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** Though they have nothing on Wishiwashi who's Solo form is weaker than Magikarp. Its School form on the other hand...

* ''VideoGame/PacMan''. The game is founded upon the ability to change the game from fleeing indestructible enemies to ''eating them.''
-->'''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]]:''' Ha ha! The hunter has become the hunted!
* Heroic ([[NinetiesAntiHero kinda]]) example: Tombstone from ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' uses this sentence when he's returned from the dead and confronts his wife's killer, who had framed him for the murder and sent him to the electric chair.
-->'''Tombstone:''' '' '''You.''' The innocent die while the guilty laugh. '''Who's laughing now?''' ''
* {{Magikarp|Power}} of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' is ''[[MemeticMutation painfully]]'' [[MemeticMutation waiting to evolve]] to invoke this trope.
** It's explicitly stated in a Pokédex entry that, upon evolving, [[NightmareFuel/{{Pokemon}} Dustox seeks revenge on those who attacked it while it was a Cascoon]].
** There's also [[CreepyDoll Banette's]] dex entry, where it's stated it wants revenge on the child who abandoned it.
** Though they have nothing on Wishiwashi who's Solo form is weaker than Magikarp. Its School form on the other hand...
* One of the {{Quirky Miniboss Squad}}s in ''VideoGame/ExitFate'' says exactly this when they come after Daniel when [[spoiler:Brunhild summons demons into them]]. A HopelessBossFight, several OhCrap moments and OneManArmy demonstrations are involved.
* [[spoiler: Adachi]] of ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. While his motive is SmallTownBoredom, this is his FreudianExcuse. Considering the crap he gets up to, this doesn't make him even remotely sympathetic.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', heavily implied to be an aspect of Paul's [[AxCrazy Psychopath]] [[PyroManiac status]], or rather half-stated.

* In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'', you can [[HesBack revive]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hellenism]] and reforge the entire UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire with the traditional polytheistic faith of old, [[RapePillageAndBurn while setting torch to Rome]] and [[MonumentalDamage burning down]] the Apostolic Palace and the St. Peter's Basilica. The flavor text for decision appropriately reads - [[IronicEcho "Let the Galileans burn for a change."]]
* Garland of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' is both the WarmUpBoss and the FinalBoss.
** In ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', he will knock you down and [[LargeHam enjoy it very much]].
** Exdeath of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' is much the same.
* This is Terumi's line in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger'' when Rachel appears to warn Noel not to look at him when he reveals his true identity!
-->'''Terumi''': Heeheehahahaha! Hahahahahaha! You recognized me, didn't you!? Hey, shitty vampire! Who's laughing now!?
** Lotte Carmine was a scientist working at Sector Seven; for the entire time he did, he was ignored by Kokonoe, mocked by Relius, and eventually broke up with his love. He got his revenge, though at terrible prices. Then again... [[spoiler:Eating people, insect powers, being able to deal a ''lot'' of damage... maybe him turning into Arakune isn't so bad.]] This is, however, subverted that [[spoiler:the people he ate was relatively minor ones, he cannot consume his true target that is the Azure within Ragna the Bloodedge. He spends his time getting beaten up by nearly everyone (and ends up easily captured by Relius), other people (including Kokonoe and Relius) talking on how he's still a failure at his form (and they're actually proven right and Terumi hammers it down to him), his speech got impeded so bad that he can't get everything across clearly... He certainly wished to invoke the trope, but utterly fails in the middle, as he ends up with even more ridicules than respect.]]
** Then ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma Chronophantasma]]'' proceeds to reconstruct it. [[spoiler:Turns out, Relius capturing him comes with the package of modifying him, [[TookALevelInBadass giving him a boost of badass]] AND coherency in speech. Then he got 'Observed' by Hazama as Arakune, not Lotte Carmine, therefore he gets to keep his more powerful blob form forever. How badass? Let's just say he goes from everyone's punching bag into capable of beating the crap out of Bang Shishigami and ''stole'' his Rettenjou, AND fighting Hakumen and surviving instead of getting cut down. Yikes.]]
* Admit it, you've laughed when you ended a poor mook's existence with the Vanguard Rush from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. And you've also probably got a good giggle realizing you're the only one who can do it. And then "Lair of the Shadow Broker" rolled around, and you met [[spoiler: Tela Vasir]]. Not so much [[TheJoysOfTorturingMooks funny]] as [[BestBossEver just fun.]]
** And then the third game comes out, and we receive the ''[[ThatOneBoss not awesome]]'' horror that is the Banshee, this super-tough, incredibly strong opponent that can warp across the battlefield to [[PersonalSpaceInvader smack you in the face]]. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Or stick their hand through your chest.]]
** No one can end Kai Leng's life and not feel this.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' Carlot Gurling, the villain of Liam's LoyaltyMission, found an impressive find - a kett sleeper ship, left behind by its crew when they arrived in the Heleus Cluster, but still salvageable. Rather than use any information the ship might have provided about the kett, Carlot used it to go after everyone he felt had wronged him, which just gets the ship more and more banged up. By the time Ryder learns he exists, he's become convinced that everyone has wronged him and is going to pay.
* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', both Lucien and Bilrach were both looked down upon by both humans and their own kind, and were disregarded as frail and weak. Now [[spoiler: Lucien is on his way to godhood]], and [[spoiler: Bilrach is the leader of a massive army of demons, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and powerful warriors]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', after [[spoiler: Wheatley gets plugged into [=GLaDOS=]'s body]]. He directs this attitude towards [=GLaDOS=], who had spent a few seconds calling him an idiot, and ''you'', who had made all this possible for him in the first place and been with him every step of the way; he claims you've been bossing him around constantly when the opposite is true.

