Now, Let Me Carry You: Is trying to do this with Roman, who rescued her from homelessness and took care of her, after his assault, but she admits to being out of her depth here.
Undying Loyalty: Was willing to break into prison to rescue Roman.
Tempting Fate: The first half of his story ends with him saying that he wants to help Schroeder by scoping the place out, hoping that it'll be enough. Cut to the second half with him saying that it wasn't enough because Schroeder killed himself over Pig Pen damaging his hands.
Composite Character: Lola mostly takes inspiration from her The Looney Tunes Show portrayal, being a ditz with some stalker tendencies, but she's also a basketball star, taking inspiration from her original role in Space Jam. Her prison name, "doll," also references her Berserk Button from the latter film.
Connected All Along: This chapter reveals that Duncan, Yang, and Miles were all at least familiar with each other due to their relatives all being on the force.
Leit Motif: The title is taken from "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago.
Meaningful Name: They all had trouble with the corrupt cops.
Magpie's represent wittiness, but also deceit; Jim helped Kitty when she got assaulted, but got arrested for it and was assumed by the cops to have been the one to do that to her. A single magpie also, according to the traditional rhyme, represents "sorrow".
Lola's name translates to "the Ingenue", meaning an innocent woman; Lola was thought to be drunk when she was actually ditzy, and she was too innocent to realize how bad her situation was.
Robbie got his name from a band poster and was called "Metalhead" by the dirty cops.
"Maisha ya Chama" means "life of the party" in Swahili; Pumbaa got wasted with Timon and they were both arrested.
Flynn Rider was a teenage delinquent and was called "Princess" by the cops because he's a trans man.
Trauma Button: Lola punches a guy for calling her "doll" because that's the name she was given by the cops who raped her.
Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They fight for almost the entire time they're on the stage, but every once in a while one of them softens up and it becomes clear that the boys care for each other deep down.
Polar Opposite Twins: They don't even look alike. Holt is a loud, energetic Attention Whore with dark skin and textured hair, while Jackson is a quiet white-passing bookworm.
Date Rape: Unknowingly committed date rape on Penelope because he thought her freezing up meant that she was consenting.
Funetik Aksent: His dialogue is written with a French accent ("ze" in place of "the," etc.).
Interrupted Suicide: Chief Beifong calls him to ask him to testify just after he's taken a full bottle of pills. He changes his mind and asks her to call an ambulance for him.
Karmic Rape: He's the only one who thinks of it that way, but he was assaulted by the crooked cops when he was brought in for questioning and he sees it as justice for what he did to his friend.
Meaningful Name: "Le Penitent de Plaisir" raped a friend while drunkenly assuming her lack of resistance meant she consented, and is racked with guilt over it and trying to help the group as a way of making up for it.
My God, What Have I Done?: Felt horrified upon realising Penelope was frozen in fear instead of consenting.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Reassures Mertle, telling her what she did to Lilo was wrong but she's too young to have known any better and it doesn't make her bad forever.
Break the Cutie: And how. By the time Danny tells his story, he is completely desolate.
Career-Ending Injury: Is no longer able to dance due to injuries inflicted from being raped so many times. He thinks it can be fixed, but doesn't have the money for it.
Convicted by Public Opinion: Pretty much everyone believed the worst of him, even his friends and girlfriend, because Darla was famous while he wasn't. It's only after Darla snapped during the trial that the evidence was reexamined and found to be inconsistent, which led to Danny being proven not guilty and vindicated.
Driven to Suicide: The aforementioned Career-Ending Injury on top of the trauma was the tipping point for Danny. He was thankfully rescued by a passerby, though he ended up with broken ribs due to his rescuer doing CPR and being much larger than him.
False Rape Accusation: Darla invites him to her house and beats herself up to claim that Danny raped her. Since she's so beloved and he's not considered much, he gets arrested without so much as a DNA test.
Meaningful Name: "Knave" means someone who is dishonest, and Danny was thought to have raped Darla when he was actually innocent.
