History Main / HenPeckedHusband

* The titular John Sappo from ''ComicStrip/{{Sappo}} is this to his giant wife Myrtle.

** Mr. Takahashi from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_vwi-KEHgE Daughter kicked me out, but she somehow became homeless after that]]'' was abused by his wife Keiko and his daughter Rumi for smelling bad. When Keiko decides to divorce him, Mr. Takahashi reveals to Ruri that [[spoiler:she was the daughter of another man.]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49deZ4WJo94 My mom hates me and always prioritizes my brother over me]]'': [[GoodCannotComprehendEvil Sakura's father]] is a sympathetic example; he is a meek man who doesn't fight back whenever his wife Makiko abused him for defending his daughter Sakura from her abuse.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAAAs652src My beloved wife was cheating on me and finds it amusing that I broke my leg]]'': Tatsuya Nakamura had to work hard to provide for the home ever since he married Kaori Hayama, who always used his money for gallivanting and always slacked off at home despite promising she would take care of the house.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SUye02OM0k My mother left us for this rich CEO]]'': Ren's father was financially and emotionally abused by his wife. Ren himself had a problem with his timidity about it.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stan Smith sometimes falls under this status. Even though he is frequently portrayed as a domineering and tough man of the house, his wife Francine sometimes nags and lectures him whenever he does something stupid or impulsive. Stan obviously does not like being henpecked, as in "Four Little Words", he frames Francine for a murder his boss Avery Bullock committed just so Francine wouldn't tell Stan "I told you so".

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter Griffin occasionally slips into this, but considering what a massive {{Manchild}} he is, it's unlikely the family would be able to function at all if Lois wasn't shrewish and domineering. It's already a mess of abusive dysfunction as it is.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Jerry is this to a T. He and his wife, Beth, married after she became pregnant with their daughter when they were in high school. The question of if they were together by choice or not is often raised. This isn't helped by the fact that he has to deal with his wife's desire to keep her MadScientist father in her life who constantly throws their family in danger, especially their children, and constantly insults Jerry, believing he isn't worthy of his daughter and Beth's domineering personality. In an episode where they are in a couples' therapy, it is shown that Beth's perception of Jerry is that of a spineless meek worm. He and Beth are shown to have a rather malicious, codependent relationship. No one in the family respects Jerry. He even lampshades this in an episode.

** Homer Simpson sometimes slips into this, but since he's by far the most extreme example of the BumblingDad, it's hard to imagine how the family could possibly function otherwise.

'''Bill:''' Oh you're never gonna let ''that'' go, are you?

Some of these men are resigned to the horror of their lives; others try to escape, oftentimes [[WomanScorned to their regret]]. There are two possibilities if the Henpecked Husband actually succeeds in standing up to his wife: Either she'll hold her ground, provoking him to divorce her and revel in the newfound freedom, or his wife will not only back down but instantly swoon and throw herself at him — she was [[AllAmazonsWantHercules secretly yearning for him to grow a spine all along]].

** Mayor Dotour from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', to the point that he's willing to ignore the town guards' pleas to evacuate the remaining citizens because the stubborn carnival leader threatened to bring his wife into the argument. Keep in mind there's a ''[[ColonyDrop giant moon about to crash into the town]]''.

* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'': At the end of the film, Clogsworth is happy to be human again after the curse on the castle was lifted, until his wife comes in and hugs him, which leads him to moan in misery about wanting to be a clock again.

* [[UsefulNotes/TheCatholicMonarchs Isabella of Castile]] was noted to be like this to her husband Ferdinand of Aragon, despite being [[RulingCouple nominally-equal corulers]] as monarchs of their respective kingdoms. A contemporary observer once noted:

