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* In ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'', it's shown very clearly that Gasai Yuno would be all too willing to kill ANYONE who got in the way of her "love" with Yukiteru ([[Self-Made Orphan|including his mother and father]]).

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** This was reversed in the manga, where {{spoiler|''Kotonoha'' is the Hypotenuse that ends up killed after trying to kill Sekai}}, and in some new bad endings of the [[Play StationPlayStation 2]] game. In one of these, {{spoiler|Sekai openly tries to push Kotonoha in the way of a train right after Makoto chooses Kotonoha over her, but [[Karmic Death|ends up hit instead]].}} Another strongly hints that {{spoiler|Sekai stabbed Kotonoha and left her to bleed to death in the streets... and Makoto knows that (and may have helped).}} CREEPY...

** Also invoked by Al and Ann from the Makaiju [[Filler Arc]], especially in the end when {{spoiler|Al orders the tree to kill Mamoru so he can have Usagi, then Ann retorts by ordering it to kill Usagi so she can have Mamoru. This sends the Makaiju into a [[Villainous Breakdown]] where it goes [[Kill'Em All]]. It all gets better in the end, though, and Al and Ann leave Earth together and free of their [[Yandere|Yandereness]]ness.}}

** Kairi's trio of [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Clingy Jealous Girls]]s absolutely '''hate''' Momo for winning Kairi's affections. They make a habit out of harassing/threatening her, once deliberately made sure she got separated from Kairi and was stranded during a class trip, ''push her into the path of a camp fire when she was holding cooking oil'', and, at one point, held her down, and told her that she has to sign a contract swearing that she'll stay away from Kairi or they'll burn all her hair off (while holding a lighter to her hair), and try to beat her up later on when she states that their selfish and cruel actions won't make Kairi fall in love with them, and when she tells them that her love for Kairi is genuine. In addition, they take the threat even further with "We'll burn your face so badly that Kairi won't ever look at you again," and "Don't worry, we'll push you into the pool before your whole body catches fire."

** Shampoo: Given she stated "obstacles are for killing" when Ranma tried to prevent her attacking Akane for Ranma's hand in her first story, it's understandable that she gets hit with this trope the most -- inmost—in canon and in fanon. Fanon usually overstates her actually ''trying'' to kill her rivals, though. Canonically, while the idea doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest, it isn't something she tries all of the time. Notably, when she first thought Akane was an obstacle to pursuing Ranma's hand, she actually just [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|wiped her memories of Ranma]]. Then, when it looked like Akane might be breaking through the memory block, she tried to strengthen the block, only attacking after Akane did break through the block and kept interfering -- andinterfering—and even then, she stopped attacking Akane the moment Ranma told her not to. After that, though, she tried to give Akane a Jusenkyo Duck curse in order to "pawn" Mousse off on her, plotted to murder Akane and pin the blame on Taro in the first Pantyhose Taro story, was the first to suggest attacking Nabiki during her stint as Ranma's fiancee in the manga, joined in Ukyo's plot to beat up Hinako in the manga, came up with the same plan as Ukyo in "The One To Carry On, Part 2" and wrecked the plan by attacking Ukyo first instead of Akane... the final manga story arcs, Jusendo and the Failed Wedding, had a [[Brainwashed]] Shampoo (who, given she was obediently sent to murder Ranma, even if she did muster some [[Heroic Willpower|Villainous Willpower]] to try and wriggle out of obeying, was arguably [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]) threaten to pop off the dollified Akane's head and a normal Shampoo attack Akane & Ranma with bombs at the wedding ceremony.

** Mousse: Introduced to the series specifically challenging Ranma for the right to Shampoo's hand, threatening to take Akane if Ranma couldn't beat him. On his return, attempted to murder Ranma by using him/her as the target in a knife-throwing act (Ranma managed to catch the knives in her teeth) and then chased him around the circus throwing daggers and water balloons full of Jusenkyo Duck water at him. Shortly after that, he kidnapped Akane and threatened to douse her with said Jusenkyo water, in reality planning to either murder or curse (whichever came first) Ranma when he raced to Akane's rescue. He then challenged Ranma to yet another duel to win a date with Shampoo. Repeatedly throughout the series, Mousse challenges Ranma to fights because, like Kuno, he thinks that beating Ranma will make Shampoo fall in love with him -- unlikehim—unlike Kuno, Mousse doesn't seem bothered by the idea of killing Ranma if that's what it takes to win, though he has never actually "won" except in fights where he had other things on his mind and so passed over the opportunity to deliver the coup de grace.

