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15	* In ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'', Darth Maul attacked Marluxia, complete with Force Lightning...all because Marluxia said mango-strawberry was a gay flavor.
16	** And one time Aerith attacked an airline pilot just because the in-flight movie was ''Literature/TheDevilWearsPrada''. Axel declared it the best honeymoon ever.
17	** New and insanely disproportionate example: Axel and Zexion throw Riku in a volcano and nuke said volcano in an attempt to recreate the Scientology origin, trick him into creating mustard gas that burns off his flesh, and beat him with a sack of failed ideas for retribution. What did Riku do? He ''slapped them.'' And this was actually a ''good thing''. (Slapping them helped restore their memories of the original timeline.)
18	** Whom are we kidding? Ansem Retort loves this. At [[spoiler:her bachelorette party]], Aerith gets so drunk she forgets that [[spoiler:she's marrying Axel]] and runs off with another guy. The response? Axel and Zexion HIJACK AND CRASH A PLANE INTO HIS HOUSE. A PLANE. To be fair, they had already hijacked the plane earlier in the evening, before learning of the above event. Besides, they had to do SOMETHING with the plane.
19	** Axel hanging Riku from a tree with a lei, in response to Riku making the "whipped" sound ("wapish!") after seeing Aerith tell Axel to take care of their luggage. In Axel's defense, he DID warn everyone that he would hang them with a flower necklace if they made the whip noise.
20	* ''Webcomic/TheBedfellows'':
21	** On Sheen's laundry list of flaws. The first episode has him coming home from work to punch Fatigue in the face for hanging up on him, after specifically telling Fatigue to hang up.
22	** In "Aspergers," Sheen claims that he once threw water in a girl's face and called her a whore when she asked if a dress looked good on her.
23	* In ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'', [[WellIntentionedExtremist Abbey's]] anti-bullying goals and measures in chapter 62 were... [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c62/p10.html extreme]].
24	** Also, for having a not-yet-confirmed [[PuppyLove relationship]] long distance with Sandy, Mike was brutally beaten by Paulo and the Female Student Body for his friendship and [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] with Lucy in chapter 20. Twice. PlayedForLaughs.
25	* [[http://www.bloomingfaeries.com/?p=5 blooming faeries]] has some one accidentally urinate on a fairy. His punishment? After demanding a unreasonable amount of money the fairy cursed him with a semi permanent erection, an inability to speak about his feelings without swearing and to be [[BreadEggsMilkSquick repeatedly raped by any woman he gets near]]
26	* ''Webcomic/{{Bug\|Martini}}'' loves this trope:
27	** [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comic/have-you-ever/ "Stupid slow driver. Hope you get cancer."]]
28	** "God? Billy called me: "booger breather" today. [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comic/prayer-etiquette/ Please give him cancer.]]"
29	** This would also happen if [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comic/magneto-me/ the bug were Magneto]].
30	* [[http://buttersafe.com/2010/04/13/house-of-cards/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{Buttersafe}}'' strip inverts this.
31	* ''Webcomic/CarryOn'': After being hit on he head by a rock, one of the warthog warriors bearing down on Kathy and Co. [[http://www.hirezfox.com/km/co/d/20140725.html thinks his neighbor did it]]. Which leads to a BigDamnHeroes Momment in the following strip.
32	* [[HighlyVisibleNinja Tecmo]] from ''Webcomic/{{Consolers}}'' swears to get revenge on [[CloudCuckoolander Namco]], even suggesting "nuclear missiles over 100 times"... all because Namco once said Dead or Alive was [[SoOkayItsAverage "just ok"]].
33	* Mab from ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' was exiled from the fae kingdom after her friend Nutmeg, as the acting queen, passed a law that no fae may have a fluffier tail than the queen (Fae laws are rather whimsical), and Mab refused to de-fluff for anyone. Nutmeg's husband, Albanion, has a tendency to swear vendettas on anyone, including a pair of girl scouts (for not having the peanut butter cookies). Fortunately, as fae have a short attention span and a long life span, the foolish mortal that is a target of said vendetta usually dies of old age before the Fae finally comes up with the perfect revenge.
34	** At least Mab eventually got over it. Granted, she did things like run Nutmeg through the torso with a spear before she got over it, but to [[CompleteImmortality Fae]] that's barely a minor inconvenience.
