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'''Conflicted''' (less common): [[Troubled but Cute]], and his abusiveness is generally driven by [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealousy]], insecurity, [[Cannot Spit It Out|a crushing inability to express his feelings]], a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] that completely screwed up with his view of the world, or (very rarely) a desire to [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|drive the other person away]] (possibly out of a belief that they will be [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|happier with someone else]]). This type may have started as an attempt at a [[Deconstructed Trope|more realistic]] implementation of the character type.

 

 

The [[Bastard Boyfriend]] is likely to be [[Love Redeems|redeemed]] by [[The Power of Love]] at the end of the book; alternately, he may eventually be revealed to be [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|nicer underneath]]. A minority may be revealed to have a [[Freudian Excuse]] (such as [[Abusive Parents]] or [[Love Hurts|extremely bad former romances]]). If none of these things happen, his partner may decide that [[Stalking Is Love]] and embrace their status as a [[Love Martyr]]. Along the way, the [[Bastard Boyfriend]] may well be [[Master of the Mixed Message]], if the author needs something to keep his partner strung along.

* 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.

** 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.

** This trope also applies to Seth. You can't really avoid being attributed with this trope when you knocked your lover out, took him to the ''opposite side of the world into a war zone'', shackled him to the bedpost, and then [[It Makes Sense in Context|demanded a child from him]]. The fact that he did it because he loved him and was [[Green-Eyed Monster|jealous beyond all reason]] doesn't change anything. It ''does'', however, explain why [[Too Dumb to Live|it was incredibly stupid and short-sighted of him.]].

** [[Complete Monster|Eric Cartman]]. Almost half of [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Kyman]] ([[Foe Yay|Cartman/Kyle]]) fics portray Cartman as a possessive, obsessed sociopath ([[Sarcasm Mode|not that he's not like that in the real show, too]]) who wants to rape Kyle and torture him in all possible ways. Most of them are M rated, too.

** Kenny Mccormick also gets this portrayal in 90% of the fics that involve him, due to his infamous status of being addicted to sex and drugs in the show. In most stories, he's an obsessed pervert who molests almost everyone around him or the object of his desires.

* Nine times out of ten, the villainous half of a [[Foe Yay]] ship becomes this trope. [[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Sephiroth]] is one of the more popular examples, especially in doujinshi, and, oddly enough, is portrayed as either type depending on the fangirl.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has LOTS of fanon examples:

*** He also comes off as this in Turkey/Hungary fanworks set in the "Ottoman Hungary" times, i.e. in several online places, there's quite the speculation about the possibility of the "young!Prussia finds an injured young!Hungary all battered and half naked after fighting the Ottoman Empire" strip being the aftermath to Turkey [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|realizing that she's a girl]], [[She Is All Grown Up|aknowledging how she's growing into a beautiful woman]]...and either tearing her clothes and ''raping'' her on the spot to [[Stay in The Kitchen|"show her what's her place in the Ottoman Empire"]], or [[Scarpia Ultimatum|trying to forcibly get her]] [[Sex Slave|into his never-heard-of-before-in-canon harem]] (if she wasn't already there and was defeated while trying to run away, that is). If the fanworks are set ''after'' that time, however, it goes much more by the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] way, with an [[Older and Wiser]] Hungary [[Action Girl|having the physical strength]] to keep Turkey's [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|lechery and/or jerkiness]] at bay.

*** Turkey/Japan fanworks are mostly free of this or at least don't have Turkey abusing or raping Japan. Even fanworks where Turkey's feelings for Japan are clearly one-sided portray him as a jealous but ultimately harmless [[Hopeless Suitor]] at the very worst. Maybe because Turkey and Japan have always had a cordial history with each other.

** Poor Japan. Not only is he turned into a Bastard Boyfriend in numerous Japan/[insert any other Asian nation here] fanworks (which includes many Japan/China fanworks, pretty much all Japan/either Korea, Hong Kong, and/or Thailand fanworks, and even the few Japan/Taiwan fanworks that don't go the [[Lady and Knight]] or [[Happily Married]] routes) thanks to his [[Lawful Evil]] [[Imperial Japan|imperial history]], but he himself becomes the [[Wimpification|weepy]] [[Love Martyr|victim]]...er, "lucky lover" of a Bastard Boyfriend in numerous America/Japan and England/Japan fanworks. The only pairing exceptions ([[Tempting Fate|so far]]) are Greece/Japan (whose reputation as the "[[Happily Married|peaceful, content]], [[Kindhearted Cat Lover|cat-loving]] pairing you steer clear of if you love angst" is too strong) and minor pairings like Turkey/Japan and Netherlands/Japan (who don't get that many fanworks in the first place, at least in the English-speaking fandom).

** China (as either [[Imperial China|the Chinese Empire]] or [[Red China|Mao's China]]) sometimes goes from the [[Love Martyr]] victim to the [[Bastard Boyfriend]] [[Yandere]] in China/Taiwan or China/Hong Kong fanworks, flanderising the country's "interest" into having them back (HK), or portraying the reason why they left him (Taiwan) as him stalking, abusing, raping, or even forcibly getting them hooked onto opium. Thankfully, it's not exactly common.

*** Even worse are the China/Japan fanworks that make [[Imperial China]] a [[Shotacon|pedophiliac]] [[Yandere]] and [[Complete Monster]] who [[Abusive Parent|physically, sexually, and psychologically abuses]] a completely wimpified Japan ever since he "discovered" him. (Or the fact that you can swap China and Japan's name in that sentence and replace "pedophiliac" with "sociopathic" and "discovered" with "conquered" [never mind that Japan never actually conquered China in real life, not even during WWII, and that China is actually the stronger nation nowadays] for a summary of at least 60% of Japan/China fanworks.)

** America gets this rep in more than one America/England and/or America/Japan badfic, with either England or Japan becoming the [[Love Martyr]] to America's [[Jerkass]] or [[Yandere]] via [[Wimpification]]. Double points if it's an USA/Japan fic set in the American occupation times where America either punishes Japan for his role in [[World War Two]] by raping him or becomes a dangerous Yandere who threatens to bomb him again. Triple points if it's a "USUK" fic where the real reason for [[The American Revolution]] is either England's reaction to teenager!America [[Victim Falls For Rapist|overpowering and raping him]], or America setting a spiteful [[Xanatos Gambit]] in which he wants his "freedom" as a direct way to hurt and hate England (and often backed up by a France shown as a slutty, selfish [[Evil Mentor]] [[Ron the Death Eater|who leads America on *purely* to spit on]] [[Purity Stu|"poor" UK]] - way to flanderize the French role in the Revolution).

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