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{{quote|''"I don't have a wife. Zoe, why do I have a wife?"''
|'''Malcolm Reynolds'''|''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds."}}
Be careful when visiting foreign parts or in the company of aliens, because you never know... you just might end up married. A character (almost always a male) discovers that a seemingly innocent action now entitles him to a permanent fashion
Naturally, this never happens to someone who would be willing to just walk away and leave her stranded. Or, for that matter, to someone who's willing to bite the bullet, settle down with their accidental bride, and have two and a half accidental children.
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When set in modern times, the possibility of the marriage being real is usually set up by the officiant being a legitimate minister or justice of the peace.
As to the real-life possibility of an
Additionally, the "getting drunk and waking up married" type is not valid either, since the law requires that both parties enter into the relationship voluntarily and in full possession of their faculties. (This is nearly always in [[Vegas Crossover|Las Vegas]] in the US version, due to the fact that unlike many states Nevada does not require a waiting period between obtaining the license and the marriage itself, and that the Clark County marriage bureau office in Las Vegas is open until midnight every day of the year, even weekends and holidays.)
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ranma ½
** Similarly, though she doesn't actually believe Ranma to be married to her, Kodachi [[Yandere|develops her obsessive crush on him]] after Ranma [[Rescue Romance|rescues her from a fall]]. She's so infatuated that she insists that all of Ranma's other [[Arranged Marriage
* Lum's insistence that she is married to Ataru because he declared "Now I can get married!" (meaning to his girlfriend Shinobu) after winning the Tag Race in the first episode of ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''.
* In ''[[Tenshi ni Narumon]]'', Yuusuke stumbles over Noel, who just happens to be napping in the nude in the middle of a forest. Their lips meet and she awakens, convinced that they are now married. This results in her entire kooky family moving into (and totally redesigning) Yuusuke's house.
* Neneko's belief that she "gave up her flower" and is now married to Tomokazu because he accidentally fondled her rear end in an early episode of ''[[Yumeria]]''.
* In ''[[Photon]]'', after getting the kana for [[Baka]] [[Face Doodling|drawn on his forehead]] by his mischievous [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood friend]] Aun, the title character draws the same characters on the forehead of the sleeping Keyne. Since in Keyne's culture, a man proposes to a woman by drawing his "personal symbol" on her forehead, Keyne awakens, discovers what happened, and concludes that she and Photon are engaged.
* As the plot of ''[[DearS]]'', the protagonist Takeya ''bonds'' with Ren through a direct kiss in the very first
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Boa Hancock believes that she is married to [[Idiot Hero|Luffy]] after he hugs her. However she is too shy to ever talk to him about this, and her grandmother later clears up her misunderstanding.
* Yuna Miyama from ''[[Maburaho]]'' declares Kazuki her husband in the first episode.
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** Similarly, both of the times he gets into [[Not What It Looks Like|embarassing situations]] with [[Neat Freak|uber perfectionist]] Chiri, she demands that he follows through by marrying her.
* ''[[Dragon Ball]],'' of course. Though it was actually accidental engagement, the relationship between Chi Chi and Goku was largely based on his assumption that "married" was a kind of food. When the misunderstanding is cleared and Chi Chi gets depressed about it, though, Goku actually agrees to go through it anyway since he gave his word to her. They eventually have two children together.
* Rito Yuuki from ''[[To
* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]],'' Japan demands that his partner Italy marry him after the latter hugs and kisses the former on the cheek. [[Snap Back|They don't seem to go through with it]], though, since later [[Official Couple|Italy is paired up with]] [[Ho Yay|his other partner, Germany]]
* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' has an episode devoted to this trope, as Kenshin is told to give his girlfriend Kaoru a ring he
* In ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'', the main character Nagasumi is rescued by Seto
* Subverted in ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' when Yoriko accidentally gets engaged to a foreign prince when she held his hand. He shrugs it off in the end saying his customs don't apply in Japan.
* This trope just piles up in the second episode of ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh!|Kyo Kara Maoh]]''. [[Royal Brat|Wolfram]] spends all of dinner needling the new monarch Shibuya Yuuri, and succeeds in angering him by insulting his
** Fanwank is that Wolfram lost his chance to decline, and Yuuri can't back out since he already swore to never take it back. Their marital state is pretty much in limbo.
