History Main / Polyamory

--->'''Woman 2:''' I'm afraid mine will.

* ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'' has two nameless women present a JudgementOfSolomon to King Jeff, who abdicates and crowns the next guy in line, who then marries the women to each other ("Baby gets two mommies! Twice as good!"). They then wonder how their husbands will react.

* Due to being one infinite being with a consciousness shared between a literal infinity of bodies across TheMultiverse, WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere is necessarily polyamorous; one of her earliest comics, ''My Bloody Valentine'', showed her maintaining romantic relationships with several individuals (of various genders and species) simultaneously, in different dimensions.

* In the ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "All My Exes Live in Essex" Holmes and Watson must solve the murder of a woman who was simultaneously married to two different men, and was also in an earlier 6-way group marriage with three other women and two men, before that one.

** In addition, it's heavily implied that Scott and Emma Frost may also be in a relationship of some kind.
** A young ComicBook/{{Cable}} is dating all five of the Stepford Cuckoos. Sophie Cuckoo is also dating Quentin Quire.

*** Given the TimeyWimeyBall nature of the show, it's difficult to say when, exactly, the Doctor was married to any of his wives (which include but are not limited to River Song, Queen Elizabeth the First, and Marilyn Monroe). And, of course, that doesn't cover any of the relationships he had which didn't result in marriage. Considering that he often crosses paths with his various love interests out of order, he could be said to be in all the relationships at the same time and yet he could also be said to be a widower for all of them.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'': You can suggest this as a solution to a LoveTriangle, but the more prudish LoveInterest rejects the idea and breaks off the relationship.
** That said, the [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 following]] [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 three]] [[VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda games]] technically allow for this through casual "flings" with off-deck characters, which aren't nearly as serious or developed as the main crew romances. This only happens because these casual romances exist in a bubble and are never acknowledged by anyone else (aside from one instance in ''Mass Effect 3'' if your main romance is Liara).

* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': It's heavily implied that, while not in a relationship like that, the player character is polyamorous and actually wouldn't mind to date all of the LoveInterest characters. The achievement for getting all characters to prom is actually called "Polyamorous". There are some moments that the player character will also voice wanting to date more than one person, including stating to dream about both Polly and Damien, as well as going on a triple date with Damien and Miranda (during the "Dragon Heat" events). Even the GoldenEnding goes along with this as [[spoiler:it's about getting all of the main characters together for an orgy. The CG is of all of them waiting for you to join them in a hot tub]].
** The "You Do You" Valentine's Day update in 2020 adds a route focusing on this kind of relationship, featuring [[spoiler:the Interdimensional Prince and Dmitri]].

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The Heterodyne Castle seems to prefer this as the ultimate solution for the LoveTriangle between Agatha, Gil, and Tarvek. Comments by the Castle indicate that this was likely a common practice for previous Heterodynes, and plenty of other characters have suggested it too. The ThreesomeSubtext between Gil and Tarvek doesn't really do much to rule out such a solution.
--> '''Violetta:''' Say--you wanna make a ''bet'' on who she'll pick?\\

** ''Literature/TheHomestuckEpilogues'': in the "Candy" epilogue, both Jane and Jade attempt a polyamorous relationship. Jane with Jake and Gamzee, Jade with Dave and Karkat. Neither of these end well for anyone involved.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Crescians can apply for extended marriages, though they're usually only granted for nobles and farmers.

* ''WebOriginal/BloodAndTheStars'' has Arthur Dage taking two wives: Pearl and Violeta.
** There's also [[spoiler: a third wife, Marie Dage, although she is currently dead at this point.]]

** The characters of Quackity, Karl and Sapnap are engaged to each other in a polyamorous relationship. [[spoiler:However, this is ultimately {{deconstructed|Trope}} as of Season 3--the Fiancés have still fallen victim to the most well-known problem within polyamory and relationships in general, i.e. [[PoorCommunicationKills miscommunication]], where two of the three parties have been keeping secret some very personal issues from each other.[[note]]For Karl, it's the fact that he has the power to time-travel, but it happens involuntarily and he loses his some of his memory every time he does so; for Quackity, it's presumed to be related to his TraumaCongaLine (including relationship trauma) and subsequent mental health problems, triggers, and abandonment issues.[[/note]] As a result of this, Season 3 has so far ended with those aforementioned two parties having a SecondActBreakup. Although Karl the content creator has said that the "[[PortmanteauCoupleName Karlnapity]] marriage" isn't "shelved", which implies this may be reconstructed in a future arc, this still hasn't happened yet.]]
*** It's interesting to note that this particular polycule was the ''singular [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32940190/chapters/81752827 most written-about polyamorous ship]]'' on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn in 2020-2021, which goes to show how general fan reception for the ship goes.

