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* In the "There's Something in the Sea" AlternateRealityGame for ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', Mark Meltzer was devoted to finding out more about the recent kidnappings of six- and seven-year-old girls around the North Atlantic, namely, who, why and where to. He eventually estimated where the next kidnapping was due to be and went there with his family. [[spoiler: His family included a seven-year-old girl. The kidnapper, a Big Sister, obviously recognized Mark as a threat and kidnapped his daughter. He then put his search into finding out where the girls had gone to in full motion after that, until eventually he found where the girls had been taken...Rapture. In the game he is caught by Sofia Lamb, the BigBad who kidnapped the girls in the first place and is made into a Big Daddy for his daughter Cindy (now a Little Sister), something you discover only after [[{{Tearjerker}} you kill Mark]].]]

* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX's'' Auron is the stoic, quiet, [[OlderAndWiser all-knowing]], BadassLongcoat of the group, never losing his cool or raising his voice. He doesn't have to - his reputation and obvious awesomeness compel everyone else to fear and respect him. The one and only time he shows any passion is when he and the heroes confront Yunalesca... [[spoiler:who, when he last saw her, calmly explained how [[SpeakIllOfTheDead his friends' deaths were meaningless]], then killed him]]. Yes, he has a bit of a grudge there.

* From the same family, you also get a couple of these in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''. Sky's got a "thing" about slavers... having your five-year-old daughter run through by a group of them would kinda do that. There's also "The Serpent" running the Imperial City arena that Black Whirlwind has an axe to grind with... literally. And it certainly goes there with your PC and [[spoiler: "Master" Sun Li -- he killed your people, spent your entire life grooming you as an UnwittingPawn, then ''killed'' you after all]].

** Likewise, Link in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' - Link is motivated through his DungeonCrawling by the chance to find his lifelong friend and ImpliedLoveInterest again after she'd been spirited away from Skyloft, [[spoiler:[[BatmanGambit which is exactly why Hylia had her taken to begin with]]]].

** Sadie is out for any O'Driscoll as they murdered her husband and brutalized her. Later on, similar to John, she goes after [[spoiler: Micah - both for his betrayal of the gang and for Arthur.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': Let's get counting:

* ''VideoGame/JourneyOn'': While Selena and Shirley get dialogue choices and occasionally use the stock MV emoticons, they don't get fully spoken lines like the [=NPCs=].

** This isn't even getting into [[spoiler: Egil's]] motivations, who harbors so much hatred towards [[spoiler: Zanza, and what he and the Bionis did to him and his people. He vows to wipe out ''all'' life on Bionis, setting up a NotSoDifferent moment with Shulk that Shulk himself notices.]] Though to be fair, [[spoiler:Egil's]] hatred is only towards [[spoiler:Zanza]]; he had no enmity for Shulk or any of the others, but [[spoiler:killing the life on Bionis was to ensure that Zanza could never rise again.]]

-->'''Loghain:''' [[spoiler:So, there is some Maric in you after all. Good.]]
-->'''Alistair:''' [[spoiler:Forget Maric, this is for Duncan!]]

-->'''Cabot:''' Thieves made off with our stores of cookie dough. Now it's personal.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'':
** Reversed with the villain declaring It's Personal on the ''hero''. Volgin already intended to kill the [=CIA=] operative who had infiltrated his base. But after he found out what Snake did to Major Raikov...

