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| 9 | * ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'': Gives us a 3 person variant when the enemy forces finally manage to kill off [[spoiler: Chopper]]. The enemy pilots get to savour a few seconds of relieved cheering mainly along the lines of "see, they're not invincible after all!"... At which point you and the rest of the squadron proceed to unleash pure hell upon every enemy unit in sight as payback. By the time the mission's over, the few surviving opponents are almost literally running away crying for their mommies. It gets to the point that, if you're flying particularly well in that mission, by the time reinforcements arrive, they may have ''nothing to fight''. |
| 10 | ** There's also an earlier mission in which the Grabacr squadron (still disguised as the phony Osean 8492nd) assault a Yuke college, getting Wardog (and therefore, Osea) the blame. In return for getting Yuke civilians killed, Yuktobania retaliate by gassing a town full of college students and having a transport squad carrying tanks attack a civilian airport in Osea. |
| 11 | * ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesGrimm'': "Cinderella was not simply an ill-used ninny who married well, forgave her tormentors, and lived happily ever after. She was innocent, she was abused, she was harmed. HER PAIN SHOULD BE PAID FOR!" |
| 12 | ** [[spoiler:The final episode implies that the story Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is also Grimm's own - that he was the eighth dwarf who, living under the shadow of happy-ending-experiencing royalty, was mocked by the townsfolk for his unpleasant appearance and rank odor, slew everyone in town in revenge and began a long rampage through the worlds of fiction.]] |
| 13 | * ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' likes this trope: |
| 14 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'': Ezio starts out with the family business of killing people in revenge for the death of his father and two brothers. Then it extends to that family's bosses, and their bosses, right up and into the AncientConspiracy central to the game, for ''over thirty years''. To reword [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/worst-life-ever-the-story-of-kazuyuki-fujitas-skull/ Seanbaby]]: |
| 15 | --->At the time, the country of Italy was using Ezio Auditore to control the aristocrat population and they occasionally dragged him on a chain through the air to hunt Templars in the least humane way possible. |
| 16 | ** In a bit of a subversion, however, by the last quarter of the game, Ezio is shown to be getting tired of his constant desire for revenge, which dovetails neatly into [[spoiler: his plan to set up the Assassins Brotherhood to oppose the Templars systematically rather than in a reactionary way in ''Brotherhood'' and ''Revelations''.]] |
| 17 | ** In ''Brotherhood'', he finally stops [[spoiler:and spares the one who caused it all. Sparing Borgia turns out to be a bad idea after all, when Rodrigo's psychotic son comes looking for payback, against dad's advice.]] |
| 18 | ** He does this again in ''Revelations'' when he finds out about [[spoiler:Yusuf's death and Sofia's kidnapping.]] |
| 19 | ** Connor from ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII'' also performs one against Charles Lee for burning his village and killing his mother. [[spoiler:Only to find out that Charles Lee is innocent of the burndown. The one who really did it was no other than Connor's idol, George Washington.]] |
| 20 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'' is this for both Arno and Elise as they track down who was responsible for her father's murder. |
| 21 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'' is about Bayek and his wife Aya hunting down the members of the Order of the Ancients who were directly involved in the death of their son Khemu. At the end of the game, [[spoiler: finding that their revenge does not feel satisfied and not really at peace with the death of their son, Bayek and Aya set up the foundations of the Assassin Brotherhood in Egypt and Italy to hunt down everyone else in the Order of the Ancients, which in essence makes the whole Assassin Brotherhood one long revenge scheme against the Templars for the death of Khemu.]] |
| 22 | ** ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'': The third act of the DLC ''Legacy of the First Blade'' is the player character going MamaBear / PapaWolf (delete where appropriate) on the Order of Ancients for killing their love and abducting their baby. |
| 23 | * ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': Asura [[ExaggeratedTrope simply outrivals EVERYONE]] on this entire Trope page ([[NotHyperbole yes, even outrivaling]] [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] and [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Guts]]) when it comes to this. [[PapaWolf He will stop at NOTHING to get his daughter back]]. He takes this [[SerialEscalation EVEN FURTHER]] [[spoiler: when a girl that looks like the daughter he is trying to save is killed by the Seven Deities along with her entire village by destroying the ENTIRE FLEET that Olga sent to destroy said village]]. If anyone represents the Patron Saint of this trope, it's Asura. [[spoiler: By the end of the DLC, it even goes to the point he kills [[TopGod Chakravartin]], giving him the most unholiest beatdown in the Event Horizon of Naraka, [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing his life]] so his daughter can live.]] |
| 24 | * ''VideoGame/BaconManAnAdventure'' is about the titular character taking vengeance against everyone who framed him for his grandfather's murder. |
| 25 | * ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'': |
| 26 | ** Mordecai has a big one after [[spoiler: Handsome Jack mutates his pet Bloodwing and kills her]]. Normally, Mordecai uses a sniper rifle with a slag effect, but after the event happens, he screams at the top of his lungs and blasts the Hyperion robots with ''explosive'' shots, stronger than the game's standard explosive element and strong enough to take out the robots in a single hit. Later on, Mordecai has you attack Hyperion's wildlife labs in revenge. |
| 27 | ** ''All'' of the experience when playing as Krieg's is this when fighting Hyperion, who brutally experimented on him to give him his superhuman abilities but broke his mind in the process. Getting payback against Hyperion is one of a very small number of things [[SplitPersonality both sides of his mind]] can agree on. |
| 28 | ---> '''Good!Krieg:''' Yes. Make them pay for what they did to us. |
| 29 | ** When [[spoiler:Angel]] dies, Handsome Jack quits joking and throwing snark at the Vault Hunters and instead vows to [[BerserkButton come down to Pandora personally and rip them apart with his bare hands]]. |
| 30 | * ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'': |
| 31 | ** The Fury status, a battle mechanic unique to Shrimp and Cornelia. If they’re both in the active party, and one of them goes down, then the other will get a massive stat boost across the board. |
| 32 | ** On a plot-related note, we have Catie’s arch-nemesis Boxxyfan. He may have died in the first game, [[spoiler:but not really. His mad thirst for revenge is fueling his VirtualGhost, the Pale Wraith, which continues plaguing our heroine throughout the sequel. Also, near the end, we finally get to see what happened to make him that way in the first place: the destruction of his home and family due to an accident Catie causes while time traveling.]] |
| 33 | * ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'': [[spoiler:When it looks like [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Fou-lu]] might fall in love with a peasant girl and see that there are decent humans in the world...before he's forced to run away and Mami was captured, [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] and [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed]] as a [[HumanResources thermonuclear]] [[NightmareFuel fuel]] for the [[FantasticNuke Carronade]], because her love for him will ''[[LoveHurts make it stronger]]''. After surviving the blast, Fou-lu saw Mami's bell fell from the sky and landed near him.]] [[HumansAreBastards Understandably]], [[LaughingMad he's royally]] pissed off. |
| 34 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'': The entire background for Grayson Hunt, the AntiHero protagonist, consists of this somewhat mixed with HeWhoFightsMonsters. Grayson's unit was employed for assassinations of innocent civilians (such as reporters) by the BigBad of the game, a [[AxCrazy seemingly insane, utterly ruthless]] general, apparently for personal gains. However, the nature of the targets was not revealed to the team, who believed they were eliminating terrorists, [[SpacePirates pirates]], slavers, and so on. After finding out that they have been used as killers, Grayson vows to kill said general, defects (together with his men) from the army...and becomes a pirate himself, descending into almost psychotic aggression, fueled by alcoholism. Just how far he is willing to go is exemplified by the beginning of the game: he crashes his ship into a military cruiser, believing the antagonist to be on board (plausible, as it's the flagship of the fleet) in a suicide attack - sacrificing his own crew (save for one person) and taking into account the deaths of over a thousand (the number is explicitly stated) enemy crewmen whose only fault is to be on board of the ship his enemy is on. |
| 35 | * In ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'', the final two levels see [[spoiler:Soap and Price]] go on a SuicideMission to exact revenge on [[spoiler:General Shepherd]] for betraying and murdering [[spoiler:Ghost and Roach]] while killing everyone else on their path. |
| 36 | * ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'': |
| 37 | ** The remains of Task Force 141 track down Waraabe and his militia partly to seek revenge for their fellow SAS agents, who were [[spoiler:killed trying to stop a chemical attack on London]]. |
| 38 | ---> '''Price:''' ''[[spoiler:(Just before killing Waraabe)]]'' [[AndThisIsFor This is for the boys at Hereford.]] |
| 39 | ** "Dust to Dust", the final level, revolves around Price and Yuri avenging [[spoiler:Soap]]. The first half of this level isn't so much "Roaring Rampage" as it is "ImplacableMan slowly marches". Yuri goes even further, trying to [[spoiler:redeem himself for having previously served Makarov. Too bad RedemptionEqualsDeath.]] |
| 40 | * ''DarkMessiah of Might and Magic'': If the player is trying to achieve the good ending, Leanna appears to be killed by the Necromancer Arantir, when the player arrives at his lair later the guards almost seem afraid of the player's wrath as he becomes an unstoppable juggernaut of revenge, the player can then rescue her from the lair to get the good ending. |
| 41 | * ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'': The entire premise of this game is that the Horseman of War is on a quest to kill the ones responsible for his fall from grace. Samael even honors his deal with War when he could easily betray him because he actually respects a good ol' RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler: When he discovers that the Charred Council made him their UnwittingPawn and faked his fall from grace in a breach of the pact he and the rest of the Horsemen obey, he decides to go after them with the help of his fellow Horsemen.]] |
