for the supposed murder of his wife Alma, falls for another inmate, Grace Bertrand, and has a romantic and sexual relationship with her. Upon his release, he takes Grace home, to discover [[spoiler:Alma alive and well; she had been abducted by aliens and returned years later.]].
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* An IThoughtYouWereDead version occurs on ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum''. Kit Walker, committed to the criminally insane asylum for the supposed murder of his wife Alma, falls for another inmate, Grace Bertrand, and has a romantic and sexual relationship with her. Upon his release, he takes Grace home, to discover [[spoiler:Alma alive and well; she had been abducted by aliens and returned years later.]].
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* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' short story "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", the titular character's young bride disappears because [[spoiler:her husband, whom she had given up for dead, turned up alive at the wedding.]]
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** The ThoughtYouWereDead version occurs near the end of season 3; Robin's blossoming relationship with Regina is shattered as a result of Marian, previously supposed dead, appearing alive and well after being brought forward in time. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a villainous example, as Marian is really Zelena in disguise.]]
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* In EgyptianMythology (at least [[DependingOnTheWriter in some versions]]), Osiris is murdered because he accidentally sleeps with his wife's twin.
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* In EgyptianMythology (at least [[DependingOnTheWriter in some versions]]), Osiris is murdered because he accidentally sleeps with his wife's twin.twin, who also is his brother Set's wife.
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* Unlike in the book (see below), the 2002 adaptation of ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo TheCountOfMonteCristo]]'' has Mercedes marry Dantes's enemy almost immediately after hearing he was dead. He's not too pleased with her, but does forgive her when she shows that she has always woren a ring he made for her years ago. [[spoiler:It turns out there was a reason she didn't wait longer. Her son was actually Dantes's kid, not her husband's.]]
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* Unlike in the book (see below), the 2002 adaptation of ''[[Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo TheCountOfMonteCristo]]'' The Count Of Monte Cristo]]'' has Mercedes marry Dantes's enemy almost immediately after hearing he was dead. He's not too pleased with her, but does forgive her when she shows that she has always woren a ring he made for her years ago. [[spoiler:It turns out there was a reason she didn't wait longer. Her son was actually Dantes's kid, not her husband's.]]
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Marco's mother Eva is thought to have died in a boating accident, but in actuality she was infested by the parasitic alien Visser One, who staged the accident as a cover. Marco eventually discovers this, but is forced to keep it and his double life a secret. However, his dad starts courting another lady Loren, and Marco has trouble accepting her knowing that his real mother is still alive. He ultimately lets them marry, deciding it's better that they move on, but the battle with the Yeerks continue to complicate things. After a while Loren is infested and Eva freed, but she and Marco's dad have some trouble reconnecting, since she's been changed by her years enslaved and he's long moved past her "death".
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* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Marco's mother Eva is thought to have died in a boating accident, but in actuality she was infested by the parasitic alien Visser One, who staged the accident as a cover. Marco eventually discovers this, but is forced to keep it and his double life a secret. However, his dad starts courting another lady Loren, Nora, and Marco has trouble accepting her knowing that his real mother is still alive. He ultimately lets them marry, deciding it's better that they move on, but the battle with the Yeerks continue to complicate things. After a while Loren Nora is infested and Eva freed, but she and Marco's dad have some trouble reconnecting, since she's been changed by her years enslaved and he's long moved past her "death".
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* In ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'', Hester is separated from her husband, and believes him to be dead. While she's grieving, she's [[ComfortingTheWidow comforted by Rev. Dimmesdale, in more ways than one]]. She becomes pregnant by him, which is a big taboo in their Puritan society. To add insult to injury, she finds out that her husband was ''not'' dead. She is estranged from him for the rest of the story.
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* ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'': Nick comes home drunk after partying with friends to celebrate his college graduation. Meanwhile, a friend of his wife's is staying over to help her look after the baby, as she isn't feeling well. Nick stumbles into the nursery (apparently so drunk he doesn't realize it isn't his bedroom, finds the friend in bed, and thinking that she's his wife (aside from his intoxication, it's dark and the two women resemble each other) makes love to her.
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* ''Webcomic/DrMcNinja'': Mitzi [=McNinja=] only realized that her husband faked his death because her suitors kept turning up dead.
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* ''Webcomic/DrMcNinja'': ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': Mitzi [=McNinja=] only realized that her husband faked his death because her suitors kept turning up dead.
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* Done twice over in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in which Odo gets into a love affair with an informant he's protecting. She's working for a particular alien government that can induce both EasyAmnesia and FalseMemory in its agents to ensure that they actually believe they are who they're making themselves out to be. (This helps immunize them to some of the TruthSerums available in the ''Star Trek'' universe.) In this one's case, something that neither she nor Odo realize until near the end of the episode when she has successfully completed her mission and her memories are restored is that she's married. Oops.
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* Done twice over in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in which Odo gets into a love affair with an informant he's protecting. She's working for a particular alien government that can induce both EasyAmnesia and FalseMemory FakeMemories in its agents to ensure that they actually believe they are who they're making themselves out to be. (This helps immunize them to some of the TruthSerums available in the ''Star Trek'' universe.) In this one's case, something that neither she nor Odo realize until near the end of the episode when she has successfully completed her mission and her memories are restored is that she's married. Oops.
