History Yandere / AnimeAndManga

* ''Manhwa/DorothyOfOz'': Abee (Codename: Scarecrow) is a sort of subverted example. Anyone who posed the SLIGHTEST threat to Mara was nearly pushed off a cliff, shot at, left to die in a cave, or worse. He would have continued with this, but Mara got upset at all the murder attempts. Not to mention his rivalry with Kamu who wants to protect Mara as well, and his promise to kill him if he gets out of line.

* In ''Manhwa/LetDai'', Dai Lee will be ''very'' violent if you spend too much time around his boyfriend.

* [[spoiler:Hyeri]] from ''Manhwa/Redrum327''. [[spoiler:When Gahui became friends with Taien as a child, Hyeri rounded up the rest of the "crew" to trap Gahui in an isolated safe in a forest. She's found starved, frozen and mentally scarred six days later]].

* In ''Manhwa/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.

** Narciso Anasui from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'' [[LoveAtFirstSight sees Jolyne and immediately decides he wants to marry her]]. The problem? He's AxCrazy and has a love for ripping things and people apart. In fact, he murdered his previous girlfriend and her lover and hacked them to pieces when he found them together.

** Averted with Sayaka Miki, who does have strong feelings for a boy but never acts aggressive towards him [[spoiler:or hee romantic rival]], instead sticking to venting her frustrations by killing inhuman monsters. The trope is still present in Kyouko Sakura, who tells Sayaka that wishing for her crush to be healed was stupid because she should't kept him dependent on her, by breaking both his arms.

** Ironically, Ranma himself became a truly terrifying Yandere towards his ArchRival, Ryōga Hibiki, in one story, where "she" went from first offering to let Ryoga kill "her" if it would make him happy, to trying to brainwash him with the [[RodAndReelRepurposed Fishing Rod of]] [[LovePotion Love]], to trying to kill him for continually rejecting "her" feelings. In Ranma's defense, he ''was'' blasted out of his mind by a love-inducing magical item so powerful that [[IfItsYouItsOkay it had Ranma pining for a guy and even being willing to give up his own manhood]].

** Shinoa Hiiragi, Mahiru's younger sister, started out looking much saner and stable, as she has enough mental strength to resist her demon's corruption and never let herself have desires, at least not until Yuuichirou Hyakuya came into her life. Shinoa's increasingly strong attraction to Yuuichirou causes her to start acting reckless and obsessive in her efforts to gain his favor and protect him. For a while, Shinoa still didn't look as bad as Mahiru, but then [[spoiler:Yuuichirou rejects her feelings and abandons her along the rest of his friends because of his devotion to Mikaela]]. As a result, Shinoa becomes filled with jealousy and resentment towards Mikaela, Yuuichirou's {{childhood friend}} and most important person, and is even willing to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Mikaela in order to get Yuuichirou]].

* Kanon Nakagawa from ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' tazes Keima if he doesn't pay attention to her and also obsessively sends him messages, the second email of which were nothing but "yoroshiku" (Please take care of me) repeated for multiple pages.

* Several characters in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' result in significant debate about which of them are Yandere. Shampoo, Ukyō, and even Kasumi have been both accused and defended. The only Ranma example that is not subjected to debate is Ranma himself/herself, when under the influence of the [[RodAndReelRepurposed Fishing Rod of Love]], becomes a truly terrifying Yandere towards Ryōga. Yes, it is hilarious. "Now you've hurt my feelings."

*** She actually gets worse as the series goes on and she falls further in love with Keiichi. During the "Dream Castle" arc, Tamiya and Otaki are brainwashed by Sayoko into attacking Keiichi, and Bell moves immediately – no warning, no attempt to talk it out, no appeal to their humanity; she flat-out ''strikes them down''. Around the halfway point of the series, she stands up to Hild – demon-queen of Hell and Urd's mother – when Hild ''vaguely'' threatens Keiichi (and propositions him; no one's quite sure which of the two pushed Bell over the edge). Towards the end, when the main cast all go to Niflheim and Hagall moves on Keiichi, Bell attacks without hesitation. She's in no mood to faff around when it comes to ''her'' Keiichi. And yes, she does claim possession of him – fortunately for both, Keiichi is fine with it.

