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* Yuri Kim in ''[[Faeries Landing]]'' is just about the personification of this trope, and even physically scarred the hero just to see him squirm.
* Dante of [[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|the 2003 anime version]] of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is the sociopathic, mass-murdering ex-lover of Hohenheim.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation|A possible interpretation]] of [[The Determinator|Kyouko]] from ''[[Skip Beat]]''.
* [[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]] has an interesting example where an ex of Pazu<ref>The same person that said he never sleeps with the same woman twice.</ref> dons a perfect prosthetic duplicate body of his and frames him for two murders. It goes further in that she claimed to still love him, but believed that by being inside an exact copy of his body she had his "ghost" inside of her. [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|Then she tries to kill the real Pazu.]] It's not quite made obviously apparent that the real Pazu won the fight.
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* Gender-flipped (and foisted on her boyfriend) in Canadian [[Animesque|mangaesque]] series ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', where the main antagonists are [[Milkman Conspiracy|the League of Ramona's Evil Ex-Boyfriends]] (oh, and one [[Psycho Lesbian|Ex-Girlfriend]]), whom Scott must defeat in various bizarre fight scenes in order to continue dating his [[Love Interest]].
** Played straight with eventual fights involving Scott's ex-girlfriends Envy and {{spoiler|Knives}}. For fairness's sake, apparently, Ramona handles these fights.
* [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] broke up with Kathleen Dare because she was being too clingy. So, she shot and crippled him.
** When Tony is later assumed to have died from an illness she {{spoiler|shoots herself so she can join him in the afterlife.}}
* Red She-Hulk {{spoiler|was recently revealed to be Betty Ross Banner.}} One of Hulk's wives finally doesn't stay dead, and this happens. [[Crapsack World|Damn, his life sucks.]]
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* [[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.
* In ''[[Inception]]'', Mal is a psycho-dead-wife.
** But then again, it was all in Cobb's head.
== Literature ==
* [[The Hero|Tanis]] and [[The Dragon|Kitiara]] have this kind of relationship in [[Dragonlance]], and feelings definitely linger on both sides (though in Kitiara's case, those feelings aren't much deeper than "lust and amusement"). From a technical stance, Kit's less "psycho" than "amoral and ambitious", but she still fits the trope.
** Given how Kitiara becomes [[Green-Eyed Monster|insanely jealous]] after hearing that Tanis is traveling with his ex-girlfriend [[Rebellious Princess|Laurana]] (especially after hearing how [[Hello, Nurse!|incredibly beautiful]] Laurana is) and how this jealousy causes Kit to become obsessed with Laurana to the point of relentlessly stalking the elfmaid and trying to give her a [[Fate Worse Than Death]], Kitiara definitely fits as a "psycho."
* Lanfear from ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series. A somewhat unusual example since [[The Chosen One]] she used to date has been dead for several millenia, so her stalking's a [[Reincarnation Romance]].
* Senna of ''[[Everworld]]'' is a [[Manipulative Bastard]] witch who is Christopher's ex-girlfriend, and is David's current girlfriend for most of the series, and his ex-girlfriend at the very end.
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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]]}}.
* 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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* 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).
* 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.
* Gabe of ''[[The Office]]'' is a psycho ex boyfriend. He becomes one after Erin breaks up with him. He follows Andy, (whom Erin really likes) to the men's room and threatens him and follows Erin into the ladies room and pleads for her to take him back.
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* Gwynn from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' almost [[The End of the World as We Know It|destroyed the world]] trying to get revenge on ex-boyfriend Riff.
** Don't forget Oasis going after any female seen speaking to Torg.
* Roxanne in ''[[Candorville]]'' began as a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], and some of the fandom thinks she still is and we're seeing things [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]. If not, she's {{spoiler|a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] prophecied to rule the world}}, and the closest thing the strip has to a [[Big Bad]].
* In ''[[Jet Dream (webcomic)|Jet Dream]]'', Raven Red reacts to the [[Gender Bender|sex change]] of her [[Dating Catwoman]] love interest Jack Thunder... poorly. While the newly-christened Harmony Thunder seems [[Lipstick Lesbian|open to alternative possibilities]], Raven isn't, and takes an [[If I Can't Have You]] position towards Harmony.
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