Clingy Jealous Girls in Live-Action TV.
- Angel:
- While it was hinted at before in Buffy, Darla (Angel's sire) throws away all pretense in Season 2 and expresses her jealousy that Buffy could give him “perfect happiness” despite her and Angel being an Outlaw Couple for 150 years. Seeing this side of Darla actually amuses Angel.
- Winifred aka Fred becomes one towards Angel after his dashing rescue in Pylea, this becomes heartbreaking for Fred first when she sees Angel (in a Grand Theft Me situation) about to have sex with Lilah and secondly when Fred learns about Buffy. Though Fred gets over Angel she at one point asks about Buffy aka “the girl with the goofy name”. Fred also is very clingy to Gunn in Season 3 and 4.
- Ironically even when Fred dies and Eldritch Abomination Illyria takes over her body, Illyria is a Clingy Jealous Girl to Wesley at one point being downcast that Wes didn’t notice her, to Spike’s amusement. It’s possible these feelings in Illyria come from residual emotions of Fred (Wesley’s love) who hasn’t been completely wiped away.
- Lilah becomes this to Wesley in Season 4, having fallen for him she is increasingly annoyed at Wes’s lingering love for Fred.
- The Brittas Empire has a gay male version in Tim, who gets emotional and storms out if his partner Gavin talks to another man in the pub.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- Buffy was frequently jumping to conclusions about Angel being involved with Drusilla or Cordelia or Faith. Her jealous nature was tempered in later relationships, partly because she wore the pants by that time.
- Tara is a mild case: occasionally Willow will seem attracted to another girl and look hurt because of it.
- Kennedy does not take any potential rivals to Willow well at all. In the Anywhere But Here storyline, originally, she is at first upset that she's kept a secret (much like Tara was actually) then concerned for her girlfriend on realizing why: the motion comics change the scene where Kennedy is offensively horrid and standoffish about Tara. She's pissed when Buffy might be gay or bi and threatens to kill her, and she makes a move to drive off Satsu, ostensibly because Kennedy realizes Buffy is not gay and Satsu wants her to be, but she and Willow talked about homosexuality and if Kennedy was that bad about Tara...
- Cheers: Diane does not like the idea that Sam has ever slept with another woman, or might possibly be thinking about sleeping with another woman. Which is a problem given Sam is a sex addict, and had been with hundreds of women before he ever met Diane. Any time this happens, Diane lashes out, either childishly (spraying Sam in the crotch with water), or with an angry rant about how Sam is the worst human being ever. Even when they're supposed to be broken up, Diane obsessively follows after the woman Sam is dating, trying to sabotage their relationship.
- Annie on Community does this to Jeff at the start of season 2.
- Fiona in Degrassi: The Next Generation is like this towards her own twin brother. He is her closest friend, and she does not want to lose him to any girl he dates. She is also like this to BFF Holly J.
- Doctor Who:
- Rose Tyler demonstrated tendencies towards this trope: she reacted rather poorly when she learnt that she wasn't, in fact, the Doctor's very first female companion ever. She was also visibly displeased at any indication that the Doctor might be impressed by someone other than her. In "The Stolen Earth", when the Earth has been stolen by the Daleks and Rose finds a network of the Doctor's companions but can't be seen because the computer she's using doesn't have a webcam, when Martha merely mentions she has the Doctor's phone number and can't contact him, Rose responds by saying "I was here first".note
- In "School Reunion", Sarah Jane Smith reacts to Rose in much the same way that Rose reacts to her.
- Martha Jones also displayed elements of this trope, especially when Rose Tyler's name came up (until she got over the Doctor). However, she was more subtle about it and when she meets the Doctor's new companion Donna, despite the Doctor's expectations, they get on really well.
- In "Human Nature", John Smith (aka the Doctor turned human, with no memory of his real life) and Joan Redfern believe Martha (who is posing as Smith's servant) is this, and ignores her when she's desperately trying to get John to be the Doctor again, as the aliens they are hiding from have found them.
