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* Many role playing games have rules that if your character has an enemy at character generation, there is a cost to lose the flaw and simply killing your enemy without paying the cost will result in someone taking his place in this manner.

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* Parodied and Deconstructed in ''NoMoreHeroes Desperate Struggle'', the villains that are being avenged were either nameless {{NPC}}s or so incredibly incidental they got killed in the ''trailer'' for the first game.

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* The set-up for ''HowIKilledYourMaster''

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* Can happen in ComicFuryWerewolf when the Werewolves kill someone who led a lynch on one of their own.

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** Said target revenge is want to destroy [[spoiler:Konoha]] blaming them for the deaths of [[spoiler:his family]]

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Related to YouKilledMyFather, OverlordJr, CycleOfRevenge and some cases of DragonTheirFeet.

* ''{{Ultima}} II'' and ''III'' are built around this. In ''The Revenge of the Enchantress'', the current BigBad is a disciple and lover of the BigBad from the first game. In ''Exodus'', the titular BigBad is a child of ''both'' {{Big Bad}}s from the previous two games. Then, the fifth game has as BigBad the remnants of the immortality device of the first bad guy (the Shadowlords), the sixth has the protectors of the artifact you recovered in the fourth (the gargoyles - [[spoiler:although this turns out to be a subversion]]), the seven-and-a-halfth game has the Dragon (Batlin) of the BigBad of the seventh game (the Guardian) as the main antagonist, the Dragon of the third game (literally - the Great Earth Serpent) as your ally, as well as some people from the first game as enemies ''because of'' what you did in the fourth game; and the ninth game has the Dragon from the fifth (Blackthorne) returning as Dragon to the BigBad of the seventh game. Confused much? Then there's the spinoff series ''Worlds of Ultima'', the second of which contain the aforementioned Shadowlords as kind-of lackeys, but as an aversion also has the Evil Scientist (Spector/Zipactriotl) of the first spin-off as your ally.

Sometimes it works in reverse.

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** This was true of more peoples than just the Vikings. The Japanese, the Arabs, many Native American cultures, the Celts, several African peoples... it'd be easier to think of a culture that ''didn't'' accept and venerate the idea of blood vengeance.

* This is [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation another way]] of looking at the [[TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West.]] If somebody smashed your sister with a house, wouldn't ''you'' want to kill them [[AndYourLittleDogToo and their little dog too?]]

** This is also how you'll get to fight another General, [[spoiler: Salishuan the Spy]] : if you manage to kill [[spoiler: [[BigBad leader of Valpha-Valaharian]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Wolfgario the Ravager]] in his unmasked version]], that General, who happens to be [[spoiler: his daughter Raizze Haimer (one of the winnable girls in the cast)]], will challenge you and try to avenge [[spoiler: her father]]. In a very emotional [[SubvertedTrope variation]] of this trope, [[spoiler: [[ThePowerOfLove How much she's in love with you]] will determine if she'll survive this battle [[LostForever or not]]]].

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->''This isn't...[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Scorpio]]...Avenge me!''
-->-- '''[[SmugSnake Andre]]''' 's LastWords in ''FireEmblem'' ''[[FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy of the Holy War]]''

->''I have to kill you, you,'' ''[[YouKilledMyFather the enemy of my father.]]'' ''...But why ? [[LoveHurts Why did you have to be an enemy ?]] [...] I am... I am one of the Eight Generals... Blood must be paid with blood...'' ''[[TearJerker So come on... Draw your sword...]]''
-->-- '''[[spoiler: Salishuan the Spy]]''' alias '''[[spoiler: Raizze Haimer]]''', ''MitsumeteKnight''

Related to YouKilledMyFather, OverlordJr and CycleOfRevenge.

* In Mokuba's first appearance in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', he had his classmates kidnap Yuugi so he could challenge him to a duel, cheat, win, and avenge his brother's loss in Duel Monsters. This was also the premise of the ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh R}}'' manga, where Pegasus' adopted son/protege sought revenge against Yugi.

** This is also how you'll get to fight another General, [[spoiler: Salishuan the Spy]] : if you manage to kill [[spoiler: leader of Valpha-Valaharian Wolfgario the Ravager in his unmasked version]], that General, who happens to be [[spoiler: his daughter Raizze Haimer (one of the winnable girls in the cast)]], will challenge you and try to avenge [[spoiler: her father]]. In a very emotional [[SubvertedTrope variation]] of this trope, [[spoiler: [[ThePowerOfLove How much she's in love with you]] will determine if she'll survive this battle [[LostForever or not]]]].

-->-- [[SmugSnake Andre]]'s LastWords in ''FireEmblem'' [[FireEmblemJugdral Genealogy of the Holy war]].

** This is also how you'll get to fight [[spoiler: the last General, Salishuan the Spy : if you manage to kill leader of Valpha-Valaharian Wolfgario the Ravager in his unmasked version, Salishuan, who happens to be his daughter Raizze Haimer (one of the winnable girls in the cast), will challenge you and try to avenge her father. [[ThePowerOfLove How much she's in love with you]] will determine if she'll survive this battle [[LostForever or not]]]].

-->-- [[SmugSnake Andre]]'s LastWords in ''FireEmblem'' Genealogy of the Holy war.

->''If an enemy I have just killed has a younger sibling or offspring anywhere, I will find them and have them killed immediately, instead of waiting for them to grow up harboring feelings of vengeance towards me in my old age.''
-->--Rule #38 on the EvilOverlordList.

* Part of the Viking people's code of honour was that if a family member is killed, you should avenge him, even if the killing was sorely provoked. There were exceptions to this, but not many. Troublemakers could be a serious problem for their more sensible relatives because of this.
** This was true of more peoples than just the Vikings. The Japanese, the Arabs, many Native American cultures, the Celts, several African peoples... it'd be easier to think of a cukture that didn't accept and venerate the idea of blood vengeance.