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11	->''His quandary echoes the legacies of masculinity. What kind of man lets a woman call the shots? It's no accident that the cuckolded heroes of the great dramas and operas tend to kill their beloved rather than give her the freedom not to choose them. Death--of her, of him, or of them both--is the only honorable way out.''
12	-->-- ''Literature/TheStateOfAffairs''
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14	Someone murders their significant other as vengeance for adultery.
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16	Alice is dating or married to Bob. Alice finds out that Bob is sleeping with Carol. Alice then kills Bob for cheating on her. [[PayEvilUntoEvil This may be even go as far as be presented as a justified act, even if it is in truth a serious crime.]] He'd done her wrong and that's all that matters to her. While the same scenario is a common dramatic plot with both genders, [[TheUnfairSex some modern depictions are more sympathetic]] to [[DesignatedHero Alice]] [[TheUnfairSex shooting Bob-the-cheater than Bob shooting Alice-the-cheater]].
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18	By contrast, many RealLife cultures in the past have tended to go easy on the husband's killing either a cheating wife and/or the man she was cheating with. Not so much in the modern Western world, though, and stories produced from that perspective don't usually treat it as justified in anything more than a passing reference/joke, which is why most examples here come from songs. A full story involving someone killing their straying lover usually has to admit that this is a ''bad'' thing to do, no matter the gender and may even be recognised as DisproportionateRetribution if at least in the heat of the moment as a bit of a mitigating factor.
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20	See also WomanScorned, IfICantHaveYou, {{Yandere}}, ADeadlyAffair, and MurderTheHypotenuse. See also ManslaughterProvocation - until 2009, in Britain, killing your partner for infidelity was manslaughter, not murder. May overlap with AssholeVictim if the deceased was particularly unsympathetic (e.g. if he habitually [[DomesticAbuse mistreated her]] in other ways).
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22	!!As this is a {{Death Trope\|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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24	!!Examples:
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26	!!Woman Kills Man
27	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
28	* In one DreamSequence in ''Film/TheSevenYearItch'', Richard's wife, having found out about the girl, returns home to ShootOutTheLock and then shoots him "five times in the back and twice in the belly."
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32	* In Creator/AgathaChristie's ''Literature/FiveLittlePigs'', married artist Amyas Crale's [[ADeadlyAffair philandering gets him murdered]]. But the woman who kills him is not the one whom everyone first suspects: [[spoiler:it's not the wife but the ''mistress'', who was in love with Amyas but realized that for all his dalliances he'd only ever loved his wife]].
33	* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheGreenMile'', there was only one woman on the Mile, who put up with her husband beating her every night but killed him the moment she heard he was cheating on her. Her sentence was commuted to life and she died a free woman.
34	* This is the setup for the Creator/RoaldDahl short story "Literature/LambToTheSlaughter", infamous for its extremely clever TwistEnding [[spoiler:the murder weapon is a frozen leg of lamb, which she then cooks as part of her alibi and serves to the policemen investigating the case, as she "doesn't want it to go to waste"]]. Admittedly, it's stepped up a notch as the husband explains to his wife -- who's ''pregnant with their first child'' -- that he's going to leave her for reasons unmentioned, ending with "And I know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you, but there simply wasn't any other way. Of course I'll give you money and see you're looked after. But there needn't really be any fuss. I hope not, anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job." [[AssholeVictim You might be tempted to konk him too.]]
35	* ''Literature/{{Murderess}}'' features [[ShowWithinAShow a narrative poem]] about a girl who takes bloody revenge against a former lover, sneaking into his room, cutting his throat, and telling him how happy she will be knowing he's dead.
36	* In ''No Way to Treat a First Lady'' by Christopher Buckley, Elizabeth Tyler [=MacMann=] is indicted for murdering her husband, the President of the United States. The last night he was alive, she confronted him over his latest infidelity and left a mark on his forehead with a Paul Revere soup tureen. Subverted when the actual cause of the President's death is determined to be heart failure induced by an overdose of Viagra.
37	* In Susan Dexter's ''The True Knight'', the opening scene is when the queen, having killed the king who sent her away to bring out his mistress openly, now goes to kill his mistress and their daughter. (The daughter is only saved by a ForcedTransformation.)
