1. True Blood Vampires

• Bastard Boyfriend: Both emotionally and physically abusive to Tara, though the physical parts are mostly inadvertent.

2. Assassination Classroom

• Unintentionally Sympathetic: In the manga, Kaho is meant to be a Dirty Coward Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who deserves the humiliation she receives. Several readers, however, think she comes off as someone trapped in a relationship with an abusive boyfriend and thus have more sympathy for her fearfulness, feeling that Class E's retribution on her was disproportionate to her alleged crimes.

3. Anime & Manga

• Revolutionary Girl Utena has several:
  • Kyouichi Saionji counts too with his behavior towards Anthy, his decreasing sanity and his Nightmare Faces.

4. Super

• Bastard Boyfriend: To Sarah, who he gets back on drugs. And ultimately gives her up for Mr. Range to rape.

5. Shōjo Demographic

Although series with explicit sexuality are more likely to be Josei (aimed at older women), some Shōjo may have considerable sexual content; a subgenre called Teens Love (by analogy to Boys Love) features erotic romance between heterosexual couples, with much the same narrative conventions (abusive boyfriends and angst; or, alternately, shiny romance, ecstatic lovemaking, and Happily Ever After). This stuff tends to snuggle up as close to the "Restricted" (18+) category as it can, and so isn't often licensed for translation.

6. Fan Works

• Despite being a wonderful author otherwise, Kana37 over at fanfiction.net tends to make Inuyasha a soulless bastard who will just stand by when Naraku or Kikyo attacks Kagome, especially if it involves protecting Kikyo in some way, shape, or form. This is usually the premise for her Sess/Kag fics.

7. Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side

• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: Taro's ending has him be forgiven for his treatment to Daisy, and they begin a romantic relationship. Given that he is a narcissistic, self-absorbed, emotionally flip-floppy Bastard Boyfriend who torments her, most fans were rather unhappy about this. Fortunately, Daisy can rejects him.

8. Christopher Pike

• Jerk Jock
  • Mitch in The Lost Mind. He's Jennifer's Bastard Boyfriend, as well as a chronic gambler who uses Jen to cover his debts with about as much compassion as a rock. When he comes to Jen's house to get the money he needs to pay off a loan shark, his next move is to strip completely naked and sprawl himself out on her bed, thinking some quick sex will help her relax after Crystal's death is made public. Jen is... less than pleased.

9. Persona 5: Joker

• Bastard Boyfriend: At the player's discretion, Joker can be a pathological liar and cheater when it comes to his romantic life, expertly manipulating almost every girl he comes across in the pursuit of sex. Worst yet, despite an ass-kicking on Valentine's Day and Sojiro bailing him out, he can still choose to learn nothing and get away with it; on White Day, he can cheat on his Valentine's girl and hastily ignore her phone call during his date.

10. Runaway

• Toplessness from the Back: Jackie stripping off as the police find one bug after another hidden in her clothes. Becomes Fan Disservice when she turns to reveal the angry red bruises Luther has left on her back.

11-12. Halloween (2018)

• Bastard Boyfriend: For Allyson, as it's later shown he's an awful boyfriend towards her, cheating on her at a school dance and destroying her phone when she refuses to buy into his gas-lighting. Subverted in a beginning of a deleted scene when Cameron does apologizes for trashing her phone and attempts to make up for it by either advising Allyson to put in a bag of rice to repair it or buy her a new one. This subversion continues in the following film, where he's less of a Jerkass, and is brutally murdered trying to save Allyson.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In a deleted scene, despite appearing to be a Bastard Boyfriend who broke Allyson's cell phone at the dance, he does felt bad for his action after having a Jerkass Realization and tries to apologize to her and even make up for it by offering to buy her another one. Then when he is arrested, it is revealed he is the one who asked his friend Oscar to escort Allyson back home rather than Oscar escorting her at his own accord that the theatrical cut's impression it gave out. Then in Halloween Kills, he assists his father and Allyson in hunting down Michael, revealed to be the one who found and rescued an injured Hawkins and is shown deeply regretting what he did earlier.

13. Salvage the Bones

• Bastard Boyfriend: Manny, to the extreme. He's emotionally and verbally abusive towards Esch, abandons her after getting her pregnant, and at one point, rapes her.

14. Venom: Let There Be Carnage

• Yes and no, Carnage wants to ditch Shriek at the end. But Cletus is vehemently against it and fights with his symbiote over him trying to kill her.

