Confusing: Two Person Love Triangle

See Loves My Alter Ego. Yeah, I really don't see the difference here, or that there was even supposed to be a difference. Needs to be clarified so the two tropes aren't confused, or else merged.

edited 24th Jan '11 2:18:35 PM by SalFishFin

Loves My Alter Ego is a subtrope of this, which is any love triangle where two members are in fact the same person.

If we want to get down to technicalities, Loves My Alter Ego is a subtrope of this with type 5 love triangles. (or possibly type 4 and/or 10, but those are rarer afaik).

In a Two-Person Love Triangle you can have a triangle with, say, your Jekyll & Hyde part, not to mention a Secret-Identity Identity falls more under this (more general) than Loves My Alter Ego (more specific).

Besides, with all the Sharing a Body tropes out there, in any setting in which more than one person get a passenger you are asking for a two person love dodecahedron. edit: examples of the above in DN Angel and The World God Only Knows

edited 8th Feb '11 9:00:26 AM by Gorkamorka

I am having trouble differentiating the two tropes as well. I think part of the problem is that the page image for Two-Person Love Triangle is Superman (Clark Kent) and Lois and from what I can tell, a decent number of the examples are also examples of Loves My Alter Ego.

I can understand how Loves My Alter Ego could be a subtrope though. Sorry, I guess I am not quite sure what to do here.

• we could add something like this to the Loves My Alter Ego page:

this is only for Triang Relations type 5, when the Alter Ego is c. (in english: Bob loves Alice, who loves superbob, who is the Alter Ego of Bob) For more complicated geometries it's a Two-Person Love Triangle.

(maybe we could go as far as moving the examples accordingly, or removing them entirely from the sub page. What was the rule on examples in subtropes again?)

• On the Two-Person Love Triangle page add maybe something like this:

A more modern form is for one or more person having someone else Sharing a Body with them, and a third party falling for their Alter Ego (or even Enemy Within). While more complicated than a rival who's you in spandex and a mask, this particular Jekyll & Hyde Masquerade will not usually kill your dating life however.

I do agree we really need to move the lois and supes image to Loves My Alter Ego. Any suggestion for the parent trope image?

edited 8th Feb '11 3:02:29 PM by Gorkamorka

• bump :P

• we could add something into the Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions

• I'm willing to move stuff around and/or clean the two pages up if we get some kind of agreement on what exactly needs to be done

bumping again. It's been more than a month, and the (limited) activity on the crowner is for the sub-troping of Loves My Alter Ego.

Oh, well, if things stay so quiet I'll just go on with the cosmetic changes (trope image and some text). I'll wait some more for the examples.

Late to the party here, but isn't Loves My Alter Ego a character, whereas Two-Person Love Triangle is a plot device? I mean heck, LMAE was originally titled The Lois Lane. o_O