- River Song is, if not jealous, certainly obsessive and single-minded about her relationship with the Doctor. She does get a lot of Character Development, however, but due to her relationship with the Doctor largely being Have We Met Yet?, the Doctor doesn't experience this properly.
- Hilariously enough, the TARDIS has shown elements of this, acting a bit testy when people bring up the large number of female companions the Doctor has had. She especially doesn't like Clara. She locks her out at least once, and another time, when Clara needs to use the holographic interface, the TARDIS uses Clara as its avatar.TARDIS: I'm programmed to select the image of a person you esteem. Of several billion such images in my databanks, this one [Clara's own image] best meets the criterion.
Clara: Ugh! You are a cow, I knew it!- Her dislike of Clara, however, may also be due to the massive Timey-Wimey Ball she is involved with.
- Missy, the female incarnation of the Master, takes this to a ludicrous extreme. She tries to trick the Doctor into accidentally murdering Clara, purely because Missy is jealous of the close relationship (platonic or otherwise) Clara has with the Doctor. This despite the fact that Missy herself was responsible for the two of them meeting in the first place.
- Dog has an intersting example. Lena's objest of jealousy in not Lyosha, her husband (he gives no serious reasons), but Max, her ex. The ending of season six finale shows, however, that she finally let him go.
- ER:
- Mark Green's first wife regarding his friendship with Susan Lewis, given that he repeatedly (and truthfully) assured her that nothing was going on between him and Susan, and she was the one having an affair.
- His second wife as well, who rudely rebuffed several attempts Susan made at befriending her, and thought it was perfectly fine for her to work closely with her ex-boyfriend, but horrible for Mark to work with someone he merely had Unresolved Sexual Tension with.
- Myra from Family Matters took this trope to rather frightening extremes, going so far as to blame Steve's infatuation with Laura on Laura herself.
- Rachel on Friends. She easily gets jealous whenever Ross gets a new girlfriend and did everything she can to ruin their relationship. In fact, she doesn't like it whenever the person she has a crush on is close with another woman. She later displays the same attitude towards Charlie, Joey's new girlfriend, after Rachel falls for him.
- Ross' second wife Emily becomes this after he says "Rachel" during their wedding vows. She eventually demands that he cut Rachel out of his life, sell his furniture and move to a new apartment (because Rachel is so strongly connected to his current place). In their final conversation she admits that she'll only feel better if she can know where he is every second to be sure he's staying away from Rachel.
- Game of Thrones:
- Lysa Arryn, so very much. She's always been jealous that Petyr Baelish loved her sister, Catelyn, who didn't love him back. When she marries Petyr in season 4, she gets very angry at the thought that Petyr might be romantically/sexually interested in Sansa, enough to physically hurt her own niece.
- Loras' provides a male example when he becomes jealous of Brienne in "What Is Dead May Never Die" and punishes Renly for promoting her by withholding sex.
- Shae becomes this in Season 3, starting in "Dark Wings, Dark Words" but especially as Tyrion's wedding draws near, interrogating Tyrion brutally about his interest in and history with other women (Sansa and Ros, respectively). This is despite the fact that Tyrion has shown nothing but despair over his marriage to Sansa, viewing her more as someone he must protect, and Ros is now dead.
- Myranda is so irrationally jealous of Tansy that she gets Ramsay to kill her in a brutal hunt, showing gleeful sadism at seeing Tansy get torn apart. She also despises having Sansa around.
- Cersei is jealous of Brienne for having spent so much time with Jaime, even questioning if she loves him at Joffrey's wedding. Never mind she is being rude towards the same woman who brought her brother back to her despite countless people wanting him dead, meaning she put herself in severe danger.
- From Un gars, une fille (A Guy, A Girl) there's Sylvie (the titular Girl), who gets very jealous at the slightest provocation, and even tries to set her boyfriend Guy (the titular guy) in compromising cheating situations.
