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"Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to be with another man"
Meet the Spear Counterpart to the Clingy Jealous Girl. Combining the Deadly Sins of Envy and Wrath, nothing pushes his Berserk Button faster than seeing another guy or girl look at his guy or girl (or worse, his guy or girl look at another guy or girl).
Naturally, this is often handled differently than the Clingy Jealous Girl. An irrationally jealous female partner is often used as an element of comedy or treated as supposedly "normal" behavior for a woman, whereas the irrationally jealous male partner is more likely to be treated as if he has a serious flaw: it's portrayed less sympathetically, criticized more harshly by fans, less frequently played for comedy, and has a higher tendency to either rape the girl/guy he's in love with or Murder the Hypotenuse, rather than drag the object of their affections away by the ear or pummel them with a Hyperspace Mallet. Interestingly, though, at the far end of jealous insanity, the Yandere is far more often female.
However, a guy obviously acting paranoid in a situation where there's no reason for him to be jealous, especially as a Running Gag, makes for comedic gold. As long as the comedy comes from making the guy look like a fool and not from making his partner suffer, it's okay.
Of course, all bets are off when this trope is mixed with the Boys Love or Ho Yay, which is certainly not all that rare; in fact, the biggest Played for Laughs examples tend to come from this field.
May double as a Stalker with a Crush or Prince Charming Wannabe.
Examples
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Anime and Manga
- Shiro No Eden: Shuuto is very protective of Mashiro and constantly butts heads with Ai.
- Hana Yori Dango: Tsukasa Domyoji towards Tsukushi Makino, to the point of almost raping her out of sheer jealousy. He gets better later though.
- Yusaku from Kimagure Orange Road. 90% of his Butt Monkey episodes come from him trying to forcibly get in Hikaru's good graces, no matter what she thinks about it. In fact, Hikaru openly tells him she's not interested in him but on Kyousuke, but Yusaku simply refuses to listen to her.
- Kyo from Black Bird can slip into this towards Misao at times.
- Ayashi No Ceres: Shiso/The Progenitor to Ceres - stalking her across time, killing one of their own children due to jealousy.
- Arakawa Under The Bridge: Hoshi over Nino. She barely even notices.
- Shiva of Saint Beast, to Yandere Murder the Hypotenuse levels.
- Girls Love manga Shiroi Heya no Futari ends with one of the girls, Simone, being stabbed to death by one of these.
- Usami Akihiko of Junjou Romantica. He said himself that if Misaki ever attempts to leave, he will lock him up so no one can take him away. Fortunately Usami hasn't acted on it... yet. Nowaki and Shinobu have their moments as well.
- Takano Masamune from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi over Onodera, although it tends to be more subtle than the usual examples of this trope.
- Rolo Lamperouge of Code Geass towards Lelouch, with a bit of Yandere and Tyke Bomb mixed in. The results were not pretty. Poor Shirley.
- Kunō from Ranma ½, except that he's more low-key than the girls and rarely Glomp the girls he's interested in. (Kunō because, unless he catches them by surprise, Akane and Ranma beat his head in for trying. Mousse, though, is one of these through and through — even the fact his antics usually get him beaten up (by either the girl he chases or by someone he glomps by mistake) fails to dissuade him. (All Played for Laughs.)
- Also, whenever Akane seemingly shows interest in anyone other than him, Ranma's jealousy knows no bounds. And when Ranma is hit with a Fishing Rod Of Love, he turns into this for Ryoga. Even going as far as attacking Akane out of jealousy.
- Wolfram from Kyou Kara Maou, who harbors a borderline obsessive jealousy in regards to his accidental fiance Yuuri.
- Sara is a borderline possessive Yandere in regards to Yuuri.
- Ryota Miyagi from Slam Dunk. One of his first appearances has him weeping river tears, screaming and punching the light out of Sakuragi because he mistook him for Ayako's boyfriend.
- JJ from FAKE, who keeps following his "sempai" Dee Laytner and clinging to him. He gets over it, lets go of Dee willingly... and gets a boyfriend (sorta) in the epilogue.
- Dee can move completely into this trope at warp-speed if he feels motivated enough. Ryo can also suffer from Green-Eyed Monster syndrome on occasion, and when he does:
- Gokudera from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!. He sticks to Tsuna like no one else does and constantly tries to get people who start becoming "overly close" with Tsuna killed (and this is done in a comedic way). He becomes unreasonably jealous of anyone who is close to Tsuna, and is even shown watching Tsuna and getting incredibly pissed at Yamamoto for being so friendly with him. Plus his violent reaction when Chrome kisses Tsuna.
