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* In ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheLastRonin The Last Ronin]]'', depicting a dark future for the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, this certainly applies to the titular Ronin, the last surviving Turtle after his brothers, Casey and Splinter were killed by the Foot Clan under the leadership of Oroku Hiroto, the Shredder’s grandson. The Ronin is [[spoiler:Michaelangelo, generally regarded as the most fun-loving and laid-back of the four Turtles, with one character noting that she was always told he was “the funny one”, but he has spent the last thirty years training to avenge his family, and has become a bitter figure in black leather who even attempts {{Seppuku}} when his first attempt to kill Hiroto fails]].
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** ''Jedi vs. Sith'', which was adapted in BroadStrokes in ''Literature/DarthBane'', has a horribly tragic example in Rain and her cousin Darovit. Both where children told about the heroic deeds of the Army of Light, fighting Sith and saving the galaxy. When they and their cousin were discovered to be Force Sensitive, they even got to join them... only to find that, even in a galaxy far, far away, WarIsHell. Darovit is so disillusioned by seeing the "Army of Light" waddle around in the mud that he turns to the dark side, only getting ahold of himself after killing his other cousin. Rain gets it even worse. After being sepparated from the Jedi, she is taken in by the planet's peaceful force sensitive Bouncers, who try to bring her to a Jedi camp. The war has caused the Bouncers to go insane from the turmoil one by one, but Rain is able to use her Force powers to protect the one who took it in. When the Jedi spot it, however, they assume it is hostile, and kill it. Tapping into the dark side, Rain kills them in her pain and grief. And her breaking has only begun, as she is found surrounded by Jedi corpses by an older gentleman who introduces himself as [[GreaterScopeVillain Darth Bane]].
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** ''Jedi vs. Sith'', which was adapted in BroadStrokes in ''Literature/DarthBane'', has a horribly tragic example in Rain and her cousin Darovit. Both where children told about the heroic deeds of the Army of Light, fighting Sith and saving the galaxy. When they and their cousin were discovered to be Force Sensitive, they even got to join them... only to find that, even in a galaxy far, far away, WarIsHell. Darovit is so disillusioned by seeing the "Army of Light" waddle around in the mud that he turns to the dark side, only getting ahold of himself after killing his other cousin. Rain gets it even worse. After being sepparated separated from the Jedi, she is taken in by the planet's peaceful force sensitive Bouncers, who try to bring her to a Jedi camp. The war has caused the Bouncers to go insane from the turmoil one by one, but Rain is able to use her Force powers to protect the one who took it in. When the Jedi spot it, however, they assume it is hostile, and kill it. Tapping into the dark side, Rain kills them in her pain and grief. And her breaking has only begun, as she is found surrounded by Jedi corpses by an older gentleman who introduces himself as [[GreaterScopeVillain Darth Bane]].
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** To greater extent, the comic-exclusive character, Whisper the Wolf, suffers this trope twice: losing her old team to a traitor before her debut, and losing her new friend, Tangle the Lemur, to the Metal Virus.
** Another comic-exclusive character, Belle the Tinkerer, also gets this trope twice after finding out her beloved creator, Mr. Tinker, was never more than an amnesiac Dr. Eggman, a fact he and his former lackey, Dr. Starline, bluntly remind her of [[LackofEmpathy with zero regard for her feelings]].
** The comic-original villain Kitsunami the Fennec is implied to have been a [[CheerfulChild cheery, eager young boy]] before Dr. Starline turned him and Surge the Tenrec into cyborgs emulating Sonic and Tails. His {{Jerkass}} superiors' abuse breaks Kit so thoroughly that a mere compliment or two from Tails disorients him, and when defeated, he [[DespairEventHorizon faints in shame]].
** Another comic-exclusive character, Belle the Tinkerer, also gets this trope twice after finding out her beloved creator, Mr. Tinker, was never more than an amnesiac Dr. Eggman, a fact he and his former lackey, Dr. Starline, bluntly remind her of [[LackofEmpathy with zero regard for her feelings]].
** The comic-original villain Kitsunami the Fennec is implied to have been a [[CheerfulChild cheery, eager young boy]] before Dr. Starline turned him and Surge the Tenrec into cyborgs emulating Sonic and Tails. His {{Jerkass}} superiors' abuse breaks Kit so thoroughly that a mere compliment or two from Tails disorients him, and when defeated, he [[DespairEventHorizon faints in shame]].
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** Another comic-exclusive character, Belle the Tinkerer, also gets this trope twice after finding out her beloved creator, Mr. Tinker, was never more than an amnesiac Dr. Eggman, a fact he and his formerlackey, lackey Dr. Starline, Starline bluntly remind her of [[LackofEmpathy with zero regard for her feelings]].
**The comic-original villain Kitsunami the Fennec is implied to have been a [[CheerfulChild cheery, eager young boy]] Fennec, Tails' new [[EvilCounterpart doppelganger]] in the comic, suffered this trope in spades before Dr. Starline turned him and Surge the Tenrec into cyborgs emulating Sonic and Tails. His {{Jerkass}} superiors' abuse breaks Kit so thoroughly that a mere compliment or two from Tails disorients him, and when defeated, he [[DespairEventHorizon faints his debut, being reduced to an ExtremeDoormat whose sole purpose in shame]].life is supporting Surge.
** Another comic-exclusive character, Belle the Tinkerer, also gets this trope twice after finding out her beloved creator, Mr. Tinker, was never more than an amnesiac Dr. Eggman, a fact he and his former
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* {{Invoked}} in the ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'', where Huey attempts to do this to Jazmine DuBois regularly. However, it wasn't meant to be malicious: he earnestly thinks she would be better off if she were just as much of a cynic as he is, so he tries to tear down [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids her childlike beliefs]] whenever possible. It never really works though, and she occasionally [[SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers bites back in the other direction]].
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* A major reason Huey has for talking to Jazmine in ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' though he doesn't exactly mean to be malicious -- he truly thinks she would be better off if she were a cynic like him, so he makes it his mission to tear down her childlike beliefs.
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** Belle the Tinkerer, another comic-exclusive character, also gets a double dose of this trope: first when Eggman confirms he created her under his amnesiac persona, "Mr. Tinker", and again when kidnapped for research by Dr. Starline, an ex-lackey of Eggman's who masterminded his return. Both villains' sheer LackOfEmpathy and tendency to KickTheDog only make things worse.
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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': The first issue has Caleb joking around with the Clone troopers under Billaba’s command — moments before they turn their guns on them. He’s fourteen, and gets to witness people he thought to be friends killed by his parent figure while they try to murder both she and Caleb before she ultimately goes down. And all he could do was follow her order and run.
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** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': The first issue has Caleb joking around with the Clone troopers under Billaba’s command — moments before they turn their guns on them. He’s fourteen, and gets to witness people he thought to be friends killed by his parent figure while they try to murder both she and Caleb before she ultimately goes down. And all he could do was follow her order andrun.run.
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**''Literature/StarWarsRepublic:'' Noriah Na's master dies during Order 66. She has to swim through ice-cold water to get into the nearest city. Then she's told to go into hiding and forget everything she was raised to know so she'll have a chance of surviving long enough for the hatred against the Jedi to end. She spends most of ''Into the Unknown'' on the verge of tears.
** Cay Qel-Droma, the Abel half of the CainAndAbel duo in ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi''. While he bounces back to his cheerful nature almost immediately after losing an arm in the Onderon conflict, subsequent events break down his optimism. First he loses his master, then his brother Ulic insists (against the advice of absolutely everyone) on pretending to join the dark-siders responsible... and winds up joining them for real. Ulic insults and berates him after being captured and put on trial for his life, and then Cay has to watch him leave ''again'' as TheDragon to a Sith lord. Cay makes one final effort to reach Ulic on Ossus, [[spoiler:and in this he at last succeeds... posthumously, because Ulic realizes what he's done immediately ''after'' striking Cay down]].
** ''Jedi vs. Sith'', which was adapted in BroadStrokes in ''Literature/DarthBane'', has a horribly tragic example in Rain and her cousin Darovit. Both where children told about the heroic deeds of the Army of Light, fighting Sith and saving the galaxy. When they and their cousin were discovered to be Force Sensitive, they even got to join them... only to find that, even in a galaxy far, far away, WarIsHell. Darovit is so disillusioned by seeing the "Army of Light" waddle around in the mud that he turns to the dark side, only getting ahold of himself after killing his other cousin. Rain gets it even worse. After being sepparated from the Jedi, she is taken in by the planet's peaceful force sensitive Bouncers, who try to bring her to a Jedi camp. The war has caused the Bouncers to go insane from the turmoil one by one, but Rain is able to use her Force powers to protect the one who took it in. When the Jedi spot it, however, they assume it is hostile, and kill it. Tapping into the dark side, Rain kills them in her pain and grief. And her breaking has only begun, as she is found surrounded by Jedi corpses by an older gentleman who introduces himself as [[GreaterScopeVillain Darth Bane]].
