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* ''[[Bleach]]'': After Ichigo sinks into depression because his failure to protect resulted in Orihime getting badly injured, Orihime can't cheer him but Rukia does by making him resolved to never let Orihime get that injured again. Orihime believes she's incapable of bringing Ichigo out of despair leading her to feel jealous of Rukia's ability which has made her feel useless. This trope is immediately subverted when, instead of becoming bitchy or bitter, Orihime gushes about how wonderful and amazing Rukia is and how bad she feels to be jealous of such a good person. Rangiku resolves the issue almost immediately for her and a few chapters later it's confirmed Rukia and Orihime are very good friends and training hard together.

* [[Big Little Brother|Yukio Okumura]] from [[Blue Exorcist]]. Despite being a [[The Ace|fully qualified Middle First Class exorcist and exorcism school teacher]] [[Teen Genius|at the age of 15]], he always felt inadequate compared to his [[Idiot Hero]] older brother with self-control issues and his [[Badass Preacher]] father. [[Manipulative Bastard|Saburota Toudou]] attempts to use this and Yukio's [[He Who Fights Monsters|fear of becoming a demon]] to induce a [[Heel Face Turn]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Donald Duck]] and Gladstone Gander

* Wiske in ''[[Suske en Wiske]]'' at any pretty girl that is interested in Suske.

 

== Fairy Tales ==

** Other variants of this type of fairy tale include "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140119234006/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/dongiovanni.html Don Giovanni de la Fortuna]", "[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/SoldierandtheBadMan.html The Soldier and the Bad Man]", "[http://www.gwu.edu/~folktale/GERM232/bearskin/web%20pages/RoadtoHell.html The Road to Hell]" (where she actively cleans him up), "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140117195302/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bearskin/stories/rewardkindness.html The Reward of Kindness]", [http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0361.html# sutermeister "The Devil As Partner" and "Never Wash"].

* There is a fairy tale about a hare and a turtle envying each other: The hare wants turtle's [[Mighty Glacier|protection]] and the turtle the hare's [[Fragile Speedster|speed]].

 

== Fan Works ==

* Duke in ''[[Decks Fall, Everyone Dies]]'', to the point where he wants to kill Tristan.

* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Mion]] in the fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6789334/1/GreenEyed_Demon Green-eyed Demon]''.

 

== Film - Animated ==

* [[Big Bad|Scar]] from ''[[The Lion King]]'' was a literal [[Green Eyes|case]] with his brother [[King of Beasts|Mufasa]].

* Somewhat averted in ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', as there were no jealous characters. As the puppet lies to the Blue Fairy about why he didn't go to school, he explains that "there were these two big monsters with big green eyes" that put him in a big sack and Jiminy Cricket in a little sack. All the while, of course, his nose grows.

 

== Film - Live Action ==

* ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'' shows one of the few thing-human-human cases of Green-Eyed Monster. Andrew, an android, sees Portia about to marry someone else, a person who has a very prominent chin, which Andrew constantly makes fun of behind his back, to Portia of all people.

* The entire plot of ''[[The Awful Truth]]'' is kicked off by and runs on this.

 

== Literature ==

* In a new trilogy series called ''Dogs Of The Drowned City'', Shep's friend Zeus gets jealous because Shep seemed to care more for the smaller dog breeds instead of him and the bigger breeds. This causes him to run away from the pack and form one of his own.

 

* Done literally in [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Faith envies Buffy for being the "main" slayer, having friends, family, love, acceptance, etc. So she envies Buffy's life in general—right until {{spoiler|she has to lead the charge.}}

** The loser behind the problem in the wishing well episode says something to the effect of them having it easy with their great looks and cool car, and they assure him in deadpan that they are absolutely miserable. This is a little surreal, in that it's ''true'', but they say it like they're remarking on the weather. On the other hand, Sam lies to the asthmatic warlock kid in 'Swap Meat' that he'd love to have his life without the demon bounty hunters and blood addiction problems and responsibility for the Apocalypse and all that. ''Actually'', he'll take all that rather than be that kid with the collegiate future locked in stone by his asshole family, and a no-good body. Probably the most significant factor being that by season five Sam has long since grown uncomfortable with restrictions on his ability to [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|kill the fuck out of his problems]], and is not actually fit to live in society anymore, even if he is wearing a white hat again.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy|John]] spends the entirety of [[Sherlock|"A Scandal in Belgravia"]] reveling in barely-concealed jealousy over how much attention [[Oblivious to Love|Sherlock]] awards [[Romantic False Lead|Irene]], to the point where his girlfriend of the minute breaks up with him for being a better boyfriend to ''Sherlock'' than he is to ''her''. John becomes completely incensed after {{spoiler|the first time}} Irene fakes her own death, threatening to attack her if she doesn't tell Sherlock she's still alive. The Green-Eyed Monster doesn't stop him from feeling sorry for her {{spoiler|apparent death}} at the end of the episode. Sherlock himself suffers from the Green-Eyed Monster whenever something other than himself and whatever case he's working on distracts John. Occasionally it gets [[Played for Laughs]].

