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* Ageha in ''[[They Are My Noble Masters]]''. {{spoiler|She kisses Ren}} and begins ignoring her own butler, makes him train, takes up all his time and attention, obstructs his duties and makes him cook dinner. While not quite to comedic lethal chef levels, he's never cooked before.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Northern Italy]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' is this to Germany initially, hanging around, irritating him and generally being useless. Despite Germany's attempts to throw him out, then ''give'' him away, he [[The Cat Came Back|always returns]]. Eventually the two become close friends, however ([[Ho Yay|if not more]]).
* In ''[[Black★Rock Shooter (band)|Black★Rock Shooter]]'', Kagari calls Mato this and resorts to being [[Creepy Child|completely goddamned scary]] to drive her away.
{{quote|[[Arc Words|"Go away! Go away! Go away! Go away!"]]}}
* In ''[[Kannagi]]'' Jin suddenly sees his house shared with Nagi who doesn't have a hint of courtesy and gratitude in her. Though he does have some confrontations with her, he eventually sets that aside and learns to like her the way she is.
* Sakura from ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' suffers greatly from this trope, since Dokuro-chan decides to live with him. Oh, and did I mention she beats the living sh*t out of him to the point of killing him? That's fine, she just resurrects him, only to kill him again and again... And there's nothing he can do, she's come to stay.
* In ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu]]'' Hare suddenly has to live with Guu, since his mother decided to adopt her out of the blue. Guu also loves to torment the poor kid, and he can't do anything against it.
* The "Baka" prince from ''[[Level E]]'' made himself a guest in Tsutsui's house, much to his annoyance.
* In ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'', the thing that would not leave (Neuro) is not only in Yako's house, but anywhere she goes. He treats her like a dog, but somehow she gets used to his extravagances.
== Comic Books ==
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== Fan Works ==
* Arguably the [[Harry Potter]] fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5688056/1/On_a_Clear_Day On a Clear Day]''. Draco works for a charity organisation. When the organisation plans a gala to raise money for the children who lost their parents in the war against Voldemort, Draco's boss demands that he makes sure that the Great Harry Potter is in attendance. The problem is that since the war, Harry has turned agoraphobic and refuses to leave Grimmauld Place, which prompts Draco to intentionally invoke this trope. It's not that he never leaves, but he goes there every day, sits around for hours and tries to annoy Harry into agreeing to come to the gala. {{spoiler|He succeeds.}}
* In the fancomic ''[[Girls Next Door]]'', the [[Pan's Labyrinth|Pale Man]] apparently followed Ofelia to the apartment building. He installed himself in Jareth's and Eric's kitchen, and to date has not left. They managed to get rid of him once "with the help" of the ''friendly'' Girl Scouts, but it came back and has a brownie slash since.
* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' [[Crack Fic]] ''[[All You Need Is Love]]'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5949144/1/All_You_Need_is_Love\] Naomi Misora [[Sympathy for the Devil|feels so sorry]] for her [[Stalking Is Love|stalker]], [[Big Bad|Light Yagami/Kira,]] [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|because he's being sexually harassed in the workplace]] that [[What Were You Thinking?|she invites him to stay at her place for a couple days...]] In the end Naomi ends up kidnapping Raye (her clueless fiancé) and fleeing the country to get away from Light. Meanwhile Light, who has to date not yet left her apartment, sends her a note informing her that the fridge is empty and now L and Matsuda (the stalker's stalkers) had followed him there and are in the process of "redecorating." The story then has a [[Time Skip]]-it's five years later and Light still hasn't left.
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** As of this writing, it appears another such scenario is in the works with Uncle Duke. One might expect Duke to be the unwanted guest, but in this case he's the host—the guest is Trff Bmzklfrpz, former President-for-Life of Greater Berzerkistan. Duke arranged an extraction to get him out of Berzerkistan just ahead of a revolution, but it turns out that Trff's Swiss bank accounts have been frozen, and he's penniless with nowhere to go.
* In ''[[For Better or For Worse]],'' when Elly gives birth to April, a distant cousin of John's (whom Elly has never even ''met'') invites herself to come and stay with the Pattersons to help out with the baby. She stays on and on, getting in the way, making messes, letting her cat run roughshod over everything, and totally freeloading. John eventually breaks down and puts a security deposit on an apartment for her just to get her out of the house.
* Robert Freeman's family from New Orleans come by after Hurricane Katrina in ''[[The Boondocks]]''. One of them became a fan favorite and practically called the trope by name when the rest of them decided to finally leave. ''She'' was forcibly put out.
== Podcast ==
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* In ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]'', Great-Uncle Lucius, who ''[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981021.html lied about being a member of Bruno's family]'', ''[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981023.html came for an afternoon visit over thirty years before the comic happens]'', and then fell sick and was, according to him and (after some ''[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981021.html threats]'' from Lucius) his doctors, about to die, thus making the family have to take care of him. He's going to live until at least "[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/19981031.html some seventy years later]". And he will still be about to die.
* [[Megatokyo|Piro and Largo]] stay in the apartment of Piro's friend Tsubasa when they are stuck in Japan at first. While they genuinely mean to not impose, they are distracted by Tsubasa's vast video game collection and wind up staying until Tsubasa leaves for America and they are evicted from the apartment, along with [[Robot Girl]] Ping.
** They leave after {{spoiler|Tsubasa moves out ''first''.}}
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' does a very strange version with Bert. At first, he's the main characters' roommate, so it's no problem that he's there. Then he says he's moving out because the others are too weird, though he's always most certainly been the weirdest one even in that bunch. The others don't necessarily want him to go, at least Torg, but all right. The problem is when he says he ''has'' moved out even while he's obviously still living in there. In the end, Torg gets fed up and calls the UN to send inspectors to find him, which they fail to do because [i]Bert was in a closet.[/i]
* Katia, the main character of ''[[Prequel (webcomic)|Prequel]]''. She meets Quill-Weave after breaking into her house on a drunken bender to have sex with a stranger in her own bed. Since Quill is one of the first people to genuinely treat her nicely (out of pity and later guilt), Katia latches onto her like an adorably pathetic, puppy-dog eyed lamprey.
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