16. NTR: Netsuzou Trap

• Fujiwara has the title "Bastard Boyfriend" for a reason. Once the word got out that he abused Hotaru and even asked Yuma for sex after catching them together the first time in exchange for him not telling Takeda, the fandom wanted nothing more than to see his head on a spike. But once it became apparent that him asking Yuma for sex was a Secret Test of Character and that he was trying to get the girls to confess their wrongdoings to Takeda to spare the guy the pain of a broken heart, the hate eased up, and he became this.

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Takeda is the most well liked of the main cast on /a/ due to him being the most sympathetic of the four, and was the subject of a lot of pity due to him staying loyal to Yuma while everyone but him is fooling around behind each others' backs. Him punching out Fujiwara when he sent out photos of Yuma and Hotaru having sex certainly helped.

17. Anime & Manga

• Gundam fanfics tend to have some version of this.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is particularly prone to this, due to being one of the first to incorporate a Cast Full of Pretty Boys. Typically, these involve...
    • Characters in yaoi pairings switching personalities based on whether they're the seme or the uke. (For example, a fic labeled 1x2 will have grumpy Heero paired with bubbly Duo, where a fic labeled 2x1 will have a mean and bitter Duo paired with a heavily wimpified Heero.)

18-20. Child's Play (2019)

• Adaptational Jerkass: In the original, Karen is a devoted and struggling single mother who attempted to honestly buy a Good Guy doll from a second-hand merchant who then attempted to rape her. Here, she's somewhat rather neglectful to Andy as she doesn't really care about his opinion of her Bastard Boyfriend. She also essentially blackmails a co-worker to get the Buddi doll. She's also a lot lazier than her 1988 counterpart, both at work and as a mother.
• Bastard Boyfriend: For Karen.
• Hate Sink: Is more than just a Bastard Boyfriend who treats his girlfriend's son terribly, he's also cheating on his wife and kids with Karen.

1. It's Curtains

An in universe example of an abuser meant to be attractive

• No Accounting for Taste: Natalie offers this explanation when Jezebel is disappointed by a poorly-written romance novel and asks why the protagonist would give a second thought to her Bastard Boyfriend.

2-3. Horimiya

• Bastard Boyfriend: Invoked. Hori wants Miyamura to rough her up from time-to-time and gets excited when he hits or insults her, though he is generally uncomfortable about it.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He is the nicest guy in the cast aside from Yanagi, to the extent that changing his speaking habits to be a tad ruder reduces him to tears. When pushed, however, he is capable of attacking other guys in retaliation, as Toru and Sengoku can attest (Toru needled him too much, Sengoku unfairly laid blame on Hori for student council documents that went missing). This gets Played for Laughs when his middle school bullies see him act out Hori's Bastard Boyfriend fantasies in public and they conclude that he is the more dangerous of the pair.

4-7. Stockholm Syndrome

• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • There are a number of England/Japan fics that are all about pirate!England abducting/kidnapping an unwilling Japan at swordpoint as his "possession" or "treasure", being pretty much a domineering, possessive bastard to Japan's Ukefiied self (as quoted from one such fic: "Listen to me Kiku...you may struggle, you may rebel, you may try and fight back, but know this: I always get what I want in the end. And what I want, is you. I will break you down if I have to, love, so consider yourself warned."), and Japan of course falling in love with him nonetheless. There's even a pretty famous England/Japan MAD titled "Beautiful Dreamer" that's a visual version of this kind of fic, with more than one commenter pointing out its Unfortunate Implications.
  • This is a "foundation" for some Japan/Taiwan, Japan/China, Japan/Hong Kong, China/Taiwan, China/Hong Kong and Japan/Thailand Darker and Edgier fanwork, specially in the times of Imperial Japan or Imperial/Red China. The aggressor/Bastard Boyfriend controls, abuses (in many different ways, but preferably sexual), manipulates, etc. his "captive" of either gender, breaking them mentally and emotionally and making them their love/sex slaves. That is, when the "captive" isn't shown as being head-over-heels in love with the aggressor since the beginning — specially common in Japan/Taiwan works, where she's openly crushing on Imperial Japan, who is portrayed as a Relationship Sue Knight in Shining Armor for her. Japan/Korea works are most likely excepted since Japan is almost always shown as a monster to Korea right from the start, and considering the Japanese occupation from Korea... huh.
  • Also a possible interpretation of anything involving The Ottoman Empire/past!Turkey. Specially in regards to Egypt, young Greece (either as a child or a teenager), teen Romania or teen Hungary.
    • Especially creepy in some Turkey/Greece works where it's clear that Bastard-ized!Turkey's abuse of Greece was a Break the Cutie experience for Greece, leaving him bitter and emotionally damaged... and the authors try to justify Greece continuing to stay with Turkey in spite of this by showing him to be cold or dickish toward everyone else and Turkey being the only one he shows his sweet side to... even though this is the exact opposite of the way Greece behaves in canon, and makes him come across as having been emotionally brainwashed into Taking A Level In Jerkass and believing the person responsible for all his emotional griefs and ruin to be the one he can be the happiest with.
    • Iceland sometimes gets hit with this as well, specially in regards to him and Turkey. While he is younger than the standard nation, this doesn't mean he's a pre-pubescent boy (he's mentioned to look at least 17), and while Turkey is depicted as being quite older than he is, it doesn't necessarily mean Iceland would submit to him completely. (Curiously, even with this factor, Turkey/Iceland ends up one of the few Turkey pairings in which he's not depicted as a Bastard Boyfriend.)

8. Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!

9-11. Anime & Manga

• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • England often goes from the snarky, yet also sensitive Tsundere he is in canon, to becoming a weepy, emotionally-needy mess who pines endlessly for [insert: America, France, Canada, etc]. and is more than once the target of [insert: Russia, France]'s violations/torture/etc. so [insert: America, France, Canada, etc]. can literally pull a Big Damn Heroes to save him and let the Hurt/Comfort start. Either that, or America is a Bastard Boyfriend to him and England becomes a weepy Love Martyr, while the artist expects everyone to believe that theirs is as completely healthy and cute relationship. When it comes to sex, England is also often made a virgin and awkward or even oblivious about sex, when in canon he's so much of a pervert that it puts France to shame. Also, some fanartists tend to draw him with extremely feminine hips...
  • As for Japan... let's just say that while he isn't exactly the most assertive or masculine-looking nation-tan in canon, there are several fics that surgically remove any hint of the 'subtle, but definitely present, touch of iron' behind his Japanese Politeness or the fact that he does know how to handle a katana (and successfully fought off the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010 kidnapper, that had been able to overpower Russia and General Winter, with a rolled-up poster) to turn him into a completely helpless Moeblob utterly unable to defend or stand up for himself. More than one of these fics even go so far as to have him be abused by America or claimed/possessed by bastardpirateboyfriend!England and either being a weepy Love Martyr or needing to be rescued by someone else. Mind you, this only happens to Japan about as often as he gets "semeified"/bastardized instead. On the other hand, if China is the seme in their relationship...
    
    The fact that canon does establish him as sexually inexperienced compared to Greece, who happens to be One Head Taller than him, doesn't help. The better Greece/Japan fanwriters recognize that, sexual disparities aside, the two actually have a pretty equal relationship in canon with Japan actually being technically older than Greece (if you consider that Greece represents only the Hellenic Republic due to his mother literally being Ancient Greece), and that even if Japan's Moe traits tend to be enhanced when he's with Greece, he'd still have a touch of Inscrutable Oriental or at least a 'far more likely to quietly hide his emotions than become a blushy, weepy mess over them' vibe to him; the poorer fanwriters...don't.
  • Lithuania is so often made into Russia's Stockholm Syndrome victim or Poland's weepy Distressed Dude that the phrase "I'm damaged goods, Feliks" (which comes from a very bad Poland/Liet fic where Lithuania was raped by Bastard Boyfriend!Russia and needed Relationship Sue!Poland's Healing Cock) has reached Memetic Mutation in some circles. The panel where he was shown in a maid dress and getting whipped by Russia certainly didn't help matters...

12. Boyfriend To Death

And they aren't the only ones to be happy about the news, as the notice about Erma's newborn baby also reached the local Home Guard, when Tasak Felna, Erma's younger brother, received the news via another EDF member, congratulating the new "uncle" for the baby of his famous sister, while also asking when he will join the EDF, something that replies with a no. After that, Tasak is cursing his luck, as he's still living under the shadow of his famous older sister, a Living Legend on the EDF. While walking furiously, he catchs the attention of a very ambitious EDF commander and that commander throws a giant speech about how Tasak's talent is wasted thanks to the EDF bureaucracy and he should work for him, so Tasak could reach a better position within the EDF. The name of that commander is Tavas Ikalik.

