History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / ComicBooks

* ''Comicbook/XMen'': Madelyne Pryor learned that she was a clone of Jean Grey and was abandoned by her husband, Scott Summers (who fell in love with her ''because'' of her obvious similarity to Jean, though neither knew she was a clone at the time, assuming it to just be mere {{co|ntrivedCoincidence}}incidence that they looked exactly alike), when he reunited with Jean, after Jean [[UnexplainedRecovery returned]] from the dead. Then Maddie's infant son was kidnapped and she was left for dead. She has a daydream where she's ripped apart to build the woman her husband actually wants and then is offered revenge. Thinking that it's just a dream, she accepts, which, naturally, leaves her possessed by a demon and willing to sacrifice her baby (who she finally has the power to find) to allow the demons of Limbo to take over the Earth.

* ''ComicBook/{{Powers}} includes [[spoiler:Supershock]] whose motive rant is straight out of the PhysicalGod SmugSuper AGodAmI playbook, but [[spoiler: as he fades out of existence,]] finally admits that what really made him snap was not how much better he was than everyone else, but how, even with his Godlike powers, "I could never save you all. Not all. Not all."

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* ComicBook/SuperboyPrime could count. Yeah, he's skimmed over the MoralEventHorizon and many believe that he's completely irredeemable, but just look at how he got this way. Right after he learned that he was a counterpart to his childhood hero, his (and supposedly our) universe was wiped out and [[RetGone removed from history]]. Afterwards, everyone just forgot about him, while he was isolated in a pocket universe - only to be used by [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]]. And now that he's [[NoFourthWall back in our reality]], he's completely aware that [[TheScrappy everyone hates him.]] He's one JerkassWoobie [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds.]]
* [[spoiler:Mario]] in ''ComicBook/UniversalWarOne''.

* Doctor Destiny becomes one in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. Sure, he kills innocents to get his Materioptikon back. Sure, he uses it to project his own twisted, psychotic delusions onto reality. But his ramblings drive home just how sad and ''sick'' he is underneath it all. His first appearance in the series reveals that he is ''incapable of sleeping'', and he's become a paranoid, shivering wreck stuck in solitary confinement, he barely looks human, and he's not allowed any clothes because he keeps attempting to hang himself. Then once Morpheus takes the stone back from him, he immediately breaks down crying and says he's sorry, and Morpheus believes he was totally sincere.

* Long time on again/off again X-Men antagonist/ally ComicBook/{{Magneto}} arguably fits this trope, having suffered through the discrimination of World War II as a boy only to face it again as an adult for being a mutant, though he's better known for being a WellIntentionedExtremist.

** He picks up more experience than he'd like later on: during the {{Creator/Wildstorm}} crossover ''Armageddon'', he gets trapped in the Wildstorm Universe in such a way that he cannot leave and will eventually blow up, killing everyone in the Wildstorm universe. He does everything he can to prevent this from happening, but [[spoiler:while he does eventually get cured and sent home, Nicola blows up the universe instead, but also recreates it in its post InfiniteCrisis incarnation]].

* Joey Finklebarr, in ''Freak Force'', is a boy who wakes up with super-strength and invulnerability. Once picked upon, [[spoiler:he proceeds to murder his schoolmates and his abusive father.]] He is all but unstoppable, [[spoiler:but gets talked down by Savage Dragon on the brink of total nihilism]].

* TheJoker from ''ComicBook/FlashPoint'' is even more of an example, [[spoiler: as [[GenderFlip she]] is none other than ''Martha Wayne'' aka our usual Batman's mother, who [[DespairEventHorizon completely]] [[GomadFromTheRevelation lost it]] when a young Bruce was murdered. ([[DeathByOriginStory Instead of her and Dr. Thomas Wayne]], like we all know.)]] [[spoiler: Thomas himself may count, as ''he'' is the one who goes Batman in this universe and for exactly the same reason.]]

** He picks up more experience than he'd like later on: during the {{Wildstorm}} crossover ''Armageddon'', he gets trapped in the Wildstorm Universe in such a way that he cannot leave and will eventually blow up, killing everyone in the Wildstorm universe. He does everything he can to prevent this from happening, but [[spoiler:while he does eventually get cured and sent home, Nicola blows up the universe instead, but also recreates it in its post InfiniteCrisis incarnation]].

