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A woman who is motivated to avenge herself against men or a man [[Woman Scorned|who did her wrong]]. A classical "female empowerment" plot that can come in many flavours.
 
The heroine may have been [[Rape Asas Drama|raped]]. She may have been [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beaten to a pulp]]. She may have had her children [[Mama Bear|taken away from her, or worse, killed]]. Her husband may be [[Domestic Abuser|an abusive douche]]. She may be the unwitting [[The Mistress|mistress]] of a married man, and finds out he has been lying to her all along. Either way, she has been seriously crossed by men or just one man and the abuse has been [[Break the Cutie|so extreme and so vicious]] that the heroine wants more than just vengeance against her abusers: she wants ALL MEN to pay for what was done to her.
 
And how is she going to do that? She can undergo an [[Adrenaline Makeover]], taking some self-defense classes and [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|destroy her abusers physically]]. She can set up a [[Humiliation Conga]] for them. She can turn herself into a [[Gold Digger]] and fleece rich guys dry, double points if they're also [[Meal Ticket|old]] or [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife|ugly]]. She can also become a [[Black Widow]] and kill them rather than live off them.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Baise Moi (Film)|Baise Moi]]''
* ''Dispara''
* ''[[Enough]]'', [[Jennifer Lopez]]'s vehicle.
* ''[[The First Wives Club]]''
* The highly controversial and widely banned ''[[I Spit Onon Your Grave]]''.
* ''[[John Tucker Must Die]]''
* ''Lethal Woman''
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* ''She-Devil''
* ''[[Thelma and Louise]]''
* ''[[Thriller a- A Cruel Picture]]''
* ''[[Waiting to Exhale]]''
* The ''[[Joshuu Sasori (Film)|Joshuu Sasori]]'' series.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Attora in ''[[EarthsEarth's Children|The Plains of Passage]]'' didn't like her man, so she killed him and made all the women-folk give up their men too.
* Red Sonya from Ron E. Howard's story "The Shadow of the Vulture."
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A common theme in the tabletop game [[Macho Women Withwith Guns]].
* Both played straight and subverted in [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse (Tabletop Game)|Werewolf: The Apocalypse]] with the Black Fury tribe.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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