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* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE22JokersFavor Joker's Favor]]" has the Joker following a man named Charlie around after he got into a fight with him on the road. Joker promised to spare Charlie's life if he would provide him a favor in return. Ever since then, Joker has been monitoring Charlie for ''years''. Charlie learns that Joker has ''never'' stopped following him when the villain finally asks for his favor.

* ''[[Fanfic/ALadysScout A Lady's Scout (and the Salt Within Her Soul)]]'': After having her SecondSecretIdentity as Multimouse exposed to the whole class, Marinette [[SayingTooMuch "accidentally" lets slip]] that Ladybug's been dealing with a stalker. Naturally, everyone ''demands'' to know who it is, so she leaves under the guise of letting her alter ego know what happened. Ladybug then enters and drops the bombshell:

* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' / ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' crossover fanfic ''Fanfic/AceOfSpades'', Harry becomes one towards Commissioner Gordon after he comes to the conclusion that [[ActorAllusion Gordon is Sirius Black]] with amnesia.

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Following her son's death at the hand of [[BullyBrutality sadistic bullies]], Maria spends the next two years [[ThatWomanIsDead erasing her identity]], teaching herself a number of skills and investigating every detail she can find about the perpetrators, which she eventually uses to lure them to their deaths after [[SchoolNurse becoming the nurse at the school they go to]]. "[[ExactWords The nurse in the infirmary knows everything]]," indeed.

* ''[[Franchise/MonsterVerse Godzilla: Aftershock]]'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseAlanJonah Alan Jonah]] was one to Emma Russell before [[spoiler:she made a FaceHeelTurn and joined his cause]] and before the subsequent events in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', following her around the world during the MUTO Prime crisis.

* Since the start of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' roleplay, Dream has had a weird fixation on Tommy, which manifested in digging tunnels under his house to spy on him, deliberately logging on to kill, steal from, or otherwise mess with him, and while fighting L'Manburg, constantly addressed Tommy before Wilbur, L'Manburg's president. This takes a MUCH darker turn in Season 2 though, as Dream starts seeing Tommy as the central anchor for the server's attachments, and the one thing he needed to get control over above all else. He went out of his way to constantly keep tabs on Tommy, from having him [[TheExile exiled, trapping him on a remote beach]] and abusing him into compliance, to conducting random searches of Techno's house after Tommy ran away, to dragging him out into the wilderness to fight, to trying to lock him up in prison. Even after being jailed, Dream's obsession with Tommy didn't waver in the slightest, which includes suggesting that ''they become immortal together'' using Dream's ability to [[spoiler:bring people BackFromTheDead]].

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* In the fanfic ''FanFic/BackToTheFuturePrequel'', Hank follows Doc even in public places to intimidate and bully him in revenge for Doc accidentally hurting his sister.
* ''Fanfic/BlackSky'': Dumbledore attempts to mold and control Dorea Black, believing her the Child of Prophecy fated to destroy Voldemort. [[spoiler:(He's wrong.)]] He relentlessly searched for "Rose Potter" for ten years, then seeing Dorea's arrival at Hogwarts tried to play himself as a wise, grandfatherly mentor whom she would trust. His manipulations gain him only Dorea's annoyance and contempt, and it culminates in her flat-out refusing to hear him or giving any weight to his opinions.

* Ino in ''Fanfic/TheHonouredGuest'' spends a good amount of her free time during her Academy years observing and trying to understand Naruto, as she finds his antisocial behavior and his pariah status particularly interesting.

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Blake stalks Izuku to look for blackmail material out of the mistaken belief that he's onto her identity as a cat Faunus. When Toshinori catches her in the act, she passes herself off as a StalkerWithACrush to avert suspicion. It's all for naught when she learns that Izuku didn't suspect a thing until she spelled it out for him. This ended up bringing them closer, until [[BecomingTheMask she starts developing a crush on him for real.]]

* ''FanFic/OhYouDontHaveToDoThatCommunication'': After Sabine recognizes a picture of Lila as a girl who's been spotted frequently by the bakery's customers, Sabrina and Max ask to check the security camera. From there, they discover that Lila has been using her alleged vacation time to stalk Marinette for any sort of leverage against her. Marinette, her classmates, and her parents are horrified to discover this; Marinette is especially annoyed that Lila [[DisproportionateRetribution has so much animosity towards her just for calling her out on lying once]].

* ''FanFic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': Eddie Thawne is ''obsessed'' with catching the Streak/the Flash, to the point that he becomes a {{Workaholic}}, entirely devoted to perusing reports about the vigilante's activities and making conjectures/theories regarding his goals and motivations; he even commandeers a room in the precinct solely dedicated to his target. Joe and Iris compare him to [[Literature/MobyDick Captain Ahab]], [[spoiler:and the latter even briefly breaks up with him over it]].
* In the ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' fanfic, ''Fanfic/AnUncommonWitness'', HardboiledDetective Fakir starts to stalk Duck because she's a key witness in the case against a very powerful and dangerous mafia, but as the case is still not solid enough for witness protection to step in, he decided to do it himself. Amusingly, Duck's friends believe him to be a [[StalkerWithACrush very persistent suitor]].
* In the ''FanficRecs/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic "Xanthic Growlithe Contract", researchers would stalk a herd of Ponyta and Rapidash. This agitated them so much that the herd disbanded and did the Pokémon equivalent of miscarrying all their offspring.

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-->'''Witness:''' Don't you have anything better to do?!
-->'''Kimble:''' You don't understand. I have nothing else to do... and I have nowhere else to go. I like you, Cindy. I'm going to be around you a lot... days, nights, weekends, holidays. I'm going to hang out with you until the end of time.

* Kouichi, the SixthRanger of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', is first seen [[spoiler:as a human]] following Kouji to the station the day everyone goes to the Digital World. Flashbacks, later on, show him hanging around the shadows outside Kouji's house, watching him interact with his father and stepmother. His reason: [[spoiler:They're brothers, twins SeparatedAtBirth, a fact that Kouichi only recently learned. The stalking seems to be his way of working up the nerve to approach.]] [[{{Twincest}} This does not stop people from viewing him as a]] StalkerWithACrush.