History Main / MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle

* For a time in the 1980s ComicBook/DoctorStrange found himself in a dilemma between his magical disciple Clea (a native of the Dark Dimension) and Earth-bound journalist and writer Morgana Blessing.
* Crystal of ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' cheated on her husband ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} with a nondescript, non-powered suburbanite.
* Marlo Chandler, the wife of ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' supporting character Rick Jones, unexpectedly found herself drawn to the telepathic and telekinetic Moondragon and lived with her for a while before returning to her husband. (Before she first met Rick, Marlo had also been the Hulk's lover for a while).
* After ComicBook/JeanGrey (formerly Marvel Girl) returned from the bottom of Jamaica Bay, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} found himself inexorably drawn to her despite being married. To make matters worse, his wife Madelyne looked just like Jean! (She was later revealed to be Jean's clone and killed off).
** Cyclops' teammate Angel lived with his girlfriend Candy Southern throughout most of the 1970s and early 1980s, but that did not stop him from feeling attracted to the superheroine ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} or Jean Grey (after her return).
* ComicBook/TheMightyThor fell in love with human Jane Foster, but his father shipped him with his fellow Asgardian Sif.
* When Creator/ChrisClaremont decided in the mid-1980s to break up the X-Man ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} and his longtime lover, the sorceress Amanda Sefton aka Jimaine Szardos, he had him become attracted to a {{Ruritania}}n princess.
* Some examples from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'':

** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', Peter Parker dated the X-Men's Kitty Pryde for a time, but eventually found himself drawn back to Mary Jane.

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This trope is for any situation where a character (usually but not always TheProtagonist) is placed in a LoveTriangle situation where he or she must choose between rival suitors where one of the suitors has MagicAndPowers, is [[InterspeciesRomance non-human]], or has some other property that places them firmly in the category of SpeculativeFiction, and the other suitor is an [[{{Muggles}} ordinary person]]. Of course, the "magic" option need not use something called magic. In a ScienceFiction setting, aliens, time travelers, visitors from another dimension or planet, or similar such characters qualify. In a SuperHero setting, anyone with superpowers would qualify.

%%* Bob, Jean, and Princess Voluptua in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''.

* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}: From "Dead Men Tell Long Tales" to "Best Foot Forward" Jo is being romanced by Isaac, ordinary mortal, which causes Henry, immortal, to realize the depth of his feelings for her. Played with in that Jo doesn't know Henry is immortal, only that he's exceptional.

* ''Literature/AirAwakens'': Basically every triangle a fledgeling sorcerer Vhalla is involved in, and there are quite a few: Vhalla, Prince Aldrik (sorcerer), Prince Baldair (warrior). Vhalla, Prince Aldrik, Sareem (library apprentice). Vhalla, Sareem, Roan (another library apprentice, in love with Sareem).

* The protagonist of ''Literature/BloodAndChocolate'', a werewolf named Vivian, has this when she is forced to choose between the werewolf Gabriel and the human Aiden. However, the book and the [[Film/BloodAndChocolate2007 film]] treat this situation very differently. In TheFilmOfTheBook, Gabriel is the BigBad and his attraction and relationship to Vivian is surface-level possessiveness at best, while Adrien connects with her struggles on a deeper level. In the end, Vivian manages to break free of her pack's strict anti-interspecies-relationship rule and run away with Aiden. In the original novel, [[spoiler:Gabriel has been in love with Vivian from the start, but she refuses him because she assumes that he is nothing more than a brute, and she falls for human artist Adrien instead, who treats her more kindly than the pack does. However, as the plot kicks in, Adrien rejects her in fear when she reveals herself to be a werewolf and later believes her to be responsible for the deaths in the city, leading to him setting out to shoot her. Meanwhile, Gabriel reveals HiddenDepths--he doesn't enjoy the endless fighting and bickering, but considers it necessary to establish the new pecking order and bring back peace to the pack in the wake of the attack that drove them from their home and killed several of their number, including the previous pack leader. He reveals that he tried to romance a human before as well and that it ended with him killing her by accident. In the end, Vivian comes to the conclusion that relationships between Muggles and Magicals are doomed to fail because their experiences are just too dissimilar to be able to truly relate to each other, and she chooses to be with Gabriel.]]

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Luca}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'', [[spoiler: [[TheIngenue Luca]] unkowingly becomes courted by both his human classmate [[{{Tsundere}} Vincenzo]] and his fellow [[CuteMonsterBoy sea monster]] best friend [[{{Keet}} Alberto]]]].

