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8	->''"But if I wasn't ever going to be happy again, then I would make sure that they wouldn't be alive to enjoy their happiness."''
9	-->-- '''[[Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad Hikaru Hiyama]]''', ''Fanfic/RevengeRoad''
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11	"…no one will/can."
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13	The ultimate characterizing StockPhrase of the {{Yandere}} archetype.
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15	It is also often spoken by [[GreenEyedMonster jealous and envious]] or {{narcissist}}ic characters (often villains) [[LoveHungry 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 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 or LoveHungry variety. Case in point: once the hero breaks her out and they kiss passionately, expect the villain to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she's not going to love anyone ''period'', usually before trying to murder her or get rid of her in some other despicable fashion.
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17	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 kill their cheating spouses or ex-lovers (both in fiction and in RealLife). [[DeathByWomanScorned A woman may also be more likely to get away with it.]]
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19	If the villain ever had an inkling of a chance, this becomes a form of KickTheDog or MoralEventHorizon that shows that they're "The Wrong Guy".
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21	See NoMacGuffinNoWinner when the trope phrase is directed at something of intrinsic value, rather than an object of affection. May overlap with BetterPartnerAssertion, the leadup to this trope if the assertion is unsuccesful, or SteppingStoneSpouse if the spurned partner has sacrificed a lot to support their partner prior to the breakup. See also LoveMakesYouEvil, {{Yandere}}, and LivingEmotionalCrutch. The polar opposite of IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. Often the person trying to kill the object of their affection is NotGoodWithRejection. And if that person is a villain, you can bet they will have suffered a VillainousBreakdown.
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23	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 expect this to make her throw herself in his arms. When this trope is magnified and taken to its logical extreme, it becomes either TakingYouWithMe or PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery.
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25	As this trope frequently occurs during the climax of a story, '''beware the spoilers!'''
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28	!!Example Subpages:
29	[[index]]
30	* IfICantHaveYou/AnimeAndManga
31	* IfICantHaveYou/ComicBooks
32	* [[IfICantHaveYou/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
33	* IfICantHaveYou/{{Literature}}
34	* IfICantHaveYou/LiveActionTV
35	* IfICantHaveYou/{{Music}}
36	* IfICantHaveYou/VideoGames
37	* IfICantHaveYou/WesternAnimation
38	[[/index]]
39
40	!!Other Examples:
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42	[[foldercontrol]]
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44	[[folder:Advertising]]
45	* In ''Advertising/TheMythOfOrpheusAndEurydice'', after Orpheus rejects Aristaeus's advances in favor of his wife Eurydice, she kills Eurydice out of spite towards him.
46	[[/folder]]
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48	[[folder:Eastern European Animation]]
49	* The protagonist of ''Animation/{{Ersatz}}'' has the power to make anything, anything at all, out of blow-up balloons. He makes a sexy bikini woman, but she dumps him for a surfer. After the man tracks the woman down, he interrupts their sex and kills the woman by pulling her plug out.
50	[[/folder]]
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52	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
53	* In ''Literature/EastOfTheSunAndWestOfTheMoon'', the prince is cursed to turn into a bear because he would not marry his stepsister as his WickedStepmother wanted.
54	* In ''Literature/{{Rapunzel}}'', Mother Gothel throws Rapunzel out into the wilderness, and blinds the prince so they will be unable to find each other.
55	* {{Invoked}} in ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' by the sea witch and the sisters of the titular mermaid. They give the mermaid a dagger to use to kill the prince on his wedding night, and then let the blood drip to her legs so she will become a mermaid once more. Ultimately {{defied}} by the little mermaid herself, who chooses to spare the prince at the cost of her own life.
56	* In ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/crane/snowfirered.html Snow White Fire Red]]'', her ogress mother curses her so that the prince she ran off with will forget her as soon as his mother kisses him.
57	* A variant in "Literature/TheYellowDwarf". The dwarf is not entirely unhappy at Princess Toutebelle's DeathByDespair, because he would rather she be dead than in the arms of another.
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	[[folder:Fan Works]]
61	* Near the end of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11754595/6/Blood-and-Ink Blood and Ink]]'', [[spoiler:Cinder tries multiple times to get Ruby to [[WeCanRuleTogether join her]] after she finds out about Cinder's true nature as a Mob Boss, but Ruby refuses each time because Cinder had earlier ordered an attack on her sister, Yang. When Ruby states that she prefers her friends over her, Cinder is driven over the edge and kills her]].
