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* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** ''Phoenix himself'' gets this in Case 3-1 (a flashback to his college days) and during the time skip. The poor kid was deeply in love with his girlfriend Dahlia... only for her to turn out to be a manipulative sociopath who was using him as an UnwittingPawn. He's managed to pick himself up by the present day... only to be manipulated into presenting forged evidence and getting disbarred, which breaks him for 7 years until he's able to catch the person who did it.
** The reason Miles Edgeworth is so cold and brutal in court is because he suffered one of these moments in his childhood and never really recovered. [[spoiler: He was trapped in an elevator with his father and a bailiff after an earthquake, and wildly threw the bailiff's gun in an attempt to save his father from the guy's panic. The gun went off before everyone fell unconscious due to oxygen deprivation, and Miles spent ''15 years'' thinking that that shot killed his father, which wasn't helped by [[EvilMentor Manfred von Karma]] taking him in and reinforcing his trauma to mold him into an [[AmoralAttorney amoral prosecutor]] just like Manfred himself]].
** If you are an assistant in Ace Attorney, you're going to suffer some sort of tragedy.
*** Maya is ''introduced'' clutching her sister's dead body and getting framed for the murder, and while she manages to keep a cheerful attitude, she still gets tasered, framed for murder, kidnapped, almost murdered, locked into a freezing cave, framed again, and kidnapped ''again''. [[spoiler: And a good chunk of her trouble comes from her own aunt trying to get her killed for her position as Master of Kurain Village.]]
*** Ema starts with just a strained relationship for her older sister Lana, but later in her introductory case it's revealed [[spoiler: she was nearly killed by Joe Darke as a child, and Damon Gant used the opportunity to frame her for murder so he could blackmail Lana]]. By the fourth game, she's failed the test to become a forensic scientist (her dream job), and is stuck as a grumpy detective, though she gets thrown a bone in the sixth game when she takes the test again and passes.
*** Pearl is a sweet little 8-year-old girl who just wants to be helpful and adores her cousin Maya. So of course she's got to take Maya's place while Maya's kidnapped [[spoiler: and gets used as an UnwittingPawn by ''her own mother'' in order to kill Maya]].
*** Trucy's perky stage magician attitude hides that her mother died when she was young and her birth father abandoned her. And of course she later gets kidnapped herself for tradition's sake.
*** Rayfa, in the span of a few months, learns that [[spoiler: a) her dad and mom were really her uncle and aunt, b) her aunt kidnapped Rayfa from said real parents (after trying to kill them), and is using her as a hostage against her mother and brother, c) her aunt is evil (her uncle was also evil, but to a lesser extent, and said aunt ended up killing him) and was purposefully manipulating Rayfa's entire worldview to support her usurping the throne, & d) her divinations have been used to convict innocent people, and the purpose of the lawyers she was taught to despise was to ''prevent'' that from happening]]. That's a lot of horrible revelations for one 14-year-old.
** In 2-3, Moe the Clown invokes this with Regina Berry in a CruelToBeKind way, as her childlike naivete had caused serious unintentional harm to her friends and family in the circus, and he thought that [[spoiler: seeing the end of the 2-3 case and learning how her innocent dismissal of Bat's coma resulted in Acro trying to murder her and killing her father instead]] would be necessary for her emotional maturity.
** In 2-4, [[spoiler:Adrian Andrews]] applies too, especially since ''you're'' the one who has to break her by exposing [[spoiler: her co-dependency issues and suicide attempt]] just to stall for time.
** From [[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth AAI2]]: [[spoiler: Yumihiko Ichiyanagi: Ace [[TheWoobie Woobie]]. The poor kid might have a bit of a swelled head, but he most ''certainly'' didn't deserve his dad telling him that he was an idiot and the only reason he became a prosecutor was because his dad bribed people.]]
*** It also happened to [[spoiler: Simon Keyes]] in the backstory. [[spoiler: The poor kid had absolutely ''no one'' in his life save for [[ProfessionalKiller Sirhan Dogan]] who didn't betray or exploit him in some way, and spent his teenage years hunted down as a witness to an international conspiracy. Honestly, it's no wonder he became a manipulative and untrusting bastard.]]
