Line #35 Main/HonorRelatedAbuse


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11	->''Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;\
12	And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!''
13	-->-- '''Titus''', ''{{Theatre/Titus Andronicus}}''
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15	A character's family mistreats them, to restore their FamilyHonor.
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17	This is not about personal honor, that accrued by an individual by their own actions or accomplishments. It's held by the entire family and determines their social standing and how they are regarded and treated by other members of society. Someone who tarnishes or besmirches the family's honor must be punished by the family, lest they lose even more honor for letting them off the hook.
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19	The trope covers a wide spectrum of punishments, from relatively short-term humiliation to [[IHaveNoSon disownment]] all the way to "honor killings" where the victim's family murders them.
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21	While this trope is usually directed against female characters, and sometimes others who aided or participated in the dishonorable behavior, it can also be directed at males. The chief differences are what is regarded as dishonorable behavior; for male characters, [[DirtyCoward cowardice]], dishonesty, adultery, and homosexuality are the most common reasons, while for females, the list is much longer, including disobedience or rebellion, any sort of sexual 'misbehavior', and even ''[[BlamingTheVictim being raped]]''.
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23	While it's fairly typical of societies like pre-19th/20th century Europe and tribe- and clan-based cultures, works which treat it as acceptable, or even expected, tend to create ValuesDissonance for modern day audiences.
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25	Related to MurderInTheFamily and FamilyHonor.
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27	Contrast:
28	* RapeAndRevenge, where a rape victim (and/or their family) visit retribution on the rapist, rather than on the victim.
29	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge, where the retribution is extended to anyone who had any sort of connection to the dishonorable action, however tenuous.
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31	Often occurs along with:
32	* AppealToForce
33	* AppealToTradition: Often, this state of affairs is justified by saying that it's how things have always been done.
34	* The refusal to go through with an ArrangedMarriage (eg. a ChildMarriageVeto, or someone who'd rather MarryForLove instead)
35	* BlamingTheVictim: Happens quite a lot in cases like this, with those who were sexually victimized being blamed for it.
36	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: killing, disowning, injuring, etc. "wayward" or "unruly" family members is seen as being for the greater good of the family vis a vis their public image.
37	* BuryYourGays, if the dishonor is homosexuality.
38	* ConsummationCounterfeit, which is usually performed in an attempt to ''prevent'' this.
39	* ContractualPurity
40	* CultureJustifiesAnything
41	* CureYourGays, for attempts to "fix" the dishonor of homosexuality.
42	* DeathByWomanScorned, when the dishonor is being cuckolded and the solution is murder (of the unfaithful spouse and/or their lover).
43	* DefiledForever, when the dishonor is that the family member was raped, or simply engaged in illicit sex (or is rumored to have done so).
44	* DirtyCoward, if the family honor is closely tied to military service or behavior in battle. In this case, the victim is virtually always male, and the punishment is more likely to be psychological, financial, or social, rather than physical.
45	* DisproportionateRetribution: It doesn't matters how small the slight is from a rational point of view (ex. losing your spot in a line), it still is a besmirch on your honor and must be punished as harshly as possible (ex. shoot the other guy).
46	* DivorceRequiresDeath, if the dishonor is the seeking of a divorce or the breaking off of an engagement.
47	* EntitledToHaveYou[=/=]IfICantHaveYou, if the dishonor is rejecting or leaving a romantic or sexual relationship.
48	* FeudingFamilies, if an outsider (spouse, lover, accomplice) is included in the retribution and ''their family'' responds in kind.
49	* HomophobicHateCrime, if the dishonor is homosexuality.
50	* HonorBeforeReason
51	* IHaveNoSon, if the punishment is being cast out of the family altogether.
52	* {{Lobotomy}}, when arranged to keep a willful relative under control.
53	* LockedAwayInAMonastery, if the punishment is lifelong enforced withdrawal from society.
54	* MadWomanInTheAttic, if the dishonor is a family member being mentally ill, disabled, etc.
55	* MaliciousSlander: If the dishonor (and reaction to it) is based on rumors, not facts, or when it's exploited to get rid of a "troublesome" family member.
56	* MalignedMixedMarriage, if the dishonor is a relationship with someone of another ethnicity.
57	* MenActWomenAre: In societies where this is common, the honor of women and children is held as a reflection of the men in their lives. A woman or child's honor can only decrease (barring exceptional cicumstances), while a man's honor can either increase or decrease depending on his actions. (Where girls and women are concerned, a big part of this boils down to their virginity before marriage and chastity during and after it.) Killing or banishing a "wayward" woman or child in a setting like this [[BlueAndOrangeMorality may be seen as]] a way for a man to restore his honor and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.