38	* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', [[DarkActionGirl Mapleshade]] murders her unfaithful mate Appledusk. However, this is only part of her motive; she also does so to avenge their kits whose deaths he blamed her for.
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41	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
42	* The Investigation Discovery program ''Series/DeadlyWomen'' falls under this trope as well.
43	* Since ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'' is about a female prison, some of the inmates who are in for murder are perpetrators of this trope.
44	** We don't know about the man whose penis Frieda [[CripplingCastration cut off with a butcher knife]], but if he survived, he would possibly [[FateWorseThanDeath wish this trope was played straight in his case]].
45	* This trope is the entirety of the Oxygen Channel's ''Series/{{Snapped}}''. Most episodes cover a RealLife case of an abused and/or cheated-on woman who killed her husband (sometimes father). They try not to paint the women in a sympathetic light, but the show still has a "he deserved it" kind of feel.
46	** Sometimes the husband is a saint and the woman is simply tired of being married but doesn't want to go through a divorce, or wants his life insurance policy, or the woman was actually a sociopath. These episodes don't count, though - they're just plain ordinary murder and not relevant to this trope. Women ''do'' sometimes kill people for reasons other than "bad men".
47	* In ''Series/SquidGame'', after [[spoiler:Deok-su]] rejects [[spoiler:Mi-nyeo]], she gets her revenge on him in the fifth game by [[spoiler:grabbing him into a DeadlyHug and [[TakingYouWithMe then pulling him down with her]] off the glass bridge where they plummet to their deaths]]. One of the VIP viewers watching this lampshades it as a fitting and poetic ending for the two of them.
48	* In the ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' episode "Split Personality", it's "''women'' kill man", as the plot involves a con artist who woos twin sisters and deceives them into marrying him separately via a FakeTwinGambit, both [[GoldDigger for their $2 billion inheritance]] and to satisfy his TwinThreesomeFantasy, only to meet his end once said twin sisters find out about his deceit, overpower him when the opportunity presents itself, strap him to a bed, and [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cut him in half]] [[ChainsawGood with a chainsaw]].
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52	* The extended version of Music/GarthBrooks's "The Thunder Rolls" (though the video depicts the husband as being abusive as well as adulterous):
53	-->She runs back down the hallway
54	-->And through the bedroom door
55	-->She reaches for the pistol
56	-->Kept in her dresser drawer
57	-->Tells the lady in the mirror
58	-->He won't do this again
59	-->'Cause tonight will be the last time
60	-->She'll wonder where he's been!
61	* Music/{{Cher}}'s "Dark Lady." Here, the main protagonist is a woman who visits the title character, a fortune teller, distressed over a failing relationship with her boyfriend. Unknown to the woman, the boyfriend has been cheating on her and his lover is the "Dark Lady," although this is not made clear until the end of the song. Using foreshadowing, it is clear that "Dark Lady" becomes nervous over her visitor so, after the rigmarole of dealing cards and mumbling incoherently into a crystal ball, draws two cards, gives the vague clue that the boyfriend has indeed been unfaithful and his lover is "someone else who is very close to you," and then advises her to leave and never return... even forget that she even visited. The woman goes home and tries to get some sleep. Until she accidentally gets a whiff of the smell of the room... it was perfume that was identical to the scent she got at the fortune teller's hut. Curious and wanting answers, she makes a return visit to the Dark Lady... and because she is suspicious as to what is going on, brings along a gun. Those suspicions are confirmed when she walks into the back area of the hut... and finds the boyfriend and "Dark Lady" in each other's arms having sex. They're in a state of sexual ecstasy... until they see the boyfriend's angry girlfriend pointing a gun at them... and the gun is loaded... and it is fired.
62	* The first published version of the MurderBallad "Frankie and Johnny" ("He was her man/But he done her wrong") appeared in 1904.
63	** The Creator/{{UPA}} short ''WesternAnimation/RootyTootToot'' takes place during Frankie's trial. She gets acquitted, then shoots her lawyer for dancing with chanteuse Nelly Bly.
64	* Music/LilKim has killed at least 2 boyfriends in her songs.
