History Main / RoaringRampageOfRevenge

->''"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a [[TropeNamer 'roaring rampage of revenge']]. I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna [[TitleDrop kill Bill]]."''

->''"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a "[[TropeNamer roaring rampage of revenge]]." I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna [[TitleDrop kill Bill]]."''

Of course; sometimes the Hero's target is not so specific as one person. Sometimes it can branch out to an entire organization, or to an entire race or species. Some examples of this could be a partisan whose family was killed by soldiers on a RapePillageAndBurn raid (and who in retaliation is killing as many soldiers from that army as possible) or an apocalypse survivor whose son was killed by zombies (and who as a result devotes his life to ridding the world of them).

Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to [[RevengeByProxy extend your revenge to that person's children]], people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then TheHero [[FaceHeelTurn may cease]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to be worthy of]][[FallenHero that title.]]

Of course; sometimes the Hero's target is not so specific as one person. Sometimes it can branch out to an entire organization, or to an entire race or species. Some examples of this could be a partisan whose family was killed by soldiers on a RapePillageAndBurn raid (and who in retaliation is killing as many soldiers from that army as possible), or an apocalypse survivor whose son was killed by zombies (and who as a result devotes his life to ridding the world of them).

Many such avengers may keep a TragicKeepsake to remind them of their lost loved one or other reason that they're on this vendetta to begin with, although they may fall victim to ForgottenFallenFriend if the quest goes on long enough. Sometimes fulfilling the revenge may end up as a case of VengeanceFeelsEmpty and not give the avenger the expected joy, particularly if they come to feel that the avenged [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave would not have wanted it that way]]. While in some cases, fulfilling the revenge may instead end up with the avenger becoming bloodthirsty and developing a BloodKnight personality, or worse, PutTheLaughterInSlaughter. But sometimes, one will simply find that RevengeIsSweet without any moral corruption, with the closure of revenge allowing the avenger to move on with their lives.

Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to [[RevengeByProxy extend your revenge to that person's children]], people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then TheHero [[FaceHeelTurn may cease]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to be worthy of ]][[FallenHero that title.]]

Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to [[RevengeByProxy extend your revenge to that person's children]], people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then TheHero [[FaceHeelTurn may cease]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to be worthy ]][[FallenHero of that title.]]

Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to [[RevengeByProxy extend your revenge to that person's children]], people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then TheHero [[FaceHeelTurn may cease]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope to be worthy]][[FallenHero of that title.]]

->''"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a '[[TropeNamer roaring rampage of revenge]].' I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna [[TitleDrop kill Bill]]."''

->''"Looked dead, didn't I? But I wasn't. But it wasn't from lack of trying, I can tell you that. Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma. A coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements refer to as a 'roaring rampage of revenge.' I roared. And I rampaged. And I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point, but I have only one more. The last one. The one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill."''

Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to [[RevengeByProxy extend your revenge to that person's children]], people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then TheHero may [[FaceHeelTurn cease to be]] [[FallenHero worthy of that title.]]

Would-be avengers need to be extremely careful about falling into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory. It's one thing to take revenge on someone who is directly responsible for wronging you, but it's quite another to [[RevengeByProxy extend your revenge to that person's children]], people who are only tangentially related to the main target, and any innocent bystanders unlucky enough to get in the way. If this happens, then TheHero may cease to be [[FallenHero worthy of that title.]]

** [[spoiler:Phoenix himself]] later repaid the favor. [[spoiler:After having his attorney's badge taken away for presenting Gavin's forged evidence, he lost respect for the whole judicial process and manipulated a crime scene, forging some evidence of his own to get Gavin convicted of killing the magician. Then, he managed to temporarily ''overhaul the entire legal system'' and rig . jury just to ensure Gavin also got convicted of killing the artist.]]

