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[[File:Mirai Nikki 7316.jpg|link=Mirai Nikki|frame|Don't try befriending Yukki.]]
{{quote|''"As I told Lady Freeze when I pulled her plug, this is a one-woman show."''
[[Love Triangle]]s are tricky business. Trust us, [[Triang Relations|we've already done the math]].
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{{deathtrope}}
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* 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 (including his mother and father).
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* ''[[Clover]]'': A thought B seriously got in the way of his romance with C/Ran. He also tried this on Gingetsu, but failed.
* ''[[Ask Dr. Rin]]'': Tokiwa tries this over and over for four episodes straight in the hope of having Meirin for himself. {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed he was possessed}}.
* ''[[Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls]]'': Kagerou is dead set on killing Oboro so she can have Gennosuke
* In ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'', [[Lethal Chef]] Bianchi goes into a homicidal rage whenever she sees adult Lambo
** Earlier on, Haru also had a thing for the [[Shotacon|younger]] [[Devil in Plain Sight|'angel-like' version of Reborn]], to the point where she even tried to destroy Tsuna in order to free Reborn from his influence. She later gives up on her crush on Reborn and [[Rescue Romance|falls for Tsuna after he saves her from drowning]].
** In chapter 271 M.M. threatens to do this to Chrome. Chrome is on her way to deliver something to Mukuro and she encounters M.M. As soon as M.M. glances at Chrome she grabs her and yells at her before hitting her so hard that she falls to the ground, her mouth and nose bleeding. She then keeps calling her an "ugly bitch" and tells her: "The Mukuro-chan of this generation is mine! If you put your nasty little hands on him, I'll kill you!"
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* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' plays it for laughs. Ayeka and Ryoko are involved constantly in this with each other, while their power levels makes it closer to Wile E. Coyote vs. Wile E. Coyote. {{spoiler|In Tenchi Universe Ryoko tries to convince Tenchi to abandon a kidnapped Ayeka to Kagato, possibly to invoke the trope, but when Tenchi chooses otherwise she decides to support him anyway.}}
* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'': Ran's default reaction to anyone who gets within ten feet of Rei.
* 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.
** In episode 17 of the first anime Sebastian has sex with a girl to get information and Grell is shown reacting jealously and writing down the woman's name in a [[Death Note]].
* ''[[D.N.Angel]]'': In episode 23 Kael to Elliot so that he can have Freedert for himself.
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** After the rape Haguro also tries to kill Aoshika while telling her that Inugami is too good for her. Fortunately, Inugami [[Big Damn Heroes|shows up in time]].
* Honne-Onna of ''[[Hell Girl]]'' has [[Even the Girls Want Her|diehard fangirls]]. One was ready to send someone to hell because she thought he was dating her. {{spoiler|And another ''actually sent'' the other girl to hell because she thought she got too close to Onna.}}
* ''[[Rosario
* Hiromasa of ''[[Love Pistols]]'' considers doing this in regards to anyone who expresses interest in Shima.
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* [[The Mighty Thor|Loki]] does this to an Asgardian named Theoric, then subsequently disguises himself as him so that he can marry his fiancee Sigyn.
▲== Fan Fics ==
* Narrowly subverted in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fanfic ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]''. Germany and Japan would have fought each other to the death if Italy had not intervened.
* This happens in [[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies|Decks Fall Everyone Dies]], making Duke Devlin come close to being [[Ron the Death Eater]].
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* ''[[Orphan]]'': All of {{spoiler|Esther}}'s actions in this film have in mind the ultimate death of {{spoiler|Kate, Danny AND Maxine}} so that she can have {{spoiler|John}} all to herself.
* In ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'', Poison Ivy deactivates Mr. Freeze's [[Ill Girl]] wife Nora from her life support system and blames it on the heroes - and in the process, she's able to convince him to take revenge on all of humanity by freezing the world and leaving her and him as the ''only'' people alive. {{spoiler|Freeze learns, once his plan is undone, that the good guys actually saved his wife and that Ivy was the one who tried to kill her, prompting a [[Heel Face Turn]]}}. Clearly she is seriously into him.
* Gaston in ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and]] [[Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)|the Beast]]''. "BELLE IS MINE!!!"
* Caledon Hockely in ''[[Titanic]]'' comes to this conclusion when he finds out that his fiancée Rose loves Jack more than she loves him.
