History Main / ReunionRevenge

* Subverted in ''Series/TheMentalist'' when its revealed that the killer was not the guy who was a victim of a high-school prank.

* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'' had an episode where Dudley and Kitty are assigned a mission to Dudley's high school. Somebody's been sabotaging the reunion resulting in people getting hurt. Dudley suspects some of his trouble making schoolmates (who are still bullying jerks to him until he reveals he's a T.U.F.F. agent and his rodeo clown outfit was a disguise). Turns out the culprit was the lunch lady motivated by the then students insulting her meals, though given her cooking was so disgusting that only Dudley liked her food, its hard to feel sorry for her even without her vengeance.

* The villain of the Creator/MaryHigginsClark novel ''Nighttime Is My Time'' is seeking this on the girls who bullied or rejected him in high school. At the beginning of the book, he's already killed five of them.

-->''You never talked to us in high school
-->Why should we give a damn now?
-->[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch.]]''

* The high school reunion in ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' provides two. The biggest was Oswald finding himself stripped and bound to a bed by "Porky" Parker, an overweight girl at the time who he had a fling with but then denied all knowledge of - and who was now attractive and out to humiliate him. A low-key example landed on Kate, who made explicit her desire to find someone with money when talking to the other members of Oswald's barbershop quartet. Their response in song:

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' BigBad Vlad Masters throws a reunion to get back/murder his former best friend (who has no idea and still likes him, ironically) in order to win his best friend's wife. Thankfully, that oblivious man's son is... [[TheHero Danny Phantom]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' BigBad Vlad Masters throws a reunion to get back/murder his former best friend (who has no idea and still likes him, ironically) in order to win his best friend's wife. Thankfully, that oblivious man's son is... WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom.

During a ClassReunion, someone who was picked on, teased or outright abused during their high school years [[RevengeOfTheNerd takes their revenge]] on their (many) erstwhile tormentors, one at a time, and usually fatally. The main character(s) may be mistaken for members of the offending group (or may have been unwitting accomplices), but more often are uninvolved bystanders until the first death. Naturally, the rest of the reunion is spent figuring out who the culprit (and/or who their next victim) is.

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* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', most of the superheroes are outright jackasses who often pick on the D-listers. So it should come as no surprise that one of them finally snapped at a superhero get-together. There's also a NotSoDifferentRemark moment with the title character, who's one of the most pitiful, picked-on superheroes imaginable. [[spoiler: Who proceeds to save all of her jackass co-workers]].

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* ''Film/ClassReunionMassacre'': Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.
* The slasher film ''Film/DontGoToTheReunion'', an homage to the below mentioned ''Slaughter High''.
* ''Film/MostLikelyToDie'': A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.

* ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion'': Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.
* ''Film/{{Rose of Death}}'': On prom night ten years ago, a group of drunken friends go too far when trying to scare a couple of their fellow classmates. After accidentally killing one of them, they decide they have to kill the other one in order to cover up the crime and protect themselves and their futures. Now, ten years later, as they start coming together for their high school reunion, each member of the group is being picked off one by one by a ghostly killer as some sort of revenge from beyond the grave.

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* Creator/JonStewart (the same one from ''Series/TheDailyShow'') once wrote a short story involving a man who creates an ArtificialHuman specifically to take revenge on the rest of his class at his high school reunion. On arriving at the reunion, however, the man discovers that almost the entire class had the same idea; aside from a small group of terrified people in formalwear, the reunion has degenerated in a fight to the death between those seeking revenge. He gives up and goes home, monster in tow.
* ''Unsound Variations'' from Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has one of these, though it's not a full high school reunion, the man simply invited three of his sort of friends from high school. Also, instead of being an opportunity for revenge it's the culmination of it. He reveals to them that he invented a device capable of MentalTimeTravel and how [[TimeTravelingJerkass he used his knowledge of the future to ruin their lives]]. His plan to crush them completely like this backfires to about the furthest possible extent. Instead of despairing they gain new hope, since they now know for a fact that they would have been very successful had not a ''crazy time traveler devoted at least two lifetimes to wrecking their careers.'' On realizing this he uses the machine again, which means bad news for an alternate reality them, but at least means he's no longer a danger in their current reality.

