History Main / Revenge

* The reason for Doctor Doom's supervillainy is the fact that he blames [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] for every single thing that has ever happened to him, [[StartOfDarkness starting with]] his disfigurement, and wants nothing more than to cause him as much pain as possible in revenge. This actually makes them quite different from many other pairs of [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]]: for example, SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker are the nemeses of the respective heroes because they start out as being a certain way and, due to their differences with the hero, grow to hate them and eventually focus on them. Doom, on the other hand, is a supervillain who branches out to become an enemy of every single Marvel superhero out there, but every single thing he does can be eventually traced back to his hatred of Reed Richards.

* Detective Charlie Crews from Series/{{Life}} is something of a CuckooCloudlander thanks to his 12-years of wrongful imprisonment after being framed for several murders and discovering Zen Buddhism as a way to stay sane in prison. He's a great example of BewareTheNiceOnes, with a dark and dangerous streak running below his outwardly calm and friendly demeanor, but he's a firm believer in letting go of his anger instead of acting on it. But as he draws closer to finding the real killer, the man who murdered Charlie's best friend and his family, and the culprits of the frame-job that sent him to jail, Charlie is torn between the beliefs and ideals which saved his life and kept him sane in prison and the overwhelming desire for revenge. In the first season finale, he settles for justice instead ([[PerpSweating though he lets the killer ''think'' he's decided on revenge to coax a confession out of him]]).

* The reason for ComicBook/DoctorDoom's supervillainy is the fact that he blames [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] for every single thing that has ever happened to him, [[StartOfDarkness starting with]] his disfigurement, and wants nothing more than to cause him as much pain as possible in revenge. This actually makes them quite different from many other pairs of [[ArchEnemy Arch Enemies]]: for example, SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor and SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker are the nemeses of the respective heroes because they start out as being a certain way and, due to their differences with the hero, grow to hate them and eventually focus on them. Doom, on the other hand, is a supervillain who branches out to become an enemy of every single Marvel superhero out there, but every single thing he does can be eventually traced back to his hatred of Reed Richards.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ryuko Matoi is fighting Satsuki Kiryuin's pawns because Satsuki knows who killed Ryuko's father, and Ryuko wants revenge. Satsuki is dismissive, calling such motivations base and worthless. [[spoiler:Actually, she has ''the exact same motivation''--even more so than she thinks. Her father and baby sister were murdered by her mother, and she's spent her entire life building up an empire to fight back. The truth is, her father rescued her sister, then faked his death and took on a new identity to raise her. That identity? Isshi Matoi. Ryuko is Satsuki's baby sister, and Satsuki has been trying to avenge her for over a decade]].

