Deconfirmed Bachelor: Difference between revisions
m
→Theater: clean up
prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.DeconfirmedBachelor 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.DeconfirmedBachelor, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (→Theater: clean up) |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown) | |||
Line 4:
Of course the more definite they are, the more they are generally cementing their ultimate fate: to have the right woman come along and, be it through love at first sight, her feminine wiles, the plotting of all the confirmed bachelor's friends who would love to make him eat his words after all his lecturing or a combination of the above, the confirmed bachelor ends up tying the knot more or less of their own free will, and becoming a deconfirmed bachelor.
{{examples
== Live Action Film ==
Line 14:
* Silk from [[The Belgariad]] has strong tendancies of this trope, especially in the Mallorean when he trades out his vaguely tragic [[Unrequited Love]] for Queen Porenn to catching the eye of wily [[Action Girl|up-and-coming Lady-Spy]] Liselle.
{{quote|
'''Silk:''' "Not ''me'', my young friend. In spite of this universal plunge towards matrimony, ''I'' still haven't lost my senses. If worse comes to worse, I still know how to run." }}
* In ''[[The Tales of Beedle the Bard]]'', friends of the warlock from "The Warlock's Hairy Heart" are convinced that he will eat his words about love when a nice girl catches his eye. They have no idea that he ''removed his own heart'' to prevent this from happening.
* Mat Cauthon in ''[[
* Stephen Maturin in the [[Aubrey
== Live Action TV ==
* Barney from ''[[
* Danny on ''[[CSI: NY]]''
{{quote|
'''Danny''':Marriage?
'''Mac''':Love
'''Danny''':Come on, Mac, don't say stuff like that. }}
** Of course, five seasons later, that all changed...
Line 39:
** His love interest, Beatrice, is a rare female version of this trope.
* ''[[Guys and Dolls]]'' has Sky Masterson.
{{quote|
'''Nathan:''' "We all gotta go sometime."
'''Sky:''' " But, Nathan, we can fight it. The companionship of a doll is pleasant even for a period running into months. But for a close relationship that can last through our life, no doll can take the place of aces back to back." }}
* ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' has a man who embodies this trope in pretty much every way in Professor Henry Higgins, he even says out loud 'So here I am, a confirmed old bachelor and likely to remain so.' the only hitch is that whether he actually does break down and end up in a relationship in the end. It's clear by the end of the movie he's grown quite fond of Eliza, and unlike the play, they even added a scene at the end where they reunite and, arguably reconcile, but even aside from the [[
** This was based on the play ''[[Pygmalion]]'', by George Bernard Shaw, who added an afterword to the script railing against people who thought that the two main characters would even consider romantic entanglements with each other post-plot.
* In the musical ''[[Company]]'', Robert ("Bobby") is a 35-year-old New York bachelor whose circle of non-romantic friends are all couples. In the song "Side By Side" he sings:
{{quote|
Line 56:
[[Category:Wedding and Engagement Tropes]]
[[Category:Deconfirmed Bachelor]]
| |||