- General Hospital:
- Carly is like this in regards to every man she's ever been involved with, to the point where she relentlessly bullied Jason's girlfriend Robin until the poor girl finally gave up and left town, spent the entirety of her relationship with Tony terrified that any day now he would dump her to reconcile with his ex-wife, has verbally and/or physically assaulted every girl or woman who dared to even talk to a man she was interested in or involved with, and continued to bully and berate Robin when she returned to town, even though by now, they had both moved on from Jason.
- Brenda Barrett, who flipped out if her boyfriend Sonny so much as said "hello" to Lily. This while she spent every chance she got draping herself all over her friend Miguel — Lily's fiancé, incidentally.
- Lorelai shows shades of this to Luke's love interests in the early seasons of Gilmore Girls until they finally kissed at the end of season 4.
- Glee:
- Santana will throw down with people who get involved with her sexual partners, even if she claims not to want a real relationship with them.
- Rachel has similar tendencies when it comes to Finn - well, not the violent ones, but if Finn ends up dating someone who's not her at any point, there's nothing she won't try in order to destroy their relationship.
- Wilson's girlfriend Amber on House (who was later killed off) used to disagree with House over how much time Wilson should be spending with him. They challenged each other for Wilson's "custody," and they disliked each other immensely. This one comes across more as House being a Clingy Jealous Guy and not wanting to share his Heterosexual Life-Partner Wilson with anyone, while Amber seems to be doing it partly as revenge for House firing her and partly because she thinks that the House/Wilson relationship is bad for Wilson (there is admittedly some justification for this opinion).
- How I Met Your Mother:
- Lily qualifies, although only occasionally. She can hardly control her fury whenever she talks about Ted's ex-girlfriend Karen, because she "lingered" when she walked in on Lily painting Marshall nude way back in college. She also once beat the shit out of another woman for kissing Marshall when drunk, even though the woman apologized profusely. However, showing her jealous streak is probably more related to possessiveness than insecurity, she rarely gets suspicious of Marshall himself, even encouraging him to fantasize about other women rather than be guilty about it and telling him to loosen up and enjoy himself when they go to a strip club.
- It's eventually pretty clear that this is as much about Marshall as Lily in that Marshall has very straightforward feelings and values; if he got seduced it would threaten their relationship forever, and Lily knows this. There are a lot of hints that if she thought Marshall could handle more exceptions to the traditional ideal she'd be on board with it but will not tolerate anything which could take him away from her. Note that she has the same attitude towards Ted as Marshall. She wants him to be happy, wants him to have a girlfriend and eventual wife, but will be just as much a Clingy Jealous Girl if she thinks somebody might take Ted away from her as a friend.
- Robin throughout the series also displays this for both Ted and Barney due to Unrequited Love Switcheroo. After initially turning them down, she displays feelings for them but by then, they are already in a relationship with another person. This continue in the epilogue, when her feelings for Ted resurfaces long after she divorced with Barney but by then, he had already married to the Mother.
- iCarly:
- Carly displays this in the hallway scene of the extended version of "iSaved Your Life". When Freddie becomes popular to the Ridgeway students after his accident, one of the girls flirts with him by insistently inviting him to a party. Possibly in her pants. Annoyed, Carly hugs Freddie and initiates a French kiss that forces the girl to leave. After the kiss, Freddie then prompts, "Wow, my kitty's got claws!"
- Lewbert's ex-girlfriend, Marta, is this. Once Carly and her friends learn that Lewbert was right about her Yandere tendencies, Carly tries to get Marta to leave Lewbert alone. This backfires on her and Marta assumes that Carly wants Marta gone so that she can have him all to herself. Eventually, Lewbert opts to get himself arrested just to get away from Marta and slaps the police officer arresting him just to give himself more time in the slammer and away from her.
- Sebastian from Little Britain is this for Michael, even towards Michael's own wife.
- Jenny towards Shane in the final series of The L Word.
- Million Yen Women: Hitomi mostly shows her interest in Shin by losing her temper (and taking it out on him) each time there is any indication he may start something with one of the other women.
