Incidents included the killing of three members of a pop band, the Miami Showband, by a gang including members of the UVF who were also members of the local army regiment, the UDR, and in uniform at the time, and the killing by the Provisionals of eighteen members of the Parachute Regiment in the Warrenpoint Ambush-seen by some as revenge for Bloody Sunday.

He also used earthquakes to punish and inflict fear upon people as revenge.

Ammianus states that Julian longed for revenge on the Persians and that a certain desire for combat and glory also played a role in his decision to go to war.

During the Blackest Night event, when word got out that apparently everyone around the world who have died are rising as undead Black Lanterns, Luthor isolates himself in his safehouse in fear that all the people he had murdered over the years would also reanimate and seek revenge on him.

The Maoists have been forcing closures-commonly known as bandhs-in the country, and have also declared autonomous states for almost all the ethnic groups in Nepal-seen as a part of revenge against the action that foiled their decision to sack the army chief.

While pro wrestling is often described simplistically as a " soap opera for males ", it has also been cited as filling the role of past forms of literature and theatre ; a synthesis of classical heroics, commedia dell ' arte, revenge tragedies, morality plays, and burlesque.

Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven also take up Peckinpah's themes of the dangers of revenge, the nature of human violence, and men seeking to be honorable in dishonorable surroundings.

It is said that Christian also took revenge on Sten Sture's body, having it dug up and burnt, as well as the body of his little child.

Additionally, Nauplius, in revenge for the murder of his son Palamedes, set up false lights in Cape Caphereus ( also known today as Cavo D ' Oro, in Euboea ) and many were shipwrecked.

He also attempted to take revenge through a proxy, passing the Power Gem to the heroine's arch-enemy Titania ( who also failed to defeat the She-Hulk ).

Aborigines also attacked white settlers – in 1838 fourteen Europeans were killed at Broken River in Port Phillip District, by Aborigines of the Ovens River, almost certainly in revenge for the illicit use of Aboriginal women.

In this general connection, it is also noteworthy that Sherman and his subordinates ( particularly John A. Logan ) took steps to protect Raleigh, North Carolina, from acts of revenge after the assassination of President Lincoln.

He also appears as a character in John Webster's Jacobean revenge drama The White Devil ( 1612 ).

Titus ' revenge may also have been influenced by Seneca's play Thyestes, written in the first century AD.

Javert also asks that he be dismissed in disgrace by Valjean from his job for acting out of revenge incorrectly, saying that since he had been hard on others he could not be less harsh on himself but after Valjean repeatedly refuses, Javert says he will continue acting as police chief until a replacement can be found.

Empress Theodora sought to win him as a confederate to revenge the deposition of the Monophysite Patriarch Anthimus I of Constantinople by Agapetus and also to gain aid for her efforts in behalf of the Monophysites.

The mainstream Jewish paramilitary organization, the Haganah, maintains a policy of restraint, but the smaller Irgun ( also called Etzel ) group splits up and adopts a policy of retaliation and revenge.

He also stabs Brynhild with a sleeping thorn and curses her never to win another battle as an act of revenge for killing Hjalmgunnar, a rival king to whom Odin had promised victory.

Tierce also wanted revenge on the New Republic for the destruction of the Empire, and it was this desire that led to the triumvirate's downfall.

All of Hippocoön's sons were also slain by Heracles, as a revenge for the death of the young Oeonus, son of Licymnius, whom they had killed because he had stoned their dog in self-defense.

For the mytheme of a woman taking revenge on the man who does not answer her feelings by falsely accusing him of sexual abuse, see also Phaedra, Stheneboea, Tenes, Phoenix and Eunostus.

Cú Chulainn is sent here with Lóegaire and Conchobor, and in the later version also with Conall Cernach, to receive training from the warrior Domnall ( whose hideous daughter falls in love with the hero and when refused, promises revenge ).