* In ''VisualNovel/WinterShard'', the game opens with a lonely, desperate Frederic being continually denied food and shelter by the people he tries to seek help from and then [[AnArmAndALeg having his right arm ripped off]] by [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp Temonz]], for the sole crime of being the son of a man accused of treason. Naturally, when he's resurrected and granted dark powers by Krotus, he exults in getting his sweet revenge on these people.
* Literal example in ''[[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/duckhunt/default.php Kill the Dog from Duck Hunt]]''.
* A heroic/player version is possible in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. As the game progresses -- and in the harder levels of Challenge Maps -- you'll run into [[StaticStunGun stun-baton]]-wielding {{mooks}}, and they take great pleasure in destroying your combos, [[InterfaceScrew shaking your screen]], giving their buddies ample time to take a chunk off of your health, and generally being one of the [[GoddamnBats most irritating form of mooks in the game]]. One of Batman's takedown moves involves him taking the stun baton out of the mooks hand and shocking him with it. You can also use the "Disarm and Destroy" Combo move to completely destroy it, further improving the odds in your favor.
** Then came the Nightwing {{DLC}}, and as it happens, ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} is ''[[DualWielding dual-wielding]]'' electrified [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrima escrima]] sticks. Cue [[ExtremeMeleeRevenge payback]].