1. Distaff Counterpart

• Bastard Boyfriend ↔ Bastard Girlfriend

2. Satellite Love Interest

• Exploited: Charlie abuses Bob, knowing he will never object to his behavior.

3. Anime & Manga

• Haou Airen: Reilan didn't exactly kill herself with her own hands, but set a Thanatos Gambit specifically to have revenge against the Bastard Boyfriend that left her for Kurumi.

4. Albedo Erma Felna EDF Volume Two Number Three

And they aren't the only ones to be happy about the news, as the notice about Erma's newborn baby also reached the local Home Guard, when Tasak Felna, Erma's younger brother, received the news via another EDF member, congratulating the new "uncle" for the baby of his famous sister, while also asking when he will join the EDF, something that replies with a no. After that, Tasak is cursing his luck, as he's still living under the shadow of his famous older sister, a Living Legend on the EDF. While walking furiously, he catchs the attention of a very ambitious EDF commander and that commander throws a giant speech about how Tasak's talent is wasted thanks to the EDF bureaucracy and he should work for him, so Tasak could reach a better position within the EDF. The name of that commander is Tavas Ikalik.

5. Finder Series

• Bastard Boyfriend: Very much one at first, but he does get better later on.

6. Jamaica Inn

• Bastard Boyfriend: Jem is considered this by many readers, but considering that this novel was written in the twenties and set over a hundred years before this, that he, Francis and Joss accept Mary's defiance of gender roles is quite remarkable.

7-8. Geek Charming

• All Love Is Unrequited: In the beginning: Josh likes Amy, Caitlin likes Josh, and Steven likes Caitlin. Also Dylan to Asher.
• Bastard Boyfriend: Asher.

9-10. For His Own Sake

• Bastard Boyfriend: Naru often refers to Keitaro as such. The latter doesn't live up to her word however and instead...
• Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend: Indirectly discussed when Ritsuko was making a comment about Keitaro being a better man than the guy she fell for (Gendo Ikari).

11. Kitsune No Ken Fist Of The Fox Konoha Town Other Residents

• Bastard Boyfriend: It's hinted that Kotetsu used to be this to Anko.

12-13. Eurythmics

• Bastard Boyfriend: In the video for "Would I Lie To You."
  • The scooter-riding Jerkass. He gets his in the end...
  • The stage-crasher who gets a Soft Glass KO from one of the backup singers.

14. Love Letter Lunacy

• The Devil Does Exist begins with shy Kayano trying to give her crush a letter but handing it to another guy instead, prompting a lot of harassment.

15. Literature

While Christian Gray is a textbook example of this trope, especially in the West, nothing on the entry makes that clear.

• Fifty Shades of Grey: Ana and Kate are just supposed to be good friends, with Kate saying she loves her like a sister, but a lot of their interactions can come off as Les Yay, especially from Ana's end considering how often she points out Kate's physical attractiveness with similar terms she uses for Christian. It doesn't help that Kate cares a lot more about Ana's happiness and well-being than Christian seems to.

1. Crows

• Bastard Boyfriend: Despite the events of the first film, Genji acts all standoffish and even cold towards Ruka in the sequel, ignoring her approaches and even telling her to shut up codly.

2. Pathfinder Rise Of The Runelords

• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Put on a pedestal by her neighbors, restricted in her activities by her adoptive father, knocked up by her Bastard Boyfriend who then left her, disowned by her father, and gave still birth to a deformed monster thanks to being in an area desecrated by Lamashtu at the time. No wonder she went crazy.

3. For Better or for Worse

• Elizabeth's dumping of her Bastard Boyfriend Eric deserves mention: For months, Eric had been cheating on Elizabeth with a woman named Tina who goes to their school and then emotionally manipulating her into feeling guilty for being at all suspicious. He then leaves for Hockey Practice, sans skates so Elizabeth runs them to him... and finds out he's not there and he's been bringing Tina to practice. She goes to Tina's apartment to confront them.. and it turns out Tina had no idea they were in a relationship, causing both to blow up at him:
  Eric: Tina, Elizabeth just calm down OK? You're accusing me of stuff and I need to get my head around it.
  Elizabeth: (while holding up an angry fist) Get your head around this!
  Tina: Elizabeth called one night looking for you... and you told me to say you weren't home! You had some stupid reason and like an idiot I believed you! You were cheating on her!
  Eric: What is this? Am I on trial here? Don't I get to say anything?
  Both Girls: Yes!! Plead Guilty!

