History Main / DeathByWomanScorned

## Mona found out her boyfriend's long walks at night were really an excuse to visit his other girlfriends [[BiTheWay and a boyfriend.]] He didn't live much longer after that.

* "Hey Joe", recorded by a number of artists.

See also WomanScorned, IfICantHaveYou, {{Yandere}}, and MurderTheHypotenuse. See also ManslaughterProvocation - until 2009, in Britain, killing your partner for infidelity was manslaughter, not murder. May overlap with AssholeVictim if the deceased was particularly unsympathetic (e.g. if he habitually [[DomesticAbuse mistreated her]] in other ways).

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.

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* This trope is the entirety of the Oxygen Channels's ''{{Series/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.

## Annie found out her boyfriend was not only married, but was a Mormon with six wives. She poured arsenic in his drink that night.

* 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. The most infamous examples involve Makoto being stabbed by Sekai (in both the anime and one of the original game's bad endings), but it also includes Yuuki being beaten to death by ''Kotonoha'' in Cross Days.
* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' when entering the Silver Rush for the first time you see Gloria Van Graff negotiating with an unsatisfied client. She then has one of her {{Mook}}s disintegrate a bound and gagged man [[BlofeldPloy to prove a point]], and cut dialogue reveals he was an ex-lover who cheated on her.

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* The end of the video for "Down Low" from Music/RKelly featuring [[Music/TheIsleyBrothers Ron Isley]] as Mr. Biggs. After the latter walks in on his wife cheating on him with the former, who was told to keep her company in Biggs' absence but not touch her, he has the former beaten by his bodyguards and left in the desert. Biggs' wife is found in intensive care, having also been beaten for her infidelity, by a wheelchair bound R. Kelly, who witnesses her succumb to her injuries.

* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', [[spoiler: Bastilla]] tries to get a man killed simply for rejecting her and then being vaguely interested in some other woman. [[spoiler: More precisely, she puts a spell on Penrod, so that he stabs Ward in the back, after Ward ''dared'' to reject her and smile at Tisala. Penrod is then killed by Tosten, in order to save Ward. Maybe she had planned for Penrod's death, as she still needs Ward, and killing Penrod in this way causes him severe emotional pain.]] She's a villain, and not exactly well-adjusted, mentally.

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* In the ''Elementary'' episode "Fit to be Tied," the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villainess of the Week]] is a prominent judge who strangles her husband's mistress to death after finding out about their affair. She commits the copycat murder to frame Michael Cohen, a serial killer who uses strangulation as his method.

* One episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' revolved around trying to find out who placed [[ExternalCombustion a bomb in a rental car that killed an Air Marshal]]. While it was originally presumed to be some kind of terrorist act, it turns out that it was placed by a science teacher who got murderously pissed that her husband had a second secret family complete with children. Her attempt got screwed because [[SpannerInTheWorks the rental car's clock was badly wired, which made the bomb go off several hours later than planned]].

* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''
** Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from "CellBlock Tango" fall under this trope.
## Annie found out her boyfriend was not only married, but was a Mormon with six wives. She poured arsenic in his drink that night.
## Velma walked in on her husband doing the "spread eagle" with her sister Veronica. She killed them both.
## Mona found out her boyfriend's long walks at night were really an excuse to visit his other girlfriends [[BiTheWay and a boyfriend.]] He didn't live much longer after that.
** A later scene had an heiress shoot her husband when he was in bed with two women. His ImplausibleDeniability just adds WhatAnIdiot to this.

* This is the setup for the Creator/RoaldDahl short story "[[Series/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.]]

* In Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/FiveLittlePigs'', married artist Amyas Crale's [[YourCheatingHeart philandering]] gets him murdered. [[But the woman who kills him is not the one whom everyone first suspects.]]

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* Myth/GreekMythology: A subversion occurred when it happened by accident to Heracles - Deianara thought the clothing dipped in Nessus's blood would win her back his love, but it ended up killing him instead.
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* ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfHenryVIII'' includes the fates of Anne and Catherine Howard.

* One of the stories in ''Film/Creepshow'' is about a man who murders his cheating wife and her lover by burying them on the beach at low tide and leaving them to drown.
* ''Film/Fracture'' begins with the protagonist shooting his wife for cheating on him with a policeman.

* In ''Film/TheMailman'' the protagonist's father killed his wife and her lover, then himself.

* Subverted in ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': Andy's wife was cheating on him, and he goes to jail for her murder. He's innocent, though.

* Depictions of the life of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII are likely to include a bit of this, since two wives were executed for adultery, whether true or not. That includes ''Series/TheTudors'' and ''Series/WolfHall''.

* Depictions of the life of HenryVIII are likely to include a bit of this, since two wives were executed for adultery, whether true or not. That includes ''Series/TheTudors'' and ''Series/WolfHall''.

* ''Theatre/Othello'' is about a man being driven by his own paranoid jealousy to murder his wife for her perceived infidelity.

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', [[DarkActionGirl Mapleshade]] murders her unfaithful mate Appledusk. Subverted in that this is only part of her motive; she also does so to avenge their kits whose deaths he blamed her for.

* In ''Literature/Warrior Cats'', [[DarkActionGirl Mapleshade]] murders her unfaithful mate Appledusk. Subverted in that this is only part of her motive; she also does so to avenge their kits whose deaths he blamed her for.

* In Literature/Warrior Cats, [[DarkActionGirl Mapleshade]] murders her unfaithful mate Appledusk. Subverted in that this is only part of her motive; she also does so to avenge their kits whose deaths he blamed her for.