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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer Starlight Glimmer]] wants revenge on Twilight Sparkle and her friends for taking Starlight's village away from her. She's completely ignorant that her village was a horrible place to live, that the villagers there were under duress and threatened with imprisonment and borderline torture for any dissent, or that the entire reason Twilight ruined it was in order to free herself and her friends after being kidnapped, imprisoned, and borderline tortured into joining her cult.

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]] for the first half of the film holds a nasty hatred towards all Titans and especially Godzilla because his son was a casualty of Godzilla's past battle against the [=MUTOs=], and he doesn't care that Godzilla is an animal who didn't in any way deliberately cause Andrew's death (this is especially notable when you realize that [[{{Hypocrite}} someone in Mark's profession should rationally know better than the average person not to make such biased judgments towards animals]]). That being said, Mark is implied to be "all bark and no bite" when it comes to seeing Godzilla killed, and he gets better via MovingBeyondBereavement.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': It's not brought up in the film, but in the {{novelization}}'s AdaptationExpansion, [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa Ren Serizawa]] has shades of this in regards to his [[ItsPersonal personal hatred of Godzilla]]. Ren wants Godzilla dead because he blames Godzilla for diverting his father's love and attention away from him his entire life and also because the late Serizawa's death before Godzilla's snout permanently dashed Ren's hopes of having reconciliation with his father; nevermind that on top of the "Godzilla's an animal" think with Mark's vendetta, Ren's father ''willingly'' sacrificed his life to save Godzilla's and Ren is now knowingly trying to undo the very thing his father gave his life for.

** In ''Film/ScreamVI'', [[spoiler:the Bailey family wants revenge on Sam for killing Richie in ''Film/Scream2022''. They even extend this to everyone else that was connected to his death and are willing to kill random bystanders who get in the way of killing their targets. The fact that he instigated a murder rampage that left six innocent people dead and died trying to murder the woman who ultimately did him in and all for the pettiest motivation of any Ghostface (being a LooneyFan of a film series who hated the direction the most recent film took and wanted to create his own murder spree to inspire a better sequel) is immaterial]].

** In ''Film/ScreamVI'', [[spoiler:the Bailey family wants revenge on Sam for killing Richie in ''Film/Scream2022''. The fact that he instigated a murder rampage that left six innocent people dead and died trying to murder the woman who ultimately did him in is immaterial]].

* Black Manta in ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'' wants to kill Aquaman because Aquaman killed his father. Well, "[[FailureToSaveMurder didn't save]]" his father. See, Black Manta and his father were pirates who were hijacking a submarine (which involved killing crewmembers), and Aquaman intervened. Aquaman was ready to walk away, when Black Manta's father attacked him, ending up pinned and dying as the sub filled with water. Black Manta begged Aquaman for mercy, and Aquaman refused (not unreasonable, considering the father had just proven he'd take advantage of mercy). Black Manta not only has all the facts, but he ''witnessed'' the entire thing and still blames Aquaman.

** ''Literature/GravePeril'' reveals that Bianca's motivation for revenge against Harry (and the entire White Council) is because he caused one of her prostitute employees' deaths back in ''Literature/StormFront''. The sequence of events went like this: Bianca attacked Harry when he came to question her about the case he was on (which she legitimately had nothing to do with), and he [[CrimeOfSelfDefense defended himself]] and left. Afterwards, she fed on the prostitute but was so shaken up that she accidentally killed the girl. Not only does she [[NeverMyFault not acknowledge her role in the debacle]], ''she didn't even know the woman's name'' ([[TheDeadHaveNames Harry does- her name was Rachel]]). [[spoiler: She may have been manipulated by Nemesis into provoking the White Council to weaken the general supernatural world.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Starlight Glimmer wants revenge on Twilight Sparkle and her friends for taking Starlight's village away from her. She's completely ignorant that her village was a horrible place to live, that the villagers there were under duress and threatened with imprisonment and borderline torture for any dissent, or that the entire reason Twilight ruined it was in order to free herself and her friends after being kidnapped, imprisoned, and borderline tortured into joining her cult.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Boba Fett wants revenge on Mace Windu for killing his father, despite said father having been a hostile combatant on a live battlefield when he was cut down. Mace's genuinely unsympathetic demeanor towards the boy doesn't help matters.
** Also applies to Darth Maul, who seethes for vengeance against Obi-Wan for carving him in half like a ham even though he murdered Obi-Wan's Master before his eyes in cold blood and tried to do the same to Obi-Wan himself.
* The Shredder from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' lives by three words: RevengeBeforeReason. He possesses a seething, unfathomable hatred for Splinter and all of his reasons for it run on InsaneTrollLogic bordering on IRejectYourReality.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': After her son J. Geil's death, Enya the Hag desires to [[AvengeTheVillain kill Polnareff for vengence]]. The matter that Polnareff killed J. Geil to avenge the death of his sister Sherry, who J. Geil raped and murdered, seems to be no difference to her.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Boba Fett wants revenge on Mace Windu for killing his father despite his father being a hostile combatant on a live battlefield. Mace's genuinely unsympathetic demeanor towards the boy doesn't help matters.

* In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, Solarian Fleet Admiral Rajampet Rajani states, in no uncertain terms, that he does not care how justified the Manticorans believed they were in killing Admiral Josef Byng, and goes on to say he doesn't care how justified they ''actually'' were. His biggest concern is the blow to the Solarian League Navy's prestige their actions have caused and the precedents it could set. This attitude is not helped by the fact that the Manticorans keep {{Curb Stomp|Battle}}ing his navy.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': CrusadingWidower Kasumi wants revenge on Donovan for killing her lover Keiji... when the two of them were thieves who were in the process of robbing Donovan when Keiji got caught. Now, admittedly it's not always justified to kill a thief, but it's still a little absurd to hear Kasumi scream "murderer!" at Donovan... especially when she'll gladly help slaughter dozens of foes on any given mission.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'', a sequel to ''Film/HardBoiled'', James Wong wants revenge on [[CowboyCop Tequila Yuen]] for killing his son Johnny, the BigBad of ''Film/HardBoiled''. Never mind the fact that Johnny was a psychopathic gangster who was quite willing to murder innocent people just for being in his way. [[spoiler:The fact that he orchestrates the death of his surviving child, who is Tequila's wife, just to spite Tequila only makes it worse.]]