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While this kind of violence is usually directed against female relatives (including targeting the men that these women date), it can also be directed against male relatives, especially if they get a reputation for homosexuality.
Contrast [[Rape and Revenge]], where the victim is considered a protagonist rather than a passive object to discard for no longer being "clean."
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== [[Film]] ==
* The movie ''[[Not Without My Daughter]]'' (as well as the book it's based on) tells the story of a failed marriage and a custody battle as entirely a matter of
** Since the daughter has been given Iranian citizenship (without the mother's consent), the mother can't even try to take her back to America without risking the death penalty. Eventually, they manage to flee the country and return home to the USA.
* In ''Stoning of Soraya M.'', this is the excuse for the titular stoning; The husband wants to spend more time with his mistress and avoid the cost of a divorce, so he first sends his wife to do household chores for a male widow and then accuses her of adultery. They eventually bully the widower to falsely testify against her {{spoiler|and even [[Complete Monster|force Soraya's father and children]] to participate in the stoning.}}
* In the film ''[[When We Leave]]'', a young woman leaves her abusive husband in Turkey to return to her family in Germany. Although basically sympathetic to the abuse she has endured, they are ashamed of her for leaving her husband and supposedly bringing shame onto her
* In the movie ''[[Crossing Over]]'', a Middle Eastern man murders his sister and her lover, incensed at her refusal to end her affair with a man who is not only married, but Mexican.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Virginius and Virginia in Livy, ''The Romance Of The Rose'' and ''[[
** In Livy, at least, there is a strong implication that Virginius and Virginia herself regarded this as a [[Mercy Killing]] saving her from a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
** There is a similar story in [[
** Also in Livy, Lucretia [[Driven to Suicide|did this]] ''[[Driven to Suicide|to herself]]'' when she was raped by the son of King Tarquin; this supposedly set off the revolution against the monarchy and the establishment of the Roman Republic.
*** This also happens in Shakespeare's version (a lengthy poem) ''The Rape of Lucrece.''
* The Swedish book "Mordet på Fadime" (The murder of Fadime) revolves around this, especially the case that made "honor killings" a well known concept in Sweden.
* In [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]'s lesser-known novel ''[[
* ''[[Flowers
* The ''[[The Riftwar Cycle|Empire]]'' trilogy includes several instances of honorable suicide, and at least one character "honor kills" his entire family prior to such an act. Many deaths are arranged so that rivals can "gain in honor." The majority of people who have the misfortune of being slaves are treated as poorly as possible so that their "debts" may be paid and they can go honorably to death and to their next life. In fact, '''much''' of the trilogy is just made of this trope.
* In Vorkosigan Saga there was a grisly story from the Occupation of Barrayaran partisans throwing the fetuses of the children of Cetagandan-Barrayaran pairings(forced or otherwise) into the Cetagandan camp. The more gentlemanly Prince Xav protested at this.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* Basically the whole plot of the [[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law & Order: SVU]] season two episode "Honor." A woman is brutally killed, and it turns out it was related to her family's disapproval of her boyfriend. Her mother finally steps up and admits what she saw and...well, you try getting those final images out of your head.
** Said images being her corpse in the bedroom of her home, her husband having slashed her throat and fled back to Afghanistan before the police could catch him, with his characterization of the episode making it clear that he won't lose a moment of sleep over having murdered his supposed love and his own child.
* Subverted in ''[[
** While the killing wasn't premeditated, the argument was still mostly about Macton's [[Fantastic Racism]] against his brother-in-law.
* A storyline on the soap opera [[Port Charles]] had a young Middle Eastern woman being terrorized by her brother. She had fled her country after being raped and her family responded by sending her brother to ''kill her'' in order to restore family honor. This being a soap opera, a well-meaning friend quickly married her to keep her from being deported back to her country as well as to pacify her family. Unfortunately, it didn't
* Subverted in ''[[The Closer]]'' two-parter "Living Proof". A scuffle between two Albanian men in a mall ends with the older one dead, the younger one claiming he only killed in self-defense (reasonable enough, as the older man had pulled out the knife in the first place). He claimed that the old man was his father, who had disowned him for marrying a Christian. Then the dead man's daughters turn up dead, and the son suggests that his father had snapped and gone on a belated honor-killing spree against his family (the daughters for being raped by Serbian forces during the Albanian genocide, the son for failing to protect them and surviving by hiding). {{spoiler|In fact, the "son" was one of the murdering Serbian soldiers, pulling a [[Dead Person Impersonation]] using the name of one of his victims to escape trial for war crimes. Unfortunately for him, his stolen identity's father met him by chance, and the man tried to kill the entire Albanian family so they couldn't out him as a war criminal.}}
== [[Oral Tradition]] ==
* Played with in the mythological history of Ancient Rome. When Lady Lucretia is raped by an Etruscan prince she commits suicide even though her family did not demand that of her. However being [[Proud Warrior Race| proper Romans]] they are more desirous of [[This Means War| abusing the perp]]
== [[Theater]] ==
* The protagonist of ''[[Titus Andronicus (
** The original manuscript only had him killing her; in keeping with Shakespearean stage directions, it gave no specifics about how the act should be carried out, making this highly subjective.
** How about his son, Mutius? When Bassianus runs off with Lavinia after Titus promised her hand to Saturninus, the new emperor, the rest of his sons help them. When Mutius stands in his way, Titus cuts him down without a second thought.
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