History RoaringRampageOfRevenge / LiveActionFilms

* [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme Eddie Lomax]] has a bloody one in ''Film/DesertHeat'' that begins because a gang shot him, stole his motorcycle, and left him for dead. It's taken UpToEleven when they [[spoiler: kill his best friend Johnny Sixtoes]] and Lomax ultimately decimates two rivaling gangs, saving a local town in the process.

** Surprisingly, ''Kill Bill'' is ''not'' the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. Tarantino used the phrase in a ShoutOut to the [[OlderThanTheyThink 1972]] BikerBabe film ''Bury Me An Angel'', which has the tagline "A howling hellcat humping a hot steel hog on a roaring rampage of revenge!" Whether the film actually lives up to this tagline is another matter ([[http://www.the-unknown-movies.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev133.html one review]] suggests it doesn't).

* Franchise/JamesBond:

** ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': Raoul Silva was tortured for five months to the point of breaking his CyanidePill, only to have it fail and disfigure him. He sets out to humiliate and kill M for abandoning him[[spoiler:, and it [[TheBadGuyWins actually works]]]].

** ''Film/KillBill'' was inspired by the film and manga series ''Manga/LadySnowblood'', which is about Oyuki, a female assassin on her own Roaring Rampage Of Revenge for the murder of her mother's family and the rape of her mother. The mother gives birth to Oyuki in prison after killing the first of her four tormentors and being caught by the police. Before dying, she charges her daughter with taking vengeance on the other three.

* An absolutely epic one in ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''. After discovering that their daughter has been raped and tortured, and her friend murdered, John and Emma Collingwood don't hesitate to go after their attackers. No matter ''what'' your stance is on capital punishment, you will ''cheer'' at [[spoiler:the Collingwoods' brutal slaying of Krug, Weasel, and Sadie]]. That goes double for [[spoiler:Krug's death in the remake, a moment so awesome, they decided that they couldn't top it and ended the movie there]]. And to top it all off? The father is a ''[[DeadlyDoctor surgeon]]'' and uses his medical knowledge to both [[spoiler: save his daughter and physically destroy the rapists/murderers.]]
-->'''One of the villains:''' You wanna hear what I did to your daughter?
-->'''[[PapaWolf Daughter's dad:]]''' [[ShutUpHannibal I wanna hear you]] ''[[ShutUpHannibal beg for your life.]]''

* ''Film/{{Mandy 2018}}'': The entire last third of the film concerns [[Creator/NicolasCage Red]] hunting down and brutally killing the demonic biker gang and cultists who burned his wife to death.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

** Loki in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', [[FreudianExcuse driven]] by [[TheResenter jealousy]] of [[TheUnfavourite his brother Thor]], decides to [[FantasticRacism subjugate the entire population of Earth]]. In doing so, he establishes himself as the BigBad and pisses off a lot of heroes.
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', the Winter Soldier ends up the target of ''two'': [[spoiler: [[ComicBook/BlackPanther T'Challa]] spends the majority of the film trying to kill Bucky due to mistakenly believing [[YouKilledMyFather he killed his father]]. At the climax of the third arc, Tony targets him for ''actually'' murdering his parents.]]

** Thor's role in ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' can be summed up as this [[spoiler:after Thanos kills at least half the Asgardian refugees on his ship, including his little brother Loki, swearing to claim Thanos's life for what he did. Sure enough, [[AlmostDeadGuy he comes very close to keeping his word; had he aimed just a little higher]]...]]

* ''Film/{{Ms 45}}'' has a mute woman going on one of these rampages after being brutally raped twice. [[spoiler:Thana ultimately loses herself, starting to target innocent men, and is ultimately killed]].
* ''Murphy's War'' (1971). The title character is the SoleSurvivor after a U-Boat sinks his ship and [[SinkTheLifeboats machine-guns the lifeboats]]. He becomes obsessed with trying to destroy the U-boat which is resting up in a nearby river, first teaching himself to fly a floatplane and trying to bomb it with improvised firebombs, then trying to ram it with a floating crane even though Germany has already surrendered. [[spoiler:Murphy is eventually able to destroy the vessel, but gets trapped and dies himself in the process.]]

