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What the hell happened?!

 

 

[[Ending Fatigue|This is the dark side]] of the [[Snicket Warning Label]]. [[Long Runner|The longer characters continue to have their stories told]], the more likely they are to succumb to [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]. Because otherwise, conventional wisdom holds, there would be little personal conflict. So, if you want to enjoy believing that your [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] finally beat their [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] and lived [[Happily Ever After]], you'd better stop reading/watching/playing right after it happens. While a couple will do almost whatever it takes to ''get together'', the longer the story goes on, the less likely they'll conquer their problems to ''stay together.''

For a less depressing view, many of the couples on [[Happily Married]] are aversions of this trope.

 

== Comics ==

* [[Joe Quesada]] has actually stated that certain characters (particularly [[Ant-Man]], [[Spider-Man]], and Cyclops in the ''[[X-Men]]'') are "more interesting" without their wives. You might want to check out the ''[[One More Day]]'' page for more information on how one was done.

* [[Hawkeye]] and Mockingbird. She "died", but that turned out to be [[Actually a Doombot|Actually A Skrull]]. Since then, the couple has been reunited and then promptly divorced.

* [[Nova]] and Namorita. Broke up years before her death, then she came back. Now ''he's'' dead.

** Like their fellow [[New Warriors]], Justice and Firestar also count. According to the writer who put them together in the first place, Fabian Nicieza, he had always intended for them to break up anyway. However, he left the book before that happened, and subsequent writers eventually married them just before they joined [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] as a [[Battle Couple]]. [[Kurt Busiek]], in particular, liked to write them as an introspective of what it's like to be superhero newlyweds in the [[Marvel Universe]]. However, Nicieza later ended up writing the two again, and the first thing he promptly did was break them up. In fact, the story that finally [[Ship Sinking|sank their ship]] for good is a time-traveling story in which the newly-married Justice and Firestar [[Future Me Scares Me|are downright]] ''[[Future Me Scares Me|terrified]]'' of how cold they've become to each other in the future.