History Main / TraumaCongaLine

* The events of the ''LetsPlay/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:

** Poor [[TheOdyssey Odysseus]] is possibly the most famous victim of this accross all media and a TropeCodifier. In the 10 years it takes for the man to reach his home of Ithaca after leaving Troy, Odysseus is put through so much shit that by the time he finally gets home to see the suitors lining up to steal his wife there is no wonder the man [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge snaps]]. He in summary: Is forced to flee for his life after (depending on source) King Agamemnon forces him to kill the [[WouldHurtAChild infant son of Prince Hector]] - summoning the ire of all of Troy's allies, on his way back has his men drugged and is faced with mutiny when trying to retrieve them, is imprisoned by a Cyclops and forced to watch as one by one his 12 companions get their brains smashed against the rocks, is set free only to be antagonized by the god of the sea himself, finally finds help from wind god Aeolus only to have his men piss him off as well - setting their journey back to square zero right when they were about to dock on Ithaca, sees all except one of his ships eaten by sea giants, has his [[TooDumbToLive men]] transformed to pigs by a sorceress and [[QuestionableConsent has to sleep with her under threat of death]], finds his friends and [[DrivenToSuicide mother]] (all except a couple alive when he left) dead in Hades, is tortured by Sirens (though this was his own fault, really), once again has a sea beast eating his men, is trapped and starved for a month on a desolate island, has the remainder of his starving crew mutineer against him by [[CosmicPlaything adding Zeus and Helios to the roster of gods wishing hell upon him]], is left the SoleSurvivor when Zeus subsequently strikes their ship, is saved from the brink of death by goddess [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Calypso]] only to be imprisoned and raped every night for so many years even [[JerkassGod Zeus]] starts to feel sorry for him, upon release has Poseidon send him back to Carybdis to drown, miraculously survives this event and is saved by Phaecians only to have Poseidon turn his saviors to stone as soon as they head back home, has his dog die at his feet upon homecoming, returns to his palace to find the subjects he once treated as his own sons abuse his wife and hospitality in his absence, is hurt and humiliated ceaselessly for the next few days, has Athena force him to kill men he would otherwise spare when ridding himself of the suitors, and finally - in the impopular sequel - gets killed by his own ChildByRape in an extremely embarassing fashion.

* Well, let's see what happens to Kotpun, the heroine of ''Film/TheFlowerGirl''. Her father dies. Her mother becomes deathly ill. Her brother is sent to jail. And her sister is blinded. And that's all in the backstory. As the story unfolds, her mother dies, her brother is reported to have died in prison, and her sister is presumed dead after disappearing without a trace. And just for fun, she's dirt poor, hence the name of the movie, as she's selling flowers in the street to get medicine for her mom.
* 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/ItsAWonderfulKnife2023'': Winnie first can only watch as her best friend Cara is murdered. Then she's got to save herself and her brother from the same SerialKiller. She's forced to kill him, and spends a year falling into depression as her family pretend that nothing happened rather than giving her support. Winnie gets so depressed she wishes on an aurora that she'd never been born. Her wish comes true, which it turns out made this all much worse, as without Winnie's presence the killer had murdered her brother and far more people as well. She has to stop him with the help of Bernie, a girl who's a social outcast in town and has suffered a lot from being ostracized along with a poor home life herself.

* ''Film/Brothers2009'': [[Creator/TobeyMaguire Sam]] gets captured by the Afghans alongside his friend, and then is forced to ''kill'' said friend to get back home and return to his family. Once he does make it back home, he becomes anxious over Grace supposedly having an affair with his brother, and then gets [[KickTheDog callously insulted by his resentful daughter]], in which [[UnstoppableRage he finally loses his marbles]].

* Everything involving [[Characters/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilEclipsaButterfly Queen Eclipsa]] from "WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil". To start, [[spoiler:she lost her mother Queen Solaria when she was only a teenager and was [[AChildShallLeadThem forced to ascend the throne]] as a result. Then she was betrothed to King Shastacan who married her out of political convenience. When she gave up the her crown to elope with her true love, [[EvenEvilCanBeLoved Globgor, Prince of Darkness]] and had a baby named Meteora. Tragically, she and Globgor were imprisoned in crystal while Meteora was subjected to an abuisve foster care that turned her into an authoritarian headmistress. And even after Eclipsa was freed from her prison, she would continue to face scrutiny from higher-ups who only see her as evil, Mewmans who consider her to be the BlackSheep of the Royal Butterfly Name, and her own daughter who ended up becoming a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds who took up the quest of reclaiming the throne by any means necessary]].

** Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch's life seems to get worse in every film she appears. ''Series/WandaVision'' [[{{Deconstruction}} puts the spotlight on how much she's gone through, and on the consequences that have come with it (she's showing signs of clinical depression, and is actively retreating into delusions instead of reality):]]
*** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Wanda and Pietro's parents were killed when they were kids by a [[Film/IronMan Stark Industries]] missile while watching ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow''. Another one landed in her house, and she and her brother Pietro were trapped there for two days waiting for it to go off. Orphaned, in a failed state, she and Pietro struggled to survive until they fell in with [=HYDRA=]. In terms of the actual events of the movie, the twins join up with Ultron, who seems to genuinely care about them. However, Ultron's also [[OmnicidalManiac insane,]] and when they try to stop him from ending the world, [[KilledOffForReal Pietro gets killed]] while Wanda only survives thanks to Vision saving her.

*** In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Peter's attempts to join the Avengers and prove himself to his mentor/father figure Tony Stark end with him almost sinking a ferry boat on accident, resulting in Tony forcing him to give up the enhanced suit he made for him for most of the third act. He attempts to adjust to a normal life and be happy with his girlfriend Liz until [[spoiler:he finds out that her father is the criminal he's looking for and he ends up having to put him behind bars, ending his relationship with Liz permanently.]]
*** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Peter gets in over his head when he tags along with Tony Stark to fight a GalacticConqueror hellbent on wiping out half of the lives in the universe on an alien planet. [[spoiler:He ends up getting a drawn-out death, pleading with his mentor that he's afraid to die even as he knows that it is inevitable before crumbling to dust. By the time [[Film/AvengersEndgame he finally returns to life]], he lost five years of his life and has to witness his mentor/father figure dying right before his eyes with nothing he could do to save him.]]

*** And finally in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' (which happens [[ImmediateSequel immediately after]] ''Far From Home''), [[spoiler:Peter botching Doctor Strange's ritual to make the world forget that he is Spider-Man unleashes five supervillains from the multiverse into his own. Despite this, Peter believes that he could turn these villains back to the side of good and attempts to cure them of their afflictions that made them supervillains, which backfires horribly when Green Goblin goes rogue and murders Aunt May, his last remaining relative. Finally, Peter has to make a decision to have Doctor Strange make everyone forget that he even exists, including Ned and MJ - his best friend and girlfriend respectively, to prevent a multiversal crisis from happening. The movie ends with Peter ''completely alone'' with nobody he could turn to, and have to basically start his own life over from zero. Whew!]]

* Katniss Everdeen in ''Film/TheHungerGames'' franchise. Her father died in a mine accident. Her mother neglected her after that because of depression. She nearly starved to death from that neglect. She volunteers to take her little 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 mercy kill 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 earns her happy earning eventually when she marries her love interest and has children with him.]]
* In ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' George Bailey survives getting trapped in his hometown,robbed, his company's near bankruptcy (multiple times), intense disillusionment, and almost getting erased out of existence to become one of cinema's most heroic {{Iron Woobie}}s.

*** In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Peter's attempts to join the Avengers and prove himself to his mentor/father figure Tony Stark end with him almost sinking a ferry boat on accident. He attempts to adjust to a normal life and be happy with his girlfriend Liz until [[spoiler:he finds out that her father is the criminal he's looking for and he ends up having to put him behind bars, ending his relationship with Liz permanently.]]

* Vaarsuvius from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' since the end of the Azure City arc. First, [[AmbiguousGender he/she]][[superscript:[[note]]for convenience, use 'he' from now on[[/note]]]] feels guilty that the battle is lost and the party is split, trying desperately to contact them, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0504.html failing every time]]. He is haunted by [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0623.html bad dreams]] because of his failure to save Azure City. Then he gets his family threatened, which results in a DealWithTheDevil, and him going over the top when saving them, [[spoiler:casting Familicide on the dragon]], which again results in his mate [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0678.html filing a divorce]]. IronWoobie, so far. But when he sees [[spoiler:the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0841.html result of the Familicide]] he had cast earlier]], it turns into a [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html Despair Event Horizon]] ('''spoiler warning!'''). As a result of the DealWithTheDevil, [[spoiler: the fiends will take over his soul for a time]].

