No Sense of Personal Space

Some people can be very friendly. Very, very uncomfortably friendly.

It isn't just that they tend to stand too close when they're talking to people—it's that they're practically on them. You may even be complete strangers, but that doesn't stop them from hanging off of you and breathing your CO₂ during the conversation, whether you like it or not. It doesn't help that they tend to get... er, grabby.

Somebody with No Sense of Personal Space may keep their targets of uncomfortable closeness down to one person, or they might be like this with everyone. The character might be a Cloudcuckoolander that just doesn't know better, or they may just really, really like you (or everyone), and just don't let some bothersome "social etiquette" get in the way of it. They may be a villain showing their authority over a captive or a creepy Abhorrent Admirer who doesn't care about personal boundaries. Then again, they just might be trying to get you riled up for shits and giggles. This tendency usually comes with inappropriate uses of First-Name Basis.

Anime characters with No Sense of Personal Space love to implement The Glomp as their favored tactic. For best results, have them latch onto someone that Hates Being Touched. It can also be a good source of Ho Yay, Foe Romance Subtext, or Les Yay. Depending on the context, this behavior may get a character labeled a Memetic Molester by the fandom. Compare Cuddle Bug.

Not to be confused with the Personal Space Invader, which deals with grabby Mooks in video games.

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Examples:

• Anime & Manga
• Live-Action TV
• Western Animation

Comic Books

• Albedo: Erma Felna EDF has this trope of how Erma and her later best friend, Toki, first interacted. When Erma first bunked with Toki, that mouse had some bad habits like leaving the bathroom messy and barging in for frivolous reasons when Erma was using it. However, the last straw is when Toki's feline lover visits that night for sex and Erma is kept awake first with the thumping on the above bunk and the smell of the aftermath. Eventually, the two work out their differences.
• In Generation Zero, Cloud has uncontrolled telepathic abilities that grant her an intimate view into the mind of anyone she meets. Consequently, she assumes that she is intimate with everyone; when she first meets Keisha, she embraces and kisses her.
• Examples from Supergirl stories:
  • In Supergirl Vol 2 Linda Danvers' friend Joan doesn't get the concept. Two seconds after her first meeting Joan grabs Linda's hand and drags her along.
  • Bizarrogirl: Unsurprisingly, the titular Bizarro character does not get the concept. During their trip back to Bizarro World, Bizarrogirl scares Supergirl to death when all of sudden she’s behind her and leaning past her shoulder.
• In Superman/Supergirl story Krypton No More, Clark Kent's co-worker Terri invades his personal space and clings to him as soon as she sees him.
• Wonder Woman Vol 1: Draska Nishiki uses her very intentional invasion of personal space to exert dominance over her targets like Gen. Darnell and Steve Trevor. She likes to sit on people's desks or otherwise give herself a perch that makes her closer than they'd like while also allowing her to loom over them.

Comic Strips

• Dilbert:
  • This comic features Nardo from The Old Country, who even has to be told to keep his hands out of Dilbert's pockets.
  • Dogbert discusses cultural concepts of personal space in Dogbert's Clues for the Clueless. In America, you're allowed just inside the "Bad Breath Zone". In Italy, you can get inside the other person's clothes. In Australia, any distance is too damn close.
    Dot on Horizon: Hey! Can we talk!?
    Australian: [to himself] Tourist.

Fan Works

Crossovers

• brilliant lights will cease to burn (by my hand i'll reignite them): The very minute she meets him, Mei immediately gets into Izuku's face and starts feeling him up in order to take measurements for his costume. She openly admits that invading other's privacy is one of her favorite hobbies, coming in second only after inventing.
• Children of an Elder God: Asuka is not familiarized with the concept of "personal space". In her first appearance in chapter 4, she quickly latched on to Kaji. And later she stayed close to Shinji and wrapped an arm around his, despite barely knowing Shinji at that point:
  Asuka quickly stepped up to Shinji's side, taking his arm in hers, and strolled along with Kaji and Misato.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami has Tserk, a tentacle monster who was one of the first minions at the service of the sailor senshi. He likes fondling and cuddling with people, whether they like it or not. This got him punished by Mercury a couple of times, mostly by forcing him to cuddle with people nobody would like to cuddle with. Like an Ax-Crazy barbarian, or a very angry Horned Reaper.
• Equestria Girls: A Fairly Odd Friendship: Gary and Betty. This annoys Sunset and gets the even less-patient Gilda to slug one of them.
• Signs of Snow has the highly-communal Andorians treating the whole idea of privacy as something insulting and obscene, with Shran openly deriding the doctor's asking for him to step back a little.
• A Starstruck, Phantasmic Romance: Starfire is extremely over-affectionate and obsessively clingy to Danny, although she eventually calms down. Danny himself becomes extremely clingy towards Starfire in The Switch, thanks to Desiree's magic.

