Revenge wasn't satisfying, or now that it's over, he doesn't know what to do with himself. The character often finds that completing the revenge will leave his life feeling flat and empty. Bringing this out into the open can produce an interesting effect. Sometimes they've placed Revenge Before Reason. Sometimes, the person seeking revenge is doing so out of a subconscious sense of guilt and responsibility, or to cover up some other emotion like Survivor's Guilt (which often explains any Death Seeker behavior). May also invoke The Only One Allowed to Defeat You if your enemy is defeated by someone else, how can you avenge yourself? On the other hand, if they try to buy you off, they may still be fair game.
Finding the person and discovering they've become The Atoner can snatch it away from you. Kill Me Now, or Forever Stay Your Hand, Forgiveness, and Defeat Means Friendship may stop this vendetta. Avenging a death may be regarded as Due to the Dead - and the ghost may agree. This can be compounded when the harm is slight, like not getting invited to a party. Although, some characters may not care for justice or "getting even", but want the satisfaction that comes only from Disproportionate Retribution. Someone has done something seriously bad to another person or someone that person loves, and for some reason, there's no justice to be had for the crime, so the character sets out to exact their own kind of justice upon the person or people responsible. Revenge at its core is a viciously personal form of Paying Evil Unto Evil. well, hey, somebody had to get some, sooner or later.
Where you find out that, seven times in ten, revenge was a really bad idea for your surrogate, too. You don't get much of it in real life, and the little you do get is cold, late, and adds up otherwise as having been a really bad idea.
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