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In a cathartic series centered around revenge, those who inflict domestic violence on their partners are also among the typical targets for karma's wrath. Thereby it warrants Revenge Films a Domestic Abuse page of its own.


  • '"He's been treating me like this for 2 years..." We hid in the closet to catch him red-handed': Priscilla was called by her sister due to missing a memorial service at her parent's place. At the service, she removed her jacket revealing bruises left by her husband Thiago. Her parents are infuriated and they demanded a divorce.
  • "My family was talking sh*t about me behind my back, so I left them": Kaitlin was constantly abused by her husband, her son, and her mother-in-law for not being a good enough housewife and therefore hating her for being a working woman. Later on, Kaitlin snooped on her son's computer and found out the three of them conspired to murder her and take the insurance money for themselves.
  • "My sister hanged herself": Daisuke was a domineering bastard who beat his wife, who was Yuriko's sister, and then apologized to her while promising it won't happen. This vicious cycle almost caused her to take her own life, as she was tired of his abuse. Yuriko's sister revealed he was teaching in a troublesome middle school and took it out on her, but after Daisuke gets caught, his parents revealed he was like this since childhood.
  • "During a live broadcast of the Happy Family Project, I sent out an SOS signal": Connor started to hit his paraplegic wife Ashley when he became a rich CEO, even going as far as joining in on his mom's bullying of her, such as shoving her off her wheelchair and force her to get up as the mother-son duo laughed.
  • "After grandma died, my dad decided to divorce my mom She was of no use for him anymore" [sic]: OP's mother was abused by her husband and mother-in-law until the latter died when OP was in junior high. However, the bastard whipped divorce papers at their mother for "failing as a housewife". As a result, the OP's brother exposed their father's affair with another woman.
  • "I couldn’t stand my husband anymore, so I turned in the divorce papers without telling him": Emily is a housewife who was constantly abused and cheated on by her chauvinistic husband Kevin. When she went to the hospital to visit her infirm grandmother, he flipped his lid at her and showed her already-signed divorce papers to threaten her. However, she signed them as well and submitted them to the city hall before moving out.
  • "Husband didn’t come to the hospital when I gave birth, and asked where his meals were": The FMC's husband abused her even when she had morning sickness from being pregnant, even treating her like a housemaid and treating her sickness as an excuse to get out of house chores.
  • "Husband “DO NOT ENTER MY ROOM!” I was ready to divorce him, so I went in...": Ken physically, verbally, financially, and sexually abused his wife when she revealed their son was born with asthma.
  • "My husband looks down on me because I'm a woman": OP's husband tried to hit her, only for her to somehow guard herself and knocked him down on his ass with a punch. Turns out she trained as a boxer in the past, but she apologized only for the bastard never speaking to her and eventually asking her to let him hit her, which led her to divorce him.
  • "My sister came crying to us for help…": Ali's husband abused her for anything and everything on top of his mom bullying her for not having sons and his dad lusting after her. When she tried to escape, she got caught and locked in her room and got her kids taken away from her to keep her from running away.
  • 'Brother-in-law “My wife overspends! She spends like $300 on food every month!”': Joey treated his wife Charlotte like a slave and always accused her of leeching off of him due to working at a company that served as a front for a cult that preached working for meaning instead of money.
  • "My husband cheated on my while I was pregnant so I tried to divorce him but...": Sienna's husband squandered the money she saved up for her upcoming baby on drinking and cheating, even beating her up whenever she protested his abuse, which caused her to file a divorce. However, the abusive ex-husband was still confident that she would eventually come back to him someday.
  • "My abusive husband hits me, and I finally snap": The OP's husband verbally and financially abused her, not even letting her communicate with other people or do anything that could harm his reputation. Moreover, he told her mother lies about her to isolate her even further. Eventually, she couldn't take it anymore and chewed him out for all of it only to be punched in retaliation.
  • "My husband forced me to do chores despite my terrible morning sickness": Thomas and his mom abused his wife Rachel for not "doing her best" on doing housework despite being clearly sick from her pregnancy. It all came to a head when she collapsed near the supermarket because Thomas forced her to go back there because she bought frozen food. After the doctor diagnosed her with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that increases the risk of miscarriage. After this revelation, she resolves to make the mother-son duo pay.
  • "I got a creepy message from my teacher, so I forwarded it to the group chat, and…": Katie's mom was verbally and physically abused by her husband and didn't do anything about it because earlier on, he threatened to go after Katie if she reported him to the police. However, one of her coworkers noticed her scars and called the cops on the bastard. Thus Katie's mom took advantage of the situation and divorced him. However, Katie was so distraught she decided to become a lawyer to bring people like her father to justice.
  • "My husband stomped on my glasses and stranded me in the parking lot...": Shawn was intially a loving husband, but stress from work started to get to him over time and he started to physically take it out on the MC. Eventually when she was left at the parking lot by Shawn and his mother, her son called the police and she divorced him soon after.

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