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* ''Literature/IWillBecomeTheVillainsPoisonTaster: A Korean woman is transmigrated into the body of Giselle Rozevin, from the romance fantasy novel ''The Poison Apple''. While she woke up on death row and is visited by assassins who try to feed her poison, none of them work because of Giselle's immunity to poisons. She's rescued by a black mage (who's actually the story's villain) and decides to work for him in his black magic shop to avoid being killed by the original female and male leads.

* ''Literature/IWillBecomeTheVillain'sPoisonTaster: A Korean woman is transmigrated into the body of Giselle Rozevin, from the romance fantasy novel ''The Poison Apple''. While she woke up on death row and is visited by assassins who try to feed her poison, none of them work because of Giselle's immunity to poisons. She's rescued by a black mage (who's actually the story's villain) and decides to work for him in his black magic shop to avoid being killed by the original female and male leads.

* ''Literature/IWillBecomeTheVillain'sPoisonTaster: A Korean woman is transmigrated into the body of Giselle Rozevin, from the romance fantasy novel ''The Poison Apple''. While she woke up on death row and is visited by assassins who try to feed her poison, none of them work because of Giselle's immunity to poisons. She's rescued by a black mage (who's actually the story's villain) and decides to work for him in his black magic shop to avoid being killed by the original female and male leads.

* ''Manga/IGotMyWishAndReincarnatedAsTheVillainessLastBoss'' presents an interesting variation [[DramaticIrony where the readers, but not the protagonist, know the latter's reincarnated as a villainess]]. The protagonist was born DelicateAndSickly and died at the age of 16 without any experience of a "normal" life, so she [[JumpedAtTheCall doesn't hesitate]] when God offers to [[IJustWantToBeNormal reincarnate her into a healthy body]], blissfully unaware of the rest of God's description that she's reincarnating as Elizabeth Maxwell, the villainess of the Romance Game ''The Saint and the Four Knights''.

* ''Literature/TrashOfTheCountsFamily'': A gender-inverted and Shounen-esque variant occurs. Kim Rok Soo, a Korean man in his thirties, was reborn as Cale Henituse, a minor villain in the novel ''The Birth of A Hero'' and wanted to avoid his ill-fate from his encounter with Choi Han, the original protagonist of the novel and soon proceeded to prevent much of the misfortune that occured in the original story, changing ''a lot'' of things in the long run.

* ''Literature/TheCostOfABrokenHeart'': A young noblewoman, Yulia, suddenly hears from her fiance that he intends to break their engagement and marry another girl. Yulia is completely fine with it since their engagement wasn't out of love in the first place, and she intends to claim [[BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage consolation money]].[[note]]An unusual feature of Japanese divorce law is that the court may not ask anyone to pay periodical alimony or maintenance, but may order the at-fault spouse to pay a lump-sum "consolation money".[[/note]] However, she can't help but notice recent events in her life are similar to a popular romance story, and her counterpart in that story is a petty, jealous woman who is the love rival of the heroine. In precaution, she's taking steps to gather evidence that she has done no wrong.

* ''Literature/OfCourseIllClaimPalimony'' (localised as ''The Cost of a Broken Heart''): A young noblewoman, Yulia, suddenly hears from her fiance that he intends to break their engagement and marry another girl. Yulia is completely fine with it since their engagement wasn't out of love in the first place, and she intends to claim [[BreachOfPromiseOfMarriage consolation money]].[[note]]An unusual feature of Japanese divorce law is that the court may not ask anyone to pay periodical alimony or maintenance, but may order the at-fault spouse to pay a lump-sum "consolation money".[[/note]] However, she can't help but notice recent events in her life are similar to a popular romance story, and her counterpart in that story is a petty, jealous woman who is the love rival of the heroine. In precaution, she's taking steps to gather evidence that she has done no wrong.

Usually, the protagonist takes the role of a {{Ojou}} "villainess" (called [[StockJapaneseCharacters "Akuyaku Reijou"]] -- 悪役令嬢 lit.: "Antagonistic Noble Young Lady" in Japanese): a stock DisposableFiancee of one of the {{Love Interest}}s who [[StockShoujoBullyingTactics terrorizes or harms]] the [[IncorruptiblePurePureness more innocent]] heroine [[ClingyJealousGirl for being a threat]], and who, of course, is fated for a bad ending if the story continues as-is. This gives her motivation to do whatever she can to take the story OffTheRails and secure a better ending, often demonstrating that she is highly kind, intelligent, and/or skilled in the process.

