You Killed My Father / Anime & Manga

You Killed My Father in Anime & Manga.

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• Ace Attorney: In the manga for Miles Edgeworth, the son of Jose Montoya, a man Edgeworth sent to prison and who died while in there, accuses Edgeworth of killing his father and tries to attack him. Edgeworth stops him by (accidentally) blocking the knife with his cast and then gives him a Cooldown Hug and apology.
• Afro Samurai: Justice kills Afro's father at the beginning of the series.Then Afro does the same to Shichigoro, leading to his son going for revenge on Afro. In the manga, Kotaro acquires the Number Two Headband himself; in the Resurrection movie, Afro drops the headband into Kotaro's hands with a quiet, "Any time you're ready."
• Attack on Titan:
  • When the Colossal Titan kicked open Wall Maria's gate, debris landed on the Yeager house and trapped Eren's mother. He was forced to watch her be Eaten Alive, and this drives his quest to exterminate the Titans. After discovering that Bertolt is the Colossal Titan, Eren demands to know what he thought about causing her death. His response about having pitied Eren drives him to promise that he'll make sure Bertolt dies in as horrible a manner as possible. In a similar manner, he encounters the Titan who actually ate his mother sometime after gaining the ability to control Titans. He makes the other Titans in the area devour it alive. Of course, the very end of the series puts a huge spin on it by implying Eren in the future used his connection to the Paths to directly send the Titan in question to where the Yeager house was and had it eat his mother just to make sure that it would send Eren down his path, especially since that same Titan noticeably saw and ignored Bertolt after he destroyed the Wall and returned to human form despite Titans otherwise always instinctively seeking to eat Titan Shifters.
  • A more complicated example occurs when Bertolt confronts Ymir over having eaten his childhood friend, Marcel. She apologizes for it, admitting that she has no memories of her time trapped in Titan form. When she asks if he hates her because of it, he admits that he isn't sure... but he accepts her apology, as she clearly didn't want to kill anyone.
• Berserk:
  • Theresia, the Count's daughter, blames Guts for his part in her father's demise via the God Hand. However, Guts praises her hatred, saying it will keep her alive. Though Guts is not above shedding a subtle tear over Theresia unfairly blaming him for the Count's well-deserved fate. Since Theresia hasn't been seen in over a hundred chapters, it's safe to assume Guts is safe from her revenge.
  • In prototype-Berserk, Guts's motivation for hunting down the order of Demons was because his mother was torn apart by them.
• Black Clover:
  • Liebe's main goal is to wipe out all devils due to his mother's death at the hands of Lucifero.
  • Noelle similarly swears to kill Vanica, host of the devil Megicula, for cursing her mother Acier to death. Her brother Nozel joins her in this during the raid on the Spade Kingdom, having been present when Megicula cursed Acier while she was protecting him and an infant Noelle, and states upon meeting the devil that he's waited years to get his revenge. The two ultimately kill Megicula together, after which Acier's spirit thanks them for freeing her soul and compliments her children for becoming so strong.
• Bleach:
  • The Grand Fisher killed Ichigo's mother and uses that against him when they fight. Ichigo is determined to resolve the matter for his mother's sake, but eventually it's Isshin who does so.
  • After Souken died, Mayuri captured his soul and tortured him to death For Science!. Uryuu almost kills both himself and Mayuri to avenge his grandfather, but they both survive. The storyline was never resolved.
  • In the Captain Amagai arc, Amagai is haunted by his father's death and wishes he could avenge it. The arc's entire plot is his gambit to destroy Yamamoto for killing his father. When he that learns Yamamoto saved his father's soul from possession, he kills himself to atone for his misguided behaviour.
• Call of the Night provides an interesting twist: although Anko is the one who killed her own father (and has carried that burden for ten years), she holds Kiku as the one ultimately responsible for his death since she's the one who turned him into a vampire.
