History Main / TraumaCongaLine

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': [[Characters/GravityFallsGrunkleStan Stan Pines]] went through bullying as a child, toughened up with boxing lessons, lost his high school sweetheart to a musician, disowned by his father and kicked out for an accident, was homeless for much of his twenties, got into illegal activities that resulted in imprisonment in three countries and banned from multiple states, [[spoiler:was estranged from his brother Ford and went they met again, the brothers got into massive a fight that resulted in the latter's disappearance for thirty years, had to fake his own death and take over his brother's home to survive, lie to his family, including Dipper, Mabel, and their parents, and spent years working on the portal to bring his brother back]]. When he finally does, [[spoiler:Ford is angry with him and things are still tense between them until the GrandFinale.]] Not to mention that he constantly worries for the twins' safety and struggles to bond with them at times. And he has a cruddy love life on top of everything.

* In the various ''Website/GoAnimate'' "[[YouAreGrounded Grounded]]" videos, this is referred to as a "Punishment Day", where a parent, instead of ''just'' grounding someone, will instead enact a series of actions meant to humiliate the punished. Of course, they tend to be a case of DisproportionateRetribution, as the punished will be attacked, have their possessions destroyed or even outright killed due to minor things.

* The events of the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' put most of the cast through the wringer in one way or another, which Ranboo lampshades in a moment of BlackComedy. Among many other characters:
** Wilbur Soot, a songwriter and NonActionGuy who [[BreakTheCutie initially]] believed in pacifism and fighting with words as opposed to violence, and created the nation of L'Manburg as a physical representation of his beliefs and ideals. However, during the War for Independence, he found himself in the role of a general and was betrayed by his war comrade, [[RebelliousRebel Eret]], in the Final Control Room, where he, his two teenage friends, and his son were mercilessly slaughtered, and only won the war thanks to Tommy giving up [[NumberOneDime his prized discs Cat and Mellohi]] to Dream, the leader of the Greater SMP.[[labelnote:Context]]Tommy and Dream had previously had conflict over the ownership of the discs.[[/labelnote]] [[spoiler:[[ShellShockedVeteran After the revolution]], his naivety [[CynicismCatalyst became shattered]], triggering the beginning of his [[SanitySlippage mental spiral and paranoia]], which he [[StepfordSmiler hid how badly it affected him in front of others]] during his presidency. Eventually, after holding a democratic election for L'Manburg, Jschlatt won [[DarkHorseVictory unexpectedly]] and [[TyrantTakesTheHelm immediately]] [[TheExile revoked his and Tommy's citizenship]], prompting them to RunOrDie... which was how he lost his ''second'' canon life, after he was shot in the back on Schlatt's orders. After being exiled to Pogtopia, Wilbur became even more disillusioned and believes that the values that he founded L'Manburg on no longer existed, and [[ThenLetMeBeEvil begins]] to plot to [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds blow up the country]] to kingdom come, while [[DrivenToSuicide taking his own life]] through the explosion. When ''that'' plan ultimately fails as he detonates the country in the Manburg-Pogtopia War, as his father, Philza, tries to talk him down and protect him, he ends up ''begging'' his father to end his life, to which he [[SuicideByCop reluctantly complies]]. Despite this, not even ''death'' is the end of the road for him, as he spends what felt like [[AndIMustScream thirteen and a half years]] in the Afterlife (taking the form of a train station platform that he couldn't leave) before being brought BackFromTheDead... and although he evidently does ''not'' want to return to the Afterlife, he still retains the [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity delusional worldview about good and evil]] he developed during the Pogtopia arc.]]