Assassin's Creed

• In Unintended Consequences, Shay has no problem with diving into the heads of others in order to get what he wants, or taking control of their bodies when they "aren't using them".

Death Note

• Ryuk in the Crack Fic A Charmed Life. It never occurs to him that sticking his face in Light's chest might not be appropriate.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

• Stars, Eyes of Heaven pins this as a common trait of Stand users. Since Stands usually manifest right next to their user, the person gets used to sharing their personal space. This tends to wig out non-Stand users who are used to being able to retreat from contact if necessary. Jotaro is especially bad about this, because he combines this trope with being tall, muscular, and having a Face of a Thug.

The Legend of Zelda

• In The Legend of Zelda: Paradise Calling, Navi has no qualms about starting a conversation with Link while he's in the bath, saying it's nothing she hasn't seen before. She also points out that he never had a problem with bathing in the hot springs with the Kokiri.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Juleka vs. the Forces of the Universe:
  • One of Chat Noir's favorite 'flirting tactics' is forcing his way into Ladybug's personal space. He is fully aware of how much she dislikes this, and makes very clear that he does not care. Her opinion only matters when she agrees with him; on subjects such as this, he dismisses her discomfort.
  • He also feels free to treat any other girls this way as part of his 'charming' persona. When Purple Tigress debuts, he glares her down before realizing that she's a heroine and dismisses her as a potential romantic rival, at which point he immediately starts forces his way into her space as well.
  • During the fight against All-Seer, he outright refuses to follow Ladybug's plan to flank their opponent in favor of sticking close to her side so he can keep flirting with her.
• Scarlet Lady:
  • Chloé is all over this. While Adrien is her favorite victim, and she loves to hang off his arm whenever she gets the chance to latch onto it, she also treats any guy she's interested in the same way. Such as Luka and XY. Her primary justification for this is one of her personal rules, specifically Rule 72: All guys have to be crazy about her. And in her mind, her clinging to all the boys she likes is the same as them being attracted to her.
  • Chloé acts the exact same way as Scarlet Lady, towards the exact same targets, without a single thought towards concealing her secret identity. This has only succeeded in establishing the Nominal Heroine as another Abhorrent Admirer.
  • Vincent Asa's Establishing Character Moment has him latching onto Jagged Stone and trying to take a selfie together despite having been repeatedly told the rock star doesn't want him taking any photos. He claims this will prove that they're "super friends", blithely ignoring Jagged Stone snarling that they're not friends and he doesn't want him anywhere near him.
  • Wayhem acts much the same way towards Adrien, to the point that the conflict in "Gorizilla" is kicked off by Wayhem recognizing a disguised Adrien, taking a selfie with him, and immediately posting it on social media. To Wayhem's credit, unlike Chloé and Vincent, he actually has a Jerkass Realization about his behavior and ultimately apologizes for his actions.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• In Chrysalis Visits The Hague, Chrysalis becomes increasingly (literally, physically) clingy in her interactions with her lawyer Estermann. The implications that these are the actions of the G-rated succubus that she was in the show are rather plain.
• In Huggled, all of the pegasi in Ponyville, for some reason, have gathered overnight and decided that they need to constantly give hugs to every other pony in town, whether the other ponies want it or not. It turns out that this is the result of Rarity botching a spell that was meant to help her pegasus coltfriend Thunderlane with his "intimacy issues".
• Sophistication and Betrayal: Cashmere tends to get very touchy-feely with others, especially with Rarity. At the same time, however, she gets very annoyed with anyone who dares to make the same sort of impositions upon her.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Advice and Trust:
  • Asuka. Even before getting together with Shinji, she used to invade other people's personal space aggressively and spontaneously, especially if she was interested in them.
  • All Shinji's female classmates with a crush on him tend to get closer than Shinji would like, wpecially Chihiro Tanaka, who does not seem to get the "personal space" concept. In chapter 6 she gets Asuka mad when she gets way too close to Shinji.
    Her beloved baka was under siege by at least half a dozen of the usual Harpies, led by that bitch Tanaka. Shinji sat nervously with his back to the fence, surrounded by pretty young girls. Geek-Stooge sat next to him, staring just as nervously at the surrounding ring of girls. Luckily for him, they were ignoring him in favor of staring hungrily at Shinji. Shinji had less than a meter of space around him. Tanaka herself was leaning way into Shinji's personal space, reaching a hand out to touch his face oh no we are not having that!
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide: After the Angel War, Asuka is too broken and angry to care about things such as respecting other people's personal bubbles. When she wants to tell you something, she gets very close.
• Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): When Asuka meets Shinji, she immediately and aggressively steps into his personal space to study him. During their posterior interactions, she tends to get extremely close to Shinji.

