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== Comic Books ==
* In a bizarre twist on this trope, Victor Mancha of the ''[[Runaways]]'' comic books thinks that his dad was a marine who died in the first Gulf War. It turns out that {{spoiler|he never had a dad in the traditional sense at all--Victor is a cyborg created by the evil robot Ultron using his mother's DNA.}}
== Film ==
* Wavey Prowse in ''The Shipping News'' (book by Annie Proulx) and (2001 film). She claims that her disabled son's father was lost at sea, {{spoiler|but ultimately reveals that, after a long string of affairs, he'd left her when she was eight months pregnant and is now living somewhere outside Newfoundland. Instead of admitting what happened, she'd staged his supposedly-fatal shipwreck to save face.}}
* Inverted in ''[[Bounce (film)|Bounce]]'': Gwyneth Paltrow's character is a widow but claims to be divorced because she was sick of people pitying her. Since, in her words, "everyone is divorced these days", they don't pity her as much when she tells that lie. ▼
== Literature ==
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* Vianne in ''[[The Lollipop Shoes]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Girl with No Shadow'') changes her name and pretends to be a widow to explain the existence of her two children.
* Pharinet in ''[[Chronicles of Magravandias]]'' claims widowhood even though there's no solid proof her husband is dead. It serves the practical purpose of letting her move out of her husband's house and back with her own family, which she always wanted.
* In ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles]]'' {{spoiler|short story ''Detroit Christmas'', Emily Fordyce hires Sullivan to prove her missing husband is dead. This whole thing is actually an elaborate plot by her to fake his murder and run away with the insurance payout+inheritance before he returns from a vacation with his mistress.}}
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Theatre ==
* Mrs. Arbuthnot of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play ''A Woman of No Importance''.
▲* Inverted in ''Bounce'': Gwyneth Paltrow's character is a widow but claims to be divorced because she was sick of people pitying her. Since, in her words, "everyone is divorced these days", they don't pity her as much when she tells that lie.
* Another male example: In ''[[The Rainmaker (theatre)|The Rainmaker]]'', File falsely claims to be a widower.
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