People who are Not Good with Rejection in Literature.
- Ai no Kusabi: Iason and Guy really took it to extremes since they are both Yandere for Riki. Robby, Kirie, and Miguel The Paradita didn't handle rejection by Riki well either.
- Bakemonogatari:
- Hitagi Senjougahara makes it clear that she won't tolerate her boyfriend Koyomi Araragi showing interest in any other woman. At one point, she nearly stabs him in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific. And only stops once he screams, "Stop it! There's nothing guilty about it! I didn't mean it like I knew her well! I'm only devoted to you, Senjougahara!"
- Suruga doesn't like that Hitagi is dating Koyomi as she has a crush on Hitagi herself. So she basically stalks Koyomi and tries to beat him to death twice.
- Nadeko is this as well. At the temple near the end of Nadeko Medusa she decides that since Koyomi will probably keep getting girlfriends, she might as well stab him to death now rather than experience the grief of having him taken away from her over and over.
- In Best Served Cold, Caul Shivers risks his life to save Monzcarro's many times, even being permanently disfigured on her behalf. After the last such attempt, she has a tryst with the Grand Duke Rogont...and Shivers decides that he's now ready to kill the woman he's saved half a dozen times.
- Book Girl: Miu. Well, the first time. She was so sad and angry with Konoha for not telling her about him writing the book (thus feeling that he was distancing himself away from her and being as Yandere as she is) that she decided to kill herself right in front of him so that he'd regret and suffer his entire life.
- Lydia in Peter Moore's Caught In The Act towards Ethan. She gets Ethan to say he'll "stay forever" and orders him to tell her that he loves her. When he eventually tries to break up with her, she accuses Ethan of stalking her and ultimately tries to kill him using the guise of a play to stab him.
- A Court of Thorns and Roses: Amarantha cursed Tamlin and his entire court because he rejected her advances...nearly fifty years ago.
- In Ellen Hopkins book Crank, Kristina hooks up with Brendan who drives them both out into the woods, where they get high together, and he starts to take off her clothes. When she says no, he becomes violent, claiming that he has "waited weeks", so she should "put up and shut up". He then starts ripping her clothes off and rapes her.
- The Dagger and the Coin: Geder is not good with rejection. How not good? He sends an army to invade Birancour because Cithrin, who rejected him, is living there, to capture her and bring her back in chains.
- In Evan Roskos' book Dr. Bird's Advice For Sad Poets, after Derek breaks off his fling with Sally she throws a tantrum, vandalizes his front lawn, throws homophobic slurs at James, and threatens to get her fiancé involved.
- Dragon Bones: Bastilla really doesn't react well to Ward rejecting her. She tries to kill him - and that even though he's really nice and respectful about it.
- Durarara!!:
- Haruna Niekawa. Professor Nasujima at Mikado's school clearly has a thing for Anri, which naturally Squicks the hell out of her. The same guy is also dating Haruna Niekawa (one of his former students). Or was. Haruna doesn't like that he's changed his preferences, so she gave Anri a visit and tried to kill her...
- Professor Nasujima himself seems to have shades of this. When Anri makes it increasingly clear one night that she's not having any of his advances towards her he menacingly backs her into a wall, appears to lose it from the look on his face, and attempts to stalk after her.
- There's also Namie Yagiri and Mika Harima towards Seiji. They're so yandere that they're willing to get rid of Celty's head (with Mika being so far gone as to want to eat the head's blood which Seiji is yandere for) if it means they can have Seiji for themselves.
- Though Mika actually out-yanderes Namie, as when Seiji smashes her face when she takes a glimpse of Celty's head, Mika gets plastic surgery to fix her grievous injuries... and also makes herself look exactly like Celty with her head on.
- The healthiest relationship in the series is probably the relationship between a back-alley surgeon (Shinra) and a headless female (Celty), where the former outright says that he dissembled about the location of the latter's head because he never wanted her to leave him. Actually, that's the part where their relationship improves.
- In Lisa Scottoline's book Every Fifteen Minutes:
- Kristine makes flirtatious advances towards Eric who rejects her. In response, she files a sexual harassment claim against him. Subverted in that she later makes peace with him.
- Laurie, however, is revealed to be a sociopath who manipulates and sleeps with Sam in a grand scheme that results in people dying because she's angry that Eric chose Caitlin over her. She also threatens to Blackmail Eric while brandishing scissors. When Eric finds out about her ruse and she realizes she can't have him she grabs scissors and deliberately cuts herself with him. In her mad delusion, she informs him that she's going to tell the cops who are on their way that Eric tried to date rape her after she drank too much. She says she'll tell them that when she resisted his attempts to rape her, he grabbed the scissors and held them to her throat. She then says she got the scissors from him and tried to run but Eric tackled her before ripping her shirt open. She says she had to kill him because it was self-defense. She then makes good on her lie by advancing on him while simultaneously ripping her shirt open and attempting to stab him with them but he manages to stop her.
