Roaring Rampage Of Revenge / Live-Action TV

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• 24: Jack's daughter escapes, and the villains still want to lure Jack in, so they have The Mole tell him that his daughter's body had been found. Seriously. Bad. Idea. Jack comes in, all right — both guns blazing — and doesn't leave a single one alive, including the (surrendering) Big Bad. We all know about the Mama Bear, but don't mess with a Papa Wolf, either. Especially not one that's having the longest day of his life (well, one of the several longest days of his life, anyway).
  • Still, Jack can't hold a candle to Tony in season seven, avenging the murder of his wife and unborn son.
  • But in Tony's case, it was more of a traditional Revenge plot—he never went on a "rampage" since all his crimes were only meant to maintain his cover long enough to gain an audience with the villain.
  • Jack brings this back with a vengeance in Season 8 after Renee is killed. The villains actually lampshade this, recognizing that he is not trying to expose them, he just wants to kill them all. One of them actually states that they wouldn't be in this mess if they hadn't murdered Renee.
  • At the end of Day 9, aka Live Another Day Jack is in this mode again full force after discovering that the Big Bad's men killed Audrey. Seriously, why do these people think it's a good idea to piss him off?
• Isabelle Tyler from The 4400 goes batshit insane and kills every member of the NOVA Group she can find because Daniel Armand gave Shawn schizophrenia.
• The Babylon 5 universe contains at least four rampages of revenge.
  • The Minbari had a Gotta Kill Them All rampage (on the scale of a major and horrific interstellar war!) against Earthforce for killing the Minbari leader. ('No Mercy')
  • Delenn's Tranquil Fury annihilation of a Drakh's fleet and a colony ship, prompted after the Drakh destroyed several civilian ships and a White Star. ('End This')
  • Ivanova's 'God Sent Me' Unstoppable Rage against Earthforce for capturing Sheridan.
  • In "A Call to Arms" and Crusade, the Drakh's attack against and infection of Earth in retaliation (?) for the retreat of the Shadows.
  • And then the most horrifying of all: Jha'dur, AKA Deathwalker, the last Warmaster of the Dilgar tries and take revenge for the extinction of her race (that Earth Alliance and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds had bottled up on their homeworld after stopping their genocidal invasion of the League, not knowing that the Dilgar sun was about to explode) by giving to the Younger Races an immortality drug with a key ingredient that has to be extracted from the brains of sentients. Had the Vorlons not killed her before she could actually reveal the recipe (because, as their ambassador put it, the Younger Races weren't ready for immortality), the Younger Races would have started raiding and enslaving each other to get that key ingredient.
• In Battlestar Galactica, Laura Roslin very nearly has one of these after Tom Zarek tells her Admiral Adama has been killed (he hasn't) and she should surrender.
  "No. Not now, not ever, do you hear me? I will use every cannon, every bomb, every bullet, every weapon I have down to my own eyeteeth to END YOU! I swear it! I'M COMING FOR ALL OF YOU!"
  • The best part of that entire sequence was Adama's "oh shit oh shit gotta call off my girlfriend now oh shit" face after he took back CIC.
• The Blacklist: Reddington spends all of "The Good Samaritan Killer" systematically hunting down and killing everyone who was involved in Anslo Garrick's assault on him in the previous episode (which cost the life of Red's associate/possible lover Luli).
  • Mako Tanida goes on one against the FBI agents who incarcerated him and killed his brother, which in turn causes Ressler to go on one in turn when Tanida kills his fiancee.
