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* Sakura from ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' suffers greatly from this trope, since Dokuro-chan decides to live with him. Oh, and did we mention she beats the living shit out of him to the point of killing him? That's fine, she just resurrects him, only to kill him again and again... And there's nothing he can do, she's come to stay.

* RomanticComedy ''Manga/PleaseGoHomeAkutsuSan'' is a classic tale of "[[JapaneseDelinquents delinquent]] [[BoyMeetsGirl girl meets boy]], girl [[StalkerWithACrush stalks boy to find where he lives, girl shows up basically every single day]] and quickly begins staying there while boy's too much of a ChivalrousPervert to mind".

* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' CrackFic ''Fanfic/AllYouNeedIsLove'' [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5949144/1/All_You_Need_is_Love]] Naomi Misora [[SympathyForTheDevil feels so sorry]] for her [[StalkingIsLove stalker]], [[BigBad Light Yagami/Kira,]] [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty because he's being sexually harassed in the workplace]] that [[WhatWereYouThinking she invites him to stay at her place for a couple days...]] In the end Naomi ends up kidnapping Raye (her clueless fiancé) and fleeing the country to get away from Light. Meanwhile Light, who has to date not yet left her apartment, sends her a note informing her that the fridge is empty and now L and Matsuda (the stalker's stalkers) had followed him there and are in the process of "redecorating." The story then has a TimeSkip - it's five years later and Light still hasn't left.

* In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Eddie Menuek, Chandler's roommate for three episodes after Joey moves out. He's initially introduced as being [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} friendly but slightly odd]] -- but then his true nature is shown after a few days: a [[TheMentallyDisturbed crazed]] StalkerWithoutACrush ([[AmbiguousDisorder who is implied to be]] [[FunnySchizophrenia schizophrenic]]) who sneaks into Chandler's room to watch him sleep, enjoys dehydrating fruit a bit ''too'' much, convinces himself that Chandler slept with his ex-girlfriend and then murdered his goldfish, then replaces said fish with ''a goldfish cracker'', and steals a mannequin head from a Macy's store and says that they could use it as a chip bowl at parties. And to top it off, whenever Chandler confronts him that he's had enough and demands that he moves out, Eddie always forgets that the conversation ever happened -- at one point, Chandler asks Eddie if he remembers yesterday's conversation:

* [[Series/TheRachelMaddowShow Rachel Maddow]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this trope [[PlayedForLaughs hilariously]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSqNPlCjiM her account]] of how one story regarding Iraqi elections ended up on her show. NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel happened to be in town, which he almost ''never'' is, so when he swung by her daily rundown meeting to say hello to everyone, everyone enthusiastically said 'hello' back. But then, in Rachel's words, "he ''didn't leave''." He just hung around the meeting until Rachel, overcome by curiosity, asked, "Richard, is there something you'd like to add to the meeting?" At which point Richard let out a BigYes and started excitedly explaining The Very Huge Deal That Just Happened in Iraq. (And when Rachel noticed his hand twitching and handed him a whiteboard marker, he ''diagrammed'' it.) When he finished explaining the Huge Deal, a very impressed Rachel essentially said, "Yeah, you're coming on my show tonight." And thus Richard Engel got to tell all of her viewers about the Huge Deal by parking himself in her rundown meeting and counting on their [[PlatonicLifePartners long-standing friendship]] and Rachel's innate curiosity to do the rest.

* There are ''numerous'' Website/YouTube videos where [[NoPeriodsPeriod a menstrual period]] is personified as (usually) a girl or woman who acts like this. She does things like arrive unannounced and ahead of schedule, pressures her hostess to eat [[ComfortFood junk food]], [[MoodSwinger goes to pieces over trivial things]], wears her hostess' nicest underwear, critiques the hostess' choice to wear white pants, punches her in the stomach or back, [[DatePeepers tags along on dates]] [[MomentKiller (or tries for a threesome)]] with the hostess' LoveInterest, criticizes said LoveInterest, and just generally acts obnoxious. She always ''does'' leave, but always with the promise that she'll be back next month, much to the annoyance of her hostess. Sometimes, she changes her mind and decides to stay for a few extra days.

** The end of "Momma's Little Ed" has Edd become this to Eddy, as [[LaserGuidedKarma his ultimate punishment]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext for pranking Edd with fake sticky notes from Edd's parents.]]

* ''Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries'': A Morpeko follows the Team Rocket trio from Galar all the way back to Kanto, and ends up routinely devouring their food, much to their chagrin and annoyance. [[spoiler:Eventually, though, [[CantLiveWithThemCantLiveWithoutThem James ends up growing fond of and catches it]]]].

* Used in ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' where one day, straight out of the blue (apparently while on the way to give Quantum Cop another Nobel Prize), the ''King Of Sweden'' (King Carl XVI Gustaf) decided to remain in Casey and Andy's couch and demand they bring him drinks. The only times they managed to get him out of the couch was when they bribed him with drinks to help with a crisis in a fantasy dimension and when he was briefly kidnapped by the Land Pirates (which he joined due to, you guessed it, StockholmSyndrome). The strip's epilogue reveals [[spoiler:he remained there for another 20 years before dying and being replaced by his daughter Victoria]].

