Iāve been watching/reading a butt ton of revenge stories for one of my classes recently and itās made me realize something
We love to see characters get bloody bloody revenge for their murdered wives or husbands, murdered children, murdered parents, sometimes a murdered sibling
But I canāt think of a single murdered friend??? And Iām talking purely revenge stories, stories that are all about the all consuming quest for vengeance, not more broad stories in which a character is temporarily provoked towards revenge against and overarching bad guy
A murdered wife and child are enough to prompt a movieās worth of death and violence, but is friendship not enough??? The phrase ārevenge story where the motive is a dead friendā sounds odds and almost pointless because of how our society sees friendship as less impactful and important than romance and family. But if my friend got murder I feel like Iād be just as likely to crazy over that!