List of fictional polyamorous characters
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This is a list of polyamorous characters in fiction, including those in animation and graphic art works. It is organized alphabetically by last name of the main character involved in the polyamorous relationship, or first name if there is no last name known.
Animation and anime
Characters | Title | Duration | Notes | Country |
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Tatewaki Kuno | Ranma ½ | 1989 | Tatewaki is in love with both Akane and the "Pigtail Girl" (Ranma's female form) and proposes to date both, but they do not return his feelings.[1] | Japan |
Touya Mochizuki | In Another World with My Smartphone | 2017-2023 | In the world of this series, polygamy is legal, since the series world isn't tied to "conventional morality." Toya begins with a relationship with a "mess of great women," beginning with Elze Silhoueska, Linze Silhoueska, Yae Kokonoe, and Yumina Ernea Belfast, by the end of season one, with everyone accepting this arrangement as his fiancées.[2] According to Babylon's vision, Touya would have nine wives in total, later including Sushie Ernea Ortlinde, Leen, Lucia Leah Regulus, Hildegard Minas Lestia, and Sakura later on in the series, with implications that Renne will be his tenth fiancée in the future. | Japan |
Old Man Waterfall | Futurama | 1999–2013 | Old Man Waterfall, who is Zoidberg's defense attorney until killed by a giant crab warship, has seven wives and one husband as shown in the episode "A Taste of Freedom", arguing this before the Supreme Court, which holds polygamy as legal.[3] | United States |
La'gaan | Young Justice | 2010–2013, 2018–2022 | La'gaan, Coral and Rodunn are all married to each other, and welcome their first child.[4] | |
Coral | ||||
Rodunn | ||||
Tree Trunks | Adventure Time | 2013–2018 | She has a husband, Mr. Pig, but has an alien husband, who she has four children with.[5] | |
Fluorite | Steven Universe | 2013–2019 | Fluorite (voiced by Kathy Fisher) is an unaligned fusion[a] of six unknown Gems, introduced in the episode "Off Colors", and was confirmed as polyamorous by series creator Rebecca Sugar.[6][7] | |
Hollyhock's fathers | BoJack Horseman | 2014–2020 | Hollyhock, a female teenage horse and Bojack's sister, has eight adoptive fathers (Dashawn Manheim, Steve Mannheim, Jose Guerrero, Cupe Robinson III, Otto Zilberschlag, Arturo "Ice Man" Fonzerelli, Gregory Hsung, and Quackers McQuack) in a polyamorous gay relationship.[8] | |
Rogelio | She-Ra and the Princesses of Power | 2018–2020 | Rogelio and Kyle are childhood friends who are part of Adora's team before she defected to the Rebellion. They later defected from the Horde, with Lonnie, at the end of Season 4. While show writers originally teased at their romantic relationship, with a locker even saying "R ❤ K" at the bottom, presumably Rogelo's locker, as shown in the episode "Moment of Truth". In the episode "Stranded", Scorpia tells Swift Wind that Kyle has a crush on Rogelio before cutting herself off. Showrunner ND Stevenson confirmed their relationship, adding that Lonnie is also part of it, implying a possible polyamorous relationship.[9] | |
Kyle | ||||
Lonnie | ||||
Naoya Mukai | Girlfriend, Girlfriend | 2021 | Naoya Mukai had recently begun a relationship with his childhood friend Saki Saki when Nagisa Minase, his classmate, decides to confess her feelings to him as well. After some initial hesitation, he accepts her request to be her boyfriend as well.[10] Naoya decides that he will date both Saki and Nagisa at the same time. | Japan |
Saki Saki | ||||
Nagisa Minase | ||||
Rentarō Aijō | The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You | 2023 | Rentarō Aijō has confessed to (and been rejected by) 100 girls in his lifetime. On the last day of middle school, he visits a shrine and the God of Love appears and tells Rentarō that the reason for his non-existent love life is because everyone is only supposed to have one soulmate in their life, but due to an error on the God of Love's part, Rentarō is destined to have 100. Rentarō meets the wealthy Hakari Hanazono and tsundere Karane Inda, and he decides to date both of them at the same time, with their blessing, as any of the soulmates he doesn't date will die in "horrible accidents".[11][12] Rentaro loves each of his girlfriends as individuals and has no "interest in ranking or comparing them."[13] | Japan |
