If I Cant Have You / Western Animation

• The Amazing World of Gumball: In the episode "The Matchmaker", Gumball and Carrie get Darwin and Teri together with a Love Potion and then attempt to break them up when it turns out Darwin was interested in Carrie. One of the proposed methods is to charge Alan (a balloon) with electricity to have him get stuck to Teri's face and make her look like she's cheating on Darwin. Carrie then offers Darwin a baseball bat for what she claims would be "a crime of passion".
• A non-romantic example in Animaniacs (2020). Chicken Boo, of all characters, decides that if he's not allowed to be in the reboot, then no one can. Hence, he disguises himself as a hunter, and stuffs and mounts all the cast members from the original series, and nearly does the same to the Warners themselves. When the cast frees themselves, to say they're royally ticked at the bird would be an Understatement.
• Batman: The Animated Series:
  • The Mad Hatter, Jervis Tetch, attempts to woo "his" Alice in "Mad as a Hatter", ending in his mind-controlling her as a puppet when she utterly fails to realize his intentions. Then there's the exchange in "Trial" regarding this:
    Janet van Dorn: And yet, as I recall your case, you brainwashed and kidnapped a woman who rejected you.
    Hatter: Batman forced me to do it! He was going to take her away from me. I had no choice!
    van Dorn: You could have respected her wishes and left her alone.
    Hatter: I'D HAVE KILLED HER FIRST! Oop! I'd like that last statement stricken from the record, please.
    Joker: Record? Is someone supposed to be writing this down?
  • The very dark episode "Cold Comfort" has Mr. Freeze losing what little remained of his sanity after he finally succeeds in reviving and curing his wife (his reason for becoming a supervillain in the first place) and he can't bear to face her. Freeze takes his revenge on the rest of humanity by targeting one victim after another and, in each case, destroying whatever that person cares about the most (and in one case, it's a rich lady's little dog). It's eventually revealed just why he can't face her: his physical condition has finally taken such a toll on him that he can no longer live in his old body, so he had his head removed and grafted onto a set of metallic "spider legs", which he's forced to conceal beneath a robotic suit that resembles his old costume.
    Mr. Freeze: Search your heart for the thing you value most... then despair, for I have come to take it from you.
• Codename: Kids Next Door: Years ago, a live sentient Rainbow Monkey originally modeled "Rainbow Monkey 4-ever" was rejected by kids for being too ugly and exiled into space by the scientists who created it. After landing on Saturn and being shed into a metallic cover, the Rainbow Monkey (now renamed Ramon-4) uses his god-like powers to kidnap all the Rainbow Monkeys, deciding that "if children won't love me, then no Rainbow Monkey will be loved".
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera:
  • Sergio and Dr. Chipotle Jr yell this in the episode "Love and War".
  • It is implied that this is the Titanium Titan's motive when he commands his giant squid to destroy both White Pantera and El Tigre after losing WP's trust and failing to win him back.
• This happens twice in The Fairly OddParents!. First, in "Super Bike", the titular bike tries to keep Timmy away from everyone else, eventually resulting in this. Secondly, in "Just the Two of Us!", Trixie suddenly becomes insane despite being relatively sane before; she completely loses it and attacks Timmy after he breaks up with her when they're the last two people on Earth.
  Timmy: Note to self: Never break up with a girl in the violent gardening tools section.
• Family Guy:
  • Peter rather straightforwardly tells Lois, "Oh, and remember — if I come home and find you with another man, I'll kill you both."
  • Parodied in another episode when Stewie destroys Lois' necklace after declaring that if he can't have it, then nobody can.
• In Fugget About It Cookie actually admits that she never understood that about Stalkers and actually questions why they would Kill someone they are supposedly in Love with.
• Futurama:
  • A non-romantic example is in the episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", which has the villain Melllvar yell this:
    "If I can't have the original cast of Star Trek, no one will!"
  • A romantic example is seen with one of the Don-Bot's daughters, directed at Bender.
• Garfield's Thanksgiving: A non-romantic example. Garfield is put on a diet the day before Thanksgiving, and thus he's not looking forward to what is usually his favorite holiday. When Jon isn't looking, he puts a bunch of garlic on the vegetables that Jon just threw into a pot without cutting, saying something like "If I can't enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, nobody will!" in a rather evil-sounding tone. He eventually regrets it after Liz lifts his diet, the reason why he did it since he had to suffer going on a diet during Thanksgiving.
