History Main / SecondLove

* In the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' and ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Crossover fanfiction, "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/347618/1/Remnant-Of-The-Key Remnant of The Key]]", [[spoiler: Ruby becomes the second love to Sora in chapter 12.]]

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', as shown in a side story in ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'', Sousuke is Kaname's second love - her first being Fuwa, a senpai she dated during junior high. Interestingly enough, Tessa, the other part of that LoveTriangle, was initially the girlfriend of Bunny Morauta (the whispered that built the Arbalest). However, he died, and she ended up meeting and falling in love with Sousuke.

* In ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'', Issei's first love was with a girl named Yuma Amano, and went out of his way to be a gentleman to create the perfect first date. However, he quickly learns that his girlfriend is a Fallen Angel named Raynare, who then breaks up with him in [[FirstEpisodeResurrection the worst way possible]]. This would haunt Issei for some time before realizing that he's in love with his master Rias Gremory.

* In ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect'':

* In the original webnovel, Kirito from ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' actually meets his eventual girlfriend Asuna first, but his first love is Sachi, the female member of the Black Cats of the Full Moon. It took him a while to open up to Asuna because he was still grieving over Sachi's death due to not being able to protect her like he promised. This is {{averted|Trope}} in the later adaptations with him and Sachi being close friends instead.

* [[{{Tsundere}} Taiga Aisaka]] and Ryuuji Takasu from ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' eventually fall in love, despite initially having first loves (Taiga liking Yuusaku and Ryuuji liking Minori).
* ''LightNovel/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'':

* ''Film/TheGodfather'' trilogy: Michael Corleone's first love is his longtime girlfriend-since-college, Kay Adams. However, when he went back to find his roots in Sicily, he met a local girl named Apollonia who [[LoveAtFirstSight quickly stole his heart]]. He decided to marry Apollonia and [[HappilyMarried had a loving happy marriage]] until her tragic death. Upon meeting Kay again, he found love again, thus decides to marry her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they end up divorced]].

* In ''Film/DeuceBigalowEuropeanGigolo'', Deuce's first love was his wife, Kate, who is later revealed to [[spoiler:have died due to being eaten by a shark while honeymooning]]. In the sequel, he eventually finds love again in Eva and they end up married.

Well tough luck, that boy's mine now\\

* Nitori's first crush in ''Manga/WanderingSon'' was her friend Takatsuki in elementary, however he didn't feel the same. Her second crush was an older girl named Anna that she and her sister met during [[FashionModel modeling]]. They begin dating in middle school and continue dating even when Nitori [[GraduateFromTheStory Graduates from the Story]] and starts college.

* ''Film/TheGodfathertrilogy'': Michael Corleone's first love is his longtime girlfriend-since-college, Kay Adams. However, when he went back to find his roots in Sicily, he met a local girl named Apollonia who [[LoveAtFirstSight quickly stole his heart]]. He decided to marry Apollonia and [[HappilyMarried had a loving happy marriage]] until her tragic death. Upon meeting Kay again, he found love again, thus decides to marry her. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they end up divorced]].

* ''Manga/OnaniMasterKurosawa'': As part of a major PlotTwist, [[spoiler:Kurosawa, after his first love Takigawa gets together with Nagoka, and he has a redemption arc, eventually falls for a ThirdOptionLoveInterest, the ReformedBully Sugawa, and TheyDo.]]

* [[ShipTease Teased]] through ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga'' and ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga2'' for [[TheHero Rook]] and [[TheLancer Oddleif]]. It [[TheyDo finally happens]] in ''VideoGame/TheBannerSaga3'', if the player makes the right choices.

* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'': The movie starts with Robbie happily singing at a wedding, where he meets Julia who's working as a waitress at the same venue. Days later, Julia's working at Robbie's wedding where he'll marry Linda, the supposed-love of his life. However, [[RunawayBride Linda jilts him at the altar]], and when she shows up at his house later that evening, [[TheReasonYousuckSpeech she dumps him by telling him she doesn't want to marry a broke wedding singer]]. As the story progresses, Robbie who now falls genuinely in love with Julia, wants to pursue her. However, he found out Julia is married off to a two-timing {{Jerkass}} investment banker, Glen. After Robbie rejects Linda's attempted to get back together, he intends [[spoiler: to interrupt Julia and Glen's attempt to elope in Las Vegas, and is recomended to a music studio to sing a song written by Creator/BillyIdol]]. Thus, they end up married at the the end of the movie.

* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'': The movie starts with Robbie happily singing at a wedding, where he meets Julia who's working as a waitress at the same venue. Days later, Julia's working at Robbie's wedding where he'll marry Linda, the supposed-love of his life. However, [[RunawayBride Linda jilts him at the altar]], and when she shows up at his house later that evening, [[TheReasonYousuckSpeech she dumps him by telling him she doesn't want to marry a broke wedding singer]]. As the story progresses, Robbie found out that Julia is married off to Glen, her two-timing {{Jerkass}} investment banker fiance. After Robbie rejects Linda's attempted to get back together, he [[spoiler: interrupts Julia and Glen's attempt at eloping in Las Vegas, and is recomended to a music studio to sing a song written by Creator/BillyIdol]]. Thus, they end up married at the the end of the movie.

* ''[[https://gundamfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_Paradox Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox]]'': [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Flay Allster]] finds one in Akiza Izinski after moving on from Kira, who has since been content living together with Lacus (see above). Akiza is the same person who piloted the Paradox that erased Flay's death from the timeline. Part of Flay's relationship with Akiza what motivates her to become TheAtoner. Considering that Akiza is named after a certain psychic duelist[[note]]in this case, Aki Izayoi, with her [[DubNameChange dub name]] being Akiza Izinski. However, this Akiza acts more like Yusei Fudo, as Flay is to Aki.[[/note]] and the story's parallels to ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', their relationship, according to the author, is a recreation of Yusei's relationship with Aki.

* In ''Literature/{{Hurog}},'' Ward mentions that his first love married another man. This happened prior to the narrative. He meets someone else.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Harry ended up with Ginny Weasley after an ill-fated infatuation with Cho Chang. Ron did this with Hermione, after a disastrous few months with Lavender Brown. Hermione herself briefly dated Viktor Krum. Rowling has said that she ''specifically'' wanted her main characters to not end up with the first person they kissed.
** Harry himself was this for Cho, as her previous boyfriend was Cedric Diggory, who was tragically killed during the Triwizard Tournament. Part of the reason their relationship broke down was because [[YouRemindMeOfX Cho was unconciously projecting Cedric onto Harry]], the only person who saw him die that fateful night. According to WordOfGod, after the Second Wizarding War, Cho ended up marrying a Muggle.
** Severus Snape certainly was Lily Evans' closest male friend from childhood until somewhere around Fifth Year, when they had a messy falling out and Lily ended up befriending, dating, and subsequently marrying James Potter, something that [[TheOneThatGotAway Snape never gets over]].
** In the epilogue, Draco Malfoy's wife was not Pansy Parkinson (the closest girl he was with during school and had a degree of ShipTease with) but Astoria Greengrass, whom the readers had never known before. As with the trio, Rowling deliberately did this, as she did ''not'' want Draco's CharacterDevelopment to be wasted away by him marrying another blood supremacist.
** According to WordOfGod, Percy Weasley broke up with Penelope Clearwater after they graduated and married a woman named Audrey. Angelina Johnson, who dated Fred Weasley, married Fred's twin, George, after the former's death.
* In ''Literature/TheDeadZone'', Sarah had fallen in love with Johnny Smith, and he was getting ready to ask her to marry him, when Johnny was in a car wreck and ended up in a coma for four and a half years. She met, fell in love with, and married young lawyer Walter Hazlett, and they had a young son by the time Johnny woke from the coma. Sarah and Johnny both felt that they had been cheated out of a life together, and [[spoiler: they spent one grand afternoon together trying to reclaim a piece of that lost future together]], but Sarah loves her husband and doesn't want to lose him.
* ''Literature/InTheMidstOfWinter'': Richard became a widower when [[spoiler: his wife was Driven to Suicide]]. Lucía Maraz's marriage endede when [[spoiler: when her husband was unable to handle her breast cancer diagnosis]]. The novel's RoadTripPlot gives them the opportunity to fall in love.
* In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Éowyn didn't get Aragorn in the end. She did, however, get Faramir. (And her love for Aragorn was admittedly LovingAShadow.)
* In Creator/DanAbnett's ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, Caffren lost his sweetheart with the destruction of Tanith, in the BackStory; then he and Criid met.
* In Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Marianne Dashwood's disbelief in second loves is a major plot driver. Not surprisingly, she [[spoiler:finds her first love unworthy of her, and ends up falling in love again [[MayDecemberRomance with Colonel Brandon]]]]. Her sister Elinor even comments on her sister's feelings on the subject, saying she's not sure how Marianne can disregard the notion of Second Love when their own father had two wives, and it was that second attachment which produced the both of them and their other sister. Elinor herself is also this for the man she eventually marries.

