History Main / StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale

* "WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}" features Panini, Endive's apprentice who's only gimmick is stalking Chowder while trying to make him her boyfriend by force. She jumps at the chance of [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace getting close to him no matter how uncomfortable he is]], [[ClingyJealousGirl gets catty and jealous towards any girl who tries to get close to him]], and even [[ItMakesSenseInContext tried to be club president so she can enforce a law that would make him her property by force]]. None of the adults intervene and think of it as PuppyLove and how Chowder should just play along. If that wasn't enough, [[spoiler:the series finale reveals that Chowder growing up meant he was ''supposed'' to get married to Panini because that's what's expected of him]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has this in the form of [[TheDreaded the]] [[GangOfBullies Kanker]] [[BlondeBrunetteRedhead Sisters]] who [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale sexually harass]] and stalk [[ComicTrio the Eds]] at every turn no matter how much the Eds try and get away from them. While it's not portrayed in a positive light even in the show, if the genders were reversed, this would be ''[[PlayedForDrama horrifying]]'' to many people, especially in the episode "Home Cooked Eds", which is when the Kankers decide to go on "holiday" by ''squatting in Eddy's house and parking their trailer on his lawn.'' [[OnlySaneMan Edd]] even warns Eddy that the girls may be becoming ''[[AllWomenAreLustful amorous]]'', forcing the Eds to flee the house.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng has stalking her crush down to a science -- literally, since she has a detailed [[http://official-ladyblog.tumblr.com/post/132127395470 schedule]] based on her analyses of his life, having as well an actual ''[[StalkerShrine shrine]]'' of him by filling one of her walls with his photos, stealing his phone and so on. [[spoiler:The episode "Pixelator" offers a visual contrast with ''another'' stalker.]] "Volpina" [[spoiler:also deals with Marinette's Stalker tendencies, with her apparently learning her lesson, even if by the nature of the ''watch-in-any-order'' season, [[AesopAmnesia any lesson she learns by the end of one episode is rendered meaningless]].]]

%%
%% NOTE: Please keep examples in alphabetical order by series (and the date for articles) on this page.
%%

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng has stalking her crush down to a science -- literally, since she has a detailed [[http://official-ladyblog.tumblr.com/post/132127395470 schedule]] based on her analyses of his life, having as well an actual ''[[StalkerShrine shrine]]'' of him by filling one of her walls with his photos, stealing his phone and so on. [[spoiler:The episode "Pixelator" offers a visual contrast with ''another'' stalker.]] "Volpina" [[spoiler:also deals with Marinette's Stalker tendencies, with her apparently learning her lesson, even if by the nature of the ''watch-in-any-order'' season, [[AosepAmnesia any lesson she learns by the end of one episode is rendered meaningless]].]]

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', when Joey, acting as the character Drake Remoray on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', attracts the attention of an obsessive fan who believes that Joey actually ''is'' Remoray and doesn't understand that he is only playing a character - and who happens to be played by Brooke Shields. Joey is initially pleased by her adoration of him, but gradually begins to realize just how deranged she is and quickly gets out of the situation. The whole thing is nevertheless PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Slate'''s Amanda Marcotte [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/08/26/taylor_swift_fans_don_t_know_who_alanis_morissette_is_that_s_for_the_best.html expressed surprise]] that Music/AlanisMorissette's "You Oughta Know" was ''ever'' considered a feminist anthem when it's clearly written from the point of view of a stalkerish woman who won't take no for an answer after the relationship's over.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng has stalking her crush down to a science -- literally, since she has a detailed [[http://official-ladyblog.tumblr.com/post/132127395470 schedule]] based on her analyses of his life, having as well an actual ''shrine'' of him by filling one of her walls with his photos, stealing his phone and so on. [[spoiler:The episode "Pixelator" offers a visual contrast with ''another'' stalker.]] "Volpina" [[spoiler:also deals with Marinette's Stalker tendencies, with her apparently learning her lesson, even if by the nature of the ''watch-in-any-order'' season, [[AosepAmnesia any lesson she learns by the end of one episode is rendered meaningless]].]]

* Completely and utterly averted in in the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10360518 Schedule]]''. In sharp contrast to how Marinette's StalkerWithACrush tendencies are PlayedForLaughs in-canon, here, Adrien is thoroughly creeped out that someone he trusted and considered a friend would violate his privacy in such a way. He starts having panic attacks at the thought that she might be stalking him everywhere to the point he can't even be in the same room with her.

