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Withered Hope says she has a soul mate,
Living in a city in another state.
But the soul mate thinks about a picture in a book of a beautiful crook.
And the picture of the crook in the book is in love with the brand new motorbike.
But the motorbike doesn't like crooks,
it's obsessed with the Very Sad Sack — They Might Be Giants, "Withered Hope"
Love triangles are stressful and often heartbreaking. Add five or ten more people to the mix, and instead they become comedy: Characters A, B, C, and D all love character E, who might love any of them, but can't commit for reasons of honor or basic wishywashiness. There's also character F, who might love E, and whom he might love back, but they get on each other's nerves so it's hard to tell. Meanwhile, there are guys who are each sweet on A, B, C, D and F who all want to pound the crap out of E because he took their girls from them. Except on alternate Tuesdays, when their third cousin from Osaka expresses her intent to marry Character F's dog...
You get the idea.
If the Love Dodecahedron is ever resolved, it's always with F. Who by that time has annoyed you so much that you're rooting for B. In case E and F aren't believable enough on their own, the writers will attempt to quickly deal with the competition beforehand.
Writers are always aware of it, and many series have official diagrams so the fans can keep track of the Loads And Loads Of Characters.
Christopher Booker uses this concept as the very nature of (his definition of) the Comedy genre, only the point is that the Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends isn't a shoehorn but the very soul of the plot:
- Start with at least 3 ideal relationships;
- Each relationship is stymied because the people involved are:
- The Villain (or sometimes the Hero) is the source of the biggest road block, so
- Make him repent (dramatically), and then
- Everyone can cheerfully enter into the relationship they were meant to be in all along.
The Villain (or Hero) acts as a Fisher King, casting a darkness and confusion across all the relationships until his Heel Face Turn, which frees up the main couple to get together and that, in turn, frees up everyone else.
The Love Dodecahedron is a superset of the following tropes:
Also, see Thirty Xanatos Pileup, which is similar to this trope, but with Xanatos Gambits. Though Love Dodecahedra can be the cause of such pileups.
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Examples
Anime and Manga
Comics
- The Scott Pilgrim graphic novels are known for this. The inside back cover of the third book consists of an absurdly complicated diagram detailing the relationships of all of the characters thus far (including such descriptors as "in a band with", "still likes" and "dating(?)") that is rendered obsolete before the end of the first chapter of the next book.
- Archie Comics has the famous Archie/Betty/Veronica triangle. However, Veronica also regularly dates Reggie, who keeps trying to date Midge, much to her boyfriend Moose’s wrath. Other than Betty, Jughead mostly runs from girls, especially his constant admirer Ethel, who occasionally has to settle for Dilton. Then Cheryl Blossom came along. They’ve all had countless one-time love interests. Chuck and Nancy have enough sense to keep out of this mess.
- After they turned it into a soap opera, the Archie Comics Sonic The Hedgehog series twisted Sonic's love life into a Gordian Knot: Originally hooked up with Sally Acorn, she got stuck ruling the country and shoved the relationship to the side to focus on her new duties, prompting Sonic to fall in with Mina Mongoose, starting a rivalry between the two women for Sonic's affection. He then started seeing Fiona Fox on the side, which not only pissed off Mina and Sally, but Tails, as well, who had a crush on her due to falling in love with a robotic duplicate created by Robotnik several years earlier (don't ask). Eventually, Mina got her own boyfriend, Sally got Sonic once again, and Tails got tossed into a brick wall by Fiona, who gave them all the finger to have a relationship with Sonic's evil clone from another universe. And that's not even counting the mini-tangle between Antoine, Sally, Bunnie Rabbot, and Antoine's evil clone from the same universe Fiona's new beau comes from.
- Almost every member of the X-Men has been in love with another member at some point. One of the more famous dodecahedrons: Wolverine loved Jean Grey, who loved Cyclops, who loved her back but married her clone Madelyne Pryor, who had an affair with Cyclops' brother Havok, who almost married Polaris but left her at the altar for Nurse Annie, who kissed Iceman, who was unaware that Northstar was secretly in love with him...
- Kitty Pryde is practically the shrine maiden of X-Mansion, given that she's only dated two other residents... and consecutively, not concurrently.
