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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Heav'n has no rage, like [[Love Makes You Evil|love to hatred turn'd]],''
''[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Nor Hell a fury, like a]] [[Trope Namer|woman scorn'd]]."''|'''William Congreve''', ''The Mourning Bride'' (1697)}}
What's the only type of woman more dangerous than a [[Mama Bear]]? A woman who's been dumped, cheated on, or otherwise done wrong by her man (or, in some cases, merely ''thinks'' she's been). Especially if [[Yandere|she's been hiding some sanity problems]], and especially if she was a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]. Otherwise [[Self Explanatory]].
[[The Vamp|A villainess]]
Often referred to as a "bunny boiler," after the infamous scene with Glenn Close in ''[[Fatal Attraction (film)|Fatal Attraction]]''. Almost [[Always Female]], but male examples do exist.
Not to be confused with the [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]], although the chances of overlap are ideal. When a character is deaded by said
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== Anime and Manga ==
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** In the next episode, she participates in his murder along with Chiri and other female students of the class. He gets better, though.
*** And at the end of the episode she has "caught" him again with her bandages. No harm, no foul, I guess.
* Kaede Fuyou in ''[[
** Slightly subverted, since she actually sorta makes peace with Asa later.
* Kyoko from ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' is a mild version, not acting directly against to the man who despised her, but instead building herself into a position where she can humiliate him more than anything she can do directly.
* The point of ''[[School Days]]'', a [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstruction]] of the [[Tenchi Solution]]. Word to the wise: if you've got a [[Harem]], just pick one.
** If you guys are curious about what that meant... just watch the [[Grand Finale]] of the anime series. Or play the game and get the endings {{spoiler|where Kotonoha either jumps to her death in front of Makoto and Sekai or uses a saw to murder Sekai. Or when Sekai kills Makoto herself.}}
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** Also, when Louise Halevy learned that {{spoiler|her former boyfriend Saji was in the 00 Raiser fighter during a skirmish}}, her reaction was... bleak. All indications are that she's pretty much resolved to ''kill'' him at this point. {{spoiler|And she got better, too, but it was pretty close there for a minute.}}
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has {{spoiler|Kallen at the very end of the series. She confesses to Lelouch with a deep and passionate kiss. He responds... well, not at all. And then he kidnaps all the world's leaders.}} She resolves to kill him with her own hands. For Love And Justice, of course.
* When female [[Ranma
* Rumic Theatre's ''The Laughing Target''. Wow, that was a SCARY one.
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. [[Cute Bruiser]] Henrietta, who has a major [[Big Brother Attraction]] towards her [[The Handler|handler]] Guiseppe, recreates the incident where one of the other cyborg girls killed her own handler. This is chillingly summed up as: "She was making a subconscious threat -- ''[[If I Can't Have You|if you don't love me, I'll kill you]]''."
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* ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'': [[Hot Mom|Keima's mother]] when she thinks her husband is cheating on her, while [[Pretty Freeloader|Elsee]] is actually just making it up. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** "[[Beware the Nice Ones|She used to run with some kind of biker gang]]."
** Chihiro, we understand that {{spoiler|You are still livid about [[It's Not You, It's My Enemies|Keima dumping you]] [[Kick the Dog|that way.]]}} We also understand that you want to {{spoiler|protect Ayumi from the same fate.}} What we don't understand is ''why'' you just {{spoiler|tell Ayumi about it at worst possible moment, when Keima try to "capture" her. while you understand that [[Sealed Inside a Person
* Haman Karn from ''[[Zeta Gundam|Mobile Suit Z Gundam]]'' effectively defines this trope. It is revealed that she had been in a relationship with {{spoiler|Char Aznable, a.k.a. Lt. Quattro}} in the past, the specifics of which are not provided. Whether there was an actual relationship between them or if she was just infatuated and had her hopes dashed, the whole (deleted) affair left her feeling jilted and has given her a few [[Yandere|personality quirks]], which manifest themselves rather prominently when she [[Duel to the Death|gives him her]] [[If I Can't Have You|ultimatum]]. It comes as a crushing disappointment to her when he [[Faking the Dead|refuses to capitulate]], and much to the detriment of the general public, she's [[God Save Us From the Queen|not really particular about whom she subjects to her]] [[Colony Drop|wrath]].
* ''[[Ichinensei
* The reason for so many murders in ''[[Detective Conan]]''.