| 42 | * In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', Kaido can go on up to two separate rampages on Day 5 - against [[spoiler:Kudlak]] for murdering his brother and against [[spoiler:Keisuke]] for murdering his gang members. In order to minimize sympathetic casualties, [[spoiler:you have to give Mari's bag to him on Day 4 so that he gives it to Mari, focuses on getting revenge on Kudlak, and is distracted from finding Keisuke long enough for you to talk the latter out of his KnightTemplar stint]]. |
| 43 | * ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'': The Nephalem goes on two of these during the course of the game. |
| 44 | ** The first one is triggered two-thirds of the way into the first act of the game when [[spoiler:Deckard Cain is killed by Maghda and the Dark Coven]] and continues into the first part of Act II. |
| 45 | ** The second, bigger one occurs during the second part of ''Reaper of Souls'' when [[spoiler:Adria]] resurfaces following [[spoiler:her disappearance through a portal at the end of Act III after turning Leah, her own daughter, into the vessel for Diablo to be reborn as the Prime Evil is by far ''the'' cruelest betrayal of the entire series]]. |
| 46 | * ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'': Laharl goes on one when his ImpliedLoveInterest [[LoveFreak Flonne]] is turned into a flower, triggering the final boss battle. What happens after the fighting ends depends on what actions the player took up until then. |
| 47 | * ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'': The tagline is "Revenge Solves Everything". [[CrapsackWorld This particular world]] has ''many'' problems [[MurderIsTheBestSolution that need solving]]. |
| 48 | * ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'': After beating the main story, you can select SNK boss Chaos in quick battles, set him to level one, and then select a level 100 character. Proceed to curbstomps for every last retry you were forced to endure in story mode. |
| 49 | * ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' sends you on a combination of this and RoaringRampageOfRescue in the third act, when an allied group of mages and Templars abducts one of Hawke's companions. Who gets kidnapped depends on certain details, but it's most likely to be either Hawke's sibling or love interest, and Hawke ''does not'' let the kidnappers live to regret it. |
| 50 | * ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': [[BigBad Psaro]] is on a crusade of revenge against the humans for their treatment of him and his kind. It only gets worse once his lover Rose dies. |
| 51 | * ''VideoGame/Doom2016'': Artifacts in Hell tell the story of the Doom Slayer (i.e., the player character), who stormed Hell seeking vengeance for various wrongs caused by the demons. His rampage was so epic, bloodthirsty, and flat out unstoppable, he ended up '''[[HorrifyingTheHorror terrifying the very legions of Hell]]'''. In the end, the demons barely managed to seal him away. He is eventually awakened in the current game to stop the latest incursion of Hell, and his merciless crusade to exterminate the demons of Hell shows absolutely no sign of stopping. |
| 52 | * ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'': |
| 53 | ** This game [[spoiler:reveals the Doom Slayer [[CanonCharacterAllAlong is actually]] the Doom Marine from the original ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' games and heavily implies that much of his unyielding hatred of demons is because they killed his pet rabbit Daisy in the ending of the first game, as well his family during the invasion in the second game, if this [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Doom/comments/fr4ie0/doomguys_family_photo/ photo]] is any indication]]. |
| 54 | ** In addition, the Doom Slayer spends much of the first half of the game hunting the three Hell Priests whose life force is powering Hell's invasion of Earth in a standard GottaKillThemAll setup. Until we learn that he's also doing this to [[spoiler:avenge his fallen Night Sentinel brethren in Argent D'Nur, who these three assholes betrayed and sent to die]]. |
| 55 | * ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'': |
| 56 | ** In every game, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei get sent into this when they find out that Wu has assassinated Guan Yu and Guan Ping. Result: a Genocide leaving no one in Wu alive. |
| 57 | ** In any map with Lu Bu and Diaochan; if you kill Diaochan first... Lu Bu loses his shit, gets massive stat boosts, and will chase you across the entire map to try and kill you. |
| 58 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 59 | ** A prominent example in the series' backstory occurred when the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Falmer (Snow Elves)]] slaughtered and burnt the ([[UnreliableExpositor supposedly]] [[WrittenByTheWinners peaceful]]) Atmoran ([[{{Precursors}} proto-Nord]]) city of Saarthal. [[FounderOfTheKingdom Ysgramor]] and his sons returned to Atmora to raise an army. Gathering [[BadassArmy 500 of Atmora's greatest warriors]], they returned and nearly drove the Falmer to ''[[FinalSolution extinction]]''. Later, Ysgramor's PapaWolf traits showed up once again when his son, Yngol, was taken by the "sea ghosts". Ysgramor became aware of this and demanded the ghosts set him free; in response, the ghosts summoned a terrible storm. Ysgramor fearlessly strode into it and defeated each of the ghosts, only to find Yngol and his clan dead. Filled with grief, he vented his rage on 24 of the fiercest monsters in Skyrim, slaying them all in honor of his kin. He then ordered a great barrow to be dug for Yngol and his clansmen's resting place. |
| 60 | ** Another backstory example comes from Pelinal Whitestrake, the [[LongDeadBadass legendary 1st Era hero]] of mankind/[[FantasticRacism racist]] [[TheBerserker berserker]]. Believed to have been a [[EternalHero Shezarrine]], [[GodInHumanForm physical incarnations]] of the spirit of the [[GodIsDead "dead" creator god]] Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "[[IHaveManyNames Shezarr]]"), Pelinal came to [[FounderOfTheKingdom St. Alessia]] to serve as her [[PhysicalGod divine champion]] in the war against the [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleids]]. Pelinal would fly into fits of UnstoppableRage (''mostly'' directed at the Ayleids) during which he [[BloodSplatteredWarrior would be stained with their blood]] and [[PaintTheTownRed left so much carnage in his wake]] that Kyne, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]], would have to [[CueTheRain send in her rain]] to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces. In particular, when Huna, a grain-slave raised to a hoplite by Pelinal, was killed by the arrow of an Ayleid king, Pelinal went so berserk that he not only slew the Ayleids in the kingdom responsible but ''erased their lands from the world''. The [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]] were so disgusted with his actions that they ''nearly left the world'' if not for Alessia making sacrifices to regain their favor. |
| 61 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'': |
| 62 | *** [[PlayerCharacter You]] can do this if you join the Stormcloak rebellion. The perspective of a player character in that scenario is that the Empire was about to execute him/her at the beginning of the game for being a Stormcloak even though the player had no prior involvement with them. |
| 63 | *** You can also go on a rampage against the Dark Brotherhood after [[spoiler:killing Astrid]], though you will have to visit Aventus Aretino and kill [[ChildHater Grelod the Kind]] for him. Given the number of assassins that she likes to send after you during the course of your quest, you'll most likely want to do ''something'' about them. |
| 64 | *** The Thieves' Guild questline turns into one of these after [[spoiler:Mercer Frey betrays you in Snow Veil Sanctum]] and really picks up steam when [[spoiler:the other Guild members learn that he's robbed the guild and is singlehandedly responsible for the downturn their fortunes have taken]]. |
| 65 | *** The final Dark Brotherhood quest, "Hail Sithis," which has you [[spoiler:going after the Emperor]], has a side mission involving taking out [[spoiler:Commander Maro]], who was responsible for [[spoiler:intimidating Astrid into betraying you, and then having the Falkreath Sanctuary destroyed and many of your Dark Brothers and Sisters killed]], something which many players will undoubtedly want [[spoiler:Maro]] dead for. |
| 66 | *** The Companions questline has you going on one along with [[spoiler:Vilkas]] after [[spoiler:the Silver Hand assault Jorrvaskr and kill Kodlak Whitemane and Skjor]]. |
| 67 | *** The Lights Out quest has you going on a heist with Jaree-Ra, who wants to run a ship aground and make off with its treasure. [[spoiler:Despite his promise to leave the crew alive, his Blackblood Marauders have already murdered everyone on board when you arrive, and when you get to the treasure, you learn they've made off with it already and that Jaree and Deeja never intended to give you a cut or let you live]]. The rest of the quest is an object lesson in why you ''[[BullyingADragon do not betray the Dragonborn]].'' |
| 68 | *** If you have the ''Hearthfire'' expansion, you can rampage against the bandits who [[IHaveYourWife have taken your wife/husband hostage]] from one of your plots of land, starting with [[ShootTheMessenger the messenger]]. |
| 69 | * In ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'', players with the Nemesis ambition are essentially enacting a long-term version of this trope, having sent themselves down to the Neath via arrest to be able to hunt down the murderer of a loved one. They can subvert it, however, by choosing to spare the people involved in their loved one's murder instead of exacting revenge on them, including the murderer himself who turns out to have only been a pawn in a much larger scheme and doesn't resist if you do choose to kill him. |
| 70 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': [[ColdSniper Craig Boone]] devotes his life to destroying the Legion, who bought his wife as a slave [[spoiler:and forced him to perform a MercyKill on her]] and will sign up to aid you if you promise him the opportunity to fight against them. |
| 71 | -->'''Courier:''' Any thoughts on Caesar's Legion?\ |
| 72 | '''Boone:''' Lots of thoughts. All about the best ways to kill them. |
| 73 | ** Also a way to play [[TheDrifter the Courier]] if you decide to head straight for Benny without stopping for anything along the way. However, you cannot kill Yes Man, who masterminded your murder (though he only knows you're the Courier he helped kill if you tell him, at which point he apologizes) due to the fact that he is one of the few immortal [=NPCs=] of the game, albeit with justification. He apologizes for this as well, telling you that your revenge must feel empty because of this. As a small consolation, he points out that you can destroy his physical body as many times as you please. |
| 74 | *** There is also a small workaround to this. If Yes-Man is disintegrated with an energy weapon, the game does not respawn him, thus fulfilling the Courier's bloodthirsty quest for vengeance. Unfortunately, if they have already killed the leaders of the other factions, there is no possible way to complete the game. Everyone remains trapped in a static existence for the rest of time. Hope that revenge was worth it... |
| 75 | * ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder:'' |
