History Main / Revenge

->'''Buzz Lightyear''': I just want you to know that, even though [[GreenEyedMonster you tried to terminate me]], revenge is not an idea we promote on my planet.

->'''Buzz Lightyear''': [leans in, [[TranquilFury voice lowers to a whisper]]] But we're not on my planet... [grabs Woody's collar] ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner Are we?]]''
->'''Woody''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck No...]]

** In GrahamMcNeill's Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novel ''Dead Sky Black Sun'', at the end, [[spoiler:Vaanes is convinced that Uriel's convincing him to join the attack on the fortress, which killed many of his band, was deeply wronging him, and so allows himself to be persuaded to join the forces of Chaos, for Revenge.]]
** In GrahamMcNeill's ''Storm of Iron'', Larana Utorian's suffering at the hands of the Chaos forces and desire for {{Revenge}} are [[spoiler:what lets the daemon tempt her into allowing it in.]]
** In GrahamMcNeill's HorusHeresy novel ''False Gods'', when hunting a traitor, Horus comes upon corpses still wearing the remnants of their Imperial uniforms. He wonders if they remained loyal and promises to avenge them. Later, when [[spoiler:Horus is felled by his wounds]], Loken is determined to avenge him on the forces responsible.
** In GrahamMcNeill's Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novel ''The Killing Ground'', the desire for Revenge after a massacre drives the bulk of the novel.

* This is Melanie's goal throughout the film ''The Page Turner'', after a piano audition is disrupted by one of the judges (a famous pianist), she stops playing the piano and seeks her revenge which adds up to [[spoiler:making said pianist fall in love with her, destroying her marriage and causing a serious hand problem in her young son (who also aspires to be a pianist)]].

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': The Exiles (Noldorian Elves who left Valinor against the will of the Valar) as a whole are seeking revenge on Morgoth, but the House of Feanor (especially it's progenitor) are the most desperate for it, and [[TheUnfettered most willing to do whatever it takes.]] Feanor spends his final days [[RevengeBeforeReason attempting]] [[GottaKillEmAll to]] [[UnstoppableRage wreak]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters unholy]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge veangance]] on [[Satan Morgoth]] and all his servants. He starts out with a RousingSpeech which summed up is "Morgoth killed my dad, your king, and stole the entire world's most precious gems. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Let's not take this like pansies and go wreck his shit.]] As in all of it. Oh and anyone who tries to take those gems from me, or hide them in any way? You'll get the same." Being [[HairTriggerTemper Feanor]], he has some issues [[DisproportionateRetribution working with people]] [[KillEmAll who try to get him to actually]], you know ''[[RevengeBeforeReason think about what he is doing]]'' rather than just blindly rushing ahead. Which is what he does. Which is what kills him. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome While fighting all the Balrogs. At once. Alone.]]
** Feanor's sons are no slouches in the revenge department either, they commit one mass slaughter of elves with their father, and two without. They will betray and/or kill anyone who they think is trying to keep a Silmaril from them (this is what led to the Second Kinslaying). And this is barely scratching the surface of all the things they do/are willing to do. The entire family ends up dead except for Feanor's estranged wife who stayed behind and one of his sons, [[WarriorPoet Maglor,]] who ends up crossing DespairEventHorizon [[WalkingTheEarth wandering the shores of Middle-Earth]] [[GriefSong singing his sorrow and regret.]]

* SoundHorizon's ''Marchen'' album revolves around the spirits of seven women (all but one from the {{Fairy Tale}}s of Creator/TheBrothersGrimm) being granted a chance at revenge against the people who wronged them by a strange ghost who goes by the name Marchen. [[spoiler:The seventh woman, Elisabeth, rejects this offer, content that her first and only love Marz has finally fulfilled his promise to return to her, [[TogetherInDeath even if only in death]]. It is this that leads Marchen to remember the man he used to be: Marz himself.]]
* Garmarna's song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwHlwZ-_H0 "Vedergallingen" ("Vengeance")]], based on Swedish folklore. [[SchmuckBait Don't look up the translation of the lyrics]].[[NightmareFuel Don't.]]

* This is Mélanie's goal throughout the film ''The Page Turner'', after a piano audition is disrupted by one of the judges (a famous pianist), she stops playing the piano and seeks her revenge which adds up to [[spoiler:making said pianist fall in love with her, destroying her marriage and causing a serious hand problem in her young son (who also aspires to be a pianist)]].

