Crazy Jealous Guys in Live-Action TV series.
- Jesse from 1000 Ways to Die's segment "Hydrau-licked" was this towards his girlfriend. Considering this is a show about freaky deaths, he becomes an Asshole Victim when he ends up getting his "love rival"'s car dropped on him.
- Andor: Timm is this to Bix, his beautiful smuggler girlfriend who aids the eponymous Cassian Andor. His jealousy of their working relationship causes him to stalk Bix without her knowledge and upon seeing her with Cassian in a bar, he snaps and rats Cassisn out to Preox-Morlana. Whether this was a overreaction or his suspicions were well founded is debatable as while Bix clearly loved Timm, her closeness with Cassian is undeniable. Either way his clinginess and jealousy not only loses him Bix, but his life when Preox-Morlana shoot Timm when he charges at them for violently detaining Bix.
- At Home With the Braithwaites had the patriarch David Braithwaite who nearly killed his brother in a fight over his ex Alison, then punched another man over her. Mike Hartnoll threatened his estranged wife's lesbian lover with a gun
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: The Turkish pimp in series 1. Ally Fraser showed potential to be this when he warned Wayne off Vicky.Ally: That's mine.
Wayne: Nice car, squire.
Ally: I didn't mean the car. - The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon tends to get quite jealous when it comes to Amy, which is odd, given that he generally has little interest in romance. Even before he admitted that he had feelings for her (which he only did because of Amy's Operation: Jealousy date with Stuart), he was rather territorial of her, once even hitting Leonard when an Innocent Innuendo made him think Leonard had hooked up with her.
- Leonard himself, mostly as a result of being an Insecure Love Interest to Penny. Notably, the only time he starts doing the "crazy" part was in a sixth season episode regarding Penny working with a classmate, confronting the guy with an anonymous tip that her boyfriend has "gang" connections. Before this, he could certainly seethe with jealousy at times but rarely did it manifest in something crazy.
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Jake Peralta tends to have a fit of strong jealousy toward any guys who get close to his love interest Amy Santiago, including Teddy Wells, Melvin Stermley, and Detective Dave Majors. Despite this, the two still end up marrying.
- Domestic Abuser Christian in Brookside.
- Michael in Brotherhood, to the point where he's blind to the fact that everything else in his life is falling apart.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer has given us many, many examples of crazy jealous men. Spike, Angel, Riley, Xander, and Oz have all had their moments and the identity of the killer in "Beauty and the Beasts".
- Especially Xander. Throughout the show, he gets jealous when it comes to any girl he's interested in (including Buffy, who he never actually dated) and had a major Berserk Button episode when he almost killed Spike for sleeping with Anya.
- For Angel, there's even a running gag where he shows up just to find Buffy with other guys and it continues well past getting his spin-off.
- On Café Americain, this is Carlo's Catchphrase, demonstrating his jealousy over anyone making eyes at his girlfriend:"I kill him! I kill him bad! I kill him two times!"
- Community: Troy Barnes goes all "psycho girlfriend" on Toby, who he thinks is replacing him as Abed's best friend in Conventions of Space and Time. Note that Troy is dating Britta at the time... and she's encouraging this behavior.Britta: That guy is stealing your boyfriend!
- Eli from Degrassi: The Next Generation. He goes crazy after Clare starts talking to Fitz, and acts this way toward Imogen when they date. He finds out that it isn't related to his mental illness, he's just possessive.
- Derry Girls: Kathy characterizes her ex as being controlling and insecure, but then tells a story to elaborate on it... and it's a Subverted Trope. It sounds like he was completely justified in being so.Sarah: We heard about your wee divorce. Nightmare.
Kathy: Yeah, it was a difficult decision, but Paul, my ex, well, he just became so controlling.
Mary: Jesus. Really?
Kathy: He was unbearable towards the end, it was always, "Oh, Kathy, why did you stay out all night?" Or, "Who was that man you were having dinner with, Kathy?" He was very insecure.
Mary: Wonder why. - Desperate Housewives:
- Carlos towards Gabrielle in the first season. She was cheating on him, but he ended up physically assaulting the wrong man twice (both of them turning out to be gay) and getting a prison sentence for it.
