You Killed My Father / Video Games

You Killed My Father in Video Games.

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• Ace Attorney:
  • In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, when Edgeworth learns that Von Karma killed his father, he says, "So...it was you." Interestingly though, he doesn't play a part in getting them arrested — Phoenix does.
  • Ace Attorney Investigations: Kay Faraday gets one of these in "Turnabout Ablaze", when she faces Shih-na after finding out that she is really Calisto Yew in disguise — the woman who killed her father in the previous flashback case. She tries to attack her despite Edgeworth's objections, and ends up getting held at gunpoint in what is arguably the highlight/climax of the case. Interestingly enough, she actually drops this attitude shortly afterward, coming to consider Yew to be more of the murder weapon than the actual murderer, who would be the Big Bad holding her leash. This also happens in the seconds Investigations game when the assassin Sirhan Dogen offers his own blade to John Marsh (who is thirteen) and gives him permission to kill him as revenge for assassinating John's father, but John refuses. He doesn't particularly care that If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!, but he loves his adoptive mother and new friends and doesn't want to cause them any pain. Dogen respectfully accepts John's refusal and says that he "says some interesting things."
  • Played with in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, when it's revealed that Simon Blackquill was in prison for the murder of Athena's mother, but not only does she not believe it, but she's actively trying to get him free. A variation does happen later, when the real murderer is found and Athena joins Apollo and Phoenix behind the defense bench to take him down.
  • In The Great Ace Attorney, this is the motive behind Ashley Graydon killing Asshole Victim Magnus McGilded, who had gotten a "Not Guilty" verdict through liberal tampering with the evidence and witnesses in his murder trial. Interestingly, while McGilded's murder was not planned by the Reaper Conspiracy, it did help the duology's Big Bad to claim the Reaper's curse was still in effect despite the Conspiracy's go-to assassin being imprisoned in another country at the time.
• After Sepulchure's death in AdventureQuest Worlds, his daughter Gravelyn becomes sad and angry over it, and guess what? She will never forgive Drakath for killing him. Hence, the reason why she formed a truce with King Alteon to deal with his threat and that of the 13 Lords of Chaos.
  Gravelyn: Drakath will pay for what he has done! Then... My army of darkness will conquer this land. We are unstoppable!
• AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: Tearer kills a number of people, and one victim has children who seek revenge. Six years after Komeji's death, Shoma creates some thermite bombs in a plot to kill Tearer. Unbeknownst to him, his older sister, Amame, had already done the deed a few days prior when Tearer gloated to her about killing Komeji.
• In Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis, Mera brings up Black Manta killing her and Arthur's son as a reason to exact revenge in kind.
• Lampshaded in ARFENHOUSE!!!1 TOO!!!:
  HOUSEMASTRL: I WILL REVENGE MYH DED FATHER WHO U KLSI ZOO! I"I LKI U!!!
  Joseph: Oh, he killed your father? *cough*cliche*cough*
• Assassin's Creed:
  • As it turns out in Assassins Creed III, this trope is the reason behind the events of the entire series. Juno's father was killed during the war between Those Who Came Before and humanity. This left her with a deep-seated resentment of humanity. As a result, she manipulated the plan to prepare humans for the next solar flare to ensure that she would be able to return to Earth and conquer humanity after the threat had passed. The war between the Assassins and Templars, two groups of people who both ultimately just wanted to make the world a better place and merely disagreed on how to do it, was at least partially Juno's fault thanks to her manipulations via the Pieces of Eden, since the two groups working together might have found a way to stop the solar flare without following her plans.
  • Pretty much the case in Assassin's Creed II, as Ezio's original motivation is the framing and execution of his father, along with Ezio's brothers, at the behest of the Big Bad. After he avenges himself upon the prosecutor/judge though, he finds out about a conspiracy against the city which his father had collected evidence against, and considers the conspirators partially responsible as well.
  • The opening of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, an Immediate Sequel to II, ends with the killing of Ezio's uncle Mario Auditore by Cesare Borgia to conclude the Siege of Monteriggioni, once again motivating Ezio to get revenge.
  • In Assassin's Creed III, Connor hates Charles Lee and wants him dead because he blames him for the attack on his village that killed his mother Ziio. He does not respond well when he learns that his ally George Washington was the one truly responsible for the attack. He pretty much leaves Washington alone (he merely cuts off all ties with him) though.
• In Baldur's Gate, you have to avenge the death of your foster-father, Gorion. Along the way, you find out that your real father is Bhaal, the now-dead god of murder, and that your foster-father's killer is one of your divine half-brothers. Exactly who kills him depends on which of your party members makes the killing blow, but your party kills him so it still counts.
