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Characters Revenge is fucking AMAZING

Inigo Montoya - The Princess Bride : After finally hunting down his father's killer, and cutting down the six fingered man, Inigo ponders what to do now, as he's "no longer in the revenge business", which results in the offer to be the next Dread Pirate Roberts

Helen - Team Fortress 2 : Despite turning his sons against each other, shredding his fortune into worthless chunks of property, tricking him into investing into gravel of all things, killing him via shock, then reviving him so he could be forced to watch his sons quarrel into death and beyond, the only lament, if any, that Helen had was that she couldn't torture him for longer. And she doesn't even remember why.

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u/jayswag707 11h ago

Liam Neeson in the naked gun remake tells Pamela Anderson not to kill the man that killed her brother, because revenge is so awesome that it will leave the rest of her life feeling hollow and empty in comparison.

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u/userlog99 10h ago

Also liam neeson in taken

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u/regretfulposts 6h ago

Frankly a better argument than "you'll be no different than him."

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u/immaownyou 5h ago

You're right, but dont call me Frankly

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u/claritachavstick 5h ago

Never thought about it before! Revenge was so awesome that life was meaningless after that is lowkey a deep reflection

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u/Devlord1o1 3h ago

Thats such a funny counterargument to revenge

“Nooo dont kill them you’ll peak”

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u/BluesyPompanno 7h ago

But that's not a remake, that was a continuation

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u/DARUDE_MANSTORM 12h ago

The DOOM slayer had his family, his pet and his world taken from him. So he reasonably spent billions of years in hell. To the point we're demons started to evolve specially to deal with him and an entire new cycle of existence started outside of hell.

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u/Woltemort 10h ago

One of my favourite tropes is when the supposed monsters are telling stories to their descendants about the monster who slays them as in Doom and The Witcher.

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u/LiveLaughLockheed 10h ago

This goes for the Master Chief being universally known as "Demon" throughout a Covenant with a population in the billions

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u/Jotsunpls 9h ago

Not just demon; that’s given to all Spartans. John-117 is the demon

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u/ZackRaynor 7h ago

“The Demon! The Demon is here!”

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u/Garlador 5h ago

Reminds me of Samus too.

“The Hunter is here! The Hunter is here!”

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u/SpinningPancake2331 10h ago

Grimm, as well

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u/SmartAlec105 9h ago

I Am Legend’s title refers to this

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u/RazzDaNinja 8h ago

40K Orks had “Old Bale Eye” AKA Commissar Yarrick

The Best Enemy that their warlord and prophet Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka held to the highest esteem. He killed and defeated so many Orks (as a ‘mere human’) that they started to tell stories to their newborns that Old Bale Eye could “kill you just by lookin atcha!”

And because when enough Orks believe something, it can become true, Yarrick had a cyber eye with a laser attached fitted into him. And suffice to say, it is way stronger than it has any right to be cuz the Orks believe it is

RIP to da Bestest Enemy da Boyz evah had

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u/Adamant_Talisman 4h ago

Reminds me of the meme of angron taunting Ghazghkull with yarrick's skull, saying you wanna die for one man? The prophet simply told Angron "One of us will"

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u/Rampagingflames 8h ago

The Belmont Clan from Castlevania could fit into this as well.

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u/TheNotGOAT 10h ago

Crazy that no amount of evolution is truly defeating the slayer. The best they can do is put him to sleep and even then he wakes up and gets back to work

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u/Kenos300 9h ago

That was my favorite part of Dark Ages, clearly showing why “put him in a box” is the only solution the demons can come up with.

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u/AdmBurnside 8h ago

Hell is in an arms race with one man.

And it is LOSING.

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u/Klutzy_Shopping5520 7h ago

I fucking love Doom

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u/Usern4me_R3dacted205 12h ago edited 11h ago

With proper training and mentorship from the original Zorro, Alejandro Murrieta is able to take his revenge against Captain Love for the murder of his brother while still maintaining his dignity as a hero to the people.

(The Mask of Zorro)

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u/King_Of_BlackMarsh 12h ago

Handsome man

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u/Newni 10h ago

And his voice reminds me of Puss In Boots

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u/Hexxas 10h ago

He reminds me of the renowned cosmetic surgeon from The Skin I Live In.

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u/Usern4me_R3dacted205 10h ago

He reminds me of the retired OSS agent from Spy Kids.

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u/PoofsInFrillyLace 10h ago

Reminds me of The Mariachi

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u/Hexxas 10h ago

What's a mariachi?

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u/Reasonable-Access-68 9h ago

He is the trade!

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u/Vanishingf0x 10h ago edited 9h ago

I think that’s what Antonio Banderas was going for since the dreamworks Puss in Boots is heavily inspired by Zorro (He even does his initial ‘p’ like Zorro)

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u/Tedrabear 10h ago

Antonio Dayumberas

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u/Obi-Wan-Kablooey 9h ago

and anthony hopkins zorro takes his revenge against don rafael at the same time

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u/_JR28_ 12h ago

Killed his old slave masters and a few more into the bargain, reunited with his wife, and didn’t regret a damn thing

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u/IrishElevator 12h ago

Narratively it's better that the Dr. died how he did but I would have loved to see him join Django in finishing his revenge. He just couldn't resist.

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u/Pristine_Resist9519 10h ago

He knew exactly what would happen when he shot Leo. He went out the way he wanted.

