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ROARING RAMPAGE OF REVENGE
She’s making her list, she’s checking it twice, and she’s checking off your name after she’s killed you nice, probably for making it personal. And in the above example she’s even quoting her own movie poster blurb. But it’s okay—you deserve it—because you’re evil, you kidnapped her child, and you probably kicked her dog (if not worse) as well. Either you’re a minion or you’re the Big Bad behind it all, but it doesn’t matter in the end because either way, you’re going down… and Alice or Bob is going to be the one to do it, even if it means going down with you.
The Roaring Rampage of Revenge differs from the standard Revenge plot in that our hero dispenses with the Machiavellian plotting that would define a classic revenge tale and goes straight for the bloodshed, either in a single, violent Unstoppable Rage or Tranquil Fury-fueled rampage on the bad guy’s home base, or a more methodical “working one’s way up the food chain” from lesser foes to the bigger fish.
If the hero has a specific hit-list, this usually ends up as a Gotta Kill Them All situation as the hero hunts down and kills each bad guy on the list before moving on to the next. In most cases, the second to last bad guy on the hit-list is the Dragon for whichever Big Bad that the hero has saved for last, and is usually someone the hero has an especially personal beef with and/or is the most psychotic or otherwise hateworthy foe on the list aside from the Big Bad. If the hero decided a rampage wasn’t enough, they may resort to an Extreme Mêlée Revenge to let the bad guys feel the pain with a hard punch in the guts.
Obviously this goes in reference to his overarching mass-murder revenge plot. I was split between this and ‘Gotta Kill ‘Em All’, but in the end I chose this because his plot starts as Gotta Kill ‘Em All — where he had a specific group of people he wanted to see killed, topping off at the king of the country he burnt to the ground — but became Roaring Rampage of Revenge over time since he’s still actively killing people associated with the nation and the cult that built it according to Hawthorne Ball’s backstory. It doesn’t matter if innocent people die along the way for being in the wrong place at the wrong time! He needs to exterminate any trace of the cult to avenge his beloved Master Attendant.