** [[spoiler:Phoenix himself]] later repaid the favor. [[spoiler:After having his attorney's badge taken away for presenting Gavin's forged evidence, he lost respect for the whole judicial process and manipulated a crime scene, forging some evidence of his own to get Gavin convicted of killing the magician. Then, he managed to ''overhaul the entire legal system'' just to ensure Gavin also got convicted of killing the artist.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:They shouldn't have killed his dog.]]

** Randy Orton (along with then-tag-team partner Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}}) was also the victim of a Wrestling/ShawnMichaels RROR. Orton and Edge, along with an inopportune [[GameBreakingInjury quad tear]] have taken out Triple H, and they're not exactly shy in telling everyone so. Shawn pulls Hunter's [[WeaponOfChoice sledgehammer]] out from under the ring and proceeds to kick the everloving hell out of them.

** Randy Orton (along with then-tag-team partner Wrestling/{{Edge}}) was also the victim of a Wrestling/ShawnMichaels RROR. Orton and Edge, along with an inopportune [[GameBreakingInjury quad tear]] have taken out Triple H, and they're not exactly shy in telling everyone so. Shawn pulls Hunter's [[WeaponOfChoice sledgehammer]] out from under the ring and proceeds to kick the everloving hell out of them.

** The story of the Levite and his concubine in the Literature/BookOfJudges. After several Benjamites gang-raped a Levite's concubine, resulting in her death, the Israelites demanded the killers be handed over for punishment. The Benjamites refused, so the Israelites declared war and spent what must have been several months destroying all the major Benjamite cities, then hunting down all the surviving Benjamites and killing all the ones who were not virgins. Safe to say they won't do it again, although the tribe had been decimated to the point where a LoopholeAbuse had to take place when the other tribes of Israel had put a curse on anyone from their own tribes that would give their daughter to a Bejamite male as a wife.

** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in the Literature/BookOfGenesis. Abraham's daughter Dinah was raped by Shechem, who then asked to marry her. Abraham agreed, but his sons wanted revenge for the dishonouring of their family and deceived all the men of the city into circumcising themselves before storming the city while all the men were sore and putting it to the sword. However, Abraham was outraged when they got back; not only is massacring the entire male population of the city and taking the women as slaves because of the crimes of one man DisproportionateRetribution, but by using circumcision as a weapon they had dishonoured the Jewish covenant.
** The story of the Levite and his concubine in the Literature/BookOfJudges. After several Benjamites gang-raped a Levite's concubine, resulting in her death, the Israelites demanded the killers be handed over for punishment. The Benjamites refused, so the Israelites declared war and spent what must have been several months destroying all the major Benjamite cities, then hunting down all the surviving Benjamites and killing all the ones who were not virgins. Safe to say they won't do it again.

* ''WebAnimation/ReversalOfTheHeart'' has The Prince goes on one, after seeing a dragon in The Princess's room, leading him to think she had killed The Princess, not knowing that [[BalefulPolymorph they were one in the same]].

** The story of the Levite and his concubine in the Literature/BookOfJudges. After several Benjamites gang-raped a Levite's concubine, resulting in her death, the Israelites demanded the killers be handed over for punishment. The Benjamites refused, so the Israelites declared war and spent what must have been several months destroying all the major Benjamite cities, then hunting down all the surviving Benjamites and killing all the ones who were not vitgins. Safe to say they won't do it again.

* The hero Jason decided to dump his wife Theatre/{{Medea}} and marry the daughter of the king of Corinth, an act that made him an enemy of ''his own protector Hera, '''Goddess of Marriage'''''. Big mistake. But before Hera could make him pay, Medea herself got revenge on him: she burned alive the king's daughter, and, by accident, the king and ''his palace'' (the king had tried to save his daughter, but failed and spread the fire), demolished Corinth, in some versions even killed two of their own children (in others it was the Corinthians, who wanted revenge for them delivering the clothes that set the king's daughter on fire. Demolition of the city follows soon after), and leaves with the others. And Jason? [[CruelMercy Still alive, with his spirit and reputation destroyed and transformed in a beggar]]. You do ''not'' piss off your MagicalGirlfriend, for even the goddess notorious for being ludicrously vengeful won't have the heart to add something on top of what already happened to you...

