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Line 4: 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 Byby Proxy]] scenario can result. This may be a part of a [[Feuding Families]] or [[Cycle of ~~Vengeance~~Revenge]] situation. [[Captain Obvious\|Expect angst and drama]] and '''unmarked spoilers.''' {{examples\|Examples:}}▼ ▲{{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[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... Line 14: == [[Film]] == * ''[[~~Kill Bill (Film)\|~~Kill Bill]]'': "You deserve terrible deaths for doing the kinds of stuff for a living that I did up until a few months before you did it to me! And that I would have done to you. And that I actually did ''with'' you, come to think of it." {{quote\| '''Bud:''' We deserve to die. Then again, so does she.}} ** Errr, the Bride isn't trying to get revenge for all the people she helped the DIVAS kill. She's trying to get revenge for the part where Bill reacted to her quitting her job by hunting her down and ''shooting her in the head''. * In the third ''[[Spider -Man (~~Film~~film)\|Spider Man]]'' movie, Harry Osborn has this as his motivation. He wants to kill Spidey because Spidey killed the Harry's father, the Green Goblin. However, just before the movie's climax, his butler [[The Reveal\|revealed]] that {{spoiler\|Green Goblin was [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard\|killed by his own hover-board]].}} * ''[[~~The Spy Who Loved Me (Film)\|~~The Spy Who Loved Me]]'': In the opening scene, [[James Bond (~~Film~~film)\|James Bond]] kills Anya's lover, who is trying to kill him at the time. When she finds out about it she vows to kill James. * Khan in ''[[Star Trek II: ~~the~~The Wrath of Khan ~~(Film)~~\|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''. [[Lampshaded]] even. After Khan explains his beef with Kirk, Chekov says, "Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!" Khan ignores the point. == [[Literature]] == * In one of the ''[[James Bond (~~Literature~~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 (Literature)\|~~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 (Literature)\|~~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... 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. == [[Live-Action ~~Television~~TV]] == * In the very first episode of ''[[~~Farscape (TV)\|~~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~~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. Line 34 ⟶ 37: == [[Western Animation]] == * In ''[[~~American Dad (Animation)\|~~American Dad]]'' episode "Escape from Pearl Bailey", the popular kids swear revenge on Steve and his friends for Steve's revenge plot against Lisa Silver and her Libby friends for Debbie's class presidential campaign getting sabotaged, and persist even after Steve realizes it was his friends who did it, and apologizes for it. * In the ''[[X -Men: Evolution]]'' episode "Blind Alley", Mystique pretends to be Scott's brother Alex, supposedly stuck in Mexico after losing his passport, in order to lure Scott out on his own, knocking him out and leaving him stuck in the middle of the Mexican desert without his glasses to stop his eyes, saying "That's payback!" after Scott let her get captured inside a military base in "Day of Recovery". However Scott did that because {{spoiler\|she had abducted Professor X and impersonated him throughout the two-part episode "Day of Reckoning",}} and refused to divulge the location of {{spoiler\|the real Professor X.}} Note that when he managed to find his way to the city, she intended to knock him out and do it again, somewhere even more remote. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Revenge Myopia~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Revenge Tropes]] [[Category:Older Than Dirt]] ▲[[Category:Revenge Myopia]]