"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a 'roaring rampage of revenge'. I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill."
— The Bride, Kill Bill
You're making your list, you're checking it twice, and you're checking off their names after you've killed them nice, probably for making it personal. And in the above example, you're even quoting your own movie poster blurb. But it's okay, they deserved it — because they're evil (or just assholes), they kidnapped your child, and they probably kicked your dog (if not worse) as well. Either they're a minion or they're the Big Bad behind it all, but it doesn't matter in the end because either way, they're fucked… and you are going to unleash your wrath upon them, even if it means going down with them.
The Roaring Rampage of Revenge differs from the standard Revenge plot in that our hero dispenses with the Machiavellian plotting that would define a classic revenge tale and goes straight for the bloodshed, either in a single, violent Unstoppable Rage or Tranquil Fury-fueled rampage on the bad guy's home base, or a more methodical "working one's way up the food chain" from lesser foes to the bigger fish.
If the hero has a specific hit list, this usually ends up as a Gotta Kill Them All situation as the hero hunts down and kills each bad guy on the list before moving on to the next. In most cases, the second to last bad guy on the hit-list is the Dragon for whichever Big Bad that the hero has saved for last, and is usually someone the hero has an especially personal beef with and/or is the most psychotic or otherwise hateworthy foe on the list aside from the Big Bad. If the hero decided a rampage wasn't enough, the hero may resort to an Extreme Melee Revenge to let the bad guys feel the pain with a truly savage beating. Despite the name of the trope (and many characters who do this trope living up to said name), many agree that a character going for revenge without making a sound is much, much scarier.
Alternately the reasoning is that the hero just has a single lead, and each lead gives him/her one more name or clue before they die.
Of course; sometimes the Hero's target is not always one person. Sometimes it can branch out to an entire organization, or to an entire race or species. Some examples of this could be a partisan whose family was killed by soldiers on a Rape, Pillage, and Burn raid (and who in retaliation is killing as many soldiers from that army as possible) or an apocalypse survivor whose son was killed by zombies (and who as a result devotes his life to ridding the world of them).
Many such avengers may keep a Tragic Keepsake to remind them of their lost loved one or other reason that they're on this vendetta to begin with, although they may fall victim to Forgotten Fallen Friend if the quest goes on long enough. Sometimes fulfilling the revenge may end up as a case of Vengeance Feels Empty and not give the avenger the expected joy, particularly if they come to feel that the avenged would not have wanted it that way. While in some cases, fulfilling the revenge may instead end up with the avenger becoming bloodthirsty and developing a Blood Knight personality, or worse, Put the "Laughter" in "Slaughter". But sometimes, one will simply find that Revenge Is Sweet without any moral corruption, with the closure of revenge allowing the avenger(s) to move on with their lives.
Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into He Who Fights Monsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to extend your revenge to that person's children, people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then The Hero may cease to be worthy of that title.
Compare Last Stand, where the motives are frequently the same. May be a case of Revenge Before Reason culminating in a Self-Destructive Charge. In other cases, the anger has burned itself out by the end, leaving only a dogged Determinator to finish the task. Also compare to Roaring Rampage of Rescue, where the goal of the rampage is to rescue a loved one rather to exact revenge for what was done to them. The two may overlap, particularly if the rescuers fail to save their loved ones and settle for avenging them. Will often also overlap with Mook Horror Show.
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Advertising
- One Super Bowl Special advertising Doritos features two guys in a gym snacking on them when one of them mentions that he stole them from someone named "Tim". His friend is horrified at this and urges they flee when he is killed by a Dorito shuriken. Enter Tim: A Doritos-clad Samurai, who immediately attacks the thief that stole his doritos from him.
Audio Plays
- Scratch from We're Alive goes on one after Pegs kills her brother, Latch. She swears to kill Pegs at all costs. And in pursuit of her prey she brings down the Tower with an RPG and improvised bombs made out of gasoline tankers, captures and tortures Burt to find out where the Tower folks are hiding, kills Angel, kills Durai and continues to stalk Pegs even after all the other Mallers are either killed or scattered.