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* At the start of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Captain Janeway is engaged to a civilian named Mark Johnson when the titular ship becomes stranded on the other side of the galaxy. Mark eventually marries someone else, which Janeway finds out when Starfleet reestablishes contact with ''Voyager'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]", 14 months after the ship went missing in action and she was declared LegallyDead.
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* Done twice over in an episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', in which Odo gets into a love affair with an informant he's protecting. She's working for a particular alien government that can induce both EasyAmnesia and FalseMemory in its agents to ensure that they actually believe they are who they're making themselves out to be. (This helps immunize them to some of the TruthSerums available in the ''Star Trek'' universe.) In this one's case, something that neither she nor Odo realize until near the end of the episode when she has successfully completed her mission and her memories are restored is that she's married. Oops.
* At the start of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Captain Janeway is engaged to a civilian named Mark Johnson when the titular ship becomes stranded on the other side of the galaxy. Mark eventually marries someone else, which Janeway finds out when Starfleet reestablishes contact with ''Voyager'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]", 14 months after the ship went missing in action and she was declared LegallyDead. What ''really'' stings about this is that she'd still been holding out for him all this time, passing up a possible romance with her first officer Chakotay and an offer from Q to transport her ship home in exchange for having a baby with him, among other things.
* At the start of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Captain Janeway is engaged to a civilian named Mark Johnson when the titular ship becomes stranded on the other side of the galaxy. Mark eventually marries someone else, which Janeway finds out when Starfleet reestablishes contact with ''Voyager'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]", 14 months after the ship went missing in action and she was declared LegallyDead. What ''really'' stings about this is that she'd still been holding out for him all this time, passing up a possible romance with her first officer Chakotay and an offer from Q to transport her ship home in exchange for having a baby with him, among other things.
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* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Buttercup's TrueLove Wesley goes off to seek his fortune, but his ship is captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts and he is presumed dead, and Buttercup eventually enters a loveless ArrangedMarriage with Prince Humperdinck. Wesley disguised as Dread Pirate Roberts [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech questions her loyalty]] when he returns, although [[ShutUpHannibal she asserts to "Roberts"]] that the [[TheRedBaron Dread Pirate]] takes no prisoners, and she "died that day" that she learned of Wesley's supposed death. Just as Wesley is about to consider this point, [[MistakenForMurderer while disguised as his "murderer"]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Buttercup pushes him down a hill]].
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* ''Film/{{Clerks}}'':
** {{Inverted}} in the backstory. Dante's girlfriend Caitlin once ''intended'' to cheat on him at a costume party and arranged to meet another guy in a darkened bedroom. She got the wrong bedroom and instead unknowingly had sex with Dante, who was there passed out.
** Played straight later in the film. Shortly after [[spoiler: getting back together with Dante, Caitlin enters a darkened bathroom and has sex with what she thinks is an uncharacteristically silent and stoic Dante. It turns out to be [[ILoveTheDead the corpse of a man who had earlier suffered a fatal heart attack]]. Upon learning the truth, she goes into shock.]]
** {{Inverted}} in the backstory. Dante's girlfriend Caitlin once ''intended'' to cheat on him at a costume party and arranged to meet another guy in a darkened bedroom. She got the wrong bedroom and instead unknowingly had sex with Dante, who was there passed out.
** Played straight later in the film. Shortly after [[spoiler: getting back together with Dante, Caitlin enters a darkened bathroom and has sex with what she thinks is an uncharacteristically silent and stoic Dante. It turns out to be [[ILoveTheDead the corpse of a man who had earlier suffered a fatal heart attack]]. Upon learning the truth, she goes into shock.]]
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* {{Inverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Bender [[CrazyJealousGuy attempts to prove]] that his girlfriend Anglelyne still has feelings for her ex-husband Flexo by disguising himself as the latter and attempting to seduce her. When she responds to "Flexo's" overtures, Bender reveals the ruse and [[InsaneTrollLogic accuses her of disloyalty]]. She responds that "Maybe I love ''you'' so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be!" Given that what won her over was "Flexo" acting more like Bender than like the actual Flexo, she may have a point.
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* {{Inverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** {{Inversion}}: Bender [[CrazyJealousGuy attempts to prove]] that his girlfriend Anglelyne still has feelings for her ex-husband Flexo by disguising himself as the latter and attempting to seduce her. When she responds to "Flexo's" overtures, Bender reveals the ruse and [[InsaneTrollLogic accuses her of disloyalty]]. She responds that "Maybe I love ''you'' so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be!" Given that what won her over was "Flexo" acting more like Bender than like the actual Flexo, she may have a point.
** {{Inversion}}: Bender [[CrazyJealousGuy attempts to prove]] that his girlfriend Anglelyne still has feelings for her ex-husband Flexo by disguising himself as the latter and attempting to seduce her. When she responds to "Flexo's" overtures, Bender reveals the ruse and [[InsaneTrollLogic accuses her of disloyalty]]. She responds that "Maybe I love ''you'' so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be!" Given that what won her over was "Flexo" acting more like Bender than like the actual Flexo, she may have a point.
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** Also happens when Kif is killed, and while he [[BackFromTheDead gets better]] he finds out that Amy in her grief slept with Zapp Brannigan, who sketchily [[ComfortingTheWidow took advantage of the situation]].
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** Also happens when Kif is killed, and while he [[BackFromTheDead gets better]] he finds out that Amy in her grief slept with Zapp Brannigan, who sketchily [[ComfortingTheWidow took advantage of the situation]].