58	* MoralEventHorizon, most probably declared as such by third parties who are horrified at the abuse and don't think honor is worth that much violence and/or have an ''extremely'' different (and more valid) definition of "honor".
59	* MyGirlIsNotASlut, if the dishonor is that a girl or woman has engaged in illicit sex, or is rumored to have done so.
60	* NeverSuicide, if alleging that the victim committed suicide is used to cover up her murder.
61	* NoWomansLand: Places where this kind of abuse occurs regularly are generally not nice places to live if you're female.
62	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Family honor (and [[SinsOfOurFathers shame]]) [[AssociationFallacy is carried through generations]], and nearby communities ''talk'', increasing motivation to keep everyone in line (and thus prevent shame), or remove shame as quickly as possible, through any means possible. (Even if that means injuring/killing/disowning/locking away one's own family members.)
63	* ParentalMarriageVeto, if the child defies the parents and marries anyway.
64	* PeriodPiece, when the work is set in an era or location that relied heavily on the concept of FamilyHonor
65	* PropertyOfLove, if the dishonor is that a man's wife has cheated on him, or his daughter has had illicit sex, and therefore he's seen as less of a man because he can't control her.
66	* RapePortrayedAsRedemption, if the punishment is rape
67	* RejectionRitual
68	* ShotgunWedding, if the punishment is to be forced into marriage to one's paramour or [[RapeAsDrama rapist]], or if a wedding is held to ''prevent'' being killed
69	* SlaveToPR: It's the ''reputation'' of the family and/or its members that counts. Harming or killing family members who pose a threat to that reputation is seen as protecting the family.
70	* SlutShaming, if the dishonor was the girl or woman having any kind of sexual relations, willing or not, or even just being ''rumored'' to have done so.
71	* SymbolicMutilation or a MarkOfShame may be used as a punishment.
72	* ValuesDissonance: Hoooooooooooo boy. Abuse related to FamilyHonor dredges up a ''hell'' of a lot of this, particularly for Western audiences.
73	* YouCantGoHomeAgain, if the punishment is being banished or ostracized, or if someone is trying to escape punishment from their family.
74	* YourMom, if the dishonor is the suggestion that a man's [[ParentalSexualitySquick mother]] is, in fact, a sexual being and/or engaged in illicit sex.
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76	'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' Just let Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing provide the facts.]]
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85	* ''Manga/ImokusaReijouDesuGaAkuyakuReisokuWoTasuketaraKiniiraremashita'' has as a central plot point that the protagonist Agnes Evantail, (renamed Agnes Hazelnut after marriage), has suffered this for as long as she could walk and talk. Her mother is emotionally abusive, constantly berating her for "failing" to be a BrainlessBeauty and getting herself married to a man approved of by the family matriarch, Agnes' own father. Her father does all that ''and punches her in the face'' "for defiance" because the reason for Agnes's failures is that her family is obsessed with ancient traditions, including clothing that is 100 years out of date, ''and outlawed'', which causes her to look like a clown to her peers, getting her ridiculed, and even after they banish her for being ordered by royal decree to marry a "criminal" duke, whose name was dragged through the mud with easily disproved false accusations, the younger brother goes out of his way to challenge her as a disgrace, and when she ''very politely'' asks said brother to leave her alone, as she's already been disowned, the father gets enraged and tries to punch her in the face, '''immediately, right in front of the second prince''' and actually protests, loudly, resisting to the very end when he's stopped by Agnes's husband, getting wrestled to the ground in self-defense, and still doesn't see why he's in the wrong when the second prince holds him to task and tells him that the "criminal duke" is innocent, and it's the Evantail family that are criminals.
86	* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': The Hyuuga clan's use of the Caged Bird seal borders on this. It's a seal placed on the foreheads of the Branch House members, and it can be activated by any Main House member with a hand seal, causing them a horrible pain while it destroys their brain cells. We see Hiashi Hyuuga (Hinata's father) using it on his brother Hizashi for what he perceived as "killing intent", and (in an anime-only episode) on Neji for going overboard during a sparring session with Hinata. The Hyuga Elder justifies this as their way to keep their power protected and secret, since it has the secondary effect of sealing away the clan's kekkei genkai, the Byakugan, upon the bearer's death.
87	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma Saotome's mother, Nodoka, is introduced to the series fanatically obsessed with a contract that Genma made before he took Ranma away at the age of roughly 5 or 6, which declares that Ranma must become a "man among men" or else he and his father will have to commit {{seppuku}}. This would be abusive enough, especially when one takes into account the fact Ranma was far too young to legally understand what he was "signing" and the fact the contract is written up as (paraphrasing, and being generous) "I will become manly or commit seppuku". But Nodoka is so obsessed with it that she carries a sharp-bladed sword wherever she goes, just in case she encounters Ranma and must immediately put him to death. This, and the times she either almost forces Ranma to go through with it (before moving in with the Tendos) or threatens Ranma and Genma into going along with her wishes by mentioning it (afterwards), is played for laughs.
