History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / AnimeAndManga

* [[spoiler:[[OmnicidalManiac Rau Le Creuset]]]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED''. He's a dying man at 28 years old, [[spoiler:born with telomeres of the thirty-something Al Da Flaga, his genetic "father"]]. He's in constant pain that can only be subdued by drug dosages that double ''twice'' over the course of the series. His dealings with people, hatred of his flawed body and the people who ensured that he was born that way, [[spoiler:his emotional pain over his ParentalAbandonment, and being a clone and thus seeing himself with no "identity" of his own]] eventually became a bitterness towards humanity in general. He descends into full StrawNihilist territory, convinced that humans only inflict pain and suffering on others, not least of all himself. [[spoiler:Aware that his own existence cannot be considered human and is more or less the personification of mankind's sins, he took it upon himself to be the JudgeJuryAndExecutioner of humanity, and in a very literal bid to ''make the pain stop,'' he tried to KillAllHumans, and nearly succeeded]]. By the time he [[spoiler:sentenced all of humanity to annihilation]], he was more or less reveling in the fact that his view was "vindicated" by the actions of [[spoiler:[[SmugSnake Muruta Azrael]], who had just tried to wipe out all Coordinators with a nuclear missile array, and [[GeneralRipper Patrick Zala]], who was preparing to annihilate all life on earth with [[KillSat GENESIS]]]]. A life or two was meaningless at this point.

* Scar from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is one of the few survivors of a brutal genocide which killed almost all his loved ones. As revenge against the government who massacred his people, he becomes a SerialKiller who exclusively targets state alchemists. [[spoiler:Fortunately, in both manga and [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist both animes]], he gets better.]]

** Whatever spurred [[spoiler:Black Mage Zeref]] to go and earn the reputation he has is a mystery, but he's so unbelievably miserable in the present that you just want to hug him. For the love of God, though, [[PowerIncontinence do]] ''[[InstantDeathRadius not]]'' [[TouchOfDeath hug]] [[EnemyToAllLivingThings him]]! [[spoiler: He gets even more Woobie when his motivation for creating all the demons and dark artifacts was simply him trying to find a way to bring his brother back to life.]] [[spoiler:He allows himself to believe that he can finally care about someone when he learns that Mavis suffers the same curse he does. Her kindness and desire to stand beside him so together, they could find a way to break the curse, or, if that weren't possible, cure each other's loneliness, is enough for him to fall in love with her. [[TheBigDamnKiss They kiss]]... but because Ankhseram is so intent on destroying any chance of him having happiness, his love for her is enough to break her curse [[KissOfDeath and kill her]], or at least, [[OnlyMostlyDead kill her body]]. It was this event that broke Zeref and turned him evil]].
** [[spoiler: August fits this trope as well. August is part of the Alvarez Empire and Zeref's most loyal follower because ''he's his son''. His mother Mavis was crystallized in Fairy Heart, and his father was God knows where. Precht abandoned him for years, until he met Zeref again and was recruited to help build Alvarez as is. Zeref never loved him because he never knew he existed, and because of his curse, August could never tell him he was his son. His death comes when he decides [[TakingYouWithMe to sacrifice himself destroying Fairy Tail once and for all]], but when he sees Mavis dying as well, he can't bring himself to do it and lets himself be consumed by his own power, despite knowing that Mavis never knew the truth either]].

* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Upper-Moon 3, [[BloodKnight Akaza]], is revealed to be this in chapters 154-155. [[spoiler:Once a boy named Hajuki, Akaza resorted to thievery in order to afford medicine for his sick father, before said father committed suicide to prevent his son from living a life of crime. Afterwards he was taken in by a dojo master named Keizo and fell in love with his daughter Koyuki. Right before he was going to inherit his master's dojo and marry Koyuki, both Keizo and Koyuki were poisoned by the members of a rival dojo. In his rage, Hakuji [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge slaughtered the rival dojo with his bear hands]]. The massacre was so brutal that when [[BigBad Muzan]] caught wind of it, he forcibly turned Hakuji into a demon and recruited him into the Twelve Kizuki, leading to the carnage he would leave as a demon.]]

* ''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]].]]

* Vincent from the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' [[TheMovie movie]], having gone self-destructively homicidal from psychosis and the inability to separate his hallucinations from reality after becoming an unwilling participant in a SuperSoldier program that caused him to permanently hallucinate. His {{leitmotif}} "is it real?" just hammers it home.