* In ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'', Shiho Munakata is in love with her childhood friend Yuuichi Tate, who's in love with Mai Tokiha. When Shiho comes to believe that Mai is stealing Tate away from her (more due to Tate's actions than Mai's), she attacks Mai to keep her out of the way permanently, which isn't helped by {{spoiler|Nagi}} preying on Shiho's insecurities later. {{spoiler|The true tragedy is that, as Mai realizes in the fight, due to the mechanics of the whole Himelander thing going on, if ''either'' of them loses the fight (since Mai realizes ''she'' is beginning to develop feelings for him, as well), Tate will die. This doesn't stop Shiho, though, as [[Despair Event Horizon|she's gone over the deep end already]], and Tate finally dies after Mikoto kills Shiho's Child.}}

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. When it comes down to it, this is pretty much what {{spoiler|Gauron}} tries to do to Kaname, because he's angry that Sousuke fell in love with her.

** Kazuki's gang, Fuuga (lit. "Elegance"), is really into the [[Ho Yay]]. There's some kind of Toshiki/Kazuki/Juubei [[Love Triangle]], apparently; Toshiki even attempts to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]], claiming that Kazuki never paid any attention to him when Juubei was around.

* Mizore in ''[[Rosario to+ Vampire]]'' tries to kill the rest of Tsukune's harem and turn Tsukune himself into a popsicle so she can have him all for herself. However, once she's added to the harem she becomes friends with her love rivals and continues to stalk Tsukune. She says herself that she doesn't really "need" to stalk him anymore, it's just "more fun."

* Maki in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' has a massive, crazy stalker-crush on his boss, Amber. Such an insane crush, in fact, that he completely abandons the usual Contractor "emotionless" act when he finds the guy Amber's in love with, and tries to kill him even though if he'd succeeded, it would have ruined Amber's entire plan, resulting in a genocide.

* Both Mika and Namie of ''[[Durarara!!]]'' are [[Yandere]] for Seiji who's pretty crazy himself seeing as how he's [[A Love to Dismember|in love with Celty's head]]. Mika has...plans for Celty's real head if she ever gets her hands on it and Namie actually tried to destroy it.

** [[Hot for Student|Professor Nasujima]] at Mikado's school clearly has a thing for Anri, which naturally [[Squick|Squicks]]s the hell out of her. The same guy is also dating Haruna Niekawa (one of his former students). Or was. Haruna doesn't like that he's changed his preferences, so she gave Anri a visit and tried to kill her...

* ''[[Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls]]'': Kagerou is dead set on killing Oboro so she can have Gennosuke. (Much moremoreso in the anime than the manga, though).) Tenzen also wants to kill Gennosuke so he can have Oboro as his puppet wife, which would grant him full control of the Iga Tsubagakure.

* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', [[Lethal Chef]] Bianchi goes into a homicidal rage whenever she sees adult Lambo who- he looks exactly like her deceased ex-boyfriend Romeo, who apparently died of food poisoning. She also has an unrequited crush on Reborn, and is perfectly willing to eliminate anybody who has a 'bad influence' on him.

* In episode 11 of ''[[Goshuushou Sama-sama Ninomiya Kun-kun]]'' when told Mayu might die soon (she's a succubus so she needs life force) Reika's [[Yandere|alternate personality]] tells Shungo she doesn't care since "it's more convenient for me if Mayu dies like this, because then I can have you all to myself." She then agrees to let Mayu live so long as Shungo "becomes hers forever." This is also played with in regards to Shinobu, a maid of Reika's, who thinks Shungo is not worthy of Reika, and is always trying to "execute" him.

