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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Guys always blame the girl when they can't keep their [[The Beatles|little band]] together."''
|'''[[Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure|Agent 355]]''', ''[[Y: The Last Man|Y the Last Man]]''}}
Basically [[Die for Our Ship]], but aimed at a [[Real Life]] love interest of a celebrity or other public figure. She ([[Always Female|and it almost always will be a woman]]) is hated by most of the fan base for "stealing him away from them", despite the painfully large probability that the fans have no hope of ever hooking up with him. [[From Bad to Worse|The hate only intensifies if she happens to outlive him.]]
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Related to [[Dungeonmaster's Girlfriend]], if the love interest and the rest of the band don't see eye-to-eye. [[Sister Trope]] to [[Apple of Discord]], [[Parent with New Paramour]], and [[Friend Versus Lover]]. For the exact opposite, see [[Creator Couple]] and [[Contractual Purity]]. If you were thinking of [[Gurren Lagann|another Yoko]], see [[Last Kiss]].
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* A lot of [[Shoujo]] and [[Josei]] series involve the new girl catching the eye of the resident hottie, causing all the other girls to get enraged and gang up on her. Jesus, and you wonder why the resident hottie opted to stay single. Who'd want to go out with any of those crazy bitches?
** In ''[[Sensual Phrase]]'', Aucifer songwriter and lead singer [[Bastard Boyfriend|Sakuya]]'s girlfriend [[Shrinking Violet|Aine]] has to deal with overzealous, whiny and sometimes downright ''violent'' fangirls more than once. Once she befriended a girl named Sakura, only to be dumped by her new "friend" once she learnt that she was dating Sakuya. {{spoiler|Sakura later gets to briefly date Sakuya... but then we learn it's a [[Batman Gambit]] from him, since he wants to "punish" Sakura for taking Aine's friendship ''and'' position for granted.}}
** Miyako Sakuragawa from ''[[Private Prince]]'' got to meet up with Prince Wilfred in a high-class party that her friend Chiri smuggled her in. The next day, a bunch of bitchy girls were already on her case, and Wilfred's valet Robert had to bail her out.
** In [[Peach Girl]], Momo got attacked (and her locket with a picture of her crush ''smashed'') by a bunch of Kairi fangirls. She had just had a very short, ''and antagonistic'', conversation with the guy and they are warning her to "stay away from our man". So, if the fangirls had paid attention to what was said in that convo or actually looked at the locket before breaking it, they'd have realized Momo was not interested in Kairi at that point.
** In [[Lovely Complex]], Risa Koizumi is attacked by a girl named Mimi due to her closeness to the basketball captain Ootani, whom [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Mimi]] has her heart set on. Mimi goes as far as ''almost stabing Risa in the hand with a pen'' out of jealousy. Fortunately, she later gives up on it.
* ''[[Haunted Junction]]'' has a case like this in the beginning. A female ghost attempts repeatedly to [[Grand Theft Me|possess Kazumi]] to spend a whole night with her boyfriend... Turns out that said boyfriend was a rising rock singer and, the night she died, the poor girl was running away from [[Girl Posse|three rabid fangirls]] who had been bullying her for dating him, getting accidentally hit by a drunk driver in the middle of her escape. {{spoiler|They get their asses ''literally'' kicked by the Ghost Giant (who punishes meddlers like that among Saitou High students), and the girl is reunited with the BF without needing to possess Kazumi.}}
* In the anime ''Love Love'', Naoko got seduced by Natsumi due to the fact he was a scriptwriter, when it was time that she realized she actually loved him. Both got in trouble after they attempted to have sex at a love hotel
* In ''[[The Legend of Black Heaven]]'', Oji's wife Yoshiko (or "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Yokko]]"), a groupie of the metal band Oji fronted in his glory days, is broadly hinted to have caused the breakup of the band by conceiving Oji's son Gen. Yoshiko is largely hostile and unsupportive when Oji takes up the guitar again {{spoiler|to the point of moving out of their house and ''filing for divorce'' when Oji won't quit the band.}}
* In ''[[Durarara!!]]!!'', {{spoiler|Izaya's younger sister Mairu}} has a brief [[Heroic BSOD]] when she reads in a tabloid that her favorite actor {{spoiler|(Shizuo's brother Kasuka)}} might have a relationship with [[Idol Singer]] Ruri Hijiribe.
* Basically the plot of [[Nana]]; Nana O is perceived as this due to her relationship with Ren, with far-reaching effects on her life and career.
