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In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a deceased person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unfair death. In certain cultures where funeral and burial or cremation ceremonies are important, such vengeful spirits may also be considered as unhappy ghosts of individuals who have not been given a proper funeral.
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In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a deceased person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unfair death. In certain cultures where funeral and burial or cremation ceremonies are important, such vengeful spirits may also be considered as unhappy ghosts of individuals who have not been given a proper funeral.
funeral. In Japan, this kind of ghost receives the name of '''Yurei''' and is a common kind of {{Youkai}}.
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* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. If well this is another Running game, also it counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
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* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. If well Although this is another Running game, also it counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
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* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for {{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. If well this is another Running game, also it counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
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* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for {{Android|Games}} UsefulNotes/{{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. If well this is another Running game, also it counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
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*In ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' a challenge requires you to drag the unconscious body of the local “sweet” muffin making old lady to the room where her victim once perished. Doing so will cause the doors of the room to open and shut repeatedly.
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* In the ''Spirit Hunter'' series, finding and pacifying vengeful ghosts is the central concept of the games.
** ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'':
*** Chapter 1 has Hanahiko, the spirit of a cross-dressing boy who largely despises adults. He'll also kill you if you tell him he's pretty... [[spoiler:and fail to give him that "red stuff" he's been looking for. It's his mom's red lipstick, a memento of the one person who never judged him]]. Hanahiko has cursed Saya Kujou (who died when her Mark remained unsolved before running out of time), Moe Watanabe, [[ChildProdigy Tsukasa Yoshida]], and ex-detective Satoru Mashita.
*** Chapter 2 has Shimi-O, a figure in the forest who kills people with a power drill. [[spoiler:He used to be a member of a cult, the Honey Bee Family, near H Shrine and had botched his suicide to a degree. One of Mashita's fellow officers had tried to infiltrate the cult, but was outed. Shimi-O's victims would be turned into new "beehives".]] His cursed victim is high school student Shou Nagashima [[spoiler:as well as Satoru Mashita, who intentionally got in an encounter with Shimi-O out of his own curiosity]].
*** Chapter 3 has Hanayome, who has a thing about people "seeing it" and eats the eyeballs of her victims. [[spoiler:She was Seiko Hasegawa, a bride who was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-raped]] before committing suicide out of shame and the fear of photographic blackmail when her rapists pulled out a camera.]] Her cursed victims are {{Otaku}} Eita Nakamatsu, journalist Christie Arimura, and young Suzu Morimiya.
*** Chapter 4 has Miss Zoo, a former teacher at H Elementary that loves animals. [[spoiler:She was also a former misanthropic researcher named Manabi Zukawa who willingly turned herself into a vengeful spirit so she could continue her experiments with animals.]] Her cursed victims are idol[=/=]actress Ai Kashiwagi and fortune teller Towako Yasuoka.
*** Chapter 5 has the Kannon Soldier, an experiment gone wrong that killed the [=IJA=] scientists that performed on it back towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Its cursed victims are science researcher Madoka Hiroo, Dr. Shuuji Daimon, and vagabond Banshee Itou.
*** Chapter 6 DLC has Red Riding Hood, who drives people crazy to the point of them committing suicide if they go into the abandoned love hotel with her where she haunts when it rains. [[spoiler:She was a high school student known as S-ko who had threatened to tell on her fellow students of their highly questionable "part-time job" at the love hotel Masquerade, but was tricked into a [=BDSM=] "game" by the very teacher she had respected because he was also one of the "[[BrokenPedestal clients]]" of Masquerade. She later committed suicide from the sixth floor of the hospital where she had been sent to, the very same floor where the "special clients" went to at Masquerade and where she was tortured.]] Her cursed victims were Madoka, Banshee, and Shou.
** ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'':
*** Chapter 1 has the Urashima Woman, the spirit of a pregnant woman who was murdered by her midwife after she gave birth, and then dumped in the lake alongside all evidence of the crime. She kills those who throw rocks into the lake, as she interprets it as an attack on the dead fetuses that the midwife also disposed of there. She's pacified with [[spoiler:evidence that her son is alive and well]], and destroyed with [[spoiler:the fake evidence that her son was stillborn.]]
