History WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds / VisualNovels

* ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' has quite the big one, in both woobieness and destructive power in [[spoiler:Simon Keyes]], the BigBad. [[spoiler:As a child, his father only cared for him as a taste tester and left the country after committing a murder without a care in the world of what would happen to his son. This being right after he was kidnapped by his reluctant best friend at the behest of his father and would have frozen to death had a certain passerby not come across them and saved their lives. In the OrphanageOfFear where he ended up, he was a witness to a murder, and one of the people involved was the orphanage's caretaker who would then horribly interrogate him every day, with the other murderer implied to have plans to kill him. This led to him running away from the orphanage and being on the lam for years, unable to relax or even sleep through the night for fear that he would be found. As an adult, he dedicates himself to taking revenge with a intricate plan that included two kidnappings, four murders, and the imprisonment of two of the original culprits]]. At the end of the game, Miles even admits that, even after all [[spoiler: he]] did, [[spoiler: he]] was still a victim of a flawed legal system and several awful people.

* Yamato Tachibana from ''Inyouchuu''[[note]]whose page has been removed from the wiki for violating the site's policies against prurient works[[/note]] is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it -- it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' has [[spoiler:Akane]] who, [[spoiler:as a child, was kidnapped, forced to play the Nonary Game, and ended up burning to death in the incinerator. Through use of telepathy and time travel, some version of her manages to survive to present days, where she and her brother abduct seven other people involved in the last game and submit them to psychological torment (they lead them to believe they had bombs implanted in them, and that they'll all be drowned within a time limit). She also uses the game as an excuse to murder the four men responsible for her death.]]

* ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' has quite the big one, in both woobieness and destructive power in [[spoiler:Simon Keyes]], the BigBad. [[spoiler:As a child, his father only cared for him as a taste tester and left the country after committing a murder without a care in the world that this would throw his son in an OrphanageOfFear. This right after he was kidnapped by his best friend and would have frozen to death were a certain assassin not there to save their life. In the orphanage, he was a witness to a murder and kidnapping, and one of the people involved was the orphanage's caretaker who would then repeatedly horribly interrogate him to guarantee that his testimony would never be heard, with the other kidnapper implied to have plans to murder him. This led to him running away from the orphanage and being on the run during his entire childhood. Later in his life, he decides to dedicate himself to taking revenge, with a large intricate plan that included 2 kidnappings, 4 murders, and the imprisonment of two of the original culprits]]. At the end of the game, Miles even admits that, even after all they did, they were still a victim of a flawed legal system and several awful people.

* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'' we discover that [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae, known as the Pale Bride when she was alive]] was this. She was SicklyAndDelicate and after being [[HumanPopsicle awaken from cryogenization]] discovers herself in a world where that regressed to a sexist, misogynistic civilization. She then was so abused, physically and mentally (including [[spoiler:having her tongue ''cut'' so she couldn't backtalk any men never again]]), that you couldn't feel surprised when after an ill worded advice too many she finally snaps and [[spoiler: decides to upload her consciousness to an AI and override the system to turn off the life support, killing everyone on board including herself]].

* Yamato Tachibana from ''Inyouchuu'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it -- it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': [[spoiler:Monika's existence has become torment since she has realised she's stuck in a small video game world where (she thinks) no other characters than herself are even real. She falls madly in love with the player because they're the only real person she has any contact with. She tries to play nicely by the rules of the game to become the love interest character, but this proves impossible because the game doesn't even have a route written for her, whether the player would want it or not. Monika's MediumAwareness allows her to alter the game, which she starts doing less and less subtly, more and more destructively. Ultimately, since nothing else works, she does destroy the entire game world aside from herself, finally forcing the player to be with her.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'' we discover that [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae, known as the Pale Bride when she was alive]] was this. She was a modern IllGirl who, after being [[HumanPopsicle awaken from cryogenization]] discovers herself in a world where they got backwards to a sexist, misogynistic civilization. She then was so abused, physically and mentally (including [[spoiler:having her tongue ''cut'' so she couldn't backtalk any men never again]]), that you couldn't feel surprised when after an ill worded advice too many she finally snaps and [[spoiler: decides to upload her consciousness to an AI and override the system to turn off the life support, killing everyone on board including herself]].

** Near the end of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: ''all the students'', save for Chiaki, were members of Ultimate Despair, a personality cult completely and utterly devoted to the original Ultimate Despair herself, Junko Enoshima. Playing through their free time events will show that [[DysfunctionJunction everyone]] has some dark history, usually involving things like bullying, AbusiveParents, social ostracization, emotional struggles, etc. Junko exploited this and manipulated them into accepting her ideology. They were so dedicated to her that, after her death, they willingly [[BodyHorror cut off their own body parts and stitched hers onto themselves to make her live on through them.]]]]

