- Allecto one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]
- Almeira scorned woman like whom “hell hath no fury.” [Br. Drama: The Mourning Bride]
- Belinda furious over loss of lock of hair. [Br. Lit.: Rape of the Lock]
- Bernardo enraged that member of a rival street-gang is making advances to his sister. [Am. Musical: West Side Story]
- Brunhild furiously vengeful concerning Kriemhild’s accusations of promiscuity. [Ger. Lit.: Nibelungenlied]
- Erinyes (the Furies) angry and avenging deities who pursue evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 347]
- Fudd, Elmer hapless man seethes over Bugs Bunny’s antics. [Comics: “Bugs Bunny” in Horn, 140]
- Hera (Rom. Juno) angry at Zeus’s illicit sexual pleasure. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 563]
- Herod angry at wise men’s disobedience, orders slaughter of male infants. [N.T.: Matthew 2:16–17]
- Hulk, the character whose anger transforms him into monster. [Comics: Horn, 324–325]
- Megaera one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]
- Nemesis goddess of vengeance. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 173]
- Oronte takes offense at Alceste’s criticism of sonnet. [Fr. Lit.: The Misanthrope]
- Othello smothers wife, Desdemona, in paroxysm of rage over her suspected adultery. [Br. Lit.: Othello]
- Rumpelstiltskin stamps ground in rage over lass’s discovery of his name. [Ger. Fairy Tale: Rumpelstiltskin]
- Tisiphone one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]
- Volumnia “in anger, Junolike.” [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus]
- whin indicates fury. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]