*** Chapter 2 has Kubitarou of Kintoki, a giant man who chops the heads off of animals. In actuality, Kubitarou is a woman who was mentally disabled in life and mistook a bear plushie as her younger brother. When said plushie lost its head, she started bringing animals heads to a sacred tree in the hopes of reviving him. She cut the tree down in anger when it didn't work, and in retaliation, the villagers tied her up and starved her to death. She's pacified when [[spoiler:a new head is attached to her bear plushie]], or otherwise destroyed if [[spoiler:she's lured in front of a passing train]].
*** Chapter 4 has Killer Peach, who in life was a dietwoman seeking to expose injustices. She was brutally murdered by the 5/5 Club after she was about to expose the president's involvement in an arson case - after she became a spirit, she sought her revenge on all four of the men. She's pacified by evidence that [[spoiler:the remaining member of the group is also dead]], or otherwise destroyed if [[spoiler:she's overloaded with his scent]].
** ''VisualNovel/DeathMark'':
*** Chapter 1 has Hanahiko, the spirit of a cross-dressing boy who largely despises adults. He'll also kill you if you tell him he's pretty... [[spoiler:and fail to give him that "red stuff" he's been looking for. It's his mom's red lipstick, a memento of the one person who never judged him]]. Hanahiko has cursed Saya Kujou (who died when her Mark remained unsolved before running out of time), Moe Watanabe, [[ChildProdigy Tsukasa Yoshida]], and ex-detective Satoru Mashita.
*** Chapter 2 has Shimi-O, a figure in the forest who kills people with a power drill. [[spoiler:He used to be a member of a cult, the Honey Bee Family, near H Shrine and had botched his suicide to a degree. One of Mashita's fellow officers had tried to infiltrate the cult, but was outed. Shimi-O's victims would be turned into new "beehives".]] His cursed victim is high school student Shou Nagashima [[spoiler:as well as Satoru Mashita, who intentionally got in an encounter with Shimi-O out of his own curiosity]].
*** Chapter 3 has Hanayome, who has a thing about people "seeing it" and eats the eyeballs of her victims. [[spoiler:She was Seiko Hasegawa, a bride who was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-raped]] before committing suicide out of shame and the fear of photographic blackmail when her rapists pulled out a camera.]] Her cursed victims are {{Otaku}} Eita Nakamatsu, journalist Christie Arimura, and young Suzu Morimiya.
*** Chapter 4 has Miss Zoo, a former teacher at H Elementary that loves animals. [[spoiler:She was also a former misanthropic researcher named Manabi Zukawa who willingly turned herself into a vengeful spirit so she could continue her experiments with animals.]] Her cursed victims are idol[=/=]actress Ai Kashiwagi and fortune teller Towako Yasuoka.
*** Chapter 5 has the Kannon Soldier, an experiment gone wrong that killed the [=IJA=] scientists that performed on it back towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Its cursed victims are science researcher Madoka Hiroo, Dr. Shuuji Daimon, and vagabond Banshee Itou.
*** Chapter 6 DLC has Red Riding Hood, who drives people crazy to the point of them committing suicide if they go into the abandoned love hotel with her where she haunts when it rains. [[spoiler:She was a high school student known as S-ko who had threatened to tell on her fellow students of their highly questionable "part-time job" at the love hotel Masquerade, but was tricked into a [=BDSM=] "game" by the very teacher she had respected because he was also one of the "[[BrokenPedestal clients]]" of Masquerade. She later committed suicide from the sixth floor of the hospital where she had been sent to, the very same floor where the "special clients" went to at Masquerade and where she was tortured.]] Her cursed victims were Madoka, Banshee, and Shou.
** ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'':
*** Chapter 1 has the Urashima Woman, the spirit of a pregnant woman who was murdered by her midwife after she gave birth, and then dumped in the lake alongside all evidence of the crime. She kills those who throw rocks into the lake, as she interprets it as an attack on the dead fetuses that the midwife also disposed of there. She's pacified with [[spoiler:evidence that her son is alive and well]], and destroyed with [[spoiler:the fake evidence that her son was stillborn.]]
