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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 -- anaccessory—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 -- atvalid—at least by the rules of the place where she grew up.

As to the real-life possibility of an [['''Accidental Marriage]]''' being valid (at least in North America), it's pretty remote: although courts in both the U.S. and Canada have decreed that a couple who thinks they're legally married is legally married, at the same time a marriage usually isn't considered valid without a marriage license, which has to be purchased ''before'' the wedding (and in most places both parties to the wedding have to buy the license together). This was originally meant to prevent marriage fraud, but it also allows the state or provincial government to make a little money on each ceremony.

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

* As the plot of ''[[DearS]]'', the protagonist Takeya ''bonds'' with Ren through a direct kiss in the very first episode -- thenepisode—then spent half of the series wondering what was going on between two of them.

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' has an episode devoted to this trope, as Kenshin is told to give his girlfriend Kaoru a ring he found -- thefound—the poor girl believes this to be an engagement proposal. By the end of the episode, though, all is confessed (and the ring is returned to the original owner, who was this close to killing himself because he threw it away after a fight with his fiance and there is no actual marriage. There's still a kinda sweet scene at the end where Kenshin makes up with Kaoru by bringing her flowers, though.

* In ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'', the main character Nagasumi is rescued by Seto Sun -- theSun—the daughter of a [[Yakuza]] mermaid family. Turns out she would have to be executed for breaking the mermaid code of secrecy by saving Nagasumi, unless he marries her.

* 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 mother -- whereuponmother—whereupon Yuuri slaps him across the face. [[Accidental Marriage|Unbeknownst to Yuuri, this constitutes a proposal of marriage.]] Instead of clearing up the confusion, Wolfram's brothers urge Yuuri to 'take it back', but Yuuri, thinking they mean the insult of the slap, swears he never will. The insulted and embarrassed Wolfram then throws his cutlery on the ground, and when Yuuri picks it up, it turns out that dropping a knife is a challenge to a duel, and Yuuri has accepted by picking it up. Poor Yuuri is deeply bewildered. {{spoiler|Yuuri wins the duel, and it's unclear whether having lost the duel means Wolfram isn't allowed to decline the marriage proposal, or if he just doesn't want to anymore; either way, the engagement stands.}}

* 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 him -- andhim—and now she can not abandon him.

* In the [[Liaden Universe]] novel ''Agent of Change'', Val Con gives Miri a small switchblade knife for protection -- causingprotection—causing the alien Clutch Turtles with whom they are traveling to assume Val Con and Miri had gotten married. (Knives and rituals associated with them make up a significant part of the Clutch Turtles' society and culture.)

* 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|Squicky]]y and infinitely more funny than it might otherwise be.}}