History Main / MurderIntoMalevolence

** The {{kitsune}} Tamamo-no-Mae became an ''onryō'' called Hoji after she was slain by Kazusa-no-suke and Miura-no-suke, manifesting a cursed stone called the Sesshoseki that killed anyone who touched it.

* In Creator/JunjiIto's story ''[[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6527013.html#cutid1 The Seashore]]'', a group of schoolchildren tragically drowned [[spoiler:and seem to be spending their afterlife luring in new people to drown for the sake of killing them]].

* The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfic ''WebComic/SpringTrapped'' [[JustifiedTrope justifies it]]. Being undead causes major SanitySlippage (in the words of Springtrap himself, "turns out being undead makes you really pissed off") and drives the [[HauntedTechnology haunted animatronics]] to kill, even though their possessing spirits weren't like that in life.

* Downplayed with Charlie as of ''Videogame/StreetFighterV''. Back in ''Videogame/StreetFighterAlpha'', he was murdered by getting shoved off his helicopter by one of his fellow Air Force comrades... who turned out to be a disguised Shadaloo member. Then Urien and Helen, members of Illuminati, brought him back to life (albeit LivingOnBorrowedTime) with a single mission: to stop M. Bison, leader of Shadaloo. Charlie, who's filled with rage and grudge due to what happened to him, simply obliges; he also becomes a cold and dead serious guy who won't hesitate in killing people if they hinder him and has nothing good to say for his old friend Guile. Despite all that, however, he's still one of the good guys and later come to the realization that he can't do all this alone.

* ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Most of the ghosts the player encounters are generic mooks with no individual backstory (though it is implied that all of them have one), though specific sidequests often involves finding out what sort of spirit it is and how it ended up in its current situation, giving them more characterisation. All of them tend to be hostile to everyone they encounter, though, rather than focussing their rage on the people who wronged them.

* Most of the spirits in ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'' and its sequel ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'' were all good people in life - or at least had good intentions, in the case of Kubitarou. However, their painful and grisly deaths caused them to be brought back as murderous spirits with a grudge against humans.

* Jason Todd from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' is always a troubled, aggressive child, but he stands by Batman's ThouShaltNotKill code and fights by his side as Robin[[note]]Notable that before this trope kicked in, Batman had his costume enshrined with the placard "A Good Soldier"[[/note]]. Then the Joker kidnaps and brutally murders him during ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', and years after that, the events of ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' cause him to return to life.[[note]]While it was reality warping that did it technically, in 'real life' his corpse was taken and placed in a Lazarus Pit.[[/note]] Jason then adopts the Joker's original identity, Red Hood, and attempts to take over organized crime in Gotham in a ploy to kill Batman's RoguesGallery while getting the Caped Crusader to finally kill a man, by any means necessary. Unlike most examples, he eventually manages to take a few steps back from the brink, though he remains the most radical and prone to trouble of the Robins.

It's an old saw: someone is killed, often in an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely cruel or vicious way]], but they don't stay dead. Unfortunately, they don't stay themselves either. The actions that led to their demise have completely consumed them; all they want is to lash out at anyone they can, no matter how much or how little the person had to do with their demise. In a deeply tragic sense, they have suffered an even deeper, more final victimization; the murderer's deeds have corrupted them into something else. Sometimes you can reason with these poor — albeit dangerous — souls; sometimes they're just seeking revenge but striking out blindly… but sometimes they just want to keep inflicting pain. MaddenIntoMisanthropy has gone to its final, logical extreme: the person persists despite being dead, and all the entity wishes to do now is evil.

->''"When someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage... a curse is born. The curse gathers in that place of death. Those who encounter it will be consumed by its fury."''

It's an old saw: someone is killed, often in an [[CruelAndUnusualDeath extremely cruel or vicious way]], but they don't stay dead. Unfortunately, they don't stay themselves either. The actions that led to their demise have completely consumed them; all they want is to lash out at anyone they can, no matter how much or how little the person had to do with their demise. In a deeply tragic sense, they have suffered an even deeper, more final victimization; the murderer's deeds have corrupted them into something else. Sometimes you can reason with these poor -- albeit dangerous -- souls; sometimes they're just seeking revenge but striking out blindly... but sometimes they just want to keep inflicting pain. MaddenIntoMisanthropy has gone to its final, logical extreme: the person persists despite being dead, and all the entity wishes to do now is evil.

