History Main / WomanScorned

Not to be confused with the PsychoExGirlfriend, although the chances of overlap are ideal. When a character is deaded by said WomanScorned, it's…well…DeathByWomanScorned.

* When the controls for the modulators in the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Emotion Sickness" were destroyed, they left Kim and Shego in an unstoppable angry state, just moments after Ron and Drakken had dumped them. Considering that Kim and Shego are (mostly) the strongest people in the show and that Ron and Drakken are (at least until the GrandFinale) much weaker than them, [[OhCrap Ron and Drakken got really scared...]]

** Technically, Kim was the only one who was dumped. Drakken didn't do anything to deserve Shego's anger.

* Lilith from ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. OK, not so much "scorned", as [[TheWoobie "mentally tortured into]] [[TheOphelia schizophrenia"]] and not so much "villainess" as [[BerserkButton "flies into an understandable rage]] when her husband is mentioned", but she acts the same as one.

* ''{{Starcraft}}'': Sarah Kerrigan. Hooo boy, Sarah Kerrigan. Making vengeance seems very easy when you have HordeOfAlienLocusts at your disposal. Slightly subverted in that her infestation makes her not only bitch to Mengsk, but to ''[[OmnicidalManiac everyone else]]''. [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted when it is revealed that even after her de-infestation, she still hold a very deep grudge to Mengsk. To be fair, she ''did'' kill Mengsk's father, but that is out of malice, she just did her job. And Mengsk ''did'' said he forgives her, too.]]

* This trope set in motion a 3-year criminal case in the UK involving politician ChrisHuhne and his wife Vicky Pryce. The two had been happily married for 26 years, and then, in 2010, it came out that Huhne had been having an affair with his [[BiTheWay bisexual]] aide Carina Trimingham. So Pryce ''[[TooDumbToLive willingly revealed]]'' to the papers that she had taken speeding points for Huhne back in 2003 (so he wouldn't get a driving ban). For non-British readers - over here that amounts to ''obstruction of justice''. As a result, in 2012, Huhne and Pryce were both charged (with Huhne resigning his Cabinet position) after an investigation. In February 2013, Huhne plead guilty to the offence - whilst Pryce didn't, claiming the defence of [[DoubleStandard marital coercion]] (in other words, by virtue of being the wife in their relationship, she could claim that her husband forced her into committing criminal acts). The judge didn't buy it, and found her guilty as well. Both were sentenced to 8 months in prison. The judge of the case actually (almost explicitly) invoked this trope.

* The point of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of {{polyamory}}. Word to the wise: if you've got a [[HaremGenre Harem]], just pick one.

* In Hawaiian Mythology, the Ali'i (chief) Aiwohikupua gets engaged to Hinaikamalama, despite being already engaged to a chiefess named Laieikawai back home in [[TheOldCountry Kahiki.]] [[hottip:*: ''Usually'' understood to be Tahiti, but could actually be anywhere in Polynesia that isn't Hawaii.]] The two of them eventually have a bad argument, and he sails off to have some space and calm down. He meets [[AnIcePerson Poliahu]], and the two fall in LoveAtFirstSight. When it's revealed that he's already engaged to ''two'' women, Poliahu gives him a WhatTheHellHero...but then agrees to release him from his vows on the condition that he break off those engagements and marry her. He agrees, and the two trade capes to seal their agreement. So Aiwohikupua sails home and breaks off his engagement to Laieikawai and prepares for the wedding to Poliahu. When he sails back to Hawai'i to bring back his bride, he remembers his feelings for Hinaikamalama and sets off to find her. The two reconcile, and he runs off with her. Poliahu finds out about this, and attacks Hinaikamalama with chills and fever, and does the same to Aiwohikupua when he goes to talk to her. Eventually, Hinaikamalama leaves Aiwohikupua, and Poliahu heads back to her home on Mauna Kea alone. And in all this, the truth about Aiwohikupua's philandering and dishonesty came out, and he loses his Ali'i status and becomes PersonaNonGrata because of his transgressions.

