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6	[[MoralityTropes Morality Trope]], potentially overlapping with RaceTropes. A character who has [[DarkAndTroubledPast experienced some form of oppression or injustice in the past]] or has a background that makes it likely they or their family have suffered such a fate will not stand idly by when others are subjected to the same form of oppression or injustice, often making witnessing such mistreatment [[ItsPersonal hit close to home]] and a special form of BerserkButton for this character and motivating them to become the BullyHunter or [[SlaveLiberation liberate the slaves]], or creating/joining a LaResistance group.
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8	Sometimes it is merely implied by the character's (or actor's) race that they may have had personal experience with or knowledge of that kind of oppression, even if such experiences are not actually portrayed in the story or, sometimes, even part of the setting, potentially also making this a case of UnfortunateImplications (though usually in an at least somewhat positive fashion, as a character who is this trope is heroic rather than monstrous or villainous) or ValuesDissonance.
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10	A heroic character who fights any form of injustice or oppression isn't ''necessarily'' this -- in order to be considered this trope, it must be specifically the same form of injustice that you suffered that you fight, or at least initially so, as such an occasion could also serve as [[CallToAdventure the call]] that starts the character on a true [[TheHerosJourney hero's journey]]. May lead to a HeelFaceTurn if an initially antagonistic character decides to take the moral high road, and may also become a case of EvilVersusEvil if a villainous character does fight injustice but resorts to less than heroic means to do so. If an antagonist does not reform, at least expect a PetTheDog moment.
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12	A character being this trope differs from being a DefectorFromDecadence or TheAtoner in that the character did not use to perpetrate, espouse or tolerate the kinds of injustice they are now fighting, but used to actually suffer them (e.g. a slaveholder who starts fighting slavery is not this trope, and neither would be a character who neither was a slave themselves nor had members of their family enslaved, but a former slave or one of their descendants would be). This also makes this trope a (usually heroic) inversion of the FreudianExcuse in that the abuse you suffer does not lead to you inflicting abuse on others but to you protecting others from suffering the same fate.
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14	Contrast PayEvilUntoEvil, TheChainOfHarm, and {{Revenge}}.
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16	%% Subtrope of PersonallyRelating. Compare PayingItForward, when it's good deeds being done on you that inspires you to do the same on others.
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23	* ''Manga/Fabricant100'': Ashibi wants to destroy all Fabricants more so that nobody would suffer the loss of their family like he did, than out of revenge.
24	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''. In that series, he ''[[SuplexFinisher suplexes the vice principal]]'' for calling wayward students "trash". He also has at least one horrible SadistTeacher, which informs his actions in the sequel series.
25	** In ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'', Eikichi's father was [[DisappearedDad never around]] when he was a kid, so one of his {{Berserk Button}}s is deadbeat fathers, as Makoto finds out to his terror during a PregnancyScare.
26	* Fate Testarossa from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' is a failed [[MadScientist mad science]] experiment that survived rather horrific [[AbusiveParents parental abuse]] as a child. Upon growing up, she makes it her life's mission to save abused and ostracized children, especially those whom [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman most people wouldn't even consider human]].
27	* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Having suffered from starvation in the past, Sanji will help anyone close to him who's hungry, even potential enemies.
28	* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': During Loid Forger's DarkAndTroubledPast, it was shown that [[spoiler:he lost his parents at a young age due to Ostania bombing his home, and he lost his friends due to the ineptitude of one of Westalis generals. After meeting Franky and joining WISE, Loid readily picked up becoming a spy so that other Westalis and Ostanian families don't suffer as he did, and to ensure that the ineptitude that killed his friends doesn't repeat again.]]
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32	* In ''Franchise/DragonAge: ComicBook/BlueWraith'', the title character is a former slave who (since being freed from his master's control in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'') has taken up the cause of SlaveLiberation in the heart of the Tevinter Imperium, particularly targeting magisters with designs of turning their slaves into {{Living Weapon}}s -- like his former owner did to him.