65	* In the music video for Music/MelanieMartinez's "Sippy Cup", Cry Baby's mother catches her husband and his mistress together in the middle of the night and stabs them to death. When Cry Baby walks in on the murder scene, her mother presses a chloroform-soaked rag over her mouth and nose to knock her out so she won't remember.
66	* In Pomplamoose's "Bust Your Kneecaps", a girl has been dumped by her boyfriend and she's giving him one last chance to take her back, with deadly consequences if he doesn't. However, it won't be her doing the killing, but her family, who has ties to the Mafia.
67	-->Johnny, there's still time\
68	Together I know, we'd go so far\
69	I'll tell Uncle Rocko\
70	To call off the guys with the crowbars...
71	* Creator/AnnaRussell's songs "Dripping With Gore" and "Two Time Man" are (mild) parodies of this trope as used in country music.
72	* It's heavily implied in Music/{{Carrie Underwood}}'s "Two Black Cadillacs", and made explicit in the music video, that a wife and mistress conspired to murder the philandering husband by cornering him in an alley and running him down with one of the eponymous Cadillacs. On top of that, the video has the car used in the murder exhibit an eerie sentience, such as driving the two women away from the funeral, with them ''in the back seat'', and immediately repairing the damage to itself caused in the crash (a la Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Christine}}''), effectively erasing any evidence of foul play.
73	-->They decided then he’d never get away with doing this to them
74	-->Two black Cadillacs waiting for the right time, the right time...
75	* In the folk song "William Taylor", Taylor is pressed into the navy, so his girlfriend [[SweetPollyOliver dresses as a man to follow him to sea]]. When she finds him, she learns that he's taken up with another woman, and shoots them both.
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79	* Wrestling/IvelisseVelez got her ex-boyfriend [[Wrestling/SamiCallihan Jeremiah Crane]] killed on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground by interfering with a [[GimmickMatches grave consequences]] match he was apart of. She didn't even entertain revenge on him when they broke up, but when Crane [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beat Velez with a hammer]] after she beat the [[Wrestling/KarleePerez woman]] who seduced him away from her in a match, his fate was sealed. He was resurrected by The Reptile Tribe, but [[CameBackWrong not in a good way]], ensuring Crane was gone.[[/folder]]
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81	[[folder:Theatre]]
82	* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''
83	** Three of the "Six Merry Murderesses of the Cook County Jail" from "Cell Block Tango" fall under this trope.
84	*** Annie found out her boyfriend was not only married but was a Mormon with six wives. She poured arsenic into his drink that night.
85	*** Velma walked in on her husband doing the "spread eagle" with her sister Veronica. She killed them both.
86	*** Mona found out her boyfriend's long walks at night were really an excuse to visit his other girlfriends and a boyfriend. He didn't live much longer after that.
87	** A later scene had an heiress shoot her husband when he was in bed with two women. His ImplausibleDeniability just adds to this.
88	* There was Brünhild(e) in Norse mythology and in Music/RichardWagner's ''Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung'', although in this case Siegfried's potion-induced cheating was combined with him forcing her to marry Gunther. And depending on the version of the myth (though not in the opera), he also [[RapeAndRevenge raped her]] to take away her virgin superpowers.
89	* "If You Hadn't, But You Did" from the musical revue ''Theatre/{{Two on the Aisle}}'' has a verse beginning in soap-opera-style bathos and ending with a gunshot. It then turns into an angry ListSong running down the reasons for saying goodbye to her husband, most of them having names like Geraldine and Kate.
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93	* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' when entering the Silver Rush for the first time you see Gloria Van Graff negotiating with an unsatisfied client. She then has one of her {{Mook}}s disintegrate a bound and gagged man [[BlofeldPloy to prove a point]] and cut dialogue reveals he was an ex-lover who cheated on her.
94	* When entering Tatooine's Dune Sea for the first time in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', you encounter Marlena Venn who brags to you about having tampered with her husband's droids before fleeing the planet. You later encounter her husband Tanis and learn that he slept around behind her back for years, and she retaliated by rigging his droids to explode around him should he move. You can help him out, or leave him for dead (which most of your companions, even the LawfulGood Jedi Bastila, recommend doing).