* In ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]'', three girls who were dumped by resident hottie Kanba Takakura (Asami, Yui and Chizuru) form a club named "Heart-Broken Victims of Takakura Kanba Assocation". As such, Yui and Chizuru corner Kanba at some point, asking him if he has a new girlfriend or a girl has taken their places in his heart. {{spoiler|Then, [[Action Girl]] Masako then shows up and wipes their memories away... just like she did to an hospitalized Asami right beforehand.}}
** Averted in the case of the in-story famous Takarazuka actress Yuri Tokikago, who is dating Kanba and Shoma's teacher Keiju Tabuki and hasn't had problems coming from fans as far as the story shows. {{spoiler|This doesn't change when they get engaged, Yuri retires from acting and Tabuki moves into her [[Big Fancy House]]. The only one really objecting is Ringo... and well, [[Yandere|this]] ''[[Precocious Crush|is]]'' [[Strange Girl|Ringo]] we're talking about. And she later stops objecting anyway.}}
* In ''[[The World Only God Knows]]'', when popular idol Kanon publicly confesses to Keima, several of her fanboys are not pleased.
* [[Zetsuai 1989]]: Koji's announcement that he's in love with [[Yaoi Guys|Izumi]] doesn't go over very well with his fans. {{spoiler|[[Especially Zoidberg|Especially]] [[Yandere|the already unstable Eri]].}}
* In ''[[Bakuman｡]]'', when it comes out that {{spoiler|Azuki, now a very popular voice actress, is dating the main character, Mashiro}}, there is a massive amount of fan rage and [[Internet Backdraft]].
== Comic Books ==
* An early issue of ''[[Grim Jack]]'' had him trying to protect a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] [[Expy]] of [[John Lennon]]. In the end, he finds out too late that the stalker's target was the wife, not the musician as everybody had assumed. The killer had blamed her for 'ruining' her husband... but her death resulted in him quiting singing and music all together.
== Fan Works ==
* The Moaning Myrtles, a Wizard Rock<ref>band that writes music about Harry Potter</ref> band, plays Myrtle's crush on Harry for laughs and wrote a song about Cho called "Choko Ono"
== Film ==
* David St. Hubbins' girlfriend from ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'', Jeanine Pettibone. She's intended as a parody of Yoko Ono, naturally.
* Emily Wang in ''[[Clean]]'' gets blamed for the fall into obscurity and drug-related death of her boyfriend, a former rock star.
* A smaller-scale example; in the British romantic comedy ''Confetti'', one of the main characters is in a low-level rock band. He's getting married, and his best friend / bandmate has taken to writing songs which are thinly veiled rants about how much of a bitch he thinks the main character's fiancee is and how she's breaking up the band and splitting them apart. She is, however, a perfectly lovely and sweet woman, but is savvy enough to get the references to her in his music and does not appreciate them.
* ''America's Sweethearts'' is one huge parody of this trope. [[John Cusack]] and [[Catherine Zeta Jones|Catherine Zeta-Jones]] play a real-life Hollywood couple that have made several romantic comedies together. But when they break up prior to the release of their latest movie, interest in the film plummets, so the studio's promotion team tries to make it look like they're getting back together so the fans and press will care again.
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' book ''Legends of the Ferengi'', one of the stories recounts how the popular Ferengi music group "Success" broke up after Grymi Success skipped the Isle of Grubs music festival to spend the evening in a tube grub sack with his wife, a Bolian performance artist named Pino.
* In the ''[[Confessions of Georgia Nicolson]]'' series, Georgia considers this trope the reason why Robbie's bandmates dislike her.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* A late fourth-season episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is called "The Yoko Factor". The Yoko in this case is an actively malicious one—Spike, who can see a conflict brewing among the Scoobies, and pushes just the right buttons to set it off. Notably, Spike himself notes to Adam during the episode that Yoko, for all she got blamed, didn't break up the Beatles; it was internal strife, much as he wasn't so much the cause of the Scoobies' breakup, just the catalyst that (deliberately) brought their grievances into plain view. This example, however, is a subversion—while the Scoobies do have a vicious argument and falling out thanks largely to Spike's prodding, when tempers have cooled a bit they're savvy enough to realise that Spike's been manipulating them, approach either other more calmly about their recent tensions, and mend bridges.
** In that same arc, Riley's friend Forrest views Buffy as the Yoko (with the Beatles represened by the Initiative).
*** Spike in turn, along with Riley Finn, served as Yoko Oh No to Angel/Buffy shippers who were furious that the relationship between the two characters was effectively ended due to Angel being spun off into his own series. Spike in particular gets blamed a lot, as the writers fleshed out Spike's character and made him more sympathetic to the audience. [[Badass Decay|Some fans preferred the older characterization.]]