*** Chapter 2 has Kubitarou of Kintoki, a giant man who chops the heads off of animals. In actuality, Kubitarou is a woman who was mentally disabled in life and mistook a bear plushie as her younger brother. When said plushie lost its head, she started bringing animals heads to a sacred tree in the hopes of reviving him. She cut the tree down in anger when it didn't work, and in retaliation, the villagers tied her up and starved her to death. She's pacified when [[spoiler:a new head is attached to her bear plushie]], or otherwise destroyed if [[spoiler:she's lured in front of a passing train]].
*** Chapter 4 has Killer Peach, who in life was a dietwoman seeking to expose injustices. She was brutally murdered by the 5/5 Club after she was about to expose the president's involvement in an arson case - after she became a spirit, she sought her revenge on all four of the men. She's pacified by evidence that [[spoiler:the remaining member of the group is also dead]], or otherwise destroyed if [[spoiler:she's overloaded with his scent]].
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** In Americas, there are plenty of vengeful ghost depending of the zone: in North America there's the ''Chindi'' a vengeful ghost that causes dust devils in Navajo mythology; in Latin America there's a prominent number of female vengeful spirits, everyone with different motifs, like ''La Llorona'' ("The Crying Woman", also known as The WomanInWhite) who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, ''Sayona'', who believed her husband had an affair with her mother, ''[[WomanInWhite Dama Branca]]'' who died after childbirth, ''Patasola'' who lures men and later devours them by converting into a beast and ''Sihuanaba'', who had an affair and attacks unfaithful men.
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** In Americas, there are plenty of vengeful ghost depending of the zone: in North America there's the ''Chindi'' a vengeful ghost that causes dust devils in Navajo mythology; in Latin America there's a prominent number of female vengeful spirits, everyone with different motifs, like ''La Llorona'' ("The Crying Woman", also known as The WomanInWhite) Woman In White) who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, ''Sayona'', who believed her husband had an affair with her mother, ''[[WomanInWhite '' Dama Branca]]'' Branca'' who died after childbirth, ''Patasola'' who lures men and later devours them by converting into a beast and ''Sihuanaba'', who had an affair and attacks unfaithful men.
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* The ghost at the centre of ''Film/LemonTreePassage'' is seeking vengeance for her [[RapeAndRevenge rape and murder]].
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* Inverted (and exploited) in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', where baron Greyfort arranges for the burial ceremony be carried out wrong so that his ghost can keep an eye on his family.
* Inverted (and exploited) in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', where baron Greyfort arranges for the burial ceremony be carried out wrong so that his ghost can keep an eye on his family.
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets accidentally summon a GhostPirate coming for "Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s head", implying that he's seeking revenge on Scrooge. The old duck defeats him by giving him the head of a statue of him, which makes the ghost vanish.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The MonsterOfTheWeek for "Northwest Mansion Noir/Mystery" is a ghost from a lumberjack who came to seek revenge on the [[CardCarryingVillain Northwest family]]. He only manages to find peace when [[LovableAlphaBitch Pacifica]], the Northwest's WhiteSheep, opens the gates, allowing the townsfolk to enter the mansion.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The MonsterOfTheWeek for "Northwest Mansion Noir/Mystery" is a ghost from a lumberjack who came to seek revenge on the [[CardCarryingVillain Northwest family]]. He only manages to find peace when [[LovableAlphaBitch Pacifica]], the Northwest's WhiteSheep, opens the gates, allowing the townsfolk to enter the mansion.
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets and Webby accidentally summon a GhostPirate coming for "Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s head", implying that he's seeking revenge on Scrooge. The old duck defeats him by giving him the head of a statue of him, which makes the ghost vanish.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': The MonsterOfTheWeek for "Northwest MansionNoir/Mystery" Mystery" is a ghost from a lumberjack who came to seek revenge on the [[CardCarryingVillain Northwest family]]. family, as their ancestors went back on a deal and indirectly killed him. He only manages to find peace when [[LovableAlphaBitch Pacifica]], the Northwest's WhiteSheep, opens the gates, allowing the townsfolk to enter the mansion.mansion and finally fulfil the deal.
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* In the second ''VisualNovel/{{Paramedium}}'' game, the [[spoiler:bus driver is killed by the ghosts of the students he kidnapped]] (and then becomes a vengeful ghost himself before being put down for good).
