Yandere/Video Games

"Sapphire: Of course, I might've just gone back to slash you to pieces to vent my anger. You saved your own life. Heehee <3!"
 * Alma from the First Encounter Assault Recon games is this toward Beckett to the point that she repeatedly, and at the end of the game, What makes this worse is that she cannot understand why Beckett fights her off.
 * Alma definitely counts, given how whenever Beckett is in actual serious danger, she shows up and goes homicidal on whichever poor sod attempted to hurt him.
 * Bloody Mary from Twisted Metal: Black. What's interesting is she doesn't have a specific love, but desperately wants a husband. And by desperate, I mean she stabbed her friend in the stomach on her friends wedding day, then put on her wedding dress and kept it on for two years, bloodstains and all. She's in the contest to get her dream husband, but when he tells her he'll never love her (despite being lobotomized by Calypso), she goes literally Ax Crazy on him, then drives into the sunset to look for her Mr. Right, "even if she has to go through each and every man, one at a time".
 * In many of the Multiple Endings of the H-game School Days, one or more of the girls goes completely over the edge when the lead picks someone else. This doesn't happen all the time, and there are even some harem endings, but the yandere endings are the most famous, especially one involving a saw.
 * The ending to the anime, though, is a straight example:.
 * In the Visual Novel game Tsukihime, there's a rather chilling example of a less romantically inclined (at first, that can change depending of your choices) Yandere coming completely outta left field the first time you notice it. Spoilered because it will ruin a lot of the Far Side of the Moon stories: . Of course, if you pick her and manage to get her to come to grips with herself, then goes insane. Apparently insanity can not be destroyed, merely transferred.
 * And then there's . After she in the Far Side routes, she  so that she can understand Shiki's "scary side" and be with him forever. When he refuses, she attempts to . Yikes.
 * An odd example is, who'd spent so much time devoted to his research, he failed to recognise his own obsession with the White Princess, even as he tricks her into drinking his blood, bonding them forever, and at the same time sending her Axe Crazy, causing her to kill her handlers and giving her the freedom to choose her own life.
 * Pretty much everyone except Shiki, Hisui and maybe Ciel. Arcueid? Ciel?  Akiha?  Kohaku?  Roa?  Satsuki? Isn't it sad?
 * Even Shiki isn't safe from being a Yandere—at least, not
 * Princess Sapphire Rhodonite from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice quickly takes a liking towards Almaz, Mao's bitch "test subject." Almaz doesn't mind much, seeing as he's always had a crush on her (and because it's the only remotely good thing that happens to him), but let's just say she has very interesting ways of trying to help him out of his predicament. Fortunately, Almaz himself is usually safe from her violence-happy ideas. Usually.

"Jin: You're never going to touch my brother again, you bitch! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
 * There's also Anise the cat witch.
 * Oichi from Sengoku Basara ends up as a Yandere in her Story Mode, but not because her husband Nagamasa was cheating on someone. Because he was KILLED in cold blood.
 * In Under the Moon, an eroge for girls (You read that right), there's two routes for each character. One is called the "pure love" route, which is typical romance novel fare with fluffy sex scenes, and there's a route called the "love/hate" route, where the boys are yandere. They're possessive of you and occasionally rape you. Ironically, one of the boys, has everything reversed, he's a jerkass yandere in the pure love route but more sweet and loving in the love/hate route.
 * Occasionally, the fandom of Touhou portrays Alice as this, going beyond the usual Tsundere portrayal into seriously creepy territory. Highlights include attempting to put Marisa's soul into a doll to keep her forver.
 * Then there's Flandre, who loves to "play" with Marisa. And Meiling. And Remilia. And anyone else she "likes", really.
 * Koishi is this as well to a lesser extent, but more towards Satori and the character who defeats her in SA's Extra stage.
 * 'Occasionally'? There's almost not a single character fans haven't reimagined in Yandere mode—a search on pixiv with the keywords 'Touhou' and 'Yandere' generates 600 images worth of crazy.
