Revenge by Proxy: Difference between revisions

** ''[[The Dresden Files|Summer Knight]]'': Mab comes to Harry with a deal that will free him of [[The Fair Folk|faerie]] influence, in exchange for him doing three favors for Mab. Dresden quickly adds on some more conditions, which include "Not hurting Harry because he refused to do a favor," and "no telling someone else to hurt Harry." This doesn't work; she then hurts him simply out of spite, which was not covered by the terms.

** ''[[The Dresden Files|Dead Beat]]'': {{spoiler|Mavra}} threatened Murphy to get Harry to do what she wanted him to. Harry did it, then informed her that if she ever threatened Murphy again, he would, and I quote, "kill you so hard your last ten victims would make miraculous recoveries." We haven't seen {{spoiler|Mavra}} since.

* In Simon Spurrier's [[Night Lords]] novel ''Lord of the Night'', the priest kills Cog, a [[Gentle Giant]] utterly loyal to Mira, who is unconscious, before he turns on Mira. This is a mistake.

* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' novels, the [[People's Republic of Tyranny|People's Republic of Haven]] practiced this as policy for [[Mooks|officers]] who [[You Have Failed Me...|failed the people]], shooting whole families for it. Also, Lord Pavel Young kills Honor's beloved Paul Tankersley, with a professional duelist, in order to hurt her. It works, but he soon sees what a [[Mama Bear|bad idea]] it was.

* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: In the book ''Home Free'', Owen Orzell reveals to the Vigilantes that he had worked with [[CIA]] director Calvin Span and [[Big Bad]] Henry "Hank" Jellicoe. Jellicoe has already been captured and is currently rotting away in a federal prison. Span is dead, because sometime after he was forced to resign from his job as CIA director by President Martine Connor, he was shoveling snow off his driveway and died of a heart attack. Orzell points out that Span knew better than to do that, because he had heart surgery a few years ago, and that he had clearly become a [[Death Seeker]]. Orzell asks if they're going to punish him in Span's place, and the Vigilantes say yes. Now this example is treated sympathetically, because the president had essentially enlisted the Vigilantes to take down Orzell, and Orzell's hands are just as dirty as Span's and Jellicoe's.

* In Tolkien's ''[[The Children of Húrin|The Children of Hurin]]'', Morgoth punished Hurin for defying him by cursing his children and [[Forced to Watch|forcing him to watch]] as their lives are slowly destroyed.

 

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