No Yay / Western Animation

• Adventure Time:
  • The Ice King is seriously creepy. He kidnaps princesses (or outright brainwashes them) so often that most characters treat it as a common nuisance. He does this because he tries to force them to marry him, and the way he justifies himself and his actions channels every abuser/stalker/rapist trope in the book. Then he transfers all of that obsession towards Finn and Jake (a 13-year-old boy and a dog, respectively), trying to get them to love him by doing things like using a paralyzing potion on them and forcing them to do stuff with him. It can be interpreted as him wanting a friend, but then there's that fanfiction he wrote in which a Gender Flipped Finn declares her undying love for the Ice King. He does get better in later seasons though. He stops kidnapping princesses and the rapey/abusive aspects of his personality are downplayed. Now he's mostly just a weird, lonely old man.
  • In the aforementioned fanfiction, the Ice Queen is just as creepy towards Fionna (if not moreso), impersonating her crush and taking her on a date.
  • Thanks to the crown messing up his memory, Ice King is ignorant of the father-daughter relationship he and Marceline used to share. He once offers to hug her after she confesses she cares for him... and promptly attempts to kiss her. She shoves him away and yells disgustedly "Ugh, not like that!"
• Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers episode "Ariel" implied that Niko had a slight crush on her captain, Zachary Foxx, at one point. This is pretty reasonable. Zach's got a lot of Mr. Fanservice factors working in his favor. However the (likely) unintentional resemblance she has to Eliza (Zach's wife) makes it a little creepy. That Maya Danzinger voiced Eliza in her only "live" appearance while Laura Dean (Niko's actress) voiced Eliza in "Space Sorcerer" and "Psychocrypt" (both times, turning out to be someone's attempt to Mind Screw Zach)... well, this makes it a lot creepy.
• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic disguised himself as Robotnik's first love, Lucinda, and tricked him into marrying him.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • In "The Waterbending Scroll", Zuko's approach on Katara was really disturbing. From exactly what harm from the pirates does he claim he will protect her? He teases her while putting her necklace back, but it's actually an engagement necklace, so putting it on while immobilizing the girl would be a forced marriage. It's strongly implied/pretty much confirmed in one of the North Pole episodes that even Katara didn't realize that her necklace was an engagement necklace, so it's pretty unlikely that Zuko (who isn't from either Water Tribe) knew. That they were both unaware that he was taunting her with an engagement necklace may or may not make the scene even creepier.
  • Azula has some seriously creepy subtext towards almost everyone, especially towards her brother Zuko, who most of the time she tries to kill. The scene in "The Awakening" where he questions her about one of her latest schemes in the middle of the night has her acting as close to The Vamp as a PG show could get with an adult woman talking to an unrelated man, so it's quite frankly a miracle that this fourteen-year-old's interactions with her sixteen-year-old brother made it past the censors.
• The Batman has the Joker's Foe Romance Subtext with "Batsy". One episode has Joker run to Batman, declare how much he's missed him, and actually glomp him much to Batman's utter disgust.
• Codename: Kids Next Door
  • Numbuh 1 and his enemies/technically adopted cousins The Delightful Children.
  • When The Delightful Children had to kiss Numbuh 3 in a school play.
  • King Sandy and his interest in marrying Numbuh 3, and later Mushi.
  • Numbuh 5 and Stickybeard. She's 10 and he looks to be around forty-something.
• Danny Phantom:
  • Danny and Vlad. Vlad's first appearance alone has him creeping into Danny's room just watching the boy struggle in his sleep, and the multiple attempts Vlad has tried to lure Danny into the dark side, when taken in a different context, sounds almost seductive. And of course "Eye for an Eye" which is a treasure trove of subtext quotes ("I'm rubbing your nose in this mess you made, Daniel, doesn't it smell yummy?" and "You forgot to take your supplements, have a dose of vitamin-ME!" for example) and has them seeing each other naked. Then there's the prepubescent female clone of Danny that Vlad made... whom he only planned to use to perfect a male clone. Given Vlad's obsession with Danny's mother and desire to make Danny his son, Freud would definitely have something Oedipal related to say about it. Even though the series passes Vlad's behavior off as Stalker without a Crush, it's still creepy to think about.
