If I Cant Have You / Video Games

• In the Neverwinter Nights mod, Tales of Arterra, your encounter with one of Persey's former owners can end with him spouting this trope and attacking if you insist that she is worth more to you than any amount of gold. Persey happens to be a succubus on a quest to learn to behave/think like a human.
• King Valentine of Odin Sphere, and his relationship with his now-deceased daughter.
• LeChuck with regard to Elaine in the Monkey Island games, with the twist that in The Curse of Monkey Island 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 Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis is an inverse Chick Magnet. She even has her own fan club. One of her generic fans pulls this on her in one scene. Hilarity Ensues. No, really.
• A decidedly non-romantic example is in Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies. The Eruseans, realising that they can't hold onto the town of San Salvacion, try to blow it up instead.
  • The Belkans in Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (and consequently, the backstory to The Unsung War) succeeded. Faced by the onslaught of the allied army of Osea, Yuktobania and other nations, they blew up 7 nuclear bombs in their own soil to stave off invasion. All in all, everything went far too well; while the armies stopped, it scarred so many people they formed their own terrorist organization (A World With no Boundaries) made from both Belkan and Allied forces, and the trauma from this war led both Yuktobania and Osea to peacefully disarm. Shame it also motivated remnants of the now weakened Belka to carry out a secret plan 15 years in the making, unraveled during The Unsung War.
  • In Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation after the Emmerians have liberated their capital the Estovakians set out to wipe it off the map with powerful railgun lunched shells. One of the enemy pilots even sees the attempt to protect Gracemeria as the Emmerians seeking to further humiliate Estovokia.
• In Planescape: Torment, Ravel Puzzelwell reacts this way to The Nameless One trying to leave her; she was probably faking it though.
• Kimmy Howell in No More Heroes 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 Command & Conquer: 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^note "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 You Have Outlived Your Usefulness.
• Adele from Arc Rise Fantasia was in love with her childhood friend, and, before learning that they wouldn't love her back, was a shy, softspoken girl. Upon learning this fact she goes completely insane, embraces her heritage as priestess of a Religion of Evil, turns into a manipulative seductive bitch, and starts with the homicidal rampaging.
• In Deadly Premonition, "I won't let you have him! You filthy PIG!" is screamed by Thomas at Emily near the end of the game, in the Clock Tower. He then becomes the first of only several bosses in the game. He screams more examples of this phrase during the fight.
• A non-romantic example is the Villain Protagonist's motivation in Hyper Princess Pitch:
  Pitch: But he sure didn't give ME any presents when I was a kid! If I don't get presents, no one should.
• A fairly lighthearted variant from Harvest Moon DS Cute. If you're courting the phantom thief Skye he won't actually accept your proposal. He'll think you're just showing him the blue feather you need in order to get married (to someone else.) When you give up on him and try to go to bed he'll sneak into your house to steal the feather so you can't get married. You'll catch him in the act and have to explain to him that actually, it was meant for him after all. He's more pleased than embarrassed.
  • The above scene (Skye coming into your house to steal your blue feather) happens automatically if you're courting someone else as well as Skye. Once he and your other suitor(s) have over sixty thousand Love Points, you wake up and find a note from Skye saying that he's coming to 'steal your heart,' i.e. the Blue Feather. The next time you go to bed, you hear him sneaking into your house and wake up. You then have the choice of giving the feather to him or breaking his heart to go and marry the other suitor.
• Eveline from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is willing to pull a non-romantic one. If someone fails to become integrated into her "family", she will either kill them herself or with the Molded.
• There's a non-romantic example in Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey. This is Zara's motivation, as she was once a princess, but was banished from her kingdom for refusing to learn princess virtues. Then she discovered she could ruin the worlds of other princesses and stop girls from becoming them, and set out to do just that.
  Zara: If I can't be a princess, why should anyone else get to be one?
• Pac-Man World 2: Pinky says this to Pac-Man at the start of the boss fight against her.
• This is the motivation behind the Tremaine family's attempted murder of Cinderella in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep and Clu's decision to derezz Rinzler in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance], after they were both freed by Aqua and Sora, respectively. In both cases, it's non-romantic.
  • Hans in Kingdom Hearts III one-ups the Tremaines and Clu by willingly giving into darkness and becoming the wolf Elite Heartless called Sköll. Since he can't become a king, he'll destroy the universe's light so that nobody will.
• In Jak II: Renegade, the motivation behind Erol's attempt to run down Jak is out of envy towards losing both the big race and Keira. His envy seems to have corrupted him, as in the next game, he outright tries to destroy the world... all for losing one girl.
• In BioShock, Andrew Ryan gives Jack and Atlas a speech to this effect, saying that even if he dies, Atlas will never rule Rapture, right before he activates the city's self-destruct system.
