History Main / AvengingTheVillain

* ''Series/AlexRider'': [[spoiler:Duplicate!Alex travels to London, intending to destroy Alex's life for ruining Dr. Greif's plan and getting him arrested]].

* The purpose of the appropriately-named Knights of Vengeance in the early second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' is to avenge the previous season's BigBad, EvilOverlord Phobos. [[spoiler:Of course, this is all just part of [[TheChessmaster Nerissa's]] schemes.]]

* In Literature/TheBookOfMormon, a Nephite named Amalickiah leads a failed revolution to overthrow the democratic government and instate himself as king. By conspiracy and several murders, he later becomes king of the Lamanites and leads them in a long and bloody war that captures several Nephite cities. When he is later assassinated, his brother Ammoron continues the war, swearing to avenge his murdered brother. He fails: the Nephites retake their cities with God's strength, and Ammoron is also assassinated.

** In Part 2, [[spoiler:Flamethrower Man wanted revenge on Denji for killing [[TheAntichrist Makima]] because unlike the other Weapons who were BrainwashedAndCrazy he was a willing follower of her WorldOfSilence plan and felt that Denji destroyed mankind's [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist best chance at survival]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Jasper reveals that part of the reason she wanted to destroy Rose Quartz was to avenge [[spoiler:Pink Diamond]].

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', [[StupidEvil Katana Man]]'s motivation for working for the Gun Devil to kill Denji was that Denji killed his {{yakuza}} grandfather, [[SelectiveObliviousness completely ignoring]] that he got himself killed stupidly putting his trust in the Zombie Devil and was already a shambling corpse by the time Denji got to him.

** In ''VisualNovel/MurderAtHomecoming'', the reason [[spoiler:April]] killed Gabbie was to avenge [[spoiler:the imprisonment of her brother Brett for crimes he committed]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'': Morgana initially claims that she's coming after Ariel and Eric to avenge the death of her sister Ursula. However, it's ultimately subverted; in reality, Morgana always hated Ursula for being [[FreudianExcuse their mother's]] [[ParentalFavoritism favorite]] and wants to prove herself better by accomplishing at what Ursula failed to do.

* The plot of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' is because [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce]] "let Ducard/Ra's die" in ''Film/BatmanBegins''. Bane and Talia, who used to have a rather strained relationship with her father prior to that, then seek to accomplish his visions.

* Part of a SequelHook for ''Film/KickAss'', when [[spoiler:Red Mist seems to imply that he's going to become a super-villain for all the new superheroes to fight]].

* A hallucination of [[Characters/MarvelComicsNormanOsborn Norman Osborn]] rather strongly insists upon this in ''Film/SpiderMan2''. ''Film/SpiderMan3'' than sees Harry taking his chance to avenge his father and become the New Goblin.

* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'': In "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", Agent Elle is the target of a bounty by the Bug Queen for killing Edgar in [[Film/MenInBlack the first film]]. But because all bugs are siblings, [[SiblingRivalry they also fight amongst themselves for the bounty]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'': Morgana initially claims that she's coming after Ariel and Eric to avenge the death of her sister Ursula. However, it's ultimately subverted; in reality, Morgana always hated Ursula for being [[FreudianExcuse their mother's]] [[ParentalFavoritism favorite]] and wants to prove herself better by accomplishing why Ursula failed to do.

* Explicitly defied in the Kiwami remake of ''Videogame/Yakuza1'', where after Shimano's death, his [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Majima sends a message to Kiryu stating that while he knows that Kiryu and his allies had something to do with it, he won't be seeking vengeance because as far as he's concerned, Shimano fought his own battles.

* In the story of "Literature/{{Aladdin}}", the villainous African magician has a younger brother attempting to avenge his brother's death.

* In ''VideoGame/Kindergarten2'', Jerome has developed a murderous vendetta against his classmate Lily for her involvement in his father the principal's death in [[VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}} the first game]]. However, in this case, he doesn't actually know that his father was a bad guy; he thinks that Lily is just paranoid and unstable. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he manages to see reason when she points out that a man with nothing to hide wouldn't hand out bombs to his students set to go off if they say they know where their missing classmate Billy is, and the protagonist backs up her story.]]

* In ''Film/AboutLittleRedRidingHood'', the plot kicks off because the old She-Wolf wants to avenge her son, TheBigBadWolf from [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood the original fairytale]].

*** In ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', one boss is Squid Adler (a.k.a. Volt Kraken), who quit the Maverick Hunters partly because he was depressed at the death of Launch Octopus.[[note]]If you don't remember that, it's because ''X5'''s translation was sloppy, apparently missing the reference to a past character; "Octopardo", a transliteration of his Japanese name, was used.[[/note]] When he himself goes Maverick, he swears vengeance for his friend.

*** Kuwagust Anchus in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero2'' mentions his [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers brother]], Herculius [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Anchortus/Anchus]], a boss from [[VideoGame/MegaManZero1 the first game]], during his own boss fight. When the obligatory end-game BossRush comes along, Kuwagust is resurrected alongside Herculious for a DualBoss.