History RoaringRampageOfRevenge / RealLife

* In 2004, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Marvin Heemeyer]] armored a bulldozer, mounted guns, monitors, and cameras into the metalwork, and used it to destroy 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, all of which were owned by people he had some kind of dispute with, including the town hall. He also installed loudhailers that broadcasted his intentions for razing the community. When the bulldozer rampage finally stopped because Heemeyer drove it into a ditch while trying to level a fourteenth target, Heemeyer pulled a trigger on himself, leaving the authorities to find the scene of his suicide after carving open the bulldozer's armor. Also a TakingYouWithMe, because the bulldozer's armored cocoon had no way for him to escape once it was lowered over him.

* In 2004, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Marvin Heemeyer]] armored a bulldozer, mounted guns and cameras into the metalwork and used it to destroy 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, all of which were owned by people he had some kind of dispute with, including the town hall. He also installed loudhailers that broadcasted his intentions for razing the community. When the bulldozer rampage finally stopped because Heemeyer drove it into a ditch while trying to level a fourteenth target, Heemeyer pulled a trigger on himself, leaving the authorities to find the scene of his suicide after carving open the bulldozer's armor. Also a TakingYouWithMe, because the bulldozer's armored cocoon had no way for him to escape once it was lowered over him.

* In 2004, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Marvin Heemeyer]] armored a bulldozer, mounted guns and cameras into the metalwork and used it to destroy 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, all of which were owned by people he had some kind of dispute with, including the town hall. He also installed loudhailers that broadcasted his intentions for razing the community. When the bulldozer rampage finally stopped because Heemeyer drove it into a ditch while trying to level a fourteenth target, Heemeyer pulled a trigger on himself, leaving the authorities to find the scene of his suicide after opening the bulldozer's armored hatch.

* In 2004, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer Marvin Heemeyer]] armored a bulldozer and used it to destroy 13 buildings in Granby, Colorado, all of which were owned by people he had some kind of dispute with, including the town hall.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akku_Yadav Akku Yadav was a criminal who had been committing rape and murder in the Indian city of Chennai for over a decade, and getting away with it due to police corruption. When he was brought into court, he spotted a woman in the crowd he had raped and called her a whore. This prompted an angry mob of over 200 women to lynch him on the spot, with one of his victims reportedly hacking off his penis.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Southern_California_shootings Christopher Dorner]], after having been dismissed from the LAPD, went on one, posting a long, rambling manifesto, in which he named specific officers he wanted to kill, killed the daughter of the attorney who represented him at the hearing where he was dismissed, as well as her fiancee, before killing a police officer and running up to Big Bear mountain range, where he killed another officer, and holed himself up in a cabin. Then the police themselves got in on the act, deciding [[WrathOfKhan the Klingons were wrong and revenge is a dish best served]] ''piping hot'', they set the cabin on fire with the intention of watching him burn alive (the Sheriff officially denied this, of course, but few believe it), [[BettertoDieThanBeKilled though in the end he shot himself to deny them the satisfaction]].

* "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind" - [[GeneralRipper Air Chief Marshall "Bomber" Harris, Royal Air Force.]] He wasn't kidding. The reason the USAF bombed by day and the British at night? The USAF believed that the best use of bombers was precision strikes against German factories. The RAF believed that the fact that the factories were intact made no difference so long as the people that worked them got no sleep, had no homes, and were demoralized and depressed.

*** One shouldn't delete or argue with the above statement just to demonstrate what propaganda (in this case, the old-timey Western one) does to you. For a modern Russian to read that his grandma and grandpa, all their friends and family were "made inherently horrible people" and essentially murderous lobotomized Orcs... It isn't even insulting, but instead somewhat curious and bizarre. Great Patriotic war had its many different sides and aspects, but not in the form of campaign options in C&C: Red Alert.

* The entire Lusitanian War[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian_War]] was a big rampage of revenge against the increasingly expansionist Roman Republic. When Rome pretended to make peace with the tired Lusitanians over war and land, only to slaughter 10,000 men women and children. Huge numbers of them spent the next 3 years randomly attacking Roman territories and allies but slowly failing. Just as it looked like Rome would wipe out the last resisting warriors, a survivor named Viriathus[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viriathus]]of that same earlier massacre reminded them of why they had been fighting. Knowing how Romans fought, he managed to save the several thousand cornered warriors without a loss, leading to a renewed 8 year leadership of revenge against Rome. His leadership caused so much distress in Rome that other tribes rebelled, The recruitment rate in Rome dropped, especially after three legions were lost in the war against the Lusitanians alone. However, the trope is somewhat subverted in that eventually he later spared an army of Romans for peace, knowing that over time, the war would simply drain his peoples numbers, only for the peace treaty to be reneged and himself assassinated. Ironically enough his death triggered another brief rampage or revenge but without his leadership it failed. Adding to the confusion, the Roman's ended up making peace later by giving this tribe exactly what they asked for before this entire mess began, fertile land.
* Pancho Villa[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa]] himself went on this trope after his war effort against a corrupt Mexican government was virtually starved by an US presidential ban of aid to his forces. He found himself so embittered that he raided a train and had its 18 US occupants stripped naked and executed. Villa later also lead 500 men to raid Columbus, New Mexico[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Columbus_(1916)]] for supplies and not only attempted to look, but willingly attacked anyone on site with his men, setting homes on fire. Unfortunately for his men, they were beaten back with high losses. The US President and his people were not pleased, and sent a 4,800 man strong army to hunt him down, but never succeeded.