* ''[[ShuffleSHUFFLE!]]'': [[Yandere|Kaede]] snaps in episode 19 upon seeing Rin bring home Asa, whom he's dating. She screams at Asa to get out, and viciously attacks her. However, Rin restrains her and she struggles against his hold, screaming at Asa to "DIE!" Primula also discovers Kaede had crossed out Asa's face in some pictures of Rin and Asa together. {{spoiler|She gets better, though.}}

* In chapter 64 of ''[[Black Butler (manga)|Black Butler]]'' {{spoiler|Undertaker attempts to kill Sebastian because he is making Ciel "miserable". He doesn't get a chance to.}} It's also worth noting that Undertaker has a considerable amount of [[Ho Yay]] towards Ciel and tends to loose his personal space around him.

* Mayuri Konishi/Sarashina from ''[[Bungaku Shoujo]]'' has traits of a [[yandere]] character. She is crazy about Akutagawa, with whom she went to elementary school. She admits being jealous of Kanomata, who Akutagawa used to protect. When she suspects Akutagawa has feelings for his classmate Nanase Kotobuki, she says: "If so, I'll cut Nanse Kotobuki into ground beef!!!".

* ''[[Berserk]]'' gives us a non-[[Love Triangle]] scenario between Guts, his [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|ill-fated]] lover Casca, and [[Enemy Within|his inner beast.]] After the horrible events of the Eclipse that left Casca insane and incapable of loving Guts, Guts turned to [[Power of Hate|hate]] and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|revenge]] in [[Heartbroken Badass|his sadness and despair.]] During a two year time span, the dark emotions welling inside of Guts created [[The Heartless|the Beast]], and the [[Hell Hound]] entity lived in disturbing harmony with Guts, feeding on his hate [[Big Bad|for the man]] who ruined his life so that one day, [[Super-Powered Evil Side|it may take over Guts' body and soul.]] However, the Beast's plan was interrupted when Guts put his hate and revenge aside [[Power of Love|for Casca,]] [[I Will Protect Her|vowing to stay by her side]] and try to [[Find the Cure|find a cure for her insanity.]] The Beast does not like this, and has since then tried to get Casca out of the picture by trying to goad Guts into raping and killing her [[The Corrupter|whenever he is mentally or emotionally weak.]] It's important to remember that Casca is also Guts' [[Morality Chain]], since she's the only reason why Guts refuses to give into his dark side.

* ''[[Rosario Plus+ Vampire]]'': In chapter 52 of manga season II Akuha is revealed to be a [[Yandere]] [[Les Yay|for Moka]]. She attacks Kurumu and Mizore saying that [[Murder the Hypotenuse|she will kill anyone who tries to take Moka from her]].

* Gaston in ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and]] [[Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|the Beast]]''. "BELLE IS MINE!!!"

* In Howard Hawk's 1939 film, ''Only Angels Have Wings'', [[Cary Grant]]'s character orders a pilot to fly in foggy weather so he can have dinner with the other pilot's date. He ends up ordering the man to return to the airport, but after an unsuccessful landing attempt, he tells him to simply fly around until the fog lifts. The man is too eager, however, to make that dinner date, and ends up crashing his plane and dying. It isn't exactly murder--butmurder—but when Cary Grant's character shows absolutely no regret for his actions and also says the other pilot wasn't a good enough flier otherwise he would have survived, it comes across as especially cold.

* In ''[[Moulin Rouge! (2001 film)|Moulin Rouge!]]'', The Duke threatens to do this in order to blackmail Satine.

* ''[[Scarface (1983 film)|Scarface]]'' has this with Tony Montana murdering Manny Ribera, believing that he slept with his sister, Gina. However, she has revealed that she and Manny are married.

