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* This is what happens with [[Baccano!|Jacuzzi Splot]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|should you be dumb enough to push him out of his normal]] [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Martyr Without a Cause]] personality (last time it happened, he went machine guns ablazin' and robbed eighteen speakeasies in one night, with tears streaming down his face). Of course, who you should ''really'' worry about is {{spoiler|a certain redheaded conductor}} that does ''not'' take too kindly to the death of his mentor. When he finds out who did it, he decides to kill him, bathe himself in his blood, go after his friends, go after his ''friends''' friends, and generally act like [[Nightmare Fuel]] incarnate for the next ten episodes or so.
* In ''[[Gintama]]'', [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Takasugi Shinsuke]] constantly plots to completely destroy Japanese society in order to avenge {{spoiler|his teacher}}'s death and out of resentment for the growing alien influence in Japan, as he had once participated in a failed armed uprising to drive out those very same aliens.
* A misdirected one in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* Perpetrated in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' by {{spoiler|Thief King Bakura, Spirit of the Millennium Ring}} way back in the day. {{spoiler|Atem's uncle Akunadin}} [[Doomed Hometown|killed his entire village]] {{spoiler|to make the millennium items}}. To get back, the Thief King made [[Deal with the Devil|a deal with Zorc]], and what we see of him in that era consists of going on a murderous rampage against Atem and his court. After stewing for a few millennia, he returns. Sort of.
** Let's not forget in the Yami vs. Weevil duel during the Doma arc. Yugi's soul has been stolen, and Weevil claims to have his soul card. He ''rips'' it in front of Yami's eyes... then taunts him by revealing it was a joke. BAD IDEA, Weevil - Yami [[Unstoppable Rage|goes berserk]] and deals enough damage to Weevil that turn to effectively [[No Kill Like Overkill|defeat him THREE TIMES over]]. Tea eventually steps in in a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moment, stopping him from continuing to deal damage.
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** The wonderful [[Irony]] in this, is that Goku destroying the Red Ribbon Army [[Cycle of Revenge|triggered a thirst of revenge]] into the Army's chief scientist, Dr Gero, leading him to create a line of killer androids that could kill Goku, and thus being, years later, the origin of the Androids and Cell Sagas, as well as [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|how Earth became a]] [[Crapsack World]] in Trunks' Future Timeline.
** Let's not forget what happened when Goku's best friend Krillin was killed for the first time. Goku went berserk at this and immediately sought punishment on the demon that had murdered the kid... but this time he wasn't successful, and ended up defeated by said monster.
** How can one forget how he went [[Super Mode]] [[Took a Level
** Trunks, after [[Took a Level
*** After a meal, he curbstomps the monster. After a near-death experience and a nearly-lethal power up, he beats up the guy who sent the monster.
* ''[[I Luv Halloween]]''. After Mr. Kitty and Finch set a man's wife on fire, the man goes on a vicious rampage to hunt the evil, little trick-or-treaters down. He endures being attacked and bitten by a handful of zombies and set on fire until finally falling.
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** [[Nightwing]], after seeing his apartment building (with his neighbors inside) blown up and his circus destroyed by [[Complete Monster|Blockbuster]], hunted down and brutally [[Curb Stomp Battle|beat down]] every one of his costumed mooks.
*** Nightwing is ''prone'' to this. During ''[[Knightfall|KnightsEnd]]'', he tore into Jean-Paul Valley after thinking Bruce was killed by a booby-trapped Batmobile and during ''Joker: The Last Laugh'', he actually ''killed'' the titular villain when he thought Tim Drake had died.
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] spinoff ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' shows even an enemy's simulator knows that if you hurt/kill Rictor, Shatterstar's Roaring Rampage Of Revenge would come next, quickly followed by your demise.
* Marv of ''[[Sin City]]'' goes on one of these when his lady of the night Goldie is murdered and he is framed for the crime.
** And in ''[[Sin City]]: Family Values'', Dwight and Miho cut a swath through the Sin City Mafia to avenge the shooting of a prostitute.