• Claymore:
  • Subverted. Priscilla demands that Teresa "give her father back" as they fight, but in fact, young Priscilla witnessed a yōma who had taken the place of her father eating her siblings, and she snuck up behind him and chopped off his head. However, by this point in the fight, Priscilla is losing her mind due to the fact that she can't cope with having been defeated by Teresa, even though Teresa is "the bad guy" who broke the rules. Subverted further after the yōma's true nature is revealed. Since yōma merely infest humans, not replace them, Priscilla actually killed her father herself. Dae believes that she subconsciously knew this was the case, and her self-loathing is the reason she is so powerful.
  • Played somewhat straight for Clare's motive for being a Claymore. She used the flesh of her mother figure, Teresa the Faint Smile, to turn herself into a Claymore. Since that day, she has been building her strength up to kill Priscilla, who killed Teresa right in front of her.
• In Code Geass, Lelouch blames his father, Emperor Charles, for the death of his mother. It's one of his motivations for fighting the Britannian Empire. In the end, Lelouch is at least partially responsible for Charles' death when he ruins his Assimilation Plot, by causing the Collective Unconscience to absorb him. He also gets his mother, Marianne, killed this way too, because she wasn't actually dead and was in on Charles' plan the whole time.
• One of Ian's major struggles in A Cruel God Reigns. Jeremy may have killed his father, but he's also his step-brother and his father was torturing him. And Ian starts to fall in love with Jeremy.
• In at least two of the iterations of Cutey Honey, Honey's motive for trying to wipe out Panther Claw is because they killed her father. In two others, they kidnap him instead, but it still has the same effect — Honey still wants to kill them.
• Daimos:
  • Averted with Kazuya. While his father was killed by the Baam, he refuses to portray Fantastic Racism towards them and even fell in love with a Baam Princess himself, knowing that they're not all bad people.
  • After the destruction of Planet Baam, Richter and his father attended a meeting with the Earthlings to negotiate the housing of the remaining Baam-seijin. At the meeting, his father collapsed after drinking from a cup, leading the Prince to believe it was an assassination attempt. In a fit of rage, he opened fire on the human delegates, thus kicking off the Earth-Baam war. All this could have been avoided if he had bothered to do a proper investigation, which would have concluded that not only did the humans not place the poison in the cup, but the true culprit was a fellow Baam-seijin.
  • Sayuri despises the Baam-seijin because they attempted to abduct her parents and force them into slavery. When she tried to rescue them, her attempt Went Horribly Wrong and ended with their deaths. As a result, she swore to kill them all. Later, Kazuya convinces her to that Revenge Is Not Justice.
• In Date A Live, Origami Tobiichi dedicated her life to getting her revenge on the one who killed her parents. She concludes that Kotori Itsuka's Superpowered Evil Side Efreet did it and tries to kill her, ignoring everybody's protests. However, it is later revealed that Origami herself was the one who accidentally killed her parents in a Stable Time Loop created when she went back in time to try to prevent their deaths. She rockets past the Despair Event Horizon when she realizes this.
• Subverted in Death Note: While Light plans to kill his father himself, said father is ultimately killed by Mello. Light is visibly distraught at his father's death, but he appears to deal with it by losing himself yet further in his dubious cause. He barely mentions Soichiro again, and never figures his death into his conflict with Mello — which, for such a proud guy who takes conflicts and slights so personally, is quite strange. In the end, it's Matsuda who ends up "taking revenge", subverting the trope even further.
• Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The death of most of Tanjiro's family, along with his younger sister Nezuko being turned into a demon, is what drives him to become a Demon Slayer and kill Muzan Kibutsuji, the demon responsible for it.
  • Turns out most of the other Demon Slayers are also motivated by this trope, as various of their family members fell in the hands of Demons. Inosuke is motivated by the death of his parents at the hands of Douma, Zenitsu eventually gets serious in his duties as a Demon Slayer once he hears his master committed suicide, Sanemi is motivated to exterminate Muzan and co. cause he turned his mother leading to deaths in his family, Shinobu is motivated by the death of her sister at the hands of Douma, Gyomei is motivated by the deaths of his students, Mitsuri is motivated by the death of her parents, Muichiro is motivated by the death of his younger brother, Giyuu is motivated by the deaths of his sister and his best friend, Obanai is motivated by the death of his family, Tengen is motivated by the deaths of his siblings and Kagaya is motivated by the deaths of his ancestors due to Muzan cursing the family. This is ultimately why all of them join to kill Muzan, because he's the source of all the tragedies in the series.
