List of fictional polyamorous characters

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.

Preparations for Polyamory Pride at CSD Parade in Graz, Austria, June 2017

Animation and anime

Characters	Title	Duration	Notes	Country
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-Present	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 does not date will die in "horrible accidents".[11][12] Rentarō loves each of his girlfriends as individuals and has no "interest in ranking or comparing them."[13][14]	Japan
Hakari Hanazono			One of Rentarō's first two girlfriends, along with Karane Inda.[15] 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."[16]
Karane Inda			One of Rentarō's first two girlfriends, along with Hakari Hanazono.[15] 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.[16]
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.[17][13]
Nano Eiai			Rentarō's fourth girlfriend and classmate. Nano is stoic to the point of emotionlessness and is afraid of heights. She is intelligent and highly optimized in her daily life, removing any sort of unnecessary movements and actions to achieve utter efficiency. Nano initially has trouble concentrating when she first falls in love with Rentarō, throwing her lifestyle into chaos. This changes after going on a date with him where she accepts her feelings, and stops him from burning the photos they took on it..[18]
Kusuri Yakuzen			Rentarō's fifth girlfriend and third-year high school student. Kusuri is the president of the Chemistry club at Rentarō's high school and specialises in creating drugs that have strange effects when consumed. While she is technically 18 years old, she spends much of her time in an eight-year-old's body and she has a neutralization drug that can revert most of her drug's effects. This includes the failed immortal drug, which can only be temporarily negated.[19]
Hahari Hanazono			Rentarō's sixth girlfriend and Hakari's mother. Hahari initially disapproved of Hakari's relationship with Rentarō, but changed her mind when she fell in love with Rentarō herself. She later bought his school and became the new chairwoman to stay close to him. She adores cute things, is affectionate to Rentarō and his girlfriends (as a mother figure), and shares some of her daughter's perverted tendencies.[20][21][22]
Kurumi Haraga			Rentarō's seventh girlfriend. Kurumi is a third-year middle-schooler with a very high metabolism, which causes her to get hungry very easily. She constantly wears headphones and has her hood up in order to block out as much food-related talk as possible due to her cravings when hearing food-like words.[20]

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 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".[23] 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.[24]
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."[25]
	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."[24] 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.[26][27][28] Camille later does summon a demon named Dendrobium "Dendro"[29] and they grow closer over time. In episode 79 of the comic's second season, they kiss and express their love for one another.[30] 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.[31]
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.[32][33] For Starfire, polyamory is a personal and cultural preference.[32]
			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[34] 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[35]	Japan

Films

Characters	Actors	Title	Year	Notes	Country
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."[36]	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.[37] After Yivo the planet-sized alien marries and breaks up with all people of the universe at once,[38] she remains in a relationship only with Yivo.[39]
Yivo	David Cross			Yivo is a planet-sized alien with no determinable gender, dating, then marrying all people of the universe at once.[38] Later, they break up. Afterwards, Yivo remains in a relationship with Colleen.[39]
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.[40]
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” [41]
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.” [42]
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.” [43]	France
Loli	Victoria Abril
Marijo	Josiane Balasko

Literature

Characters	Work	Year	Author	Notes
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).[44]
Aviendha, Elayne, Min and Rand; Alanna, Ihvon and Maksim; Rhuarc, Amys and Lian; Bael, Melaine and Dorindha	The Wheel of Time	1990-2013	Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson	There are a number of polycules in the series, including one between four of the primary characters. The Aiel culture- which includes many of the characters listed here- practice polyamory commonly.[45][46] Alanna's relationship with Ihvon and Maksim was hinted at in the original text, but only fully explored in the 2021 TV adaptation.[47][48]
Remington Pendergast, Zidan Malekh, and Xiaodan Song	Silver Under Nightfall	2022	Rin Chupeco	[49]
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.[50]
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.[50]
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.[50]
Multiple characters	Dreyd	2007	Daniel Help Justice	Tarsa, a priestess, warrior, and bisexual woman, becomes involved in a polyamorous love triangle.[50]
Reese	Inheritance	2014	Malinda Lo	Reese, the bisexual protagonist, has feelings for her best friend, David, and her ex-girlfriend, Amber, with resulting polyamory.[50]
August, Jack and Risa	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.[51] In The Weight of the Stars, Jack, August, and Risa, the lead characters of The Wicker King, are living together and have a child.
Zetian and two others	Iron Widow	2021	Xiran Jay Zhao	[52]
Mark, Cristina and Kieran	The Dark Artifices	2016	Cassandra Clare	At the beginning of the series, Mark and Kieran are together and dating but after Mark rejoins his family for the investigation, he meets Cristina. He grows closer to her and she discovers his relationship with Kieran. However, through the series, Kieran and Cristina also start liking each other while also liking Mark. They decide to all be together during Queen of Air and Darkness.[53]

Live-action television

Characters	Actors	Title	Duration	Notes	Country
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.[54]	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.[55]
Aiko Hojo	Honami Suzuki	Legal High	2012–2014	Satoru Shima, Eiichi Udagawa and Tetsupei Takiguchi are a polyamorous throuple.[56][57]	Japan
Archie Andrews	KJ Apa	Riverdale	2017–2023	In the series finale, the four main characters are in "a quad" relationship.[58]	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.[59] 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.[60] 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),[61] 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.[62][63]
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.[64]
Nandor the Relentless	Kayvan Novak	What We Do in the Shadows	2019-2024	Nandor had 37 wives centuries before the show's setting when he was the ruler of Al-Quolanudar, and loved 35 of them.[65] In a season four episode, he wishes them all back to life using the services of a djinn, and it is revealed that his wives included both "girl-wives" and "guy-wives". He elects to keep only a single wife alive in the modern era however.
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.[66]
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.[67][68] The series is also promoted as TV's "first polyromantic comedy".[69]
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.[70]
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.[71]
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.[72]
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.[73] They begin their polyamorous relationship in season two,[74] 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
Steve	Donny Lucas	Masters of Science Fiction	2007	In the episode "The Discarded," a trio among a group exiled to a space station are openly dating each other and very affectionate. The throuple marry one another in a public ceremony later in the episode.
Sharon	Leanne Adachi
Bucky	Alex Zahara
Max Wolfe	Thomas Doherty (actor)	Gossip Girl	2021–2023	Audrey, Aki and Max are a polyamorous throuple.[75]
Audrey Hope	Emily Alyn Lind
Akeno "Aki" Menzies	Evan Mock
Beverly Hofstadter	Christine Baranski	The Big Bang Theory	2007-2019	In episode 21 of season 12 ("The Plagiarism Schism"), Leonard mentions his mom (Beverly) is polyamorous.

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.[76]	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,[77] like Brian Jordan Alvarez, who considers himself polyamorous.[78]
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".[79][80] The series received the Breakthrough Series – Short Form award from the Gotham Awards.[81]
Camile	Sirita Wright

See also

• LGBTQ portal
• Lists portal
• Human sexuality portal

• List of polyamorists
• Epicenity
• LGBTQ 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 LGBTQ-related films
• Lists of LGBTQ figures in fiction and myth

Notes

1. 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.
2. As noted by Yuri Mother