Films — Animation
- Big Hero 6: Following the reveal the masked man was a Not Quite Dead Robert Callaghan, Hiro realizes he stole his microbots and caused the fire that killed Tadashi; feeling hurt and betrayed, Hiro rips out Baymax's healthcare chip, turning him into a Killer Robot in the intention to hunt down Callaghan and kill him for what he did. However, Honey Lemon recovers the chip and reinstalls it into Baymax before any harm could be done.
- The Iron Giant drops his Gentle Giant persona and goes on a gun-filled, very pissed off rampage against the Army when it looks like they killed his friend Hogarth.
- Megamind: After Megamind refuses to team up with Tighten, he angrily chases after the blue alien and causes some destruction in the process.
- The Mitchells vs. the Machines: When her son gets imprisoned by PAL, Linda Mitchell is so upset, that she goes into beast mode and starts mercilessly slaughtering all the the Pal robots, to the point where she makes them all feel fear.
- In Monsters vs. Aliens, the heroine Ginormica is abducted by the alien Gallaxhar, who imprisons her in a seemingly impenetrable pink force field. He thinks that she can't escape... then she breaks open the cage and throws at him. She then goes on an Unstoppable Rage and smashes through every door Gallaxhar throws at her in an effort to catch Gallaxhar and kill him to avenge Insectosaurus, who she believed Gallaxhar had killed. Unfortunately, Gallaxhar takes advantage of Ginormica's blind rage to trap her in a machine that extracts the Quantonium from her body. Double-Subverted when she takes it back by shooting a ball that contained it, restoring her giant size and strength.
Manhua
- Weapons of the Gods:
- Done by Wen-Tian, when he sees Wen-Cai get injured during Xiong-Yan Wang’s assault on the Northern Clan. It results in Xiong-Yan Wang fleeing with Bei-Ming Xue as a hostage, two of his hybrid warriors taken prisoner, and the rest slaughtered.
- The Phoenix Queen almost goes on one against the heroes when her Mama Bear instincts get triggered, but is talked out of it by Zhuo Bu-Fan (much to Prince Gu’s displeasure). She ends up ransoming Wen-Tian’s freedom in exchange for his help in finding the Feng-Huang’s missing piece.
- Fu-Xi went on one against heaven itself in the Backstory after completing the Shi-Fang Ju-Mie, in retaliation for the thunder & lightning gods attacking him & injuring his celestial steed. Fortunately, he gets steered toward the more constructive goal of reinforcing the Celestial Demon’s prison instead.
- Chi-You almost immediately goes on one after he's resurrected, due to the Overlord's efforts to woo his lover, the Flower Goddess. The Overlord certainly doesn't help his own case, constantly berating the seething demigod even after they meet face-to-face.
- Niu-Lang embarks on one after he falls in with the Evil Emperor, destroying Emperor Yan's kingdom in retaliation for his actions as the Overlord of the Heaven-Earth Alliance. This culminates in a duel with the Emperor himself, but by then, not even the Shi-Fang Ju-Mie can help him stand against Niu-Lang.
- When Wen-Cai gets abducted by the Evil Emperor, Wen-Tian's Big Brother Instinct gets kicked into overdrive.
Manhwa
- Aflame Inferno: Inferno on every single Tedlar who crossed her path after Thanatos and Pandimonium killed her human family. It's how Inferno's terrifying legend began.
- The Breaker has Chun Woo start one when his disciple Shi Woon, goes missing. He's angry, as angry as we've ever seen him be. But then Shiho his love interest is killed, taking a bullet for him. He then unleashes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on an entire rooftop of martial artists.
- Dark Heaven: Pete's kidnapping was orchestrated by Gale at the behest of Simon who wanted to get revenge for what he did to Conor. If not for his and Conor's reconciliation, he would have likely given in to the temptation of murdering a hated enemy.