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91	* According to ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}[=/=]Scarecrow Year One'', Jonathan Crane's mother was kicked out of the house as soon as she gave birth to her son due to being conceived out of wedlock (and as a teenager no less) and her family being [[TheFundamentalist extremely religious]] (her grandmother even going so far as to call her a "whore"). And unfortunately, the abuse would extend to poor Jonathan throughout his childhood due to being seen as a product of "sin" in Granny Keeny's eyes, basically punishing him for being alive.
92	* In ''ComicBook/SupremePower'', in one issue, the Squadron Supreme are sent on a mission into an unnamed Middle Eastern country, where team member Inertia encounters a native girl and is told the girl's mother and sisters were stoned to death by her father and other male relatives for the "crime" of being raped by invading soldiers. Due to Inertia's DarkAndTroubledPast involving a religiously ultraconservative father who abused and ultimately murdered her mother and blamed her for being gang-raped, she doesn't take this well. She proceeds to locate the girl's male kinsfolk and bury them up to their necks in the sand before giving her a length of torn-off metal fence as a makeshift club. As she walks away, echoing sound effects make it clear that the girl [[PayEvilUntoEvil is gleefully bashing her relatives to death]].
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96	* In ''Fanfic/FirstTrySeries'', pre-massacre Uchiha would have Uchiha who married outside of Konoha or had illegitimate children killed so the Sharingan would not spread outside of Konoha or out of Uchiha supervision. Itachi outright says this is the reason why there is no other Uchiha (to his knowledge) left besides him and Sasuke. This is the [[spoiler:elder]] Tobi's motive for kidnapping [[spoiler:Sasuke's]] children, because the Uchiha killed his family because he married a woman from a different village.
97	* In ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'', Jerry has his wife Mary executed by being thrown off a tower, stoned to death, and beheaded upon merely hearing that Literature/{{Percy Jackson\|and the Olympians}} impregnated her. [[UnexplainedRecovery Inexplicably, Mary survives]] and is forgiven by Jerry.
98	* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': The cult God's Will First is willing to rape their own family members for not following their interpretation of Christianity. Jughead's uncle brought him in for being asexual, and Gideon Grey's dad joined in on "punishing" him for being gay and [[IHaveNoSon disowned him afterwards]].
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102	* ''Film/AvTheHunt:'' In this Turkish film, Ayse leaves her husband for another man. Her husband, his brothers, and her father all decide that she must die, and she goes on the run.
103	-->'''Father:''' It is not for you to change our traditions, you whore.
104	* In the movie ''Film/CrossingOver'', a Middle Eastern man murders his sister and her lover, incensed at her refusal to end her affair with a man who is not only married but Mexican.
105	* Chozen Toguchi of ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'' accuses Daniel [=LaRusso=] of dishonoring him, to the point of threatening to end his life.[[spoiler: It's extremely fortunate that Sato managed to set him on the right path and help him regain his honor after the events of the film, and Daniel and Chozen become close friends in ''Series/CobraKai''.]]
106	* ''Film/TheMagdaleneSisters'':
107	** Rose became pregnant out of wedlock, so her family pressure her to adopt the child out and then go to the laundry to atone for her 'sins'.
108	** Margaret is raped by a cousin at a family wedding. Her father views her as DefiledForever and has her imprisoned in the laundry.
109	** Una's reasons for being there in the first place aren't stated, but she escapes and is dragged back there by her father. He tells her she brought shame on her family [[IHaveNoSon and disowns her for it]].
110	* The TV movie ''Film/MurderedByMyFather'', in which the titular event happens when a young girl gets a boyfriend and tries to reject the arranged marriage her father had planned for her. The father is also subjected to this trope since the groom's family have him beaten up when they find out.
111	* The movie ''Film/NotWithoutMyDaughter'' (as well as the book it's based on) tells the story of a failed marriage and a custody battle as entirely a matter of Honor-Related Abuse. The characters start out as an American family, although the husband is of Iranian descent. They are happy with each other until they visit Iran, where the husband's ultra-conservative (even by Iranian standards) family can start putting much more pressure on him to conform to their values than they could long-distance; he ends up taking on the role they push on him as protector of the family honor, and he starts battering his wife and brainwashing his daughter (though he is portrayed as being a victim as well as a perpetrator, since his drastic change in attitude is clearly caused by his family's manipulation and brainwashing). The mother would be allowed to go back to America since she's a US citizen, but she would have to leave her daughter behind (hence the film's title); because the daughter has been given Iranian citizenship (without the mother's consent), the mother can't take her out of the country through a legal checkpoint without the father's permission, which he would never give, so the only way for the mother to get out with her daughter is for them to be smuggled. Eventually, they manage to flee the country and return home to the USA.
