History DisproportionateRetribution / Webcomics

* ''WebComic/Sire'' Susan chokes Paul to death because he didn't pay enough attention to her.

* In ''AnsemRetort'', Darth Maul attacked Marluxia, complete with Force Lightning...all because Marluxia said mango-strawberry was a gay flavor.

* In BittersweetCandyBowl, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Abbey's]] anti-bullying goals and measures in chapter 62 were... [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c62/p10.html extreme]].

* [[http://buttersafe.com/2010/04/13/house-of-cards/ This]] ''{{Buttersafe}}'' strip inverts this.
* Mab from ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' was exiled from the fae kingdom after her friend Nutmeg, as the acting queen, passed a law that no fae may have a fluffier tail than the queen (Fae laws are rather whimsical), and Mab refused to de-fluff for anyone. Nutmeg's husband, Albanion, has a tendency to swear vendettas on anyone, including a pair of girl scouts (for not having the peanut butter cookies). Fortunately, as fae have a short attention span and a long life span, the foolish mortal that is a target of said vendetta usually dies of old age before the Fae finally comes up with the perfect revenge.

* In ''{{Erstwhile}}'', the bride opts for a BrideAndSwitch [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-16/#.T296R9m6SuI because if anyone saw her, they would laugh, and then she would have to execute them]], which (she realizes) would be a bad start.
* In ''{{Fans}}'', Robert's start of darkness is when... Alisin killed his pet fish. Keith, whose start of darkness was being physically and mentally violated by Alisin, is rather unimpressed. It is noted that Robert's real problem is an unwillingness to confront reality, to the point that he would value a fish so highly due to his inability to connect with anything else, but STILL.

* ''FruitIncest'' features an ancient dragon capable of summoning giant stormclouds employed by the police to retrieve a stolen cash register.
* In ''GeneralProtectionFault'', [[UnholyMatrimony Trudy and Trent]] apply for a job, and agree to let Trudy apply alone. Trent takes the application and fraudulently gets the job, but Trudy exposes him and gets it herself, while arranging for him to be arrested on trumped-up charges. Trent's own DisproportionateRetribution comes when he tries to frame Trudy for dropping a safe on Dwayne and expose her other safe droppings. Neither one is a very pleasant person, to say the least.
* As seen in the picture above from ''HeartCore'', [[BigBad Royce]] considers stealing a cake to be punishable by grand theft, something that he is willing to kill people over.

* ''JaydenAndCrusader'''s character Computer was called a slut by the titular character Jayden, leading Computer to [[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2010/02/22/page-149/ return wielding a laser gun]] to kill her
* ''TheKennyChronicles'': "Kenny vs. Funky part 2" involves Funky kidnapping Kenny, stealing his collar (with his money and ID on it) and dropping him on the mainland; the reason, Kenny drew a picture of Funky's head on a pike. Later, Kenny's eye is temporarily injured by a (non-anthropomorphic) cat and Funky spreads rumors that he was responsible, so Kenny tries to ''kill him''.

* Vin Vulpen has a tendency to do this to Rudy in KevinAndKell, first contacting the Institute for Species Purity to report his teammates' unconventional lifestyles, resulting in the team getting death threats, and later pours prey pheromones on Rudy during a night hunting event, putting him in danger of being eaten by his own teammates, all largely the result of jealousy over Rudy taking his star status on the team and losing Fiona and Rhonda. After Angelique fires him from the Herd Thinners lab for making several mistakes, including blowing off her fake rat ears, he tries to frame Angelique and R.L. for fraud.
* Drew from ''MacHall'' has an... [[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2001-11-29 Interesting response]] to insults being written on his flat's whiteboard.

** Nale gets this from his father Tarquin. He gets a pair of bounty hunters sentenced to die in gladiatorial combat by screwing around with their paperwork. Although he did it because they tried to extort a large sum of gold out of the him (an extra 42,000 gold pieces, which amounts to 840 pounds of gold), they only did it because they were trying to keep up with the barrage of ''StarWars'' references that just occurred. Their "thermal detonator" was a can of soup, they immediately backed down when it was pointed out, and they flat out admitted that's the only reason they did it.

