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"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous and envious]] characters (often villains) demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[VillainousCrush grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.

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"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous and envious]] characters (often villains) demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[VillainousCrush grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe "marry" her]]. [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" Or just have his way with her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.
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* Lydia in Peter Moore's ''Caught In The Act'' attempts this on Ethan in the school play. She fails.
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* In ''EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'', the prince is cursed to turn into a bear because he would not marry his stepsister as his WickedStepmother wanted

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* In ''EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'', "Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon", the prince is cursed to turn into a bear because he would not marry his stepsister as his WickedStepmother wanted
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* Taken to ridiculous extremes in an episode of ''TaleSpin'', in which Baloo masquerades as a woman ("Tan-Margret") in order to enter a flying competition. One of the other contestants becomes so smitten with "Tan" as to propose marriage, which is obviously rejected; he then spends the rest of the episode trying to kill 'her,' even saying to himself, "If I can't have her, no one will!"

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* Taken to ridiculous extremes in an episode of ''TaleSpin'', ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', in which Baloo masquerades as a woman ("Tan-Margret") in order to enter a flying competition. One of the other contestants becomes so smitten with "Tan" as to propose marriage, which is obviously rejected; he then spends the rest of the episode trying to kill 'her,' even saying to himself, "If I can't have her, no one will!"
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"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous villains]] demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[VillainousCrush grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.

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"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous villains]] and envious]] characters (often villains) demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[VillainousCrush grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.
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* Happens in the final arc of ChoujinSentaiJetman. [[spoiler:Maria, after reverting back into Rie Aoi, stabs Radiguet from the back. Radiguet retaliated by killing her, but not because she's a traitor, but because "If I can't have you, then I won't let [[TheHero Red Hawk]] have you!". Just another MoralEventHorizon Radiguet crosses in daily basis.]]

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* Happens in the final arc of ChoujinSentaiJetman.''ChoujinSentaiJetman''. [[spoiler:Maria, after reverting back into Rie Aoi, stabs Radiguet from the back. Radiguet retaliated by killing her, but not because she's a traitor, but because "If I can't have you, then I won't let [[TheHero Red Hawk]] have you!". Just another MoralEventHorizon Radiguet crosses in daily basis.]]
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"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous villains]] demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[TermsOfEndangerment grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.

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"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous villains]] demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[TermsOfEndangerment [[VillainousCrush grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.
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* ''{{Bleach}}'': Orihime's hollowfied brother Sora tries to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Ichigo (and Tatsuki, though less so) for taking his place in Orihime's heart]]. He then says he'll ''kill Orihime just so no one else can have her''.

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* Sora of {{Ever17}} gets really close on this one after seeing Takeshi and Tsugumi on the gondola. [[spoiler:Apparently it gives her a sort of split personality expressed with her trick of the numerous clone images from before. One side argues that her emotional self is what gives her purpose and that how she feels is good and the other side points out that apart from really screwing her up, she also just tried to drown Takeshi with a sprinkler (more dangerous than it sounds in this context, really!) out of jealousy.]] But [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she gets better.]] [[spoiler:But then everybody dies except maybe Tsugumi.]]



* Akiha says something like this in one of the routes in ''{{Tsukihime}}'' and does her damnedest to kill Shiki. To be fair, though, she'd had a pretty rough week.

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* In ''{{Tsukihime}}'', Akiha says something like this in one of the routes in ''{{Tsukihime}}'' routes, and does her damnedest to kill Shiki. To be fair, though, she'd had a pretty rough week.week.
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'', Sora gets really close to this after seeing Takeshi and Tsugumi having sex in the gondola.

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** On ''{{Angel}}'', Gunn assumes (incorrectly) that this is the reason why [[spoiler: Knox chose Fred to be the vessel for Illyria, after she turns him down for Wesley]]. In fact, it's because he thinks it's an honor only she was worthy of.

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** Spike chains up both Buffy and Drusilla, and declares he'll stake his his vampire ex-girlfriend as a sign of his love for Buffy. When Buffy is unimpressed, Spike says he'll release Drusilla to feed on her unless Buffy gives him the faintest crumb of hope that someday he might have a chance with her.
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On ''{{Angel}}'', Gunn assumes (incorrectly) that this is the reason why [[spoiler: Knox chose Fred to be the vessel for Illyria, after she turns him down for Wesley]]. In fact, it's because he thinks it's an honor only she was worthy of.

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* There was a really weird version of this in ''DominicDeegan''; when it's revealed that villain [[spoiler:Karnak]] was in a LoveTriangle with Donovan over Miranda, the reason he's been trying to kill Miranda is to hurt him for taking her away from him.
* In ''General Protection Fault'', [[spoiler:Trudy]] says this exact phrase when pointing a gun at [[spoiler:Nick's]] head after he stated that he could not trust her or return her feelings [[spoiler:upon realizing her role in a wide-reaching conspiracy. In an alternate future, the same scene had resulted in her killing him, but in this timeline, he merely stands there, resolute, until she drops the gun and is unable to shoot him]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. [[spoiler:Diego]] sets up a scheme to fortify the Court in such a way that it simultaneously [[MurderTheHypotenuse murders the hypotenuse]] and subjects the woman who resisted his advances to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''{{Spacetrawler}}'' may be the only work to combine this trope with TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Growp's attempts to murder Emily are actually his twisted way of saying he loves her. He eventually [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet]] and dies to save her from getting killed by the wrong person.

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* There was a really weird version In the NeverwinterNights mod Tales of this in ''DominicDeegan''; when it's revealed that villain [[spoiler:Karnak]] was in a LoveTriangle Arterra, your encounter with Donovan over Miranda, the reason he's been trying to kill Miranda is to hurt one of Persey's former owners can end with him for taking her away from him.
* In ''General Protection Fault'', [[spoiler:Trudy]] says this exact phrase when pointing a gun at [[spoiler:Nick's]] head after he stated that he could not trust her or return her feelings [[spoiler:upon realizing her role in a wide-reaching conspiracy. In an alternate future, the same scene had resulted in her killing him, but in this timeline, he merely stands there, resolute, until she drops the gun and is unable to shoot him]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. [[spoiler:Diego]] sets up a scheme to fortify the Court in such a way that it simultaneously [[MurderTheHypotenuse murders the hypotenuse]] and subjects the woman who resisted his advances to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''{{Spacetrawler}}'' may be the only work to combine
spouting this trope and attacking if you [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming insist that she is worth more to you than any amount of gold]]. Persey happens to be a succubus on a quest to [[BecomeARealBoy learn to behave/think like a human]].
* Sora of {{Ever17}} gets really close on this one after seeing Takeshi and Tsugumi on the gondola. [[spoiler:Apparently it gives her a sort of split personality expressed
with TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Growp's attempts to murder Emily are actually his twisted way her trick of saying he loves her. He eventually [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet]] the numerous clone images from before. One side argues that her emotional self is what gives her purpose and that how she feels is good and the other side points out that apart from really screwing her up, she also just tried to drown Takeshi with a sprinkler (more dangerous than it sounds in this context, really!) out of jealousy.]] But [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she gets better.]] [[spoiler:But then everybody dies except maybe Tsugumi.]]
* King Valentine of ''OdinSphere'', and his relationship with his now-deceased daughter.
* [=LeChuck=] with regard
to save Elaine in the ''MonkeyIsland'' games, with the twist that in ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' he plans to kill her so he can make her a zombie like him.
--> "The dating pool be surprisingly small when you're one of the undead."
* Nikki
from getting killed by ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' is an inverse ChickMagnet. She even has her own fan club. One of her generic fans pulls this on her in one scene. HilarityEnsues. No, really.
* A decidedly non-romantic example is in ''AceCombat 04: Shattered Skies''. The Eruseans, realising that they can't hold onto
the wrong person.town of San Salvacion, try to blow it up instead.
** Sadly, this has happened too many times to count in reality. ThoseWackyNazis planned to do this to ''all of Germany'' right before they were defeated.
* Ravel Puzzelwell reacts this way to The Nameless One trying to leave her in ''PlanescapeTorment'' she was ''probably'' faking it though.
* Kimmy Howell in NoMoreHeroes is a FanGirl of the main character, and has decided to make sure he never dates another woman by ''taking his head as a trophy''.
* Another non-romantic example is ''CommandAndConquer: [[CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red Alert 2]]''. The US military launches an attack on the Soviet-controlled Chicago, where the Soviets built a psychic superweapon. Once it gets destroyed, the Soviets nuke the entire city.
** If Vladimir's response[[hottip:*:"Hear me... you foul American fool, wherever you are! You can play your forces like a puppeteer all you want, '''BUT THIS IS MY PLAY!!!''' Here is the city that you have saved. Without the Psychic Amplifier which you so rush-fully destroyed, I no longer has a use for it. Behold... the power... '''OF MOTHER RUSSIA!!!'''"''(cue nuke)'']] is anything to go by, that example is more like a hybrid of this trope and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
* Adele from ArcRiseFantasia is an UnluckyChildhoodFriend, and, before learning this fact, was a shy, softspoken girl. Upon learning this fact she goes ''completely insane'', embraces her heritage as priestess of a ReligionOfEvil, turns into a manipulative seductive bitch, and starts with the homicidal rampaging.
* In {{Deadly Premonition}}, [[spoiler: [[LoveMakesYouCrazy "I won't let you have him!You filthy PIG!"]] Is screamed by [[LoveMartyr Thomas]] at [[ActionGirl Emily]] near the end of the game, in the {{Clock Tower}}. He then becomes the [[TheDragon first]] of only [[ManipulativeBastard several]] [[ThatOneBoss bosses]] in the game. He screams more examples of this phrase during the fight. ]]