* In ''Literature/TheIliad'', Achilles gets into a spat with Agamemnon and decides that he [[AchillesInHisTent won't be in a fighting mood]] for the foreseeable future. When his [[HoYay best buddy]] Patroclus gets himself killed trying to take Achilles' place, however, Achilles [[BerserkButton flips right the hell out]] and nearly chokes the Trojan river with their dead. Even Hector, the killer of Patroclus and first among the Trojans, makes a run for it until he realizes that Achilles won't stop chasing him and decides to go out swinging.

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'''s "Unlimited Blade Works" route's ([[BittersweetEnding True Ending]]), Gilgamesh insults Saber after her HeroicSacrifice to destroy the [[ArtifactOfDoom Holy Grail]]. [[BerserkButton Shirou gets pissed,]] [[spoiler: and proceeds to bash the King of Heroes all over the place, before cutting off his arm and throwing him into a tear in space-time.]]

Many such avengers may keep a TragicKeepsake to remind them of their lost loved one or other reason that they're on this vendetta to begin with, although they may fall victim to ForgottenFallenFriend if the quest goes on long enough. Sometimes fulfilling the revenge may end up as a case of VengeanceFeelsEmpty and not give the avenger the expected joy, particularly if they come to feel that the avenged [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave would not have wanted it that way]]. While in some cases, fulfilling the revenge may instead end up with the avenger becoming bloodthirsty and developing a BloodKnight personality, or worse, PutTheLaughterInSlaughter. But sometimes, one will simply find that RevengeIsSweet without any moral corruption, with the closure of revenge allowing them to move on with their lives.

Many such avengers may keep a TragicKeepsake to remind them of their lost loved one or other reason that they're on this vendetta to begin with, although they may fall victim to ForgottenFallenFriend if the quest goes on long enough. Sometimes fulfilling the revenge may end up as a case of VengeanceFeelsEmpty and not give the avenger the expected joy, particularly if they come to feel that the avenged [[MoralityChainBeyondTheGrave would not have wanted it that way]]. While in some cases, fulfilling the revenge may instead end up with the avenger becoming bloodthirsty and developing a BloodKnight personality, or worse, PutTheLaughterInSlaughter.

* When [[LetsPlay/{{Mythrodak}} Mythrodak's]] pet bird Shiratori is killed by Sven in a last ditch attempt to subdue him, Plumpkin traps him in his own mind. Following several tense conversations, he then declares that he is prepared to [[OmnicidalManiac kill absolutely everyone]].

* In ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', when The Monkey King Sun Wukong realizes he's been tricked by the Jade Emperor into being a mere stable boy after Wukong demanded to be made a god in Heaven, he gets pissed. He declares himself "[[AGodAmI The Great Sage Equal to Heaven]]" and made [[DealWithTheDevil pacts with some of the nastiest Demons on earth]]. Rather than try and fight a being recognized as a badass beyond known badassery, the gods recognized his title, which at first sated him... but then they snubbed him from a big Banquet. The [[OverlyLongName Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Monkey King Sun Wukong]] proceeds to go completely [[IncrediblyLamePun apeshit]]. He invades the banquet, eats the Jade Emperor's Peaches of Immortality and drinks the Potion of Longevity, which make him immortal and indestructible, and proceeds to [[OneManArmy single-handedly defeat an army of 100,000 Celestial Warriors]]; then, after he gets caught in a trap and escapes (which has the side effect of giving him EyeBeams plus making sure the aforementioned Peaches and Potion have actual permanent effect on him instead of him having to eat and drink them again for their effect, [[GodMode of all things]]), he frees all his monkey soldier-disciples, [[RageAgainstTheHeavens proceeds to break down the doors of Heaven]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu literally throws or kicks every single member of the]] CelestialBureaucracy out of Heaven. It took [[DeusExMachina BUDDHA HIMSELF]] to finally subdue Wukong and return the Bureaucracy to power.