** In the prequel ''StartOfDarkness'', a lizardfolk leader gets KilledMidSentence while talking to Xykon, because Xykon didn't feel like remembering his OverlyLongName.
* Angelo ''blows an underling to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill atoms]]'' for criticizing Brian's meeting plans in [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0113.html this comic]] of ''OurLittleAdventure''. Brian was a bit upset over it, but got over it quickly.
* In ''OutAtHome'', Mim responds to Herman firing her (for spreading rumors about him) by vowing to murder him. She's [[http://www.out-at-home.com/archives/824 not very good at it]], though.

* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip has Tycho threatening to enact this trope when Gabe tries to diss ''WarhammerOnline''. And boy, is it disproportionate.
* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[InvokedTrope invokes this trope]], [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2404 leaving a great impact on crime rates in Metropolis.]]

* {{Sinfest}}: [[SeriousBusiness Eternal Vengeance]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3830 for tripping.]] Y'know, cause [[WhatAnIdiot he wasn't looking where he was walking]].

* ''{{Sonichu}}'':

* In ''{{Superosity}}'', Jork's rival Hayseed faked the death of Jork's wife and wiped her memory...because Jork once insulted Hayseed's favorite tie. A tie which read "Jork Sucks".
* ''TwoKinds'': Trace's wife dies from a poisoned arrow, he reacts to this by taking over his mage order, turning them from Jedi-like peacekeepers into an army of {{Knight Templar}}s and launching a campaign of genocide on the race of the guy who shot her. Granted, he did do most of this under the influence of [[PsychoSerum the dark mana]] he used to try and resurrect his wife, but still...

* ''VanVonHunter'' features a character who ''dedicates'' himself to this. His name is Vengeance Joe, and he is on a quest to slay Von Hunter for not introducing himself.

** Tarquin is forgiving of his children, even though they both flat out have tried to ''kill'' him. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes and MoralMyopia. [[spoiler: Eventually, Tarquin gives Nale some proportionate retribution. After a lifetime of constantly undermining him and just after killing his best friend in [[DeaderThanDead an unrecoverable way]], Nale tells his father in no uncertain terms that he doesn't want his favor. After verifying that is truly what he wants, Tarquin stabs Nale in the chest.]]

** And one time Aerith attacked an airline pilot just because the in-flight movie was ''TheDevilWearsPrada''. Axel declared it the best honeymoon ever.

* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Sarda's [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/31/episode-1089-special-delivery/ revenge on Ranger]] for having the audacity to draw quad-wielded bows: [[spoiler:All the arrows are magically delivered to Ranger's unsuspecting wife]]. Difficult to say whether this event should also be considered CrossingTheLineTwice or LaserGuidedKarma, being as [[MoreDakka the outrageous number of arrows]] were flying toward [[InfantImmortality an innocent child]] at the time.

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[[caption-width-right:250:Did we mention that [[AbusiveParents h]][[BigBad e]] puts this [[PokeThePoodle "crime fit for the death penalty"]] on the same level as treason, bribery and vandalism of priceless art?]]

* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': When Nina went to her big sister, Layla, to ask about [[spoiler: her boobs]], [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/layyyyylaaaaah! Layla made fun of her.]] So Nina decided to "get even" [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/extra_honey by hijacking her sister's body]], offering to let Blair feel her up, then went on a date with her sister's boyfriend. This ''[[DudeNotFunny did not]]'' [[WhatTheHellHero sit well]] with the fandom.

* ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': When Nina went to her big sister, Layla, to ask about [[spoiler: her boobs]], [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/layyyyylaaaaah! Layla made fun of her.]] So Nina decided to "get even" [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/extra_honey by hijacking her sister's body]], offering to let Blair feel her up, then went on a date with her sister's boyfriend. This ''[[DudeNotFunny did not]]'' [[WhatTheHellHero sit well]] with the fandom.

