1 | '''Basic Trope''': A man who's either divorced or widowed (usually the latter) marries his mistress. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob was married to Alice, but secretly having an affair with [[TheMistress Carol]]. When Alice dies, he marries Carol a few months later. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': The moment Alice is buried, Bob and Carol head to Vegas. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob get divorced and he then moves in with Carol. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Bob wanted to be with Carol, but if he divorced Alice he'd lose out on her life insurance, which would set him and Carol up nicely after she passed on. |
7 | ** Bob and Alice had an ArrangedMarriage neither of them wanted. Alice knew about Carol and gave Bob her blessing to marry Carol once she passed on. |
8 | * '''Gender-Inverted''': After her husband, [[{{Cuckold}} Bob]], dies, Alice marries her secret boyfriend Carlos. |
9 | * '''Subverted''': Carol expects Bob will marry her once Alice is dead, but he then makes it clear he has no interest in doing so. |
10 | * '''Double Subverted''': Bob ends up marrying Jessica, [[ReallyGetsAround his]] ''[[ReallyGetsAround other]]'' [[ReallyGetsAround mistress]], eventually. |
11 | * '''Parodied''': ??? |
12 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
13 | * '''Averted''': |
14 | ** Bob and Alice were HappilyMarried and there was no cheating. |
15 | ** Bob and Carol don't get married after Alice died, preferring to keep their relationship casual. |
16 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
17 | * '''Lampshaded''': ??? |
18 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
19 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
20 | * '''Defied''': |
21 | ** Carol refuses to marry Bob after Alice died when he asks, feeling it's disrespectful and fearing she'd end up the same if they married. |
22 | ** Bill, Bob's son by Alice, murders Carol at the engagement party [[ItsPersonal as revenge for cheating on his mother]]. He spares his father [[CruelMercy so Bob will have to live out his days alone]]. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
24 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': Bob soon gets bored again in his marriage and starts cheating on Carol, who [[LaserGuidedKarma finds herself]] stuck as an [[UnwantedSpouse unwanted]] TrophyWife. |
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