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': The first issue has Caleb joking around with the Clone troopers under Billaba’s command — moments before they turn their guns on them. He’s fourteen, and gets to witness people he thought to be friends killed by his parent figure while they try to murder both she and Caleb before she ultimately goes down. And all he could do was follow her order and
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**''Literature/StarWarsRepublic:'' Noriah Na's master dies during Order 66. She has to swim through ice-cold water to get into the nearest city. Then she's told to go into hiding and forget everything she was raised to know so she'll have a chance of surviving long enough for the hatred against the Jedi to end. She spends most of ''Into the Unknown'' on the verge of tears.
** Cay Qel-Droma, the Abel half of the CainAndAbel duo in ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi''. While he bounces back to his cheerful nature almost immediately after losing an arm in the Onderon conflict, subsequent events break down his optimism. First he loses his master, then his brother Ulic insists (against the advice of absolutely everyone) on pretending to join the dark-siders responsible... and winds up joining them for real. Ulic insults and berates him after being captured and put on trial for his life, and then Cay has to watch him leave ''again'' as TheDragon to a Sith lord. Cay makes one final effort to reach Ulic on Ossus, [[spoiler:and in this he at last succeeds... posthumously, because Ulic realizes what he's done immediately ''after'' striking Cay down]].
** ''Jedi vs. Sith'', which was adapted in BroadStrokes in ''Literature/DarthBane'', has a horribly tragic example in Rain and her cousin Darovit. Both where children told about the heroic deeds of the Army of Light, fighting Sith and saving the galaxy. When they and their cousin were discovered to be Force Sensitive, they even got to join them... only to find that, even in a galaxy far, far away, WarIsHell. Darovit is so disillusioned by seeing the "Army of Light" waddle around in the mud that he turns to the dark side, only getting ahold of himself after killing his other cousin. Rain gets it even worse. After being sepparated from the Jedi, she is taken in by the planet's peaceful force sensitive Bouncers, who try to bring her to a Jedi camp. The war has caused the Bouncers to go insane from the turmoil one by one, but Rain is able to use her Force powers to protect the one who took it in. When the Jedi spot it, however, they assume it is hostile, and kill it. Tapping into the dark side, Rain kills them in her pain and grief. And her breaking has only begun, as she is found surrounded by Jedi corpses by an older gentleman who introduces himself as [[GreaterScopeVillain Darth Bane]].
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* Cay Qel-Droma, the Abel half of the CainAndAbel duo in ''ComicBook/TalesOfTheJedi''. While he bounces back to his cheerful nature almost immediately after losing an arm in the Onderon conflict, subsequent events break down his optimism. First he loses his master, then his brother Ulic insists (against the advice of absolutely everyone) on pretending to join the dark-siders responsible... and winds up joining them for real. Ulic insults and berates him after being captured and put on trial for his life, and then Cay has to watch him leave ''again'' as TheDragon to a Sith lord. Cay makes one final effort to reach Ulic on Ossus, [[spoiler:and in this he at last succeeds... posthumously, because Ulic realizes what he's done immediately ''after'' striking Cay down]].
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* The ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'' version of Cream the Rabbit is hit ''hard'' by this trope during her debut, after seeing not only her two Chao, Cheese and Chocola, turned into metallic zombies from Dr. Eggman's Metal Virus, but her mother Vanilla as well. She then suffers physical abuse at the hands of Zeena of the Dealy Six and gets infected herself after the Zeti is defeated.
** To greater extent, the comic-exclusive character, Whisper the Wolf, suffers this trope twice: Losing her old team to a traitor before her debut, and losing her new friend, Tangle the Lemur, to the Metal Virus.
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** To greater extent, the comic-exclusive character, Whisper the Wolf, suffers this trope twice:Losing losing her old team to a traitor before her debut, and losing her new friend, Tangle the Lemur, to the Metal Virus.Virus.
** Belle the Tinkerer, another comic-exclusive character, also gets a double dose of this trope: first when Eggman confirms he created her under his amnesiac persona, "Mr. Tinker", and again when kidnapped for research by Dr. Starline, an ex-lackey of Eggman's who masterminded his return. Both villains' sheer LackOfEmpathy and tendency to KickTheDog only make things worse.
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** Belle the Tinkerer, another comic-exclusive character, also gets a double dose of this trope: first when Eggman confirms he created her under his amnesiac persona, "Mr. Tinker", and again when kidnapped for research by Dr. Starline, an ex-lackey of Eggman's who masterminded his return. Both villains' sheer LackOfEmpathy and tendency to KickTheDog only make things worse.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'': ComicBook/JessicaJones was a teenage superhero who confronted the Purple Man and instantly got hit by his powers. Which he used to pretty much torment her for eight months before she was rescued.
* ''ComicBook/{{Anarky}}'': [[spoiler: Anarky gets this at the end of his "Metamorphosis" storyline, where he is confronted with a hallucinatory vision of his successful plan leading to the formal institution of "parasite tests", with failures being ghettoized and left to rot, a state of affairs that promotes MightMakesRight brutality and ruthlessness amongst the imprisoned until the strongest, meanest, most savage individuals are left and these promptly roll out of the ghetto, unleashing such barbarism against the "enlightened" that they end up reverting back to the "old ways" of authority in return for guaranteed safety against them.]]
* Buddy from ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' starts off as an idealistic funny person, but after [[spoiler:his wife and children ''die'', he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ''kills'' people]].
** Of course, this, like many other events in the comic, is meant as a meta-commentary on UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that had started a year or so after
* ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'':
** Hazmat's harsher than your typical cutie, but she's been through absolute hell while in Murderworld.
** Juston was always a sweet kid, but [[spoiler: Apex crippling him]] and being left in the desert for a week, has completely broken his spirit and made him angry enough to want to kill [[spoiler: her]].
** All Nico went through [[spoiler: including getting brutally killed]] pushed her to the point at which she would [[spoiler: willingly kill Apex]].
** Death Locket’s backstory has her seeing her mother and little brother murdered by a Deathlok cyborg that time-traveled to killed her father Harlan Ryker, who created them. She gets caught in the explosion that killed her mother and brother. Her father transforms her into a Deathlok to save her life. [[spoiler: And then her father is taken to jail, and just when she wakes from her coma and finds out she's a cyborg, she's transported to Murderworld. You can also add being controlled by Apex into shooting at the heroes, not to mention killing her first love to the list.]]
*** All of this culminates in ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'' when Baron Zemo notes the look on the survivor's eyes when they find Arcade again.
* She-Hulk is always the LifeOfTheParty, but in ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'' she suffers a lot. She saw a friend killed for no reason, lost control like the Hulk and killed the Vision, controlled by the Scarlet Witch.
* Cloud 9 during the first thirteen issues of ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative''.
* This is essentially what happens in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' when [[spoiler:Carrie sees the bodies of the Cub Scouts who took the poisoned cotton candy from the Joker]]. Batman's internal dialogue lampshades it.
* It's quite a shock to see Nelson Gardner, previously a neurotic wreck in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' proper, as a fit and self-assured younger man in ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen''. His relationship with HJ probably had a lot to do with it. Byron is following a [[TheAlcoholic similar downward trajectory.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Anarky}}'': [[spoiler: Anarky gets this at the end of his "Metamorphosis" storyline, where he is confronted with a hallucinatory vision of his successful plan leading to the formal institution of "parasite tests", with failures being ghettoized and left to rot, a state of affairs that promotes MightMakesRight brutality and ruthlessness amongst the imprisoned until the strongest, meanest, most savage individuals are left and these promptly roll out of the ghetto, unleashing such barbarism against the "enlightened" that they end up reverting back to the "old ways" of authority in return for guaranteed safety against them.]]
* Buddy from ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' starts off as an idealistic funny person, but after [[spoiler:his wife and children ''die'', he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ''kills'' people]].
** Of course, this, like many other events in the comic, is meant as a meta-commentary on UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that had started a year or so after
* ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'':
** Hazmat's harsher than your typical cutie, but she's been through absolute hell while in Murderworld.
** Juston was always a sweet kid, but [[spoiler: Apex crippling him]] and being left in the desert for a week, has completely broken his spirit and made him angry enough to want to kill [[spoiler: her]].