* Shawn Ryan created his own personal Yoko Oh No plot device on ''[[The Shield]]'' in the form of Mara, Shane Vendrell's girlfriend and ultimately wife. Introduced at the start of the third season without bothering to show how she and Shane hooked up, Mara instantly shattered the loyalty of the members of the Strike Team with her existence, ultimately causing the group to break apart and to put Shane and Vic Mackey at bitter odds with each other. On the other hand, Mara is routinely written as being the [[Only Sane Man|only character]] who knows full well the true dark nature of the Strike Team and their crimes, and as such, reacts to their insane illegal/morally unethical schemes in a sensible fashion. Unfortunately, this in turn led to Shane Vendrell murdering his best friend, Detective Curtis "Lem" Lemanski, due to Mara lecturing Shane earlier in the season that he needed to put his family ahead of protecting Lem and his friends in the Strike Team, much to the horror of fans of the Lem/Shane slash pairings. {{spoiler|Ultimately, Shane ''kills'' Mara and their child, starting the chain of events that brings the [[Downer Ending]] on.}}.
* Coco from ''[[Flight of the Conchords]]'' is a parody/lampshade of the Yoko effect. She's perfectly nice, but Jemaine insists that she'll break up the band.
* Alluded to in ''[[That '70s Show]]''. When Eric and Donna find out that Hyde and Jackie are dating [[Your Cheating Heart|behind Kelso's back]] (to be fair, Kelso ''did'' run out on her for a while), Eric freaks out over the effect of the deal in their common friendship and tells Jackie "You'll be breaking up the band, Yoko!"
** Earlier, in the episode "The Third Wheel", he also calls Hyde's [[Girl of the Week]] Yoko ("What? We're kind of the Beatles.")
* John's Yoko is the [[Trope Namer]], but the exact words "Yoko Oh No" were spoken in the ''[[All That]]'' sketch "C.J. and the Cloudy Knights", where one of the Cloudy Knights has a girlfriend named Yoko who threatens to leave him if he doesn't become the lead singer.
** This exact phrase was uttered by Bubble in "Absolutely Fabulous"
** As well as Robert Wuhl in an HBO stand-up comedy routine.
** It was also the title of a ''[[California Dreams]]'' episode.
* Nina from ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' forced her boyfriend of the week (Huey Lewis) to quit his air band (he came back). She also broke up The Jackson Six. [[Historical In-Joke|Yes, there were six]].
* On ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', Jack almost married a manipulative, vampy [[Gold Digger]]. She defended her actions thus:
{{quote|'''Phoebe''': [[Alternate Character Interpretation|You know how John Lennon was better than the rest of the Beatles but he didn't realize it until he met Yoko Ono?]] Well, I'm Jack's Yoko.
'''Liz''': You ''want'' to be Yoko? }}
* Israeli sitcom ''The Foxes'', revolving around a group of friends making a poor quality horror series on [[YouTube]], made an [[Captain Ersatz|ersatz]] Yoko girlfriend for the group writer and director [[Fail Mc Suckyname|Schmuckler]]. Her skin had a rather dark complexion and her eyes were always covered by sunglasses (to let the audience believe she was Asian). She frequently meddled with the production, whispering ‘suggestions’ to Schmuckler ([[Does This Remind You of Anything?|who took the habit of wearing round sunglasses]]) and never uttering a word besides that. The rest of the group hated her guts, but let her stay because Schmuckler was a virgin and they wanted to give him an opportunity to finally get lucky. This got so bad she made them break up (and smiling in ''Schadenfreude'' as Schmuckler announced the break up), but was soon allowed to be in the group’s new short instead. The actor playing the murderer in the scene was extra-cruel to her, leading to her leaving the group for an acting gig (apparently, no-one could play a dead body as well as her), and it turned out Schmuckler [[Status Quo Is God|never got to do anything with her]].
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': In ''[[Gamera]] vs. Guiron'', they reference Yoko Ono. During a closeup on young Tomoko, one of the SOL crew quips, "I'll show you! I'll grow up to break up the Beatles!"
* In the episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' "The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorum", Sheldon's graduate student Ramona Nowitzki seeks to isolate him from the group and curtail his leisure activities in a effort to improve his scientific work. The soundtrack [[lampshade]]s this by covering a [[Montage]] of this activity with "Be My Yoko Ono". Sheldon eventually cuts ties with Ramona in order to avoid sharing credit with a lowly graduate student.
== Music ==
* [[Barenaked Ladies]] has a song called "Be My Yoko Ono" that discusses this trope.
== Radio ==
* Inverted in [[Old Harry]]'s Game, one of the characters violently hate celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh because he fancies Titchmarsh's wife
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]'' [[Dating Sim]] ''Gakuensai no Oujisama'', if you place the main girl (default name: Shizuka Hirose) in Hyoutei Gakuen and she becomes close to Atobe, she will be threatened and physically attacked by his rabid fangirls. When Atobe finds out, he will lecture Shizuka harshly for ''not'' telling him about the incidents; later he'll protect her from his fans and, if the main girl manages to successfully woo him, in the end he announces that she will be his girlfriend ''in front of the whole school'', much to the dismay of the attackers.