** The [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] plot in ''Sparkling Cyanide'' was almost successful; it's strongly implied that {{spoiler|the husband and the secretary}} would have gotten together eventually (with even the victim's relatives commenting on what a good couple they would make) except {{spoiler|he accidentally drinks poison that was intended for his sister-in-law.}}

* Touched on in ''[[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]''. Severus Snape is perfectly fine with {{spoiler|Voldemort murdering both James and Harry Potter (the latter of whom is ''barely a year old at the time'') if it leaves the field clear for him to [[Comforting the Widow|comfort the grieving widow]] Lily Evans-Potter, to whom he's the [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]. A very disgusted Dumbledore [[What the Hell, Hero?|calls him on it]]. (Oh, and it doesn't work anyway: Lily goes [[Mama Bear]] and chooses to kick it rather than abandoning her baby to Voldemort.)}}

* InsteadIn of''[[The gettingCount killed,of EdmondMonte Dantes,Cristo a.k.a. {{spoiler(novel)|''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]''}}, instead of getting killed, Edmond Dantes gets sent to the hellish prison namedof Chateau d'If, all thanks to a conspiracy mostly engineered by his "best friend" Fernand so he can have Mercedes, Dantes' fiancee.

** Also invoked by {{spoiler|1=General Mc Arthur }} when he {{spoiler|sends his [[Number Two]] [[The Uriah Gambit|in a lethal mission]] because he was the lover of [[May-DecemberMay–December Romance|his much younger]] wife, Leslie. Poor Leslie [[Death by Despair|died of depression]] few years later.}}

* ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'': When Buttercup gives Prince Humperdink [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], he throws her into her room. Then he races down to where her true love Wesley is being tortured, and sets the torture device on maximum, killing him.

* Inverted in the episode of ''[[Star Trek: TOSThe Original Series]]'' called "Requiem for Methusleah". In the episode, an immortal human named Flint creates an android mate called Rayna for himself. He has Captain Kirk date Rayna so her ability to love awakens. He succeeds too well. When Flint and Kirk fight over her love, she cannot handle the emotional conflict and it destroys her.

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined(2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]'': {{spoiler|Galen seems to have his own little cycle going with his girlfriends. Cally kills Boomer. Tory kills Cally.}}

* In one episode of ''[[Bones]]'', a female suspect who had previously stalked the victim becomes amoured with Booth after he had briefly comforted her. Once she saw that Booth paid more attention to Bones (naturally, [[USTUnresolved Sexual Tension|of course]]), she brought a gun with the intent on killing Bones right there and then.

* In ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'', {{spoiler|Shane tries this in season 2 by luring Rick out to secluded field where he can shoot him and pin the blame on another person he killed. He tries to justify himself by claiming that Rick is a weak man and a weak father who isn't willing to get his hands dirty fighting for his wife and children. Rick proves Shane very wrong moments later by pretending to hand Shane his gun only to gut him like a fish.}}

* Essentially the theme of the song "Rocky Raccoon", by [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]. Between that song and "Run For Your Life," you really have to wonder about the Beatles' relationships.

* ''1963'' by [[New Order]] is based on the conspiracy theory [[John F. Kennedy]]'s assassination was really an attempt by him to do this to Jackie [[Gone Horribly Wrong]].

* In "Hide Your Heart" by [[KissKISS]] Rosa and Johnny fall in love. The problem is, Tito happens to be dating Rosa, and he is furious that he is being replaced. {{spoiler|Johnny gets shot by Tito.}}

* Choosing to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] -- [[Cain and Abel|his own brother]], no less -- isless—is what made Strahd von Zarovich into [[Ravenloft]]'s first darklord.

* Attempted in ''[[The Crucible (theatre)|The Crucible]]''. [[Yandere|Abigail Williams]] is in love with John Proctor, and tries to get Proctor's wife Elizabeth hanged as a witch. Due to a bit of [[Deus Ex Machina]], {{spoiler|she not only fails (Elizabeth is pregnant and can't be executed), but she gets Proctor himself hanged instead as he chooses to take the heat.}} Oopsie.

* In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (theater)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'', Seymour almost does this with Audrey's boyfriend Orin. He loses his nerve, but Orin dies immediately afterward through his abuse of his laughing gas and Seymor's inaction. Of course, this is less because he's dating Audrey and more because he's abusing her.

** [[YMMV|Arguably]], Audrey II him/her/itself attempts this when it tries to off the original Audrey, depending on how you interpret the plant's relationship with Seymour.