* ''Film/PointBlank'' (1967), based on a novel by Richard Stark, directed by John Boorman, and starring Lee Marvin. The film was the original inspiration for ''Payback''. In fact, Gibson even uses a large-frame Smith & Wesson Magnum revolver like the one Marvin used in the 1967 version. Of course, in that one, the amount of money Walker (Marvin) wanted was a lot smaller (inflation, you know).

* Creator/PatrickSwayze does this at the end of ''Film/RoadHouse''. The lesson? You can mess with a man's bar. You can threaten his life. But kill his mentor and father figure? Buy your cemetery plot now and save time.

** ''Film/RawDeal'', on behalf of his friend.

** In '''Film/RamboIV'', he does this at the end of the film in a way that would have made Dr. Richard Gatling proud.

** In the first film, Creator/LiamNeeson issues the page quote. [[TooDumbToLive The bad guy]] is less than impressed by this BadassBoast, [[WhatAnIdiot to his great misfortune.]] This film also defined the RoaringRampageOfRescue, combining it with this trope as Neeson is decidedly less than merciful with the bastards who sold his daughter to the slavers.

* A major plot point of ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'' involves [[spoiler:the titular character going on a roaring rampage of revenge because ''the villain tortured him, disfigured him, and then wanted to sell him off as a mutant slave''. Then it escalates to include ''because the villain kidnapped his ex'', but it's still mostly about his disfigurement]].

* The famous prom scene from ''Film/Carrie1976''.

* Life has not been good to ex-hitman Film/JohnWick. His beloved wife Helen has died of a terminal illness, but he can't just shoot cancer to take the edge off. However, Helen has left him an adorable puppy in her absence and he's still got his cool car, so it could be worse. Unfortunately, the asshole son of a Russian mob boss jacks the car, beats the shit out of him, and kills the dog out of spite, so John finally snaps and ends up waging a one-man war against an influential crime syndicate just to put that spoiled brat in the ground.

* ''Film/TwentyTwentyTexasGladiators'': A group of post-apocalyptic vigilantes topple the authoritarian settlement that killed a former member for protesting against them.
* There are at least two film subgenres dedicated completely to this trope: exploitation revenge, and RapeAndRevenge.
** One of the classic examples of the former is ''Film/RollingThunder'', in which William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones play [[ReturningWarVet soldiers returning from Vietnam]] who hunt down the killers of Devane's character's family.
** The most notorious example of the latter is ''Film/ISpitOnYourGrave'', in which Camille Keaton's character exacts ''violent'' revenge on several men who brutally [[RapeAsDrama gang-raped her]].

* ''Film/{{Daimajin}}'': A god is summoned to slaughter the usurpers of a daimyo's throne.

* ''Film/ColonelKillMotherfuckers'': A soldier who was just discharged for homicidal mania is killed in self-defense and comes back as a zombie to finish the job.
* ''Film/{{Crazed}}'': A cop with special forces training moonlights as a vigilante to take down the HumanTraffickers who killed his daughter and regularly torture his wife.
* ''Film/{{Daimajin}}'': A god is summoned to slaughter the usurpers of a daimyo's throne.
* The Mariachi from ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' takes on an entire town full of bad guys, including no fewer than two {{Bad Guy Bar}}s, in order to get to Bucho, [[spoiler:[[CainAndAbel his own brother]]]] and apparent boss of the murderer of the woman he loved.

* ''Film/TheDeserter'': After his wife is raped and killed by the Apache, Kaleb shoots his commanding officer, deserts the US Army, and starts a one man war against the Apache.

* SolomonKane in [[Film/SolomonKane the movie]] goes on a pretty epic RoaringRampageOfRevenge about halfway through the movie after [[spoiler: the kind family he was traveling with is brutally massacred by a pack of Malachi's bandits.]] Kane does not take this well. At all.

** In ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', the second half of the film has Rambo taking revenge on a group of HumanTraffickers [[spoiler: after Gabrielle dies from a drug overdose.]]

** Surprisingly, ''Kill Bill'' is ''not'' the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. Tarantino used the phrase in a ShoutOut to the [[OlderThanTheyThink 1972]] BikerBabe film ''Bury Me An Angel'', which has the tagline "A howling hellcat humping a hot steel hog on a roaring rampage of revenge!" Whether the film actually lives up to this tagline is another matter ([[http://www.badmovieplanet.com/unknownmovies/reviews/rev133.html one review]] suggests it doesn't).