* Bun-Bun from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' hates being bothered by telemarketers; the kind of hate that makes someone go on a ''KillBill'' style RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He'll respond to ''any'' slight with extreme savagery, though; telemarketers are just at the top of the list.

* ''[[Webcomic/{{Minus}} minus]]'': The title character's attempts at LaserGuidedKarma sometimes turn out to be this, which is perhaps justified as being a child she doesn't have a wel-developed sense of moral responsibility when it comes to her reality-warping powers. [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus3.html This]] strip being a prime example, in which a hapless balloon-seller whose product is prone to popping ends up being [BodyHorror turned into a balloon himself]]... [[FridgeHorror which eventually pops.]] His only crime being getting annoyed...

* In ''{{Sonichu}}'', a poorly disguised mashup of 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica make fun of the AuthorAvatar over the Internet. In response, he collapses their workplace, killing and injuring hundreds, and leaving hundreds more unaccounted for.
** The first instance was of a "Jerkop" who attempted to kick him out of a mall. In response, he fires a [[KamehameHadoken Curse-ye-ha-me-ha]] at the guy, destroying his life and family in the process.

* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' had [[http://www.xkcd.com/396/ this strip]], where one character's response to [[MemeticMutation getting Rickrolled]] is to upload the cursed video from ''Film/TheRing'' to Website/{{Youtube}}, where it's viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.
** Black Hat Man, given his personality of doing JerkAss things ForTheEvulz, has been seen [[http://www.xkcd.com/562/ cutting a car in half because it was parked across two spaces,]] [[http://www.xkcd.com/169/ cutting off a man's hand because he fell victim to bad communication and verbal trickery,]] and there's [[http://www.xkcd.com/377/ the time where he got his signature black hat stolen]], which he responds to by doing [[http://www.xkcd.com/405/ crashing a Russian nuclear submarine through the the sheet of ice the thief and her friend are skating on.]]
* In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Sarda's [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/31/episode-1089-special-delivery/ revenge on Ranger]] for having the audacity to draw quad-wielded bows: [[spoiler:All the arrows are magically delivered to Ranger's unsuspecting wife]]. Difficult to say whether this event should also be considered CrossingTheLineTwice or LaserGuidedKarma, being as [[MoreDakka the outrageous number of arrows]] were flying toward [[InfantImmortality an innocent child]] at the time.
** He wasn't aiming for the kid, though. Sarda just moved out of the way.
** As it turns out, his behavior toward the Light Warriors (except for Fighter) is entirely justified: [[spoiler:He's the Onion Kid.]]
*** Still falls under this trope though. The Light Warriors never knew the harm they had caused the Onion Kid, and his idea of just revenge is to allow them to slaughter, torment, and torture their way up to high levels, just so he can have the fun of lowering them again. In some ways you can say he's more guilty of the atrocities than the Light Warriors, since he knew what they were doing and allowed it, while some of them were caused unknowingly by the Light Warriors.
* ''VanVonHunter'' features a character who ''dedicates'' himself to this. His name is Vengeance Joe, and he is on a quest to slay Von Hunter for not introducing himself.

