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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''Well, I don't pretend to understand women's little quirks
''Just one thing I know for sure; chicks dig jerks
|'''[[Bill Hicks]]''', "Chicks Dig Jerks"}}
A common [[Anime Character Types|Japanese character type]], the
This type is common in [[Boys Love]] (as a standard [[Seme]] type), [[Shoujo]], and, to a lesser extent, [[Josei]] romances, but comparatively rare in works aimed at a male audience, where guys like this are more likely to be the [[Romantic False Lead]] or just [[Stalker with a Crush|a villain]].
Their love interest, male or female, is usually [[The Protagonist]], although a minority of stories are from the
The
'''Unconflicted''' (standard): Poised, confident, and perfectly happy with his own behavior, either because he [[It's All About Me|doesn't care what the other party thinks of him]], genuinely believes that abduction and molestation are [[Stalking Is Love|viable ways of showing his affection]], or [[For the Evulz|just is a plain, sadistic bastard]]. The [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]] (''Kichiku Megane'') subtrope is built on this type.
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'''Conflicted''' (less common): [[Troubled but Cute]], and his abusiveness is generally driven by [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealousy]], insecurity, [[Cannot Spit It Out|a crushing inability to express his feelings]], a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] that completely screwed up with his view of the world, or (very rarely) a desire to [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|drive the other person away]] (possibly out of a belief that they will be [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|happier with someone else]]). This type may have started as an attempt at a [[Deconstructed Trope|more realistic]] implementation of the character type.
Both kinds are highly likely to be [[Crazy Jealous Guy|jealous and possessive]]. Expect plots to feature a [[Green-Eyed Epiphany]]
The
Mature-rated works that have Kichiku characters are likely to involve [[Mind Game Ship|psychological abuse]], [[Victim Falls For Rapist]], and maybe some [[Bound and Gagged|BDSM]]. PG-rated examples tend to be [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|cold, aloof, or sarcastic]]. In either case, fan reaction tends to be polarized: either they're [[Perverse Sexual Lust|hot and sexy]] and their love affair is [[
Works that contain [[Stalker with a Crush]] or [[Mad Love]] relationships are likely to attract [[Draco in Leather Pants|fan interpretations]] where the characters are recast along these lines.
[[Spear Counterpart]] of [[Bastard Girlfriend]]. Usually a type of [[Romanticized Abuse]] and subtrope to [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], with a side order of [[Evil Is Sexy]]. If the Kichiku character also has status, power, and [[Sexy Spectacles|hot little glasses]], he's a ''kichiku megane'' (see [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]]). For sort-of Western equivalents, see [[Handsome Devil]], who is usually more sarcastic than cruel, and the [[Romance Genre Heroes]] under The Bastard and The Sadist, although those are usually played as villains. Contrast the [[Jerkass]] varieties of [[Romantic False Lead]] and the [[Disposable Fiance]], who are superficially similar but guaranteed ''not'' to get the girl, and the [[Domestic Abuser]] and [[Unsexy Sadist]], who have the cruelty minus the fetishization.
'''A Handy Chart to determine if a character is this trope:'''
* Wants nothing to do with him: [[Stalker with a Crush]]
* Thinks his behavior is ''sooooo'' romantic: [[Stalking Is Love]]
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** The author wants you to think he's a [[Jerkass]] and she's a saint for putting up with him: [[Domestic Abuser]] meets [[Love Martyr]]
** The author wants you to think he's ''totally hot'' and the relationship [[Corrupt the Cutie|is deliciously kinky]]: This Trope
{{examples}}▼
{{noreallife|calling real-life people "bastards" [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|is a bad idea.]]}}
== Anime and Manga ==▼
'''[[Shoujo]]/[[Josei]] examples:'''▼
▲{{examples}}
▲== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Kyo in ''[[Black Bird]]'' (page image): wants to marry female lead Misao, who he has been in love with [[Puppy Love|since they were children]], and [[Intimate Healing|licks her erotically]] when she gets attacked by his fellow demons (which is often). Doesn't seem to care that she's not completely on board with either of these ideas. Then she falls in love with him...but the saddest thing is, [[Stockholm Syndrome|he's one of the few reliable allies that she has in the whole Tengu vs. humans deal]], so if she ''did'' fully spurn him, other Tengus would jump at the chance to kill/rape/eat her. [[The Chew Toy|Still sucks to be her.]] In the end, of course, he ''is'' willing to do anything (including killing his own brother) to keep her happy and safe at the expense of his own life, and he ''does'' [[Pet the Dog|show genuine kindness]] [[Friend to All Children|to children]].