** It is then played straight with Snake whose mission had always been to kill Volgin but after the torture he went through by his hand Snake becomes motivated to get a little payback which he succeeds in doing by humiliating Volgin in hand to hand combat. Then after a long battle with Volgin in the Shagohod, Snake witnesses Volgin have a VillainousBreakdown over how Snake has ruined his plans and dies a karmic death by lightning before he can attack Snake again.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has several cases of this.
** Chris in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', when he pretty much abandons his original mission to search for [[spoiler: Jill Valentine]] instead, who [[spoiler: he had earlier thought was dead, but turned out to be alive]]. And then of course, when he [[spoiler: kills Wesker in the end]], this is not only his job as a BSAA member, but it's personal considering [[spoiler: Wesker kidnapped/brainwashed Jill, and Chris used to work with Wesker before]] he went all evil and tried to [[spoiler: infect the whole world with the Uroboros]].
** Again in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', Chris has this with Ada Wong, [[spoiler: or so he thinks (it's really Carla Radames)]] after she [[spoiler: kills his entire team, save Piers]].
** Helena in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' has this with [[spoiler: Simmons]] because he basically [[spoiler: killed her sister]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'', Samus hunts the SpacePirates not only because it's her job, but because they attacked the colony where she lived massacred everyone there, with their commander, [[ArchEnemy Ridley]], [[MoralEventHorizon killing her mother before her very eyes, and later eating her corpse]]. Samus was '''[[HarmfulToMinors three]]'''.
** Although it's only briefly mentioned in a scan log, ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' says that Admiral Dane was also orphaned by the Space Pirates.
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', Samus becomes a ParentalSubstitute to an adorable baby Metroid and gradually comes to care for the child as her own. [[spoiler: When [[BigBad Mother Brain]] nearly defeats Samus, the Metroid intervenes to save her, and Mother Brain retaliates by killing the baby. Cue [[MamaBear Samus going on a]] RoaringRampageOfRevenge and utterly ''kicking Mother Brain's ass.'']]
* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''. Every. Single. Game.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'': Robert De Sable defeats Altaïr in combat and thus making him fail his task and lose his rank. Although Altaïr realises he was arrogant and he himself was the main reason for his failure. Still, it's VERY personal.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'': [[spoiler:Templars kill half of Ezio's family]] which gives Ezio motivation for 3/4 of the game.
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'': Yet again, Templars strike against what is valuable to Ezio. [[spoiler: This time it's his uncle Mario, and the whole town you spent the previous game in.]]
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'': This is the first ''Assassin's Creed'' game that doesn't start with this trope. Ezio seeks knowledge and not revenge this time. [[spoiler: Until he hooks up with Sofia]], who the BigBad is eager to exploit. He even realizes he is making things fully personal against one of the most dangerous killers of the world.
*** Same with Altaïr. He is wise enough to not let himself be consumed by anger, but you know Abbas is finished when he [[spoiler: executes Altaïr's youngest son and indirectly kills his wife.]]
** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'': The destruction of Connor's [[spoiler: village]] is what keeps him going.
*** Ironically, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the Templars were trying to ''protect'' the village, having made allies with them before. Since Connor didn't give them directions, George Washington's troops were able to burn the village]]. But by that point, their leader personally wants him, his village, and his town dead anyway.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', when you confront [[MoleInCharge Mercer Frey]] in the ThievesGuild questline, you can claim this as the reason to kill Mercer for him stabbing you, although you can also claim your loyalty to Nocturnal as the reason to go after Mercer.
** In the spin-off DungeonCrawl game ''[[VideoGame/AnElderScrollsLegendBattlespire Battlespire]]'', it's bad enough that [[BigBad Mehrunes Dagon]] has taken over the [[WizardingSchool Battlespire]], but he has also captured [[PlayerCharacter The Apprentice]]'s partner.
** In the spin-off ActionAdventure game ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsAdventuresRedguard Redguard]]'', the protagonist is the Redguard pirate Cyrus. As a pirate, his primary ''modus operandi'' is the [[OnlyInItForTheMoney acquisition of wealth and treasures]]. Despite the rebellion going on in his homeland of Hammerfell, he only returns when his sister goes missing, making it personal. During his quest to rescue her, Cyrus unintentionally becomes the leader of the rebellion, leading them to great success. They would have named him King of the Redguards afterward, [[NotInThisForYourRevolution but he turned them down]].
** In the series' backstory, Pelinal Whitestrake was the legendary 1st Era hero of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Believed to have been a [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical incarnations]] of the spirit of the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "[[IHaveManyNames Shezarr]]"), Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. Pelinal would fly into fits of UnstoppableRage (''mostly'' directed at the Ayleids) during which he [[BloodSplatteredWarrior would be stained with their blood]] and [[PaintTheTownRed left so much carnage in his wake]] that Kyne, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]], would have to [[CueTheRain send in her rain]] to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces. When Huna, a grain slave Pelinal had raised to hoplite, was killed by the arrow of an Ayleid king, Pelinal went [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge so berserk]] that he not only slew the Ayleids in the kingdom responsible, but ''erased their lands from the world''. The [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]] were so disgusted with his actions that they ''nearly left the world'' if not for Alessia making sacrifices to regain their favor.
* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX's'' Auron is the stoic, quiet, [[OlderAndWiser all-knowing]], BadassLongcoat of the group, never losing his cool or raising his voice. He doesn't have to - his reputation and obvious awesomeness compel everyone else to fear and respect him. The one and only time he shows any passion is when he and the heroes confront Yunalesca... [[spoiler:who, when he last saw her, calmly explained how [[SpeakIllOfTheDead his friends' deaths were meaningless]], then killed him]]. Yes, he has a bit of a grudge there.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' carries the {{Tagline}} of "Last time she saved the world. This time it's personal." "She" being the High Summoner Yuna, of course.
* Vent and Aile of ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' lost their mother to a Maverick raid on Area H ten years ago, and the lack of intervention on Slither Inc's part gave them a reason to hate the company. The truth behind it gives them a reason to search for Model W[[spoiler:...and that's to destroy it.]]
** While we are on the subject of Mega Man, this is why Omega-Xis steals the Andromeda Key in the first ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' game. His reason behind stealing the item is so that King Cepheus can't use it to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up any more planets]], like he did to Omega-Xis's home planet.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' is ALL about this, which gets {{lampshaded}} by Max in more than one PrivateEyeMonologue.
* It's a common enough multiplayer game trick to have allies beat all the mooks on the way to some huge big bad monster, but that monster you must defeat alone (so you get to win a quest at a lower level than would be doable alone, get powerful and untradable monster drops, or make a memorable revenge video against some enemy gang). Bonus points if both gangs are into roleplaying enough to stand aside while 2 people duel it out without interference.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft|I}}'', Raynor, Zeratul, Mengsk and Artanis have all sworn revenge against Kerrigan for her general Not-So-Magnificent Bastardry.
** By ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'', Raynor seems to have softened a bit, partially at the guilt he feels about going along with Mengsk so long that he feels complicit in what Kerrigan has become.
** Once the ''Heart of the Swarm'' expansion rolls around, Kerrigan herself has been [[spoiler:partially de-infested and is only now aware of the atrocities she has committed. As such, she now wants personal revenge against Mengsk for delivering her to the Zerg in the first place.]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', Neku starts to distrust Joshua after he finds out that [[spoiler: Joshua shot him]]. At the end of the chapter, Neku goes totally berserk on Sho Minamimoto after it's revealed that [[spoiler: the image Neku discovered was incomplete and Minamimoto shot him instead of Joshua.]] Although, [[spoiler: even THAT image was incomplete. Joshua really did kill him.]] Neku gets another "It's Personal" moment while facing Kitaniji, who [[spoiler:possesses Shiki and the rest of Shibuya.]]
* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From The New World'', Ricardo signs on with Johnny after [[spoiler:his lover, Edna, is given the Kiss of Malice by Lady and turned into a conduit for monsters. He's forced to [[KillTheOnesYouLove kill Edna himself]] to free her, and follows Johnny to make sure the one who turned his beloved into a monster dies.]]
* Reversed in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''. The Last Giant goes ''apeshit'' as soon as he sees you, which can be attributed to the hatred the Giants hold for humanity after they lost their war against Drangleic. But later you access the Memory of the Giants [[spoiler:which really makes you travel to the past during the Giant War and defeat the Giant Lord, winning the war for the humans and leaving the Giant Lord the "last" of his species]].

* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'': [[spoiler:The Mad Hatter trampled your friend the White Rabbit into the ground, causing Alice to break down... and when the Queen of Hearts slaughtered the Cheshire Cat, you knew Alice was going to break her into pieces.]]
* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}'', the player character was going after [[BigBad General Song]] for the One Hundred Million Dollar bounty on his head. In the sequel, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ramon Solano]] hires you to rescue General Carmona, a friend of his. Carmona then launches a coup, and Solano is installed as the President of Venezuela. Rather than pay the merc and let them be on their way, Solano tries to have them executed. People trying to kill them? That's something Jennifer, Chris, and Mattias are used to. Getting screwed out of a paycheck? It's Personal, now.
** You forgot the part where the merc you're controlling got shot in the ass. To quote Chris:
--> ''"Yeah! No one shoots him in the ass and gets away with it!"''

* In ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'' game, you as Aldo Trapani already had a personal stake in attacking the other families as the Don of the Barzinis [[YouKilledMyFather killed your father Johnny]]. After Tattaglia goons abduct and kill [[spoiler: Frankie Malone]], though, you'll definitely have it in for them. The game Hangs a Lampshade by naming this particular mission "Now It's Personal".
* In ''VideoGame/BattalionWars II'', Marshall Nova comes to have this attitude when Ubel takes command and invades his country. To recap: Ubel killed his father, wired the national monument he was buried at to explode, and in general devastated the Tundran Territories in a way unprecedented throughout history. The Alliance of Nations reformed solely to say "AW HELL NAW" to that behavior, because goddamn.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Nabooru is originally Ganondorf's [[TheDragon second-in-command]] as the leader of the Gerudo, but she [[EvenEvilHasStandards despises him for his cruelty to innocents]] and willingness to murder (the Gerudo are a thieving people, but murder crosses a line). When she initially tries to interfere with Ganondorf's plans, his surrogate mothers Twinrova capture and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwash her]] to become a loyal slave. After Link defeats Twinrova, Nabooru awakens as the Sage of Spirit and says that her fight with Ganondorf is now a personal mission.
** The entire reason Link goes out on the Great Sea in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' is because his little sister was kidnapped by the Helmaroc King, a minion of Ganon. Which makes his fight against the bird nearly half-way through the game [[BestBossEver all the more epic]].
** Likewise, Link in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' - Link is motivated through his DungeonCrawling by the chance to find his lifelong friend and ImpliedLoveInterest again after she'd been spirited away from Skyloft, [[spoiler:[[BatmanGambit which is exactly why Hylia had her taken to begin with]]]].
** Link freaks out when Ilia is kidnapped in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''. Later, Midna has to use the chance to rescue Ilia and the other children from Ordon to manipulate Link into helping her.
** Urbosa, the Gerudo Champion in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', thinks that the fact that Calamity Ganon, the EldritchAbomination that has caused so much misery for Hyrule, [[WasOnceAMan originally manifested as a Gerudo man]] is a deep stain upon the honor of her people. It doesn't help that Calamity Ganon successfully killed her and the other Champions during their initial fight. When she returns as a spirit, Urbosa ''laughs'' as she prepares to battle the Calamity, because she can take the fight personally.
** In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'', defeating and sealing away Calamity Ganon is simply a duty -- albeit an important one that is wholeheartedly embraced -- on the part of Zelda. That is, until [[spoiler:[[RobotBuddy Terrako]] is corrupted by Malice and has to be taken down]]. Only then does the Princess of Hyrule personally desire to have Ganon's head on a platter. Her anger increases when [[spoiler:it turns out Terrako was alright... only to immediately pull a HeroicSacrifice in Zelda's stead, using itself as a bomb to weaken Ganon's defenses]].
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'':
** In [[VideoGame/MassEffect1 the first game]], Saren makes it personal for Shepard and the ''Normandy'' crew when [[spoiler:Shepard is forced to leave Ashley or Kaidan behind on Virmire.]]
** In ''Videogame/MassEffect2'', things get personal right from the get-go: the Collectors [[spoiler:attack and destroy the ''Normandy'', kill twenty-one crewmembers, including First Officer Pressley, and '''kill Shepard'''.]] Later on they [[spoiler:attack the ''Normandy'' [=SR-2=] and kidnap the entire crew, save for Joker and the squad members.]] And of course, it gets ''[[UpToEleven even more personal]]'' if Shepard loses squad members during the suicide mission.
** Used word-for-word in Garrus' recruitment mission. The three top mercenary gangs on Omega all want him dead for disrupting their business, but it's personal for the leader of the Eclipse chapter. Why? Garrus killed two of his best operatives, one of whom was [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his brother.]]
** In ''Videogame/MassEffect3'', it's personal from the very beginning when [[spoiler:Earth is attacked]], but even more so when Shepard finally gets to [[spoiler:kill Kai Leng]], who had previously [[spoiler: killed Thane / Kirrahe and / or Miranda.]]
--->'''Shepard:''' That was for [[spoiler:Thane/Kirrahe/Miranda]], you ''son of a bitch!''