* Hao/Zeke Asakura in the ''Manga/ShamanKing'' manga. [[spoiler:Not so much in the anime, since he turns his AxCrazy factor UpToEleven during the finale, which, sadly, is a GeckoEnding.]]

** Melon becomes one after his CharacterDerailment. He becomes a man child who wants to see society devolve into anarchy, lashing out at a world that stigmatizes his existence because he feels it was the only purpose it ever gave him.

** [[spoiler:[[BigBadWannabe Tomura Shigaraki]] is revealed to be this in the Meta Liberation Army Arc. Born as Tenko Shimura, the grandson of the late hero Nana Shimura, Tomura was frequently abused by his father Kotaro for his interest in heroes. One day, his Quirk [[MakeThemRot Decay]] manifested after he had been struck by his father for looking at a picture of his grandmother, causing him to accidently kill his mother, sister, and maternal grandparents in what was implied to be a subconscious rage before killing his father in cold blood. Afterwards, he wandered the streets hoping someone would help him, but all anyone would do is avoid him due to his disturbing appearance. He was eventually taken in by [[BigBad All For One]], who taught him to kill anyone who gets in his way without any restraint. As an adult, all he wants to do is destroy everything, as the rest of the world makes him angry, and he believes doing so will bring him joy.]]

** Vegeta. He had to be taken by Frieza, one of the universe's most evil characters from his father, King Vegeta, when he was a little boy in what was heavily implied to be a deal Frieza forced upon him. Then, Vegeta is forced to obey Frieza's commands or else he would murder his father, and despite this, Frieza killed him anyways, and then committed genocide against the entire Saiyan people, and even afterwards he was treated like a slave by Frieza and his henchman, especially Frieza and Zarbon. When Goku learns of these details when Vegeta was dying from Frieza puncturing his heart with a death beam, even Goku took pity on him.

* Vincent from the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' [[TheMovie movie]], having gone self-destructively homicidal from psychosis and the inability to separate his hallucinations from reality after becoming an unwilling participant in a SuperSoldier program that caused him to permanently hallucinate. His {{leitmotif}} "is it real?" just hammers it home.

* Hiroki Sawada -- or [[BrainUploading Noah's Ark]] in the ''Manga/CaseClosed'' NonSerialMovie ''Phantom of Baker Street''. A ChildProdigy who was [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation already beyond what the Japanese elementary school can handle]], which sparked arguments among his parents, culminating in his mother [[TakingTheKids taking him to the US]]. When [[MissingMom she died]] soon after, he was adequately homeschooled and adopted by his father's employer, Joe Schneider, which quickly made him a LonelyRichKid, who also exploit his intelligence...Schneider's own fear of [[InTheBlood his ancestry's dark history]], though, [[DrivenToSuicide drove Hiroki to suicide]], [[BrainUploading leaving a digitalized form of himself]] behind, who caused a HolodeckMalfunction on Schneider's [[{{cyberspace}} VR game]] launch, taking 50 kids as hostages...

* ''LightNovel/NidomeNoYuusha'': Multiple:
** The protagonist, 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 (Minnalis) 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 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 should 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, Shuria 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 audiotapes 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.

** [[spoiler: By Chapter 123, Eren Yeager has become this in full. He lost his family to the Warriors' attack on his hometown, saw countless comrades die in subsequent counterattacks against the Titans, was [[HeroicBSoD driven nearly to suicide]] upon learning the horrific truths of the nature of his powers, finally realized that the rest of the world beyond the island is dead set on exterminating his people and won't even consider offering them a chance to negotiate for peace, lost the love and trust of his remaining friends when he put his plans to protect his home in action, and came within a hair's breadth of dying before he could activate the only deterrent powerful enough to stave off the world's armies. And apart from all that, he was forced the face the full ramifications of the Titan powers after he kissed Historia's hand and hides this turmoil from all of his comrades and friends until the end; Seeing all the memories of his predecessors, including ''years worth'' of horrific experiences (such as seeing Kruger's family getting burned alive and Fae's mauled corpse), made worse by seeing ''his future memories'', his memories of a horrible future for him and for the world that noticeably deteriorated his mental state and made him depressed--and if only to add insult to injury, there is also the ability to see the ''past, present, and future simultaneously'', all of which he admits have been messing with his head. The power of a God in the hands of a broken boy. By this point, he is tired with the vicious cycle of war, revenge, discrimination, suffering, and hopelessness and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt declares that he will use the Wall Titans to destroy all life beyond Paradis Island]].]]

* ''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]].]]

* [[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]].

