Love Dodecahedron: Difference between revisions

* Start with at least 3three ideal relationships;

** ::1. Fixated on the wrong partners and [[Oblivious to Love|oblivious to the good ones]],

** ::2. [[Cannot Spit It Out|Failing to communicate]], and/or

** ::3. Suppressing their desires due to [[Star-Crossed Lovers|other factors]] (e.g., [[Incest Is Relative|taboos]], class distinctions, [[Parental Marriage Veto|family]] [[Arranged Marriage|pressures]], etc.).

** [http://h.imagehost.org/0069/Negima.png Another chart as of chapter 297]{{Dead link}}.

** [[Token Mini-MoeLoli|Hinako]] [[Older Than They Look|Ninomiya]] has a crush on Soun Tendo that he seems to ignore, partially because he's still not over his wife's death, partially because Hinako is an [[Adult Child]] with [[The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body|several]] [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|mental]] [[Immortal Immaturity|issues]].

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111105163921/http://img2.me/7sYfO.png Here's] a diagram, assuming some of the major theories are true.

** Put simply, there are no less than 22 [[All Love Is Unrequited|one-way relationships]] among the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|extended cast]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090904142418/http://www.wannabefansubs.org/harima/index.php/School_Rumble_Characters And Growing...]

* A minor Love Dodecahedron figures into ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'', used for both [[Played for Laughs|comedic]] and [[Played for Drama|dramatic]] effect: Reito likes Mai {{spoiler|(and so does his [[Enemy Within]] alter-ego)}}; Yuuichi also likes Mai, but [[Cannot Spit It Out|doesn't want to admit it]]; Mai cares for both of them as friends, but doesn't want to decide between either (at first); Shiho loves Yuuichi, and is [[Clingy Jealous Girl|extremely jealous]] because she thinks Mai's trying to steal Yuuichi from him ({{spoiler|she isn't...''he's'' the one who takes the initiative}}); and Mikoto and Mai apparently [[Les Yay|like each other a lot]]. Then again, Mikoto [[Love You and Everybody|"likes" a lot of people]], but she's closest to Mai and {{spoiler|Reito, her brother}}.

** Let's try to describe it: Misty was highly hinted to have feelings for Ash, but she left the show without any resolution on that, and [[Word of God|the former head writer]] even said that [http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showpost.php?p=1251369&postcount=3397 she never really had feelings towards him]{{Dead link}}, but since he left the show a long time ago and the pairing received hints after he left, it's still a strong possibility. May had a [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] routine going on with Drew, but she was also hinted to like Ash. Dawn had [[Ship Tease]] moments with Ash, Kenny (who was highly implied to have a crush on her) and [[Les Yay|Zoey]], and she's also stalked by [[Stalker with a Crush|Conway]]. Ash was hinted to like Misty during the early seasons, but by Johto he turned into a full [[Chaste Hero]], though there are still rare moments of [[Ship Tease]] from his side with all 3 female leads. And then there's a bunch of minor characters and [[Interspecies Romance|even some Pokémon]] with [[Chick Magnet|confirmed crushes on Ash]]. And then we have Brock, who [[Casanova Wannabe|crushes on every pretty girl he sees,]] but [[Status Quo Is God|it never goes anywhere]], even with the girls that are interested, and his single attempt to settle down ended with him running away for reasons that were [[Noodle Incident|never explained]]. And there's also Jessie and James of Team Rocket, who may or may not have feelings for each other. [[Overly Long Gag|And]] there are probably some more people that I forgot. To make matters worse, the anime tendency to [[Ship Tease]] all sorts of couples but [[No Hugging, No Kissing|never actually resolving anything]] means that this Love Dodecahedron will probably only get more complicated in the future. Also, it's hinted that Iris and clan both have a crush on Ash.

* ''[[To Love LOVE-Ru]]'' has a pretty impressive one in the anime alone, and the manga gets even crazier. Going into full detail might take up half this page, but in addition to the standard love triangle, it also has shy/emotionless assassins and aliens who change gender when they sneeze. In the latter case, the alien's male side is in love with one of the two female leads, while the female side is in love with the male lead. Naturally.

* ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'' has Touma's immense harem complicated by: the fake Unabara {{spoiler|Eztali}}, lesbian [[Stalker with a Crush]] Kuroko, and who knows how many other Fangirls/fanboys who want Misaka; among other characters (trying to get the list and directions together is a hefty task).

** For those less familiar with the complicated relationships under Xavier's roof, Uncannyxmen.net made a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130521225813/http://uncannyxmen.net/db/article/showquestion.asp?faq=4&fldAuto=189 flowchart].

* There's some sort of bizarebizarre love-lust-hate-obsession dodecahedron going on between Daredevil, Elektra, Punisher, and Bullseye. Bullseye is obsessed with Daredevil (in the AU ''Daredevil Noir'' Daredevil actually falls in love with Bullseye's genderswapped counterpart) and Punisher. Punisher and Daredevil have some angry manpain UST going on. Elektra and Daredevil were in love, and she and Punisher are attracted to one another (in yet another AU, the 2099 verse, they had a daughter, Cassandra). Elektra and Bullseye's relationship can best be summed up by his quote to her: "''I love to see you bleed.''"