** The Reapers themselves, normally very stoic and uncaring for the affairs of the species that they're harvesting, are very specifically targeting Earth... because Shepard [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu has ruined all of their well-laid plans that have worked for eons]].
** PlayedForLaughs in the Citadel DLC, where [[spoiler:Shepard's evil clone]] intends to have Shepard's space hamster destroyed, among other items of value in his/her cabin. S/he is so rattled s/he asks his/her teammates why they're not saying anything, before thinking they don't have the words for it. As opposed to, y'know, questioning Shepard's sanity.
--->'''Shepard:''' They messed with my hamster guys. Now it's personal.
* In the "There's Something in the Sea" AlternateRealityGame for ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}'', Mark Meltzer was devoted to finding out more about the recent kidnappings of six- and seven-year-old girls around the North Atlantic, namely, who, why and where to. He eventually estimated where the next kidnapping was due to be and went there with his family. [[spoiler: His family included a seven-year-old girl. The kidnapper, a Big Sister, obviously recognised Mark as a threat and kidnapped his daughter. He then put his search into finding out where the girls had gone to in full motion after that, until eventually he found where the girls had been taken...Rapture. In the game he is caught by Sofia Lamb, the BigBad who kidnapped the girls in the first place and is made into a Big Daddy for his daughter Cindy (now a Little Sister), something you discover only after [[{{Tearjerker}} you kill Mark]].]]
* The ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' duology has a luggage shuttle of these. Carth going after Saul Karath for the destruction of Carth's homeworld, the death of his wife, and letting his son fall into the hands of the Sith. Juhani and Xor getting into a scrap because Xor killed Juhani's dad, then later tried to buy her as a sex slave (for a T-rated game, they sure got a lot of crap to sail under the radar...). Canderous wanting to kill Jagi for insulting his honor in the first game, then being tricked by Kreia in the second because he needed to find out why [[spoiler: Revan abandoned him]]. In the second game, Bao-Dur also joined the Republic forces and created the horrific Mass Shadow Generator to make the Mandalorians pay for what they did to his homeworld. Atris's hostility towards the Exile has shades of it. You can also state this as a motive for either PC. Strangely, most of these revenge motives get inverted or subverted in some way.
* From the same family, you also get a couple of these in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''. Sky's got a "thing" about slavers...having your five-year-old daughter run through by a group of them would kinda do that. There's also "The Serpent" running the Imperial City arena that Black Whirlwind has an axe to grind with...literally. And it certainly goes there with your PC and [[spoiler: "Master" Sun Li - he killed your people, spent your entire life grooming you as an UnwittingPawn, then ''killed'' you after all]].
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'':
** Ellis is pissed that the ZombieApocalypse made him miss Jimmy Gibbs's appearance at the mall.
--->'''Ellis:''' Aw, shit, we missed him? You know what, that's the last straw. These zombies have just made themselves an enemy.
** Also played for laughs concerning [[CompanionCube Jimmy's car]]:
--->'''Ellis:''' Aw, c'mon Coach, that biker guy seemed nice.\\
'''Coach:''' He's probably stolen the Jimmy Gibbs Jr. by now.\\
'''Ellis:''' He is a dead man.
** Of course, whenever one of the survivors ends up dead, some of the remarks the others make lean more towards this.
--->'''Bill:''' ''[concerning Zoey's death]'' One of those sick sons of bitches just sealed all of their death warrants.
* Supplementary materials reveal that while ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' BigBad Sephiroth had grand ambitions of godhood, it was his very personal hatred of Cloud that gave him the strength to maintain his identity in the Lifestream. Being killed by an unremarkable grunt was apparently too much for Sephiroth's ego.
** Within the actual game, [[TheHero Cloud]] addresses this towards the end of the game--he urges his party to find something important that will make them want to fight, instead of fighting under the more impersonal notion to "protect the Planet."
* CJ's reasoning behind [[spoiler:taking on Big Smoke alone]] at the end of ''Videogame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''.
-->'''CJ:''' [[spoiler:Smoke]] played me. Tenpenny played me.
* This is what motivates Lu Bu's relentless pursuit of [[spoiler:Nezha]] in ''[[VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi Warriors Orochi 3]]''. After soundly thrashing Lu Bu by himself, the Mystic turns and casually [[spoiler:kills Diao Chan right in front of him]].
* Mickey Mouse, of all people, has this briefly in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' when Goofy pushes him out of the way when a Heartless was about to attack him and gets hit instead. And was thought to be dead.

* Invoked by [[BigBad Handsome Jack]] in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}''. He does what he can to stop you from getting in his way and he acts like a total douche about it until [[spoiler: you kill his daughter, Angel (she asked you to kill her so that Jack can't power up the Vault Key)]]. Jack becomes deadly serious after the event and vows to personally kill you after what you did.
** Much of Krieg's motivation to fight Hyperion is because both sides of his personality are [[RoaringRampageOfrevenge ripshit pissed off]] because of the experiments they put him through.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}} 2'', [[GeneralRipper Commander Lockhart]] hates the Nanosuit programme because he lost a nephew to it.
* Done in ''Thor: God of Thunder'', a game set before the events of ''{{Film/Thor}}'' itself. Sif is impaled, after pushing a fellow Asgardian out of danger, and becomes temporarily dead. Although it wasn't planned or caused by a BigBad, her death enrages Thor and causes him to seek vengeance, to the point where Odin worries that "Thor will slaughter and bring holocaust" if he doesn't do anything.
--> '''Odin:''' ''(discussing bringing Sif back to life and interfering with fate)'' If I do not, I fear that Thor will...
--> '''Loki:''' Thor will defy you and wage war against the Jotuns from now until Ragnarok.