* [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]] went through a lot of girlfriends in the ExpandedUniverse. Mara Jade was his latest (and [[spoiler:longest lasting]]).
* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Firestar initially fell in love with Spottedleaf. Though they never spoke about their feelings when she was alive, she continued to visit him in his dreams. In the end, though, he fell in love with Sandstorm and became her mate.
** Graystripe's first love was Silverstream: they were StarCrossedLovers, and she died giving birth to his kits. Many, many moons later - when his children are grown up and thinking about having their own kits - he falls in love with Millie.
** In the prequel series, Thunder fell in love with Star Flower but she revealed that she was leading him on and she got together with his dad. Later he becomes mates with Violet Dawn.
* In Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'', Alanna and Prince Jonathan are each other's first loves, but they ultimately break up and find happiness with other people.
* ''Literature/TheImmortals'': Daine eventually becomes Numair's second love, despite some brief ShipTease between the latter and his old flame Varice.
* ''Literature/IslandBeneathTheSea''
** After being widowed, Violette Relais finds a new love in Sancho Garcia del Solar, Valmorain's eccentric brother-in-law.
** Years after losing Gambo in the mists of the slave revolt and civil war in Haiti, Zarité falls in love with Zacharie after reuniting with him in New Orleans and are HappilyMarried.
* In David Weber's ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, Honor [[spoiler: ends up marrying Hamish Alexander, Earl of White Haven; but in the early books, she was in love with Paul Tankersley, the exec to her biggest enemy in ''On Basilisk Station''. He is killed in ''Field of Dishonor'', and she doesn't have a relationship again until ''At All Costs'']]. Unlike the usual application of this trope, they really were desperately in love with each other - [[spoiler:she named her private yacht after Paul]]. Also unusual in the case of [[spoiler:Hamish Alexander, who is still married to his first wife Emily, a well-known actress. However, having been crippled by a car accident, she doesn't want to stand in the way of her husband's happiness. It all gets resolved, when they decide to follow Grayson law that allows (even encourages) polygamy, so Honor and Emily become sister-wives and are the best of friends]].
* Creator/DorothyLSayers' Literature/LordPeterWimsey and Harriet Vane were both on their SecondLove.
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Sorceress of the Literature/WitchWorld'', Kaththea, having been bitterly deceived, has great difficulty trusting [[spoiler:Hilarion]] but lives HappilyEverAfter in the end.
* In Creator/RobertJordan's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', Rand and Egwene start out essentially happily betrothed. But [[spoiler: Egwene ends up finding PrinceCharming Gawyn, and Rand ends up with [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Elayne, Min, and Aviendha]].]]
* In Laurell K. Hamilton's ''Literature/AnitaBlakeVampireHunter'' series, the chaste heroine was engaged to marry her college sweetheart. However, his wealthy parents objected to her being half-Mexican and the engagement was broken. This left her cynical about romance, but primed for a non-human menage-a-trois with Jean Claude the vampire and Richard the werewolf. And then, once she gets started... "Katie, bar the door."
* Early on in ''Literature/GreatExpectations'', Mrs. Joe is murdered by Orlick. Towards the end of the story, Joe is HappilyMarried to Biddy, [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder much to the disappointment of Pip]].
* In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Dinah first falls in love with Prince Shalem; then, [[spoiler: after he is murdered by her brothers, she moves to Egypt and falls in love with a carpenter named Benia.]]

