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* A serious [[Love Dodecahedron]] occurs in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]''. Let's see if we can catch everything: Fersen and Marie-Antoinette love each other [[Star-Crossed Lovers|but can't be together]], Louis XVI loves [[Arranged Marriage|his arranged wife]] Marie-Antoinette, Oscar and Marie very seriously respect (maybe love?) each other, Oscar loves Fersen, André loves Oscar, Rosalie loves Oscar who would fully love her back if she (Oscar) were male (straight from the manga), {{spoiler|Rosalie's lost sister}} Charlotte loves Oscar, Alain loves Oscar (and whether he says it or not is different in the two continuities) but is also one of André's closest friends, Gerodelle loves Oscar (and almost gets her to become his wife through [[Arranged Marriage]]), Bernard loves Rosalie who comes to love him back though she still has lingering feelings for Oscar, and in the end Oscar then loves André {{spoiler|and then they both die tragically}}. Phew!
** Then we have [[Riyoko Ikeda]]'s ''other'' famous manga, [[Oniisama e...]]. Mariko admires Kaoru but has a [[Clingy Jealous Girl|clingy obsession]] with Nanako and later {{spoiler|is [[Tsundere]] for Takeshi}}; Nanako loves Rei, who pines for {{spoiler|her half-sister Fukiko}}, who acts possessive towards Nanako but {{spoiler|it's a cover since she actually loves Takehiko and mistakenly thinks Nanako is her rival}}; Tomoko isn't as super open as the others in these regards but she has a really cute [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] with Nanako; and Kaoru also loves {{spoiler|her ex-boyfriend Takehiko, who returns her feelings [[Star-Crossed Lovers|despite the problems in their relationship]], ''and'' she also has quite a bit of [[Les Yay]] with he best friend, Rei.}} Whoa.
** And another manga by Ikeda, [[Claudine]], also has one. Claudine falls in love with Cecilia Lacques, but she doesn't return his affections because she sees him as a girl despite him actually being a [[Transsexualism]]. Cecilia's younger brother, Louis, is sleeping with Claudine's father Auguste, {{spoiler|as is Cecilia}}. Claudine's neighbor Rosemarie is in love with him since they were kids, is jealous of Claudine and Cecilia and serves as an [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|Unwitting]] ([[Alternate Character Interpretation|or perhaps intentional]]) [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom|Instigator of Doom]] {{spoiler|when she reveals Cecilia and Auguste's affair to Louis, who goes [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] and kills them both.}} And that's wihout mentioning Claudine's other loves, Maura and Sirene. . .
* In ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', Kira and Athrun [[Ho Yay|care very much for each other]], Kira loves Flay, Ssigh loves Flay, Kira re-meets with Athrun [[Foe Yay|as enemies]] and then befriends his girlfriend Lacus, Athrun and Lacus care for each other as friends, Flay has sex with Kira to manipulate him but ends up falling in love with him for real, Kira befriends Cagalli and it seems they might fall in love, Athrun meets Cagalli, Athrun almost kills Kira after Nicol dies and ends up killing Tolle instead, Miri hates Dearka and he hates her back, Kira and Athrun make up thanks to Lacus and Cagalli, Lacus and Kira fall in love though he still holds some guilt because by that time Flay is believed to have been killed, Miri and Dearka make peace and sorta fall in love, Athrun and Cagalli fall in love, Flay gets [[Character Development]] and wants to apologize to Kira but dies tragically in the middle of the last battle, and that's it!
