The antagonist in every story will get what's coming to them in droves as their scheme, their reputations, and their livelihoods crumble apart from the consequences of their actions. This merits Trouble Busters a Humiliation Conga subpage.
Episodes that feature a specific character of the main cast as protagonist will have their folders and since their English names vary from episode to episode, the folders will use the characters' Japanese names for sorting purposes.
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Akashi's Episodes
- "My stepmother k*lled my sick father so I got revenge by taking everything away from her"
: Alan's father screws over his gold-digging wife Sarah by writing the date with erasable ink on the will she made him sign. Instead, he passed it all down to Alan in another copy of the will, allowing him to tear down the deceased's house for good measure. Furthermore, Alan's father had him put a hidden camera to record Sarah's abuse of him and learned of her massive debt; she wanted Alan's father's money to pay the loan sharks off. Eventually, Sarah is reduced to futilely begging both Alan and his lawyer until Alan sues her into oblivion. Destitute, homeless, and with a criminal record, Sarah spent the rest of her days fleeing from the loan sharks until she disappeared. - "My wife, innocent and pure, was about to give birth, when our doctor showed us a shocking truth...": Dr. Washington was arrested for forging medical documents after obstructing a DNA test Alan realized on his baby son Charles. His replacement, Dr. Helen, confirmed Alan wasn't the baby's father and revealed pictures of his wife, Lisa, having an affair with a guy named Mitch. While Lisa shrugged it off because her mother was part of the school board, Alan brings up that even then, Mrs. Smith would be ousted and charged with illegal bribery for being in cahoots with the crooked former doctor. Lisa panics and begs Alan for mercy, but she runs off crying after Alan, Melanie, and Helen chew her out for her infidelity. Afterward, Mrs. Smith gets arrested for illegal bribery; Dr. Washington confesses that she promised him the school board's unanimous vote in exchange for covering up Lisa's pregnancy. As a result, the old crone is sentenced to five years in prison. As for Lisa, Alan divorces her, reducing her to working as a waitress in a bar since her father was a gambling addict, while her lover adamantly refuses to undergo a DNA test and disappears from society.
- "The CEO's daughter had an affair...": Alan throws a surprise party for his pregnant cheating wife, Megan, in retaliation for slandering him to her father, the CEO, and exposes it, along with her intentions to have Alan raise her lover's baby, to the guests. While Alan was willing to accept any punishment for doing this, the CEO surprisingly disowns Megan for ruining his company's image before and declares he's going to resign for what happened. Afterward, Alan sued both Megan and her lover for $20,000 while her father sued her for $320,000 in damages for causing distrust towards the company. As a result, the lovebirds become destitute and have to live in a rundown apartment while raising the baby.
- "Found out that my wife was cheating on me… Then…: Oliver catches his cheating wife, Brooke, in bed with her lover. While she panicked and denied her cheating despite being caught, her lover jumped out of the window and ran off into the night. When Oliver gathers Brooke, her parents, and his lawyer for a meeting, her parents lambast him for supposedly cheating on her, only for Oliver to reveal Brooke's upcoming baby wasn't his. He dared Brooke to marry her lover while threatening a lawsuit and scolding her for her shameless pleading. While Brooke and her parents kept pestering Oliver the next day, he played a recording of her affair to shut them up. Afterward, Oliver divorces Brooke and finds out she met her lover through a dating app, and it turns out he was married with kids. After Brooke paid the full amount in damages, her parents kept asking Oliver to look after the baby, but they backed down at his response that he would only do so if the baby was his. As for Brooke's lover, he disappeared and is yet to be found, with Oliver quipping that he went swimming into the ocean.
- "My former fiancee came back to haunt me but my friends came to save the day!" Melanie dumped Alan for Mark, who was richer than him. However, Mark ends up arrested and jailed for embezzlement after Alan helps Miranda file a lawsuit against him for harassment. As a result, she turns to loan sharks to make ends meet. Ten years later, Melanie finds Alan, remarried to Miranda with a daughter named Sally. She tries to badger Alan into dumping Miranda and remarrying her instead. Moreover, she threatened to kill Miranda and Sally with a knife to cow Alan into submission, but Rose, Todd, and Helen stopped her before she could even harm him. Afterward, Melanie is sent to prison for a few years and gets released, but ends up taken away into a black car waiting outside the building, with her fate unknown.