Pedo Hunt: Gets brutalized in prison for being falsely accused of rape. Even Red and Purple, who themselves are brutalized because of raping Zim, have no sympathy as they think it's different when it's a "good" child.
Prison Rape: Thanks to Darla's accusation, Danny ends being raped multiple times by several people, both by the Dirty Cops and fellow inmates, with no one trying to intervene.
Trauma Conga Line: Accused of raping a famous child star so everyone on Earth knows about it, loses all his friends who don't believe he's innocent, assaulted many times by officers and inmates alike, forced to defend himself in court because even his lawyer hates him, and even when he's finally proven innocent and gets his girlfriend back he loses his future and his most favourite thing in the world because he can't dance anymore.
Dirty Cop: Admits to joining the police force for an outlet for his anger, and knew about what the corrupt cops were doing, though he presumed that they were only raping other rapists or pedophiles and is horrified by them hurting innocent people.
Karmic STD: Not portrayed that way, but that's how he thinks of it; he abused prisoners, and in turn was raped and infected with HIV by Tai Lung.
Meaningful Name: His name references Pyrrhus of Epirus a Greek king known for being a strong general that the trope Pyrrhic Victory is named after; Mako abused prisoners and, when he himself was arrested, was not popular in prison as a result.
Pariah Prisoner: As his Palace name indicates, he was not popular in prison due to his past treatment of prisoners.
Prison Rape: Let's just say it's not a good thing to get put in prison when you're a cop, especially one that has been more rough with criminals than he should have.
Mistaken for Pedophile: Rumors were spread about him being responsible for Buster's abuse because he's a gay man working with kids, and the fathers of some of the kids in his class assaulted him because of it.
Pedo Hunt: He was assaulted by the fathers of some of his students because they blamed him for what Ricky did to Buster.
Cool Big Sis: She's not his biological sister, but Peter clearly looks up to her and she, in turn, dotes on him.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!: When telling her story, when she starts to say a swear word, she stops herself and uses a milder word, like saying "heck" instead of "fuck" and "jerk" instead of "asshole".
Meaningful Name: She was "crossed" in the sense of wronged, by a false friend.
Wrench Wench: She comes in covered in engine oil, and Peter mentions she taught him to fix things.
We Used to Be Friends: Was friends with Terrence, but he almost assaulted her because she's a lesbian and tried to talk to her even after she said not to interact with her anymore, leading to her filing a restraining order on him.
La Troupe de Danse - La Danseuse du Lac des Cygnes (Rosita Mauri), les Danseuses de La Sylphide (Dora) et La Fête des Fleurs à Genzano (Nora), le Danseur de L'Oiseau de Feu (Rudi), le Danseur du Le Sacre du Printemps (Louis Merante), la Danseuse de Coppelia (Camille Le Haut), la Danseuse des Les Chaussons Rouges (Odette), la Danseuse du Casse-Noisette (Felicie Lebras)
Career-Ending Injury: Both Odette and Louis suffer injuries that require them to walk with canes.
Child by Rape: Camille is implied to be one judging from Odette's perspective of Madame Le Haut's sudden pregnancy and retirement.
Expy: For reasons of respect for real people, a point is made that this Rosita and Louis are characters in their own right, only named after theRosita Mauri and Louis Merante.
Foreign Cuss Word: Odette calls Regine "une chienne impur du centre de l'enfer", meaning "an impure bitch from the center of hell".
Groin Attack: Camille's hymen is broken in early childhood when her mother forces her to over-exercise on a leg weight machine.
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Unfortunate variant; Rudi starts having sex with as many girls as possible to make sure people know he's not gay, after he was assaulted by homophobes, which would be fine if he and the girls weren't between the ages of nine and twelve at the time.
Heteronormative Crusaders: Assault Louis and Rudi, despite neither of them being gay, because ballet is considered effeminate.
