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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)

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  • Baby Be Mine: In this story, Taylor snapped over becoming sterile from the pregnancies and abortions she got while sleeping around and tried to steal a young mother's baby, only to get the cops called on her when said mother screamed for help. As a result, Taylor ended up in jail for misconduct charges.
  • The Baby Trap:
    • "My best friend stole my fiancé...": Rachel suggests Thea do this to the latter's boyfriend (who is the former's ex-boyfriend) in order to avoid being dumped. Thea tries to pull this at his workplace, which resulted in the man being let go. He tried to apply for work elsewhere only for the same to occur there too. Furthermore, he couldn't take it anymore and ran away.
    • "Wife suddenly wanted to sleep with me after being sexless for a year…": Macy suddenly wanted to sleep with her husband Trevor after being sexless for a year, though he suspects that his wife is cheating on him, so he jokingly asks her if she is having an affair, only to be met with a horrified face from her, confirming his suspicions. It turns out the reason Macy asked Trevor to sleep with her was that she was already pregnant with her lover Chris's baby and tried to make Trevor believe that he was the father of the baby.
    • "This girl accused me of getting her pregnant, even though I was a virgin": Maria Ackerage comes up to Taylor and reveals she's pregnant with his child, which caused his reputation to plummet. However, her scheme falls apart when Taylor reveals he's a virgin and Mr. Garrison reveals it's his child, and then his friend Melanie finishes it off by playing a recording of Maria's threats. It turns out the girl planned to marry Mr. Garrison until she broke up with him after finding out Taylor's promising future in baseball.
    • "My girlfriend cheated on me with a married man and got herself pregnant": Three months after Ted broke up with Sarah for having an affair with another guy, she called him for a meetup to announce she's pregnant and it's his child, but Ted didn't buy it for a second. When he asks her what happened with her lover, Sarah replies that he ran off after telling him she was pregnant; he was married with a kid. However, Ted was having none of it and rejected her.
    • "My girlfriend got pregnant, and when we went to tell her parents...": Karen suddenly told her boyfriend David that she was pregnant with his child. However, David didn't buy it for a second because he was infertile. When he came to Karen's house with his parents, who were certified doctors, they revealed the truth to Karen's parents. After Karen's father blew up on her before bringing her to David's family house to apologize, she revealed that a lover of hers got her pregnant yet he refused to marry her, driving her to trick David into raising the baby. Moreover, since David was the son of doctors, Karen thought this would get her set for life.
    • "My girlfriend got pregnant, so I asked my friends for advice": Marcus' girlfriend, Glenda, suddenly announced she was pregnant. When he told it to his friends, Samuel and Linda, the latter caught on and revealed she had come up to another man earlier on with the same lie and the maternity notebook she came up at him with was her older sister's. Later on, when Marcus disproved Linda's assumption and kept working as if nothing happened, Samuel called Marcus for a meeting. Linda revealed that the baby was from Mr. Miller, head of the sales department. It turns out the reason why Glenda tricked Marcus was that Mr. Miller dumped her as he was already engaged to the CEO's niece.
  • Bad Boss:
    • "I got back at my boss at her wedding for harassing me at work": Karen bullied her co-workers to the point where some of them quit. The protagonist decided to record her actions and sent them in on the day of her wedding with her fiance. As a result, she was fired, dumped, and disowned by her family.
    • "The CEO threatened to fire me if I missed work to attend my mother’s funeral": The new CEO harassed his employees, particularly protagonist Jessica Connelly. He denied her request to take off work for her mother's funeral and when she went anyway, the CEO kept sending messages mocking her and her mother. Soon, Jessica has had enough of the CEO's mistreatment and quit her job. Eventually, the other employees left, leading to the company collapsing.
  • Bad Influencer:
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Jill beat the neighbor's dog over the head with a shovel despite being a little girl. However, the dog's owner called the cops on her for it.