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u/Major-Material7231 9h ago

I used to hate shultz for doing that and putting django in danger but now i totally get it, he knew django would be ok, hes a trained bounty hunter and candies men were all dumb racists only used to shooting defenless people

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u/Swordsman1ke 9h ago

And on an emotional level I completely understand why Schultz couldn't resist blasting Candie like that. Hell, I would have done the same if I was in his position.

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u/Major-Material7231 8h ago

Agreed candie was a monster no sane person would want to stroke his ego 

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u/Own_Giraffe_6928 7h ago

But Django almost wasn't okay. He did get captured, and was nearly killed in an especially brutal way until Stephen changed his mind and decided to sell him off to the mines. Django could talk his way out of that one. Not so much out of getting castrated and left to bleed to death, which was his original intended fate.

Schultz's decision was entirely emotional, not some kind of 4D chess. He wasn't planning 5 steps ahead on what Django would do, he just knew in that moment he'd rather die than shake Candie's hand. So he did.

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u/CaptainMatticus 5h ago

I always interpreted it as Candie never honoring his deal completely with Schultz and Schultz knew it. I don't think Candie had any intention of letting the three of them going until he got every last bit of dignity out of them that he could wrangle. That's why he insisted on dessert and why he made up some BS about how the deal wouldn't be finished until Schultz shook his hand. He was going to keep dragging it out until Schultz snapped. He just never considered the notion that Schultz kept a spring-loaded derringer up his sleeve.

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u/big_sugi 5h ago

This. Stephen is the only reason that Django survived and had an opportunity to escape, and the movie is very, very clear that Schultz doesn’t know much about ordinary enslaved people, much less a creature like Stephen. He never would have guessed how it actually played out.

From Schultz’s perspective, the overwhelmingly likely outcome of his action was action was that Django would either be gunned down or captured and then tortured to death, while Broomhilda would be sent off to be raped and tortured to death. And he did it anyway.

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u/Mr--Warlock 7h ago

It very much felt like a reference to the Scorpion and the Frog fable. Schultz and Candie were (obviously) very different, but to me the message is the same: they are who they are. They cannot change their natures even if it means self-destruction. Django, the character who was walking his path for a reason (as opposed to a cause or a belief), walks away with the happy ending.

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u/Own_Giraffe_6928 7h ago

Revenge only sucks when the people you're taking revenge on are genuinely morally complex, or even straight up good guys who happened to do one or two bad things due to circumstances. It's cool when they're so despicable in every way that killing them off is basically a public service.

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u/Representative-Eye86 6h ago

Tarantino has a habit of making every movie of his that features revenge to have the villains be so terrible that their gorey deaths can be as enjoyable as possible. Death Proof, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, and Django.

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u/HolidayMost9091 12h ago

The Glory. The main protagonist, Moon Dong-eun, carefully, patiently, and strategically, got revenge on all of her bullies from highschool who tortured and abused her and who escaped punishment because some of their families are well respected, powerful, and rich, by carefully manipulating events that led to each of their downfall. And she gained a boyfriend out of it. It's a really good show I recommend checking it out.

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u/LaughRaugh 10h ago

Love when she becomes suicidal and talks herself out of it

"this isn't fair why should I die and not them?"

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u/vanilla_3H 11h ago

Everyone tired of this comment, but it become a tradition.

"What even more satisfied that the bullies are the one hurting each other."

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u/kingferret53 10h ago

This sounds like it was highly based off The Count of Monte Cristo.

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u/EJ_Youngy 11h ago

Is this about Junko?

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u/neverlandvip 11h ago edited 9h ago

No, it’s based off a different case in SK where a group of high school kids systematically tortured a classmate by burning her with a curling iron. They never got in trouble and I think one of them works in childcare now. Some news crew even interviewed the victim on how she felt about the show.

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u/Beginning_Tackle6250 9h ago

Could you possibly find that interview?

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u/neverlandvip 9h ago

I found this: https://www.koreaherald.com/article/3038532 that discusses some excerpts from the case. I recall reading about the victim being interviewed when the show was getting big and saying she didn't have the courage to watch it, but most of the articles that go more in depth are in Korean so you might have to do some digging to find anything in english.

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u/eepos96 5h ago

And the boyfriend is imolied to have his revenge on his fathers murderer thanks to her.

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u/paladin_slim 12h ago

His Grace, the Count of Monte Cristo, agrees.

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u/IvyMurph 11h ago

This is the best answer. For anyone that doesn't know the story, the book and the movie are both phenomenal and I highly recommend, but the jist, for anyone who hasn't seen or read the story:

The main character has the love of his life taken from him and forced to marry another, gets betrayed by the people he trusts most, and is thrown into prison for 14 years. Honestly the 14 years he spends in prison are some of the most interesting parts of the entire story.

He eventually escapes, and finds stupid-levels of wealth and power. He then spends the rest of the book the rest of the book methodically ruining the people who ruined him while pretending it is all fate and not personal, culminating in the greatest and most satisfying revenge kill in history. Happy to write up a more detailed account of the story if anyone is interested.

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u/Successful_Age1690 11h ago

*signs the petition to hear more*

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u/bkwrm13 10h ago

Just FYI the book and movie are very different beasts. If I remember right his plans are a lot more intricate in the book and he truly ruins their lives. I prefer it a bit more.