- Perfect Marriage Revenge: Downplayed. Iju well intends to punish all those who have wronged her in the past, present and future and take back everything that they stole from her. Rather than burn her enemies to the ground and laugh over their corpses, however, she goes for a more subtle but no less damaging method — she ends her engagement to her unfaithful fiancé and gets engaged to the man her stepsister, for whom the fiancé planned to divorce Iju, wanted to marry herself. She plans to use her knowledge of the future to invest in her father’s failing company, and buy all the shares once the stock price crashes, therefore taking back the inherited business that was promised to and later stolen from her in the original future.
- Priest (1998): Betheal and Ivan against all the fallen angels, Vascar De Guillon during the crusades against everyone once his family dies.
- The Scholars Reincarnation: Jung-woo's past life, by the looks of it, was just one long Rampage of Revenge. In his current life, he only ever had one, and that was against the people who kidnapped him and his sister.
Mythology & Religion
- Classical Mythology:
- Pissing off Heracles was unfortunately very easy to do, and never a good idea. Among his many other deeds, Heracles is known for exacting horrific revenges on a number of Greek kings who crossed him. Whether it was King Augeas refusing to pay the cattle he owed Heracles for his cleaning out Augeas's stables, King Neleus refusing to purify Heracles after he killed a man in anger, or King Laomedon trying to get out of paying Heracles the magical horses he owed Heracles for killing the monster that threatened his kingdom, all three of them were eventually invaded by Heracles and his army and slaughtered for crossing him.
- The hero Jason decided to dump his wife Medea and marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, an act that made him an enemy of his own protector Hera, Goddess of Marriage. Big mistake. But before Hera could make him pay, Medea herself got revenge on him: she burned alive the king's daughter, and, by accident, the king and his palace (the king had tried to save his daughter, but failed and spread the fire); demolished Corinth; in some versions even killed two of their own children (in others it was the Corinthians, who wanted revenge for them delivering the clothes that set the king's daughter on fire. Demolition of the city follows soon after), and leaves with the others. And Jason? Still alive, with his spirit and reputation destroyed and reduced to beggary. You do not piss off your Magical Girlfriend, for even the goddess notorious for being ludicrously vengeful won't have the heart to add something on top of what already happened to you...
- In Mesopotamian Mythology, a gardener named Shukaletuda found a gorgeous woman resting under his poplar tree, and raped her in her sleep before leaving. Unfortunately for Shukaletuda, the woman just happened to be Inanna, goddess of love, fertility, and warfare, who proceeded to cut a swath through the land until she tracked him down, listened to him beg for forgiveness, and then killed him.
Professional Wrestling
- Roddy Piper was the master of this, and defined the trope from a wrestling standpoint in his 1986 feud with "Adorable" Adrian Adonis. On the WWF Superstars of Wrestling episode aired September 27, 1986, Piper began to berate Adonis over his "effeminate" gimmick and the "Flower Shop" segment (the former as a gimmick offensive to wrestling, the latter because Piper considered it to be hosted by a "Piper wannabe"), but found himself on the wrong end of a three-on-one beating when former Piper allies "Cowboy" Bob Orton and "Magnificent" Don Muraco helped Adonis instigate a horrifically brutal beatdown and destroyed the old "Piper's Pit" set. The trope kicked in the following week when Piper – who was feared dead or in the very least hospitalized with a concussion and multiple other injuries – came out with a crutch and, in a blind frenzy, destroyed the set of "The Flower Shop," before — with large amounts of spit foaming from his mouth — screaming out the words, "THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN!" Eventually, Piper took out Muraco and Orton and then turned his attention on Adonis; after several delays due to legit injuries by Adonis, Piper and Adonis finally met at WrestleMania III, where Piper won a "retirement match."
- Sting spent most of 1997 beating various members of the nWo with a baseball bat as revenge for their ruining his reputation and taking over WCW. While the nWo grew and grew, Sting never had any trouble beating them senseless; any time he appeared, the scene would end with the ringside area being filled with the beaten and unconscious bodies of mooks in black-and-white while Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff fled, yelling impotent epithets back at Sting.
