Revenge Films / Tropes S to Y

Revenge Films trope index
A to F (Attempted Rape, Bedroom Adultery Scene, Beg the Dog, Bitch In Sheep's Clothing, Didn't Think This Through, Domestic Abuse) | G to L (Gold Digger, The Grovel, Humiliation Conga, I Have No Son!) | M to R (Momma's Boy, Obnoxious In-Laws, Relationship Sabotage) | S to Y (Spoiled Brat, The Un-Favourite, Villainous Breakdown)

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• Sadist Teacher:
  • "My mean teacher forced me to reveal my bald head due to leukemia in the classroom": Karen's new teacher bullied her for having leukemia and even once forced her to take off her hat, which was covering her bald head due to her medication. The dean is no better and even joined in on the bullying. Eventually, her friends had enough of them and reported both of them to the principal. They were subsequently fired and had their teaching licenses revoked.
  • "Someone stole my daughter's clothes at a PTA meeting…": Ali's cram school teacher stole her Hello Kitty blouse to give to her own daughter. When she told her mother (the OP) about it, the OP called her out and called the school to investigate her. Turns out the teacher had a reputation for stealing things from her students, which got her fired from her last job; she only managed to work because she applied under her maiden name despite being married.
  • My teacher disapproved of my essay about an imaginary friend and ripped it to piece: Miss Natalie dismissed Sarah's essay about her imaginary friend simply because he isn't real and even went as far as to tear it apart. When Sarah put her essay back together and read it in a competition, she tried to attack her, but was caught. Miss Natalie was investigated and she was suspended, but she never returned to school. Years later, Sarah met her again as a janitor, and she apologized to her.
• Sanity Slippage:
  • "She ruined her own wedding by revealing all sorts of stories about her past": After her husband divorced her after she told him her scandalous past and that she became infertile because of said past, Taylor snapped and tried to steal a young mother's baby, only to get the cops called on her when said mother screamed for help. As a result, Taylor ended up in jail for misconduct charges after she verbally abused the police.
  • "Husband "Sorry, my wife freaked out and called the ambulance" But the truth is…": A woman was forced to babysit Mr. A's kids since his wife was pregnant and her husband wanted to be "a good friend" for him. Added to the fact she had a baby of her own, this affected her mental health to the point she called an ambulance and the cops. When Mr. A's mother found out, she empathized with the poor woman as she herself was forced to babysit her sister-in-law's kids.
  • '“It’s your fault!” I asked my cheating wife for a divorce, she asked for alimony...': After finding out for themselves their daughter was cheating on the OP with another man, the wife's parents tried to hold her accountable and refused to fall for her lies anymore, she went ballistic at them and couldn't be reasoned with anymore. When the OP himself and his lawyer had her lover, who was married, agree to pay compensation and refused to listen to her pleas, she finally snapped and broke into her lover's house to attack his wife, causing her to be arrested, forced to divorce the OP as indicated, and locked up in her parents' house for her trouble.
• The Scapegoat: A man forced his wife Sukami to take his mother's abuse for him, especially for his inability to conceive. The bastard outright calls her a scapegoat when talking with his victim's sister.
  Sukami's Ex-Husband: But but but... Sukami was a good scapegoat...
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: In "Fiasco at my colleague's wedding. Turns out that she was having an affair with her manager," the manager drunkenly exposed his affair with Sarah on her wedding day. However, while Sarah was suffering the consequences of having her affair exposed, the affair partner got off scot-free because he was related to the company's president. However, the employees got on strike and got him fired, with his wife finally divorcing him for his trouble.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!: Karen from "This girl gets away with stealing our things and our ideas just because she’s pretty" not only had a history of stealing ideas and things from her coworkers and forcing her workloads on them, she also had the habit of littering on her desk after snacking. Moreover, she always gets away with her crap because of her beautiful looks. The last straw was when she stole Jessica's design and presented it to Mr. Smith. When the OP called her out for it, Mr. Smith took Karen's side, even when the other employees brought concrete evidence of her theft.
• Second Place Is for Losers: Bob's mom thinks this and wants him to strive for first place at all times, even to the point of shaming him for helping his friend Max when he skinned his knee mid-race.
• Secret Other Family: In 'My "boyfriend" had a wife and a child...' Jessica's boyfriend, Kevin, is revealed to have been married with kids after she and Jamie follow him to his office. Moreover, the reason he only asked Jessica out and had her take birth control pills was to cheat on his wife.
• Serial Homewrecker:
  • "My sister slept with my husband…" Ali's sister is implied to be this as she not only slept with Ali's husband, but she's last shown being chased down by other women (who are implied to be her lovers' wives) as Ali herself narrates that her sister got multiple lawsuits in her hands for having multiple affairs.
  • "This girl told me she was pregnant with my husband's child, but I'm not married...": Sadie was rumored to have been stealing boyfriends from other girls. Kristi found out that the rumors were true after her boyfriend broke up with her three days after she introduced Sadie to him.
  • "I rushed home because my house was on fire... My wife lied that she was at home...": Anna was revealed to not only have affairs with wealthy men after being forced to pay compensation to her ex-husband Max, but she also had secret romps with married men. Unsurprisingly, she ends up being chased down by her lovers' wives for settlement money.
  • Sister-in-law “This is my boyfriend” He was my stalker... My husband's plan...": Britney's sister-in-law Jill bragged about how she stole other girls' boyfriends, which caused her brother Jack to be chewed out by his female classmates and warn the OP about not interacting with her. However, Jack took advantage of his sister's homewrecking tendencies as she hooked up with Britney's stalker Roger to get both of them off their backs.
