Not Good with Rejection

""I'm not going to be ignored, Dan!""

- Alexandra "Alex" Forrest, Fatal Attraction

""Destroy. Destroy. Destroy. Slowly, completely, gently beyond comparison, cruelly to the point of numbness, I'll violate your life. That's right. The instant I rip off your limbs, tear open your ribs and pull out your intestines, biting into your neck as you scream in agony, chewing through your eyes as I ignore your pleas for mercy and spreading your brains on the ground like butter!""

- Tsukihime's Arcueid Brunestud, if Shiki rejects her.

This is when a character who has a crush on another character or is already with another character does not take rejection or being dumped well. In fact to them being rejected/dumped is a big Berserk Button. They do not take being told "No" well. Turns out Love Makes You Crazy and Love Makes You Evil (or sometimes not to that extent) especially if that love goes unrequited. May or may not result in Attempted Rape or even worse. May occur in a Villainous Crush scenario. Mild cases of this are often a prerequisite to Ladykiller in Love scenario, when The Casanova falls in love because the woman rejected all his advances, leaving him baffled and disoriented by the new experience. Stalkers are usually unsympathetic whereas this can be sympathetic; the one who cannot handle rejection may just commit Seppuku or join the Legion of Lost Souls whereas a Stalker with a Crush will continue pursuing in ways harmful to the supposed beloved. Sometimes the person who doesn't like rejection doesn't take it well when their loved one cheats on them with someone else either.

The rejection may be either verbal, written, visual or physical or sometimes just stated by another character who is not the object of their affection. Sometimes the rejected character will try to make the object of their affection take back the rejection or love them, by force.

See also Crazy Jealous Guy, Clingy Jealous Girl, Spurned Into Suicide, If I Can't Have You, and Murder the Hypotenuse. The rejected person may or may not get better and get over the rejection though. Compare Woman Scorned, Psycho Ex-Girlfriend. Compared/Contrast Mad Love where the rejected person doesn't always mind being rejected and continues to pursue the object of their affection anyway.

A subversion of this can be when the subject doesn't take well to being turned down initially, but later eases up and becomes a Dogged Nice Girl to him.

There's a fundamental difference in character & story, depending on whether the rejected party:
 * Becomes Ax Crazy/Stalker with a Crush/Yandere (disambiguation) or
 * Crosses the Despair Event Horizon/becomes suicidal/depressed.
 * Fall into the more mild Clingy Jealous Girl/Crazy Jealous Guy scenario
 * Becomes Tsundere/Jerkass