* Near the end of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: ''all the students'', save for Chiaki, were members of Ultimate Despair, a personality cult completely and utterly devoted to the original Ultimate Despair herself, Junko Enoshima. Playing through their free time events will show that [[DysfunctionJunction everyone]] has some dark history, usually involving things like bullying, AbusiveParents, social ostracization, emotional struggles, etc. Junko exploited this and manipulated them into accepting her ideology. They were so dedicated to her that, after her death, they willingly [[BodyHorror cut off their own body parts and stitched hers onto themselves to make her live on through them.]]]]

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': [[spoiler:Monika is the self-appointed president of the Literature Club. Growing insane due to her title, Monika becomes angered at not having her own route. To this end, Monika accentuates the girls' negative traits to make them less appealing before opting to delete their character files when that fails. Destroying her world so she could be the only being in the game, Monika realizes what she had become when deleted. Monika's attempts at fixing her mistake goes awry, forcing her to permanently delete the game, declaring that no happiness could be found in the Literature Club.]]

* ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' has quite the big one, in both woobieness and destructive power in [[spoiler:Simon Keyes]], the BigBad. [[spoiler:As a child, his father only cared for him as a taste tester and left the country after commiting a murder without a care in the world that this would throw his son in an OrphanageOfFear. This right after he was kidnapped by his best friend and would have frozen to death were a certain assassin not there to save their life. In the orphanage, he was a witness to a murder and kidnapping, and one of the people involved was the orphanage's caretaker who would then repeteadly horribly interrogate him to guarantee that his testimony would never be heard, with the other kidnapper implied to have plans to murder him. This led to him running away from the orphanage and being on the run during his entire childhood. Later in his life, he decides to dedicate himself to taking revenge, with a large intricate plan that included 2 kidnappings, 4 murders and the imprisonment of two of the original culprits]]. At the end of the game, Miles even admits that, even after all they did, they were still a victim of a flawed legal system and several awful people.
* Yamato Tachibana from ''Inyouchuu'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it - it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]
* The secret character from ''VisualNovel/{{Nameless}}'' has been trapped in a closet for countless years, and the most important person in his life doesn't even remember him. This doesn't stop him from straying into several shades of {{Yandere}} on his quest to recover some of his life, however. [[spoiler: He does grow to regret his actions near the end, however.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/AnalogueAHateStory'' we discover that [[spoiler:*Hyun-ae, known as the Pale Bride when she was alive]] was this. She was a modern IllGirl who, after being [[HumanPopsicle awaken from cryogenization]] discovers herself in a world where they got backwards to a sexist, misogynistic civilization. She then was so abused, physically and mentally (including [[spoiler:having her tongue ''cut'' so she couldn't backtalk any men never again]]), that you couldn't feel surprised when after an ill worded advice too many she finally snaps and [[spoiler: decides to upload her consciousness to an AI and override the system to turn off the life support, killing everyone on board including herself]].
** It goes a bit further than that: [[spoiler:It's actually stated that she wasn't an AI when she turned off life support, meaning she was planning on [[TakingYouWithMe dying along with everyone else]] (not like it mattered to her, since she knew her disease would kill her soon, and medical knowledge had actually regressed since she was frozen, to the point that they didn't actually know what he cryo-pod was). The only reason she survived was because she crawled back into the broken pod to die, and it turned out her father had set it up so that, if she passed away in cryosleep, it would perform a [[BrainUploading brain upload]] to save her. Oh, and she's been alone for a few centuries by the time you come across her, is actually [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone remorseful]] about killing everyone, and really doesn't want to be abandoned]].
* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' has [[spoiler:Akane]] who, [[spoiler:as a child, was kidnapped, forced to play the Nonary Game, and ended up burning to death in the incinerator. Through use of telepathy and time travel, some version of her manages to survive to present days, where she and her brother abduct seven other people involved in the last game and submit them to psychological torment (they lead them to believe they had bombs implanted in them, and that they'll all be drowned within a time limit). She also uses the game as an excuse to murder the four men responsible for her death.]]
* Near the end of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: ''all the students'', save for Chiaki, were members of Ultimate Despair, a personality cult completely and utterly devoted to the original Ultimate Despair herself, Junko Enoshima. Playing through their free time events will show that [[DysfunctionJunction everyone]] has some dark history, usually involving things like bullying, AbusiveParents, social ostracization, emotional struggles, etc. Junko exploited this and manipulated them into accepting her ideology. They were so dedicated to her that, after her death, they willingly [[BodyHorror cut off their own body parts and stitched hers onto themselves to make her live on through them.]]]]
* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'': [[spoiler:Monika is the self-appointed president of the Literature Club. Growing insane due to her title, Monika becomes angered at not having her own route. To this end, Monika accentuates the girls' negative traits to make them less appealing before opting to delete their character files when that fails. Destroying her world so she could be the only being in the game, Monika realizes what she had become when deleted. Monika's attempts at fixing her mistake goes awry, forcing her to permanently delete the game, declaring that no happiness could be found in the Literature Club.]]

