Green-Eyed Monster

Iago: O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on…

"He's faster than a bullet, stronger than a train
He's the one who got lucky, got his cape around Miss Lois Lane
I can't believe my dilemma is real
I'm competing with the Man of Steel."

— "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" by Spin Doctors

Envy and jealousy are among the most powerful motivations in both fiction and Real Life. The Bible condemns it in many places, most famously in the Ten Commandments, and it's also one of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Envy is the desire for some object, item, or abstract notion (such as love or power), which can lead to hatred of the possessor(s) of said object. If they cannot secure the object for themselves, the envious party may go so far as to harm or… elim inate the possessor. If they're egocentric enough, they may even destroy or kill the object. The Envious party may not have coveted the object at all until they saw another person having or enjoying it.

Similar to but distinct from envy is jealousy, which applies much more to relationships. Jealousy is the fear by the possessing party of losing the object. For those in a relationship, this means fear of being supplanted in the object's heart by someone (or even something else). To be precise, envy is the desire for something one does not have whereas jealousy is the fear of losing that something. Both result in similar behaviour.

Envious and jealous characters on the losing side of a Love Triangle will often fall into the trap of assuming things about their competitor — or "competitor". Such characters are seldom portrayed positively — most are villains — and as such they tend to assume some rather bad things about their rivals. Expect to see some element of What Does She See in Him? on their parts. Furthermore, they may slander their rivals with accusations of unsavoury actions and/or attribute base motives (such as pride) to their actions. Whether they actually believe there is a fundamental truth to such slander — or have even been manipulated by a third party — plays a big part in determining audience sympathy for them.

This is the motivation behind the bad kind of Dead Person Impersonation. A character may attempt to exploit this with Operation: Jealousy. See also You're Just Jealous. Feet of Clay or Shrouded in Myth may prove that the envy was unmerited — often to the glee of the envious. On the other hand, a story about the Lonely Rich Kid or some other Sour Grapes Tropes may demonstrate that the envy is wrong because the envied person really suffers more than the person doing the envy (and not because it's wrong to hate people for what they have).

Romantically, may stem from being Love Hungry and lead to a desire to Murder the Hypotenuse — or be sacrificed because I Want My Beloved to Be Happy. Occasionally, it can actually overcome Cannot Spit It Out — Operation: Jealousy may overtly attempt to engineer this — or lead to a Love Epiphany. A man driven by it will often unreasonably doubt whether a child really is his.

Because the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, frequently two characters envy each other, as when an ordinary child envies the gifted child's abilities and rewards, and the gifted child envies the ordinary child's freedom from pressure.

When a character acts upon their envy, then we have the trope Driven by Envy. The Lancer (among heroes) and The Starscream (among villains) are particularly prone to the Green-Eyed Monster. The Dark Magical Girl often envies the Magical Girl. Inspiring envy is a defining trait of there being Always Someone Better, and feeling it, of Clingy Jealous Girl, Crazy Jealous Guy, the Fairest of Them All, and The Resenter. The Yandere is defined by it to the point of murderous insanity. The Daddy's Girl, inspired by it, may regard any possible stepmother as a Wicked Stepmother, even if she's truly the sweetest person in the world. Divided We Fall is often motivated by it.

If envy in general is ever to be portrayed more sympathetically, then that's when Mutual Envy has the chance to be brought up here, as it turns out that the envied one was also envious to the envying subject, making it a case of Hidden Depths.

Oddly enough, not correlated with characters who have green eyes, or with monsters, though they may overlap. Not related to the 37-foot-high left field wall at Fenway Park in Boston, unless you're envious of someone else having a ballpark with something cool like that. While this trope's title is figurative, the association between green and envy means that characters consumed by envy are sometimes shown as green-eyed as a Literal Metaphor.

Not to be confused with this green-eyed monster.

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In The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Aristaeus watches Orpheus and Eurydice kiss and inserts herself in Eurydice's place. Then she murders Eurydice when Orpheus refuses her advances.

Art

Circe Invidiosa: The topic of this picture (which literally means "Jealous Circe") by John William Waterhouse. It depicts the moment in The Metamorphoses where Circe, jealous of Glaucus's love for Scylla, poisons the water Scylla lives in and turns her into a monster.

Asian Animation

Happy Friends: Smart S. acts like this towards anyone who seems more popular than him, especially Careful S. He still does care about him though.
Mechamato: Payapi wants to be the sole fire-extinguishing hero in town, going to the extent of attempting to burn down the competition.

