History Main / ReunionRevenge

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' 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.

* Many cases in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' have these, usually involving one of the main casts with their old friends/colleagues/family members.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', most of the superheroes are outright jackasses who often pick on the D-listers. So it should come as no surprise that one of them finally snapped at a superhero get-together. There's also a NotSoDifferent moment with the title character, who's one of the most pitiful, picked-on superheroes imaginable. [[spoiler: Who proceeds to save all of her jackass co-workers]].

* One of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'''s many origin stories (actually the real one) was remembered when Megavolt attempted revenge on the bully and the cheerleader that not only made fun of him (and bullied Drake Mallard as well), but trapped him in his experiment which ended up giving him his powers. (And theoretically frying his brain, or he might have just snapped on his own. Hard to say.) At a reunion, Megavolt tries again at a class reunion against the two bullies unlike the first time that he tried to kill everyone there, who are still as contemptuous as ever. He is stopped by Darkwing and Gosalyn and the bullies learn Darkwing's true identity and are deeply impressed that Drake is a superhero. Although they promise to keep his secret, Darkwing decides to guarantee that by hypnotizing them to forget the fact while brainwashing them to treat Drake Mallard with some respect.

* Lois had a class reunion on ''Series/LoisAndClark'' in which a classmate who was picked on takes her revenge on the popular people.
* ''[[TheSeanCullenShow The Sean Cullen Christmas Special]]'' had, throughout the evening, an old schoolmate trying to kill Sean for taking the last place in the orienteering club. But then it turned out that Sean had never joined the club, and the other guy had spent his whole life chasing the wrong man.
* In an episode of the sitcom ''Series/{{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."
* An episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'' 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.]]

* Subverted in ''Series/TheMentalist'' when its revealed that the killer was not the guy who was a victim of a high school prank.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' 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.
* On ''Series/{{Haven}}'', Duke and Nathan's high school reunion comes up and one of their former classmate's [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Trouble]] is to [[FountainOfYouth turn people young again]], and then kill them.

* A storyline in ''{{Webcomic/PvP}}'' had Francis attend his high school reunion, intending to get some revenge on his old bully Teezo Cunningham, only to discover that Teezo had only gone to the reunion specifically to make amends for being such a dick in high school, due to his crappy homelife. Francis doesnt know what to do with his information, as he's still mad at Teezo but cant hate him when he's sorry for what he did, though the two ultimatly reconcile.

* ''WesternAnimation/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.
* One of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'''s many origin stories (actually the real one) was remembered when Megavolt attempted revenge on the bully and the cheerleader that not only made fun of him (and bullied Drake Mallard as well), but trapped him in his experiment which ended up giving him his powers. (And theoretically frying his brain, or he might have just snapped on his own. Hard to say.) At a reunion, Megavolt tries again at a class reunion against the two bullies unlike the first time that he tried to kill everyone there, who are still as contemptuous as ever. He is stopped by Darkwing and Gosalyn and the bullies learn Darkwing's true identity and are deeply impressed that Drake is a superhero. Although they promise to keep his secret, Darkwing decides to guarantee that by hypnotizing them to forget the fact while brainwashing them to treat Drake Mallard with some respect.

* ''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 oregano, 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.]]
** 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 ''TabletopGame/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]].
* ''WesternAnimation/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]].]]
* In "Bully For Parker", an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ProducingParker'', the main character plans an elaborate revenge for her high school reunion, but has second thoughts when she spends some time with her most vicious tormentor.

* In a ''DonaldDuck'' comic book story, Donald plans to settle some scores with some bullies at a class reunion by training to beat them up. However, Daisy Duck, disgusted at this puerile behaviour, talks him out of it. It turns out that was a good thing considering that Donald learns to his consternation that his former bullies ''still'' tower over him and he would have been way over his head starting a fight.

* ''National Lampoon's Class Reunion'' (1982) built an entire movie around this trope and played it for laughs.
* ''Rose of Death''
* ''Class Reunion Massacre''
* ''Film/RomyAndMichelesHighSchoolReunion''
* The slasher film ''Don't Go to the Reunion'', an homage to the aforementioned ''Slaughter High''.

* In ''Film/SistersOfDeath'', a group of former college students who belonged to a sorority called 'The Society of Sisters' are sent invitations to a reunion, including money for travel expense. When they arrive, they find themselves on the estate of a man called Clyburn, whose daughter Liz died in an InitiationCeremony gone wrong. He accuses the group of murder and wants the guilty party to confess. And then the murders start...
* ''Film/MostLikelyToDie'': A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.

