- Dirty Sympathy has Klavier Gavin being physically, emotionally, and sexually abused by his lover Daryan, which leads him into a "Strangers on a Train"-Plot Murder with Apollo.
- Guide Me Home: Ozai's hinted-at abuse towards Ursa is made more explicit, culminating in him giving her a nasty burn across her chest before ordering Ursa to go ahead with the plan to murder his father.
- In Strings, Korra is physically and emotionally abused by Tarrlok after she is kidnapped and forcibly married to him. Tarrlok's mother was physically abused by her husband Yakone and eventually committed suicide.
- The Bolt Chronicles:
- In "The Survivor," Mittens's first owner Jack mistreats the cat and is described as someone who when inebriated acts out destructively, taking it out on inanimate objects as well as family members who are within reach (when we first see his wife Emily in the story, she is described as having a bruise on her jaw). Emily also had an abusive father who berated and beat her.
- In "The Wind," Bolt's former girlfriend gets slapped so hard by her present paramour that she falls over.
- Ex Tenebris, Lux is a oneshot about Cinderella's recovery from abuse. She finds it difficult to recover after the trauma of her biological parents dying when she was little, combined with years of abuse from her Wicked Stepmother and step-sisters. It affects Cinderella's marriage and her relationship with her own son for years after she's escaped her abusers.
- A less overt case than most in Child of the Storm and its sequel, Ghosts of the Past, in the form of Joe Danvers' psychological abuse of his children. It's intentionally depicted as insidious and very hard to pin down (as psychological abuse often is). At first, when he's off-screen, it comes off as him and his daughter having standard parent/teenager squabbles, though there's hints of it being more. In the sequel, it becomes clear that he's been psychologically abusing his older two children because they don't follow his expectations — Carol is a sporty, Hot-Blooded teenage Action Girl, while Stevie is a slight, softly spoken, arty boy. As his mother-in-law Alison notes, if they'd been the other way around, he'd have been delighted. As it is, he tries to force them to become what he thinks they should be — their polar opposites, essentially.
- The form it takes means that it only becomes clear in retrospect, to both characters and readers. Carol's understated but rampant self-esteem issues, spiky attitude, reflexive reaction against authority (usually male), and latching onto alternate father figures, such as her uncle Jack O'Neill and Steve, her great-grandfather are a direct product, for instance. As for Stevie, one incident makes it clear: Harry's invited round to dinner at the Danvers house in chapter 6 of Ghosts. He asks about Stevie's drawing. Before Stevie can say anything, his little brother Joe Junior loudly says that "Drawing's for girls," whereupon his father laughs and ruffles his hair in approval. Stevie wilts and shuts his mouth. While his mother does her best, buying him art supplies and supporting him, as well as reprimanding her husband, he desperately wants his father's approval, and the latter's constant subtle put-downs giving him what Alison terms as 'a psychological death by a thousand cuts'.
- Also chapter 6 of Ghosts, it turns out that Mr Danvers invited Harry to get the measure of his daughter's Best Friend and to ask him to use his Psychic Powers to change her, to 'make her take the right path'. Harry erupts with rage, gives him a "Reason You Suck" Speech, then telepathically knocks him out, but only ends up giving only a limited account to Carol's mother (who thinks that they simply argued, Harry having been engaging in Passive-Aggressive Kombat with him all evening). When Alison gets the full account from Carol in chapter 20, which she passes onto Carol's mother, they both agree that Mr Danvers has to go: Alison pulls strings and he's Kicked Upstairs to a job out of state and she terrifies him into going along with it, as well as staying away from his family.
- Last Child of Krypton: Gendo's treatment of Ritsuko is anything but kind, loving, or tender. Often she is afraid of him or sports bruises. In the rewrite, Ritsuko sobs she deserves it due to everything she has done to further his plans.
- Spider-X sees Max reach this point in his relationship with Tabitha after only a few weeks; Tabitha only tolerates it as long as she does because she was initially scared of what he’d do if she broke up with him after he tells her how he rendered his father and his former bully brain-dead shortly after getting his powers, and later decides to stay on only until she can get Wanda away from Mystique to save the other girl from being brainwashed to be more 'loyal'.
