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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Flintheart Glomgold tries to hit on Goldie O'Gilt just for the pleasure of taking something that once belonged to Scrooge.

* ''Series/SunsetBeach'''s Ben's jealous EvilTwin Derek not only kidnaps him in order to take over his life, he [[ForcedToWatch forces him to watch]] via a two-way mirror as he makes love to her (or rather, essentially rapes her, since this is a BedTrick and she thinks it's Ben shes having sex with.)

* ''ComicBook/{{Bulleteer}}'': Sara doesn't particularly care for any of the individuals involved in her relationships but [[SerialHomewrecker targets married men]] specifically to mess with their wives. When the wife of her latest fling, a man Sara goaded into killing himself, doesn't wallow in self-pity and becomes a superhero due to the side effects of the lab incident that killed her husband Sara turns full-on super-villain to try and kill her in retaliation.

* ''Literature/DollangangerSeries''
** ''Literature/PetalsOnTheWind'': Cathy spends over a decade planning her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her mother, the capstone of which is seducing her mother's husband and {{Baby Trap}}ping him.
** Roughly twenty years later in ''Literature/SeedsOfYesterday'', Cathy's son Bart -- the very result of that affair -- proves how like his mother he is by seducing his sister-in-law Melodie, his brother Jory's wife. Jory has never done anything to hurt Bart, but he's the family favorite while Bart has always been TheUnfavorite. When Jory is in a paralyzing accident, Bart seizes the opportunity to provide the sexual satisfaction that Jory now can't.

* ''Literature/PetalsOnTheWind'': Cathy spends over a decade planning her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her mother, the capstone of which is seducing her mother's husband and {{Baby Trap}}ping him.
** Roughly twenty years later in the book ''Literature/SeedsOfYesterday'', her son Bart, the very result of this affair, proves how like his mother he is by seducing his sister-in-law Melodie following his brother Jory's paralyzing accident, fed up after years of being TheUnfavorite and now seizing the opportunity to provide the sexual satisfaction that Jory can't. The cruel irony of this is that Jory himself has never done anything to hurt Bart or warrant this treatment.

* ''Series/MySweetAudrina'''s evil cousin Vera spends most of the book tormenting her, including repeatedly seducing her boyfriend and later husband Arden, all for revenge for being TheUnfavorite and also as a means of taunting Audrina about her ParalyzingFearOfSexuality and subsequent inability to have a normal sex life with him.

* ''[[Literature/TheCasteelSeries {{Heaven}}]]'''s trampy sister Fanny repeatedly makes advances to her boyfriend Logan, eventually not only outright seducing him after they've gotten married, but getting pregnant as well--this is the key thing that she taunts Heaven about when she tells her about it.

* ''TabletopGame/TheRepublicOfRome'' has an Intrigue card named "Seduction", whose FlavorText describes how the player's faction leader seduces another senator's wife. Gameplay-wise, this gives you an unopposed attempt to persuade any one other senator (except rival faction leaders) to immediately join your faction, weakening your rivals'.

* ''Film/{{Closer}}: During a confrontation, Larry explicitly tells Dan that he extorted sex from Anna specifically to "fuck with you", wanting Dan to experience the pain he felt.(The backstory on this moment being that Anna left Larry for Dan, but Larry refused to sign their divorce papers unless they had sex one last time). Now that Anna has returned to Larry, Larry suggests that Dan reconcile with his previous girlfriend Alice. Just as Dan agrees and goes to leave, Larry can't resist informing him that he slept with Alice as well.

* ''Series/{{ER}}''. Doug hooks up with an associate of his estranged father. While she's vague about the exact status of their relationship, she at one point angrily asks if getting back as his father for abusing and ultimately abandoning him and his mother is the reason for their relationship.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' featuring a [[OurSirensAreDifferent unique type of siren]] employees this trope on a massive scale. The siren in question was originally a human woman who was seduced by a married man, but when their affair was discovered, ''she'' was the only one punished with a sentence of burning at the stake. She then [[CameBackWrong returned from the dead]] and decided to get vengeance against humanity by specifically seducing married men with her newfound CompellingVoice, which also hypnotizes the men's wives to [[ForcedToWatch force them to watch]] as she makes love to their husbands and fatally burns them with a literal KissOfDeath (after the murder, she kills the wives with her fire powers as well). The siren explains that takes special pleasure in watching the wives see their supposedly-faithful husbands fall under her spell and give up their lives because she's just that powerful.

A subtrope of RelationshipSabotage. OedipusComplex can sometimes be a subtrope: seducing one's mother in order to vanquish and replace one's father. When it's in the context of Japanese porn, it's {{Netorare}}. Compare BetterPartnerAssertion. Also see FoeCooties and SleepingWithTheBosssWife. See also SeductionProofMarriage for cases where the seduction attempt fails.

* In WebVideo/{{Jerusalem}}'s LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', Catalina calls CJ to tell him how much more sex she's having with Claude than with him. Some he ignores, but when she does it during a race he nearly crashes the car.