* {{Revenge}}/{{Literature}}

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* Literature/TheStarsMyDestination is largely about the main charters quest for revenge on the Vorga, a ship which saw and ignored his distressed calls when he was [[LostAtSea stranded in a dead spaceship]].
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novels are quite fond of revenge as a motive and a plot, which is hardly surprising, given the setting.
** In Creator/DanAbnett's Literature/{{Eisenhorn}} novel ''Malleus'', Eisenhorn vows revenge on those responsible for the atrocity that cripples Literature/{{Ravenor}}. In ''Hereticus'', it is invoked; Medea passionately desires revenge on the man who killed her father. [[spoiler: In time, she realizes that this was displaced desire that she could have known her father, who died a month before her birth.]]
** In Creator/DanAbnett's Literature/GauntsGhosts novel ''First & Only'', Gaunt's BackStory includes his killing the general whose cowardly abandonment of the field of battle killed Gaunt's father and the men with him. Later, this general's son attacks Gaunt, for his father's death and the dishonor it brought on the family.
*** Revenge, and an inter-regimental feud, is also used to mask the real conflict of the novel.
** In William King's SpaceWolf novel ''Space Wolf'', the Grimskulls sought revenge on the Thunderskulls who had captured their settlement, enslaving their women and children. They went off, licking their wounds, and were lucky enough to find another settlement which they could overrun, killing the men and enslaving the women and children, [[MoralMyopia which they regard as a god rewarding their perseverance with a prize]]. They returned for Revenge on the Thunderskulls. When Ragnar Thunderskull and Strybjorn Grimskull are taken to become Space Wolves, their enmity continues. At one point, Ragnar is tempted with the prospect of killing Strybjorn; the Marines gravely observe that they have never had an aspirant come so close to failure without failing before. [[spoiler:When Strybjorn saves his life [[FireForgedFriends in battle]], and falls beneath an attack, Ragnar realizes his desire was wrong. He insists the others with them go on to BringNewsBack, so he can [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind tend Strybjorn's wounds and bring him out safely]].]]
*** In ''Wolfblade'', Ragnar is warned that foiling [[spoiler:Cezare]]'s plot means that he will seek revenge on him.
---->''"Let him," said Ragnar.\\
"Spoken like a true son of Fenris," said Haeger with [[SoProudOfYou almost paternal]] fondness.''
** In Creator/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 Creator/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 Creator/GrahamMcNeill's Literature/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 Creator/GrahamMcNeill's Literature/{{Ultramarines}} novel ''The Killing Ground'', the desire for Revenge after a massacre drives the bulk of the novel.
** In Creator/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.]]
** In Chris Roberson's BloodRavens novel ''Dawn Of War II'', when Phaeton hears that the tyrannids have killed his mother, he declares he will kill them all; the SpaceMarine tells him to let them do the fighting for now, but perhaps he might be a Blood Raven one day, whereupon his younger brother is also eager to be one so he can fight.
** In Steve Parker's ''Gunheads'', Wulfe's BackStory includes an incident where [[TheMedic a medic]] jumped to save him from a wound that would have killed him. A few days later, the medic was captured by orks and [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] to death. Wulfe thinks that he's still trying to avenge him.
** In Chris Roberson's ImperialFists novel ''Sons of Dorn'', Zatori wants revenge on Jean-Robec for killing his master (partly because he should have been protecting his back), and Taloc wants revenge on Zatori for killing his father. A long-term undercurrent, since the Imperial Fists will stop them if they try, and they fear the punishment.
** In Andy Hoare's WhiteScars novel ''Hunt for Voldorius'', the title hunt is motivated by revenge.
* Averted in A.J. Quinell's ''Snap Shot'', where the revenge of the protagonist is only mentioned in a flashback, a few parragraphs long, and without details. After telling that he performed his revenge, the protagonist also admits it didn't make him feel any better nor helped him to overcome his psychological trauma.
* In Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheSecondJungleBook'', 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.
* ''Literature/MobyDick'', surely. Captain Ahab is a walking piece of revenge on a stick. (he has a wooden leg.)
** A pegleg, yes. It is, however, made from the jawbone of a whale.
* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' is a defining example of revenge as plot.
* A driving force for Ax in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. In Andalite culture, the brother or son must avenge the victim's death, and Ax takes the vow to kill Visser Three for the death of Elfangor. Technically, that would have included Tobias, as Elfangor's son, as well, but it isn't mentioned as much by the time that's revealed.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_play Revenge tragedies]] were quite common in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, with perhaps the best known of such being Creator/{{Shakespeare}}'s ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', which has its title character seeking vengeance for his father against his uncle, who murdered him to take the throne. Seeing as how it's a ''tragedy,'' though, [[PyrrhicVictory it doesn't exactly end well]] for the prince of Denmark.
** Thomas Middleton's ''Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy'' (1606) is this, to a T. The anti-hero's name, Vindice, means 'Revenge'. In fact, it can be seen as a parody of the entire genre (and ''Hamlet'' in particular), which was in its heyday when this was first performed.
* 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 "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado", 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 ''Literature/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...
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars The Gods of Mars]]'', during the GladiatorRevolt, the women slaves in the stands start to take revenge.
-->''In all parts of the structure the female slaves were falling upon their masters with whatever weapon came first to hand. A dagger snatched from the harness of her mistress was waved aloft by some fair slave, its shimmering blade crimson with the lifeblood of its owner; swords plucked from the bodies of the dead about them; heavy ornaments which could be turned into bludgeons--such were the implements with which these fair women wreaked the long-pent vengeance which at best could but partially recompense them for the unspeakable cruelties and indignities which their black masters had heaped upon them. And those who could find no other weapons used their strong fingers and their gleaming teeth.''