Hakari Hanazono | One of Rentarō's first two girlfriends, along with Karane Inda.[14] In addition to loving Rentarō, she is somewhat attracted to Karane. In the eighth episode, she and Karane have an "extended makeout session" while both are "kiss zombies."[15] | |||
Karane Inda | One of Rentarō's first two girlfriends, along with Hakari Hanazono.[14] While she initially disliked the idea of Rentarō having multiple girlfriends, she soon became accepting of them. In addition to loving Rentarō, she is somewhat attracted to Hakari. She has an extended, and mutually romantic, kiss with Hakari in the eighth episode.[15] | |||
Shizuka Yoshimoto | The third girlfriend of Rentarō and one of his classmates. She is shy to the point of muteness and was constantly bullied by her fellow students and abused by her mother before meeting Rentarō. She is a bookworm who can initially only communicate through passages from her favorite book by pointing at them, but Rentarō develops a speaking app for her so she can freely communicate by digitally reciting the lines she touches, as well as a word bank.[16] |
Comics
Characters | Title | Duration | Authors | Notes | Country |
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Every major character | Open Earth | 2018 | Sarah Mirk, Eva Cabrera & Claudia Aguirre | The comic is set in the future and monogamous relationships are seen as outdated to all the young people on board the space station, all of whom are polyamorous. Author Sarah Mirk said that she wanted to write a story where "open relationships can be really positive and wonderful" and said that it's realistic to believe that people would "explore multiple relationships".[17] She also said she wanted to write a story where it was "totally normal to be queer and genderqueer." | United States |
Kalmin | Stupidly Beautiful | 2017–2019 | Local Lil Kiddo | This webcomic explores gender roles and sexuality in a polyamorous relationship, with the college-age characters, Kalmin, Mira, and Deimos, and their "sexual exploration" described as real, especially in "emotionally resonant" and "poetic" episodes.[18] | |
Mira | |||||
Deimos | |||||
Multiple characters | Kimchi Cuddles | 2013–present | Tikva Wolf | In this long-running series, polyamorous people are portrayed like other characters, "only with more partners to steal their blankets."[19] | |
Snug Orbit | 2016–present | Emrys Seren | This autobiographical webcomic has "polyamorous queerplatonic relationship" with some episodes discussing the aromantic and asexual spectrum and "healthy relationships."[18] Specifically, Emrys is bigender, asexual aromantic, while Calliope is pansexual. | ||
Camille Severin | Muted | 2019–2022 | Miranda Mundt | The comic is set in New Orleans where people possess different magical abilities, and at age 21, Camille Severin is told to summon a demon, but it fails.[20][21][22] Camille later does summon a demon named Dendrobium "Dendro"[23] and they grow closer over time. In episode 79 of the comic's second season, they kiss and express their love for one another.[24] When some raised the question of whether Camille is "cheating" on her girlfriend, Lilinyra 'Nyra' Dupre,[b] the comic's artist Miranda Mundt implied that Camille, Nyra, and Dendro are in a polyamorous relationship.[25] | |
Dendrobium "Dendro" | |||||
Lilinyra 'Nyra' Dupre | |||||
Koriand'r (Starfire) | Teen Titans | 1980–present | Marv Wolfman | Deriving from being raised on the culture of her homeworld Tamaran, where it is acceptable to have open marriage, Starfire's sex-positivism and free-thinking habits such as a fondness for practicing nudism, openness to polygamous relationships and acceptance of "open sex" and pansexual "free-love" with persons regardless of terrestrial species, race or gender, usually lead her into conflict with Earth's more reserved culture and customs.[26][27] For Starfire, polyamory was a personal and cultural preference.[26] | |