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** In ''Dark Angel'', Gillian finds out she's a witch and has a romantic connection to both Angel, who claims to be her guardian angel/spirit, and David, a human classmate she's had a crush on for years. [[spoiler: Gillian comes to distrust Angel for his increasingly immoral actions and realizes David is her soulmate. Angel doesn't take it well and unsuccessfully tries to possess David, though he eventually gives up because he doesn't want Gillian to be miserable]].
** ''Huntress'' has a downplayed example as neither love interest is that normal. {{Dhampir}} Jez Redfern is in love with Hugh, a human [[{{Reincarnation}} Old Soul]] who can recall his past lives, yet also ends up developing feelings for her vampire ChildhoodFriend Morgead. She and Morgead eventually realize they're soulmates; Hugh was also seemingly oblivious to Jez's feelings and as far as we can tell only loves her in a platonic sense.

* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' has Yuuji in a LoveTriangle with Shana (supernatural ActionGirlfriend) and Kazumi (normal classmate).

* The final season of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had the sisters [[CosmicDeadline quickly finding and securing love and marriage.]] The secondary plot of one episode had {{half|HumanHybrid}}-[[OurAngelsAreDifferent whitelighter]] Paige meeting a British half-whitelighter who basically demands she marry and produce superpowerful offspring with him because it was destined to be. This doesn't sit well with her {{Muggle|s}} fiance Henry who spends the rest of the episode explaining why he and Paige were meant to be while the British half-whitelighter tries to show Paige that her life is too dangerous to have a human husband plus he doesn't think Henry is a worthy mate for her. The episode ends with the two men actually sparring in an alleyway.
** Earlier in season 2, Piper was torn between Dan, the Muggle love interest and Leo, who is a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent whitelighter]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Luca'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'', [[spoiler: [[TheIngenue Luca]] unkowingly becomes courted by both his human classmate [[{{Tsundere}} Vincenzo]] and his fellow [[CuteMonsterBoy sea monster]] best friend [[{{Keet}} Alberto]]]].

* In the ''WesterAnimation/Luca'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheStoryOfApolloDaphneAndLucaAnItalianTragedy'', [[spoiler: [[TheIngenue Luca]] unkowingly becomes courted by both his human classmate [[{{Tsundere}} Vincenzo]] and his fellow [[CuteMonsterBoy sea monster]] best friend [[{{Keet}} Alberto]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'': Victor's LoveTriangle consists of him, [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage the Muggle Victoria]], and the ManicPixieDreamGirl [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie]] Emily. [[spoiler:When Victoria is forced to marry someone else, he plans to die and be with Emily, but she pulls an IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.]]

* ''Series/LostGirl'' had succubus Bo in a LoveTriangle (at times a LoveDodecahedron) involving Dyson, a werewolf, and Lauren, a human doctor enslaved by the Fae.

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': Saito, a Japanese teenage boy, gets summoned to a magical world by a {{Tsundere}} mage named Louise who forces him to become her {{Familiar}} by [[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss kissing him]] and they become attracted to each other. Louise's main love rival is Siesta, a {{Muggle}} {{Meido}} with a crush on Saito.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has [[TheFashionista Ann]], [[StudentCouncilPresident Makoto]], [[DitzyGenius Futaba]], [[SpoiledSweet Haru]], and [[LovableJock Kasumi]] as the dateable Persona users, with the normal women consisting of [[CoolTeacher Kawakami]], [[HospitalHottie Takemi]], [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Ohya]], and [[HumbleHero Hifumi]].

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has the UrExample in anime and manga. Ataru Moroboshi receives a marriage proposal from his fellow human [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]] Shinobu, but Lum, a [[HornedHumanoid horned]] AlienPrincess of a space {{Oni}} race, [[AccidentalProposal misinterprets]] Ataru's declaration of wanting to marry Shinobu as him wanting to marry ''her'' instead. Early stories have Lum and Shinobu fighting over Ataru until Shinobu moves on from him to find a new love interest.

** BadassNormal Marco Diaz's LoveTriangle consists of him, his {{Muggle}} [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood friend]] Jackie-Lynn Thomas, and the MagicalGirlWarrior Star Butterfly, though he [[JustFriends doesn't even see Star as a romantic option]] until she begrudgingly admits to having a crush on him [[spoiler:after he had already started a relationship with Jackie-Lynn. After Star returns to her home dimension, Marco tries to continue dating Jackie-Lynn until she realizes that he's become unhappy on Earth following Star's departure and that he may have developed feelings for the princess as well. She proceeds to dump him so [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he can go live in said dimension and have a chance to be with her]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', Steven's MissingMom Rose Quartz was in a LoveTriangle with a fellow Gem, Pearl, and a human, Greg. [[spoiler: In the end, Rose chose Greg, which is how Steven came to be.]]

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' set up Bella/Jacob as this in ''New Moon'' before revealing Jacob as a werewolf and shifting into a VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle. Of course, in the first book Bella had three {{Muggle|s}} guys after her not ''even'' counting Edward and Jacob, both of whom were also already interested.

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* ''Manga/InuYasha'' provides the page image. Kagome has the most desired boy in school fall in love with her, but even when she goes on dates with him she finds herself thinking about Inuyasha, a half-dog demon from the mythic past. [[ForegoneConclusion Obviously]], she ultimately goes with the title character.