*** [[spoiler: Thanos is making a break for the Infinity Gauntlet... only for an '''extremely''' pissed off Scarlet Witch to intercept him, (The Mad Titan's murder of her lover Vision fresh in her mind), complete with RedEyesTakeWarning. Cue one of the few times that Thanos is completely outmatched, as she delivers a telekinetic NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, culminating in her slowly crushing him in his armor like a tin can. It's so vicious that he has to call down an orbital bombardment just to survive.]]

* Such a rampage forms the basis of François Truffaut's ''The Bride Wore Black'' (1968), in which the titular bride systematically murders every one of the men who caused the death of the groom on her wedding day. [[Film/KillBill Sound familiar]]?

* In ''The Fury Of Hercules'' Hercules (Brad Harris) [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] a band of evil brothers for murdering [[spoiler:the Queen, who had been manipulated by an evil counselor, after she tried to save Herc from a poison pit]]. You know the bad guys are in trouble when Herc bellows ''"Zeus! Put all your strength in my arm!"''

* Most of the plot to ''Goemon'' revolves around this, when the titular character plots to assassinate [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Hideyoshi]]. It becomes a very literal rampage of revenge when [[spoiler: Hideyoshi boils his childhood friend Saizou, and his ''son'', ''ALIVE'']], and he becomes the most epic OneManArmy in recent movie history. He then tops himself shortly after by [[spoiler: fighting ''two'' armies by himself, taking out one with relative ease, and only stopping on the second after his former master slowed him down, as well as his decision to withdraw his killing blow on the general when he got his chance]].

* Near the end of Mexican [[TheCartel drug-dealer]] film ''El Infierno'' (Hell), our protagonist, Benny, goes into one, attacking his former associates. To elaborate, Benny learned that his brother, [[TheDreaded El Diablo]], had not died in a shootout against rival drug dealers, but had been castrated and tortured to death by his boss, Don José Reyes, because he had slept with his wife. He also learned that one of his friends, El Huasteco, was planning on giving away to Don José that Benny's nephew was El Diablito, a member of a rival gang. Terrified, Benny gave his nephew money so he could take a bus to the frontier and escape to the United States, and went to confess his crimes to the local policemen. Unfortunately, they were DirtyCops working for Don José, so they beat him up, and after Benny tries to trick them into letting him go by bribing them with drugs and money he had stashed inside his brother's grave, they shoot him and leave him for dead. He didn't die, so Benny returned to his home to find that they had murdered his girlfriend. Benny then goes to his mother's house, and spends some time in an AngstComa before picking up his AK and driving to Town Square, where Don José is being made the mayor, with various of his men as bodyguards. Benny walks up to the front row, and shoots dead Don José, his wife, the former mayor, and José's men, before finally succumbing to DeathByDespair, with his only consolation being that his nephew escaped from the hellhole that is being a Narco. [[spoiler: [[ShootTheShaggyDog Except that the film ends with a shot of Benny's nephew shooting some drug dealer with an AK, having become a Narco himself]]]]

** Lee Van Cleef played the avenger role alongside the Man With No Name in ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''. Here, his target is El Indio, a notorious outlaw who gunned down his sister's lover and then raped her, leading to the sister taking her own life.

** In the first film, Liam Neeson issues the page quote. [[TooDumbToLive The bad guy]] is less than impressed by this BadassBoast, [[WhatAnIdiot to his great misfortune.]] This film also defined the RoaringRampageOfRescue, combining it with this trope as Neeson is decidedly less than merciful with the bastards who sold his daughter to the slavers.

* In ''Bad Day for the Cut,'' a mild-mannered farmer and his mother live quietly on their farm in Ireland, until one night she's brutally murdered and assassins try to take his life, only for him to turn the tables on them, killing one and keeping the other alive for information. The rest of the film is him embarking on a bloody mission to find out why they would kill a gentle old woman, and to take revenge on her murderers and anyone who stands in his way.

* Initially Oak's plan in ''Film/{{Mohawk}} is to escape and meet up with her family. However, after Holt and his men kill both Calvin and Joshua, [[ItsPersonal it becomes personal]] and she will not rest until she has slain all the Americans.