** Tommy also gets this ''really'' badly, as most of Season 2 is one to him in general, with the sheer amount of emotional abuse heaped onto him during his exile and everything else that happened, as well as the events of Season 1 and the first half of Season 3. From [[spoiler:being betrayed over and over, to watching his country, L'Manburg, be blown up no less than ''three times''; watching [[BigBrotherMentor Wilbur]], whom he idolized, slowly fall into a mental spiral, blow up their country, and then get killed by his father (as mentioned above); getting murdered by the person that kept him under tyranny ''twice'' in the L'Manburg War for Independence, and then get manipulated and driven into a [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal state]] by the same guy while in exile; watching his best friend, Tubbo, be publicly executed by his then-ally, Technoblade, and almost watching him sacrifice himself; being exiled and getting so lonely and depressed that he [[SeriouslyScruffy stopped caring about himself altogether]], [[TooUnhappyToBeHungry stopped eating]] and [[TheInsomniac sleeping properly]]; just when it seems things were starting to look up for him, Tommy is then locked in a jail cell [[AloneWithThePsycho with his abuser]] for an entire week, surrounded by things that remind him of his time in exile, ''killed again'' after being brutally beaten by Dream, [[KilledOffForReal costing him his last life]], spent two days in the afterlife with [[BrokenPedestal Wilbur]], except for Tommy it [[YearInsideHourOutside felt like two months had passed]], and then [[BackFromTheDead suddenly revived]] by Dream, not only having to deal with SensoryOverload but more torment from his abuser]]. All of this when he was ''16''. Fortunately for him, unlike many others on the server, he appears to be making a recovery to become an IronWoobie.
** Quackity, another [[TookALevelInCynic ex-idealist]] on the SMP, also went through one that ironically began on what should have been start of only good things for him. Quackity had accomplished his goal of winning the L'Manburg Election, but he was only able to do so by teaming up with Schlatt. That one action ended up up costing him any influence he would've had as {{Vice President|Who}} and started this chain of misfortunate events. [[spoiler:During his entire tenure, Quackity was powerless and [[DomesticAbuse abused by his fiancé]], was forced to watch Tubbo be executed right in front of him, saw a build that meant so much to him (the White House) torn down without remorse and was mocked for caring about it, fought in a war and failed to stop his friend Wilbur from blowing up L'Manburg, and shortly afterward, Wilbur would lose his final life. In the following two seasons, he was unable to prevent Dream from pressuring Tubbo into exiling his friend Tommy, failed to kill Technoblade in an attempt to get revenge for traumatizing him and his country and instead got killed by him, was powerless to defend New L'Manberg from Dream, Technoblade, and Philza during the Doomsday War, watched his good friend [=BadBoyHalo=] get corrupted by a [[AlienKudzu supernatural force]], would lose another friend when Tommy was killed by Dream in prison, and was [[PoorCommunicationKills seemingly]] abandoned by his best friend and fiancés (different from the abusive one, he died in Season 1) -- the only three people he felt like he could trust and one of the few positive aspects of his life. This ends up driving him to his [[DespairEventHorizon breaking point]], to the point that he, much like Wilbur, becomes utterly disillusioned with pacifism and "words over weapons" and [[AccentuateTheNegative stops seeing the good in people altogether]], and decides to make his issues [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds the whole server's problem]] by manipulating people left and right using copious amounts of PsychologicalProjection, with the knowledge that if Las Nevadas, his gambling nation failed, then he would have lost ''everything'' and would "die along with" the country.]] The first episode of "Las Nevadas" even lampshades how awful Quackity's life has been since that fateful day by playing audio of what sounds like Schlatt and Quackity making their deal during the election over a cynical take on the quote "May the best day of your past be the ''[[DisasterDominoes worst day]]'' of your future".