 * Yuka Kazami is often portrayed as Yandere for flowers.
 * Debatably the backstory for Parsee. The bridge princess youkai is the eternally-jealous spirit of a noblewoman who had a rather dire response to her husband's philandering, and was cursed into a demon for it.
 * G La DOS from Portal is an unusual case in that her primary goal is to chase Chell through a death maze and gets rather upset when she manages to escape. At the same time, she seems to have an unhealthy obsession with her captive.
 * from Portal 2 might count, especially in the Final Battle. All his ranting is basically him being angry about Chell apparently choosing G La DOS over him.
 * In Yoshine's route in Brass Restoration, verges on this.
 * The Updated Rerelease of Yggdra Union has #367, a Shrinking Violet Extreme Doormat, who's Cute and Psycho rather than a yandere. She's meek, submissive, shy, and uncertain... until , putting her body and mind under intense stress. Instant Ax Crazy. Truly, With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
 * Really Ryez from Twinkle Star Sprites is yandere for Arthur Schmitt. Her favorite word is onore.
 * Sakura of Da Capo is very, very dere towards Junichi but as the story continues, psycho personality traits emerge more and more frequently, starting with the implication she dropped a tree branch on someone's head because they mistook her for the lead's younger sister and treated her like a kid. She gets worse, both in back and main story.
 * Mitsuru from Persona 3 has a particular Stalker with a Crush with overt Yandere tendencies. This girl stands outside the assembly room for the Student Council (of which Mitsuru is president) all day, is obsessed with everything Mitsuru does, threatens to kill you if you don't cough up swimsuit pictures of her after the Beach Episode, and innocently asks if members of the Student Council would be replaced if... something were to happen to one of them. Oh, and upon learning Mitsuru rides a motorcycle, she says she would be thrilled to be run over by those "burning wheels of LOVE!"
 * To a certain extend, in Persona 3 FES, in The Answer, who is established as having fallen for  says without hesitation that she will struggle the   from her friends (without visible concern for their health) when she realizes  Having this new facet of her personality suddenly revealed, along with the excellent voice acting she gets, might arduably result in the creepiest moments in both the Answer and the main game.
 * In Persona 4, there's an NPC outside the library who has a crush on an upperclassman. When she suspects that he has a girlfriend, she snaps at him and drives him away. Towards the end of the game, she places all the blame on the other girl and even tries to kill her through indirect poisoning.
 * An earlier Persona example, Persona 2, has Jun Kurosu. While it's not particularly touched upon in the main game, the drama CD turns him into an absolute psychopath over Tatsuya, to the point where even a friend having slightly better compatibility with him via horoscope is enough to send him into a total meltdown. ...The creepy voice acting throughout the track (plus the humming and laughing) is enough to scare anyone for weeks.
 * of Tales of Symphonia probably counts- his love for his sister drove him to  If anybody tries to tell him he's wrong, or says anything that could even be severely twisted around as being bad about his sister, he will kill you. Damn.
 * Dragon Quest VII has Kaya, a cheerful maid who's fallen in love with her rich employer's son, Iwan. Unfortunately, they're also caught up in a complex Love Dodecahedron... While Kaya initially comes off as the only one who isn't Wangsting and/or being an unhelpful Jerkass, instead working towards a solution, towards the end, she cracks a joke about poisoning everyone in town. While everyone is eating at a feast she prepared. Later on, you find out
 * Jin Kisaragi is another male example, and dangerously skirt with Cute and Psycho. Any moment he's mentioned about his brother Ragna the Bloodedge, he drops all his cool exterior and goes Ho Yay to the max 'Oh brother...~' and expresses his 'love' by trying to kill him. Then there's the final boss Nu-13, who is usually robotic with everyone else, but if she meets Ragna, she also becomes a crazed lovestruck and tried to have him and when Ragna refused, she attempts to kill him.
 * And when Nu and Jin meet, and Nu loses, well...
