Stalker With A Crush / Marvel Universe

• Deadpool:
  • Lampshaded and spoofed in one of the early issues of first ongoing series, when he's looking over his not-entirely-unrequited crush, Siryn. Sort-of subverted later, when Siryn tells Deadpool she's known about it all along and actually appreciates it.
    Deadpool: Y'know, camping outside of someone's window just to watch them sleep used to be considered romantic, but today it's called "stalking" and generally considered "trespassé".
  • When Deadpool gets institutionalized, he unbelievably starts making real progress towards sanity. Too bad his therapist Dr. Ellen Whitby is a loony stalker even crazier than him. And by crazy, she's keeping his lost body parts (which he regenerates) in her fridge crazy.
• Iron Man:
  • Kathy Dare. She stalks him and later shoots him when he rejects her. At her trial she plays the victim and claims that Tony abused and stalked her (which, unfortunately, is also a tactic of some real-life stalkers).
  • At one point, a sentient Iron Man armor takes on all the attitude of an abusive boyfriend, cutting off Tony's access to the Avengers, pissing off then-girlfriend Rumiko into leaving, breaking Tony's arm when he resorts to using an older set of armor in an escape attempt, and finally taking him to a deserted island and tying him up while it spends a week attempting to convince him that they're "perfect for each other".
  • Whitney Frost aka Madame Masque can’t be overlooked in regard to her long spanning extremely unhealthy and violent infatuation with Tony as his Yandere Psycho Ex. Whitney fell in love with Iron Man after Tony accepted her Facial Horror and was willingly to love her anyway leading to forming a Dating Catwoman Battle Couple relationship. Things took a turn however Tony refused to help free her douchebag supervillain father Count Nefaria leaving Whitney heartbroken and rageful. She then spends the majority rest of her appearances in Iron Man comics trying to infiltrate Tony’s life again disguised as other women as it’s abundantly clear she’s still wants him badly but will also settle for killing him and any of his love interests if she can’t have him for herself. Her biggest stalker depravity comes in Invincible Iron Man (2009) where she’s kidnapped and tortured Pepper and forced Tony to the ground and lain on top of him with intention of having sex with him right there, naturally she doesn’t take Pepper breaking free and intervening in the situation as Rescue very well at all.
  • Tiberius Stone also deserves a mention here. He trapped Tony in a virtual world and offered Tony a chance to rule at his side, complete with a manifestation of Tiberius' fantasy of what the world would look like if Tony accepted Ty's proposal... and that generous offer and tempting vision is tempered with the threat of Tony being forced to grovel at Tiberius' feet instead along with the seven fawning, naked sycophants who are already chained to his throne. Tiberius even manages to get in an If I Can't Have You… moment in the midst of his Villainous Breakdown when he's defeated. Fabulous.
• Marvel's The Mighty Thor is no stranger to this either. He's been stalked at various times by Amora the Enchantress, her younger sister Lorelei, his niece Hela, and his former teammate Moondragon. Magic, mind control rape, and blackmail, oh my.
• Mystique toward Iceman in "Kill Or Cure". After throwing him out of his Blackbird, trying to poison him in hospital where he was recovering, and then causing a truck that he was hitching to crash, she stood on top of one of the Pylons on San Francisco's Bay Bridge with a bomb. When Iceman went up to try to talk her down, she begged him to join her in a suicide pact; instead he laughed at her and called her a loser. She did not take it well; "You'll see me one more time; I won't be wearing this face or body, but you WILL love me!" and threw herself off.
  • Ironically Bobby does the same to her in Astonishing X-Men where he disguised as the water in her bathtub while she’s bathing pissing Mystique off.
• Spider-Man:
  • Paper Doll, although her crush was on celebrity Bobby Carr who is not exactly one of the main Spider-Man cast. Her stalker tendencies were elevated to the point where she lashed out and attempted to murder everyone who dared to try and ruin Carr's name, including a woman selling her negative story about him to the news and tabloid reporters. Made all the more dangerous when combined with her ability to become paper-thin, blend in with any surrounding, "compress" the bodies of those she envelops and leave them as thin as herself (unable to stop themselves from suffocating in the process) and administer lethal papercuts strong enough to slice through Spidey's webbing.
  • Mary-Jane Watson- being an actress/supermodel has had several, starting with Jonathan Caesar, an It's All About Me type who kidnapped her in the sincere conviction that because he wanted to marry her, little things like her not agreeing or already being married shouldn't stand in the way.
  • Felicia Hardy alias Black Cat started out being one of these towards Spider-Man. She even had a room sized shrine dedicated to him, which he found a bit unnerving (but not enough to stop him from dating her for a while).
• Squirrel Girl's relationship with Speedball, summed up in a part of a conversation:
  Speedball: I just wanted to say thanks for everything you did! Also for all those nice letters you send.
  Squirrel Girl: Oh... You—You know about them?
  Speedball: I read all my fan mail! That plus my manager alerted the FBI about them.
• This is Thanos' relationship with Death — she's his one true love, and he longs to die so he can be with her, but being as he is a comic book character, getting that to stick is... difficult. There are occasions where she does proclaim to have feelings for him, or at least something similar. The problem is that Thanos is Thanos, and she's put off by it. And his constant grabs for god-like power, by her words, put him beyond her power. Death apparently doesn't do long-distance relationships.
  • When he died during Annihilation, they apparently had a thing going, and were happy. Then he got brought back to life, and was made unable to die.
  • There is a hilarious moment where Death of the Endless from Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman makes a cameo in The Incredible Hulk #418 during Rick Jones’s wedding but says she needs to go before “that creep Thanos show ups” looking for her.
• The Wasp has at least one per canon universe.
  • David "Whirlwind" Cannon in the original canon, who became obsessed with her while posing as her chauffeur for what was originally just a theft plot, then expanded to include trying to kidnap her as well. Recent storylines indicate that he's not over this obsession, even after she's dead.
  • Arthur "Living Laser" Parks (also from the original universe) fell for her at first sight after originally stalking a friend of hers and attempted to win her by kidnapping her and trying to kill the rest of the Avengers. He was still hung up on her as of a cameo in Avengers #300, though it hasn't been part of any plot since then.
  • Erik Josten stalked her in, of all places, the Marvel Adventures-verse, where he was an employee of her father's who tried to make it look like her friend/crush Hank Pym had up and disappeared in order to get close to her.
• Kimura's pursuit of X-23 veers way past her role as X's handler and into this territory. She's positively obsessed with Laura, to the point of threatening to track down and kill her aunt and cousin out of spite for escaping, and much of her behavior makes her come across as a jilted ex, to the point that it's lead to a lot of Foe Yay Shipping by fans.
• The Morlock Caliban was this towards Kitty Pryde during the 80s. In fact, one incident lead to the legendary fight between Storm and Callisto. There was one incident where he had an infatuation towards Jubilee, but that ended quickly when Sabretooth got his claws on him.
• Briar Raleigh for Magneto. She falls for him after he crushes her leg with her car, without even noticing her, and starts studying up on and then following him.
• Ultimate X Men
  • Everybody in the X-Men had a couple, except Nightcrawler and Dazzler. But no, that doesn't mean she will hook up with him. So he kidnaps her and teleports her to a cave, under the pretense that the mansion is under attack. But he had no plan for Xavier and Jean's psy powers, which ruined the plan.
  • Juggernaut towards Rogue, who he worked with when they were younger. Unfortunately for him, she's with Gambit now.