History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': [[spoiler: Judai]] goes insane with grief and awakens his SuperPoweredEvilSide after watching his friends be sacrificed before his eyes. Trapped within his own mind, his other self goes on a murderous rampage in the pursuit of power so as not to be hurt again.

* ''Manga/AnatoliaStory'' has [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Nakia]], who used to be a scared teenage girl whose father (the ruler of Babylon) ordered her to marry the king of Hattusa. Nakia was not happy about this, because Hattusa had invaded Babylon not so long ago, the marriage was blatantly using her as a political pawn, and the king was old enough to be her father. She goes through with it and ends up in a strange land, with a husband who has no interest in her at all. Lonely and angry, she ends up vowing to have a son and see to it that he becomes the next king, to ensure her bloodline continues to rule the land. By the time Yuri has arrived, Nakia occupies the second-most powerful position in the kingdom (which she achieved by [[spoiler:poisoning Kail's mother]]) and is using every scheme she can think of to kill her stepsons and husband. As the series goes on, it's clear that she's willing to drive the entire land to ruin if it means getting what she wants, but she's completely and utterly alone the entire time, save for her [[TheDragon right-hand man]]. Even [[spoiler:her own son turns on her at the end,]] thanks to her insanity, and her ultimate fate is [[spoiler: a CruelMercy: she's allowed to live in a nice villa, ''while knowing that she owes it to Yuri and Kail'', who intend for her to witness how the Hitite Empire blossoms and flourishes '''without''' her in power.]]

** [[spoiler:The Book of Darkness]] is a woobie ''because'' she's a destroyer of worlds. Her life cycle has three phases: charging up in dormancy, gaining full awareness and control for a few minutes, and then dishing out an EarthShatteringKaboom, which returns her to stage one. Prior to her current appearance, she has been forced to serve a cruel master who abused her children. Bonus points for the fact that there is nothing that can be done to stop the cycle.

* Hiroko "Hiro-chan" Kaizuka from ''Manga/{{Narutaru}}'' is an intelligent, modest young girl who is [[BreakTheCutie broken]] by abuse from both [[KidsAreCruel unbelievably sadistic bullies]] ''and'' overly demanding, repressive parents. Eventually, she, along with her [[{{Mon}} Shadow Dragon]], Oni, attempts to make everything she doesn't like disappear...by way of going on a horrific, murderous rampage.

* Russia of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' is more of a Woobie Conquerer of Worlds, insisting that "[[TakeOverTheWorld all will become one with Russia]]". This trope is also played straight with him during the Bloody Sunday strip, in which he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation snaps]] and [[FreakOut starts to mow down his own people]] on the grounds that "they're not ''really'' Russians if they don't love me".

** The biggest example in the series is [[BigBad Tobi]]. [[spoiler:Since childhood, he was an orphan which not knew who his parents were, [[BlackSheep being outcast in his own clan]] and [[StepfordSmiler forced hide behind the act of a happy-go-lucky idiot]] to escape his loneliness and pain as a child. However, once he was crippled and mutilated in a cave in and later witnessed the girl he loved and acted kindly to him being killed in a twisted war plot freehand of his best friend who promised to protect her at any cost, he went completely insane discarding the world as a [[CrapsackWorld fake]] that he had to replace with the [[LotusEaterMachine Moon Eye Plan]]. In the span of a few months, he went from saying that those who betray their comrades are worse than trash to holding his sensei's newborn son hostage, killing his sensei and his sensei's wife, nearly annihilating his entire village and when his sensei's dying act thwarted his efforts, he plotted the extermination of his own clan. Nagato unleashed his woobie-induced rage on his enemies; Tobi unleashed it on his ''friends!'']]

