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  • Akumetsu: Most everything was a result of Shou responding to Katsuragi's death. Additionally, his retaliation when his teacher is shot in the 3-B incident.
  • Attack on Titan:
    • Deconstructed with Eren and his squad's attempt to avenge a fallen ally. The squad is killed and Eren ended up getting eaten to save Armin, though he does come back — and for added points, once he transforms into his Titan form for the first time and begins laying waste to the Titans, as he's pinned down, he sees the Titan that killed Thomas, goes right for him and tears out its throat with his teeth before slamming his body into the other Titans. Yikes.
    • A rather delayed one, but it happens when Eren attacks Reiner, Bertolt and Annie's hometown during a festival. Eren managed to sneak in to the town in disguise and convince a Wide-Eyed Idealist Child Soldier named Falco to help him. Falco is in the same military branch as Reiner, Bertolt and Annie as a future Tyke Bomb candidate. Through Falco, Eren manages to meet with Reiner for the first time in four years. After a nice catchup, in which Reiner even asks Eren if he's there to invoke the trope, the two of them, along with Falco, listen to a speech given by Willy Tybur, who is the ruler of the nation. The speech explains the true history of the walls on Paradis Island, and reveals to the world that Eren is, in fact, planning on destroying everyone. Right after Willy declares war on Paradis, Eren transforms into his titan and goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge: he eats Willy, kills most of the people who were watching the speech in the plaza (including a lot of important political figures) and even One-Hit KOs Reiner's Armored Titan (that didn't transform properly due to Reiner's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Eren then goes to fight the Warhammer Titan, which is the point where Mikasa and the rest of the Survey Corps show up.
    • Eren in Chapter 123 frustrated by the fear and hatred shown to them by the outside world, decides to 'break bad' and enacts a plan running for 4 years to essentially destroy life outside the island, which involves unleashing every one of the Titans of the Walls of Paradis in an event called "The Rumbling."
  • Azumanga Daioh: When Yomi manages to eat curry noodles without splattering it all over herself, Tomo is pushed over the top and goes on a rampage in the lunchroom with tears in her eyes until she accidentally hits Yukari. Yukari's subsequent reaction must be seen to be believed.
  • Baccano!: This is what happens with Jacuzzi Splot should you be dumb enough to push him out of his normal Shrinking Violet Martyr Without a Cause personality (last time it happened, he went machine guns ablazin' and robbed eighteen speakeasies in one night, with tears streaming down his face). Of course, who you should really worry about is a certain redheaded conductor that does not take too kindly to the death of his mentor. When he finds out who did it, he decides to kill him, bathe himself in his blood, go after his friends, go after his friends' friends, and generally act like Nightmare Fuel incarnate for the next ten episodes or so.
  • Berserk:
    • Before the Conviction arc focuses him, Guts spends a year or so Walking the Earth as the Black Swordsman, hunting down and killing demonic Apostles and trying to get at Griffith, who betrayed him in a serious way during the Eclipse by sacrificing his friends, and then raping his girlfriend Casca right in front of him. Though his current objective is to Find the Cure! for Casca's madness, he's still pissed off at Griffith, and in fact, his big recurring dilemma is that he has to choose between pursuing revenge and protecting what little he still has, which isn't exactly helped by the fact that he has a Superpowered Evil Side that wants him to kill Casca so that he can get back to his vendetta.
    • During the Golden Age after reaching Griffith and seeing the torture inflicted on him over a year, Guts kills several dozen guards on his way out the tower and just keeps on going.
    • Generally speaking, the whole series is Guts' rampage to get even with Griffith and the God Hand, with the Golden Age showing just why he's so angry.
  • This is Patry's main motivation in Black Clover. He idolized Licht and started to believe more in Licht's dream of elves and humans being able to live alongside each other peacefully, and was at the wedding between Licht and the Wizard King's sister, Tetia. But during the wedding, humans apparently of the Clover Kingdom attacked them, killing many elves, and Patry, recognizing that the magic used was Light Magic, thought that it was none other than Tetia's brother. Now Patry seeks to destroy the Clover Kingdom in response. His fellow elves, including the Third Eye, share his desire to achieve revenge for the massacre after being reincarnated.
