History Main / StalkerWithACrush

* If the stalker makes obscene phone calls to the target, this is HarassingPhoneCall.

* If the stalker formerly had a romantic relationship with the target, they're a PsychoEx.

Compare StalkerWithoutACrush, whose obsession is unrelated to romantic feelings.

There'll usually be a DoubleStandard at play with this trope. Male stalkers are more likely to be portrayed unsympathetically, and as an actual danger to their object of obsession. [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale Female stalkers]], by contrast, are likely to be portrayed sympathetically, and typically portrayed as [[{{Moe}} charming or cute]] (though ''beware'' the WomanScorned!).[[note]]This is partly due to male stalkers being more likely to murder their victims than female stalkers, and partly due to [[AManIsAlwaysEager the assumption that males aren't as picky when it comes to love or sex in the first place]].[[/note]] Both however will often be portrayed sympathetically if they happen to be [[BeautyEqualsGoodness pretty]]. An increasingly common tool for stalking is the internet; the trope may cross over with InternetStalking if they use the world wide web as a tool for it. Note that this isn't a good thing in real life.

No matter how it's portrayed, stalking is bad and dangerous, involving the violation of boundaries at every step; it beings with persistent, unwanted attention, can escalate to trespassing and burglary, and can end with violence, even murder. Victims experience disruption of their lives at the very least, as well as ongoing problems of depression or other responses to trauma.

There'll usually be a DoubleStandard at play with this trope. Male stalkers are more likely to be portrayed unsympathetically, and as an actual danger to their object of obsession. [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale Female stalkers]], by contrast, are likely to be portrayed sympathetically, and typically portrayed as [[{{Moe}} charming or cute]] (though ''beware'' the WomanScorned!).[[note]]This is partly due to male stalkers being more likely to murder their victims than female stalkers, and partly due to [[AManIsAlwaysEager the assumption that males aren't as picky when it comes to love or sex in the first place]].[[/note]] Both however will often be portrayed sympathetically if they happen to be [[BeautyEqualsGoodness pretty]]. An increasingly common tool for stalking is the internet; the trope may cross over with InternetStalking if they use the world wide web as a tool for it.

* StalkerWithACrush/RealLife

There'll usually be a DoubleStandard at play with this trope. Male stalkers are more likely to be portrayed unsympathetically, and as an actual danger to their object of obsession. [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale Female stalkers]], by contrast, are likely to be portrayed sympathetically, and typically portrayed as [[{{Moe}} charming or cute]] (though ''beware'' the WomanScorned!).[[note]]This is partly due to male stalkers being more likely to murder their victims than female stalkers, and partly due to [[AManIsAlwaysEager the assumption that males aren't as picky when it comes to love or sex in the first place]].[[/note]] An increasingly common tool for stalking is the internet; the trope may cross over with InternetStalking if they use the world wide web as a tool for it.

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[[caption-width-right:320:She isn't the ''worst'' of his stalkers.]]

There'll usually be a DoubleStandard at play with this trope. Male stalkers are more likely to be portrayed unsympathetically, and as an actual danger to their object of obsession. [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale Female stalkers]], by contrast, are likely to be portrayed sympathetically, and typically portrayed as [[{{Moe}} charming or cute]] (though ''beware'' the WomanScorned!).[[note]]This is partly due to male stalkers being more likely to murder their victims than female stalkers, and partly due to [[AManIsAlwaysEager the assumption that males aren't as picky when it comes to love or sex in the first place]].[[/note]]

* StalkerWithACrush/{{Webcomics}}

Why does this happen? Because LoveMakesYouEvil, and "IfICantHaveYou No One Will!"

* StalkerWithACrush/{{Other}}

* StalkerWithACrush/WebComics