History Main / GreenEyedMonster

* In ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'', this really seems to be Satan's preeminent sin. At least OncePerEpisode, to the point of {{Catchphrase}}, the Professor alleges that Satan hates and corrupts various aspects of human life because "You're just jealous." This accusation is born out by the fact that Satan is clearly very self-loathing. Also interesting is that while Satan's Fall was mostly God just being a dick, it's indicated that he wanted to be top Angel and was jealous of any others being put above him. Finally, we're told (since it's a radio show) that Satan has green eyes.

-->-- "[[Characters/SupermanJimmyOlsen Jimmy Olsen]]'s Blues" by the Spin Doctors

* Wrestling/JillianHall used to have a friendly rivalry with 2005 Diva Search winner Wrestling/AshleyMassaro, until Ashley posed for Playboy and got a lot of attention, including a spot in a Timbaland music video. As an aspiring singer, Jillian was also envious of Lillian Garcia getting to sing the national anthem and having a more notable music career (or so WWE would have you believe. Jillian's album actually made more money than Lillian's) (ironically, jealousy caused Brandi Wine to try and kill her career back when Jillian was a rookie)

* A joke often made about soldiers manning AntiAir defenses is that they were all recruited from Air Force rejects.
-->"Why should ''they''' get to fly!?!"

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': Monika acts attracted towards the PlayerCharacter even though she's not a romanceable character, so whatever the player chooses, she's going to be left looking from the sidelines while the player character is with someone else. She seems to take this with grace at first (in spite of having literally green eyes and all). However, it's affecting her way worse than she lets on, and she ends up hurting her friends in an effort to get them out of her way. [[spoiler: It's not even mainly about romantic attraction -- though she's in love with the player, it's more that she's GoneMadFromTheRevelation about the [[SurpriseCreepy horror]] behind the game's cutesy world, and she sees the player as her only chance of escaping it.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': Strahd von Zarovich desired his brother Sergei's wife, Tatyana, but she spurned him for his age and his cruelty. Strahd ended up killing Sergei as part of a bargain with the Dark Powers for immortality (in the form of vampirism) and eternal youth, but Tatyana fled from him for fairly obvious reasons and threw herself from the castle walls.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', South does not receive an A.I. while her twin brother North does. She does not take it well.

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': Monika is one. [[spoiler:A ''major'' part of the reason Monika was driven to mess with and delete her friends is that she is [[{{Meta}} self-aware]] and is jealous that she didn't get a route.]] Fittingly, her eyes are an emerald green.

** In Chapter 2, Madison notices that Tara and Morgan seem to be a couple, and gets jealous. It's not that she wants to be with either one of them- Madison's experiment with a relationship with Tara didn't work out and she doesn't like Morgan at this point in the story- she's mainly jealous that they got into a relationship while she hasn't had much luck with love. She gets over this as she gets closer to Abigail, and sees how much Tara and Morgan love each other.

* Wrestling/AdamCole's antagonism of Kyle O'Reilly in Wrestling/RingOfHonor is a nasty combination of envy and jealously. When Future Shock started teaming together, Cole resented the fact O'Reilly was more popular with crowds and critics but was able to take solace in the fact he had a much more successful singles career than O'Reilly, winning both the Television and World Titles while O'Reilly's team with Bobby Fish, reDRagon, proved to be much more successful than Future Shock had ever been. These frustrations eventually came to a head in 2015 when Future Shock came back together but still proved to be inferior to reDRagon. Then O'Reilly began pursuing a singles career, in particular coming dangerously close to unseating World Champion Wrestling/JayLethal, something Cole would repeatedly interfere with, to ensure he could keep his bragging rights as the more successful singles wrestler.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' character Havesh likes killing men and raping their wives just because they were lucky enough to be born into a [[FantasticCasteSystem caste]].
* Strahd von Zarovich of ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' might be the most iconic example of this in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. He desired his brother Sergei's wife, Tatyana, but she spurned him for his age and his cruelty. Strahd ended up killing Sergei as part of a bargain with the Dark Powers for immortality (in the form of vampirism) and eternal youth, but Tatyana fled from him for fairly obvious reasons and threw herself from the castle walls.

