History RoaringRampageOfRevenge / ComicBooks

* In ''JonSableFreelance'', Sable went on one of these after his family was murdered.

*** Nightwing is ''prone'' to this. During ''[[ComicBook/KnightFall KnightsEnd]]'', he tore into Jean-Paul Valley after thinking Bruce was killed by a booby-trapped Batmobile and during ''ComicBook/JokersLastLaugh'', he actually ''killed'' the titular villain when he thought Tim Drake had died.

* Used as an InvokedTrope in the recent [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] and JourneyIntoMystery comics. The only reason no one has killed the reincarnated-as-a-kid Loki yet for his past deeds is because Thor has sworn to do ''exactly this trope'' if anyone hurts Loki and he finds out about it. Or if Loki just suddenly dies, even if there's no proof, because Thor's not an idiot.

* In ''Comicbook/MsTree'', Michael practically makes a career of this. Any time there is an attack on her, her family or her friends, this is almost guaranteed to be a huge stack of enemy corpses at the end of it. It got to the stage where TheMafia didn't want to mess with her because it was too costly for them.

** His biggest however has been in the AlternateUniverse story "OldManLogan," where after returning home to his family with the money needed to pay off their debtors, [[spoiler: he finds them murdered by those he owes because "[[ForTheEvulz they were bored.]]"]] He forsakes his [[BerserkButton fifty years of pacifism]] in order to exact some ''very'' [[NoKillLikeOverkill bloody satisfaction]] of his own. Given the reason he gave up [[MemeticMutation snikting bubs]] in the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone first place]], this is a pretty huge character shift.

** His biggest however has been in the AlternateUniverse story "OldManLogan," where after returning home to his family with the money needed to pay off their debtors, [[spoiler: he finds them murdered by those he owes because "they were bored."]] He forsakes his [[BerserkButton fifty years of pacifism]] in order to exact some ''very'' [[NoKillLikeOverkill bloody satisfaction]] of his own. Given the reason he gave up [[MemeticMutation snikting bubs]] in the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone first place]], this is a pretty huge character shift.

*** In an arc of [[ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX the MAX comic]] entitled "Up is Down, Black is White" a gangster with a grudge against Castle [[TooDumbToLive/ComicBooks digs up his wife and children, urinates on the remains, and releases the footage to the news media]]. Frank did not take this too well. [[PayEvilUntoEvil Let's just say the bad guy got what he deserved, and the crime rate went down significantly]].

* While there are many of these in the series an obvious example takes place within IDW's ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]'' run, during Cliffjumper's Spotlight comic. Crashing on a world he manages to create a strong bond between himself and one of the locals called Kita. A few days after his arrival Decepticons arrive and manage to injure Cliffjumper and shoot Kira in the back when she attempts to run. The Decepticons call for backup in hunting him down leading to this brief exchange upon figuring out just who it is they've managed to piss off:

*** Nightwing is ''prone'' to this. During ''[[ComicBook/KnightFall KnightsEnd]]'', he tore into Jean-Paul Valley after thinking Bruce was killed by a booby-trapped Batmobile and during ''Joker: The Last Laugh'', he actually ''killed'' the titular villain when he thought Tim Drake had died.

*** In an arc of the comic entitled "Up is Down, Black is White" a gangster with a grudge against Castle [[TooDumbToLive/ComicBooks digs up his wife and children, urinates on the remains, and releases the footage to the news media]]. Frank did not take this too well. [[PayEvilUntoEvil Let's just say the bad guy got what he deserved, and the crime rate went down significantly]].

** The ultimate example comes in the form of ''Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe,'' which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Whether this represents a parody or a crowning homage to the character is open to debate.

* This is the plot of the first story arc of ''ComicBook/JenniferBlood'': the eponymous [[AntiHero anti-heroine]] is out to wipe out the organized crime family that murdered her father and drove her mother to suicide. Of course, her father had been the head of that family, and the men who killed him were all her uncles. The subsequent story arc seems to be shaping up to be that the relatives of three assassins who had been hired by her uncles and whom Jennifer had killed along the way are now determined to track down the person who [[CycleOfRevenge killed their loved ones and kill her and all her loved ones]]....

** The [[BruceWayneFugitive Murderer/Fugitive]] arc has Bruce framed for the murder of his old love Vesper Fairchild and is wrongly imprisoned ([[PoliceAreUseless score another one for]] the GCPD). Bruce escapes from prison to fight crime as Batman (since his Bruce Wayne persona was slowly slipping away) and cuts off all communication with the rest of the Bat-family. Long story short, as soon as Batman slowly starts picking up the clues of the people who framed him. '''HE. MAKES. THEM. PAY. DEARLY.''' After his fight with the commandos nearly everyone who he fought will need to see a psychiatrist. Or a priest.

