10 Most Vicious Acts of Revenge in History

These revenge stories will send a chill down your spine. For this list, we’ll be examining cases in which a thirst for revenge was quenched in the most brutal way imaginable. Our countdown includes Joaquin Murrieta, Julius Caesar, Operation "Wrath of God", and more! What’s the most sordid tale of retaliation you’ve ever heard? Let us know in the comments.
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[@WatchMojo]

What’s the most sordid tale of retaliation you’ve ever heard? Let us know in the comments. For more True Crime, check out our playlist!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4nWenegl8hpn68

[@chheinrich8486]

You forgot olga of kiev, Google it, its a crazy revenge story

[@ZenRyoku]

tap (2) colorless mana.... tap (W) (W) mana cast: Wrath of God.... one of the most crazy awesome game changer every game it's used in MAGIC : THE GATHERING

[@Ashi_the_axolotl]

Then actually happens to me before but one time when I was playing on the trampoline with my friends k.j. pushed Raniah and then chernaya bumped into me and then I flew out of the trampoline and landed on my wrist and I broke it if you know what I did to get revenge on kj I sprayed him with a hose

[@monkeyspit153]

@@chheinrich8486 You beat me to it. Talk about pissing off the wrong person. Bitch be craaaazy

[@williambilyeu9801]

Both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were military targets, not bombed just for revenge. Hiroshima was the site of a military base, munitions factory, and other military presence. Nagasaki was a naval base and a naval air base. The fire bombings of Tokyo and Dresden were more destructive and killed more people than the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[@nikkob1252]

Eliahu Itzkovktz definitely deserves to be on here. He witnessed his parents being killed in the Holocaust and found out that their killer was serving in the French foreign legion, so Eliahu joined his unit and killed him in Vietnam.

[@mewesquirrel6720]

Dab on those haters

[@Jungoguy]

That is scary

[@simonfea2]

Wow.

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

I want to watch this movie.

[@steve11239o]

@@TheRealCaptainFreedom sounds slightly to Hannibal Rising (prequel to Hannibal movies)

[@captainpoppleton]

"She sold her belongings and purchased a tank". Best wife ever.

[@tonybrooks7268]

10-mf4

[@DanakarEndeel]

Must have had a lot of belongings; or tanks those days were cheap. If I sold all my belongings I still wouldn't have been able to afford one; let alone one with live shells (although I guess she had a crew as I'm not sure those tanks were capable at being operated by one person.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@DanakarEndeel It probably fell off the back of a truck and the "purchase" price was mostly a bribe to get it. I'm guessing the fact that the other personnel thought it was hilarious or didn't themselves want to go out that allowed it to continue.

[@DanakarEndeel]

@@SmallSpoonBrigade Well, if ever one falls out of the back of a truck over here I'd be more than willing to take it. Always cool to have your own tank so I can skip the lines at the supermarket and always find a parking space.

[@farihaahmed4790]

@@DanakarEndeel She was probably rich.

[@eddthehead123]

You missed the context of Caesar. The Pirates didn't believe him because he was a jovial, friendly man. He played games with them, read them his poetry, and just treated his time as Hanging With The Lads. So they took his promise as just some banter.

[@WarriorsTale88]

He also had their throats cut before they were crucified. He had grown fond of them.

[@ANDROLOMA]

I must have missed that movie.

[@ChoppingtonOtter]

Absolutely class. Friendly to them but told them what he would do and kept his word.

[@nunyabizness5391]

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a little more complicated than just acts of revenge, but I'm hoping everyone already knows that.

[@butcheredalive]

True. The intention was more to end the Eastern front of the war but it doubled as an act of revenge

[@openskies11]

You should have included Jeanne de Clisson, the Lionness of Brittany. After her husband was unjustly executed for treason by the French king in 1343, she sold all her property and bought three ships, naming the flagship Mi Rivanche (My Revenge.) She became a pirate, attacking and slaughtering French ships and castles for THIRTEEN YEARS. She was never caught, eventually remarried to a lord, and died peacefully of old age.

[@HTFWSFWWE]

Of course she remarried, I guess that's why her revenge only lasted for 13 years. No use avenging a dead husband you've already replaced. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@stuckbiscuit3796]

@@HTFWSFWWE shut up, anime PFP.

[@HTFWSFWWE]

@@stuckbiscuit3796 it's not anime 😉

[@zacsparksbmx33]

If that’s not wife goals idk what is

[@openskies11]

@@HTFWSFWWE Why does remarrying mean she loved her deceased husband less? Because you think if she really loved him she would never find another man? That's ridiculous. The incels always reveal themselves.

[@samuelmarshall827]

As a great grandson of a ww2 veteran I feel no sorrow for the ss officers murdered.

[@ArnoSnyman007]

There are still rules to war though, even if the SS were evil. Rules that the USA breaks most of the time and gets away with. The USA deserves a lot worse for the bombing of Nagasaki as that truly was a war crime.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

TBH, I'm not sure what would have been kinder, what they got, or being kept in jail, tried and then hung from the neck until dead as was the case with many of them. Some were just sent to prison for the crimes, but there were a lot of mass executions to keep up with the backlog of individuals who were duly convicted of crimes against humanity.