Just Ignore It: Rudi's hypersexuality is ignored by the adults at the opera; they notice it and show distaste, but fear retaliation from his wealthy family, and male ballet dancers tend to be treated permissively in general, partly because of their rarity.
Mistaken for Gay: Louis and Rudi, by virtue of being ballerinos and thus deemed "sissies".
No Woman's Land: The ballet world is surprisingly misogynistic for such a female-heavy group. Male dancers are prized because they're rarer, while lots of girls want to perform so female dancers can be replaced at will, so girls who complain about the behaviour of ballerinos or investors are fired. SadlyTruth in Television.
Pimping the Offspring: Mme Le Haut lets dance directors and investors have sex with Camille in exchange for better roles.
Stage Mom: Worst possible variant in Madame Le Haut, who pimps out her eight-year-old to get her better dancing opportunities. Camille doesn't even like dancing.
Dwindling Party: There's a reason why Chili and Chloe are the only ones at the Palace.
Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Chili told Chloe that Zoey died in her sleep instead of him having to abandon the latter to save the former, as the truth would probably devastate Chloe.
No Party Like a Donner Party: The easiest food source available, since they're too weak to hunt or climb trees, is their dead party members.
Sadistic Choice: Because he was too sick to save both, Chili is forced to choose to save Chloe over Zoey.
Shout-Out: To "A Tale They Won't Believe" by Weddings Parties Anything
Dramatic Irony: She talks disdainfully about how her kidnappers got what they deserved, then has to apologise when one of them turns up at the group because of what happened to him in custody.
Meaningful Name: She was captured and the second part of her name works two ways: 1. She managed to get herself saved and her kidnappers arrested, and 2. Ragetti, one of said kidnappers, got assaulted in prison, which she feels guilty for causing.
The Baby Trap: The reason he was raped. He and his parents are currently trying to get custody for the coming child.
Meaningful Name: Lancelot in the original mythology was raped via the Bed Trick by Elaine, in order to conceive Galahad, and Naveen was similarly used by a female assailant to conceive a child.
Armored Closet Gay: Downplayed; she's not homophobic, but she is terrified of people perceiving her as gay or knowing that she's into girls. Given that GWF would be willing to murder her over this her fear is kind of justified, but doesn't really excuse what she did to Luz.
The Atoner: Heat of the Heart reveals that she retracted her accusation against Luz because she feels terrible about letting her lie get out of control.
False Rape Accusation: Made one on the spur of the moment against Luz to shift blame when her siblings caught them experimenting, and got too tangled up in the consequences to withdraw the accusation.
The Unfavorite: Her parents spoil the twins due to them being born premature with health problems and excuse the way they treat Amity if she complains.
Unreliable Narrator: Claims that she didn't return Luz's feelings and that Luz forced herself on her instead of it being a consensual, curious exploration of sexuality.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: See above. Unlike most examples though, she really seems to regret this.
The Asteroid Crew - Almost-an-Adult (the Little Girl), the Aviator, and the Little Prince
Good Parents: The Aviator may not be perfect but he's doing his best. He's overjoyed to see the Little Prince again and wishes he'd found out what was wrong before they became estranged, and the Prince is insistent it wasn't anything the Aviator did wrong that was the problem.
Meaningful Name: The birth names of the Little Prince and the Little Girl are given as Brendan and Sarah, which mean "prince" and "princess". Brendan's surname actually is Prince, but he goes by "Little Prince" here in a reference to books the Aviator (here his father, and still an actual pilot) made for him when he was little. Sarah goes by "Almost-an-Adult", referencing both her mother's high expectations and her Near-Rape Experience.
Eye Scream: The Dirty Cops threaten to take out his glass eye and penetrate the socket. Barbossa and his gang, who happen to be pissed off at Ragetti at the time, overhear this and actually do that.
Facial Horror: Eye sockets aren't really built for what the pirates did to him, and they had to break his cheekbone to get enough space.
From Bad to Worse: One gang-rape is bad enough. Another one immediately afterwards in the eye socket even shocks experienced doctor Kekata.
