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Compare [[All Love Is Unrequited]].
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* Any show with military underpinnings usually does this as well, since it would be "improper" to actually have a relationship within the ranks. ''[[Star Trek]]'' in particular usually plays fast and hard with this trope (and when two officers ''do'' get married, they always seem to be the same rank at least).
** Not actually considered much of an issue in the British Army, provided those involved are not in the same chain of command, i.e. no boinking the boss.
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*** Note that #2 can have exceptions, as long as numbers 1 & 3 are followed. See [http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airforce/a/fraternization_4.htm #3, bold item 2, here].
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Played largely straight in the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', which isn't surprising, since most of the main cast are junior officers still in their late teens. Averted in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', with two couples from the original who had gotten married in the intervening years. Most Gundam shows play it straight, though.
* Narrowly averted in ''[[Patlabor]]'', as shinshi often mentions having a wife at home. The rest of the main cast are single, but considering their personalities, that's hardly surprising.
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* The ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series has this in the earlier stories as a common issue. While there are many couples, the main character is very single with romance subplots. [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] with the Author taking 12 books to start cleaning up loose ends.
* All 7 Friends of Narnia in ''[[The Last Battle]]'' are single. None of them married either in Narnia or England.
* Subverted and played straight in
== [[Live
* Averted ''and'' played straight in ''[[Women's Murder Club]]''; one of the main characters is a single workaholic whose obsession with her job destroyed her marriage, but another is happily married with kids and a third is in a long-term relationship (although she's a commitment-phobic with a tendency to stray).
* On ''[[24
** In season 8, this was averted by Cole and Dana {{spoiler|until, as you might expect, Dana turned out to be [[The Mole]].}}
* At the beginning of the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* The only married character of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' divorced in the third season--but everyone's favorite tech kitten is dating ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''s Xander, and it looks like certain other characters might start getting some... Also, JJ has been living with and dating Will since season three. They even have a son together!
* ''[[Grey's
** The Chief and Bailey were both stressfully married, McDreamy had just split with Redheaded Doctor after banging McSteamy, so the grown-ups weren't even coping. In fact given the state of Izzie-Alex, George-Callie and Yang-Burke GA is not really an advert for the medical profession.
** In later seasons we get more stable relationships. Meredith and Darek are happily married and Owen and Christina are giving marriage a fair shot. Alex and Izzie got married but that ended badly when Izzie was written out. Even Mark seems to be looking for a stable relationship. Arizona has proposed to Callie even with the entire Callie-carrying-Mark's-baby debacle.
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** Taub, Cameron, Chase, Foreman and Thirteen are all doctors and none of them are single. This only leaves Cuddy, House and Wilson single in the primary cast. Kutner doesn't count.
** And then everyone breaks up except for Taub and his wife (until they divorce later in the series). On the other hand, Cuddy gets a boyfriend breaks up with him. Then she dates House for a while and then broke up with him.
* Going strong so far{{when}} on ''[[The Mentalist]]''. Viewers know little of Lisbon and Cho's personal lives (except Cho's seems to consist largely of working steadily through very thick books), with the impression they're too consumed with their work to bother. Rigsby loves van Pelt, but van Pelt runs like a frightened rabbit from the idea because as the junior member of the team, she'd get transferred out if she started dating a coworker (and she doesn't come off as that into Rigsby anyway). Jane, meanwhile, lost his wife and daughter to a pissed off serial killer he was helping to hunt, and still hasn't recovered emotionally.
** Cho was revealed to have a girlfriend and {{spoiler|Rigsby and Van Pelt finally give in, not without fear}}. The impression of consumption with work, however, remains strong, and social lives outside of work seem virtually nonexistent.
* None of the main cast of ''[[NCIS]]'' are married, and Gibbs, who has had three divorces, is rather cynical on the subject of marriage.
** This could be a [[Double Subversion]]. McGee and Abby dated at one point, and Tony's [[Urban Legend Love Life|supposedly a ladies' man]], but never gets serious with anyone. And then it gets averted outright with [[Happily Married|Vance]].
* All versions are represented in ''[[New Tricks]]''; the boss is a single workaholic, one of the detectives is a multiple-divorcee and another is a widower. Ironically, however, the most psychologically-screwed up of them all is also the only one who is happily married, and has been for a good long time.
* Everyone in the mayor's office in ''[[Spin City]]'' is single, except for the mayor himself, and he gets divorced during the series. Paul does attain a happy marriage at one point, but his wife later leaves him to become a nun.
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** Santos is also notoriously happily married with his wife often delaying him for a hook-up.
** This is true of all of Sorkin's movies and TV shows; he just can't write couples very well.
* The central characters in ''[[Las Vegas]]'', except for Ed Deline, mostly stay out of serious relationships. Samantha is [[Allergic to Love]] (although we later learn that she was married), Mary wants to settle down but can't make it last, Mike and Danny date multiple girls, and Delinda flits from man to man until she and Danny get together near the end. In season 5, new owner A.J. Cooper had a wife that he never talks about.
* This was the premise of ''[[Sex and the City]]'' for the first several seasons. Near the end, though, they all wind up either married (Miranda
* All of the main cast of ''[[Cold Case]]'' are single, widowed, or divorced.
* As mentioned in the summary, ''[[CSI]]'' is this to a ridiculous extent. Subverted with Grissom and Sara, who are married, but since neither one is a regular character anymore, we're right back where we started. (There have been rumblings about Wendy/Hodges and Catherine/Vartann, but neither are canon as of yet.)
** {{spoiler|Catherine/Vartann is canon, and Wendy/Hodges is... sorta canon. She kissed him, but it was never really said if they're in a relationship. Maybe we'll find out in the premiere, right around the same time that we never see Wendy again because they fired Liz Vassey...}}
** Warrick got married which surprised all the other characters since they did not even know that he was seeing anyone. The marriage is rarely mentioned on the show with the implication that Warrick is trying very hard to keep his professional life separate from his private one. When he gets divorced it comes equally out of the blue and then {{spoiler|he is killed}}. The audience does not really get to see the wife.
* Subverted in the first episode of the British sitcom ''[[The IT
* Only Gwen in ''[[Torchwood]]'' has a partner, Rhys. Captain Jack encourages her to stay with him and not let her work consume her... it doesn't go well. {{spoiler|On the other hand, they're still together at the end of series 4, so...}}
** Although Ianto and Jack later officially became a couple, so it's was subverted in series 3 when all of the Torchwood team were in a relationship at the same time.
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** Though they all date throughout the show.
* When ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' started, Tom was the only character who was married. He later got a divorce (in an episode titled "Tom's Divorce", no less).
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