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* ''Series/TheSpencerSisters'': Darby and Lucas had previously dated. When they meet again though he's gotten engaged to Lindsay. Darby then starts dating Dez. It soon becomes apparent Darby and Lucas are into each other still, as Lindsay senses. [[spoiler:She postpones their wedding in the season one finale, and Lucas kisses Darby]].

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* ''Series/TheSpencerSisters'': Darby and Lucas had previously dated. When they meet again though he's gotten engaged to Lindsay. Darby then starts dating Dez.Des. It soon becomes apparent Darby and Lucas are into each other still, as Lindsay senses. [[spoiler:She postpones their wedding in the season one finale, and Lucas kisses Darby]].
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* ''Series/TheSpencerSisters'': Darby and Lucas had previously dated. When they meet again though he's gotten engaged to Lindsay. Darby then starts dating Dez. It soon becomes apparent Darby and Lucas are into each other still, as Lindsay senses. [[spoiler:She postpones their wedding in the season one finale, and Lucas kisses Darby]].
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* In the Netflix series ''Greenhouse Academy'', there's almost literally a Love Dodecahedron, with 11 students linked by various love triangles.

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* In the Netflix series ''Greenhouse Academy'', ''Series/GreenhouseAcademy'', there's almost literally a Love Dodecahedron, with 11 students linked by various love triangles.

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* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' features a love dodecahedron in which George loves Meredith, who loves Derek, who can't decide if he loves Meredith or Addison, who also is still in love with Derek but at one point was in love with Mark, who slept with Callie, who is married to George, who slept with Izzie, who used to date Alex, who's lusted after by Addison (and that's ''before'' you get into the {{subtext}}). Coincidentally, the best-remembered episode of the first season featured a hospital-wide outbreak of syphilis.

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* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' features a love dodecahedron in which ''Series/GreysAnatomy'':
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George loves Meredith, who loves Derek, who can't decide if he loves Meredith or Addison, who also is still in love with Derek but at one point was in love with Mark, who slept with Callie, who is married to George, who slept with Izzie, who used to date Alex, who's lusted after by Addison (and that's ''before'' you get into the {{subtext}}). Coincidentally, the best-remembered episode of the first season featured a hospital-wide outbreak of syphilis.syphilis.
** Callie and Mark are best friends with occasional benefits until Callie starts dating Arizona. When they break up, she has an impulsive hookup with Mark and falls pregnant with his child. Arizona is initially quite upset, but eventually she reunites with Callie and they marry, all serving as parents to the baby Sofia. It gets really confusing when Mark ([[LoveDodecahedron who is dating Julia but really loves Lexie, who is dating Jackson]]) and Arizona eventually grow to care for each other (platonically), but [[spoiler: [[MurderTheHypotenuse Mark then dies]] in a plane crash at the end of season eight]].
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Ana Maria is deleted because she wasn't romantically involved with either jack or Sawyer. The three shared a bond which we could call a "comradeship".


** Ana-Lucia filled the same role in a love square during season 2.
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* ''Series/AllSaints'': Stephanie is married to Ben. Ben has feelings for his partner Bronwyn. Bron is dating Luke. After Stephanie dies in a car accident and Luke breaks up with Bron, Ben and Bron get together. After a breakup, Ben dates Paula. Ben eventually goes back to Bron and marries her, while Paula ends up with Luke. Meanwhile, Connor has an unrequited crush on Bron, but eventually moves on with Jodi.

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* ''Series/{{Pandora}}'' has one of these develop by Episode 8. We've got Tom, who's in love with Atria, who's in love with Ralen, who's in love with Jax, who's in love with Duval, who returns some form of feelings but is too deep in with his spy life to let himself fully reciprocate.

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* ''Series/{{Pandora}}'' has one of these develop by Episode 8. We've got Tom, who's in love with Atria, who's in love with Ralen, who's in love with Jax, who's in love with Duval, who returns some form of feelings but is too deep in with his spy life to let himself fully reciprocate. Ralen, as it turns out, is married, adding another twist to this already convoluted shape.


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* ''Series/IAmNotOkayWithThis'': Stan is attracted to Sydney (and the two of them had sex), who is attracted to Dina (who [[AmbiguouslyBi may feel the same way]]), who is dating Brad, [[spoiler:who is cheating on her with Jenny]].
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* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': Frances begins an affair Nick. He still also loves his wife Melissa. Frances' ex and friend Bobbi is attracted to Melissa meanwhile, having kissed her. Later on, Frances kisses Bobbi, and expresses her desire to sleep with her again, confessing her love for her. [[spoiler:Frances and Nick break up in the end. She and Bobbi get back together.]]