* Drew from ''MacHall'' has an... [[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2001-11-29 Interesting response]] to insults being written on his flat's whiteboard.
* ''TheKennyChronicles'': "Kenny vs. Funky part 2" involves Funky kidnapping Kenny, stealing his collar (with his money and ID on it) and dropping him on the mainland; the reason, Kenny drew a picture of Funky's head on a pike. Later, Kenny's eye is temporarily injured by a (non-anthropomorphic) cat and Funky spreads rumors that he was responsible, so Kenny tries to ''kill him''.
** Though the reason why Kenny drew that picture in the first place is kind of an inversion, Funky took a video of him having sex in a dumpster.
* In ''{{Fans}}'', Robert's start of darkness is when... Alisin killed his pet fish. Keith, whose start of darkness was being physically and mentally violated by Alisin, is rather unimpressed. It is noted that Robert's real problem is an unwillingness to confront reality, to the point that he would value a fish so highly due to his inability to connect with anything else, but STILL.
* In ''AnsemRetort'', Darth Maul attacked Marluxia, complete with Force Lightning...all because Marluxia said mango-strawberry was a gay flavor.
** And one time Aerith attacked an airline pilot just because the in-flight movie was ''TheDevilWearsPrada''. Axel declared it the best honeymoon ever.
** New and insanely disproportionate example: Axel and Zexion throw Riku in a volcano and nuke said volcano in an attempt to recreate the Scientology origin, trick him into creating mustard gas that burns off his flesh, and beat him with a sack of failed ideas for retribution. What did Riku do? He ''slapped them.'' And this was actually a ''good thing''. (Slapping them helped restore their memories of the original timeline.)
** Whom are we kidding? Ansem Retort loves this. At [[spoiler:her bachelorette party]], Aerith gets so drunk she forgets that [[spoiler:she's marrying Axel]] and runs off with another guy. The response? Axel and Zexion HIJACK AND CRASH A PLANE INTO HIS HOUSE. A PLANE. To be fair, they had already hijacked the plane earlier in the evening, before learning of the above event. Besides, they had to do SOMETHING with the plane.
** Axel hanging Riku from a tree with a lei, in response to Riku making the "whipped" sound ("wapish!") after seeing Aerith tell Axel to take care of their luggage. In Axel's defense, he DID warn everyone that he would hang them with a flower necklace if they made the whip noise.