* ''Literature/SurviveAsTheHerosWife'': A girl from our world dies in a traffic accident and finds herself in the world of her favorite fantasy/romance novel, where Prince Caesar must overcome the schemes of his selfish stepmother, the Empress, who wishes to have her own son become the net Emperor instead of him. The reader is incarnated as Carnelia, a secondary villainess who the Empress put in an ArrangedMarriage with Caesar, where she operates as a spy and pawn for the Empress. In the original story, Caesar is destined to eventually become a war hero and succeed in displacing the Empress, which includes executing Carnelia before he marries his true love. Understandably desperate to avoid this fate, the reader hopes to have a better relationship with Caesar and convince him to just divorce her instead before he goes to marry the duke's daughter. However, her presence and different actions soon begin making changes to the events of the story, resulting in the relationships and politics of the court being different from what she expects.

* ''With One Day Left I'll Break All the Destruction Flags: "Serves You Right!" RTA 24 Hour Record'': The villainess protagonist, Alexandra, regains her memories of her past life twenty-four hours before her fiance, Crown Prince Alfonso, is set to condemn her for bullying the heroine Lucia and renounce their engagement. Realizing that the heroine is most likely another reincarnator going for the reverse harem ending, Alexandra decides to strike while Lucia is sure of her victory and turn around the condemnation by getting rid of all of the support that Alfonso and Lucia have with the twenty-four hours she has until the event.

* ''Manhwa/DoctorElise'': Jihyun, a modern Korean woman who is working as a master surgeon, is reincarnated as Elise de Clarence who has a reputation for being a horrible and selfish lady who eventually ruined the kingdom, which would make Elise a typical "Villainess" in personality. The twist is that unlike the common variants of this trope, Elise is actually Jihyun's ''first'' life rather than second, before being reincarnated again as Elise. So Jihyun reincarnating back as Elise again is seen as her second chance to fix all her wrongdoings in her first life.

* ''How to Survive a Romance Fantasy'': Three modern day Korean young adults who read a currently popular romance fantasy end up being reincarnated as the Heroine, Villainess, and the Love Interest Male Lead of the romance fantasy novel respectively. '''However''', seeing all the problems that they have to deal with if they follow along with the plot, ''all three decide to go ScrewThisImOuttaHere and ditch the plot of their own accord''. HilarityEnsues as the story as they knew it officially goes OffTheRails, as the main characters all left before the plot could actually start.

* ''Literature/TheVillainessFlipsTheScript'': After getting hit by a car while walking home drunk at night, a young woman finds herself in the world of her favorite "revenge novel", ''The Owner of the Winter Forest'', as Judith, the villainous aunt of the main character, Luca. Said aunt got herself killed midway through the novel, but this time Judith is determined to be a good caretaker to her nephew and, after his uncle comes to take him to his rich family, remove herself from the plot and lead a quiet life somewhere else. The plan fails and she ends up entangled in a complex plot between Luca's ducal family and his royal relatives. Not only that, several characters are not acting as they were in the original novel and [[spoiler:there's also the fact that it might not even be a novel at all.]]

* ''This Villainess Wants A Divorce'' aka ''Webcomic/SurviveAsTheHerosWife'': A girl from our world dies in a traffic accident and finds herself in the world of her favorite fantasy/romance novel, where Prince Caesar must overcome the schemes of his selfish stepmother, the Empress, who wishes to have her own son become the net Emperor instead of him. The reader is incarnated as Carnelia, a secondary villainess who the Empress put in an ArrangedMarriage with Caesar, where she operates as a spy and pawn for the Empress. In the original story, Caesar is destined to eventually become a war hero and succeed in displacing the Empress, which includes executing Carnelia before he marries his true love. Understandably desperate to avoid this fate, the reader hopes to have a better relationship with Caesar and convince him to just divorce her instead before he goes to marry the duke's daughter. However, her presence and different actions soon begin making changes to the events of the story, resulting in the relationships and politics of the court being different from what she expects.
* ''Literature/TheVillainessWantsToMarryACommoner'': A Japanese woman with a SoulCrushingDeskJob found her solace in a certain RomanceGame's {{Mascot}} character that sold items [[{{Microtransactions}} the in-game shop]], before being reincarnated as the young villainess Isabella in said game. Despite being a duke's daughter, she declares she will do whatever it takes to marry this merchant boy! Equipped with NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus items and abilities, she proceeds to defy her family and everyone around them to spend all the time she can with this boy.