** All Nico went through [[spoiler: including getting brutally killed]] pushed her to the point at which she would [[spoiler: willingly kill Apex]].
** Death Locket’s backstory has her seeing her mother and little brother murdered by a Deathlok cyborg that time-traveled to killed her father Harlan Ryker, who created them. She gets caught in the explosion that killed her mother and brother. Her father transforms her into a Deathlok to save her life. [[spoiler: And then her father is taken to jail, and just when she wakes from her coma and finds out she's a cyborg, she's transported to Murderworld. You can also add being controlled by Apex into shooting at the heroes, not to mention killing her first love to the list.]]
*** All of this culminates in ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'' when Baron Zemo notes the look on the survivor's eyes when they find Arcade again.
* She-Hulk is always the LifeOfTheParty, but in ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'' she suffers a lot. She saw a friend killed for no reason, lost control like the Hulk and killed the Vision, controlled by the Scarlet Witch.
* Cloud 9 during the first thirteen issues of ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative''.
* This is essentially what happens in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' when [[spoiler:Carrie sees the bodies of the Cub Scouts who took the poisoned cotton candy from the Joker]]. Batman's internal dialogue lampshades it.
* It's quite a shock to see Nelson Gardner, previously a neurotic wreck in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' proper, as a fit and self-assured younger man in ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen''. His relationship with HJ probably had a lot to do with it. Byron is following a [[TheAlcoholic similar downward trajectory.]]
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* ''ComicBook/{{Anarky}}'': [[spoiler: Anarky gets this at the end of his "Metamorphosis" storyline, where he is confronted with a hallucinatory vision of his successful plan leading to the formal institution of "parasite tests", with failures being ghettoized and left to rot, a state of affairs that promotes MightMakesRight brutality and ruthlessness amongst the imprisoned until the strongest, meanest, most savage individuals are left and these promptly roll out of the ghetto, unleashing such barbarism against the "enlightened" that they end up reverting back to the "old ways" of authority in return for guaranteed safety against them.]]
* Buddy from ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' starts off as an idealistic funny person, but after [[spoiler:his wife and children ''die'', he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ''kills'' people]].
** Of course, this, like many other events in the comic, is meant as a meta-commentary on UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks that had started a year or so after
* ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'':
** Hazmat's harsher than your typical cutie, but she's been through absolute hell while in Murderworld.
** Juston was always a sweet kid, but [[spoiler: Apex crippling him]] and being left in the desert for a week, has completely broken his spirit and made him angry enough to want to kill [[spoiler: her]].
** All Nico went through [[spoiler: including getting brutally killed]] pushed her to the point at which she would [[spoiler: willingly kill Apex]].
** Death Locket’s backstory has her seeing her mother and little brother murdered by a Deathlok cyborg that time-traveled to killed her father Harlan Ryker, who created them. She gets caught in the explosion that killed her mother and brother. Her father transforms her into a Deathlok to save her life. [[spoiler: And then her father is taken to jail, and just when she wakes from her coma and finds out she's a cyborg, she's transported to Murderworld. You can also add being controlled by Apex into shooting at the heroes, not to mention killing her first love to the list.]]
*** All of this culminates in ''ComicBook/AvengersUndercover'' when Baron Zemo notes the look on the survivor's eyes when they find Arcade again.
* She-Hulk is always the LifeOfTheParty, but in ''ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled'' she suffers a lot. She saw a friend killed for no reason, lost control like the Hulk and killed the Vision, controlled by the Scarlet Witch.
* Cloud 9 during the first thirteen issues of ''ComicBook/AvengersTheInitiative''.
* This is essentially what happens in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' when [[spoiler:Carrie sees the bodies of the Cub Scouts who took the poisoned cotton candy from the Joker]]. Batman's internal dialogue lampshades it.
* It's quite a shock to see Nelson Gardner, previously a neurotic wreck in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' proper, as a fit and self-assured younger man in ''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen''. His relationship with HJ probably had a lot to do with it. Byron is following a [[TheAlcoholic similar downward trajectory.]]
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* Ice's meeting with Guy Gardner in ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' post-mindwipe by Max Lord; to keep the JLI from recruiting their Green Lantern friend, Max alters Guy's memories so that a fake post-ComicBook/BlackestNight meeting between the two happened, where Ice tried to kill Guy Gardner for no good reason. Given that this came after the two began dating again after Ice's resurrection, as well as Judd Winnick proclaiming that the point of the scene was to [[ShipSinking sink the Guy/Ice ship]], it makes it a major moment of sadness.
** And then Ice suddenly manifests "repressed memories" of belonging to a UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} tribe (of the stereotyped "mostly thieves and conmen" type) and killing her father and grandfather trying to escape. Her previously revealed family of magical ice people [[strike:were supposedly her imagination, despite the fact that other people in the Justice League have met them]] existed, but were not her birth family. After about two issues of angst, Ice puts these developments on the back-burner, however, as [[FromBadToWorse she has other things to worry about]].
* John "U.S. Agent" Walker's entire tenure as ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' was one of these.
** And then Ice suddenly manifests "repressed memories" of belonging to a UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} tribe (of the stereotyped "mostly thieves and conmen" type) and killing her father and grandfather trying to escape. Her previously revealed family of magical ice people [[strike:were supposedly her imagination, despite the fact that other people in the Justice League have met them]] existed, but were not her birth family. After about two issues of angst, Ice puts these developments on the back-burner, however, as [[FromBadToWorse she has other things to worry about]].
* John "U.S. Agent" Walker's entire tenure as ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' was one of these.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' has several nervous breakdowns; unfortunately for him ThereAreNoTherapists.
** Poor gentle Melvin suffers another mental break down after being manipulated by both Alexander Bont and Mr. Fear.
* Mario Falcone in ''ComicBook/DarkVictory'' honestly believes that he can make the Falcone family a legitimate and respected part of Gotham City's upper crust, much like the Wayne's, [[spoiler: and even helps the DA's office take down the remainder of his family's criminal organization]]. It does not end well.
** Poor gentle Melvin suffers another mental break down after being manipulated by both Alexander Bont and Mr. Fear.
* Mario Falcone in ''ComicBook/DarkVictory'' honestly believes that he can make the Falcone family a legitimate and respected part of Gotham City's upper crust, much like the Wayne's, [[spoiler: and even helps the DA's office take down the remainder of his family's criminal organization]]. It does not end well.
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* X-23's treatment by the Facility in ''ComicBook/InnocenceLost'' was intended to break her down and turn her into an emotionless killing machine.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Adrianna Tomaz, aka Isis from ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo''. She starts as AllLovingHero, determined to see the good in the world despite all of the horrible things she had endured up to that point (being kidnapped to be used as a bargaining chip by Intergang for starters). As Isis, she brings light to Kahndaq and convinces her new husband Black Adam that he doesn't have to be a violent AntiVillain anymore. Then it all goes to hell in [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke One Bad Day]]. [[spoiler: Her brother is eaten alive by their TeamPet Sobek, who was really a member of a group of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s sent by Intergang to destroy the Marvels. Then she gets a mouthful of plague and dies a painful death in Black Adam's arms]]. Adrianna is so broken that she renounces her idealism, tells Black Adam that he had been right all along about the world, and with her last breath asks him to "avenge us". Believe it or not, it went FromBadToWorse. [[spoiler: Being resurrected and brainwashed by an EvilSorcerer who used her to free himself from a prison and subsequently being constantly raped by said sorcerer]] sent her soaring over the DespairEventHorizon. When Black Adam eventually frees her, Adrianna's first act is to [[spoiler: [[GroinAttack castrate]] the sorcerer with her bare hands]]. Finally, she crosses the MoralEventHorizon into full-blown villainy when [[spoiler: she declares the people of Kahndaq, the people who worship her as a goddess, to be [[HumansAreBastards just another bunch of bastards]], and starts turning them into dirt statues]]. Even Black Adam is [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified by this]]!
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* Issue #5 of ''ComicBook/{{Lazarus}}'' featured a flashback to Forever as a young girl, being forced to fight and defeat a woman at least ten years her senior to be given the family sword. Not surprsingly, she fails, and Malcom coldly reprimands her. The look on her face is heartwrenching.
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* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
** v4 did this with a number of characters, but particularly harshly with the White Witch. Previously depicted as a slightly shy, bookish type in a (platonic?) relationship with teammate Blok. At the start of v4, she was shown to be in an abusive marriage with former archnemesis Mordru. She was rescued by the reconstituted Legion just in time to discover that Blok had been brutally mutilated by genocidal pirate Roxxas the Butcher.