* Also, both of the main female characters on ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' fit this trope to a T. [[spoiler: Depending on the ending, Makoto, the main character, can be stabbed and killed by Sekai, Sekai herself may be killed by the [[BreakTheCutie poor]] [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness Kotonoha]], or Kotonoha may be DrivenToSuicide while destroying Makoto and Sekai's relationship. All of this because the main character is an [[TooDumbToLive unrepenting]] [[{{Jerkass}} cheating]] TheCasanova]].

* In ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', the goddess Calypso is called "a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no." As the story goes, [[spoiler:she gave Davy Jones the condition that if he did the job of the Captain of the ''Flying Dutchman'' for ten years - namely, ferrying the souls of those who died at sea to the other side - then they would be able to be together forever. However, she seems to be a very capricious goddess (not uncommon with sea deities actually) and [[MoralDissonance was not at the designated meeting place after the ten years were up.]] This made Davy Jones (understandably) angry and so he and the first Brethren Court bound her in a single human form, which turned out to be Tia Dalma. When the fourth Brethren Court finally released Calypso, she was more than a little ticked off and started cursing at them in a foreign language [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever while growing to be at least a hundred feet tall]], before finally crumbling into an avalanche of rock crabs.]]
** It makes a bit more sense, though, when you remember that [[spoiler:Calypso is the goddess of the sea, which by its very nature cannot be predictable. When she realized that showing up at a certain place and time would go against the unpredictable nature of the sea, she didn't come.]]

** Davy Jones could also count as a ''man'' scorned.

[[caption-width-right:185:Results may vary, of course.]]

* Probably a lesser example than most of the ones on this page, but [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] tries to beat the crap out of [[BelligerentSexualTension Ron Weasley]] after he returns from his AchillesInHisTent moment. His reason for leaving boils down to two things: 1) worry for his family and 2) jealousy that Hermione's taking Harry's side during decisions/arguments. And being influenced by the ArtifactOfDoom. It's the second part that Hermione's pissed about, and it takes several days for her to forgive him for leaving (though she stops attacking him once Harry forces her to cool off from the initial anger).

* Gender-reversed in ''CSIMiami''. When Calleigh dumps her officer boyfriend and gets him fired for using credit cards of the dead, he opens a website attacking her.

* Rapper Left Eye from 90's girl group Music/{{TLC}} infamously burned down the Atlanta mansion of her boyfriend, football player Andre Rison, when she thought he was cheating on her. The media [[IncrediblyLamePun "fire"]]storm led to record sales of TLC's 1995 album, ''[=CrazySexyCool=]''. Surprisingly, they [[MasochismTango kept an on-and-off relationship]] until her death in 2002.
** According to her ''BehindTheMusic'' interview, she only meant to burn the several pairs of women's shoes she found in his house that weren't her size, which admittedly still plays this trope straight.

* The aforementioned incident involving Creator/{{TLC}}'s Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' ("Into the Woods"). Buffy discovers her "nice guy" boyfriend Riley Finn has been visiting vampire prostitutes. She burns down the building where the act took place, massacres the vampire-pimp's gang when they're foolish enough to attack her and -- after initially letting the vampire-prostitute go -- throws a wooden spear into her back as she's running away.

* Lady Malys from the Dark Eldar in ''Warhammer40k''. Scorned by Asdrubael Vect, she wandered into the webway, potentially beat the Laughing God (or some other powerful, unknown entity) in a game of wills, tore out his heart, and replaced her own with it. Now she commands one of the stronger Kabals of Commoragh and is possibly the only person able to kill Vect (something she yearns to do) and is completely immune to psychic powers, as well as being able to see into the near future.

* This is almost a staple of [[DatingSim dating sims]], especially on the dodgier ones. For example, in HitomiMyStepsister, if you show interest in Hitomi while on the route of the very [[{{Yandere}} unstable]] Yoko, [[spoiler:she stabs you to death, even when you really weren't cheating on her]].