35	** It is also implied that a great number of these things are examples of kidding on the square; while they really do mean it, they also don't take it very seriously. Additionally, in some cases, such as Albanion, it is heavily implied that these things are done with ulterior motives -- in the case of [[spoiler:Jyrras, it is outright stated that the bangles that he places on the inventor to signify his vendetta is basically a "do not touch" sign as far as other creatures are concerned, as no one wants to annoy a fae who has spent years, possibly decades or centuries plotting revenge. And in Jyrras' case the real reason for Albanion's vendetta was he owed Mab a favor and she wanted to keep him safe from all the creatures who wanted to stop his status quo-upsetting inventions, Albanion's state reason, refusing to accept a hug from Nutmeg, was just a pretext.]]
36	** In her [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earlier, more predatory days]], Lorenda ''[[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_108.php eats]]'' a couple of door-to-door salesmen for... well, being door-to-door salesmen.
37	* When Kimiko Ross in ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' ran out of money funding terrible InNameOnly adaptations as part of a mad experiment to use disgusted authors to generate electricity, the bank [[http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/10/dark-science-02/ dynamited her house]].
38	-->'''Kimiko''': This seems excessive on the bank's part.
39	* This is how [[Webcomic/DriveDaveKellett La Familia]] protect the secret of the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Ring Drive]]. MegaCorp steals a ship? Send half an armada to destroy their shipyards until they give it back. They try it again later? Raze their HQ. Two officers lock themselves inside the drive? Order the captain of the ship to fly it into a star. Thieves steal the plans? Eject them into space. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Naked.]]
40	* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Sarda's [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/31/episode-1089-special-delivery/ revenge on Ranger]] for having the audacity to draw quad-wielded bows on him: [[spoiler:All the arrows are magically delivered to Ranger's unsuspecting wife]]. Difficult to say whether this event should also be considered CrossingTheLineTwice or LaserGuidedKarma, being as [[MoreDakka the outrageous number of arrows]] were flying toward an innocent child at the time.
41	** He wasn't aiming for the kid, though. Sarda just moved out of the way.
42	** As it turns out, his behavior toward the Light Warriors (except for Fighter) is entirely justified: [[spoiler:He's the Onion Kid.]]
43	*** Still falls under this trope though. The Light Warriors never knew the harm they had caused the Onion Kid, and his idea of just revenge is to allow them to slaughter, torment, and torture their way up to high levels, just so he can have the fun of lowering them again. In some ways you can say he's more guilty of the atrocities than the Light Warriors, since he knew what they were doing and allowed it, while some of them were caused unknowingly by the Light Warriors.
44	* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': When Nina went to her big sister, Layla, to ask about [[spoiler: her boobs]], [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/layyyyylaaaaah! Layla made fun of her.]] So Nina decided to "get even" [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/i_borrowed_this by hijacking her sister's body]], [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/extra_honey offering to let Blair feel her up]], then went on a date with her sister's boyfriend.
45	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
46	** Ashley is normally very shy and meek, but she likes to vent by imagining herself as a powerful sorceress who inflicts a KarmicTransformation on anyone who slights her. This habit becomes [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/party-021 an actual fear]] once she learns that [[BrokenMasquerade magic is real]] and also [[MageSpecies she's a wizard]], and she's worried that when she's powerful enough she might impulsively do something horrible to someone just for a thing as minor as rudely bumping into her.
47	** When [[AuthorAvatar Dan]] [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2010-02-03 visits]] a furniture store solely to obtain a catalog with dimensions listed that he could use as a drawing reference, the store owner immediately figures out what Dan's there for and [[AngryGuardDog sics]] living ottomans with teeth on him instead of just asking him to leave.
48	** In the Dan in the MUD storyline, Dan [[http://egscomics.com/egsnp/2005-07-01 gets revenge]] on a bard who seduced her[[note]]Dan plays as a female in this instance[[/note]] by hitting him with a KamehameHadoken strong enough to obliterate the bard and toast a dragon with the splash damage.
49	* In ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'', the bride opts for a BrideAndSwitch [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-16/#.T296R9m6SuI because if anyone saw her, they would laugh, and then she would have to execute them]], which (she realizes) would be a bad start.
50	* In ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', Robert's start of darkness is when... Alisin killed his pet fish. Keith, whose start of darkness was being physically and mentally violated by Alisin, is rather unimpressed. It is noted that Robert's real problem is an unwillingness to confront reality, to the point that he would value a fish so highly due to his inability to connect with anything else, but STILL.