Compare with the VengefulGhost which is a subtrope of and the vengeful variant of the RevenantZombie: although they might be monstrous, they focus their anger on their killers. Those entities overlap with this trope if they aren't satisfied with avenging themselves on their killers, but also target innocent victims.

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': A basic part of Slashers. While they are rarely kind and are often at least somewhat unstable, it takes being murdered for many to come back as {{Revenant Zombie}}s with a bent toward a SerialKiller. [[spoiler:This is an oversimplification. Instead, it’s the [[VillainousLineage Black Ambrosia residue in their bloodline]] that brings them back, and [[PsychoSerum turns them toward being more malicious than most people in the first place]].]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'': The Woman in White was a beautiful woman who fell in love with a much wealthier upper-class man and started a family with him. However, he wanted to marry wealthier women so he drove her to commit suicide to get rid of her. At first, she only killed people who cheated on their loved ones. When her children are murdered, she starts killing anyone that crosses her path.

* The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfic ''WebComic/SpringTrapped'' [[JustifiedTrope justifies it]]. Being undead causes major SanitySlippage (in the words of Springtrap himself, "turns out being undead makes you really pissed off") and drives the [[HauntedTechnology haunted animatronics]] to kill, even though their possessing spirits weren’t like that in life.

* In ''Film/DarknessFalls'', Matilda Dixon was a kindly widow who gave the children of her town gifts in exchange for their teeth. However, the fact she wore a mask and only came out at night (due to suffering severe burns somehow that left her sensitive to light) made the adults suspicious, and when two children disappeared, they blamed her and promptly lynched her... before the kids returned on their own, unharmed. As she died, Matilda swore vengeance, and afterwards haunts the town of Darkness Falls as a murderous ghost, killing anyone who sees her, seemingly at whim.

* In both ''Film/{{Juon}}'' and its western remake ''Film/TheGrudge'', Kayako Saeki is an innocent woman with NoSocialSkills, who is [[Main/PaterFamilicide killed alongside her son]] by her jealous husband and returns as a [[StringyHairedGhostGirl vengeful ghost]]. One of her first victims is her murderer, but she'll gladly kill absolutely anybody over as little as merely stepping into her house. You even don't have to live there - most victims in fact didn't.

-->'''Gollum:''' Don't follow the lights. Careful now, or hobbits go down to join the dead ones... and light little candles of their own!

* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'', Imhotep is a fairly shady character in life -- murdering his liege lord [[LoveMakesYouEvil for the sake of his lover]], who is strongly hinted not to have had a choice in her relationship with said lord -- but then gets ThePunishment of a terrible curse that makes him [[AndIMustScream suffer for eternity]] in undeath. When his sarcophagus is disturbed, he rises from the grave with horrific powers and a ''long'' list of grievances against the world.
* In ''Film/{{Necronomicon}}'' "The Cold" segment features a journalist being told the story of a young woman named Emily fleeing an abusive home by her daughter. It's revealed that the "daughter" is actually [[spoiler:Emily]], resurrected in the same way as Dr. Madden after being fatally shot by a rival for his affections. She's been coldly (no pun intended) killing people for their spinal fluid in order to [[spoiler:[[SomeoneToRememberHimBy still feel Madden's baby kicking inside her]]]].

* This happens to [[spoiler:Chet]] in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory1984''. He was drowned by Margaret in the series proper, and upon his rebirth as a ghost who is doomed to suck in water when he gasps for air, he wants nothing more than [[spoiler: Margaret]] dead.

* The main gimmick of [[spoiler: Tainted Jacob]] in the latest expansion of [[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac]]. After 30 seconds of starting the level, the ghost of [[spoiler: His brother, Esau]] comes out of Hell and starts chasing him. This means that you have to constantly evade him while fighting across the level. However, the ghost is also perfecly able to damage or kill any enemy that stands between you and him.