  • Benevolent Boss: When the MC and his boss arrive at his house early and catch his wife cheating, the boss immediately calls his wife (who had helped someone else with the same issue before) to get advice and immediately leaves to get something to record the evidence at her suggestion. When his wife reveals that she had been seeing the affair partner’s car at the MC’s house for the past few months, she and the boss help the MC confront the cheating couple by bringing the evidence they had gathered along with some coworkers to keep the pair from leaving and allows the MC to stay with them afterwards, encouraging him to sue his cheating wife.
  • Best Friends-in-Law: "An important dress that my mother sewed for me was ripped in half..." - Ali's mother-in-law treated her like a real daughter unlike her father-in-law and her sister-in-law Blair.
  • Big Brother Instinct: When Geoff chewed Jean out over the phone for submitting the divorce papers he brought to threaten her into tending to her abusive mother-in-law, her older brother Paxton took her phone and tore him apart for his stunt. Months after the divorce when Geoff tried to break into the siblings' parents' house, Paxton threw him into the ground and chewed him out again.
  • Big Sister Bully: Ashley from "My older sister always liked stealing my boyfriends. At my wedding, she attacked me, and…" picked on her younger sister, Nancy, for being fat and went out of her way to steal any potential boyfriend from her to rub it in. Moreover, she even tried to sabotage Nancy's weight-loss efforts. When she failed to steal Thomas, Ashley escalated her efforts to the point of sabotaging Nancy's wedding day by revealing her past photos and accusing her of getting plastic surgery. When that failed, she assaulted the bride before proceeding to ruin her makeup and dress in an attempt to embarrass her.
  • Big Eater:
    • In this story, a man always orders a lot of food at restaurants and can finish it in one sitting without taking any leftovers.
    • "My cousin was selfish and ended up ruining her own wedding": Melanie's stuck-up cousin Karen liked to eat tons of junk food, especially sweets. This caused her to gain weight easily and get into conflicts with her fiancé Ken, who wanted her to watch her weight to fit in the tight-fitting dress she chose for her wedding.
  • Big "NO!":
  • Bitch Slap: In "My parents treated me poorly," Katie attempts to make her parents focus back on her after Ali's rich husband bought them what they wanted, only to be slapped for talking back. Being spoiled all her life until that moment, she broke down crying and left the house for half a year.
  • Bittersweet Ending:
    • "Someone comes to our door, and then my mom tells me to lock myself up in my bedroom": Hiroshi is only given a suspended sentence for his Attempted Rape of Takako due to his mental disability and Takako herself is still attending therapy to deal with all the sexual harassment Hiroshi did. However, Hiroshi’s father divorced his mother, who fully enabled said harassment and the attempted rape, and moved away with his son, ending both his harassment and his mother’s enabling for good. And Takako finally gets engaged to the man who stayed with her for ten years, finally confident that she would be able to love a man.
    • "A girl got injured so I called her mom but she wouldn't pick up. I took her home and...": Suzy ends up having to move away with her father so his parents can help raise her, despite her teacher’s hopes that she will stay. However, her father was able to successfully divorce his cheating wife, getting the alimony that he deserves, and Suzy and the teacher exchanged addresses before Suzy moved away, allowing them to communicate through letters.
  • Blackmail: In Shannon's wedding speech, she revealed that the bride Lillian secretly took photos of her doing it with a man that she forced Shannon to do, because she wanted to buy a gift for her boyfriend. She threatened Shannon that she would reveal the photos to her parents unless she did what she said.
  • Blaming the Cuckold: In stories centered on infidelity, the cheater will blame their affair on the spouse/partner they cheated on, with their reasons boiling down to the cheated being poor, ugly, not having good performance in bed, or a mix of these reasons.
  • Blue with Shock: The antagonists turn blue in their faces upon finding out they're screwed.
  • Bratty Teenage Daughter: Ali verbally abused her father since she got into high school and even sold his stuff to buy a designer bag. Things escalated when she entered the restaurant where he was treated to a dinner by his boss, which caused him to be harassed by both his boss and his family. When he reveals that she was born out of an affair, Ali changes gears and begs him to not divorce her.
