Basic Trope: The Hero looks for revenge against Evulz who killed their father (or another important person to them).
- Straight: Bob hunts down Evulz, saying this stock phrase.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob will hunt down anyone vaguely connected to his relative's murder.
- Evulz shows up at Bob's family reunion and kills everyone, and Bob swears vengeance for them all.
- Evulz not only killed Bob's father, he destroyed Bob's entire city. Bonus points if done without a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
- Downplayed:
- Bob wants revenge against Evulz for injuring his father.
- Evulz kills Bob's father, getting injured in the process. Bob withholds medical care and watches him die.
- Justified:
- Evulz is untouchable by the law, so no one else will stop him.
- Bob had a positive relationship with his father. Of course he'd be pissed off that his old man was murdered.
- Inverted:
- Avenging the Villain
- "Dad's not dead, and he's kinda pissed. Don't tell him I warned you, okay?"
- Bob unknowingly killed his own father, and Evulz is all too happy to deliver the news.
- Bob looks for the person that saved his father's life, because they want to repay them for the noble deed.
- Bob is trying to kill Evulz for killing his own father, as killing family is unforgivable in his book.
- Bob seeks revenge against Evulz for killing his son.
- Subverted:
- Bob finds out that Evulz did not kill his father.note
- Turns out Bob did not like their father in the first place.
- Luke, I Am Your Father.
- It turns out Evulz killed Bob's father in self-defense and Bob can't really blame them for that.
- Evulz kills Bob as well. Possibly with him saying, "I killed your father like that."
- Double Subverted:
- Evulz pretends they did not kill Bob's father, but is killed anyway because they were lying.
- Bob wanted to kill their father themselves, but Evulz got to it first, so now Bob feels they have to kill Evulz.
- Luke, I Am Your Father... but I also killed your mother.
- ...but Bob can and does blame Evulz, or he was lying and Bob finds out.
- Bob wakes up showing he faked his death and attempts revenge again.
- Parodied:
- Bob is hunting Evulz to revenge somebody who's only vaguely related to him. "You killed my father's cousin's mother's sister's daughter's son's third wife's roommate!"
- Bob hunts the person who killed his goldfish.
- The slight is even more comically petty: "You stole my sandwiches!"
- His father's ghost comes back to tell him to get revenge on his killers. He died of a heart attack.
- Zig Zagged:
- "You killed my father!"
"No, I am your father!"
"What, seriously?"
"Yes. You see — UGGH!"
"What, where'd that knife come from?!"
"Me, and he's not your real father!"
"How would you know?"
"Because I KILLED YOUR FATHER!"
"Meh, I never liked the old bastard anyway." - Bob wants to kill Evulz to avenge his father. Another person beats him to it though and kills Evulz. It is later discovered that the man who killed Evulz is Bob's long lost brother and he killed Evulz to avenge their father.
- "You killed my father!"
- Averted:
- Bob's father is alive, or died of causes unrelated to Evulz.
- Bob's father was killed by Evulz, but he doesn't believe in revenge and has other reasons to try and defeat Evulz.
- Bob remains unaware of who killed his father through the story.
- Enforced: Death by Origin Story.
- Lampshaded:
- "You seem angry. Did I kill your parents, by any chance?"
- "Oh, please. What is with you heroes and dead parents? I killed my father, too, and you don't see me whining about it."
- Invoked: The previous hero asks his son to avenge him.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Evulz makes sure to kill entire families.
- The father tells the son not to bother avenging him.
- Evulz avoids killing those who have family to prevent their surviving relatives from coming after him to avenge his victims' deaths.
- Bob doesn't cite this trope, thinking that using a cliché'd phrase would only insult his father.
- Discussed: "You really want this guy bad, don't you? What, did he kill your father or something? …oh. I'm sorry."
- Conversed: "This is that part where the good guy tells the bad guy that he brought it all on himself by killing his father, right? OK, just checking."
- Deconstructed:
- After his father is avenged, Bob, whose life was singularly devoted to this purpose, no longer knows what to do with his life.
- After Bob kills Evulz, Evulz's son swears vengeance. He gets it, causing Bob's son to take up arms. And so on.
- Evulz doesn't remember who he actually killed when Bob wants justice, and kills Bob anyway for being a threat. Bob then becomes just another person who died at the hands of Evulz like that.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob becomes content that Evulz can't hurt anyone anymore and slowly tries to find a new purpose.
- Alternatively, Bob kills himself after killing Evulz, ensuring the Cycle of Revenge dies with him.
Hero(ine): Escaping to the main page won't save you! You Killed My Father, and I'd hunt you down until the end of the world in order to make you pay, You Monster!