- George, a pharmacist, lusted after Bree once she ended their affair together and became jealous of her husband, Rex. So he tampered with Rex's prescription drugs by replacing his heart medication with placebos. He also beats up and attempts to kill other people who look like they are trying to come in between him and Bree. He also drugged Bree at one point and was seriously considering taking advantage of her. He eventually proposed to Bree and pressured her into marrying him. After the engagement, he became increasingly possessive of her and increasingly violent.
- Doctor Who:
- Commander Millington is revealed to be this in the novelization of "Curse of Fenric". He and Dr. Judson went to school together, and one day at rugby practice, Millington saw Judson talking to another boy, and... well, he arranged an accident that put the good doctor into a wheelchair for the rest of his life (or at least until Fenric possessed him).
- The Doctor himself in his Eleventh and Twelfth generations. Whether he feels a sexual, romantic, or platonic attraction to his companions is ambiguous, but he definitely prefers to be the center of their attention.
- Mickey suffered from this during the 9th Doctor tenure. He was highly jealous of his girlfriend Rose running off with The Doctor and exhibited a highly possessive attitude towards her. Thanks to some Character Development he grew out of it and formed a friendship with The Doctor in later seasons.
- Ray Kowalski in Due South was this way when his ex-wife began dating someone, and when Fraser showed interest in at least one woman, and especially toward Fraser's deep friendship with Ray Vecchio.
- Eastenders has Grant Mitchell and Mark Fowler.
- An episode of Extras had Warwick Davis getting violent with anyone his girlfriend told him had made advances towards her
- Family Affairs villain Pete Callen murdered his wife's lover and framed his wife for the crime.
- Bruno Milligan from Footballers' Wives made his wife's life a misery with his paranoid suspicions. Despite being a constant philanderer, Jason Turner seethed with rage at the idea of his wife so much as flirting with another man.
- Soames Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga.
- Friends: Played for Laughs, providing some memorable scenes:
- Ross was this way with Rachel and, to a lesser extent, Emily. This is discussed in a Series 4 episode, where Phoebe points out how Ross only started acting like this after he split up with Carol (his first wife, who turned out to be a lesbian), so that first divorce really did a number on him.
- Chandler had a bit of this with Kathy as well, and Monica whenever Richard is brought up.
- Deconstructed later on with Ross as his irrational jealousy leads to him and Rachel breaking up. Emily becomes this in a much less funny way. And Chandler's jealousy drives Kathy to sleep with her co-star. Plays out better with Chandler and Monica, as he explains he's worried about Richard because she loves him more than Chandler, and Monica quickly asserts that Chandler has never been second best to her and he's more important than Richard.
- Paco Durando in the Frontier Circus episode "The Daring Durandos". He threatens to cut the hands off anyone who touches his wife. His wife happens to be a New Old Flame of Ben's.
- Game of Thrones: A lot of Orell's antagonism against Jon seems due to his feelings for Ygritte.
- Dean from Gilmore Girls. He loathes Tristan simply for the fact that he had classes with Rory; after Tristan is Put on a Bus, he starts reacting jealously when Rory and Jess start to become friends. He continues to antagonize them even after he breaks up with her and she starts to date Jess. Dean's jealous nature reappears when Rory and Logan become friendly, even though Dean himself is cheating on his wife with Rory, and he still loses Rory to a rival in the end.
- Finn of Glee toward Rachel any time she's dating someone who's not him.
- Chuck on Gossip Girl can be this way with regards to Blair sometimes.
- Oswald Cobblepot from Gotham is this towards Edward Nygma (The Riddler), killing his love interest Isabella and instead of killing him freezing him in a block of ice and later treating him as the centrepiece for his club, giving off an "If I can't have him, no one can!" vibe.
- Hannibal:
- Hannibal Lecter's deep, intense love for his sort-of patient/frienemy/intellectual soulmate Will Graham takes his existing homicidal, boundary-breaking tendencies and ramps them up. He alienates Will from both Jack and Alana and pretends to kill Abigail to keep Will all to himself (in Will's own words, he's "fostering codependency"); surrenders to the police and goes to jail to both spite Will and reject his rejection and to make sure Will knew where he was when he inevitably changed his mind; and uses Dolerhyde to try and kill Will's wife and step-son by proxy.