  • Bridal Carry: Deconstructed in this story, Jack's coworker holds the former's wife in this way until the man himself surprises them with his presence, startling the lover into dropping her to the floor. Since the sudden drop caused her to break her hip, the wife not only had a miscarriage but also became paraplegic.
  • Brother–Sister Incest: "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 couldn't get over his high-school crush even after her gang boyfriend beat him to a pulp. As a result of no longer being able to move on, the BIL rapes his sister, Ore's wife, and threatens her into submission. When Ore finds out, he beats the BIL up before crushing the brat's exposed testicles with his bare hands.
  • Bullying the Disabled:
    • "Bride kicks out my brother saying that he is a cripple": Kendra bullied and kicked Rhea's brother Stephen out of her wedding for having to use a cane to walk. She ends up paying for it dearly when her husband Maxwell threatens to divorce her and she is about to be fired since it's revealed Stephen was Maxwell's best friend and the famous CEO of a huge company.
    • "During a live broadcast of the Happy Family Project, I sent out an SOS signal": Connor bullied his paraplegic wife Ashley alongside his mother and forced her to do the chores even when heavily pregnant and disabled. The bullying worsened when she gave birth to her son William. While he was kind to her whenever his mom wasn't around, even this aspect of his completely vanished when his island company became popular.
    • "I went to my fiancé's house to see his parents, but what they made me do was unbelievable": Charles accused the OP of this after she found out they wanted her to relieve his disabled brother Denny and got chased down by him while running back home. However, Charles' accusation falls flat on its face as he also allows his father to hit Denny for his tantrums.
    • "Passed out after falling while pregnant, waking up in hospital…": Melanie's mother-in-law bullied and shamed her for having a prosthetic leg. When she told her husband Skyler about this, he got livid and held his mom to task for it. When she became pregnant, the MIL became much nicer to her until she was in her last month of pregnancy, when Melanie fell off a chair while her MIL had her changing a lightbulb.
    • "My husband tried to kill my blind son by putting him in a coffin": The blind Ashton was abused and even stuffed into his grandfather's coffin by his stepfather until the time of cremation to make his mom despair and give up the inheritance to him.
    • "Sister-in-law tells me not to come to their wedding because I'm disabled": After Noah introduced his fiancée Aria to his disabled younger sister Lily, she seemed kind. However, Aria later barred Lily from attending her wedding and even requested money from her on top of that. When Noah found out about his fiancée's true colors, he calls off the engagement and it was revealed her mother was in a wheelchair because she was playing a game on her phone while driving, which led her to hit a pole that fell on the passenger seat.
    • "Mother-in-law “You can eat grass! And that baby is just disgusting!” I was malnourished...": Rose bullied her daughter-in-law Jill for being mentally disabled. When the latter's husband found out, he joined in on the abuse rather than defending her. Even when Jill became pregnant, they worked her like a slave and were surprised because she didn't try to run away after having the baby, driving the mother-son duo to escalate the abuse by starving both of them. This finally drove Jill to run away the moment the duo left the house.
    • "My son's fiancée was a monster and we caught her violence on tape": After Ken introduced her to his mother, Rhea, Mia came back to insult Rhea's cooking and bar her from attending her wedding because she was in a wheelchair. Later on, she shoved Rhea off her wheelchair after finding out she tried to warn Ken about her.
  • Business Trip Adultery:
  • But Liquor Is Quicker: The antagonist from "The guy in my tennis club was trying to get girls drunk so he could sleep with them..." is an asshole who picked up girls to get them plastered and bed them. While the girls try to make sure to keep their parties secret, he eventually finds out and targets Katie, the new girl. Much to his dismay, Katie had a high alcohol tolerance, and by the time everyone went to the next bar he took her to, she was still lucid and the bastard was drunk asleep.

    C 
  • Calling the Old Man Out: In stories where parents are the villains, the child will call them out on their selfish behavior.