** Cera Kesh from the Glorithverse ''Legionnaires'', a rejected Legion applicant who showed everyone WhosLaughingNow when the Eye chose her. Also, Shrinking Violet.
*** Ingria Olav, Leland [=Mc=]Cauley's girlfriend, had no idea what she was getting herself into when Leland let her become the Empress in his new Fatal Five.
** v4 did this with a number of characters, but particularly harshly with the White Witch. Previously depicted as a slightly shy, bookish type in a (platonic?) relationship with teammate Blok. At the start of v4, she was shown to be in an abusive marriage with former archnemesis Mordru. She was rescued by the reconstituted Legion just in time to discover that Blok had been brutally mutilated by genocidal pirate Roxxas the Butcher.
** Cera Kesh from the Glorithverse ''Legionnaires'', a rejected Legion applicant who showed everyone WhosLaughingNow when the Eye chose her. Also, Shrinking Violet.
*** Ingria Olav, Leland [=Mc=]Cauley's girlfriend, had no idea what she was getting herself into when Leland let her become the Empress in his new Fatal Five.
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* Bobbi[=/=]''ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}'' started out as a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who hung out with Ka-Zar and later worked with and ended up marring Clint Barton. Then she was abducted, drugged and raped by the Phantom Rider, who then proceeded to try and ruin her life. She was one of the first characters to be replaced by the Skrulls and spent time on the run from them on their own planet, avoiding capture by a Skrull who had taken on Clint's appearance. Then when she was eventually returned, it was to a different life than the one she'd left behind because she'd been gone for years. Then the Phantom Rider came back to try and kill her again so they could be together forever.
** Seemed very broken when rescued from [[spoiler: AIM in Secret Avengers]], to the point where Taskmaster wonders what they did to her.
* Daramount's goal for Jun, Hunter, Casey and Jade in ''ComicBook/MorningGlories''.
** [[spoiler: Also Daramount to Hodge as children, in a way.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Muties}}'': Prior to meeting Nata, Jisa was kicked out of her home by her parents and then knocked up by her asshole boyfriend.
** Seemed very broken when rescued from [[spoiler: AIM in Secret Avengers]], to the point where Taskmaster wonders what they did to her.
* Daramount's goal for Jun, Hunter, Casey and Jade in ''ComicBook/MorningGlories''.
** [[spoiler: Also Daramount to Hodge as children, in a way.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Muties}}'': Prior to meeting Nata, Jisa was kicked out of her home by her parents and then knocked up by her asshole boyfriend.
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* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'':
** Illyana in original series with all Belasco did to her, ''Inferno'' and Legacy Virus. Most of the characters from New X-Men got it in one way or another after Kyle and Yost took over but the crown goes to Pixie, who got ''part of her soul stolen''. ''TWICE''.
** ''Age of X'' crossover has broken both Pixie and Cannonball. To explain, in that story we see alternate reality, that is terrible CrapsackWorld and all mutants are fighting for their survival [[spoiler: until it's revealed that it's actually pocket reality created by one of Legion's personalities and all those people are members of 616 X-Men dragged into it]]. Everybody have now different history and Sam and Megan have ones of the most depressing ones [[spoiler: and once everything goes back to normal they are devastated and demands their memories about whole thing erased. Oh, and Pixie counterpart from that world, Nightmare, apparently survived as SuperpoweredEvilSide inside her mind]].
** Mercury [[spoiler:after getting kidnapped and tortured by Facility.]]
** Illyana in original series with all Belasco did to her, ''Inferno'' and Legacy Virus. Most of the characters from New X-Men got it in one way or another after Kyle and Yost took over but the crown goes to Pixie, who got ''part of her soul stolen''. ''TWICE''.
** ''Age of X'' crossover has broken both Pixie and Cannonball. To explain, in that story we see alternate reality, that is terrible CrapsackWorld and all mutants are fighting for their survival [[spoiler: until it's revealed that it's actually pocket reality created by one of Legion's personalities and all those people are members of 616 X-Men dragged into it]]. Everybody have now different history and Sam and Megan have ones of the most depressing ones [[spoiler: and once everything goes back to normal they are devastated and demands their memories about whole thing erased. Oh, and Pixie counterpart from that world, Nightmare, apparently survived as SuperpoweredEvilSide inside her mind]].
** Mercury [[spoiler:after getting kidnapped and tortured by Facility.]]
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* ComicBook/JessicaJones again gets hit with this in ''Comicbook/ThePulse''; When she thinks she's lost her baby after getting caught in an explosion, she's first enraged, then reduced to tears.
* Almost everyone in ''ComicBook/PunkRockJesus'' who isn't Slate gets this at some point. Most notably [[spoiler:Gwen (who at one point nearly gets DrivenToSuicide)]] and [[spoiler:Dr. Epstein]].
* Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} III now ComicBook/RedRobin, started out quite differently from his predecessors. Initially he had two living parents and a large supporting cast at his school, though his mother was tragically murdered soon after he took on the role. Overall, he was portrayed more as a realistic teenager than the usual vigilante. That was until his school was shot up and his girlfriend [[spoiler:was brutally tortured to death by Black Mask.]] Within a month, his father was [[spoiler:killed by Captain Boomerang.]] Less than a year later his two best friends, Conner Kent (ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}) and Bart Allen (ComicBook/{{Impulse}}[=/=]Kid Flash), [[spoiler:died saving the world making Tim the last surviving ComicBook/YoungJustice founder.]] Then his adoptive father went missing in time, and Tim's attempts to convince his siblings of the fact convinced them he'd lost his mind to grief. He has since taken up far more ruthless crime fighting techniques and become more serious and less likely to joke or laugh in or out of costume.
** Oddly enough, [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] is a mirror image of Bruce. Despite the TrainingFromHell, she was a true innocent who thought the mastery of combat arts was as much a game as anything and the painful parts (two for flinching, with light caliber handguns) were "normal" to her. Then she reduced a living, thinking, man to a large mass of inert meat with her own 8 year old hand... seeing the horror in his eyes as life faded from them... and it was suddenly not fun anymore.
** Jason Todd was broken by ''dying'', even after he was [[KilledOffForReal killed off for real]], when he became Red Hood.
** Batman himself. Watching his parents get shot dead right in front of him at the age of eight (or ten, depending on the continuity)... you didn't think a guy in an armored bat costume swinging from the rooftops on a nightly basis to beat up crooks was ''sane'', did you?
--->"What do you suppose something like that ''does'' to a kid?"
--->-- Alexander Knox, ''Film/Batman1989''
* There's the sad history of Klara Prast of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}, who kept talking to plants. Her religious asshole parents convinced her she was the spawn of Satan and married her off, at the age of ''eleven'', to a creep [[spoiler:who raped her and forced her into dangerous jobs to earn money for him to buy booze.]] Luckily, the Runaways rescued her and brought her into the future where New York happened to be under invasion by Skrulls. And then, just when she was starting to get the hang of our modern world, [[spoiler:someone fired a missile at the Runaways' home that came so close to killing her that she lost control of her powers and accidentally attacked her friends, and Nico decided to mystically pacify her.]] In ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', she's become such a nervous wreck that Hank Pym and Tigra decide to break with the Avengers' previous stance on the Runaways and let them stay together, specifically because they fear that separating Klara from the Runaways might further damage her emotional well being. Of course, then ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' happened...
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** Delirium was originally Delight, until something caused her to change. Most likely when she realized that she's older than the universe, but she's forever the youngest of the Endless.
** Nuala was sent by Oberon and Titania as a gift to Dream as part of a diplomatic mission to keep Hell closed (LongStory). No one expected this mission to be successful, and Nuala was allowed to believe she'd be returning to Faerie when it was done. Cluracan reluctantly informs her when he leaves that Titania will not allow the gift to be rejected win or lose, and so she would not be welcomed back to her home. When Dream accepts her into his employ, he strips her of her beautiful and dignified {{Glamour}}, returning her to her gawky, awkward and mousey natural appearance. She spends a lot of time afterwards miserable. Dream doesn't even give her a position in his court -- she begins acting as a housekeeper out of a need for something to do.
* Happens to quite a few of Dian's friends in ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre''. Also, [[spoiler:poor, poor Emily...]]
* Taken UpToEleven with ''ComicBook/ScarletWitch''. She finds out Magneto is her father, her children turn out to be kinda sorta not real, she loses her husband, her brother manipulates her into altering reality, and Magneto kills her brother. That's not even half of it. She reacts by wiping out the powers of 90% of the world's mutant population.