• In Baten Kaitos, Kalas seeks to kill Giacomo because the latter killed Kalas's grandfather and little brother.
• Battle for Wesnoth: The "Rise of Wesnoth" campaign gives you farmers you can lead into battle. The first farmer to attack this way reveals his/her motivation: "You killed my family! Die!"
• Bladed Fury sees you as a Warrior Princess, Ji-Jiang, out to avenge your family's deaths in the hands of a rival clan, with the clan's ruling Duke being your father's killer. You name-drop the trope when fighting him: "You killed my father and took my sister. You shall pay with your blood!"
• Inverted in Borderlands 2, wherein the player characters assist the suicide of the Big Bad's daughter, whom he was using as a Wetware CPU for his supercomputer. He goes from Comedic Sociopathy to screaming for you to stop to Tranquil Fury, vowing to kill them with his bare hands.
• In Dark Chronicle, Gaspard kills King Raybrandt at the end of the opening scene of the game, right before Monica Raybrandt's eyes. She doesn't take this well, and travels through time to avenge him.
• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record gives us Evan MacIntyre, a midget clown on stilts who sells ice cream. He tries to sell some to Frank, at which point a signed photo flits past him... whereupon Evan mentions his late brother, Adam, who worked at the Willamete mall. Adam was one of the psychopaths Frank killed in the original Dead Rising, and Evan attacks Frank in order to get his revenge.
• Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Greed has murdered Perna's father, which she tells in her introduction. Later she elaborates that he killed her mother as well.
• In Deus Ex, Bob Page is revealed to have been responsible for killing you and Paul's father. He even sends the man who did the job to kill you near the end of the game, allowing you to exact sweet, sweet revenge, in addition to getting revenge on Page himself in the ending.
• Dragon Age has a few examples.
  • Dragon Age: Origins:
    • the Human Noble origin involves your parents being betrayed and killed by the man you all believed was your father's best friend. Naturally, later in the game you get to take vengeance on their murderer, Arl Rendon Howe (you fight the guy no matter what, but It's Personal with this origin).
    • In the Awakening expansion, you meet a prisoner who was been captured in an attempt to kill you for murdering his father. You can then recruit him and show him that his father deserved it. It's the son of the man who killed your father in the previously mentioned origin story, meaning it's a thankfully thwarted Cycle of Revenge. Moreover, you can befriend the son, bringing the whole thing to a much better ending than expected.
    • In all origins, Alistair wants revenge against Loghain for the deaths of Warden-Commander Duncan (whom Al regarded as a father figure) and the rest of the Fereldan Grey Wardens apart from you. Depending on how you choose to resolve the situation at the Landsmeet, he can receive or be denied this vengeance; but if he gets it, he makes sure Loghain understands just why he's doing what he's doing.
      Alistair: This is for Duncan!
  • In Dragon Age II, this is the motivation for the Exiled Prince DLC. Sebastian Vael, a prince from the neighboring city-state of Starkhaven, is seeking vengeance for the ruthless murders of his entire family; Seb himself only survived the attack on the royal family because he's a priest in Kirkwall and was nowhere near the palace. His entire character arc hinges on how Hawke handles the situation.
• Dragon Quest:
  • Dragon Quest III: Before the beginning of the game, the Hero's father Ortega died while fighting Baramos. Or so his family believes. The Hero sets off on a journey to avenge his father's death — and save the world — by killing his murderer. Once the Hero has made it to Zoma's dungeon, he sees King Hydra killing his father before his eyes. Needless to say, King Hydra doesn't outlive Ortega for much longer.
  • In Dragon Quest IV, this is what drives the sisters Meena and Maya on their journey. Even when they join forces with The Hero to stop the Big Bad, they do so because they've been explicitly told that The Hero, in turn, will help them avenge their father's death.
  • In Dragon Quest V, the Hero hates Ladja because he burned both his parents to ashes.
• Dragon's Wake: The player character's parents are killed by the Big Bad early in the game.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • In the series' backstory, the legendary Yokudan/Redguard hero Frandar Hunding fell in battle to the giant goblins of Hammerfell while still serving as a Frontline General despite approaching 90. His only son, Divad, took command of the Redguard forces and wiped the goblins out.
  • In Morrowind, Balmora Mages Guild Stewardess Ranis Athrys harbors a serious grudge against the Telvanni. Another character can reveal that this is because her parents were killed by the Telvanni.