  • Black Lagoon: Clumsy maid Roberta's master, Diego Lovelace, is killed at the start of the El Baile de la Muerte arc. Roberta is a former FARC assassin who was nicknamed the "Bloodhound of Florencia" for her utter relentlessness in carrying out her missions, and who had already turned the city of Roanapur upside down in a previous arc to get the son of said master back. "All hell breaks loose" is perhaps the mildest way of describing what happens next.
    • The further the arc goes, the more it turns into a deconstruction of the trope: Roberta's 'revenge' is completely meaningless because she abandons and almost destroys the only human relationships she had left to accomplish it. She tries to rationalize her rampage as her helping Garcia, but Garcia very explicitly doesn't want her to do it. Her single-minded obsession is shown to be immensely taxing on her body and her psyche, to the degree that she ends up shooting Garcia when he tries to make her stop (and she would have killed him if her gun hadn't been loaded with blanks). In addition to this, the Roberta's Blood Trail OVA is far less generous to Roberta than the manga and she not only fails to kill Caxton and the Grey Fox unit, but the attempt cripples her for life.
  • Bleach:
    • In Chapter 392, Hitsugaya fits this trope particularly well. He confronts Aizen for the first time since the latter's defection from the Soul Society, telling him that swinging a blade in pure anger is just violence, not as a duty of a captain and that Aizen could not call that a true fight; when Aizen then asks Hitsugaya if his hatred had vanished since Hinamori, Hitsugaya's childhood friend and Aizen's former lieutenant, was alive after Aizen had stabbed her, Hitsugaya tells Aizen he did not come here to merely fight him, but to do violence to him. Things take a rather nasty turn for him in Chapter 392, after Aizen sets up an illusion to fool Hitsugaya into thinking that he's stabbed Aizen, when in reality, he's stabbed Hinamori. If the face Hitsugaya makes upon realizing what's happened does not scream roaring rampage of revenge, I don't know what will.
    • In Chapter 477 Tsukishima goes on one, when he thought Ginjou had died. He attacks Ichigo and Rukia not with the intent to Mind Rape them as usual but with the intent to kill. And screams at Riruka to "MOVE!!!" when she protects them, which is a stark contrast to his normally calm and composed manner.
    • And let's not forget how Yumichika went absolutely nuts when he thought Ikkaku had been killed, threatened Hisagi when he wouldn't let him run to Ikkaku's aid, and eventually had to be knocked out by Kira.
  • A Certain Scientific Railgun: Misaka Mikoto has just met her clone for the first time, and evidence is piling up that she is about to participate in an experiment that will end in her death. She goes to the designated spot and watches Accelerator brutally murder the clone. When trying to kill him doesn't work, she destroys thirty research laboratories in three days to try and stop the program.
    Kuroko: (in flashback) What would you do if a clone of yours appeared before you?
    Mikoto: Ah, that would freak me out. I think I would wish it would just disappear.
    (present: Mikoto goes ballistic on Accelerator)
  • In Choujin Sensen, Sasamura states that he will avenge his dead wife and daughter no matter what. And he will do so by cutting down the criminal with his katana.
  • Code Geass:
    • Suzaku goes on a very literal Roaring Rampage of Revenge after the woman he loved, Princess Euphemia is killed, blasting through the battlefield, screaming like a madman as he cuts down anyone in his path. The show's Anti-Hero protagonist, Lelouch, might also qualify since one of his goals is vengeance for his mother, but his is more like Magnificent Bastard Rampage of Revenge.
    • He gets a much more traditional rampage after Shirley is murdered, going out of his way to slaughter everyone connected with Geass — including unarmed scientists and children who are involved with the cult. And boy, does that bite him in the ass later. It should be mentioned that those "Scientists" are experimenting on said children and turning them into superpowered assassins as part of an elaborate plan to create Instrumentality.
    • Nina too. "Vengeance for Euphemia-sama!" indeed.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • In Dragon Ball Goku has one of these. He'd been fighting the Red Ribbon Army for a while, but was never really antagonistic towards him. He just wanted to find his Grandpa's Dragon Ball, and the army tried to stop him, so he kicked their asses. But when the Army hired Tao-Pai-Pai, the mercenary, to take out Goku, Tao killed the father of Goku's new friend. Goku eventually killed Tao and had his Dragon Ball, but he decided to find the rest of them so he could wish his ally back. So he stormed the Red Ribbon Army base, killed pretty much everyone there, took out the newly-made leader (the former leader was executed by his second in command after the latter learned about the true nature of the original leader's goal involving a wish was completely trivial and actually endangered their existence), and got the Dragon Balls and felled the terrorist army in one fell swoop.