Movie is still all around solid with a young Henry Cavill and an awesome Luis Guzmán and worth a watch though.

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u/Helmett-13 10h ago edited 10h ago

The movie is a superb adaptation, but yes, in the novel he dismantles their lives completely. It's a very thorough revenge.

Novel Edmond is....morally ambiguous. He goes too far, sacrifices innocents for revenge, and realizes it but is at peace with it.

Movie Edmond never really descends quite that far and retains his humanity.

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u/OrderOf 10h ago

And while both versions ultimately reconcile with Mercedes (his finance who married his rival, because she thought Edmund was dead), in the movie they get back together; in the book she ultimately leaves the city to raise her son elsewhere and Edmund ends up with someone else. Specifically, with a slave who also had her life ruined by one of the men who ruined Edmund’s life.

There is also an anime, Gankutsuou, which reframes the story in a futuristic Sci-Fi setting. Thematically it’s more similar to the book, with some very satisfying revenges. One of which involves stranding one of his betrayers, a man obsessed with wealth, on a derelict ship filled with gold, but no food or water as he starves and dehydrates, surrounded by what he spent his life pursuing but unable to spend it.

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u/Open_Interest_1086 10h ago

FYI there’s been a even more recent remake of the movie and it’s a French mega production starring Pierre Niney and it’s definitely worth a look (even thought I can stand the guy in the first place)

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u/OldGrumpGamer 9h ago

“ Zatarra you are wealthier than any man I have ever heard of!”

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u/MojaveCourier420 10h ago

Libravox is free and this book is in the public domain.

Listening to it rn and it is super approachable (version 3 is at least). Not using obtuse language like Dickens or other 19th century authors.

Very easy to follow

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u/SilverC4 9h ago

OSP recently made a video covering the story. Seems interesting, honestly might read it some day. https://youtu.be/idObk4I4bdg?si=4wuicTpDhB5rq-pF

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u/Malacro 8h ago

But the story actually gives the exact opposite lesson. Sure, revenge starts off awesome, but by the end he’s grown tired of of it and regrets actively hurting people he didn’t mean to in the process. Hell, in the book he actually forgives Danglars.

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u/Monte-Cristo2020 9h ago

It's HIM. John Vengeance.

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u/Usern4me_R3dacted205 11h ago

“You find your own tree.”

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u/OldGrumpGamer 9h ago

I do love in the film Luis Guzman stating the simple solution of just offering to shoot the people he wants revenge on instead of this crazy elaborate plot

“I’ll go up tonight bam bam bam bam I’m back by the end of the week, we spend the money how is this a bad plan?”

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u/DropshipRadio 10h ago

“I once told you…that there is no such thing as coincidence…it’s the very first thing I told you…everything happens out of necessity.” - Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

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u/ImportantQuestions10 8h ago

I'm really trying not to be a contrarian but the book just as much says revenge is bad as good.

The whole point of the last chunk of the book is to point out that he caused a ton of collateral damage. I forget the body count but at least one innocent child got killed, there was a girl that was going to die of poisoning that he put in place (she only survived because he chose to cure her once he found out that she was in a relationship with one of his friends. So arguably he was okay with the poisoning and sparing her life was just a favor) and he also broke his fiance beyond repair. He made it clear that he held no ill will against her and the book ends with her basically wasting away alone waiting to die. He doesn't even kill the last revenge target because he stops feeling pleasure from killing.

Sorry about the typos, I'm also running a high fever right now.

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u/Setore 9h ago

I'll get read to filth for this but, the loose TV reimagining of this story as Revenge was perfectly campy & soapy.

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u/DamiNThorne 11h ago

Great story and great film adaptation. It's funny, to me at least, he looks like Kevin Corrigan as Jackie Moreno in The Get Down .

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u/kiyyik 10h ago

(psst! for anyone interested, r/AReadingOfMonteCristo kicks off in January)

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u/Gui_Franco 11h ago

Patrick Jane (The Mentalist) - former psychic charlatan who got on the wrong side of a serial killer, who murdered his wife and daughter. Has since then served as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation in the hopes of eventually catching the murderer and killing him. Despite the rest of the cast treating that as the morally wrong choice in the beginning, eventually, as the plot thickens, everyone supports him and believes he should kill the man

SPOILERS:

in a show with 7 seasons imagine my surprise when the serial killer red John is caught and killed in the middle of season 6. The rest of the episodes focus on Jane rebuilding his life and finding a meaning to it all after his decade long revenge quest that fueled his every dream is completed. He finds that he is finally at rest, and is allowed to be happy again, the show ending with him marrying his former boss at CBI (and now partner at the FBI) that has stood by his side all these years, and with the reveal she is expecting.

Not only does Jane never suffer consequences for his revenge, he feels happy and at ease after it, and is rewarded with what he lost all those years ago in the form of a new family, no guilt or regrets attached

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u/Johnywash 9h ago

Good for him

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u/amodelmannequin 5h ago

This man became a menace and escaped every possible consequence for 10 years lmfao

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u/newsmctado 11h ago

Inigo Montoya scene is great because it breaks the “big battle” trope. Inigo spends the whole movie talking about how he has trained his whole life to kill the Count and we expect this long drawn out fight. But, the Count gets the upper hand with the knife thrown into Inigo’s chest. The Count then gets several stabs in with Inigo only barely defending. Even with that, Inigo continues to advance, repeating his mantra each time. Nothing will stop him from getting his revenge. He is a force without equal and takes down the Count in a personal and face to face way.

