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Panic Collection (パニコレ) is a Vyond-animated YouTube anthology channel. It mostly stars Paige but other characters can have their own stories as well.

The English channel is here. The original Japanese channel can be found here.

Panic Collection features examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Paige's parents from "My parents disowned me after I failed the entrance exam for the faculty of law" were lazy, abusive gamblers. While they were bearable whenever her grandmother kept them in check, they let loose once the kind old lady passes away, quitting their jobs and forcing Paige to take up law school so they could mooch off of her once she became a lawyer. Eventually, they disowned her for failing the entrance exam.
• Age-Gap Romance: In 'On my birthday, my 23-year-old husband who was younger than me said, "I don't need you hag!"' 25-year-old Paige marries 18-year-old Shawn, much to the worry of their respective parents. While it sailed smoothly, it all went downhill when their son Derek was born, as he disparaged Paige for being older than his friends' moms, with Shawn joining in.
• Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: At Ryan and Paige's wedding day, "My narcissist fiancé announced that I was pregnant at the wedding ceremony, but I’m a virgin" the groom gets plastered before the emcee gives him the mic to give announcements, over which he claims Paige was pregnant despite having cheated on her nonstop. While she collapsed knowing he actually got another girl pregnant, a reassurance from her mother allows Paige to gather the courage to reveal she wasn't pregnant, but exposed Ryan's affairs before calling off the engagement. As a result, the guests left in embarrassment and Ryan's parents disowned him for his trouble.
• Anonymous Public Phone Call: Henry calls Paige from a phone booth after learning that his new wife, Chelsea, was lazy and overspent on designer stuff to the point of taking loans from shady people (which eventually led to her being taken away to somewhere else to work off the debt). Moreover, this also led to Henry's firing; everyone cut ties with him after learning he was chased down by debt collectors.
• Baby Talk:
  • "A woman stole my fiancé right before my wedding… so I sued the both of them for the wedding expenses": Chelsea speaks in this way, complete with fake tears when Paige confronted both her and Michael for having an affair.
  • "I Caught My Husband Doing...": Karen talks like this while making out with Michael behind Paige's back, especially when she feeds Michael from a baby bottle^note In the original JP version, she breastfeeds him in one of their foreplay sessions. When Paige stumbled upon those sessions, she's understandably mortified.
  • "I kept warning my daughter not to touch my cell phone but…": Paige's daughter, Penelope, speaks replacing her L's and R's with W's, which makes sense as she's an elementary-aged kid.
• The Baby Trap: Ivy, Paul's girlfriend from "I had special powers which my family was only aware of" not only was a Gold Digger, but when Paul announced she was pregnant with his baby, Phoebe revealed the baby wasn't Paul's out of the blue. While Ivy tried to play the victim, the entire family knew about Phoebe's power of prediction and thus Paul took her away to realize a DNA test on her. When the DNA test confirmed Phoebe's revelations, Paige and Phoebe come over to reveal the father was a married man she hooked up with at work and hooked up with Paul to have him pay the alimony to her lover's wife.
• Bad Boss:
  • "Worked for this construction company, but then…": Taylor was the CEO's son who mistreated Joe and often mocked him. When Joe saved a little girl from being crushed by lumber caused by Taylor's carelessness, Joe got paralyzed from the waist down. Taylor fired him at the hospital.
  • "My sister comes home everyday looking worn out": Mr. Taylor not only abused and harassed Emma and his other employees into working harder for him so he could go home early, but also stole their projects to get promoted. Emma's older sister, Paige, finds out after putting a bug on the good-luck charm she bought for her and accompanies Emma to report the bastard to the CEO before confronting him.
• Bait the Dog: In 'On my birthday, my 23-year-old husband who was younger than me said, "I don't need you hag!"' Derek and Shawn suddenly throw a birthday party for Paige and act nice towards her despite having disparaged her as a middle-aged woman in the past. When things calmed down, Shawn dropped the bombshell and demands a divorce. Much to their surprise, Paige takes it in stride and leaves.
• Bedroom Adultery Scene:
  • "I recorded my husband while he was cheating on me": Paige catches Bunta and Rika naked and having an affair at the couch. Enraged by their betrayal, she uses Bunta's company PC to record the affair.
  • "We got revenge on my husband...": After Aoto leaves the house after being confronted by both Paige and his mom, the latter two catch him in bed with a younger woman named Lua. Afterward, Aoto demands a divorce and abandons his mother to run off with his mistress.
• Beg the Dog:
  • "My parents disowned me after I failed the entrance exam for the faculty of law": After Paige's client wins the case against her abusive, gambling-addicted parents, they tried to disparage her for not siding with them. However, the couple folded into weeping, begging messes the moment the cops apprehended them, but Paige ignored their pleading and let them be taken away for their trouble.
  • 'On my birthday, my 23-year-old husband who was younger than me said, "I don't need you hag!"': Five years after Shawn divorces Paige and gets custody of Derek, he contacts her through the phone after the younger woman he was about to remarry scammed him out of every penny he had. Much to his dismay, Paige remarried a CEO and gave birth to a daughter.
  • "My husband and son looks down on me calling me a fatty": After Paige divorces Sean and gives him the custody of their teenage son Niall for their mistreatment of her and the former's affair with Sally, the father-son duo calls her to beg and cry for money after the mistress ran out with his savings and took loans under his name. However, Paige has none of it and reveals that Sally was never a secretary, but a sex worker.
  • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": A worn-out, quickly-aged Shion comes over to beg her ex-boyfriend, Paul, for help after finding out Hibiki was an abusive bastard who chewed her out into cutting ties with any and all men she courted, which caused her to be fired from her job, on top of spending all her money on himself. Much to her dismay, Paul remarried another woman and had a daughter named Sachiko. Eventually, Hibiki catches up with her and drags Shion back home.
  • "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me...": Years after running off on Paige at the wedding day and eloping with his mistress, an aged, worn-out, and homeless Steven returns to beg her for forgiveness. It turns out that after Steven got fired twice from his parents' company and a black company he worked at afterward, his girlfriend, whom he married, was a chronic spendthrift to the point of borrowing black-market money, which got both lovebirds chased down by debt collectors. Understandably, Paige has none of his BS and leaves, with the bastard's former mother blocking his path.
• Big "NO!": Tyler yells this after Briana's parents called his parents over after he found out that he and Briana moved into their house without their permission.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing:
  • Melissa appeared to be Rachel's best friend. However, when Rachel went missing on a trip to the woods that she and Melissa went on, Paul finds his mother Penny washing Rachel with a hose as the former reveals Melissa abandoned the latter in the woods. When the three went to confront Melissa, it is revealed that Melissa is in fact a lazy housewife who used her mother-in-law Tammy for chores and stole from her husband John. John divorced her and kicked her out of the house as a result.
  • Karen is a Struggling Single Mother who appeared to be concerned for the wellbeing of her infant son, Thomas, and thus she had Paige and Michael take care of the baby while she was away working. However, the couple start to suspect Karen's true intentions when Thomas grew into a Spoiled Brat once he entered kindergarten, with the SIL still dropping the boy off to Paige's home, which clued the couple on in Karen lying after Thomas vandalized the house. Moreover, it turns out the reason Karen's own husband divorced her was because she was cheating on him.
  • Tanner seemed to be a decent guy while dating and being engaged to Paige, but she starts to become suspicious when one of her friends, Nicole, mentions her new boyfriend is named Tanner only to shrug it off as "Tanner" was a common name. However, come the wedding day, when Hannah and Nicole came over and see the groom, the former tells Paige to get a divorce, with Tanner's panicked reaction to seeing Nicole confirming Hannah's suspicions. It turns out Tanner was a serial womanizer who dated not only Paige and Nicole at the same time, but had affairs with several other women.
  • Kendra seemed to be Pam's best friend, who was in trouble because her own husband divorced her. However, it all turns out to be a facade as she only sought Pam to steal her happy life, much to her befuddlement. Furthermore, Pam herself bring up that Kendra also stole another girl's boyfriend back in high school and started rumors about her. Later on, it's revealed that Karson and his family were also fronting; Karson was a womanizer, his mother was the epitome of a monster-in-law, and Amaya was a Bratty Teenage Daughter.
  • Sarah appeared to be an angelic nurse who cared for the elderly at the nursing home. However, in reality she was abusing the elders, including Paige's mother Penny. When Paige noticed her hand, she grew suspicious and began recording everything using a hidden camera. One day, Sarah beat up a sleeping Penny, only for it turn out to be Paige and Sarah ended up being exposed. She was arrested soon after for elder abuse. It also turned out that Sarah was a former school bully who often acted as a sweet girl.
• Brainless Beauty: Amy, Paul's gold-digging, overspending wife from "I'm having a child with my lover, divorce is in order" is an attractive woman described by him as "a little bit like a child and a little bit like a babe in the woods", and has a happy-go-lucky attitude, owing to being the spoiled daughter of a rich family. However, she proves to be really an airhead when she schemes to get back at Paul for being frugal by what essentially boils down to extortion in the form of "compensation" and "child support" for a kid that's not his. In Paul's words:
  Paul: Just like Paige put it, she's a hopelessly innocent happy-go-lucky!
• Brother–Sister Incest: "I Caught My Husband Doing..." — Karen was obsessed with her brother Michael, and got jealous when Michael got together with Paige. When Paige caught Michael being fed from a baby bottle like a baby from Karen^note In the original version, which has since been removed from YouTube, Michael was actually sucking Karen's breast, she recorded the footage and sent it to their father. The two were promptly disowned and Paige broke up with Michael.
• Buried Alive: Michael buried his pregnant wife Paige because he thought she was having an affair with Francis and the fact that her father had a criminal record. Fortunately, she was able to get out and expose him.
• Business Trip Adultery: Bob, Pam's husband from "My husband cheated on me, but then…" is hinted to have been faking business trips to cheat on her, as Pam herself not only found his payslip reporting he only worked 5 hours of overtime, but at some point he smelled like women's shampoo. Later on, it's confirmed when Pam hired a PI to investigate Bob and found out he was indeed cheating on her with a younger coworker named Mary.
• Cast of Expies: Paige's entire family is based on the family from Chibi Maruko-chan.
• Catfishing: Kate pulls a marriage scam on the wealthy Sean by taking advantage of his terminally-ill grandmother's last wishes of attending his wedding, claiming she wants to marry him under her mother's name (Penny). However, when Sean got suspicious and tried to get her phone number in response to her refusal to let him see her parents, Kate gave him Penny's phone number to get him off her back. Much to her dismay, Sean visits Penny's house with his lawyer to take her and the truth is revealed, driving Penny to send Kate away working at an inn owned by a friend of Grandpa's.
• Cheater Gets Cheated On:
  • "We got revenge on my husband...": after Aoto divorced Paige and abandoned his mom for siding with her before leaving with his mistress, Lua, Paige and her MIL team up to investigate the lovebirds. Paige then goes off to confront them and expose Lua's affairs with other men with evidence. Needless to say, Aoto breaks down crying after realizing he was deceived.
  • "My husband cheated on me, but then…": After Pam sells the house to John, a real-estate investor before divorcing and suing Bob for cheating on her with a coworker named Mary, the cheating husband tried to move in with Mary only to find out she was already in a relationship for years. After Mary's boyfriend finds out, he kicks her out and sues her for damages.
  • "My colleague at work stole my boyfriend… Months later, Karma got my ex-boyfriend": Nelson dumps Paige for her coworker, Michelle, and proclaims he's getting married to her instead. While this left her devastated, her other coworker, Kelly, helped her investigate the lovebirds, finding out that Nelson was a marriage scammer who pulled tricked other women besides Paige and Michelle, while the latter had many other lovers besides Nelson.
• Child Hater: Sean admitted to Paige that he was not good with kids. When Paige gave birth to Paula, he tried to avoid her as much as possible. One day, Paula gave him a hug but he recoiled at her display of affection, and called her gross. When Paige's grandfather found out, he was furious and had Sean sent off to a farm with approval from his parents.