A man who creeps after a woman, spies on her and builds a StalkerShrine in her honor is creepy. The woman, however, [[DoubleStandard not so much]], especially if she is conventionally attractive, but even if she isn't, she is far more likely to be treated sympathetically and the whole thing far more likely to be PlayedForLaughs than if the gender dynamic were reversed.

* A series of commercials for the Android smartphone featured a girl who couldn't stop talking about her new LoveInterest, Brad, and all the different ways the Android's apps let her keep tabs on him. She could go through his Facebook and compare herself to photos of his ex-girlfriends, watch his Twitter to see if he mentioned her, and so on. Taken to the disturbing extreme when she talked about checking in on Foursquare... which had just declared her the 'mayor' of Brad's closet. The wide-eyed, vacant, faintly unhinged expression on the actress' face only made it that much creepier, but the whole thing was PlayedForLaughs. Hard to imagine them being as funny if the stalker was male.

** Karin is the same for Sasuke, only less sympathetic, because while Naruto actually likes Hinata, Sasuke finds Karin creepy (which might have something to do with the fact that she once planned to drug their teammates so she could [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale rape him while he was injured]]).
* Kotone in ''Manga/NyanKoi'' is a NightmareFetishist who crushes hard on the hero because of his curse. She has an entire fantasy journal about him in her cell phone, and has no qualms about bugging his house. Her twin sister Akari does not approve of this, reminding Kotone that [[WorryingForTheWrongReason she shouldn't stalk people before turning 20.]]
* Mizore Shirayuki from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' initially averts this due to her {{yandere}} tendencies, but when she moves past those, her stalking habits become far more comical. She has hidden in trash cans, outside the second story window, and many, many other strange places. All because she finds it "fun".
** At least in the manga version this is also downplayed a bit because with the exception of points where ''everybody's'' stalking the protagonist, she's usually stalking the group. Of her friends, who often know she's there, and panel shots portray her as relaxing in their vicinity as much as actually watching them. This makes it come off as just a more extreme case of not being comfortable too close to too many new people at once, which isn't that odd for the shut-in she was at the start.

* The female squirrel from ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' is in lust with Wart. She stalks and repeatedly touches him after he explicitly tells her, "No." She chases after him when he tries to run away, and he becomes so desperate to be left alone he resorts to begging Merlin to be turned back into a human in order to escape her. Merlin only complies when he gets his own female squirrel stalker after him, because he thought Wart's situation was amusing.

* ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'': In the second film Sharpay anonymously hires Troy to work for her, spies on him almost 24/7, has his manager track his movements, and blackmails him into singing romantic duets with her. All while he has a girlfriend he is very much in love with and repeatedly indicates he's uncomfortable with Sharpay's attention. While Sharpay's clearly in the wrong, her actions are played as a frivolous teenage crush instead of anything more serious, and most of the blame falls on ''Troy'' for not getting rid of her.[[note]] What's even worse is her parents seem to encourage her obsession, even though they're technically Troy's bosses, (in a job he really needs) meaning he's trapped in an impossible position and there's a whole other level of manipulation going on. [[/note]]
* In ''Film/OfficeRomance'', Olga stalks Yuri (they used to date at college), flirting with him at every opportunity, sending him love letters and keeping watch at the door of his office. He gently tells her he isn’t interested, but she immediately says she isn’t going to be deterred. She is portrayed sympathetically, especially since he is a SmugSnake. He ends up revealing her love letters to the entire department, which is admittedly a horribly nasty thing to do, but he does it when he snaps after ''months'' of her stalking.

** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter.html Magical date-rape drugs are sold out in the open ]] and it's considered wacky hijinks when Ron gets dosed by Romilda Vane, a crazy fangirl who intended for Harry to take the potion. In the case of [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Merope Gaunt's stalking Tom Riddle Sr. and dosing him with a love potion]] it's at least depicted as unhealthy with Merope depicted as in the wrong for doing so, although Merope is still [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale far more sympathetic than a male-on-female equivalent would be]]. What's especially weird is that both of these events are described in the same book, and yet neither is brought up in reference to the other. MisaimedFandom sometimes even says Tom Riddle Sr was in the wrong for leaving Merope and deserved it for [[FelonyMisdemeanor being a snob]], ignoring that Tom Riddle as a date rape victim has every right to leave the dangerous strange woman who took advantage of him.