A Song of Ice and Fire

• The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf tends to do this constantly to allies and enemies both, and to great effect given how huge he is. Strangely, he never seems to solely rely on physical intimidation, often speaking to the other person as though in normal conversation.

Films — Animation

• 9:
  • The twins very much fall under this category, seeing as their first order of business following their appearance was to start messing with the main character's easy access portal to his internal organs. Well, sackcloth-doll organs. Still, nobody wants a pair of busybodies monkeying around with their insides.
  • 5 also falls under this category.
• Gaston in Disney's Beauty and the Beast towards Belle. In fact, Disney Villains in general seem incapable of staying out of the main character's personal space.
• Sid from Ice Age fits very well in this trope.
• Madagascar:
  • King Julian.
  • Also Mort, especially when it involves Julian's feet.
• As pointed out in the director's commentary, the Robinson family in Meet the Robinsons frequently get in the face of the more reserved Lewis. It's most noticeable with Uncle Gaston◊, who leans over Lewis to the point where Lewis has to turn his head straight up to face him.
• In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the Dazzlings stroke seemingly everyone in the cafeteria during "Let's Have a Battle".
  • Photo Finish in the short Photo Finished has absolutely no concern for the personal space of her chosen subjects, to the point that they complain about it to vice principal Luna. When Luna brings this up to Photo Finish, she becomes the crazy photographer's next subject.
• Anago in Padak has little respect for the titular protagonists' personal space, invading it whenever possible to rile her up or when questioning her motivations and beliefs.
• Colette from Ratatouille thinks that the only reason Linguini's personal space exists is so that she can invade it. Sure, she was doing it to intimidate him, but one can't help but think that she does it for enjoyment with how often it happens.
• The eponymous character in Tarzan, as a result of being raised with no human contact.
  Professor Porter: Oh, Janie Jane! What an amazing discovery! A man with no language, no human behavior...
  Jane Porter: And no respect for personal boundaries.
  Professor Porter: How do you mean?
  Jane Porter: [gets extremely close to Professor Porter] He was this close to me, daddy, just staring at me!
• Treasure Planet: BEN. "I just wanna hug ya and squeeze ya and hold ya close to me!" Much to the dismay of Jim Hawkins.
  Jim: You have to stop touching me.
• Mebh from Wolfwalkers is a Wild Child who lives in the woods with only her mother and wolves for company, so the concept of personal space doesn't occur to her. She climbs all over Robyn when she first brings her to the den, including biting Robyn's hair and sniffing her armpit. She isn't much better as a wolf.