- Gopher of Soul Eater is Noah's borderline personal fanboy. He beats Kid to a bloody pulp twice for having Noah's attention and gets extremely pissed off when Maka turns out to have the same uniqueness that made Noah apparently apparently have a fleeting interest in Gopher. This gets very bad when Noah decides that he wants to have Maka as well. Gopher is featured in all of 3 chapters.
- It doesn't get any better. With his chance of killing Maka gone, Gopher beats up Kid some more until realising that while hitting him doesn't achieve anything, showing him something asymmetrical does. He exploits this until Noah turns up and takes Kid away.
- Sakuya from Sensual Phrase.
- Furuichi from Xam'd: Lost Memories, who held a strong love for Haru and a strong jealousy towards Akiyuki. Things didn't work out well for him.
- Naoki of Jazz, leading to a particularly horrible Kick the Dog moment with his lover.
- Atsushi Otani from Lovely Complex is a bit like this towards Risa Koizumi, but subtler than the standard.
- Just like Yuno is a Clingy Jealous Girl for Yukiteru in Mirai Nikki, Akise is a Crazy Jealous Guy for him too. But while Yuno is more violent, Akise is more passive-aggressive and manipulative.
- Prince Diamond and Ali are this for Usagi (Ali is also like this for En) in Sailor Moon.
- And Fiore for Mamoru in the R movie.
- Also Umino acts like this in regards to Naru to a mild extent. Completely Played for Laughs.
- And Saffir tends to become this towards his brother Demando whenever Demando is obsessing over Sailor Moon, yet never really crosses the line and as much is passive-aggressive about it. He does admit in the anime that he's jealous of Moon, though — and to Demando's Clingy Jealous Girl Esmeraude, even!
- Zoisite has shades of this towards Kunzite.- Specially obvious when Kunzie said he thought Reika, Zoicite's chosen victim, was a beautiful: Zoisite got massively pissed for that one, and when he confronted Reika he verbally lashed out at her before turning her into a demon.
- Haguro Dou from Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest. If you think a logical reaction to someone talking to your special someone (in his case an anti-social werewolf) is to beat that someone within an inch of their life, bite out their tongue, and sodomize them, you probably qualify for the crazy part pretty well.
- Even more so: his "reaction" to learning that said antisocial werewolf Likes Older Women and has a crush on their Hot Teacher was kidnapping said teacher, having her repeatedly and brutally gangraped and drugged to make her enjoy it, and videotaping it so he'd be able to release this to the internet and destroy her reputation. This guy rivals Yuno herself in the Yandere department, and is considerably more monstrous.
- Black Cat: Creed for Train.
- Full Metal Panic: Gauron for Sousuke. Nothing pisses him off more than seeing Sousuke hanging out with his friends, or just simply having a life besides fighting Gauron. Gauron's reaction normally involves trying to eliminate these people in violent ways.
- Ryoki from Hot Gimmick for Hatsumi. He's 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. However, in the novels it's stated that Hatsumi has left him to be with Shinogu, her Unlucky Childhood Friend.
- Saito is one for Louise in Zero No Tsukaima, though definitely not to the extent that Louise is a Clingy Jealous Girl for him.
- Maki in Darker Than Black, (despite being a cute little kid), right down to trying to murder the guy his crush is in love with.
- Pandora Hearts: Gilbert for Oz and Vincent for his brother Gilbert.
- On Ah! My Goddess, Urd's ex boyfriend Troubador was one of these. According to Urd, back when they were dating he would use his powers to make bugs and insects crawl out of the bodies of any man who tried to flirt with her. He tried the same thing on Keiichi when he mistakenly believed Keiichi and Urd were seeing each other.
- Tokiwa from Ask Dr. Rin! spends the first few episodes either trying to win Meirin over or Murder the Hypotenuse, even if said "winning her over" means trapping her in a potential And I Must Scream situation. This is subverted, once the demon who had been posessing him was exorcised. The actual Tokiwa is a very sweet, if a little doofy, Chick Magnet who Just Wants His Beloved To Be Happy.
- In Okane Ga Nai, you have Kanou and Ayase. Long story shot: Kanou is ridiculously jealous and possessive, and hates Ayase even having contact with anyone other than him. Considering that Ayase is adorably cute and has Even the Guys Want Him to an extreme that may eventually shift genres into sci-fi territory (no, seriously, he has been nearly been raped so many times that it's just not funny, and there has been Wild Mass Guessing that he will turn out to be some alien creature that secrets pheromones to everyone that crosses his path), and Ayase has the survival instinct of a newborn bunny rabbit in a six-lane interstate highway, you can almost forgive the guy for being so protective. However, Kanou has huge issues telling Ayase that he loves him, and so if anyone even hints that they show an interest in him, he shows his affection in ... er...other more painful ways.