** [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Hitagi Senjougahara]] nearly stabs [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Koyomi Araragi]] in the eye with a pen after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]], and asks him, with a murderous aura surrounding her, if there was anything between them.. 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!" Afterward, when he comments that she'll kill someone, she promises that he will be her first and only victim. [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou 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. This is made even worse when you realize that Hitagi ''knows'' that Suruga isn't oriented towards Koyomi, so the chances that anything happened between them are very small. Although in this case, it isn't clear how much of [[{{Troll}} Senjougahara's]] actions are meant to be taken seriously. She uses the same tone of voice when asking Koyomi to "Say Ahhhhh!" as she does when threatening his life. She is a DeadpanSnarker with a penchant for BlackComedy after all. She is capable of violence and extreme action though she seems to have his best interests at heart. Shown best when she [[spoiler:knocks him out, kidnaps him and handcuffs him with ''six'' pairs of handcuffs in an abandoned building in a misguided attempt to protect him]].

** Griffith develops a pretty bad obsession with his best fighter Guts, to the point that when Guts declares his intent to leave the Band of the Hawk, Griffith is very unwilling to let him go -- so unwilling that [[IfICantHaveYou he's willing to]] ''[[IfICantHaveYou kill]]'' [[IfICantHaveYou him rather than do so]]. And it only gets uglier when he finds out during the RescueArc that follows afterward that Guts and Casca, the other major person in his life, have entered into a relationship with each other, an ugliness that eventually explodes when the Eclipse goes down.

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': Out of all the types of criminals that Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa deals with, he ''loathes'' Yanderes and CuteAndPsycho people because he considers them [[ItsAllAboutMe way too self-centered for comfort]]. And obviously, many Yanderes show up in the series.
** One notable example of this is the Mountain Villa case. [[spoiler:A mild-mannered man named Ryousuke Takahashi killed his former friend, Chikako Ikeda, because she stole a beautiful script from Atsuko Tokumoto, the girl Takahashi was in love with, and used it as her own to make a movie out of it. This caused Atsuko to commit suicide. So he lured Chikako and the rest of their friends to a mountain villa so he could get his chance of revenge... and not only beheaded Chikako, but mutilated her body and ''stuffed her head under his clothes'' to make it look like he was a normal fat dude. And in the meantime, he attempted to kill Ran with the ax, as she had become a potential SpannerInTheWorks; this ''pissed the fuck out of Conan'', who not only unmasked Takahashi but loudly and harshly called him out on his bullcrap]].

** Genkaku. It starts off a bit more subtle, with Genkaku seeming a bit too intense and obsessed with getting Nagi to join the Undertakers (along with an interrogation scene between the two, where Genkaku is shown licking the blood from Nagi's arm, after his hand had been cut off, and saying that Nagi's hand has become very "cute"). Followed by how he is shown getting incredibly turned on by Nagi killing some poor sap, saying that Nagi is a "red flower that has bloomed." After that, he later gives Nagi a love confession telling him that the murderous side of him was beautiful and exquisite and that he loved him. (He even tries to kill Nagi, once Nagi makes it clear that he absolutely refuses to join him.) Plus, how annoyed and angry Genkaku gets whenever he sees the possibility of a girl getting close to Nagi (in regards to Shiro, he is shown being extremely agitated, wondering what relationship she has with Nagi and saying that Nagi never learns and that he'll just have to punish him again (which he tries by attempting to have Shiro and Karako raped). In regards to Karako, he stabs her when she hugs Nagi, telling her, "Don't touch my carnage, you shitty girl"). And later, Nagi does a double suicide with Genkaku, holding him down so Ganta can kill him. Genkaku appears extremely happy, and calls Nagi his "savior." He was also the one that killed Nagi's wife in the beginning.

** Mariko Shinobu threatens to kill Nanako and herself when the latter tries to decline staying overnight, then holds the door closed so she can't get out. Luckily Mariko's mother Hisako provides enough distraction for Nanako to escape, but Mariko still protests. She then sort-of starts getting better afterwards while shifting towards a {{Tsundere}} type of character, but it's clear that she has serious issues [[spoiler:stemming from her parents' horrible relationship]]. And as such, when [[spoiler:the local AlphaBitch Aya mocks her over the last "detail"]], Mariko reacts by massively snapping [[spoiler:and ''attacking her with a boxcutter'']].