 

== Music ==

* "Jessie's Girl" by Rick Springfield probably deserves mention here.

* There is a song by Darren Criss that is [[Sarcasm Mode|creatively titled]] "Jealousy".

 

== Mythology and Religion ==

* Loki's motive for murdering Baldur included envy.

* Cain couldn't stand the fact that his brother Abel's sacrifices were accepted by God and his weren't, leading him to commit the first murder. Since God accepted the blood offering his brother gave of a new lamb and rejected his crops (and hadn't got around to saying murder was bad yet), Cain may have just been confused. The story doesn't really give Cain or God clear reasons for their actions. One common interpretation is that Cain gave grudgingly while Abel gave willingly.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* Bert Bibber and Theo Flitser in ''[[Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber]]''.

 

== Radio ==

* In ''[[Old Harry's Game]]'', this really seems to be Satan's preeminent sin. At least [[Once Per Episode]], to the point of [[Catch Phrase]], the Professor alleges that Satan hates and corrupts various aspects of human life because, "You're just jealous." This accusation is born out by the fact that Satan is clearly very self-loathing. Also interesting is that while Satan's Fall was mostly God just being a dick, it's indicated that he wanted to be top Angel and was jealous of any others being put above him. Finally, we're told (since it's a radio show) that Satan has green eyes.

 

== Theater ==

** In ''[[A Midsummer Nights Tale]]'', Titania accuses Oberon of this, and Helena's got it, in spades.

* The ''hashihime'', sometimes translated as "bridge princess", is a figure from Noh theater who either committed suicide or openly cursed her cheating husband, and was turned into a bridge-haunting spirit.

 

== Video Games ==

* Lt. Carter Blake in [[Heavy Rain]] towards Norman Jayden, his temporary partner from the FBI, particularly in regards to the ARI. Many of Blake's comments towards Jayden are equal parts disdain and envy; he has no respect for Jayden's [[By-The-Book Cop|strict adherence to procedure]], but is shown to have some interest in the ARI. Particularly evident in {{spoiler|one of Jayden's epilogues, in which Blake decides to try out the recently-deceased Jayden's ARI. It doesn't go well.}}

 

* Miou in ''[[A Profile]]'' is extremely jealous of Masayuki's stepsister Rizu after Masayuki broke up with her to repair his relationship with said sister. How she reacts varies by route, but the story goes out of its way to show that she does have a point due to the circumstances involved.

* ''[[School Days]]'': Sekai and Kotonoha. VERY jealous of each other because they both like Makoto.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' features [[Meaningful Name|Leviathan]], the second of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Stakes of Purgatory]]. She's a whiny crybaby who envied her sisters for seven days. However, not even her envy is a match for {{spoiler|Kyrie}} who envied {{spoiler|Asumu}} for ''eighteen years''. Leviathan develops [[Les Yay|a bit of]] [[Foe Yay|a crush]] on her after that.

* In one of the bad endings for ''[[Bionic Heart]]'', the main character's new android love interest {{spoiler|murders his ex-girlfriend}} when she becomes jealous of all of the time that the protagonist spends with his ex.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', Antimony is jealous of how Kat and Alistair get along. She overcomes it to insist they get a proper farewell—whereupon both she and Kat learn things.

* Nastajia and Felicity in ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]''

* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1136 A little jealous of her abilities.]

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': Monica accuses Bud of being envious of Tina. Bud has a bit of a problem with this seeing as she is also a bit envious of Monica and her relationship with Kevin.

* Part of why [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s a [[Bad Boss]]. Reviewing is the only thing he has so he's freaked out by people going into his territory and doing it better than him (or so he thinks).

* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[Obscurus Lupa]] are friendly at first (or as friendly as the Chick can be), but when Chick discovers Lupa has Todd's affections but doesn't want them, she's so jealous that she tries to kill the redhead.

 

== Western Animation ==

** Rarity also suffers from this when Fluttershy becomes a famous model. In an interesting handling of this trope, Rarity is actually very disappointed in herself for being jealous of her friend's success.

** Spike gets this toward Owlowlicious.

* Heloise on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' gets extremly hostile over [[Friend Versus Lover|Beezy's friendship with Jimmy]], which often results in episodes of her doing terrible things. For that matter, any supposed instance of Jimmy showing attention to anyone but her can lead to trouble. There was even a role reversal in one episode where Helouside managed to make Jimmy Jealous, despite being [[Oblivious to Love]].

* Often a major reason for Bluto going after [[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]] the sailor usually does a better job fixing/building something than his big rival. Occasionally inverted, but a dose of spinach always lets Popeye win the final round.

* The Tygra from ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]'' seems to have been suffering this for a long time, in reguards to his little brother Lion-O and the girl they both have feelings for.

 

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[[Category:Unrequited Love Tropes]]

[[Category:Envy and Jealousy Tropes]]