Revenge is one of storytelling’s oldest engines. From Homer’s blood-soaked homecoming, a book-to-screen adaptation coming soon from Christopher Nolan , to the fractured morality of The Last of Us Part II, audiences have never stopped returning to stories where justice turns personal.  It is a narrative impulse as old as epic poetry and as current as prestige television and blockbuster video games . When institutions fail, when laws collapse, when grief curdles into resolve, revenge steps in as