Comic Strips

In Flash Gordon, Dale's attempt to vamp the king of the hawkmen into sparing Flash backfires when his jealous favorite pushes her from the tower.
In FoxTrot, Peter's ability to eat endlessly and not gain any weight causes jealousy from both his parents. In one strip, when he makes a thousand-calorie chocolate shake because he has to gain weight for swimsuit season, Andy dumps it over his head. ("Nobody ever feels sorry for the skinny," he muses.) In another strip, Andy wears earplugs when he weighs himself, and Roger needs an extra strawberry on his rice cake when Peter loses a pound and a half simply by skipping another shake.

Fairy Tales

In "Bearskin", when the hero, appalling shaggy, filthy and ragged, but rich, rescues a man from financial distress, the man promises that he may marry one of his daughters. Only the youngest is willing. However, his appearance stemmed from a Deal with the Devil, and that being over, he cleans up nicely, and the older sisters are reduced to envy and commit suicide out of resentment. The demon that made the deal then took their souls.
- Other variants of "Bearskin" include "Don Giovanni de la Fortuna", "The Soldier and the Bad Man", "The Road to Hell" (where she actively cleans him up), "The Reward of Kindness", sutermeister "The Devil As Partner" and "Never Wash".
Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother resents how beautiful Cinderella looks beside her own daughters.
In The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird, the older sisters envy the youngest because she married the king.
In "Dapplegrim", the king's servants envy the hero his position and so inspire the king to give him impossible tasks.
In "Graciosa and Percinet" by Madame d'Aulnoy, the ugly Duchess Grognon (who becomes Graciosa's Wicked Stepmother) is envious of Graciosa's beauty to the point that she claims she has more beauty in her own little finger.
In "The Grateful Beasts", Ferko's brothers envy him so much they try crippling him to avoid competition.
In Joseph Jacobs's "Kate Crackernuts", the Wicked Stepmother has her stepdaughter Anne's head turned into a sheep's head because she is more beautiful than her own daughter. (Somewhat subverted; her own daughter Katie is in fact the heroine of the story, opposing her mother since she actually likes Anne.)
In "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples", a king orders his three sons to discover who steals his apple tree's golden fruits every night. The first and second sons fail, but the youngest prince not only solves the mystery and earns their father's approval, but also meets a beautiful woman. His brothers become so jealous they seek a witch's help to sabotage their brother's nightly meetings with his lover.
In The One-Handed Girl, the brother envies the sister because she supports herself with little.
In Prunella, the witch grows angrier with Prunella the more beautiful she grows.
"The Sisters Envious Of Their Cadette": The elder sisters boasted that they would wish to marry the king's baker and cook, and their younger wanted the King himself instead. When it turns out the king had in fact overheard their game and want to grant their wishes, they immediately start plotting her downfall out of jealousy.
The Wicked Stepmother in "Snow White" is envious of Snow White's beauty.
In "The Three Aunts", the queen's servants envy the heroine and so inspire the queen to give her impossible tasks.
Alexander Afanasyev's "Little Master Misery" features Ivan Ilyitch and his brother, a poor peasant and a rich tradesman respectively. When Ivan finds a buried treasury and becomes very wealthy after living in squalor, his brother decides to find a way to ruin him because he cannot bear the thought of Ivan being richer than him.
There is a fairy tale about a hare and a turtle envying each other: The hare wants turtle's protection and the turtle the hare's speed.

Jokes

A joke often made about soldiers manning Anti-Air defenses is that they were all recruited from Air Force rejects for The Power of Hate.
"Why should they get to fly!?!"

Mythology & Religion

The Bible:
- Cain couldn't stand the fact that his brother Abel's sacrifices were accepted by God and his weren't, leading him to commit the first murder. Since God accepted the blood offering his brother gave of a new lamb and rejected his crops, one common interpretation is that Cain gave grudgingly while Abel gave willingly. According to Jewish tradition, Cain had every intention to kill his brother, and since he didn’t know how he just attacked all of him until he came across a spot that could kill him.
- In the Book of Genesis, Joseph's brothers are jealous over their father's favoring of him, leading them to sell him.
- In the First Book of Samuel, Saul realizes that David will be king instead of his own son and tries to kill him despite his loyalty to Saul. In the Second Book of Samuel, David wants Uriah's wife, so he sends Uriah to the front lines with the intent of getting him killed.
- The Leviathan is apparently, and quite literally, considered a green—eyed monster. Peter Binsfeld even put the beast in his classification of demons as one of the Seven Princes of Hell, representing the sin of envy.
Classical Mythology:
- Cupid and Psyche: Aphrodite, Eros's mother, because she was jealous of the beautiful Psyche, asked Eros to shoot her with an arrow so that she would fall in love with someone repulsive at first sight, but Eros ended up falling in Love at First Sight with Psyche. And then Psyche's sisters persuaded her to peek at Cupid because they were jealous of her gorgeous home.
- Hera, Zeus's wife, was jealous of all of his numerous conquests. Hence why anyone that slept with or had any romantic contact with Zeus (including the ones he raped) would suffer horrible deaths at her hand. It doesn't exactly help that she's the Goddess of Marriage and Family, as well. It also doesn't help that he would shag virtually anything with legs.
Norse Mythology: Loki murdered Baldur out of envy, since Baldur was beloved by literally everybody else.
The Shahnameh: Shoqad is this toward his half-brother Rostam whom he thinks Zal favors, because Zal sends Shoqad away at a young age to Kabul and generally keeps him away from the rest of the family and Iran. In reality Zal loves Shoqad, but when Shoqad was born it was foretold that he would bring about the end of Zal's legacy and a great loss to Iran. Ironically this perceived favoritism and abandonment coupled with Rostam's achievements and standing is what fuels Shoqad's deep hatred and jealousy.