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A theory that crops up often in paranormal studies and theories is that actions and emotions leave a sort of "residue" on locations. This concept is usually used to explain why a place is haunted, suffering from poltergeists, and whatnot: [[EvilTaintedThePlace bad things have "stained" the place]]. And sometimes, it seems, bad things stain souls as well.

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* Creator/JunjiIto's story ''[[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/6527013.html#cutid1 The Seashore]]'' has this. A group of schoolchildren tragically drowned [[spoiler: and seem to be spending their afterlife luring in new people to drown for the sake of killing them.]]

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': A basic part of Slashers. While they are rarely kind and are often at least somewhat unstable, it takes being murdered for many to come back as {{Revenant Zombie}}s with a bent toward a SerialKiller. [[spoiler:This is an oversimplification. Instead, it’s the [[InTheBlood Black Ambrosia residue in their bloodline]] that brings them back, and [[PsychoSerum turns them toward being more malicious than most people in the first place]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Intertitle from the first ''Film/{{Juon}}'' film explaining the eponymous curse.[[labelnote:translation]]A curse of those who died holding a strong grudge. It accumulates in the place where they lived. Anyone who comes in contact with this curse dies and a new curse is born.[[/labelnote]]]]

* ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'':
** One quest takes the protagonist Geralt to a cursed and haunted island, where he finds the ghost of a young woman pleading to help her spirit leave the island. It turns out that she's a nobleman's daughter and, during a peasant uprising, her entire family was slaughtered and the invaders had planned to rape and murder her. [[spoiler:Instead, she drank a sleeping potion which [[PlayingPossum put her in a death-like state that fooled everyone]]... including her boyfriend, who ran away and wished that everyone would die. Eventually, everyone DID die and she was stuck in her fake death, unable to move as the rats in the tower ate her warm body alive. The combination of the boyfriend's curses, her CruelAndUnusualDeath, and the plague the rats carried (which is a long story in itself) turned the young woman's spirit into a Petra--a Plague Maiden that cursed the entire island.]]
** A Baron and his wife were in an unhappy marriage [[spoiler:where he beat her constantly and she found herself pregnant with a child she didn't want. The wife was eventually visited by three evil witch spirits who offered to get rid of the unborn child if the wife agreed to serve them for a year. She agreed, and not long afterward, her husband beat her so badly that she miscarried. The wife and her other daughter decided to escape from the Baron that night and left the dead fetus on the bed. The Baron found his dead child and, in his grief, buried it in an unmarked grave without giving it a name]]. The dead child transformed into a Botchling -- a malevolent and murderous spirit created from babies that died unwanted or unloved.

->''"When someone dies in the grip of a powerful rage... a curse is born. The curse gathers in that place of death. Those who encounter it will be consumed by its fury. "''

* [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1337 SCP-1337]] was initially just a harmless [[BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts Hitchhiking Ghost]]... until a Foundation researcher decided (without permission) to have her parents killed and gravesite destroyed, in the hopes that she'd "have nothing to come back to" and vanish. Instead, she became a bloodthirsty killer.

* ''ComicBook/HackSlash'': A basic part of Slashers. While they are rarely kind, and are often at least somewhat unstable, it takes being murdered for many to come back as {{Revenant Zombie}}s with a bent toward a SerialKiller. [[spoiler:This is an oversimplification. Instead, it’s the [[InTheBlood Black Ambrosia residue in their bloodline]] that brings them back, and [[PsychoSerum turns them toward being more malicious than most people in the first place]].]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Foxfire}}'': The Woman in White was a beautiful woman who fell in love with a much wealthier upper-class man and started a family with him. However he wanted to marry wealthier women so he drove her to commit suicide to get rid of her. At first, she only killed people who cheated on their loved ones. When her children are murdered, she starts killing anyone that crosses her path.

* ''Film/TheGhostOfYotsuya'': After Iemon murders his wife Oiwa and her friend Takuetsu, they come back and haunt him, bent on his destruction. Oiwa is a StringyHairedGhostGirl with a horrific facial disfiguration caused by the poison Iemon used to kill her, just to up the creepy. It's an adaptation of stage play ''Yotsuya Kaidan'' (see Theatre below).