95	* The ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' media series of games, anime, and manga have this going on in some of the bad endings when it's not MurderTheHypotenuse. The most infamous examples involve Makoto being stabbed by Sekai (in both the anime and one of the original game's bad endings), but it also includes Yuuki being beaten to death by ''Kotonoha'' in Cross Days.
96	* According to Jeanette in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', [[spoiler: her "[[SplitPersonality sister]]" Therese murdered their father with a shotgun in a [[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization jealous]] rage after [[ParentalIncest catching the two of them in bed together]].]]
97	* In the ''Blood & Wine'' expansion of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', [[PlayerCharacter Geralt]] meets the Witch of Lynx Crag, who seduced a knight that came to ask for her help with a drought eons ago. When he felt guilty about cheating on his fiancée and tried to return to her, the witch indirectly killed him and says to Geralt, [[IfICantHaveYou "Was I to let another woman have a man who belonged to me? Hmph. I could not abide it."]]
98	** If Geralt angers the witch, then she ends up killing the man who hired him out of spite, showing that you don't even have to be the one who caused the scorn to become a victim.
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101	!!Man Kills Woman
102	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
103	* One of the stories in ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' is about a man who murders his cheating wife and her lover by burying them on the beach at low tide and leaving them to drown.
104	* ''Film/Fracture2007'' begins with the protagonist shooting his wife for cheating on him with a policeman.
105	* In ''Film/TheGrudge'', Saeki Takeo murders his wife in a rage for being attracted to another man.
106	* ''Film/HideAndSeek'' appears to start with a woman's suicide, but it is eventually revealed that her husband murdered her after seeing her kiss another man.
107	* In ''Film/TheMailman'' the protagonist's father killed his wife and her lover, then himself.
108	* In ''Film/NightmareCastle'' a man finds his wife having sex with the gardener and tortures them both to death.
109	* ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfHenryVIII'' includes the fates of Anne and Catherine Howard.
110	* The Music/WillieNelson film ''Red Headed Stranger'' has protagonist Shay, a fallen preacher, gunning down his wife Raysha for running off with another man before wandering and getting involved in the affairs of a single mom and a sheriff who wants him to help fight outlaws.
111	* Subverted in ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'': Andy's wife was cheating on him, and he goes to jail for her murder. Although he did consider killing his wife, he's actually innocent of the crime (someone else got her first).
112	* In ''Film/Star80'', a man murders his wife after finding out she's having an affair and trying to leave him. Sadly based on a true story, and not played as a positive trope.
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115	[[folder:Literature]]
116	* In Creator/OscarWilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol," this is the condemned prisoner's crime.
117	-->He did not wear his scarlet coat,\
118	For blood and wine are red,\
119	And blood and wine were on his hands\
120	When they found him with the dead,\
121	The poor dead woman whom he loved\
122	And murdered in her bed.
123	* ''The Moonlit Road'' by Creator/AmbroseBierce is a ghost story about the murder of a woman and one of the perspectives suggests that her husband strangled her in a jealous rage after seeing a man outside and assuming she was being unfaithful.
124	* In the Literature/SherlockHolmes story "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," this turns out to be the motive for the murder. When a man rejected the overtures of his sister-in-law, she poisoned his wife's mind against him and introduced her to a man with whom she began an affair. He ended up following them and murdering them in a fit of jealous rage.
125	* Part of the backstory in ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' accounting for why Valentine Michael Smith is an orphan. His mother--an ingenious engineer--cheated with the ship's historian and conceived a son. Her husband, the ship's doctor, delivered the baby by Caesarean and let her bleed out. He then killed the man she'd been with [[MurderSuicide and himself]].
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129	* ''Series/DecisionesExtremas'' depicted in the episode "A imagen y semejanza". Gloria cheats on her husband Esteban with another man, which prompts Esteban to murder her before she could run away with said man.
130	* Weirdly appears on ''Series/{{Rome}}'' when Vorenus finds out his grandson is in fact his wife Niobe's son by another man. According to Roman custom at the time it was not only Vorenus' ''right'' to kill her for her infidelity, but it was also what honor demanded (and Vorenus is constantly shown to put HonorBeforeReason). He grabs a knife but doesn't seem like he will be able to actually kill her, so she flings herself off a balcony and takes her own life as a final act of love.
