Broken Ace / Fan Works

Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra

• The Saga of Avatar Korra: Korra is even stronger than she is in canon. However, being kidnapped by the Red Lotus and put through a Training from Hell regiment for fourteen years has affected her psyche, and she has very little clue about things outside training.

Backyard Sports

• Jorge Garcia in The Secret Life of the Backyard Kids. The story introduces him as a handsome, intelligent, popular, rich, charismatic young man. However, he's a Cute and Psycho Broken Bird Stepford Smiler who's abused by his dad to be perfect and he transforms into a black leopard and destroys his bank in rage.

Barbie

• Sam & Mickey's Barbie videos have her try to act like a perfect woman, with a perfect life, despite her alcoholism, unsatisfied lust, and dysfunctional family.

Bleach

• In Swinging Pendulum while Ichigo is adored for his fighting skill and ties to nobility, he comes across as very cold, arrogant and indifferent to those that either don't know him or adore him. He is also a Shell-Shocked Veteran, struggling with despair after losing everyone he held precious.

Crossovers

• Gilda in Ace Combat: The Equestrian War. Even though she became one of the best griffin fighters, she turned away from everyone and remained a solo player. Rainbow Dash makes her realize that during their second confrontation.
• Aces in the Italian remake of Battle Fantasia Project tend to be this:
  • Akiko Yamaguchi can defeat powerful opponents without the necessary power-ups. The story, as in the original, starts with her attempted suicide from all the crap she had to go through;
  • Sailor Venus is a formidable and experienced magical girl, a Super Cop and an Idol Singer. She's also a Stepford Smiler as in canon, and, differently from canon, did not get over all her issues yet;
  • Mami Tomoe has an immense mana reserve and a power that, once she got the hang of it, proved itself a Game-Breaker, making her the single most lethal Puella Magi around (she's known as Mami the Invincible, and Sakura and Homura could barely believe their eyes when they saw another Magical Girl holding her own in single combat against her). She's also a Stepford Smiler so depressed she cannot go all out unless she knows she cannon possibly survive the battle. She was also mentored by a pair of Puellae Magi she describes as formidable but also "one bad advice away from trying to destroy the world";
  • Homura Akemi is as formidable as in canon. She still has her many issues (even if she's getting better);
  • Kumiko Shizuki (nee Kaioh) is the Puella Magi who went toe-on-toe with Mami and lived. Her love life includes being Elsa Maria's lover and having to protect her from other Puellae Magi (why she was fighting with Mami in the first place);
  • Rikka Seii was a formidable Puella Magi. She's now known as Elsa Maria;
  • Megan Williams lived her well known adventures, and was instrumental in Discord's original defeat. But upon being unable to ever visit Equestria again her siblings were convinced it was all a fantasy, and her parents committed her to an asylum because she didn't 'accept' it was a fantasy. She may have escaped in short order and appear to have recovered, but her character sheet mentions she still holds a grudge after over thirty years.
• Child of the Storm has several examples:
  • Harry - initially, he's a sweet and unconsciously charming child with a gift for flying and more magical talent than most realise and a knack for quick thinking and surviving the impossible. Later, he's Tall, Dark, and Handsome, extraordinarily magically and psychically powerful, an accomplished Magic Knight who's stronger and faster than a Super-Soldier, with espionage training, a deceptively sharp mind, and fluency in multiple languages. He's a Guile Hero with a knack for a good Batman Gambit, being both charming and charismatic when he puts his mind to it. And then there's the fragment of the Phoenix, which makes him effectively immortal. Unfortunately, he's also got deeply embedded issues from his abusive childhood, he's seen at least one friend killed in front of him, he's been killed himself, and went through such a staggeringly brutal Trauma Conga Line at the start of the second book that the entire rest of the story is to one extent or another about his Mental Health Recovery Arc. Also the fact that the Phoenix makes him potentially a ticking time-bomb. More generally, he's a hotbed of self-loathing, insecurity, and neuroses, who's a bit too prone to manipulating people and a bit too bad at opening up for his own good - there is a reason he spends the entire sequel in therapy.
  • Carol's a talented sportswoman, highly attractive, and much smarter than she lets on - her nascent talents as The Strategist get noticed by the Winter Soldier, of all people. And that's before it's revealed that she's a Carter and a Super-Soldier by descent. Since she's related to (the great-granddaughter of) Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter, neither is by any means a great surprise. She's also reflexively defensive thanks to a psychologically abusive upbringing at the hands of her father (who wanted a Proper Lady, not an Action Girl), and a bit twitchy around men in general to begin with thanks to a long history of sexual harassment at the tender age of 14 - in fact, prior to meeting Harry, she has very few close friends, thanks to a long history of trust issues. She improves throughout the story, but as her interactions with Steve ( who initially reacts badly to discovering he has a small clan of descendants, though becomes a full Parental Substitute later on) show, she's got family issues.
