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==G-Rated Examples:==

 

* In ''[[Candy Candy]]'', {{spoiler|Neil Legan}} attempts to get Candy to marry him through this. {{spoiler|He fails.}}

* In ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' Shin agrees to spare Kenshiro if his fiance Yuria will love him. This is G-rated because although she does follow Shin, she never actually loves him, nor does Shin ever attempt to ''force'' Yuria to love him, hoping to make her willingly change her mind.

* In ''[[Hana no Ko Lunlun]]'', the beautiful Margot from the Germany arc is an [[Impoverished Patrician]], and a filthy rich [[Dirty Old Man]] tries to force her into marriage. Lunlun resolves it by challenging the old man to a Medieval-style duel and using her magical flower pin to transform herself into a [[Knight in Shining Armor]].

 

* This used to happen frequently in [[Silver Age]] [[Marvel Comics]], especially to Susan Storm, the Invisible Woman of the [[Fantastic Four]]. In their first encounter, Namor wrecked the FF, then offered to spare them if Sue would marry him and become Queen of Atlantis. She accepted, but Namor became enraged when he saw her reluctance, and stormed off. Variations on this also occurred with Kang the Conqueror and Mole Man (boy, Sue was a hot commodity on the supervillain marriage market!).

** Rehashed in the Ultimate Marvel version, where she kisses Namor in exchange for him not destroying them and the city.

** Also happened to Angel when Callisto from the Morlocks group decided that she needed a future mate. The TV series used the same set-up but with Cyclops instead.

 

* ''[[Beetlejuice]]''. And Beetlejuice makes it very clear that one implies the other (it is a [[Tim Burton]] film, after all).

* Rare male version: In ''[[The Matrix]]: Reloaded'', Persephone refuses to help the rebels unless Neo gives her a passionate kiss, as he would to Trinity. Trinity is not amused.

** She does this again in the ''Enter the Matrix'' videogame with the main character, whether you chose Ghost...[[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|or Niobe]].

 

* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]],'' Violet is being forced to marry Olaf (in a play so no one will object to her being so young) because he has her sister Sunny and will kill her if she doesn't. Although Olaf is specifically marrying her for the money and doesn't seem to have sex in mind primarily, there are still several disturbing innuendos: Olaf utters the quite [[Squick]]y line after being foiled, "You may not be my wife, but you are still my daughter, and--"; he decides that he'll let her live even after he has the fortune and makes quite a few comments on how pretty she is; he has a knife to her THIGH under the table in the next book; and don't forget the lines, "Violet imagined sleeping beside Count Olaf, and waking up each morning to look at this terrible man," and Olaf saying, "Now if you'll excuse us, me and my bride will be off to have our wedding night..." Now that's just...wrong. Handler ''must'' have known what that would imply to his older readers.

* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'': Erik threatens to [[Love Makes You Evil|blow up the Opera House and everyone in it]] if Christine doesn't marry him. She tries to kill herself, and it's not until her fiancé Raoul is dying in Erik's [[Drowning Pit]] that she vows to be Erik's "living wife" if he spares Raoul. Unusually, it's Erik himself who introduces [[Take a Third Option|the third option]] by deciding [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]].

** However, in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and [[The Movie|movie version]], the phantom imposes the ultimatum himself.

* ''[[Holes]]'': The origin story for Kissin' Kate Barlow. The sheriff threatens to hang Sam, a black man, for kissing Miss Katherine Barlow. When Katherine protests, the sheriff says that if she'll kiss him, too, he'll only run Sam out of town. She refuses and tries to run away with Sam, but they're caught and in the process Sam is shot and killed. Afterwards, Katherine shoots the sheriff, then puts on bright red lipstick and kisses him. When she turns to outlawry, her calling card is kissing the men she kills.

 

* Happens in [[iCarly]], where somebody steals Carly's internet domain. He would be content with just a kiss from her.

 

* In [[the Musical]] version of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', he even has a wedding dress for the occasion, and the [[Death Trap]] scene is changed to him trapping Raoul in his Punjab lasso and threatening to hang him.

{{quote|"His life is now the prize that you must earn. So, do you end your days with me, or do you send him to his grave?"}}

 

* Comes into play in ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''. The party needs an airship and Setzer will only allow them to use his in exchange for Celes' hand in marriage. Celes manages to cheat her way out of the agreement and gets the airship anyway.

** Specifically, the style and audacity she uses to cheat him he finds so amusing that he pledges his life to their cause because the group's adventures are...well, crazy.

 

* In the [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] version of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', Gaston threatens to have Belle's father Maurice committed unless she marries him. She [[Take a Third Option|uses her magic mirror to prove the existence of the Beast]] and clear her father's name. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Unfortunately, this also gives Gaston the opportunity to rile the mob into a murderous frenzy at the sight of the Beast.]]

* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' Operation KASTLE, King Sandy coerces Numbuh 3 to marry him by threatening to dump a bunch of Rainbow Monkeys into a vat of hot nacho cheese.

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