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* The [[DC Animated Universe]] has this in spades (no pun intended) with Harley Quinn's relationship with the Joker.
** There's also the [[Justice League Unlimited]] episode "A Once And Future Thing," in which a meek man who's easily dominated by his wife builds a time machine and tries to use it to get away from her. When he eventually seizes its terrifying potential and becomes a super-villain by playing with the timestream, she's changed her tune and is deeply intimidated by his power (it's hinted that he placed her mother in some kind of futuristic torture chamber). Neither her verbal abuse before he created his machine or his outright bullying of her are played for laughs, and in the end Batman causes that man to repeatedly face his wife's abuse by putting him in a [[Stable Time Loop|never-ending time loop]].
* {{spoiler|Eddy's brother}}, in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', within the five or so minutes he's in [[The Movie]], beats the hell out of {{spoiler|Eddy}}, even using him as a battering ram to beat up Double D. [[Fridge Horror]] sets in once you realize that {{spoiler|Eddy's brother}} is about twenty, and {{spoiler|Eddy}} is about twelve, and this has probably been going on ''all his life''. And the abuse is played ''dead seriously'', in contrast to the usual violence in the show.
* The animated and live action combined series [[Ace Lightning]] featured an unusual variation in which the writers featured the villain of the piece (who had been the subject of some [[Villain Decay]] of late) as regularly violently attacking and verbally abusing the former partner in crime who had betrayed him for the show's titular hero. Fans have pointed out how much his behaviour would be considered domestic abuse were they members of the human cast.
* [[The Flintstones|Wilma Flintstone]] used to hit her husband Fred over the head with a frying pan and milk bottles, though this slapstick was pretty common for cartoons of the time.
* [[The Proud Family|Trudy Proud]]'s treatment of Oscar would be horrifying if the [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|genders were reversed.]]
* While not physical, [[Courage the Cowardly Dog|Eustace's treatment of Muriel]] would easily qualify as emotional abuse. Fortunately for their marriage Muriel is either completely oblivious to it or completely subservient to him.
== Real Life ==
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