  • "My wife took the kids and left while I was at work. Did I do something?": The temp worker who asked Noah Williams was notorious for targeting married men; six months after he rejected her, she asked another married male employee out, which he obliged. However, the lovebirds get caught and this resulted in the employee getting demoted, divorced, and sued for alimony. While the temp worker was also ordered to pay alimony, she got fired because she was a contract employee.
  • "Husband cheated on me and got another girl pregnant, but tried to give me the child,": OP's ex-husband is a rare male example; he turned out to be a serial cheater to the point of seducing married women, even when constantly hounded for compensation because of his cheating antics on top of the childcare costs for the disabled child his latest mistress left with him and his mother before vanishing.
  • "My wife was cheating on me with 25 different men": When OP's wife begs him for forgiveness after finding out he discovered her affairs as well as her sex videos and emails that proved it, the OP revealed some of the men she slept with were married and/or engaged; he even brought up how their wives and fiancées will sue her for what she did.
  • "My fiancé was having multiple affairs, so I exposed her": After OP exposes Ashley's infidelity on their wedding day and then sues her for breaking the engagement the next day, it's revealed some of Ashley's lovers were married, leading their wives to sue her for damages.
• Sexual Extortion: In "I got a creepy message from my teacher, so I forwarded it to the group chat, and…" Katie's homeroom teacher had a creepy crush on her and lured her to his house under the excuse of a student loan. Moreover, he offered to deduct $500 from her loans every time she slept with him and tried to have her sign a contract, gloating that since she was too poor to pay it, he'd have her pay it with her body. While a call interrupted his sexual assault, he threatened to ruin her grades so she wouldn't go to college if she dared to expose him.
• Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love:
  • Ali's sister was favored by their parents because of her beauty, which caused her to become an awful person, cheating on Bob, her husband, with multiple men, and, after getting divorced, slept with and stole Ali's husband, which their parents actually supported. Two years later, Ali and Bob get married, and Bob starts a successful company and even owns a mansion. When Ali's sister and parents learn of this, they demand that Bob get re-married to Ali's sister, which Bob refuses. Ali's sister and parents don't understand why, since Ali isn't as pretty as her sister, not understanding that Bob wouldn't want to dump his faithful wife for a woman who cheated on him multiple times and who only wants him back now that he's rich.
  • "My sister stole all of my boyfriends and I was really hurt but then": When Erin used her looks to steal Ariel's latest boyfriend, Sean, who was the heartthrob back in high school, he was disgusted by her shamelessness and raked her over the coals for using her body to get views. While Erin is dumbfounded that Sean would pick a plain girl like Ariel over her, she keeps boasting about how Sean will regret choosing Ariel over her, but he reminds her that her viewers only care about her looks and thus she fears dating because they'll realize how shallow she really is. When Erin tries one last time, Sean has none of it and tells her he'd rather die than date her, which causes her to run off crying.
  • "My older sister always liked stealing my boyfriends. At my wedding, she attacked me, and…": After Nancy lost weight despite Ashley's attempts to sabotage her efforts, the latter shows up at the bar where the former booked her date with Thomas. She's baffled when Thomas rejects her advances because he overheard her picking on Nancy's looks, proclaiming the latter as the attractive one. Ashley tries to show off her best angles but Thomas ignores her, causing her to decry he has bad taste. However, Ashley escalates her harassment to make Thomas dump her and eventually shows up at Nancy and Thomas' wedding in an extravagant dress to accuse Nancy of getting plastic surgery before projecting a photo of the bride before losing weight. When Ashley asks Thomas if he still wants to marry someone as ugly as Nancy, he laughs at her and reveals he always liked Nancy even when she was chubby since she was kind to everyone. Ashley finally snaps and throws orange juice at the bride before scrubbing the makeup off her face in a last bid to make Thomas dump her. However, the sisters' relatives kicked Ashley out of the venue for her childish behavior. In a twist of irony, the stress of being disowned and forced to pay the damages to Nancy's dress caused Ashley to overeat until she gained weight, rendering her undateable.
• Share the Male Pain: In "Got a emergency call from my friend, telling me to stop him! So, I headed to his house…" Ore winces and instinctively puts his hands over his groin after hearing from his friend catching his younger brother-in-law raping the former's wife and crushed the brat's exposed family jewels with his bare hands in retaliation. He still winces whenever he remembers the incident.
• Share the Sickness: Emily was the target of two Attempted Rapes, the first being an indirect attempt at this, and the second being a direct one; Carl was engaged to Emily and caught an STD from his affair with his ex-girlfriend Abby, who also was sleeping with a CEO behind Carl's back. Carl tries to get back with Emily, who refuses, and he tries to rape her out of anger, but is stopped by Emily's friend Charlotte and arrested. Later, Abby tells the CEO to break into Emily's house and rape her because Abby blames Emily her getting an STD and wants to give it to Emily. Fortunately, Emily wasn't home, and Abby and the CEO are arrested for breaking and entering as well as attempted rape.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Shitayo's eldest sister-in-law showed up to a wedding in a fancy blue dress and a full makeover; turns out she was a famous model in the past and even after retiring she took care of her appearance. As a result, she overshadowed the stuck-up bride who insulted her in the past.
• Shotgun Wedding: Ben Jackson comments that his marriage to his wife was a shotgun marriage.