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* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'':
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UapfiGf4W4o Wife cheats but shows no remorse so I sent her to hell]]'': Hiroshi married an aggressive woman named Rio. She bossed him around and even coerced him into sex every night without caring about his lack of stamina.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGw_2d4vS6A Caught my wife cheating with my assistant...]]'': Hiroshi's wife Fumina bossed him around and forced him to do the chores. She even saw through his hiring a private investigator, but Hiroshi eventually found out she was cheating when [[spoiler:her lover visited his office.]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWRoQO8k4c This is how I found out my wife was cheating on me]]'': Goro Kumada tries to cover up he is mistreated by his wife Ariko in his affair with Yurika.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH64_8KO0ss My mother-in-law kicked me out, so I made my own house underground]]'': Hiroshi's father-in-law was timid and couldn't stop his wife Rakko from mistreating and kicking out Hiroshi.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zl5V35dtYo Wife crashed my car…]]'': Hiroshi was abused by his wife Erika, who took advantage of his tendency to never get angry at anyone. However, his patience runs out when she not only crashed his car on a joyride with her lover but was also doing drugs.
*** Its sequel, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZwJ9b6Frs Wife makes out with secret lover inside our family car]]'' features Hiroshi being abused by his new wife Saori, who saw him as a weakling but stuck with him for his money.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLdnl-EFi5M My wife threatened to divorce me every time I complained about something]]'': Chisato abused her husband Hiroshi and threatened divorce whenever he complained about her abuses.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIbBjeNDV8Y Getting revenge on my wife after finding out that she was cheating on me in a public restroom]]'': Hiroshi was mistreated by his wife Shoko, who always flips her lid at the slightest provocation.

* The player can take on this role while playing house with Cindy in ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' by answering "Yes, dear." to everything she says. Being the AlphaBitch she is, Cindy is all too happy to play along by telling the protagonist to give her money to buy a new purse, then to make her dinner. [[spoiler:Trying to back out once you've started has [[TheManyDeathsOfYou dire consequences]].]]

*** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough At Last]]" has Henry Bemis's wife Helen refuse to let him read, at all, to the point where she won't let him read the condiment bottles at the dinner table and eventually rips up his poetry. Why she does this is never explained, and nobody cries when the bomb hits. (Well, not for ''her'' at least.)
*** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E99YoungMansFancy Young Man's Fancy]]", Alex Walker is continually pressured and prodded by his new wife Virginia to sell his mother Henrietta's house, of which he has many very fond memories. [[SubvertedTrope However]], he finally stands up to her in the final scene [[spoiler:when the power of his nostalgia turns him into a young boy again and he stays in the house with the ghost of his mother]].

*** In "The World Next Door", Barney Schlessinger's wife Katie is unsupportive of his love of making HomeMadeInventions in their basement. She continually criticizes him for wasting his time at something that is of no use to anyone.
*** In "Extra Innings", Cindy Hamner is unsupportive of her husband Ed, [[CareerEndingInjury whose promising baseball career ended when he ruined his left knee two years earlier]]. She tells him that he can't spend the rest of his life wallowing in self-pity and belittles his continued interest in baseball, particularly his extensive card collection.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' have an inversion of the trope in Sally Impossible. Richard Impossible acts like the worst sort of cold, jealous, [[ControlFreak controlling]] bastard, keeping his wife shut up indoors at all times so the disfiguring condition ''he inflicted on her'' won't embarrass him. This is portrayed as pretty clearly [[DomesticAbuse abusive]] and disturbing, but on the other hand, it's PlayedForLaughs at the same time. Sally is much more sympathetic than her husband, but she's also portrayed as sort of comically pathetic in much the same way the classic male Henpecked Husband is. In fact, she's possibly even more absurdly spineless -- she throws herself at any male character she meets, begging them to take her away from Richard, but makes no attempt to leave him ''without'' another man to take care of her. She eventually gets up the courage to leave him and is shown in a much healthier relationship with JJ Venture.

* Eighteen years before he was Richard Bucket in ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'' (which provides the picture at the top of this page), Clive Swift played Johnny in ''Film/{{Frenzy}}'', a man whose wife prevents him from helping out his friend who is on the run after being falsely accused of murder.

The poor guy; he squirms under the thumb of a domineering wife, very likely a GrandeDame. Her word is law, and he can only obey, with a meek and humble, "Yes, dear." We laugh at his misfortune, and maybe pity him a little.

Frowning, the mother says, "Go back and tell them you want a ''speaking'' role!"

** After [[ACupAngst Sakura gets angry over Sai making a comment about how small her breasts are and how big Hinata's are]], Sasuke tries to calm her down. However, he makes the mistake of saying "So what if Hinata's are bigger than...", causing his girlfriend to say "Excuse me?" while [[DeathGlare glaring]] at him. The fact he tries to use Naruto as a HumanShield to protect himself from her says it all.