33	* ComicBook/{{Magneto}} is one of the most famous characters motivated by this mindset. As a [[MultipleChoicePast Romani/Jew/other ethnic minority]] during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, he and his family suffered horribly at the hands of [[ThoseWackyNazis the Nazis]], and he learned firsthand the terrible results of bigotry and hatred. To that end, he opposes that same treatment towards [[FantasticRacism mutants]]. However, Magneto's methods are very much a case of DependingOnTheWriter, as sometimes he is 100% correct or even heroic while at other times he is treated as a WellIntentionedExtremist who BecameTheirOwnAntithesis. It depends on whatever the current status quo is, really.
34	* This is almost a hat for ComicBook/{{X 23}}:
35	** Being an OppositeSexClone, Laura [[BerserkButton is extremely sensitive to genetic experimentation and exploitation]]. It led to her siding with the Sisters against Alchemax in ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'', and the central plot of the Tamaki series involved her hunting down and ''shutting'' down further attempts to experiment on her genetics. She has outright stated that she refuses to let anyone else suffer as she did, and intends to make good on that promise.
36	** Additionally, Laura spent some time as a StreetWalker under a particularly sadistic and cruel pimp. As a result, she's evolved into something of a WifeBasherBasher who goes out of her way to bust up any [[HumanTraffickers human and sex traffickers]] she comes across. On several occasions, she has outright killed people she caught brutalizing prostitutes (and in one case killed a man who murdered a girl she ''[[MistakenForProstitute thought]]'' was a prostitute).
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40	* Subverted in ''Fanfic/TheBestOfAllPossibleWorlds''. Algarotti thinks Voltaire opposes the Catholic Church because he suffered under it as a victim of a PedophilePriest. Voltaire is infuriated by this, emphasizing he opposes the Church for different reasons.
41	-->'''Voltaire:''' I am not to be ''explained'', to be brushed away, merely as someone fighting an injustice for no other reason than because I was a victim of said injustice.
42	* ''Fanfic/CometVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Marcia sympathizes with the FantasticRacism that monsters face due to how her family has been treated by those who despise them simply for having Mexican heritage.
43	* ''Fanfic/{{Daymare}}'': After hiding his Quirk for years [[BadPowersGoodPeople due to being afraid and ashamed of it]], Izuku empathizes with how Shouto has struggled under [[AbusiveParents Endeavor's abuse]], encouraging him to speak out about it:
44	-->'''Izuku:''' I-I know it's hard, t-to... to reach out. W-when you're in pain, when you... h-have a secret, you think 'it's better that nobody knows'. You c-convince yourself you're in c-control, and you're... p-preventing a worst-case s-scenario. You build it up s-so big in your head that j-just thinking about it hurts, l-let alone talking about it. B-but... keeping it inside i-is just going to hurt you more. I-I'm not saying you h-have to tell someone, e-even though I think you s-should. B-but... if it's e-ever too much to carry... y-y-you can talk to m-me. I-I promise I'll always listen.
45	* ''Fanfic/DearDiary'':
46	** Cenn opposes N's plans to forcibly separate Pokémon from humans and release them all back into the wild due to how much ''he'' suffered while growing up out there:
47	--->'''Cenn''': I grew up in the wild. Did you even consider that some of us want to be caught? I willingly joined Blair. And given the choice, knowing the sort of man he is, I would do so again. The forest where I lived was hell. I suffered things you can't even understand. And our friend who died? She died at the hands of wild pokémon. So don’t act as though you're making some grand utopia by forcing us back into a world of eat-or-be-eaten—especially not when you just [[spoiler:ordered the murder of one of my good friends]]!
48	** On the flip side, Laguna hates Blair and other abusive trainers due to how she was taken from her home and family and suffered at the hands of humans. Part of her CharacterDevelopment is realizing that she doesn't ''have'' to automatically side with anyone who opposes what she went through, even if they're causing different kinds of harm in the process, and moving more towards not wanting ''anyone'' to be hurt.
49	* ''Fanfic/DoofenshmirtzHeroIncorporated'': Doof's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood spurs him to take the well-being of his charges at U.A. ''very'' seriously, as he works to help them with their various psychological problems and other issues.