* In Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth "Literature/TheThreeFlowers", protagonist Katie is held captive by a witch and sexually harassed by a stranger. Shortly after being rescued and meeting her fiancé, she triggers by accident a curse which turns her brothers into stags, and she must remain mute for seven years to undo the spell. During those seven years, her evil and abusive mother-in-law murders her three babies and frames Katie, who is almost put to death because she cannot speak up and defend herself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', Manolo is publicly ridiculed by the town for not killing the bull. His father even ''disowns'' him. [[spoiler:He thinks that he caused the death of Maria, his one true love. Joaquin coldly states it should have been ''Manolo'' instead. Finally, being DrivenToSuicide and with [[JackassGenie Xibalba's]] "help" he commits indirect suicide to "join" his beloved]].
* Héctor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''. First, he is murdered by [[spoiler:his former best friend Ernesto on the night he planned to return to his family. [[RobbingTheDead Ernesto then steals Héctor's songs]] and takes all the fame and recognition without giving him credit.]] Not just that, but he became disgraced and forgotten by his family for generations. He spends almost a century in squalor, ridicule and desperation to see his daughter one last time, trying over and ''over'' again to do so, before [[spoiler:very nearly being made DeaderThanDead.]]

** Anna gets one as well. First her beloved sister shuts her out without any explanation (Elsa's powers are erased from her mind and kept secret from her), she's locked up in the castle as well -- also without explanation, and becomes so lonely that she starts talking to paintings for company. Then she becomes an orphan and has to attend her parents' funeral alone, with her only remaining family still ignoring her without explanation. Then in the space of a day she has to endure her sister refusing her to marry [[spoiler:what she thinks is]] her true love, having said sister reveal ice powers and flee the town while ignoring her pleas to come back, then later on reject all her attempts to reconnect and [[spoiler: strike her heart with her ice powers, dooming her to a slow death, with Anna not even having any way of knowing this was an accident and not done in an outburst of anger]], and finally [[spoiler:who she thought was her true love]] reject her in the most callous way, [[spoiler:telling her there is no one who loves her and leaving her to die]]. Then she has to choose between [[spoiler:finally getting confirmation that someone does love her and saving her life or saving her sister's]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', Anna goes through this again. She starts by discovering that her sister is still keeping secrets from her and plans to go on a potentially dangerous journey on her own. Then Kristoff leaves without a word. Made worse by the fact that throughout the film, she was being constantly reminded of how disastrously her last relationship ended, [[spoiler:with her fiance revealing he was only pretending to care and telling her no one loved her,]] and that it's clearly exacerbated her abandonment issues. Then she gets to witness [[spoiler:her parents' anguished death through an ice memory]]. After that, [[spoiler:Elsa breaks her promise to her to remain together and pushes her and Olaf away]], and, shortly after, [[spoiler:she learns that her grandfather betrayed the Northuldra, and realises that Elsa is dead when [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Olaf dies too]]]]. No wonder the poor girl reaches a DespairEventHorizon after all this, although once again she manages to get through all this. [[spoiler:In doing so, though, she also accepts that her home must be destroyed.]]

* Ella goes through one of these in ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}''. First her mother dies when she's only a child. Then years later her father re-marries, only for it to turn out that her new step-family are absolutely horrible people, who make Ella move into the attic after she selflessly offered for Anastasia and Drisella to share her room with her. Then her father leaves for a long trip, only for ''him'' to die, too. THEN Lady Tremaine is only concerned about the financial aspects of her husband's death, fires all the staff at the country house, then makes Ella their servant and they all constantly bully her. Then the one thing that Ella gets excited about, the ball, is dashed after her stepmother forbids her to go and cruelly ruins her mother's dress. It's amazing that the poor girl didn't reach the BreakTheCutie stage much sooner than she did.
* ''Film/{{Contracted}}'': Poor Sam. She gets raped and infected with a zombie virus, is smothered by her homophobic religious mother, stalked by an old friend, has her plants rejected by the gallery because the owner doesn't recognize her due to the extent of her bodily decay, is given the silent treatment by her control freak girlfriend [[spoiler:who later dumps her on the basis that she'd "been with a man" (even though it was rape), and finally ends up in a car crash that kills her and it causes her to come back as a zombie.]]

* Lacey in ''Film/TheEscapist''. Imagine that first you’re forced to parade naked to your cell while hundreds of convicts leer at you, and then you’re stalked by the untouchable brother of the prison kingpin, and the guards actually herd you into an area to be raped by the aforementioned brother. And then imagine that after all of this you wake up in your cell later on only to find said rapist on top of you about to do it again. You then snap and and kill him and as a result become a near-catatonic suicidal mess.

