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{{quote|''You like hurting girls,I'm a girl''|Officer Kono throws away her gun to thrash a pimp in ''Hawaii 50: Puka 'Ana''}}
The character, or someone close to the character, has been [[Rape as Drama|raped]]. And now it's time to settle the score. It might develop into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] or [[Axe Crazy]] vigilantism, but it might also take a far more sophisticated turn.
Of course, the rape doesn't have to technically be rape. It could be a ongoing case of sexual harassment or stalking that finally make the victim snap. However, due to [[Double Standard]]s, this narrative is [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|normally limited]] to female characters.
The revenge can be divided into three kinds:
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''Salaryman Kintaro'', the titular character's blind girlfriend is raped and badly beaten. Kintaro, the leader of a badass gang, [[Sarcasm Mode|calmly and rationally]] decides to lead his gang on a driving rampage through the city. Scaring every other gang in the city into joining him, the rampage ends with ten thousand gangsters against the entire police force. When the rampage eventually stops, 3 men claim to be the rapists and are willing to take the punishment. However, Kintaro reveals that he knows it's not them. After a stirring speech about remembering this day, he peacefully surrenders to police.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', Guts took violent revenge during his childhood on a pederast soldier named Donovan. Guts was raped after his adoptive father Gambino sold him to Donovan for the night. During the battle the following day, Guts followed Donovan when he ventured away from the main group and [[Unfriendly Fire|brutally]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|killed him.]] In addition, his vendetta against Griffith in general after the Eclipse has very heavy undertones of this, given {{spoiler|[[Rape as Drama|what Griffith did]] to his [[Love Interest]] Casca right in front of him, and [[Mind Rape|the way it all but mirrored Guts' own traumatic childhood experience]]}}.
* Suboshi tries to rape Miaka in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' because his [[Love Interest]] Yui was raped {{spoiler|or so she thinks}}, and blames it on Miaka for not answering her calls for help and obsessing over Tamahome, whom Yui also liked. {{spoiler|In actuality, the only reason Miaka didn't help Yui was because she couldn't ''hear'' Yui from outside of the book after changing out of her school uniform.}}
* ''Words Worth'' has an [[Played for Laughs|absolutely hilarious]] take on this: highlighted in the exchange between [[Lady of Black Magic|Maria]] and Prince Astral; wherein, she blasts him twenty years into the future, and utterly devastates him, in a fit of rape-induced rage.
{{quote|'''Maria: (furious)''' "Not only do you assault me, you also hurt my father! I'll never forgive you!"
'''Astral: (confused)''' [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|"But... but that's not what you said earlier!"]]
'''Maria: (flustered)''' "Sh-shut up, you! And anyway, [[Looks Like She Is Enjoying It|that was my body talking]], [[Immodest Orgasm|against my own will!]]
'''Astral:''' "But that's ridiculous!"
'''Maria: (snide grin)''' "You actually think I enjoyed having some nasty Shadow man [[Buffy-Speak|thingy]] inside me?! Heh, you must be crazy! Now you bastard, turned beast, I'll remove you from this world forever, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|and EVER!!"]]
'''Maria: ([[Power Echoes|ominous echo]])''' [[Kamehame Hadoken|"Mystral Window!!"]] }}
* In ''[[Narutaru]]'', {{spoiler|after the infamous "test tube" incident at the hands of [[Alpha Bitch|Aki]] [[Complete Monster|Honda]] and her vicious [[Girl Posse]], [[Lonely Rich Kid]] Hiroko Kaizuka gets her hands on one of the series Shadow Dragons and proceeds to take violent revenge upon the Girl Posse in what proves to be her [[Start of Darkness]]. The absolute worst death of the entire rampage is reserved for Aki Honda herself, who gets raped with the Shadow Dragon's clawed finger before being ripped in half}}.
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* The [[Exploitation Film]] ''[[Thriller - A Cruel Picture]]'' (aka ''They Call Her One-Eye'') is about a young woman who is abducted, given heroin until she develops an addiction, and is forced to prostitute herself to some rather rough clients. For some reason, her captors [[Fridge Logic|give her plenty of free time to herself]], so she learns how to fire a gun, drive a car, and [[I Know Karate|perform martial arts]], allowing her to ultimately take revenge against her tormentors.
* ''[[I Spit on Your Grave]]'' is built entirely on this trope and does it [[Up to Eleven|quite over the top]].
** Wes Craven's ''[[The Last House on the Left]]'' is often compared to ''[[I Spit on Your Grave]]'', as it is thematically similar. Although in this case, two girls are raped and murdered, and it's the parents of one of the girls who take vengeance. The [[
*** Remarkably enough, ''Last House on the Left'' is an Americanized, contemporary version of [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960), which has the story in a medieval setting.
* ''[[Ms. 45]]'': "A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York after dark and randomly kills men with a .45 caliber gun." - [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082776/ IMDB] plot summary.
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* In ''[[Gran Torino]]'', the main character makes friends with a girl, who is later raped by gang members. He gets revenge on them by sending them to jail {{spoiler|at the cost of his own life}}.
