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[[File:TenchiSolutionGXP.jpg|link=Tenchi Muyo! GXP|frame|So, wait, did he hook up with the cat thing too?]]
 
 
{{quote|'''Anime Tenchou:''' If you're a man, score all the heroines at once!<br />
'''Hayate:''' Please hold on. "Score all the heroines at once"? Am I a rapist?<br />
'''Maria:''' You don't like it?|''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]''}}
 
{{quote|'''Joey:''' I got two words for you: threesome!<br />
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So if [[First Girl Wins]], [[Last Girl Wins]], and/or [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]] clearly aren't where the plot is going, there's another way to resolve the situation: Instead of choosing one girl, the protagonist simply [[Polyamory|marries them all and they all live as one large family]].
 
The happiness of those involved depends on where on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] the series is; the ''only'' way this kind of ending will not end in a perpetual warzone of a [[Dysfunctional Family]] with an emotionally-dead [[Henpecked Husband]] (''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'') or a bloodbath within the year (''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'') is if the wives are also close friends who love ''each-other'' like sisters ([[Double Entendre|or something]] [[Yuri|else]]).
 
In [[Real Life]], such a thing is called polygamy, and is frowned upon in many countries. Where legal, it may be used for producing continuations of the bloodline and having people to clean the house rather than love like above.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'': The discovery in the [[OVA]] that Juraians practice polygamy implies that Tenchi could ''hypothetically'' also go the other route if he wished, although he seems too old-fashioned to notice or consider the idea. In the original series, he tends towards [[No Romantic Resolution]] by remaining friendly with all of the girls but not favoring any of them.
** Both the OVA and GXP justify this by stating that the marriages are political: Ayeka and Sasami are granddaughters to Seto, the most powerful noble in Jurai who bosses the King {{spoiler|and Sasami herself [[Fusion Dance|is gradually merging]] with Tsunami, the patron goddess of Jurai and one of three known 11-dimensional entities named the Choushin (literally "super-deity"), into a singular being}}; Noike is adopted daughter of aforementioned Seto, {{spoiler|female half of Kagato, which also means that she is Naja Akara clone and as result have same genetic makeup with Seto-no-onihime}}; Mihoshi is a member of the Kuramitsu family, one of the most powerful families in the universe; Washu is {{spoiler|a Choushin}} and sister to {{spoiler|the aforementioned patron deity of the Juraians as well as Mihoshi's ancestor}}; {{spoiler|Tokimi eventually decides to live in Tenchi's house with her sisters, though she apparently doesn't have a romantic relation with him}}; Ryoko is technically Washu's daughter {{spoiler|and therefore technically half-choushin}}; and Ryo-ohki is Ryoko's ship. As the third OAV quickly points out, Tenchi's household is <s> potentially</s> the single highest concentration of power, Physical, Political, ''and'' Supernatural in the universe.
** In the [[All There in the Manual|tie-in doujinshi]], it is clearly stated that {{spoiler|he did eventually marry them all}}.
** ''[[Tenchi Muyo! GXP]]'' spoilers: {{spoiler|Tenchi's friend Seina, in a similar predicament with ''nine'' women (five main, four minor), has his problem solved for him by simply ordering him to "politically" marry his main five love interests. (The other four kidnap him just before the wedding and [[Rape Is OK When It Is Female On Male|ravish him]] to get in on it; it [[Rape Is Love|apparently works out somehow]] -- see the page image.) Tenchi even attended the wedding.}}
* ''[[Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual]]'': At the end of episode 14, Kazuki is made to go alone into space, with both Mizukis, Yayoi, and D (all the girls in love with him) as his official staff, at the actual instigation of the all the major parental authority figures (the Sanada and Rara parents) in the series.
** No big surprise, since it's from the same company that made ''Tenchi Muyo'', and is in fact canonically considered to be connected to [[Tenchi Muyo!]] by [[The Multiverse]] concept.
* ''[[El -Hazard: theThe Magnificent World]]'': At the end of the last TV series set in the first continuity (''EH:Wanderers'' was an [[Alternate Universe]]), ''EH: The Alternative World'', it appears that Makoto may very well be destined to get together with all the other girls anyway (ala Shuffle), ''as well as'' getting back together with Ifurita.