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* [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] decides at the end of Fate route that if Saber will not submit to him, he'll just rape and kill her. But then again, even if she ''did'' agree his next idea of how their relationship would go would be making her drink the 'black mud' from the cursed Grail. Destroying her mind and giving her physical form.
* ''SchoolDays'' does this to its main character in at least one ending [[spoiler:and in the anime]].
* Akiha says something like this in one of the routes in ''{{Tsukihime}}'' and does her damnedest to kill Shiki. To be fair, though, she'd had a pretty rough week.
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* There was a really weird version of this in ''DominicDeegan''; when it's revealed that villain [[spoiler:Karnak]] was in a LoveTriangle with Donovan over Miranda, the reason he's been trying to kill Miranda is to hurt him for taking her away from him.
* In ''General Protection Fault'', [[spoiler:Trudy]] says this exact phrase when pointing a gun at [[spoiler:Nick's]] head after he stated that he could not trust her or return her feelings [[spoiler:upon realizing her role in a wide-reaching conspiracy. In an alternate future, the same scene had resulted in her killing him, but in this timeline, he merely stands there, resolute, until she drops the gun and is unable to shoot him]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. [[spoiler:Diego]] sets up a scheme to fortify the Court in such a way that it simultaneously [[MurderTheHypotenuse murders the hypotenuse]] and subjects the woman who resisted his advances to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''{{Spacetrawler}}'' may be the only work to combine this trope with TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Growp's attempts to murder Emily are actually his twisted way of saying he loves her. He eventually [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet]] and dies to save her from getting killed by the wrong person.
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* In the NeverwinterNights mod Tales of Arterra, your encounter with one of Persey's former owners can end with him spouting this trope and attacking if you [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming insist that she is worth more to you than any amount of gold]]. Persey happens to be a succubus on a quest to [[BecomeARealBoy learn to behave/think like a human]].
* Akiha says something like this in one of the routes in ''{{Tsukihime}}'' and does her damnedest to kill Shiki. To be fair, though, she'd had a pretty rough week.
* Sora of {{Ever17}} gets really close on this one after seeing Takeshi and Tsugumi on the gondola. [[spoiler:Apparently it gives her a sort of split personality expressed with her trick of the numerous clone images from before. One side argues that her emotional self is what gives her purpose and that how she feels is good and the other side points out that apart from really screwing her up, she also just tried to drown Takeshi with a sprinkler (more dangerous than it sounds in this context, really!) out of jealousy.]] But [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she gets better.]] [[spoiler:But then everybody dies except maybe Tsugumi.]]
* King Valentine of ''OdinSphere'', and his relationship with his now-deceased daughter.
* [=LeChuck=] with regard to Elaine in the ''MonkeyIsland'' games, with the twist that in ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' he plans to kill her so he can make her a zombie like him.
--> "The dating pool be surprisingly small when you're one of the undead."
* Nikki from ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' is an inverse ChickMagnet. She even has her own fan club. One of her generic fans pulls this on her in one scene. HilarityEnsues. No, really.
* A decidedly non-romantic example is in ''AceCombat 04: Shattered Skies''. The Eruseans, realising that they can't hold onto the town of San Salvacion, try to blow it up instead.
** Sadly, this has happened too many times to count in reality. ThoseWackyNazis planned to do this to ''all of Germany'' right before they were defeated.
* ''SchoolDays'' does this to its main character in at least one ending [[spoiler:and in the anime]].
* Ravel Puzzelwell reacts this way to The Nameless One trying to leave her in ''PlanescapeTorment'' she was ''probably'' faking it though.
* [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] decides at the end of Fate route that if Saber will not submit to him, he'll just rape and kill her. But then again, even if she ''did'' agree his next idea of how their relationship would go would be making her drink the 'black mud' from the cursed Grail. Destroying her mind and giving her physical form.
* Kimmy Howell in NoMoreHeroes is a FanGirl of the main character, and has decided to make sure he never dates another woman by ''taking his head as a trophy''.
* Another non-romantic example is ''CommandAndConquer: [[CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red Alert 2]]''. The US military launches an attack on the Soviet-controlled Chicago, where the Soviets built a psychic superweapon. Once it gets destroyed, the Soviets nuke the entire city.
** If Vladimir's response[[hottip:*:"Hear me... you foul American fool, wherever you are! You can play your forces like a puppeteer all you want, '''BUT THIS IS MY PLAY!!!''' Here is the city that you have saved. Without the Psychic Amplifier which you so rush-fully destroyed, I no longer has a use for it. Behold... the power... '''OF MOTHER RUSSIA!!!'''"''(cue nuke)'']] is anything to go by, that example is more like a hybrid of this trope and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
* Adele from ArcRiseFantasia is an UnluckyChildhoodFriend, and, before learning this fact, was a shy, softspoken girl. Upon learning this fact she goes ''completely insane'', embraces her heritage as priestess of a ReligionOfEvil, turns into a manipulative seductive bitch, and starts with the homicidal rampaging.
* In {{Deadly Premonition}}, [[spoiler: [[LoveMakesYouCrazy "I won't let you have him!You filthy PIG!"]] Is screamed by [[LoveMartyr Thomas]] at [[ActionGirl Emily]] near the end of the game, in the {{Clock Tower}}. He then becomes the [[TheDragon first]] of only [[ManipulativeBastard several]] [[ThatOneBoss bosses]] in the game. He screams more examples of this phrase during the fight. ]]
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* Hitagi Senjougahara from ''{{Bakemonogatari}}'' makes it clear that she won't tolerate her boyfriend Koyomi Araragi showing interest in any other woman. At one point, she nearly stabs him in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific. And only stops once he screams, "Stop it! There's nothing guilty about it! I didn't mean it like I knew her well! I'm only devoted to you, Senjougahara!" Afterwards, when he comments that she'll kill someone, she promises that he will be her first and only victim. Unless someone else kills him, in which case, she'll kill his killer. She then goes on to say how romantic it is because then he would truly belong to her and she would be able to be near him while he's on his death bed.