- As it turns out, Will is seemingly prone to just as much jealousy when it comes to Hannibal. You would think, after Hannibal kept his encephalitis from him, framed him for his crimes and got him thrown in a mental physicality, pretended to kill their shared surrogate daughter and later tried to have his wife and step-son killed that he'd be able to resist Hannibal's charm and attention, but he can't. Though his eventual coldness towards his previous crush Alana comes partially from her not believing him about Hannibal being the Chesapeake Ripper, he becomes outright hostile toward her after learning she and Hannibal are dating and the relationship hardly recovers. He's even worse towards Bedelia Du Maurier, the woman who took his place as Hannibal's outlaw partner in season three, likely being the one to choose her as the final victim we see Hannibal and Will go after together.
- Tom Marans from Homicide: Life on the Street murdered his girlfriend because he believed she was going to leave him for her ex-boyfriend and he refused to let her leave him.
- The eponymous character of House is this towards his best and only friend Dr. Wilson and any man interested in Dr. Cuddy.
- Both Ted and Barney in How I Met Your Mother. Both of them are in love with Robin though Barney doesn't start to have feelings for her long after Ted broke up with Robin. In the middle of season 3, Barney slept with Robin and when Ted found out about it, he was furious and refuses to accept Barney as a friend anymore though they make amends by the end of the season. By then, Barney genuinely begins to have feelings for Robin and in an episode in which Ted and Robin have sex whenever they are in an argument, Barney takes out his frustration by breaking broken TVs. By the end of season 4, Robin and Barney started dating without any problems from Ted. Fast forward to season 8, Ted becomes jealous that Robin had accepted Barney's proposal and tries to ruin their wedding planner. Though Lily talks him out of it, he again tries to confess his feelings for Robin by going to great lengths to find her missing locket and give it to her as a wedding gift. Ultimately, he decides to abandon the idea and let go of her feelings for Robin.
- The Inbetweeners has Donovan over Charlotte. Jay borders on this with his obsessiveness over his girlfriend Chloe's whereabouts in the final episode of season 2, although he is a far more gentle example than most.
- Interview with the Vampire (2022): Lestat de Lioncourt has been infatuated with Louis de Pointe du Lac from the instant he felt Love at First Sight, and this leads him to be obsessive and possessive of his lover, as he goes to extreme lengths to try to either keep him or win him back.
- "In Throes of Increasing Wonder...": Lestat murders Lily after Louis avoids him for an extended period of time in order to isolate him emotionally, therefore making a vulnerable Louis more receptive to the idea of becoming Lestat's immortal companion.
- "Is My Very Nature That of a Devil": Lestat is insanely jealous of Jonah Macon, an Old Flame of Louis whom the latter continues to harbour some feelings for based on Lestat's observation while he was stalking them, "I HEARD YOUR HEARTS DANCING!!" (Probably the only reason why Lestat didn't Murder the Hypotenuse is because he knows Jonah will be shipped off to France for World War I soon, so he figures Jonah will likely die there.)
- The sheer intensity of Lestat's love for Louis is unhealthy, and this quote from the same episode sums up the former's mindset.Lestat: I did it for Louis. I do everything for Louis.
- "...The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding": Although Lestat initially refuses Louis' request to transform Claudia into a vampire because "Elle est trop jeune" ("She is too young"), he does the wrong thing anyway (not to mention that she didn't consent to it) because he realizes that creating a daughter is the only way to ensure that Louis — who was about to abandon Lestat — will stay with him.
- "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart": When Claudia announces that she has returned home after a 7-year absence just so that she can take Louis with her to Europe, Lestat — who is now also a Jealous Parent — is boiling with rage because he feels that she's stealing Louis from him, so he strangles her. When Louis comes to her defense, Lestat totally loses control because it's solid proof that Louis loves Claudia more than him. Lestat then beats the crap out of Louis for not loving him enough, and since nothing else he has tried has worked, a desperate Lestat resorts to a horrific level of violence to scare Louis into submission.