Meaningful Name: Horus was an Egyptian god whose lost and restored eye is a traditional symbol of protection. Ragetti has only one eye, and threatened but didn't really intend to hurt Elizabeth.
The Dog Bites Back: Deconstruction. Trixie has put down and mistreated Veronica for years, even reacting with disgust when told about her best friend's assault. That being said, Veronica's subsequent assault of Trixie is portrayed as completely unjustified and horrific. There's also the fact that both parties involved are only ten years old.
Meaningful Name: "Green Eyes of Envy" is extremely jealous of her best friend.
Stalking is Love: What Timmy does to Trixie, she does to him, following him around, collecting his hair, and making photo collages of him. She also has vibes of this towards Trixie, gloating about how awesome Trixie is and tagging along behind her despite being ignored and stepped on.
Yandere: A very young example. She stalks Timmy and shows an intense envy/admiration obsession with Trixie.
Cassandra Truth: He fears his story becoming one, since it sounds like an actual pedophile's blame-shifting excuse.
Shout-Out: To Das Sporking's review of hentai manga Taklamakan Zoo, which discussed how a victim of sexual assault by a child still has to deal with the resulting trauma even if it wasn't really the child's fault.
Shrinking Violet: A male example; he stutters shyly the whole time he's on the stage, and the Imagine Spot shows he was like that before his humiliating trauma.
Child by Rape: Actually averted. She was raped for being pregnant, but Nadine was conceived consensually.
Mafia Princess: The only daughter of the most powerful mob family in the city. Downplayed slightly because her father worked under the Lucia family for a long time and only split off when she would have been at least a teenager, but it's made clear that she was very much Spoiled Sweet from the money Bigg made off of his illegal activities even then.
Meaningful Name: "La Camorra Madonna" is a Mafia Princess who was assaulted for being pregnant out of wedlock and later lost the child to a serial-murdering pedophile.
One-Steve Limit: She's naming her second baby after DW, but the second baby is a boy so he'll be Dorian instead of Dora.
Spoiled Sweet: Downplayed. She was doted on by her father and is still very nice, but she's also alright with her family's business dealings which almost pushes her into Affably Evil territory.
All for Nothing: He was hired by Woody, here the county deputy, who suspected something was going on within the police department and wanted Flippers to investigate it from outside the law. He spent quite a long time investigating even after Woody's mysterious disappearance and was able to get an interview with a possible victim. However, when he went to visit him he was brought to a room filled with men he had previously caught who assaulted him. He went home afterwards and when the Dirty Cops were finally brought to justice it was because of Huan. Flippers actually ended up having no part in bringing them down which he's a little bitter about.
He Knows Too Much: A weird example. He was assaulted because he was investigating possible corruption but it doesn't appear that killing him was the end goal.
Meaningful Name: "Inspector Curiosity" is a detective who attempted to look into the police corruption, only for the Dirty Cops to set him up to be assaulted.
Overlord Jr.: Subverted. Julien and Pinkie assume that, when the latter's forensic kit is tampered with, his father a known saboteur in another case had something to do with it. However Varrick is actually appalled by the idea of his son doing something like assault and Tahno is actually innocent.
Dramatic Irony: One of his companions was assaulted by the police while blackout drunk. She thought he did it, and called the same police to deal with him. Whoops.
False Rape Accusation: With some good reason. Pinkie found semen in her underwear after a night with him in the drunk tank; Tahno had previously had feelings for her and demonstrated a general lack of respect for other people, their companion at the time Julien is Transgender and can't produce semen, her forensic kit was discovered to be tampered with and his father was a known saboteur and it didn't occur to her to suspect a Dirty Cop situation.
Jerkass: The reason why it was so easy for people to believe he'd assaulted Pinkie.
Lonely Rich Kid: His father was neglectful and his Jerkass tendencies meant he didn't have many friends.
Spoiled Brat: The result of Varrick's neglect and overcompensating by giving him presents.