- Illuminated features Thrax as Jane's abusive exe. She ran off and joined Captain Amelia's ship in order to get away from him, but he ended up following her.
- The Wind - Ariel & Jim ft Odette
by TheNight130 is a Jim/Ariel fanvid where Odette is Ariel's abusive girlfriend. Jim hears noise in another apartment, goes to ask if anything's wrong, and sees Ariel with a bruised eye. Despite Ariel saying that nothing is wrong, Jim doesn't believe her.
- In Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation:
- Hellsister Trilogy: Darkseid and Tigra were forced to get married by Darkseid's mother and hate and resent each other. Darkseid being Darkseid, he abuses Tigra physically and psychologically whenever it pleases him.Tigra sprawled on the stones of the cell into which Darkseid had shoved her. They were alone. Mongul and the Kryptonite Man were separated from them by a wall.
"Take a look," ordered Darkseid. "Do you remember him?"
She lifted her head to look upon the unconscious Celestial in the red and gray costume, trapped by a beam on the metal table. "Of course. Of course I remember him. How could I not remember my son?"
"Our son, Tigra. Ours. Never forget that point." He grasped her head in one great hand and exerted unpleasant pressure. "Never forget that."
Tigra, her hands and legs fastened by shackles and chains, reached up her hand to touch her offspring. Darkseid struck her hand down before it could make contact. She cried out in pain, and wept, holding her hand. "Why? Why are you doing this to me?"
Darkseid put his hand in her hair, almost gently, and answered her.
"Because he has something I want," he said. "And I think you might help me get it from him." - Kara of Rokyn:
- Villain Parasite abused at least one of his girlfriends.Superman: I've seen your record, Max. You slapped one around pretty badly one time. Got hauled into court, paid a fine, got a restraining order put on you, violated it, and went to jail for a few weeks.>
- Not only does Zora Vi-Lar put her lover Jara down constantly, but she also takes advantage of Jara's loneliness to emotionally blackmail her into murdering Kara.
- Implied during a flashback scene. Jules Luthor isn't shown hitting or shouting at his wife Arlene, but she doesn't dare to disagree with him or act against his wishes even when she clearly wants to. Jules is also depicted as overly controlling.
- Villain Parasite abused at least one of his girlfriends.
- Played for laughs in The Unfantastic Adventures of Bizarro No. 1:
- Bizarro is knocked out cold by the Blue-Kryptonite Men and taken to a hospital while unconscious. When Bizarro comes around, he automatically punches whoever is closest to him. Unfortunately, it happens to be his wife Bizarro Lois. Fortunately, she isn't damaged when she bounces off the wall, and he excuses himself after catching her and getting her to wake up.
- Later, Lois throws a big spoiled cabbage at Bizarro's head and pours a jar of mustard all over his shirt only because he doesn't spend long enough time at home.
- In Super Villain Prevention 101, the Joker is Harley's abusive exe. The two were involved in crimes together, but they broke up and Harley went straight.
- Danny Phantom: Stranded: Colette Bevier is very controlling and possessive toward Danny as she treats him only as property by ignoring his feelings, blackmailing him into dating her, and threatening to ruin his friend's lives even further if he disobeys or upsets her or refuses to cut them out of his life. Jazz even flat-out lampshades that what Colette is doing to Danny is this as it's a common tactic by abusers to isolate their victims from their loved ones to make them easier to control.
- "The Graduation Class" offers Joan Sanderson-Reeves, a prim and upright lady who runs a school teaching cookery, elocution, and deportment. After her villainous brother-in-law beats her sister so badly she miscarries a child, Joan murders him in hot blood, in a storyline which is a Shout-Out to Roald Dahl. After getting away with it, she sets up as an unlicenced Assassin, specialising in sterilising abusive husbands who indulge in wife-beating and child abuse. Eighteen inhumations later, the Guild of Assassins makes her an offer and enlists her. Four years later, the Guild School's Domestic Science Mistress (who teaches the use of really dangerous food additives) is asked to track down and bring a book to another Ethical Assassin who has taken up the torch of slaying errant husbands for money. The new Assassin is a florist who knows how to say it with flowers. Specifically, she can say Drop Dead! in a variety of inventive and interesting ways. And so the Guild School signs up its botany mistress...