• Elohim Eternal: The Babel Code: Joshwa blames the Cainites for the inferno devices that killed his father, but it turns out they weren't responsible. It turns out Lamech is the one who planted the infernos, though Lamech did try to warn Dorran and regrets causing the latter's death.
• In Fallout 3, you can choose to Kill Autumn for killing your father or let him live.
• This is the motive of several opponents in the sequel to Fantasy Quest, set 20 years after your first "rampage". For example, the vampire's wife is understandably upset you killed her husband.
• In Fatal Fury: King of Fighters, the Bogard brothers, Terry and Andy, are out to defeat Geese Howard for killing their adoptive father Jeff. Ironically, after Terry kills Geese in Real Bout Fatal Fury (Geese falls out a window and refuses to take Terry's hand), he raises Geese's orphaned son Rock, apparently to keep him from going through the same process.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Final Fantasy V: After Galuf is killed by Exdeath, his granddaughter Krile takes his place in the party (and magically inherits his abilities learned). Since the game only has four characters at a time, Krile will always be present for the final battle with Exdeath.
  • Final Fantasy VII:
    • Averted. It is heavily implied that Professor Gast was the father of Aerith Gainsborough. He was murdered by Professor Hojo, and Hojo then subjected Ifalna and their daughter, Aerith, to seven years' worth of horrific experiments, which ultimately took its toll on Ifalna when they eventually escaped. However, Aerith never knew that Hojo killed her father, and you only get to find out about this after Aerith is dead.
    • This is Tifa's personal motivation for going after Sephiroth. He single-handedly killed her father, her friends, and everyone she knew and loved in Nibelheim (minus Cloud), and he comes scarily close to killing her as well. Much of the anger towards Sephiroth still remains in Tifa's later portrayals, including physically attacking him in Dissidia Final Fantasy.
    • Sephiroth also killed Cloud's mother, though it goes unmentioned in the original game, with Cloud being simply unable to describe to his friends what he saw in his burning house, though he is seen collapsing with grief in the flashback. Cloud does get to avenge his mother and Tifa's father as well as Nibelheim as whole, at least three times in the canon.
      Give me back my mother, Tifa and the whole village... I used to admire you.
      — Cloud (stabbing Sephiroth) Last Order: Final Fantasy VII
    • In Final Fantasy VII Remake, Sephiroth brags about killing Cloud's mother, and even describes her final moments to send Cloud into a rage.
  • Final Fantasy XIII: "Moms are tough", but not tough enough to escape death. His failure in regards to the counterattack at Hanging Edge continues to metaphorically haunt Snow even as he tries to rescue Serah. It also physically haunts him in the form of Hope, the son of the woman who volunteered to assist him and misinterpreted that failure as Snow leaving her to die. It gets to the point where revenge is Hope's sole driving factor, and he almost exacts his revenge before a Sanctum mech blows them both to the streets below. They manage to smooth things out from that point forward.
• Fire Emblem loves applying this to the lords.
  • Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light:
    • The death of King Cornelius is one reason why Marth takes up arms and opposes the Dolhr Empire.
    • Linde gets her father Miloah personally murdered by Gharnef, and the chance of vengeance is a big reason why she joins Marth's army. And if you see any plucky mage girls in other games that had their parent/familial figures murdered by the bad guys? They took notes from Linde.
  • In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War:
    • Seliph is avenging his father by fighting Arvis.
    • Leif is avenging his father Quan by fighting Travant.
    • Tine wants to avenge her mother. Seriously, if your Genki Mother (Tailtiu) becomes completely broken and dies of sorrow, all thanks to one Evil Matriarch standing right in front of you, who'd not want to? Apparently, if you do pit Arthur (Tine's brother) against said Evil Matriarch, Hilda, in the last scenario, he'd think the same.
    • Lachesis has it in for Chagall after he has her brother Eldigan executed.
    • As for villain-to-hero accusations, Dannan, Scipio, Brian, and Ishtar all use this line, though in Scipio and Dannan's case the parents of the heroes killed their father, close enough.
    • Blume is a bad guy who uses the inversion "You Killed My Son".
  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade: Once Nino learns that Sonia, whom she believed was her mother, actually killed her family when she was an infant, she immediately goes "No mercy! No forgiveness!"
  • Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones:
    • Joshua avenges his mother, though you only see him doing so in Eirika's path. We never know what really happened to Ismaire in Ephraim's path (or if Joshua is actually a prince, at all).
    • After Valter murders Cormag's brother Glen, he tricks Cormag into believing Eirika did it so he goes after her and gets himself killed. Thankfully, Eirika talks him out and he realizes the truth, so he directs his revenge towards Valter.
