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When Royal learns his identity twenty years later, he uses that information to give his dying brother Charles the will to live on. The two end up becoming mercenaries on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the agent. Batman lost both his parents to a random mugger by the name of Joe Chill. Although this is the major cause for Bruce's decision to become a superhero, he's able to focus on the big picture. Naturally, Batman never kills Chill , but Chill is killed by his fellow mobsters who blame him for creating Batman. Batman Beyond : Terry nearly says this to Blight before Bruce interrupts him.
Batman: You killed my Bruce: McGinnis!! Batman: You killed a good man. Black Panther: Do you have any children? Klaw: No. Panther: Good. Because then I'd have to kill them, too. Supergirl: My name is I'm Superman's cousin from Krypton! I've been his secret emergency weapon for years! Luthor, in the name of planet Krypton, I arrest you for murder! And in this case, his father is Discord. Aoi spent his whole life hunting down his parents' murderer, and boy did he enjoy every second of payback, right before he got busted by the cops and got whisked away to Equestria.
The Rango fanfic Old West provides a villainous example; the kingsnake mercenary Henry seeks revenge on Rattlesnake Jake for killing his brother. Ironically, Henry is an Expy of Frank from Once Upon a Time in the West , and Harmonica from the same movie targeted Frank for the same reason, making Henry a combination of the two characters. In chapter 17 of Once More with Feeling Misato explains her ward Asuka that she wants to exterminate the Angels because her father died during Second Impact.
In Out of the Corner of the Eye , Paco is so obsessed with getting revenge on the man who killed his parents that he agrees to be host to Hsi Wu's spirit in exchange for the power to do so. In Superman story Superman of The Great Confrontation , the current Batman wants bring the Joker to justice for his father's murder. Atonement has Amy Dallon. Maybe Crawler shouldn't have killed off Amy's father just as she was getting to understand him. He might have lived longer that way. I will avenge your honor.
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I will make her pay for blocking the True Path. Misato: Good.
Because I sure remember you too. Misato: My name is Misato Katsuragi. Daughter of Shiro Katsuragi, the stupid son of a bitch who woke you up. I am the daughter of a murdered man and the only human being to look on you with their own eyes and live to tell about it.
Now smile asshole.
Because this Films — Animation. Kung Fu Panda 2 plays with this trope, with Po finding out that Lord Shen committed genocide against the other pandas , including his biological parents. Only at the climax, Po's motivation to take down Shen is still the safety of his friends, family and the rest of China rather than for retribution. And at the end, it is revealed that his father and some others survived. The Empire Strikes Back version of the whole "you-killed-my-father" thing was hilariously parodied in Toy Story 2. Scar: I. Films — Live-Action. Averted in 28 Days Later.
Hannah's recently Infected as in, within seconds of contact father is shot to death in front of her by a group of rescuing soldiers. She's naturally horrified and grieving, but not vengeful. When she thinks that Jim is uh, biting her would-be foster mom, though, she tries to bash his skull in. Assassin's Creed : Young Callum walks in to see his mother killed by his Assassin father, and has wanted to kill him since.
Even when given the chance by Alan, Callum spares him now that he knows the bigger picture. In Avatar , Neytiri's father is killed in the attack on Hometree.
Sure enough, she gets her revenge using her father's own bow. He tells Marty this, but Marty doesn't take revenge directly, instead he repairs the timeline so Biff will be a loser and George McFly still alive again. Dick Grayson, before he was written out of the movie, was supposed to also have his parents killed by the Joker.
In the movie Batman Begins , Bruce before deciding to become Batman attempts to murder Joe Chill, the mugger that killed his parents but Joe is murdered on the orders of Carmine Falcone, who he is testifying against, before Bruce gets the chance to kill Joe himself. In Batman Forever , Robin's entire family was murdered by Two-Face, which prompts the young sidekick into a life of crime-fighting.
A major plot is his need to overcome personal revenge, though. Charlie's Angels : The driving motivation of the Big Bad is that he believes Charlie left his father to die. Cataleya Restrepo of Colombiana wants to avenge the death of her parents, who were murdered by rivals. Conan the Barbarian : The title character out for revenge for Conan: You killed my mother You took my father's sword! Jerry: You have your mother's eyes Don Ciccio: What was your father's name?
Vito: Antonio Andolini. Don Ciccio: You'll have to speak up. I can't hear you. Vito: My father's name was Antonio Andolini And This Is for Steve: This isn't gonna change what happened. Tony: I don't care. He killed my mom. Chosen One: You killed my family. And I don't like that kind of thing.
Rochefort: How pathetic, killed by the same man that killed your father. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Rochefort Oh yes, as I will kill you. Magneto : I want you to know I agree with everything you just said. We are the future. But, unfortunately The 39 Clues : She doesn't get killed by them unfortunately, but Amy and Dan are pretty mad at Isabel Kabra for killing their parents.
In Animorphs , Andalite culture demands that Ax try to avenge the murder of his brother, Elfangor.
Unfortunately, Elfangor was murdered by Visser Three, who is pretty much the most dangerous person possibly this side of Crayak. He tries in book 8 and almost succeeds, but the real, Yeerk Visser Three escapes from his host and disappears into a stream. After that the vendetta is more or less forgotten.
Garion, The Hero of David Eddings 's Belgariad , gets some nice karmic vengeance on Asharak, the Grolim sorcerer who killed his parents when he was only an infant. Asharak burned them alive; Garion burns him alive in his first overt act as a sorcerer.
In a possible subversion , he immediately regrets it. Victor Draconi of the Black Blade series killed the protagonist's father indirectly and her mother in person. The only reason Lila hasn't sought revenge yet is because she knows she can't take him alone. Awareness of this trope, in A Brother's Price , leads to a very cold practice: if a family has committed treason, when they are executed so are all of their children. Right down to the infants.
The only exceptions happen if the family is ruled to not be working together in concert as is proper, like the Whistler family was generations before the book's start. Several characters find this practice monstrous, but others are ruthlessly pragmatic. Do you think you could take that hatred to suckle at your breast? Which ones do you spare?
Where do you draw the line? Major Sorokin: For my little Svetlana, who died without a face. Live-Action TV. Angel : There is Connor, who wanted to make his real father suffer because he believed Angel killed his foster father, Holtz.