Revenge Films - TV Tropes

Revenge Films trope index
A to F (Attempted Rape, Bedroom Adultery Scene, Beg the Dog, Bitch In Sheep's Clothing, Didn't Think This Through, The Dog Bites Back, Domestic Abuse, Foot-Dragging Divorcee) | G to L (Gold Digger, The Grovel, Humiliation Conga, I Have No Son!) | M to R (Momma's Boy, Obnoxious Entitled Housewife, Obnoxious In-Laws, Put on a Prison Bus, Relationship Sabotage) | S to Y (Second Love, Spoiled Brat, The Un-Favourite, Villainous Breakdown)

While most of the stories in this YouTube channel end in the antagonists and their associates being either reduced to menial labor, part-time jobs, or enslaved by gangs as karma for their actions, some end with the antagonist being taken out via legal means and put behind bars to never be seen again. Moreover, examples of this trope are numerous enough to warrant Revenge Films a Put on a Prison Bus subpage.

---

• "During a child custody battle due of my wife's affair, my son said something unbelievable" [sic]: Shortly after John Smith won both of his kids' custody, his cheating wife broke up with her lover after learning he lusted after her older daughter (who is a teenager) and then ended up arrested for prior possession of child porn.
• A kid punched Me out of the blue and continued to hit me so I called the cops and… [sic]: Greg is arrested for domestic abuse against his wife Natalie after their elementary-aged son, Billy, attacked and violently stripped the main character, Macy, for talking back to him. After the abusive husband is found out to have been assaulting several other women before, he's put in jail while Natalie gets Billy's custody and moves back in with her parents in the countryside, where they discipline the little brat for his trouble.
• "My friend tried to make me have a miscarriage": Rinko is last seen in prison after Kanae Mubita's hushand, Takashi, reported her to the police with recorded evidence to file criminal charges against her for trying to cause a miscarriage on his wife. After Kanae gives her speech, the very last shot is of Rinko crying inside her jail cell.
• "Someone stabbed me at the night pool": Kate gets arrested, expelled from high school, and sent into juvie upon being found out to have stabbed Belle in the night pool in response to the latter dating Vince, whom she had a crush on.
• "She ruined her own wedding by revealing all sorts of stories about her past": A forty-year-old Taylor ends up arrested and imprisoned for trying to steal a young mother's baby and official misconduct since she verbally abused the cops. She is officially last seen crying inside her prison cell.
• "I went to my fiancé's house to see his parents, but what they made me do was unbelievable": Charles and his father are both arrested and put behind bars for physical abuse and attempted murder towards Denny, who had a severe behavioral disorder. As for the victim himself, he survived and is implied to live in an institution since the beating from Charles caused him permanent brain damage.
• "This girl gets away with stealing our things and our ideas just because she’s pretty": After a thorough investigation by Mr. Harris, Mr. Smith gets arrested and fined for charges of blackmail after being found out guilty of ranking female employees by looks and stalking those he deemed "cute" to exploit them.
• "My mother-in-law was obsessed with our daughter, but then…" Nancy ends up arrested and put behind bars for charges of kidnapping after picking her granddaughter, Lily, from kindergarten behind Emily and Kevin's backs.
• "Daughter keeps on demanding money from me like I'm an ATM": Saeko calls the police on her husband Norio and daughter Kanami after the latter throws a vase at her head. As a result, Norio ends up behind bars for abuse and tampering with evidence as they clean up the crime scene, while Kanami ends up in a reform school.
• "My boss punched me in the face because…": Ali's boss ends up fired and arrested for assault after he punched her at a seafood restaurant (which he picked to spite Ali for her seafood allergy). When Ali got discharged from the hospital, she told the police everything, causing the bastard to get put behind bars six months later.
• "Daughter said she had to drop out out of school because I wasn’t paying child support but" [sic]: Alyssa's mother and her lover get arrested after the OP caught the latter trying to rape Alyssa. Moreover, the abusive mother planned to have Alyssa slave away to provide extra money on top of the child support she received. As a result, the lovebirds are put behind bars for attempted rape, kidnapping, and unlawful use of child support fees. Moreover, the OP and his former in-laws sued the cheating ex-wife for all the money she conned from them.
• "Husband cheated on me and got another girl pregnant, but tried to give me the child": OP's husband and his mother get arrested for negligence after leaving the disabled child the former's latest mistress left with them, to die out of resentment for having to care while struggling to pay compensation to his lovers' husbands.
• "My wife left a note saying she met someone else and disappeared. 10 years...": Tony's gambling, cheating ex-wife ended up arrested for scamming a customer. While she avoided prison, the cheating ex-wife tried to get back with him to pay her debts. However, he and his daughter rejected her for all the trouble she caused with her absence. She tried to pull this again after becoming a hostess but got arrested again, so she went to her parents' house, but they disowned her for her ten-year absence. Eventually, she ends up jailed for real after she tries to scam people a third time.
• "I got a creepy message from my teacher, so I forwarded it to the group chat, and…": The titular creepy teacher ends up fired from his job and arrested after Katie forwarded his messages to the whole class. Eventually, he is found guilty and is sentenced to a 15-year prison sentence as Katie wasn't his first victim; he ruined ten other students' lives before.
