History Main / NotGoodWithRejection

* Beats them up in a rage or has someone else do it

Compare WomanScorned, PsychoExGirlfriend, SteppingStoneSpouse. Compare/Contrast MadLove where the rejected person doesn't always mind being rejected and continues to pursue the object of their affection anyway.

Compare WomanScorned, PsychoExGirlfriend. Compare/Contrast MadLove where the rejected person doesn't always mind being rejected and continues to pursue the object of their affection anyway.

* Paul in ''Website/Chatoyant College'' followed Corrie to Chatoyant College because he's Not Good With Rejection. Some acquaintances of Corrie try to help by [[spoiler:subjecting Paul to a magical restraining order. However, Corrie feels that magic should not be used to subvert someone's will so rescinds the order in Book 9. See IfICantHaveYou]].

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* ''Literature/BookOfGenesis'': Potiphar's wife constantly tried to seduce the young slave Joseph only to have him refuse her daily. When she made a more aggressive advancement on him, he fled and left his cloak behind. Angered by this final rejection, she made a claim that he tried to rape her, leading to him getting arrested.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' Miss Piggy. Which is not a good combination with her obsessive and clingy tendencies making her try and overwhelm any man (or manly muppet) she's got an attraction to. Even when Kermit tries to let her down gently, the default response tends to be "HIIIII-''YA!''"

* ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''
** Stanley makes it clear to his wife Stella that he absolutely will not tolerate it she ever rejects or leaves him.
** Blanche, when Mitch rejects her, starts to exhibit even more SanitySlippage.
** Blanche confesses to Mitch that once she was married to a young man, Allan Grey, whom she later discovered in a sexual encounter with an older man. Grey later committed suicide when Blanche rejected him by telling him she was disgusted with him.

* ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'': After Jochanaan disgustedly rejects Salomé's advances, even going back into his prison rather than facing her, she takes the first chance she can get to take revenge on him. Things get pretty ugly after that, finally ending with [[spoiler: Salomé kissing Jochanaan's severed head.]]

* The Swordmaster from ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' tries to use this as a means to make his pupil more badass in combat. It doesn't work the way he intended.

* ''Webcomic/TheWordWeary'': Grace is visibly angry after Poor Trotmann rejects her offer for a date.
* Eridan from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' does ''not'' take Feferi, with whom he's in love, breaking off their [[MoralityChain moirallegiance]], well at all. To the point that later in the story he actually kills her when she tries to stop him from joining forces with [[BigBad Jack]]. This is also his DespairEventHorizon as, ironically, he's known as the Prince of Hope.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''. Davan's late friend Scotty committed suicide after Donna broke up with him. But a later flashback reveals that Scotty had been suffering from depression for a while before that, and the breakup, along with Davan not calling him back, was just the last straw.
* In ''Webcomic/OrangeMarmalade'', when a girl named [[spoiler:Yoo Chae Rin]] is dumped by the vampire she considered to be her boyfriend, [[DisproportionateRetribution she declares the wish to see the entire vampire race wiped out]]. Of course, there is not much chance of a high school girl pulling genocide off, but she is able to [[spoiler:reveal the main character's vampire heritage to the entire school during a huge vampire scare, putting her and her families' lives at risk]].
* ''Webcomic/PerfectMarriageRevenge'': Doguk went on a blind date with Yura, only for him to reject her immediately afterwards, stating clearly that he only came as a favor to his mom and he has zero intentions of marrying her. Don’t ask me why, but Yura seems to believe that if she can get Doguk's engagement cancelled, he’ll completely change his mind about her.