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* Hitagi Senjougahara from ''{{Bakemonogatari}}'' ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' makes it clear that she won't tolerate her boyfriend Koyomi Araragi showing interest in any other woman. At one point, she nearly stabs him in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific. And only stops once he screams, "Stop it! There's nothing guilty about it! I didn't mean it like I knew her well! I'm only devoted to you, Senjougahara!" Afterwards, when he comments that she'll kill someone, she promises that he will be her first and only victim. Unless someone else kills him, in which case, she'll kill his killer. She then goes on to say how romantic it is because then he would truly belong to her and she would be able to be near him while he's on his death bed.
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* ''TheMask'': The Animated Series had a slight variation on this line on the always-controversial episode, "Flight as a Feather." [[spoiler: After Cookie [=BaBoom=], the mayor's {{Stripperific}} ex-girlfriend, reveals the suicide belt bikini around her body, she announces, "If I can't have Mortimer [the Mayor], then ''no one can''!"]]

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* ''TheMask'': The Animated Series ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' had a slight variation on this line on the always-controversial episode, "Flight as a Feather." [[spoiler: After Cookie [=BaBoom=], the mayor's {{Stripperific}} ex-girlfriend, reveals the suicide belt bikini around her body, she announces, "If I can't have Mortimer [the Mayor], then ''no one can''!"]]
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* In Bokura Wa Itsumo the ClingyJealousGirl Onohira uses this on Haruna when he tell her that he was going out with his LivingEmotionalCrutch to which she responds by taking out a knife and saying [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bokura_wa_itsumo/v03/c017/26.html "If I can't be in your arms, nobody else can either!"]]
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* Rose from ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' implied that she purposely shoved Charlie in front of an oncoming train not long after she caught him cheating on her with another woman.
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* ''MahouSenseiNegima'': Chapter 338 features Chisame's brief stint as a {{Yandere}}, played for laughs of course, with a dose of IfICantHaveYou.
--> Chisame: Oh yeah, you're gonna get stabbed and killed one day! No, I'm going to stab you and then I'll die too.
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* Rune of ''KarakuridoujiUltimo'' in chapter 11 says he needs to kill his crush Yamato and then die himself.
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Also happens with {{MacGuffin}}s, occasionally. See also LoveMakesYouEvil, {{Yandere}}, and LivingEmotionalCrutch. The polar opposite of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.

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Also happens with {{MacGuffin}}s, occasionally.See NoMacGuffinNoWinner when the trope phrase is directed at something of intrinsic value, rather than an object of affection. See also LoveMakesYouEvil, {{Yandere}}, and LivingEmotionalCrutch. The polar opposite of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.

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** Ah, spoken like a spurned lover indeed.



* ''KyouKaraMaou'': Wolfram to Yuuri- "Maybe I should just kill you now; then you'd be mine forever." Presumably not meant seriously, as he sheathes his sword and forgets about that plan of action the moment Yuuri falls down a short staircase. It never comes up again.

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* ''KyouKaraMaou'': Wolfram to Yuuri- Yuuri season one, episode fifty-two- "Maybe I should just kill you now; then you'd be mine forever." Presumably not meant seriously, as he sheathes his sword and forgets about that plan of action the moment Yuuri falls down a short staircase. It never comes up again.
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* At one point in the ''HotGimmick'' manga Hatsumi tells her abusive boyfriend Ryoki that she can't be with him anymore when he orders her to make the impossible decision of choosing between him or her family. When she leaves him he's shown thinking to himself [[http://www.onemanga.com/Hot_Gimmick/46/14/ "That stupid woman...If she can't be mine she should just die."]]

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* At one point in the ''HotGimmick'' manga Hatsumi tells her abusive boyfriend Ryoki that she can't be with him anymore when he orders her to make the impossible decision of choosing between him or her family. When she leaves him he's shown thinking to himself [[http://www.onemanga.com/Hot_Gimmick/46/14/ mangareader.net/1361-44896-14/hot-gimmick/chapter-46.html "That stupid woman...If she can't be mine she should just die."]]
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* Mizore in ''RosarioPlusVampire'' tries to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill the rest of Tsukune's harem]] and turn Tsukune himself into a popsicle so she can have him all for herself. However, once she's added to the harem she becomes friends with her love rivals and continues to stalk Tsukune. She says herself that she doesn't really "need" to stalk him anymore, it's just "more fun."
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* "Pick up the Phone" by Falling in Reverse, which is about an [[DomesticAbuse abusive relationship]] from the perspective of the jealous boyfriend, features the line "I'll be damned if I see you with some other man; If I cannot have you then nobody can"
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* AdolfHitler wanted to burn Paris to the ground when the Allies were about to retake it. Then when the war was ending and the Allies were surrounding Germany, he would have raze the country and everyone in it to the ground, making every last German die with him in a futile LastStand. Fortunately in both cases, his generals disobeyed his orders.

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* AdolfHitler wanted to burn Paris to the ground when the Allies were about to retake it. Then when the war was ending and the Allies were surrounding Germany, he would have tried to completely raze the country and everyone in it to the ground, making every last German die with him in a futile LastStand. Fortunately in both cases, his generals disobeyed his orders.

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* The various cases in RealLife where somebody kills their spouse either after they cheat on them or after they request a divorce.
** Something to keep in mind if you're ever tempted to ask why an abuse victim "doesn't just leave": the majority of women killed by their partners are killed after leaving or while in the process of leaving. Then again that statistic doesn't include women who leave before things get that bad and so don't die. After all the fact that most people who die of skin cancer are being treated for it doesn't make getting treatment a bad idea.
* AdolfHitler wanted to burn Paris to the ground when the Allies were about to retake it. Then when the war was ending and the Allies were surrounding Germany, he would have raze the country and everyone in it to the ground, making every last German die with him in a futile LastStand. Fortunately in both cases, his generals disobeyed his orders.
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* The various cases in RealLife where somebody kills their spouse either after they cheat on them or after they request a divorce.
** Something to keep in mind if you're ever tempted to ask why an abuse victim "doesn't just leave": the majority of women killed by their partners are killed after leaving or while in the process of leaving. Then again that statistic doesn't include women who leave before things get that bad and so don't die. After all the fact that most people who die of skin cancer are being treated for it doesn't make getting treatment a bad idea.
* AdolfHitler wanted to burn Paris to the ground when the Allies were about to retake it. Then when the war was ending and the Allies were surrounding Germany, he would have raze the country and everyone in it to the ground, making every last German die with him in a futile LastStand. Fortunately in both cases, his generals disobeyed his orders.
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** There's a comic version where he goes even farther; he doesn't just make the dinner nasty, he makes it literally ''inedible''. Instead of garlic, he adds ''dish soap'' to the vegetables, and he ruins everything else too.
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-->-- '''[[KimagureOrangeRoad Hikaru]]''', ''Fanfic/RevengeRoad''

''"I don't want nobody, baby!"'' Just kidding.

"If I can't have you, then no one will!" is a StockPhrase often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous villains]] demanding to be loved. The set up is usually as follows: Baddie has [[TermsOfEndangerment grown infatuated]] with the hero or his LoveInterest and kidnaps her with the intent to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty "marry" her]]. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive [[StalkerWithACrush in a non-sicko way]], it's usually love of the LoveMakesYouEvil variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect him to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period''.