George Perez | |||||
Quanxi | Chainsaw Man | 2018–present | Tatsuki Fujimoto | Quanxi is a seemingly-immortal Devil Hunter and assassin from China widely regarded as one of the physically strongest people on the planet. She is a lesbian and in a sexual relationship[28] with four female "Fiends" (Devils possessing human bodies) named Cosmo, Pingtsi, Long, and Tsugihagi. | Japan |
Tengen Uzui | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba | 2016-2020 | Koyoharu Gotouge | Tengen Uzui is a Demon Slayer and the Sound Hashira, the Hashira being the strongest of the Demon Slayer Corps, he is married to three kunoichi named Suma, Makio and Hinatsuru, Tengen was born into a shinobi clan that practiced polyamory, however wives were only considered useful for giving birth to more children and gathering intel if their life depended on it, Tengen did not like this (as well as other reasons) and left the clan with his wives, valuing their lives and happiness over tradition[29] | Japan |
Films
Characters | Actors | Title | Year | Notes | Country |
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William Moulton Marston | Luke Evans | Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | 2017 | This film is about a polyamorous love between a professor, his wife, and their student, Olive, as they share a "workplace, a bed, a home and eventually a family" into the foreseeable future from the 1920s, treating their relationship like "a typical movie coupling."[30] | United States |
Elizabeth | Rebecca Hall | ||||
Olive Byrne | Bella Heathcote | ||||
Colleen O'Hallahan | Brittany Murphy | Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs | 2008 | Colleen has five boyfriends: Fry, Chu, Ndulu, Schlomo and Bolt Rolands.[31] After Yivo the planet-sized alien marries and breaks up with all people of the universe at once,[32] she remains in a relationship only with Yivo.[33] | |
Yivo | David Cross | Yivo is a planet-sized alien with no determinable gender, dating, then marrying all people of the universe at once.[32] Later, they break up. Afterwards, Yivo remains in a relationship with Colleen.[33] | |||
Lane | Hannah Pepper | Ma Belle, My Beauty | 2021 | This film follows the love story of Lane, Berte, and Fred in the south of France, and debuted at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.[34] | |
Bertie | Idella Johnson | ||||
Fred | Lucien Guignard | ||||
Thomas B. 'Tom' Chambers | Fredric March | Design for Living | 1933 | “The story follows three young Americans, who meet randomly on a train to Paris. … Both men are immediately drawn to Gilda, and she’s drawn to each of them as well. Initially she dates each secretly, but eventually ... all date ... The rest of the film follows the ups and downs of their arrangement” [35] | |
George Curtis | Gary Cooper | ||||
Gilda Farrell | Miriam Hopkins | ||||
Ben | Travis Delgado | 2 in the Bush: A Love Story | 2018 | “An unconventional romantic comedy about dungeons, a fish named Archimedes and the many forms that love takes.” [36] | |
Emily | Sarah Lin Mitchell | ||||
Nikki | Caito Aase | ||||
Laurent | Alain Chabat | French Twist (Gazon maudit) | 1995 | “The three main characters, a butch lesbian from Paris, a bisexual woman from Spain and her philandering husband from Provence, intertwine their lives as they learn to be in touch with themselves, fair to each other and inclusive… the three protagonists form a bi and poly triad with the bi woman in the middle and an expanded family that includes three parents and their three children.” [37] | France |
Loli | Victoria Abril | ||||
Marijo | Josiane Balasko |
Literature
Characters | Work | Year | Author | Notes |
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Odeen, Dua, Tritt | The Gods Themselves | 1972 | Isaac Asimov | Odeen, Dua, and Tritt belong to an alien race where complete intimate relationships are composed of three individuals – a so-called “triad” - and where conception, and orgasm, can only happen during sexual intercourse between all three at the same time (i.e., a threesome).[38] |
