Line #11 PlayingWith/RoaringRampageofRevenge


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character starts slaughtering others in the name of {{Revenge}}.
2	* '''Straight''': After her little sister [[RockThemeNaming Garnet]] [[ItsPersonal is slain by]] [[EvilOverlord Emperor Jasper's]] [[{{Mooks}} minions]], [[ActionGirl Ruby]] sets out to get revenge, even if it means [[GottaKillThemAll taking down all his generals and the emperor himself one by one]].
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Garnet is killed by Emperor Jasper's forces; Ruby proceeds to slaughter every last [[{{Mooks}} soldier]], General, every last "evil" member of TheEmpire, plus [[RevengeByProxy their families]], and [[Film/TheUsualSuspects any people that owned money to them]]; all while saving the Emperor himself for last, so he can fathom the horrors that he brought upon himself. After she cleared everyone in her hit list but Jasper, she [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge punches Jasper to death]], with [[NoHoldsBarredBeatDown nothing but bare fists]].
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Garnet gets beaten up by a set of mooks. Ruby beats up said set of mooks.
6	** When Garnet gets killed by Emperor Jasper's forces, Ruby slaps every one until Emperor Jasper himself.
7	** AngerMontage
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** Garnet was all she had left; with her death, Ruby feels she has nothing [[TheUnfettered left to live for]] save vengeance.
10	** In addition to killing Garnet, the Imperial Soldiers have killed thousands of civilians. Ruby now feels the need to punish them for it.
11	** Ruby keeps her anger focused. She hunts down and kills Emperor Jasper and his more ruthless followers, but she makes a point of sparing his innocent children.
12	* '''Inverted''':
13	** Emperor Jasper calls for Ruby's blood by his troops after she doesn't pay her dues to him.
14	** AttackOnOneIsAnAttackOnAll
15	* '''Subverted''':
16	** Ruby finally reaches Jasper, who promptly [[CurbStompBattle kicks the everliving-tar out of her.]]
17	** Ruby gets killed just as she is ready for revenge.
18	** Ruby gets into Emperor Jasper’s lair, only to already see the room littered with the blood and corpses of Emperor Jasper and his soldiers.
19	** Ruby starts slaughtering Jasper’s soldiers, but then decides to call off the rampage after getting badly wounded.
20	* '''Double Subverted''':
21	** But in her last moments, Ruby delivers the finishing blow on Jasper.
22	** Ruby [[UnfinishedBusiness becomes a vengeful ghost]] who goes on sprees of [[PeoplePuppets possessing people close to Jasper]] and killing as many as she can before the body is slain, hoping one day she will get Jasper himself.
23	** Ruby finds out that Jasper was slain by [[HeroOfAnotherStory Conan the Raging]], who had his own family massacred by Jasper [[BestServedCold fifty years ago]]. Ruby is [[VengeanceDenied not happy about not getting her pound of flesh]], but accepts that Jasper still got karma from wronging someone else.
24	** Ruby accepts that she needs to refine her methods if John Q. Regularsoldier and/or Jasper are such big obstacles. A few extra months of healing, training, gathering intel and [[NukeEm getting a more destructive weapon]] do plenty [[BestServedCold to compensate]].
25	* '''Parodied''': Emperor Jasper's minions stomp on Garnet's toes, prompting Ruby to seek their blood.
26	* '''Zig Zagged''': Ruby sets forth to eliminate them all, and gleefuly eliminates several targets, before coming to Emerald who she sympathizes with finding herself unable to go through with it. Emerald then begs for death to atone for the crime, and convinces Ruby to do one last favor for Emerald, kill the others. Badly shaken, but driven to honor the last request of Emerald, Ruby reluctantly reaches her next target, Alexandrite who she gleefully murders. At last with only Jasper remaining she is captured, Jasper asks Ruby why she has set forth to kill him. On hearing it, Jasper arranges for her to get loose, and halfheartedly fights her in the final confrontation. Once he falls, Ruby exalts in her vengeance but admits she is glad it is over so she can go back to a normal life. Then Jasper's advisers hail Ruby as the new Empress, on orders of the repentant Emperor's last will and testament.
27	* '''Averted''': After Garnet's death, Ruby seeks only Jasper's blood.
28	* '''Enforced''': "We need an ExcusePlot for our HackAndSlash game -- let's give TheHero a dead little sister to avenge!"
29	* '''Lampshaded''': "You killed my sister! Prepare to die! ALL OF YOU!"
30	* '''Invoked''': The Emperor sees Ruby as a threat and deliberately provokes her into going on a suicidal mission.
31	* '''Exploited''': [[MagnificentBastard Emperor Topaz]] [[FalseFlagOperation dresses his soldiers in Emperor Jasper's uniforms]] to kill Garnet, knowing Ruby will destroy much of Jasper's realm in her vengeance.
32	* '''Defied''':
33	** Knowing the bloodshed her crusade would lead to, Ruby decides to seek justice for her sister's death in a peaceful manner.
34	** After Emperor Jasper realises the ramifications of his actions, he isolates himself away from his followers, to protect them from her wrath.
35	** Emperor Jasper makes sure to execute everything and everybody who could potentially seek revenge for any of his slights. Not unsurprisingly, it ends up giving him a reputation as a man who slaughters entire continents to be able to shoplift a candy bar in peace.
36	* '''Discussed''': "It's a wonder the Emperor is still alive, considering all the people with dead loved ones who want to gruesomely kill him."
37	* '''Conversed''': "Ruby, what are you doing?" "They deserve to die! They all deserve to die!"
38	* '''Implied''': "I've seen the bodies. She's not sparing the kids."
39	* '''Deconstructed''':
40	** Ruby's quest for vengeance takes a psychological toll on her; that's to say nothing of the collateral damage that accumulates around her. And her surviving sisters Pearl and Diamond suffer horribly and are permanently alienated from her.
41	** After her vengeance is over, Ruby soon becomes so disgusted with herself and what she did that she gives up and [[DrivenToSuicide ends it all]].
42	* '''Reconstructed''': While Ruby is sad to be alienated from her sisters, she is now the ruler of Jasper's empire allowing her to become TheHighQueen, and vows that no one will ever have to endure the loss that she did.
43	* '''Played For Laughs''': Jasper's minions just broke Garnet's leg; she'll heal soon enough... but she's been making Ruby wait on her hand and foot, driving her insane. Thus, Ruby goes to beat up Jasper and everyone else responsible, drag them back home, and make ''them'' take care of Garnet while she recovers.
44	* '''Played For Drama''': Garnet is gruesomely killed and Ruby grimly sets out to avenge her, [[Film/TheUsualSuspects choosing to target everyone and everything Emperor Jasper holds dear to him]]. After killing everyone close to him, destroying his palace, usurping his throne and driving him into exile before hunting him down half a world away and destroying nations in the process, Ruby finds that she cannot kill the pathetic wreck of a man she finds before her. Faced with the knowledge that she has abandoned her two living sisters to pursue a petty vendetta against one man, [[RevengeByProxy killing many innocents in the process]], she throws off her ill-gotten power, swears never to kill again, and goes home to her family with nothing but the clothes on her back, her killing days behind her. [[DramaticIrony She is killed by one of the vengeful relatives of a person she murdered,]] [[HeelFaceDoorSlam never seeing her family again and]] [[LaserGuidedKarma going down in history as a worse monster than Emperor Jasper]].
45	* '''Played For Horror''': After seeing what Ruby had done to her enemies, her friends and family alienate her due to her violent tendencies, thus further harming Ruby's psyche, until she eventually becomes so AxCrazy that she will become the next Emperor Jasper.
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