50	* In ''Fanfic/TheEmperorAndTheGoddess'', Edelgard's hatred of the Crest system stems from the deaths of her siblings from [[PlayingWithSyringes the Crest experiments inflicted upon them]]. When she comes out of the ordeal as the SoleSurvivor, she vows never to let anyone else be victimized for want of a Crest, even if it means [[RageAgainstTheHeavens challenging the Goddess Herself]].
51	* ''Fanfic/RaiseYourVoiceAgainstLiars'': An unintentional {{Aver\|tedTrope}}sion of this gets PlayedForDrama. While the Phantom Thieves recognized that Gabriel was a ControlFreak, they don't attempt to target him and change his heart right away, due to having other targets that needed to be dealt with. Once they learn that he's Hawkmoth, they set their sights on him. When Adrien learns all of this, he complains that none of them cared about ''his'' safety, bitterly remarking that clearly none of them know what it's like to live with somebody like that. This causes a good chunk of the Phantom Thieves to wince, as many of them ''do'' have personal experience with abusive guardians.
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55	* Defied by Archibald Snatcher in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', who, as a "Red-Hat", is of lower social status than the "White-Hats", but is quite willing to step on those who are even lower on the rungs of the social ladder than himself, i.e. the eponymous vilified boxtrolls. Played straight and even lampshaded by the Red-Hats Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles, who have a HeelRealization and, even when faced with failing to obtain a better social status by doing so, decide to aid the oppressed [[spoiler:boxtrolls and their human allies Winifred and Eggs]].
56	* In ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', Emily had her happiness stolen from her [[spoiler:when she was murdered for her dowry by the man she had eloped with]]. At the end, she protects Victoria from a similar fate [[spoiler:even at the cost of her own happiness, and especially because it would now have been Emily who inflicted such a fate on another bride]], because she knows exactly how painful it is.
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60	* Invoked and inverted by Erik Killmonger in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', who has personally experienced racism and discrimination while growing up in the USA and now intends to save other black people around the world from suffering similar fates [[spoiler:by arming them with advanced vibranium weapons, at the very least ignoring and probably being fully aware that the people he arms will merely [[PersecutionFlip become the new oppressors in turn]]. There's also the fact that by making himself the ruler of a non-democratic African nation, one that he intends to lead to war with the rest of the world, he will be oppressing black people himself.]] Ultimately averted, as it's clear Killmonger doesn't oppose what he suffered in the slightest, [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist he just wants to be the one dishing it out]].
61	* African-American Bruce [=MacDonald=] in ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' is willing to protect Caesar, likely because he knows all about dehumanisation, oppression, and exploitation from his own racial background. He asks Caesar not to act like the humans who enslaved his kind, invoking his slave ancestry while doing so.
62	* In the zombie comedy ''Film/{{Deadheads}}'', Thomas Jeremiah, who is African-American, hunts the [[spoiler:intelligent and quite harmless]] zombie protagonist for a shady corporation. When it becomes clear that the corporation intends to enslave the zombies, this prompts Jeremiah's HeelFaceTurn [[spoiler:and he helps the zombies escape and reach the girl who happens to have become engaged to one of the zombies before he was turned]].
63	* In ''Film/District9'', Wikus initially does not seem to mind harassing and even killing the aliens [[spoiler:while he is still human]]. It is only later[[spoiler:, when he hasn't only started turning into an alien himself but has also been treated as less than human and even been experimented upon by humans]] that he starts fighting alongside the aliens, though it is not made clear whether he is truly doing this because he, having suffered the same treatment, now sees it as wrong and fights it for that reason[[spoiler:, or because he still believes he needs to protect the aliens so they can turn him human again]].
64	* In ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'', Vincent allows the wind to carry away a genetic sample given to him by Irene when she is clearly afraid he will reject her because of her imperfect genes. [[spoiler:Actually having used bought genetic samples to assume another man's identity after having been discriminated against because of his own imperfect genes all his life,]] Vincent knows exactly how Irene feels.