* ''They're Watching'' takes place in an isolated European villa where the nearby town [[BurnTheWitch burned a witch at the stake]] due to a plague. TheReveal is that the witch both foresaw her death and the events that would allow her return, and upon returning/reawakening/reincarnating (it's unclear), she promptly kills the whole village in a storm of terrible black magic. Assuming that the original witch did not cause the plague, it's a terrible case of RevengeByProxy, since the townsfolk who killed her are all long dead.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/PetSematary'', it's strongly {{implied|Trope}} the cursed burial ground has [[GeniusLoci a will of its own]] and arranges Gage's death (hence murdering him), before reviving him as a monstrous parody of a child. In this case, it's the killer (force) that provides the malevolence, but is only able to do that once Gage is dead.

* ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'': "Specters" are a category of ghosts that most commonly results from the dying person being wronged somehow, but especially if they are violently murdered. All specters are inherently evil, seeking to harm and drain the living, with especial hatred towards those they see responsible for their misfortune.

* Downplayed with Charlie as of ''Videogame/StreetFighterV''. Back in ''Videogame/StreetFighterAlpha'', he was murdered by getting shoved off his helicopter by one of his fellow Air Force comrades... who turned out to be a disguised Shadaloo member. Then Urien and Helen, members of Illuminati, brought him back to life (albeit LivingOnBorrowedTime) with a single mission: to stop M. Bison, leader of Shadaloo. Charlie, who's filled with rage and grudge due to what happened to him, simply obliges; he also becomes a cold and dead serious guy who won't hesitate in killing people if they hinder him and has nothing good to say for his old friend Guile. Despite all that, however, he's still one of the good guys, and later come to the realization that he can't do all this alone.

* ''Manga/{{Mail}}'': The ghost from "The Drive" is lashing out at the poor woman who happened to buy the car he died in.
* This is Ai Enma's backstory in ''Anime/HellGirl''. Ai originally lived in a village that sacrificed seven children to their mountain god every seven years, which is also implied to be a way of punishing those the village leaders find bothersome. Come year seven, Ai is selected as one of the ritual's victims, narrowly avoiding being buried alive thanks to the timely actions of her cousin Sentaro. When the villagers catch Ai six years later, they bury her alive in the hopes of stopping an ongoing famine, forcing Sentaro to start filling the grave in as punishment for helping her escape. Ai curses them all upon her death, her eyes turning blood-red as she does so. Soon after, she rises from her grave as an onryō that burns down the entire village, killing everyone except Sentaro, who was running away from the village at the time. [[SatanicArchetype The Spider]] catches her in the act and forces her to become the titular Hell Girl, acting as TheFerryman for his [[DealWithTheDevil Hell Correspondence]], as an [[IronicHell ironic punishment]].

* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'': {{Defied|Trope}} by Ruby Heart. Despite experiencing a horrible death at the hooves of her own neighbors for something as innocent as earning a Cutie Mark, she couldn't bring herself to hate her killers, since some of them actually started [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretting doing it]]. She also understands why her family stood by and did nothing to protect her. Her desire to help them achieve redemption for their sins was what led to her becoming a Confessor.
* [[https://bludhavens.livejournal.com/38756.html?thread=12812644#t12812644 This]] ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' fanfic, in which Miles Edgeworth is murdered by [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin]] and comes back as a malevolent ghost.
* The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fanfic ''WebComic/SpringTrapped'' [[JustifiedTrope justifies it.]] Being undead causes major SanitySlippage (in the words of Springtrap himself, "turns out being undead makes you really pissed off") and drives the [[HauntedTechnology haunted animatronics]] to kill, even though their possessing spirits weren’t like that in life.

* In both the original Japanese version of ''Film/TheGrudge'', ''Film/{{Juon}}'', and its western remake, Kayako Saeki is an innocent woman with NoSocialSkills, who is [[Main/PaterFamilicide killed alongside her son]] by her jealous husband and returns as a [[StringyHairedGhostGirl vengeful ghost]]. One of her first victims is her murderer, but she'll gladly kill absolutely anybody over as little as merely stepping into her house. You even don't have to live there - most victims in fact didn't.
* ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' has Sadako Yamamura, at least in her original backstory. Born with immense psychic powers she couldn't control, she attempted to lead a normal life before she was raped and tossed into a well to die. Only then did she decide she wanted to bring harm to the whole world. Her western remake incarnation, Samara, gets hit with AdaptationalVillainy and is implied to have been evil in life as well.

