History RoaringRampageOfRevenge / LiveACtionTV

** Memmo, one of the Mala Noches who killed [[spoiler: Horatio's wife]] later escaped from prison and went on a deadly rampage not against Horatio & Co. but [[spoiler: the people who put his daughter in harm's way, from the nurses who turned her away from the hospital to the head of the foster-care placement system who left her with a neglectful woman. This guy's actions were so {{egregious}} that ''Horatio basically lets Memmo kill him'']].

** All the Stark children have a strong desire for revenge against those who harmed their family and their home. Arya in particular has an ever-expanding kill list of people who have wronged her, her family or her friends, and of those who she sees as particularly evil. Eventually Sansa and Jon succeed in extracting this from the Boltons, who they wipe out forever with the death of Ramsay Bolton, while Arya murders "Lame" Lothar Frey, "Black" Walder Rivers and Lord Walder Frey; the latter was the last surviving conspirator for the Red Wedding and the former two murdered Talisa and Catelyn. In addition, Sandor finds himself forced to help Arya carry out her own on Frey soldiers after the Red Wedding.

** All the Stark children have a strong desire for revenge against those who harmed their family and their home. Arya in particular has an ever-expanding kill list of people who have wronged her, her family or her friends, and of those who she sees as particularly evil. Eventually Sansa and Jon succeed in extracting this from the Boltons, who they wipe out forever with the death of Ramsay Bolton, while Arya murders "Lame" Lothar Frey, "Black" Walder Rivers and Lord Walder Frey; the latter was the last surviving conspirator for the Red Wedding and the former two murdered Talisa and Catelyn.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' once parodied Disney's recent (for 2015) trend of making live-action remakes of their animated movies by reimagining ''{{Film/Bambi}}'' as one of these. Creator/DwayneJohnson (the episode's host) played the title character.

** Any time Tony or Ziva go down for the count and the other gets wind of it... ''not pretty.''

** A truly scary one occurs after [[spoiler: Diane (ex-wife #3)]] is [[BoomHeadshot sniped]] by [[spoiler: Sergei Mishnev]] in a way that deliberately mimics the aforementioned [[spoiler: Caitlin Todd]]. Gibbs tracks him down to his hiding place, shoots his way through his {{Mooks}}, and gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Unfortunately for Gibbs, a previously unnoticed mook gives him a TapOnTheHead; by the time Gibbs wakes up, [[spoiler: Sergei]] has escaped.

* 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]] ]]).

* ''TheWalkingDead''

* The Governor​, after some of his men refuse to attack Rick's group, he mows them down with an assualt rifle

** All the Stark children have a strong desire for revenge against those who harmed their family and their home. Arya in partivular has an ever-expanding kill list of people who have wronged her, her family or her friends, and of those who she sees as particularly evil. Eventually Sansa and Jon succeed in extracting this from the Boltons, who they wipe out forever with the death of Ramsay Bolton, while Arya murders "Lame" Lothar Frey, "Black" Walder Rivers and Lord Walder Frey; the latter was the last surviving conspirator for the Red Wedding and the former two murdered Talisa and Catelyn.

** All the Stark children have a strong desire for revenge against those who harmed their family and their home. Eventually Sansa and Jon succeed in extracting this from the Boltons, who they wipe out forever with the death of Ramsay Bolton, while Arya murders "Lame" Lothar Frey, "Black" Walder Rivers and Lord Walder Frey; the latter was the last surviving conspirator for the Red Wedding and the former two murdered Talisa and Catelyn.

* Set up but ultimately subverted in a ''Series/GameOfThrones'' episode. After finding his new friends murdered by members of the Brotherhood Without Banners, Sandor Clegane seizes an axe and starts hunting them down... only to find that the murderers have already been captured by the rest of the Brotherhood and were about to be hanged as punishment. They offer Clegane the opportunity to kill one personally as vengeance, but he's already so disappointed by the anticlimactic situation that he takes little satisfaction in the act itself.

** The Master has gotten a short, but very memorable one, near the end of second part of "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.