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII: Shadows of Amn'': This is the offscreen backstory for Kalah the illusionist, who somehow gains great power and turns the circus where the worked into a BiggerOnTheInside fantasy world where things are not as they seem, in order to take revenge on those who made fun of him -- basically making a PowerFantasy real.
* The premise of ''Days of Monsters'' is that your character was bullied as a kid and turned to mad science in order to get revenge.
* Anytime in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'', when the Imperial Guard manages to deploy a Baneblade. IG is a RedshirtArmy, whose viable tactics boil down to "have more soldiers than the enemy has bullets" and the Baneblade is a ''huge'' investment in time and resources. However, the eleven-cannoned behemoth is nearly capable of clearing maps on its own, and when it rolls out... to quote the game:
--> Who's dying now!?
* [[ActionGirl Annette]] [[PsychicPowers Durand]] of ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' was captured and tortured by the aliens, and then by [[TheQuisling EXALT]]. After she is rescued and recruited as a soldier in [=XCOM=], she is quite happy to use MindControl on the aliens:
--> "Remember me!?"
* In ''VideoGame/AceCombatXSkiesOfDeception'', one particular [[ThatOneLevel mission]] forces your AcePilot to drop unstable and prone to accidentally detonating and killing you antidote-bombs on nerve gas outlets. Your flying is severely limited during this due to the instability of the bombs, and the enemy pilots chasing you relentlessly ridicule you for it. Once you finish stopping the gas attack, the bombs magically empty out, and you are free to run the enemy pilots through like any other, and they suitably [[BringMyBrownPants shit their pants]] when they see you for the AcePilot you REALLY are.
* A stage in ''VideoGame/{{Mechassault}}'' has the player infiltrating a base in a suit of PowerArmor. About halfway through the stage, you find yourself getting chased by a light mech. At the end of the stage, you make you way into a Mech hangar, and find an ''Atlas'' in the back. Needless to say, the following stage is ''extremely'' cathartic.
* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', you have the option of acting like a total disdainful {{Jerkass}} to the human thralls of several vampires. They, in turn, will write you off as a liability and take a shot at putting you back in your grave when the opportunity arises. Since one of them, Mercurio, becomes your FriendInTheBlackMarket if you're decent to him and is strongly implied to be one of two completely trustworthy people in your life, if you push him over the edge, you've probably earned a few bullet holes.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The situation between Black Marsh and Morrowind, as of the Fourth Era. The Dunmer of Morrowind have been raiding their smaller, destitute southern neighbour for Argonian slaves for centuries. However since the Red Mountain erupted and devastated most of Morrowind, the Argonians have since easily claimed most of the southern parts of the province, turning the tables on their former masters.

* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' has the phrase scrawled on the wall [[spoiler:just to the left of a vivisected cartoon character, Boris the Wolf.]] It's implied, [[EpisodicGame but not confirmed,]] that [[spoiler:Bendy or an acolyte did it as twisted vengeance against his SitcomArchnemesis from the movies.]]
** [[spoiler:It's revealed in Chapter 3 that Boris was actually killed by Alice, not Bendy.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MadWorld'', the Black Baron is a TheyKilledKennyAgain character, repeatedly being killed by his hoe Mathilda to demonstrate how to play his Bloodbath Challenges. [[spoiler:Then it’s revealed that he's the current Champion, and he’s actually a pretty challenging boss fight.]]
* ''VideoGame/TheLastFederation'': Normally, the Peltians are the weakest race, suck at ground combat and are often subjected to cruelty from the other races. However, they have a unique tech they can research that gives them a ''125x'' orbital bombardment damage bonus, which FAR exceeds any other race, allowing them to just obliterate their former tormentors from orbit.

* A heroic/player version is possible in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. As the game progresses -- and in the harder levels of Challenge Maps -- you'll run into [[StaticStunGun stun-baton]]-wielding {{mooks}}, and they take great pleasure in destroying your combos, [[InterfaceScrew shaking your screen]], giving their buddies ample time to take a chunk off of your health, and generally being one of the [[GoddamnBats most irritating form of mooks in the game]]. One of Batman's takedown moves involves him taking the stun baton out of the mooks hand and shocking him with it.

* {{Magikarp|Power}} of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' is [[MemeticMutation PAINFULLY waiting to evolve]] to invoke this trope.

** Though they have nothing on Wishiwashi who's solo form is weaker than Magikarp. Its School form on the other hand...

* In ''VideoGame/MadWorld'', the Black Baron is a TheyKilledKennyAgain character, repeatedly being killed by his hoe Matilda to demonstrate how to play his Bloodbath Challenges. [[spoiler:Then it’s revealed that he's the current Champion, and he’s actually a pretty challenging boss fight.]]