* In ''Film/TheMummy1999'', Imhotep is a fairly shady character in life -- murdering his liege lord [[LoveMakesYouEvil for the sake of his lover]], who is strongly hinted not to have had a choice in her relationship with said lord -- but then gets ThePunishment of a terrible curse that makes him [[AndIMustScream suffer for eternity]] in undeath. When his sarcophagus is disturbed, he rises from the grave with horrific powers and a ''long'' list of grievances against the world.
* Subverted in ''Film/ManiacCop''. The eponymous character was LawfulGood before being framed, sent to jail, and subsequently attacked in prison. In this case, it's implied that he's a RevenantZombie (which the sequel confirms and runs with), but his more brutal behavior is down to brain damage changing his personality rather than being undead.
* In ''Film/{{Necronomicon}}'' "The Cold" segment features a journalist being told the story of a young woman named Emily fleeing an abusive home by her daughter. It's revealed that the "daughter" is actually [[spoiler:Emily]], resurrected in the same way as Dr. Madden after being fatally shot by a rival for his affections. She's been coldly (no pun intended) killing people for their spinal fluid in order to [[spoiler:[[SomeoneToRememberHimBy still feel Madden's baby kicking inside her]]]].

* ''They're Watching'' takes place in an isolated European villa where the nearby town [[BurnTheWitch burned a witch at the stake]] due to a plague. TheReveal is that the witch both foresaw her death and the events that would allow her return, and upon returning/reawakening/reincarnating (it's unclear), she promptly kills the whole village in a storm of terrible black magic. Assuming that the original witch did not cause the plague, it's a terrible case of RevengeByProxy, since the townsfolk who killed her are all long dead.
* ''Film/TheAutopsyOfJaneDoe'' reveals that the titular Jane Doe was a victim of the witch trial hysteria and was horrifically tortured/murdered. Her rage over this and the baseless, hypocritical reasons for it happening seemingly turn her into a "witch": a powerful malevolent entity that haunts (and preserves) her corpse, who is still killing innocent people generations after her actual murderers died.

* ''Literature/NightWorld'': Suzanne, a witch ghost who's the BigBad of ''Spellbinder'', wants to kill any human she finds because human witch hunters wrongfully [[VanHelsingHateCrimes tortured and executed her and her family]].
* ''Literature/AkataWitch'' has a non-human version: the spirits of swatted insects manifest in the SpiritWorld as [[BigCreepyCrawlies much larger]], much nastier entities with [[TheParalyzer paralytic venom]]. According to Orlu, this is common for creatures killed by acts of thoughtless cruelty.

* This happens to [[spoiler: Chet]] in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory1984''. He was drowned by Margaret in the series proper, and upon his rebirth as a ghost who is doomed to suck in water when he gasps for air, he wants nothing more than [[spoiler: Margaret]] dead.
* Inverted in the ''Series/LostTapes'' episode "Poltergeist". The titular ghost turns out to be the spirit of one Charles Weatherly who lived in the house the episode takes place in some twenty years ago before killing his family and then himself. He terrorizes the family living there presently enough that they hire a team of paranormal investigators to figure out what's going on. Things go FromBadToWorse in a hurry.

* ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'': "Specters" are a category of ghosts that most commonly results from the dying person being wronged somehow, but especially if they are violently murdered. All specters are inherently evil, seeking to harm and drain the living, with especial hatred towards those they see responsible for their misfortune.