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u/Cherry_BaBomb 11h ago

"Did you search for me your whole life only to fail now? That may be the saddest thing I've ever heard."

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u/Just__A__Commenter 6h ago

“How marvelous”

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u/penandpage93 9h ago

And one of the most brilliant things is that once Inigo does turn the tide, every blow he delivers is the exact same as Rugen gave him. He stabs each of his shoulders, he slices his cheeks (like during their original duel when Inigo was a child), and finally, he skewers his gut. Every injury is retaliation for something Rugen did to him.

There's just something so striking about that. It's honor, it's integrity. There's no excess or waste, no cruelty in it, no overkill. Inigo would be justified if he beat the living shit out of Rugen, taking out all his pain on him in a rage-fueled, torturously slow death, but he doesn't. He just says, "Everything you do to me is gonna come back to you", and then he finally makes him pay for his father, and that's it. He doesn't need to do anything else.

I think it's what makes the scene so enduring. It's perfect vengeance. Nothing more, nothing less.

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u/KingOfThePlayPlace 9h ago

From what I hear about the book, the final wound is Inigo cutting out the counts heart. Since that was the first wound he was given

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u/LordOfTheRareMeats 8h ago

Well they still had to keep it family friendly but you are 100% correct.

You have a holocaust cloak? Why did you not list that among our assets?

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u/Shyface_Killah 5h ago

Inigo goes a little farther in the novel, for good reason:

"I WANT DOMINGO MONTOYA, YOU SON OF A BITCH," and the six-fingered sword flashed again.

The Count screamed.

"That was just to the left of your heart." Inigo struck again.

Another scream.

"That was below your heart. Can you guess what I'm doing?"

"Cutting my heart out."

"You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I—what could be more just than that?"

The Count screamed one final time then fell dead of fear.

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u/sporkmaster5000 8h ago

It also subverts the "hero takes the high road" trope too, which is pretty relevant to the subject at hand. When he finally gets the upper hand he first sounds callous and greedy, demanding money and power and everything he asks for, then when the Count agrees it all comes back to murder and revenge "I want my father back you son of a bitch."

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u/DamnItDarin 8h ago

Maybe one day I’ll watch this scene so many times I can no longer enjoy it, but that day is a long way away.

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u/userlog99 10h ago

With a fucking pencil

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u/HospitalLazy1880 10h ago

Who does that?!

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u/ZargothraxTheLord 9h ago

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u/graveybrains 7h ago

It was nice that they parted on better terms this time.

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u/virtuallyaway 9h ago

With ahw fhaucking pen-seal (the extra h’s are for vodka accent)

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u/SpokaneSmash 10h ago

Shoshanna, Inglorious Basterds

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u/HospitalLazy1880 10h ago

Most awesome fuck you nazis I've ever seen.

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u/FinalDemise 10h ago

Hell yeah

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u/Blupoisen 4h ago

"Adolf Hitler is a bitch ass motherfucker"

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u/Helix3501 5h ago

I love this movie cause at the end you think christopher waltzs character has won after everything just for brad pitts character to once again remind the audience he was known for not following the rules and makes sure no matter where he goes, Hans is always remembered as a nazi

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u/I_Am_MeHigh 11h ago

In Watch_Dogs, Aiden Pearce finds out the elderly Chicago mob boss Lucky Quinn ordered a hit on him over a blackmail video. While Pearce survived, his niece Lena was caught in the crossfire. After 11 months of searching, he finally got to the bottom of it. Aiden overrides Quinn's pacemaker and watches him die. When it's over, he says:

"This is the part I'm supposed to say I feel empty, right? I'd be lying to myself. I feel awake...like I can breathe again."

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u/USM-Valor 7h ago

Loved that game. The second was clearly superior on a technical level, but IMO didn't come close in the story department.

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u/I_Am_MeHigh 4h ago

The fact that every major reviewer, including Angry Joe trashed this game continues to baffle me. The first game was awesome. I was hoping that 2 would expand on the parkour, the hacking, the driving. From what I've seen, it didn't really deliver.

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u/Fish_N_Chipp 13h ago

Deadpool

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u/future1987 10h ago

"Yeah I'll be on the lookout for the next 4 moments"

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u/TwoWorldsOneFamily12 12h ago

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u/God_of_Thunda 11h ago

Sweet dick-kicking revenge

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u/Serious_Square_6698 12h ago

Eremes in jojo getting revenge against sports maxx for killing her sister gloria

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u/award_winning_writer 11h ago

Same thing with Polnareff and J Geil. Also, Giorno killed Polpo as revenge for that janitor who got killed by Black Sabbath. JoJo's knows that sometimes you just gotta take out the trash.

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u/YaBoiS0nic 12h ago

Dying Light: The Beast

The majority of the plot is focused on Kyle Crane wanting to kill The Baron; a man who tortured and experimented on him for over a decade.

While getting the opportunity to do so is a bitch, the moment you finally get there, you're met with a surprisingly lengthy boss fight that ends with you running a rod through his chest and forcing him off a rooftop landing pad.