** {{Nightwing}}, after seeing his apartment building (with his neighbors inside) blown up and his circus destroyed by Blockbuster, hunted down and brutally [[CurbStompBattle beat down]] every one of his costumed mooks.
*** Nightwing is ''prone'' to this. During ''[[KnightFall KnightsEnd]]'', he tore into Jean-Paul Valley after thinking Bruce was killed by a booby-trapped Batmobile and during ''Joker: The Last Laugh'', he actually ''killed'' the titular villain when he thought Tim Drake had died.
* Comicbook/{{X-Men}} spinoff ''Comicbook/{{X-Factor}}'' shows even an enemy's simulator knows that if you hurt/kill Rictor, Shatterstar's Roaring Rampage Of Revenge would come next, quickly followed by your demise.
* Marv of ''SinCity'' goes on one of these when his lady of the night Goldie is murdered and he is framed for the crime.
** And in ''SinCity: Family Values'', Dwight and Miho cut a swath through the Sin City Mafia to avenge the shooting of a prostitute.

* In all adaptations of ''ThePunisher'', the entire plot revolves around this, to the point where it's less a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and more of a Roaring ''Marathon'' of Revenge. In the comic, Frank Castle's family was killed when they stumbled upon a mob execution while having a picnic in a park. In revenge, Frank kills the people responsible and then goes on to kill all the other criminals he can find. In [[Film/ThePunisher2004 the movie]], Frank was once in the FBI, and his family was specifically targeted.

* The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk goes on one of these in the CrossOver ''WorldWarHulk''. Why? The six most influential people in the Marvel Universe sent him into exile on an uninhabited, peaceful planet -- except that he landed on a savage planet that put him through immense hardships before he earned his happy ending. Then the ship he arrived in exploded, nuked the planet, and killed the Hulk's alien wife. Cue rampage.

* Besides ThePunisher, Marvel's other resident avenger {{Wolverine}} has been featured in some high-spotlight revenge arcs. Kinda hard to avoid when you're a killing machine with a hair-trigger temper.

** Then there's MarkMillar's "Enemy of the State" and "Agent of SHIELD" arcs where [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Hydra]], [[ReligionOfEvil The]] [[{{Ninja}} Hand]], [[MadScientist AIM]], and upstart group [[{{Cult}} Dawn Of The White Light]] lure Logan in by kidnapping [[spoiler: and killing]] an innocent child. Then they brainwash him and send him after the super-hero community like the weapon he once was. When he gets his mind back, he [[spoiler:reprograms a Sentinel to kill the hundreds of members of the Dawn of the White Light mutant group, then kills thousands of Hand members, then kills 40,000+ Hydra agents, then slices up the dozens of thugs who were tangentially related to just the kidnapping aspect.]]

* Near the end of the comic book series ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', BlackAdam's wife and brother-in-law are killed. As it was the death of his first wife that caused his original fall from grace, it is unsurprising that the death of the second led to him going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, wiping out the country that harbored the murderers, and anybody else that stood in his way. It doesn't end well, though, as the nerdy {{Mad Scientist}}s behind her death soundly kick his ass [[ForScience with SCIENCE]].

* After the apparent death of [[spoiler:Batman]] in ''FinalCrisis'', Comicbook/{{Superman}} returns to Bludhaven with a Roaring Rampage of Heat Vision, taking down as many of Darkseid's troops as he can see.

* The entire plot of the Luna brothers' ''TheSword'' is Dara Brighton's vengeance quest against the three demigod siblings who murdered her family.

* Johnny in ''StrontiumDog'' goes on a massive one across several planets after [[spoiler:Max Bubba kills Wulf]].

* While there are many of these in the series an obvious example takes place within IDW's ''[[TheTransformersIDW Transformers]]'' run, during Cliffjumper's Spotlight comic. Crashing on a world he manages to create a strong bond between himself and one of the locals called Kita. A few days after his arrival Decepticons arrive and manage to injure Cliffjumper and shoot Kira in the back when she attempts to run. The Decepticons call for backup in hunting him down leading to this brief exchange upon figuring out just who it is they've managed to piss off:

* In the Disney series ''PaperinikNewAdventures'', this is what drives the character of Xadhoom. Having seen her entire planet destroyed and her people reduced to mindless slaves, she swore revenge on the alien race that caused it, the Evronians. Unfortunately for the Evronians, Xadhoom had recently become one of the most destructive forces in the Universe, having the destructive power of a super nova. Xadhoom now hunts the Evronians all over the Universe, killing as many of them as she can. (And that's a lot.)