* 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 rest 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.
* ''Pawing Through the Past'' by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown.
%%* Creator/BenElton's ''Past Mortem''
* ''Unsound Variations'' from Creator/GeorgeRRMartin 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 villain of the Mary Higgins Clark novel ''Nighttime Is My Time'' is seeking this on the girls who bullied or rejected him in high school. At the beginning of the book, he's already killed five of them.

* A storyline in ''PvP'' had Francis attend his high school reunion, intending to get some revenge on his old bully Teezo Cunningham, only to discover that Teezo had only gone to the reunion specifically to make amends for being such a dick in high school, due to his crappy homelife. Francis doesnt know what to do with his information, as he's still mad at Teezo but cant hate him when he's sorry for what he did, though the two ultimatly reconcile.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' once had the Charmed Ones go to their high school reunion where Phoebe was ostracized and mocked for being promiscuous during high school.

* When reviewing the ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' high school reunion episode, WebVideo/ObscurusLupa voiced her annoyance with this trope, remarking that she can barely remember her high school classmates, let alone enough to actively hold a grudge against them.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', most of the superheroes are outright jackasses who often pick on the D-listers. So it should come as no surprise that one of them finally snapped at a superhero get-together. There's also a NotSoDifferent moment with the title character, who's one of the most pitiful, picked-on superheroes imaginable. [[spoiler: Who proceeds to save all of her jackass co-workers in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]

* In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', a group of friends were reunited on the one year anniversary of the deaths of their two friends after a DeadlyPrank went wrong. [[spoiler: Their brother Josh]] decides to get revenge on the friends for the deceased Hannah and Beth.

* Inverted in the ''DesigningWomen'' episode "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?", where Delta Burke's ex-beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker is mocked at her high school reunion for being fat. The episode is also a VerySpecialEpisode touching on the topics of weight prejudice and world hunger.

* Horrible, horrible version in ''{{Exalted}}'' - one of the Deathlords, Eye And Seven Despairs, was DrivenToSuicide during his life as an Exalt by the rest of his Circle. He's since developed a twisted obsession with tormenting the Shards they were bonded to (of which he has three of the four) that is occupying significantly more of his attention than his actual job, namely destroying the world.

* One of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'''s many origin stories was remembered when Megavolt attempted revenge on the bully and the cheerleader that not only made fun of him (and bullied Drake Mallard as well), but trapped him in his experiment which ended up giving him his powers. (And theoretically frying his brain, or he might have just snapped on his own. Hard to say.) At a reunion, Megavolt tries again at a class reunion against the two bullies, who are still as contemptuous as ever. He is stopped by Darkwing and Gosalyn and the bullies learn Darkwing's true identity and are deeply impressed that Drake is a superhero. Although they promise to keep his secret, Darkwing decides to guarantee that by hypnotizing them to forget the fact while instructing them to treat Drake Mallard with some respect.

* Helen B. Narbon plans to pull one of those during her high-school reunion in the webcomic ''{{Narbonic}}''. However, it is eventually revealed that people didn't shun her due to disliking her - they avoided her because they were scared stiff by her easy access to [[MadScientist mad science]]. Faced with this realization, Helen decides not to turn them all into gerbils after all...
* A recent storyline in ''PvP'' had Francis attend his high school reunion, intending to get some revenge on his old bully Teezo Cunningham, only to discover that Teezo had only gone to the reunion specifically to make amends for being such a dick in high school, due to his crappy homelife. Francis doesnt know what to do with his information, as he's still mad at Teezo but cant hate him when he's sorry for what he did, though the two ultimatly reconcile.

* The music video of BowlingForSoup's ''High School Never Ends'' consists of various people pranking younger versions of the band's members during their school days, and how the band got even with them during their reunion.

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* Subverted in ''TheMentalist'' when its revealed that the killer was not the guy who was a victim of a high school prank.

* A recent storyline in ''PvP'' had Francis attend his high school reunion, intending to get some revenge on his old bully Teezo Cunningham, only to discover that Teezo had only gone to the reunion specifically to make amends for being such a dick in high school, due to his crappy homelife. Francis doesnt know what to do with his information, as he's still mad at Teezo but cant hate him when he's sorry for what he did, though the two ultimatly reconceile.