* Director Domoto in ''[[Butterflies, Flowers]]'' (but only when in dictatorial-boss mode).
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* Hijiri from ''A Portrait Of N And M'' looks like he's going to be one of these (he intimidates Mitsuru, fondles her hair, and tries to blackmail her into dating him), but gets subverted hard when it is revealed that {{spoiler|he is actually deathly afraid of dogs and wants her to protect him from a rambunctious puppy on his route home.}}
* Shoei Jinnai of ''[[Desire Climax]]''.
* One of the "Love Egoist" [[
* [[Deconstructed]] with Shoutaro "Shou" Fuwa from ''[[Skip Beat!]]''. He treats his childhood friend, Kyouko Mogami, like crap since she lives at his house after she falls victim to [[Parental Abandonment]], and is completely devoted to him...but the moment he ''openly'' berates and humiliates her is actually the moment she ''[[Woman Scorned|snaps]]'' on him, realizes how much of an asshole he is, and openly swears [[Revenge]].
* ''[[Akuma de Sourou]]'' has [[Handsome Devil|Takeru]], who blackmails [[Shrinking Violet|Kayano]] into becoming his servant, sabotages her relationship with the guy she likes, and generally emotionally bullies her in the beginning. He seems to think it's only teasing, but considering how shy and emotional Kayano is, it comes off much harsher. Despite the progression in their relationship, he remains cold and distant, which makes her almost perpetually nervous.
* Q-Ta Minamitani from ''[[Honey Hunt]]'' is a [[Manipulative Bastard]] towards Yura, is possessive of her, and shows little genuine interest in learning what Yura truly wants.
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* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'': Just about all of the main male cast with the exception of Miki. This is, of course, played for epic [[Deconstruction]].
* Ryuichi Asami in the ''[[Finder Series]]'' (along with many other Ayano Yamane [[
* Nakajima in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'', in the manga volume that follows his route in the [[Visual Novel]] (which includes [[Victim Falls For Rapist]]
* Yonekuni (crocodile-boy) in ''[[Love Pistols]]'' volumes 1 and 2: [[Does Not Like Men|hates men.]] Nasty to Shirou. Screws Shirou (repeatedly over a two year period). [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Doesn't realize it.]] [[Green-Eyed Epiphany|Jealousy ensues.]] Shirou, of course, is desperately in love with him.
** What's really frustrating about it that Shirou has [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|horribly low self-esteem]] and doesn't think he deserves Yonekuni. In later volumes, it gets to the point where he actually believes that Yonekuni has graciously accepted his feelings and is simply putting up with his presence.
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** From the same series, a Shoujo-Ai/Yuri example is in Yonekuni's mother, Makio Madarame (the resident heroic sociopath of this manga). When they first met, she pushed her love interest, Karen, '''''out of a four storey window''''', and the only reason Karen survived was because of her madararui nature (and she still broke her legs!). Makio ''did'' spend the following months taking her everywhere and caring for her (against Karen's wishes), but still...Even after twenty years together, this trope ''continues'' to apply to Makio, as she constantly causes Karen no end of misery from everything from cheating on her to trying to derail Yonekuni or Kunimasa's psychological development, or running her prostitution outfit within the vicinity of their restaurant. These last two coincided at one point where she tried to pimp Kunimasa off to the highest bidder...[[Beware the Nice Ones|and Karen was NOT happy]].