- Also, Daredevil, Hawkeye, and Iron Man keep dating the same women. Daredevil dated Black Widow, who also dated Hawkeye and Iron Man, and Hawkeye flirted with Echo who is another of Daredevil's ex-girlfriends, as was Heather Glenn who was involved with Iron Man for awhile, etc. Yet another DD ex, Typhoid Mary, once tricked Deadpool into sleeping with her. Iron Man, for his part, has had a plethora of ladyfriends including Emma Frost (Cyclops' current flame), She-Hulk, and the Wasp. Remember kids, when you kiss Tony Stark, you taste Galactus.
- Strangers In Paradise begins with a Love Triangle and then... hooboy. Katchoo loves best friend Francine unrequitedly, then takes up with David. Then Francine, who had a crush on David, starts to sort-of reciprocate Katchoo's feelings. Casey, unhappily married to Francine's ex-boyfriend Freddie (who still loves Francine), falls in love with David at first sight. With their marriage on the rocks, Freddie pursues Francine while Casey pursues David. Katchoo tires of David and finally drives him away. Francine breaks off her engagement to Brad for Katchoo, but still can't consummate the relationship, so a frustrated Katchoo sleeps with Casey on the side. When Francine discovers this, it's back to Brad. When confronted at gunpoint by Katchoo's sister Tambi (who insists the family produce an heir), David offers to produce a child with her in exchange for his life, and after they attempt this, Tambi secretly falls for David. David returns to marry Katchoo, who divorces him amicably once she learns about Tambi and realizes she prefers women. Casey finally gets to shack up with David. Eventually, Francine leaves Brad for cheating on her; David dies, leaving Casey to take up with Tambi, and Francine and Katchoo end up together for good.
- Jaimie and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets features several of these, particularly Gilbert's Palomar stories which are influenced by Hispanic telenovelas.
- Due to their decades of continuity, many Marvel Comics series have dodecahedrons so complex you need a 3D model to keep track. For example, Johnny Storm of the Fantastic Four romanced Crystal, but she married Quicksilver instead and they had a child. But Crystal also began an ill-fated romance with Dane Whitman, who was not only involved with Sersi but also hopelessly pining after Wasp. Wasp was the ex-wife of Hank Pym, had an ill-fated one night stand with Magneto (Quicksilver's father!) and briefly dated Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (see above). To top it off, Crystal is currently betrothed to Ronan the Accuser, ruler of the Kree, who was formerly romantically involved with Una-Rogg, who tried to seduce Genis-Vell, who... you get the idea.
- Due to various destructions, memory wipes and rebuilds, Marvel's Vision is a one-character love dodecahedron.
Films
- There's Something About Mary features a Type 3 Triang Relation extended into a Love Dodecahedron with Mary at the center. Everybody is in love with/stalks Mary, including the main character and even football star Brett Favre. Naturally, Mary choses the main character even over Brett. (She's a Niners fan.)
Literature
- At the heart of The Brothers Karamazov is an intricate Love Dodecahedron which isn't really fleshed out until the later chapters. It starts with Fyodor Karamazov and his son Dmitri (the eldest brother) who are both smitten with Grushenka, the local Hello Nurse. But in love with Dmitri is Katerina, an aristocrat who is smitten with him for some services he did for her in the past. In love with Katerina is Ivan, the middle Karamazov brother, but he maintains that he doesn't really love her. Grushenka herself plays with Fyodor's and Dmitri's affections, but really she's been pining after Mussyalovich, a Polish gentleman who spurned her five years ago. Grushenka also shows some attraction for Alyosha, the youngest Karamazov brother, but his attentions are turned towards Liza, a young girl crippled by a fever at the outset of the novel. But towards the end Liza shows more attraction to Ivan than anyone else.
- Pretty much every Blandings Castle novel, and, in fact, most of the works of PG Wodehouse. He was a master at these, and could successfully create and solve one of these plots in a single book. If one were to create a chart detailing the relationships of all the characters who appear in his connected universe, one would probably go insane just from reading it.
- In Maria McCann's As Meat Loves Salt, Jacob loves and marries Caro, but rapes and abandons her over jealousy of her, friendship with his brother, Isaiah. Then he meets and falls in love with Ferris, only for Caro to reappear and start an affair with Ferris. Then its revealed that Jacob may have had a sexual relationship with Isaiah in the past.
- In Chekhov's The Seagull Medviedenko loves Masha, who loves Treplyov, who loves Nina, who loves Trigorin, who is loved by Irina. Everybody's unhappy.
- A poem by Brazilian author Carlos Drummond de Andrade: "João loved Teresa who loved Raimundo who loved Maria who loved Joaquim who loved Lili who loved no one".
