Line #22 RoaringRampageOfRevenge/RealLife


1	->''Do not count days. Do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is your child's plea. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not miss. Do not let up.'' '''''Kill.'''''
2	-->--'''Ilya Ehrenburg''', ''[[CommieLand Pravda]]'', [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo 1942]]
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4	* During the Union's campaign in the South in the twilight of the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, this was very much the feeling, especially towards the "snake-pit of secession", South Carolina. Columbia was burnt to the ground, and Atlanta and Charleston suffered extensive damage. One Southern diarist recounted: "[The Northern soldiers] say they are sorry for the women and children, but South Carolina must be destroyed". William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea", an extended scorched-earth campaign designed to decisively destroy the Confederacy's ability to wage war, was another example:
5	-->''So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,''\
6	''Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main.''\
7	''Treason fled before us for resistance was in vain,''\
8	''While we were'' '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTjxqZWWmgc marching through Georgia.]]''' ''
9	** As memorialized in ''Film/{{Andersonville}}'', Union [=POW=]s in [[POWCamp Andersonville Prison]] were terrorised by a brutal gang known as the Andersonville Raiders who would brutalize and rob their fellow prisoners for food and supplies, murdering those who resisted, and even if they weren't killed outright the victims often died as a result of the robbery due to the [[HellholePrison brutal conditions]] of the camp. Eventually the general inmate population had enough and, with permission from prison authorities, formed a posse known as the Andersonville Regulators in June 1864 to take down the Raiders. The Regulators proceeded to launch a full assault on the Raider's headquarters and, after fierce fighting, took most of them prisoner, with many of those who escaped being rounded up over the following days. With full permission from the Confederate authorities, the Regulators then held a series of mock trials of captured Raiders which ended in the six leading Raiders being sentenced to death and hanged within the prison walls while others were hung up by the thumbs, half-hanged[[note]]Hanged until almost dead before being cut down and resuscitated[[/note]] or forced to run the gauntlet past fellow inmates who beat them with clubs, which left many Raiders severely injured or even dead. Needless to say, that was the end of the Andersonville Raiders.
10	* When 14th-century French noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson's husband was betrayed by his best friend and executed for treason, she sold all the Clisson lands to buy a fleet of warships, painted them black and dyed the sails red, and made herself a pirate admiral who only attacked French ships. If she found any noblemen aboard, she would execute them by beheading, the same fate that ended her husband's life. But she would always leave at least one sailor alive, so she could send him off with a message -- "Tell the king of France that [[BadassBoast the Lioness of Brittany is coming for him]]." (She never did get to kill the king, but the aid she provided to the English side likely played a significant role in the English victory at Crecy, one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War.)
11	* The Fall of Saigon could be viewed as this from the North Vietnamese perspective.
12	* Octavian Caesar and Marc Antony ruthlessly hunting down the Tyrannicides of Julius Caesar, making this OlderThanFeudalism.
13	** As well as the failed revenge campaign of Pompey the Great's son, Sextus, against the Second Triumvirate of Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus.
14	** Antony was not as vengeful as you might think. While it's true that Antony and Caesar were close friends for much of their lives as well as cousins they were not on particularly good terms when Caesar was assassinated. To compound matters everyone (including Antony) expected him to be Caesar's primary heir, but when the will was read Antony's name was not even mentioned. Plutarch went as far as to suggest that Antony knew about the plot and allowed it to happen, and for his part, Antony actually pardoned the assassins at first. Though he famously denounced them as murderers during his eulogy of Caesar. (Octavian on the other hand epitomized this trope, going as far as to recruit an army and march on Rome while he was ''nineteen''.)
15	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lechfeld_(955) The Battle of Lechfeld]] is a medieval example. [[HordesFromTheEast Pagan Hungarian Nomads]] had taken advantage of a rebellion in East Francia to RapePillageAndBurn their way across the kingdom. Deciding enough was enough, King Otto I called 8,000 heavily armored knights and infantrymen together at Lechfeld to do battle with the invaders. Despite being outnumbered two to one by deadly horse archers, the German knights pinned them down and slaughtered the Hungarians to a man. One thousand were killed in battle, 1,500 were killed by local farmers defending their lands, and 2,000 more were chased down and slain while attempting to flee. All in all, this put an end to Hungarian incursions into Western Europe.
16	* As referred to in a film about the life of Wyatt Earp, after the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Earp hunted down and killed most of the Clanton gang. Not because of the shootout; because three weeks later, Ike's boys shot and killed Wyatt's brother Morgan, while he was playing billiards. And did it from behind, to boot. The famed gunfight was just business for Wyatt, due to his being town marshal and the Clantons refusing to abide by the local "no guns inside the deadline" ordinance. Shooting his brother InTheBack made it personal.
17	* Following the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Israel's Mossad launched several operations to kill as many Palestinian operatives as they could find information on who may or may not have been associated with the attack. Israel still denies the operations took place (as they were ''extremely'' illegal in international law).
18	* There was also Operation Nemesis [[MeaningfulName (named after the Greek Goddess of divine retribution)]] carried out by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, which was payback for the Armenian Genocide. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nemesis For more information, look here.]]
19	* In general, if a human is killed by a predatory animal such as a bear, shark, tiger or similiar the local community WILL try to hunt it and put it down - both as revenge and to prevent future disasters, as a predator who has killed and especially eaten a human may not stop at one victim.
20	* When Creator/SteveIrwin died, some Australians did not take his death well and condemned the stingrays, the creature that killed him (in self-defence). Thus, shortly after, the mutilated remains of several stingrays were found on Australian beaches: [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge dragged ashore with their tails symbolically hacked off, before being violently tortured to death.]] Irwin's friends took notice and condemned the mutilators, because [[FriendToAllLivingThings Irwin]] wouldn't have wanted retribution on those who caused his death. In other words, the same animals that Steve Irwin dedicated his life to ''preserving''.
21	* The utter carnage wreaked by the Red Army when it entered Germany during World War II was seen by the Soviets as justified vengeance for the 25+ million dead (the vast majority civilians) that the Soviet Union had suffered. To use the word "hatred" to describe Soviet feelings about the Germans is to reveal the limitations of the English language in describing emotion: practically every single Soviet soldier at this point in the war had a personal, murderous vendetta against Germany that was finally being given vent.