** Yonekuni's brother, Kunimasa Madarame, is really only slightly better than Yonekuni when it comes to ''his'' boyfriend, the main character Norio "Norririn" Enya. Mostly because he's the master of mixed messages to the point where he has Norririn running terrified in fear that he's going to either break up with him or propose to him. Considering that [[Manipulative Bastard|Makio]] is their mother, both Yonekuni and Kunimasa didn't really have a chance when it came to learning by example of how to maintain a functional relationship.
** Considering that [[Loads and Loads of Characters|this is Love Pistols]], you have quite a few dysfunctional relationships running around, but special mention has to go to Hiromasa and Shima's. Originally, they were sex friends in high school, and split up when Hiromasa's family moved him to a different prefecture, and then wound up working in the same hospital in their mid-twenties, eventually re-starting the sexual relationship they had before. Despite how much he tries to distance himself, Shima is in love with Hiromasa, but believes that if he tried to get any closer to him, he'd lose interest and leave him. In a moment of weakness, he uses a conception device that the Madarui use for same-gender reproduction (his thinking is along the lines of [[Love Makes You Dumb|"at least he'd have something of him" when they eventually broke up]]). Consequently, he gets pregnant. Now, ''here's'' the bit where it gets creepy. {{spoiler|It turns out that Hiromasa has actually been in love with Shima for years, and he came back from Kyoto to work in the same hospital as him for the expressed purpose of getting closer to him.}} Okay, that's fine, right? Well, here's the thing... {{spoiler|Hiromasa noticed the fact that Shima seemed to be able to brush their relationship off like it was nothing, and had, for months, without Shima's knowledge, [[Yandere|been using a very powerful conception drug on him in order to get him pregnant so he could tie him to him and stop him from leaving him.]] When Shima finds out that he's pregnant, despite being shocked beyond all belief, he blames himself, and Hiromasa not only ''lets him think that it's all his fault'', but [[If I Can't Have You|threatens to abort the child if it's not his]]. After things have calmed down a bit and Shima's sleeping in his arms, he remarks mildly in an internal monologue how nice it was to have miscalculated the extend of Shima's feelings for him and also how nice it was that ''[[Murder the Hypotenuse|he wouldn't have to kill anyone for sleeping with or impregnating him]].''}} Ladies and gentlemen, your
* Genma in ''Ze'' volumes 3 and 4: possessive, controlling, and completely eaten up with jealousy at the thought that Himi {{spoiler|was his father's lover.}} He wasn't. Relaxes considerably after he finds this out. Himi has been in love with him since childhood and [[Love Martyr|meekly submits]] to rape and imprisonment.
* In the manga of ''[[Genshiken]]'', Ogiue draws an explicit [[Yaoi]] [[Doujinshi]] starring her clubmate/crush Sasahara as a ''kichiku'' [[Seme]] and clubmate Madarame as his quailing [[Uke]]. In the [[Anime]], this gets expanded to an entire sequence: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgWGNKQMtnE Youtube.] Hilarious, since Sasahara is actually a [[Nice Guy]] and a little shy.
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* Iason ''and'' Guy from ''[[Ai no Kusabi]]'', but Iason defines this by putting Riki through hell for 3 years to [[Break the Haughty|break his pride]] so he may become submissive to Iason..
* Kanou from ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'' is surprisingly a Conflicted type.
* Souma from ''[[Sakura Gari]]'', a Conflicted type with HUGE [[Freudian Excuse
* Swordfish from the yaoi manga ''Under Grand Hotel''.
* Sawatari Atsushi in the yaoi manga ''Interval''. Despite his initial cruel and heartless behavior for seemingly no reason, he's actually the Conflicted type.
* Naruse Fuuta in the yaoi manga ''[[Kawaii Akuma]]'' and its sequel is definitely Unconflicted.
* Averted and possibly parodied in ''[[Kizuna]]'', where [[Seme]] Kei has the [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]] looks and a [[Yakuza]] background that would make him the ''perfect'' Unconflicted type... yet his [[Uke]], Ranmaru, is a violent [[Tsundere]] and can have him ''very'' whipped.
