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Related to [[Avenging the Villain]], but in that case Charlie was a genuinely bad person. This applies to; a) Gray And Grey Morality situations, such as (but not limited to) wars and family feuds where both sides are flawed/justified to an extent, and b) situations where Charlie is clearly a good guy.
A [[Revenge by Proxy]] scenario can result. This may be a part of a [[Feuding Families]] or [[Cycle of
[[Captain Obvious|Expect angst and drama]] and '''unmarked spoilers.'''
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* One episode of ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' had Kino meet a woman and the man she had hired as a guard as they were about to set out on a journey. She sat with the man for a while, and learned that he had killed her husband several years ago accidentally while robbing his store, and had been reformed and set free by their justice system, on the condition that he make it up to the woman by mutual agreement. It's made clear that his reform and desire to help the woman any way he can in penance for his crime are genuine. They part, and later Kino is riding through the woods when she hears a gunshot...
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In one of the ''[[James Bond (novel)|James Bond]]'' books by John Gardner, the [[Big Bad]] was the daughter of Blofeld, who wants revenge against Bond for killing Blofeld back in ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'' (the book).
** This is more [[Avenging the Villain]], given who Blofeld was. Also, as Nena Blofeld is also the new leader of SPECTRE she'd still have a compelling need to kill James Bond even if she were entirely indifferent to her father's death.
* In ''[[Enuma Elish]]'', Tiamat does her best to avenge Apsu's death at the hands of the Annunaki, completely ignoring the two small facts that Apsu was actively planning to kill them and that ''she herself ratted him out to them'', allowing a preventive strike.
* In ''[[The Iliad]]'', Hector of Troy gets the bad end of this. His country is at war with the Greeks (who are the invaders) and he kills Patroclus in battle. Achilles, Patroclus's [[Ho Yay|best friend]], kills Hector in revenge and desecrates his corpse. Today, Hector is the one usually portrayed sympathetically.
* In David Eddings' ''[[The Redemption of Althalus]]'', when working as a mercenary Eliar kills the ruler of the city state the mercenaries were attacking. He ends up being captured and Andine, the daughter of said ruler enacts personal revenge. He gets rescued eventually. {{spoiler|And she eventually gets over it. They end up married.}}
* S.M. Stirling's ''[[The Draka|The Stone Dogs]]'' is one of the most extreme examples of this trope. The entire plot is driven by Yolande Ingolffson's obsession with avenging the death of her lover Myfwany, to the point where she spends her entire life from about age 20 onwards working her way up to high military rank... and then deliberately starts World War III prematurely with the intent of destroying ''most of the Western hemisphere'' as retribution. While not caring that she is potentially risking the extinction of the human race. Why is she doing this? Because Myfwany was shot to death by an Alliance soldier... while serving as an officer in the Draka military
== [[Live-Action
* In the very first episode of ''[[Farscape]]'', Crichton accidentally crashes into a ship piloted by Bialar Crais' brother, killing him instantly. Crais becomes ''insanely'' obsessed with ferreting out Crichton and killing him, an obsession that lasts most of first season, to the point where eventually Crais loses his job because his priorities are entirely focused on revenge—despite the fact that Crichton continually tries to convince him that it was an accident.
* In ''[[Soap]]'' Danny wants to kill Burt, his step-father, because he killed his father. Burt also feels horrendously guilty over this fact but it turns out that Burt only killed him in self defense. Danny eventually agrees with him.
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