Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom, Vol. 1

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The Storyteller episode "The Three Ravens" (based on " The Six Swans" by the Brothers Grimm) makes the common fairy tale trope even worse for the princess, as her father is finally poisoned by his second wife, who then remarries another king, a prince's father. The poor princess marries said prince, and discovers that her former stepmother is now her mother-in-law.

Ascendance of a Bookworm: The polygynous brand of Exotic Extended Marriage is frequent among nobles and it's not rare for men to take mistresses on top of this, so things can get ugly when women end up with some power over the fate of children who are their husband's, but not their own: Men Of The Harem: Since it is tradition for the Emperor of Tarium to have a Royal Harem in addition to his legal wife and Empress, Latil has had many stepmothers, but her father’s favorite, Anachktha, made the worst impression, abusing her as a child both physically and verbally, while favoring her own son Thula, even helping Thula plot to overthrow her when her father names her heir over Thula.Umineko: When They Cry plays with this. Battler gets along with his stepmother Kyrie and his half-sister Ange despite leaving home for six years due to his father remarrying soon after his mother's death. Then later arcs reveal that Kyrie hated his mother, Asumu. A lot. To the point where she flat-out states that if Asumu hadn't died on her own, she would have killed her. Then the penultimate arc reveals that she doesn't even care for her own daughter. Oh, and it turns out that Kyrie is actually Battler's real mother. How much of this is true is... Debatable. In Daria's TV movie "Is It Fall Yet?", Daria, having been forced to work at a summer day camp, mentors a Mouthy Kid named Link. At one point he quips that his mother "threw his father out for being a jerk, and then went and married a bigger one". We never actually see any of the adults involved, though. A downplayed example with Aytolun Hatun in Resurrection: Ertuğrul. While she's certainly despicable, having been responsible for the death of her "husband" Korkut’s former wife Duru and targeting Korkut himself next, her stepson Tugtekin initially knows nothing about the fact and actually takes some of her words at face value.

In Jewish custom of the time, marriages were consummated a year later. So, when Mary turned up pregnant, Joseph had every right to consider divorcing her. Fortunately, they both got the news of Who had fathered the child. Tinker: There's a fairly spectacular Gender Flipped example — Lain and Esme Shenske's stepfather ( and thus Tinker's step-grandfather) is not only evil, but also the emperor of the Skin Clan, long thought dead, and the series' Big Bad. It's also implied that he had Lain and Esme's father murdered. In one story of The Tarot Cafe, a young girl named Fey is implied to be the child of a prostitute and a wealthy man who had some brief relationship with her mother. When the mother dies, Fey is sent to live with her father, and his wife and son. The father is cold and dismissive of her, but dies pretty soon in and doesn't have much of a presence. The son eventually befriends Fey and enjoys her company. The stepmother, however, hates Fey and believes that the girl is cursing the family to die. The stepmother has various people come in to beat and abuse Fey, and eventually dies while trying to whip Fey herself. It's also revealed that the stepmother threw Fey's music box (the last thing she had of her mother) down the well.The Princess Wei Young: Chiyun Rou, the real Wei Young's stepmother, is responsible for Wei Young's death, and makes repeated attempts to kill or disgrace Xin Er. Gail in A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song forces her stepdaughter, Katie, to do all the housework, treats her like dirt, and even forces her to lip-sync her daughter, while constantly thwarting her own attempts at music stardom. She also threatens to use Loophole Abuse to steal her inheritance and even threatens to throw her in foster care if she doesn't obey her. Kallen Stadfeldt's stepmother from Code Geass hates Kallen because she is the child of her husband's former mistress, who is also Japanese. Song at Dawn: The reason Estela is hiding in a ditch and calling herself 'Estela' is because her stepmother turned her father against her and planned to have her killed.