• Black Sails: In the climax of Season 2, Flint and Miranda have arrived in Charlestown, South Carolina with the intention of proposing a partnership with Governor Peter Ashe where he would use his political influence to help them make their Pirate Republic a functioning British colony again. Just as they are about to strike a deal, Miranda realizes that it was Governor Ashe who betrayed them so many years ago and is not only the reason they were exiled to the Bahamas in the first place, but also why Thomas, her husband and Flint's closest friend and lover is dead. Naturally, she is absolutely furious and lets him have it, only to get shot in the head by Ashe's overzealous guards captain Rhett. Flint is arrested and sentenced to hang the next morning, only for him to be rescued by Charles Vane and his crew, who bring him back to his ship; a captured Spanish Man-O-War. Instead of escaping straight away, Flint unleashes the ships' firepower upon the city, making good on a promise he made to Ashe before escaping:
  Flint: "Her word will be the last word for this place!."^note Part of Miranda's last words before she was killed was that she wanted to see the city that Ashe had bought with their misery burn.
• Bonanza: Several episodes, especially those focusing on Little Joe. The classic example is the 14th-season opener "Forever", starting from the point when Joe finds out that his wife, Alice, had been killed by a ruthless gambler named Sloan (and not died in a tragic house fire as he first had been led to believe). First, when he learns that the music box he had given Alice (as a gift) is in someone else's hands, he grabs its new owner – A WOMAN – and demands answers about how she got it. He refuses to cooperate with Deputy Clem Foster, and eventually – with Candy's help – is able to use his expert tracking skills to catch up with Sloan and his gang. After Joe and Candy take out two of the goons, Joe brutally beats down the killer's goon (a muscle man who was at least 200 pounds heavier and a foot and a half taller than the tiny Alice), before confronting Sloan. Joe gets some unexpected help from the muscle man, who – after years of taking his own abuse and, now angry that he's being blamed for the murder – drowns Sloan in a nearby river.
• The Kovac arc on Bones is this crosses with You Killed My Father. Booth had to kill a warlord at the guy’s son’s birthday party. The boy and his sister grow up and set out to get revenge. The guy becomes a paramedic and after torturing several people for info, he hacks the pacemaker Brennan’s dad had installed. He attacks the safe house Max and the kids are at with hired guns but isn’t counting on just how ferocious Max Keenan can be when his family is at risk, even at the cost of his own life. The hired guys die and Kovac is arrested. He won’t give up though and blows the whole lab up after escaping. Booth kills him in a final confrontation.
• In season 1, episode three of The Borgias, Cesare promises Lucrezia that, should her husband prove ungallant, Cesare will cut his heart out with a dinner knife and serve it to her. Her husband, Giovanni Sforza, proves very ungallant. The rest of the season passes. Lucrezia's marriage is annulled. We think Cesare's just gonna let it pass. But in the episode "The Choice", Cesare essentially rips Sforza open from waistline to chest, carving him up like a Thanksgiving turkey. He can't find a heart, apparently, but he does give Lucrezia the knife.
• Breaking Bad:
  • Jesse attempts this against Gus's henchmen who killed Tomas, Andrea's brother, but couldn't find the will to do it, and is saved by Walt, who kills the dealers himself.
  • Jesse attempts this again after learning Walt poisoned Brock, planning to burn his whole house down with him and his family inside, but is stopped by Hank.
  • Walt pulls this off successfully in the last episode, successfully letting Jack and his gang's guards down, and then using his makeshift machine-gun to mow down every last member of the gang in revenge for Hank's death, with Walt personally head-shotting Jack. He also planned to kill Jesse for the aforementioned reason and for 'helping' them procure blue meth, but couldn't go through with it after seeing Jesse's pitiful state. Jesse had his own revenge against Todd for the murders of Drew Sharp and Andrea, and Walt is done in by his own machine gun, but he clearly wanted it.
• Buffyverse:
  • Dark Willow. It eventually spirals into a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum that Xander just barely manages to talk her down from.
    • Even before Willow went Dark, she could pull these off. See the last fifteen minutes of "Tough Love."
      Willow: [to Glory] I...Owe...YOU...PAIN!!!
  • Giles got a less successful, but no less awesome, cold-rampage After Angel murdered Jenny Calender. FLAMING BASEBALL BAT!
    • "Don't you people use stakes anymore?!"