Pinball

Foo Fighters (2023): Several things suggest that the Overlord's villainy is driven by envy towards the Foo Fighters' success as a band. He can describe himself as a former super-fan during "All My Life," steals all manner of musical equipment throughout the game, hosts his own concert during "The Pretender," and proclaims that "now I will have what is rightfully mine!" after attempting to take over the band itself in "The Final Battle." This ends when the Foo Fighters decide to incorporate him into their group following their final fight, a position he's overjoyed to receive.
In WHO dunnit (1995), Trixie sees Victoria as a threat to her (one-sided) relationship with Tony.

Professional Wrestling

La Tigresa, as reigning WWC Women's champion, was jealous when Amarillis was brought into the company, correctly believing she would soon be challenging for her title. She was also envious because people gushed more about Amarillis being pretty than they did about Tigresa, which led to Tigresa attacking Amarillis in an attempt to ruin her good looks, which led to Amarillis challenging for the title.
Pablo Marquez coveted La Tigresa, who was the girlfriend of Lightning, so he tried to break up their relationship even though that would likely have La Artilleria Pesada coming down on his head.
While Los Guerreros were a very successful and popular tag team, it was clear the fans vastly preferred Eddie Guerrero to Chavo Guerrero Jr., which caused the latter to turn on the former out of envy and resentment.
Envy was Matt Hardy's reason for turning on his more popular brother Jeff almost every time.
In Ring of Honor, envy was what drove Christopher Daniels to feud with Low Ki, ROH's first Champion, and Steve Corino, boyfriend of his crush, Simply Luscious. Elsewhere, this is what sets Daniels against his more successful tag team partner AJ Styles.
Paul London was jealous of his friendship with AJ Styles, which he was afraid The Amazing Red and Alexis Laree were going to take away from him.
Jillian Hall used to have a friendly rivalry with 2005 Diva Search winner Ashley Massaro, until Ashley posed for Playboy and got a lot of attention, including a spot in a Timbaland music video. As an aspiring singer, Jillian was also envious of Lillian Garcia getting to sing the national anthem and having a more notable music career (or so WWE would have you believe; Jillian's album actually made more money than Lillian's). Ironically, jealousy caused Brandi Wine to try and kill her career back when Jillian was a rookie.
Jimmy Jacobs was an especially obvious case, yet "The Lovely" Lacey either did not notice or did not care how much she provoked it out of him by all but throwing herself at Colt Cabana, catering to all his needs while treating Jacobs like crap.
Craig Mitchell became envious of Juliette The Huntress after she got on WWE Tough Enough instead of him. Even after Ivelisse had to give up the show due to a knee injury, he still hadn't gotten over it, trying to injure her knee again when she came back to Chicago Style Wrestling.
This is the biggest weakness in MsChif and Michael Elgin's relationship, which otherwise seems to be held together by a very strong bond. Neither one of them can hide their jealousy well when seeing the other getting too physical with the opposite sex, which usually isn't too much of a problem since both had "made it" in the business by the time they met, but some jokers like Truth Martini have arranged such matches, likely on purpose.
Tamina Snuka and Aksana wanted the jobs of The Funkadactyls, valets to Brodus Clay. Clay himself got jealous when the Funkdactyls started valeting for Xavier Woods at R-Truth's request.
When Thunderkitty debuted in SHIMMER, Portia Perez ridiculed her entrance attire and ring gear while silently coveting it for herself.
Envy was the motivation that led to Chuck Taylor leading The Gentleman's Club into EVOLVE. He once had the best record in the promotion but he couldn't win when it really counted, unlike his Ronin partners Rich Swann and Johnny Gargano, causing him to lash out at them.
Adam Cole's antagonism of Kyle O'Reilly in Ring of Honor is a nasty combination of envy and jealously. When they started teaming together as Future Shock, Cole resented that O'Reilly was more popular with crowds and critics, but was able to take solace in having a much more successful singles career than O'Reilly, winning both the Television and World Titles, while O'Reilly's team with Bobby Fish, reDRagon, proved to be much more successful than Future Shock had ever been. These frustrations eventually came to a head in 2015 when Future Shock came back together but still proved to be inferior to reDRagon. Then O'Reilly began pursuing a singles career, in particular coming dangerously close to unseating World Champion Jay Lethal— something Cole would repeatedly interfere with, to ensure he could keep his bragging rights as the more successful singles wrestler.
Caprice Coleman began to jealously guard his spot in Ring Of Honor after he was pitted against Samson Walker and Pepper Parks, two wrestlers the promotion had shown interest in. Jealousy ended up becoming resentment when he realized Dalton Castle, a wrestler Coleman was initially supportive of, had become much more popular than him with the ROH crowds.
During an in-ring promo shootout between CM Punk and MJF on the November 24, 2021 edition of AEW Dynamite, Punk accused MJF of being jealous that Punk chose to work his first AEW match against Darby Allin.
Punk: ...I looked at AEW and I said, "Wow! That's the place I want to be, that's the place I want to test myself," and I went for the heart and soul of AEW, Darby Allin, and boy, that just chews you up, doesn't it?