* In ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'' Light towards L. He gleefully resumes his plan to [[spoiler:kill L]] after coming to the [[spoiler:erroneous]] [[IfICantHaveYou conclusion that L is screwing Matsuda]].
* It only takes about five episodes of firm (but reasonably kind) rejection from WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows for WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick to lose her marbles and start kidnapping him, trying to get him to love her.
* Paul in ''Website/Chatoyant College'' followed Corrie to Chatoyant College because he's Not Good With Rejection. Some acquaintances of Corrie try to help by [[spoiler:subjecting Paul to a magical restraining order. However, Corrie feels that magic should not be used to subvert someone's will so rescinds the order in Book 9. See IfICantHaveYou]].
* The [[http://www.quickmeme.com/Overly-Attached-Girlfriend/?upcoming Overly Attached Girlfriend]] [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/overly-attached-girlfriend Meme,]] played by the [=YouTuber=] {{Creator/Laina}}. She was merely menacing in her videos... But when she makes a cameo in other [=YouTubers=]' videos, she becomes outright crazy, such as when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6iMDfOl9E Jimmy tries to break up with her.]] And then, she misunderstood WebVideo/ShaneDawson and believed that he was having an orgy without her... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k8DCA8qqMI That didn't end well.]]

* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'': A dubiously canon short reveals that Kitten's genocidal hatred of the Tau originates from his ex-girlfriend [[spoiler:Commander Shadowsun]] breaking up with him.
* ''WebAnimation/EveryFaggotEver'': In episode 5, the titular faggot makes a very vulgar come on to a woman whose purse he returned. Naturally, she rejects him, at which point he calls her a "friend-zoning slut" and starts protesting her.
* ''WebAnimation/HandsUpJoelG'': "Rhythm N' Ambush" has [[MsFanservice Margo]] attempting to seduce a murderous monster after her initial attempt at luring him into a trap fails, even going as far as to flash him. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Said monster is so repulsed by her, he vomits immediately after sniffing her]]. Furious and insulted, Margo actually gets in the monster's face and socks him right in the throat in retaliation. [[spoiler:This causes the monster to stumble and trigger the trap, which also ensnares Margo because she was too close to the monster.]]

* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Shinji Matou. Despite his extremely off-putting personality, he is (somehow) noted to be rather popular with the girls at his school. Except for Rin Tohsaka, who repeatedly turns him down whenever he flirts with her, eventually giving up all subtlety and saying "I have zero interest in you whatsoever". [[spoiler:In "Unlimited Blade Works", when he eventually gets Rin at his mercy, he decides to punish her for rejecting him by [[AttemptedRape raping her]]. Fortunately, he is stopped before he's able to do much]].

* ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'': The bad endings typically involve Aoba or his love interest becoming {{Yandere}} and resorting to extreme and graphic measures to keep the other with them forever. Special mention goes to Clear, who cuts off Aoba's limbs to keep him with him, and Mink, who kills him to be able to keep his severed head as a keepsake.
* In ''VisualNovel/LuckyDog1'', Giulio is revealed to be a necrophiliac in his route which apparently makes his job as a ProfessionalKiller all the more enjoyable once he's finished killing his targets. After spending some time with Gian though, he can eventually decide living human companionship is preferable in the good ending and presumably stops defiling corpses after bloodshed. [[spoiler:In one of his bad endings in the spin-off ''Gian Carlo's Lucky Happy Life'' however, he crosses the MoralEventHorizon when he decides the only way [[IfICantHaveYou he can keep Gian with him]] (who has just refused his love) is by murdering him and then loving his corpse instead]].
* The main conflict in Zen's route for ''VisualNovel/MysticMessenger'' is Echo Girl, a famous Korean actress, accusing him of sexually harassing her after he politely rejected her advances in favor of the PlayerCharacter.

[[folder:Mythology and Legend]]
* There is a [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Japanese folktale]] concerning a woman named Kiyohime who, when rejected by the object of her affections, turns into a dragon and kills him. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyohime More information]] can be found on Website/TheOtherWiki.
* Myth/MesopotamianMythology: Ishtar/Inanna, Goddess of Love and War. Exemplified in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', where her response to Gilgamesh rejecting her advances (he knew that her lovers tended to come to nasty ends) was to unleash the Bull of Heaven to destroy Gilgamesh's entire kingdom.

[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* A now-infamous series of strips in the Franchise/MickeyMouse newspaper comic had Mickey attempting to commit suicide after being rejected by Minnie.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Lorgar and the Word Bearers took the Emperor's [[StopWorshippingMe rejection of their worship of him]] [[KickTheDog (to the point of having the Ultramarines burn down the city they built in his honor and forcing them to kneel before him)]] so badly that they went to the opposite extreme of hating him and everything he stood for. Now the Word Bearers serve Chaos and live only to destroy everything that even reminds them of the Emperor.