** Road Kamelot. She's a psychopathic loli with a constant SlasherSmile on her face who sings about killing people, acts like an excited child, and [[MindRape messes with your mind to turn you insane]]. [[BloodLust She likes the taste of blood]], and often cracks into hysterical laughter when maiming people. Also, as well as possessing a number of creepy dolls, she herself can transform into a creepy doll. And she has a crush on the main character, which she expresses by, within an hour of each other, a) glomping and kissing him and b) trying to force him to kill his friends. (She even professed her love to him not long after stabbing him through his left eye with a sharpened candle and licking off the blood). And if ALL THAT wasn't enough it gets even creepier because she [[spoiler:has, in fact, looked about 12 years old for the past 35 years, which means that she's biologically at ''least'' 45]] and [[{{Ephebophile}} Allen is 15-years old]]...[[spoiler:Or so we thought, as the 14th points out that [[FountainOfYouth Allen has gotten ''younger'' since he met him last]]]]. She has also shown signs of extreme sadism and enjoys causing/watching the suffering of others, especially if it's Allen who's suffering, which includes [[MindRape Mind Raping]] Lavi, one of Allen's friends, in order to get him to momentarily turn on Allen, killing an Akuma subordinate for no other reason than to anger Allen, and nailing Miranda's hands to a clock while writing profanity on the wall in her blood.

* Lucy from ''Manga/ElfenLied''. She isn't above acts of jealousy, once using her vectors to shove Yuka down when she saw her holding hands with Kouta. And when she was younger, she was so pissed when she found out Kouta went with Yuka to a festival instead of her that she killed many people [[spoiler:including Kouta's father and sister]] in a fit of psychotic rage. She then went after Yuka, voicing her intent to kill her but only stopped once Kouta tackled her and she saw his tear-streaked face. She ''still'' wants to kill Yuka, but refrains from doing so because she knows that Kouta would absolutely despise her if she did.

** Said EvilMatriarch is also an absolutely ''epic'' and monstrous Yandere. [[spoiler:Ren started as a maid in the Sohma house who fell for the leader of the clan, Akira, and had the luck of marrying him. Once she got pregnant with the girl who'd become Akito and feared that the child would take her husband's affection away from her, she went completely nuts with jealousy and apparently threatened to ''[[MoralEventHorizon abort the child]]'' if the clan didn't approve of her raising a possible female heir as a male. And when Akira died with only a young Akito as his company, Ren's envy reached a peak… and you should know what happened next.]]

** Leonard Testarossa falls in love with Kaname and pursues her despite knowing that she doesn't like him, believing that she'll eventually come around. Personality wise, he is an all-around nice guy, calm and gentlemanly. And when he kidnapped Kaname after besting Sousuke, he personally assured him that despite his attraction to her, he won't force anything, and will see to that nothing would happen to her. Later on, however, he becomes so enraged with Kaname not giving in to him, and "betraying" him by finally declaring to Sousuke that she loves him, that he slaps her hard enough to make her fall to the ground, speaks to her very rudely, and generally tortures her (more mentally than physically) in order to weaken her mind so that she won't be able to resist him.

In episode 24, while Gauron's trying to blow himself and Sousuke up (possibly in his screwed-up mind, as a lover's double suicide), he cries out, "I LOVE YOU, KASHIM!" In Japanese, Gauron actually says "Aishiteru ze", which literally means "I love you" with all the romantic and sexual connotations attached to it. And then, in the third season at their last meeting, he is shown acting like Sousuke cheated on him or something, being extremely bitter and jealous towards Kaname, calling her the "cancer" that changed Sousuke. So he [[MurderTheHypotenuse attempts to have her killed]]. What takes the cake, though, is that in the novels, Gauron actually tells Sousuke that he fantasized about killing Sousuke, dragging his corpse out of the AS, and then [[ALoveToDismember fucking it]]. And he says he always thought Sousuke had [[WhatBeautifulEyes beautiful eyes... "like a saint of war"]] and an adorable face. [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Kinda romantic]], [[AxCrazy really]]...There's also the [[http://fmp-misha.livejournal.com/5090.html#cutid1 TSR comedy radio show]] where Gauron acts as the school's "sensei." Gauron orders Sousuke to write on the chalkboard "Kashim loves Gauron Sensei. Heart. ♥" as well as "Gauron Sensei's extreme attack makes Kashim's heart pound. I want to have children with him." Followed by what appears to be an attempt to rape Sousuke in front of the class.

