Markup View

Author: Irrisia

Apr 2nd 2013 at 8:44:36 PM

* ''GakuenAlice'': Mikan has Ruka (The Prince) and Natsume (The Bad Boy).
* ''Manga/ShugoChara'': Amu has Tadase (the Prince) and Ikuto (the Bad Boy).
* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': Tohru has Yuki, a stoic princely type who is always polite to Tohru, and Kyo, a hotblooded delinquent who tends to insult Tohru. She only meets Yuki a short time before Kyo.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Sakura has Yukito (the Prince) and Syaoran (the Bad Boy). Played with in the end: [[spoiler: Yukito ended up with Sakura's ''brother'', and by the time Sakura fell for Syaoran, he was ''far'' more of The Prince than the Bad Boy.]]
** In the anime, Syaoran has Sakura (Betty) and Meiling (Veronica). [[spoiler: Again, Sakura and Syaoran get together, and shortly before that Meiling says "IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy!".]]
* ''KitchenPrincess'': Najika has Sora (the prince) and Daichi (the bad boy).
* ''VampireKnight'': Yuuki has Kaname (The Prince) and [[MyHeroZero Zero]] (The Bad Boy).
** However, the roles could potentially be switched. Zero is her [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend "safe, comfortable friend"]], while Kaname is the exotic one that she believes she literally can't have.
*  ''{{Pretear}}'' seems to set this up between Himeno, Sasame (a good listener, explains things to Himeno) and Hayate (troubled, acts like a jerk who wants nothing to do with Himeno), especially in the manga. The anime is more... [[LoveDodecahedron complicated]]. Note that she meets them both at the same time, and that in the manga they are presented as equal candidates. In the anime, well. Again, it's complicated.
* In ''PeachGirl'', Momo spent years with a crush on the chivalrous and polite Toji, until she finally gets him. They guy helping her out on the way is [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Kairi]], a [[ChivalrousPervert lecherous]], school-skipping bad boy she discovers she now has feelings for. Throughout the series she bounces back and forth between them, until finally [[spoiler:she ends up with Kairi]].
* ''PrincessTutu'' plays with this trope in a way that approaches CyclicalTrope levels. First, we have Fakir (the {{Tsundere}} Bad Boy) and Mytho (the Prince) for Ahiru. However ,[[spoiler: their roles are subverted in the second season with Fakir as the the Betty to the Raven Prince Mytho's Veronica]]. On the other hand, while Ahiru seems The Betty to Rue's Veronica... Rue's certainly The Betty to Princess Tutu's Veronica for Mytho. And if we bring Princess Kraehe in this, this starts all over again. Plus, Autor could be the Betty for Rue while Mytho is The Veronica.
* An odd instance of this happens in ''SakendeYaruze'', where the Betty is a [[{{Seme}} disillusioned, embittered 35 year old man]] and the Veronica is a younger male [[TheVamp Vamp]].
* The one-episode LoveTriangle from ''KaleidoStar'' had Sarah as Archie, Kalos as Betty, and Andy as Veronica. [[spoiler: Sarah chooses Kalos -- in fact, ''she had chosen him quite a while before'' and that's why she had stayed in the Stage in the first place. Andy never really stood a chance, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and he immediately acknowledges it]].]]
* Another genderflipped example: In ''EdenOfTheEast'', Osugi (Betty) and Takizawa (Veronica) to Saki's Archie.

A lot of it is zero context, alas (and I haven't read/watched some of these canons myself) . But, if it helps, you can also have an example:

* BlueExorcist; Shiemi appears to be liked by both the lead protaganist Rin, a {{Delinquent}} HotBlooded AntiAntiChrist, and his twin brother Yukio, an [[ImprobableAge absurdly young]], very polite teacher who has known Shiemi for many years.