* For a comic which is only a decade old{{when}}, the ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' (now ''Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man'') continuity has a pretty impressive one for Peter. Depending on how you count things, Peter's current love interests include Gwen, Mary Jane, Kitty, and {{spoiler|Johnny Storm}}. That's not mentioning the fact that Peter currently lives with Kitty's ex-boyfriend Bobby as well as Johnny, {{spoiler|who made out with his [[Opposite SexGender Clone]]}}. Added into this is Felicia Hardy, who was rather blunt in her attempts to woo Peter until she realized he was [[Squick|fifteen years old]].

* In ''[[Ragnarok (fanfic)|Ragnarok]]'' despite being a [[Celibate Hero]] [[Death Note|Light]] has practically [[Even the Guys Want Him|everyone chasing after him.]] Mello and Matt are in a relationship but Mello still engages in some uncomfortable flirting with Light and Mello and Matt make it clear they're open to a three-way. Light dated Takada in college, had a brief but happy affair with Stephen Loud a.k.a. Gevanni of the FBI, and he went on a single date with Mikami before realizing [[Stalker with a Crush|how crazy he was and has been trying to avoid him ever since.]] Misa loves Light but they agree that they're [[Better as Friends]]. [[Stalker with a Crush|Also L has been stalking Light for the past year and Light has been stalking L.]] Also Near gets all flustered around Gevanni and Sayu.

* ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo (novel)|The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' is full of this. To beginning, Edmond Dantes is in love with Mercedes who {{spoiler|however marries Fernand. Their son is supposed to marry Eugenie, daughter of Danglars who bethrayed Edmond. That's not possible, because Edmond's slave Haydée tells how Fernand bethrayed her father. So, Danglars' wife, who had a scandalous relationship with Villefort, an Edmond's bethrayer too, had son Benedetto with him who is also supposed to marry Eugenie, who although leaves in a supposedly lesbian relationship. Villefort's daugther Valentine loves Maximilien Morrel but she is forced to marry count d'Epinay, which is finally not possible because Valentine's grandfather killed d'Epinays grandfather. Oh, and Edmond suggest Morrel to marry Haydée but in the end he himself gets married with her.}} See spoiling [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20161230173527/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CountOfMonteCristoRelations.svg\] for full description.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]](2004 TV series)|The 2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'' reboot]] perhaps takes the cake for this. Adama loved Carolanne before they fell out and now he loves Roslin, who was previously having an affair with President Adar. Apollo loves Starbuck and Starbuck loves Apollo, but he married Anastasia Dualla and she married Samuel Anders. Starbuck also once disastrously bedded Baltar, who loves Number Six, who is now {{spoiler|pregnant with Colonel Tigh's child, even though the Colonel mourned the death of his promiscuous wife Ellen.}} Boomer and Tyrol were having an affair until Adama broke them up. Boomer died at the hands of Cally, who married Tyrol, who still loved Boomer. Athena married Helo, who used to have a crush on Boomer, who is the same person as Athena, except not really. Racetrack has a crush on Helo. Helena Cain had an affair with Gina, whom Baltar tried to seduce. Also, Baltar was the object of some affection early on from Felix Gaeta. Not to mention Starbuck's tricky relationship with Leoben Conoy. Practically every major and secondary character has tricky relationship issues.

** [[Fridge Logic]]: Given that ''[[Caprica]]'' shows group marriages were legal, one wonders why Starbuck didn't just marry both Apollo and Anders. Sure the men'd be married to each other too, but did you see [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)/Ho Yay|the end of "The Son Also Rises"]]?

* ''[[Skins]]'' loves this trope.

* The [[Too Good to Last]] ABC show ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' has Olive who's in love with Ned, to the point where she's completely oblivious to the affections of Alfredo, It's only ''after'' he gets [[Put on a Bus]] and leaves (at least partially due to said obliviousness from Olive) that she realizes she might have actually had feelings for him. Olive later begins dating [[Punny Name|Randy Mann]], although her feelings for Ned are still somewhat prevalant. This is shown to make Ned at least a ''little'' jealous even though ''he's'' deeply in love with [[Tomboyish Name|Chuck]], who, in turn, loves him back. That would all be fine and good except, due to Ned being [[Blessed with Suck]] (Or [[Cursed with Awesome]], depending on your interpretation of his abilities) they can't touch. Ever. Then there's Chuck's Aunts, One of whom, Lily, is actually {{spoiler|Chuck's mother}} because {{spoiler|she slept with her sister, Vivian's, fiance and Chuck's dad Charles Charles.}} It should also be noted that {{spoiler|she tries to ''kill''}} Vivian's new beau Dwight Dixon. Although that's mostly becuase {{spoiler|he turns out to be a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing]] who's only using Vivian to get to Her supposed-to-be dead neice, Chuck's, pocket watch, which he later tries to get anyway by ''robbing her grave''}}.

