![]() More often than not, this form of revenge is pursued by villains rather than heroes, since targeting someone other than the person who actually committed the wrong, and who may not have anything to do with it aside from being descended from the person who did is a good way to wind up on the wrong side of the Rule of Empathy.įrequently a Bewildering Punishment for the victim, though this trope is more likely than most to have the villain explain the offense to the victim. This is especially true of villains who are immortal or undead, or many a Sealed Evil in a Can, whose hatreds can take years if not decades or centuries to fester and grow. ![]() Why someone would target the descendants rather than the one who originally did the wrong tends to vary: the original offender may not be alive for the victim to go after and make suffer, their descendant benefitted (or still benefits) from his ancestors' crimes the money grandfather stole allowed the father to go to medical school, which allowed the son to grow up in comfortable circumstances therefore, son deserves to be punished for grandfather's theft, or they are physically incapable of going after the prime target due to other circumstances that prevent their revenge in their eyes (at least not without extreme consequences), so they choose to go with a more possible approach. The act of exacting revenge upon the descendants of the one who originally did the wrong.
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