** In [[VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy Dissidia]], he will knock you down and [[LargeHam enjoy it very much]].
** Exdeath of VideoGame/FinalFantasyV is much the same.

* In Ace Combat X, one particular [[ThatOneLevel mission]] forces your AcePilot to drop unstable and prone to accidentally detonating and killing you antidote-bombs on nerve gas outlets. Your flying is severely limited during this due to the instability of the bombs, and the enemy pilots chasing you relentlessly ridicule you for it. Once you finish stopping the gas attack, the bombs magically empty out, and you are free to run the enemy pilots through like any other, and they suitably [[BringMyBrownPants shit their pants]] when they see you for the AcePilot you REALLY are.

* Anytime in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Dark Crusade'', when the Imperial Guard manages to deploy a Baneblade. IG is a RedshirtArmy, whose viable tactis boil down to "have more soldiers than the enemy has bullets" and the Baneblade is a ''huge'' investment in time and resources. However, the eleven-cannoned behemoth is nearly capable of clearing maps on its own, and when it rolls out... to quote the game:

* In VideoGame/CrusaderKings, you can [[HesBack revive]] [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hellenism]] and reforge the entire UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire with the traditional polytheistic faith of old, [[RapePillageAndBurn while setting torch to Rome]] and [[MonumentalDamage burning down]] the Apostolic Palace and the St. Peter's Basilica. The flavor text for decision appropriately reads - [[IronicEcho "Let the Galileans burn for a change."]]

** [[spoiler: revealed in Chapter 3 that Boris was actually killed by Alice, not Bendy.]]

* In VideoGame/CrusaderKings, you can [[HesBack revive]] [[UsefulNotes/ClassicalMythology Hellenism]] and reforge the entire UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire with the traditional polytheistic faith of old, [[RapePillageAndBurn while setting torch to Rome]] and [[MonumentalDamage burning down]] the Apostolic Palace and the St. Peter's Basilica. The flavor text for decision appropriately reads - [[IronicEcho "Let the Galileans burn for a change."]]

** Wizzro's betrayal of Cia in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''. Even though he's still badly wounded from his previous battle against Link and co., [[BigBad Cia]] immediately tosses him into battle against [[ManEatingPlant the Manhandla]], whereupon he quite gleefully betrays her for [[BiggerBad Ganondorf]]. Averted with Volga, who just decides that she's no longer worthy of his service.

** Before ''X and Y'', Clefairy, Clefable, Togepi, Snubbull and Granbull were weak against Fighting types. Now that they've been retconned from Normal to Fairy, ''they're'' the ones with a type advantage.
** Rotom-S (its Fan Forme) is an Electric/Flying type...but still has the ability Levitate (immunity to Ground, which Flying naturally has). Come Gen 6, we get Inverse Battles, where Flying is ''weak'' to Ground...but not Rotom-S, since immunity-granting abilities still function as advertised.

* In Ace Combat X, one particular [[ThatOneLevel mission]] forces your AcePilot to drop unstable and prone to accidentally detonating and killing you antidote-bombs on nerve gas outlets. Your flying is severely limited during this due to the instability of the bombs, and the enemy pilots chasing you relentlessly ridicule you for it. Once you finish stopping the gas attack, the bombs magically empty out, and you are free to run the enemy pilots through like any other, and they suitably shit their pants when they see you for the AcePilot you REALLY are.

* In ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'', [[spoiler:Cole]] is revealed as the BigBad, stating that [[spoiler:he's finally sick of being Henry's HypercompetentSidekick that does the actual work of locating the treasure while Henry goes off and gets all the glory]].

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': A certain mod released by a gamer is "Who's Laughing Now?!" a variation of Gruntpocalypse where the [[TheGoomba grunts]] are made four times tougher, immune to headshots, and benefit from two skulls which generate both extreme accuracy and bullet spam.