131	* Depictions of the life of UsefulNotes/HenryVIII are likely to include a bit of this since two wives (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard) were executed for adultery, whether true or not. That includes ''Series/TheSixWivesOfHenryVIII'', ''Series/TheTudors'' and ''Series/WolfHall''.
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135	* Ambiguously implied in "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)," a No. 1 country hit by one-hit wonder Leon Ashley in 1967 (and re-recorded many times, including by Music/KennyRogers). The ambiguity comes at the end of the song's second verse, where the cuckolded husband -- having snapped for not knowing why his wife has been unfaithful or what qualities her lover has that he might not -- takes a gun and demands an immediate answer, "''if there's time before I pull this trigger''."
136	* Music/GarthBrooks's "Papa Loved Mama" is presented as comedy. This version is presented from their offspring's POV who remains sympathetic to both their cheating mother ''and'' their cuckolded, murderous father:
137	-->Mama was a looker, lord how she shined
138	-->Papa was a good'n, but the jealous kind
139	-->Papa loved Mama
140	-->Mama loved men
141	-->Mama's in the graveyard
142	-->Papa's in the pen
143	* Appears to be the case in Music/NickCave & the Bad Seeds "We Came Along This Road". The song's lyrics start with "I left by the back door, with my wife's lover's smoking gun" and then describe the protagonist going on the run.
144	* Possibly subverted in Music/TheDarkestOfTheHillsideThickets' "Jimmy the Squid". Jimmy is accused of killing his mate for sleeping with another squid. He says he's innocent.
145	* The third verse of Music/DrDre and Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Guilty Conscience" has the two arguing as [[GoodAngelBadAngel a man's conscience]] on whether or not to kill his cheating wife and her lover (Dre tries to talk him out of it, but Slim Shady is goading him to go ahead). They both agree to do it after Slim calls Dre out on his own past ("You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barnes?").
146	* "Hey Joe", recorded by a number of artists, [[CoveredUp most famously]] by Music/JimiHendrix.
147	* Music/BlakeShelton's "Ol' Red" has this as the reason the protagonist is in prison:
148	-->''Well, I caught my wife with another man\
149	And it cost me ninety-nine\
150	On a prison farm in Georgia\
151	Close to the Florida line''
152	* The ambiguous ending of Music/GeorgeJones' "Radio Lover" can be interpreted as this, involving a cuckolded DJ husband who comes home to catch his wife in bed with another man, and then sings the song's chorus, "The last words they ever heard."
153	* The rap song "Scandalous Hoes II" by Mike Jones, which ends with murdering the woman for cheating, presented as completely justified.
154	* Music/TomJones' "Delilah".
155	* The end of the video for "Down Low" from Music/RKelly featuring [[Music/TheIsleyBrothers Ron Isley]] as Mr. Biggs. After the latter walks in on his wife cheating on him with the former, who was told to keep her company in Biggs's absence but not to touch her, he has the former beaten by his bodyguards and left in the desert. Biggs's wife is found in intensive care, having also been beaten for her infidelity, by a wheelchair-bound R. Kelly, who witnesses her succumb to her injuries.
156	* Played with in "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" (a No. 1 pop hit by Vicki Lawrence and famously covered by Music/RebaMcEntire). A man finds out that his wife's been the town bicycle while he's been gone, and goes to kill her and his friend with whom she was last cheating on him. He gets arrested for it, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title suggests]], gets the death penalty. Subversion: the husband didn't do it. His little sister got to the cheating wife and the friend first.
157	* Music/RichardMarx, "Hazard", ''maybe''. The male character's accused of it, but the truth is intentionally ambiguous.
158	* "E," a piece of CountryMusic by Matt Mason, is a case where it's clearly unjustified being a variation on the folk song [[OlderThanRadio "Matty Groves"]]: the husband (the singer) finds his wife ("you") in bed with her lover, and, instead of just killing them, decides to give them a fighting chance, [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame giving them a car, a gun, and a short chance to run before he comes after them.]]
159	-->[[LampshadeHanging Man, as far as I can tell we might both end up in hell]],
160	-->But [[IllKillYou you're sure as hell goin' first.]]
