Revenge Myopia: Difference between revisions

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.

 

 

[[Captain Obvious|Expect angst and drama]] and '''unmarked spoilers.'''

 

== [[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...

* 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... and fighting on the front lines in a 'brushfire' war that the Draka had started. You don't go much higher than trying to nuke a planet (and successfully ending all of Western civilization) because some enemy rifleman was a marginally better shot than your girlfriend was.

 

* 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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