* Played with on ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. After Brandon Walsh breaks up with girlfriend Emily Valentine, she refuses to accept it, calling him repeatedly, showing up wherever he is uninvited and unannounced, kissing/touching him, etc. The other members of the gang make a few wisecracks, but even so, it's clear that they actually ''don't'' find this cute or funny, with his twin sister Brenda warning him that the situation has the potential to become violent. On the other hand, their own mother is consistently sympathetic to her, chalking her behavior up to teenage hormones, even as it gets more deranged. By the end of the storyline, when the girl is actually taken away for psychiatric care, even ''Brandon'' feels sorry for her, citing how lonely she must have been.
* In an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', many of Amy's behaviour towards Sheldon Cooper could be easily interpreted as stalking, and a lot of it is met with uproarious laughter by the audience. One episode has her flat out admit she snuck ''multiple'' sets of nightclothes&toothbrushes into Sheldon's apartment in hopes she would be invited to sleep over. This is PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' ''seems'' to play this trope straight throughout much of the first season, with both main character Rebecca and her best friend Paula going to incredible lengths to keep tabs on Rebecca's ex-boyfriend Josh, but by the end of the season it winds up subverted and deconstructed when both women realize that their behavior has been creepy and disrespectful to Josh and his girlfriend, as well as massively unhealthy for their own friendship.

* ''Series/LivAndMaddie'' indulges in this with Willow, who's endless chasing after, stealing from and harassing Joey are treated as nothing but comedic, and the two even get together briefly.

* The animated version of ''ComicBook/BillyTheCat'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMb981JAT8I#t=23m27s A Star Is Born]] features the cat character Mr. Hubert, (sort of a mentor to Billy) becoming famous among cats for his role in cat food ads. The episode ends with several female cats chasing him off screen and Billy's reaction being "go get him, girls!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', both Susan and Mary's obsession with Gil and Eugene's obsession with Susan are PlayedForLaughs. However, Eugene is a flat-out AbhorrentAdmirer, with Susan fully aware and utterly disgusted by his advances on account of his repulsive appearance and clingy personality. Gil, meanwhile, seems completely unaware that the girls are interested in him. He did call them out on their behavior once, when they locked him in the lab to keep him from encountering any of the rampaging Gil-bots, yet remained clueless as to why, and continued to treat them normally in later eps. Both Susan/Mary and Eugene have attempted to use mind control or otherwise force their obsession to be with them. Eugene is seen as a villain for this and gets punished, while Susan and Mary tend to get no worse than failing to get Gil. That's not even going into the fact they have him under constant surveillance with a wide variety of technology.
** Towards the end of the series, it is revealed that Gil always refers to Susan and Mary as "Girls I've Never Seen Before" because after he inevitably gets caught up in their failed experiments, they always wipe his mind to cover it up, and this has apparently caused him alot of brain damage, explaining why he TookALevelInDumbass as the series progressed.

** "Gorilla Fist" concludes with the reveal that the plot was driven by [=DNAmy=] [[UnwittingPawn manipulating Team Possible]] into finding Monkey Fist, who had fled from her unwanted attentions. Ron pronounces it [[SickAndWrong "wrongsick"]], but it's clearly {{played for laughs}} from the audience viewpoint.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng has stalking her crush down to a science -- literally, since she has a detailed [[http://official-ladyblog.tumblr.com/post/132127395470 schedule]] based on her analyses of his life, having as well an actual ''shrine'' of him by filling one of her walls with his photos, stealing his phone and so on. [[spoiler: The episode "Pixelator" offers a visual contrast with ''another'' stalker.]] "Volpina" [[spoiler: also deals with Marinette's Stalker tendencies, with her apparently learning her lesson, even if by the nature of the ''watch-in-any-order'' season, any lesson she learns by the end of one episode is rendered meaningless.]]

** In the episode "Prom-ise Her Anything", Elmyra's stalking of Montana Max in an effort to get him to go to the prom with her is portrayed as sympathetic, and Max is portrayed as being in the wrong for rejecting her. Part if this may be that Max is the DesignatedVillain. The fact that later in the episode he is forced to take her to the prom by Buster and Babs despite not being interested in Elmyra nor even going to the dance makes him UnintentionallySympathetic to many viewers.
* Sierra to Cody in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''. And in the fandom, Sierra fans often argue that it's alright that Sierra stalks Cody, because it's just a {{Gender Flip}}ped version of Cody "stalking" Gwen. The thing is, Cody ''never'' stalked Gwen--he obviously [[DoggedNiceGuy has a crush on her]] and has occasionally edged into creepy territory (sniffing her hair, for example), but never did anything weird enough for Gwen to stop considering him a friend. Sierra, however, ignores all of Cody's obvious objections while she steals all his underwear, messes with him while he sleeps, ''paralyzes him'' and at one point even "Marries him" while he's unable to object. It's all PlayedForLaughs, (and very funny) but even fans admit that a guy could never have gotten away with anything similar without the show going very dark. As it is, Sierra gets a sympathetic send off, and is even brought back for Total Drama All Stars where she begins stalking Cameron with similar results.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In the original ''Manga/DragonBall,'' Chi-Chi does this to Goku. Her entry in the Tenkaichi Budokai was just her way to bully Goku into marrying her because of a promise he had made when they were both ten years old.
** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ,'' Videl's stalking of Gohan is usually this. She seemed to enjoy following him home a lot.