* Almost everyone in ''ComicBook/PunkRockJesus'' who isn't Slate gets this at some point. Most notably [[spoiler:Gwen (who at one point nearly gets DrivenToSuicide)]] and [[spoiler:Dr. Epstein]].
* Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} III now ComicBook/RedRobin, started out quite differently from his predecessors. Initially he had two living parents and a large supporting cast at his school, though his mother was tragically murdered soon after he took on the role. Overall, he was portrayed more as a realistic teenager than the usual vigilante. That was until his school was shot up and his girlfriend [[spoiler:was brutally tortured to death by Black Mask.]] Within a month, his father was [[spoiler:killed by Captain Boomerang.]] Less than a year later his two best friends, Conner Kent (ComicBook/{{Superboy|1994}}) and Bart Allen (ComicBook/{{Impulse}}[=/=]Kid Flash), [[spoiler:died saving the world making Tim the last surviving ComicBook/YoungJustice founder.]] Then his adoptive father went missing in time, and Tim's attempts to convince his siblings of the fact convinced them he'd lost his mind to grief. He has since taken up far more ruthless crime fighting techniques and become more serious and less likely to joke or laugh in or out of costume.
** Oddly enough, [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] is a mirror image of Bruce. Despite the TrainingFromHell, she was a true innocent who thought the mastery of combat arts was as much a game as anything and the painful parts (two for flinching, with light caliber handguns) were "normal" to her. Then she reduced a living, thinking, man to a large mass of inert meat with her own 8 year old hand... seeing the horror in his eyes as life faded from them... and it was suddenly not fun anymore.
** Jason Todd was broken by ''dying'', even after he was [[KilledOffForReal killed off for real]], when he became Red Hood.
** Batman himself. Watching his parents get shot dead right in front of him at the age of eight (or ten, depending on the continuity)... you didn't think a guy in an armored bat costume swinging from the rooftops on a nightly basis to beat up crooks was ''sane'', did you?
--->"What do you suppose something like that ''does'' to a kid?"
--->-- Alexander Knox, ''Film/Batman1989''
* There's the sad history of Klara Prast of the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}, who kept talking to plants. Her religious asshole parents convinced her she was the spawn of Satan and married her off, at the age of ''eleven'', to a creep [[spoiler:who raped her and forced her into dangerous jobs to earn money for him to buy booze.]] Luckily, the Runaways rescued her and brought her into the future where New York happened to be under invasion by Skrulls. And then, just when she was starting to get the hang of our modern world, [[spoiler:someone fired a missile at the Runaways' home that came so close to killing her that she lost control of her powers and accidentally attacked her friends, and Nico decided to mystically pacify her.]] In ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', she's become such a nervous wreck that Hank Pym and Tigra decide to break with the Avengers' previous stance on the Runaways and let them stay together, specifically because they fear that separating Klara from the Runaways might further damage her emotional well being. Of course, then ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' happened...
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** Delirium was originally Delight, until something caused her to change. Most likely when she realized that she's older than the universe, but she's forever the youngest of the Endless.
** Nuala was sent by Oberon and Titania as a gift to Dream as part of a diplomatic mission to keep Hell closed (LongStory). No one expected this mission to be successful, and Nuala was allowed to believe she'd be returning to Faerie when it was done. Cluracan reluctantly informs her when he leaves that Titania will not allow the gift to be rejected win or lose, and so she would not be welcomed back to her home. When Dream accepts her into his employ, he strips her of her beautiful and dignified {{Glamour}}, returning her to her gawky, awkward and mousey natural appearance. She spends a lot of time afterwards miserable. Dream doesn't even give her a position in his court -- she begins acting as a housekeeper out of a need for something to do.
* Happens to quite a few of Dian's friends in ''ComicBook/SandmanMysteryTheatre''. Also, [[spoiler:poor, poor Emily...]]
* Taken UpToEleven with ''ComicBook/ScarletWitch''. She finds out Magneto is her father, her children turn out to be kinda sorta not real, she loses her husband, her brother manipulates her into altering reality, and Magneto kills her brother. That's not even half of it. She reacts by wiping out the powers of 90% of the world's mutant population.
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* After all the years, Daredevil has finally snapped in ''ComicBook/{{Shadowland}}''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Freddy Freeman, who has the distinction of: A) being the only superhero to gain his powers thanks to a hate crime; B) being orphaned as a result of said hate crime; C) being left with a permanent disability as another result of that hate crime, which -- despite the fact that he knows an all-powerful wizard -- can't be magically healed for reasons that are never fully explained; and D) losing his athletic prowess (and subsequently all of his friends) thanks to that disability. While all of the Shazam! kids have a rough lot in life, Freddy has traditionally portrayed as being more "broken" by his experiences than everyone else. He's the most cynical member of the Marvel family, and has a temper that oftentimes gets him into trouble and exacerbates his problems.
** Taken UpToEleven in ''ComicBook/BillyBatsonAndTheMagicOfShazam'', in which Freddy is a complete paraplegic, was injured as a result of Captain Marvel's negligence, and is so embittered that he becomes Black Adam's sidekick. [[spoiler: He gets better.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': Freddy Freeman, who has the distinction of: A) being the only superhero to gain his powers thanks to a hate crime; B) being orphaned as a result of said hate crime; C) being left with a permanent disability as another result of that hate crime, which -- despite the fact that he knows an all-powerful wizard -- can't be magically healed for reasons that are never fully explained; and D) losing his athletic prowess (and subsequently all of his friends) thanks to that disability. While all of the Shazam! kids have a rough lot in life, Freddy has traditionally portrayed as being more "broken" by his experiences than everyone else. He's the most cynical member of the Marvel family, and has a temper that oftentimes gets him into trouble and exacerbates his problems.
** Taken UpToEleven in ''ComicBook/BillyBatsonAndTheMagicOfShazam'', in which Freddy is a complete paraplegic, was injured as a result of Captain Marvel's negligence, and is so embittered that he becomes Black Adam's sidekick. [[spoiler: He gets better.]]
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* This happens to Franchise/SpiderMan on a depressingly regular basis. See [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied the Death of Gwen Stacy]] and ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' for precise examples.
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* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:
** Kara Zor-El always goes through this, not matter the universe. She is a genuinely nice, sweet teen girl who loses her family and her whole world when her parents launch her off Argo City to save her life. She crash-lands into a strange, alien, primitive world where she doesn't blend in and strangers want to kill her or capture her and examine her.
** In the Pre-Crisis universe, Superman -her only living relative- sent Kara to an orphanage because he feared that his enemies would do if they found out about her, telling her to keep her existence a secret while he trained her. Kara hated the Midvale Orphanage but she had to live there during her training, performing heroic deeds anonymously and avoiding to be adopted. Finally her cousin is about to make her -Supergirl's- existence public when she loses her powers.
** Post-Crisis Kara was getting used to live on Earth when Superman retrieves the Bottle City of Kandor -in which were imprisoned her parents and several thousands of Kryptonians- from ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. However, one of her villains -Reactron- kills her parents and blows New Krypton up, exterminating the last survivors of Krypton. So she lost her family and world ''twice''.
** Post-Flashpoint Kara didn't trust her cousin, felt lonely and stranded in a strange world and was manipulated by most of people until she flew off the handle.
** ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'': Kara loses her parents and her entire world when they launch her off Argo City to save her life. Her rocket changes course and she crashes into the post-Crisis universe instead of Earth-One. Everyone yells at her, hurts her, thinks she is an idiot or crazy. Her only living relative turns her down before she can explain she is his cousin because he believes her to be an obsessed fan. She tries to go school and make friends but she is treated as a freak. And then a cosmic being turns up and tells her that she has to return to her universe... where she will eventually get killed.
-->'''Kara:''' It's nice. It's... peaceful. Not like here. Here people yell at you... or hurt you... or think you're an idiot or crazy... Or let you down. I've never hated anyone or anything in my life. But I hate this world. I hate it.
** ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''. Two examples: Kara Zor-El -''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''- was an nice, innocent, naive woman. Then she found out that her father figure -someone who she thought was a very good person- [[spoiler:murdered her baby cousin several years before]], and was manipulating her all along. Barbara Gordon -''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}''- was a sweet, smiling child until she saw her parents being murdered by a punk with a gun. She became a harsh, cynical, paranoid person.
* Franchise/WonderWoman in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', who loses a piece of herself when she has to break her own lasso to save Superman.