    • The wonderful irony in this, is that by Dragon Ball Z, Goku destroying the Red Ribbon Army triggered a thirst of revenge into the Army's chief scientist, Dr. Gero, leading him to create a line of killer androids that could kill Goku, and thus being, years later, the origin of the Androids and Cell Sagas, as well as how Earth became a Crapsack World in Trunks' Future Timeline.
    • After a meal, he curbstomps the monster. After a near-death experience and a nearly-lethal power up, he beats up the guy who sent the monster.
    • Trunks, after taking several levels of badass training in the past and helping in the Cell Saga, goes on one of these upon returning to the future. Now stronger than ever, he proceeds to hunt down the Androids and curbstomps them both with little effort, even shouting "THIS IS FOR GOHAN!" before completely obliterating 18 in one blast. Adding even more to it is the fact he makes the entire fight one long "Reason You Suck" Speech, rubbing in the fact he's going to make them feel exactly how they made his friends feel when they killed them. Not quite finished yet, he then waits for Cell to come after him, knowing that with the Androids dead, Cell will try and get his time machine to return to the past, then destroys him as well when he shows up. While this particular Cell really hadn't done anything to Trunks yet, he's still a mass murderer in this timeline as well and Trunks knows it, so it still counts. What makes this even better is Trunks was really toying with Cell before finishing him off, exactly how Cell likes to do it.
    • The events of Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' is about a resurrected and very pissed off Frieza attempting one of these against Goku and Vegeta. It doesn't work out too well for him.
    • The Goku Black arc of Dragon Ball Super saw Goku learn that the titular Goku Black was actually an alternate Zamasu who had stolen Goku's body before killing Goku, Goten, and Chi-Chi. Goku's response was to attack Zamasu and Goku Black with intent to kill them!
  • Durarara!!: This is Shizuo's reaction to pretty much anything.
    Shizuo: You aimed for my head. You've got to know that a blow like that can kill a guy, right? That means you were deliberately trying to kill me, right? That means whatever happens next... IS WHAT YOU DESERVE, RIGHT?
  • Elfen Lied: Lucy has one of these against Kurama (and all of humanity for that matter).
  • In Fire Punch Agni wakes up angry, in neverending pain and fire and the only thing he can think about clearly is the man who destoryed Agni's village and turned him this way. More often than not, his desire to hunt down his target gets the best of him, with a lot of crossfire victims.
  • Fist of the North Star: Despite trying to follow his teachings and turn the cheek against the other school, Kenshiro is beaten, left for dead, and has his true love Yuria stolen from him. There's a number of different versions of what happens next, depending on whether you're watching the OVA, the US series, the original Japanese series, or the manga. All of them qualify for this trope, as Kenshiro proceeds to fill a medium sized continent with body parts from his rampage.
    • During the Jackal arc, Kenshiro gets involved in a local village's troubles with a vicious gang led by the title crimelord. When both Bat's adoptive brother Taki and their adoptive mother Toyo are murdered by Jackal and his men, Kenshiro gets utterly furious. He spends the rest of the arc hunting down Jackal and his men like dogs, putting the whole gang through a Mook Horror Show that showcases just how horrifying Hokuto Shinken can be. And when he finally catches up to Jackal at Villainy Prison, he dispatches the scumbag with his own dynamite, the weapon Jackal had used to kill Toyo.
  • Fukushuu Kyoushutsu: The premise of the manga has Ayana, a student that is violently bullied by her classmates. Ultimately, after an attempt against her life, Ayana starts a plot to take a bloody revenge on all her classmates, both the ones that hurt her and the ones who didn't do anything to help her.
  • Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden: After Soruen has a Heroic Sacrifice in the worst Tear Jerker of the series, Uruki. Gets. Pissed. As in really pissed. As in create a giant tornado pissed.
  • Gantz: Hiroto Sakurai goes absolutely ballistic once he finds his girlfriend, Tonkotsu, dead. In a total berserk state, he decides to dish out ultimate pain on the invading aliens (who are, easily, 30 times his size) by blowing their brains up with his Psychic Powers of mass murder, not sparing a single one. Not even children or the elderly. And he's still at it. I certainly wouldn't want to cross in this guy's way.
