* Ken Hidaka from ''{{Weiss Kreuz}}''. He starts out as a cheerful, optimistic, naive boy-next-door who, when he's not [[HitmanWithAHeart killing people]], spends his spare time [[BigBrotherMentor teaching small children]] how to play soccer. Then he [[spoiler: kills his best friend, who was screwing him over and had tried to kill him twice, the first time by trying to have Ken burned alive; leaves his [[BikerBabe first girlfriend]] Yuriko to [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies keep her safe]]; sees another childhood friend manipulated to suicide by a woman he saw as a surrogate mother, who he goes on to kill; watches a woman get stabbed protecting him and then bleed to death in his arms; discovers ''another'' friend he tries to protect shot to death so, after faking the murders of two of his teammates, shotguns the man who ordered it and ''enjoys it''; then has to kill his [[FemmeFatale second girlfriend]] when she turns out to be one of his targets as well.]] And those are just the events that effect him ''personally''. It's also revealed along the way that [[spoiler: his mother died when he was five then his father abandoned him, that he spent a period of time homeless, and he contemplated becoming a ''contract killer'' simply so he had an excuse to kill people]]. Unsurprisingly, by ''[[OddlyNamedSequel Weiss Kreuz Gluhen]]'' it's become obvious that Ken hasn't so much been broken as he's violently snapped. [[spoiler:Cue the shot from the OVA where he's smiling psychotically as blood spray peppers his face.]]

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* Ken Hidaka from ''WeissKreuz''. He starts out as a cheerful, optimistic, naive boy-next-door who, when he's not [[HitmanWithAHeart killing people]], spends his spare time [[BigBrotherMentor teaching small children]] how to play soccer. Then he [[spoiler: kills his best friend, who was screwing him over and had tried to kill him twice, the first time by trying to have Ken burned alive; leaves his [[BikerBabe first girlfriend]] Yuriko to [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies keep her safe]]; sees another childhood friend manipulated to suicide by a woman he saw as a surrogate mother, who he goes on to kill; watches a woman get stabbed protecting him and then bleed to death in his arms; discovers ''another'' friend he tries to protect shot to death so, after faking the murders of two of his teammates, shotguns the man who ordered it and ''enjoys it''; then has to kill his [[FemmeFatale second girlfriend]] when she turns out to be one of his targets as well.]] And those are just the events that effect him ''personally''. It's also revealed along the way that [[spoiler: his mother died when he was five then his father abandoned him, that he spent a period of time homeless, and he contemplated becoming a ''contract killer'' simply so he had an excuse to kill people]]. Unsurprisingly, by ''[[OddlyNamedSequel Weiss Kreuz Gluhen]]'' it's become obvious that Ken hasn't so much been broken as he's violently snapped. [[spoiler:Cue the shot from the OVA where he's smiling psychotically as blood spray peppers his face.]]

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* In ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', Johan is [[ManipulativeBastard especially]] prone to doing this to his victims, even simply to screw with them. For example, in volume 12, sending an abandoned small boy to look for his mother, telling him that if he sees her, and she sees him, if she truly loves him and wants him she'll take him back [[spoiler:(naturally, Johan is crossdressing as the much more wholesome Anna at the time, making it that much creepier)]]. He sends him to look for his mother in ''the red light district of Prague'' -- where the boy witnesses rape, depravity, a drug addicted prostitute dying from withdrawal begging him for money and the prostitutes themselves taunting him. [[spoiler: Tenma and Grimmer have to talk him out of jumping off a bridge after this. This still doesn't quite break the cutie. But it comes damn close. This boy is perhaps 7 or 8]]. This is one of Johan's most despicable acts of the series, and considering that he commits quite a few of them throughout, that's saying something.

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* Louise Halevy from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' falls into this trope [[spoiler: after Nena Trinity [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um8JE7ZHHCo obliterates her family at a wedding]], leaving the girl without her left hand and completely distraught.]] Starting with the second season, [[spoiler: she joins the A-Laws, the secret police of the Federation, as she tries to get revenge on Celestial Being for the murders of her family. She finally finds the said murderer and gets her revenge, but it only serves to BREAK her further ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh5suv5oZlo here]] at 20:27). She didn't find any satisfaction, she didn't find any praises from her dead parents from avenging them, and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she has become a murderer, just like the murdered]]. She got better, eventually.]]
** [[spoiler: Arguably Nena Trinity fulfills this category herself [[DarkAndTroubledPast once we learn her and her brothers' backstories.]] The Trinity siblings are {{Artificial Human}}s only born and raised to be Gundam Meisters, and the DNA used to "create" them is... Ribbons Almark's own. And their "daddy" ultimately sets them up to kill them. While it's not an excuse, it ''does'' explain a lot, specially considering that [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the only persons they cared for were each other, and their mutual love was very genuine]].]]

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* Louise Halevy from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' falls into this trope [[spoiler: after Nena Trinity obliterates her family at a wedding, leaving the girl without her left hand and completely distraught.]] Starting with the second season, [[spoiler: she joins the A-Laws, the secret police of the Federation, as she tries to get revenge on Celestial Being for the murders of her family. She finally finds the said murderer and gets her revenge, but it only serves to BREAK her further. She didn't find any satisfaction, she didn't find any praises from her dead parents from avenging them, and [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie she has become a murderer, just like the murdered]]. She got better, eventually.]]
** [[spoiler: Arguably Nena Trinity fulfills this category herself [[DarkAndTroubledPast once we learn her and her brothers' backstories.]] The Trinity siblings are {{Artificial Human}}s only born and raised to be Gundam Meisters, and the DNA used to "create" them is... Ribbons Almark's own. And their "daddy" ultimately sets them up to kill them. While it's not an excuse, nor does it exonerate Nena from her actions, it ''does'' explain a lot, specially considering that [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes the only persons they cared for were each other, and their mutual love was very genuine]].]]

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