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{{quote|''"That's it. Two can play at this extremely nerdy game!"''|'''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]'''}}
{{quote|''"And that's why I like ALL them Star Tracks!"...said Strong Sad, an entire bag of Twizzlers falling out of his mouth." ''
|'''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]'''}}
When the writer has a chip on his shoulder for whatever reason, and inflicts misery on a character perceived to deserve it. Often occurs when the character's role is incidental and the writer really just has a problem with the distinct personality type, or if the character is [[Die for Our Ship|in the way of the writer's pairing of choice]]. Another name for it is Anti Fic, although this term implies a degree of clever and biting satire. This type of fic is more commonly referred to as Bashing Fic.
In some circles (such as the now-defunct Anime Fan Fiction Mailing List), a '''Revenge Fic''' can also be about [[Rage Against the Author|characters stepping out of the fictional realm to inflict some kind of revenge on the fanfiction author for the things he or she made them do]]. This can be a variety of [[Meta Fic]], and somewhat impinges on and overlaps with the conceit of [[Animated Actors]].
If this is done by the original author, it might be [[Derailing Love Interests]] or a form of [[Creator Backlash]]. Can be closely allied to [[Die for Our Ship]] or [[Oh Crap, There Are Fanfics of Us]].
If it's for an entire series rather than a single character, it's a [[Hate Fic]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* This often happened to Shinji from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', possibly because the authors saw ''[[This Loser Is You|too much]]'' of themselves in him. Of course, since he's from ''Evangelion'', [[Canon]] wasn't especially nice to him either, but still...
** Those who don't hate Shinji will often take their rage out on his dad. There are a number of stories that involve Gendo being brutally murdered or at least humiliated for treating his son like dirt.
* ''[[Naruto]]'':
** A lot of fics seem to revolve around [[Naruto]] getting revenge for his initial status as [[Butt Monkey]] in the first couple of arcs. Even though things improve for him later on in the series, some [[Fan Dumb|angry Fans]] cannot seem to let go...
** Setting the filter to Sasuke and searching the term Bashing on Fanfiction.net gives you ''seven'' pages worth of character demolition, "hilarious" pranks, and terrible grammar. They tend to give him a characterization of heartless monster, misogynist, impotent, trigger happy, cowardly, backstabbing, whiney emo bastard. The Kicker? Itachi was often put as a good guy/love interest at the same time, ''before'' there was even a speck of redemption for the character or any alternative interpretation whatsoever. Right after he brutally beat and tortured two protagonists, there was a flashback of the Uchiha Massacre and ''tried'' to capture/mutilate Naruto. And there are [[Flame War
** Sakura is attacked without mercy. Just about every character in ''Naruto'' has been subject to a Hate-Fic, but not as many as Sakura.
** Many authors love to add to Naruto's backstory a history of open, often murderous, physical abuse by the people of Konoha. In addition to all the revenge necessary against the village as a whole, this often results in a [[Plot Tumor]] in which all the people who should be responsible for keeping an eye on
*** Kakashi also gets a lot of malice for perceived favoritism towards Sasuke over Naruto.
* There is a fic in which Syaoran from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' grew up to be a wife beater, and Tomoyo called in a favor from her mother to have him killed in a hit-and-run. Given how [[Die for Our Ship|incredibly reviled he is in the shoujo-ai community]] surrounding the series, due to the perception that he's a poor match for Sakura and edged out the more deserving Tomoyo as her Significant Other, It is surprising that there isn't more about. Since his personality was good enough to land him a role in an [[Alternate Universe]] show, more level-headed fans admit the dislike is less about his personality than his use in the story. (Although since said show is ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'', an increasingly dark series with more and more implausible [[Soap Opera]] drama, there ''might'' be some sadism involved...)
** At the height of Eriol/Tomoyo's popularity, it was not uncommon to find fics where Kaho, Eriol's official [[Love Interest]] was put through a [[Humiliation Conga]] that only started with Eriol dumping her for Tomoyo amid cheers from the rest of the cast. One particularly ridiculous fic gave the "justification" for all the torture that Kaho was ''too tall'' for Eriol. Yes, a woman being taller than her boyfriend apparently makes it all right for everyone to abandon her when she's kidnapped.
* The second variety was both named and typified by the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100325092800/http://thelbane.ranma.net/~alcen/ Revenge Wars]'' which flooded the Anime Fan Fiction Mailing List in response to and in the wake of Scott "SKJAM!" Jamison's story ''[http://skjam.dreamwidth.org/4743.html#cutid1 Sauce]''.
* There are two really bad ''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'' fanfics that are ''infamous'' in the fandom for this. The first one is a [[Yaoi]] [[Lemon]] where [[Butt Monkey|Yuusaku]] ''rapes'' [[Ordinary High School Student|Kyousuke]] for dumping [[The Ingenue|Hikaru]] and getting together with [[Broken Bird|Madoka]], and the other is the infamous ''[[Revenge Road]]'' where Hikaru [[Yandere|goes completely psychotic]] after the events of the ''Shin Kimagure'' movie, murders Madoka by shooting her in the head and then tortures Kyosuke to death [[Cruel and Unusual Death|by slowly slitting his throat.]]
* In the ''[[G Gundam]]'' fandom, a certain revenge fic was once written to "counter" or "parody" the George x Chibodee yaoi fanfiction by showing how bad they'd get along if they had to move in together. The fans "loved" it, but technically... it' didn't work as well as intended.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfics where Sailor Mars and Tuxedo Mask betray Sailor Moon, pair up and declare their collective hate for her was/
* ''[[Ranma ½
* The ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' fandom has what is called AHRL and ALRH fans - short for "Ayeka-Hating, Ryoko-Loving" and "Ayeka-Loving, Ryoko-Hating" - whose fics tend to turn one girl into a raving bitch and another a virtual saint as they win Tenchi's heart.