• Child Prodigy: Paula is only in the fourth grade but she owns her own sushi restaurant.
• Class Reunion: In "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…", Jessica's husband Thomas attends one where he reunites with a former classmate-turned-mistress named Michelle, who was the school madonna back in high school, and finds out she was pregnant. It turns out Michelle's fiancé died in a car accident and had no one to turn to until Thomas tells her he'll take care of the baby in the deceased place. In reality, he only does this to give his parents the heir they so desired and get their assets.
• Color Failure: In "After I gave birth, my husband and mother-in-law stole my baby and kicked me out but..." when a 10-year-old Pauline asks her grandmother and father why are they mean to Paige, they turned pale and tried to come up with excuses to get the girl back into their clutches.
• Con Man:
  • "My friend stole my boyfriend...": Ali's ex-boyfriend, Bob turns out to be a marriage scammer as revealed by Ali herself. Whenever they went to marriage venues, he wanted the most expensive and opulent stuff, which almost clued Ali in on that something was off until Katy stole him. As a result, Katy is the one who gets scammed instead the moment she agreed to his wedding ideas. Moreover, Ali reveals that Bob did this to other girls before and eventually got arrested.
  • "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…": Stefan, the guy Zoe was led on to think was Paige's husband, was actually a dangerous playboy and swindler who tricked her into co-signing his debt to a loan shark by claiming she'll earn $5000 just by serving tea at the company he's going to start, for which the greedy sister fell hook, line, and sinker.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: In 'My husband can't reject his female friend's call for help "I'm not cheating on you."', when Paige caught her husband Michael talking with his mistress, Green, on the phone, she promptly covers Pam's ears while taking the girl to her room before concocting a revenge plan on the lovebirds.
• Credit Card Plot: In "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…", Alyssa breaks into Pam's house and steals her credit card to go on a trip to Okinawa. When Pam finds out and takes her bratty sister to task for the expenses she's charged, it turns out Alyssa honestly believed that Pam's card was a magic card that allowed her to buy whatever she wanted. Eventually, Pam and her mother both concoct a plan to punish Alyssa by following her around and force her to work in a fishing boat to pay off the credit card bill.
• Crocodile Tears: At some point, the mistress of Paige's husband/boyfriend/fiancé may cry fake tears to get her way, but once she gets caught, she'll end up crying for real as she's about to face the consequences.
  • "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Kelsey was notorious for abusing this tactic whenever things didn't go her way, much to Paige's chagrin. Moreover, she also did this to con her parents (and even Paige herself) out of money by claiming she needed fertility treatments to become a mom.
  • "A woman stole my fiancé right before my wedding… so I sued the both of them for the wedding expenses": When Paige calls over Chelsea to confront her for having an affair with Michael, the mistress cries fake tears while faking guilt over stealing her husband. However, Paige sees right through her as Chelsea flashed a smile between her cupped hands.
• Deteriorates into Gibberish:
  • "A woman stole my fiancé right before my wedding… so I sued the both of them for the wedding expenses": Michael ends up reduced to speaking gibberish when his mother kicked him in the pelvis after Paige called her along with Chelsea's mother to punish the lovebirds.
  • "I kept warning my daughter not to touch my cell phone but…": When Paige catches Neil going out with another woman and confronts him, the cheating husband is reduced to gibberish trying to lie that she's his client.
  • "My husband would suspiciously sneak out of the house to walk the dog at 4am…": When Kevin returns home the day after verbally abusing Paige for confronting him on his affair with Miss Morrison, shoving Penny into furniture and kicking Gordon's cage, he's reduced to gibberish upon seeing his mistress in the house. It turns out Paige exposed Miss Morrison's affairs to her parents, who kicked her out of their house into the couple's to hold her accountable.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • "My husband would suspiciously sneak out of the house to walk the dog at 4am…": Kevin always got up at 4:00 AM and took the family dog, Gordon, to cover up his affair with Miss Morrison behind Paige's back. This becomes his undoing at Paige's birthday when she and her daughter Penny take Gordon out for a walk as he heads over to the mistress' house and barks at the door, which drove Paige to confront her cheating husband.
  • "The week after my husband divorced me, he got remarried to my little sister… But I got my revenge": Nelson cheats on Paige with her younger sister Rachel, and once caught, he eventually declares he's remarrying the latter instead as she had a job offer from a big company. One week later when they have a wedding, Paige and her mother Penny come over to reveal the latter had a wedding with Mr. Isaac, the CEO of Rachel's company, in the same day — it turns out the reason Rachel was hired at his company in the first place was because Penny requested it, owing to his crush on her. Therefore, the CEO fires Rachel for her piss-poor skills and sleeping with a married man, thus screwing the cheating husband out of freeing himself from his debts and reducing him to work at a restaurant.
  • "When my loving husband brings his affair to demand divorce...": Jason not only cheated on Paige with a female coworker named Lisa but after divorcing the former, he committed the harebrained mistake of telling it to all his coworkers, which unsurprisingly causes them to treat the cheating bastard like dirt until he quit his job. To add insult to injury, Lisa turned out to be a layabout who also had a history of breaking up happy couples. By the time he broke up with Lisa to get back with Paige, the damage was already done and Paige herself even calls him out on his stupidity.
  • "I'm having a child with my lover, divorce is in order": Amy cheats on Paul with a rich guy named Oliver to get back at the former for being frugal. Not only that, she divorced Paul after becoming pregnant with Oliver's baby in a scheme to extort her ex-husband out of $70K in compensation and child support, after seeing her friend getting compensation after divorcing her own husband. Apparently no one told the cheating ex-wife that in cases of adultery, the cheater is the one who will pay compensation, and child support is only applicable when the non-custodial parent is biologically related to the child. In other words, Amy ends up screwing both herself and Oliver over as they have to pay Paul the $70K in compensation rather than the other way around.
  • "My sister-in-law thought I was unemployed, and tried to kick me out": Karen learned from a friend that getting a divorce gave her a settlement fee, so she cheated on Paige's brother, Paul, thinking that he would lose if he divorced her as he'd have to split his assets with her and therefore take the apartment to kick both siblings out. However, when the cheating SIL accidentally exposed herself to Paul, the siblings reveal that since she was married for less than three months, Paul won't have to split his assets with her. Moreover, the apartment was bought by Paige as she was the CEO of a small company. As a result, the cheating SIL ends up destitute and a pariah for what she did.
  • "An arrogant new hire got the job through connections and thought he could get me fired…": Maria colluded with her uncle Kevin to get Paige fired by filing a bogus bullying report to the CEO. Little did they know that he was secretly Paige's husband, and therefore revealed it to her. While Maria tried to make up lies about Paige, it all backfired when Paige said she had a pen-camera on her recording all the harassment, driving her to break it and expose her own crimes, over which the couple revealed it was a normal pen. Eventually, she goes ballistic to the point of exposing Kevin's lies and reveal herself as not his niece, but his mistress, all in front of the office's cameras and the entire workplace gathered to gawk at them. As a result, Kevin is divorced and sued alongside Maria for alimony.
  • "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…": Thomas cheated on Jessica at a class-reunion party with his former classmate, Michelle, who was already pregnant with her fiancé's baby when they met. While his parents were elated to have an heir, the cheating bastard still didn't bother to pay the mortgage for the apartment and left it to Jessica, who was too depressed to pay until Paige reached out to her. Moreover, the cheating ex-husband didn't take into account Paige herself would reveal the truth, but expose Michelle as an easy girl who went through so many guys that she actually didn't know who the father was; the fiancé was all made up to trick Thomas. As a result, Thomas' parents disown him for tricking them.
  • "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…": Alyssa breaks into Pam's house and steals her credit card to go on a trip to Okinawa behind her back. However, this becomes her undoing as she not only honestly thought the card was magic and bottomless, but also forgot to book a return flight when she was done. This was used to both Pam and her mother's advantage, as the latter had enough of Alyssa's antics and had her forced to work at a fishing boat to pay off the bill.
  • "I let out a sigh of relief when I was asked to divorce my husband...": While Takashi's parents took his shifts for him at their convenience store so he could have affairs with a woman named Yuka behind Paige's back, the couple advised to close it early instead as they were too old. This comes back to bite them in the ass when Paige finds out, as she not only sues the lovebirds but exposes the whole thing to the store's HQ, which sues Takashi's family for their poor work ethic.
  • "Sister-obsessed husband and his sister attempt to kick me out": Nick schemed with his younger sister Nicole—who divorced her own husband from back in LA after overspending and getting herself chased by debt collectors as a result—to divorce Paige and squeeze money out of her by taking custody of Penelope for child support. Little did they know that the girl they tried to snatch saw right through them all along and reported it to the siblings' father, who promptly disowns them. Moreover, Nick's own obsession with his sister ended up working against him because of the allowances and shopping sprees he paid for her. To top it off, Nicole forgot that her ex-husband would keep looking for her to pay the debt and contact her former father and get their address. As a result, the siblings get caught and divorced by their respective spouses.
  • "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Kelsey and Ezra cooked up a scheme to get money for a trip and luxurious stuff by lying about wanting to undergo fertility treatments at the prestigious Kore Ladies Clinic to become parents like Paige and Alan. However, Paige eventually sees right through Kelsey's scheme when she lied about her parents running out of money just to extort $1,000 out of her, unaware that Paige worked there as an assistant. Not only does the swindling couple blow up and reveal everything in fits of anger, but Paige reveals this wasn't the first time Kelsey and Ezra lied about the clinic's services to con people. Moreover, their harebrained scheme eventually got them sued for fraud and defamation by the CEO of Kore Ladies Clinic.
  • "The company I worked at asked me to quit because the CEO's daughter was going to take my job…": Miss Karen's parents knew something was wrong with giving her allowance and a salary to their daughter despite her not working. Rather than refusing to give her allowance or having her work elsewhere to help her become independent, they planned to have Paris quit her job so Karen would take it. Unsurprisingly, the plan goes south as Karen has proven herself completely useless; she couldn't turn in paperwork in time, and any she did was full of typos, and blowing up at complainers. Moreover, the couple didn't account that Paris would get a job at one of their biggest client's, causing all other companies to terminate contracts with them. Moreover, their giving Karen a high salary would count as tax evasion because it couldn't count as a business expense. As a result, the company collapsed and reduced the CEO, Vice-President, and Karen to working part-time jobs to make ends meet.
• Dirty Coward: In "My sister-in-law went into my house and no permission and let her kids destroy my house…" when Karen is arrested by the police for breaking into Paige and Michael's former house to have her son Thomas destroy it without knowing they sold it away, she not only whines about doing nothing wrong, but vehemently blames the kid for the whole thing in a rather harebrained attempt to save her own skin.
• Disowned Parent:
  • "My brother asked my mom to pay for his wedding, but then…": Shawn cut ties with his mother Paula, because she was too old. This ended up backfiring as Paula, who worked at his future father-in-law's company was the only reason he was hired at said company. When Paula decided to cut ties with Shawn, his father-in-law immediately fired him on the spot. Later, Paula cut him out of her will.
  • "My mother abandoned my sister and I, and this is how I got revenge!": When Toru calls the cops on Emma after pulling her away from the door of his and Paige's house, she find her twin daughters Yumi and Mami behind him and tries to convince them to go back with her. Much to both her and Paige's surprise, the girls reject and disown Emma for the abuse she put them through, but she flips her lid and attempts to throw objects at them only to be stopped Just in Time by the police.
• Does Not Like Spam: In "How I was able to overcome my hate for Mushrooms and Bellpeppers!" Paige doesn't like the titular foods, especially when her mother-in-law deliberately served them to her. However, after she gathers the courage to learn cooking from her MIL, she overcomes her distaste when she eats the mushroom and bell pepper dishes and realizes they were delicious.
• Do-Nothing Housewife: Melissa is envious of Rachel for having a good relationship with her mother-in-law, unlike Melissa who hates her mother-in-law. The reason why Melissa and her mother-in-law don't get along is because Melissa is a layabout who does nothing but lay around, drink, and steal her husband's money. After Melissa's husband learns this (alongside the fact that Melissa tried to kill Rachel), he immediately divorces her.
