History Main / WomanScorned

* Discussed in ''Manga/{{Evangelion 303}}''. After Hikari and Toji get married despite Toji getting a lap dance during his bachelor party, Asuka tells Shinji exactly [[ElectricTorture what she]] [[GroinAttack would do]] if he cheated on her.

* ''FanFic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'': [[PlayedForLaughs Played For Laughs]]; after Twilight and Trixie realize that Flash is completely [[ObliviousToLove oblivious to both of them having feelings for him]], they both respond by angrily beating him to a pulp, despite Twilight finally beginning to realize her feelings for him and Trixie having made plans to ask him out.

*** Harley Quinn beats up [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] in the episode "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE7JokersMillions Joker's Millions]]" after disguising herself as a policewoman. The basis behind the attack was he abandoned her, leaving her to get caught instead, then promptly replaced her when he found out he got a fortune left to him. Harley also attacks the Joker in "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE3Trial Trial]]" after finding out that he'd finked on her in hopes of getting a better deal for himself.

* ''Film/{{Flodder}}'': In the third movie, Daughter Kees runs into her karate teacher boyfriend making out with another girl at a party. She beats him up with the same moves that he taught her.

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[spoiler:Kallen at the very end of the series. She confesses to Lelouch with a deep and passionate kiss. He responds... well, not at all. And then he kidnaps all the world's leaders]]. She resolves to kill him with her own hands. For Love And Justice.

** Mimete targets one soap opera actor because his character broke up with someone on the show. Mimete got so angry that she threw the television and decides to steal his heart for "breaking hers".

** [[spoiler:Chihiro]] appears to act like one after [[spoiler:Keima dumps her in a very harsh way because she isn't a goddess host]] by [[spoiler:telling Ayumi about his conquest plot at the worst possible moment out of either spite or misplaced concern]]. However, [[spoiler:it's revealed that this is actually a ruse by her to get Ayumi to stop worrying about how Chihiro feels and focus exclusively on Keima as well as an attempt to make Keima act honestly]].
* ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'': Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's unnamed father rejected Zero for Inuyasha's mother Izayoi. Since they are both dead, Zero takes her anger out on [[SinsOfOurFathers Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's families]], saying if she cannot find happiness, they can't either and they will all suffer until they are dead. In contrast, Sesshomaru's mother, whom his father left for Izayoi, while admitting she was jealous of Izayoi, did not attempt any revenge, and when she runs into Zero, she calls her out on how crazy and petty she is acting.

%%* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', Ryuuko really does not take breakup well, as some of her actions and attitude after [[spoiler:Ch. 12]] suggest. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what actions and attitude?)

* In ''Film/DateWithAnAngel'', Jim's fiancee Patty thinks he's left her for a new love. She does not deal with that well, to the point where she comes after him with a gun.

* In the Creator/LouisDeFunes ''Film/{{Fantomas}}'' movie, after the villain abducts his arch-nemesis IntrepidReporter Fandor and his fiancée, he [[JustBetweenYouAndMe reveals]] to Fandor that he wanted to make her [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty his concubine]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness instead of his current one]]. Fandor stages an EngineeredPublicConfession, and she helps them escape, prompting Fandor [[LampshadeHanging to mention this trope]]. She is still evil and savvy though, so [[spoiler:she disabled the brakes on the car she provided them]].
* Alex Forrest in ''Film/FatalAttraction'' is one of the most notorious examples. Alex hopes to turn her weekend fling with married Dan into something more, but when Dan makes it clear to Alex their affair was just a one-time thing, Alex goes to increasingly disturbing lengths to destroy Dan's life. Up to and including ''boiling his daughter's pet rabbit in a pressure cooker!''

* Max Fairbanks in ''Film/WhatsTheWorstThatCouldHappen''. As a billionaire media tycoon Max has multiple mistresses and his secretary ends up being the one to turn state's evidence about his illegal business practices because Max continually blows off her offers for sex for his much younger Playmate of the month girlfriend. When Max is arrested the secretary reveals that she is the one who turned him in and Max quotes the trope name.