- In Corsair, after discovering that Sesaam is alive and thinking Canale is going back to him Ayace goes into crazy jealous mode.
- Canale had just half-an-hour before rejected Sesaam because he realized he was in love with Ayace. Ouch. Wrong choice, Canale.
- In the manga Love Pistols, this is both Played for Laughs and played straight. Norririn acts like this in true Clingy Jealous Girl fashion whenever Kunimasa pays too much attention to anyone else, but he's never really serious about it, and he's in fact so uncertain about Kunimasa's feelings for him that when Kunimasa tries to play off their relationship like it doesn't mean anything to him, Norririn is incredibly hurt and breaks up with him. However, this trope is then played completely straight in Kunimasa who actually can't stand the thought of anyone else touching Norririn, and acts rather more violently if this occurs.
- Invoked by Kaoru in ...Virgin Love. The reason he shuns romantic relationships is his fear of becoming like his man-crazy mother. His prediction does come true, but Daigo is willing to accept the madly jealous side of him and convinces him to give their relationship a chance.
- Harry in Outlaw Star is very much this with additional stalker tendencies whenever he is around Melfina, and becomes irrational to the point of violence when she repeatedly rejects his advances and starts to spend a lot of time with Gene. Gene also acts like this around Melfina at times, though definitely not to the extent that Harry does.
- Kisshu from Tokyo Mew Mew towards Ichigo.
- In Happy Yarou Wedding, Todou has his moments when he thinks Yuuhi's cheating in any way.
- Rolan of Märchen Awakens Romance shows signs of this during the Ghost Chess arc when Alviss tells him that Phantom likes him better. Cue, the two start fighting.
- Let Dai: Dai. Ladies, Jaehee is off-limits. Seriously.
- Swordfish towards Sen in Under Grand Hotel.
- And Norman's in love with Swordfish but pretended to be in love with Sen so he could get closer to Swordfish. He tried to persuade Swordfish to kill Sen but that didn't work. So, on one occasion when there was a scuffle going on he tried to get Sen out of the way by stabbing him with a pencil but accidentally ends up stabbing his inmate Walter instead who was trying to protect Sen in the hope of getting protection from Swordfish. When he finds this out, Norman holds a knife to Walter's neck telling him, "If you don't want to die, don't butt in again Walter!"
- Also, Lain Brody. In the first few scenes we see him in 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.
- Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru: Luka is a mild version towards Yuki in both his male incarnation and female incarnation. He gets very noticeably pissed off and annoyed whenever he sees anyone touching or acting friendly with Yuki. He's also very protective of him.
- Q-Ta of Honey Hunt over Yura.
- Bokura Ga Ita: Yano has a hard time trusting Nanami completely, displaying jealousy and possessiveness, even to the point of physically abusing her.
- Ai No Kusabi has Riki's Unlucky Childhood Friend Riki. He is so in love with Riki, not only does he give him an unwanted penectomy to remove the pet ring that was on his penis upon being told that as long as Riki wears Iason's pet ring he'll never be free of him, but he also blows up a fortress to kill Iason, Riki's lover.
- Iason Mink himself is one of these, and like Guy, he becomes extremely obsessed with Riki. It's not touched upon in the OVA, but the novel and audio drama have scenes where Riki slept with a female pet and he was subsequently brutally tortured by Iason for "betraying" him.
- In the manga Desire Climax both Hina and Shoei demonstrate these tendencies towards Mio. Hina even more so, since on many occasions, despite his cute and angelic appearance, he has demonstrated a chilling cruel streak and a manipulative personality; he wants Mio and is apparently willing to use tricks, blackmail, lies, and outright attempted rape to separate her from Shoei. He has even gone so far as to trick a half-blind Shoei into thinking he was Mio so he could attempt to seduce him, later telling Mio that he didn't do that because he loves Shoei, rather he did it because he would be "willing to do anything if it means I could separate you from that guy". He himself proudly admits that he's crazy when Mio calls him out on his actions and attempts to seduce her. Thankfully, both he and Shoei mellow out eventually.
- Naoe from Mirage Of Blaze expresses tendencies of this sort towards Kagetora. He was prepared to kill Kagetora and himself so that Kagetora will "never belong to anyone else". He also murders the hypotenuse by raping Kagetora's lover and later on forcing Kagetora to possess her to save his life.