- The main characters of John C Wright's Chronicles of Chaorgars consist of three boys and two girls. Some interesting permutations work out.
- A Song Of Ice And Fire: Ned Stark married Catelyn Tully to cement the Stark/Tully alliance against the Targareyens, but he also apparently had a thing for Ashara Dayne (who may or may not be his babymama). He also had a healthy amount of Ho Yay with his best friend, Robert Baratheon, who was in love with Ned's sister, Lyanna, but ended up marrying Cersei Lannister. Both Lyanna and Cercei had the hots for Rhaegar Targareyen, though Cercei is also getting it on with her twin brother Jaime, her cousin Lancel, Lady Taena Merryweather, all three of the Kettleback brothers and possibly Moonboy (Yeah, Cercei's kind of a slut). Catelyn's sister Lysa is married to Ned and Robert's adoptive father, Jon Arryn, but is also engaged in a clandestine affair with Littlefinger, whom she eventually marries after her husband's death. Littlefinger, however, was madly in love with Catelyn, who loves him like a brother, but no more. Robert's brother, Renly is married to Margery Tyrrel, but is implied to be gay for her brother Loras. Additionally, Renly's bodyguard, Brianne has a major crush on him, but latter develops a rather tender relationship with none other than Jaime Lannister, Cercei's brother. Yeah, love in Westeros is complicated, and this doesn't even get into Jon and Dany's generation.
- Literally the entire point of Pride And Prejudice is resolving one of these. To clarify...
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- Another 19th-century example: in Anthony Trollope's Ayala's Angel, the title character is beloved by Tom Tringle, Johnathan Stubbs, and Captain Batsby, but Batsby also takes a fancy to Tom's sister Gertrude, who wants to marry Frank Houston, who is in love with his cousin Imogen Docimer. Meanwhile Lady Albury has an interesting relationship with Stubbs, but is determined not to cheat on her husband Sir Harry. Also Tom's other sister Augusta accuses Ayala of trying to steal her fiancee, the honourable Septimus Traffik.
Live Action TV
- Grey's Anatomy features a love dodecahedron in which George loves Meredith who loves Derek who can't decide if he loves Meredith or Addison, who also is still in love with Derek, but at one point was in love with Mark, who slept with Callie, who is married to George, who slept with Izzie, who used to date Alex, who's lusted after by Addison (and that's before you get into the subtext). Coincidentally, the best-remembered episode of the first season featured a hospital-wide outbreak of syphilis.
- The first season of Smallville, after setting up a Love Triangle with Clark and Whitney both wanting Lana, regularly increased its geometrical complexity by throwing others into the mix; the (Kryptonite meteor-rock influenced) Villain of the Week was sometimes romantically interested in Lana as well (and might even start to get somewhere at that until revealed to be hideously transformed when not masquerading as still human), while Lex Luthor would intervene to try to break up some of these pairings... but was this being done as friendly help for Clark's benefit, or because he too had secret designs on
Lana Clark?
- Like it ends there. Chloe is in love with Clark, Jimmy, Davis and Pete are in love with her. Jason and Lex later had relationships with Lana, while Lois is destined to be with Clark, but has so far been with Aquaman and Oliver.
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Where to start? Willow likes Xander, but Xander likes Buffy. He also dates Cordelia (who later gets involved with Angel). Willow winds up dating Oz. The one time Xander reciprocates Willow's feelings ends up breaking up Willow/Oz (temporarily), and Xander/Cordelia (permanently). Because of that break-up, Cordy invokes the wrath of the vengeance demon, Anya, who later almost marries Xander. The combined Love Dodecahedron for Buffy and its spinoff Angel ends up being so complex that it's mathematically impossible to draw with non-crossing arrows.
- Then you add the vampires: Angel and Buffy wuv eachother. But when Angel goes evil, he starts being naughty towards Drusilla. Spike and Drusilla have been together for around a century, but he starts crushing on Buffy basically from the moment he sees her. Oh, and Darla. She turned Angel, then he got cursed, so she left. Her relationship with the Master was creepy, and her relationship with Drusilla was subtexty.
- Not to mention Angel and Spike's relationship, confirmed through the Word Of God.
- Let's not forget Faith. Definite Foe Yay between her and Buffy, and she takes Xander's v-card.
- Faith is also seemingly obsessed with Buffy's sloppy seconds: in addition to Xander's lost-standing crush, she tried to come on to Angel at least once, slept with Riley while she was in Buffy's body, and in season seven she slept with Robin Wood and seemed like she was going to take up with Spike.