* ''Series/TheMurders'': In "Black & Blue" it turns out that a rapper is not only a bisexual man but that he's involved with his girlfriend and boyfriend simultaneously, which both of them accept. Nolan expresses surprise, and Meg explains a lot of modern young people are into it, especially the queer ones.

* ''Series/WildCards2024'': In "Howl to Get Away With Murder" it turns out that the victim was seeing two women and a man, while they all knew about each other with them accepting this arrangement. Nonetheless, at first their suspects because Cole thinks at least one possibly murdered him out of envy since he was going to end the relationship with all his partners and monogamously date another woman. This turns out to not be the case however.

** You can enter a polyamorous relationship with Marz and Rex since Marz doesn't mind sharing you with Rex.

* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' establishes that besides being TheCasanova who beds any number of women he can, Hercules has several steady girlfriends all over the world. After his death at the end of the series, Venus and Namora find this out when they visit houses or businesses that Hercules has bought or built himself, each of which houses or employs a woman who loves Hercules and is shattered and heartbroken by his passing.

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Cal has four parents in all: his mother Tirah and her three partners (at least two of which are her boyfriends, Ceph and Perk), and they all work together to take care of him.

* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' is based around this trope. Initially set up as a traditional HaremSeries, it deviates from the norm because none of the girls care that the others like him too; in fact, several of them actively help the others get closer to Issei, culminating in the rest of the harem helping [[TheHero Issei]] and [[HeroesWantRedheads Rias]] become an OfficialCouple. At least two of them stated that they were waiting for this to happen before they went any further with Issei themselves. And for her part, Rias has no problem with polygamy as long as she's [[TopWife number one]].

* ''Film/MaggieAndAnnie'': Bill offers to share his wife Annie with her lover Maggie, because he can't stand seeing Annie's sadness after she leaves. Maggie happily accepts, but she then dies after she's struck by a drunk driver.

* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', the romanceable characters can still ask you out on a date even if you're already dating one of them, fully aware of your relationship, but you can still pursue them without your initial partner getting mad at you. In fact, they'll fully acknowledge this and allow you to date the others. However, all of your additional relationships will be broken once you form a Union (get married) with someone.

* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', the romanceable characters can still ask you out on a date even if you're already dating one of them, fully aware of your relationship, but you can still pursue them without your initial partner getting mad at you. In fact, they'll fully acknowledge this and allow you to date the others. However, all of your additional relationships will be broken once you form a Union (get married) with someone.

* OpenRelationshipFailure, where non-monogamous relationship runs into problems directly related to it being non-monogamous.

-->'''Pat:''' It'll be just you and me! …and her!

If it's just hinted at, it's ThreesomeSubtext. If it's not canon, but fans {{ship|pingTropes}} it, see OneTrueThreesome. If it's just sex, not full-on relationships, see ThreeWaySex. If one partner receives preferential treatment over the others, then the former is TopWife and the latter are a SupportingHarem.[[note]]Not every case of SupportingHarem qualifies, though; it '''must''' involve a MarryThemAll resolution.[[/note]]

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* The [[{{Hentai}} h-manga]], ''Mating with Oni'', a young man named Soichiro moved back into his grandparents' hometown after his parents died, and when playing with Momiji, a young red-oni girl, she invites him to her house to play another game. When Momiji's mother, Kaede, another red-oni woman, returns home after she scared off some wild boars that were eating the town's crops she finds Sochiro asking Momiji to untie him and play something else because his hands are getting numb. Kade assumes that Momiji wants to kill and eat Socichiro, and although she's willing to cook him she still disapproves because they could be run out of town. However, Momiji explains that she brought Soichiro over because she likes him, and when Soichiro says he likes her too, Kaede becomes excited and explains that oni tradition states that when an oni falls in love with a human, [[AbductionIsLove then that human is to be abducted and forced into marriage]]. Soichiro tries to resist being forced to get married, but accepts his fate and marries Momiji, and even takes Kaede as a wife as well since Momiji is willing to share him. When Soichiro gets kidnapped by Ruri and Hari, members of the rival blue-oni clan, so he can be their husband instead, he tries going home explaining he's already married, only to be hypnotized into loving them. Soichiro's soon freed, and the hypnotism is undone, and months later a pregnant Momiji stills has to keep an eye on him so he won't be kidnapped again. Sometime after Momiji gives birth to a daughter, Soichiro takes her and Kaede to the city to clean his old apartment, and finds that Ruri and Hari broke in and after a passionate night, [[UnwantedHarem Soichiro ends up with a harem of four oni women that are more than happy to share him]].