- In one memorable episode of WWF Raw is War, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin used guerrilla tactics to eliminate the members of Vince McMahon's goon squad, one at a time. He eventually trapped Vince himself in the ring, threatening his boss' life with a gun before revealing it to be a prop, as when he "fired" it, a flag popped out reading, "Bang! 3:16". This didn't stop Vince from completely wetting his pants, however.
- Randy Orton has punted Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon. He's DDT'd Stephanie McMahon and then kissed her in front of her husband. So what does said husband Triple H do? Grabs his sledgehammer and goes on a rampage that is still going on today.
- Randy Orton (along with then-tag-team partner Edge) was also the victim of a Shawn Michaels RROR. Orton and Edge, along with an inopportune quad tear have taken out Triple H, and they're not exactly shy in telling everyone so. Shawn pulls Hunter's sledgehammer out from under the ring and proceeds to kick the everloving hell out of them.
- John Cena succeeded in taking part in one against The Nexus for cheating him into being their slave and then Nexus leader Wade Barrett treating him horribly and forcing him into choosing between losing his career or ruling a match in Barrett's favor so he would become champion and be free. He chose to lose his career, ironically making him free to make Nexus' existence a living Hell. Subsequent weeks had Cena attacking Nexus members at random, eventually forcing Barrett to make a match between the two at WWE TLC. The match ended with Cena completing his mission as he handily beat Barrett.
- In CHIKARA, Mike Quackenbush went on a rampage against the Power Stable GEKIDO for breaking his arm and putting him on the shelf for months. Quack broke 17's fingers at Chikarasaurus Rex: How to Hatch a Dinosaur, and engaged in some uncharacteristic post-match brutality against AssailANT and DeviANT at King of Trios 2012 that made even his best friend, Jigsaw, try to talk some sense into him.
- Dean Ambrose. Ever since he betrayed The Shield, Seth Rollins cannot go a week without Dean trying to attack him in some way. Not even being Curb Stomped on the head onto cinder blocks could stop Dean Ambrose from trying to get his hands on Seth Rollins a month later. The kind of deep, personal loathing Dean has for Seth for betraying his trust is incomparable — Dean's only goal in life is to beat Seth within an inch of his life.
- After Donovan Dijak broke the neck of Truth Martini, he was stalked by The House Of Truth, starting with Ring of Honor Supercard and Conquest Tour through Texas, where Joey Daddiego repeatedly tried to break his ribs with a chair. For added injury, Dijak's new manager Prince Nana was egging Dijak's old rival Will Ferrera to continue pursuing him too.
- After Merlok, a big piranha character, put Ashley Vox's Team Sea Stars partner (and Real Life sister) Delmi Exo and Sidekick Jawsolyn out of CHIKARA during 2017, she went off on this for the rest of the season. Following the advice of Obariyon (formerly of The Batiri), she channeled the darkness within herself and became "Queen of the Seven Seas" Oceanea, leading to her finally
defeating Merlok at the Season Finale Closing Time on December 2nd.
Roleplay
- Adam Dodd of season one of Survival of the Fittest swears vengeance against Cody Jensen after Cody's definitive crossing of the Moral Event Horizon, raping and murdering his friend Madelaine Shirohara and accidentally killing his love interest, Amanda Jones, in the middle of trying to kill Sidney Crosby. After drifting for a while in a Heroic BSoD, Adam takes down everyone who tries to kill him one by one, and when Adam and Cody finally face off, Adam fulfills his vow of vengeance by putting a sword through Cody and then carving the word "rapist" into his chest.
Tabletop Games
- BattleTech: Rather common.
