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* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Two of Han's girlfriends coped with severe trauma through becoming badasses dedicated to a cause.
** Bria was enslaved and became addicted to a FantasticDrug (which facilitated her enslavement). She got over this only through becoming a Rebel and freeing people enslaved by the same ScamReligion.
** Xaverri's husband and children were killed by the Empire. She coped by turning into a con artist who's ruined numerous Imperial officials, and once also helps in the defeat of a small Imperial task force.
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*''Literature/CagingSkies'': Elsa is a Jewish woman during UsefulNotes/WW2. Her family and FirstLove are genocided in the Holocaust and she has to rely on an abusive Hitlerjugend man to survive. She has to, for years, live as she doesn't exist. She's definitely going to need a therapist or several by the end of the book.
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* ''Literature/TheStorm'': It is implied that the wife was much happier before the years of abuse from her husband. She once didn't have a care in the world, but as of the time of the story's events, she forgot what true happiness felt like.

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* ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Feyre is a resilient young woman who struggles with many emotional issues.

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Feyre is a resilient young woman who struggles with many emotional issues.issues.
** Tamlin's experience Under the Mountain broke something deep in him, turning protectiveness into possessiveness.
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** Harry Dresden himself is a male version (he expresses his TroubledButCute tendencies as [[SnarkKnight yards and yards of snark]], and the DarkAndTroubledPast is about as bad as you can get). [[SecretKeeper It]] [[MindRape only]] [[HeartbrokenBadass gets]] [[FromBadToWorse worse]] [[HurtingHero as]] [[HandicappedBadass the]] [[BeingGoodSucks series]] [[SadClown goes]] [[TheChewToy on]]...

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** Harry Dresden himself is a male version (he expresses his TroubledButCute tendencies as [[SnarkKnight yards and yards of snark]], and the DarkAndTroubledPast is about as bad as you can get). [[SecretKeeper It]] [[MindRape only]] [[HeartbrokenBadass gets]] [[FromBadToWorse worse]] [[HurtingHero as]] [[HandicappedBadass the]] [[BeingGoodSucks series]] [[SadClown goes]] [[TheChewToy on]]...It only gets worse as the series goes on...
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** Katniss Everdeen herself has shades of this after her father's death but gets much worse as the series goes on, especially after her trip to the arena. She becomes a more literal example during the events of ''Mockingjay'' with her role as the Mockingjay for the rebellion.
** Her mother, Mrs. Everdeen. After her husband's death, she went into a near-catatonic depression. She eventually got better, but then her oldest daughter becomes a tribute in the Games, [[spoiler:''twice'', her District gets blown to ashes, and her youngest daughter dies.]] Not at all hard to see why she [[spoiler:never returned to District 12]].

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** Katniss Everdeen herself has shades of this after her father's death but gets much worse as the series goes on, especially after her trip to the arena. She becomes a more literal example during the events of ''Mockingjay'' with her role as the Mockingjay for the rebellion.
** Her mother, Mrs. Everdeen.
Everdeen's mother. After her husband's death, she went into a near-catatonic depression.depression where she could not care for her family any more. She eventually got better, but then her oldest daughter becomes a tribute in the Games, [[spoiler:''twice'', her District gets blown to ashes, and her youngest daughter dies.]] Not at all hard to see why she [[spoiler:never returned to District 12]].12]]
** Katniss herself has shades of this after her father's death which was before the storyline of the books. Her mother's aforementioned catatonic state drove her over the despair event horizon as she nearly starved to death and had lost both parents as nurturing, reliable and relatable people and was suddenly tasked with keeping herself, her mother, and her little sister alive in a world where she's unable to even get a job. She's never able to fully trust her mother again, and watching her family starve because of her inability to bring in money and food has left her extremely closed off to others, protective of the people in her care, and utterly robbed of a childhood. She gets much worse as the series goes on, especially after her trip to the arena. She becomes a more literal example during the events of ''Mockingjay'' with her role as the Mockingjay for the rebellion.
** Haymitch's family was murdered. Peeta and Johanna got tortured. Annie had to listen to the screams of Peeta and Johanna and got mentally unstable from it.

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