• Case Closed:
  • The Kaitou Kid of Magic Kaito and Detective Conan has this as his driving motivation once he finds out that his father was murdered. His motives for being a Phantom Thief shift away from "having fun" toward "bringing them out into the light", and we might know more about all of that if his series was more than 28 chapters long. (His Case Closed counterpart is after his evil organization because they killed him, instead.)
  • Many of the culprits of their cases have this as their motive for murder, as the victims had directly (or indirectly) caused the deaths of their loved ones.
• In The Devil is a Part-Timer!, this is Emi's primary motivation for becoming The Hero, since Maou's forces razed her village shortly after her father sent her with some church officials to train and fight against the demons. When she confronts Maou with this information, he actually blows her mind (and seemingly offends her) by honestly trying to apologize, saying that he ordered his minions not to attack civilians but he couldn't oversee them 24/7, and admitting that he didn't respect humans the way he does now. She drops a lot of her hostility towards Maou when she finds out her father isn't dead. Lampshaded in the anime, when Lucifer shows up:
  "No, it can't be. I ran my sword right through your chest! I did the 'You killed my father' bit and everything!"
• In Dog Soldier, one of Zardoz's attacks killed John Kyosuke Hiba's parents.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • Subverted by Son Goku when he can't bring himself to kill Frieza, who not only killed his father, but also almost extinguished his entire race. Played straight, however, with Vegeta and his son Trunks.
  • Played straight with Piccolo, who was literally born to hate and kill Goku. His father Piccolo Daimaou created him moments after Goku dealt him a fatal blow and passed on his grudge to his newborn son. Piccolo actually does manage to kill Goku during their teamup against Raditz when Goku holds Raditz in place long enough for Piccolo to hit them both with his new super move. Piccolo mellows out considerably afterwards, since he felt no satisfaction from killing Goku. He just couldn't keep hating Goku after seeing him pull off such a badass Heroic Sacrifice. Bonding with Goku's son Gohan while training him cements the end of Piccolo's grudge.
  • Gohan says something similar to Cell after he comes back in the Cell saga: "I'm glad that I can rip apart the one who killed my father with my own hands!"
  • Future Trunks's father from his timeline was killed by the androids, whom Trunks later kills. His father from the present timeline is killed by Frieza, whom he kills as well. Oh, and Future Trunks also splits Zamasu/Goku Black (who killed Future Bulma) in half.
  • Majin Buu also killed Goten's mother and ate Trunks's mother. Frieza killed Vegeta's father as well as the entire Saiyan race. Yeah, the villains do this a lot.
• EDENS ZERO:
  • Homura's conflict against her mother Kurenai is because she manipulated and caused the death of her teacher Valkyrie, who was more of a mother to Homaru than Kurenai could ever be. However, Homura chooses not kill Kurenai but makes it clear she never wants to see her again in their lives.
  • Weisz Steiner grew up believing that his beloved mother died from an unknown illness. However, in the Belial Gore he finds out that Drakken Joe has been extending his life by draining the life energy of those around him, and back when he operated on Norma Weisz's mother was one of his unknown victims. As such, Weisz charges at Drakken during the final fight to get his revenge.
• In Fairy Tail, after Acnologia kills his adoptive dragon father in front of him, Natsu angrily declares that he'll destroy Acnologia.
• In the 1980s version of Gigantor, Shotaro seeks revenge on Branch because he realized that he was the one who killed his father. However, this doesn't happen since Branch is abducted by aliens that later turn out to be Uchuumaou's minions, while Shotaro attempts to kill him in revenge.
• Honoo no Alpen Rose: Leonhardt Aschenbach holds this attitude towards the Nazis. They killed his parents, Eleonora and Franz, because they were open dissenters that joined Friedrich Brandel's anti-Nazi movement and engaged in political activism against them.
