Revenge Films / Tropes G to L

Revenge Films trope index
A to F (Attempted Rape, Bedroom Adultery Scene, Beg the Dog, Bitch In Sheep's Clothing, Didn't Think This Through, Domestic Abuse) | G to L (Gold Digger, The Grovel, Humiliation Conga, I Have No Son!) | M to R (Momma's Boy, Obnoxious In-Laws, Relationship Sabotage) | S to Y (Spoiled Brat, The Un-Favourite, Villainous Breakdown)

G

• The Gambling Addict: Karen's husband from "My husband didn't appreciate me and also spent all our money so I left him to suffer" wasn't only a lazy slacker who played hooky at work all the time, but she revealed he goes out to gamble every day in front of his cousins at dinner.
• Get Out!:
  • "I fell into a ditch dug by my mother-in-law and ended up in the hospital…": Melissa's husband, Kevin, tells her to leave when she tried to talk about the ditch his mother dug for her to fall into and suffer a miscarriage. She does just that and returns to her parents' house to file a police report against her abusive MIL and divorce Kevin.
  • "My wife got pregnant with another man's baby and...": OP angrily tells his cheating wife Lavinia and her lover Ivan to leave the house after they told him she was pregnant with Ivan's baby. When they obliged, he broke down in tears as he processed what happened.
• Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: In this story, Mubio's wife got forced into drugs by a college friend of hers as a plan to use her talent at economics to invest in forex to get rich and feed the woman's addiction to keep the scheme going. Eventually, the scheme falls apart once Mubio's wife goes to prison and she points at her friend.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • "This girl took my blind sister and left her in the middle of the intersection": Kelly got jealous when she found out that Trisha's sister Nina was in the choir and she's not in due to her parents forbidding it. She pretended to play hide-and-seek and left Nina in the middle of the intersection. Fortunately, Trisha was able to find her and take her to safety.
  • "Got an invitation to a wedding, but…": The groom invited the FMC to his wedding just to mock her in front of the entire research club, but it lead to the wedding being called off because of it. Turns out he was jealous of the FMC for getting her license before him, even when he refused to study and thought he could pass it with flying colors without effort.
  • "Got an invitation to a birthday party…": Blair was jealous of her former friend Ali because Bob talked to the latter more than the former. Turns out Blair had a crush on Bob and couldn't stand him being near Ali.
• Groin Attack: In "Got a emergency call from my friend, telling me to stop him! So, I headed to his house…" Ore's friend crushed his younger brother-in-law's exposed family jewels with his bare hands after he caught the brat attempting to rape the former's wife after she interrupted him with a bloodcurdling scream.