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* The [[Incredible Hulk]] goes on one of these in the [[Crossover]] ''[[World War Hulk]]''. Why? The six most influential people in the Marvel Universe secretly shot him into outer space to die, except he landed on a savage planet that accepted and loved him for what he was. {{spoiler|Then the ship he arrived in exploded, nuked the planet, and killed the Hulk's alien wife.}}
** Marvel had recently [[retcon]]ned several of its main heroes into [[Civil War (Comic Book)|such utter douchebags]] that even though the Hulk was [[Designated Villain|technically the villain]] of the story, most readers were rooting for him to smash the jerks.
*** {{spoiler|Not that they were guilty of nuking a planet, mind; Hulk just ''thought'' they were. In reality, one of his teammates turned out to be [[Ax Crazy]] and had triggered it on purpose, to ''prompt'' one of these rampages, because the only time he found meaning in his life was fighting side by side with the Hulk against somebody. Hulk thought there must have been a bomb on the ship, but in truth the villain just messed with the engine.}} Also, many writers agreed with the fans that the heroes were being written poorly; you were probably ''supposed'' to root for the Hulk, even if you kind of figured out that the heroes were at least partly [[
** There was a What If? of that story where the Hulk died in the explosion instead of his wife, and she came to Earth on a roaring rampage of revenge instead. The end result was much, much worse.
* Besides [[The Punisher]], Marvel's other resident revenger [[Wolverine]] has been featured in some high spotlight revenge arcs. Kinda hard to avoid when you're a killing machine with a hair-trigger temper.
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** [[Ultimate Marvel]] recently re-introduced the Ghost Rider, [[Adaptation Distillation|distilling]] his origin as he and his lover Roxanne were innocents killed as human sacrifices, so the perpetrators could [[Deal with the Devil|bargain for power from Mephisto]]. As it turns out, Ultimate Johnny Blaze sold his soul to Mephisto, too. All so Roxanne could be spared the suffering, and Johnny could hunt and kill the monsters that did this to them. Just one problem: {{spoiler|One of the sacrificers is now the U.S. vice-president.}}
* Johnny in ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' goes on a massive one across several planets after {{spoiler|Max Bubba kills Wulf}}.
* In both the [[Iron Man (film)|movie]] ''and'' the original comics, [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] goes on a short but absolutely '' kickass'' one of these after the terrorists who have been holding him and another man (Yinsen) hostage end up killing Yinsen. In response, Tony takes the badass suit of armor he designed and built [[Memetic Mutation|in a cave, with a box of scraps]] and a goddamned improvised ''forge'', and then [[Took a Level
* In ''[[Ms. Tree]]'', Michael practically makes a career of this. Any time there is an attack on her, her family or her friends, this is almost guaranteed to be a huge stack of enemy corpses at the end of it. It got to the stage where [[The Mafia]] didn't want to mess with her because it was too costly for them.
* Most of the [[GL Red Lantern Corps/Characters|Red Lantern Corps]] are on one in one form or another, given that their superpowers are fueled by rage driven by loss, and as such that rage tends to fixate on the ones ''responsible'' for that loss. It's also such an overpowering rage that they tend to take down anyone and anything that gets in their way as well. Special mention must go to the Red Lantern of Earth, Dex-Starr. [[Crazy Awesome|He's a housecat, and is trying to avenge the kindly old lady who owned him]].
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* Harry [[Meaningful Name|Dresden]]. He has that surname for a reason, and god help you if you have {{spoiler|taken his daughter/hurt his friends}}. You will not survive the experience.
** Charity and Michael Carpenter both have these on different occasions. Both when one of their daughters is kidnapped.
* Thomas Middleton's ''[[The
* In the quote above from ''The Ballad of East and West'' by [[Rudyard Kipling]], a British officer rather gruesomely threatens a border raider that the British army will do this to his tribe if he is murdered during a parley.
* Kahlan's Con Dar (Blood Rage), in which she gains the power to throw lightning bolts in addition to her normal domination power and can only be used to defend or avenge Richard, definitely qualifies.
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** {{spoiler|Catelyn Stark}} after her resurrection. Spending nearly three books losing everything and everyone she held dear, culminating in {{spoiler|watching her son get slaughtered in front of her}} would probably make anyone a vengeance crazy mad lady regardless of zombiefication.