Films — Live-Action

• Bad Boys (1995): While talking to his chemist, Fouchet constantly gets in his face whenever he starts getting angry.
• Beetlejuice: Betelgeuse does this with anyone — living or dead.
• Borat takes this to an extreme, even sprinting after people to get in their faces.
• Beldar and other Remulaks in Coneheads often exhibit behavior like this, being aliens.
• The Force Awakens:
  • Finn. Some of it is probably because he has a crush on Rey (such as when he grabs her hand while they're fleeing a bombing run), but other times it's clear he just really does have no sense of personal space, possibly due to being raised from birth to be a stormtrooper. At one point when he's trying to see out a high window, he uses Rey's forehead to brace his hand simply because it's the most convenient thing around.
  • Kylo Ren towards Rey, too, especially in the interrogation scene. He gets creepily intimate with her, leaning close to her face and speaking softly. Another sign of his Villainous Crush on Rey.
• Harry Potter:
  • Voldemort. When he steals the Elder Wand in Deathly Hallows, Part 1, he's face to face with the dead Dumbledore. They'd be touching noses, if he had a nose. Part 2 didn't let up—after Harry's Disney Death, he offers the Hogwarts students and defenders a chance to join the ranks of the Death Eaters. Draco crosses the field to get to his parents, and Voldemort hugs him. Or tries to, anyway; he clearly has no idea what he's doing.
  • Several Death Eaters have this problem in the films; Snape gets uncomfortably close to Harry at times and both Scabior and Bellatrix have some rather suggestive moments with Hermione in Deathly Hallows, Part 1.
  • In Halfblood Prince, Bellatrix gets all up in both Snape and her sister Narcissa’s space while performing the unbreakable vow. She also gives her nephew Draco a not very aunt-like kiss on the neck when she gets to Hogwarts towards the end. Unlike his mom, he’s freaked out by it.
• The Knowledge: Mr Burgess "The Vampire" regularly invades the personal space of the candidates during their appearances, as one of the many things he does to make them uncomfortable.
• Life as a House: Multiple characters seem to have no sense of boundaries. Alyssa gets into the shower while Sam is inside. George showers outdoors and urinates in view of his neighbors. The shack he lives in has no separate enclosure for the toilet, which Sam complains about.
• Olsen-banden: Vanheden from the Swedish Jönssonligan movies acts like this toward his fellow gang members from time to time, especially his leader Sickan. This ranges from patting Sickan on the cheek seconds after the latter has gotten out of jail, to suddenly grabbing him by the shoulders and guiding/pushing him to locations or objects just a few meters away, to practically standing on him in public even when there's plenty of room around them.◊ Vanheden also sees no issue with slapping Harry (his cousin) on the butt even though Harry doesn't like it at all.
• One of the aspects in the 2003 adaptation of Peter Pan that really creeped out some reviewers was Hook's complete lack of personal space with both Peter and Wendy. The fact that he's an adult obsessed with killing a child (later multiple children) did not help. Jason Isaacs has described that in interviews as having been incredibly uncomfortable to portray.
• The Phantom of the Opera (1998): The Phantom sure loves to get up close and personal with Christine - and anyone who crosses his path.
• In Pitch Perfect, Chloe has no problem bursting in on Beca during her shower while both are naked. She also gets up in her face (in an overly-friendly way) at a party later. Word of God is she was written as a "close talker".
• In Pirates of the Caribbean there doesn't seem to be any place more comfy and hospitable for pirates to hang out than your territorial bubble, and no pirate likes it better than Captain Jack. In the third film, Jack actually manages to invade his own personal space.
• The Professional features Gary Oldman as Stansfield, who has "a talent for sniffing out a lie", interrogating Mathilda's father while sniffing him and invading his personal space.^note This was improvised by Oldman. He later does the same with Mathilda.
• David from The Watcher just loves to find any excuse he can to hug and touch Joel.