- Add in Dawn having a crush on Xander, but switching to Spike, and things just get weird (especially since she didn't actually exist at the time she supposedly liked Xander — it was all implanted memories).
- The Secret Life of the American Teenager has this: Ricky impregnated Amy, who loves Ben. Even though Ben proposes to Amy, we also get a little hint that he likes Grace a bit. Grace was dating Jack, who is now intimate with Adrian, who likes Ricky, who is dating Grace.
- This troper believes that the concept of this show was intentionally setup (much to our laughter) that by the end of the series, everyone will have hooked up with everyone.
- Battlestar Galactica perhaps takes the cake for this. Adama loved Carolanne before they fell out and now he loves Roslin, who was previously having an affair with President Adar. Apollo loves Starbuck and Starbuck loves Apollo, but he married Anastasia Dualla and she married Samuel Anders. Starbuck also once disastrously bedded Baltar, who loves Number Six, who is now pregnant with Colonel Tigh's child, even though the Colonel mourned the death of his promiscuous wife Ellen. Boomer and Tyrol were having an affair until Adama broke them up. Boomer died at the hands of Cally, who married Tyrol, who still loved Boomer. Athena married Helo, who used to have a crush on Boomer, who is the same person as Athena, except not really. Racetrack has a crush on Helo. Helena Cain had an affair with Gina, whom Baltar tried to seduce. Also, Baltar was the object of some affection early on from Felix Gaeta. Not to mention Starbuck's tricky relationship with Leoben Conoy. Practically every major and secondary character has tricky relationship issues.
- There is an Official Frak Chart.
- Torchwood: Jack is in a relationship with Ianto but also has strong feelings for Gwen. Gwen loves Jack and is married to Rhys, and had an affair with Owen which ended after Owen had a thing with Diane, who's thing for planes overrode her thing for Owen. Andy is in love with Gwen. Phew.
- Tosh is also in love with Owen unrequitedly. And Ianto had that... weird... thing... *shudder*
- That would be Lisa, and Owen also had an affair with Suzie (she of the "They Keep Killing" fame) before the series. There have also been signs that Tosh's attraction to Owen isn't entirely unrequited. Tosh also had an affair with a telepathic alien, a memory altering alien, and a soldier from WWI. And Owen was also engaged to a woman called Katie, which ended in tragedy due to alien brain parasites. And not that kind. Did I miss anything?
- Jack is in love with himself, as well. Well, the original Captain Jack, whom he stole his name from. And he has a thing for his brother. Oh, and John Hart, who seems to also have a "thing" for Gwen, and loves to tease Ianto, calling him "Eye Candy." I think we could go all day on Torchwood alone...
- [[Pub/images/torchwood_relationship.jpg See here]]
- Gossip Girl: Let's see...there's the short-lived Serena/Nate/Blair, which then turns into Serena/Dan/Vanessa and Nate/Blair/Chuck, which coincides with Bart/Lily/Rufus/Allison. (This is just the first season, btw.) In season two, it's briefly Marcus/Blair/Chuck and Vanessa/Nate/Catherine, and then finally Dan/Serena/Aaron, and Jenny/Nate/Vanessa. Bart/Lily/Rufus is still happening minus Allison and until Bart dies. It makes you wonder if these people even know anyone else in Manhattan.
- Lost's irritating love dodecahedron was originally a simple triangle involving Jack and Sawyer, who both loved Kate, who couldn't decide between them. Then the introduction of Juliet in Season 3 threw a wrench in the triangle, as Jack cannot decide between either (though Juliet thinks he's just using her to make Kate jealous). Thanks to the show's time-travelling, Sawyer and Juliet ended up spending three happy years together, but as of early 2009, it appears that the dodecahedron is about to kick back into play.
- And let's not forget the obvious fanservice moment when Kate and Juliet fall in the mud after being handcuffed together...
- Ana-Lucia filled the same role in a love square during season 2.
- In an episode of My Name Is Earl, this trope was used. Earl was in love with Billie, but so were Stuart, Frank, and Catalina. Paco, Catalina's childhood lover, was in love with her — but she didn't believe him. Frank was also interested in Billie's cousin. And Kenny was in love with Stuart, too. In the end, it was turned into four neat couples, two of which were continued at least until the end of the season.
Music
- The main character in R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet slowly discovers that he has stumbled into one of these. Flowchart can be found here.
Tabletop Games
Theatre
- A Little Night Music has a series of interlocking Love Triangles that take in most of the cast.