  • Cane Fu: "My husband tried to force me to take care of his abusive mother, so I divorced him" - Despite being afflicted with back pain, Jean Oregano's abusive mother-in-law was still capable of dealing nasty blows on her with her walking cane, enough to break her bones. When Jean took the cane out of the old crone's hands, she went back to verbally abusing her.
  • Can't Hold Her Liquor: Sukami was a bad drunk, which the female protagonist exploits by getting her too drunk to attend her wedding in revenge for planting her brother at the altar and driving him into a catatonic, depressed vegetable.
  • Caught on Tape: In this story, when Karen came over to Brad's house with her parents to chew him out for calling off the wedding after seeing her frenching one of her guy friends at the after party, his friend Jack (the OP's brother) showed them the recording of the affair, causing Karen's parents to turn on her for it.
  • Chased Off into the Sunset:
    • "My sister slept with my husband…": After Ali's abusive family ends up in financial ruin because of her cheating older sister's reckless lifestyle, the sister is last shown being chased down by other women (who are implied to be her lovers' wives) as Ali herself narrates that her sister got multiple lawsuits in her hands for having multiple affairs.
    • "I rushed home because my house was on fire... My wife lied that she was at home...": After Max divorces his cheating wife, Anna, and sues her for compensation after their daughter Emma accidentally started a fire because Anna left her alone for her lover, she is last shown chased down by other women as Max explains she had affairs with married men as well.
  • Cheater Gets Cheated On:
  • Childhood Friends: In this story, the OP was friends with A since childhood.
  • Chocolate Baby: In "My wife was having an affair with multiple men, and when the baby was born...," a man's hopes to become a new father are dashed upon finding out his wife gave birth to a black baby. Turns out she had a relationship with a student back in her job as a Japanese language teacher. It's also revealed that she had slept with other four men, all of them black as well.
  • Closet Shuffle:
    • "I caught my friend sniffing my wife's underwear in the closet naked": C screamed her lungs out after finding Mr. A naked in the closet with her underwear in his head while he was sniffing on it; he lusted after her even though she was married. When C yanked her underwear from his hands to keep him from further smelling it, he knocked her onto the floor with a slap. This drove the OP to restrain him while C called Mr. A's wife to deal with the situation.
    • "Someone broke into our home…": Katie and her husband find Blair hiding inside their closet and found out she was stealing their belongings. When the couple asked her what she was doing in there, Blair told her it was because she mistakenly thought Katie was a single mom and just stole stuff for her daughter, who attended the same daycare as Katie's daughter Allie. However, she calls the cops on Blair and later on, finds out it wasn't her first time stealing.
  • Color Failure:
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: In this story, the OP punishes both his cheating wife and her boyfriend by faking a business trip and messaging her that he's going home early to trick the lovebirds into leaving the hotels they booked, then give her a false alarm before repeating the cycle. By the time the wife came back home, she was all worn out before OP served her with divorce papers.
  • Compilation Movie: Both the Japanese and English versions of the channel upload compilations of past videos which last around one hour.
  • Condescending Compassion: "I asked my wife to go on a date. She was surprised to see the man she was cheating on with" features a spiteful variant. When Bob finds out about Emily’s affair with Kevin, he brings her to the hospital where Kevin is, mockingly cooing at her at ‘how happy’ she must be to see and comfort Kevin. When they leave, Bob then ‘does Emily a favor’ by bringing her to her ‘new home’, AKA, Kevin’s apartment, and then presents her with the divorce papers, still cooing to Emily about how happy she must be that he was letting her go to be with her true love and not to worry about the divorce, proudly proclaiming that her tears must be out of gratitude for his ‘kindness’.
  • Crazy Jealous Guy: Ali's boyfriend was mentally unstable and verbally abused her whenever she was trying to go out alone or with someone who wasn't him.

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    E 
  • Education Mama:
    • "My wife wouldn't let our son have his bank book. Turns out she was secretly using it": Bradley's mom pressed him to study hard and even refused to let him manage his bankbook under the excuse he will squander it all on himself and will give it back to him when he's married. However, Bradley's dad investigated her and found out she used the bankbook's money to cheat on him.
