If I Can't Have It No One Can

"But if I wasn't always going to exist happy once more, then I would make sure that they wouldn't be alive to savor their happiness."

"...nobody can."

A Stock Phrase ofttimes spoken by jealous and envious or egotistic characters (ofttimes villains) demanding to exist loved. The set upwardly is normally equally follows: Baddie has grown infatuated with the hero or his Dearest Involvement and kidnaps her with the intent to "ally" her. Or merely have his way with her. While it is possible for the villain to love their captive in a non-sicko way, information technology'due south usually beloved of the Beloved Makes You Evil or Love Hungry variety. Case in point: in one case the hero breaks her out and they osculation passionately, await the villain to shout this line and decide that if she won't love him, she'south not going to love anyone period, usually before trying to murder her or get rid of her in some other despicable fashion.

If the villain is a Femme Fatale who was wooing the hero, she may well shoot him once his dear involvement shows upward. Many a non-villainous "jilted" Clingy Jealous Girl volition react this way, and there may exist some truth to information technology, as this seems to exist the mentality behind many people who kill their cheating spouses or ex-lovers (both in fiction and in Real Life). A woman may also exist more than probable to get away with it.

If the villain ever had an inkling of a hazard, this becomes a form of Kicking the Dog or Moral Result Horizon that shows that they're "The Wrong Guy".

See No MacGuffin, No Winner when the trope phrase is directed at something of intrinsic value, rather than an object of affection. See also Honey Makes You lot Evil, Yandere, and Living Emotional Crutch. The polar opposite of I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Oftentimes the person trying to impale the object of their affection is Not Good with Rejection. And if that person is a villain, you can bet they will accept suffered a Villainous Breakdown.

An culling to killing their dear is for the villain to kill the hero for existence a romantic rival. If the villain is canny, he'll play it off as an accident. If he isn't quite sane, he'll tell his convict and actually expect this to brand her throw herself in his arms. When this trope is magnified and taken to its logical extreme, it becomes either Taking Yous with Me or Put Them All Out of My Misery.

Equally this trope oft occurs during the climax of a story, beware the spoilers!

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    Eastern European Animation

• The protagonist of Ersatz has the power to brand anything, anything at all, out of blow-upwardly balloons. He makes a sexy bikini woman, but she dumps him for a surfer. Later the man tracks the adult female downwards, he interrupts their sex and kills the woman by pulling her plug out.

    Fairy Tales

• In East of the Lord's day and West of the Moon, the prince is cursed to plow into a bear because he would not marry his stepsister as his Wicked Stepmother wanted.
• In Rapunzel, Mother Gothel throws Rapunzel out into the wilderness, and blinds the prince so they will be unable to detect each other.
• Invoked in The Little Mermaid by the ocean witch and the sisters of the titular mermaid. They give the mermaid a dagger to use to kill the prince on his hymeneals night, and and then let the blood drip to her legs and so she will become a mermaid once more. Ultimately defied by the picayune mermaid herself, who chooses to spare the prince at the cost of her own life.
• In Snow White Fire Ruddy , her ogress female parent curses her so that the prince she ran off with will forget her every bit soon as his female parent kisses him.
• A variant in "The Xanthous Dwarf". The dwarf is not entirely unhappy at Princess Toutebelle'southward Death past Despair, considering he would rather she exist dead than in the arms of another.