 * And when Nu and Jin meet, and Nu loses, well...

"Why, ? Why do you love her? I'll kill her, I swear it! I'll wear her skin like a robe!"
 * And you think he's bad, wait until you see Jin's female Love Interest Tsubaki Yayoi. She's crazy about him, and not in a good way.
 * Happens in Mitadake High. Like one time where the Yandere turned out to be the killer. "If I can't have you no-one can" does not BEGIN to describe what happened.
 * Catalina of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, particularly as she starts getting closer to C.J. As if she weren't already crazy enough.
 * Sasha of In Famous, the leader of the Reapers and the first Super Villain you fight is obsessed with Cole, whispering maniacal pleads for his love into his mind when he comes into contact with the sludge she controls. It might have something to do with the fact that

" : "I shall NOT let you leave — I have the power to KEEP you here, and I shall USE it. My black-barbed maze shall NOT allow you to travel beyond it while I LIVE, my precious, precious man...""
 * Nuwangi in Utawarerumono. Sure, he is also an arrogant Jerkass, but most of what he does is out of either desire for Eruruw or wanting to destroy Hakuoro. It's hinted from time to time that if the situation weren't what it was he wouldn't be as much of an ass. He's definitely not happy about what happens to Tuskuru.
 * In the Nancy Drew game Stay Tuned For Danger,
 * Depending on the ending you get, Maria in Silent Hill 2. It doesn't get much more Yandere than because the target of your obsession rejects you.
 * of Live a Live. She snaps after and  It's easily one of the creepiest scenes in that chapter, let alone the game itself.
 * The Starcraft novel series The Dark Templar Saga suggests a similar relationship with the protoss being Yandere towards the xel'naga. After the xel'naga abandoned them, the tribes engaged in the biggest civil war the galaxy had ever known, killing each other because each held the others responsible for driving the xel'naga away. Many also hated the xel'naga for abandoning them... No surprise these became the Scary Dogmatic Aliens of the setting.
 * Irisu Kyouko won't let anyone get in the way between her and her soulmate Ujishima. Especially not dirty thief cats.
 * Kimmy Howell in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. She's a bit more up front than most Yandere, though; she's a Fan Girl 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.
 * Mimmy is also this towards, not allowing him to wake up so she can stay with him forever, even threatening to kill him when he suggests that they can live together in the real world. Since she is mostly a creation of mind, however, and technically not real, it is kind of obvious.
 * Clara from Skies of Arcadia toward Gilder, though she is a very benign, Played for Laughs example.
 * Bigeu of RPG-classic Seiken Densetsu 3.
 * Shin Megami Tensei has Yuriko. She goes so far as to not just hunt down the supporting cast, but everyone else with her name, just so she can be with the Main Character. It does not work.
 * As if that weren't creepy enough, Yuriko is also
 * Say hello to Alice. Actually, she's not the real Alice. Her adoptive parents, the Count in Red and the Baron in Black, are actually Belial and Nebiros. Funny thing is, she's still mentally a young girl who wants to do normal things like go to school and get lots of friends. The problem is her "revival" gave her magic. Lots and lots of dark magic. Along with eroding her sense of why it's not a particularly good idea to torture, kill and eat your friends for fun.
 * Lezard Valeth from Valkyrie Profile. When he first meet him,
 * No question, he's completely insane. But there's absolutely no point that he genuinely appears nice . Stalker with a Crush to the Nth degree, but Yandere could be considered a stretch.
 * Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories: Riku Replica goes absolutely apeshit if he thinks you'll get between him and Namine. Also, Marluxia's plan was to brainwash Sora into one of these for Namine, hereby turning him into a pawn to take over the Organization. It almost works, and even after Sora and Riku Replica learn they were brainwashed, this doesn't effect their feelings much. (Namine ended up having to wipe Sora's memories of her to get him to recover.)
 * Replica meets his end trying to kill Riku for going to find Namine when Namine was trying to arrange a meeting with Riku (to explain Sora's situation to him).