* In Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Discworld/{{Thud}}'', the Summoning Dark is "an invisible and very powerful quasidemonic thing of pure vengeance."
* ''Literature/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.
** Arguably the whole Westeros powderkeg was lit because when she was a girl, Catelyn Stark broke a little boy's heart...
** Red Wedding has enraged the North more than they were already when Ned Stark was beheaded. Now the Northern houses want revenge against the Freys and the Boltons for their treachery, and are willing to side with Stannis to take them down.
* In Creator/RobertLouisStevenson's ''The Black Arrow'', the hero learns that a band of men are hunting down those responsible for his father's death. At the end, he insists they refrain from killing one intended victim -- who, he knows, did lure his father to the place of his death but was unaware that he would be killed.
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's ''ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/ShadowsInTheMoonlight" Sergius is out to get his revenge as soon as he sees Conan.
** Another Conan story, ''Literature/TheScarletCitadel'', had one of Tsotha's slaves try to kill an imprisoned King Conan for killing his brother back in his pirate days as "Amra the Lion." He is killed with one strike by Satha, the big fucking snake that Tsotha keeps down there, before he can actually go through with revenge.
* Fenise's motive in ''[[ShadowsOfTheApt Dragonfly Falling]]''.
* Andre-Louis' motive in ''Literature/{{Scaramouche}}''.
* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo tells Smaug that it was for revenge that the dwarves had come to Lonely Mountain:
-->'''Bilbo:''' Surely you realize that your success has made you some bitter enemies.
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''Literature/TheMonsterMen'', von Horn tries to cover his tracks by telling Number Thirteen that he is a soulless creature, less than a beast, and that Professor Maxon made him such, and inciting him until he resolves to kill the professor.
* In Creator/DevonMonk's ''[[Literature/AgeOfSteam Dead Iron]]'', Mae's motivation.
* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles sneaked off from a man and his son who had abused him and stole his clothing, and confesses to wanting to meet them again before he dies.
* In Creator/JohnHemry's Literature/TheLostFleet novel ''Invincible'', Geary contemplates rigging a wrecked ship to explode on the aliens' going on board, but rejects it as a sterile revenge.
* Literature/TrappedOnDraconica:
** Kalak's chief motivation for the quest is to kill [[BigBad Gothon]] for razing his homeland.
** Kazem has the same motivation: Gothon took everything from him so he wants the guy's head on a stick.
** Daniar, by contrast, is in the same boat as they are but never considers revenge.
* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'': As an Alderaanian, Tash Arrandar was inclined to pacifism, to peaceably resolving grievances with people who thought in much the same ways. When her homeworld was destroyed, finding ways to hurt the Empire that had so badly hurt her started to look more appealing, especially in ''The Virus''. She's [[JustAKid 13 years old]] and never picks up weapons, so has to receive AnAesop about it rather than carve a swath of destruction or something.
* In Creator/SarahAHoyt's ''Literature/DarkshipThieves'', Thena pledges revenge for [[spoiler:her dead eight "brothers" -- the clones before her that her "father" murdered for a transplant. Nat also pledges to exterminate the Good Men for Max's death.]]
* ''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 [[TheDevil 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.]]
* In Creator/JohnMilton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', Moloch urges immediate and constant attack on {{Heaven}}; they can disturb God,
-->'' Which if not Victory is yet Revenge.''
* In AndreNorton's ''Literature/TheZeroStone'', when the Free Traders take Jern on board, they ask who had it in for his master, then shrug and dismiss it: if he wants revenge later, it's nothing to do with them.
* Mael Duin of the medieval Irish romance ''Literature/TheVoyageOfMaelDuin'' sets out to sea to find and kill the pirates that killed his father. When, years later, he finally has the opportunity to take revenge, he declines it.
* This is the prime motivation for all of Opal Koboi's villainy in the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' books beginning with ''The Opal Deception'', particularly against the protagonists Artemis, Holly and Foaly.
* ''{{Literature/Valhalla}}'' opens with the murder of the main character's parents. She immediately kills their murderers, and spends some of the novel taking down the gang lord partially responsible.
* [[{{Creator/KarlEdwardWagner}} Karl E. Wagner]] in ''{{Literature/Kane}}'' uses this trope a lot.
** In ''Darkness Weaves'' EldritchAbomination spawn Efrel hires [[{{AntiHero}} Kane]] to lead her armies on her former husband's capital in revenge for what he did to her when he found out she was cheating on him.
** In "Cold Light" three of [[{{KnightTemplar}} Lord Gaethaa's]] men, Jan, Bell and Sed tho'Dosso, join him on his crusade against Kane because they have their own personal score to settle.
** In "Raven's Eyrie" Ionor will stop at nothing to get her revenge on Kane, who killed her family, kidnapped and raped her, she is even willing to sacrifice her [[spoiler: [[{{ChildbyRape}} daughter]] Klesst]] to the demon lord Tloluvin.
** In "Reflections on the Winter of my Soul" a group of cultists tries to hunt Kane down for killing their [[spoiler: leader Orted]], whom Kane in turn also killed in revenge.
** The whole plot of "Sing the Last Song of Valdese" revolves around [[{{TheOldGods}} Chaos Gods]] cultist Korjonos's scheme to get even with six men who mutilated him and killed his lover.
** In ''The Dark Crusade'' Jarvo has a lot of reasons to get even with Kane - losing his good looks and getting scars on his face being just one.
* In [[{{Creator/RogerZelazny}} Roger Zelazny's]] ''[[{{Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber}} Amber]]'' Amberites seem to perceive personal revenge as something acceptable or even desirable. [[spoiler:Luke/Rinaldo]] gets away with killing [[spoiler:Caine]] in revenge for killing his father [[spoiler:Brand]], even though the said father was a lunatic bent on destroying the universe. And Corwin spends a lot of time and energy planning revenge on his brother Eric, although ultimately he changes his mind.
* Kelsier from ''[[{{Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy}} Mistborn Trilogy]]'' decides to overthrow the virtually [[{{PhysicalGod}} immortal and powerful]] Lord Ruler to avenge the death of his beloved wife Mare and his own suffering at the Pits of Hathsin.