Anime and Manga
• Diane from Nanatsu No Taizai can at times be extremely crazy jealous especially if she thinks Meliodas has scorned her. When she's like this, not even Meliodas is safe. • Rika from Lonely Wolf, Lonely Sheep is this to younger Imari. She had feelings for her when they worked together but Imari had feelings for another. In jealousy Rika told others that Imari was lesbian, which got her shunned and forced her out of the job. Rika was jealous of the two Imari's bond and tried to scare the other off - even pushing her off the stairs (it didn't badly injure her though) - but it didn't work.
 * Rune from Karakuridouji Ultimo falls into this in regards to his current unrequited love for Yamato.
 * Belarus from Axis Powers Hetalia has an unreturned Yandere (disambiguation) crush on brother Russia. She doesn't react very well when Russia tries to get her to leave him alone. Meaning she tears out his doorknob and stands in the doorway with an insane look on her face telling him that they need to get "married"...
 * One Piece: Vander Drecken responds very badly to Princess Shirahoshi rejecting his marriage proposals, leading to a very bad case of If I Can't Have You. Subverted when it's revealed
 * Goshuushou Sama Ninomiya Kun: Inner Reika (who's Yandere (disambiguation) for Shungo) tries to rape Shungo to help get her feelings across, is willing to pull a Murder the Hypotenuse on Mayu her rival for Shungo's love, and completely looses it in the last episode upon seeing him try to kiss Mayu, screaming at her subordinate Hosaka to kill Shungo. She gets over it though.
 * In the Shuffle anime Kaede goes Yandere (disambiguation) when Rin rejects her in favor of Asa. She gets better.
 * In Princess Princess when Tooru tells Sayaka that he only sees her as a sister she has a Freak-Out moment and tries to kill herself by jumping off of a cliff. She gets better.
 * Tokyo Mew Mew features Kisshu who tries to kill Ichigo when she refuses to become "his". He eventually gets over it.
 * In Outlaw Star Harry beats up Melfina and tries to kidnap her when she refuses him. He also tries to kill Gene the guy he thinks she's interested in and tries to Mind Rape her twice. He gets over the rejection though eventually.
 * Sakura Gari: Katsuragi towards Souma. Also, Sakurako towards Souma. Generally, a lot of people towards Souma.
 * Not to forget Souma himself, who tries to kill himself after Masataka got fed up of his Romanticized Abuse and told him "I Wished You Were Dead", and then all the terrible crap that he had done to Masataka sinks in...
 * In Ranma ½ Ranma's suitors do not take rejection well. This example is mostly Played for Laughs.
 * Also, when female Ranma discovers that Ryoga (that had accidentally hit Ranma with a love rod) doesn't love him back, he transforms himself into a guy and starts to beat the crap out of Ryoga. Normally Ryoga is as equally skilled in Martial Arts as Ranma, but this time Ranma was in such a rage that Ryoga was forced to surrender...
 * In Ai no Kusabi there's Iason and Guy towards Riki.
 * Yuno from Mirai Nikki towards Yukiteru.
 * In Black Cat the protagonist's enemy, Creed Diskenth has an obsessive fixation on him, and when Train leaves the Chronos Numbers, he kills his closest friend and doesn't hesitate later on to kidnap his friends and hold them hostage.
 * In Elfen Lied, when Lucy learns Kouta lied to her about the gender of the cousin he was taking to the festival, she murders his father and sister in a fit of jealousy and tries to murder his cousin.
 * In Monster Eva Heinemann tries to win over Tenma several times after they break up, each time becoming angrier and angrier until she threatens to turn in his tie and use it against him.
 * Perfect Blue: Me-Mania (real name Uchida) has a thing for Mima that she doesn't even notice. When she publicly announces that she's quitting her singing job and moving to something else, Me-Mania takes this as rejection. Being the crazed fan that he is, he sends her a fax message simply saying "TRAITOR" over and over again. Then he stalks her, murders people connected to her, and attempts to rape and kill her.
 * Okane ga Nai has Kanou towards Ayase. There's also Ayase's Stalker with a Crush who pulls a knife on him in a scene similar to Attempted Rape scene.
 * In a Death Note flashback, when Misa tries to ignore a Stalker with a Crush who surprises her at night, he pulls a knife, saying, "Then I'll kill you and myself!"
 * Can't forget Misa's "If I see you (Light) with another girl, I'll kill them!"
 * Mirage of Blaze: Naoe towards Kagetora.
 * Both of the main female characters on School Days fit this trope to a T. And it's not pretty.
 * Mizore from Rosario + Vampire towards Tsukune though she does get better about this and becomes nicer after being added to Tsukune's harem.
 * In The End of Evangelion the violence between Shinji and Asuka reaches a crescendo as Shinji eventually strangles her. This happens shortly after Asuka kicks him, gives him a nasty "The Reason You Suck" Speech which includes her rejecting him after he confesses his feelings to her, and shoves him to the ground causing a pot of painfully hot coffee to spill on him.
 * In episode 22 Asuka flirts with Kaji and when he rejects her she screams "I'm an adult! So look at me!" while pulling her blouse apart and shoving her breasts in his face.
 * Ritsuko deludes herself that Gendo genuinely loves her instead of just having her as a mistress. When she's proven wrong, she incinerates the Rei clones and in End of Evangelion, she hacks the MAGI to remotely self-destruct it as a final 'up yours'... only to have Naoko's woman personality in Casper-3 veto the order. Gendo instantly pulls a gun and kills her.
 * Backstory of Umineko no Naku Koro ni in a nutshell, at least as Beatrice tells it - man summons witch, man falls in love with witch, witch doesn't love him,, man can no longer see witch, man decides to kill entire family in order to revive witch and spends most of his time screaming at the sky.
 * Nodame Cantabile: In the Paris Chapter, when Chiaki wanted to break up with Nodame, she beat the crap out of him (on a bridge overlooking the Seine) until he changed his mind.
 * Chiri in Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei towards Nozomu. One such case is when Nozomu (and guest commentators) immediately and bluntly rejected her suggestion that they could be a successful match (proper love) in the "Maybe Maybe" episode, despite considering and conceding the possibility of success of romantic relationships with Abiru (puppy love), Nami (normal love), Manami (unfaithful love), Kaere (violent love), Chie (adult relationship), Maria (acquaintanceship) and even Ikkyu (Ho Yay), upon their suggestions. Chiri's reaction to the rejection is frighteningly hilarious.
 * Naruse in Kawaii Akuma. He confesses to Akiyoshi another man and when Akiyoshi rejects him he undergoes a complete change of attitude and rapes him.
 * Griffith of Berserk was implied to have feelings for Guts. He didn't respond very well when Guts left him. At all.
 * He also started harboring Yandere (disambiguation) tendencies toward Casca as well, and the discovery that Guts and Casca were in a relationship would cause him to snap, leading to everything going to hell.
 * Rosine also had an obsession with her friend Jill. So, when Jill definitely refuses her We Can Rule Together offer, Rosine captures her and tries to turn her into one of her pseudo-Elves by force.
 * Saionji in Revolutionary Girl Utena in regards to Anthy.
 * Also Akio in regards to Anthy.
 * In Wolf's Rain during a confrontation between the two, Jagara stabs Darcia with a poisoned dagger when he refuses her.
 * In Fruits Basket Kagura Sohma is usually a cute, sweet girl with a cheerful disposition, but she actually shows her love for Kyo by beating him to a pulp on sight, especially if he refuses her advances. This frequently leads to Shigure's house being broken. When they were both little kids, apparently she got Kyo to propose to her by threatening him with a knife (or a big rock in the anime). Subverted at the end when she grows to accept his affection for Tohru.
 * The grotesque huge Captain Continental lusts after Jonathan in Legend of the Blue Wolves. However, Jonathan rejects his amorous advances. Captain Continental ultimately responds by beating him up and raping him.
 * Haruna Niekawa of Durarara. Professor Nasujima at Mikado's school clearly has a thing for Anri, which naturally Squicks the hell out of her. The same guy is also dating Haruna Niekawa (one of his former students). Or was. Haruna doesn't like that he's changed his preferences, so she gave Anri a visit and tried to kill her...
 * Tabool in Now and Then Here and There is unhealthily obsessed with garnering any attention whatsoever from his best-friend-turned-rival, Nabuca, to the point that he gets jealous of a freaking six-year-old. Long story short: Nabuca continues to reject Tabool and it does not end well.
 * Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo: After being dumped by her boyfriend Fumio Kirisaki declares "Alright, I'll kill him...Then I'll die."
 * In the anime Speed Grapher Ginza has a one-sided, desperate love for Saiga and ultimately rapes him.
 * In Devil May Cry: The Animated Series the Prison Warden. After Dante rejects his advances he freaks out and orders Dante to be thrown in the special cell.
 * Sae in Peach Girl. And Momo to a lesser extent.
 * Ryoki of Hot Gimmick in regards to Hatsumi his girlfriend. At one point in the manga Hatsumi tells Ryoki that she can't be with him anymore when he orders her to make the impossible decision of choosing between him or her family. When she leaves him he's shown thinking to himself "That stupid woman...If she can't be mine she should just die."
 * Aoshima of Ah! My Goddess is a playboy that can have any woman he wants except for Belldandy and Skuld. When they reject him he doesn't take it well and attempts to rape them. Thankfully, they both escape him before he can.
 * Togainu no Chi: Keisuke becomes Yandere (disambiguation) as a result of not having his feelings toward Akira being acknowledged and being rejected as well as the effects of Line making him insane. Whether he snaps out of it or not depends on the route (in the game). In the anime though, he snaps out of it and reverts back to his normal self.
 * Mai-HiME: Shizuru out of her love for Natsuki, goes insane when she believes Natsuki has rejected her (Natsuki, however, also considers Shizuru her most important person) and kills those she sees as Natsuki's enemies. And even better, her CHILD is named Kiyohime, see the Myth and Legend section of this page for more.
 * A possible interpretation of Kyouko from Skip Beat.
 * In Full Metal Panic! we have Leonard Testarossa. He has a crush on Kaname, once forced a kiss on her, and kidnapped her after besting Sousuke (in a gentlemen's duel), and personally assured him that despite his attraction to her, he wouldn't force anything, and will see to that nothing untoward should happen. Later on, however, he becomes so enraged with Kaname not giving in to him, and sort of "betraying" him by finally declaring to Sousuke that she loves him, that he slaps her hard enough to make her fall to the ground, speaks to her very rudely, and generally tortures her (more mentally than physically) in order to weaken her mind so that she won't be able to resist his plans of world-domination.
 * In Lovely Complex Mimi briefly acts this way but Koizumi punches her and tells her to deal with it. She gets better.
 * The subtext of Yurimaru's death via Zakuro's Action Bomb trap in Ninja Scroll is blatant. Yurimaru is an an electrokinetic Bishonen who uses Razor Floss- Zakuro is a viciously inventive explosives expert with at the least a prominent facial scar and at most is so covered in scars she looks like Frankenstein's Monster. Zakuro has a major crush on Yurimaru, but Yurimaru is a Depraved Homosexual in love with (and sleeping with) their leader, Himuro Gemma, and so he rejects her advances rather bluntly. Yurimaru promptly stumbles into an explosives-rigged shed near the climax of the movie, and is blatantly blown to pieces when a detonating rat triggers the whole place going up in flames.
 * Ryuuko in Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest in regards to Inugami. It also is not pretty.
 * Happens at least twice in Detective Conan. The first time, the guy not only killed himself... but he made it look as if the Idol Singer who rejected him actually murdered him.
 * Gunslinger Girl:
 * Everyone in Black Rock Shooter.
 * In Koharu no Hibi Koharu is so obsessed with Akira that its implied she's Not Good with Rejection in regards to him.
 * Akari of Girl Got Game is a type 2 Yandere (disambiguation) for Kyo. Attempts to drive her away are met with suicide threats and Wolverine Claws.
 * of Stepping on Roses. To insane proportions. He even goes so far as to.
 * Genkaku of Deadman Wonderland is in love with Nagi/his carnage. He definitely didn't respond well to Nagi rejecting him.
 * Masaru "Chaplin" Sukegawa was imprisoned after murdering a woman his lover was caught with.
 * One of the creepiest examples comes from Minoru Murao's Knights manga. Of all people, Nina, the cute little girl of the cast goes nuts when she assumes that the object of her affection Mist is physically involved with his Ms. Fanservice companion Euphemia. Her response is to lead a supernatural agent of the Corrupt Church (the same Church that nearly burned her at the stake after accusing her of being a witch) to kill him. She even shoots him in the leg with a crossbow. Her motivation? To send his soul to Hell, where it will be "purified", then join him in death so they can be together for all eternity. Keep in mind that this guy saved her life in the first few chapters, which is why she's so hung up on him in the first place. This is borderline Love Makes You Evil. To her credit, she does eventually realize just how utterly screwed up she was, and works to undo her actions.
 * Hitagi Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari makes it clear that she won't tolerate her boyfriend Koyomi Araragi showing interest in any other woman. At one point, she nearly stabs him in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific. And only stops once he screams, "Stop it! There's nothing guilty about it! I didn't mean it like I knew her well! I'm only devoted to you, Senjougahara!"
 * from Infinite Ryvius. When her boyfriend breaks up with her, she tries to kill him. When her previous boyfriend broke up with her, she did kill him. She also killed an old friend just for mentioning his name.
 * Manami Anzai from Life, who first appears as a cute and childish click leader who snaps utterly when she suspects Ayumu is trying to steal away her boyfriend.
 * Chloe of Noir She turns psycho after Kirika rejects (or more accurately, fails to even notice) her advances, and then acts to protect Mireille from her, causing her to snap.
 * Reimi from Bamboo Blade has stalked Miyako from the shadows ever since the latter had brutally rebuffed the advances of the former's crush in middle school (though the two attend different high schools).
 * Mao for C.C. and Rolo for Lelouch in Code Geass.
 * Ringo of Mawaru Penguindrum for Tabuki. She drugs and attempts to rape him when she learns he doesn't love her back. Tabuki also falls into this in episode 11 for Ringo after she gives him a Love Potion.
 * Dai of Let Dai for Jaehee. He ties Jaehee down to train tracks when he considers him to have spurned his love.
 * Karl Fei-Ong of Blood Plus.
 * Ritsu in Loveless and generally acts like a Jerkass because Soubi's mother married another man over him.
 * Threads of Time: Sali Tayi. He explicitly tells Atan Hadas that if she runs away with Moon-Bin and doesn't marry him, he'll kill them both.
 * Haru To Natsu has protagonist Makoto caught between twin sisters who both want him,. He prefers Haruna, the stable and sweet model student, while also being chased by Natsuki, who wants him because Haruna wants him. Oh, and did I mention Haruna's quite Yandere for Makoto? To the point that their first kiss is while she's holding a very large butcher knife, and later promises (while wielding that same knife) that if he ever cheats, he wouldn't like what happens.
 * Shuichi Shindou from Gravitation qualifies for this when the stress of Yuki being outed puts him into the hospital, and Shuichi talks at length about how he would rather Yuki die than leave him.
 * Sengoku Otome has Akechi Mitsuhide, who is so yandere for her master, Oda Nobunaga, that after catching her "kissing" supposed-rival Hideyoshi (but she was just giving her medicine), she torches the temple that Nobunaga's passed out drunk in, then goes in after her "so they can always be together." Fortunately, the plan is thwarted, everyone survives, and although Mitsuhide passed out from smoke inhalation, she wakes up in the middle of getting mouth-to-mouth from Nobunaga.
 * What specifically pushes Claudine into  is how Sirene, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.
 * Similarly, what pushes Louis Lacques into killing Claudine's dad and his own sister Cecilia is finding out that they were involved... since Louis himself was Monsieur de Montesse's former lover..
 * Usagi of Sailor Moon falls into a depression after Mamoru breaks up with her and tries to tearfully eat her troubles away.
 * Minako fell in love with Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye (villains she attempted to involve in a threesome, but they were playing with her feelings). Sailor Venus opened a can of whoopass on them later.
 * Emerald's extremely pissed off at Prince Diamond's choosing Sailor Moon over her.
 * There's also Ali and En (for Usagi and Mamoru respectively), Fiore for Mamoru. And Queen Beryl's unrequited love for Endymion/Mamoru.
 * Prince Diamond doesn't react well in Sailor Moon R to Sailor Moon choosing Mamoru over him.
 * Tsukihime's Arcueid if Shiki rejects her.
 * Minamotokun Monogatari: Rokujou's sanity is way gone when Kaoruko tells her that Terumi does not love her and doesn't need her like she would like to believe. One panel is so dedicated to her thinking thoughts like "Lies, No way, You're wrong", etc. that the words are overlapping with each other.
 * The Wallflower: The female protagonist, Sunako always had an obsession with darkness and a morbid fascination with blood, horror movies, and similarly dark things but it wasn't until she was rejected by her first love that she openly expressed it and became even more isolated from the rest of the world.
 * In the backstory of Prétear, Takako turned against the Leafe Knights after she was rejected by Hayate and became the Princess of Disaster.
 * Played with in Zero no Tsukaima. Louise's original fiancé Jean-Jacques seems to be a decent guy, and only shows his bad side after Louise dumps him.
 * Tsukiyama in Tokyo Ghoul seems to develop an obsession with eating Kaneki and doesn't react well to him trying to get him to leave him alone. When Kaneki leaves Tsukiyama is shown to fall into an Angst Coma.
 * In chapter 37 Ami goes mad when she learns she's the dinner for ghouls and when Souta rejects her.
 * In Bokura Wa Itsumo the Clingy Jealous Girl Onohira uses this on Haruna when he tell her that he was going out with his Living Emotional Crutch to which she responds by taking out a knife and saying "If I can't be in your arms, nobody else can either!"
 * Liang Qi of Canaan is like this for Alphard. She appears calm and even-tempered, but is in fact unwavering, merciless, and very much obsessed with admiring and idolizing the absolutely Badass Alphard to the point of being in love with her. To her frustration, however, Alphard does not reciprocate her rather twisted feelings and instead ignores or even proceeds to ridicule her from time to time. Because Alphard seems to have taken a special interest in observing Canaan's reactions to every plot carried out by Snake, Liang Qi sees the elimination of Canaan as a way to win back Alphard's attention.
 * Reimei No Arcana: Loki shows a few signs of this from threatening Caesar for insulting Nakaba and regretting that he didn't kill Caesar due to Nakaba's and Caesar's growing closeness in earlier chapters to killing Bella to protect Nakaba after she threatens to either have Nakaba raped or killed by soldiers.
 * Bella towards Loki to the point of threatening to kill Nakaba.
 * Mayuri Konishi/Sarashina from Bungaku Shoujo has traits of a yandere character. She is crazy about Akutagawa, with whom she went to elementary school. She admits being jealous of Kanomata, who Akutagawa used to protect. When she suspects Akutagawa has feelings for his classmate Nanase Kotobuki, she says: "If so, I'll cut Nanse Kotobuki into ground beef!!!".
 * Highschool of the Dead: Takashi believes he may have crossed the Moral Event Horizon after being forced to kill his best friend, Hisashi. Though it was to protect himself and Rei, Takashi admits that it was also partly out of jealousy because Rei had chosen Hisashi over him.
 * Warau Hyouteki aka The Laughing Target: When Azusa and Yuzura were mere children, they were betrothed to each other by their parents. Many years later, after Azusa's mother mysteriously dies, Azusa returns to Yuzura with the intent of marrying him; Yuzura has a girlfriend, Satomi, and this doesn't sit to well with Azusia. Add to the fact that Azusa is anything but "normal", and she has no problem eliminating the competition by any means possible.
 * Honne-Onna of Hell Girl has diehard fangirls. One was ready to send someone to hell because she thought he was dating her. And another actually sent the other girl to hell because she thought she got too close to Onna.
 * In Sword Art Online, Kyouji fell in love with Shino because she shot a robber with his own gun. He becomes a Serial Killer out of revenge for being tricked into ruining his character in a gun-based video game/gambling site. He tells all this to Shino while trying to seduce her while holding a syringe full of poison against her skin and planning to rape and then murder her if she doesn't love him.
 * 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.
 * Raoh in Hokuto No Ken was prepared to kill the heroine if she did not reciprocate his feelings. However, he finds she is already dying of radiation poisoning, and so moved by her determination he uses his own power to extend her life.
 * Haru in Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun may be this for Shizuku. Even though he said he'd never do it to Shizuku, he told Kenji that he has the desire to break her legs so that she won't leave him.
 * K's Fushimi Saruhiko has an Unrequited Love for Yata Misaki that is apparently so strong that it drove him insane. Because Misaki had found new friends and a new family with HOMRA and started to drift away from him he lost himself in jealousy and heartbreak, believing that making Misaki hate him was the only way to get his attention. The Manga Days of Blue shows very clearly that he still suffers badly over being away.
 * Miya Rokujou from Minamotokun Monogatari relates to the original Yandere from The Tale of Genji. She has walls full of photos of the protagonist, wants to keep him locked up in her room, and gets scary crazed eyes when he says no. At this point poor Terumi is more or less certain she is dangerous.
 * Vampire Game has Lassen, who fell for reincarnated vampire Lailis when they were kids. Since vampires retain their memories, Lailis was still devoted to her old love, and Lassen dealt with it by trying to become a cold-hearted ruler just like him, going further by crippling Lailis by cutting her hamstrings himself so she couldn't run away.
 * Also seen in Leene, who forces childhood friend and love interest Yuujel to attempt suicide with her, then years later tries to kill a girl who Yuujel might be interested in
 * She isn't technically murderous, but Jessiebelle in Pokémon shows signs of this towards James. She's willing to whip him into place when he doesn't want to marry her due to her abusive nature. "YOU'RE NOT RUNNING PROPERLY, JAMES!!!!!"
 * Kare Kano: Soichirou Arima has a dark side that shows up at times. You slowly see his thoughts morph from wanting to be with Yukino, to wanting to isolate her from everyone and keep her just for himself. His fighting with these thoughts proves that Arima is a good guy, but him imagining tying Yukino in chains does not bode well for their relationship. It's implied that he would not deal with it well if Yukino rejected him.
 * Saori from Wandering Son isn't creepily obsessive or Ax-Crazy but she can be pretty violent, especially when it comes to her unrequited love Shuuichi.
 * Sakura went into a depression when Sasuke told her he didn't love her in Naruto and often times when Hinata's feelings for Naruto don't come across to him she gets melancholy. Tsunade rejected Jiraiya which he muses over and it seems to make him upset.  He has serious self doubt/hatred issues and states at the end of his life that it was all a waste except his death which was a crowning moment of awesome.  Karin is relentless in trying to get her feelings across to Sasuke and even after he stabs her through the chest with Chidori she mood swings between adoring him and hating him.  Platonic or not Naruto definitely didn't take it well when Sasuke left Konoha for Orochimaru and it has broken his heart ever since.