** In a strange (and funny) twist, Ran also got very [[Tsundere|tsuntsun]] when a young girl named Ryouko Akagi showed up in the doorstep of the office, falsely claiming to be Shinichi's girlfriend (the little boy she was babysitting had been kidnapped and Ryouko needed Shinichi's ''help'', using the "girlfriend" claim as her cover).
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* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', this trope is essentially the hat of the [[Mad Scientist|Akagi women]]. Both are snared by Gendo and both end up worse for it.
** Naoko threatened Rei-I with spanking when the girl called her an old hag. But when Rei revealed that ''Gendo'' calls her that behind her back along with statements that she's no longer useful to him, Naoko flips out and commits a murder-suicide, not knowing that the Rei she killed is [[Cloning Blues|expendable in the literal sense]].
** Ritsuko deludes herself that Gendo genuinely loves her instead of just having her as a mistress. When she's proven wrong, she incinerates the Rei clones and in ''End of Evangelion'', she hacks the MAGI to remotely self-destruct it as a final 'up yours'... only to have [[
** Asuka might count as well. One of her sore points is that Shinji always saves the day before her; when she's undergoing the [[Trope Namer]] of [[Mind Rape]], Gendo forbids Shinji from going out and saving her. Later on, Rei gets into a pinch and with Asuka unable to pilot, Shinji is scrambled to assist but fails. Cue [[Heroic BSOD|Asuka believing that Shinji let her suffer on purpose]]. Then comes ''End of Evangelion'' and she [[Screaming Warrior|releases all her pent-up rage against the MP Evas]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|to spectacular effect]]
* Sae of ''[[Peach Girl]]'' at times. And Momo to a lesser extent.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Minako fell in love with Hawk's Eye and Tiger's Eye (villains she attempted to involve in a threesome, but they were playing with her feelings). Sailor Venus opened a can of whoopass on them later.
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* When [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Jean Grey]], who at the time was a host for the Phoenix Force, caught her husband in bed with Emma Frost. It wasn't pretty.
** And before that, her clone, Madelyne Pryor. It took longer for her pain to turn to rage, but ''hoo boy,'' [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|when it did...]]
* In ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', Terra near the end of "The Judas Contract" goes crazy with her powers after she thinks Slade, her boss and [[Squick|lover]], betrayed her. In reality, Slade's son Jericho had possessed him. Slade was actually ''too afraid'' of Terra to openly betray her like
* An early arc of ''[[Birds of Prey]]'', which featured the first meeting of [[Black Canary]] and Huntress, revolved around the two of them tracking down the villain that seduced both of them in their civilian identities and then left them both. Along the way they also team-up with Catwoman, are kidnapped to the former Soviet Union, and Canary winds up facing Lady Shiva, [[Dark Action Girl|one of the world's deadliest martial artists]], for the first time.
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'''Black Canary:''' "[[Worth It|Yeah, it was]]." }}
* Maxima is ''[[Superman]]'' comics, who regarded Superman's lack of interest in being Warlord of Almerac as a personal insult.
* In ''[[Gotham City Sirens]]'' #19-21, Harley Quinn goes after [[The Joker]] in Arkham for ruining her life. By the end, she has him cornered in his cell dead to rights {{spoiler|and with a simple "I missed you" from Mr. J all is forgiven. Hey, she isn't the [[Trope Namer]] of [[Mad Love]] for nothing.}}
* Shaniah, teenage girl from ''Brek Zarith'' story arc of ''[[Thorgal]]'' series, falls in love with titular character and steals his horse once he rejects her and slaps her for insulting his wife. Later that night she is assaulted by a mysterious man, who steals the horse. The next day a group of soldiers visits the village, looking for a escaped prisoner. Shaniah, making sure prisoner looks like guy she meet yesterday, tells them that she saw him meeting with Thorgal, who gave him his horse, which leads to Thorgal being taken prisoner {{spoiler|and starts chain of events that ends with the destruction of her entire village, death of everybody aside heer and Thorgal, including, as it seems then, Thorgal's wife, his [[Heroic BSOD]] and later her sacrifice to save his wife's life}}.
* An [[Archie Comics]] story from 1965 has [[Beware the Nice Ones|Betty Cooper]] repeatedly trying to ''murder'' Archie after he breaks one too many dates with her. The story's title, of course, is "Woman Scorned."