** Kara Zor-El always goes through this, not matter the universe. She is a genuinely nice, sweet teen girl who loses her family and her whole world when her parents launch her off Argo City to save her life. She crash-lands into a strange, alien, primitive world where she doesn't blend in and strangers want to kill her or capture her and examine her.
** In the Pre-Crisis universe, Superman -her only living relative- sent Kara to an orphanage because he feared that his enemies would do if they found out about her, telling her to keep her existence a secret while he trained her. Kara hated the Midvale Orphanage but she had to live there during her training, performing heroic deeds anonymously and avoiding to be adopted. Finally her cousin is about to make her -Supergirl's- existence public when she loses her powers.
** Post-Crisis Kara was getting used to live on Earth when Superman retrieves the Bottle City of Kandor -in which were imprisoned her parents and several thousands of Kryptonians- from ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}. However, one of her villains -Reactron- kills her parents and blows New Krypton up, exterminating the last survivors of Krypton. So she lost her family and world ''twice''.
** Post-Flashpoint Kara didn't trust her cousin, felt lonely and stranded in a strange world and was manipulated by most of people until she flew off the handle.
** ''ComicBook/ManyHappyReturns'': Kara loses her parents and her entire world when they launch her off Argo City to save her life. Her rocket changes course and she crashes into the post-Crisis universe instead of Earth-One. Everyone yells at her, hurts her, thinks she is an idiot or crazy. Her only living relative turns her down before she can explain she is his cousin because he believes her to be an obsessed fan. She tries to go school and make friends but she is treated as a freak. And then a cosmic being turns up and tells her that she has to return to her universe... where she will eventually get killed.
-->'''Kara:''' It's nice. It's... peaceful. Not like here. Here people yell at you... or hurt you... or think you're an idiot or crazy... Or let you down. I've never hated anyone or anything in my life. But I hate this world. I hate it.
** ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''. Two examples: Kara Zor-El -''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''- was an nice, innocent, naive woman. Then she found out that her father figure -someone who she thought was a very good person- [[spoiler:murdered her baby cousin several years before]], and was manipulating her all along. Barbara Gordon -''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}''- was a sweet, smiling child until she saw her parents being murdered by a punk with a gun. She became a harsh, cynical, paranoid person.
* Franchise/WonderWoman in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'', who loses a piece of herself when she has to break her own lasso to save Superman.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': "Julia" was a Daxamite who abandoned her violently prejudiced people during ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'', only to end up captured by the Sangtee Empire when she tried to free the slaves on one of their horrific prison planets. She was subsequently tortured to the point that her name was lost and she stopped speaking, then hung up in a system designed specifically to depower Daxamites (and Kryptonians) so that her now eyeless defeated form could serve as an example to the slaves of what happens to those who try to rebel.
* ''ComicBook/XForce'' did this to Psylocke. ''Uncanny X-Force'' started with Betsy Braddock cool, collected, and confident and together with the man she loves. Then the man she loves turns evil. And then she kills him. And then she kills her brother to save reality. And then she's mind-raped after being ambushed by another psychic. And then a second man she's come to have very complicated feelings for sacrifices himself to save her. And then she finds out she causes a totalitarian [[BadFuture Bad Future]]. Post-traumatic stress disorder doesn't even begin to describe it.
* Do NOT attend the [[ComicBook/XMen Xavier Institute]]. Just don't. This goes double if you're on Earth-616. They will kill all your friends, run over your dog, and rip out your soul all in the space of a few hours if you go to the Xavier Institute. This goes ''[[UpToEleven quadruple]]'' if your on [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Earth-1610]], where nearly all of the original X-Men are dead at this point, the remaining mutants are living on the run from a government even more prejudiced than before, and while he was alive, Professor Xavier wasn't above using his powers, and sometimes just his intellect, to manipulate his students.
** ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin (Magik) started as Colossus' little sister; after being sucked into Limbo (Belasco's dimension) while at Xavier's, she returned with new magic powers and a severely damaged mental state (to be fair to the team, time differences were so great, she appeared to only be gone a few seconds). She is then returned to Belasco's, where she undergoes a weird process that causes her to split into multiple beings, rather confusing, one being a soulless girl stuck in Belasco's dimension.
*** Then you get to poor Megan Gwynn, aka Pixie, a girl who (before ''House of M'') was voted most cheerful person at Xavier's. She along with her classmates are dragged into Belasco's dimension, where, in order to escape, team up with the soulless Illyana. In the process, Pixie loses a portion of HER SOUL. She returns with black streaks in her hair (presumably representing the darkness now in her soul) and a magical dagger that allows her to teleport. Then in another arc she returns to that dimension, this time with the main team. Here she attacks Illyana for stealing a portion of her soul and after losing, Illyana takes YET ANOTHER chunk of Pixie's soul and sends the X-Men back home. Later she gets badly beaten by some racists, kidnapped by demons and finds out her parents aren't her real parents and she is really a daughter of Mastermind and some witch. And then she gets to Limbo and has another part of her soul stolen ''AGAIN'', though this time she regains all parts of her soul at the end. And then, along with everybody else, she gets [[spoiler: brainwashed by a powerful reality warper into believing her life was one big hell on Earth, which turns her into murderous sex-obsessed psychopath with a demonic look, called Nightmare. And once she gets back to normal, Nightmare survives in her mind as a SuperpoweredEvilSide]]. Poor girl cannot catch a break.
*** Or Longshot - a peppy, happy-go-lucky charmer. WHO HAS HIS SOUL EATEN BY A DEMON in the ''Inferno'' storyline. Even when everything goes back to normal, he's left with some serious {{angst}}.
** If you're a young mutant, this is bound to happen no matter where you live. The only place more dangerous than the Xavier Institute (or whatever the current headquarters of the ComicBook/XMen happens to be) for young mutants is the world outside of it.
** Rahne Sinclair has this in spades. Rescued from being [[KillItWithFire burned at the stake]] by her [[SinisterMinister abusive father]], her life seemed to be getting better once she joined the New Mutants. Cue a long string of traumas -- her first love [[TakingTheBullet dying to save her]], being mind-raped by an evil psychic, her best friend being possessed by a demon, being kidnapped and mind-raped/genetically modified into a mindless slave, seeing another dear friend murdered, struggling to break free of brainwashing, losing her powers and adoptive mother in a single day, and being shown a BadFuture where she murders two dear friends. Then she got recruited onto a black ops X-team, where she would be brainwashed and given a heroin overdose by her father. This resulted in her nearly murdering her teammates, and eventually EATING HER FATHER, a trauma she's blocked out. While being deprogrammed, she was reunited with an old love and became pregnant, only for him to sell his soul to save her. The baby nearly killed her and turned out to be a supernatural beacon for bad things when close to being born. All of this over the course of maybe 7 - 8 years of time.
** What was done to ComicBook/{{X 23}} from birth until she escaped, then her handler tracked her down, and what happened wasn't pretty. And what makes it ''worse'' is that the Facility was breaking her ''on purpose''. When they decided she had too much empathy for others, they gave her a puppy with orders [[ShootTheDog to kill it]]. When she played with it instead and failed to carry out the orders they threatened to torture it to death and make Laura watch ''as punishment''. She gets better, and learns to be a normal girl from [[CoolBigSister Jubilee]]... kinda.
*** And now, ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' looks to be attempting to break her all over again...
** Little Jean Grey, who begins as the sweetest person at Xavier's. She's the Team Chick and is as cheery and perky as can be. Then, while hunting Proteus, Jean starts having these daydreams where she's slipping into the past, where she is in a rather intimate relationship with a man who is far less straight-laced than Scott. Did I mention that just a little while before this, Jean, dying of radiation, made contact with a cosmic entity called The Phoenix Force who just happened to share its infinite power with her? And that with that power she'd fought Galactus to a standstill and healed a cancerous galaxy? So yeah, Jean keeps having these visions until she can't escape from them. Then the masquerade is over, and Jean realizes she was being used by Mastermind and The White Queen, who have been more or less raping her mind and forcing her to do things that were scandalous to her. Except when the mask comes off, Jean loses her grip on all that infinite power that The Phoenix gave her, and it drives her ''mad''. She's filled with the hunger of a Cosmic being, and the memories of her glorious triumphs. So she breaks down and eats a star. Then the Shi'ar get upset and condemn her to death, and Jean knows there's nothing for it, so she commits suicide to avoid repeating the things she did.