[@crimsonpride9975]

You should have included the residents of Skidmore, Missouri and the vigilante justice they used on town bully Ken Rex McElroy. One of the best cases of "I didn't see nothin'" in history!

[@Johnny.1965]

In broad daylight was the name of the book, the movie starring Brian denehy is on KZbin.

[@albertmata342]

Thanks for mentioning this one. I had never heard of it and looked it up. Crazy story and yeah, the guy deserved what he got.

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

Count dankula already did a video on this whole thing

[@wvu05]

@@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Don't forget Ryan and Shane.

[@garytruthteller2606]

Yes. That was quite enjoyable, righteous "comeuppance".

[@MichaelD8393]

Fun Fact: Abdel Wael Zwaiter, the suspected head of Black September and the first Operation Wrath of God target was shot 11 times, once for each victim of the Munich Massacre.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

That whole thing goes to show that the Israeli government isn't any better than the terrorists that they claim to be offended by. The "terrorists" kill one of theirs, and the Israelis kill 10 that are mostly not involved. It makes it a lot easier for neo-Nazis and the like to spread antisemitism with war crimes going unpunished.

[@sumner-kv3gh]

Mossad got his ass

[@michaelsternberg1597]

Pusser was assassinated in the end.

[@irawilliams343]

This list proves that emotional pain can't always be healed by forgiveness

[@torhenderson864]

Real shit people don't like to believe that

[@brandonfitzgerald9253]

Yep

[@MrZadir-nu7bd]

I dislike the old saying, "Revenge won't bring your loved one back." No it won't, but it would definitely make me feel better knowing the person/s responsible for it are no longer breathing

[@irawilliams343]

@@MrZadir-nu7bd so true. That tight grip the perpetrator has on you will finally break and you can breathe much better.

[@brandonfitzgerald9253]

@@MrZadir-nu7bd true

[@Dog5ight]

I realize most of it is based in Myth, but the stories of St. Olga of Kiev’s killing spree in revenge for her husband’s murder is definitely up there. Not to mention it led to her becoming a symbol of Ukrainian resistance in their war against Russia

[@Only1Noodle]

I like that story, it's funny that the man who killed her husband wanted to marry her but she ended killing him.

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

Oh yes - the Queen who murdered so many of the rival tribe the Drevlians, using the lack of communication and distance between the two tribes to carry out her vengeance 1st. The delegation sent to negotiate a marriage between the queen and the prince of the Drevlians. The queen requested when they arrive in their boat they stay on it - they did so. Numerous of Rus people came and carried the boat to their city - the delegation considered an honor. Until the boat was placed into a pit. Boat and delegation were buried alive. While the queen watched, she asked if they truly believed it to be honorable? 2nd. The queen requested to the rival nation of Drevlia to send all of the “their distinguished men to her in Kiev, so that she might go to their Prince with due honor.” to escort her to the rival city. Not knowing the 1st delegation fate, the strongest of men were indeed sent and upon arrival escorted to the baths so they be presentable. They were boarded up and burned alive in those baths. 3rd. The queen sent another message to the Drevlians, this time ordering them to "prepare great quantities of mead in the city where you killed my husband, that I may weep over his grave and hold a funeral feast for him." When Olga and a small group of attendants arrived at Igor's tomb, she did indeed weep and hold a funeral feast. The Drevlians sat down to join them and began to drink heavily. When the Drevlians were drunk, she ordered her followers to kill them, "and went about herself egging on her retinue to the massacre of the Drevlians." While many were killed, some escaped and the hidden mask revealed and both tribes went to war. 4. The queen laid siege to the city and the Drevlians refused to surrender, the queen told them why hold out when the other cities had freely surrendered to her. The Drevlians responded that they would submit to tribute, but that they were afraid she was still intent on avenging her husband. Olga answered that the murder of the messengers sent to Kiev, as well as the events of the feast night, had been enough for her. She then asked them for a small request: "Give me three pigeons ... and three sparrows from each house." The Drevlians rejoiced at the prospect of the siege ending for so small a price, and did as she asked. Olga then instructed her army to attach a piece of sulphur bound with small pieces of cloth to each bird. At nightfall, Olga told her soldiers to set the pieces aflame and release the birds. They returned to their nests within the city, which subsequently set the city ablaze. As the people fled the burning city, Olga ordered her soldiers to catch them, killing some of them and giving the others as slaves to her followers. She left the remnant to pay tribute.

[@death13a]

@@mysticdragonwolf89 ah classic Ukrainian wife.

[@mauricedavis2160]

Absolutely!!! 🙏👍💃

[@alexf9381]

How is she possibly a symbol of that? St Olga is a loved and respected figure in Russian medieval history and is an official glorified saint in the Russian Orthodox Christian church which is why she is known as Saint Olga in the first place. She has been talked about and adored in Russia for centuries by the millions of Orthodox faithful and even paid tribute to by the Russian tsar in a letter he wrote in the 16th century to his Polish enemies. Whoever chose her as that symbol hasn't done their history lessons. The history of Ukraine and Russia are entwined. One cannot exist without the other.

