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* Ishtar (Inanna) of [[Mesopotamian Mythology]]. All of her lovers ended up dead, which is why [[The Epic of Gilgamesh|Gilgamesh]] turns her down when she asks him to marry her. Cue Ishtar [[Daddy's Girl|running to her daddy]], pitching a fit, and threatening to cause a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] if he doesn't give her the [[MacGuffin|Bull of Heaven]] instead (even though doing so will cause a drought.) She later has her husband Tammuz/Dumuzi [[Dragged Off to Hell]] for cheating on her while [[Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld|she was off trying to conquer the underworld.]]
* The story of the four winds in [[Native American Mythology|Lakota mythology]]. They were all in love with the goddess Wohpe. She chose the South Wind, due to the fact that he wasn't so vocal about it. The North Wind tries to steal her away from his younger brother every winter. It should be noted that the North Wind is represented by the color [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|white]], and the South Wind is represented by the color [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|red]].
* [[Classical Mythology]],
** Persephone turns a girl into a mint plant, and then stamps on her, for daring to flirt with her husband Hades. The weird thing is that Persephone ended up as Hades' wife when Hades ''captured her and forced her into marriage'', so it must take some extreme [[Stockholm Syndrome]] for her to not only grow to love him, but to become ''jealously protective of him.'' To be fair, besides kidnapping and tricking Persephone (a by product of which is causing winter to happen) Hades has never done anything all that bad.
** The most famous example from [[Classical Mythology]] would be Hera, wife of Zeus. Half or more of the myths about her and about the only thing she is remembered for is pursuing horrible vengeance on the lovers of Zeus and their offspring. The worst acts were probable against Lamia and Hercules. Hera either stole or in the worst stories forced Lamia to kill her own children turning her into a monster. The latter she tormented his entire life in one way or another, but the worst would be inflicting madness on him causing him to murder his own family. The 12 Labors that made him famous were ironically for a crime he arguable had no control over. She seemed tolerant of Ganymede, however.
** Only seems: the arguments over Ganymede are [[Values Dissonance|very sexist]], and NSFW too. Highlights can be found online if you are really curious, but it mostly raises the question of [[What Does She See in Him?]]. '''Any''' 'she.'
** Medea of Greek myth killed her kids when Jason left her.
** Ironically, Hera was also the ''victim'' of a Yandere in one story, along with Artemis. The story varies Depending on the Writer (Homer, Virgil, and Ovid have all told versions) but the giant brothers Otus and Ephialtes (collectively called the Aloadae) wanted to storm Mt. Olympus and gain Artemis for Otus and Hera for Ephialtes; strange part is, they seemed capable of doing it. One version claims they built a mountain even bigger than Olympus to lay siege to it, most say Zeus' thunderbolts couldn't hurt them, and most also say they were able to capture Ares and stuff him in a jar for thirteen months. Eventually, Artemis either surrendered to Otus or tried to seduce him in order to free Ares (again, depends on the writer) which made his brother jealous because Hera hadn't even noticed him, and the two fought; Artemis changed herself into a doe and jumped between them (possibly her plan or Apollo's plan the whole time); the Aloadae, not wanting her to get away, threw their spears and simultaneously killed each other, not invulnerable to their own powerful blows.
* [[God]] loves us, but He's quite jealous: It's the [[The Bible|First Commandment.]] And He allowed the entire race of Jews to be enslaved multiple times for worshipping false idols.
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