62	* In the cross-over comic ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow'', Minnie screams this at Junior before trying to decapitate him. While she's not actually a ''villain'', she ''is'' under the influence of Him, making her evil at the time it was said.
63	** For added {{Squick}}, Minnie is Junior's [[spoiler: half-]]sister, so he's as creeped out as the readers are.
64	* Defying the Odds shows this in a flashback, as Tweety tells Sylvester the harsh promise Tyler made to her when she turned dwon his marriage proposal.
65	* 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.
66	* In the final chapter of Fanfic/ProjectGethinator, Admiral Daro'Xen, who is {{Yandere}} in a big way for Commander Shepard, [[VillainousBreakdown utterly loses it]] after he decisively turns her down and calls her on her crazy scheme and her obsession with him. After realizing that Shepard is in love with Tali, Xen goes into full-on WomanScorned mode, and proceeds to turn the same faulty mineral scanner that Tali's idiot crewman Prazza from the preceding fic ''Fanfic/IngloriousBoshtets'' accidentally used to make a star go supernova on the main star of the Eta Carinae system, causing it to go ''hyper''-nova, making sure to have the Normandy's drive core disabled so Shepard, Tali and the crew cannot escape. Only Shepard's quick thinking and Legion's advanced technical skills get everyone out of there alive.
67	* ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' gives this a bizarre and interesting twist:
68	-->'''Thunderstorm:''' IF I CAN'T HAVE THIS WORLD, ''THEN IT CAN'T HAVE YOU!''\
69	'''Andy:''' [[LampshadeHanging Has anyone ever said that before?]]\
70	'''Jack:''' I don't think so. That was a pretty good line.
71	* Played with in ''FanFic/InnerDemons''. When [[BigBad Queen!]][[FaceHeelTurn Twilight]] realizes that her brother is rejecting her [[VillainousIncest advances]] in favor of, you know, ''his wife'', she decides she will kill him along with the rest of the heroes -- but first she's going to make him watch her [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill Cadence]]. Fortunately, the rest of the Mane Six show up in time [[BigDamnHeroes to stop her]].
72	* ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'' has Daryan attempt to kill Klavier by having him strangled to death when he finds out that the latter is cheating on him another man. Daryan outright states this trope as his reason for not ending his relationship with Klavier when the latter questions why they don't break up if Daryan hates him so much.
73	* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', Splash Woman blows up her underwater hideout after losing, saying that if she can't have Mega Man no one will.
74	* In ''Fanfic/HuntingTheUnicorn'', [[spoiler: Blaine's stalker]] Alex threatens to run a concussed [[spoiler: Blaine]] over if his friends call 911.
75	* ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/6713584/chapters/15355759 Mischief Revived]]'':
76	-->'''Charlie:''' Why Fred? Why try to kill your own brother?\
77	'''Ron:''' He can’t have Hermione. I won’t let him. If I can’t have her, neither can he.
78	* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'': Archmage Saros was Princess Amore Diamante's CourtMage who secretly desired her. When she married a peasant named Bene Lyric and had a daughter, Saros reinvented himself as King Sombra and killed Amore and her husband before taking over the Crystal Empire. He would have killed her infant daughter as well if [[spoiler:King Caesar hadn't rescued her.]]
79	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9340465/1/YANDERE-SUMIA YANDERE SUMIA]]'' has Sumia kill all her rivals for Chrom's affections- Maribelle, Sully, Olivia, [[PlayerCharacter the female Avatar]] and even the Maiden- only to find that Chrom won't marry a "waifu killer" like her. She then impales him with her lance and kills him, as punishment for not accepting her.
80	* In ''Fanfic/GirlsUndPanzerHopeDies'', [[spoiler:Yukari]] murders Miho for refusing her advances, since Miho [[spoiler:already had a girlfriend; Erika]].
81	* A platonic example happens in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20969030 as lambs in the midst of wolves]]''. [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]] genuinely loves her brother, Zuko, but feels that Azulon should have gone through with his original plan of killing him instead of making him Iroh's heir since she would rather see him dead than never see him again (since he now lives in another wing of the palace and the rest of Zuko's family is forbidden from visiting).