** Yami [[spoiler:AKA Atem]] 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?

** [[BrokenBird Izayoi Aki]] 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, but is not that much of a stretch.

** Majin Buu as well. Fat Buu kills and destroys because it's all he knows, specifically because it's all his unscrupulous handlers taught him. Once he's told by someone he considers a friend (Mr. Satan) that killing is wrong, he changes his ways and stops. Super Buu in the sense that he was born because something traumatic happened to Fat Buu right after this (Bee the dog and Mr. Satan getting shot by evil gunmen), and since he and Fat Buu are one and the same and thus have the same memories and experiences (with Super Buu having retained memories of Mr. Satan and everyone he fought as Fat Buu), he's technically a TragicVillain with Fat Buu's trauma informing his cataclysmic acts of evil. Even the emergence of the mindlessly destructive Kid Buu is the indirect result of what happened to Fat Buu, also making Kid Buu this in the most faintest of senses since Fat Buu's presence in Kid Buu is still enough to restrain Kid Buu from attacking Mr. Satan just as Super Buu was unable to attack him due to Fat Buu's remaining influence (though this ceases to be the case entirely once Kid Buu spits out Fat Buu).

** [[spoiler: By Chapter 123, Eren Yeager has become this in full. He lost his family to the Warriors' attack on his hometown, saw countless comrades die in subsequent counterattacks against the Titans, was [[HeroicBSoD driven nearly to suicide]] upon learning the horrific truths of the nature of his powers, finally realized that the rest of the world beyond the island is dead set on exterminating his people and won't even consider offering them a chance to negotiate for peace, lost the love and trust of his remaining friends when he put his plans to protect his home in action, and came within a hair's breadth of dying before he could activate the only deterrent powerful enough to stave off the world's armies. And apart from all that, he was forced the face the full ramifications of the Titan powers after he kissed Historia's hand and hides this turmoil from all of his comrades and friends until the end; Seeing all the memories of his predecessors, including ""years worth"" of horrific experiences (such as seeing Kruger's family getting burned alive and Fae's mauled corpse), made worse by seeing ""his future memories"", his memories of a horrible future for him and for the world that noticeably deteriorated his mental state and made him depressed--and if only to add insult to injury, there is also the ability to see the ""past, present, and future simultaneously"", all of which he admits have been messing with his head. The power of a God in the hands of a broken boy. By this point, he is tired with the vicious cycle of war, revenge, discrimination, suffering, and hopelessness and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt declares that he will use the Wall Titans to destroy all life beyond Paradis Island]].]]

** [[spoiler: By Chapter 123, Eren Yeager has become this in full. He lost his family to the Warriors' attack on his hometown, saw countless comrades die in subsequent counterattacks against the Titans, was [[HeroicBSoD driven nearly to suicide]] upon learning the horrific truths of the nature of his powers, finally realized that the rest of the world beyond the island is dead set on exterminating his people and won't even consider offering them a chance to negotiate for peace, lost the love and trust of his remaining friends when he put his plans to protect his home in action, and came within a hair's breadth of dying before he could activate the only deterrent powerful enough to stave off the world's armies. And apart from all that, he was forced the face the full ramifications of the Titan powers after he kissed Historia's hand and hides this turmoil from all of his comrades and friends until the end; the power of a God in the hands of a broken boy. By this point, he is tired with the vicious cycle of war, revenge, discrimination, suffering, and hopelessness and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt declares that he will use the Wall Titans to destroy all life beyond Paradis Island]].]]

** [[spoiler: By Chapter 123, Eren Yeager has become this in full. He lost his family to the Warriors' attack on his hometown, saw countless comrades die in subsequent counterattacks against the Titans, was [[HeroicBSoD driven nearly to suicide]] upon learning the horrific truths of the nature of his powers, finally realized that the rest of the world beyond the island is dead set on exterminating his people and won't even consider offering them a chance to negotiate for peace, lost the love and trust of his remaining friends when he put his plans to protect his home in action, and came within a hair's breadth of dying before he could activate the only deterrent powerful enough to stave off the world's armies. By this point, he is tired with the vicious cycle of war, revenge, discrimination, suffering, and hopelessness and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt declares that he will use the Wall Titans to destroy all life beyond Paradis Island]].]]

