Retribution

Retribution may refer to:

• Revenge, a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance
• Retributive justice, a theory of justice that considers proportionate punishment an acceptable response to crime

Film

• Retribution (1921 film), an Australian silent film by Armand Lionello
• Retribution (1987 film), a film featuring Suzanne Snyder
• Retribution (2000 film) or Complicity, a UK film based on a novel by Iain Banks
• Retribution (2006 film), a Japanese horror film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• Resident Evil: Retribution, an upcoming 2012 film, the fifth in the Resident Evil series

Literature

• Retribution (novel), a 2004 novel by Jilliane Hoffman
• "Retribution" (poem), a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Mass Effect: Retribution, a 2010 novel by Drew Karpyshyn
• Dreamland: Retribution, a 2009 novel by Jim DeFelice and Dale Brown
• Retribution, a 2007 novel in the Warhammer Von Carstein trilogy by Steven Savile

Music

• Retribution (Malevolent Creation album), 1992
• Retribution (Obscura album), 2004
• Retribution (Shadows Fall album), 2009

Video games

• Retribution Engine, a 3D video game engine
• StarCraft: Retribution, a 1998 authorised add-on for the game StarCraft
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, a 2011 stand-alone expansion pack for the game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

See also

• Avenger (disambiguation)
• Reprisal, in warfare, a permissible act of retaliation
• Reprisal (novel), a novel in The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson
• Retaliation (disambiguation)
• Retorsion, in international law, an act of retaliation by one nation upon another
• Revenge (disambiguation)
• Vengeance (disambiguation)