- "The Thing Lay Still": Considering that Lestat is the definition of Evil Is Petty, it's quite remarkable that even after he finds out about Louis and Claudia's plot to murder him, he still desires to keep Louis as his lover. Lestat is so head-over-heels in love that he'll never willingly let Louis go even when his boyfriend wants to kill him, so Lestat directs all of his vindictive fury at Claudia, placing the blame squarely on her for the disintegration of his romance with Louis. Lestat conspires to bump off Claudia not just to punish her for her betrayal, but also so that Louis will love him and only him (at least according to Lestat's warped sense of logic). Regardless of how Louis feels, if Lestat's scheme had succeeded, it would be impossible for Louis to escape his clutches because Antoinette Brown — who is now a vampire and can read Louis' thoughts — can alert Lestat to anything and everything Louis is thinking.
- Jealocit, a Villain of the Week from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. He had a crush on Insarn since high school, but when she fell in Love at First Sight with former Carranger Kyosuke Jinnai, he developed BURNING JEALOUSY POWER!!! and nearly defeated the Gokaigers. Then Kyosuke (who had no interest in being a vertex of this Love Triangle) mediated the situation... and the Gokaiger kicked his butt.
- Legend of the Seeker: The (apparent) Creator says the Keeper is intent on the destruction of all life due to jealousy. Before she created living things, they were lovers, with no other beings in existence. When she created life, and especially lavished love on humanity, the Keeper became enraged by this due to her affections no longer solely being his. He created death as a start, as she'd originally made them immortal, and the Creator refused to be with him ever after. The Keeper thinks that by destroying all life she'll be forced to return. Whether or not she's the Creator isn't certain, as she might be a delusional woman. However, he does attempt to draw her down into the underworld after learning her location so they're together again, thus at least his love for her is apparently real.
- Despite usually lamenting the fact that he's married to Peg, Al Bundy from Married... with Children frequently reacts like this when other men make advances on her.
- Al is also, oddly, completely unprotective and overprotective of his daughter, Kelly, at the same time. He doesn't seem to care where she goes or who she's with, or what she does. But let him catch a boy in the house, and he will beat him up (generally by smashing his head into walls) before throwing him out of the house.
- Tony in Men Behaving Badly, both when he was obsessively pursuing Debra and once he finally got her. In one episode, he gets so paranoid he puts his arms possessively around her when a group of 12-year-old boys walk past.
- Arthur from Merlin doesn't appreciate Guinevere having close friendships with any other males (except Merlin) and becomes a Green-Eyed Monster every time she seems particularly fond of anyone other than him. When he catches her and Lancelot in an embrace, he attacks Lancelot and would have killed him had Guinevere not thrown herself between them.
- Murder in Mind had several episodes about cuckolded men who resort to murder. Steve 'Phil from Eastenders' McFadden played a firefighter who hired a hitman to kill his bitchy wife and his obnoxious co-worker she was sleeping with while they were in bed together and Rob Brydon plays a control freak who murders his brother-in-law after discovering a long-term affair with his wife and makes it look like a mugging gone wrong
- Gabe from The Office is starting to feel really uncomfortable about Erin being around Andy.
- Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Boynton is usually even-headed, but on occasion can be crazy jealous when provoked. In the cinematic series finale, Miss Brooks spending time with millionaire Gary Nolan sees him turn crazy jealous (with a little prodding from Mrs. Davis). This ends up being a good thing, as it eventually leads to Miss Brooks and Mr. Boynton marrying and living Happily Ever After.
- Oz has a homosexual version of this with Keller's obsession with Beecher and a heterosexual version with Ryan's obsession with Dr. Nathan.
- Parks and Recreation:
- Andy becomes one in the second season after Ann dumps him and begins dating Mark, and he goes to great lengths to try and get her back, including moving into a pit in front of her house. He ultimately gets over it when he grows closer to April... and in Season 3, when she starts dating a guy she met on vacation in Venezuela (to get back at Andy for accidentally kissing Ann), he goes to similar lengths to win her over.