112	* In ''Film/TheStoningOfSorayaM'', this is the excuse for the titular stoning; The husband wants to spend more time with his mistress and avoid the cost of a divorce, so he first sends his wife to do household chores for a male widow and then accuses her of adultery. They eventually bully the widower to falsely testify against her [[spoiler:and force Soraya's father and children to participate in the stoning]].
113	* In the German film ''Film/WhenWeLeave'', a young woman leaves her abusive husband in Turkey to return to her family in Germany. Although basically sympathetic to the abuse she has endured, they are ashamed of her for leaving her husband and supposedly bringing shame onto her family -- their friends shun them and her younger sister's fiance nearly ends their relationship until the father offers the other family a large sum of money. When the young woman flees the family apartment after realizing that they are planning to kidnap her son and send him back to his father, they shun her outright and her brother begins stalking and harassing her, culminating in him trying to stab her (after her younger brother can't bring himself to shoot her) [[spoiler:and accidentally killing her son, who she was holding in her arms at the time. Ironically, despite having no remorse about trying to kill his own sister, he is horrified at having killed his nephew]].
114	* ''Film/WhenDarknessFalls'': Leyla's family does that to her sister Nina when they think that she had sexual contact with several men. Her father punches her and almost the whole family tries to force her to suicide. This ends in [[spoiler:the family killing Nina by staging her suicide on a high-speed street in Germany]].
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118	* In Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez's novel ''Literature/ChronicleOfADeathForetold,'' Angela Vicario's husband turns her away and her mother beats her when they realize that [[DefiledForever she isn't a virgin.]] The "Death" mentioned in the title is that of Angela's alleged lover, whom her family murders in order to restore their lost honor.
119	* The ''[[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Empire]]'' trilogy: At least one character "honor kills" his entire family prior to such an act. Many deaths are arranged so that rivals can "gain in honor." The majority of people who have the misfortune of being slaves are treated as poorly as possible so that their "debts" may be paid and they can go honorably to death and to their next life. In fact, '''much''' of the trilogy is just made of this trope.
120	* Ariane, the heroine of the medieval RomanceNovel ''Enchanted'', is forced into an ArrangedMarriage by her father, who considers her DefiledForever after her rape (even worse, he doesn't believe she was raped and that it's she who seduced her assailant). Either way, her original intended wants nothing more to do with her and so he forces her into another marriage so that he can look like a father sending his daughter off with her husband rather than exiling her.
121	* ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'', the book and film. A widow with children tries to restore connections with her wealthy family, but she was estranged due to BrotherSisterIncest. After she takes enough punishment to satisfy their demands for penance, she abandons her imprisoned children to their continued abuse.
122	* ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind''. Rhett Butler is not "received" in his hometown of Charleston (not that he "gives a damn", so to speak) because he refused to marry a girl he'd been alone with at night, thus compromising her reputation. She herself is said to have been "ruined" by the scandal.
123	* In ''Literature/IronWidow'', Huaxian girls are drowned in pig-pens if they ever have premarital sex or get raped, or even if they're suspected of having done so. Zetian's abusive family constantly threatened her with this growing up, so even after she escapes them it takes a lot of trust and time before she can act on her sexual desires without panicking.
124	* ''Literature/MatteoFalcone'' by Prosper Mérimée: a child [[TheStoolPigeon tells the location of an escaped prisoner]] after the man made him swear that he would not tell. The prisoner was captured and the child was praised by everybody (including the kid's uncle, the police commissioner) for such a heroic action... everybody except the kid's father, that is, who took the fact that the kid broke his promise as an act besmirching the family honor (he explicitly calls the act "treason"), and so takes the kid deep into the woods and blows his head off with a shotgun.
125	* The Swedish book ''Mordet på Fadime'' (The murder of Fadime) revolves around this, especially the case that made "honor killings" a well-known concept in Sweden.
126	* Virginius and Virginia in Livy, ''Literature/{{The Romance Of The Rose}}'' and ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''. In Livy, at least, there is a strong implication that Virginius and Virginia herself regarded this as a MercyKilling saving her from a FateWorseThanDeath.