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': The Exiles (Noldorian Elves who left Valinor against the will of the Valar) as a whole are seeking revenge on Morgoth, but the House of Fëanor (especially it's progenitor) are the most desperate for it, and [[TheUnfettered most willing to do whatever it takes.]] Fëanor spends his final days [[RevengeBeforeReason attempting]] [[GottaKillEmAll to]] [[UnstoppableRage wreak]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters unholy]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge veangance]] on [[Satan Morgoth]] and all his servants. He starts out with a RousingSpeech which summed up is "Morgoth killed my dad, your king, and stole the entire world's most precious gems. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Let's not take this like pansies and go wreck his shit.]] As in all of it. Oh and anyone who tries to take those gems from me, or hide them in any way? You'll get the same." Being [[HairTriggerTemper Fëanor]], he has some issues [[DisproportionateRetribution working with people]] [[KillEmAll who try to get him to actually]], you know ''[[RevengeBeforeReason think about what he is doing]]'' rather than just blindly rushing ahead. Which is what he does. Which is what kills him. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome While fighting all the Balrogs. At once. Alone.]]
** Fëanor's sons are no slouches in the revenge department either, they commit one mass slaughter of elves with their father, and two without. They will betray and/or kill anyone who they think is trying to keep a Silmaril from them (this is what led to the Second Kinslaying). And this is barely scratching the surface of all the things they do/are willing to do. The entire family ends up dead except for Fëanor's estranged wife who stayed behind and one of his sons, [[WarriorPoet Maglor,]] who ends up crossing DespairEventHorizon [[WalkingTheEarth wandering the shores of Middle-Earth]] [[GriefSong singing his sorrow and regret.]]

* SoundHorizon's ''Märchen'' album revolves around the spirits of seven women (all but one from the {{Fairy Tale}}s of Creator/TheBrothersGrimm) being granted a chance at revenge against the people who wronged them by a strange ghost who goes by the name Märchen. [[spoiler:The seventh woman, Elisabeth, rejects this offer, content that her first and only love März has finally fulfilled his promise to return to her, [[TogetherInDeath even if only in death]]. It is this that leads Märchen to remember the man he used to be: März himself.]]
* Garmarna's song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwHlwZ-_H0 "Vedergällingen" ("Vengeance")]], based on Swedish folklore. [[SchmuckBait Don't look up the translation of the lyrics]].[[NightmareFuel Don't.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2484 recommended as a substitute for unrequited love.]]

* In ''{{Warhammer}}'' the Dwarfs have a serious problem with him. They're incapable of ever letting something go, and everything anyone does that displeases them is a deliberate, malicious strike against them. One instance involves a human fortress being razed because they hired dwarven engineers to help build it and shortchanged their payment by a handful of coins out of thousands. Instead of accepting that this was probably just a clerk miscounting or a ripped bag losing a few coins in transit and either brushing it off or sending someone to ''explain what the problem is'' and asking for the complete payment, they instead stewed on this vile theft for a century, assembled an army, and laid siege to the baffled fortress.

* Both Kael'thas and the generic Blood Mage from ''WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne'' have a sound pack distressingly but understandably focused on pronouncements of vengeance.

* In ''EpicTales'' this is Shadow Hawk's motivation for being a superhero. Or so he claims. His best friend Diana thinks he just doing it for the thrills, although this is only mentioned once. Also the revenge thing seems to have been glossed over in the two most recent stories.

* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', [[HotScientist Dr. Liara T'Soni]] went on a two year long quest to destroy [[spoiler:the Shadow Broker after he tried to sell Shepard's body to the Collectors]]. Depending on your choices, this might also fit under ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend.

->'''Buzz Lightyear''': [leans in, [[TranquilFury voice lowers to a whisper]]]] But we're not on my planet... [grabs Woody's collar] ''[[PreAsskickingOneLiner Are we?]]''

->''"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''

** Zaeed wants revenge on Vido for shooting him in the head twenty years ago, Garrus wants vengeance on Sidonis for betraying him and his team, Kasumi gets payback on Hock for torturing her boyfriend to death, Thane got revenge on the men who killed his wife in his {{Backstory}} and Jack has a serious vendetta against Cerberus for experimenting on her as a child. It's really easier to list which members of the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' [[DysfunctionJunction squad]] ''don't'' want some form of revenge. Including Shepard him/herself if you take the Renegade route, which gives us the quote, "The Collectors are about to find out what happens when you piss me off."

