Yandere/Video Games

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Examples of Yandere characters in Video Games include:

  • In Yandere Simulator you play a type (Possibly type Obsessive[1]) Yandere. However in the spin off game Yandere Clicker, all you do is stab sempai, so that is presumably Possessive. In this promo concept video she kills both her love interest and a rival before killing herself.
  • Alma from the First Encounter Assault Recon games is this toward Beckett to the point that she repeatedly attempts to rape him, and at the end of the game, finally succeeds. What makes this worse is that she cannot understand why Beckett fights her off.
    • Alma definitely counts, given how whenever Beckett is in actual serious danger, she shows up and goes homicidal on whichever poor sod attempted to hurt him.
  • Bloody Mary from Twisted Metal: Black. What's interesting is she doesn't have a specific love, but desperately wants a husband. And by desperate, I mean she stabbed her friend in the stomach on her friends wedding day, then put on her wedding dress and kept it on for two years, bloodstains and all. She's in the contest to get her dream husband, but when he tells her he'll never love her (despite being lobotomized by Calypso), she goes literally Ax Crazy on him, then drives into the sunset to look for her Mr. Right, "even if she has to go through each and every man, one at a time".
  • In many of the Multiple Endings of the H-game School Days, one or more of the girls goes completely over the edge when the lead picks someone else. This doesn't happen all the time, and there are even some harem endings, but the yandere endings are the most famous, especially one involving a saw.
    • The ending to the anime, though, is a straight example: the pregnant Sekai stabs the lead character Makoto to death, and her rival Kotonoha later kills Sekai and cuts a hole in her body to see if she was pregnant at all, then cuts Makoto's head off and leaves with it on a NICE BOAT.
  • In the Visual Novel game Tsukihime, there's a rather chilling example of a less romantically inclined (at first, that can change depending of your choices) Yandere coming completely outta left field the first time you notice it. Spoilered because it will ruin a lot of the Far Side of the Moon stories: I'm talking of course of the seemingly cute and funny meido Kohaku, who underneath her cheery facade has managed to kill all her emotions (effectively becoming an Emotionless Girl), experiments dangerous drugs on people without losing the smile, and is plotting the extermination of the family she's serving because of the abuse she had to go through as a kid. Of course, if you pick her and manage to get her to come to grips with herself, your sister Akiha then goes insane. Apparently insanity can not be destroyed, merely transferred.
    • And then there's Satsuki "Sacchin" Yumizuka. After she becomes a vampire in the Far Side routes, she sucks the blood of the innocent... mostly to survive, but also so that she can understand Shiki's "scary side" and be with him forever. When he refuses, she attempts to make him one of her brainless minions. Yikes.
    • An odd example is Roa, who'd spent so much time devoted to his research, he failed to recognise his own obsession with the White Princess, even as he tricks her into drinking his blood, bonding them forever, and at the same time sending her Axe Crazy, causing her to kill her handlers and giving her the freedom to choose her own life.
    • Pretty much everyone except Shiki, Hisui and maybe Ciel. Arcueid? She's damn scary in Ciel's route. Ciel? She tries to set up a sort of double murder/suicide plot with Shiki, but ummm that's her own route so lets say she mostly copes. She gives up completely with only mild hints of how she feels/her backstory in Arcueid's route. Akiha? Goes from Clingy Jealous Girl throughout the game to as scary as Arcueid in Kohaku's route. Kohaku? The final straw in her utter craziness is Shiki's failure to recognize her as the girl at the window who gave her the ribbon. Roa? The last 800 years of his history and Arcueid's backstory is actually because he loved her. Satsuki? Isn't it sad?
      • Even Shiki isn't safe from being a Yandere—at least, not his Nanaya mode, which actually got off from murdering in the girl who would become the canon victor of their little Love Dodecahedron. It got so bad that, it's very possible that after slaughtering a whole bunch of Dead who were assaulting her, on the grounds that only he may violate her, he actually rapes her (if you choose). Arcueid rationalizes it as him being accidentally caught by her Mystic Eyes of Enchantment, but in reality it's actually a last minute dialing down from outright murder.
