History Main / DomesticAbuse

* When Billy Boy started dating Fabi Apache, he accidentally became the focal point of Fabi and Gran Apache's OverProtectiveDad feud in Wrestling/{{AAA}}. Gran Apache tried many methods to get Billy Boy to leave Fabi, but in the end all he did was drive Billy Boy to beat Fabi. However, Fabi eventually put a stop to Billy Boy's abusive ways by defeating him in a [[GimmickMatches steel cage match]].

* [[TheWoobie Adelle]] in ''Film/{{Kalifornia}}'', who is involved with SerialKiller Early Grayce. It gets even sadder when she reveals that he only ''whips'' her when she "deserves it," and that she feels like he [[StockholmSyndrome protects her]] from the people who have done WORSE things to her. [[spoiler: Adelle was gang-raped as a young teenager, which left her in the hospital for months.]]

* Canadian-made TV movie ''Film/LifeWithBilly''. Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book by the same name]], it's the true story of Jane Hurshman's relationship with her common-law husband Billy Stafford. [[InMediasRes The film starts]] with her shooting her husband as he's [[TheAlcoholic passed out drunk]] in the driver's seat of his pickup truck. During her court testimony, we're shown their story through a series of flashbacks. At one point, when Hurshman is describing a particularly horrible act, her lawyer [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks why she didn't leave him]]. She could only answer that [[StockholmSyndrome she was afraid]] he'd kill her entire family.

** PlayedForDrama in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E3ScreamsOFSilenceTheStoryOfBrendaQ Screams of Silence]]", when Brenda (Quagmire's sister) gets repeatedly beaten up by her boyfriend Jeff. Quagmire later kills Jeff to free Brenda from his wrath, but it's implied that she is going through StockholmSyndrome, meaning she will likely end up hooking up with another abuser.

** ''Wonder Woman: The Once And Future Story'' focused on Diana learning about the Ephesians, an ancient civilization similar to Themyscira. Ephesian queen Alcippe was taken by Theseus and made into his wife, and by the time her daughter Artemis arrived to rescue her she was horrified to discover Alcippe had been broken by Thesus's abuse. In the modern day, Diana has to deal with the fact that one of the archaeologists who found Artemis's remains is also being abused by her husband.

** The Schnees are a wealthy, dysfunctional family headed by the controlling, sociopathic GoldDigger Jacques. He married into the family solely to take over the Schnee Dust Company, treating his wife and children as accessories that only exist to serve him. His four victims each display one trauma response: Freeze (Willow sank into alcoholism and depression), Flight (Winter fled the family to join the military), Fight (Weiss wants to become a honourable Huntress to take back the family name from him), and Fawn (Whitley lacks the ability to escape, so became his father's "mini-me" to fend off abuse). The scale of the abuse is never revealed, but Willow did place secret cameras throughout the house in case evidence was ever needed.

** The Schnees are a wealthy, dysfunctional family headed by the controlling, sociopathic GoldDigger Jacques. He married into the family solely to take over the Schnee Dust Company, treating his wife and children as accessories that only exist to serve him. His four victims each display one trauma response: Freeze (Willow sank into alcoholism and depression), Flight (Winter fled the family to join the military), Fight (Weiss wants to become a honourable Huntress to take back the family name from him), and Fawn (Whitley lacks the ability to escape, so became the perfect son to his father and hostile towards his sisters in order to fend off abuse). The scale of the abuse is never revealed, but Willow did place secret cameras throughout the house in case evidence was ever needed.

** The Schnees are a wealthy, dysfunctional family headed by the controlling, sociopathic GoldDigger Jacques. He married into the family solely to take over the Schnee Dust Company, treating his wife and children as accessories that only exist to serve him. His wife was driven to alcoholism after he admitted their marriage was a means to an end, and he uses her condition to further manipulate their children. The extent of his abuse is never fully discussed, but Willow admits to having planted hidden cameras all over the house out of fear of what he might do to their children. Winter fled to join the military and bottles up her emotions. Weiss left the country to escape him, but is dragged home and spends Volume 4 trying to escape when he places her under house arrest. The youngest child, Whitley, acts as the perfect child to his father and is hostile towards his sisters. Willow clarifies that his actions are the result of being left alone with an abusive father and a helpless, alcoholic mother.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': Stella, Stolas' wife, goes out of her way to torment him [[{{Sadist}} because she enjoys watching him squirm]]. To wit, she threw parties ''that celebrated how they weren't divorced yet'' and openly demeaned Stolas at said parties, often ''while he was in earshot''. While it's established that the two are part of an ArrangedMarriage, it's pretty clear Stolas was the one who put the most effort into making the marriage work and failed anyway. Notably, not only is her anger at Stolas sleeping with Blitzo mostly due to how it would affect her reputation, but the minute Stolas decides to stand up to her and stop taking her abuse (complete with catching her hand before she can slap him), [[spoiler:she hires Striker to ''[[DisproportionateRetribution assassinate her own husband]]'']]. It's telling that while Stolas' adultery isn't entirely portrayed as a good thing, [[SympatheticAdulterer his relationship with Blitzo is still treated sympathetically]].