- When an invading nation, Clan Smoke Jaguar used orbital bombardment on a conquered city (after a prison break), then killed anyone escaping, as a warning to all other conquered planets, every military in the Inner Sphere sent their elite units and their extremely rare space warships on a mission to wipe out the entirety of the Clan Smoke Jaguar military, killing or capturing every single Jaguar warrior. They landed all their forces on the Jaguar homeworld, Huntress, then used their own orbital bombardment to wipe out concentrated Jaguar military forces while picking off stragglers with overwhelming firepower and ambush tactics.
- Later, after a genocidal campaign of nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare by the Word of Blake, a coalition of mercenaries, ComStar loyalists and special forces from the Inner Sphere engaged in a war of extermination against the Word of Blake, culminating in the liberation of Terra and the establishment of the Republic of the Sphere.
- Changeling: The Lost: Contracts of Stone 5, "Red Rage of Terrible Revenge", not only turns you into a nigh-unstoppable monster, but is free to cast if you are seeking vengeance for an injured or killed loved one.
- The Hard Way also has revenge as a quite frequent motive, given the Trauma part of every PC's background.
- In Nomine: Deconstructed. When Magog, the Demon Prince of Cruelty, breaks out of his ancient prison, he's going to go on a frenzied attack against Heaven and humanity... which will almost certainly result in his death. Whether he survives to become a new player primarily depends on whether or not he can calm down enough to recognize that personally storming the gates of Heaven and attacking every Demon Prince who tells him otherwise is not a wise plan.
- Iron Kingdoms: Thyra. After her family was killed in a raid by mercenaries hired by Cygnar, she led a band of fellow survivors in a guerilla war against them. They did surprisingly well before she killed a Menite priest who tried to get her to stop, and was imprisoned and subsequently recruited by Feora.
- Magic: The Gathering: Ajani started out this way in his Vengeant state, and had to be prevented from doing it again on Theros after Elspeth's death. Garruk spent most of Innistrad block doing this while pursuing Liliana. Chandra tried this on the Order who burned down her village. Given the power that planeswalkers wield even after the Mending, whenever a planeswalker pulls this, a lot of things end up broken.
- Scarlet Wake, which draws inspiration from Kill Bill, focuses more or less entirely on having your character go on one of these against those who wronged them.
- Warhammer:
- Necromunda: In the 1st Edition, the Ratskin special character Brakar the Avenger had been stalking the underhive killing anyone he believes has wronged his adopted people ever since the tribe that took him in and nursed him back to health was slaughtered.
- Warhammer 40,000:
- Jaghatai Khan's background material mentions that, after his adopted father, Ong, was killed by a rival tribe, the young Primarch led the retaliatory assault against their village that resulted in the death of every man, woman and child in the enemy tribe so that he could bathe in their blood. This incident led to Jaghatai, the Primarch of the White Scars, being known as a man of both honour and ruthlessness and set him on the path to uniting the disparate tribes of Chogoris.
- Angron: The Daemon Primarch of the World Eaters destroyed entire planetary sectors when he left the Warp in order to kick the crap out of the Imperium of Man, still wanting his revenge against them. During the Heresy, his revenge on Nuceria was also this, as he ordered the World Eaters and Word Bearers to first kill all the rulers of Desh'ea, the city state that had enslaved him, then everyone else in Desh'ea, then finally the rest of the planet.
- The Altar Brethren were one of thirty Chapters sent into a penitent crusade into the Eye of Terror by a corrupt Ecclesiarchical leader. By the time they made their way back out of the Eye, the Brethren, now calling themselves the Iconoclasts, were so scarred by their betrayal and the things that had happened to them in there that they have since devoted themselves to a single-minded rampage against the Ecclesiarchy, and are particularly focused on razing and desecrating Shrine Worlds.
- After being wired into one of the three-meter-tall, heavily armed Killa Can walkers, the first thing a Gretchin usually does is hunt down the Orks that bullied and abused it in its old life (usually a fairly lengthy list) and turn them into hamburger meat. The other Orks find this absolutely hilarious.
