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moving to gender specific, as I\'m pretty sure it\'s always Yandere girls in that game
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* In ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' there is an example of Death by Man Scorned where Aral kills two men who had seduced his first wife. It is presented more sympathetically because it was in a DuelToTheDeath.
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### Liz's husband [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous [[FelonyMisdemeanor popped his gum]] (which [[BerserkButton she says is an irritating habit]]) one too many times after she'd had a long day.
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* Connie Poirier killed Elly Patterson in the ''ForBetterOrForWorse'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheNewRetcons'' because Elly didn't return her feelings. She later played it off as an AccidentalMurder, claiming John was the target rather than have everyone know it was this trope.
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* One of the earliest examples is {{Medea}} from ClassicalMythology, especially as presented in Creator/{{Euripides}}' famous play. Upon learning that her husband, the hero Jason, was planning to leave her to marry the beautiful young Princess Glauke, daughter of King Creon of Corinth, she sends Glauke a cursed/poisoned golden robe that [[KillItWithFire sets her alight]], and killed her father when he tried to save her. She then ''[[OffingTheOffspring kills her own two sons]]'' she had by Jason and [[KarmaHoudini runs off to Athens in the chariot of her grandfather]], the SunGod Helios.
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* One of the earliest recorded examples is {{Medea}} from ClassicalMythology, especially as presented in Creator/{{Euripides}}' famous play. Upon learning that her husband, the hero Jason, was planning to leave her to marry the beautiful young Princess Glauke, daughter of King Creon of Corinth, she sends Glauke a cursed/poisoned golden robe that [[KillItWithFire sets her alight]], and killed her father when he tried to save her. She then ''[[OffingTheOffspring kills her own two sons]]'' she had by Jason and [[KarmaHoudini runs off to Athens in the chariot of her grandfather]], the SunGod Helios. This trope is therefore OlderThanFeudalism.
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* One of the earliest examples is {{Medea}} from ClassicalMythology, especially as presented in Creator/{{Euripides}}' famous play. Upon learning that her husband, the hero Jason, was planning to leave her to marry the beautiful young Princess Glauke, daughter of King Creon of Corinth, she sends Glauke a cursed/poisoned golden robe that [[KillItWithFire sets her alight]], and killed her father when he tried to save her. She then ''[[OffingTheOffspring kills her own two sons]]'' she had by Jason and [[KarmaHoudini runs off to Athens in the chariot of her grandfather]], the SunGod Helios.
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* This is the setup for the Roald Dahl short story "[[TalesOfTheUnexpected Lamb to the Slaughter", infamous for its extremely clever TwistEnding. Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
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* This is the setup for the Roald Dahl short story "[[TalesOfTheUnexpected Lamb to the Slaughter", Slaughter]]", infamous for its extremely clever TwistEnding. Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
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* Played with in a ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode where the plot goes both ways - a male character sees himself cheated on, murders both parties, and commits suicide, then a female character goes through the exact same scenario and reacts the same way. In actuality, both characters were being caught up in the psychic playback of events that happened to someone else in the past. And that someone else was not presented as justified, but as disturbed.
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* Played with in a ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode where the plot goes both ways - a male character sees himself cheated on, murders both parties, and commits suicide, then a female character goes through the exact same scenario and reacts the same way. In actuality, both characters were being caught up in the psychic playback of events that happened to someone else in the past. And that someone else was not presented as justified, but as disturbed.
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->''He'd go out every night looking for himself... and on the way... he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary... and Irving. I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive...and ''I saw him dead.
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->''He'd go out every night looking for himself... and on the way... he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary... and Irving. I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive...and ''I saw him dead.
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-->-- '''Mona''', from "The Cell Block Tango,"
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* Ambiguously implied in "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)," a No. 1 country hit by one-hit wonder Leon Ashley in 1967 (and re-recorded many times, including by KennyRogers). The ambiguity comes at the end of the song's second verse, where the cuckolded husband -- having snapped for not knowing why his wife has been unfaithful or what qualities her lover has that he might not -- takes a gun and demands an immediate answer, "''if there's time before I pull this trigger''."
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* "The Cold, Hard Facts of Life." Here, the cuckolded husband is a traveling businessman whose frequent trips away drive the wife to cheat. He finally finds out when he comes home unexpectedly, hoping to surprise his wife with wine and a romantic dinner ... but at the liquor store, he runs into a man that -- unknown to him -- is sleeping with his wife. The ending is left clear: the main protagonist stabs his wife and her lover to death, and he's left to rot in a jail cell as he awaits trial.