* [[Gender Flip
* Shiki from [[Togainu no Chi]] is the Unconflicted type.
* Sou Mizuhashi from ''[[After School Nightmare]]''.
* Ayace of ''[[Corsair]]'', who has no social grace and [[Victim Falls For Rapist|unusual ideas]] about what constitutes consent.
* Klaus von Wolfstadt of ''[[Hyakujitsu no Bara]]'' is a Conflicted type variety: very rough when he sexes up his secret boyfriend [[Broken Messiah|Taki Reizen]], and completely screwed up due to his past and his current position.
* Some suspect Honma of ''[[Boku No Sexual Harassment]]'' as being this.
* Gilbert of ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' can be like this to Serge. He's definitely a [[Jerkass Woobie|conflicted version]].
* Parodied in ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'', where Neuro is constantly cruel to Yako for no good reason, and this is supposed to hint towards romantic relations between the two characters, as well as being played for laughs.▼
▲'''Non-[[Shoujo]] or [[Boys Love]] Examples:'''
* ''[[Death Note
▲* Parodied in [[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]], where Neuro is constantly cruel to Yako for no good reason, and this is supposed to hint towards romantic relations between the two characters, as well as being played for laughs.
▲* [[Death Note|Light Yagami]] definitely qualifies; the only reason he enters any sort of relationship with Misa is because she has her own Death Note and is wildly, cultishly in love with him. He really doesn't seem to give a crap about her other than that, and, in fact, is as willing to cruelly use her as a pawn as he is any stranger on the street. The only time he (pretends to) show any affection for her is when she's angry at him, or he wants her to do something. If Misa hadn't started with the infatuation, there's ''no way'' he would have treated her as anything more than a good lieutenant.
** His treatment of his ''other'' girlfriend/lieutenant, Kiyomi Takada. It's more or less canon that they ''have'' had sex at least once, he manipulates her almost as much as he uses Misa as well, and ''unlike'' in Misa's case, {{spoiler|he callously disposes of her by using a piece of the Death Note to force Takada to burn herself to death as a part of his plan. Right after the girl had not only killed Mello for him, but was naked and frightened and trapped inside a truck, actually ''begging him to help her'' since she genuinely believes in him. [[Base Breaker|It doesn't matter if you liked her or not]], that '''was''' a [[Moral Event Horizon|horrifyingly cruel move]] from Light.}}
* Izaya from ''[[Durarara!!]]'' is an interesting take on the concept: he's not anyone's
* Kouta from the one-shot manga ''Vitamin'' is like this. He says he loves his girlfriend Sawako and will stick by her, but he forces her into having sex and lies about being with her. Sawako eventually breaks up with him though.
▲== Fan Work ==
* [[Yaoi Fangirl|Some]] [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|fans]] love to turn Canon Characters into this trope, notably:
* Sasuke Uchiha from ''[[Naruto]]'', whether it's Yaoi, or Hetero. Can't be too hard to find.
* Seto Kaiba from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': [http://m31ru-ch4n.deviantart.com/art/TPNM-Cover-141912936 example].
** Also, try and find a [[Sharing a Body|Yami Bakura/Ryo Bakura]] fanfic that ''doesn't'' have Yami Bakura mentally or even physically abuse his poor suffering host (and giving him his own body just to make the latter possible). Go on. We'll wait.
***
* [[Draco in Leather Pants|Draco Malfoy]] in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fanfic.
** Sirius Black seems to get this interpretation as well in some fics, particularly the [[Ho Yay|Sirius/Remus]] ones.
* [[Anti-Hero|Edmund Pevensie]], from ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]'', is portrayed as this in some fics, especially the [[Brother-Sister Incest|Edmund/Lucy]] ones. Well, it's not that hard to see him that way since he practically [[Kids Are Cruel|torments and mocks the poor girl]] for pretty much the entire first book. So it's almost [[canon]]... without the [[Slash Fic|slash]] part, of course.