* Parodied in the one of the loading screen messages for [[Guitar Hero]]: "When in doubt, blame the singer's girlfriend".
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In-universe example: In ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]'' Captain Hammer's fans hate Penny.
{{quote|'''Fan 3:''' [[Rescue Romance|So they say he saved her life.]]
'''Fan 2:''' [[Friend to All Living Things|They say she works with the homeless and doesn't eat meat.]]
'''All The Fans:''' [[What the Hell, Townspeople?|''We have a problem with her!'']]
'''Fan 1:''' [[Stalker with a Crush|This is his hair.]] }}
* Parodied in [[Gaia Online]]'s Famestar Hero RIG: the fail scenario in the Pascal route has the band break up over a girl... that [http://s.cdn.gaiaonline.com/images/thumbnails/item_choice/june_famestarhero/fail_classical.png looks like] [[Gurren Lagann|Yoko Littner.]]
* Inverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130623184634/http://thecurvature.com/2009/01/03/yoko-ono-a-feminist-analysis-part-3-woman/ this] article, which says that Yoko enhanced John's life. Unfortunately, it seems to hold that [[Yoko Ono]], [[Wings (band)|Linda McCartney]], and [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|Heather]] [[Gold Digger|Mills]] were [[Purity Sue|heroes]] and that the Beatles were [[He-Man Woman Hater|misogynist]] [[jerkass]]es. [[Sarcasm Mode|After all,]] [[Unfortunate Implications|none of them had any "real" flaws]], [[The Unfair Sex|only misogynist husbands.]] The writer of this article obviously [[Did Not Do the Research]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Barney's girlfriend from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode featuring the B Sharps; another Yoko parody.
{{quote|'''Moe:''' What'll it be?
'''Barney:''' Gimme a beer
'''Barney's Japanese Girlfriend:''' I'll have a single plum, floating in perfume, served in a man's hat }}
** In another episode, when someone mentions Yoko Ono, Homer says, in all sincerity "Ew, she totally ruined the Plastic Ono Band!"
* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' references this one, in the episode "Girlfriendklok". Nathan Explosion's woman in that episode is, to say the least, a nuisance.
** Not to mention there were mass suicides when news of him having a girlfriend broke out. (And open warfare between fangirls once they broke up.)
* Moko Jono, Mojo Jojo's girlfriend in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''' Beatles spoof "Meet the Beat-Alls". She helps the girls split up the band. Here, she's a good gal who is sent in as a [[Reverse Mole]] of sorts. She was a nonsentient female ape of the same species, "cross"-dressed as a sentient being, brought in by the PPG to break up the four supervillains whose powers combined could beat all three of the girls.
* A ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode featured The Brain introducing a "singer" named Yoyo Nono (who can't sing at all) to the popular 60's band The Feebles. The result?
{{quote|'''[[No Celebrities Were Harmed|George Harrison Lookalike]]''': She's awful.
'''Paul McCartney Lookalike''': She's terrible!
'''Ringo Starr Lookalike''': She can't sing.
'''John Lennon Lookalike''': I love her! }}
** Then the band breaks up so "John Lemon" can pursue a relationship with Nono, and The Feebles's fanbase ''immediately'' run Pinky and the Brain out of India for introducing them.
*** An out of universe example; many fans see [[Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain|Elmyra]] as a unanimous example of this for the entire series.
* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', Stewie threatens Brian with doing the same thing to him he did to John Lennon. The [[Manatee Gag]] shows Stewie making the introductions.
== [[Real Life]] examples ==
=== The [[Trope Namer]] ===
* [[Yoko Ono]], the [[Trope Namer]] and widow of [[The Beatles (band)|Beatle]] [[John Lennon]]. She's [[Misblamed|frequently blamed]] for breaking up the Beatles, as per John's preference that she be by his side at all times. Some claim Yoko upset the group dynamic by suggesting changes to the music or influencing John's opinions. While John certainly was devoted to her, arguably at the expense of his friendship with the others, it's worth noting that the other Beatles themselves have acknowledged that the break-up was caused less by any scheming or maliciousness on the part of Yoko (although they do nevertheless insist that she wasn't exactly the easiest person to get along with and apparently didn't bother to make much effort to make things any more comfortable) and more by the fact that they'd simply been drifting apart musically and personality-wise for some time, and that Yoko just happened to be there when it all imploded. Of course, a Japanese conceptual artist at least partially involved in the break-up of a marriage wasn't likely to be the most popular figure in 1960s British society for a number of reasons anyway, and this hasn't stopped Yoko from being popular fodder for [[Black Comedy]] about how she was somehow unscathed when John Lennon got shot.
