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{{Dark and Troubled Past}}s in {{Literature}}
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* In ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren'', Nancy's past is filled with tragedy and horror. Her father died suddenly of pneumonia when she was in her teens. Then when she was eighteen, her mother also died suddenly in a car accident. A few years later, her two children went missing and were found [[OutlivingOnesOffspring deliberately smothered]]; Nancy was [[MiscarriageOfJustice unjustly]] put on trial for the murders, initially found guilty and sentenced to death, only to be released after the judge declared a mistrial. Her first husband committed suicide, believing she was guilty, and Nancy quickly moved to the opposite side of the country to escape people's scrutiny. [[spoiler:Her past is even darker than many people realise when it comes out that her first husband was extremely manipulative and abusive [[DomesticAbuse towards her]] and [[AbusiveParents their children]], nor was her mother's death [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident an accident]]]].
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* In ''Literature/BarberBlackSheep'', the protagonist Oliver Winslow is tormented by the loss of his infant little sister as well as spending his twenties in a HellHolePrison due to his kleptomania. His love interest, Kittie Wilson, has had a similarly rough go at it, having grown up so poor that her family couldn't afford medicine to save her father's life and having been physically abused by a former employer.
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** Kaylana was ForcedToWatch everyone she knew and loved as they were killed when she was just a girl. After that, she lived alone for over a century.
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* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': It's revealed that Sam grew up in poverty with his mentally ill mother, the pair squatting inside an abandoned warehouse to survive. He had no idea who his father was or where he'd gone, as his mother couldn't remember. Then he walked in once to find that she'd been raped and beaten by a random drunk. He killed the man, with the building catching fire when the lamp fell over. After he escaped, the assassin's guild recruited him.
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** It's revealed that Sam grew up in poverty with his mentally ill mother, the pair squatting inside an abandoned warehouse to survive. He had no idea who his father was or where he'd gone, as his mother couldn't remember. Then he walked in once to find that she'd been raped and beaten by a randomdrunk.drunk, dying from her injuries. He killed the man, with the building catching fire when the lamp fell over. After he escaped, the assassin's guild recruited him.him.
** Valerie is the [[LastOfHisKind only one]] of her people left, as the rest were [[FinalSolution all slaughtered]] by the Verdant Company. She only survived due to being left for dead. [[GenocideSurvivor Valerie lost her husband, daughter and unborn son in the genocide]]. She has sworn vengeance on the Verdant Company's commander, Prince Fenwick, for this.
** It's revealed that Sam grew up in poverty with his mentally ill mother, the pair squatting inside an abandoned warehouse to survive. He had no idea who his father was or where he'd gone, as his mother couldn't remember. Then he walked in once to find that she'd been raped and beaten by a random
** Valerie is the [[LastOfHisKind only one]] of her people left, as the rest were [[FinalSolution all slaughtered]] by the Verdant Company. She only survived due to being left for dead. [[GenocideSurvivor Valerie lost her husband, daughter and unborn son in the genocide]]. She has sworn vengeance on the Verdant Company's commander, Prince Fenwick, for this.
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** ''Literature/TheJonah'': DC Jim Kelso, orphaned from birth, spent his first six years in an orphanage. Throughout his life, uncannily recurrent, sometimes fatal, misfortune plagues him and those around him. [[spoiler: It's caused by the solidly manifest ghost of his crazed twin sister]].
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added spoiler tags for Harry Potter because there are still people who haven't read those books, darn it.
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** Harry had both parents murdered before his eyes at age one, nine years living with abusive guardians, being bullied at school by his cousin and his cousin's friends, his Godfather was wrongly imprisoned for a crime he never committed, and the most evil person in his world has a connection to him, a life and death battle every year, and sometimes his friends turn their backs on him.
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** Harry had both parents murdered before his eyes at age one, nine years living with abusive guardians, being bullied at school by his cousin and his cousin's friends, his Godfather was [[spoiler: wrongly imprisoned for a crime he never committed, committed]], and the most evil person in his world has a connection to him, a life and death battle every year, and sometimes his friends turn their backs on him.
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** Severus Snape: the neglected and emotionally abused child who fell to TheDarkSide at school and [[TheAtoner then devoted]] [[LoveRedeems the rest of his life]] to [[EccentricMentor Dumbledore's]] cause.
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** Severus Snape: the neglected and emotionally abused child who fell to TheDarkSide at school and [[TheAtoner then devoted]] [[LoveRedeems the rest of his life]] to [[EccentricMentor Dumbledore's]] cause. That, or he's been a double agent for Voldemort the entire time. It's not really clear until [[spoiler: the very last book confirms that he was loyal to Dumbledore.]]
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** Sirius Black, who had (let's count!): 1) a dead best friend, 2) a dead brother, 3) abandoned (disowned) by parents, 4) spent 12 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit (for bonus points, this jail employs [[EmotionEater Dem]][[HopeCrusher entors]] as wardens) , 5) been betrayed by former [[TrueCompanions True Companion]].
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** Sirius Black, who had (let's count!): 1) a dead best friend, 2) a dead brother, 3) abandoned (disowned) by parents, 4) spent 12 years in prison [[spoiler: for a crime he didn't commit commit]] (for bonus points, this jail employs [[EmotionEater Dem]][[HopeCrusher entors]] as wardens) , 5) been betrayed by former [[TrueCompanions True Companion]].
