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== Anime & Manga ==
* Mikiya from ''[[KaranoKara no Kyoukai:]]'' fits this trope to a T. In the face of being completely ignored by the decidedly-unstable Shiki, he {{spoiler|sits in her garden every night, but she eventually comes out, smiles warmly, and tries to kill him with a knife. When this fails she throws herself in front of a car in a suicide attempt and ends up in a coma for three years, where he visits her every day ''even after she tried to kill him''.}} It seems to work, insofarin that she does eventually seem to care about him somewhat, but even that has the opposite effect when {{spoiler|that very caring just makes her kill another person, exactly what he told her not to do}}.
* Electra from ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' who resigns herself to just continue being [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] Nemo's surrogate daughter despite her own feelings for him, at least until his real daughter Nadia shows up again.
** Jean as well, with how he's always taking Nadia's [[Tsundere|hot and cold personality]].
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** In both adaptations, She gets him in the end. In the Anime, Creed even does a [[Heel Face Turn]] soon Afterward. In the manga, she gets him more as a nurse maid after he has his major [[Villainous Breakdown]].
* Takaki Tohno from ''[[5 Centimeters Per Second|Five Centimeters Per Second]]''. He has [[The Woobie|quite]] [[Non-Action Guy|a]] [[Unlucky Everydude|few]] [[The Philosopher|personality]] [[Nice Guy|traits]] [[Expy|in common with]] [[The Great Gatsby|Gatsby]] below, so this was inevitable in any movie with him as one of the romantic leads.
* Kaname Chidori from the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]] Overload'' gag manga. Due to Sousuke going through extreme [[Flanderization]], she can't actually even be considered a [[Tsundere]] in this version, considering that her reactions of lightly smacking him are an ''under reaction'' to the atrocities he commits. It's hard to understand why she even continues to have hopes that he'll return her feelings and treat her like a girlfriend, considering how many countless times he's [[Moment Killer|completely ruined their romantic moments]] without remorse and generally acted like a sociopathic [[Ax Crazy]] maniac. Funnily, after the disaster and their ruined moment, ''she'll'' be the one who has an epiphany-esque, touching moment where she thinks that she "understands him a bit better now, and should have been more open-minded." Sure, quite a bit of it is played for [[Comedic Sociopathy|comedy]], but I'll be damned if their relationship doesn't look like an abusive one.
** The [[Wife Husbandry|twins Yu Fang and Yu Lan]] towards [[Ax Crazy|Gauron]]. Granted, he probably did stuff with them that would make them feel that he loved them back. But all in all, he isn't shy about showing that he only really seems to care about using them for his plans to ensnare Sousuke / [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kill Sousuke's love interest]]. It's made pretty clear to them that the only one he has eyes for is the 16-year-old boy he has an [[Stalker with a Crush|unhealthy obsession]] with. The fact that he pretty much ignores all the abuse they go through because of working in Amalgam (including getting repeatedly raped by [[Psycho for Hire|Gates]] ever since they were young) seems to be a pretty good indicator that he doesn't care much for their well being. Despite all this, they are still so incredibly in love and loyal to him. "Anything for Sensei" indeed.
* In the final arc of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]],'' {{spoiler|Tomitake saves Takano's life even after she tries to kill Rika and her ''Nakama.''}}
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* Rolo Haliburton is this for Lelouch Lamperouge in ''[[Code Geass]]'', no matter if his affection for Lelouch is romantic or brotherly. Although Rolo's no saint himself, he became so attached to his 'brother' that in episode 19 {{spoiler|he sacrificed his life to save Lelouch's. When Lelouch was betrayed and abandoned by everyone, Rolo was the only one who stayed with him, even after Lelouch admitted he was just using Rolo and had tried to kill him numerous times; he then saved Lelouch by overloading his Evil Eye to carry him to safety, fully aware that the strain from using it for so long with so much range would be too much for his heart to endure. As Rolo lays dying,}} he tells Lelouch that even if Lelouch was just using him and the time he spent with him was fake, to Rolo it was ''real'' and it meant something to him.