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* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' features Liz Lemon going to her high school reunion wanting to get back on the AlphaBitch and other people who bullied her. However, it turns out that everyone at her school felt that ''she'' was the bully. While she saw herself as a mousy nerd who coped by being a DeadpanSnarker, everyone else saw her as a bitch who continually insulted them whenever they confronted her about something or, in the case of the "alpha bitch," legitimately tried to befriend her just so she'd stop hurling vicious insults at them.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' once had the Charmed Ones go to their high school reunion where Phoebe was ostracized and mocked for being promiscuous during high school.

* Inverted in the ''Series/DesigningWomen'' episode "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?", where Delta Burke's ex-beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker is mocked at her high school reunion for being fat. The episode is also a VerySpecialEpisode touching on the topics of weight prejudice and world hunger.

* On ''Series/{{Haven}}'', Duke and Nathan's high school reunion comes up and one of their former classmate's [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Trouble]] is to [[FountainOfYouth turn people young again]], and then kill them.

* A non-fatal, PlayedForLaughs version takes place in the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode [[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS10E8BlondAndBlonder "Blond And Blonder"]]. Kelly and her group of friends, with Kelly's younger brother Bud in tow, attend the five-year high school reunion that's hosted for students in Kelly's year. There they encounter a former high school nerd who's [[SheCleansUpNicely now a handsome millionaire]], who eventually teams up with Bud to exact revenge on the girls who had wronged the guys back in high school.

* Subverted in ''Series/TheMentalist'' when its revealed that the killer was not the guy who was a victim of a high school prank.
* ''Series/{{Murderville}}'': The third episode sees a TechBro murdered at Terry's high school reunion, and the three suspects are all high school classmates who had motive to kill him.

* ''[[TheSeanCullenShow The Sean Cullen Christmas Special]]'' had, throughout the evening, an old schoolmate trying to kill Sean for taking the last place in the orienteering club. But then it turned out that Sean had never joined the club, and the other guy had spent his whole life chasing the wrong man.
* In an episode of the sitcom ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', Louie lets Bobby the actor impersonate him at his high school reunion, playing a handsome "full-sized" version of him and getting (non-violent) revenge on all the class's Beautiful People. "Yeah, I shot up in college. It was written up in all the medical journals."

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* Horrible, horrible version in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' - one of the Deathlords, Eye And Seven Despairs, was DrivenToSuicide during his life as an Exalt by the rest of his Circle. He's since developed a twisted obsession with tormenting the Shards they were bonded to (of which he has three of the four) that is occupying significantly more of his attention than his actual job, namely destroying the world.
** To the point where TheStarscream is looked upon as higher on the totem pole then he is.
** Also, in ''Exalted'', Autochthon built the Exalted so he could kill his brothers and sisters that picked on him and destroyed his inventions. So he creates the Exalts who kill the other Primordials, or [[AndIMustScream mutilate them and imprison them in their king's own body.]] Talk about overreaction. Of course, given how dickish they really were, this is not that monstrous, from a certain point of view.

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* Helen B. Narbon plans to pull one of those during her high-school reunion in the webcomic ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''. However, it is eventually revealed that people didn't shun her due to disliking her - they avoided her because they were scared stiff by her easy access to [[MadScientist mad science]]. Faced with this realization, Helen decides not to turn them all into gerbils after all...
* A storyline in ''{{Webcomic/PvP}}'' had Francis attend his high school reunion, intending to get some revenge on his old bully Teezo Cunningham, only to discover that Teezo had only gone to the reunion specifically to make amends for being such a dick in high school, due to his crappy home life. Francis doesnt know what to do with his information, as he's still mad at Teezo but cant hate him when he's sorry for what he did, though the two ultimately reconcile.

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* When reviewing the ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' high school reunion episode, WebVideo/ObscurusLupa voiced her annoyance with this trope, remarking that she can barely remember her high school classmates, let alone enough to actively hold a grudge against them.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The High School Reunion": Dan, [[RevengeBeforeReason being Dan]], tries to get revenge on his old classmates because he felt high school was just constant ridicule. [[spoiler: It turns out Dan was popular because his over-the-top revenge schemes were very entertaining. Instead Chris was the unpopular one out of the duo. So Chris decides to get revenge. But they think it was all a part of Dan's plan which makes Dan even more popular.]]