65	* In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] Liz Sherman bursts into flame when a crowd throws a rock at Hellboy, [[spoiler:turning the whole situation into a [[FaceHeelTurn Face-Heel Temptation,]]]] but manages to restrain herself and merely launch into a ReasonYouSuckSpeech. A flashback in ''Film/Hellboy2004'' showed that Elizabeth had had rocks thrown at herself, too when she was still a little girl and her powers were manifesting [[spoiler:uncontrollably, which then resulted in an explosion that killed several bullying kids]].
66	* In ''Film/IronSky'', James, who is African-American, is pretty much the only decent person in the entire film[[spoiler: (apart from the people of Finland). While this isn't difficult when the antagonists are actual Nazis [[RecycledINSPACE From Space]], James also both fights the Nazis with violence as well as by working to [[{{Deprogram}} deprogram]] those who just don't know things could be different]]. Additionally, the fact that the US President deliberately sent James to the moon in a publicity stunt to get the black vote shows that discrimination against African-Americans is a thing in the film's setting that requires patching up, or at least papering over, in the President's eyes.
67	* The African mercenary Albert Laurent decides to help the main characters in ''Film/TheIsland2005''. Their tattooed numbers[[spoiler:, which identify them as clones - their lives to be thrown away for the benefit of their purchasers - ]] remind him of the reason he was branded himself as a child[[spoiler:, making him switch sides]].
68	* In the 1986 film version of ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'', [[ManEatingPlant Audrey II]] can only tempt [[ExtremeDoormat everybody's doormat]] Seymour [[spoiler:into committing murder]] when they watch Audrey being treated the same way.
69	* In the 2021 film ''Film/{{Old}}'', African-American policeman Mitchel immediately helps Trent and Maddox, no questions asked, [[spoiler:when they reveal to him the resort's management runs cruel and ultimately fatal medical experiments on some of the guests. Considering Mitchel's family's likely history of slavery as well as the more recent [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study Tuskegee medical experiments on African-Americans]] it's not surprising that everybody on the beach having been exploited and effectively enslaved for medical experimentation touches a nerve and prompts Mitchel to quick action]].
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73	* Several cases in Sir Terry Pratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
74	** In ''Literature/SmallGods'', Brutha is used (and abused) as a useful pawn [[spoiler:(or sacrifice)]] by the authorities of the Church of Om, the god Om himself, and even by those opposing the church. Later,[[spoiler: once Om has regained his power and instated Brutha as the new head of the church,]] Brutha works to reform the church ''as well as his own god'' to make sure that people are never treated as mere pieces on a chessboard by the church or his god ever again. [[spoiler:This has backfired a bit by the time of ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', but still.]]
75	** In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Pepe stands up to the bully Andy when no one else does[[spoiler:, both by providing the protagonists with protection against Andy's favoured GroinAttack and by actually cutting Andy with a knife, a treatment Andy is very keen on inflicting on others]], and in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Pepe states that he is very familiar with bullies, implicitly from having been bullied himself[[spoiler:, potentially about his ambiguous species and sexuality]], and will not allow bullies to get away with it anymore.
76	* In Frank Herbert's ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' series, the Bene Gesserit struggle to improve humanity because they have inherited all the atrocities humanity has both suffered and inflicted through their GeneticMemory (though it would be argued by the Bene Gesserit themselves that this is more of a case of the Bene Gesserit being [[TheAtoner the atoners]] rather than [[OpposeWhatYouSuffered opposing what their genetic ancestors suffered]] since they only inherit the memories of ''survivors'' - which usually means the memories of those who perpetrate atrocities rather than suffer them).
77	* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, Harry was raised by his abusive aunt and uncle. This contributes to his empathy for others who've been abused, like Dobby the House Elf.
78	* Katniss Everdeen of ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' trilogy, having survived the eponymous GladiatorGames twice (in consecutive years to boot), is not ''at all'' amused [[spoiler:with the notion of the game being set up one more time involving the Capitol children, to the point of personally killing Alma Coin for (among other things) coming up with this proposal]].
79	* ''Literature/NightWorld'': Rashel Jordan eventually fights to protect innocent people, especially kids, from being harmed by dangerous Night People; as a little girl, her family was killed by a vampire and she only narrowly escaped herself.