  • Doctor Strange a.k.a. Taliesin. Off-the-charts brilliant, the most skilled sorcerer in the known history of the universe (having 500,000 years of practice will do that), and a time-travelling seer with an unrivalled mastery of manipulation, he is repeatedly and independently considered to be more dangerous than Death herself. All indications are that this is by no means an exaggeration. He's also possibly the greatest doctor ever to have lived (that being his true passion), and one of the greatest musicians in history as a mere hobby. But beneath the dashing, confident, and witty façade is an utterly broken man who has slowly been driven insane by the burdens of the task that the Time Stone put upon him, having spent his entirely stupidly extended life acting as history's wetworks man, seeing good people die when they're beyond even his power to save, and forced to spend his entire existence manipulating everything and everyone solely to defeat Thanos, something that totally isolates him. The result is an incredibly tired, lonely, and bitter old man. And that's not even getting into his original Dark and Troubled Past - it's notable that when he relates the truth about himself in the sequel, even those who can barely stand him are moved to tears.
• Princess Celestia in The God Empress of Ponykind and its sequel; she starts off as a confident warrior queen, ready to march out and forge a new empire. Luna's corruption, the resulting civil war, and the reveal that her oldest enemies are still out to get her slowly break her down to the point where she blames herself for destroying everything she ever loved.
  Celestia: You are very hopeful that this will turn out in such a way...But I gave up on hope a long time ago.
• Keeping true to her characterization in the Nasuverse, where her inhuman perfection was a major factor in leading to the downfall of Camelot, Arturia Pendragon in A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor is presented as beautiful, intelligent, wise, kind, insecure, regretful, sorrowful, and angstful in equal measure.
• My Hero School Adventure Is All Wrong As Expected gives us Hikigaya Hachiman. The first thing the rest of his class learns about him is that Hachiman jumped in front of a vehicle to save a dog, broke his leg, and then proceeded to pass the hardest hero test in the country despite that. He's incredibly well built, intelligent, charismatic, has an amazingly versatile Quirk, and is the de facto leader of his entire class. He's also been bullied throughout middle school due to his weak Quirk and asocial nature, his Only Friend, Yoshiteru Zaimokuza, was kidnapped and potentially killed by the League of Villains without him noticing until far too late, and he has to spend almost triple the amount of time training as the rest of his classmates just to not be left behind. This has left Hachiman with an inability to perceive the affection and goodwill others feel towards him, an astonishing amount of self-loathing, and a deep-seated inferiority complex that he just can't seem to shake.
• My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator:
  • The Doom Slayer is the greatest Night Sentinel to ever live. He is the Bane of Hell who has slaughtered trillions to potentially quadrillions of demons, creating and sewing fear in a race of dimensional conquerors. However, he's accumulated so many tragedies, ranging from the loss of everything on the Earth he came from, enduring eons of physical and mental torment from constantly waging a one-man-war against Hell, losing everything on Argenta, imprisoned for an unknown amount of time, subjected to horrid visions wrought by the demons, then kicked to the MHA world after he defeated the most recent demonic incursion on another Mars. It's a miracle to all the heroes that the man is able to discern hostile combatants from civilians and hostages.
  • As the fic progresses, the students of 1A, as well as the entire planet, become more and more traumatized from the darkest aspects of what the hero industry shows, but also from the Slayer's MO. As not only is this man capable of killing an entire combat division's worth of men, but he is able to defeat nearly fifty heroes, fight All Might to a standstill, and is impossible to track by technological or mental means.
• In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku is kind-hearted, humble, studious, hard-working, and has virtually every power he could possibly need to become an amazing Hero, making him the envy of all of his peers. His naturally heroic inclinations also give him a natural charisma that inspires others around him to better themselves. But he's haunted by the time he nearly killed his best friend as a child, leaving his confidence in the pits. He also has to live with the knowledge that he's an alien on a planet that hates aliens and desperately hides the fact to keep himself and his parents out of trouble. He's also socially awkward due to years spent isolating himself from others to keep him from hurting them by accident with his Super-Strength.
• Point Me at the Skyrim: As Glory Girl, Victoria Dallon was a famous teenage celebrity and superhero. As Antares she was crucial to many missions against major villain organizations and is one of the leaders fighting the Titans. She's also full of depression, anxiety, anger, fear, and PTSD from her traumatic career as a superhero.
• Remnant Inferis: DOOM:
  • The Doom Slayer is without question the greatest Night Sentinel to ever live. He's the bane of Hell who slaughtered countless demons, creating fear and strife in a race of dimensional conquerors. He's also accumulated so many tragedies ranging from the loss of loved ones, racial subjugation due to his Terran heritage, the destruction of his home planet, and enduring eons of physical and mental torment both from constantly waging a one-man-war against Hell as well as being imprisoned and subjected to horrid visions wrought by the demons, that it's nothing short of a miracle that he's still got some level of his humanity left.
  • Ruby becomes this over the course of the story. She's a prodigy capable of wielding one of the deadliest types of weapons on Remnant and is a Silver Eyed warrior that even the demons grow weary of. However, all the bloodshed and trauma she's forced to endure causes her to become more blood-thirsty and cynical. It's pretty telling that as she becomes more kickass and capable as a fighter and leader, she also becomes more jaded and downright crude.
• Communication: The Hosts of Consensus in their respective Quests. Each go on an journey to become the World's Strongest Woman of their respective universes and each has gone through hell before the stories starts, resulting in issues that need to be worked out before reaching their full potential.