* In the comics Bane wants to break the Batman because he's the biggest challenge out there. In the ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'', it first appears that this is the case, while also making him something of a dumb brute. ''Origins'' brings the character more in line with both the comics and ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', and also provides information that he's after Batman for revenge ("the Batman's death will bring him peace"), though revenge for ''what'' isn't stated.

* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsterColiseum'', Yami Yugi is infuriated with Bandit Keith and his cheating ways. The entirety of their battle banter is them trash-talking each other the entire way.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', you can fight Loghain yourself in a DuelBoss during the Landsmeet, or choose one of your companions (except your dog) to act as TheChampion for you. However, picking [[spoiler:Alistair ends with him automatically executing Loghain for being responsible for the deaths of the many Grey Wardens in Ostagar, including his father figure.]]
-->'''Loghain:''' [[spoiler:So, there is some Maric in you after all. Good.]]
-->'''Alistair:''' [[spoiler:Forget Maric, this is for Duncan!]]
** Portrayed rather tragically in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', in which Varric wants revenge on [[spoiler:his brother, Bartrand, who traps Varric, [[PlayerCharacter Hawke]], and their other two companions in the Deep Roads just so he won't have to share profits from their expedition. They eventually find their way out and back home, but Varric is determined to revenge himself on his backstabbing brother; if Hawke's younger sibling dies as a result of Bartrand's betrayal (and particularly if it's Bethany, to whom Varric is very attached), his anger is that much more evident.]] He finally gets his chance during the second act of the game... [[spoiler:only to find his VengeanceDenied by the fact that Bartrand has gone completely insane, and the revenge killing is more like putting down a rabid animal.]]
** Parodied in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''. The player can ask TheBartender about current events. One of the things he might say in reply is this:
-->'''Cabot:''' Thieves made off with our stores of cookie dough. Now it's personal.

