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25->''"[[JustForFun/{{Hello}} Hello.]] [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya My name is Inigo Montoya.]] [[TropeNamers You killed my father.]] [[PrepareToDie Prepare to die.]]"''
26-->-- '''Inigo Montoya''', ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. (See [[Quotes/YouKilledMyFather the Quotes page]] for the whole story.)
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28When one of the villains [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest kills the parent]] (usually father) or even [[FamilyExtermination the entire family]] of one of the heroes, it'll be that hero who kills that villain in question, even if this isn't an explicit act of vengeance. Occasionally, it's the mother, but this is rarer, and usually crops up in cases [[DisappearedDad where the father is unaccounted for]]. Sometimes the villain killed both parents, but the mother will barely get a mention. If even more {{Angst}} is needed, then expect a case of LukeIAmYourFather. Mothers more frequently appear in TurnOutLikeHisFather, because they are afraid if the child tries to get {{Revenge}}, he will only die, too; [[GenreBlindness the success rate in preventing this trope is very low]].
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30Often, the villain will taunt the hero about the death of their parent. [[RelativeButton This assures the hero's victory.]] Other times, the villain [[ButForMeItWasTuesday just won't remember]]. Usually does the same, but funnier/more monstrous, depending on the circumstances. This is a very common way of tormenting the ExtremelyProtectiveChild.
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32If the parent's killer subsequently [[KillTheParentRaiseTheChild raised the child]], this can lead to some especially heated interpersonal dynamics -- especially if they did not originally tell the child what happened to their birth parents.
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34This is a SubTrope of ItsPersonal and a Super-Trope to CrusadingWidow, 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.
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36!!Example subpages:
37[[index]]
38* YouKilledMyFather/AnimeAndManga
39* YouKilledMyFather/ComicBooks
40* [[YouKilledMyFather/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
41* YouKilledMyFather/{{Literature}}
42* YouKilledMyFather/LiveActionTV
43* YouKilledMyFather/VideoGames
44[[/index]]
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46!!Other examples:
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48[[foldercontrol]]
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50[[folder:Audio Plays]]
51* Scratch from ''AudioPlay/WereAlive'' swears revenge on [[spoiler:Pegs]] after she kills [[spoiler:Latch]] during the War.
52[[/folder]]
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54[[folder:Fan Works]]
55* ''Fanfic/{{Atonement}}'' has Amy Dallon. Maybe Crawler ''shouldn't'' have killed off Amy's father just as she was getting to understand him. He might have lived longer that way.
56* [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Bethany]], in ''Fanfic/BeyondHeroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium'', is already on the warpath against Corypheus because she's [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition the Inquisitor]]. But it becomes far more pronounced after the battle at Adamant, when she holds him personally responsible for the deaths of [[spoiler:her brothers]].
57* ''Fanfic/AMeaningfulSacrifice'': After Gwi-nam murders Seongmin, Joon-yeong's mother, by pulling her off the balcony, Joon-yeong is so devastated and grief stricken and enraged that he kills Gwi-nam, who has not yet recovered from the fall in an incredibly gory scene.
58* Aoi Myoujin from ''[[Fanfic/TheChessgameOfTheGods The Blue Stranger, the Red Curtain]]''. Aoi spent his whole life hunting down his parents' murderer, and boy did he enjoy every second of payback, right before he got busted by the cops and got whisked away to Equestria.
59* In ''Fanfic/DanganronpaLastHurrah'', the fourth culprit, [[spoiler:Umeko Midori]], is motivated by a desire to avenge [[spoiler:her]] parents' deaths. It turns out that some of the culprit's classmates are responsible -- [[spoiler:Samuru and Mako]] were apparently involved with the mother's death, and [[spoiler:Reyes, as Sparkling Justice,]] killed the father. Since [[spoiler:Reyes, who was killed in the third chapter,]] is dead by this point, the culprit instead kills [[spoiler:Mako, as well as making a failed attempt on Samuru's life]].
60* In ''Fanfic/DaughterOfFireAndSteel'', Kara feels absolutely furious when she learns that Zod got her father Zor-El killed.
61-->Kara couldn't believe it. All these years she had looked up to that man when in fact he had engineered her father's death. Terrax may have been the murderer but Zod was the one who set him loose. Kara felt a rage she hadn't felt in years, not since the sentencing of Terrax by the Council.
62* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 2 of the sequel ''Diplomat at Large'', it's noted that Queen Scolopidia ''really'' wants to be the one to eliminate the Gmork that fatally injured her mother, and is not thrilled that she's been forced to leave it to her hive's elite soldiers instead.
63* ''Fanfic/DistortionsSymphogear'': Samantha Acamporra's reason for joining the Four Horsemen is because she holds [[Anime/{{Symphogear}} SONG]] responsible for the death of her brother.
64* ''Fanfic/EdenObsessmuch'': Hermione is horrified when [[spoiler:Lucius Malfoy]] murders her parents despite willing to [[ScarpiaUltimatum let him rape her to spare them]]. [[spoiler:That and him raping her later anyway makes her falling for him and having his child even more unpleasant.]]
65* Cloud and Tifa from ''WebAnimation/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]].
66* ''Fanfic/FireDarkMark'': During one battle, Doctor Doom (apparently) kills off the Fantastic Four, triggering an explosive reaction from Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman's son Franklin Richards.
67-->'''Franklin Richards:''' He killed my daddy! He killed my daddy! He killed my daddy, and my mommy, and Uncle Johnny, an'... an' Uncle Ben! I'm gonna kill him, Miss Agatha! I'm going to kill HIM!
68* In ''Fanfic/TheFlashSentryChronicles'', Iron Core and Tidal Wave both joined the Royal Knights because their parents were killed by Longhorn and Pirates respectively.
69* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Berserker blames ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} for his mother's death, regardless of the fact that Supergirl killed her evil duplicate in self-defense:
70-->'''Berserker:''' I will avenge my mother's death. I will avenge your honor. I will make her pay for blocking the True Path. I WILL DESTROY THE SUPERGIRL.
71* 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 Butterfly 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.
72* Distraught from ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic: The Movie'''s motivation. And in this case, his father is [[spoiler:Discord, the villain of the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' two-parter "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E2TheReturnOfHarmonyPart2 of Harmony]]"]].
73* In ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'', Misato gets to pay [=ADAM=] back for killing her father during Second Impact by shooting him in the chest with the Positron Cannon while on foot. She even gets to give him a BadassBoast ''to his face''.
74-->'''ADAM: I REMEMBER YOU.'''\
75'''Misato:''' Good. Because I sure remember you too.\
76'''ADAM: WHAT ARE YOU?'''\
77'''Misato:''' My name is Misato Katsuragi. Lieutenant Colonel of NERV. Daughter of Shiro Katsuragi, the stupid son of a bitch who woke you up. I am the daughter of a murdered man and the only human being to look on you with their own eyes and live to tell about it. I am the ''right hand of retribution'' and the last human being you will ''ever'' see, you glow in the dark mother f_er. Now smile asshole. Because this... ''[throws the "fire" switch on the positron cannon]'' is my seventeen years of f_ing ''payback!''
78* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/OldWest'' provides a villainous example; the [[PsychoForHire kingsnake mercenary Henry]] seeks revenge on [[UnscrupulousHero Rattlesnake Jake]] for killing his brother. Ironically, Henry is an {{Expy}} of Frank from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'', and [[spoiler:Harmonica]] from the same movie targets Frank for the same reason, making Henry a [[CompositeCharacter combination of the two characters]].
79* In chapter 17 of ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'', Misato explains to her ward Asuka that she wants to exterminate the [[EldritchAbomination Angels]] because her father died during Second Impact.
80* In ''Fanfic/OutOfTheCornerOfTheEye'', [[spoiler:Paco]] is so obsessed with getting revenge on the man who killed his parents that he [[DealWithTheDevil agrees]] to be [[DemonicPossession host]] to Hsi Wu's spirit in exchange for the power to do so.
81* ''Fanfic/ThePowerOfTheEquinox'': After Dimmed Star kills many royal guards while rampaging [[DemonicPossession under the Entity's influence]], one of the guards' father, Business Savvy, is dead-set on seeing to it that she'll be locked up for life. After that fails and Dimmed Star walks free, two of his fellow council members, Hasty Vote and Wind Rider, convince him to help them in dealing with his son's killer.
82* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13041974/1/Sailor-John-A-Pirate-s-Vendetta Sailor John: A Pirate's Vendetta]]'', [[TheDragon Seymour Murphy]] teams up with Sailor John to destroy [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas]] because long ago, his father was killed by a Stirling Single (Emily's class), and he's sworn revenge on the entire class, [[MisplacedRetribution regardless of whether or not they're guilty]].
83* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'':
84** Vera Bexley [[FantasticRacism hates Mogriffs with a passion]] because her grandfather was killed by them.
85** Caleb's strong hatred of Phobos and his loyalists is partially tied to his assumption that his MissingMom was a victim of their tyranny.
86** Ilitia's grandfather, who was a Phobos loyalist, was killed when Cedric ordered her village to be burned to the ground because several rebels stayed at the inn, making her bitter both at Cedric and Phobos.
87* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'': A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]], non-lethal variant; Anastasia's hatred of Maggie Simpson is primarily derived from the fact that Maggie [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E1WhoShotMrBurnsPartTwo shot Anastasia's father]] ten years ago.
88* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', during the Fourth Ninja War Konan gets the chance to confront face to face a revived Hanzo of the Salamander for causing Yahiko's death, and by extension for ruining her and Nagato's lives afterwards.
89* In the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', the current Batman wants bring the Joker to justice for his father's murder.
90* In ''Fanfic/WhatTomorrowBrings'', Tobias mockingly informs the Animorphs' first Yeerk captive that he is Elfangor's son to make it clear that he will take great pleasure in watching the Yeerks die.
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94* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Towards Ernesto, after learning that the man murdered Héctor and became famous from his work.
95* ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'': This is Mandrake's reasoning in taking the pod holding the life of the forest; a Leafman warrior ''did'' kill his son. (Of course, it's not really justified as Mandrake struck first, and he was going to take the pod anyway.)
96* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'': Subverted. 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]].
97* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'': 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.)
98* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' plays with this trope, with Po finding out that [[BigBad Lord Shen]] committed genocide against the other pandas, including his [[MissingMom biological]] [[DisappearedDad parents]]. Only at the climax, Po's motivation to take down Shen is still the safety of his friends, family, and the rest of China rather than for retribution. [[spoiler:And at the end, it is revealed that his father and some others survived.]]
99* ''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.
100-->'''Scar:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. Killed. Mufasa.]]\
101'''Simba:''' '''MURDERER!!!!!!'''
102* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Protagonist Ariel knew Ursula was bad news to begin with, but [[spoiler:turning Ariel's father into a polyp is what sets her off]].
103* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'':
104** Averted in the fight scene between Tarzan and Sabor. In the prologue, the latter killed not only the former's biological parents, but Kerchak and Kala's biological infant son, whom Tarzan replaced. However, by this point in the movie, Tarzan still believes that he is a gorilla and that Kerchak and Kala are his biological parents.
105** Played straight when [[spoiler:Clayton kills Kerchak. Even though the former wounded Tarzan's arm only about ten seconds ago, this is when Tarzan takes on Clayton. And it involves an uncanny ability to imitate a gunshot.]]
106* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': Zurg has Buzz cornered.
107-->'''Zurg:''' Surrender, Buzz Lightyear. I have won.\
108'''Buzz:''' I'll never give in. You killed my father!\
109'''Zurg:''' No, Buzz. [[LukeIAmYourFather I]] ''[[LukeIAmYourFather am]]'' [[LukeIAmYourFather your father.]]\
110'''Buzz:''' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!]]
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113[[folder:Manhua]]
114* This is Chang Ge's motivation at the beginning of ''Manhua/{{Choukakou}}'', [[spoiler:as her parents and all her brothers were killed by her uncle, [[TheEmperor Li Shimin]]]].
115[[/folder]]
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117[[folder:Music]]
118* Music/TheDecemberists' "Mariner's Revenge Song" has lyrics that are all about why the person being sung to is responsible for the death of the singer's mother, and how he is now going to finally take his revenge.
119* "Cow Patti" by Jim Stafford is about a cowgirl who hunts down a man for killing her father.
120* Inverted in Music/TheyMightBeGiants' spoken-word piece "Lesson 16" (a parody of those language-learning tapes), in which John Linnell reveals that he killed your father in order to get with your mother.
121-->I wrung his neck. Like a duckling.
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124[[folder:Mythology & Religion]]
125* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Elektra and her brother Orestes avenge the death of their father, Agamemnon, by killing his murderer, Clytemnestra... who is their mother, who killed him for killing the other kid, Iphigenia. Now ''that'' is a BigScrewedUpFamily.
