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Revenge Films / Tropes M to R

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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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  • Mama Bear: "Mom told me to take the fall for my sister…" features a backfiring example of this trope. When Katie and Ali's mother pushed the former toward the shop owner so she'll take the fall for the latter's shoplifting, he said the thief was bigger. This triggered the woman's maternal instincts and she accidentally confessed it was Ali who stole, effectively blowing her scheme.
  • Miles Gloriosus: A blonde guy complains that he found a strand of hair in his food, however none of the staff or other customers have blonde hair. The guy tried to threaten the restaurant with the Revenge gang's wrath, which he claims to be a part of. Adam calls his bluff and called the head of the gang. They were not happy with the blond guy's actions and took him away. The next time the blonde man was seen, he was shaven and begging the restaurant to forgive him.
  • Minimalism: Becomes a plot point in this story, where a man's sudden, fanatical minimalist tendencies escalated to the point where he threw away his wife's work equipment. Naturally, this causes a fight between them until his sister is called over and throws his things away to teach him a lesson.
  • Mistaken for Cheating:
    • 'Hidden camera footage of cheating wife revealed at wedding→ “Cancel the marriage!”': Jill was mistaken for a cheater right on her wedding day when audio of her screwing her ex-boyfriend played on the screen instead of their friends' greeting. However, her boyfriend and groom is the only one who believes her and set off to prove her innocence. Eventually, it turns out the culprit was Jill's mother.
    • "My husband's colleague accused me of having an affair…": Blair was mistaken for a cheater by her husband's coworker, who believed women were liars. When he accused her of cheating to her face, she was understandably mad at him only for the ex to side with the friend and conclude the baby wasn't his. When she asked her husband for a divorce, he still accused her of cheating only for the DNA test to prove he is the father, but it was too late to beg for mercy.
    • "My wife took the kids and left while I was at work. Did I do something?": Noah's wife accused him of cheating on her when she saw another woman asking hugging him on February 14. Moreover, when Noah's wife turned to his former sister-in-law for help, she told the distraught woman this was the case. However, it turns out the "lover" was a temp worker and wanted relationship advice, and he didn't even hold her when she hugged him. Furthermore, the reason the ex-SIL divorced his brother was that she saw a woman among his coworkers at the work reunion picture he had to take, which enraged her.
  • Modesty Towel: In some stories, cheating women are depicted wearing these after the act. Sometimes they're used as a convenient censor for nudity.
  • Ms. Red Ink:
  • Mugging the Monster: In "My brother married a woman who was nothing but trouble to us and..." Blair stole all of Alex's silver rings and sold them all for a high price. When Alex asks her about the rings, she nonchalantly tells him what she did, causing him to knock her onto the floor with a slap and lift her by the neck. Moreover, he constantly slapped her every time she talked back while asking her about his rings over and over again until her face was swollen. This traumatized Blair to the point she hid in her room whenever Alex was around and even helped with the chores at some point.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: Near the end of '“It’s your fault!” I asked my cheating wife for a divorce, she asked for alimony...': After OP and his lawyer had the former's wife's lover agree to pay compensation after confessing he was married and apologizing for his fling, the cheating wife snapped and rushed to her boyfriend's house, broke into his window and tried to hurt the man's wife only to get arrested for her crime. Moreover, her already fed-up parents forced her to accept the divorce and the couple paid him the damages.
  • My Beloved Smother: Jill's mother tried to break up her daughter's marriage to Jack since she felt lonely. Since she bugged the entire house to record Jill's conversations, she burned the audio of her screwing her ex into a CD to play at her wedding to this effect. When she got caught and Jack proclaimed he was getting married to Jill, she cried and then proceeded to stalk Jack with the intent of slandering and eventually killing him, which became the last straw for Jill.

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  • Pædo Hunt:
    • In the episode "During a child custody battle due of my wife's affair, my son said something unbelievable" [sic]: John Smith's elder daughter revealed her future stepfather was leering at her. Later on, the ex-wife broke up with the manager after finding out he was arrested for possession of child porn.
    • "42-year-old college student is a spoiled perv": In his attempts to prey on young-looking girls, Timothy volunteered to lead an open campus where he met an actual high school girl, following her to her school so he could have his way with her. Thankfully, Timothy's attempt was foiled by the girl's much bigger friend, but his refusal to back down got the cops called on him, causing him to get arrested after the girl filed a complaint, thus he stopped coming altogether.