* [[BrokenBird Izayoi Aki]] from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' for episodes 40 and 41. After watching her friend and mentor Divine [[spoiler:plunge to his horrifying death, while the only place she'd ever really felt at home in collapses in flames around her]], she wakes up from a coma where she relived ''every single horrible moment of her life'' all at once to the face of Yusei, who she already feels conflicted about - and [[ParentalAbandonment her parents]], of all people. Destroying the world from there, though, yes, seems like DisproportionateRetribution, is not that much of a stretch.
** [[spoiler:Aporia, Z-one, Antinomy, and Paradox]], especially [[spoiler:Aporia]], too. The only survivors of a BadFuture, they only seek to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong ...at the expense of Neo Domino city and it's inhabitants.
* Yami [[spoiler:AKA Atem]] from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' becomes this for a bit in the Doma saga after he loses Yugi - ''especially'' during his duel with Haga. Oh, silly Haga, didn't you know that pretending to destroy the soul of a [[KnightTemplarBigBrother highly protective and emotionally unstable]] (and once-AxeCrazy) ancient spirit's partner was just asking for a one-way ticket down ''extreme-pain-and-death'' lane?

* Yami [[spoiler:Atem]] from ''Anime/YuGiOh'' becomes this for a bit in the Doma saga after he loses Yugi - ''especially'' during his duel with Haga. Oh, silly Haga, didn't you know that pretending to destroy the soul of a [[KnightTemplarBigBrother highly protective and emotionally unstable]] (and once-AxeCrazy) ancient spirit's partner was just asking for a one-way ticket down ''extreme-pain-and-death'' lane?
** Thief King Bakura might count, given that he [[StartOfDarkness became what he was]] later because he survived and witnessed the gruesome killing of all the people in his village. Granted, they seemed to be a village of thieves, but still, [[UsedToBeASweetKid he was an innocent child]] before this happened.
** Malik Ishtar became cynical and evil from his father's abuse of him including a painful tattoo covering his whole back and that's not getting into his alter ego.

** Diva[=/=]Aigami from the "Dark Side of Dimensions" movie continuity certainly qualifies; literately having the ability to rearrange other dimensions and kill people in them. As a child, he and his sister lived with an abusive and neglectful man in Egypt, Until [[spoiler: Shadi]] adopted them and cared for them alongside a bunch of other kids. They were taught all about the Pharaoh and told that when he returned to this world and left again for good, they would all be able to enter a portal to a better world. One day, [[spoiler: Ryo Bakura]]'s father found the crypt and wanted to buy the millennium ring. Upon being tested,[[spoiler: Yami Bakura killed him. When Bakura ran to his father from his hiding place, the spirit of the ring bonded to him and possessed him.]]Diva was given some of [[spoiler: Shadi's]]powers and his magic cube before he saw his mentor killed in front of him, along with all the other kids, leaving him and his sister as the sole survivors. After this, he developed quite the hate complex; wanting to not only kill Bakura, but Yugi Mouto and Seto Kaiba as well, as he blames the pharaoh and priest Seto, who the two are reincarnations of,for the existence of the millennium items.

* [[BrokenBird Izayoi Aki]] from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' for episodes 40 and 41. After watching her friend and mentor Divine [[spoiler:plunge to his horrifying death, while the only place she'd ever really felt at home in collapses in flames around her]], she wakes up from a coma where she relived ''every single horrible moment of her life'' all at once to the face of Yuusei, who she already feels conflicted about - and [[ParentalAbandonment her parents]], of all people. Destroying the world from there, though, yes, seems like DisproportionateRetribution, is not that much of a stretch.
** [[spoiler:Aporia, ZONE, Antinomy, and Paradox]], especially [[spoiler:Aporia]], too.

* [[spoiler:Kanto]] from ''Soil'' ''[[UncannyVillage New Town]]'' has had a rough life [[spoiler:his dentist drugged and raped him as a child which caused him to feel so ashamed and, well, ''soiled'' that he cut himself; it got worse when the dentist reconnected with him in high school and, as proof of his twisted "pure" love, gave him the video of his assault. The shame intensified to the point where he couldn't stand to watch cats in heat and tried to burn down the resident homeless crazy cat lady's shelter (fortunately, he didn't succed). Things seemed to get a little better when he met a nice girl, but just as he was about to have his first consensual sexual encounter, ''she disappeared from between his legs''.]] No wonder he wants to destroy the world by [[spoiler:enlisting the dentist's roughly ''three dozen unwitting current victims'' plus a victim by proxy (her rapists were also the dentist's victims) to cause enough anomalies to break reality]].