H

• Head-Turning Beauty:
  • "My sister slept with my husband and so I invited our parents to teach her a lesson": OP's younger sister, Mary, was a flirty young woman who used her good looks and charm to steal the former's potential boyfriends out of spite. When Mary went to OP's house to freeload off of her and her husband, he constantly took Mary's side whenever OP called her out and dismissed her concerns. It turns out OP's husband cheated on her with Mary while she was away for work, having fallen for her charms as soon as he met her.
  • "My sister stole all of my boyfriends and I was really hurt but then": Ariel's younger sister, Erin, had good looks that made her popular among guys. She relished the attention and used her beautiful looks to steal any potential boyfriends from Ariel, whom she deemed "uncool and unattractive." However, when Erin attempts to steal Sean, the college heartthrob, from her, he chews Erin out for her shameless use of sex appeal to get views on TikTok and for trying to seduce him into dumping Ariel, which ends in Erin running off crying.
• Heir Club for Men: In this story, the OP's father and his brother Jerry were male chauvinists who believed the eldest son should inherit the company. Since Uncle Jerry had only two daughters while the OP's father had a younger son named Gary, they arranged a marriage between him and Jerry's eldest daughter Melinda to make Gary the heir. Jerry even verbally abused his wife Jane for not being able to bear him a son while the OP's grandfather told her mother to sleep with Jerry for this purpose.
• Help, I'm Stuck!: In this story, the OP found her sister's fiancé cheating on her with another woman and took pictures of the scene. However, none of them could get out to stop her as the shock and panic triggered the lover's vaginismus, causing the groom to get stuck inside his mistress. When the OP's husband came to take a look and called the staff over, the lovebirds had to be rushed to the hospital.
• Henpecked Husband:
  • "My wife, who hasn't had intercourse with me for years, said she wanted to do it but...": Ben Jackson became this four years after their marriage; his wife called him trash and looked down at him.
  • "My girlfriend treated me like crap…": Non-marriage example - a man was mistreated by his girlfriend even before marriage, to the point of forbidding him to contact his female friends. When he got a promotion to his job, however, she became all lovey-dovey towards him.
• Heroic Dog: The old dog from "Mom left me, but..." barked at something in the woods while the OP's family went on a trip. When they stopped to find out what was happening, he ran off and returned with a black trash bag in his mouth. OP's dad opened it and found a baby, the family called 911 while the great-grandma nursed it back to health; she was a midwife back then. After the baby was taken to a hospital, the mother was arrested for negligence. Moreover, it turns out the baby was the OP herself.
• High-School Sweethearts: Yulia and Samuel knew each other since high school before marrying.
• Hikikomori: In "Got a emergency call from my friend, telling me to stop him! So, I headed to his house…" Ore's friend's brother-in-law became one after his girlfriend's lover, who belonged to a gang, beat him to a pulp.
• House Fire:
  • "My father-in-law fell asleep while smoking a cigarette, causing our house to burn down…": A fire broke out in Sara's house while her baby was still inside. She tried to reach out to her father-in-law for help, but he left them both to die. Thankfully, firefighters came to their aid. The reason for said house fire seemed to be that Sara's FIL fell asleep while smoking a cigarette, but then it was revealed he deliberately put the still-burning cigarette on the couch, which got him in prison for arson.
  • "I rushed home because my house was on fire... My wife lied that she was at home...": Mrs. Griffin calls her neighbor Max to alert him about a fire in his house, with his daughter Emma tearfully begging him to come back. Since his wife Anna took care of the house chores, he anxiously called her to check if she was okay until she called. However, he started suspecting Anna's behavior when she lied to him about being at home. When he told her that their home was on fire and then heard another man's voice from the other side, Max angrily demanded her to come home.
  • "Got an apartment with my sister…": Katie tried to break up with her boyfriend only for him to snap and try to set fire to the apartment. While it was put out very quickly before it could get worse, she was pretty much screwed since she failed to get fire insurance and thereby had to pay the damages herself.

