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{{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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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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== Comic Books ==
* During the [[Batman|Knightfall Saga]], the Scarecrow sprays Batman with one of his fear skulls and forces him to relive the memory of the Joker killing Jason Todd. Batman, who has already run himself ragged capturing many other criminals that night, responds with rage by knocking out the Scarecrow with a single headbutt and beating the Joker (who's partnered up with Scarecrow) within an inch of his life, calling Jason's name all the while.
* In ''[[
* For both her parents and Chase, never bring up Gert's sad fate from ''[[
== Film ==
* ''[[
* In [[James Bond (
** Not to mention the General saying that the look on her face was just like the [[Rape
* Memorably used in ''[[Gladiator (
* In [[Star Wars|Return of the Jedi]], [[Big Bad|Darth Vader]] threatens to turn [[The Hero|Luke Skywalker]]'s [[And Your Little Dog, Too|sister Leia]] to the [[The Dark Side|Dark Side]]. Luke reaches the [[Rage Breaking Point]], flies int [[Unstoppable Rage]], and [[Curb Stomp Battle|defeats him]]. Cue [[What Have I Done]] and an internal [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]].
** And with Anakin's motives for turning to the dark side in the first place explored in the prequels, it also counts as a [[Not So Different]] moment; it was the fear of losing his only remaining family (wife and child for Anakin, sister for Luke) that drove both of them.
* When a young Bruce Wayne confronts [[The Don|mob boss]] Carmine Falcone in ''[[Batman Begins]]'', he casually relates Joe Chill's [[Unreliable Narrator|highly untrue]] version of how Chill killed Wayne's parents for little purpose other than to [[Kick the Dog]] as his [[Mooks]] are about to drag Bruce out of the building.
== 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
* 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 ''[[
== Real Life ==
* In Spain, a man on parole from his sentence for raping a young girl saw the girl's mother [[Too Dumb to Live|and taunted her by saying]], "How's your daughter?" She went home, got a can of gasoline, and ''set him on fire''.
* Evidently, contract killer Richard Leonard Kulinski, also known as "The Iceman" was extremely protective of his family. Between this, and the fact that he was,
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