• Shout-Out: In '“What happened to your face?” Everyone was shocked when I entered the wedding hall...', the OP sees herself in the mirror after the wedding ended with her family, Brian, and the guests shocked to see her face and comments she "looked like Post Malone in a wedding dress".
• Shower of Love:
  • "Caught my fiancée cheating on me…": Ali cheated on her fiancé Alex with a guy named Bob in the bathroom and showered together. Enraged, Alex took the latter's phone and messaged Bob's fiancé Katy to notify her of his affair. This earned the cheating couple the ire of both their parents and Katy's parents.
  • "I came home to my husband having an affair in the shower": Samuel cheated on his wife Yulia with a woman named Harley in the bathroom with a doorstop. This causes Yulia to report the affair to the lovebirds' boss, Mr. Quimby. Much to her surprise, her parents and in-laws also showed up at her house to support her as she exposed them to face the ire of the presents, wearing nothing but their underwear.
  • "My husband was cheating on me in our own bathroom so...": Chad cheated on his wife Ashley with Karen inside the bathroom while they showered together. This drove Ashley to call both her in-laws and her coworker Thomas, who was also Karen's fiancé, to come over. When they arrived, she let the lovebirds out naked to the visitors.
  • "My wife had a miscarriage... Her parents were mad, but the truth always hurts...": Jack's wife went with her lover to the bathroom to get it on while showering, not noticing Jack himself was already home. He took a camera and set it on the bathroom for evidence of her affair before surprising the lovebirds.
• Sleeping with the Boss:
  • "My oldest sister was so scary when my other sister had an affair": A slept with her boss when she started working, which came to light when he had to be rushed to the hospital and she had to accompany him. However, she didn't want to because B, her older sister, worked there. B got furious at A for it, as well as the boss's wife when she demanded A pay for the affair.
  • "My wife was calling a different man's name when she was giving birth...": OP's brother-in-law's contacts revealed that Adam, the man OP's wife had an affair with and left him for, was a manager at her company. As a result, the bastard received an official notice announcing his termination.
  • "When I returned from a long term business trip, I suspected my wife of having an affair…": OP's wife, Karen, cheated on him with her boss, Chad, while he was absent. However, a coworker of the OP's told him about the affair, revealing the bastard bragged about having a rendezvous with a married woman.
  • "My wife was having an affair in our living room at night, and her excuse was ridiculous": Jonathan's wife, Jessica, cheated on him with her boss at work. When he confronted her about the affair, she blamed it on him and justified her infidelity by claiming he "caused her emotional distress" by not earning enough money to her liking. Moreover, she refused to divorce him so he would pay for both of them.
• Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: Christy and her mom find out her husband, Mason, going out with another woman with his mom's blessing. After Christy's mom investigated him even further, they found out the woman was his boss' wife, for which they sue both Mason and his mom, while the mistress herself got divorced by her husband upon finding out.
• Slipping a Mickey: This story has one of the most revolting examples: the protagonist's sister's husband ground up his sleeping pills and slipped them into their baby daughter's milk to keep her from crying and interrupting his sleep. Thankfully, the baby survived, but her mother divorced him afterward.
• Small Name, Big Ego: In "My husband left the house, and returned one week later thinking I would beg for forgiveness but..." OP's husband was an egocentric bastard who looked down on her and bragged about how great and generous he is for marrying her. Moreover, he even insulted her best friend Jessica when she tried to attend the latter's birthday.
• Smug Snake: Some antagonists are overconfident enough to think they won't suffer the consequences of their actions, only for karma to prove them otherwise and screw them over.
  • "My wife had an affair while I was in the hospital and she tried to get away with it!": When Alan and his in-laws took his wife to task for cheating under the excuse of going on a trip with her friends, his wife happily signed the divorce papers thinking her lover would take her in, only for the man to reveal that his wife is also divorcing him, driving the cheating woman to panic and uselessly try to worm her way out of said trouble.
  • "Wife’s cheating partner told me they had a kid and to divorce her…": Adam's wife's lover smugly proclaimed that his wife was pregnant with his child and bragged about how he was a far superior match for her than him. However, it turns out Adam was actually a lawyer, who later spoke to the guy's university about the affair, effectively ruining the bastard's contract and chances of becoming rich.
  • "My wife was cheating on me with one of my clients…": The cheating wife's lover, who headed his company's sales department, was fired for causing a loss of profits with his affairs. However, the bastard shrugged it off and went to work as usual, but his former coworkers knew about the situation and decided to take him apart and kick him out of the building, which made him realize that they weren't bluffing.
  • "My wife was having an affair in our living room at night, and her excuse was ridiculous": Jessica flippantly justified her cheating to her husband Jonathan as he confronted her about it, thinking that the law would take her side if he tried to sue her. Moreover, she refused to let him divorce her until he earned enough money to her liking and instead wanted him to pay for her affairs. Even when caught cheating with her boss, she kept gloating that he deserved it for being "poor and useless", thinking this would scare him into submission. Much to her dismay, Jonathan had enough and called her parents, who took her to her house and disown her for her trouble.
• Soap Opera Disease: "My abusive husband hits me, and I finally snap" - The OP's abusive husband ended up suffering an intractable disease, which rendered him unable to abuse her as he pleased back then. Furthermore, she took advantage of it to escape his grasp and divorce him.
• Speech Impediment: Laura, Sean and Helen's daughter, speaks with a heavy lisp.
• Staircase Tumble:
  • "Making 10K a year working remotely and my mother-in-law treats me like a slave...": Sukami was shoved down the stairs by someone after she scared off her in-laws. However, when Mobio watched the CCTV footage, it turned out to be the mother-in-law.