** Nobody comes out of ''Dual Destinies'' sans trauma, but Simon, Athena, and Apollo get the worst of it. Apollo has to see his best friend die [[spoiler: and suspects his friend Athena of the murder]], Simon was broken 7 years previously by his mentor's murder and being on death row [[spoiler: for a crime he didn't commit, but felt he had to take the fall for to protect Athena]], and Athena is so badly traumatized by her past ([[spoiler: she saw her mother's murder]]) that she has ''black'' psyche-locks, indicating a secret someone is hiding from themselves. The devs have gone on the record to state that the markings on Simon's face are ExhaustedEyebags because he has nightmares and tear tracks because he cried so much in prison.
* Sky during the first chapter of ''VisualNovel/Ascension2013''. She [[spoiler:loses her father, Tahn]], and is too despondent to even speak to her HeterosexualLifePartner, Aida. Even though Sky admittedly disagreed with [[spoiler: her father]] a lot and fought incessantly with him, [[spoiler: his death had emotionally devastated her]].
* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''. The whole plot is about locking up 15 teenagers with special talents and different degrees of "cuteness" (from the nonexistent to the overflowing), pitting them against each other, telling them that the only way out is to commit murder, and seeing which one will break down first -- and enough to start killing their companions without any mercy. The ones who get put through the grinder the most are [[NiceGuy Makoto Naegi]] (accused of the first murder, [[spoiler: was framed for it and barely escaped]], has to defend his companions and himself in trials, witnesses murders and executions), [[spoiler: Kiyotaka Ishimaru]] (completely breaks down [[spoiler: after his first real friend, Mondo Owada, becomes the second killer and is executed]]) and [[spoiler: Aoi Asahina]] ([[spoiler: takes her friends's deaths increasingly and incredibly hard, loses her own best friend as well, and with some push she snaps hard enough to ''try getting herself and everyone else executed'']]). Let's not even get started on all the crazy shit that happens in [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair the sequel...]]
* All the girls in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' are broken in some way. [[spoiler:[[SchoolIdol Monika]] has an epiphany that she is a character in a visual novel, and an [[TheNotLoveInterest un-romanceable one]] to boot. This utterly destroys her, leading her to go so far as to get rid of the other girls in hopes of being able to contact the only real person she knows.]] [[spoiler:To make matters worse, the way she goes about getting rid of the girls involves horrific MindRape via amplifying their negative character attributes -- it's supposed to just make them unlikeable to the player, but she doesn't care that much when it [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]]. [[GenkiGirl Sayori]] is targeted first, with her mildly-crippling depression intensified to the point that she [[DrivenToSuicide hangs herself]]. With the game reset, Monika goes after [[ShrinkingViolet Yuri]] by {{Gaslighting}} her and cranking up her obsessive tendencies, which [[SanitySlippage drives Yuri insane]] (as well as [[{{Yandere}} madly in love with the player character and very hostile to the other members]]). This culminates in her stabbing herself to death when she confesses her deranged love for the player character. Meanwhile, [[{{Tsundere}} Natsuki]] is forced to deal with all this, combined with (via Monika's manipulation) being constantly bullied and having an abusive father. Her end comes when she discovers Yuri's corpse despite doing everything she could to get her help, and then she gets [[UnPerson outright deleted]].]]
* [[spoiler:Sakura]] from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', as revealed in the game's final route, Heaven's Feel. Poor kid spent ''years'' being carefully and brutally broken [[spoiler: by the Matou family. Who got her raped, abused, and infected with horrible crest worms.]]
* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': Literally everyone in Mihama Academy went through something similar, to even try to summarize their backstories would take too long, a short list of what they went through would be something like this: [[spoiler:Parental abandonment, negligence, abuse and death, numerous traumatizing incidents, not being able to socialize in school or being outright bullied, long periods of hospitalization for both mental and physical problems just to name a few.]]
* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'': if you consider pigeons to be cute, (and why wouldn't you?) then the entire "Bad Boys Love" route is a big ol' break the cutie for pretty much every single character. [[BadPowersGoodPeople Ryouta]] gets the worst of it.
* ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'': Naturally, being a Creator/KeyVisualArts game and so specialising in EarnYourHappyEnding, all of the heroines go through this in their routes. However, the most obvious is definitely Komari's, wherein she goes from a childish, sweet WideEyedIdealist to a HeroicBSOD-ing creepy StepfordSmiler on the revelation that [[spoiler:she had an older brother whom she loved who died when she was young and who she forgot about.]] She gets better in the end, thankfully.
