History Main / DeconfirmedBachelor

->'''Benedick''': ''No! [[MandatoryMotherhood The world must be peopled]]. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.''
-->''MuchAdoAboutNothing''

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* Bill Bellamy's character in spades if he's featured in any black romantic comedy. The Brothers, Love Jones, How to be a Player.

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* Silk from TheBelgariad has strong tendencies of this trope, especially in the Mallorean when he trades out his vaguely tragic UnrequitedLove for Queen Porenn to catching the eye of wily [[ActionGirl up-and-coming Lady-Spy]] Liselle.
-->'''Garion:''' "Is ''everybody'' getting married?"
-->'''Silk:''' "Not ''me'', my young friend. In spite of this universal plunge towards matrimony, ''I'' still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run."

* At least half of CatherineAnderson's heroes fall under this trope. They spend a good amount of time fighting it, but the moment the heroine comes alone it's obvious their final destination is the altar.

* Barney from ''Series/{{How I Met Your Mother}}''.

[[folder: Theater ]]
* Benedick in ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'' more or less embodies this trope. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at the end.

* ''GuysAndDolls'' has Sky Masterson.
-->'''Sky:''' "I suppose one of these days you'll be getting married."
-->'''Nathan:''' "We all gotta go sometime."
-->'''Sky:''' " But, Nathan, we can fight it. The companionship of a doll is pleasant even for a period running into months. But for a close relationship that can last through our life, no doll can take the place of aces back to back."

-->Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open the door and see all the crazy married people

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-->'''Mac''': "You know, it could happen to you."
-->'''Danny''':Marriage?
-->'''Mac''':Love
-->'''Danny''':Come on, Mac, don't say stuff like that.

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* While he doesn't really have this attitude in the original play, Mortimer in the film of ''ArsenicAndOldLace'' is presented as being a railer against marriage, and consequently, takes pains to cover up his engagement, because he's embarrassed about being called out as a hypocrite.

* Silk from TheBelgariad has strong tendancies of this trope, especially in the Mallorean when he trades out his vaguely tragic UnrequitedLove for Queen Porenn to catching the eye of wily [[ActionGirl up-and-coming Lady-Spy]] Liselle.

* In the musical ''{{Company}}'', Robert ("Bobby") is a 35-year-old New York bachelor whose circle of non-romantic friends are all couples. In the song "Side By Side" he sings:
-->Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open it up and look at all the crazy married people
** [[spoiler: A SubvetedTrope in that he decides to stay single.]]

-->Here is the church. Here is the steeple. Open it up and look at all the crazy married people.

** This was based on the play ''{{Pygmalion}}'', by George Bernard Shaw, who added an afterword to the script railing against people who thought that the two main characters would even consider romantic entanglements with each other post-plot.

* ''MyFairLady'' has a man who embodies this trope in pretty much every way in Professor Henry Higgins, he even says out loud 'So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.' the only hitch is that YourMilageMayVary on whether he actually does break down and end up in a relationship in the end. It's clear by the end of the movie he's grown quite fond of Eliza, and unlike the play, they even added a scene at the end where they reunite and, arguably reconcile, but even aside from the [[MayDecemberRomance May December]] nature of any potential romance, he's treated her so badly for the whole movie, and even in this last little scene that it's questionable at best how they would ever work as a couple. At the least he learned to love a woman even if they didn't end up married.

* Mat Cauthon in the WheelOfTime series. It was a prophecy and poor choice of words that got him married.

* Barney from "{{How I Met Your Mother}}".

* In ClassicalMythology, Pygmalion generally disdained romance and sought to prove that he could make a statue more beautiful than any woman. [[CargoShip Which he then fell in love with]]. The love-goddess Aphrodite, who generally tries to discourage that whole "celibacy" thing, brought the statue to life; Pygmalion named the new woman Galatea and married her.
** He was lucky; if Aphrodite ''couldn't'' deconfirm a bachelor, like Theseus' son Hippolytus, [[JerkassGods she might arrange events to ensure the man's death]].

[[folder: Real Life ]]

* H.L. Mencken could be the poster child for this trope, until he fell madly in love with a chronically ill fellow writer.

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* Benedick in ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'' more or less embodies this trope. And quite an old example of it too, making this trope OlderThanSteam at the least. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at the end.

Of course the more definite they are, the more they are generally cementing their ultimate fate: to have the right woman come along and, be it through love at first sight, her feminine wiles, the plotting of all the confirmed bachelor's friends who would love to make him eat his words after all his lecturing or a combination of the above, the confirmed bachelor ends up tying the knot more or less of their own free will, and becoming a deconfirmed bachelor.

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[[AC: Mythology and Religion]]

** He was lucky; if Aphrodite ''couldn't'' deconfirm a bachelor, like Theseus' son Hippolytus, [[JerkassGods she might arrange events to ensure the man's death]].

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* Benedick in ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'' more or less embodies this trope. And quite an old example of it too, making this trope OlderThanSteam at the least. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] at the end.

* Benedick in ''MuchAdoAboutNothing'' more or less embodies this trope. And quite an old example of it too, making this trope OlderThanSteam at the least.

** This was based on the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, who added an afterword to the script railing against people who thought that the two main characters would even consider romantic entanglements with each other post-plot.

This trope is that person in a story who not only isn't interested in getting married, but who will renounce it loudly and with caustic relish if anyone else should be so foolish as to say marriage isn't that bad in their presence. Expect them to condemn marriage as an action of the mentally unbalanced, to treat friends getting married as if they are going to their own funeral, and say things like 'Not me, I'll never let myself get ensnared by a woman, you mark my words!'

Of course, five seasons later, that all changed...

* ''MyFairLady'' has a man who embodies this trope in pretty much every way in Professor Henry Higgins, he even says out loud 'So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.' the only hitch is that YourMilageMayVary on weather he actually does break down and end up in a relationship in the end. It's clear by the end of the movie he's grown quite fond of Eliza, and unlike the play, they even added a scene at the end where they reunite and, arguably reconcile, but even aside from the [[MayDecemberRomance May December]] nature of any potential romance, he's treated her so badly for the whole movie, and even in this last little scene that it's questionable at best how they would ever work as a couple. At the least he learned to love a woman even if they didn't end up married.