What Type of Avenger Are You? (Park Chan-wook)

Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy — Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance — constitutes one of the most serious and sustained examinations of revenge in cinema. These are not films about satisfying retribution. They are films about the way revenge hollows out the person pursuing it, about how violence creates new victims rather than restoring justice, about the impossibility of clean resolution once certain lines are crossed.\n\nOh Dae-su, imprisoned for fifteen years without knowing why, emerges as a tool of pure force — the Obsessed Beast. Years of contained suffering have burned away everything except the need to know and the willingness to do whatever the knowing requires. Lee Geum-ja plans her revenge over thirteen years in prison, building it with the precision of an artwork — the Cold Strategist, for whom justice is collective, personal, and meticulous.\n\nRyu and Dong-jin in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance are not calculating. They are desperate, caught in a cycle where every action produces a worse reaction, where the distinction between perpetrator and victim collapses entirely — the Desperate Amateur, tragic and full of human error.\n\nThe Handmaiden offers a different mode: revenge through deception, manipulation, and an unexpected love that subverts the entire structure of the story — the Master of Deception. Decision to Leave, Park's most recent film, gives us Seo-rae, whose vengeance is quiet and self-destructive, a riddle left for someone who cannot stop thinking about her — the Melancholic Shadow.\n\nThis quiz identifies which mode of response to injustice is most natural to you — not the method you would choose, but the emotional logic that drives you.