"Yar! Oose 'da biggest an' da baddest now, eh? I'll show ya, I'll show ya all! Just try an' stop me!" — Grabthroat Shinkicka, Killa Kan pilot
- Warhammer Fantasy
- The dwarves infamous for taking even the slightest of their grudges exceptionally seriously, willing to slaughter entire armies and destroy castles for something as little as being short-changed in a trade deal.
- One dwarf hold is in an ongoing series of wars with a Tomb King dynasty over a hammer. The dwarfs take it because it's dwarf made, then the Tomb Kings take it back because it has a coin stolen from them as a centerpiece.
- If Vlad and Isabella von Carstein are on the battlefield together and one is killed, the surviving spouse gains the Frenzy and Hatred (enemy army) traits, representing a powerful vampire going berserk and setting out to reduce their spouse's killers to a fine red paste.
Theatre
- The Duchess of Malfi has an unusual variation on the theme: the rampage to avenge the murder of the titular Duchess and her children is carried out by the actual killer, Bosola, who regrets his actions and sets out to take revenge on her brothers who ordered him to kill her.
- William Shakespeare's Hamlet, naturally. Granted, his hit list only has one name on it, but he very quickly demonstrates that he doesn't mind knocking off a bystander or two to get to him, and the body count simply becomes heinous by the end of the play.
- Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy is an excellent example of this trope. Vindice (his name literally means Revenge) throws himself into his role as bloody revenger with glee.
- Westeros: An American Musical: Loras, while part of The Cavalry fighting against an army whose leader had someone Loras cares about killed, is so focused on killing as many people as possible that he pays little attention to which side they are on.
- The White Devil: When Isabella's killers flee Rome before they can be punished, her brother Francisco and lover Lodovico pursue them in disguise and pick them off one by one.
Visual Novels
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney:
- Kristoph Gavin has this combined with total Disproportionate Retribution. After getting Phoenix disbarred, he stalked everyone involved in the case, then he killed a magician, an artist, and he almost killed the artist's daughter. What caused this quest for revenge, you ask? His client, a famous magician (the aforementioned one, no less) whose successful defense would have brought Gavin much fame, wanted a different lawyer (Phoenix) to defend him.
- Phoenix himself later repaid the favor. After having his attorney's badge taken away for presenting Gavin's forged evidence, he lost respect for the whole judicial process and manipulated a crime scene, forging some evidence of his own to get Gavin convicted of killing the magician. Then, he managed to temporarily overhaul the entire legal system and rig a jury just to ensure Gavin also got convicted of killing the artist.
- In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, you learn in Free Time what Ryoma's crime was that got him thrown in prison. He was asked by Yakuza to take part in a tennis tournament and throw his match. He played along at first, but then won his last match that he was supposed to lose out of stubbornness. So, they killed his family and later, his lover. He then proceeded to wipe out the yakuza syndicate that did so, using a steel tennis ball to hit their members in the head to kill them.
- In Fate/stay night's "Unlimited Blade Works" route's (True Ending), Gilgamesh insults Saber after her Heroic Sacrifice to destroy the Holy Grail. Shirou gets pissed, and proceeds to bash the King of Heroes all over the place, before cutting off his arm and throwing him into a tear in space-time.
- Shion in Higurashi: When They Cry goes on a delayed one in her arc. She goes a bit far, by which we mean that even after she's killed a little girl who she promised to take care of, she doesn't stop, despite it being claimed near the end that her family knows nothing about Satoshi's disappearance, her mind is too far gone at that point — although what the rest of the Sonozaki family did to her is pretty damn horrible too, namely banishing her from her home village just for superstitious reasons against younger twins even though she's secretly the older one, sending her to an oppressive, religiously-indoctrinating school that brainwashes its students and threatens escapees with violence, opposing her crush just for being the son of a man who offended the family and making her rip her own fingernails out with a torture device to atone for him, her bodyguard and her uncle who dared to help her, all while her sister and mother watched coldly as she begged for help. Keeping her sanity and STILL loving her sister after that is a gargantuan feat, only corrupted by the unfortunate triggering of the Hate Plague which makes otherwise normal people prone to violence, loss of reasoning skills, misunderstandings, hallucinations and extreme paranoia, which made her think the Three Families murdered her crush and were now after her life for breaking into a ritual tool shed, doesn't help that her uncle said that Satoshi deserved to die and Rika tried to inject her with a mysterious syringe.
