History Main / DeathByOriginStory

** In the continuity of the ''ComicBook/New52'', it was intitally established in ''ComicBook/HuntressAndPowerGirlWorldsFinest'' that Helena Bertinelli, the previous continuity's ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, was killed as a young woman and had her identity usurped by Helena Wayne, her ComicBook/Earth2 counterpart. However, in ''ComicBook/{{Grayson}}'' it was retconned that the real Bertinelli faked her death in order to join Spyral, and her Huntress career was restored to continuity in ''ComicBook/DCRebirth''.

This is sometimes TruthInTelevision. For example, it is not uncommon for children who lose a parent at a young age due to disease, to want to become a medical researcher when they grow up.

** Daphne, the nymph, employs unethical and manipulative ways towards her family's life and feelings, which caused them severe trauma in the process. Though, if she wasn't willing to take radical measures, there wouldn't be a Magical Dimension anymore and everyone would have died or been corrupted by either Fel or Eudora's Plague. In her case, it wasn't only Bloom and Stella's deaths that prompted her to act like this, but also Altalune, Trisha, and Stacy's.

** Kakashi got this twice in one arc. The first was in-story, where Minato explained the suicide of Kakashi's father had led to him being a stickler for the rules. The second was when Obito died and inspired Kakashi's current personality.

* Three of the four central characters of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' became the people they are today by losing a loved one (Leouch = mother Marianne, Suzaku = father Genbu, Kallen = brother Naoto). Later on it's revealed that there's much more to the deaths of Marianne and Genbu than first appeared (Naoto, however, simply stayed dead).

** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' both Goku and Vegeta's home planet was destroyed by Frieza before the series began and losing their families in the process, also making them the last pureblooded Saiyans alive, with the two other survivors Raditz and Nappa being killed many years afterwards. If one counts the movies, then Vegeta's brother Tarble was also among the last pureblooded Saiyans alive, and there were other survivors, namely Turles, Paragas, and Broly, who were eventually defeated.

!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

* Practically every Straw Hat Pirates member in ''Manga/OnePiece'' has such a tragedy, the only exception being Sanji, whose mentor merely lost his leg and is still around. In the present, however, the number of real deaths (while not zero) is ''greatly'' overshadowed by the {{Disney Death}}s.
** Sanji got his own origin-story tragedy in the Whole Cake Island arc: [[spoiler: His mother.]]