82	* In the ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' story, ''Fanfic/PlayDateGoneBad'', Ian, who is Grace's friend's, Marley, nanny, feels this after being rejected by Danny after kissing him, as he believed they had a connection while Danny doesn't feel the same way, which leads Ian to stabbing him and fleeing the scene.
83	* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': During Hinata's final battle with [[StalkerWithACrush Toneri]] [[{{Yandere}} Otsutsuki]], the latter grows increasingly angry of being not only constantly rebuffed in his advances, but also compared unfavorably to Naruto. In the end he accepts that Hinata will never be his and decides to just fight her to the death.
84	* In ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'', [[VillainousCrush Light says this to L]] [[spoiler: before shooting him.]]
85	* In ''Fanfic/ShardsOfAMemory'', Shredder considers Tang Shen choosing Hamato Yoshi instead of him as a "humiliation" worth killing both of them over, having raised her daughter into thinking that Tang Shen was a traitor [[EvilIsPetty out of spite]] before he found out that she was still alive.
86	* In ''Fanfic/TheWeaverOption'' Asdrubael Vect swears to himself that he will either rule Commorragh or destroy it himself. He's not exaggerating either, having already seeded Lower Commorragh with hidden anti-empyreal bombs. [[spoiler:When Vect's army succumbs to Slaanesh, he begins detonating the bombs, both to destroy the Dark City and kill his daemonic pursuers]].
87	* ''Fanfic/ElementaryMyDearNatsuki'', in the penultimate chapter of "The Empty House", Tomoe Margurite has Shizuru Viola in her clutches, now painfully aware that Shizuru will never return her affections. She begins ranting at Shizuru, and Natsuki recognizes this trope by name as the main point of Tomoe's rant. She manages to draw her weapon with her good arm and deliver a [[BoomHeadshot fatal shot]] against Tomoe, saving Shizuru.
88	--> '''Natsuki:''' Keep your ''bloody'' hands off my Shizuru.
89	* Toriel from ''Fanfic/{{Underfell}}'' is a maternal example towards all of the fallen children. Like in [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} canon]], she's eager to adopt any kids she finds lost in the Ruins and tries her best to take care of them. Also like in canon, she doesn't take their wanting to leave well, but that's where the similarities end. While Toriel genuinely wants what's best for the player character and tries to stop them leaving because she believes they would never survive in the underground, fell!Toriel (Torifell?) accuses them of "betraying" and "tricking" her. Then she tries to burn them alive. This being an open FanVerse, opinion often splits on what happens when Frisk wins the battle and spares her. Sometimes she refuses to stop attacking and chases them away. Sometimes she repents and begs forgiveness. Either way, it's a horrifying encounter.
90	* In ''{{Fanfic/Everqueen}}'', Isha's first mission outside the Emperor's capital is a city whose ruler destroyed it rather than surrendering.
91	* The ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27853170/chapters/68194306 Pulse and Void]]'' has an obsessed villainous torture variant. Present Mic is kidnapped by a villain with a power siphon quirk. His TortureTechnician buddy is tasked with breaking Mic so he’ll scream and fuel the power siphoner. However, the torturer, Fusion, gets obsessed with trying to keep Mic as essentially a pet and sex toy. When an enraged Aizawa shows up to rescue Mic and exact revenge, Fusion tries to escape with Mic and when that fails, he stabs Mic in the side and throws him into a pit opened up by the power siphoner and his InternalMonologue states it fairly verbatim.
92	[[/folder]]
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94	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
95	* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheMagicOfPegasus'', the EvilWizard Wenlock [[spoiler: turns Brietta into a pegasus and turns Brietta and Annika's parents to stone when the sisters reject his proposals]].
96	* ''Animation/TheFrogPrincess'': As soon as Koshchei realizes there is a significant chance of Ivan killing him, he turns Vasilisa into a golden statue.
97	* Claude Frollo from ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'' is a rather horrifying example... As he puts it: "She will be mine or she will burn!" He chooses the latter after Esmeralda spits in his eye and gives him a KubrickStare to show she'd rather be her people's martyr than his lover.
98	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', this is what triggers Titan[=/=][[spoiler:Hal Stewart]]'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 [[spoiler:ends up tying her to a radio tower on the top of a tall building]].