| 76 | ** The entire Shimousa chapter is this for its antagonist, [[spoiler:Amakusa Shirou]]. While this might seem out-of-character at first, the player eventually learns that [[spoiler:this particular Amakusa comes from a parallel world where he eluded capture after the collapse of the Shimabara Rebellion. He became a DimensionalTraveler to find a world where the rebels weren't massacred and executed, and when he failed to find one, he ''[[ThenLetMeBeEvil snapped]]''.]] Deciding to take his revenge on the world as a whole, he started with Japan's Shimousa province, using dark rituals to transform seven warriors into evil swordmasters, [[spoiler:then pulled the protagonist into his world, hoping to use their connection to Chaldea to spread the carnage he created into the proper timeline.]] It's only thanks to the interference of [[SpannerInTheWorks Miyamoto Musashi and Senji Muramasa]] that his plot fails. |
| 77 | ** Akuta Hinako, Crypter of the Chinese Lostbelt, wants nothing more than to [[spoiler:be reunited with her husband, Xiang Yu -- for as it turns out, her ''true'' identity is Yu Mei-ren, [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy who happened to be]] [[TheFairFolk a Fairy Elemental]] and something akin to a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Ancestor]]. The problem was that Xiang Yu was subservient to the Lostbelt King, Emperor Qin Shi Huang. So, after a full chapter of her trying to jockey for the emperor's favor, getting Xiang Yu to leave the emperor's service, and retreating to live a quiet life, well...[[ShootTheShaggyDog Xiang Yu gets himself killed in battle with Chaldea]]. [[{{Understatement}} Yu doesn't take it very well.]] She fuses with the Tree of Emptiness, which makes it go berserk -- leaving Chaldea to join forces with the emperor to bring it down.]] |
| 78 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 79 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': After [[FamilyExtermination his wife, his son, and his king]] (along with almost everyone else in Doma castle) are killed by Kefka's poison, Cyan rampages through the Imperial camp. Partly subverted in that Sabin and Shadow come to Cyan's aid and the three end up escaping from the camp. |
| 80 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Sephiroth learns the "truth" that he's a descendent of the ancients, then goes berserk & burns down the town of Nibelheim. He later learns the truth behind the "truth," but continues with his plan to [[GodhoodSeeker become a God]], transferring "descendent of the Ancients" to "descendent of Jenova." A good deal of his actions--which also become his downfall--are also that he wants to get revenge on Cloud for defeating him in a fairly humiliating fashion. |
| 81 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'': |
| 82 | *** Delita's reaction to [[spoiler:his sister]]'s murder. It is to be noted while he acts that way towards the immediate person who dealt the killing blow, his revenge on [[spoiler:the corrupt society behind the killing]] was much more planned. |
| 83 | *** Zalbaag goes into a murderous rage against [[spoiler:his brother Dycedarg]] when he learns that [[spoiler:their father]]'s death was caused by [[spoiler:Dycedarg secretly poisoning him]]. |
| 84 | *** Meliadoul's reason for trying to destroy [[spoiler:Ramza]] is because she thinks he was the one responsible for [[spoiler:her brother Isilud]]'s death. She stops when she finds out who the real murderer is. |
| 85 | *** Argath has a less subtle version that crosses the MoralEventHorizon. After [[spoiler:being resurrected]] by the Lucavi, he loudly declares to Ramza that he's going to kill all commoners, presumably in part to get back at Delita for [[spoiler:killing him]]. |
| 86 | * In the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series: |
| 87 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'', if the main characters' levels are less than 50 combined by the time you reach "Four-Fanged Offense", you fight Lloyd Reed, who is murdered by Limstella after the battle. His brother Linus assumes he was killed in battle with the heroes and swears bloody vengeance on them, and you have to fight him in "Cog of Destiny". (In the opposite scenario, where Linus dies in "Four-Fanged Offense", Lloyd comes off more as committing SuicideByCop.) |
| 88 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'': |
| 89 | *** On all routes except Crimson Flower, Dimitri [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes completely insane when he discovers]] [[spoiler:Edelgard]] is the Flame Emperor, who he believes was responsible for the deaths of his friends and family in the Tragedy of Duscur. He spends over five years mindlessly slaughtering every [[spoiler:Adrestian]] soldier he can get his hands on and becomes obsessed with tearing their head from their shoulders. It's deconstructed in that he neglects his duty to his kingdom and drives away his friends due to his [[RevengeBeforeReason obsession with revenge]], and his rampage ultimately ends at the Battle at Gronder with either [[spoiler:his untimely death]] on the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes or [[spoiler:a HeelRealization and decision to abandon his revenge and atone]] on the Azure Moon route. |
| 90 | *** Also on the Silver Snow and Verdant Wind routes, [[spoiler:Dedue]] picks up where Dimitri leaves off to avenge [[spoiler:Dimitri's death at Edelgard's hands during the Battle of Gronder Field]], fighting his way to the Imperial Palace ''alone'' for this purpose. [[spoiler:He only partially gets his wish; Byleth gets to Edelgard first and kills her in order to end the war, and if Dedue survives the battle, he takes Edelgard's corpse and destroys it in accordance with Dimitri's will]]. |
| 91 | %%needs more context* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'': This is just one looooooooooooooooooooooooong example of being on the ''other'' side of this trope. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Alma]] is a [[{{Understatement}} very]] [[UnstoppableRage unhappy]] girl. |
| 92 | * ''VideoGame/FrankoTheCrazyRevenge'': Franko and his buddy Alex gets brutally beaten up by the gang led by the guy named Klocek. No points won for guessing what would happen next. |
| 93 | * ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed'': Starkiller from the final stage. [[spoiler: Betray him once as part of some huge ass [[ThePlan plan]] to take out the Emperor, he'll forgive and continue to serve you. Betray him again to [[XanatosGambit get all the Emperor's enemies (and Starkiller's friends and allies) into one place to conveniently identify, capture, and present to the Emperor for execution]],]] and it doesn't matter if you're one of the most powerful Sith Lords ever on a battle fortress the size of a moon with ten-thousand mooks guarding you, the ''good ending'' will earn you the most savage beating in Jedi history. The bad ending? Much worse. |
| 94 | * In ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'', Sapphira, a vampire aristocrat in Whitehelm, was attacked by the religious authorities despite traditionally being at peace with them, and doesn't know what has changed. She's quite pissed off, and isn't the type to take it quietly; her retaliation involves fighting large numbers of holy warriors and burning down a temple. (She does eventually accept arrest, but un-accepts it when a proper trial isn't forthcoming.) |
| 95 | * ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'': The BigBad spends years carrying out a meticulously crafted plan to punish everyone involved with [[spoiler: his death, including the then-young girl he took hostage.]] |
| 96 | * ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'': This game is essentially one of these for player character Aldo Trapani. Don Emilio Barzini had your father killed. You get recruited as a Corleone hatchetman. It's convenient that the Corleone goals of taking over NYC and crushing the other four families align with your own. |
| 97 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': Kratos. The man/god is practically an embodiment of the trope, and he doesn't settle for small fry revenge either. He starts with Ares, and then [[RageAgainstTheHeavens works his way through Olympus]], all because [[ThereAreNoTherapists Zeus figured it was easier to betray and kill him than have a reasonable discussion]]. |
| 98 | ** Revenge is the central theme in ''God of War''. Pretty much boils down to this: If they've crossed Kratos, they're ''going'' to die. Along with anyone and anything that stands in his way. ''Including Fate itself.'' |
| 99 | ** Also a deconstruction, as Kratos's unrelenting desire for revenge ultimately has dire consequences, showing how one man's desire for revenge can destroy everything that he once held dear ([[spoiler:first, his family is destroyed because he wanted revenge against the man who defeated him in battle; and then, ultimately, the whole world suffers for his devastating rampage]]. [[VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4 By the time he]] [[StartingANewLife moves on and remarried]], Kratos has become a broken man who shamefully hides his past from his son). |
| 100 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'': An early mission involves driving through the turf of rival dealers while your employer opens up on everybody with a machine gun in retaliation for stolen business. Oh, and a previous mission involves tracking down someone who cheated him and cutting his heart out. |
| 101 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': Lance Vance attempts to engage in one of this when [[spoiler:avenging the death of his brother at the hands of Diaz's men]]. He fails, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero makes things more difficult for Tommy]], who is already having a difficult enough time trying to maintain the unstable drug lord's trust. |
| 102 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': The final mission of the game will always be this, with Niko seeking revenge either on [[spoiler:Dimitri Rascalov for killing Roman]] or on [[spoiler:Jimmy Pegorino for killing Kate]], murdering several mooks in the process. |
| 103 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': Gordon Freeman enters the enemy base, alone, at the end of the game. [[spoiler:All his weapons are taken from him, except for the Gravity Gun, which becomes ultra-powered and capable of even grabbing enemy soldiers. All his friends have been captured. The entire end-game segment lets the player go berserk on the enemy with the Gravity Gun, torturing and maiming them in every way imaginable, while Dr. Breen, his old supervisor, calls him worthless.]] |
| 104 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': |
| 105 | ** Hunters form bonded pairs with one another and always fight together. If one goes down, the other will furiously redouble its efforts to reduce you to a bloody pulp. |
| 106 | ** [[spoiler:The Precursors, after denying the Forerunners the Mantle in favor of humanity, are hunted to near extinction by a massive Forerunner military force. A few escape though and were understandably ''not'' happy. Their plan? ''Make sure that everything they've ever created suffers for all eternity''. The form they took to accomplish this? ''[[EldritchAbomination The Flood]]''.]] |
| 107 | * ''VideoGame/TheHappyhillsHomicide'': The Clown's murdering spree across Happyhills is this, as he seeks to repay an injustice done, that seemingly all of his victims were part of. [[spoiler: It turns out that all of the victims (except for Madison) were his bullies when he was still a janitor at Westpine High, with two of them even nearly killing him through a prank gone wrong.]] |