* Pancho Villa[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa]] himself went on this trope after his war effort against a corrupt Mexican government was virtually starved by an US presidential ban of aid to his forced. He found himself so embittered that he raided a train and had it's 18 US occupants stripped naked and executed. Villa later also lead 500 men to raid Columbus, New Mexico[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Columbus_(1916)]] for supplies and not only attempted to look, but willingly attacked anyone on site with his men, setting homes on fire. Unfortunately for his men, they were beaten back with high losses. The US President and his people were not please, and sent a 4,800 man strong army to hunt him down, but never succeeded.

* The entire Lusitanian War[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian_War]] was a big rampage of revenge against the increasingly expansionist Roman Republic. When Rome pretended to make peace with the tired Lusitanians over war and land, only to slaughter 10,000 men women and children. Huge numbers of them spent the next 3 years randomly attacking Roman territories and allies but slowly failing. Just as it looked like Rome would wipe out the last resisting warriors, a survivor named Viriathus[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viriathus]]of that same earlier massacre reminded them of why they had been fighting. Knowing how Romans fought, he managed to save the several thousand cornered warriors without a loss, leading to a renewed 8 year leadership of revenge against Rome. His leadership caused so much distress in Rome that other tribes rebelled, The recruitment rate in Rome dropped, especially after three legions were lost in the war against the Lusitanians alone. However, the trope is somewhat subverted in that eventually he later spared an army of Romans for peace, knowing that over time, the war would simply drain his peoples numbers, only for the peace treaty to be reneged and himself assassininated. Ironically enough his death triggered another brief rampage or revenge but without his leadership it failed. Adding to the confusion, the Roman's ended up making peace later by giving this tribe exactly what they asked for before this entire mess began, fertile land.

* After Prince Igor of Kiev was killed by the tribe of Drevlians, they sent 20 ambassadors to his widow, Princess Olga, to convince her to marry their Prince Mal. She buried them alive. After that she asked Mal to send his best men to help her on her journey to him. She invited them to the bathouse, locked them up and set the building on fire. Then she invited some more Drevlians to her husband's funeral, and, after they were drunken, killed about 5,000 of them. And then Olga went to war against them, and defeated them, and burned down their capital Iskorosten'.

* When Bashkirian Airways Tupolev 154 and DHL cargo Boeing 757 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision collided into each other at Überlingen]], Swiss and German border 2002, 74 people were killed. Among those were wife and two kids of Ossetian architect Vitaly Kaloyev. The accident was due to flight control error(That's only partially true, there was the Basjirian's pilots failure to follow TCAS) Kaloyev hired a private investigator to find out the individual flight controller who had been at job at that fateful night. It turned out to be Danish man named Peter Nielsen. So [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev Kaloyev tracked him down]], and ''stabbed him to death with a knife'' [[OhCrap in front of Nielsen's wife and three children.]] 24 February 2004. The Swiss police tracked him and he was sentenced from murder. He was released from prison on basis of insanity in November 2007 and banished from Switzerland. He received a hero's welcome home in Russia, and he was nominated as the Minister of Public Constructions in Ossetia.

* The Barbary Pirates demanded tribute from a certain [[YanksWithTanks obscure new nation]] on the grounds that NobodyEverComplainedBefore. The result was that the [[ThisMeansWar US Navy]] came after them and spent several years beating on them. During the WarOf1812 the Barbary Pirates went back to their old tricks and afterwords the US Navy returned and gave them another whaling. At this the British decided that the colonials had a pretty good idea going, peace having broken out in Europe. So they sent the [[OhCrap Royal Navy]] after them. Finally after all that was done, the French simply landed and conquered the whole area.

