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== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novels, the decision to give ex-companion [[Bernice Summerfield]] her own spin-off
* Exception: Jasper Fforde married off the character of [[Thursday Next]] in her first book, specifically to avoid romantic subplots in the rest of the series, and get on with the main story.
* Subverted in ''The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'', in which the protagonist is married... but still eligible for a love interest subplot, as it's a group marriage. (In fact, two spouses, one of each sex, get added to the marriage over the course of the book. The new wife is the protagonist's new love interest (and all the other spouses grow to love her too), the new husband is a friend protagonist and love interest acquire during the plot, who thoroughly charms all the other spouses.)
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* 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|Twenty Four]]'', this is universally true at
** 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 Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' miniseries, almost every member of the main and supporting cast is single, but by the end of Season 2 everyone is already hooked up or on their way there. During the year-long gap in the timeline between the Season 2 finale and the beginning Season 3, the [[Love Dodecahedron]] of the previous season has resolved itself into four reasonably [[Happily Married]] couples.
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