If the villain is a FemmeFatale who was wooing the hero, she may well shoot ''him'' once his love interest shows up. Many a non-villainous "jilted" ClingyJealousGirl will react this way, and there may be some truth to it, as this seems to be the mentality behind many people who [[HeHadItComing kill their cheating spouses or ex-lovers]] (both in fiction and in RealLife).

If the villain ever had an inkling of a chance, this becomes a form of KickTheDog that shows that they're "The Wrong Guy".

Also happens with {{MacGuffin}}s, occasionally. See also LoveMakesYouEvil, {{Yandere}}, and LivingEmotionalCrutch. The polar opposite of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy.

An alternative to killing their beloved is for the villain to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill the hero]] for being a romantic rival. If the villain is canny, he'll [[TheUriahGambit play it off as an accident]]. If he isn't quite sane, he'll tell his captive and actually [[WhatAnIdiot expect this to make her throw herself in his arms]].

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* Hitagi Senjougahara from ''{{Bakemonogatari}}'' makes it clear that she won't tolerate her boyfriend Koyomi Araragi showing interest in any other woman. At one point, she nearly stabs him in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific. And only stops once he screams, "Stop it! There's nothing guilty about it! I didn't mean it like I knew her well! I'm only devoted to you, Senjougahara!" Afterwards, when he comments that she'll kill someone, she promises that he will be her first and only victim. Unless someone else kills him, in which case, she'll kill his killer. She then goes on to say how romantic it is because then he would truly belong to her and she would be able to be near him while he's on his death bed.
* In ''{{Berserk}}'', during Griffith's HoYay-tastic fight with Guts before Guts left the Band of Hawk, Griffith is shown having this kind of thought. He considers all the different possibilities of attacking Guts, realizing that one way, if executed properly, would most likely end in Guts' death. He hesitates, but then thinks to himself, "But... if I can't keep him here..." and ends up attempting it. Of course, he fails.
* In ''BlackCat'', [[StalkerWithACrush Creed]] gets this way with Train. Embittered and horribly jealous that his numerous attempts to have Train [[WeCanRuleTogether join him to rule the world]] fail because of Saya's influence, he eventually decides that he would rather that Train die than remain under the spell of "that witch." In one instance, acting very much like a {{Yandere}}, Creed even tells Train (after he smashes Train into a wall):
--> "This is all your fault, Train! It's your fault for making me mad! Time and time again, I come to get your cooperation so it wouldn't come to this. But despite that... all those attempts were futile. '''All of them!'''"
** Ah, spoken like a spurned lover indeed.
* Diva in ''BloodPlus'', who killed [[spoiler:Riku]] after [[spoiler:raping him]], partially so that no one else could have him, but also to spite Saya.
* Genkaku from ''DeadmanWonderland'', after confessing his [[InLoveWithYourCarnage love]] for Nagi, decides that if Nagi refuses to [[WeCanRuleTogether join him in the Undertakers]], he'd rather kill him.
* In a ''DeathNote'' flashback, when Misa tries to ignore a StalkerWithACrush who surprises her at night, he pulls a knife, saying, "Then I'll kill you and myself!"
* In ''FullMetalPanic'', Takuma (at least, in the novels) is shown to start acting like this towards Tessa. "I don't care if I have to kill Tessa to get the others. On second thought, I should kill them all. After all, Tessa made a fool of me and didn't bother to acknowledge my good will. If I can't have her, I'll break her."
* ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' is the basis for the manga ''{{Gankutsuou}}'', where Mondego shoots his wife and son, then dons a [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha mecha]] suit to fight The Count.
* Raoh in ''HokutoNoKen'' was prepared to kill the heroine if she did not reciprocate his feelings. [[spoiler: However, he finds she is already dying of radiation poisoning, and so moved by her determination he uses his own power to extend her life.]].
* ''KyouKaraMaou'': Wolfram to Yuuri- "Maybe I should just kill you now; then you'd be mine forever." Presumably not meant seriously, as he sheathes his sword and forgets about that plan of action the moment Yuuri falls down a short staircase. It never comes up again.
* While the traditional lines are never said, the subtext of Yurimaru's death via Zakuro's ActionBomb trap in ''NinjaScroll'' is blatant. Yurimaru is an an electrokinetic {{Bishonen}} who uses RazorFloss- Zakuro is a [[ActionBomb viciously inventive]] explosives expert with at the least a prominent facial scar and at most is so covered in scars she looks like FrankensteinsMonster. Zakuro has a major crush on Yurimaru, but Yurimaru is a DepravedHomosexual in love with (and sleeping with) their leader, [[{{Immortality}} Himuro Gemma]], and so he rejects her advances rather bluntly. Yurimaru promptly stumbles into an explosives-rigged shed near the climax of the movie, and is blatantly blown to pieces when a detonating rat triggers the whole place going up in flames.
* Kanou in ''OkaneGaNai'' clearly stated to his lover Ayase that he is not getting away from him. Ever. And if he tries to, then he will find him and repossess him, by force if necessary.
* Mookyul from ''Totally Captivated'' was looking for Ewon Jung for 10 years before finally finding him. Luckily Ewon feels the same way. Luckily for Ewon. Mostly...
--> '''Mookyul''': I was gonna lock you in a cage if you told me to let you go, but it turns out for the best, since now we won't have to go through the pain in the ass of fighting.
** Ewon really, ''really'' hopes he doesn't mean that. (He does.)
* Ann from ''SailorMoon'' said something of the sort about Mamoru at one time; as did Ali about Usagi.
* ''SaitamaChainsawShoujo'': After being dumped by her boyfriend Fumio Kirisaki declares "Alright, I'll kill him...Then I'll die."
* After he realizes that Ichigo loves Masaya and not him, Kisshu from ''TokyoMewMew'' becomes this way. In episode 45, after Ichigo refuses to leave Earth with him, he goes into a rage and tells Ichigo that if he can't have her then he'll kill her. Ichigo seems like a goner at first, but then she is rescued by [[spoiler: Masaya, who turns out to be her MysteriousProtector the Blue Knight.]]
* [[CuteAndPsycho Jagara]] from ''WolfsRain'' has this relationship going on with Darcia. Particularly notable since Jagara killed her twin sister [[IllGirl Harmona]], Darcia's lover who had essentially been on life support for years, in order to get her out of the picture. (In all fairness, as said, Harmona had been on life support for years and Jagara didn't know that Darcia had probably found a way to bring Harmona back. It's still a MoralEventHorizon, and a MoraleEventHorizon for Darcia.) Later, during a confrontation between the two, Jagara stabs Darcia with a poisoned dagger when he refuses her.
* This is the reason why Seto Kaiba destroys the fourth Blue-Eyes White Dragon [[SeriousBusiness trading card]] in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' when he gets his hands on it. The rules of the game forbid duelists from having more than three of the same card in their decks. He already had the only other three ever printed, so he ripped it in two since he couldn't use it.
** Well, that and in the manga, the Blue Eyes he destroyed disobeyed him in a (shadow) duel and refused to attack Yuugi. He destroyed it out of revenge.
* Naoe from ''MirageOfBlaze'' was prepared to kill Kagetora and himself so that Kagetora will "never belong to anyone else".
* Naraku from ''InuYasha'' couldn't have Kikyou and killed her twice because of it. [[spoiler: It also didn't help that Kikyou was out to kill him in revenge, and she was one of the few capable of doing so.]]
* At one point in the ''HotGimmick'' manga Hatsumi tells her abusive boyfriend Ryoki that she can't be with him anymore when he orders her to make the impossible decision of choosing between him or her family. When she leaves him he's shown thinking to himself [[http://www.onemanga.com/Hot_Gimmick/46/14/ "That stupid woman...If she can't be mine she should just die."]]