* In ''VideoGame/TelltalesGameOfThrones'', Gared Tuttle returns from The Twins to find that [[spoiler:his father and sister have been murdered by Britt Warrick and his men.]] Needless to say, when they meet again it is very personal indeed.
** Another example of this is Rodrik or Asher's potential revenge on [[spoiler:Gryff Whitehill, as he killed either Rodrik or Asher in the previous episode]].
* It pops up at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}''. [[spoiler:So you've kept your end of the DealWithTheDevil and shown up with all the contracts as agreed. [[TheDragon King Dice]] is thrilled and has no reason to not take you straight to the big guy himself... except he apparently bet that you would fail, and he doesn't exactly take losing bets well. Cue NightmareFace and one of the hardest battles in the game ([[NintendoHard and that's saying a LOT]]).]]
--> '''[[spoiler:King Dice:]]''' Well, lookie here! You actually pulled it off... but you've made me lose a bet!! And for that, you ain't seeing the boss just yet. We're gonna play a little game first!
* In ''VideoGame/FableI: The Lost Chapters'', the BigBad Jack of Blades tells the [[PlayerCharacter Hero of Oakvale]] that they have a personal enmity because the Hero has destroyed Jack's prized ArtifactOfDoom. Rather rich, given that Jack has murdered both the Hero's parents and mutilated the Hero's sister by that point in the game.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''’s late game ''Who Will Die'' arc does exactly what it sounds like and gives us a villain who succeeds in killing not one but two signature heroes of the game, to use their powers as catalysts to become a god and destroy the world. Now, unchecked cosmic god set on destroying the world was probably going to earn the attentions of the heroes and villains who live on that planet regardless, but the baddie that did it made the phenomenal mistake of killing the wife of one of the more [[KnightTemplar radical heroes]] and the [[FoeRomanceSubtext hate-interest]] of the game’s BigBad. The loose cannon hero flies into a murderous rage, while the Big Bad proceeds to launch a nuke at the bastard, and then fly over to him and beat the crap out of him with the player. This is to say nothing of the player character’s reaction to see two beloved icons of the game killed for good.
* All six playable heroes in ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'' have quite a bone to pick with their respective villains even though all three were just [[TheDragon the dragons]] to their respective {{Big Bad}}s.
** It was bad enough that the Crimson Wizard would injure Duran's fellow soldiers, but the latter's pride was wounded when he lost to the wizard himself. The wizard also developed the nerve to insult the Hero King, Richard, in front of him, no less, and all that is what motivates Duran to set out to become strong enough to defeat the Crimson Wizard as revenge.
** Angela's mother, Valda the True Queen of Altena, was brainwashed by the Crimson Wizard into wanting her own daughter sacrificed, which forced Angela to flee and got her branded not only as a traitor to her own kingdom but also as a wanted criminal with a heavy price on her head. After getting the Sword of Mana, the wizard kidnaps the Queen intending to use her as a sacrifice to the reborn Dragon Lord. Understandably, both Angela and the Crimson Wizard soon come to fatal blows with her refusing to forgive him for all that he's done up to that point.
** Kevin was forced to fight and put Karl down the moment the latter was turned into a monster that couldn't be reasoned with no matter how hard he tried, which led him to be forced to awaken his werewolf powers as the beastman he was. It turns out that it was Goremand who used an illusion spell to make Karl that way and that Gauser had him do it so that it could invoke his transformation. When Goremand tricks Kevin by lying to him that the Priest of Light could bring him back from the dead and the latter finds out the hard way, he only comes to hate the former even more.
** While she's more focused on saving Heath than anything else, Charlotte also hates Goremand for kidnapping him in front of her and would never disdain an opportunity to smack him around as revenge.
** Hawkeye has hated Belladonna ever since she turned Nevarl from a noble guild of honorable thieves and raiders into a warmongering kingdom bent on conquering the world, murdered Eagle in front of his eyes and framed him for that murder, and placed a curse on Jessica that would kill her should he reveal the truth to anyone. Since escaping Nevarl, he's been looking to find a way to remove that curse and get revenge on Belladonna for the crimes she committed against him and his beloved guild.
** Riesz understandably swears to make Belladonna pay as well for the crimes she committed against her beloved kingdom of Laurent, such as the ruinous conquest she launched against it, the kidnapping of her brother Elliot, and her atrocity of arranging for the assassination of her father King Joster. When the time comes for their final confrontation in her story, she angrily reminds her of the role she played in her beloved father's death.
* In ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'', Hat Kid is basically strong-armed into joining the Nyakuza by The Empress. [[spoiler:The moment you attempt to take back your Time Pieces from The Empress without her knowing, she spots you as you walk out and considers this a serious betrayal of her kindness up to this point (not to mention she feels she is deserving of the Time Pieces by default), and rather than just kill you right then and there, she decides to terrify you by sicking her minions after you with a 1 million (and then 2 million) bounty while firing a rocket launcher at you. She still almost gets you when you run to the escape elevator... only for her to be inside. If it weren't for the cops that got on the elevator, she likely would have gotten away with the whole thing in an unnecessary elaborate revenge plan.]]
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' and ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'':
** Averted in ''I'' in regards to John and his former gang members. John makes it clear that he takes no enjoyment hunting down Bill, Javier and Dutch, only doing so because the government is holding his wife and son hostage. He even tells Javier that much when he captures him.
*** Played straight in ''II'' when John develops this towards [[spoiler: Micah to avenge Arthur.]]
** Luisa in ''I'' was always dedicated in overthrowing Allende but she becomes even more determined after he ordered his men to kill her father.
** The feud between Dutch and Colm O'Driscoll is an odd one. For Colm, he did not appear to take it personally when Dutch kills his brother. However, when Colm kills Dutch's lover Annabelle, it wasn't done out of spite but because Colm is a sadist. On Dutch's end, it's incredibly personal but for Colm, it's not an emotional one.
** Sadie is out for any O'Driscoll as they murdered her husband and brutalized her. Later on, similar to John, she goes after [[spoiler: Micah - both for his betrayal of the gang and for Arthur.]]
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' uses this from time to time, both involving grudges from the original lore the game draws from and unique clashes in the game.
** The First Singularity, Orleans, is personal for Jeanne because the villain is an EvilKnockoff of her, and it's causing her some existential worry.
** Gilgamesh and Ishtar still harbor their very personal grudges against each other from ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'', with Enkidu involved on Gil's side. That being said, they're forced into situations where they have to work together, so they have to put things on the back burner.
** Also in the Babylonia singularity, [[spoiler:Kingu]] takes [[spoiler:the protagonists killing Gorgon]] personally because he had grown fond of her, despite [[spoiler:her death being a necessary part of the plan to awaken Tiamat]].
*** Babylonia also contains an ''aversion'' of the trope toward the end, where Gilgamesh explains that, despite all of the destruction she has caused, he and the rest of Uruk don't hate [[spoiler:Tiamat]] and that their fight is purely out of self-defense.
** The Final Singularity, Solomon, reveals that [[spoiler:Goetia]] feels this way toward [[spoiler:his creator, Solomon]] for doing nothing to correct what he saw were the flaws in humanity.
** One half of the BigBadDuumvirate in Shinjuku, [[spoiler:Demon God Bael]], is acting based primarily out of hatred toward the protagonist for [[spoiler:defeating Goetia in the Final Singularity]].
** In the third Lostbelt, SIN, all poor Akuta [[spoiler:(actually [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Yu Mei-ren]])]] wanted was to be with [[spoiler:her beloved husband, Xiang Yu, even if this version is not the same one she recalls from Proper Human History. So, when Xiang Yu dies in battle with the protagonists before her very eyes, she goes [[FreakOut absolutely apeshit]], wanting them to pay so badly that she fuses herself with her Lostbelt's Tree of Emptiness. It takes the Lostbelt King, Qin Shi Huang, [[HeelFaceTurn joining forces with the protagonists]] to stop her, and Qin only manages to get her to stop by convincing her that she could be reunited with him through use of the Throne of Heroes. Only then does she relent and allow herself to enter the Throne, clinging to that slim hope. However, she's still unhappy with the protagonist, as can be seen in her lines after being summoned (though as you raise her bond level that becomes [[{{Tsundere}} more of a front]] than anything).]]
** The fourth Lostbelt, located in India, was originally a beautiful and peaceful place, and a world that its Crypter, Scandinavia Peperoncino, fell in love with immediately. However, by the time the protagonists reach it, it's been transformed into a living hell [[spoiler:because Ashiya Douman, one of the servants of the BigBad of the overall plot, [[TheCorrupter goaded its god into speeding up the cycle of destruction and rebirth]] to the point that humanity was trapped in an endless cycle of fear and loss. This leads to Pepe developing a grudge toward Douman that persists even after his Lostbelt has been destroyed, and in the next Lostbelt he personally sees to it that Douman pays for his actions in India.]]

** Urbosa, the Gerudo Champion in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', thinks that the fact that Calamity Ganon, the EldritchAbomination that has caused so much misery for Hyrule, [[WasOnceAMan originally manifested as a Gerudo man]] is a deep stain upon the honor of her people.