[@xfactor3000]

In a shocking incident in India, a local woman was raped, and her brother took matters into his own hands when the police failed to take action. According to eyewitnesses, the brother, whose name has not been released, stormed into the police station to report the crime, but was met with apathy and a lack of interest from the officers on duty. Frustrated with their lack of action, the brother left the station and set out to find the perpetrator himself. In a brutal act of vigilantism, the brother tracked down the rapist and beheaded him in front of several witnesses. Carrying the rapist's head in hand, the brother then walked through the streets, including a busy farmer's market, covered in blood before making his way back to the police station. In a shocking display, the brother threw the rapist's head onto the desk of the officers who had dismissed his initial report and declared, "Since you wouldn't lift a finger to bring this monster to justice, I took matters into my own hands." The police have not yet commented on the incident, but sources say that they are investigating the matter and that the brother is currently in custody. The identity of the rapist and the victim have not been released at this time. This incident has sparked calls for a review of the police's handling of sexual assault cases in the area.

[@HipnoDark]

Everything from there just sucks. Stfu.

[@nicholasnguyen5181]

Gotta love India

[@yancydavis8280]

I not saying that he was right but he wasn’t wrong

[@captainrelyk]

Where can I read about this?

[@captainspaulding5963]

Wasn't there also a situation in the news around 4 years or so ago about a group of women storming a courtroom and castrating the man that assaulted them? Or was that part of the one that made it in the video?

[@CT_216]

The nuclear bombings were not solely done for purpose of “revenge”. They were used as a means of forcing the Japanese to surrender before the war continued. The Japanese were known to fight until the end, or even to commit suicide, before they would surrender. If the US had to invade Japan, who knows how many more casualties and how much longer the war would’ve went on for. It’s a shame it came to that, and is a good reminder of why it should never come to that again. People often forget or just don’t know the brutality of the Japanese, not only to enemy soldiers but civilians as well.

[@ak0e]

Nothing says NUH-UH like bombing civilians that are already starving to death via the "war effort" their Government wrongly placed more than nuclear fallout for the next however long it takes.

[@toddgaak422]

100% It's asinine to call that "revenge".

[@Dontworryaboutit961]

The use of the bomba wasn’t justified. It literally changed nothing if you actually look at the facts and dotn just take our government’s lies at face value

[@CT_216]

@@Dontworryaboutit961 what “facts” are you referring to? I suggest you look into the history of the Japanese military and see just what the US and it’s Allies were up against.

[@yooyoomama1]

The definition of Fuck around and find out

[@joshuamohlman]

“Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.” - Mark Lucado

[@brandonfitzgerald9253]

Not always true

[@MariaAbrams]

Considered "possible war crimes"? I call that definite war justice! Glad to see I'm not the only one. No charges. 👏

[@BoereViking]

I couldn't believe anybody would call that war crimes...

[@CrossOfBayonne]

The prisoners were glad to be free after years of being imprisoned, Just spoke to a Vietnam vet whose uncle was the liberator of Dachau

[@Samuel-rh9fk]

The Russians killed 100 million people in genocide. Killing people from Russia will never be a crime

[@twannifufu]

Fun fact: The Julius Caesar revenge plot line was incorporated into Xena: Warrior Princess. It was her band of pirates who kidnapped Caesar. HIs crucifying of her and her group led to a lifelong feud that ended both their lives (although Xena is later resurrected).

[@elenarodriguez7809]

And Julius Caesar was played by the famous Karl Urban.

[@jraymond1988]

The guy who built a makeshift armored vehicle and terrorized his town for various revenge reasons (due to town management incompetence) is a good story to be on here.

[@benjaminbrown3939]

Marvin Heemayer

[@SSD_Penumbra]

@@benjaminbrown3939 Rip king

[@Johnny.1965]

Megadeth made a video about this event, it's called "the right to go insane"

[@stlpaulie]

Except the story has been so twisted that the facts, (hewasn’t disconnected from the sewer service because he was never on the sewer service, his shop had road frontage and wasn’t cut off from the access road) don’t matter to his supporters

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

@@stlpaulie source Trust me bro

[@KiethSomataw99]

The atomic bombings served to bring a less bloody conclusion to the war in the Pacific. Had a conventional invasion happened, the death and destruction would have been greater and more widespread, affecting cities like Tokyo, Kyoto, etc.

[@jimschleich8753]

Absolutely. There would have been much more loss of life on both sides if there were an invasion.

[@crilleray]

This is actually false (french historian speeking here), Japan would have surrender before the US invasion (and Truman knew how to make them surrender way before it happend). A lot of books were written on the subject, I recommend the excellent work of Hasegawa Tsuyoshi if you want to read more about it. Some of his articles are online for free. Yes an invasion would have been terrible and a big part of the japanese government at that time wanted the war to end that way, but the bombs were absolutely not the main reason why Japan capitulated.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

The dreaded invasion was still three months away. Washington could quite reasonably have waited one month to make sure Japan wouldn't surrender without it, and if they'd dropped the A-bomb then they wouldn't have been significantly worse off for the delay. But Japan would probably have surrendered anyway by then: the Soviet intervention in the Pacific War was clearly an equal factor in the surrender decision, and likely would have been enough given a little time.

[@MrEcoho]

@@crilleray your a pretty shitty historian then cause the Japanese had a coup d'etat attempt after the first bomb because the emperor broke tradition and supported surrender after the first bomb was dropped. not something he would have done before that point.

