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* Alma from the ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon]]'' games is this toward Beckett to the point that she repeatedly {{spoiler|attempts to rape him}}, and at the end of the game, {{spoiler|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.

** An odd example is {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|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? {{spoiler|She's damn scary in Ciel's route.}} Ciel? {{spoiler|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? {{spoiler|Goes from [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] throughout the game to as scary as Arcueid in Kohaku's route.}} Kohaku? {{spoiler|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? {{spoiler|The last 800 years of his history and [[Love Makes You Evil|Arcueid's backstory]] is actually because he [[Love Makes You Crazy|loved]] her.}} Satsuki? Isn't it sad?

* Princess Sapphire Rhodonite from ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' quickly takes a liking towards Almaz, Mao's <s>bitch</s> "test subject." Almaz doesn't mind much, seeing as he's always had a crush on her (and because [[Chew Toy|it's the only remotely good thing that happens to him]]), but let's just say she has [[Poisonous Friend|very interesting ways]] of trying to help him out of his predicament. Fortunately, Almaz himself is usually safe from her [[Violently Protective Girlfriend|violence-happy]] ideas. Usually.

{{quote|'''Sapphire:''' Of course, I might've just gone back to slash you to pieces to vent my anger. You saved your own life. Heehee [[Say It with Hearts|<3]]!}}

** Then there's [[Cheerful Child|Flan]][[Person of Mass Destruction|dre]], 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.

*** Yuka Kazami is often portrayed as Yandere for flowers.

** Debatably the backstory for [[Green-Eyed Monster|Parsee]]. The bridge princess youkai is the eternally-jealous spirit of a noblewoman who had a [[Death by Woman Scorned|rather dire response]] to her husband's philandering, and was cursed into a demon for it.

* In Yoshine's route in ''[[Brass Restoration]]'', {{spoiler|Koutarou}} verges on this.

** {{spoiler|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.}}

* Really Ryez from ''[[Twinkle Star Sprites]]'' is yandere for Arthur Schmitt. Her favorite word is ''[[Japanese Pronouns|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 [[Beware the Nice Ones|back]] and [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|main]] [[Murder the Hypotenuse|story.]] {{spoiler|To be fair, she can't really help it as stuff just ''happens'' when she thinks about it.}}

** To a certain extend, in ''[[Persona 3]]'' FES, in The Answer, {{spoiler|Yukari}} who is established as having fallen for {{spoiler|the deceased main character}} says without hesitation that she will struggle the {{spoiler|magical keys}} from her friends (without visible concern for their health) when she realizes {{spoiler|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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGLU7bNo9M creepy voice acting] throughout the track (plus the humming and laughing) is enough to scare anyone for weeks.

* {{spoiler|Mithos}} of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' probably counts- his love for his sister {{spoiler|Martel}} drove him to {{spoiler|attempt to eradicate the entirety of the human, elven, and half-elven races by turning them into sterile, immortal, and emotionless [[Uncanny Valley|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.''

** And when Nu and Jin meet, and Nu loses, well...

{{quote|Jin: '''You're never going to touch my brother again, you bitch! [[Laughing Mad|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. {{spoiler|She attempts to [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kill Noel]] and even ''[[If I Can't Have You|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.

* Sasha of ''[[Infamous (video game series)|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 {{spoiler|she was [[Big Bad|Kessler's]] former lover and Cole is actually an [[Alternate Universe]] version of Kessler.}}

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

* Depending on the ending you get, Maria{{spoiler|/Mary}} in ''[[Silent Hill]] 2''. It doesn't get much more Yandere than {{spoiler|going [[One-Winged Angel]] and becoming the [[Final Boss]]}} because the target of your obsession rejects you.

* {{spoiler|Rachel, in the Sci-Fi Chapter}} of ''[[Live a Live]]''. She snaps after {{spoiler|Kirk, her boyfriend, dies}} and {{spoiler|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.

* [[Irisu Syndrome|Irisu Kyouko]] won't let anyone get in the way between her and her soulmate Ujishima. [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Especially not dirty thief cats.]]

** {{spoiler|The catch? Ujishima [[Death Seeker|wants to die at Irisu's hands]]. He thinks he would be even happier if [[Together in Death|Irisu died afterward.]] [[Batman Gambit|And he's willing to manipulate Irisu to do it.]]}}

** Say hello to [[Alice Allusion|Alice]]. [[Came Back Wrong|Actually]], [[Dark Magical Girl|she's]] not the real [[Creepy Child|Alice]]. Her adoptive parents, the [[Those Two Bad Guys|Count in Red and the Baron in Black]], are actually [[Ars Goetia|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 "[[Damaged Soul|revival]]" gave her magic. [[Casting a Shadow|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, {{spoiler|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 [[Lady of War|main character]], then uses his former teacher and her husband as bait by [[Body Horror|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.}}

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories]]'': [[Artificial Human|Riku Replica]] goes absolutely apeshit if he thinks you'll get between him and Namine. Also, [[The Starscream|Marluxia's]] plan was to brainwash [[The Hero|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).

* While many characters in ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' fit the bill, no one suits the trope better than {{spoiler|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 ''[[Genki Girl|very]]'' [[Perky Female Minion]] [[The Dragon|Dragon]]. She is a [[Psycho Supporter]] [[Undying Loyalty|of his]] [[Mad Love|who explicitly wants]] [[Cargo Ship|to become one with]] [[Artifact of Doom|Soul]] [[The Corruption|Edge]], the [[Evil Weapon]] that the entire story revolves around. This gets [[Lampshade Hanging|a lampshade hung over it]] in the Gauntlet (a [[Rule of Funny|humorous]], [[Canon Discontinuity|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 [[Devour the Dragon|eat her]] and destroy the world, saying that she'll kill anyone who gets in the way of her love.

** In the second part of the game we have Prince Yurius of Velthomer {{spoiler|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, {{spoiler|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.}}

* Ilya from [[Fate/stay night]] is both Possessive and Obsessive on the main protagonist, specially when you {{spoiler|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}}.

* {{spoiler|Adele}} from [[Arc Rise Fantasia]] {{spoiler|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.}}

* [[Big Bad|Bowser]] from the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series games is actually this to Peach, which explains why he always kidnaps her in the first place.

* 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 {{spoiler|Ravel Puzzlewell}}, who refuses to let her love leave her a second time when he comes to visit...

* ''[[Tales of Graces]]'' has {{spoiler|King Richard}}, whose [[Ho Yay|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|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.