* [[{{Starcraft}} Sarah Kerrigan.]] Hooo boy, Sarah Kerrigan. Making vengeance seems very easy when you have HordeOfAlienLocusts at your disposal. Slightly subverted in that her infestation makes her not only bitch to Mengsk, but to ''[[OmnicidalManiac everyone else]]''. [[spoiler: DoubleSubverted when it is revealed that even after her de-infestation, she still hold a very deep grudge to Mengsk. To be fair, she ''did'' kill Mengsk's father, but that is out of malice, she just did her job. And Mengsk ''did'' said he forgives her, too.]]

* In ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', the goddess Calypso is called "a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no." As the story goes, [[spoiler:she gave Davy Jones the condition that if he did the job of the Captain of the ''Flying Dutchman'' for ten years - namely, ferrying the souls of those who died at sea to the other side - then they would be able to be together forever. However, she seems to be a very capricious goddess(not uncommon with sea deities actually) and [[MoralDissonance was not at the designated meeting place after the ten years were up.]] This made Davy Jones (understandably) angry and so he and the first Brethren Court bound her in a single human form, which turned out to be Tia Dalma. When the fourth Brethren Court finally released Calypso, she was more than a little ticked off and started cursing at them in a foreign language [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever while growing to be at least a hundred feet tall]], before finally crumbling into an avalanche of rock crabs.]]

* Harley Quinn beats up SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in the "Joker's Millions" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' after disguising herself as a police woman. The basis behind the attack was he abandoned her, leaving her to get caught instead, then promptly replaced her when he found out he got a fortune left to him. A bit of a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMOA]] for the Harley Quinn character.

* In ''{{Rome}}'' Julius Caesar gets this treatment big time from Servilia when he ends their affair to go to Greece and put an end to the civil war. Servilia not only puts a number of curses on him, she actively conspires to murder him and enlists her own son to hold the knife. Pretty strong reaction, since he was married to someone else anyway and she knew he would have to fight in Greece at some point.

* ''GunslingerGirl''. CuteBruiser Henrietta, who has a major BigBrotherAttraction towards her [[TheHandler handler]] Guiseppe, recreates the incident where one of the other cyborg girls killed her own handler. This is chillingly summed up as: "She was making a subconscious threat -- ''[[IfICantHaveYou if you don't love me, I'll kill you]]''."

** Also, when Louise Halevy learned that [[spoiler: her former boyfriend Saji was in the 00 Raiser fighter during a skirmish]], her reaction was... bleak. All indications are that she's pretty much resolved to ''kill'' him at this point. [[spoiler: And she got better, too, but it was pretty close there for a minute.]]
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'' has [[spoiler: Kallen at the very end of the series. She confesses to Lelouch with a deep and passionate kiss. He responds... well, not at all. And then he kidnaps all the world's leaders.]] She resolves to kill him with her own hands. For Love And Justice, of course.

* Sara Yuki from ''{{Dancougar}}'', actually a heroic example of this, because the one who dumps her happens to be one hell of a SmugSnake working for the bad guys.

* An ArchieComics story from 1965 has [[BewareTheNiceOnes Betty Cooper]] repeatedly trying to ''murder'' Archie after he breaks one too many dates with her. The story's title, of course, is "Woman Scorned."

** It makes a bit more sense, though, when you remember that (as noted above)[[spoiler:Calypso is the goddess of the sea, which by its very nature cannot be predictable. When she realized that showing up at a certain place and time would go against the unpredictable nature of the sea, she didn't come.]]
*** You do have to remember, though, that [[spoiler:Davy isn't totally unjustified in his rage, either. Part of the contract was that after ten years, when he comes back, ''if his love is waiting for him,'' he can go free. So Calypso consciously screwed him over, just for the sake of her image]].