* ''[[{{Ptitlecr52i41p}} Zetsuai 1989]]'': Kouji swings between both IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and IfICantHaveYou with regard to Izumi. He's aware that IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy is a better attitude, but he can't quite bring himself to feel that way, and often talks about how he'd like to lock Izumi away. In fact, his behaviour tends to stop short of full-on IfICantHaveYou, but he angsts quite a bit about how he resents anything that makes Izumi happy if it takes Izumi's attention away from him.
** Also, when Izumi was five, his mother discovered his father was cheating on her, and murdered him in front of Izumi so that she could "possess him completely". Years after this, [[spoiler: after getting out of prison, Mrs. Izumi goes to her son, explains her reasons and kills herself in front of him]].
* ''GirlsBravo'': Lisa Fukuyama is an insane user of black magic who develops an intense infatuation for Yukinari after his appearance matches a description in her horoscope for her soul mate and often employs her magic to get closer to him-which often fails spectacularly. She often has her attendant Kosame stand nearby with her loaded gun trained on Yukinari, making a not so subtle threat to shoot Yukinari if he refuses her.
* Shuichi Shindou from ''{{Gravitation}}'' qualifies for this when the stress of Yuki being outed puts him into the hospital, and Shuichi, in the polar opposite of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, talks at length about how he would rather Yuki die than leave him.
** That said, Suichi is a LoveMartyr who allowed himself to be ''raped'' in order to keep Yuki's relationship with him a secret despite Yuki generally being a BastardBoyfriend. He basically implies at some point that he'd be happy to die for him, just not for him to leave him.
* In ''GunslingerGirl'' CuteBruiser Henrietta, who has a major BigBrotherComplex towards her handler Giuseppe, recreates the incident where one of the other cyborg girls killed her own handler. This is chillingly summed up as: "She was making a subconscious threat — if you don't love me, I'll kill you." [[spoiler:In chapter 83, they both kill each other after Giuse is mortally wounded at her hands. LaserGuidedKarma for Giuse because he TookALevelInJerkass several chapters earlier after realizing that he had failed Henrietta, but Henrietta herself was TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth.]]
* ''{{Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun}}'': Inner Reika (who's {{Yandere}} for Shungo) completely looses it in the last episode upon seeing him try to kiss Mayu, and screams at her subordinate Hosaka to kill Shungo.
* ''ThreadsOfTime'': Sali Tayi explicitly tells Atan Hadas that if she runs away with Moon-Bin and doesn't marry him, he'll kill them both.
* Played with in ''{{Anime/Monster}}''. Johan seems to have less of an "If I can't have you, no one will" attitude toward his sister Anna as he does an "I ''can't'' have her, so no one can", and proceeds to murder her foster parents.
** Played straighter with LadyDrunk Eve Heinemann toward Dr. Tenma.
* In the Fishman Island arc of OnePiece, [[spoiler: captain Vander Decken has this attitude toward the gigantic mermaid princess Shirahoshi. He's constantly sending her 'love letters' in the form of large weapons that are guided to her by his Devil Fruit power, forcing her father to keep her locked up in a tower for ten years.]]
* ''AiNoKusabi'': Guy to Riki.
* In ''HelenESP'' one of the school's mannequin's take this attitude to her builder. [[MurderIsTheBestSolution And since she, being a doll, can't]]...
* In the MaiHime manga, Shiho, {{Brainwashed}} by the Princess earring she has, challenges Yuuichi to a quiz to determine if he is the "real" Yuuichi, and any answers that she deems incorrect (that is, refusing to say that he loves Shiho and wants to leave with her), result in her claiming he is an imposter and having her Child slam him into the ground. When he fails the first two questions and responds to her question of whether he loves her with a LikeBrotherAndSister answer, she decides he is a fake and prepares to kill him, but Mai is able to destroy Shiho's Child and save him.
* In ''AxisPowersHetalia'' England to America briefly before letting him become independent.
* ''SakuraGari'': ''[[EvenTheGuysWantHim Everyone]]'' does this over Souma. And then Souma in turn does this to Masataka.
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* Oroku Nagi (The Shredder's brother) from the original ''Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' comic books does this to Tang Shen, the mutual object of affection between himself and Hamato Yoshi. Nagi begins beating on Tang Shen until Yoshi arrives and, enraged, kills Nagi. In subsequent adaptations of the story, however, Tang Shen is killed by the spurned suitor.
* ''IronMan'': [[StalkerWithACrush Kathy Dare]] shot Tony Stark in the spine after he rejected her.
** She was, however, one-upped by Tony's childhood [[BlatantLies friend]], [[ManipulativeBastard Tiberius Stone]]. He took it about [[UpToEleven three thousand steps further]] by trying to trap Tony in a virtual world until Tony agreed to either [[WeCanRuleTogether rule at his side]] or grovel at Tiberius' feet instead. In the end, [[ForegoneConclusion when Tony defeats him]], Tiberius has a [[ClippedWingAngel truly impressive]] VillainousBreakdown that culminates in this:
--->'''[[StalkerWithACrush Tiberius]] [[SmugSnake Stone]]:''' You think I'd let you ''leave'' [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind this place]]?! '''''[[IfICantHaveYou Leave ME!?]]'''''
** Of course, [[SerialEscalation both Kathy Dare and Tiberius Stone are upstaged]] by Tony's ''own armor'' when it's struck by lightning and therefore rendered sentient thanks to the {{Y2K}} bug. (No, really.) The Sentient Armor becomes an [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]], including forcing Tony to [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies avoid contact with people he loves]] (most notably by [[MurderTheHypotenuse threatening to murder Tony's girlfriend]] if he doesn't send her away), and breaking Tony's arm in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for trying to resist -- while [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything ripping Tony's armor and clothes off]] and roaring that Tony is "MINE. ''MINE''. '''''MINE!'''''" It proceeds to kidnap Tony and drag him off to a deserted island, ties him to a tree, and tries to torture him into admitting that they're "perfect for each other". For a ''week''.
* This is the basic principle behind The League of Evil Exes in ''ScottPilgrim''
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* In ''EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'', the prince is cursed to turn into a bear because he would not marry his stepsister as his WickedStepmother wanted
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* In the cross-over comic ''FanFic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'', Minnie pretty much screams this at Junior(pictured above) before trying to decapitate him. While she's not actually a ''villain'', she ''is'' under the influence of Him's mind-control, making her evil at the time it was said.
** It wasn't mid-control per se, but Him brought out her [[BrotherSisterIncest inner most desires]] in a skewed way.
* In Fanfic/RevengeRoad, Hikaru decides to kill Kyosuke and Madoka, angry at Kyosuke for rejecting her and Madoka (to a slightly lesser degree) for stealing him away, and jealous of the happiness they share.
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* Hal of ''MegaMind''. Roxanne's rejecting him is what initiates his StartOfDarkness.
* Claude Frollo from Disney's ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' movie: "She will be mine or she will burn!"
* Anakin Skywalker from ''StarWars'', [[{{Narm}} sort of.]]
* Alec Baldwin's character, Teacher, from ''TheJuror'' (1996). At first Annie Laird's StalkerWithACrush, he changes to this trope after she "betrays" him and tries to get him killed. He then becomes obsessed with killing her.
* At the end of ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo'', the villain attempts to kill Mercedes, although it's less about love and more about denying her to Edmond, who has ruined his life in vengeance for sending him to the Chateau d'If in order to have her for himself.
-->'''Edmond:''' You've only got one shot. And it'll take more than that to stop me.\\