I

• I Can Explain:
  • "My wife had a miscarriage... Her parents were mad, but the truth always hurts...": Jack's coworker says this verbatim after dropping the man's cheating wife from the shock of stumbling upon Jack himself, but Jack didn't buy it and left for the coworker's company to report his affair while the wife moaned in pain from her broken hip and miscarriage.
  • "My wife was cheating on me with 25 different men": OP's wife says this verbatim after finding out he discovered her sex videos and emails that documented her affairs with twenty-five men, but he wouldn't have any of it and he already saved the evidence and exposed her to her parents.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: In this story, Ali took Blair to task for breaking the manager's camera and revealed the owner. When Blair blamed her for breaking it, it was when Ali found out she was the culprit as she never mentioned it was broken.
• I Want Grandkids:
  • A woman wanted her daughter-in-law to birth her grandkids despite her son's inability to conceive. However, he frames his wife for his infertility in a cowardly move to save his own skin from his mother's abuse.
  • A man ends up sleeping with his daughter-in-law to get her pregnant (with her fully going along with it due to her own desire for a baby) while his wife happily supports them. When Jill turns out to be infertile, the couple immediately dumps her and tries to have the father rape the brother’s wife to get her pregnant. Luckily, the wife sends out a message to the brother and both he and the main character stop the father just in time.
  • The parents-in-law are ecstatic when their son cheats on his wife and brings home a new woman as they believe they are finally going to finally be able to have grandchildren. However, their son was infertile and the new girl was as well due to having too many abortions and STDs.
  • "My father broke into my brother's house… Then…": The OP's father broke into her brother's house to rape the latter's wife and impregnate her himself because she didn't bear him grandkids. This drove the brother to risk an arrest to give his father a beating and then do the same at his parents' house as their mother also supported her bastard of a husband's decision.
• Imperiled in Pregnancy: In stories where the female protagonist is an expectant mother, chances are that she will end up going through abuse, be it from a mother-in-law or otherwise, taking advantage of the poor woman's condition or take drastic measures to make her lose her baby.
• In Love with Looks: OP's husband cheated with a younger woman. When OP calls him out, his excuse is that OP turned forty-two and isn't attractive anymore. He even blames her for his cheating, claiming that if she remained beautiful, he wouldn't have cheated. He eventually divorced OP to be with his mistress.
• In Vino Veritas: In this story, the manager drunkenly brags about his affair with Sarah at the latter's wedding, even planning to keep having the affair after she and Matt married.
• Inheritance Backlash: In "My parents treated me poorly,": Ali and Katie's grandmother announces she's going to move to a luxury retirement home and give half of the money to Katie and her parents so they could buy the house. However, she also revealed the house was under Ali's name and it was up to her. When the abusive couple proclaims they're going to buy a new house after Ali promptly kicks them out, the grandmother reveals that Ali's husband was in charge of the inheritance money, which they squandered on expensive stuff earlier on. Moreover, the abusive couple had no savings because they thought the inheritance money would be theirs for sure, so they ended up renting a rundown apartment.
• Insane Troll Logic: Exploited in "When I returned from a long term business trip, I suspected my wife of having an affair…" where Karen's boss, Chad, tricked her into an affair under the pretense of "teaching her new techniques" for her husband the OP. Being an airhead, she happily takes the bait and cheats on the poor sod, who understandably becomes grossed out upon hearing it from Karen herself. After he divorces her and has her pay a negligible sum in alimony out of pity, she insists that it was "learning".
• Insult to Rocks: In "My sister stole all of my boyfriends and I was really hurt but then," Sean doesn't only reject Erin's advances and chews her out for being a shameless vixen and trying to seduce him into dumping Ariel, but also proclaims that even porn stars have more class than her after she sent him a video of herself wearing nothing but a towel.
• Insurance Fraud:
  • "My family was talking sh*t about me behind my back, so I left them": Kaitlin found out later on that her husband, her son, and her mother-in-law plotted to kill her to get her insurance money when they deemed her useless. Enraged, she retaliates by exposing both their scheme and their abuse to everyone else.
  • "Mom tried to borrow money under my name, but I said no… Then…": OP's mother demanded her she give up her health insurance card to borrow money. When the OP refused, the abusive mother kicked her out of the house.
• It's All About Me: "She told me that they got divorced because they had different values, but in reality..." - Melanie's cousin Sarah bragged about her beauty and enjoyed having the attention all to herself; she hated when someone else hogged the spotlight. Moreover, she enjoyed rubbing it on Melanie's face for being "ugly".

