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{{trope}}
{{quote|''If you can't be with the one you love
''Honey, love the one you're with''
|'''Stephen Stills''', "Love the One You're With"}}
Bob, Charlie, Dave etc. have been [[Love Dodecahedron|chasing]] Alice. Now it's time for Alice to choose Bob as her one and only.
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{{examples}}
== Anime
* ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' is the number one example. The anime spends so much time doing this sort of thing after Miki and Yuu pair off early in the series, it's almost impossible to take it seriously. Enter boy C who wants Miki, and girl D who wants Yuu. They team up, agreeing to work together to make Miki and Yuu break up. They fail, but it's okay—because they fall in love in the process and get together! Repeat twenty times, and you have Marmalade Boy. The word "marmalade" has become a standard name for this plot device in the vocabulary of shoujo anime fans.
** It should be noted that it was a lot less complicated in the manga because there were far less characters in it compared to the anime as well as the author herself not wanting to pair all the characters up since she thought it was unrealistic. She actually has commented on how she was slightly annoyed that virtually all the characters did seem to get paired up in the anime.
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== Fan
* In ''[[White Devil of the Moon]]'', after {{spoiler|Nanoha and Fate get together}}, in an omake it is implied that {{spoiler|Sailor Mars}} sees this as the perfect opportunity to get together with {{spoiler|Mamoru/Endymion}}, with the main romantic rival removed.
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** This is an [[Broken Aesop|Aesop breaker]] for the movie, but a deleted scene tries to justify it by establishing Nancy as a former romantic who gave up on meeting a prince to sweep her off her feet.
** It isn't like they get married immediately, there is enough time for two of the sidekick characters to get books published and Giselle to establish a successful business. So they were together for at least six months, more likely a year, first. But they aren't the main characters, so it's not like they can spend the extra time to show those two falling in love as well.
* After inadvertently causing the end of the world, the heroes and their Soviet counterparts from ''[[Spies Like Us]]'' decide to at least die happy: Chevy Chase pairs up with the gorgeous Donna Dixon, while the two older Soviet techs hook up together. Since there are two male techs and one female left, it seems that Dan
* A major subplot in ''[[Alexander Nevsky]]'' has two warriors, [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|Gavrilo and Vassili]], as rivals for the hand of [[Proper Lady|Olga Danilova]], declaring that whoever is bravest in battle will win her. It ends with Vasili yielding place to Gavrilo, as he has fallen hard for [[Action Girl|Vasilissa of Pskov]] (Vasili claims that ''she'' was the bravest of all, and Gavrilo was second).
* After winningly declaring her independence from Henry Higgins, Eliza Doolittle in ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' returns to Higgins after all give the audience a so called romantic happy ending, deviating from the source material, ''Pygmalion'', by [[George Bernard Shaw]], who strongly felt that the characters should not end up together.
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