  • Gintama: Takasugi Shinsuke constantly plots to completely destroy Japanese society in order to avenge his teacher's death and out of resentment for the growing alien influence in Japan, as he had once participated in a failed armed uprising to drive out those very same aliens.
  • Grenadier:
    • Rushuna Tendo trashes an entire castle full of armed guards to get to the Jester after she thinks he's killed one of her friends (she's still alive, of course, but in the manga she's not so lucky).
    • She gets in the same mood again before the final showdown in the manga, believing the Jester has just killed her half-sister (she survives).
  • Guilty Crown: When the Antibodies kill Hare, Shu's brief Heroic BSoD is followed by horrifying Tranquil Fury as he forcefully seizes Inori's void and uses it to massacre the Antibodies in the area. As if that's not enough, he continues after that and delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on Souta, who was responsible for the operation.
  • Gunsmith Cats: Goldie Musou has one of these as her Start of Darkness. Although she was a granddaughter of a Mafia Don, she was a decent human being, but after she found out her parents' death wasn't an accident, she used her extensive knowledge of chemistry to brainwash the family members of the killers, forcing them to kill their own families, and then killing them. By the time she was done she had lost her sense of empathy, and started to consider all people toys or tools for her own amusement.
  • HeartCatch Pretty Cure!: Averted when Big Bad Dune kills Yuri's long lost father, who took a hit meant for her and Tsubomi. Yuri's starting to lose herself to her rage when Tsubomi clings on to her, begging her not to do it. It's enough to pull her back and get her to get revenge the right way.
  • Hellsing: In the seventh OVA, Zorin has just severely wounded Seras and killed Pip. To add insult to injury she then refers to the dead Pip as a mere insect. Cue Seras completely losing her shit, awakening to her true power as a vampire, and smearing Zorin's army and Zorin herself across the walls.
  • Higurashi: When They Cry: Pretty much every character eventually has one of these. Keiichi had one on Teppei, Satoko had one on Oyashiro-sama himself, Rena had one on Teppei AND Rina, Rika, Mion, and Keiichi had on Teppei (see a pattern), and Rika and Hanyu had one on Takano. But the most intense one had to be the time Shion had gone apeshit on EVERYBODY!
  • Holyland: Yuu goes on one of these after Shinichi is attacked by Sawako gang members.
  • I Luv Halloween: After Mr. Kitty and Finch set a man's wife on fire, the man goes on a vicious rampage to hunt the evil little trick-or-treaters down. He endures being attacked and bitten by a handful of zombies and set on fire until finally falling.
  • Jujutsu Kaisen: Maki goes on a massive rampage that culminates with the entirety of the Zen'in Family dead, including her own father (who absolutely deserved it) and mother (who didn't, but internally agreed that the clan had it coming), following Mai's death. After she's done, the narration adds that a few members of the clan were absent from the family's compound that day; Maki went and hunted them down, too.
  • Kamisama Kiss: Tomoe goes on one of these every time someone hurts or, especially, kidnaps Nanami.
  • Katanagatari: After Togame dies in Shichika's arms the main protagonist proceeds to climb a pagoda to the Shogun and destroy every weapon he had spent the last year collecting a long with most of the poor saps who were using them at the time, in what can only amount to a series of consecutive Curb Stomp Battles leading up to the inevitable confrontation with The Dragon who killed Togame previously in which the only damage that was inflicted was the damage Shichika allowed. This guy was even fighting them all unarmed.
  • Kekkaishi: After one of the Co-Dragons Kaguro kills Gen, Yoshimori goes on Roaring Rampage of Revenge, letting himself be captured by Kokuboro just so that he can kill the bastard with his own hands.
  • Macross Frontier: Klan goes on one of these after Michel is killed defending her from Vajra.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam AGE: Seems to run through the Asuno bloodline, specifically:
    • Flit tearing into Desil after he kills Yurin. Though he spares him rather than strike a finishing blow.
    • Asemu, also against Desil, this time after he kills Woolf. No mercy is shown to him this time.
    • Kio unleashes FX Burst on Zanald after he kills Deen. Like his grandfather, Kio spared his enemy at the last second.