- Played for Laughs in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. When Goku goes up to fight Cell, he gets into an argument with Tien over who was World Champion, stating that he defeated him, Piccolo, and Chi-Chi to get that way. When commentator Jimmy Firecracker gets wind of this, he automatically assumes he's a wife-beater. Goku's inability to clarify that Chi-Chi was attempting to get him to honor a marriage commitment doesn't help matters at all and the whole world thinks that Goku is a wife beater.
- Family Guy Fanon: Yousief reveals to be quite the abusive husband to Quagmire's poly-wife Kimi in "Poly-hu Akbar!", alongside being a misogynistic asshole, who treats his concubines like shit. In fact, when Kimi is caught having sex with a pig due to her being used to her polyamory relationship, Yousief was ready to decapitate her and would have got away with it had Quagmire didn't come to save her in time.
- In Lucky Number Thirteen, Sharon states her opinion that what Christian does is this rather than BDSM, especially considering how he treated her and how he treats Ana in the present, including pressuring them about their hard limits, caring more about his own pleasure than his subs' well-being, threatening to ignore or outright ignoring expressed hard limits if he doesn't get his way, complete lack of after-care and then trying to blame it all on his subs for not communicating properly or being unable to handle how 'extreme' he is if they confront him.
- In The New Retcons, a friend of Michael's suffers from this until he manages to get a restraining order, and seeing his friend's ordeal made Michael realize that his father's negligence in seeking help for his insane mother was also abusive.
- This is a subject in Kiryuuin Chronicles read here, as narrated by Satsuki (nicknamed "Dove") as recollects the past, who innocently wonders why her father does what he does to her mother if he loves her, that is, slapping her, beating her, and causing her miscarriages. However, her mother isn't the only one on the receiving end of this, as so is Rei and her, yet her little sisters Nui and Ryuuko aren't. Said abuse also leads to her mother's mental illness and the fact that Ragyou, due to being pregnant with Satsuki by someone else, was forced into this marriage doesn't help.
- This is the subject in Train Tracks and both spouses are responsible, as Ragyo drinks and is prone to violence, often doling out hits, which, after having been taking them, Soichiro deals back. Rei's narration implies that the two engage in fistfights.
- Link becomes emotionally and physically abusive towards his adopted sister Zelda in Their Bond due to the effects of drug and alcohol abuse. It gets to the point where Impa considers him a danger who should be killed.
- Let the World Smile: Ganondorf isn't physically abusive, however he's dominant and aggressive in a manner that isn't healthy.
- In For His Own Sake, Keitaro and Naru's relationship is viewed as this. The thing is that nothing about their dynamic from the original narrative is changed; the fic simply presents it as is but removes the Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male that the original story ran on. As such, Keitaro realizes he has to leave Naru and the Hinata Inn for his own wellbeing after three years of being beaten up by her for being "perverted" alongside all the other abuse and mistreatment he endured from the other girls. Like a typical abuser, Naru demands Keitaro return to the inn, refuses to understand why he left, and spends all her time berating him for "betraying" her. Notably, everyone close to Naru is horrified when they learn how she's treated Keitaro and are shocked that such a passionate, driven girl could be so violent and remoreseless.
- In Flowers Drenched in Vodka, Eli and Hanayo are stuck in a cycle of abuse: Eli gets violent towards her girlfriend when drunk, apologizes when sober, says it won't happen again, repeat.
- Sam can have a relationship with Freddie like this. Weirdly, this can be done for Sam/Freddie and Carly/Freddie, with the latter generally being a Hurt/Comfort Fic whilst the former generally has Sam trying to overcome her Freudian Excuse. [Example.
- It's mentioned in Ultimate Misfits that Stormer's father was an abusive cheater towards her mother. Eventually, her mother left with the kids and that's how Stormer became Childhood Friends with Kimber.
- The Matrix fanfic Bringing Me To Life there's Mr. Jameson who beats his already emotionally terrified wife to keep her from taking their son and leaving.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Background Pony, Lyra's childhood friend suffered an abusive father and became a Broken Bird because of it. When Lyra's older she comes across an abusive father who strangles his wife and two children every night, but the nature of her curse makes it near impossible for her to stop it.
- In Divided Rainbow, Rainbow Dash is made to suffer this from all Fluttershy's animals when she swaps roles with Fluttershy. It isn't pretty in the slightest.