  • In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Ike's fight with the Black Knight for killing his father is a significant part of the story.
  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has a villain-to-hero accusation if you make Ike fight Pelleas. Pelleas confronts Ike with "You killed my father" (Ashnard, Path of Radiance's Big Bad) and Ike just says that Ashnard was a crazy dude that had to be put down. Though it turns out that Pelleas isn't actually related to Ashnard. Ashnard's real son, Soren, is unaware of their relationship and actively participated in bringing Ashnard down.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening has Lucina saying this to the Avatar, in one of the most heartwrenching moments in the entire series, as she tries and fails to kill the Avatar to prevent it from happening. See the Quotes page for the full dialogue, though be warned — there are massive spoilers present. Sadly, Inigo doesn't take her place if he's Chrom's son, despite the fact that he's named after the trope namer himself.
  • Fire Emblem: Three Houses continues the trend.
    • From the very opening cutscene, we see that Saint Seiros wants revenge on Nemesis for killing her mother. And that's just the start.
    • This ultimately forms a core part of Dimitri's character arc. He wants revenge for the Tragedy of Duscur, an ambush on the entourage of Dimitri's father, King Lambert, which got everyone save Dimitri himself killed. He only has suspicions, but it isn't until much later that he can put a name to it. And even then, he's wrong because the person he blames (Edelgard) had nothing to do with it and was only associated with the true perpetrators as a matter of circumstance. He only starts accusing her of being involved after overhearing her conversation with one of the perpetrators (Thales) where the latter reveals that the Tragedy was committed for her sake, and when she is later revealed to be the Flame Emperor during the Holy Tomb chapter. He eventually kills the mastermind in his own route, but by that point he has put behind his duty to take revenge.
    • In the Crimson Flower route, Ashe (if recruited) will cite the death of his adoptive father as one of the reasons why he joins Edelgard in her fight against the Church of Seiros.
    • Notably averted by Raphael. He has a good idea of who is responsible for his parents' deaths, but revenge isn't on his mind because he has to take care of his younger sister, something that revenge wouldn't help.
    • Also played with in Petra and Caspar's support conversations. Caspar's father is responsible for killing Petra's father in battle during the Empire's war with Brigid and Dagda some years prior, and Petra has to convince him that she has no desire to take her revenge out on him. However, in their rank A conversation, Petra confesses that she actually did have some desire to take her revenge out on him, but lost said desire when she learned firsthand what kind of person Caspar really is.
    • Even Byleth gets into this after Jeralt is murdered by Kronya. In the very next chapter, they seize upon an opportunity to exact revenge upon the killer with relish when the opportunity rises. However, this is exactly what the antagonists hoped they'd do, and they used Kronya as bait to set a trap for them.
    • In Azure Moon, Fleche wants revenge on Dimitri for murdering Randolph (or so she thinks). This sets in motion a chain of events that causes Dimitri to snap out of his Ax-Crazy state that he's been in ever since the Time Skip.
  • Fire Emblem Engage has plenty, as well.
    • Early into the game, we watch Lumera perform a Heroic Sacrifice for her child, Alear. It later turns out that Alear and Lumera weren't actually related by blood, but she had been a Parental Substitute for them, so it's still considered every bit as much as the others here. And while Lumera was technically killed by Veyle, Alear holds Sombron responsible for it because he had Veyle under Mind Control at the time.
    • In the midgame, King Morion of Brodia is captured by Elusian forces and, by the time the heroes catch up to him, he's been sacrificed to Sombron to empower him and brought back as a bloodthirsty, mindless Corrupted. The heroes are forced to Mercy Kill him. This earns Sombron the anger of both of Morion's sons, Princes Diamant and Alcryst, who become solidified in their resolve to stop him.
    • Shortly after Morion's death, Sombron decides to use Hyacinth, Elusia's king and his servant, as a sacrifice. This ends up being the deciding factor in causing the Heel–Face Turn of Hyacinth's elder daughter, Princess Ivy. Hyacinth's younger daughter, Hortensia, also uses this as her motivation when she pulls her own heel-face turn later.
• The Force Unleashed, unlike the main Star Wars classic trilogy, plays this straight with Starkiller's father murdered by Darth Vader right in front of his very eyes; he even says the line himself during his fight against Vader. It's also strongly implied that Palpatine was also involved in Vader murdering Starkiller's father.
• In The Godfather game, your killing of Don Emilio Barzini is partly on orders and partly because he ordered your father's death. It even gets a lampshade hung on it when you finally catch up during the baptism assassinations, with Barzini saying that he knew it would be you.