- Osanai from Paprika tries to strangle someone who tried to take Paprika away from him.
- Souma Saiki from Sakura Gari shows these traits towards Masataka, but later mellows out. However his possessiveness does go to horribly creepy levels before he lets go, involving raping Masataka and then blackmailing him to have sex with him. It's only after his suicide attempt, which was triggered by Masataka actually snapping on him due to his abuse, that he shows Masataka how much he really cares for him and their relationship stabilises.
- Sakurako Saiki, revealed to be a boy named Youya, is frighteningly possessive of his brother Souma, tortures every single servant boy/girl that Souma takes as a lover, and hates Masataka because he is the object of Souma's affections.
- Katsuragi is revealed to be really crazy for Souma as well, so much so that he rapes and tortures Masataka, ordering him to stay away from Souma and sticks his hand in boiling hot water. Katsuragi later holds Souma down and tells him "you belong to me" and attempts to strangle him when Souma starts talking about Masataka right before Souma manages to brilliantly fight him back. It's later revealed that he tried to help Souma kill his abusive stepmother (Sakurako's mom) when Souma was angry with her for her abuse. However, when Souma ultimately couldn't go through with it, Katsuragi grabbed Souma's hand (that held a knife) and made him slice his mother's wrists, and raped him that same night.
- Gilbert from Kaze to Ki no Uta. Make sure to befriend Auguste at your own risk. Auguste himself is an even worse offender towards Gilbert.
- And then there's how annoyed and angry Genkaku from Deadman Wonderland 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.
- Griffith from Berserk acted a lot like one of these towards Guts in the past. After Guts left the Hawks Griffith's life went to hell and he grew to hate Guts and obsess over Casca instead. The reveal that Guts and Casca were lovers would ultimately cause Griffith to snap.
- Fushigi Yuugi: Suboshi for Yui.
- Katou from Haru wo Daiteita can drift into this territory when Iwaki is concerned. And he tends to react badly if anyone hurts him.
- The yaoi manga Kawaii Akuma (and its sequel) has Naruse towards Akiyoshi.
- Kizuna: Ranmaru acts like this a bit about Enjouji, but it's nowhere near the serious extent to which Enjouji acts around Ranmaru. Apparently it's In the Blood because his half-brother Kai acts the same way around first Ranmaru, and then Masa.
- Then there's Jack, who will kill you if you sleep with Roy. He will take a sniper gun and put a bullet through your brain if you fuck his boyfriend.
- Marmalade Boy: Kei is maybe the worst among Miki's suitors in regards to this. In the anime, however, he does get better.
- In the anime, both of the Grant boys show traces of this: older brother Brian is one for Ginny, younger brother Michael is another for Miki. They mellow out later. Ironically, Michael's most direct rival for Miki isn't Yuu... but the Older and Wiser Kei.
- Karakuridouji Ultimo: Rune towards Yamato.
- Haou Airen: Hakuron. And in the end, Kaafai. Very ironically, he kills Hakuron, the one who drove over the edge.
- Reimei No Arcana: Caesar can get quite clingy and easily jealous when it comes to Nakaba. Also, Chapter 21 seemingly hints that Loki has feelings for Nakaba and is jealous of Caesar's relationship with her.
- Suzu of Peacemaker Kurogane towards Yoshida and later towards Tetsunosuke.
- Get Backers: Takuma Fudou over Ban. At one point he says to Ginji Ban's Heterosexual Life Partner "When you're around, Midou doesn't even notice me. Midou's eyes are not on me... because you're in the way!" and attempts to kill Ginji.
- Kazehaya of Kimi ni Todoke is this to Sawako, although as a minor and played completely sympathetic trait.
- Alois Trancy of Black Butler has tendencies of this sort towards Claude. Sebastian can be seen as this towards Ciel, once stating that "Young master is mine."
- Gendo towards Yui in Neon Genesis Evangelion. Also, in the Angelic Days manga, Kaworu is Shinji's childhood friend, and is severely possessive of the boy when Asuka or Rei get too close.
- In episode 17 of D.N.Angel Saehara acts like one of these for Mio Hio. And in episode 23 Kael acts like one for Freedert.
- In the manga Lilim Kiss, Souma, the one who previously released the titular succubus hated the fact Lilim did not drain him exclusively and went out to other guys during the night despite his attempts to force her to stay with him alone he ended up sealing her in a jealous rage. Upon learning she was released and didn't remember him and stayed with Takaya exclusively even though Takaya never threatened her, he steals the pendent and seals Lilim again so she will be his and his alone.