  • "My husband pushed me down the stairs because I was pregnant with his baby": The FMC was shoved down the stairs by her boyfriend at the train station when he found out she was pregnant. To make matters worse, he made himself out to be a hero and made her look like a "loose whore who had an affair".
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • "My prankster boyfriend crossed the line and tried to shave my hair with a knife": Steven stalked his ex-girlfriend Amy after she called off the engagement and his parents forbade him to see her because of the lethal prank he pulled on Amy's baby niece. Even when Amy notified his parents of his stalking, he somehow escaped them and even followed her when she decided to move out.
  • "This neighbor tried to steal my husband from me…": Blair stalked Ali's husband with the intention of snatching him despite being married as well. While they notified the former's husband about her antics, she kept at it and broke into their bedroom while they were at Ali's parents' house and slept naked in there.
  • "This woman somehow thinks she is the one that should have a baby with my husband": A neighbor stalked Sophia's husband despite being a single mom herself. When Sophia told her she was pregnant, she became so envious she started to beat the former up, arguing that she should be the one bearing Sophia's husband a child instead.
  • 'Sister-in-law “This is my boyfriend” He was my stalker... My husband's plan...': Britney's coworker Roger started stalking her even while knowing she was married. Things escalated when he tried to break into her house for blocking him out of her contacts; while she called the cops on him, he was released because it was his first offense.
  • "Stalker co-worker hides a camera in the office locker room after I turned him down…": OP's heartthrob boss, who was called "Manager" stalked her even when she told him she had a boyfriend. Moreover, her coworkers Molly and Savannah harassed her for getting his attention and she suspected both women bugged her locker to harass her even further until she found out it was Manager who did it, causing her to call the cops on him while the President protected her.
  • "My sister always tried to steal from me, but then…": The man Daisy mistook for Jasmine's latest boyfriend is revealed to be the latter's stalker, whom she put a restraining order against. As a result, Daisy is the one who has to deal with the stalker and has no one to turn to because if she told anyone about it, she'd have to admit she tried to steal Jasmine's fiancé and thus lose friends.
  • 'Twin sister calls me, "I'm with your fiancé. We're together right now." Me, "What? But..."': Myles Kane, the man Minnie McCall mistook for Karen's fiancé, is revealed to be the latter sister's stalker. Moreover, Kane was an unemployed bum since he spent most of his time stalking Karen until her boss and actual fiancé, Steven Myles, protected her by pretending to be her boyfriend. Furthermore, Kane lives on borrowed money from loan sharks, which becomes Minnie's undoing as debt collectors target her and her mother.
• Stay in the Kitchen:
  • "During my wedding, my mother-in-law started making stupid demand" [sic]: At a woman's wedding, the groom's mother came up with a long list of rules that amount to the wife becoming her husband's slave, with the groom himself smugly agreeing to it. This caused the bride's father and the guests to cry foul at both mother and son for being a pair of sexists.
  • "My family was talking sh*t about me behind my back, so I left them": Kaitlin's husband, son, and mother-in-law wanted her to be a housewife and abused her for being a working woman, expecting her to do impeccable work around the house. Furthermore, they all savagely abused her for not doing good enough housework.
• Sticky Fingers:
  • "I made a secret plan to catch the thief who was stealing everything in the office": Karen is known for being a serial thief who stole her co-workers' belongings; however, her bosses side with her because she was good at playing nice in front of them, she even also accused a man whose stuff she stole from for sexual harassment. It turns out that she was selling the stolen items online and she even stole items from the company's storage room and her own in-laws.
  • "My colleague stole my camera…": Blair was known for stealing her co-workers' belongings, especially Ali's. The zenith of her thieving antics was when she stole a camera from Ali's desk, which turned out to be the manager's. After she and the section chief got fired for their affair, it turns out she was like this since high school, and her previous husband left her for that reason.
• Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics:
  • "The girls at our school started bullying our friend…": the school's popular girls bullied Ali for getting Bob's attention, as one of them, Clair, had a crush on him. They badmouthed her behind her back, hid her belongings, and tried all sorts of things to discredit her. However, when Ali stopped going to school as a result, Bob went on a rampage against Clair's posse for the bullying they meted out on Ali.
  • "The girls that bullied me is backed by the school, but my sister brings justice to them": The OP was bullied by her upperclassmen A and B for excelling at tennis. Both girls damaged her equipment and filled her bags with dirt or milk. When she objected, they assaulted her with her own damaged racket. When the OP's older sister went with her to face the bullies, the headmaster, coach, and principal dismissed the bullying by claiming she did this to herself.
  • "The girl who was mean to me ended up looking miserable": Sally and her clique bullied other girls in middle school by losing and stealing their stuff, kicking their desks upside-down, covering their books in dirt and even having the entire classroom ostracize the OP for refusing to join her clique. Later on in high school, Sally's former minions and victims turned these tactics on her, which ended in her leaving the school after catching a cold from being drenched in water on a winter day.
  • "I finally got revenge on the girls who were bullying me": Karen and her posse escalated her bullying of Jessica by hiding her pencil case in the trash. When she was paired up with Karen in an important work, Karen put a trash bag on Jessica's desk and even filled it with staples. However, Jessica concocted a plan to turn Karen's scheme against her by trading her desk with Karen's. As a result, the teacher lectured Karen and her minions about bullying, which distressed her so much she stopped bullying Jessica.