• Gundam:
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam, Casval Daikun took his more famous identity of Char Aznable and joined the Zeon military to avenge his father, killed by Degwin Zabi. Char's approach is a non-standard kill-them-all: he plans to kill all the Zabi, starting with Degwin's favorite son (and Char's apparent best friend Garma). He fails; while he does get Garma killed, his brother Dozle dies in battle against the Federation, Degwin is disintegrated by his surviving son Gihren's death ray, and Gihren is killed by his sister Kycilia exactly because of Degwin's murder before he can take another shot and kill Kycilia with a rocket in the head. After the series, it's implied that Char encounters Dozle's daughter Mineva but, having renounced his revenge even before killing Kycilia (he did the deed to prevent her from continuing the war), spares her.
  • Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam features a rather harsh version of this in the case of Kamille Bidan's mother. Jerid Messa, Affably Evil rival and already not on Kamille's good side, is given orders to shoot at a capsule if anyone attempts to retrieve it. Having been led to believe that it's a bomb, he destroys the capsule holding Kamille's mother, killing her just as Kamille had reached the capsule to retrieve it. Jerid is able to feel Kamille's sadness as a sickening uneasiness, and when given the opportunity, actually apologizes for having killed his mother. He is still a bit too much of a jerk about it, though, and this death starts a vicious cycle of doom and revenge for anyone who gets close to either Jerid or Kamille throughout the series.
  • Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Neo-Canada's fighter, former space cop Andrew Graham, entered the Gundam Fight entirely because he found out that Neo-Russia's fighter is the space pirate Argo Gulsky, who some years ago killed Andrew's new wife Norma by ramming their spaceship and then throwing her into space. Except that's not true; the collision was an accident, and Argo tried to save Norma but couldn't reach her in time and has been wracked with remorse ever since. When Andrew learns the truth, he returns the favor by Taking the Bullet for Argo.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, soon-to-become pacifist Relena tries to shoot Lady Une, the woman who killed her (adoptive) father. She fails. The next time the two meet, Lady Une actually offers Relena a gun to take her long-awaited revenge with, and Relena pushes it away, because ending the vicious cycle of bloody retribution is more important to her in the end.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00:
    • The second Lockon Stratos, Lyle Dylandy, is the one who finally brings down Ali al-Saachez, who killed Lockon's father, mother, and little sister in a terrorist bombing years ago, and his twin brother (the first Lockon) at the end of the first season. However, it is a subversion — Lyle rejects the idea of shooting him out of pure vengeance and only fires after Ali refuses to surrender.
    • Louise Halevy also loses her parents, but in the series proper. She was attending a wedding with her mom and dad when they were rudely blown away by the sociopathic Nena Trinity. Louise barely survived the horrific attack, but lost her hand as well. 5 years later, she is a member of the A-LAWS and blames Celestial Being as a whole for what happened to her parents, but she doesn't get to confront the exact perpetrator until Episode 46, where she absolutely destroys Nena and quite literally rips her in half. However, obtaining vengeance at long last doesn't bring her any joy, and she sinks further into despair.
• Seine's motivation in Hekikai No Aion is to kill the mermaids to avenge her foster father Simon's death at their hands, or their teeth.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Phantom Blood: Jonathan impales DIO on a burning spike after DIO kills Jonathan's father George.
  • Battle Tendency: Caesar seeks to destroy the Pillar Men after they killed his father several years before he met Joseph. Later, Lisa Lisa admits to having complicated feelings towards Joseph due to him being the one to kill her adoptive father Straizo, though she is more disappointed in Straizo losing his way and succumbing to his desire for immortality.
  • Stardust Crusaders: Polnareff takes on J. Geil, who murdered his younger sister, by delivering several brutal swift strikes.
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: Josuke uses his Stand's reconstructive abilities to fuse Angelo with a boulder after he killed Josuke's grandfather.
  • Golden Wind: In Purple Haze Feedback, Sheila joined Passione to search for Illuso of La Squadra, who killed her sister, and wanted to kill him as vengeance... except Fugo had already finished him off.
  • Stone Ocean:
    • Jolyne's goal of taking down Pucci is in the name of Jotaro after Whitesnake takes Jotaro's Stand and Memory discs which rendered comatose while the Speedwagon Foundation places him on life support. Ultimately, though, aside from escaping Green Dolphin Street Prison, Jolyne's main goal is to kill Pucci and retrieve her father's discs to bring him back.