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemen''. After they've successfully pulled off TheCaper, the robbers are having a celebratory drink before going their separate ways with the loot when they're startled by a knock on the door. Turns out it's 'Bunny' Warren, an old army buddy of Hyde who's now his neighbour and has come to visit. Everyone works to keep Bunny's glass topped up and prevent him seeing anything suspicious while he rambles on about his time in the military with Hyde, and the others make excuses to slip out the door one by one. Bunny is still there when the police show up to arrest Hyde and gets thrown into the paddy wagon with him, by which time he's too drunk to understand what's happening.

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfGentlemen''. After they've successfully pulled off TheCaper, the robbers are having a celebratory drink before going their separate ways with the loot when they're startled by a knock on the door. Turns out it's 'Bunny' Warren, an old army buddy of Hyde who's now his neighbour and has come to visit. Everyone works to keep Bunny's glass topped up and prevent him seeing anything suspicious while he rambles on about his time in the military with Hyde, and the others make excuses to slip out the door one by one. Bunny is still there when the police show up to arrest Hyde and gets thrown into the paddy wagon with him, but which time he's too drunk to understand what's happening.

* Parodied in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fiEodIjT4 Please Go Home]]," Creator/DanielFranzese's spoof of "Stay With Me" by Music/SamSmith, about a hook-up who won't take the hint that it's time for him to leave.

** They've also dealt with literally dozens of people (somewhere around 40 to 50) staying at their apartment room in "iBeat The Heat" when word gets out Spencer has a backup battery-operated air conditioner during a heatwave in Seattle when all the power goes out (which of course was the result of people overusing their own [=AC=]s). This episode probably served as a satire of illegal immigration or overflowing of people into more urbanized areas.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 2'', you might have a guest who stays until around three in the morning, playing with your video games or on your computer, or with the bubble-blower, and then, out of the blue, you get this dialogue that says "You invited me to spend the night, but then you didn't let me get any sleep! I'm leaving!" even when you never gave any such invitation -- you were just too polite to ask the guest to leave!
* In ''The Sims 3'', you can control your Sims while they are in another household, so you can invoke this trope to a degree. You can eat your hosts' food, sleep in their beds, etc. If you keep it up, your hosts will become more and more annoyed with you and they'll eventually just throw you out.

* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZIG6U3bRmGNBpTDRoR_lE8oNYdgCwBU The Jack Horner Universe Saga]]'',[[WesterAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven]] is this to [[WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish Jack]], who keeps pestering him to be a better person. After Jack's attempts to keep him away with [[Series/BetterCallSaul a lawyer]] fail, he resigns himself to tolerating and horrifying the young Gem in turn.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGoofTroop'', a look at the boundary lines between Pete and Goofy's houses shows that Pete owns half of Goofy's property, with him taking advantage of it by tearing down half of Goofy's house and living on the property while wickedly invoking ThisIsMySide. At the end of the episode, Peg looked over the property graph again and reveals that Pete [[UpsideDownBlueprints had been looking at it upside down]]. Goofy actually owned half of ''his'' house, to his horror.

* As in the page quote -- Creator/EdwardGorey's short story ''Literature/TheDoubtfulGuest'' involves a ''highly'' annoying [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin-like creature]] constantly angering a family.

** The B plot of "Dog Gone" involves Lois hiring Consuela, a Hispanic housemaid, after she gets tired of cleaning up Peter's messes. She quickly slides into this territory, staying overnight just because it's raining, refusing to leave even after they fire her and outright bribe her to go away. It takes being knocked out with chloroform and dumped next door at Joe's just to finally get rid of her.

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* In ''WebOriginal/ShadowrunStorytime'', Locke doesn't feel safe returning to his apartment after Knight Errant raided it, so he ends up staying at Bend's house. Bend eventually gets frustrated enough that he changes his face and identity, sublets his house, and moves into a college frat to get away. Locke then starts mooching on Dervish.

* Animosity-wise, [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-682]] is this to those who are holding in captive, and they want to kill him due to his tendency to [[OmnicidalManiac kill anything that is living]]. However, thanks to his AdaptiveAbility from anything that is used to kill him, he won't be leaving anytime soon. It also doesn't help that his adaptation also works against things that send him somewhere else instead of killing him, [[TheCatCameBack allowing him to keep coming back]].

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* When UsefulNotes/CarolusRex suffered crushing defeats in the Great Northern War, he resigned to stay in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. However, when the Swedish king overstayed his welcome, a skirmish occurred in the territory of Bender, and Carolus was imprisoned. This didn't last long, however, as the Ottomans received word of a Swedish victory at the battle of Gadebusch, after which, Carolus was released with a full apology.