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[[File:Black-Bird-V1.jpg|link=Black Bird (Manga)|frame|<small>They're in love, can't you ''tell?''</small> ]]
 
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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 Byby 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 Withwith 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|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:
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Both kinds are highly likely to be [[Crazy Jealous Guy|jealous and possessive]]. Expect plots to feature a [[Green-Eyed Epiphany]] -- 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 Withwith 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|squeeable]], or they're total [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] and the relationship is [[Squick|squicktastic]].
 
Works that contain [[Stalker Withwith 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:'''<br />Your guy is in love, and he demonstrates his love in an abusive or predatory manner. His love interest:
* Wants nothing to do with him: [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]
* Thinks his behavior is ''sooooo'' romantic: [[Stalking Is Love]]
* Abuses him right back: [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]
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'''[[Shoujo]]/[[Josei]] examples:'''
* 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 (Manga)|Butterflies, Flowers]]'' (but only when in dictatorial-boss mode).
* The male leads created by [[Mayu Shinjo]] have different degrees of this. The better known example is Sakuya Ookochi from ''[[Sensual Phrase (Manga)|Sensual Phrase]]'': this is largely because of an incident where his girlfriend, Aine Yukimura, ended up with a hickey (due to assault from another character); Sakuya, in a fit of jealousy, barged into her class, tore her uniform to reveal the hickey (and her bra strap), then took her home (while class was ongoing) and prepared to rape her. Only when her uniform was almost totally ripped off and the poor girl was weeping hysterically did he stop and realize WTF he was doing. Yeah, he's a Conflicted type with an ''extremely'' [[Dark and Troubled Past]] (as in, {{spoiler|he's an [[Heroic Bastard]] [[Child of Rape]], his "father" left him when he learned baby Sakuya wasn't his kid, he was bullied all the time because of his heritage, and his [[Lady Drunk]] mom drank herself to death when he was a child}}) and ''[[Characterization Marches On|does]]'' [[Characterization Marches On|get kinda better with time]] ({{spoiler|the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] shows him as a decent father and husband, if somewhat of a [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] when he and Aine are alone}}), but that's '''not''' an excuse.
** Don't forget Hakuron from ''[[Haou Airen]]''. Yeah, he ''is'' seriously screwed up after being raised in [[The Triads and Thethe Tongs]], {{spoiler|and killed his father among MANY other things}}, and he ''does'' admit to Kurumi that he's fucked up, but that doesn't erase how, the moment he met Kurumi, he tried to keep her from making a noise by ''threatening to rape her''. (And later, well, he ''does''.)
** And then there's both Hanamaki and Gin from ''[[Love Celeb]]'', to different degrees. Ironically, Gin's [[Big Brother Mentor]] was...Sakuya, another BB.
** And even [[Satan]] himself becomes this in ''[[Akuma Nana Eros]]'' (Virgin Crisis)! Oh Miu Sakurai, [[Sarcasm Mode|you lucky little thing, you]].
* Ryoki in ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'' is a rare example of the [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]] subtype built off of the [[Troubled but Cute]] model.
* Several of Shigeta's love interests in ''[[Happy Mania]]''.
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* Shoei Jinnai of ''[[Desire Climax]]''.
* One of the "Love Egoist" [[Omake|omakes]] 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 (Manga)|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 Dede 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.
* ''[[Bokura ga Ita]]'': Yano has a hard time trusting Nanami completely, displaying jealousy and possessiveness, even to the point of physically abusing her.
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* Ryuichi Asami in the ''[[Finder Series]]'' (along with many other Ayano Yamane [[Seme|semes]]): 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 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 (Manga)|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.
** This trope also applies to Seth. You can't really avoid being attributed with this trope when you knocked your lover out, took him to the ''opposite side of the world into a war zone'', shackled him to the bedpost, and then [[It Makes Sense in Context|demanded a child from him]]. The fact that he did it because he loved him and was [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealous beyond all reason]] doesn't change anything. It ''does'', however, explain why [[Too Dumb to Live|it was incredibly stupid and short-sighted of him.]].
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* 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.
* Yuki from ''[[Gravitation]]'' is a PG Conflicted type example.
* Iason ''and'' Guy from ''[[Ai no Kusabi (Light Novel)|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]].
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* Shiki from [[Togainu no Chi]] is the Unconflicted type.
* Sou Mizuhashi from ''[[After School Nightmare]]''.
* Ayace of ''[[Corsair (Light Novel)|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 (Manga)|Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' can be like this to Serge. He's definitely a [[Jerkass Woobie|conflicted version]].
 