• In Golden Axe, the Arcade Mode lays out the three heroes' motivations: Death Adder killed Ax Battler's mother, Tyris Flare's father and mother, and Gillius Thunderhead's brother.
• Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos is set in motion mostly by Caleb Maas killing Felix Johnston over a supposedly-unpaid loan. A debt that apparently got inherited by young Cal Johnston, whom Maas decides to have imprisoned for life when he finds him again, recovering one of his father's items. (As if suddenly becoming orphaned and inheriting a significant debt that was supposed to be paid off wasn't bad enough.) Cue Cal breaking out of prison with some other folks 15 years later to become a Space Pirate like his grandma, build up resources, and ultimately get cold, hard revenge on Maas.
• This is the main plot element of the iOS game Infinity Blade: In the opening tutorial, your character is killed by the God King, and the main game starts 20 years later with you controlling his son. You fight your way through the God King's castle before reaching the man himself... who is much more powerful than you and will most likely kick your ass and kill you. Then time furthers an additional 20 years with you controlling the son of the previous character (who for some reason retains the same level and equipment as his father) and so the game continues as you go through several generations until you manage to kill the God King.
• Jitsu Squad have the backstory of Hero Yamagiwa, whose clan was betrayed and wiped out by the villains, with The Dragon Dash Kobayashi murdering Hero's father. Hero holds a personal grudge against Dash because of this, but when Dash is confronted as a boss, turns out Dash's reaction is a But for Me, It Was Tuesday.
• In Kindergarten 2, Jerome has developed a murderous vendetta against his classmate Lily for indirectly causing the death of his father the principal in the Omega Ending of the first game. What he doesn't know is that the reason all that happened is that the principal kidnapped her brother and Jerome's classmate Billy and mutated him into a monster, and the death happened as an unplanned consequence of Lily's rescue of him. When he finally confronts her, he tries to blow her up with one of his father's bombs. However, Lily points out that a man with nothing to hide wouldn't make his students carry around bombs set to detonate if the person said they knew where Billy was. This, and the protagonist backing up her story, is enough to convince Jerome that his father wasn't the man Jerome thought he was and make him give up his vendetta, ultimately subverting the trope.
• The inciting incident of The Last of Us Part II is the brutal death of Ellie's father figure Joel at the hands of a mysterious group of soldiers. After witnessing this, Ellie travels halfway across the country to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the group. As it turns out, this also applies to Abby, former Firefly and leader of the group that killed Joel. She's the daughter of Jerry, the surgeon Joel murdered while rescuing Ellie at the end of the first game, and the trauma she experienced from the event is what drove her to track and kill Joel in such a horrific manner.
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: The opening of the game strongly implies that Agahnim murdered Zelda's father upon usurping the throne (the king is shown as a skeleton, among other things). He was also indirectly responsible for the death of Link's uncle, who served as a father figure to Link. After recieving a telepathic distress call from the captured Zelda, Link journeys out to defeat Agahnim and save Hyrule.
• In Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure, Trane learns that his father was killed by Mayor Sung, which prompts Trane to reveal Sung's corruption.
• In The Matrix: Path of Neo, there is a scene in which you (as Neo) are fighting Seraph and wind up fighting through a cinema in which the same scene is showing on the big screen. The lone member of the audience shouts out things such as "Oh, I get it: You killed his Master and now you must die!"
• A villainous inversion in Max Payne 3: Max kills the son of Anthony De Marco during a standoff against him and his friends. In retaliation, De Marco sends his men after Max and places a huge bounty on his head, forcing him to flee the country with Passos.
• Mega Man ZX pulls this one in Vent's story — in it, Purprill points out that he was just another Maverick until he helped lead the attack on Area H ten years ago, and was remodeled into a Pseudoroid for his work. Vent's parents happened to be there at the time of the attack.
  Vent: Your story about ten years ago eased my conscience. Now there's nothing stopping me from taking you out!

  Vent's female counterpart, Aile, implies, although not outright states, in her story that she's also aware of Purprill murdering her parents and witnessed him doing it.

  Purprill: Ook! Ook! So a Maverick has come to take me back eh? Lord Serpent just doesn't understand how to treat his employees!
  Aile: So you're the one with the Biometal! I'm sorry but I'll be taking it now.
  Purprill: Oh, so you're not one of the Mavericks? Then get out of my park!
  Aile: I'm the one with the memories here. You get out of my park!

• Metal Gear:
  • Metal Gear Solid:
    • Subverted with Liquid, who really hated his father, so he blames Solid Snake for "stealing [his] revenge!"