If it's done non-consensually, it's RevengeByProxy. In ''this'' trope, however, Charlie is a willing party and ''that's'' the particular sting--that Charlie was more than happy to cheat on Bob. This is an InvokedTrope version of EmasculatedCuckold, although it's not gender-specific. Occasionally Charlie is not Bob's lover, merely his crush, but Alice wants to "steal" Charlie from Bob nonetheless.

* ''ComicBook/{{Bulleteer}}'': Sara doesn't particularly care for any of the individuals involved in her relationships but [[SerialHomewrecker targets married men]] specifically to mess with their wives. When the wife of her latest fling, a man Sara goaded into killing himself, doesn't wallow in self pity and becomes a superhero due to the side effects of the lab incident that killed her husband Sara turns full on super-villain to try and kill her in retaliation.

* ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'': It's revealed that Naruto's infatuation with Sakura was actually his attempt at one upping his rival Sasuke, whom Sakura herself was actually in love with.

* ''Literature/MonsterGirlDoctor'': Arahnia the [[SeductiveSpider Arachne]] has a habit of wanting what other women have, as the drama and stimulation inspires her artistry. As such, she seduces other women's husbands and boyfriends, only to dump them before the relationship turns intimate. At the start of the series, she turns her attention to the protagonist, Glenn Litbeit, the crush of her best friend, Saphentite. Despite her unwillingness to be intimate with other men, when she captures Glenn in a web trap, she considers raping him before Saphee can have him both to see how Saphee reacts and [[InsaneTrollLogic under the logic that she and her friend will "share" something]] and grow closer. However, over time, she [[LadykillerInLove she genuinely falls in love with Glenn herself]].

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' when Gob--who is still angry at Michael for trying to pursue a relationship with his girlfriend--tries to get back at him by seducing a trans woman with whom Michael was having a friendly conversation, because Gob can't conceive of a man being polite to a woman unless he's planning to sleep with her. Naturally, Michael has no reaction to Gob seducing the trans woman.

* ''Series/TheWhiteLotus'': Ethan's resentment towards his supposed friend, the unapologetic playboy Cameron, is a running theme in their party's subplot. It is later revealed that Cameron used to go after the girls Ethan liked in college seemingly to assert his dominance over the nerdy Ethan. When [[spoiler:Cameron flirts with and [[DidTheyOrDidntThey potentially sleeps with]] Ethan's wife Harper]] Ethan is furious. When taking it out on Cameron through violence doesn't work, it's then implied that [[spoiler:Ethan has a dalliance with Cameron's wife Daphne in turn]].

* ''Theatre/CosiFanTutte'': The plot involves two lovey-dovey couples, Gugliemo and Fiordiligi and Ferrando and Dorabella, the two men leaving their beloveds and returning in disguise attempting to seduce the other's betrothed at the urging of Don Alfonso. Gugliemo very quickly succeeds in sweeping Dorabella off her feet, while Ferrando encounters no success. When a triumphant Ferrando arrives expecting that his own fiancée was just as faithful to him, Gugliemo corrects him rather tactlessly, leading Ferrando to go after Fiordiligi again, succeeding this time (and proving Don Alfonso right: the opera's title means "Thus do women all act").

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'': The final episode, "Farewell, My Turnabout", involves a feud between two actors (one is accused of murdering the other) and the two being romantically involved with the same women is but one of the many dirty deeds in the conflict. [[spoiler:Turns out to be {{inverted}}. Juan Corrida dumped his fiancee Celeste Inpax after his rival, Matt Engarde, told him he used to date her.]]

* Attempted by Dick in the ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode "Dick for Tat." After finding out that his beloved Mary slept with Strudwick years ago, Dick decides to get back at him by sleeping with Strudwick's wife. Although she's outraged, Strudwick's wife refuses to sleep with Dick. Instead, she gets back at her husband by sleeping with their the pool guy.

* Attempted by Dick in the ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode "Dick for Tat." After finding out that Mary slept with Strudwick years ago, Dick decides to get back at him by sleeping with Strudwick's wife. Although she's outraged, Strudwick's wife refuses to sleep with Dick. Instead, she gets back at her husband by sleeping with their the pool guy.

* ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'': When Moirin mac Fanche arrives in Terre d'Ange in ''Naamah's Kiss'', she becomes inadvertently caught in the stormy relationship between Queen Jehanne de la Courcel and her lover, the physician Raphael de Mereliot; unusually (though not for [[EveryoneIsBi Terre d'Ange]], Moirin is seduced by ''both'' Raphael and Jehanne as a way to punish the other at different times.

* ''Literature/PetalsOnTheWind'': Cathy spends over a decade planning her RoaringRampageOfRevenge against her mother, the capstone of which is seducing her mother's husband and {{Baby Trap}}ing him.

If it's done non-consensually, it's BatheHerAndBringHerToMe. In ''this'' trope, however, Charlie is a willing party and ''that's'' the particular sting--that Charlie was more than happy to cheat on Bob. This is an InvokedTrope version of EmasculatedCuckold, although it's not gender specific. Occasionally Charlie is not Bob's lover, merely his crush, but Alice wants to "steal" Charlie from Bob nonetheless.

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