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** Peter's former wife Mary Jane was actually plagued by ''two'' Yandere, which were oddly enough, connected. The first, and more obvious one, was her wealthy and [[Axe Crazy]] landlord Jonathan Caesar, an [[Entitled Bastard]] who ''hated'' being denied anything he wanted. His first attempt to kidnap her failed, leading to his arrest and imprisonment, but even while behind bars, he was able to use his money and influence to make her life miserable, blacklisting her among the modeling profession until she managed to gain a role in the Secret Hospital soap opera.

** The second one was much more subtle. After Caesar was paroled, a few folks who abused Mary Jane (including a deluded fan of the soap opera and her angry director) were either murdered or assaulted. Mary Jane suspected it was Caesar's doing, especially when Peter himself was almost a victim, but Peter tended to doubt it, claiming [[Out of Character Alert| that the attacks didn't fit his MO]]. Peter turned out to be right. The true culprit was the second Yandere (known only by his last name, Goldman) who had claimed to be a policeman, but was really only a clerk working for the NYPD. When Caesar made a second attempt to kidnap Mary Jane, Goldman murdered him in cold blood, and when Mary Jane rejected him, tried to shoot her too. But she tricked him into to getting close by offering to reveal the future plot of the soap (saying they'd have to change it if she were dead) and was able to knock him out with her purse.

** One of the worst involved with Spider-Man's life is possibly Miles Warren, the orchestrator of everything that went down in ''[[The Clone Saga]]'' [[Norman Osborn|~~(Or~~ so it seemed.)]] . He has always had one motivation for everything, and that is his unhealthy crush on Gwen Stacy. He seeks revenge on Peter not only for her death, but for having loved her when he couldn't. Ben Reiley seriously calls him out on this during the [[Final Battle]], telling him, "Get this through your sick head, ''the Green Goblin killed her'', Peter did not!" and Peter himself, during the ''Dead Man's Hand'' one shot, tells him, "Still hung up on Gwen, huh? Some things never change." The biggest irony is, Gwen's clone eventually fell in love with and ''married'' a far-more lucid clone of Warren (which the real one had abandoned as a failed experiment) so it's possible if Warren had not been such a lustful madman, the real Gwen might have been more accepting, or maybe turned him down in a way he could have accepted.

** One of the worst involved with Spider-Man's life is possibly Miles Warren, the orchestrator of everything that went down in ''[[The Clone Saga]]'' (Or [[Norman Osborn|so it seemed.)]] . He has always had one motivation for everything, and that is his unhealthy crush on Gwen Stacy, who was a student in his class and young enough to be his daughter. He seeks revenge on Peter not only for her death, but for having loved her when he couldn't. Ben Reiley seriously calls him out on this during the [[Final Battle]], telling him, "Get this through your sick head, ''the Green Goblin killed her'', Peter did not!" and Peter himself, during the ''Dead Man's Hand'' one shot, tells him, "Still hung up on Gwen, huh? Some things never change." The biggest irony is, Gwen's clone eventually fell in love with and ''married'' a far-more lucid clone of Warren (which the real one had abandoned as a failed experiment) so it's possible if Warren had not been such a lustful madman, the real Gwen might have been more accepting, or maybe turned him down in a way he could have accepted.

* Played with in [[Yoko Tsuno]]'s story ''The Pray And The Shadow''. The Yandere is actually an adult man in his late 40's, Mac Nab, who as a youngster was spurned by his crush Lady Mary and showed up at her wedding to curse her and her new husband, Brian, and predict that they'd never be happy. Brian died within the year, Mary [[The Ophelia|almost fell into madness]] and some years later died in an accident, and everyone blamed Mac Nab, who was barely able to clear his name yet was ostracized by the community, living alone in a small house and keeping a mannequin that looks exactly like Mary and wears her wedding dress. {{spoiler|The truth? William, Brian's brother and Mary's second husband, set up poor Mary for death and made it look like an accident, then brewed a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to kill Mary and Brian's daughter Cecilia so he could get her huge inheritance. Mac Nab was still a [[Yandere]] for Mary, but once he learned the truth he remained focused enough to join Yoko's plans to rescue Cecilia (as well as her [[Body Double]] Margaret) and use the mannequin as a [[Spanner in the Works]].}}

* [[Green Lantern|The Star Sapphires]] represent [[The Power of Love|love]] -- a dark, dark take on it. The original, parasitic Star Sapphire crystal specifically empowered [[Woman Scorned|females who had been unlucky in love]]. As a result, every Sapphire was some unholy combination of [[Clingy Jealous Girl]], [[Stalker with a Crush]], and [[Yandere]]. Not surprisingly they also indulged in [[If I Can't Have You]] and [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] behavior. [[Oh Crap|And they all had superpowers]]. And the embodiment of love (a being that serves the same function as [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|Parallax]], [[Space Whale|Ion]], and [[The Grim Reaper|Nekron]] to the Sinestro Corps, Green Lantern Corps, and Black Lantern Corps respectively)? It's called [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Predator]].