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Works that contain [[Stalker with a Crush]] or [[Mad Love]] relationships are likely to attract [[Draco in Leather Pants|fan interpretations]] where the characters are recast along these lines.
[[Spear Counterpart]] of [[Bastard Girlfriend]]. Usually a type of [[Romanticized Abuse]] and subtrope to [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], with a side order of [[Evil Is Sexy]]. If the Kichiku character also has status, power, and [[Sexy Spectacles|hot little glasses]], he's a ''kichiku megane'' (see [[Bespectacled Bastard Boyfriend]]). For sort-of Western equivalents, see [[Handsome Devil]], who is usually more sarcastic than cruel, and the [[Romance Genre Heroes]] under The Bastard and The Sadist, although those are usually played as villains. Contrast the [[Jerkass]] varieties of [[Romantic False Lead]] and the [[Disposable Fiance]], who are superficially similar but guaranteed ''not'' to get the girl, and the [[Domestic Abuser]] and [[Unsexy Sadist]], who have the cruelty minus the fetishization.
'''A Handy Chart to determine if a character is this trope:'''<br />Your guy is in love, and he demonstrates his love in an abusive or predatory manner. His love interest:
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'''[[Boys Love]] examples:'''
* Ryuichi Asami in the ''[[Finder Series]]'' (along with many other Ayano Yamane [[Seme|semes]]): atarts off with rape and BDSM, then develops a romantic side. And so Takaba falls in love with him.
* Nakajima in ''[[Gakuen Heaven]]'', in the manga volume that follows his route in the [[Visual Novel]] (which includes [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] -- in the first volume that doesn't follow him at all, there's {{spoiler|attempted rape}}, and he is tremendously rude to Keita throughout, though he points out that if the central love interest does nothing, he'll take Keita for himself). In the anime, he's toned down to a [[Jerkass]], and his sexual harassment is elbow-licking.
* Yonekuni (crocodile-boy) in ''[[Love Pistols]]'' volumes 1 and 2: [[Does Not Like Men|hates men.]] Nasty to Shirou. Screws Shirou (repeatedly over a two year period). [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|Doesn't realize it.]] [[Green-Eyed Epiphany|Jealousy ensues.]] Shirou, of course, is desperately in love with him.
** What's really frustrating about it that Shirou has [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|horribly low self-esteem]] and doesn't think he deserves Yonekuni. In later volumes, it gets to the point where he actually believes that Yonekuni has graciously accepted his feelings and is simply putting up with his presence.
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* Sou Mizuhashi from ''[[After School Nightmare]]''.
* Ayace of ''[[Corsair]]'', who has no social grace and [[Victim Falls For Rapist|unusual ideas]] about what constitutes consent.
* Klaus von Wolfstadt of ''[[Hyakujitsu no Bara]]'' is a Conflicted type variety: very rough when he sexes up his secret boyfriend [[Broken Messiah|Taki Reizen]], and completely screwed up due to his past and his current position.
* Some suspect Honma of ''[[Boku No Sexual Harassment]]'' as being this.
* Gilbert of ''[[Kaze to Ki no Uta]]'' can be like this to Serge. He's definitely a [[Jerkass Woobie|conflicted version]].
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** Two or three fans give this treatment to Prussia, too. This happens in some Prussia/Hungary (with a [[Chickification|badly chickified]] Hungary, one may add) and [[Brother-Sister Incest|Germancest]] fics, but it's usually a rare sight.
** When the [[Foe Yay]] between [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Denmark and Sweden]] goes too far, the fanworks featuring this couple will make Denmark one of these. It's also a relatively common sight in [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Denmark/Norway]] fics, too: one of them had Denmark [[Crazy Jealous Guy|so deathly jealous]] of Norway's closeness to Iceland, that he has sex with Norway [[Forced to Watch|in front of Iceland]] [[Netorare Genre|to "teach" Iceland that Norway is his boyfriend]].
** If we go to pure [[Original Character]] Realm, OC!Scotland is often portrayed by Japanese fans as a [[Violent Glaswegian|highly violent]] [[Evil Redhead]] who cruelly rapes and abuses a wimpified England.
* There are some fanfics out there that portray either Hibari or Mukuro from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' as a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] to Tsuna.
* Yu Kanda from ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' sometimes tends to be made into a [[Bastard Boyfriend]] for Allen. And let's not even talk about Tyki Mikk...
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fics pairing [[The Ingenue|Ventus]] with [[Foe Yay|Van]][[Screw Yourself|it]][[Complete Monster|as]] usually turn the latter into this.
* Heero Yuy, back when ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'' was '''the''' yaoi fandom out there, was the poster boy for this trope. Fics where he sexily abused [[Wimpification|Duo]], raped him and claimed to love him, killed or humiliated [[Die for Our Ship|Relena]] for daring to crush on him (which, of course, was ''[[Moral Dissonance|okay]]'', because she ''totally'' was a [[Ron the Death Eater|pink-dressed]], [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses|girly]], [[Yandere|Yandere whore]]) and commited other [[Squick|squicktastic]] deeds "because he loooooooved Duo so much" (like ''considering to keep Duo in a cage for his own sake'') were pretty much the hottest thing in those years, and fangirls ''loved'' such stuff.
* Ronan of [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]. He screams at Sakura when she does anything he doesn't like, notes early on that he doesn't need her, but keeps her around because she's dependent on him, and when he catches Sakura cheating on him {{spoiler|and she offers to cut off her vagina to prove she loves him, he demands that she do it}}.
* Ulquiorra Schiffer in ''[[Bleach]]'' is transformed into this in [[Fanon]], particularly in some Ulquiorra/Orihime fics. This is usually featured along with [[Die for Our Ship]], most likely towards Orihime for not expressing romantic feelings towards him in canon. [[Flame War|And let's just leave it at that.]]
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* Let's just say that no transwomen literature is a transwoman literature without this character. These characters can be of either gender.
* Chamberlain Yanagisawa of the ''[[Sano Ichiro]]'' series is an Unconflicted type after his rise to power, taking out all of the humiliation he suffered to gain said power in the first place on his lovers. This trait is lessened throughout the series as he quickly realizes after his love affair with {{spoiler|Hoshina}} collapses that others are using him to gain power themselves.
* Nagasawa to Hatsumi in ''[[Norwegian Wood]]''. She puts up with him throughout most of the book despite his casual cheating and bad treatment of her.
* The knight Erlend exhibits this behavior to the teenage girl Kristin in the trilogy ''Kristin Lavransdatter'', set in the Middle Ages. Played straight in the first book, where Kristin falls in love with Erlend, breaks her engagement with her [[Nice Guy]] fiance, and defies the will of her father to be with him, all despite his shady past and his none-too-kind treatment of her. Deconstructed in the two later books, set after Erlend and Kristin's marriage, where she has to live with the painful consequences of her decision, all in a highly patriarchial world that offers little support for women.
* [[The Phantom of the Opera]]: in the original book by Gaston Leroux, Erik (the titular phantom) could be a [[Deconstruction]], if not an [[Unbuilt Trope]]: Erik is [[The Grotesque]] [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who terrorizes Christine [[And Now You Must Marry Me|into marrying him]]. In the book, the author wants you to think Erik's a [[Jerkass]] and Christine is a saint for putting up with him ([[Domestic Abuser]] meets [[Love Martyr]]), but the [[Misaimed Fandom]] (and [[Lost in Imitation|all the adaptations]]) wants you to think Erik's totally hot and the relationship is [[Corrupt the Cutie|deliciously kinky]].
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