History Main / ChildhoodBrainDamage

* ''Anime/NoRin'': In the English dub of episode 8, Yoshida angrily asks Kousaku if he was dropped on his head when he calls Kei (whom Yoshida has a crush on) to come.

* ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' Season 1: Jokes have been made at Jimmy Solidarity's behest when it's revealed that [[spoiler:he was born from a small, damaged egg in contrast to his sister Lizzie's large, undamaged egg]].

** A flashback in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E10MomsIdLikeToForget Moms I'd Like to Forget]]" shows Ralph Wiggum, a notoriously oddball character, being held by his father as a baby drinking from a bottle when his father accidentally drops him. Afterwards, Ralph is no longer able to find the bottle with his mouth.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Itchy got brain damage as a toddler from his mother attempting to drown him, resulting in developemental issues as a child and irrational behavior as an adult.

** As an infant, Sussie [[BrainyBaby could speak]] and dreamed of being a lawyer. Then she was dropped on her head, and started speaking in the same gibberish she would spout as a junior high student.
** In "The Vase", the Watterson kids attempt to break the titular vase by giving it to [[BumblingDad Richard]], whose hands are covered in butter, while telling him not to drop it. [[SpringtimeForHitler He doesn't]], causing Gumball to angrily ask his father "Why couldn't you have managed that when I was a baby?" It's not exactly clear if he's being serious or accurate.

** One episode reveals that Homer is an idiot because he stuck a crayon up his nose as a child and got it jammed into his brain. When it's removed, his intelligence actually becomes above average. [[StatusQuoIsGod That doesn't last, of course]].
** In "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie", Homer told Bart when he was a kid we wanted a bike but his dad wouldn't let him. So he tries holding his breath so his dad would give in. But he passed out and had to be rushed to the hospital, where the doctors said he suffered brain damage.

** A flashback shows Ralph Wiggum, a notoriously oddball character, being held by his father as a baby drinking from a bottle when his father accidentally drops him. Afterwards, Ralph is no longer able to find the bottle with his mouth.

** It's often suggested that Patrick's stupidity is the result of frequent head injuries. In "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Patrick mentions that he knows a lot about head injuries, then spaces out mid sentence. In "Big Pink Loser", [=SpongeBob=] tries to discourage Patrick from mimicking him by hitting himself with a hammer, to which Patrick responds, "I've been doing this way before I started copying you."
** Squidward once asks [=SpongeBob=] if he was dropped on his head as a baby. [=SpongeBob=] confirms it and is amazed at how Squidward found out. ''Psychic powers.''

* ''Literature/DragonBones'': Subverted. Ward pretends that a violent beating by his father caused [[ObfuscatingStupidity brain damage]] to make his father believe he's a harmless idiot. (His father introduced the tradition of KlingonPromotion and fears Ward might want to continue it.)

* ''LightNovel/NoRin'': In the English dub of episode 8, Yoshida angrily asks Kousaku if he was dropped on his head when he calls Kei (whom Yoshida has a crush on) to come.

* ''Fanfic/{{Asylum}}'': Rainbow Dash had an accident as a foal that left her disabled. She can fly but even with physical therapy she isn't on par with most other pegasi. She received head trauma that left her with a SpeechImpediment, and which might be part of the reason for her temper.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': The villain Black Mask was dropped on his head by his parents ''while being born''. This was just the first incident in a long line of abuse and neglect his parents inflicted on him. It's implied that the incident may have been a contributing factor in Black Mask's unstable mental state and extreme mood swings.

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} suffered brain damage when he was a child after being pushed out an airplane with his brother (Havok) with only one parachute. Besides amnesia, the part of his brain that would have regulated his optic blasts was damaged, causing them to be "on" all the time. The blasts are only controlled by his ruby quartz visor and his eyelids.

* 1970s punk rock groupie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Music/SidVicious, led an extremely troubled and short life fraught with mental illness and was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15. She screamed all the time as a baby, threw tantrums over everything as a toddler, became suicidal at 11, regularly screamed insults at and attacked her parents and siblings, tried to kill a babysitter with scissors, and got into heroin and meth as an adult. While never conclusively proven, her mother Deborah believed that Nancy’s behavior originated from her traumatic birth, when she came out severely cyanotic and nearly died of oxygen deprivation from her umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck.