[@thedevilsrockstxr2309]

@@crilleray u said speeking, stop lying

[@SiVlog1989]

I know it's a sports context, but it does involve (at least perceived) retribution. At the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix, Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna were in a tense battle for the F1 World Championship. Prost had the edge, where if neither of them finished, he would be champion. After getting ahead of Senna early on, Prost held the lead until the closing stages when Senna attempted to pass Prost at the last heavy braking zone on the track, the final chicane. The two of them collided, coming to Halt in the runoff area. Prost climbed out, knowing that he was champion as neither of them would finish. However, confusion reigned, Senna had got his car going again, stopped in the pits for repairs, retook the lead and finished the race in first place, or so he thought. After stopping his car in Parc Fermé, Senna was summoned to the Stewards of the race, where he was informed that he'd been excluded from the result. Almost as soon as the news broke controversy erupted. While the rules stated that a driver couldn't restart after stalling the engine, a loophole existed that allowed them to do so in a dangerous position. Senna and his team argued that the location he and Prost stopped was a dangerous location, but the Governing Body, FISA (the FIA today), upheld the disqualification and further put Senna on a suspended ban. This is despite the fact the aerial footage appeared to show Prost intentionally turning into Senna, causing the collision. It led to allegations of bias by the President of FISA, Jean Marie Balestre, in favouring his fellow Frenchman and personal friend, Alain Prost. With the injustice of it all in his mind, Senna came into the same race a year later in the same position Prost had been the year before, if both failed to score, he'd be champion. After trying in vane to get the grid positions switched (to have pole position on the racing line), he took retribution into his own hands. Prost (now driving a Ferrari), made the better start once again, but as the field approached the first corner, led by Prost, Senna used his car as a missile and literally rammed Alain Prost out of the race, making Senna the 1990 World Champion instantly. Although for the next 12 months he denied it, but at the end of 1991, he confessed that it was a deliberate action. Saying it was motivated by the crooked decision making that gave the 1989 title to his fierce rival

[@atnicegramWatchMoje01_]

Contact me for your reward🎁 🎁👆

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

I would have run that frog off the track and tried to end him for such a stunt.

[@JF-sb5mo]

One of the many, many controversial moments in f1. One of the reasons why I love the sport

[@SiVlog1989]

@J F absolutely, it's what gets people talking about it, for better or worse. I imagine many years down the line F1 historians will be debating the ethics of what Michael Masi did as Race Director, even before the controversial Abu Dhabi Grand Prix of 2021

[@iBoss818]

A legendary moment, but I wouldn't consider it vicious. Even if Senna did it deliberately, he didn't try to kill Prost. Undoubtedly a dangerous action, but he didn't want him dead.

[@ARIXANDRE]

Leave it to Trumann to make a nuclear attack sound like a bedtime story.

[@bushwacker2048]

"Back in my day, when another country messed with the States, we flattened entire cities"

[@geehadarillo1]

@Bushwacker not anymore. Now we have to care about there feelings and give them blood money. America's pussyified what a joke

[@kittylover62]

"Pearl Harbor. No hard feelings!"

[@sethleger6105]

@@bushwacker2048 amen to that

[@williamf9633]

Pearl harbour was a military installation and they retaliated by bombing the hell out of civilians great work

[@k-lee481]

I feel like revenge can come at a price, depending on what we or other people do to satisfy their needs Edit Comment: I'm surprised to not see Gary Plauche on this list. He got revenge on Jeffrey Docuet after he abused his son, Jody, by shooting him

[@bushwacker2048]

Yeah, ol' Gary put Jeff down like a dog, but it was so clean you can't really call it vicious, lol- surgical, more like. And from the hip, too! He must have drilled that move for hours

[@k-lee481]

@@bushwacker2048 Yeah, I guess so, but it still counts in my mind, but people also have other opinions and I don't blame them

[@elisamaria3628]

Let’s be honest Doucet deserved what he got he’s lucky it wasn’t worse if someone repeatedly raped my child I would have done the same

[@charliejoson9145]

I was going to reply that I re-watched the clip about Gary Plauche but then I realized that the clip was included in a video from a different KZbin account.

[@sherrita80548]

I remembered when that happened I am from Louisiana my dad wanted to send him some money to help with his defense lawyer he did the tax payers a favor

[@goober5713]

Inigo Montoya had the best revenge.

[@greghooper7788]

Dedicated his life to fencing and spent 30 years tracking down the six fingered man who murdered his father. "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya..."

[@elenarodriguez7809]

And the best line to greet him with.

[@jaclynsanture6643]

i love the princess bride

[@Pattiepies55]

Great movie ☺️

[@TornSparrow1974]

Added to my Likes - mostly for the women who got revenge on that particular monster.. 5:37

[@atnicegramWatchMoje01_]

Contact me for your reward🎁 🎁👆

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Ditto. Very impressed by what they did!👍

[@onionbubs386]

Those women are heros

[@mackbolan6851]

Rain In the Face, A Lakota War Chief, is my favorite tale of revenge, commitment and keeping one's words. In 1874, Tom Custer jailed Rain In The Face unjustly. Rain In The Face vowed revenge on Tom Custer by promising to cut his heart out and eat it. On June 25, 1876, Rain In The Face allegedly kept his promise at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Years later, Rain In The Face denied these allegations, as well as, the rumor he killed George Custer.

