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)
As a channel with revenge-centric stories, the antagonist will not only lose big time when caught, but also break down into pleading, crying, screaming, and even assaulting the protagonist or someone else in response. Therefore, this warrants Revenge Films a Villainous Breakdown subpage.
- Blair from "Someone broke into our home…"
started to flip out on Katie after getting the police called on her for stealing her belongings. When the cop tried to grab her arm, she went ballistic and ended up slapping him, causing him to arrest her for the additional charge of assaulting a cop. - "When I was a child, my cousin was the meanest person growing up, but all the adults ignored it": Two years after failing to ruin Henry's life for refusing to pay her hospital bills for her, Karen's blood cancer relapsed a month ago with no hope of recovery. When the stress and pain of her illness caused her to break down into a screaming mess, her grandparents also broke down and got soon stricken with dementia, while her parents had to take care of the former couple only to fall into depression shortly after.
- "Wife suddenly wanted to sleep with me after being sexless for a year…": When Macy suddenly acts interested in him after years of refusing to have sex with him, Trevor jokingly asks her if she's having an affair, she became horrified and tried to deflect the issue. When Macy entered the room and realized he found the box she kept under the bed to hide her affair, she broke down in tears and repeatedly said it was from a friend, causing him to leave for a moment. When he returned to retrieve his important stuff, she kept crying and saying the same nonsense.
- '“It’s your fault!” I asked my cheating wife for a divorce, she asked for alimony...': Not that she was mentally healthy in the first place, but OP's cheating wife went ballistic on her parents after finding her with her lover until the OP intervened personally. After OP's lawyer had the lover, who was married, agree to pay compensation, the cheating wife finally snapped and broke into her lover's house to attack his wife. Thankfully, she got arrested before she could do any harm and her parents locked her inside the house while taking her to a shrink.
- "She ruined her own wedding by revealing all sorts of stories about her past": After losing her marriage because all her past pregnancies and abortions rendered her completely infertile, Taylor snaps and tries to kidnap a young mother's baby in broad daytime, but the mother's screams for help got the police called on Taylor, but she verbally abused the officers while they seized her, landing her in jail for official misconduct charges on top of attempted kidnapping.Taylor: The doctor told me I can't have a baby, so I should be allowed to have one!
- "My wife wouldn't let our son have his bank book. Turns out she was secretly using it": OP's wife initially is defiant even when found out about using their son Bradley's bankbook for her cheating, but when she pleaded with the boy to defend her while downplaying the extent of her cheating, Bradley has none of her crap and declares he's cutting ties. She then pleads the OP to say something only for the man to second it and declare he's divorcing her. The cheating wife panics and uselessly pleads with him not to divorce her and that she'll pay Bradley back, but when the OP tells her he already called her parents and told them everything, she completely breaks down and collapses on her knees, begging even louder but he goes through with his decision.
- "Mother-in-law tells nephew to pull my chair away when I'm pregnant as a joke": After Alisha's mother-in-law hit herself in the head while chewing her sons out for defending Alisha after causing the latter's miscarriage out of spite, and subsequently being admitted into an out-of-state cheap care facility for what she did, the old crone is reduced to sending voicemails begging and crying for Alisha to forgive her and get her out of there.
- "Husband cheated on me, and I was in despair but I found new love and happiness in the end!": Melinda breaks down after Brad exposes her to her latest fiancé, who broke off the engagement and sued her for damages. Furthermore, when Sarah joined and sued her for stealing money from both her and her husband, resulting in all of Melinda's assets being sold to pay off the debt, she blamed Sarah for it and demanded she pay it back.
- "My older sister always liked stealing my boyfriends. At my wedding, she attacked me, and…": In a last bid to break Nancy and Thomas up so she could have the latter to herself, Ashley displayed a photo of Nancy before losing weight at the latter's wedding and claimed she got plastic surgery. Much to her surprise and dismay, Thomas still stood up for Nancy while the other guests booed Ashley. Enraged by things not going her way for once, Ashley threw orange juice at Nancy and proceeded to scrub the makeup off her face out of spite. As a result, Ashley is chewed out by her parents and relatives for her childish behavior and gets kicked out of the venue before being forced to pay for the wedding dress rental fees.
- "My classmate boasts that he’s having an affair with my wife, but...": Steven's romp with Naomi to spite Thomas resulted in Steven being chased around by her current husband. When Thomas takes him to a bar to talk, Steven chews him out for having a better life than his and angrily demands he hand over his French wife to "make up for it." Thomas had enough of Steven's misogyny and starts to lecture him, but Naomi's husband shows up in time and spots Steven, which reduces him to a begging, screaming wreck but Thomas rejects the bastard's cries for help.
- "My wife agreed to take my son if something happened to my ex-wife but...": After the OP divorced Leila for demanding he take the six-year-old son from his late ex-wife to foster care, she miscarried and angrily blamed the kid for causing it, verbally abusing him whenever she could enter the house. Moreover, she called the OP and angrily demanded he gets rid of the boy while calling him a "cursed child". Her Sanity Slippage reached its zenith when OP called the cops on her. Even on their way to the police station, Leila desperately claimed "a little devil boy is in the house and she needed to drive him away," over which her parents decided to have her see a psychiatrist.
- "My wife went on vacation while I was hospitalized with a guy and almost died…": Karen breaks down bawling her eyes out after her parents reveal the accident she had on her cheating trip left her paraplegic. Later on, when Jacob presents her with divorce papers, she begs him not to divorce her, but he refuses to hear her excuses and brings up she'll be nursed for the rest of her life, causing Karen to whine about her current condition and taking it out on her parents and caretakers, over which Jacob implies they will eventually give up on her.
