History Main / ReunionRevenge

* A variant in ''Film/WildTales'', where a failed composer arranges for all people who, in his eyes, contributed to his failed carrier to be on the airplane that her steers as the pilot and which he then goes to ram into the ground, turning the scenario into a MurderSuicide.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' Mike Sorayama, an old college classmate of Doc's, dies and has his designated pallbearers (Doc, Brock, Pete White and Baron Underbheit) kidnapped. They get locked in a dungeon and learn that Sorayama was FakingTheDead and wants revenge for petty slights, all related to his one-sided crush on an attractive classmate. Underbehit tricked him into smoking cloves, to which he was allergic, making him miss a study date; Pete, the campus DJ, played an embarrassing fake dedication; Brock beat the crap out of him (and everyone else) in a drunken rage after getting kicked off the football team. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that Sorayama really ''is'' dead, and the one carrying out the revenge was just another of his lifelike robots.]]

* Bas Rutten, former [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/mma/ufc/ufc-h.html [=UFC=] World Heavyweight Champion]] and [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts [=MMA=]]] Legend, was actually physically weak in High School and bullied often. When he came back for a school reunion he was a highly decorated fighter and challenged his former bullies to a fight. They all declined.

* A variant in ''Film/WildTales'', where a failed composer arranges for all people who, in his eyes, contributed to his failed carrier to be the airplane that her steers as the pilot and which he then goes to ram into the ground, making it a MurderSuicide.

* ''Unsound Variations'' from [[ASongOfIceAndFire George R.R. Martin]] has one of these, though it's not a full high school reunion, the man simply invited three of his sort of friends from high school. Also, instead of being an opportunity for revenge it's the culmination of it. He reveals to them that he invented a device capable of MentalTimeTravel and how he used his knowledge of the future to ruin their lives. His plan to crush them completely like this backfires to about the furthest possible extent. Instead of despairing they gain new hope, since they now know for a fact that they would have been very successful had not a ''crazy time traveler devoted at least two lifetimes to wrecking their careers.'' On realizing this he uses the machine again, which means bad news for an alternate reality them, but at least means he's no longer a danger in their current reality.

* The plot of The DiamondBrothers book ''I Know What You Did Last Wednesday'' is a group of old classmates being invited to a reunion on a remote island being murdered one by one. A parody in that [[spoiler: their only crime was coming first in school subjects where the killer came second]].

* Lois had a class reunion on ''LoisAndClark'' in which a classmate who was picked on takes her revenge on the popular people.

* In an episode of the sitcom ''{{Taxi}}'', Louie lets Bobby the actor impersonate him at his high school reunion, playing a handsome "full-sized" version of him and getting (non-violent) revenge on all the class's Beautiful People. "Yeah, I shot up in college. It was written up in all the medical journals."

* ''KimPossible'' had a variation on this. In "Attack of the Killer Bebes", Doctor Drakken (formerly Drew Lipsky) used three robotic women to kidnap three of his former college buddies, who had made fun of Drew's extremely junky "Bebe" prototypes in the mid eighties. One of the targets was Kim's father, Dr. Possible, but he failed to make the connection to his teenage arch-nemesis. He was spurred into action by the invitation to the upcoming reunion, and held them hostage at the reunion hall.

* ''Series/30Rock'' features Liz Lemon going to her high school reunion and wanting to get back on the AlphaBitch and other people who bullied her. However, it turns out that everyone at her school felt ''she'' was the bully. While she though she was a bullied nerd who coped by being a DeadpanSnarker, everyone else saw her as a bitch who continually insulted them whenever they confronted her about something or in the case of the "alpha bitch' legitimately tried to befriend her. Naturally, she is the one who gets revenged upon.

* An episode of ''[[CSIMiami CSI: Miami]]'' had a football star (and former JerkJock) killed by [[SympatheticMurderer someone who he]] [[spoiler: had cocooned in duct tape and left in a locker, the resulting injuries ruining his life.]]

* ''DannyPhantom'' BigBad Vlad Masters throws a reunion to get back/murder his former best friend (who has no idea and still likes him, ironically) in order to win his best friend's wife. Thankfully, that oblivious man's son is... DannyPhantom.

* ''KarakurizoushiAyatsuriSakon'' had one of these involving a school's puppetry club. It's actually the victim's older brother who's the murderer, though it's set up to make the bullies think it's the victim's ghost that's doing it.

** It's even worse for Doc; as near as he can recall, all he did was seduce a monster based off the girl in a ''DungeonsAndDragons'' game that Sorayama was [=DMing=]. Sorayama's real reason was that [[spoiler:he thinks Rusty actually slept with the girl; he didn't, but Brock did, and he jumped to conclusions when he saw her emerge from Doc and Brock's dorm room]].
* ''JohnnyBravo'' has combined this with ShesAllGrownUp: Johnny wants to take revenge on a girl who always made fun of him when they were kids but it turns out that she turned into a total babe. The rest of the episode is spent agonizing whether she likes him now or she's just playing a prank on him like she used to. [[spoiler: [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption It's a prank]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The High School Reunion": Dan, [[RevengeBeforeReason being Dan]], tries to get revenge on his old classmates because he felt high school was just constant ridicule. [[spoiler: It turns out Dan was popular because his over-the-top revenge schemes were very entertaining, but instead Chris was the unpopular one out of the duo. So Chris decides to get revenge. But they think it was all a part of Dan's plan.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The High School Reunion": Dan, [[RevengeBeforeReason being Dan]], tries to get revenge on his old classmates because he felt high school was just constant ridicule. [[spoiler: It turns out Dan was popular because his over-the-top revenge schemes were very entertaining. But instead Chris was the unpopular one out of the duo. So Chris decides to get revenge. But they think it was all a part of Dan's plan.]]