• Dub Name Change: The English channel renames the characters to English names though there are a few episodes which retain the original Japanese names.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Travis, the protagonist of "My wife went on a trip with another man, but left our daughter home alone" substitutes W's for both his R's and L's while speaking.
• Engineered Public Confession: In "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…", when Paige arranges a meeting with the in-laws to confront Kelsey and her husband Ezra about trying to get fertility treatment at the Kore Ladies Clinic, Paige and her husband Alan agree to provide money for them by claiming the doctor herself will support them and that she'll pay for their transportation. The couple blows up and accidentally reveals why they wanted money —Ezra didn't want to work and Kelsey didn't even want kids— which understandably angered the in-laws while Paige recorded them. Moreover, they also blurted out they wanted to go on a trip and buy designer stuff. Afterward, Kelsey and Ezra tried to apologize only for Paige to reveal that since this wasn't the first time they conned people in this way, Kelsey and Ezra's scheme counted as defamation as they lied about KLC's services, angering the CEO of said clinic.
• Envy-Based Mimicry: Woman who buys the same thing as everything I have, bought a big one at last!: Meg is obsessively envious of Paige and tried to one-up her by buying better versions of whatever Paige has, such as clothes, bicycles, purses, etc. Paige, who gets fed up with her behavior, decides to get revenge by tricking Meg into thinking that Paige owns the 23rd floor of a high-rise apartment, knowing that Meg will try to one-up her by buying the more expensive 24th floor, which Paige bought for $700,000 and Meg bought for almost one million dollars, even having to take out a loan.
• Face of a Thug: Mrs. Ezra and her henchmen from "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth" look scary and imposing, but actually are all kindhearted, with said henchmen breaking down into Tears of Joy when Mrs. Ezra gave birth despite her old age, and even run an orphanage.
• Failed a Spot Check: Ali sent Bob a message that was actually directed at her lover. When she learned about it, she tried to cover it up but Bob refused to hear her excuses until he saw a pill bottle on the table as she claimed to be dizzy. However, Bob suspects again when his friend called about Ali going to a bar with a guy.
• Fake Boobs: Ashley, the stuck-up influencer housewife from "They made fun of me at the pool but then..." is revealed by a pair of Valley Girls at the pool to have been stuffing pads under her swimsuit to appear bustier than she actually is. When Penelope tries to confirm it, Ashley runs away in fear.
• Fake Pregnancy:
  • "Caught my husband cheating on me, but then…": When Ken brings his mistress, Jenna, to confront Paige, she claims being pregnant with Ken's baby, complete with ultrasound picture. However, when Paige thoroughly examines the mistress' body and the picture, she finds out and reveals Jenna was lying about being pregnant. When she insisted it was true, Paige quickly shuts her up by showing her a box full of pregnancy tests, which drove Jenna to spill the beans and reveal she lied to trap Ken into marrying her.
  • "My husband's secret lover got pregnant": When Paige demands both her cheating husband John and his mistress Katherine pay her 20 millions in compensation and the latter's father refused to let him marry his daughter upon finding out John was indebted from borrowing Paige's money to buy himself a sports car, the mistress herself revealed the pregnancy was a lie when the cheating husband brought it up.
• False Friend: Kendra, Pam's best friend, actually sought to steal her husband and family and only was friends with her to look good. Moreover, it turns out Kendra also stole another girl's boyfriend back in high school.
• A Family Affair:
  • "I recorded my husband while he was cheating on me": Bunta cheated on Paige with her younger sister Rika behind her back, even taking advantage of having remote work to have his affairs without his boss noticing. When Paige catches the lovebirds in the act, she gets back at them by using Bunta's work computer to expose him.
• Fatal Attractor:
  • Paige's older brother, Paul, has bad luck with women as most of his female partners from story to story tend to be Gold Diggers and cheaters. It helps he's an expy of Hiroshi Ohira.
  • Ethan, Paige's First Love from "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!" attracted all kinds of bad women as all his three previous girlfriends had serious flaws; the first was a promiscuous cheater, the second was a thief, and the third was an alcoholic. While he chose Paige because she was kind and ordinary unlike them, he ultimately cheated on her with her sister Lucy after she got him drunk and forced him into the relationship in exchange for keeping the affair secret.
• Fat Bastard:
  • "We got revenge on my husband..." Aoto, the titular husband, is a fat man and he not only turned verbally abusive towards Paige, but cheated on her with a younger woman. Moreover, he even lambasted his mom whenever she defended Paige before abandoning her despite having a bad leg from old age.
  • "My sister in law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Katy is a fat Attention Whore who not only bragged about how she was sought after by many guys, but flirted with every guy she saw despite already being married to Rob, be they married, single, or her father-in-law. Eventually, Paige's entire family gets tired of Katy's antics and Rob divorces her for her trouble.
• Firing Day: At a dinner celebrating Henry's promotion to manager, he fires John on the spot for defending Paige from his and Chelsea's mockery. Moreover, Henry even threatened another employee with the same if he tried to call him out.
• Flaw Exploitation: In "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…" when Zoe resorted to calling Layla over and over to ask her for information on Paige's fiancé in order to steal him, she decides to lead the homewrecker on to a dangerous swindler named Stefan. As expected, Zoe fell for it and went after Stefan, who himself exploited Zoe's greed by tricking her into co-signing his debt to a loan shark before running off. By the time she showed up to Paige's house to gloat and kick her out, it was too late.
• Food Slap: At a blind date with the three top men of the Panikore company, Mia spilled orange juice all over Paige's skirt to make her look bad.
• Forbidden Friendship: In "When I got home, my mom looked like a monster and threw water on my wife…" Penny tried to have her daughter-in-law Rachel cut ties with Melissa as she suspected the latter was up to no good, but she and her husband Paul thought she was exaggerating. Later on, Penny's suspicions turn out to be correct when it's revealed Melissa not only abandoned Rachel to die at a mountain after taking her there under the excuse of foraging for mushrooms, but also had her own mother-in-law do the chores for her.
• From the Mouths of Babes: In 'My husband can't reject his female friend's call for help "I'm not cheating on you."', Paige went with her daughter Pam to a meal with Sherry and her daughter Hazel. When Pam brings up how her dad never played with her and always came home late reeking of alcohol, Hazel insinuates that he was cheating on Paige, much to the other three's surprise.
• The Gambling Addict: Bob always turned to gambling whenever he was stressed out, especially as his colleagues got promoted. This always got him into debt as he borrowed money to spend for gambling.
• Gambling Ruins Lives:
  • "My husband betrayed me, but then…": Pam's husband, Bob, became a chronic gambler to cope with stress from his coworkers promoting while he didn't. He was so addicted to gambling to the point of not only taking loans much to Pam's chagrin, but by conning both Pam and his mom out of money by lying to the former that his mom stopped using her old bank account and to the latter that Pam got demoted and her parents were at the hospital. Moreover, his sister Nancy even reveals that he not only got addicted to gambling but also to hostess clubs. As a result, Bob is divorced, sued, and forced to work several part-time jobs under strict surveillance to pay his massive loan debts.
  • "My parents disowned me after I failed the entrance exam for the faculty of law": Paige's parents were addicted to gambling at pachinko parlors; her father quit his job once her kindly grandma passed away knowing he'll get inheritance from her while her mother slacked off and forced the housework on Paige. Moreover, back when she was in 12th grade, they had her study law hoping to mooch off of her once she became a lawyer until they disowned her for failing her entrance exam. Years later, when she finally became a lawyer and married her coworker Theo, she finds her parents not only became poorer from gambling, but got themselves in hot water for harassing her latest client to coerce money out of him because he bumped into them. As a result, the man successfully sues the couple and they're reduced to working for shady people to pay off the debts.
• Get Out!: Near the end of "My husband's secret lover got pregnant", after Paige kicks both Katherine and her father after reaffirming she's going to get compensation from her for destroying her marriage, John tries to appease her. Understandably, Paige blows up at him for cheating on her while telling him to get out, causing the cheating husband to run away crying.
• Getting the Boot: Near the end of "My ex dumped me for a rich guy and 10 years later, she regrets everything..." Paul, Mira, and Paige try to kick Lauren and Henry out of the diner for causing a ruckus with their bickering. However, they resisted until a high-school judo team who frequented the diner arrived and took it upon themselves to literally throw the couple out.
• Girlish Pigtails: Karen from "I Caught My Husband Doing..." wears her hair in pigtails, showcasing her immaturity in mistreating Paige and her attraction to her older brother Michael.
• Gold Digger: A prominent type of antagonist in both Paige and Paul's stories.
  • "After I gave birth, my husband and mother-in-law stole my baby and kicked me out but...": When Paige finally reunites with her daughter Pauline ten years after Thomas and his mom took her away, the mother-son duo comes over and reveals their plan to groom the girl into marrying a rich man so they could enjoy a celebrity lifestyle. However, Pauline has seen right through them all this time and chooses Paige over them.
  • "I went to my best friend's wedding, only to find out the bride was my missing wife...": Paul's ex-wife, Amanda, turns out to be this when she divorced him earlier on and disappeared in a scheme to remarry a wealthier man, which she thought his best friend Mike was since he was traveling a lot. Much to her dismay, Paul reveals that Mike only makes $13K a year while he makes the same amount a month, which drives Amanda to try and get back with Paul, only to be turned away and sued for alimony, damages, and cancellation fees.
  • "My ex dumped me for a rich guy and 10 years later, she regrets everything...": Lauren seemed to be a kind girlfriend while dating Paul. Three years later, however, she ditches Paul and leaves upon being notified his workplace went bust. Ten more years later, she's married to a wealthy man named Henry and visits Paul at his family's diner to gloat. Much to her dismay, Paul and his sister Paige reveal Henry's workplace, Panic Corporation, went bankrupt. Predictably, Lauren ditches Henry and tries to ger back with Paul only to be chewed out by his fiancée, Mira.
  • "Ex-Fiance Begs To Get Back Together After Leaving Me For A Richer Man": Paul's fiancée, Minami, not only started to insult his cooking, but also kept going to matchmaking parties and cheating on him with an elite man before breaking off the engagement and eloping.
  • "Cheated and dreamed of a wedding abroad...I made them pay!": Paul's wife, Jessica, seemed to be faithful as she was the quiet type and dressed down, but two years later, their marriage fizzled out and Jessica eventually went on cheating trips with a guy named Ryan. When he reports it to his sister Paige, she concocts a plan to trick the cheaters into revealing their affair by taking advantage of them thinking Paul would be the one paying them a settlement. The plan works, and the lovebirds end up paying Paul the settlement.
  • 'Facing retirement, my wife says "Aren't you ashamed of yourself making only $2000 at your age?"': Steven marries a beautiful woman named Lisa, who seemed to be decent, so he could bring true his dying mother's request to attend his wedding and hold her granddaughter, Zoey. Much to his dismay, Lisa turns out to have been attending the matchmaking party because her parents kicked her out of the home and she only sought wealthy men, abusing Steven for not earning enough to her liking. Years later, his daughter Zoey also joins in on the mistreatment. Eventually, Steven divorces Lisa and leaves her with Zoey's custody.
  • "Severe verbal abuse from wife and daughter made a man quit family man, which revealed more…": Edna turns out to have been cheating on Andrew with a good-looking man named Ricky, and planned to remarry him once she divorced Andrew. However, it turns out Edna had yet another lover named Julio, a wealthy businessman whom she tricked with sob stories about how she's a Struggling Single Mother with an ill daughter to bilk money out of him after she burned through Andrew's money. However, Paige also notified Julio of the truth, which understandably drove him to file a marriage-fraud report against Edna.
  • "I'm having a child with my lover, divorce is in order": Amy turns out to have only married Paul for his money, but secretly cheated on him with a richer man named Oliver in response to his frugality. Moreover, she divorced the former upon becoming pregnant with the latter's baby in a harebrained scheme to bilk compensation and child support out of Paul since her friend got compensation from divorcing her own husband.