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* ''[[Rat Race]]''. Hell hath no fury like a woman with a helicopter.
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* The plot of ''[[My Super Ex-Girlfriend]]'' revolves around a scorned super heroine.
* [[Yandere|Alex Forrest]] (played by Glenn Close) in ''[[Fatal Attraction (film)|Fatal Attraction]]''.
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* ''[[John Tucker Must Die]]'' involves ''three'' of these.
* Inversion: The Bride in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' could be seen as an example, but in fact the act that set her on her [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] in the first place fits the trope much better, and the El Paso wedding massacre was the work of a scorned ''man''. As Bill would tell the Bride in their final confrontation, "there are consequences to breaking the heart of a murdering bastard."
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', the goddess Calypso is called "a woman scorned, like which fury hell hath no." As the story goes, {{spoiler|she gave Davy Jones the condition that if he did the job of the Captain of the ''Flying Dutchman'' for ten years - namely, ferrying the souls of those who died at sea to the other side - then they would be able to be together forever. However, she seems to be a very capricious goddess(not uncommon with sea deities actually) and [[Moral Dissonance|was not at the designated meeting place after the ten years were up.]] This made Davy Jones (understandably) angry and so he and the first Brethren Court bound her in a single human form, which turned out to be Tia Dalma. When the fourth Brethren Court finally released Calypso, she was more than a little ticked off and started cursing at them in a foreign language [[Attack of the 50
** It makes a bit more sense, though, when you remember that (as noted above){{spoiler|Calypso is the goddess of the sea, which by its very nature cannot be predictable. When she realized that showing up at a certain place and time would go against the unpredictable nature of the sea, she didn't come.}}
*** You do have to remember, though, that {{spoiler|Davy isn't totally unjustified in his rage, either. Part of the contract was that after ten years, when he comes back, ''if his love is waiting for him,'' he can go free. So Calypso consciously screwed him over, just for the sake of her image}}.
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* In ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'', Peggy catches [[Not What It Looks Like|Steve]] [[Forceful Kiss|being kissed]] [[Not What It Looks Like|by a blond secretary]]. To make things worse, Steve retorts/asks if she and Howard Stark [[Unusual Euphemism|are "fondue-ing"]]. This leads to an awkward situation where Stark explains [[I Thought It Meant|what fondue was]] and when testing if the Vibranium shield could withstand a handgun, Peggy aims at Steve's head. She forgives him later when she sees a picture of her in Steve's compass during one of his operations, as if saying "this is for you."
* In ''[[Scream (film)|Scream 4]]'', we hear a lot about a [[Noodle Incident]] in which Trevor declared his love for Jill, they had sex and then he "just goes out with someone else". Jill absolutely refuses to forgive him, no matter how much he tries to apologize. {{spoiler|And right after she reveals herself as the killer, she shoots Trevor in the groin as retaliation.}}
* In ''[[Percy Jackson| Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief]]'', Medusa emphasizes to Percy that "I used to date your daddy", meaning Poseidon. Seeing as she's trying to ''kill'' Percy when she says it, she clearly doesn't remember it fondly, obviously because the relationship is the reason she was cursed to begin with.
== Literature ==
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* Lanfear in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' is the subtrope [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend]]. She was dumped by the previous Dragon in favor of someone a little less power-hungry and is still pissed off 3,000 years later; now free of her imprisonment, she's gunning for his reincarnation, to either help and <s>marry</s> turn into her love slave or outright kill. When she finds out that she's been replaced ''again'', people die horribly.
* In the backstory of ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', John Parry refused the advances of the witch Juta Kamainen. She swore to kill him. After {{spoiler|finally accomplishing that goal, she is told that he was just being faithful to his wife, and that she just stopped him from reuniting with his son Will who is destined to save the world, and possibly from giving said son some vital information. She promptly kills herself because of her rejected love and to escape Will, who is quite intimidating for his age.}}
* In the ''[[Warhammer
** Being a Greater Daemon, though, she wasn't too keen on anyone else either, though.
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''Rose Madder,'' Rosie McLendon starts out as an abused woman on the run from her psycho husband, and slowly works her way up to this... {{spoiler|along with the help of a being who may or may not be the personification of female vengeance itself. ''I repay!'' is her declaration, and she most certainly does.}}
* A version, albeit mildly, appears in Catherine Alliott's ''The Old-Girl Network'', when {{spoiler|Serena}} feels scored after her boyfriend breaks up with her and gets into bed with {{spoiler|Polly}}.