    • Played straight with Naomi Hunter. She implanted the Fox-Die virus in Solid Snake because he sent her adoptive brother Frank Jaeger home a cripple and indirectly placed him within the Genome Therapy project (unaware that Frank Jaeger was the one who murdered her real parents in the first place), and because he killed her benefactor, Big Boss.
  • Fortune from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty chases after Solid Snake believing that he killed her father, Commander Dolph.
• Metroid features the unending battle between bounty hunter Samus Aran and Ridley, leader of the Space Pirates, who killed not only her own parents, but everyone else on the space colony where she was born. Ridley personally killed her mother, in front of Samus. In the manga, where he speaks, he even cruelly taunts her about it every chance he gets. She also hates the Space Pirates because they destroyed her second family, namely the Chozo who adopted her.
• Inverted in Mitsumete Knight; it's not the player character, but one of his enemies who invokes this trope to his face. After you kill Final Boss Wolfgario the Ravager in his unmasked version, Raizze Haimer, one of the winnable girls of the cast, will reveal herself as his daughter and as one of the enemy generals, and will challenge you in a duel to avenge her father. However, if she's deeply in love with you, she'll waver between her duty and her love, allowing you to save her. If she's not enough in love, on the other hand...
• Mondo Medicals: The Shouty Guy's motivation for violently fighting cancer is, apparently, because "a cancer took [his] father and turned him to death".
• Mother 3: In the first chapter, Claus tries to avenge the death of his mother, Hinawa. This is subverted at the end of the chapter, where it turns out that Claus was killed as well. He gets worse.
• The original 1988 Ninja Gaiden starts with Ryu investigating the death of his father, Ken. At first the game appears to subvert this trope, as Ryu later discovers that his father is still alive. However, within minutes of finding him, Ken is killed by the Big Bad.
• No More Heroes:
  • The first game:
    • Shinobu, the Rank 8 boss, seems relatively unemotional right up until Travis turns on his beam katana. When she sees that, she accuses him of having killed her father and goes ballistic. He didn't. He never even met Master Jacobs, though he did watch his training video until it broke.
    • At the end of the game, Travis learns that his sister Jeane killed his parents. If what she said is true, though, the elder Touchdown really deserved it.
  • In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, the Big Bad's main motivation is that you killed his father and two brothers as part of an unimportant side mission in the first game.
  • Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes has The Bad, father of Bad Girl from the first game, who wants to kill Travis for killing his daughter.
• no-one has to die.: This is Christina's motivation for committing arson in Fenix Corporations. They killed her mother during an experiment.
• No Umbrellas Allowed: If you refuse to give a customer a free umbrella for his sick mother, she will die from pneumonia caused by the rain, and he will accuse you of murder. He'll also express resentment against your "father" Darcy^note he's only making you pretend to be his missing son Bob and vow to kill him, but he'll mistake Hanja for him and beat him up instead, badly enough to make him close his junk shop for a week.
• Octopath Traveler: Primrose is motivated by revenge against the men who killed her father when she was a child.
• This is the motivation behind Christian and Crystal Devroe's hunt for Major Kreissack in One Must Fall: 2097. Come the final confrontation — in giant robots before a live audience, of course — Christian quotes Inigo Montoya verbatim. Kreissack responds with an introduction to the bigger-and-deadlier robot their father was working on...
• The line is said in Outlaws by Marshal Anderson to Bob Graham, who's holding him at gunpoint, and gloats about finishing him off. In an interesting twist, the one who actually kills the villain is not Anderson but rather his little daughter Sara.
• In Perfect Dark Zero's sixth mission, Mai Hem kills Joanna's father, Jack Dark. Jo retaliates by burning Mai Hem with her dropship's engine exhaust, although she's Not Quite Dead yet.
• In Persona 3, Ken Amada's motivation for joining the party turns out to be getting vengeance on his mother's killer. The "killer" turns out to be a former member of SEES, who did it by accident, has regretted it ever since, and is fully aware of Ken's motives — in fact, he rejoins you just to give Ken a shot at dealing with him. The trope is subverted; Takaya kills him in front of Ken's eyes.
• A rare villain wanting revenge on the hero example happens in Pirate101 when Rooke swears vengeance on the player after the player destroys his brother Deacon.
• Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction makes sure to pour on the backstory for our main character. The Big Bad Percival Tachyon establishes a vendetta against the Lombax species, which Ratchet is part of, as he either killed or caused all remaining Lombaxes in the universe to flee using the Dimensionator. Tachyon, however, makes sure to point out that two Lombaxes stayed behind while the rest fled — the keeper of the Dimensionator and his infant son. He tells Ratchet that he took great pleasure in killing his father, and that it was a shame that he was sent to the Solana Galaxy before Tachyon could find him, as well. Subverted, however, as Tachyon seems to use this as more motivation than Ratchet. Ratchet plans on defeating Tachyon to take back the Dimensionator and keep the galaxy safe either way, whereas Tachyon looks at killing Ratchet as a way to "finish the job". Perhaps more of a case of "I killed your father?"
• This is the entire main plot of Raven's Cry — the Player Character hunting down the pirate band that murdered his family and killing every one of them.
• In the Playable Epilogue of Red Dead Redemption, 19-year-old Jack Marston hunts down and shoots Edgar Ross dead for the betrayal and murder of his father.
• Resident Evil 6: When Chris confesses that he was the one who murdered Jake's father, Albert Wesker, Jake flips out, holds him at gunpoint, and comes within a hair's breadth of shooting him in the face right then and there, but averts his aim at the last second, deciding that there are more pressing things to do (like escaping the underwater facility) and they'll settle it later.
• In a doujinshi of RosenkreuzStilette called Rosenkreuzstilette Afterstory, better known as Tearis, Zorne Sepperin is extremely pissed off at her adoptive sister, Iris, for having killed her adoptive father, Graf Michael Sepperin, in the first game. Not willing to forgive her for making her suffer by doing just that, she vows to eliminate her. Cue Freu trying to stop her through a heated battle involving her rage-born power, and Iris, knowing of the battle between the two, desperately asking Tia to kill her in order to truly end the chaos.
• Averted in RuneScape. A villain in a major storyline ends up killing a particular hero who happens to have a daughter who is an extremely powerful warrior in her own right... yet while the villain dies in the end, it is not by her hand. Perhaps understandably, she is unhappy about this.
• In Samurai Shodown Edge of Destiny, Galford D. Weiler personally hunts down Draco, this time around not just because the latter's evil, and the former is a champion of justice, but also because the latter killed the former's father.
• Shenmue: In this case, Ryo Hazuki is after Lan Di (the series antagonist) because he killed Iwao, Ryo's father. Lan Di appears to be trying to get Revenge for someone in his and Iwao's past (apparently Iwao may have killed a close associate of Lan Di and he's settling the score), although Lan Di's interest in the twin stone mirrors seems to be self-serving (killing Iwao as payback may have been a convenient double-whammy).
• Early into Shin Megami Tensei I, a demon eats your mother and disguises itself as her. After unmasking the illusion, you, your two friends, and your demons beat it into submission.
• Subverted in Silent Hill 3. Heather desperately wants to kill her father's murderer, but said murderer dies before Heather gets the chance to exact her revenge. As the player, you can give Heather her revenge, but doing so plays into Claudia's plan and allows the dark god gestating in Heather to overwhelm her for the Bad Ending.
• A villainous example in Sin and Punishment: Star Successor Stage 6: You defeat a keeper, who suddenly spits out her offspring as she dies. The infant then holds your partner hostage over a pit of lava. Upon rescuing your partner, the infant attacks you.
• Inverted in Skies of Arcadia Legends: Optional Boss Piastol repeatedly attempts to duel Vyse to the death because she has identified him as part of a pirate band who invaded her father's ship, killed him and her little sister, and set the ship on fire. Vyse's seeming inability to remember this only aggravates her further. In reality, her father was killed by his second-in-command Ramirez (The Dragon to the current Big Bad) who also sat fire to the ship, her sister survived the ordeal, and Vyse was part of a Blue Rogue crew who just happened to be passing by and tried to rescue survivors off the ship — Vyse doesn't remember the event because he was almost killed by an unknown assailant who threw a knife at his face, scarring him for life, just as he was getting aboard (Piastol was trying to fend off the "invaders").
• In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, this is one of the title character's motives for going after the Fiendish Five: They killed his parents when he was just a child. For bonus points, he witnessed the murder.
• Looking for his father's killer and avenging him is Siegfried's motivation in Soul Blade. Subverted — it was Siegfried himself.
• In StarCraft, Arcturus Mengsk's initial reason for rebelling against the Confederacy before his desire for power fully consumed him was the assassination of his father Angus, along with his mother and little sister. It's also one of the reasons he abandoned Kerrigan to the Zerg on Tarsonis. She was one of the three Ghosts the Confederacy sent, and the one who personally killed and decapitated Angus Mengsk. To top it all off, Arcturus himself gets killed years later, by the same person who killed his father.