Radio

In Old Harry's Game, this really seems to be Satan's preeminent sin. At least Once per Episode, the Professor alleges that Satan hates and corrupts various aspects of human life because "You're just jealous." This accusation is born out by the fact that Satan is clearly very self-loathing. Also interesting is that while Satan's Fall was mostly God just being a dick, it's indicated that he wanted to be top Angel and was jealous of any others being put above him. Finally, we're told (since it's a radio show) that Satan has green eyes.

Tabletop Games

Exalted: Havesh likes killing men and raping their wives just because they were lucky enough to be born into a caste.
Forgotten Realms: The green dragon Claugiyliamatar is obsessed with powerful humanoid women, whom she spies on constantly, and desires nothing so much as to be like them, walking openly in human and elven cities and drawing their societies around herself.
In Nomine: Baal's Fall was motivated chiefly by his bitter jealousy of Michael. The two ancient beings were friends, but Baal secretly resented how the elder Seraph would always get more respect than he did, and how he would likely go through eternity as "the mightiest of the Archangels... except for Michael". Lucifer found it rather easy to inflame this jealousy into open resentment.
Ravenloft: Strahd von Zarovich desired his brother Sergei's wife, Tatyana, but she spurned him for his age and his cruelty. Strahd ended up killing Sergei as part of a bargain with the Dark Powers for immortality (in the form of vampirism) and eternal youth, but Tatyana fled from him for fairly obvious reasons and threw herself from the castle walls. Now part of his curse is that he keeps thinking he's found her reincarnated form, but of course his target wants nothing to do with him, and he will never understand that it's because she just isn't into evil bastards.
Warhammer 40,000: Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors, was a profoundly arrogant and entitled man even before the Horus Heresy, meaning that when, for example, Rogal Dorn was given an honour Perturabo felt entitled to, he took it as a personal insult and seethed over it for years.