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker in the ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' storyline. He decided that any universe where not only his tragic past ([[MultipleChoicePast whatever that was]]) could happen, but a guy like the one he became could be left alive and allowed to run rampant...well, a universe like that didn't deserve to exist.

** Furthermore, after being badly injured and put in a coma following the Infinite Crisis events, Captain Atom, making the best out of the hard learned lessons of the past months, personally captures, enslaves, and trains (by fighting to death in his personal arena) several alternate versions of people he knew, for the expressed purpose of conquering and laying waste to the entire
Multiverse, in revenge for his past Woobie life. [[FanonDiscontinuity Or not.]]

** Furthermore, after being badly injured and put in a coma following the Infinite Crisis events, Captain Atom, making the best out of the hard learned lessons of the past months, personally captures, enslaves, and trains (by fighting to death in his personal arena) several alternate versions of people he knew, for the expressed purpose of conquering and laying waste to the entire Multiverse, in revenge for his past Woobie life. [[FanonDiscontinuity Or not.]]

* Superboy Prime could count. Yeah, he's skimmed over the MoralEventHorizon and many believe that he's completely irredeemable, but just look at how he got this way. Right after he learned that he was a counterpart to his childhood hero, his (and supposedly our) universe was wiped out and [[RetGone removed from history]]. Afterwards, everyone just forgot about him, while he was isolated in a pocket universe - only to be used by [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]]. And now that he's [[NoFourthWall back in our reality]], he's completely aware that [[TheScrappy everyone hates him.]] He's one JerkassWoobie [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds.]]

* Evil Ernie from ''Creator/ChaosComics'' was emotionally and physically abused by both his parents. As if that wasn't enough, he had telepathic powers that allowed him to find out that his neighbors knew about his abuse for years, but didn't do anything out of fear of retaliation because his wealthy parents controlled the business that was the number one employer in town. It was this that finally pushed Ernie over the edge, turning him into a serial killer and later, thanks to the original not-so-heroic [[ComicBook/LadyDeath Lady Death]], into the mass-murdering spearhead of a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie apocalypse that would ultimately wipe out the United States and lead to an apocalyptic nuclear war.]]

* Evil Ernie from ''Creator/ChaosComics'' was emotionally and physically abused by both his parents. As if that wasn't enough, he had telepathic powers that allowed him to find out that his neighbors knew about his abuse for years, but didn't do anything because his wealthy parents controlled the business that was the number one employer in town and were afraid they would retaliate. It was this that finally pushed Ernie over the edge, turning him into a serial killer and later, thanks to the original not-so-heroic [[ComicBook/LadyDeath Lady Death]], into the mass-murdering spearhead of a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie apocalypse that would ultimately wipe out the United States and lead to an apocalyptic nuclear war.]]

* Evil Ernie from ''Creator/ChaosComics'' was emotionally and physically abused by both his parents. As if that wasn't enough, he had telepathic powers that allowed him to find out that his neighbors knew about his abuse for years, but didn't do anything because his wealthy parents controlled the business that was the number one employer in town and were afraid they would retaliate. It was this that finally pushed Ernie over the edge, turning him into a serial killer and later, thanks to the original not-so-heroic ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'', into the spearhead of a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie apocalypse that would ultimately wipe out the United States and lead to an apocalyptic nuclear war.]]

* Evil Ernie from ''Publisher/ChaosComics'' was emotionally and physically abused by both his parents. As if that wasn't enough, he had telepathic powers that allowed him to find out that his neighbors knew about his abuse for years, but didn't do anything because his wealthy parents controlled the business that was the number one employer in town and were afraid they would retaliate. It was this that finally pushed Ernie over the edge, turning him into a serial killer and later, thanks to the original not-so-heroic ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'', into the spearhead of a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie apocalypse that would ultimately wipe out the United States and lead to an apocalyptic nuclear war.]]

** [[FanonDiscontinuity Furthermore, after being badly injured and put in a coma following the Infinite Crisis events, Captain Atom, making the best out of the hard learned lessons of the past months, personally captures, enslaves, and trains (by fighting to death in his personal arena) several alternate versions of people he knew, for the expressed purpose of conquering and laying waste to the entire Multiverse, in revenge for his past Woobie life]].