• In Star Fox 64, Fox decides to go one-on-one with Andross because he killed his father. In the Star Fox comic in Nintendo Power, a big part of the backstory involves Andross and the Love Triangle that he had with Fox's father over Fox's mother. It turns out that Andross killed the mother with a car bomb that was meant for the father, and sabotaged the father's ship so that it would be lost in the Black Hole. Andross (or rather one of his clones) reveals this to Fara Phoenix after mistaking her for Fox's long-dead mother (this came about due to Fara getting into one of Fox's mother's outfits, resulting in Fox remarking that she could be his mother's twin sister). Fox hears Andross's reveal as well and goes well beyond furious and into Unstoppable Rage mode. Sporting a pair of Glowing Eyes of Doom, no less!
• Street Fighter:
  • In Street Fighter II, Chun-Li wants to kill M. Bison because he killed her father.
  • Juri also has parents that were killed by Bison, who also took out her eye, but really it's more done so as to give Juri more similarities to Chun-Li. In the Street Fighter V story mode, she literally licks her lips when she hears the Illuminati's scheme to bring down Bison.
  • T. Hawk's father was also killed by Bison, not that some of the fans care or Capcom played it up.
  • Sagat killed Dan's father Go in a fight, presumably unintentionally, long before his turn to the Dark Side, and Dan swore revenge. Unfortunately, the master he found to train him, the same as Ryu and Ken's, refused to teach him if vengeance was his only motivation, leaving him half trained. When they finally meet, Sagat, seeing how screwed up vengeance made him, lets him win anyway.
• Summertime Saga: The main storyline involves the Main Character finding the people responsible for his father's death and avenging him, specifically Mayor Rump (who was aware of it and allowed it to happen), Dimitri (who actually committed the murder), and Raznikov Chernyshevsky (who ordered it).
• In the opening to Super Fantasy Zone, Opa-Opa's father is killed by the Dark Menon Forces, and Opa-Opa vows to avenge him by defeating the enemy's mastermind and restoring peace to the Fantasy Zone once again.
• Done with a twist in Super Robot Wars 3 and Original Generation: The heroes are confronted by Lune Zoldark, daughter of Bian Zoldark, who was the Big Bad of the Divine Wars. After defeating her, she immediately lets go of the grudge, as she understood the circumstances, and only attacked in the first place out of familial duty.
• Tales Series:
  • In Tales of Phantasia, the murder of Cless's parents serves as his entire motivation for wanting to destroy the Big Bad and, unknown to Cless and his companions, Well-Intentioned Extremist Dhaos. After the end of the first battle with Dhaos in the past, Dhaos escapes to the future of Cless's time period. Once Dhaos escapes, Cless screams in rage that someday he'll make Dhaos pay for murdering his mother and father.
  • Subverted by Tales of Symphonia where, after we learn that Quirky Miniboss Squad member Kvar was directly responsible for the death of Lloyd's mother by mutating her into a monster and forcing his father to kill her, he is instead stabbed to death by Kratos. Double subverted once we learn that Kratos is Lloyd's father, and thus had a higher rating on the hierarchy of "giving this villain his Karmic Death" — and no, Lloyd isn't very big on killing him once he finds out.
  • Inverted in Tales of the Abyss, where it turns out that the first boss of the game was the adopted mother of Psycho Ranger Arietta. And you really can't blow it off because it really is entirely your fault (hell, the events leading up to it were caused by the Team Pet!), even if For You It Was Tuesday.
• Team Fortress 2: Mikhael, aka The Heavy Weapons Guy, has this as part of his Dark and Troubled Past. In 1941, his counter-revolutionary father was murdered by the KGB, and he detests them for it. When they started showing up at his home, he turned his home into a Gilded Cage and trained his younger sisters in the art of Cold-Blooded Torture so they could defend themselves.
• In Tears to Tiara 2, Hamil to Izebel, who killed his father Hasdrubal. It turns out that she didn't. Hasdrubal took his own life. But before doing so he ordered Izebel to pretend as though he rebelled and she crushed it. The whole thing was to ensure Hamil's eventual rebellion would succeed.
• The Tiamat Sacrament: Gyle, The Dragon of Ry'jin, personally killed King Khytiel and Ilisrei, the father and mother of Xandra and Az'uar respectively. He gloats about his murders in front of the two, giving them motivation to gain enough power to kill him.
• In Tomb Raider: Underworld, Natla reveals that she killed Lara's father, as if Lara needed more reason to fight the Omnicidal Maniac.
• In Valis II, the Big Bad Magus is the brother of Roglas, the first game's Big Bad.

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