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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 accessory—an [[Clingy Jealous Girl|intense young lady]] who insists that they are now married. Sometimes it's a delusion on her part, but sometimes it's valid—at least by the rules of the place where she grew up.

 

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.)

 

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'' has [[Anime Chinese Girl|Shampoo's]] village of Joketsuzoku; according to the rulebook, not only is she supposed to give a [[Kiss of Death]] to any non-Joketsuzoku girl who defeats her, but she's also supposed to marry any non-Joketsuzoku guy who defeats her. Between being a guy who defeated her in front of her whole village (admittedly in the wrong form, thanks to his [[Gender Bender]] curse), followed by knocking her out cold again in male form in her first appearance in Japan, Shampoo and her great-grandmother insist that Ranma is engaged to her.

** 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]]s are usurpers who are trying to steal Ranma from her. Despite the fact Ranma has no interest in her whatsoever.

* 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.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

 

** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|With a]] ''{{spoiler|[[Star Trek]]}}'' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|themed wedding, no less!]]

 

 

 

 

** 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.

* 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.

 

== Mythology ==

* 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.

 

* 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.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* [[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.

 

 

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