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Clingy Jealous Girls in Live-Action Films.


  • In 68 Kill, the Cute and Psycho Liza chases after Chip in an attempt to reclaim him, even after he tries to kill her in order to escape from her.
  • Burying the Ex: Evelyn is very possessive of Max, reacting with suspicion and hostility against any woman whom she thinks likes him.
  • Calamity Jane: While Calamity Jane is very interested in Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin, he doesn't reciprocate her feelings at all and instead desires the affections of Katie Brown. Seeing them kiss later on infuriates Calamity and makes her wild with jealousy, to the point where she shoots a glass out of her romantic rival's hand and orders her to leave town. Bill Hickock, a close friend of Calamity, understands what it will do to her if she succeeds in scaring Katie off and tries to help her gain some Character Development in that department. She does and the two of them end up getting married.
    Bill: Who are you to tell people who to love? Suppose you did scare that girl out of town, would that get your lieutenant back? That stop Katie from lovin' him or him her? That's female thinkin'. He'd bring her back and they'd both hate ya... You had to lose tonight, Calam, or you'd never win again.
    • Her possessiveness is demonstrated earlier in the movie as well. When Danny reacts excitedly to finding a picture of Adelaide Adams in his cigarette packet, she snatches it away from him and bursts out:
      I didn't save you for no other female.
  • Dark Angel: The Ascent: When Max and Veronica (who's a demon posing as a human) go to a bar, an old girlfriend of Max makes Veronica so jealous that she almost kills her, but relents.
  • Gabriella in Deranged (2012) who murders her three best friends because she believes they are obsessed with her fiance and a threat to her future happiness.
  • Doctor in Love: Miss Strudwick takes an instant dislike to Dr. Barrington as she sees her as competition for Dr. Hare's affections.
  • Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction is an infamous example as she becomes obsessed with the married protagonist Dan after a one brief affair with him; she stalks him feverishly and resents his Happily Married life. Alex jumps straight into Yandere territory when she kills Dan's daughter's pet rabbit and tries to kill his wife Beth, as she will not be ignored!
  • Mojdeh of Fireworks Wednesday is a fairly tragic version.
  • Ellen Harland (Gene Tierney) in Leave Her to Heaven is an extremely pathological version of this.
  • Lost in a Harem: Nimativ's earlier wives are not interested in having another woman join them, and gladly try to help Peter and Harvey get her out in return for a promise to get them into the movies (having been falsely told that the two men are Hollywood talent scouts). Nimativ himself is a male example, as he gets violently jealous at the thought of any man being near his wives.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Mutiny on the Buses, Olive is furious when she sees her husband Arthur getting friendly with Nymphy Norah, and later tries to attack her.
  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend is what happens when the Clingy Jealous Girl has superpowers. A comedy, not a horror film.
  • Esther towards her adoptive father in Orphan.
  • Evelyn Draper from Play Misty for Me combines this with Stalker with a Crush.
  • Grace, from the film Sin Takes a Holiday is so clingy that Stanton marries another woman he doesn't love in to keep her away from him.
  • Christy from The Social Network. She flipped out on Eduardo for not replying to her text messages that he came back from California and for having his Facebook status as single. And she sets his gift for her on fire in a trash bin and knocks it over his bed. Then she has the audacity to ask if he's going back to California - completed with a pouty face and big puppy eyes.
  • Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man 3 much like the comics gets jealous of other women being attracted to Peter, though to be fair Spidey was out of line, doing the upside-down kiss with Gwen Stacy in front of a whole audience and MJ herself. Then on the other hand she kissed Spider-Man while she was dating Harry, so maybe she shouldn't be throwing stones in glass houses.
  • Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard. As Joe is walking out on her, she comments desperately, "No one leaves a star. That's what makes one a star." Then she shoots him.
  • Rachel Witchburn from Sydney White is borderline Stalker with a Crush to her ex-boyfriend Tyler (who she had dumped). Especially the way she shows up in Tyler's room, claiming to have read his emails.
  • Tamara: Tamara, to Bill. She has a crush on him before dying, then after resurrecting Tamara attempts to kill his wife, making it clear nothing will stop her having him.
  • Stacy, Wayne's Psycho Ex in Wayne's World.
    Stacy: Happy anniversary, Wayne.
    Wayne: Stacy, we broke up two months ago.
    Stacy: Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out, does it?
  • In When Evil Calls, Kirsty is so possessive of Molly that she beats a boy to death after he uses his wish to kiss Molly.
  • Raven wasn't too fond of seeing Charles hit on other women in a pub in X-Men: First Class.


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