Vengeance

Vengeance may refer to:

  • Vengeance (concept) or revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance
  • Film

  • Vengeance (1937 film) or What Price Vengeance?, a Canadian film directed by Del Lord
  • Vengeance (1958 film), a Spanish drama directed by Juan Antonio Bardem
  • Vengeance (1970 film), a kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh
  • Vengeance (2009 film), a French-Hong Kong film directed by Johnnie To
  • Vengeance (2014 film), an action film starring Danny Trejo
  • The Vengeance Trilogy, a series of three South Korean films directed by Park Chan-wook
  • Literature

  • Vengeance (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Vengeance (novel), a 2002 novel by Scott Ciencin and Dan Jolley, based on the TV series Angel
  • Vengeance (Jonas book), a 1984 book by George Jonas
  • The Vengeance, a character in the 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Military

  • Vengeance (letter of marque), an American ship captured by the Royal Navy in 1813 and renamed HMS Telegraph
  • Revenge

    Revenge is a form of primitive justice usually assumed to be enacted in the absence of the norms of formal law and jurisprudence. Often, revenge is defined as being a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. It is used to right a wrong by going outside of the law. This is because the individual taking revenge feels as though the law will not do justice. Revenge is also known as payback, retribution, retaliation or vengeance; it may be characterized as a form of justice (not to be confused with retributive justice), an altruistic action which enforces societal or moral justice aside from the legal system. Francis Bacon described it as a kind of "wild justice" that "does... offend the law [and] putteth the law out of office". Primitive justice or retributive justice is often differentiated from more formal and refined forms of justice such as distributive justice and theological justice.

    Function in society

    Detractors argue that revenge is simply wrong, of the same design as "two wrongs make a right".

    Vengeance: Night of Champions

    Vengeance: Night of Champions was the seventh annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) within its Vengeance/Night of Champions chronology. It featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. The event was sponsored by RAW Attitude Energy Drink and took place on June 24, 2007, at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Every match on the card was contested for a championship; two were won and seven were retained. This event was notable for being on the weekend of the Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide case. Benoit, who was originally booked to face CM Punk for the vacant ECW World Championship, legitimately no-showed.

    The main event featured the Raw brand. It saw John Cena defend the WWE Championship against Mick Foley, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton, and King Booker. Cena won the match and retained the WWE Championship after pinning Foley following an FU. The featured match from the SmackDown brand was a "Last Chance match" for the World Heavyweight Championship between Edge and Batista, which Edge won by countout. The primary match from the ECW brand was CM Punk versus Johnny Nitro for the vacant ECW World Championship, which Nitro won by pinfall after performing a corkscrew neckbreaker from the middle rope. The event was supposed to use the Vengeance name but on the June 11th edition of Raw, it was announced that the event would now change its name to Vengeance: Night of Champions were every active WWE titles will be defended.

    Apollo (crater)

    Apollo is an enormous impact crater located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. This formation dwarfs the large crater Oppenheimer that is located next to the western rim. The crater Barringer lies across the northern wall. To the southeast is the crater Anders, and Kleymenov is just to the east of the rim.

    Apollo is a double-ringed walled plain (or basin) whose inner ring is roughly half the diameter of the outer wall. Both the outer wall and the interior have been heavily worn and eroded by subsequent impacts, so that significant parts of the outer and inner walls now consist of irregular and incised sections of mountainous arcs.

    The interior floor is covered in a multitude of craters of various sizes. Several of the more notable craters have received names. The IAU used the eponyms of people associated with the Apollo program when designating some of these formations.

    Sections of Apollo's interior have been resurfaced with lava, leaving patches of the floor with a lower albedo than the surroundings. There is a large patch of this lunar mare in the middle part of the inner ring, which contains some ray system markings. A long stretch of the mare lies along the southern part of the crater. There is also a smaller section near the western rim.

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