51	* ''Webcomic/TheFoxSister'': After Yun Hee harasses the Kumiho by plastering Pujok to ward off evil spirits all over the place, she retaliates by messily killing a group of three young men right at Yun Hee's front porch.
52	* ''Webcomic/FruitIncest'' features an ancient dragon capable of summoning giant stormclouds employed by the police to retrieve a stolen cash register.
53	* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', [[UnholyMatrimony Trudy and Trent]] apply for a job, and agree to let Trudy apply alone. Trent takes the application and fraudulently gets the job, but Trudy exposes him and gets it herself, while arranging for him to be arrested on trumped-up charges. Trent's own DisproportionateRetribution comes when he tries to frame Trudy for dropping a safe on Dwayne and expose her other safe droppings. Neither one is a very pleasant person, to say the least.
54	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Tiktoffen says he's okay with killing the other prisoners because he knows them, discussing several of the monstrous things his victims did to get them locked up in the castle, but lumps in his reasoning for killing Krag along with the mass murderers like him [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110706 putting his feet on Tiktoffen's bed was a comparable and death worthy offense.]]
55	* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': In the days of the Court's founding, the swordswoman Jeanne repeatedly rejected StalkerWithACrush and roboticist Diego. He responded by involving her in the Founders' plot to create a guardian for the Annan Waters [[spoiler:by creating an arrow device to kill her elf lover and transfix her, leading to her death by exposure and transformation into a spirit of unending sorrow and rage]].
56	* ''Webcomic/HeartCore'''s [[BigBad Royce]] considers stealing a cake to be punishable by grand theft, something that he is willing to kill people over.
57	* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', a dispute over a harlequin costume ends in blood.
58	** [[spoiler:After Aradia haunts her with creepy but harmless spirits for crippling Tavros, Vriska mindcontrols Sollux to KILL her.]]
59	*** In all fairness, we don't actually know if the ghosts were harmless.
60	*** The crippling of Tavros was itself an example since Tavros's "sin" was attempting to quit a FLARP game.
61	** Gamzee finally loses it after seeing the video for ICP's "Miracles", which he denounces as blasphemy. Dave apparently thought he'd like it.
62	** In Act 6, the Alpha session Draconian Dignitary has -- inspired by Jane's father -- made wearing suits mandatory and failing to do so punishable by death.
63	* In ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'', the party discovers that Raul and Silvah are after the elves for revenge -- Silvah because YouKilledMyFather, which is understandable. But Raul is there because the elves tricked him into thinking they would teach him their healing magic when they ''couldn't''.[[note]]it's noted to be incredibly rare even among themselves[[/note]] So he wants to sever the entire race, which would not only render them magicless and mortal, but result in the eventual disappearance of ''all'' magic because human magic comes from elven ancestry... all because they got him fired as Archmage. [[spoiler:It's implied that this is at least partly the result of his long-term use of dark magic.]]
64	* ''Webcomic/JaydenAndCrusader'''s character Computer was called a slut by the titular character Jayden, leading Computer to [[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2010/02/22/page-149/ return wielding a laser gun]] to kill her
65	* ''Webcomic/TheKennyChronicles'': "Kenny vs. Funky part 2" involves Funky kidnapping Kenny, stealing his collar (with his money and ID on it) and dropping him on the mainland; the reason, Kenny drew a picture of Funky's head on a pike. Later, Kenny's eye is temporarily injured by a (non-anthropomorphic) cat and Funky spreads rumors that he was responsible, so Kenny tries to ''kill him''.
66	** Though the reason why Kenny drew that picture in the first place is kind of an inversion, Funky took a video of him having sex in a dumpster.
67	* Vin Vulpen has a tendency to do this to Rudy in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', first contacting the Institute for Species Purity to report his teammates' unconventional lifestyles, resulting in the team getting death threats, and later pours prey pheromones on Rudy during a night hunting event, putting him in danger of being eaten by his own teammates, all largely the result of jealousy over Rudy taking his star status on the team and losing Fiona and Rhonda. After Angelique fires him from the Herd Thinners lab for making several mistakes, including blowing off her fake rat ears, he tries to frame Angelique and R.L. for fraud.
68	* Mordecai from ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' is prone to a certain degree of excess, even by gangster standards. At one point he killed a driver for having ''sinus trouble''.
