Clingy Jealous Girls in Comic Books.
- Archie Comics:
- Betty and Veronica both become more than a little crazy whenever another girl takes an interest in Archie.
- Less commonly seen is how Midge goes nuts whenever another girl shows too much interest in Moose (who is ironically known for being a Crazy Jealous Guy).
- Batgirl: Barbara in general is like this towards Dick's other love interests especially Starfire. Though this was played more tragically when she went to check up on Dick in his apartment and was greeted by an underdressed Starfire at the door, Babs left shortly after and began to cry while riding her motorcycle.
- Catwoman is very much capable of getting very jealous of Batman’s other love interests. In Batman: Hush Selina has to guard Talia al Ghul who takes the opportunity to gloat about how she's made love to him while Selina (at that point) hasn't, at which she contemplates gagging Talia. Catwoman even gets jealous and hostile towards Wonder Woman as much like Lois with Clark (see below) she really doesn’t appreciate how close Diana is to Bruce as seen in Forever Evil (2013).Batman: Give me the lasso, Vic I can connect with Diana.—(touching the Lasso of Truth)—We’ve known each other a long time...
Catwoman: (looking at him sharply) Is that really it Batman?- This comes up later in Tom King’s run as while Selina was initially fine with Batman going off with Diana to fight hordes of monsters in a parallel dimension despite being aware of how close they are. That is until she learns that time works differently in that dimension and Bruce and Diana will spending a lot of time together, at which point she becomes very concerned, and not without reason as in the other dimension Batman and Wonder Woman’s UST dials up and they Almost Kiss. Although to be fair to Selina, she was engaged to Bruce at that point.
- Daisy Duck in Disney Ducks Comic Universe. She definitely do not take well find Donald with another girl. But she has no problem with leave Donald for Gladstone whenever it suits her (often as part of an Operation: Jealousy).
- Kayleigh from Dork Tower is this in regards to Matt McLimore; just the thought that he might be interested in someone else sends her into a rage.
- Played with in Exalted. Due to the differing social positions of men and women in Creation, Peleps Taguro is the Clingy Jealous Guy versus the Crazy Jealous Guy to Aruna.
- Played with in Giraffes On Horseback Salad; Linda is very protective of her relationship to Jimmy, even though she treats him as an afterthought and has a lover on the side. She's obviously only after Jimmy so she can leverage his meteoric rise to success for her own benefit.
- The Incredible Hulk: Betty Ross aka Harpy/Red She-Hulk can be like this towards the good Doctor Banner aka the Hulk. This was especially seen when the sorceress Umar ensnared Hulk, at which Betty lost it bellowing “Get your damn tongue off him. You piece of trash”. Interestingly Betty isn’t jealous of Caiera, Hulk’s other wife from Planet Hulk (probably thanks to never meeting her or the fact she's dead) or resentful towards her stepson Skaar, while Bruce himself is very ashamed of cheating on Betty as Hulk despite having pretty much no control over it. Betty does however get visibly jealous
◊ of Hulk's other love interest Jarella when she makes a brief appearance cozying up to Bruce in Incredible Hulks 619#. - Iron Man:
- Tony's Stalker with a Crush Kathy Dare hated the idea of Tony looking at another woman, and would do anything from pour nearby buckets of water over them to hijacking his emergency communication line to get his attention.
- Whitney Frost aka Madame Masque is Tony’s 1# Psycho Ex-Girlfriend and her clinginess towards Tony after their short lived but passionate romance, drives her to try and kill literally any woman Tony loves or cares about… as poor Pepper “little ginger trollop” learned first hand. Masque also violently dislikes Iron Man’s previous love interests such as Black Widow and Bethany Cabe the latter of whom Whitney spent a lot time and money just sabotaging her relationship with Tony. Fortunately for Iron Man in other comics Whitney is more interested in running her criminal empire, though if Tony is involved in the comic in any way she inevitably dissolves into Alex Forrest-style yandere at the sight of him.
- Friday, Tony’s Virtual Sidekick is a comparatively gentler example to the previous two. Tony created her on a whim just to avoid the hassle of finding a new secretary and soon forgot about her. Like a computer Tinkerbell Friday in response starts messing things up for Tony to get his attention even hijacking his armour. It falls to Pepper to explain to Tony that the AI girl has a crush on him. After agreeing to make use of her more frequently, Friday becomes a Benevolent A.I..