* ''Theatre/TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals'': The assimilated [[spoiler:Alice]] presents herself as this, seeking only to hurt Bill and drive him to suicide to get {{Revenge}} for his failure [[spoiler:to save her from the HiveMind]]. Of course, it soon transpires that this was just the HiveMind being a {{Sadist}} ForTheEvulz.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', fiends are the souls of humans whose [[GhostlyGoals unfinished business]] kept them on earth until they became bitter, angry monsters with no other purpose than to attack the living. Sin's attacks often leave huge numbers of souls that will quickly become monsters if they aren't sent on by a summoner.
* ''Videogame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'':
** One quest takes the protagonist Geralt to a cursed and haunted island, where he finds the ghost of a young woman pleading to help her spirit leave the island. It turns out that she's a nobleman's daughter and, during a peasant uprising, her entire family was slaughtered and the invaders had planned to rape and murder her. [[spoiler:Instead, she drank a sleeping potion which [[PlayingPossum put her in a death-like state that fooled everyone]]... including her boyfriend, who ran away and wished that everyone would die. Eventually, everyone DID die and she was stuck in her fake death, unable to move as the rats in the tower ate her warm body alive. The combination of the boyfriend's curses, her CruelAndUnusualDeath, and the plague the rats carried (which is a long story in itself) turned the young woman's spirit into a Petra--a Plague Maiden that cursed the entire island.]]
** A Baron and his wife were in an unhappy marriage [[spoiler:where he beat her constantly and she found herself pregnant with a child she didn't want. The wife was eventually visited by three evil witch spirits who offered to get rid of the unborn child if the wife agreed to serve them for a year. She agreed, and not long afterward, her husband beat her so badly that she miscarried. The wife and her other daughter decided to escape from the Baron that night and left the dead fetus on the bed. The Baron found his dead child and, in his grief, buried it in an unmarked grave without giving it a name]]. The dead child transformed into a Botchling -- a malevolent and murderous spirit created from babies that died unwanted or unloved.

* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'': Yamaoka "The Spirit" Rin, a ghost of hateful rage in the vein of the classic onryo. Her origin, unlike all of her 'peer killers', was that of a normal young woman who was brutally murdered by her father. Her father had been the intended 'target' of the 'Entity' that 'recruits' killers into its 'game', having helped drive him over the edge to murder (family annihilator style), but Rin's anger over her cruel death was so great that it changed its mind and took her instead, to stalk and kill victims that had absolutely nothing to do with her death in classic shrieking, spectral fury.[[note]]Hell, technically her 'BOSS' is responsible for her death, but whether she can even recognize that or not is unknown.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': All of the Polterghasts in ''Calamity'' were victims of Yharim's conquest. As spirits clinging to reality through little more than ThePowerOfHate, they held no loyalty to their fellow dead. Many swiftly turned on each other -- [[MonstrousCannibalism souls devouring souls]] in an instinctual [[CannibalismSuperpower bid for power.]]

* Invoked in ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': the Court's founders [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=654 sacrificed]] a woman [[spoiler:and murdered her lover in front of her]], which caused her to rise as a [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=777 furious ghost]] with ThePowerOfHate. They then magically bound her spirit to an eternity wandering the river that surrounds the Court, killing anyone who tries to cross over.

** The game has similar rules regarding ghosts as ''D&D'', but doesn't necessarily include an alignment change; it only notes that this trope is likely because the inherent trauma that would cause a spirit to linger could also cause an alignment shift to ChaoticEvil. However, spectres -- incorporeal undead created from the souls of murdered humanoids -- are inevitably turned evil by their impotent fury at their violent act that cut their life short.
** There's a kind of RevenantZombie called the Pale Stranger, which arises when a gunslinger is killed by a hated foe, or before they can take their revenge on said foe. The immense, frustrated rage these people feel as they die corrupts them and raises them as an undead horror, which will always be NeutralEvil regardless of their alignment in life. The rage that corrupted a Pale Stranger will stay with it forever, and after taking their revenge its will take to wandering the wastes, venting its unending anger on anyone it finds.

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ju_on_text2.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Intertitle from the first ''Film/{{Juon}}'' film explaining the eponymous curse.[[labelnote:translation]]A curse of those who died holding a strong grudge. It accumulates in the place where they lived. Anyone who comes in contact with this curse dies and a new curse is born.[[/labelnote]]]]

** The game has similar rules regarding ghosts as ''D&D'', but doesn't necessarily include an alignment change; it only notes that this trope is likely because the inherent trauma that would cause a spirit to linger could also cause an alignment shift to ChaoticEvil.

* "Specters" in ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'' are a category of ghosts that most commonly results from the dying person being wronged somehow, but especially if they are violently murdered. All specters are inherently evil, seeking to harm and drain the living, with especial hatred towards those they see responsible for their misfortune.