Comic Books

 * Tony Stark broke up with Kathleen Dare because she was being too clingy. So, she shot and crippled him.
 * The Venom Symbiote to Spider-Man. Its thought process can be summed up as "That bastard! How dare he kick me out! Didn't he realize how awesome I was?! Well screw him! I hate him, I hate him, I want him to die! He deserves to suffer for hurting me! But then... I won't have him! I know, I'll kill off everything he loves and then force him to take me back! Then it will just be us together forever..."
 * Superman once had Maxima, Queen of the planet Almerac after him. Maxima learned about Superman after viewing a transmission of outer-space gladiator games that Superman was forced to take part in, and set out to make the Man of Steel her mate. Since Superman rejected her advances, Max periodically attempted to wreak revenge, including an alliance with his nemesis Brainiac.
 * The second was an Earth woman named Dana Dearden. She always fascinated by the legends of ancient gods. Since the Man of Steel is more-or-less a modern-day god, she transferred her interest to him, filling her room with various news clippings and other memorabilia of him. After stealing some ancient coins at the local museum, she gained superpowers and donned a hero costume of her own, insisting that she was Kal-El's Super-Woman. But not only did Superman deny her the love she sought, she was quickly given the somewhat irritating name "Obsession". In her fury, she destroyed an oil tanker, and disappeared for awhile. And when Obsession resurfaced during Superman's split into Red and Blue versions, she ran up against Maxima, who wasn't interested in Dana's suggestion that there was now one Supes for each of them. In the end, though, Obsession's love for Superman proved 100% true, when she sacrificed herself to save him from a magical attack.
 * X-Men: When Jean Grey, who at the time was a host for the Phoenix Force, caught her husband in bed with Emma Frost. It wasn't pretty.
 * And before that, her clone, Madelyne Pryor. It took longer for her pain to turn to rage, but hoo boy, when it did...
 * An early arc of Birds of Prey, which featured the first meeting of Black Canary and Huntress, revolved around the two of them tracking down the villain that seduced both of them in their civilian identities and then left them both. Along the way they also team-up with Catwoman, are kidnapped to the former Soviet Union, and Canary winds up facing Lady Shiva, one of the world's deadliest martial artists, for the first time.
 * Shaniah, teenage girl from Brek Zarith story arc of Thorgal series, falls in love with titular character and steals his horse once he rejects her and slaps her for insulting his wife. Later that night she is assaulted by a mysterious man, who steals the horse. The next day a group of soldiers visits the village, looking for a escaped prisoner. Shaniah, making sure prisoner looks like guy she meet yesterday, tells them that she saw him meeting with Thorgal, who gave him his horse, which leads to Thorgal being taken prisoner and starts chain of events that ends with the destruction of her entire village, death of everybody aside her and Thorgal, including, as it seems then, Thorgal's wife, his Heroic BSOD and later her sacrifice to save his wife's life.
 * An Archie Comics story from 1965 has Betty Cooper repeatedly trying to murder Archie after he breaks one too many dates with her. The story's title is "Woman Scorned."
 * Harleen Quinn in some of her incarnations harbors jealousy towards Batman for taking all the Jokers attention in a Mad Love kind of way. She's delusional and thinks Mr. J likes her but he hates her so when Batman tries to get her to realize this she refuses to believe him and tries to kill him.
 * The Avengers: Mantis declared her love to the Vision, but he mantained his love for the Scarlet Witch, and told her to be Just Friends. Her despair was so great that, several centuries in the future, Kang detected it, and finally identified her as the elusive Celestial Madonna.