  • (Season 5: "Into the Woods") Buffy discovers her boyfriend Riley is visiting vampire prostitutes, so she burns down the building and kills every member of the gang in seconds. At first Buffy resists the temptation to kill the vamp-ho when she's at her mercy, but then changes her mind and spears her as she's running away.
  • Buffy goes on another one, after she is provoked by Faith stealing her body, and her boyfriend too. Once back in her own skin, Buffy becomes a bloodhound, chasing Faith all the way to Los Angeles with an intent to kill, only to form an Enemy Mine with Faith to fight off the Watchers' Council black ops and be satisfied by Faith's voluntary incarceration.
  • Kakistos chases Faith all the way to Sunnydale with the intent to kill her out of revenge for his eye.
  • In his twenties, Wood spent all his time trying to hunt down and kill Spike, until realizing that it was hopeless. While he continued killing vampires and demons, hoping he would eventully come across Spike, he did so in a less reckless manner.
  • An exhaustive display in Angel season 2, in reaction to Darla being resurrected, tormented and then re-vamped by Wolfram and Hart suits. This culminated with Angel tossing the firm's entire senior staff to the wolves in the form of Drusilla and Darla.
• In the third season summer finale of Burn Notice, Strickler sells out Fiona to Irish terrorists to get Michael back into the FBI's good graces. After a lengthy Motive Rant about how Fiona is weighing him down, nothing about this is clean, and how he's got to stop living in the past, Michael grits out "Fiona is not my past" and shoots Strickler in the chest. He and Sam then go in guns blazing and save Fiona.
• The fifth season premiere of Cannon, entitled "Nightmare", finds Cannon on the trail of the man who arranged the fatal explosion that killed his wife and child years before. It's a state Senator, who was really after the previous occupant of the apartment, a hooker who was blackmailing him over a fatal hit-and-run accident. Cannon travels to Washington, D.C., to confront the guy, almost strangling him to death before he breaks free, locks himself in his office and takes his own life.
• Chuck is an interesting subversion of the trope, in that it's the main villain and not the hero doing the roaring and rampaging: The show's final bad guy Quinn has something of a bone to pick with our team because he was the CIA agent who was supposed to receive the first Intersect, the one Bryce stole and gave to Chuck. Quinn, being the CIA's top operative at the time, went in without it anyway, got captured, tortured in a hole in the ground for 378 days, then discharged. He started working Freelance for FULCRUM, The Ring, and Volkoff Industries...all organizations Chuck put out of commission, and Quinn out of business. So yeah, he's pissed off.
• The Offender episode of Cold Case has the child victim's father on this path, which is understandable given that the real culprit killed his kid and framed him for it, leaving him incarcerated for 2 decades.
• Used in a number of Criminal Minds episodes, and always portrayed in a realistically horrifying way. The most obvious examples are "True Night" (psychotic comic book artist runs around killing the street gang who murdered his pregnant fiancee in front of him), "Elephant's Memory" (perennially abused teenager snaps and sets out to kill everyone who's ever wronged him), "House On Fire" (man tries to avenge himself on an entire community for complicity in beating and driving him out of town by trapping them in burning buildings), and "Devil's Night" (man burns people alive after his life collapses after a fiery crash that left him in a coma and burned half his face off. Among his kills are the ex-con who hit him, the ex-landlord who kicked him out of his home and the ex-boss who fired him, and other people he felt slighted him just by having happy lives. His rampage would've culminated in the death of his ex-girlfriend and her family, if not for the discovery that his ex-girlfriend had had his child and the kid isn't afraid of his face).
  • Another notable example is the Ian Doyle arc: Doyle goes on a rampage against the team that imprisoned him, culminating in Emily's "death".
• CSI: Miami:
  • The Mala Noche gang is stupid enough to snipe Marisol, Horatio's wife. Horatio tracks them to Brazil and murders her killer in cold blood. Don't mess with Horatio Caine - or anyone he loves.