* In Creator/PGWodehouse's ''Jill The Reckless'', Jill carefully explains to Wally that she knows she will never marry Derek, but she still has to recover from her love before she will be ready for this.
* Inverted in Literature/TheEdgeChronicles. In ''The Immortals'', an aged [[spoiler: and immortal]] Twig tells Nate that when the caterbird flew him, fatally wounded, back to Riverrise after the events of ''The Last of the Sky Pirates'', he stayed conscious long enough to see Maugin waving happily at him.... [[spoiler: only to drop dead a second later when Golderyace One-Eye's poison dart hit her in the neck]]. We later learn that [[spoiler: Golderyace had fallen in love with her thoughts from a distance over the last 50 years, and killed her out of jealousy when she remained loyal to Twig]].
* Literature/TrappedOnDraconica: A mutual example. Rana's first love didn't work out [[spoiler:because Daniar was interested in the same guy and he choose Daniar over Rana.]] This drove her into self-exile and seclusion. [[spoiler: Then she meets Taurok and is quickly taken with his nobility. Taurok himself has already been married and widowed but nothing is said of what happened to his first wife. They're married in the epilogue.]]
* In the ''Literature/{{Petaybee}}'' series, Sean is Yana's second husband. When she's first introduced, Yana clearly misses her deceased first husband.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "Arsenal Port", Heim has not gotten over his wife when Jocelyn approaches him suggesting this.
* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' novel ''Ashes Of Honor'', [[spoiler:Tybalt]] confesses to having lost his first love to DeathByChildbirth, which made his current love a second love, and he willfully ignored that he was in love again.
* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/VelveteenVs The Junior Super Patriots'':
** A blind date for Velma, despite her love for Action Dude, start a second love -- though complications then ensue.
** Victoria persuades Yelena to let her court her by convincing her that she indeed would be a second love, because of the differences between her and her counterpart.
* In Creator/PoulAnderson's "The Sharing of Flesh", Evalyth realizes she is starting to recover when she thinks that she is young, and there may be another man, and it doesn't feel disloyal.
* Sarah Levine, the eventual wife of ''Literature/RichardIIIInThe21stCentury''.
* In Literature/VoyageOfTheBasset, [[spoiler: Medusa]] winds up being this for [[spoiler: Professor Aisling]].
* In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', [[spoiler:Luke is the second person with whom Jocelyn falls in love, after her disastrous marriage to Valentine]].
* Christian Ozera to Lissa Dragomir in ''Literature/VampireAcademy''. Her first love was Aaron, to whom she lost her virginity. But she was eventually bored with him, while Christian is her true love and holds her interest.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Dalinar Kholin finds one in (and is one to) [[spoiler:Navani Kholin]]. He resists this for a time, since in Alethi culture it's highly improper for him to [[spoiler:date his brother's widow, but after he is betrayed by Sadeas and nearly killed, he changes his mind.]]
* ''Literature/JamesBond'': Tracy [=DiVicenzo=] to Vesper Lynd. While there are a handful of other women he genuinely cares about, possibly to the point of love, Tracy's the only one he took to the altar. Sadly, her end was as tragic as Vesper's.
* Several cases across the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan to one another. Aral's history involves a loveless marriage and a secret male lover in extremely homophobic Barrayar, both relationships which end in tragedy. Cordelia talks circumspectly about an old relationship where she got left behind. Both find as true a love as possible in one another.
** Given how Elena Bothari never actually reciprocated his interest, Miles finds his actual Second Love with Ekaterin Vorsoisson in ''Komarr'', though he had a few successful flings along with his first love, Elli Quinn. He and Elli broke up mostly over their responsibilities pulling them apart. The tension between first and second loves is deliberately invoked in ''Winterfair Gifts'' when [[spoiler:someone tries to frame Elli for a poisonous gift sent to Miles and Ekaterin's wedding]].
** As for Ekaterin, Miles is her Second Love, after a marriage that started off well but ended in constant emotional abuse. It ground her down until love itself seemed horrible, made worse after her husband's death when various suitors wanted her as an eligible Vor widow to marry. Miles got through by being the one who wanted ''her'', and not as a meek and proper housewife.
** Alys Vorpatril is widowed the same day her son Ivan is born in ''Barrayar'', and though it takes close to thirty years she finally finds (or rather, is able to openly act upon) her Second Love with [[spoiler:medically discharged and retired Simon Illyan]] in ''Memory''.
* Creator/LMMontgomery uses this trope very well in her novel ''Magic for Marigold,'' where Marian Lesley, when talking to her daughter Marigold, reflects that her late husband loved his first wife very much (they were childhood sweethearts), but the love he gave to Marian was that of a mature heart.
* Seen a few times in the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' books; for example, in ''Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern'', Moreta is the second love of Lord Alessan after the death of his first wife. The POVSequel ''Nerilka's Story'' winds up with Nerilka as Alessan's third love.

* ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh Saga'':
** In the first novel, the girls' earliest ancestors--Alice Larson and Theodore Wakefield--meet and fall in love while on an immigrant ship. Unfortunately, they are separated during intake when he's quarantined. Years later, they have a near miss when his traveling circus comes to her town--she hears the name "Theo W." and wonders if it's him, while he (in the second ''Saga'' novel) sees a little blond girl and wonders if it could be her daughter. They're both correct, but separately decide not to try and meet, as they have long since moved on and are HappilyMarried to others.
** In the present day, Jeffrey French is Elizabeth's second love after her boyfriend Todd moves to Vermont, even though he soon gets dumped once Todd returns. Jessica also falls in love with AJ, but he dumps her after she cheats on him. She has better luck staying faithful to Sam.

* ''Literature/AnimalInn'': Catherine Sparks for Doc Taylor, who proposes to her during a Christmas celebration in book 11, and marries her in book 12.
* ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'': Christina loses Will when Tris is forced to kill him in self-defense, while Four loses Tris when she sacrifices herself to save Chicago. In ''We Can Be Mended'', it is mentioned that Four and Christina fall in love, on account of their shared suffering.
* ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Qwill for Polly Duncan, whose firefighter husband was killed in the line of duty less than a year after they married. This was at least fifteen years before she meets Qwill; she never remarried, nor even entered another serious relationship prior to meeting him. Judging by the way she talks about him on one of her early dates with Qwill, [[BrokenBird there's a good reason for this]], but her relationship with Qwill does help her to finally heal.
* ''Literature/ChocoholicMysteries'': Hogan Jones, the chief of police, is this for Jeanette [=TenHuis=]. They start dating at the end of ''Puppy Puzzle'', announce their engagement at the end of ''Bridal Bash'' (right after Lee and Joe have gotten married), and (as revealed in ''Jewel Case'') elope while Lee and Joe are on their honeymoon.
* In ''Literature/{{Dracula}},'' the DistantFinale informs us that Arthur is married. Earlier he was engaged to Lucy, who was turned by Dracula and [[StakingTheLovedOne staked by Arthur]].

* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'': The movie starts with Robbie happily singing at a wedding, where he meets Julia who's working as a waitress at the same venue. Days later, Julia's working at Robbie's wedding where he'll marry Linda, the supposed-love of his life. However, [[RunawayBride Linda jilts him at the altar]], and when she shows up at his house later that evening, [[TheReasonYousuckSpeech she dumps him by telling him she doesn't want to marry a broke wedding singer]]. As the story progresses, Julia is married off to Glen, her two-timing investment banker fiance. After Robbie rejects Linda's attempted to get back together, he [[spoiler: interrupts Julia and Glen's attempt at eloping in Las Vegas, and is recomended to a music studio to sing a song written by Creator/BillyIdol]]. Thus, they end up married at the the end of the movie.

* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'': The movie starts with Robbie happily singing at a wedding, where he meets Julia who's working as a waitress at the same venue. Days later, Julia's working at Robbie's wedding where he'll marry Linda, the love of his life, however, [[RunawayBride Linda jilts him at the altar]], and when she shows up at his house later that evening, [[TheReasonYousuckSpeech she dumps him by telling him she doesn't want to marry a broke wedding singer]]. As the story progresses, Julia is married off to Glen, her cheating investment banker fiance. After Robbie rejects Linda's attempted reunion, he [[spoiler: interrupts Julia and Glen's attempt at eloping in Las Vegas, and is recomended to a music studio to be song writer by Creator/BillyIdol]],and they end up married at the the end of the movie.

* ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'': The movie starts with Robbie happily singing at a wedding, where he meets Julia who's working as a waitress at the same venue. Days later, Julia's working at Robbie's wedding where he'll marry Linda, the love of his life, however, [[RunawayBride Linda jilts him at the altar]], and when she shows up at his house later that evening, [[TheReasonYousuckSpeech she dumps him by telling him she doesn't want to marry a broke wedding singer]]. As the story progresses, Julia falls out of love with Glen, her cheating investment banker fiance, and after Robbie rejects Linda's attempted reunion, he [[spoiler: interrupts Julia and Glen's atmempt at eloping in Las Vegas, and is recomended to a music studio to be song writer by Creator/BillyIdol]],and they end up married at the the end of the movie.

* ''[[https://gundamfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam_SEED_Paradox Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox]]'': [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Flay Allster]] finds one in Akiza Izinski after moving on from Kira, who has since been content living together with Lacus. Akiza is the same person who piloted the Paradox that erased Flay's death from the timeline. Part of Flay's relationship with Akiza what motivates her to become TheAtoner. Considering that Akiza is named after a certain psychic duelist[[note]]in this case, Aki Izayoi, with her [[DubNameChange dub name]] being Akiza Izinski. However, this Akiza acts more like Yusei Fudo, as Flay is to Aki.[[/note]] and the story's parallels to ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', their relationship is a recreation of Yusei's relationship with Aki.

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Despite it is unclear whether [[AlphaBitch Regina]] is Aaron's ''very'' first love or not, but given how Aaron was affected by the fact she's cheating on him (again), it's obvious that Cady becomes his second love after he manages to get over Regina.

* Sarah Levine, the eventual wife of ''Literature/RichardTheThirdInTheTwentyFirstCentury''.

* In a rare [[SoapOpera telenovela]] example, ''Simplemente María''. María ends up with her second love, a humble teacher who had been near her since she arrived from the provinces, and stayed at her side as she climbed her way from an illiterate, homeless single mother to a rich and famous fashion designer; instead of the [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob rich and capid]] biological father of her son, who dumped her as soon as she got pregnant. This was a rare move back in the day. Other writers would have applied LoveRedeems on the rich dude, but here they glanced towards SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan and built towards it.

* ''Series/{{Bridgerton}}'': Anthony Bridgerton's first love was his long-time mistress, Siena Rosso, in season 1 until they eventually broke up. In season 2, he meets and falls in love with Kate Sharma. Despite he initially tried his best to resist it, he eventually decides to marry Kate out of genuine love.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Taiyang Xiao Long was married to his teammate Raven Branwen. She gave birth to a daughter, Yang Xiao Long, but then Raven disappeared shortly thereafter. Taiyang then fell for his other teammate, Summer Rose, and she raised Yang as her own even as she and Taiyang had their own daughter, Ruby Rose. It wasn't until Summer disappeared as well that Yang found out about all this--she had thought Summer was her biological mother for most of her childhood. His daughter Yang is [[ShipTease (seemingly)]] on the receiving end of it from Blake.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14878527 Second Chances]]'' by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/TheNovelArtist TheNovelArtist]] has Adrien and Marinette hooking up after losing Chloe and Nathaniel, respectively.

* ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'':
** In the original comics, April is actually Casey's second love. Before they became an item, he had fallen in love with and married Gabrielle, a Colorado waitress. It was only after Gabrielle had [[DeathByChildbirth died and left Casey with a daughter]] that a romance with April began. For the longer version see the second bullet below.
** April and Casey were in the early stages of forming a relationship when he accidentally kills a teenage mugger during the ''City at War'' arc. This leads him into a drunken spiral and the two of them break up almost as soon as they get together. ''Then'' he meets Gabrielle who is essentially his SecondLove who, sadly, dies in childbirth. He then returns to New York and reunites with April and eventually marries her. So April is really his first ''and'' third loves.