Comparison of the light curve of SN 2023aew (points) to other SE-SNe (lines). The first peak at first resembles SN 2003bg (dashed purple line; Hamuy et al. 2009), until the flattening around −100 d. The second peak has a luminosity similar to the Type Ic-BL SN 1998bw (Galama et al. 1998; McKenzie & Schaefer 1999) and LSNe (Gomez et al. 2022) (solid lines), but a much slower evolution. Of the double-peaked SE-SNe (DP; dotted lines) pictured here – SNe 2019cad (Gutiérrez et al. 2021), 2020bvc (Ho et al. 2020; Izzo et al. 2020), 2022xxf (Kuncarayakti et al. 2023), and 2022jli (Chen et al. 2024) – only SN 2020bvc resembles the late-time light curve of SN 2023aew, and the separation between peaks is much shorter in all of them than in SN 2023aew.