Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Difference between revisions

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== Film ==

* ''[[My Super Ex-Girlfriend]]'' was made on this trope. It would have done a lot better, if they put some [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|actual effort]] into the plot.

* Done for humor in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' with Jake's ex-girlfriend (Carrie Fisher), whose revenge for being left at the altar involves plenty of [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and [[BFG~~|BFGs~~]].

* Done for humor in ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' with Jake's ex-girlfriend (Carrie Fisher), whose revenge for being left at the altar involves plenty of [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and [[BFG]]s.

* [[Wayne's World|Wayne's]] ex-girlfriend Stacy is a psycho hose-beast. Played for laughs, as [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]].

* ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'' - see Comic Books above.

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== Live Action TV ==

* [[The X-Files|Fox Mulder]] had ''two'' of ~~these -- all~~ right, so the first one was mostly just annoying, but the second one turned out to be working for the [[Government Conspiracy]] and having ''some'' kind of weirdly ambiguous relationship with {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|the Smoking Man]]}}.

* [[The X-Files|Fox Mulder]] had ''two'' of these—all right, so the first one was mostly just annoying, but the second one turned out to be working for the [[Government Conspiracy]] and having ''some'' kind of weirdly ambiguous relationship with {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|the Smoking Man]]}}.

* It's becoming increasingly easy to read [[The Master]] from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' as the Doctor's ex from hell. They were at school together, used to be best friends, and the Master is utterly obsessed with being the centre of the Doctor's attention. His two appearances in the revived series have both involved him doing horrific things to the Doctor's favourite species - in the End of Time, he went so far as to {{spoiler|turn every human on Earth (except Wilf and Donna) into a copy of himself.}}

** The likely explanation for the behavior of the so-called "Virgin Queen" in ''The Shakespeare Code''.

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* [[How I Met Your Mother]] parodies this in "The Platinum Rule" when Barney assumes Wendy the Waitress is this but she is actually taking their break-up really well.

* ''[[iCarly]]'': Lewbert's ex-girlfriend Marta Trundel in ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love''.

* ''[[Oz]]''. Unit Manager Tim McManus forms a brief liaison with prison guard Claire Howell. When he tries to break off the relationship she assaults him in his office (to the delight of watching inmates), then charges him with sexual harassment when he tries to fire her. Howell's later actions definitely cast her in the role of a ~~villain -- she~~ assaults (and in one case murders) inmates, as well as using them for her own sexual gratification whether they want it or not.

* ''[[Oz]]''. Unit Manager Tim McManus forms a brief liaison with prison guard Claire Howell. When he tries to break off the relationship she assaults him in his office (to the delight of watching inmates), then charges him with sexual harassment when he tries to fire her. Howell's later actions definitely cast her in the role of a villain—she assaults (and in one case murders) inmates, as well as using them for her own sexual gratification whether they want it or not.

* ''[[24]]''. Two characters, {{spoiler|Jack and Tony}}, dating the same person, {{spoiler|Nina}}.

* Davina from [[Material Girl (TV series)]] {{spoiler|its revealed at the end of the series that most of her attepts to hurt Ali were in fact directed at Marco, Ali just got in the way.}}

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* Rose from ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' both fits and subverts this. Although becoming friends with Charlie, she does manage to drive away his love interests and refuses to give up. Plus, every main character has called her crazy at some point. She's also pretty civil in her stalking, despite it being creepy.

* After Dexter finally cut it off with Lila in ''[[Dexter]]'', she {{spoiler|nearly killed him and his girlfriend's children}}.

* Niles's ex-wife [[The Ghost|Maris]] from ''[[Frasier]]'' probably qualifies, although more subtly: when she begs for him to come back to her, and he rejects her on the grounds that she has treated him like dirt all his life, she goes into a [[Tranquil Fury]] and proceeds to utterly screw Niles out of every cent he has with a team of [[Amoral Attorney~~|Amoral Attorneys~~]], just for the sake of revenge (she was filthy rich already).

* Niles's ex-wife [[The Ghost|Maris]] from ''[[Frasier]]'' probably qualifies, although more subtly: when she begs for him to come back to her, and he rejects her on the grounds that she has treated him like dirt all his life, she goes into a [[Tranquil Fury]] and proceeds to utterly screw Niles out of every cent he has with a team of [[Amoral Attorney]]s, just for the sake of revenge (she was filthy rich already).

* In [[Zoey 101]], we have Chase's short-lived girlfriend, Rebecca. Admittedly, she was psycho while she and Chase were still dating; she demanded Zoey no longer have any contact with Chase, and that Chase stop being friends with Zoey. It was the reason they broke up. Rebecca, of course, took this to mean ''Zoey'' was the reason they broke up, and in a later episode ends up blackmailing her into doing all sorts of embarassing things.

* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Shawn becomes the target of ''three'' of these who band together to sabotage his latest relationship because they think he is leading her on like he led them on.

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== Real Life ==

* After astronaut [[wikipedia:Lisa Nowak|Lisa Nowak]]'s boyfriend, William Oefelein, broke it off with her for Colleen Shipman, Lisa Nowak then stalked Shipman for two months after which she drove from Houston, Texas to Orlando, Florida on February ~~4-5~~, 2007 to attempt to kidnap Shipman. Early police reports further indicate that [[Crazy Prepared|she was wearing a diaper when driving to prevent the need for bathroom breaks.]]

* After astronaut [[wikipedia:Lisa Nowak|Lisa Nowak]]'s boyfriend, William Oefelein, broke it off with her for Colleen Shipman, Lisa Nowak then stalked Shipman for two months after which she drove from Houston, Texas to Orlando, Florida on February 4–5, 2007 to attempt to kidnap Shipman. Early police reports further indicate that [[Crazy Prepared|she was wearing a diaper when driving to prevent the need for bathroom breaks.]]

* {{spoiler|Simultaneously subverted and inverted in}} this story going around about Azura Lakin, a woman who slashed her ex-boyfriend's throat with a broken beer bottle, killing him, but isn't going to be charged with homicide {{spoiler|because she did it as a response to his choking her, attempting to re-enter the apartment that she and her sister pushed him out of after he choked her, and moving towards her as if to choke her again.}}