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* "The Cold, Hard Facts of Life." Life," most famously by Porter Wagoner. Here, the cuckolded husband is a traveling businessman whose frequent trips away drive the wife to cheat. He finally finds out when he comes home unexpectedly, hoping to surprise his wife with wine and a romantic dinner ... but at the liquor store, he runs into a man that -- unknown to him -- is sleeping with his wife. The ending is left clear: the main protagonist stabs his wife and her lover to death, and he's left to rot in a jail cell as he awaits trial.
* "Blood Red and Goin' Down," a No. 1 country hit by Tanya Tucker in 1973. Then a winsome teen-ager, the lyrics of this murder ballad fit Tucker well as a young pre-teen, forced to tag along with her father, who is bloodthirstingly angry at his wife after learning she had slept with another man (the latest in a line, as implied by the lyrics). Eventually, the man finds his wife, in the arms of another man, in a ramshackle tavern and carries out his brutal deed ... but not before sending the daughter outside. However, unknown to the father, the girl watches the slaying.
* "She Wore Red Dresses," an album cut and de facto title tune to Dwight Yoakam's 1989 album ''Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room''. Yoakam takes the role of the cuckolded husband, who married a beautiful young woman purely for how sexually enticing she was while wearing red dresses. The lust eventually dies and she walks out on him; betrayed, the angered husband stalks his wife, tracking her down to a lonely hotel, where he finds her asleep in the arms of her lover. After summoning his courage and bitterly cursing his wife, he walks in, holds the gun to his wife's head ... and fires before she knows what's going on. "''She wore red dresses/but now she lay dead''."
* "Blood Red and Goin' Down," a No. 1 country hit by Tanya Tucker in 1973. Then a winsome teen-ager, the lyrics of this murder ballad fit Tucker well as a young pre-teen, forced to tag along with her father, who is bloodthirstingly angry at his wife after learning she had slept with another man (the latest in a line, as implied by the lyrics). Eventually, the man finds his wife, in the arms of another man, in a ramshackle tavern and carries out his brutal deed ... but not before sending the daughter outside. However, unknown to the father, the girl watches the slaying.
* "She Wore Red Dresses," an album cut and de facto title tune to Dwight Yoakam's 1989 album ''Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room''. Yoakam takes the role of the cuckolded husband, who married a beautiful young woman purely for how sexually enticing she was while wearing red dresses. The lust eventually dies and she walks out on him; betrayed, the angered husband stalks his wife, tracking her down to a lonely hotel, where he finds her asleep in the arms of her lover. After summoning his courage and bitterly cursing his wife, he walks in, holds the gun to his wife's head ... and fires before she knows what's going on. "''She wore red dresses/but now she lay dead''."
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* "The Cold, Hard Facts of Life." Here, the cuckolded husband is a traveling businessman whose frequent trips away drive the wife to cheat. He finally finds out when he comes home unexpectedly, hoping to surprise his wife with wine and a romantic dinner ... but at the liquor store, he runs into a man that -- unknown to him -- is sleeping with his wife. The ending is left clear: the main protagonist stabs his wife and her lover to death, and he's left to rot in a jail cell as he awaits trial.
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* Roald Dahl's infamous short story ''Lamb to the Slaughter''. It's easy to forget, given the extremely clever TwistEnding, but this is why she kills her husband.
** Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
** Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
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* This is the setup for the Roald Dahl's infamous Dahl short story ''Lamb "[[TalesOfTheUnexpected Lamb to the Slaughter''. It's easy to forget, given the Slaughter", infamous for its extremely clever TwistEnding, but this is why she kills her husband.
**TwistEnding. Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
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This trope is solely about '''killing a romantic partner for cheating''', not for all cases where the murder victim might "deserve" their fate - that's PayEvilUntoEvil.
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* In the TV movie "No One Would Tell" we have Bobby and Stacy.
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** This is more of a DomesticAbuse / IfICantHaveYou situation - he's abusive throughout the relationship, she finally breaks it off with him, and then he kills her. There was no 'cheating' involved.
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* The ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' media series of games, anime and manga have this going on in some of the bad endings, when it's not MurderTheHypotenuse.
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* The ''SchoolDays'' ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' media series of games, anime and manga are infamous for their various endings concerning this trope. Especially the anime.
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* Possibly subverted in The DarkestOfTheHillsideThickets' "Jimmy the Squid". Jimmy is accused of killing his mate for sleeping with another squid. He says he's innocent.
