Examples of Love Triangles in webcomics.
- In American Barbarian, Rick is glad when he realizes this is not a possibility: the other man is Uli's brother
. - The "not necessarily sexual" type in the version of the Arthur/Guenevere/Lancelot triangle seen in Arthur, King of Time and Space. Arthur and Guenevere are married and in love, Lancelot and Guenevere are having an affair and in love, Arthur and Lancelot are Heterosexual Life-Partners and Arthur knows about the affair but (mostly) is happy that his friends are happy. And then, in the final strip, it turns out he was attracted to Lancelot as well, but knew Lancelot was straight and didn't want to push it.
- Nina and Ed are most certainly into one another in Between Failures. Reggie is hot on Nina himself, but neither Nina nor Ed can stand him, because he's a narcissistic twit who seems to think taking responsibility for your own fuckups is optional.
- Bittersweet Candy Bowl has a number of these, generating a Love Dodecahedron. However, the comic focuses mostly on SandyxMikexLucy, though AbbeyxDaisyxAugustus also appears, as does AbbeyxDaisyxMike].
- In Blue Yonder, Kevin thinks he's in one, and that Jared is the Romantic False Lead. Lena disabuses him of the notion.
- Boy Meets Boy: Tybalt tries to seduce Harley away from Mikhael, who used to be his boyfriend. It's implied that Tybalt still has residual feelings for Mikhael, so his fixation on Harley probably has to do with jealousy as much as with desire.
- Candi: Bisexual Trevor has to choose between Laura and Matt. Laura is attracted to Matt, though she won't admit it.
- College Roomies from Hell!!!:
- Mike/Marsha/April is a pretty basic one, in that Mike and Marsha are deeply in love and April just trying to get in the way because she's crazy (and possibly being influenced by Satan). ...okay, maybe not that basic.
- Dave/Margaret/Blue is all over the map. First, Dave was just Margaret's stalker. Then Blue (Mike's sister) came to visit, fell for Dave, and started stalking him a little bit. Dave and Margaret slept together to save Dave's life (though he didn't realize it until after) because she does love him, just not romantically. Then Dave and Blue slept together to help make him feel better, and around and around it goes. Mike points out that eventually Dave is going to have to choose between the two, and it's not as easy as Betty and Veronica (the friendly and understanding Blue is the Betty and the crazy survivalist Margaret is the Veronica). If Dave chooses Margaret, he will have to deal with Satan. If he chooses Blue, he will have to deal with Blue's mother. And, in all seriousness, no one knows which is worse. In the end Dave eventually chooses Blue, after having a long talk with Margaret and realizing he's just obsessed with her.
- In the webcomic The Dreamer, there is an interesting spin on it. Beatrice is seeing two men—only one lives in the 21st century and one is in her "head". It Makes Sense in Context, believe us.
- El Goonish Shive: Elliot is the common element in several of these:
- First with Nanase and Sarah, then Sarah and Susan, Susan and Diane and finally Diane and Ashley.
- Also Justin, Elliot, and Sarah. Justin's gay, Elliot's not. Earlier in El Goonish Shive, Nanase was in Sarah's place, with Sarah being in Justin's, and Elliot thinking Sarah's attraction to him isn't serious, so he doesn't respond for fear of damaging their friendship until the issue is forced.
- Ellen and Nanase are devoted to each other, but both of them have expressed attraction to Grace. Downplayed because neither have any intention of seriously pursuing that relationship, as Grace is already in a committed relationship with Tedd.
- In Faux Pas, both Cindy and Dusk are in love (or lust) with Randy, who believes that Dusk is more predatory than loving.
- General Protection Fault:
- The (in)famous Ki-Nick-Trudy triangle, though for Trudy it was both to 'harass Ki' and later to 'Get a hold of Nicks inventor gene'. Even after the sojourn to a parallel dimension where Trudy was left behind this triangle kept simmering because in fact the parallel Trudy managed to get the original Trudy to return and when Ki disappeared for a while, Trudy tried grabbing Nick for herself again.
- Much less antagonistic is Trish and Patty's competition for Dexter, which formed after one reality required his "one true love" to save him, and they realised they both thought this was the other one. Thus far, the only real issues this has raised are scheduling conflicts.
- Girl Genius:
- The main one is between Gil, Tarvek and the main heroine Agatha. This love triangle sticks out in that it overlaps with a political struggle - Gil is the heir to the throne of The Empire, Tarvek is key part in The Conspiracy/La Résistance, and Agatha is the last member an ancient and powerful royal house. Agatha and Gil have started to express their feelings for each other; Tarvek remains unrequited.