  • "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…": Zoe declares she's going to steal Paige's wealthy fiancé in response to the latter's refusal to lend her money to pay alimony to her own husband. When she seemed to have made it, it's rendered pointless when Paige reveals that her friend Layla, whom she contacted over and over about the fiancé, led her on to a dangerous guy named Stefan. Moreover, Stefan himself took advantage of Zoe's greed by having her co-sign his debt to a loan shark by claiming she'll earn $5000 just by serving tea at the company he's going to start, for which the greedy sister fell hook, line, and sinker.
  • "An annoying colleague who brags about how popular she is, was exposed during a group date…": Mia invited her fellow female coworkers, including Paige, to a group date with the top investors of Panikore Trading Company. However, the real reason was for Mia to have them, especially Paige, serve as her foils and thus score herself a wealthy husband, even flouting the "no flashy clothing" rule. Much to her dismay, the fact she went out of her way to bully Paige caused the four investors to pick her instead. Moreover, Thomas, one of the investors, reveals that Mia already had a boyfriend. After they leave with Paige and the other girls, Mia is reduced to throwing tantrums as she lost both her boyfriend and a potential Meal Ticket.
  • "On the way home with a coworker, I witnessed my girlfriend cheating": Sarah ditches Paul for a wealthier man upon hearing he's getting transferred to Texas on the mistaken assumption he got demoted. Two years later, when Paul returned from Texas after marrying Betty, Sarah came back begging to get back together; it turned out her Meal Ticket was actually a marriage scammer, who by the time he got arrested he already conned her out of her money.
• Green Around the Gills: Aoto turns green from disgust when Paige shows him photos of his mistress Lua having affairs with other men, complete with a recording of Lua gloating about her affairs and Aoto being an easy mark for her to deceive.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Ms. Karen harassed Ms. Melanie because she was close to the new guy in the office, Steven, whom the former had a crush on. When the latter took a leave to rest from Karen's harassment, she caught Paige talking with Steven and harassed her instead.
• Groin Attack: In "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…" when Paige and Siena's parents tried to kidnap the former's daughters Penelope and Kiera, the latter takes a bucket to her grandfather's groin area, causing him to let go as he doubled over in pain.
• Henpecked Husband:
  • "Severe verbal abuse from wife and daughter made a man quit family man, which revealed more…" [sic]: Andrew is a family man who got abused by both his wife Edna and daughter Marie for working a traffic-service job instead of working at an office like the other fathers. Eventually, when he went to a pizzeria with his boss, Paige, Andrew finds out Edna has been cheating on him with a man in a suit and tie.
  • 'Facing retirement, my wife says "Aren't you ashamed of yourself making only $2000 at your age?"': Ever since Steven's mother died having accomplished her last wish of attending his wedding and holding her granddaughter Zoey, his wife Lisa started to abuse him for not bringing enough money to the table, with Zoey herself following suit in her teens. Eventually, Steven divorces Lisa for her trouble after encouragement from Paige.
  • "Right before my retirement my wife says, ”I'm leaving you because you're done here": Tucker is mistreated by both his wife and daughter for not going up in the corporate ladder in the 42 years he has been working. While he finally reaches his retirement day and buys a cake for both of them only to be met with divorce papers in response. While Tucker obliges and leaves the house, they end up regretting it when he debuts as a singer with Paige and David's help while the duo sinks in debt after splurging the alimony he paid them.
  • 'My wife and daughter looks down on me, "A stinky middle-aged fatty like you should leave!"': Alexandro Williams is mistreated by both his wife Sally for not getting a pay raise, but also for being fat (a result of his unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyle) and having BO problems. Eventually, their daughter Nancy joined in on the abuse after seeing her mother doing it. However, he stumbles upon a jogging Paige at the park, who proceeds to put him through a strict diet-and-exercise regime. After he finally loses weight, Sally and Nancy treat him better.
• Homewrecker Gets Wrecked:
  • "My friend stole my husband and family, but then…": Kendra, who had a reputation for stealing other girls' boyfriends back in high school, took advantage of Pam's kindness to seduce the latter's husband, Karson, into divorcing her. However, her life turns into hell the moment she marries him, as he was a womanizer, his mother a textbook monster-in-law, and his daughter Amaya a Spoiled Brat.
  • "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!": Lucy seduced Paige's fiancé, Ethan, away from her and marries him. However, her homewrecking is rendered pointless when Paige marries a wealthy foreigner named Lucas and attends the lovebirds' wedding to roast them. This drove Lucy to make the harebrained mistake of stalking Lucas right after she married Ethan. As a result, Lucy ends up divorced and kicked out of his family home after getting the cops called on her.
• Hope Spot:
  • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": While Paul doubted his girlfriend Shion after finding she was chatting with a guy named Takuya, he still had his hopes up when she invited him to a date at a fancy restaurant. When Paul came at the stated time, it's rendered moot when he sees her with a guy named Hibiki, who demands he break up with Shion. To add insult to injury afterwards, his coworkers reveal that Shion had been with other guys besides Hibiki.
  • "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me...": Steven starts to act suspicious when his girlfriend, Paige, became pregnant at 18 years old, not only acting dismissive towards her, but also neglecting their upcoming wedding ceremony. When she called him out on his attitude towards her, he becomes more attentive to the changes in Paige's body and fully committed to go through with the wedding ceremony. However, it's all rendered moot at the wedding day when Steven not only left her at the altar, but revealed he has been cheating on her with another woman.
  • "My friend stole my husband and family, but then…": Kendra is eventually divorced by Karson after he and his family abused her for so long after she stole him from Pam; she couldn't even afford a lawyer to get alimony. However, things seemingly go up for Kendra when a guy approaches her, but in the end he had her co-sign his debts, leading to Kendra working a risky job overseas.
• Horrible Housing: Some antagonists are punished with lawsuits and if they're not in prison or working for the gangs to pay back their loans, they'll end up living in shabby apartments lamenting themselves.
• Househusband: Shawn, the protagonist from "My wife treated me like crap, but then…" has become one after being overwhelmed by the stress of his job and let his wife Anna provide as she was an elite employee. However, when she became increasingly abusive towards him, Shawn had enough of her and revealed he was a stock trader.
• Humiliation Conga: Has its own page.
• Hypocrite: Mackenzie claims to be a vegan and always gave Phoebe a hard time for eating meat, saying that she feels sorry for the animals that were slaughtered to make her meal. However Phoebe caught her enjoying a steak and took a picture as proof, and showed it to the workplace. This embarrassed Mackenzie so much that she quit the company.
• Indentured Servitude: Most antagonists end up with debts from having to pay compensation to their victims. They often borrow money from loan sharks and as a result are forced to do hard labor to pay them back.
• I Have No Daughter!:
  • Paige's parents pressured her to become a lawyer so they'll get rich, however after she failed the exam, they disowned her and kicked her out of the house. However years later, Paige was able to become a lawyer and she helped her first client to sue her former parents which resulted in them becoming destitute. They were forced to rely on money lenders to survive.
  • "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…": While Pam and Alyssa's parents thought of disowning and kicking out the latter for constantly stealing stuff from them, they decided against it fearing she may just break and enter into others' houses with no issue. Therefore, the family tried their best to tolerate her until she broke into Pam's house to steal her credit card and go on a trip to Okinawa.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: In "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy," when Paige's husband, Kelvin, confronted his sister Rachel for stealing Paige's pudding, she complained and denied having eaten six of them, which tipped them off as neither Paige nor Pauline mention how many puddings were stored in the fridge.
• Infertility Intolerance: Paige became sterile due to a illness. When Natalie, the niece of Paige's husband Michael (who Natalie is also having an affair with), learns this, she calls Paige a useless woman.
• Inheritance Backlash: "My brother kept leeching off of my parents, but then…": After John's parents died, his parents left him their inheritance. However it turned out that his parents deliberately went into debt to teach him a valuable lesson. As a result John was harassed by collection agencies and loan sharks. He tried to beg his brother Nate for help, but he refused to help him. In the end, John was forced to work on a crab-fishing boat to pay off his debts.
• I Want Grandkids: Jessica's in-laws constantly hounded her for not having kids for years as they wanted to have an heir to take over the family's company. While she tried to talk it over with Thomas, he dismissed her concerns until it all devolved into bickering.
• Japanese Delinquents: Paige's mom from "Cheating Husband Faces Reality When He Forces Divorce To Marry Someone Younger" is revealed to have been a notorious delinquent in her youth, which comes in handy when she scares off her former son-in-law for mistreating Paige.
• Karmic Abuse:
  • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": Shion not only cheated on Paul with other men, but ultimately ditched him for his shady-looking coworker Hibiki. This becomes her undoing years later as her new man turns out to be an incredibly possessive bastard who not only forced her to cut ties with any and all men except him, but took complete control of her finances. By the time she snuck out to come back begging Paul for help, he was already married with a kid. Eventually, Hibiki catches up with Shion and drags her back home.
  • "My bully big sister stole my fiancé and everything from me…": Fed up with Sarah stealing her boyfriends, Paige concocted a scheme with her best friend Hannah, who paired her up with wealthy businessman Michael, whose mother and grandmother were no-nonsense, controlling traditionalists. As expected, Sarah takes the bait and swipes Michael away from Paige, dooming herself to live as a worn-down housemaid for both her new mother- and grandmother-in-law. While she escaped to beg Paige for help, it was for naught as both women tracked her down and took her away while Paige looked on in relief.
  • "My friend stole my husband and family, but then…": Kendra, who had a reputation for stealing other girls' boyfriends back in high school, took advantage of Pam's kindness to seduce the latter's husband, Karson, into divorcing her. However, her life turns into hell the moment she marries him, as he was a womanizer, his mother a textbook monster-in-law, and his daughter Amaya a Spoiled Brat.
• Locked Away in a Monastery: At the end of "My sister in law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…" after Rob has had enough of Katy's flirting with other men and divorced her, she tried to get back with him until the family called the cops on her. After Katy's parents came over to apologize, they dropped her off to a monastery to shape her up.
• Love Hotels: A common plot point in stories dealing with infidelity, in which the cheating spouse frequents these hotels behind the other's back.
  • "Caught my husband cheating on me, but then…": When Paige goes to clean up Ken's desk and finds a VIP for a love hotel, she becomes suspicious and confronts her cheating husband for it. Cornered, he reveals that ever since Paige was suspected infertile he had an affair with a woman named Jenna.
• Mad Scientist: In the epilogue of "I was asked to go on a courting date, but then…", Paul calls Paige by the trope name when she brings up that her parents could live up to 200 more years with the robot bodies she built.
• Malicious Slander:
  • "My friend stole my boyfriend..." Katy stole Ali's boyfriend, Bob, by accusing her of being a slut before pretending to be drunk and dragging him into a hotel to sleep with him. Ali brings it up at the beginning when Katy calls her to gloat about it.
  • "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…": Paige's younger sister, Zoe, slandered her as a homewrecker ever since she started living with Dean, causing a throng of women to swarm Paige's family home to harass her.
  • "My friend stole my husband, thinking she was getting a rich man with assets…": When Paris' husband, Jonathan, shows up in the middle of her conversation with Amy, she accuses Paris of being a Gold Digger who saw him as a good-for-nothing slacker. While Jonathan briefly fell for it, Paris manages to defuse the situation by reminding him of the reservation they had at a crab restaurant since it was his favorite food. However, Jonathan still cheated on Paris with Amy behind her back.
• Malingering Romance Ploy: In "My parents prioritze my weak sister" [sic], Liz faked being at her last moments to guilt-trip Paige into giving Jeff away to her, with their parents taking the former's side. However, Liz promptly gets exposed when Jeff himself proposes taking her for a checkup at his father's hospital; she screams and breaks down admitting to not being sick.
• Man Bites Man: In "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…" when Paige and Siena's parents tried to kidnap the former's daughters Penelope and Kiera, the former bites her grandmother in the hand, causing the old crone to let go.
• The Mistress: A common plot is Paige getting cheated on by her husband/boyfriend.