  • Panty Thief: In this story, C found Mr. A naked in the closet sniffing her underwear. Turns out Mr. A lusted after her even though she was married. The last straw was when he slapped C, which drove the OP to call Mr. A's wife. Years later, C was still affected by the incident and told her teenage daughter to hide her underwear.
  • Papa Wolf: Jake Clark from "The Police and I arrive at my ex-wife's house to see…" rushed to his ex-wife Penny's house after she calls him about their daughter Claire being assaulted by her stepfather. He speeded to the point of being stopped by the police, but he communicated his situation to the officer and they both went to stop the crime. Jake beat the bastard up to the point where the officer had to restrain him.
  • Parental Abandonment: Tilly's parents divorced, leaving her father the custody of her sister. However, her mother refused to take her in because she would get in the way of her new relationship.
  • Parental Incest: Ted from "My husband was doing it with his own mother..." is such a Momma's Boy he was willing to cheat on Mary with his own mother.
  • Parental Neglect: In "My husband ignores our baby saying it looks like him… and gets what he deserves", the OP's husband neglected their daughter because "she looked like him" since he had a complex about his face. Even when the OP tried to get him to change his ways, he refused to the point she was fed up with him and demanded a divorce.
  • The Pig-Pen: Ms. Geek didn't take baths leading to her stinking up the classroom and her classmates being at a loss at what to do. When the girls were accused of bullying Ms. Geek when they tried to persuade her to take a bath, one of the girls, Chiho Mubita had enough and dragged her to the girl's bathroom and force-cleaned her along with the other girls.
  • Passionate Sports Girl: The FMC from "The girls that bullied me is backed by the school, but my sister brings justice to them" was a high school dropout who excelled in sports but fell behind in academics, unlike her older sister. However, she excelled in tennis thanks to her sister's encouragement.
  • Plastic Bitch:
  • Playing Sick: Nancy from "My sister tried to steal my fiancé from me but my fiancé chose to be with me" is revealed to have been faking her medical condition as Sarah and Fred find out she climbed up a balcony to their apartment to plant a hidden camera. When the young couple reported it to the cops, they showed up at Sarah's family house but their parents still defended Nancy. However, they turn on her when the cops show footage of her crime and let her be put behind bars for trespassing.
  • Playing the Family Card: Every story involving toxic relatives has them play the family card whenever they need the protagonist, who they mistreated, exploited, abused, or disowned, to assist them when things go south for them, which the protagonist will always refuse.
  • Playing the Victim Card:
    • "My husband left me alone to go see this girl while I was in labor": The husband takes advantage of any situation to paint himself as the most unfortunate man around, even when his father (who he had never had a good relationship with) died. This backfires when he leaves his wife (who was in labour) to see a hospitalized childhood friend, causing her to leave him and his colleagues to tell him off for leaving her for another woman.
    • "My wife had a miscarriage... Her parents were mad, but the truth always hurts...": Jack's now-paraplegic cheating wife tried to paint herself as the victim in the family meeting by saying she has been punished enough, on top of begging him for forgiveness and to not divorce her. Much to her dismay, Jack quickly counters her victimization by threatening to explain to everyone how she ended up in a wheelchair in the first place. The wife couldn't do anything but cry in defeat while her lover paled in fear.
    • "My sister came home from her boyfriend’s house on the verge of death…": When Michelle refuses to eat the bread she offered due to her wheat allergy, her boyfriend’s mother starts shedding Crocodile Tears, driving her family into an absolute frenzy and forcefeed Michelle the bread. All the while, the mother hiding her face in pretend sadness but is actually smirking at the commotion and when Michelle starts to go into anaphylactic shock. Later, the mother calls Michelle’s house once again using Crocodile Tears and asking the family to forgive her son, but Michelle’s mother sees through her instantly, calling her out on the false act and hanging up afterwards.
    • "She ruined her own wedding by revealing all sorts of stories about her past": Taylor constantly victimized herself since she ruined her own wedding by bringing up her scandalous past stories in a harebrained attempt to fish for sympathy and make herself look like a martyr, whining it didn't go as she wanted. Even after she was later arrested for trying to steal a young mother's baby out of bitterness for being rendered infertile by her constant romps, she still played the victim card while justifying her crimes.