- Tamaki of Ouran High School Host Club can sometimes fall into this in regards to Haruhi. He's mostly harmless though and a lovable idiot.
- Kiniro No Corda: Yunoki shows mild signs of this early on when Hino is first getting close to Hihara; i.e., the minor chord and ominous background that occurs as he watches Hino and Hihara joke around. Fortunately, he shifts gears pretty quickly after he gets to know Hino better and Hihara displays genuine interest in her. He also shows subtle signs of this towards Hino, getting somewhat jealous when he heard she was hanging out with Tsukimori, Tsuchira, and Hihara in one chapter in the manga and later asking her privately if he can't have "fun" with her too. Also, Tsuchira for Hino.
- Touji of Peach Girl for Momo.
- Love Hina: Much like Naru's not a fan of girls hitting on Keitaro, Keitaro's not a fan of guys hitting on Naru either, although he mostly just angsts privately about it.
- Tomoe from Kamisama Kiss. He normally is a regular asshole to the heroine Nanami but should another man even look at her, much less talk to her, watch out.
- Generally funny - it's a Shojo after all - particularly since it's one of the first early hints to his true feelings.
- Mizuki also has quite a bit of jealousy towards Tomoe and he is often seen trying to get Nanami to hate Tomoe by telling her lies and half-truths about him. Also played for laughs usually.
- This is hinted at just once in Fullmetal Alchemist, when the Animated Armor serial killer Barry the Chopper attacks Riza Hawkeye. Because she shoots him instead of freaking out and screaming, he decides that he's in love with her. She puts in a call to her commanding officer, Roy Mustang, who arrives on the scene to witness Barry putting his arms around her waist. It's quite obvious that Riza is not happy with the situation, and Roy reacts by growling and putting on his ignition gloves, telling her to move out of the way so he can set Barry on fire for the impertinence. (This is the first hint in the story that the relationship between Roy and Riza isn't exactly platonic.)
- Saionji towards Anthy in Revolutionary Girl Utena.
- Nabari No Ou: Raikou looks mildly annoyed whenever Gau interacts with or talks about Yoite. It's almost like he's jealous. Both Raikou and Gau state at some point that they would do anything for each other. Gau is so devoted to Raikou that he's willing to kill himself to make Raikou happier. Raikou, for his part, is protective of Gau to the point that when a mook hurts Gau, Raikou goes completely berserk, kills him, and mutilates his dead body.
- Stepping On Roses: Nozomu. To insane proportions. He even goes so far as to go around with an ax "Here's Johnny" style trying to catch Sumi "cheating on him" As if he couldn't get any creepier, finding out that Sumi is his sister makes him even MORE obsessed with her.
- Kyo of Fruits Basket turns into a very mild version of this around every guy who has some sort of relationship with Tohru, whom he eventually marries.
- Date Masamune from Gate 7 is a Crazy Jealous Guy Played for Laughs. He's a Chaotic Good just because his "kitten" Hana is in the Urashichiken, he get lose in his own Imagine Spot of Hana when he should being kicking ass and since his subordinate's main job is scold him when he gets over the line, Hilarity Ensues. But he tries to Murder the Hypotenuse twice.
- Hana No Mizo Shiru: Kawabata acts very possessively towards Misaki, ostensibly out of jealousy. He apparently interrogates him about any acquaintances he makes at his university - and then he really doesn't like it when Misaki hooks up with Arikawa.
- In Air Gear the Agito side of Akito's personality is normally the rather Ax Crazy one but Akito is even shown to have a dark side of his own, becoming jealous to the point of scaring Kururu when she gets too close to Ikki.
- Arima of Kare Kano fights with these feelings in regards to his girlfriend Yukino.
- V.B. Rose: Fairly early into the story, we're told that Mitsuya hates being around Sekiguchi because they're somewhat alike. Much later, the truth comes out: Sekiguchi gave Mitsuya's love interest Tsuya a friendly kiss on the hand during their first meeting. Mitsuya's hated him ever since.
- In Detective Conan, for all of Ran's Tsundere and mild/-not-so-mild Clingy Jealous Girl traits, Conan/Shinichi himself can get very jealous whenever it seems that someone else might be interested in her. Considering that Conan is a Deadpan Snarker who can't exactly act on it due to having been shrunk to a kid's age, it's almost all Played for Laughs.
- In Hetalia, when Japan visits Greece's home and Turkey shows up all of a sudden, both Greece and Turkey turn into this towards Japan. Hilarity Ensues.