- Played for Laughs-for the most part-in ''Ultra Fast Pony'' Soarin is constantly ridiculed and emotionally abused by his wife Spitfire, to the point that any scene where they are together-or any scene with UFP Spitfire-is a Kick the Dog for her.
- Evangelion 303: After Jessika's death Asuka was wrecked with survivor guilt and self-loathing and angry with herself and everybody. Unable to control her temper, she lashed out against everybody, especially Shinji. She spent several weeks abusing him psychologically and occasionally physically. She got better, but then she felt horribly guilty and ran away, thinking that Shinji would be better off without her.
- Scar Tissue has Shinji being forced into an emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive relationship with Asuka after Third Impact. Much of the story features her trying to be more earnest and open after almost killing him, although she has issues keeping out of his personal space and was tempted to beat him for being happy at Rei's return.
- In Father Figure: The Sheriff in addition to being abusive to his sons, was also abusive to his wife.
- Duke, Dodger's father, treats his mate Annie horrendously, he's emotionally and physically abusive towards her, and he only sees her as useful for bringing him food and for sex.
- Boiling Isles and Beyond
- Luz's mother is implied to have suffered from this.
- Eda and Lilith’s parents were mentioned to be as equally violent to each other then they were to their daughters.
- Boscha is horrifically abusive to her girlfriend Bo.
- In Pokemon Light AU, Gloria's Disappeared Dad was abusive to his family, which is why he isn't in Gloria's life anymore.
- Old West:
- Selena, the mother of Rattlesnake Jake, was beaten every night by her husband James Douglas as soon as he returned home under the influence. Though she wasn't utterly submissive, she had nowhere to go and none of the townsfolk got involved because they wanted nothing to do with snakes. After the last beating, James was run out of town and Selena was killed by an unsympathetic deputy, leaving Jake alone on his path to become the dreaded outlaw.
- When the estranged conman husband of Grace Glossy, Benjamin Hares, shows up and attempts to sell her lands to the Big Bad, she tries to throw him out. He reacts violently, battering her until their son Teddy calls Jake to the rescue. Finding Grace beaten up by Benjamin reminds Jake of his parents, turning him so livid that he kills Benjamin like he undoubtedly has wanted for years to kill his father. Unfortunately, the normally stable Grace is so broken that she isolates herself for weeks.
- RWBY: Scars:
- The fanfic expands upon Adam being Blake's abusive ex-boyfriend by rewriting the "Black" trailer so that he slaps Blake. This, combined with him wanting to kill a cart full of human civilians, is the last straw that leads her to running away from him. It's later mentioned that Adam is six years older than Blake and that he manipulated her into a sexual relationship when she was only fourteen.
- Willow's relationship with Jacques is tense. They've been together for over three decades but there's no romance between them and they rarely even talk. At minimum, Jacques is emotionally neglectful. Jacques is also emotionally and physically abusive towards their three children.
- Summer's aunt Ivory had an abusive boyfriend.
- Roman had a verbally volatile relationship with his now-deceased wife Eon. Arguments weren't uncommon and he'd often call her Fantastic Slurs when angered. On her part, Eon had a troubled relationship with her Creepy Child daughter Neo, at least once calling her a "monster" for her Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
- In CRME:
- Cinder starts abusing Emerald and becomes more controlling near the end of Chapter 6. She later slaps Emerald twice for being jealous about Mercury taking Cinder’s time away from her. She is also emotionally manipulative by telling her that she'll throw her out on the street if she doesn't comply.
- Blake and Adam show up and he is very emotionally manipulative during her short appearance. The abuse is subtle compared to Cinder and Emerald, but this is only due to lack of time.
- War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology:
- Jacques is just as emotionally abusive to Willow as he is to his children. At one point, he threatens to leave her and the kids on the street when she tries to leave him.
- Talia, Pyrrha’d mother, stabbed out her husband’s eye with a wooden sword when he attempted to defend Pyrrha. She killed him when he attempted to leave with Pyrrha.