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* ''ComicBook/TheWraith'': The Wraith initially comes BackFromTheDead to take down the gang who killed him and his brother, and stays there to battle other evil.
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* In ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'', spectres are a type of ghosts that have been twisted by their deaths and are driven by the desire to take vengeance upon the living by consuming their life energy. Many start with off with a specific target, but once the target dies, transfer their hatred upon all of the living.
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* In ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'', spectres are a type of ghosts that have been twisted by their deaths and are driven by the desire to take vengeance upon the living by consuming their life energy. Many start with off with a specific target, target (e.g. their murderer), but once the target dies, transfer their hatred upon all of the living.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back" features the spirit of Colonel H. Stinkmeaner (an [[EvilOldFolks elderly jerkass]] who was accidentally killed by Robert Freeman in a street fight from an earlier episode) rising out of Hell to seek revenge on his old enemy. Stinkmeaner [[DemonicPossession possesses]] the body of Robert's friend Tom [=DuBois=], eventually coming over to Robert's house to try and murder him.
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* ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': Poltergeist Polterguy's main motivation is to take revenge on the Sardini family. He is a FriendlyGhost towards the player still.
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* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' franchise is mostly about this. In all incarnations, a couple of lovers are killed by a gang, an organization or even by {{Dirty Cop}}s. The male is revived as "The Crow", seeking a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[KillEmAll EVERYONE]] in the group that killed him and his lover, not just limited to the killers, but also the highest ranks who managed that event.
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* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' franchise is mostly about this. In all many incarnations, a couple pair of lovers lovers, a father and son, or some other characters with a bond of love are killed by a gang, an organization or even by {{Dirty Cop}}s. The male One of the pair is revived as "The Crow", seeking a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[KillEmAll EVERYONE]] in the group that killed him them and his lover, their loved ones, not just limited to the killers, but also the highest ranks who managed that event.
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* Lewis from ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'' is seeking vengeance on his murderer Arthur, either not knowing or caring that Arthur was very much NotHimself at the time and was visibly horrified by his [[DemonicPossession possessed]] half's actions.
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* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' franchise is mostly about this with LoveMakesYouEvil. In all incarnations, a couple of lovers are killed by a gang, an organization or even by {{Dirty Cop}}s. The male is revived as "The Crow", seeking a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[KillEmAll EVERYONE]] in the group that killed him and his lover, not just limited to the killers, but also the highest ranks who managed that event.
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* In ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Hiramechimedes]] is killed by the Go-ongers, but his hatred is so deep that [[BackFromTheDead he returns for a last time]] as a yurei.]]
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* ''TabletopGame/MitosYLeyendas'': The 2016 ''Bushido'' expansion has "[[https://myl.mazos.cl/cartas/ver/yurei/3916 Yurei]]", which illustration is based in classical despictions of yurei. The card has the ability of [[BackFromTheDead return 2 ally cards from your graveyard]] if this card goes to one. this is her setting text:
-->''Usually appear between 2 am and the dawn, to scare and torment those ones who offended them in life.''
-->''Usually appear between 2 am and the dawn, to scare and torment those ones who offended them in life.''
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* Doubling with StringyHairedGhostGirl, there's Hisako from ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct'' reboot, who is the ghost of a samurai's daughter who is reanimated after her grave was disturbed. Also, her stage is full of yurei from the people of her village.
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* Korean series ''Series/CheoYong'' is about the eponymous protagonist who's a police detective that can [[ISeeDeadPeople see ghosts since he's a child]] and solve misteries around them. In both seasons, various of the crimes are made by vengeful ghosts, including [[spoiler:the BigBad of Series 1, a former partner of Cheo Yong that seek vengeance against him]].
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has this as a constant theme, with one of the most frequent {{Monster of the Week}}s being vengeful spirits who are unable to move on and seek revenge on the ones who murdered them. Some examples:
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* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets accidentally summon a GhostPirate coming for "Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s head", implying that his seeking revenge on Scrooge. The old duck defeats him by giving him the head of a statue of him, which makes the ghost vanish.
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In mythology and folklore, a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a deceased person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unfair death. In certain cultures where funeral and burial or cremation ceremonies are important, such vengeful spirits may also be considered as unhappy ghosts of individuals who have not been given a proper funeral.