  • Dark Danny and Danny have one-sided No Yay, with Dark Danny being the one generating it. At one point, he forces a Time Medallion inside Danny's body while Danny screams in pain.
  • Technus definitely gives off some pervy vibes, at one point asking Danny "Who's your daddy?"
  • An in-universe example with the Box Ghost and Lunch Lady. Danny, Sam and Tucker are all bothered by this relationship happening in the future.
• DC Animated Universe:
  • In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Love is a Croc", Batman (and most fans) has this reaction when learning of the relationship between Killer Croc and Baby-Doll.
    Batgirl: What do you suppose they do on a date?
    Batman: I don't want to think about it.
  • As in a lot of incarnations, Joker's obsession with Batman is subtly (and sometimes not-so-subtly) implied to have sexual/romantic elements.
  • And then there's the relationship between Batman and Batgirl that occurred between Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond.
  • Batman Beyond. "Out of the Past". Ra's al Ghul. In Talia's body. Flirting with Old Bruce, complete with a smooch. The awkwardness is off the scale. Bruce even points it out later:
    Terry: Lady, you are creeping me out!
    Bruce: You? She kissed me.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • In the infamous episode "Your Ed Here," Kevin blackmails Eddy into making Eddy kiss Edd on the lips. Eddy does kiss Edd, and both of them act disgusted after the whole thing.
  • In the Valentine's Day special, Eddy sets up a kissing booth. Eddy puckers his lips up, only to find Kevin instead of another girl. Eddy's response?:
  Eddy: In your dreams!
  • Some interprets Eddy's Brother's line to Double D in the movie to be this.
  "I like you girlfriend *smashes him into the ground with Eddy* You got spunk."
• Family Guy:
  • Quagmire, an unattractive and a horny bastard who frequently has sex (consensual or not), generates this constantly. Worse, most of his behavior is Played for Laughs.
  • The page image shows the time in "Barely Legal" where Meg develops a Yandere interest in Brian (the family's talking dog) after he drunkenly kissed her at her prom. When things go a little too far, Brian talks to Lois about it, only to earn a few punches to the face. This led to an attempt on her part to kidnap and rape him, only to be intervened by her parents.
  • Brian himself has an unhealthy obsession with Lois, and he even has Stewie (a talking baby) making infrequent advances on him.
    • Brian's son Dillon prompts Stewie to call him "handsome and muscular" and try to engage in sexual activities with him.
    • And then of course there's the infamous episode where Brian romantically pursues Meg's friend Patty.
  • Meg's brief relationship with Adam West, who is way older than her, and it was revealed that he branded his initials on her ass. Granted, West explicitly said that he wasn't going to pursue her sexually until she was eighteen or twenty-one and breaks up with her when he realizes that their relationship could get them both in trouble. A much later episode stated that they still went on dates now and then, said episode airing very shortly before he became her uncle via marriage to Lois's sister, making the relationship that much more squicky in hindsight.
  • Herbert's (a creepy old guy) interest in much younger guys like Chris and even in kids like Stewie.
  • Stewie's obsession with his mother Lois flip-flops between wanting to kill her and just wanting her.
  • Peter (Meg's dad) once had her kiss him on the lips and it was implied that they slept together once.
  • Peter orders Chris (his son) to take Lois' place while she is away. Chris, playing Lois, sits next to Peter and compliments his muscles. Peter plays along and promises an obscene sex for that night.
    • There's another time where Peter gave Chris a ring and asked him to marry him.