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* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Edmond Dantes is gone for years, and Mercedes is told he is dead and marries his enemy and raises a son during that time. Dantes specifically says the eighteen months she waited before moving on was all a lover could ask for, and while he's clearly not happy about this doesn't blame her for it.
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* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Edmond Dantes is gone for years, and Mercedes is told he is dead and marries his (unbeknownst to her) enemy and raises a son during that time. Dantes specifically says the eighteen months she waited before moving on was all a lover could ask for, and while he's clearly not happy about this doesn't blame her for it.
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* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Edmond Dantes is gone for years, and Mercedes is told he is dead and marries his enemy and raises a son during that time. Dantes specifically says the eighteen months she waited before moving on was all a lover could ask for.
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* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Edmond Dantes is gone for years, and Mercedes is told he is dead and marries his enemy and raises a son during that time. Dantes specifically says the eighteen months she waited before moving on was all a lover could ask for. for, and while he's clearly not happy about this doesn't blame her for it.
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* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors-- some [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough quite forceful]]-- while presumed-dead Odysseus is LostAtSea, but she stays faithful for ten years. [[YourCheatingHeart More faithful than Odysseus himself]], for that matter, although "[[QuestionableConsent he never gave consent in his heart]]." To be fair saying 'no' to goddesses was a good way of making sure he ''never'' got home.
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* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors-- some [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough quite forceful]]-- while presumed-dead Odysseus is LostAtSea, but she stays faithful for ten years. [[YourCheatingHeart More faithful than Odysseus himself]], for that matter, although "[[QuestionableConsent he never gave consent in his heart]]." To be fair heart]]" and saying 'no' to goddesses was a good way of making sure he ''never'' got home.
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* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Buttercup's TrueLove Wesley goes off to seek his fortune, but his ship is captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts and he is presumed dead, and Buttercup eventually enters an ArrangedMarriage with Prince Humperdinck. Wesley [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech questions her loyalty]] when he returns, although all indications are that she waited quite a long time for him and mourned him deeply.
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* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Buttercup's TrueLove Wesley goes off to seek his fortune, but his ship is captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts and he is presumed dead, and Buttercup eventually enters an a loveless ArrangedMarriage with Prince Humperdinck. Wesley disguised as Dread Pirate Roberts [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech questions her loyalty]] when he returns, although all indications are [[ShutUpHannibal she asserts to "Roberts"]] that the [[TheRedBaron Dread Pirate]] takes no prisoners, and she "died that day" that she waited quite a long time for learned of Wesley's supposed death. Just as Wesley is about to consider this point, [[MistakenForMurderer while disguised as his "murderer"]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Buttercup pushes him and mourned him deeply.down a hill]].
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When an adulterer tells their wronged partner that [[NeverMyFault they never meant for this to happen]], the stock response is, "[[SarcasmMode What, you tripped and fell out of your clothes and into bed together?]]" While this is [[CaptainObvious obviously]] facetious, there ''are'' circumstances in which it is possible to accidentally cheat on a committed partner.
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When an adulterer tells their wronged partner that [[NeverMyFault they never meant for this to happen]], the stock response is, "[[SarcasmMode What, "What, you tripped and fell out of your clothes and into bed together?]]" together?" While this is [[CaptainObvious obviously]] obviously facetious, there ''are'' circumstances in which it is possible to accidentally cheat on a committed partner.
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* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors-- some [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough quite forceful]]-- while presumed-dead Odysseus is LostAtSea, but she stays faithful for ten years. [[YourCheatingHeart More faithful than Odysseus himself]], for that matter, although "[[QuestionableConsent he never gave consent in his heart]]."
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* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors-- some [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough quite forceful]]-- while presumed-dead Odysseus is LostAtSea, but she stays faithful for ten years. [[YourCheatingHeart More faithful than Odysseus himself]], for that matter, although "[[QuestionableConsent he never gave consent in his heart]]."" To be fair saying 'no' to goddesses was a good way of making sure he ''never'' got home.
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* In ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', Allison ends up accidentally getting launch along with the actual crew of the ''Astraeus''. They finds themselves back at Eureka but are told that 4 years have passed since their departure. To her horror, Allison finds out that Jack is now with Jo, having thought her dead, and has no intention of getting back with her. [[spoiler:This turns out to be not true, as the crew is actually stuck in a virtual reality world created by the Consortium]].
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* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' books, a nuclear physicist named Jens Larssen goes on a cross-country trip through the war-torn US to deliver an important message and is not heard from for several months. Everyone, including his wife Barbara, assumes he's been killed, and she eventually ends up having a GladToBeAlive sex with Sam Yeager (they both just survived being strafed by a [[TheReptilians lizard]] [[CallARabbitASmeerp killercraft]]). They then start sleeping together and, eventually, get married. Meanwhile, Jens is desperately trying to reunite with her and send her a message, with the US Army preventing him from doing the latter, as his work on the Manhattan Project is considered to be too important. By the time Jens and Barbara are reunited, she is already Barbara Larssen Yeager and is carrying Sam's child. She refuses to leave Sam, despite the fact that Jens being alive technically invalidates her second marriage. It's even made clear that the biggest reason why she stays with Sam is because she's pregnant. Jens then resolves the LoveTriangle by going off the deep end, killing a US soldier, and trying to defect to the lizards with his knowledge and getting killed for his trouble. On Jens's side, he does end up cheating with Barbara with a woman he meets on the way, who also gives him the clap.