  • Please, Don't Leave Me: In "My fiancé cheated on me before our wedding," the OP tried to convince her fiancé to not leave her even after he cheated on her with her friend Alissa. However, the man reveals he didn't love her anymore, causing her to fall into depression and let him go.
  • Plot Allergy:
    • "My sister almost died from her allergy": Ali was allergic to seafood, so she had to notify everyone when she scheduled events. However, her mother-in-law Blair decided to slip a bit of shrimp into Ali's soup to trigger her allergy. When questioned about it, she tried to make excuses until Ali's children revealed that both Blair and her husband actually laughed at Ali as she was dying.
    • "My sister almost died from her allergy": Michelle is allergic to wheat, so when her boyfriend’s mother offered her some bread, she immediately refused. The mother then fake cried about it, enraging the boyfriend and the rest of the family to the point where the boyfriend force feeds her some, and Michelle has to escape from the house and the family and get to an taxi to take her home before her allergy kills her.
    • "My daughter becomes unconscious after eating cake that my mother-in-law sent": Mindy Wice's 4-year-old daughter Lily was allergic to eggs, wheat, and buckwheat. This became a point of contention between her and her in-laws, who believed allergies weren't real and went out of their way to feed her products made of the stuff. Things escalated when they switched up an egg-and-wheat-free cake for one that contained the stuff to "make her overcome the allergy". In retaliation, Mindy's husband and his sister to get revenge on their parents by spreading mountain cedar pollen all over their house to trigger their allergies and act as dismissive as they were towards Lily.
    • "Mother-in-law serves meals with eggs even though I'm allergic to eggs": Samantha is allergic to eggs and her mother-in-law went out of their way to feed her anything with eggs. Even when her husband watches out for any eggs in Samantha's food, the MIL was stubborn and doubled down at her other son's celebration and made sure all the meals had eggs. However, when Samantha reveals her allergies, her BIL's fiancee Megan chewed the hag out since her sister was also allergic, but to wheat. As a result, the new couple cuts ties with the abusive MIL.
    • "Broke up with my abusive boyfriend who forced me to wear earrings": Ali was allergic to metal and even informed her boyfriend about it, but he gifted her earrings and forced her to put them on, causing her itches all over her body. When her best friend Katy came over to her house and Ali told her about it, she concocted a plan to get revenge on the abusive boyfriend consisting of camping in the woods and sending him out for firewood until he landed on poison ivy.
    • "My boss punched me in the face because…": Ali was allergic to seafood, which was one of many things that worsened her conflict with her boss, especially when she rejected his advances. Furthermore, he deliberately made reservations at a seafood restaurant to spite her and force her to eat said food.
    • "The pastry chef at my wedding nearly killed my cousin by baking a cake with eggs in it": Karen's cousin was allergic to eggs, so Karen and Ted planned a special menu, explicitly informing the wedding planner about the allergy so no eggs would be used in the food. Despite that, the pastry chef arrogantly ignores the instructions under flimsy excuses such as 'a cake isn’t a cake without eggs' and that 'allergies are more of a preference' and uses eggs in the wedding cake. As a result, the wedding reception has to be cancelled when the cousin suffers an allergic reaction and is hospitalized, and the chef ends up in prison for her irresponsible behavior.
  • Pointy-Haired Boss: Ali's boss is an anger-prone boss who abused his power and kept saying that he would hit women if they were men. He especially bullied Ali by forcing her to attend a party at a seafood restaurant, even though she is allergic to seafood. When he saw that Ali wasn't enjoying herself, he says that he would punch her if she was a man. Ali egged him on and he actually decided to do it. This resulted in him getting fired and arrested.
  • Pop the Tires: The manager from "My boss slashed my tires…" popped OP's car's tires in retaliation for talking back to him. The OP called the cops afterward and then told his coworkers to make it known in the workplace. When everyone started talking about the incident, the manager attempted to bribe him into dropping the charges, so he asked for a raise and a promotion in exchange.
  • The Prankster:
  • Primal Scene:
  • Punished with Ugly: Female antagonists who revel in their good looks and rubbing them on everyone's (especially the OP's) faces usually become unattractive at the end of the story as punishment for their vanity.
  • Put on a Prison Bus:

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