126* In Myth/EgyptianMythology, Horus feuds with Set over the throne to avenge his father, Osiris, after his murder at Set's hands. Somewhat unusually for this trope, early versions of the Osiris myth actually had Horus ''forgive'' Set for killing his father after Set repented for it; they then divided Egypt equally between them (symbolizing the union between Upper and Lower Egypt). As Set was increasingly demonized as a GodOfEvil after invasions from the Hyksos, this changed and Horus took the traditional route of banishing or killing Set in retribution instead.
127* Myth/ArthurianLegend:
128** In the older stories, Myth/KingArthur's father was killed by the Saxons.
129** Arthur's father killed Morgana's father.
130* According to Myth/NorseMythology, Vidarr, the god of vengeance himself, will pull this on Fenrir at Ragnarök for killing Vidarr's father Odin.
131* Invoked in ''Literature/{{Waltharius}}'': When the Frankish king Gunther orders his retainers to attack Walther for the sake of Walther's treasure chests, his retainer Hagen refuses to fight against his old friend Walther until after Walther has slain eleven Frankish champions, one of them being Hagen's own nephew Patavrid. When Gunther finally convinces Hagen to fight, and Walther accuses him of behaving dishonorably, Hagen replies that Walther himself ended their friendship by killing Patavrid, and that he is going to avenge his nephew. However, the facts that Hagen earlier told Gunther that he would not break his friendship to Walther for the sake of Patavrid alone, and that he remained passive while Walther killed five more Frankish champions after Patavrid, imply that this is an attempt at self-justification rather than objective truth. After fighting each other to a draw, Hagen and Walther reconcile and renew their friendship, without Hagen having avenged Patavrid.
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135* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The 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:
136** Richard Havelyn, who starts his quest to avenge his father Thomas after the first book and becomes the party's main nemesis for most part of the game. He even commands a retinue called the Sons of Balentyne, all of them related to an important NPC the players killed.
137** Killing the angel Ara Mathra incurs the ire of his brother Ara Zandra.
138** The final boss Princess Bellinda has this threefold, as over the course of the campaign the party will have killed her brother, father, and most likely her mother.
139** As a villainous foil to the Princess, if the black dragon Jeratheon lives to see Bellinda kill his father Chargammon, he will most likely join the party to kill her in return.
140* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'': This is why Baron Blade and Legacy are each other's ArchEnemy. Legacy's grandfather (referred to by his card as America's Greatest Legacy) fought against Baron Blade's father and inadvertantly killed him. Years later, on growing to manhood, Baron Blade hunted down America's Greatest Legacy and killed him in revenge.
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143[[folder:Theatre]]
144* ''Theatre/{{Electra}}'':
145** Orestes kills his mother and her lover, Aegisthus, for killing Agamemnon. Electra herself has spent years reminding them that this is why she wants them dead.
146** It's AllThereInTheManual that Aegisthus was sired and raised to avenge his half-brothers' murders.
147* The plot of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is set in motion when the ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him and tells him to avenge his murder at the hands of his brother (Hamlet's uncle).
148** A second incidence in which Hamlet stabs [[spoiler: Polonius]] to death in a case of MistakenIdentity is what seals his fate. [[spoiler: The murder drives Polonius' [[TheOphelia daughter]] (and Hamlet's former sweetheart) [[SanitySlippage mad]] and then [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]]. Polonius' son Laertes swears vengeance, which he achieves at grievous cost to almost everyone who is still alive by this point.]] [[DownerEnding This is a Shakespearian tragedy, after all.]]
149* In the stage adaptation of ''Theatre/TheLittleMermaid'', Triton initially believes that humans caused the death of [[TheLostLenore his wife]] and [[MissingMom Ariel's mother]], but the climax reveals that [[spoiler:his sister]] Ursula killed her. She perishes shortly after thanks to Ariel smashing her [[AmplifierArtifact magic nautilus shell]].
150%%* In ''Theatre/DerRingDesNibelungen'', this is the most Siegfried ever learns as to the Wanderer's identity. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; how does he react?)
151* Deconstructed in ''Theatre/IlTrovatore'', where Azucena avenges the killing of her mother by the Count di Luna's father by kidnapping the Count's baby brother and throwing him on the fire where her mother was being burned alive. [[spoiler:Later we discover that Azucena actually threw her ''own'' son on the fire, and raised the Count's brother as her own son, just so that twenty years later she could trick the Count into killing his own brother, thus also illustrating RevengeBeforeReason.]]
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154[[folder:Web Animation]]
155* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': "You MURDERER! You killed my brother!...I mean computer!"
156* ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicCinematicUniverse'': After Saquesh is killed by Hanharr in ''Episode VI: Knights and the Darkness Pt. I'', the Wookiee bounty hunter lies to the Quarren's [[RelatedInTheAdaptation brother]] and fellow Exchange boss Visquis that Meetra Surik killed Saquesh, giving Visquis a more personal reason to capture the ex-Jedi than he has in the [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords source material]].
157* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}:''
158** Gretchen Rainhart enlisted in Beacon Academy to become a Huntress, but tragically died during a training mission. Her brother Hazel blames Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon, for her death and has vowed to kill him in revenge.
159** When finally face-to-face with the BigBad Salem, Yang airs her grievances with her, including her [[spoiler:killing Yang's stepmother Summer Rose]].
160* ''WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad'': "Ckhk. She killed my dog." "Um... 'kay."
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163[[folder:Webcomics]]
164* [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/05/28/episode-1133-pretty-obvious-really/ One]] ''WebComic/EightBitTheater'' strip reveals that this trope is the reason [[spoiler:Sarda]] antagonizes the Light Warriors, and Black Mage in particular -- [[spoiler:he is apparently the FutureBadass version of [[ChewToy Onion Kid]], whose parents the group killed.]]
165* ''Webcomic/AkumasComics'':
166** Jenny Wily hates Doc Robot in large part for killing her father in cold blood [[ResignationsNotAccepted for trying to resign from]] [[LegionOfDoom the Ministry]]. The other part is she considers him an unoriginal hack when designing robots.
167** The Undertaker, head of said Ministry, initially started wanting revenge for the death of his father the Sprite Eater, namely Akuma, for doing the deed. He eventually grows out of it and becomes focused on his own self-improvement and power growth.
168* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'': "[[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040914c My name is Mega Man! You killed my dog! Prepare to die!]]"
169%%* In the webcomic ''Elven Lacryment'', it's the mother who is killed. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; whose mother, and by whom?)
170* In ''[[Webcomic/FlintlockesGuideToAzeroth Flintlocke Vs. The Horde]]'', Rok'Tar swears revenge against Flintlocke for this very reason, oblivious of the fact that his father is an NPC who regenerates after a few minutes.
171* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
172** Agatha comes across Von Pinn, who tore her foster parents to pieces in front of her. Von Pinn then brushes them off as "disposable caretakers" when Agatha tells her that she'll destroy her for it. Agatha's furious destructive response sends Von Pinn through all the floors of the castle to a hidden chamber deep beneath the basement.
173** Right after Beausoleil kills [[spoiler:the Master of Paris]], his victim's daughter, who is having a rather brilliant [[TheSparkOfGenius breakthrough]], [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170614 jumps to perch on an electrical orb directly behind him]]. He has a moment to register that this is bad before she destroys all of his false bodies at once, forcing him to feel all of them.
174--->"THINK OF IT '''AS A FINAL MOMENT OF ''SANITY''.'''"
175* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Jack manages to kill [[spoiler:Dave's brother (technically biological father), John's father, and Rose's mother]]. This sends [[spoiler:Rose]] into a murderous rage to hunt him down. Much later in [S] Game Over, Rose flies into a similar rage, this time at the Condesce when she kills [[spoiler:Rose's love interest Kanaya]].
176* ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'': Acheron has always assumed that his father died somehow but doesn't know much about it because he was too young to remember and his mother doesn't speak of it. Late in the story, he discovers [[spoiler:that his father was killed by an elf for not keeping their secret deal a secret, even though it was the elves who reneged first by welching on the magical protection they had agreed to give the da'kor. Acheron's hatred lasts only a short time after Lei'ella reminds him sharply that the elves are victimizing their own kind too. On the other hand, Silvah--who turns out to actually ''be'' Acheron, soul-swapped with Kayn'dar--eagerly joins Raul's plan to sever the elves en masse... a plan that will not kill them directly, but force them to live as mortals like the other races.]]
177* ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': Lampshaded by Richard.
178-->"YOU KILLED OUR FATHER!"\
179"YOU MADE HIM USE A TIRED CLICHE!"
180* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'':
181** The comic plays with this in one strip where it ends where the father-killer is, himself, a father, starting the process over again with his son.