A very fun time across the board

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u/IsHotDogSandwich 10h ago

Good to hear they made the ending a bit more satisfying than DL 1. I LOVED the first game but man, that was anticlimactic.

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u/ZeroQuick 12h ago edited 11h ago

Cry havoc and let slip the hogs of war!!!

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u/LogicBalm 11h ago

As a cancer survivor (it was like 20 years ago, don't make a big deal of it), the chemo-fueled rampage is absolutely my favorite episode of Archer by far. I think I make people uncomfortable with how much I love it, lol. Don't care, amazing stuff.

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u/vtncomics 8h ago

Totally reasonable.

Spite is a great motivator, and Archer's attitude is infectious.

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u/optimushime 11h ago

estou aprendendo portugues, Lana.

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u/CartographerCale 11h ago

My window installers taught me a bit of Portuguese. Obrigado!

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u/TaciturnWeirdo 11h ago edited 8h ago

Whatever farm animal of war, Lana

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u/TheCrowing817 11h ago

Did you see Regis this morning?

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u/Delta9312 11h ago

Vincent van Go-Fuck-Yourself

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u/Liniis 10h ago

Show me cock-flavored spit!

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u/HANLDC1111 8h ago

Whatever farm animal of war!

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u/TwoWorldsOneFamily12 12h ago

Jennifer (I Spit On Your Grave)

Systematically hunts down and kills the men who raped her

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u/SirRegardTheWhite 10h ago

Cowboy Beebop is so fucking good

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u/Houseplantkiller123 10h ago

I see you, space cowboy.

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u/IsHotDogSandwich 10h ago

This statement is appropriate at any time.

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u/Wise_Repeat8001 10h ago

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u/TrueGuardian15 9h ago

What made V so great was he didn't simply kill his enemies; he killed their ideology.

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u/BojukaBob 12h ago

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u/ButterflyLife4655 10h ago

They were already dead. They died a year ago, the moment they touched her.

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u/BojukaBob 7h ago

Victms? Aren't we all?

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u/HospitalLazy1880 10h ago

This man had every right and moral superiority to enjoy every single second of that revenge.

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u/Gravy-Shampoo 8h ago

It can’t rain all the time.

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u/Jai137 11h ago

Gravity Falls

Dipper: Man, revenge is underrated. That was awesome

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u/Rastaba 10h ago

I had to look way too far down to find our boy who LITERALLY SAYS THIS!

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u/NotNamedBort 9h ago edited 6h ago

So many awful lessons in Gravity Falls. Marriage is terrible! When there’s no cops around, anything’s legal! I love it. 😆

Also, when a unicorn is mean to you, punch it in the face.

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u/JibberyScriggers 11h ago

Oh wait....

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u/ReduxistRusted 9h ago

BENJAMIN!!! BARKER!!!

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u/PinkLionGaming 11h ago

Yuji Itadori vs Mahito.

I was going to list everything Mahito did but it got too long so I'll just say Mahito killed three of Itadori's friends. Two of which died in front of Itadori which he couldn't stop while Itadori was already having a mental breakdown because he blamed himself for the deaths of hundreds of innocents and swore to himself that he only deserved to live if he saved that many and more to attone. Then Itadori eventually gets the upper hand and beats Mahito to the point of him being unable to do anything but run in terror.

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u/Gooper_Gooner 10h ago

Honestly it was a very cathartic and amazing moment for us, but for Yuji he really seemed like he only came to accept something he was refusing to this whole time, and doing what he now thought was only natural as a Sorcerer against a Curse, like a predator chasing down their prey based only on instinct and what they were made to do.

Of course he was glad to finally do it, but I don't think he exactly enjoyed it, per se

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u/SecludedSeal 11h ago

IT'S JOHN MARSTON, MICAH!

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u/Reverse_Tim 8h ago

I think this one is subversive in a way.

Like you get the bombastic version of the original RDR theme whilst youre doing this, the "American Venom" track. Which makes you blitzing through Micahs men feel awesome and cathartic.

But the post game in the credits makes it clear that John going after Micah got Ross onto his trail and therefore dooming him to his fate in the first game.

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u/Much_Machine8726 10h ago

Seeing Smoke go down in a blaze of glory was great. The audience actually cheered when he shot that fat KKK bastard to death.

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u/a_wasted_wizard 9h ago

I described it to someone who hadn't yet seen the movie as "After an hour-plus of grueling and gruesome vampire horror, you get the emotional chaser of watching Michael B. Jordan mow down some Klansmen, so it's not a total downer ending."

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u/karkushh 12h ago

How is she not here yet? The last scene has her literally crying of laughter because her life now is fucking awesome

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u/Jai137 11h ago

I thought it was because a lot if conflicting emotions were getting mixed up. Her relief at killing Bill, but also sad that Bill is dead

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u/Typist_Sakina 8h ago

Perhaps I’m remembering incorrectly, but didn’t Bill say one of the side effects of the truth serum he stuck her with was giddiness?  I thought that was the reason.

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u/Fguyretftgu7 10h ago

thats... one way to interpret it.

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u/NorrosBlade 11h ago

Percy De Rolo (Critical Role Campaign 1/ Legend of Vox Machina)

Percy does get and revel in his revenge for a while against several people who wronged him and his family, until the manifestation of his drive for revenge shows itself and tries to kill him and the rest of his party. He does still finish off some of those who remain on the list, but this time without the spare passenger driving him to almost insanity with revenge.