-->-- '''Creator/TrevorNoah''', ''Literature/BornACrime''

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', we meet Luna, an AxCrazy DarkActionGirl, who reveals to her hostages Tom DuBois and Robert Freeman (who's also her latest boyfriend) [[DarkAndTroubledPast that her life sucked]]. As a young girl, she ran away from a broken household involving an AbusiveDad who would slap her mother silly [[DisproportionateRetribution for petty reasons like]] [[SeriousBusiness undercooking his fried chicken]]. She then had a series of terrible relationships wherein she suffered every abuse imaginable: physical, verbal, and emotional. Ironically, her first boyfriend, [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs a Hong Kong mob boss named Kenny Wu]], hit her for serving chicken that was too cold ([[GenerationXerox the same reason that her dad hit her mom]]).

* ''ComicBook/{{The Incredible Hulk}}'' brings us Brian and Rebecca Banner's marriage. Although they started off happy, a combination of stress from his job, his [[AbusiveParents traumatic upbringing]] and [[TheAlcoholic his alcoholism]] caused Brian to develop anger problems. It only got worse after their son Bruce was born, first with him beating Bruce and then Rebecca when she tried to stop him, before eventually murdering her when she and Bruce tried to escape. While Brian would eventually [[SelfMadeOrphan pay for]] [[KickTheSonOfaBitch his crimes]], Bruce's traumatic upbringing would lead to the fracturing of his personality, which eventually became the various Hulks.

* ''Machinima/LiliumSims2'':

* The 2011 Lifetime film, ''No Surrender'', introduced a woman named Jenny Reardon as victim of spousal abuse, having written letters to writer Amelia Davis (Mena Suvari) about her abuse at the hands of her husband, who she killed in self-defense. [[spoiler:However, in a twist, it was revealed that Jenny was the true abuser and Trevor wrote the letters. Jenny killed Trevor in cold blood after finding out, and she had colluded with Amelia's abusive ex-husband (who Jenny later killed, also in cold blood) to ruin Amelia, as Jenny blamed Amelia for "ruining her life."]]

* ''Reviving Ophelia'' provides a textbook example of an abusive relationship. Elizabeth's relationship with a boy named Mark starts off sweet and innocent before he becomes possessive, controlling, and physically violent towards her. It only gets worse when he threatens to pull a MurderSuicide after she breaks up with him and gets a restraining order against him.

* Canadian-made TV movie ''Life With Billy''. Based on the [[TheFilmOfTheBook book by the same name]], it's the true story of Jane Hurshman's relationship with her common-law husband Billy Stafford. [[InMediasRes The film starts]] with her shooting her husband as he's [[TheAlcoholic passed out drunk]] in the driver's seat of his pickup truck. During her court testimony, we're shown their story through a series of flashbacks. At one point, when Hurshman is describing a particularly horrible act, her lawyer [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks why she didn't leave him]]. She could only answer that [[StockholmSyndrome she was afraid]] he'd kill her entire family.

* Ray Winston's character in ''Nil By Mouth''.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', we meet Luna, an AxCrazy DarkActionGirl, who reveals to her hostages Tom DuBois and Robert Freeman (who's also her latest boyfriend) [[DarkAndTroubledPast that her life sucked]]. As a young girl, she ran away from a broken household involving an AbusiveDad who would slap her mother silly for petty reasons like undercooking his fried chicken. She then had a series of terrible relationships wherein she suffered every abuse imaginable: physical, verbal, and emotional. Ironically, her first boyfriend, a Hong Kong mob boss named Kenny Wu, hit her for the same reason that her dad hit her mom (serving chicken that was too cold).

* ''Webcomic/TheComebackPathOfPrincessFromMars'' features Morphus (Mofu) Turrus Jr. who, along with his father, browbeat and physically abused the father of the protagonist Olga Perez into signing her over for ArrangedMarriage, at age 8. Flashbacks show that for the next 10 years, Mofu Jr. loved to verbally, physically, and emotionally brutalize her for laughs, with the constant threat that the moment she came of age and the marriage became legit, he would make her a SexSlave, not just raping her himself by imperial law, but passing her around as a sex toy to his friends, both in exchange for favors and for laughs. This only comes to a screeching halt in chapter 9 because she beats him into intensive care in a duel he himself demanded and he gets shipped off to prison, despite being on a medical stretcher, for being caught '''on camera''' using illegal drugs, and the bloodwork from the medics attending him also provided hard evidence of said drug use. Then he's shipped off to prison ''in a full body cast.'' OUCH.