J-K

• Jealous Parent: "My mother brought home her boyfriend to stay. That night...": When an aunt took both her nieces' mother and the latter's boyfriend, Keith, to task for raping Jessica, the mother blamed Jessica for "seducing her boyfriend" and attacked her. However, the aunt slaps her for it, but Keith denies it and dares her to present evidence before leaving. However, their aunt had installed security cameras all over the house and used the footage as evidence, ending with the couple being arrested.
• Jerk Jock: Clay and his minons from "The mean guy at school was jealous of me for talking to the new girl, so he framed me" bullied the OP for being a nerd; the latter couldn't do anything since the former knew karate and could beat him up. However, Clay's behavior escalates when the new girl, Ali, sits with the OP instead of him, which culminates with the bastard spilling yogurt over OP's desk to ruin his reputation. Much to the jock's dismay, he switched seats with Ali earlier on, which means he vandalized her desk.
• "Just Joking" Justification: When Karin whipped out divorce papers after being picked on by her in-laws and husband for her unattractive appearance for so long, they all tried to dissuade her by saying it was just a joke, but she doesn't fall for it.
• Karma Houdini: Zigzagged with Karen; While her false pregnancy is exposed, causing her to be kicked out of Jane’s house and Josh divorcing her, Josh was ultimately unable to sue her and her family successfully and they escape with no legal repercussion over tricking Josh into marrying her.
• Karmic Death: "When I was a child, my cousin was the meanest person growing up, but all the adults ignored it": Even after Henry reluctantly donated his marrow to Karen despite the horrific abuse she put him through since they were kids, she still tried to ruin his life in response to Henry's refusal to pay her hospital bills. Not only did her scheme fail, but her blood cancer relapsed with no hope of recovery, which reduced her to a screaming, despairing mess before dying as her family couldn't do anything but watch her lose her mind and eventually her life before losing their minds themselves.
• Karmic Injury: In "Passed out after falling while pregnant, waking up in hospital…," Melanie's mother-in-law bullied and shamed her for having a prosthetic leg and even tricked her into miscarrying because she didn't want a disabled grandchild like her, but when her son Skyler forced her to pay compensation the hag started overeating until she developed diabetes, causing her to lose a leg, just like the daughter-in-law she bullied.
• Karmic Transformation: In "My older sister always liked stealing my boyfriends. At my wedding, she attacked me, and…" Ashley resorted to overeating and drinking to cope with the stress of paying for Nancy's makeup and dress after ruining them in a last bid to steal Thomas from her. As a result, she gained weight and thus became unable to get a boyfriend, effectively suffering the fate she put Nancy through.
• Kiddie Kid: When she's introduced, Sarah had mannerisms that were immature for a 10-year-old girl, offset by her short height from not being properly fed.
• Kissing Cousins:
  • Hiroshi has had an infatuation with his cousin Takako ever since she was a child. He tried to assault her as a high schooler when he got frustrated that he couldn't have her, but her mother was able to stop him. He was arrested but was given a suspended sentence due to his mental disability.
  • The OP’s nephew is all-but-said to have an infatuation with the OP’s daughter, Sian, even trying to sneak into her bed to while she was in seventh grade, leaving her traumatized and causing the OP and her husband to ban him from the house. So when the husband’s sister tries to get him to take her son in during present times, he immediately alerts his wife so she could get Sian to safety, fearing that he will start harassing her again.