Captain of ship | Ascension | 2013 | Jacqueline Koyanagi | Alana, a Black lesbian mechanic who works on spaceships, stows away on a ship and is romantically attracted to the ship's polyamorous captain.[39] |
Em | Don’t Bang the Barista & Go Deep | 2014 & 2016 | Leigh Matthews | Em, the best friend of the protagonist, is a bisexual woman dating a man in the first book, but by the second book she has "happily settled into a poly triad", wondering how she will get married.[39] |
Other characters | ||||
Mom of Pina | Love You Two | 2009 | Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli | Pina's mom, who is free-spirited, is polyamorous and bisexual, leading Pina on a journey to explore the "complex spectrum of sex and love" in humanity itself.[39] |
Multiple characters | Dreyd | 2007 | Daniel Help Justice | Tarsa, a priestess, warrior, and bisexual woman, becomes involved in a polyamorous love triangle.[39] |
Reese | Inheritance | 2014 | Malinda Lo | Reese, the bisexual protagonist, has feelings for her best friend, David, and her ex-girlfriend, Amber, with resulting polyamory.[39] |
August | The Wicker King & The Weight of the Stars | 2017 & 2019 | K. Ancrum | On her website, K. Ancrum confirmed that polyamorous characters were in both of these books, but did not name any specific characters.[40] In The Weight of the Stars, Jack, August, and Risa, the lead characters of The Wicker King, are living together and have a child. |
Jack | ||||
Risa | ||||
Zetian and two others | Iron Widow | 2021 | Xiran Jay Zhao | [41] |
Live-action television
Characters | Actors | Title | Duration | Notes | Country |
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Li Xiaoyao | Hu Ge | Chinese Paladin | 2005 | While seeking medicine on Fairy Island, he meets Zhao Ling'er and gets married. He also defeats Lin Yueru in a martial arts competition, and has a complicated love affair with the two heroines.[42] | China |
Jing Tian | Chinese Paladin 3 | 2009 | Since his reincarnations are General Fei Peng and Long Yan, he deeply loves Tang Xuejian and Long Kui.[43] | ||
Aiko Hojo | Honami Suzuki | Legal High | 2012–2014 | Satoru Shima, Eiichi Udagawa and Tetsupei Takiguchi are a polyamorous throuple.[44][45] | Japan |
Archie Andrews | KJ Apa | Riverdale | 2017–2023 | In the series finale, the four main characters are in "a quad" relationship.[46] | United States |
Betty Cooper | Lili Reinhart | ||||
Jughead Jones | Cole Sprouse | ||||
Veronica Lodge | Camila Mendes | ||||
Wolfgang Bogdanow | Max Riemelt | Sense8 | 2016–2018 | All the members of the August 8 cluster frequently engage in psychic orgies with each other. Kala is engaged to Rajan at the start of the series but does not love him. Wolfgang is another member of the cluster who she begins a romantic relationship with. Over the course of the series she begins to fall in love with Rajan, and in the finale decides to be with both of them. They have a threesome.[47] Lito and Hernando are dating but are not public because it would ruin Lito's career. Daniela is initially Lito's beard but then becomes a third in their relationship.[48] Their relationship with Daniela is mostly platonic, though they do sometimes have sex. | |
Kala Dandekar | Tina Desai | ||||
Rajan Rasal | Purab Kohli | ||||
Lito Rodríguez | Miguel Ángel Silvestre | ||||
Hernando Fuentes | Alfonso Herrera | ||||
Daniela Velázquez | Eréndira Ibarra | ||||
Bo Dennis | Anna Silk | Lost Girl | 2010–2015 | Bo is a bisexual succubus which must sustain herself by feeding from the life force of male and female Fae and humans, via oral intake or the energy created through sex. In the first two seasons she was involved in a romantic triangle involving Dyson (a heterosexual shapeshifter) and Lauren (a lesbian human),[49] with a rivalry existing between the two over Bo. Later on, Bo tried to have a monogamous relationship with Lauren, with Bo and Lauren remaining in love with each other through ups and downs, and later accept each other as a couple by the end of the series.[50][51] | |
Camina Drummer | Cara Gee | The Expanse | 2015–2022 | In season 5, it's revealed that Drummer is part of a polyamorous wedding with her crew, with her actress, Cara Gee, describing it as the beginning of a "love relationship...[with] a polyamorous, beautiful, queer family" and says she was thrilled to represent that in the show.[52] | |