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* In Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', Tommy's father returns from war years after going missing and discovers that his wife has taken a lover, now Tommy's stepfather. [[MurderTheHypotenuse It doesn't go well for Tommy's father]].
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* In Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', Tommy's father returns from war years after going missing and discovers that his wife has taken a lover, now Tommy's stepfather. [[MurderTheHypotenuse It doesn't go well for the lover]] (or Tommy's father]].father [[DeathByAdaptation in the film version]]).
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Prehistoric Ice Man." When the titular man, who has been a HumanPopsicle for 32 months, tracks down his wife, he finds that she has remarried and has multiple children with her new husband and no longer wants anything to do with him. {{Subverted}} when he does the math on the children's ages; the youngest was born [[YourCheatingHeart five years]] [[RefugeInAudacity before he was frozen]].
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Prehistoric Ice Man." When the titular man, who has been a HumanPopsicle for 32 months, tracks down his wife, he finds that she has remarried and has multiple children with her new husband and no longer wants anything to do with him. {{Subverted}} when he does the math on the children's ages; the youngest was born [[YourCheatingHeart five ten years]] [[RefugeInAudacity before he was frozen]].
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* ZigZagged in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Perfect Castaway"; when Peter returns from being LostAtSea, he finds that Lois has remarried with Brian. [[{{Squick}} Yes, the family dog.]] However, much to Brian's frustration, they have never actually consummated.
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When an adulterer tells their wronged partner that [[NeverMyFault they never meant for this to happen]], the stock response is, "[[SarcasmMode What, you tripped and fell out of your clothes and into bed together?]]" While this is [[CaptainObvious obviously]] facetious, there ''are'' circumstances in which it is possible to accidentally cheat on a committed partner.
The unwitting adulterer may have been the victim of a BedTrick and believed they were sleeping ''with'' their partner. They may have come down with a nasty bout of EasyAmnesia and forgotten they ever ''had'' a partner to remain faithful to. [[PoorCommunicationKills A tragic miscommunication]] may have caused them to believe their partner had broken up with them or [[{{Polyamory}} given them permission]]. Or maybe they ThoughtYouWereDead, went through a decent, respectable mourning period ([[ComfortingTheWidow or sometimes not]]), and moved on to a SecondLove or comforting fling.
The ThoughtYouWereDead version can be a way to add a little extra heft to a LoveTriangle, play with any number of {{Adultery}} Tropes while keeping all involved parties [[SympatheticAdulterer sympathetic]], or add even more pathos to a character who is a victim of war, [[LostAtSea shipwreck]], coma, EasyAmnesia, or any number of other already-tragic circumstances. Alternatively, if the widow/er/ed party finds a new LoveInterest almost immediately after the first is presumed dead, it can call their loyalty into question.
Reactions from the adulter-ee vary greatly depending on their personality and the circumstances. Some will feel just as aggrieved as if their partner had intentionally betrayed them ("Did you even ''try'' to look for me?"). Some will be at least somewhat understanding, but still hurt and confused about where this leaves them going forward ("But what about ''us''?"). A few will be completely understanding and either brush off the accidental infidelity as "nothing to forgive" or even [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy step aside]] for a SecondLove, commonly in circumstances where they were believed dead and [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat there could have been no reasonable expectation they would ever turn up alive]], such as if [[BackFromTheDead they actually]] ''[[BackFromTheDead did]]'' [[BackFromTheDead die]].
The person the Accidental Adulterer "cheated" with tends to experience a similar range of reactions, depending on whether ''they'' knew of the circumstances or not. Villainous examples who intentionally hid the truth from the Accidental Adulterer in order to get in their pants may attempt to finish the job by MurderingTheHypotenuse. Sympathetic examples will be apologetic and may even [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy step aside]].
Accidental Adulterers themselves tend to be troubled and confused more than anything, but will usually settle on continuing their relationship with one LoveInterest or the other, assuming a convenient (''real'') DeathOfTheHypotenuse doesn't make the choice for them. Occasionally, they will find it impossible to choose and [[OneTrueThreesome attempt to hang on to them both]].
In RealLife, one reason for the legal concept of LegallyDead is so that people who reasonably believe their spouse to be dead but who cannot positively confirm it can remarry. (The other reason, of course, being so that heirs can get their inheritance.) Naturally, this doesn't tend to make the situation any easier to deal with when this happens.
Compare AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder, AmnesiacLover, GoodAdulteryBadAdultery, and SympatheticAdulterer.
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* ''Anime/ShinkonGattaiGodannar'': Mira Ackerman, who was in a relationship with Goh, has been presumed dead for 5 years, but in reality has been in a coma. By the time Goh finds out, he has already been married to Anna.
* In ''Manga/{{Prism}}'' Setsuko tells Yukino that it is okay for her to [[BiTheWay date men]]. Yukino takes this as Setsuko giving her the okay and has a one-night stand. It turns out Setsuko meant "If we weren't dating..." and is angry.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', main character Rick's wife Lori [[GladToBeAliveSex sleeps with]] best friend Shane when Rick is presumed dead in the ZombieApocalypse. It plays more like [[YourCheatingHeart standard adultery]] than most examples of this trope, since it had only been a few days or weeks and they have no evidence for Rick's death beyond, "yo, zombies." When Rick returns, Lori considers it a mistake and wants [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain to forget it ever happened]], but Shane [[MurderTheHypotenuse has other ideas]].