'''Fernand:''' Well, then, I'd best place it where it will do the most damage.\\
''[turns the gun on Mercedes and fires]''
* ''HouseOfFlyingDaggers'': [[spoiler: Leo]] says to [[spoiler: Mei]] "You're the love of my life. You don't have to love me, but you can never go with him." This, of course, is after [[spoiler:he has stabbed her in the chest with a dagger.]]
* In ''{{Titanic}}'' after Rose jumps out of the last lifeboat onto the ship to be with Jack, Cal is shown looking extremely jealous as they embrace, so much so that he takes a gun and shoots at them, intending to kill them both.
* Lampshaded in ''Cursed''. "If I can't have him... Well, you know how it goes."
* A non-romantic example from ''HotFuzz'': [[spoiler: Leslie Tiller is killed because she was going to move away from Sandford, and the NWA didn't want her horticultural experience to be used for any of Sandford's competition for 'Village of the Year'.]]
* The Bishop of Aquila from ''{{Ladyhawke}}'', after his curse on two lovers is broken by an eclipse, aims his staff like a spear at Isabeau, the female half of the couple whom he had wanted for himself, declaring that if he cannot have her: "...then no man shall!" Etienne stops him by throwing his sword, which goes right through the priest and kills him.
** Also, the significance of them being transformed into a wolf and a hawk. Both animals mate for life.
* In the Morgan Fairchild film ''The Seduction'', a male loner stalking a celebrity newsanchor inserts such a message into her teleprompter script, causing her to have a HeroicBSOD on the air.
* In Film/ThreeAmigos'':
-->'''El Guapo:''' Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.\\
'''Jefe:''' So when do you think Carmen will open up her flower to you?\\
'''El Guapo:''' Tonight, or I will kill her!
* ''RepoMen'' (2010): The relationship with Jake and Remy was rather brotherly, going back to their childhood with Jake as a bully. As adults working together in repossession, Jake gradually became rather attached to Remy, and the repo job was something that bonded them together. But in doing this job Remy and his wife Carol had a rocky marriage, so things weren't looking up. [[spoiler: Remy was thinking about quitting repo. Jake got desperate and sabotaged a defibrillator, resulting in Remy getting an auto heart from the shock, and his wife leaving him]]. Eventually becoming enemies Jake was determined to keep Remy by him by some means, which led to [[spoiler: Jake putting him in a brain dead (dream state) coma and continuing to do repossession jobs to keep Remy ''alive'' and happy; so not only did Jake remove Remy from his wife, it is highly likely that he killed Remy's love interest, Beth]].
** [[SarcasmMode Now that's love]].
* The motive for trying to kill ''{{Laura}}''.
* The ending of ''TheHouseOfYes'' invokes this even though the words are never spoken.
* Near the end of ''ToyStory 3'', Woody actually tells [[spoiler: [[BigBad Lotso]]]] that if Daisy couldn't have him, then no one would.
* Near the end of ''TuckerAndDaleVersusEvil'', Chad puts Allison on a ConveyorBeltOfDoom when he realizes she and Dale are falling in love.
* This is what triggers Titan[=/=][[spoiler:Hal]]'s FaceHeelTurn, since he only agreed to become a superhero on the basis that this would attract Roxanne to him. When this didn't turn out to be the case, he begins a city-wide rampage, and ends up tying her to a radio tower on the top of a tall building.
* Bobby (played by Fred Savage) in the TV movie No One Would Tell does this to his girlfriend Stacy.
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* ''PhantomOfTheOpera''. If Erik can't have Christine, not only [[ScarpiaUltimatum will Raoul be dead]], but he plans to ''blow up Paris''. This tends to be forgotten in most other versions. Bonus points for the fact that Erik retains much of his [[TheWoobie woobieness]], despite being batshit crazy.
* Éponine from ''[=~Les Misérables~=]'' (book only). Éponine gives Marius a (fake) message that his friends are expecting him at the barricades, and then she goes there herself in hopes that they'll die together, since she can't have him.
** Actually, in the musical, Éponine does more or less the same thing, but of course {{YMMV}}. See the "Theater" folder below.
* This happened in the ''WindOnFireTrilogy'' to the princess, though she didn't get killed.
* This is effectively [[TheSilmarillion Morgoth]]'s motive - if Iluvatar won't let him create anything of his own, he'll corrupt and break Arda.
* In NeilGaiman's short story "Murder Mysteries," [[spoiler:the first murdered angel turns out to have been killed by his partner when he moved on from extensively studying Love with him to studying Death instead.]]
* The title character of ''TheEnglishPatient'' has an affair with Katharine Clifton; when her husband finds out, he combines this with MurderTheHypotenuse and suicide, trying to kill them all in a plane crash.
* ''DonQuixote'': Part II, chapter 60, Claudia Jeronima and Don Vicente Tornellas, from different factions of the civil war that was plaguing Barcelona, secretly fall in love and planned to marry, but one day Claudia Jeronima learned that Don Vicente wants to marry another woman. The next day, overwhelmed and exasperated, she shot him. [[{{Tearjerker}} And then she learns that he never intended to marry any other woman that Claudia.]]
* In the first novel of the ''BindingOfTheBlade'' series, [[spoiler:Joraiem marries Wylla, whom Rulalin loved. One morning, Rulalin knifes Joraiem and bolts.]]
* Frollo from ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''. He utters the line "No-one shall have her" quite a few times over the course of the story, which [[spoiler:ends up badly for Esmeralda ([[KillEmAll and pretty much everyone else in the story]])]].
* Christopher Carrion has a bad case of this in the back story to Clive Barker's "Abarat" series aimed at Princess Boa, which ends with him [[spoiler: killing her on her wedding day.]]
* In [[{{TheFatherLukeWolfeTrilogy}} ''Cold Comfort'']], [[spoiler:Allie Carpenter]] says the stock phrase before killing [[spoiler:Senator Wainwright]].
* The RevengeOfTheSith {{novelization}} has the relationship between Anakin and his wife Padme steadily progress into this. Even though she was faithful to him, he didn't believe her - he believed she was falling for Obi-Wan. And in a sense she was - at one point she says that there is one Jedi the proto-Rebellion can trust absolutely, and is shocked to discover that she doesn't mean her husband. He chokes her with the Force.
* In RobertEHoward's ConanTheBarbarian story "Shadows in Zamboula," after Zabibi repulses Totrasmek, and asks him for a LovePotion, he gives her something to drive her lover mad, so that he attacks her.
* Meta-example happened in DungeonsAndDragons novels. {{Dragonlance}} writer Margaret Weis didn't liked that her beloved character Death Knight Lord Soth has been taken by {{Ravenloft}}, so she get ArmedWithCanon, wrote things that made it impossible for Soth to ever be transported to Ravenloft world in the first place and then [[spoiler: turned him human and killed him]] so nobody else could have him.
* In Bruce Coville's ''The Ghost in the Third Row'' the ghost in question was killed by a jealous lover after she choses his rival over him.
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* In ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', a creepy, creepy love spell causes ''every woman in town'' to try to do this to Xander.
** In another episode, it is revealed that a student killed his teacher he had a relationship with because she tried to end it. He then shot himself, and his ghost possesses people to reenact the scene with fatal consequences.
** On ''{{Angel}}'', Gunn assumes (incorrectly) that this is the reason why [[spoiler: Knox chose Fred to be the vessel for Illyria, after she turns him down for Wesley]]. In fact, it's because he thinks it's an honor only she was worthy of.
* Parodied on Mystery Science Theater 3000 when Joel and the Bots saw ''IAccuseMyParents'': "No one's gonna take you away from me. Not even me, see! I'll kill me before that happens."
* At the end of the ''Series/{{Cadfael}}'' episode "The Rose Rent", [[spoiler:Miles]] screams and begs Judith to "Tell me you love me!" [[spoiler:while threatening to throw her and himself into a blazing fire if she doesn't]].
* Factors importantly into a twist ending from ''TalesFromTheCrypt'', in which it is shouted repeatedly by the murderer.
