Todays media gets more diverse every day but we still have a huge lack of poly relationships. So i decided to collect all the poly relationships I am aware of and that are confirmed CANON in this post. Sadly they are often limited to three people and not really diverse, mostly containing white, abled bodied, cis people.
Be aware this posts contains slight SPOILERS. I will mention if they are still together and alive. Feel free to add further confirmed poly relationships. I will update that post from time to time.
Updated: 22.03.2022
Polo/Cayetana/Valerio - ELITE
This triad first appears in season 3. Polo and Valerio are in the show confirmed as bisexual. Polo is already shown in an another poly relationship in season 1 but it is not necessarily healthy and not 100% build on consent so I am not featuring them here. The triad below is really happy, healthy and cute. Sadly they split up by the end of season 3 and one of them dies.
Eliot/Parker/Hardison - Leverage
They are confirmed canon poly outside the show by the writer. The ending of the first arc can be easily read as a wedding vow. The woman , Parker, gets kissing scenes with both dudes. And they are all really affectionated toward eachother with a lot of hugs. There is a second arc: „Leverage Redemption“. I haven’t watched it yet, so I can not say how they treat the OT3 there but as far as I am aware they are still together, happy and alive. And Parker is confirmed to be on the spectrum.
Wolfgang/Kala/Rajan - Sense8
The show was originally planned for five seasons. If you know the poly relationship is coming you see bits of the build up throughout the first two seasons but because the show was cancelled after the second season the relationship was kinda rushed in the two hours finale. Anyway, it is still wholesome to watch. The triad contains two people of color. They are happy, alive and together.
Lito/Hernando/Dani - Sense8
Nobody knows to be honest. Lito is confirmed to be gay (so shouldn’t actually be romantically or sexual attracted to Dani), Hernando is probably bisexual. But sexuality is really fluid in this show. Anyways, they are confirmed to be a family with multiple sex scenes, kisses and dances. They are also happy, alive and together
Lantis/Hikaru/Eagle - Magic Knight Rayearth
As far as I am aware they are only confirmed and explicit canon the manga. And the manga is from the 90s so the poly relationship has some flaws but they are happy, together and alive in the end. Hikaru confesses in the manga she wants to marry both Eagle and Lantis
Miranda/Thomas/Flint - Black sails
Again a case of: nobody knows. Miranda and Thomas are married. They are having, as confirmed in the show, an open relationship. And Miranda loves Thomas. And Thomas and Flint are in love, while Flint also sleeps with Miranda. Sadly they are only in season 2. One of them dies, but the other two come back together in the end and are really happy and really in love.
Honorable mentions
Here I am mentioning shows I have not watched (yet) but that contain poly relationships in the main cast. So there can be some errors, feel free to correct me
Gossip girl - the reboot
I am really not aware how well gossip girl is writing poly relationships (no offense) but by the end of season 1 they are together and happy. If there is a season 2, Let us hope they stay together.
Professor marston and the wonder women
The movie is about the writer who invinted Wonder Woman. He was in a poly relatinship with two women back then which is also shown in the movie. One of them dies in the end (which you can not change, considering it is based on a real life person) but they are getting their happy end nevertheless.
Castlevania
Appearntly it is heavily implied that they are loving eachother, two of them are also in a relationship but it is never a 100% confirmed in the show itself. Not long ago Netflix made the tweet below so they are still kinda confirmed to be poly? I have no knowledge what the writers are saying about the topic.
Freeform - Siren
The poly relationship is already established in season 1. And everything was just fine until the writers decided to let them split up for the drama. And then the show was cancelled. So just stop after season 2. and this is what they cancelled Shadowhunters for?!
You me her
I seriously have no clue. Apparently this show has some problems when it comes to the poly relationship and it is a bumpy road but they are happy and together in the end.
Minor Poly Ships
Newly added here - to make the post even longer - I decided to add poly ships that are formed by side characters but still there for a long period of time.
The Wheel of time
Alanna has formed a poly relationship with her two male warders. It is explicit shown that the two male warders - Maksim and Ihovn - are also in love with eachother and we see them cuddeling together before they get up with Alanna to have sex with eachother… which is not shown btw. The relationship of the three is openly discussed by the other characters. It is also mentioned that Alanna would be more then happy to greet even more people in her polycule. While we see them together on screen multiple times over the course of multiple episodes, we sadly do not have good shot or promo pic of all of them together, so I am taking the BTS pic of the actors. Remeber: They are backgrund characters. By the end of season 1 they are alive and still together.
Ah! Nice to see a post about poly rep, here are some additions which are not tv/movie
Books:
Ive read The Dark Artifices (3rd series in shadowhunters chronicles) which is an urban fantasy about hunting demons and has 3 suporting characters who are in a relationship (Cristina/Mark/Kieran), i love them a lot
Theres also To be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers which is a really beautiful book about space exploration where all 4 main chars are together, one of them is trans and one of them is ace as well!!
I recommed checking out lgbtqreads for more books! If u scroll down there is a section for poly rep
I know the penumbra podcast in second citadel storyline which is high fantasy with knights and magical creatures and has Rilla, Arum and Damien, im not fully caught up but Im sure they are well :) I also know that Moonbase Theta Out, which is about a well base on moon, has polyam rep but its been a while since i listened to that one
I really love Muted which is urban fantasy with witches and has Camille, Nyra and Dendro who are very much in love i would die for them, it can be found on webtoons :)! Theres also Always Human (scifi) where one of the main chars parents are in polyam relationship, they are not much in the story but wanted to mention it! Also on webtoons
Also theres this list, the sites been dead since 2020 and they tag all rep in comics even if its minor from my experience but u might find some good ones there
