History Main / Yandere

* ''WebOriginal/AscensionAcademy'' features Esmae, a spirit with a poor understanding of social conventions, lacking in empathy almost entirely, and with an unnatural draw and connection to Chipz. All of this mixed together created a potentially dangerous Yandere. [[spoiler:During the First Year, Esmae was convinced to stab Chipz in the heart by Victor, claiming it would 'make him love her forever'. Thankfully Chipz is a vampire and survived the incident, though this effectively squashed her chances of actually getting with him as it destroyed his trust in her. Later in the Second Year after Chipz and Vevina became very close following a confession from Vevina, Esmae kidnapped Chipz, held him as sword point, and forced him to promise to stay in her room for the night. Because she is a spirit, it is dangerous to break a promise made to her, so he was forced to do so.]] Thankfully she slowly lost interest in Chipz over the course of the Second Year as it became apparent he had no romantic interest in her.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'': Frollo is a strange one. It's certainly not love, for obvious reasons. It's also not just the desire for sex, because then ''any'' woman would suffice. It's more like an unhealthy obsession. Which, of course, fits the definition of Yandere to a tee. Now throw in a ridiculously rigid version of catholic sexual moral, and you get one of the greatest Disney villains of all time.

* LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} acts like this in "Best Friends Forever" for Cinnamon Toast Ken. He tries so desperately to get in his house and makes claims about how close they are. Naturally, Ken is a little freaked out by this and does his best to keep Mark out. [[spoiler:... It doesn't work.]]

* ''Roleplay/NoPixel'': Four Tee is an aromantic variation by way of having been isolated for most of her life and not having an understanding of how love and romance function. She "loves" everyone on her friends list and is so seemingly whimsical to be disarming and endearing even to folks she's not friends with. However, she's also extraordinarily bonkers, is obsessed with her friends to stalkerish extremes, will not hesitate to go full-tilt psycho to anyone who harms or slights her friends, and has murdered friends for "leaving" her.

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* The infamous Yuka Takaoka stabbed her boyfriend, because she claimed that she saw photos of Luna being intimate with another woman and that she couldn't help it because she loved him so much. Yes, even RealLife isn't immune to this trope. Yuka's reputation has caused a BrokenBase on the internet between the supporters and those who oppose her.
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Their StockPhrase will be "IfICantHaveYou, no one will!"

** There's also [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1269 SCP-1269]], a mailbox which sits in front of a house in Massachusetts, USA. If a woman aged 23 or older moves into the house for SCP-1269, mysterious unaddressed letters, which are directed at the woman and highly romantic in nature, manifest inside the mailbox every four days. If you attempt to remove 1269 and replace it with a normal mailbox, both disappear, with 1269 appearing back in it's usual spot and the other mailbox appearing in a dumpster 25km away with an extremely hostile and possessive letter inside it. SCP-1269 was recently kicked up to Euclid status when a male D-Class moved into the house with the female D-Class resident only to go missing some weeks later, his battered and mutilated corpse was found in the dumpster. Examples of letters found:

See also ClingyJealousGirl, CrazyJealousGuy, LoveMakesYouEvil, LoveMakesYouCrazy, StalkerWithACrush, StalkerShrine, DomesticAbuse, ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend, VillainousCrush, AlwaysSaveTheGirl, and IfICantHaveYou. Compare StepfordSmiler, PsychoSupporter, and IHaveYouNowMyPretty. May God have mercy on you if you are caught in a PsychoticLoveTriangle (a love triangle with two members being Yanderes). Contrast with BitchInSheepsClothing, in which a character is consciously using the illusion of purity and niceness to cover up a sadistic true nature (though a BISC ''can'' become a Yandere if we add obsession and mental instability to the mix). At the extreme, ALoveToDismember can occur. Due to their often violent nature, they are likely to be TheUnfettered. The more savage examples are also very likely to be FauxAffablyEvil. Don't confuse with ''Manga/YandereKanojo'', a manga which surprisingly doesn't involve actual yandere (except for one case, in which the victim had it coming. It ends well, though). Also contrast CuteAndPsycho a.k.a. Yangire, who is also sweet and crazy, but whose craziness ''isn't'' tied to love.

"Yandere" is derived from the Japanese words ''yamu'', meaning insane or sick, and ''deredere'', meaning affectionate or loving. Simply put, a ''yandere'' is someone who is lovesick, someone who has been driven to insanity by extreme obsession or love, thus resulting in abnormal behavior if not violence. Take the Tropes LoveMakesYouCrazy, LoveMakesYouEvil, LoveHungry, and StalkerWithACrush, and condense everything into a singular personified character archetype.