  • "Stalker co-worker hides a camera in the office locker room after I turned him down…": OP's coworkers, Molly and Savannah, resented her for getting the Manager's attention, dismissing her attitude towards him as merely flirting with him. Therefore, they both harassed her by dumping trash on her locker. When she told Manager about this, he acted dismissive and claimed he'd look into it. However, the bullies spotted her in the act and put even more trash in her locker, going as far as putting a sanitary pad with fake blood to make her look unhygienic until she found a hidden camera in her locker. However, when OP told the President about it, he announced the case to the workers, causing Molly and Savannah to panic. After Manager was discovered planting the camera and the latest video exposed their harassment, they both got fired as well.
• The Stoic: Jill's mother-in-law from "Mother-in-law “I should have never asked you to come over. Go now!”" seemed imposing and unfriendly as she didn't show emotions. However, when the city fell victim to an earthquake, she yanked Jill out of the way of a falling cabinet when the latter tried to rescue her 3-year-old son, even risking injuries to cover her from the falling plates and telling her and her husband to go to the shelter.
• Straw Misogynist: In the episode "A scream came from inside the office kitchen. I went to check it out, and I saw…," A is a male employee who blamed women for suffering sexual harassment while arguing that men were the real victims. This cause the other employees, especially the female ones, to steer clear of him. However, things escalated when A tried to rape the new female employee C for accidentally bumping on and spilling boiling-hot water on him at the office kitchen, which was the last straw for the company to fire him.
• Stupid Crooks: Near the end of "She ruined her own wedding by revealing all sorts of stories about her past," a 40-year-old Taylor tries to steal a young mother's baby, in broad daylight and right in front of her, allowing everyone nearby to call the cops on her. Given Taylor snapped from being rendered infertile by her past pregnancies and abortions on top of losing her marriage, she wouldn't be capable of thinking logically in that state.
• Supporting Protagonist/Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Some stories are told from the perspective of someone who plays a supporting role to the actual protagonist of the story or only observes their situation from the sidelines.
• Sweet Tooth:
  • "My wife adds sugar to literally everything she cooks": Max's wife, Wilma, became this after giving birth to their daughter, Daisy, adding ridiculous amounts of sugar to her cooking. Moreover, she slapped Daisy whenever she complained about the cooking.
  • "My cousin was selfish and ended up ruining her own wedding": Karen liked to eat sugary junk foods, causing her to gain weight. This becomes a point of conflict with her fiancé Ken as she chooses a tight-fitting dress for her wedding day.
• Switched at Birth: FMC's daughter was swapped at birth by her husband for Ashley, his affair partner's daughter. When she did a DNA test (against his wishes) and did an investigation, she found out that her husband had sold her daughter and swapped her for Ashley so that his affair partner wouldn't rat him out.

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• Taking the Kids: "My wife took the kids and left while I was at work. Did I do something?" - Noah's wife suddenly left and took the kids while he was away. When he reunited with his wife, the kids, and his brother's ex-wife, she told him it was because a letter said he was cheating on her.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Sukami's mother-in-law served her tea while serving coffee to herself and her son Mubio. However, it turns out the tea was expired and the hag slipped dish soap into it to make sure she dies from drinking it.
• Tap on the Head: "Mother-in-law tells nephew to pull my chair away when I'm pregnant as a joke" - Alisha's mother-in-law pumped her fist in the air while chewing her sons out, causing her to hit a wall shelf and drop a heavy figurine on top of her head. While the old hag is still conscious, she became partially paralyzed from the blow and got sent to a cheap care facility in another state as punishment.
• Teen Pregnancy: Katie comes back 7 months pregnant after her parents turned on her because of Ali's husband. She left the house to marry a rich husband of her own but found out her mark was already married.
• Theme Twin Naming: Jasmine and her evil twin sister Daisy from "My sister always tried to steal from me, but then…" are both named after flowers. This is averted in the original Japanese version, where their respective names are Yuzuki and Riho.
• Third-Person Person: In the Japanese version of "My sister stole all of my boyfriends and I was really hurt but then", Moe (Erin) uses her own name to refer to herself to enhance her image as a TikToker.
• This Is Unforgivable!: In "My twin who looks down on me got a plastic surgery and brings her fiancé over," Melanie utters this sentiment at her older twin sister Catherine for exposing her plastic surgery to her fiancé, Joe.
  Melanie: You took away my happiness! I will never forgive you!
• Threat Backfire: In stories where an abusive husband whips out divorce papers to cow his wife into submission, she will do just that and concoct a plan to punish him for his abuses before leaving. When the husband himself finds out, he will lose his bravado at this turn of events and will try to change her mind.
  • "My mother-in-law almost killed me, but my husband didn't care at all!": The OP's husband brought divorce papers to cow her into submission and keep putting up with his mom's abusive behavior towards her. However, she signs the papers and throws his stuff out behind his back.
  • "My husband takes too much salt so I warned him, but he told me to shut up": After another argument with Sarah, her husband brings home divorce papers in an attempt to cow her into submission. Instead, Sarah happily agrees to the divorce and leaves him frantically trying to change her mind to no avail.
  • "Husband’s family who hates me wanted to move in with us but I wasn’t gonna let that happen": OP's husband slammed divorce papers after bickering over her new house and left. However, she signed the papers and went to her parents' house. When the ex-husband called her to unlock her house's doors to let his family in, she refused until his sister broke into the house and thus got the police called on the whole family for trespassing and resisting arrest as they kept whining to the cops it was their house.