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', Bucky marries ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's fiancée during the latter's long stint as a HumanPopsicle. Considering that Cap emerges still physically in his twenties to find Bucky and his former fiancée as senior citizens, a [[MayDecemberRomance resumed romance]] was unlikely in any case.
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* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Rafe is presumed dead after being shot down over Nazi Germany. His LoveInterest Evelyn begins a romance with his best friend Danny, which makes things awkward when Rafe returns alive. Fortunately, Danny has the good manners to get himself ''actually'' killed on their next mission, leaving both of them SomeoneToRememberHimBy.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Buttercup's TrueLove Wesley goes off to seek his fortune, but his ship is captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts and he is presumed dead, and Buttercup eventually enters an ArrangedMarriage with Prince Humperdinck. Wesley [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech questions her loyalty]] when he returns, although all indications are that she waited quite a long time for him and mourned him deeply.
* Confusingly, in ''Film/CastAway'', Chuck's long-term partner Kelly says that she "always knew" he was alive, but [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder marries a dentist anyway]]. [[spoiler: She offers to divorce her new husband to get back together with Chuck, but he refuses.]]
* Rick and Ilsa of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' have this sort of tryst after Ilsa's husband Victor is presumed dead. She leaves Rick after Victor turns up alive, but much of the film is concerned with her being torn between the two of them.
* The main character of ''Film/RandomHarvest'' is an amnesiac who, oblivious to the fact that he is already married, becomes engaged to a young admirer. His wife tracks him down and [[AmnesiacLover attempts to trigger his memories of her]]; his new fiancée [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy breaks off the engagement]] [[AvertedTrope before this trope can take full effect]].
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[[folder: Literature]]
* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors-- some [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough quite forceful]]-- while presumed-dead Odysseus is LostAtSea, but she stays faithful for ten years. [[YourCheatingHeart More faithful than Odysseus himself]], for that matter, although "[[QuestionableConsent he never gave consent in his heart]]."
* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Edmond Dantes is gone for years, and Mercedes is told he is dead and marries his enemy and raises a son during that time. Dantes specifically says the eighteen months she waited before moving on was all a lover could ask for.
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': Towards the middle of the original series, [[spoiler: Rione, who has been sleeping with Captain Geary up to this point,]] discovers that her husband might actually be alive and kept as a prisoner of war. This causes her to immediately break off her current relationship, which was already a FriendsWithBenefits situation at best.
* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Marco's mother Eva is thought to have died in a boating accident, but in actuality she was infested by the parasitic alien Visser One, who staged the accident as a cover. Marco eventually discovers this, but is forced to keep it and his double life a secret. However, his dad starts courting another lady Loren, and Marco has trouble accepting her knowing that his real mother is still alive. He ultimately lets them marry, deciding it's better that they move on, but the battle with the Yeerks continue to complicate things. After a while Loren is infested and Eva freed, but she and Marco's dad have some trouble reconnecting, since she's been changed by her years enslaved and he's long moved past her "death".
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[[folder: Live-Action Television]]
* At the start of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Captain Janeway is engaged to a civilian named Mark Johnson when the titular ship becomes stranded on the other side of the galaxy. Mark eventually marries someone else, which Janeway finds out when Starfleet reestablishes contact with ''Voyager'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]", 14 months after the ship went missing in action and she was declared LegallyDead.
* Karen on ''Series/WillAndGrace'' starts up a relationship with another man after her husband Stan supposedly dies. Stan later turns out to have faked his death, but Karen has already divorced her new husband by this time. (In fact, she requests a divorce during the ''wedding reception''.)
* One case on ''Series/NightCourt'' concerns a Vietnam veteran who went MIA and eventually came home to find his wife remarried. This proves to be a hard choice for the wife because she loves both of her husbands. Later, husband #1 saves husband #2 from choking and decides to move on.
* Played with on ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Cliff gets bitten by a dog on his route and decides to sue the owner. The owner then starts up a relationship with him instead. Eventually, she gets him to sign a document dropping the lawsuit and checks her messages. One of them is from her husband who disappeared in Vietnam and just came back. (It's heavily implied to have been a huge con and Cliff fell for it.)
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has a famous example of the PoorCommunicationKills variety; Rachel declares that she and Ross should "take a break... from us," by which she later claims to have meant that they should cool down and sort out their own feelings before continuing to work through their relationship problems, but Ross interprets it as more like an actual breakup. When Ross, hurt and drunk, has a OneNightStand, Rachel considers it cheating; Ross [[CatchPhrase repeatedly and vociferously disagrees]]. Who is right is [[BrokenBase a matter of some disagreement]] among the base.
* Occurs in season 1 of ''Series/OnceUponATime''. Most of the cast are fairy tale and storybook characters who were stripped of their memories. Snow White is married to Prince Charming, but their Storybrooke counterparts don't remember each other. Snow has a one-night stand with Dr. Whale/[[spoiler: Dr. Frankenstein]], while Charming sleeps with Katheryn/Princess Abigail (King Midas's daughter) thinking she's his wife.