* The song '"Alter Mann'" (old man) by the German [[Genre Busting|fun-whatever]] band Knorkator features one of these in the first verse.

{{quote|''Daniela likes Jonas, but he has a thing for Vanessa

''Vanessa would rather be with Lars, but he likes Melanie better

''She on the other hand loves Tim, Tim is on love with Jennifer

''Jennifer on the other hand likes Kevin, but Kevin is... gay

''Tobies has the hots for Annika, and she actually likes him too,

''but the thing is that her best friend also has a crush on him. }}

* [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "I Got It From Agnes". 'Nuff said.

* ''[[Fire Emblem]] 10'' has a relationship Dodecahedron ''in game'', updated as the player progresses. A full version can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20111114035802/http://serenesforest.net/fe10/relation.jpg here] (Major spoilers).

* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]] ''{{'}}s central story is about a love dodecahedron. Mike, a dogged good guy, and Lucy, a tsundre, seem to be destined for each other at the start of the comic, but over time the pair drift apart as Mike finally acknowledges that he is in a [[Long-Distance Relationship]] with his love from third grade. Mike is a handsome cat, and Daisy, his best female friend other than Lucy, pursues HIM doggedly, while she herself is being pursued by the aloof Augustus and the dogged stalker/white knight Abbey, with Paulo, her best male friend, possibly being interested in her as well, though this is less than clear and if it is so, she is quite oblivious to it. Meanwhile Lucy for her part shares a crush with Paulo, a confident jerk with a heart of gold, but he feels that he would just mess her up further. Several other friends fancy Lucy, including David, a dog who she is completely uninterested in, and Jessica, who is bisexual. Paulo himself is at the center of several female's attention, including his almost girlfriend Tess, an older girl who does not want to commit to a relationship with him despite the two being in love with each other, Rachel, who, being a dog, cannot stay with him if she wants kids, and Jasmine, a younger girl who looks up to him. Further complicating matters, {{spoiler|Paulo slept with both Jessica and Rachel, who are Tess's archenemies, and little did he realize at the time, but the pair did it to get back at Tess for wronging them two years ago.}} The comic creator, Taeshi, actually sells a relationship chart poster in her store.

** Recently{{when}}, Ping has been [[Les Yay|spending most of her time hanging out with]] Junko, who is bitter over the breakup of her [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] with Miho.

* ''[[Avalon (filmwebcomic)|Avalon]]'': Ceilidh and Joe are the [[Official Couple]], but Joe is primarily interested in Helène, the girlfriend of Alan (who would much rather be with Ceilidh), and secondarily interested in Phoebe, who, if she likes anyone, likes ''Ceilidh''; Ryan and Iain are also interested in Phoebe. Ceilidh ''herself'' isn't sure whether she likes Joe, Iain, {{spoiler|or Phoebe}}...but definitely not Alan.

* In ''[[Death Note the Abridged Series (kpts4tv)|Death Note the Abridged Series Kpts 4 tv(kpts4tv)]]'' [[Victim Falls For Rapist|Ryuk is screwing Light]], [[Villainous Crush|Light is in love with L,]] [[Yandere|Misa stalks Light]], [[Mama Bear|Rem]] loves Misa and so did Gelus. Then during Light's {{spoiler|[[Memory Gambit]]}} he [[Transparent Closet|went back into the closet]] and only worried about being a good boyfriend to Misa ([[The Beard|who he is dating for other reasons that he can no longer remember]]) Misa then goes on [[Your Cheating Heart|to cheat on him]] with with Higuchi and Rem. Namikawa flirts with Light. L makes a passing mention of [[Memetic Molester|Beyond Birthday]], Light suspected {{spoiler|incorrectly}} that L was screwing Matsuda, and meanwhile L shows no interest in anyone except for maybe [[Cargo Ship|his snacks.]] Also, everyone but Light wants Misa (including Ryuk) and when Mello kidnaps Sayu, Mr. Yagami tries to get Mello to take Light as well. Ryuk was doing... ''something'' with [[Cargo Ship|an apple]] and Mr. Yagami flirts with Ryuk.

* ''[[The Fairly Oddparents|Timmy]]'': Timmy is also in one of these. He is love with [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron|Cindy Vortex]] and Trixie Tang. Also [[Stalker with a Crush|Tootie, Veronica Star]] and Vicky (when he wished that he was older) are/were in love with him. There are also hints of him having a relationship with Molly. And let's not forget (like Timmy did) that on one of the days of FLARG he started up a relationship with a girl named Carly that resulted in tattoos (which his was a washable one.)

* The "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" episode of ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' features one of these. [[Green Arrow]] and [[The Music Meister]] both have their eyes on [[Black Canary]]. Black Canary is all about [[Batman]]. Batman loves [[Married to the Job|fighting crime]]. (Well, and [[Catwoman]], but she wasn't in that episode.) Thankfully, Green Arrow and Black Canary, the most sane of these people, get together in the end.

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