Part of OurGhostsAreDifferent and RevengeTropes. SisterTrope to {{Onryo}}, a Japanese counterpart to this trope that has distinctive traits but the same objective, and RevenantZombie, in which the person returns as a zombie but keeps all their memories and personality, including the memory of the one who killed them and the desire for vengeance.
See also UnfinishedBusiness, when revenge is not the (only) reason to come back as a ghost, GhostlyGoals, for when the primary mission of the ghost is revenge, and MurderIntoMalevolence, a reason for why the ghost can turn violent after the death.
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* Creator/DCComics
** Despite his name, the ComicBook/GentlemanGhost is a supervillain that lived in 1800s England as a thief and later entered the U.S. illegally and was killed by Nighthawk, one of the incarnations of ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}. Revived as a ghost, he became not just the ArchEnemy of Hawkman, but also a supervillain to stand against every superhero out there.
** The OriginStory of ComicBook/TheSpectre is about this: the cop Jim Corrigan was murdered by thugs and eventually came back to life as the form of The Spectre. With the time, Spectre becomes more as the Spirit of Vengeance by his own and later he got other human hosts, two of the most famous ones are [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] and [[ComicBook/GothamCentral Crispus Allen]].
* A [[NinetiesAntiHero '90s Anti-Heroine]] example is ''[[ComicBook/GhostDarkHorseComics Ghost]]''. Elisa Cameron, a reporter who finds herself dead under mysterious circumstances, gains the abilities of intangibility and teleportation as a result of becoming a ghost. Now she must try to find out how she ended up dead in the first place.
* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' franchise is mostly about this with LoveMakesYouEvil. In all incarnations, a couple of lovers are killed by a gang, an organization or even by {{Dirty Cop}}s. The male is revived as "The Crow", seeking a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[KillEmAll EVERYONE]] in the group that killed him and his lover, not just limited to the killers, but also the highest ranks who managed that event.
* Invoked by ''ComicBook/GhostRider'', being more known as "The Spirit of Venegance" in any of his incarnations (excepting the first Western version, later known as "Phantom Rider", a vigilante that takes the "ghost" as his alter-ego intead being really dead).
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In Chapter 13 [[Recap/PokemonNovaAndAnticaCh13 "The Abandoned Route"]] of ''Fanfic/PokemonNovaAndAntica'', Ash and the other members of his posse encounter Master Silverplien. Although he acts cordial and helps into his house when they're lost, he is in fact a vengeful revenant bent on "saving" people from the harshness of life. Why is he like this? He and his family had their lives unceremoniously taken by [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Team Hectic]].
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[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' is the nickname of the son of a slave named Daniel Robitaille, who was brutally tortured and murdered because of a love affair with the daughter of a local (white) plantation owner. "Candyman" himself became an urban legend: if you mention his name five times in the front of a mirror, you can be killed by him. The film is about how a girl discovers the urban myth is not just a myth and after that things GoneHorriblyWrong.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', ghosts can come back for a variety of reasons. Moaning Myrtle Warren doesn't say why she came back, but she did go about haunting AlphaBitch Olive Hornby, who was bullying her before she died.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has this as a constant theme, with one of the most frequent {{Monster of the Week}}s being vengeful spirits who are unable to move on and seek revenge on the ones who murdered them. Some examples:
** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E14MannequinThreeTheReckoning Mannequin 3: The Reckoning]]", the ghost of a woman is out to kill her former coworkers in revenge for a DeadlyPrank they pulled on her that inadvertently got her killed.
** {{Defied|Trope}} by Bobby Singer, as he realizes that he's beginning to turn into one when he's about to kill Sam, and in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS07E23SurvivalOfTheFittest Survival of the Fittest]]" he asks the brothers to destroy the flask that's keeping him tethered to the mortal world, which they do.
* Parodied in the ''Series/TheITCrowd'' episode "The Haunting of Bill Crouse", in which the titular Bill Crouse, believing that Jen has died, falsely claims that he was the last person to sleep with her in order to win sympathy from others. Throughout the episode, Jen tries to confront him about it, but each time, circumstances cause him to believe that she's a vengeful ghost haunting him.
