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[[File:Black-Bird-V1.jpg|link=Black Bird|frame|<small>They're in love, can't you ''tell?''</small> ]]
 
{{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 [['''Bastard Boyfriend]]''' (in Japanese, ''kichiku'', literally "brutal" or "demonic") character is an [[Always Male]] [[Love Interest]] whose defining trait is that he is cold, cruel, or abusive to his romantic partner, in a manner intended to be [[Fetish Fuel|kinky and appealing to the audience]]. Western versions exist, but are comparatively rare nowadays due to the inherent [[Unfortunate Implications]], except in fanfiction (which lacks the watchful eyes of [[Moral Guardians]]).
 
[[Bastard Boyfriend|'''Bastard Boyfriends]]''' can be readily distinguished from the more generic [[Jerkass]] or [[Domestic Abuser]] because their abuse is eroticized (if it isn't already [[Victim Falls For Rapist|explicitly sexual]]), and their <s>victim's</s> beloved's conflict and unhappiness will be played for titillation. As such, they are all-but-guaranteed to be [[Mr. Fanservice]], usually a [[Bishounen]], and the consequences of their behavior are almost never [[Domestic Abuse|handled realistically]]. The [['''Bastard Boyfriend]]''' ''almost always'' [[Official Couple|gets his girl (or guy)]], even in cases where they [[Strangled by the Red String|don't seem particularly compatible]], although a few are doomed to merely be [[Romantic False Lead|the rival]].
 
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 [['''Bastard Boyfriend]]''''s point of view. They will probably be presented as a [[Love Martyr]] or [[The Woobie]], and is likely to spend quite a bit of the story [[Angst|anguishing over the relationship]], possibly while [[Sparkling Stream of Tears|weeping beautifully]]. This trope has next to no overlap with [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]], since [[Bastard Boyfriend|'''Bastard Boyfriends]]''' never seem to show an interest in anyone with the backbone to defy them.
 
The [['''Bastard Boyfriend]]''' is sort of the Alpha Male equivalent of a Type A [[Tsundere]], but with the violent temper replaced by [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|cutting sarcasm]] and the ''deredere'' side turned down to near-zero. They are, of course, completely immune to [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]], but they're usually [[Even Evil Has Standards|not]] [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|physically abusive]], since that's [[Fetish Retardant|just not hot]]. There are plenty of exceptions, though.
 
[[Bastard Boyfriend|'''Bastard Boyfriends]]''' come in two major types:
 
'''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]] -- a—a character realizing their love only via jealousy.
 
The [['''Bastard Boyfriend]]''' is likely to be [[Love Redeems|redeemed]] by [[The Power of Love]] at the end of the book; alternately, he may eventually be revealed to be [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|nicer underneath]]. A minority may be revealed to have a [[Freudian Excuse]] (such as [[Abusive Parents]] or [[Love Hurts|extremely bad former romances]]). If none of these things happen, his partner may decide that [[Stalking Is Love]] and embrace their status as a [[Love Martyr]]. Along the way, the [['''Bastard Boyfriend]]''' may well be [[Master of the Mixed Message]], if the author needs something to keep his partner strung along.
 
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 [[Squee|squeeablesquee]]able, or they're total [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]]es and the relationship is [[Squick|squicktasticsquick]]tastic.
 
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.
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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" [[Omake|omakesomake]]s from the ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' manga involves a [[Stepford Smiler]] high school girl learning that the cute, friendly young male teacher who all her classmates admire is secretly as mean and sarcastic as she was on the inside.
* [[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.
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'''[[Boys Love]] examples:'''
* Ryuichi Asami in the ''[[Finder Series]]'' (along with many other Ayano Yamane [[Seme|semesseme]]s): atarts off with rape and BDSM, then develops a romantic side. And so Takaba falls in love with him.
* Nakajima in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'', in the manga volume that follows his route in the [[Visual Novel]] (which includes [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] -- in—in the first volume that doesn't follow him at all, there's {{spoiler|attempted rape}}, and he is tremendously rude to Keita throughout, though he points out that if the central love interest does nothing, he'll take Keita for himself). In the anime, he's toned down to a [[Jerkass]], and his sexual harassment is elbow-licking.
* 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 [[Bastard Boyfriend]] incarnate.
* 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|Freudian Excuses]]s.
* 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.
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* [[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 [[Bastard Boyfriend]] -- heBoyfriend—he's ''everyone'''s bastard boyfriend. Specifically, he insists that he's madly in love with ''humanity'' despite (nay, ''because of'') [[Humans Are Bastards|all of its flaws]], and demonstrates this "love" by [[Manipulative Bastard|trolling, manipulating, and generally dicking around with just about every person he meets]] [[Troll|to get the reactions from humanity he loves so much]]. He even gets possessive and jealous when he encounters something that might upset the balance of this relationship (like, say, a [[Yandere]] [[Evil Weapon|sword]] that ''also'' insists she's in love with all of humanity).
* 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.
 
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** 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 [[Bastard Boyfriend]] title is easily used when it comes to Edmund Pevensie.
* 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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*** 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 [[Bastard Boyfriend]] [[Yandere]] in China/Taiwan or China/Hong Kong fanworks, flanderising the country's "interest" into having them back (HK), or portraying the reason why they left him (Taiwan) as him stalking, abusing, raping, or even forcibly getting them hooked onto opium. Thankfully, it's not exactly common.
*** He's not even safe in China/England fanwork. There's a Pixiv fanartist who has this as a kink, making [[Imperial China]] a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] who forces an wimpified England to dress up in imperial lady robes and go through [[wikipedia:Foot binding|footbinding]]. [http://i54.tinypic.com/4h3v9i.jpg The art style itself is not bad].
*** 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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** 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 [[Bastard Boyfriend]] to Tsuna.
* Yu Kanda from ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' sometimes tends to be made into a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] for Allen. And let's not even talk about Tyki Mikk...
* 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 [[Bastard Boyfriend]] of Kishimoto, but he has, as he puts it, landed in the one anime where being an asshole doesn't get you the girl. She instead has a thing for the [[Dogged Nice Guy]].
* ''[[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 [[Squick|squicktasticsquick]]tastic deeds "because he loooooooved Duo so much" (like ''considering to keep Duo in a cage for his own sake'') were pretty much the hottest thing in those years, and fangirls ''loved'' such stuff.
* 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.]]
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== 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 [[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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== 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.
* ''[[The Rolling Stones|Under My Thumb]]'' by The Rolling Stones comes off as a celebration of this, highlighted in its use in ''[[Scott Pilgrim Versus the World|Scott Pilgrim vs. The World]]''.
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== Webcomics ==
* 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]]s 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]].
 
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