Married to the Job: Difference between revisions

This is particularly common among military personnel, detectives, secret agents and doctors. Architects also seem prone to this trope (and usually fall into the first category) for some reason.

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Captain Kirk in ''[[Star Trek]]'' is often said to be "married" to the Enterprise.

** Hilariously parodied in ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' where Shatner is forced to read from a bad fan script:

* Alisa from ''[[Harvest Moon (Video Game)|Harvest Moon]]: Island of Happiness'', and eventually [[Updated Rerelease|''Sunshine Islands'']], is basically a nun. She has an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] status, and Marvelous just teases you in the latter by giving you [[Relationship Values|heart events]]. She turns you down though.

* {{spoiler|Hiro}} is always working in ''[[Ef a Fairy Tale of The Two (Visual Novel)|Ef a Fairy Tale of The Two]]''. {{spoiler|His eventual girlfriend, Miyako, gets upset when he can't take a short break to go on a trip with her like he promised earlier. Of course, he outright states that his relationship is more important that his job so}} it's subverted.

* One of the excuses Max uses in ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam & Max]]'' to turn down Mama Bosco.

{{quote| '''Max:''' I'm married to my career.<br />

'''Sam:''' They had the ceremony in Canada because it's legal there. }}

* Samara in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''. She was married with children once, but when she became a Justicar (her people's equivalent of a [[Knight Errant]]) in order to hunt down a serial killer {{spoiler|(who is one of her three daughters)}}, she gave up all ties to her old life. If you play a Paragon Shepard (of either gender) and try to romance her, she will eventually ask you not to make her choose between the code and you. Renegade Shepard is too [[Trigger Happy]] for her to even consider it.

* Cave Johnson in ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'' mentions that his aide Caroline is "married to science." {{spoiler|1=It's this workaholic tendency that allows GLaDOS to withstand the euphoric reaction to successful testing, noted otherwise to be "unbearable".}}

* Carl Schiff, a psychopath and boss fight in ''[[Dead Rising 2 (Video Game)|Dead Rising 2]]'', is absolutely devoted to finishing his routes. Not even a mall full of zombies and serial killers will stop him, though they do manage to make him a few minutes late. This makes him extremely upset, and when he finds out the man who he thinks is behind the outbreak (you), he pulls out s shotgun and starts throwing bombs.

* Knuckles from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Video Game)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has complained about his boring life guarding the Master Emerald, but he takes his duty extremely seriously.

* Aveline from ''[[Dragon Age II (Video Game)|Dragon Age II]]''--at first, anyway. After her husband Wesley dies, she throws herself into her job as guardswoman (and later Guard Captain) so fully that, when she ''does'' end up developing feelings for another man (Guardsman Donnic), she has no clue what to do. Her personal sidequest involves [[Match Maker Quest|attempting to get them together despite Aveline's lack of romantic skills]]. To say that Hawke has his/her job cut out for him/her is an understatement.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'': The title character is very devoted to his job at the Krusty Krab. So devoted, in fact, that when he is forced to take a break in "Bummer Vacation," he {{spoiler|goes ''nuts''}}.

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'': When Bart claims that he has a girlfriend, Groundskeeper Willy proclaims that he does to. She's a... bikini model from Switzerland. Right after Bart leaves {{spoiler|she comes out of his shack and asks him to come to bed, to which he replies that she shouldn't try to compete with his job, because she'll never win.}}