Reunion Revenge: Difference between revisions

During a [[Class Reunion]], someone who was picked on, teased or outright abused during their high school years [[Revenge of the Nerd|takes their revenge]] on their (many) erstwhile tormentors, one at a time, and usually fatally. The main character(s) may be mistaken for members of the offending group (or may have been unwitting accomplices), but more often are uninvolved bystanders until the first death. Naturally, the rest of the reunion is spent figuring out who the culprit (and/or who their next victim) is.

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Karakurizoushi Ayatsuri Sakon]]'' had one of these involving a school's puppetry club.

* In a ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comic book story, Donald plans to settle some scores with some bullies at a class reunion by training to beat them up. However, Daisy Duck, disgusted at this puerile behaviour, talks him out of it. It turns out that was a good thing considering that Donald learns to his consternation that his former bullies ''still'' tower over him and he would have been way over his head starting a fight.

** Donald ''never'' has luck against bullies.

 

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Jon Stewart (the same one from ''[[The Daily Show]]'') once wrote a short story involving a man who creates an [[Artificial Human]] specifically to take revenge on the rest of his class at his high school reunion. On arriving at the reunion, however, the man discovers that almost the entire class had the same idea; aside from a small group of terrified people in formalwear, the reunion has degenerated in a fight to the death between those seeking revenge. He gives up and goes home, monster in tow.

* [[Ben Elton]]'s ''Past Mortem''

* ''Unsound Variations'' from [[A Song of Ice and Fire|George R.R. Martin]] has one of these, though it's not a full high school reunion, the man simply invited three of his sort of friends from high school. Also, instead of being an opportunity for revenge it's the culmination of it. He reveals to them that he invented a device capable of [[Mental Time Travel]] and how he used his knowledge of the future to ruin their lives. His plan to crush them completely like this backfires to about the furthest possible extent. Instead of despairing they gain new hope, since they now know for a fact that they would have been very successful had not a ''crazy time traveler devoted at least two lifetimes to wrecking their careers.'' On realizing this he uses the machine again, which means bad news for an alternate reality them, but at least means he's no longer a danger in their current reality.

* The plot of The [[Diamond Brothers]] book ''I Know What You Did Last Wednesday'' is a group of old classmates being invited to a reunion on a remote island being murdered one by one. A parody in that {{spoiler|their only crime was coming first in school subjects where the killer came second}}.

 

* Lois had a class reunion on ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' in which a classmate who was picked on takes her revenge on the popular people.

* ''[[The Sean Cullen Show|The Sean Cullen Christmas Special]]'' had, throughout the evening, an old schoolmate trying to kill Sean for taking the last place in the orienteering club. But then it turned out that Sean had never joined the club, and the other guy had spent his whole life chasing the wrong man.

* Inverted in the ''[[Designing Women]]'' episode "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?", where Delta Burke's ex-beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker is mocked at her high school reunion for being fat. The episode is also a [[Very Special Episode]] touching on the topics of weight prejudice and world hunger.

 

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' [[Big Bad]] Vlad Masters throws a reunion to get back/murder his former best friend (who has no idea and still likes him, ironically) in order to win his best friend's wife. Thankfully, that oblivious man's son is... [[Danny Phantom]].

* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Mike Sorayama, an old college classmate of Doc's, dies and has his designated pallbearers (Doc, Brock, Pete White and Baron Underbheit) kidnapped. They get locked in a dungeon and learn that Sorayama was [[Faking the Dead]] and wants revenge for petty slights, all related to his one-sided crush on an attractive roommate. Underbehit tricked him into smoking cloves, to which he was allergic, making him miss a study date; Pete, the campus DJ, played an embarrassing fake dedication; Brock beat the crap out of him (and everyone else) in a drunken rage after getting kicked off the football team. {{spoiler|In the end, it turns out that Sorayama really ''is'' dead, and the one carrying out the revenge was just another of his lifelike robots.}}

* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' has combined this with [[Something's Different About You Now]] (the other typical reunion plot): Johnny wants top take revenge on a girl who always made fun of him when they were kids but it turns out that she turned into a total babe. The rest of the episode is spent agonizing whether she likes him now or she's just playing a prank on him like she used to. {{spoiler|[[Failure Is the Only Option|It's a prank]].}}

 

 

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[[Category:Revenge Tropes]]