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* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Kagome, after breaking [[MacGuffin Shikon Jewel]].
** And Inuyasha himself, who as a half-demon has had to bear the prejudices of both humans ''and'' demons his entire life.

** Kakashi is a better example. He doesn't usually talk about it, but his family, all of his original team and many of his close friends are dead. He makes sure to spend time every day remembering them (usually while standing in front of the monument to fallen heroes). However, once his angst is dealt with for the day, he returns to being his snarky cheerful self (albeit an hour or two late).

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* [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Wolverine's]] Adamantium skeleton and healing factor are the result of horrific experimentation and were given to him by Weapon X to make him into a killing machine. His days as their assassin, as well as the traumatic experiences he had before then are muddled by fake memories that contribute to his status as an AmnesiacHero and TheAtoner. And then there are all the love interests who've been killed off over the years. Despite (or because) of this, he's still the gruff, Canadian badass we all know and love.

* The Winchester brothers from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' can be like this, though most of the time it's just {{Wangst}}.

* [[VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption John Marston]] displays shades of this trope. He tells people that his wife and child are being kept by the government (and he does it in copious amounts), but channels it into anger against the government.

** Creator/BioWare shoots for this pretty often, especially with their MrFanservice characters. [[VideoGame/JadeEmpire Sky]] is hunting Gao the Greater's slavers (and tends to extend the vendetta to ''any'' slaver). [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Carth Onasi]] is hunting his SmugSnake of a former commander who turned his planet into ash, killed his wife, and [[spoiler: turned his son to the DarkSide]].

* Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''. He's got plenty of things to Mangst about.

->''"Mind your tongue, boy!! Until our journey is over, one of us must remain focused. Do not mistake my silence for lack of grief! Mourn how you wish...leave me to my own."''

%%* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}''.

Often derogatively referred to as "manpain" outside of this wiki.

** To begin with, our hero, Edward Elric carries on his shoulders the guilt of [[GoneHorriblyWrong resurrecting his mother as a horrific THING and believing he killed her again]], and [[MyGreatestFailure damning his brother to life as an animate suit of armor in the process]]. He bottles this up for years and never once asks his brother if he blames him for this, all the while blaming himself. He even carved the date they burned down their home on the inside of his pocket watch so he'll be reminded whenever he checks the time. Note that this started when he was 11. After years of bottling it up, Ed finally cries when his father not only offers his last bit of energy to bring back Al, but also apologizes for not being there when his sons needed him.

* Joe Asakura of ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' spends the first series with a serious hate on for Galactor. When he was a child, his parents were murdered by a Galactor assassin -- who then tried to kill him.

* Mangst over the death of his fiance is Stig Bernard's motivation in ''Anime/{{Genesis Climber MOSPEADA}}''. He caries a holo-locket that she gave him, and often looks at it meaningfully before going into battle. He has a monologue or two, too.

* The character of Drax the Destroyer from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' is portrayed as a ProudWarriorRace guy waging a RoaringRampageOfRevenge on Thanos for the murder of his family. However, in one scene he speaks about when his wife and daughter were live, and stares thoughtfully into the distance. When the psychically empathic character Mantis places her hand on his shoulder, [[BeneathTheMask she bursts into tears]].

--> '''Catelyn:''' You've ruined your sword.

* [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]], especially in the new series. he lost his home and his family, as well as many companions. He rarely talks about them and never cries about it, but whenever he does, he is very clearly hurting from the loss.

* Squall from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' deconstructs this one pretty brutally. So he never met his parents, never really got along with the other orphans, and was abandoned by his "sister". Sure there's the traditional manliness where he's always there for his TrueCompanions, no matter what, even if he won't say that he cares for them, but the solution to his personal problem? Never have close relationships again. He gets better, because LoveRedeems.

** Garrus Vakarian as well. Has had his life fall apart and by the time Shepard finds him he's hold up and being assaulted by mercenaries. What does he do? He channels it all into being Space Franchise/{{Batman}} and turns his disappointment in having his former BandOfBrothers killed into unrelenting hatred for the one who betrayed him [[spoiler:and even then Shepard can teach him to forgive]].

** The Warden themselves can be played as this. Notable examples being, the Human Noble having their entire family murdered by Arl Howe, the Dwarf Noble was framed for the murder of their older brother and exiled and the Dalish Elf's best friend ending up a ghoul after being infected with the Darkspawn Taint.