  • In-universe example: Chris and Meg were in Halloween costumes and didn't recognize each other. They ended up playing "Seven Minutes in Heaven". It's not clear what they did for 7 minutes in the closet, but when they discovered who they other was Chris cried "We did so much!".
• The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder: Fans have found Vicky's crush on Mr. Crocker to be very disturbing, considering that Vicky is at least in her 20s when the reboot starts and Crocker is most likely in his late 50s to early 60s. Thankfully, it's one-sided, as Crocker shows no interest in returning her affection.
• Gargoyles:
  • Thailog and Delilah. Thailog introduces Delilah with the phrase "She'll do anything for me", makes it clear that she and the other clones have been programmed to obey his every whim, and she calls him "master".
  • Thailog's behavior towards Elisa in his introductory episode. He touches her face and calls her "my dear" while she's handcuffed to the wall of an oil rig, and makes it clear that he intends on killing her along with Sevarius, Xanatos, and Goliath. He thinks of Goliath as one of his fathers, and Word of God is that Thailog has something of an Oedipus Complex.
  • Sevarius's behavior toward the unconscious Angela in the episode Monsters. He's toying with her hair while she's still unconscious, and orders his assistants to "be gentle" while "collecting the necessary samples." Yikes.
• Generator Rex
  • Rex and Van Kleiss, given how squicky Van Kleiss himself is. "You are very important to me, Rex" indeed. Van Kleiss's persistent efforts to get Rex to join The Pack, plus "I've been watching you for some time now" don't do anything to make him less of a creep.
    • The squick factor isn't helped by the flashback in one of the later episodes. Apparently, Van Kleiss has known Rex since he was a young child (roughly 7 or 8 years old).
  • Breach comes across as a particularly horrifying type of yandere in the episode named after her, in which she traps Rex in her own personal pocket dimension and refers to him as her "new favorite."
• Invader Zim has Zim and Dib with their unhealthy and near-sadomasochistic obsession with each other, despite Dib being 12 and Zim being older than any human alive.
• The Legend of Korra:
  • Amon's behavior towards Korra has a lot of scary rape vibes. Same goes for Amon's behavior towards Tahno when he was taking Tahno's bending away and Tahno was begging him not to do it. In the finale it's revealed Amon is a bloodbender and ends up taking away Korra's bending (or most of it) and then says "I told you I would destroy you."
  • In episode eight it is revealed that Tarrlok is a bloodbender who can bloodbend without a full moon and his behavior towards Korra gets a lot of rape vibes as well. He used his creepy powers to kidnap her and was planning to start a new life with her as his hostage.
  • Eska and Bolin. While it was seen as comic relief, Eska's behavior drifts off into dangerous territory. The scene where she "proposes" to Bolin is the reason why this couple is here. Fans who have seen this claim that the necklace Eska gave Bolin looks like a BDSM collar. There have also been thoughts about what their first night together would have been like, some of them including Desna watching the couple have sex. What completes this is Eska's face when she's approaching Varrick's yacht. Even though Love Redeems Eska, you still can't help, but wonder what brought on her violent and possessive behavior.
• My Life as a Teenage Robot: Vexus's obsession with Jenny.
• For some reason, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has a few examples:
  • "The Return of Harmony" has Discord get uncomfortably close to Twilight Sparkle. As in, constantly invading her personal space, wrapping an arm around her, grabbing her, and at one point he strokes her face. He also displays a suspicious amount of glee as he slowly breaks her and drives her off of the Despair Event Horizon (as opposed to the other ponies, who he gives a quick brainwashing to and then leaves alone). If his comments to Celestia ("Did you miss me, Celestia?") are any indication, this is just how Discord treats all his foes, which could make it slightly better or much, much worse.
    • Even after he's reformed, Discord still does this to Twilight in "Three's a Crowd", and it is all very uncomfortable. Out of all the times he gets, erm, physical with the ponies only one hug from him in the Season 4 Finale is actually reciprocated.