** After all, it's one of Pioneer's three ''harem romances'', the other two being ''Tenchi'' and ''Dual''. Roshtarian culture is also apparently inspired/derived from ancient Persia, where polygamy was a fact of life.
* In ''[[Happy Lesson]]'', all 5 of the hero's "mothers" decide that he's outgrown the need for a parental figure, so obviously what he needs next is wives.
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** What makes it even funnier is the fact that the mind reading is accompanied by a little doodle of her, Negi, and Yue sharing a bed. Ye gods, girl.
*** Said doodle was actually pretty innocent. The image her imagination cooked up a second later was ''not''.
* Hazumu from ''[[Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl]]'' tried this one, but it ended up completely collapsing into a quantum romance singularity.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' teases at this one in the second season. [[Genki Girl|Kaguya]], devoted fangirl and would-be wife of Zero/Lelouch, is perfectly okay with his supposedly eyeing other women like his bodyguard [[Action Girl|Kallen]] or his partner [[Mysterious Waif|C.C.]], because as Kaguya puts it, "Heroes are known for loving many women", and comments that the three of them are united in their devotion to Zero. Not that he's been [[Celibate Hero|eyeing any woman at all, really]], but Kaguya ''does'' like to play [[The Ditz]] now and then...
** She's not completely wrong, either, though. Lelouch himself may be a [[Celibate Hero]], but C.C. has been sleeping in his bed from the beginning, and is the only one he trusts implicitly, and Kallen is only behind because of her own racial identity issues and questions of Lelouch's morality. Lelouch's attempt to wriggle out of her marriage proposal was pretty much accepted by every viewer, as well as Kaguya, to mean "I belong to C.C.". In addition, the three of them disappear at the end of the Black Rebellion, and reappear together. That Kallen is the only one of the three who socializes with anybody other than each other, and their free access to Lelouch's room - which is apparently also C.C.'s room - is the final nail in the idea. There's very few other conclusions.
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** Can happen in the third game of the series as well, if the player wants. The player can either have Geo save Luna's things (and have an extra scene with her), Sonia's (and have an extra scene with her), or... Bud's, in which case there is no extra scene with the girls.
* ''[[Iono the Fanatics]]''. [[Girls Love|Queen Iono loves every single girl]] in her harem and they love her back. All 50,000+ of them.
* ''[[Kanokon (Light Novel)|Kanokon]]'' has an odd variation in which the guy in question doesn't even make the call; the last episode has {{spoiler|Chizuru and Nozomu agreeing to share Kouta.}}
** Also, whenever he tries to pick and just go for it, he is interrupted.
* ''[[Umi no Misaki]],'' by the author of ''[[Ai Yori Aoshi (Manga)|Ai Yori Aoshi]]''. A Tokyo teen moves to the southern island his late mother grew up on, and finds out that not only is he the prophesied reincarnated Dragon God of the local religious offshoot, the three hot girls that have been treating him badly are shrine maidens dedicated to serving him with their minds and bodies. Oh, and the Dragon God is supposed to give one (at least, it has not been clearly stated) his "favor". Of course, now the three maidens have fallen in love with him and trying their (non-violent) best to get the Dragon God to pick them, while the guy is attracted to and likes the three maidens as well . The story is working itself into a OT 4 ending, since this is really not a dark series, and having the guy pick only one girl would probably tear the other two to pieces.
* In ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'', Hachibei explicitly says he plans to do this. Though this becomes especially implausible {{spoiler|after Tsubame-sensei gets a new boyfriend, and Kirino moves away after becoming an idol singer. He seems to have abandoned it completely in the final volume after [[Love Epiphany|realizing how much he loves Sakurako]].}}
* In ''[[Saber Marionette J (Anime)|Saber Marionette J]]'', Otaru is shown to end up with all three of the girls -- Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry.
** Subverted in the second season, ''Saber Marionette J to X'', in that {{spoiler|Lime, Cherry, and Bloodberry end up getting turned into babies, and Otaru raises them as his daughters.}}
*** However, {{spoiler|''Cherry's still in love -- and [[Fille Fatale|lust]]! -- with Otaru anyway'', regardless of their new situation, implying possible future [[Parental Incest]] ala [[Hikaru Genji Plan]].}}
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* The protagonist of ''[[Sekirei]]'' are rapidly heading for [[Marry Them All]]. If they are not there already.