* In the LooseCanon tie-in to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'', Sombra is presented as this, in contrast to the BlankCharacter of the show. Sombra was originally just an amnesiac orphan unicorn in the Crystal Empire's orphanage, a shy and gentle colt with a speech impediment who was constantly passed over by potential parents and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer picked on mercilessly by the rest of the orphans]]. He had only one friend, a ditzy unicorn filly named Radiant Hope. His StartOfDarkness came when, on the first visit to the yearly Crystal Faire, the Crystal Heart showed him a vision of his becoming a terrifying monster, in contrast to his friend's vision of becoming a princess. Every year after, on that day, he would be left bedridden with immense pain, which got increasingly worse until one day, when he started ''[[BodyHorror slowly disintegrating]]''! When his friend saves his life with a unique healing spell, he becomes convinced that his own descent into evil will soon follow. He promptly runs away from the orphanage, hoping to prevent this from happening, and in the process he finally finds out who he is: a creation of an EldritchAbomination called the Umbrum that has been imprisoned deep beneath the Crystal Empire, sent to sabotage the Crystal Heart and set it free. This pushes him over the edge, convincing him that YouCantFightFate, and he went back to the Empire to steal the Crystal Heart. It wasn't until he was confronted by Princess Amora, who revealed she had known who/what he was all along and had simply left him in the orphanage, hoping he would somehow "choose good" even when he had nothing and nopony except Radiant Hope, that the last vestiges of his old self snapped and he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil truly embraced darkness]]. InUniverse, even ''Twilight Sparkle'' expresses sympathy for Sombra after reading his backstory in his old diary, although Cadance pointedly reminds Twilight not to forget that a sympathetic backstory doesn't excuse the evil he did.

* In the LooseCanon tie-in to ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'', Sombra is presented as this, in contrast to the BlankCharacter of the show. Sombra was originally just an amnesiac orphan unicorn in the Crystal Empire's orphanage, a shy and gentle colt with a speech impediment who was constantly passed over by potential parents and [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer picked on mercilessly by the rest of the orphans]]. He had only one friend, a ditzy unicorn filly named Radiant Hope. His StartOfDarkness came when, on the first visit to the yearly Crystal Faire, the Crystal Heart showed him a vision of his becoming a terrifying monster, in contrast to his friend's vision of becoming a princess. Every year after, on that day, he would be left bedridden with immense pain, which got increasingly worse until one day, when he started ''[[BodyHorror slowly disintegrating]]''! When his friend saves his life with a unique healing spell, he becomes convinced that his own descent into evil will soon follow. He promptly runs away from the orphanage, hoping to prevent this from happening, and in the process he finally finds out who he is: a creation of an EldritchAbomination called the Umbrum that has been imprisoned deep beneath the Crystal Empire, sent to sabotage the Crystal Heart and set it free. This pushes him over the edge, convincing him that YouCantFightFate, and he went back to the Empire to steal the Crystal Heart. It wasn't until he was confronted by Princess Amora, who revealed she had known who/what he was all along and had simply left him in the orphanage, hoping he would somehow "choose good" even when he had nothing and nopony except Radiant Hope, that the last vestiges of his old self snapped and he [[ThenLetMeBeEvil truly embraced darkness]]. InUniverse, even ''Twilight Sparkle'' expresses sympathy for Sombra after reading his backstory in his old diary, although Cadance pointedly reminds Twilight not to forget that a sympathetic backstory doesn't excuse the evil he did.

* Long time on again/off again X-Men antagonist/ally {{Magneto}} arguably fits this trope, having suffered through the discrimination of World War II as a boy only to face it again as an adult for being a mutant, though he's better known for being a WellIntentionedExtremist.

* Superboy Prime could count. Yeah, he's skimmed over the MoralEventHorizon and many believe that he's completely irredeemable, but just look at how he got this way. Right after he learned that he was a counterpart to his childhood hero, his (and supposedly our) universe was wiped out and [[RetGone removed from history]] ([[ItGotBetter it's better now]]). Afterwards, everyone just forgot about him, while he was isolated in a pocket universe - only to be used by [[ManipulativeBastard Alexander Luthor Jr.]]. And now that he's [[NoFourthWall back in our reality]], he's completely aware that [[TheScrappy everyone hates him.]] He's one JerkassWoobie [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Destroyer of Worlds.]]

* ComicBook/TheBoys has recently gone into this territory. Butchers response after finally having revenge on the man/superhero who raped and indirectly killed his wife [[spoiler:kill every superhero in the world. A superhero raped his wife who in turn did not tell him about it. Several months after the event the fetus from this rape grew exponentially and clawed its way out of her womb, killing her in the process.]]