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has a ClassReunion two-parter episode. Dee mingles with the old popular clique. She says she's infiltrating their group to get revenge on them, when it's clear she's just happy to be popular for once. [[spoiler: They later kick her out for sleeping with Rickety Cricket which she didn't do. Then the rest of the gang and Dee get their revenge together and fail at it twice.]]

* ''JohnnyBravo'' has combined this with OldFriendNewGender (the other typical reunion plot): Johnny wants to take revenge on a girl who always made fun of him when they were kids but it turns out that she turned into a total babe. The rest of the episode is spent agonizing whether she likes him now or she's just playing a prank on him like she used to. [[spoiler: [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption It's a prank]].]]

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' has a ClassReunion two-parter episode. Dee mingles with the old popular clique. She says she's infiltrating their group to get revenge on them, when it's clear she's just happy to be popular for once. [[spoiler: They later kick her out for sleeping with Rickety Cricket which she didn't do. Then the rest of the gang and Dee get their revenge together and fail at it twice.]]

* The RomanceNovel ''Endless Enchantment'' had this as the plot. A class reunion takes place on a cruise ship. The heroine was a reluctant member of a GirlPosse lead by a vicious AlphaBitch in high school. Increasingly dangerous pranks are played on the group until the AlphaBitch dies. Turns out that a cousin of a classmate [[spoiler: who was the target of the mean girls and commmitted suicide after being date raped by the AlphaBitch's twin brother at a graduation party]] is the one who wanted revenge for her dead cousin.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' Mike Sorayama, an old college classmate of Doc's, dies and has his designated pallbearers (Doc, Brock, Pete White and Baron Underbheit) kidnapped. They get locked in a dungeon and learn that Sorayama was FakingTheDead and wants revenge for petty slights, all related to his one-sided crush on an attractive roommate. Underbehit tricked him into smoking cloves, to which he was allergic, making him miss a study date; Pete, the campus DJ, played an embarrassing fake dedication; Brock beat the crap out of him (and everyone else) in a drunken rage after getting kicked off the football team. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that Sorayama really ''is'' dead, and the one carrying out the revenge was just another of his lifelike robots.]]

* ''KarakurizoushiAyatsuriSakon'' had one of these involving a school's puppetry club.
** [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's actually the victim's older brother who's the murderer, though it's set up to make the bullies think it's the victim's ghost that's doing it.]]

** Donald ''never'' has luck against bullies.

* Jon Stewart (the same one from ''Series/TheDailyShow'') once wrote a short story involving a man who creates an ArtificialHuman specifically to take revenge on the refst of his class at his high school reunion. On arriving at the reunion, however, the man discovers that almost the entire class had the same idea; aside from a small group of terrified people in formalwear, the reunion has degenerated in a fight to the death between those seeking revenge. He gives up and goes home, monster in tow.

* The RomanceNovel "Endless Enchantment" had this as the plot. A class reunion takes place on a cruise ship. The heroine was a reluctant member of a GirlPosse lead by a vicious AlphaBitch in high school. Increasingly dangerous pranks are played on the group until the AlphaBitch dies. Turns out that a cousin of a classmate [[spoiler: who was the target of the mean girls and commmitted suicide after being date raped by the AlphaBitch's twin brother at a graduation party]] is the one who wanted revenge for her dead cousin.

* An episode of ''[[CSIMiami CSI: Miami]]'' had a football star (and former JerkJock) killed by [[SympatheticMurderer someone who he]] [[spoiler: had cocooned in duct tape and left in a locker, the resulting injuries apparently ruined his life.]]

* In ''Frasier'', Frasier Crane is absolutely delighted to be able to squire the old alpha cheerleader and then way-out-of-his-league Lois to ''his'' nigh-school reunion ball. But being Frasier, he messes it up.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. Mike Sorayama, an old college classmate of Doc's, dies and has his designated pallbearers (Doc, Brock, Pete White and Baron Underbheit) kidnapped. They get locked in a dungeon and learn that Sorayama was FakingTheDead and wants revenge for petty slights, all related to his one-sided crush on an attractive roommate. Underbehit tricked him into smoking cloves, to which he was allergic, making him miss a study date; Pete, the campus DJ, played an embarrassing fake dedication; Brock beat the crap out of him (and everyone else) in a drunken rage after getting kicked off the football team. [[spoiler:In the end, it turns out that Sorayama really ''is'' dead, and the one carrying out the revenge was just another of his lifelike robots.]]

* ''JohnnyBravo'' has combined this with OldFriendNewGender (the other typical reunion plot): Johnny wants top take revenge on a girl who always made fun of him when they were kids but it turns out that she turned into a total babe. The rest of the episode is spent agonizing whether she likes him now or she's just playing a prank on him like she used to. [[spoiler: [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption It's a prank]].]]

A version of TheNastyParty. Often takes the form of TenLittleMurderVictims.

* Bas Rutten, former UFC Heavyweight Champion and MMA Legend, was actually physically weak in High School and bullied often. When he came back for a school reunion he was a highly decorated fighter and challenged his former bullies to a fight. They all declined.

* ''JohnnyBravo'' has combined this with SomethingsDifferentAboutYouNow (the other typical reunion plot): Johnny wants top take revenge on a girl who always made fun of him when they were kids but it turns out that she turned into a total babe. The rest of the episode is spent agonizing whether she likes him now or she's just playing a prank on him like she used to. [[spoiler: [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption It's a prank]].]]