* VideoGame/SoulSeries: Siegfried Schtauffen back in the day when he [[spoiler: killed his father]], he snapped, and tried to blame somebody else, then, when he comes in contact with [[EvilWeapon Soul Edge]], [[DealWithTheDevil he accepts to gather souls so he can revive his father]], however, this doesn't work, so he ends up atoning for his past deeds as [[BigBad Nightmare]]. You can see in his quotes that he has a [[TheAtoner lot of regret]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and is very uncomfortable with what he did]]. On the other hand, he's man enough to keep on [[TheHero fighting for the best of the world and to atone for his sins.]] [[TimeSkip Soulcalibur V]] shows that he's [[EarnYourHappyEnding forgiven.]]

--->Kratos: Do not mistake my silence for lack of grief!

* Zoro from ''Manga/OnePiece'' carries [[TragicKeepsake his dead friend's sword]] with him always and rarely if not never talks about it to the rest of the Straw Hats.

** To begin with, our hero, Edward Elric carries on his shoulders the guilt of [[GoneHorriblyWrong resurrecting his mother as a horrific THING and believing he killed her again]], and [[MyGreatestFailure damning his brother to life as an animate suit of armor in the process]]. He bottles this up for years and never once asks his brother if he blames him for this, all the while blaming himself. He even carved the date they burned down their home on the inside of his pocket watch so he'll be reminded whenever he checks the time. Note that this started when he was 11. After years of bottling it up, Ed finally cries when his father not only offers his last bit of energy to bring back Al but also apologize for not being there when his sons needed him.

** There's Roy Mustang. He was a [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic young soldier who learned flame alchemy to better protect his countrymen]]. [[WarIsHell Then he was brought into a genocidal war]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone where he personally]] [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife burned alive more]] of his own [[FantasticRacism (ethnically and religiously different)]] countrymen than most people ever speak to. He's since become determined to change the country by [[PuttingOnTheReich becoming the Fuhrer]] and putting himself on war trials to save his subordinates. This has to be pointed out to the audience.
** [[AntiHero Scar]] is one of those very people targeted in the Ishbalan Civil War. He lived through a genocide campaign which left his country erased, his people nearly extinguished, his family dead and his brother's arm grafted to his shoulder. Just as an insult to injury, the arm also means he can use alchemy with ease; an act that as a former monk he views as sinful. He embarks on a ferocious RoaringRampageOfRevenge that he implies is supposed to end with suicide by State Alchemist. Some monologuing reveals that he's insane with grief for his people and family, and after encountering the daughter of a pair of doctors he murdered, he begins to change because she cuts close to home for him. Notably, his backstory is never divulged by him: [[MoralityPet May Chang]] has to learn of the Ishbalan genocide by a disenfranchised officer to realize why Scar pities her.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Kagome, after breaking [[MacGuffin the jewel of four souls]].
** And Inuyasha himself, who as a half-demon has had to bear the prejudices of both humans and demons his entire life.

* ''Series/TheMentalist'': Patrick Jane suffered through intense tragedy about which he generally will not speak, is revenge-seeking, and a single bout of ManlyTears - all wrapped up and hidden behind a with a side helping of TheAtoner.

* [[Series/TheMentalist Patrick Jane]] epitomizes this trope: intense tragedy about which he generally will not speak, revenge-seeking, and a single bout of ManlyTears - all wrapped up and hidden behind a JerkassFacade with a side helping of TheAtoner.

* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Sweeney Todd. Otherwise known as the God of this trope and its surrounding territories. In the Tim Burton version he literally has pictures of Lucy and baby Johanna in his attic, and we can safely assume he takes them out and mangsts the hell out of them whenever nobody's looking. In fact, the only time he ''isn't'' Mangst personified is when he's killing people, or thinking about killing them.
* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Khan Noonian Singh. But then, he is portrayed by Ricardo Montalban, so what do you expect?

%%* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}''.
%%* Martin Riggs from the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' series.
* ''Film/TheThinRedLine''. Every character. ([=Mangst=]).

* Leonard Shelby from ''Film/{{Memento}}''. The guy's in a pretty shitty situation (his wife violently raped and killed in front of him, literally not being able to remember anything that just happened a few minutes after the fact), but is so revenge-minded that it comes off more badass than woobie.

