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* In David Eddings' ''TheRedemptionOfAlthalus'', when working as a mercenary Eliar kills the ruler of the city state the mercenaries were attacking. He ends up being captured and Andine, the daughter of said ruler enacts personal revenge. He gets rescued eventually.[[spoiler: And she eventually gets over it. They end up married.]]
* In ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' Lord Karstark wants revenge against Jaime Lannister for killing two of his sons. He does this by killing two of Jaime's relatives who were held captive, killing several men on his own side to get to them. It's pointed out that killing defenseless prisoners and your own allies is not the same as killing an enemy in battle, but the distinction seems lost on him.

* In one of the ''Literature/JamesBond'' books by John Gardner, the BigBad was the daughter of Blofeld, who wants revenge against Bond for killing Blofeld back in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'' (the book).

Related to AvengingTheVillain, but in that case Charlie was a genuinely bad person. This applies to; a) Gray And Grey Morality situations, such as (but not limited to) wars and family feuds where both sides are flawed/justified to an extent, and b) situations where Bob is clearly a good guy.

Related to AvengingTheVillain, but in that case Charlie was a genuinely bad person. This applies to; a) Gray And Grey Morality situations, such as (but not limited to) wars and family feuds where both sides are flawed/justified to an extent, and b) situations where Charlie is clearly a good guy.

* From {{Angel}}: Turns out that Wesley took Connor to protect him from a FalseProphecy stating that "The father will kill the son." Angel accept this, and tells Wesley so before picking up a VorpalPillow. [[AdultFear Having one's child sucked into a hell dimension]] can do that to a person.

--->'''Bud:''' We deserve to die. Then again, so does she.

* In ''{{Soap}}'' Danny wants to kill Burt, his step-father, because he killed his father. Burt also feels horrendously guilty over this fact but it turns out that Burt only killed him in self defense. Danny eventually agrees with him.

* In ''GoldenSun: The Lost Age'', Karst seeks to kill Isaac in revenge for the death of her beloved older sister Menardi in the first game. Everybody who played the first game knows that a) Menardi murdered bystanders, b) she was going to kill Isaac, and c) Menardi ''committed suicide'' after Isaac and his friends defeated her and Saturos non-lethally. [[PoorCommunicationKills Nobody ever tells Karst this]].

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Sasuke wants revenge on all of Konoha for ordering Itachi to kill the Uchiha just because the Uchiha were about to pull a coup and likely get half of Konoha killed in the resulting civil and world wars.

It's relatively common that the reason that Alice wants to kill Bob is because Bob killed Charlie. Revenge seems pretty straightforward. But it gets a lot more murky when Charlie was trying to kill Bob and Bob was just defending himself. They were in a war, it was a fight, Charlie surprised Bob at the worst time, it was an accident, whatever. He didn't really want to kill Charlie, and would have avoided doing so if possible. That doesn't matter to Alice, though. Even if unknown to her Charlie was an assassin that had killed hundreds of people and Bob is just some security guard that happened to take him down, Bob has to ''pay''.

* In ''{{Naruto}}'', Sasuke wants revenge on all of Konoha for ordering Itachi to kill the Uchiha just because the Uchiha were about to pull a coup.

* ''KillBill'': "You deserve terrible deaths for doing the kinds of stuff for a living that I did up until a few months before you did it to me! And that I would have done to you. And that I actually did ''with'' you, come to think of it."

* ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe'': In the opening scene, JamesBond kills Anya's lover, who is trying to kill him at the time. When she finds out about it she vows to kill James.

* In ''AmericanDad'' episode "Escape from Pearl Bailey", the popular kids swear revenge on Steve and his friends for Steve's revenge plot against Lisa Silver and her Libby friends for Debbie's class presidential campaign getting sabotaged, and persist even after Steve realizes it was his friends who did it, and apologizes for it.

