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* In ''TheLegendOfZelda'': ''OcarinaOfTime'', Link doesn't seem the least bit upset over [[spoiler:opening the gate to the Sacred Realm, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowing Ganondorf to seize the Triforce and plunge Hyrule into darkness]]. [[HeroicMime Then again]]....

* In ''SailorMoon'', a lot of the characters have ParentalAbandonment issues. Mako was orphaned at a young age when her parents both died in a car crash, and a car crash took Mamoru's. Neither of them are seen angsting about that. One exception is Rei, whose MarriedToTheJob father is much hated by her for letting her mother wither away and die while he was on a business trip.

* In ''Apollo Justice, AceAttorney'', Trucy Wright gets over [[spoiler: both the disappearance and the murder of her father surprisingly quickly.]] In fact, Apollo seems more shocked than she is.

*** There's some sort of Law of Diminishing Grief at play in the AA-verse. Maya reacts somewhat realistically to Mia's death in the first game, and is similarly shown to still carry grief for her missing mother. However, when [[spoiler: her mother not only appears but is brutally murdered]], Maya seems far more hand-wavey. This is explained as her being strong for Pearl's sake, and after multiple installments showing that Maya has a kind of crazy threshold for emotional and physical trauma (([[spoiler: being kidnapped and held for ransom, diving in front of a taser, etc.]]), it's believable. However, in later games, both [[spoiler:Trucy]] and [[spoiler:Kay]] seem to immediately recover from the deaths of their fathers at breakneck speed -- in the former case, the character had been estranged from her father for years, but in the latter the two characters were apparently inseparable and the father had died about two hours before, creating a strange jarring effect. Like... seriously, we're talking about Swiss rolls right now? Your dad is dead.

[[caption-width:142:One of these things is not like the other.]]

* Niki in ''{{Heroes}}'' does not show much angst about [[spoiler: being responsible for her husband's death]]

** Justified in SilentHillShatteredMemories, in which Harry is actually [[spoiler: just a figment of his daughter's imagination. She imagines him as a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero]] (or an doormat, or an abusive alcoholic, or a philanderer, depending on how you play) and so that's what he is.]]

* Sayaka in {{Suika}}, which only serves to make her an even bigger woobie somehow.
* From the previews of InFamous 2, Cole despite [[spoiler: Losing Trish, Zeke backstabbing him among all things]]. His sequel looks the opposite from what you will expect from a guy who had lost everything. He looks well shaven and isn't bald anymore and generally not too angsty about his situation.

* In the webcomic ''{{Misfile}}'', Ash angsts constantly about the problems from his-now-her GenderBender. But she never angsts (or even notices) that her pre-GenderBender life was much worse; he had [[MissingMom no mother]], his father was cold to him, he had a grand total of two friends (or, for that matter, people he even talked to), and so on.

* The {{Homestuck}} kids have had their homes destroyed by meteors, they're in the middle of some weird paradox land and given a mission nobody is sure they can complete, they run the risk of dying (and [[spoiler: there are [[BadFuture timelines in which some of them have already died]]]]), and they're destined to screw up the game even worse than they already have and are being trolled about this. The RuleOfFunny seems to be the only thing keeping them from breaking down at this point.

* Hanna from ''HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna is Not a Boy's Name'' seems to be this way with his illusive past.

* [[HannaisNotaBoysName Hanna]] from ''Hanna is Not a Boy's Name'' seems to be this way with his illusive past.

* Jodie of ''{{Loserz}}'' is alright about [[DisappearedDad her lack of a father]] and her status as an accidental baby.

[[HannaisNotaBoysName Hanna]] from ''Hanna is Not a Boy's Name'' seems to be this way with his illusive past.

I'll never see any of them again... YAHOO!

** It might help that he's under the impression that he can just freeze himself again to go back to his own time.

* When the gang in ''{{Seinfeld}}'' hear that Susan, George's fiance, has died from licking low-grade wedding invitation envelopes, they all shrug and go back about their business. ''Especially'' George, who angsts far more about the work he needs to do because of her death.

* When the gang in ''{{Seinfeld}}'' hear that Susan, George's fiance, has died from licking low-grade wedding invitation envelopes, they all shrug and go back about their business.

* After getting hit by a bird strike, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 US Flight 1549]] was forced to land in the Hudson River. On the recorded radio conversation, the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, announced that he was landing in a river the same way he would announce that he was going to the store to get milk.

**The TNG episode "The Wounded" introduced Chief O'Brien's former CO, Captain Maxwell, whose wife and children were killed during the war with the Cardassians. Picard believes Maxwell's current unauthorized attacks on Cardassian ships are motivated by vengeance, but O'Brien insists Maxwell remained stoic and in good humour after his family's deaths and he must have a good reason for attacking the Cardassians. [[spoiler:Turns out they're both right.]]

* Borderline case: Allen Walker of ''DGrayMan''. The universe has [[TheWoobie put him through an incredible amount of crap]], including ParentalAbandonment, the death of his surrogate father, [[spoiler:his turning said surrogate father into an Akuma because he didn't know any better, his freaky [[RedRightHand left arm]] going berserk and re-killing Akuma!Mana after he got his face slashed up]], getting adopted by an abusive TricksterMentor who smacks him around and leaves him to pay debts upward of tens of thousands of dollars, and then having to find the Black Order headquarters [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield with absolutely no clue where it was]], and of course, no help from Cross, who knocked him out and left so he wouldn't have to report back to his bosses. And that's just the backstory. Despite all this, not to mention the fact that his disfigured left eye makes him see the tortured soul of every Akuma he comes across, he's [[CuteShotaroBoy cute]] and [[ThePollyanna perpetually cheerful]], and while he does get upset about some of what happens during the series, he always defaults back to his usual WideEyedIdealist self eventually.
** Don't forget about the whole [[spoiler: Fourteenth Noah thing and all the crap he got out of that, as well as what happen when he stabbed himself in the chest with his {{BFS}}.]](ItMakesSenseInContext, we swear.) Also [[spoiler: nearly dying about...what? 10 times?]]

** Not to mention when him and his mother discovered his fathers dead body he didn't show any emotion and looked surprised when he saw his mother crying at the sight.