Literature

• Chrysalis (RinoZ): The ants are repeatedly noted to be unconcerned about personal boundaries, crawling all over each other and not minding at all. When traveling by ship, they cram themselves in like sardines to take up less vessels, and in combat they make more efficient maneuvers by climbing over each other's ranks, and think nothing of it. It helps that they're all focused on The Needs of the Many.
• Clockpunk and the Vitalizer: The Vitalizer has no qualms about getting in Clockpunk's face. It's half unsettling, half breathtaking.
• The Ayakas in Girls Kingdom happily invade anyone and everyone's personal space, seemingly because they can. This goes up to and including outright groping other girls' chests and butts. In fact, their short character profiles at the beginning of each book says that Music Ayaka likes to harass younger students and Flower Ayaka likes to molest younger students, and in the story itself, most characters take the Ayakas' molestations in stride because they're so used to it by now.
• Harry Potter:
  • Snape isn't quite as bad about this in the books, but his standard "interrogating a pupil" technique seems to be "get right in their personal space". Snape does this deliberately, however, as he is attempting to make students as unnerved as possible so it is easy to read their minds.
  • Wormtail made Harry and Hermione uncomfortable in the third book when he tried to thank them by throwing his arms around their legs.
• The Maze Runner: Brenda just can't keep her hands off Thomas from the moment they meet in The Scorch Trials, and claims that this kind of behavior is normal where she comes from when he calls her out on it.
• A Series of Unfortunate Events: Count Olaf; most frequent target: Violet. Other targets: Klaus, Sunny, Aunt Josephine, etc., etc.
• Slug Days Stories: Lauren, an eight-year-old with ASD, doesn't understand that when she stands too close to the other kids, hugs them, or touches their hair, it makes them uncomfortable. In Slug Days, her therapist Ms. Lagorio tells her to stand at arm's length from the other kids, but when she gets back to class she tries to measure her distance from her classmate Dan by reaching her arms out and touching him. He threatens to punch her lights out if she touches him again.
• A Song of Ice and Fire: As in the TV series, Littlefinger, Catelyn Stark's Unlucky Childhood Friend acts this way towards Catelyn's daughter Sansa. It's to an even greater degree than his television counterpart, where he leans in really close whenever he talks to her. In the books, he's literally stroking her face and playing with her hair on first meeting her. It just gets worse from there...
• Christine Rhoades from Spectral Shadows can be this sometimes... like when she pounces on the shy, geeky squirrel girl Kacey. Given that Kacey has a lot of her squirrel traits intact, so this doesn't go over well.

Podcasts

• Tuatha from The Fallen Gods. According to her player Jake, the only way to get uncomfortably close to her is if someone magically goes inside or through her body.

Pro Wrestling

• Goldust is known for startling people breathing on them, which is usually preceded by them discovering he is uncomfortably close by or him simply walking up inappropriately close to someone he wants the attention of.
• Giant Singh/The Great Khali likes to intimidate shorter people in the locker room by standing with his stomach very close to their faces.
• Part of the reason MsChif unnerves many wrestlers when combined with a deceptively quick and light step, which leads to her popping up unexpectedly and uncomfortably close in the locker room. Though happening upon her by surprise beats the alternative.
• Concerning this trope, Winter is like MsChif's Evil Counterpart. Where Chif is an inquisitive fey who simply has trouble not being creepy Winter is a bisexual predator obsessed with making people bleed. Where Chif is quick and quiet by nature, Winter climbs and crawls around locker rooms for the sole purpose of startling and unnerving people with her suddenly very close appearances.
• Greg Excellent of Ground Breaking and CZW, once having annoyed his boss Maven Bentley by trying to have a very up close conversation with him while Bentley was in the bathroom trying to use a urinal.
• Marty "The Moth" Martinez of Lucha Underground, especially around ring announcer Melissa Santos.

Roleplay

• Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
  • Ciro, as a result of being a paternal older brother, has a habit of being touchy-feely even with people he isn't related to, whether it's a subtle pat on the shoulder or an Affectionate Gesture to the Head.
  • Jemimah is boisterous and highly extroverted and shows this by practically throwing herself against other people and invading their space with willful abandon.

Tabletop Games

• Necromunda: The background material for the 3rd Edition Hired Gun Yolanda Skorn mentions that a number of gang leaders who have employed the crazy Bounty Hunter had to end their contract after being unnerved at finding her staring at them from a few inches away when they woke-up.

Theatre

• In Pokémon Live!, Giovanni and Ash get up close and personal in "You Just Can't Win".

