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* In the eighth ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movie, Paragus and Broly lured Vegeta into an elaborate ruse in order to take revenge on him for his father's actions towards them. Fearful of Broly's power, he ordered the Saiyan child to be executed, then tried to kill Paragus for the crime of pleading for his son's life.

** And a more notable case in ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'', where Baby - [[Last of His Kind|last of the Tuffles]], a race who were exterminated by the Saiyans - seeks retribution against Goku and Vegeta [[Revenge by Proxy|as well as the inhabitants of their new home, Earth]].

* In ''[[Highschool of the Dead]]'', {{spoiler|Shido [[Moral Event Horizon|rigs Rei's grades]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|because his father was being investigated by her father for political corruption]].}}

 

* The backstory of the ''[[Batman]]'' foe Bane uses the 'hereditary prison' variant. The child of a foreigner who aided a failed revolution in a South American country, the as-yet unborn Bane was sentenced to life in prison for his father's crimes. He was born and raised in [[The Alcatraz|the unescapable prison]].

* The first arc of ''[[Runaways]]'' Volume 3 used this. A group of Majesdanians come looking for Karolina, hoping to prosecute her for her parents' role in starting a war between their species and the Skrulls that devastated both. The fact that Karolina had no control over any of that, and even went through with an [[Arranged Marriage]] to try and bring peace, doesn't stop them - their species is almost extinct, and they need ''someone'' to blame.

** In Volume 1, {{spoiler|Alex invokes this trope when threatening to hurt Karolina, due to her and Molly's parents planing on betraying the others at the ceremony the team interrupted.}}

* General Zod is very clear that his thirst for revenge against Jor-El for thwarting and imprisoning him and his followers extends to his son as well, Kal-El aka ''[[Superman]]'': "[[Kneel Before Zod|You will bow down before me, Jor-El! Both you and one day, your heirs!]]"

** In another example, Superman is put on trial by an alien tribunal chiefly due to the fact that one of his ancestors inadvertently caused the destruction of Krypton.

* A [[Carl Barks]] story featured a man named Foola Zoola, who wanted revenge against Scrooge McDuck. Unable to reach [[The Scrooge|the old miser]], Foola Zoola decided to settle for Donald under the belief a wrongdoer's sins can be atoned by his next of kin.

* Mutant villain Professor Power once quoted the [[Trope Namer]] directly while explaining why he had such a mad-on for [[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]] , which at the time was composed of the original [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] ; it was far more about his feud with Xavier than it was with them.

 

* Freddy Krueger from the ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' series originally went after the children of those who took the law into their own hands and burned him alive to stop his killing of their children. This is a variant of the trope in that the parents are not dead and that Freddy is just a sadistic bastard like that.

* Averted in the remake because {{spoiler|Freddy was after the kids because they played stool pigeon, which led to him being burned. Still, considering what he was doing to them in the first place, it's still pretty much [[Disproportionate Retribution]]}}.