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== Film ==
* In ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (film)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'', Mercédès, the financéefiancée of hero Edmond Dantes, inexplicably espouses his rival Fernand Mondego soon after Dantes is imprisoned on a trumped-up charge. The paternity of {{spoiler|her only son}} eventually becomes a plot point in the film (which differs in this regard from the original [[Alexandre Dumas]] [[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|novel]]).
* ''[http://lonchaney.org/filmography/153.html West of Zanzibar]'': [[Lon Chaney]] plays a man whose wife was going to run away with another man and then [[Death by Childbirth|died shortly after childbirth]]. He [[Revenge by Proxy|raises his "daughter" to be an alcoholic prostitute]]. Then the other man shows up, and tells him that his wife never went away with him - [[Karmic Twist Ending|the child is his own]].
 
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