L

• Laser-Guided Karma: The antagonists will almost always get what's coming to them.
• Law of Inverse Fertility: Justified in "She ruined her own wedding by revealing all sorts of stories about her past." Taylor aborted all pregnancies from her constant romps with her male fans when she was an "online star" and even after that before blowing her own wedding by revealing it all. When she marries another man and tries to have a baby, her hopes are crushed when told the aforementioned abortions and her age rendered her completely infertile, causing her husband to divorce her. As a result, Taylor snapped and tried to steal a young mother's baby only to get arrested. Moreover, OP adds that it has been rumored among Taylor's colleagues that it was a revenge from the babies she aborted.
• Lazy Bum:
  • Mark from "My first husband was lazy, unmotivated, and even cheated on me" slacks off playing video games all day and refuses to get a job despite Sarah's pleas, opting on leeching off her instead since she was a working woman. Moreover, he took advantage of his wife going on business trips to cheat on her and lying to his mistress about being rich.
  • "My husband didn't appreciate me and also spent all our money so I left him to suffer": Karen's husband was a lazy slacker who played video games all day and took sick leaves all the time to play hooky at work. Moreover, he also used his credit card to spend his money on either frivolities or gambling while only giving Karen $50.
• Lecherous Stepparent:
  • "Stepfather said, Don't tell anyone if you love your mother…": A's stepfather is revealed to have been molesting her while her mom was away at work, after their marriage. When he finds out A became pregnant with his child, he proceeds to beat her up and force her to miscarry until the OP comes to her defense and drives him away.
  • "The Police and I arrive at my ex-wife's house to see…": Claire was being assaulted by her stepfather after her parents divorced and her mother Penny took custody of her. Thankfully, Jake shows up to punch the bastard off of her. Turns out the stepfather did this out of spite and said he "paid 4 million yen to have her body," implying he married Penny just to have his way with Claire. This understandably pissed Jake off into beating him bloody.
• Lethal Chef: A woman's mother-in-law is a terrible cook, and she was the first to tell her this as no one has the guts to tell her so.
• Lethal Negligence: At the end of "Husband cheated on me and got another girl pregnant, but tried to give me the child," an acquaintance of the OP's called her about her ex-husband and mother-in-law getting fed up with childcare and left his mistress' disabled child to die because of the costs on top of the massive compensation debts racked up by the cheating ex-husband. However, a concerned neighbor heard the child's cries and called the cops on the mother-son duo, both of whom get arrested for negligence.
• Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Helen is a sweet girl unlike her mother Blair, and is friends with the protagonist's daughter Katy.
• Locked in a Room:
  • "Caught my fiancée cheating on me…": Alex locked his cheating fiancee Ali and her lover Bob in the bathroom while they showered so he could take the latter's phone and message Bob's fiancé Katy to notify her of his affair. This earned the cheating couple the ire of both their parents and Katy's parents.
  • "I came home to my husband having an affair in the shower": Yulia locked her cheating husband Samuel and with his lover Harley in the bathroom with a doorstop while she called the lovebirds' boss, Mr. Quimby, to report the affair. Much to her surprise, her parents and in-laws also showed up at her house to support her. She then exposed them to face the ire of the presents, wearing nothing but their underwear.
  • "My husband was cheating on me in our own bathroom so...": Ashley locks her cheating husband Chad and his lover Karen inside the bathroom while they showered together, and called her in-laws and her coworker Thomas, who was also Karen's fiancé, to come over. When they arrived, she let the lovebirds out naked to the visitors.
• Look Both Ways: In "Stepfather said, Don't tell anyone if you love your mother…," A's stepfather was run over by a truck when on the run from the law and A's other relatives for molesting her. While the impact didn't kill him, it left him paralyzed and unable to speak, making it easier for the cops to collect him.
• Lost Him in a Card Game: Sarah was gambled away by her father when he lost a gambling bet to Alan's father.
• Lured into a Trap: In this story, Bob asks his wife Emily out for a date. When she noticed they were going to the hospital to visit someone, she turned pale after finding out the hospitalized man was her lover Kevin. Turns out he planned to divorce her and banished her to Kevin's apartment.
• Lust Makes You Dumb:
  • Don is a police officer who cheats on his wife with a fellow police officer, which is stupid for three reasons
    • First, the place Don and his affair partner decide to have sex in? The police station's locker room. Unsurprisingly, he gets caught by his wife as well as the other officers.
    • Second, Don only married his wife, who's the district chief's daughter, in order to quickly climb the ranks, and never actually loved her. Even if he was more discreet and never he loved her, cheating on your boss's daughter is not exactly a good idea if you want to climb the ranks. Plus, even if he didn't get fired, his boss probably wouldn't be in a hurry to give him a promotion.
    • Third, him being fired for cheating on the police chief's daughter pretty much destroys his social life; his parents disown him, his ex-coworkers hate him for cheating on such a nice girl, and he's incapable of going outside without people mocking him.
  • The groom decides to have an affair with his ex girlfriend on the day of his wedding inside of the wedding venue; unsurprisingly, he and his ex get caught. To add to the humiliation they end up being taken to the hospital due to getting stuck together, sued by his ex-fiance, can't find a stable job due to his reputation, and disowned by his parents.
  • Karen and Thomas are coworkers who decide to have their affair in the office supply closet. Naturally, they get caught, sued by their spouses, gets disowned their parents, and severely punished by their boss. Even if they weren't married what they did could have still ended badly; as the boss pointed out, an office is no place to be having sex.
  • "My wife was paralyzed while cheating on me and riding her boyfriend…": This example crosses with Too Dumb to Live. Instead of booking a motel or going to her lover's house, OP's cheating wife decides to have her affair in the cramped living room of her husband's apartment, which leads to them accidentally breaking a nearby cabinet's leg in their lovemaking, causing it to fall on and wound them with glass shards. As a result, the cheating wife is rendered mute and paralyzed in one arm, while her boyfriend dies of exsanguination.