  • Princess Sapphire Rhodonite from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice quickly takes a liking towards Almaz, Mao's bitch "test subject." Almaz doesn't mind much, seeing as he's always had a crush on her (and because it's the only remotely good thing that happens to him), but let's just say she has very interesting ways of trying to help him out of his predicament. Fortunately, Almaz himself is usually safe from her violence-happy ideas. Usually.

Sapphire: Of course, I might've just gone back to slash you to pieces to vent my anger. You saved your own life. Heehee <3!

    • There's also Anise the cat witch.
  • Oichi from Sengoku Basara ends up as a Yandere in her Story Mode, but not because her husband Nagamasa was cheating on someone. Because he was KILLED in cold blood. Then, she slowly (and tragically) transforms from a meek woman into a dark monster (in other words: slowly possessed by her own dark powers), and ends up killing her husband's killer, her brother Oda Nobunaga (a certified SOB) as well as all his subordinates. Then, after all those tragic trips and realizing the atrocities she has caused, she got killed as she cried in agony.
  • In Under the Moon, an eroge for girls (You read that right), there's two routes for each character. One is called the "pure love" route, which is typical romance novel fare with fluffy sex scenes, and there's a route called the "love/hate" route, where the boys are yandere. They're possessive of you and occasionally rape you. Ironically, one of the boys, has everything reversed, he's a jerkass yandere in the pure love route but more sweet and loving in the love/hate route.
  • Occasionally, the fandom of Touhou portrays Alice as this, going beyond the usual Tsundere portrayal into seriously creepy territory. Highlights include attempting to put Marisa's soul into a doll to keep her forver.
    • Then there's Flandre, who loves to "play" with Marisa. And Meiling. And Remilia. And anyone else she "likes", really.
      • Koishi is this as well to a lesser extent, but more towards Satori and the character who defeats her in SA's Extra stage.
    • 'Occasionally'? There's almost not a single character fans haven't reimagined in Yandere mode—a search on pixiv with the keywords 'Touhou' and 'Yandere' generates 600 images worth of crazy.
      • Yuka Kazami is often portrayed as Yandere for flowers.
    • Debatably the backstory for Parsee. The bridge princess youkai is the eternally-jealous spirit of a noblewoman who had a rather dire response to her husband's philandering, and was cursed into a demon for it.
  • GLaDOS from Portal is an unusual case in that her primary goal is to chase Chell through a death maze and gets rather upset when she manages to escape. At the same time, she seems to have an unhealthy obsession with her captive.
    • Wheatley from Portal 2 might count, especially in the Final Battle. All his ranting is basically him being angry about Chell apparently choosing GLaDOS over him.
  • In Yoshine's route in Brass Restoration, Koutarou verges on this.
    • Yoshine herself has some slight tendencies, doing things such as putting a threatening note in the front seat of the taxi to make sure her Ryo sits with her in the back, strapping him down in the nurse's office and undressing him while he asks her to stop, and attempting to drug and kidnapped him near the end of her route.
  • The Updated Rerelease of Yggdra Union has #367, a Shrinking Violet Extreme Doormat test subject, who's Cute and Psycho rather than a yandere. She's meek, submissive, shy, and uncertain... until the High Servant jacks her synchronization with her synthetic Diviner, putting her body and mind under intense stress. Instant Ax Crazy. Truly, With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
  • Really Ryez from Twinkle Star Sprites is yandere for Arthur Schmitt. Her favorite word is onore.
  • Sakura of Da Capo is very, very dere towards Junichi but as the story continues, psycho personality traits emerge more and more frequently, starting with the implication she dropped a tree branch on someone's head because they mistook her for the lead's younger sister and treated her like a kid. She gets worse, both in back and main story. To be fair, she can't really help it as stuff just happens when she thinks about it.
  • Mitsuru from Persona 3 has a particular Stalker with a Crush with overt Yandere tendencies. This girl stands outside the assembly room for the Student Council (of which Mitsuru is president) all day, is obsessed with everything Mitsuru does, threatens to kill you if you don't cough up swimsuit pictures of her after the Beach Episode, and innocently asks if members of the Student Council would be replaced if... something were to happen to one of them. Oh, and upon learning Mitsuru rides a motorcycle, she says she would be thrilled to be run over by those "burning wheels of LOVE!"