• Mistaken for Pedophile: At the end of "A fellow mom stole my husband from me, and tried to collect a settlement fee from me…", after Amy and Michael are sued by their respective spouses for compensation and damages and lose their respective children's custody, Michael is last seen being arrested and thrown behind bars for loitering at the playground where he used to play with Pauline.
• Minimalism: This is a plot pint in this episode where Paige's mother-in-law gets obsessed with decluttering. At first she got rid of her own stuff but then started decluttering other peoples stuff. When she was caught by Paige trying to get rid of her husband's clothing, she frames her resulting in him scolding Paige. One day, she tried to throw away Paige's old plates which were passed down from her grandmother and were valued at $3,400 each but ended up breaking the plates. As a result, Paige filed a police report against her, and her husband divorced and kicked her out of the house. Paige's MIL ended up borrowing money from a shady loan shark in order to pay for the damages.
• Motor Mouth: Mrs. Ortiz, Paige's neighbor from "Found out my husband was cheating on me…" is a talkative woman who blathers nonstop about inane subjects. However, this becomes an asset when Paige confronts Miranda and Eliam in their affair as Mrs. Ortiz gives her suggestions on how to get alimony from the lovebirds before loudly exposing the affair throughout the whole apartment.
• Ms. Red Ink:
  • 'My husband belittles me for working remote, and our daughter copied him and told me to “get out"...': Michael, Paige's verbally-abusive husband, was a chronic spendthrift who bought luxury goods despite not seeming to have enough money. Moreover, he even bought expensive toys for their daughter Ashley to sway the girl to his side and heap on the abuse. Eventually, Paige couldn't take it anymore and left the house after they gaslighted her into leaving.
  • "My sister always stole boyfriends and bragged to me…": Hilary, Paige's (fraternal) twin sister, became a spendthrift even after graduating from college, squandering her parents' money on expensive clothes and group dates while refusing to get a job. Eventually, her ever-doting parents got fed up with her mooching and refused to lend her any more money. Even then, she begged her friends for money.
  • "I was troubled by my infertility, but then my husband betrayed me and cheated on me": After Henry divorces his plain yet loyal wife Paige and remarries the prettier Chelsea, he learns too late that his new wife wasn't only a layabout, but also an overspender to the point of borrowing money from shady people, which resulted in Chelsea being hauled away to work at a hellhole country and Henry getting fired once the truth was revealed.
  • "My mother abandoned my sister and I, and this is how I got revenge!": Despite being born from a wealthy family, Emma revealed herself as a chronic spendthrift once she got married to Toru; she even neglected their twin daughters Yumi and Mami. When Toru tried to take over the family finances to save money, Emma had none of it and swiftly divorced the poor sap, taking custody of the girls to bilk child support money out of him and keep overspending until she abandoned them as she was getting remarried.
  • "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me...": After Steven elopes with his girlfriend to marry her instead and leaves Paige at the altar, the bastard ends up in huge trouble. Not only does he get fired from both his parents' company and the black company he worked in afterward, but his wife turns out to be a spendthrift who borrowed black-market money after he got fired, over which he divorced her as it got them both chased by debt collectors.
  • "They made fun of me at the pool but then...": After her confrontation with Paige and Penelope at the pool is uploaded to the Internet, Ashley is divorced by her own husband. However, this was just one of the various reasons he did it; it turns out Ashley constantly squandered his money on treating her fellow moms to luxury dinners while neglecting housework.
• Mugging the Monster:
  • "When my fiancé met my family, my little sister tired to steal him and my parents told me to..." [sic]: When Karen and her parents intercept her older sister Rachel to have her give up Paul to her, his little sister Paris joins the conversation and is mistaken for another lover of his. When Karen breaks into the office to slander Paul as a cheater to ruin Rachel's life only to stumble upon his whole family, he reveals that not only is Paris his little sister, but that she is the owner of the premises. Afterward, Paul's family chews the three of them out for playing favorites before his older sister Phoebe calls the cops on them.
  • "Playing dumb, then my revenge on my unfaithful wife begins...": Sarah ends up paying the consequences of messing with the wrong wives, twice — the first was her cheating on Paul with a department head whose wife was the CEO's daughter, who alongside Paul himself sues the lovebirds. The second was when she had an affair with the husband of a crime boss' daughter, which got Sarah sent away to work at an exploitative factory in a crime-ridden country.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Kendra seduces Pam's husband, Karson, into divorcing his wife and thus snatch her family. While Pam seemed distraught at first, she celebrates it. As it turns out, Karson constantly cheated on her, his mom treated her like a housemaid, and his daughter Amaya was a brat towards her. Therefore, Kendra unwittingly breaks Pam free from the abuse, condemning herself to being abused in her victim's place.
• Obnoxious Entitled Housewife:
  • Aileen was a single mother who had a habit of stealing others' stuff, especially Paige's. Moreover, she even used her daughter Twinkle to guilt-trip Paige into doing so when the latter was fed up with her stealing. When Aileen found out Paige's boyfriend, York, worked at a big company, she badgered her into "sharing" him only to be scolded by York.
  • Melissa is known by the neighborhood as the "thief mom" for stealing anything that catches her fancy, be it a kid's bicycle or Paige's broom. However, when Paige and the other moms confronted her about it, Melissa escalated into stealing Mr. Smith's Benz car thinking it belonged to Paige to spite her.
  • Hilda always bragged about being a great housewife and mother of two while disparaging childless ones, especially Yvonne. Eventually, Yvonne got fed up with Hilda's bragging and read through the latter's blog, revealing that the "little angels" she bragged about were actually screenshots she took from someone else's blog, which she claimed belonged to Marisa, an infamous delinquent. While this scared the crap out of Hilda, Yvonne reveals the blog wasn't Marisa's after all.
  • 'My mom friend who always gets jealous targeted my husband saying, "I think we're a better match"': Raila, a mom friend of Paige's, not only tried to steal her bag the moment they met for the first time, but tried to have the latter's daughter, Pam, give away her dress only for the girl to give her a verbal smackdown. Even then, it's revealed that she also attempted this on other moms afterward. Eventually, Raila escalates into flirting with Paige's husband, James, and waiting outside of her house to demand she hand over James to her. Much to her dismay, Raila's own husband catches her in the act and divorces her, gaining custody of Hannah.
  • "They made fun of me at the pool but then...": Ashley not only flaunted her status as the wife of Panicore Group's General-Manager to assert dominance among her fellow moms, but was also willing to harass and bully those who don't fall in line, as shown when she had her entourage cut ties with both Paige and her daughter Penelope because the former talked back to her.
• Obnoxious In-Laws:
  • "Mother-In-Law Keeps Disturbing My Online Meetings And Kicks Me Out → But When She Comes back...": Paige's mother-in-law and her daughter Ariana gave her a hard time about working from home, thinking that she just plays games all day. When Ariana broke Paige's laptop after failing to log in, she told everything to her husband and father-in-law. Paige's father-in-law divorced his wife and cut ties with his daughter Ariana. Ariana also got caught having an affair after her husband got suspicious of her going to Paige's house.
  • "My selfish sister-in-law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Paige's sister-in-law, Kelsey, not only was selfish enough to throw tantrums whenever things don't go her way. Moreover, when Kelsey brought her own husband to her parents' house and found out Paige was pregnant, she whined about wanting to become a mom too while claiming she's going through fertility treatments until her parents caved in and decided to pay for her treatments. However, when Kelsey bumped into Paige at the OB/GYN clinic and begged her for money as her parents stopped doing so, Paige found out it was a scam, but held on until they gathered at the in-laws' house.
  • "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy": Paige's sister-in-law, Rachel, is an obnoxious young woman who always stole food from Paige. Moreover, no amount of scolding could stop her from doing so; even when Paige put a "dangerous" sticker on a rare pudding to dissuade Rachel, she saw right through it and ate it anyway. Eventually, Paige got fed up with Rachel's thievery that she made a pudding with chili peppers to punish her.
  • "Cheating Husband Faces Reality When He Forces Divorce To Marry Someone Younger": Paige's mother-in-law constantly picked on her for whatever fault she found on her, no matter how small. Moreover, Paige's husband, Kevin, refused to help her out on the chores as he was the main breadwinner. The abuse worsened ever since her father-in-law became disabled as the MIL forced her to look after the old man.
  • "Someone stole money from my daughter, but then…": Tom's mother often berated his wife Pam. At first Tom defended her from his mother, but as soon as she moved in with them, he took her side more often than not, and often gave her money, despite her being a spendthrift. When Pam and Tom's daughter got her money stolen, Pam found out that it was Tom who stole it for both himself and his mother. When he acted callous about it, she divorced him and took their daughter with her.
• Office Romance: Kevin from "Cheating Husband Faces Reality When He Forces Divorce To Marry Someone Younger" cheated on Paige with a younger coworker named Ana, who was his subordinate. When Paige found out, she confronted her cheating husband until he confessed.
• Older Than They Look: Paige is always depicted as a child even as an adult though she is often portrayed as an adult in the thumbnails.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: Dawn wears opaque, swirly glasses and is a mousy, shy employee working at PR. This was also one of the reasons Diana picked on her.
• Open Relationship Failure:
  • 'My husband can't reject his female friend's call for help "I'm not cheating on you."': When Paige confronts Michael on his affair with Green, he misunderstands it as her accepting his affair. When the lovebirds come over, Paige drops the bombshell and demands for a divorce. Much to her surprise, Michael and Green switch gears and vehemently deny any romantic relationship. Even then, Paige presents evidence and tells Green she has exposed her to her own husband.
  • "Man Instantly Regrets Cheating After Wife Leaves and He Gets Fired From Work": When Paige confronts her cheating husband Mark on his affair with Kylie, he folds but tries to convince her to make it an "official affair" and make the marriage into an open relationship, much to Paige's befuddlement. Unsurprisingly, it fails when Kylie herself shows up after Paige posed as Mark to invite her, with the lovebirds denying it on the spot and begging Paige not to expose them. Much to their dismay, she already did just that and even reported Mark's affair to his mother.
• Operation: Jealousy: In "A rude colleague tried to strategize love with a young, handsome employee, but then…" when Pam asks Leah why does she keep turning down Eric if she had a crush on him, Leah responds it's part of a plan to make him jealous by dating other guys in front of him.
• Out-Gambitted:
  • "My bully big sister stole my fiancé and everything from me…": After having her two previous boyfriends stolen by her older sister Sarah, Paige concocts a plan with her best friend Hannah to get back at her by pairing the former up with a wealthy guy named Michael, who privately capitulated to both his mother and grandmother, who were strict and old-fashioned women. Unsurprisingly, Sarah takes the bait and steals Michael from her as she was unaware of this side of him; she's the one subjected to abuse from both his mother and grandmother as a result.
  • "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…": Paige's younger sister, Zoe, swore to steal the former's fiancé in revenge for being denied money to pay alimony to her own husband. Since Paige herself refused to disclose information about the man, Zoe went around asking everyone about it until her supposed victim's best friend, Layla, takes action by leading the Attempted Homewrecker on to a notorious playboy and swindler named Stefan. As a result, Zoe ends up in deep trouble after Stefan tricks her into co-signing his debt and runs off, leaving her to work her sorry ass off to pay it.
• Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Trent's mother eavesdropped on Paige's conversation over the phone with her father when he stated he had one month left to live, and not only she stopped harassing Paige, but also borrowed money from everywhere she could and went on a splurging trip thinking she'd get the man's inheritance once he died. However, she didn't pay attention as Paige and her father talked about the game Kitty Cuddle Island, which was about to shut down in one month. As a result, the greedy MIL ends up condemning herself to working off the massive debt.
• Parking Payback: Sekota and Akemi keep parking on Paige's family's residence without their permission and making out on their property. Having had enough, the family came up with a plan to scare them off. They dressed up as ghosts and managed to scare them off their premises. It was revealed that they weren't a couple and were cheating with each other.
