History Main / HonorRelatedAbuse

* ''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's 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for Agnes's failures is that her family is obsessed with ancient traditions, including clothing that is 100 years out of date, ''and outlawed'', which causes her to look like a clown to her peers, getting her ridiculed, and even after they banish her for being ordered by royal decree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.

* 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, 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]].
** While the killing wasn't premeditated, the argument was still mostly about Macton's FantasticRacism against his brother-in-law.

* ''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.

* 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.

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* ''Av: The Hunt:'' 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.

* The movie ''Not Without My Daughter'' (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.
* 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]].
* 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]].
* In the movie ''Crossing Over'', 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.
* ''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]].

* Virginius and Virginia in Livy, ''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.
* 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.

* ''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.

* 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.
* 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.
* ''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.
* ''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''.
* ''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.

* 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 impune her honor by interrupting the test.
* 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* 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]].

* 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.
* 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".
-->''She stole my eyeliner (What a bitch!)\\
And she's been stretching my shoes out with her\\
Fucking big feet''
* 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.]]

* 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.]]
* 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.

* 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.
* The TV movie ''Murdered By My Father'', 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.
* 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.

* ''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.
* 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".
* 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* 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).

* 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, 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.

* 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, but it's ultimately revealed that the actual killer was an associate of her rapist who killed her on the rapist's orders in order to [[HeKnowsTooMuch stop her from testifying against him]].