22	** And the burning fire of Soviet vengeance only got hotter when the Red Army discovered the real reason why the Nazis wanted Russia and the fate that awaited every Slav had the Nazis actually won. With the deaths by starvation of a ''majority'' of Soviet [=POWs=] (along with millions of Soviet civilians) under the Nazi Hunger Plan, the ''Generalplan Ost'' scheme to replace the Slavic population with German colonists, and the discovery of the mass graves at Kerch and Babi Yar and the death camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz, the Great Patriotic War became more about the Slavic peoples' fighting for the right to ''exist''.
23	** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Oktyabrskaya Mariya Oktyabrskaya]] may be one of the Red Army's shining examples of this trope, when her husband was killed in action near Kiev in 1941 she enlisted and sold all her possessions to raise the 50,000 roubles needed to donate a tank to the army on one condition, they let her drive, the State Defence Committee agreed thinking it'd be good publicity. When she arrived at the battle of Smolensk in 1943 the other soldiers considered her a publicity stunt... until she started fighting, maneuvering her T-34, emblazoned with the words "[[CrusadingWidow Fighting Girlfriend]]", like a veteran. She destroyed many German machine gun and artillery positions and was the first of her brigade to breach the enemy positions. And [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=64071327108 that was only the beginning of her two-year campaign against the Nazis]], which would ultimately gain her the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest award for military bravery offered by the USSR.
24	* The Western Allies had several UsefulNotes/WorldWarII examples of their own:
25	** The United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was intended as a decisive attack that would cripple the Americans' ability to enforce various embargoes and scare them off from a war, but due to [[DidntThinkThisThrough a terrible miscalculation of national character]] instead pissed off the "nation of shopkeepers", such that they were drowning the Japanese in men, ships, and planes even by 1943 (the war ended in 1945), [[TheTokyoFireball burned pretty much every major city on the islands to the ground]] and [[NukeEm blew two more clean off the map with experimental weapons]] before they were finished.
26	** In March of 1944, Chindit George Cairns was involved in attack on a Japanese-held hill. When a Japanese officer hacked off his arm with a katana, he went berserk, killed him, grabbed the katana in his remaining arm, and sprinted up the hill, cutting down any Japanese soldier that was anywhere near him. He left a trail of blood and dead and wounded Japanese in his wake until he fell over dead from blood loss, [[SarcasmMode or because his blood-rage became so potent that it literally overloaded his mortal body and caused his spirit to transcend into the personification of war.]] You decide.
27	** "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind" - [[GeneralRipper Air Chief Marshall "Bomber" Harris, Royal Air Force.]] The British were so pissed off at German bombing of their country that they focused on attacking at night to demoralize the population rather than follow the USAF's doctrine of using them as precision strikes against enemy factories and such.
28	** On a recon mission in WWII, [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/major?rq=leo%20major Leo Major's]] best friend Willy was killed by Nazis. Leo responded by strapping [[MoreDakka three machine guns to his back]], grabbing a sack of grenades, and went [[UnstoppableRage on the warpath]], leaving a trail of destruction so great the Nazis [[OneManArmy were convinced they were fighting an entire attack force]]. He proceeded to bust down a door and kill four Nazi high commanders before burning down the Gestapo headquarters nearby. He proved to be [[ImplacableMan such an unstoppable killing machine,]] the entire Nazi garrison ''retreated''.
29	** When the Dachau concentration camp was liberated in 1945, American soldiers were appalled at what they saw. So appalled that they rounded up a number of guards and executed them through machine-gun fire. Liberated Jewish inmates also got in on the action and took much more brutal revenge on the guards, beating and stomping them to death. They also killed Kapos and informers. So many soldiers and inmates took part in this that US Army investigations into Allied war crimes were unable to determine individual responsibility, and it was attributed to an UnstoppableRage resulting from the sheer horror that met those men.
30	*** Similar scenes occurred after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp, an infamously brutal camp for political prisoners. While most of the guards had fled, some remained and were subjected to brutal revenge by the prisoners. Around 30 or so former guards and kapos were brutally murdered in the aftermath of the liberation, and a similar number were killed in the Gusen subcamp where weaker inmates were left to die. Other guards were forced to do hard labour as they had previously done to the prisoners, including having to carry large stone bricks across the yard or being subjected to gruelling physical drilling while the prisoners beat them. Camp commandant Franz Ziereis was captured and shot several weeks later, with his corpse being hung up on the fence by jubilant former inmates.
31	** In the Second World War, after [[CurbStompBattle the Battle of the Denmark Strait]], in which the German battleship ''Bismarck'' sank the HMS ''Hood'' with a single salvo, UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill gave a single order: sink the ''Bismarck''. The entire Royal Navy took the ''Hood'''s sinking personally and so every RN ship in the Atlantic and some from the Mediterranean were directed to find and sink the ''Bismarck'' at any cost. They proceeded to chase her down and [[DeathByAThousandCuts disable her rudder, then her bridge and fire control]], leaving her a wreck that was scuttled by her own crew. Afterward, the professionalism of the RN took over again and Admiral John Tovey, commander of the British Home Fleet and the guy in charge of the search for the ''Bismarck'', remarked [[WorthyOpponent "The Bismarck had put up a most gallant fight against impossible odds worthy of the old days of the Imperial German Navy, and she went down with her colours flying"]].
32	** After ''Kampfgruppe'' Joachim Peiper murdered a number of civilians and American prisoners of war (the "Malmedy Massacre") during the Battle of the Bulge, the U.S. Army made it part of their battle plan to destroy Joachim Peiper and his unit (a battlegroup of the 1st SS Panzer Division). Peiper ended up walking back in deep snow to the main German lines with no tanks and about 770 men remaining. But that was only the beginning. He and a number of his men were then tried after the war for the murders, convicted, and sentenced to death. The sentences were commuted, and Peiper was released from prison at the end of 1956. He moved to France in 1972, but when his identity was revealed in a local newspaper in 1976, his house was burned down with him in it. The case remains open to this day, as even the nationality of his killers (who called themselves "The Avengers") was unknown; Peiper had been accused of similar deeds in both Italy and Russia, generally involving burning down villages.
33	* The Nazis themselves were not known for letting things go.
34	** UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler considered World War 2 as a whole to be revenge against Europe for the Treaty of Versailles.
35	** When seventeen-year-old Herschel Grynzpan learned that his family had been deported from Germany by the Nazis along with many others, he responded by gunning down Ernst vom Rath, a German official who he had been seeing, as a form of protest against what the Nazis were doing. Unfortunately for Grynzpan, and for a great many Jews still living in Germany, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom this was just the excuse the Nazis were looking for]] to launch the infamous pogrom known as ''Kristallnacht'' -- the Night of Broken Glass -- in which the SA, the Hitler Youth, and various German citizens smashed the windows of Jewish businesses, ransacked Jewish homes, burned down synagogues and arrested no fewer than 30,000 Jewish people all throughout Germany, in [[FromBadToWorse what would prove to be the beginning]] of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust one of the worst genocides of human history]].