Driven to Suicide: Felix takes a bunch of pills after his assault, but thankfully he lives. The school nurse who assaulted him, on the other hand, bit her own wrists in jail after being caught, and she succeeds.
Exact Words: Claire's mother told her not to let strangers touch her, but a creepy guy staring at her and masturbating doesn't involve him touching her, so she doesn't think she needs to report it.
Freudian Excuse: Robert's foster cousin was abused by his parents, but red tape issues mean Robert's aunt and uncle aren't told this and so they don't expect him to act out towards younger kids until he's caught in the act.
From Bad to Worse: They picked their group name because they were already having shitty days before their assaults happened.
Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Felix is told the nurse confessed so they don't need a trial; she actually killed herself.
Meaningful Name: They all had a bad day before their assaults, and the "bunny" part of their name is because rabbits are protective and the three of them support each other.
Shout-Out: The film they watch in one of the movie fragments is Watership Down, or possibly a fictional Expy.
Suspect Is Hatless: Claire doesn't remember what the creepy boy looked like, except he was young and blue-eyed.
Honor Thy Abuser: He still loves and cares for his wife, even though she hurts him because he knows that she doesn't know what she's doing and if she did, she wouldn't be doing these things to him.
Love Martyr: Constance is mentally disabled after her fall, and Horace devoted his entire life to taking care of her, even when she hurts him because she doesn't know what she's doing anymore.
Meaningful Name: Cares for his wife, who was rendered disabled after a fall and unknowingly abuses him because of it.
Bestiality Is Depraved: Not involving her, but the shock videos she witnesses at her job sometimes depict it, much to her horror.
Meaningful Name: She's employed to spot and remove illegal content on the WaddleWorld website, and what she's seen is so terrible it's given her insomnia.
Media Watchdog: Her job is to comb through a social media site and remove objectionable content. She's at the group because a lot of that content goes beyond objectionable into traumatising.
Creepy Uncle: Had one in the form of Hades (keyword being had).
Meaningful Name: His name means "the Fallen Olympian", and he was a wrestler who can't compete anymore because he had a heart attack due to steroid abuse.
Adaptational Heroism: Scarlett in canon is an attempted murderer who attempted to kill the other cast mates simply for the million dollars. Here, while she does do some morally wrong things, it's implied to have been out of desperation to escape the Ark and she gets along perfectly fine with Jasmine, who was one of those she attempted to kill.
And I Must Scream: Scott was rendered a vegetable during the escape attempt.
Angsty Surviving Twin: Amy. It's worse for her as the reason Samey's dead was because Amy jumped behind her when a gun went off.
Disease Bleach: The reason why Lightning's hair turned white in this canon.
Dramatic Irony: Since Scott can't talk, the group doesn't know that he was the one that stole the phone from a guard and planted it on Dawn to make it seem like she stole it.
Dwindling Party: Some of the contests died off when the group wasn't planning the mutiny, but when the mutiny occurs, everyone but the Wannabes died.
The Lost Lenore: Zoey to Mike, Anne Maria to Vito and Shawn to Jasmine.
Meaningful Name: "The Wannabes" all wanted to become reality show stars, but were tricked by the Ark instead.
Say My Name: When Samey gets shot, Amy does this twice. First with the nickname, then, when it hits her that she indirectly just killed her, uses her real name.
Split-Personality Takeover: A non-evil example. Mike's alternate personalities fronted to protect him while their body was abused, and now Mike's core personality has disappeared entirely behind them to avoid confronting the trauma.
I See Dead People: Operetta can apparently do this as she communicates with Johnny. Johnny also makes references to other ghosts in the room with them (justified in his case since, you know, he's dead).
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Nope! It's pretty clear as of their chapter that - dead or not - Johnny is indeed really there.
Shout-Out: To Charming Disaster's "Ghost Story" as well as "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" and "Phantom of the Opera" which their names are an obvious homage to.
Signorina Sottocapo, or the Toadskin Tongue (Sasha)
Affably Evil: Enthusiastic mafia heir or not, she's quite personable.