    • Zeheart goes on one in Episode 48, after he sees the Gundams had survived the attack he sacrificed a good deal of his forces, including his closest Lieutenants, to pull off. Unfortunately for him, his does not go nearly as well as any of the Asunos'.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans:
    • Done as a Disproportionate Retribution. Shortly after Biscuit's death, Mikazuki confronted Carta and her squadrons, the people who killed Biscuit in their attempt of disrupting Orga's command. When the later wanted to negotiate in a fair duel, Mika immediate delivered a No Holds Barred Beat Down when they were still outside their mechas, shredding every last of them on his own.
    • Ein delivers his own towards Tekkadan by splitting Azee with his Graze Axe, kicking Lafter with Leg Drill, and impaling Norba with his Pile Bunker. He even made an attempt to outright kill Kudelia, even though she had nothing to do Crank's death.
    • Another case for Tekkadan in Season 2: following Jasley Donomikols's murder of Lafter Turbine, Tekkadan formally dissolves their association with Teiwaz and launches an incredibly brutal assault on Jasley and his forces, swiftly leading to their victory. Jasley attempts to surrender, offering money, apologies, whatever Tekkadan wants. Orga responds by coldly ordering Mikazuki to crush their flagship's bridge with his gigantic mace.
  • Mother Keeper: During the third part of Hunter, Graham decides to get revenge for what Silas did to Zelik, including shutting all the lights off, murdering everyone in the building, shooting Silas in the leg, standing on his chest and eventually shooting him in the head. He then sets the building alight.
  • Naruto:
    • Sasuke. His reason for living was that he wanted to kill his Aloof Big Brother, Itachi, for murdering their clan. When Tobi reveals that Itachi was ordered to kill the Uchiha by Konoha's higher-ups, Sasuke snaps and declares that his new goal is to destroy Konoha in order to avenge Itachi. Previously he had held back on killing or severely injuring bystanders; now he seems to just be attacking anybody and everything that gets in the way.
    • Naruto goes on one when he believes Sasuke has been killed by Haku (who he nearly killed afterwards). Against Neji for nearly killing Hinata in the Chunin Exams preliminaries. Though bringing back Sasuke is his main reason, he'd be more than glad to kill Orochimaru for killing his Grandfather figure, the Third Hokage. He goes apeshit on Deidara when he states he and Sasori managed to kill Gaara. Would've definitely gone after Hidan if Shikamaru couldn't do it since Asuma played an important part in his elemental chakra training. Became dead-set on destroying Pain after he killed his father figure, Jiraiya (although he spares him as Naruto wanted to make Jiraiya's dream of peace a reality). Goes from nothing to six-tails in a blink, and then eight-tails, and then nearly releases the Nine-Tails, when he believes that Pain killed Hinata. Ironically, he hasn't killed any of them.
    • Kakashi goes on one of these to, more recently, complete with a Badass Boast beforehand.
      Kakashi: Look, it takes a lot to get me worked up, but this time my boiling point's as low as it's ever been. The Copy Ninja Kakashi, the man who copied one thousand techniques... is about to go on a rampage!
    • Do you know what happens when you combine this trope, Curb-Stomp Battle, and No-Holds-Barred Beatdown? Obito upon seeing Rin murdered. The end result looked like Berserk, complete with psychotic fury.
    • Rock Lee goes on one of these after Neji's death, leading him to kick Madara IN HALF.
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: In the film version, Nausicaa of all people, who normally abhors violence, goes absolutely apeshit after the Torumekians invade the Valley and murder her father, King Jil. She outright kills several soldiers before being stopped by Yupa with a Barehanded Blade Block, at which point she calms down long enough for it to sink in and faints from shock.
  • Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Negi starts one of these when Kurt Godel reveals that he was the one responsible for the destruction of Negi's hometown. We get a shot of Nodoka's artifact reading his mind, and all of the pages have turned pitch black from the constant thoughts of "NEVER FORGIVE!" and "KILL THEM!"
  • One Piece:
    • Luffy goes into one of these on several occasions, when his Berserk Button is pressed. More of the Straw Hat crew gets in on it when it involves their friends, evidenced well in the Arlong arc, Enies Lobby arc, Fish-Man Island arc, and especially the Dressrosa arc.
    • Whitebeard proceeded to go into a Tranquil Fury one after Ace is killed.