** Although the second book prominently shows that he learned from his mistakes and is Lucy's strongest supporter when she keeps talking about seeing Aslan, the movie version still likes to portray him as [[The Dark Side|dark]] to an extent, due to his [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkiness]] and witty character. They even switched his and Capian's lines from the book, because, while Caspian was supposed to be tempted by evil in the third movie, they gave this role to Edmund and made him look like a jerk again when he fell into temptation for the second time, even though it was for a short period of time. That's why many fans still see him as the [[Anti-Hero|bad one]]. And the
* Craig Tucker from ''[[South Park]]'' is portrayed as this in most fics, particularly the [[Ho Yay|Craig/Tweek]] ones, since he is...let's say, [[Anti-Hero|not quite]] [[Deadpan Snarker|a pleasant]] [[The Stoic|character]]. In most stories, he either acts like a jerkass towards everyone, a bully, a sociopath or he just does anything to obtain what he wants, using methods [[Memetic Molester|like rape or molestation]].
** [[Complete Monster|Eric Cartman]]. Almost half of [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Kyman]] ([[Foe Yay|Cartman/Kyle]]) fics portray Cartman as a possessive, obsessed sociopath ([[Sarcasm Mode|not that he's not like that in the real show, too]]) who wants to rape Kyle and torture him in all possible ways. Most of them are M rated, too.
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*** This is also a distubingly common [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] that follows the "[[What If]] England remained an Empire?" scenario. Apparently, the only way a Still-Imperial!England can be portrayed as is...a violent and abusive bastard who still dresses like a pirate, shoots and beats up whoever dares raise their voice, and sexily abuses a Forever-Colony!America reduced to a whiny, wimpified [[Love Martyr]] mess.
** Turkey is typically portrayed as this in [[Foe Yay|Turkey/Greece]] and [[Unequal Pairing|Turkey/Egypt]] fanworks (although it's much less common for the latter). While some Turkey/Greece works veer into [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] instead by making Greece into a defiant [[Tsundere]] on equal fighting ground with Turkey, many more Turkey/Greece works make it clear that as hard as Greece tries to fight back, Turkey thoroughly dominates him and is free to abuse and even rape him because he either wants to [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|put Greece in his place]] or [[Victim Falls For Rapist|just can't control himself around Greece]], leaving Greece a [[Break the Cutie|broken and embittered man]] who [[Stockholm Syndrome|nonetheless can't help but]] [[Love Martyr|keep coming back to Turkey]]. Some fics have him go as far as raping Greece [[Ephebophile|as a teen]] or [[Shotacon|a child]], brainwashing Greece into being his slave, or even raping Greece ''explicitly'' [[Attention Whore|because he'd rather have Greece hate him than be indifferent towards him.]]
*** He also comes off as this in Turkey/Hungary fanworks set in the "Ottoman Hungary" times, i.e. in several online places, there's quite the speculation about the possibility of the "young!Prussia finds an injured young!Hungary all battered and half naked after fighting the Ottoman Empire" strip being the aftermath to Turkey [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|realizing that she's a girl]], [[She
*** Turkey/Japan fanworks are mostly free of this or at least don't have Turkey abusing or raping Japan. Even fanworks where Turkey's feelings for Japan are clearly one-sided portray him as a jealous but ultimately harmless [[Hopeless Suitor]] at the very worst. Maybe because Turkey and Japan have always had a cordial history with each other.
*** Rather oddly averted with most Turkey/Iceland fanworks, ''even'' those in which Iceland is smacked with [[Wimpification]]. There are however a few with Ottoman Turkey kidnapping little/pre-teen!Iceland and putting him [[Sex Slave|in his harem]], "basing it off" the [[wikipedia:Turkish Abductions|Turkish Abductions]] in Icelandic history.