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* Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from ''{{Chicago}}'' fall under this trope. In fact, the former trope namer (HeHadItComing) comes from their chorus in the "Cell Block Tango," where they give their accounts of how their husbands died for "crimes" like [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse popping their gum]]. Only Hunyak turns out to be innocent.
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* Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from ''{{Chicago}}'' fall under this trope. In fact, the former trope namer (HeHadItComing) (He Had It Coming) comes from their chorus in the "Cell Block Tango," where they give their accounts of how their husbands died for "crimes" like [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse popping their gum]]. Only Hunyak turns out to be innocent.
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** Despite being the Trope Namer, the show doesn't really give the impression that what these women did was acceptable... just that they can manage to manipulate events to get away with it.
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See also ManslaughterProvocation.
ManslaughterProvocation - until 2009, in Britain, killing your wife for infidelity was manslaughter, not murder.
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* Played with in Reba {{McEntire}}'s "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia". A man finds out that his wife's been the town bicycle while he's been gone, and goes to kill her. He gets arrested for it, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], gets the death penalty. Subversion: the husband didn't do it. His little sister got to the cheating wife first.
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* Played with in Reba {{McEntire}}'s "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia". A man finds out that his wife's been the town bicycle while he's been gone, and goes to kill her.her and his friend who she was last cheating on him with. He gets arrested for it, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], gets the death penalty. Subversion: the husband didn't do it. His little sister got to the cheating wife and the friend first.
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* Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from ''{{Chicago}}'' fall under this trope. In fact, the title comes from their chorus in the "Cell Block Tango," where they give their accounts of how their husbands died for "crimes" like [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse popping their gum]]. Only Hunyak turns out to be innocent.
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* Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from ''{{Chicago}}'' fall under this trope. In fact, the title former trope namer (HeHadItComing) comes from their chorus in the "Cell Block Tango," where they give their accounts of how their husbands died for "crimes" like [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse popping their gum]]. Only Hunyak turns out to be innocent.
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->''He'd go out every night looking for himself... and on the way... he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary... and Irving. I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive...and ''I saw him dead.
-->-- '''Mona''', from "The Cell Block Tango," ''{{Chicago}}''
Alice is dating or married to Bob. Alice finds out that Bob is sleeping with Carol. Alice then kills Bob for cheating on her. [[PayEvilUntoEvil This may be presented as a justified act, even if it is a serious crime.]] He done her wrong. While the same scenario is a common dramatic plot with both genders, [[Main/{{The Unfair Sex}} modern depictions are often more sympathetic to Alice shooting Bob-the-cheater than Bob shooting Alice-the-cheater]].
In RealLife many cultures have tended to go easy on the husband's killing either a cheating wife and/or the man she was cheating with. Not so much in the modern Western world, though, and stories produced from that perspective don't usually treat it as justified in anything more than a passing reference/joke, which is why most examples here come from songs. A full story involving someone killing their straying lover usually has to admit that this is a ''bad'' thing to do.
See also WomanScorned, IfICantHaveYou, {{Yandere}}, and MurderTheHypotenuse.
This trope is solely about '''killing a romantic partner for cheating''', not for all cases where the murder victim might "deserve" their fate - that's PayEvilUntoEvil.
See also ManslaughterProvocation.
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* A common theme in country music.
* A common plot element in crime television dramas, although the murderers are less likely to be seen sympathetically in such stories.
* Played with in a ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode where the plot goes both ways - a male character sees himself cheated on, murders both parties, and commits suicide, then a female character goes through the exact same scenario and reacts the same way. In actuality, both characters were being caught up in the psychic playback of events that happened to someone else in the past. And that someone else was not presented as justified, but as disturbed.
* Unpleasantly ''required'' as part of the Goblin newbie zone in WorldOfWarcraft regardless of gender - you have a romantic partner, that romantic partner then leaves you for someone else, and you [[ButThouMust have to]] hunt them down and rip out their cheating heart.
** Mind you, the one they've left you for is also trying to sell you into slavery, so it's a bit more understandable.
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* The ''SchoolDays'' media series of games, anime and manga are infamous for their various endings concerning this trope. Especially the anime.
* Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from ''{{Chicago}}'' fall under this trope. In fact, the title comes from their chorus in the "Cell Block Tango," where they give their accounts of how their husbands died for "crimes" like [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse popping their gum]]. Only Hunyak turns out to be innocent.
** The reasons for each were:
### Liz's husband [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous popped his gum]] (which [[BerserkButton she says is an irritating habit]]) one too many times after she'd had a long day.