  • The Mala Noches confirmed their "too stupid to live" bonafides when they decided to make Caine's execution "look good" by handing him a loaded pistol. (See "Matthew Quigley".)
  • Memmo, one of the Mala Noches who killed Horatio's wife later escaped from prison and went on a deadly rampage not against Horatio & Co. but the people who put his daughter in harm's way, from the nurses who turned her away from the hospital to the head of the foster-care placement system who left her with a neglectful woman. This guy's actions were so egregious that Horatio basically lets Memmo kill him.
• Doctor Who: The Doctor goes out of his way to avoid these, and even acts that lead the deaths of entire races are cold and calculated (and save far more lives than they cost). The exception created the in-universe saying "Demons run when a good man goes to war".
  • "The Family of Blood": The Doctor executes an extremely calm one while punishing the Family for their actions, not so much as changing facial expression while sentencing them to Fates Worse Than Death.
  • The Master has a short, but very memorable one, near the end of second part of "The End of Time". Earlier, it was discovered the "sound of drums" in his head which drove him insane since he was 8 was actually a beacon for the trapped Time Lords to try and break the Time Lock. After the Doctor Takes a Third Option to stop the return of Gallifrey and the Time Lords, the Master repays his old friend and wreaks vengeance against Rassilon for having been the cause of the mental torment since childhood, having shot blasts of energy at him. The next time we see the Master or Rassilon, they have both regenerated, implying that they killed each other in the aforementioned encounter.
  • In "A Good Man Goes to War", Rory Williams likewise single-handedly infiltrates a Cyberman control vessel, storms his way to the bridge, then demands that the Cybermen watching that area of space tell him where the Silence are holding his wife, in exchange for their lives. When they play ignorant, he has the Doctor blow up the entire Twelfth Cyber-Legion orbiting around them, to make it perfectly clear that neither he nor the Doctor are playing games.
  • The three-part finale of Series 9 is centred in part around this with regards to the Doctor. Before his companion, Clara, is Killed Off for Real, she spends her final minutes consoling the Doctor in part to stop him from going on a rampage after he begins to threaten this to those responsible for her imminent death. She is only partially successful.
• In Forever Knight, a child vampire shows up and starts slaughtering those in LaCroix's inner circle. Urs and Vachon bite the dust, with Nick next on the list, before we find out that she's actually LaCroix's mortal daughter from when he was a Roman named Lucius; she was saved from death by being turned into a vampire, and she then turned LaCroix into a vampire so that he could survive the destruction of Pompeii. He nearly killed her and sealed her remains in a tomb, but she survived and is looking to pay him back for his betrayal. Check out the series page for the full story.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Set up but ultimately subverted in an episode. After finding his new friends murdered by members of the Brotherhood Without Banners, Sandor Clegane seizes an axe and starts hunting them down... only to find that the murderers have already been captured by the rest of the Brotherhood and were about to be hanged as punishment. They offer Clegane the opportunity to kill one personally as vengeance, but he's already so disappointed by the anticlimactic situation that he takes little satisfaction in the act itself.
  • All the Stark children have a strong desire for revenge against those who harmed their family and their home. Arya in particular has an ever-expanding kill list of people who have wronged her, her family or her friends, and of those who she sees as particularly evil. Eventually Sansa and Jon succeed in extracting this from the Boltons, who they wipe out forever by executing the last remaining heir Ramsay, while Arya murders "Lame" Lothar Frey, "Black" Walder Rivers and Lord Walder Frey; the latter was the last surviving conspirator for the Red Wedding and the former two murdered Talisa and Catelyn. In addition, Sandor finds himself forced to help Arya carry out revenge on Frey soldiers after the Red Wedding.
  • This is all over the place in the penultimate episode, "The Bells":
    • As payback for all the atrocities the Lannister-led regime and their allies inflicted upon their people on top of leaving them to fend for themselves in the battle against the Night King's undead army, the soldiers of the North slaughter the Lannister armies with impunity.
