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Does Michael marry Kay?

More than a year following his return, Michael reunites with Kay and they marry. He promises her the Corleone family will be completely legitimate in five years. Within three years, they have two children, Anthony and Mary. Vito semi-retires in 1954, and Michael becomes operating head of the family.
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Do Michael and Kay get divorced?

After Michael and Kay get divorced, Michael refuses to allow her to see Anthony and Mary. Anthony seems to resent his mother's role in his parents' split, and is sullen and unaffectionate during her visit, arranged secretly by his aunt Connie (Talia Shire), Michael's sister.
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Does Michael end up with Kay?

However, after Michael promises to make the Corleone family completely legitimate within five years, Kay agrees to marry him, with the understanding that there were certain parts of his life that they couldn't share.
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Does Kay ever find out Michael was married?

Yes. In Godfather 3 while in Sicily Michael tells Kay of all the hours he spent in his room at Don Tommasino's estate thinking of her. Kay replies, “But then you got married.”
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Who does Michael marry in The Godfather?

Michael's marriage to Apollonia, halfway through The Godfather, marks a metaphorical marriage to Sicily and the ways of his father.
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Why does Michael lie to Kay at the end of The Godfather?

At the very end of the movie, Michael lies to his wife, Kay, about having Carlo killed. This shows that he's set his course: she won't be able to be a part of his real world and will be shut out from seeing his true, ruthless nature in action.
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Why did Michael marry Apollonia if he loved Kay?

He was hit by a thunderbolt when he met Apollonia, and marrying her was the only way he could have her. He may have thought he might never return to the U.S. or else return after a very long time.
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Why did Michael Corleone fire Tom Hagen?

Michael removes Hagen as consigliere in favor of having Vito fill the position, restricting Hagen to handling the family's legal business in Nevada, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Michael and Vito explain that the Corleones risk inciting a fight with the planned move to Nevada, and they need a "wartime consigliere".
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Did Michael get revenge for Apollonia?

In a deleted scene of The Godfather Part II (later restored in The Godfather Saga), Michael avenges Apollonia's death by killing Fabrizio with a bomb placed in his car at his pizzeria in Buffalo.
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Why does Michael pull Kay into the wedding photo?

When Michael is brought over for a family picture, he insists Kay join in, perhaps subconsciously to associate himself more closely with her than with the Corleone family. Kay is an independent, outspoken American woman—the opposite of the submissive female Corleones, most notably the delicate and powerless Connie.
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Who does Michael finally end up with?

Though Holly does not make an appearance in the final season, Pam reveals that Michael and Holly are living very happily together with their children.
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Who killed Mary Corleone?

After her brother's debut concert, the assassin Mosca tries to kill Michael. One bullet grazes Michael's shoulder, but the other accidentally hits Mary in the torso, fatally wounding her. Michael is devastated by Mary's death, and screams in torment while cradling her dead body.
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Why was Apollonia killed?

He then flees to Sicily, where he falls in love with Simonetta Stefanelli's Apollonia. Tragically, she's later killed in a car bomb planted by Michael's bodyguard Fabrizio (Angelo Infanti), who betrayed him to his enemies. While Michael gets revenge on those who ordered the hit, Fabrizio is never seen again.
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Why did Fredo betray Michael?

Fredo later betrays Michael after being approached by Johnny Ola (Dominic Chianese), an associate of rival crime boss Hyman Roth (Lee Strasberg). Ola and Roth tell Fredo that Michael is being particularly difficult in business negotiations between Roth's organization and the Corleone family.
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What happened to Michael Corleone's son?

What happened to him afterwards is not known, but it is implied, that his distance from his father was solidified permanently, because he held his mother back from Michael during his grief.
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Who betrayed Michael in Sicily?

When Michael Corleone fled to Sicily to escape the American authorities, Calò and his friend Fabrizio were assigned to protect Michael. The three developed a close bond of friendship until Fabrizio betrayed Michael, attempting to kill him in an explosion that claimed the life of Michael's wife Apollonia.
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Did Michael love Apollonia vs Kay?

Michael wasn't in love with Apollonia--he was in love at her. Michael and Kay, however, were in love with each other.
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Why did Michael become so evil?

Because a group of men threatened Michael's father, Vito Corleone, and the well-being of the Corleone Family. As much as Michael had always dreamed of a life outside the underworld, he was loyal to his father and his family.
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Who kills Michael Corleone?

After the performance, Mosca shoots Michael, wounding him, and a second bullet hits Mary, killing her. Mary's death breaks Michael's spirit, and he screams in agony over her body. In an epilogue scene set in 1997, an elderly Michael (age 77) lives alone in Don Tommasino's villa.
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Who betrayed Michael Corleone in The Godfather?

Ultimately, Tessio betrays Michael by helping arrange his assassination at a peace summit with Barzini and Philip Tattaglia. The summit will be held in Tessio's fiefdom in Brooklyn, where Michael will presumably be safe. In return, Tessio was to inherit the Corleone family upon Michael's death.
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Why is Tom Hagen so loyal?

Tom was an orphan, Sonny brought him home one day and the family took him in. That would explain the loyalty.
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Why did Prince slap Apollonia?

Within a minute of receiving this gift, the Kid HITS HER IN THE FACE. He hits Apollonia because she said she was going to join Morris Day's group, who is the Kid's musical rival.
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Who put the bomb in Michael's car?

Shortly after, Michael married a Sicilian girl, Apollonia Vitelli, much to Fabrizio's jealousy. He was bought out by the Barzini family from New York, and placed a bomb in Michael's car, which failed to kill him, taking Apollonia instead. An anguished Fabrizio fled into New York, sponsored by the Barzinis.
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What do Michael and Apollonia hand out at their wedding?

Remember the wedding event where Michael's first wife, Apollonia, was handing out spoonfuls of jordan almonds to their guests?
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