182** In the Justice/Atonement arcs, a man is out to avenge his parents... who died due to winter. So he decides to kill the AnthropomorphicPersonification of winter, the Ice Queen. It doesn't work, and after meeting (and sleeping with) several Anthropomorphic Personifications (of Justice, Enlightenment, Inevitability, Hope, etc.) he meets the Anthropomorphic Personification of "Easy Answers", [[spoiler:who tells him that his parents faked their deaths to get rid of him. "On account of you're a prat."]]
183* ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'': [[spoiler:Kroak confronts Gerrah, who killed his parents.]]
184* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
185** Eugene Greenhilt (Roy's father) swore a blood oath of revenge on Xykon for killing his mentor (Eugene's own father was alive or had died of natural causes at that point, but in either case the two were estranged). However, it's utterly subverted as Eugene eventually ditches that ambition and dies of natural causes. Roy's own motivation to take out Xykon is the Blood Oath passed down from his father, but this too is subverted eventually. Roy decides that Xykon needs to die because he is an evil prick, not because of a personal vendetta.
186** Belkar is confronted [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0348.html here]] by Yokyok, the son of a kobold he murdered earlier in the story. Actually a parody of the trope since, while Belkar is on the protagonists' side, he is ChaoticEvil, while Yokyok is LawfulGood but was recruited by the villains specifically because he's Belkar's opposite. Finally, it's Belkar who wins. The whole scene is a (very funny) reference to ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
187* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', the child of a much earlier ArcVillain appears, [[AvengingTheVillain bent on revenge]]. Immediately {{Subverted|Trope}} when the child's [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-10-39/ grievance]] turns out to be that their ''inheritance'' was destroyed in the fight that killed their parent.
188* Parodied in the ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship'' comic "[[http://pbfcomics.com/149/ Sven's Revenge]]" in which the titular Sven thinks he's killed the shark that killed his father, only to find that the supposed distinguishing characteristic of said shark is ubiquitous to this common and widespread species.
189* Parodied in ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3265#comic #3265]]: A father's ghost appears to his son demanding him to take revenge for his death. But since he died because of shoddy electrical wiring, the son has to go on a killing spree through representatives of all the different agents who were responsible for its production. Thus, the reason he gives for his murders isn't "You killed my father" but "Globalization."
190* A variation in [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20010722.html this strip]] of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
191-->'''Gasht'g'd'g'tang:''' I'm Gasht'g'd'g'tang. Your gate-copy killed my son. Prepare to die.
192* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace both learns who her father was and that Damien killed him [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-03-17 at the same time]].
193-->'''Grace:''' He had to of been my father, and you killed him right in front of me!
194* ''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 official Princess of Jahad.
195* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''WebComic/{{Unsounded}}'' by [[TheBrute Knock-Me-Down]]:
196-->Lemme trank Junior. I got a policy of kids not watchin' me crash their parents. In ten years a '''''masked avenger''''''ll show up to ruin me day.
197* In [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1264366 this]] ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Celestia's]] Servant Interview'' comic, in a panel clearly building off established FridgeHorror about Tirek's magic theft, Derpy declares a desire to kill Tirek on the grounds that her father lost his life as a direct result of Tirek's actions. We even get the ''Princess Bride'' quote.
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201* In the Improfanfic ''Literature/DarkHeartHigh'', Craig Maimsworth kills (well, lobotomizes) the monster that killed his father.
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205* This is used for AdaptationalSympathy in ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' when it's revealed that [[spoiler:the primary reason Dr Gero wants Goku dead is because his son was among the soldiers killed during Goku's raid on the Red Ribbon HQ (in canon, his son died to enemy gunfire in a completely unrelated battle).]]
206* PlayedForLaughs in one of Cake Station's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm8faI5_TTM analysis videos]] on fighting sequences in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. The example given involves two guys -- Punch Man and Kick Man -- fighting. Punch Man's father was kicked to death by Kick Man and so now he wants to break Kick Man's legs in revenge.
207* In ''WebVideo/StreetFighterTheLaterYears'', Dhalsim worries that Chun-Li won't listen to M. Bison about the tournament because he killed her father. Bison's not worried about it:
208-->'''Bison:''' Oh, c'mon guys, I killed your [Dhalsim] father and yours [Vega]. And most of Zangief's extended family, it was a different time.\
209'''Zangief:''' They said that fire was an accident.
210* A RunningGag in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' is [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] being unable to remember Inigo Montoya's "You killed my father" line. He ends up substituting in "mother", "brother", "lawyer", and finally, "hamster". The one time he gets it right... is the time he introduces himself as Amigo Toyota.