* In the ''XMenEvolution'' episode "Blind Alley", Mystique pretends to be Scott's brother Alex, supposedly stuck in Mexico after losing his passport, in order to lure Scott out on his own, knocking him out and leaving him stuck in the middle of the Mexican desert without his glasses to stop his eyes, saying "That's payback!" after Scott let her get captured inside a military base in "Day of Recovery". However Scott did that because [[spoiler:she had abducted Professor X and impersonated him throughout the two-part episode "Day of Reckoning",]] and refused to divulge the location of [[spoiler:the real Professor X.]]

* In the third ''Film/SpiderMan'' movie, the Hobgoblin has this as his motivation. He wants to kill Spidey because Spidey killed the Hobgoblin's father, the Green Goblin. However, just before the movie's climax, his butler [[TheReveal revealed]] that [[spoiler:Green Goblin was [[HoistByHisOwnPetard killed by his own hover-board]].]]

* Khan in ''StarTrekII''. {{Lampshaded}} even. After Khan explains his beef with Kirk, Chekov says, "Captain Kirk was your host. You repaid his hospitality by trying to steal his ship and murder him!" Khan ignores the point.

[[CaptainObvious Expect angst and drama.]]

* In one of the ''Literature/JamesBond'' books by John Gardner, the BigBad was the daughter of Blofeld, who wants revenge against Bond for killing Blofeld back in ''YouOnlyLiveTwice'' (the book).
* In the very first episode of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', Crichton accidentally crashes into a ship piloted by Bialar Crais' brother, killing him instantly. Crais becomes ''insanely'' obsessed with ferreting out Crichton and killing him, an obsession that lasts most of first season, to the point where eventually Crais loses his job because his priorities are entirely focused on revenge -- despite the fact that Crichton continually tries to convince him that it was an accident.

* In {{Naruto}}, Sasuke wants revenge on all of Konoha for ordering Itachi to kill the Uchiha just because the Uchiha were about to pull a coup.

* In ''TheIliad'', Hector of Troy gets the bad end of this. His country is at war with the Greeks (who are the invaders) and he kills Patroclus in battle. Achilles, Patroclus's [[HoYay best friend]], kills Hector in revenge and desecrates his corpse. Today, Hector is the one usually portrayed sympathetically.

* In the ''XMenEvolution'' "Blind Alley", Mystique pretends to be Alex, supposedly stuck in Mexico after losing his passport, in order to lure Scott out on his own, knocking him out and leaving him stuck in the middle of the Mexican desert without his glasses to stop his eyes, saying "That's payback!" after Scott let her get captured inside a military base in "Day of Recovery". However Scott did that because [[spoiler:she had abducted Professor X and impersonated him throughout the two-part episode "Day of Reckoning",]] and refused to divulge the location of [[spoiler:the real Professor X]].

* Hector of Troy gets the bad end of this. His country is at war with the Greeks (who are the invaders) and he kills Patroclus in battle. Achilles, Patroclus's [[HoYay best friend]], kills Hector in revenge and desecrates his corpse. Today, Hector is the one usually portrayed sympathetically.
* In David Eddings TheRedemptionOfAlthalus When working as a mercenary Eliar kills the ruler of the city state the mercenaries were attacking, he ends up being captured and Andine, the daughter of said ruler enacts personal revenge. He gets rescued eventually.[[spoiler: And she eventually gets over it. They end up married.]]

* In ''EnumaElish'', Tiamat does her best to avenge Apsu's death at the hands of the Annunaki, completely ignoring the two small facts that Apsu was actively planning to kill them and that ''she herself ratted him out to them'', allowing a preventive strike.

Related to AvengingTheVillain, but in that case Charlie was a genuinely bad person. This applies to; a)Gray And Grey Morality situations, such as (but not limited to) wars and family feuds where both sides are flawed/justified to an extent, and b) situations where Charlie is clearly a good guy.

* ''KillBill'': "You deserve terrible deaths for doing the kinds of stuff for a living that I did up until a few months before you did it to me! An that I would have done to you. And that I actually did ''with'' you, come to think of it."