161	* Threatened in the song "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town"--written by Mel Tillis and recorded by, among others, Music/WaylonJennings and Music/KennyRogers--but the point of the song is that the male character is paralysed, thus why he thinks she's leaving him, and why he can't carry out the threat of "if I could, I'd get my gun and put her in the ground"
162	* "Blood Red and Goin' Down," a No. 1 country hit by Music/TanyaTucker in 1973. Then a winsome teenager, the lyrics of this murder ballad fit Tucker well as a young pre-teen, forced to tag along with her father, who is bloodthirstily angry at his wife after learning she had slept with another man (the latest in a line, as implied by the lyrics). Eventually, the man finds his wife, in the arms of another man, in a ramshackle tavern and carries out his brutal deed... but not before sending the daughter outside. However, unknown to the father, the girl watches the slaying.
163	* "The Cold, Hard Facts of Life," most famously by Porter Wagoner. Here, the cuckolded husband is a traveling businessman whose frequent trips away drive the wife to cheat. He finally finds out when he comes home unexpectedly, hoping to surprise his wife with wine and a romantic dinner... but at the liquor store, he runs into a man that -- unknown to him -- is sleeping with his wife. The ending is clear: the main protagonist stabs his wife and her lover to death, and he's left to rot in a jail cell as he awaits trial.
164	* "She Wore Red Dresses," an album cut and de facto title tune to Dwight Yoakam's 1989 album ''Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room''. Yoakam takes the role of the cuckolded husband, who married a beautiful young woman purely for how sexually enticing she was while wearing red dresses. The lust eventually dies and she walks out on him; betrayed, the angered husband stalks his wife, tracking her down to a lonely hotel, where he finds her asleep in the arms of her lover. After summoning his courage and bitterly cursing his wife, he walks in, holds the gun to his wife's head... and fires before she knows what's going on. "''She wore red dresses/but now she lay dead''."
165	* Music/WarrenZevon's "A Bullet For Ramona".
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169	* A large number of Elizabethan/Jacobean plays, commonly described as "domestic tragedies", culminate in wives being murdered in revenge for their infidelity. Some of these plays had titles like ''A Warning To Fair Women'' or ''A Woman Killed with Kindness''.
170	* Shakespeare's play ''Theatre/{{Cymbeline}}'' deals with a man attempting to kill his wife because he believes she has committed adultery.
171	* ''Theatre/{{Othello}}'' is about a man being driven by his own paranoid jealousy to murder his wife for her perceived infidelity.
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175	* PlayedForLaughs in one of the in-game books in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]''. A Dark Elf man returns home to find his wife cheating on him and murders her in a rage. When questioned at his trial why he murdered his wife instead of her lover, he replies, "I thought it better to kill one woman than to kill a different man every night."
176	* PlayedForDrama in ''VideoGame/PrisonArchitect'', which opens with you executing a prisoner who found his wife in bed with another man, responding by shooting them both dead.
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179	!!Attempted Murder/Other
180	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
181	* Discussed and [[PlayedForLaughs Played for]] BlackComedy in ''Manga/SPYxFamily''. In the second chapter/episode, when Yor meets Loid for the first time, she's about to ask him to pose as her fake boyfriend at a party, only for Anya to show up calling him "Daddy". Yor assumes Loid is a married man and thinks to herself that his wife could try to kill her for this... before adding that she'd probably kill Loid's wife first if that happened (as she is a ProfessionalKiller, [[HitmanWithAHeart albeit one with a heart]] who would NeverHurtAnInnocent).
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186	* In ''Film/AdamsRib'', a wife shoots her husband after finding another woman in his arms, but he survives. Her defense attorney Amanda Bonner gets the jury to excuse her actions under the DoubleStandard grounds that a man shooting at an unfaithful wife would not be judged so harshly. Keep in mind that this movie was made in 1949.
187	* PlayedForLaughs with Jake's unnamed ex-fiancée in ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' who spends the course of the movie trying to kill him ([[GuiltByAssociationGag and his brother]], who didn't even ''know'' her) with military hardware after he [[RunawayBride ditched her at their expensive wedding]] over three years prior.