* In ''The Drawing Of The Three'', book 2 of [[The Dark Tower]] series, Eddie Dean goes utterly insane and dispatches several nasties with Roland's gun. Naked, no less.
* In Chris Roberson's ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', we find out that Rosalie's record is ''almost'' as clean as Carlisle's. She went on one of these after being turned into a vampire, against the guys who raped and murdered her in the first place. Among them was her fiance, whom she saved for last, and then wore a wedding dress to kill. Especially considering her [[Alpha Bitch|normal characterization]], generally cited as her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* In ''[[The Running Man (novel)|The Running Man]]'' Ben, {{spoiler|after discovering the [[The Government|The Games Company]] had his wife murdered, destroys their primary government building. Killing the higher ups of the company. [[Kill'Em All|And everyone inside. And everyone within a large radius.]] (Its stated debris was falling 20 blocks out, not to mention most things in the novel are nuclear powered and the dust clouds of 9/11 blasted quite far.)}}
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* In the fantasy novel ''The Conjurer Princess'', the title character sets off on one of these after her family is slaughtered at the wedding of her elder sister and her [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage|fiance who she loves]], with the sole exception of her elder sister who was carried off. By the end, though, {{spoiler|she finds out that her elder sister was in on it and the [[Big Bad]] actually her real lover}}...
* [[Tom Clancy]]'s novel ''[[Jack Ryan|Without Remorse]]'' is a prequel showing how John Clark got to be the [[Badass]] that he is in the present day novels. After his girlfriend, a recovering prostitute/drug addict, is killed by the pushers she once worked for, he begins picking them off one by one, Punisher-style, but not before [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torturing]] them to find out more information about their gang.
* ''[[Gentleman Bastard Sequence|The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'' gives us {{spoiler|the Gray King, whose family was killed by the other nobles of Camorr because they wouldn't go along with the Secret Peace with the city's criminal elements, headed by Capa Barsavi. So when he returns to town, he starts killing the heads of every gang that works for Barsavi, drowns his daughter in a barrel of horse urine, sets up Barsavi's best thief as a fall guy, and, when the Gray King is believed dead, kills him (with a magically-controlled shark) and his sons at the party. And this is all a lead-up to his revenge on the nobles, which would involve magically lobotomizing all of them ''and their children''.}}
* ''[[Sandman Slim]]'' is basically the old story of "hitter from the outfit gets sent up, goes upstate, gets out, seeks revenge on the bastards who turned him in." Only substitute "hitter" for "sorcerer," the outfit for "his cabal," and "upstate" for "Hell."
* In ''[[Papillon]]'', three convicts come up with a stupid revenge plot, which Papillon refuses to take place in. Having arranged a revolt, they plan to raid the armory and kill every non-prisoner on the island, the families of the guards included. Papillon points out that escape is impossible as there is only boat capacity for forty, a hundred armed men wanting that space, and the massacre will turn all neighboring countries against sheltering them. They don't care as all they want is their bloody revenge and only want to escape to the mainland to go guerrilla against the prison authority. In the end the heads of the revolt are shipped to another island and attempt the uprising on their own, nobody else joins in and their revenge ends with their deaths.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Dark Messiah]] of Might and Magic, if the player is trying to achieve the good ending, Leanna appears to be killed by the Necromancer Arantir, when the player arrives at his lair later the guards almost seem afraid of the players wrath as he becomes an unstoppable juggernaught of revenge, the player can then rescue her from the lair to get the good ending.
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'', after Ezio finds {{spoiler|Yusef killed by the Templar's, he and an entire army of Assassins go through a Templar base and literally slaughter and defeat all the guards and Templar's. And when Ezio finds Prince Ahmet...}}
* ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'' gives us a 3 person variant when the enemy forces finally manage to kill off {{spoiler|Chopper}}. The enemy pilots get to savour a few seconds of relieved cheering mainly along the lines of "see, they're not invincible after all!"... At which point you and the rest of the squadron proceed to completely destroy EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE AREA as payback. By the time the mission's over, the few surviving opponents are almost literally running away crying for their mommies.