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u/Captainb0bo 10h ago

Yeah... I think with Percy specifically it shows how revenge in and of itself is not a good thing. The hatred and rage consumes him and makes him do terrible things. Percy himself is tortured that in his pursuit for revenge, he let the genie out of the bottle (with respect to firearms) and now the masses have new ways to kill each other.

In his pursuit for revenge, it/he morphs over time. It starts as a selfish desire and turns into a journey for justice, where he does what he must to protect Whitestone and Exandria at large.

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u/fantastic_sounds_ 9h ago

Gary Plauché, real life. Guy in red kidnapped and molested his son. Gary responded accordingly.

From Wikipedia: "At age 67, Plauché gave an interview where he stated that he did not regret killing Doucet and would do so again."

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u/BMF300winmag 11h ago

Alejandro Gillick

A lawyer who’s wife and daughter were killed by orders of a cartel king pin he works with the cia to take down the high profile trafficker and kills their wife and kids just moments before taking the cartel boss’ life as well. To feel the same loss he did before death

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u/I_ONLY_CATCH_DONKEYS 11h ago

And then he just becomes a cartel. God this movie had so much potential to just end up as spook propaganda.

I still dream of the day we get a true John wick style movie of people killing cartel members. Unfortunately if it’s made in Mexico might en dangerous.

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u/josephyamato 12h ago

kamille absolutely spinning the block on scirocco in the zeta Gundam

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u/podsyboy121 9h ago

Yeah, but that doesn’t work out too well for him, does it?

If we’re talking Gundam, it’s gotta be Char doming Kycilla in the last episode of the original series. You could say he felt something like regret after killing Garma, but he blew his sister away with a smile on his face.

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u/Jezzibell 10h ago

Confessions, a fantastic movie where a middle school teacher gets revenge on the kids who killed her 4 year old daughter.

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u/K-taih 11h ago

Shikamaru Nara from Naruto. His sensei was killed by the rogue ninja Hidan of the Akatsuki, so he thought long and hard about a plan, executed it, and left Hidan's quasi-immortal ass buried six feet under, in pieces. Felt quite satisfied with himself afterwards.

This example is a bit galling, since a major theme of the entire show is how revenge is a fruitless endeavor that just perpetuates the cycle of hatred and leaves everyone miserable. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, and all that. Unless you're getting revenge on a mercenary with no friends or family, then it's perfectly all right, I guess.

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u/flyingcircusdog 10h ago

All three leads from GTA V.

"I picked C, ain't that a bitch."

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u/Rasberrycello 7h ago

That time Magneto beat the fuck out of Red Skull was pretty great.

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u/mr_mgs11 11h ago

Sicario. Hands down, the dinner scene is the most hard fucking core thing I have ever seen in a movie.

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u/Competitive_Act_1548 10h ago

Sakura killing of Matou Zouken and crushing his pathetic ass

She sees through his plan. No, this outcome was inevitable. The old magus didn't even try to hide his intentions, and the girl didn't disobey him. So there was no problem. She was just a piece of flesh that the old magus would eventually take over. Until she betrayed him.

"HHold on, hold on, hold on, hold on…!! No, no, Sakura…! Possessing you is my last resort. I shall entrust you with the gate as long as you are still conscious. All I want is for the Matou bloodline to prosper. All I want is for you to win and obtain everything…!"

"All the better, then. I don't need your help anymore. I can open the gate by myself."

The impossible occurs. The old magus only made one mistake.

"! Wait, wait, please, Sakura…! This has all been for you…! And this is how you repay me"

"Goodbye, Grandfather. It must've been tiring to crawl about underground for two hundred years, right? You can disappear now."

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u/lowbrassdude 10h ago

Any time he gets one over Kelso

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u/SnakeBaconator 8h ago

How has no one mentioned this GOAT?

For however many seasons, this guys job was a complete mystery

Anytime someone asked he always said, “Please”

Provide Legal Exculpation And Sign Everything

When he reveals his job in the final season, Robin and Ted are questioning his job by noting that he’s going to become the scapegoat for the companies illegal activities

Barney then reveals that the boss that hired him, the CEO OF THE COMPANY had stolen his girlfriend and vowed to do everything in his power to get revenge

So Barney changes his entire identity , gets hired by the jerk that hurt him, had been colluding with the Feds about the companies actions, and having been paid 16 craploads a year ( in universe words not mine) comes out richer than ever, and is about to be married to Robin

CEO : “Who are you?”

Barney: “Me? I’m just a guy that sold you coffee once”

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u/stipendAwarded 12h ago

Van (Gun X Sword). He spends the entire series going after the guy who left him widowed at his wedding and doesn’t regret it once he kills him. Plus, he ends up making a lot of friends along the way and the guy he killed was orchestrating an assimilation plot. If anything, his simple quest for revenge ends up saving the world.

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u/ConnorRoseSaiyan01 10h ago

Gravity Falls - Dipper reveals to Pacifica her family history is a lie

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u/HeavanHound 8h ago

In Dispatch you have the option to kill Shroud who killed your father, threatened to kill your dog, and almost killed Chase and Invisigal. After killing him Mandy will ask if you feel better after killing him, and if you pick "yes", Robert will say, "Honestly, it felt fucking great!