- J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin: Maeglin grows bitter and resentful after being rejected by Idril (on grounds of him being her incredibly creepy cousin) and seeing her happily married to someone else. Hence, Maeglin betrays the location of the hidden city to Morgoth in hopes of taking the chaos of the battle to kidnap Idril and murder her family.
- The Familiar of Zero: Louise and Kirche for Saito initially would resort to beating him up partly due to him not picking which one of them he liked better over the other. Also, when Saito's interest in her wavered Siesta would seduce Saito knowing that Louise would beat him up presumably so she could take care of him afterwards.
- Fire & Blood: According to one account, Criston Cole asked Princess Rhaenyra to run away with him, and she turned him down because she didn't want to be the wife of a sellsword, while alternative versions say Cole rejected Rhaenyra. Either way, Cole immediately turned against Rhaenyra forever, supporting her half-brother in trying to usurp her claim to the throne.
- Both Christian Grey and Ana Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey. Grey breaks into her duplex and rapes her into submission when he receives a rejection email; when Grey refuses to kiss Ana, this is her response:Once underneath the dark, cold concrete of the garage with its bleak fluorescent light, I lean against the wall and put my head in my hands. What was I thinking? Unbidden and unwelcome tears pool in my eyes. Why am I crying? I sink to the ground, angry at myself for this senseless reaction. Drawing up my knees, I fold in on myself. I want to make myself as small as possible. Perhaps this nonsensical pain will be smaller the smaller I am.
- The Garden of Sinners:
- Lio, who lusts after Shiki, acts quite Ax-Crazy (well crazier than usual) when Shiki tells him she's not interested in him. He screams at her "That's a lie, that's a lie, that's a lie, that's a lie!" and attacks her telling her he might consider murdering the hypotenuse so he can win her love.
- He's also like this to Mikiya, in which he is implied to lose it and murder a lot of people to cope when he rejects him.
- In The Goblin Emperor, nobleman Eshevis Tethimar is revealed to have molested a fifteen-year-old boy. When the boy rejected him with the force that his molestation warranted, he asked his friends to help him hunt down and kill the boy. Fortunately, he did not succeed that time. Other victims are not mentioned, but were likely not as lucky.
- Gone Girl:
- Amy wants to get her revenge on husband Nick for cheating and not paying enough attention to her by framing him. When she comes back after Nick promises to be a better husband, she threatens to do terrible things to him again if he tries to leave her.
- Desi was rejected by Amy back in college and has since stalked her and tried to keep her isolated in his cabin to keep her safe against her wishes.
- Good Luck! Ninomiya-kun: Inner Reika (who's Yandere for Shungo) tries to rape Shungo to help get her feelings across, is willing to pull a Murder the Hypotenuse on Mayu her rival for Shungo's love, and completely loses it in the last episode upon seeing him try to kiss Mayu, screaming at her subordinate Hosaka to kill Shungo. She gets over it though.
- Harry Potter:
- After being rejected by Harry when he offers him friendship, Draco spends their first year trying to thwart Harry, and apparently complained about him through the entire summer break, and in their second year he's so busy teasing Harry that he completely misses the Snitch and loses his first game. Moreover, he's always doing things to get his attention in the Great Hall, even though the Slytherin and Gryffindor tables are on opposite sides and have the two other houses between them. Apparently, Draco has been frustrated for over seven years, because he teased and bullied Harry at every opportunity he got, since their first encounter. He was so deranged by Harry's refusal, that he became his greatest rival.
- When Bloody Baron was alive, he found the woman he loved (whom Rowena Ravenclaw tasked him to bring back to her after leaving her). He killed the woman in a fit of rage after she rejected him, and then killed himself after realizing what he had done. Both of them returned as ghosts and have remained in Hogwarts since then.
- In Death series: Indulgence In Death has a guy who killed a girl he was interested in a drunken fit of rage because she was not interested in him.
- May Alcott's The Inheritance: Lord Arlington tries to seduce Edith many times but each time she rejects him. The final time she rejects him he reacts very angrily and it's implied that he means to rape her but Lord Percy shows up and Arlington departs.
- Kyo Kara Maoh!:
- Wolfram goes Crazy Jealous Guy when Yuuri hints he might break off their engagement, when Yuuri shows annoyance towards his displays of affections, and at one point threatens to kill Yuuri so that he'd his forever. Luckily when Yuuri falls down a staircase Wolfram forgets about that course of action.