    • Twilight's not the only one who gets this treatment. In "Make New Friends But Keep Discord" he teleports into Spike's bed under the covers while he's sleeping, wakes him up, glares into his eyes from less than six inches away, and asks where Twilight is before poofing away again. Poor Spike is left huddled in the fetal position with the covers wrapped around him, shivering.
  • In "Hearts and Hooves Day" Cheerilee and Big McIntosh become an overly cutesy couple... because they had been slipped a Love Potion and were not entirely conscious of their own actions, drawing a disturbing parallel to date drugs.
  • The episode "Flutter Brutter" introduced Fluttershy's brother Zephyr Breeze; he regularly flirts and gets too close for comfort for Rainbow Dash, who is shown to be clearly not okay with this. Later episodes show that, it goes way beyond her just being not okay with it, she is very well aware of what he wants, and is actively disgusted by him to the point of nausea.
• The Nicktoons Summer Beach House bumpers in 2002 and 2003 depict Plankton as having a crush on Helga Pataki. Keep in mind that Plankton is an adult (and not human) while Helga is nine-years-old.
• In Phineas and Ferb, Jeremy's sister Suzy behaves almost like a huge Yandere around him.
  • There are a lot of episodes that tease the idea of Dr. Doofenshmirtz, a gonky middle-aged human scientist, and Perry, and a tiny anthropomorphic platypus, being a couple. The scenes can be heartwarming, but other times they can be disturbing, such as "The Remains of the Platypus" when Doof (who spends much of the episode in his underwear) brainwashes Perry to be his servant.
• In an early episode of Samurai Jack, Jack meets a female warrior named Ikra, who joins him on his quest! (Aww!) The two of them get along and even seem to flirt! (How sweet!) Ikra turns out to be Aku! (AUGH ABANDON SHIP ABANDON SHIP)
• The Simpsons:
  • To some, Smithers' crush on his boss, Mr. Burns who's old, very skinny, ugly, and evil. Funnily enough though, Burns/Smithers has become the most popular Simpsons ship on Archive Of Our Own despite this, due to how sweet and tender Smithers’ crush on Burns is, and the broadening of beauty standards resulting in several people online admitting that they actually find Mr. Burns attractive.
  • "Marge Gets a Job", Marge got a job at the nuclear plant and Mr. Burns developed a thing for her.
  • A Willy Wonka Expy becomes Bart's business parter, and Homer has to say the following about this:
  Nothing makes a parent happier than when an eccentric single man takes an interest in their child!
  • Sure, the "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" segment "Wanted: Dead, then Alive" features some (possibly romantic) subtext between Sideshow Bob and Bart (Bob even goes further when he decides to revive his Arch-Enemy because it brought him some excitement in his life); but on the other hand, Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen",^note a song about "the gamesmanship of romance" and "a kiss-off to a lover given her walking papers for crimes both real and imagined" played in the background of Bart's Death Montage, may be this, since the song implies Bob to be a pedophile or a Memetic Molester taking revenge toward Bart. Perhaps the song is a bit too... unsettling. Well, that... and the "I ♥ Bart" tattoo on Bob's back and the necrophilia between both of them.
    • There's also that time where he kidnaps Bart and sings to him "I've grown accustomed to his face! And dream of gouging out his eyes!"
• South Park:
  • In "Chef Goes Nanners", Wendy and Cartman, who are usually enemies, pair up for a debate and subsequently fall so hard in this that Wendy dreams about Cartman riding into a mountain meadow, shirtless, on a white horse.
  • Cartman and "Mr. Jefferson" in "The Jeffersons". Stan even has a dream about them almost making out!
  • Cartman and Scott Tenorman, especially in "201" when Scott begins grabbing Cartman... and getting awfully close to his face... This quickly goes into squick territory when it's discovered that Eric and Scott are half-brothers.