- Amongst the minor characters there is a love quadrilateral. Both Violetta and Snaug are interested in Moloch who in turn fancies Sanaa, who in turn possibly fancies Tarvek, thus linking the triangle and quadrilateral into a septagon.
- There was also a love quadrilateral in the previous generation, with Bill Heterodyne, Klaus Wulfenbach, and Aaronev Sturmvoraus all in love with Lucrezia Mongfish. She wound up marrying Bill, but now Gil and Tarvek, the sons of the two unchosen suitors, are courting Lucrezia's daughter, Agatha.
- A Love Triangle is the whole point of Groovy, Kinda. Nerd Larry loves The Alcoholic artist Edison Lighthouse, who likes Hot Librarian Anya Langerak, who wants Larry too, but he's not sure.
- Gunnerkrigg Court: As of Chapter 85, Lana (an ex-robot given a biological body) crushes on newcomer ex-robot Jerreck, who only has eyes for the oblivious Annie. Complicating things immensely is the fact that Jerreck is actually Loup in disguise.
- Belarus, Russia and Lithuania from Hetalia: Axis Powers. With a twist: Belarus and Russia are siblings. Completely, utterly, and hilariously insane siblings. Poor Lithuania...
- High Class Homos: Sapphia and Marla are dating, while Odette has an interest in Sapphia that she mistakes as being for Marla. At the same time, Sapphia shows at least some interest in Odette. Eventually, Marla breaks it off with Sapphia, leaving Sapphia and Odette in the running to become an Official Couple.
- Homestuck has a few, complicated by the great amounts of Ship Tease and the fact that the trolls have several different kinds of romance, in each of which only they are expected to be monogamous.
- Firstly, there's the Dave-Terezi-Karkat-Jade love square. Dave and Terezi are friends, with Dave possibly having feelings for her; Terezi and Karkat have something going on in the red quadrant but it's unclear exactly where they are; Karkat canonically gets a crush on Jade later on, who rejects him; and Jade has had a bit of Ship Tease with Dave. A later update reveals that Terezi has now separated with Karkat as matesprits, if they ever were in the first place, presumably due to a) Karkat seemed to want to be in every quadrant with Terezi and b) their relationship was continuously rocky and on-off, both of which frustrated her. Terezi now appears to be seeing Dave, but this is yet to be confirmed. Jade is now dating Davesprite, which John highly disapproves of (though not in a Crazy Jealous Guy-type manner). Upon a Cosmic Retcon and the conclusion of the story, Dave and Karkat are canonically a "thing", though it's not specified exactly what kind of "thing" (it seems to have both black and red elements, somewhere in the vicinity of Vitriolic Best Buds).
- Secondly, there's the Kanaya-Vriska-John-Rose (and Gamzee-Tavros-Jade) dodecahedron. Kanaya canonically had a crush on Vriska, who never found out; Vriska canonically has a crush on John, who returned her feelings at first but doesn't seem to anymore; John has some Ship Tease with Rose; and there is some indication Kanaya developed a crush on Rose, though it was more likely to simply be admiration. To complicate matters, Vriska also had a..."thing" for Tavros, who didn't feel the same way, instead crushing on Jade, who also rejected him, thus bridging the two squares. And not to mention when Gamzee hit on Tavros that one time. This isn't even going into Vriska's complicated relationship to Terezi, bridging this mess to the love square above.
- Among the trolls there's also Eridan and Sollux both having feelings for Feferi (and Eridan having unrequited black feelings for Sollux), and both Sollux and Equius having red-ish feelings for Aradia, who seems to maintain a simple friendship with Sollux, while not interacting with Equius.
- Finally, Jane, Dirk, and Roxy all have a thing for Jake, plus sometimes Dirk's autoresponder, and Roxy also has a bit of a crush on Dirk as well, while Jake has a crush on Aranea, who doesn't really feel the same way, though admits it's not out of the question.
- The trolls' romance concept in general allows this. Let's say Troll A is in a flushed relationship with Troll B while being in a caliginous one with Troll C. Troll B and C are "platonically" involved in a pale relationship. And there you go.
- Both WV and AR are infatuated with PM, but PM either is oblivious/doesn't have a preference.
- Several in Hooky.
- Nico likes Dani, Dani likes Mark, and Mark cares for Dani, but as a friend.
- An even more complicated example: Dorian likes Monica, but Monica is determined to find Will. Once she does find him, however, she realizes she may not be in love with him. And Will is determined to marry Monica as his duty as prince but later on realizes he doesn't love her.