* Lord Fezarl Ezelcant, the BigBad of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge'', is a married man and was a father. However, the death of his son convinced him that it was high time to [[spoiler:[[SocialDarwinist root out the weak by waging a war that would eliminate them and create a paradise populated only by the most righteous of humans]].]] Thus began the UE's attacks on Earth Federation Colonies. In the third generation, [[note]]the show's hook was that it would ''not'' follow an, overall, short war and one group of people as per ''Gundam'' tradition, but take place over three generations and nearly a century[[/note]], fate really twists the knife by having him encounter a young boy who greatly resembles his son... Who just so happens to be a Federation pilot and the grandson of Flit Asuno, main hero of the first generation and the biggest Vagan-hater alive. Ezelcant's son, in his last moments, said that he'd like to be reborn on earth along with them. Ezelcant is convinced that his son got half his wish.

* [[spoiler:Alma Jinnai]] from Anime/JewelpetTwinkle. Born as twins from [[spoiler:Fealina]], one of Jewelland greatest magic user who "[[DisneyDeath died]]" trying to reseal [[ArtifactOfDoom Battest]] , she become the only one to posses magical power. In fact, her magical power is much higher than average, necessitating her to live separately in Jewelland away from her brother [[spoiler:Yuuma]], and turned her into lonesome girl always avoiding contact with others. Years of living in solitude with absolutely no friend other than her [[spoiler: own made]] Jewelpet, Diana, causing her to be rather shortsighted, with her only aim is reviving [[spoiler:Fealina]] in any ways necessary, even including utilizing dark magic and Battest, despite doing so will bring disaster to Jewelland.
* ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer''
** Yuuhi, with a FreudianExcuse to match: his father, a detective, was killed by his colleague. After the funeral, his mom simply left, and his grandfather beat into him the idea "Make no enemies - they'll stab you in the front; make no friends - they'll stab you in the back." Sami's reasoning is that [[spoiler:she wants to own the world by destroying it so that it doesn't go on without her [[IllGirl when she dies]].]]

* Prince Djeser from ''Manga/ImGreatPriestImhotep'' started as the WideEyedIdealist heir to Pharaoh, dreaming to usher a new Golden Age for Egypt by reuniting the royal family with the priesthood, helped by his best friend Imhotep. What he didn't know was the fact he was born to be a HumanSacrifice, his soul destined to suffer in Hell for eternity to prevent a ZombieApocalypse, and everyone else knew it. When Imhotep tries to find a way to save him, the other priests lock him away before casting the ritual and [[AndShowItToYou ripping Djeser's heart]], right after using Imhotep's appearance to cruelly mock Djeser's dream. When the ritual goes wrong because of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Imhotep's intervention]], ThePowerOfHate transforms Djeser into a vengeful zombie responsible for creating many demons and evil gods, hell-bent on destroying the world for his suffering and bitterly regretting his friendship with Imhotep. ''Ouch'' doesn't even start to cover it.

** Teru Mikami was viciously bullied throughout his childhood so that when [[VillainProtagonist Light]] needs a new [[TheDragon Dragon]] it's no surprise when Mikami gleefully accepts the titular ArtifactOfDoom and the duty to "[[KnightTemplar eliminate evil]]." However, when Mikami gets a hold of the Death Note [[EvenEvilHasStandards he takes it even farther than]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Light]]'' [[EvenEvilHasStandards killing off people with criminal records and the]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards lazy]]''. (Light thinks it's "It's too early" to do that sort of thing.)

* In ''Manga/AnimalLand'' there are five humans who can understand all animal "cries" ([[CurseOfBabel animals can't understand each other]] so predators have no problems killing prey, and prey can't work together to even things out a little, and [[NightmareFuel every night these humans have to hear shrieks of pain and terror]]). One of them wants to use ancient technology to kill every living creature on the planet because when he killed his own abusive father he saw how peaceful and redemptive dying was. He's also the only one who knows about religion but didn't utilize it to create a death cult, which would have probably been much more effective than suddenly trying to kill everyone without their permission. The surprise second woobie just hates the fact that they [[spoiler: she, a clone of someone else,]] exist(s).