80	* ''Literature/PleaseDontTellMyParentsImASupervillain'': In the short story ''Summer of Lob,'' Evolution (an African-American man in the sixties who normally shapeshifts into an elemental form) comments that Bull is the first person who has seen him in his human form and hasn't had a racist reaction. Bull replies that growing up with stories about the generations of racism Irishmen like him endured in New York left him disinclined to look down on other people because of their ancestry.
81	* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Daenerys Targaryen opposes slavery, to the point of conquering all of Slaver's Bay to [[SlaveLiberation free their slaves]], because she herself knows what it's like to be treated like property; her brother Viserys gave her as [[ArrangedMarriage a wife]] to Drogo when she was only thirteen in exchange for an army, not caring in the slightest that she didn't want to marry him or how Drogo treated her as long as got what he wanted.
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85	* ''Series/TheLateLateShowWithCraigFerguson'': In 2007, unlike other humorists and late-night talk show hosts, Creator/CraigFerguson notably refused to ridicule Music/BritneySpears while she was suffering her CreatorBreakdown, as he sincerely sympathized with her struggles, sharing stories about his own struggles with drug and alcohol abuse when he was younger, culminating with a plan to commit suicide on Christmas Day, which he called off at the last minute when he stepped into a pub for some sherry, and decided he needed help. He did the same thing about Creator/CharlieSheen as he suffered his own breakdown in 2011.
86	* Unsurprisingly, several cases in ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
87	** In the second season ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan "The Measure of a Man"]], the android Data's rights are contested, as a scientist argues he should be treated as [[JustAMachine a machine]], rather than a person[[spoiler:, and this fact is even demonstrated by Data being taken apart and switched off without his consent]]. In the season 6 episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife "The Quality of Life"]], Data then goes to extreme lengths to protect an emerging machine life-form from being treated in the same manner before they can fully achieve sentience[[spoiler:, even going so far as to risk the life of his own best friend, Geordi La Forge]].
88	** In the fifth season ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E12TheBegotten "The Begotten"]], the [[spoiler:former ]]shapeshifter Odo tries to raise an infant shapeshifter. When Odo himself was an infant, he was treated as a mere lab specimen and even subjected to painful experiments before he could convince the scientists he was self-aware, and now he works hard to protect the infant shapeshifter from suffering the same fate, [[spoiler:refusing to allow even the man whose experiments helped Odo gain control over his own shapeshifting abilities in the first place to help]]. Instead, Odo chooses to raise the infant shapeshifter in a very gentle, nurturing manner. [[spoiler:Eventually, however, the scientist who raised Odo demonstrates that raising an infant may also require a bit of ToughLove on occasion when Odo's progress hits a wall.]]
89	* Two examples in ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'':
90	** African-American Mayor Walker initially obstructs exonerating Gomez[[spoiler: of murder, but relents when Morticia asks him the ArmourPiercingQuestion of whether he has ever had experience of not being believed when speaking out.]]
91	** Mayor Walker's son Lucas [[spoiler:initially attempts to help his co-bullies sabotage the outcasts' school party, but becomes conflicted about it, and is then visibly horrified when his co-bullies hurl racist abuse at the outcast Enid, prompting Lucas to disassociate from them for good.]]
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95	* Volk from ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' exploits (and misappropriates) this trope: The [[StoryBreadcrumbs details]] available on his background show that he came from a life of absolute poverty, struggling to get by and having nothing whatsoever to his name. Blaming others for his deprived youth, he now fights anyone with privilege or in a position of power no matter whether they are responsible for anyone's suffering or not - he is introduced murdering a mayor who has used his influence to help his townspeople prosper.
96	* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'': In a downplayed example, Adonis grew up weak and sickly which led to him being taken advantage of by some stronger people. Now that [[SicklyChildGrewUpStrong he's grown up into a fit and strong man]], he often repeats a declaration to protect the small and weak, because he knows what it's like to be powerless.