    • Dany and Grey Worm do their own roaring rampages in response to Missandei's death, with Dany burning down whole sections of King's Landing with Drogon and Grey Worm slaughtering every Lannister soldier in his path.
  • Prince Aemon Targaryen burned every Riverlands village after the Blacks captured the capital.
• In the sixth season finale of Grey's Anatomy, Gary Clarke, who blames Derek and Little Grey for the death of his wife, goes on a shooting rampage through the hospital. He has a list, too.
• Happy Endings: Played for Laughs in "The Marry Prankster". After Dave and the others prank Max into thinking he won the lottery, Max has this to say.
  Max: Read...my...lips. I am going to get revenge on every last one of you. And no one will be able to escape the wrath of Max Broom! What, dammit! Max Blum! How I'd mess up my own name? It's your fault! And now I'm embarrassed and I want revenge on all of you, even harder!
  • He then spends the rest of the episode pranking the rest of the gang, while Dave and Alex try their own ways to avoid this. Eventually, he's pranked them all (even Penny's fiancé Pete because Max 'plays by mob rules-you, your family, anyone in the same room') and crows with triumph.
• Heroes: Matt Parkman seeks revenge against Danko for murdering his girlfriend, Daphne Millbrook. Parkman does so by telepathically forcing Danko to divulge his true identity and the fact that he kills for a living to his unsuspecting girlfriend, Alena. Parkman then points his gun at Alena, but cannot bring himself to shoot her.
• In the fourth season of Las Vegas, Ed Deline's daughter Delinda is kidnapped and held for ransom by a Smug Snake calling himself "Mr. Chips"(you know, since Ed runs a casino, and casinos gamble with chips...). Ed pays the ransom in exchange for Delinda's release, but Chips doublecrosses and nearly kills Ed, making Ed very cranky. Oh, by they way, Ed used to be the CIA's head of counter-intelligence, and his right hand man Danny McCoy, Delinda's boyfriend, is a decorated Marine Lieutenant with two bad tours of duty in Iraq under his belt. Suffice to say that Chips and his men don't get a chance to regret their duplicity.
• Near the fifth season finale of Lucifer after the death of Detective Dan Espinoza, Maze finds the main base of the man responsible. both she and Lucifer go over to kill all the goons inside, who are incapable of damaging them, thanks to their Nigh-Invulnerability. At the end, Lucifer doesn't kill their boss, instead he gives him a stare with his demonic eyes, to make sure that the rest of his life he knows what awaits him after his death.
• In Lost's flashforwards, Ben Linus appears to be on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge (with Sayid's help) avenging Alex and Nadia. Ben even has a list.
  • He stops short of killing Penny Widmore when he sees her toddler son with her. And when Desmond kicks his ass.
  • Ilana goes on one on Ben after she learned that Ben killed Jacob. She stops after Ben explained why he did so.
• Merlin (2008):
  • Uther, after the death of Ygraine.
  • Morgana basically spends the last season doing this to everyone who ever "wronged" her, even those who were only guilty of being on Uther's side. Like father, like daughter.
• Midsomer Murders:
  • The motive for the murderer in "Death's Shadow", who wanted to avenge the accidental death of his illegitimate son by killing the boys who had accidentally killed him 30 years earlier.
  • The events of "Dead Man's Eleven" turn out to be part of a Best Served Cold revenge plot against Cavendish for the death of a worker of his that he was indirectly responsible for.
  • "Garden of Death": After discovering that her family only valued her for the fact that her existence allowed them to blackmail money out of her father's family, Hilary snapped and proceeded to bump them off one by one.
  • "Ghosts of Christmas Past": Dominic Jones' sister, Claire, married into the Villiers family, where she drew the suspicion of her sister-in-law, Jennifer, who hired a private detective to go into her past, revealing Claire had a criminal record of possessing drugs and stealing. To try and get her away from Lydia, Jennifer forced her aunt to claim several family heirlooms were stolen and put on sale in auctions without her knowledge, causing Claire to be charged before she was Driven to Suicide. When Dominic found out, he murdered both of them.
