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Clingy Jealous Girl (trope)
It ain't over for him yet.

Ned: Missy, we need to talk. I've found someone else.
Missy: You're so cute when you say things that you know will get you and whoever you're talking about seriously injured.

She's often cute, sometimes to the point of twee. She's affectionate too, but she also has a grip like a hydraulic press, and seems to want to be an article of clothing wrapped around the body of the guy she likes. Woe to him if he so much as looks at another girl (or if another girl dares to look at him), for she's usually armed with a powerful slap, a Megaton Punch or a Hyperspace Mallet, and she's willing to use it on him whether he invited the attention or not. Sometimes, even other girls are not safe from her, especially if they try to woo her crush in front of her. She's the Clingy Jealous Girl, and she can be anywhere on the spectrum from a fondly-regarded nuisance to a psycho stalker.

If she's a Yandere, she'll snap and try to Murder the Hypotenuse at least once. Especially If I Can't Have You…. If she's a Tsundere instead, her violence towards the male lead will be a Running Gag. If she has a Sugar-and-Ice Personality, she'll be more prone to snide comments and verbal violence than open clinginess. Depending on how possessive she is, their "boyfriend's" friends will also be targeted. Put them in a horror movie, and you've possibly got a Nigh-Invulnerable antagonist hellbent on having one of the characters all to themselves for whatever reason they desire.

This can even happen non-romantically. A little sister who adores her older brother may declare her brother off limits to any girl who shows interest in him, jealous of them taking his attention off her.

Expect her to be the victim of lots of fan bashing for getting in between The Protagonist and his True Love, even if she actually loses. If she does manage to start a relationship with her object of affections, it will range anywhere from annoying gushing, All Take and No Give, or even Love Martyrdom. At the same time, most of the main characters will have a similar character, since this is the simplest way to depict her jealousy and interest in the character.

In Fan Fiction, when a Relationship Sue appears to snatch the love interest's attention away, all possible love rivals will often become Clingy Jealous Girls to make her look better than she really is.

Her Spear Counterpart is the Crazy Jealous Guy.


Examples:

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    Audio Plays 
  • Charlotte Pollard from Big Finish Doctor Who towards the Eighth Doctor gets rather angry at the presence of C'rizz. Becomes really prevalent in "The Next Life", where they get into a massive argument, C'rizz calling Charley a "bunny boiler". The Doctor convinces them to work it out and Charley admits her flaws.
  • All of the Yandere love interests in Yandere no Onna no Ko. You just have to pick your poison on which girl you'd want to be stuck with for the rest of your life (or what's left of it).

    Comic Strips 
  • Andrea, a character from the Filipino newspaper comic Beerkada had a peculiar way of clinging to her object of affection: she chomps down on the shoulder or neck of the guy and doesn't let go, earning her the nickname "Chompy." She later becomes his girlfriend.
  • Roxanne in Candorville is an extreme example, and apparently plans to kill the girl Lemont really likes. She's also somewhat of a deconstruction in that she's never shown love for him, only a desire to control him and have him obey her every whim.
  • Anthony's fiancee, later wife, Therese from For Better or for Worse behaved this way whenever his childhood girlfriend Elizabeth was around, even at their wedding. Justified in that Anthony probably was cheating on her emotionally even then.
    • Liz got a stint of this in her teens when she attempted to break up with Anthony before a school dance, only to get insanely jealous when the friend she asked to help her break up by proxy felt so bad for him that she offered to take him instead. As this occurred before most Pattersaints could do no wrong, Lynn repeatedly lampshaded Liz's own responsibility for the whole debacle.
  • Hernia, Hamlet's (wannabe) girlfriend from the Hägar the Horrible comic strip. In one strip she sewed name tags onto his clothes with her name on them, and in another she chains him to the spot, which is bad for a wandering hunter.
  • Sedine from InSecurity is extremely upset when she finds out that Ellie the next-door neighbor had dated Sedine's husband Sam in college.
  • Luann features both Bernice, who harasses and smothers Zane (including asking him to marry her despite her being a teenager), and Luann herself, who obsesses over Aaron Hill and hates anyone he likes.
    • Luann even got this way with her Abhorrent Admirer Gunther, as a form of Stringing the Hopeless Suitor Along. Whenever he developed an interest in another girl (or they in him) Luann would immediately get possessive of him and warn everyone that Gunther was hers. As soon as any potential romance for the guy was squashed Luann would go back to treating him with disdain.
  • Peanuts:
    • Lucy van Pelt is obsessively infatuated with Schroeder and goes to ridiculous lengths to beat out her competition for his attention — namely, his piano.
    • Lucy's brother Linus also has to keep reminding Sally, Charlie Brown's sister, that "I'm not your 'sweet baboo'!"
  • Once Samantha and Dave finally get together in Safe Havens, Samantha tends to get jealous if she even thinks someone is trying to hit on Dave. Particularly ironic in the case of Dave's Italian translator Maria, because Maria is a very ardent Shipper on Deck for Samantha and Dave because she's their Kid from the Future. Maria even notes that she used this trope to her advantage: by getting Samantha to focus all her jealousy on her, that meant Samantha didn't notice when Maria warded off actual threats to their relationship.
  • More so in the comics than her animated counterpart, but Olive Oyl, tends to get very jealous over any girl who gives Popeye more than a second glance, near to the point of violence. Then again her previous boyfriend, Ham Gravy, would frequently go after other women (especially if they were wealthy) at the drop of a hat.