99	* In ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite and the Star Stealer'', once the BigBad fails to capture the Diamond Planet for herself, she has a VillainousBreakdown[[note]]Which is more of a temper-tantrum in her case, but still[[/note]], and attempts to ram her ship into it while actually saying the trope name, sort of.
100	-->'''Dark Princess''': If I can't have that diamond, no one's going to have it! I always get my way in the end!
101	* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', ComicBook/WonderWoman of the BadFuture decides to [[OmnicidalManiac commit]] {{gendercide}} after ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} rejected her (over [[CrusadingWidow killing his wife]]), and it's made very clear that she's invoking this trope throughout their war as she kills him with tears in her eyes before cradling his corpse.
102	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'', [[spoiler:after Bowser reaches his RageBreakingPoint [[GreenEyedMonster by seeing Peach happily reuniting with Mario and getting affectionate with him]] right after [[WeddingSmashers ruining their wedding]], he tries to ''nuke'' the Mushroom Kingdom just so they can't be together]].
103	* Part of Lotso's backstory in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3''. He and his friends were misplaced by their owner during a car trip, and by the time they found their way home, her parents had bought the kid a new Lotso. Instead of letting his friends go back, he spent the rest of his life trying to make other toys as miserable and jaded as him.
104	-->'''Lotso:''' She replaced us!\
105	'''Woody:''' She replaced ''you''! And if you couldn't have her, then no one could!
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108	[[folder:Jokes]]
109	* "I gripped the diamond ring in my left hand and the grenade's pin in my right. Whatever her answer, we'll be spending the rest of our lives together."
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112	[[folder:Manhwa]]
113	* ''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.
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116	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
117	* Narcissus from Greek Mythology. As the story goes, Narcissus (the origin of the word ''narcissism'') is a beautiful boy who is constantly forced to reject the many women throwing themselves at him, and he sometimes does so quite coldly. [[WomanScorned One such woman]] curses him with a wish: "If he should love, deny him what he loves!" This wish was granted by the Goddess Nemesis and indirectly leads to his death.
118	* 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.
119	* 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.]]
120	* There is a Japanese folktale about the daughter of a village major, Kiyohime. She fell in love with a [[SexyPriest handsome young priest]] named Anchin. The feelings are mutual, but he eventually rejects her and she turns into a serpent. He escapes into the Dōjō-ji temple, but she follows him and burns the place down, before committing suicide. One of the Animation/KihachiroKawamotoShorts reprises this story almost beat for beat.
121	* The JudgmentOfSolomon from ''Literature/TheBible'': When King Solomon decided to solve the argument two women had over whose baby it was by cutting the child in two, one of the women pleaded for the king to spare the child's life and give him to the other woman, while the other woman said, "Let him be neither mine nor yours; let him be cut in two." Solomon determined from this that the woman that pleaded for the child's life was the true mother and so awarded custody to her.
122	[[/folder]]
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124	[[folder:Theatre]]
125	* In the final act of ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'', Don José confronts Carmen, first pleading with her to resume their affair and then threatening her. She rejects him, and so he stabs her to death.
126	* In the opera ''Theatre/{{Wozzeck}}'', the title character stabs Marie to death following this line. (Büchner's play doesn't use the line.)
127	* The ending of Menotti's opera ''Maria Golovin'' has an extremely jealous Donato attempt this on 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.
128	* Éponine in the musical ''Theatre/LesMiserables''. 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).
129	* In ''Theatre/MartinGuerre'', the play's antagonist, Guilliame attemtps to kill Bertrande after losing her to not one but TWO Martin Guerres.
130	* ''Tamamo-no-Mae Asahi no Tamoto'': [[BigBad Prince Usugumo]] lusts after Lady Katsura, but she doesn't return his affection. He is also planning to start a coup against his younger brother, the current Emperor. What does he do? He orders one of his men to steal a sacred sword from the lady's family and then demand them to hand over her head if they want the sword back. [[spoiler: Little does he know the one carrying out said order is Lady Katsura's [[LukeIAmYourFather biological]] [[OffingTheOffspring father]].]]
131	* Subverted in ''Verve'' by Mark Lucas. A ButtMonkey lawyer finds himself dumped for a vibrator.
132	-->"If I can’t have her, then no shiny piece of Taiwanese plastic will!"
