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'''Buzz Lightyear:''' ''(leans close to Woody and whispers)'' But we're not on my planet. ''(grabs Woody's collar)'' Are we?\\

For the 2011 American television series, see ''Series/{{Revenge}}''. For the 2017 French film, see ''Film/Revenge2017''.

* ''{{Series/Revenge}}''...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin obviously]]. Emily Thorne is a highly-trained revenge artist who quite literally devotes her life to avenging her framed and murdered father.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Sojourn}}'', this is Arwyn's motivation to bring down Mordath.

** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', Reactron is obsessed with taking revenge against ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} for breaking his special life-support armor suit, nevermind she was trying to survive his assassination attempt. In turn, Supergirl wants to make Reactron pay for murdering her father.

* In ''Manga/DragonBall'' this is the primary motive for Goku in the King Piccolo Saga and near the end of the Frieza Saga. He wanted to kill King Piccolo because he murdered his dear friend, Krillin, and his teacher, Master Roshi. With Frieza, he became a Super Saiyan after he murdered Krillin and threatened his son. Although he didn't kill Frieza. Instead, he chose to subject him to CruelMercy.

-->''[[ArcWords A reckoning is not to be postponed indefinitely.]]''

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'', [[BigBad Soto]] wants to take revenge on the humans for killing half of his pack by killing the chief's son Rashan.

* The main reason everybody in ''Manga/InuYasha'' teams up, at first. [[HalfHumanHybrid Inuyasha]] wants revenge on Naraku for killing [[ItsPersonal Kikyo]]. [[TagalongKid Shippo]] wants revenge on The Thunder Brothers for killing his father, so he joins Inuyasha. [[HandsomeLech Miroku]] wants revenge (and also to break his curse) on [[BigBad Naraku]] for killing his father indirectly/ giving him a [[CursedWithAwesome Wind Tunnel]] in the first place, so he teams up with Inuyasha. [[ActionGirl Sango]] wants revenge on Naraku for [[YouKilledMyFather killing her father]], [[ItsPersonal her people, her]], and [[BigSisterInstinct her little brother Kohaku]] and then [[BrainWashed using Kohaku]] as a puppet, so she joins Inuyasha. And [[SecondLove Kagome]]... is [[DesignatedVictim just kind of there.]]

* The basic point of ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' - to destroy villain with [[KillHimAlready brutally demonic retribution]]. Fujimiya Ran especially desires revenge against Takatori Reiji for the murder of his family in the first 15 episodes of Kapital.

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* In ''Animation/FiringRange'', the motivation of the inventor is revenge against the ones who [[spoiler:gave his son a posthumous medal after leading him to his death]]. He gets it, [[spoiler:by causing the tank to kill them.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', Gargouille wants to kill the BigBad, Astaroth, in revenge for him destroying her planet and exterminating her people.

* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}} 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'': The plot is tangentially based on a Chinese folktale, where the god Houyi used his bow to shoot down the nine suns threatening to scorch the earth (here, one of the falling suns killed the BigBad Junko's son). She is invading the Moon to kill his wife Chang'e (despite the Lunarians having imprisoned her for different reasons). The BonusBoss Hecatia Lapislazuli is also out for revenge, as the shadows of Hell become weaker with only one sun.

[[caption-width-right:350:[-''Retribution'', Edward Armitage (1858)-]]]

** God commands the Israelites that they are never to take revenge on the Egyptians at any time after the Exodus, because, regardless of the wrongs the Egyptians had inflicted on the Israelites, they had also been the Israelites' hosts at first; the implication is that the Egyptians had suffered enough from the Seven Plagues that the Almighty had visited upon them, a hard point to contest.

'''Buzz Lightyear:''' ''(leans close to Woody)'' [[ExactWords But we're not on my planet]]... ''(grabs Woody's collar) are'' we?\\

[[caption-width-right:350:[-''Retribution''-], Edward Armitage (1858)]]

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'''Buzz Lightyear:''' ''[leans close to Woody]'' [[ExactWords But we're not on my planet]]... ''[grabs Woody's collar]'' ''are'' we?\\

'''Buzz Lightyear:''' ''[leans close to Woody]'' But we're not on my planet... ''[grabs Woody's collar]'' ''are'' we?\\

An avenger has several options when pursuing his or her vendetta. He or she can devise a Machiavellian plan, [[TheChessmaster maneuvering things (and occasionally people) in place]] [[BestServedCold until the time of final vengeance is at hand]], which is the route taken by many classical revenge tales. Often the avenger takes steps to ruin the other guy's life in some manner before the final act, which may or may not end with the other guy's death. Another option, often chosen by {{action hero}}es or the more bloodthirsty avengers, is the RoaringRampageOfRevenge, where the avengers dispense with this and goes straight for the bloodshed, hunting down everyone who had anything to do with the crime in question and eliminating them one by one, often in a GottaKillThemAll fashion, until they reach the BigBad behind it all and take their final vengeance.

-->'''Haggis''': It's what you wanted, Ed Harley. For each of man's evils, a special Demon exists. You're looking at Vengeance - cruel, devious, pure-as-poison vengeance.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* Many of the murders in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' are inspired by a thirst for revenge. One very notable (non-murderous) example is in ''Justice for All'' with Franziska von Karma, the daughter of prosecutor Manfred von Karma. She goes after Phoenix Wright in court and brags at how she will defeat him with her logic and power as a prosecutor, which leads Phoenix to believe that she's seeking revenge due to [[spoiler: him uncovering the crimes of Manfred von Karma, her prosecutor father; Phoenix not found him responsible for the crime that Edgeworth, Franziska's adoptive brother, was on trial for, but also uncovered that he was the one who killed Edgeworth's father so many years ago. It's subverted when Franziska reveals that her actual reason for revenge is because after the final case of the last game, when Edgeworth realized that he had become the very thing his father hated and had been following his killer's "win at all costs" ideaology for years, he disappeared and a note behind saying that he "chose death"; this led Phoenix and Franziska to believe that he had been DrivenToSuicide. She blames Phoenix and is determined to bring him down to avenge Edgeworth and his pain, not to mention winning against the person Edgeworth couldn't beat, since she has a ruthless competitive streak and has always been trying to "beat" Edgeworth, even when they were kids.]]

** Littlefinger [[spoiler: conspires with Olenna Tyrell to murder Joffrey as revenge for the Lannisters' role in the death of his beloved Catelyn Stark. Ironically Littlefinger engineered the war and (it's implied) the execution of Ned Stark, in revenge for being rejected as a suitor for Catelyn's hand.]]