History Main / WomanScorned

* Dazil in ''[[Literature/{{Spaceforce}} Outcaste]]''. The wife of a powerful Swordbearer Caste warlord, she is seduced by and falls in love with Jay. She is so distraught by what she sees as his eventual rejection of her that she turns him over to the authorities, having learned the secret of his origins in the course of their affair. But there is also a suggestion that she might have planned to seduce ''him'' from the outset, in order to get pregnant and avoid being "replaced" by her husband.

** Took a bit longer than usual to kick in, but happens when Maris asks Niles to reconcile with her just before they finalize their divorce. When Niles rejects her, she promptly hires a team of lawyers to launch an investigation in order to bankrupt him and make his life hell purely out of spite, since Maris was a millionaire who had been perfectly happy with her settlement before this incident.

*** Naoko threatens Rei-I with spanking when the girl calls her an old hag. But when Rei reveals that ''Gendo'' calls her that behind her back along with statements that she's no longer useful to him, Naoko flips out and commits a murder-suicide, not knowing that the Rei she killed is [[CloningBlues expendable in the literal sense]].

* Rumic Theatre's ''Manga/TheLaughingTarget'' is widely regarded as one of the first modern examples of the {{yandere}} and for good reason. Asuza is protagonist Yuzuru Shiga's cousin, [[ArrangedMarriage whom he was also set up to marry]], but he forgot all about her after they spent a decade-plus apart, even finding himself a new girlfriend named Satomi. [[spoiler:When Azusa comes back into Yuzuru's life and discovers this, she begins terrorizing Satomi with paranormal powers, ''murders her dog'' and ultimately tries to '''[[MurderTheHypotenuse kill her]]''', all to take Yuzuru back to herself. In the {{OVA}} AnimatedAdaptation, she even uses her dying strength to try once more to kill both Satomi and Yuzuru for betraying her.]]

** Carla, from the final arc, went so crazy when she heard her ChildhoodFriend Rupa was in an ArrangedMarriage with Lum that she spent over a decade constantly attacking him with explosives and high-powered weaponry... this started when they were ''six years old''. During the arc itself, she fights her way into Rupa's wedding, armed to the teeth, holds him at gunpoint, demands to know why he won't love her, and when he declares trhat he doesn't like her [[IfICantHaveYou vows to kill him and then herself]] before opening fire.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Helen, [[MistakenForCheating believing that Bob has been having an affair]], punches out Mirage (thinking she's his mistress) while also trying to punch Bob as well (though he dodged it) and calls him "a lousy, lying, unfaithful creep" as he pulls her in for a kiss.

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', [[Characters/CaptainAmericaSupportingCharacters Peggy]] catches [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Steve]] [[ForcefulKiss being kissed]] [[NotWhatItLooksLike by a blond secretary]]. To make things worse, Steve retorts/asks if she and Howard Stark [[UnusualEuphemism are "fondue-ing"]]. This leads to an awkward situation where Stark explains [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant what fondue is]] ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "Fondue is just cheese and bread, my friend."]]) and when testing if the Vibranium shield can withstand a handgun, Peggy aims at Steve's head. She forgives him later when she sees a picture of herself in Steve's compass during one of his operations, as if saying "this is for you."

** After [[Characters/MarvelComicsMystique Mystique]] is forcibly turned into a human, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]] leaves her behind, not wanting anything to do with her now that she's no longer a mutant. In retaliation, she tells the government where Magneto is. She's even referred to as a woman scorned by the president.

* ''Literature/TheSuperteacherProject'': Rosalie's divorced mother becomes infatuated with Mr. Aidact and becomes frustrated and vengeful when he seemingly blows her off during a date. The discovery that she's falling in love with a robot doesn't improve her temperament, and she seeks his firing.

** Characters/{{Mystique}}. After she turns into a human, Magneto leaves her behind, not wanting anything to do with her now that she's no longer a mutant. In retaliation, she tells the government where Magneto is. She's even referred to as a woman scorned by the president.

Not to be confused with the PsychoExGirlfriend, although the chances of overlap are ideal. When a character is killed by said Woman Scorned, it's... well... DeathByWomanScorned, which crosses over with IfICantHaveYou.

* Between the events of ''Fanfic/{{Exiled}}'' and ''Gatecrash'', Taylor was abducted by Heartbreaker and subjected to brainwashing until she was madly in love with him. He only wanted her to get at Dinah and had no intention of ever consummating his "relationship" with her. After learning this and realizing she would lose everything, Taylor resolved to destroy everything she loved personally, starting with Heartbreaker. His death was enough to mostly free her, [[BrainwashingResidue though she didn't stop loving him]].