* ''[[Candy Candy]]'': Candy skirts the line sometimes, in regards to Terry.
* Arguably Doumeki in ''[[XxxHolicxxxHolic]]'' for Watanuki. He's willing to make [[Heroic Sacrifices]] for Watanuki's sake, even though the latter makes it no secret that he's jealous of him (because he thinks his crush Himawari is in love with Doumeki) and is ''very'' much a [[Tsundere]] to him. And now, half an eye, a lot of blood, and {{spoiler|six plus years later}}, he's still devoted solely to Watanuki, who {{spoiler|is pretty much grounded ''forever'' inside Yuuko's shop, waiting for her to return}}.
* A rare sibling example is wonderfully demonstrated in the one-shot manga "[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/smargs_won_t_sing/c001/5.html Smargs Won't Sing]", which is [[Better Than It Sounds]].
** {{spoiler|It turns out to be a [[Jerkass Facade]] by the older sister in order to be [[Dying Alone|hated by everyone]] as her end of the [[Deal with the Devil|contract with the Smarg]] so that she [[Heroic Sacrifice|will be its only victim]]. The younger sister seems to be aware of it, as she gives up her voice to get another Smarg to protect her from it}}. It does take an extraordinary amount of love and patience to endure that behavior for three years, though, even considering the circumstances.
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* Mao from ''[[Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance|Code Geass Mao of the Deliverance]]'' is clearly shown to be this for C.C., who lies to, tries to manipulate, and ultimately abandons him. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this at one point, excusing her actions because she's a [[Broken Bird]] and deciding that he doesn't care how she treated him so long as they can be together.
* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], Sakura is willing to put up with any and all abuse [[Jerkass|R]][[Jerk Sue|o]][[Bastard Boyfriend|n]][[Author Avatar|a]][[Protagonist-Centered Morality|n]] gives her, even being willing to {{spoiler|cut off her vagina in order to prove she still loves him after she gets caught cheating on him}}.
* In ''[[Hunting the Unicorn (Fanfic)|Hunting the Unicorn]],'' [[Glee|Blaine]] is shown as this. It's not as bad as most examples since he's currently with Kurt, but what happened ''before'' is worrying. First is his platonic martyrdom, as he constantly makes excuses for his estranged father; then comes the revelation that [[But Not Too Gay|chaste]], [[Oblivious to Love|oblivious]], [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|idealistic]] Blaine {{spoiler|is not a virgin. At seventeen.}}
** [[It Got Worse]]. Blaine is implied to think [[Sex Equals Love]], {{spoiler|so he lost his virginity at sixteen to a guy who either didn't notice or didn't ''care'' that he was leading Blaine on.}} Later on, we find out that {{spoiler|Blaine tried to ''invoke'' [[Sex Equals Love]]}}, which makes it [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|dumber]] ''and'' [[Tear Jerker|sadder.]] And in the nineteenth chapter, after {{spoiler|waking up in a basement with Wes and David}}, the first person he tries to call is his dad. The one who [[Parental Neglect|hasn't talked to him in two years]] [[Coming Out Story|because he came out.]]
* In the ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' fic, Hisao comments that Lilly seems willing to overlook her father's transgressions, which include [[Parental Abandonment|leaving her and Akira alone in Japan for six years]], [[Kick the Dog|viciously insulting her best friend Hanako]] and calling Yamaku a "cripple school." {{spoiler|Then it's subverted when she, in response to Hisao and Hanako being insulted, tells her father she will not stand for it, and concludes by screaming "[[Calling the Old Man Out|YOU HARDLY RAISED ME AT ALL]], [[Precision F-Strike|YOU BASTARD]]!" and forcing him out of the apartment. They do later reconcile, though.}}
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