History Main / VengefulGhost

* In ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'', a good part of the plot appears to be influenced, directly or indirectly, by the ghost of [[spoiler:Joel's sister Miranda]]. After [[spoiler:Melusine]]'s murder, she too comes back as a vengeful ghost, probably influencing [[spoiler:Artie avenging this "honour killing" on the entire Dolphin community]].
* Inverted (and exploited) in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', where baron Greyfort arranges for his burial ceremony to be carried out wrong so that his ghost can keep an eye on his family.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12986838/1/Jabberwock Jabberwock]]'': Hank fully expects this trope to be played straight when confronted with [[spoiler:his son's ghost in chapter 24, and [[TearJerker is momentarily at a loss]] when Cole cheerfully subverts it. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming But only momentarily]].]]

* ''Literature/InterestingTimes'': Lord Hong accidentally makes his own soldiers afraid of this, when he says that an army of ghosts will rise up from their land to combat the 'invisible vampire ghosts' of the Silver Horde. He failed to take into account that the army has been engaging in internal repression, and many of those would-be ghosts would owe their current state to that army. Many desert as a result.

* "Pain Everyday" by the experimental hip hop trio Music/{{Clipping}} is a call-to-arms for the ghosts of lynching victims to rise up and haunt the descendents of their murderers. The song's beat [[{{Sampling}} samples]] EVP recordings - said to be the voices of restless spirits - provided by paranormal investigator Michael Esposito.

* The early ''VideoGame/TouhouProject'' games have Mima, whose BossSubtitles describe her as a "Vengeful Ghost." After protagonist Reimu encounters Mima in [[{{Hell}} Jigoku]] in the first game, Mima returns in the second to get her revenge on humanity, but is thwarted and settles for [[DefeatMeansFriendship hanging around the Hakurei Shrine to annoy Reimu.]] Complicating matters is that Mima denies she's dead and instead insists she's simply a soul, and her GhostAmnesia is so bad that she's not only forgotten why she wants revenge on humanity in the first place, she can't even remember how she became whatever she is.

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Avatar of Vengeance can spawn invulnerable Spirits of Vengeance from corpses, regardless of the corpse's original allegiance.

* ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'': The player character Jin Sakai is not a ghost, but he has this reputation. A local peasant woman he rescues describes him as such.
-->"He is a vengeful spirit. Back from the grave to slaughter the Mongols."

* The early ''VideoGame/TouhouProject'' games have Mima, whose BosSubtitles describe her as a "Vengeful Ghost." After protagonist Reimu encounters Mima in [[{{Hell}} Jigoku]] in the first game, Mima returns in the second to get her revenge on humanity, but is thwarted and settles for [[DefeatMeansFriendship hanging around the Hakurei Shrine to annoy Reimu.]] Complicating matters is that Mima denies she's dead and instead insists she's simply a soul, and her GhostAmnesia is so bad that she's not only forgotten why she wants revenge on humanity in the first place, she can't even remember how she became whatever she is.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Geralt often encounters, and takes a fair number of contracts to deal with nightwraiths and noonwraiths, the vengeful ghosts of women who died violent deaths that are terrorising villages. Most are so deranged and dangerous that Geralt can only destroy them and try to make sure their ties to the world of the living are broken that they can't come back.

See also UnfinishedBusiness, when revenge is not the (only) reason to come back as a ghost, GhostlyGoals, for when the primary mission of the ghost is revenge, and MurderIntoMalevolence, a reason for why the ghost can turn violent after the death. If this is a reveal in a murder mystery, it may overlap with TheDeadGuyDidIt.

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Avatar of Vengeance can spawn invulnerable Spirits of Vengeance from corpses, regardless of the corpse's original allegiance.
* Basara Kubikiri from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' series. An undead case of LoveMakesYouEvil, Basara and Kagaribi were lovers slaughted by Zankuro Minazuki, but the hate Basara has about this makes him come BackFromTheDead [[CameBackWrong in the form of a yurei]]. [[spoiler:In a plot twist revealed in ''V'', in reality Basara [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was the one who killed Kagaribi and then he commited suicide]]]]. In ''2019'' is also revealed that [[spoiler:Kararibi is this for Basara, haunted him until he continued the hunt for their forgiveness.]]
* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. Although this is another Running game, also counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
* Doubling with StringyHairedGhostGirl, there's Hisako from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' reboot, who is the ghost of a samurai's daughter who is reanimated after her grave was disturbed. Also, her stage is full of yurei from the people of her village.
* In ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' a challenge requires you to drag the unconscious body of the local “sweet” muffin making old lady to the room where her victim once perished. Doing so will cause the doors of the room to open and shut repeatedly.
* ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': Poltergeist Polterguy's main motivation is to take revenge on the Sardini family. He is a FriendlyGhost towards the player still.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Geralt often encounters, and takes a fair number of contracts to deal with nightwraiths and noonwraiths, the vengeful ghosts of women who died violent deaths that are terrorising villages. Most are so deranged and dangerous that Geralt can only destroy them and try to make sure their ties to the world of the living are broken that they can't come back.

* This turns out to be the nature of one of the bosses in ''VideoGame/LiveALive''. [[spoiler:O. Dio is a horse possessed by the spirits of the men of the Seventh Cavalry that died at the Battle of Little Big Horn, seeking revenge on the world for their slaughter. Defeating him banishes the ghosts and returns the horse to normal.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The MonsterOfTheWeek for "Northwest Mansion Mystery" is a ghost lumberjack who came to seek revenge on the Northwest family, as their ancestors went back on a deal and indirectly killed him and his fellow lumberjacks. He only manages to find peace when [[LovableAlphaBitch Pacifica]], the Northwest family's WhiteSheep, opens the gates, allowing the townsfolk to enter the mansion and finally fulfill the deal.

* Parodied in the ''Series/TheITCrowd'' episode "The Haunting of Bill Crouse", in which the titular Bill Crouse, believing that Jen has died, falsely claims that he was the last person to sleep with her in order to win sympathy from others. Throughout the episode, Jen tries to confront him about it, but each time, circumstances cause him to believe that she's a vengeful ghost haunting him.

* In ''Theatre/YotsuyaKaidan'', Oiwa becomes an [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryo]] in order to haunt her faithless husband.

** China has ''Mogwai'', a vengeful ghost or demon; ''Nu gui'', a vengeful female ghost and counterpart of japanese {{Onryo}}; and ''Yuan gui'', the spirits of persons who have died wrongful deaths.

** Japan has ''{{Onryo}}'': A generic name of the Japanese folklore for ghosts (''yurei''), who come back from purgatory for a wrong done to them during their lifetime. Onryo are mostly women and often manifest themselves in physical rather than spectral form.

* In ''Theatre/YotsuyaKaidan'', Oiwa becomes an {{onryo}} in order to haunt her faithless husband.

* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' franchise is mostly about this. In many incarnations, a pair of lovers, a father and son, or some other characters with a bond of love are killed by a gang, an organization or even by {{Dirty Cop}}s. One of the pair is revived as "The Crow", seeking a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[KillEmAll EVERYONE]] in the group that killed them and their loved ones, not just limited to the killers, but also the highest ranks who managed that event.