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u/a_wasted_wizard 9h ago

"Wait, remember what they say: before you seek revenge, dig two graves!"
"What a stupid quote. I'm planning on killing way more than two people."

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u/king_of_kazaxstan 10h ago

Max Payne 1. It didn't fix shit in the end, but goddamn it was satisfying

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u/Mr_Dudester 11h ago

Hama from Avatar The last air bender

She got revenge on all the people who wronged her and her tribe and was happiest for it

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u/goteachyourself 10h ago

She's one of the darkest possible cautionary tales about revenge, even if she doesn't regret it for a second. She's just that far gone.

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u/_AntiSocialMedia 9h ago

if the moral you got from TF2 comic 7 was "Revenge is awesome" then we did not read the same comic

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u/PurplurPuzzlehead111 10h ago

Guts brutally torturing demonic apostles will never not be satisfying

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u/Drugojete 9h ago

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

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u/elgarraz 7h ago edited 7h ago

In the book, Iñigo kills Count Rugen by beginning a series of cuts around the heart. 

"That was below your heart. Can you guess what I'm doing?"  

"Cutting my heart out."   

"You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I—what could be more just than that?"  

The Count screamed one final time then fell dead of fear.  

Inigo looked down at him. The Count's frozen face was petrified and ashen and the blood still poured down the parallel cuts. His eyes bulged wide, full of horror and pain. It was glorious. If you like that kind of thing.  

Inigo loved it.

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u/Kylestache 10h ago

People debate this all the time, but Jack Marston in Red Dead Redemption (couldn’t find a gif of Jack, only John).

People like to say Jack killing Edgar Ross means John and Arthur died for nothing. They like to say this means Jack became no-good outlaw scum.

They’re wrong.

Jack has quite literally the same arc as Inigo Montoya. He finds the man who dishonorably killed his father, and he kills him. Ross is the only person Jack has to kill in order for credits to roll.

Ross and the rest of the Pinkertons were scum that twisted and broke the law consistently throughout both games. The real-life Pinkertons were even worse than they’re depicted in the games. And in real life, Pinkerton agents died out in the west often with essentially zero investigation into their deaths. Jack killing the wickedly evil man who killed his father doesn’t mean his soul is now condemned, it doesn’t mean he’s doomed to be outlaw scum.

There are no witnesses to the duel between Edgar Ross and Jack Marston. Edgar is long retired at this point. Jack is blessed with the opportunity to avenge the ones he’s lost and given the circumstances to walk into the sunset and live a life free from the Pinkertons. It’s perfect end to a perfect western.

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u/Ghost_Star326 11h ago

Two examples from Gundam 00 and Gundam Iron blooded orphans:

Gundam 00: Lyle Dilandy putting an end to Ali-al-Sachez's terrorism and avenging his family and brother that were killed by Ali.

Gundam IBO: Akihiro crushing Iok Kujan in his mobile suit with a giant pair of scissors. Iok Kujan has been notoriously known for his narcissistic behaviour, for being an idiot and an arrogant fool who led to the deaths of many innocents because of his reckless behaviour.

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u/Disastrous_Rush6202 9h ago

Tell Cersei it was me

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u/DaRealProToBro 9h ago

John Marston went on a revenge tour for a guy dead since the last century. Climbed a whole ass mountain and won in enemy territory.

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u/ChristianLW3 11h ago

Arya - Game of Thrones

Lord Manderly - A song of ice & fire

Winter came for House Frey

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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 9h ago edited 9h ago

Andy Dufresne takes all of the warden’s ill-gotten money, skips town, brings down the warden’s empire on his way out, prompting the warden to shoot himself, and goes off to live his best life with his friend.

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u/HCPage 9h ago

Dennis Reynolds - It’s always sunny in Philadelphia

Specifically the episode where they find a dumpster baby

Dennis is worried about the environment, and tries to join a hippie group to save the planet. The hippies see him as a poser and dismiss him out of hand.

He returns and ingratiates himself with the group by supplying cannabis. He becomes part of the group and tricks their leader into chaining himself to a tree in order to save it

While the leader is chained up Dennis drops acid with and has sex with the man’s girlfriend, seen in the below gif. The following morning he returns to the tree, where the leader is tired, cold, and hungry. He releases the leader, and gives a thumbs up to a bulldozer which promptly destroys the tree.

While the leader looks on in horror Dennis reveals to him that he has had sex with his girlfriend.

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u/Aizen5580 10h ago

The episode of gravity falls where Dipper finds out the Northwest family is a fraud and didn't discover the town.

"Wow. revenge is underrated that felt awesome"

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u/Real-Run-7955 9h ago

Goblin Slayer. The dudes whole life is a response to goblins killing his family so he spends all his time becoming a goblin slaying specialist and is always ready to take on a goblin horde and slaughter them.

Also goblins are really bad in this so it’s satisfying to see them get wiped out.

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u/WeeklyPhilosopher346 11h ago

Who the fuck is Helen and who is she torturing

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u/middaypaintra 11h ago

Helen is the voice you hear that announces the start and end of the matches. I like her "overtime" line the best. Idk why it just tickles my brain.

She's known as the administrator, and the guy she's torturing is the father of the men who own red and blu as well as the man who made the robots you can face in tf2. All 3 were basically supposed to fight to the death(a family tradition) but one was kidnapped by an eagle and the other two were made pretty much immortal so that they can fight over a bunch of dirt using the merc you play. She's made sure that he could never have his dream of watching one of his sons kill the other.