Bad People Abuse Animals: Played with. She tortures and kills frogs because she doesn't like them which is played for horror, but is allied with the protagonists. For her part, Sasha doesn't seem to view herself as a bad person, but she also has a rather unique worldview.
The Queenpin: Is being groomed to become this when she grows up.
The Sociopath: Subverted. She demonstrates numerous symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder, but actually turns out to have an honor code of sorts and cares about her friends and family.
Suicidal Sadistic Choice: She threatens to tell Grime what happened, implying he'll torture her assailant, causing said assailant to kill himself. Subverted in that all the people involved are Catholic; Sasha openly states that she wanted to make her assailant kill himself to make sure he went to Hell, since if he'd confessed to what he did to her his sins would be wiped clean.
Teens Are Monsters: Thirteen years old and taking part in her grandfather's crime business.
Enfant Terrible: Could be argued to have been one from the start, considering he preached GWF's awful views, but he was only repeating what he'd been taught. He became a more legitimate case after being sexually abused, after which he threw tantrums bad enough to frighten his parents into letting him walk all over them, when he was only six.
Heel Realization: He realizes that he was wrong to treat other religions as bad when Timon asks him how he would feel if Mabel asked him to stop being Christian, pointing out that Judaism is as important to her as Christianity is to him.
Innocent Bigot: He doesn't understand why some of what he says (such as asking Timon why he's gay and acting like it's gross) is extremely offensive, but considering how he's been raised, it's not hard to see why and to his credit, he is trying to be better.
Meaningful Name: He was a literal child preacher, is now coming to learn his views were incorrect, and he reversed his family's dynamics when he became a bully towards his own parents.
Politically Incorrect Villain: He calls Viper a racial slur when she interviews him and blithely talks about converting the Jewish Mabel to Christianity, though being a preteen raised among the cult means he can't really be expected to know better. Some of the other members of the group attempt to explain it to him.
Harmful to Minors: She witnesses murder and rape when just trying to listen to her uncle play music.
Innocent Inaccurate: She witnessed her uncle's murder and rape, but has no idea of the gravity of what she witnessed and speaks about it in quite the cheery manner.
Shout-Out: To Stephen King's The Eyes of The Dragon; she hides in a vent above his private music room and witnesses her great-uncle's murder. In the book, Thomas hid behind the mounted dragon head in his father's study and witnessed his father's murder.
The Black Hat Company - the Soft Rock (5.0.5.), the Paper Pilot (Dr. Flug), the Lizard's Love (Demencia)
Kill It with Fire: When he finds out Black Hat molested 505, Flug sets him and his house on fire.
Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Flug mostly doesn't let Demencia know he torched Black Hat and the house because she'd probably kill him in grief, but it's implied he also does care about her, and he also doesn't want 505 to be scared.
Mister Seahorse: Justified; Flug is a trans man, who gets pregnant from Ratigan's assault on him and decides to keep the baby, 505.
Nightmare Fetishist: Demencia is a clinical hybristophiliac, getting herself arrested multiple times so she can hit on criminals in the cells and eventually breaking into Black Hat's home and demanding employment.
Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: Similar to Boo, 505 draws pictures of the violence and assault he both witnessed and experienced.
Nothing Is Scarier: The story never reveals what Black Hat did to 505 that made him never speak, just that he did something.
Papa Wolf: Flug deals with Black Hat assaulting 505 by setting his boss on fire.
Token Good Teammate: 505 is the only one of the three that isn't a criminal/murderer. Justified since he's only seven.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Flug fights with Demencia while they're telling their stories, but flashbacks indicate that they really do care.
Yandere: Demencia is a weird example. She's definitely a yandere towards Black Hat, but is also clearly portrayed as the victim in their relationship as she was a teenager when they first met and he both beat and raped her, going so far as to hit her in the stomach in order to make her miscarry.
