History Main / HonorRelatedAbuse

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 ''being raped''.

* In the German film ''When We Leave'', 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]].

* ''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.]]

* 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

* Chozen Toguchi of ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII'' accuses Daniel [=LaRusso=] of dishonoring him, to the point of threatening to end his life.

* Ariane, the heroine of the medieval bodice-ripper ''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.

'''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' Just let Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing provide the facts.]]

* 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, [[BerserkButton 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]].

* 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 courtmartial 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.

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* 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.

* In ''Series/NewAmsterdam'', 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.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'': Tailtiu joining Sigurd did not sit well with her father Reptor, who's originally a scheming power-hungry politician. When Tailtiu confronted him, Reptor decided that family name comes first and marked Tailtiu as a traitor and one who shamed her entire family's name, before eventually dying by Sigurd's army (or potentially by Tailtiu herself). Eventually, later on, [[spoiler:after the horrific Battle of Belhalla where Sigurd died and his whole army branded traitor, Tailtiu got captured by her family, who believed in Reptor's words that she's a disgrace to her family and must be punished to maintain the family honor. And she was horrifically abused by her sister-in-law who used family honor as a cover to satisfy her [[{{Sadist}} sadism]] [[ForTheEvulz and hobby]] and her elder brother did not lift a finger about it for the sake of the family name. This extended to her daughter as well, and somehow [[ItsAllMyFault Tailtiu secretly blamed herself for it.]]]]

* StuffedIntoTheFridge, if the dishonored woman is killed, either by someone else, or is forced (by custom, or by that someone else) to commit suicide.

* UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming: Happens quite a lot in cases like this, with those who were sexually victimized being blamed for it.

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* ''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.

* 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 [[WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman punishing him for being alive]].

* 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 but if the murder had been done in a gentler way, it could have been considered a MercyKilling to put her out of her misery, considering what else the rapists did to her -- but the way he did it (at least in the movie version, and that one stays true to the original manuscript) was definitely a part of his own personal revenge.

* 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, being a US citizen, could go back to America, but she'd have to leave her daughter behind (hence the film's title); since the daughter has been given Iranian citizenship (without the mother's consent), the mother wouldn't be allowed to take her out of the country legally without the father's permission, which he would never give. Eventually, they manage to flee the country and return home to the USA.

* 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). Since the daughter has been given Iranian citizenship (without the mother's consent), the mother can't even try to take her back to America without risking the death penalty. Eventually, they manage to flee the country and return home to the USA.

* 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 her mother and blamed her for being gang-raped, [[BerserkButton 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]].

* 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 her mother and blamed her for being gang-raped, [[BerserkButton she doesn't take this well]] and proceeds to locate the girl's male kinsfolk and bury them up to their necks in the sand before giving her a length of solid steel 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]].

* 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 an ultraconservative father who abused her mother and blamed her for being gangraped, [[BerserkButton she doesn't take this well]] and proceeds to locate the girl's male kinsfolk and bury them up to their necks in the sand before giving her a length of solid steel 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]].

* 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, [[BerserkButton she doesn't take this well]] and proceeds to locate the girl's male kinsfolk and bury them up to their necks in the sand before giving her a length of solid steel 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]].