133	* [[TheCaligula Nessarose]] from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' reacts to Boq’s rejection of her love by stealing her sister Elphaba’s spellbook and [[LoveMakesYouCrazy cursing him]] to “lose his heart” to her, inadvertently making him ''literally'' lose his heart. Nessa begs Elphaba to save him before the spell kills him, and Elphaba does so by creating a new form for him that doesn’t need a heart to live. The incident leads to Nessarose [[spoiler:becoming the Wicked Witch of the East]] and to Boq [[spoiler:becoming the Tin Man]].
134	* [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Death]] from Theatre/{{Elisabeth}} goes to great lengths to get Sisi for himself: showing up to gloat at her failed fairytale marriage twice (the first time was after a marital tiff, the second time to reveal that Franz Joseph [[spoiler:cheated on her and gave her syphilis]], seducing her son Rudolf [[note]]starting to talk to him when he was a small child[[/note]] into revolting against his father and eventually [[spoiler:killing himself]], and then finally sending [[spoiler:Lucheni, armed with a file, to murder her. At that point Sisi was already such a BrokenBird DeathSeeker that she refused help from her lady-in-waiting and ran into Death's arms.]]
135	* Near the end of ''Theatre/{{Heathers}}'', J.D. breaks into Veronica's house with the intention of killing her for breaking up with him. However, he changed his mind and decided that he shouldn't kill the girl he loves, but instead their classmates under the belief that they came between him and Veronica.
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138	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
139	* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' if Yathlax the Eye can't have Princess D'larna, he'll kill her... plus some more beside. Needless to say Yathlax, D'larna's former bodyguard, has gone off the deep end.
140	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' has this in the form of the Exterminatus, the Imperium of Man's normal method for when a planet is completely overrun by aliens or Chaos beyond the point of recovery. EarthShatteringKaboom normally ensues.
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143	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
144	* ''VisualNovel/ChopChopFruitSaladMysteryJamDokiDokiDatingSimTHingy'': In Strawberry's bad ending, [[spoiler:Chopper-Strawberry kills Banana and then Apple because they've turned into a yandere and resent that Apple loves [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Banana]] and not Strawberry]].
145	* ''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 a physical form.
146	* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'':
147	** ''To My Child'' is one of the bad endings you can get where this happens. On it [[spoiler: Makoto is stabbed to death by Sekai after he abandoned her while pregnant to pursue a relationship with Kotonoha, who was also pregnant]]. While this ending is very similar to the anime one, there are some details that make it very different, [[spoiler: mainly the fact that Makoto genuinely cared about Sekai and, depending on which path you take to get there, he genuinely wanted to take care of both Sekai and Kotonoha before Sekai disappears on her own, or he came to regret having told Sekai to leave and desperately wanted to find her and take care of her as well.]] Also the fact that [[spoiler: Sekai's pregnancy was real]].
148	** Completely subverted in the extended version of ''Bloody End''. [[spoiler: After killing Sekai, Kotonoha was ready to kill Makoto as well by choking him with her scarf. However, the sole idea of Makoto dying is enough to bring her back to her senses and made her realize what she had just done]].
149	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', Akiha says something like this in one of the routes, and does her damnedest to kill Shiki.
150	* In ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'', Sora gets really close to this after seeing Takeshi and [[spoiler: Tsugumi having sex in the gondola.]]
151	* The Extreme Love Ends for [[spoiler:Shion and Toma]] in ''VisualNovel/StarstruckLove'' have this happen to the heroine.
152	* The Bad Ends in ''VisualNovel/YandereILoveYouSoIWantToKillYou''. If Subaru makes the wrong choices either in the main story or in the selected {{Yandere}} ending sequence, then he will be killed. But it doesn't stop there; stuff still goes on after he dies.
153	* In ''VisualNovel/PurrfectApawcalypse'', the third game reveals that [[spoiler:Patches' reason for killing Angel was this trope; they used to date in secret but Angel broke up with him after being turned off by his possessive behavior and declarations that he'd kill Angel if he ever left him, whereupon Patches demonstrated that his declarations were not exaggerations in the slightest]].
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156	[[folder:Web Animation]]
157	* ''WebAnimation/OnTheEdge'':
158	** Yoichi Kashima from the episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hLN4lYBLRM The female torture sommelier tears his stomach apart]]'' raped and murdered his English language teacher for turning him down. He didn't get arrested because his father was the Attorney General.