• In Dragon Age: Inquisition, during "Champions of the Just," the envy demon shrieks as you fight it that if it can't have your form, no one can — including you.
• In the H-Game Artificial Academy and its sequel, girls with the "Evil" trait will kill the player character if he tries to break up with her or if she dislikes him enough. Some character types also imply that the girl kills herself shortly.
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt:
  • The nightwraith known as Jenny o' the Woods was once a young woman named Zula who lived in the village of Midcopse before being murdered by another villager she rejected when she tried to elope with her boyfriend. Her violent death and Unfinished Business resulted in her haunting her former home until Geralt intervenes.
  • In the Blood & Wine expansion, Geralt meets the Witch of Lynx Crag who seduced a knight that came to ask for her help with a drought eons ago. When he felt guilty about cheating on his fiancee and tried to return to her, the witch indirectly killed him and says to Geralt, "Was I to let another woman have a man who belonged to me? Hmph. I could not abide it."
• In StarCraft, Arcturus Mengsk firmly establishes himself as a villain when he declares to Raynor that "I will rule this sector, or see it burnt to ashes around me!" In the Wings of Liberty mission "Media Blitz", Mengsk's approval rating takes a dive when Raynor's Raiders broadcast a recording of Mengsk saying that.
• The Bounty Hunter storyline of Star Wars: The Old Republic has you rescue a man from his deranged lover, an Imperial noblewoman who manipulates him into leaving his family home to be with her. When you confront them, he expresses a desire to go home and the noblewoman coldly offers to pay you to kill him on the spot for this reason. You can oblige, ignore her, or kill her instead.
• First Encounter Assault Recon: In the finale the corrupted version of Keegan tries to kill Becket because he's upset that Alma only seems to want Becket. He comes back to himself briefly and Becket is forced to Mercy Kill him.
• Charon's yandere games tend to have this in at least one ending, whether True or Bad.
  • In one Bad End of Mikoto Nikki, Mikoto supposedly kills Matarou if he decides to run away from her. She also did this to another boy when he learned the truth about her.
  • Subverted with Nagisa's True End in Mix Ore. Nagisa decides that she's going to perform a Murder-Suicide with Kantarou, thinking that neither of them have anything to live for. That and she was hoping that they could be Together in Death.
  • Both endings of Shihori Escape has this happen. However, the person who dies and the yandere changes in the True End.
  • The True Ends of Yanderella has this happen to Yatarou. The girl who is "rejected" will go after Yatarou and the girl he chose. She at least attempts to pretend that she and Yatarou are in relationship before she kills him in a jealous rage.
• In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Penelope goes full Yandere over Bentley and tries to kill his lifelong friends Sly and Murray if it means having him to herself (albeit, to use him in making a fortune through warfare). However, Bentley catches her in the murder attempt, denounces her as a greedy, power-hungry sociopath, and dumps her on the spot. Penelope then attacks Bentley with the intention of killing him, too, out of anger for choosing his friends and morality over her.
• Surprisingly defied in Koikatsu when a girl with the Yandere personality type breaks up with the player character. She develops feelings of murderous jealousy, but she storms off out of fear of doing something to him.
• Done on a civilization-sized scale in Hollow Knight: The Radience unleashed the plague threatening to destroy the world because mortalkind stopped worshipping her and started worshipping the Pale King instead.
• Fate/Grand Order:
  • In life, Queen Medb ordered Cu Chulainn assassinated because he refused her advances.
  • The reason why Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed Oda Nobunaga in this verse was because he was in love with her and got angry that Nobunaga chose Toyotomi Hideyoshi to be her partner instead of him.
• Bloodborne: Sister Adella's motivation for killing Arianna, and then trying to murder you afterwards, is heavily implied to have been this (she can be visibly seen eavesdropping whenever you are talking to Arianna, and will only murder her after you take the latter's blood three times. If you don't, she will leave her alone and will not make an attempt on your life once the moon turns red either, which indicates she did it out of jealousy, with her dialogue if she manages to kill you further backing this interpretation up.)
  Adella: I will never leave your side....
• This is the idea behind Snap Mode in Yandere Simulator. After you get a Game Over, Ayano Aishi has nothing left to live for, except making sure no one else can have Senpai. Ayano even says this word for word as she's about to knife Senpai to death, before turning the knife on her own neck.
  Ayano: If I can't have you... (stab) no one can.
• In the final case of Criminal Case: Pacific Bay, "The Final Countdown", after he's revealed to be Frank Knight's killer, Bobby Prince threatens to shoot Amy if she doesn't get back together with him.
  Bobby: Never! If I can't have you, nobody will! I'd rather we died together!

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