Category:Vengeful

"You left me to die that day. You may have broken my body, but you have no idea how powerful my mind has become. Now you will suffer, as I suffered: waiting for a rescue that would never come."

- The Hood, to Jeff Tracy.

"Everything you gained over the last year, you gained by destroying our lives. I will insure that it was all for nothing. Only then will my revenge be complete."

- Shiro's vendetta against Koro-Sensei

Seekers of Vengeance are villains who commit their crimes under the premise of vengeance (also called retribution or revenge), whether it be for a wrong committed against them or their people/race. Similar to a Nemesis, but with a few slight differences: First of all, a Seeker of Vengeance is a specific type of Nemesis, being concerned only with revenge while a Nemesis encompasses all types of motivations; also, a Nemesis is an enemy who is created through the hero's own actions, but a Seeker of Vengeance might already be an enemy to the hero and is seeking revenge for a perceived wrong dealt to them by the hero, i.e. Opal Koboi from Artemis Fowl; Seekers of Vengeance may also be pursuing revenge against neutral characters or even other villains in Evil Vs. Evil scenarios (for example Ransik or Jean Descole). There are several types of Seekers of Vengeance: Even ​by ​simply mentioning the name of the person/group (who they felt have wronged them), can at times, send them into an uncontrollable rage. Their opposite are Forgivers
 * Villains who want revenge on the hero for defeating a previous antagonist who was in some way close to them (For example, Simon Gruber is obsessed with avenging the death of his brother Hans, on John McClane)
 * Villains who are embittered into vengeance by an unfortunate but inevitable act by the hero (For example, the Hood's actions in his film are after the Thunderbirds left him to die in a mining accident, because they could find no way to save him)
 * Villains who want revenge for the murder of their families by a government or country, or else a certain tragedy that happened before they were born (Alec Trevelyan seeks vengeance for the British betrayal of the Lienz Cossacks leading to his parents' suicides)
 * Villains who have clashed with the hero repeatedly in the past, and want revenge for previous defeats by said hero (Doctor Claw spends the entire franchise seeking to get his own back on Inspector Gadget, who repeatedly defeats him out of pure coincidence or accident)
 * Villains who were traumatised as children by a hero, a relative or friend of the hero, or even another villain (Magneto spends the bulk of his youth and early adulthood hunting down Sebastian Shaw for murdering his mother)
 * Villains who want retribution for the hero deliberately/inadvertently humiliating or rejecting him, especially if they used to be long-term friends or even brothers (Syndrome was rejected by Mr. Incredible, his childhood idol, for refusing to partner with him, and consequently is obsessed with destroying his former hero)
 * Villains who have stayed in the shadow of the hero their whole lives, and want to outshine the hero as a result (Prime examples include Horrid Henry, Loki and Happy Chapman)

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