 
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* 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 (Manga)|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]] -- 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).
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* [[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.
*** Challange accepted. [http://sesshomaruswoman.deviantart.com/art/The-Possessed-Fanfic-Preview-245002178?q=gallery%3Asesshomaruswoman%2F9923519&qo=2 Behold,] a [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Tendershipping]] fic in which Ryo Bakura abuses his Yami!
* [[Draco in Leather Pants|Draco Malfoy]] in ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|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|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|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.
** Kenny Mccormick also gets this portrayal in 90% of the fics that involve him, due to his infamous status of being addicted to sex and drugs in the show. In most stories, he's an obsessed pervert who molests almost everyone around him or the object of his desires.
* Flippy from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', and, good lord, to such an extent that almost the entire fandom sees him not only as [[Complete Monster|an insane serial killer]]...but also as a serial rapist, due to the thousands anime-styled drawings in which he [[Memetic Molester|either molests or rapes]] [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Flaky]] or [[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|any other character]]. His rape involves sharp tools and blood, as well.
* Nine times out of ten, the villainous half of a [[Foe Yay]] ship becomes this trope. [[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Sephiroth]] is one of the more popular examples, especially in doujinshi, and, oddly enough, is portrayed as either type depending on the fangirl.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has LOTS of fanon examples:
** Russia, the resident [[Psychopathic Manchild]] and [[Yandere]], is usually portrayed as this in fanworks that pair him up with someone, especially if it's with Lithuania or America (and admittedly, it's not easy to portray him as a decent boyfriend without [[Draco in Leather Pants|running into the other extreme]]). As it stands, when Russia is paired with China, it can lead to either this or [[Happily Married]].
** England can become this when fans take his [[Tsundere|"tsun"]] side too far or become too enamored with the idea of him as a cocky, swashbuckling pirate claiming his love interest as his "possession" (with his favorite "love victims" being the wimpified Japan or America). And let's not get ''started'' on the Opium War and his fanon treatment of China and Hong Kong, which, more than once, has HK as actually England and China's [[Child Byby Rape]] (either via [[Mister Seahorse]] or China having been a [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] all along)...
*** 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 Is All Grown Up|aknowledging how she's growing into a beautiful woman]]...and either tearing her clothes and ''raping'' her on the spot to [[Stay in Thethe Kitchen|"show her what's her place in the Ottoman Empire"]], or [[Scarpia Ultimatum|trying to forcibly get her]] [[Sex Slave|into his never-heard-of-before-in-canon harem]] (if she wasn't already there and was defeated while trying to run away, that is). If the fanworks are set ''after'' that time, however, it goes much more by the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] way, with an [[Older and Wiser]] Hungary [[Action Girl|having the physical strength]] to keep Turkey's [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold|lechery and/or jerkiness]] at bay.
*** 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.
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** 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-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]].''
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* 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 (Anime)|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|squicktastic]] 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 (Fanfic)|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 (Literaturenovel)|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.
** Part of the dark court's whole nature is based around darkness, seduction, lust, torture, and beautiful destruction. The only important members of the DC who don't fit this trope to an extent are Bananach, who is more a [[Lady of War]] - her in-universe nickname is Lady War, after all - Ani, who is a [[Plucky Girl]] with dreams of chaos that her court disallows, and Niall, who fights every day to resist the darker side of his nature, although the injustices of the past and Keenan's apparent betrayal in Ink Exchange mean that, by Fragile Eternity, when he rules over these creatures, he is rather more inclined to give in to it.
** Irial is something of a subversion; he realizes that Leslie is better off without him, and he has spent centuries trying to make it up to Niall.
* Patch from ''[[Hush, Hush]]'' emotionally manipulated and sexually harassed Nora. It was later revealed that {{spoiler|''he was trying to kill her'' so he could get his wings back.}} Nora was understandably creeped out, but fell for him anyway.
* 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 (Literature)|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.
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== Video Games ==
* Eldoth to Skie in ''[[BaldursBaldur'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]]'', 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.}}
 
== Visual Novels ==
* The love/hate routes of the otome game ''[[Under the Moon (Visual Novel)|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 Onon 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 (Visual Novel)|Gakuen Heaven]]'', in his route.
 
 
== 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]] 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 Onon the Tin|Self Explanatory]].
 
 
== Web Original ==
* [[Ask That Guy With the Glasses (Web Video)|Ask That Guy With theThe Glasses]]'s sexual sadism towards [[Depraved Bisexual|everyone]] he meets is very often played for [[Fan Service]].
 
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