* ''Film/StarGate'' brings us Colonel Jack O'Neil, who has become secluded with grief over the death of his son (the result of his son [[RecklessGunUsage finding and playing with O'Neil's pistol]].) As it happens, the Air Force recruits him for the mission because of this, giving him the secret objective of [[spoiler: staying behind to set off a nuke if Abydos turns out to be a threat to Earth.]]
* Deconstructed in ''ManchesterByTheSea'', about a man whose Mangst has rendered him totally emotionally closed off and unable to get over the tragedies in his past.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', being a [[WorldOfBadass series about ninjas]] with [[{{Understatement}} plenty]] of {{Angst}}, is naturally ridden with this.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' has Beat. He beaks out into ManlyTears on Beat Day 4, but all and all he's doing it to save his dead little sister.

->Mind your tongue, boy!! Until our journey is over, one of us must remain focused. Do not mistake my silence for lack of grief! Mourn how you wish...leave me to my own.
-->--'''Kratos''' after '''Atreus''' accused him of not caring about his wife, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4''

** To begin with, our hero, Edward Elric carries on his shoulders the guilt of [[GoneHorriblyWrong resurrecting his mother as a horrific THING and believing he killed her again]], and [[MyGreatestFailure damning his brother to life as a animate suit of armor in the process]]. He bottles this up for years and never once asks his brother if he blames him for this, all the while blaming himself. He even carved the date they burned down their home on the inside of his pocket watch so he'll be reminded whenever he checks the time. Note that this started when he was 11. After years of bottling it up, Ed finally cries when his father not only offers his last bit of energy to bring back Al, but also apologize for not being there when his sons needed him.

** [[AntiHero Scar]] is one of those very people targeted in the Ishbalan Civil War. He lived through a genocide campaign which left his country erased, his people nearly extinguished, his family dead and his brother's arm grafted to his shoulder. Just as an insult to injury, the arm also means he can use alchemy with ease; an act that as a former monk he views as sinful. He embarks on a ferocious RoaringRampageOfRevenge that he implies is supposed to end with suicide by State Alchemist. Some monolouging reveals that he's insane with grief for his people and family, and after encountering the daughter of a pair of doctors he murdered, he begins to change because she cuts close to home for him. Notably, his backstory is never divulged by him: [[MoralityPet May Chang]] has to learn of the Ishbalan genocide by a disenfranchised officer to realize why Scar pities her.

** Other heroes tend to either roll their eyes at this or take it way too seriously. The former think his coping mechanism is whacked and he must be dangerously close to insanity because of it, while the latter have gone through ''much'' worse (like the ComicBook/MartianManhunter, whose planet was decimated and family killed, and unlike Franchise/{{Superman}}, actually ''remembers'' them) yet still think that Batman's experience was so horrible that it excuses JerkAss behavior that wouldn't be tolerated from anyone else.
*** Perhaps a bit of FridgeBrilliance on the Manhunter's part, if he's aware of the fact that Batman has total recall (which he very well could, being psychic). In that case, it's not what happened to Batman, but the fact that because he has an eidetic memory, ''the pain of his parents' deaths has never and will never fade.''
* ComicBook/ThePunisher, much like Batman, is defined by this, although the deaths of his wife and kids sometimes are overshadowed by the sheer brutality he brings upon mobsters, villains and lowlifes in general. Some characters show concern that he will become an example of HeWhoFightsMonsters, because he's that far gone into his campaign of revenge.
* [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Wolverine's]] Adamantium skeleton and healing factor are the result of horrific experimentation, and were given to him by Weapon X to make him into a killing machine. His days as their assassin, as well as the traumatic experiences he had before then are muddled by fake memories that contribute to his status as an AmnesiacHero and TheAtoner. And then there's all the love interests who've been killed off over the years. Despite (or because) of this, he's still the gruff, Canadian badass we all know and love.

* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a VideoGame/FinalFantasyX fanfiction, every male protagonist engages in this at some point in time.

* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Sweeney Todd. Otherwise known as the God of this trope and its surrounding territories. In the Tim Burton version he literally has pictures of Lucy and baby Johanna in his attic, and we can safely assume he takes them out and Mangsts the hell out of them whenever nobody's looking. In fact, the only time he ''isn't'' Mangst personified is when he's killing people, or thinking about killing them.

* You'd think someone as tough as ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' would suffer from [[AngstWhatAngst no Angst at all]], but you'd be wrong. His comrade states that he cries for Conan, since Conan cannot cry.