* A now-infamous series of strips in the MickeyMouse newspaper comic had Mickey attempting to commit suicide after being rejected by Minnie.

[[folder:Light Novels]]
* ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'': Iason and Guy really took it to extremes since they are both {{Yandere}} for Riki. Robby, Kirie, and Miguel The Paradita didn't handle rejection by Riki well either.
* In ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' Motoyasu's death resulted due to him not wanting to choose one of his two female friends over the other. Both girls responded by stabbing him to death while arguing over who would go to heaven with him.
* ''LightNovel/BookGirl'': Miu. Well, the first time. She was so sad and angry with Konoha for not telling her about him writing the book (thus feeling that he was distancing himself away from her and being as Yandere as she is) that she decided to kill herself right in front of him so that he'd regret and suffer his entire life.
* What specifically pushes ''Manga/{{Claudine}}'' into [[spoiler:shooting himself dead]] is how Sirene, his third and last love, leaves him for his older brother Andre.
** Similarly, what pushes [[spoiler:Louis Lacques]] into [[spoiler:killing Claudine's dad and his own sister Cecilia]] is finding out that [[spoiler:they were involved... since Louis himself was Monsieur de Montesse's former lover.]]
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'':
** Haruna Niekawa. Professor Nasujima at Mikado's school clearly has a thing for Anri, which naturally {{Squick}}s the hell out of her. The same guy is also dating Haruna Niekawa (one of his former students). Or was. Haruna doesn't like that he's changed his preferences, so she gave Anri a visit and tried to kill her...
** Professor Nasujima himself seems to have shades of this. When Anri makes it increasingly clear one night that she's not having any of his advances towards her he menacingly backs her into a wall, appears to lose it from the look on his face, and attempts to stalk after her.
** There's also Namie Yagiri and Mika Harima towards Seiji. They're so yandere that they're willing to get rid of Celty's head (with Mika being so far gone as to want to [[{{Squick}} eat the head's blood]] [[ALoveToDismember which Seiji is yandere for]]) if it means they can have Seiji for themselves.
** Though Mika actually out-yanderes Namie, as when Seiji smashes her face when she takes a glimpse of Celty's head, Mika gets plastic surgery to fix her grievous injuries... and also makes herself look exactly like Celty with her head on. Can we say, yikes?
** The healthiest relationship in the series is probably the relationship between a back-alley surgeon (Shinra) and a headless female (Celty), where the former outright says that he dissembled about the location of the latter's head because he never wanted her to leave him. Actually, that's the part where their relationship ''improves''.
* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' Mahiro's mother Yoriko says that Mahiro and Nyarko should start their relationship slow and be friends first; Nyarko, mistakenly thinking she's been friend-zoned, has the GivingUpTheGhost reaction.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'' when Kyousuke rejects Ayase's love in episode 12 of season 2, she claims while teary-eyed she'll kill him if he doesn't go with her.
* ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'': Misaki somehow knows an awful lot about Satou, and she is very obsessed with making sure that he always attends her counseling every night. After he rejects her romantic advances, she attempts suicide.
* ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'':
** Lio, who lusts after Shiki, acts quite AxCrazy (well crazier than usual) when Shiki tells him she's not interested in him. He screams at her [[MadnessMantra "That's a lie, that's a lie, that's a lie, that's a lie!"]] and attacks her telling her he might consider [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering the hypotenuse]] so he can win her love.
** He's also like this to Mikiya, in which he is implied to lose it and murder a lot of people to cope when he rejects him.
* ''LightNovel/MirageOfBlaze'': Naoe towards Kagetora. When Kagetora repeatedly tries to refuse Naoe he gets fed up leading to him handling him quite forcefully and attempting to rape him.
* ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'': Inner Reika (who's {{Yandere}} for Shungo) tries to rape Shungo to help get her feelings across, is willing to pull a MurderTheHypotenuse on Mayu her rival for Shungo's love, and completely loses it in the last episode upon seeing him try to kiss Mayu, screaming at her subordinate Hosaka to kill Shungo. She gets over it though.
* Shuichi Shindou from ''Manga/{{Gravitation}}'' qualifies for this when the stress of Yuki being outed puts him into the hospital, and Shuichi talks at length about how he would rather Yuki die than leave him.
** Yuki and his sister/Tohma's wife Mika acknowledge that Yuki's break-up with Shuichi was for Shuichi's own protection; had Yuki not ended it, it's heavily implied that Tohma, who is a {{Yandere}} for Yuki, would have ''killed'' Shuichi. And this may not be the first incident of this happening.
* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': Louise and Kirche for Saito initially would resort to [[{{Tsundere}} beating him up]] partly due to him not picking which one of them he liked better over the other. Also, when Saito's interest in her wavered Siesta would seduce Saito knowing that Louise would beat him up presumably so she could take care of him afterwards.
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'':
** Hitagi Senjougahara makes it clear that she won't tolerate her boyfriend Koyomi Araragi showing interest in any other woman. At one point, she nearly stabs him in the eye with a mechanical pencil after he so much as talks about another female using her first name without an honorific. And only stops once he screams, "Stop it! There's nothing guilty about it! I didn't mean it like I knew her well! I'm only devoted to you, Senjougahara!"
** Suruga doesn't like that Hitagi is dating Koyomi as she has a crush on Hitagi herself. So she basically stalks Koyomi and tries to beat him to death twice.
** Nadeko is this as well. At the temple near the end of Nadeko Medusa she decides that since Koyomi will probably keep getting girlfriends, she might as well stab him to death now rather than experience the grief of having him taken away from her over and over.
* ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'':
** Wolfram goes CrazyJealousGuy when Yuuri hints he might break off their engagement, when Yuuri shows annoyance towards his displays of affections, and at one point threatens to kill Yuuri so that he'd his forever. Luckily when Yuuri falls down a staircase Wolfram forgets about that course of action.
** When Wolfram tries to break the engagement the two have in order to protect Yuuri from the other demons that looked down on their relationship, Yuuri doesn't take it that well and he declares to Wolfram that he's not allowed to break the engagement. Yuuri's character development shines here as he would repeatedly complain about being engaged to a guy in the past.
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* ''Myth/MesopotamianMythology'': Ishtar/Inanna, Goddess of Love and War. Exemplified in ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', where her response to Gilgamesh rejecting her advances (he knew that her lovers tended to come to nasty ends) was to unleash the Bull of Heaven to destroy Gilgamesh's entire kingdom.