### Annie found out her boyfriend was not only married, but was a Mormon with six wives.
### June was (perhaps wrongly) accused by her husband of cheating on him with the milkman.
### Hunyak DIDN'T kill her husband, but was thrown in jail with the rest because no one could understand Hungarian.
### Velma walked in on her husband doing the "spread eagle" with her sister Veronica.
### Mona found out her boyfriend's long walks at night were really an excuse to visit his other girlfriends and eventually a boyfriend.
** A later scene had an heiress shoot her husband when he was in bed with two women. His ImplausibleDeniability just adds WhatAnIdiot to this.
** Despite being the Trope Namer, the show doesn't really give the impression that what these women did was acceptable... just that they can manage to manipulate events to get away with it.
* The extended version of Garth Brooks's "The Thunder Rolls" (though the video depicts the husband as being abusive as well as adulterous):
-->She runs back down the hallway
-->To the bedroom door
-->She reaches for the pistol
-->Kept in the dresser drawer
-->Tells the lady in the mirror
-->He won't do this again
-->'Cause tonight will be the last time
-->She'll wonder where he's been
* The first published version of the MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny" ("He was her man/But he done her wrong") appeared in 1904, making this OlderThanRadio.
* This trope is the entirety of {{Oxygen}}'s ''Snapped''. Most episodes covers a RealLife case of an abused and/or cheated-on woman who killed her husband (sometimes father). They try not to paint the women in a sympathetic light, but the show still has a "You go girl" kind of feel.
** Sometimes the husband is a saint and the woman is simply tired of being married but doesn't want to go through a divorce, or wants his life insurance policy, or the woman was actually a sociopath. These episodes don't count, though - they're just plain ordinary murder and not relevant to this trope. Women ''do'' sometimes kill people for reasons other than "bad men".
* Roald Dahl's infamous short story ''Lamb to the Slaughter''. It's easy to forget, given the extremely clever TwistEnding, but this is why she kills her husband.
** Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
* Cher's ''Dark Lady''.
* LilKim has killed at least 2 boyfriends in her songs.
* AnnaRussell's songs "Dripping With Gore" and "Two Time Man" are (mild) parodies of this trope as used in country music.
* "If You Hadn't, But You Did" from the musical revue ''Two on the Aisle'' has a verse beginning in soap-opera-style bathos and ending with a gunshot. It then turns into an angry ListSong running down the reasons for saying goodbye to her husband, most of them having names like Geraldine and Kate.
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* Garth Brooks's "Papa Loved Mama" is presented as comedy. This version is sympathetic to both the lonely, cheating mother ''and'' the cuckolded, murderous father.
-->Papa loved Mama
-->Mama loved men
-->Mama's in the graveyard
-->Papa's in the pen
* The ambiguous ending of George Jones' "Radio Lover" can be interpreted as this, involving a cuckolded DJ husband who comes home to catch his wife in bed with another man, and then sings the song's chorus, "The last words they ever heard."
* Subverted in ''TheShawshankRedemption'': Andy's wife was cheating on him, and he goes to jail for her murder. He's innocent, though.
* The rap song ''Scandalous Hoes II'', which ends with murdering the woman for cheating, presented as completely justified
* Possibly subverted in The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' "Jimmy the Squid". Jimmy is accused of killing his mate for sleeping with another squid. He says he's innocent.
* Tom Jones' Delilah.
* ''Hey Joe'', recorded by a number of artists
* Willie Nelson's ''Red Headed Stranger''
* Warren Zevon's ''A Bullet For Ramona''
* Weirdly appears on ''{{Rome}}'' when Vorenus finds out his grandson is in fact his wife Niobe's son by another man. According to Roman custom at the time it was not only Vorenus' ''right'' to kill her for her infidelity, but it was also what honor demanded (and Vorenus is constantly shown to put HonorBeforeReason). He grabs a knife but doesn't seem like he will be able to actually kill her, so she flings herself off a balcony and takes her own life as a final act of love.
* In OscarWilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol," this is the condemned prisoner's crime.
-->He did not wear his scarlet coat,\\
For blood and wine are red,\\
And blood and wine were on his hands\\
When they found him with the dead,\\
The poor dead woman whom he loved\\
And murdered in her bed.
* The third verse of DrDre and {{Eminem}}'s "Guilty Conscience" has the two arguing as [[GoodAngelBadAngel a man's conscience]] on whether or not to kill his cheating wife and her lover (Dre tries to talk him out of it, but Slim Shady is goading him to go ahead). They both agree to do it after Slim calls Dre out on his own past ("You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?").