*** The above did '''NOT''' happen to Jean, but to the Phoenix itself, which from time to time wants to know how it is to feel human, and took her memories, looks and personality while the ''real'' Jean was healing in a cocoon at the bottom of the ocean. However, after the ''real'' Jean has come back and [[CloningBlues her clone]] [[BreakTheHaughty Madelyne Pryor]] (read below) dies, Jean is given the memories of both Madelyne and the Phoenix. Given that she also had a traumatic experience at the age of 10, watching her best friend die from a car accident while being mentally linked to her and feeling everything she felt, we can safely say Jean has ''three sets'' of screwed up memories in her brain, two of which are of women that looked exactly like her.
*** Then, when she's revived, the love of her life is with a clone of hers, who has her own breakdown, resulting in a deal with the devil and the return of the Phoenix Force. Then Scott cheats on her with the very woman who caused the Dark Phoenix to come into being. Then Jean dies, and sees a future in which all her friends suffer incredible anguish and, because the Phoenix is as much her tormentor as her friend, it convinces her that the only way to fix all this is making her push her husband into the arms of the woman who caused the Dark Phoenix to come about. Then the Shi'ar slaughtered her entire family. Then they hurt the Phoenix and it forced her back out of the grave, so she had to die AGAIN. Then the Phoenix came back and handed itself into the arms of The White Queen, and with that power, Scott went nuts.
*** Long story short, the day the Phoenix saved Jean's life, it set her on a very, very painful path.
** Can't forget to add in Dust. Separated from her mother (whose fate is unknown), was sold into slavery until Wolverine saved her and becomes enrolled in the Xavier Institute, only for some of her new friends and love interest to die as the comic progresses.
** What about Cyclops: his life started going badly when his parents threw him and his little brother out of a plane when he was a young child, leaving him an orphan with brain damage. His life only got worse from there, even more so once he reached adulthood. The level of shit he has gone through since then makes Charles Xavier rescuing him from an abusive criminal seem more like an act of YankTheDogsChain than anything else. To put how much Cyke has been broken into perspective, when he first arrived at the school (while still undeniably broken) he was a {{Dandere}}. Adult Cyke proceeded into SugarAndIcePersonality to avoid being hurt anymore.
** Angel has also been horribly broken beyond recognition, similar to his two teammates mentioned above. When he started out at Xavier's Angel was a conceited but caring young superhero who wanted nothing more than to fly and protect his teammates. Unfortunately, this lead to him taking a lot of punishment from various villains as he was tortured, knocked around and sometimes nearly killed. And this was back in the original run of the comic book when things were nice and happy. He leaves the X-Men, returns to see his childhood crush go crazy and kill herself, and then quits because the team now includes Wolverine, who Angel disagrees with strongly. Surprise though! His childhood crush is now alive and is interested in his married friend, not him. His girlfriend thinks he's cheating on her (he isn't), he is outed to the public as a supported of "mutant hunters" (really a cover), and when trying to save a child he gets tortured and his wings ripped apart. The wings are amputated, he nearly gets blown up, Apocalypse brainwashes him, and a childhood friend kills his girlfriend. Hoo boy.
*** This isn't even the end of it. Angel, now Archangel, is recovering until his wings get ripped off AGAIN. He becomes bipolar, gets put on a murder squad, and gradually descends into insanity until he finally loses it and kills a small town. Another girlfriend, Psylocke, kills him and and Angel comes back with no memory. He then loses it again, gets used as a puppet by Psylocke to kill people, and then gets used by a cult as a weapon. Who even knows what he is now. Someone at Marvel must really hate this guy.
* ''ComicBook/XForce'' did this to Psylocke. ''Uncanny X-Force'' started with Betsy Braddock cool, collected, and confident and together with the man she loves. Then the man she loves turns evil. And then she kills him. And then she kills her brother to save reality. And then she's mind-raped after being ambushed by another psychic. And then a second man she's come to have very complicated feelings for sacrifices himself to save her. And then she finds out she causes a totalitarian [[BadFuture Bad Future]]. Post-traumatic stress disorder doesn't even begin to describe it.
* Do NOT attend the [[ComicBook/XMen Xavier Institute]]. Just don't. This goes double if you're on Earth-616. They will kill all your friends, run over your dog, and rip out your soul all in the space of a few hours if you go to the Xavier Institute. This goes ''[[UpToEleven quadruple]]'' if your on [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Earth-1610]], where nearly all of the original X-Men are dead at this point, the remaining mutants are living on the run from a government even more prejudiced than before, and while he was alive, Professor Xavier wasn't above using his powers, and sometimes just his intellect, to manipulate his students.
** ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin (Magik) started as Colossus' little sister; after being sucked into Limbo (Belasco's dimension) while at Xavier's, she returned with new magic powers and a severely damaged mental state (to be fair to the team, time differences were so great, she appeared to only be gone a few seconds). She is then returned to Belasco's, where she undergoes a weird process that causes her to split into multiple beings, rather confusing, one being a soulless girl stuck in Belasco's dimension.
*** Then you get to poor Megan Gwynn, aka Pixie, a girl who (before ''House of M'') was voted most cheerful person at Xavier's. She along with her classmates are dragged into Belasco's dimension, where, in order to escape, team up with the soulless Illyana. In the process, Pixie loses a portion of HER SOUL. She returns with black streaks in her hair (presumably representing the darkness now in her soul) and a magical dagger that allows her to teleport. Then in another arc she returns to that dimension, this time with the main team. Here she attacks Illyana for stealing a portion of her soul and after losing, Illyana takes YET ANOTHER chunk of Pixie's soul and sends the X-Men back home. Later she gets badly beaten by some racists, kidnapped by demons and finds out her parents aren't her real parents and she is really a daughter of Mastermind and some witch. And then she gets to Limbo and has another part of her soul stolen ''AGAIN'', though this time she regains all parts of her soul at the end. And then, along with everybody else, she gets [[spoiler: brainwashed by a powerful reality warper into believing her life was one big hell on Earth, which turns her into murderous sex-obsessed psychopath with a demonic look, called Nightmare. And once she gets back to normal, Nightmare survives in her mind as a SuperpoweredEvilSide]]. Poor girl cannot catch a break.
*** Or Longshot - a peppy, happy-go-lucky charmer. WHO HAS HIS SOUL EATEN BY A DEMON in the ''Inferno'' storyline. Even when everything goes back to normal, he's left with some serious {{angst}}.
** If you're a young mutant, this is bound to happen no matter where you live. The only place more dangerous than the Xavier Institute (or whatever the current headquarters of the ComicBook/XMen happens to be) for young mutants is the world outside of it.
** Rahne Sinclair has this in spades. Rescued from being [[KillItWithFire burned at the stake]] by her [[SinisterMinister abusive father]], her life seemed to be getting better once she joined the New Mutants. Cue a long string of traumas -- her first love [[TakingTheBullet dying to save her]], being mind-raped by an evil psychic, her best friend being possessed by a demon, being kidnapped and mind-raped/genetically modified into a mindless slave, seeing another dear friend murdered, struggling to break free of brainwashing, losing her powers and adoptive mother in a single day, and being shown a BadFuture where she murders two dear friends. Then she got recruited onto a black ops X-team, where she would be brainwashed and given a heroin overdose by her father. This resulted in her nearly murdering her teammates, and eventually EATING HER FATHER, a trauma she's blocked out. While being deprogrammed, she was reunited with an old love and became pregnant, only for him to sell his soul to save her. The baby nearly killed her and turned out to be a supernatural beacon for bad things when close to being born. All of this over the course of maybe 7 - 8 years of time.
** What was done to ComicBook/{{X 23}} from birth until she escaped, then her handler tracked her down, and what happened wasn't pretty. And what makes it ''worse'' is that the Facility was breaking her ''on purpose''. When they decided she had too much empathy for others, they gave her a puppy with orders [[ShootTheDog to kill it]]. When she played with it instead and failed to carry out the orders they threatened to torture it to death and make Laura watch ''as punishment''. She gets better, and learns to be a normal girl from [[CoolBigSister Jubilee]]... kinda.
*** And now, ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' looks to be attempting to break her all over again...
** Little Jean Grey, who begins as the sweetest person at Xavier's. She's the Team Chick and is as cheery and perky as can be. Then, while hunting Proteus, Jean starts having these daydreams where she's slipping into the past, where she is in a rather intimate relationship with a man who is far less straight-laced than Scott. Did I mention that just a little while before this, Jean, dying of radiation, made contact with a cosmic entity called The Phoenix Force who just happened to share its infinite power with her? And that with that power she'd fought Galactus to a standstill and healed a cancerous galaxy? So yeah, Jean keeps having these visions until she can't escape from them. Then the masquerade is over, and Jean realizes she was being used by Mastermind and The White Queen, who have been more or less raping her mind and forcing her to do things that were scandalous to her. Except when the mask comes off, Jean loses her grip on all that infinite power that The Phoenix gave her, and it drives her ''mad''. She's filled with the hunger of a Cosmic being, and the memories of her glorious triumphs. So she breaks down and eats a star. Then the Shi'ar get upset and condemn her to death, and Jean knows there's nothing for it, so she commits suicide to avoid repeating the things she did.