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* [[Happily Married|Gerard Way from My Chemical Romance and Lyn-Z from Mindless Self Indulgence]]. Somewhat unusual in that the bitching comes from both bands' fanbases.
** Two words: Eliza Cuts. His marriage to the lovely and talented Lyn-Z is considered by some to be an upgrade by several miles, especially since reading the "I am not just Mrs. Gerard Way" article.
* Many fans of the progressive metal band [[Queensrÿche]] feel that ever since lead singer Geoff Tate's wife, Susan, took over the band's management, things have gone downhill. [http://www.anybodylistening.net/breakdownroom/index.php?topic=1449.0;viewResults This discussion elaborates further on the point.]{{Dead link}}
* Marcello Cabuli. The husband of Tarja Turunen from [[Nightwish]], who's earned a lot of the flak for Tarja's problems with the band, ending in a rather nasty [[Take That]] firing.
** Also, you wouldn't even ''believe'' how crazy some of Tuomas Holopainen's fangirls can get if they even vaguely suspect someone is his girlfriend. Death threats have been involved.
* Inversion: pretty much nobody doubts that [[Ozzy Osbourne]]'s success and wealth since [[The Eighties]] (not to mention his not having died yet from his drug and alcohol abuse, though that could also be chalked up to Osbourne's genetic resistance to controlled substances) is almost entirely due to his wife and manager Sharon. Nevertheless, some have understandably developed contempt towards Sharon for her entrepreneurial ruthlessness (as was her father Don Arden) and (allegedly) milking her husband for all he's worth, as well as the controversies ascribed to her such as the Osbournes' longstanding feud with [[Iron Maiden]] frontman [[Bruce Dickinson]], where the Osbourne family sabotaged Iron Maiden's concert during Ozzfest.
* Some * NSYNC fans still blame their demise on [[Cameron Diaz]], who [[Justin Timberlake]] began dating around the same time he started to seriously work on his solo career.
** [[Britney Spears]] also received a lot more hatred than was warranted back in the late 90's/early 2000's, when she was dating [[Justin Timberlake]]. It was pretty much impossible to go on an N'SYNC message board/chat room where Spears wasn't being bashed ([[Die for Our Ship|to the point of wishing her dead)]]. Granted, all the Britney-hatred has [[It Got Better|eased up]] since then and people who dislike her nowadays will state reasons more valid than [[Fan Dumb|"OH MY GOD SHE STOLE MY MAN!".]]
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* Averted with [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]]. The band's numerous line-ups have often featured Mark E. Smith's current girlfriend or wife, who generally provides a stabilising influence. The years with then-wives Brix Smith (in the 1980s and early 1990) and Elena Poulou (in the 2000s) coincided with some of the band's most successful and critically acclaimed albums.
* Heavily averted with [[Tom Waits]]. His wife Kathleen Brennan is often referred to as "his muse" by both himself and by the media, and is responsible for introducing him to the music of [[Captain Beefheart]], heavily influencing his musical direction and leading to his most critically-acclaimed albums.
* A truly creepy amount of hatred, including death threats, is being aimed at [[Selena Gomez]]. Her crime? Being seen snuggling with Justin Bieber. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111103124503/http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/04/5765102-justin-bieber-army-fills-twitter-with-death-threats-again Here's a report on that]. Now that they're confirmed to be dating, she has recieved even ''more'' constant bashing on the internet.
** There are also [[Les Yay|Demi/Selena]] shippers who despise Justin
** She's barely the first one: Kim Kardashian got similar threats too.
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=== Athletes' Love Interests ===
* The biggest sports equivalent of John and Yoko may be Wayne Gretzky and wife Janet. Many Edmonton Oilers fans still believe Janet's acting career was one of the main reasons Gretzky OK'd the 1988 trade to Los Angeles, beginning the breakup of an Oilers team that won the Stanley Cup five times in seven years.
* [[Jessica Simpson]] caught a rather ridiculous amount of flak for dating Dallas Cowboys' QB Tony Romo. In this case, it was from other ''men'' because Romo had a few high-profile bad games shortly afterwards.
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=== Other Famous People's Love Interests ===
* [[Orlando Bloom]]'s old girlfriend [[Kate Bosworth]] was despised by a large number of fans, and his current wife (and as of January 2011, the mother of his child) [[Miranda Kerr]] isn't doing so well either. An example is [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419151323/http://www.journalfen.net/community/dl_anon/339373.html here]. It's apparently okay to yell "A dingo ate my baby" to Miranda because she's Australian, [[Unfortunate Implications]] (misogyny ''and'' xenophobia) be damned.