• The Topic of Cancer: In "This gold digger married my son for his money but..." the OP's son, Mike is diagnosed with cancer after getting engaged to a woman named Cassandra. While the young woman broke up with him, she suddenly went back on her word and wanted to marry him. However, neither the OP nor her other relatives could buy any of it and thought Cassandra wanted him for his money, but had to let the marriage go through on Mike's request until he succumbed to the illness.
• Trash of the Titans:
  • Karen holed herself in her room and let it fill with garbage. When her husband Joshua was away, her mother-in-law Jane gave her an ultimatum to make her clean up her mess, threatening to call the garbage collectors if she failed to do so.
  • "My sister-in-law said I wasn't part of the family…": Being doted on by her mother, Blair was lazy and her room was a pigsty. When she was about to be engaged, she lied about cleaning up after herself. When her facade and abuse towards her sister-in-law Ali were exposed to her fiancé, he threatened to dump her, over which she apologized to Ali.
  • "My husband left the house, and returned one week later thinking I would beg for forgiveness but..." OP's husband ended up filling his house with trash after his parents kicked him out of theirs for verbally abusing the OP. As a result, the neighbors' complaints threatened to drive him out of there; his parents still refused to take him back because he refused to help around the house.
  • "My wife changed completely after we got married. She stopped cooking and doing chores so…": After OP's wife revealed she married him for the money and to have someone to boss around, she constantly bought food from convenience stores and ordered from Uber Eats, neglecting to take out the trash afterward and leaving it to him when he returns from work.
• Trauma Conga Line:
  • "I got suspected of an affair I didn't have, everyone abandoned me, and I got mentally ill": Ms. Stan was falsely accused of having an affair by Ms. Anderson, and it started going downhill from there: she was forced to resign from her job, became a pariah in her neighborhood, and her parents disowned her for the alleged affair. While she managed to get into college and graduate, it did nothing to alleviate her problems, and had to live in a shabby apartment. However, she is visited by Ms. Anderson and her lawyer, who finds out she didn't look like the woman in the pictures she stored as evidence. Turns out the woman was Ms. Stan's sister-in-law, who tricked her into participating in her affair.
  • "My best friend stole my girlfriend, so I decided to reset my life...": The OP was betrayed by his long-time friend Jack, who stole the former's girlfriend Jill. Furthermore, Jack created a false narrative about how OP was beating and abusing Jill while Jack saved her, destroying his reputation. To top it off, Jack had OP's salary cut off since he was single again, leading him to quit his job and become suicidal until the president of his company transferred him to a well-paying branch.
• Turned Off By The Jerkass:
  • The main character broke up with her boyfriend, who she was considering marrying, after finding out that he and his mother abused the boyfriend's younger stepsister. In addition, the young girl's father divorced his wife after finding out that his daughter was being abused.
  • Ken broke off his engagement to his seemingly nice fiancèe Mia, after finding out that she verbally and physically abused Rhea, Ken's wheelchair-bound mother.
• Twin Switch:
  • "My sister always tried to steal from me, but then…": Daisy impersonated her twin sister, Jasmine, to steal her potential boyfriends and spite her. However, this becomes her undoing not only because Jasmine is actually single, but because the man Daisy thought was her latest boyfriend was actually a stalker. From there on, Daisy's life becomes hell as the stalker refuses to let go of her and she can't even turn to her friends because they'd find out the kind of person she really is and cut ties with her.
  • 'Twin sister calls me, "I'm with your fiancé. We're together right now." Me, "What? But..."': Minnie impersonated her twin sister Karen to steal her fiancé and called her to announce the news. Much to her dismay, Karen reveals that the alleged fiancé she "snatched" was actually her stalker. Upon knowing the truth, Minnie switched gears and begged Karen for help only to be hung up on. However, things start to really go downhill for her as the stalker is unemployed and borrows money from loan sharks to buy her frivolities, which causes both Minnie and her mother to be targeted by scary debt collectors.
• Two-Timing with the Bestie:
  • "I went to my friend's wedding, and the groom was my husband who disappeared 3 years ago…": Chad disappeared for three years, with his wife Catherine knowing nothing about his whereabouts. When she and her mother attend her best friend Kelly's wedding in Hawaii, both women find out the groom was Chad and expose him to the bride and guests. As a result, Kelly's parents cancel the wedding and force him to pay for damages.
  • "My wife was neglecting our children and having an affair with my best friend...": Jill cheated on Jordan behind his back with his musclebound best friend Jack under the excuse of "meeting with a friend," leaving their daughter Jamie with Jill's parents to have her affair. In retaliation, he kicks her out of the house and exposes her cheating to her mother.
  • "My best friend slept with my fiancé and stole him from me": Kevin cheated on the OP with her best friend, Lisa. While he tried his best to apologize for his affair, Lisa didn't bother to even seem apologetic and rubbed it on her face. When Kevin's father called her to announce he'll make sure she marries the cheater anyway, OP was disappointed and her parents sued Kevin's family in retaliation.

U

• Ungrateful Bastard:
  • OP's husband 'Infertile Husband→A few years later... Brings home a younger woman...“You’re useless!”' cheated on her with a younger woman despite his wife's disposition to support and cheer him up all those years.
  • "When I was a child, my cousin was the meanest person growing up, but all the adults ignored it": After Henry donated his bone marrow to begrudgingly save Karen, his abusive cousin, she didn't thank him and demanded he pay for her hospital bills because her grandparents refused to pay with their own stocks.
• Upper-Class Twit:
  • "I supported my sister by collecting garbage, but at her wedding...": Charlotte was marrying the son of an elite family, but the groom's parents looked down on her sister, Olivia, for being a middle school graduate and a garbage collector. However, the newlyweds defended Olivia from the couple's bullying.