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[[folder: Music]]
* In Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', Tommy's father returns from war years after going missing and discovers that his wife has taken a lover, now Tommy's stepfather. [[MurderTheHypotenuse It doesn't go well for Tommy's father]].
* The French song "Brave Marin" is about a sailor who goes into a bar and starts drinking and singing, while the bar's owner starts crying. He asks her why, she says he reminds him of her dead husband. He then notes how many more children she has (it can be anywhere from three to ''twelve'' depending on the version). She's received so many letters saying he was dead that she remarried. [[DownerEnding The sailor finishes his glass and goes back to his ship]].
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[[folder: Mythology]]
* In EgyptianMythology (at least [[DependingOnTheWriter in some versions]]), Osiris is murdered because he accidentally sleeps with his wife's twin.
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[[folder: Newspaper Comics]]
* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'': Happened to Wally Winkerbean ''twice'', both times due to being taken prisoner during the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror and being listed as missing in action and presumed dead.
* ''[[ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane 9 Chickweed Lane]]'': although they are not actually married, Edna is engaged to Bill before he goes missing, presumed dead, during the war. Many years later she ends up with Kiesl, just in time for Bill to show back up alive.
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[[folder: Theater]]
* DependingOnTheWriter; in versions of ''Theater/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' in which Todd and Mrs. Lovett's relationship is romantic, such as the Creator/StephenSondheim musical and the Creator/TimBurton film version, it comes out that Todd has unwittingly committed adultery when his wife Lucy turns up alive but insane. He is [[TranquilFury not happy]] with Lovett when he finds out that she knew all along.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* In ''Videogame/{{Catherine}}'' the protagonist Vincent wakes up from a night out with his friends with a younger blond woman named Catherine in his bed. He has no memory of how she got there, but he knows his girlfriend Katherine won't be happy. [[spoiler: Depending on the ending, it turns out that either she never really existed, and/or she was a succubus sent to seduce him.]]
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[[folder: Web Comic]]
* ''Webcomic/DrMcNinja'': Mitzi [=McNinja=] only realized that her husband faked his death because her suitors kept turning up dead.
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Spawn}}'', upon [[BackFromTheDead coming back]] as the titular character, Al Simmons discovers that his wife has since remarried with his best friend. He is initially enraged at both of their lack of loyalty, until [[{{Amnesia}} he regains part of his memory]] and realizes that, knowing that his was a dangerous profession, he actually asked his friend to take care of his wife should anything happen to him.
* ZigZagged in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Perfect Castaway"; when Peter returns from being LostAtSea, he finds that Lois has remarried with Brian. [[{{Squick}} Yes, the family dog.]] However, much to Brian's frustration, they have never actually consummated.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Prehistoric Ice Man." When the titular man, who has been a HumanPopsicle for 32 months, tracks down his wife, he finds that she has remarried and has multiple children with her new husband and no longer wants anything to do with him. {{Subverted}} when he does the math on the children's ages; the youngest was born [[YourCheatingHeart five years]] [[RefugeInAudacity before he was frozen]].
* {{Inverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Bender [[CrazyJealousGuy attempts to prove]] that his girlfriend Anglelyne still has feelings for her ex-husband Flexo by disguising himself as the latter and attempting to seduce her. When she responds to "Flexo's" overtures, Bender reveals the ruse and [[InsaneTrollLogic accuses her of disloyalty]]. She responds that "Maybe I love ''you'' so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be!" Given that what won her over was "Flexo" acting more like Bender than like the actual Flexo, she may have a point.
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The unwitting adulterer may have been the victim of a BedTrick and believed they were sleeping ''with'' their partner. They may have come down with a nasty bout of EasyAmnesia and forgotten they ever ''had'' a partner to remain faithful to. [[PoorCommunicationKills A tragic miscommunication]] may have caused them to believe their partner had broken up with them or [[{{Polyamory}} given them permission]]. Or maybe they ThoughtYouWereDead, went through a decent, respectable mourning period ([[ComfortingTheWidow or sometimes not]]), and moved on to a SecondLove or comforting fling.
The ThoughtYouWereDead version can be a way to add a little extra heft to a LoveTriangle, play with any number of {{Adultery}} Tropes while keeping all involved parties [[SympatheticAdulterer sympathetic]], or add even more pathos to a character who is a victim of war, [[LostAtSea shipwreck]], coma, EasyAmnesia, or any number of other already-tragic circumstances. Alternatively, if the widow/er/ed party finds a new LoveInterest almost immediately after the first is presumed dead, it can call their loyalty into question.
Reactions from the adulter-ee vary greatly depending on their personality and the circumstances. Some will feel just as aggrieved as if their partner had intentionally betrayed them ("Did you even ''try'' to look for me?"). Some will be at least somewhat understanding, but still hurt and confused about where this leaves them going forward ("But what about ''us''?"). A few will be completely understanding and either brush off the accidental infidelity as "nothing to forgive" or even [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy step aside]] for a SecondLove, commonly in circumstances where they were believed dead and [[NoOneCouldHaveSurvivedThat there could have been no reasonable expectation they would ever turn up alive]], such as if [[BackFromTheDead they actually]] ''[[BackFromTheDead did]]'' [[BackFromTheDead die]].
The person the Accidental Adulterer "cheated" with tends to experience a similar range of reactions, depending on whether ''they'' knew of the circumstances or not. Villainous examples who intentionally hid the truth from the Accidental Adulterer in order to get in their pants may attempt to finish the job by MurderingTheHypotenuse. Sympathetic examples will be apologetic and may even [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy step aside]].