188	* Almost taken to downright ludicrous extremes in ''Film/IronSky'': So Klaus Adler, new self-appointed [[ThoseWackyNazis Moon Nazi]] Führer, had a fling with Vivian Wagner who works for the President of the U.S. He cuts it short, though, and returns to the Moon -- without her. Big mistake. Vivian has herself promoted to the position of Captain of the space battleship U.S.S. ''George W. Bush'' with the clear intent to dump, quote, "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill dozens of megatons]] of [[NukeEm nuclear warheads]]" on, quote again, "Klaus' kraut ass." [[DisproportionateRetribution Just because]] ''he'' dumped ''her''. It's just awfully convenient that Klaus happens to be launching an all-out invasion on Earth right then which ''George W. Bush'' has to help fend off before Vivian can nuke the Moon Nazi base to kingdom come. What actually ends up killing Klaus is [[spoiler:his girlfriend Renate slamming one of her stiletto heels into his forehead]].
189	* In ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', Theodora brings down Oz's hot-air balloon down in flames. He wasn't on it.
190	* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' after Rose jumps out of the last lifeboat onto the ship to be with Jack, Cal is shown looking extremely jealous as they embrace, so much so that he takes a gun and shoots at them, intending to kill them both.
191	* In ''Film/UnfaithfullyYours'' a man becomes convinced his wife is cheating on him, so he invents schemes to murder her in revenge. Things don't work out as expected.
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195	* In ''Literature/DragonBones'', Bastilla tries to get a man killed simply for rejecting her and then being vaguely interested in some other woman. More precisely, she puts a spell on Penrod, so that he stabs Ward in the back after Ward ''dared'' to reject her and smile at Tisala. Penrod is then killed by Tosten, in order to save Ward. Maybe she had planned for Penrod's death, as she still needs Ward, and killing Penrod in this way causes him severe emotional pain. She's a villain, and not exactly well-adjusted, mentally.
196	* This trope comes up in ''Literature/LetMeCallYouSweetheart'', and is ultimately {{defied\|trope}}. Namely, when Charles Smith found his daughter Suzanne had been fatally strangled, he believed her husband killed her for having an affair. He believed that a jury would be more sympathetic towards her husband if they knew of her infidelity, so he [[HideTheEvidence hid the evidence of her affair]] – including some jewellery her lover gave her and a note he'd sent her – then testified that as far as he knew Suzanne was a faithful wife who was afraid of her husband's jealous rages. Consequently, Skip received life in prison despite insisting that his father-in-law was lying. The irony is that Skip ''didn't'' kill Suzanne and Smith's actions have enabled the real murderer to get away with it.
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200	* One episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' revolved around trying to find out who placed [[ExternalCombustion a bomb in a rental car that killed an Air Marshal]]. While it was originally presumed to be some kind of terrorist act, it turns out that it was placed by a science teacher who got murderously pissed that her husband had a second secret family complete with children. Her attempt got screwed because [[SpannerInTheWorks the rental car's clock was badly wired, which made the bomb go off several hours later than planned]].
201	* Played with in a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode where the plot goes both ways - a male character sees himself cheated on, murders both parties, and commits suicide, then a female character goes through the exact same scenario and reacts the same way. In actuality, both characters were caught up in the psychic playback of events that happened to someone else in the past. And that someone else was not presented as justified, but as disturbed.
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205	* In ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'', the Duke attempts to murder the young Duchess for sleeping with the player character. However, he will do this whether or not the infidelity has actually taken place, being pretty much off his rocker, and in either case, he is prevented from succeeding.
206	* Required as part of the Goblin newbie zone in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' regardless of gender - you have a romantic partner, that romantic partner then leaves you for someone else, and you have to hunt them down and rip out their cheating heart.
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210	* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', Lex Luthor begins dating LadyOfBlackMagic Tala, who later betrays him for not paying enough attention to her. In response, he kills her by using her as a LivingBattery in his plan to [[ResurrectTheVillain resurrect Brainiac]] but she sabotages it by resurrecting ''[[GodOfEvil Darkseid]]'' instead to get her revenge from beyond the grave. She ultimately succeeded, as Lex performs a HeroicSacrifice to save mankind as a result.
211	* Nearly occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Hanky Panky". After Buck Strickland dumps [[DumbBlonde Debbie Grund]] to get back together with his wife, she waits to ambush them with a shotgun in a dumpster [[TooDumbToLive but winds up shooting herself by accident]].
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