159	** The intro of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4LF6QGXCS4 Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza]]'' [sic] features a stalker who strangled a young woman named Miho to death for dating someone other than him.
160	* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': This is Adam's reaction to Blake deciding not to be part of his genocidal terrorist group as well as breaking off their (according to WordOfGod) abusive relationship. He swears to destroy everything she loves. [[spoiler: He starts by cutting off Yang's arm when she tries to rescue Blake from him.]]
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163	[[folder:Web Comics]]
164	* There was a really weird version of this in ''Webcomic/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.
165	* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', [[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]].
166	* ''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.
167	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' plays this straight when [[spoiler:Eridan]] decides to kill [[spoiler:Feferi]] when she defends [[spoiler:Sollux after Eridan KO'd him.]] An unusual case because [[spoiler:Eridan]] wanted both [[spoiler: [[DoggedNiceGuy Feferi]] ''and'' Sollux,]] but they both rejected him and hooked up with each other, prompting his murderous rampage.
168	* Raven Red, toward Harmony Thunder, in ''Webcomic/JetDream''. She specifically wants the [[GenderBender sex-changed]] Harmony back in her male persona as Jack Thunder - [[FirstLawOfGenderBending something everyone else knows to be impossible]]. If she can't have ''Jack'' Thunder, well....
169	* One strip of ''Webcomic/RosiannaRabbit'' has a bereaved Harry Hare dig up the body of Rosianna to revive her as a FrankensteinsMonster, only to kill her and his [[TheIgor deformed assistant]] after he catches them falling in love.
170	* ''Webcomic/{{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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174	* ''Website/ChatoyantCollege'': Paul shows this trope. [[spoiler: In Book 9, Corrie rescinds that magical restraining order. His reaction is to attack Dawn with a stone knife.]]
175	* The culprit's motive in ''It's a Southern Thing'' sketch [[https://youtu.be/B5tqE293T_8 "If Law and Order:SVU was Southern"]]. Someone put an old and well-seasoned cast iron skillet through the dishwasher, ruining it, which is treated [[SeriousBusiness exactly like a murder in the actual Law and Order would be]]. (Mind you, to a good cook, it kind of ''is'' that serious.) [[spoiler: One sister, who is a bad cook, was set to inherit it. The other one, who loves cooking, resented that her unskilled sister was going to get it, and decided that if she couldn't have the skillet, no one would.]]
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179	* PlayedForLaughs in Episode 54 of the Podcast/ChuckleSandwich podcast. Charlie announces that he's leaving the podcast in order to focus on other projects, so Schlatt and Ted send a bomb to his house so nobody else can have him.
180	* A non-romantic/sexual example occurs in Season 1 of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' -- this is [[FallenHero Wilbur's]] ''supposed'' reasoning for wanting to [[NukeEm blow up]] Manburg. He knows that even if he kicks out [[TyrantTakesTheHelm Schl]][[PresidentEvil att]] and becomes president again, he'd be an illegitimate president, no longer allied with the Greater Dream SMP because there'd no longer be an EnemyMine, and going back to the way things were would be pretty much impossible, as many major landmarks have been destroyed and relations have changed drastically. As a result, Wilbur decides that if he can't have his country back, Schlatt can't have it either. This turns out to [[SubvertedTrope all be a front]] for him, as he has also stated in private that his reasoning for doing so is that [[spoiler:the beliefs and ideals that he built the nation for no longer existed]]. These [[UnreliableNarrator polarizing claims]] have, as a result, caused many to develop conflicting views on him.
181	* ''WebVideo/HardlyWorking'': Pat in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujauxisY2s8 My Bloody Valentine]]" plays a possessive sociopath who kills Sarah after previously murdering everyone in the office who flirted with her on Valentine's Day. It backfires on him, as she wanted to ask him out before he stabbed her fatally.
182	* PlayedForLaughs in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kDdlHTPZCY Golden Time Forever Online]]'' when Koko threatens to kill Mitsuo, learn necromancy to revive him, kill him again, revive him again, marry him, and live off of his life insurance money. In that order.
183	* ''WebVideo/TheVeronicaExclusive'': This is probably the reason Jane threatens to murder Veronica (along with the rest of the school) after Veronica breaks up with her. She alternates between desperately trying to sweet-talk Veronica into coming back to her and screaming about how she's going to kill her, and it is ''creepy''.
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