* Rinko in ''Manga/OmamoriHimari'' is a Muggle in the protagonist's {{harem|Genre}}.

* It is a frequent situation in superhero comics, usually with a superhero having to choose between a fellow superhero and a non-powered civilian.

* Jenny's having to choose between Zot and Woody in ''ComicBook/{{Zot}}''

* Vin in ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' must choose between half-brothers Elend (the Muggle) and Zane (the Magical).

* ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'' has Yuuji in this scenario with Shana (magical) and Kazumi (normal).

* ''Literature/AirAwakens'': Basically every triangle a fledgeling sorcerer Vhalla is involved in, and there are quite a few: Vhalla, Prince Aldrik (sorcerer), Prince Baldair (warrior). Vhalla, Prince Aldrik, Sareem (library apprentice). Vhalla, Sareem, Roan (another library apprentice, in love with Sareem).

* The second season of ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' has Caroline choosing between her muggle on-and-off boyfriend Matt and werewolf Tyler. However, Caroline herself [[spoiler:is a vampire, making it a sort-of VampireWerewolfLoveTriangle (until Tyler becomes a vampire as well). ItMakesSenseInContext. She eventually hooks up with Tyler, after Matt tells her he can't handle her being a vampire]].

* Bob, Jean, and Princess Voluptua in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': In Book 1, Mako, though being a [[ElementalPowers bender]] [[PlayingWithFire himself]], has to choose between {{Muggle|s}} [[UptownGirl Asami]] and [[AmazonianBeauty Korra]], who's the [[PhysicalGod Avatar]], bender of all 4 elements. He starts with Asami, breaks up with her due to various [[LoveEpiphany reasons]] and ends up with Korra at the end of book 1.
** In Book 2, he and Korra [[FamilyVersusCareer break up]]. He and Asami kiss in the heat of the moment, but Korra comes back with EasyAmnesia and he [[WhatTheHellHero pretends the breakup didn't happen]]. She eventually gets her memories back and breaks up with him a ''second'' time.
** For the book 4 {{Grand Finale}} [[spoiler: Korra and Asami end up together, meaning that she was the one with the choice between magic and {{muggle|s}} all along]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': BadassNormal Marco Diaz's LoveTriangle consists of him, the Muggle ChildhoodFriendRomance Jackie-Lynn Thomas, and the MagicalGirlWarrior Star Butterfly, though he [[JustFriends doesn't even see Star as an option]] until she begrudgingly admits to having a crush on him after [[spoiler: he had already started a relationship with Jackie-Lynn. They have a happy relationship until she realizes that he's become unhappy on Earth following Star returning to her home dimension and that he may have developed feelings for the princess as well. She proceeds to dump him so [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he can go live in said dimension and have a chance to be with her]]. But by that point, Star has rekindled her old relationship with JerkWithAHeartOfGold Tom. Just before the final story arc begins, Tom breaks up with Star. She and Marco get together right before the GrandFinale]].

* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'' has Yuuji in this scenario with Shana (magical) and Kazumi (normal).

** In ''Film/{{Spellbinder|1996}}'', Eric, a human, forms a romantic relationship with Thea, who is a [[MageSpecies witch]] (he doesn't initially know she's a witch but he does realize there's something 'different' about her). His human co-worker Pilar also clearly has feelings for him; Eric likes Pilar but only as a friend, while he and Thea are soulmates. Thea attempts to put a spell on him to make him fall for Pilar instead to keep him safe, [[spoiler: but it utterly fails and Eric [[WhatTheHellHero calls Thea out for it]], saying it's unfair to both him and Pilar]].

** In ''Spellbinder'', Eric, a human, forms a romantic relationship with Thea, who is a [[MageSpecies witch]] (he doesn't initially know she's a witch but he does realize there's something 'different' about her). His human co-worker Pilar also clearly has feelings for him; Eric likes Pilar but only as a friend, while he and Thea are soulmates. Thea attempts to put a spell on him to make him fall for Pilar instead to keep him safe, [[spoiler: but it utterly fails and Eric calls Thea out for it, saying it's unfair to both him and Pilar]].

* ''Series/RoswellNewMexico'': Has alien Michael in a triangle between two humans Alex and Maria. [[spoiler:Maria later turns out to be part alien.]]

** In ''Spellbinder'', Eric, a human, forms a romantic relationship with Thea, who is a [[WitchSpecies witch]] (he doesn't initially know she's a witch but he does realize there's something 'different' about her). His human co-worker Pilar also clearly has feelings for him; Eric likes Pilar but only as a friend, while he and Thea are soulmates. Thea attempts to put a spell on him to make him fall for Pilar instead to keep him safe, [[spoiler: but it utterly fails and Eric calls Thea out for it, saying it's unfair to both him and Pilar]].