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I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Merida avoids the Arranged Marriage, since in stories with one, they ALWAYS manage to get out of the arrangement somehow.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': A variation in which the marriage isn't to form an alliance, but to ''maintain'' one. The four Gaelic tribes hate each other, but formed a temporary alliance to fight off Vikings and made King Fergus their leader. Once that threat ended, they wanted Merida, Fergus's daughter, to marry the son of one of the other tribes' chiefs to solidify their alliance. Merida eventually convinces the chiefs to keep the alliance without anyone being forced to marry.
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* ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'': This was the reason that Crown Princess Quinn was contracted to marry Leo Cashworthy. He was considered worthy to be her fiance as the Cashworthys are the wealthiest family in the kingdom. [[spoiler:Quinn learns during the side story "Non-Stop: Side B" that she was basically sold off by her parents to cover contracts they'd signed; the influx of money was needed because the kingdom was broke, and marrying Leo would bring money to the kingdom and stabilize their finances after taking out many loans from Cashworthy Finances over the generations. The contract even says any breach (such as if she had divorced Leo later) would call in the unpaid loans immediately. Quinn doesn't take it well--especially when she learns that ''because'' the marriage arraignment was broken after she ran off and married Kingston, she's the one the hook for the breach and has to pay back the loans--or else Aries will take control of the kingdom as collateral.]]
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** And the supreme champion within the dynasty is [[UsefulNotes/CharlesV Karl V von Habsburg]], who through his own marriages and those of his parents inherited Austria, the Habsburg Netherlands, the crown of the Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom of Spain (which included roughly half of Italy and an increasing chunk of America). In fact, he inherited so many realms that he couldn't manage them all, so he finally abdicated and split his possessions in two, giving the Spanish crown to his son UsefulNotes/PhilipII and the Austrian (and by extension Holy Roman) crown to his brother Ferdinand (and thence to his nephew Maximilian and his wife, Karl's daughter Maria). And thanks to Karl's marriage to the daughter to the King of Portugal, Isabella, Philip II got to inherit ''that'' kingdom too along with Spain. Philip II tried to add England (and Ireland and Wales) as well, through marriage to UsefulNotes/MaryTudor, but failed to produce an heir.[[note]]Philip later [[TheWarOfTheSpanishArmada tried to take England by force]] during the reign of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI his widow's sister]], but it didn't work.[[/note]] Eventually, the Spanish Habsburgs decided not to allow another family to take their holdings through the same means, and started marrying among themselves (and occasionally their Austrian cousins) only. Within a few generations, this inbreeding drove them extinct--and passed the Spanish throne to another family (the French House of Bourbon) [[{{Irony}} based on one of the few outside marriages they had allowed]] (between Philip IV's daughter Maria Theresa and UsefulNotes/LouisXIV--though not before the Austrian Habsburgs [[UsefulNotes/WarOfTheSpanishSuccession tried to nab it for themselves]]).
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** And the supreme champion within the dynasty is [[UsefulNotes/CharlesV Karl V von Habsburg]], who through his own marriages and those of his parents inherited Austria, the Habsburg Netherlands, the crown of the Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom of Spain (which included roughly half of Italy and an increasing chunk of America). In fact, he inherited so many realms that he couldn't manage them all, so he finally abdicated and split his possessions in two, giving the Spanish crown to his son UsefulNotes/PhilipII and the Austrian (and by extension Holy Roman) crown to his brother Ferdinand (and thence to his nephew Maximilian and his wife, Karl's daughter Maria). And thanks to Karl's marriage to the daughter to the King of Portugal, Isabella, Philip II got to inherit ''that'' kingdom too along with Spain. Philip II tried to add England (and Ireland and Wales) as well, through marriage to UsefulNotes/MaryTudor, but failed to produce an heir.[[note]]Philip later [[TheWarOfTheSpanishArmada [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOfTheSpanishArmada tried to take England by force]] during the reign of [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI his widow's sister]], but it didn't work.[[/note]] Eventually, the Spanish Habsburgs decided not to allow another family to take their holdings through the same means, and started marrying among themselves (and occasionally their Austrian cousins) only. Within a few generations, this inbreeding drove them extinct--and passed the Spanish throne to another family (the French House of Bourbon) [[{{Irony}} based on one of the few outside marriages they had allowed]] (between Philip IV's daughter Maria Theresa and UsefulNotes/LouisXIV--though not before the Austrian Habsburgs [[UsefulNotes/WarOfTheSpanishSuccession tried to nab it for themselves]]).
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Haru Okumura is engaged to Sugimura against her will for her own father's political ambitions. When she finds out that her father does not care about him being a creep and possibly leading to [[MaritalRapeLicence]], she outright says that she only agreed to a political marriage. This revelation leads to unlocking her true potential to Milady's power.
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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': Haru Okumura is engaged to Sugimura against her will for her own father's political ambitions. When she finds out that her father does not care about him being a creep and possibly leading to [[MaritalRapeLicence]], she outright says that she only agreed to a political marriage. This revelation leads to unlocking her true potential to Milady's power.
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