** Poor Japan. Not only is he turned into a Bastard Boyfriend in numerous Japan/[insert any other Asian nation here] fanworks (which includes many Japan/China fanworks, pretty much all Japan/either Korea, Hong Kong, and/or Thailand fanworks, and even the few Japan/Taiwan fanworks that don't go the [[Lady and Knight]] or [[Happily Married]] routes) thanks to his [[Lawful Evil]] [[Imperial Japan|imperial history]], but he himself becomes the [[Wimpification|weepy]] [[Love Martyr|victim]]...er, "lucky lover" of a Bastard Boyfriend in numerous America/Japan and England/Japan fanworks. The only pairing exceptions ([[Tempting Fate|so far]]) are Greece/Japan (whose reputation as the "[[Happily Married|peaceful, content]], [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|cat-loving]] pairing you steer clear of if you love angst" is too strong) and minor pairings like Turkey/Japan and Netherlands/Japan (who don't get that many fanworks in the first place, at least in the English-speaking fandom).
** China (as either [[Imperial China|the Chinese Empire]] or [[Red China|Mao's China]]) sometimes goes from the [[Love Martyr]] victim to the
*** He's not even safe in China/England fanwork. There's a Pixiv fanartist who has this as a kink, making [[Imperial China]] a
*** Even worse are the China/Japan fanworks that make [[Imperial China]] a [[Shotacon|pedophiliac]] [[Yandere]] and [[Complete Monster]] who [[Abusive Parent|physically, sexually, and psychologically abuses]] a completely wimpified Japan ever since he "discovered" him. (Or the fact that you can swap China and Japan's name in that sentence and replace "pedophiliac" with "sociopathic" and "discovered" with "conquered" [never mind that Japan never actually conquered China in real life, not even during WWII, and that China is actually the stronger nation nowadays] for a summary of at least 60% of Japan/China fanworks.)
** America gets this rep in more than one America/England and/or America/Japan badfic, with either England or Japan becoming the [[Love Martyr]] to America's [[Jerkass]] or [[Yandere]] via [[Wimpification]]. Double points if it's an USA/Japan fic set in the American occupation times where America either punishes Japan for his role in [[World War Two]] by raping him or becomes a dangerous Yandere who threatens to bomb him again. Triple points if it's a "USUK" fic where the real reason for [[The American Revolution]] is either England's reaction to teenager!America [[Victim Falls For Rapist|overpowering and raping him]], or America setting a spiteful [[Xanatos Gambit]] in which he wants his "freedom" as a direct way to hurt and hate England (and often backed up by a France shown as a slutty, selfish [[Evil Mentor]] [[Ron the Death Eater|who leads America on *purely* to spit on]] [[Purity Stu|"poor" UK]] - way to flanderize the French role in the Revolution).
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** Two or three fans give this treatment to Prussia, too. This happens in some Prussia/Hungary (with a [[Chickification|badly chickified]] Hungary, one may add) and [[Brother-Sister Incest|Germancest]] fics, but it's usually a rare sight.
** When the [[Foe Yay]] between [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Denmark and Sweden]] goes too far, the fanworks featuring this couple will make Denmark one of these. It's also a relatively common sight in [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Denmark/Norway]] fics, too: one of them had Denmark [[Crazy Jealous Guy|so deathly jealous]] of Norway's closeness to Iceland, that he has sex with Norway [[Forced to Watch|in front of Iceland]] [[Netorare Genre|to "teach" Iceland that Norway is his boyfriend]].
** If we go to pure [[Original Character]] Realm, OC!Scotland is often portrayed by Japanese fans as a [[Violent Glaswegian|highly violent]] [[Evil Redhead]] who cruelly rapes and abuses a wimpified England.
* There are some fanfics out there that portray either Hibari or Mukuro from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' as a
* Yu Kanda from ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' sometimes tends to be made into a
* Either Roy Mustang or Envy in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
* Gauron of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]].''
* Kaede Rukawa from ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' is frequently portrayed as this in fanwork to a wimpified Sakuragi. Yes, '''that''' [[Boisterous Bruiser|Hanamichi]] [[Fiery Redhead|Sakuragi]] is made into Rukawa's whiny and weepy uke.