    Fan Works

• Near the end of Blood and Ink , Cinder tries multiple times to get Ruby to join her subsequently she finds out nearly Cinder's true nature every bit a Mob Dominate, but Ruby refuses each fourth dimension because Cinder had earlier ordered an attack on her sis, Yang. When Ruby states that she prefers her friends over her, Cinder is driven over the border and kills her.
• In the cantankerous-over comic Grim Tales from Down Below, Minnie screams this at Junior before trying to decapitate him. While she's not actually a villain, she is under the influence of Him, making her evil at the time it was said.
  • For added Squick, Minnie is Inferior's one-half-sister, and then he'due south every bit creeped out as the readers are.
• Defying the Odds shows this in a flashback, every bit Tweety tells Sylvester the harsh promise Tyler made to her when she turned dwon his spousal relationship proposal.
• In Revenge Road, Hikaru decides to impale Kyosuke and Madoka, angry at Kyosuke for rejecting her and Madoka (to a slightly lesser caste) for stealing him away, and jealous of the happiness they share.
• In the concluding chapter of Project Gethinator, Admiral Daro'Xen, who is Yandere in a big way for Commander Shepard, utterly loses it after he decisively turns her down and calls her on her crazy scheme and her obsession with him. After realizing that Shepard is in love with Tali, Xen goes into full-on Woman Scorned manner, and proceeds to turn the same faulty mineral scanner that Tali's idiot sailor Prazza from the preceding fic Inglorious Bosh'tets accidentally used to brand a star go supernova on the main star of the Eta Carinae system, causing information technology to go hyper-nova, making sure to have the Normandy's drive core disabled so Shepard, Tali and the crew cannot escape. Simply Shepard's quick thinking and Legion's advanced technical skills get anybody out of there alive.
• Calvin and Hobbes: The Series gives this a bizarre and interesting twist:

  Thunderstorm: IF I CAN'T Accept THIS WORLD, THEN IT CAN'T Take Yous!
  Andy: Has anyone ever said that before?
  Jack: I don't think so. That was a pretty good line.

• Played with in Inner Demons. When Queen!Twilight realizes that her blood brother is rejecting her advances in favor of, yous know, his wife, she decides she will kill him forth with the rest of the heroes — but showtime she'south going to make him sentry her kill Cadence. Fortunately, the residue of the Mane 6 show up in time to stop her.
• Muddied Sympathy has Daryan attempt to impale Klavier by having him strangled to death when he finds out that the latter is adulterous on him another man. Daryan outright states this trope equally his reason for not ending his human relationship with Klavier when the latter questions why they don't break up if Daryan hates him so much.
• In Mega Man: Defender of the Homo Race, Splash Adult female blows up her underwater hideout subsequently losing, saying that if she can't have Mega Human no one will.
• In Hunting the Unicorn, Blaine's stalker Alex threatens to run a concussed Blaine over if his friends telephone call 911.
• Mischief Revived :

  Charlie: Why Fred? Why try to kill your own brother?
  Ron: He can't have Hermione. I won't let him. If I can't have her, neither tin he.

• The Bridge: Archmage Saros was Princess Amore Diamante's Courtroom Mage who secretly desired her. When she married a peasant named Bene Lyric and had a daughter, Saros reinvented himself equally King Sombra and killed Affection and her husband before taking over the Crystal Empire. He would have killed her infant daughter as well if King Caesar hadn't rescued her.
• YANDERE SUMIA has Sumia kill all her rivals for Chrom's angel- Maribelle, Sully, Olivia, the female Avatar and even the Maiden- but to find that Chrom won't marry a "waifu killer" like her. She and so impales him with her lance and kills him, as punishment for non accepting her.
• In Girls und Panzer: Hope Dies, Yukari murders Miho for refusing her advances, since Miho already had a girlfriend; Erika.
• A ideal example happens in as lambs in the midst of wolves . Azula genuinely loves her brother, Zuko, just feels that Azulon should take gone through with his original programme of killing him instead of making him Iroh's heir since she would rather see him dead than never see him again (since he now lives in some other wing of the palace and the rest of Zuko'southward family unit is forbidden from visiting).
• Son of the Sannin: During Hinata'south final boxing with Toneri Otsutsuki, the latter grows increasingly angry of being not only constantly rebuffed in his advances, but besides compared unfavorably to Naruto. In the end he accepts that Hinata will never be his and decides to but fight her to the decease.
• In Expiry Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv), Light says this to L before shooting him.
• In Shards of a Retentiveness, Shredder considers Tang Shen choosing Hamato Yoshi instead of him every bit a "humiliation" worth killing both of them over, having raised her daughter into thinking that Tang Shen was a traitor out of spite before he found out that she was still alive.
• In The Weaver Option Asdrubael Vect swears to himself that he will either dominion Commorragh or destroy it himself. He's not exaggerating either, having already seeded Lower Commorragh with hidden anti-empyreal bombs. When Vect's army succumbs to Slaanesh, he begins detonating the bombs, both to destroy the Dark City and impale his daemonic pursuers.
• Elementary My Dear Natsuki, in the penultimate affiliate of "The Empty Business firm", Tomoe Margurite has Shizuru Viola in her clutches, now painfully enlightened that Shizuru will never return her affections. She begins ranting at Shizuru, and Natsuki recognizes this trope by name equally the main point of Tomoe'south rant. She manages to depict her weapon with her good arm and deliver a fatal shot confronting Tomoe, saving Shizuru.