* Appears to be the case in Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "We Came Along This Road". The song's lyrics start with "I left by the back door, with my wife's lover's smoking gun" and then describe the protagonist going on the run.
* Richard Marx, "Hazard", ''maybe''. The male character's accused of it, but the truth is intentionally ambiguous.
* Played with in Reba {{McEntire}}'s "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia". A man finds out that his wife's been the town bicycle while he's been gone, and goes to kill her. He gets arrested for it, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], gets the death penalty. Subversion: the husband didn't do it. His little sister got to the cheating wife first.
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* In ''Adam's Rib'', a wife shoots her husband after finding another woman in his arms, but he survives. Her defense attorney, Amanda Bonner, gets the jury to excuse her actions under the DoubleStandard grounds that a man shooting at an unfaithful wife would not be judged so harshly.
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-->-- '''Mona''', from "The Cell Block Tango," ''{{Chicago}}''
Alice is dating or married to Bob. Alice finds out that Bob is sleeping with Carol. Alice then kills Bob for cheating on her. [[PayEvilUntoEvil This may be presented as a justified act, even if it is a serious crime.]] He done her wrong. While the same scenario is a common dramatic plot with both genders, [[Main/{{The Unfair Sex}} modern depictions are often more sympathetic to Alice shooting Bob-the-cheater than Bob shooting Alice-the-cheater]].
In RealLife many cultures have tended to go easy on the husband's killing either a cheating wife and/or the man she was cheating with. Not so much in the modern Western world, though, and stories produced from that perspective don't usually treat it as justified in anything more than a passing reference/joke, which is why most examples here come from songs. A full story involving someone killing their straying lover usually has to admit that this is a ''bad'' thing to do.
See also WomanScorned, IfICantHaveYou, {{Yandere}}, and MurderTheHypotenuse.
This trope is solely about '''killing a romantic partner for cheating''', not for all cases where the murder victim might "deserve" their fate - that's PayEvilUntoEvil.
See also ManslaughterProvocation.
!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''
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!!'''Examples:'''
* A common theme in country music.
* A common plot element in crime television dramas, although the murderers are less likely to be seen sympathetically in such stories.
* Played with in a ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode where the plot goes both ways - a male character sees himself cheated on, murders both parties, and commits suicide, then a female character goes through the exact same scenario and reacts the same way. In actuality, both characters were being caught up in the psychic playback of events that happened to someone else in the past. And that someone else was not presented as justified, but as disturbed.
* Unpleasantly ''required'' as part of the Goblin newbie zone in WorldOfWarcraft regardless of gender - you have a romantic partner, that romantic partner then leaves you for someone else, and you [[ButThouMust have to]] hunt them down and rip out their cheating heart.
** Mind you, the one they've left you for is also trying to sell you into slavery, so it's a bit more understandable.
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* The ''SchoolDays'' media series of games, anime and manga are infamous for their various endings concerning this trope. Especially the anime.
* Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from ''{{Chicago}}'' fall under this trope. In fact, the title comes from their chorus in the "Cell Block Tango," where they give their accounts of how their husbands died for "crimes" like [[LawOfDisproportionateResponse popping their gum]]. Only Hunyak turns out to be innocent.
** The reasons for each were:
### Liz's husband [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous popped his gum]] (which [[BerserkButton she says is an irritating habit]]) one too many times after she'd had a long day.
### Annie found out her boyfriend was not only married, but was a Mormon with six wives.
### June was (perhaps wrongly) accused by her husband of cheating on him with the milkman.
### Hunyak DIDN'T kill her husband, but was thrown in jail with the rest because no one could understand Hungarian.
### Velma walked in on her husband doing the "spread eagle" with her sister Veronica.
### Mona found out her boyfriend's long walks at night were really an excuse to visit his other girlfriends and eventually a boyfriend.
** A later scene had an heiress shoot her husband when he was in bed with two women. His ImplausibleDeniability just adds WhatAnIdiot to this.
** Despite being the Trope Namer, the show doesn't really give the impression that what these women did was acceptable... just that they can manage to manipulate events to get away with it.
* The extended version of Garth Brooks's "The Thunder Rolls" (though the video depicts the husband as being abusive as well as adulterous):
-->She runs back down the hallway
-->To the bedroom door
-->She reaches for the pistol
-->Kept in the dresser drawer
-->Tells the lady in the mirror
-->He won't do this again
-->'Cause tonight will be the last time
-->She'll wonder where he's been
* The first published version of the MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny" ("He was her man/But he done her wrong") appeared in 1904, making this OlderThanRadio.