* ''JaydenAndCrusader'''s character Computer was called a slut by the titular character Jayden, leading Computer to [[http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com/2010/02/22/page-149/ return wielding a laser gun]] to kill her
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', a dispute over a harlequin costume ends in blood.
** [[spoiler:After Aradia haunts her with creepy but harmless spirits for crippling Tavros, Vriska mindcontrols Sollux to KILL her.]]
*** In all fairness, we don't actually know if the ghosts were harmless.
*** The crippling of Tavros was itself an example since Tavros's "sin" was attempting to quit a FLARP game.
** Gamzee finally loses it after seeing the video for ICP's "Miracles", which he denounces as blasphemy. Dave apparently thought he'd like it.
** In Act 6, the Alpha session Draconian Dignitary has - inspired by Jane's father - made wearing suits mandatory and failing to do so punishable by death.
* In ''{{Sonichu}}'', a poorly disguised mashup of 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica make fun of the AuthorAvatar over the Internet. In response, he collapses their workplace, killing and injuring hundreds, and leaving hundreds more unaccounted for.
** The first instance was of a "Jerkop" who attempted to kick him out of a mall. In response, he fires a [[KamehameHadoken Curse-ye-ha-me-ha]] at the guy, destroying his life and family in the process.
* ''Webcomic/{{Bug|Martini}}'' loves this trope:
** [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/have-you-ever/ "Stupid slow driver. Hope you get cancer."]]
** "God? Billy called me: "booger breather" today. [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/prayer-etiquette/ Please give him cancer.]]"
** This would also happen if [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/magneto-me/ the bug were Magneto]].
* [[http://buttersafe.com/2010/04/13/house-of-cards/ This]] ''{{Buttersafe}}'' strip inverts this.
* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip has Tycho threatening to enact this trope when Gabe tries to diss ''WarhammerOnline''. And boy, is it disproportionate.
* In ''Webcomic/MenageA3'', [[DepravedBisexual Zii]] responds to internet trolling by driving to the troll's house (who turns out to be just a little kid), [[YourMom sleeps with his mother]] who then announces that she's divorcing his father, all while rubbing it in his face. The fanbase is [[BrokenBase rather split]] over if this is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Zii or her MoralEventHorizon.
* In ''GeneralProtectionFault'', [[UnholyMatrimony Trudy and Trent]] apply for a job, and agree to let Trudy apply alone. Trent takes the application and fraudulently gets the job, but Trudy exposes him and gets it herself, while arranging for him to be arrested on trumped-up charges. Trent's own DisproportionateRetribution comes when he tries to frame Trudy for dropping a safe on Dwayne and expose her other safe droppings. Neither one is a very pleasant person, to say the least.
* Vin Vulpen has a tendency to do this to Rudy in KevinAndKell, first contacting the Institute for Species Purity to report his teammates' unconventional lifestyles, resulting in the team getting death threats, and later pours prey pheromones on Rudy during a night hunting event, putting him in danger of being eaten by his own teammates, all largely the result of jealousy over Rudy taking his star status on the team and losing Fiona and Rhonda. After Angelique fires him from the Herd Thinners lab for making several mistakes, including blowing off her fake rat ears, he tries to frame Angelique and R.L. for fraud.
* Angelo ''blows an underling to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill atoms]]'' for criticizing Brian's meeting plans in [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0113.html this comic]] of ''OurLittleAdventure''. Brian was a bit upset over it, but got over it quickly.
* ''FruitIncest'' features an ancient dragon capable of summoning giant stormclouds employed by the police to retrieve a stolen cash register.
* This is how [[Webcomic/{{Drive}} La Familia]] protect the secret of the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Ring Drive]]. MegaCorp steals a ship? Send half an armada to destroy their shipyards until they give it back. They try it again later? Raze their HQ. Two officers lock themselves inside the drive? Order the captain of the ship to fly it into a star. Thieves steal the plans? Eject them into space. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Naked.]]
* In ''{{Superosity}}'', Jork's rival Hayseed faked the death of Jork's wife and wiped her memory...because Jork once insulted Hayseed's favorite tie. A tie which read "Jork Sucks".
* ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[InvokedTrope invokes this trope]], [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2404 leaving a great impact on crime rates in Metropolis.]]
* Bun-Bun from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' hates being bothered by telemarketers; the kind of hate that makes someone go on a ''KillBill'' style RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He'll respond to ''any'' slight with extreme savagery, though; telemarketers are just at the top of the list.
** Then there's the time Riff sics Bun-Bun on HarmlessVillain Minion Master because "he questioned my scienceness."
** When chipmunks steal tomatoes from Torg's garden, he and Riff plot [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/111116 "Operation Orange Tomato"]], which involves plans to exterminate all chipmunks.
* In ''{{Erstwhile}}'', the bride opts for a BrideAndSwitch [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-16/#.T296R9m6SuI because if anyone saw her, they would laugh, and then she would have to execute them]], which (she realizes) would be a bad start.
* In BittersweetCandyBowl, [[WellIntentionedExtremist Abbey's]] anti-bullying goals and measures in chapter 62 were... [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c62/p10.html extreme]].
** Also, for having a not-yet-confirmed [[PuppyLove relationship]] long distance with Sandy, Mike was brutally beaten by Paulo and the Female Student Body for his friendship and [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] with Lucy in chapter 20. Twice. PlayedForLaughs.
* {{Sinfest}}: [[SeriousBusiness Eternal Vengeance]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3830 for tripping.]] Y'know, cause [[WhatAnIdiot he wasn't looking where he was walking]].
** Part of the reason people [[DudeNotFunny got so upset]] over Trike Girl's servicing [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] with a restraining order over his obsessing The Little Red Haired Girl is because Charlie Brown is a prepubescent kid with no history of violence and doesn't know better, so it's the kind of thing that would be best cleared up by having her parents/the teacher talk with him instead of potentially giving a little kid a criminal record.
** Not to mention that she is really only talked about seen in school or in areas like a park, so saying he is obsessed over her is also disproportionate.
** Either way, intentionally or not, Trike Girl pretty much embodies this trope, causing trouble even or especially for entities that realistically have nothing whatsoever to do with her [[StrawFeminism sole ostensible character trait]], and constantly deriding women for their minor lifestyle choices with essentially no provocation, essentially attempting to brainwash them into paranoid clones of herself for offenses like dressing "too provocatively" or "not fighting the patriarchy hard enough".
* [[http://www.bloomingfaeries.com/?p=5 blooming faeries]] has some one accidentally urinate on a fairy. His punishment? After demanding a unreasonable amount of money the fairy cursed him with a semi permanent erection,an inability to speak about his feelings without swearing and to be [[BreadEggsMilkSquick repeatedly raped by any woman he gets near]]
* ''Webcomic/TheFoxSister'': After Yun Hee harasses the Kumiho by plastering Pujok to ward off evil spirits all over the place, she retaliates by messily killing a group of three young men right at Yun Hee's front porch.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' plays with this a lot, although it's often subverted by the fact that in military operations, "overwhelming force" is not at all an unreasonable place to start from. One in-universe saying is "There is no overkill. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'" A few of the straighter examples of the trope:
** A reality TV host for a glamor show makes fun of [[ActionGirl Elf]] while she's shopping. His miniature camera ends up [[AssShove somewhere that medical help is needed to remove it.]]
** A planetary legislature hasn't allocated funds to replace their orbital defenses, a couple months after god-like AI Petey defended them from attempted orbital bombardment. Petey finds this irresponsible, and exiles them to the Andromeda galaxy.
** The [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Obenn]] at one point decide to grind one of the protagonists into sausage. Because he was insufficiently polite during his interrogation.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'', one of their best Pacificators, [[LightEmUp Castella]] [[GoodIsNotNice Brandsford]], [[SanitySlippage lost it]] and murdered ''thousands'' of people, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters because she was driven to seek justice by any costs]], before she was finally killed herself. Ever since, the regular people have lived in fear of another Pacificator losing their mind like Castella did.

