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{{trope}}
{{quote|''If you can't be with the one you love
''Honey, love the one you're with''|'''Stephen Stills''', "Love the One You're With"}}
Bob, Charlie, Dave etc. have been [[Love Dodecahedron|chasing]] Alice. Now it's time for Alice to choose Bob as her one and only.
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Some ways of making it so that cleaning up loose ends doesn't have to happen are for all characters to [[No Loves Intersect|be paired up from the very beginning]] or reach a mutual [[Tenchi Solution]]. Or, of course, simply [[Did Not Get the Girl|accepting that they lost and moving on with their life]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' is the number one example. The anime spends so much time doing this sort of thing after Miki and Yuu pair off early in the series, it's almost impossible to take it seriously. Enter boy C who wants Miki, and girl D who wants Yuu. They team up, agreeing to work together to make Miki and Yuu break up. They fail, but it's okay -- because they fall in love in the process and get together! Repeat twenty times, and you have Marmalade Boy. The word "marmalade" has become a standard name for this plot device in the vocabulary of shoujo anime fans.
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* ''Almost'' averted in ''[[Love Hina]]''. Even the [[Distant Finale|day before the wedding]] of Keitaro and Naru, Suu and Shinobu both admit they still have it ''bad'' for the former... and when Motoko chides them for their fixation, Shinobu pulls out Motoko's latest bodice ripper manuscript which involves a swordswoman cutting down the bride at a wedding and ordering the groom to "Take me now!" Fortunately, they all are willing to [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|let the happy couple be]].
** On the other hand, {{spoiler|"Character C" Mutsumi goes the "wanting Character A to be happy" route - in a way - earlier in the series (Chapter 82 and 83)... by revealing that she's equally in love with Keitarou ''and'' Naru, and wants to make them both happy by helping them get together, thus stepping aside from her own interests to play matchmaker for them instead, ultimately lumping her in with the rest of the group's mutual satisfaction for the happy couple.}}
* By the end of the manga of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', {{spoiler|when Ranma and Akane look set to finally marry each other when Akane's dad blackmails Ranma into marrying Akane, Akane's three major competitors have been [[Last-Minute Hookup|paired off]], with varying degrees of success: Ryoga has chosen [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|to stand aside]] while he pursues a relationship with Akari. Ukyo had a suitor in the form of Konatsu. Shampoo has Mousse as a suitor.}} However, only the Ryoga instance is in any way successful, as they went on to summarily ignore their "consolation prizes" and Shampoo outright attacked the bride at her own wedding
** Ranma blows chances to do this quite often. He refuses to throw a fight to Mousse to get rid of Shampoo and in another storyline goes out of his way to ruin Kuno's chance with the one girl that actually liked him. [[What an Idiot!]].
*** Neither of those would have really changed the status quo if he '''had''' gone along with it. Shampoo only declared she would go on a date with Mousse if Ranma lost to him, not that she would marry him or something like that; having never thought of him as a love interest in the first place, she would have put up with having to go out with him once and then gone right back to chasing Ranma, with the only difference being that Mousse would be even more pissed off by it than usual. And Kuno never was interested in Mariko in the first place... not to mention that she got over him without the slightest effort after seeing him beaten and, evidently, realizing what a lustful idiot he is.
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== Fan Fiction ==
* In ''[[White Devil of the Moon]]'', after {{spoiler|Nanoha and Fate get together}}, in an omake
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* After winningly declaring her independence from Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle in ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' returns to Higgins after all give the audience a so called romantic happy ending, deviating from the source material, ''Pygmalion'', by [[George Bernard Shaw]], who strongly felt that the characters should not end up together.
* ''[[L.A. Story]]''. Married man Harris K. Telemacher falls in love with a younger woman, but his loyalty to his wife prevents him from going any further. Luckily, he discovers that his wife is cheating on him with another man, so he can proceed with his new romance.
* Kelsi and Jason at the end of the first ''[[High School Musical]]'' movie: Kelsi, who seemed to have a bit of a crush on Troy, is randomly paired up with his only friend, (with actual lines,) Jason, that doesn't have a crush/girlfriend/whatever, despite the fact that they never interacted before in the movie and they have nothing in common.
* [[Pair the Spares|Dan's brother and Dan's date]] in ''[[Dan in Real Life]]''
* This trope appears to be Nora Ephron's bread and butter. In ''[[Sleepless in Seattle]]'', {{spoiler|Annie Reed and Walter come a mutual agreement that they are not all that in love and part amicably, leaving Annie free to hook up with Sam later that very night}}. Meanwhile, in ''[[You've Got Mail]]'', {{spoiler|Joe gives the boot to his shrill and unlikable girlfriend Patricia after being trapped in an elevator with her. Kathleen and Frank mutually agree that they are not all that in love and break off their engagement, leaving Kathleen free to hook up with Joe within a few weeks.}}
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