Theatre

The hashihime, sometimes translated as "bridge princess", is a figure from Noh theater who either committed suicide or openly cursed her cheating husband, and was turned into a bridge-haunting spirit.
William Shakespeare was fond of this one. Envy is the primary motivation driving many of his characters, including Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Leontes in The Winter's Tale. Other examples include:
- The page pic and caption about the Green-Eyed Monster come from Othello, also the Trope Namer. The tragedy of the play comes about because of misplaced jealousy on the part of the title character because of a horrible lie about his wife Desdemona told by Iago, who many say was himself motivated by envy toward Cassio, who Othello promoted instead of him.
- Played for Laughs in a The Comedy of Errors. Adriana is so jealous of her husband's hypothetical mistress that she rationalizes his twin brother's total ignorance of her as an attempt to cover up his affair. Luciana calls her out for this.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream:
  - Titania accuses Oberon of being jealous over her love for the changeling boy. He retorts by slipping her a love potion and letting her drool all over a donkey-headed man, proving he's not upset at all.
  - Helena is also quite jealous of Demetrius's sudden pursuit of Hermia.
Dog Sees God: Tricia speculates that Matt's aggressive disapproval of CB and Beethoven's budding relationship isn't just out of homophobia and instead more because Matt is romantically obsessed with CB and is jealous. Matt even goes so far as to threaten Beethoven into staying away from CB and breaks his fingers when Beethoven refuses and calls Matt by his old nickname.
Don Giovanni: Masetto spends most of his time borderline violently jealous toward Don Giovanni. To be fair, Giovanni is The Casanova and is openly trying to seduce Masetto's bride on their wedding day; what man wouldn't be jealous?
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Draco Malfoy confesses that he has always been envious of Harry's genuine friendship with Ron and Hermione while he himself never saw his minions Crabbe and Goyle as more than "two lunks who wouldn't know one end of a broomstick from another." Even Ginny admits she was jealous of the trio as well.
Lizzie: The title character is being raped by her father, but later starts a relationship with the neighbor, Alice. Soon after, Lizzie's father kills the birds in the barn, which were one of Lizzie's few sources of joy and comfort. It's heavily implied this action was spurred on because he knows (or at least suspects) that Lizzie's involved with Alice and is jealous. (Bear in mind, the barn where the birds lived is also where Lizzie meets with Alice in secret.)
Mrs. Hawking: There's an implication in Gilded Cages that Elizabeth envies Victoria, both for her advantages in life (for which the girl has no appreciation) and the devoted attentions of Captain Hawking (in which she had no interest).

Visual Novels

In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, everything that Kristoph Gavin did was because they could not accept the possibility that Phoenix Wright could be a better defense attorney than them, so much so that they couldn't bear to admit it to themself.
In one of the bad endings for Bionic Heart, the main character's new android love interest murders his ex-girlfriend when she becomes jealous of all of the time that the protagonist spends with his ex.
ChronoBox: Fuuka, Tsutsujiko and Makoro (their evil personalities) weren't happy when Kabane came in Eden and catched the attention of Nayuta, the guy they love. They collaborated into bullying and raping her, later Desecrating the Dead.
Doki Doki Literature Club!: Monika acts attracted towards the Player Character even though she's not a romanceable character, so whatever the player chooses, she's going to be left looking from the sidelines while the player character is with someone else. She seems to take this with grace at first (in spite of having literally green eyes and all). However, it's affecting her way worse than she lets on, and she ends up hurting her friends in an effort to get them out of her way. It's not even mainly about romantic attraction — though she's in love with the player, it's more that she's Gone Mad from the Revelation about the horror behind the game's cutesy world, and she sees the player as her only chance of escaping it.
Grisaia Series: It's mostly played for comedy throughout the series, but no matter which heroine the protagonist ends up with, it leaves the rest of the girls with a somewhat bitter pill to swallow. It is most prominent in the after stories of The Labyrinth of Grisaia, and mostly takes the form of some (not so) well-intended teasing.
Heart of the Woods
- In the "Sacrifice" ending, Tara gets jealous of her best friend Madison and Madison's new girlfriend Abigail, but not out of romantic jealousy — Tara and Madison had dated for a few weeks but concluded it was a mistake. Instead, Tara is jealous about how Madison and Abigail get to be together while Morgan, the girl Tara loves, died of a Heroic Sacrifice in the climax. Tara realizes that this is no way for a friend to act and feels rather guilty, while Abigail reassures Madison that Tara doesn't hate her and Madison holds out hope that one day, their friendship will fully recover.
- In Chapter 2, Madison notices that Tara and Morgan seem to be a couple, and gets jealous. It's not that she wants to be with either one of them — Madison's experiment with a relationship with Tara didn't work out and she doesn't like Morgan at this point in the story — she's mainly jealous that they got into a relationship while she hasn't had much luck with love. She gets over this as she gets closer to Abigail, and sees how much Tara and Morgan love each other.
Done humorously in one particular scene in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, when Junpei inspects Clover's photo.
Junpei: Looking at this photo, she's kinda cute isn't she?
Akane: [Death Glare]
Junpei: Huh? What is it?
Akane: Nothing. Nothing at all.
Junpei: (Why does her smile make me feel cold)?
Paper Perjury: Annie's greed completely blinds her to the privilege she already has (a guaranteed income and property inherited from her parents) and the fact that Ferris isn't the insensitive classist Annie believes she is.
In Piofiore: Fated Memories, in Nicola's route, Roberto becomes increasingly jealous and unhinged when believing that Lili and Nicola are in a relationship, eventually resulting in him attempting to kill Dante and actually murdering Marco, all so he could "rescue" Lili and kill Nicola.
Miou in A Profile is extremely jealous of Masayuki's stepsister Rizu after Masayuki broke up with her to repair his relationship with said sister. How she reacts varies by route, but the story goes out of its way to show that she does have a point due to the circumstances involved.
School Days: Sekai and Kotonoha. VERY jealous of each other because they both like Makoto. To make matters even worse, both girls are Yandere. The most infamous endings (as well as the one for the anime adaptation) have things ending very, very badly as a result. It is, however, possible for them to set aside their jealousy and agree to both date him.
Spirit Hunter: NG:
- The Urashima Woman's midwife, Yasuko, was deathly envious of her for being able to give birth while Yasuko couldn't, leading her to kill the woman and steal her baby for herself.
- Akira theorizes that one of the reasons Kakuya sent a lightning bolt down on Seiji and Kaoru, besides just to liven up her game, was that she was jealous of Akira for having friends. This is confirmed in the endgame when she erases Akira's memories of them out of jealousy that he's closer to them than her.
- In Seiji's Normal End, he confesses that he's been envious of Akira since childhood since the other boy's strength (both physical and mental) make him more suited to the Yakuza than Seiji himself.
Umineko: When They Cry features Leviathan, the second of the Stakes of Purgatory. She's a whiny crybaby who envied her sisters for seven days. However, not even her envy is a match for Kyrie(Rudolf's mistress and second wife) who envied Asumu (Rudolf's late first wife) for eighteen years, especially after Kyrie's first child was stillborn while Asumu gave birth to Battler(or so Kyrie thinks). Leviathan develops a bit of a crush on her after that.
Wildfire of War: 13th Day tries to make Arsenik become this by going out with someone else. However, since he has the hots for Ambrosia, Wildfire ends up being so jealous herself that she wants to Murder the Hypotenuse.