- Then there’s William, Monica, and Damian. William and Monica have been engaged since childhood and they choose to go forward with it after the time-skip, but purely for political purposes as Monica needs both the people’s and the royal army’s support in case her plans to save Dani go wrong. As for Damian, it’s confirmed he has feeling for William that go beyond friendship, but he chooses to be okay with that because of the circumstances of William’s engagement. And William realizes he loves Damian.
- In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, there's the one between Bob, Jean, and Voluptua; and later between Bob, Jean, and Slick.
- Karin-dou 4koma: At Seren's suggestion, Ran and Shizuki decide to resolve their rivalry over Tamaryu by having Shizuki become Tamaryu's wife, Tamaryu become Ran's wife, and Ran become Shizuki's wife. Tamaryu immediately mauls Seren and runs off.
- In Maggot Boy, Davey is in love with Sam, who loves her boss, who loves no one. Later, Davey and Carville are both competing for Sam, who still is in love with her boss.
- Misfile had this for a short while in the story with Ash (B) attracted to Emily (A), who is mutual with Missi (C). Heavily disputed that is will eventually have Emily as C and Missi as A.
- My Dear Cold-Blooded King: Mei is caught between the elegant Katsu Asukai, and bad boy Ryusaki Hayate. Later it seems she truly falls for Ryusaki, while Katsu seems to be developing feelings for Akane.
- In My Roommate Is an Elf, both Jacinda and Sebastian more or less start flirting with Griswold as soon as they meet him. Griswold seems more attracted to Jacinda though, but Sebastian sees it all as a competition.
- In Nip and Tuck, Gilly overestimates his chances in one of these.
- In No Rest for the Wicked Perrault speculates about some gallant woodsman who helped November and promised not to tell November's fiance.
- In The Order of the Stick, Elan is in a relationship with Haley, but the half-orc Therkla falls in love with him.
- The Paul Reveres has one between Paul, Allen, and... Benedict?
- Penny and Aggie: Michelle wants both Stan and Rich, Stan wants Rich, Rich wants neither.
- The Perry Bible Fellowship': "Different" (NSFW) has a fairy reject a butterfly named Coolidge's attentions, claiming he and she are too different. A heartbroken Coolidge then see the fairy having sex with a rat twice her size.
- Three of the main characters in Pixie Trix Comics. Aaron wants Zadie, but she doesn't want him back and just uses his obvious attraction to her for her own benefit. Then Julian (previously of Sticky Dilly Buns shows up, and Zadie is instantly smitten, but he's more attracted to Aaron (and neither Aaron nor Zadie seem to have realized that Julian's gay yet).
- Platinum Grit has the protagonists in a massively dysfunctional love triangle. Jeremy likes Nils but beats himself up over thinking naughty thoughts about her. Nils enjoys teasing Jeremy but is terrified at the thought of developing a real emotional attachment to anyone and is retreating into no-strings casual sex with strangers. And Kate (who may or may not have had a badly thought out same-sex relationship with Nils at some point) initially just felt pity for Jeremy, but is finding herself more and more attracted to him, but she's too embarrassed to come right out and say it. If she did, he'd almost definitely beat himself up for suddenly thinking naughty thoughts about her too.
- Questionable Content:
- The Marten-Faye-Dora triangle was seemingly resolved starting with "The Talk", when Faye told Marten that she didn't believe that she could be more than his friend due to her personal issues, freeing up Dora to pursue him. However, lingering angst and Dora's trust issues eventually torpedoed their relationship, although they eventually became Amicable Exes.
- Marten, Padma and Elliott have a very short-lived triangle as well.
- Elliott seems to be headed this direction again. He's admitted to attractions to both Brun and Clinton. Clinton's made remarks hinting at attraction to Elliott, but seems to also have some interest in Brun. Brun's feelings toward either Clinton or Elliott have not been stated yet. For bonus complication, Brun's friend Renee is also attracted to co-worker Elliott, who apparently does not reciprocate in this case, but still considers her a friend.
- In Sandra and Woo:
- Sandra and her friend Larisa have both fallen in love with Cloud who seems to prefer Sandra. Eventually, Larisa moves onto Landon leaving Sandra with Cloud.
- By the end, there is a new triangle with Zoey starting a lesbian relationship with Sandra, who is still dating Cloud. They become a threesome, albeit one where Cloud and Zoey have no interest in each other, but are willing to share Sandra.
- In Strangetown, Here We Come, a Machinomic based on The Sims 2, both Ripp (B) and Johnny (C) want Ophelia, and she wants both of them. It later develops into more of a polygamous relationship.
- Tripp: Tripp, Coco and Proxy.
