Fortunately, Frieza forgot to level grind and Gohan defeats him with ease.
In the Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn movie, Frieza declared he would get satisfaction against Goku, the man who previously defeated him, by killing his son Gohan.He almost kills her, which would've been extremely detrimental to his job in the tournament, but he's too concerned with his Revenge by Proxy to care he's only stopped from doing so by his partner Yamu, who reminds him of what they're there for and orders him to just ring-out Videl and be done with it. The reason that Spopovich beats the utter hell out of Hercule Satan's daughter Videl is because Hercule easily beat him in a tournament.Pan even calls him on it, pointing out the Saiyans who actually slaughtered his race are long dead Baby responds that he doesn't care.
And a more notable case in Dragon Ball GT, where Baby, last of the Tuffles, a race who were exterminated by the Saiyans, seeks retribution against Goku and Vegeta as well as the inhabitants of their new home, Earth.Fearful of Broly's power, he ordered the Saiyan child to be executed, then tried to kill Paragus for the crime of pleading for his son's life. In the eighth Dragon Ball Z movie, Paragus and Broly lured Vegeta into an elaborate ruse in order to take revenge on him for his father's actions towards them.Apparently outraged, the foreigner left his cat, M'Lady behind, and since then Kon and his grandfather grow deathly ill whenever they're separated from M'Lady. In Coffee & Cat, Kon's grandfather cheated a foreigner who asked to be served his best tea by serving him his cheapest tea instead.In comparison, most Eldian children are raised to believe it is their duty to atone for their ancestors' crimes by sacrificing their lives as soldiers and Warriors for Marley's war machine. A young Grisha Yeager decried this oppression, pointing out the unfairness of punishing subsequent generations for the crimes of people long dead. The Eldians from the lands the enemy Titan Shifters come from have been raised to resent their kin that live in seclusion on Paradis, who supposedly escaped their "just punishment" by abandoning their kin and hiding within the Walls. Attack on Titan: The persecution of the Eldian people is justified based on this, with Marleyan propaganda stating their ancestors were an Evil Empire that committed over a thousand years of atrocities before being defeated.The trope name comes from the ancient saying: "The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon their children." If this continues on for generations, it can overlap with Familial Foe. Compare and contrast with Revenge by Proxy, where the target is the child or other associates in preference to the character who actually wronged them, even though that character is available, in order to make that character suffer more. May overlap with Affair? Blame the Bastard or with particularly hostile examples of Unbalanced by Rival's Kid. Repeated instances of this occurring between two families in a tit-for-tat fashion may lead to a full-blown blood feud between them. The villain may justify it on the grounds that the children profited by the original crime, particularly when they own something that belonged to the villain. 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. Or that the 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.
Why someone would target the descendants rather than the one who originally did the wrong tends to vary, but it's usually due to the original offender not being alive enough to go after and make suffer. The act of exacting revenge upon the descendants of the one who originally did the wrong.