Basic Trope: Someone is in a love triangle with a supernatural love interest and an ordinary person.
- Straight: Alice has to choose between Bob, a Warrior Prince from another dimension, and Charlie, her seatmate in English class.
- Exaggerated: Bob is one of the most powerful supernatural beings in the setting, Charlie is the most generic generic guy.
- Downplayed: Everyone has minor powers in the setting, but Alice and Charlie have normal, lowkey powers while Bob is extremely powerful.
- Justified: Alice didn't know Bob was extradimensional when she started liking him.
- Inverted:
- Bob the Extradimensional Warrior Prince has to choose between two mundane love interests.
- In an ironic inversion the awesomeness of the sides is reversed with the exoticness. Bob is just an Ordinary High-School Student from another dimension. Charlie is a Warrior Prince but otherwise mundane.
- Subverted:
- Charlie is also from another dimension, it's just that nobody knows it yet...
- Alice picks the Third-Option Love Interest, Dan...
- Double Subverted:
- ...But then Bob isn't who he says he is, and is really just a normal guy.
- ...Who, as it turns out, is another aspect of Bob's.
- Parodied: Alice is stuck with everyone asking which of two horrifying options she will date, to her annoyance.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice is in a normal Love Triangle where no party has superpowers.
- Enforced: The writer wants a quick metaphor to denote Alice's conflict regarding her supernatural activities.
- Lampshaded: "Alice has to choose between that awesome extradimensional Prince Bob and boring old Charlie?"
- Invoked: Alice goes on a few dates with a lot of people while looking for a partner, and narrows down her choices to Bob and Charlie.
- Exploited: Alice's friend Dan worries that she's putting herself in danger with all her adventuring with Prince Bob, so he introduces her to Charlie in the hopes that she'll live a normal life.
- Defied:
- Alice doesn't want to bog down her extradimensional adventuring with love triangles.
- Alice manages to start a stable three person relationship instead of having to choose.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Drama: Alice's choice of partner will have an effect more than just her love life - choosing Bob will her cut her off from her homeworld and choosing Charles will cut her off from other dimensions.
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