** Wolfram falls for Yuuri pretty hard before long, and becomes [[Crazy Jealous Guy|fanatically possessive]] of his fiancé, who is both naturally oblivious and in denial about this whole 'engaged to a guy' thing. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* In ''[[Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?]]'', Ayumu accidentally gets knocked into a female vampire, Maelstrom, and ends up kissing her on the lips. According to Maelstrom's culture, a kiss between a man and a woman constitutes a marriage, which she vows to take seriously. Underscored because at the time of said marriage, [[Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy|Ayumu was wearing a frilly pink dress and Maelstrom was wearing shorts.]] Hilarity ensues as she competes with Haruna for Ayumu's attention.
* Sorta parodied in ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]'' when Souichiro Nagi gets tossed into a dressing roo when Aya Natsume was taking a shower. [[Naked First Impression|He gets to see Aya naked]], and according to the rules of the Natsume clan this means she must devote herself to him. Cue to Aya acting like a weird mix of [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] and [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] in regards to him.
* The first episode of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]'', after Suletta witnesses [[Prince Charmless|asshole]] and [[Spoiled Brat]] Guel physically abuse Miorine, whom has just shown Suletta the bare minimum of kindness, her demands he apologize result in a duel. Suletta wins and finds out Guel's [[Arranged Marriage]] to Miorine is transferred in duels. Suletta is shocked to learn this, and protests that she's a girl, but [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Miorine is actually cool with it]]. Yes: It '''is''' ''Utena'' with [[Humungous Mecha]].
* The final chapter of the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' manga reveals that the wording of Keiichi's wish was the phrase usually used in Heaven to propose marriage. Thus, he accidentally wished for Belldandy to marry him (which explains her shocked look in the very first chapter).
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Played straight in a DC Elseworlds issue (Detective Comics Annual 7 (1994)). Pirate Batman ("Captain Leatherwing") rescues a [[Noble Savage]] princess, and gives her a European dress to replace her torn clothing. Later, the princess (with her father interpreting) gives Leatherwing a bracelet. He accepts, not knowing that this exchange means that they are now married ... to the later consternation of Pirate Catwoman.
** Those four sentences? Best sentences ever.
* In ''[[Justice Society of America]]'', the Huntress of an [[Alternate Universe]] is not married yet, but she tells Power Girl how her DA boyfriend had proposed, the Joker had attacked, maiming him, and she had never had a chance to refuse
* In ''[[Incredible Hercules]]'' #134, "W.W.T.D.? (What Would Thor Do?)", Herc, standing in for his absent buddy Thor, travels to Svartalfheim to confront the warlike Dark Elves and their queen Alflyse. After passing the three tests to prove he really is Thor (he actually fails the test of "[[Show Some Leg]]" but an enthusiastic Alflyse declares 2 out of 3 is good enough) there's a night of [[Blatant Lies|respectably restrained]] [http://www.comicvine.com/alflyse/29-65493/all-images/108-296667/alflyse/105-950892/ celebration] and Hercules wakes the next day to find [http://www.comicvine.com/alflyse/29-65493/all-images/108-296667/27/105-952343/ Alflyse has accepted him as her husband.] [http://www.comicvine.com/alflyse/29-65493/all-images/108-296667/alflyse/105-950898/ There are worse fates...]
** {{spoiler|Subverted in that she does know he's not really Thor, she's just messing with him.}}
== [[
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6133933/1/Waking_Up_in_Vegas Waking Up In Vegas]'' had [[Iron Man|Tony]] marry Pepper while they were both drunk.
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|With a]] ''{{spoiler|[[Star Trek]]}}'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|themed wedding, no less!]]
* [[Kidanova|Erio]] to Caro in [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/143894/caro_ru_lushe-comic-doujin-erio_mondial-mahou_shou this]
*
* In ''[[
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* ''[[Dune]]''. Paul Atreides asks Fremen girl Chani if she'll carry his water tokens, startling her somewhat. Fortunately an amused Stilgar recognises that Paul is simply ignorant of what this implies among Fremen. {{spoiler|They wind up (intentionally) married, so in the long run it wouldn't have mattered anyway.}}
* Invoked in ''First Lord's Fury'', the sixth book of [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[Codex Alera]]'': Kitai is worried about how people will see her relationship with Tavi because of all the things they've gotten up to without being married. Tavi points out that they more or less accidentally fulfilled the Marat marriage custom back in the first book, and they could claim to have been married since then.