La Luna de la Sangue (Tom Lucitor) and the Devil's Advocate (Brian)
Hair-Trigger Temper: Ohhh yes. Brian's purpose seems to be to stop Tom from flipping out and breaking things.
Innocent Inaccurate: When the new priest turns up, Tom tries to perform oral sex on him, thinking this is a normal part of confession. Fortunately, the new priest is a Good Shepherd and goes right to Tom's parents.
Mafia Princess: Is basically this, even though his parents went straight when he was a kid.
Ambiguous Situation: Max outright admits he's not sure if the reason Goofy won't come to the group is because he's putting up a brave front, he's already gotten over it, or because his brain damage is preventing him from realizing it's a problem.
Hard Head: Averted. Goofy's clumsiness is from brain damage from getting beaten up in prison years ago.
Missing Mom: As it turns out, she's not dead; she left and cut off all contact when her and Goofy's marriage fell apart after the trauma.
Politically Incorrect Hero: He's not really a bad kid, but he supports Jasper over Lapis, implies he has some iffy thoughts on feminism, and believes the falsehood that women always get custody - it's implied the former stems from the latter since he resents his mother for not fighting to maintain contact with him.
Prison Rape: Goofy suffered it when falsely accused of a crime, and is desperate to make sure Max is never in a similar situation.
Team JN(P)R - the Joke of All Trades (Jaune Arc), the Norn Unnamed (Nora Valkyrie), not the Praetor (Pyrrha Nikos), the Wasteland Rhododendron (Lie Ren)
Broken Pedestal: They all took it pretty hard when they learned about Ratigan's true colors.
Uncertain Doom: They aren't completely sure if Pyrrha is dead or not, although it's implied she's been sold to the Ark. Ruby's chapter in Closet of Colors reveals that she's dead; Ratigan fed her to Felicia.
From Bad to Worse: They were all sent to a therapist because of their own respective traumas (the death of Mowgli's parents, Flik's rape/killing of Hopper in front of Dot, Muffy finding DW). Said therapist then molested them.
Innocent Inaccurate: Part of the reason they didn't realize Kaa's manner was inappropriate (though the hypnosis didn't help matters).
Meaningful Name: Their names refer to various serpents in Indian folklore. Mowgli is Indian and so was Kaa, and Kaa was a metaphorical snake in the sense of a traitor towards them (though the metaphor is Western).
Nothing Is Scarier: They aren't actually sure what Kaa did to any of them, just that he did something.
Big Brother Instinct: Inverted. Bolin demonstrates this towards Mako who is his older brother.
Et Tu, Brute?: Varrick befriended Bolin under disingenuous circumstances and later framed Mako for sabotage which led to him being raped in prison and contracting HIV. Bolin does not take the betrayal well.
Meaningful Name: A "sniggle" is a needle used to catch eels, which are known for camouflage. Bolin found out that Varrick was a False Friend and framed his brother.
Parental Neglect: Varrick spent most of Tahno's early life ignoring him. Sort of justified in that he was very young when he had him.
Teen Pregnancy: Well, Varrick wasn't pregnant himself, but Tahno is the result of him at age fifteen knocking up a fellow teenager, which led to their strained relationship later.
Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Robyn's abusers were trafficked themselves, except as hard labour slaves instead of Sex Slaves, are constantly at risk of death from starvation or illness or unsafe mine conditions, and it's implied the guards are abusing them for fun too. Robyn serves as a proxy for Schnee, their slaver.
Deconstruction: The chapter was originally inspired by some BDSM comics in which white blonde women are kept as sex slaves in a labour camp populated by racist stereotypes. Here, the perpetrators aren't offensive stereotypes, aren't all black, are suffering themselves and taking it out on Robyn instead of doing it For the Evulz, and while Robyn isn't able to escape under her own power, people from the outside remember she exists and do something.
The Dog Bites Back: After her first night in the labour camp, a guard drags her off to join the chain gang in the mines and hands her a hammer.
"Naturally I hit him with it. What did he expect?"