[@briantaylor9285]

I swear, Native Americans have the most badass names. Rain In The Face...😠⛈️

[@djquinn11]

@@briantaylor9285: And his brother, Piss In The Wind.

[@briantaylor9285]

@@djquinn11 💀

[@manuelacosta9463]

Julius Ceasar's was colder than ice, more so since he was at the mercy of the pirates yet told them exactly what he was going to do to them. They laughed and then paid a price far more than some gold coins of ransom. Quite a beginning for one of ancient Rome's top personalities.

[@atnicegramWatchMoje01_]

Contact me for your reward🎁 🎁👆

[@jamesshaffer7005]

Most likely a very highly exaggerated story spread during his rise to power to make him more popular. But still a fun story.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@jamesshaffer7005 Probably, but by the same token, at that point, there are basically three options, the other two being an abject coward and the other trying to be as nondescript as possible.

[@jasonnapier2942]

Can't remember the guys name but in Texas a few years ago a father found a grown man sexual abusing his young daughter and beat the man to death with his hands. The guy went to court and the Judge said case dismissed because it was a justifiable death. 👏👏👏 to the judge...

[@bonnieparker9584]

Actually it was self defense under Texas law. He was protecting his daughter which is part of our self defense.

[@jasonnapier2942]

@@bonnieparker9584 that's what we need more of and maybe this shit today would stop...

[@DanakarEndeel]

@@bonnieparker9584 God, I love Texas. Like just recently where a guy went into a restaurant with a (fake) gun and started robbing the customers; only to get shot and die shortly afterwards. He should have chosen California instead of Texas. What's hilarious though is those losers on social media trying to justify the robbery "because the gun was fake". It did not appear fake when he was robbing people at gunpoint so I'm glad he found out that actions have consequences. This current generation on social media is just so pathetic that they would defend the criminals over the victims. Likewise with Kyle Rittenhouse where even the media (and Biden) was lying about him; trying to portray him as some "right-wing extremist who crossed state lines to murder black people" when the only 3 victims were all while, they were all criminals trying to burn down a gas station (one was also a pedo and the other an illegal gun owner) who were all chasing him down trying to murder him.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@bonnieparker9584 In civilized parts of the country, it would only be legal if he was actively engaged in that at the moment that he was killed while trying to prevent it. Any other time it's just moderately justified vigilante murder.

[@bonnieparker9584]

He did interrupt the rapist in the act of sexually assaulting his extremely young child. Obviously, I am not a lawyer but I know our self defense standard comes down to would a reasonable person be in fear of their child life. I also not sure if a grand jury failed to bill him (probably) or the county DA refused to submitted to a grand jury. It was one or the other. The event occurred in a rural county

[@Thepotatowaifu]

In my opinion, those that were wronged deserved that revenge. Nobody deserves ignorant acts of violence against them because of who they are or what they look like.

[@ocpofficialrep7026]

i agree. the retaliator is never wrong.

[@DanakarEndeel]

The only one I felt somewhat conflicted by was that woman who randomly killed busdrivers. Now if those specific busdrivers were responsible for driving the busses where women 'vanished' then I'd agree the revenge os deserved; but just randomly killing someone for driving a bus is not revenge but just plain murdering of innocents. That would be like a woman getting sexually abused by a taxi-driver and then go on a killing spree to kill anyone just for driving a taxi.

[@ocpofficialrep7026]

@@DanakarEndeel agreed

[@deeterman]

@@DanakarEndeel all 100,000 incinerated civilians of hiroshima and nagasaki- "Am I a joke to you" -i am not being mean just wanted to make the joke

[@DanakarEndeel]

@@deeterman True and I understand the joke you're trying to make. 🙂 However, the situations were completely different. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were indeed tragedies; but that was war and Japan started it through a sneak-attack on Pearl Harbor because they wanted free reign of the surrounding seas to expand their territories. Can you imagine the millions of additional deaths that would have been caused if the US had decided on a ground war? These two nuclear devices effectively caused Japan to surrender immediately and thus prevented a prolonged ground battle. What Japan didn't know was that those two bombs were the only ones the US had at the time. So it was an all-or-nothing bluff by the US which turned out to be the correct tactical choice in the end with the least amount of total casualties (also, the US lost many sailors and hospital personnel during the attack on Pearl Harbor as the Japanse were apparently just killing indiscriminately according to my knowledge; even buildings/ships clearly marked as hospitals). As such I still find the story about this woman randomly killing bus-drivers to be the most conflicted story.

[@Margann1987]

Buford Pusser should have gotten revenge on whomever gave him that name. Like my mom says, "I bet he had to grow up tough."

[@brianarbenz1329]

But what can you do with a last name Pusser?

[@Margann1987]

@@brianarbenz1329 Not much.

[@waxeightoneeight]

I wish they would have included the time when Richard Ramirez was nearly beaten to death by an entire East LA neighborhood and the police had to save him from the crowd lol

[@scotthill9570]

Always remember, your actions have consequences!