36	** When UsefulNotes/ReinhardHeydrich, Hitler's right-hand man, was assassinated by a Czech resistance cell, the German response was to hunt down and eliminate the cell before unleashing a wave of terror upon Czechoslovakia, killing around 5000 Czechs and razing the villages of Lidice and Ležáky to the ground.
37	** In general, Nazi policy was to respond with mass reprisal if conquered people wronged them in any way. If any German soldier was attacked or killed, a certain number of the local populace, usually numbering in the thousands, were to be slaughtered. Their allies, the Ustasha, sometimes took this even further; wiping out the entire Lika region in retaliation for some soldiers allegedly being shot at in a village in the region.
38	* After being gang-raped by villagers incited by the upper-caste man who killed her lover, the Thakur Sri Ram, Phoolan Devi put together her own gang of bandits and avenged reports of rape and abuse through castration and dismemberment of the perpetrators. Based on reports that Sri Ram could be found in one of those villages, she returned with her gang and, in frustration at not being able to find him, executed 22 Thakur men, turning her into India's most wanted but also a [[http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/phoolan_devi/7.html folk hero eventually elected to Parliament]]. Fictionalized as the film ''Bandit Queen''.
39	* When Queen Boudica's husband died, the Roman moneylender Seneca called in a debt of 40,000,000 sesterces (a debt the Iceni neither agreed to nor wanted). The men sent in to collect this debt also had Boudica flogged and raped her two daughters in front of her. In response, Boudica rallied a massive army of rebel Celts and led a bloody crusade against the Romans occupying Britain. Before she was stopped, she massacred three of Britain's largest Roman cities, slaughtering at least 70,000 civilians in the process. It required three entire Roman legions to finally bring her down.
40	** That is, the first legion that tried it found itself outnumbered fifty to one at least, so no surprise at the result there (all the infantry were wiped out, some of the cavalry and the senior officers escaped). Boudica's last battle, the Battle of Watling Street, saw her faced by two legions, mustering about 5% of her own numbers. It was a complete CurbStompBattle, but not the way Boudica was hoping. Afterwards The Roman Legions - many of whom doubtlessly lost someone in Boudica's sackings and were pissed - took their own revenge. They completely cut her men to pieces, chased down those who tried to flee, and after the fight, some of the Roman soldiers butchered the families of the rebels (they were brought out to watch the expected victory from a safe distance). After Boudica was DrivenToSuicide by her defeat, the Romans forcibly relocated the remaining Iceni to a Romanized town and launched retaliatory attacks against the other tribes for good measure. Apparently, the reprisal attacks by the Romans were so savage Britain's governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was recalled to Rome for fear his brutality would [[TheDogBitesBack trigger another uprising]].
41	*** However; Despite her immediate loss, Boudica won in the end...Nero ([[EvenEvilHasStandards of all people]]) was disgusted with the officials responsible for starting the whole thing and the over-the-top post-revolt response. There was a new policy-change in which the Romans would treat those in the British Isles well. [[https://theravenreport.com/2018/01/01/remembering-boudiccas-rebellion-and-her-daring-revenge-on-rome/ Eventually, it would lead to the Romans leaving all together on their own.]]
42	--->''Boudicca may have died as a result of her own wrath, but her legend among the Britons—and the world—most certainly did not. Not only has her story established an epic poem of rebellion, it also radically altered the course of Roman behavior over the next four centuries. Her confederacy of barbarian “savages” had taken the placid Roman usurpers completely by surprise, which led to the creation of certain reforms after her death. The Romans lightened up on their demands of the Britons and even instituted a fairer system of taxation to pacify them. And in the 5th century CE, the Roman Empire fell into disintegration and England was released from their dominion. And for many hundreds of years later—until 1360 CE—no one even knew about Boudicca’s life until Tacitus’s manuscript on the events were uncovered by the Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio in a little-known monastery.''
43	** This also happened after the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, which saw three Roman legions massacred to the last due to the treachery of their Germanic guide Arminius. After all was said and done, the Romans waited a few years, then sent the army into Germania, wrecking shop, reclaiming the standards of the first three legions, and Arminius was eventually killed (though by rival German chieftains, rather than the Romans). From then on the Romans were content to let their eastern border sit on the banks of the Rhine, but it's yet another example of why you didn't piss off Rome if you valued your freedom.
44	*** This was also the reason for Arminius' betrayal. As a son of a Germanic chieftain he had been sent to Rome as a hostage and had been educated there, even reaching the rank of equites. But that did not change the fact that the Romans had taken him away from his family and stolen his life. Three Legions worth of Romans rather regretted that.
45	* Do you remember the Khwarezmian Empire? No? [[AppealToObscurity That's the point--there's a good reason for that]]. Mainly because UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan ''literally wiped the entire civilization out of existence.'' The reason? Because one of the local governors harassed and even killed some of Genghis Khan's emissaries. When he was captured, that particular governor allegedly had [[KarmicDeath molten silver poured into his eyes and mouth]].
46	** This is one reason why you shouldn't [[ShootTheMessenger shoot the messenger. Especially Genghis Khan's messenger.]] It should be mentioned that it was a messenger of peace and that Genghis Khan sent them messengers twice, basically giving them a second chance after killing his first messengers. After the second time, well, he destroyed them all.
47	* In first century Vietnam lived two sisters named Trung Trac and Trung Nhi. When Trac's husband stood up against the ruling Chinese, he was killed. But what the Chinese didn't know was that the Trung sisters had been trained from childhood in the art of warfare and martial arts. The sisters raised an army of 80,000, mostly women, and took back as many as 65 citadels before the Chinese managed to defeat them. Rather than die at the hands of the Chinese, the two sisters drowned themselves.[[note]]Some historians speculate that the death of the husband was a later invention to shoehorn the sisters' rebellion into Confucian [[StayInTheKitchen attitude of female leadership]].[[/note]]
48	* John "Liver-Eating" Johnson. Mountain man in the American west, Crow Indians killed his pregnant wife. He proceeded to spend the next twenty-five years hunting down the Crow, killing them, taking a bite out of their livers and spitting it out, declaring it unfit to eat as an insult. After amassing a body count of roughly forty, the Crows finally decided to make peace with him, inviting him into the tribe and making him an honorary chieftain.