Web Animation

In one Mario animated video online called "The Color of Envy", Luigi(who wears a green hat and shirt with his blue overalls), jealous of Princess Toadstool favoring Mario, frees Wario from the dungeon, kills all the guards who oppose him, and throws Mario in the dungeon.
Damaged: TJ is jealous of Dillon, the Big Robot On Campus that everybody but him loves because he has a wide assortment of gadgets that he uses to help his fellow classmates. It only lasts for that episode.
Dayum: In “Types of People at the Waterpark Portrayed by Minecraft”, one patron is jealous of a boy with an express pass because he doesn’t have to wait in line, so they beat him up.
Dreamscape: Kaila envied Keela for taking her place as the Master of the Dammed's Dragon. This, combined with the fact that Keela only did that so she could kill the Master of the Dammed, made Kaila despise her.
DSBT InsaniT: Duck isn't very fond of Perry, because he thinks Snake is trying to use him as a "replacement".
Etra chan saw it!: In this episode, Akane is jealous of Tsutsuji because she lives as a rich housewife, prompting her to borrow $10,000 under Tsutsuji's name behind her back. She eventually ends up getting arrested and her husband divorces her.
Gossip City: Karin became jealous of her younger sister Miko after she took their parents' attention from her. Their parents sent her to Aunt Yoshie's house as punishment for her abuse, but she returned a year later for Miko's birthday and tricked the girl into getting her hands burned with the boiling chicken soup she made. After a scuffle with Toya got her scalded with her own soup, their parents send her far away to work at a factory.
MoniRobo:
- Mari Yoshida bullied the temp workers around her and dumped all her workload into them, but she had a bone to pick with Charako for being close to Mr. Tanaka.
- Abigail Ezra was jealous of Riley Hall when she announced her marriage to her fiancé Keegan, despite herself being engaged to a rich man herself. At the proper wedding, she chews Riley out for her "extravagant" wedding.
- "Colleague forced me out of the office, so I got her back hard": Miki Takahashi was jealous of her coworker Yui Hanazawa because the latter landed first place in sales while she was in second place. To this effect, she tried to coerce Yui into handing over her jobs and threatening to spread rumors about her sleeping her way to the top.
- "She thinks she stole my fiancé but the person she slept with was...": Masato Jinguji resented his cousin, Yuto, for taking his place as the future CEO of Jinguji Group and even stalked the latter's fiancée, Kanako, with the intent of stealing her. However, Masato drops the plan upon meeting Moemi and tricks her into sleeping with him by claiming to be Kanako's fiancé.
In Red vs. Blue, South does not receive an A.I. while her twin brother North does. She does not take it well.
Revenge Films:
- "This girl took my blind sister and left her in the middle of the intersection": Kelly got jealous when she found out that Trisha's sister Nina was in the choir and she's not in due to her parents forbidding it. She pretended to play hide-and-seek and left Nina in the middle of the intersection. Fortunately, Trisha was able to find her and take her to safety.
- "Got an invitation to a wedding, but…": The groom invited the FMC to his wedding just to mock her in front of the entire research club, but it lead to the wedding being called off because of it. Turns out he was jealous of the FMC for getting her license before him, even when he refused to study and thought he could pass it with flying colors without effort.
- "Got an invitation to a birthday party…": Blair was jealous of her former friend Ali because Bob talked to the latter more than the former. Turns out Blair had a crush on Bob and couldn't stand him being near Ali.
Fazbear and Friends (ZAMination): Freddy gets jealous when Circus Baby arrives at the pizzeria, his friends on the other hand are attracted to them and they both change the pizzeria to further increase Freddy's jealousy, when he confronts them knowing that Circus Baby was planning to do things to them that they do not want to do, his friends confront him for not being with them due to his jealousy towards her, they finally reconcile after Circus Baby forces them to do things they don't want to do and Freddy overcomes his jealousy and becomes friends with Circus Baby and decides to return the pizzeria to its original state.
- In the music video "WHAT UP!" Circus Baby's attention for the sexiest one and therefore, she becomes jealous towards her because everyone pays more attention to her than her.