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[[folder:Mythologies]]
* In all the world, they're their own and distinctive vengeful spirits. Some of the most known ones by region:
** In Americas, there are plenty of vengeful ghost depending of the zone: in North America there's the ''Chindi'' a vengeful ghost that causes dust devils in Navajo mythology; in Latin America there's a prominent number of female vengeful spirits, everyone with different motifs, like ''La Llorona'' ("The Crying Woman", also known as The WomanInWhite) who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, ''Sayona'', who believed her husband had an affair with her mother, ''[[WomanInWhite Dama Branca]]'' who died after childbirth, ''Patasola'' who lures men and later devours them by converting into a beast and ''Sihuanaba'', who had an affair and attacks unfaithful men.
** ''The Green Lady'': A restless female spirit said to haunt certain locations in Scotland, mostly in certain castles. In some tales she was murdered in a green dress, and then stuffed unceremoniously up the chimney by a servant. It is said that her footsteps can still be heard as she walks the castle in sadness.
** China has ''Mogwai'', a vengeful ghost or demon; ''Nu gui'', a vengeful female ghost and counterpart of japanese {{Onryo}}; and ''Yuan gui'', the spirits of persons who have died wrongful deaths.
** ''Chudail'', a female ghost of Indian folklore, well known in North India and Pakistan. This spirit is said to originate in a woman who died either in childbirth, in pregnancy or during her menstruation, in a state of ritual impurity.
** Japan has ''{{Onryo}}'': A generic name of the Japanese folklore for ghosts (''yurei''), who come back from purgatory for a wrong done to them during their lifetime. Onryo are mostly women and often manifest themselves in physical rather than spectral form.
* In Myth/ClassicalMythology there are various vengeful ghosts too: ''Lemures'' in Roman mythology are the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living; and ''Keres'', spirits of violent or cruel death in Greek mythology.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'', spectres are a type of ghosts that have been twisted by their deaths and are driven by the desire to take vengeance upon the living by consuming their life energy. Many start with off with a specific target, but once the target dies, transfer their hatred upon all of the living.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': In the game, human beings have two souls. The Hun or "upper soul" governs intellect, morality, consciousness and higher thinking, while the Po or "lower soul" is concerned with a person's passions, instincts, and animalistic urges and drives. After death, the Hun departs to either reincarnation or the underworld, while the Po remains behind to watch over the body. If a deceased person was not buried or was buried improperly, the Po will manifest as a ravenous, predatory Hungry Ghost, resting in its body by day and going out by night to cause chaos and attack the living until it is pacified by being given a proper funeral. It is also possible for a Hungry Ghost to be created by a violent or painful death, and necromancers often torture victims to death to purposefully create ghosts to use and control.
* Most editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' have the "[[http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/revenant/ Revenant]]" monster.
-->''Fueled by hatred and a need for vengeance, a revenant rises from the grave to hunt and kill its murderer. Devoid of any compassion, emotion, or logic, a revenant has but one purpose, and cannot rest until it has found vengeance.''
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/YotsuyaKaidan'', Oiwa becomes an {{onryo}} in order to haunt her faithless husband.
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[[folder:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Avatar of Vengeance can spawn invulnerable Spirits of Vengeance from corpses, regardless of the corpse's original allegiance.
* Basara Kubikiri from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' series. An undead case of LoveMakesYouEvil, Basara and Kagaribi were lovers slaughted by Zankuro Minazuki, but the hate Basara has about this makes him come BackFromTheDead [[CameBackWrong in the form of a yurei]]. [[spoiler:In a plot twist revealed in ''V'', in reality Basara [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was the one who killed Kagaribi and then he commited suicide]].]]
* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for {{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. If well this is another Running game, also it counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* Inverted (and exploited) in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', where baron Greyfort arranges for the burial ceremony be carried out wrong so that his ghost can keep an eye on his family.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets accidentally summon a GhostPirate coming for "Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s head", implying that his seeking revenge on Scrooge. The old duck defeats him by giving him the head of a statue of him, which makes the ghost vanish.
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Part of OurGhostsAreDifferent and RevengeTropes. SisterTrope to {{Onryo}}, a Japanese counterpart to this trope that has distinctive traits but the same objective, and RevenantZombie, in which the person returns as a zombie but keeps all their memories and personality, including the memory of the one who killed them and the desire for vengeance.
