History RoaringRampageOfRevenge / LiveACtionTV

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The motive for the murderer in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS2E1 Death's Shadow]]", who wanted to avenge the accidental death of his illegitimate son by killing the boys who had accidentally killed him 30 years earlier.

* In the fourth season of ''Series/LasVegas'', Ed Deline's daughter Delinda is kidnapped and held for ransom by a SmugSnake calling himself "Mr. Chips"(you know, since Ed runs a casino, and [[IncrediblyLamePun casinos gamble with chips...]]). Ed pays the ransom in exchange for Delinda's release, but Chips [[UnderestimatingBadassery doublecrosses and nearly kills Ed]], making Ed [[UnstoppableRage very cranky]]. Oh, by they way, Ed used to be the [[RetiredBadass CIA's head of counter-intelligence]], and his right hand man Danny [=McCoy=], Delinda's boyfriend, is a [[InformedAbility decorated Marine Lieutenant]] with two [[WarIsHell bad tours of duty in Iraq]] under his belt. Suffice to say that Chips and his men don't get a chance to regret their duplicity.

* The fifth season premiere of ''Series/{{Cannon}}'', entitled "Nightmare", finds Cannon on the trail of the man who arranged the fatal explosion that killed his wife and child years before. [[Spoiler: It's a state Senator, who was really after the previous occupant of the apartment, a hooker who was blackmailing him over a fatal hit-and-run accident. Cannon travels to Washington, D.C., to confront the guy, almost strangling him to death before he breaks free, locks himself in his office and takes his own life.]]

* ''Series/BlackSails'': In the climax of Season 2, Flint and Miranda have arrived in Charlestown, South Carolina with the intention of proposing a partnership with Governor Peter Ashe where he would use his political influence to help them make their [[NotSoSafeHarbour Pirate Republic]] a functioning British colony again. Just as they are about to strike a deal, [[SpottingTheThread Miranda realizes that it was Governor Ashe who betrayed them so many years ago]] and is the reason they were exiled to the Bahamas in the first place. Naturally, she is absolutely furious and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lets him have it]], only to get [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] by Ashe's overzealous guards captain Rhett. Flint is arrested and sentenced to hang the next morning, only for him to be rescued by Charles Vane and his crew, who bring him back to his ship; a captured Spanish Man-O-War. Instead of escaping straight away, Flint unleashes the ships' firepower upon the city, making good on a promise he made to Ashe before escaping:

* ''Series/BlackSails'': In the climax of Season 2, Flint and Miranda have arrived in Charlestown, South Carolina with the intention of proposing a partnership with Governor Peter Ashe where he would use his political influence to help them make their PirateRepublic a functioning British colony again. Just as they are about to strike a deal, [[SpottingTheThread Miranda realizes that it was Governor Ashe who betrayed them so many years ago]] and is the reason they were exiled to the Bahamas in the first place. Naturally, she is absolutely furious and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech lets him have it]], only to get [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] by Ashe's overzealous guards captain Rhett. Flint is arrested and sentenced to hang the next morning, only for him to be rescued by Charles Vane and his crew, who bring him back to his ship; a captured Spanish Man-O-War. Instead of escaping straight away, Flint unleashes the ships' firepower upon the city, making good on a promise he made to Ashe before escaping:

* Played with in ''{{Series/Revenge}}''- we are lead to believe in the pilot episode and promos that Emily Thorne will be responsible for the death of Daniel Grayson and that she is not above murder in her quest for vengeance. Cleverly averted when it is revealed [[spoiler: that it was actually Tyler who was shot on the beach by Takeda and Daniel is unharmed. Emily's plan does not involve any blood being spilled (although things rarely go according to her plan).]]
** The promos tease this quite allot, with the deaths of Charlotte and Lydia at Emily's hands being suggested.
** Emily's plot appears to devolve into this at the end of Season 1 as she seeks to murder the man who killed her father, with greater and greater ferocity. [[spoiler: However, Nolan, his aunt Carol and memories of her father manage to reign in her bloodlust and put her back on track.]]