- Rena when her father is threatened by Rina and Teppei and the former nearly chokes her to death, she brutally kills them both. A series of misunderstandings later and now she threatens to blow up her school with all the kids inside, and was 1 second away from achieving this.
- Satoko murdered her parents because her delusions made her think that they would kill her eventually.
- Juniper's Knot: In the fiend girl's backstory, we learn that she had a friend when she was still free. Because she was close to a demon, the girl was killed by the townspeople. When the demon girl discovered the beaten, raped body of her friend, she killed everyone in the town — men, women, children — and set it all aflame.
- In Lady In Mystery, Yurin spends the last moments of her route killing those she deems responsible for the death of her beloved Heesoo. This includes her own butler for not allowing her to rush off to Heesoo's rescue, the soldier who fatally wounded Heesoo, the doctor that arrived too late to help Heesoo, Pyeong-ho for betraying Heesoo's family, Pyeong-ho's child, and Woosung for outing Heesoo as the daughter of a convicted man.
- The perp in the main case of Hanai's route in Metro PD: Close to You is systematically targeting people close to Hanai — his unit, his friends, his mentor, his brother, and eventually his partner - in revenge for his arrest of her lover for crimes someone else committed.
- Tsukihime: Arcueid Brunestud's kill list: #1: Michael Roa Valdamjong, whenever possible and as much as possible until he stays dead, damnit. #2: Dead Apostle Ancestors, so another 20 or so on the list. #3: Normal Dead Apostles, Demon Lords, people like the Church who get in her way.
- Kohaku's hero status is rather debatable but her targets go like this: Makihasa (done) Akiha and SHIKI (done in two out of five possible endings, SHIKI in all of them. Then maybe Shiki and anyone else related to the Tohno family she can think of.
- In the Zero Escape series:
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors has three of these. In the Axe Ending, Clover goes Ax-Crazy over her brother's (apparent) death and murders Santa and Seven, who she believed killed Snake, June, for getting in her way, and Junpei, for his bracelet. In the Safe Ending, Snake flies into an Unstoppable Rage after Ace taunts him about Clover's death and pulls a Taking You with Me, preventing him from escaping the incinerator and letting Junpei, Seven, and Lotus escape. And finally, the True Ending reveals that this was one of the two purposes of the Second Nonary Game - to get revenge on the four men who were responsible for creating the first Nonary Game.
- In Zero Time Dilemma:
- Akane goes on one of these if she finds Junpei's head in a freezer. Assuming incorrectly that Carlos killed him, she attacks him with a chainsaw; the resulting fight ends in either Carlos killing Akane in self-defense or Carlos concluding that he killed Junpei and committing suicide.
- Akane goes on another one of these if Carlos kills Junpei in an AB game to save himself. She bashes his skull in with a fire extinguisher... sixteen times.
- Eric goes on one of these if he finds Mira's corpse. He starts threatening everyone around him with a shotgun to find out who did the deed, and it takes some very careful persuasion on Q's part to calm him down.
Web Animation
- Following Snowball's death at the climax of the first half of Bunnykill 5, his partner Dust goes on a furious rampage against Smoke, the bunny responsible for what led up to it, chasing him through his base full of mooks and eventually hopping from vehicle to vehicle in a blistering Chase Fight on the highway before finally impaling him with his Impossibly Cool Weapon and sending him into the blades of the helicopter Smoke tried to run him down in. And it doesn't end there — Dust also kills Flint, the one responsible for the Psycho Serum experiment that kicked off the whole thing, and is now going after Flint's unknown employer!