127	* ''Literature/SingTheFourQuarters'' leans on EternalSexualFreedom, but Annice's brother King Theron bans her on pain of death from having children when she refuses to submit to a political marriage to a prince of neighboring Cemandia. In a subversion, Theron later views this as a mistake born of youthful inexperience, and pursues a very pregnant Annice all the way out to the edge of the realm to ''apologize''.
128	* Victarion Greyjoy in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is haunted by the memory of killing his wife according to this trope after his brother Euron slept with her. Despite personally blaming Euron for what happened (and suspecting that he actually raped her), the honour code of [[NoWomansLand Ironborn culture]] demanded that she die at her husband's hand. The event sparked a lifelong CainAndAbel relationship and led to Euron being banished.
129	* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', after catching his daughter trying to seduce their African-American neighbor Tom Robinson, Bob Ewell beats the shit out of her and forces her to testify that Tom Robinson raped her.
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133	* Frank's subplot in one episode of ''Series/BlueBloods'' concerned a Turkish violinist on a US tour seeking political asylum due to her having dated an American during the tour: she believed she would be in danger of an honor killing if she returned home. [[spoiler:The State Department vetoes it for political reasons, so Frank works his contacts and gets the New York Philharmonic to hire her, and State agrees to get her a work visa.]]
134	* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Tara's family is like this. They abuse her emotionally [[spoiler:and lie to her to make her [[InternalizedCategorism hate herself]], fooling her to believe that she is less than human]]. When she breaks free to make a life of her own, they start threatening to move on to physical abuse, and would most likely have made good on their threats if it wasn't for almost the entire cast closing ranks around her and telling them that they would have to [[GoThroughMe go through them]] to get to her. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg Except Spike.]] [[spoiler:Spike ''does'' help, in his own unique fashion: [[WouldHitAGirl he hits Tara in the face]]. Since it triggers his MoralityChip, thus proving she's entirely human, it does help her...by hurting her. And him.]]
135	* Subverted in ''Series/TheCloser'' two-parter "Living Proof". A scuffle between two Albanian men in a mall ends with the older one dead, the younger one claiming he only killed in self-defense (reasonable enough, as the older man had pulled out the knife in the first place). He claimed that the old man was his father, who had disowned him for marrying a Christian. Then the dead man's daughters turn up dead, and the son suggests that his father had snapped and gone on a belated honor-killing spree against his family (the daughters for being raped by Serbian forces during the Albanian genocide, the son for failing to protect them and surviving by hiding). [[spoiler:In fact, the "son" was one of the murdering Serbian soldiers, pulling a DeadPersonImpersonation using the name of one of his victims to escape trial for war crimes. Unfortunately for him, his stolen identity's father met him by chance, and the man tried to kill the entire Albanian family so they couldn't out him as a war criminal.]]
136	* In the ''Series/CSIMiami'' episode "Dishonor", a father attempts this via burning his daughter alive after she falls in love and changes her mind about an ArrangedMarriage, only to end up being burned alive himself when his wife finds out.
137	* Subverted in ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': up until the episode "Mental As Anything," D'Argo's DarkAndTroubledPast involved his wife, Lo'Laan, being murdered by her brother, Macton -- apparently for [[FantasticRacism marrying a non-Sebacean.]] However, when D'Argo finally catches up with Macton, it turns out that the "honour-killing" was accidental: the two of them had been arguing about his FantasticRacism against his brother-in-law, and Lo'Laan had drawn a knife on Macton -- [[DamnYouMuscleMemory only for him to instinctively deflect it back on her.]] Macton's ''real'' crime was making it look as though D'Argo had done it in a fit of [[UnstoppableRage Hyper Rage]].
138	* Sometimes referenced on ''Radio/GoodnessGraciousMe''. One example was a mock advertisement for the fire-proof "Asbestos Sari", designed to prevent the wearer meeting an untimely death in a "kitchen accident" (this is sometimes used as a euphemism for women being killed over dowry disputes, sometimes by being ''burned alive''.)
139	* A lighter example shows up in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' when the titular demigod travels to the land of the Vikings. Herc happens upon an inn where he finds a Norsewoman held up in stocks with her braided pigtails stretched out and pinned to the wood as a pair of drunken men take turns lobbing hatchets at her. Naturally, Hercules intervenes, beating up the two drunks and freeing the woman, only to be surprised when she slaps him in the face and proceeds to tend to the two men. As Herc leaves, Baldur informs him the two men were her brother and husband, who were trying to clear her name of adultery by lopping off her pigtails (had they done so before falling into a stupor, it meant she was innocent of the accusation). Of course, Hercules points out the barbarity of such a trial, to which Baldur does explain this is a barbaric land. Comes back later when the now short-haired woman points out Herc to be Father and other brothers, declaring he'd tried to impugn her honor by interrupting the test.