- China is a non-romantic male example with a side order of Meddling Parents, as he can be very clingy towards his younger siblings, treating them like children. Their reactions vary: Hong Kong and gets VERY pissy, Macau becomes passive-aggressive, Taiwan goes Tsundere...
Comics
- Moose of Archie Comics is notorious for beating guys to a pulp, or threatening to do so, for as much as asking his girlfriend Midge for the time. Of these guys, only Reggie has ever actually made a move on her. Always Played for Laughs. One 1970s story exaggerates this by having Moose angrily ask Midge why Big Ethel was talking to her. When Midge points out that Ethel's a girl, Moose says, "Duh, well she don't look like no girl I ever saw."
- Dirk in Luann (who just so happened to unexpectedly show up recently, ostensibly as their garbageman).
- Subverted in the ElfQuest story "Moonshade". Moonshade and Strongbow are lifemates, by the fandom sometimes labelled "the only remotely monogamous couple". In this story, Ahnshen falls in love with Moonshade. Strongbow gets pretty ticked off, to the point of tackling Ahnshen and taking him to task—for beating around the bush rather than getting to the point already.
Fan Fiction
- Death Note:
Light: I know I can win him back if he'll just visit me in person once. Rem: You sound like Misa.
- Duke Devlin in Decks Fall Everyone Dies, just like the Duke in the source material for the plot.
- Peter and Edmund Pevensie from Chronicles of Narnia are most of the time portrayed like this, Peter usually over Susan and Edmund almost always over Lucy.
- In Ace Of Spades, a Slash Fic which pairs the Joker and Harry Potter, the Joker becomes jealous of the time Harry spends with Bruce Wayne and of the attention Harry gives to stalking Jim Gordon and feels the need to "teach Harry a lesson".
- In an apparently Lost Forever Hetalia fic, Denmark was a total Crazy Jealous Guy over Norway. To the point that he has sex with him in front of Norway's brother Iceland to "teach" Iceland that Norway was his boyfriend.
- It's actually very common in Hetalia fic, and it's not limited to Denmark. I.e, the already unstable Russia is very frequently tuned into this over either America or Lithuania, to the point of abusing and/or raping them. On the other hand, England also becomes this very often: the infamous fic The Chosen End twisted England into a CJG to make him "less worthy" of America's affections, while compared to a leather-pantsed Russia. (And this doesn't count a Revenge Fic by the same author, in which England is a crazy Yandere who abuses a spineless America.) America himself isn't free of this either, even in arts/fics/etc. that make him the chosen love interest; depending on the fanwork, he can go from silently and passive-aggressively watching (insert: England, Russia, etc.) interact with other nations while stewing in his own jealousy, to pretty much tackling the nation he loves and dubcon/noncon ravishing him/her after seeing him with others.
- In regards to the Nyotalia boys, male!Belarus is made into this over female!Russia since the original Belarus is already a Clingy Jealous Girl to the original Russia. His behavior tends to be different, tho: while Belarus tends to be openly clingy and obsessive over her brother in canon, male!Belarus is portrayed as being overprotective and insanely passive-aggressive over his sister.
- Angel, in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Magnetism, is a non-romantic version of this. He doesn't like how Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are physically close all the time, and does everything he can to get rid of Dash, culminating in him catapulting her into the Everfree Forest, which then causes the bracelets to activate, meaning Fluttershy unwittingly joins her. After this incident, though he still hates Rainbow Dash, he tones it down somewhat.
- Kakashi is like this to Naruto in First Try Series:Team 7 which clearly weirds out Naruto as he mixes it with a Yandere's obsessiveness since he feels entitled to train Naruto and be his Parental Substitute. Jiraiya calls him out saying he can't force Naruto to see him as one and he frankly needs to chill out.
Films — Animation
- Gaston of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. His Villainous Breakdown begins when he realizes Belle is in love with the Beast, sending him downward into full-on murderous Yandere mode.
- Hal Stewart in Megamind, who goes crazy after Roxanne Ritchi rejects him for "intellectual dweeb" Bernard, who is actually Megamind himself in disguise.
Films — Live Action
Literature
- Sweet Valley High Elizabeth's boyfriend Todd reacts very badly to anyone he perceives as a rival for her affections. So much so that the fan site 1bruce1 nicknamed him Todd Punch Wilkens. Enid's boyfriend Ronnie Edwards was also like this.
- Jimi Deed (based on Tommy Lee) from the Pamela Anderson semi-autobiographical Starstruck.
- Erik from The Phantom of the Opera.