[@lacymarie78]

One of the worst things I’ve ever read and seen documentaries about, was the 1980 prison riot in Santa Fe New Mexico. Over the course of 36 hours, inmates took over the penitentiary, and took 12 officers hostage. Then a group of inmates headed for the protective housing unit which was cellblock 4. They took acetylene torches and burned their way through. Then they took revenge on so called snitches. 12-16 inmates in cellblock 4 were brutally tortured and murdered.

[@u-shanks4915]

the ghosts are still there i read the book i forgot what was the name but it was indeed brutal

[@MrMementoMori]

I don’t blame the survivors of the holocaust beating their captors. Edit: it was the US soldiers who killed their captors but I hope the survivors helped.

[@kittylover62]

I don't think the survivors were complaining

[@jasonkinzie8835]

The survivors definitely helped. Before we start cheering these were war crimes under international law. The proper thing to do would be to charge the camp guards according to their individual crimes and have a fair trial. How do we know exactly what crimes each of these individuals committed without an investigation resulting from a fair trial? Of course the other argument is that lots of war criminals ended up getting arguably light sentences if they were even charged at all. Still the right attitude to take is to be outraged at the lack of legal justice in these cases and not the attitude that says vigilante justice is okay. Vigilantes make mistakes and kill innocent people. If some vigilante killed my brother under the mistaken belief that he had committed a terrible crime I would want that vigilante to face justice.

[@rat3072]

@@jasonkinzie8835 While that is all very much true, the one point to make in that specific instance is that as far as SS guards in Dachau are concerned, there was no such thing as "innocent of crimes". The part that isn't mentioned really in any of the versions told is that the survivors pointed out to the army troops the guards and made sure that like the desk clerks and whatnot were not targeted, but instead just turned over as POW's.

[@jasonkinzie8835]

@@rat3072 Interesting. I didn't know that.

[@han2han718]

The prisoners also beat to death a couple of the guards

[@marcreeves5980]

The Japanese bombings were not acts of revenge, they were military actions

[@mewesquirrel6720]

It was both

[@ronaldfinkelstein6335]

The Japanese committed a wealth of atrocities, from the 'rape of Nanking' [~130,000 murdered civilians, over a six week period], to Unit 731 [which waged biological warfare against the Chinese, causing several outbreaks of bubonic plague], to the "Bataan Death March". I do not think America has anything to feel guilty about, seeing that the Japanese body count is higher by far , than that of the Americans.

[@marcreeves5980]

@@ronaldfinkelstein6335 Absolutely right!!

[@ArnoSnyman007]

Nope, they were war crimes.

[@skinnyjesus16]

War crimes***

[@chocochef3092]

Worst personal revenge in history I’ve heard on the news was executed by Lorena Bobbitt. It was sensational and went viral.

[@maximaldinotrap]

Olga of Kiev deserves to be on this list for what she did. Yes, no footage of it exists because of it being before film or photography but dear lord

[@supercyberfunk]

Some of these revenge tales are so sweet. I love stories of just revenge.

[@DayVinRey]

5:24 Swarmed the Courthouse with knives and chili powder

[@simonfea2]

Hell, yes, they did.

[@geehadarillo1]

So technically these are all heros that don't take shit. Everyone of them deserves the highest recognition and respect. Great job hero's

[@stoneagepig3768]

Nearly thirty years later Julius Caesar killed a million Gauls in an act of genocide for the benefit of his political career. He is no hero. And the plural is spelled heroes btw

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Nothing that Mossad does can be characterized as heroic. They're on the same basic moral playing field as the CIA and Al Qaeda.

[@1rivyjr]

You talking about an Anti-Hero

[@Robert-lg2bl]

Awesome video!!

[@kiminowak8295]

Holy hell. If any of my relatives were hurt or killed; I, too, would be swearing revenge......

[@jaclynsanture6643]

so would i, but i leave it up to a hard judge

[@elavestruzfalopero8202]

I know it is not part of history, but there was this Russian guy whose wife and two kids were killed in a midair collision in 2002. He found out it was an air controller who was guilty for the accident. He went to his house in Switzerland, he showed him the pictures of his wife and kids and then he stabbed him to death. He was in prison for 3 years and was received as a hero by the Russian locals who had also lost their children in the accident when he was released.

[@ailsasublett9885]

The controller was not responsible.

[@elavestruzfalopero8202]

@@ailsasublett9885 totally agree with you… machines were faulty, phone system was down, he was left alone by his colleague… and yet he was the press’ scapegoat…

[@jamesmcgrath1952]

The law is not always just, and justice is not always legal.

[@jkschnik6952]

The US dropped paper bombs in Japanese first to tell people to flee and urge their government to surrender. The first atomic bomb was dropped & the US again urged Japan to surrender. When they again refused the second bomb was dropped. The US did everything possible to not drop both bombs.

[@nomercy5422]

Good stuff

[@jacobdrolet4262]

Amazing video watch mojo of act of revenge in history,fantastic job.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Great to see Bufford Pusser on this list you don't hear much about him anymore

[@fromthen4892]

That thumb nail really says something despite the times were in 😂

[@lajosgali]

At first I thought it's a cat. XD

[@TheCrapman50]

makes me love General Patton even more. justice should always be swift and merciless. BTW, You missed the story of Queen Boudicca's revenge on the romans.

[@emperora9]

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

[@billy8844]

Inigo Montoya!