    • Oimo and Kashi, two giants who agreed to serve the World Government for a century in exchange for setting their bosses free from prison when that time was up, go into one of these when Usopp reveals that their bosses had never been captured in the first place.
    • Doflamingo pretty much lost it after Law gave him a Sadistic Choice, slaughtering G-5 Marines and handing Smoker a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that would've killed him if it hadn't been for Aokiji, all while demanding the heads of the Straw Hat Pirates and Law.
    • Trafalgar Law has dedicated half his life on one against Donquixote Doflamingo for murdering Corazon/Donquixote Rocinante, and the events resulting from this revenge spree led to the Dressrosa Arc. Doflamingo almost killing Law right in front of Luffy just adds to it, and results in Luffy going into Gear Fourth and absolutely pulverizing the psychotic Warlord once and for all.
  • PandoraHearts: After Reim uses the power of his Chain to fake his death, Break shows the Baskervilles just why pissing him off is a bad idea. He proceeds to happily remark how nice the keen intent to kill is, right before gutting his opponent.
  • Planetes: Edle used to be married to a man who ended up selling her into prostitution. When the guy has the gall to call her and try to get back together, she shows up at his hotel room with an anchor launcher and threatens to shoot him with it.
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • In the movie Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions, when Kodai finally gets his claws on Zorua, the little guy's mother Zoroark finally has enough and proceeds to tear her way out of her prison (a steel-encased metal cage that severely shocks her whenever she touches it and to that point was unable to break out of) and go one one of these. She is delayed by a misunderstanding with the town's guardian Olympus Mons (though this is part of the reason she fought three Legendary Pokémon to a standstill), but once it's settled, she proceeds to one-shot The Dragon and his Pokémon, then moves on to hunt down Kodai and, while she doesn't actually physically hurt him, sets up his humiliating defeat and reclaims her baby. And he was likely quite lucky the cops got to him before she could.
    • In the manga version, she actually kills Kodai by making him fall off the top of the stadium to his Disney Villain Death.
  • Project K: After good friend and fellow clansman Tatara Totsuka is murdered, HOMRA gets very violent very fast in their search for revenge.
  • In Psychic Squad, the main reason Big Bad Kyosuke doesn't use his powers to off Minamoto is because he knows that if he does, Kaoru is going on one of these — right at him.
  • Rave Master: In spite of all the different reasons the characters give, in the end Lucia's actions are really just him lashing out at the world as a whole for making his childhood a living hell.
  • Scryed: When his friend Kimishima dies Kazuma flips his lid, finding the nearest HOLY unit and totally decimating it.
  • Saiyuki: Hakkai massacred at least 1,000 demons plus an entire village of humans because some of the demons kidnapped and raped his sister/lover and because the rest didn't stop the poor girl's kidnapping for fear that the demons would target their family members instead.
  • Shadow Star:
  • Slayers:
    • Luke is generally a nice, if a bit snarky, guy. But hire assassins to kill the woman he is madly in love with, and then refuse to cure the poison on her? He might get mad.
    • Slayers Next: One scene close to the end, during an epic match against The Chessmaster Phibrizzo, where Phibrizzo starts using what appear to be beads of life to kill the heroes one by one. When it comes to Amelia's turn, she predictably dies. In Zelgadiss's arms. Zelgadiss spends all of ten seconds trying to wake her up before he charges, attempting to fulfill this trope...of course, it's subverted, because guess who was next?
  • Soul Eater: Giroko goes on one against Soul and Maka following Arachne's death.
  • Sword Art Online: Subverted in episode 14. When Asuna makes her Heroic Sacrifice to save Kirito by diving in front of Heathcliff's weapon and she dies in his arms, Kirito takes up her sword to use as his new off-hand weapon and rises to his feet with every expectation that he's about to get revenge. Then he swings, slowly, weakly, uselessly in Heathcliff's general direction, a completely broken man. With Asuna's death there was no fight left in him.
  • Tokyo Ghoul: Happens numerous times.
    • It's implied that Kaneki's attack on Kanae was because she was trying to kill him. He even cuts off the same arm she cut off him.
      • Definitely the case with Yamori on his torturer and Kaneki on Yamori. Kaneki was tortured by Yamori who had developed the same traits his torturer showed to survive. Kaneki gets free and gets the beat down on Yamori in revenge.