- A Song of Ice and Fire but in the case of Catelyn Stark's Unlucky Childhood Friend, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, he reaches disturbingly Yandere levels of jealously i.e: kicking off a continent-wide civil war just because he couldn't have her for himself. Later on, he seems to be desperately trying to make his Replacement Goldfish, Catelyn's daughter, Sansa Stark solely dependent on him, and view him as the only man worthy of her.
- Both Gilbert Markham and Arthur Huntingdon in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — the former takes his rage out on his perceived rival, the latter on his wife.
- Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights.
- Dom Casmurro: The main character, a lawyer named Bentinho, seems to be truly crazy and obsessed with the thought of his wife cheating him with his best friend. However, since he's also the narrator, it's not clear if it was true or just pure madness.
- In The Alien Series, this is Kitty's type, although she's not sure if she's attracted to them or they're attracted to her.
- Martini gets upset when Kitty spends time alone with other men and tries to make her change her ringtone, "My Best Friend", for her male best friend.
- Kitty's ex-boyfriend Brian was so clingy and demanding that she dumped him for it. Ten years later, he's still not over her.
- "Hollyoaks" has Brendan Brendan for his on-again, off-again boyfriend Ste Hay.
- There was a Fear Street miniseries based around a girl with an insanely jealous boyfriend who murdered several people for getting too close to her, including guys he spotted on dates with his girlfriend's roommates who had borrowed her clothes. It's eventually revealed that the girl has multiple personalities and her "boyfriend" as well as her roommates are all her own alter-egos.
- Shadow Of The Templar: Simon, in Chapter 10.5 of Double Down, takes out his jealousy of Jeremy's ex-boyfriend on Jeremy.
- We takes place in a Free-Love Future where everyone belongs to everyone else (as long as they have a pink sex ticket for that day). Thus, the protagonist is deeply ashamed and disturbed at how angry the thought of a woman he's met sleeping with other men makes him — how unnatural and illogical of him!
- In Poul Anderson's "Holmgang", Johnny is shot to death by a man in a bar over a girl. Later turns out to be a ploy to eliminate him, and so open up a slot on the ship for the killer, who needs to return to Earth.
Live Action TV
Music
- Run For Your Life by The Beatles.
- As well as John Lennon's later composition "Jealous Guy".
- Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix.
- Eminem has several songs about this trope. Most infamously, his controversial murder ballad "Kim", but also "Crazy In Love", "Love You More" and "Love the Way You Lie"
- "King Kong" by Ben Weiner. Youtube link.
- "Next Contestant" by Nickelback.
- Insane Clown Posse discuss the consequences of this trope in their recent song: "Over A Bitch".
- The Shania Twain song Don't Be Stupid is about the plight of a woman very much in love with her crazy jealous boyfriend who interrogates her for making phone calls, talking to other men, or even painting her nails.
- "Got Jealous" by Hurt. The jealous guy in question decides to Murder the Hypotenuse.
- "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" was the baddest man in the whole damn town, until he hit on a girl named Doris, and her jealous husband proved to be a bit badder than him.
- Two Silhouettes on the Shade
Theater
Video Games
- BlazBlue has Jin Kisaragi for his brother Ragna. And Jin's not-quite-girlfriend Tsubaki is a Clingy Jealous Girl for him.
- If Persona 3 Portable's Female Protagonist forms a romantic relationship with Akihiko Sanada, he shows some shades of this. It's mostly played for laughs and mostly directed at Ken Amada, who is surprisingly capable of holding his own against it.
- In NieR supplemental material, it turns out that Jakob is actually kind of a possessive jerk about his brother. After their mom left and Gideon still worried about her, he told Gideon that robots tore their father to shreds and boarded up the windows so Gideon could only leave one way. He even thought about breaking his legs to keep him there.
- Fenrich from Disgaea 4 tends to get violently possessive of Valvatorez, with his behavior ranging from casual death threats to people he thinks are getting too close for comfort to at least one attempt of trying to carry out said death threats.
- Captain Robert Norton of Dead Space 3 is this regarding Ellie Langford. As the game wears on he gets more and more suspicious of Isaac Clarke, assuming he's trying to "steal" Ellie and blaming him for the various things that go wrong with the mission. Norton goes so far as to betray Isaac to the Unitologists. Even after Isaac saves his ass from Danik, and later the rampaging Nexus Necromorph, Norton attacks him, forcing Isaac to kill him in self-defense.
- Albedo from Xenosaga, when he was a child and sometimes even as an adult, was this towards his older brother Jr./Rubedo.