• The Legend of Korra: Book 2 provides a female-on-male example through Bolin and Eska. Once he realizes that Eska is bad news, he tries to end the relationship. However, she threatens to freeze him and feed him to dolphin-piranhas if he ever did.
• The Mask has a slight variation on this line in the always-controversial episode "Flight as a Feather". After Cookie BaBoom, the mayor's Stripperific ex-girlfriend, reveals the suicide belt bikini around her body, she announces, "If I can't have Mortimer [the Mayor], then no one can!"
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In her debut episode, after being rejected by the Powerpuff Girls, Princess Morbucks uses her new cybertomic armor to try to destroy them, declaring:
  Princess: If I can't be a Powerpuff Girl, then there won't be any Powerpuff Girls!
• Robotomy: "Frenemy": At the end, when it becomes clear that Thrasher and Blastus no longer want anything to do with it, Frenemy decides that, if it can't have them as friends, then it will kill them so that nobody else can.
• South Park has a non-romantic example when the city hosts a film festival in "Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls". While explaining his motives for doing this in every small town, the man behind this states that if he can't live in a calm town instead of Los Angeles, nobody will.
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Harry Osborn pulls this with Mary Jane.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: "Nature Pants" gives us a (supposedly) platonic example when Patrick is upset that SpongeBob chose a life of living with jellyfish over his old life and snaps, attacking SpongeBob with a jellyfish net while saying, "If I can't have you as a friend, I'm gonna make you a trophy! I even picked out this nice jar for you!"
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: "Liberty on Ryloth" has a non-romantic example when Tambor's tactical droid orders the Hyena bombers to attack and raze the capitol Lessu so the Republic won't be able to enjoy their victory.
• TaleSpin: In one episode, Baloo masquerades as a woman ("Tan-Margret") in order to enter a women-only flying competition. One of the other contestants becomes so smitten with "Tan" as to propose marriage, which is of course rejected for rather obvious reasons; he then spends the rest of the episode trying to kill 'her,' even saying to himself, "If I can't have her, no one will!"
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): Part of the backstory for Hamato Yoshi/Splinter and Oroku Saki/Shredder involves this. Both were in love with Tang Shen, and when she chose Yoshi over Saki, the latter didn't take it well and eventually burned their home down and killed her (albeit unintentionally) in a jealous rage. He blamed Yoshi for it, and took his baby daughter to raise as his own as a consolation.
• Teen Titans (2003): After an Almost Kiss with Beast Boy is stopped by Slade, Terra reveals to Beast Boy that she's working for Slade and begs him to say that despite that he'll still be her friend. Beast Boy says coldly, "Slade was right, you don't have any friends." In response, she gets a horrified look on her face before retreating into the shadows and putting on an expression made of Tranquil Fury. She later punches him in the face when pulling a Face–Heel Turn and swearing revenge on him and the other Titans before trying to kill him. It's obvious she had no intention to do so until he decided to reject her. She's stopped and she comes to her senses later before turning on Slade and pulling a Heroic Sacrifice. The other Titans warm up to her again because of this and make her a memorial with flowers.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: Haggar's ultimate goal in Season 8 is to find an Alternate Universe where her deceased husband and son still live (while her alternate self has died) and reunite with them. While she is initially successful, her young son, still mourning his own mother's death, rejects her, leading to Zarkon rejecting her as well. This leads to Haggar crossing the Despair Event Horizon and deciding to destroy the universe.
• In one Audience-Alienating Era Looney Tunes cartoon, Well Worn Daffy, Daffy Duck exaggeratedly turns this into no-else can have it but me when he hogs a well full of water for himself, refusing to share any with Speedy Gonzales and his amigos, who are thirsty, and managing to foil their every attempt to take it. Eventually, Daffy gets careless with his obsession to hog the water: he decides to leave the oasis, taking some of the water and blowing up the well so that the mice will never be able to get any water at all. However, Speedy removes the lit dynamite and ties it to Daffy's camel's tail.

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