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* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': Frances begins an affair with Nick. He still also loves his wife Melissa. Frances' ex and friend Bobbi is attracted to Melissa meanwhile, having kissed her. Later on, Frances kisses Bobbi, and expresses her desire to sleep with her again, confessing her love for her. [[spoiler:Frances and Nick break up in the end. She and Bobbi get back together.]]
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope


** The season 13 and 14 tenners take it UpToEleven. There are only 8 people involved in the romantic drama, but ''nine'' relationships that were either serious crushes or that actually happened: Maya/Cam, Tristan/Cam, Zig/Tori, Maya/Zig, Maya/Miles, Miles/Zoe, Zoe/Zig, Zoe/Grace, Miles/Tristan and ''seven'' love triangles Cam/Maya/Zig, Tori/Zig/Maya, Miles/Maya/Zig, Maya/Miles/Zoe, Zoe/Zig/Maya, Maya/Miles/Tristan, and Miles/Zoe/Grace

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** The season 13 and 14 tenners take it UpToEleven.up to eleven. There are only 8 people involved in the romantic drama, but ''nine'' relationships that were either serious crushes or that actually happened: Maya/Cam, Tristan/Cam, Zig/Tori, Maya/Zig, Maya/Miles, Miles/Zoe, Zoe/Zig, Zoe/Grace, Miles/Tristan and ''seven'' love triangles Cam/Maya/Zig, Tori/Zig/Maya, Miles/Maya/Zig, Maya/Miles/Zoe, Zoe/Zig/Maya, Maya/Miles/Tristan, and Miles/Zoe/Grace
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* ''Series/TwoSentenceHorrorStories: In "[[Recap/TwoSentenceHorrorStoriesS2E1BagMan Bag Man]]" Jax likes Zee, who likes Winton, whom she suspects is dating Gabbi, even though they're not. Then it turns out that Gabbi likes Zee, who it seems reciprocates or at least is open to the idea.
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* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': Frances begins an affair Nick. He still also loves his wife Melissa. Frances' ex and friend Bobbi is attracted to Melissa meanwhile, having kissed her. Later on, Frances kisses Bobbi, and expresses her desire to sleep with her again, expressing her love for her. [[spoiler:Frances and Nick break up in the end. She and Bobbi get back together.]]

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* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': Frances begins an affair Nick. He still also loves his wife Melissa. Frances' ex and friend Bobbi is attracted to Melissa meanwhile, having kissed her. Later on, Frances kisses Bobbi, and expresses her desire to sleep with her again, expressing confessing her love for her. [[spoiler:Frances and Nick break up in the end. She and Bobbi get back together.]]
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* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': Frances begins an affair Nick. He still also loves his wife Melissa. Frances' ex and friend Bobbi is attracted to Melissa meanwhile, having kissed her. Later on, Frances kisses Bobbi, and expresses her desire to sleep with her again, expressing her love for her. [[spoiler:Frances and Nick break up in the end. She and Bobbi get back together.]]
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Disambiguating Foe Yay.


** And moving into season 8 adds Davis, who is in love with Chloe, and Tess, who manages HoYay ''and'' FoeYay with every single member of the cast (Clark, Lois, Oliver, Chloe, [[DatingCatwoman Zod]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick potted plants]], [[CargoShip office furniture]], etc.).

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** And moving into season 8 adds Davis, who is in love with Chloe, and Tess, who manages HoYay ''and'' FoeYay to have subtext with every single member of the cast (Clark, Lois, Oliver, Chloe, [[DatingCatwoman Zod]], [[BreadEggsMilkSquick potted plants]], [[CargoShip office furniture]], etc.).



** Faith. Definite FoeYay between her and Buffy, and she takes Xander's v-card. She is also seemingly obsessed with Buffy's sloppy seconds: in addition to Xander's long-standing crush, she tried to come on to Angel at least once, showed interest in Scott Hope, slept with Riley while she was in Buffy's body, and in season seven she slept with Robin Wood and ''seemed'' like she was going to take up with Spike.

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** Faith. Definite FoeYay between her and She's very interested in Buffy, and she takes Xander's v-card. She is also seemingly obsessed with Buffy's sloppy seconds: in addition to Xander's long-standing crush, she tried to come on to Angel at least once, showed interest in Scott Hope, slept with Riley while she was in Buffy's body, and in season seven she slept with Robin Wood and ''seemed'' like she was going to take up with Spike.



* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': Will likes Alana, who likes both him and Hannibal, while Hannibal [[HoYay kinda likes Will]] and shares a surrogate daughter with him, but also has some [[ShipTease Ship Tease]] with his psychiatrist Bedelia and with Alana. Will and Alana make out once, but decide they would be bad for each other. Then Hannibal and Alana become lovers, while Will engages in a cat-and-mouse [[FoeYay "seduction"]] play with Hannibal. Margot Verger once sleeps with Will to conceive a baby. After Hannibal realises that Will wants to bring him to justice, he [[NotGoodWithRejection violently]] breaks up with him, and runs away with Bedelia to become fake married, even though he continues to openly pine for Will. Will pines for Hannibal too, and searches for him across Europe, but then breaks up with him a second time and marries Molly Foster for three years. Alana and Margot become a couple, marry and have a son. In the series finale, [[DestructiveRomance Will and Hannibal]] finally become an item. No, this show isn't a romcom.

