History Main / HenPeckedHusband

* Goku in ''DragonBall'' is fairly henpecked, despite the fact that he could break his wife Chichi in half... with his ''fingers''.

** Goku isn't nearly as henpecked as most examples on the page, at least. Usually it just seems like his easygoing personality is overpowered by Chichi's more forceful one. He's perfectly capable of defying her demands when he feels like it and often goes off to save the world while nonchalantly ignoring her protests.
** Let's not forget she forced Goku into getting a drivers licence... together with [[TheStoic Piccolo]].
-->'''Piccolo''': L-Leave me out of this!
** Please note: His son Gohan marries someone someone much more similar to himself and their relationship is far more equal than his parents. It's seems Goku's defiance of Chichi's orders had a much larger effect on their son than any of his mother's domineering ways.
** Although the bulk of Chichi's aggression is focused around Gohan, whom she would prefer not to go into battle. Given that she ''watched'' Goku's violent battle with Piccolo at the end of the first DB anime, which might have left him crippled if not for a senzu bean, it makes sense that she doesn't want to risk Gohan ending up like that.
*** Also, Gohan is much, much, much smarter than his dad.

* ''KeepingUpAppearances'' beat this to death, then, like Apophis in ''{{Stargate}}'', resurrected it to beat it some more.

-->'''The Doctor:''' From now on, I'll leave all the kissing to the brand new Mr. Pond.
-->'''Rory:''' Wait, what? No, I'm not Mr. Pond, [[TheMaidenNameDebate that's not how it works.]]
-->'''The Doctor:''' Yeah it is.
-->'''Rory:''' ...yeah it is]].

* Sir Samuel and Lady Sybil Vimes in ''{{Discworld}}''. The twist is that Lady Sybil cares for Sam and tries to look after him. This means making sure he eats properly and occasionally gets a day off, whether he wants it or not.
--->'''Sybil''':And you will try to look dignified, won't you?
--->'''Vimes''':Yes, dear.
--->'''Sybil''':What will you try to look?
--->'''Vimes''':Dignified, dear.
--->'''Sybil''':And please try to be diplomatic.
--->'''Vimes''':Yes, dear.
--->'''Sybil''':What will you try to be?
--->'''Vimes''':Diplomatic, dear.
--->'''Sybil''' You're using your "henpecked" voice, Sam.
--->'''Vimes''': Yes, dear.

* Ray from {{Everybody Loves Raymond}}. His wife virtually lives on the AbuseIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnMale trope, she attempts to control every aspect of his life and is infuriated when he attempts to rebel, and even convinced the poor man's own children to look at him with contempt in one episode. What makes it even more infuriating is that the show always portrays the wife as being totally justified and blameless, and [[DracoInLeatherPants}} the studio audience is firmly on ''her'' side, as evidenced by the raucous cheering every time she abused Ray.]]

* Dr. Ernest Menville from ''DeathBecomesHer'', at least until he starts developing a spine. In fact, [[spoiler: he prefers suffering a near-fatal fall to being with his bothersome wife for the rest of his life]].

** And in ''BaldursGate 2'' we have Khalid, who speaks in a PorkyPigPronunciation, and his wife Jaheira, although he seems pretty happy with the situation.

** "Porky's Romance", the first appearance of "Petunia Pig" in a Warner short, ran on this trope. Porky buys a box of chocolates to propose to Petunia and is thwarted by Petunia's annoying little dog repeatedly, as well as Petunia, who seems only interested in wanting to eat the chocolates. Porky, heartbroken, attempts suicide (aren't old cartoons grand?), but ends up hitting his head and imagines marrying Petunia and a sexy honeymoon period. After a "[[IncrediblyLamePun Time Munches On!]]" title card, Petunia and her dog are shown stretched out on the couch, fat as houses, and happily engorging themselves on seemingly infinite boxes of chocolates strewn all about the house, while Porky slaves away in the kitchen doing all the cooking and cleaning and caring for the children while [[LargeAndInCharge Petunia bosses him around.]]
** One really does have to wonder how the old Warner animators viewed marriage.

Frequently in cartoons, he will be a small figure, literally overshadowed by his behemoth of a wife. Bigger than he is, she nevertheless expects him to carry all her packages when out shopping, to run all her errands, and to care for whatever snarling pet she dotes on. And he will. Many of these men long for a way to escape and/or rebel. Some try, oftentimes [[WomanScorned to their regret]]. Others are resigned to the horror of their lives.

* Homer Simpson, contrary to the men hating Simpsons writers POV.

* The tales of TheBrothersGrimm had a few examples of this. In ''Hansel and Gretel'', it's the wife who badgers her husband into abandoning the title characters in the woods. In ''The Fisherman and His Wife'', the wife is constantly demanding her husband ask grander and grander wishes of the magic fish.

* In [[{{Discworld}} Night Watch]], a minor character named Rutherford is overshadowed by his loud, domineering wife, who can be as snobbish as nobility. Vimes imagines that he's the sort who would not actually murder, but would happpily imagine spousal homicide on a regular basis.

* Basil Fawlty.

* Clyde from WitchesOfEastwick. Ends up killing her with a frying pan. With her dying breath, she jams his tie in the garbage disposal and hits on. What a nice woman.

* Homer Simpson.

Compare MommasBoy, and MyBelovedSmother. See also NoAccountingForTaste. Is actually slowly becoming a {{Discredited Trope}} due to the Negative effects from a realationship like this in Real Life.

A common feature in the NoExit DomCom genre, it is also one of the more obvious cases of a DoubleStandard. Wives with this little spine would bring out the feminists ''en masse'', while a husband as abusive as such a wife would be roundly condemned. Then again, the {{Rule of Funny}} applies here, but can you honestly imagine a work where a man controls every aspect of his wife's life, orders her around at every opportunity and routinely criticises her every action, done as comedy?

!!Examples

* In the first season of {{Slayers}}, there's a scene where a man falls under the influence of a cursed knife and starts attacking Lina and Gourry. His wife opens a window and yells at him, and he slithers meekly back to his shop. Lampshaded immediately afterwards as Lina comments that an angry wife is more powerful and influential than a cursed knife.
* In SetoNoHanayome, San's father is one of these. This is probably a good thing, given that he's and OverprotectiveDad to the point of psychosis. Nagasumi's father is also a bit of a wuss compared to his wife.

* The entire premise of ''Norbit''.
* The root of the character Bobby Davis in ''Wild Hogs''.

*Percy Hamleigh in ThePillarsOfTheEarth is thoroughly under the thumb of his wife, Regan.

* Gender-flipped in Agatha Christie's ''The Hollow'' in which the hen-pecked (rooster-pecked?) wife is utterly devoted to her husband, and treated with as much pity and contempt by others as a male counterpart would.

** This is also highlighted in the film version where the teacher is forced to eat a bad piece of meat by his wive, after which the film cuts to him taking out his aggression by spanking a student, and later in "The Trial" where the main character, Pink's, embellished, imaginary version of the school teacher appears as a marionette controlled by his wive.

* Thenardier to some extent in ''Les Miserables''. Of course, this is in contrast to the novel in which it's exactly the opposite.

* By some accounts, Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons.

* Andrey Pozorov in Anton Chekhov's ''The Three Sisters''.

* In ''Fantasia 2000'' 's Rhapsody in Blue, one of the characters is a fun-loving husband who is forced to foot the bill and carry all of his wife's belongings, most of which are going to pamper her dog, who she seems to love more than him.