Gemma Hastings | Thalissa Teixeira | Trigonometry | 2020–present | This British drama series follows Gemma (Thalissa Teixeira) and Kieran (Gary Carr), a couple who is forced to take in a lodger to make ends meet. They take in Ray (Ariane Labed) and the triad grows close, each developing feelings for the others.[53] | |
Kieran Lovell | Gary Carr | ||||
Ramona Wilson | Ariane Labed | ||||
Izzy Silva | Priscilla Faia | You Me Her | 2016–2020 | This American-Canadian comedy-drama television series that revolves around a suburban married couple in Portland who is entering a three-way romantic relationship.[54][55] The series is also promoted as TV's "first polyromantic comedy".[56] | |
Emma Trakarsky | Rachel Blanchard | ||||
Jack Trakarsky | Greg Poehler | ||||
Anne Bonny | Clara Paget | Black Sails | 2014–2017 | Max, Anne, and Jack are involved in a polyamorous relationship throughout season two, and have multiple threesomes onscreen after Anne begins having sex with Max. Captain James Flint is revealed in season two, episode five to have been in a relationship with not just Miranda Barlow, but her husband, Thomas Hamilton. It is this relationship that made England force him away.[57] | |
Max | Jessica Parker Kennedy | ||||
Jack Rackham | Toby Schmitz | ||||
James Flint (McGraw) | Toby Stephens | ||||
Thomas Hamilton | Rupert Penry-Jones | ||||
Miranda Barlow | Louise Barnes | ||||
Kit | Evan Peters | American Horror Story: Asylum | 2012–2013 | In a three-years-later flashback, Kit, Alma, and Grace start a brief polyamorous relationship, raising children together. Kit is explicitly involved with both Alma and Grace. It ends with one of the partners murdering another.[58] | |
Grace | Lizzie Brocheré | ||||
Alma | Britne Oldford | ||||
Countess Elizabeth Johnson | Lady Gaga | American Horror Story: Hotel | 2015–2016 | The Countess begins a relationship with famed film actor Rudolph Valentino and his wife, Natacha Rambova, as seen in episode seven.[59] | |
Maddie Bishop | Fola Evans-Akingbola | Siren | 2018–2020 | Ryn kisses Ben and Maddie in season one and describes them as "love" and the show hints to a future polyamorous relationship.[60] They begin their polyamorous relationship in season two,[61] sleep together and Maddie declares their relationship at a dinner with her parents. However, due to the events in the season two finale, Maddie breaks up with Ben and begins dating another person. Although it is implied that she is still in a relationship with Ryn, it is portrayed in an ambiguous manner and the narrative pays more attention to Ben and Ryn's relationship. | |
Ryn Fisher | Eline Powell | ||||
Ben Pownall | Alex Roe | ||||
Max Wolfe | Thomas Doherty (actor) | Gossip Girl | 2021–2023 | Audrey, Aki and Max are a polyamorous throuple.[62] | |
Audrey Hope | Emily Alyn Lind | ||||
Akeno "Aki" Menzies | Evan Mock |
Web series
Characters | Actors | Title | Duration | Notes | Country |
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Annie | Laura Ramadei | Unicornland | 2017 | The eight-episode web series focuses on Annie's exploration into polyamory after her divorce.[63] | United States |
Caleb Gallo | Brian Jordan Alvarez | The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo | 2016 | This YouTube show began in 2016 and shows a couple working through their decision to convert from monogamy to polyamory,[64] like Brian Jordan Alvarez, who considers himself polyamorous.[65] | |
Yuri | Rae Leone Allen | 195 Lewis | 2017 | Yuri and Camile are two Black women in a new romantic polyamorous relationship, with the series following their struggles with "jealousy and self-doubt".[66][67] The series received the Breakthrough Series – Short Form award from the Gotham Awards.[68] | |
Camile | Sirita Wright |
See also
- List of polyamorists
- Epicenity
- LGBT themes in comics
- List of animated series with LGBTQ characters
- List of LGBT-themed speculative fiction
- List of LGBT characters in soap operas
- List of LGBT-related films
- Lists of LGBT figures in fiction and myth
Notes
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