* The 60's and 70's was one horrific incident in the United States after another:

** The 70's continued this with the public just how corrupt a president could be when Richard Nixon was forced to resign in the Watergate Scandal due to a tape showing overwhelming proof that he had clearly committed obstruction of justice, and the brief hope of Jimmy Carter managing to turn the nation around would result in the 70's ending with an oil freeze that left the nation grappling with a massive energy crisis and crippled economy and a revolution in Iran that would result in a hostage crisis that would severely embarrass President Carter.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': Fievel just never gets a break.

On the other hand, one melodramatic violin-music-laced scene too many, and you'll have the {{Narm}} of the century.

** An alternate Peter Parker lost both Uncle Ben and Aunt May at an early stage. He then presumably went through much of the same crap that our Peter did. Including losing Mary Jane went she wound up in another dimension, getting her back and marrying her, only to learn that she was a clone who then died. Then he learned that ''he'' had a clone named named Ben Reilly, and later learned that [[CloningBlues he might actually be the clone]]. He wound up being tragically broken and crazy, and was then bonded with the Carnage symbiote and swears to [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum destroy all of reality.]]

** [[Characters/SouthParkKennyMcCormick Kenny McCormick]], hands down. He has suffered through the pain of dying countless times, some of which were [[HeroicSacrifice self-sacrifices]] or [[DrivenToSuicide suicides]], with nobody remembering him dying or believing him when he tries to reach out for help. And remember, this is ''on top of'' his life of poverty with alcoholic and drug-addicted parents, leaving his entire family to struggle just to ''stay alive.''

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': ''Zuko''. First, his mother leaves him (to save him no less), then he gets challenged to an Agni Kai ''as a thirteen-year-old, by his own father'' who brutally scars and then banishes him, then he gets sent on a SnipeHunt after the Avatar. During said quest how much happens to our poor banished prince? (Read: Too much to list here.) And then when he finally gives up that quest, he has to fight his little sister in the show’s only real deathmatch and take a lightning bolt in the chest to save a friend's life. He lives through it, but barely. ''The next day'' he has to start ruling his country, which he is effectively going to have to force through a HeelFaceTurn, after they’ve been at war with everyone else for a century. He was even destined to take on all that trauma from birth, [[spoiler: being a direct descendant of both the Fire Lord who started the war and the Avatar who opposed him. His destiny was to take on all the horrible influences from his father and co. and all the positive influences from his uncle and the Avatar, and come out of it with the understanding necessary to make the right decisions and have the right credentials to be the Fire Lord the world needed to rule the Fire Nation in the wake of the Avatar’s defeat of Ozai.]] In a way all this trauma molds him into a much more complex character than the Avatar and allows him to fill a role that Aang could not, which ends up being almost as important or maybe even as important as Aang's own role in the story. It also makes him the thoroughly-adored {{Woobie}} of the series.

* None of the characters on ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' have it easy, but Beatrice takes the cake for this trope. Her brother died in World War II. Her mother was overcome by grief and then [[{{Lobotomy}} lobotomized]] for it, and [[AbusiveParents her father threatened to do the same to her]] if she was too emotional. When she got scarlet fever, he burned all her things, including her beloved baby doll. Her fling with Butterscotch Horseman got her pregnant with his child, and they got married [[DidntThinkThisThrough without thinking through the consequences]]. As a result, she was trapped in a loveless marriage and saw her son [=BoJack=] as the thing that ruined her life. Then Butterscotch cheated on her. At the end of her life, she developed dementia, and her son leaves her in the worst nursing home he can find.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': 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.