| 108 | * ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': Poltergeist Polterguy's motivation is to remorselessly scare Vito and his family out of their house because Vito's company produced crappy skateboards (Polterguy died riding one of these). He is completely merciless with them. |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/HeatSignature'': Some characters have the [[ItsPersonal Personal Mission]] of either killing or capturing a target who either killed or tortured a loved one. While the player is given a great deal of leeway in how much collateral damage they inflict, it is easily possible to kill 40 people to reach your target, and kill hundreds more in other missions against the same faction. |
| 110 | * ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'': This game has Nariko going on one of these when King Bohan kidnaps her father. She literally tears through his entire army to get at him. |
| 111 | * ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDeadOverkill'': The exact words of the trope name are used by the narrator when describing Varla's motivation. (Her brother turned himself into a monster while trying to kill Papa Caesar, so she wants Papa Caesar dead. The heroes are the ones who actually killed her brother, but it was an ICannotSelfTerminate, so they don't get the blame.) |
| 112 | * In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', [[spoiler: Jacket goes on one of these after discovering that his girlfriend has been murdered by Richter. He escapes from the hospital (which he recovered from his coma-inducing headshot in), returns to his trashed apartment, where he puts his IconicOutfit back on, and then lays waste to an entire fortified police precinct (murdering about sixty police officers in the process) just so that he can find Richter. However, unlike most examples of this trope, once Jacket discovers that Richter is just as much of an UnwittingPawn as him, he is given the option to spare his life (which is shown to be the canonical option in the sequel).]] |
| 113 | * ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'': |
| 114 | ** In some Adventure Mode missions, a Mama Cucco and a Cucco Chick will appear, and you're asked to escort the Chick to its Mama. If the Chick gets killed, the Mama Cucco goes crazy, gets the highest powerup status possible, and starts attacking both sides (mostly yours). |
| 115 | ** Also in Adventure Mode, you will occasionally be tasked with escorting an injured soldier back to base. If you fail, he comes back as a vengeful ghost. Though his rampage isn't as physically devastating as the mama cucco's, he can lay some nasty curses on you if left sitting around too long, like dropping your allies' morale, stealing your rupees, or even making your allies vanish from battle (and it's possible to instantly lose the battle if one of your playable allies are cursed to vanish). |
| 116 | * ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'' has two examples. First, Fetch accidentally killed her brother in a drug-induced rage and has been targeting and killing drug dealers ever since. Second, [[spoiler:during an attempt to rescue Fetch and Eugene from the D.U.P. that turns out to be an ambush, Augustine murders Reggie in cold blood]]. [[UnstoppableRage Delsin does]] '''[[UnstoppableRage NOT]]''' [[UnstoppableRage handle this well.]] |
| 117 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'', the reason Itchy the swordfish is so eager to kill the aliens is that all his friends were once devoured by one of them. Now he wants them all '''dead'''. |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 119 | ** Take every [[NightmareFuel nightmare you suffered as a child]] that was induced by a Creator/{{Disney}} film. Chernabog, the mountain demon from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''... Maleficent from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''... ''anything'' Disney did to make you need that nightlight as a kid... take it all, go play ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', and savor your revenge. |
| 120 | ** And while we're on the topic of Kingdom Hearts, Roxas in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]''. [[spoiler:He was forced to kill and absorb one of his best friends, so he ends up going on a [[OneManArmy one-man invasion]] of the entire World That Never Was to set Kingdom Hearts free and put Organization XIII in their place, easily taking out Neo Shadows in a ''single hit''. And throughout all of this his memories of Xion are fading, to the point that when he begins his battle with Riku he only remembers his best friend as "[[TearJerker her]]".]] Unfortunately for Roxas, [[spoiler:Riku puts a stop to his rampage before he can even get to the Castle That Never Was. In the end, it was probably for the best. If Riku managed to defeat Roxas [[IWantThemAlive when he wasn't even trying to kill him]], Xemnas and company would have been ''much'' less merciful. And if Roxas [[LeeroyJenkins got himself killed]], a semi-deceased Sora would've been taken down along with him.]] |
| 121 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', when [[DisneyDeath Goofy is knocked out and presumed killed by flying debris]], King Mickey [[PreMortemOneLiner says "They'll pay for this!"]], [[FlungClothing throws off his cloak]], and summons his Keyblade. Many Heartless were about to die. |
| 122 | ** Another one with Roxas in ''Kingdom Hearts II''. Axel is implied to have kidnapped Kairi in order to draw out Sora and turn him into a Heartless in order to release Roxas (his best friend) from Sora, as Sora and Roxas are one and the same. He nevertheless makes a HeroicSacrifice of his own choice to save Sora when fighting alongside him. Roxas learns of this and stages a battle for control of Sora's sense of self out of turmoil for losing Axel due to Sora in a way. He comes at Sora with a killing intent, while emotional music blares in the background; doing everything short of crying BrokenTears. [[spoiler:He loses and relents to his fate, but Sora has none of this, insists that Roxas is his own person and vows to bring him back. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII He succeeds, too, with the help of Vexen and Zexion]]]]. |
| 123 | * ''VideoGame/KingpinLifeOfCrime'': The main character is brutally beaten by thugs working for Nikki Blanco, and he's told never to come back. Instead, he sets across the landscape, destroying the Mafia-run businesses, killing numerous members, and going after Nikki's boss to finally take control for himself. |
| 124 | * ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad''. Cake is stolen? Go beat up Dedede! Dedede doesn't have the cake, but some thieves do? Go beat them up! Treasure chest does not contain cake? Beat up the thing that's in it! |
| 125 | * ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' has this as an IncitingIncident, with the protagonist Ellie deciding to kill every last one of the former fireflies who collectively [[spoiler:murdered Joel]]. |
| 126 | * ''VideoGame/LauraBow: The Colonel's Bequest'': The actual good ending tells you that [[spoiler: Lillian]] did this. |
| 127 | * This is something of a running theme in the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series. ''VideoGame/{{Blood Omen|LegacyOfKain}}'' opens with secondary character Vorador slaughtering six of the most powerful people in the world out of revenge; the game itself is Kain's rampage of revenge. In ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver Soul Reaver]]'', the vampire Raziel is brutally mutilated, rebuked, and tossed into oblivion... but that's just how the story starts. Once he gets back up, Raziel gets to work his way up through his younger brothers, leading straight up to Kain himself. In ''[[VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver2 Soul Reaver 2]]'', Raziel goes on another one against the mortal forms of himself and his brothers in the past, and ''VideoGame/{{Blood Omen 2|LegacyOfKain}}'' features Kain on yet another rampage. |
| 128 | * ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel III'' has Rean Schwarzer who, after seeing [[spoiler:Millium dying at the Nameless One's hands, loses control of his SuperpoweredEvilSide and starts slicing and dicing the Nameless One, long after he kills it. And this wasn't enough to sate his hunger for revenge as he goes directly to the source: his father]]. |
| 129 | * In ''VideoGame/LibraryOfRuina'', the Middle Layer Floor Realizations reveal that [[spoiler:Roland went on a rampage through the City after his wife, Angelica, died to the Pianist, killing anyone he believed to be responsible and decimating the Rumanos Cartel. The effects of his rampage come back to bite him during the story, especially in his bad end.]] |
| 130 | * ''VideoGame/{{Lugaru}}'': Basically the entirety of this game, by the end of the game, nearly every named character has been revealed as a traitor. |
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| 134 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 135 | ** Liara T'Soni becomes [[UndyingLoyalty obsessed with Shepard]] to the point where [[EnemyMine she is willing to work with Cerberus]] after the Collector attack. When the Shadow Broker tries to sell Shepard out to the Collecters Liara does not [[BerserkButton take it well,]] and starts working with criminals, Asari commandos, threatening to kill her contacts with their own spine, all to get back at the Shadow Broker. [[spoiler: When she finds out that her friend Feron, who was captured and presumed killed by the Shadow Broker, is alive, however, her motive rapidly change from revenge to rescue...with a revenge flavor.]] |
| 136 | ** Zaeed has a similar motive against [[spoiler:Vido Santiago]], who betrayed Zaeed by turning their men against him and paying six of them to hold him down while he put one right through Zaeed's skull. During his LoyaltyMission, [[spoiler:Zaeed causes a fire that endangers a crowd of civilians in the pursuit of his vengeance against Vido, which leaves Shepard with the choice of saving the civilians or helping Zaeed take his revenge]]. |
| 137 | ** If you've given Commander Shepard the [[DoomedHometown Colonist]] background and the [[TheButcher Ruthless]] reputation, then it's implied that what Shepard did to the batarian slavers of Torfan was vengeance for Mindoir. |
| 138 | ** Thane Krios has one of these in his back story. When his wife, who he had met by having her interpose herself between his gun and his target, is assassinated by slavers trying to strike back at him; he snaps and hunts them ALL down: |
| 139 | --->'''Thane:''' I was taught to grant death quickly, cleanly, to minimize suffering. Them, I let them linger. |
| 140 | ** Could be a trait of Asari. TheUnfettered CombatPragmatist Aria gets kicked out of her home base on Omega by [[spoiler:Cerberus]] in ''Mass Effect 3'', but doesn't really care about an intricate plan to get back at them: |
| 141 | --->'''Shepard:''' How do you plan on getting Omega back?\ |
| 142 | '''Aria:''' I think I am going to employ violence. |
| 143 | ** Garrus's men (when he was Archangel) are this as well. |
| 144 | ** Shepard storming [[spoiler:Cerberus headquarters]] near the end of the game considering how they constantly manipulated him/her in the previous game and tried to destroy all of his/her efforts for the war in ''3''. Especially when s/he guts [[spoiler:Kai Leng]] like a fish for [[spoiler:killing Thane, Miranda or Kirrahe]]. |