 * Limit Panic, a yuri visual novel where both of the potential girls are this.
 * While many characters in Rule of Rose fit the bill, no one suits the trope better than
 * Tira from Soul Calibur, Nightmare's very Perky Female Minion Dragon. She is a Psycho Supporter of his who explicitly wants to become one with Soul Edge, the Evil Weapon that the entire story revolves around. This gets a lampshade hung over it in the Gauntlet (a humorous, non-canon story from Broken Destiny, the PSP port of IV), where she functions as Nightmare's unwanted Stalker with a Crush and wants him to eat her and destroy the world, saying that she'll kill anyone who gets in the way of her love.
 * A possible interpretation for  from the Fire Emblem Jugdral games. Granted, he was already pretty fucked up from childhood , but the scene towards the end of the first part in which   is pretty easy to interpretate as him being Yandere for her.
 * In the second part of the game we have Prince Yurius of Velthomer . The only person he shows affection to is his girlfriend, the local Dark Magical Girl Ishtar, and when he finds out that her bodyguard Reinhardt seems to be a liiiiiiittle too close to her for his comfort, Yurius forces Ishtar to fire him under the threat of killing him the next time he sees them together. To be fair,
 * Valter the Moonstone from Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones is already an Ax Crazy Complete Monster, but his obsession with Princess Eirika places him squarely into this trope as well.
 * Ilya from Fate/stay night is both Possessive and Obsessive on the main protagonist, specially when you.
 * Gameplaywise, . If you ever talk to another of the female main characters when you have the option to talk to her, you have basically guaranteed yourself a shadow-related death.
 * from Arc Rise Fantasia
 * Bowser from the Super Mario Bros. series games is actually this to Peach, which explains why he always kidnaps her in the first place.
 * The Tokimeki Memorial Dating Sims used to be Yandere-free... until TM 4 brought us . See some images here.
 * Both Catherine and Katherine are both in love with Vincent, and Catherine outright states that she'll kill him or any girl.
 * Planescape: Torment has one in, who refuses to let her love leave her a second time when he comes to visit...
 * Planescape: Torment has one in, who refuses to let her love leave her a second time when he comes to visit...


 * in Shikkoku no Sharnoth. Apparently, and thus knowingly meddles with Sharnoth, nearly causing absolute catastrophe and Mary's death at numerous points.
 * Another male example is Anton Herzen from Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. He waited years in a mansion for the return of his fiancée and He got better, thankfully.
 * in A Profile, though it's played for sympathy more than scary. It also appears to be part of a Zero-Approval Gambit out of self loathing.
 * from Yume Miru Kusuri is a horribly, horribly justified example (not to mention a sympathetic one-and by "sympathetic", we mean "begging you to reach through the screen and hug her every other scene she's in").
 * Camos O. Laphroaig of the Hell Hounds in Galaxy Angel is a Yandere toward Milfeulle, he always calls her honey and somehow hopes his actions (including trying to shoot her down) will win her over. He finally croses over to true Yandere territory.
 * from Frozen Essence becomes this if you reject him on his path.
 * Lucan from (P)lanets is easily the nicest guy in the game, and adorably bashful to boot. However, it turns out there's a reason for him being the only love interest Marin can get a bad ending with.
 * Hatoful Boyfriend, of all things, has this in the "Bad Boys Love" route.
 * 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.
 * Tales of Graces has, whose affection for his friends makes him resist the influence of the Eldritch Abomination - until it learns to manipulate his feelings into something disturbingly possessive. When his friends inevitably reject what he's become, he predictably goes berserk and you have a boss fight on your hands.
 * The Boss from Saints Row: The Third can be one 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," and finally admitting to wanting to make love to him in front of a live studio audience. If this doesn't seem crazy enough, bear in mind that 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.
 * Yukkuri Panic Escalation: Both rival Midori and ojou Naomi can be very scary versions of this, and even the player's character Rie has a few shades of this.