Archetype:Avenger

> 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 archetype of the **Avenger**.Template:Archetype

## Also Called

* Punisher
* The Breaker

## Properties

The character is an avenger, meaning that they have devoted themselves completely to getting revenge on someone or something that has wronged them.
The character will stop at nothing of fulfilling their 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 that gives them purpose.

## Associations

* Anger Empowerment
* Discern Target
* Exaggeration
* Hatred Empowerment
	+ Berserker
* Indomitable Emotions
	+ Indomitable Hatred
	+ Indomitable Rage
	+ Indomitable Will
* Inhibition Release
* Killing Instinct
	+ Enhanced/Absolute Violence
	+ Killing Intent
		- Intimidation Mastery
			* Intimidation Visualization
* Obsession Empowerment
* Revenge Empowerment
* Self-Sufficiency
	+ Survival Mastery
* Training Regimen

## Relationships

* Anti-Hero
	+ Many avengers may be Anti-Heroes who are tired of their environment's corruption or were victim to it.
		- (*Example: **Red Hood, Guts, Team Dark***)
* 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***)
* Ronin
	+ The Samurai version of the Avenger archetype.
		- (*Example: **Afro*****, *Afro Samurai***)
* Vigilante
	+ A typically outside the law type knowledgeable in a number of fields, starting out with nothing until they gain access to resources and contacts when a devastating travesty drove them to work beyond faulty legal systems after they let them down.
		- (*Example: **La Muerta, Ajay Mehra, Ninjak***)

## Variations

* Afterlife Border
* Black Ops Mastery
	+ Assassination Mastery
	+ Disguise Mastery
	+ Interrogation Mastery
	+ Stealth Mastery
* Confession Inducement
* Discern Motivation
* Indomitable Nature
	+ Indomitable Love; rare cases.
* Karma Manipulation
* Pedagogy Mastery
* Revenant Physiology
	+ Kuchisake-Onna Physiology
	+ Onryo Physiology
* Supreme Monopoly; rare cases
* Tormentor
* Undead Pulse
* Vengeance Deity
	+ Vengeance Embodiment
* Vengeance Spirit Physiology