History Main / VillainTakesAnInterest

* [[{{Franchise/Metroid}} Ridley and Mother Brain]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13010468/1/Metroid-10 Metroid 10]]'' take an interest in Ben Tennyson and the Omnitrix. [[Characters/MetroidRidley Ridley]] sees the Omnitrix as a powerful weapon and offers to make Ben [[WeCanRuleTogether his trusted lieutenant]], while [[Characters/MetroidMotherBrain Mother Brain]] holds an interest in studying the Omnitrix for her own purposes.

* In ''VideoGame/IExpectYouToDie 2'', Agent Phoenix's repeated interference with Dr. Zor's plans gains her interest, with her promising to contact them if they survives the current crisis.

->'''Master Albert''': Two of the cyphers have been broken. I wanted to stall her longer... but she's developing faster than I expected. Excellent, Ashe! It pleases me.\\
'''Ashe''': Hunh!? What do you know about me!?\\
'''Master Albert''': I know everything about you! As if you were my own daughter. I want you to grow! Evolve! Show me your strength!

* In ''Series/CuteyHoneyTheLive'', Panther Claw member [[PsychoLesbian Mayumi Karasugawa]] takes a keen, unhealthily obsessive interest in [[TheStoic Sister Miki]] after initially believing her to be Cutey Honey. Even after she knows who is who, she still relentlessly pursues Miki.

'''James Wesley:''' It's a fair question. I'm here because [[ComicBook/TheKingpin my employer]] does extensive business in Hell's Kitchen, and who knows it better than two local boys who graduated from Columbia Law, ''cum laude'' and ''[[BadassBookworm summa cum laude]]''. ''[motions to Foggy and Matt, respectively]''\\

'''James Wesley:''' ''[[[ActuallyPrettyFunny laughs]]]'' [[StartMyOwn You set up shop right here in your backyard]], [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules despite the fact that both of you were made...a very lucrative offer from Landman & Zack in Manhattan, where you interned.]]\\

Related to WeCanRuleTogether, but rather than offering a position, offers a study period. Note that this requires a ''mentoring'' role. WorthyOpponent offering a team-up doesn't cut it.

'''James Wesley:''' ''[laughs]'' [[StartMyOwn You set up shop right here in your backyard]], [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules despite the fact that both of you were made...a very lucrative offer from Landman & Zack in Manhattan, where you interned.]]\\

** In season 3, while the FBI are transporting Fisk to the Presidential Hotel, they are ambushed by an Albanian hit squad, who kill several of Fisk's guards and almost get to Fisk before they are all taken out by Dex. Fisk immediately takes an interest in Dex, and spends the next few days worming his way into Dex's life, turning the mild-mannered FBI agent into an unstoppable assassin who looks at him as a father figure.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Double Subversion. [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]] initially doesn't care about [[spoiler:Marcy Wu]] whatsoever, only recognizing her as being spoken of in the prophecy and ordering Andrias to kill her. However, once [[spoiler:Marcy]] proves herself to be actually quite smart, the Core starts to become interested in her, eventually deciding to make her their newest host in order to foil the prophecy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Double Subversion. [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]] initially doesn't care about [[spoiler: [[Characters/AmphibiaMarcyWu Marcy Wu]]]] whatsoever, only recognizing her as being spoken of in the prophecy and ordering Andrias to kill her. However, once [[spoiler:Marcy]] proves herself to be actually quite smart, the Core starts to become interested in her, eventually deciding to make her their newest host in order to foil the prophecy.

** AntagonisticGovernor Rodger Maxwell readjusts his plans to deal with super-humans as soon as he witnesses [[TheHero Luz]] use [[PowerParasite All For One]] viewing her as the perfect solution to contain the [[MassSuperEmpoweringEvent power boom]] that occurred which is leaving the government in shambles.

* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': [[spoiler:In Chapter 7 of ''R1'', after Soundwave learns that Lelouch is Zero as well as a thought dead prince of Britannia and tells Megatron, Megatron decides to keep this information secret from both Charles and his crew, having taken an interest in what Optimus sees in Lelouch. The same is true for Suzaku, as Chapter 13 of ''R1'' reveals that Megatron wants Knock Out to upgrade the Lancelot as he's taken an interest in both it and Suzaku, planning to turn Suzaku into a "human" Decepticon. By the end of ''R1'', Megatron has given up on Suzaku, deeming him a lost cause.]]

** Factors into Kabuto's [[AdaptationalBackstoryChange backstory]] [[ForWantOfANail in this 'verse]]: Danzo learned about an orphan who was using his healing skills as a way to make money and promptly kidnapped him, forcing him to work for him. Then ''Orochimaru'' took an interest in the boy...

* ''Fanfic/{{Your Heart a Haven of Thorns|Naruto}}'': Danzo didn't pay much attention to Sakura, even after she became part of Team Seven alongside Naruto and Sasuke. But after she comes out of the Forest of Death [[AnArmAndALeg missing an arm]] and with [[ForWantOfANail a new tiger summons]], and shows off some surprising abilities during the preliminary matches of the Chuunin Exams, he immediately orders one of his lackies to start spying on her, musing that "a lowly pawn on the board had suddenly been upgraded to a queen".