DC Comics

• In the Hellsister Trilogy, Kara Zor-El is brave, selfless, intelligent, compassionate and one of the greatest and most-beloved heroes in the world. But she lost her parents and her entire civilization when she was fifteen, and then she spent the next fourteen years fighting criminals, super-villains and eldritch monsters. As a result, she is a perpetual fish out of water who has no real friends, is unable to have long-lasting relationships, is sick of endless battles and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Death Note

• Kali of Zenith, Darkness, Reverie. The tale commences with a brilliant (but exceptionally verbose) freshman accepted into one of the best high schools in the country. It's mentioned rather nonchalantly that she's a competent violist, boulders competitively, writes novels (possibly), and possesses an extensive knowledge base about string theory. By the eleventh chapter or so, she spends several paragraphs begging the voices in her head to "shut up". And this is Kali, who peruses the dictionary when bored. Kira is purportedly the manifestation of this "Broken Ace" state. Kira's not particularly broken.
• Light from A Charmed Life is stoic, calm and collected but underneath he's a mess of mental issues and what passes for his sanity is hanging together by a thread. Ultimately he decides to leave it all behind for Ryuk because for the first time in his life he feels genuinely happy.

D. Gray-Man

• Allen in Requiem of Time has become a Marshal, evolved his Cursed Eye beyond canon level, has a degree of control over the Fourteenth Noah, and is the leader of the secret third side of the war. He's also slowly going crazy from a combination of the Fourteenth Noah and his Cursed Eye becoming uncontrollable.

Fire Emblem

• In the Fire Emblem: Awakening fanfic Pretender, Robin is a genius tactician gifted with both tomes and swords, lead his army to many countless victories without the loss of a single life. On the other hand, he is filled with great guilt over Emmeryn's death and his jealousy of Sumia for having Chrom's love and has poor self-esteem for having no identity outside of being a tactician and no past to speak of.

Glee

• Blaine is Cerebus Retconned into this over the course of Hunting the Unicorn. In an interesting variant, he's literally an ace who got broken: He's a very nice young man and is genuinely as chivalrous and kind as his canon portrayal—but it's because he's lonely, naive, and still hurting over his disastrous first relationship. Plus, he's aware of his canonical Selective Obliviousness and has very low self-esteem.

Harry Potter

• Tristan Winter (formerly Harry Potter) in The Jaded Eyes Series is a prime example. He'd be a straight out Marty Stu if he wasn't so completely and utterly insane.