* [[BigBad Lucia]] of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' has been portrayed as virtually a {{Jerkass}} extraordinaire, contradicting any even mildly humane moment shortly afterward. Until the ending, that is, when he starts [[BerserkerTears crying]] while fighting Haru because, as it turns out, the universe exists to screw him over. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/rave_master/v35/c292/14.html He even lists all the massive wrongs done to him that no one ever did anything about, or even commended rather than tried to stop]]. Though he looks a little crazier than he actually is in that image. It applies to him much better when he's a child.

* [[spoiler:Tima]] of Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}''. [[spoiler:After getting shot and realizing that she's a robot, she takes control of immeasurably powerful technology and orders the extinction of humanity.]]

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Tagoma. Having been forced to be Frieza's practice dummy for four months, Tagoma was beaten within an inch of his life ''every single day'' for that time period purely so Frieza could find the best ways to effectively torture Goku before killing him; by the time of the invasion, Tagoma's sanity is shot to hell, and he's just as brutal and ruthless as Frieza himself. While Tagoma died with his convictions and [[NobleDemon what morality he had]] intact in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', in ''Super'', Frieza [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil killed him in all except body]]. Then to add insult to injury his body is stolen by Captain Ginyu.

* [[spoiler:Alma Jinnai]] from Anime/JewelpetTwinkle. Born as twins from [[spoiler:Fealina]], one of Jewelland greatest magic user who "[[DisneyDeath died]]" trying to reseal [[ArtifactOfDoom Battest]] , she become the only one to posses magical power. In fact, her magical power is much higher than average, necessitating her to live separately in Jewelland away from her brother [[spoiler:Yuuma]], and turned her into lonesome girl always avoiding contact with others. Years of living in solitude with absolutely no friend other than her [[spoiler: own made]] Jewelpet, Diana, causing her to be rather shortsighted, with her only aim is reviving [[spoiler:Fealina]] in any ways necessary, even including utilizing dark magic and Battest, despite doing so will bring disaster to Jewelland.

* Lord Fezarl Ezelcant, the BigBad of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge'', is a married man and was a father. However, the death of his son convinced him that it was high time to [[spoiler:[[SocialDarwinist root out the weak by waging a war that would eliminate them and create a paradise populated only by the most righteous of humans]].]] Thus began the UE's attacks on Earth Federation Colonies. In the third generation, [[note]]the show's hook was that it would ''not'' follow an, overall, short war and one group of people as per ''Gundam'' tradition, but take place over three generations and nearly a century[[/note]], fate really twists the knife by having him encounter a young boy who greatly resembles his son... Who just so happens to be a Federation pilot and the grandson of Flit Asuno, main hero of the first generation and the biggest Vagan-hater alive. Ezelcant's son, in his last moments, said that he'd like to be reborn on earth along with them. Ezelcant is convinced that his son got half his wish.

* [[spoiler:Kanto]] from ''Soil'' ''[[UncannyVillage New Town]]'' has had a rough life [[spoiler:his dentist drugged and raped him as a child which caused him to feel so ashamed and, well, ''soiled'' that he cut himself; it got worse when the dentist reconnected with him in high school and, as proof of his twisted "pure" love, gave him the video of his assault. The shame intensified to the point where he couldn't stand to watch cats in heat and tried to burn down the resident homeless crazy cat lady's shelter (fortunately, he didn't succed). Things seemed to get a little better when he met a nice girl, but just as he was about to have his first consensual sexual encounter, ''she disappeared from between his legs''.]] No wonder he wants to destroy the world by [[spoiler:enlisting the dentist's roughly ''three dozen unwitting current victims'' plus a victim by proxy (her rapists were also the dentist's victims) to cause enough anomalies to break reality]].

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' features Legato Bluesummers, TheDragon to [[BigBad Millions Knives]]. He's got a sympathetic backstory as a nameless sex slave and, like Knives, has let his own pain [[BoomerangBigot drive him into]] becoming an OmnicidalManiac. Problem is, he's an utter, sadistic psycho with a murder habit, who likes to torture the lead, reducing any sympathy factor for him both in-universe and out.
** Knives actually has a shot at qualifying as this in the manga, at least during the flashback. During the main storyline, he's a {{Jerkass}} extraordinaire with a dash of "TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget", but [[TheyWouldCutYouUp the story]] of [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Tesla]] would [[GoMadFromTheRevelation put anyone off]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the human race]], especially [[IJustWantToBeLoved a cute little kid who just wanted to be accepted]]...