- Shakespeare loved Love Dodecahedrons; one found its way into most of his comedies, including Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Which means this is Older Than Steam.
- This also extends to all of the plays, books, and movies based off of said Shakespeare works. One such example is All Shook Up: Chad loves Sandra who hates him and loves Ed who doesn't exist because he's actually Natalie because she wants to be with Chad who's first sidekick is Dennis who loves Natalie whose dad is Jim who loves Sandra and later loves Sylvia who is so jaded that she doesn't love anyone at first but later falls for Jim who gives Dennis advice on how to approach Natalie, who is friends with Lorraine who is in love with Dean who is Matilda's son who hates interracial marriage despite giving birth to a mixed child but later marries her (Black) sidekick Earl who is supposed to arrest Chad who later loves Ed/Natalie until he finds out that Ed is actually a woman and runs away. By the end of the musical, Jim is married to Sylvia, Matilda is married to Earl, Dean and Lorraine are dating, Sandra and Dennis (inexplicably) get married despite the age difference, and Chad gets over Natalie being a girl and they marry by compromising "maybe once in a while you can put on that hat and the beard... we'll work something out".
- In Sweeney Todd, Sweeney loves Lucy. So does the Judge. Mrs. Lovett loves Sweeney, who is indifferent to her. The Judge loves Johanna. Anthony loves Johanna, who loves him back. After that, things get a little confusing.
Video Games
- Breath Of Fire: In Breath of Fire IV, Ryu was in love with Nina, who was in love with Clay, who was in love with Elena, who was trapped in a marriage with the evil prince. It was a love daisy chain, only made more disturbing by having Nina and Elena as siblings, and everyone else being different species. Signicently simpler in the orignal, as the Ninax Clay is due to the translation
- In The Sims, it's far too easy to set one of these up. It can even happen by accident.
- Fire Emblem 10 has a relationship Dodecahedron in game, updated as the player progresses. A full version can be found here◊ (Major spoilers).
- Most of the routes in Brass Restoration focus on Ryo and his love interest, but Yoshine's route has a Love Dodecahedron as part of the plot.
- Luminous Arc 2 have one mostly revolves around Roland. He can end up with either Althea or Fatima, while gaining affections, via Intermissions, from Dia (who also have a few Ship Tease with his brother, Rasche), Sadie and Karen, who's oblivious to Ace's interest in her, as well as getting distracted by some of the girls in their Hot Spring Intemissions (Dia, Luna, Ayano, I'm looking at you). Rina, despite being Roland's childhood friend, just Fangirl over Richter.
Web Comics
- As an Animesque production, Megatokyo also features its own Love Dodecahedron: Piro is in love with Kimiko; Kimiko is Erika's best friend; Erika is in love with Largo (Piro's roommate); Largo was nearly seduced by Miho, whom he hates and thinks is an undead wench; Miho has a rather ambivalent relationship with Piro, whom she claims is her former lover; Miho is also best friends with Ping, who is Piro's robotic girlfriend.
- In El Goonish Shive, a rather surreal love dodecahedron is played for both laughs and drama, but has been resolved so that four of the six involved are now in relationships: Eliot with Sarah, and Nanase with Ellen, though whether or not one of those characters (Ellen) qualifies as being in the Dodecahedron is complicated, due to Cloning Blues being involved. Clever way to have Nanase's Loving A Shadow with Elliot end in her finding someone perfect for her, though. The last one, gay Justin, has given up on straight Elliot, and wound up stuck in I Want My Beloved To Be Happy land. Melissa, attached to the Dodecahedron via Justin, doesn't get that he's gay, while Susan, whose Kindred Spirit relationship with Justin is revealed essentially the moment they meet, apparently has some feelings for him but knows she can't pursue them. And, of course, for a brief period after her splitting off from Elliot, Ellen displayed feelings towards Sarah, though it's implied that she's over it.
- Experimental Comic Kotone was basically designed to incorporate every anime trope in the book — and as such, the unnamed main character is caught in the center of a severe Love Dodecahedron, which is constantly in danger of growing even bigger due to him suffering from the rare Love Sim Syndrome...
- Avalon: Ceilidh and Joe are the Official Couple, but Joe is primarily interested in Helène, the girlfriend of Alan (who would much rather be with Ceilidh), and secondarily interested in Phoebe, who, if she likes anyone, likes Ceilidh; Ryan and Iain are also interested in Phoebe. Ceilidh herself isn't sure whether she likes Joe, Iain, or Phoebe...but definitely not Alan.
