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* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2''. Even though [[spoiler:Drago hypnotizes Toothless into killing Hiccup's father Stoic, Hiccup's motivation for going after Drago is because he's a legitimate threat to Berk, and not to avenge his father's death]].
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', during the climax, Frollo reveals that not only did he consider killing Quasimodo as an infant, but he also killed his mother who was protecting her son. (The fate of Quasi's father is unknown, though he was presumably arrested and hanged like the other Gypsies his parents were travelling with.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Scar kills Simba's father and convinces him that [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident it was an accident]], only to later tell him the truth in a moment of EvilGloating, giving Simba a HeroicSecondWind.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Zurg has Buzz cornered.

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' adventure path "Way of the Wicked" is just lousy with this trope. Any NPC or hero the villainous player characters kill almost certainly has a relative who will [[TakeUpMySword take up their sword]] to avenge them. The most notable ones are:

* The ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' franchise:
** Towards the end of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Katara tracks down her mother's killer, intending to kill him [[spoiler:until she discovers that he is ''literally'' NotWorthKilling]]. Although nothing close to Inigo Montoya's speech is used, "[[MemeticMutation My name is Katara of the Southern water Tribe. You killed my mother. Prepare to die!]]" still eventually became a meme.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', when Season 3 BigBad Zaheer apparently kills Korra's father Tonraq by airbending him off a cliff (he was rescued just in time), she is suitably enraged. When she is later taken prisoner, she swears to the Red Lotus that [[IllKillYou none of them will survive after she gets free]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'':
** In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' episode "Vendetta", a villain named Ragnarok is revealed to have killed Kevin's father. Kevin quotes Inigo's famous line when he first finds Ragnarok and makes sure that Ben and Gwen don't interfere in his final confrontation with Ragnarok. The latter's ship falls apart, and [[spoiler:Kevin removes the item that kept said ship around; Ragarnok dies in space]].
** Later, in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', [[spoiler:Charmcaster confronts the tyrannical ruler of her home dimension and killer of her father, who says, "My might has long since cowed any resistance that once dared challenge me.", to which Charmcaster replies, "Is that your way of saying you killed my father?!"]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'', when Lisa is burned at the stake by the CorruptChurch, Alucard wants vengeance as much as his father {{Dracula}} does and encourages his father to kill those directly responsible for her death. However, Dracula refuses his narrow his rage, citing Lisa as TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth, and chooses to KillAllHumans instead, which Alucard takes issue with.
* Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse:
** Played completely straight in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''. CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers arranged to have Terry [=McGinnis's=] father killed, so Terry becomes the next Franchise/{{Batman}}, and not only gets the guy who actually did the job, but ends up nearly getting Powers killed, causing him to become his archenemy Blight. When Terry later finds out that Blight is Powers, he confronts him again in the season finale:

'''Blight:''' ''[irritated]'' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Do you have the]] ''[[ButForMeItWasTuesday slightest]]'' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday idea how]] ''[[ButForMeItWasTuesday little]]'' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday that narrows it down?!]]\\

'''Terry:''' So... I made him that?\\

** Elsewhere in the DCAU, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' has AntiHero Huntress track down the man who killed her parents. However, this trope is ''prevented'' by the fact that the killer Mandragora [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes has a son]]. Once Huntress realizes this (thanks to ComicBook/TheQuestion pretty much engineering the encounter to ensure that she does), she backs down. Ironically, that same son [[spoiler:becomes a villain in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', a member of the Brain Trust]].
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Leela, after crossing paths with some suspicious cloaked figures in the sewers of New New York, gives chase to them, as she thinks that they have information about her past or her parents. After confronting them, she comes to the conclusion that they killed her parents, with which the cloaked figures agree and prepare for her to kill them in revenge. [[spoiler:Thankfully, Fry shows up just in time to reveal that the cloaked figures ''are'' her parents.]]

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Frank Grimes's son tries to kill Homer, since Homer's idiocy indirectly killed Frank in an earlier episode.

* Franchise/SpiderMan cartoons:
** A villain-on-villain example: ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' features a pair of psychic twins out for revenge on [[EgomaniacHunter Kraven the Hunter]] for the murder of their parents. Since they aren't powerful enough to take on Kraven directly, they use their powers to trick Spider-Man into believing that Kraven murdered [[LoveInterest Mary Jane]]. Kraven is very nearly killed by Spider-Man's UnstoppableRage, and only survives when Spider-Man realizes what's happening.

* During the mostly {{Narm}}ful ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'' cartoon, one particularly awesome moment pops up near the end, with Chun Li attacking M. Bison because he killed her father. M. Bison coolly dodges all of the attacks, and strikes back with:
-->'''M. Bison:''' Yes, yes. I killed your father. What is it with you women anyway? ''[eyes begin glowing]'' '''[[SelfMadeOrphan I killed my father too]], and you don't hear me''' '''''whining about it!'''''
:: : On top of this, he ''also'' killed Cammy's parents, giving her the same motivation as Chun-Li.