- Maggie to Mr. Lucky. No matter what excuse he gives when he has to break a date with her, she assumes he's with another woman and, more often than not, tracks him down herself to find out the "truth". As far as we're told on the show, they're not even dating exclusively; apparently Maggie just considers him her own personal property.
- Missy from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, undaunted by the fact that Ned has absolutely no interest in her. Fortunately, Ned finds the perfect solution: a Huge Schoolgirl bodyguard.
- NYPD Blue's Adrienne Lesniak had a few shades of this. After avoiding a relationship with James Martinez for all of season 2, she starts a relationship with him in 3. No sooner do they spend their first night together then she begins attempting to control almost every aspect of his life, finally driving the exhausted James to break up with her.
- Olive Snook from Pushing Daisies began this way, but eventually drifted to a nobler mindset. Ned is prone to this sort of behavior himself, although he's usually more of a doormat about it.
- From the BBC's Robin Hood: Kate. Her rival Isabella is not even in plain sight before Kate is demanding to know who she is and why Robin has brought her to Sherwood Forest, snapping: "What's the reason for her?" This is her most pressing concern in spite of the fact that they're all running for their lives at this stage. In later episodes she responds to Isabella's mere presence by sulking, and later (after her Relationship Upgrade with Robin) tries to actively kill her every time they cross paths, either by her own hand, or by indirect means (at one stage encouraging Robin to abandon Isabella to her murderous husband). And she's supposed to be one of the good guys!
- Schitt's Creek: Alexis is passive-aggressive and jealous whenever anyone shows interest in Ted, and she goes into a full-blown jealous huff when Ted drunkenly kisses her brother during a game of Spin the Bottle, despite Ted being straight and not really remembering the kiss.
- Chloe was this during early seasons of Smallville, to the point where, by her own admission later on, she was willing to sell Clark out to Lionel Luthor after she saw him with Lana. "Devoted" centered on her being slipped a "Love Potion" which made all who drank it this trope temporarily, during which she tried to kill her cousin Lois in a jealous rage. Thankfully, she outgrows this mindset and becomes a more mature person as the show goes on.
- Tsubasa Aoi (Fire-4) from Tomica Hero Rescue Fire is a male example of this towards Ritsuka (Fire-3).
- Ianto Jones from Torchwood typifies this trope throughout the second and third series of the show in relation to the more free-wheeling Captain Jack.
- Matsu in Toshiie to Matsu is so jealous that she doesn't allow him to have any mistresses (normal for men at the time) and he gets ribbed by his colleagues about being on a short leash. Nene similarly flips out whenever Hideyoshi strays, but since she can't give him any children (and he's a pervert) he just ignores her complaints—it got so bad that Nene almost divorced Hideyoshi at one point, but is talked out of it to avoid a scandal.
- Rose in Two and a Half Men is this to Charlie.
- The Vampire Diaries:
- Elena, especially in regards to Stefan. She got very jealous and suspicious of first Caroline, then Lexi (who only turned out to be Stefan's best friend), then Katherine and then Rebekah, who all happened to harbour either an attraction, obsession or affection for Stefan. As of recently, Elena has even gotten very jealous of Stefan and Tessa and jumped to the conclusion that they were sleeping together. It seems as though Elena gets jealous, angered and suspicious of any girl that gives Stefan the slightest affection or attention or any girl who so much as even looks at Stefan or shows any kind of interest in him (and Elena is supposed to be in a relationship with Damon!) Elena also showed extreme jealousy when she found out that Stefan slept with Rebekah in Season 4. Even when her humanity was turned off during the later part of the same season, Elena showed jealousy towards Stefan and his relationship with Caroline. She also didn't take it well when she found out that Stefan slept with Katherine in Season 5. It seems that no matter if Elena is in a relationship with Damon, she will always be possessive of Stefan and be envious and jealous towards any girl that looks Stefan's way.
- Katherine strongly qualifies as well in regards to Stefan, but more to the Yandere, If I Can't Have You…, Stalker with a Crush, Villainesses Want Heroes, Love Makes You Crazy, Love Hungry, Not Good with Rejection and Murder the Hypotenuse levels. She is willing to kill people and manipulate others in order to have Stefan all to herself.
