History TraumaCongaLine / AnimeAndManga

** Enrico Pucci from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' got his StartOfDarkness from a series of traumatic coincidences. [[spoiler:First, a woman appears in his church and confesses to him that she stole a child from the Pucci family at birth, which Pucci realizes is his long-lost twin brother, who is [[SurpriseIncest unknowingly dating his sister]]. Refusing to disclose this secret due to confessional privacy, he instead hires a group of private investigators to break his siblings up. However, the private investigators were members of the KKK and mistook his twin brother for being half-black due to the race of his stepfather, which causes them to lynch him. This caused Pucci's sister to commit suicide, not realizing her brother/boyfriend barely survived]]. The string of horrible coincidences caused Pucci to fall under the sway of Dio, and he set into motion a plan to make all of humanity aware of their future fates so that they would never experience the pain of sudden tragedy and surprise.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Ichigo knows his need to protect can be exploited by the enemy and by the Lost Agent Arc was so smart about this that he was starting to find it annoying. That's when it's revealed that the ArcVillain's plan took this ennui into account. The villain built up trust with Ichigo while tearing down his friends in secret, leaving Ichigo feeling isolated and alone in a world gone mad, unable to do anything other than fight for the strength to save his friends and family. Once he obtained that strength, the villain stepped forward and promptly stole them. In one instant, Ichigo was bereft of his friends, his family and his power and, quite literally, left with nothing but the clothes on his back, a sword through his chest, and tears pouring down his face at how completely he had failed. Before this arc, it would never have been believable to see Ichigo, a stalwart shounen hero, on his knees crying. This arc made it happen.

* Lelouch, the AntiHero of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', gets a mixture of type B and D. However, streaks of result A are shown at the end as [[spoiler:his last act is to make himself the enemy of the world so the world becomes peaceful by his death]].
** There are a few other characters that would fall under this, too, though less obviously due to not being the main character. Shirley and Suzaku stick out the most, but there are more, [[FromBadToWorse this being]] ''Code Geass''.

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Kiritaka Nagare suffers a traumatizing series of events that end with his death. He saw one of his classmates being tortured by a group of satanic bullies, so he took the classmate's place to protect him. He was tortured for months, and the bullies ostracized him from his classmates, so he endured the torture alone. He kept quiet about the torture from his parents because he didn't want to worry his mother while he gathered evidence to turn the bullies in. After months of torture, Kiritaka was forced by the bullies to jump onto the road by threatening to post a fake pornographic video of his mother. He jumps and breaks his legs when his mother sees him jump, and then he's hit by a truck and dies, meaning that all he endured was for nothing. The only positive thing about this, and even that's debatable, is that his mother discovered the truth of his death and swore revenge, destroying the bullies' lives before killing them. Still, it's clear that his mother threw away her life and has been shattered by his death, meaning that all he suffered through was for nothing. Kiritaka, enduring all the torture and sacrificing his life, accomplished nothing but his death and destroying his family.

** Enrico Pucci from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' got his StartOfDarkness from a series of traumatic coincidences. [[spoiler:First, a woman appears in his church and confesses to him that she stole a child from the Pucci family at birth, which Pucci realizes is his long-lost twin brother, who is [[SurpriseIncest unknowingly dating his sister]]. Refusing to disclose this secret due to confessional privacy, he instead hires a group of private investigators to break his siblings up. However, the private investigators were members of the KKK and mistook his twin brother for being half-black due to the race of his stepfather, which causes them to lynch him. This caused Pucci's sister to commit suicide, not realizing her brother/boyfriend barely survived]]. The string of horrible coincidences caused Pucci to be fall under the sway of Dio, and he set into motion a plan to make all of humanity aware of their future fates so that they would never experience the pain of sudden tragedy and surprise.

* Pretty much every one in ''Franchise/KagerouProject'' has absolutely terrible things happen to them, but special mention goes to poor, poor, Kano. [[spoiler: First his mother was unstable and adbusive, causing Kano to see himself as no more than an object that can simply be thrown away, then when he's five a man breaks into his house and kills both him and his mother. Child Kano is brought back after entering a hellish never-ending world with the ability to shapeshift and is sent to live with distant relatives until they find out about said power and dump him in an orphanage. There he, along with Kido and Seto, is bullied and treated like a monster by other children. It all seems to be looking up when the trio get adopted by a happy family, only for their adoptive mother to die when they're 13 years old. His father is possesed by the snake that saved him from dying as well and is now plotting to kill Kano and his siblings to bring their mother back to life. Kano is informed of this plot by his older sister and is later forced to watch her kill herself in front of him in an attempt to ruin their dad's plan- only it backfires and Kano is threatened that Kido and Seto will be killed if he disobeys and is forced to lie to them for two years. Eventually he and his friend are all murdered brutally in order to trigger a time reset where all this happens again and again.]]

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy finally had a HeroicBSOD after a Trauma Conga Line that started way back in Sabaody and was compounded by events that only succeeded in twisting in the knife, culminating in [[spoiler:Ace sacrificing himself to save Luffy after Luffy had gone through hell and high water to save ''him'' from execution at Impel Down]].
** Nami's backstory. Ace. Hell, let's be real, almost every major character will dance this conga until their feet bleed. They promised us cute pirate shenanigans, and we got it, but with a huge helping of horrible heartbreak.
** Nico Robin makes a prominent example. [[spoiler: She was neglected and bullied as a child, then her entire hometown was burned down and everyone she knew was killed right in front of her, including her mother who left her 7 years ago and her only friend. She was then actively hunted down by the World Government for over 20 years, betrayed and sold out by anyone she had ever associated with, up until she met the Strawhats. Even then, she turned herself in the Government to protect them and was abused by the chief of the Government assassins until the Strawhats and Franky gave her the will to live and then saved her.]]
** Brook. [[spoiler: His ship got shattered, he saw all his friends die one by one, then he died, but [[TheUndead came back]], just to be stuck all alone for 50 years on a ghost ship without food or sunlight. He also got his shadow stolen which would instantly destroy him, if he is in sunlight. He outright states that if it weren't for his Devil Fruit, he [[DrivenToSuicide would have killed himself long ago.]]]]
** Trafalgar Law's childhood: [[spoiler: doomed to an early death by poisoning along with all the people of his country, his father, mother, sister and friends finally die during the genocide committed by foreign nations to prevent a pandemic that would have never occurred anyway as they were poisoned, not contagious. After he managed to escape by hiding among the corpses, pretty much snapped.]] It got worse, too. [[spoiler: He joined the Donquixote Pirates as a preteen in order to hurt the world as much as he could before he died from the poison. When Doflamingo's brother and right hand, Corazon, realized Law was a D., he knew Law wouldn't be safe around Doflamingo and kidnapped him to look for a cure for his disease. Corazon dragged Law through multiple hospitals... who assumed Law was a plague carrier and called the poor kid a monster to his face. Corazon managed to find the Op-Op Fruit, which Law could use to cure himself...and died at Doflamingo's hands so Law could escape.]] All before Law's fourteenth birthday.

** Nico Robin makes a prominent example. [[spoiler: She was neglected and bullied as a child, then her entire hometown was burned down and everyone she knew was killed right in front of her, including her mother who left her 7 years ago and her only friend. She was then actively hunted down by the World Government for over 20 years, betrayed and sold out for anyone she had ever associated with, up until she met the Strawhats.]]