He's the one who got lucky, got his cape around Miss ComicBook/LoisLane\\

I'm competing with the [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Man of Steel]]."''
-->-- "ComicBook/JimmyOlsen's Blues" by the Spin Doctors

* The page pic and caption about the Green-Eyed Monster come from Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'', also the TropeNamer. The tragedy of the play comes about because of misplaced jealousy on the part of the title character because of a horrible lie about his wife Desdemona told by [[ManipulativeBastard Iago]], who many say was himself motivated by envy toward Cassio, who Othello promoted instead of him.
** Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice, written before ''Othello'', has Portia reference "green-eyed jealousy".
** Shakespeare was fond of this one. Envy is the primary motivation driving many of his characters, including Claudio in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'', Ford in ''Theatre/TheMerryWivesOfWindsor'', and Leontes in ''Theatre/TheWintersTale''.
** In ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', Titania accuses Oberon of this, and Helena's got it, in spades.

* In ''[[Pinball/WHODunnit WHO dunnit]]'', Trixie sees Victoria as a threat to her (one-sided) relationship with Tony.

* The topic of ''Circe Invidiosa'' (which literally means "Jealous Circe") by Creator/JohnWilliamWaterhouse. It depicts the moment in ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses'' where Circe, jealous of Glaucus's love for Scylla, poisons the water Scylla lives in and turns her into a monster.

One of MarySue's more noticeable traits is that many characters do not suffer from the Green-Eyed Monster about her, regardless of how plausible it is that they would not envy her gifts or be jealous of her romantic success. Either that or the MarySue (especially the of SympatheticSue kind) will suffer horrific, mean-spirited attacks inspired by the Green-Eyed Monster, especially if it's from [[DieForOurShip the character who poses the biggest threat to her and her beau's True Love]].

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This is the motivation behind the bad kind of DeadPersonImpersonation. A character may attempt to exploit this with OperationJealousy. See also YoureJustJealous. FeetOfClay or ShroudedInMyth may prove that the envy was unmerited — often to the glee of the envious. On the other hand, a story about the LonelyRichKid or some other SourGrapesTropes may demonstrate that the envy is wrong because the envied person really suffers more than the person doing the envy (and not because it's wrong to hate people for what they have).

Romantically, may stem from being LoveHungry and lead to a desire to MurderTheHypotenuse — or be sacrificed because IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. Occasionally, it can actually overcome CannotSpitItOut — OperationJealousy may overtly attempt to engineer this — or [[GreenEyedEpiphany lead to]] a LoveEpiphany. A man driven by it [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe will often unreasonably doubt whether a child really is his]].

* The ''hashihime'', sometimes translated as "bridge princess", is a figure from Noh theater who either committed suicide or openly cursed her cheating husband, and was turned into a bridge-haunting spirit.
* In [[Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart Mozart's]] {{opera}} ''Theatre/DonGiovanni'', Masetto spends most of his time borderline violently jealous toward Don Giovanni. To be fair, Giovanni is TheCasanova and is openly trying to seduce Masetto's bride on their wedding day; what man wouldn't be jealous?
* In the ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play there's an implication in ''Gilded Cages'' that Elizabeth envies Victoria, both for her advantages in life (for which the girl has no appreciation) and the devoted attentions of Captain Hawking (in which she had no interest).
* In ''{{Theatre/Lizzie}}'', the title character is being raped by her father, but later starts a relationship with the neighbor, Alice. Soon after, Lizzie's father kills the birds in the barn, which were one of Lizzie's few sources of joy and comfort. It's heavily implied this action was spurred on because he knows (or at least suspects) that Lizzie's involved with Alice and is jealous. (Bear in mind, the barn where the birds lived is ''also'' where Lizzie meets with Alice in secret.)