Ballads

 * In the Child Ballad "Sir Aldingar", Sir Aldingar slanders the queen with charges of infidelity for having rebuffed his advances.
 * In the Child Ballad "Child Owlet", Lady Erskine tries to seduce her husband's nephew, Child Owlet. He refuses. She stabs herself and tells her husband that he had tried to seduce her. He puts Child Owlet to death by having him torn apart by wild horses.

Fan Fiction
"Light: I know I can win him back if he'll just visit me in person once. Rem: You sound like Misa."
 * Light in the Death Note Slash Fic Office Politics to hilarious effect. When L breaks up with Light he finds that the God of the New World does not take rejection well. Light's revenge toes the line between terrifying and awesome.
 * Light again in the Death Note Slash Fic A Cure for Love when L essentially breaks up with Light, wanting to have him committed, Light becomes very cross and.
 * Grand Tour Series: Kendra Zendor does not take rejection well.
 * In the Death Note fanfic Point of Succession Beyond Birthday doesn't take rejection well at all and seeks to regain his beloved's attention through a little serial bloodshed.
 * Light becomes a Crazy Jealous Guy in Fever Dreams after Light saves L from his plan and gives up on being Kira L dumps him because he fears their relationship is corrupting the investigation:


 * L in My Stupid Reality. He can't even fathom why someone WOULDN'T want to be his successor so when Light takes pains to avoid him L becomes all the more obsessed with having him.
 * Sasuke in Slash Fic "Purple" by kodak-85 to Naruto. Naruto tells Sasuke he's not gay and doesn't even like him. Sasuke's response is to punch him, tell him "You led me on", rape him and then carve his trademark whiskers on his face with a knife. As well as telling him he belongs to him.
 * Takada and Mikami in Ragnarok (fanfic). When Light began dating Takada in college they agreed it would be nothing serious since they both wanted to focus on their careers. But when Light broke up with her, Takada did not take it well and has held a grudge for four years and seems to be out to ruin Light's career. Also Light went on a date with Mikami once and Mikami has been stalking him ever since.
 * 47 Days to Change by Snow-owl01: An unfortunate tale of Harry's failed attempt to mold young Tom into a decent, law-biding citizen. Instead, as Fate will have it, young Tom grows up to become the same twisted psychopath, who is hell-bent on winning the love of his adoptive father. Harry's consent be damned.

Newspaper Comics

 * A now infamous series of strips in the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic had Mickey attempting to commit suicide after being rejected by Minnie.

Music
* The girl from "Baroque" in Sound Horizon is a Psycho Lesbian yandere nun (going by her costume in the live version, anyway) who kills the girl she loves for rejecting her.
 * Pink slowly goes insane when her boyfriend attempts to leave her in the music video "Please Don't Leave Me".
 * Kesha sings to "Stephen" that she "can't take rejection".
 * The Beatles: "Run For Your Life," despite its pleasant jangly sound, is about a man threatening to murder his girlfriend if she gets with another man.
 * And in "Stardust", Stella, an actress who's implied to be a White Dwarf Starlet, shoots her lover after catching him with another girl. "The bouquet in my left hand can't stop the impulse [read: gun] in my right..."
 * There's also the song "Yield", which is more or less about a girl living at a farm who is in love with her father, and when he doesn't return these feelings, she murders both him and her mother.
 * Played for laughs in Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haa".
 * In The Police's Black Comedy song "Can't Stand Losing You" rejection from a girl is the last straw for a teenage boy before he opts for suicide.
 * Inside Out makes a parody of "Happy Together" and transform it into a song about a guy who was rejected by his girlfriend and stalks her. At one point does he take her cat and threat to hurt it unless she talks to him. He's arrested at the end of the song
 * Tove Lo in "Habits" sings about how she became depressed following a breakup and smoked a lot of weed and drank a lot in order to get her ex off her mind.
 * Architecture In Helsinki: Apparently, the singer of "Frenchy, I'm Faking," who murders his girlfriend for breaking up with him.
 * In Evanescence's Snow White Queen Amy's stalker sings about how she belongs to him, "there's nowhere to run, so let's just get it over" and not to scream anymore.
 * Surrender is also has lovely lyrics such as "You can't abandon me... You belong to me...", Darling, there's no sense in running/You know I will find you/Everything is perfect now/We can live forever" and "There's no escaping me, my love... surrender..."
 * "Paparazzi" by Lady Gaga. She sings about how she'll follow the guy she loves until he loves her.  The video also shows that she killed her boyfriend and supposedly a bunch of other girls he was with.
 * The Police. The protagonist from "Can't Stand Losing You" is a passive-aggressive version, what with his threats to kill himself over a bad breakup so the ex feels guilty for the rest of her life.
 * Japanese singer Jun Togawa has the song "Suki Suki Daisuki" which contains lyrics like, "I love you so much, I love you so much, I love you so much, say you love me or I'll kill you!"
 * "Don't Say A Word" by Sonata Arctica deserves special mention its Deconstruction of this. The song is narrated from the perspective of a male Yandere who discovers his wife has been cheating on him and rapes her and kills her. It's an interesting look at what a Yandere could possibly be thinking. He sees his usual, calmer persona as an alter ego which he tells to step down using a variation on an old Latin exorcism ('Vade retro, alter ego') and ceases to recognise himself early in the song. Later he starts thinking some really weird stuff, claiming that what he's doing is to help her uphold her part of the deal (their marriage vows) and that he's helping her be a moral person ('I'll help you follow through / remember this? Pacta sunt servanda') he compares their love to a romance novel, making note that now there is no love between them they should die like the lovers in the novel ('You read the book now / The part: ashes to ashes, dust to dust') and eventually considering himself her god, being divine and able to pass judgement, as she blasphemed against him ('Unfortunate for you, this makes me your god') He truly believes that what he's doing is best for their love and the right thing for both of them. He thinks she doesn't know that he's right so tells her to sit back and take as he 'does the right thing' ('Cannot keep your part of the deal /so don't say a word...don't say a word') scary stuff.
 * Bad Company's "Burnin' Sky", sung from the point of view of a convict who keeps trying to escape to see the woman of his dreams, though it's implied his obsession with her is the reason he's in prison in the first place. "The judge said, "this man's a danger to humanity, We're gonna lock him up and throw away the key. Now, baby, your love has sent me to jail. But I'd rather die than see you with another man!"
 * Ludo's The Horror of Our Love embodies this. "I've been inside your bedroom / I've murdered half the town / Left you love notes on their headstones / I'll fill the graveyards / Until I have you"
 * No. 1 Crush by Garbage ".../I will lie for you, beg and steal for you/ I will crawl on hands and knees until you see /You're just like me ... /I would die for you /I would kill for you /I will steal for you /I'd do time for you /I will wait for you /I'd make room for you /I'd sail ships for you /To be close to you /To be part of you /'Cause you believe in me /I believe in you /I would die for you. "
 * Admittedly, "Vow" from their first album is even worse — pure, seething, raging, unhinged vengeance from a yandere spurned. It goes well beyond If I Can't Have You territory into psychosis.
 * "If You Love Me", by 80s band Scandal (with lead singer Patty Smyth): "'Cause you can't leave me / And you can't tell me that it's the end / You can walk away / But you can never look back again / So if you leave me / I will hurt you if I can / Yes, I will hurt you in the end." It's sung nice and sweet and softly, and essentially promises death if the guy tries to leave, even saying "You can't run and hide away".
 * Morrissey in "Jack The Ripper", if you consider the unsettling but romantic lyrics and the title. "Crash into my arms / I want you You don't agree / But you don't refuse I know you And I know a place / Where no one is likely to pass Oh, you don't care if it's late / And you don't care if you're lost And oh, you look so tired /(But tonight you presume too much) Too much, too much / And if it's the last Thing I ever do / I'm gonna get you"
 * You could make a drinking game out of the number of times Taylor Swift's writes songs about being upset after being dumped. In another song she sings "Baby you'll be back after each time you leave because I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."  She also sings about how she "gets drunk on jealousy".
 * "Birthday Massacre": There's also "Violet," which seems at first glance to be an ordinary break up song, until Chibi starts singing about "violent visions" of "scaring faces once adored" and "staining red the wasted metaphor."
 * Gothic metal band Mortal Love built a trilogy of three concept albums around this: All the Beauty, I Have Lost, Forever Will Be Gone. In the first one, the singer is completely worshipful ("All the Beauty") until her lover leaves her for someone else and she just falls to pieces ("I Want to Die"). The second album follows her slow descent into madness, and by the third she's bordering on pure evil territory ("Still it Has Only Just Begun", "To Choke You Now"). The target of her love/hate is dead by the end, and it's strongly implied that she killed him.
 * The band August Burns Red was named after a run-in their original singer had with one of these. After he broke up with his girlfriend August, she set his dog Red on fire in his doghouse. The actual name was the title of the story that ran in the paper the next day.
 * Interlude With Ludes, by Them Crooked Vultures, is this mixed with Stalker with a Crush: "If you want me I'm yours. And even if you don't want me.  I'm trained and licensed and armed to the teeth.  I think you'll agree.  It's so hard to apologize.  So I'm just gonna skip it."
 * The Puppini Sisters' cover of "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" paints a picture of a crazy girl who, if she sees him cheating, will lock up her man for good.
 * Björk's "An Echo, A Stain" lands somewhere in between Stalker with a Crush and this: "Feel my breath, on your neck, and your heart will race. Don't say no to me, you can't say no to me...I'm sorry you saw that..."
 * Goin' Down by The Pretty Reckless is written as a confession from a textbook possessive yandere who's just discovered the downside of not having a boyfriend any more. "But I caught him with another woman in the bed I made him, So I put him in a grave"
 * Other, more obvious, examples in k-pop come from two of G-Dragon's songs "She's Gone", a song about a jealous ex-boyfriend who murders his ex-girlfriend, with lyrics such as: Let's go somewhere where there are no people, It's just that I want to be alone with you, Now you can't go anywhere.
 * and "Obsession", which has an almost identical theme to "She's Gone".
 * The Yandere sasaeng "fan" from Epik High's "Fan" kidnaps her favorite idol and keeps him locked up to keep him all to herself, stubbornly ignoring his blatant despair. She ends up inadvertently killing him.
 * "Liar" by Emilie Autumn: I want to mix our blood And put it in the ground So you can never leave I want to earn your trust Your faith your heart You'll never be deceived
 * Becomes interesting when it was revealed that these are not just lyrics, but what Autumn's boyfriend spoke to her at one point.
 * "I Love U" by Tila Tequila which opens with "you know, I just want to let you know that I never felt this way about anyone else...I...I think I love you...so don't think I'm crazy when I tell you this...but if you ever hurt me...I'll fuckin' kill you," and gets progressively more possessive.
 * Wake up call by Maroon 5 is a prime example of a male yandere who found his lover in the bed with another man, so he shot him dead. "I'm not kind if you betray me.."
 * In Animal Adam Levine sings about how if the girl he loves tries to run from him he'll find her by smelling for her "like animals" and prey on her hunting her down and eating her alive in a lustful fashion.
 * Smile.dk's "Don't Believe You're Leaving" is a warning from a psycho girlfriend that her boy had better be true, because there's no way she's letting him go. And, like so many of the rest of their songs, it is unbelievably happy.
 * Picture Me Broken's "Forevermore" is a not-so-subtle song from a yandere. Throughout it, she begs her love interest to stay with her. If he tried to leave, she'd never let him. She won't let him be alone as long as she's awake. Nice.
 * Bust Your Knee Caps - Pomplamoose, Threatens johnny to not leave her or her family business will bust his knee caps. In an endearing way.

