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Death by Woman Scorned
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Someone murders their significant other as vengeance for adultery. Alice is dating or married to Bob. Alice finds out that Bob is sleeping with Carol. Alice then kills Bob for cheating on her. This may be presented as a justified act, even if it is a serious crime. He'd done her wrong. While the same scenario is a common dramatic plot with both genders, some modern depictions are more sympathetic to Alice shooting Bob-the-cheater than Bob shooting Alice-the-cheater. By contrast, many Real Life 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 Disproportionate Retribution if at least in the heat of the moment as a bit of a mitigating factor. See also Woman Scorned, If I Can't Have You…, Yandere, A Deadly Affair, and Murder the Hypotenuse. See also Manslaughter Provocation - until 2009, in Britain, killing your partner for infidelity was manslaughter, not murder. May overlap with Asshole Victim if the deceased was particularly unsympathetic (e.g. if he habitually mistreated her in other ways). As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. —- Examples: |
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