History Main / EmasculatedCuckold

* Hugo Kupka in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' starts out having an affair with Waloed spymaster Benedikta Harman. [[spoiler:Unbeknownst to him, however, Benedikta has no actual feelings for him and is only manipulating him to keep him as useful pawn for Waloed. Her real lover is none other that the King of Waloed himself, Barnabas Thamr. And to add insult to injury, after Benedikta's death at the hands of Clive, Barnabas ''himself'' manipulates Hugo by posthumously decapitating his erstwhile lover and delivering her head to him so that Hugo can unknowingly do his bidding by going on a predictable crusade of revenge. In one of his last scenes, it's revealed that Hugo always feared he was a cuckold, but due to his enmity with Clive, he hallucinates Clive taking Benedikta away from him, completely oblivious to the truth.]]

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** In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", when Cleveland confronts his wife after finding out she slept with Quagmire, she calls him out for being passionless milquetoast and kicks him out of the house. By the end, however, Cleveland learns to stand up for himself and demands a divorce, saying that even someone like him deserves better than her.

** PlayedForLaughs and [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] in the episode "Boy (Dog) Meets Girl (Dog)" when Brian wins a dog show in an effort to get with his new girlfriend, a show dog. When he's [[ShootTheShaggyDog unable to get it up]], he's ForcedToWatch as she's bred by a [[BlackIsBiggerInBed brown]] boxer that [[BiggerIsBetterInBed Stewie comments is hung like a horse]] while [[SitcomArchNemesis Quagmire mocks him]]. To take it even farther she tries to console Brian by telling him she'll name one of the puppies after him, but then comments that the father will probably eat it before she shoos Brian out of the room while he finishes. Keep in mind this episode ''started'' with Brian DrivenToSuicide, but surprisingly didn't end with it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': ''Bender's Big Score'', Hermes temporarily loses his body and has his head put in a jar. During this time, his wife Labarbara leaves him (along with their son) and goes back to her ex-husband, Barbados Slim, who is superior to Hermes in just about every possible way, including being {{hunk}}ier, [[WomenPreferStrongMen more athletic]], and a better sexual partner. However, Labarbara later leaves Barbados again when Hermes helps save the world, and later episodes reveal that this situation is actually reversed for Barbados, who is jealous of Labarbara's pure affectionate love for Hermes.

** In "Bethic Twinstinct", Rick directly refers to [[Characters/RickAndMortyJerrySmith Jerry Smith]] as "your cuckold husband" at one point when talking to the Beths about their relationship. By the end, though, it turns out that Jerry and the Beths are turned on by them cuckolding him right to his face while he approves of and actively encourages it, to the point that it's implied to turn into an outright threesome soon after. It helps that she's having an affair with [[ScrewYourself another version of herself]], which they even reason is technically not cheating.
** Subverted with Jerry's parents, who have engaged in cuckolding as a way to spice up their marriage. It's treated as a CasualKink for both parties (with Jerry's father stating how he likes to watch while wearing a Superman outfit) and are even close enough with the third party to the point that they thought it appropriate to bring him to a family dinner (to Jerry's discomfort).

* Parodied in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch starring Creator/MichaelBJordan as insurance mascot Jake from State Farm, whose policies are ''so'' satisfying that he's become an interloper in a suburban couple's marriage. He's always around, acts as a father figure to them, and even sleeps in the same bedroom as the wife. The husband is reduced to a paranoid, drunken wreck sobbing about the state of his marriage... [[spoiler:until rival insurance mascots Doug and [=LiMu Emu=] from Liberty Mutual show up to help him.]]

** In "Bethic Twinstinct", Rick directly refers to Jerry as "your cuckold husband" at one point when talking to the Beths about their relationship. By the end, though, it turns out that Jerry and the Beths are turned on by them cuckolding him right to his face while he approves of and actively encourages it, to the point that it's implied to turn into an outright threesome soon after. It helps that she's having an affair with [[ScrewYourself another version of herself]], which they even reason is technically not cheating.

* PlayedForDrama in ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' as MadScientist Huey Emmerich's [[WickedStepmother second wife]] cheated on him with his then-teenage ''[[ParentalIncest son]]'', Hal. This led to Huey being DrivenToSuicide, but being the spiteful DirtyCoward that he is, his last act on Earth was an attempted TakingYouWithMe on his wife's daughter, traumatizing both kids and prompting Hal to [[TheRunaway run away from home]].

* In ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', this is one of the many ways the series torments the immigrant worker [[ButtMonkey Pedro]]. After he dies and the [[ResetButton Will of the Universe]] refuses to properly bring him back from the dead his ghost goes back to his beautiful wife, only to find out she not only moved on abnormally quickly to his rival Gomez but that she's already pregnant with the other man's kid which makes him realize she had been cheating on him for some time already.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* In ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' (both the original play and the musical), Amos is willing to make an absolute fool of himself to help his unfaithful and unloving wife literally get away with murder. The low point of his HumiliationConga arrives when [[AmoralAttorney Billy Flynn]] persuades him not to divorce Roxie for the sake of her (alleged) unborn child, even though he knows that [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe it couldn't possibly be his]].

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* Humorously [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in an old joke about a middle-aged Jewish husband and wife. They go to their rabbi and explain that the husband has been unable to satisfy the wife in the bedroom, and since Jewish law states that a woman is entitled to sexual pleasure, they're at a loss. The rabbi recommends that they hire a [[MrFanservice muscular, handsome, twenty-something hunk]] to wave a towel over them while they make love; they do so, but have the same problem. Upon hearing this, the rabbi tells them to switch places--the hunk will be in the bed while the husband holds the linen. After just a few minutes, the wife is brought to [[TheImmodestOrgasm the best orgasm of her life]], and rather than be upset, the husband proudly tells the young man: "You see? Now ''that's'' how you wave a towel!"

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* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': During Greg Pak's run on ''The Incredible Hulks'', the final two arcs had Betty Ross (as Red She-Hulk) beginning a relationship with Hulk's archnemesis, Tyrannus. This trope is specifically invoked numerous times by Tyrannus, specifically stating that he and Betty "did more than dance" at one point to make the Hulk angry enough to fight a common foe. Making it worse for both Bruce and the Hulk is the fact that it's clear Betty wants to be with Bruce again, but Red She-Hulk wants Tyrannus just to spite him. This comes back to bite her later when Hulk enters a "Worldbreaker" level of rage and needs a CooldownHug which she can no longer provide - so Umar steps up and lovingly brings Hulk to her realm to put his energy to "more enjoyable use". This time, it's ''Betty's'' turn to be jealous and angry.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': In a fit of spiteful BrutalHonesty, Tyrion tells Jaime that Cersei (emotionally Jaime's wife though not legally): "She's been fucking Lancel and Osmund Kettleblack and Moon Boy for all I know." In the aftermath of this, Jaime's jealous ruminations nearly consume him. At times he convinces himself Tyrion was lying; other times he believes it. When he goes to the Riverlands he confronts Lancel, who confesses that he did sleep with Cersei. PoorCommunicationKills, though, and Jaime never confronts Cersei ''herself'' about this. If he did, he'd find out that most of what Tyrion was referring to was sex a political tool, not sex out of desire, and that--as she says in her own internal monologue--"It had never been any good with anyone but Jaime."