Tropescilloscope: Yandere

A person who is both highly affectionate and dangerously obsessive concerning their love interest. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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What the Hell, Hero? 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Epilogue Retcon Military and Warfare Films Together in Death Dual Wielding Red Shirt Well-Intentioned Extremist Light Is Not Good Kick the Son of a Bitch Love Triangle Eye Scream Green-Eyed Monster Chiaroscuro Meaningful Background Event Whole Plot Reference Arch-Enemy Jitter Cam The Cameo Comically Missing the Point The Reveal Beard of Evil The '70s Dark Reprise The Dog Bites Back Running Gag Tagline My Greatest Failure "Shaggy Dog" Story Aluminum Christmas Trees Heroic BSoD Rated M for Manly Developing Doomed Characters Manchild I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Improbable Weapon User Calling the Old Man Out Awesome, but Impractical Call-Forward Didn't Think This Through Batman Gambit Setting Update Pimped-Out Dress Shower Scene Early Installment Weirdness The Remake Meet Cute Dark and Troubled Past Body Horror Hong Kong Films In Name Only The Brute Determinator aka: The Determinator Air-Vent Passageway Extreme Doormat Dumb Blonde Car Fu Unusually Uninteresting Sight Bullying a Dragon Becoming the Mask Action Girl What Happened to the Mouse? Fiery Redhead Due to the Dead Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor British Films Hooker with a Heart of Gold Sexy Discretion Shot Japanese Films You Have Failed Me Only a Flesh Wound Room Full of Crazy Redemption Equals Death Red Oni, Blue Oni Naked People Are Funny Drugs Are Bad Better to Die than Be Killed Intrepid Reporter Corrupt Corporate Executive Fire-Forged Friends Revenge Punch-Clock Villain Eureka Moment Male Gaze Obviously Evil Artistic License – Law All Girls Want Bad Boys Suspiciously Specific Denial Wretched Hive Evil-Detecting Dog Death by Sex German Films For Want of a Nail You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Advertised Extra Real Life Writes the Plot Dark Is Not Evil Bottomless Magazines Overprotective Dad Creepy Child Demoted to Extra Danny Peary Cult Movies List Big-Bad Ensemble Rule of Cool Action Prologue Non-Indicative Name Improbable Aiming Skills Earn Your Happy Ending Yandere Spanner in the Works Foil Hypocrite Affably Evil Hell Is That Noise Adaptational Villainy Names to Run Away from Really Fast Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Beta Couple Villain Opening Scene Our Zombies Are Different Reasonable Authority Figure Film Noir Bury Your Gays Blatant Lies The Big Guy La Résistance All Men Are Perverts Cruel and Unusual Death Mooks "Well Done, Son!" 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Took a Level in Badass Market-Based Title Shut Up, Hannibal! Stealth Hi/Bye Conspicuous CG Continuity Nod Unusual Euphemism Insult Backfire Historical-Domain Character Breaking the Fourth Wall Big Applesauce Funny Foreigner Half the Man He Used to Be Evil Is Petty Casting Gag Empathic Environment Biopic Domestic Abuse Fantasy Films Damsel in Distress Star-Crossed Lovers Video Credits Groin Attack Brainless Beauty Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Fanservice Kill 'em All Dirty Cop The Ghost Animal Motifs More Dakka The Lost Lenore Bi the Way Insane Troll Logic Crapsack World Not What It Looks Like Betty and Veronica All for Nothing Police Brutality Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Smug Snake Vomit Indiscretion Shot Sinister Minister Depraved Bisexual Romantic Comedy Cowboy Cop Everyone Has Standards Cold-Blooded Torture Agony of the Feet The Faceless Not Even Bothering with the Accent Butt-Monkey Pyrrhic Victory The '50s Show Within a Show Christmas Movies Index Dwindling Party An Axe to Grind Evil Plan Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Power of Love Pragmatic Villainy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Reality Has No Subtitles Random Events Plot Only in It for the Money Australian Movies Not So Above It All Adorkable Wicked Cultured Russian Films Friend to All Children Catapult Nightmare Artistic License – Geography Maybe Ever After Eiffel Tower Effect Peek-a-Boo Corpse Retirony Fatal Family Photo Riddle for the Ages I Need a Freaking Drink Annoying Younger Sibling Toplessness from the Back A.I. Is a Crapshoot Auto Erotica Properly Paranoid Gorn You Killed My Father Destination Defenestration Manic Pixie Dream Girl Darker and Edgier Deadpan Snarker Paper-Thin Disguise Parental Incest Race Lift Stock Footage Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold MacGuffin Hate Sink Cool Car This Is Gonna Suck Abusive Parents Mind Screw Crucified Hero Shot Horror Comedy Hollywood Darkness Major Injury Underreaction Rasputinian Death Tempting Fate Rewatch Bonus The Dragon Adaptational Attractiveness Made of Iron Manly Tears Romantic False Lead Reality Ensues Evil Is Hammy Mistaken for Gay Red Right Hand Funny Background Event Four-Temperament Ensemble Left the Background Music On Small Name, Big Ego Drowning My Sorrows Accidental Murder You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Jerkass Has a Point Stuff Blowing Up Laser-Guided Karma Spiteful Spit Suddenly SHOUTING! 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Bunny-Ears Lawyer Rich Bitch Freudian Excuse Smoking Is Cool Pay Evil unto Evil Despair Event Horizon Cool Shades The Un-Reveal Love at First Sight Authority Equals Asskicking Country Matters Big Bad Duumvirate Fatal Flaw Anti-Villain Disguised in Drag folderlabel Even Evil Has Loved Ones Character Development Match Cut It's Personal As Long as It Sounds Foreign Informed Ability Neck Lift Double-Meaning Title Villainous Breakdown Heroes Want Redheads Actually Pretty Funny World of Ham Genre Throwback Immune to Bullets Rule of Three Mama Bear Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Animated Credits Opening Loophole Abuse Bad "Bad Acting" Sanity Slippage Say My Name Sole Survivor Alpha Bitch Insistent Terminology Super Strength Ascended Extra The Musical Stealth Pun Boom, Headshot! Artistic License – Biology Loads and Loads of Characters Almost Kiss Black Best Friend Ironic Echo Drives Like Crazy Villain with Good Publicity Slap-Slap-Kiss Mercy Kill Intergenerational Friendship Outrun the Fireball Book-Ends Greater-Scope Villain Would Hurt a Child Historical In-Joke Those Two Bad Guys Vampire Fiction Manipulative Bastard Not So Stoic Deus ex Machina Deal with the Devil Straight Gay Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Place Punny Name Tranquil Fury Evil Laugh Psycho for Hire Storming the Castle Shell-Shocked Veteran Dissonant Serenity Woman Scorned Covers Always Lie Cloudcuckoolander Shipper on Deck Improvised Weapon Expository Hairstyle Change Time Skip Self-Deprecation Leitmotif Parental Substitute Title Drop Dramatic Irony Arranged Marriage Jump Scare He Knows Too Much I'm a Humanitarian Anyone Can Die Wham Shot Man on Fire Cain and Abel Sadistic Choice The Hero Dies