** Also, [[Ace Pilot|Mu]] loves [[The Captain|Murrue]].
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{{quote|''"Wait a sec... If Prisma likes Saphire, and Saphire liked Emerald, and Emerald liked Diamond, and Diamond likes Serena, and Serena likes Darian... Then does that mean this whole plot is a love [[Love Dodecahedron|Hexagon]]?"''}}
** An interesting four-way on the Doom Tree arc. Serena and Darien are in love, and so are Alan and Ann. Alan falls in love with Serena, and Ann falls in love with Darien. Yet Alan gets jealous of Darien over Ann, who gets jealous of Serena over Alan. When Alan sees Ann with Darien, he seems to forget that he is in love with Serena, and the same goes for Ann when she sees Alan with Serena. Alan and Ann argue over this in their final episode.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'' [[Tsundere|Kaname]] and [[Dojikko|Tessa]] are in a [[Love Triangle]] with [[The Stoic|Sôsuke]]. Sōsuke is confused about his feelings for Kaname (seeing as how he's never really loved anyone before) and it's not until way later that he finds himself returning her feelings. Tessa's antagonistic brother [[Romantic False Lead|Leonard]] is in love with Kaname to [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] extremes, but she dislikes him. Tsubaki is ''also'' in love with Kaname, has a bunch of [[Foe Yay]] with Sōsuke, and Mitsuki has an unrequited love for him. And then there's Gauron, who is an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Stalker with a Crush]] that has a crazy love and obsession for [[Even the Guys Want Him|Sosuke]]. And the two twins he raised, Yu Fan and Yu Lan, are both [[Wife Husbandry|very much in love with him]] ([[Twincest|and eachother]]). And then there's [[Psycho for Hire|Gates]], who has an unhealthy paedophile obsession with the twins. This [[Love Dodecahedron]] is made even ''more'' complicated in the novels, where Nami, who ''also'' falls for Sōsuke, is brought into the picture, and Sōsuke has slight romantic feelings for her. And then Lemon likes Nami (but also seems to have quite a bit of [[Ho Yay]] with Sōsuke).
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'', surprisingly. Because there have so many main characters, this has evolved out of Shipping. And that doesn't even go into ''loving'' Pokémon angle.
** 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], 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.
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* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]''. Where should we start? Okay, * deep breath* .
** Nagasumi and Sun are engaged/dating, and are definitely in love with each other.
** Lunar is <s>friends</s> [[The Rival|rivals]] with Sun, but in love with Nagasumi, [[Yandere (disambiguation)|who she treats like a slave.]]
** Mawari is Nagasumi's [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|childhood friend]] and more or less in love with him.
** The [[Class Representative]] has a crush on Nagasumi, but can't admit it. She's also accidentally [[Love Letter Lunacy|confessed her love...]]''[[Love Letter Lunacy|to Sun]]'', forcing her to create the [[Hot Amazon|Last Amazoness]] persona.
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** And [[Gay Option|Masa]]...''[[Gay Option|confuses]]'' Nagasumi. And his mother. Mostly just for laughs, though.
* ''[[Shinshi Doumei Cross]]'' is a soup opera-esque shoujo manga with a predominantly teenage cast; it's no wonder this trope is very much applicable. Aside from the {{spoiler|main [[Love Triangle]] involving the protagonist and ''[[Twin Switch|twins]]''}}, there are many unrequited feelings to go around, much [[The Beard|misconception]] of the characters' [[Oblivious to Love|feelings]] to be had, and even the occasional [[Romantic False Lead]] shows up to complicate things even ''further''. The male and female protagonists both have their own (partially) [[Unwanted Harem|unwanted harems]] and characters decide to go from passionately pursuing one character for chapters on end to another at the drop of a hat (or [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends|when the storyline demands it]])...and this isn't even taking into account the tangled love lives of ''adults'' in the story: the [[Everyone Is Related|family]] of the major characters.
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'', with the added [[Squick]] value of having most of the arrows being [[Interspecies Romance|interspecies]]. Let's see. Quite a few people have crushes on [[Nice Guy|Fuyuki]] including [[Split Personality|Momoka]] and a reporter from the school newspaper. He is mostly [[Oblivious to Love]], but seems to have developed a crush on a one-shot character he met near the beginning of the story (a mermaid, by the way). Keroro has attracted the attentions of [[Yandere (disambiguation)|Tamama]] (another male Keronian) and [[Apocalypse Maiden|Angol Moa]]. [[Ninja|Koyuki]] likes [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Natsumi]] and so does [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Giroro]]. Natsumi for her part likes Mutsumi, who <s>likes himself</s> I mean shows no strong romantic interest. Giroro himself has also attracted the attentions of another: a cat.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'', with six or so sets of love triangles all linking in with each other. Okay, so where to start.
** Inuyasha is in love with both Kagome and Kikyou. Kagome also loves Inuyasha, but is openly jealous of his relationship with Kikyou due to both her own insecurities and the fac that lots of people see her [[Always Someone Better|as a poor replacement for her]]. After being forcibly brought back to life, Kikyou also loves Inuyasha, but is less open of her jealousy of his relationship with Kagome, and for a while she's very poisoned with the hate spilling from their terrible separation '''and''' for the [[Came Back Wrong]] deal. {{spoiler|In the end, Kikyou dies peacefully in Inuyasha's arms, and after mourning her properly he gets together with Kagome.}}
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** The lesson here is that ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' fans like their shipping.