* David Allen Griffin from ''[[The Watcher (film)|The Watcher]]'' does this with all of Joel's love interests. He wants to make sure that Joel [[Foe Yay|only thinks about and chases after]] ''[[Foe Yay|him]]'', and any woman getting in the way is just [[Yandere|asking for death]].
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** Done again, of course, in the 2004 adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. This time The Phantom [[Scarpia Ultimatum|threatens to strangle Raoul if Christine refuses to submit to him]].
* Attempted with extremely little forethought by Noah in ''[[The Village]]'' when he learns that Ivy and Lucius are engaged. Naturally, not being possessed of full mental faculties, he sort of overlooks the "make it look like an accident and, with Lucius out of the picture, win Ivy over" part, but he does the "stab Lucius over and over again" part quite well.
* ''[[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.
* There is an interesting take on this trope in the opening scene in ''[[Saw]] 3D''. A woman has been involved with two men, neither of which know about the other. All three of them are put in a jigsaw trap where one of the three will die. The two men are forced to either kill the other man, or, together, kill the woman.
** The message that plays before the "game" begins even states that "one of the sides will drop out of this love triangle". {{spoiler|Ultimately this trope is averted since neither of the guys (hypotenuses) are killed, and instead the guys decide that the woman should die.}}
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* The [[Sherlock Holmes]] story ''The Crooked Man'' features a military officer who betrays an underling to the enemy so he can steal his girl. Unlike the David and Bathsheba legend (which the story references), the underling survives (despite [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] from the enemy). His condition is such that he avoids his old love out of [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|fear of pitying]] him, but he comes back eventually, his love recognizes him, and the false husband dies of stroke on learning of it.
* Possibly subverted at the end of [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' when Carton {{spoiler|removes himself from the love triangle with Lucie by taking Darnay's place under the guillotine.}}
* Touched on in ''[[Harry Potter and
** {{spoiler|[[Idiot Ball|Because a mother protecting her child is just preposterous.]]}}
* The major subplot of the novel ''[[Lois McMaster Bujold|A Civil Campaign]]'' featured Miles Vorkosigan [[Malicious Slander|being accused]] of doing exactly this during the events of the previous book ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Komarr]]'' (in order to free up the woman he was now attempting to court) by political opponents. The truth being part of an ultra-classified incident that couldn't even be revealed to some of the highest levels of government (if the bereaved hadn't been a direct witness, ''she'' wouldn't even have known), so things got rather... complicated.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Inverted in the episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* An episode of ''[[Law and Order]]'' features the rather creepy example of a man who, obsessively in love with his best friend's wife, murdered him and framed it to [[Make It Look Like an Accident|look like an accident]]; the grief-stricken wife later independently fell in love with and married the best friend, completely unaware that she was marrying not only the man who murdered her husband but her own stalker.
** Another episode deals with a woman with erotomania who kills the wife of the man she's obsessed with. That she's otherwise incredibly intelligent, cogent, and calm leads the police to believe she's actually having an affair with the man and that they conspired to kill his wife.
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** Many girls also try to kill Lana, Chloe, or Lois to have Clark for themselves.
{{quote|'''Maxima:''' (about to punch Lois) I finally found the man I waited for all my life, and '''you can't have him'''!!!}}
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** {{spoiler|And finally, Galen kills Tory, although admittedly, Tory never seemed to be very into Galen, and more into a rather warped sense of self-preservation. Either way, hope it was worth it girls.}}
* {{spoiler|Freddie's}} fate at the end of S4 of ''[[Skins]]'' {{spoiler|(killed by Effy's deranged psychiatrist)}}.
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** In the ''other'' TV show of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', Arthur snaps and tries to kill Lancelot after he catches him passionately kissing Guinevere on the eve of their wedding. Only Gwen and Merlin's intervention saves Lancelot's life.
* {{spoiler|Penelope}} attempts to do this on ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]''. She {{spoiler|replaces a cheeseball that Sonny needs to fire from a cannon at her high school's homecoming with a cheese''bomb'', planning to have Sonny be killed so that Chad would be free to date Penelope instead. Chad refuses and survives Penelope's [[If I Can't Have You]] plot, getting to Wisconsin along with the So Random cast in time to save Sonny.}}
* 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, [[
* One episode of ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]'' deals with a husband and wife who had tried unsuccessfully to have a baby multiple times. The wife mistakens her husband's frustrations and efforts to convince her to give up for cheating on her with his ex-girlfriend {{spoiler|She wasn't entirely wrong}} and promptly tried to kill the girlfriend.