* Miou in ''VisualNovel/AProfile'' is extremely jealous of Masayuki's stepsister Rizu after Masayuki broke up with her to repair his relationship with said sister. How she reacts varies by route, but the story goes out of its way to show that she does have a point due to the circumstances involved.

* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'': Sekai and Kotonoha. VERY jealous of each other because they both like Makoto. To make matters even worse, [[PsychoticLoveTriangle both girls]] are {{Yandere}}. The most infamous endings (as well as the one for the anime adaptation) have things ending very, ''very'' badly as a result. [[spoiler: It is, however, possible for them to set aside their jealousy and agree to [[{{Polyamory}} both date him]].]]
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' features [[MeaningfulName Leviathan]], the second of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Stakes of Purgatory]]. She's a whiny crybaby who envied her sisters for seven days. However, not even her envy is a match for [[spoiler:Kyrie(Rudolf's mistress and second wife)]] who envied [[spoiler:Asumu(Rudolf's late first wife)]] for ''eighteen years'', especially after [[spoiler:Kyrie's first child was stillborn while Asumu gave birth to Battler(or so Kyrie thinks)]]. Leviathan develops [[LesYay a bit of a crush]] on her after that.
* Wildfire of ''VisualNovel/War13thDay'' tries to make Arsenik become this by going out with someone else. [[spoiler:However, since he has the hots for Ambrosia, Wildfire ends up being so jealous herself that she wants to MurderTheHypotenuse.]]

* ''VisualNovel/GrisaiaSeries'': It's mostly played for comedy throughout the series, but no matter which heroine the protagonist ends up with, it leaves the rest of the girls with a somewhat bitter pill to swallow. It is most prominent in the after stories of ''VisualNovel/TheLabyrinthOfGrisaia'', and mostly takes the form of some (not so) well-intended teasing.

* In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', everything that [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] did was because they could not accept the possibility that Phoenix Wright could be a better defense attorney than them.
* ''VisualNovel/HeartOfTheWoods''
** In the "Sacrifice" ending, Tara gets jealous of her best friend Madison and Madison's new girlfriend Abigail, but not out of romantic jealousy- Tara and Madison had dated for a few weeks but concluded it was a mistake. Instead, Tara is jealous about how [[spoiler:Madison and Abigail get to be together while Morgan, the girl Tara loves, died of a HeroicSacrifice in the climax]]. Tara realizes that this is no way for a friend to act and feels rather guilty, while Abigail reassures Madison that Tara doesn't hate her and Madison holds out hope that one day, their friendship will fully recover.
** In Chapter 2, Madison notices that Tara and Morgan seem to be a couple, and gets jealous. It's not that she wants to be with either one of them- Madison's experiment with a relationship with Tara didn't work out and she doesn't like Morgan at this point in the story- she's mainly jealous that they got into a relationship while she hasn't had much luck with love. She gets over this as she gets closer to Abigail, and sees how much Tara and Morgan love each other.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Duck isn't very fond of Perry, because he thinks Snake is trying to use him as a "replacement".
* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Kaila envied Keela for taking her place as the Master of the Dammed's [[TheDragon Dragon.]] This, combined with the fact that Keela only did that so she could ''kill'' the Master of the Dammed, made Kaila ''despise'' her.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Damaged}}'': TJ is jealous of Dillon, the [[BigManOnCampus Big Robot On Campus]] that everybody but him loves because he [[DoAnythingRobot has a wide assortment of gadgets]] that he uses to help his fellow classmates. [[AbortedArc It only lasts for that episode.]]

* '' WebVideo/DreamMachine'': In episode 1.04, ''[[https://youtu.be/lNl2qhc6RuA The Opposite of People]]'', Leah implies that she’s jealous of actors like Josie getting all the credit for their work as the face of it visible to the public, when Leah’s writing is where it all begins.

* In ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', everything that [[spoiler: Kristoph]] did was because they could not accept the possibility that Phoenix Wright could be a better defense attorney than them.