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* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': Will likes Alana, who likes both him and Hannibal, while Hannibal [[HoYay kinda likes Will]] and shares a surrogate daughter with him, but also has some [[ShipTease Ship Tease]] with his psychiatrist Bedelia and with Alana. Will and Alana make out once, but decide they would be bad for each other. Then Hannibal and Alana become lovers, while Will engages in a cat-and-mouse [[FoeYay "seduction"]] "seduction" play with Hannibal. Margot Verger once sleeps with Will to conceive a baby. After Hannibal realises that Will wants to bring him to justice, he [[NotGoodWithRejection violently]] breaks up with him, and runs away with Bedelia to become fake married, even though he continues to openly pine for Will. Will pines for Hannibal too, and searches for him across Europe, but then breaks up with him a second time and marries Molly Foster for three years. Alana and Margot become a couple, marry and have a son. In the series finale, [[DestructiveRomance Will and Hannibal]] finally become an item. No, this show isn't a romcom.
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** In series 3, Jack (who at the time had recently kissed Ianto in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'') and Martha both have unrequited crushes on the Doctor, while the Doctor (in the guise of John Smith) romances Joan Redfern. Martha eventually gets over this and marries [[spoiler:Mickey Smith, who also seems to be over his hangups with Rose]].

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** In series 3, Jack (who at the time had recently kissed Ianto in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'') and Martha both have unrequited crushes on the Doctor, while the Doctor (in the guise of John Smith) romances Joan Redfern. Then the Doctor and the Master exchange HomoeroticSubtext. Martha eventually gets over this and marries [[spoiler:Mickey Smith, who also seems to be over his hangups with Rose]].
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* ''Series/TheJourneyOfFlower'': Zi Xun is in love with Zi Hua, who's in love with Qian Gu. Dongfang Yu Qing, Xuan Lang and Qian Mo also fall in love with Qian Gu, who's in love with Zi Hua. Qing Shui is in love with Xuan Lang.
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* This seems to be a favorite trope of Creator/ToshikiInoue as his other famous work, ''Series/KamenRider555'', has one as well. Keitaro is love with Yuka, who is in love with him as well but also has feelings for Kaido. Kaido, Kusaka and Sawada are all in love with Mari (the latter two since childhood) while Mari herself is more interested in Kiba, who is still reeling over his dead girlfriend. [[TheHero Takumi]] generally stays outside of the mess, but he and Mari are mutual {{tsundere}}s to each other.
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* ''Series/TheGlamorousImperialConcubine'': Qi You and Lian Cheng both love Fu Ya, while Qi Xing has a crush on her too. Xiang Yun loves Lian Cheng, who marries her even though he doesn't love her. Jing Ruo and Lian Si love Qi You, who marries Lian Si but doesn't love her. And Du Wan wants to marry Qi Xing, though she doesn't actually love him and only cares about his title.
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* ''Series/UltramanTriggerNewGenerationTiga'': Initially the series has Akito Hijiri having feelings for his ChildhoodFriend Yuna Shizuma and growing jealous of hers and protagonist Kengo Manaka's growing friendship and closeness (though nothing romantic is hinted between the latter two), then into the whole debacle enters the treasure hunter Ignis who starts turning into a romantic rival for Akito ''and then'' the Dark Giant Darrgon joins in on the mix after he himself ends up infatuated with Yuna, directly clashing with Akito and Ignis for Yuna's heart.
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* ''Series/ElJuegoDeLasLlaves'' starts without one... then Adriana convinces her husband and friends to attend a party held by Sergio (her crush from high-school days) and his current girlfriend Siena. Once Siena proposes they play the "game of keys" (where couples are randomly formed and are allowed to have sex with each other), Adriana and Sergio become attracted to each other once again; meanwhile, Oscar and Gaby (respectively Adriana's husband and her best friend) start developing feelings for each other - while still being in love with their current spouses -, Valentín (Gaby's husband) realizes he's gay, and Bárbara (Adriana's business partner) and her spouse Leo enter a Polyamory relationship with Carmen, the babysitter that takes care of their children. Season 2 complicates things even further: Oscar and Gaby leave their spouses after she gets pregnant, but he still has feelings for Adriana, who's now having an affair with Guillermo (her daughter's [[HotTeacher Math teacher]]); Gaby and Valentín become AmicableExes and pretend they're still together to please Valentín's homophobic father, Sergio leaves the story with no further explanation, and UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom Siena falls in love ''[[EvenTheGirlsWantHer with Adriana]]''. Meanwhile, Bárbara and Leo's relationship with Carmen stays strong (though they have to hide it from Bárbara's prudish mother when she comes to live with them).

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