4. Chad Vader

Not a lot of context, but clearly meant to be an antagonist

• Catharsis Factor: After suffering Clint's Jerkass antics (from making Chad a humiliated Butt-Monkey, bossing around the staff, being a Bastard Boyfriend to Clarissa, and culminating in him kicking Jeremy's helmet while gloating about it), and on top of the Trauma Conga Line Chad himself suffered throughout Season One, it's very satisfying when Chad manages to turn the tables on Clint using his telekinesis and make the bully cry like the Dirty Coward he is — and get his old job back in the process.

1. Big Brother 13

• Bastard Girlfriend: Downplayed. Rachel loves Brendon very much but there's no doubt that she sometimes treats him very unfairly or poorly. Many fans have complained that the relationship between Brendon and Rachel is extremely toxic. Brendon comes off as an Extreme Doormat for Rachel. He's willing to do anything and everything that she wants even if he doesn't agree with it. Some people have said that they which Brendon would grow a spine or backbone and stop letting Rachel walk all over him continuously. There are some fans who argue that Rachel does in fact emotionally and mentally abuse Brendon through her dominance and her overly emotional behavior and outbursts.

2. The Nostalgia Critic: Tamara's Characters

• Bastard Girlfriend: Her psychoticness and Critic realizing that views always go up when he's in pain is what makes him request her to come work for his team.

3. Samus Is a Girl

• "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" By Sophia B. Hawkins. The song is about a friend who is stuck in an abusive relationship, and how she both has feelings for them and wishes she could help them, making it seem like it's about a guy with a Bastard Girlfriend.. until near the end where she mentions she had a dream about them where she "Sat on a mountainside with peace of mind, And I lay by the ocean making love to her with visions clear". Apparently the song is based on real events as well, as Sophia is bisexual and had a female friend this was happening to. Whether they ever got together is unknown.

4-5. Hatchetfield Other Residents

• Extreme Doormat: Linda is an obvious Gold Digger who spends his money and treats him like hired help, and he does nothing but patiently put up with it even though you'd think as the wealthy doctor financing her lifestyle he'd have more say in the relationship. It turns out to be foreshadowing — Linda's alluring Bastard Girlfriend traits end up getting a whole cult full of (mostly) men to slave for her and (literally) kiss her feet in the same way.
• Bastard Girlfriend: This doesn't happen in TGWDLM —she's shown being protective of Alice and Alice got herself killed by staying in Hatchetfield for an extra day without telling her dad— but in Watcher World, Bill's judgement of her as a suitable paramour for his daughter amounts to this. He says that she's a bad influence on Alice and doesn't treat her well, for someone meant to be a significant other, and they don't seem to have a future in mind. Case in point: Bill schedules a trip weeks in advance because he wants to bond with his daughter before she goes to college, and Deb spontaneously hosts a Wild Teen Party, hinting to Alice that if she doesn't come, Zigs may be more interesting. This sends Alice into a panicked frenzy; to add insult to injury, Deb posts pictures on her Instagram of hooking up with Zigs, all the while knowing why Alice couldn't make it. For this reason, once she and Bill snap out of Blinky's brainwashing, Alice doesn't admit that Bill was right, but checks Instagram once to follow him and then tosses her phone into the backseat, showing that she's letting go of Deb's power over her.

6. Roseanne & The Conners

• Bastard Girlfriend: During the early stages of her and David's romantic relationship, Darlene could be emotionally controlling and even downright cruel to him. After they break-up, she eventually realizes how much of a jerk she was and that she wants to be with him.

7. 3rd Rock from the Sun

• Bastard Girlfriend: She's rather possessive and demanding of Tommy when she's not mocking him.

