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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.
A version of the [[Nasty Party]]. Often takes the form of [[Ten Little Murder Victims]].
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* 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.
* In ''[[Empowered]]'', most of the superheroes are outright jackasses who often pick on the D-listers. So it should come as no surprise that one of them finally snapped at a superhero get-together. There's also a [[Not So Different]] moment with the title character, who's one of the most pitiful, picked-on superheroes imaginable. {{spoiler|Who proceeds to save all of her jackass co-workers in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].}}
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== [[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.
* ''Pawing Through the Past'' by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.
* [[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.
* In ''[[The Demon Princes]]'' final volume, ''The Book of Dreams'', supercriminal Howard Alan Treesong pays an amusing (for him) visit to his high-school reunion.
* 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}}.
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