    • To a certain extend, in Persona 3 FES, in The Answer, Yukari who is established as having fallen for the deceased main character says without hesitation that she will struggle the magical keys from her friends (without visible concern for their health) when she realizes she has a chance to go back in time to try and save said main character, although it implies having to face the final boss again. She breaks down when finally defeated. Having this new facet of her personality suddenly revealed, along with the excellent voice acting she gets, might arduably result in the creepiest moments in both the Answer and the main game.
    • In Persona 4, there's an NPC outside the library who has a crush on an upperclassman. When she suspects that he has a girlfriend, she snaps at him and drives him away. Towards the end of the game, she places all the blame on the other girl and even tries to kill her through indirect poisoning.
    • An earlier Persona example, Persona 2, has Jun Kurosu. While it's not particularly touched upon in the main game, the drama CD turns him into an absolute psychopath over Tatsuya, to the point where even a friend having slightly better compatibility with him via horoscope is enough to send him into a total meltdown. ...The creepy voice acting throughout the track (plus the humming and laughing) is enough to scare anyone for weeks.
  • Mithos of Tales of Symphonia probably counts- his love for his sister Martel drove him to attempt to eradicate the entirety of the human, elven, and half-elven races by turning them into sterile, immortal, and emotionless zombies because his sister was killed because of Fantastic Racism. He snaps when Martel is briefly revived and tells him that this isn't what she wanted, and tells him her last wish is for him to stop it- he misinterprets it as she and he are Too Good for This Sinful Earth and both worlds should be flat-out destroyed. If anybody tries to tell him he's wrong, or says anything that could even be severely twisted around as being bad about his sister, he will kill you. Damn.
  • Dragon Quest VII has Kaya, a cheerful maid who's fallen in love with her rich employer's son, Iwan. Unfortunately, they're also caught up in a complex Love Dodecahedron... While Kaya initially comes off as the only one who isn't Wangsting and/or being an unhelpful Jerkass, instead working towards a solution, towards the end, she cracks a joke about poisoning everyone in town. While everyone is eating at a feast she prepared. Later on, you find out she wasn't joking about poisoning people, though she's narrowed her focus to a single target: her husband.
  • Jin Kisaragi is another male example, and dangerously skirt with Cute and Psycho. Any moment he's mentioned about his brother Ragna the Bloodedge, he drops all his cool exterior and goes Ho Yay to the max 'Oh brother...~' and expresses his 'love' by trying to kill him. Then there's the final boss Nu-13, who is usually robotic with everyone else, but if she meets Ragna, she also becomes a crazed lovestruck and tried to have him and when Ragna refused, she attempts to kill him. Then you realize that Nu is based on Ragna's sister. God, it sucks to be Ragna!
    • And when Nu and Jin meet, and Nu loses, well...

Jin: You're never going to touch my brother again, you bitch! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

    • And you think he's bad, wait until you see Jin's female Love Interest Tsubaki Yayoi. She's crazy about him, and not in a good way. She attempts to kill Noel and even Jin himself because she is led to believe that Noel stole away her chance to be with Jin. This case of Love Makes You Crazy eventually becomes a case of Love Makes You Evil, prompting her Face Heel Turn. Also, in the Wheel Of Fortune story, when she sees Saya happily playing with a younger Jin, she goes batshit insane, screaming at her to get away from Jin. The thing is, she was presented as a fairly sane and level-headed person in Calamity Trigger.
  • Happens in Mitadake High. Like one time where the Yandere turned out to be the killer. "If I can't have you no-one can" does not BEGIN to describe what happened.
  • Catalina of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, particularly as she starts getting closer to C.J. As if she weren't already crazy enough.
  • Sasha of In Famous, the leader of the Reapers and the first Super Villain you fight is obsessed with Cole, whispering maniacal pleads for his love into his mind when he comes into contact with the sludge she controls. It might have something to do with the fact that she was Kessler's former lover and Cole is actually an Alternate Universe version of Kessler.

Why, Kessler? Why do you love her? I'll kill her, I swear it! I'll wear her skin like a robe!