    Films — Animation 
  • A marriage variant in The Book of Life, La Muerte gave Xibalba a good zap when he was briefly ogling a grown-up Maria.
  • Emily from Corpse Bride, when going to the land of the living with Victor to see his parents, has this reaction when she sees Victor with Victoria.
    Emily: Darling. (clutches Victor's arm) Who's this?
    Victoria: Who is she?!
    Emily: I'm his wife! (shows off Victor's wedding ring on her hand)

    Multiple Media 
  • Vhisola from BIONICLE is obsessed with her teacher Nokama, going mad whenever she gives any attention to her other students and even having a Stalker Shrine dedicated to her. And so she doesn't react kindly when Nokama becomes a Toa hero more preoccupied with saving the world than spending time with her class. Vhisola hinders the Toa's quest by trying to steal one of the Great Disks to get back at Nokama, becoming one of six suspects for the traitor the Toa have been trying to uncover. This side of Vhisola gets erased once all the Matoran in Metru Nui have their minds wiped; she spends the rest of her life as a perfectly sane person under the guidance of Nokama, who keeps Vhisola's past and their uneasy relationship a secret from her.

    Music 
  • The Mexican singer Daniela Romo's song "Celos" ("Jealousy") is from the POV of a Clingy Jealous Girl.
  • "Dixie Boy" by April Smith and the Great Picture Show is about a woman who threatens to fight anyone who flirts with her man.
  • Kaci Battaglia's "Crazy Possessive" is about a girl who is pissed because her best friend is trying to move in on her guy.
  • Shania Twain's "I'm Jealous", where she confesses to being jealous of, amongst other things, the wind, sun and rain touching her guy.
  • JADE: The singer of "Plastic Box" is negatively comparing herself to her new beau's ex-girlfriend. Apparently, the love interest fell hard and fast for said ex, while it took months for the singer to win him. She calls herself "jealous, obsessive" and asks to have the love interest's "heart in a plastic box" to make sure it's beating for her.

    Mythology 
  • The ultimate, original Clingy Jealous Girl would have to be Zeus' wife, Hera, in Classical Mythology, whose stories are mostly about the myriad punishments she inflicted on her husband's few thousand human mistresses (never mind the fact that half the time, the relationship was not consensual). She's the goddess of family and marriage as well as the Queen of the Olympian Pantheon. No wonder she's pissed off.
  • From Classical Mythology, Medea, whose wrath at being dumped by her husband Jason (for whom she had renounced to everything) is legendary. Interestingly, Jason managed to marry Medea with Hera's favor (he needed help to get the Golden Fleece, and Hera had Eros make Medea fall for him), but lost it when he dumped his wife, who as said above had left everything for him. She decided to punish him for leaving her by murdering their children.
  • Aphrodite had her moments, despite not being the most faithful herself. She cursed Eos with insatiable lust for sleeping with Ares, who was Aphrodite's lover at that time. According to some myths she also instructed Nessos to have Deianeira soak a robe in his poisoned blood and present it to Heracles, causing his painful death. All for seducing Adonis, another one of her lovers.

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    Theatre 
  • Lucy from 13, to the point where she ruins her relationship with her best friend because she was his girlfriend, getting in a fight with said best friend, yelling at Brett for "flirting" (for example: saying "hi") to other girls, and starting a rumor about her former best friend with another guy when Brett dumps Lucy for her.
  • Amneris from Verdi's opera Aida. Hoo boy.
  • Cleopatra from Antony and Cleopatra.
  • Fausta in Dorothy L. Sayers' The Emperor Constantine. Constantine divorced his wife to marry her — albeit in a political match — and is faithful to her, and she complains that he is faithful because he thinks it's the respectable thing to do.
  • Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, though to what extent is determined by the actress playing her. Some tug the heartstrings and others are just annoying. Though Shakespeare establishes that Demetrius definitely led her on, and other characters in the play call him out on courting her and then dropping her for her best friend.
  • Nessarose from Wicked, who abuses her authority to keep Boq near her, enslaving him, and goes to the point of shrinking his heart and turning him into the Tin Man to keep him from marrying Glinda. It was Glinda's fault in the first place, as she tricked Boq into dating Nessa.