* Averted in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', where Yuno's stalking of Yuki is portrayed as terrifying and unhealthy behaviour, and Yuki is clearly appalled by it, only choosing to stick around with Yuno as she is his only chance of making it through the Survival Game alive. [[StalkingIsLove Initially]], [[BecomingTheMask at least]]....

** In [[{{Canon}} the manga]] itself, Hinata's a {{Downplayed|Trope}} version of a StalkerWithACrush who's too shy to approach Naruto, but anime {{filler}}s and the SD spinoff tend to exaggerate Hinata's character into an obsessive stalker.

* ''Literature/{{Shimoneta}}'': [[CuteAndPsycho Anna's]] relentless pursuit of Tanukichi is one of the series' main sources of comedy. She's done everything from staking out his apartment, to quite literally chasing him around the halls at school, because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she fails to realize]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy he's terrified of her.]]
* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Zig-zagged, mostly on the subject of Juvia's obsession with Gray. Especially before she joins the titular guild, since before then she doesn't have a chance to hang out with him every day and just stalks him because of that. She has even kept track of the number of days they've known each other, the fact that her room is full of Gray dolls is portrayed as cute, and most members of the guild think Gray should just date her already. Gray meanwhile treats her actions with anything from indifference to annoyance since he knows who she is even before she joins Fairy Tail, and his lack of real care seems to be some combination of having beaten her and saved her life during the guild war with Phantom Lord and (at first) not really having any interest back. Yet they go on many missions together, sometimes alone, and even [[CombinationAttack have effective teamwork]]. Meanwhile, when Lucy is followed by a suspicious-looking man (who is soon revealed to just be her father gone from RichesToRags), she is genuinely afraid and freaks out over what his intentions might be since she doesn't know who he is at first, plus she's much less brave about these sorts of things than Gray.

%%[[folder:Comic Books]]
%%* Knives in ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' has a bit of this for Scott, but she gets over it.
%%[[/folder]]

%%* Played with in one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent''. A guy is faking some stuff to make it look like his ex-girlfriend is stalking him (I forget his exact reason). When the police question him he claims that he found it somewhat flattering which makes the police very suspicious since that is not a normal reaction.
%%** That was from the Criminal Intent Spin-off, he was a wannabe actor and narcissist who was setting his ex up to take the fall for his arranged murder of his current girlfriend thinking it would provide him publicity that would get him acting jobs.
%%** Played with in another episode of Law and Order as well where it was discovered that the female victim framed the male suspect by meticulously stalking him for years. Finding out when and here he was moving before hand so she could do it first and eventually putting herself into a coma. When this was discovered the prosecutors felt that she must have really believed he killed her sister to go through so much trouble. Averted in the end when evidence was discovered that it was her not him.

