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* 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.}}
* The entire plot of 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 because some enemy rifleman was a marginally better shot than your girlfriend was.
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