140	* A season eight episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' has him rant about the concept of honor, including some anger-tinged snark about "killing your daughter because she had the ''audacity'' to get raped".
141	* One episode of the historical miniseries ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kennedys_(miniseries) The Kennedys]]'' depicts Rosemary Kennedy's {{lobotomy}}, which her father arranged because she was a "problem child." The ''really'' disturbing part is that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy#Lobotomy this actually happened]].
142	* Basically the whole plot of the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' season two episode "Honor." A woman is brutally killed, and it turns out it was related to her family's disapproval of her boyfriend. Her mother finally steps up and admits what she saw and...well, you try getting those final images out of your head. Her corpse is found in the bedroom of her home, her husband having slashed her throat and fled back to Afghanistan before the police could catch him, with his characterization of the episode making it clear that he won't lose a moment of sleep over having murdered his supposed love and his own child.
143	** In a later episode, ADA Casey Novak is brutally attacked by the brother of a young Muslim woman who was raped. His reason? He feels that Casey brought dishonor upon the family because her investigation and trial let it be known that his sister isn't a virgin anymore and is therefore unsuitable for marriage, and that by attacking Casey, he has restored his family's reputation.
144	* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' involved a Muslim girl who was killed by her brother because she refused an arranged marriage, wanting instead to marry her non-Muslim boyfriend, and because she was having premarital sex with said boyfriend. The final straw was when she became pregnant, as this would have made it plain for the world to see that she was not a virgin once she started showing.
145	* A first-season episode of ''Series/MadamSecretary'' sees a delicate negotiation with Iran imperiled over the Iranian's scheduled stoning of a gay man. Elizabeth sympathizes but can't place a single life above the national interests.
146	* ''Series/TheMurders'': "Queen of Hearts" has the father of the victim be revealed to have previously been acquitted on a conspiracy to commit murder charge in India because he was alleged to have aided in a relative's murder for running away from the [[ArrangedMarriage marriage the family arranged]]. As his own son was with a white girl in Canada after they immigrated, at first the police think he may have done the same thing. However, it turns out to be a {{red herring}}, since he was a cop while in India and attempting to ''help'' his relative, with him being exonerated due to his innocence.
147	* ''Series/MysteryRoad'': [[spoiler:In the second season, the murder of Zoe and her boyfriend turns out to be a case of this. She had previously been since childhood marked out for an ArrangedMarriage by the traditionalists in her Australian Aboriginal community. Her fiance was a laid-back type who was perfectly happy to let her break off the engagement since she'd found someone else, but the traditionalist and authoritarian elder who had arranged the marriage was outraged and killed her and her new lover.]]
148	* In ''Series/NewAmsterdam2008'', the episode "Honor" has an Indian rape victim being killed by her family because she was no longer a virgin. The flashbacks to the immortal's past also revealed that the protagonist had previously held the same notion that a woman who loses her virginity is DefiledForever until he discovers that she had in fact been raped.
149	* Referenced in an episode of ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' involving the murder of an Iraqi woman. The FBI initially speculates that it could be an honor killing, either because the victim had begun speaking publicly about having been raped as a teenager or because she is revealed to have secretly married a non-Muslim man. However, it turns out it wasn't an honor killing after all; the killing was actually on the orders of her rapist, who wanted to [[HeKnowsTooMuch shut her up before she could make trouble for him]].
150	* A storyline on the SoapOpera ''Series/PortCharles'' had a young Middle Eastern woman being terrorized by her brother. She had fled her country after being raped and her family responded by sending her brother to kill her in order to restore the family honor. This being a SoapOpera, a well-meaning friend quickly [[CitizenshipMarriage married her]] to keep her from being deported back to her country as well as to pacify her family. Unfortunately, it didn't work -- the brother continued stalking her and discovered that the marriage was fake (the man already had a girlfriend) and eventually did attempt to kill her, though he was unsuccessful.
151	* In an episode of ''Series/SilentWitness'', a Vietnamese woman was subjected to this after her arranged marriage fell through because the groom discovered she wasn't a virgin.
152	* ''Series/StrongMedicine''. An episode has a young Pakistani woman fearing she will face this if she refuses to enter the marriage her father has arranged for her. Indeed, she is beaten to death by a cousin for being alone with a man she isn't related to.
153	* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' 3rd season episode "Yellow", a UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne general tricks his own son into going without struggle to his own execution by lying and claiming he will have the guns loaded with blanks so he can have his DeathFakedForYou, all to preserve his familial honor and reputation as a steadfast military family, which his inherently timid son had never been able to live up to and which resulted in his court martial for cowardice. For an added punch, his son realizes his father's true plan when he glances over and sees his father is actually making sure that every gun is loaded with real bullets.