| 145 | ** The ''Mass Effect 1'' DLC "Bring Down the Sky" has a batarian terrorist group trying to carry this out against a human colony, [[FantasticRacism since they see humanity as the reason that their race's prosperity is waning]]. How do they do this? ''[[ColonyDrop They redirect a freakin' asteroid to try and slam it into the planet]]''. |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': |
| 147 | ** In [[VideoGame/MaxPayne1 the first game]], the title character goes on one of these after his partner, Alex Balder is killed and he is framed for it. He starts with Jack Lupino, the guy he considers responsible, moves on to Lupino's boss, Punchinello, and then sets his sights on Nicole Horne when it's discovered that she was behind not only Alex's murder and the frame-up (pulled off by dirty cop and [[TheDragon Dragon]] B.B.), but also the murder of Max's wife and baby girl by V-head junkies three years ago. |
| 148 | ** ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' picks up before he starts his next rampage. It isn't until the 3rd and final chapter of the game that he goes from reactionary, self-defense killing to actively hunting down those who wronged him. And ''everybody dies''. |
| 149 | ** ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' starts off as a RoaringRampageOfRescue, but the motivation turns to revenge after Max finds himself in the midst of a joint effort between the UFE police division and the Crachá Preto paramilitaries to raid the favela and take people out by the truckload. Once he discovers that the raid was [[spoiler:one of many to provide bodies for an OrganTheft operation]], he's dead-set on exacting vengeance on the leaders of the two factions as well as Victor Branco, the politician who's using the whole ordeal to bolster his mayoral campaign. |
| 150 | * ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2'': Ramon Solano, the BigBad, might have come out on top, had he not pulled a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on the player merc by refusing to pay them, trying to kill them to preemptively stop any attempt to claim the bounty on ''his'' head, and to add insult to injury, [[ShotInTheAss causing them to get shot in the ass]]. This triggers a rampage across Venezuela that results in countless VZ casualties, billions of dollars in property damage, one destroyed castle, a few leveled cities, and two nuclear strikes. |
| 151 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' |
| 152 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': It's revealed that Gray Fox went on one in the game's backstory, killing Dr. Clark and all the scientists who turned him into a CyberNinja for the untold pain they caused him during their experiments. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by his appearance on Shadow Moses Island; while it initially seems like he's going after Snake for revenge, it turns out to be [[spoiler:him wanting Snake to kill him [[TheLastDance in a fight to the death]], and he even ends up assisting Snake throughout the game]]. |
| 153 | ** ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'': After finding out how [[PrivateMilitaryContractors World Marshall]] is harvesting the brains of children and turning them into their own private army, Raiden (who grew up a ChildSoldier) proceeds to go on a giant vengeance-fueled rampage that at the end, leaves him standing over the bodies of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Desperado]], hundreds of contracted soldiers for World Marshall, and [[spoiler:a US Senator with ambitions of [[PresidentEvil becoming President]]]]. |
| 154 | ** The primary theme of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''. After losing their base, their entire military force and [[AnArmAndALeg a few limbs]] in an attack conducted by Cipher and XOF, Big Boss and Kaz are set to go to the ends of the Earth and do anything, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters no matter how reprehensible,]] to get revenge. The game itself is meant to show [[FallenHero the final fall of Big Boss from a good and idealistic soldier to a bitter, revenge-fueled, self-confessed "demon"]]. |
| 155 | --->'''Kaz:''' We pull in money, recruits, just to combat Cipher. Rubbing our noses in bloody battlefield dirt, [[RevengeBeforeReason all for revenge]]. |
| 156 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' franchise: |
| 157 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'': The final battle against Mother Brain depicts [[spoiler:her destroying the Metroid Larva, which was trying to protect Samus in the first place. As it dies, it gives Samus the Hyper Beam, an insanely-powered, wall-piercing rainbow gun]]. So Samus, after being thrown around by Mother Brain like a chew toy, turns the tables and goes on a rampage against her, reducing Mother Brain to dust, and the planet Zebes soon after. ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' adds another level to it by giving it a cutscene to show just how pissed off Samus really was. |
| 158 | ---> '''Samus''': [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Mother!]] [[PreMortemOneLiner Time to go...]] |
| 159 | ** Every encounter she has with Space Pirates, particularly [[ArchEnemy Ridley]]. In the backstory, they destroyed the colony where she lived and killed everyone else, including her parents (one of whom was ripped apart and ''eaten'' by Ridley right in front of her). Yeah, the Pirates have a damn good reason to be afraid whenever "[[TheDreaded The Hunter]]" shows up. |
| 160 | ** This reaches its epitome in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission''. After [[ThatOneLevel being forced to evade countless Space Pirates on their own ship without your weapons or armor]], you reach the Chozo Ruins and get your [[EleventhHourSuperpower new & improved]] PowerArmor back, gaining several downright [[PurposelyOverpowered game-breaking powers]] and get to go on perhaps the most cathartic and satisfying destructive rampage of any video game. |
| 161 | * In ''{{VideoGame/Miitopia}}'', Miis with strong bonds can learn the "Avenge" skill. If a Mii falls in battle, their friend will fly into a rage and lash out at the monster responsible for their friend's demise, so long as they have either the Cool, Energetic, or Stubborn personalities. |
| 162 | * ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterGenerations Ultimate'' has the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bloodbath]] [[TemperCeratops Diablos]], which had one of its horns broken as a child. As a result, it's dedicated its whole life to murdering as many humans as possible, killing any other monsters that get in its way. Those bluish-black stains you see on its carapace? That's ''dried blood'' from the countless humans and monsters it's killed in its fury. The slight committed against it made it so angry that its blood ''[[MyBloodRunsHot literally begins to boil.]]'' |
| 163 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': This game has a lot of characters with revenge as a motive. The best known probably being series mascot Scorpion; a spectral ninja whose story in the first game revolved around killing Sub-Zero, the man who killed him, his clan, and his wife and son. [[spoiler: As it turns out, Sub-Zero only killed Scorpion; his family and clan were killed by Quan Chi, the sorceror who allowed him to seek revenge against Sub-Zero. When Scorpion finds this out, he switches targets to seeking revenge on Quan Chi.]] |
| 164 | ** Kung Lao is the first to discover [[spoiler:Liu Kang's body in ''Deadly Alliance'' after the eponymous pair [[NeckSnap snap his neck]].]] He vows revenge against the duo and seeks an old master to train for their defeat. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for him either, in spite of that.]] The roles are reversed in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'', wherein Kung Lao successfully defeats every challenger Shao Kahn puts before him until [[spoiler:Kahn himself simply walks up behind him and breaks his neck. Liu Kang then challenges Kahn and this time puts a fiery fist right through his chest.]] |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/MushihimeSama Futari'': Queen Larsa's son Aki dies at the hands of Reco, [[MamaBear driving her to declare war on the Shinjuu Forest]]. She even goes as far as to ''[[AbusiveParents disown her only remaining son]] [[MoralEventHorizon and leave him to die]]'' when he openly admits that he believes Reco to be a good person and that Aki's death was an accident. |
| 166 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': Before she became a paladin fo Tyr, Aribeth's village was raided by orcs and she was the [[SoleSurvivor only one to survive]]. She then tracked down the orcs responsible for the raid and slain them. But she didn't stop there. She went after any orcs she could come across and slaughtered them as well. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'': Although he remains chillingly [[TheStoic calm]] about it, the remake is all about Ryu Hayabusa putting his blade through the many minions of the Vigoor Empire that razed his village and killed off almost all of his kin. |
| 168 | ** Most of whom die because they're ''in the way''. |
| 169 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': Presumably the reason behind the game. Travis Touchdown rejoins the UAA for the purpose of [[spoiler: avenging his friend's death (the one who would get your motorcycle for you in the first game]]. This being Travis, [[{{Otaku}} he doesn't have too many friends]], so it's kind of a blow. Also, in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', precision killing is simply not an option, regardless of motivation. Coincidentally, [[spoiler:killing Bishop]] was part of the antagonists' ''own'' RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[CycleOfRevenge Messy, ain't it]]? |
| 170 | ** However, because of the way the UAA functions, the game serves as a deconstruction of the "work your way up to the big bad" plot. Travis' target is rank 1 in the UAA, so Travis has to slaughter a whole bunch of people to face him, almost all of them people he's never even met. By the time he can actually face his target, [[spoiler: he's grown disgusted by all the killing and swears vengeance not just for his dead friend, but for all the people he's had to kill, vowing to bring down the ranked assassination scene and stop the mindless bloodshed.]] |
| 171 | * If you skip more than one day of work by being with your family in ''VideoGame/OneChance'', an angry co-worker will try to murder you when you show up the next day after everyone else in the place had been DrivenToSuicide. Defend yourself against him, and he'll run off [[spoiler:into your house, murdering your wife and daughter before hanging himself by the time you get home]]. |
| 172 | * ''VideoGame/{{Outlaws}}'': Retired Marshall Anderson goes after the people who kill his wife and take his daughter, methodically hunting them down one after another and put them to frontier justice. [[spoiler: He also finds his father's killer and shoots him in the process.]] |
| 173 | * ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'': After Tamamo no Mae [[TheLostLenore loses his wife]], he spends roughly a decade raising his twin children until they too are slain by an ''onmyōji''. The event pushes him through the DespairEventHorizon and he is now still ''burning down entire villages'' in search of the murderer. |
