# I need your absolute best revenge stories for my own catharsis. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 27, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322 "2008-02-27T01:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/21 "2008-02-27T13:07:20Z")
How’s about Shakespeares Titus Andronicus? I think that is what inspired South Parks episode “Scott Tenorman Must Die”. There is also a movie made from it with a great role by Anthony Hopkins as the wronged father Titus. I hear it is Shakespeare most hated work, but I absolutely loved it in its over the top gory details. This story alone makes me understand that in his days Shakespeare was the Quentin Tarantino of his time. ---
**Author:** ![JustThinkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@JustThinkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustThinkin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/22 "2008-02-27T13:47:50Z")
The Sting ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/23 "2008-02-27T14:32:25Z")
Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. I cringe whenever I think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/24 "2008-02-27T14:50:48Z")
There’s a movie out now on DVD where a corporate lawyer gets a concious and decides to blow the whistle on an evil company he’s defended for 8 years. The evil company pays him back by killing him. His good friend at the firm trys to avenge him and go after the evil company. They in turn try to kill him also. But they miss and he ends up getting his final revenge in the climax scene of the movie. I think you’d really like it **TLDR**. It’s called _Michael Clayton_. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/25 "2008-02-27T14:56:36Z")
[QUOTE=bbs2k] Damn you\*\* Cisco\*\*. [/QUOTE] 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/26 "2008-02-27T15:00:39Z")
**The Shawshank Redemption** , the movie moreso than the book. Ultimate ownage. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/27 "2008-02-27T15:08:27Z")
[QUOTE=TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW] It’s _Oldboy_, and that’s a great answer. [/QUOTE] Oldboy was more about how vengeance just ends up in self-destruction. But by the same director, try [Lady Vengeance](http://www.ladyvengeancemovie.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/28 "2008-02-27T15:15:57Z")
[QUOTE=Hampshire] There’s a movie out now on DVD where a corporate lawyer gets a concious and decides to blow the whistle on an evil company he’s defended for 8 years. The evil company pays him back by killing him. His good friend at the firm trys to avenge him and go after the evil company. They in turn try to kill him also. But they miss and he ends up getting his final revenge in the climax scene of the movie. I think you’d really like it **TLDR**. It’s called _Michael Clayton_. [/QUOTE] Holy hell, **Hampshire**! Bravo! You’ve got cajones as big as basketballs. My hat’s off to you. As to the OP, \*Ocean’s 11 \*, the Clooney one, as well as _Ocean’s 13_ are all about revenge. Also _The Italian Job_. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/29 "2008-02-27T15:33:57Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer] Let me tell you the story of my uncle William. Forgive me if I wax poetic: I’ve heard it a lot. [/QUOTE] _sniff_ I never get tired of that story. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/30 "2008-02-27T15:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer] Let me tell you the story of my uncle William. Forgive me if I wax poetic: I’ve heard it a lot. [/QUOTE] That was bloody _brilliant_. Thank you for improving my day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/31 "2008-02-27T16:54:49Z")
I doubt it’s what you’re looking for, but I think \*The First Wives’ Club \* is a complicated revenge story, as are a couple of other Olivia Goldsmith books/movies. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/32 "2008-02-27T17:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=well he’s back] Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. I cringe whenever I think of it. [/QUOTE] Also, “Hop-Frog.” Then there’s Bill Cosby’s story [“Revenge”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVlHZ-i1zs) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/33 "2008-02-27T17:29:24Z")
**Hard Candy** , the movie. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/34 "2008-02-27T17:30:29Z")
[QUOTE=well he’s back] Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado”. I cringe whenever I think of it. [/QUOTE] Stephen King’s _Dolan’s Cadillac_, inspired by Poe’s short story, is similarly disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![pprgrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f6c823/32.png) [@pprgrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pprgrl)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/35 "2008-02-27T20:27:28Z")
Kill Bill I & II. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/36 "2008-02-27T20:58:31Z")