154	* Invoked and PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/WeAreLadyParts'' where Lady Parts (an all-female, all-Muslim punk band) has a song called "Ain't No One Gonna Honour Kill My Sister But Me".
155	-->''She stole my eyeliner (What a bitch!)\
156	And she's been stretching my shoes out with her\
157	Fucking big feet''
158	* In the aptly titled ''Series/WithoutATrace'' episode "Honor Bound", about the disappearance of a young Korean-American woman whose family was supposedly angry and disgusted with her for breaking away from family traditions--she'd backed out of her arranged marriage, refused to work in her family's store, and was meeting men online for BDSM encounters. It turned out that she and her would-be husband had mutually decided to call off their wedding (he was gay and would have been just as miserable as she was), and the BDSM account was a fake set up by a vengeful ex who she'd met during legitimate ''normal'' online dating. The team tells this to her brother who breaks down and admits that ''he'' killed her in a fit of rage over her supposedly immoral behavior and is now horrified to realize that his actions were unwarranted.
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162	* Literature/{{Child Ballad\|s}} 65, "Lady Maisry" is a Border ballad about a young Scottish girl who falls in love with an Englishman and becomes pregnant by him after refusing to marry any of the Scottish lords her family approved of. In response, her family has her burned alive.
163	* Literature/{{Child Ballad\|s}} 233, "Andrew Lammie", also called "Mill O'Tifty" is a Scottish ballad about a young woman named Annie, who is the daughter of the miller at Tifty. She falls in love with the titular Lammie, who is a trumpeter for the Lord of Fyvie. Lord Fyvie finds Annie attractive and tells her parents he wants to marry her, and they agree. When Annie says that she's in love with Andrew Lammie, her brother and father kill her.
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167	* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', some Garou tribes carry out honor violence on kinfolk who mate with unapproved partners.
168	** As the royal leaders of the Garou Nation, the Silver Fangs are obsessed with maintaining the "purity" of their bloodlines. According to the revised Silver Fang tribebook, the Silver Fangs historically killed or sterilized kinfolk who mated with partners outside of the tribe.
169	** According to ''Kinfolk'', some hardline Wendigo septs murder kinfolk who marry outside of the tribe.
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173	* ''Theatre/TheDesertSong'' has a variant. The MightyWhitey hero is left to die in the desert and loses the leadership of his band of outlaws due to refusing to fight an opponent.
174	* The title character in ''Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi'' is imprisoned, tormented, and ultimately murdered on the order of her brothers. Her crime? Getting married (to her steward) without their permission. (Of course, her twin brother isn't motivated [[BrotherSisterIncest strictly by family honor]].)
175	* Leonato gets close to this in ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing'' when his daughter Hero is publicly denounced as a whore by her would-be groom, Claudio, at the altar. After Claudio storms out, Leonato flies into a rage about how Hero has been irrevocably stained and how awful it is that she's his only child--in some productions, he may actually hit her during this diatribe. He doesn't let up until the priest tells him to shut up and pay attention to her behavior, which is not that of a guilty woman. Even after Leonato agrees to the plan of faking her death until her name is cleared, he warns that "these hands shall tear her" if the slander turns out to be true after all.
176	* The protagonist of ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus''. After his daughter Lavinia gets raped, he restores his honor by murdering the rapists -- and her! Sure, she was depicted as a severe case of DefiledForever, and if the murder had been done in a gentler way, it could have been considered a MercyKilling to put her out of her misery, given the severe mutilation she also suffered during the attack, but the way he actually did it (at least in the movie version, and that one stays true to the original manuscript) comes off as though killing his daughter is a part of his personal revenge.
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180	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'': In a setting where EnslavedElves are subject to FantasticRacism by humans, elven companion Sera describes how her human noble foster mother made her feel [[InternalizedCategorism ashamed]] of being an [[EnslavedElves elf]] in order to save her own pride and keep up appearances. [[spoiler:When Sera asked if they could bake cookies together, the Lady Emmald was too proud to admit she didn't know how to bake, so she bought cookies from the local bakery, passed them off as her own, and tried to keep Sera from finding out by telling her the baker didn't like elves, which started Sera's InternalizedCategorism]].
181	-->'''[[PlayerCharacter Inquisitor]]:''' It was just [[spoiler:cookies]].\
182	'''Sera:''' It was not just [[spoiler:cookies]]! Lie to herself? Fair play. Only hurts her. [[InternalizedCategorism But she made me think there was something wrong with me]]! And the [[spoiler:baker]]? I made his life shit. Why not? It ''seemed'' like he deserved it. I mean, "if you don't give a child [[spoiler:a cookie]] because of appearances, you're a monster!" Stupid, pride-whore noble!