** Frog initially joins Crono’s crew so that he can wreak vengeance on Magus, a dark sorcerer who [[spoiler: killed his best friend and cursed him to look like a frog.]] He remains on the team to prevent Lavos from destroying the world.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'', Seliph, Leif, Ares, and Tine all have antagonists they have very personal issues with, [[YouKilledMyFather all for similar reasons]]. Ares's case is a bit more complicated, though, as he blames his father's death on Seliph's father and plans to exact vengeance via SinsOfOurFathers. It also gets derailed quickly. The other three are all given chances to seek vengeance, and in Seliph's case, it slides straight into GameplayAndStoryIntegration.[[note]]Arvis's [[KillItWithFire Valflame]] hits ''incredibly'' hard so that most playable units can't take two hits without dying. Seliph's InfinityPlusOneSword gives him a hefty Resistance buff, which enables him to go toe-to-toe with him without getting roasted. Additionally, dealing the killing blow with Seliph enables a secret cutscene that nets him a Renewal Ring.[[/note]]

*** In three of the four routes, Rhea takes it ''very'' badly when the Flame Emperor is revealed to be [[spoiler:Edelgard, princess of the Adrestian Empire. This is because Rhea [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld actually was Seiros herself]], and was good personal friends with Wilhelm von Hresvelg, the first Adrestian emperor and Edelgard's direct ancestor. To have a descendent of Hresvelg turn her blade on Rhea is something she sees as tantamount to betrayal.]] [[UpToEleven It's even worse on Crimson Flower]], because immediately after, [[spoiler:the PlayerCharacter ALSO turns on Rhea to protect Edelgard. Not only had Rhea given the protagonist preferential treatment since their arrival at the monastery, but they also contained within their body [[SoulJar a Crest Stone containing the soul of Sothis,]] the progenitor god and Rhea's mother. This causes Rhea to undergo a ''massive'' FreakOut, setting her up to be the BigBad of the route as she progresses further and further into insanity.]]
*** The fourth route highlights Rhea's reaction significantly less to the Flame Emperor's unmasking because Dimitri makes up for it in ''spades''. He's convinced that the Flame Emperor was involved in an atrocity from his DarkAndTroubledPast, and he completely and utterly ''snaps'' in ''spectacular fashion'' when he sees they're [[spoiler:his FirstLove and later his stepsister, yelling that he'll rip off her head and hang it on the gates of Enbarr, the Imperial capital. During the TimeSkip, [[ThePowerOfHate his obsessive desire for revenge on Edelgard is practially all that keeps him going]] until his reunion with the protagonist. The Azure Moon route involves getting Dimitri to [[CharacterDevelopment develop]] out of this mental state, but the war remains personal for him and Edelgard, whether they want it to or not. Edelgard even reciprocates the personal nature in this route, as she goes further for the sake of victory here than she does in any other route by going OneWingedAngel for her LastStand]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'', Samus hunts the SpacePirates not only because it's her job, but because they attacked the colony where she lived massacred everyone there, with their commander, [[ArchEnemy Ridley]], [[MoralEventHorizon killing her mother before her very eyes, and later eating her corpse]]. Samus was '''three'''.

** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'': Robert De Sable defeats Altaïr in combat and thus making him fail his task and loose his his rank. Although Altaïr realises he was arrogant and he himself was main reason for his failure. Still, it's VERY personal.

*** Ironically, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the Templars were trying to ''protect'' the village, having made allies with them before. Since Connor didn't give them directions, George Washington's troops were able to burn the village]]. But by that point their leader personally wants him, his village, and his town dead anyway.

* ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX's'' Auron is the stoic, quiet, [[OlderAndWiser all-knowing]], BadassLongcoat of the group, never losing his cool or raising his voice. He doesn't have to - his reputation and obvious awesomeness compels everyone else to fear and respect him. The one and only time we see any passion from him is when he and the heroes confront Yunalesca... [[spoiler:who, when he last saw her, calmly explained how his friends' deaths were meaningless, then killed him]]. Yes, he has a bit of a grudge there.

** While we are on the subject of Mega Man, this is why Omega-Xis steals the Andromeda Key in the first ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' game. His reason behind stealing the item is so that King Cepheus can't use it to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up anymore planets]], like he did to Omega-Xis's home planet.

* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From The New World'', Ricardo signs on with Johnny after [[spoiler:his lover, Edna, is given the Kiss of Malice by Lady and turned into a conduit for monsters. He's forced to kill Edna himself to free her, and follows Johnny to make sure the one who turned his beloved into a monster dies.]]
* Reversed in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''. The Last Giant goes ''apeshit'' as soon as he sees you, which can be attribued to the hatred the Giants hold for humanity after they lost their war against Drangleic. But later you access the Memory of the Giants [[spoiler:which really makes you travel to the past during the Giant War and defeat the Giant Lord, winning the war for the humans and leaving the Giant Lord the "last" of his species]].

** It is then played straight with Snake whose mission had always been to kill Volgin but after the torture he went through by his hand Snake becomes motivated to get a little payback which he succeeds in doing by humiliating Volgin in hand to hand combat. Then after a long battle with Volgin in the Shagohad Snake witnesses Volgin have a villainous breakdown over how Snake has ruined his plans and dies a karmic death by lightning before he can attack Snake again.