- When Wolfram tries to break the engagement the two have in order to protect Yuuri from the other demons that looked down on their relationship, Yuuri doesn't take it that well and he declares to Wolfram that he's not allowed to break the engagement. Yuuri's character development shines here as he would repeatedly complain about being engaged to a guy in the past.
- Mirage of Blaze: Naoe towards Kagetora. When Kagetora repeatedly tries to refuse Naoe he gets fed up leading to him handling him quite forcefully and attempting to rape him.
- In Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! Mahiro's mother Yoriko says that Mahiro and Nyarko should start their relationship slow and be friends first; Nyarko, mistakenly thinking she's been friend-zoned, has the Giving Up the Ghost reaction.
- In Oreimo when Kyousuke rejects Ayase's love in episode 12 of season 2, she claims while teary-eyed she'll kill him if he doesn't go with her.
- Erik in The Phantom of the Opera. He tries to forcibly make her his and almost murders her love interest. He eventually takes the I Want My Beloved to Be Happy route.
- Sybill Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray, who takes a fatal dose of poison right after Dorian cruelly dumps her.
- The Princess Bride: When Buttercup gives Prince Humperdink "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he throws her into her room. Then he races down to where her true love Wesley is being tortured, and sets the torture device on maximum, killing him. Clearly, the Prince did not take to being rejected by Buttercup well.
- The Rising of the Shield Hero: Motoyasu refused to choose one of his female friends over the other. Both girls responded by stabbing him to death while arguing over who would go to heaven with him.
- A Song of Ice and Fire:
- Daenerys Targaryen constantly rejects the advances of her loyal advisor, Ser Jorah Mormont, leading to his eventual banishment.
- Jaime and Cersei Lannister's previously strong relationship begins to disintegrate for a variety of reasons, but it really seems to kick off when Jaime rejects Cersei when she comes to him for sex.
- Littlefinger obviously didn't take Cat accepting her husband by arranged marriage over him well at all. He ends up starting a gruesome civil war, starting with said husband because of it.
- The Sorrows of Young Werther is about an emotional young man named Werther who falls madly in love with a young woman named Lotte, who is engaged to someone else. Werther gradually becomes more emotional and less mentally stable as a result of the rejection and ultimately kills himself.
- Harold in The Stand once Frannie picks Stu.
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess, beginning when Angel initially rejects her and she offers to kill herself, among other things, if it restores his good name.
- Nish from The Three Worlds Cycle books by Ian Irvine is eventually this for Tiaan after she rejects him numerous times.
- The Twilight Saga:
- Werewolf pack leader Sam snaps when his imprintee Emily keeps rejecting his advances. She makes it clear that she isn't interested and sends him back to his old fiancée, Leah (her cousin). However, because San imprinted on her and is thus forced to love her even against his will, he keeps pushing her. Finally, Emily calls him out on being just like his father (who left his family), unknowingly pressing Sam’s Berserk Button. Thanks to a mix of frustration over her rejection and his daddy issues, he attacks her in his wolf form, scarring her for life. And then they lived happily ever after! (...No, seriously — she just found out he was imprinted on her and decided she would just go along with it.)
- It's also hinted that Edward, due to how controlling he is over Bella, would not take it well if she ever rejected him or left him.
- Bella herself effectively went catatonic when Edward broke up with her. The infamous blank pages showed that well enough. She proceeded to spend most of the book finding various self-destructive ways to hallucinate Edward's voice.
- Jacob threatens to kill himself when Bella pays more attention to Edward, but Edward says it's just a ploy to get Bella to kiss him.
- Warrior Cats:
- Raggedstar. When Yellowfang (the she-cat he loved) decides to be a medicine cat - meaning she can't have a mate - he gets angry and refuses to talk with her, and it causes him to demean and insult her a lot.
- Ashfur. He reacts to rejection by deciding that Squirrelflight needs to feel as much pain as he had. He tries to set up her father's death, framing her current mate as a murderer in the process. When that fails, he decides to try killing her kits in front of her. Years later, after his death, he discovers how to possess her mate's body, and when that fails, drags her physically into Hell and still is completely baffled as to why she still doesn't want him after he's done so much to try to win her over.
- Welcome to the NHK: Misaki somehow knows an awful lot about Satou, and she is very obsessed with making sure that he always attends her counseling every night. After he rejects her romantic advances, she attempts suicide.
- The Wheel of Time:
- Rahvin, who uses mind control to force women into having sex with him, since he can't handle rejection.
- Selene. Also known as Lanfear, Mierin Eronaile, Cyndane, or the Daughter of the Night. She wants Rand al'Thor very badly, has no tolerance for any woman who so much as touches him, and gets very put out if he refuses her. It doesn't help that she is an extraordinarily powerful channeler and quite often kills underlings in the midst of her murderous rages.