- Reversal of the Heart has The Prince goes on one, after seeing a dragon in The Princess's room, leading him to think she had killed The Princess, not knowing that they were one in the same.
Websites
- Warriors of Genesis: Gamma when his family was killed, resulted in a Unstoppable Rage.
Web Videos
- Percy de Rolo of Critical Role ends up on a Gotta Kill 'Em All variation (with his friends along for the ride) against the people who murdered his family, tortured him and took over his home some years ago. A few levels in corruption and a case of Demonic Possession bring him perilously near the tipping point of He Who Fights Monsters.
- In Dream's 3 Hunters Grand Finale video (26:54), Sapnap wants revenge after Dream killed George, causing Sapnap to go into an Unstoppable Rage and try to kill Dream.
Sapnap: THIS IS FOR GEORGE, DREAM!
- When Ivorycello's pet bird Shiratori is killed by Sven in a last ditch attempt to subdue her, Plumpkin traps her in her own mind. Following several tense conversations, she then declares that she is prepared to kill absolutely everyone.
- Life SMP: Since the Life series is a Deadly Game where alliances and loyalties are often held in high regard, elaborately murderous revenge plots are nothing out of the ordinary.
- 3rd Life SMP: Scott was fairly neutral on the server, only tentatively allying with Grian and Scar out of necessity after his relations with Dogwarts soured. However, after his husband Jimmy is Killed Off for Real in the Battle for the Red Desert, Scott, now left a Crusading Widower, teams up with Grian and Scar to take out as many Dogwarts members as he can. This rampage nets him two direct kills (three if counting indirect kills) and one count of arson before he loses his final life too.
- Last Life SMP: After Big B betrays and kills her the previous session as the Boogeyman, most of Day 5 is spent by Cleo on her final life threatening the entire server, but with a particular focus on ensuring that Big B/"Terry" is perpetually in terror any time Cleo is anywhere near him. Part of this reign of terror has the Fairy Fort reduced to smoking ashes, and she actively warns the former Fairy Fort alliance that as long as they stand with Big B, they're all potential targets.
- Double Life SMP: When Impulse burns Pearl's beloved dog Tilly in lava in the final battle, Pearl goes berserk and almost effortlessly kills Impulse, Bdubs, Cleo, and Martyn with an axe and her army of dogs.
- Limited Life SMP: Joel starts near-indiscriminately attacking every other alliance when his fellow Bad Boy Jimmy died his final death on Day 7. It ends with him dying permanently too by the end of the same session.
- Secret Life SMP: After no one (other than Joel) comes to her server-wide party on Day 5 so she can complete her assigned secret task, Lizzie plots to kill everyone that caused her to fail her task (i.e. any Lifer not named Joel) when she falls to her final life later the same day. She doesn't get very far before being Killed Off for Real the next episode.
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy has this for General Hanzo Hasashi (AKA Scorpion), after him and his family, along with his entire ninja clan, are slaughtered by Bi Han (AKA Sub-Zero) and his ninja clan. However, Quan Chi is the one who performed the deed and framed Bi Han, who actually wanted peace with his childhood friend, even after Hanzo was forced to kill Bi Han's brother in self-defense. When the two meet in Mortal Kombat, Bi Han desperately tries to convince the undead Hanzo that he wasn't involved. Hanzo doesn't believe him and rips out his spine.
- Vampires SMP: At the end of Episode 8, the humans of Oakhurst and the castle vampires come to a ceasefire and a Cooperation Gambit in order to maximize the number of players who can leave Oakhurst alive. While already a Principles Zealot and holding strong reservations about the plan, after Martyn dies from unforeseen complications during the conversion process, Ren is horrified and concludes that the ceasefire was a lie, immediately declaring all of the vampires "fanged demons" and attacking them in a misguided panic and fit of fury. Considering how badly he's outnumbered, he doesn't get very far before being put down by the vampires, in both self-defense and because his refusal to cooperate is compromising The Needs of the Many.