* ''VisualNovel/LuxPain'' has, well, everyone in the main cast. [[TheHero Atsuki]], [[CheerfulChild Natsuki]] and [[BrokenAce Hibiki]] were broken in their backstories. During the game, this happens to two of the female leads: [[GenkiGirl Mika]], who was [[spoiler: targeted by a serial killer (twice) causing Officer Mako Ando to be fatally wounded, and her best friend sent to the hospital]], Yayoi who [[spoiler: is driven mad by a mind parasite causing her to be jealous of her sister. She also tried to consult with a bunch of people she met online who were suicidal, but they ended up killing themselves.]] A few other Cuties, both male and female, end up snapping, like [[TheBigGuy Akira]], [[{{Meganekko}} Sayuri]], [[DefectiveDetective Yui]], [[HospitalHottie Honoka]], and the list goes on. Forget curing Silent, that entire town needs one big hug.
* Poor, poor [[spoiler:Fin Euclase]] in ''VisualNovel/SteamPrison'' is viciously and comprehensively broken over the course of the story. The kind, mild-mannered [[spoiler:partner of the game's heroine Cyrus]] is transferred into the HOUNDS after [[spoiler:Cyrus's exile]], where [[WardensAreEvil Sachsen]] subjects him to severe and repeated physical and mental abuses purposefully intended to strip away his humanity and render him a hardened killer obedient to Sachsen's orders. [[spoiler:Fin's]] sanity is left completely shattered by the experience, and by the time Cyrus meets him again he's a broken and violently unstable man.
* [[{{Eroge}} 18+]] RomanceGame ''VisualNovel/UnderTheMoon'' offers love/hate story paths in which love interests become {{Fetishized Abuser}}s, so this trope is the order of the day. Each boy employs his own strategy to crush the LoveMartyr heroine's spirit, but SoftspokenSadist Seizh is cutie-breaker extraordinaire. The more deranged he becomes, the more blatantly he treats the poor girl like a plaything.
* The ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' trilogy:
** ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' has Clover and Akane/June. The former loses it when [[spoiler:her brother Snake is (apparently) murdered, at which point she proceeds to go ''literally'' AxCrazy on everyone she can find]], while the latter was broken [[spoiler:by what happened in her own Nonary Game, to the point where she becomes willing to kidnap and manipulate innocent people in order to prevent it from happening]].
** ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' gives us Clover again, this time [[spoiler:when she finds her partner Alice with a knife in her chest, at which point she becomes determined to escape no matter who has to die in the process]]. We also have [[spoiler:Luna, should you choose to Betray her in the final AB Game on her timeline. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Zero Jr.]] [[WhatTheHellHero even chews you out for it]].]]
** ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'' provides a truly ''terrifying'' example when [[spoiler:Akane and Carlos discover Junpei's severed head in the Pantry, at which point she outright ''snaps'' and ''[[ChainsawGood hacks Carlos to pieces with a chainsaw]]''.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Migration}}'': [[spoiler:Gwen temporarily goes through this after Mack, Pam, Uncle Dan, Delroy and the other ducks are kidnapped by The Chef.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': Tod and Copper evolve into a {{Woobie}} and a HeroAntagonist through the course of the film. They start out as best childhood friends, and one of them is supposed to kill the other. Tod especially gets it bad; he is abandoned by the only family he knows to live in the forest where he meets some angry critters. He falls in love with a girl fox and makes a fool out of himself in front of her. His best friend blames him and wants to kill him for something that wasn't his fault. The way he got his friend to forgive him? Fight a giant bear and nearly die. And it's implied that they aren't allowed to see each other anymore after that.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheFoxAndTheHound'': Tod and Copper evolve into a {{Woobie}} and a HeroAntagonist through the course of the film. They start out as best childhood friends, and one of them is supposed to kill the other. Tod especially gets it bad; he is abandoned by the only family he knows to live in the forest where he meets some angry critters. He falls in love with a girl fox and makes a fool out of himself in front of her. His best friend blames him and wants to kill him for something that wasn't his fault. The way he got his friend to forgive him? Fight Saving him from a giant bear and nearly die. barely survive plummeting down the falls with it. Copper then stands in front of Tod to defend him from his master's gun and convinces Amos Slade to finally leave Tod alone. Then Tod and Copper simply give each other a small smile to let each other know they're not enemies anymore and they go their separate ways. And it's implied that they aren't allowed to likely will never see each other anymore after that.again, but part on good terms and remain friends in their hearts.