The Hunger Games

• Obsidian Citrine of fanfic Some Semblance of Meaning, who comes across as extremely confident, talented in combat, good-looking, and charismatic...yet has some serious issues, especially by the end of the story.

Katawa Shoujo

• In Reconciliation, Hanako is a best-selling author, but has no real friends, apart from her publicist Sho; as a result of her Bad Ending, she cut ties with Hisao and Lilly because she was too ashamed and afraid to face them. By the end of the fic, the "broken" part seems to have faded; while Hisao is dead, Hanako is once again friends with Lilly and is in a relationship with Sho.

Kill la Kill

• The Crimson Garment: Satsuki's Dark and Troubled Past gets Adaptation Expansion, explaining where she got her Social Darwinist mentality from. Ragyo's tyrannical upbringing and sexual abuse made her feel that she must be "perfect in every way" in order to please her. Her status as a "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl, risking her life to activate her internal life fibers and working from a young age to become "perfect" in the hopes that Ragyo will stop abusing her if she succeeds, is even more tragic.
• Natural Selection: Pretty much the entire Kiryuin family. They've got everything, yet are utter shit on the inside in one way or another.
  • Ryuko Kiryuin. From the outset, it looks like she's got it all. She's the perfect hybrid of Life Fiber and human, the only one capable of wielding a Kamui, beautiful, immensely powerful, and a member of the strongest family in the world. Beneath it all is a psychological mess of a woman who's wrathful, violent, sadistic, abused by her mother, perpetually lonely, and incapable of understanding normal human interaction.
    "Never before in [Mako's] life had she seen someone so powerful and amazing look so sad."
  • Satsuki Kiryuin is another example. She's a near superhuman fighter in her own right (even without Life Fiber enhancements or a Kamui), a dominating force of will, sharp as a tack, just as beautiful as her sister and can generally meet any goal she puts her mind to. And none of that means a jot to her, weighed down as she is by her past of familial abuses, the guilt of abandoning her sisters in order to save the world, and the crippling knowledge that she left them in Ragyo's clutches for nothing, as she is no closer to stopping the Life Fibers as when she started.
  • Soichiro Kiryuin/Isshin Matoi is the leader and founder of Nudist Beach, the most powerful and successful resistance movement against REVOCS there is, and he's personally developed all sorts of ways to kill Life Fibers for good as well as created Kamuis like Junketsu and Senketsu. Not that any of this particularly matters to him, as he's been forced to abandon his children just to ensure his organization's survival and is utterly plagued by feelings of self-loathing over it and what it led to his daughters becoming.
  • Then there's Nui Harime. She's the Grand Couturier of REVOCS, one of the deadliest people on the planet, and is so efficient at her job that she can easily amplify Goku Uniform production in ways that not even Satsuki, Ryuko, or those that work for them can. Unfortunately, she's also a psychotic mass murderer conditioned to see humanity as beneath her and is also heavily motivated by maintaining her mother's "love" for her, to the point where she desperately forces herself not to undo Ragyo's Mind Rape of Ryuko after it happens.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• A Bridge Once Broken gives Loki a Draco in Leather Pants treatment (like a pro!) by using large amounts of this trope. Turns out, his time with Thanos was deliberately orchestrated by Odin. He's also Never Accepted in His Hometown in a pretty cruel way.
• In Turning Tables, Peter had to go through the harrowing trek back to Earth Tony had to make in the Downer Beginning of Endgame. Top that with the knowledge that he failed to stop Thanos, his mentor/father-figure turning to dust in his arms and his last remaining blood-relative going out the same way, it takes Peter nearly a year before he could even consider going back to patrolling as Spider-Man.
• Valkyrie in If I Could Start Again is this. She was the youngest commander in the Valkyrior's history and proved herself in countless battles that would inspire songs for centuries to come, even being instrumental in the war with the Jotun on Midgard over a thousand years prior. The slaughter of her fellow Valkyries at Hela's hands, with her barely surviving, would lead to her winding up on Sakaar and wallowing away in alcoholism and self-pity.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

• The Immortal Game: Twilight Sparkle is an example of an Ace who gets broken over the course of the story. In the beginning, it's established that in addition to being Celestia's prized student, she's also officially the most powerful Unicorn alive. However, this just makes her a target for the villains, who infected her with an Artifact of Doom (by pushing it through her eye), which takes control of her body and forces her to watch as it tries to kill her friends. She's eventually freed, but soon after finds herself forced into the role of Rebel Leader, the stress of which—combined with the psychological trauma from the possession—drives her to the brink of insanity. On top of that is the reveal that Celestia was subtly manipulating and training her for this role all along, which shatters Twilight's image of her beloved mentor and leads to her hating her. Even after her mind recovers, she's left a lot more cynical and bitter.