    Web Animation 
  • SNARLED: "Missing Groom" was about a competitive but loving couple named Daniel and Melinda who were about to get married, only for the groom to mysteriously disappear during a game of hide and seek on their wedding game. Afterwards (surprise, surprise), Angelica (Melinda's childhood friend/old flame) stepped in as her emotional support and became her new fiancé. However, she later learns that Daniel never abandoned her: Angelica killed him, and all out of petty jealousy and an equally petty pinky promise to have Melinda all to herself.

    Webcomics 
  • Helene from Avalon is this for her boyfriend Alan, although she never really snaps at Ceilidh. It might be because Ceilidh wouldn't give Alan the time of day... or because Helene's dumb as a post (or at least would rather seem that way).
  • Lucy of Bittersweet Candy Bowl is an example of this, although she tries very hard indeed not to show it.
  • Bound Together: Becky thinks Nathan's seeming obsession with Gabby means he's attracted to her, but it's actually because he knows Gabby is Gabe.
  • In Catena, Ivy has shown tendencies of this sort upon discovering Bear paying attention to another girl.
  • Dracula Everlasting: Vanessa, a hooker who became the first of the modern day brides. She becomes a bit defensive when more women are turned to serve Dracula.
  • Dumbing of Age: In a platonic sense, Joyce acts this way when her new best friend Dorothy starts to date Walky, getting upset when she sees them make out and complaining about how Walky hogs her time. When she finds out they broke up, she immediately declares she is reclaiming her time with Dorothy, and pushes Walky toward Amber so he doesn't get back together with Dorothy. Given recent revelations that Dorothy might not be as straight as she thought, and her own CJG moments when she thought of Joyce being with Joe (which she excused as 'looking out for Joyce' because of Joe's past as a Casanova Wannabe), and the moment Joyce and Dorothy nearly shared before Dorothy remembered they have boyfriends, the 'platonic' sense may now be in question.
  • Melissa of El Goonish Shive, was a Clingy Jealous Girl around Justin — a Straight Gay whom she inadvertently outed. To the writer's surprise her character developed until she wasn't one any more.
  • In thus Traum-based comic collection for Fate/Grand Order, one scene has Kadoc noticing that Gudako is glaring in his and Sherlock's direction, and he worries he's mad at him for taking up time with one of her Servants. Gudako is actually mad at Sherlock since she's jealous that he's getting close to her fellow Master, since it's implied she has a crush on Kadoc.
  • In Fluttering Feelings, as the main characters Baek Seol-A and Kim No-Rae develop feeling beyond friendship for each other they begin to become jealous of anyone who gets close to the other.
  • Zimmy from Gunnerkrigg Court is incredibly possessive of her best friend/love Gamma, to the point of freaking out if someone touches her or speaks to her.
  • In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, Jean Poule tends to get extremely possessive of Bob whenever Princess Voluptua shows up. Even Jean is startled by her own behavior in these situations.
  • Cinnabar in Little Lapses clings to her friend Blue and gets uncomfortable when Blue plays with other girls.
  • Lore Olympus: Minthe is not happy once she sees the article about Hades and Persephone. When Persephone subsequently shows up to start her internship at Underworld Corp, Minthe sends her off on a Snipe Hunt - into Tartarus.
  • For some reason, many Lyrical Nanoha Fan Web Comics portray Fate as this in regards to Nanoha, such as this A's/StrikerS Nano (sample strip) and Nanoha StrikeOut (sample strip).
  • X of A Magical Roommate is so obsessed with keeping her status as the most important person in her twin sister's life that she got into the habit of scaring her boyfriends off with explosives. It got to the point that Alexis was forced to keep her engagement a secret from her sister until the day of the wedding, and needed to have security on hand to prevent the inevitable Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace that X attempted.
  • Magick Chicks: Faith gets like this around Tiffany, getting snippy with Tiffany when she sees another girl kiss her. When a girl professes love to Tiffany Faith claims Tiff as her girlfriend.
  • Yuki of Ménage à 3 is clingy to both Zii and Gary. In one strip, she floors Didi when Didi asks her to give up on Gary so he can give her an orgasm and tells her "Gary. Is. Mine."
  • Put Emily and Missi from Misfile in the same room as Ash and watch them both try and outdo each other in the Clingy Jealous Girl stakes. Actually, put any possible partner for Ash in the same room as Emily and watch the jealousy flow. She and Ash are only friends.
  • In MSF High, Lana, the local Yandre becomes violent the second someone even so much as looks at Donovan.
  • My Deepest Secret: Downplayed with Emma. The reason she doesn’t want other people to meet Elios is that she’s afraid that because he’s so perfect, they’ll fall for him. She acknowledges this as silly and a problem, but can't help feeling so anyway.
  • Outsider: Beryl, the bubbly analyst who has been helping Alex, gets noticeably snippy when she walks in on Alex shaking hands with Talon. Her species normally avoids touching each other, so it looked more intimate to her than it really was.
  • Angela from Punch an' Pie is a rare example of the Clingy Jealous Girl as the main (or at least co-main) character. Her girlfriend's bisexuality and her own views on polyamory have caused her to think that Heather having any contact whatsoever with anyone outside of their relationship automatically means she must be banging them on the side. Heather eventually breaks up with her over it.
  • Dora from Questionable Content, at least when dating Marten. Ranging from the somewhat logical — catching him and Faye sharing a platonic hug while only wearing T-shirts and underwear — to the absolutely insane — a customer complaining that she had just asked out "that guy who works at the library" but got rejected because he already has a girlfriend causes Dora to declare herself as said girlfriend and threaten the poor girl with a sword. Marten breaks up with her for it and she subsequently goes through Heel Realization.
  • In Rascals, Chrissy, at the start of the dating scene with Quick, is enraged whenever another woman comes onto Quick or is too friendly with him.
  • See You Tomorrow at the Food Court: Wada is very clingy towards people she likes and doesn't like "sharing" them with others.
    • She's only a fan of Duke Abel because he's not that popular in the gacha and pettily blocks anyone else on social media who likes, so she can keep the illusion he's "only hers".
    • She gets possessive of Yamamoto at times, not liking it when she sees what she thinks is a guy hitting on her (it was actually just her manager), and doesn't like the idea of her making friends with other people that are "cooler than her", assuming she'll ditch her if she does.
  • Sally Skunk from Silent Sillies will NOT tolerate her boyfriend Sidney looking at another girl, especially if it's Desiree Dog.
  • Sleepless Domain: Cassidy has demonstrated shades of this towards Heartful Punch, in a strictly platonic sense — she had long idolized magical girls and Heartful Punch in particular, and even after becoming a magical girl herself and befriending HP, she never really stopped thinking of her as an idol rather than a friend. When Undine and HP began spending time together, this mentality is part of what motivated her to attack Undine, both physically and with the accusation that she had some involvement in the tragedy of Team Alchemical. When Heartful Punch herself finds out about this, she is understandably upset and cuts off their friendship, which Cassidy does not take well. The author made it clear in this case that Cassidy's feelings towards HP were meant to be platonic, as she wished to avoid the Unfortunate Implications of writing a Psycho Lesbian.
  • Oasis of Sluggy Freelance takes this to the extreme, attempting to kidnap Torg and kill any rivals for his affection.
  • You've Gotta Be Kitten Me!: Zigzagged with Mino. She is perfectly fine with Rupert interacting with human girls, but she becomes hostile when he interacts with another cat girl.