49	* OutlawCouple [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde Bonnie & Clyde]]'s primary motivation for their crimes was Clyde's desire for revenge against the Texas prison system for the mistreatment he suffered during his last stint in prison. He had attempted to go straight before, but being harassed by law enforcement on a regular basis for his past behavior made it impossible for him to hold down a job, [[HeelFaceDoorSlam forcing him to return to a life of crime]]. Over the course of their crime spree they murdered [[CopKiller nine police officers]] and four civilians, with Clyde's plan being to return to the prison, massacre the guards, and [[GreatEscape free all the inmates]].
50	* Prior to becoming one of the victims in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland_murders the Wonderland Murders]], Ron Launius was a mercenary and a drug dealer who was a suspect in over two dozen murder cases but could never be convicted because of the sudden deaths of so many of the witnesses. He once made a trip to Mexico to buy from members of a drug cartel, but they instead robbed him and held his wife for ransom. Launius robbed two banks to pay his wife's ransom, then killed the kidnappers anyway. He also killed the men who had set up the deal.
51	** The murders themselves were likely an example of this trope. After the Wonderland Gang robbed gangster Eddie Nash of $1.2 million and shot his bodyguard Gregory Diles, Nash and Diles kidnapped John Holmes, a porn star who had helped stake out the robbery, and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique beat the truth out of him]]. Two days later, Diles and several of his men allegedly went round to the gang's hideout, forced Holmes to let them in and killed everyone inside.
52	* Buford Pusser was a sheriff in Tennessee who was riding with his wife to a call when a car pulled up and fired on them, killing her and critically wounding him. He [[OneManArmy single-handedly killed every man]] and then went on to wage a war on moonshining, illegal gambling, and several other criminal activities in his county before dying in a car accident. This man was so awesome that not [[Film/WalkingTall1973 one]], but ''[[Film/WalkingTall2004 two]]'' movies were made based on his story, the second of which starred Creator/DwayneJohnson.
53	* The Barbary Pirates demanded tribute from a certain [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks obscure new nation]] on the grounds that NobodyEverComplainedBefore. The result was that the [[ThisMeansWar US Navy]] came after them and spent several years beating on them. During the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 the Barbary Pirates went back to their old tricks and afterwards, the US Navy returned and gave them another whaling.[[note]]This is where "the shores of Tripoli" in the [[SemperFi Marine Corps]] anthem comes from, being the place where the Corps saw its first action overseas and kicked pirate ass.[[/note]] At this the British decided that the colonials had a pretty good idea going, peace having broken out in Europe. So they sent the [[OhCrap Royal Navy]] after them. Having their own beef with them and seeing the pirates finally weak, [[RuleOfThree the Kingdom of Sardinia attacked them too]]. Finally after all that was done, the French simply landed and conquered the whole area.
54	* When Bashkirian Airways Tupolev 154 and DHL cargo Boeing 757 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Überlingen_mid-air_collision collided over Überlingen]], southern Germany in 2002, 74 people were killed. Among those were the wife and two children of Ossetian architect Vitaly Kaloyev. The accident was caused in part by air traffic control error; the flaw that caused the accident was a systemic issue more than a problem with any one man,[[note]]in fact, a similar accident had been narrowly averted a year earlier,[[/note]] but Kaloyev blamed the controller who had been on duty and hired a private investigator to find out who it was. It turned out to be a Danish man named Peter Nielsen. So [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev Kaloyev tracked him down]] at his Zürich home on 24 February 2004 and ''stabbed him to death with a knife in front of Nielsen's wife and three children''. The Swiss police arrested him and he was tried and convicted for murder. He was released from prison on basis of insanity in November 2007 and banished from Switzerland. He received a hero's welcome home in Russia, and he was nominated as the Minister of Public Constructions in Ossetia.
55	* The 1527 Sack of Rome, from the perspective of the invaders.
56	* Quite infamously the United States during the UsefulNotes/SpanishAmericanWar. While there is scant evidence that the explosion that sank the battleship ''Maine'' was deliberate, America was itching for a chance to go to war and took that as the best excuse. The following CurbStompBattle saw Spain lose the last of its colonial possessions to the United States, and other European Powers finally started taking the Americans seriously on the international stage.
57	* Princess Olga of Kiev -- while later known for her deft and efficient leadership of the UsefulNotes/KievanRus -- made her mark delivering a ''massive'' crusade towards the Drevlians for [[CrusadingWidow murdering her husband]]. Prince Igor of Kiev was killed after he had gotten greedy with demanding tributes, and soon afterwards, the Drevlians -- evidently not thinking about the consequences -- approached Olga to convince her to marry their Prince Mal, ''her late husband's murderer''. Olga accepted the offer and invited the Drevlian delegates to her court... then tossed them into a ditch and [[BuriedAlive buried them alive]]. After that, she asked Mal to send his best men to help her on her journey to him, inviting them to the bathhouse... where she had them locked up before she [[KillItWithFire set it on fire]]. Then she invited some more Drevlians to her husband's funeral, and, after they were drunken, [[LeaveNoSurvivors ordered her army to massacre them]], claiming a reported 5,000 Drevlians. When she finally went to actual war against them, her campaign led to a successful siege on their capital of Iskorosten, eventually offering peace by requesting a tribute of "three pigeons and three sparrows from each house," which -- feeling this to be a show of mercy and [[HopeSpot not wanting to face whatever other wrath she had to offer]] -- the populous complied with. Olga then had her army attach cloth strips with sulfur on each of the birds' legs and let them return back to their nests, [[ActionBomb allowing them to set the entire city ablaze]], decisively defeating the Drevlians. Later in her life, Olga became canonized as a saint of the Orthodox Church -- appropriately enough -- as a patron saint of widows and converts.
58	* Some scholars believe the Viking Age was kickstarted as revenge for UsefulNotes/{{Charlemagne}}'s wars against the Saxons.
59	* In 2004, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Marvin John Heemeyer]] (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004), an American welder and an automobile muffler repair shop owner, armored a bulldozer, mounted guns, monitors, and cameras into the metalwork, and used it to destroy 13 buildings — including the town hall, police station, and a recently-built concrete plant that cut off access to his shop — in Granby, Colorado, all of which were owned by people he had some kind of dispute with and who were collectively responsible for his business being ruined. He also installed loudhailers that broadcasted his intentions for razing the community. The bulldozer rampage finally stopped because Heemeyer's insane modifications had stressed the mechanics of the bulldozer beyond anything they were meant to endure, and the beast died in a heap of smoke after getting one of its treads stuck in the basement of a hardware store. Heemeyer [[DrivenToSuicide pulled the trigger on himself]], leaving the authorities to find the scene of his suicide after carving open the bulldozer's armor with blowtorches. Also a TakingYouWithMe, because the bulldozer's steel/concrete composite-armored cocoon [[SuicideMission had no way for him to escape once it was lowered over him]].