* ''Film/AGoodWomanIsHardToFind'': Sarah is a widow starting out, mourning the death of her husband (who had been murdered) and struggling along with their two kids. Then she's coerced into hosting a thief and also becoming a partner in crime to him. She's forced to [[KillingInSelfDefense kill him in self defense]], then [[DisposingOfABody dispose of his body]] afterward. It doesn't end there though, since the drug dealer whom he stole from goes after her to find his drugs. [[spoiler:She's forced to kill the guy and his thugs too, so she can live, along with her kids.]]

* Katniss Everdeen in ''Film/TheHungerGames'' franchise. Her father died in a mine accident. Her mother neglected her after that because of depression. She and her little sister nearly starved to death from that neglect. She volunteers to take her sister's place in a gladiator game. She is forced to kill children. [[spoiler: She watches her little female friend getting killed in front of her eyes. She watches another child getting eaten alive by animals. She is forced to become a stooge of the evil government by threat of murder of her family. She has to go into another gladiator game and compete against her love interest, which makes her decide to rather die than kill him. 90% of the people in her home region get murdered. Her love interest gets tortured and brainwashed into trying to kill her. She watches a hospital filled with wounded civilians getting blown up. She watches thousands of soldiers and civilians getting crushed in a mine that became a war target. She has to MercyKill a friend who is about to be eaten alive by monsters. She watches many children getting bombed. She watches her little sister getting burned alive. She nearly gets burned alive herself. She finds out that her own war party bombed the children and killed her sister. She gets banned into solitude. She [[EarnYourHappyEnding earns her happy ending]] eventually when she marries her love interest and has children with him, but it's clear she's forever scarred.]]

** [[ParentalAbandonment Lost his parents at a young age in a climbing accident]]. He had a strong relationship with [[ParentalSubstitute Hannes Oberhauser]] (who took him in after Bond was orphaned), but [[DrivenByEnvy Franz]] [[TheResenter Oberhauser]], Hannes' son, kills him out of jealousy.

** In ''Quantum of Solace'', he again frets over losing his close ally René Mathis, and briefly goes rogue to track down [[BigBad Dominic Greene]].

** ''Spectre'' reveals that [[BigBrotherBully Franz Oberhauser]]/[[spoiler:Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] was not [[TheManBehindTheMan only behind many of Bond's earlier enemies]] (Le Chiffre, The Pale King/[[spoiler:Mr. White]], Greene, Silva and C/Max Denbigh), but also orchestrated many of the tragedies Bond suffered so far. Thanks to the machinations of [[TheMole C/Max Denbigh]] and Oberhauser, Bond and [=MI6=] are even put out of business briefly. Near the climax, Oberhauser even tried to break Bond again by having Madeleine Swann trapped in the old [=MI6=] building that was rigged to explode, but Bond manages to save Swann in time.
* In ''Film/JasonsLyric'', the main protagonist, Jason, witnessed his used-to-be-loving father, Maddog, turned abusive ever since coming home from Vietnam War as a veteran and lost his leg that he [[spoiler:[[AccidentalMurder accidentally killed]] him when trying to stop his old man from potentially killing him and his mother.]] As adults, his younger brother, Joshua, becomes volatile and criminal-minded, but he has to put up with him as he [[spoiler:feels guilty for killing their dad in front of him and to look out for him.]] When he could eventually bring himself to walk away from Joshua while carrying the unconscious [[LoveInterest Lyric]] after his brother (accidentally) shot her out of jealousy, Joshua decides to [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide shoot himself]] out of despair.]] Thus, he must lose another family member to a gunshot (again).
* ''Film/JohnnyBelinda'': Your mother dies in childbirth. You go deaf and mute due to an illness shortly thereafter. You get raped. Your father falls off a cliff and dies. The town tries to get your baby from you. You have to shoot your rapist to keep him from stealing your baby, and kill him. Then you're tried for his murder.