* There is a [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Japanese folktale]] concerning a woman named Kiyohime who, when rejected by the object of her affections, turns into a dragon and kills him. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyohime More information]] can be found on Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

* ''Webcomic/PerfectMarriageRevenge'': Doguk went on a blind date with Yura, only for him to rejects her immediately afterwards, stating clearly that he only came as a favor to his mom and he has zero intentions of marrying her. Don’t ask me why, but Yura seems to believe that if she can get Doguk's engagement cancelled, he’ll completely change his mind about her.

* ''Webcomic/PerfectMarriageRevenge'': Doguk went on a blind date with Yura, only for him to rejects her immediately afterwards, stating clearly that he only came as a favor to his mom and he has zero intentions of marrying her. A week later, he gets engaged immediately to someone else. Don’t ask me why, but Yura seems to believe that if she can get Doguk's engagement cancelled, he’ll completely change his mind about her.

* ''Webcomic/PerfectMarriageRevenge'': Doguk went on a blind date with Yura, only for him to reject her immediately afterwards, stating clearly that he only came as a favor to his mom and he has zero intentions of marrying her. A week later, he gets engaged immediately to someone else. Don’t ask me why, but Yura seems to believe that if Doguk breaks up with his fiancé, he’ll completely change his mind about her.

* Lucan from ''VisualNovel/{{Planets}}'' is a NiceGuy, but he has a crippling fear of rejection. If Marin rejects him after he reveals that [[spoiler:he unintentionally brainwashed his UnwantedHarem of fangirls into loving him]], Lucan responds by [[spoiler:''intentionally'' brainwashing Marin into loving him]].

* ''LightNovel/AiNoKusabi'': Iason and Guy really took it to extremes since they are both {{Yandere}} for Riki. Robby, Kirie and Miguel The Paradita didn't handle rejection by Riki well either.