* Reivier Wirt of ''[[Quintessence]] - The Blighted Venom'' goes on a killing rampage after his wife {{spoiler|supposedly}} dies. Complete with [[Hidden Eyes]].
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** This isn't this trope, but simple revenge. Tellah doesn't gun for all of Golbez's minions and try to blast every last one of the Red Wings out of existence in a gory show. He wants Golbez's head on a pike, commits a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to try to destroy Golbez, and {{spoiler|fails hardcore since Golbez survives with his [[Plot Armor]].}} Tellah's [[Plotline Death]] is setting up a double subversion of [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]], since {{spoiler|he fails, [[The Messiah|Cecil]] is set up as the one who should defeat Golbez, and then in [[The Reveal]] Golbez survives because he was being controlled by the [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
* Presumably the reason behind ''[[No More Heroes]] 2: Desperate Struggle''. Travis Touchdown rejoins the UAA for the purpose of {{spoiler|avenging his friend's death (the one who would get your motorcycle for you in the first game}}. This being Travis, [[Otaku|he doesn't have too many friends]], so it's kind of a blow. Also, in ''[[No More Heroes]]'', precision killing is simply not an option, regardless of motivation. Coincidentally, {{spoiler|killing Bishop}} was part of the antagonists' ''own'' Roaring Rampage of Revenge. [[Cycle of Revenge|Messy, ain't it]]?
* ''[[
* What? No mention of Kratos from the ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' series? The man/god is practically an embodiment of the trope, and he doesn't settle for small fry revenge either. He starts with Ares, and then [[Rage Against the Heavens|works his way through Olympus]] all because [[There Are No Therapists|Zeus figured it was easier to betray and kill him than have a reasonable discussion]].
** Revenge is the central theme in ''God of War''. Pretty much boils down to this: If they've crossed Kratos, they're ''going'' to die. Along with anyone and anything that stands in his way. ''Including Fate itself.''
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** Garrus's men (when he was Archangel) are this as well.
* While it's only a side goal and you'd much rather just take out their head, you still get a list of the conspirators in ''[[XIII]]''. This is kind of interesting at first as everyone on the list but your traitorous self, even the lowest rankers, are bosses for the first 85% of the game, and it seems like the game is setting up an all-boss rampage like some of the excellent examples above. Unfortunately, you end up killing about half of them in the second last stage, dressed in Klan outfits and equipped with no more AI or HP than the average mook. Oh, and the leader escapes to the sequel that will never be.
* Wylfred, "hero" of ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume]]'', accepts a deal with pretty much our equivalent of the devil to go on a roaring rampage against a valkyrie.
* The entire premise of ''[[Darksiders]]'' is that the Horseman of War is on a quest to kill the ones responsible for his fall from grace. Samael even honors his deal with War when he could easily betray him because he actually respects a good ol' Roaring Rampage of Revenge. {{spoiler|When he discovers that the Charred Council made him their [[Unwitting Pawn]] and faked his fall from grace in a breach of the pact he and the rest of the Horsemen obey, he decides to go after them with the help of his fellow Horsemen.}}
* Basically the entirety of ''[[Lugaru]]'', by the end of the game, nearly every named character has been revealed as a traitor.
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* "[[Walkyverse|The place reeked of Martians. I don't know why, but they killed him. So I killed the Martians.]]" {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|But]] [[Gambit Roulette|not]] [[Tomato in the Mirror|really]].}}
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Oasis has gone on a couple of these against Zoe for [[Love Makes You Evil|taking Torg's affection away from her]].
* The catgirls in ''[[Something
* Zeetha in ''[[Girl Genius]]''. She was captured by pirates on her way to visit the wider world from her home, a "lost" city in the jungle, and her crewmates were killed. She slaughtered every pirate on the ship, shot down the rest of their fleet, and burnt down their stronghold. Only then did she realize she didn't know how to get back home and had just killed everyone who did.
** Additionally, Agatha herself has a smaller rampage of revenge when Baron Wulfenbach {{spoiler|kills Lars, one of her love interests.}} [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|She drops a chicken house on him]].
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