History DysfunctionJunction / VideoGames

** Arcade Israel Gannon is a WideEyedIdealist living in a CrapsackWorld with a trouble history.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}''. When half the cast have world-wrecking power and 90% of the cast is ChaoticNeutral to varying degrees, this trope can't be helped. Special mention goes to the Scarlet Mansion: the mistress of the house has delusions of grandeur, her maid is blindly loyal to her, her best friend is extremely apathetic, and her little sister is crazy. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and their gate guard is incompetent.]]

** Blue Max is an ExtremeDoormat [[spoiler:and an acrophobe. ''[[AcrophobicBird He's a bird.]]'']]

** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has a an [[AffablyEvil amoral escaped vampire spawn]], a [[ProudWarriorRaceGirl bloodthirsty githyanki girl]], a GoodBadGirl cleric of [[GodOfEvil Shar]], a tiefling warrior with an artificial demonic heart, a GentlemanWizard with an unstable FantasticNuke in his chest, a folk hero HunterOfMonsters who struggles to reconcile his heroism with the decidedly ''[[DealWithTheDevil un]]''[[DealWithTheDevil heroic source of his powers]], and [[PlayerCharacter you]] (potentially an AmnesiacHero with murderous compulsions). [[spoiler:There's also a GentleGiant druid, [[MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers or]] a [[TokenEvilTeammate drow paladin of Lolth]], in addition to an OldSoldier druid who is too old for this shit, and a kind-hearted yet [[Cloudcuckoolander scatterbrained]] ranger with his space hamster companion.]]

** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has a an [[AffablyEvil amoral escaped vampire spawn]], a [[ProudWarriorRaceGirl bloodthirsty githyanki girl]], a GoodBadGirl cleric of [[GodOfEvil Shar]], a tiefling warrior with an artificial demonic heart, a GentlemanWizard with an unstable FantasticNuke in his chest, a folk hero HunterOfMonsters who struggles to reconcile his heroism with the decidedly ''[[DealWithTheDevil un]]''[[DealWithTheDevil heroic source of his powers]], and [[PlayerCharacter you]] (potentially an AmnesiacHero with murderous compulsions). [[spoiler:There's also a GentleGiant druid, [[MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers or]] a [[TokenEvilTeammate drow paladin of Lolth]].]]

* Both the students and the faculty from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' and [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 its sequel]], though it's played for black comedy rather than drama. While reading, keep in mind that all of the students are [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior kindergarteners]].

* Pretty much every character in ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' has issues to some degree, but this is especially prominent with the {{Arc Villain}}s of each chapter. Riddle is a rules-obsessed tyrant [[spoiler:who only turned out like that because of his abusive EducationMama]], Leona is a massive defeatist [[spoiler:because he's always been treated as AlwaysSecondBest to his brother]], Azul is a power-hungry ManipulativeBastard [[spoiler:who was heavily bullied when he was younger]], Jamil is a spiteful BitchInSheepsClothing [[spoiler:who resents being forced to be Kalim's HypercompetentSidekick]], Vil is a beauty-obsessed perfectionist [[spoiler:who gets constantly typecast as villains to the point of getting harassed in real life over it]], Idea is a shy {{Hikikomori}} [[spoiler:who accidentally killed his brother when they were young]], and Malleus is considered TheDreaded by most of the school [[spoiler:and turns out to be suffering from ''massive'' abandonment and isolation issues]].

** Liara is subject to prejudice from her own species due to being a "pureblood" child of two Asari. Her relationship with her mother is strained [[spoiler: even before her mother joins the BigBad]], and she knows nothing about her "father."

** Shepard isn't necessarily free of past traumas either; of the possible options for his or her history, one involves growing up on the streets of Earth, one involves being orphaned in a brutal batarian slave raid, and one involves being the only person out of a platoon of fifty marines to survive an attack by monstrous, poison-spitting giant worms. Conversely, Shepard can also be the OnlySaneMan with the Spacer/War Hero background choices, wich essentially means s/he had an happy childhood and already made of pure raw badassery before the game starts.

*** [[spoiler: Javik's FantasticRacism towards the "Primitives" of this Cycle is also a prevalent aspect of his character. He often comes across as dismissive of various races, bemoans their lack of potential from what the Protheans had expected from them and occasionally indulges in light-hearted mockery.

* Being developed by ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' veterans, ''VideoGame/{{Monark}}'' is ''rife'' with broken, hurting people, causing chaos, mayhem, and suffering to others and themselves because of how the pieces were never mended or poorly glued back together. This is most apparent with the antagonistic Pactbearers, people who have made [[DealWithTheDevil Deals With Devils]], gaining supernatural powers to fulfill vengeance plots, shift reality, or try to solve their grief, at the cost of warping the world through insanity-inducing Mist, causing untold amounts of innocent casualties and suffering, and potentially causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

** Every main character in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' (except the [[HeroicMime Protagonist]]) has some sort of secret fear, worry, or issue secretly eating them from the inside that eventually whisks them away to the shadow-possessed [[TrappedInTVLand Mayonaka TV]], where the problem is able to freely manifest and eventually cause their death if they don't admit to it.

** ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' has a an [[AffablyEvil amoral escaped vampire spawn]], a [[ProudWarriorRaceGirl bloodthirsty githyanki girl]], a GoodBadGirl cleric of [[GodOfEvil Shar]], a tiefling warrior with an artificial demonic heart, a GentlemanWizard with an unstable FantasticNuke in his chest, and a folk hero HunterOfMonsters who struggles to reconcile his heroism with the decidedly ''[[DealWithTheDevil un]]''[[DealWithTheDevil heroic source of his powers]]. [[spoiler:There's also a GentleGiant druid, [[MutuallyExclusivePartyMembers or]] a [[TokenEvilTeammate drow paladin of Lolth]].]]