*** The above did '''NOT''' happen to Jean, but to the Phoenix itself, which from time to time wants to know how it is to feel human, and took her memories, looks and personality while the ''real'' Jean was healing in a cocoon at the bottom of the ocean. However, after the ''real'' Jean has come back and [[CloningBlues her clone]] [[BreakTheHaughty Madelyne Pryor]] (read below) dies, Jean is given the memories of both Madelyne and the Phoenix. Given that she also had a traumatic experience at the age of 10, watching her best friend die from a car accident while being mentally linked to her and feeling everything she felt, we can safely say Jean has ''three sets'' of screwed up memories in her brain, two of which are of women that looked exactly like her.
*** Then, when she's revived, the love of her life is with a clone of hers, who has her own breakdown, resulting in a deal with the devil and the return of the Phoenix Force. Then Scott cheats on her with the very woman who caused the Dark Phoenix to come into being. Then Jean dies, and sees a future in which all her friends suffer incredible anguish and, because the Phoenix is as much her tormentor as her friend, it convinces her that the only way to fix all this is making her push her husband into the arms of the woman who caused the Dark Phoenix to come about. Then the Shi'ar slaughtered her entire family. Then they hurt the Phoenix and it forced her back out of the grave, so she had to die AGAIN. Then the Phoenix came back and handed itself into the arms of The White Queen, and with that power, Scott went nuts.
*** Long story short, the day the Phoenix saved Jean's life, it set her on a very, very painful path.
** Can't forget to add in Dust. Separated from her mother (whose fate is unknown), was sold into slavery until Wolverine saved her and becomes enrolled in the Xavier Institute, only for some of her new friends and love interest to die as the comic progresses.
** What about Cyclops: his life started going badly when his parents threw him and his little brother out of a plane when he was a young child, leaving him an orphan with brain damage. His life only got worse from there, even more so once he reached adulthood. The level of shit he has gone through since then makes Charles Xavier rescuing him from an abusive criminal seem more like an act of YankTheDogsChain than anything else. To put how much Cyke has been broken into perspective, when he first arrived at the school (while still undeniably broken) he was a {{Dandere}}. Adult Cyke proceeded into SugarAndIcePersonality to avoid being hurt anymore.
** Angel has also been horribly broken beyond recognition, similar to his two teammates mentioned above. When he started out at Xavier's Angel was a conceited but caring young superhero who wanted nothing more than to fly and protect his teammates. Unfortunately, this lead to him taking a lot of punishment from various villains as he was tortured, knocked around and sometimes nearly killed. And this was back in the original run of the comic book when things were nice and happy. He leaves the X-Men, returns to see his childhood crush go crazy and kill herself, and then quits because the team now includes Wolverine, who Angel disagrees with strongly. Surprise though! His childhood crush is now alive and is interested in his married friend, not him. His girlfriend thinks he's cheating on her (he isn't), he is outed to the public as a supported of "mutant hunters" (really a cover), and when trying to save a child he gets tortured and his wings ripped apart. The wings are amputated, he nearly gets blown up, Apocalypse brainwashes him, and a childhood friend kills his girlfriend. Hoo boy.
*** This isn't even the end of it. Angel, now Archangel, is recovering until his wings get ripped off AGAIN. He becomes bipolar, gets put on a murder squad, and gradually descends into insanity until he finally loses it and kills a small town. Another girlfriend, Psylocke, kills him and and Angel comes back with no memory. He then loses it again, gets used as a puppet by Psylocke to kill people, and then gets used by a cult as a weapon. Who even knows what he is now. Someone at Marvel must really hate this guy.
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* Gwen Stacy: Originally an AlphaBitch who took a level of Character Development until she became a mature and thoughtful Tsundere GirlNextDoor type. Then, her dad died. When she finally managed to get over that, SHE dies.
* Poor [[ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery Kid]] Loki, you never stood a chance. First he's brought back to Asgard, a place where he's widely hated and mistrusted for things he did which he can't even remember. Sure, at least [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor his brother]] is on his side, but he's barely ever there. His first companion? [[SdrawkcabName Ikol]], The spirit of his old, evil self. Then he gets a friend his own age, only she seems to enjoy being as mean as possible to him. And then she leaves. And he gets a dog, too. An evil dog that spits out fire and is obsessed with killing people. And his mother blackmails him into being a spy. And his dreams are mostly nightmares of his past deeds and growing up to be horrible all over again. Then his friend comes back only to betray him and the dog turns on him and what little respect he managed to garner through hard work and doing good is tossed aside when everything comes crushing down on his 13-year-old little head. But, hey, at least Ikol won't turn on him, [[TemptingFate right?]]
* Both played straight and for comedy with DCU's Miss Martian, M'gann M'orzz. After ''One Year Later'', it's said she left the Teen Titans due to something Ravager did to her; while fans wonder as to the implications, it's later revealed that Ravager just yelled at her, making her cry, when M'gann threw a pie in her face. Eventually, she is nearly broken when her Future Evil Self's body is destroyed and their minds merge. M'gann eventually wins the mental war by using bunnies and cute images in her mindscape to keep her evil future self at bay.
* Poor [[ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery Kid]] Loki, you never stood a chance. First he's brought back to Asgard, a place where he's widely hated and mistrusted for things he did which he can't even remember. Sure, at least [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor his brother]] is on his side, but he's barely ever there. His first companion? [[SdrawkcabName Ikol]], The spirit of his old, evil self. Then he gets a friend his own age, only she seems to enjoy being as mean as possible to him. And then she leaves. And he gets a dog, too. An evil dog that spits out fire and is obsessed with killing people. And his mother blackmails him into being a spy. And his dreams are mostly nightmares of his past deeds and growing up to be horrible all over again. Then his friend comes back only to betray him and the dog turns on him and what little respect he managed to garner through hard work and doing good is tossed aside when everything comes crushing down on his 13-year-old little head. But, hey, at least Ikol won't turn on him, [[TemptingFate right?]]
* Both played straight and for comedy with DCU's Miss Martian, M'gann M'orzz. After ''One Year Later'', it's said she left the Teen Titans due to something Ravager did to her; while fans wonder as to the implications, it's later revealed that Ravager just yelled at her, making her cry, when M'gann threw a pie in her face. Eventually, she is nearly broken when her Future Evil Self's body is destroyed and their minds merge. M'gann eventually wins the mental war by using bunnies and cute images in her mindscape to keep her evil future self at bay.
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* Poor [[ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery Kid]] Loki, you never stood a chance. First he's brought back to Asgard, a place where he's widely hated and mistrusted for things he did which he can't even remember. Sure, at least [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor his brother]] is on his side, but he's barely ever there. His first companion? [[SdrawkcabName Ikol]], The spirit of his old, evil self. Then he gets a friend his own age, only she seems to enjoy being as mean as possible to him. And then she leaves. And he gets a dog, too. An evil dog that spits out fire and is obsessed with killing people. And his mother blackmails him into being a spy. And his dreams are mostly nightmares of his past deeds and growing up to be horrible all over again. Then his friend comes back only to betray him and the dog turns on him and what little respect he managed to garner through hard work and doing good is tossed aside when everything comes crushing down on his 13-year-old little head. But, hey, at least Ikol won't turn on him, [[TemptingFate right?]]
* Both played straight and for comedy with DCU's Miss Martian, M'gann M'orzz. After ''One Year Later'', it's said she left the Teen Titans due to something Ravager did to her; while fans wonder as to the implications, it's later revealed that Ravager just yelled at her, making her cry, when M'gann threw a pie in her face. Eventually, she is nearly broken when her Future Evil Self's body is destroyed and their minds merge. M'gann eventually wins the mental war by using bunnies and cute images in her mindscape to keep her evil future self at bay.
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* ''Literature/StarWarsRepublic:'' Noriah Na's master dies during Order 66. She has to swim through ice-cold water to get into the nearest city. Then she's told to go into hiding and forget everything she was raised to know so she'll have a chance of surviving long enough for the hatred against the Jedi to end. She spends most of ''Into the Unknown'' on the verge of tears.