    • Emporio's mother was killed by Pucci years prior to Jolyne's arrival at the prison. Ultimately, Emporio becomes the one to deliver the finishing blow to Pucci after he's killed all the other heroes.
    • Ermes got herself imprisoned at Green Dolphin Street Prison on purpose just to have a shot at taking out Sports Maxx, who killed her elder sister because she witnessed him performing a mob hit.
  • Steel Ball Run: Wekapipo pursues Gyro in an effort to take revenge on the Zeppeli family, whom he holds accountable for his sister's death. He soon drops his revenge when it is revealed that Gyro's father is protecting her.
  • JoJolion: Toru reveals that he used his Stand to murder Rai's father in an effort to get him to throw caution to the wind and "pursue" them, activating Wonder of U's ability to attack Rai.
  • Since DIO killed Jonathan, this is why Lisa Lisa, Joseph and Jotaro and the rest of Joestars hate DIO with a passion. All the JoJo family's win quotes in All Star Battle against DIO will express their united satisfaction for avenging Jonathan, even though canonically only Jotaro gets revenge. Special mention to Joseph, who has this line if he defeats DIO in his Harmless Lady Disguise:
    Joseph: I won! I avenged my grandfather... in drag.
• This is the reason behind Yuri Killian being a Smug Snake and betraying Kalos Eido, whom he blames for the "deed", in Kaleido Star. Ironically, Mr. Killian's death was a genuine accident. Kalos doesn't defend himself because he feels guilty anyway.
• In Kill la Kill, Ryuko Matoi's main goal is to find the person who killed her father with a giant pair of scissors. The scissors broke in half while the culprit was fleeing, so Ryuko uses one half as a sword while searching for the person who carries the other half. The culprit was Nui Harime, but while Ryuko hates her, she ultimately considers Ragyo Kiryuin truly responsible because Nui was acting under her orders. Satsuki Kiryuin also never forgave her mother Ragyo for killing her father, and betrays her at the first opportunity. It later turns out that Ryuko and Satsuki's parents are one and the same, uniting them against their mother, Ragyo.
• This is defied in Kimba the White Lion, where Kimba refuses to kill Viper Snakely for shooting his father and for indirectly causing the death of his mother because he believes that if he kills a human, he will be going against his wish for humans and animals to coexist in peace. However, Kimba has no problems fighting Viper Snakely if it means protecting his subjects from him.
• This is originally Brocken Jr.'s thing when he first appears in Kinnikuman; Ramenman killed his father Brockenman during the first Tournament Arc, so now Jr. wants revenge. However, Brocken isn't quite so obsessed, as he's willing to pull an Enemy Mine with Ramenman during the manga's Beansman arc. When the two do fight during the Big Fight arc, Ramenman hands Brocken Jr. his ass, then tells him, "Forget your father. Only then will you be a great fighter." and Brocken more or less gives up his grudge.
• Kirby: Right Back at Ya!:
  • Subverted. Knuckle Joe has dedicated years to tracking down the Star Warrior he was told killed his father. He arrives on Pop Star, is tricked by Dedede into going after Kirby, and is about to deliver the killing blow when Meta Knight shows up, claiming to be the one Joe is looking for. He reveals that he was forced to kill Joe's father, his best friend, when the latter was possessed by Nightmare. Joe is furious and refuses to believe Meta Knight at first, one would assume because he wants someone to direct his anger at.
  • A rare Distaff Counterpart example occurs with Sirica in episode 60; she pursues Meta Knight under the suspicion that he abandoned her mother and let her get mauled by one of eNeMeE's monsters. It is only after Meta Knight's sword telepathically informs her that her mother willingly sacrificed her life because she couldn't wield it, thus giving the blade to him in her dying moment, that Sirica stops trying to kill him and accepts reality.
• In Koihime†Musou, when Chouhi stops Sousou to say hello, Bachou suddenly tries to kill Sousou on the spot because Sousou had Batou (Bachou's father) killed. She later learns that her father actually died by falling off a horse while drunk. Sousou took the blame willingly because falling off a horse was a rather dishonorable way to die.