** For the most part it seems that the people bashing Kerr are the ones who were either most enamored of Bosworth or fully buy into the notion that [[Actor Shipping|he and Viggo Mortensen (or Johnny Depp or Eric Bana) are in a long term relationship]], so there may be some [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] going on.
* Male example: Some [[Katie Holmes]] fans bash her husband [[Tom Cruise]], accusing him of casting a corrupting influence on her personal life (her conversion to Scientology, her not appearing in ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy|The Dark Knight]]'', etc). Katie recently denied such speculation, claiming she's "no wallflower." It doesn't help that many dislike Cruise for other reasons, including being the celebrity most involved with [[Acceptable Targets|Scientology]].
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* Two words: Jade Olivia. She gets a ''lot'' of hate from fans for dating [[Tom Felton]]. To add to this jealousy, she also is criticized for---in their words---looking too thin, having a fake tan and makeup, looking cheap, looking like a smoker, the list goes on. Ironically, Tom is a smoker; or so I've heard.
* Sophia Myles, former girlfriend of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' star [[David Tennant]]. Some outraged fans insisted that Myles had ''only'' appeared on the show because Tennant demanded she be given a part, despite reports that they actually met on the set while she was filming her role.
* After the release of the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies, a fanbase sprang up believing that Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan were a couple in real life. There was a great deal of [[Slash Fic]] and one of the first known examples of "[[New Media|wingfic]]". This led to quite a bit of vitriol being directed at both actors' respective girlfriends, but it seems to have died down now.
* There was once a hatelisting for actress Téa Leoni. For her acting, her roles, or something else? No. Because she married David Duchovny and took him away from his "Twu Wuv", Gillian Anderson. The owner of the site went as far as swearing that Téa and David's kids were not his and Téa tricked him into marrying him, while on the other hand, she also swore Gillian's child was David's and that made them soulmates. One like-minded person even went so far as to claim that Duchovny and Leoni's oldest child was really Gillian's daughter. There was also once a website dedicated to supposedly proving that Leoni has had massive amounts of plastic surgery and was therefore evil.
** These folks are still around, albeit not as prominent as they used to be. They call themselves Snoggers and still pop up from time to time in the few remaining X-Files message boards.
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** Leoni, however, was more than good-natured about all of it -- [[Shipper on Deck|she was practically shipping her husband with Anderson herself!]] It was supposedly Leoni's idea that Scully be naked when Mulder carries her out of the spacecraft in the first movie. She then claimed that when she watched the movie and got to the near-kiss scene, she was saying, "Do it! Do it!"
*** Which makes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ4T2_eWbTc this outtake] even more hilarious.
* Poor, poor [[Mamoru Miyano]]. This famous [[Seiyuu]] hid the fact that he was getting married and his wife was pregnant (a big deal for him, due to [[Ill Boy|some health issues]] that almost rendered Miyano infertile) . When he announced his marriage in an interview and a video was uploaded to Nico Nico Douga (the Japanese equivalent of Youtube), Miyano's most rabid Japanese fans started writing ''very'' nasty insults at him and his wife in the comments, even wishing for his career to go down or for the lady to miscarry. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090321091651/http://community.livejournal.com/vampire_knight/468566.html Info here.]
* A mix of this and [[The Other Darrin]] happened to another [[voice Talent]], [[Yukana|Yukana Nogami]]. Once she got to replace [[Saeko Shimazu]] as Four Murasame in the ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' movies, it was rumored that she had slept with the cast director to get the role (they ''were'', apparently, involved in the past, and it wasn't pretty for his marriage). Said rumors never were confirmed, but Japanese fans immediately accused her of being a homewrecker (the guy was divorced again and they blamed Yukana for it) and keep trolling her blog, calling her "slut", "whore" and "bitch"; it got so bad that Yukana had to close her blog temporarily to not get more online slutshaming. However, this [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap|didn't stop her popularity from regrowing immensely]] when she played [[Code Geass|C.C.]].
* Supposedly, the reason [[Jackie Chan]] doesn't discuss his personal life in interviews anymore is that a Japanese [[Fan Girl]] jumped in front of a moving subway and killed herself after learning Chan had a girlfriend. Jackie relates that story in his autobiography, as well as an incident where a girl went into the lobby of his production studio's office and drank poison when news of his marriage came out.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' fandom has become ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101125040/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1202644.html very]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101132124/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1206633.html notorious] for this, much to the ire of those fans who'd rather not get lumped in with the crazies. [[Up to Eleven]] now that Jared Padalecki announced his wife's pregnancy.
* Deborra-Lee Furness, wife of heartthrob Hugh Jackman, seems to get a lot of this, intensified by the fact that [[May–December Romance|she's a good ten years his senior]]. Never mind that they're actually ''[[Happily Married|happy]]'' [[Fan Dumb|together]]. Then there are those who insist he's gay and she's a beard, because in some minds, the only possible explanation for such an attractive man to be with an older, slightly plump woman is subterfuge.
