| Abe -Faye (who got the DiMera poke but everyone forgot about it) After being disgraced as mayor, he leaves town. | Allie -structurally single for 2 years (see Ava, Tripp) because she becomes the trustee for the Vitali fortune; does romance short-term characters in chemistry screen tests | Ava -a bodybag (see below, she kills herself after killing Tripp) | Ben -a bodybag |
| Brady -Kristen off screen | Chad -Abby off screen | Chanel -EJ (starts as a mutual scam, continues as a lopsided bubble-centric hate marriage until it turns to actual love) | Chloe -Philip AND PARKER IS THEIRS |
| Ciara -Ben kills her & then himself | Claire - Theo (for a few weeks but she dumps him) then A sound engineer who helps her with her career | EJ -Chanel (see above) | Eric -returns to being a priest and can appear at Greg Vaughan's convenience (Hey, with Salem's version of Catholicism, anything's possible) |
| Gabi - A returned & extra aged Johnny DiMera. He's older than Allie appears for some reason. Age is relative in Salem. | Jake - Julie starts to make Doug's seduction of Paulina look real, continues to torment Gabi. (Jake does it because any human woman will do.) It plays as a farce, but it's straight. | Kate - Theo but off-screen after she's rejected by Philip, Lucas, et al | Kristen - Brady off-screen |
| Lucas - Autumn played by Melissa Archer (ex-Serena) | Nicole - single & focused on destroying Titan with Philip and Chloe as allies | Paulina - Doug (it starts as a con to win back the Square for Julie but he falls for her) | Philip - Chloe & Parker is theirs & has been for awhile |
| Rafe - Sami but he gets custody of David so they leave town together | Roman - Gwen his decency and kindness and objectivity lead to a friendship, then romance as they help each other | Sami - returns to Rafe but they leave town together | Theo - closes things with Claire then leaves town with Kate |
| Tripp - a bodybag After a DNA test proves he's not Steve's, Ava kills him. (It was a DiMera plot.) | Xander - Sarah and they start a health foundation together until he runs for Mayor & wins | Abby - Chad but off-screen | Gwen - Roman (see aside & above) |