  Natsuki: Proceed your bloody hands off my Shizuru.

    Films — Animation

• Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a rather horrifying case... Every bit he puts it: "She will be mine or she will burn down!"
• Part of Lotso's backstory in Toy Story iii. He and his friends were misplaced by their possessor during a automobile trip, and by the fourth dimension they found their mode home, her parents had bought the kid a new Lotso. Instead of letting his friends go back, he spent the rest of his life trying to brand other toys every bit miserable and jaded every bit him.

  Lotso: She replaced united states!
  Woody: She replaced you! And if you couldn't take her, and so no ane could!

• In Megamind, this is what triggers Titan/Hal Stewart's Face up–Heel Turn since he only agreed to become a superhero on the basis that this would concenter Roxanne to him. When this didn't plough out to exist the case, he begins a urban center-broad rampage, and ends up tying her to a radio belfry on the top of a tall building.
• In Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer, once the Big Bad fails to capture the Diamond Planet for herself, she has a Villainous Breakup ^note Which is more than of a temper-tantrum in her example, merely still, and attempts to ram her transport into it while really proverb the trope name, sort of.

  Nighttime Princess: If I can't have that diamond, no one's going to have information technology! I e'er get my manner in the end!

• The Frog Princess: As before long as Koshchei realizes there is a significant run a risk of Ivan killing him, he turns Vasilisa into a golden statue.

    Myths & Faith

• The huldra of Scandinavian folklore are a blazon of fairy who appear equally beautiful women with moo-cow or horse tails. Although they are frequently eager to marry, they are besides very strict and enervating, and if you even remember of turning one downward, she will impale y'all.
• In one version of the Hyacinthus myth, his death isn't an accident. Zephyr grows jealous that Hyacinthus chose Apollo over him, and purposefully blew the discus off-course to hit him. Needless to say, this version is more popular.
• At that place is a Japanese folktale about the daughter of a village major, Kiyohime. She vicious in love with a handsome young priest named Anchin. The feelings are mutual, merely he somewhen rejects her and she turns into a serpent. He escapes into the Dojoji temple, just she follows him and burns the place downwardly, before committing suicide.
• The Judgment of Solomon from The Bible: When King Solomon decided to solve the argument two women had over whose baby information technology was by cutting the child in two, i of the women pleaded for the king to spare the child's life and give him to the other woman, while the other woman said, "Allow him be neither mine nor yours; let him be cut in ii." Solomon adamant from this that the adult female that pleaded for the child's life was the truthful mother and then rewarded custody to her.

    Theatre

• In the terminal act of Carmen, Don José confronts Carmen, first pleading with her to resume their affair and then threatening her. She rejects him, and and so he stabs her to death.
• In the opera Wozzeck, the championship character stabs Marie to expiry following this line. (Büchner's play doesn't use the line.)
• The ending of Menotti'southward opera Maria Golovin has an extremely jealous Donato attempt this to Maria. Subverted in that he is blind and thus has to ask his mother to aim the gun at her, which she doesn't, instead pointing him in the incorrect direction and leading him to believe that he did.
• Éponine in the musical Les Misérables. In the song "One Day More than," Marius is debating to himself whether to follow Cosette to England or fight with the students. Éponine, standing beside him, practically makes the decision for him by grabbing him by the arm and the 2 of them running off. A minute afterward, they are next seen with Enjolras and the other students, and Marius tells Enjolras "My place is here, I fight with you." This is made a lot more obvious in the revival, back when Celia Keenan-Bolger was Éponine (in the revival, Éponine extends her manus out to Marius, and he quickly grabs her hand and they both run).
• In Martin Guerre, the play'due south antagonist, Guilliame attemtps to kill Bertrande after losing her to non 1 but Ii Martin Guerres.
• Tamamo-no-Mae Asahi no Tamoto: Prince Usugumo lusts afterwards Lady Katsura, merely she doesn't return his affection. He is as well planning to start a coup confronting his younger brother, the electric current Emperor. What does he practice? He orders ane of his men to steal a sacred sword from the lady's family then need them to hand over her caput if they want the sword dorsum. Little does he know the i carrying out said order is Lady Katsura's biological father.
• Subverted in Verve past Marking Lucas. A Barrel-Monkey lawyer finds himself dumped for a vibrator.