69	-->'''[[NeatFreak Mordecai]]:''' He was getting snot all over everything.\
70	'''[[OnlySaneMan Viktor]]:''' Vell, now he iss getting ''brains'' all ova everything.
71	* Drew from ''Webcomic/MacHall'' has an... [[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2001-11-29 Interesting response]] to insults being written on his flat's whiteboard.
72	* In ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', [[DepravedBisexual Zii]] responds to internet trolling by driving to the troll's house (who turns out to be just a little kid), [[YourMom sleeps with his mother]] who then announces that she's divorcing his father, all while rubbing it in his face. The fanbase is [[BrokenBase rather split]] over if this is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Zii or her MoralEventHorizon.
73	* ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'': The title character's attempts at LaserGuidedKarma sometimes turn out to be this, which is perhaps justified as being a child, she doesn't have a well-developed sense of moral responsibility when it comes to her reality-warping powers. [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus3.html This]] strip being a prime example, in which a hapless balloon-seller whose product is prone to popping ends up being [[BodyHorror turned into a balloon himself]]... [[FridgeHorror which eventually pops.]] His only crimes being selling the odd defective product and getting annoyed...
74	* Pretty much most of ''Webcomic/NattyComics'' is built around this with Natty, her friend Honeycomb or her father reacting to anything even mildly offensive with extreme violence against the perpetrator.
75	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
76	** "The Linear Guild is practically synonymous with taking disproportionate revenge over quasi-imagined slights."
77	** Nale gets this from his father Tarquin. He gets a pair of bounty hunters sentenced to die in gladiatorial combat by screwing around with their paperwork. Although he did it because they tried to extort a large sum of gold out of him (an extra 42,000 gold pieces, which amounts to 840 pounds of gold), they only did it because they were trying to keep up with the barrage of ''Franchise/StarWars'' references that just occurred. Their "thermal detonator" was a can of soup, they immediately backed down when it was pointed out, and they flat out admitted that's the only reason they did it.
78	** Tarquin is forgiving of his children, even though they both flat out have tried to ''kill'' him. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes and MoralMyopia. [[spoiler:Eventually, Tarquin gives Nale some proportionate retribution. After a lifetime of constantly undermining him and just after killing his best friend in [[DeaderThanDead an unrecoverable way]], Nale tells his father in no uncertain terms that he doesn't want anything from him. After verifying that is truly what he wants, Tarquin revokes his protection and stabs Nale in the chest.]]
79	** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0628.html Escalation of responses.]] V killed the dragon's son. The dragon was going to kill V's entire immediate family (spouse and two children) before binding the children's souls to make resurrecting them or safe passage to the afterlife impossible, and leave that plane so V could never save the childrens' souls or get revenge. V then killed the dragon, every dragon directly related to her, ''and'' every dragon related to those [[spoiler:and [[InterspeciesRomance not just the dragons]]]]. By V's own figures, that was roughly one-quarter of the black dragons alive at the time.
80	** Haley and Crystal's deadly feud started over a catty conversation where they each insulted the other's hair and boots respectively.
81	** When Roy and Xykon first meet, Xykon mocks Roy for "overreaction", although of course this is entirely self-serving, considering that the crime Roy (and his father) are after him for is ''murder'':
82	---> So, let me get this straight. Your father spent his entire life looking for me over [[ButForMeItWasTuesday a largely inconsequential killing?]]...And he was too much of a loser to get the job done before croaking, so now you, [[WellDoneSonGuy Loser Jr.]], have taken up the task?...Y'know, I've destroyed entire towns and the most I got from the surviving families were a few snarky comments. You, sir, have a serious problem with overreaction.
83	* Angelo ''blows an underling to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill atoms]]'' for criticizing Brian's meeting plans in [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0113.html this comic]] of ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure''. Brian was a bit upset over it, but got over it quickly.
84	* In ''Webcomic/OutAtHome'', Mim responds to Herman firing her (for spreading rumors about him) by vowing to murder him. She's [[http://www.out-at-home.com/archives/824 not very good at it]], though.
85	* In ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'', one of their best Pacificators, [[LightEmUp Castella]] [[GoodIsNotNice Brandsford]], [[SanitySlippage lost it]] and murdered ''thousands'' of people, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters because she was driven to seek justice by any costs]], before she was finally killed herself. Ever since, the regular people have lived in fear of another Pacificator losing their mind like Castella did.