* Phaidor in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|The Gods of Mars]]''. When John Carter [[Oblivious to Love|manages to notice]], he feels guilty that he might have given her some reason to believe he might reciprocate. He tells her of Dejah Thoris.
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* [[Sidney Sheldon]]'s breakthrough novel ''The Other Side of Midnight'' has Noelle Page. She's a poor French girl wooed by American pilot Larry Douglas, who promises to return to her after he's called back to his
* Donia from ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'', for Keenan. There's a reason the authour compares her to the Emilie Autumn song "I Want My Innocence Back".
* [[Agatha Christie]]'s ''[[Five Little Pigs]]'' is about a woman accused of murdering her husband for cheating on her. {{spoiler|Turns out it was actually the husband's lover, when she found out he wasn't actually planning on leaving his wife.}}
* Probably a lesser example than most of the ones on this page, but
** In [[Harry Potter and
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* It's revealed in the last book of the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' that this was the motivation for {{spoiler|Princeps Septimus's murder. His father Sextus wanted to set him up with Invidia; Septimus, however, was having none of it and wound up marrying a commoner for love. Invidia did not take this well and arranged to have him assassinated as a consequence. Essentially, every problem in the entire series comes from the fact that Invidia is a poisonous, backstabbing bitch.}}
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: Justified big time with Julia Webster in the book ''Payback''. Her husband Senator Webster slept around, got infected with AIDS, and then infected her with it! He didn't know he was infected, but the damage was done. Julia made sure he paid for that!
* [[The Wayfarer Redemption]]'s [[Broken Bird|Faraday]], who sacrificed two years of her life being married to a complete brute in order to save the life of her lover, Axis... [[What the Hell, Hero?|while he was off cheating on her]]. Not only that, but when he came back he basically granted his new lover all the power and influence he would have given Faraday [[Et Tu, Brute?|had he kept his promises to her]]. Oh, and he knows the entire extent of his [[
* Wendy Nogard in ''[[Wayside School]] Gets A Little Stranger'', except since the man who scorns her disappears from her life forever, she takes out her anger on... everybody else she meets thereafter.
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* Nina Myers in ''[[24]]'' doesn't inform the Drazens that David Palmer is still alive until after (in all the non-US versions) she discovers that Teri Bauer is pregnant by Jack Bauer, whom Nina had an affair with. [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Then, she kills her]]. To quote Keith Topping on the matter:
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* In one episode of ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'' - appropriately titled "Hell Hath Fury," the lone female doctor felt unappreciated and wreaked havoc with her psychic powers. At the end, Dagless recounted what he'd learned: "[[Spoof Aesop|Women get angry over the tiniest things. Tomorrow I'd tell her that her hair looked nice, or that she'd lost weight. Whichever's more believable.]]"
* In ''[[Rome]]'' Julius Caesar gets this treatment big time from Servilia when he ends their affair to go to Greece and put an end to the civil war. Servilia not only puts a number of curses on him, she actively conspires to murder him and enlists her own son to hold the knife. Pretty strong reaction, since he was married to someone else anyway and she knew he would have to fight in Greece at some point.
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* Gender-reversed again in [[United States of Tara]]. Marshall, who is general one of the most stable characters on the show, sees his crush/maybe-boyfriend making out with his mother's alter ego. So he reveals his presence, yells at both of them, and returns a few hours later to burn down the shed.
* Played in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' with, of course, a huge amount of [[Ho Yay]]. In an episode when {{spoiler|Dean tries to go over to Heaven, Castiel [[Curb Stomp Battle|is NOT amused.]]}}
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* Happens when [[Castle]] doesn't call after returning from the Hamptons, Beckett is not happy. Neither are [[Big Brother Instinct|Ryan and Esposito]], the former who nearly shot him before he was {{spoiler|arrested}} by Beckett and angrily taken for questioning.
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* Took a bit longer than usual to kick in, but happens in ''[[Frasier]]'' when Maris asks Niles to reconcile with her just before they finalize their divorce. When Niles rejects her, she promptly hires a team of lawyers to launch an investigation in order to bankrupt him and make his life hell purely out of spite, since Maris was a millionaire who had been perfectly happy with her settlement before this incident.