* Ross Rhea from ''Film/{{Goon}}''. After a teammate takes a vicious elbow to the face, Rhea smacks the offender in the head with his stick and is suspended and sent down to the minors. He winds up at St. Johns where he grew up and got his start playing hockey. When on TV, he is glad to be back home, but throughout the movie is shown sitting alone night after night in an all-hours dirty spoon by himself with no friends, no fans, constantly keeping tabs on an up-and-coming player who has been labeled by the sports media as the "next great enforcer." Turned Up to Eleven when he faces the younger version of himself, when his normal level of thuggery on the ice turns brutal as he doesn't want to be remembered as going down as a "Nancy-Boy Fuck."

* Eddard Stark from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is a loving father and husband, a firm and just ruler, a decent warrior, and a honest and down-to-earth advisor to his friend King Robert. However, chapters from his point of view show that he is forever plagued with grief over the loss of his father, brother, and most of all his sister Lyanna in the civil war some fifteen years ago. He often recalls a promise he made at her deathbed, but the books have yet to reveal what that promise was. Being a [[TheStoic stoic]], he never shows any of his inner torment to others.
* Seregil in the ''Literature/{{Nightrunner}}'' series has a massive case of this. He basically feels guilty about, well, pretty much ''everything'' and studiously resists the efforts of those closest to him to get him to talk about any of it. He just undertakes a variety of efforts to correct any harm he has caused (including some instances that were not his fault). But often he needs to be manhandled by his family, friends and partner when he gets too melancholy and/or does something stupid.

** Well, the Ninth Doctor does shed a [[ManlyTears silent tear]] about it when a stranger tries to express her condolences in the second episode, but it's very blink-and-you-miss-it. The Ninth Doctor in general is noticably more raw and NotSoStoic compared to the other New Who Doctors, though it mainly shows in him getting overly defensive, loudly angry, or getting a complete HeroicBSOD when new grief is piled on top of what he already carries.
* [[Series/TheMentalist Patrick Jane]] epitomizes this trope: intense tragedy about which he generally will not speak, revenge seeking, and a single bout of ManlyTears - all wrapped up and hidden behind a JerkassFacade with a side helping of TheAtoner.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Leroy Jethro Gibbs; for the first three seasons neither the audience nor the other characters are is aware of the fact that his [[spoiler:first wife and child]] were murdered by a Mexican thug after witnessing a crime. Gibbs being Gibbs, the drug lord has been [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge more than dealt with]]. The emotional issues, though...that's another story.

* Cain from ''Series/TinMan''. Considering he's an DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to Nick Chopper from the original Oz books, this makes sense. Eight years in a metal coffin with the [[ForcedToWatch holographic recording of his family's torture on an endless loop]]...Yeah, he's got some of this to burn off.

* Vorenus from ''Series/{{Rome}}''. His [[TheStoic total stoicism]] is ironically the cause of much of his angst, since he has trouble adjusting to civilian life with his family after years of fighting in the army.

* Alistair in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', on the death of his mentor. Sten keeps his very much to himself. Oghren vacillates between this and AngstWhatAngst, though he can descend into {{Wangst}}. Loghain, if he lives to be TheAtoner, though he'll more often deflect it with bitterness. Nathaniel Howe in ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening Awakening]]'', over the actions of his father in ''Origins''.

** It continues into ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''. Hawke has his/her younger brother/sister killed during the introduction, which deeply affects both of them and their mother in different ways. Aveline has a female version of this as her husband Wesley also dies during the intro, though a bit of CharacterDevelopment through the first two acts actually let her get over it. Fenris was an elf slave of a Tevinter Magister, who underwent a ritual that grafted lyrium into his skin like tattoos, which are actually quite beautiful and grant him phenomenal melee abilities, but were so agonizing they completely wiped all memory of his life; Fenris is a very, very, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge VERY]] [[PhlebotinumRebel angry]] elf. Finally there's Varric, [[spoiler:betrayed by his brother and left to die at the end of Act I, with his Companion Quest in act II being raw revenge where you convince him to either kill Bartrand or care for him in his now-maddened state.]] He plays it off as AngstWhatAngst but the occasional slip shows it really does have him broken up.

* Aya Brea from the ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' games tends toward this. An elevator ride toward the end of the first game demonstrates it nicely: while waiting for it to stop, she briefly indulges in a private "woe is me" moment, but as soon as those doors open, her gun's ready and she says what amounts to "welp, back to work."
* Virtually anyone who deals with angst in the ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' series has this, since even the women possess manly souls. Mitsunari might be the only exception, [[{{Wangst}} being extremely vocal about his feelings of despair]].
* Believe it or not, Asura from ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' fits this perfectly, and is probably one of the most well written examples of this. His anger and own bouts of Mangst can be attributed not just to his Wife being Killed and his Daughter being kidnapped and being imprisoned for 12,000 years, but also at the cruelty done by his former allies, that killed and kidnapped said wife and daughter, to regular humans and the suffering of the planet of Gaea's people. And when [[spoiler: a Little girl that looks just like his daughter get killed in a bomabing raid by one of his former allies, he goes into both this and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge a]] [[UnstoppableRage massive]] [[BurningWithAnger rage]] AT THE SAME TIME!]]