[@hannahlowe794]

You killed my father, prepare to die.

[@atnicegramWatchMoje01_]

Contact me for your reward🎁 🎁👆

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

@@hannahlowe794While I’m not a fan of _The Princess Bride,_ that’s such an iconic line.

[@leonardolim8976]

Everyone loves the sweet taste of revenge at some point

[@gunfighterzero]

Truman never said the bomb was retribution for pear harbor, he said. "Nobody is more disturbed over the use of atomic bombs than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war. The only language they seem to understand is the one we have been using to bombard them. When you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless true"

[@mrsnem8020]

What about Olga's terrible revenge in the days of ancient Russia for her husband Igor drevlyanam? She literally burned the whole nation.

[@colinwest8658]

The US soldiers executing SS soldiers was not a war crime. What they did was justified.

[@jonathanoloba7791]

Still a war crime😂

[@Anti-zionist123]

My mom gave me a time out once because I got suspended from school, she deserves a spot on here.

[@freddiemolinajr.8397]

good video

[@JABRIEL251]

Number 1 is a stretch. The purpose of the bombings was more than likely a show of force for another World Power, the USSR. Hell, more people died in the bombing raids the US conducted than the nukes. (they also weren't some means of ending the war quickly as talks of surrender were already on the way). Which isn't to say that there wasn't any level of vengeance, but that was more of an icing on the proverbial cake. It served a bigger purpose than just revenge. Intentionally so.

[@TheRealCaptainFreedom]

I always thought so. We should have nuked Moscow and Shanghai and Peking too while we were at it.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Dresden would have been a better choice. The city was of no strategic or military importance, it was more or less a tourist destination that was full to the brim with refugees that were fleeing from the Soviets that were taking their anger out on the civilians as they advanced. The city was firebombed and the initial death toll was on the same basic level as either of the nuclear bombings. (Although if you include death due to cancer, the nuclear bombings are probably significantly bigger as hardly anybody survived the firebombing due to either being incinerated or asphyxiated by the fires)

[@doncholeone]

What about the assasination of Sarajevo which led to World War 1 and kinda World War 2 in the aftermath?

[@BroAnarchy]

Huh....good point.. That is how it (kinda) all got started

[@garcel1251]

Maria was a boss!! Lived the lyrics to “Stand by your man” 4real!

[@brianarbenz1329]

The January weather in my city is revenge for all the festive fun we had in December.

[@Mattinalf]

Kinda surprised the killdozer guy didn't make the list

[@williamcrowe2576]

That's because most people believed he was in the wrong.

[@joermnyc]

Things were weird in the USSR if you could just go out and buy a TANK!

[@Demeech]

Where's Scott Tenorman chili?

[@GoodNight0wl]

4:47 Caesar also had them beheaded as an act of mercy before crucifying them as a reward for treating him well.

[@GrinderCB]

Disagree strongly with the view that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of revenge. Truman had atomic bombs at his disposal and most foreign policy advisors believed Japan would fight to the last man, woman and child. In fact, the Japanese were training their civil population how to fight a guerilla war and to kill as many Americans as possible before being killed themselves. It was believed that the A-bomb attacks would shock them so ferociously that they'd surrender. Then the Russians declared war on Japan and started attacking the Japanese in China and Manchuria. With all that shit piled on against them, Emperor Hirohito intervened got his government to surrender. Revenge? No.

[@ArnoSnyman007]

The USA was the only country to use an A-Bomb against another country. That was not a military strategy, it was a war crime and I would even dare say, a crime against humanity.

[@squarebear619]

It's funny that the US took revenge on SS at Dachau but did absolutely nothing, not even charges, on those SS that committed the Wareth 11 lynchings of Black US Soldiers even though they knew who did it. Didn't even acknowledge it until citizens in Wareth erected a monument themselves. I'm also surprised that Nat Turner's vengeance against slavers isn't on this list.

[@brianpinion5844]

im taking notes !

[@AaronShenghao]

But remember, an eye for an eye leaves both eyes blind...

[@SSD_Penumbra]

Sometimes, you need vengeance.

[@2807Joe]

Therefore, you can't hit what you can't see.

[@roguerangerroger]

An eye for their lives

[@DanakarEndeel]

That makes no sense. An eye for an eye with two people involved would still leave both of them with at least one eye; possibly one retaining both eyes. 😅

[@susanrobinson910]

Buford Pusser sounds like the name of a rare disease…🤔

[@atnicegramWatchMoje01_]

Contact me for your reward🎁 🎁👆

[@thunderpantz]

One that infects criminals

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

It's one of those perfect "redneck" names. (Another example is NIGHT OF THE HUNTER author Davis Grubb.)

[@sheemalmighty]

I remember I read a story about a guy that was present during both Japanese bombings and survived both

[@amoskariuki5967]

yeah…even infographics did a video about it

[@paulhunter6742]

President Truman gave Japanese Emporer and military time to surrender between bombings of two Japanese cities. Their military continues push keep War going even over objection of Emporer. Countless American Soldiers, Seamen and prisoners of War lives were saved by this action.

[@bignasty1876]

Old Klingon proverb;"Revenge is a dish, best served cold."