  • In "Murder of Innocence", Grady Felton seeks vengeance on everyone involved in sending him down, including Jones.
• Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. In the second season finale of NCIS, Agent Caitlin Todd is murdered by turncoat Mossad agent Ari Haswari. Even though he was intending to track down and kill Ari before this for his previous actions, Gibbs loses it and goes after him full-bore in the two-part third season opener.
  • If that counts then him killing the man who killed his first wife and child has to count as well.
  • A truly scary one occurs after Diane (ex-wife #1) is sniped by Sergei Mishnev in a way that deliberately mimics the aforementioned Caitlin Todd. Gibbs tracks him down to his hiding place, shoots his way through his Mooks, and gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Unfortunately for Gibbs, a previously unnoticed mook gives him a Tap on the Head; by the time Gibbs wakes up, Sergei has escaped.
  • Any time Tony or Ziva goes down for the count and the other finds out... not pretty. ("Family First" drove this point home clearly when Trent finally got what was coming to him.)
• Once Upon a Time: This is Regina's defining characteristic. She wants revenge for an innocent mistake Snow White made as a little girl.
• Beecher of Oz tries to go on one following seeing Keller, the guy he fell in love with, working with Schillinger his enemy but in a tragic Hope Spot fails and ultimately gets his arms and legs broken by Schillinger and Keller. Beecher and Schillinger frequently seek revenge against each other throughout the series. Then there's Beecher's epic revenge against Schillinger in episode eight.
• Person of Interest:
  • Carl Elias has spent much of the last two decades planning revenge on his father Don Moretti for ordering the deaths of his mother and later sending assassins after Elias. Elias eventually succeeds in taking revenge despite going to prison at the end of Season 1.
  • After Ordos, former CIA agent Kara Stanton's entire purpose in life is getting revenge on the person responsible for her being sent to China in the first place. Her benefactors, Decima Technologies, know only his name; Harold Finch, and will give her the name after she achieves their mission goal of uploading a virus to the internet. She goes about this mission by kidnapping her former CIA hander, Mark Snow and partner, John Reese, strapping bomb vests to them and having them do her bidding.
  • John himself spends an entire episode pursuing Officer Simmons, following the previous episode when Simmons fatally shot Detective Carter, all while being severely injured himself. He torches a car with people inside, breaks a man's legs and leaves him hanging, then single-handedly neutralizes an entire squad of U.S. Marshals to get to the only person who knows Simmons' location, and promises torture if the information isn't given.
  • Ulrich Kohl, the POI for Season 1's "Foe", seeks revenge on his ex-Stasi teammates for betraying him and causing the death of his wife.
• In Power Rangers Super Megaforce, the Rangers decide to go on one after the Armada attempt to destroy Earth's major cities with a massive missile strike. The failed missile attack already knocked out a portion of the Armada while the Rangers' assault clear out another portion.
  • Also the whole point of Orion, the Silver Megaforce Ranger. The Last of His Kind, he came to Earth just to fight the Armada while rubbing on their faces as he can that he's doing that to avenge the lost people of Andrasia.
• Al Rawabi School For Girls: Mariam goes to some dark places to get payback on the bullies, and boy do they have some severe consequences. Ruqayya's life is destroyed because of her hijab-free picture spreading everywhere, Layan ends up murdered by her brother in a twisted honor killing, and then there's the threat of the entire school being taken down by Layan's father.
• Resurrection: Ertuğrul: An villainous example with Titus. His primary reason for targeting Ertugrul and his kin is to avenge his slain brother Bisol, making him into one of the tribe's biggest threats throughout the first season.