* Used in a number of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episodes, and always portrayed in a realistically horrifying way. The most obvious examples are "True Night" (psychotic comic book artist runs around killing the street gang who [[spoiler: murdered his pregnant fiancee in front of him]]), "Elephant's Memory" (perennially abused teenager snaps and sets out to kill everyone who's ever wronged him), "House On Fire" (man tries to avenge himself on an entire community for [[spoiler: complicity in beating and driving him out of town]] by trapping them in [[KillItWithFire burning buildings]]), and "Devil's Night" (man [[KillItWithFire burns people alive]] after [[spoiler: his life collapses after a fiery crash that left him in a coma and burned half his face off. Among his kills are the ex-con who hit him, the ex-landlord who kicked him out of his home and the ex-boss who fired him, and other people he felt slighted him just by having happy lives. His rampage would've culminated in the death of his ex-girlfriend and her family, if not for the discovery that his ex-girlfriend had had his child and [[TearJerker the kid isn't afraid of his face]] ]]).

* In the Season 10 episode "Talion" of ''Series/StargateSG1'', Teal'c goes on one after a former foe bombs a free Jaffa summit, killing "many innocent Jaffa". First he uses the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique to track down those responsible for the bombing, and then when he found out who the mastermind was he had to put down SG-1 (which he does in [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp fashion]]) and then defeated the architect of the bombing in melee combat after being wounded with staff weapons and having the holy hell beaten out of him.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': Main character Rick Grimes goes on a rampage in the underbelly of the prison in season 3 after his wife Lori dies in childbirth. He takes a hatchet and kills any zombie he comes across, taking extra time on the one who ate Lori's remains. He then has a mental breakdown, hallucinating that his dead friends are talking to him over a rotary phone.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'':
** Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E18Legends Legends]]" overlaps this with GottaKillThemAll. When noted Dallas mobster Samuel Viscardi is convicted for a number of serious crimes his organization had committed, his son and heir and the episode's BigBad, Michael, becomes the new leader of his organization, and begins his reign by going after and killing everyone who imprisoned his father, from the head juror to the judge, to the prosecuting attorney, Alex.

* In ''Series/{{Rome}}'' Vorenus and Pullo go on one of these when Vorenus thinks his children have been killed. A very, very, very short rampage, because Pullo and Vorenus are ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill personified.

* ''Star Trek'':
** In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Doomsday Weapon", Commodore Decker uses his higher rank to take control of the ''Enterprise'' and force them to go after the machine that killed his crew. The crew ''tries'' to play by the rules to get him to stand down, but Kirk is forced to pull a ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem to do this.
** Any fans of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' remember who the Husnock are? Or should I say, were? Killing a man's wife is bad, especially if said man has power rivaling one of the Q.
*** To put this in perspective, the Husnock that the energy being (who often took on a human form out of convenience) killed off numbered fifty billion at the time. The being killed them with a single thought, in a single moment of grief-stricken rage.
*** Worf flips out after K'ehleyr is murdered. It doesn't end well for Duras.
*** Unsurprisingly, roaring rampages of revenge are an important religious ritual in [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon culture]]. At the time of K'ehleyr's murder, Worf has been expelled from Klingon society and considered to have no rights. But revenge is so central to Klingon beliefs that taking down his wife's murderer is an exception to that rule. In the [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]] episode ''Shadows and Symbols'', Martok, Bashir, Quark, and O'Brien accompany Worf in destroying an entire Dominion shipyard to honor [[spoiler: Jadzia's]] memory. Early on, his companions realize that Worf is being far more zealous in his task than tradition requires.
** In ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' episode "Stardust City Rag", Seven of Nine goes on one when Icheb is killed by Bjayzl, having been vivisected for his Borg parts and left to die, forcing Seven to give her surrogate son a MercyKill.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Main character Rick Grimes goes on a rampage in the underbelly of the prison in season 3 after his wife Lori dies in childbirth. He takes a hatchet and kills any zombie he comes across, taking extra time on the one who ate Lori's remains. He then has a mental breakdowns, hallucinating that his dead friends are talking to him over a rotary phone.