Film
* Jim of Edward Scissorhands becomes violent when Kim rejects him for Edward. * In Queen of the Damned Akasha develops an attraction to Lestat after being taken with him when he plays the violin for her and allows him to drink her blood. After she wakes up centuries later she murders anyone who might prove a threat to Lestat and kidnaps him at his concert to have him for herself. She also killed her previous husband by ripping out his throat to make herself available, orders Lestat to murder Jesse to prove his love for her and tries to kill him without a second thought when he refuses.
 * Rose McGowan's character Debbie in the movie Devil In The Flesh goes Yandere (disambiguation) for her teacher when it becomes obvious that he already has a wife and doesn't love her back.
 * The guy from Debbie's school who lusted after her tries to rape her after she turns down his sexual advances and later attacks her. She kills him before he can attack/rape her.
 * In Just Friends when Chris tries to turn down Samantha she tazers him in the groin. Also, Samantha shows up at Jamie's house to start trouble after learning that Chris is kind of dating Jamie.
 * Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction towards Dan. She threatens suicide and tries to murder Dan's wife when he rebuffs her advances.
 * Mark Wahlberg's character David McCall in the 1996 movie "Fear."
 * My Super Ex-Girlfriend: On one side there is Matt, a normal guy. On the other side there is Jenny Johnson AKA G-Girl, a Supergirl Expy. They were an item at first, but then Jenny became more neurotic, aggressive and controlling. So Matt breaks off the relationship and...she does not take the rejection well. This is supposed to be a romantic comedy, but Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not you find this funny.
 * Adrian in The Crush.
 * In Titanic Cal (Rose's fiance) shoots at Jack and Rose after he sees them reuniting. He later tries to keep Rose from going to Jack after she rejects him with "I'd rather be his (Jack's) whore than your (Cal) wife!" but Rose spits at him.
 * Rat Race: Tracy goes into psycho mode when she finds her boyfriend cheating on her with his ex. Upon seeing him and his ex in a steamy pool in the backyard, she attempts to nose dive at them in her helicopter and in their haste to avoid it they break the pool and the water sends them crashing into the side of his house. After that, she proceeds to drop things, including a can of pink paint, onto his truck, and chase him down in the chopper, while using the landing skids to destroy his truck. After running him off the road, she steals the truck upon finding her helicopter's engine is shot. She then yells and punches him in the face after he breaks up with her, almost strangles him with the truck window, puts a bra in his mouth and throws him out of the already running truck.
 * In Swimfan Madison initially doesn't seem all that upset that her one time lover Ben has a girlfriend Amy already but then she becomes more unhinged and tries to murder Amy...
 * The Duke in Moulin Rouge.
 * In Villain, when the Villain Protagonist Shimizu's girlfriend stands him up to go off with another guy, Shimizu follows them and kills her.
 * Back to The Future Biff frequently makes unwanted advances on Lorraine and becomes very angry when she rejects him, tries to rape her in 1955, and wants to marry her (he eventually succeeds in marrying her and treats her horribly).
 * Bad Education: Father Berenguer tries to blackmail when he refuses to see him.
 * Horrible Bosses: The Maneater boss regularly sexually harasses Dale. When he rejects her advances, she drugs him and takes sexually explicit photos of him to blackmail him with.
 * Play Misty for Me: Dave (Eastwood) is a womanizing DJ who constantly gets calls from a woman asking him to play the song "Misty". He eventually meets the woman, named Evelyn, and has a one-night-stand with her. Evelyn insists on making herself part of Dave's life and, at first, Dave likes the attention. However, his ex-girlfriend, Tobie, moves back to town and Dave decides to patch things up. After he attempts to tell Evelyn that he's not interested, she responds by attempting suicide. Dave and Tobie get closer, but Evelyn isn't going to take it and tries any way she can to keep Dave to herself, even if it means getting rid of Tobie for good...
 * Spider Man: Occurs in the third film when Mary Jane breaks up with Peter. Also, in the first film Green Goblin has much Foe Yay towards Spiderman and doesn't react well when he rejects his offer to join him. "NO ONE SAYS NO TO ME!"
 * Sandy Burrow (Joely Fisher) from Seduction in a Small Town is a great example of a Lifetime-like Yandere: when she throws herself at local Hot Dad Paul Jenks (Dennis Weaver) and is rebuffed because he's Happily Married to Hot Mom Sarah (Melissa Gilbert), among other things, she gets so pissed that she falsely accuses them both of being horrible abusive parents to their two kids and gets them thrown in jail. Twice.
 * Dark Shadows: After Barnabas rejects her love, Angelique goes on to Murder the Hypotenuse, curse Barnabas to be a vampire, lock him in a coffin for almost 200 years, and spend those consequent 200 years sabotaging his family for revenge.
 * Fredrick Zoller in Inglorious Basterds.
 * In Scream 4, we hear a lot about a Noodle Incident in which Trevor declared his love for Jill, they had sex and then he "just goes out with someone else". Jill absolutely refuses to forgive him, no matter how much he tries to apologize. And right after she reveals herself as the killer, she shoots Trevor in the groin as retaliation.
 * X-Men: The Last Stand: After being rescued by the X-Men, Jean Grey tries to sex Wolverine up. He refuses. Cue Superpowered Evil Side taking over.
 * Ned to Julie in The Next Karate Kid. He punishes her if she rejects his advances.
 * Lon in The Notebook to Allie. Before he allows her to leave and be happy with Noah he states he originally felt the desire to beat the crap out of Noah and shoot him.
 * You Belong to Me, another Lifetime movie, combines all the classic stalker tropes. Michael Mc Bride is a Stalker with a Crush who tried to Murder the Hypotenuse in order to have Alex, his boss, all to himself. When he confessed his "love" for her though, he was rejected and tried to pull a Murder-suicide so that they could be together in death. Even beyond the grave, he still tried to kill Alex so that no one else could have her.
 * In Film/, Thomas is of the StalkerWithACrush variety, veering into AxCrazy. He chooses to kidnap the heroine when she refuses to stay after work and have dinner with him on Christmas Eve.
 * Film/BatmanAndRobin: Dr. Jason Woodrue tries to kill Pamela Isley after she rejects him. He even admits that he doesn't take rejection well.
 * Film/KillBill: Bill doesn't take being rejected by The Bride well.
 * Chicago: A recurring theme in "The Cell Block Tango" — Velma killed her husband and his lover (her own sister), Annie poisoned her boyfriend after finding out he was already married to six other women, and Mona killed her boyfriend after finding out he had three other girlfriends and a boyfriend.
 * Roxie's murder victim was the man with whom she was cheating on her husband.
 * Inverted with June: Her homicide (self-defense, according to her) was spurred by her husband accusing her of cheating.
 * Jareth for Sarah in Labyrinth. He claims that he has done a lot of things to please Sarah, including taking her half-brother away like she wished for, and he calls her out on being "selfish". The truth, though, is that Sarah didn't know he really existed until he revealed himself to her and she doesn't know about the other wishes he's "granted". At one point, he expressed a hint of jealousy towards Hoggle and threatened to banish him to the Bog of Eternal Stench if Sarah kissed him.
 * Lost Highway. Mr Eddy: Her name is Alice. I swear I love that girl to death. If I ever found out someone was making out with her, I'd take this - pulls out a pistol - and shove it so far up his ass it would come out his mouth. Then you know what I'd do? I'd blow his fuckin' brains out.