* ''Kratos'' of all characters come Videogame/GodOfWarPS4, is silently devastated by the loss of his wife, not that he makes it readily known to his son.

** There's Roy Mustang. A [[WideEyedIdealist idealistic young soldier who learned flame alchemy to better protect his countrymen]]. [[WarIsHell Then he was brought into a genocidal war]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone where he personally]] [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife burned alive more]] of his own [[FantasticRacism (ethnically and religiously different)]] countrymen than most people ever speak to. He's since become determined to change the country by [[PuttingOnTheReich becoming the Fuhrer]] and putting himself on war trials to save his subordinates. This has to be pointed out to the audience.
** [[AntiHero Scar]] is one of those very people targeted in the Ishbalan Civil War. He lived through a genocide campaign which left his country erased, his people nearly extinguished, his family dead and his brother's arm grafted to his shoulder. Just as insult to injury, the arm also means he can use alchemy with ease; an act that as a former monk he views as sinful. He embarks on a ferocious RoaringRampageOfRevenge that he implies is supposed to end with suicide by State Alchemist. Some monolouging reveals that he's insane with grief for his people and family, and after encountering the daughter of a pair of doctors he murdered, he begins to change because she cuts close to home for him. Notably, his backstory is never divulged by him: [[MoralityPet May Chang]] has to learn of the Ishbalan genocide by a disenfranchised officer to realize why Scar pities her.

** [[AntiHero Scar]] is one of those very people targeted in the Ishbalan Civil War. He lived through a genocide campaign which left his country erased, his people nearly extinguished, his family dead and his brother's arm grafted to his shoulder. Just as insult to injury, the arm also means he can use alchemy with ease; an act that as a former monk he views as sinful. He embarks on a ferocious RoaringRampageOfRevenge that he implies is supposed to end with suicide by State Alchemist. Some monolouging reveals that he's insane with grief for his people and family, and after encountering the daughter of a pair of doctors he murdered, he begins to change because she cuts close to home for him. Notably, his backstory is never divulged by him: [[MoralityPet Mei Chang]] has to learn of the Ishbalan genocide by a disenfranchised officer to realize why Scar pities her.

* Balsa of ''Anime/MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'' is the rare female example, living her life as TheAtoner and never unloading her feelings on someone else.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Upon hearing of his father's execution, Robb Stark substitutes a nearby tree for one of the Lannisters.

* Neville Longbottom from ''HarryPotter'' is a subtle example. He's usually down on himself for his lack of skill or talent with magic, and shy and quiet, but otherwise quite friendly and sympathetic to the pain of others. Harry is ''horrified'' to learn that while his own parents died, Neville's suffered a FateWorseThanDeath for the exact same reason. Reading between the lines, Neville has basically suffered unintentional emotional abuse at the hands of his grandmother all his life, constantly being compared to his father, on top of being one of the biggest victims of bullying in the school, and it is established in the series that emotions affect magic, and a lack of confidence can be crippling. At no point during the series does ''anyone'' learn this from Neville himself.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be understood]] as a {{JustForFun/Tropemanteau}} of "{{Manga}} and {{Angst}}"; the end result of that would be something like "Mangangst".

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be understood]] as a {{Tropemanteau}} of "{{Manga}} and {{Angst}}"; the end result of that would be something like "Mangangst".

** To begin with, our hero, Edward Elric carries on his shoulders the guilt of [[GoneHorriblyWrong resurrecting his mother as a horrific THING and believing he killed her again]], and [[MyGreatestFailure damning his brother to life as a animate suit of armor in the process]]. He bottles this up for years and never once asks his brother if he blames him for this, all the while blaming himself. He even carved the date they burned down their home on the inside of his pocket watch so he'll be reminded whenever he checks the time. Note that this started when he was 11.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', much like Batman, is defined by this, although the deaths of his wife and kids sometimes are overshadowed by the sheer brutality he brings upon mobsters, villains and lowlifes in general. Some characters show concern that he will become an example of HeWhoFightsMonsters, because he's that far gone into his campaign of revenge.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher''.