This chapter aims to extend our understanding of femicide narratives beyond the niche context of perpetrators and explore how they resonate with other cisgender men. This exploration reveals that these stories operate within a broader social framework than often assumed. The chapter presents an ad hoc breaching experiment, in which scholars working in other fields were asked to react to altered vignettes from this book—some with gender-swapped characters, others replacing femicide with a non-physically aggressive conflict. Responses varied, ranging from narrative dissonance (‘What?!’ reactions) to plausibility alignment (‘I get it’ responses). Both interpretations highlight the persistence of gender scripts and the ways in which they are justified. The chapter aims to engage readers and offer a closer look at how narratives circulate beyond perpetrators. It also tackles the epistemological problem of othering violence and excluding ourselves from the equation. Ultimately, I advocate for a more inclusive understanding of the narratives that foster violence as an antidote to penal spectatorship.