* ''LightNovel/BookGirl'': Miu. Well, the first time. She was so sad and angry with Konoha for not telling her about him writing the book (thus feeling that he was distancing himself away from her and being as Yandere as she is) that she decided to kill herself right in front of him, so that he'd regret and suffer his entire life.

** The healthiest relationship in the series is probably the relationship between a back-alley surgeon (Shinra) and a headless female (Celty), where the former outright says that he dissembled about the location of the latter's head because he never wanted her to leave him. Actually, that's the part where there relationship ''improves''.
* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' Mahiro's mother Yoriko says that Mahiro and Nyarko should start their relationship slow and be friends first; Nyarko, mistakenly thinking she's been friend zoned, has the GivingUpTheGhost reaction.

* ''LightNovel/WelcomeToTheNHK'': Misaki somehow knows an awful lot about Satou, and she is very obsessed about making sure that he always attends her counseling every night. After he rejects her romantic advances, she attempts suicide.

** Yuki and his sister/Tohma's wife Mika acknowledge that Yuki's break-up with Shuichi was for Shuichi's own protection; had Yuki not ended it, it's heavily implied that Tohma, whom is a {{Yandere}} for Yuki, would have ''killed'' Shuichi. And this may not be the first incident of this happening.

* A now infamous series of strips in the MickeyMouse newspaper comic had Mickey attempting to commit suicide after being rejected by Minnie.

* The [[http://www.quickmeme.com/Overly-Attached-Girlfriend/?upcoming Overly Attached Girlfriend]] [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/overly-attached-girlfriend Meme,]] played by the [=YouTuber=] {{Creator/Laina}}. She was merely menacing in her videos... But when she makes a cameo in other [=YouTubers=]' videos, she becomes outright crazy, such as when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg6iMDfOl9E Jimmy tries to break up with her.]] And then, she misundertood WebVideo/ShaneDawson and believed that he was having an orgy without her... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k8DCA8qqMI That didn't end well.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HandsUpJoelG'': "Rhythm N' Ambush" has [[MsFanservice Margo]] attempting to seduce a murderous monster after her initial attempt at luring him into a trap fails, even going as far as to flash him. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth Said monster is so repulsed by her, he vomits immediately after sniffing her]]. Furious and insulted, Margo actually gets in the monster's face, and socks him right in the throat in retaliation. [[spoiler:This causes the monster to stumble and trigger the trap, which also ensares Margo, because she was too close to the monster.]]

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* Paul in ''Website/Chatoyant College'' followed Corrie to Chatoyant College because he's NotGoodWithRejection. Some acquaintances of Corrie try to help by [[spoiler:subjecting Paul to a magical restraining order. However, Corrie feels that magic should not be used to subvert someone's will so rescinds the order in Book 9. See IfICantHaveYou]].

* Elliot Rodger, a definitely unhinged youth in California, went on a killing rage, citing his continual rejection by women and the fact he was still a virgin at 22 as his justification.
** It needs to be noted that Elliot was ''never'' actually rejected by women because he ''never'' actually tried to approach any girls at all. The "rejection" he talked about was that women didn't come to him on their own.
** Going by the above points, Rodger would technically fall under the criteria for EntitledToHaveYou but is often interpreted as this by people who have heard of his story.

* In “LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero” Motoyasu's death resulted due to him not wanting to choose one of his two female friends over the other. Both girls responded by stabbing him to death while arguing over who would go to heaven with him.

* ''WebAnimation/EveryFaggotEver'': In episode 5, the titular faggot makes a very vulgar come on to a woman who's purse he returned. Naturally, she rejects him, at which point he calls her a "friend-zoning slut" and starts protesting her.

* Elliot Rodger, a definitely unhinged youth in California, who went on a killing rage, citing his continual rejection by women and the fact he was still a virgin at 22 as his justification.
** It needs to be noted that Elliot was ''never'' actually rejected by women, because he ''never'' actually tried to approach any girls at all. The "rejection" he talked about was that women didn't come to him on their own.
** Going by the above points, Rodger would technically fall under the criteria for EntitledToHaveYou, but is often interpreted as this by people who have heard of his story.