** And at least one secondary character seems to have gone for [[Marry Them All]] already with his two Sekirei...
* Despite the implications of the opening quote from ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', it seems that he's probably going to take the [[Dump Them All]] route. Or at least take the next 40 years to clear his debt before he tries to choose anyone. Doubtful that any of the girls would be willing to wait until they're 50 for a conclusion.
** Except for his true love (whoever that is)! So actually, its a pretty good plan.
** Recent events in the manga make this...complicated. For starters, the debt issue is kinda-sorta handled by {{spoiler|Nagi giving up her right to the inheritence to help Hayate save Athena}}. Hayate will likely be Nagi's butler forever simply because she means a lot to him and he wants to help her. In addition, another issue is solved in the way of {{spoiler|Hayate getting over his guilt about his past with Athena}} so he may be open for the possibility of romance (at least more-so than he was). Time will tell exactly how this gets resolved but Nishizawa has already proposed that both she and Hinagiku marry him so the option is still technically on the table.
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* In ''[[Bleach]]'', Orihime suggests something close to this effect. Though her feelings for Ichigo are obvious from the beginning of the manga, she eventually asks Rukia point-blank if she has feelings for Ichigo. Rukia denies this, and Orihime is actually ''disappointed'' because she feels that [[OT 3|if they both loved Ichigo]], they could ''[[Fetish Fuel|gang up on him]]'' and the [[Cloudcuckoolander|"girls would win"]].
** In the 23th anime ending, [[Chivalrous Pervert|Shunsui]] is shown having a date with two girls: his lieutenant [[Hot Librarian|Nanao Ise]] and {{spoiler|his ex-lieutenant}} [[Meganekko|Lisa Yadomaru]] from the Vaizards.
* Brutally averted in the ''[[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]]'' anime: Things do not work out between the [[Love Triangle]] and it ends with Makoto {{spoiler|being [[Knife Nut|stabbed to death by Sekai]], who just [[Break the Cutie|can't take it anymore]]. Kotonoha later [[Ax Crazy|kills Sekai with a cleaver]], cuts her open to confirm she wasn't pregnant, and, apparently completely insane, leaves with [[Off Withwith His Head|Makoto's severed head]] in a gym bag.}}
** Though it should be noticed that, in the [[Visual Novel]], [[OT 3|it's not THAT deconstructed.]] Not only there's the possibility of having Makoto, Kotonoha and Sekai engage in a three-way sex scene (with bonus [[Les Yay]] snowballing between the girls), but there is at least one ending in which Kotonoha and Sekai DO reach an agreement and decide to "share" Makoto's affections.
* In ''[[Shuffle]]!'', particularly the original H-Game/[[Visual Novel]], no matter who Rin ends up with, Shin-ou reminds everyone that polygamy is legal in Shinkai.
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{{quote| '''One of the girls:''' "Hey, Midori! We're stealing your man!"<br />
'''Midori:''' (after being screwed into exhaustion) "Aw, hell... Do whatever you want..." (slides to the floor out-of-panel) }}
* Happens in ''[[Dear SDearS]]'' by default, as Takeya ends up the only guy on a spaceship full of horny alien slavegirls in heat, which is going on a tour of the galaxy (two of them -- Ren and Miu -- were explicitly in love with him while still on Earth and two others -- Nyu and China -- have expressed attraction).
** Something similar happens in ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'', as Ikuto is the only man on the island.
*** Also occurs in ''[[Shina Dark]]''.
* Implied in ''[[Macademi Wasshoi]]'', as Takuto loves all three of them equally.
* Often brutally averted/subverted in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]'', as every single one of his harem are Yanderes (ironically, except for the First Girl, who's actually the driving force for the harem), in addition to being psychologically "toxic" in some way. Even when they do agree to share him, their consensus concept of sharing is more often than not, ''literal physical division'' of the object of their affections.
* ''[[Yomeiro Choice]]'' ends this way when the male lead gets over his indecisiveness and realizes that he loves his daughters from the future too much to allow any of them to vanish from the timestream. The series ends with the daughters now arguing about which one should be conceived ''first''.
* ''[[Asobi Nini Iku Yo (Light Novel)yo!|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]]'' this is how Eris suggests resolving the love triangle with herself, Aoi, and Manami over Kio. Since Earth doesn't have a law against mistresses it's ok to share Kio. The other girls are ok with it.
 