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== Film ==
* The ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies triggered a series of fanfics portraying Arwen Evenstar as a vindictive, vicious, shrieking harpy who seduced Aragorn so she could become Queen of Gondor. This is generally perceived as an expression of resentment over Arwen's having "stolen" Aragorn from his true love Éowyn, his ''real'' true love [[Ho Yay|Legolas]], or his '''real''' real true love, [[Mary Sue|Marisuthiel]].
** And then there were the ones written by the people who were upset about her stealing Glorfindel's role from the books.
* The many ways that [[The Scrappy|Jar Jar Binks]] dies and/or is tortured horribly in many ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[
** A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAZGtBfcY4 deleted scene] from an alternate version of ''[[A New Hope]]'' puts Jar Jar on [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Alderaan]] (along with Bail Organa).
** These things ''routinely'' happen to Master Vrook in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''.
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* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle getting sick of [[Sherlock Holmes]] and throwing him off Reichenbach Falls probably counts, even though the death [[Disney Death|didn't stick]]. So this is [[Older Than Radio]].
* Another example might be Ian Fleming getting sick of [[James Bond]] and {{spoiler|killing him off at the end of the novel ''From Russia With Love''}}; however, the book was so well written and so much interest generated in the character that this [[Disney Death|death didn't stick]], either. {{spoiler|It was never planned that way anyway. He'd already written ''Dr. No''}}.
* Another [[Older Than Radio]] example is Garrett P. Serviss' 1898 unauthorized sequel to H. G. Wells' novel ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', ''Edison's Conquest of Mars.'' In this novel '''Thomas Edison''' ''reverse engineers the Martian technology,''combines it with a few inventions of his own to build a ''giant space fleet,'' and proceeds to ''fly to Mars with a huge army'' and beat the living crap out of the Martians with ludicrous ease. The entire book seems dedicated to inflicting as much pain on the Martians as possible, although the characters relent slightly near the end. Due to the lax copyright laws of the time period Serviss had no legal problems serializing or publishing the novel. H. G. Wells did not approve of the book. Thomas Edison did.
* ''[[Doctor Who]] [[Expanded Universe]]'' writer Lance Parkin once posted one of these to [[Outpost Gallifrey]] about a character everyone probably knew he hated anyway, seeing as he turned into a [[Designated Monkey]] whenever Parkin wrote him. Yeah, man, way to show that fictional character, spending your precious time writing two novels costarring him, nursing a grudge for two years, and writing a little story about him getting [[Losing Your Head|hurt in a nasty way]]. You sure showed him! Ha ha, not.
* ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' novel "A Rage for Revenge" has a lengthy section detailing the [[Humiliation Conga]] inflicted on a producer who ripped off his writer. Author David Gerrold thinks that anyone who pisses off a writer is just asking for trouble. "How many stories have you read that are basically about revenge?"
* [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgement|Tread carefully here]], for some shipping wars never die, but [[Metaphorgotten|merely sleep]] in [[Cosmic Horror Story|their house at R'Lyeh until the stars align]]. As the canon pairings in [[Harry Potter]] became apparent, shippers for other couples (most famously, Harry/Hermione) started making massive numbers of
** Molly also gets it on occasion, frequently as the mastermind (or at least the potion dealer) behind her kids' "trangressions". In fact, with a fanfic community of that size, nobody is safe...
** ''[[In This World and the Next]]'' is a
== Live-Action TV ==
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* ''[[Smallville]]'''s Lana Lang had this. A lot.
* Carly Shay on ''[[iCarly]]'', with her being subject to [[Designated Protagonist Syndrome]] and [[Die for Our Ship]] often becomes the enemy of writers who use her as the 'enemy' in a [[Possession Sue]] fic. Sam is a stand in for the writer, Carly becomes the [[Alpha Bitch]] who got the guy the writer wanted. Funnily enough, [[Miranda Cosgrove]] who plays Carly Shay portrayed the young Lana Lang in ''[[Smallville]]''.
* The late 80's/early 90's cast of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' put together [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420003829/http://www.hulu.com/watch/4267/saturday-night-live-its-a-wonderful-life-lost-ending a nice little number] about mean old Mr. Potter from ''[[It's a Wonderful Life|Its a Wonderful Life]]''.
* Pick a crime show with [[UST]]. ''Any'' crime show. Now find someone who interferes with the aforementioned UST. There's fanfiction featuring them being tortured in some sadistic fashion if you look in the right places.
* [[Damsel Scrappy|Kate]] from ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' has earned [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5450226/1/How_We_Killed_Kate at least one] of these.
== Multiple Fandoms ==
* Pretty much the entire point of the [http://community.livejournal.com/whack_a_sue/ Whack a Sue] [[
* [[Netorare]] is [[Rule 34]] way of responding to spineless harem males so some claim.
** Not much of a stretch, considering the definition of ''[[Netorare]]'' is more or less "Sex with the faithful man rendered helpless to stop" in some way, via drugs, bondage or even taunting them victim though photos...
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* It's not uncommon to see ''[[Family Guy]]'' fanfics in which Quagmire is either beaten up by Peter, Stewie or anybody else for hating Brian.
* One ''King of the Hill'' fanfic by Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadu had Peggy, Lucky and John Redcorn going OOC to torture Hank because of his narrow urethra.
* The ''[[The Legend of Korra|Legend of Korra]]''
* The ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' fan-fic, ''[[Final Stand of Death]]'', has some of [[Marilyn Manson]]'s fallen victims coming back for one more battle with him and his group. Manson pretty much accepted this fate. It's mixed with traditional and [[Script Fic]] which gives out clues or even spoilers are who the army after Manson was once was.
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