- "My baby is blond with blue eyes…I don't think that he is mine…": Erika gives birth to a blond, blue-eyed baby, for which a pissed-off Akashi chews her out for cheating on him. After he storms out of the hospital and hears the truth from Midoriko, he returns to Erika's hospital room and demands a divorce. She futilely tried to fool Alan, but he already realized a DNA test on the baby that confirmed it wasn't his child. After the divorce was finalized following Erika's agreement to pay the alimony Akashi demanded, she called Midoriko to have her take care of the baby, but she refused. With no one to turn to, Erika moved back with her parents to the countryside, where their neighbors not only looked at her and her foreign baby with disdain but also started rumors about her. From there on, she had to juggle work, chores, and parenting while enduring her own parents' complaints and took loans to pay both her living expenses and the alimony. Eventually, Erika becomes worn out from the stress of it all, and her looks have degraded.
- "My wife and daughter hated me but then...": On the day of Sadie's graduation ceremony, her father Alan leaves with all his cash cards in retaliation for Karen's affair. Karen calls her lover, Kyle, to get money from him, but the flashy guy reveals he only dated her for money and dumps her. When Alan came back to discuss the divorce procedures, Karen and Sadie tried to win him back, but he sees right through them and reveals he had a recorder on both ends of the conversation. Karen tried to blame Sadie for it, but Alan threatens with taking her to court if she didn't agree to the divorce. Karen eventually caves in to the demands, but Alan takes her to court anyway as he sued her for alimony. He then exposed Karen's affair to her parents, reducing the mother-daughter duo to part-time jobs and bickering over their poverty.
- "The wedding planner told me that my wife was with another man...": Alan and the wedding planner both call over Layla's "winning" lover, Max, to expose her five-timing affair. Max promptly rejects her, calls off the wedding, and sues her alongside Alan for the cancellation fees and damages. Moreover, the two men also ally with the rest of Layla's victims so they can all sue her as well. As a result, the five-timing woman lost everything and moved to a cheap tiny apartment, reduced to taking loans and working to the bone to pay the damages, looking like an exhausted zombie.
Hikari's Episodes
- "My fiancé cheated on me with my sister so I taught them both an unforgettable lesson!": Helen attends Nancy's wedding with her new husband, Lee, whom John reveals is a successful K-pop company CEO. Frustrated by this turn of events, Nancy tries to seduce Lee right in front of John, but he rejects her advances and chews her out for her shamelessness. As a result, Nancy gets strangled to near death and then beaten for insisting on marrying Lee. Furthermore, Nancy's parents ignored her pleas and disowned her. Afterward, John called off the engagement and sued Nancy for $30,000. Moreover, Helen rejects Nancy's pleas for money before proclaiming she'll sue the latter. As for John, Helen sues him as well for the affair and exposes him to his superiors, getting him fired. Eventually, both cheaters were so destitute they couldn't afford a divorce and were reduced to working day and night to pay their debts.
- "Husband goes on a trip with his lover while I was pregnant and sick": Kevin celebrated the alleged deaths of both his wife Helen and their unborn baby, only to find himself caught by Alan and turning out Helen faked her death. When he tried to destroy the evidence, Alan called upon Kevin's parents who endlessly rake him over the coals for his immaturity and rampant cheating, even forcing him to sign the divorce papers Helen showed him. Furthermore, the couple lures his lover, Tammy, to the house to rake her over the coals and call her parents to punish her. While both lovers' parents paid alimony to Helen, Kevin begs Helen over the phone to save him from his well-deserved fate only for his parents to catch him.
- "My fiancé was wasted during our wedding, and told everyone he got my younger sister pregnant": After a drunk Clark reveals having cheated on his bride, Hillary, with her sister, Andrea, almost ends in the groom attempting to rip off Hillary's dress as a final insult to her, a drunk Terry wakes up and exposes Andrea's engagement with Micheal, a Trow Bull consultant. Hillary, who worked at said company, took Andrea's phone after she dropped it and reported her affair to Micheal despite Andrea's pleas. Clark's bosses then chew him out for his infidelity as they know once the affair goes public it could bankrupt their company, and declare they'll bring it up at their next HR review to fire him. Clark tried to play it off as a prank to save his sorry ass, but all the guests leave. When Andrea tries the same, they all chew her out for her stunt. Afterward, Hillary gathers both Clark and Micheal to her family house to sort out the affairs, over which Micheal confronts and dumps Andrea for her cheating, while Hillary plans to sue Clark for the dress, leaving the lovebirds blaming each other for the incident. Hillary cuts off her engagement with Clark and sues both cheaters for the cost of the dress, ceremony, and punitive damages. Clark gets disowned by his parents and fired; while he got a job at another company, it was for half of his former salary. Andrea gets fired from her job, disowned by both Hillary and their mother, and kicked out of the house. Eventually, the cheaters end up living in a rundown, filthy house after becoming destitute.
