Archetype:Avenger

Avenger
After a brutal mob hit put out on her family, Riley North (Peppermint) became an effective and deadly vigilante after crooked courts let her assailants off the hook while condemning her to a mental asylum.
Power/Ability to:	Use or embody the powers and characteristics of an avenger archetype.

"They laugh at the law. The rich ones who buy it and twist it to their whims. The other ones, who have nothing to lose, who don't care about themselves, or other people. All the ones who think they're above the law, or outside it, or beyond it. They know all the law is good for is to keep good people in line. And they all laugh. They laugh at the law. But they don't laugh at me. "

― Frank Castle/The Punisher (Marvel Comics)

The power to use the powers and characteristics of an avenger archetype.

Also Called

• Punisher
• The Vigilante
• The Breaker

Properties

The user is able to use the powers and characteristics of an avenger archetype, meaning that they have devoted themselves completely to getting revenge on someone or something that has wronged them. 

The user will stop at nothing of fulfilling his desire for retribution, and resort to unsavory tactics to assure it. The user is someone who has a one-track mind when it comes to this, usually manifesting into their lives as the only thing they do, and the only thing it gives them purpose.

Associations

• Ammunition Manipulation
• Anger Empowerment
• Adaptive Mind
  • Adaptive Learning
• Ballistics Manipulation
• Combat Manipulation
• Computer Interaction
• Enhanced Determination
• Exaggeration
• Golden Luck
• Hatred Empowerment
  • Berserker Physiology
• Indomitable Emotions
  • Indomitable Rage
  • Indomitable Will
• Inhibition Release
  • Truth Inducement
• Karma Manipulation
• Killing Instinct
  • Enhanced Violence
  • Killing Intent
    • Intimidation Intuition
• Obsession Empowerment
• Omnislayer
• Revenge Empowerment
• Special Ops Mastery
  • Disguise Mastery
  • Unnoticeability
• Survival Intuition
• Tormentor
• Training Regimen
• Tactical Genius
• Weapon Manipulation
  • Weapon Creation
• Weapon Proficiency
  • Improbable Weapon Proficiency

Relationships

• Assailant
  • Many avengers are maledicted individuals corrupted by a foul power, driven further and further off the brink of sanity by a taunting reminder of what they lost. Compelling them to commit atrocities in the possessing forces name.
    • (Example: 'John Jaspers/Faust, Faust: Love of the Damned)
• Barbarian
  • In the most primeval sense an avenger can be a vicious brigand with a weary guile yet not lacking a semblance of honor.
    • (Example: Tien, Ong Bak 2)
• Rebel
  • Usually, their desire for vengeance manifest as jumpstarting an insurrection or a revolution, to get back to a bureaucracy or system that personally wronged them.
    • (Example: 'Lelouch vi Britannia, Code Geass)

Variations

• Afterlife Border
• Confession Inducement
• Supreme Monopoly; rare cases
• Indomitable Love; rare cases.
• Pedagogy Intuition
• Revenant Physiology
  • Kuchisake-Onna Physiology
  • Onryo Physiology
• Stealth Intuition
• Undead Pulse
• Vengeance Deity Physiology
  • Vengeance Embodiment

Limitations

• May be blinded by their desire for revenge.
  • May deny help that they are offered.
  • May betray allies in the quest for revenge.
  • May end up killing the wrong person.
• May inadvertently begin or continue a cycle of revenge.
• Upon success of revenge user may be left with no further purpose.

Example Characters/Known Users

Anime/Manga

• Nami Kusunoki (Alive: The Final Evolution)
• Guts (Berserk)
• Ōko Yushima (Bleach)
• The One Being Sought (Code:Breaker)
• Aoba Takatsu (Code:Breaker)
• Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass)
• Akira Fudo (Devilman); after Miki’s death
• Piccolo Jr. (Dragon Ball)
• Dr. Gero (Dragon Ball Z)
• Baby (Dragon Ball GT)
• Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
• Rei (Fist of the North Star)
• Jagi (Fist of the North Star)
• Shinsuke Takasugi (Gintama)
• Goblin Slayer (Goblin Slayer)
• Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
• Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece)
• New Fish-men Pirates (One Piece)
• Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
• Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
• Madara Uchiha (Naruto)
• Jean Pierre Polnareff (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III: Stardust Crusaders)
• Kyou Kai (Kingdom); formerly
• Lady Oyakata (Rosario + Vampire)
• Hokuto Kaneshiro (Rosario + Vampire)
• Gyokuro Shuzen (Rosario + Vampire)
• Alucard (Rosario + Vampire)
• Enishi Yukishiro (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Tokagero (Shaman King)
• Thorfinn (Vinland Saga); formerly
• Heidi (Vinland Saga)
• Thief King Bakura (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Cartoons/Comics

• Maria Diaz/La Muerta (Coffin Comics)
• The Crow (Crow Franchise)
  • Alex Corvus
  • Ashe Corven
  • Eric Draven
  • Jimmy Cuervo
• Black Manta (DC Comics)
• The Specter (DC Comics)
• Albert Simmons/Spawn (Image Comics)
• Frank Castle/Punisher (Marvel Comics)
• Ghost Riders (Marvel Comics)
• Saint of Killers (Preacher)

Folklore/Mythology

• Gawain (Arthurian Legends)
• Nemesis (Greek Mythology)
• Sekmhet (Egyptian Mythology)
• Vidar (Norse Mythology)

