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* ''{{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.

* ''{{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.

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

* In ''MobileSuitGundam'', Char's motive for moving up the ranks of the Zeon military is to put himself in a position to kill off the Zabi family, who were responsible for his father's death. He personally suceeds in killing two of the five (the others die from familial/political infighting or in combat). After achieving this, he instead switches his focus to following his father's ideals... [[CharsCounterattack and takes them a bit too far.]]
* ''GundamSeedDestiny'' protagonist Shinn Asuka ''lives'' for revenge. First he wants revenge on the Earth Alliance for attacking Orb and killing his family, and also on Orb (more specifically the Athha family) for getting into a fight with them in the first place. Then he wants revenge on Kira after Stella's death...
* In ''{{Gundam 00}}'', Setsuna F. Seiei and Neil Dylandy (the first Lockon Stratos) both desire revenge against Ali Al-Saachez for the death of their families.

* In ''GundamAge'', both Grodek Ainoa and Flit Asuno desire revenge against the Unknown Enemies, who are responsible for killing their families.

* In Creator/JohnHemry's TheLostFleet novel ''Invincible'', Geary contemplates rigging a wrecked ship to explode on the aliens' going on board, but rejects it as a sterile revenge.

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

* In JackCampbell's TheLostFleet novel ''Invincible'', Geary contemplates rigging a wrecked ship to explode on the aliens' going on board, but rejects it as a sterile revenge.

* The fulcrum around which ''GunXSword'' turns is Van's hunt to avenge the death of his bride by killing the Claw. Over the series, the other protagonists obtain reasons to want the same thing. Unusually for anime, the desire to obtain revenge is portrayed in a largely positive light.

* ''{{Gankutsuou}}'', being ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]], is naturally about this trope.

* In the ''Literature/EpicOfGilgamesh'', when King Gilgamesh rejects the sexual advances of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar, she sends the Bull of Heaven to terrorize his whole city. Gilgamesh and his only friend, Enkidu, eventually slay the Bull and save the city of Uruk, but the gods retaliate by giving Enkidu a fatal illness.

* [[BioWare From the same family]], [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Carth Onasi]] wants to pound his treasonous ex-commander into paste for betraying the Republic and bombing Telos. [[JadeEmpire Sky]] wanted to kick Gao the Greater into orbit over the death of his little girl at the hands of Gao's slavers. Even though [[spoiler: you kill Gao before he does]], Sky's pretty understanding about it, and just extends his vendetta to anyone dealing in slaves.

* In ''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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* Will Plunkett in ''PlunkettAndMacleane'' swears revenge on General Chance for the death of his partner.

->'''Woody''': No...

** 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.

* Revenge is the [[PlanetofHats Hat]] of the Camorri in the ''GentlemanBastard'' series. The Grey King's sole motivation is revenge against [[spoiler: Capa Barsavi and the nobility of Camorr]]. Locke sets himself against the Grey King in order to avenge [[spoiler: Nazca, Bug, and the Sanzas]]. And in the course of Locke's revenge, he pisses off the Bondsmagi...

* Also a major plot of ''{{Berserk}}'', as Guts seeks revenge on his former commander Griffith and the Apostles for the events of the Eclipse that led to [[spoiler:the deaths of the Band of the Hawk]] and [[spoiler:robbed his lover Casca of her sanity]].

** In JamesSwallow's ''[[Literature/BloodAngels Deus Sanguinius]]'', after Rafen's [[CombatByChampion duel]] with [[spoiler: Arkio]] ends with his killing him, Mephiston urges him into the fight with the Chaos forces that had tainted him -- he should avenge him. [[spoiler:And in the end, the thwarted daemon plots revenge on Rafen.]]

* When [[FatalFury Geese Howard killed Jeff Bogard]], Jeff's sons became martial artists to eventually kill him back.