60	-->'''Heemeyer:''' (''written in his list of targets'') I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes, reasonable men must do unreasonable things.
61	* [[http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/03/13103499-vermont-man-uses-tractor-to-flatten-8-police-cars?lite A farmer in Vermont]] flattened several police cars because he was angry about being charged with marijuana possession.
62	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGjyJguiif0 Another man]] drove right through City Hall in Wichita, soon after being cited for having loud music in his car, he got 10 years for the rampage.
63	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Southern_California_shootings Christopher Dorner]], after having been dismissed from the LAPD, went on one, posting a long, rambling manifesto, in which he named specific officers he wanted to kill, killed the daughter of the attorney who represented him at the hearing where he was dismissed, as well as her fiancé, before killing a police officer and running up to Big Bear mountain range, where he killed another officer and holed himself up in a cabin. Then the police themselves got in on the act, deciding [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan the Klingons were wrong and revenge is a dish best served]] ''piping hot'', they set the cabin on fire with the intention of watching him burn alive (the Sheriff officially denied this, of course, but few believe it), [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled though in the end, he shot himself to deny them the satisfaction]].
64	* The entire [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian_War Lusitanian War]] was a big rampage of revenge against the increasingly expansionist Roman Republic. When Rome pretended to make peace with the tired Lusitanians over war and land, only to slaughter 10,000 men, women, and children, huge numbers of them spent the next 3 years randomly attacking Roman territories and allies but slowly failing. Just as it looked like Rome would wipe out the last resisting warriors, a survivor named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viriathus Viriathus]] of that same earlier massacre reminded them of why they had been fighting. Knowing how Romans fought, he managed to save the several thousand cornered warriors without a loss, leading to a renewed 8-year leadership of revenge against Rome. His leadership caused so much distress in Rome that other tribes rebelled, and the recruitment rate in Rome dropped, especially after three legions were lost in the war against the Lusitanians alone. However, the trope is somewhat subverted in that eventually he later spared an army of Romans for peace, knowing that over time, the war would simply drain his peoples' numbers, only for the peace treaty to be reneged and himself assassinated. Ironically enough his death triggered another brief rampage or revenge, but without his leadership, it failed. Adding to the confusion, the Romans ended up making peace later by giving this tribe exactly what they asked for before this entire mess began: fertile land.
65	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa Pancho Villa]] himself went on this trope after his war effort against a corrupt Mexican government was virtually starved by a US presidential ban of aid to his forces. He found himself so embittered that he raided a train and had its 18 US occupants stripped naked and executed. Villa later also lead 500 men to raid Columbus, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Columbus_(1916) New Mexico]] for supplies and not only attempted to look but willingly attacked anyone on site with his men, setting homes on fire. Unfortunately for his men, they were beaten back with high losses. The US President and his people were not pleased and sent a 4,800 man strong army to hunt him down. Though they never succeeded in catching Villa himself, they did manage to almost entirely dismantle his revolution.
66	* After King Aelle had the Viking warrior Ragnar Lothbrok dropped into a pit of snakes, Ragnar's sons came after him, and killed whatever stood between them and vengeance.
67	* In 1998, [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/04/maria-carmen-garcia-spani_n_831372.html Mari Carmen Garcia's 13-year-old daughter was raped]]. In 2005, the rapist was paroled, and upon returning to their hometown of Benjuzar, Spain, encountered Mari Carmen in the street and taunted her about her daughter. [[MamaBear Mari Carmen Garcia]] then [[TranquilFury followed the rapist to a bar, walked up behind him, doused him in gasoline, lit a match]] and ''[[KillItWithFire burnt him to death]]''. She served one year in prison before being paroled due to special circumstances (namely that almost no one could blame her for sending her daughter's rapist straight to hell in a blaze of white-hot revenge).
68	* In 1509 the Portuguese had pretty much managed to take over the Indian spice trade from the Venetians and the nations who profited from the old route. In reply, they banded together and financed the Mamluks to attack the Portuguese in the Indian ocean. They surprised an 8-ships strong Portuguese squadron ([[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chaul who fought back for 3 days against 50+ Mamluk vessels]]) — killing the son of the Portuguese Viceroy before limping to Diu.\
69	The Viceroy threw his recently arrived replacement in jail, scrapped together 18 ships for a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diu punitive expedition]], and sailed off for some bloody revenge. The Gujarat governor of Diu sent him a messenger, to whom he basically replied that he was going to Diu to kick the ass of the guys who killed his son and of those who helped them and that if the Mamluks were gone by the time he arrived, then all his fury would fall on the city alone...\
70	Cue the equivalent of an invasion by {{eldritch abomination}}s in which the Portuguese easily reduced the port fortifications, [[ImmuneToBullets made short work of the 100-strong fleet]] anchored within and [[CurbStompBattle crushed the city defenders]] with [[MoreDakka arquebuses and hand grenades]].\
71	The city was garrisoned and forced to pay a hefty indemnification, but the Mamluk prisoners were hanged, burned alive, or tied to the [[LudicrousGibs mouths of the cannons and blown to pieces]].
72	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akku_Yadav Akku Yadav]] was a criminal who had been committing rape and murder in the Indian city of Chennai for over a decade, and getting away with it due to police corruption. When he was brought into court, he spotted a woman in the crowd he had raped and called her a whore. This prompted an angry mob of over 200 women to lynch him on the spot, with one of his victims reportedly hacking off his penis.
73	* In the 1970s, the guerrilla group [[DirtyCommunists FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia)]] kidnapped prominent landowner Jesús Castaño and demanded a ransom. When the proper amount wasn't paid, the group killed Jesús and left his body in the jungle. The man's sons, Carlos and Fidel, immediately swore revenge and formed the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant_Self-Defenders_of_Córdoba_and_Urabá ACCU]]. They then went about slaughtering just about every single member of FARC they could find, burning entire villages that were living near Communist strongholds and putting to death anyone who had a remote connection to the group.
