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.

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] United States
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
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.[6] United States

Comics


Characters Title Duration Authors Notes Country
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."[7] 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.[8][9] For Starfire, polyamory was a personal and cultural preference.[8]

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."[10] 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.[11] After Yivo the planet-sized alien marries and breaks up with all people of the universe at once,[12] she remains in a relationship only with Yivo.[13]
Yivo David Cross Yivo is a planet-sized alien with no determinable gender, dating, then marrying all people of the universe at once.[12] Later, they break up. Afterwards, Yivo remains in a relationship with Colleen.[13]

Literature


Characters Work Year Author Notes
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.[14]
Em
Other characters		 Don’t Bang the Barista
Go Deep		 2014
2016		 Leigh Matthews Em, the best friend of the protaganist, 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.[14]
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.[14]
Multiple characters Dreyd 2007 Daniel Help Justice Tarsa, a priestess, warrior, and bisexual woman, becomes involved in a polyamorous love triangle.[14]
Reese Inheritance 2014 Malinda Lo Reese, the bisexual protagonist, has feelings for her best friend, David, and her ex-girlfriend, Amber, with resulting polyamory.[14]

Live-action television


Characters Actors Title Duration Notes
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).[15] 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.[16][17]
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.[18]
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."[19] All of these characters navigate the challenges presented by polyamory in this "provocative" series.[20]
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.[21][22] The series is also promoted as TV's "first polyromantic comedy".[23]

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.[24] 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,[25] like Brian Jordan Alvarez, who considers himself polyamorous.[26]
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."[27]

See also

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  2. 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 manifestion of the friendship or relationship between two or more individuals.
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