• "My dad was screwing my wife. My mom was congratulating them...": Jack and Bruce's father ends up arrested and behind bars for attempted rape towards the latter's wife, resulting in the bastard losing his wealth as he had to pay Bruce compensation. Eventually, the bastard aged quickly from the despair of having lost it all, exacerbated by his wife abandoning him after becoming a pariah.
• "My father-in-law fell asleep while smoking a cigarette, causing our house to burn down…": Sara's father-in-law gets arrested and imprisoned for charges of arson after being found out to have deliberately put a lit cigarette butt on the sofa to kill her and her baby. Three years later, the FIL died of a stroke in prison and the body's whereabouts are unknown.
• "My girlfriend had an abortion without consulting me because...": After punishing his cheating girlfriend Emily, Matt reports the host who pimped her out to the police. Upon further investigation, the bastard not only blackmailed any married client she bedded but also had other shady dealings. Afterward, the host lost his job and got jailed with no progression deferment.
• 'My package never arrived→”You’re next door neighbor has it.” I went over→“Go away!”': The OP's next-door neighbor was arrested for theft after taking a packaged Nintendo DS without the OP's permission and imprisoned for official misconduct as she assaulted officers with a chair in the middle of her interrogation. Eventually, the husband revealed that she grew up spoiled in a sheltered, wealthy household.
• "Customer thinks she doesn't have to pay full price for things at the store": After being kicked out of Mrs. Garriton's store for malicious complaining, the titular customer tried to demand a personal discount elsewhere, but when the clerk refused, she beat the poor sod with her umbrella. As a result, she ends up arrested and put behind bars.
• "My father-in-law became a totally different person when he was drunk...": Bob, Ali's alcoholic, violent father-in-law, ends up arrested, stripped of his teaching license, and imprisoned for domestic violence and attempted rape after she exposed him via a recording at the hospital. Twelve years later, Bob is released and went back to drinking before beating the crap out of his wife, Blair, leaving her disabled. While the bastard was on the run from the police, Ali's husband was none too worried, assuring her that he may have died.
• "I was walking in the park in pitch black when a man hit me and attacked me": The OP's rapist ends up arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned after she screams for help until two men came to her aid and held the perpetrator down for the police to collect.
• "When I was sick with a high fever, my brother brought his friend, and...": Kevin and his two buddies ended up arrested and put in juvie for attempted rape towards Rachel after her boyfriend Steven called the cops on the three of them. However, while Kevin got released and got a job at a convenience store, he blew it with his rampant truancy and kept on committing crimes. Kevin's crimes then come back to bite him in the ass after he becomes a legal adult; he was imprisoned for injuring a random man at a nightclub.
• "My sister tried to steal my fiancé from me but my fiancé chose to be with me": Fred and Sarah report Nancy's sneaking into their apartment to the police. When the cops visited Nancy's family home and show the evidence to her parents, the couple turned on her. When the cops took her away, she was imprisoned as the couple refused to post bail for her trouble. Later on, Nancy got released from prison but had no place to stay as the few friends she had abandoned her for her lies.
• "My husband was only cold to our eldest daughter. When we did a DNA test...": The OP's cheating husband and his former mistress end up behind bars for child endangerment. The former switched babies with the latter and sold his for money; the latter was charged with child abandonment as she left the husband's baby at an orphanage shortly after the switch.
• "I was on a long term business trip when my daughter called me to say that...": Emily and her flashy boyfriend ended up arrested and charged with child abuse and neglect after the former's husband, Jonathan, called the cops on them for hitting his daughter Jessica. While both of them were eventually released from prison, Emily ended up back in jail for theft and scams while working as a shady bar waitress and the boyfriend was disowned by his parents.
• "Crazy woman tried to get her son to live in a women-only apartment building": The mentally-disabled guy and his mother are arrested and sent to prison after the former tried to sexually assault the dorm supervisor, with his mother cheering him on. At first, the mother tried to guilt-trip the cops into not arresting her son, but resorted to violence after they refused, resulting in her having a longer jail sentence for assaulting a police officer.
• "A few years after our divorce, I asked my ex-wife if I could see my daughter, but...": After the OP refused to give away his teenage daughter to her so she could bilk child support money out of him like last time, his greedy ex-wife walked out on her newborn daughter after her new wealthy husband ran away right as his company went bust. Much to her dismay, a neighbor heard the baby's wails and called the cops on her, resulting in her arrest and imprisonment. Moreover, the OP discusses that even if she didn't face jail time, she'd still have to pay the colossal debts left by her husband.
• "Stepfather said, Don't tell anyone if you love your mother…" (JP version): While A's rapist stepfather went on the run from his relatives —who formed a search party to punish him for raping A for so long— he gets run over by a truck. This leaves the bastard paralyzed and unable to speak, making it easier for the cops to collect him and throw him in the slammer after being charged with multiple felonies because A was underage.

---