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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Ser Loras Tyrell and Brienne of Tarth swear vengeance against Stannis Baratheon after [[spoiler:their beloved King Renly is murdered.]] Revenge is also [[spoiler: Littlefinger's primary (if not sole) motive for conspiring with Olenna Tyrell to murder Joffrey.]]

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

** Thomas Middleton's ''TheRevengersTragedy'' (1606) is this, to a T. The anti-hero's name, Vindice, means 'Revenge'. In fact, it can be seen as a parody of the entire genre (and ''Hamlet'' in particular), which was in its heyday when this was first performed.

* ''Film/RelatosSalvajes'' consists of six short stories all revolving around the theme of revenge.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Revenge is one of the main driving forces of the Pirate Alliance Saga. [[spoiler:Trafalgar Law's love and devotion for Donquixote Rocinante, the man who ultimately saved his life and the dearest person in his heart, is the only reason he survived to this very day -- to get revenge on Rocinante's murderer, his older brother Donquixote Doflamingo. In turn, Doflamingo is driven by his hatred of the World Nobles, who rejected his plea to return to Mariejois as one of them after their father gave up their family's status as Celestial Dragons. So angered by this decision that he wishes to destroy the very world they lord over in retaliation. So driven that he is even willing to sacrifice those he deems close to him, and will only forgive betrayal with the embrace of death]].

** Red Wedding has enraged the North more than they were already when Ned Stark was beheaded. Now the Northern houses want revenge against the Frey's and the Boltons for their treachery, and are willing to side with Stannis to take them down.