97	* When asked about why he so readily helps the Sole Survivor, Teddy Wright, the local doctor of Far Harbor in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', explains that his own family was refused acceptance and aid by the residents for ''generations'' after their arrival.
98	* In ''VideoGame/Journey2012'', the various cloth creatures you encounter used to be used to power the machinery [[spoiler:and engines of war]] of the Ancients. When you free some of these creatures from the machinery they are trapped in, they will insist on leading you to other entrapped cloth creatures so you can free them as well.
99	* Several cases in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'':
100	** Juhani wanted to become a Jedi knight to fight against awful conditions like those she and her family used to live in when they were fugitives.
101	** [[spoiler:The villainous]] Yuthura Ban wants to complete her [[spoiler:Sith]] training to gain the power to free slaves explicitly because she used to be a slave herself[[spoiler:, which would also make this a case of EvilVersusEvil - by the time you meet her, she has certainly become a WellIntentionedExtremist at best and is close to even JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and abandoning her heroic cause entirely]].
102	* Several instances in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' universe:
103	** In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', the biotic Jack was both a captive and a test subject of Cerberus when she was a child. If she survives the SuicideMission in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2,'' Jack later becomes the MamaBear (if ToughLove-practising) teacher of a group of young biotics in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', when Cerberus comes back and attempts to abduct them in order to turn them into biotic assassins.
104	** Pretty much all the civilisations [[spoiler:already wiped out by the Reapers in previous cycles]] who have been working on the Crucible, [[spoiler:a device that is supposed to [[ExactWords end the Reaper threat once and for all]],]] count, because they clearly want to make sure the same thing does not happen to other civilisations [[spoiler:even if it is too late for themselves]]. Also counts as [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture Flinging a Light into the Future]].
105	* ''Franchise/StreetFighter:'' The reason Chun-Li becomes an Interpol agent is to stop the evil organization Shadaloo from ruining more people's lives after they played a part in her DarkAndTroubledPast (i.e having her father killed).
106	* Tanimura from ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'' lost his father at a very young age; thus, when he became older, he took to [[AntiHero gambling and extortion]] so that he could provide funds for the Asian Gateway, a group that takes in and supports children who have lost their parents to deportation.
107	* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'': Subtly hinted to be Rex's motivation. Having lost his parents at a young age to the growing land crisis plaguing Alrest either having to feel their dying titan or due to war for land, Rex sought to find Elysium in order to find somewhere where people would no longer have to fight for resources. At the same time, while he was happily taken in by Fonsett Village he goes out of his way to pay them back and even funding the education of other kids in the village to pay them back and ensure everyone was able to live a comfortable life.
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111	* In ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'', Hideyoshi is especially passionate about Nobunaga's plans to create a more equal world and always does his best to stand up for the lowest members of society because he himself grew up in poverty [[spoiler:and specifically, as a member of the Sanka gypsies, a maligned ethnicity]] and was only saved from that status due to Nobunaga's charity.
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115	* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': [[spoiler: [[Characters/BojackHorsemanBeatriceHorseman Beatrice Horseman]] had a child out of wedlock, and as a result, she endured a really crappy daily life. As a result, she desperately tries to stop Henrietta from going through the same thing she did in "Time's Arrow" by making her give her baby up for adoption]].
116	* Trevor Belmont, the last remaining member of the Belmont Family in ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}''. Following centuries of [[HunterOfMonsters hunting monsters to protect the people of Walachia]], the Belmonts were falsely accused of practicing {{black magic}} by corrupt members of the [[CorruptChurch clergy]], leading to his ancestral home being burned down and his parents murdered when Trevor was eight years old. Whilst this has left him cynical and jaded towards most of mankind, Trevor also possesses a deep empathy towards those who are unfairly persecuted by the corrupt. Protecting a nomadic group called the [[ProudScholarRace Speakers]] from being scapegoated by a corrupt bishop marks his transition from simply drifting through to actually taking a stand in general.
