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[[File:lovetriangle.jpg|link=Macross Frontier|frame|He sees [[Love Hurts|impending doom.]] The fans see [[One True Threesome|impending threesome.]]]]
{{quote|''"You love her''
''but she loves him''
''and he loves somebody else.''
''You just can't win."''
|'''[[The J. Geils Band]]'''
A is in love with B, but B is in love with C, resulting in wacky hijinks. Alternatively, A and B are both in love with C, who is torn between the two and must make a choice. In the latter case, A and B tend to be [[Betty and Veronica]]; in the former, A will usually be a [[Romantic False Lead]] or [[Hopeless Suitor]].
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== Comic Books ==
* [[Marvel Comics]] has some truly legendary love triangles. The archetypal ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' love triangle had Jean Grey torn between [[The Stoic|stoic]] Cyclops and [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|bad boy]] [[Wolverine]]. ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Fantastic Four]]''{{'}}s Invisible Woman is devoted to her husband Mr. Fantastic but drawn to the passionate [[Sub-Mariner]]. Of course, there's also ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]''{{'}} Crystal/Black Knight/Sersi love triangle, which threatened to turn into a [[Love Dodecahedron]] because of Crystal's husband Quicksilver.
** And then there's Jean/Scott/Emma... even though [[Never Live It Down|"Jean's dead again"]], that doesn't stop the writers.
** The younger generation isn't free from this either. [[Young Avengers]] has Kate Bishop in a [[Betty and Veronica]] situation with Patriot (Betty) and Speed (Veronica), and Stature is in a tweak of the Superman variation with Iron Lad and the Vision, whose brain is patterned off Iron Lad's memory engrams.
*** The only stable couple? Wiccan and Hulkling, the resident [[Yaoi Guys]].
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* The Chinese film Painted Skin is just basically one big love triangle pileup. With certain supernatural elements. But no, it's mostly a bunch of love triangles (pick a main character, any main character).
* ''[[Anchors Aweigh]]'' had the triangle between Clarence, Susan, and Joe. {{spoiler|Clarence eventually finds another girl, and Joe and Susan end up together.}}
== Literature ==
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** Is somewhat downplayed and possibly subverted with one of the human Destroyermen, Dennis Silva. Silva attracts the attention of the human nurse Pam, and Lemurian warrior Risa. His solution to this is that he has relationships with BOTH of them simultaneously, as he loves them equally, and both females seem to consent with this.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Every Korean drama. Seriously.
** For instance, ''[[The First Shop of Coffee Prince]]'': Yoo Joo once left Han Seong for DK. She returns to Han Seong, but has a borderline flirtatious friendship with Han Kyul, who likes both her and Eun Chan. Han Seong also has romantic feelings for Eun Chan, but her feelings for him seem to be platonic.
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* ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' 2 had Wil/Tara/Alex. Wil and Tara were married but separated, but Tara still started flirting with Alex, and cost them the race by doing so.
** Zach/Flo/Drew on Season 3. Zach and Flo were friends seeing if they could be more, but Flo fell for Drew instead.
* The [[King Arthur]] stories largely revolve around the triangle of Arthur, Guenivere, and Lancelot. Interestingly, each of them originally came from an entirely different story line, and merged together sometime in the 15th and 16th centuries.▼
** 12th century actually. Though the most complete version of the myth, the ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur|Morte Darthur]]'', was written in the 15th c.▼
*** The originator of the Arthur - Guinevere - Lancelot triangle is widely believed to be the French poet [[Chrétien de Troyes|Chretien De Troyes]], who wrote about it in his ''Lancelot or The Knight of the Cart'' in the late 12th century.▼
== Music ==
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* The song "Withered Hope" by [[They Might Be Giants]] describes a love triangle between Withered Hope, her "Soul Mate", a crook, a motorbike, and Sad Sack (who of course loves Withered Hope).
== [[Oral Tradition]], Folklore, Myth and Legend ==
▲* The [[King Arthur]] stories largely revolve around the triangle of Arthur, Guenivere, and Lancelot. Interestingly, each of them originally came from an entirely different story line, and merged together sometime in the 15th and 16th centuries.
▲** 12th century actually. Though the most complete version of the myth, the ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur|Morte Darthur]]'', was written in the 15th c.
▲*** The originator of the Arthur - Guinevere - Lancelot triangle is widely believed to be the French poet [[Chrétien de Troyes|Chretien De Troyes]], who wrote about it in his ''Lancelot or The Knight of the Cart'' in the late 12th century.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] had the [[Triple H]]-[[Stephanie McMahon]]-[[Kurt Angle]] triangle, which seemed to be leading to Steph leaving HHH to be with Kurt [[Real Life Writes the Plot|until she became head writer and decided to stick with her real life boyfriend]].
== Radio ==
* Shortly after the introduction of a Love Triangle involving three of the younger characters in ''[[The Archers]]'', the show's editor stated in an interview she gave for its [[Long Runners|50th anniversary]] that it would become the basis of a major [[Story Arc]] with many years' worth of plotlines. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718191600/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/archers/backstage/ed_will_emma_backstory.shtml This proved to be anything but an exaggeration.]
▲== Theater ==
* In ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'', The Phantom loves Christine, who's in love with Raoul (although some argue that she also had feelings for the Phantom).
* The relationship between Eliza, Professor Higgings and Freddy in ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' may be considered this.
== Video Games ==
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* [[Fear Effect]]. Trailers for Fear Effect Inferno reveal that one would have developed between Hana, Rain, and Glas. Hana loves Rain very much, and she begins to show affection to Glas. Rain loves Hana very much, and she appears to want to have sex with Glas and maybe more than that. Glas begins to show affection to Hana, and he appears to be willing to have sex with Rain and maybe more than that. This would have been one complicated Love Triangle and how it would have been handled is not revealed. One trailer indicates that Rain and Deke have formed a relationship. Talk about complicated relationships!
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===
* Two in ''[[A Profile]]''. Miou and Rizu love Masayuki, who used to date Miou until they broke up and starts out somewhat in love with Rizu. Messy, that. The other triangle is Kaine loving Miou loving Masayuki. Since both triangles together only contain four people, everything is settled once Masayuki starts dating any of his three options.
== Web Comics ==
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** Finally, Jane, Dirk, and Roxy all have a thing for [[Even the Guys Want Him|Jake]], plus sometimes Dirk's autoresponder, and Roxy also has a bit of a crush on Dirk as well.
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/01-43.html Perrault speculates about some gallant woodsman who helped November and promised not to tell November's fiance.]
== Web Original ==
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* ''[[The Gungan Council]]'' has had many over its 12 year span. They include triangles such as: Anara/Tantor/Kith, Morgan/Ayden/Ti'Cira, Moira/Apparatus/Bianca, and Trobe/Io/Utkon.
* ROB, Mrs. Crabtree, and Mr. Crabtree in ''[[80's Dan]]''.
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[Kid vs. Kat]]'': [[Yandere|Phoebe]] has a crush on Coop, but Coop is [[Abhorrent Admirer|terrified of her]] and is in an unofficial relationship with Fiona. Unfortunately for Fiona, Phoebe seems to think [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] is the best solution to this.
* In one episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Shredder dopes three of the Turtles with a pizza laced with a love potion (Donatello demurs, because he's driving), causing the three to fall in love with Irene, and fight with each other over her affections. She, of course, is oblivious to the fact that she has three mutant turtles lusting after her, but is delighted that she is suddenly the target of three anonymous suitors.
== Real Life ==
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