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Author: OmarKarindu

Mar 8th 2013 at 5:28:57 AM

Comic Books
* The "[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]" villain the Grim Reaper started out blaming the early SilverAge team for his brother Wonder Man's apparent death, but very quickly started targeting anyone who ever joined the team...including a BackFromTheDead Wonder Man!

Film
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Live Action TV
* An unusual example occurs on ''Series/Angel'' with the VampireHunter Holtz, who seeks vengeance on Angelus for murdering his family and forcing him to stake his own daughter. In this case, Holtz comes after Angel even after acknowledging that Angel is essentially a different person than the soulless Angelus. The trope is played straight in that Holtz's vengeance also encompasses Angel's [[RevengeByProxy infant son]] and his allies in Angel Investigations. Holtz's assistant, Justine, is also a clearer example, int hat she hates all vampires because one of them [[DeadLittleSister killed her sister]].
* On ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Warren shoots and kills [[spoiler: Tara]] and is in turn apparently killed in revenge by [[spoiler: Willow]], after which [[spoiler: she]] also vengefully targets his former partners Jonathan and Andrew despite their lack of involvement in the shooting...and when Buffy and the Scoobies prevent these murders, [[spoiler: she]] blames and attacks ''them''!
* Part of the [[InherentInTheSystem utter, systemic failure]] of the drug war in ''Series/TheWire'' comes about because the police tend to treat anyone living near a drug-dealing operation with considerable brutality whenever one such operations harms or even simply embarrasses  a police officer or a public official, and in turn most people living in drug-affected areas behave as if every police officer is a [[CorruptCop brutal thug or a corrupt cop]] because some of the police fit that description. 
** In another example, when CorruptCop Lieutenant Valchek becomes enraged that stevedores' union chief Frank 
Sobotka has gotten a coveted stained-glass window at their church before Valchek, he sends his officers to harass the entire union with selective enforcement. Later still, frustrated that the investigation he instigates has moved on from Sobotka and the union to chase international drug and human traffickers, he calls in the FBI knowing that they will focus on busting the stevedores' union first and foremost. By the end of the season, [[spoiler: the union is gone]], and by the end of the series [[spoiler: at least some of the members are homeless after losing their jobs.]] Really, it's safe to say that the world of ''The Wire'' runs on this trope.

Western Animation
* The Batman: Year One example is only in the animated adaptation, not the comic. 
* The trope is parodied on "WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons" when Sideshow Bob, actually innocent and reformed for once, actually helps Bart and Lisa thwart his criminal brother Cecil from sabotaging a construction project he and Bob are working on together. In the aftermath, Chief Wiggum sends him to prison along with Cecil on general principle.