** John himself spends an entire episode pursuing [[DirtyCop Officer Simmons]], following the previous episode when Simmon fatally shot [[FriendOnTheForce Detective Carter]], all while being severely injured himself. He torches a car with people inside, breaks a man's legs and leaves him hanging, then [[OneManArmy single-handedly neutralizes an entire squad of U.S. Marshalls]] to get to the only person who knows Simmons' location, and [[ToThePain promises torture]] if the information isn't given.

* ''StepByStep'': The Season 7 episode "Phoney Business," where Frank finds out that the suntan lotion commercial daughter Al was starring was actually taped for a phone sex hotline. Frank asks Rich to tell him what he knows about the commercial (after which he threatens Rich if he's known to ever watch the commercial again) ... after which he confronts the commercial's corrupt advertising salesman. When the salesman tries to bluff his way out of the situation, Frank [[PapaWolf goes berserk]], grabbing the producer by his collar and holding him three-fourths of the way out the window to force him to talk. Frank then rips apart the office to find the original master tape, which he then threatens to show to the producer's boss unless he immediately asks the TV stations to kill the commercial … then adds afterward that if he is ever known to be producing smutty commercials again involving teenaged girls, he'll be back and it won't be good. In the postscript, Al is forgiven (and learns a lesson about reading the fine print, doing a background check, etc.), but it is implied that big brother J.T. – who got Al the job in the first place – has an angry father to look forward to when he gets home.

* ''TheWire'' does this twice, both times with Omar -- the usual culprit behind the few over-the-top tropes in the series. The first time is played straight, with [[spoiler:Omar shaking up the entire Barksdale organization as revenge for the murder of his boyfriend, with Avon Barksdale himself narrowly escaping by luck alone]]. The second time can be seen as a subversion, as [[spoiler:the audience goes into the season expecting Omar to [[BadassLongcoat work his usual magic]] on the people who killed his friend, but he ends up failing miserably and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim dying in a spectacularly pointless and meaningless fashion]].]]

* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' Uther, after the death of Ygraine.

* ''{{Buffyverse}}'':

* In season 1, episode three of TheBorgias, [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Cesare]] promises [[BigBrotherAttraction Lucrezia]] that, should her husband prove ungallant, Cesare will cut his heart out with a dinner knife and serve it to her. Her husband, Giovanni Sforza, proves [[MaritalRapeLicense very ungallant]]. The rest of the season passes. Lucrezia's marriage is annulled. We think Cesare's just gonna let it pass. [[spoiler:But in the episode "The Choice", Cesare essentially [[GuttedLikeAFish rips Sforza open from waistline to chest, carving him up like a Thanksgiving turkey]]. He can't find a heart, apparently, but he does give Lucrezia the knife.]]

* OnceUponATime: This is Regina's defining characteristic. She wants revenge for an innocent mistake Snow White made as a little girl.

** Any time Tony or Ziva go down for the count and the other is right there when it happens... not pretty.

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

* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Jack's daughter escapes, and the villains still want to lure Jack in, so they have TheMole tell him that his daughter's body had been found. [[WhatAnIdiot Seriously. Bad. Idea.]] Jack comes in, all right -- ''[[GunsAkimbo both guns blazing]]'' -- and [[UnstoppableRage doesn't leave a single one alive]], including the (surrendering) BigBad. We all know about the MamaBear, but don't mess with a PapaWolf, either. Especially not one that's having the longest day of his life (well, one of the several longest days of his life, anyway).

* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'', Laura Roslin ''very nearly'' has one of these after Tom Zarek tells her [[spoiler: Admiral Adama has been killed (he hasn't)]] and she should surrender.

* In ''CSIMiami'', the Mala Noche gang is [[WhatAnIdiot 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.

* [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] goes out of his way to avoid these, and even acts that lead the deaths of entire races are cold and calculated (and save far more lives than they cost). The exception created the in-universe saying "Demons run when a good man goes to war".

* Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. In the second season finale of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', Agent Catelin Todd is [[spoiler: murdered by turncoat Mossad agent Ari Haswari]]. Even though he was intending to track down and kill [[spoiler: Ari]] before this for his previous actions, Gibbs loses it and goes after him full-bore in the two-part third season opener.