Naruto

• In Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, Naruto himself is this. He isn't as Book Dumb as his canon-series counterpart, and he's a terrifyingly skilled fighter capable of taking down gangs all by himself. At the same time, he's got some serious loathing for his time as a Kyuushingai in the back-story, and the trauma of having to partake of city-wide massacres day after day for a whole year has taken a toll on him by the time the story's main plot has begun.

Nasuverse

• Vy in Passing Days is Chaldea's last Master who has saved the world from the Incineration and the Sub-Singularities by the time Part 2 starts, successfully working with more than 100 Servants. But because of losing her family more than once from the whims of the antagonists, witnessing firsthand the deaths of Dr. Roman and Mash, and the emotional pain that comes with ending the worlds of the Lostbelts, many of the Servants worry about Vy falling beyond their reach due to her Workaholic status and there being no one else to take on her position.
• Fate/Magnus Bellum: Arthur may be one of the greatest warriors in history and myth, as well as one of the most powerful Servants in the Holy Grail War, but he is plagued with self-esteem issues thanks to his past failures, among the most prominent being the fall of Camelot. This is even more apparent in his interactions with Mordred and Guinevere, where it turns out he rejected Mordred when he was in the midst of a Heroic BSoD from his son, Lucius, apparently dying from sickness.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Neon Genesis Evangelion has a few examples...
  • Advice and Trust: Asuka -who was the best pilot in the team as well as a certified genius and a gorgeous, hot-blooded, brave girl- was already pretty broken before the beginning of the history, and she was heading towards a full breaking. Part of the premise of this story is altering the event where her downward spiral began (her and Shinji's ruined First Kiss) and seeing if she can avoid becoming a fully broken ace. So far her self-esteem has suffered a few severe blows but she has managed to hold herself together.
  • The Child of Love: Asuka is a brilliant girl and an excellent mecha pilot, but she's also an orphan with self-worth, self-confidence and trust issues. And then she got pregnant at the age of fourteen. And then she found out that his Commander used her like a doll.
  • Children of an Elder God: Asuka is the best fighter and mecha pilot in her squad, a college graduate, and she is bolder and more cheerful than her canon self. However she keeps hiding deep childhood trauma and abandonment issues, and fighting ancient cosmic horrors got her even more broken during the War.
  • Doing It Right This Time: The three pilots -Shinji, Asuka and Rei- count like this (specially Asuka who is the best and most rigorously trained pilot and was out of college when she was thirteen), since each one of them is a one-person army with ample experience piloting giant robots and killing giant space monsters... and all are hugely traumatized. Getting orphaned when they were barely four, getting abandoned and/or abused by their fathers and dying during the end of the world are only some of their traumatic experiences.
  • A Crown of Stars: Asuka is beautiful, brave, a great fighter, an excellent pilot, a certified genius... and is inwardly broken due to deep childhood trauma, becoming a child soldier, getting beaten, mind-raped, abandoned and defiled before the Apocalypse, getting turned into a pawn in someone else's wars and a plaything after the Apocalypse...
  • In Ghosts of Evangelion Asuka was her team's best pilot and fighter. At the same time, she was deeply traumatized. She blames her traumas, PTSD and sour behavior on piloting.
  • HERZ: Asuka was the best Humongous Mecha pilot in the cast… and then she got repeatedly humiliated before being hit with a Mind Rape. After fighting the MP-Evas she lost one eye, one arm and her body got scarred permanently. She almost died and lost her mother again, so she became unstable, bitter and angrier.
  • Higher Learning: Asuka was her team's ace pilot and was also more heavily traumatized than her teammates due to being an orphan with abandonment and self-esteem issues. Kaoru tried to encourage her to reach out to others, and his adviced helped her for a while, but the final battles broke her very badly.
  • Last Child of Krypton: When Shinji met Asuka he shortly realized that gorgeous, intelligent girl and Ace Pilot was very hurt and was way more fragile and more vulnerable than she looked.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide sees Asuka awaking from the coma she was placed in and trying to recover after all the terrible things the series proper put her through, but she is still quite marked by the experiences, which — during the course of the story — gets compounded by the fact that she is subjected to another mental attack, albeit a slow-working one.
  • Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88):
    • Shinji comes across as The Ace and a Robeast-killing machine to the rest of the characters, but deep down he's fighting hard to keep himself from falling into old habits; add to that the massive amount of guilt and self-loathing he feels towards his actions in the original timeline.
    • Asuka seems brave, strong-willed and self-assured on top of being an excellent pilot, but she is barely holding herself together. Shinji is aware of this and is determined to prevent her from falling apart.
  • The One I Love Is...: Shinji thinks that Asuka is better than him at everything: she is beautiful, smarter, more sociable, braver, more strong-willed and a better pilot and fighter. Then she gradually reveals she is utterly broken inwardly and she sees herself as a worthless failure.
  • In The Second Try, Asuka was a certified genius, an excellent pilot and a formidable warrior. However, she'd been abused by her parents when she was a child, developed a personality that simultaneously sought attention and drove people away, and was hurt, mind-raped and killed during the war. After surviving the end of the world she managed to get better, but but losing her daughter when she was sent back in time nearly broke her down again.
  • Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka comes across how as beautiful genius and mecha pilot. However, she is deeply traumatized due to her mother's madness and suicide, her father leaving her and all adults regarding her as a cog to make a weapon working. Similarly, when she is acting as Supergirl, people automatically think she is a formidable super-heroine and a perfect paragon of morality and nobility, not knowing inwardly she is a broken ball of neuroses and pain.
  • In Thousand Shinji, Asuka was the best pilot and physical fighter. She was also heavily traumatized due to childhood trauma. Shinji helped her with her mental issues, but after his disappearance, she fell apart completely.