- Tom becomes one after divorcing his first wife Wendy and realizing he actually did have feelings for her, although Wendy herself only saw Tom as a friend and their marriage was a Citizenship Marriage to keep her from being deported back to Canada. Even when he gets over her romantically, he still feels disgusted over the fact that she later starts seeing the manly Ron.
- Jez in Peep Show has sent dog crap in the post, pepper-sprayed, sabotaged the career of, tried to punch, and possibly subconsciously tried to murder the men - and in one case, woman - whom he considered rivals for whatever woman was the current target of his infatuation. In one episode, he got so clingy, he was threatened by his girlfriend showing kindness to a homeless man. Mark, although less extreme, still has elements of this trope in his jealous stalking of Sophie and Johnston when he punched Jez after mistakenly thinking he was sleeping with Big Suze.
- Ted Jr. is very jealous of Daniel for having his wife Tawny's affections in Rectify and informs him that she's "off-limits". Daniel, in turn, knocks out Ted, pulls his pants down, and puts coffee grounds on his butt to humiliate him and make it look like he pooped himself when angry with him.
- Al Rawabi School For Girls has a platonic (or is it?) example with Layan and her brother Hakeem. When he hears that Layan talking on the phone to someome, he asks if she's "hiding something", and when Layan tells him she's entitled to privacy. His response is to get more aggressive.Hakeem: "Privacy? Privacy? What does a 17 year old need "privacy" for, anyway?"
- Played for Laughs in Red Dwarf as Kryten becomes this in Season 7 due to the arrival of his master Lister’s Old Flame Kristine Kochanski. Terrified at the new possibility of Lister abandoning him, Kryten does his best to come between Lister and Kochanski acting like a clingy mother. He even sabotages Starbug forcing the crew to climb through the service ducts just because Lister prepared a cool bath for Krissie.
- Back in Season 2 Rimmer threatens to kill Lister upon discovering he had a relationship with his girlfriend Lise Yates at the exact time he was going out with her. In actuality, Rimmer never dated Lise; Lister just implanted his own memories into Rimmer’s brain as a gift.
- Attempted weaponisation of this trope in Season 8 episode “Cassandra”. The titular A.I who has clairvoyance knows Lister will (accidentally) kill her so she tries to manipulate events so that Rimmer will sleep with Kochanski and Lister will find them and shoot Rimmer in the back of the head with a harpoon gun in a fit of jealousy, which would in turn make Krissie hate him. Lister catches on to it and even when he finds Rimmer about to kiss Kochanski he doesn’t kill the former, much to Kochanski‘s disappointment.
- Schitt's Creek:
- Played for laughs when normally confident Patrick witnesses a drunken Ted kiss his boyfriend David during a game of Spin the Bottle. Even though David did not want to play, did not initiate the kiss, and Ted is straight, Patrick gets into a jealous huff. He's egged on by David's sister/Ted's girlfriend Alexis, but he and David eventually talk things out.
- Johnny trusts his wife and knows nothing happened, but he's still not happy when he finds out she spent the night passed out in Roland's bed.
- Will in The Secret Life of Us went through a phase of being like this with his girlfriend Sam and Jason when he started stalking his ex started when she started a fling with a musician.
- Six Feet Under: Brenda's brother takes this to crazy levels over her relationship with Nate. Nate himself has a moment of this while stoned, and Russell's behavior borders on this at Claire's art exhibition at the end of series 4.
- Skins: A major Berserk Button for Cook is seeing another man get cozy with Effy. Also, Lara's ex when he threatened JJ.
- Whitney is characterized this way on Smallville, although he's really Properly Paranoid when it comes to Clark, who completely tops his game.
- The Sopranos had a minor character like this who put a man in a coma for talking to his girlfriend. Christopher also had his moments over Adriana.
- Velvet:
- Enrique may step out on his wife with impunity, but no other man better should go near her, unless he wants a black eye.
- Carlos morphs into this after Ana breaks up with him because she is still in love with Alberto.