74	* The Romans were infamous for what they did to allies that betrayed them or subjects that rebelled and did not surrender in time when the Romans came for them. Here's the two most infamous occasions:
75	** During the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Second Punic War]], the Greek city-states of Sicily, allied with Rome, switched sides after [[CurbStompBattle the Carthaginian triumph at Cannae]]. Rome replied sending against them the survivors of Cannae led by their best general, Marcellus, who razed two cities and then started besieging Syracuse while his troops sent raiding parties. The Sicilians were not impressed, especially as the Romans were failing against Syracuse's walls and Archimedes' inventions... And then the Romans broke through, [[RapePillageAndBurn sacked and demolished the city, and slaughtered anyone but those who could be useful, raped and/or enslaved (and some of those categories too, as Archimedes was mistaken for an old fool and killed)]]. Sicily became a Roman province as soon as the other city-states were informed of what had just happened.
76	** The Romans first came to Judaea when the Jews called them in as protectors and were comprehensibly ''pissed'' when they rebelled. When the Romans were finished, ''over one million Jews'' had been killed, 97,000 others were sold as slaves, most of the others had left Judaea, and Jerusalem had been ''completely'' destroyed save for a single wall of the Temple.
77	* The UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire was the continuation of the eastern half of the Roman Empire, and just like their colleagues in the west, you provoked them at your own peril. Best shown by what happened in the last Roman-Persian War: thanks to the Byzantine being weakened by infighting, attacks from Bulgars and Avars, and starting the war under Phocas, the ''worst'' of the Byzantine emperors, the Persians of the Sassanid dynasty were overrunning the Byzantine empire, the situation being so bad that Heraclius, who had become emperor after personally killing Phocas, was considering moving the capital to Carthage to rule on the oversea territories only when Persian emperor Khosrau II sent him a most offensive letter[[note]]"Khosrau, greatest of Gods, and master of the earth, to Heraclius, his vile and insensate slave. Why do you still refuse to submit to our rule, and call yourself a king? Have I not destroyed the Greeks? You say that you trust in your God. Why has he not delivered out of my hand Caesarea, Jerusalem, and Alexandria? And shall I not also destroy Constantinople? But I will pardon your faults if you submit to me, and come hither with your wife and children; and I will give you lands, vineyards, and olive groves, and look upon you with a kindly aspect. Do not deceive yourself with vain hope in that Christ, who was not able to save himself from the Jews, who killed him by nailing him to a cross. Even if you take refuge in the depths of the sea, I will stretch out my hand and take you, whether you will or no."[[/note]], at which point the ''entire'' population of the Byzantine Empire became willing to all sacrifices to make the Persians pay, and they did: when the Persians surrendered, the frontier was back where it was at the start of the war, the Persian military was barely holding on, a Byzantine army led personally by Heraclius had stopped short of the Persian capital, Khosrau had been assassinated and replaced by one of his least favourite sons, and the death of the latter plunged the Persian Empire into civil war.
78	** The Byzantines were also on the receiving end of this when they tried to pull a fast one on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Company Grand Catalan Company]] and its capable, lawless, and beloved commander Roger de Flor. They hired the company to fight the Turks. The Catalans did a good job of it, at the same time plundering Byzantine territory and subjects. The Byzantines decided to rid themselves of these "Western Barbarians" by setting ''another'' group of mercenaries on them, the Alans. The Alans killed Roger de Flor but left most of the Grand Company in one piece. Bad move. The enraged Catalans conquered Thessaly and Greece and ruled their own kingdom until 1390.
79	* After the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid Doolittle Raid]] during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar, the first US bombing attack on Japan itself, the Japanese government was so furious that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang-Jiangxi_campaign they launched an offensive]] and [[KickTheDog massacred thousands of Chinese suspected of helping the Americans]]. Aside from conventional weapons, the army deployed bioweapons, only to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard infect their own soldiers and kill several thousand]] with smallpox and anthrax.
80	* King Abdullah II of UsefulNotes/{{Jordan}}, also a career [[UsefulNotes/WarriorsOfDesertWinds military officer]], definitely qualifies. Near the end of 2016, ISIS captured a Jordanian pilot who was shot down during airstrikes against the group's capital in Syria, wanting to trade him for a woman imprisoned in the country for helping plan a suicide bombing in which 60 people died. After Jordan turned ISIS down, they burned the pilot alive and posted the video online. Abdullah was in Washington attending a meeting with a [[SemperFi US Marine]] when he found out what ISIS had done. According to the Marine, the King immediately launched into Creator/ClintEastwood's revenge speech from ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', and that his only concern was that he wouldn't have enough fuel and munitions to take out ISIS. When he returned to Jordan, he had the female prisoner ISIS wanted to exchange publicly hanged. That was followed by the execution of a man arrested for plotting to bring ISIS to the country. The King then went to the family of the murdered pilot to personally express condolences and promise revenge. Then came the first of a series of airstrikes against ISIS leadership. Reports out of Jordan indicated that [[WarriorPrince the King himself flew the lead aircraft]], though the government officially denied it.
81	* Poet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_Angelou Maya Angelou]] was raped at the age of nine by her mother's boyfriend, who was convicted of the assault but received only a paltry sentence. Four days after his release, her rapist was found murdered; no official charges were ever laid, but it's generally believed that her uncles killed him in retaliation for the rape. Unfortunately, this action only traumatized Angelou further; feeling that her words (in identifying him as her rapist) had led to his death, she became mute and remained so for nearly five years.
82	* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_War Lincoln County War]] in the Wild West, the conflict in which UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid made his name as a gunslinger. After rancher John Tunstall was murdered by three members of a posse lead by Sheriff William J. Brady, several of his associates, including Billy the Kid, formed the Lincoln County Regulators to avenge Tunstall's murder. What followed was a five-month war between the Regulators, the Sheriff's Department and several other gangs brought in to help Sheriff Brady suppress the Regulators. First the Regulators apprehended three members of the posse, including one of the men who shot Tunstall, and executed them alongside one of their own who tried to stop them. Then they ambushed and gunned down Sheriff Brady, followed by another member of the posse. Then they cornered yet another member of the posse and killed him after a lengthy gunfight, although not before he wounded four of them and killed one. Another posse was set up and killed their leader, Frank [=McNab=], after which the Regulators retaliated by killing five members of the posse, including the man who shot [=McNab=]. This culminated in the five-day Battle of Lincoln, which ended with the surviving members of the rival faction going on a roaring rampage of their own, burning down the home of one of the Regulators leaders, killing several dozen Regulators and sending the rest running for their lives.
83	* UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire was known for its brutal retribution to those that screwed them over.