  • Nuwangi in Utawarerumono. Sure, he is also an arrogant Jerkass, but most of what he does is out of either desire for Eruruw or wanting to destroy Hakuoro. It's hinted from time to time that if the situation weren't what it was he wouldn't be as much of an ass. He's definitely not happy about what happens to Tuskuru.
  • In the Nancy Drew game Stay Tuned For Danger, the culprit is the rare male variety in the form of Dwayne Powers, whose motive for sending death threats to, and trying to kill, Rick Arlen comes directly from Rick dating the actress Dwayne is secretly in love with.
  • Depending on the ending you get, Maria/Mary in Silent Hill 2. It doesn't get much more Yandere than going One-Winged Angel and becoming the Final Boss because the target of your obsession rejects you.
  • Rachel, in the Sci-Fi Chapter of Live a Live. She snaps after Kirk, her boyfriend, dies and she carries his body to her room and acts as if he is sleeping. It's easily one of the creepiest scenes in that chapter, let alone the game itself.
  • The StarCraft novel series The Dark Templar Saga suggests a similar relationship with the protoss being Yandere towards the xel'naga. After the xel'naga abandoned them, the tribes engaged in the biggest civil war the galaxy had ever known, killing each other because each held the others responsible for driving the xel'naga away. Many also hated the xel'naga for abandoning them... No surprise these became the Scary Dogmatic Aliens of the setting.
  • Irisu Kyouko won't let anyone get in the way between her and her soulmate Ujishima. Especially not dirty thief cats.
  • Kimmy Howell in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. She's a bit more up front than most Yandere, though; she's a Fan Girl of the main character, and cheerfully explains in a love letter that she's going to make sure he never dates another woman by killing him and taking his head as a trophy.
    • Mimmy is also this towards Henry, not allowing him to wake up so she can stay with him forever, even threatening to kill him when he suggests that they can live together in the real world. Since she is mostly a creation of Henry's mind, however, and technically not real, it is kind of obvious.
  • Clara from Skies of Arcadia toward Gilder, though she is a very benign, Played for Laughs example.
  • Bigeu of RPG-classic Seiken Densetsu 3.
  • Shin Megami Tensei has Yuriko. She goes so far as to not just hunt down the supporting cast, but everyone else with her name, just so she can be with the Main Character. It does not work.
    • As if that weren't creepy enough, Yuriko is also revealed to be Lilith, the Mother of Demons. She wants The Hero to sire a new race of demons with her.
    • Say hello to Alice. Actually, she's not the real Alice. Her adoptive parents, the Count in Red and the Baron in Black, are actually Belial and Nebiros. Funny thing is, she's still mentally a young girl who wants to do normal things like go to school and get lots of friends. The problem is her "revival" gave her magic. Lots and lots of dark magic. Along with eroding her sense of why it's not a particularly good idea to torture, kill and eat your friends for fun.
  • Lezard Valeth from Valkyrie Profile. When he first meet him, he kidnaps an elf girl who kill her and intertwine her genetic make-up with a human girl's to create a half-elf vessel for the main character, then uses his former teacher and her husband as bait by transforming the man into a monster and have him kill his wife. Then in the second game, he time travels and wreaks havoc with the timeline, kills so many people that it borders on genecide, and all just to get into Lenneth's panties.
    • No question, he's completely insane. But there's absolutely no point that he genuinely appears nice faking it during Silmeria doesn't count. Stalker with a Crush to the Nth degree, but Yandere could be considered a stretch.
  • Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories: Riku Replica goes absolutely apeshit if he thinks you'll get between him and Namine. Also, Marluxia's plan was to brainwash Sora into one of these for Namine, hereby turning him into a pawn to take over the Organization. It almost works, and even after Sora and Riku Replica learn they were brainwashed, this doesn't effect their feelings much. (Namine ended up having to wipe Sora's memories of her to get him to recover.)
    • Replica meets his end trying to kill Riku for going to find Namine when Namine was trying to arrange a meeting with Riku (to explain Sora's situation to him).
  • Limit Panic, a yuri visual novel where both of the potential girls are this.
  • While many characters in Rule of Rose fit the bill, no one suits the trope better than Wendy, who kills Jennifer's dog Brown because she thinks that she likes him more than her, and when Jennifer reacts badly, she trains the neighborhood psycho to murder everybody.