211* The motivation of two (or sort of three) of the heroes of ''WebVideo/TalesFromMyDDCampaign'' for their ItsPersonal attitude towards the evil [[FishPeople Kua-Toa]]. Little One lost his mother, Angel lost her mentor in [[MurderInc The Organization]], and Draven Rowe lost his ancestral lands (though his parents got out okay).
212* ''WebVideo/TheVampireDiariesADarkerTruth'': Or rather sister in this case, but Jason is out to kill Stefan because he believes Stefan killed his sister. It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:it was Damon and not Stefan who killed his sister]].
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216* Parodied (like everything else) in ''WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes: The Animated Series''. Facing an army of homicidal love apples, pizza shop owner Wilbur Finletter voices his rage at the global ban on tomato cultivation, which has forced him to sell tomato-free pizza: "You killed my business, prepare to die!"
217* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
218** In the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSouthernRaiders The Southern Raiders]]", 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, "My name is Katara of the Southern water Tribe. You killed my mother. Prepare to die!" still eventually became a {{meme|ticMutation}}.
219** In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', when Season 3 BigBad Zaheer apparently kills Korra's father Tonraq by airbending him off a cliff (he's 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]].
220* ''Franchise/Ben10'':
221** In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' episode "[[Recap/Ben10AlienForceS3E18Vendetta 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]].
222** 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?!"]].
223* In ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', 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.
224* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
225** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers arranged to have Terry [=McGinnis's=] father killed, so Terry becomes the next 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 [[Recap/BatmanBeyondS1E13Ascension the season finale]]:
226--->'''Blight:''' Who are you?!\
227'''Batman:''' ...You really want to know?\
228'''Blight:''' Yes!\
229'''Batman:''' You killed my father.\
230''[{{beat}}]''\
231'''Blight:''' ''[irritated]'' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!]]\
232'''Batman:''' Too bad. It's all you get.\
233'''Terry:''' So... [[CreateYourOwnVillain I made him that]]?\
234'''Bruce Wayne:''' You may have, in part.\
235'''Terry:''' Good.\
236''[Bruce looks at him funny]''\
237'''Terry:''' Hey, this guy had my father murdered and all he's done since is hide from the law. Well, no more hiding for Mr. Derek Powers. Now everyone can [[PowerGlows see]] what he is... [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even in the dark]].
238** Elsewhere in the DCAU, the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E6DoubleDate Double Date]]" 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]].
239* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': A reconstruction example. [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceCallum Callum]] outright stated that he ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness hates]]'' Avizandum for killing his mother but instead of feeling happy about Avizandum's death, he's angry, sad, and confused. He doesn't forgive the older dragon but feels bad for Zym because the young dragon lost his father before he was hatched.
240* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E2LeelasHomeworld Leela's Homeworld]]". 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.]]
241* ''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.
242* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS1E10FightFighters Fight Fighters]]", Rumble [=McSkirmish=]'s motivation for fighting Dr. Karate is that the latter killed his father... again. Dipper later claims that this happened to him in order to get Rumble to fight Robbie for him.
243* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E6TheGreatLouseDetective The Great Louse Detective]]", Frank Grimes Jr. tries to kill Homer because Homer's idiocy indirectly killed Frank Sr. in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy an earlier episode]].
244* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E8MakeLoveNotWarcraft Make Love, Not Warcraft]]". After giving Stan the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sword of a Thousand truths]] in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Stan's father's character is mortally wounded by the episode's Player Killer antagonist, and dies a mournful death in the arms of Stan's character. Stan confronts the Player Killer dramatically with "You killed my father."
245* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
246** 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 Mary Jane. Kraven is very nearly killed by Spider-Man's UnstoppableRage, and only survives when Spider-Man realizes what's happening.
247** ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'':
248*** Peter seems unable to interact with [[spoiler:Walter Hardy]] without showing how much he hates him for the murder of Uncle Ben, his uncle/adoptive parent.
249*** A non-fatal inversion: since [[spoiler:Hardy]] [[TheAtoner refuses to break out of jail]], his daughter [[spoiler:Black Cat]] cuts ties with Peter, blaming him for the fact that her father will spend the rest of his life away from her.
250* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In the [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E20DeathTrap Season]] [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E21R2ComeHome 2]] [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E22LethalTrackdown finale]], Boba Fett tracks down Mace Windu, trying to kill him for killing Boba's father Jango, with the help of another bounty hunter named Aurra Sing. The plan for killing Windu starts off with a motion-activated bomb, comes to a head with an ''entire Jedi cruiser'' being destroyed, and finally ends with Boba and Aurra trying to use hostages to get Windu's attention. Made quite impressive if you consider that Boba is eleven or twelve at the time.
251* ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'':
252** One particularly awesome moment out of the mostly {{Narm}}ful cartoon 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:
253--->'''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!'''''
254** On top of this, he ''also'' killed Cammy's parents, giving her the same motivation as Chun-Li.
255* In ''WesternAnimation/StretchArmstrongAndTheFlexFighters'', Dr. C trained [[spoiler:Riya Dashti]] to become the CyberNinja Blindstrike to help carry out revenge for the murder of Blindstrike's parents, two of Dr. C's colleagues.
256* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
257** In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', 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.
258** In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', 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.]]
259* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/XavierRenegadeAngel'': Xavier spends most of the first season trying to do this, completely unaware that he killed his own parents [[spoiler:or at least his father]] by accidentally burning his house down.
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263* During the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Bordereau Renée Bordereau]] (1770-1824), a countrywoman from the Anjou, lost several relatives to the Terror and and witnessed the butchering of her father. She then dressed as a man (not that hard, apparently, as she was described as very ugly) to fight in the wars in the Vendée on the royalist side, evading capture until 1809. We only got her own words (i. e. her memoirs, written in 1814) for it, but she claimed once to have killed 21 men in a single battle.
264* In the days of TheWildWest, TheGunslinger John Wesley Hardin was famed for his bloodthirstiness and killed two dozen or so men. Even so, he ended up being released from prison because his term was up and was free to wander about doing mischief (yeah, that's TheGovernment for you). The brother of one man he had killed slipped up to him and [[CombatPragmatist shot him]] InTheBack. This VigilanteMan was given a pardon from the governor because the governor thought, with a [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem lack of lawfulness]] but not completely without logic, that John Wesley Hardin "needed killin'".
265* The [[UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} Khmer Rouge]] seemed to be aware of this trope. When they executed someone, they also made sure to kill their children afterwards. The reason: "to stop them growing up and taking revenge for their parents' deaths". During their reign, Cambodia lost a third of its population, and it's conceivable that, had they held on for another decade, [[MayorOfAGhostTown they'd have no population left]].
266* Feudal Japan's samurai made this a morbid tradition. The Code of Bushido makes avenging your master/teacher/father a core duty, for things like cutting him down in battle for example. As samurai tend to teach the family business to their kids, as it were, the result was often blood feuds stretching across generations, each side believing itself to be the heroic, righteous, and honorable party while the other side the vile villains without self-reflective irony. This also comes with a dash of WickedCultured, as these honor duels eventually developed their own elaborate code of conduct and manners.
267* This was horribly invoked by Heinrich Himmler during a speech for Navy officers: He explained that he had [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust to murder the wives and the children]] of [[LaResistance the partisans]] and the "Jewish commissars" so that they didn't avenge the death of their fathers when they grew up...
268* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_I_of_Sweden Gustav Vasa]] led a massive Swedish independence war against the Union of Kalmar. The reason for this was that his father, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Johansson_Vasa Erik Johansson Vasa]], was one of the eighty Swedish noblemen murdered during the Stockholm Bloodbath (when King Christian II of Denmark executed eighty Swedes despite promising them amnesty). Gustav won the war, ended Danish rule in Sweden, and became king.
269* When he came to power, one of the first things King UsefulNotes/CharlesII did was execute those who signed off on the execution of [[UsefulNotes/CharlesI his father]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath through hanging, drawing, and quartering]]. While he couldn't get back at UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell himself for [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar taking down his dad]] (as he was already dead), Charles II did get his revenge symbolically by [[DishonoredDead trying his corpse and having it beheaded, then sticking the head on a pike]].
270* Invoked with the tragic case of Hana Kimura, a 22yo wrestler from Wrestling/WorldWonderRingStardom who was part of the reality show ''Series/TerraceHouse'', in which after a scene of the show, she was cyberbullied and became depressed enough to be DrivenToSuicide in 2020. Her mother Kyoko Kimura, also a retired wrestler, stated in interviews that "Fuji TV killed my daughter", and the worldwide shock, not just in the wrestling world and for TV fans, was enough to cancel the reality show indefinitely.
271* 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.
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