Reunion Revenge: Difference between revisions

* [[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}}.

 

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' had a variation on this. In "Attack of the Killer Bebes", Doctor Drakken (formerly Drew Lipsky) used three robotic women to kidnap three of his former college buddies, who had made fun of Drew's extremely junky "Bebe" prototypes in the mid eighties. One of the targets was Kim's father, Dr. Possible, but he failed to make the connection to his teenage arch-nemesis. He was spurred into action by the invitation to the upcoming reunion, and held them hostage at the reunion hall.

* One of ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'''s many origin stories was remembered when Megavolt attempted revenge on the bully and the cheerleader that not only made fun of him (and bullied Drake Mallard as well), but trapped him in his experiment which ended up giving him his powers. (And theoretically frying his brain, or he might have just snapped on his own. Hard to say.) At a reunion, Megavolt tries again at a class reunion against the two bullies, who are still as contemptuous as ever. He is stopped by Darkwing and Gosalyn and the bullies learn Darkwing's true identity and are deeply impressed that Drake is a superhero. Although they promise to keep his secret, Darkwing decides to guarantee that by hypnotizing them to forget the fact while instructing them to treat Drake Mallard with some respect.

* ''[[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.}}