* Japanese voice talent [[Megumi Ogata]] gets married. [[May–December Romance|To a man 13 years her junior]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101155536/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/375609.html Watch the fangirls flip out because they want her to be a lesbian.]
* Some ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fans would like to see [[Daniel Radcliffe]] and [[Emma Watson]], who play Harry and Hermione respectively in the film adaptations, become a couple offscreen. (This is partly connected to the [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] over Harry/Hermione vs. Ron/Hermione.) Thus a small contingent of fans go up in arms whenever either actor is romantically linked in the press to someone else, although this has died down somewhat since the release of the last book (in which {{spoiler|Ron }} gets the girl).
** And [http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunny_fandom/12539.html#cutid1 some pretty nasty shit]{{Dead link}} has been thrown at Tom Felton (Draco)'s girlfriend Olivia lately.
* Some ''[[Farscape]]'' fans are desperate for Ben Browder and Claudia Black, who play John Crichton and Aeryn Sun respectively, to become a real-life couple. (Admittedly, they have ''astonishing'' on-screen chemistry, but Ben was married ''ten years'' before the show started; Claudia, meanwhile, postponed her honeymoon to shoot the ''Peacekeeper Wars'' miniseries.) As a result, some despise Ben Browder's wife, Francesca Buller (who has appeared in the show playing four different characters) for "getting in the way of Ben and Claudia". Not only that, but [[Hatedom|some fans]] have [[Fan Dumb|accused her of being a "bad actress"]], [[Nepotism|of only getting to be on the show in the first place because she's Ben's wife]], and apparently, at a convention, someone even told her ''to her face'' that they hated her. Possibly as a result of this, Claudia's husband Jamie has kept a much lower public profile (though as he apparently isn't in show business, this is probably easier)--his last name isn't even known to fans.
* [[Tetsuya Kakihara]] provoked many fans, especially of the yuri type, when he posted pics of him dating [[Mamiko Noto]]; voice talent romances are very fickle things, but when you date one of [[Hitomi Nabatame]]'s "secret wives", it takes a lot of balls to admit that you are in love with her. Nabatame may be a good sport about her wives, but the fans are not.
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* Two words: [[Angelina Jolie]]. She ''still'' gets flack for getting together with [[Brad Pitt]] right after his divorce from [[Jennifer Aniston]]. The couple insist that they fell in love on set of the movie (''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]''), ''but'' got together after his divorce, and EVEN [[Jennifer Aniston]] agreed with that, but jealous Angelina-haters will never let her off.
** What's worse is that many of the haters seem to write for the tabloids, given the countless cover headlines claiming that [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Brangelina]] are about to break up (the couple were able to sue [[British Newspapers|The News of the World]] for libel after such a story was published), that Brad hates every relationship Jennifer gets in, that Angelina has threatened Brad and their children with physical abuse, that Angelina is out to ruin Jennifer's life, that Brad has openly insulted Jennifer via dismissing their married years, that Brad and Jennifer are secretly sleeping with each other behind Angelina's back, that both Brad and Angelina are bad parents... (et cetera, et cetera...) It's as close to real-life [[Die for Our Ship]] as you can get.
* [[Russell Crowe]]'s wife Danielle Spencer gets quite the hate from her husband's rabid fangirls. I.e, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100717045613/http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/473113.html?thread=15019033#t15019033 this one] refers to Danielle as "The Wife and Womb Unit" for commiting the horrendous sin of being married to him.
* Even if their relationship is denied by those involved, the Nonsten fans have started to talk about the nasty things they will do to Kristen Stewart if she is indeed romantically involved with Edward...I mean Rob Pattinson from the [[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]] movies. To be fair most fans want Robsten to be true and root for the couple to make it.
** And some Robsten fans really don't like Nikki Reed, the actress playing Rosalie Hale. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101115357/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1244151.html In their words:]
{{quote|"She (Kristen) and Rob started to get really close again, taking it slow, then MA visited. This was during the Juno weekend. Rob was really upset to say the least. He felt Kristen might be stringing him along or that MA's presence there would change her mind. Nikki apparently tried to comfort him that night by the way....offering Rob her support if he needed her. Fucking bitch."}}
* Director Mitsuo Fukuda has his wife Chiaki Morosawa serve as the story writer for many of his series. Fans tend to blame Morosawa for the dip in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'''s plot quality... While it ''is'' true that Morosawa was often late with the series's scripts, rumors about her ''[[Kick the Dog|deliberately]]'' [[Chickification|derailing]] Princess Cagalli's personality out of personal hatred towards [[Naomi Shindo|her voice actress]] are simply ''ridiculous''... but the [[Fan Dumb]] love to believe them and eat them like candy, even when there's ''no'' proof about it.