** In ''Darkness Weaves'' {{EldritchAbomination}} spawn Efrel hires [[{{AntiHero}} Kane]] to lead her armies on her former husband's capital in revenge for what he did to her when he found out she was cheating on him.

* In [[{{Creator/RogerZelazny}} Roger Zelazny's]] ''[[{{Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber}} Amber]]'' Amberites seem to perceive personal revenge as something acceptable or even desirable. [[spoiler:Luke/Rinaldo]] gets away with killing [[spoiler:Caine]] in revenge for killing his father [[spoiler:Brand]], even though the said father was a lunatic bent on destroying the universe. And Corwin spends a lot of time and energy planning revenge on his brother Eric, even though ultimately he changes his mind.
* Kelsier from ''[[{{Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy}} Mistborn Trilogy]]'' decided to overthrow the virtually [[{{PhysicalGod}} immortal and powerful]] Lord Ruler to avenge the death of his beloved wife Mare and his own suffering at the Pits of Hathsin.

* Karl E. Wagner in ''{{Literature/Kane}}'' uses this trope a lot.
** In ''Darkness Weaves'' {{EldritchAbomination}} spawn Efrel hires {{AntiHero}} Kane to lead her armies on her former husband's capital in revenge for what he did to her when he found out she was cheating on him.
** In "Cold Light" three of {{KnightTemplar}} Gaethaa's men, Jan, Bell and Sed tho'Dosso, join him on his crusade against Kane because they have their own personal score to settle.
** In "Raven's Eyrie" Ionor will stop at nothing to get her revenge on Kane, who killed her family, kidnapped and raped her, she is even willing to sacrifice her [[spoiler: {{ChildbyRape}} Klesst]] to the demon lord Tloluvin.

** The whole plot of "Sing the Last Song of Valdese" revolves around {{TheOldGods}} cultist Korjonos's scheme to get even with six men who mutilated him and killed his lover.

* In Roger Zelazny's {{Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber}} Amberites seem to perceive personal revenge as something acceptable or even desirable. [[spoiler:Luke/Rinaldo]] gets away with killing [[spoiler:Caine]] in revenge for killing his father [[spoiler:Brand]], even though the said father was a lunatic bent on destroying the universe. And Corwin spends a lot of time and energy planning revenge on his brother Eric, even though ultimately he changes his mind.

* Tasha in ''AdvanceWars: Days of Ruin'', her character theme is actually titled "Goddess of Revenge".

* While Ryu Hayabusa's final goal in the Xbox version of ''NinjaGaiden'' is to reclaim the Dark Dragon Blade stolen from his village, it's obvious in a number of cut scenes that he's bent on killing Doku, the Greater Fiend responsible for destroying the village. The chapter of the game in which Ryu finally kills Doku is titled "Vengeful Spirit".

* In ''Anime/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.]]

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ryuko Matoi is fighting Satsuki Kiryuin's pawns because Satsuki knows who killed Ryuko's father, and Ryuko wants revenge. Satsuki is dismissive, calling such motivations base and worthless. [[spoiler:Actually, she has ''the exact same motivation''--even more so than she thinks. Her father and baby sister were murdered by her mother, and she's spent her entire life building up an empire to fight back. The truth is, her father rescued her sister, then faked his death and took on a new identity to raise her. That identity? Isshi Matoi. Ryuko is Satsuki's baby sister, and Satsuki has been trying to avenge her for her entire life]].

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ryuko Matoi is fighting Satsuki Kiryuin's pawns because Satsuki knows who killed Ryuko's father, and Ryuko wants revenge. Satsuki is dismissive, calling such motivations base and worthless. [[spoiler:Actually, she has ''the exact same motivation''--even more so than she thinks. Her father and baby sister were murdered by her mother, and she's spent her entire life building up an empire to fight back. The truth is, her father rescued her sister, then faked his death and took on a new identity to raise her. That identity? Issi Matoi. Ryuko is Satsuki's baby sister, and Satsuki has been trying to avenge her for her entire life]].