Film: Animated
• In The Adventures Of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina the Mole King goes Ax-Crazy when Thumbelina rejects him and chooses Tom instead. * A deleted scene from the first The Lion King film that is mostly restored in the play as "The Madness of King Scar" is downright creepy. Scar starts hitting on Nala, wanting her to be his queen. She refuses. In front of the entire pride, he banishes her. "Gaston: I'll have Belle for my wife! Make no mistake about that!"
 * In The Incredibles, Buddy Pine makes this absolutely clear to Mr. Incredible after being refused by him as his sidekick, Incrediboy, and changed into Syndrome.
 * Wenlock of Barbie And The Magic Of Pegasus. When Barbie' sister rejects him he turns her family to stone and turns her into a horse.
 * The Jack In The Box from "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" sequence of Fantasia.
 * Beauty and the Beast: Gaston increasingly goes from being a Jerkass Stalker with a Crush into a murderous Yandere (disambiguation) through the course of the movie. It's especially evident after Belle keeps refusing him.


 * Hal/Titan in Megamind. He goes absolutely bonkers when Roxanne turns him down. He even decides to destroy Metro City just because one girl didn't return his feelings.
 * Claude Frollo from Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame movie is hinted to not take rejection well: "She (Esmerelda) will be mine or she will burn!"

Myth and Legend

 * There is a Japanese folktale concerning a woman named Kiyohime who, when rejected by the object of her affections, turns into a dragon and kills him. More information can be found on The Other Wiki.

Literature
* In Twilight, werewolves' pack leader Sam snaps, when his imprintee Emily keeps rejecting his advances. She makes it clear that she isn’t interested and sends him back to his old fiancée, Leah (her cousin). However, because San imprinted on her and is thus forced to love her even against his will, he keeps pushing her. Finally Emily calls him out on being just like his father (who left his family), unknowingly pressing Sam’s Berserk Button. Thanks to a mix of frustration over her rejection and his daddy issues he attacks her in his wolf form, scarring her for life. And then they lived happily ever after!]] (...No, seriously—she just found out he was imprinted on her and decided she would just go along with it. * In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Melinda gets Rachel to break up with Andy on prom night after finding out he's assaulted several girls and Melinda in the past.  In anger, he attacks her and tries to rape her but she fights him off. ** Jaime and Cersei Lannister's previously strong relationship begins to disintegrate for a variety of reasons, but it really seems to kick off when Jaime rejects Cersei when she comes to him for sex. ** Littlefinger obviously didn't take Cat accepting her husband by arranged marriage over him well at all. He ends up starting a gruesome civil war, starting with said husband because of it.
 * Nish from The Three Worlds Cycle books by Ian Irvine is eventually this for Tiaan after she rejects him numerous times.
 * In Death series: Indulgence In Death has a guy who killed a girl he was interested in a drunken fit of rage because she was not interested in him.
 * In the Warrior Cats series, Ashfur. He reacts to rejection by deciding that Squirrelflight needs to feel as much pain as he had. He tries to set up her father's death, framing her current mate as a murderer in the process. When that fails, he decides to try killing her kits in front of her.
 * Raggedstar wasn't good with this either. When Yellowfang (the she-cat he loved) decides to be a medicine cat, he gets angry and refuses to talk with her...and it causes him to demean and insult her a lot.
 * The Princess Bride: When Buttercup gives Prince Humperdink "The Reason You Suck" Speech, he throws her into her room. Then he races down to where her true love Wesley is being tortured, and sets the torture device on maximum, killing him. Clearly, the Prince did not take to being rejected by Buttercup well.
 * Lydia in Peter Moore's Caught In The Act towards Ethan.
 * in The Picture of Dorian Gray, who
 * Harold in The Stand once Frannie picks Stu.
 * The Wheel of Time has Rahvin, who uses mind control to force women into having sex with him, since he can't handle rejection.
 * Also, Selene. Also known as She wants   very badly, has no tolerance for any woman who so much as touches him, and gets very put out if he refuses her. It doesn't help that she is an extraordinarily powerful channeler and quite often kills underlings in the midst of her murderous rages.
 * The Odyssey has Calypso who, after offering her lover Odysseus a chance to stay with her on her island forever, tries to force him to stay on her island with her after he rejects her and tries to get back to his wife at Ithica. She eventually lets him leave because Hermes told Calypso that Zeus said she had to let Odysseus go back to Ithica.
 * Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess, beginning when Angel initially rejects her and she offers to kill herself, among other things, if it restores his good name.
 * Erik in The Phantom of the Opera. He eventually takes the I Want My Beloved to Be Happy route.
 * The Sorrows of Young Werther is about an emotional young man named Werther who falls madly in love with an young woman named Lotte, who is engaged to someone else. Werther gradually becomes more emotional and less mentally stable as a result of the rejection and ultimately.
 * Lord Arlington in the Louisa May Alcott book The Inheritance tries to seduce Edith many times but each time she rejects him. The final time she rejects him he reacts very angrily and it's implied that he means to rape her but Lord Percy shows up and Arlington departs.
 * Amy of Gone Girl frames a cheating boyfriend for rape and frames a cheating husband for murder.
 * In Ellen Hopkins book "Crank" Kristina hooks up with Brendan who drives them both out into the woods, where they get high together, and he starts to take off her clothes. When she says no, he becomes violent, claiming that he has “waited weeks,” so she should “put up and shut up”. He then starts ripping her clothes off and rapes her.
 * It's also hinted that Edward, due to how controlling he is over Bella, would not take it well if she ever rejected him or left him.
 * Bella herself effectively went catatonic when Edward broke up with her. The infamous blank pages showed that well enough. She proceeded to spend most of the book finding various self-destructive ways to hallucinate Edwards voice.
 * In Fifty Shades of Grey, neither Christian or Ana can handle rejection. Ana breaks down sobbing over the fact that Christian wouldn't kiss her, then later when she attempts to break up with him he breaks into her apartment and rapes her.
 * The Mortal Instruments: Really, it gets to the point where should-be True Companions are abandoning each other to vampires and demons for slights like "I can't believe you like her/him more than me!" and "It wasn't my fault!" Kind of sends the underlying message that this is all teens are capable of.
 * In Best Served Cold, Caul Shivers risks his life to save Monzcarro's many times, even being permanently disfigured on her behalf. After the last such attempt, she has a tryst with the Grand Duke Rogont...and Shivers decides that he's now ready to kill the woman he's saved half a dozen times.
 * Yet another source of angst in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, to list a few: ◦ Daenerys Targaryen constantly rejects the advances of her loyal advisor, Ser Jorah Mormont, leading to his eventual banishment.