- Stranger Things:
- Played with and deconstructed with Steve over Nancy. While dismissive of her feelings he isn’t in any way an abusive boyfriend, he does, however, become very unpleasant when he sees Jonathan in Nancy’s bedroom and doesn’t stop his Jerkass friends from Slut-Shaming Nancy with graffiti. Upon being confronted by Nancy and Jonathan, he provokes a fight with the latter (even mocking Jonathan’s little brother Will’s apparent death) at which Jonathan beats the shit out of him. Afterwards, Steve is deeply remorseful, breaking it off with his poisonous friends, he helps wipe away the graffiti and even aids Jonathan and Nancy in the finale. In Season 2 his relationship with Nancy disintegrates further despite Steve’s best efforts to make amends, by the end of the second series Steve accepts Nancy moving on to be with Jonathan. In Season 4 Steve makes it clear to Nancy that he wished he hadn’t reacted as he did and that they were still together, something she may or may not want herself.
- Hopper is like this in Season 3 towards Joyce, his old high school sweetheart. He sets up a date with her at a restaurant but unfortunately she instead goes to Mr Clarke (the science teacher) to ask about why her magnets aren’t working. Hopper upset that he was stood up and angry upon learning who Joyce went to rather than dining with him, becomes pissy with her and hesitant to show his feelings again for most of the season. Murray notes Hopper’s defensive facade of gruffness and calls him a “big baby” who’s afraid of showing his feelings because he got hurt. Hopper and Joyce do reconcile in the finale and plan another date before Hopper seemingly dies in a Heroic Sacrifice. They’re reunited in Season 4 where a humbled Hopper actually feels he’s undeserving of Joyce.
- Jason, the secondary Anti-Villain antagonist of Season 4 is a subtle example of this towards his girlfriend Chrissy which only becomes more apparent as the season goes on after she’s killed by Vecna. Before he even learns what’s happened to her, Jason is viciously adamant to the Hawkings police that Chrissy would never go to or talk to that “freak” Eddie despite all evidence of the contrary. Even when Lucas in the finale tries to explain Chrissy was having troubles Jason rejects Lucas’ truth claiming that if Chrissy was having issues she would’ve gone to him not Eddie, this ultimately shows Jason wasn’t happy at the idea of his girlfriend not being completely beholden to him and his hatred of Eddie (whom he already disliked) along with thinking he killed Chrissy has some jealousy behind it. Considering surprisingly the intimacy between Chrissy and Eddie, Jason may have been right to fear the worst.
- In the Supernatural episode "Simon Said" (S02, Ep05), Andy's twin almost kills a woman because he realizes Andy still has feelings for her and is worried she might get between him and his twin.
- The Tales from the Crypt episode "Split Second" has Steve Dixon, the head of a logging company who really doesn't take kindly to his workers cracking jokes about his new wife. He ends up severely beating his newest worker after his unfaithful wife seduces the guy and he catches them in the act.
- TV movie Too Good To Be True centered on a man who had left his wife for a younger woman then went into full-on Yandere mode when his estranged wife found a new boyfriend.
- In The Witcher (2019) Geralt can’t help but “stare daggers”, at his Love Interest Yennefer’s romantic escort the witless knight Eyck of Denesle in Episode 6 “Rare Species”. When Eyck is killed by a third party (the reavers), Yennefer entertains the idea that Geralt killed Eyck out of jealousy, during an argument with the Witcher.
- Ostrit from Episode 3 “Betrayer Moon” is a particularly nasty one, being the advisor and secret lover of the late princess Adda, Ostrit was enraged when prince (now king) Foltest got his sister pregnant. In response he cursed Adda turning her baby into a Striga which clawed its way out of Adda and stalked the kingdom. Thankfully Ostrit gets a karmic death changed to bed by a disgusted Geralt and disemboweled by the Striga he created.
- Word of Honor: The Scorpion King and Zhao Jing's relationship isn't explicitly romantic, but the Scorpion King hates Zhao Jing spending time with anyone else and will go as far as murdering the competition.
- Heathcliff in any TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights is portrayed this way.
- Also, Sparkhouse, based on Wuthering Heights, had the character Andrew, who was so jealous at the idea of his ex having sex with someone else that he banged his head against a wall.
- Young Sheldon: In "A Nuclear Reactor and a Boy Called Lovey", after Dr. Sturgis sees Dr. Linkletter hitting on Connie, he becomes this trope and starts a fight with Linkletter.