Bent on revenge for their father's death, she also sends her sons to him in the wilderness, one by one, to be tested.

In it, Irving attacked the members of the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler, branding them " traitors ", " cowards ", and " manipulators ", and uncritically presented Hitler and his government's subsequent revenge against the plotters, of which Rommel was also a victim.

The new government was predominantly made up of Girondists who had survived the Terror, and after taking power, they took revenge as well by persecuting even those Jacobins who had helped to overthrow Robespierre, banning the Jacobin Club, and executing many of its former members in what was known as the White Terror.

The new government was predominantly made up of Girondists who had survived the Terror and, after taking power, they took revenge as well by banning the Jacobin Club and executing many of its former members – including Robespierre – in what was known as the White Terror.

Lord Canning ( created earl in 1859 ), appointed Governor-General of India in 1856, became known as " Clemency Canning " as a term of derision for his efforts to restrain revenge against the Indians during the Indian Mutiny.

In revenge, the Conqueror led his army in a bloody raid into Northumbria, an event that became known as the harrying of the North.

At first Magnus sought revenge against his father's enemies, but on Sigvat's advice he stopped doing so, which is why he became known as " good " or " noble ".

The throwaway compositions would come to be known as the " revenge " songs.

The Song Dynasty took revenge and invaded Đại Việt in 1076, but the Song troops were held back at the Battle of Như Nguyệt River commonly known as the Cầu river, now in Bắc Ninh province about 40 km from the current capital, Hanoi.

He has also written several mystery plays and some non-series novels, of which A Shock to the System ( 1984 ) is probably best known due to the filmed version starring Michael Caine as the business executive who takes revenge after being passed over for promotion.

Their captain is the ruthless James Hook, known as Captain James Hook or more personally Jas Hook, named after ( or predestined for ) the hook in place of his right hand, and who is obsessed with finding Peter and his Lost Boys ' secret lair and exacting revenge for the loss of his hand, which was cut off by Peter and then fed to the crocodile, which has " licked its lips after the rest of him, ever since ".

In 1967, the Viet Cong slaughtered 252 Degar in the village of Dak Son, home to 2000 Highlanders, known as the Dak Son Massacre, in revenge for the Degar's support and allegiance with the Republic of Vietnam.

His revenge for the killing of family members by American frontiersmen helped spark the 1774 conflict known as Dunmore's War.

The game focuses around protagonist Kyle Vlaros who is known as the Blackthorne, out for revenge on Sarlac and his minions.

This region of Brazil is known for its aridness and hardships, and in a form of reaction against the domination of the land owners and the government, many men and women decided to become nomadic bandits, roaming the hinterlands seeking money, food and revenge.

Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred ; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown.

A group known as the Red Right Hand is a group of people who have been wronged by Wolverine and have sworn revenge on him.

Christian then took his revenge, known as the Stockholm Bloodbath.

The four men convicted were members of a notorious local gang known as the Burger Bar Boys, who had been trying to gain revenge on members of their rival gang the Johnson Crew-a notorious local gang with roots stretching back to the mid 1980s.

This blast was later claimed by the Official IRA as revenge for the shootings in Derry that came to be known as Bloody Sunday.

This became known as the " Portadown Massacre ", and partly precipitated the revenge attacks carried out in Ireland several years later by the forces of Oliver Cromwell.

A changeling known as Gruagach swears revenge against Hellboy and becomes a recurring antagonist, determined to kill Hellboy by any means necessary and, through doing so, save his race from fading out of existence.

Along with his three-year-old son, Daigorō, they seek revenge on the Yagyū clan and are known as " Lone Wolf and Cub ".

In 1914 during World War I a German army under the command of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg won an important victory over two Russian armies in the Second Battle of Tannenberg ( which actually took place closer to Olsztyn-then known as Allenstein-but was named as " Tannenberg " by the victorious Germans for propaganda purposes, to cast it as revenge for their medieval defeat ) who had invaded East Prussia.