  • Tira from Soul Calibur, Nightmare's very Perky Female Minion Dragon. She is a Psycho Supporter of his who explicitly wants to become one with Soul Edge, the Evil Weapon that the entire story revolves around. This gets a lampshade hung over it in the Gauntlet (a humorous, non-canon story from Broken Destiny, the PSP port of IV), where she functions as Nightmare's unwanted Stalker with a Crush and wants him to eat her and destroy the world, saying that she'll kill anyone who gets in the way of her love.
  • A possible interpretation for Alvis of Velthomer, then Emperor Alvis of Grandbell from the Fire Emblem Jugdral games. Granted, he was already pretty fucked up from childhood due to being abandoned by his mother Cigyun when he was seven years old, but the scene towards the end of the first part in which he shows off his new wife Diadora to her original husband Sigurd before pining the crime of high treason on him and burning him to death with his Falaflame magical tome is pretty easy to interpretate as him being Yandere for her.
    • In the second part of the game we have Prince Yurius of Velthomer who happens to be Alvis and Diadora's son. The only person he shows affection to is his girlfriend, the local Dark Magical Girl Ishtar, and when he finds out that her bodyguard Reinhardt seems to be a liiiiiiittle too close to her for his comfort, Yurius forces Ishtar to fire him under the threat of killing him the next time he sees them together. To be fair, Yurius has been the Soul Jar for the evil god Lopto for a while already when that happens, therefore we don't know if he's a Yandere per se or because of Lopto.
  • Valter the Moonstone from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is already an Ax Crazy Complete Monster, but his obsession with Princess Eirika places him squarely into this trope as well.
  • Ilya from Fate/stay night is both Possessive and Obsessive on the main protagonist, specially when you refuse to become her living doll/familiar, openly saying she is going to kill Saber and Rin, and to kill the protagonist in the most painful way imaginable.
    • Gameplaywise, Shadow Sakura is a bit of a Yandere. If you ever talk to another of the female main characters when you have the option to talk to her, you have basically guaranteed yourself a shadow-related death.
  • Adele from Arc Rise Fantasia does not take the discovery that she was the hero's Unlucky Childhood Friend very well. She goes from a soft-spoken, shy, loyal Yamato Nadeshiko White Magician Girl to the brash, sultry, manipulative high priestess of a Religion of Evil (a religion the hero was opposing, naturally) so fast, her neural pathways almost certainly have skid marks.
  • Bowser from the Super Mario Bros. series games is actually this to Peach, which explains why he always kidnaps her in the first place.
  • The Tokimeki Memorial Dating Sims used to be Yandere-free... until TM 4 brought us the "childhood friend" and Secret Character of the game, Miyako Okura. See some images here.
  • Both Catherine and Katherine are both in love with Vincent, and Catherine outright states that she'll kill him or any girl.
  • Planescape: Torment has one in Ravel Puzzlewell, who refuses to let her love leave her a second time when he comes to visit...

Ravel Puzzlewell: "I shall NOT let you leave — I have the power to KEEP you here, and I shall USE it. My black-barbed maze shall NOT allow you to travel beyond it while I LIVE, my precious, precious man..."

  • Charlie in Shikkoku no Sharnoth. Apparently, she couldn't bear the thought of parting from Mary someday in the future and thus knowingly meddles with Sharnoth, nearly causing absolute catastrophe and Mary's death at numerous points.
  • Another male example is Anton Herzen from Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. He waited years in a mansion for the return of his fiancée and when he finally sees someone who looks exactly like her (for good reason), he goes completely mad and tries to kill Layton because he thinks his long-awaited fiancée has been cheating on him. He got better, thankfully.
  • Miou in A Profile, though it's played for sympathy more than scary. It also appears to be part of a Zero-Approval Gambit out of self loathing.