- Mera deeply loves her husband Aquaman and gets very, very angry when other women try to woo him away from her. In Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox Wonder Woman (hello again, Diana) sleeps with Arthur, causing Mera to attack and fight her and be killed (in Flashpoint proper, Mera was simply duped into trying to kill Diana) igniting a planet-level civil war in the process. Played more gently in the comics e.g the time Mera met Ya’wara.Aquaman: We were never formally a team.
Ya’wara: But Arthur and I had a connection.
(Mera gives her a Death Glare)
Aquaman: (quickly) A telepathic one.
Mera: Not better. - Nightwing: Dick Grayson's many love interests are this towards him, including the incredibly powerful ones like Starfire and Supergirl. But probably the most insidious is Catalina Flores aka the Tarantula who not only manipulated events so that Batgirl would break up with Nightwing, she then most infamously took advantage of Nightwing when he was suffering from a Heroic BSoD taking his pants off and raping him on a rooftop. Nightwing was disgusted by her actions and swore never to let her touch him again and Barbara Gordon made a point of beating the shit out of Tarantula in their few interactions.
- Raptors: Despite being in a long-term relationship with Drago, Camilla is not actually this for him, but for Vicky. She declares that she is hers, even when her brother decides to have sex with Vicky in their bed and when Vicky ultimately refuses Camilla's advances, she doesn't take it very well.
- Knives Chau from the Scott Pilgrim series combines this trope with Yandere.
- Gail from Sin City towards Dwight. She badmouths his other love interest the waitress Shellie whenever she can and believes he should give into his wild side and be with her. There’s also some Fridge Brilliance as Gail took part in the killing of Ava (Dwight’s other love interest and a truly vicious Femme Fatale) in A Dame to Kill For likely due to her own feelings for Dwight.
- Rosy the Rascal from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Amy Rose's counterpart from an alternate evil universe. Unlike Amy, who has enough common sense to back down from her clingy tendencies and willing to help other potential female rivals out of concern for their well-being, Rosy is so mentally unstable that she believes the only way to get Scourge (anti-Sonic)'s attention is to smash him with her hammer... which, unlike Amy's, is covered in spikes.
- Spider-Man:
- Betty Brant damn near fainted every time Peter breathed in the vicinity of another woman (besides Aunt May) and would often run off in a huff after encounters with Liz Allen and especially Mary Jane Watson, leading Peter to label Betty as an "overemotional jealous female" (well, this was the early '60s). After marrying Ned Leeds Betty got over Peter and was shown to be very happy at his marriage with MJ.
- Gwen Stacy was this to Peter before they started dating, disliking any affection Peter got from women (though not to the extent that Betty did) besides her (as shown in one interaction with Mary Jane):MJ: Mmmm... (cozying up to Peter) if you're that groovy, maybe you deserve Mary Jane.
Gwen: When would you like him dear? Before or after I pull your hair out? - Mary Jane Watson herself always preferred to keep Peter to herself (including dragging him off to dance at parties), though she would often laugh it off and act like a wild party girl to disguise how much she wanted/needed Peter. Due to her broken homelife she saw a connection in Peter and genuinely loved him despite dating Flash and flirting with Harry; distancing herself emotionally from Peter was just a way of protecting herself.
- There were times MJ still lost her cool and showed resentment when Peter got attention from other women, and even jealousy when Peter dated Gwen. As for Lois Lane getting chummy with Peter in the crossover Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, she didn't care AT ALL.
- Black Cat makes it clear how jealous she is of MJ herself and often encourages Spidey to forget her and to be with her instead, since MJ “ties him down” to a boring life. Depending on the Writer this goes from mere bitterness to full blown Yandere.
- This is essentially the motivation of the Venom Symbiote towards Peter. It alternates between hating him fiercely and loving him so much it’ll do anything to bond with him again.
- Superman:
- Lana Lang has been occasionally portrayed as this for Clark Kent, to the point of once leaving her panties in the Kents's bed after failing to convince Clark that Lois Lane is a lousy wife.