| 174 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': The tale of Ogerpon and the Loyal Three becomes this when you learn the truth about the backstory for ''The Teal Mask '': [[spoiler:Ogerpon and a kind hermit lived quietly in a cave on the village outskirts, only entering the village while wearing ornate masks whenever a festival was being held. The [[TerribleTrio "Loyal Three"]], as it turns out, were actually thugs who wanted said masks for themselves, stealing three of the four masks and killing the hermit. When Ogerpon returned home and saw what had happened, she donned the titular Teal Mask and fought a fierce battle, killing the trio.]] Making this especially poignant is the fact that [[spoiler:Ogerpon is a pure Grass-type, while the Loyal Three have the Poison typing. ElementalRockPaperScissors means that normally, a type disadvantage and three against one odds would dictate the opposite outcome, especially as she only learns moves that are ineffective against them!]] |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': Subverted. For stealing his seat as guardian of a system core file, Buer swears vengeance upon Asmodeus. But he's completely impotent and powerless to do anything about his sorry lot. Even worse, Asmodeus ''knows'' this. |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/PrincessConnectReDive'': The end of Chapter 5 sees Empress Eustiana attempting to kill Yuuki and many other key characters, including [[BloodKnight Christina]]. When we next see Christina in Chapter 6, she's been thrown in jail for ''killing half the royal guard'' and attempting to assassinate the empress. |
| 177 | * In ''VideoGame/PrisonArchitect'', your dog handlers and their dogs are considered separate entities who work in tandem, and can be damaged separately in combat. If the handler dies fighting a prisoner, the dog will actually track down the prisoner who killed their handler and try to kill them in revenge. |
| 178 | * ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': To quote Alex Mercer: "NOTHING CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR!". And the guy about to get [[ImAHumanitarian consumed]]? Was a {{jerkass}}, but definitely not at the top of Alex's hit list. |
| 179 | ** ''VideoGame/Prototype2'' starts going on the same venue: the new protagonist James Heller has lost his family to Blacklight while he was overseas and goes on a rampage in the infected zone to get himself killed. Unfortunately for him, Alex finds him dying and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie injects him with the virus]], transforming him into the same SuperPrototype as himself. James [[UnstoppableRage doesn't take it well]]. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/{{Quintessence}} - The Blighted Venom'': Reivier Wirt goes on a killing rampage after his wife [[spoiler: supposedly]] dies. Complete with HiddenEyes. |
| 181 | * Playing as Artificer in ''VideoGame/RainWorld'' reveals that she isn't a [[AxCrazy violent psycho]] so much as she is a [[spoiler:[[MamaBear grieving mother]] avenging her slugpups who were killed by Scavengers just because one saw a pearl and took it out of simple childish curiosity.]] An Artificer run is an expression of loss, grief, hate, and revenge in squishy soft slugcat form. |
| 182 | * ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'': [[spoiler:Dehl]] goes on one in chapter 6 after having a FreakOut that causes his personality to invert. This temporary personality change makes some of his skill descriptions read almost like black comedy. |
| 183 | -->[[spoiler:"The serene, peaceful nature of the knight manifests in enhanced inner traits."]] |
| 184 | * A [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this trope is present in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption''. [[spoiler:The protagonist John is shot and killed in the ending by the corrupt cop Edgar Ross, prompting his grown-up son Jack on one of these for the game's epilogue. Here's where the deconstruction comes in: before John's death, Jack was a kind-hearted, idealistic young man with dreams of becoming a writer. Afterwards, Jack becomes a jaded gunslinger outlaw on the run from the government, drifting from place to place with his former life in ruins. While he eventually succeeds in getting revenge on Ross, it doesn't matter in the end, because Ross is remembered as a hero, John is remembered as a brutal criminal who was brought to justice, and Jack is left a depressed, wandering loner, trapped in a gun-slinging lifestyle that is quickly dying out]]. The only silver lining is that in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', you can find [[spoiler:a book in Franklin's house entitled ''Red Dead'' by J. Marston, implying that Jack managed to find some measure of peace with himself after all, and became a writer just as his dad wanted]]. |
| 185 | * In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': |
| 186 | ** The gang gets a major one when [[spoiler:John's son Jack gets kidnapped. In mere hours, one of the two local ruling families is thoroughly destroyed. The entire gang (minus non-combatants) rides up to the mansion, one of the only times everyone joins in for a mission, and proceed to massacre the guards. When its confirmed Jack isn't there, the mansion is burned to the ground, and the head matriarch is brought down from leader of one of the most powerful families in the area to reduced to a crying mess and ''commits suicide by running into her own burning mansion to '''die by fire'''''.]] |
| 187 | *** Double subverted with [[spoiler:Angelo Bronte, the crime boss they gave Jack to, who gives him back without a fight only to sell the gang out during a robbery, after which they storm his house, massacre his guards, kidnap Bronte and feed him to the alligators in the swamp]]. |
| 188 | ** A recurring plot thread is Sadie Adler's rampage against the O'Driscolls after they kill her husband and rape her, which overlaps with Dutch's own rampage against Colm O'Driscoll for killing his girlfriend. Both culminate in [[spoiler:Arthur, Dutch and Sadie ensuring that Colm hangs for his crimes, followed by Arthur and Sadie finishing off the remaining O'Driscolls at Hanging Dog Ranch]]. |
| 189 | ** Ironically, [[spoiler:John himself is on the giving end of one of these. The game's original protagonist, Arthur Morgan, discovered that the van der Linde gang's TokenEvilTeammate, Micah Bell, was [[TheMole a traitor]] and the reason the gang fell apart in the first place. In all endings, Micah fights and badly beats the already-dying Arthur, and in the two less honorable endings, kills Arthur himself (and even in the best ending, in which Arthur succumbs to his disease, the beating he received from Micah certainly hastened his impending death). Eight years later, John (whom Arthur helped escape from Micah), along with Charles and Sadie, former fellow gang members and close friends of both his and Arthur's, go on one of these against Micah to get payback for both Arthur's sake and for him destroying the gang. They succeed, but unfortunately, John coming out of hiding to kill Micah puts him on Ross's radar, setting up the events of the first game]]. |
| 190 | *** He also perpetrates a lesser rampage against [[spoiler:the Laramie Gang, leading the ranchers in attacking them after they set Pronghorn Ranch on fire, steal the livestock and kill a ranch hand]]. |
| 191 | * In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', Helena is blackmailed into aiding the president's assassination with her sister's life on the line, only for her sister to be murdered anyway. The rest of her campaign sees her out to repay the debt with a river of blood. |
| 192 | * The whole plot of ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' is a revenge-fueled rampage as you seek "Retribution" for your brother's death. |
| 193 | * The plot of ''VideoGame/{{Rune}}'' focuses on Ragnar hunting down a viking who betrayed his comrades to side with Loki and killed them. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'': The latter part of the Brotherhood storyline ([[CycleOfRevenge for both sides]]), an excellent example of why having someone actually roar and rampage is a lot better than being calm and deliberate when you're the one on whom they want revenge. |
| 195 | ** A large part of the plot of ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' is about revenge. The Saints are out to avenge [[spoiler: the death of Johnny Gat]], first targeting Philip Loren, before going after [[TestosteronePoisoning Killbane]]. The individual members of your crew are motivated to avenge some sort of wrong, and the ending you get depends on if you are willing to let your vengeance go, or pursue it at the cost of all else. |
| 196 | * ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 3'': Ishida Mitsunari is out to kill Tokugawa Ieyasu in revenge for his master. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you will '''not''' be able to stop him. And God help you if you get in his way. He'll add you to the list. |
| 197 | * ''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'': The entire premise of the game is basically Ryo Hazuki seeking the man who killed his father, despite heartfelt pleas from Fuku-san, Ine-san, and Nozomi-chan not to do so. He doesn't really think very clearly, gets in a heap of trouble frequently through ill-thought-out actions, and goes after the more shady inhabitants of Yokosuka and Kowloon with varying degrees of competence. However, if you [[spoiler: kidnap]] someone he's close to, then prepare for pain. One time he kicks the living crap out of 70 people to get fix things. |
| 198 | * ''VideoGame/SinsOfASolarEmpire'': You have an entire star nation going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge; the Advent. You see, the Advent's ancestors were a religious order on a remote desert planet that was experimenting with [[HollywoodCyborg cybernetic implants]] and PsychicPowers in an attempt to unite humanity in a peaceful coexistent society when they were found by the Trade Order. The "Xenophobic" Trade Order, which was appalled at the wanton HiveMind and horrific biological experimentation the Advent were performing on a cultural level. So they exiled the Advent into deep space without first taking away or destroying their psychic and cybernetic research. Predictably, the Advent continue to develop those technologies and build a formidable empire with a large fleet of some ''very'' powerful warships outside Trader space; all the while brooding over their mistreatment and exile. A few generations later the first Advent fleets cross back into Trader space intent on reclaiming their homeworld and punishing the Trade Order (now known as the Trader Emergency Coalation-TEC). |
| 199 | ** It doesn't work, the TEC fighting back through a combination of willpower, industry, and logistical expertise, against ''both'' aforementioned Advent and the alien Vasari. [[GenocideBackfire and now,]] they're ''pissed''. So much so that roughly half the TEC refused any overtures of peace and now are out to ''eradicate'' the invaders by any and all means necessary. |
| 200 | * ''VideoGame/{{Shank}}'': In its purest form. Also, with Tarantino vibes |
| 201 | * ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'': |
| 202 | ** Wei Shen [[spoiler: after Jackie Ma is killed.]] |
| 203 | ** How Winston handles things 90% of the time when Wei doesn't bother reasoning with him. |
| 204 | * In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'', the Cooper Gang learn that the BlackKnight is [[spoiler:Penelope, one of their teammates and Bentley's girlfriend]], who [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope betrayed them all]] to [=LeParadox=] out of [[GreenEyedMonster jealousy]] and [[AmbitionIsEvil greed]]. [[spoiler:This breaks Bentley's heart]], and Sly and Murray decide ItsPersonal and [[StormingTheCastle raid the castle]] to kill [[spoiler:her]] in their rage. |
