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{{trope}}
{{quote|[[You Got Spunk|Yeah, you got spirit kid]], I'll give you that. More than your old man, anyway. In the joint, Chill told me about the night he [[My Parents Are Dead|killed your parents]]. He said your father begged for mercy. ''Begged''. Like a dog.
|'''Carmine Falcone''', ''[[Batman Begins]]''}}
A long time ago, Bob brutally murdered Alice's family while she was [[Boarding School|away at school]]. Now, Alice has finally found him.
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Then he says the following:
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Alice is [[Berserk Button|incensed]]. [[Heroic Second Wind|With her last reserves of strength, she gets up and beats Bob.]] See also [[You Killed My Father]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* When [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Edward Elric's]] brother {{spoiler|sacrifices himself, the person who caused Al to do that has some serious problems.}} This is after many an Al-related violent encounter. Don't mess with Edward Elric's family. Don't.
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== Literature ==
* This occurs in ''[[Harry Potter
** Insulting Harry's parents is a very effective way of getting him to fly off the handle. Pushing that button was, after all, [[Title Drop|Aunt Marge's big mistake]].
** In the final book, [[The Dragon|Bellatrix]] taunts Molly Weasley about {{spoiler|Fred's death}} while targeting Ginny, resulting in: "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|NOT MY DAUGHTER,]] [[Precision F-Strike|YOU BITCH!]]"
* In an unusually [[Genre Savvy]] moment from an [[The Brute|animalistic]] [[Complete Monster|sociopath]], Gregor Clegane from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' waits until the moment that he is about to kill someone before pushing their
** In ''A Dance With Dragons'', Stannis' army {{spoiler|gets caught in the middle of marching by an immense snow storm. Bogged down for weeks, some soldiers resort to [[No Party Like a Donner Party|cannibalism]] to survive. When caught, they are sentenced to die by burning at the stake. One of the soldiers involved intentionally taunts the executioner about eating the executioner's cousin so that he will be killed quickly by a slit throat instead.}}
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== Webcomics ==
* Happens with pets instead of relatives in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090403055213/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071220 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.
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** No prizes for guessing [https://web.archive.org/web/20141022035115/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071221 what Gwynn does next].
* As part of [[Evil Twin|Nale's]] backstory in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', he once tried to usurp power from [[The Man Behind the Man|his father]]. During the conflict, Nale killed several children of his father's friend/adviser Malack. When the two run into each other again, Nale's first comment to Malack is "Malack. How's the family?" Malack [[Curb Stomp Battle|goes]] ''[[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]]''.
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