* The ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' duology have a luggage shuttle of these. Carth going after Saul Karath for the destruction of Carth's homeworld, the death of his wife, and letting his son fall into the hands of the Sith. Juhani and Xor getting into a scrap because Xor killed Juhani's dad, then later tried to buy her as a sex slave (for a T-rated game, they sure got a lot of crap to sail under the radar...). Canderous wanting to kill Jagi for insulting his honor in the first game, then being tricked by Kreia in the second because he needed to find out why [[spoiler: Revan abandoned him]]. In the second game, Bao-Dur also joined the Republic forces and created the horrific Mass Shadow Generator to make the Mandalorians pay for what they did to his homeworld. Atris's hostility towards the Exile has shades of it. You can also state this as a motive for either PC. Strangely, most of these revenge motives get inverted or subverted in some way.

** Much of of Krieg's motivation to fight Hyperion is because both sides of his personality are [[RoaringRampageOfrevenge ripshit pissed off]] because of the experiments they put him through.

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', you can fight Loghain yourself in a DuelBoss during the Landsmeet, or choose one of your companions (except your dog) to act as TheChampion for you. However, picking [[spoiler:Alistair ends with him automatically executing Loghain for being responsible of the deaths of the many Grey Wardens in Ostagar, including his father figure.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/XenoBlade Xenoblade]]'': Dear, ''God.'' Let's get counting:

** Dunban is more calm than the others, but the party repeatedly assumes he must hate the Mechon the most out of them all. [[spoiler: Not surprising, considering what they did to his sister.]] Then when the first big [[TheReveal reveal]] comes along, [[spoiler: and Dunban finds out ''who'' Metal Face is, that he didn't die in the battle of Sword Valley, and that he ravaged Colony 9 for the lulz, Dunban shows ''how much'' hate he has against Mumkhar and tries to kill him then and there. Luckily, Shulk stops him.]]

* It pops up in the end of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}''. [[spoiler:So you've kept your end of the DealWithTheDevil and shown up with all the contracts as agreed. [[TheDragon King Dice]] is thrilled and has no reason to not take you straight to the big guy himself... except he apparently bet that you would fail, and he doesn't exactly take losing bets well. Cue NightmareFace and one of the hardest battles in the game ([[NintendoHard and that's saying a LOT]]).]]

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''’s late game ''Who Will Die'' arc does exactly what it sounds like and gives us a villain who succeeds in killing not one but two signature heroes of the game, to use their powers as catalysts to become a god and destroy the world. Now, unchecked cosmic god set on destroying the world was probably going to earn the attentions of the heroes and villains who live on that planet regardless, but the baddie that did it made the phenomenal mistake of killing the wife of one of the more [[KnightTemplar radical heroes]] and the [[FoeRomanceSubtext hate-interest]] of the game’s BigBad. The loose canon hero flies into a murderous rage, while the Big Bad proceeds to launch a nuke at the bastard, and then fly over to him and beat the crap out of him with the player. This is to say nothing of the player character’s reaction to see two beloved icons of the game killed for good.

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', Chrom has his fair share of issues with Plegia and its king Gangrel, but [[spoiler:when his elder sister and Yllise's ruler Emmeryn dies in a HeroicSacrifice to try and end the war between Plegia and Yllise, Chrom decides the time for diplomacy is over and commits to full-scale war with Plegia and Gangrel.]]

** [[spoiler:Masayoshi Shido]] personally screwed over Futaba, Haru, and the Protagonist, had TheConspiracy mess with Sae on the job so much that [[spoiler:she became disillusioned enough to have her own Palace]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking had his aide push Ryuji out of the way so he could steal Ryuji's elevator ride]]. Pretty much only Ann and Yusuke have no real beef with the guy. And let's not even talk about how he's also practically responsible for everything that went wrong with [[spoiler:Goro's life.]]

* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' has a vendetta against the demons for destroying his homeworld, killing and=/=or corrupting his comrades and [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} killing his pet bunny]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'' and ''[[VideoGameRemake Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]'', the fight with Greith is this for Catria, Palla, and Atlas, since he'd kidnapped their younger sibling(s). While there's no special dialogue for it, it's still incredibly satisfying to let any of them deliver the killing blow.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', if the player sends Nino, Jaffar, or Renault against Nergal, the fight will be this for them. Nino because [[spoiler:Nergal ordered Sonia to kill her birth family]], Jaffar because Nergal is responsible for raising him into a remorseless killer, and Renault because [[spoiler:Nergal turned his [[CameBackWrong dead friend]] into an EmptyShell]].
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'', fighting the Demon King is very personal for Ephraim and Eirika, since Fomortiis is responsible for [[spoiler:[[DemonicPossession eating their best friend's soul]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'', the game is ostensibly about saving a princess and freeing a country, but to Ike, it's also a story of revenge against the Black Knight, who's serving Daein. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', vengeance has taken more of a back seat, though it's still there and has been tempered to a TranquilFury.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', Chrom has his fair share of issues with Plegia and its king Gangrel, but [[spoiler:when his elder sister and Yllise's ruler Emmeryn dies in a HeroicSacrifice to try and end the war between Plegia and Yllise, Chrom decides the time for diplomacy is over and commits to full-scale war with Plegia and Gangrel.]]
* There are a few cases of this in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' as well.
** Letting Corrin fight Hans in ''Birthright'', since he'd [[spoiler:killed Lilith]] just a few minutes prior.
** Also in ''Birthright'', letting Takumi fight Iago is some much-deserved penance, because [[spoiler:Iago had been using Takumi as an [[UnwittingPawn inadvertent spy]] against the Hoshidan army]].
** Having Corrin fight Garon in either ''Birthright'' or ''Conquest'' counts, albeit for slightly different reasons depending on the route, and slightly more so in ''Birthright''. [[spoiler:In ''Birthright'', Corrin is fighting the man who kidnapped and then neglected them for their entire life. In ''Conquest'', they're more getting revenge on the [[DemonicPossession evil entity]] who made Garon do that to them.]]