%%* PlayedForLaughs with Harper's [[StalkerWithACrush stalky crush]] on Justin in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', before Harper's RelationshipUpgrade.
* Played for CringeComedy with Mel in the music comedy show ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords''. She stalks Jemanie and Bret, the two members of the band, despite being married. They grudgingly put up with some amount of it because she's the band's only fan.
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', when Joey, acting as the character Drake Remoray on ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', attracts the attention of an obsessive fan who believes that Joey actually ''is'' Remoray and doesn't understand that he is only playing a character - and who happens to be played by Brooke Shields. Joey is initially pleased by her adoration of him, but gradually begins to realize just how deranged she is and quickly gets out of the situation. The whole thing is nevertheless PlayedForLaughs.
* Subverted in the eighth season of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''. The rest of the gang are clearly horrified by Jeanette's actions while stalking Ted. Unfortunately, Ted is not.
* In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Odo is sufficiently unnerved by Lwaxana Troi's unwanted romantic attention and refusal to take "go away and leave me alone" for an answer that he goes to Commander Sisko asking for help dealing with the situation. Sisko brushes him off and tells him to "handle it," and the whole thing is PlayedForLaughs. Significantly, Odo had an extremely difficult upbringing, "growing up" surrounded by beings that had no biological similarities to him and who didn't even realize he was sentient for quite a while, and consequently has always found socialization rather difficult. This is coupled with the fact that Lwaxana is a very aggressive flirt with the rank of ambassador, who tends to say whatever she wants to people knowing that if anyone gets on her nerves it could start an international incident (essentially turning this into a case of textbook sexual harassment). To highlight the double standard further, the same episode had Sisko boasting that on an occasion when a male ambassador was making inappropriate advances to a female officer, he broke protocol and punched him in the face, but laughs off Odo's formal complaint.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has the character [[{{Fangirl}} Becky]] obsessed with Sam, even going so far as SlippingAMickey with a love potion and having him marry her in Season 7. This is played for laughs, with the episode being presented as a comedic one, even when Becky knocks Sam out and ties him up when the potion wears off.
* Inverted in ''Series/MrYoung''. Adam is [[LoveMakesYouCrazy quite literally madly in love with Echo]], and even admits while under the influence of TruthSerum that his feelings for her are "kinda creepy". It reaches LoveMakesYouEvil levels at times, such as in one episode where Echo gets cast as Juliet in a production of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and Adam tries to murder the guy playing Romeo to stop them from kissing. This is always PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'' ''seems'' to play this trope straight throughout much of the first season, with both main character Rebecca and her best friend Paula going to incredible lengths to keep tabs on Rebecca's ex-boyfriend Josh, but by the end of the season it winds up subverted and deconstructed when both women realize that their behavior has been creepy and disrespectful to Josh and his girlfriend, as well as massively unhealthy for their own friendship.
* Happens in the pilot episode of ''Series/MyThreeSons''. Doreen Peters calls Chip at his house late one night and stands outside his home the next day, waiting for him to come out. When Chip expresses his chagrin his father just tells him to be a gentleman. It's more justified than most examples though, as Doreen is only ''eight years old''.
* Played with on ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. After Brandon Walsh breaks up with girlfriend Emily Valentine, she refuses to accept it, calling him repeatedly, showing up wherever he is uninvited and unannounced, kissing/touching him, etc. The other members of the gang make a few wisecracks, but even so, it's clear that they actually ''don't'' find this cute or funny, with his twin sister Brenda warning him that the situation has the potential to become violent. On the other hand, their own mother is consistently sympathetic to her, chalking her behavior up to teenage hormones, even as it gets more deranged. By the end of the storyline, when the girl is actually taken away for psychiatric care, even ''Brandon'' feels sorry for her, citing how lonely she must have been.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' downplays this. After the ball at the Winter Palace, Cullen receives multiple letters asking about him, his family history, and his titles, all for a shot at trying to marry him. A couple of nobles even travel to Skyhold to see the Commander. Cullen is clearly uncomfortable with the mountain of requests and asks that they be burned while the female advisors keep them all and tell Cullen to "Hush. Just look pretty." This becomes worse if the Inquisitor is in a relationship with Cullen, as his "admirers" actively ignore the relationship and still pursue him.