* The French film ''[[Irreversible]]'' (2002): two friends of a girl called Alex brutally kill her rapist. {{spoiler|[[Mistaken Identity|But they don't.]]}}
* The fantasy movie ''[[Red Sonja]]'' has this as the basic premise... With the added fantasy element of a female deity manifesting to heal the character after the violation, thus making her ready to become a hero.
** While not being the main plotline in the same way, this is also an important part of the backstory for the comicbook character that the movie is built on.
* The title character of ''[[Hannie Caulder]]'', who trained under a retired gunslinger to get revenge on three vicious outlaws who murdered her husband, one of whom raped her. After almost getting killed in taking down the first bandit due to hesitation, when she finds the second bandit, the one who raped her, she lays into him with utter rage, blasting him straight to hell.
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* In ''[[Descent]]'', the main character Maya is raped at the beginning of the movie. This act was done by someone who was initially a [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|nice guy]] and potential love interest. Cue the inevitable downfall of everything that was right in her world. That is, '''UNTIL''' she {{spoiler|invites her rapist back over to her place. He thinks he's coming for a good time, but she has other plans in mind: having him tied to a bed and raped by another man while she watches with utter hatred in her eyes}}.
* In ''[[Braveheart]]'', the husband of a woman raped by an English nobleman exercising ''[[Droit Du Seigneur]]'' near the beginning of the film gets his chance at payback when the Scottish rebels take over the rapist's garrison. Not being, apparently, the overly subtle type, he unceremoniously smashes the guy's head in with a mace, and that's the last we hear about it.
* In ''[[Lajja]]'', Bulwa avenges Ramdulaari's rape, as well as {{spoiler|the [[Attempted Rape]] on his mother}} by killing male followers of [[Sleazy Politician]] Gajendra.
* It's not part of the main plot, but in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', Marcellus Wallace promises full payback to the man who raped him:
{{quote|''"What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass."''}}
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* In ''Bad Reputation'', a [[Shrinking Violet]] is gang raped by [[Jerk Jock]]s at a party, then humiliated and labeled the "school slut" by a [[Girl Posse]]. After her mother and the school guidance counselor prove unsympathetic (to the point of basically blaming her) she [[Beware the Nice Ones|completely snaps]], and decides to get even as a [[Femme Fatale]].
* This is a major theme in the 1987 Australian film ''Shame''.
* [[Sucker Punch]]: Baby Doll was raped by her step father before she seeks revenge on all the [[Big Bad]] males who are implied to have raped at least some of the ladies in the asylum.
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* In the first book of ''[[The Millennium Trilogy]]'', one of the main plotlines is the female protagonist getting revenge on a man who had raped her. This remains one of the underlying themes in the whole trilogy, {{spoiler|as it turns out that she had been abused during her childhood as well.}}
* In the book of ''[[The Bible|Genesis]]'', Dinah's brothers kill Shechem (and all the men in his village) after he "lay with her by force," or "subdued her," or "violated her." Their father was not impressed.
** Another Biblical example: In the Book of Judges, this is essentially the cause of a war. A Levite man's concubine was literally raped to death [[Values Dissonance|after he gave her over to a bunch of men to protect his own ass.]] When he finds her dead in the morning, he calls his buddies to war with the people of Gibeah.
** Yet another one: Absalom avenging the rape of his sister by his half-brother Amnon.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Vows & Honor]]'' stories has Tarma becoming SwordSworn to go after the bandits who murdered her entire clan, gang-raped her, and left her for dead.
* In [[David Eddings]]' ''Regina's Song'', One girl of a pair of identical twins is raped and murdered, {{spoiler|inspiring the other to hunt down and messily murder sexual predators in her search for the man responsible}}.
* In ''[[Strands Of Starlight]]'', protagonist [[Blessed with Suck|Miriam]] is raped by a man whom she has just [[Healing Hands|saved from the brink of death]]. The entire plot revolves around Miriam's thirst for vengeance and the lengths she is willing to go to in order to get it, including being transformed into {{spoiler|an [[Our Elves Are Better|Elf]]}}, learning [[Took a Level In Badass|swordsmanship]] and eventually {{spoiler|[[Took a Level In Kindness|letting her rapist live]] after using magic to [[Mind Rape|change his personality completely]] }}.
* In ''Medalon'', Jennifer Fallon's first book in the ''Demon Child'' trilogy, the female protagonist is repeatedly raped and forced to keep quiet about it for the sake of the man she cares about. Then of course, her rapist decides to threaten ''him'' instead. [[Berserk Button|Really. Bad. Move.]] Two books later, she ''properly'' gets revenge for what he did to her. By that time she's a [[Physical God]] who became a [[Magnificent Bastard]] by taking down an entire religion, rearranging the political landscape of an entire continent, took another god to the cleaners, and still had time afterwards to set up an entirely new form of governance for her home country. Let's just say that the words [[Fate Worse Than Death]] have seldom been more suitably applied by the time she's done with him.
* In [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''Epitaphs of the War: 1914-1918'' this chilling epitaph is written:
{{quote|RAPED AND REVENGED
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