** [[spoiler: By Chapter 123, Eren Yeager has become this in full. He lost his family to the Warriors' attack on his hometown, saw countless comrades die in subsequent counterattacks against the Titans, was [[HeroicBSoD driven nearly to suicide]] upon learning the horrific truths of the nature of his powers, finally realized that the rest of the world beyond the island is dead set on exterminating his people and won't even consider offering them a chance to negotiate for peace, lost the love and trust of his remaining friends when he put his plans to protect his home in action, and came within a hair's breadth of dying before he could activate the only deterrent powerful enough to stave off the world's armies. By this point, he is fed up with the vicious cycle of war, revenge, discrimination, suffering, and hopelessness and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt declares that he will use the Wall Titans to destroy all life beyond Paradis Island]].]]

* Hiroki Sawada -- or [[BrainUploading Noah's Ark]] in the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' NonSerialMovie ''Phantom of Baker Street''. A ChildProdigy who was [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation already beyond what the Japanese elementary school can handle]], which sparked arguments among his parents, culminating in his mother [[TakingTheKids taking him to the US]]. When [[MissingMom she died]] soon after, he was adequately homeschooled and adopted by his father's employer, Joe Schneider, which quickly made him a LonelyRichKid, who also exploit his intelligence...Schneider's own fear of [[InTheBlood his ancestry's dark history]], though, [[DrivenToSuicide drove Hiroki to suicide]], [[BrainUploading leaving a digitalized form of himself]] behind, who caused a HolodeckMalfunction on Schneider's [[{{cyberspace}} VR game]] launch, taking 50 kids as hostages...

** Vegeta. He had to be taken by Frieza, one of the universe's most evil characters from his father, King Vegeta, when he was a little boy in what was heavily implied to be a deal Frieza forced upon him. Then, Vegeta is forced to obey Frieza's commands or else he would murder his dad, and despite this, Frieza killed him anyways, and then committed genocide against his own people, and even afterwards he was treated by a slave by Frieza and his henchman, especially Frieza and Zarbon. When Goku learns of these details when Vegeta was dying from Frieza puncturing his heart with a death beam, even Goku took pity on him.

** Majin Buu as well. Fat Buu kills and destroys because it's all he knows, specifically because it's all his unscrupulous handlers taught him. Once he's told by someone he considers a friend (Mr. Satan) that killing is wrong, he changes his ways and stops. Super Buu in the sense that he was born because something traumatic happened to Fat Buu right after this (Bee the dog and Mr. Satan getting shot by evil gunmen), and since he and Fat Buu are one and the same and thus have the same memories and experiences (him having retained memories of Mr. Satan and everyone he fought as Fat Buu), he's technically a TragicVillain with Fat Buu's trauma informing his cataclysmic acts of evil. Even the emergence of the mindlessly destructive Kid Buu is the indirect result of what happened to Fat Buu, also making Kid Buu this in the most faintest of senses since Fat Buu's presence in Kid Buu is still enough to restrain Kid Buu from attacking Mr. Satan just as Super Buu was unable to attack him due to Fat Buu's remaining influence (though this ceases to be the case entirely once Kid Buu spits out Fat Buu).

** Majin Buu as well. Fat Buu kills and destroys because it's all he knows, specifically because it's all his unscrupulous handlers taught him. Once he's told by someone he considers a friend (Mr. Satan) that killing is wrong, he changes his ways and stops. Super Buu in the sense that he was born because something traumatic happened to Fat Buu right after this (Bee the dog and Mr. Satan getting shot by evil gunmen), and since he and Fat Buu are one and the same and thus have the same memories and experiences (having retained memories of Mr. Satan and everyone Fat Buu fought), he's technically a TragicVillain with Fat Buu's trauma informing his cataclysmic acts of evil. Even the emergence of the mindlessly destructive Kid Buu is the indirect result of what happened to Fat Buu, also making Kid Buu this in the most faintest of senses since Fat Buu's presence in Kid Buu is still enough to restrain Kid Buu from attacking Mr. Satan just as Super Buu was unable to attack Mr. Satan because of Fat Buu's remaining influence on his personality (though this ceases to be the case entirely once he spits out Fat Buu).

** Yubel is an utterly insane {{Yandere}}, who specifically wants to make the protagonist Judai's life hell. However, this is because the only way their mind could survive an entire decade of burning alive was to become convinced that love and pain are actually the same thing, and they genuinely think this is how they're supposed to show Judai their love.

** [[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.

** Yubel is an utterly insane {{Yandere}}, who specifically wants to make the protagonist Judai's life hell. However, this is because the only way their mind could survive an entire decade of burning alive was to become convinced that love and pain are actually the same thing, and they [[TheMentallyDisturbed genuinely think]] this is how they're supposed to show Judai their love.