• Parental Incest: An uncle-niece variant is shown in "My husband took in his college student niece and was obsessed with her…", where Paige's husband, Michael, and their niece, Natalie, started a relationship for five years. However, she gathered enough evidence and showed it at Natalie's wedding, exposing their affair and causing the groom to call off the wedding and sue the incestuous couple alongside Paige.
• Parental Neglect: In "My wife went on a trip with another man, but left our daughter home alone", Travis goes on a business trip and warns his wife Angela not to leave their daughter Renee home alone, but later on, Angela frantically calls Travis when she disappeared, cluing him on that she did left Renee home alone and tricked her into thinking he called the police to have her admit to her affair, which he found out by checking the hotel-booking website she used and learning she paid it with the family credit card.
• Phony Relative: Maria, the titular new hire from "An arrogant new hire got the job through connections and thought he could get me fired…" got her job by being Manager Kevin's niece despite her incompetence as Paige's subordinate. Eventually, when Maria threatens to get her fired, Paige investigates them and finds out Kevin was an only child, which clued her in on that Maria wasn't his niece, but his mistress. After Kevin and Maria's affair is exposed, Kevin loses his job and his own wife divorces him for cheating before suing Maria.
• Pillow Pregnancy: In "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…" a pregnant Zoe tries to kick Paige out of the apartment only to find out the latter still had her fiancé with her. When Paige herself reveals that the man she "snatched", Stefan, was a dangerous playboy and swindler, she angrily takes off her sweater, and put her hands under her own shirt to reveal stuffed several towels underneath to fake a pregnancy.
• Playing Sick: Liz, Paige's older sister from "My parents prioritze my weak sister" [sic] is revealed to have been faking her illness to steal Paige's stuff since childhood; Paige herself saw right through her but her parents refused to believe her for years until her fiancé Jeff promptly exposes Liz' facade by proposing she gets a checkup at his father's clinic. She breaks down and admits to have been faking her illness, with the sisters' mother being also in on it to bilk money out of their father; the reason the mother-daughter duo tried to steal Jeff in the first place was because the father was about to retire.
• Pop-Up Texting: There are occasional scenes where characters are communicating via text.
• Positive Friend Influence: There are so many segments where Paige/Paniko/Pam is helping someone better themselves, whether it’s a former tormentor, or a potential love interest (especially after being cheated on by the first love interest).
  • I was troubled by my infertility, but then my husband betrayed me and cheated on me: After a humiliating dinner in which Henry (her soon to be former husband) and Chelsea (the soon to be revealed mistress) were mocking Paige for her infertility and John (a subordinate) for being a loser, they end up bumping into a pub after leaving the house. There, Paige noticed he was interested in programming and decided to encourage him to pursue what he wanted, even having him work under her brother. Five years later, he’s lost weight, became handsome and confident, working as a managing director, married to Paige with a daughter, and another child on the way.
  • Went to meet my fiancé’s parents, but then…: Kay, Shawn’s sister and Pam’s sister in law was introduced as the spoiled, favorite child who didn’t know how to do things on her own and was lazy. But after falling in love with Paige’s cousin Tom, and wanting to be a woman worthy for him, she went to Paige to help to better herself in appearance, life skills, etc. Now she’s working at a farm, happily married, in better shape physically, and kinder.
• Predatory Prostitute: Sally, Sean's mistress from "My husband and son looks down on me calling me a fatty" is revealed by Paige to have been working in the sex industry since the age of twenty rather than as a secretary for a big company as she claimed.
• Professional Butt-Kisser: Gina, Paige's coworker from "Jealous coworker bullies me, but a hero steps in..." bullies her and her fellow female coworkers, but acts sweet around male higher-ups and employees, which Paige herself deemed creepy.
• Punished with Ugly:
  • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": Years after Shion dumped Paul for a shady-looking guy named Hibiki, she is last seen haggard, in tattered clothes, and aged into a wrinkly old woman. It turns out Hibiki was an incredibly possessive bastard who not only chewed her out into cutting ties with any and all men beside him, but also took all her money to spend on himself.
  • "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth": Rendered mentally ill from having all her boyfriends scared away by Mrs. Ezra's goons, selling all her luxury items, and eventually borrowing black-market money to pay the car she crashed, Mia lost weight until she lost all the beauty she prided herself in.
• Put on a Prison Bus:
  • "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…": After Siena's parents kick her out of the house for squandering their money on dubious research, she's last seen in a prison cell, as a news report reveals that Siena got arrested and jailed for scamming people.
  • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": While Hibiki got off scot-free by forcing Shion to co-sign his debt to shady money lenders, his luck runs out when he's caught by the police for several crimes including fraud, with Paul narrating that the bastard is serving a very lengthy prison sentence.
  • "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!": After her stalking Lucas into dumping Paige for her earned Lucy an arrest and got her divorced from Ethan and kicked out, she tried to beg her victim for shelter as their parents disowned her. However, Paige has none of it and calls the cops on Lucy, which got her arrested and put behind bars this time. By the time Paige paid her a visit, Lucy aged quickly from the stress (and throwing tantrums in jail) to the point of losing her beautiful looks.
  • "When I got home, my mom looked like a monster and threw water on my wife…": Melissa is put behind bars for trespassing charges after she's found to have been sneaking into the house of her former MIL, Tammy, over and over to mooch off of her to get out of paying the loan she took for the settlement fee.
  • "A fellow mom stole my husband from me, and tried to collect a settlement fee from me…": After Paige sues both Amy and Michael for cheating and then trying to con money out of her, Amy loses Rachel's custody to her ex-husband while Michael, not having knocked down the habit of playing with his daughter Pauline just to show off, ends up arrested and jailed for loitering at the playground they used to play in.
  • "My sister stole my fiancé, but then…": After Briella's failed attempt to seduce Riley away from Paige resulted in her current husband, Benson, divorcing her and thus screwing her out of a celebrity lifestyle, she retaliates by exposing Benson's embezzlement of company funds to the public. As a result, Benson is fired and thrown in the slammer in the end.
• Really Gets Around:
  • "Found out my husband was cheating on me…": After Vera is taken to task by Ms. Adelyn for showing up late to pick her son Roman up from daycare only to whine that she's finding a husband, Paige muses that Vera always showed up late because she had fun with her many boyfriends. However, this is confirmed when Vera confronts her on the way home as Paige was acquainted with her father who owned a dry-cleaning business.
  • "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…": When Paige arranges a gathering between Jessica and her family after Thomas dumped the latter for Michelle, the alleged class madonna back in his high school, Paige not only exposes Thomas' affair but reveals that Michelle went through so many guys she didn't even know who the father of her baby was; she lied about having a fiancé to trick Thomas.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Mia from "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth" is depicted wearing a strapless Little Black Dress with a red sash and is a promiscuous vixen who leeches off men and even stole other girls' boyfriends back in high school.
• Relationship Gone Public: In "An arrogant new hire got the job through connections and thought he could get me fired…" when Maria files a bogus report against Paige for "bullying" her and both went on a meeting with the CEO to confirm it, the man accidentally praises Paige's cooking, over which she reveals the CEO was her husband. After Maria's bullying is exposed and is later found out that she was actually Manager Kevin's mistress and not his niece in front of everyone at the office, the relationship goes public as a result.
• Relationship Sabotage:
  • "A fellow mom stole my husband from me, and tried to collect a settlement fee from me…": Amy steals Paige's husband, Michael, and becomes pregnant with his child in an attempt to collect a settlement fee from Paige, according to what she read on a website. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, Paige reveals that the website she read that from stipulated that a pregnant mistress could not only collect a fee from the wife, but from the husband as well, applicable only whenever the husband hurt the mistress' baby. Afterward, Amy folded and revealed she lied about becoming pregnant, much to Michael's shock.
  • "A fellow mom tried to steal my husband from me, but when I introduced her to my mother-in-law…": Karen schemed to woo Paige's husband away from her, but her supposed victim concocted a counter-scheme with her mother-in-law to drive her away by claiming the MIL had her sign a contract to work incessantly under her strict guidance, with no time to rest nor make mistakes. As a result, Karen runs away screaming in horror.
  • "My Sister Steals My Boyfriend and Marries Him But When She Finds Out The Truth About Him…": Noa seduces Souta away from Paige and marries him. When she calls to gloat about it, Paige reveals that her "boyfriend" wasn't Souta, but a boy-band idol named Souma. Moreover, it turns out Souta was a stalker and only married Noa to get closer to Paige.
  • "Ex boyfriend’s fiancé was my ex best friend, who sent me a wedding invitation…": When Paige saw her best friend Sarah again, who was devastated from her breakup with Nick and helped her recover, the latter exchanged numbers with Paige's boyfriend Kevin, which led to them having an affair. Later on, when Paige befriended her other former classmate Michelle at Headquarters, she recorded Sarah gloating about inviting Paige to her wedding with Kevin to rub it in as he had a high salary. Much to the homewrecker's dismay, Paige attended with her new boyfriend, who turned out to be Nick, and invited Sarah to her wedding, which became the last straw for Sarah as she broke everything and demanded Nick be handed back to her, right in front of Kevin.
  • "Crazy Sister Steals My Fiance And Invites Me To Their Wedding → But When She Saw My Husband…!": Lucy always tried and failed to steal other girls' boyfriends since high school, but when Paige brought her boyfriend, Ethan, she succeeded and tried to rub it in at every opportunity. Later on, when Paige attends Lucy's wedding with her wealthy foreign husband, Lucas, who roasts both cheating newlyweds for their affair.
  • "My sister stole my fiancé, but then…": Paige's younger sister, Briella, successfully seduces Benson away from her and sets out to rub it in her face as he became a successful manager and CEO. Much to her dismay, it's rendered moot when Paige got engaged with a handsome and more successful man named Riley. When Briella tried the same on him, he turns her away and reveals he was the fat nerd who was cruelly turned down by her. To add insult to injury, Benson caught her and demanded a divorce.
  • "My sister tried to steal my fiancé, but then…": Ali not only stole Pam's stuff but also stole the latter's first boyfriend. This became a conflict point as she didn't want to introduce her new boyfriend, Joe, to her parents for fear of the same happening. A few days later after Pam and Joe married, Ali called her to brag about having stolen her fiancé, but she didn't buy it because Joe was next to her when she received the call. Later on, when Pam and Joe go on a honeymoon in Morocco, Ali calls again after seeing the couple's pictures; her victim reveals the "fiancé" was Joe's swindling, womanizing cousin.
  • "My sister in law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": Pam's sister-in-law, Katy, not only flirted with several men behind Rob's back but she wasn't above targeting married men. She visited Pam's house to give Tom a bag of chocolates modeled after her own lips in a kiss, but when she contacted her parents and her brother as well, it's revealed Katy even pulled the same thing on Pam's father. When the flirty SIL visited again, Pam's whole family revealed that Rob was going to divorce her for her trouble.
  • "My bully big sister stole my fiancé and everything from me…": Paige's older sister, Sarah, stole her first boyfriend back in high school. While Paige was evidently hurt, she got over it as she found confronting them a waste of time. However, Sarah struck again by stealing Paige's second boyfriend after she got a job. Frustrated, Paige concocts a plan to get back at her by dating a wealthy guy named Michael, whose family was extremely traditional.
• Remarried to the Mistress:
  • "I was troubled by my infertility, but then my husband betrayed me and cheated on me": After his promotion-celebration dinner concluded, Henry divorces Paige for being supposedly an infertile, useless housewife (despite her diligence in doing housework) and remarries Chelsea, he ends up regretting it as his new wife wasn't only an actual layabout who didn't do any housework and couldn't bear him a child, but was also an overspender to the point of borrowing money from loan sharks, which not only resulted in Chelsea being taken away to a hellhole country to pay her debts, but in Henry's firing and disownment.
  • "Soon after we got married, my husband cheated on me with my little sister and asked for a divorce…": Steven divorces and kicks Paige out of his apartment to remarry her prettier younger sister Amy. Much to his dismay, he finds out too late that Amy only strung him along by lying about being a model, which forced them both to take a loan to pay each other's debts.