* This trope is the entirety of {{Oxygen}}'s ''Snapped''. Most episodes covers a RealLife case of an abused and/or cheated-on woman who killed her husband (sometimes father). They try not to paint the women in a sympathetic light, but the show still has a "You go girl" kind of feel.
** Sometimes the husband is a saint and the woman is simply tired of being married but doesn't want to go through a divorce, or wants his life insurance policy, or the woman was actually a sociopath. These episodes don't count, though - they're just plain ordinary murder and not relevant to this trope. Women ''do'' sometimes kill people for reasons other than "bad men".
* Roald Dahl's infamous short story ''Lamb to the Slaughter''. It's easy to forget, given the extremely clever TwistEnding, but this is why she kills her husband.
** Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons implied to be this trope, ending with "And I know it’s kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn’t any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
* Cher's ''Dark Lady''.
* LilKim has killed at least 2 boyfriends in her songs.
* AnnaRussell's songs "Dripping With Gore" and "Two Time Man" are (mild) parodies of this trope as used in country music.
* "If You Hadn't, But You Did" from the musical revue ''Two on the Aisle'' has a verse beginning in soap-opera-style bathos and ending with a gunshot. It then turns into an angry ListSong running down the reasons for saying goodbye to her husband, most of them having names like Geraldine and Kate.
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* Garth Brooks's "Papa Loved Mama" is presented as comedy. This version is sympathetic to both the lonely, cheating mother ''and'' the cuckolded, murderous father.
-->Papa loved Mama
-->Mama loved men
-->Mama's in the graveyard
-->Papa's in the pen
* The ambiguous ending of George Jones' "Radio Lover" can be interpreted as this, involving a cuckolded DJ husband who comes home to catch his wife in bed with another man, and then sings the song's chorus, "The last words they ever heard."
* Subverted in ''TheShawshankRedemption'': Andy's wife was cheating on him, and he goes to jail for her murder. He's innocent, though.
* The rap song ''Scandalous Hoes II'', which ends with murdering the woman for cheating, presented as completely justified
* Possibly subverted in The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' "Jimmy the Squid". Jimmy is accused of killing his mate for sleeping with another squid. He says he's innocent.
* Tom Jones' Delilah.
* ''Hey Joe'', recorded by a number of artists
* Willie Nelson's ''Red Headed Stranger''
* Warren Zevon's ''A Bullet For Ramona''
* Weirdly appears on ''{{Rome}}'' when Vorenus finds out his grandson is in fact his wife Niobe's son by another man. According to Roman custom at the time it was not only Vorenus' ''right'' to kill her for her infidelity, but it was also what honor demanded (and Vorenus is constantly shown to put HonorBeforeReason). He grabs a knife but doesn't seem like he will be able to actually kill her, so she flings herself off a balcony and takes her own life as a final act of love.
* In OscarWilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol," this is the condemned prisoner's crime.
-->He did not wear his scarlet coat,\\
For blood and wine are red,\\
And blood and wine were on his hands\\
When they found him with the dead,\\
The poor dead woman whom he loved\\
And murdered in her bed.
* The third verse of DrDre and {{Eminem}}'s "Guilty Conscience" has the two arguing as [[GoodAngelBadAngel a man's conscience]] on whether or not to kill his cheating wife and her lover (Dre tries to talk him out of it, but Slim Shady is goading him to go ahead). They both agree to do it after Slim calls Dre out on his own past ("You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?").
* Appears to be the case in Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "We Came Along This Road". The song's lyrics start with "I left by the back door, with my wife's lover's smoking gun" and then describe the protagonist going on the run.
* Richard Marx, "Hazard", ''maybe''. The male character's accused of it, but the truth is intentionally ambiguous.
* Played with in Reba {{McEntire}}'s "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia". A man finds out that his wife's been the town bicycle while he's been gone, and goes to kill her. He gets arrested for it, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], gets the death penalty. Subversion: the husband didn't do it. His little sister got to the cheating wife first.
[[AC:Attempted Murder]]
* In ''Adam's Rib'', a wife shoots her husband after finding another woman in his arms, but he survives. Her defense attorney, Amanda Bonner, gets the jury to excuse her actions under the DoubleStandard grounds that a man shooting at an unfaithful wife would not be judged so harshly.
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