183	* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'': Tailtiu joining Sigurd did not sit well with her father Reptor, who despised and plotted against Sigurd's family. When Tailtiu confronted him, Reptor declares her a traitor and gives her no quarter in battle in order to defend the reputation of House Friege. Eventually, after the Battle of Belhalla, [[spoiler:Tailtiu's brother abducted her and her daughter from their refuge in Silesse and brought her back to Friege. Her brother maintained her father's declaration that she was a traitor and a disgrace to the family honor, kept her imprisoned in the family home, and allowed his sadistic wife to physically abuse his sister and his niece to her heart's content. Tailtiu blamed herself for it and eventually passed away from the abuse and depression. Her sister-in-law Hilda uses this trope as an excuse, but ultimately admits to Tailtiu's daughter that she did it [[ForTheEvulz for her own amusement]].]]
184	* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': {{Deconstructed}} ''[[NightmareFuel horrifically]]'' with Blumiere, a RareMaleExample. He fell in love with a woman named Lady Timpani and eventually got engaged to her, breaking his tribe's taboo against marriage outside of them in the process. In response, his father cursed her to [[AndIMustScream wander dimensions until her death]], and then callously [[KickTheDog scolded him for disgracing him and their entire tribe by his engagement to a "dirty" human girl]]. He eventually snapped and lashed out on "everything that had taken her away from him", even going as far as [[spoiler:[[SelfMadeOrphan killing his father]] ''and'' [[OmnicidalManiac seeking to destroy reality]]. Fortunately, he gets better upon finding out that his love is still alive.]]
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188	* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', after cutting down the village's sacred Kintoki Cedar, Kubitarou was strung up by her father and left to starve by the village. He then put a gag order on the village to keep them quiet about her heretical act.
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192	* Melusine (an anthropomorphic dolphin) in ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'' was murdered by her brother-in-law for getting impregnated by a land-dweller. Said land-dweller reacted rather badly, willfully causing a disaster that destroyed her community's entire seaside city, while she came back as an insane, vengeful ghost (who, in retrospect, may have influenced the former).
193	* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': Too many instances to count! Since [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Drow morality is directly tied around honor]], many Drow see no fault with abusing their children to reclaim their honor, no matter how damaging it is to the whole household or how psychotic it makes the child. Here are the most prevalent scenes:
194	** Quaintana forces Ariel to murder someone who wronged her to reclaim her fighting honor, or else she would be forced to fight her cousin to the death. She's the Drow equivalent of about ''eight human years old'' at the time. This cascades into a mental breakdown as she's too late to save her friend, she accidentally murders a slave, and she's utterly ''rewarded'' for all of this, to her horror.
195	** Sil'ice is an honor-freak and seeks to bring redemption (or death) to those who have lost their honor (even if she has to torture the living daylights out of child soldiers). So when one of her children comes back with psychopath-invented demon-possession, ignoring the facts that he indirectly caused the death of Sil'ice's nemesis and achieved biological immortality from his adventures, she pretends he doesn't exist. [[spoiler:She got better after she also suffered demon possession]].
196	** And of course, subverted with [[spoiler:Snadhya'rune and Kalki]]; neither of them care about honor, but they're too jacked up on murder-high to think about PragmaticVillainy and spend their last moment together blaming each other for the clusterfuck that just happened. Then the mother murders the daughter because she's a loose cannon and a red flag to her own mental instability, all while pretending she cleaned up a rotten apple on her family tree.
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200	* RareMaleExample: Prince Zuko from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' experienced a ''ton'' of this from his father, Fire Lord Ozai. After Zuko spoke out against a plan to [[WeHaveReserves use new military recruits as cannon fodder]], Ozai torched his face and banished him on a WildGooseChase to hunt down the Avatar (who hadn't been seen in a century). After the Avatar showed up and Zuko ''still'' didn't capture him, Ozai sent his daughter Azula to capture her brother. Eventually, [[spoiler:Zuko was welcomed back after supposedly killing the Avatar, but then did a HeelFaceTurn and spectacularly [[CallingTheOldManOut called his father out]] -- to which Ozai responded by [[OffingTheOffspring trying to electrocute him]]. During the GrandFinale, Ozai is away fighting Aang, so Azula takes up the mantle of Honor-Related Abuse and tries to electrocute him ''again'' -- and she would have succeeded if Katara hadn't stepped in to save him.]] Azula also suffered this to a degree. Zuko got the worst of it physically and on screen; but Azula was emotionally honor-abused with her successes to her father as a means of avoiding getting on his bad side.
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