Honor Thy Abuser: Robyn rescues the trafficked labourers, even after what they did to her, because she considers it the right thing to do.
Meaningful Name: "Poor Cock Robin"'s name actually is Robyn, and her last statement is that the answer to the eponymous question "Who Killed Cock Robin" is "No one"; she survived.
Polyamory: It's pretty clear that something is going on between all four of them.
Shout-Out: To the Poem "Who Killed Cock Robin?" where they got their names, to The Decemberists' "Rox in the Box", and to some porn comics the writers didn't like.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: One of the movie fragments shows Joanna punching a guy for misgendering Transgender May. It's also pretty clear that Robyn, despite being a badass in her own right, is the most merciful of the four and the others would have left the laborers to rot if they'd known they were the ones who hurt her.
The Line of Fire - Hiraishin no Kotei (Zuko), Irori no Kogo (Mai), Huǒ de Péngyǒu (Ty Lee), Okusama Firebrand (Izumi), General 451 (Iroh II)
Zuko was molested by his father after his mother left and had half his face burned off with a piece of firewood.
After he left his father went to Azula instead who went on to abuse Ty Lee and attack Mai for keeping in touch with her brother and they were both arrested for fighting back.
Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee were in the vicinity of Hiroshima when the atom bombs dropped.
When Zuko finally gets in touch with Ursa again she comes to visit with the younger Kiyi who Azula assaults out of envy and because it's the forties/fifties the decision is made to lobotomize Azula. It's implied she was abused by workers at her institution before she contracted cancer from radiation and died young.
Ty Lee is/was involved with both Sokka and Suki, and Sokka was sleeping with Yue behind her abusive husband's back.
Later Mai and Zuko have Izumi, who has a mostly normal childhood but then has a secret affair with Bumi II and has Iroh II. She has a falling out with him over his joining the army, only for him to go MIA for over a year. Everyone assumes that he's dead, which leads to Izumi lashing out at everyone, especially Bumi II. He comes back, but only after a year of undergoing Cold-Blooded Torture.
Also, Toph lived with Zuko for a while and is basically considered an honorary sister here so the Beifong family drama probably also counts towards this.
Bedlam House: Azula ended up in what's implied to be one, though in the 1950s there probably weren't many better options.
Delayed Diagnosis: Zuko mentions having been diagnosed with autism in the 1990s, when he was in his sixties. Before then it wasn't widely-known enough for anyone to have checked him for it.
I Have Many Names: Well, two plus the Palace nickname. Ty Lee has both a Chinese name and a Japanese name (Umeki), because of her mixed parentage.
Lobotomy: Azula is forced to undergo one after she assaults Kiyi.
Maligned Mixed Marriage: Ty Lee and her sisters are the children of a wealthy Japanese man and his Chinese servant, who actually did love each other, but this being Imperial Japan, they couldn't get legally married. Ty Lee suffered discrimination at school and wasn't listened to when Azula had her arrested because of her Chinese heritage.
Meaningful Name: "The Line of Fire" are a family group with interconnected stories involving war. All their individual names relate to fire. "Irori no Kogo" means "empress of the hearth" and Huo de Pengyou means "friend of fire". "Okusama" is a formal Japanese term of address for a woman of marriageable age, and "General 451" refers to Fahrenheit 451.
Parental Incest: Ozai molested Zuko, and then Azula after Zuko left.
Married to the Job: His job kept him from spending time with his wife, leading to them separating years later.
Parental Favoritism: Preferred the more academic Claudia to Soren who had been held back in school.
Revenge by Proxy: He's a politician here with a lot of enemies so he saw this coming, but didn't predict they'd pick Soren as the proxy and not Claudia.
Spanner in the Works: He might be this... to the entire city. His policies are apparently not at all popular and given the state Calisota is in, one wonders.
a Greek king known for being a strong general that the trope Pyrrhic Victory is named after; Mako abused prisoners and, when he himself was arrested, was not popular in prison as a result.