• In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), Ghanti declares Link her enemy because he's the last of the Hylian knights, whom she has been raised to believe killed her parents. She's, therefore, surprised to find that her guardian lied to her and she herself is, in fact, also descended from the Hylian knights — the bandits who killed her parents raised her afterwards and then simply lied about what happened.
• Lone Wolf and Cub ends with Yagyuu Retsudou dying at the hands of Daigorou, after killing Ittou.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • Averted in A's. Eleven years prior to the season, Chono's father was killed when an attempt to seal the Book of Darkness went horribly wrong. While Chrono is on the current case to deal with it, he never expresses any desire for revenge against it or its guardians. And when he's presented with a plan that could permanently seal it near the end of the season, he instantly rejects it on both moral and practical grounds.
  • Iris's main motivation during the Reflection/Detonation duology is getting revenge against her best friend Yuri for the death of her father. Though it later turns out that, while Yuri did kill him, it was only because he was Evil All Along. Oh, and he's not actually dead.
• Maria no Danzai gives us a You Killed My Son variant: Mari Nagare was once the loving mother of her son Kiritaka. Then Okaya and his Gang of Bullies killed him and made it look like a suicide. When she found out, Mari Nagare died and Maria Akeboshi took her place, becoming hellbent on avenging her son at any cost. Fast forward two years, she's finally ready to do just that.
• The Mazinger trilogy:
  • Mazinger Z gives us a You Killed My Grandfather in the first episode, when Dr. Hell gets Kouji's grandfather assassinated and Kouji swears finding and punishing the responsible.
  • It happens literally in Great Mazinger when Kenzo Kabuto dies because the Mykene and Kouji and Tetsuya (his biological son and adoptive son, respectively) go into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge to avenge him.
  • The parents of Duke Fleed and his sister Maria from UFO Robo Grendizer were murdered by the Vegan army, and he and she want to avenge their deaths. And Maria also wants avenging her adoptive grandfather.
• Subverted in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, when Kaito forgives Man Behind the Man Sara for killing his parents. She eventually commits suicide by collapsing fortress.
• In the anime version of My-HiME, Natsuki's beef with the First District is largely due to their apparent involvement in her mother's death. In the manga's storyline, her reason for entering Fuuka is largely the same, with the exception that she believes another HiME was responsible for her murder. The whole story is later revealed to be a lie, as Natsuki's mother shows up at the end of Vol. 3 as the leader of the faction that takes over Fuuka Academy, and serves as the primary antagonist of Vol. 4.
• Primitive Boy Ryu has many examples:
  • Ryu was raised by an ape, Kitty, after being abandoned by his fellow humans. The anime's pot is kicked off when Kitty is killed by the vicious dinosaur Tyranno.
  • When Tyranno attacked the Badger Tribe, Kiba tried to usher his wife and little son to safety - only for Tyranno to kill them both. Kiba dedicated his life to killing Tyranno afterwards.
  • Taka hates people with white skin because his tribe, the Orgone was wiped out by the Whiteskin people. He hates Ryu for his pale complexion even though Ryu isn't a part of them.
• Naruto:
  • Sasuke Uchiha's entire clan, including his parents, were killed... by his brother, no less. So Sasuke's training to get strong so he can kill him. Of course, when he finally does, it turns out Itachi wasn't so bad after all, and did it so the Uchiha wouldn't rebel against Konoha, possibly causing a fourth Ninja War, for decades of oppression due to paranoia of the clan's power. That makes Sasuke's target of vengeance switch to the village of Konoha. Whee.
  • A slightly straighter example is implied: It's revealed that Tobi unleashed the Nine-tailed Fox on Konoha when Naruto was born. And that Kushina Uzumaki, Naruto's mother, was the previous container for it.