* At the end of ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Tamahome unintentionally has a PsychicLink to Nakago's mind revealing his past [[spoiler:when he was a young boy, his entire tribe was wiped out, he witnessed his mother being gang-raped, and accidentally killed both his mother and her rapists with his awakened power, only to be sent to the Emperor of Kutou, who raped him repeatedly. As a result, he wants revenge on ''existence itself'' for giving him such a horrible life]].
* Russia of ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' is more of a Woobie Conquerer of Worlds, insisting that "[[TakeOverTheWorld all will become one with Russia]]". This trope is also played straight with him during the Bloody Sunday strip, in which he [[GoMadFromTheRevelation snaps]] and [[FreakOut starts to mow down his own people]] on the grounds that "they're not ''really'' Russians if they don't love me".
* [[BigBad Lucia]] of ''Manga/RaveMaster'' has been portrayed as virtually a {{Jerkass}} extraordinaire, contradicting any even mildly humane moment shortly afterward. Until the ending, that is, when he starts [[BerserkerTears crying]] while fighting Haru because, as it turns out, the universe exists to screw him over. [[http://mangafox.me/manga/rave_master/v35/c292/14.html He even lists all the massive wrongs done to him that no one ever did anything about, or even commended rather than tried to stop]]. Though he looks a little crazier than he actually is in that image. It applies to him much better when he's a child.
* [[BigBad Diva]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus'' may count, although the "Destroyer of Worlds" part only comes about simply because she ''exists''. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Chevaliers may love their 'queens']] but it seems that [[DragonInChief Amshel]] loves power more. Diva went along out of embitterment with the world due to her imprisonment as a child. All that could've been avoided had Nathan simply abducted her and made her a star singer without the whole TakeOverTheWorld thing and "make everyone into Chiropterans" aspect of Amshel's and James' agenda. [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon She drops the Woobie part]] after [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what she does to Saya's little brother, however]].]]
* Yuca from ''Manga/ImmortalRain'' doesn't know how old he is. All he knows is that, whenever he dies, he's reborn long after everyone he knew before died, while still retaining the memories of each of his previous lives. Over and over again, throughout what seems to be the course of human history. By the point we meet him, he wants to wipe out all humanity just so he can finally die and be able to stay dead.
* Shinobu Sensui of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' began as a heroic spirit detective, but had a mental breakdown after [[spoiler:discovering humans torturing demons, throwing his life's work of protecting humans into question -- one that isn't helped by his subscription to BlackAndWhiteMorality]]. His mind, now fractured into seven {{split personalit|y}}ies, embarked on a plan to destroy humanity as a way of ending the confusion and guilt, along with a [[spoiler:SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum over his terminal illness.]]
* Tsubaki of ''Manga/FutureDiary'' was imprisoned as a sex slave by a cult her whole life before receiving her Diary, and now participates in the Diary game with the stated goal of destroying the world.
** Yuno [[spoiler:wants to keep the universe in an eternal time loop, forever replaying the Diary game, as this is the only way she believes she can stay with Yukiteru. She wants this so desperately because Yuki is probably one of the only kind people in her life, and her sole reason for living.]]
* [[spoiler:Tima]] of Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Anime/{{Metropolis}}''. [[spoiler:After getting shot and realizing that she's a robot, she takes control of immeasurably powerful technology and orders the extinction of humanity.]]

* [[BrokenBird Izayoi Aki]] from ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' for episodes 40 and 41. After watching her friend and mentor Divine [[spoiler:plunge to his horrifying death, while the only place she'd ever really felt at home in collapses in flames around her]], she wakes up from a coma where she relived ''every single horrible moment of her life'' all at once to the face of Yuusei, who she already feels conflicted about - and [[ParentalAbandonment her parents]], of all people. Destroying the world from there, though, yes, seems like DisproportionateRetribution, is not that much of a stretch.
** [[spoiler:Aporia, ZONE, Antinomy, and Paradox]], especially [[spoiler:Aporia]], too.
* In Anti-Magic Academy: The 35th Test Platoon Kiseki Kusanagi's powers drive her mad sending her on two omnicidal rampages.
* Prince Djeser from ''Manga/ImGreatPriestImhotep'' started as the WideEyedIdealist heir to Pharaoh, dreaming to usher a new Golden Age for Egypt by reuniting the royal family with the priesthood, helped by his best friend Imhotep. What he didn't know was the fact he was born to be a HumanSacrifice, his soul destined to suffer in Hell for eternity to prevent a ZombieApocalypse, and everyone else knew it. When Imhotep tries to find a way to save him, the other priests lock him away before casting the ritual and [[AndShowItToYou ripping Djeser's heart]], right after using Imhotep's appearance to cruelly mock Djeser's dream. When the ritual goes wrong because of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Imhotep's intervention]], ThePowerOfHate transforms Djeser into a vengeful zombie responsible for creating many demons and evil gods, hell-bent on destroying the world for his suffering and bitterly regretting his friendship with Imhotep. ''Ouch'' doesn't even start to cover it.

* The {{Hentai}} ''Bible Black'' has Reika Kitami, the series' BigBad, who spends most of her time scouring for a virgin to sacrifice to the Devil, and casts a spell on most of the cast into engaging in, often non-consensual, orgies. Kitami explains to her UnwittingPawn, that she will sacrifice his LoveInterest, because she doesn't want to go to hell. [[WholeEpisodeFlashback ''Shin Bible Black'' (English: ''Bible Black Origins'')]], shows us that she was just an ordinary girl, who was selected as a virgin sacrifice after she rebuffed the advances of [[PsychoLesbian the coven's new leader,]] who had Kitami kidnaped by her goons, who subsequently raped her. After Kitami was rejected as sacrifice, she manages to kill the coven leader, and [[DealWithTheDevil was allowed to live only if she could find a suitable virgin to sacrifice.]]

* ''LightNovel/NidomeNoYuusha'':
** Ueki Kaito, TheProtagonist, was dragged to a new world against his will by Princess Alesia ostensibly to save her people from the Demon Lord. He spends three years doing just that, training and adventuring with little if any rest until he succeeds. Once he succeeds, the suffering truly begins. The companions picked out for him, including the princess herself, all turn on him. For an entire year, he is hunted like an animal, framed for every crime imaginable, and every single time someone reached out to him, offering aid and shelter, the person in question would happily sell him out the moment his guard was down. The princess herself even corners him once, purely to taunt him concerning the fact that the 200 hundred people physically closest to him at the time he was summoned were slain, and five close relatives died horribly, just from the summoning alone, and it would take a similar sacrifice to even think of going back. At the prologue, the so-called companions all caught up to him and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest, looking upon him with derision for the fact that it's taking so long to kill him, patting themselves on the back "for slaying evil" as he dies, swearing vengeance. Then he wakes up, four years in the past, right back in the summoning chamber, face to face with the very Princess Alesia who summoned him. Not letting himself become her pawn this time, he sets off on the path of vengeance.

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* Lucy from ''Manga/ElfenLied''. Several characters think that it's her natural instinct to eradicate humanity, but given her [[BreakTheCutie past]], her experiences alone would be enough to make her what she is. She truly believes that she doing all those atrocities out of instinct, so if we look at the nurture aspect, we come to the conclusion that she {{Mind Rape}}d herself (with a little help from ''nearly everyone around her'' [[spoiler:and [[EnemyWithin an inner voice]] / [[SplitPersonality alternate personality]] that wants to eradicate all life]]) into believing that she was, in her own words, "born to wipe out mankind". Heartbreaking can't even begin to describe it.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Tagoma. Having been forced to be Frieza's practice dummy for four months, Tagoma was beaten within an inch of his life ''every single day'' for that time period purely so Frieza could find the best ways to effectively torture Goku before killing him; by the time of the invasion, Tagoma's sanity is shot to hell, and he's just as brutal and ruthless as Frieza himself. While Tagoma died with his convictions and [[NobleDemon what morality he had]] intact in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', in ''Super'', Frieza [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil killed him in all except body]].

** Ueki Kaito was dragged to a new world, against his will, by Princess Alesia, ostensibly to save her people from the Demon Lord; he spends three years doing just that, training and adventuring with little, if any, rest, until he succeeds. Once he succeeds, the suffering truly begins. The companions picked out for him, including the princess herself, all turn on him. For an entire year, he is hunted like an animal, framed for every crime imaginable, and every single time someone reached out to him, offering aid and shelter, the person in question would happily sell him out the moment his guard was down. The princess herself even corners him once, purely to taunt him concerning the fact that the 200 hundred people physically closest to him at the time he was summoned were slain, and five close relatives died horribly, just from the summoning alone, and it would take a similar sacrifice to even think of going back. At the prologue, the so-called companions all caught up to him and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest, looking upon him with derision for the fact that it's taking so long to kill him, patting themselves on the back "for slaying evil" as he dies, swearing vengeance. Then he wakes up, four years in the past, right back in the summoning chamber, face to face with the very Princess Alesia who summoned him. Not letting himself become her pawn this time, he sets off on the path of vengeance.
** Originally, Millanis was a sweet little girl, taught an illusion spell by her mother to hide her beast-man features from the world, not comprehending the concept of racism. At the age of seven years old, while she was searching for food in the forest with her best friend, Lucia, due to an early winter, the two of them chanced upon an Ice Goblin. Lucia panics, screams, and freezes in terror, drawing the Ice Goblin's attention, endangering the both of them. Rather than fleeing and leaving her friend to die, or worse, Millanis uses her full strength to fight and drive off the Ice Goblin, revealing her beast-man traits. Initially grateful, Lucia promises to keep the beast-man heritage a secret. Millanis learns, to her horror, that Lucia did not keep her word, as the entire village was up in arms, dragging her out of her home, demanding she reveal herself as a beast-man, and demanding her mother reveal herself too, with Lucia loudly proclaiming that Millanis forced her into silence, by threats of violence, then smirking and taunting Lucia hiding behind the backs of the mob of angry villagers. Not getting a chance to defend themselves, Millanis and her mother were stoned, beaten, driven out of the village and sold into slavery, where the slave merchant, and their fellow slaves, beat and abused them horribly, for ten years, Millanis's mother dying in the process. When Ueki Kaito found her in the slave tent, she was on the verge of starving to death and being thrown away. She wasted no time in carrying out her vengeance on the merchant and her fellow slaves the moment Kaito gave her the chance.
** Originally a sweet, blonde, happy little girl born of an illicit union between her mother and a duke, Shiura grows up in a remote village after the duke's legitimate wife throws her mother, expecting her, out of the family home. She takes up adventuring, and is quite skilled at it, due to her peerless magical talent. One day, her younger half-sister, Selena becomes ill with a fatal disease, but no matter how hard she works, she can't afford an elixir, the only known cure. Her older half-sister, Yumis turns up at the village, promising to provide the cure, if she'll turn over her superior magical talent. Having no other valid option, she agrees, and spends three years locked up in a room, unable to leave, but sitting in the lap of luxury, provided with audio recordings proving that her friends and family are safe and sound. Upon the day the ritual to extract her magic is complete, and she's allowed to leave, Yumis takes her around town for a farewell "date." At the end of the date, she begins growing suspicious as Yumis doesn't take her to her home village, but instead a run-down shack. It is at this point that Yumis stops pretending and adopts her true personality, revealing that the entire village was fed to a demon to power the ritual to transfer her magic talent, her mother and younger sister greet her as undead corpses, the audio tapes were faked, and the same demon who killed her village was promised her own soul. She struggles valiantly in impotent rage, promising vengeance. Kaito rescues her, promises her the chance for revenge, and she happily takes it.

** The One-Eyed Owl [[spoiler: aka Eto/Sen Takatsuki]], the only known case of a natural HalfHumanHybrid and a LivingMacGuffin. [[spoiler: The product of StarCrossedLovers, her Ghoul father was forced by his superiors to kill her human mother shortly after her birth. In order to protect her from his superiors, [[BigGood Yoshimura]] was forced to abandon his infant daughter in the [[WretchedHive 24th Ward]]. Forced to kill and cannibalize other Ghouls to survive, she mutated into a [[CannibalismSuperpower Kakuja]] at a young age and began launching attacks against the [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]]. Her father blames himself for his beloved daughter growing to hate the world, and pleads with Kaneki to find some way to save her from herself. As [[AmnesiacHero Sasaki]], he explains that her novels reveal an author that has suffered greatly, completely giving up on being loved and unable to trust people. She frequently muses on the subject of love, while making it clear she believes it is merely something that destroys or controls people. For example, she only refers to herself as a surplus between her father and her mother's relationship and even if she respects her mother for her bravery to expose V, there's still a doubt inside her that she was just using her daughter to further her agenda, clearly showing that Eto has skewed views when it comes to love.]] Suffice to say, while [[BigBad the greatest threat in the first series]], the Owl is an enormous ball of anger and pain that wants to destroy everything as a result of a lifetime of suffering and loneliness. [[spoiler: Even worse in the sequel, which the reader finally knows her true goal. While her actions can be seen as MoralEventHorizon, one can't deny that she only wants to have a world where ghouls aren't to be persecuted and a possible coexistence between ghouls and humans, which made impossible due to V's ControlFreak tendencies and their desire to keep the deadly status quo between the two species just to remain in power. While Eto is a living proof of such idea can be possible, she even admits to herself that she's unfit to lead the revolution due of how screwed-up she is, and thus leaving the revolution to Kaneki.]]

** The One-Eyed Owl [[spoiler: aka Eto]], the only known case of a natural HalfHumanHybrid and a LivingMacGuffin. [[spoiler: The product of StarCrossedLovers, her Ghoul father was forced by his superiors to kill her human mother shortly after her birth. In order to protect her from his superiors, [[BigGood Yoshimura]] was forced to abandon his infant daughter in the [[WretchedHive 24th Ward]]. Forced to kill and cannibalize other Ghouls to survive, she mutated into a [[CannibalismSuperpower Kakuja]] at a young age and began launching attacks against the [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]]. Her father blames himself for his beloved daughter growing to hate the world, and pleads with Kaneki to find some way to save her from herself. As [[AmnesiacHero Sasaki]], he explains that her novels reveal an author that has suffered greatly, completely giving up on being loved and unable to trust people. She frequently muses on the subject of love, while making it clear she believes it is merely something that destroys or controls people]]. Suffice to say, while [[BigBad the greatest threat in the series]], the Owl is an enormous ball of anger and pain that wants to destroy everything as a result of a lifetime of suffering and loneliness. [[spoiler: Even worse in the sequel, which the reader finally knows her true goal. While her actions can be seen a MoralEventHorizon, one can't deny that she only wants to have a world where ghouls aren't to be persecuted and a possible coexistence between ghouls and humans, which made impossible due to V's ControlFreak tendencies and their desire to keep the deadly status quo between the two species just to remain in power.]]

** The One-Eyed Owl [[spoiler: aka Eto]], the only known case of a natural HalfHumanHybrid and a LivingMacGuffin. [[spoiler: The product of StarCrossedLovers, her Ghoul father was forced by his superiors to kill her human mother shortly after her birth. In order to protect her from his superiors, [[BigGood Yoshimura]] was forced to abandon his infant daughter in the [[WretchedHive 24th Ward]]. Forced to kill and cannibalize other Ghouls to survive, she mutated into a [[CannibalismSuperpower Kakuja]] at a young age and began launching attacks against the [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]]. Her father blames himself for his beloved daughter growing to hate the world, and pleads with Kaneki to find some way to save her from herself. As [[AmnesiacHero Sasaki]], he explains that her novels reveal an author that has suffered greatly, completely giving up on being loved and unable to trust people. She frequently muses on the subject of love, while making it clear she believes it is merely something that destroys or controls people]]. Suffice to say, while [[BigBad the greatest threat in the series]], the Owl is an enormous ball of anger and pain that wants to destroy everything as a result of a lifetime of suffering and loneliness.