* This is the in-universe reason for why Charlie Harper isn't on ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' anymore. He proposed to Rose, they went to Paris, and she caught him with another woman, so she [[Killed Off for Real|pushed him in front of a train]].
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' ("Into the Woods"). Buffy discovers her "nice guy" boyfriend Riley Finn has been visiting vampire prostitutes. She burns down the building where the act took place, massacres the vampire-pimp's gang when they're foolish enough to attack her
== Music ==
* The Scottish folk ballad "The Brown Girl".
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I'll do as much for you as any maiden may
I'll make you rue the very day that you were born
I'm a bonny brown girl.'' }}
* [[PJ Harvey]]'s song "Rid Of Me" is a textbook example of what a wronged woman is thinking:
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Keep you against my chest
You're not rid of me
No you're not rid of me
I'll make you lick my injuries
I'm gonna twist your head off see
'Til you say don't you wish you never never met her!'' }}
* [[The Who]]'s "My Wife":
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Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be
I ain't been home since Friday night
And now my wife is coming after me...'' }}
* In [[Vocaloid]]'s ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8L75guzMn4 The Tailor Shop of Enbizaka]'', the tailor sees her lover with three different girls on separate occasions. She kills them and takes their clothing/accessories, thinking that this was the kind of girl her lover liked. {{spoiler|It turns out that her "lover" had never met her before and the three women she killed were his wife and two children. She then kills him too, offended that he didn't recognize her.}}
* In the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zT-oOwbYA&feature=related music video] for [[Vanilla Ninja]]'s song "Liar", a girl discovers that her motorcross-champion boyfriend has been cheating on her. So she runs over his bike. With a monster truck.
* Rapper Left Eye from 90's girl group TLC infamously burned down the Atlanta mansion of her boyfriend, football player Andre Rison, when she thought he was cheating on her. The media [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"fire"]]storm led to record sales of TLC's 1995 album, ''CrazySexyCool''. Surprisingly, they [[Masochism Tango|kept an on-and-off relationship]] until her death in 2002.
* [[The Pretty Reckless]]: Taylor outright states she kills her man for cheating on her despite the fact he was good in the sack.
* In the music video for "10 Seconds" Jazmine Sullivan ties her cheating boyfriend to a chair with a ''bomb'' strapped to it. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TB1d4r2n3M&ob=av3e&hd=1 Seen here]. Curiously, in the song itself she gives him 10 seconds to take his things and leave. {{spoiler|It doesn't really matter though as it was all a dream.}}
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** Hera herself was another good example. Pretty much ''all'' of Zeus' lovers and bastard children ended up tasting her wrath in one way or another, with Herakles being her favoured target.
* [[Ur Example]]: Ishtar in ''[[The Epic of Gilgamesh]]'': Gilgamesh scorned her because [[Genre Savvy|he knew]] sleeping with a goddess, especially this goddess, always ends the same way -- [[Death by Sex]]. It was a no-win situation.
* Queen Dido in ''[[The Aeneid]]'', who prophesied that her and Aeneas' people [[We Will Meet Again|would meet again]] in war (the Punic
* [[Japanese Mythology|Izanami]] of Shinto fame, who was abandoned in Yomi (the underworld) by her husband. Followed by Izanami sending demons to kill him. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. When said woman literally owns hell, you are boned.
** To drive home the point...Izanami ''invented DEATH'' just to screw with her husband. He has to create more life than she takes just to prevent [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
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** A Lillith also appears in "Fair is Foul," one of ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'''s [[The End of the World as We Know It|Gehenna]] scenarios. The backstory given tells us that Lillith taught Caine the vampiric Disciplines, and then he left her to run Enoch and sire the Second Generation. Lillith then became "Mother of Monsters" and comes to town to call out Caine, and she does so in a spectacular manner.