Video Games

• ANNO: Mutationem: After Ann recovers following the first fight with Loki, Ayane playfully asks for a kiss to make her worries pass, all-while she tries to move in closely while getting repeatedly shoved away.
• With the Chapter 2 remaster, Bendy and the Ink Machine has Sammy Lawrence getting very close to the camera when he recognizes Henry.
• In Divinity II: Ego Draconis you have the summonable necromantic creature, which follows you everywhere and tends to get in the way or into your personal space more often than its combat benefits are worth. It also has an idling emote consisting of it raising a leg and urinating on the floor, which must come as very embarrassing for the hero if you're in someone's house. Why does an undead creature need to piss?
• Dragalia Lost has Chelsea who's this for Luca. It starts off simple enough where she gets him lunch, but escalates to cleaning his room on a daily basis without him knowing she's doing so, and even following him into the bath. When he tries to break it off with her, she turns into full-on Yandere.
• Fallout:
  • In Fallout 3, it is not uncommon for you to turn around to find one of your followers right up in your face. Also, robot butler Wadsworth tends to follow you around your Megaton home and do this.
  • In Fallout: New Vegas Malcolm Holmes sneaks right up behind you to tell you about the star caps.
• The first time Takkar meets Tensay the shaman in Far Cry Primal, Tensay dashes forwards, grabs him by the arms, and spins him around, getting right in his face. He does this a lot throughout the game, partially contributing to Tensay's image as a Creepy Good guy.
• Herlock Sholmes in The Great Ace Attorney loves getting physically close to other people's faces, particularly Ryunosuke.
• Half-Life 2: Freeman's squad habitually crowds around him so closely that it can be impossible to move without bumping into one or take a shot without dinging one by accident. One imagines Gordon got to know who used which toothpaste, they're that close — as noted in this parody comic.
• The "Remember me?" monster in The Halloween Hack. One of its attacks is to hug Varik, solidifying him somehow.
• Daniella/The Maid from Haunting Ground seems to love doing this in cutscenes to poor Fiona. In fact, during the scene that introduces her as the game's second antagonist, she gropes Fiona in...places after poisoning her to make her sleep.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Larxene tends to get really close to both Axel and Namine.
  • In the Final Mix of Kingdom Hearts II, Marluxia's Absent Silhouette is a bonus boss. At the start of the battle, he whispers in Sora's ear to trigger a pseudo-Doom effect.
• The Legend of Heroes - Trails:
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure: Wazy has no problems invading Lloyd's personal space just to tease him.
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel: Millium repeatedly leaps onto Rean, Jusis, and a random girl from the Equestrian Club with sudden hugs and has naughty dreams about doing the same to Emma.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Dark/Demon Lord Ghirahim to Link in their first and second battles from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which leads to Foe Romance Subtext.
  • And in the spinoff game Hyrule Warriors, Fi does it to Link. Link quickly agrees to her request to get her out of his face. Ghirahim's enemy intro continues his habits in this trope.
• Mega Man Star Force: Omega-Xis definitely no respect for Geo's privacy when gets up close just to prove a point while Geo is doubting himself.
• Minecraft: Prior to the 1.14 update, Villagers had an odd tendency to all crowd inside one house at night, regardless of its size. Particularly small houses in large villages could have them packed like sardines.
• Thanks to a certain moment near the end of the game, Tsaubern from Suikoden Tierkreis is often portrayed as having this trait by the fandom.
• Super Mario 64 DS: The rabbits in Peach's Castle will accuse Yoshi of this, if the dino keeps putting them in his mouth, but not actually swallowing them.
• Tales Series:
  • Tales of Xillia: Alvin makes a habit of putting his arm around the back of Jude's neck and he either leans on him or makes him lean forward when they talk.
  • Tales of Vesperia: Estelle always stands incredibly close to everyone she talks to, and in some cases will hug them or grab their hands without permission, something that annoys Rita to no end.
• In Warframe, the AI known as Cephalon Simaris likes to project his holographic avatar so that it's (a) looming over you and (b) about three inches from your face.

Web Animation

• Magnus of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device gets very close to Kitten when trying to convert him to his cause, to the point that Kitten gets uncomfortable.
• RWBY: Salem will invade an individual's personal space as a method of intimidating them. When interrogating her subordinates about their failure to retrieve the Relic of Knowledge, she issues her commands while assaulting Hazel with summoned Grimm arms and standing right next to Emerald with a hand on her shoulder. When interrogating a captured Oscar, she is willing to stand right in front of his face; sometimes she will cradle his face with false affection and sometimes grabs his face roughly in anger depending on whether she's mocking his plight or enraged by his defiance.