    Web Original 
  • Anon has Chelsea Clark, who tends to be horribly clingy with both Kyle and Tucker. When she dated either of them she treated them like shit, and then after the breakup would find herself overcome with jealousy if they moved on and would normally sabotage the new relationship or at best complain non-stop. Chelsea even openly admitted to her daughter Candace that one of the main reasons she ended up with Tucker is because he showed her the most affection, which was all she ever wanted.
  • Hyper Fangirl from The Nostalgia Critic changes her orange sweater to a blue one with "HE'S MINE" on it in the opening of The Princess Diaries II. Twist is, Critic only belongs to her in the literal sense as she's kidnapped him and is forcing him to be her boyfriend.
  • The Overly Attached Girlfriend. A parody cover of Justin Bieber's "Girlfriend" which spawned an Internet meme, a followup video and a Twitter account.
  • In Return of the Cartoon Man, Valerie becomes very jealous and clingy when Roy tries to leave her to go and help Karen.
  • Sam & Mickey: "Call Me...Maybe?" has Barbie continually pester Ken through his voicemail regarding a rumor of him having a fling with some Disney Princesses. Unfortunately, the viewer never receives a confirmation or denial of this rumor, as Mr. Potato Head somehow receives all of Barbie's messages instead.
  • This ASMR video has a neko girl jealous of the viewer's pet cat. Not that she doesn't like the cat, in fact she adores it, she just insists that the viewer divide the attention with her.


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Jealous Mikari

Mikari panics when she learns about Lilysa cosplaying as Liliel because she thinks Okumura might fall for her due to the cosplaying. And when she tries to cosplay as Liliel herself, she's annoyed to find out she can't because she doesn't match Liliel's... figure.

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