• One Piece:
  • Nami's main motivation for hating Arlong with every fiber of her being (besides enslaving her village) is because Arlong shot her adoptive mother Bellmere directly in front of Nami when she was just eight years old and then forced her to work for him as his cartographer for eight more years. Apparently Nami tried many times to secretly assassinate Arlong, but failed each time; the most sickening part is that Arlong laughs off her attempts, because he knows it's beyond her ability to kill him and he would forgive her anyway because "she's his friend". In the end it's Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp who avenge Bellemere (and the village) by beating Arlong and his crew, making Nami feel free for the first time in years. Nami's hatred of Arlong briefly extends to his whole race, with Nami being reluctant to enter Fishman island; however, by the time she gets there, she reconciles that it was solely Arlong whom she despised.
  • Franky utterly loathes Government Agent Spandam for arresting his mentor/father figure Tom and shipping him to Impel Down to be executed, and he endeavours to make Spandam's life absolute hell every time they come into contact. When Spandam kicks Tom's unconscious body upon arrest, Franky promptly breaks his skull with the butt of a rifle (permanently disfiguring him), causing Spandam much grief. But as if that wasn't enough, when meeting him again after twenty years, Franky, despite being being chained, bites Spandam's skull and refuses to let go, forcing Kumadori to separate them. But Franky doesn't just perform physical revenge for Tom; he also burns Tom's blue prints for Pluton — the ancient weapon the The Government has been seeking for years — directly in front of Spandam's face, causing Spandam to flip out. Franky finishes him off by smashing him to a pulp with his own elephant-sword Funkfreed, and even admits that he's been dreaming of crushing the bastard for a long time.
  • Robin also despises Spandam because he is the son of Spandine, the former Cipher Pol Chief who ordered the Buster Call on Ohara, i.e. the total massacre of her hometown plus her mother, her only friend, and her fellow archaeologists. Robin is horrified when Spandam reveals this, and when she's free of her handcuffs, she wastes no time giving him a brutal smack-down and snapping his spine like a twig.
  • One of the main reasons why Doflamingo shot his father in the back of the head is because his father renounced his Nobility and tried to leave normally, leading to his mother dying of illness thanks to the poor health conditions of poverty. That, and the fact that they got lynch-mobbed shortly afterwards. Despite that, Rocinante, Doflamingo's brother, seeks to kill Doflamingo to avenge the death of their father at his hands — among many, many, other reasons. Really, the only person Doflamingo has shown unconditional love for is his mother, so his actions, while twisted, are understandable.
  • Rebecca initially just fears Diamante for killing her mother Scarlet in cold blood, and breaks down upon discovering the truth. But upon seeing Diamante pull dirty moves on her father Kyros, she becomes furious and challenges Diamante, only to be held back by Robin. Like with Nami, Rebecca doesn't get to avenge her mother personally, but witnesses her father do it.
  • "The Payback War" between the Whitebeard Pirates and Blackbeard Pirates happened due to Whitebeard (who was considered a father by his entire crew) being killed by Marshall D. Teach a.k.a. Blackbeard and his crew. Blackbeard wins, though, denying the payback in question and on top of that becoming the new Yonko.
  • Movie 3 character Mobambi goes through this with the film's antagonist Count Butler after initially believing pirates had killed his father.
  • Momonosuke's primary reason for hating Kaido is because he boiled his father Oden alive before shooting him in the head, then caused the events that led to his mother Toki dying shortly after. Though unlike other examples, Momonosuke's desire for revenge is subverted since he's Just a Kid, so he needs Luffy and co. to help him take Kaido down.
  • The Egghead arc has a variation: Bartholomew Kuma isn't dead per se, but suffered Death of Personality due to being gradually converted into a cyborg by Dr. Vegapunk. Kuma's daughter Bonney infiltrated Egghead to demand answers from Vegapunk, determined to kill him if she doesn't like what she hears.
• Gene Starwind from Outlaw Star has a vendetta with Ron McDougall over this act, which receives regular flashbacks throughout the series that drive home its impact, and tells him as much. Ron responds that he can't be expected to remember every murder he has committed, famous hit man that he is.
• Subverted in Pet Shop of Horrors, where Leon kills Count D's father and fully expects him to leave him to burn to death after that. Instead, D saves him.
• Panzer World Galient: Jordy wants to avenge the death of his father, killed by Marder.
• Primitive Boy Ryu:
  • When Tyranno attacked, Kiba tried to usher his wife and little son to safety - only for Tyranno to kill them both.