- While Roose Bolton in The Bloods of Bolton doesn't physically abuse his wife, Bethany, during the events of the story, it's heavily implied that he's done so in the past and he's horrifically abusive on the emotional aspect. He taunts her about the death of her original betrothed and implies that he was the one who set him up to die, and states that she will sire him another son whether she wants to or not, pretty much telling her that he fully intends to use his Marital Rape License to do so.
- One Less Lonely Gurl has C'ren's father being abused by his wife after he cheated on her and had C'ren as daughter to the other woman.
- In Dark Dark Ocean Dark, it's implied that Jasper and Lapis are exes. Lapis has since kidnapped Jasper, keeping her in the bare minimum conditions.
- The humanized oneshot Heat Lightning is about Jasper's sister Amethyst trying to convince her that her girlfriend Lapis is abusive.
- In the oneshot Last Call, Lapis was physically and emotionally abusive towards Jasper. Jasper eventually leaves the relationship but she's still scarred by it several years afterwards. Lapis was also in an abusive relationship prior to dating Jasper.
- Little Rebellions: Raspberry Pearl is regularly used as a punching bag by her master Red Zircon when she’s frustrated. This leads to a The Dog Bites Back moment during the Rebellion when Zircon is poofed and her gem is left with Raspberry Pearl after telling her to "Not let them get her."
- No One Said Life Was Gonna Be Fair starts with Shell-Shocked Veteran Jasper being in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship with her wife of over a decade, Lapis. Jasper still loves Lapis and doesn't want to leave her, but Lapis has a mistress and plans on leaving with their teenage daughter.
- Wine Red no Kokoro: Ann and Cliff have a Belligerent Sexual Tension-filled relationship that frequently turns abusive. They love each other, but they're always fighting and Cliff often ends up bruised as a result.
- Enlightenments: Mono was turned into the Queen of the Castle in the Mist by a botched exorcism spell, which not only gave her a skewed sense of right and wrong but also a Compelling Voice effect on Wander. He's been trapped in an emotionally and sexually abusive relationship with her for three hundred years by the time the fic stars.
- Support is a That's So Raven story where a pregnant Chelsea runs away from her abusive husband after he threatens to divorce her and claim full custody of their daughter.
- A TDA Love Triangle with Betty, Cody, and Gwenny: Geoff becomes a total Jerkass who mistreats and insults Bridgette on a regular basis. Even worse, despite breaking up, they're forced by contract to still be presented as a couple in the Aftermath episodes so Bridgette is stuck with him until the show ends.
- Total Drama Do Over
- Played With in All-Stars Do Over. In "Saving Private Leechball," Zoey believes that her boyfriend Mike smacked her across the face with a paintball gun. Technically, it was Mal masquerading as Mike who did this, but it's serious enough for Zoey to break off her relationship with Mike as she doesn't know the truth.
- Pahkitew Do Over reveals that Trent has become emotionally abusive towards Charlotte following the Area 51 incident, not being able to leave her alone out of fears that she'll get hurt and covertly insulting her when she rebukes this behavior.
- Total Drama: Pomewin Island: Cassandra McLean is shown to be very cold and unloving to her husband Chris McLean, constantly keeping him in line through threatening to fire him and rather cruelly forces him to just deal with it or be fired after he voices his concern about the manner in which the contestants are "eliminated".
- Unbreakable Red Silken Thread
- Duncan. The first scene of him in the main plot after the jump to college is him hitting Gwen.
- Amy abused her twin sister Sammy for several years at home and while out on vacation, while always making sure she never got caught.
- In Shadows, Starscream learns that Megatron is being abused by Optimus, and does what he can to help the other mech escape the relationship.
- The relationship between Embry and Melanie Sampson in For You, I Will. Melanie emotionally and physically abuses him, up to the point of stabbing him during sex, and Embry can't fight back because she's his imprintee and he's compelled to love her and do what she wants at all times.
- Luminosity deconstructs the mate bond. Vampires assume their mates love them back—that's how the magic works. The mate bonds, however, do not work on half-vampires, and since they're not human, they can't be turned into vampires to make the bond mutual. Enter Demitri, who is mated with Allirea, who hates him. Her power is hiding, but his power is finding things. Cue repeated kidnappings and rapes.
- In Apprentice and Pregnant, Whitepaw's father Old Gray isolated his mate from her extended family and abused her. When she tried to leave, Old Gray killed his mate and his daughter.