** On the flipside, the behaviour of the Red Army when they conquered Poland and elsewhere 5-6 years prior wasn't that much better; less raping, perhaps, but still lots of cruelty and looting and humiliation, and several instances of kidnapping and mass murder. This was the Soviet Union of ''JosefStalin'', after all, and they had endured decades of oppression and propaganda basically encouraging them to be inherently horrible people, to say nothing of Holodomor or all the other artrocities the Red's had put the rest of their empire through. As horrible as Nazi Germany had treated them in the war, the fact is they weren't much better and the Rampage of Revenge was probably as much a reflection of that as much as actual retaliation, and for many was likely just an excuse to do whatever they wanted.

* When [[CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] died, some Australians did not take his death well and condemned the stingrays, the creature that killed him (in self-defence). Thus, shortly after, several mutilated stingrays were found near some of Australian beaches. Irwin's friends took notice and condemned the mutilators, because Irwin wouldn't have wanted a retribution on those who caused his death. You know... [[MisaimedFandom the same animals that Steve Irwin dedicated his life to preserving]].

* Pancho Villa[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa]] himself went on this trope after his war effort against a corrupt Mexican government was virtually starved by an US presidential ban of aid to his forced. He found himself so embittered that he later lead 500 men to raid Columbus, New Mexico[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Columbus_(1916)]] for supplies and not only attempted to look, but willingly attacked anyone on site with his men, setting homes on fire. Unfortunately for his men, they were beaten back with high losses. The US President and his people were not please, and sent a 5,000 strong army to hunt him down, but never succeeded.

* The entire Lusitanian War[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian_War]] was a big rampage of revenge against the increasingly expansionist Roman Republic. When Rome pretended to make peace with the tired Lusitanians over war and land, only to slaughter 10,000 men women and children. Huge numbers of them spent the next 3 years randomly attacking Roman territories and allies but slowly failing. Just as it looked like Rome would wipe out the last resisting warriors, a survivor of that same earlier massacre reminded them of why they had been fighting. Knowing how Romans fought, he managed to save the several thousand cornered warriors without a loss, leading to a renewed 8 year leadership of revenge against Rome. His leadership caused so much distress in Rome that other tribes rebelled, The recruitment rate in Rome dropped, especially after three legions were lost in the war against the Lusitanians alone. However, the trope is somewhat subverted in that eventually he later spared an army of Romans for peace, knowing that over time, the war would simply drain his peoples numbers, only for the peace treaty to be reneged and himself assassininated. Ironically enough his death triggered another bribed rampage or revenge but without his leadership it failed. Adding to the confusion, the Roman's ended up making peace later by giving this tribe exactly what they asked for before this entire mess began, fertile land.

* The entire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian_War]] was a big rampage of revenge against the increasingly expansionist Roman Republic. When Rome pretended to make peace with the tired Lusitanians over war and land, only to slaughter 10,000 men women and children. Huge numbers of them spent the next 3 years randomly attacking Roman territories and allies but slowly failing. Just as it looked like Rome would wipe out the last resisting warriors, a survivor of that same earlier massacre reminded them of why they had been fighting. Knowing how Romans fought, he managed to save the several thousand cornered warriors without a loss, leading to a renewed 8 year leadership of revenge against Rome. His leadership caused so much distress in Rome that other tribes rebelled, The recruitment rate in Rome dropped, especially after three legions were lost in the war against the Lusitanians alone. However, the trope is somewhat subverted in that eventually he later spared an army of Romans for peace, knowing that over time, the war would simply drain his peoples numbers, only for the peace treaty to be reneged and himself assassininated. Ironically enough his death triggered another bribed rampage or revenge but without his leadership it failed. Adding to the confusion, the Roman's ended up making peace later by giving this tribe exactly what they asked for before this entire mess began, fertile land.

* The entire [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitanian_War]] was a big rampage of revenge against the increasingly expansionist Roman Republic. When Rome pretended to make peace with the tired Lusitanians over war and land, only to slaughter 10,000 men women and children. Huge numbers of them spent the next 3 years randomly attacking Roman territories and allies but slowly failing. Just as it looked like Rome would wipe out the last resisting warriors, a survivor of that same earlier massacre reminded them of why they had been fighting. Knowing how Romans fought, he managed to save the several thousand cornered warriors without a loss, leading to a renewed 8 year leadership of revenge against Rome. His leadership caused so much distress in Rome that other tribes rebelled, The recruitment rate in Rome dropped, especially after three legions were lost in the war against the Lusitanians alone. However, the trope is somewhat subverted in that eventually he later spared an army of Romans for peace, knowing that over time, the war would simply drain his peoples numbers, only for the peace treaty to be reneged and himself assassininated. Ironically enough his death trigged another bried rampage or revenge but without his leadership it failed. Adding to the confusion, the Roman's ended up making peace later by giving this tribe exactly what they asked for before this entire mess began, fertile land.