* In the [[Liaden Universe]] novel ''Agent of Change'', Val Con gives Miri a small switchblade knife for
* In ''[[Much Fall of Blood]]'' Erik does this due to not knowing much about Mongol language and culture.
* In the ''Star Trek'' novel ''Enemy Unseen'', an ambassador from an extremely status-conscious culture is shamed that he could not protect three of his wives (they were poisoned by an agent trying to disrupt negotiations, and he was unable to treat the poison, forcing him to resort to having McCoy cure them.) so he invites Kirk to a "ceremony of repentance." At the end of it, he tells Kirk that Kirk should always take care of his new wives, and wishes him to take as much joy from them as the ambassador once did. (In a case of cultural projection, he views Kirk as a clan-head, and thus the actions of McCoy were Kirk's responsibility. Because it was demonstrated that Kirk could care for his wives better than he could, he was forced by his religious beliefs to pass their care to Kirk.)
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== [[Live
* Mal's wedding to Saffron in the ''[[Firefly]]'' episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds" (which provides this page's quote) supposedly occurred by accepting a wreath, drink, and dance from the young lady. However, {{spoiler|"Saffron" was actually a con-artist, taking advantage of the obscure tradition to get aboard without raising suspicion, with the ultimate intent of hijacking the ship}}.
** However, Mal is lucky in that {{spoiler|[[The Vamp|Saffron]] has been [[Black Widow|married many other times]], some of her husbands are still alive because she only ripped them off, and the Alliance has laws against bigamy}}. Suffice to say, the marriage is invalid. Though Saffron does tease him about it the next time they meet.
* A subplot in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story "The Aztecs" involves the Doctor accidentally getting engaged to a local woman.
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* One episode of ''Hey Dude!'' had a subplot where a group of [[Ruritania|generically Eastern European]] guests were visiting the ranch, and one character accidentally proposed marriage to a young girl.
* In ''[[Happy Days]]'', Fonzie and Jenny go as bride and groom to a costume party on a yacht and, after an incident involving a performance with a [[Married At Sea|minister played by the ship's captain]], think they've accidentally gotten married, to Jenny's delight and Fonzie's horror.
* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', cousins George Michael and Maeby wind up accidentally married while performing a mock wedding for a group of senior citizens. However, because of the incredible [[UST]] between them, and the fact that they {{spoiler|[[Not Blood Siblings|aren't even related by blood]], this is both a bit less [[Squick
** GOB once met a woman with whom he intended to have a one-night stand; instead, they ended up married for a few episodes thanks to a drunken dare. (The woman, by the way, was played by [[Amy Poehler]], Will Arnett's [[Real Life Relative|real-life wife]]).
* In a massive oversimplification of Greek marriage customs, ''[[Full House]]'' had an episode where both DJ and Jessie unknowingly married Greeks by walking around the table with them. The problem was easily solved, though: divorce was achieved by walking around the table backwards.
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* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Maya and Elliot go to a mass wedding thinking that Dennis went there to marry a model and end up unwittingly married.
* On ''[[Married... with Children]]'', a recently divorced Marcy goes to a banking convention, has far too much to drink at a party, and wakes up the next morning married to the bartender from the night before. The bartender, Jefferson d'Arcy, played by Ted McGinley, would be Marcy's husband for the rest of the series.
* On ''[[
** Also an example of [[Hollywood Law]], since Common Law Marriage requires both parties to have a public declaration of their mutual intent to be married in order to be valid. Just signing a motel registration book isn't enough.
* A brawl on ''[[TNA]] impact!'' during Kurt and Karen Angle's wedding re-vow ceremony resulted in Kurt's lackey A.J. Styles getting married to Karen. The two even went on a "honeymoon" the following week.