* In ''Series/RobinHood'', this was Guy of Gisborne's reaction to Marian making it [[{{Kick The Dog}} very, very clear]] she's not interested. Fans actually got more annoyed at her [[{{Draco In Leather Pants}} insensitivity]] then at his [[{{Unstoppable Rage}} murderous response]], despite the fact that by this stage Marian had given Guy ''dozens'' of chances to change his ways, and he squandered each and every one of them. Her outburst was simply the last straw.
* Despite an amicable breakup, Barney Stinson of ''HowIMetYourMother'' '''thinks''' this is happening with Wendy the Waitress.
* Happens in the final arc of ChoujinSentaiJetman. [[spoiler:Maria, after reverting back into Rie Aoi, stabs Radiguet from the back. Radiguet retaliated by killing her, but not because she's a traitor, but because "If I can't have you, then I won't let [[TheHero Red Hawk]] have you!". Just another MoralEventHorizon Radiguet crosses in daily basis.]]
** On ''LOST'' this refers to the relationship of Ben/Juliet in which Ben [[TheUriahGambit sends Goodwin on a death mission]] so he can have Juliet. Also Juliet tells Jack in "The Other Woman" "He think that I am his."
* [[spoiler: Penelope]] says this to [[spoiler: Chad]] in the ''SonnyWithAChance'' episode ''Sonny With A Secret''. She [[spoiler: tries to ''kill'' Sonny with a bomb, and then, when Chad and the So Random cast tries to fly to Wisconsin to save her, she takes the position of the pilot, hands Chad one of the only two parachutes on the plane, and tells him to jump from the plane with her and date her since his girlfriend will be [[NeverSayDie gone]]. When Chad chooses Sonny over Penelope, she says this trope, takes both parachutes, and jumps out of the plane, leaving Chad and the others to a plane crash. (They escape, partially because this is {{Disney}}.)]]
** ''SoRandom'' had Audrey Vale's character, Julia Peters (aka the "I'm going to marry Zac Feldman show!" girl) shows this in one of her Zac Feldman cheers.
-->'''Julia''': Zac, Zac, he's my man! If I can't marry him ''NO ONE CAN''.
* [[IncestSubtext Implied]] with [[spoiler:Dr Maki]] in ''KamenRiderOOO'', who [[spoiler: killed his sister because she was about to get married and leave home, thus couldn't spend time with him any more.]]
* In ''TheBigBangTheory'', the guys are in line to watch a special edition of RaidersOfTheLostArk with 21 additional seconds of footage. [[spoiler: They just miss out on getting in. So Sheldon sneaks into the movie theatre and steals the movie reels.]]
* On ''{{Chuck}}'' Volkhov threatens to do this to [[spoiler: Frost. Particularly twisted in this case because he's not losing her to anyone else, he's in danger of being ''captured'' and would simply rather she die than live without him.]]
* An astounding number of meteor freaks who pursued Lana Lang on ''{{Smallville}}'' had this as a modus operandi.
** And then there's [[spoiler: Davis, who was apparently A-OK with burying himself alive to stop his SuperpoweredEvilSide from rampaging around the world, but only if Chloe loved him. [[MurderTheHypotenuse If not...]]]]
* When Blair dumps Chuck on ''GossipGirl'' he puts a dating fatwa on her. It works.
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* Interestingly enough, the well-known song by Yvonne Elliman that shares this trope's title has this trope subverted. If she couldn't have him, she wouldn't stop him from pursuing others instead- but she'd keep ''herself'' from pursuing relationships with others instead.
-->For dreams that never will come true
-->Am I strong enough to see it through
-->Go crazy is what I will do
-->If I can't have you
-->I don't want nobody baby
-->If I can't have you, uh-huh!
** Tony DiBart's 'The Real Thing' uses this trope as song lyrics in much the same way.
* Dream Theater's concept album ''Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory'' has this as an important part of the main plot. [[spoiler: It's how Victoria died.]]
* The Music/{{Megadeth}} song "Loved to Deth": "If I can't have you, then no one will/And since I won't, I'll have to kill..."
* The titular song from the James Bond film ''TheWorldIsNotEnough''. "''If we can't have it all, then nobody will''..."
* Music/TheBeatles song ''Run For Your Life'' written by John Lennon: "I'd rather see you dead little girl, than to be with another man". It's actually a pretty upbeat country-rock song.
** The lyrics actually come from Elvis's "Baby, Let's Play House," which is also an upbeat country-rock song.
* The song "Turn It On" by Franz Ferdinand invokes this trope by name.
** There's a dub version of this song who is named "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin If I Can't Have You Then Nobody Can]]".
* SonataArctica's song ''Don't Say A Word'' is about a man who kills his wife/girlfriend after she leaves him.
* ''Always'' by Saliva is about a man who shoots and murders his girlfriend over leaving him (or cheating on him, not sure which).
* "Kim" by Eminem, anyone?
** Also pretty much implied in "Stan"
* Tom Jones' "Delilah", in which a man catches his girlfriend cheating, fatally stabs her, and pleads for her to forgive him. [[LyricalDissonance It's quite catchy]].
* The Mothy song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg1mwobY-B8 The Tailor Shop on Enbizaka]] sung by the {{Vocaloid}} Megurine Luka has her pulling one of these.
* "The Phantom Opera Ghost" by Iced Earth.
* "Siberian Kiss" by Glassjaw
-->I've watched you whore yourself for one more thing\\
Why don't you sell yourself for one more?\\
There's always one more thing\\
Why don't you sell yourself\\
'''''If I can't have you, NO ONE WILL!!!'''''
* "Goodnight Socialite" by The Brobecks includes this trope in the chorus.
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* In the final act of the opera ''Carmen'', the eponymous character is killed by the hero for this reason.
* In the opera ''Wozzeck'', the title character stabs Marie to death following this line. (Büchner's play doesn't use the line.)
* The ending of Menotti's opera ''Maria Golovin'' has an extremely jealous Donato attempt this to Maria. Subverted in that he is blind and thus has to ask his mother to aim the gun at her, which she doesn't, instead pointing him in the wrong direction and leading him to believe that he did.
* {{YMMV}}: Éponine in the musical ''[=~Les Misérables~=]''. In the song "One Day More," Marius is debating to himself whether to follow Cosette to England or fight with the students. Éponine, standing beside him, practically makes the decision for him by grabbing him by the arm and the two of them running off. A minute later, they are next seen with Enjolras and the other students, and Marius tells Enjolras "My place is here, I fight with you." This is made a ''lot'' more obvious in the revival, back when Celia Keenan-Bolger was Éponine (in the revival, Éponine extends her hand out to Marius, and he quickly grabs her hand and they both run). See the "Literature" folder above for the book version.
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* The various cases in RealLife where somebody kills their spouse either after they cheat on them or after they request a divorce.
** Something to keep in mind if you're ever tempted to ask why an abuse victim "doesn't just leave": the majority of women killed by their partners are killed after leaving or while in the process of leaving. Then again that statistic doesn't include women who leave before things get that bad and so don't die. After all the fact that most people who die of skin cancer are being treated for it doesn't make getting treatment a bad idea.
* AdolfHitler wanted to burn Paris to the ground when the Allies were about to retake it. Then when the war was ending and the Allies were surrounding Germany, he would have raze the country and everyone in it to the ground, making every last German die with him in a futile LastStand. Fortunately in both cases, his generals disobeyed his orders.
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* The huldra of Scandinavian folklore are [[TheFairFolk a type of fairy]] who appear as beautiful women with cow or horse tails. Although they are often eager to marry, they are also very strict and demanding, and if you even think of turning one down, she will kill you.
* In one version of the Hyacinthus myth, his death isn't an accident. Zephyr grows jealous that Hyacinthus chose Apollo over him, and purposefully blew the discus off-course to hit him. Needless to say, [[EmotionalTorque this version is more popular.]]