  • Aeka from Yume Miru Kusuri is a horribly, horribly justified example (not to mention a sympathetic one-and by "sympathetic", we mean "begging you to reach through the screen and hug her every other scene she's in"). Seriously, nothing in the poor girl's life has gone right until she met Kouhei in her route. Already with two of the worst Abusive Parents in fiction, she was singled out for psychotic bullying by Kyouka simply because her Jerk Jock boyfriend made a passing flirt. By the time Kouhei arrives, she's been nearly Driven to Suicide-and actually makes an attempt if you don't pursue her route-by the endless string of misery that is her life, and she eventually admits she latched onto Kouhei so someone could pay attention to her-not love, just attention. It should also be noted that, unlike most Yanderes, she doesn't even snap at a perceived betrayal or romantic rival-no, that was when aforementioned Jerk Jock tried to rape her while Kyouka and her Girl Posse held her down while Kouhei was Forced to Watch. It's at that point that Kouhei flies into an Unstoppable Rage, frees her, knocks out her wannabe rapist, and steals a knife with which to hold Kyouka hostage. By that point, you were probably cheering as Aeka proceeded to talk about killing her tormenter in the worst way possible.
  • Camos O. Laphroaig of the Hell Hounds in Galaxy Angel is a Yandere toward Milfeulle, he always calls her honey and somehow hopes his actions (including trying to shoot her down) will win her over. He finally croses over to true Yandere territory when he's taken over by the black moon.
  • Zareh from Frozen Essence becomes this if you reject him on his path. More specifically, he seals Mina's powers away and keeps her as a virtual prisoner in her bedroom to prevent her from leaving him.
  • Lucan from (P)lanets is easily the nicest guy in the game, and adorably bashful to boot. However, it turns out there's a reason for him being the only love interest Marin can get a bad ending with. Namely, he's so fearful of being alone that he unconsciously brainwashed the girls around him with his Mind Control power into becoming obsessed with him. He didn't intend to do this, but if Marin rejects him when she learns about this, he intentionally uses his power to brainwash her into mindlessly loving him. Beware the Nice Ones, indeed.
  • Hatoful Boyfriend, of all things, has this in the "Bad Boys Love" route. Kazuaki turns out to be a foster-brother of Nageki, who had committed suicide some five years before. Upon learning that parts of Nageki were transplanted into Ryouta, Kazuaki borrows a scalpel and starts muttering that he needs to take Nageki home now...
  • In Tales of the Abyss, Dist the Reaper is in the aftermath stage of this trope. As a child, he was clingy and obsessive over Jade, always wanting to remain at his side - when Jade finally rejected him once and for all, he became the raging, narcissistic person we see in the game, now obsessed with taking revenge on Jade instead.
  • Tales of Graces has King Richard, whose affection for his friends makes him resist the influence of the Eldritch Abomination - until it learns to manipulate his feelings into something disturbingly possessive. When his friends inevitably reject what he's become, he predictably goes berserk and you have a boss fight on your hands.
  • The Boss from Saints Row: The Third can be one to Pierce, if you choose the Eastern European Female voice set. While probably not the jealous type (No one else is ever seen making a pass at Pierce , so it can't be said of whether or not she actually is) she frequently makes it clear that she has a thing for him,ranging from wondering if she can get cameras installed in his room, considering sending him a sex machine from "a secret admirer," and finally admitting to wanting to make love to him in front of a live studio audience. If this doesn't seem crazy enough, bear in mind that this is the same woman who drove a tank out of the back of a crashing plane, parachuted into a penthouse party and immediately proceeded to kill everyone in sight, and has a murder record on her that runs into the thousands.
  • Yukkuri Panic Escalation: Both rival Midori and ojou Naomi can be very scary versions of this, and even the player's character Rie has a few shades of this.
  • Saiko No Sutoka is an Indy Survival Horror game where the protagonist is the object of the Yandere's affection; the game starts with the Yandere having captured him, and the objective being to escape. In an odd twist on the theme, if the player survives to about halfway to the goal, the Yandere girlfriend has a brief few minutes of lucidity (brief, mind you) giving the player a healing item (the only healing item in the game) and pleading for him to run for his life. It's available on Steam and has overwhelmingly positive reviews, so download it, if you dare...
  • Doki Doki Literature Club! is, despite initial appearances, not the typical Dating Sim, as one of the girls has Medium Awareness and tries to murder the other girls in order to have the player for herself. While Monika is the killer and the most dangerous Yandere, she turns Yuri into one too via Mind Rape, and should you get the default ending, Sayori might become one too.
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  1. ↑ you don't HAVE to Kill your rivals to win.
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