- Sie Kensou from The King of Fighters, as Athena's Dogged Nice Guy. At first it was limited to manga adaptations like KOF: KYO and KOF G (which played this almost completely for laughs and Butt Monkey effects), but in XIII he gets pissed if he's in a Mirror Match and he thinks his "double" is disguising himself as him to "steal" Athena. Thankfully, he doesn't let this go to the extreme.
Visual Novels
- Hisao from Katawa Shoujo isn't normally this, but develop slight tendences if you pursue Emi Ibarazaki's route. He's more passive-aggressive than outwardly aggressive, though, and he snaps fast out of it: he suspects that she's getting close to the track team captain... but it turns out they're sort-of Platonic Life Partners instead, as said captain is gay. Emi has a good laugh at Hisao's expense when she finds out.
Web Comics
- In Sinfest, Uncle Sam is frequently characterized like this, being paranoid about Lady Liberty cheating on him and/or sending the FBI to spy on her.
- Diego from Gunnerkrigg Court towards Jeanne. It's heavily implied that he sent Jeanne on a mission he knew would result in her death when he realized that she would never love him like she loved her forest-bound boyfriend.
- Deimos to Cain, and evidently Cain to Abel in the web comic Starfighter.
- Sergio from This Is The Worst Idea Youve Ever Had is this turned up to 11. While Nicole finds him charming and mysterious, her friends are immediately wary of him due to how rude and dismissive he is of them, and they had a good reason to be worried: it's revealed that he's a vampire who had a habit of becoming obsessed with a girl, turning her into a vampire so they can be "together forever" before eventually losing interest in her and moving on to another victim - and he intends to do this to Nicole, whether she wants it or not.
- Jung from Cheese In The Trap is this towards Sul. After each time he's angry at her for going on a blind date or spending time with a male friend, he apologizes and says he was just being childish, but his behaviour to the fake grandson and to Yoon Seop proves just how scary he can be if anyone puts Sul or his relationship with her in danger.
- Ace from Commander Kitty spends a long period in a slump after being ousted by Mittens. But a bit of Innocent Innuendo is all it takes to snap him out of it and turn him into this.
Web Original
Western Animation
Real Life
- Jake La Motta, whose obsessive jealousy of his wife was made into the film Raging Bull.
- A famous example is Burt Pugagh who upon discovering his ex was engaged to another man, paid thugs to throw lye in her face, permanently blinding her (amazingly, she ended up marrying him).
- Pamela Anderson has claimed Tommy Lee could sometimes be like this.
- Jenna Jameson writes in her autobiography of having a very possessive boyfriend.
- Despite being constantly unfaithful to her, OJ Simpson was very jealous of other men showing interest in his wife Nicole both when they were married and after they divorced.
- John Sweeney, the boyfriend of actress Dominique Dunne, was very jealous, especially over actors with whom she did love scenes. She ended the relationship due to his abuse and possessiveness, and was tragically killed by him. He was jailed for 6 1/2 years for manslaughter in 1983. The case provoked considerable controversy due to the perceived leniency of the sentence.
- Raoul Moat. After getting out of prison his ex told him that she was in a relationship with a police officer (she was actually lying in an attempt to get him to leave her alone). He responded by posting threats to police and others on his Facebook profile and making further detailed threats in two subsequent letters and several phone calls to police stating he would continue to shoot police officers until he was dead. He then shot his ex and her new boyfriend (killing him and seriously injuring her), killed several other innocent bystanders and blinded a policeman. He later committed suicide after a stand off with police.
- Nikki Sixx wrote in the Motley Crue autobiography The Dirt that he planned to shoot his wife's lover in the testicles but realized he would ruin his own life by doing so and he wrote in his own memoir The Heroin Diaries that he planned on getting some bikers to break the legs of the actor Jack Wagner because he thought he had sex with his girlfriend while Motley Crue were touring.
- Eminem was put on probation for assaulting the man he claimed he saw kissing his wife Kim.
- Richard Pryor admitted being like this when in a state of drug-fuelled paranoia
- Marilyn Manson wrote in his autobiography of witnessing his father behave like this towards his mother.
- Randy Savage was this both in and out of the ring towards his then valet/wife Miss Elizabeth. There were several instances of Savage locking her in the dressing room whenever he left the room, along with the infamous rumor of him giving Hulk Hogan a black eye after she left Savage and moved in temporarily with the Hogans.
- There are many, many murders committed by real life Crazy Jealous Guys. A lot of Domestic Abusers also fit this trope.
- A possible result of having Separation Anxiety in some cases.
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