- Caroline was jealous over Stefan in the beginning as well. She didn't understand why Stefan paid Elena more attention than her. However, this later changes as she becomes the biggest Stelena supporter ever. Caroline does become very clingy and jealous in regards to both Matt and Tyler though. However, she reverts back to her clingy and jealous side in regards to Stefan in Season 5 and she takes those jealous and clingy feelings towards Stefan up a notch in later seasons.
- Rebekah in regards to Stefan as well, almost to Yandere levels, although no where near as extreme as Katherine. She did not react well when she discovered that Stefan was in love with Elena and she openly admitted that she hates Elena because she is super envious of Stefan's love for her.
- Seems as though Stefan has a habit of attracting obsessive, jealous, psychotic and clingy girls. In regards to Elena/Katherine/Stefan/Rebekah, it's become a Psychotic Love Triangle.
- Valerie also qualifies towards Stefan. It was apparent that she was jealous of Caroline and Stefan's relationship with her.
- Qetsiyah in regards to Silas, to Yandere and If I Can't Have You… levels. She was so jealous of Silas' true love, Amara, that she separated Amara from Silas by making her the physical anchor to The Other Side and creating a purgatory for dead supernatural souls to go to when they die (The Other Side) just so that Silas' soul would be trapped with her on The Other Side and he would be separated from Amara for all time. Talk about a serious case of Woman Scorned.
- Amara probably qualified as well in regards to Silas and was probably the jealous and clingy type. She was obviously competitive with Qetsiyah, considering that Amara, like Qetsiyah, loved Silas extremely passionately tot he extent that she strongly desired to spend an eternity with him as an immortal.
- Qetsiyah/Silas/Amara is another case of a Psychotic Love Triangle, since both Qetsiyah and Amara loved Silas to Yandere and If I Can't Have You… levels. After all, both Qetsiyah and Amara wanted to spend al of eternity with Silas by defying nature and living as an immortal being alongside him. Silas was not much better since he was passionately in love with Amara and was willing to go to extremes to be with her.
- Qetsiyah also displayed jealousy over Stefan briefly, especially when it came to Elena. It seems as though Qetsiyah was transferring her 2,000+ year old obsession with Silas onto his doppelgänger and distant descendant Stefan.
- It seems that Silas and his doppelgangers (like Stefan) are strongly appealing to women in general and attract them to the point where they become obsessive.
- Jade from Victorious to no end. She's upset by any girl who looks at Beck and she demands to know what he's doing with a girl that isn't her. For one episode, she breaks up with him because she couldn't handle him being friends with a popular girl. In Season 2, Jade's insane jealousy is one of the reasons why Beck wants to break up with her. Even when they're separated, she still doesn't like Beck dating another girl.
- As her relationship with Mulder evolves in The X-Files, Scully exhibits a milder version of this trope... except in "Syzygy", where it's absolutely full-blown pathological jealousy due to some sort of star alignment making everyone in the town go haywire. She also gets very jealous whenever Diana Fowley comes into the picture. Hints of this can be seen as far back as the first season episode "Fire", when Mulder's ex-girlfriend from Oxford shows up, but at that time, she's mostly annoyed that the two are fooling around when they're on duty and are acting very unprofessionally.
- Young Sheldon:
- Jana is very attached to Georgie to the point where she doesn't want him to even look at other girls.
- In "Hobbitses, Physicses and a Ball with Zip", Missy learns to play baseball to impress Marcus, a baseball player who she likes. After she sees him take interest in another girl, Missy uses her baseball skills to hit him in the head with an apple.
- Implied with Mandy. In "Pancake Sunday and Textbook Flirting", she tells Georgie to start dating Amber, a girl who flirts with him at the video store. Later, in "A Baby Shower and Testosterone-Rich Banter", when Georgie gives a present to Mandy, she initially really likes it, but not as much after Georgie tells her that it was Amber's idea.