Live Action TV
"Bertha: Never cross a psycho woman."
 * Star Trek: The Original Series: There was one episode called "Charlie X" where a boy with god-like powers ends up in the hands of Captain Kirk and Spock. The boy takes an interest in one of the crew members, and she is old enough to be his mother. He rejects a female crew member his age rather bluntly and rudely. He slaps the crew member he is interested in in her rear. She is appropriately turned off by his advances. Kirk tries to explain to the boy that what he is doing is inappropriate, but it doesn't work. It culiminates in him making moves, she in turn bluntly rejecting him, and he angrily uses his powers to teleport her somewhere and he refuses to say where he put her. Fortunately, she gets teleported back safely by the end and the boy is taken by entities that will be able to handle him properly!
 * Chris Keller in Oz in regards to Beecher. Also, Ryan in regards to Dr. Nathan.
 * Adebisi goes into a depression after Shirley rejects him.
 * Unit Manager Tim McManus forms a brief liaison with prison guard Claire Howell. When he tries to break off the relationship she assaults him in his office (to the delight of watching inmates), then charges him with sexual harassment when he tries to fire her. Howell's later actions definitely cast her in the role of a villain — she assaults (and in one case murders) inmates, as well as using them for her own sexual gratification whether they want it or not. Also, when Ryan said they should stop their sexual relationship she threatened him telling him "It's not over till I say it's over!" Also, when Chris rejected her sexual advances she beat him up.
 * Rose of Two and A Half Men. It's implied that she even kills Charlie when she spotted him cheating on her on her honeymoon.


 * Also Bridget, Walden's ex-wife. She screams at Walden when he rejects her for another woman and drives her car through his wall deliberately with an angry look on her face.
 * When his wife left him, Walden tried to drown himself in the ocean. Apparently he didn't realize that the water would be really cold.
 * In the TV movie No One Would Tell we have Bobby (played by Fred Savage) towards his girlfriend Stacy.
 * Flashpoint: The very first episode had a Croatian man murder his estranged wife, apparently because she rejected him. There are indications that he may have been mentally ill. The 50th episode had this one employee who was carefully fired because he was more interested in his boss than was proper. Unfortunately, he ends up coming back with a gun and shoots at least one person he comes across. He tries to propose marriage to his former boss, ring and all. She ends up rejecting him, which results in him getting violent and Ed having to shoot him dead. The interesting part was that the team had warned her that he is mentally ill and dangerous and yet she went and put herself in danger (at least to save an employee) anyway.
 * Spike of Buffy the Vampire Slayer took his repeated rejections from Buffy quite badly, and it leads to Attempted Rape.
 * "Creepy Connie" takes Luke's lack of interest very poorly on Jessie.
 * In an episode of Supernatural, Sam and Dean have to protect a girl from a spirit who kills people who have been involved in other's deaths. The girl's past includes a boyfriend who threatened to commit suicide when she tried to break up with him. When she left anyway, he did go through with it and she's felt guilty ever since.
 * When Dean rejects Gordon he spends every reappearance on the show until his death doing his best to separate Dean from Sam even going so far as to try and turn Dean into a vampire to keep him.
 * Dollhouse: Sierra's rejection of Nolan causes her to get institutionalized, drugged, and involuntarily conscripted into the Dollhouse. Where she's booked on regular engagements with Nolan.
 * Cheers episode "A Ditch in Time". Sam Malone gets involved with Amanda Boyer (Carol Kane), who becomes obsessed with and possessive of men she goes out with. When he tries to break up with her she implies that she'll commit suicide if he does.
 * Lila from Dexter. She had Dexter ambushed in a parking lot by a man who wanted to kill him because she thought it would bring them closer. When Dexter dumped her, she obsessively tried to win him back with methods including arson and framing one of his friends for sexual assault. She also burned down her ex-boyfriend's house with him still inside. Not to mention that said arson methods weren't just used on Dexter - she put Rita's kids, essentially her competition, in serious danger as well.
 * Rick of Degrassi.
 * Victorious: Trina in an open letter to Kevin Richards. If Trina doesn't get what she wants, hide.
 * In Lost, resident Magnificent Bastard Ben Linus had a crush-turned-obsession on Juliet. She, on the other hand, was with Goodwin. You don't need a degree to figure out what happens to the poor fool.
 * Desperate Housewives: 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 which led to Rex's death. 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.
 * 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.
 * The Nanny: C.C. shows shades of this towards Maxwell (as early as Season One, her therapist has diagnosed C.C. with being clinically obsessed with him). It gets much more severe after Fran and Maxwell announce their engagement. Upon hearing the news, C.C. immediately starts twitching, attacks the messengers who brought her the news (she's holding one of their hats, torn to shreds, in the next scene), and actually ends up spending a few episodes in a mental asylum (in Real Life actress Lauren Lane was taking time off because she was about to give birth). She gets better by the end of the series though.
 * Fran gets her own stalker in the form of Jeffrey Needleman, an old classmate from middle and high school. He threatens to fling himself out a window if Fran doesn't start a relationship with him. At one point before this, he gives her an old makeup kit, explaining that it's the same one their fifth grade teacher confiscated from Fran. Cue Fran's response: "And you saved it...all these years. How sweet...and yet disturbing!"
 * When Blair dumps Chuck on Gossip Girl he puts a dating fatwa on her.
 * Queer as Folk: A mild version in the case of Brian and Brandon. Brian is used to getting whomever he wants, whenever he wants. When Brandon rejects him in the backroom of Babylon, Brian has issues letting it go.
 * In Orange Is The New Black Healy is implied to have a crush on Piper. He freaks out and puts Piper in isolation when he sees her dancing provocatively with Alex.
 * Lorena also puts a homemade bomb under Christopher's (the guy she's in love with) fiance's car. As well as putting on his fiance's wedding veil and taking a bath in his house.
 * Suzanne reacts to Piper's rejection by deliberately peeing on the floor resulting in Piper having to clean it up. Suzanne gets over Piper afterwards.
 * Alex refuses to talk with or even be in Piper's presence after Piper reveals she's still in love with Larry.
 * Larry is heartbroken when Piper reveals to him she slept with Alex and sleeps with Polly as a way to get back at her.
 * Pete punches Larry when Polly cheats on him with Larry and rejects him for Larry.
 * Piper punches a wall to the point of bleeding when she finds out Larry and Polly slept together and gets revenge on her. She also doesn't take it well when Larry and Alex reject her and this contributes to further Sanity Slippage while in prison.
 * Gabe of The Office (US version) threatens the guy who Andy got involved with after they broke up.
 * In Black Box, ultimately the jealous nurse who wants Dr. Bickman for herself sabotages Catherine causing her boss to fire her by telling him about Catherine's drug use.

Video Games
• Kimmy Howell in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. She's a bit more up front than most Yandere, though; she's a Fangirl of the main character, and cheerfully explains in a love letter that she's going to make sure he never dates another woman by killing him and taking his head as a trophy.
 * Arc Rise Fantasia has Adelle, who goes Ax Crazy Yandere (disambiguation) the very instant she finds out she's an Unlucky Childhood Friend. The resulting death toll numbers somewhere in the thousands to hundreds of thousands, and came close to killing everybody on the planet. It seems she felt she had two options: softspoken Yamato Nadeshiko girlfriend of the protagonist, or bitchy high priestess of the local Religion of Evil.
 * F.E.A.R. 2: Alma in regards to Becket. She develops romantic feelings for him and frequently does Attempted Rape on him. However he fights her off each time and this angers her..
 * Depending on the ending you get, Maria/Mary in Silent Hill 2. It doesn't get much more Yandere than going One-Winged Angel and becoming the Final Boss because the target of your obsession rejects you.
 * In the Nancy Drew game Stay Tuned For Danger, the culprit is the rare male variety in the form of Dwayne Powers, whose motive for sending death threats to, and trying to kill, Rick Arlen comes directly from Rick dating the actress Dwayne is secretly in love with.
 * In Tales of the Abyss, Dist the Reaper is in the aftermath stage of this trope. As a child, he was clingy and obsessive over Jade, always wanting to remain at his side - when Jade finally rejected him once and for all, he became the raging, narcissistic person we see in the game, now obsessed with taking revenge on Jade instead.
 * The Boss from Saints Row: The Third can be a Yandere to Pierce, if you choose the Eastern European Female voice set. While probably not the jealous type (no one else is ever seen making a pass at Pierce, so it can't be said of whether or not she actually is) she frequently makes it clear that she has a thing for him, ranging from wondering if she can get cameras installed in his room, considering sending him a sex machine from "a secret admirer," offering to be his dominatrix, and finally admitting to wanting to make love to him in front of a live studio audience. If this doesn't seem crazy enough, this is the same woman who drove a tank out of the back of a crashing plane, parachuted into a penthouse party and immediately proceeded to kill everyone in sight, and has a murder record on her that runs into the thousands. In Pierce's position, it would most likely not be a good idea to even kindly ask his...admirer to back off.

Visual Novel

 * Lucan from Planets is a Nice Guy, but he has a crippling fear of rejection. If Marin rejects him after he reveals that, Lucan responds by
 * Lio of Kara No Kyoukai suffers a Villainous Breakdown when both Shiki and Mikiya reject him.
 * Zareh from Frozen Essence becomes a Yandere if you reject him on his path.