* ''[[Scion]]: Ragnarok'' rewrites the Norse myths of Ragnarok into one of these. The myths surrounding Balder's death are suddenly broken in half because Nanna, Balder's wife, is ''furious'' at how Fate is kicking her around. {{spoiler|She goes so far as to disguise herself as Thokk, whose refusal to weep for Balder [[No Man of Woman Born|traps him in Helheim]]. Loki himself is thrown for a loop.}}
* Lady Malys from the Dark Eldar in ''[[Warhammer
* [[Forgotten Realms]] history had Eleedra Nathchant, the Magister from 407 to 409 DR. She [[You Kill It, You Bought It|won the title in a duel with her predecessor, as usual]], but for some reason decided to accomplish her goals via seducing rulers up and down the Sword Coast and influencing them. The problem was that she had a habit of killing those less than receptive to her advances. Which couldn't possibly create a healthy atmosphere, and led to her own death. Also, she enthusiastically played a magic cheerleader rather than hiding or, say, improving her personal defences — like most Magisters do, since it's obvious that challengers ''will'' come for them. Eventually, one of the frightened lords in question sent a mercenary wizard to attend the arranged meeting in his stead, and Eleedra was ill-prepared for a duel, so the next day there was the new Magister. Ironically, that was [[Serial Romeo|Eldrus Wands]].
== Theater ==
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* In the Indie [[Adventure Game]] ''[[The Marionette]]'', {{spoiler|'Alice' turns out to be the real name of a woman who was one of the main character's models who [[Fatal Attraction|became obsessed with him]] after he scorned her}}.
* [[Meaningful Name|Ophelia]] from ''[[Brutal Legend]]''.
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars J]]'', the female protagonist turns into this halfway through when you encounter the vanguard-leader of [[Abusive Precursors|The Fury]], Al-Van Lunks... because, as it turns out, he's her ex-boyfriend, whom she believed to have died in a military research accident years back, along with several of her friends. The revelation that he's [[Human Aliens|non-human]] quickly leads to the conclusion that the 'accident' was sabotage, and while the whole 'trying to wipe out humanity' thing has a lot to do with it, it's clear that the protagonist is motivated mainly by a desire for revenge over the man who betrayed and lied to her. What's worse than a
* {{spoiler|Adele}} from ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' goes absolutely nuts when she {{spoiler|awakens as the Diva of Real. Since Arc chose Imaginal already, that means she and Arc can never be together. When Arc summons Simmah to block an attack from Girtab and Adele is hurt in the process, she takes this as proof that Arc doesn't care about her anymore. She spends the rest of the game trying to kill Arc for "wronging" her.}} This case is a little crazier than most, since the object of her affection had absolutely no idea she felt that way about him since she never admitted her feelings.
* The Love Shockers from ''[[Jet Set Radio]]'' are a gang of these. Quoth [[Mr. Exposition|DJ Professor K]], "Love broke their hearts, and now they're looking to do some ''breaking'' of their own!"
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** Of course, that was for refusing to let her in ''on a human sacrifice'' rather than regular cheating. She is an incarnation of illicit sex, after all.
* ''[[Nerf Now]]'' - The [http://nerfnow.com/comic/277 BLU Sniper] ''really'' should have checked what day it was before he brutally turned down the RED Demo-tan. He spends the next few days [http://nerfnow.com/comic/278 getting glued back together in hell].
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has an amusing flashback about a problem caused by one of the old Heterodynes, which was named "[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110719 the Great Saint Valentine's Day Riot]. Apparently it caused long-lasting structural damage - which is an impressive achievement in the castle that can reshape itself by making its bricks fly around.
== Web Original ==
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* In the ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' animated film, Ares states that not even a woman scorned will be able to save mankind from his wrath.
* Parodied in the ''[[Peanuts]]'' [[Halloween Special]] ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown|It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!]]'', after Sally flips out at Linus for convincing her that the Great Pumpkin exists:
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'''Charlie Brown:''' Yes, I guess I have.
'''Linus:''' Well, that's nothing compared to the fury of a woman who has been cheated out of tricks-or-treats. }}
* In ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score'', the Planet Express crew is being attacked by yeti... until Leela runs at them shouting, "Don't mess with me! I just got dumped!" and the yeti run away in terror.
** Earlier in the episode "Mother's Day", Mom led a robot rebellion which her sons put down to the remaining ill effects of this trope,
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* When the modulators in the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode "Emotion Sickness" were destroyed, they left Kim and Shego in an unstoppable angry state, just moments after Ron and Drakken had dumped them. Considering that Kim and Shego are (mostly) the strongest people in the show and that Ron and Drakken are (at least until the [[Grand Finale]]) much weaker than them, [[Oh Crap|Ron and Drakken got really scared...]]
** Technically, Kim was the only one who was dumped. Drakken didn't do anything to deserve Shego's anger.
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