| 205 | %%* The ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series: |
| 206 | * ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': [[spoiler: Chaos. His response to the Knuckles Clan's elders injuring the Chao he was protecting in their quest for power was wiping out their civilization. And he would have gone on to do the same to the rest of the world if he hadn't been sealed and eventually appeased.]] |
| 207 | %% ** Shadow's response to Maria's death. First against humanity (stopped by Amy), then in the true ending of ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' directed against Black Doom. [[spoiler:He doesn't stop with killing Black Doom. No, he proceeds to massacre the ''entire'' Black Arms army to a man with the Eclipse Cannon.]] |
| 208 | %% ** ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' (360/[=PS3=]) players who have played ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' will recognize the infamous City Escape GUN truck. Not only is it back to get back at Sonic, but it has since equipped itself with ''buzzsaws'' and ''jet boosters''. All just to catch one hedgehog! |
| 209 | %% ** The Deadly Six from ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' against Dr. Eggman. After Sonic knocks away the Cacophonic Conch, they took control of Eggman's Badniks and turned them against him after their enslavement. |
| 210 | * ''VideoGame/TheSpectrumRetreat'' has a rather tragic example, as [[spoiler:after Robin's death, Alex decides to kill everyone he believes responsible for it]], ending in himself, even though everyone involved was little more than a victim of circumstances (with one possible exception). Fortunately, [[spoiler:Maddie stops him after the first murder.]] |
| 211 | * ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'': The entire premise is centered around Sam Fisher's hunt to avenge his daughter's murder. [[spoiler:Except she wasn't murdered. Her "death" was engineered by Lambert in order to focus Sam on a specific mission. Grim is manipulating Sam with the knowledge that his daughter is alive, in an attempt to get him to help her stop a military coup in the US. Sam agrees, but when the job is done, he makes it clear that if anyone from his past contacts him again, he won't be merciful. And then, in the ending, when his friend is relating the tale to the Black Arrow mercenaries that have captured him, the base is rocked with explosions, as Sam goes to save the last friend he has...]] |
| 212 | * ''Franchise/StarCraft'': |
| 213 | ** Sarah Kerrigan in ''VideoGame/StarCraftI''. Over a dozen planets later, she's still getting warmed up. Well, there goes the universe! |
| 214 | ** In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', after the events of ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty Wings of Liberty]]'', Kerrigan seems more focused specifically against Arcturus Mengsk, who she deems to have subjected her to a FateWorseThanDeath all the way back in the first game. |
| 215 | * ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront II'': Imperial Campaign. It's right after the Battle of Yavin. The Rebellion has destroyed the Death Star, killing untold numbers of your fellow servicemen. Your mission? Payback time. You're going to wipe out every last one you can find and blow their base to bits. |
| 216 | * ''Star Wars' VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' has Kyle Katarn going on ''three'' of these, in increasing orders of magnitude. |
| 217 | ** In one mission in ''Dark Forces'', Kyle and Jan are captured by [[FatBastard Jabba the Hutt]], and Kyle takes this personally. He kills Jabba's pet Kell dragons with his bare hands, slaughters his entire cadre of mercenaries, shoots up the interior of the space yacht, and strips the crime lord's ship clean of personal equipment and weapons in the process. |
| 218 | ** In ''Jedi Knight,'' he goes on his second one after Jerec and his Dark Jedi after [[YouKilledMyFather they murdered his father]]. His body count is somewhere in the hundreds, including [[HumongousMecha AT-STs]], Kell dragons, most of [[WretchedHive Nar Shaddaa]], and half a dozen Dark Jedi. The bloody results of this rampage convinces him he needs to cut his ties to the Force. |
| 219 | ** Kyle goes on his third and bloodiest rampage in ''Jedi Outcast'' when Jan Ors is KilledOffScreen to make him [[spoiler: go to a source of incredible Force power and unwittingly lead her killers there, only it turns out her death was faked without his knowledge]], whereupon Kyle goes into a rage, reconnects with the Force, and winds up with a body count somewhere around a ''thousand'' this time, including nearly a ''hundred'' Reborn Dark Jedi and even more [=AT-STs=]. At this point, the number of Dark Jedi he's killed exceeds the number of light-side Jedi that exist at the time of the games. He's considered a OneManArmy for a reason. |
| 220 | * ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' has Kreia, a former Jedi/Sith (her past is ambiguous) going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge by ''[[TheChessmaster proxy]]'', using the PlayerCharacter. [[spoiler:Having been betrayed by both Jedi and Sith, she seeks destruction of both orders and plans to ''[[BeyondTheImpossible destroy the Force itself]]''.]] |
| 221 | ** A DarkSide [[KarmaMeter playthrough]] consists of this, as TheExile goes from planet to planet killing the Jedi Masters who banished them and anyone who stands in their way. |
| 222 | * According to side-material, ''Franchise/StreetFighter''[='s=] Dan Hibiki went on one towards Sagat after the latter killed his father. When the two meet, however, Sagat allows Dan to beat him to take his revenge, mostly because he realized the doofus was way out of his league and decided to stop him before he hurt himself. |
| 223 | * ''VideoGame/{{Submachine}} 8: The Core'': all the devastation in the Winter Palace is revealed to have been [[spoiler:Murtaugh's fault, because the death toll from his PortalNetwork tearing everything apart led those affected to those in charge attempting to bury him in the Lighthouse; this didn't turn out so well for those in charge]]. |
| 224 | * ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'': The underlying motivation of Luca Blight being one of the most reprehensible living being that walks the world and trying to kill a huge number of humans is a form of ultimate revenge against two groups: |
| 225 | ** The City-States Jowston for forcing him to watch his mother get raped multiple times until she died, and learning that this was all because some mayor from City-States was being petty because he didn't get to keep a particular town he coveted from Highland. |
| 226 | ** His own home, the Highland Kingdom, because his father, the King himself, chose to run away like a DirtyCoward and let all those trauma happen to him and his mother dead. With both sides he held in equal conflict, Luca then decided that the world can go burn and he'll be there laughing like a maniac. |
| 227 | * ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'': After finding out that the Fury basically obliterated everything near her at the beginning of the series, Calvina Coulange in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Judgment'' fell into this trope, intensely hating every Furies she came across and mercilessly slaughtering all Furies that come across her, but she didn't do it with a roar. She later made one exception, though. |
| 228 | ** Also, FallenHero Tempest, whose family were killed by the EFA screwing up, and who has joined the Divine Crusaders not to protect the world from aliens or build an empire, but simply to hurt the EFA. As it happens, he doesn't give a damn about the "list", attempting to kill a fourteen-year-old girl despite noting that she was the same age as his daughter would have been. |
| 229 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'': Chloe Valens heads to the [[CoolBoat the Legacy]] in order to track down her parents' killer, a man with a snake tattoo. Any time she even sees his ''face'' she flies into a fury. |
| 230 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': [[spoiler:Kratos has an epic one when your party fights Kvar, stabbing him and then slashing him in the chest twice, due to what Kvar did to Anna.]] |
| 231 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfBerseria'': The whole story is Velvet Crowe's quest to avenge her brother. By any means necessary. |
| 232 | * ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2'': Hamil against Izabel and [[TheEmpire the Holy Empire]]. Subverted at Eburon. [[TheHero Hamil]] pretends to fly into one [[YouKilledMyFather on seeing Izebel]] at the beginning of the assault on the bridge of Eburon, but is actually just buying time for the rest of the assault team to destroy the bridge. Once the destruction of the bridge is certain, he almost flies into a real one. |
| 233 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': An unlockable {{shotgun|sAreJustBetter}} for the Engineer allows you to avenge your sentry, giving you two guaranteed {{Critical Hit}}s for every kill the sentry made while it was still around, and one for every kill assist. |
| 234 | -->'''Engineer:''' Start prayin', boy! |
| 235 | * ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'': The game's plot is kicked off when the heroes witness Channel 6's broadcast get taken over by Bebop and Krang's android, as Bebop jollily announces that the Foot Clan is desecrating the Statue of Liberty. The heroes proceed to make a beeline for Bebop and the head, and steamroll everyone who gets in the way of said goal. |
| 236 | * ''Franchise/{{Tekken}}'': Miguel Caballero Rojo had a sister whom he adored [[BrotherSisterIncest (to a very creepy degree)]]. Of course, [[ItsPersonal she's gone and died on her wedding day]], and since the Mishima Zaibatsu is to blame, Miguel is now out to kill Jin Kazama. However, [[HeroicBSOD he does not take it well]] when he learns of Jin's apparent death, as his vengeance is the sole reason why he is living, and he has to convince himself that Jin is still alive in order to keep having the will to live. |
| 237 | * Near the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/ThorGodOfThunder2011 Thor: God of Thunder]]'', a game set before the events of ''Film/{{Thor}}'' itself, Sif pushes another Asgardian out of the way of danger. She is then impaled and becomes dead for a time, enraging Thor and causing him to seek vengeance for her death. |
| 238 | -->'''Odin:''' ''(discussing bringing Sif back to life and messing with fate)'' I may yet forestall slaughter and holocaust.\ |
| 239 | '''Loki:''' Your gift to him will surely slake his vengeful thirst, and while you recover in the Odin sleep, I know he will defend Asgard in your stead. |
| 240 | * ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'': Most Russian unifiers have a war with Germany to reclaim Moscow as an immediate goal, a mid-term priority or at least something on the to-do list for later; for example the [[DirtyCommunists West Russian Revolutionary Front under]] [[GeneralRipper Tukhachevsky]], which seeks to spread the cause of communism through explicitly military means. The [[HeWhoFightsMonsters All-Russian Black League]]'s ''entire ideology'' is based specifically around the [[red:Great Trial]], a final no-holds-barred war that will [[PayEvilUntoEvil destroy Germany and her people down to the last woman and child]] as revenge for the brutal humiliation of Russia over the past twenty years. Even, or ''especially'', if it means [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt bringing about a nuclear apocalypse]] - as long as Germany is destroyed forever then nothing else matters. If the Black League is successful in taking over Russia, Hitler's xenophobic doom-mongering about a horde of barbaric Slavs out to annihilate the Aryan race [[SelfFulfillingProphecy will be fully realized]]. |