8. Teen Idol

• Deconstruction: Jen thinks that her talent is to keep the peace, as the Neutral Good. It doesn't matter that Kurt is a Jerk Jock, Cara is the Butt-Monkey, and Trina is a Bastard Girlfriend to Scott; she has to be the "mayonnaise" of the group and not make waves. Luke points out this is really stupid for a lot of reasons: when Jen is trying to please everyone, she ignores real problems and injustices going on at the school that she can fix, and she admits that it's exhausting living her life of trying to mediate between the different cliques and outsiders. He says that with her influence, she can actually make the school better, by rescuing Betty Ann the doll from Kurt, helping out Cara with her bullying, and refusing to tolerate her best friend's ways. Even though Jen thinks that taking Luke's advice makes her life worse — Trina refuses to speak to her and sabotages her during choir rehearsal for the crime of going to the Spring Fling with Luke — she comes to admit that she's tired of trying to please everyone and it's nice to put a smile on Mrs. Mulvaney's face when she sees Betty Ann back in her rightful spot. What's more, Jen has to admit that she ought to have helped out Cara sooner rather than let the poor girl suffer for years on end.

9. Sinister Tango Music

• Senran Kagura: Haruka, Hebijo Academy's Omnidisciplinary Scientist and sadistic puppetmaster, has a new piece of ominous tango music associated with her with every new appearance. Word of God has it that her character makes the composer think of "France and Piazzolla".

10. Good Luck Girl!

• Bastard Girlfriend: Invoked. The extreme masochist Momo'o finds her hot because her punches and kicks cause him so much pain. Although Ranmaru isn't into Momo's S&M fetish, she abuses him to bring out his Canis Major form in battle.

11. Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You

• When Vriska is bleeding to death on her Quest Bed in Homestuck, she asks Tavros, who she had previously abused, to kill her so that she can ascend to the God Tiers quickly and painlessly. Tavros can't bring himself to do it, leading to a scene of pure Nightmare Fuel.

12. The Big Bang Theory S 3 E 12 The Psychic Vortex

13. Oh Shit, There's Fanfiction of Us!?

• Bastard Girlfriend: Raven. She's cheated on Leon with multiple people, and is implied to coerce him into sex.

14. Demon Candy: Parallel

• Too Kinky to Torture: Caley, being a fallen angel, has trouble differentiating between pleasure and pain, leading to this trope.
  • This was actually shown to be extremely dangerous for her, since she wouldn't know when enough is enough and that Lillith isn't quite as caring as Victoria, so inverted trope.

15. Dude, Where's My Car?

• Bastard Girlfriend: Christie Boner has shades of this with Tommy. First it's implied she cheated on him the night before the film's events. Then, when Tommy gets swallowed alive by the Alien Giantess she seems almost glad about it. Then when he manages to survive the living hell that must have been that woman's stomach, she doesn't even give him a hand up, and breaks up with him on the spot.

16. The Universal Genre Savvy Guide

• If I'm stuck in a situation in which all of my love interests are sadistic arseholes, I will speak my mind when they get out of control instead of keeping my mouth shut, and find some way to escape my situation even if it kills me. Besides, they don't seem to care about me, so it would just make sense to take a "burden" off of their shoulders.
  • Above all else, do not fall in love with them. I'll be more likely to justify and excuse their less savory actions towards me if I do. I'll try to keep as many loving influences around me as possible too, in order to remind myself what kind of relationships I should actually potentially want.

17. Living Doll Collector

• Haruka from Senran Kagura is known for encasing people in wax and keeping them as dolls. She also longs to do this to Hibari.

18. The Big Bang Theory S 3 E 12 The Psychic Vortex

• Bastard Girlfriend: While Leonard says (but not actually thinking so) that he may have been out-of-line when dismissing psychics, Penny refuses to admit that she disrespects Leonard's beliefs as well.

19. High School D×D

• It's not usually noticeable since she usually wears her hair in a ponytail, but when Akeno appeared for her date with Issei, her hair is down. Aside from bangs and hair color^* Both appear to be black with different tint colors., she looks a bit like Raynare. Also has a bit of Fridge Horror due to her fear of revealing herself as a Fallen Angel to Issei and him hating her for being one.

20. Video Games

• Even the Grand Theft Auto series is prone to this every once in a while.
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Surprisingly enough, Catalina of all characters has even gotten this by the fans of the game who actually like her. They often ignore the fact that she's a psychopathic murderer who only likes to kill and rob because it amuses her by pointing out how lovely they think she looks, and when they do acknowledge it, they try to pass it off as her having a bad childhood. Sure her mentioning a stepdaughter being poorly fed by her stepfather while her stepbrother is giving a much healthier feast might give away a hint, but it doesn't prove that this has actually happened to Catalina herself, since her childhood is never explained in either of her appearances, and it still doesn't excuse her treatment of CJ throughout her missions in the storyline.

