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** Subverted with Angua, who, despite becoming a [[Love Interest]] for Carrot, is still a strong character in her own right. Also averted with all the witches (naturally).
* Done in-universe in the ''[[Robotech]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]. Miriya was the greatest Zentraedi female ace, and when she got her [[Heel Face Turn]] and [[Best Her to Bed Her|married Max Sterling]], for the rest of the original series she was his counterpart and got equal screentime with him. Then during the Malcontent Uprisings, the brass made the official decision to turn her into a propaganda piece; "homemaker, mother, ''former'' freedom fighter." Miriya abided by it, but still played an important role in the finale (and returned to [[Badass]] status during the Sentinels series).
* Apart from Galadriel, the women of [[The Lord of the Rings]] fall into this. Rosie, Goldberry and Arwen all function as [[Love Interests]] for male characters, and while Eowyn breaks out of the mold eventually, she's introduced as the dutiful niece of Théoden and a potential [[Love Interest]] for Aragorn, and some interpretations attribute her drive to join the army as a reaction to being rejected.
** Also, she winds up settling down with Faramir. Although given pretty much everybody except Frodo, Gandalf, Legolas, and Gimli seems to get married, and the elf and the dwarf are doing some mysterious [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] thing, Tolkien's only other sane option may have been not to tell us what happened to her at all.
*** She could have married a non-character offscreen like Merry and Pippin did. She could have gone traveling the world. She could have not been rescued from her depression by her new [[Love Interest]].
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