* A twisted one in the episode "Seven Seconds" of [[Criminal Minds]] occurs, where the kidnapped girl was found to be molested by {{spoiler|her uncle}} and was kidnapped and almost killed by {{spoiler|her aunt}} to "protect" the family, though Prentiss implies that it was also to make up for {{spoiler|the fact her husband didn't want her as much compared to her niece.}}
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* In ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', Judge Turpin fancies Benjamin Barker's wife, and has him convicted of a crime he didn't commit and shipped off to Australia to get him out of the way. However, as in ''The Crooked Man'' example above, he escapes from prison and returns to get his revenge on the judge.
** Arguably, Mrs. Lovett, with Sweeney and {{spoiler|Lucy}}. {{spoiler|She doesn't really do anything to Lucy, but still she lies and claims she's dead, just so she can have Sweeney all to herself.}}
* 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.
* In a subversion, in [[Avenue Q]], after Princeton breaks up with Kate and later gets together with [[The Vamp]] [[Meaningful Name|Lucy the Slut]], {{spoiler|Kate angrily throws the lucky penny Princeton gave her off the Empire State Building, hitting Lucy, breaking her neck, and putting her into a coma.}} Oops.
{{quote|'''Princeton:''' {{spoiler|Can you believe it? some idiot dropped a penny off the Empire State Building.}}
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* Actually one<ref>or perhaps "several" would be a better word than one, considering how you can kill the hypotenuse in different ways.</ref> of multiple ways to get rid of rivals in ''[[Yandere Simulator]]''.
* 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 Gender 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]].
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldur's Gate II]]'', NPC Aerie can be romanced by both the player character and fellow NPC Haer'Dalis. If she chooses you, he'll back down, but if her romances with both proceed at about the same pace, he tries to settle things in this manner.
** It can also happen if you keep Viconia, Jaheira, and Aerie in the party at the same time and don't break off the romance with any of them.
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== Webcomics ==
* 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.
* Oasis from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is almost perpetually two punch daggers away from murdering even a vaguely perceived hypotenuse, and Torg lives in fear that it will eventually be Zoë, which it almost has been. The story "Fire and Rain" revolved around Oasis' deranged and Determinator stalking of Zoë. And then came "bROKEN"... Best not to even talk about that.
* Halfway averted in the love hexagon that is Starscream's Brigade in the ''[[Insecticomics]]''. While Dreadmoon doesn't actively try to kill Skyfire, the partner of his long-time crush Starscream, he has occasionally directed some "friendly fire" his way and sent him threatening Mini-Cons.
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* In ''[[Pibgorn]]'', Dru's way of coping with Pibgorn.
* In ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', Vin Vulpen makes two attempts on Rudy's life, jealousy over his relationship with Fiona being one of a few motives. He tries to mark Rudy with prey pheromones to ensure that his teammates accidentally eat him, but Rudy manages to survive. He later challenges Rudy to a duel, wanting to win Fiona back, but Rudy exposes his domestication.
* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205302/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-30/ the bride tries to eliminate Maid Maleen].
== Web Original ==
* At the end of Act II of ''[[
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] tried to stab [[Obscurus Lupa]] in the chest for rejecting Todd again, even though Todd has no interest in the former and has always stalked the latter.
* In [[The Joker Blogs]] The Joker kills Harleen's fiance at their wedding.
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'''Homer:''' Yep, a machine! }}
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', where Vlad constantly tries to kill his "best friend" Jack in order to win his wife Maddie's heart. He also has a creepy, stalkerish relationship with Jack and Maddie's kid and main character Danny.
* 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 [[
** The relationship eventually evolves into a quadrilateral by introducing Carter "Hawkman" Hall as a rival for Shayera's affection and the story wastes no time in getting to hypotenuse murdering: in Hawkman's second appearance, a physical manifestation of his dark side kidnaps John Stewart and orders Hawkman to kill him. Hawkman, [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|being a hero]], does not comply. In fact, the events of the episode cause him to stop pursuing Shayera romantically as he realizes that [[Because Destiny Says So|she and John Stewart are literally destined to end up together]], [[Screw Destiny|despite what John Stewart says]].
** In the episode "Metamorphosis", a [[squick]]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.
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