** The titular character herself goes through this. First, she fights against the leader and BigBad of the [[MugglePower Equalists]] and got her bending taken away, resulting in a Result A. Then, she fighta her EvilUncle who nearly destroyed the world, resulting in a Result G. Then, she fights an evil anarchist, [[spoiler: which probably takes her closest to the DespairEventHorizon and is one of the [[TearJerker saddest scenes to have yet been animated in Western Media]]]]. ''Then'' she goes against an evil dictator and is repeatedly convinced that she is no longer needed in the world. In short, Korra has arguably been through more than ''Zuko.'' Thankfully, the last two are notable Result A's. She admits to Tenzin that all the suffering that she went through in the last two seasons made her a better and more compassionate person. Best illustrated by how [[spoiler: she saves Kuvira's life and, doesn't beat her down, but talks her into surrendering through understanding]].
** Asami also goes through a somewhat less severe one, also becoming Result A. When Asami was a child, her mother was killed by firebenders. She is strung along by Mako while dating him, only to lose him to Korra. She learns that her father, whom she looked up to, was working for the Equalists, and is forced to attack him, damaging the reputation of his company and their relationship almost irreparably. She has to take on the failing company; the guy she trusted to help her restore it steals the inventory. She watches Korra, her best friend [[spoiler: whom she's fallen in love with at that point]], [[spoiler: almost die from the Red Lotus's poison and become a crippled, emotionally broken shell as a result of it]]. She has to wait [[spoiler: three years before she sees Korra again, when Korra promised to see her in three weeks after leaving Republic City to recover]]. While she does manage to recover the company that once belonged to her father, and she reconciles with her father, [[spoiler: he dies shortly afterward while attacking Kuvira's Colossus]], and all of the company's inventory got destroyed.

** [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Kenny McCormick]], hands down. He has suffered through the pain of dying countless times, some of which were [[HeroicSacrifice self-sacrifices]] or [[DrivenToSuicide suicides]], with nobody remembering him dying or believing him when he tries to reach out for help. And remember, this is ''on top of'' his life of poverty with alcoholic and drug-addicted parents, leaving his entire family to struggle just to ''stay alive.''
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E1GoodTimesWithWeapons Good Times with Weapons]]" Butters has a rough episode. First he gets hit in the eye with a shuriken. Then, in order to disguise his identity, he is [[ItMakesSenseInContext forced to pretend to be a dog.]] To top it all off, he gets urinated and defecated on by actual dogs.

** Lapis Lazuli. Prior to her debut, she was forcibly trapped in a mirror for many years and only spoken to when needed. After being released, she tried to use the oceans to go back to her home planet, but was unable to do so due to her cracked gem. After Steven heals her, she is able to return to her home planet... only to find out that Homeworld had [[FishOutOfTemporalWater advanced so much]] that she couldn't understand it. She is then used as an informant by Peridot and Jasper and taken back to Earth before being imprisoned again. After constantly being imprisoned, Lapis chooses to [[FusionDance fuse]] with Jasper after the latter was defeated by Garnet. However, Lapis then takes control of the fusion and [[SealedEvilInADuel submerges herself and Jasper]] in the ocean. Her control is slipping by "Chille Tid", before it's gone completely and they have to be forcibly unfused in "Super Watermelon Island". She gets better in later episodes, though there are nods to what happened, such as her desire to "take a break from water".
** It is eventually revealed that the entirety of ''Steven Universe'' fiction has been about a realistic look at the eventual physical and mental outcomes of repeated trauma, with Steven himself as the most thorough example. In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' episode "Growing Pains", Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran asks Steven if he remembers anything "bad in [his] childhood that particularly stuck with [him]", and his response is to begin to recap the events of the original series, mentioning how he "...kind of freaked out when they canceled my favorite ice cream" and continuing with an absurdly long list of the legitimately terrifying things he experienced, including body horror, near-death situations, watching other people die, and abduction by fascist enforcers, before being interrupted. When Dr. Maheswaran is understandably aghast at this, Steven responds with "But— that was just the early stuff!" against the visual backdrop of dozens of other scenes of physical and psychological threats. [[spoiler:The reason Dr. Maheswaran is examining him at all is because Steven has begun to experience gem-powered physical swelling as a result of his PTSD; the nightmarish circumstances of his youth have been catching up with him and have combined with recent loss of emotional support, so his emotionally-influenced powers are [[PowerIncontinence going out of control]], and his body can't hold all of his stress at its usual size.]]

