History Main / OneTrueThreesome

'''Second Guy:''' ...Yeah okay.\\

* ''Fanfic/TheLegendarySpiderMan'': Peter Parker has declared his love for two different people in this universe. His canonical 2: Gwen Stacey and Mary Jane Watson. Both are strong willed. Both are supportive. Both learn to fight. And both show great emotional support to Peter in his hardest times. Many people in universe talk to Peter about needing to pick one or the other, and others often talk about how his indecision or reluctance hurts them both along the way. But with both of their goodness and support of Peter's superhero life in various ways, and the fact that through all the story the two ladies remain friends with each other, this could make for a good solution to make everyone happy.

'''First Guy:''' Sounds good to me.\\
'''Narrator:''' And so anime was solved forever!

'''First Guy:''' Sounds good to me.

Not under any circumstances to be confused with the most notorious part of the ChurchOfHappyology.

* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:
** The CrackPairing of WebVideo/MarzGurl/[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]/[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Insano]] is pretty popular, and really quite sweet most of the time. [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Chick]]/[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Critic]]/[[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses ATG]] is popular too, although that's usually saved for kinky DarkFic, naturally.
** [[WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows Todd]]/WebVideo/PushingUpRoses/[[WebVideo/PawDugan Paw]] has its own fanfic series. (Although Paw ''was'' in a relationship with Rose, they have since broken up. [[BetterAsFriends Still good friends though.]])
** Donnie/Tacoma/Rebecca in WebVideo/DemoReel had plenty of ThreesomeSubtext, but people started shipping them from just the trailer.

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* Harpie Lady Sisters, Queen's/King's/Jack's Knight, Dark Magician/Dark Magician Girl/Dark Magician of Chaos (feel free to substitute with other magicians), pretty much anything remotely human in ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' that comes in threes.
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* ''Literature/TheBible'':

-->-- '''Creator/ProZD''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFyCuKoEGA anime love triangles]]"

* Creator/ProZD's suggests this trope should happen when it comes to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFyCuKoEGA anime love triangles]]. Currently the page quote.

* For ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'', Peter/Susan/Caspian and Edmund/Lucy/Caspian are fairly popular, particularly because of [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movies.]] There is also Susan/Caspian/Lucy, although it's rarer.

* The ''Literature/{{GONE}}'' series has the ''[[FanNickname Devils trinity]]'', which consists of [[TheDragon Drake]]/[[BigBad Caine]]/[[DarkChick Diana]]. This ship is popular, mainly because these three characters have many conflicting (and popular) ships, like ''[[HoYay Cake]]'' (Drake/Caine), ''[[BetaCouple Caina]]'' (Caine/Diana, actually canon) and ''[[FoeYayShipping Driana]]'' (Drake/Diana).

** Emi/Hisao/Rin is a pretty popular OT3 due to people enjoying their interactions.
** Hisao/Shizune/Misha has shippers. [[spoiler:It helps that it's a canon love triangle as Misha is in love with Shizune.]]
** Lilly/Hanako/Hisao, too. Lilly and Hanako are noted to be extremely close, both appearing frequently in the other one's route, and it's even reflected in how you get ''onto'' their routes -- most walkthroughs lump the two together, as the paths to the two routes are identical up until the final choice before the route lock.

** James/Lily -- being kind of important as a couple -- are often paired with Lupin, Severus, or Sirius depending on the author's favorite '70s era student.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':

** When it comes to Marauder's shipping, FanPreferredCouple Sirius/Lupin might be joined by either James or Tonks, with the added bonus that Sirius and Tonks are [[KissingCousins cousins]].

*** More recent fics such as "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37186546/ Tingle]]" have introduced the new pairing of Peter, Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop, exploiting Kate and Yelena's obvious connection and their likely bonds with Peter as spiders and street-level heroes.

See also Type 8 in TriangRelations; while other relationships modeled by that trope may include three characters, the distinction of the [=OT3=] is that all three characters are involved and in some degree of love with each other. On rare occasions, it's been proposed as a solution to Type 7, Type 9, or even Type 2 TriangRelations.

* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': [[AntiHero Shinji]] [[BattleCouple and]] [[TheBerserker Asuka]] [[RelationshipUpgrade got together]] early in this story. Rei was incredibly jealous of--and attracted to--Asuka, but she was reluctant to [[MurderTheHypotenuse get her out of the way]] because it would get Shinji upset... and [[UnstoppableRage furious with her]]. She settled on trying to have a threesome with them. Her first clumsy attempt was a catastrophic failure, but at the end of the story the three of them got together [[spoiler:(in fact, the FOUR of them got together since Shinji also hooked up with Misato).]]

** The original trilogy: Luke/Han/Leia, before... [[TheReveal you]] [[{{Twincest}} know]]. Though that hasn't stopped a lot of fans from continuing to ship that particular [=OT3=]. And the incest can always be muffled a little with [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Han serving as the vortex, and a buffer]].

* ''Literature/TheTruth'' has the [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Newspaper OT3]] [[DaEditor William]]/[[IntrepidReporter Sacharissa]]/[[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Otto]].

** ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': Shiki/Arcueid/Ciel and [[TwinThreesomeFantasy Shiki/Hisui/Kohaku]] are the most common. Both somehow supported even canonically. First in Ciel ''Good End'' where Arcueid and Ciel effectively and [[ClingyJealousGirl begrudgingly]] "share" Shiki. There is much teased at, but unconfirmed attraction [[HoYay between]] [[VitriolicBestBuds them]]. Second is the main theme of Kagetsu Tohya's sidestory ''Flower of Thanatos'' in which Shiki together with humble servants Hisui and Kohaku lives in the isolated Tohno Mansion, where Shiki practically can do with both maids whatever he wants, and Kohaku is very [[{{Twincest}} enthusiastic]] when they both [[ThreeWaySex serve him]] at the same time [[spoiler: (including [[SexSlave sexual desires, or periodic rapes]]) although [[GroundhogDayLoop it's not so simple as it seems]] and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Shiki begins to have regrets]]]].

* In the ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' fandom, portraying Agents North Dakota, New York, and Washington as lovers is fairly popular. Being three of the [[NiceGuy nicest characters]] in a series full of clueless, bitter jerkasses probably has something to do with it. [[note]]Of course, [[spoiler: North and York being dead]] means that these tend to be either [[FixFic fix fics]], occur [[spoiler: before Project Freelancer fell apart]], or take place in an alternate universe.[[/note]]

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* ''Webcomic/CityOfReality'' is a literal, and {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed MarySueTopia, to the point where, when a person catches their spouse cheating, the natural and normal reaction is to ''join in''.

* "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37186546/ Tingle]]" sees Peter Parker, Yelena Belova and Kate Bishop come together after the events of ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' and ''Series/Hawkeye2021''; Yelena explicitly reminds the other two that polyamory is more common following the Blip (''Film/AvengersEndgame'') as people returned from being Snapped to find that their spouses have remarried while they were "dead".

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':

** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Having unexpectedly copious amounts of Tony Stark/Bruce Banner HoYay, along with expectedly copious amounts of Steve Rogers/Tony Stark HoYay, some fans have resolved this with an [=OT3=] that's worth it for the PortmanteauCoupleName alone: [[ComicBook/IronMan Stark]] [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Spangled]] [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Banner]].