* ''Film/DarkShadows'': The entire plot is put in motion by Barnabas refusing Angelique's love.
* Because [=DeMille=] didn't want to make God look like a jerk, he added the character Nefretiri to TheTenCommandments. She was once betrothed to Moses but now married to Rameses. When Moses returns, Nefretiri puts the moves on him, but is "spurned like a harlot in the street." She decides to get back at him by being the one who hardens Pharaoh's heart.

* Probably a lesser example than most of the ones on this page, but [[Literature/HarryPotter Hermione Granger]] basically tries to beat the crap out of [[BelligerentSexualTension Ron Weasley]] after he returns from his AchillesInHisTent moment. His reason for leaving basically boils down to two things: 1) worry for his family and 2) jealousy that Hermione's taking Harry's side during decisions/arguments. And being influenced by the ArtifactOfDoom. It's the second part that Hermione's pissed about, and it takes several days for her to forgive him for leaving (though she stops attacking him once Harry forces her to cool off from the initial anger).

* ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'''s [[BrokenBird Faraday]], who sacrificed two years of her life being married to a complete brute in order to save the life of her lover, Axis... [[WhatTheHellHero while he was off cheating on her]]. Not only that, but when he came back he basically granted his new lover all the power and influence he would have given Faraday [[EtTuBrute had he kept his promises to her]]. Oh, and he knows the entire extent of his [[{{Jerkass}} jerkassery]], but still somehow fails to make any sort of amends for his actions outside of a highly [[ThisIsUnforgivable inadequate]] apology. Oh well. [[YouCantFightFate It was in the prophecy anyway]]. Faraday does get back at him for it eventually.

* Played in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' with, of course, a huge amount of HoYay. In an episode when [[spoiler: Dean tries to go over to Heaven, Castiel [[CurbStompBattle is NOT amused.]]]]

** [[ClassicalMythology Hera, wife of the supreme Greek good Zeus]], was the godess of women and marriage. Being married to [[AnythingThatMoves Zeus]], basically everything she does in almost all the stories she appears in, is a reaction to his latest escapades. Being unable to go against the king of the gods directly, she usually vented her anger on anyone remotely connected to his case of unfaithfulness. Obviously, his various offspring gained her ire the most, hence why she's usually the BigBad in most Hercules stories.

* [[JapaneseMythology Izanami]] of Shinto fame, who was abandoned in Yomi (the underworld) by her husband. Followed by Izanami sending demons to kill him. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. When said woman literally owns hell, you are boned.

* In Hawaiian Mythology, the Ali'i (chief) Aiwohikupua gets engaged to Hinaikamalama, despite being already engaged to a chiefess named Laieikawai back home in [[TheOldCountry Kahiki.]] [[hottip:*: ''Usually'' understood to be Tahiti, but could actually be pretty much anywhere in Polynesia that isn't Hawaii.]] The two of them eventually have a bad argument, and he sails off to have some space and calm down. He meets [[AnIcePerson Poliahu]], and the two fall in LoveAtFirstSight. When it's revealed that he's already engaged to ''two'' women, Poliahu gives him a WhatTheHellHero...but then agrees to release him from his vows on the condition that he break off those engagements and marry her. He agrees, and the two trade capes to seal their agreement. So Aiwohikupua sails home and breaks off his engagement to Laieikawai and prepares for the wedding to Poliahu. When he sails back to Hawai'i to bring back his bride, he remembers his feelings for Hinaikamalama and sets off to find her. The two reconcile, and he runs off with her. Poliahu finds out about this, and attacks Hinaikamalama with chills and fever, and does the same to Aiwohikupua when he goes to talk to her. Eventually, Hinaikamalama leaves Aiwohikupua, and Poliahu heads back to her home on Mauna Kea alone. And in all this, the truth about Aiwohikupua's philandering and dishonesty came out, and he loses his Ali'i status and becomes PersonaNonGrata because of his transgressions.

** Of course, that was for refusing to let her in ''on a human sacrifice'' rather than regular cheating. She is an incarnation of illicit sex, after all.

* The point of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', a [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstruction]] of the TenchiSolution. Word to the wise: if you've got a [[HaremGenre Harem]], just pick one.