Accidental Adulterers themselves tend to be troubled and confused more than anything, but will usually settle on continuing their relationship with one LoveInterest or the other, assuming a convenient (''real'') DeathOfTheHypotenuse doesn't make the choice for them. Occasionally, they will find it impossible to choose and [[OneTrueThreesome attempt to hang on to them both]].
In RealLife, one reason for the legal concept of LegallyDead is so that people who reasonably believe their spouse to be dead but who cannot positively confirm it can remarry. (The other reason, of course, being so that heirs can get their inheritance.) Naturally, this doesn't tend to make the situation any easier to deal with when this happens.
Compare AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder, AmnesiacLover, GoodAdulteryBadAdultery, and SympatheticAdulterer.
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[[folder: Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/ShinkonGattaiGodannar'': Mira Ackerman, who was in a relationship with Goh, has been presumed dead for 5 years, but in reality has been in a coma. By the time Goh finds out, he has already been married to Anna.
* In ''Manga/{{Prism}}'' Setsuko tells Yukino that it is okay for her to [[BiTheWay date men]]. Yukino takes this as Setsuko giving her the okay and has a one-night stand. It turns out Setsuko meant "If we weren't dating..." and is angry.
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[[folder: Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', main character Rick's wife Lori [[GladToBeAliveSex sleeps with]] best friend Shane when Rick is presumed dead in the ZombieApocalypse. It plays more like [[YourCheatingHeart standard adultery]] than most examples of this trope, since it had only been a few days or weeks and they have no evidence for Rick's death beyond, "yo, zombies." When Rick returns, Lori considers it a mistake and wants [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain to forget it ever happened]], but Shane [[MurderTheHypotenuse has other ideas]].
* In ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel'', Bucky marries ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's fiancée during the latter's long stint as a HumanPopsicle. Considering that Cap emerges still physically in his twenties to find Bucky and his former fiancée as senior citizens, a [[MayDecemberRomance resumed romance]] was unlikely in any case.
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[[folder: Film]]
* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Rafe is presumed dead after being shot down over Nazi Germany. His LoveInterest Evelyn begins a romance with his best friend Danny, which makes things awkward when Rafe returns alive. Fortunately, Danny has the good manners to get himself ''actually'' killed on their next mission, leaving both of them SomeoneToRememberHimBy.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Buttercup's TrueLove Wesley goes off to seek his fortune, but his ship is captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts and he is presumed dead, and Buttercup eventually enters an ArrangedMarriage with Prince Humperdinck. Wesley [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech questions her loyalty]] when he returns, although all indications are that she waited quite a long time for him and mourned him deeply.
* Confusingly, in ''Film/CastAway'', Chuck's long-term partner Kelly says that she "always knew" he was alive, but [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder marries a dentist anyway]]. [[spoiler: She offers to divorce her new husband to get back together with Chuck, but he refuses.]]
* Rick and Ilsa of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'' have this sort of tryst after Ilsa's husband Victor is presumed dead. She leaves Rick after Victor turns up alive, but much of the film is concerned with her being torn between the two of them.
* The main character of ''Film/RandomHarvest'' is an amnesiac who, oblivious to the fact that he is already married, becomes engaged to a young admirer. His wife tracks him down and [[AmnesiacLover attempts to trigger his memories of her]]; his new fiancée [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy breaks off the engagement]] [[AvertedTrope before this trope can take full effect]].
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[[folder: Literature]]
* {{Averted}} in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; presumed-widow Penelope has no shortage of suitors-- some [[YouHaveWaitedLongEnough quite forceful]]-- while presumed-dead Odysseus is LostAtSea, but she stays faithful for ten years. [[YourCheatingHeart More faithful than Odysseus himself]], for that matter, although "[[QuestionableConsent he never gave consent in his heart]]."
* In ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', Edmond Dantes is gone for years, and Mercedes is told he is dead and marries his enemy and raises a son during that time. Dantes specifically says the eighteen months she waited before moving on was all a lover could ask for.
* ''Literature/TheLostFleet'': Towards the middle of the original series, [[spoiler: Rione, who has been sleeping with Captain Geary up to this point,]] discovers that her husband might actually be alive and kept as a prisoner of war. This causes her to immediately break off her current relationship, which was already a FriendsWithBenefits situation at best.
* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'': Marco's mother Eva is thought to have died in a boating accident, but in actuality she was infested by the parasitic alien Visser One, who staged the accident as a cover. Marco eventually discovers this, but is forced to keep it and his double life a secret. However, his dad starts courting another lady Loren, and Marco has trouble accepting her knowing that his real mother is still alive. He ultimately lets them marry, deciding it's better that they move on, but the battle with the Yeerks continue to complicate things. After a while Loren is infested and Eva freed, but she and Marco's dad have some trouble reconnecting, since she's been changed by her years enslaved and he's long moved past her "death".
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[[folder: Live-Action Television]]
* At the start of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', Captain Janeway is engaged to a civilian named Mark Johnson when the titular ship becomes stranded on the other side of the galaxy. Mark eventually marries someone else, which Janeway finds out when Starfleet reestablishes contact with ''Voyager'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS4E14Hunters Hunters]]", 14 months after the ship went missing in action and she was declared LegallyDead.