Web Comics

• David of Bittersweet Candy Bowl has no sense of personal space. Or decency.
• Cyanide and Happiness has the Personal Space Invader, shown here.
• Girl Genius: The average Jäger has no qualms about being in everyone's space like they're old friends. Dimo in particular has learned to weaponize this by looming threateningly over people often by perching on something a person he wants unsettled is next to so as to surprise them with a well-timed comment and when they turn they're faced with an uncomfortably close Jäger that is crouched like they're ready to pounce and with all their very sharp teeth showing in a menacing grin.
• El Goonish Shive:
  • Catalina Bobcat clings to people while talking to them, to the point that she makes Chivalrous Pervert Tedd uncomfortable when she does it to him.
  • Grace has also done this on occasion.
• Gunnerkrigg Court:
  • Parley. Mostly she does it to Andrew Smith (making it clear to everyone—except Andrew himself—that she has the hots for him) but she also gives Antimony some finger-poking action here, where The Rant lampshades her failure to respect personal space. This eventually gave Parley a scare of her life, though—touching Antimony at the wrong time led to an intimate mind-to-mind contact with one angry ghost.
  • Coyote likes to get up close and personal as well.
• Cronus from Homestuck is a creepy version, touching people a lot to hit on them and insisting that it's just friendly and that they shouldn't make this weirder than it needs to be. When he does it to Mituna, who a) Hates Being Touched and b) is quite literally brain-damaged (which is not played for laughs), it's even worse than usual. Jasprosesprite^2 is even MORE annoying, with cat puns and innuendos being thrown around everywhere.
• In the first chapter of The Meek, we are introduced to Innocent Fanservice Girl Angora, who has lived in the wild for much of her life and consequently has not developed many cultural taboos, such as a sense of personal space. Pinter gets to discover this firsthand.
• Ménage à 3: Yuki to Zii.
• Petria from The Phoenix Requiem likes to do this to Jonas, mostly because of the reactions it gets from him. Her own lack of inhibition is due to the fact that she used to be a prostitute.
• On occasion, Dora from Questionable Content. For example. She doesn't do it all the time, or to everyone; Faye gets it the most.
• Taisei from Sakana. The awkwardness level of it is especially high because he's so tall. For added hilarity, he often gets paired with Yuudai.
• The Shufflers: Hiddenite does things like sleep completely naked in Märchen‘s bed unasked.
• Speak with Monsters indicates this is a racial trait of Ropers.
• Stand Still, Stay Silent: Håkan, Sune and Anna Västerström have a thing for grabbing onto or patting people, including perfect strangers. And they seem to have an inherent gift for finding the one guy who Hates Being Touched and ganging up on him.
• Osgood from String Theory (2009).
• Kizarasunga from Tigress Queen. She may have learned this from being raised by tigers, but she also seems to do it just to mess with people (especially Prince Jintu).
• Mahalah in Undead Friend has a bad habit of this as she has spent many years as a ghost that nobody could see and has no memories of being alive. She is overly affectionate to Orrick, the first human to see her, and it's been implied that while he couldn't see her she may have even seen him shower before.
• Various Happenings: Eddie seems to be very fond of lean-ins, nose booping, and generally picking up Cassandra due to their difference in stature.
• In the Webcomic Name chapter "Got Your Back", one blob sees that another blob has a shirt on with the tag sticking out, and tucks it in to the latter's dismay.
  "this label is sticking out. I feel compelled to be over-familiar."
• Sock towards Jonathan in Welcome to Hell, as exemplified by the thank you drawing when the kickstarter succeeded, depicting Sock with his arm around Jonathan as the latter cringes.

Web Videos

• Donnie DuPre from Demo Reel really likes to cuddle, especially with other guys. The family who kidnaps him and touches him a lot while keeping him drugged are a much creepier take.
• Seinfeld - "The Twin Towers": At a ceremony honoring first responders, George goes in to hug one, completely oblivious to how awkward it is.

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