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|Almost all the characters in this are polyamorous or at least live polygamous lives. This series of books follows the Trevelyon family across the generations. Some of the relationships are made up of three or four people, some over ten. To the characters in this novel, polyamoury is just a way of life so they do not often question it. |
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Revision as of 21:20, 14 October 2020
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.
For more information about fictional characters in the related LGBTQ community, see the lists of trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters.
Animation and anime
| Characters | Title | Duration | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.[1] | United States |
| Fluorite | Steven Universe | 2013–2019 | Fluorite (voiced by Kathy Fisher) is an unaligned fusion[2] of six unknown Gems, introduced in the episode "Off Colors", and was confirmed as polyamorous by series creator Rebecca Sugar.[3][4] | |
| 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 don't return his feelings.[5] | Japan |
| Rogelio Kyle Lonnie |
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 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 Noelle Stevenson confirmed their relationship, adding that Lonnie is also part of it, implying a possible polyamorous relationship.[6] | United States |
| 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.[7] |
Comics
| Characters | Title | Duration | Authors | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 out-dated to all the young people on board the space station, all who 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 its realistic to believe that people would "explore multiple relationships."[8] She also said she wanted to write a story where it was "totally normal to be queer and genderqueer." | United States |
| 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."[9] | United States |
| Koriand'r / Starfire | Teen Titans | 1980–present | Bob Haney Bruno Premiani |
Deriving from being raised on the culture of her homeworld Tamaran, where it's 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.[10][11] For Starfire, polyamory was a personal and cultural preference.[10] |
Films
| Characters | Actors | Title | Year | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Moulton Marston Elizabeth Olive Byrne |
Luke Evans Rebecca Hall Bella Heathcote |
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."[12] | United States |
| Colleen O'Hallahan | Brittany Murphy | Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs | 2008 | Colleen has five boyfriends: Fry, Chu, Ndulu, Schlomo and Bolt Rolands.[13] After Yivo the planet-sized alien marries and breaks up with all people of the universe at once,[14] she remains in a relationship only with Yivo.[15] | |
| Yivo | David Cross | Yivo is a planet-sized alien with no determinable gender, dating, then marrying all people of the universe at once.[14] Later, they break up. Afterwards, Yivo remains in a relationship with Colleen.[15] |
Literature
| Characters | Work | Year | Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multiple characters.
Main characters are the Trevelyons, a marriage made up of multiple partners of both genders, who follow a polygamous based religion called "The Faith." |
The Faith
The Faithful The Faithless Children of the Faith A Faith Education Faithful Service Katie Journey of Faith Faith Land |
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2013 2015 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 |
Amanda Tilbrook | Almost all the characters in this are polyamorous or at least live polygamous lives. This series of books follows the Trevelyon family across the generations. Some of the relationships are made up of three or four people, some over ten. To the characters in this novel, polyamoury is just a way of life so they do not often question it.
However, as the series goes on, they are exposed to the "Faithless" and have to justify their way of life to the wider world. [16]
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| Mark Blackthorn Kieran Cristina Mendoza Rosales |
Lady Midnight Lord of Shadows Queen of Air and Darkness |
2016 2017 2018 |
Cassandra Clare | Throughout the series, Mark wrestles with his feelings for Kieran and Cristina. In Queen of Air and Darkness Kieran and Cristina begin to develop feelings for each other, and by the end of the book all three are in a polyamorous relationship.[citation needed] When responding to a fan, Clare wrote that she believed that "Mark would definitely be open to a polyamorous relationship,"[17] but would not cheat or lie, while noting that another such relationship between other characters would not be possible.[18] |
| 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.[19] |
| Em Other characters |
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.[19] |
| Ireland Mills Caleb Carpenter Ben Weber |
Misadventures of a Curvy Girl | 2019 | Sierra Simone | Caleb and Ben have had polyamorous relationships in the past, and by the end of the book are in a relationship with Ireland.[citation needed] |
| 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.[19] |
| Multiple characters | Dreyd | 2007 | Daniel Help Justice | Tarsa, a priestess, warrior, and bisexual woman, becomes involved in a polyamorous love triangle.[19] |
| Niall Irial Leslie |
Ink Exchange Darkest Mercy |
2008 2011 |
Melissa Marr | In Ink Exchange Leslie and Niall form a romantic relationship, Irial falls in love with Leslie, and it is revealed that Irial and Niall were lovers hundreds of years ago.[citation needed] Leslie leaves at the end of the book, returning in Darkest Mercy, and she, Niall and Irial start a relationship.[citation needed] |
| Reese | Inheritance | 2014 | Malinda Lo | Reese, the bisexual protagonist, has feelings for her best friend, David, and her ex-girlfriend, Amber, with resulting polyamory.[19] |
| Jack Rossi August Bateman Rina Medina |
The Wicker King The Weight of the Stars |
2017 2019 |
K. Ancrum | Jack, August and Rina are teenagers who are all romantically interested in each other in The Wicker King.[citation needed] In The Weight of the Stars they're now adults in a polyamorous relationship raising a son.[citation needed] On her website, K. Ancrum confirmed that polyamorous characters were in both of these books, but did not name any specific characters.[20] |
| Meg Sanders Theo Fitzcharles Galen Mikos |
Theirs for the Night Forever Theirs Theirs Ever After |
2018 | Katee Robert | Meg has a threesome with Theo and Galen in Theirs for the Night.[citation needed] During Forever Theirs, they begin a relationship and at the end of the book Theo names Meg and Galen his Consorts.[citation needed] |