* In ''Series/TheXFiles'', Scully [[TheStoic of all people]] has one of these in the episode "Beyond the Sea", when Mulder is seriously injured after following the information of a psychic on death row (a guy he earlier helped put in jail). Scully goes to said psychic and screams at him that if Mulder dies, she will ''personally'' throw the switch on him. See also PrecisionFStrike.

** The Master has a short, but very memorable one, near the end of second part of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]. Earlier, it was discovered the "sound of drums" in his head which drove him ''insane'' since he was 8 was actually a beacon for the trapped Time Lords to try and break the Time Lock. After the Doctor TakesAThirdOption to stop the return of Gallifrey and the Time Lords, the Master repays his old friend and wreaks vengeance against Rassilon for having been the cause of the mental torment since childhood, having shot ''blasts at energy'' at him. The next time we see the Master or Rassilon, they have both regenerated, implying that [[MutualKill they killed each other]] in the aforementioned encounter.

* In one episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', Josh [[BewareTheNiceOnes angrily tries to attack Drake after the latter makes him miss his important chemistry exam]], only to get himself thrown out of class again.
-->'''Josh:''' ''(points at Drake)'' [[YouExclamation You!]]\\
'''Drake:''' [[DefensiveWhat What?]]\\
'''Josh:''' Raaaaaaaaaaah! Come here! Come here, you wanna tussle!\\
'''Mr. Roland:''' Mr. Nichols! [[GetOut You will leave this classroom now!]]\\
'''Josh:''' But I--\\
'''Mr. Roland:''' Now!\\
'''Josh:''' I just--\\
'''Mr. Roland:''' [[RuleOfThree Now!]]\\
'''Josh:''' ''(leaves)'' [[OhCrap Now...]]

* In ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', the Rangers decide to go on one after the Armada attempt to destroy Earth's major cities with a massive missile strike. The failed missile attack already knocked out a portion of the Armada while the Rangers' assault clear out another portion.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Doomsday Weapon", Commodore Decker uses his higher rank to take control of the ''Enterprise'' and force them to go after the machine that killed his crew. The crew ''tries'' to play by the rules to get him to stand down, but Kirk is forced to pull a ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem to do this.

* In ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', Mitchell goes on one when he finds out [[spoiler: Lucy tried to kill him and successfully killed of most of his clan]].

* In ''Series/CSIMiami'', the Mala Noche gang is stupid enough to snipe [[spoiler:Marisol, Horatio's wife]]. Horatio tracks them to Brazil and murders her killer in cold blood. Don't mess with Horatio Caine - or anyone he loves.

** Season 9's "Legends" overlaps this with GottaKillThemAll. When noted Dallas mobster Samuel Viscardi is convicted for a number of serious crimes his organization had committed, his son and heir and the episode's BigBad, Michael, becomes the new leader of his organization, and begins his reign by going after and killing everyone who imprisoned his father, from the head juror to the judge, to the prosecuting attorney, Alex.

** Season 9's "Legends" overlaps this with GottaKillThemAll. When noted Dallas mobster Samuel Viscardi is convicted for a number of serious crimes his organization had committed, his son and heir and the episode's BigBad, Michael, becomes the new leader of his organization, and begins his reign by going after everyone who imprisoned his father, from the head juror to the judge, to the prosecuting attorney, Alex.

** Season 9's "Legends" overlaps this with GottaKillThemAll. When noted Dallas mobster Samuel Viscardi is convicted for a number of serious crimes his organization had committed, his son and heir, Michael, becomes the new leader of his organization, and begins his reign by going after everyone who imprisoned his father, from the head juror to the judge, to the prosecuting attorney, Alex.