People who are Not Good with Rejection in Comic Books.
- Anya's Ghost: The ghost, Emily, tells Anya the boy she loved died fighting in World War One. She also tells her she died running away from a murderer who killed her parents. But both are a lie. The boy she loved rejected her for another girl and called her ugly, so she locked them in and torched them both in their house. She really died running away from the angry mob chasing her down for her crime.
- Batman: The New 52 took this concept and ran wild with it in Death of the Family, with Joker trying to (literally) cut down the sidekicks in his and Batman's lives so that it could just go back to being about the two of them...and when Batman "rejects" the Joker, that leads to the nightmare that is Batman: Endgame, which asks a simple question: What if the Joker stopped loving Batman?
- Brody in Brody's Ghost is an example where, after breaking up with his girlfriend Nicole, he literally lets his life go to shambles before the start of the story proper.
- Iron Man:
- Tony Stark broke up with Kathleen Dare because she was being too clingy. So, she shot and crippled him.
- There's also Tiberius Stone, when in the midst of his Villainous Breakdown shouts at Tony: "You think I'd let you leave this place?! Leave ME!?"
- The armor actually tells Tony he loves him and explicitly compares its feelings to human romantic love, then starts following him and not letting him go out and see his friends, "for his own good", then makes him stop seeing his girlfriend by threatening to kill her, demands that Tony become one with it, and when Tony tries to escape by putting on an older suit of armor, the sentient armor completely loses its shit and beats the stuffing out Tony while screaming "How DARE you? You betrayed me! I turn my back for a second and look at you! You and that — thing!" and rips Tony's clothes off while pinning him to the floor and telling him he is "Mine, mine, MINE!"
- Judge Dredd: Judge Dredd once had a stalker who becomes obsessed with him after rescuing her from some criminals. She arranges a meeting to make a marrriage proposal, but Dredd is only Married to the Job. After getting rejected she immediately tries to throw herself off a bridge.
- The Mighty Thor: It's implied Loki is this to Thor in the comic Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers. Loki explains exactly why he hates Thor so much:Loki: Over all the millennia, only you have ever loved me Thor. Only you have ever looked at me with affection in place of condescension. Why then am I killing you and not the others? Because you stopped.
- Robin (1993): Darla Aquista's reaction to Tim Drake having moved without leaving an address for her while she was dead is to rip apart the car one of Tim's friends is in and threaten to kill him if he doesn't tell her where Tim has gone. She also straight up refuses to acknowledge that Tim has made it clear they're not dating and he doesn't plan on dating her at any point in the future while once more threatening homicide.
- In The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman, Dream falls in love with the mortal Nada, who fears the consequences of a union between a human and an Endless and runs from him. He eventually wins her over and they make love... and her entire city is promptly destroyed. When she quite reasonably breaks it off before anything worse happens, his response is to imprison her in Hell for 10,000 years.
- The Venom symbiote is this to Spider-Man. Venom believes in the concept of having a permanent bond with its host so Peter's rejection was especially painful to the symbiote. Its thought process can best be summed up as "That bastard! How dare he kick me out! Didn't he realize how awesome I was?! Well screw him! I hate him, I hate him, I want him to die! He deserves to suffer for hurting me! But then... I won't have him! I know, I'll kill off everything he loves and then force him to take me back! Then it will just be us together forever..."
- Queen, a villain who had the power to control anyone with an "insect gene" once tried to make Spider-Man her mate. When Spidey rejected her advances on him though, she showed a very nasty side to her. Her response to Spidey resisting her kiss was to call him a worm, slap him across the face twice, and vow that he'd love her whether he wanted to or not; and this was after she flirted heavily with him. Later, as he slowly began to mutate into a giant spider due to her kiss, he still tries to resist her and she sends him flying into a building, causing several bricks to fall and knock him out. As she carries him away, she says "I told you you'd fall for me, like a ton of bricks."
- The middle-aged, perverted owner of one of the modelling agencies Mary Jane worked for groped and sexually harassed her, and used his influence to keep her from getting work once she rejected his advances.
- Superman:
- Superman once had Maxima, Queen of the planet Almerac after him. Maxima learned about Superman after viewing a transmission of outer-space gladiator games that Superman was forced to take part in, and set out to make the Man of Steel her mate. Since Superman rejected her advances, Max periodically attempted to wreak revenge, including an alliance with his nemesis Brainiac.
- The second was an Earth woman named Dana Dearden. She always fascinated by the legends of ancient gods. Since the Man of Steel is more-or-less a modern-day god, she transferred her interest to him, filling her room with various news clippings and other memorabilia of him. After stealing some ancient coins at the local museum, she gained superpowers and donned a hero costume of her own, insisting that she was Kal-El's Super-Woman. But not only did Superman deny her the love she sought, she was quickly given the somewhat irritating name "Obsession". In her fury, she destroyed an oil tanker, and disappeared for awhile. And when Obsession resurfaced during Superman's split into Red and Blue versions, she ran up against Maxima, who wasn't interested in Dana's suggestion that there was now one Supes for the both of them.
- Supergirl:
- Kara has an unfortunate record of falling for guys who later turn out to be jerks, super-villains or jerkass super-villains (Powerboy, H'el) who hate when she sees through their ruse and breaks up with them. When it happens, they try to abuse her... and find out that bullying the obscenely super-powered, temperamental girl is a spectacularly bad idea. In her Post-Crisis series, Powerboy is a case in point: he brutally beat her up, including dragging her face down the side of a skyscraper, and tied her to a bed. She beat him up, dropped a house on him and told him never to bother her again.
- One of her worst enemies, Reactron, can't stand rejection. When his girlfriend Lori Murphy breaks up with him, he murders her gleefully in Who is Superwoman?.
- H'el attempts to kill Kara when she turns on him. Bad idea.
- Wonder Woman: Zeus' defining characteristic, even when he's in his more... noble... moods.
- Wonder Woman (1987): Zeus is furious when he realizes Diana is fighting against the "honor" of being raped by him, and is only barely held back from killing her and the rest of the Amazons in retaliation by a cohort of other members of the Dodekatheon. He is talked into sending her on what he assumes is a suicide mission instead.
- Wonder Woman (2006): When Zeus is nearly rabid at the idea that Diana has become the champion of another god, even though she was never his champion nor did she ever like him in the first place. Evidently he felt that with Athena's death her champion should automatically become his. In retaliation he murders Kāne-Milohai, seemingly thinking that Diana will become his champion with her current patron dead, and banishes her when she attacks him for the murder instead.
