Disproportionate Retribution/Literature: Difference between revisions

* [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''Without Remorse'' has the ''hero'', [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|after his girlfriend is brutally killed, decide to start killing any drug dealer he runs across, on his way to finding the real killers]].

** Lest we forget, Clark at one point managed to kidnap one of the dealers who killed his girlfriend (and [[Complete Monster|bragged about it]] [[Too Dumb to Live|to Clark]]). He shoved him in a boat and drove back to his island home, leased from the Navy and stocked with all kinds of surplus gear. Like a ''pressurization chamber!!'' For the next ten hours, he uses it to put his captive at around 100 feet simulated depth, and to raise it when [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique|the man didn't answer his questions properly]]. By the time Clark had finished, every joint in the man's body was crippled, [[Eye Scream|the insides of his eyes had burst]], most of his muscles were for all intents and purposes one giant bruise, and he had the next best thing to a stroke. When finished, he drove the man back to the mainland and left him on the beach for the police to find: Blind, incoherent, and crippled, spending the next month in agony before finally dying.

** Roughly two thirds of ''Sum of All Fears'' is about Elizabeth Elliot trying to ruin Ryan's career and marriage for taking offense to ''her'' bad manners in the previous book. The movie version is vastly improved by the fact that she isn't in it.

* In ''[[Altered Carbon]]'', [[Ax Crazy|Takeshi]] [[Crapsack World|Kovacs]] is placed into a torture program for 24 simulated hours by some [[Punch Clock Villain]] technicians hired by the [[Big Bad]]. After he escapes, he remembers a passage from his favorite author about making every struggle personal. He returns to the technicians' office and kills everyone who works there, then goes to a strip club that is tangentially related to the affair and massacres everyone working there as well. He melts the heads of everyone he kills, preventing them from being resurrected in a new body, as most people are after death. His rampage is considered outrageous by everyone who learns about it.