OMORI

• Time to Disinfect: From the outside, Mari has everything going for her: she's a charming Cool Big Sis, a budding musical prodigy, a straight-A student, and so on. Below the surface however is a troubled and neurotic autistic girl gradually cracking under an immense amount of pressure — both self-inflicted and heaped on her by her parents.

The Simpsons

• Bart Simpson: Attorney at Law: Yes, that Bart Simpson has become a highly successful attorney at the age of 27, and the story begins with him as The Ace. However, as a teenager, Bart developed a relationship with Gina that grew so toxic, he was driven to alcoholism and near-suicide. When Gina and Jessica Lovejoy start coming back into his life, he again goes back to the bottle. Thankfully, Milhouse and Alex are able to make an intervention.

Sword Art Online

• The Kirita Chronicles has at least two examples:
  • Kirigaya Kazuta (Kirita/Kirito), Kirito's genderbent counterpart, does well in school, strong enough to beat up people in the real world, and she is good looking. However, her actions and decisions have led her to be isolated, and she has admitted to making numerous mistakes in the past that she has or would come to regret.
  • Kudo Tomomi (Delano) he was once known as 'The Ace' in school because of his intelligence and athletic abilities, but he lost his athletic abilities in a car crash caused by his mother. As a result, he became a bitter person who embraces virtual reality, so he can 'walk' again.
• Kirito in Sword Art Online Abridged is the single best player in the titular game, knows it, and loves to remind other people of the fact. He's also aware that it's all he has going for him, and that getting trapped in the game is probably the best thing that's happened to him. As much as he looks down on and mocks the other players, deep down he just wants someone to like him, but he has no idea how to behave now that his gaming skills have put him at the top of the social order, so he acts like an ass and drives everyone away. And this is all before he goes through the trauma of finally opening up to someone only to watch them die, which convinces him to go "cold turkey" on emotions.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Hamato Yoshi in Same Difference is regarded as the greatest ninja master of the century, but his life has been plagued with tragedy due to the Shredder hunting down and slaughtering his clan. The near-death incident his wife suffered left him with a perpetual fear of his greatest foe taking all he has left from him.

The World Ends with You

• Eri in Eris Game is a good fashion designer but after Shiki's death, she started to give that up. Then she started to become an activist who could hold a gun to take an army out by herself. However, this is only because she wanted to die.

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