  • Cartman's unhealthy obsession with hating on and making Kyle suffer. Considering he only saved Kyle solely to rip on him further and another time just for him to suck his balls, his rivalry with him is more than creepy...
  • Cartman's treatment of Butters, whether he's just bullying Butters or manipulating Butters to be his sidekick, often slips into sexual subjugation subtext. "Cartman Sucks" is the crowning example, in which Cartman pranks Butters by drugging him with cough syrup at a sleepover and taking a photo sucking Butters' penis (and later tricking Butters into doing the reverse), which is essentially rape (played for laughs). "Stunning and Brave" also has Cartman sniffing Butters' underwear.
• SpongeBob and Squidward given the former's creepy obsession with him. Don't see it? Come on! They're like brothers, only closer.
• In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the very first time Ahsoka met Cad Bane, he electrocuted her twice — first to knock her out, then just for the fun of it — handcuffed her, caressed her head in a rather creepy manner, before taking her Padawan Braid as a trophy. Much later, when Ahsoka protected an unconscious Anakin from him, he left, promising her a dance at an other time. Then there's Garnac, the leader of a Trandoshan hunting party, who hunted Ahsoka and other kidnapped Jedi children on a jungle moon. He provided lines like these:
  Garnac She (Ahsoka) can't hide for ever! Mark my words, I'll have her skin, and nail it to the wall for killing my son!
  Garnac A valiant effort little younglings. Esspecially You, togruta. You'll be a prized trophy of my collection.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) has Shredder and Krang, two villains who always bicker Like an Old Married Couple. Keep in mind that one of them is a slimy brain monster.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) gives Leo and Karai Dating Catwoman Ship Tease. Karai here is a teenager, so that's not the issue. The issue? She's his sister^note specifically, Karai is the biological daughter of Splinter, Leo's adoptive father.
• Teen Titans (2003):
  • Slade embodies this trope on multiple occasions. The ridiculous amounts of subtext with Robin, his not at all wholesome partnership with Terra, his highly suggestive Mind Rape of Raven and suggestive lines/actions towards her in "Birthmark"... the man causes a lot of this. Made even worse because Slade/Terra is a canon pairing in the comic. (Though Terra is far, far, far more evil there.)
  • Trigon, Raven's demonic father, and Raven.
  • Fang, a guy with a spider for a head has Kitten as a girlfriend and they once are shown kissing.
• In Teen Titans Go!, the Titans are aghast at the idea of Aqualad dating Terra, as seen in the episode "Rocks and Water":
  Beast Boy: You two have nothing in common!
  Robin: Yeah! He's about water, she's about rocks.
  Raven: He's a hero, she's a villain.
  Cyborg: He's a boy, she's a girl!
  Beast Boy: NOTHING IN COMMON!
• There are those who choose to see Prowl and Lockdown of Transformers: Animated in a slashy light. Why is this disturbing? Because one of them is Lockdown. There is no good way for someone else to wear your body parts.
• The way Cedric from W.I.T.C.H. acts around Elyon makes him seem like a predator trying to groom her. His constantly low pitched and slithering tone of voice are certainly at least a little unsettling. It doesn't help that Cedric is a grown man while Elyon is a middle schooler.
• Velma: Romantic tension exists between Velma and each of the main characters, but many viewers root against those potential relationships thanks to Velma's repulsive treatment of them. Notably, she tried to assault Daphne, she used Norville as a personal servant, and she twerked while Fred was mourning over his mother's dead body.
• In The Venture Brothers, the Interrupted Intimacy between Dr. Venture and Dr. Quymn is No Yay, if you interpret the episode as subtly hinting that they are half-siblings. In-universe, Dr. Venture has his own reasons for being squicked out in hindsight:
  Dean: Dr. Quymn is the wereodile!
  Dr. Venture: She's... Oh, my God, I almost fucked a wereodile!
  [...]
  Ginny: She's not a wereodile! She's an epileptic.
  Dr. Venture: Ew!

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