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* There was a really weird version of this in ''DominicDeegan''; when it's revealed that villain [[spoiler:Karnak]] was in a LoveTriangle with Donovan over Miranda, the reason he's been trying to kill Miranda is to hurt him for taking her away from him.
* In ''General Protection Fault'', [[spoiler:Trudy]] says this exact phrase when pointing a gun at [[spoiler:Nick's]] head after he stated that he could not trust her or return her feelings [[spoiler:upon realizing her role in a wide-reaching conspiracy. In an alternate future, the same scene had resulted in her killing him, but in this timeline, he merely stands there, resolute, until she drops the gun and is unable to shoot him]].
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt''. [[spoiler:Diego]] sets up a scheme to fortify the Court in such a way that it simultaneously [[MurderTheHypotenuse murders the hypotenuse]] and subjects the woman who resisted his advances to a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ''{{Spacetrawler}}'' may be the only work to combine this trope with TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Growp's attempts to murder Emily are actually his twisted way of saying he loves her. He eventually [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet]] and dies to save her from getting killed by the wrong person.
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* ''TheMask'': The Animated Series had a slight variation on this line on the always-controversial episode, "Flight as a Feather." [[spoiler: After Cookie [=BaBoom=], the mayor's {{Stripperific}} ex-girlfriend, reveals the suicide belt bikini around her body, she announces, "If I can't have Mortimer [the Mayor], then ''no one can''!"]]
* ''{{El Tigre}}'' had Sergio and Dr. Chipotle Jr yelling this in the episode "Love and War".
** It is implied this is the Titanium Titan's motive when he commands his giant squid to destroy both White Pantera and El Tigre after losing WP's trust and failing to win him back.
* Happens twice on ''TheFairlyOddparents''. First, in "Super Bike," the titular bike tried to keep Timmy away from everyone else, eventually resulting in this. Secondly, in "Just the Two of Us," Trixie, suddenly becomes completely insane despite being relatively sane before, completely loses it and attacks Timmy after he breaks up with her when they're the last two people on Earth.
--> '''Timmy:''' "Note to self: Never break up with a girl in the violent gardening tools section."
* Harry Osborn pulls this with Mary Jane in the 1990s {{Spider-Man}} animated series.
* A non-romantic example is in the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode ''Where No Fan has Gone Before'' which has the BigBad yell this. Sort of.
-->'''Melllvar:''' If I can't have the original cast of StarTrek, no one will!
* Another non-romantic example - Megatron in the ''TransformersGeneration1'' would frequently state "If I cannot have this week's MacGuffin, nobody will!" at the end of an episode before destroying it and making a hasty retreat.
** That's more an example of NoMacGuffinNoWinner.
* Taken to ridiculous extremes in an episode of ''TaleSpin'', in which Baloo masquerades as a woman ("Tan-Margret") in order to enter a flying competition. One of the other contestants becomes so smitten with "Tan" as to propose marriage, which is obviously rejected; he then spends the rest of the episode trying to kill 'her,' even saying to himself, "If I can't have her, no one will!"
* Another non-romantic example is in the Garfield Thanksgiving Special. Garfield was put on a diet the day before Thanksgiving, and thus he's not looking forward to what is usually his favorite holiday. When Jon isn't looking, he puts a bunch of garlic on the vegetables that Jon just threw into a pot without cutting, saying something like "If I can't enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, nobody will!" in a rather evil-sounding tone.
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* In the NeverwinterNights mod Tales of Arterra, your encounter with one of Persey's former owners can end with him spouting this trope and attacking if you [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming insist that she is worth more to you than any amount of gold]]. Persey happens to be a succubus on a quest to [[BecomeARealBoy learn to behave/think like a human]].
* Akiha says something like this in one of the routes in ''{{Tsukihime}}'' and does her damnedest to kill Shiki. To be fair, though, she'd had a pretty rough week.
* Sora of {{Ever17}} gets really close on this one after seeing Takeshi and Tsugumi on the gondola. [[spoiler:Apparently it gives her a sort of split personality expressed with her trick of the numerous clone images from before. One side argues that her emotional self is what gives her purpose and that how she feels is good and the other side points out that apart from really screwing her up, she also just tried to drown Takeshi with a sprinkler (more dangerous than it sounds in this context, really!) out of jealousy.]] But [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy she gets better.]] [[spoiler:But then everybody dies except maybe Tsugumi.]]
* King Valentine of ''OdinSphere'', and his relationship with his now-deceased daughter.
* [=LeChuck=] with regard to Elaine in the ''MonkeyIsland'' games, with the twist that in ''TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' he plans to kill her so he can make her a zombie like him.
--> "The dating pool be surprisingly small when you're one of the undead."
* Nikki from ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'' is an inverse ChickMagnet. She even has her own fan club. One of her generic fans pulls this on her in one scene. HilarityEnsues. No, really.
* A decidedly non-romantic example is in ''AceCombat 04: Shattered Skies''. The Eruseans, realising that they can't hold onto the town of San Salvacion, try to blow it up instead.
** Sadly, this has happened too many times to count in reality. ThoseWackyNazis planned to do this to ''all of Germany'' right before they were defeated.
* ''SchoolDays'' does this to its main character in at least one ending [[spoiler:and in the anime]].
* Ravel Puzzelwell reacts this way to The Nameless One trying to leave her in ''PlanescapeTorment'' she was ''probably'' faking it though.
* [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Gilgamesh]] decides at the end of Fate route that if Saber will not submit to him, he'll just rape and kill her. But then again, even if she ''did'' agree his next idea of how their relationship would go would be making her drink the 'black mud' from the cursed Grail. Destroying her mind and giving her physical form.
* Kimmy Howell in NoMoreHeroes is a FanGirl of the main character, and has decided to make sure he never dates another woman by ''taking his head as a trophy''.
* Another non-romantic example is ''CommandAndConquer: [[CommandAndConquerRedAlert Red Alert 2]]''. The US military launches an attack on the Soviet-controlled Chicago, where the Soviets built a psychic superweapon. Once it gets destroyed, the Soviets nuke the entire city.
** If Vladimir's response[[hottip:*:"Hear me... you foul American fool, wherever you are! You can play your forces like a puppeteer all you want, '''BUT THIS IS MY PLAY!!!''' Here is the city that you have saved. Without the Psychic Amplifier which you so rush-fully destroyed, I no longer has a use for it. Behold... the power... '''OF MOTHER RUSSIA!!!'''"''(cue nuke)'']] is anything to go by, that example is more like a hybrid of this trope and YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness.
* Adele from ArcRiseFantasia is an UnluckyChildhoodFriend, and, before learning this fact, was a shy, softspoken girl. Upon learning this fact she goes ''completely insane'', embraces her heritage as priestess of a ReligionOfEvil, turns into a manipulative seductive bitch, and starts with the homicidal rampaging.
* In {{Deadly Premonition}}, [[spoiler: [[LoveMakesYouCrazy "I won't let you have him!You filthy PIG!"]] Is screamed by [[LoveMartyr Thomas]] at [[ActionGirl Emily]] near the end of the game, in the {{Clock Tower}}. He then becomes the [[TheDragon first]] of only [[ManipulativeBastard several]] [[ThatOneBoss bosses]] in the game. He screams more examples of this phrase during the fight. ]]
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