86	* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip has Tycho threatening to enact this trope when Gabe tries to diss ''VideoGame/WarhammerOnline''. And boy, is it disproportionate.
87	* One mini-arc of ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'' was akin to the ''Webcomic/MenageA3'' story mentioned above, with Zig-Zag going around and getting revenge on internet trolls in humiliating and destructive ways, even sleeping with one's mom in a homage to that storyline. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome She got hit with a ton of lawsuits and it was used as evidence against her in a court case]].
88	* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'':
89	** {{Invoked\|Trope}} when Superman [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2404 rebrands]] himself as Disproportionate Response Man with an AllCrimesAreEqual strategy.
90	** PlayedForLaughs when a man tries praying to Jesus but [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/christ gets]] the Old Testament God instead:
91	--->'''God:''' And your office is firing you. Well let them become ''[[TakenForGranite salt]]!'' Salt more bitter than the tears their sons and daughters will weep!
92	** In [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-11-21 another comic]], a dying woman's only regret is that her son felt she thought too much of impermanent things. So she decides to have her ashes turned into a diamond.
93	--->'''Husband:''' That's beautiful. What cut would you like?
94	--->'''Woman:''' ''[[EnergyWeapon Lens]]''.
95	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
96	** It's often subverted by the fact that in military operations, "overwhelming force" is not at all an unreasonable place to start from. One in-universe saying is "There is no overkill. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'"
97	** Early in the comic, Schlock vaporized a pair of [[AmoralAttorney Partnership]] [[HiveMind Collective]] attorney drones after misinterpreting an order to fire them. The normal penalty for killing a soulless drone is a thousand kilocreds, but the PC decided instead to declare all out war on Tagon's Toughs with relativistic kill vehicles and conversion bombs. [[spoiler: Later it turns out the Collective had been suborned by the Gatekeepers trying to suppress the teraport drive invented by the Toughs' munitions officer.]]
98	** One space station had a Food and Drug Administration with armed commandoes for shutting down restaurants (or visiting starships) that didn't comply with their health and safety regulations.
99	** A reality TV host for a glamor show makes fun of [[ActionGirl Elf]] while she's shopping. His miniature camera ends up [[AssShove somewhere that medical help is needed to remove it.]][[note]]And then the Toughs are hired to 'kill' the show by someone that saw the broadcast; they end up deciding the ''easiest'' way to do it is wipe out '''the network'''.[[/note]]
100	** A planetary legislature hasn't allocated funds to replace their orbital defenses (instead choosing to put the money towards their own re-election campaigns), a couple months after god-like AI Petey defended them from attempted orbital bombardment. Petey finds this irresponsible, and exiles them to the Andromeda galaxy. Just to grind the knife in, he did it by teraporting them there using a lightly-shielded frigate that they could have easily fought off with even a single defense platform. Once the legislature is gone, an unarmed civilian ore freighter destroys the frigate.
101	** The [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Ob'enn]] at one point decide to grind one of the protagonists into sausage because he was insufficiently polite during his interrogation.
102	* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': [[SeriousBusiness Eternal Vengeance]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3830 for tripping.]] Y'know, cause he wasn't looking where he was walking.
103	** Trike Girl's servicing [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] with a restraining order over his obsessing The Little Red Haired Girl is because Charlie Brown is a prepubescent kid with no history of violence and doesn't know better, so it's the kind of thing that would be best cleared up by having her parents/the teacher talk with him instead of potentially giving a little kid a criminal record.
104	** Not to mention that she is really only talked about seen in school or in areas like a park, so saying he is obsessed over her is also disproportionate.
105	** Either way, intentionally or not, Trike Girl pretty much embodies this trope, causing trouble even or especially for entities that realistically have nothing whatsoever to do with her [[StrawFeminism sole ostensible character trait]], and constantly deriding women for their minor lifestyle choices with essentially no provocation, essentially attempting to brainwash them into paranoid clones of herself for offenses like dressing "too provocatively" or "not fighting the patriarchy hard enough".
106	* ''WebComic/{{Sire}}'': Susan chokes Paul to death because he didn't pay enough attention to her. It's not PlayedForLaughs, either.
107	* Bun-Bun from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' hates being bothered by telemarketers; the kind of hate that makes someone go on a ''Film/KillBill'' style RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He'll respond to ''any'' slight with extreme savagery, though; telemarketers are just at the top of the list.
