Control Freaks in Anime and Manga.
- Nagisa's mother Hiromi in Assassination Classroom wants to control her son's life so she can live vicariously through him and experience all the things she never got to. Invoking Raised as the Opposite Gender on him and trying to force him down the path she had set for herself.
- Berserk: Griffith obviously believes that he can use his comrades whenever and however he feels like. But when Guts and Casca have plans outside of his control? NO — that will NOT be permitted!Griffith: You will fight for my cause because you belong to me. I will decide the place where you die.
- Chainsaw Man:
- Makima is revealed to be the Control Devil and the first of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, so it comes with the territory as she's the Anthropomorphic Personification of this trope. After Katana Man and his group wipe out most of the Special Divisions and the survivors are placed directly under her control, Genre Savvy Madoka and Kishibe accuse her to her face of having planned the whole thing. After she was reincarnated into Denji's adoptive little sister Nayuta, she becomes a far less malicious Creepy Child but forces Denji to live under strict house rules under pain of death.
- Loser Protagonist Asa in Part 2 has No Social Skills and is shown to be incredibly exacting and overbearing to people, even if she's trying to earn their favor, resulting in a case of Loners Will Stay Alone.
- Fruits Basket:
- As their God, Akito Sohma firmly believes she can use the Zodiac whenever and however she feels like; this was instilled in her by her father and the Sohma retainers, who outright told her that she was "born to be loved" and that the Zodiac members exist solely to live and die for her. If they even think of having plans or lives outside of her total control, she'll use any means necessary, from intimidation to physical violence, to ensure they don't follow through with it.
- Yuki's mother expects him to follow her orders without question and has no interest in his personal desires, only caring about how she can use him to further her own social standing. During the parent/teacher conference, she reveals she's planned out Yuki's entire future without consulting him, and when Ayame intervenes and tells her off for her controlling nature, she loses her temper and snaps that she never should have given birth to either of her sons simply because they're not doing what she wants.
- In Future Diary Yuno had a control-freak mother who measured everything she did from how many hours she got to sleep to how many calories she had a day. She also kept her in a cage and starved her in an effort to raise her to be a model person. If you ever wondered why Yuno is so utterly messed up, look no further.
- Kageyama in Haikyuu!! was one prior to his Character Development. He had an aggressive, domineering personality that caused him to scream at his teammates for being unable to keep up with him, and his selfish, bossy attitude led to them calling him the "King of the Court". Eventually, they got sick of him and refused to cooperate with his plays, leading him to be benched for the rest of junior high and all the top volleyball high schools rejected his application as a result.
- Hello! Sandybell: Even when she's distantly afar from him, Kitty tries to control Mark's interactions with Sandybell and impede into his personal life using whatever means she can, believing that she can mold Mark into being hers and hers only.
- Bright Noa is one of these early on in Mobile Suit Gundam trying to control the lives of everyone in the crew. Given the stress he's under note , it's not surprising and he loosens up as the show goes on.
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny's Big Bad Gilbert Durandal is one, and it becomes his Fatal Flaw. His inability to abide unpredictability causes him to antagonize a number of very powerful people long before he needed to (notably trying to assassinate Kira Yamato and Lacus Clyne, thus ensuring they would be his mortal enemies for the unprovoked attack), eventually bringing his plans crashing down.
- My Bride is a Mermaid: Mawari Zenigata is this to the extent that others refer to her as the "demonic" head of the disciplinary committee.
- In One Piece, befitting for his "puppet master" theme, Doflamingo has a huge obsession of being in control. His Devil Fruit is a string Fruit that lets him manipulate people like puppets. He fully expected his crew to act as sacrificial pawns if required and he was furious when Law escaped from his control. For thirteen years, he continued to refer to Law as his subordinate and even went as far as to say he "owns" Law.
- Queen Millennia: Larela considers everyone as her subjects by default and can't take no for an answer. If she gives an offer, she'll act as if it's already accepted. When Hajime ignores her orders, she uses telekinesis on him to force him to "be best friends forever" with her.
- Chiri of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei, who, like everyone else in the show, is an extreme exaggeration. Even her Cross-Popping Veins appear neatly and symmetrically.
- Sword Art Online:
- Asuna's mother, Kyouko, wants to ensure a good future for Asuna, but her methods of doing so are by trying to control every aspect of her daughter's life, from her education institution to her future spouse. She mellows out over time.
- Quinella is a corrupt, narcissistic, and callous psycho who is not above killing, torturing, and brainwashing anyone to keep the Underworld for herself, and refuses to tolerate the existences of fighting forces she is unable to control, though her methods of doing so are different from the standard. She spends most of her time asleep in order to preserve precious memory space, but the laws she placed over the land and its people might as well be God-given edicts to follow consciously or subconsciously given her Authority and are enforced by her Integrity Knights. In the backstory, while she fused with the Cardinal System to regulate Underworld, her original intention was to outright steal its powers and authority for herself.
- A Wild Last Boss Appeared!: Alovenus, the Goddess of the world, dislikes anything that goes off-script. The flugel who could create Golden Apples were punished and eventually phased out because power-leveling disrupts the balance of her world, for example, and also the main reason why Ruphas is her Archenemy: Ruphas can make Golden Apples and distribute them so others grow beyond the constraints of her "script", and eventually made it her mission to be a thorn in her side, making herself the biggest rebel in existence in Alovenus eyes, and thus someone she has to get rid of.
- In Sherry Belmont's backstory from Zatch Bell!, her mother is shown to be one of these, dictating pretty much how she lived her life, putting her through Training from Hell, and coming inches from sending her over the Despair Event Horizon.