* A slight invocation of this trope appears in the [[The Three Worlds Cycle|Three Worlds Cycle]], specifically in the second quartet to make up the cycle. Nish loves Tiaan, who doesn't love him back. Then Nish has a short affair with Irisis, who hates Tiaan, simply to get back at her for rejecting him. Then Irisis has a brief affair with Xervish Flydd, who seems to have possibly had a thing with scrutator Halie. Meanwhile, Tiaan falls in love with Minis, who loves her back but betrays her and spends three books beating himself up over it. Tiaan then meets Gilhaelith who seems to lust after her. Back to Nish and Irisis, they end up in a will they/won't they situation right up until the end of the fourth book, where Tiaan swears off men for life, Flydd has been castrated anyway, and Irisis and Nish finally get it on. Well, almost manage to...
* In ''[[Gone (novel)]]'' by Michael Grant, there is a huge one. [[The Hero|Sam]] and [[The Smart Guy|Astrid]] like each other, but [[Asian Airhead|Taylor]] likes Sam, who makes out with her when drunk. [[The Dark Chick|Diana]] jokes about wanting Sam, but she really wants [[Big Bad|Caine]] (or does she?), and [[Unholy Matrimony|he wants her]], but so does [[Badass Bookworm|Computer Jack]], who likes [[Genki Girl|Brianna]], who likes him back, but [[Butch Lesbian|Dekka]] also loves her. Meanwhile, [[Complete Monster|Drake]] is obsessed with Diana and possibly Astrid in a way that [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|may or may not be sexual]], and it seemed for a second there that [[Third Option Love Interest|Sanjit]] wanted Diana, but turns out it's really [[The Medic|Lana]] that he's into, who's also liked by [[Love Triangle|Edilio and Quinn]]. And then [[The Dragon|Penny's]] obsessed with Caine, only maybe not so much after he {{spoiler|dropped her off a cliff.}} [[It Got Worse|And it goes on]] . . .
* [[Mortal Instruments]]. Jace loves Clary who loves him back. Simon likes Clary. Isabelle and Maia like Simon. Isabelle's brother, Alec, likes Jace. Magnus likes Alec and they end up together. Clary also liked 'Sebastian' for a short time and they kissed.
* In ''Ranger's Apprentice'' Halt spends time with Alyss and thinks ''If I were twenty years younger...'' He ends up marrying Lady Pauline. Alyss kisses Will. Will spends time with Evanlyn but can't handle {{spoiler|that she's really Princess Cassandra}} and falls for Alyss instead. He and Evanlyn still have feelings for each other and this causes tension between Alyss and Evalyn and between Will and Horace. {{spoiler|Horace and Evanlyn end up falling in love and become engaged, as do Will and Alyss.}}
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* In ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'', (at least the musical adaptation) Nessa loves Boq, Boq loves Glinda, Glinda loves Fiyero, and Fiyero loves Elphaba. Glinda actually sets up Boq/Nessa to get Boq off her trail, but Fiyero and Elphaba eventually fall for each other.
* The whole point of ''Aspects of Love''. Alex loves Rose who loves his uncle George who loves her back because she looks like his dead wife despite having a mistress, Giulietta. Giulietta and Rose have major [[Les Yay]] while Rose and George get married and have a daughter, Jenny. Rose takes on a lover named Hugo while Jenny falls in love with Alex. Alex loves her back but is disgusted since they're [[Kissing Cousins|cousins]]. Alex and Giulietta fall for each other while both Rose and Jenny beg Alex not to leave them...[[Austin Powers|and now I've gone crossed eyed]].
* ''[[Hair (theatre)]]''
{{quote|'''Jeannie''': This is the way it is. Sheila's hung up on Berger. I'm hung up on Claude. Claude is hung up on a cross between Sheila and Berger. And Berger's hung up everywhere. As a prospective mother I must say something very weird is going on here. And to make it worse, Woof's hung up on Berger.
'''Woof''': No I'm not. I'm hung up on Mick Jagger. }}
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== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Death Note the Abridged Series (kpts4tv)|Death Note the Abridged Series Kpts 4 tv]]'' [[Victim Falls For Rapist|Ryuk is screwing Light]], [[Villainous Crush|Light is in love with L,]] [[Yandere (disambiguation)|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.
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