Western Animation
"Bullock: *threatening his cat* You think you're better than me? You're not better than me! You're going to learn a hard lesson!"
 * Family Guy: Meg goes Yandere (disambiguation) sometimes when she gets rejected by a guy, namely Brian. Also, Stewie acts like this sometimes as well, most notably in regards to his babysitter Liddane and to Olivia when he was married to her. When he found her with another guy he burned down the house when she and the other guy were still inside.
 * Also, there's Joan the maid in the episode "I Take Thee Quagmire" who marries Quagmire. When Quagmire tries to bring up divorce following becoming aroused by seeing Lois's breasts Joan goes into Yandere (disambiguation) mode and threatens to cut both herself and him with a kitchen knife, right before saying "I love you Glen." When Quagmire says "I love you too insane woman I'm having second thoughts about" Joan goes into Freak-Out mode again and screams "WHAT?!"
 * And when Stewie falls in love with the babysitter, he breaks her boyfriends legs, ties him up and locks him in his trunk leading to his death.
 * Whenever Lois seems to be showing interest in another man Peter gets crazy jealous.
 * And when Peter got kissed by another woman Lois beat her up.
 * This is part of Mad Hatter's origin in Batman the Animated Series. He had a crush on his secretary, who actually was named Alice, but she didn't reciprocate.
 * Katella says as much to Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * Dr. Doofenshmirtz from Phineas and Ferb was this in an episode. The outcome of his evil plot depended on whether or not his date went well, because (as he admitted) he can't handle rejection well.
 * Avery Bullock of American Dad! has moments of this, both to Hayley in a brief fling, and later to his cat.

"Hayley: I think I'd go maximum crazy! I'd murder Bill... burn down the neighborhood... rape Roger!"
 * When Hayley Smith gets dumped, things get ugly. Really ugly.

""Nobody leaves me at the altar! NOBODY!""
 * Little Acorn in "Puppet Bride" towards Jenny in My Life as a Teenage Robot.
 * Totally Spies: The guy who had Clover in a I Have You Now, My Pretty situation in "Stuck In The Middle Ages With You."
 * The Fairly Odd Parents gives us Princess Mandie (it's pronounced Man-Die).


 * Trixie attempts to kill Timmy when he breaks up with her in "Just the Two of Us".
 * Teen Titans gives us Kitten. "Nobody dumps Kitten! You're going to pay for this Robbie-poo! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY!!!!!"
 * Lizzie on Codename: Kids Next Door in regards to Numbuh One and King Sandy in regards to Numbuh 3.
 * In the Pepe Le Pew short "Really Scent" Pepé removes his odor by locking himself in a deodorant plant so Penelope (Or known as "Fabrette", in this instance a black cat with an unfortunate birthmark and thus an arguably different character) would no longer be afraid of him. However, Penelope had decided to make her odor match her appearance and had locked herself in a Limburger cheese factory. Now more forceful and demanding, Penelope quickly corners the terrified Pepé, who, after smelling her new stench, wants nothing more than to escape the amorous female cat. Unfortunately, she will not take "no" for an answer, gets an angry look on her face when Pepe repulses her advances and proceeds to chase Pepé off into the distance, with no intention of letting him escape.
 * Flame Princess on Adventure Time goes on a rampage when Jake disguised as Finn tells her he doesn't like her after Jake found out she was evil.
 * An episode of Regular Show has Starla, Muscle Man's old girlfriend. She falls in love with Mordecai, and he starts dating her just so he can get her and Muscle Man back together. But when Mordecai can't take it anymore and breaks up with her... well...
 * Tiny Toon Adventures: Fifi LaFume but only in How I Spent My Vacation. In other episodes she takes being rejected quite well. After Johnny, who Fifi has a crush on, gives the autograph that was meant for Fifi to Bimbette, Johnny suffers the wrath of one very, VERY angry Fifi.
 * In the Tom and Jerry cartoon "Blue Cat Blues", Tom is sitting on a railroad track, waiting to be run over, after his girlfriend leaves him for another. At the end,
 * The Planet Express Ship from Futurama. She tries to kill herself and the rest of the crew after Bender breaks up with her.
 * Mai from Avatar: The Last Airbender is not happy when  Mai later warns Zuko to never break up with her again.
 * The Martian Queen in the Duck Dodgers episode "The Queen Is Wild", who seeks revenge on Dodgers for rejecting her in "To Love A Duck". Dodgers, being Dodgers, has completely forgotten the entire incident.
 * Berry from the Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends totally fits this trope, acting sweet and kind, but being homicidally jealous of anyone who she perceives as a threat to her relationship with Bloo, which is even more imaginary than she is. She didn't react well when Bloo rejected her and went into a rage.
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: Fluttershy loses her goddamn mind after getting rejected by the animals in "Best Night Ever". "You're... going... to LOVE ME!!!!!"
 * Pinkie Pie also has a goddamn mental breakdown when she thinks her friends don't like her parties and don't want to be her friends anymore in "Party of One", complete with her temporarily talking to inanimate objects and sporting a Slasher Smile.
 * Rainbow Dash doesn't cope with it well, either.
 * In "Plane Crazy" Mickey Mouse gets angry when Minnie rejects him when they're in a plane together and deliberately flies so that she falls out of the plane. When he again tries to kiss her she refuses him again and he angrily forces kisses on her.
 * Lola Bunny on The Looney Tunes Show. Bugs meets her on a blind date, decides that she's not right for him afterwards at least partially due to her being a Stalker with a Crush on him, and Lola goes from being distraught about it to believing that she's still involved with Bugs to the point where she has Bugs (unwillingly) at the altar with her. Bugs is thankfully saved from the And Now You Must Marry Me situation she has put him in by her invocation of Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace on the grounds that she has decided that she loves Pepe le Pew.
 * The Simpsons: Mindy. Averted in the episode itself, where she's fine with Homer's decision, a throwaway line in a later episode however indicates that she took it hard and wound up depressed as a result.
 * Eska of The Legend Of Korra to Bolin. Eska first appears in the premiere of Book 2 alongside her equally emotionless brother Desna. Bolin takes a liking to her and attempts to woo her. However he quickly realizes that he has gotten more than he bargained for when Eska proves to be a controlling and emotionally abusive partner who delights in making her "lover" miserable. Eventually, Bolin can take no more, and Asami and Mako suggest that Bolin stand up for himself. Bolin tries and fails, prolonging his suffering. Eska ultimately decides that she desires to marry Bolin outright, at which point Bolin falls deeper into despair. Fortunately for him, he is able to escape from Eska when Team Avatar returns to Republic City, sending Eska into a rage. Blaming Avatar Korra, she vows to get vengeance on her for ruining her wedding and "stealing" her boyfriend.
 * In Jimmy Two Shoes Heloise is yandere to Jimmy.  As such, she gets quite violent when Jimmy ignores her in favor of Beezy.
 * Ginger falls into a deep depression after Darren breaks up with her in "A Lesson In Tightropes" of As Told By Ginger and ends up needing an emergency appendectomy.

Web Comic

 * Diego from Gunnerkrigg Court towards Jeanne. It's heavily implied that.
 * Ping from Megatokyo becomes violent when rejected, because her programmers forgot to test how she handles it in QA.
 * The Word Weary: Grace is visibly angry after Poor Trotmann rejects her offer for a date.
 * Eridan from Homestuck does not take Feferi, with whom he's in love, breaking off their moirallegiance, well at all. To the point that later in the story he actually kills her when she tries to stop him from joining forces with Jack. This is also his Despair Event Horizon as, ironically, he's known as the Prince of Hope.

Web Original

 * Shannon from Echo Chamber in regards to Tom.
 * In Death Note the Abridged Series Kpts 4 tv Light towards L. He gleefully resumes his plan to  after coming to the   conclusion that L is screwing Matsuda.
 * It only takes about five episodes of firm (but reasonably kind) rejection from Todd for The Nostalgia Chick to lose her marbles and start kidnapping him, trying to get him to love her.
 * In The Joker Blogs The Joker responds to Harleen's rejection by killing her fiance at their wedding.
 * The Overly Attached Girlfriend Meme, played by the YouTuber Laina. She was merely menacing in her videos... But when she makes cameo in others You Tubers videos, she becomes outright crazy, such as when Jimmy tries to break up with her. And then, she misundertood Shane Dawson and believed that he was having an orgy without her... That didn't end well.
 * Dave from the Dating Dave web series runs into Dymphna in a bar and she seems nice and sweet...until the next day when she's apparently already got a wedding dress sorted and is planning the bridal shower. And when he says no, she leads her friends into an angry mob to chase him down the street.

Theatre

 * Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire hints that he absolutely will not tolerate it if his wife Stella ever rejects or leaves him.
 * Blanche, when Mitch rejects her, starts to exhibit even more Sanity Slippage.
 * Medea: The original Woman Scorned, she killed her husband Jason's new fiancée after being dumped for her. This wasn't an attempt to win him back, however, but pure and simple revenge, particularly when she also put her children by Jason to the sword just to make him suffer all the more.

Real Life

 * In 1969 Prosenjit Poddar met Tatiana Tarasoff and pursued her romantically. She was not interested in him and rejected his marriage proposal.  Poddar became despondent and told his roommate that he wanted to blow up Tarasoff's house.  Poddar later began to stalk Tarasoff and in October 1969 found her home alone and killed her.