* {{Spider-Man}} has one in the first "Sin-Eater" story arc. The Sin-Eater is murdering people left and right, and one of his victims is Captain Jean [=DeWolfe=]. As she was one of Spider-Man's friends and supporters, he takes her death very hard and this adventure very personally. Ultimately, Spider-Man finds the Sin-Eater (who has no superpowers, by the way) and brutally beats him to a pulp. If not for {{Daredevil}}, Spider-Man seemed quite likely to kill him.

** And of course, there was right after the events of Civil War when Aunt May was shot by an assassin sent by the Kingpin after he exposed his identity to the world. Donning his black costume to let everyone know [[DarkerAndEdgier he meant business]], he tore across New York until finally locating and delivering a huge beatdown on the Kingpin, threatening to finish the job if he couldn't find a way to save Aunt May (we all know [[OneMoreDay how that turned out]]). In a WhatIf, the assassin shoots (and kills) Mary Jane instead, causing Peter to snap and actually ''kill'' the Kingpin.
* Used as an InvokedTrope in the recent {{Thor}} and JourneyIntoMystery comics. The only reason no one has killed the reincarnated-as-a-kid Loki yet for his past deeds is because Thor has sworn to do ''exactly this trope'' if anyone hurts Loki and he finds out about it. Or if Loki just suddenly dies, even if there's no proof, because Thor's not an idiot.
* This is the plot of the first story arc of ''JenniferBlood'': the eponymous [[AntiHero anti-heroine]] is out to wipe out the organized crime family that murdered her father and drove her mother to suicide. Of course, her father had been the head of that family, and the men who killed him were all her uncles. The subsequent story arc seems to be shaping up to be that the relatives of three assassins who had been hired by her uncles and whom Jennifer had killed along the way are now determined to track down the person who [[CycleOfRevenge killed their loved ones and kill her and all her loved ones]]....

* In both the [[Film/IronMan movie]] ''and'' the original comics, [[IronMan Tony Stark]] goes on a short but absolutely '' kickass'' one of these after the terrorists who have been holding him and another man (Yinsen) hostage end up killing Yinsen. In response, Tony takes the badass suit of armor he designed and built [[MemeticMutation in a cave, with a box of scraps]] and a goddamned improvised ''forge'', and then [[TookALevelInBadass breaks the fuck out]] and proceeds to use the suit's built-in [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]] to [[TranquilFury kill everyone]] stupid enough not to run away screaming, and then he [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill explodes the entire terrorist hideout]], thus quite effectively taking out anyone who managed to avoid being roasted to death. It is all very much a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* In all adaptations of ''ThePunisher'', the entire plot revolves around this, to the point where it's less a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and more of a Roaring ''Marathon'' of Revenge. In the comic, Frank Castle's family was killed when they stumbled upon a mob execution while having a picnic in a park. In revenge, Frank kills the people responsible and then goes on to kill all the other criminals he can find. In [[Film/ThePunisher the movie]], Frank was once in the FBI, and his family was specifically targeted.

* The DC AntiHero Deadshot goes on one in the second half of his 1988 miniseries.

** And of course, there was right after the events of Civil War when Aunt May was shot by an assassin sent by the Kingpin after he exposed his identity to the world. Donning his black costume to let everyone know [[DarkerAndEdgier he meant business]], he tore across New York until finally locating and delivering a [[CurbStompBattle huge]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beatdown]] on the Kingpin, threatening to finish the job if he couldn't find a way to save Aunt May (we all know [[OneMoreDay how that turned out]]). In a WhatIf, the assassin shoots (and kills) Mary Jane instead, causing Peter to snap and actually ''kill'' the Kingpin.

* Screw with Comicbook/{{Batman}} and you'll either wind up in a hospital for the rest of your life, crying yourself to sleep each night '''or''' want to die immediately due to recurring nightmares involving a half-man, half-bat demon '''or''' go far far into the world and pray to god that he doesn't ever find you again. More than likely, you'll be going through at least two of these after your encounter with him. There's a reason career crime in Gotham breeds mental illness.

* The titular V has the titular vendetta in ''VForVendetta'', coldly eliminating everyone who worked at the camp where he was imprisoned, then moving on to overthrowing the government and killing everyone who was responsible for the very existence of said camp in the first place. Just before his work is done, he dies, and leaves the very last step and the cleaning up afterwards to Evey.

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