** In the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon, the leader of the Purple Dragon gang, Hun, killed Casey Jones's father when Casey was a kid; unsurprisingly, Casey is packing a grudge against Hun and everyone wearing the Purple Dragon colors. Averted insofar as Casey refuses a couple of opportunities to kill Hun, however.
** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 cartoon]], Karai's hatred of Splinter aka Hamato Yoshi is because he killed her mother. [[spoiler:Except that he didn't. Unbeknownst to her, Splinter is her ''real'' father and the person who killed her mother wasn't him; it was her adoptive father the Shredder, aka Oroku Saki, who also proceeded to kidnap her to raise as a tool of revenge against Splinter. Once she learns the truth, she turns the trope's direction towards Shredder instead, though it takes until Season 4 before she can get going on coming after him.]]

* The reason for the fight between [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Cat Noir]] and [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Homura Akemi]] in ''Fanfic/KwamiMagiHomuraMagica'' is because Homura broke into Adrien's home and shot Gabriel Agreste in his bed. Cat Noir, who already lost his mother, is beyond furious at losing yet another parent, and is so wrapped up in his fury that he doesn't notice things like the fact that Homura had the Butterfy Miraculous, or the fact he had tracked her down into what was clearly ''someone's'' evil lair, or the fact the missing Kwami were also there trying to get his attention.

* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, Horus wants Set taken down for murdering Osiris.

* ''Literature/RingingBell'': Poor Chirin. His mother is killed by the Wolf. You can tell it's personal when a [[SweetSheep little lamb]] tries to kill a wolf! For extra tearjerker points, [[spoiler:when he finally succeeds, he feels no real satisfaction since the Wolf had become a surrogate father to him by that point. Chirin is also rejected by his former flock since he's even ''scarier'' than the Wolf now]].

-->'''M. Bison:''' Yes, yes. I killed your father. What is it with you women anyway? ''[eyes begin glowing]'' '''[[SelfMadeOrphan I killed my father too]] and you don't hear me''' '''''whining about it!'''''

-->'''M. Bison:''' Yes, yes. I killed your father. What is it with you women anyway? ''[eyes begin glowing]'' '''[[SelfMadeOrphan I killed my father too]] and you don't hear me''' '''''whining about it!!!!'''''

'''Simba:''' MURDERER!

* ''Anime/RingingBell'': Poor Chirin. His mother is killed by the Wolf. You can tell it's personal when a [[SweetSheep little lamb]] tries to kill a wolf! For extra tearjerker points, [[spoiler:when he finally succeeds, he feels no real satisfaction since the Wolf had become a surrogate father to him by that point. Chirin is also rejected by his former flock since he's even ''scarier'' than the Wolf now.]]

* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:

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This is a SubTrope of ItsPersonal and a Super-Trope to VengefulWidow, and forms a central part of many [[CycleOfRevenge Cycles of Revenge]]. Compare CynicismCatalyst, TheLostLenore, and DeadPartner. See also BestServedCold and RoaringRampageOfRevenge. This can overlap with FamilialFoe.

* Cloud and Tifa from ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'' are partially motivated in their fight against Sephiroth by the fact that he murdered their mother and father respectively during the Nibelheim Incident, though it's even more personal for Cloud than it was in the original game due to the fact that [[spoiler:Sephiroth specifically singled out his mother as an act of spite for how annoying his fanboyish tendencies were]].

* Myth/KingArthur:
** In the older stories, Arthur's father was killed by the Saxons.

This is a SubTrope of ItsPersonal and a Super-Trope to VengefulWidow, and forms a central part of many [[CycleOfRevenge Cycles Of Revenge]]. Compare CynicismCatalyst, TheLostLenore, and DeadPartner. See also BestServedCold and RoaringRampageOfRevenge. This can overlap with FamilialFoe.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': In a special case, it is Anaak Jahad's mother that is killed (though her father is murdered alongside with her), because [[spoiler:she, as a Princess of Jahad, got into a relationship with a man]]. Years later, Anaak meets her parents' murderer on the testing grounds and goes ballistic. Her overall goal is also to eradicate the Jahad family in revenge, although she must have loosened up in this a bit by the time she's climbing the Tower with an offiical Princess of Jahad.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': In a special case, it is Anaak Jahad's mother that is killed (though her father is murdered alongside with her), because [[spoiler:she, as a Princess of Jahad, got into a relationship with another man]]. Years later, Anaak meets her parents' murderer on the testing grounds and goes ballistic.

* Taken UpToEleven in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' as part of its Aesop about the CycleOfRevenge: Gillecomgain killed Findlaech, Macbeth killed Gillecomgain and Duncan, and Canmore killed Macbeth, all to avenge their respective fathers.

* Manchurian general Chang Hsueh-liang had his father assassinated by Japanese troops in 1928. By the time he had made his way into the Kuomintang (KMT)'s military heirarchy, they were at war with the Communist Party of China (CPC), and Japan was preparing for the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar by invading Manchuria. Wanting revenge, Chang Hsueh-liang instigated the Xi'an incident, in which he kidnapped Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the KMT, who wanted to focus on fighting the CPC and ignore the Japanese. Hsueh-liang forced him to work together with the CPC to fight the Japanese, which they did. After the war, the CPC indeed did become more powerful and finally ousted the KMT, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Hsueh-liang was remembered as a national hero in modern-day China for enabling the CPC's victory.]]