History Main / RevengeAgainstMen

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And how is she going to do that? She can undergo an AdrenalineMakeover, take some self-defense classes, and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge destroy her abusers physically]], maybe becoming a vigilante WifeBasherBasher. She can set up a HumiliationConga for them. She can turn herself into a GoldDigger and fleece rich guys dry. She can also become a BlackWidow and kill them rather than live off them. She may even take to sexually harassing and assaulting men--assuming the work ''doesn't'' subscribe to DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, as that trope may lead creators to view rape by a woman as {{Unishment}} for men.

But the point is, she will not stop with just one abuser: she will deliver payback to men as a class. There may be AnAesop later on about [[RevengeIsNotJustice taking things too far]], especially if she starts extending her revenge to male children and babies as well as adult men with disabilities, or she may feel satisfied with her revenge after a while - which is quite rare. Sometimes she'll eventually [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan find that one guy]] who can "change her mind" and redeem men. Or she may just choose to become a lesbian or join a separatist community and never have to deal with men again.

And how is she going to do that? She can undergo an AdrenalineMakeover, take some self-defense classes, and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge destroy her abusers physically]], maybe becoming a vigilante WifeBasherBasher. She can set up a HumiliationConga for them. She can turn herself into a GoldDigger and fleece rich guys dry. She can also become a BlackWidow and kill them rather than live off them.

* ''Film/Ms45'': The film is a RapeAndRevenge story about Thana, a mute woman who becomes a SpreeKiller after she is raped twice in one day when going home from work.

* The highly controversial and widely banned ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave''. A standard RapeAndRevenge story where a woman is victimized by men, prays for guidance, and is apparently instructed to KillEmAll.

* Red Sonya from Creator/RobertEHoward's story "The Shadow of the Vulture."

* Franco-Belgian comics ''ComicBook/{{Aria}}'' is a quite blatant example with the titular character having been raped by her [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and abusive caretaker, to which she reacted by [[GroinAttack castrating him with her sword]] and then going onto living her life as a female KnightErrant whose main goal is to remain man-free and to challenge and vanquish any power-wielding man she meets.

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* Brona/Lily in ''Series/PennyDreadful'' who even recruits a whole army of former prostitutes and abused women to further her aims.
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But the point is, she will not stop with just one abuser: she will deliver payback to men as a class. There may be AnAesop later on about taking things too far, especially if she starts extending her revenge to male children and babies as well as adult men with disabilities, or she may feel satisfied with her revenge after a while - which is quite rare. Sometimes she'll eventually [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan find that one guy]] who can "change her mind" and redeem men. Or she may just choose to become a lesbian or join a separatist community and never have to deal with men again.

* ''Film/BaiseMoi'' - this film explores everyday life in the bleak ''banlieus'' on the outskirts of Paris, places where the poor and the underclass are deposited, a long way from the glitz and glamour normally associated with the French capital. One day, two friends are gang-raped; the film explores how they react to this and take vengeance.

* ''Film/RapeSquad'': A group of women club together to track down and punish perverts and creeps, [[spoiler:and then get picked off one by one when it [[GenreShift turns into]] a SlasherMovie]].

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal follows the evolution of the Guild of Assassins after it is forced to go co-educational and take its first female staff and students. The first female graduates are careful to follow the Guild motto of ''nil mortifi sine lucre'' - '''no killing except for money'''. But they make a loose pact to accept only contracts where the client is loathesome, despicable, and so vile that his being rmoved from life can only clean the Discworld up a little. The loose group called The Marriage Guidance Counsellors will ''only'' take contracts on men who are abusive wife-beaters, rapists, child molestors or otherwise deficient as human beings. This is despite whatever the official reason for the contract is. Joan Sanderson-Reeves prides herself on having taken out, at the last count, twenty-eight such men. This is job satisfaction; the contract fees are the icing on the cake.

[[folder:Live TV]] Brona/Lily in "Penny Dreadful" who even recruits a whole army of former prostitutes and abused women to further her aims. [[/folder]]

But the point is, she will not stop with just one abuser: she will deliver payback to men as a class. There may be AnAesop later on about taking things too far, especially if she starts extending her revenge to male children and babies as well as adult men with disabilities, or she may feel satisfied with her revenge after a while - which is quite rare. Sometimes she'll eventually [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan find that one guy]] who can "change her mind" and redeem men. Or she may just choose to [[SuddenlySexuality become a lesbian]] or join a separatist community and never have to deal with men again.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal follows the evolution of the Guild of Assassins after it is forced to go co-educational and take its first female staff and students. The first female graduates are careful to follow the Guild motto of ''nil mortifi sine lucre'' - '''no killing except for money'''. But they make a loose pact to accept only contracts where the client is loathesome, despicable, and so vile that his being rmoved from life can only clean the Discworld up a little. The loose group called The Marriage Guidance Counsellors will ''only'' take contracts on men who are abusive wife-beaters, rapists, child molestors or otherwise deficient as human beings. This is despite whatever the official reason for the contract is. Joan Sanderson-Reeves prides herself on having taken out, at the last count, twenty-eight such men. This is job satisfaction; the contract fees are the icing on the cake.

%%* ''Film/BaiseMoi''

Often found in [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime Movies]] and feminist-themed movies but otherwise rather rare. In mainstream media, it's usually concomitant with a StrawFeminist character, particularly a villainess.

* ComicBook/WonderWoman villain Zara, in her [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Golden Age]] incarnation, led a fire cult that sought to tear down men of power after being sold into slavery as a child by her own father.
* Franco-Belgian comics ComicBook/{{Aria}} is a quite blatant example with the titular character having been raped by her [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] and abusive caretaker, to which she reacted by [[GroinAttack castrating him with her sword]] and then going onto living her life as a female KnightErrant whose main goal is to remain man-free and to challenge and vanquish any power-wielding man she meets.

Expect her to proclaim herself a "bitch" and declare than ''no man'' will ever possess her or hurt her again.

But the point is, she will not stop with just one abuser; she will deliver payback to men as a class. There may be AnAesop later on about taking things too far, or she may feel satisfied with her revenge after a while. Sometimes she'll eventually [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan find that one guy]] who can "change her mind" and redeem men. Or she may just choose to [[SuddenlySexuality become a lesbian]] or join a separatist community and never have to deal with them again.

Often found in [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek Lifetime Movies]] and feminist-themed movies.

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* ''Film/{{Ms 45}}'': The film is a RapeAndRevenge story about Thana, a mute woman who becomes a SpreeKiller after she is raped twice in one day when going home from work.

%%* ''WaitingToExhale''
%%* The ''Film/JoshuuSasori'' series.
* ''Film/RapeSquad'': A group of women club together to track down and punish perverts and creeps, [[spoiler:and then get picked off one by one when it [[GenreShift turns into]] a SlasherMovie]].

* ComicBook/WonderWoman villain Zara, in her [[GoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] incarnation, led a fire cult that sought to tear down men of power.

* In ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', [[LadyLand Azania]] is a whole ''country'' behaving like this collectively, by effectively setting up a totalitarian state where the male sex is the alien "Other".