* 1970s rock groupie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Music/SidVicious, led an extremely troubled and short life fraught with mental illness and was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 15. She screamed all the time as a baby, threw tantrums over everything as a toddler, became suicidal at 11, regularly screamed insults at and attacked her parents and siblings, tried to kill a babysitter with scissors, and got into heroin and meth as an adult. While never conclusively proven, her mother Deborah believed that Nancy acted the way she did because of the trauma of her birth, when she came out severely cyanotic and nearly died of oxygen deprivation from her umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck.

* Rock groupie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious, led an extremely troubled and short life fraught with mental illness. She screamed all the time as a baby, threw tantrums over everything as a toddler, became suicidal at 11, regularly screamed insults at and attacked her parents and siblings, and got into heroin and meth as an adult. While never conclusively proven, her mother Deborah believed that Nancy acted the way she did because of the trauma of her birth, when she came out cyanotic and with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

* Rock groupie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious, led an extremely troubled and short life fraught with mental illness. She screamed all the time as a baby, threw tantrums over everything as a toddler, became suicidal at 11, regularly screamed insults at and attacked her parents and siblings, got into heroin and meth as an adult, and was murdered at 21. While never conclusively proven, her mother Deborah believed that Nancy acted the way she did because of the trauma of her birth, when she came out cyanotic and with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

* Rock groupie Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious, led an extremely troubled and short life fraught with mental illness. She screamed all the time as a baby, threw tantrums over everything as a toddler, became suicidal at 11, regularly attacked and screamed insults at her parents and siblings, got into heroin and meth as an adult, and was murdered at 21. While never conclusively proven, her mother Deborah believed that Nancy acted the way she did because of the trauma of her birth, when she came out cyanotic and with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.

* ''LightNovel/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'': The story starts with Catarina getting a massive blow to the head at age eight and getting PastLifeMemories in the process. By fifteen, she has developed an impulsive and spacey personality that leads several characters to wonder in-universe if she's suffered some brain damage from the blow to her head. Out-of-universe, it's implied but never stated that the "Monkey Girl" persona from her previous life has completely overwritten whatever personality and reasoning Catarina had previously.

* Creator/{{Amoridere}}: This is why Doki has cerebral palsy. When she and Toki were born, she was deprived of oxygen at birth, being born second and at a later time than the latter. The same would apply Vielle, as she also cerebral palsy and her debut story doesn't say how long her mother was in labor.

* This trope can occur emotionally and psychologically as well as physically. The first few years of a child's life are crucial to brain development (80% of it occurs in the first five years), and if severe abuse and/or neglect occurs during this period, the child may not understand how to interact normally with others or form healthy relationships.

* Boots from ''literature/CemeteryBird'' was shoved down a staircase by his father when he was six. His heart stopped for five minutes, during which he had a NearDeathExperience in which Jesus and the angels brought him back to life. Ever since then he's suffered from severe seizures, for which he is heavily medicated.

-->-- ''Series/That70sShow''

* This trope can occur emotionally and psychologically as well as physically. The first few years of a child's life are crucial to brain development, and if severe abuse and/or neglect occurs during this period, the child may not understand how to interact normally with others or form healthy relationships.

* This trope can occur emotionally and psychologically as well as physically. The first few years of a child's life are crucial to brain development, and if severe abuse and/or neglect occurs during this period, the child may not understand how to interact normally with others or form healthy relationships. A child who is severely neglected or abused during the first few years of their life is at risk for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder reactive attachment disorder]], the symptoms of which are: 1) trying very hard to get affection from any available adult, 2) not wanting affection from anyone, and/or 3) TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior such as hurting animals, violence towards other children, self-harm, etc.

* This trope can occur emotionally and psychologically as well as physically. A child who is severely neglected or abused during the first few years of their life is at risk for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_attachment_disorder reactive attachment disorder]], the symptoms of which are: 1) trying very hard to get affection from any available adult, 2) not wanting affection from anyone, and/or 3) TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior such as hurting animals, violence towards other children, self-harm, etc.