Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom, Vol. 1

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In How The Masked Earl Fell In Love, Crysta's father takes another wife, a woman named Deborah, after Crysta's mother dies. Crysta discovers to her horror that Deborah's daughter Stephania is Crysta's half-sister, meaning her father had a child with Deborah while his first wife was still alive. Deborah and Crysta end up spending money wastefully, forcing Crysta to focus on managing her estate and resulting in her fiance leaving her for Stephania. Afterward, Deborah claims this is all Crysta's fault, slaps her when she calls Deborah out for her irresponsibility, and reveals that Crysta ceded her status as heiress to Stephania when the engagement was dissolved, before marrying her off to a mysterious but wealthy earl. Accused (2023): The end of "Danny's Story" reveals that Danny was right-his stepmother really did murder his mother, has now murdered his father and is currently poisoning his brother. Smallville: Jennifer Small, the wife of Lana's biological father Henry, threatens to divorce her husband due to his trying to forge a relationship with his daughter, and not to Henry himself but to Lana, attempting to guilt the poor girl for the simple problem that Jennifer is envious that she is no longer the only important woman in her husband's life, causing Lana to cut ties with her father, whom the two realize now fully embrace and love each other as Father and Daughter, so he may preserve his marriage and his family.

In Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Sana's mother married into the Futaba family, and her father was emotionally abusive to her, considering her inferior to his sons. Worse, Sana's mother took her new husband's side and neglected Sana in favor of her husband's sons, making her a more loving mother to her stepsons than her daughter.Percy's Jerkass stepfather, "Smelly" Gabe Ugliano. Percy's mother Sally only married him because Gabe's "mortal stench" helped hide Percy from monsters. Gabe proceeded to abuse Percy and Sally, and to squander the family's money on gambling and booze, until Sally got sweet, sweet revenge at the end of the first book. Gender-Inverted with Zelena. Her adoptive mother is shown to have been a nice and caring woman, while the father was the drunkard who abused her.

Conversed in British statesman Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son, as a metaphor for the dawning American Revolution. "For my part, I never saw a froward child mended by whipping; and I would not have the mother country become a stepmother." (letter 283) In the Lost episode " Abandoned", we learn Shannon is the way she is partly due to her stepmother, who cuts her off after Shannon's father's death. Like many retellings of "Cinderella", this is stated to be due to her jealousy of Shannon's relationship with her father. Gil: A little more of that, and I’ll come to the conclusion that Papa Jon didn’t hate me as much as he pretended. The Maiden Czar " gives the stepmother an unusual motive, in that she's actually fallen in love with her stepson and thus schemes to keep him from the title character. Max in Codex Alera is a Heroic Bastard, the illegitimate older son of High Lord Antillus. Trouble is, Antillus married for political reasons after Max was born, and Max has a legitimate younger brother named Crassus. Maximus has no intention of challenging Crassus' position as heir — however, Lady Antillus would prefer that any threats to her son's inheritance be removed. As such, Max's mother died in an " accident", and Max has been dodging similar attempts on his life since he was 14. Ironically, Maximus and Crassus are extremely close and often work together.

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In " Brother and Sister" the stepmother drives off the title characters with her cruelty, tries to enchant them into animal forms (and, in the case of the Brother, succeeds), and tries to murder Sister after her marriage and replace her with her own daughter. Shasta, the boy of the title, runs away from an abusive caretaker who was going to sell him into slavery. Not technically a stepparent, but very similar.

Emphasizing Joseph's kindly character, before Gabriel told him how Mary got pregnant, he was planning to hush everything up, and not, for example, to denounce her publicly. This was very generous of him because, in that time and place, she could have been found guilty of adultery (see above), the punishment for which was execution. Implied in Scent of a Woman; Charlie comments on one point that his stepfather aids his mom in running the convenience store. Based on the choice of words, he sounds distant at best. Due to that, Frank considerably cools off and sorta takes on a parental role for Charlie for the rest of the film. A number of goddesses avert this though: Amphitrite doesn't shower Percy with affection, but she doesn't go out of her way to make his life unpleasant. Similarly Sigyn doesn't do anything to Loki's children made without her, though given how Loki acts that just means they only have one god making their lives miserable. Inverted in Castlevania 64 with Carrie and Actrise. Actrise proudly brags that, amongst the 100 children she slew to obtain immortality, the very first was her own biological daughter. Carrie calls her out as pathetic for this, after remembering how her step-mother loved her dearly and even gave her life to save Carrie's.In C. S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, the nurse Batta tells the princesses that their new stepmother will be evil, just like in the stories she's told them. It turns out to be a subversion, as their stepmother is a frail, gentle young woman who is relatively kind to the girls until she dies in childbirth. In " The Well At the World's End ", the stepmother sends her stepdaughter to the title well with a sieve and then, out of sheer nastiness, forces her to obey the frog.