Live Television/Movies

• Connor Macmanus (Boondock Saints)
• Murphy Macmanus (Boondock Saints)
• Paul Kersey (Death Wish franchise)
• John Jaspers/Faust (Faust: Love of the Damned)
• Aditya Singh Rajput (Gabbar)
• Britt Reid/Green Hornet (The Green Hornet)
• Ajey Mera (Ghayal)
• John Wick (John Wick)
• Rohan Bhatnagar (Kaabil)
• John Reed/Lone Ranger (Lone Ranger)
• Officer Matthew Cordell (Manic Cop)
• Tien (Ong Bak 2)
• Riley North (Peppermint)
• Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural)

Video Games

• Asura (Asura's Wrath)
• Ragna the Bloodedge (Blazblue)
• Doom Slayer (Doom franchise)
• Kratos (God of War)
• Hisako (Killer Instinct)
• Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
• Avenger-class Servants (TYPE-MOON)
  • Alcides
  • Aŋgra Mainyu
  • Antonio Salieri
  • Edmond Dantès
  • Gorgon
  • Jeanne D’Arc Alter

Gallery

Nami Kusunoki (Alive: The Final Evolution) sought revenge against Mitachi for killing her brother, and that evolved into a hatred for all "Comrades" (ability users).

After Lancelot killed his brothers, Gawain (Arthurian Legends) swears revenge against him, pulling King Arthur into war and killing several fellow knights to that end.

Asura (Asura' Wraith) took revenge on the entire pantheon of Demigods who betrayed him.

Guts (Berserk) as the Black Swordsman.

Ōko Yushima (Bleach) sought revenge against Soul Society for shunning his hard work, even turning himself into an enhanced Mod Soul to exact it.

Ragna the Bloodedge (Blazblue) swore revenge on Yuuki Terumi and the N.O.L. for taking his family on him, training for nearly a decade and going on a one-man crusade against the world government as the SS-Class Criminal known occasionally as "The Grim Reaper"

The One Being Sought (Code:Breaker) sought revenge against Eden for betraying him by labelling him as a potential danger despite his loyalty to them.

Aoba Takatsu (Code:Breaker) became "Code: Revenger" to take vengenance against Rei Ogami for killing the nun who took care of her.

Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass) swore revenge against his father for abandoning him and his little sister.

Crows (The Crow)

After the death of his love, Miki, Akira Fudo (Devilman) swears revenge on his former best friend Ryo.

For the first three years of his life, Piccolo Jr. (Dragon Ball) sought revenge against Son Goku for killing his father, which he accomplished (to an extent) by killing him and Raditz.

Dr. Gero (Dragon Ball Z) sought revenge against Son Goku for destroying the Red Ribbon Army that he created many Androids, including converting himself into a cyborg, for that purpose.

Baby (Dragon Ball GT) was created to revenge against the Saiyans who destroyed his people, the Tuffles.

Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) sought revenge against Jagi for the pain he caused, who in turn sought revenge against Kenshiro for scarring his face.

Goblin Slayer (Goblin Slayer) seeks to exterminate all goblins for attacking his village.

Kratos (God of War) slew nearly the entire Greek pantheon and destroyed the world in his quest for revenge.

After the son of a gang boss kills his dog and steals his car, John Wick (John Wick) tracks him down, killing dozen of people to get his revenge.

After the death of his entire family who was killed in front of him after witnessing the scene of a mob killing, Frank Castle (Marvel Comics) would go on to become one of fictional history greatest forms of an avenger, the Punisher as he wages endless war on all forms of crime.

Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) swear revenge for deaths of his clan & family.

After being traumatized with the death of his entire clan and victimized by visions of their gruesome deaths, Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) swore absolute vengeance against his older brother Itachi for his crimes,…

…abandoning the likes of his home village and friends to search for more power as Orochimaru's student…

…, however, after finally killing his brother in single combat and discovering the actual truth behind his betrayal and the death of his clan from Tobi, it only drove him to new heights of hatred as he grew colder and vicious.

Obito Uchiha (Naruto) seeks revenge against the reality that took his love away from him.

Madara Uchiha (Naruto) seeks revenge against the reality that took his brother away from him.

Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) sought revenge against the World Nobles who rejected his attempt to return to their society, by destroying everything.

Trafalgar Law (One Piece) sought revenge against the world for leaving his homeland to destroyed, and then later against Doflamingo for killing Rosinate.

Hody Jones (One Piece) and his New Fish-men Pirates are avengers who sought to destroy humanity because they were taught by the previous generation in racism, thus making them willing to give up their lives for an empty revenge.

Lady Oyakata (Rosario + Vampire) sought revenge against all of humanity for their crimes against monster-kind.

Hokuto Kaneshiro (Rosario + Vampire) sought revenge against Yokai Academy for making him suffer for so long and turning him into a monster.

Gyokuro Shuzen (Rosario + Vampire) sought revenge against Akasha Bloodriver for taking away her husband's attention, which meant destroying all of humanity simply to spite Akasha.

Alucard (Rosario + Vampire) sought revenge against all of humanity for the destruction of his kingdom and people.

Enishi Yukishiro (Rurouni Kenshin) seeks revenge against Kenshin for killing his sister that his nerves never rested.

Tokagero (Shaman King) sought revenge against Amidamaru for 600 years that his spirit lingered until he possessed Wooden Sword Ryu in an attempt to exact it.

Those summoned under the “Avenger” class (TYPE-MOON) are bound by resentment and desire for vengeance that lasts even after death.

After being blackened by the mud of the grail, Alcides (TYPE-MOON) swore vengeance against the gods who had ruined his life.

Jeanne D’Arc Alter (TYPE-MOON) swore revenge against all of France for her wrongful execution.

After being betrayed, falsely imprisoned, and left for dead, as well as having his loved one stolen, Edmond Dantès (TYPE-MOON) spent many years tracking down and getting revenge on those who wronged him.