| 241 | * ''VideoGame/TotalWar'': When that faction you share a border with and have to this point been peaceful trading partners with decides it wants to take that juicy-looking target of a city on their border, the ensuing war can quickly turn into this trope with a little help from the "Exterminate" or "Raze" options (depending on the game) when you not just liberate the city your new enemy just took but conquer all of their cities as well. |
| 242 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': You do NOT mess with Yuuka Kazami's flowers. [[DisproportionateRetribution Your life will become VERY short if you do.]] |
| 243 | ** In ''VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons'', the heroine gets humiliated and expelled by the FinalBoss at the end of the normal game, so they embark on a second trip to her pocket dimension ''only to rematch her'' in the Extra Stage. Heck, even the Extra Stage description ([[IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels instead of the usual warning to not try this difficulty]]) explicitly says "Now it's the time for your counterattack!", and the Extra Stage title instead reads '''Revenging Stage'''. |
| 244 | * ''Traffic Department 2142'': In this DOS game, the main character Lt. Velasquez has been on one of these ever since her father was killed. As the game goes on, her hatred builds, sending her on a downward spiral towards the MoralEventHorizon, before she finally "finds peace" in the form of even her being too tired of killing to go on doing it. |
| 245 | * ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA'': The game has an optional story arc in which Nick Kang, on failing to rescue his [[spoiler:brother]], himself goes on a roaring rampage of revenge to find and kill the man responsible, having already been slightly pushed over the edge by the death of his father prior to the game's beginning. [[spoiler:Said rampage leads to one of the "bad endings" in the game since Nick is left with unanswered questions regarding his own father's fate -- the secret dies with the endgame boss.]] |
| 246 | * ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfileCovenantOfThePlume'': "Hero" Wylfred, accepts a deal with pretty much our equivalent of the devil to go on a roaring rampage against a valkyrie. |
| 247 | * ''VideoGame/VikingBattleForAsgard'': They just start piling up very quickly. [[spoiler: Rakan joins Hel in destroying the world because Freya spurned him, Skarin goes on his own by fighting his way (offscreen) to Fenrir and releasing him when Freya essentially enslaves him, and Fenrir himself gets one against the Gods for chaining him up in the first place.]] |
| 248 | * ''VideoGame/WarOfOmens'': Listrata does this with an army after the Siani put her parents to the sword. So far, she's gotten captured one and killed another. |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wet}}'': Rubi is set up by Rupert Pelham, who is in charge of a global drug ring, to take the fall for killing William Ackers's son. How does she get even? This is the page for RoaringRampageOfRevenge, what do you think? |
| 250 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': |
| 251 | ** This is the Valkyr Warframe personified. After being experimented on and all but ''skinned'' by the Corpus (namely Alad V), Valkyr is traumatised and incredibly pissed off; her entire playstyle revolves around screaming bloody murder and using energy claws to rip everything a new one. |
| 252 | ** Also applies to the Stalker; being one of the few beings who remember what the Tenno did before they all lost their memory, he is on a mission to seek and destroy them all, and he is very much fit for the task. |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'': One of the main plot threads through the game is protagonist Aiden Pearce trying to find and kill everyone involved in the death of his niece. |
| 254 | * ''VideoGame/WatchDogs2'' has several missions where [=DedSec's=] motives skew more into vengeance than justice, but special mention goes to the mission "An Eye of an Eye" where street gang, the Tezcas, [[spoiler: murder [=DedSec=] member Horatio,]] prompting Marcus and the rest of [=DedSec=] to go on the warpath, not only killing [[spoiler: Horatio's killers]] but destroying a significant amount of the Tezcas product as well. |
| 255 | * ''VideoGame/AWayOut'' sees Leo do this [[spoiler: once he learns that Vincent was an [[UndercoverCopReveal undercover cop]] the entire journey and wants to bring him back into custody. He takes Vincent hostage, steals a police car, steals a boat, steals a gun from another police officer to try and kill Vincent, and beats the living shit out of him on a rooftop. And depending on how well Leo's player does in those sequences, it all leads up to Leo killing his former friend.]] |
| 256 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Jaina Proudmoore goes on one after the Horde destroys Theramore, and has to be talked down from destroying Orgrimmar in retaliation. Later, when she's made leader of Dalaran, one of the few places where the Alliance and Horde still coexist peacefully, her trust is betrayed when the Blood Elves use Dalaran as a jump point to invade Darnassus; she then purges the Horde from Dalaran and devotes it and the Kirin-Tor to the Alliance. |
| 257 | ** The roaring rampage of revenge upon the Burning Legion is the entire point of the Illidari. |
| 258 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X3 Albion Prelude]]'': The entire plot of the game revolves around the [[PlanetTerra Terran's]] roaring rampage of war and revenge after the [[DesignatedHero Argon Federation]] blows up the [[BigDumbObject Torus Aeternal]], a massive orbital shipyard / city for tens of millions / defense installation that wraps entirely around Earth. |
| 259 | * Almost every player character in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' has a score to settle with the Mechon. Shulk in particular wants Metal Face's head for Fiora's death during the assault on Colony 9, and the entire race scrapped just to be sure. This ends in [[spoiler:a subversion, as the turning point of Shulk's CharacterDevelopment is gaining enough perspective to not be blinded by his need for revenge, turning him into an AllLovingHero who starts to question why the Mechon act this way.]] |
| 260 | * The prequel DLC for ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' Torna the Golden Country ends this way for the character Mythra. After beating the final boss [[BigBad Malos,]] he acknowledges that his fellow [[PersonOfMassDestruction Aegis]] Mythra isn’t at full power, due to the inherent fear both she and her Driver Addam have towards her power, so in order to force Mythra’s hand, he decimates Torna’s capital city, where Mythra told the party’s {{Tag Along Kid}}s to stay, as it was far from the battle. [[HeroicBSOD Realising she’s responsible for their deaths]] [[spoiler: though one of them survives]], [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Mythra goes berserk with grief,]] unleashing her full power and transforming her sword into it’s True Aegis form, [[TooMuchForManToHandle which in turn paralyses Addam.]] She then duels Malos alone, flying around the Tornan titan and eventually piloting her [[HumongousMecha Siren]] again Malos’ own. At this point, [[RevengeBeforeReason she’s so single-minded in her desire to kill Malos that she blindly unleashes attacks at him,]] regardless of who gets caught in the crossfire, ultimately unleashing her power in such a way that she not only almost kills the NighInvulnerable Malos and decimates his army, she also kills fellow [[UnfriendlyFire party member Hugo]] and outright destroys Torna, sinking the entire kingdom under the cloud sea. Once she snaps out of it, the combination of the horror of watching the Tornan titan crumble and die because of her actions, [[AndIMustScream the trauma of wielding such power and being unable to stop]] and the fact that the surviving TagalongKid refuses to let her come close to the corpse of the other out of both fear and anger is too much for her to handle, going so far as creating an entirely new (and weaker) SplitPersonality to take control over their body and becoming a DeathSeeker. |
| 261 | * ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'': Id goes on one of these after the villains try to kill the woman he...well, he doesn't exactly ''love'' her, but he considers her to be his. He ends up destroying an entire floating city and causing the deaths of at least thousands of innocent people. |
| 262 | ** To put this in perspective, the city is designed to utterly destroy a full assault from the entire military forces of the rest of the world ''combined'' without so much as causing a cup in the city to quiver. Id ripped through the entire city with full defenses operational and firing in roughly ten minutes. |
| 263 | * ''VideoGame/{{XIII}}'': While it's only a side goal and you'd much rather just take out their head, you still get a list of the conspirators. This is kind of interesting at first as everyone on the list but your traitorous self, even the lowest rankers, are bosses for the first 85% of the game, and it seems like the game is setting up an all-boss rampage like some of the excellent examples above. Unfortunately, you end up killing about half of them in the second last stage, dressed in Klan outfits and equipped with no more AI or HP than the average mook. Oh, and the leader escapes to the sequel that will never be. |
| 264 | * Naturally, this is the motivation for the Yars in the OlderThanTheNES game, ''VideoGame/YarsRevenge''; the Yars are gunning for revenge against another race of aliens called the Qotile, who had destroyed one of their planets; [[AllThereInTheManual the full backstory]] was detailed in a comic book that came with the game. |
| 265 | * ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': |
| 266 | ** After [[spoiler:Tachibana's death]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes Kiryu]] threatens to ''[[LeaveNoSurvivors bury]] the [[TheSyndicate Tojo Clan]]'' if anyone should dare to lay so much as one finger on Makoto Makimura. It's at this point that Kuze begins to understand exactly ''how'' badly [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the Dojima Family screwed up by involving Kiryu in their schemes]]. |
| 267 | ** Goro Majima's side of the story ends with one after [[spoiler: Makoto is shot by Dojima and his henchmen. Majima goes absolutely berserk and [[OneManArmy tears through the entirety of Dojima's headquarters alone]], defeating one of Dojima's top lieutenants and the best assassin in Asia on his way to the man himself. The only reason Majima doesn't kill Dojima once he gets to him is because Sera arrives and talks him down with info that Makoto would recover and there was no further reason for the yakuza to pursue her.]] |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/{{Zyll}}'': Zyll didn't hesitate to embark on this once he discovered the Black Orb. |
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