* ''Webcomic/{{Bug}}'' loves this trope:

* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': "The Linear Guild is practically synonymous with taking disproportionate revenge over quasi-imagined slights."

*** Strangely, Tarquin is actually quite forgiving of his children, even though they both flat out have tried to ''kill'' him. EvenEvilHasLovedOnes and MoralMyopia.
*** Eventually, Tarquin gives Nale some proportionate retribution. After a lifetime of constantly undermining him and just after killing his best friend in [[DeaderThanDead an unrecoverable way]], Nale tells his father in no uncertain terms that he doesn't want his favor. After verifying that is truly what he wants, Tarquin stabs Nale in the chest.
** Earlier in the strip, Vaarsuvius killed a young black dragon. Recently that dragon's mother came back to inform V that she intends to [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0628.html avenge herself]] upon the elf.
*** Both Vaarsuvius and the dragon were engaging in disproportionate, escalating retribution. V killed the dragon's son. The dragon was going to kill V's entire immediate family (spouse and two children) before binding the children's souls to make resurrecting them or safe passage to the afterlife impossible, and leave that plane so V could never save the childrens' souls or get revenge. V then killed the dragon, every dragon directly related to her, ''and'' every dragon related to those. By V's own figures, that was roughly one-quarter of the black dragons alive at the time.
**** Actually while the black dragon's actions seemed extreme, she made a point that she was responding in a very proportionate manner. She was going to make Vaarsuvius suffer the same thing she had suffered - the death of her offspring and mate. She even made a point that she was going to prevent the resurrection of V's children and was going to turn V's mate into an article of clothing - both things which had been done to her child and husband. By having these things directed at a player character, Burlew was making a point about how casually violent player characters can be to the creatures they encounter in their adventures.
**** And as Vaarsuvius ultimately found out, he did a [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0842.html lot worse]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html than THAT.]]

*** Then again, Roy's motivation for going after Xykon is not so much the Blood Oath but the fact that Xykon is very dangerous whose and threatens the lives of many innocents.

** [[spoiler:Eridan]]'s murderous rampage is partly fueled by Feferi's rejection of his matespritship advances.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'', one of their best Pacificators, [[LightEmUp Castella]] [[LightIsNotSoft Brandsford]], [[SanitySlippage lost it]] and murdered ''thousands'' of people, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters because she was driven to seek justice by any costs]], before she was finally killed herself. Ever since, the regular people have lived in fear of another Pacificator losing their mind like Castella did.

* SchlockMercenary plays with this a lot, although it's often subverted by the fact that in military operations, "overwhelming force" is not at all an unreasonable place to start from. One in-universe saying is "There is no overkill. There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'" A few of the straighter examples of the trope: