History Quotes / DarkAndTroubledPast

-->-- '''Music/LinkinPark''', "Easier to Run"

-->--'''Doc Hudson''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''

->''"Whatever nightmares the future holds are but dreams compared to what's behind me."''
-->--'''ComicBook/{{Gamora}}''', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014''

-->--'''ComicBook/{{Gamora}}''', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''

-->-- '''FanFic/TheHumanWhoseNameIsWrittenInThisFanfiction''', ''"In Which Everyone Is Very Tragic"''

->"I'm sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you over my TRAGIC PAST!!!"
-->-- [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Fortune]], [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} Lets Destroy Metal Gear Again!]]

'''[[DeadpanSnarker Poe]]''': Were you a scavenger? We could do this all night.

-> "Let's recap: I was betrayed and killed, shot into space, captured by the Zerg, resurrected and infested, cured, given to Möebius to research the Protoss cure and was instead experimented upon as the cure slowly failed. Everyone up to speed? Good!"

->I hate these men of mystery types. Ooh, look at me, I've got a backstory. I'll bet you it involves vampires killing his family. [[LackOfEmpathy Tragic, I'm sure.]]

->''"Don't feel and for quitting, kid. Your comic book heroes do it all the time. Hey, maybe giving up is the one thing you'll be good at. Though it is a shame to waste such a good tragic origin story. Oh, all your heroes have them. Exploded planet, lost love, dead uncle... [[WhamLine or maybe a car accident on Route 70.]] You're like [[Franchise/{{Batman}} that bat guy]], only without the talent, brains, strength, money or success."''

->''"Don't feel and for quitting, kid. Your comic book heroes do it all the time. Hey, maybe giving up is the one thing you'll be good at. Though it is a shame to waste such a good tragic origin story. Oh, all your heroes have them. Exploded planet, lost love, dead uncle... or maybe a car accident on Route 70. You're like [[Franchise/{{Batman}} that bat guy]], only without the talent, brains, strength, money or success."''

-->--''[[Literature/AngelsOfMusic Guignol]]''

->''"This isn't a tattoo, it's [[BirthmarkOfDestiny birthmark]], and I've always been able to do life magic! As for why I'm down here? My birth parents probably REASONABLY ASSUMED I had the Chimeric Plague and [[FloatingContinent dropped me over the edge!]] I had a normal life and family for ten years-- And then I then I learned I was a [[PowerIncontinence chimera bomb]] and ran away for ANOTHER ten years-- And I should have died, but I didn't! So CLEARLY everyone was WRONG about me! I don't know WHAT I am!"''

->''"This isn't a tattoo, it's [[BirthmarkOfDestiny birthmark]], and I've always been able to do life magic! As for why I'm down here? My birth parents probably REASONABLY ASSUMED I had the Chimeric Plague and dropped me [[FloatingContinent dropped me over the edge!]] I had a normal life and family for ten years-- And then I then I learned I was a [[PowerIncontinence chimera bomb]] and ran away for ANOTHER ten years-- And I should have died, but I didn't! So CLEARLY everyone was WRONG about me! I don't know WHAT I am!"''

-->-- '''''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'''''

-> Ok, so he's got the cliché "Tragic Past" of 90% of all fictional characters.

-> '''Obi-Wan''': Anakin has never talked about his past, has he?\\
'''Ahsoka''': Only to tell me he won't talk about it.

->'''Liz''': There's no need to be sarcastic.\\
'''Dagless''': Maybe if everyone who'd ever been close to you had died, you'd be sarcastic, too.\\
'''Liz''': Yes, that makes sense.''
-->-- ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace''

->'''Franky''': You gotta admit, that was nowhere near as bad as Chinatown, boy that was-\\
'''Goon''': Franky, don't even bring up Chinatown.
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheGoon''

->''Don't you just love to read pointless and poorly written garbage about fictional people's problems?\\
Well if you do you're a complete sadist but that's okay, you've come to the right place. This is the land where we step over the borderline from "tragic past" to "Loaded up with so many problems it's kind of sick". Sounds like fun huh?\\
Take a glance around the room and you will see our first victim. His name is L [[spoiler: Lawliet]]. Although he possesses legions of adoring fans they all seem to be obsessed with torturing him. Let's take a closer look.\\
L sat sadly in task force headquarters. He felt his imminent doom hanging over his head as well as the pain of his unrequited love for unnamed love interest/dead love interest. This reminded him of all the tragic things that had happened to him, the things that kept him awake every night for fear of terrible nightmares (because this explanation of L's insomnia isn't complete rubbish at all).\\
He thought back to his childhood as a poor orphan boy. He thought about that flashback he was going to have later in the series when [[spoiler: he died]] and how it showed how tragic a character he was.\\
It had all started when the young boy had to watch his family be brutally murdered. They were shot/burned/eaten/poisoned/exploded/forced to watch the ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'' movies. It was a horrifying memory that would haunt the detective all his life.\\
After many heart-breaking scenes of carnage Watari brought the young L to Wammy's house. He was very emotionally scarred and had no friends. Then one day Watari brought two new children to the house, A and B.\\
L immediately fell in love with A/B/random other chick. Unfortunately they died. All of them. Violently. While still carrying his child. Right in front of him. Other wretched stuff.''
-->-- '''FanFic/TheHumanWhoseNameIsWrittenInThisFanfiction''', ''"In Which Everyone Is Very Tragic"''

->''"Creator/GerardDepardieu is a big lump of pure messiness and that probably has a lot do with his screwed-up childhood. While some of us were spending the 10th year of our lives making friendship bracelets and choreographing dances to Taylor Dayne songs in our mom’s garage, Gérard Depardieu was on the streets, selling his ass to men. In his new memoir ''It Happened Like That'' (''Ca C’est Fait Comme Ca''), Gérard writes that his family was really poor, like Fantine in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' poor, and so at the age of 10 he did sex stuff with grown dudes for money...When Gérard wasn’t working the streets as a child hooker, he was breaking into graves to steal jewelry from corpses. Now Creator/LindsayLohan knows why every time she broke into a grave in Paris to steal jewelry, the corpses would be bare. Gérard beat her to it decades before! ...This is why every era and every country needs its own [[{{Series/Dateline}} Chris Hansen]]."''
-->--'''''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/10/06/gerard-depardieu-was-a-10-year-old-rent-boy/ DListed]]'''''

-> "I'm sorry, what was that? I couldn't hear you over my TRAGIC PAST!!!"
-->-- [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Fortune]], [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} Lets Destroy Metal Gear Again!]]

-> "Let's recap: I was betrayed and killed, shot into space, captured by the Zerg, resurrected and infested, cured, given to Möebius to research the Protoss cure and was instead experimented upon as the cure slowly failed. Everyone up to speed? Good!"
-->-- '''Alexei Stukov''', ''VideoGame/StarCraftII''

->''"Never trust a survivor," my father used to warn me, "until you find out what he did to stay alive."''
-->-- '''Creator/KurtVonnegut''', ''Bluebeard''

->''Whenever you tell childhood stories, it's like [[CloudCuckooLander Rose Nylund]] from ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' meets ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''.''
-->--'''Nash''' to '''Tara''', ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou''

->''The only choice I ever got to make, was to become either a slave or a bandit.''
-->--'''[[NoNameGiven The Bandit]]''', ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''

->'''Rory''': That's you.\\
'''Hunter''': Yeah. I was a cutpurse from the age of five, starved more than I ate. I knew what I'd do if she tried to harm me.\\
'''Snart''': Lucky for us, you didn't forget your roots.\\
'''Hunter''': Believe me, Mr. Snart, [[IHatePastMe I've tried]].
-->-- ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', "[[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS1E12LastRefuge Last Refuge]]"

->One did not become an [[PrivateDetective Angel of Music]] unless one had a Past... usually an immediate Past fraught with scandal, peril and narrow escape. [[TheExile They had all quit countries where they were settled and fetched up in Paris]]. Clara, an Englishwoman who'd never set foot in England, was long resident in China, but had fallen foul of some mad mandarin and the colonial authorities. Her field of interest was prison reform... not in alleviating the sufferings of unfortunate convicts, but in [[TortureTechnician heightening and aestheticising their torments]]. Yuki had come from her native Japan, where there was a price on her head. Of her crimes, she merely said she had "[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge settled some family debts]]." Kate was on the wrong side of the financier Henry Wilcox. [[IntrepidReporter She had written in the Pall Mall Gazette]] about his penchant for purchasing children as "[[PaedoHunt maiden tributes of modern Babylon]]." He was no longer welcome in his clubs – justice of a sort, though she'd rather he serve a long sentence in a jail designed by Clara Watson. Wilcox's writserving lawyers and hired bully boys made London unhealthy for Kate this season.
-->--''[[Literature/AngelsOfMusic Guignol]]''

->I hate these men of mystery types. Ooh, look at me, I've got a backstory. I'll bet you it involves vampires killing his family. [[LackOfEmpathy Tragic, I'm sure.]]
-->--'''Kirsten Geary,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->'''''Liz''': There's no need to be sarcastic.\\

->''"GerardDepardieu is a big lump of pure messiness and that probably has a lot do with his screwed-up childhood. While some of us were spending the 10th year of our lives making friendship bracelets and choreographing dances to Taylor Dayne songs in our mom’s garage, Gérard Depardieu was on the streets, selling his ass to men. In his new memoir ''It Happened Like That'' (''Ca C’est Fait Comme Ca''), Gérard writes that his family was really poor, like Fantine in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' poor, and so at the age of 10 he did sex stuff with grown dudes for money...When Gérard wasn’t working the streets as a child hooker, he was breaking into graves to steal jewelry from corpses. Now Creator/LindsayLohan knows why every time she broke into a grave in Paris to steal jewelry, the corpses would be bare. Gérard beat her to it decades before! ...This is why every era and every country needs its own [[{{Series/Dateline}} Chris Hansen]]."''

->''"GerardDepardieu is a big lump of pure messiness and that probably has a lot do with his screwed-up childhood. While some of us were spending the 10th year of our lives making friendship bracelets and choreographing dances to Taylor Dayne songs in our mom’s garage, Gérard Depardieu was on the streets, selling his ass to men. In his new memoir ''It Happened Like That'' (''Ca C’est Fait Comme Ca''), Gérard writes that his family was really poor, like Fantine in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' poor, and so at the age of 10 he did sex stuff with grown dudes for money...When Gérard wasn’t working the streets as a child hooker, he was breaking into graves to steal jewelry from corpses. Now Creator/LindsayLohan knows why every time she broke into a grave in Paris to steal jewelry, the corpses would be bare. Gérard beat her to it decades before! ...This is why every era and every country needs its own [[ToCatchAPredator Chris Hansen]]."''