* Karen on ''Series/WillAndGrace'' starts up a relationship with another man after her husband Stan supposedly dies. Stan later turns out to have faked his death, but Karen has already divorced her new husband by this time. (In fact, she requests a divorce during the ''wedding reception''.)
* One case on ''Series/NightCourt'' concerns a Vietnam veteran who went MIA and eventually came home to find his wife remarried. This proves to be a hard choice for the wife because she loves both of her husbands. Later, husband #1 saves husband #2 from choking and decides to move on.
* Played with on ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Cliff gets bitten by a dog on his route and decides to sue the owner. The owner then starts up a relationship with him instead. Eventually, she gets him to sign a document dropping the lawsuit and checks her messages. One of them is from her husband who disappeared in Vietnam and just came back. (It's heavily implied to have been a huge con and Cliff fell for it.)
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has a famous example of the PoorCommunicationKills variety; Rachel declares that she and Ross should "take a break... from us," by which she later claims to have meant that they should cool down and sort out their own feelings before continuing to work through their relationship problems, but Ross interprets it as more like an actual breakup. When Ross, hurt and drunk, has a OneNightStand, Rachel considers it cheating; Ross [[CatchPhrase repeatedly and vociferously disagrees]]. Who is right is [[BrokenBase a matter of some disagreement]] among the base.
* Occurs in season 1 of ''Series/OnceUponATime''. Most of the cast are fairy tale and storybook characters who were stripped of their memories. Snow White is married to Prince Charming, but their Storybrooke counterparts don't remember each other. Snow has a one-night stand with Dr. Whale/[[spoiler: Dr. Frankenstein]], while Charming sleeps with Katheryn/Princess Abigail (King Midas's daughter) thinking she's his wife.
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[[folder: Music]]
* In Music/TheWho's ''Music/{{Tommy}}'', Tommy's father returns from war years after going missing and discovers that his wife has taken a lover, now Tommy's stepfather. [[MurderTheHypotenuse It doesn't go well for Tommy's father]].
* The French song "Brave Marin" is about a sailor who goes into a bar and starts drinking and singing, while the bar's owner starts crying. He asks her why, she says he reminds him of her dead husband. He then notes how many more children she has (it can be anywhere from three to ''twelve'' depending on the version). She's received so many letters saying he was dead that she remarried. [[DownerEnding The sailor finishes his glass and goes back to his ship]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Mythology]]
* In EgyptianMythology (at least [[DependingOnTheWriter in some versions]]), Osiris is murdered because he accidentally sleeps with his wife's twin.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Newspaper Comics]]
* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'': Happened to Wally Winkerbean ''twice'', both times due to being taken prisoner during the UsefulNotes/WarOnTerror and being listed as missing in action and presumed dead.
* ''[[ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane 9 Chickweed Lane]]'': although they are not actually married, Edna is engaged to Bill before he goes missing, presumed dead, during the war. Many years later she ends up with Kiesl, just in time for Bill to show back up alive.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Theater]]
* DependingOnTheWriter; in versions of ''Theater/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' in which Todd and Mrs. Lovett's relationship is romantic, such as the Creator/StephenSondheim musical and the Creator/TimBurton film version, it comes out that Todd has unwittingly committed adultery when his wife Lucy turns up alive but insane. He is [[TranquilFury not happy]] with Lovett when he finds out that she knew all along.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* In ''Videogame/{{Catherine}}'' the protagonist Vincent wakes up from a night out with his friends with a younger blond woman named Catherine in his bed. He has no memory of how she got there, but he knows his girlfriend Katherine won't be happy. [[spoiler: Depending on the ending, it turns out that either she never really existed, and/or she was a succubus sent to seduce him.]]
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[[folder: Web Comic]]
* ''Webcomic/DrMcNinja'': Mitzi [=McNinja=] only realized that her husband faked his death because her suitors kept turning up dead.
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[[folder: Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Spawn}}'', upon [[BackFromTheDead coming back]] as the titular character, Al Simmons discovers that his wife has since remarried with his best friend. He is initially enraged at both of their lack of loyalty, until [[{{Amnesia}} he regains part of his memory]] and realizes that, knowing that his was a dangerous profession, he actually asked his friend to take care of his wife should anything happen to him.
* ZigZagged in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Perfect Castaway"; when Peter returns from being LostAtSea, he finds that Lois has remarried with Brian. [[{{Squick}} Yes, the family dog.]] However, much to Brian's frustration, they have never actually consummated.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Prehistoric Ice Man." When the titular man, who has been a HumanPopsicle for 32 months, tracks down his wife, he finds that she has remarried and has multiple children with her new husband and no longer wants anything to do with him. {{Subverted}} when he does the math on the children's ages; the youngest was born [[YourCheatingHeart five years]] [[RefugeInAudacity before he was frozen]].
* {{Inverted}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Bender [[CrazyJealousGuy attempts to prove]] that his girlfriend Anglelyne still has feelings for her ex-husband Flexo by disguising himself as the latter and attempting to seduce her. When she responds to "Flexo's" overtures, Bender reveals the ruse and [[InsaneTrollLogic accuses her of disloyalty]]. She responds that "Maybe I love ''you'' so much that I love you no matter who you're pretending to be!" Given that what won her over was "Flexo" acting more like Bender than like the actual Flexo, she may have a point.
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