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* On ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', in series 6 the Dwarfers have to barter for an oxygen unit from a planet of GELFs. Their price? Lister as bridegroom to a female yeti.
* The premise of the [[Taiwanese Series]] ''[[Drunken to Love You]]'', is two strangers getting drunk, getting married, and falling in love.
* An episode of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'' had Winchester "married" to a fun-loving woman after his
== Mythology ==
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* In ''[[Blue Dragon]]'', the fact that Marumaro is wearing exactly one hat is interpreted as a proposal of marriage by the girls of Kelaso Village.
* You don't actually end up married, but due to your character's lack of knowledge of Echani culture in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]] II'', it is possible for a male character to be flirting with/courting the Handmaiden without realizing it.
* In ''[[
{{quote|''(Before the mission "Cutthroat")''
'''Mira Han''': Oh and, um, say hello to Matthew for me; ask him why he never calls.
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''(After said mission)''
'''Matt Horner''': If Mira calls, I'm- I'm just busy. }}
* In Rachel's joke ending in [[
* In the back story of [[Firan MUX]], two of the Seven Heroes, Bannos and Shara, find themselves married to each other when visiting the Ticanee by sleeping in the same tent together (while the crowd loudly encouraged them). Players, however, only marry through code that explicitly prevents accidental marriage (though it could happen in theory).
* In the [[Mystery Case Files]] game ''Escape From Ravenhearst'', the Master Detective is trapped in a seemingly endless series of puzzles and crazy situations concocted by her [[Back
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* This is pretty much the entire ''point'' of the plot of ''[[Marry Me]]'': A guy is dragged to a concert by his lesbian friend who adores the singer and has a sign that reads "Marry Me." She asks him to hold up the sign for her while she goes to the bathroom. Guess what the ''singer'' does next?
** Subversionally, in this case the hapless guy actually does decide to ride it out, and ends up genuinely falling in love with her. {{spoiler|Also, toward the end they find out that they aren't actually married. They decide to get married for real, anyway.}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110704083411/http://www.supermegatopia.com/comics/supermegatopia-comics/much-ado-about-kiwis/much-ado-about-kiwis-page-3/ This] page of ''Supermegatopia''.
* Happens in a side-story of ''[[Collar 6]]'' where a man finds out that he became a sub to a dom woman without remembering it (due to a [[Easy Amnesia|knock on the head]]) since dom/sub relationships in that universe resemble marriages in the sense that they are contracted and the slave collar serves the purpose of a wedding ring.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* This is the premise behind the series ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120816064238/http://husbandstheseries.com/video/ Husbands]'' when [[Camp Gay|Cheeks]] and Brady (who were dating) find out they got married. For multiple reasons they decide to remain married and see how it works out.▼
▲== Web Original ==
▲* This is the premise behind the series ''[http://husbandstheseries.com/video/ Husbands]'' when [[Camp Gay|Cheeks]] and Brady (who were dating) find out they got married. For multiple reasons they decide to remain married and see how it works out.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] on ''[[Ugly Americans]]''--[[Unfazed Everyman|Mark]] accidentally agrees to take part in some weird demonic ritual for his girlfriend [[Horny Devil|Callie]]. A lot of the festivities ''seem'' to mean it's a wedding, either directly (white dress, ice sculptor) or indirectly (killing her ex-boyfriends), but it turns out she actually plans to [[Soul Jar|suck out his soul]]. When he manages to get out of it (and [[Shout-Out|cheers her up by]] [[Carrie|dumping pig blood on her]]) he asks if all this means they're engaged, and she tells him not to be an idiot.
* In Israel, pronouncing "You are consecrated to me through this ring in accordance with the religion of Moses and Israel" in the presence of two witnesses, then having sex, is a legal marriage. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3677927,00.html So what was intended as a joke was resolved by a legal divorce.
▲== Real life ==
▲* In Israel, pronouncing "You are consecrated to me through this ring in accordance with the religion of Moses and Israel" in the presence of two witnesses, then having sex, is a legal marriage. So what was intended as a joke was resolved by a legal divorce. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3677927,00.html]
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Marriage Tropes]]
[[Category:Wedding and Engagement Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Plots]]
▲[[Category:Accidental Marriage]]
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