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* While averted by the shipping community, the wives and girlfriends of the crew of [[That Guy With The Glasses]] get a scary amount of hate. Iron Liz is the butt of many "lol, she's really a man" jokes and people are unhappy with the amount of times she's appeared in Linkara's reviews, Scarlett was called a "ginger fat pig" by trolls and she gets rage from people she's banned on Spoony's forum, while Doug's fiancee only has ''one'' picture floating around the internet and people go crazy over the fact that he could be attracted to a large woman. The only one who doesn't seem to get any hate is [[The Cinema Snob|Brad Jones's]] wife Jillian.
** Even [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and [[The Nostalgia Chick]] get this from the other's fanbase when there's any sign of [[Ship Tease]] between the two. Her fanboys said they were going to kill him in his sleep for their fail date, and his fangirls like to talk about how they'd like to beat on her while at the same time squeeing over how "adorable" he is. It makes the people who <s> fancy</s> enjoy them both slightly confused. Of course, now the crazy fans have at least some cause to celebrate, as Spoony and Scarlett split up in early 2011.
** And now [https://web.archive.org/web/20130405031730/http://thefoundary.blogspot.com/2011/11/lewis-and-i-have-parted-ways.html#more Linkara and Iron Liz have broken up], how this will affect [[Atop the Fourth Wall]] remains to be seen.
** Averted when two TGWTG reviewers hook up ([[The Nostalgia Chick|Case]] [[Todd in the Shadows|One]], [[Obscurus Lupa|Case]] [[Phelous|Two]], and [[JesuOtaku|Case]] [[What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?|Three]])
* Yana Rudovskaya, the second wife of Russian skater Evgeni Plushenko, is apparently [http://community.livejournal.com/fandomsecrets/611809.html?thread=384095201#t384095201 "too old and wringly and ugly" AND "too opinionated and bitchy" for him.]
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* In the wake of Princess Diana's death, Prince Charles went back to former girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles for love and support. Bad move: the sort of exciteable people who went batshit over the death of a modern saint who very quickly ascended to the position of National Martyr (Diana Spencer) vilified the poor woman and subjected her to a barrage of hate, as often as not blaming her for St Diana's untimely death, despite the fact she did not properly re-enter Charles' life until well after his divorce from Diana. Cammila is still popularly loathed, and Charles has been informally advised not to give her the courtesy title of Queen when/if he ascends to the throne. It is feared that a Queen Camilla may tip the British people into republican sympathy, such is the degree of loathing for her. This is predicated on no better reason than She Is Not Diana. Add this all to the many reasons so many would rather see the crown directly passed on to William instead.
** Most of this is, if not actually justified, at least made understandable by it being widely believed that Charles was having an affair with Camilla and that this is what led to the divorce.
* Tom Hiddleston aka Loki from [[Thor (film)|Thor]] is seen with a (rather pretty) lady who seems to be either his girlfriend or his wife. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101132339/http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1280775.html
* Rumour has it that [[Viggo Mortensen]] is dating Ariadna Gil, his co-star from [[Alatriste]]. Fangirls everywhere pretty much broke down when that rumour started circulating around the 'net. To add to the fire, Ariadna is already married with two children, and would be cheating on her husband if the rumours are true.
* Of course, on ''iCarly,'' you have your [[Slap Slap Kiss|Seddie]] and [[Just Friends|Creddie]] fans, and fans who ship the actors who play those characters in real life (Jathan and Niranda, respectively). But when Nathan Kress's relationship with Madisen Hill got out in the open, things heated up on Twitter when incensed Jathan fans started sending hate tweets to Madisen for "getting in the way" of their ship, forcing Nathan to block many of them and thus sparking a heated controversy on whether or not he had done the right thing or had gone too far in blocking even those who hadn't directly bashed his girlfriend. To be fair, though, Madisen apparently also attacked the Jathan fans back, so neither side is completely innocent.
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* [[Nathan Kress]]'s girlfriend Madisen Hill gets an incredible amount of flak because he's dating her and not [[Jennette McCurdy]]. Despite the repeated insistence of Jennette and Nathan that they are [[Like Brother and Sister]]. It got to the point where they eventually went public with their views on the situation, and started blocking some of the worst offenders, who are mostly people from Sam/Freddie (the characters that Nathan and Jennette play on ''[[iCarly]]'') fandom.
* South Korean actress Ha Ji-won was [[Unperson]]ed by the "Eight Goddesses" that secretly controlled the South Korean government because she played a character with a romantic relationship with an actor one of the "goddesses" liked.
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