  "If I tin can't have her, then no shiny piece of Taiwanese plastic will!"

• Nessarose from Wicked reacts to Boq's rejection of her dear by stealing her sis Elphaba's spellbook and cursing him to "lose his heart" to her, inadvertently making him literally lose his centre. Nessa begs Elphaba to save him before the spell kills him, and Elphaba does so by creating a new form for him that doesn't need a centre to alive. The incident leads to Nessarose becoming the Wicked Witch of the East and to Boq condign the Can Man.
• Expiry from Elisabeth goes to corking lengths to get Sisi for himself: showing up to gloat at her failed fairytale matrimony twice (the beginning time was after a marital tiff, the second fourth dimension to reveal that Franz Joseph cheated on her and gave her syphilis, seducing her son Rudolf ^note starting to talk to him when he was a small child into revolting against his father and eventually killing himself, and and then finally sending Lucheni, armed with a file, to murder her. At that point Sisi was already such a Cleaved Bird Death Seeker that she refused help from her lady-in-waiting and ran into Death'southward arms.
• Near the finish of Heathers, J.D. breaks into Veronica'due south house with the intention of killing her for breaking up with him. Still, he inverse his heed and decided that he shouldn't kill the girl he loves, but instead their classmates under the belief that they came between him and Veronica.

    Tabletop Games

• In Rocket Historic period if Yathlax the Eye tin't have Princess D'larna, he'll kill her... plus some more beside. Needless to say Yathlax, D'larna's erstwhile babysitter, has gone off the deep finish.
• Warhammer 40,000 has this in the form of the Exterminatus, the Imperium of Human's normal method for when a planet is completely overrun by aliens or Chaos beyond the point of recovery. Earth-Shattering Kaboom normally ensues.

    Visual Novels

• Chop Chop Fruit salad Mystery Jam DokiDoki Dating Sim THingy: In Strawberry'south bad catastrophe, Chopper-Strawberry kills Banana and so Apple considering they've turned into a yandere and resent that Apple loves Assistant and non Strawberry.
• Fate/stay nighttime: Gilgamesh decides at the end of Fate route that if Saber will not submit to him, he'll merely rape and kill her. But then again, even if she did agree, his adjacent idea of how their relationship would become would be making her drink the 'blackness mud' from the cursed Grail, destroying her heed and giving her a physical form.
• Schoolhouse Days:
  • To My Child is one of the bad endings yous tin can get where this happens. On it Makoto is stabbed to death past Sekai afterward he abandoned her while pregnant to pursue a relationship with Kotonoha, who was likewise meaning. While this ending is very similar to the anime one, at that place are some details that make it very unlike, mainly the fact that Makoto genuinely cared about Sekai and, depending on which path you take to get in that location, he genuinely wanted to have care of both Sekai and Kotonoha before Sekai disappears on her ain, or he came to regret having told Sekai to leave and desperately wanted to detect her and accept care of her as well. Besides the fact that Sekai's pregnancy was real.
  • Completely subverted in the extended version of Encarmine Terminate. Afterwards killing Sekai, Kotonoha was gear up to impale Makoto as well past choking him with her scarf. However, the sole idea of Makoto dying is plenty to bring her back to her senses and fabricated her realize what she had simply done.
• In Tsukihime, Akiha says something similar this in one of the routes, and does her damnedest to kill Shiki.
• In Ever17, Sora gets really close to this later seeing Takeshi and Tsugumi having sexual practice in the gondola.
• The Extreme Love Ends for Shion and Toma in Starstruck Love have this happen to the heroine.
• The Bad Ends in Yandere: I Love You So I Want to Kill You. If Subaru makes the wrong choices either in the main story or in the selected Yandere ending sequence, so he will exist killed. But it doesn't cease there; stuff still goes on after he dies.
• In Purrfect Apawcalypse, the third game reveals that Patches' reason for killing Angel was this trope; they used to appointment in clandestine merely Angel broke up with him after existence turned off by his possessive behavior and declarations that he'd impale Angel if he e'er left him, whereupon Patches demonstrated that his declarations were non exaggerations in the slightest.