See also UnfinishedBusiness, when revenge is not the (only) reason to come back as a ghost, GhostlyGoals, for when the primary mission of the ghost is revenge, and MurderIntoMalevolence, a reason for why the ghost can turn violent after the death.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Creator/DCComics
** Despite his name, the ComicBook/GentlemanGhost is a supervillain that lived in 1800s England as a thief and later entered the U.S. illegally and was killed by Nighthawk, one of the incarnations of ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}. Revived as a ghost, he became not just the ArchEnemy of Hawkman, but also a supervillain to stand against every superhero out there.
** The OriginStory of ComicBook/TheSpectre is about this: the cop Jim Corrigan was murdered by thugs and eventually came back to life as the form of The Spectre. With the time, Spectre becomes more as the Spirit of Vengeance by his own and later he got other human hosts, two of the most famous ones are [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] and [[ComicBook/GothamCentral Crispus Allen]].
* A [[NinetiesAntiHero '90s Anti-Heroine]] example is ''[[ComicBook/GhostDarkHorseComics Ghost]]''. Elisa Cameron, a reporter who finds herself dead under mysterious circumstances, gains the abilities of intangibility and teleportation as a result of becoming a ghost. Now she must try to find out how she ended up dead in the first place.
* ''Franchise/TheCrow'' franchise is mostly about this with LoveMakesYouEvil. In all incarnations, a couple of lovers are killed by a gang, an organization or even by {{Dirty Cop}}s. The male is revived as "The Crow", seeking a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[KillEmAll EVERYONE]] in the group that killed him and his lover, not just limited to the killers, but also the highest ranks who managed that event.
* Invoked by ''ComicBook/GhostRider'', being more known as "The Spirit of Venegance" in any of his incarnations (excepting the first Western version, later known as "Phantom Rider", a vigilante that takes the "ghost" as his alter-ego intead being really dead).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In Chapter 13 [[Recap/PokemonNovaAndAnticaCh13 "The Abandoned Route"]] of ''Fanfic/PokemonNovaAndAntica'', Ash and the other members of his posse encounter Master Silverplien. Although he acts cordial and helps into his house when they're lost, he is in fact a vengeful revenant bent on "saving" people from the harshness of life. Why is he like this? He and his family had their lives unceremoniously taken by [[StandardEvilOrganizationSquad Team Hectic]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' is the nickname of the son of a slave named Daniel Robitaille, who was brutally tortured and murdered because of a love affair with the daughter of a local (white) plantation owner. "Candyman" himself became an urban legend: if you mention his name five times in the front of a mirror, you can be killed by him. The film is about how a girl discovers the urban myth is not just a myth and after that things GoneHorriblyWrong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', ghosts can come back for a variety of reasons. Moaning Myrtle Warren doesn't say why she came back, but she did go about haunting AlphaBitch Olive Hornby, who was bullying her before she died.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has this as a constant theme, with one of the most frequent {{Monster of the Week}}s being vengeful spirits who are unable to move on and seek revenge on the ones who murdered them. Some examples:
** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS06E14MannequinThreeTheReckoning Mannequin 3: The Reckoning]]", the ghost of a woman is out to kill her former coworkers in revenge for a DeadlyPrank they pulled on her that inadvertently got her killed.
** {{Defied|Trope}} by Bobby Singer, as he realizes that he's beginning to turn into one when he's about to kill Sam, and in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS07E23SurvivalOfTheFittest Survival of the Fittest]]" he asks the brothers to destroy the flask that's keeping him tethered to the mortal world, which they do.
* Parodied in the ''Series/TheITCrowd'' episode "The Haunting of Bill Crouse", in which the titular Bill Crouse, believing that Jen has died, falsely claims that he was the last person to sleep with her in order to win sympathy from others. Throughout the episode, Jen tries to confront him about it, but each time, circumstances cause him to believe that she's a vengeful ghost haunting him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mythologies]]
* In all the world, they're their own and distinctive vengeful spirits. Some of the most known ones by region:
** In Americas, there are plenty of vengeful ghost depending of the zone: in North America there's the ''Chindi'' a vengeful ghost that causes dust devils in Navajo mythology; in Latin America there's a prominent number of female vengeful spirits, everyone with different motifs, like ''La Llorona'' ("The Crying Woman", also known as The WomanInWhite) who lost her children and now cries while looking for them in the river, ''Sayona'', who believed her husband had an affair with her mother, ''[[WomanInWhite Dama Branca]]'' who died after childbirth, ''Patasola'' who lures men and later devours them by converting into a beast and ''Sihuanaba'', who had an affair and attacks unfaithful men.
