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10 Love Triangles in Movies That Completely Missed the Mark
Jun 5, 2025
Romance is often a genre that doesn’t get nearly the amount of respect it deserves. Whether it’s dramatic or a fun rom-com, romance explores the intimacies found in relationships. What gives this genre variety is found through the various tropes found in love stories. Some of our favorites include enemies-to-lovers, forbidden love, and friends-to-lovers. However, one of the tropes that can cause quite a stir is a love triangle.
When done well, a love triangle can highlight the facets and nuances found between different relationships; you might even start rooting for any option of the pairings. However, when thrown in there for the sake of drama, a love triangle can seem unnecessary and, frankly, lazy. With Materialists right around the corner– which features a love triangle between Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, and Chris Evans– now is the right time to look back at the love triangles that missed the mark. Whether it was due to poor chemistry, the problematic nature of it, or just its pointless nature, these cinematic triangles should’ve stayed in the drafts.
10 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend' (2006)
Directed by Ivan Reitman
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