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* In ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamTheOrigin'' Zeon Zum Deikun's wife Roselucia resents Deikun's mistress Astraea and by extension her children rather than her husband, who is implied to have left her since she was infertile. After Zeon dies Roselucia takes her frustration out on them by separating the children from their mother and effectively keeping her under house arrest, never mind that the children don't seem to have known she even existed before then.

* A variation in ''Fanfic/TotalDramaDoOver''. Trent becomes [[MistakenForCheating convinced that Charlotte is cheating on him]] and scouts out potential "man-mistresses," eventually narrowing it down to Geoff. Trent is no more than condescending and passive-aggressive towards Charlotte, believing that she'll come back to him as soon as the other man is off the island. However, he is incredibly angry with Geoff, even ''punching'' him after Charlotte dumps him. When Trent learns that Charlotte got with [[spoiler:Mel]] after she dumped him, he lashes out at [[spoiler:Mel]], but is more concerned for Charlotte due to [[spoiler:Mel's history of being a SerialHomewrecker]], and assumes Charlotte's new relationship is just a phase she needs to overcome. Eventually, Charlotte snaps at Trent for not trusting her word or respecting her agency in the whole ordeal.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': When Michael catches his wife Amanda immediately after a tryst with her tennis coach, he levels plenty of anger at Amanda but is willing to outright ''kill'' the tennis coach, going so far as to chase him all over Los Santos to an expensive stilt house that he mistakenly believes the coach lives in and gets his revenge by [[spoiler: tearing it down ''Film/LethalWeapon2''-style]]. This ends up being the pivotal action that sets the game's entire plot in motion.

* ''Series/TheUpshaws'': A little over a decade before the start of the show, when Bennie and his wife Regina were "on a break", Bennie got with Tasha. The fact that Kelvin was conceived then keeps the incident very much alive in Regina's memory. In episode 2.6, Tasha calls Regina out on how unfair it is to deflect the resentment of the situation onto her.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology: The women whom Zeus had affairs with were frequently subjected to horrific punishments by Hera, while Zeus himself suffered no consequences. Note that in many cases, the women didn't even know it was Zeus they were sleeping with since he used his VoluntaryShapeshifting powers to [[BedTrick disguise himself]]. [[AffairBlameTheBastard Hera would also torment any resulting offspring, as well.]] However, this was because Zeus was simply too powerful for Hera to directly retaliate against -- the one time she did try, it ended poorly for her.

Compare AffairBlameTheBastard and MaternalDeathBlameTheChild for similar sorts of misplaced blame. Subtrope of MisplacedRetribution. Contrast TheUnfairSex, for when the women aren't blamed at all.

* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Women with whom Zeus had affairs were frequently subjected to horrific punishments by Hera, while Zeus himself suffered no consequences. Note that in many cases, the women didn't even know it was Zeus they were sleeping with since he used his VoluntaryShapeshifting powers to [[BedTrick disguise himself]]. She tended to torment any resulting offspring, as well. However, this was because Zeus was simply too powerful for Hera to directly retaliate against him-- when she did try once, it ended poorly for her.

* In the story "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" (one of tales in the horror anthology ''ComicBook/ThroughTheWoods'' by Creator/EmilyCarroll), a young woman is put into an ArrangedMarriage with a rich man, but soon discovers that the man [[TheBluebeard murdered his first wife, cut her to pieces, and then scattered the pieces throughout the manor]]. The second wife gathers all the pieces of the first wife and ties them together with string, at which point the first wife [[CameBackWrong comes back to life]] as a RevenantZombie and attacks the second wife, calling the second wife a usurper. Fortunately the second wife barely manages to escape and the first wife then turns her anger on the husband who killed her.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': In "Battle For Panthatar", Drake accidentally hooked up with his friend Thornton's girlfriend without knowing who she was, with the girl herself being totally complacent, just before the night of Thornton's awesome birthday party. However, Thornton's anger is mostly directed at Drake, causing him to become UninvitedToTheParty (and Josh too, by proxy). Drake tries to jump through several hoops to make it up to Thornton, but when none of them work, he and Josh crash the party just to get his signed ''Music/AbbeyRoad'' album back.