- During Superman: Brainiac, Clark and Lois talk about their co-worker Cat Grant and her strange behavior. Lois bets that Cat got her butt tattooed and Clark jokes about using his X-Ray Vision to check it. She growls at him.
- In The Coming of Atlas, Lois gets grumpy when Clark wants them to attend Zatanna's show, even though her husband bluntly states he has zero interest in his fellow Leaguer.
- This aspect of Lois was really dialed up in Action Comics (New 52), as she is very jealous of Wonder Woman having a relationship with Superman albeit passive-aggressively before eventually mellowing out. In other comics, Lois is rarely pleased to see Diana show up in her and Clark's life. Diana herself noticeably dislikes Lois and how close she is to Clark.
- In The Plague of the Antibiotic Man, Iris Allen gets mad when she finds Lois Lane -who she has heard is moving to Central City- talking to The Flash (Iris' husband Barry) because rumor has it that Miss Lane is obsessed with dating super-heroes (not only Superman). Hence, Iris and Lois have a heated argument in which Iris repeatedly warns Lois that she should stay away from the Flash, and Lois repeatedly protests it is not interested at all.
- Girl Power: Subverted. Starfire is clearly irritated when Supergirl kisses Nightwing, but she does not even want to talk about it when Kara tries to apologize herself for smooching her boyfriend.
- Ultimate X Men: Kitty Pryde really doesn't like sharing Bobby's affections with Rogue. And while she's slightly better about it with Peter, she has several moments of friction with MJ (and Ultimate Spider-Man #200 makes it clear she never really got over him).
- X-Men:
- Jean Grey is capable of getting very jealous, especially where her love Cyclops is concerned. Though Jean's jealously and anger over Cyclops's psychic affairs with Emma Frost and Psylocke is completely justified since she and Cyke are usually Mindlink Mates together, which makes Emma and Betsy's involvement worse than sexually infidelity in Jean's mind.
- Ironic for a girl who has the power to phase through almost everything, but Kitty Pryde is often very clingy towards Colossus. This was very evident during Chris Claremont's run where Kitty flips out when Professor X separates her from the X-Men and therefore by proxy separating Kitty from her Russian love.
- Emma Frost though she acts like she's above it, but she’s still pretty goddamn jealous of Jean and Scott's love for her and does her best to destroy their marriage with a Mental Affair. If that wasn't enough Emma frequently trash talks Jean in front of Scott even when she's dead and is pissed at Cyclops and Wolverine fighting over Jean, bitching egotistically that despite all her beauty and fame "she ranks below a corpse". Taken further when Cyclops dies as Emma has some Sanity Slippage and creates a mental projection of him. Thankfully averted nowadays as by House of X Emma seems to have buried the hatchet with Jean and has a polyamory relationship with Scott.
- Rogue to Gambit occasionally, though normally not the "clingy" part as that could kill him. Rogue was especially jealous of Bella Donna whom Gambit almost wed in a Arranged Marriage. She also brings up every single woman Gambit has been romantically involved with (or just flirted with) during their couple's therapy.
- Bella Donna herself made her first appearance by attacking Gambit and Rogue during a picnic, Rogue having her arms around Gambit's neck might’ve helped the situation escalate. This is downplayed afterwards though Bella Donna still gets unpleasant when acknowledging Gambit’s relationship with Rogue and even kissed Gambit... despite him being married to Rogue at that point. She’s also tried to kill Rogue more than once.
- Chuck Austen turned Polaris into this trope towards Havok and even made Lorna an outright Yandere attacking Havok and his temporary love interest Annie. Later writers appropriately ignore this whole subplot all together.
- Monet St. Croix showed a slight case of this with Sabretooth during Uncanny X-Men (2016). The two of them seemed to have something building over the series. After Monet is possessed by Emplate, her negative emotions are amplified by his influence. She murders Inhumans in cold-blood due to grief of losing Maddrox to Terrigen mist. Sabretooth finds her and they talk briefly, with him telling Monet that Rachel Grey came with him. Monet wonders where she is -sarcastically saying she'd love to catch up. Creed explains that he sent Rachel back in order to speak with Monet alone. She asks if he's protecting his new friend, saying she doesn't like it.
