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{{quote|'''Primo:''' I saw her first.
'''Carlito:''' [[Third Person Person|Carlito is the older brother, he's been here longer.]]
'''Primo:''' Come on, you got to let me have this one!|''[[
In simple terms, a [[Love Triangle]] where at least two of the parties involved are siblings, who both love (or at least try to "get") the third party.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' has something similar; both [[The Rival|Jun]] and his ''father'' [[Dirty Old Man|Palmer]] like Mitsumi.
* Ryou/Kyou of ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' Also a case of [[Matchmaker Crush]] on Kyou's part.
* ''[[Asu no Yoichi]]'' has a variant of this (Ayame likes Youichi who is kind of a pervert but seems to prefer Ibuki)
* ''[[School Rumble]]'' has a one-sided variant: Yakumo likes Harima who likes Tenma (Yakumo's sister)
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* In ''[[Spiral]]'', Ayumu was in love with his sister-in-law, and lives with her after his brother disappears.
* In Adachi Mitsuru's ''Touch'', twin brothers both love their childhood friend. The older backs off, allowing the younger to win at everything, including love seemingly. Then the younger dies, and the story follows the relationship that develops after this tragedy.
* This combined with [[Not Blood Siblings]] is basically the plot of [[
* Itsuki and Sayo both fall in love with Akira in [[Suika]]. It ends when {{spoiler|right before Akira has to move away, they have a fight over who gets to give him the present they made. Itsuki pushes Sayo down the stairs and thinks she's killed her, before REALLY getting killed by her insane father.}}
* In [[Ouran High School Host Club]], manga version, both Hikaru and Kaoru are in love with Haruhi. {{spoiler|Kaoru backs out because "Hikaru's more important to [him]".}}
* This also starts off the plot of ''[[Judge]]'': Hiro has a secret crush on his friend Hikari, but his older brother Atsuya [[Love Confession|confessed his own attraction first]], so he kept quiet about it. However, at the start of the series, he decides to tell her anyway, and secretly derails the pair's plans to meet for a date, figuring she might be more receptive to his confession if she thought Atsuya had stood her up. {{spoiler|Atsuya gets hit by a car because of this.}}
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* ''[[Simoun]]'' has an unusual example: a Type 5 triangle where Alti [[Brother-Sister Incest|loves her older sister]] Kaimu who crushes on Paraietta who doesn't have feelings for any of them (because [[Love Dodecahedron|she's in love with Neviril]]).
* ''[[Wandering Son]]'' initially had a [[Love Triangle]] between two siblings. Maho fell for a boy named Riku, so she asked her [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] brother to dress up as a girl after Riku had mistaken him for a girl and fallen for him. Even after he finds out, he seems to be somewhat attracted to Nitori; it's faded though, and he and Maho are a happy couple. It's never quite said whether Shu had feelings for Riku.
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== [[Fairy Tales]] ==
* [[Cinderella]]'s stepsisters have been known to cut off parts of their feeet to fit in the shoe.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104152714/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/cinderella/stories/birch.html The Wonderful Birch]'', the witch made the items fit her daughter; her stepdaughter let the prince know the truth and so they used the witch's daughter to make a magical bridge and he married the stepdaughter; the witch then replaced the stepdaughter with her daughter after childbirth.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140405140235/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/135whiteblackbride.html The White Bride and the Black One]'', the stepmother murders her stepdaughter en route to the wedding and substitutes her own daughter.
* In Chinese tale ''Beauty and Pockface'', Pockface takes Beauty's place after she visited her family, and weeps and wails about how he never really loved her because he no longer does after she contracted smallpox.
* In ''[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/mfli/mfli04.htm Fair, Brown, and Trembling]'', Trembling goes to church, and a prince falls in love with her, and out of love with Fair. After she has a baby, Fair pushes Trembling into the sea and takes her place.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20060523212750/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/firebird/index.html Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf]'', after they murder Ivan, his brother draw lots about who gets to marry Helen the Beautiful.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025205654/http://www.pitt.edu/
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204113312/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/57goldenbird.html The Golden Bird]'', the brothers try to murder their younger brother and keep the beautiful maiden.
** Similarly in ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/368.htm The Golden Blackbird]'', ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/392.htm The Golden Mermaid], and ''[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/412.htm The Bird 'Grip']''.
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190504052409/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/97wateroflife.html The Water of Life]'', the older brothers try to woo the princess who had agreed to marry their younger brother.
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* ''[[Mansfield Park]]'': The Bertram sisters go after Henry Crawford (despite Maria Bertram already being engaged). The results: Crawford plays with their hearts for his own amusement until their [[Disappeared Dad]] returns home, goes after their cousin Fanny next because [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|she's the only girl on the planet immune to his charms]], and {{spoiler|runs away with Maria after she's already married}}.
* The four main characters of ''[[The Demon's Lexicon]]'' are two sets of siblings. Of each set, one sibling is attracted to both of the other siblings. Only one of these attractions is [[Played for Drama]]; the other fizzles out as the party instead develops a crush on the [[Big Bad]].
* A dark version in the backstory to ''[[The Elfstones of Shannara]]''. [[Wicked Witch|The Witch Sisters]], Morag & Mallenroh both fell in love with a human. Given that they're a pair of [[Selfish Evil]] [[Yandere
* ''[[East of Eden]]'' (which is, after all, based on [[The Bible]]), has ''two'' of these. {{spoiler|Cathy marries Adam after sleeping with his brother Charles}}. Later, {{spoiler|Cathy's sons Cal and Aron like the same girl, Abra. She's interested in Aron when they're children, but their relationship becomes strained in high school, and she switches to Cal toward the end of the book}}.
== Live
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' played with this. Michael develops feelings for Marta who is with GOB. GOB is mostly using her but he doesn't want Michael to have her either. Also Buster has a crush on Marta. All three of them are rebuffed by Marta eventually.
* Tommy and Justin of ''[[Brothers and Sisters]]'' were both dating Lena, though not precisely at the same time.
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== Western Animation ==
* Semi-example: In one episode of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', three of the four Turtles eat pizza tainted with a love potion, causing those three to fall in love with Irma. Hilarity and in-fighting ensue, until Splinter and the unaffected Turtle, [[The Smart Guy|Donatello]], find a way to counteract the potion. Afterwards, further hilarity ensues when Irma discovers who was actually courting her.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' [[Played for Laughs|plays this for laughs]] on one
** It's also been hinted in different episodes that both [[Loony Fan|Irving]] and [[Aloof Big Brother|Albert]] have a thing for [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Candace]]. This doesn't make much of a difference, though, since she [[Single-Target Sexuality|only has eyes]] [[Official Couple|for]] [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|Jeremy]].
* In one episode of ''[[Ugly Americans]],'' Callie gets a little sister, Lillith, who plans to kill Callie and have sex with her boyfriend, Mark, most likely [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|against his will]]. Made even weirder because [[Not Blood Siblings|Mark and Callie had raised her since she was a toddler]] ([[Rapid Aging|two weeks before]]).
* ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' establishes a triangle between adoptive siblings Lion-O and Tygra and their bodyguard/priest Cheetara, with Cheetara unaware that the brothers are jockeying for her favor behind her back. It's later [[The Reveal|revealed]] that [[Childhood Friend Romance|Tygra and Cheetara were friends as kids]], which is why Tygra took an interest in her
* In ''[[The Legend of Korra]],'' [[Dogged Nice Guy|Bolin]] has a crush on [[Action Girl|Korra]], while she has a crush on his brother [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Mako]], who [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|likes her back but has trouble admitting it]]. For added confusion, Mako is dating another character, [[Uptown Girl|Asami]].
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