- "I was kicked out of my house because my "husband" knocked up someone...": Malena's plot to live a luxurious life by kicking Helen out after sleeping with the latter's husband, Ethan, went down the drain when Helen revealed she divorced him long ago and the house was hers. Moreover, Ethan was fired for being a gambling addict and had to work part-time and hid it all from her. Moreover, Helen revealed the reason for their divorce was because Ethan wanted to run away from Malena. He also had an affair with another woman and he lives in a rundown apartment. When Helen revealed she worked at a big company that also provided benefits for expectant mothers, Malena revealed she quit after thinking she married a rich man. Eventually, Helen sued both her, Ethan, and his other mistress, sinking them into poverty. Afterward, Malena tracks Ethan down and forces him to marry her, but Ethan soon gets tired of it and gambles again, turning into an abusive husband. Eventually, Malena gives birth but since she and Ethan were deemed as unsuitable parents, the baby is taken care of by Malena's parents.
- "My parents favored my sister over me and she turned out to be a devil": Alan exposes Lina's true colors on their wedding day and gathers all the bride's past lovers to the venue. When her parents come in defense of Lina, Alan plays a recording of her gloating to Helen in the bathroom. When Lina faked chest pains after being cornered by the men she conned, Helen exposed the cheating bride's medical records confirming she was faking her sickness to get their parents' attention. Lina begs Helen for forgiveness after their parents turned on the former, but she cut the latter out of her life. Even when sent off to work and pay off her debts, she still tried to con a man on her first day of work, which reduced the three of them to a factory job.
- "My husband cheated on me with my best friend, but it didn't turn out very well for them": After kicking Hillary out of his house and remarrying her best friend, Lisa, to spite her, Shawn's company is visited by Alex's inspection team on charges of embezzlement and seize all his assets once found out. Destitute, divorced by Lisa, rejected by his whole family, and unemployable after his crime was exposed in the news, he tries to get back with Hillary. However, she has none of his begging and egocentric bullshit and blocks him. However, Shawn is unable to let go of the past and breaks into a wealthy acquaintance's house to steal money, but he gets bitten by the guard dog and the neighbors call the police on him after hearing his screams of pain, landing him in jail for attempted burglary. As for Lisa, Hillary sued her for damages and got awarded $20,000 despite Lisa's attempts to guilt-trip her and the jury with her pregnancy. As a result, Lisa slaves away at a part-time job to pay the damages.
- "My childhood friend stole my fiancé from me...": After Malena hijacks Helen's engagement (and wedding) with Steve and becomes pregnant with his child, Helen exposes the cheating newlyweds by inviting their coworkers and parents as originally planned instead of their close friends. The "happy couple" gets chewed out by their respective parents and forced out into the aisle, with the guests mocking both newlyweds and pointing out the bride wasn't Helen. When Helen exposes their true colors, the guests starts to chew them out for their traitorous demeanor and cheering on her as she pokes fun at them. Helen then sues the lovebirds for $200K in the wedding preparation and then reveals Malena wasn't a model but a mere Instagrammer who said controversial things for donations. Eventually, Steve is relocated to work for free at a lace underwear factory in Shit Island. As for Malena, her parents took care of her baby and sent her off to the same island in response to her complaints.
Midoriko's Episodes
- "My husband doesn't care about the female in the family": Melanie's husband, her son Kevin, and mother-in-law left her and her daughter, Sarah, for dead in the house in the middle of an earthquake but were saved by the neighbors. When both mother and daughter came to the shelter to confront the trio of sexists, Melanie's husband and son faked concern but they didn't buy it and exposed them via a recording. When the MIL chewed Melanie out for "not respecting the men in the family," she called the sexist hag on it and then responded to her husband's claims of her ancestors being subordinates of his by revealing she came from a line of feudal lords and therefore, her family's servants. When Melanie's husband tried to have Kevin manipulate her into not divorcing, she declared she was not taking Kevin along. After Kevin got chewed out by Sarah for not standing up to their dad and grandma while shooting down the hag's claims about gratitude, Melanie and Sarah left them. Afterward, the trio became shunned by the other shelter inhabitants and Melanie filed for divorce before suing him and his mom for emotional abuse. When they sold the house to pay the debts, no one was interested because of the recent earthquake and tsunami's impact.