21-22. My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic Episodes

• "The Break-Up Breakdown"
  • Someone who eagerly snaps at his partner over something they overheard the partner saying whilst eavesdropping and then won't even let the partner say what they had to say isn't an emotionally manipulative asshole spouse: they only got japed by a silly misunderstanding! Keep this in mind the next time you're getting snapped at for no reason by the doofus you met only a few months ago.
• Dragon Dropped:
  • You're in the wrong if you decide to stop associating with the manipulative succubus who feeds into the feelings she knows you have for her to entice you into doing her job for her, all the while treating you like an indentured servant at best and completely disregarding said feelings.

23. Common Colors

• Many of the other gods don't understand why Nepgear has a Heroic BSoD whenever she talks to a goddess voiced by Kana Hanazawa; the only thing Nepgear has said about the matter is it has something to do with Iris Heart.
  • Which is enough of a reason to give anyone a Heroic BSoD.

24. Voices

• Not very fond of Raynare, given that Claude had a nasty and abusive relationship with his last girlfriend, Catalina. However, while he didn't say this himself, it is implied that Claude finds the fallen angel a joke compared to what Catalina is capable of.

25. Hatchetfield Main Residents

• Bastard Girlfriend: The "Abusively Sexy Lady" variant. Was this to Gerald (and is now his Bastard Wife), and apparently continued to be this to at least two other men, and is now this for a whole (mostly male) Apocalypse Cult of fanatical worshipers who literally kiss her feet. Lauren Lopez pulls it off really well. (Note that her "harem" of male cultists makes her cult a mortal Gender Flip of Uncle Wiley and his bevy of female Sniggles in the Black and White.)

26. Afro Samurai

• Bastard Girlfriend: Comes off as this to Kuma.

27. No Guy Wants an Amazon

• Justified:
  • Bob doesn't want to wind up with a girl who uses her strength to treat men like her personal toys.

28. Dark Places

• Bastard Girlfriend: Diondra to Ben. He doesn't even really like her due to how violent, aggressive, and cruel she is to him. Somewhat related to Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male, but Diondra is portrayed as an unpleasant although abused and mistreated person.

29. Anime & Manga

• Uwakoi and Aki Sora, both by Masahiro Itosugi, collectively take the most infamous tropes associated with the ecchi and harem genres - Bastard Girlfriend, Brother–Sister Incest, Extreme Doormat, Hormone-Addled Teenager, The Ditherer, Unwanted Harem, Yandere, etc. - and plays them all for realistic drama and/or psychological horror.

30. Nightelf 37

• Portfolio: Adorkable, A Love to Dismember to Nick, Bare Your Midriff, Kills Zombies With Cheerleading Chops And A Magical Chainsaw, Silly-Mannered Zombie Hunter, Downplayed Example of Bastard Girlfriend, Blood Knight, Cloud Cuckoolander, The Ditz, Manic Pixie Dream Girl, She-Fu, The Pollyanna, Stripperific

31. Parody Product Placement

• The most notable case of Continuity Nod about the above is Muñeca System, an inflated sex doll that can do a lot of things apart of being just a sex doll which Infomercial became El Bananero's first success. Well, with the time, Muñeca System became his girlfriend (a Yandere one, by the way) and appeared in a lot of videos and even has a dedicated Halloween Episode as the Bastard Girlfriend.

32. Sinister Tango Music

• Senran Kagura: Haruka, Hebijo Academy's Omnidisciplinary Scientist and sadistic puppetmaster, has a new piece of ominous tango music associated with her with every new appearance. Word of God has it that her character makes the composer think of "France and Piazzolla".

33. Kuttsukiboshi

• Bastard Girlfriend: Very much so in the first half of the second OVA, what with her forcing herself on Kiiko and then not telling her why she did what she did with her brother.

1. Wedding Crashers

• Bastard Girlfriend: Gloria has the perfect way of getting her man: first scare the shit out of him by acting crazy, then tie him up against his will and rape him. Of course he eventually learns to like it, and their relationship seamlessly develops into normal roleplaying.