• Played with in Revenge (2011) — we are led to believe in the pilot episode and promos that Emily Thorne will be responsible for the death of Daniel Grayson, and that she is not above murder in her quest for vengeance, with the deaths of Charlotte and Lydia at her hands being suggested. Cleverly averted when it is revealed that it was actually Tyler who was shot on the beach by Takeda, and that Daniel is unharmed. Emily's plan does not involve any blood being spilled (although things rarely go according to her plan). Emily's plot does appear to devolve into this at the end of Season 1, as she seeks to murder the man who killed her father, with greater and greater ferocity. However, Nolan, his aunt Carol and memories of her father manage to reign in her bloodlust and put her back on track.
• Rome:
  • Vorenus and Pullo go on one of these when Vorenus thinks his children have been killed. A very, very, very short rampage, because Pullo and Vorenus are There Is No Kill Like Over Kill personified.
  • Not to forget what Vorenus does to the slavers when he discovers that they are alive and were sold to them. This most glorious of Roaring Rampages was magnificently topped off with a man-tears approved moment when Vorenus embraces the illegitimate son of his dearly departed wife and her adulterer.
• Saturday Night Live once parodied Disney's recent (for 2015) trend of making live-action remakes of their animated movies by reimagining Bambi as one of these. Dwayne Johnson (the episode's host) played the title character.
• Soviet Storm: World War II in the East has the Red Army doing this en masse to both the German military and civilian population. once they manage to reach Germany, mainly due to the fact that many of them lost their family, friends, neighbors, and even homes when the Germans invaded in 1941.
• In the Season 10 episode "Talion" of Stargate SG-1, Teal'c goes on one after a former foe bombs a free Jaffa summit, killing "many innocent Jaffa". First he uses the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique to track down those responsible for the bombing. When he found out who the mastermind was - the man who had Teal'c's mother assassinated in revenge for a defeat - the rest of SG-1 was sent to stop him, as the perpetrator had visited Earth claiming knowledge of a nuclear-level bomb threat (the IOA suspected he was behind the threat, but couldn't take the chance). He had to put down SG-1 (which he does in curb stomp fashion) and then defeated the architect of the bombing in melee combat after being wounded with staff weapons and having the holy hell beaten out of him.
• Star Trek:
  • In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Doomsday Weapon", Commodore Decker uses his higher rank to take control of the Enterprise and force them to go after the machine that killed his crew. The crew tries to play by the rules to get him to stand down, but Kirk is forced to pull a Screw the Rules, I Make Them! to do this.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation:
    • The episode "The Survivors" features a seemingly ordinary man named Kevin, who lives on a desolate planet with his wife Rishon. In the end, it's revealed that Kevin is a Physical God and Rishon is actually long dead, having been killed in an attack by an alien race known as the Husnock. In a single moment of grief-stricken rage, Kevin used his powers to wipe out the Husnock with a single thought — all fifty billion of them.
    • Worf flips out after K'ehleyr is murdered in "Reunion". It doesn't end well for Duras.
  • Unsurprisingly, roaring rampages of revenge are an important religious ritual in Klingon culture. At the time of K'ehleyr's murder (above), Worf has been expelled from Klingon society and considered to have no rights. But revenge is so central to Klingon beliefs that taking down his wife's murderer is an exception to that rule. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Shadows and Symbols", Martok, Bashir, Quark, and O'Brien accompany Worf in destroying an entire Dominion shipyard to honor Jadzia's memory. Early on, his companions realize that Worf is being far more zealous in his task than tradition requires.
  • In the Star Trek: Picard episode "Stardust City Rag", Seven of Nine goes on one when Icheb is killed by Bjayzl, having been vivisected for his Borg parts and left to die, forcing Seven to give her surrogate son a Mercy Kill.