84	** The UsefulNotes/IndianRebellion of 1857 is an infamous example. After the Indian Sepoys rebelled, the British public were outraged by reports of massacres at Delhi, Jhansi, Cawnpore and various other places during which men, women and children were savagely murdered. When the tide began to turn against the Sepoys, it was time for revenge. Indians suspected of participating in or supporting the mutiny were slain by the British forces, with many being hanged or [[CruelAndUnusualDeath blown from cannons]]. Some were also sown into cow and pig skins before they died to mock their religious prohibitions on killing the animals, which was the cause of the mutiny. At Cawnpore, where the most notorious massacre had taken place, captured rebels were forced to lick up the blood of their fellow mutineers before being killed themselves. Others were punished by being burned with hot irons or waterboarded in wells.
85	** Less well known but equally fitting of the trope is the 1897 Benin expedition. After an expedition under General James Phillips ignored his warnings to turn back the Oba of Benin ordered them ambushed and killed. Only two Britons survived the so-called "Benin Massacre", and upon hearing their reports the British press were baying for the Oba's blood. A punitive expedition was ordered and easily defeated every Benin army they came across with their superior weaponry, [[RapePillageAndBurn Raping, Pillaging and Burning]] their way through Benin before sacking Benin City, in the process coming across the atrocities the Oba had been trying to conceal. Once the city had been burned, the Oba gave himself up and the British were surprisingly merciful in that he was only banished from Benin for the rest of his life while other chiefs were hanged in what remained of Benin City.
86	** During the Mau Mau insurgency of the 1950s, one of the most infamous atrocities was the Lari Massacre, in which at least 97 Kikuyu loyal to the British and their families were rounded up and forced to walk into buildings which were then set on fire, with anyone who tried to escape being killed with machetes. When the British colonial authorities and Kenyan loyalist forces heard of the massacre, they ordered a retaliatory expedition in which suspected Mau Mau were hunted down by armed posses which killed an estimated two Mau Mau for every victim of the massacre, with some estimates putting the final death toll at 400. It didn't stop there, as 136 Mau Mau were later convicted for their participation in the massacre, 71 of whom were executed.
87	* UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar was once kidnapped and held for ransom by pirates, who [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking offended him by not asking for a high enough ransom]]. When he was released, he raised an army and went back to the region, capturing the pirates. When the local governor dithered rather than punish them, Caesar went down to the prison where they were held and personally had them all crucified.
88	* In 1925 the St. Nedelya Church in Sofia was bombed by the Bulgarian Communist Party during the funeral of General Konstantin Georgiev, who had been murdered by the Communists two days earlier, in an attempt to kill Tsar Boris III. The Tsar arrived late and survived, but 150 people were killed and 500 others were injured. In the aftermath, the army declared martial law and cracked down hard on the communist party, assassinating or executing the leaders of the party's military wing and shooting 450 party members without trial.
89	* In 1807, a Frenchman named Pierre Picaud was falsely accused of spying by three jealous so-called "friends" of his named Loupian, Solari and Choubart. Picaud spent the next seven years in prison before being released due to the fall of the government, and upon release found that Loupian had married his fiancée while he was in prison. After a ten-year absence spent accumulating wealth and plotting revenge against his former friends, Picaud returned to Paris in 1824 and first commissioned the murder of Choubart before fatally poisoning Solari. The most brutal revenge was reserved for Loupian, whose life Picaud set out to systematically destroy: first he tricked Loupian's daughter into marrying a criminal before exposing the man and having him arrested, at which point Loupian's daughter died of shock, before burning down his restaurant, leaving him impoverished, getting his son imprisoned for theft and finally stabbing Loupian to death. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because it was the inspiration for the plot of ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo''.
90	* Three major vendettas from feudal Japan:
91	** In 1176 Kudō Suketsune led an ambush on his rival Itō Sukechika while Sukechika was out hunting, but they ended up killing Sukechika's companion Kawazu Sukeyasu instead while Sukechika escaped. This resulted in the famous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Soga_Brothers Revenge of the Soga Brothers]], where Sukeyasu's two sons forced their way into the inn where Suketsune was staying and brutally killed him before [[ValuesDissonance deciding to conduct a massacre to make sure people remembered]], killing ten of the Samurai who came to arrest them in one go and going on to kill so many more Samurai that the number of victims is unrecorded. They were only stopped when one of them dropped his sword, reputedly because it was so slippery from the blood of his victims, and was cut down, allowing three guards to gang up on the other and capture him.
92	** Alongside the Soga Brothers is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igagoe_vendetta Igagoe vendetta]], sparked when retainer Watanabe Gendayū was murdered by Kawai Matagorō. Gendayū's master Ikeda Tadao was unable to bring Matagorō to justice for the crime before his death two years later, with his DyingWish being that one of those in attendance kill Matagorō for him. His wish was granted when Gendayū's brother Watanabe Kazuma and his brother-in-law Araki Mataemon ambushed Matagorō and his followers at a crossroads and slew all those surrounding Matagorō. Matagorō was then forced to duel Kazuma, with Mataemon and Matagorō's surviving followers not intervening or allowing him to flee as demanded by law. The two supposedly duelled for six hours before Kazuma managed to wound Matagorō and kill him. He and Mataemon then handed themselves in to authorities but were not punished because of the laws governing revenge in the era.
93	** The third and final major example is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-seven_ronin Revenge of the Forty-seven Rōnin]]. After suffering repeated insults from court official Kira Yoshinaka, ''daimyō'' Asano Naganori had enough and struck Kira, who immediately had him forced to commit suicide as punishment for assaulting a shogunate official, rendering his 300 samurai ''rōnin'' (leaderless). 47 of these ''rōnin'' refused to let their master go unavenged, but decided to wait for two years before retaliating in order to lure Kira into a false sense of security. Once those two years were up, the ''rōnin'' met up and renewed their oaths before storming Kira's residence, with none of Kira's neighbours intervening as they all hated him. In the attack, the ''rōnin'' killed 16 of Kira's retainers and wounded 22 before finding Kira cowering in a closet in the veranda and [[OffWithHisHead cutting his head off]] after he refused to commit suicide. 46 of the ''rōnin'' were condemned to death, but were allowed to honourably commit ''seppuku'' rather than be executed due to overwhelming public support for their actions.
94	* Historical accounts of dubious accuracy record the life of Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta, who reportedly led a peaceful life until a group of white American miners lynched his brother, flogged him and gang-raped and killed his wife on the pretext of false accusations of stealing a mule. He soon formed a gang of similarly disaffected Mexicans to retaliate against the Anglos for his treatment, killing at least six of the men responsible and seven other white miners before he was reportedly killed himself in 1863.
