Plot Device: Love Triangle
A story trope recast as a math object: Love Triangle.
Use this cartoon
Free for classrooms, worksheets, slides and other non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0, with credit to Ben Orlin.
Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-11-04-mathematical-plot-devices--plot-device-love-triangle/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
Love Triangle: two people fall in love with the same third person. (Post: "love angle" is more accurate; "love triangle" should mean the suitors also love each other.)