• Step by Step: The Season 7 episode "Phoney Business", where Frank finds out that the suntan lotion commercial daughter Al was starring was actually taped for a phone sex hotline. Frank asks Rich to tell him what he knows about the commercial (after which he threatens Rich if he's known to ever watch the commercial again) ... after which he confronts the commercial's corrupt advertising salesman. When the salesman tries to bluff his way out of the situation, Frank goes berserk, grabbing the producer by his collar and holding him three-fourths of the way out the window to force him to talk. Frank then rips apart the office to find the original master tape, which he then threatens to show to the producer's boss unless he immediately asks the TV stations to kill the commercial … then adds afterward that if he is ever known to be producing smutty commercials again involving teenaged girls, he'll be back and it won't be good. In the postscript, Al is forgiven (and learns a lesson about reading the fine print, doing a background check, etc.), but it is implied that big brother J.T. – who got Al the job in the first place – has an angry father to look forward to when he gets home.
• Supernatural:
  • A Drunk on the Dark Side Castiel smites all of Raphael's followers after defeating the archangel for control of Heaven. Then, acting as the new God, he smites a slew of humans that includes a hypocritical minister, members of the KKK, new age charlatans, and shady politicians. Dean approves of much of the latter, though he realizes Cas is going too far.
  • In Season 10, while struggling with the Mark of Cain, Dean helps rescue Claire Novak from her shady substitute father who had sold her to a loan shark. He violently slaughters everyone in the house, horrifying Sam, Claire and Castiel who all realize the carnage was unnecessary.
• Francis Marion goes on one after the Tories kill his nephew Gabriel in The Swamp Fox. He's so intent on capturing the killer that his own men have to get through to him that he's forgotten they're trying to fight a war too.
• Uchu Sentai Kyuranger has Champ/Oushi Black pull this after seeing Stinger/Sasori Orange, whom he believes to be responsible for killing his creator, Professor Anton. Later, he pulls this against Professor's real murderer, Scorpio. Stinger/Sasori Orange goes down this path after his brother's betrayl. His next attempt in #16 is cut short by orders from Commander.
• The Vampire Diaries: Jonas after Luka dies.
• Walker, Texas Ranger: Season 9's "Legends" overlaps this with Gotta Kill Them All. When noted Dallas mobster Samuel Viscardi is convicted for a number of serious crimes his organization had committed, his son and heir and the episode's Big Bad, Michael, becomes the new leader of his organization, and begins his reign by going after and killing everyone who imprisoned his father, from the head juror to the judge, to the prosecuting attorney, Alex.
• The Walking Dead (2010): Main character Rick Grimes goes on a rampage in the underbelly of the prison in season 3 after his wife Lori dies in childbirth. He takes a fire axe and kills any zombie he comes across, taking extra time on the one who ate Lori's remains. He then has a mental breakdown, hallucinating that his dead friends are talking to him over a rotary phone.
• The Wire does this twice, both times with Omar — the usual culprit behind the few over-the-top tropes in the series. The first time is played straight, with Omar shaking up the entire Barksdale organization as revenge for the murder of his boyfriend, with Avon Barksdale himself narrowly escaping by luck alone. The second time can be seen as a subversion, as the audience goes into the season expecting Omar to work his usual magic on the people who killed his friend, but he ends up failing miserably and dying in a spectacularly pointless and meaningless fashion.
• The X-Files:
  • Scully of all people has one of these in the episode "Beyond the Sea" when Mulder is seriously injured after following the information of a psychic on death row (a guy he earlier helped put in jail). Scully goes to said psychic and screams at him that if Mulder dies, she will personally throw the switch on him. See also Precision F-Strike.
  • She also has one later in the series, yelling at and nearly shooting the man who shot her sister. Scully doesn't often get mad, but when she does, it's best to stay out of her way.
  • She has one during the beginning of season 7 and the beginning of season 8, both involving Mulder being in danger.
• Hero avenging his enemy example in Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. Kyoryu Black, for all that he despised Aigaron, couldn't help but pity him when he and the Kyoryugers faced New Chevalier of Sorrow Icerondo. After Aigaron took a blow that mortally injured him, Ian used Dienosgrander to deliver a Mercy Kill, and launched a spectacular assault against Icerondo in response.
  Icerondo: "Something's disrupting my melody of saadness! What is this spirit?!"

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