- "In laws want me to get an abortion, whatever it takes": After Morgan and her unborn baby recovered from a Forced Miscarriage by her mother-in-law, Mrs. Romano, and her eldest son, Karter, the mother-son duo held a banquet for her that consisted entirely of pregnancy-unsafe foods. However, Morgan shows up with her sister-in-law, Hannah, who rakes the duo over the coals for trying to murder the former's unborn baby and reveals their search history consisted of how to cause a miscarriage. When Hannah declares divorce on Karter, both he and his mother beg her to reconsider because of the inheritance she has. However, Hannah has none of it, and Mrs. Romano begs Morgan for forgiveness in hopes of living off her allowance, but Morgan sees right through her and tells her off. Afterward, Morgan sues the mother-son duo, who have to pay her a lot in damages. After the case becomes known in the neighborhood, Mrs. Romano becomes a shut-in. Karter, on the other hand, loses the motivation to get a job after Hannah divorces him and goes to matchmaking parties looking for women with high-paying jobs, but the case soured his reputation, and became rejected by women. Eventually, Mrs. Romano and Karter's relationship became strained, bickering over who should get a job to pay the damages.
- "This guy who claims to be the son of a Yakuza hit me with a car while I was pregnant": Alan calls over his gangster cousin, Aaron, in response to Ted and Kevin's boasting about their Mafia connections after Ted ran Melanie over. Kevin pales in fear and is soon exposed as a faker who stole his Mafia crest from a member named Matt. Kevin got on his knees and pleaded for his life, but Aaron had none of it and let Matt whack the bastard over the head. As for Ted, he pleaded for his life and begged forgiveness from Melanie, but she refused because she was close to losing her baby from his stunt. After Alan and Aaron agree to have the boy reassigned to a sadistic client's house, Aaron's gang executes and turns Kevin into fertilizer, while Ted is put through hell by his adoptive father. As for Ted's friends, they got arrested for loitering half-naked around a girls' school and sent to prison for a long time after finding they were on drugs.
Tetsu's Episodes
- "My sister and her husband died so I took their children in but...": After Theo's parents revealed they sent a gang member named Tom to kill both Megan and her husband for knowing about their scheme of murdering their real parents (which was the father's fault for revealing it while drunk), the late couple's sons, Alan and Andrew, show up to confront the crooks. Moreover, Andrew revealed he arrested Tom and had his gang disbanded before using an airsoft gun to scare the crooked couple into passing out and soil themselves in fear. Afterward, the couple was arrested and given the death penalty for such a malicious crime, along with the gangsters they made connections with.
- "My wife signed the divorce papers as a joke so I submitted it": Thomas becomes fed up with Marina's abuse and submits the divorce papers she left on the table to threaten him. When Marina and her parents come over to the house to check on Thomas, they find that the house is empty as he moved out and sent her belongings to his in-laws' home. Furthermore, when he came back home by his former father-in-law's orders, he reveals that Marina cheated on him with a guy named Axle because the man's wife, Hannah, called him about it. As a result, Thomas and Hannah sue their respective ex-spouses for alimony despite her and her family's protests. Afterward, Marina had to work on construction to pay the debts and her relationship with her parents became extremely strained.
Miscellaneous
- "A JERK dumped my friend for her younger sister and said she was ugly...": Years after Misty stole Tara's fiancé, Roger, she shows up at Tara and Alan's wedding to gloat about Roger's status as CEO of Trow Bull Construction, one of the highest-selling companies. However, Alan reveals the real CEO is his friend, Kyle Calverson, who disproves Roger's lie and reveals the latter's embezzlement after Alan gives him a call, as he held a majority stake on the company. Moreover, Alan reveals that Roger was the head of the accounting department and not a CEO. Misty, who bought lots of expensive stuff thinking Roger would pay it back, tried to seduce Alan into lending her money, right in front of Roger, but he chews her out while defending Tara. Afterward, Roger gets arrested for embezzlement and forced to repay the stolen money, which he keeps doing even after getting out of prison by working back-breaking jobs. Misty, and by extension, her friend Kendra, both accumulate ballooning debt while shopping with the embezzled money and eventually turn to a loan shark to pay their bills. Eventually, the teachers at Hillary and Tara's school got fired after stories of their negligence became viral on the internet.
- "My younger sister bragged about stealing my husband...": Erika called her older sister, Hailey, to gloat about stealing the latter's husband, Noah and becoming pregnant with his child, at her wedding day. However, Hailey reveals she's holding her wedding in Hawaii with a rich guy named Nathan Thompson, and adds that while Noah is a CEO, he's a lazy gambling addict with an overspending problem and drowning in debt from taking so many loans from shady people. After Nathan takes the phone to give the brat a dressing-down for treating his bride like crap before hanging up. Erika and her parents show up the day after at Hailey's workplace to beat her up, but her coworkers defend her before Andy showed up to collect Noah's debt. Since Erika married into his family, she and her family share it before taking three of them away. Eventually, Erika's mom donated her body to science while her dad was reduced to a janitor. As for Erika herself, she was used as a Breeding Slave for childless couples.