2. Ben-To

• Bastard Girlfriend:
  • In-Universe, one of Satou's classmates thinks she's this... as long as Satou's the one getting abused.
  • Despite it not being true, at the end of the episode, Satou ruminates "There really... might be some appeal to this.".

3. Armor Piercing Slap

• Doctor Who:
  • Happens to the Doctor a lot, actually:
    • Donna Noble's willingness to slap him so hard he nearly falls on his ass (twice!) when he starts acting high-handed with her just makes the Tenth Doctor even more impressed and charmed by her. No, not like that...

4. Anime & Manga

• Rare Female Example: H-Doujinshi with an Action Girl or a Bastard Girlfriend are likely to have her suddenly become weak or sweet just so the man can be in control. This is especially common (and glaring) when Action Girl characters who routinely defeat supernatural threats, ex. Sailor Moon, suddenly forget how to use their powers and can only cry helplessly when assaulted by monsters or plain old humans.

14. Senran Kagura: Nintendo 3DS

5. The Jerk Index

• Bastard Girlfriend: I'm abusive to my boyfriend and it's sexy!

6. This Index Is a Bitch

• Bastard Girlfriend: She's a bitch. He loves it.

7. Doctor Who – Villains

• Bastard Girlfriend: Downplayed, but her relationship with The Doctor is more or less like this, in contrast to Rose's own relationship that is less direct and based on trust, Cassandra is much more straightforward and aggressive, telling The Doctor what to do. Cassandra herself more or less describes her new self as this. Weak and vulgar, but attractive and well endowed. Strangely, The Doctor himself doesn't seems to mind the change of personality that much and Cassandra herself can't help kissing him when she gets the chance after being dumped into a teenage body full of hormones, despite the fact that she is planning to kill him later on. You could see it as what remains of Rose's persona being love-struck with The Doctor while Cassandra herself being more interested in killing him violently.
• Villain No Longer Idle: She was suspicious about the cat-nuns but couldn't do anything about it because of her condition. Once she snatches the body of Rose, this plays in full effect. The results vary: she manages to steal Rose's body, significantly extending her lifespan, and manages to capture The Doctor as well, having a good plan to blackmail the cat-nuns into giving her a fortune too. However, the cat-nuns aren't intimidated that easily and her plot fails. She may have succeeded if she had the manpower she had back in The End Of The World, but since she is now a young and vulgar chav, well...

8. Women Are Delicate

• Bastard Girlfriend: The female in the relationship is the abuser, and thus, not at all delicate. Even something passive-aggressive is still hurtful.

9. Draco in Leather Pants

• Bastard Boyfriend, Bastard Girlfriend, and Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend by design, since these types are supposed to induce Perverse Sexual Lust.

10. Romance Novel Tropes

• Romanticized Abuse: Definitely not universal (although it's a common misconception about the genre); however, there are some works where the hero (or more rarely the heroine) will treat their love interest rather poorly, yet their behavior is portrayed as romantic or glossed over. In some older works, it can be partly a result of Values Dissonance.

11. Webcomics

• Parodied in Hark! A Vagrant. The Strong Female Characters are horrible people in outrageously Stripperific outfits and poses who insist that because they can inflict random violence on men that "sexism is over".

The only female Toad and Toad's love interest in "Retarded64: The Toad, the Fat and the Ugly". Unfortunately for Toad, she's very, very, VERY high-maintenance.

• Bastard Girlfriend

3. Light Feminine and Dark Feminine

• Chun Li and Juri Han from Street Fighter IV are both Kick Chicks, but Chun Li is an Action Girl who's very firmly on the side of good, while Juri is a mix of Bastard Girlfriend and Dark Action Girl.

4. The Nostalgia Chick 2009 Episodes

• As well as being creepy (and really quite hot), the Critic's "I am the master and you are the subordinate." Mostly because you know that's total bullshit.

5. Futurama

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6. Beware The Nice Ones Video Games

• Neptunia: Self-proclaimed heroine of justice Nisa is usually very peppy, but making reference to her breast size turns all that around like so. You wouldn't want to get on Mina Nishizawa's nerves either; take it from Rom and Ram.
  • And come Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory, Plutia blows them all out of the water. Normally lazy, friendly and scatterbrained with just the vaguest hint of a slight sadist streak, major villains are known to rethink a confrontation if it means she might transform. Why? Because Iris Heart won't kill you. Madam Goddess will make you beg for permission to die.