** [[Characters/FutureDiaryYunoGasai Yuno Gasai]] is the TropeCodifier, having exhibited both the obsessive '''and''' possessive aspects of the archetype throughout the story. She will do ''anything'' to make Yukiteru stay with her, and is very good at everything short of not freaking him out, resulting in her body count being higher than the rest of the cast combined. And she's one of the ''main characters''. Indeed, Yuno is one of the rare ''[[NominalHero heroic]]'' examples of this trope, given how emotionally screwed up or outright evil the majority of the rest of the main cast are. Lyrics also note that she is named after Juno, or, in its Greek form, Hera. She isn't evil or a sociopath, she mostly just murders a lot of bad people, which is a departure from her imitators. Possibly the oddest thing about Yuno is that this trope is [[UnbuiltTrope played with]] because she later comes to admit to herself that her feelings for Yukiteru aren't genuine love and that she's only using him to sate her dependency issues. On top of that, it seems a lot of her violent tendencies actually come from [[spoiler:the fact that she's already been through, and won, the survival game once before. The second world's Yuno, who was killed by the first world's Yuno before she entered the game, is not as directly violent as the first, and the third world's Yuno, whose parents stop abusing her before she kills them, turns out to be a mostly normal teenage girl]].

** Andrei Smirnov from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]''. To start, this man already has [[spoiler:an enormous UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex due to the tragic death of his mother Holly, which put him at odds with his father Sergei]]. And later he met a very [[BrokenBird emotionally]] and [[DelicateAndSickly physically]] [[BreakTheCutie troubled]] girl named [[spoiler:Louise Halevy]], and... well, saying "it went downhill from there" is an understatement.

* ''Manga/HappySugarLife'': Satou Matsuzaka is a seemingly normal teenage girl on the surface. However, after coming across eight year old Shio Kobe and feeling love for the first time, she takes Shio and decides to keep her confined to her apartment. And she will resort to everything from blackmail to murder to make sure that nobody, including Shio’s own brother, will get in the way of her titular “happy sugar life” with the child.

* Ryoki Tachibana from ''Manga/HotGimmick'' is utterly obsessed with Hatsumi and, while he at first just wants her to be his "slave", he eventually makes her his girlfriend. She's reluctant about getting involved with him because he always seemed "scary" and she was genuinely terrified of him for a bit, due to an incident when they were younger where she suspected that he pushed her down the stairs. She gradually develops feelings for him, but still has moments where she feels extremely put off and scared of his overly possessive and violent nature. His violent obsession over her develops to the extent where he firmly states that she's not allowed to even ''think'' of/love any other guy except him, even if it's her ''own brother''. He also demands that she should keep conversations with all men under one minute, answer the phone on the first ring when he calls, show up at least an hour early to all dates, and often overreacts when a male's name is mentioned in conversation, even if it's just her little brother. If he happens to see her with another guy he tends to go off on a jealous rage and hit her. And, at one point, she tells him 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 states "That stupid woman...If she can't be mine she should just die." She eventually gets back together with him though and agrees to marry him at the end in the hope that he'll start being nicer to her if she stays with him. [[spoiler:Hatsumi ends up with Ryoki in the ending of the manga. However, in the Hot Gimmick S novel, which provides an Alternate Universe ending, Hatsumi ends up with Shinogu, her UnluckyChildhoodFriend]].

%%* Slightly, Hikaru Hiyama from ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad''. Her normal self is a mix of {{Kawaiiko}} and ClingyJealousGirl, but the latter part gets more played out in TheMovie, and it's really not helped by her being under heavy mental pressure as she's about to go through an important audition. [[spoiler:She gets better, though]]. Averted in the manga [[spoiler:after finding out about the truth and crying her heart out, the only thing she did to Kyosuke was slapping him (fully understandable). And then she asked Madoka if she really thought that she would break up their friendship over a boy]].

