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== Live Action TV ==
* [[Heroes]]: West, toward Claire. He flew around outside her window (gee, can't imagine why). She is at first irritated, but accepts him a little too easily. Then again, Claire has a ''lot'' of issues. And whether this is stalking in the romantic sense is debatable since he seemed to be doing this to find out if she has powers, not in order to see her naked.
* Parodied in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031003726/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/04/04qfunhouse.phtml this] ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch. Also, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120530063150/http://www.hulu.com/watch/40972/saturday-night-live-don-drapers-guide#s-p5-sr-i0 this] spoof of ''[[Mad Men]]''.
* In ''[[Oz]]'', Ryan O'Reily gets his brother to [[Murder the Hypotenuse|murder Dr. Nathan's husband]], forces kisses on her, kills her rapist to avenge her, and out-and-out stalks her. At first Gloria isn't happy when she learns that Ryan [[You Killed My Father|had her husband killed]], and initially suspects that O'Reily was the one who arranged for her to get raped after she rejected him. But after she learns Ryan had nothing to do with her rape and killed the guy who did attack her, her opinion of him starts to change. So it ''works'' (eventually), and she ends up falling in love with him. Though the show lampshades this as not being a very healthy relationship.
** Beecher and Chris have an off and on relationship mostly because of how possessive and violent Chris can be, seeing as how he killed every one of Beecher's former lovers. Even after Beecher tells Chris he wants nothing to do him, Chris continues to pursue him. At the end of the series, despite everything, Beecher admits he truly loved Chris.
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* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' has posted this as one the [http://www.cracked.com/article_18756_6-romantic-movie-gestures-that-can-get-you-prison-time_p2.html "6 Romantic Movie Gestures That Can Get You Prison Time."]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlUWur3kEE The "Stalker Song"], which is sung to the tune of "Happy Together".
* [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend|Shannon]] from ''[[Echo Chamber]]'' seems to believe this, although it clearly [[Averted Trope|isn't true in the world of the show]]. Tom is actually extremely creeped out by her [[Stalker with a Crush|stalking behavior]]. He only winds up dating her again because {{spoiler|she [[
* Subverted in [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/161181 "There she is"]. Granted [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|Doki]] is so cute about it. Poor [[Cute Kitten|Nabi]] is still reluctant to start a relationship with her. This has more to do with the way society looks at inter species relation then Doki's actions.
* In [[Red vs. Blue]] season 9, Church's plan is to {{spoiler|find and rescue Tex from the memory storage unit they're both trapped in by going down levels within the unit, which sort of replicates the outside world (including, he hopes, replicating the memory unit, in an [[Inception]] "dream-within-a-dream" sort of way), hoping that eventually, in one of the levels, they can meet up and escape}}. Tucker points out that he's essentially chasing {{spoiler|a dead girl and every time she escapes him, he either resurrects her or follows her down another layer}}, and says it's stalking. Church protests that it's not stalking, it's romantic, to which Tucker points out that "romantic" only happens in movies.
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* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': The Pepe Le Pew cartoons in the original series are the freakin' textbook definition of this trope—that includes the three where the cat Pepe goes after (known as Penelope today, but really, the cat either had no name or was named "Fifi" or "Fabrette") turns the tables on him.
* Despite giving a page quote, ''[[Up]]'' is an aversion. While Dug does follow Carl around, Dug is a [[Talking Animal|talking dog]] that's only interested in the platonic relationship of a dog and his owner. Besides, this is pretty much how dogs display affection.
* Heloise on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is portrayed as having a [[
* Like Heloise, Helga from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' takes her crush for Arnold to stalking levels at times ([[Stalker Shrine|including the shrine]]) but is portrayed sympathetically. Although when she finally admitted her feelings to Arnold in [[The Movie]] he was more shocked than impressed, and that's without even knowing the details.
* [[Averted Trope|Averted]] / Played with in ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''—Cody does ''not'' appreciate [[Stalker with a Crush|Sierra]]'s torturous obsession with him for most of the season, but is generally touched when she remembers his birthday when [[Forgotten Birthday|not even]] ''[[Forgotten Birthday|he]]'' [[Forgotten Birthday|did]]. Finally having him return her affection seems to prompt her to tone herself down. Somewhat, at least.
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== Real Life ==
* Parodied by ''[[The Onion]]'' in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100223092422/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29546 "Romantic-Comedy Behavior Gets Real-Life Man Arrested"]. That shows how much this trope reflects [[Real Life]].
* Lampshading this trope has been a staple of stand-up comedy for years. Usually with a reference to a restraining order as the punchline.
* Wal-Mart once sold a men's shirt with "Some call it stalking, I call it 'love'" printed on it. In a red font. That looked like dripping blood. Cute.
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