Discussion Main / CrusadingWidower

Per TRS, this was merged with Vengeful Widow under the name Crusading Widow:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16660854080.21125600&page=2#comment-31

You can't always get what you want.

Now that we have Vengeful Widow as a Spear Counterpart, should we move female examples to that page?

By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.

Deleted the following ZCE:

Anime and Manga

• Himura Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin (though he's very much not an anti-hero).
• Ogami Itto in Lone Wolf And Cub.
• Quent in Wolfs Rain.

Comic Books

• Jonah Hex.

Fanfiction

• John Freeman in Half-Life: Full Life Consequences

Films — Live-Action

• Maximus in Gladiator.
• Clyde in Law Abiding Citizen.
• Sweeney Todd.
• Paul Kersey in the Death Wish series.
• Gordon Brewer in Collateral Damage.
• Clint Eastwood as The Outlaw Josey Wales.
• Dr. Richard Kimble of The Fugitive.
• Leonardo Di Caprio seems to be getting these roles lately; both Shutter Island and Inception had shades of this.
• Mel Gibson seems to play this kind of role a lot — for instance, in Mad Max, Braveheart, and The Patriot, although in the latter his widowerhood and his crusading weren't directly related (he's avenging the death of his son). Heath Ledger's character in the latter film also counts, except he's not very good at it.

Literature

• Catelyn Stark from A Song of Ice and Fire.

Live-Action TV

• Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
• To a certain degree, Gibbs in NCIS.
• Michael in Nikita, all the way.
• Patrick Jane on The Mentalist.
• Cole in Tracker
• Judge Nicholas Marshall in Dark Justice.

Video Games

• Gabriel Belmont in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
• Kivan from the first Baldur's Gate.
• Ashe from Final Fantasy XII was married to Prince Rasler, making her a Crusading Widow.
• Star Fox: Main character Fox McCloud's father James was this in the official backstory to the series.
• The Player Character's father in Fallout 3.

Web Comics

• Soon Kim in The Order of the Stick, after his wife is killed by the Snarl.

Web Original

• Dan Mason a.k.a. The Accuser.

Western Animation

• Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series , though his wife did not actually die.

If anyone knows more about these, and whether they fit the trope, feel free to readd them with proper explanation.

Examples for this trope should explain:

• whom did the character lose,
• how did the loss motivate the character.

Remember, this trope is not about any action character who happens to be a widower.

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Also deleted this non-example:

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service features James Bond losing his new wife at the end of film.

And removed all mentions of "gender inverted" and such; this trope isn't Always Male (though many of its examples happen to be male).

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