• Revenge Is a Dish Best Served:
  • "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy": Fed up with Rachel stealing her pudding every time she bought it, Paige made a pudding with chili peppers to punish her. When the thieving SIL fell for it and burned her mouth, it's eventually revealed that she gave all the puddings she stole to her boyfriend, whose wife held back on her lawsuits when she promised to not see him. Moreover, Paige made ten chili pepper puddings, which she also sold without thinking. Eventually, Rachel's lover's store, Yucky Cakes, went bust after the rumors.
  • "My co-worker who I can’t stand had been stealing sweets from my desk, so I planned a little surprise": In retaliation for Katrina stealing the treats she made and giving them to Mr. Press to seduce him, Pam made sakura mochi with a lot of mustard and purposely left it on the table so Katrina would steal it. When Mr. Press tasted the tainted treat and hit Katrina in his rush to wash off the bad taste, it's eventually revealed he was engaged to Pam's coworker, Hailey, who rushes to hold the bastard accountable.
• Revenge Romance:
  • "My crazy sister tried to steal my fiancé, but…": In response to Paige slamming the door shut on her and refusing to lend her money to pay the alimony she owes to her husband, her younger sister Zoe declares she's going to steal her fiancé to live a rich life in her stead. Paige herself dismissed it as a bluff until Zoe starts asking everyone for the fiancé's private information. When she seems to have successfully stolen Paige's fiancé, it turns out to be a plan by her friend Layla to drive Zoe away by hooking her up to a dangerous delinquent named Stefan.
• Rich Bitch: "My mother abandoned my sister and I, and this is how I got revenge!": Toru's ex-wife, Emma, is born from a wealthy family, but she was a chronic overspender to the point of divorcing him and taking their daughters' custody by using her wealth to hire the best lawyer. Moreover, she even goes as far as only letting him see the girls in exchange for paying child support.
• Right Through the Wall: Becomes a plot point in "Found out my husband was cheating on me…" when Paige hears the sounds of a man and a woman "getting cozy" coming from Miranda's room while tending to her baby daughter Penelope whenever her husband Eliam leaves for work. When she confronts Miranda on it, she tries to deflect the issue, but Paige doesn't buy it as Miranda's husband was an ordinary office worker. Eventually, she rushes into Miranda's room to warn her about the noise only to find Eliam at the door.
• School Idol: Michelle, Thomas' mistress from "My husband found out his mistress was pregnant, and kicked me out…" is said to be "the class madonna" back in high school, and therefore the most popular. Much to his dismay, Paige comes over with his ex-wife, Jessica, and exposes Michelle as an easy girl who used her innocent looks to sleep with multiple men; her alleged dead fiancé was a lie to manipulate the cheating ex-husband into marrying her and thus live off his family's money.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Maria not only is a new hire with a poor work ethic and inability to do most basic jobs, but Paige reveals she only got her job because she was being Manager Kevin's niece. Furthermore, she took advantage of her status to lord it over Paige, eventually escalating into colluding with Kevin to get Paige fired by filing a bogus report about her bullying Maria. Eventually, Paige investigates them and finds out Maria wasn't even Kevin's niece, but his mistress; he lied about it to get her a job.
• Secret Other Family: Paige got suspicious of Caleb when she overheard him calling a woman's name. She hired a private investigator, who tells her she might not be married. When she looked into the matter, she found out she and Caleb were not legally wed and he's married to Winnie and they have a child together. When both women found out about Caleb's deception, both left him. Caleb was left to pay alimony and child support and was disowned by his parents.
• Secretly Wealthy: When Paris left the company building after quitting, Miss Karen tried to harass her only to find out a parade of luxury cars. She mistook the handsome men in suits for princes who came to pick her up in white horses, but they revealed themselves as Paris' butlers, ready to bring Miss Karen down for her harassment.
• Serial Adulterer:
  • "Severe verbal abuse from wife and daughter made a man quit family man, which revealed more…": Andrew's wife, Edna, not only abused him for working a traffic-guard job, but also cheated on him with two men of higher specs, named Ricky and Julio. The former was her first lover with good looks, the latter was wealthy. Moreover, it also turns out both Edna and her daughter, Marie, teamed up to commit marriage fraud to bilk money out of Julio to buy frivolities for Ricky, which angered Julio into filing a marriage-fraud report against the cheating wife.
  • "I was going to propose to my girlfriend but...": Shion, Paul's ex-girlfriend, turns out to have been with other guys besides him and Hibiki while they were dating.
• Serial Homewrecker:
  • "We got revenge on my husband..." after Lua's parents took her back to the countryside for her trouble after her affairs were exposed to Aoto, Paige reveals in narration that Lua had affairs with other married men, with her parents contacting her lovers' wives to apologize before forcing her to work to pay the debt.
  • "I kept warning my daughter not to touch my cell phone but…": After Paige sues her cheating husband Neil and his three mistresses, she reveals in narration that said mistresses were married. After the divorce, the mistresses are dumped by their husbands and sued for alimony.
  • "I met my old classmate who called me fat in my school days for the first time in years…": After being humiliated by Penelope at the pool for bullying Paige, Autumn takes her own daughter, Naomi, and heads home. The next day, Autumn's husband shows up to apologize to Paige and Morton and reveals that they had to move constantly because Autumn has been causing relationship troubles, but he held off on divorcing her because she'd get dumped easily.
  • "My bully colleague stole my girlfriend from me, but then when he also tried to steal my lil sister": Kevin, Paul's former colleague at work, set out to steal potential girlfriends from him out of spite for not being as good as the poor sod. One day after he stole Paul's latest girlfriend, Ashley, the victim's stepsister, Jessica, comes to visit. When Kevin attempts to pull his usual crap on Jessica, she not only refuses the bastard's advances, but gives him a dressing-down. He blows up at them only for the higher-ups of the company, among them the siblings' father, who promptly transferred both him and Ashley to work at a remote island without pay because the latter embezzled company money.
  • "Playing dumb, then my revenge on my unfaithful wife begins...": Sarah's first lover, the department head at the branch of her cheating-trip destination, is revealed to have been married to the CEO's daughter. When Paul exposes the affair, the CEO's daughter divorces the lover and sues Sarah for compensation. Even after being reduced to working at the nightlife business to pay her debt, Sarah didn't learn her lesson and went for another married man. Unsurprisingly, this worsened her situation because her new lover's wife was the daughter of a crime boss, who promptly sends Sarah to work at a factory in a crime-ridden country.
• Sex Work Karma:
  • "My unemployed sister-in-law kept taking my food out of the fridge… and told me I was crazy": After Rachel is sued by her boyfriend's wife for a settlement fee following the man's business going belly-up from having his resale scheme exposed, her reputation takes a hit to the point she turns to the nightlife business to pay her debts.
  • "When my loving husband brings his affair to demand divorce...": After Paige issues a restraining order on her cheating husband Jason for trying to corner her into remarriage after divorcing her to remarry Lisa, it's revealed that Lisa herself got disowned by her parents and forced to hide in a nightlife job to keep herself afloat.
  • "Playing dumb, then my revenge on my unfaithful wife begins...": After Paul divorces and sues Sarah for having an affair a department head whose wife was the CEO's daughter, Sarah resorts to a nightlife job to pay her debt, but ends up in more hot water after having a romp with the husband of a crime boss' daughter, which gets the homewrecking ex-wife sent to work at an inhuman factory overseas.
  • "My bully colleague stole my girlfriend from me, but then when he also tried to steal my lil sister": After getting arrested, fired, and sued for causing damages while bickering with Kevin over his womanizing and having been forced to work alongside him on a remote island to pay his embezzlement debt, Ashley ends up working a nightlife job to pay her massive debt after borrowing money from shady people.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Rachel, Paige's old classmate from "Best Friend Steals My Boyfriend But When He Finds Out Her Real Intentions…" was once a plain girl back in high school, but after she dropped out, ran away from home, and worked at host clubs to keep herself afloat, her looks improved by the moment she and Paige meet again.
• Shout-Out:
  • "My sister in law was causing us a lot of trouble, but then…": The story of how Pam's parents have met involves the father buying chocolates modeled after Ittetsu Hoshi from Kyojin no Hoshi, with some scenes depicting a Vyond-styled rendition of said character.
  • "My husband was cheating on me…": When Paige's surprise visit to check on her husband Ted backfires upon catching him cheating with another woman named Erica, he gloats about how she was okay with "making a contract with [him] and become a magical girl" before banishing her back to her parents' house.
• Sleeping with the Boss:
  • Katrina is revealed to have been seducing and sleeping with Mr. Press, the boss of both her and Pam, which explained the man's preferential treatment of Katrina. Moreover, it turns out Press was engaged to Hailey, Pam's coworker from earlier. After the lovebirds are fired for their affair, Katrina had an affair with the boss of another company only to get caught by his wife and asked to pay compensation, which she paid by borrowing from loan sharks.
  • Sarah lied to Paul about going on business trips to cover up her affair with the department head at her destination. When Paul himself finds out, he retaliates by sending the recording of Sarah's cheating trip to Johnson, the office's gossiper, who in turn revealed to him first that Sarah's lover was married to the CEO's daughter. Moreover, Paul also sent the video to Sarah's parents, who promptly disown her before taking her to a loan company for the compensation she'll have to pay Paul the settlement.
• Sleeping with the Boss's Wife:
  • "I kept warning my daughter not to touch my cell phone but…": Paige reveals that one of Neil's three mistresses was his boss' wife, over which the man chews him out upon finding out the affairs.
  • "Man Instantly Regrets Cheating After Wife Leaves and He Gets Fired From Work": When Paige investigates Mark's mistress, Kylie, the hired PI revealed not only that the mistress was married and worked at the same company as Mark, but that Kylie's husband was Mark's boss also at the same company.
• Speak of the Devil: Paige's grandfather suddenly shows up out of nowhere when she talked with Hannah about how she played Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom with him. Even Paige herself is astounded by his sudden appearance. However, the grandpa explains that he was already there as he went two hours earlier to attend the turtle race.
  Paige: Woah, Grandpa, what are you doing here? Even though you live in a place that takes over two hours to get to from the bullet train here?
• Spoiled Brat: Miss Karen from "The company I worked at asked me to quit because the CEO's daughter was going to take my job…" is the spoiled daughter of the CEO and the Vice-President who only went to the workplace to ask her parents for allowance and even paid for personal expenses using the company card whenever they weren't present. Eventually, Karen's parents decided to hire her in Paris' place in a harebrained attempt to help her become independent.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Elizabeth gave Paige a hard time for running a restaurant while raising her daughter. She planned a reservation at Paige's restaurant and attempted to cancel it, but the other moms went to the restaurant. When Elizabeth went there to lecture her about running a business instead of being a stay-at-home mom, her husband Tommy showed up to tell her off for being a hypocrite and revealed that she doesn't do anything around the house, left childcare to his mother and had been trying to get into acting for a while but was unsuccessful. After that, Tommy and Elizabeth got a divorce.
• Sticky Fingers:
  • "One morning, a guy who says he's a fiance barged in with a lawyer": Paige's younger sister, Kate, always stole her things since childhood. While their mother, Penny, scolded her for doing so and she seemingly subsided, her stealing got worse years later after being divorced by her own husband as she barged into Paige's room upon being let in and tried to steal money from her.
  • "My sister used my credit card to go on a solo trip, but then…": Pam's younger sister, Alyssa/Rumi, started to steal things from her ever since she reached her teens, owing to her being a Spoiled Brat since childhood. While the sisters' parents scolded her for her trouble and thought of disowning her, they decided against it for fear she may cause trouble for other people.
• Taking the Kids: "After I gave birth, my husband and mother-in-law stole my baby and kicked me out but..." - After Paige gave birth and returned to Thomas and his mom's house, they decided to take away her baby daughter, Pauline, as the duo deemed her "a failure as a mother". Despite her and her parents' best efforts to take the baby back, they couldn't find the duo. But ten years later, Paige finds a ten-year-old little girl playing by herself at a park, who turns out to be Pauline. When the mother-son duo appeared to find the girl, they chewed Paige out and revealed they were grooming Pauline to marry into wealth.