Live-action television
| Characters | Actors | Title | Duration | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All the sensates Wolfgang Bogdanow Kala Dandekar Rajan Rasal Lito Rodríguez Hernando Fuentes Daniela Velázquez |
Max Riemelt Tina Desai Purab Kohli Miguel Ángel Silvestre Alfonso Herrera Eréndira Ibarra |
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 doesn't 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.[21] They have a threesome.[22] Lito and Hernando are dating but aren't public because it would ruin Lito's career. Daniela is initially Lito's beard but then becomes a third in their relationship.[23] Their relationship with Daniela is mostly platonic, though they do sometimes have sex. |
| Bo Dennis | Anna Silk | Lost Girl | 2020-2015 | 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).[24] in which rivalry existed 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.[25][26] |
| 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.[27] |
| Lindsey Anthony Vanessa Michael Kamala Jen Tahl |
Lindsey Kate Cristofani Anthony Cristofani Vanessa Carlisle Michael McClure KamalaDevi Jennifer Gold Tahl Gruer |
Polyamory: Married & Dating | 2012-2013 | This American reality television series follows two polyamorous families, one triad (Lindsey, Anthony, and Vanessa) and a quad consisting of two married couples (Michael and Kamala, Jen and Tahl), with almost everyone "emotionally and sexually involved with everyone else."[28] All of these characters navigate the challenges presented by polyamory in this "provocative" series.[29] |
| Izzy Silva Emma Travarsky Jack Travarsky |
Priscilla Faia Rachel Blanchard Greg Poehler |
You Me Her | 2016–Present | You Me Her is an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series that revolves around a suburban married couple in Portland who is entering a three-way romantic relationship.[30][31] The series is also promoted as TV's "first polyromantic comedy".[32] |
Web series
| Characters | Actors | Title | Duration | Notes | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annie | Laura Ramadei | Unicornland | 2017 | The eight-episode web series focuses on Annie's exploration into polyamory after her divorce.[33] | United States |
| Caleb Gallo | Brian Jordan Alvarez | The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo | 2016–Present | The Gay and Wondorous Life of Caleb Gallo is a YouTube show that began in 2016 and that shows a couple working through their decision to convert from monogamy to polyamory,[34] like Brian Jordan Alvarez, who considers himself polyamorous.[35] | |
| Rae Leone Allen Sirita Wright |
Yuri Camile |
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."[36] |
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
References
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The adopted daughter of eight polyamorous fathers, she [Hollyhock] informs him [Bojack] right off the bat that she's not looking for a ninth dad in BoJack—who, thanks to the results of a Todd-facilitated DNA test, she believes to be her biological father.
- ^ Fusion, in Steven Universe, occurs when two or more beings (usually Gems) reach a state of emotional equalibrium between each other, with these fusions as a manifestation of the friendship or relationship between two or more individuals.
- ^ Brown, Tracy (June 21, 2017). "'Steven Universe's' Rebecca Sugar confirms Fluorite is a representation of a polyamorous relationship". LA Times. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
- ^ Cao, Caroline (13 July 2018). "'Steven Universe': 5 Ways This Kids Show Was Queer Before Its Lesbian Kiss". IndieWire. Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
- ^ Yadao, Jason S. (2009). The Rough Guide to Manga. London: Rough Guides. p. 178. ISBN 9781858285610.
- ^ Stevenson, Noelle [@Gingerhazing] (May 20, 2020). "Yeah, they're a thing. In my head Lonnie's a part of it tho!" (Tweet). Archived from the original on May 21, 2020. Retrieved May 21, 2020 – via Twitter. She was responding to the question by a fan: "I'm not too bothered if you dont see this but are Kyle and Rogelio a thing? Or something as people are talking about it and saying it was hinted at but idk if its confirmed or not or atleast hinted at. If you see this can you clarify? Dont have to just wondering."
- ^ Handlen, Zack (June 25, 2015). "Futurama: "A Taste Of Freedom"/"Bender Should Not Be Allowed On Television"". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on November 4, 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2016.
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- ^ Wong, Britany (January 5, 2017). "10 Comics That Show What Polyamorous Love Is Really Like". HuffPost. Archived from the original on February 8, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
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Fry decides to move in with Colleen [despite]...after making the horrifying discovery that he is merely one of the five boyfriends she shares her apartment with.
- ^ a b Callan, Jonathan (June 25, 2008). "REVIEW - Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
The first act parallels the rip in space with the introduction of Fry's new girlfriend, Colleen (voiced by Brittany Murphy), whom Fry soon discovers has four **other** boyfriends. This serves as a thematic lead-in to the plot that tackles notions of polygamous love head-on...It's in the third act, where humanity moves in with Yeevo, that the film really becomes something special...after being exposed as a randy bachelor, Yevo confesses: "Granted, at first I wished only to bang out a cheap one with your universe. But it's your own fault. Your universe dresses provocatively.""
- ^ a b Handlen, Zack (August 27, 2015). "Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on December 25, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2020.
...while it's neat for Fry's relationship to Colleen to eventually end with Yivo deciding Colleen, with her group relationships, is the only person to really understand him, that doesn't make Colleen into a better written character, and it doesn't make Fry's romantic struggles more interesting in their own right.
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Dubbed by fans as the "throuple scene," this unusual sort of tit for tat homoerotic and polyamorous sexuality encapsulates the dynamic humor and sexual fluidity between characters on the show.
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I never want to be monogamous and I'm always falling into this super lovey-dovey kind of love with guys, and then they think that it's implied monogamy when in fact, the texture of my love is monogamous, but my mental and sexual desires are polyamorous.
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