  • 'My wife’s parents “The wedding must be over $100,000 and over 300 guests”': Jill's parents were extremely picky and constantly demanded Jack that their wedding be as expensive as possible, refusing to take no for an answer despite the fact that he can't afford their demands. Moreover, Jill's father bullied him for his refusal to back down, which drove him to cancel the wedding, much to Jill's dismay.
• Urine Trouble: At the end of "My grandmother manipulated my daughter into hating me...", a passing dog relieves itself on Amy's ex-mother-in-law and daughter Nancy as part of the consequences for destroying their own family by ditching Amy in favor of a Gold Digger.

V

• Vandalism Backfire:
  • "The time my ex-brother-in-law crashed my Mercedes Benz": A man crashed his brother-in-law's Mercedes Benz. Unfortunately for him, the car he crashed into belonged to a mafia daughter, and he was subsequently beaten up by her father when the cameras revealed that he was the only one driving the car. He was forced to pay for the daughter's car, his wife divorced him, and his parents disowned him.
  • "Neighbor tries to annoy me by dumping snow in front of my house but karma strikes back": A truck crashes into Rebecca's house as a consequence of her shoveling snow on Taylor's side of the road without knowing it would melt and return to her side of the road, forming a slippery sheet of ice solid enough to support the weight of the aforementioned truck. After being arrested, she was sued by both the truck driver and Taylor's family, her husband divorced her and took their son Riki with him, and her parents had to sell their house to help pay her debts.
  • "I had a problem with my cousin using my house without permission, but after I moved out…": After the OP and her husband moved out of their house, Nina used the key duplicate she left in the house to break in as usual and party with her friends. However, the OP revealed she moved out and texted the current homeowner about it. Moreover, the current owner turned out to be a germaphobe and lost her mind at seeing the mess they made, calling the cops on Nina and suing her for the reimbursement of her furniture as she couldn't use them.
  • "My parents loved my younger sister more and tried to get my fiancé to marry her": Miranda and her parents steal and spend all the money in Mia's safe to ruin the latter's wedding and have the fiancé marry the former instead. However, their gloating is cut short when Mia reveals the money wasn't for her wedding but for her aunt's house. As a result, their mother is disowned for her trouble and the three of them are forced to work to pay back all the money they stole.
• The Vamp: Melinda has a reputation for going after men for their money and them dumping them after they can’t pay her anymore. She ends up targeting Sarah’s husband and he completely falls for her act, claiming that he had 'finally found true love.' And despite his parents’ warnings, he divorces Sarah (who immediately agrees) and runs to Melinda…who then proceeds to dump him immediately.
• Vocal Dissonance: In "My twin who looks down on me got a plastic surgery and brings her fiancé over," when the video flashes back to Catherine and Melanie as kids, the former sounds like an adult woman. While the latter's voice was higher, her speech pattern still sounded like a stuck-up teenager.

W

• Wanted a Son Instead:
  • "I had a miscarriage because my mother-in-law beat me": Kylie was pregnant with a baby boy as her abusive mother-in-law demanded. But one day, the MIL beat her into a miscarriage because she became pregnant before her sister-in-law, whom the abusive hag wanted to bear the baby boy instead. In retaliation, Kylie intentionally feeds the hag sweets because of her diabetes history, all with the approval of her family and in-laws.
  • "My husband took out my newborn baby from the hospital without doctor's permission": Kevin took away Rachel's baby from the hospital while she was recovering. When she alerted her in-laws, they accompanied her to Kevin's apartment. However, he chews Rachel out for giving birth to a baby girl, as this makes her unfit to inherit his father's company, which gets Kevin a beating from the man. Moreover, Kevin left the baby inside his car, under the sun. Thankfully, the baby survived and Rachel's in-laws called the police on Kevin for kidnapping as they revealed his father sold the company.
• Wedding Smashers:
  • "The groom’s affair partner barged in to the wedding and people found out about his affair…": A young woman barged into Thomas and Michelle's wedding to chew the bride out for "stealing" him from her and calling her the "second woman," revealing herself as Thomas' mistress. However, Thomas calls his mistress the "second woman" and proclaims he's going to marry the woman with the most money. Even when the mistress was kicked out of the venue, the guests stormed out and the wedding got canceled because of Thomas' affair.
  • "My older sister always liked stealing my boyfriends. At my wedding, she attacked me, and…": After failing to sabotage Nancy and Thomas' relationship so many times, Ashley, the bride's older sister, showed up at their wedding, wearing an extravagant purple dress while casting flirty gazes to all male guests. When Ashley got up on stage claiming she had a surprise for Nancy, she started her speech by loudly accusing Nancy of getting plastic surgery before displaying a photo of her before losing weight. While Nancy was distressed because the guests may easily believe Ashley's lies, Thomas and the rest of the guests stood up for Nancy, much to Ashley's bewilderment. As a result, she snaps and assaults the bride only to be kicked out of the venue and forced to pay damages to Nancy's dress.
• White-Collar Crime:
  • "Man comes to our door asking for the whereabouts of his missing subordinate": Mr. A has been embezzling funds and Mr. B took it on his own to catch Mr. A. Mr. A went ballistic and went on a manhunt for Mr. B so he can silence him before he reveals everything, even going as far as to go to someone's house and go through their address book for Mr. B.
