| Adopting the persona of the Count of Monte Cristo, Dantès becomes a powerful, shadowy figure who eventually avenges himself on those who wronged him. |
| In the first story, a deformed lunk named Marv avenges the murder of a prostitute who treated him kindly. |
| The latter avenges his father by emasculating his assassin uncle Set without killing him. |
| He guides the hunter and, in some traditions, avenges the spirits of slain animals, whose souls return to his enclosures when they die. |