Webcomics

Bastard: While Jin is trying to decide whether to give Kyun up to his dad, he nearly does when he sees her talking to another guy, but decides not to when she smiles and waves at him. However, considering his issues, it may have had more to do with him deciding whether she was worth possibly being killed for than with him being jealous, although he clearly was at least a little bit.
Played for Laughs in Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: Bruce is jealous that his kids are toting around memorabilia of the Justice League that isn't him. When the Justice League convenes, Superman notes that Batman looks broodier than usual.
Bittersweet Candy Bowl has Paulo jealous of his girlfriend's extracurricular activities keeping her away from him, and Daisy jealous of Lucy's success with guys, even though she blows them all off while they all ignore Daisy.
Collar 6: Subverted by Ginger, who sports a green color scheme and is introduced as a possible contender to Laura for Mistress Sixx's affection. However, it is later revealed that while she is, indeed, in love with her "Madame", her feelings towards Laura are less of a jealousy and more of a disgust about her taking Michelle's love (something that Ginger was never able to attain) for granted. Eventually, they settle for a happy, trouble-free OT3.
Cursed Princess Club: Aurelia is not fond of how a princess like Gwen, who isn't cursed and has a loving family, is allowed into the club and tries to trick her into doing something that would get her kicked out.
Dreaming Freedom: Siyun is shown to be jealous of Jaehyeok, as despite the latter’s cruel treatment of Jeongmin after he started dating Juhyeon, she still has feelings for him. It gets to the point that his beating up Jaehyeok for making Jeongmin cry is almost less about that and more out of jealousy.
In Gunnerkrigg Court, Antimony is jealous of how Kat and Alistair get along. She overcomes it to insist they get a proper farewell — whereupon both she and Kat learn things.
Homestuck:
- Orphaner Dualscar was intensely jealous of Mindfang's romantic liaisons with other trolls — to the point that he murdered her latest conquest The Dolorosa and sold out Mindfang to the Subjugglators, dooming himself in the process.
- The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, as Dualscar's descendant Eridan Ampora becomes equally as jealous of Sollux's relationship with Feferi. Being rejected by his lifelong crush was one several reasons he changes side.
Hooky: Nico's early antagonism towards Dorian was due to jealousy. He saw Dorian as The Ace when it came to magic, while no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't use magic. His current frosty relationship with Mark is due to feeling that Mark has surpassed him.
In Kevin & Kell, Vin's hatred for Rudy stems from his belief, formed from working as an intern at Herd Thinners, that Rudy has everything he doesn't. He also becomes quite resentful at the end of the Y2k arc when Fenton and Ray reunite with their girlfriends.
Kill Six Billion Demons: Gog-Agog is associated with the sin of Envy amongst the seven remaining Demiurges. Not only is she literally green-eyed and also the most monstrous of the Demiurges, a lot of her actions (lashing out towards the other Demiurges, constantly re-inventing herself and dominating Throne's media and entertainment while assimilating anyone who looks up to her) implies she's Driven by Envy as well. Much of the fourth book is set into motion over Gog-Agog's spite towards Solomon David and his seeming perfection.
My Deepest Secret:
- When Elios sees Emma and Yohan talking, he tries to make her stop talking to him, partially due to jealousy but also because he knows Yohan is on his trail. Later in the series, he begins to try to cause rifts between Emma and her friends.
- Sophie is violently jealous of girls with good looks who attract male attention. Emma is one of these — nevermind the fact that much of the attention she gets is unwanted!
In Ragnar: The Prelude to Nixvir, Ragnar becomes envious of Erik because the snowman is far better at magic than himself. In fact, Ragnar even quotes from Othello and brings up the trope by name before mentioning that he came to hate Erik, even though the two of them were once friends.
No Rest for the Wicked: Beast interprets Perrault's comments about "Beauty" to mean the girl, and that she left him for Perrault. He attacks him in a rage.
Oglaf has randomly generated page quotes. One is "The god of envy has a better temple than yours."
The Princess's Jewels: When Princess Ariana comes to the Kingdom of Galdeon, she manages to capture the heart of King Goldblackrose. However, she actually went there to add Raymond Amber to her Royal Harem. When she starts showing affection to Raymond, the king isn't happy.
Public U. Art Club: The engineering club girl resents Leanne, "that occultist neanderthal", for winning a trophy declaring her to have the "Best Head On Campus^*.
Rain (2010): Heather's attitude toward her genderfluid sister Kylie is revealed to be this. After a particularly heavy Wham Episode, she reveals that she was born with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Her stepdad once said she was practically a boy, which lead to her resenting Ky for having the femininity she felt like she was denied and that Ky didn't really want herself.
Rival Angels: Black Widow is not happy that The Hero of the story is getting more exposure than her. Her perfectly reasonable response can be seen here.
Shotgun Shuffle: Part of Ellie's problems with her roommate Quinn stem from the fact that Ellie unintentionally stole any chance of popularity from Quinn in the fifth grade, when Ellie came back from the summer with boobs.
Sleepless Domain: This Magical Girl genre deconstruction/reconstruction has multiple examples of this trope.
- Tessa was actually the final member of Team Alchemical to have the dream and be given powers. While it's not said outright, the interstitial between chapters 6 and 7, and the flashback to her dream during chapter ???, imply pretty strongly that she was bitterly envious of her friends for having powers when she didn't.
- After Cassidy attacked Undine out of suspicion that the latter was responsible for the death of her teammates, she tried to explain her actions as protecting Heartful Punch and the rest of the training club. Bud, however, suggested that Cassidy's real problem was that she just couldn't stand Heartful Punch suddenly spending all her time with Undine, and jumped to whatever conclusions would justify acting on her jealousy.
- When Kokoro finally talked about the problems between her and her father, Undine commisserated with her by revealing a bit of her own family's history. It turns out that Undine's grandma was also a magical girl back in the day, and now her mother seems to feel like she was "skipped over." Apparently, Momdine has always been mildly self-conscious about it.
In Urban Underbrush, Clive and Blair's ex-girlfriend foment this at a nightclub. Alas, Clive is actually attracted, tries to kiss her, and gets a brush-off that reveals the truth to Blair.
Wapsi Square: Monica accuses Bud of being envious of Tina. Bud has a bit of a problem with this seeing as she is also a bit envious of Monica and her relationship with Kevin.
A rather literal Green-Eyed Monster appears in Widdershins: in fact, that's the chapter title. Envy is the name of a demonic entity which casually manipulates Dominic Voss, who's desperately envious of Heinrich Wolfe, and, well, everyone else, because they have talents he lacks. With Envy's help, he steals their abilities, becoming The Ace in short order. Thankfully, he does get a crisis of conscience near the chapter's end.