• Teen Pregnancy: In "I became pregnant at 18 and on my wedding day the groom left me..." Paige becomes pregnant at 18 while dating Steven. However, he became suspicious as he not only ignored her but also neglected the wedding ceremony until she called him out. While he seemed to commit and becomes more proactive about it, he goes back on all that right on the wedding day by no-showing and then calling Paige to announce he already has a girlfriend.
• Terrible Artist: Steven is an aspiring manga artist, but his drawing skills are in fact terrible and was unsuccessful so Paige had to support him.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Autumn's husband is a fat stocky guy while Autumn herself is an attractive woman.
• The Un-Favorite:
  • "My family were all doctors, and I was kicked out by them when I turned 18…": Stephen was put aside in favor of his older brother John, who because of his excellent grades in medical school, looked down on people. Not helping matters is that their parents, both doctors, see their patients as peasants to gouge money out of. Eventually, Stephen ends up disowned by his parents for getting into a car accident and thus failing his medical college exam because he was absent for a month.
  • "Went to meet my fiancé's parents, but then…": Shawn's parents always played favorites with his sister Kay and spoiled her causing her to be lazy and reliant on her mother for everything.
  • "When my fiancé met my family, my little sister tired to steal him and my parents told me to..." [sic]: Rachel was cast aside in favor of her younger sister Karen, whom their parents spoiled rotten. When she came over with her fiancé, Karen predictably tried to flirt with him much to Rachel's chagrin. When Karen demands that Rachel give Paul up with her parents taking the former's side, Paul himself reaffirms his relationship with Rachel, unaware that her family looked down on her.
  • "Even though I worked multiple jobs for 18 years to send my parents money…": Paige was loved by her parents but as soon as her younger sister Hannah was born, she was cast aside. Even when the two became adults, Paige's parents demanded that she give them money to satisfy Hannah's demands. However, after they called her useless, Paige cut them off. Hannah and their parents ended up in debt because Hannah's fiancé scammed them out of money and they were forced to work off the debt without any rest.
  • "The spoiled son who is gifted with cars and a hosue by his rich parents": While Aria's parents set out to educate her to the last detail after begrudgingly making her the heir, they gave up on her after her brother, Sun, was born. Since then, Sun became spoiled-rotten to the point of not only looking down on struggling people and spending on luxuries, but also gloated about four-timing despite being engaged. However, Sun's constant gloating becomes his undoing after the incompetent father, who stole company money to buy him luxuries, thoughtlessly sells out his company to Paige's. Much to the father's dismay, Sun also dropped out of university thinking his job was secured, posting a selfie while holding a dropping-out notice.
  • "Parents Dote On My Genius Sister With 130 IQ And Neglects Me But After I Give Birth To Children…": Siena was doted over Paige by their parents due to the former being acing her exams in elementary school. They ended up giving Paige away to her aunt Audrey, who loved her as if she were her own child. Years later, they tried to fetch Paige so she can support them, but she refused to come out. It later turned out that Siena had quit school and became a shut in. In the end, the parents were forced to get jobs to pay off their debts and Siena ended up in jail after scamming people.
  • "My little sister helped our toxic parents kick me out of the house, but it was for a reason…": Pam's sister Gabriella was favored more by their parents despite Pam getting a part time job to help pay off their debs. Gabriella helped her parents kick out Pam. Years later, after Pam got a successful career, she was reunited with Gabriella. Her parents tried to beg her for money since Gabriella's fiancée refused to pay their debt but both sisters cut ties with them.
  • "My parents prioritze my weak sister": Liz's parents constantly showered her with praise and gave her whatever she wants. They forced Paige to give anything she owns to her since they thought she was weak. Once they met Paige's fiancé, Jeff, they tried to force Paige to give him to Liz, however Jeff proposed that Liz get a checkup at his father's hospital. However it was revealed that Liz had been faking her illness the entire time and her mother knew about it but kept her father in the dark so he will keep giving her money. Paige and Liz's father divorced his wife and ended up quitting his job while Liz and her mother were forced to get jobs to survive.
• To the Pain: A version involving scrying in "I had special powers which my family was only aware of" — after Ivy's plan to baby-trap Paul and live off his money is derailed by Phoebe's clairvoyance, she whines about not wanting to marry into the family. However, Phoebe starts having another vision of Ivy's miserable future onward, which she reveals, including the exact time it will last.
  Phoebe: From this very moment, the dark age has begun in your life. Your future is full of hardships and you'll face a lot of problems... And the period would finally be over in 20 years... 20 years, 3 months, and probably... 21 days, I guess?
• Upper-Class Twit: In "I was asked to go on a courting date, but then…" when Paul is taken to a date for an Arranged Marriage with the daughter of the president of Reed Industry. However, the woman and her parents turned out to be stuck-up bastards who looked down on Paul's "poor-looking" background. However, the three of them fold when Paul's father reveals that his wife is the CEO of Pani Corporation, their biggest client.
• Vandalism Backfire:
  • "My crap boyfriend got another girl pregnant while living with me, and tried to kick me out…": Kevin and Michelle both gleefully stomp on Paige's tablet after kicking her out of her house. Much to their dismay, Paige reveals that the tablet wasn't hers, but it belonged to Mr. Thomas, who gives the lovebirds a thorough verbal smackdown for breaking his property.
  • "My annoying sister-in-law ruined my daughter’s Kimono with soy sauce...": At the day of Paula's shichi-go-san celebration, Jessica pours soy sauce on the girl's kimono to spite Paige for being "tacky" (read:valuing her family and community's traditions). Little did she know that Paula was already wearing a kimono to the shrine, but that the one Jessica just dirtied belonged to her own daughter, Sarah. As a result, her husband, George, scolds her for it and cheating on him with a married man under the guise of going with fellow mom friends.
  • "My sister-in-law went into my house and no permission and let her kids destroy my house…": Years after swearing not to drop off her son Thomas to Paige and Michael's household in response to being held accountable for the boy's bratty antics, Karen goes back on her word and returns to the couple's house to deliberately have Thomas lay waste to it out of spite. Much to her dismay, when she calls Paige to gloat, the supposed victim not only reveals she sold the house, but the new owners installed CCTV cameras and a security system that immediately alerts the police the moment an intruder breaks into the house. As a result, Karen is arrested and is about to lose Thomas' custody to her husband.
  • "A neighbor used my expensive car without permission and then destroyed it in an accident…": Melissa steals and crashes Paige's Benz to spite her for exposing her theft streak. Much to the thieving housewife's dismay, the Benz she just crashed belonged to Mr. Smith, the CEO of Panic Corporation; the one Paige bought was actually a toy Benz for Pauline, who admired the man. As a result of her stunt, Melissa is arrested, put behind bars, divorced by Adam, and loses custody of their son. To add insult to injury, Melissa's parents plan to have her work at a factory to pay the money they fronted her for the damages.
  • "Unemployed in-Law Drives My Luxury Car And Crashes It But When She Finds Out The Shocking Truth": After Paige and her husband's family moves out in response to Mia stealing her expensive car, the evil SIL borrows Paige's expensive car a second time to crash it. Much to Mia's dismay, Paige reveals she sold said car to an acquaintance named Ezra, who came over with her goons to hold the SIL accountable.
• Vicarious Gold Digger: Thomas and his mom from "After I gave birth, my husband and mother-in-law stole my baby and kicked me out but..." not only conspired to have the former divorce Paige and forcibly take baby Pauline's custody, but also groomed the girl into seeking a wealthy man to marry as she grew up so they could live a celebrity lifestyle at her expense. Ten years later, however, it turns out Pauline already saw right through them and teamed up with Paige to bring the mother-son duo down.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • "An annoying colleague who brags about how popular she is, was exposed during a group date…": After all four investors pick Paige instead of Mia not only for the former's tasteful fashion style but because of the latter's bullying of her, Mia loses it and proceeds to wreak havoc at the restaurant only to be stopped by the staff and sued by the restaurant.
  • "My sister-in-law went into my house and no permission and let her kids destroy my house…": Karen's attempt to spite Paige and Michael by having her son Thomas trash their house is rendered pointless when Paige not only reveals she sold it, but that the new owners installed a security system that immediately alerted the cops to a break-in. Afterwards, Paige narrates that once the cops caught Karen, she not only ranted that she did nothing wrong, but vehemently blamed Thomas for the whole thing in an attempt to save her own skin.
  • "Ex boyfriend’s fiancé was my ex best friend, who sent me a wedding invitation…": Sarah's successful attempt to steal Kevin from Paige is rendered moot when the victim attends the wedding with her new boyfriend, who turns out to be Nick, the guy whom Sarah had a crush on and dumped her earlier on. She grinds her teeth in anger as Kevin complimented him and ignored her attempts to disparage Paige and eventually goes into a screaming and ranting fit after Paige gives her an invitation to her own wedding, demanding Nick be handed back to her, right in front of the groom. When Nick addresses Sarah and reveals he dumped her for trash-talking other women's appearances, she crumbles apart and breaks down crying as the newlyweds' parents scolded her for trashing the venue before he leaves with Paige.
• Villain Protagonist: How a ridiculous fantasy led to unexpected disaster…: The episode's plot is mostly told from the point of view of Sarah, a lazy, self-centered, Stalker with a Crush, with Pam taking over the narration near the end. It's also combined with Unreliable Narrator, as Sarah attempts to paint herself as the good guy and the others as the villains.
• Violence Backfire: In "My mother abandoned my sister and I, and this is how I got revenge!", after Emma is divorced by her current husband, she returns to Toru and Paige's house to collect her twin daughters Yumi and Mami in a bid to mend ties with her own mother and mooch of her. When Paige refused, Emma tried to break in only for Toru to yank her away from the door and call the cops. She then sees Yumi and Mami behind him and tries to convince them, but the girls both reject and disown her as a mother for the abuse she put them through while proclaiming Paige as their real mom. Angered, Emma attempts to throw objects at the girls but the police swoops in and arrests her. As a result of the incident, Emma is disowned by her mother and forced to take loans from the Yakuza to make ends meet, and eventually is forced to work in a foreign country to pay her debts.
• Wedding Smashers:
  • "My selfish sister stole my fiancé on the day of our wedding but then…": Brooke wears a wedding dress to Paige and Asher's wedding to steal the groom. Much to the actual bride's dismay, Asher picked Brooke instead and left her at the altar. While Paige was devastated, her mother Penny reassured that the lovebirds will be miserable in no time. Later on, Penny is proven right — the lovebirds realize they were lying to each other all along once they married.
  • "Fiance having an affair with my sister!": After finding out her fiancé, Bart, plotted to substitute her younger sister Pamela for her at their wedding, Paige pulls some strings to enter the wedding as another bride and expose Bart as a womanizer after getting the consent of all his ex-girlfriends, including Pamela, who was indignated for what he had done despite asking Paige earlier on to let her take over the wedding.
• White-Collar Crime:
  • Miss Karen is found out to have embezzled company money and stolen company property on top of her constant harassment towards other employees. As a result, she is fired and sued for it all.
  • "My bully colleague stole my girlfriend from me, but then when he also tried to steal my lil sister": After Paul's stepfather takes over as CEO of the company he works at, he not only orders Kevin and Ashley to work on a remote island with no cellular access in retaliation for the bullying the former put Paul through, but investigates Kevin and finds out he has been embezzling company money on personal expenses. As a result, Paul is forced to work himself to the bone to pay the debt out of his own salary until he quit and took a huge loan to pay it.
• You Are Fat:
  • Sean and Niall from "My husband and son looks down on me calling me a fatty" both looked down on Paige for gaining weight (which was a side effect of her menopause medication), even going as far as barring her from leaving the house until her body returned to normal.
  • "They made fun of me at the pool but then...": When Paige went to the amusement park's pool with her daughter Penelope, Ashley calls her fat for covering up, which eventually drives Paige to take off her clothes on Penelope's advice to reveal she has a gorgeous body.