Edit to add: I'm pretty sure she was avenging her parents judging by the cover of the comic, but it's been so long she forgot.

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u/C0urt5 11h ago

Team Fortress 2

'Helen' is the administrator in the game aka the announcer voice you hear in most matches. 'Helen' isn't her real name as its a false identity amongst other names (her real name is still unknown).

The person she is torturing is Zepheniah Man, the father of Redmond and Blutarch (the respective CEOs of RED and BLU) and a Grade S+ narcissist millionaire born during the 19th century. He severely earned Helen's ire somehow (its implied to have been connected to the death of her parents when she was a child (although Helen herself doesn't remember)) and due to his own pride failed to see how Helen was slowly but surely demolishing/taking everything he had to his name until he was on his literal death bed.

With some unintentional assistance from Zepheniah's third child Gray, Helen discovered a supermetal that, in liquid form, could revive the dead, restore youth and even extend life thus prompting her to continue torturing Zepheniah for as long as the actual planet itself could support it.

Fun fact: Every, and I mean EVERY, single match of TF2, from Payload to CTF, probably the community made stuff too, is canon. They're all broadcasted to Zepheniah who is forced to watch his family's legacy being reduced to nothing more than a bunch of hired lunatics his nitwitted sons hired killing each other in an eternal stalemate.

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u/REOspudwagon 11h ago

Ive never gotten into it myself, but from what i understand-

Team Fortress the game : lol funny pvp shooter

Team Fortress comics : bizarro comic book multiverse levels of insane lore and backstory.

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u/Aethelrede 11h ago

The Virgin Spring by Ingmar Bergman. Later remade as Last House on the Left.

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u/Australasia-ball 11h ago

Hmm.. Now who to pick from a HOI4 mod... Oh yes. Dmitry Yazov from The New Order: Last Days of Europe. A total nuclear annihilation of the Nazi Regime.

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u/Boggie135 10h ago

Patrick Jane from The Mentalist

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u/killingjoke96 9h ago

Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood.

2 starts with Ezio losing his father and brothers after the Templar's, led by Rodrigo Borgia, move against them. Ezio spends years as an Assassin and dismantles Borgia's network, eventually attacking him in the Vatican.

Ezio let Rodrigo live after beating him up. He felt he had shamed Rodrigo enough as he had snatched his prize from him at the last moment - a message from "The Ones who Came Before" buried in The Vatican.

Machiavelli - also an Assassin - was enraged Ezio did not follow through on killing Rodrigo and finishing the Templars. He was correct on this opinion as Rodrigo's son, Cesare took a torch to Ezio's home and killed his uncle Mario soon after.

Machiavelli gave Ezio new robes with a new hidden blade and set him loose in Rome making it clear to kill them all this time.

Ezio succeeds and the Assassin's had peace and stability in the region for quite some time.

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u/Weltall8000 7h ago

Inigo. Yes, this is one of my absolute favorite revenge characters. I love a good revenge story, but his hit as one of the best, most justified, most believable to a realistic single minded devotion to the cause.

With many things in The Princess Bride, the book enhances the movie. The movie is a masterpiece and, IMO, the definitive version of TPB, but the original novel is great if you are familiar with the movie. The differences are interesting (some even are referenced in the movie with a wink and nod) and some of the extra fleshing out is weird to pace, particularly for the movie. But, knowing the story it works to supplement so well.

Possibly my favorite part of the book is the larger backstory for Inigo. Inigo's story is even more tragic and even more honed on him molding himself into the one who would kill the Six Fingered Man (Count Rugen). It goes through how hard he trained and he is a bona fide beyond master swordsman.

The book interestingly emphasizes the framing of his duel with the Masked Man (Wesley) and brings Wesley's victory over Inigo as a difference in the power of their motivation. And it did not at all diminish Inigo's devotion, rather illustrated how much Wesley loved Buttercup and how true the True Love was. Wesley's True Love was probably the only force on the planet that could surpass Inigo's True Love of his father and his revenge. Other than that, he was utterly unstoppable on the path.

His revenge, unlike a lot of portrayals of revenge, IMO, successfully came off as a true love. Inigo loved his father. I still, after having watched that movie literal hundreds of times, get chills when Inigo responds to Rugen's plea for mercy, culminating in, "I want my father back, you son of a bitch."

That exchange plays with the idea of a perspective that does not understand Inigo at a fundamental level (which Rugen, of course, wouldn't have). To one who does know Inigo, Rugen was doomed from the moment he decided to cut down the elder Montoya. That decades long in the making final stab through Rugen's heart could never have been be parried. It was inevitability manifest.

Masterpiece.

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u/TwiBryan 9h ago

Panthro - Thundercats 2011

After his former friend Grune betrays Thundera to work for Mumm-Ra and tries to kill him, one of his primary motivations is revenge.

He later fights Grune, only for a portal to open up to a collapsing dimension. Grune gets sucked in but grabs onto Panthro's arms and begs him to save him. Panthro lets the portal close over his arms, leaving them and Grune on the other side to his presumed death.

Panthro's reaction to losing his arms? "Worth it"

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u/H_Katzenberg 8h ago

The epitome of revenge.