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Jouglat from The Cry of Mann starts to crush on Agent Martinez almost as soon as she arrives. Witnessing her share close moments with Berry contributes to his overall mental decline, as he drinks more heavily and goes on bitter rants about how secrets being kept.
Dream Machine: In Episode 1.04, The Opposite of People, Leah implies that she’s jealous of actors like Josie getting all the credit for their work as the face of it visible to the public, when Leah’s writing is where it all begins.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Dr. Horrible's envy of Captain Hammer fuels everything he does. It starts out with perpetual envy and disgust of Hammer's success and the (arguably undeserved) worship the city gives him, but what really drives him over the edge is envy/jealousy over Hammer dating the girl he's had his eye on, and Hammer gloating about it to rub it in his face, to boot. It doesn't end well. At all.
Part of why The Nostalgia Critic's a Mean Boss. Reviewing is the only thing he has so he's freaked out by people going into his territory and doing it better than him (or so he thinks).
The Nostalgia Chick and Lupa are friendly at first (or as friendly as the Chick can be), but when Chick discovers Lupa has Todd's affections but doesn't want them, she's so jealous that she tries to kill the redhead.
ContraPoints did an entire video analyzing the emotion and its various pitfalls, especially emphasizing its difference from greed being that while a greedy person wants more of a thing but doesn't care where they get it from, an envious person specifically wants what someone else already has and will happily ruin both of them to deny them both the thing.

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