* Yamato Tachibana from ''VisualNovel/Inyouchuu'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it - it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* Yamato Tachibana from ''[[VisualNovel/Inyouchuu]]'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it - it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* Yamato Tachibana from ''VisualNovel/{{Inyouchuu}}'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it - it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* Yamato Tachibana from ''VisualNovel/Inyouchuu'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it - it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* Yamato Tachibana from ''Inyouchuu'' is the main page's image. [[spoiler: He's a HalfHumanHybrid who spent much of his life as an outcast, traveling around Japan with Yayoi in order to find a cure for his demonic tendencies. The Shiratori twins, Mikoto and Takeru, were some of the few people to actually treat him decently (BelligerentSexualTension with Mikoto notwithstanding). In the third game, both girls allow themselves to be [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong impregnated by demons]] in a last ditch attempt to keep Yamato's demon side from going out of control, and in a bad ending are raped and murdered by the [[UntrustingCommunity untrusting villagers]] who want to kill him. Needless to say, Yamato loses it - it doesn't end well for the villagers.]]

* Near the end of ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpa2'', it's revealed that [[spoiler: ''all the students'', save for Chiaki, were members of Ultimate Despair, a personality cult completely and utterly devoted to the original Ultimate Despair herself, Junko Enoshima. Playing through their free time events will show that [[DysfunctionJunction everyone]] has some dark history, usually involving things like bullying, AbusiveParents, social ostracization, emotional struggles, etc. Junko exploited this and manipulated them into accepting her ideology. They were so dedicated to her that, after her death, they willingly [[BodyHorror cut off their own body parts and stitched hers onto themselves to make her live on through them.]]]]

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* ''[[VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' has quite the big one, in both woobieness and destructive power in [[spoiler:Simon Keyes]], the BigBad. [[spoiler:As a child, his father only cared for him as a taste tester and left the country after commiting a murder without a care in the world that this would throw his son in an OrphanageOfFear. This right after he was kidnapped by his best friend and would have frozen to death were a certain assassin not there to save their life. In the orphanage, he was a witness to a murder and kidnapping, and one of the people involved was the orphanage's caretaker who would then repeteadly horribly interrogate him to guarantee that his testimony would never be heard, with the other kidnapper implied to have plans to murder him. This led to him running away from the orphanage and being on the run during his entire childhood. Later in his life, he decides to dedicate himself to taking revenge, with a large intricate plan that included 2 kidnappings, 4 murders and the imprisonment of two of the original culprits]]. At the end of the game, Miles even admits that, even after all they did, they were still a victim of a flawed legal system and several awful people.

* [[spoiler:Monika]] of ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' not only manipulates, gaslights, and [[spoiler:[[{{Unperson}} deletes]]]] people she's supposed to be friends with, but [[spoiler:literally destroys her game's world over her {{Yandere}} obsession with the player. Not the character you're playing as, but ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou you]]''.]] Despite her more unsympathetic actions, talking to her in Act 3 shows that [[spoiler:she's a lonely teenage girl who [[GoMadFromTheRevelation went through an existential crisis]] caused by her gaining meta-awareness. Her obsession with the player came about because she recognized that they were the only "real" thing in her life. She also mentions that, because of her meta-awareness, she gets subject to SensoryAbuse each time the game is off.]] It doesn't justify anything she does, but you can understand ''why''. One ending also shows [[spoiler:Sayori about to go down the same path before being intervened, showing that this is the possible fate of any character who becomes Club President.]]
* Kenshin from ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'' has an unhealthy habit of [[BloodKnight seizing any opportunity to fight]] because of it being the only thing that makes him feel alive after [[spoiler:the tragic suicide of his first love]], but he doesn't fall into this trope... ''until'' [[spoiler:the female main character, who was succeeding in helping him overcome his fear that he was doomed to lose anyone he cared for and finding things to live for other than fighting, almost gets killed by his enemies. This causes him to decide that the only way to protect another woman he loves from dying is to kill anyone and everyone who could ever pose a threat to her, even if he has to wage war with all of Japan to do it.]]