* The infamous Yuka Takaoka stabbed her boyfriend, because she claimed that she saw photos of Luna being intimate with another woman and that she couldn't help it because she loved him so much. Yes, even RealLife isn't immune to this trope. Yuka's reputstion has caused a BrokenBase on the internet between the supporters and those who oppose her.

See also ClingyJealousGirl, her SpearCounterpart CrazyJealousGuy, LoveMakesYouEvil, LoveMakesYouCrazy, StalkerWithACrush, StalkerShrine, DomesticAbuse, ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend, VillainousCrush, AlwaysSaveTheGirl, and IfICantHaveYou. Compare StepfordSmiler, PsychoSupporter, and IHaveYouNowMyPretty. May God have mercy on you if you are caught in a PsychoticLoveTriangle (a love triangle with two members being Yanderes). Contrast with BitchInSheepsClothing, in which a character is consciously using the illusion of purity and niceness to cover up a sadistic true nature (though a BISC ''can'' become a Yandere if we add obsession and mental instability to the mix). At the extreme, ALoveToDismember can occur. Due to their often violent nature, they are likely to be TheUnfettered. The more savage examples are also very likely to be FauxAffablyEvil. Don't confuse with ''Manga/YandereKanojo'', a manga which surprisingly doesn't involve actual yandere (except for one case, in which the victim had it coming. It ends well, though). Also contrast CuteAndPsycho a.k.a. Yangire, who is also sweet and crazy, but whose craziness ''isn't'' tied to love.

"Yandere" is derived from the Japanese words ''yanderu'', meaning insane or sick, and ''deredere'', meaning affectionate or loving. Simply put, a ''yandere'' is someone who is lovesick, someone who has been driven to insanity by extreme obsession or love, thus resulting in abnormal behavior if not violence. Take the Tropes LoveMakesYouCrazy, LoveMakesYouEvil, LoveHungry, and StalkerWithACrush, and condense everything into a singular personified character archetype.

* ''Wiki/RPCAuthority'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Japanese EvilInc Kabushiki Kawaii, who deliberately [[http://rpc-wiki.net/rpc-439 created a line of]] BrainwashedAndCrazy {{cyborg}} {{Sex Slave}}s to sell to men with a yandere fetish. One recovered by the Authority ends up falling for a female researcher, [[AbhorrentAdmirer much to her displeasure]].

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* One of the newer characters in ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' is Mr. Pickels, who is a platonic yandere for another newer character called Lammy. He does ''not'' like her showing affection to anyone other than him.
* The entire point of ''WebAnimation/HowToDealWithAYandere'', a step-by-step comedy series in walfas that has to Joey how to deal with his yandere girlfriend, Lily.

* A gay example in Miller from the third volume of Yotam Perel's ''WebAnimation/{{Nameless}}'' series, who falls for Chocolate Man.

The word "yandere", a term that blossomed in {{moe}} fandom, refers to a character who is [[LoveMakesYouCrazy crazy about someone else]]... [[AxCrazy often literally and violently]]. Yanderes are usually identifiable by their [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness blank eyes]] when they go crazy, [[DevilInPlainSight blood being soaked on them for the majority of their screentime]], carrying at least [[WeaponOfChoice one signature weapon]] that they use to kill and/or attack others for the majority of their screentime, a mostly {{Moe}} appearance or at least an [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon appearance that will deceive others]], psychotic behavior, and [[MurderTheHypotenuse a tendency to attack and/or kill people who would get in the way of their love]]. Many of them are AxCrazy. "Benign" cases don't even need to bring weapons or violence into the mix: just a well-established aura of menace and the feeling of dread if you step out of line is enough. When on the Good Guys' team, they are often the TokenEvilTeammate (or at least the [[UnscrupulousHero fourth type]] of the AntiHero).

* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Shannon]] in the Wiki/TVTropes webseries ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'' [[StalkerWithACrush obsesses over Tom, stalks him]], and [[IfICantHaveYou threatens girls he is seen with]]. She scares Tom enough that he agreed to propose to her, because [[spoiler: he was worried she would severely hurt him if he didn't]].

"Yandere" is derived from the Japanese words ''yanderu'', meaning insane or sick, and ''deredere'', meaning affectionate or loving. Simply put, a ''yandere'' is someone who is lovesick; someone who has been driven to insanity by extreme obsession or love, thus resulting in abnormal behavior if not violence. Take the Tropes LoveMakesYouCrazy, LoveMakesYouEvil, LoveHungry, and StalkerWithACrush, and condense everything into a singular personified character archetype.