    Spider web Animation

• RWBY: This is Adam's reaction to Blake deciding not to exist part of his genocidal terrorist group as well as breaking off their (co-ordinate to Word of God) abusive relationship. He swears to destroy everything she loves. He starts by cutting off Yang'southward arm when she tries to rescue Blake from him.

    Web Comics

• There was a really weird version of this in Dominic Deegan; when information technology's revealed that villain Karnak was in a Love Triangle with Donovan over Miranda, the reason he'due south been trying to kill Miranda is to hurt him for taking her away from him.
• In General Protection Mistake, Trudy says this verbal phrase when pointing a gun at Nick'due south caput after he stated that he could not trust her or return her feelings upon realizing her role in a broad-reaching conspiracy. In an alternate future, the same scene had resulted in her killing him, but in this timeline, he simply stands there, resolute, until she drops the gun and is unable to shoot him.
• Gunnerkrigg Courtroom. Diego sets upwardly a scheme to fortify the Courtroom in such a way that it simultaneously murders the hypotenuse and subjects the woman who resisted his advances to a Fate Worse than Death.
• Spacetrawler may be the only work to combine this trope with The Just One Allowed to Defeat You lot: Growp'due south attempts to murder Emily are actually his twisted mode of proverb he loves her. He somewhen takes a bullet and dies to save her from getting killed past the wrong person.
• Homestuck plays this straight when Eridan decides to kill Feferi when she defends Sollux after Eridan KO'd him. An unusual instance because Eridan wanted both Feferi and Sollux, just they both rejected him and hooked up with each other, prompting his murderous rampage.
• Raven Red, toward Harmony Thunder, in Jet Dream. She specifically wants the sex-changed Harmony dorsum in her male persona as Jack Thunder - something everyone else knows to be incommunicable. If she can't have Jack Thunder, well....

    Web Original

• Chatoyant College: Paul shows this trope. In Volume 9, Corrie rescinds that magical restraining order. His reaction is to attack Dawn with a stone knife.
• A not-romantic/sexual case occurs in Season 1 of the Dream SMP — this is Wilbur's supposed reasoning for wanting to blow upward Manburg. He knows that fifty-fifty if he kicks out Schlatt and becomes president again, he'd exist an illegitimate president, no longer allied with the Dream SMP because there'd no longer be an Enemy Mine, and going dorsum to the way things were would be pretty much incommunicable, as many major landmarks take been destroyed and relations have changed drastically. As a result, Wilbur decides that if he tin can't have his land back, Schlatt can't have information technology either.
  • This turns out to all be a front for him, every bit he has also stated in private that his reasoning for doing so is that the behavior and ideals that he built the nation for no longer existed. These polarizing claims have, as a result, acquired many to develop alien views on him, to put it lightly.
• The culprit'south motive in It's a Southern Thing sketch "If Law and Guild:SVU was Southern". Someone put an onetime and well-seasoned cast iron skillet through the dishwasher, ruining it, which is treated exactly like a murder in the bodily Law and Order would be. (Mind you, to a good cook, it kind of is that serious.) One sister, who is a bad melt, was set to inherit information technology. The other i, who loves cooking, resented that her unskilled sister was going to become information technology, and decided that if she couldn't accept the skillet, no one would.

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