108	** Gwynn has a tendency to do very nasty things to people for petty slights. The worst example is when she almost caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, selling her soul to a world ending demon to kill Riff as revenge for [[WomanScorned trying to cheat]] on her.
109	** Then there's the time Riff sics Bun-Bun on HarmlessVillain Minion Master because "he questioned my scienceness."
110	** When chipmunks steal tomatoes from Torg's garden, he and Riff plot [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/111116 "Operation Orange Tomato"]], which involves plans to exterminate all chipmunks.
111	* ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'': A guy accidentally calls ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s Meg Griffin a man. Chris-Chan gets upset. The guy accidentally calls him a woman. He punches the man in the face.
112	* In ''Webcomic/{{Superosity}}'', Jork's rival Hayseed faked the death of Jork's wife and wiped her memory...because Jork once insulted Hayseed's favorite tie. A tie which read "Jork Sucks".
113	* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'': Trace's wife dies from a poisoned arrow, he reacts to this by taking over his mage order, turning them from Jedi-like peacekeepers into an army of {{Knight Templar}}s and launching a campaign of genocide on the race of the guy who shot her. Granted, he did do most of this under the influence of [[PsychoSerum the dark mana]] he used to try and resurrect his wife, but still...
114	** His current girlfriend just got a minor flesh wound. His reaction? ''KILL EVERYTHING''
115	* ''Webcomic/UnOrdinary'': [[spoiler: John's entire personality eventually becomes this, with him believing everyone is as bad as he is and taking out his self-loathing on all of them.]] Arlo even points it out to him at one point, when [[spoiler: John]] picks yet another fight with him:
116	-->'''[[spoiler: John]]''': YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST MOVE ON?! WHAT ABOUT '''ME''', HUH? '''YOU''' DID THIS TO ME! '''YOU''' MADE ME LIKE THIS, YOU PIECE OF SH*T! NOW '''YOU''' WANNA ACT LIKE '''NOTHING''' HAPPENED WHEN '''YOU''' STARTED ALL OF THIS?! THIS IS ALL '''YOUR''' FAULT!\
117	'''Arlo''': Yes, I '''did''' start all of this! I can't undo it, and so I've '''paid''' my price! You wanted to destroy me? Humiliate me? You wanted the throne? The school? You got '''all''' of that! I have '''nothing''' left to give you!
118	* ''Webcomic/VanVonHunter'' features a character who ''dedicates'' himself to this. His name is Vengeance Joe, and he is on a quest to slay Von Hunter for not introducing himself.
119	* In ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'' Sterk shoots a non-vegan StrawMan in the head when the poor guy points out that [[StrawmanHasAPoint humans are omnivores]].
120	* In [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=269 this]] ''Webcomic/VGCats'' strip, Leo spends the first half of the comic making lame jokes. Aeris' response is to go back in time and abort him out of existence.
121	* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' had [[http://www.xkcd.com/396/ this strip]], where one character's response to [[MemeticMutation getting Rickrolled]] is to upload the cursed video from ''Film/TheRing'' to Website/{{Youtube}}, where it's viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
122	** Black Hat Man, given his personality of doing JerkAss things ForTheEvulz, has been seen [[http://www.xkcd.com/562/ cutting a car in half because it was parked across two spaces,]] [[http://www.xkcd.com/169/ cutting off a man's hand because he fell victim to bad communication and verbal trickery,]] and there's [[http://www.xkcd.com/377/ the time where he got his signature black hat stolen]], which he responds to by doing [[http://www.xkcd.com/405/ crashing a Russian nuclear submarine through the sheet of ice the thief and her friend are skating on.]]
123	* Altair's plan for the destruction of Hell in ''Webcomic/WhiteDarkLife'' is done simply because [[spoiler:[[HotAsHell Artemis]] fell in love with him. To do so he absorbs the souls of sinners that have been granted redemption after decades of torture so that he can eventually gain enough power to [[CessationOfExistence permanently erase Hell's entire existence]].]]
124	** Another example happens in the RP cross work where [[spoiler:in order to get back at Mordred for trying to kill her kids. Tori declares the ENTIRE HEROES LEAGUE her enemies, so that she can deny Miriam from ever interacting with Ne ever again. Yes. Tori attacked her old friends, to attack the person who cared the most about Ne that wasn't related to him, to upset the person who tried to kill Ne.]]
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