* In ''Literature/HouseOfShards'', Vanessa Runciter is a somewhat [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] version. She's Drake Maijstral's ex, now working as an assistant for his chief rival, Geoff Fu George. Her animosity falls short of outright hatred, but she's very enthusiastic in trying to persuade Fu George to take actions that might humiliate Drake, even when they're not necessarily in Fu George's best interests. She's also quite ready to think the worst of Drake, and even [[spoiler:ends up shooting him at one point, when she misunderstands a partly overheard conversation and thinks Drake has killed Fu George]].

* ''Literature/TheLightlarkSaga'': It's revealed that [[spoiler:Celeste, or rather Aurora]], cast the curses because she was bitter that [[spoiler:the Sunling king Egan]] - to whom she had been betrothed - left her for [[spoiler:the Wildling ruler Violet]], who was also [[spoiler:Aurora]]'s best friend. [[spoiler:Aurora]] does admit that she only meant to curse her ex-fiance and friend, but she lost control of the magic and ended up cursing everybody, including her own people. As the caster of the curses, only she was spared.
* In Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/LordOfLight'', [[spoiler:Yama]] does a gender-flip, turning from one of Sam's fiercest enemies to his most faithful supporter because his love was spurned for power by a woman among the gods. To be sure, Sam had observed that he had put his great talents at that side's service out of love for her, despite the unworthiness of the gods, so he had some natural affinity for the other side, but his reactions to her are strong and painful.

%%* In ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'', this trope is strongly implied to have been the motivation behind [[spoiler:China's]] role in the murders of Skulduggery's wife and child. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* The murderer in ''Literature/TowardsZero'' committed the crime in order to frame [[spoiler:his ex-wife]] so that the latter would be hanged for it. This scheme was plotted as a revenge [[spoiler:because she tried to divorce him for another man]].

* ''Literature/TrappedOnDraconica'': [[spoiler:Zarracka tried to seduce Tyrone, but he refused to cheat on Daniar, so she killed him and made it look like a suicide. When she tried the same on Kalak with similar success, she gave him hypothermia]].
* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'', Sam changed to werewolf form and ripped Emily's face off when she rejected him. For some far-fetched reason, she started a relationship with him after he visited her at the hospital and told her he's sorry. His ex-girlfriend, Leah, whom he left for Emily, is treated by the narrative as if she's a jealous bitch, even though she behaves like a sane person, i.e. thinking and saying some nasty, bitter things about her ex rather than ripping faces off and the like. The DoubleStandard is quite obvious.

** Mapleshade gets exiled from [=ThunderClan=] (along with her kits) after having an affair with a [=RiverClan=] cat. But when her kits drown, Appledusk leaves her for another she-cat. So Mapleshade kills him, nearly kills his new mate Reedshine and kills two cats involved in her exile: another she-cat named Frecklewish and the [=ThunderClan=] medicine cat.

* Lanfear in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' was dumped by the previous Dragon in favor of someone a little less power-hungry and is still pissed off 3,000 years later; now free of her imprisonment, she's gunning for his reincarnation, to either help and [[strike:marry]] turn into her love slave or outright kill. When she finds out that she's been scorned ''again'', people die horribly.

* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', [[spoiler:AdaptationalJerkass [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Soldier Boy]] was despised by the rest of his team, especially his girlfriend the Crimson Countess for openly cheating on her, which led to her [[TheDogBitesBack selling him out to the Russians]] and telling everyone he was dead]].

** Anya, in her days as a demon, was known as the Patron Saint for Women Scorned. When a woman was heartbroken, she would appear to her and grant her a wish, usually to torture the man in unimaginable ways. One time, a girl wished the guys who played her along, broke her heart, and humiliated her knew what it was to have their hearts ripped out and broken. [[LiteralMinded Anya takes it]] [[BeatStillMyHeart a little too literally.]] She was also an example of this herself as she turned her philandering husband into a troll, an act that caught the attention of the demon that offered her the role of vengeance demon.