95	* Tigers are one of the few animals besides humans that seek out revenge. [[https://newsable.asianetnews.com/south/tiger-takes-revenge-for-killing-its-mate In this report]], a tigress was killed by a poacher. [[ItCanThink Later, the tigress' mate found and brutally mauled the poacher,]] leaving him for dead, and who later died of his injuries. The tiger then went on to attack any human it came across, sometimes going out of its way to hunt them.
96	* After Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto was jailed for 10 years for conspiracy to murder, an internal faction led by Raynald Desjardain and Salvatore Montagna took the opportunity to usurp him, with his father and son being killed in the ensuing coup alongside several of his close allies. Once Rizzuto was released in 2012, he immediately began ordering the assassination of everyone who had betrayed the family or was involved in the murders of his son and father. At least ten of those on the revenge list were killed before Rizzuto himself died in suspicious circumstances the following year.
97	* King Goujian of the Chinese kingdom of Yue acceded to the throne in 496 BCE, but immediately ran into a problem when the rival kingdom of Wu invaded during his coronation, took him prisoner and forced him to swear allegiance to Wu and become a servant of the Wu ruler Fuchai for three years. Fuchai then made the mistake of allowing him to return to Yue, where he spent ten years plotting his revenge. When Wu was weakened by a famine and the bulk of their forces were away fighting in the north, Goujian finally launched his retaliatory expedition against Wu, annihilating entire Wu armies by having his front line slit their own throats ''en masse'' so they would be too distracted to notice the Yue army flanking them. He eventually succeeded in attacking the Wu capital and killing crown prince You, establishing his independence from Wu. Not satisfied, he attacked Wu a second time in 473 and besieged the capital for three years until it finally fell. Annexing Wu, he razed the capital to the ground, forced Fuchai to commit suicide and slaughtered the leading Wu scholars, leaving nobody alive who could perpetuate the CycleOfRevenge.
98	* King Afonso IV of Portugal did not like his son Peter's lover Inês de Castro, worrying that their marriage would lead to civil war and wanting to arrange another [[ArrangedMarriage dynastic marriage]] for him. To avoid this, he had Inês imprisoned in a convent, then when this didn't stop them marrying he had three assassins [[OffWithHisHead decapitate her]] in front of their children. Maddened with grief, Peter declared war on his father and ravaged the land for the next year before Afonso defeated his rebellion only to die almost immediately afterwards, allowing Peter to succeed him and gruesomely execute his wife's murderers by ripping their hearts out.
99	* The 1994 murders of SerialKiller and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibal]] Jeffrey Dahmer, who primarily targeted gay black men, and wife-killer Jesse Anderson, who tried to blame his wife's murder on a ScaryBlackMan, by fellow prison inmate Christopher Scarver were reportedly revenge for their crimes against the black community.
100	* UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror was ostensibly launched as revenge for 9/11 and other attacks on the West by Al-Qaeda and its allies in the preceding years, although many feel it falls under [[WarForFunAndProfit another trope]].
101	* During the Haitian Revolution, where black slaves in Haiti successfully overthrew their French masters and established a Black Republic, the rebels and their Spanish allies executed the French colonialists indiscriminately in revenge for both their enslavement and a number of massacres by French troops in an attempt to suppress the revolution (which had included the French inventing a rudimentary GasChamber with which to execute suspected rebels via sulfur fumes). Even after the revolution's success, Black Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines was unsatisfied with the fact that a number of their former enslavers were still living in Haiti and ordered that they be destroyed. This resulted in a FinalSolution in which squads of black soldiers went door to door torturing and killing entire white families until the white population of Haiti was practically non-existent (with most of those who were spared being German and Polish settlers who had not been involved in the enslavement of black Haitians).
102	* Latin American SerialKiller Pedro Lopez's first kill was in 1969, when he was [[PrisonRape gang-raped in prison]] by four other inmates and tracked down and brutally murdered all four a few days later.
103	* American frontier outlaw Kid Curry went on a brief one on May 26, 1900, when he rode into Moab, Utah and shot up the local law enforcement responsible for the raid that had killed his brother Lonny in February, killing his brothers killers Sheriff Jesse Tyler and Deputy Sam Jenkins in a brazen gunfight before making his escape. He would later track down a rancher in Montana who had killed another of his brothers years before and kill him too.
104	* The Bloody Espinosas, comprised of Mexican brothers Felipe and Vivian and Felipe's nephew Jose, are held by some to have been the first [[SerialKiller Serial Killers]] of the American West. After the Mexican–American War, their land had been annexed by the United States and the U.S. Army had burned down their house and confiscated their property after trying and failing to arrest them for robbery, so they decided to retaliate by setting out to kill 600 white Americans in retribution. In their ensuing rampage of murder and rape, they managed to kill around 32 white people before they were eventually killed by bounty hunters in late 1863.
105	* The Boxer Rebellion in China saw examples from both sides:
106	** It started with the Chinese Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, or "Boxers",which resisted European incursions into Chinese territory and abuses by Christian missionaries, who often abused their positions for banditry knowing their countries would protect them, by attacking and killing foreign missionaries across China, vowing to exterminate every foreigner.
107	** The final straw came when German embassy officials in the Beijing Legation Quarter executed a young boy without trial on suspicion of being a Boxer, at which point thousands of furious Boxers descended on the walled legations and ravaged the city, killing the German officials who had ordered the execution and destroying foreign missions all over the city, with some victims being burned alive. Soon much of Northern China was in open revolt, with thousands of Christians ([[{{Misblamed}} many of whom were themselves Chinese but were held to be guilty by association]]) being killed in Boxer-held territory in retaliation for abuses by Christian missionaries and captured soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance being executed in gruesome ways such as being nailed to the wall with their eyes and tongues cut out.
108	** When the Eight-Nation Alliance eventually gained the upper hand, its revenge was every bit as brutal as that of the Boxers, [[RapePillageAndBurn rampaging across the Chinese countryside and slaughtering all Boxers who fell into their hands]]. Many were beheaded, bayoneted, or even kicked to death at the hands of Allied soldiers, who would burn entire villages and looted everything they could get their hands on as restitution. Particularly brutal were German and Russian troops, who killed anyone who merely resembled Boxers on sight and killed entire populations in retribution for Boxer attacks. When it was over, prominent Boxers such as Yuxian, who had been responsible for the bulk of the killing of Christians, were forced to kill themselves, whilst others, such as the Boxer captain who had killed the lead German ambassador, were beheaded. Manchuria was also annexed by the Russians as a punitive measure.

Context RoaringRampageOfRevenge / RealLife