* A variation in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] W'': Aria wants to kill Kazuma over his ''sisters''. Makes a bit more sense when you learn that Aria is {{spoiler|sort of an [[Opposite SexGender Clone]] of Kazuma, loving his sisters as if they were her own and hating him for having "her" place in the family.}}

* One of the possible endings of a sidequest in ''[[Jade Empire]]'', best described as "childhood promise gone wrong". Once you gather the poor man, the mobster woman he "promised" to marry (at all of about eight), and his fiancee, you could convince the mob boss to call off her pursuit... or, convince her to kill the fiancee. Which she does. At which point, the man rightfully objects - so she kills him. Finally, having [[My God, What Have I Done?|realized she didn't mean it]], she tries to kill ''you''. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Good job]], [[Kick the Dog|jerk]].

* Szark considered killing Luna so he could be with Dominic in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle for Hire''. This was a residual effect of the demonic wound that had gotten him addicted to killing, and [https://web.archive.org/web/20171012124931/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-11-03 he resisted the temptation to even daydream]. On the other side, Karnak really ''did'' try to kill Dominic's father in order to claim his mother.

* An unorthodox example in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Black Mage has a severe lust for White Mage, He also has a love for killing. He recognizes both of these things, and also recognizes that White Mage has [[No Yay|less than zero interest in him]]. His mind is so warped however, that early on he believes that the thing standing between him and doing White Mage are the people around him, [[You Fail Logic Forever|so the only possible solution is to kill 'em off!]]

* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205302/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-30/ the bride tries to eliminate Maid Maleen].

* At the end of Act II of ''[[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing -Along Blog]]'', Billy/Dr. Horrible resolves to kill his [[Arch Enemy]] Captain Hammer, who is dating his [[Love Interest]] Penny. {{spoiler|The other leg of the triangle dies as a result, prompting Dr. Horrible's [[Start of Darkness]].}}

* One of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''' "Treehouse of Horror" episodes centers around an house with AI that's in love with Marge. Homer [[Too Dumb to Live|explicitly points out]] that Marge would be available to "man or machine" if he were to die.

* Subverted in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'': Shayera Hol (Hawkgirl) and Mari (Vixen) are caught in a [[Love Triangle]] with [[Green Lantern]] John Stewart. He is currently with Mari, but he ''was'' with Shayera and everybody is aware that there are still [[USTUnresolved Sexual Tension|unresolved feelings]] between the two of them. When Hawkgirl and Vixen are on a mission together ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|with Vigilante]]) they are caught in a trap and hunted down by Thanagarians who want to execute Hawkgirl for war crimes. When Vixen is captured she immediately strikes a deal with the Thanagarians -- spareThanagarians—spare her and she will deliver Hawkgirl to them. She even goes so far as to cite the [[Love Triangle]] as the reason she will betray her superior so quickly. However, she does not go through with it, nor did she ever plan to; once the Thanagarians let their guard down and bring her to their aircraft she hijacks the ship so she can get herself ''and'' Hawkgirl out of there safely. Later episodes play the trope for laughs as Shayera and Mari [[Character Development|begin to become close friends]], as Shayera comments that she is trying to learn proper Earth protocol for these situations and thusly can not just poison Mari's water like she would on Thanagar.

** In the episode "Metamorphosis", a [[Squick|squickysquick]]y example occurs when an extremely [[Overprotective Dad]] (who loved his daughter maybe [[Parental Incest|a bit too much]]) didn't like his daughter's fiancee so he tried to kill him. When that failed, he pretended that the one who told him to do it was the fiancee's old friend Green Lantern, while showing him a photo of Green Lantern and his fiancee embracing. The fiancee then invoked this trope himself as he went after Green Lantern in a rage.

** What makes this really [[Squick|Squicky]]y is that Suzy is Jeremy's ''sister''. ''Younger'' sister. ''Way. Younger. Sister.''

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'': In the episode "Arnold Visits Arnie" at the end of Arnold's [[Nightmare Sequence]] Arnie goes [[Ax Crazy]] when he thinks Arnold is stealing his girl and tries to attack him.

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