* In "Bully For Parker", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ProducingParker'', the main character plans an elaborate revenge for her high school reunion, but has second thoughts when she spends some time with her most vicious tormentor.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' Mike Sorayama, an old college classmate of Doc's, dies and has his designated pallbearers (Doc, Brock, Pete White and Baron Underbheit) kidnapped. They get locked in a dungeon and learn that Sorayama was FakingTheDead and wants revenge for petty slights, all related to his one-sided crush on an attractive classmate. Underbehit tricked him into smoking oregano, to which he was allergic, making him miss a study date; Pete, the campus DJ, played an embarrassing fake dedication; Brock beat the crap out of him (and everyone else) in a drunken rage after getting kicked off the football team. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that Sorayama really ''is'' dead, and the one carrying out the revenge was just another of his lifelike robots.]]
** It's even worse for Doc; as near as he can recall, all he did was seduce a monster based off the girl in a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' game that Sorayama was [=DMing=]. Sorayama's real reason was that [[spoiler:he thinks Rusty actually slept with the girl; he didn't, but Brock did, and he jumped to conclusions when he saw her emerge from Doc and Brock's dorm room]].

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* Creator/BasRutten, former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mma/ufc/ufc-h.html [=UFC=] World Heavyweight Champion]] and [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts [=MMA=]]] Legend, was actually physically weak in High School and bullied often. When he came back for a school reunion he was a highly decorated fighter and challenged his former bullies to a fight. They all declined.

* In ''Film/BloodyReunion'', former elementary school classmates and their teacher meet sixteen years later at her countryside cottage for a class reunion. the happy gathering turns into a nightmare as old grudges and hidden truths surface and one by one friends vanish in a series of grisly murders.

* The RomanceNovel ''Endless Enchantment'' had this as the plot. A 10-year class reunion takes place on a cruise ship. The heroine was a reluctant member of a GirlPosse lead by a vicious AlphaBitch in high school. Increasingly dangerous pranks are played on each member of the group until the AlphaBitch is killed. Turns out that a classmate [[spoiler: whose Harvard-bound cousin was the main target of the mean girls. She commmitted suicide after being date raped by the AlphaBitch's twin brother at a graduation party]] is the one who wanted revenge and her pranks mimicked the same things that the girls did to her in high school.

* Jon Stewart (the same one from ''Series/TheDailyShow'') once wrote a short story involving a man who creates an ArtificialHuman specifically to take revenge on the rest of his class at his high school reunion. On arriving at the reunion, however, the man discovers that almost the entire class had the same idea; aside from a small group of terrified people in formalwear, the reunion has degenerated in a fight to the death between those seeking revenge. He gives up and goes home, monster in tow.

* ''Unsound Variations'' from Creator/GeorgeRRMartin has one of these, though it's not a full high school reunion, the man simply invited three of his sort of friends from high school. Also, instead of being an opportunity for revenge it's the culmination of it. He reveals to them that he invented a device capable of MentalTimeTravel and how he used his knowledge of the future to ruin their lives. His plan to crush them completely like this backfires to about the furthest possible extent. Instead of despairing they gain new hope, since they now know for a fact that they would have been very successful had not a ''crazy time traveler devoted at least two lifetimes to wrecking their careers.'' On realizing this he uses the machine again, which means bad news for an alternate reality them, but at least means he's no longer a danger in their current reality.

* ''Pawing Through the Past'' by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. When each member of the Crozet High Class of 1980 receives an anonymous note stating, "You'll never get old," most take it as a joke or a compliment. But when the class womanizer turns up with a bullet between his eyes, and more notes--and more bodies--start appearing, Harry and her menagerie find themselves at the center of a revenge plot 20 years in the making.

* A non-fatal, PlayedForLaughs version takes place in the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' episode [[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS10E8BlondAndBlonder "Blond And Blonder"]], Kelly and her group of friends, with her younger brother Bud in tow, attend the five-year high school reunion that's hosted for students in Kelly's year. There they encounter a former high school nerd who's [[SheCleansUpNicely now a handsome millionaire]], who eventually teams up with Bud to exact revenge on the girls who had wronged the guys back in high school.