avenger

In the aftermath of the crime, newly minted fans of Mangione quickly fitted the man with revolutionary trappings, enshrining him as an avenger of working-class power.

From Slate ● May 1, 2026

In “One of Us,” Elizabeth Day’s shrewd novel of political ambition and personal retribution, the unlikely avenger is a diffident British art historian.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Sawai was magnificent for the way she deftly handled her character’s many facets — vassal, translator, warrior, lover, avenger.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2024

Constructed out of Japan’s postwar atomic-bomb trauma, the King of the Monsters has proven a remarkably malleable character, playing environmental protector or atomic avenger with equal aplomb.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

So where does he get off to call me a public avenger and a sadist and everything?

From "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose

The Black Panther Party co-founder was feared and hated by many Americans, and party members were dismissed as racist, gun-toting militants — Black avengers who believed violence was as American as cherry pie.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2021

And her protagonist Cassie, played by Carey Mulligan, would be the scariest of all avengers: A real woman.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2020

Cinema is full of stoic, gun-toting, “empowered” female avengers, but “that’s not how it works when women are angry and upset and traumatized,” she said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020

After years watching glowering avengers trudge through the muck, their rippling shoulders buckling under the weight of the world, superheroes have a spring in their step again.

From Slate ● Apr. 2, 2019

Perhaps they had thrown her out to deflect the avengers.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston