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** Justified in that there are huge gaps in time between many stories, and that they weren't written in chronological order. Conan had several lengthy relationships, and eventually married. Also before his marriage Conan is specified to run out of money a lot.
* Thomas Lewellyn, of Will Thomas's Barker and Lewellyn Victorian-era mysteries, will fall in love at least once a book, but it never works out. (Then again, it never gets far- twice he's warned off by the young lady's father or guardian and immediately gives up on the matte and twice it turns out she's seeing someone else and lied about it. The one time he manages to entertain serious thoughts of a relationship until the end of the book? Turns out {{spoiler|she's the [[Big Bad]]}}. Oops.)
* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]'' discusses, lampshades, and generally plays hell with this trope: the opposition is using a Hero-trap geas, meaning that all efforts to oppose him will be funneled into the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]]; since he cast himself as the villain, he can only be successfully resisted by a [[James Bond]] archetype, which is played by [[The Hero|Bob]]. He is quickly paired up with a female [[Eagle Land|Black Chamber]] agent, making her a Bond girl. {{spoiler|And then the trope is turned completely upside down: it turns out that [[The Chessmaster|Angleton]] was able to successfully end-run the geas by making Bob's girlfriend, Mo, the true Bond-figure in the geas, meaning that ''Bob'' is the [[
* Bernie Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block's [[Gentleman Thief]] protagonist, sleeps with at least one female love interest per novel, and none of them reappear or are mentioned again after that. The closest person in Bernie's life is Carolyn Kaiser, a lesbian pet-groomer who describes herself as his "minion", and is [[Platonic Life Partners]] with him.
* [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Bertie Wooster]] runs through love interests quickly and frequently ends up engaged (often against his will), but never actually gets married because [[Status Quo Is God]].
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