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--->'''Frodo:''' ''Hellfire, dark fire,\\

* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop is the DamselInDistress menaced by the wealthy [[DastardlyWhiplash desperate Desmond]] in ''No! No! A thousand times no!!'' Unfortunately he doesn't take even a thousand "no's" for an answer, and ends up having her ChainedToARailway before she's rescued by her handsome hero.

-->'''Frodo:''' ''Hellfire, dark fire,\\

* In ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' season 23, episode 20 "Did You Believe In Magic?" the villain has been arrested after having brainwashed, kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old girl. ADA Carisi goes into the plea deal conference determined to secure at least a felony guilty plea; the perp counters by insisting not only that he go free, but that the girl must marry him, else he will further harm her family by exposing their secrets. [[RefugeInAudacity He walks away free, and almost manages to marry the girl]], ultimately undone only by a scheme in which the girl is tricked into believing she'll be allowed to marry him.

* Episode 6 of ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has such a scene [[spoiler:when Battler has his mind trapped in a logic error and Erika also wants to enslave his body]]. Between [[spoiler:Erika]]’s, err, words of love, and forcing the "wedding ring" on [[spoiler:Battler]]’s finger, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything you won't be blamed if you think you're reading a rape scene.]] [[spoiler:She ''is'' a self-proclaimed “intellectual rapist.” Also a GenderFlipped variation. And then, [[BigDamnHeroes Beatrice happened.]]]]

* Really, this is part of the premise of ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory''. The titular character’s father forced a straight, innocent man to become his husband against his will, thus the show is about them being a [[AwfulWeddedLife “happy”]] gay couple together.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'': In "Can't Buy Me Love," John is consigned to marry a Polynesian tribe chief's daughter after he accepts a ring the chief had sent as a token of friendship. John (who at that time was already married to Cynthia Twist) escapes and hides out in a pineapple factory where he's [[PackedHero canned with the other pineapples]] and delivered to the tribe chief. Marriage is imminent until the chief's daughter calls it off because "he smells of pineapple. And I hate pineapple!"
** Two other interrupted forced marriages: Paul to a vampire girl in "Baby's In Black," and Ringo to a gypsy queen in "What You're Doing."
* Bully The Crud tries to get Lydia to marry him in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Pest O' The West."

-->'''Numbuh Three:''' "What do you mean you don't pretend? [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome I can't marry you for real, I'M LIKE TEN YEARS OLD]]!

* In the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' series finale, "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings," after the Robot Devil is forced to swap hands with Fry, he pulls off a complex GambitRoulette in order to obtain Leela's hand...in marriage. Fry, out of concern for Leela, agrees to return the Robot Devil's hands -- and since that was his real goal all along, the Robot Devil calls off the marriage.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Occurs in the premiere episode "Tourist Trapped", when a bunch of gnomes want Mabel to become their queen and end up straight-up abducting her.

* One episode of the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'' cartoon has Ganon put a HypnoTrinket on Zelda in order to get her to marry him, and thus make him heir to the throne of Hyrule. Unlike the vast majority of his evil plans, this one almost works. It also includes one of his rare PetTheDog moments, as he actually gives Zelda a veil and a pretty bouquet for the wedding.

** Jafar tries to force Jasmine to marry him in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' by hypnotizing her father so that he'll set up an ArrangedMarriage. Although Jafar initially plans to just kill them both after he gains the throne, he later shows he's not above creeping on Jasmine herself after she thinks Aladdin is dead, and even asks Genie to make her fall in love with him when she's defiant.

** Jafar tries to force Jasmine to marry him in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' by hypnotizing her father so that he'll set up an ArrangedMarriage. Though Jafar is not above creeping on Jasmine herself after she thinks Aladdin is dead and even asks Genie to make her fall in love with him when she's defiant.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': As per the standard, Bowser's main goal is to get Peach to marry him.

* In ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'', Ichika saves Laura's life. [[ChronicHeroSyndrome Being Ichika]], he doesn't think much of it. She, however, [[DefrostingIceQueen doesn't so much melt as go up like a torch]], saves ''his'' life, then [[ForcefulKiss sticks her tongue down his throat]] and [[WackyMarriageProposal declares him her wife]].