  • "My best friend stole my girlfriend, so I decided to reset my life...": After Jack was demoted for screwing up his presentation while Jill's lies about the OP loving her again were exposed, OP brought up his salary reduction and overtime cut to his boss to investigate. It turns out both Jack and Jill's salaries increased significantly after reducing OP's; the cheating couple got fired and arrested for embezzlement.
  • "My colleague stole money from the company and tried to get away with it but she got caught": Karen, the newest employee, started to bilk money from her company by switching time cards with the OP, who had perfect attendance and thus get allowance for the OP's work, on top of the childcare allowance already given to Karen as she was a single mother. Moreover, she was later found to have stolen office supplies and even put her expenses into the sales account. As a result, Karen got arrested for her crimes and her husband divorced her, on top of having to pay the debt her parents fronted her.
  • "My wife went on a vacation to cheat on me, but I got there first and waited for her": When the OP found out that Karen's lover was the younger brother to the CEO of the company she worked at and notified it to the woman herself, she exploded in anger and proceeded to beat her brother up after dragging him to the OP's feet. It turns out he used Karen's position in the administrative office to have her embezzle company money to fund their affair. After her parents found out, they disowned her and allowed the OP to divorce her. Moreover, it was revealed that the amount totaled to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: In "My brother showed up at his engagement party in a wedding dress...," OP's younger brother Gary appeared at the engagement party his grandfather, father, and uncle arranged for him and Melinda in a wedding dress to get back at them for their chauvinistic ways.
• Wicked Stepmother:
  • "My boyfriend and his mother were abusing his step sister" [sic]: Sarah was mistreated by her stepmother along with her son when her father is away for work. The son's girlfriend called the police when she found out about the abuse.
  • "I had to leave my daughter home alone due to a sudden funeral, when she messaged “help me”": Jessica's stepmother and stepsister started mistreating her after her husband died. They refused to give Jessica money so she was forced to get a part-time job to support herself, but the two women took all of her earnings to spend on extravagant things. Jessica soon cut ties with them after they spent all her college money and forced her to drop out.
  • "My stepmom constantly looks down on me, and when I was about to leave the house...": Sarah's stepmother abused and neglected her for not being as good-looking and diligent as her stepsister Emily. While her father supported her in the first years of his remarriage despite her stepmother's abuse, he sided with the stepmother as both girls entered high school.
  • "My Stepmom Told Me, No food for you. Snitch on me and you’ll be punished!": Mary's stepmother often left the house and neglected her whenever the girl's father wasn't around and hits Mary for telling her father about her going out, forcing her to keep quiet.
• Work Off the Debt: Antagonistic characters are often forced into all kinds of work (even sex work if they're female) after being sued by the protagonists and other people they hurt with their actions.
• Would Hit a Girl: Antagonistic characters would often get beaten up in the stories and women are no exception.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Ashton's stepfather attempted to kill him by trapping him in his grandfather's coffin, so his mother will be devastated and in her bad state, give her inheritance to him. However, his mother found him in the nick of time. She divorced the guy and he went to prison for attempted murder of his child.
  • A woman pushed Lilly, who's a one year old, down the stairs because she got annoyed at her crying. She was taken to the hospital, and when her mother Chelsea met her again, she confronted the woman and with her husband John's help they were able to apprehend the woman and she was arrested. She tried to apologize to the family with her boss, but they refused and she was fired.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit:
  • "My wife tried to divorce me…": Blair complained to her husband about how he was controlling towards her, then started hitting herself. When Ali came back from her alleged bathroom break, Blair accused him of hitting her so that the former will call the cops on him. However, it backfires when the husband showed the cops a recording of what occurred. Her lover Bob also tried to pull this on his own wife, only for her to sue both him and Blair.
  • '“It’s your fault!” I asked my cheating wife for a divorce, she asked for alimony...': OP's wife always accused him of domestic violence whenever he whipped out divorce papers. Moreover, she accused him of being a cheater to make sure he would be the one who paid child support after she married her lover. When he exposed her to her parents and warned them she would make up stories, she had a coworker of his call him over to a discussion to cow him into submission. However, when her parents visited the couple's house and found out she really was having an affair, they chewed her out for it.
• Wrong-Name Outburst: "My wife was calling a different man's name when she was giving birth...": At the start of the story, OP's pregnant wife shouted, "Adam!" while giving birth. While he was surprised, he kept it to himself for fear of the truth. However, he finds a key ring with the suspicious name written on it and confronts his wife. She then revealed that Adam was her ex-boyfriend, whom she dated at the same time she dated the OP.

Y

• Yandere: Jill from 'My wife’s parents “The wedding must be over $100,000 and over 300 guests”' became this after secluding herself in her parents' house following Jack's calling off their wedding because of her going along with her parents' ridiculous demands. Near the end, she tries to attack Jack's new girlfriend, but he calls the cops on her, causing her to get arrested and confined to a mental hospital.
• You Monster!: At the end of "My fiancée cheated on me with my boss so I caught them on tape and showed our colleagues," Rachel calls Mark a monster after he had the cops called on her for falsely accusing him of having an affair and wished her luck on getting a new job to pay him the alimony.
  Mark: Good luck on finding a shitty job that will allow you to earn the money to pay me alimony. I'm going to make sure that you pay me every cent. You owe me that at the very least.
  Rachel: Mark, you're a monster!
• Yubitsume: Implied in "My classmate boasts that he’s having an affair with my wife, but..." After Naomi's gangster husband beat Steven up for sleeping with her, Steven is last seen worn out, malnourished, with ripped-out patches of hair, and missing his pinky finger while cursing at the car in front of him.

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