    • "My dad was screwing my wife. My mom was congratulating them...": Jack's parents pushed him hard to study since he hated school and had poor grades, but their attempts failed. Conversely, his younger brother, Bruce, had the best grades in school and was always at the top of the class, which drove the couple to play favorites with them, treating Bruce more favorably despite his protests.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: Jill attended her first date with Jack wearing a black outfit of this type on a hot sunny day. Predictably, she collapsed from a heat stroke but he couldn't do anything because she called him a pervert until the ambulance came. It turns out she wore these kinds of outfits because of the burn scars she had from childhood.
  • Enfante Terrible:
  • Entitled Bastard: When karma strikes the antagonist, they will demand the protagonist to help them usually citing family duties:
    • A woman's sister-in-law looked down on her for living in the countryside and her brother did nothing to stop it. When the brother's house collapsed due to an earthquake, the sister-in-law demanded the woman pay to repair the house, but she refused.
    • "When my parent's died, my brother-in-law demanded my inheritance": The OP's brother-in-law demanded her inheritance when her parents died after his entire family chewed him out because his wife screwed them all out of a luxurious home after she found out. Moreover, he even went as far as to threaten her into surrendering the house. This became the last straw for the wife and she divorced him, kicking his entire family out as well.
    • A woman’s husband not only refuses to leave his colleague’s drinking party when his wife’s water breaks or see his newborn son afterward, but also demands that she come home sooner just so she can cook and do the chores even though it was a life-threatening delivery. When he calls a few days later to let her know he is coming, she immediately asks him to bring a pen along so they could fill out the divorce papers.
    • A mother steals her son’s operation money and runs away, causing his death. 20 years she comes back asking the MC for her kidney and when the MC decides to meet her at a coffee shop, the mother assumes she’s agreed to the donation and brings her new family along to thank her. Instead, the MC makes it very clear to her that she’s not going be getting the kidney because of what she did to her brother and the mother’s left exposed to her family and left to die.
  • Ephebophile:
  • Evil Cripple: Helen from "My sister stole my fiancé from me and tried to make me look like the bad person" was born with a disabled hand, which impeded her from doing certain tasks, for which their parents badgered her younger sister, Sarah, into doing. This resulted in Helen becoming spoiled rotten to the point of slandering Sarah to the latter's fiancé, Ryan, as a mean younger sister. Unfortunately, Ryan falls for it and visits the family's house to announce he's going to dump Sarah and marry Helen instead, with Helen gloating all the way to the wedding, where Sarah exposes her to the guests.
  • Evil-Detecting Dog: One of the earlier episodes has the main character bringing his girlfriend, Jill, home to meet his dog, Luna, only for Luna to immediately hate her. While the main character does notice Jill’s faults and later dumps her, he soon finds out afterward that Jill was going after multiple men to try to sleep with them and then scam them out of their money for abortion fees. While it’s never made clear if Luna’s aggravation was due to her smelling Jill’s pregnancy or seeing through her, the main character admits that she saved him from potentially getting scammed.
  • Extra Digits: "I gave birth to a child with 6 fingers…" - the OP's newborn baby was found to have six fingers in one hand. While it was a healthy birth, she worried about what would happen because of said trait until her sister-in-law came to visit and fawned over the baby after seeing its six-fingered hand.
  • Extreme Doormat: "My sister-in-law stays and eats in our house and tried to move in, so I said…": The OP's husband, John, is actually a pushover who lets his older sister freeload off of their house. Moreover, he didn't even say anything when his sister remodeled the house for herself regardless of the OP's wishes. Enraged by her husband's pathetic behavior, OP divorces John and sells the house to make sure the sister won't leech off of her again.
  • Extremely Protective Child: "The time when my cousin made fun of me for being poor and tried to cut ties with me" - Sukami becomes livid with A-ko whenever the latter disses the former's hardworking mother for being poor, even while boasting about marrying a rich man.

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