* When Series/{{Castle|2009}} doesn't call after returning from the Hamptons, Beckett is not happy. Neither are [[BigBrotherInstinct Ryan and Esposito]], the former of whom nearly shoots him before he's [[spoiler:arrested]] by Beckett and angrily taken for questioning.

* Gender-reversed in ''Series/CSIMiami''. When Calleigh dumps her officer boyfriend and gets him fired for using credit cards of the dead, he opens a website attacking her.

* More like a "pre-teen scorned" in an episode of ''Series/FullHouse''. Singer Tommy Paige performs a song for Stephanie at her birthday party, and she thinks this makes him her boyfriend. So she's not too happy when she sees Tommy kissing DJ, making her think that her older sister is trying to steal Tommy from her. She tries to get revenge by showing Tommy [[EmbarrassingOldPhoto embarrassing pictures]] of DJ, including one of her when she had the mumps, and one of her drooling in her sleep. The two sisters soon make amends with each other after finding out that Tommy already has a girlfriend.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': [[spoiler:Tyrion falls in love with CampFollower Shae, but when his father threatens to hang her, he has to BreakHerHeartToSaveHer to force her to leave King's Landing. Shae retaliates by giving false testimony at his trial. Unlike her book counterpart, show!Shae really seems to care for Tyrion, so it's harder to believe she'd just turn on him for money. She took his break up very hard, so it's not too much of a stretch to think she's trying to get back at him. Well, that, and Tywin/Cersei probably threatened her. When Tyrion unexpectedly finds Shae in his father's bed, the two immediately try to kill each other, with Tyrion strangling her using a gold neck chain he gave her as a gift]].

Almost AlwaysFemale, but male examples do exist. Compare GreenEyedMonster.

* ''The Earl of Toulos'' and its variants, where two failed lovers accuse the empress of infidelity, going so far as to introduce a man into her bed to add evidence.

* It is a bad idea to be embracing another woman when your warrior-knight girlfriend is in the other room, because if she sees you, she will think long and hard about cutting you in twaine. Thankfully for Sir Timias, Lady Britomart is righteous enough not to resort to wanton violence even if she (thinks) she's been cheated on, so she doesn't go threw with killing them (like she wants to).

* In a genre-flip, the ChivalricRomance ''Florence of Rome'' has her refuse the advances of her brother-in-law, who then claims to his brother that she had tried to seduce him.

* ''The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'' by Fay Wheldon (on which the movie ''Film/SheDevil'' was based) is entirely this. Once dumped, the title character devotes herself to reaching a position to completely ruin her ex-husband and his mistress.

%%* A version, albeit a mild one, appears in Catherine Alliott's ''The Old-Girl Network'', when [[spoiler:Serena]] feels scorned after her boyfriend breaks up with her and gets into bed with [[spoiler:Polly]]. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; does she take revenge in any way?)
* In the ChivalricRomance "Olivier de Castile et Artus d'Algarbe", Olivier has to flee because his stepmother tried to seduce him and accused him of rape when she failed.
* Creator/SidneySheldon's breakthrough novel ''The Other Side of Midnight'' has Noelle Page. She's a poor French girl wooed by American pilot Larry Douglas, who promises to return to her after he's called back to his duties -- even giving her money for a wedding gown. She [[IWillWaitForYou waits]], finds out she's pregnant... and then tracks down his whereabouts and learns that he's TheCasanova who never intends to return. This has extremely ugly consequences, starting with how she handles the baby issue; soon she's a GoldDigger model/actress and TheChessmaster set on ruining Larry's career and forcing him into working for her.
* In Anthony Berkeley's novel ''The Poisoned Chocolates Case'', the true motive for the murder turns out to be that the murderer was one of Sir Eustace's mistresses, who had been genuinely in love with him and who he had intended to marry. She could cope with the marriage plans failing as long as the relationship continued, but when Sir Eustace fell out of love with her and in love with someone else, who he intended to marry, she decided to kill him and his new lover.