      • Following that he proceeds to half kill Ayato for eating Touka's kagune by breaking half the bones in his body.
      • Eto carried out numerous attacks on the CCG when she was 14, before realizing she couldn't win alone. In Chapter 75, she shows up to slaughter the members of V present at Cochlea and promises Furuta he's next partly because he made her manager into food.
  • Übel Blatt: This is basically the story of Koinzel's against the "Seven Heros" for giving up on a quest to save the Empire, and then killing him and three others who finished it, simply so they could claim the glory while naming those that did complete it the "Four Lances of Betrayal"
  • ViVid Strike!: Late in episode 4, the three girls who have been bullying Rinne pretend to call a truce, steal her beloved family heirloom, and beat her up to the point of unconsciousness. What's worse, the time she spends dealing with this prevents her from answering an emergency phone call and being with her grandfather as he dies. When Rinne returns to school, what follows is one of the most savage beatdowns in anime history. One girl gets her arm broken, the second gets her face smashed into a wall hard enough to shatter her glasses and draw blood, the third gets kicked into a locker, again hard enough to draw blood, and the first then gets her head stomped in for good measure. All characters involved were about ten years old. Damn.
  • Wolf Guy - Wolfen Crest:
    • Chiba does this upon coming back to life by going after Haguro for brutally raping and murdering him.
    • Also deliberately invoked when Haguro manipulates the younger Kuroda into going Columbine on half the student body out of vengeance against Inugami for his brother's death. Using weapons from his family gun cellar. The kicker? His brother died because HAGURO pulled his life-support.
  • Yotsuba&!: Parodied after Yotsuba watches one too many Japanese gangster movies: she first takes out Dad and Jumbo with her water pistol, then switches personas and takes revenge by heading next door to shoot the neighbors, one by one, ending with Asagi.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • Perpetrated by Thief King Bakura, Spirit of the Millennium Ring way back in the day. Atem's uncle Akunadin killed his entire village to make the millennium items. To get back, the Thief King made a deal with Zorc, and what we see of him in that era consists of going on a murderous rampage against Atem and his court. After stewing for a few millennia, he returns. Sort of.
    • Let's not forget in the Yami vs. Weevil duel during the Doma arc. Yugi's soul has been stolen, and Weevil claims to have his soul card. He rips it in front of Yami's eyes... then taunts him by revealing it was a joke. BAD IDEA, Weevil — Yami goes berserk and deals enough damage to Weevil that turn to effectively defeat him THREE TIMES over. Tea eventually steps in in a What the Hell, Hero? moment, stopping him from continuing to deal damage.
      • And let's not forget that, thanks to the effects of the Seal of Orichalcos, Weevil felt every single sword-strike dealt to him. The look on his face when that second monster card was revealed (second out of, I believe, seven... the second being the one that dealt the fatal blow) spoke volumes.
      • This was not simple revenge on the Pharaoh's part. Going off one of the translations of the original text ("Wash your neck and wait," a traditional order to Japanese prisoners before sentence was carried out), Weevil was handed nothing short of a death sentence. This was not revenge, this was an execution.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Judai goes into this mode against Brron and his best monster, Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World, after the villain cruelly sacrifices his friends to summon it. After ordering Neos to attack it, which destroys both monsters, due to them having equal Attack Points, Judai plays a Spell called Requiem Duel, which would have required both players to Special Summon both monsters, and force them to battle again. As far as the actual duel went, this would not have helped Judai at all if it had gone as he had intended it too, as it would have just ended in another draw; he was so enraged, he did it because he wanted to kill Reign-Beaux again. However, this move enabled him to win the duel by dumb luck; because Brron had previously summoned Reign-Beaux using Gateway to Dark World, he was unable to summon again, leaving him open to a direct attack by Neos, and lost. (Unfortunately for Judai, this was a Pyrrhic Victory in every sense of the term, and only made him worse, causing his long suppressed dark side as the Supreme King to surface.)
  • Yuki Yuna is a Hero:
    • Fu intended to go on one against the Taisha after realizing the drawbacks of being a Hero have cost her little sister Itsuki her dream of being a professional singer. Thankfully, she's stopped and talked down before she gets there.
    • After a Vertex makes its presence known during Gin's funeral in the Washio Sumi arc, Washio and Sonoko go into the fight completely pissed.

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