117	* Zigzagged two ways from Sunday in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': [[Characters/TransformersPrimeMegatron Megatron]] started out as a [[YouAreNumberSix nameless]] transformer slaving away in the mines underneath {{Bad Boss}}es, and eventually found his way to the [[GladiatorGames Gladiatorial pits]], where he earned his freedom through his victories, taking the name '[[InternalHomage Megatronus]]' after the original TragicVillain of the mythos in the process, hoping to strike fear into his gladiatorial opponents. After earning his freedom, Megatronus gathered a following of disenfranchised transformers and campaigned for a reformation of the political system of their home planet, Cybertron, to make it more egalitarian than it was at the time... but when he was finally granted an audience with the NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering that ran the planet, he saw the flaws inherent in the political process and demanded that he be named Prime - supreme ruler. When this was refused and one of his long-time friends was given the opportunity instead, his gathering of loyal followers began a CivilWar against the rulers of the planet to make -- the now-renamed -- Megatron ruler, a CivilWar that would, after millennia of conflict, eventually render the planet uninhabitable and every single remaining transformer TheRemnant, and saw his followers rename themselves the 'Decepticons' as their goals [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil eventually became]] little more than [[FullCircleRevolution totalitarian control of everything]].
118	** The final zig of this zagging comes at the end of the series, where [[spoiler: Megatron has been possessed by [[GodOfEvil Unicron]], and is ForcedToWatch as Unicron uses his body for the purpose of finally killing off the dormant [[TheMaker Primus]] at the center of the recently-restored Cybertron. Whenever Megatron tries to resist, Unicron enacts ColdBloodedTorture upon his soul - and this leads to Megatron having a HeelRealization. When the possession is lifted, Megatron disbands the Decepticons and leaves for voluntary exile, realizing that his attempts at becoming this trope have ''utterly'' failed and that no matter what he does now, his millennia of warfare mean he will always be remembered as an EvilOverlord]].
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122	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass Frederick Douglass]] (1818-1895), who had himself escaped from slavery, fought for the abolition of slavery as well as against other forms of political discrimination.
123	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel Elie Wiesel]], a survivor of UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust and the author of ''Literature/{{Night}}'', spent his life after the Holocaust as an advocate against genocide.
124	* Emily Lindin, a feminist activist who founded the anti-sexual bullying website [[https://www.unslutproject.com/ The UnSlut Project]], did so due to slut-shaming she experienced in middle and high school.
125	* Creator/SeanConnery was born into a working-class family and had to quit school at age 13 to support his family. He spent much of his later life as an advocate for education, using his paycheck from his final (official) performance as Film/JamesBond in ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' to help establish the Scottish International Education Trust, which helps poorer Scottish families with their education costs.
126	* English football player [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Rashford Marcus Rashford]] comes from a poor working-class background and has also been campaigning against children's food poverty because of school holidays and school closures during the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic COVID-19 pandemic]] in England in 2020.
127	* As a child, Music/NeilYoung suffered from polio 3 years before the polio vaccine became available. In 2022, [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules he threatened to withdraw his music catalog from Spotify in protest of the spread of COVID-19 misinformation on the platform]], especially by radio host Joe Rogan, who invited many anti-vaxxers onto his podcast and promoted ivermectin as a treatment for the disease after it had been debunked by the experts.
128	* UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}} endured [[UsefulNotes/IrishPotatoFamine a famine in the 1840s]] that was so bad its population still hasn't recovered almost two centuries later. However, modern Ireland has become one of the largest food aid donors.
129	* In 2018, Music/PaulMcCartney participated in a March For Our Lives rally in New York City to protest gun violence. When asked why the cause was important to him, he replied, "One of my best friends was killed by gun violence.", referring to fellow [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] Music/JohnLennon, who was shot to death by a LoonyFan in NYC in 1980.
130	* Jewish American film director [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hirsch Lee Hirsch]] was bullied in his childhood, leading to him filming the 2011 documentary ''Bully'', intending to inspire advocacy, engagement, and empowerment not just in people who are being bullied and in their families, but by those who all too often stand by and do nothing.
131	* In the best case scenarios, this is how minority groups relate to each other and form inter community solidarity. Unfortunately, this often isn’t the case due to MoralMyopia.
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