** Jackie Kennedy had to deal at first with her husband cheating on her -- this in particular may have caused her fertility problems later on, what with her having a stillborn girl and her last child Patrick dying of medical problems just two days after his birth. And then John died just three months after ''that''. After the assassination she went into sort of a HeroicBSOD for a while but not into a histrionic fit like many celebs today (though it would've been understandable). Whether solely for the cameras or because she had the ability, she kept up the refined coolness she had become noted for. Even ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', which is ruthless to ''everybody'', turned away from Jackie after the assassination (she became an {{acceptable target|s}} again after marrying Aristotle Onassis).

* The surviving crew of USS ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) Indanapolis]]'' (CA-35). You'd think things would be bad enough, with only 317 of the ship's nearly 1,200 crew surviving getting sunk by a Japanese submarine, then spending four days in shark-infested seas. Things got worse for the survivors when they found out that, at the very least, most of those who made it off the ship alive could've been saved. First, they were sent out of Guam without destroyer escort (which was standard procedure for the area). Then the ship's officers weren't informed that there were Japanese subs in the area (which had already claimed at least one Allied ship). Then when the ship sank, its distress call was dismissed by Allied command as a Japanese trap. ''Then'' when the ''Indianapolis'' failed to join the rest of the fleet in the Philippines, the ship was marked as "late" instead of "missing", so no search party was sent out. The survivors were found by a scout plane that happened to spot the oil slick from the ''Indianapolis''' wreckage.\\

* The surviving crew of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35) USS Indanapolis (CA-35)]]. You'd think things would be bad enough, with only 317 of the ship's nearly 1,200 crew surviving getting sunk by a Japanese submarine, then spending four days in shark-infested seas. Things got worse for the survivors when they found out that, at the very least, most of those who made it off the ship alive could've been saved. First, they were sent out of Guam without destroyer escort (which was standard procedure for the area). Then the ship's officers weren't informed that there were Japanese subs in the area (which had already claimed at least one Allied ship). Then when the ship sank, its distress call was dismissed by Allied command as a Japanese trap. ''Then'' when the Indianapolis failed to join the rest of the fleet in the Philippines, the ship was marked as "late" instead of "missing", so no search party was sent out. The survivors were found by a scout plane that happened to spot the oil slick from the Indianapolis' wreckage.\\

* ''Literature/TheBible'': The UrExample. Job's servants rush in to inform him of the latest tragedy to plague his estate even while previous servants are still informing him of the one before it.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': 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 other his brother’s home to survive, lie to his family including Dipper and Mabel and their parents, spent years working on the portal to bring his brother back]]...and 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 twin’s safety and has a hard time bonding with them at times. And has a cruddy love life on top of everything.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Stan Pines goes through a ''lot'' throughout the series:
** To sum things up: 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 other his brother’s home to survive, lie to his family including Dipper and Mabel and their parents, spent years working on the portal to bring his brother back]]...and 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 twin’s safety and has a hard time bonding with them at times. And has a cruddy love life on top of everything.

* Invoked in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Dope and Faith". Stan's new friend is like him in every way, with the exception of being an atheist. To win him round, Stan reasons that "[[PrayerIsALastResort people turn to God when their lives are in shambles]]", and unleashes a series of escalating tragedies on Brett, from blowing up his house, to putting his restaurant out of business by poisoning all the customers, to brainwashing his wife into thinking she's a lesbian so she'll leave him.

* Invoked in the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Dope and Faith". Stan's new friend is like him in every way, with the exception of being an atheist. To win him round, Stan reasons that "[[PrayerAsALastResort people turn to God when their lives are in shambles]]", and unleashes a series of escalating tragedies on Brett, from blowing up his house, to putting his restaurant out of business by poisoning all the customers, to brainwashing his wife into thinking she's a lesbian so she'll leave him.

* Every major character in''Film/TheReflectingSkin'' experiences a trauma conga line. The main character, Seth, is water cured by his mother as a punishment for the smallest things. Then he finds his friend's body floating in the family well. And that's only the beginning.

* Film/BeauIsAfraid: The entirety of the film revolves around putting the titular Beau Wassermann, an already extremely anxious and agoraphobic middle-aged man with mommy issues, in hilariously morbid situations that could go wrong in one of 10 ways, with the plot choosing to go with the 11th.