Well the OP said that she/he wanted _our_ revenge stories so here’s one that actually belongs to a friend of my SO. We’ll call this friend “Sarah.” For five years Sarah had been dating Mike and they lived together. In the last couple of months of their relationship, Mike started acting weird, distant, if you will. He denied that anything was up, maintaining that he was happy in the relationship. But Sarah knew better you see so she opened up his email. She knew his password because he gave it to her as he always needed computer help and wasn’t computer savvy at all. Now, the emails she finds are communications between Mike and some girl that he apparently met on a dating site. She also sees that he has been sending this girl pictures of his naughty bits. Enraged, Sarah, decided to get even. She didn’t let on right away that she was aware of his extra-curricular dalliances. While he was at work, she opens a new email account under his name and forwards the penis picture to him, all of his friends, co-workers and to his mother. She then took his key to their place off of his keyring. (he didn’t take it with him to work) After the email is sent, she calls him and asks why he sent out a pic of his dick. He, of course, is confused, and checks his email. He tries to tell her it’s not him, but she says after sleeping with him for 5 years she knows what his willy looks like. She begins badgering him for not only sending the pic out to everyone but to his _Mother_!? He’s horrified as the calls start coming in asking him why he sent out the picture. Then of course, as he tries to come home he finds the door locked and Sarah is refusing to let him in. The next day she kicked him out and of course, she already has his key. 😉 That’s all I’ve got. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/37 "2008-02-27T21:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=The Chao Goes Mu] Well the OP said that she/he wanted _our_ revenge stories so here’s one that actually belongs to a friend of my SO. We’ll call this friend “Sarah.” For five years Sarah had been dating Mike and they lived together. In the last couple of months of their relationship, Mike started acting weird, distant, if you will. He denied that anything was up, maintaining that he was happy in the relationship. But Sarah knew better you see so she opened up his email. She knew his password because he gave it to her as he always needed computer help and wasn’t computer savvy at all. Now, the emails she finds are communications between Mike and some girl that he apparently met on a dating site. She also sees that he has been sending this girl pictures of his naughty bits. Enraged, Sarah, decided to get even. She didn’t let on right away that she was aware of his extra-curricular dalliances. While he was at work, she opens a new email account under his name and forwards the penis picture to him, all of his friends, co-workers and to his mother. She then took his key to their place off of his keyring. (he didn’t take it with him to work) After the email is sent, she calls him and asks why he sent out a pic of his dick. He, of course, is confused, and checks his email. He tries to tell her it’s not him, but she says after sleeping with him for 5 years she knows what his willy looks like. She begins badgering him for not only sending the pic out to everyone but to his _Mother_!? He’s horrified as the calls start coming in asking him why he sent out the picture. Then of course, as he tries to come home he finds the door locked and Sarah is refusing to let him in. The next day she kicked him out and of course, she already has his key. 😉 That’s all I’ve got. [/QUOTE] Clever, though I think there are some legal problems with it (kicking your SO out the next day is illegal). Also, I absolutely go ape-shit when I hear of someone going through someone else’s email or personal stuff looking for a fight or problem . ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/38 "2008-02-28T00:17:50Z")
Balzac’s **Cousin Bette**. Poor relation of wealthy family gets pushed too far by her relatives (the last straw: one of them marries the man she loves), gets her own back. Added: May be a little subtle for some tastes–no murders or bloodshed, though there are a lot of deaths. Lots of sexual and financial manipulations. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/39 "2008-02-28T00:27:43Z")
In _White Mischief_, set in the pre-war 40s in Kenya, [elderly Joss Ackland](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000722/), one among a community of wealthy, hedonistic British expatriates, has married the achingly beautiful and young, [Greta Scaachi](http://www.maggiehunt.com/GretaScaachi2.jpg). He’s horrified to learn, not that she has begun an affair with [Charles Dance](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001097/) but, against taboo and tradition, actually falls in love with him. Dance decides to get rid of him and commits the almost-perfect murder because, although he is acquitted,\* he stages it to look look like he might have done it. This was a great revenge story because (a) his wife’s lover is out of the picture, (b) she knows, but can never be sure, her old, unattractive husband was the one who removed her lover from her life and (c) because of a downturn in his fortunes, ends up stuck with him. - due to the broken social codes regarding adultery and, in this instance, upper class mores against spouses and lovers actually falling in love. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322/40 "2008-02-28T02:03:14Z")
There was a manager for the company I worked for that made my life a living hell. He was the king of micromanagement. He was pretty far up the food chain, and there wasn’t much I could do about it. Once he came into into town to get a progress report on the project, and when he left he forgot his reading glasses in his hotel room. I was staying in the same hotel, so he had the staff drop them off for me to ship to him. Before my trip to Fedex I dropped my trousers and placed the glasses on a part of my anatomy, and took a photograph. I held on to that photograph for months. Just knowing I had it amused me, and knowing that I could show it to him at any time amused me more. I was waiting for the perfect time to drop it on him, and the son-of-a-bitch went and died on me. I guess my advice is to distinguish between a revenge served cold and one spoiled. Don’t wait too long. Although he’s dead and I’m not, so it could have been worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-your-absolute-best-revenge-stories-for-my-own-catharsis/439322.md?page=3)