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* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The first time you enter Whiterun, you'll come across a married couple arguing because the husband, a retired mercenary, wants to retrieve his father's sword from a den of bandits, while his wife threatens to take their daughter and leave him if he even thinks about it. Naturally, the husband will ask you to retrieve the sword for him.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'' has Rinea, the fiancé of Lord Berkut. Unlike Berkut, she is an ExtremeDoormat NeutralFemale who hates war and violence, is incredibly timid and passive and is incapable of doing anything to stop Berkut's descent into madness and is ultimately [[spoiler: sacrificed to Duma by an insane Berkut in order to gain enough power to destroy Alm.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': In ''ComicBook/TheFlash1987'', Wally West very brieflygoes through a phase of this with his long-time girlfriend Linda Park. However, it's subverted because, as an investigative reporter and newswoman, she herself is often getting into danger, with Wally having to be ''her'' Wet Blanket due to his fear of her getting hurt. It's also notable that her issue isn't so much that she wants Wally to stop being The Flash, but rather she worries that she, a normal woman, doesn't belong with a man [[SuperSpeed who can live lifetimes between ticks of a clock]], so it's more that she's worried about ''being'' a wet blanket. It's mitigated however by her becoming close friends with his allies, mentors, and partners, the Flash Family.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961:'' Sue Storm-Richards, in the Stan and Jack days, would spend a ''lot'' of time complaining at Reed about how he was more interested in SCIENCE than her, or how she hated being a superhero and would much rather be doing normal things like shopping or hanging out with her friends. Eventually, the march of CharacterDevelopment meant she stopped being like this.
* In Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'', Mike Moran's wife ends up as a sort of [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]], since she stubbornly clings to her humanity and begs her husband to remember his own, even as he embraces an increasingly distant and terrifying [[BewareTheSuperman superhumanity]]. In the end, [[spoiler: he and his allies take over and completely transform the world into a posthuman benevolent dictatorship, but she still refuses to become a superbeing.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'':
** Jane Foster, particularly in her older, [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] appearances, typically pined for Thor incessantly and also bemoaned the violence going on around her. In fact, the incident that originally [[ShipSinking sank her ship with Thor]] in those days had her briefly transformed into an Asgardian goddess and locked in a room with a monster to prove that she was worthy. Only a couple of minutes later, she was begging to be sent back to Earth and stating that the life of [[ProudWarriorRace an Asgardian was too horrible]].
** Sif, despite being introduced as more of an ActionGirl than Jane Foster, was also used as the "pathos" of the book in her early days. She often spent her time worrying about Thor's safety, begging him not to run off and fight something dangerous, and so on. Later depictions of her [[TookALevelInBadass made her far more of a bruiser herself]], and most modern versions of Sif would sooner charge into battle ''with'' Thor than beg him not to go.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' offers a rare boyfriend example in Victor Mancha; during his short-lived relationship with Nico Minoru, he started questioning her leadership and disapproved of her plan to make an alliance with the Kingpin in order to get ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} off of their backs.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]] slammed into this trope the moment she became a wife and mother. Beforehand, Madelyne had been presented as a patient and understanding woman who had her own adventurous side as a cargo pilot. However, after she became married and settled down as a housewife, she began complaining that Cyclops spent all his time as an X-Man instead of at home helping to raise their son, even though she ''knew'' that the purpose of the team was to stem the growing bigotry towards mutants (which includes their son) and that Cyclops's leadership was often the only thing that kept his closest friends from being killed. Things escalated to the point that when ComicBook/JeanGrey was discovered alive, Cyclops felt obligated to spend time reconnecting with her rather than fix his strained marriage. This finally culminated in Madelyne giving Cyclops an ultimatum between their marriage and the X-Men, and leaving when he ignored it.
* ''Franchise/TheFlash'': Very briefly, ComicBook/WallyWest goes through a phase of this with his long-time girlfriend Linda Park. However, it's subverted because, as an investigative reporter and newswoman, she herself is often getting into danger, with Wally having to be ''her'' Wet Blanket due to his fear of her getting hurt. It's also notable that her issue isn't so much that she wants Wally to stop being The Flash, but rather she worries that she, a normal woman, doesn't belong with a man [[SuperSpeed who can live lifetimes between ticks of a clock]], so it's more that she's worried about ''being'' a wet blanket. It's mitigated however by her becoming close friends with his allies, mentors, and partners, the Flash Family.

* At least two men who held the world record for oldest skydiver--Verdon Hayes at 101 and one other from the '90s who was ''in'' his 90s--wanted to do it when they were younger, but their wives were not having it, so they waited until after the women passed away.