* Pongo from ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' is this in the episode "Splishing and Splashing". Perdita forbids the pups from going to a pond on a hot summer day until they apologize to Lucy. Pongo asks her if that seems too harsh, but he quickly knuckles down when she glares at him. And when they leave, Perdita dismisses Pongo when he comments that he hates being tough on the pups.

* In one of the Clyde Crashcup shorts in ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'', called "Crashcup Invents a Wife", the wife in question is named Pictorial. Their relationship turns out like this, and Clyde eventually reaches the breaking point:

* Peter Griffin from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' occasionally slips into this, but considering what a massive ManChild he is, it's unlikely the family would be able to function at all if Lois wasn't shrewish and domineering. It's already a mess of abusive dysfunction as it is.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' we have Oberon, Lord of the Fae. He is often seen being either manipulated or "requested" by his wife, Titania. A line of dialogue explains it nicely:

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' with Oskar and Suzie. Oskar constantly nags Suzie to do things for him while he doesn't help out with any chores.
* On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Molotov is domineered by his wife, which offsets his DrillSergeantNasty persona at work.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': While [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E2EscapingExpulsion "Escaping Expulsion"]] suggests that Alador Blight has ''some'' say in his relationship with his wife Odalia, [[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E20CloudsOnTheHorizon "Clouds on the Horizon"]] makes it clear that such moments are fleeting at best. She lords over him on a typical day, massively overworking him at Blight Industries and threatening to ruin his already-strained relationship with his kids even more if he dares to stand up for himself, and he only puts up with it all for their sake. [[spoiler: When he finds out that she's been secretly aiding [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] in his plan for [[FinalSolution witch eradication]] and doesn't care that this would also kill him, [[TheDogBitesBack he decides he's had enough and disowns her on the spot]].]]

* Jerry from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is this to a T. He and his wife, Beth, married after she became pregnant with their daughter when they were in high school. The question of if they were together by choice or not is often raised. This isn't helped by the fact that he has to deal with his wife's desire to keep her MadScientist father in her life who constantly throws their family in danger, especially their children, and constantly insults Jerry, believing he isn't worthy of his daughter and Beth's domineering personality. In an episode where they are in a couples' therapy, it is shown that Beth's perception of Jerry is that of a spineless meek worm. He and Beth are shown to have a rather malicious, codependent relationship. No one in the family respects Jerry. He even lampshades this in an episode.

* Men in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' are mostly daft, so it's usually their wives who take charge in the family. Take the Wattersons, for example: Richard is completely child-brained and useless, and his wife Nicole literally has to raise him along with their three disobedient children while also having to be the bread winner. And since she's very strong and combative, and has serious anger issues, you really don't want to push her over "The Limit".

* One ''Creator/FamousStudios'' cartoon "Sudden Fried Chicken" dealt with Herman the mouse saving his friend Henry the rooster from his abusive, domineering wife, who constantly beats him and tells him how worthless he is, when Herman sees how well he takes her beatings and enters him in a boxing match.

* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': Henpecked Hou. He's a homage to the one in ''Bridge of Birds'' (see under Literature, above).
%%** The farmer you meet in the swamp very early on. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

* WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt:

** [[https://youtu.be/7KnVTbh7neU?t=478 Akamatsu]] turns into one after he was fired from his job, forcing him to be a househusband for his working wife, Yuzuriha.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsYzYFAtsQg Hiiragi]] becomes this after ditching Yuri for Akane, this turns out to be a mistake because Akane is the dominant partner in their relationship and refuses to do any housework, despite being a housewife.

* Creator/DougWalker says that his wife isn't in his videos (aside from a voice a couple of times) because it'd be too unnatural for him telling her what to do. (Meant in a nice way, he's HappilyMarried.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': [[MayorPain Mayor André Bourgeois]] is this. His wife [[RichBitch Audrey]] has absolutely no respect for him and she has him completely under her thumb. The prospect of disappointing Audrey leads him to go along with his daughter's scheme in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS02E09Frightningale Frightningale]]". "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS05E17Adoration Adoration]]" reveals that not only did he went into politics to please Audrey (as revealed in "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS04E07SoleCrusher Sole Crusher]]"), but went so far as to change his name from "Anaximandré" to "André" just to make her happy.