[@brittanyraymer2932]

The atomic bombings were NOT just about revenge, but a military “shock and awe” strategy meant to get the Japanese to surrender before the Russians got involved. It would also have prevented an estimated 1+ million casualties, including women and children, if the Americans had conducted a land invasion. Militarily, it was the right decision, and not simply a revenge plot, which is a dangerous insinuation.

[@calebb.6416]

It’s the whistling in the background for me.

[@frankphillips7436]

Hiroshima was not exactly “revenge”. It was a sort of vengeance of course but the primary purpose was the use of extreme measures to avoid the mass scale death that would occur (on both sides) if America invaded mainland Japan to force the end of the war.

[@RaulGalhardi]

This is the offical and american version of the story. In fact, USA wanted to show to USSR and the world that they have the atomic bomb and its power as a potency to be feared.

[@tomfrazier1103]

Plaid shirt & jeans? You just described the population of North America. Canada, U.S.A., Mexico.

[@thechildhoodruiner15]

Honourable mention: Gary Plauche

[@upland77]

Those who seek revenge should dig two graves--one for your enemy, and one for yourself. -Confucius

[@atnicegramWatchMoje01_]

Contact me for your reward🎁 🎁👆

[@thedevilsrockstxr2309]

Yeah thts not always true....Confucius ain't live in the trenches and I love Confucius

[@sirroganestevezofnaples3076]

The dead cannot cry out for revenge, it is the duty of the living to do so for them.

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Baloney. A certain level of revenge can be life blood to the victims of injustice or betrayal. It makes some of us stronger.

[@NorthWalesKid]

Iranian embassy siege. They killed one of ours, so our SAS went in an killed 5 of theirs. Clearing 64 rooms in a 3 storey building that was on fire in 11 minutes. Who dares wins

[@richardbardell6754]

I like it when victims receive revenge. But it sucks when innocent people get hurt or killed in the crossfire.

[@williamjones3615]

Jesus Christ. You actually think the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were "acts of revenge"?

[@ArnoSnyman007]

The USA has a nice way of covering its war crimes and the world just accepted it.

[@williamjones3615]

@@ArnoSnyman007 Uh, the bombings were in no way a war crime. Nice try...

[@guidorotunda1321]

You forgot Genghis Khan & Boudica

[@lpowers]

That's a pretty wild face bandage (with ear holes) on Buford Pusser.

[@joetheman8550]

"Sold all her belongings and purchased a tank." HARD as METAL

[@pepsiman4065]

“Vengeance is an idiot’s game” -Arthur Morgan

[@ArnoSnyman007]

@@Dmmeonnicegramwatchmojoplays.. will you just go away with this spam nonsense.

[@maximaldinotrap]

@@Dmmeonnicegramwatchmojoplays.. it's a bot

[@jalabi99]

I would classify the bombing of Hiroshima as revenge for Pearl Harbor but the bombing of Nagasaki as a war crime. The US had proved the point with the first bombing so the second one was just gratuitous.

[@ArnoSnyman007]

The US military is no less evil than the USSR military in my opinion. They can commit whatever war crime they desire and get away with it.

[@gwyndolinmu2526]

The second one was for all the Asian countries the Japanese invaded

[@munkustrap2]

The 2nd one was because Japan didn't surrender after the first.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@munkustrap2 The 2nd one was because we mistranslated the response that the Japanese sent in response to the first bombing.

Japan didn’t want to surrender after the first one so they had to drop the second

[@artfire28]

I love the tale of revenge.

[@brownieelf6171]

“I used to think revenge was a dish best served cold. Then, I learned it meant getting back at someone.” -Norm Macdonald

[@AK-rv6dq]

Operation Nemesis

[@sherrita80548]

If I don't have a husband like Buford that doesn't avenge my death if I get murdered I don't want one

[@BroAnarchy]

🤔

[@Arianne3011]

👍🏼

[@ClassifiedRanTom]

I can always support people taking revenge on the wrong doers, I cannot support those who take revenge on the wrong doers innocent family or friends.

[@sgt_slobber.7628]

‘Revenge is a dish best served cold!!!!’ -Klingon Proverb

[@Mikesthatguy]

That lady was down for her man.... she bought a tank to kill Not ZEEs... that's Metal🤘

[@ericlocz559]

it’s like they say , there ain’t no better feeling than gettin sweet sweet revenge

[@jasonkinzie8835]

Love is a better feeling.

[@frankfreeman1553]

When the Law fails, Vengeance prevails

[@cartwrightworm1317]

Vladimir Lenin’s older brother was executed as a revolutionary by the Russian Empire in 1887. Vladimir overthrew the Empire in 1917.

[@fromthehaven94]

I wish I could add Lisbeth Salenger upon the guardian of her allowance, but that's fiction.

[@harleykelly197]

No destruction of Carthage?

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

Yes, and not only did they destroy it, they also salted the ground to try and ensure that they wouldn't be able to grow the crops necessary to rebuild. Given how insanely expensive salt was a the time, that was pretty hardcore.

[@themartialartsapproach8786]

The chili powder was a nice touch.

[@theAparkable]

I don't know if Hiroshima is really revenge tho if you say it is literally every war ever could be on the list

[@srf2112]

To call the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "revenge" is misguided.

[@JABRIEL251]

Very much so.