** ''The Green Lady'': A restless female spirit said to haunt certain locations in Scotland, mostly in certain castles. In some tales she was murdered in a green dress, and then stuffed unceremoniously up the chimney by a servant. It is said that her footsteps can still be heard as she walks the castle in sadness.
** China has ''Mogwai'', a vengeful ghost or demon; ''Nu gui'', a vengeful female ghost and counterpart of japanese {{Onryo}}; and ''Yuan gui'', the spirits of persons who have died wrongful deaths.
** ''Chudail'', a female ghost of Indian folklore, well known in North India and Pakistan. This spirit is said to originate in a woman who died either in childbirth, in pregnancy or during her menstruation, in a state of ritual impurity.
** Japan has ''{{Onryo}}'': A generic name of the Japanese folklore for ghosts (''yurei''), who come back from purgatory for a wrong done to them during their lifetime. Onryo are mostly women and often manifest themselves in physical rather than spectral form.
* In Myth/ClassicalMythology there are various vengeful ghosts too: ''Lemures'' in Roman mythology are the wandering and vengeful spirits of those not afforded proper burial, funeral rites or affectionate cult by the living; and ''Keres'', spirits of violent or cruel death in Greek mythology.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/BladesInTheDark'', spectres are a type of ghosts that have been twisted by their deaths and are driven by the desire to take vengeance upon the living by consuming their life energy. Many start with off with a specific target, but once the target dies, transfer their hatred upon all of the living.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': In the game, human beings have two souls. The Hun or "upper soul" governs intellect, morality, consciousness and higher thinking, while the Po or "lower soul" is concerned with a person's passions, instincts, and animalistic urges and drives. After death, the Hun departs to either reincarnation or the underworld, while the Po remains behind to watch over the body. If a deceased person was not buried or was buried improperly, the Po will manifest as a ravenous, predatory Hungry Ghost, resting in its body by day and going out by night to cause chaos and attack the living until it is pacified by being given a proper funeral. It is also possible for a Hungry Ghost to be created by a violent or painful death, and necromancers often torture victims to death to purposefully create ghosts to use and control.
* Most editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' have the "[[http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/revenant/ Revenant]]" monster.
-->''Fueled by hatred and a need for vengeance, a revenant rises from the grave to hunt and kill its murderer. Devoid of any compassion, emotion, or logic, a revenant has but one purpose, and cannot rest until it has found vengeance.''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/YotsuyaKaidan'', Oiwa becomes an {{onryo}} in order to haunt her faithless husband.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Avatar of Vengeance can spawn invulnerable Spirits of Vengeance from corpses, regardless of the corpse's original allegiance.
* Basara Kubikiri from ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'' series. An undead case of LoveMakesYouEvil, Basara and Kagaribi were lovers slaughted by Zankuro Minazuki, but the hate Basara has about this makes him come BackFromTheDead [[CameBackWrong in the form of a yurei]]. [[spoiler:In a plot twist revealed in ''V'', in reality Basara [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone was the one who killed Kagaribi and then he commited suicide]].]]
* ''[[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fishcrackergames.yureininja Yurei Ninja]]'' is an EndlessRunningGame for {{Android|Games}} about a {{ninja}} that came BackFromTheDead as a yurei to get revenge against a samurai warlord with the blackest of hearts who turned against him. If well this is another Running game, also it counts as a GameplayRoulette, since the game has parts where you play it as a HackAndSlash game, BossBattle included.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Original]]
* Inverted (and exploited) in ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'', where baron Greyfort arranges for the burial ceremony be carried out wrong so that his ghost can keep an eye on his family.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', the triplets accidentally summon a GhostPirate coming for "Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s head", implying that his seeking revenge on Scrooge. The old duck defeats him by giving him the head of a statue of him, which makes the ghost vanish.
[[/folder]]