 
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** This occurs in a large number of ''Harry Potter'' fanfics, due to so-called "Pureblood marriage contracts", and almost always to Harry. It even has a ship name: Harem!Harry.
* The [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] one-shot "[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5505618/1/ Nanoha's Problem]" takes this trope to its logical extreme.
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', the odd situation in Hinamizawa was resolved this way. {{spoiler|This inspired Haruhi to start aiming for it herself, between all the girls in the SOS Brigade and Kyon.}}
** This is actually deconstructed and then reconstructed in the same chapter. {{spoiler|According to Rika, the romantic situation at the end of [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini|the Higurashi series]] turned into a [[No Romantic Resolution]] situation for several years until Rika was physically old enough to make her move on Keiichi, but [[Clingy Jealous Girl|the way she tried to catch Keiichi's notice]] nearly destroyed her and Keiichi's relationship with [[First Girl Wins|Mion]] and the rest of their friends (and considering that this is Higurashi, [[Murder the Hypotenuse|it's not hard to imagine]] how ''that'' might've played out). Disaster was only averted at the last moment when a [[Marry Them All]] solution was proposed by Rena and Satoko and accepted by the rest of the group.}} Even then, it's not an easy relationship to have; it only works because the whole group were iron-clad [[True Companions]] before they were a harem, and each of the girls has enough self-esteem and love for their partners to not worry about him ever abandoning them.
* In [[Naruto]] there something call the The Clan Restoration Act which forces the last member of a important family to marry many women just to increase the clan population. This is mainly done if Kekkei Genkai or special techniques are present in the clan. This is normally applied to Naruto, but occasionally with Sasuke.
* The [[Total Drama Island]] fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6345101/1/Total_Drama_Luxury_Tour Total Drama Luxury Tour]'' is a [[Egregious]] example. It's a [[Continuation]] of the third season, centered on Cody. It had many and many moments of [[Ship Tease]] with the other female contestants, and the author even created a poll about which contestant you'd like to see Cody with. Then in the end {{spoiler|he gets all five girls anyways: [[Overly Long Gag|Gwen, Bridgette, Heather, Sierra, and Courtney.]] And Blaineley ''also'' likes him.}} Even more, the author ''planned'' doing the same thing with Noah or Ezekiel as a sequel, although problems with the harem settup in Cody, the author not wanting to break up two of the (three) [[Beta Couple]]s, and what the remaining girls are like ''mostly'' prevent it.
* Discussed in ''[[Rosario to Kiva (Fanfic)|Rosario to Kiva]]'' - as Wataru is {{spoiler|Fangire royalty}}, he can legally, by the laws of his {{spoiler|people}} marry ''all'' the haremettes.
* Done in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3577149/1/BeastBoys_Catgirl BeastBoy's Catgirl], where in the end, BB has four girls who love him (Raven and three Furries). First, the guy has a date with each girl to decide whom he likes more, then he decides to make no decision at all. When he announces that, one of the girls announces [[Babies Ever After|she is pregnant. Skip a few years, all of the girls are moms]]. None are officially married, though.
 
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== Visual Novels ==
* One pathway in ''[[Shojokyuu ~Kurige Nono Shiofuki Shoujotachi~]]'' involves [[Schoolgirl Lesbian]] Haruna, getting together will all the girls who've crushed on her plus some others totalling a harem of eight.
* As mentioned above, while the [[School Days (Visual Novel)|School Days]] anime does NOT go this route, you can potentially get Makoto to score ''and'' stay with both Kotonoha and Sekai.
 
 
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Fans]]''! Rikk, Alisin and, [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|all of a sudden]], Rumy form a threesome at the end of the series.
* A [http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0414.htm version of this] is the solution for Guenevire's affair with Lancelot in the Space Arc of ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'', and [http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0811.htm seems to be leading to that] in the Modern Arc, especially as {{spoiler|it seems Guenevire's second child (named Galahad) is Lancelot's}}.
* [[Mob Ties]], it is suggested [http://www.drunkduck.com/Mob_Ties/index.php?p=231247 here].
 
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