  • Tyranno killed Ryu's adoptive mother, the ape Kitty.
  • Taka hates people with white skin because his tribe, the Orgone was wiped out by the Whiteskin people. He hates Ryu for his pale complexion even though Ryu isn't a part of them.
• Subverted in Ranma ½. Genma says that he's responsible for wiping the Kumon school out, so everyone thinks that Ryū Kumon is there for the traditional you-killed-my-father moment, but it turns out that Ryū's father accidentally killed himself practicing a technique and Ryū just wants the other half of it to rebuild.
• In Rave Master, King a.k.a. Gale Raregroove reveals that he killed Haru's mother Sakura to make his former friend Gale Glory, Haru's father, understand the pain he felt when the Imperial soldiers Glory sent to apprehend him killed his wife and son (though his son survived). An enraged Haru tackles King, calling him a monster. King calmly remarks that Haru has every right to hate him for what he did. He's shaken when Haru still feels sympathy for King's suffering even though King killed his mother.
• Reborn! (2004) presents an interesting twist on this trope in that it is not the hero, Tsuna, but the villain, Kozato Enma, who is using this as his battle cry, and makes it more interesting because apparently Tsuna's father Iemitsu was the killer of Enma's parents.
• Rooster Fighter: Keiji's sister Sarah was eaten by an enigmatic white demon with a neck tattoo, which is why he hunts all of them down.
• In The Rose of Versailles, Rosalie's main reason to go to Versailles is to avenge her adopted mother, who died when a noblewoman's carriage ran over her, and discover who is her real mother. She finds the killer Mme. de Polignac easily, but before she can kill her, she discover that Mme. de Polignac is her real mother.
• Samurai Deeper Kyo subverts this with Yuya, who, after a four-year hunt for the murderer of her father figure — her brother Nozomu — discovers that Kyoshiro was the one who killed him. She doesn't take her revenge, but she doesn't forgive him, either.
• Exa's reason for wanting to slay the demon queen in Superior (despite his otherwise strict adherence to Thou Shalt Not Kill) is because she wiped out his home village and desecrated his mother's corpse. This is somewhat problematic, seeing as the plot of the series revolves around the demon queen joining his party in disguise and the two falling in love. He does not take it well when he learns the truth.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Realising that tremors caused by the Beastmen-piloted Ganmen led to his parents' deaths enrages Simon into fighting them instead of running away.
• In the Tokyo Mew Mew anime is a mini-arc, just before the climax, where Ryou commands the titular Magical Girls against the Giant Mook that killed his parents. This is nowhere in the manga.
• Played straight (or maybe not so straight) with Kurogane in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-. He learns that Fei Wang was the one who killed his mother, for which he vows to kill him. He gets his revenge by delivering the fatal blow to Fei Wang in the final battle.
• A lot of the plot in Vinland Saga is derived from Thorfinn's quest to avenge his father's murder by Askeladd, who is fully aware of Thorfinn's grudge and uses it to his advantage on multiple occasions. It's eventually subverted; Askeladd is killed by Canute and Thorfinn refuses to finish him off. Thorfinn later has a Heel Realization when he recalls the many men he killed over the years and wonders how many of them were brothers, fathers, or sons of other people. It's one of the reasons he decides to never kill again.
• Wolf's Rain: This is Blue's motive against Darcia, who kills her master Quent towards the end of the series.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • In a unique villainous example, this is Malik of Yu-Gi-Oh!: Duel Monsters' motivation for trying to defeat the Nameless Pharaoh. Of course, it turns out that his Superpowered Evil Side, generated by resentment towards his duty to the Pharaoh (specifically, his father carving symbols into his back), was the killer, and Malik's believing that it was the Pharaoh was based on a misunderstanding.
  • Edo Phoenix of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX searches for his father's killer. By prowling dark alleys at night dressed in monster costumes looking for criminals, no less.
  • Action Girl Sherry LeBlanc of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds has also been hunting for her parents' killer. She doesn't follow Batman's m.o. quite as closely as her predecessor, but she does have a Battle Butler Parental Substitute.