** Tsukuyomi [[StalkerWithACrush really]] [[PsychoLesbian has]] [[AttemptedRape issues]] regarding Setsuna. And [[DepravedBisexual Fate and Negi]], too.

* In one chapter of ''Manga/NightmareInspector'', the stepfather of one client is originally portrayed as much more gentle and helping than the girl's abusive mother. Then it turns out that he's actually the cruel one, so obsessed with the client's mother that he locks the young girl up to keep her from stealing the mother's love. He then tries to brick Hiruko's client into a wall, and when her mother stops him, he bricks her up instead and leaves her [[ALoveToDismember rotting arm]] sticking out, which he talks to while claiming she is 'all his now'. And then he bricks Hiruko's client up anyway.

** [[StalkerWithACrush Ringo Oginome]] ''looks'' normal, but in her off time, stalks Shoma and Kanba's teacher, Tabuki, planting bugs in his room and sleeping in the crawlspace under his floor as she listens to him go to sleep. We like that. [[spoiler:Until we learn that she has her reasons. Painful, heartbreaking reasons. And she won't stop at [[AttemptedRape ANYTHING]] to get her wish]].
** [[PlayingWithATrope It looks like Ringo is a rather... odd version of this]]. [[spoiler:She seems to be less of a yandere for Tabuki ''as a person'' and more for ''what he represents'', being extremely fixed into being the mother of his kid to live the life that her dead sister Momoka (Tabuki's first love) lo possibly lived, had she not perished early in her life.. which, in her view, would bring her broken family back together. (To the point of actually ''considering herself as Momoka'', as she tells Shouma at some point.) When she slips Tabuki an odd LovePotion and he ''is'' willing to have sex with her under its effects, Ringo ''backs off'']]. She ''also'' seems to have some traces of {{Tsundere}} as well... but for ''Shouma'' instead of Tabuki.

** Souma himself showed these traits towards Masataka but later mellows out. However, his possessiveness does to horribly creepy levels, involving [[spoiler:raping Masataka and then blackmailing him to have sex with him to work off the debt that Masataka's beloved older brother has with the Yakuza]]. It's only after [[spoiler:Masataka snaps on him ''and'' Souma attempts to commit suicide over it]] that he shows Masataka how much he really cares for him and their relationship somewhat stabilizes. And then we get to see WHY he went yandere...[[note]]Here's a clue: DarkAndTroubledPast mixed with TraumaCongaLine.[[/note]]

** Gopher toward Noah, which can be considered a CargoShip considering that Noah is [[spoiler:just the human embodiment of the Book of Eibon]]. He cries whenever he does something wrong by Noah and spends his free time taking his frustrations out by [[spoiler:beating the shit out of the then-captured Kid]] or [[spoiler:trying to kill Maka]]. And all because Noah doesn't want to add Gopher to his collection. It seems to be PlayedForLaughs.

** Lain Brody. In the first few scenes we see him, he gives Sen a blowjob, strips him, drugs him and outright molests him as he's drugged (including telling him "No way in hell am I letting Sword Fish kill you. Because he doesn't love you. I'm the only one that can kill you."), rapes him with a ''mop handle'', ties him up and hides him in a dryer. And when Swordfish finds Sen he gives him CPR. Lain responds to this by stabbing Fish in the arm with a fork and tries to stab him again while screaming at him, "Get off of Sen! He belongs to me!" Immediately after that Lain is shot and killed by security guards.
** Swordfish. He threatens anyone who expresses an interest in Sen with death, has sex with Sen to the point where it nearly ''kills'' Sen, tries to strangle him, kills the guys who raped Sen saying that he did it for Sen's sake even after Sen told him not to kill them, moves out of Sen's room and lets a rapist move in when angry with Sen, and slices the throat of another one of Sen's rapists right in front of him while saying "I love you, Sen." This being after he tried to get Sen to kill the guy himself but Sen refused. And his unhealthy obsession with Sen only continues and increases throughout the manga.

** Mitsuko believes that love is most strongly expressed by literally becoming one with your beau — by eating them. And since ones who refuse to back down from their love and become invisible among the masses are so rare, she falls hard for and is extremely invested in eating, Kureha. She even murders Kureha's girlfriend Sumika out of jealousy.