* Revenge and how it turns on itself is a major theme in ''{{Naruto}}'', where it is presented as a crippling obsession. It starts with Sasuke, but ultimately turns out to be a stupidly deep family connection [[GenerationXerox all the way back to the clan's founder, Madara Uchiha]], and is the driving force of the plot as a whole, responsible even for the Kyuubi attack in the prologue.

* The thousand-year plan of the Sith in ''StarWars'', which Sidious finally brings to fruition.

** Although it's been obscured by time and the numerous other tropes it's spawned, the revelation that Darth Vader was Luke's father in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack'' had originally played as a subversion of {{Revenge}}. Critics of ''[[StarWarsANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'' were so convinced that the sequels would conform to a simple [[YouKilledMyFather Luke-avenges-his-dad story]], they dissed Lucas for being trite, never suspecting how TheReveal would [[LukeIAmYourFather overturn those expectations]].
** The EU materials taking place around the time of ''ThePhantomMenace'' imply that Viceroy Gunray's main motivation for having the Trade Federation blockade Naboo was out of revenge against Senator Palpatine because it was thanks to him and his bill that several members of the Trade Federation's leading races were assassinated (the only reason why the Nemoidians survived is because Sidious sabotaged the ship to prevent them from taking off for the summit). In the film itself, it was believed to be out of {{Greed}}.

** Likewise, in season two, [[Literature/SleepingBeauty Aurora]] wanted to get revenge or at least some sort of justice on Emma and Snow for indirectly causing Prince Phillip's FateWorseThanDeath, despite {{Mulan}} cautioning her not to. Her attempt to attack Snow failed and ended up causing trouble for the entire group.

* In Creator/RudyardKipling's ''The Second Jungle Book'', Mowgli takes Revenge on the village for how they treated his adoptive parents. He persuades Hathi to help because of the revenge Hathi took on another village -- that one involving killing men.

* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe wrote a few revenge stories. In ''Hop-Frog'' a deformed dwarf jester burns the king and seven ministers to death at a masquerade for striking his beloved and splashing wine in her face. In ''The Cask of Amontillado'', a man lures his friend into a cellar with the promise of fine wine, only to bury him alive, claiming revenge for [[DisproportionateRetribution vague injuries]]. Both people get away scot-free.

* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[JohnCarterOfMars The Gods of Mars]]'', during the GladiatorRevolt, the women slaves in the stands start to take revenge.

* [[ASongOfIceAndFire A Lannister always pays his debts]]. So if you help a Lannister, you're sure to be recompensed for your trouble. But if you ''cross'' a Lannister...Things might end differently. Such as, say, in a privy. With a crossbow.

* In JohnMilton's ''ParadiseLost'', Moloch urges immediate and constant attack on {{Heaven}}; they can disturb God,

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* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': Revenge is James Gillies' primary motivation for wanting to destroy Detective William Murdoch; Gillies ''hates'' it when someone manages to outsmart him.

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': The Exiles (Noldorian Elves who left Valinor against the will of the Valar) as a whole are seeking revenge on Morgoth, but the House of Fëanor (especially it's progenitor) are the most desperate for it, and [[TheUnfettered most willing to do whatever it takes.]] Fëanor spends his final days [[RevengeBeforeReason attempting]] [[GottaKillEmAll to]] [[UnstoppableRage wreak]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters unholy]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge veangance]] on [[Satan Morgoth]] and all his servants. He starts out with a RousingSpeech which summed up is "Morgoth killed my dad, your king, and stole the entire world's most precious gems. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Let's not take this like pansies and go wreck his shit.]] As in all of it. Oh and anyone who tries to take those gems from me, or hide them in any way? You'll get the same." Being [[HairTriggerTemper Fëanor]], he has some issues [[DDisproportionateRetribution working with people]] [[KillEmAll who try to get him to actually]], you know ''[[RevengeBeforeReason think about what he is doing]]'' rather than just blindly rushing ahead. Which is what he does. Which is what kills him. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome While fighting all the balrogs. At once. Alone.]]
** Fëanor's sons are no slouches in the revenge department either, they commit one mass slaughter of elves with their father, and two without. They will betray and/or kill anyone who they think is trying to keep a silmaril from them(this is what led to the Second Kinslaying). And this is barely scratching the surface of all the things they do/ are willing to do. The entire family ends up dead except for Fëanor's estranged wife who stayed behind and one of his sons, [[WarriorPoet Maglor,]] who ends up crossing DespairEventHorizon [[WalkingTheEarth wandering the shores of Middle-Earth]] [[GriefSong singing his sorrow and regret.]]