* Parodied in ''[[Gantz Abridged]]''. Kurono wants to be the
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fics pairing [[The Ingenue|Ventus]] with [[Foe Yay|Van]][[Screw Yourself|it]][[Complete Monster|as]] usually turn the latter into this.
* Heero Yuy, back when ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' was '''the''' yaoi fandom out there, was the poster boy for this trope. Fics where he sexily abused [[Wimpification|Duo]], raped him and claimed to love him, killed or humiliated [[Die for Our Ship|Relena]] for daring to crush on him (which, of course, was ''[[Moral Dissonance|okay]]'', because she ''totally'' was a [[Ron the Death Eater|pink-dressed]], [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|girly]], [[Yandere|Yandere whore]]) and commited other [[
* Ronan of [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]. He screams at Sakura when she does anything he doesn't like, notes early on that he doesn't need her, but keeps her around because she's dependent on him, and when he catches Sakura cheating on him {{spoiler|and she offers to cut off her vagina to prove she loves him, he demands that she do it}}.
* Ulquiorra Schiffer in ''[[Bleach]]'' is transformed into this in [[Fanon]], particularly in some Ulquiorra/Orihime fics. This is usually featured along with [[Die for Our Ship]], most likely towards Orihime for not expressing romantic feelings towards him in canon. [[Flame War|And let's just leave it at that.]]
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* The sheik from ''[[The Sheik]]'': causing an entire generation of girls to swoon at the thought of being kidnapped and raped by a hot Arabian prince. (That [[Fetish Fuel]] was the intention is made transparent by the book's final pages, in which, {{spoiler|in a fit of conscience, he decides to send her away so he won't hurt her anymore, and the heroine threatens to kill herself}}. The fact that [[The Film of the Book]] starred [[
▲== Literature ==
* It has been [[Alternative Character Interpretation|
▲* The sheik from ''[[The Sheik]]'': causing an entire generation of girls to swoon at the thought of being kidnapped and raped by a hot Arabian prince. (That [[Fetish Fuel]] was the intention is made transparent by the book's final pages, in which, {{spoiler|in a fit of conscience, he decides to send her away so he won't hurt her anymore, and the heroine threatens to kill herself}}. The fact that [[The Film of the Book]] starred [[Mr. Fanservice|Rudolph Valentino]] helped.
▲* It has been [[Alternative Character Interpretation|HEAVILY argued]] that ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'''s Edward Cullen is an unintentional Conflicted type example of this trope. Jacob also [[Derailing Love Interests|gets warped]] into this in the third book. To add irony, it took Jacob becoming a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] for Bella to realize she has feelings for him.
* The ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' series has Irial, who is incredibly emotionally abusive to Leslie, but is still hot. One reviewer describes their connection as 'Destructive yet seductive'.
** Don't forget his relationship with Niall in the past, after the whole ultimatum.
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* Let's just say that no transwomen literature is a transwoman literature without this character. These characters can be of either gender.
* Chamberlain Yanagisawa of the ''[[Sano Ichiro]]'' series is an Unconflicted type after his rise to power, taking out all of the humiliation he suffered to gain said power in the first place on his lovers. This trait is lessened throughout the series as he quickly realizes after his love affair with {{spoiler|Hoshina}} collapses that others are using him to gain power themselves.
* Nagasawa to Hatsumi in ''[[Norwegian Wood]]''. She puts up with him throughout most of the book despite his casual cheating and bad treatment of her.
* The knight Erlend exhibits this behavior to the teenage girl Kristin in the trilogy ''Kristin Lavransdatter'', set in the Middle Ages. Played straight in the first book, where Kristin falls in love with Erlend, breaks her engagement with her [[Nice Guy]] fiance, and defies the will of her father to be with him, all despite his shady past and his none-too-kind treatment of her. Deconstructed in the two later books, set after Erlend and Kristin's marriage, where she has to live with the painful consequences of her decision, all in a highly patriarchial world that offers little support for women.
* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'': in the original book by Gaston Leroux, Erik (the titular phantom) could be a [[Deconstruction]], if not an [[Unbuilt Trope]]: Erik is [[The Grotesque]] [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who terrorizes Christine [[And Now You Must Marry Me|into marrying him]]. In the book, the author wants you to think Erik's a [[Jerkass]] and Christine is a saint for putting up with him ([[Domestic Abuser]] meets [[Love Martyr]]), but the [[Misaimed Fandom]] (and [[Lost in Imitation|all the adaptations]]) wants you to think Erik's totally hot and the relationship is [[Corrupt the Cutie|deliciously kinky]].
== [[Music]] ==▼
* The lyrics of the song "El duelo" by Chilean group ''La Ley'' seems to be written from the POV of a
▲== Music ==
▲* The lyrics of the song "El duelo" by Chilean group ''La Ley'' seems to be written from the POV of a [[Bastard Boyfriend]].
* "Why Don't You Get A Job?" by [[The Offspring]] gender flips this trope first, and plays it straight in the second half of the song.
*
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* Eldoth to Skie in ''[[Baldur's Gate]]''. He's a blatantly sleazy, chauvinistic [[Jerkass]] who embodies the selfish nature of his [[Neutral Evil]] alignment. The only reason he elopes with Skie is so that he can blackmail her father by claiming he kidnapped her. He is only able to get away with this because Skie is just that naive and foolish and thinks he is romantic.
* Damien has at least significant shades of the conflicted version in ''[[Magical Diary: Horse Hall]]'', considering that he jerks you around for most of the year, culminating in breaking your heart {{spoiler|and trying to kill you by way of stealing your soul}}. The ''only'' way to get any of his endings - not even just the good one - is to tell him that you love him no matter what and then forgive him for what he did when he shows up again. Your roomies, however, ''will'' call you out on being a [[Love Martyr]] if they find out that you've taken him back, though. {{spoiler|And by using Spirit Echoes and Empathy, you can find out that he has genuinely fallen in love with you and really does want to reform. But if you haven't been working on White magic, you might be left wondering how long it will be before he turns on you again.}}
* Lahmu from ''[[Shin Megami Tensei|Shin Megami Tensei V]]'' acts like one of these to Sahori. While he leads Sahori to believe that he loves her, in reality he doesn’t see her as her own person, and aside from possessing her body in order to gain greater power, he wishes to corrupt Sahori into more or less being a demon like himself.
== [[Visual Novels]] ==
* The love/hate routes of the otome game ''[[Under the Moon]]'' plays off this trope. The love interests begin the game on the fence about how to treat the heroine. The player's choices push them in one of two directions: towards "pure love" routes or "love/hate" routes. "Pure love" is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. In "love/hate", on the other hand, the guys give in to [[Romanticized Abuse|"romantic" abuse]] inclinations that generally include rape.
* Nakajima in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'', in his route.
* Although the story's only two chapters in, and there seems to be more to be revealed where he's concerned, [[Meaningful Name|Cain]] of the ''Starfighter''
** "The one with the scar... Don't look at him, don't touch him... ... And don't fucking talk to him!" [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Self Explanatory]].▼
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▲* Although the story's only two chapters in, and there seems to be more to be revealed where he's concerned, [[Meaningful Name|Cain]] of the ''Starfighter'' webcomic plays this one straight from the get-go. His idea of an icebreaker with his new navigator/roomie Abel is to bite Abel's lip so hard that he leaves a permanent scar, announce that Abel is now his bitch, and alternately threaten and sexually harrass him (sometimes both at once). Give Abel his due, though, despite his occasional emotional moments, he's a lot more assertive about not taking Cain's shit than most of the [[Love Martyr|Love Martyrs]] listed here.
▲** "The one with the scar.. Don't look at him, don't touch him.. .. And don't fucking talk to him!" [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Self Explanatory]].
▲== Web Original ==
* [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]'s sexual sadism towards [[Depraved Bisexual|everyone]] he meets is very often played for [[Fan Service]].
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