%%* Rumic Theatre's ''Manga/TheLaughingTarget''. Wow, that was a SCARY one. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample)

** Hera, wife of the supreme Greek god Zeus, was the goddess of women and marriage. Being married to [[AnythingThatMoves Zeus]], 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 vents her anger on anyone remotely connected to his case of unfaithfulness. Obviously, his various offspring gain her ire the most, hence why she's usually the BigBad in most Hercules stories. One myth says that she ''did'' strike against her husband directly once, getting the other Olympians to help by ambushing him while he slept, binding him with a hundred ropes and putting his weapons well out of reach. This attempted coup may have actually worked, but it had two serious flaws: First, once they had done this, they all argued among themselves over who the new ruler should be. This distracted them from the second flaw: some gods were still loyal to Zeus, like Theitis, a minor goddess of the sea. While not powerful enough to challenge the other Olympians, she traveled into Tartarus to appeal to Briareus the Hecatonchire for help. The hundred-handed giant quickly untied Zeus, and Hera's coup ended quickly, resulting in a punishment that would ''seriously'' make her think twice about doing it again: bound from the edge of the heavens from her wrists with anvils chained to her ankles to weigh her down, with Zeus promising an even ''worse'' punishment to anyone who helped her. He eventually released her, but this ''did'' prevent any future attempt at a coup.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': In, “Evil Bouquets Are So Passé”, the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]] was super-botanist Viola Vanderfleet, who genetically engineered {{Man Eating Plant}}s who shot poison specifically to paralyze all the guys who dumped her. Her bitterness over being scorned is so deep, she actually wants to do the same to every single man on the planet as some twisted vengeance against the opposite gender.

* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'': Manny once spent an episode fake-dating Black Cuervo so he could relay inside information on her family's supervillain activities to his dad. When she finds out, she demands to know why she should forgive him, to which he replies that he'll let her win this battle. [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence Being who she is]], Cuervo gets outraged enough to give him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* Alex Forrest in ''Film/FatalAttraction'' is one of the most notorious examples. Alex hopes to turn her weekend fling with married Dan into something more, but when Dan makes it clear to Alex their affair was just a one-time thing, Alex goes to increasingly disturbing lengths to destroy Dan's life.

* Rapper Left Eye from 90's girl group Music/{{TLC}} infamously burned down the mansion of her boyfriend, football player Andre Rison, in 1994 when she thought he was cheating on her. And because there's NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, the media firestorm that followed led to record sales of TLC's 1995 album, ''Music/CrazySexyCool''. According to TLC's ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' episode, she hadn't intended to burn down the whole house, just the pairs of women's shoes she found that weren't in her size. She burned them in the bathtub, but the tub melted (she had done something previously with teddy bears, which scorched the original marble tub and required it to be replaced with fiberglass), [[DidntThinkThisThrough and it was hot enough to ignite the wooden beams underneath]], [[FromBadToWorse and everything went to hell from there]]. Surprisingly, she and Rison [[TheMasochismTango kept an on-and-off relationship]] until her death in 2002.

* Rapper Left Eye from 90's girl group Music/{{TLC}} infamously burned down the mansion of her boyfriend, football player Andre Rison, in 1994 when she thought he was cheating on her. And because there's NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, the media firestorm that followed led to record sales of TLC's 1995 album, ''Music/CrazySexyCool''. According to TLC's ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' episode, she "only" meant to burn a pair of women's sneakers she found in his house that weren't her size, but the fire spread faster than she expected. Surprisingly, they [[TheMasochismTango kept an on-and-off relationship]] until her death in 2002.

* Rapper Left Eye from 90's girl group Music/{{TLC}} infamously burned down the mansion of her boyfriend, football player Andre Rison, when she thought he was cheating on her. And because there's NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity, the media firestorm that followed led to record sales of TLC's 1995 album, ''Music/CrazySexyCool''. According to TLC's ''Series/BehindTheMusic'' episode, she "only" meant to burn a pair of women's sneakers she found in his house that weren't her size, but the fire spread faster than she expected. Surprisingly, they [[TheMasochismTango kept an on-and-off relationship]] until her death in 2002.

* ''Literature/TheMahabharata'': Bhisma abducted three sisters, Amba, Ambika, and Ambalika so they could be married off to his half-brother, King Vichitravirya of Kuru. While Ambika and Ambalika consented the match, Amba was already in love with another man, Salva, and decided to slip away to elope with him. However, Salva rejected her because he felt Bhisma already won over her fair and square. She dejectedly returned to her original engagement to Vichitravirya, only for him to reject her as well because now he knew she was in love with someone else. Finally, she begged Bhisma to marry her, which fell on deaf ears because he already swore a VowOfCelibacy (the same vow that made him concede the throne to Vichitravirya, his younger brother). Furious at being dumped by three different men, Amba swore revenge against Bhisma for kidnapping her and triggering a chain of events that led to her misery. Eventually, after [[TrainingFromHell torturous meditation]], Shiva granted her wish. Upon death, she was reborn as Shikhandi, a warrior [[GenderBender woman/man]] who joined the Pandavas against the Kauravas during the Kurukshetra War, where she slayed Bhisma, thus fulfilling her revenge.