* In the ChivalricRomance "Seven Sages of Rome", [[WickedStepmother the wife of the emperor]] tried to seduce her stepson; when he refused, she told her husband that he tried to rape her. He is saved by the title sages, who counter her stories of designing councilors with those of evil wives.
* In ''Sir Triamour'', the steward tries to seduce the queen, is rejected, feigns that he was just testing her, and accuses her of adultery on her husband's return.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', Sam changed to werewolf form and ripped Emily's face off when she rejected him. For some far-fetched reason, she started a relationship with him after he visited her at the hospital and told her he's sorry. His ex-girlfriend, Leah, whom he left for Emily, is treated by the narrative as if she's a jealous bitch, even though she behaves like a sane person, i.e. thinking and saying some nasty, bitter things about her ex rather than ripping faces off and the like. The DoubleStandard is quite obvious.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': When [[Characters/MarvelComicsJeanGrey Jean Grey]], who at the time was a host for the Phoenix Force, caught her husband in bed with Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}}. It wasn't pretty.

* When Series/{{Castle}} doesn't call after returning from the Hamptons, Beckett is not happy. Neither are [[BigBrotherInstinct Ryan and Esposito]], the former of whom nearly shoots him before he's [[spoiler:arrested]] by Beckett and angrily taken for questioning.

* The BlackWidow villain of the Creator/LaurelAndHardy film ''Oliver the Eighth'' has this as her motivation - though [[PlayingWithATrope played with]] in that she doesn't target the man who hurt her, [[RevengeByProxy but rather any who]] [[DisproportionateRetribution share his name]].

* Cindy from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' is angry with her classmate Billy, who broke up with her for unspecified reasons (though the fact that she's an AlphaBitch in the making who herself goes through boyfriends like tissues probably had something to do with it). However, he disappeared mysteriously after the fact, leaving her unable to take revenge on him directly. Instead, she's resorted to bullying his sister Lily as a proxy.

* This was thought to be the reason why Jeng Yah smashed a kerosene lamp over her ex-fiancé Soeraja's head in ''Literature/CigaretteGirl''. [[spoiler:Subverted as the reason for her wrath was Soeraja leaking her cigarette formula to her business rival, Soedjagad.]]

* This was thought to be the reason why Jeng Yah smashed a kerosene lamp over her ex-fiancé Soeraja's head. ||Subverted as the reason for her wrath was Soeraja leaking her cigarette formula to her business rival, Soedjagad.||

* ''Theatre/{{Medea}}'': When her husband Jason deserts her for another woman, she kills his new fiancee and the fiancee's father (this one by accident: he was trying to save her and failed) with a golden robe laced with poison, and then [[OffingTheOffspring puts every one of her children by Jason to the sword]], before [[CruelMercy letting him live with it]]. To make this even worse, Medea is ''TheMedic''. And to make it even worse, Hera, being both the protector of Jason, the divinity called to witness his oath to Medea and the one who got them together in the first place, is the one supposed to punish him, but ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards the goddess of the Women Scorned couldn't find anything worse to inflict on him]]''. The best she can come up with is to take back all the favors from her to him, and efficiently leading Jason to lose all his glory as a hero and be reduced to a beggar until his death.\\\
And that's a later version, that was restricted to Corinth before Creator/{{Euripides}} made it famous. The other version is even more terrifying: while in that it's the Corinthians who kill the children for delivering the poisoned robe, Medea had already set the city on fire because the new fiancee's father happened to be the king of Corinth (or by accident: a variant says that the poison set the fiancee on fire and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the father made it spread in the vain attempt to save her]]), and when she left the city was hit by an ''earthquake''. She still left Jason alive to suffer, and Hera still failed to find something worse to punish him with.