- Implied in this xkcd comic (though strictly speaking it could just be a cycle or even a collection of disconnected relationships).
- Perhaps this is a better example?
- Arthur King Of Time And Space, or at least the Space Arc where everyone is crammed into the same spaceship, is heading in that direction, mostly using canonical relationships. Arthur loves Guinevere but has a child with Morgan. Guinevere loves Arthur and Lancelot. Lancelot loves Guinevere but has a child with Elaine of Carbonek. Galehaut loves Lancelot. It's still relatively easy to follow, but the comic is meant to last twenty-five years...
- Questionable Content: Marten lives with Faye and is in love with Dora, who's Faye's boss. Faye has a "antagonists-with-benefits" relationship with Sven, who's Dora's brother. And that's just scratching the surface...
Therapist: Hang on, hang on. I'm gonna get some thumbtacks and colored strings so we can diagram this.
- Gunnerkrigg Court has slowly revealed that the prior generation is a surprising tangle of former couples and unrequited love. By contrast, all the pairings among Annie's generation are pretty straightforward (even if the exact nature of their relationship isn't).
Western Animation
- Code Lyoko. Let's see now... Ulrich loves Yumi, Yumi loves Ulrich, and despite their best efforts, they Can Not Spit It Out. In the meanwhile, Sissi loves Ulrich, and William loves Yumi. Ulrich flat-out hates Sissi, while Yumi is friends with William, but not quite that friendly. Johnny loves Yumi, but he's barely a threat. Herb loves Sissi, but he's ugly. Theo loves Sissi, but he's a one-episode character. It's mentioned several times that "guys flip over" Sissi (though we never actually see many doing so) and it's implied that Ulrich is popular with the ladies in general. Meanwhile, Odd's dated nearly every girl in the school (and several outside, such as Sam and Brynja), and has a few ship-fueling UST moments with Sissi. Jérémie and Aelita emerge surprisingly unscathed, unless you count Odd's platonic flirtation with the latter. Did I miss anything?
- Oh, right, the teachers! Jim liked Yolande after her XANA-created clone kissed him, but it turns out she's engaged. Then Jim and Ms. Hertz have some tense moments, but Hertz is dating some guy named Pedro. And I don't even want to know where Jean-Pierre factors in.
- And let's not forget about Milly, who has a big crush on Ulrich in Season 1, and gains herself a suitor in Season 4 with Hiroki, Yumi's younger brother.
- Danny Phantom himself has been in a love rectangle, or even pentagon, if you consider secret identity separation. Sam and Valerie both love Danny, who has his eye on Paulina for the first couple seasons, who in turn idolizes the ghost boy. And that's not taking into account Kitty's jealousy ploy with him.
- Timmy is also in one of these. He is love with Cindy Vortex and Trixie Tang. Also Tootie, Veronica Star and Vicky (when he wished that he was older) are/were in love with him. There are also hints of him having a relationship with Molly. And let's not forget (like Timmy did) that on one of the days of FLARG he started up a relationship with a girl named Carly that resulted in tattoos (which his was a washable one.)
- On The Spectacular Spider Man, the dynamics of the Midtown High group are enormously complicated, but succinctly: Gwen Stacy and Liz Allan both like Peter Parker, Peter likes Gwen and Liz and also Mary Jane Watson, MJ flirts with Flash Thompson but also comes to really like Mark Allen, Liz has lingering feelings for ex-boyfriend Flash, who finds MJ attractive but then focusses on Sha-Shan, Gwen dates Harry Osborn, who previously dated Glory Grant, who left him (somewhat inexplicably) for Kenny, and I'm sure there are others in there.
- Gargoyles example: Goliath and Elisa are the main couple. However, Goliath had a previous relationship with Demona, a coupling which produced a daughter, Angela. Demona later had a relationship with Thailog, Goliath’s clone, but she was dumped by him after he created a replacement in Delilah, a "clone" made using genetic material from both Elisa and Demona. Delilah, who has spurned Thailog, has at different times been pursued by both Goliath (as a rebound deal), and Brooklyn, but has apparently chosen Brooklyn's clone Malibu. Brooklyn, on the other hand, has also unsuccessfully pursued Maggie the Cat, who is in a relationship with fellow mutate Talon (Elisa's brother); and Angela, who was also pursued by Lexington and Broadway before beginning a relationship with the latter. Elisa has also dated Jason Canmore and (as a rebound deal) Morgan Morgan.
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