* Homer is stalked by Julia, a gorgeous black-haired woman in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and it's all PlayedForLaughs - even when she tries to kill him with a poison-tipped dart at the climax. This episode also subverts BeautyIsNeverTarnished (the woman is a wild-haired harridan by the time the police take her away) and utilizes a FallingChandelierOfDoom leading to her capture.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** "Emotion Sickness" deals with Kim and Shego, under the influence of the [[EmotionBomb Moodulators]], very pushily coming on to Ron and Drakken, respectively. A male character using superior physical skills to chase a terrified girl who is running away from his affections and then flying into a murderous rage when he's rejected would be considered dark, but the opposite just results in the characters laughing it off.
** "Gorilla Fist" concludes with the reveal that the plot was driven by [=DNAmy=] [[UnwittingPawn manipulating Team Possible]] into finding Monkey Fist, who had fled from her unwanted attentions. Ron pronounces it [[SickAndWrong "wrongsick"]], but it's clearly {{played for laughs}} from the audience viewpoint.
* Subverted by Giffany in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''. The few points where her stalking of Soos is PlayedForLaughs, it has more to do with her being [[spoiler:[[KissMeImVirtual a computer program]] and him a human]] rather than her being a girl and him a guy. Even then, it's pretty clear that something's wrong with her. Soos even notes that it's a red flag, but ignores it because he's happy for the attention. [[spoiler:He does eventually recognize that she's a threat and deals with her by destroying her game.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat is constantly stalked by the main four's annoying neighbor, [[AlphaBitch Pretty]], who doesn't seem to realize that he utterly despises her and actually wants her to die.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': Marinette Dupain-Cheng has stalking her crush down to a science -- literally, since she has a detailed [[http://official-ladyblog.tumblr.com/post/132127395470 schedule]] based on her analyses of his life, having as well an actual ''shrine'' of him by filling one of her walls with his photos, stealing his phone and so on. [[spoiler: The episode "Pixelator" offers a visual contrast with ''another'' stalker.]] "Volpina" [[spoiler: also deals with Marinette's Stalker tendencies, with her apparently learning her lesson, even if by the nature of the ''watch-in-any-order'' season, any lesson she learns by the end of one episode is rendered meaningless.]]
* In WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', Dijonay constantly stalks Sticky like this. She also seems to lack boundaries and even physically forces herself on him as well. There's no way this would be PlayedForLaughs should the genders be reversed.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'':
** As the DistaffCounterpart of Pepe Le Pew, this is Fifi Le Fume's entire gimmick. The female skunk chases after boys who might even find her attractive if not for her odor.
** In the episode "Prom-ise Her Anything", Elmyra's stalking of Montana Max in an effort to get him to go to the prom with her is portrayed as sympathetic, and Max is portrayed as being in the wrong for rejecting her. Part if this may be that Max is the DesignatedVillain. The fact that later in the episode he is forced to take her to the prom by Buster and Babs despite not being interested in Elmyra nor even going to the dance makes him UnintentionallySympathetic to many viewers.

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': [[CuteAndPsycho Anna's]] relentless pursuit of Tanukichi is one of the series' main sources of comedy. She's done everything from staking out his apartment, to quite literally chasing him around the halls at school, because [[ComicallyMissingThePoint she fails to realize]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy he's terrified of her.]]

-->-- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJbqm4k5qoI Stalker]]", Goldfinger

In RealLife, it shouldn't need to be said, stalking is a Bad Idea[[{{Tradesnark}} ™]] and, depending on the extent to which the stalker goes, almost certainly illegal no matter which genders are involved. Unfortunately, this trope can be found in real life insofar as men are often less likely to be taken seriously by the authorities than women in a similar situation. That said, as with similar tropes, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease'''

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Zig-zagged, mostly on the subject of Juvia's obsession with Gray. Especially before she joins the titular guild, since before then she doesn't have a chance to hang out with him every day and just stalks him because of that. She has even kept track of the number of days they've known each other, the fact that her room is full of Gray dolls is portrayed as cute, and most members of the guild think Gray should just date her already. Gray meanwhile treats her actions with anything from indifference to annoyance since he knows who she is even before she joins Fairy Tail, and his lack of real care seems to be some combination of having beaten her and saved her life during the guild war with Phantom Lord and (at first) not really having any interest back. Meanwhile, when Lucy is followed by a suspicious-looking man (who is soon revealed to just be her father gone from RichesToRags), she is genuinely afraid and freaks out over what his intentions might be since she doesn't know who he is at first, plus she's much less brave about these sorts of things than Gray.

* Homer is stalked by Julia, a gorgeous black-haired woman in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and it's all PlayedForLaughs - even when she tries to kill him with a poison-tipped dart at the climax. This episode also subverts BeautyIsNeverTarnished (the woman is a wild-haired harridan by the time the police take her away) and plays straight SlapstickKnowsNoGender [[FallingChandelierOfDoom (she is captured after a chandelier falls on her)]].

** In the original ''Anime/DragonBall,'' Chi-Chi does this to Goku. Her entry in the Tenkaichi Budokai was just her way to bully Goku into marrying her because of a promise he had made when they were both ten years old.

* In ''Anime/DragonBall,'' Chi-Chi does this to Goku. Her entry in the Tenkaichi Budokai was just her way to bully Goku into marrying her because of a promise he had made when they were both ten years old.
* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ,'' Videl's stalking of Gohan is usually this. She seemed to enjoy following him home a lot.

* 'Hello" by Adele. Calling someone 1,000 times after they break up with you is not okay.

* Ayame Sarutobi from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' frequently stalks Gintoki, and being a ninja, she tends to show up in unexpected places. She's infiltrated his home on numerous occasions, with his typical response being to throw her out onto the street. However, [[TooKinkyToTorture as a masochist,]] the repeated rejection only motivates her....