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* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': In the ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Journeys]]'' anime, Chloe's major problem is being pressured by her fellow classmates about getting a job involving Pokémon, particularly following in her father's foosteps. In this story, she has ''all'' of her insecurities out in public: being the BlackSheep in the family because she's not interested in Pokémon, feeling hurt that Goh is obsessed with capturing Pokémon (especially Mew), jealousy that Ash has essentially taken over being Goh's BFF and her father not even noticing her problems and only about her being interested in Pokémon.

** Misty's backstory is considerably sadder than it was in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]]. She was [[TheUnfavorite the least favorite child]], is confirmed to be an orphan, got kicked out by her sisters as soon as they were able to do so, and she has to deal with [[FantasticRacism anti-bloodliner prejudice]]. Really, it's no wonder she's falling for Ash, he was the best thing to happen to her in ''years''.

* Inverted with Jake in the ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}'' series. While he's still traumatised from the war, he's slightly happier than in canon because Tom is still alive.

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* Inverted with Jake in the ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}'' series. While he's still traumatised from the war, he's slightly happier than canon because Tom is still alive.

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* Being a FixFic, ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'' fixes one issue with ''Into the Wild'': Rusty runs off without second thought about his housefolk. ''Redux'' adds drama by showing that Rusty is attached to his new owners and is confused about leaving them. But, he craves adventure and new smells so it's easy for the kitten to run away to [=ThunderClan=]. Rusty guesses that his owners aren't too attached to him yet so they won't mind ''too'' much if he disappears one day.

** The blacksmith Lisbeth is given a tragic past in which her eagerness to get some rare materials led to the death of her guild, leading her to become a socially-awkward reclusive. Which ends up making her NotSoDifferent from Kirito.

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** Nate from the 2nd chapter onward starts out as a BrokenAce who was humiliated following a huge loss against Red during the PWT Champions Tournament, and has, up until the point he met Yancy in person, refrained from Pokemon battling altogether. Later in the story, he also exhibits signs of shellshock, particularly when facing against [[spoiler:the Shadow Triad and Kyurem again]].

* {{Creator/madsthenerdygirl}}'s ''Fanfic/MCURewrites'':

* ''Fanfic/ATriangleInTheStars'': Bill Cipher gets this treatment, [[spoiler: especially when he starts regrowing his empathy]].
** As if Pearl didn't have enough to suffer over, she has to deal with wanting to know exactly what happened in the Zodiac Temple, starting in Chapter Thirty-Eight, but no one, particularly Garnet [[spoiler: and Keyhole]], will tell her and keeps her LockedOutOfTheLoop, adding to her frustration. [[spoiler: And it also involves Rose]].

* In any work by Creator/DakariKingMykan, the characters of [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis Motomiya]] and [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] are given this over the mere fact that they [[DidNotGetTheGirl didn't end up with Kari and Terra]]. It gets to the point where [[FlatCharacter this is their only character trait]].

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': In the ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Journeys]]'' anime, Chloe's major problem is being pressured by her fellow classmates about getting a job involving Pokémon, particularly following in her father's foosteps. In this story, she has ''all'' of her insecurities out in public: being the BlackSheep in the family because she's not interested in Pokémon, feeling hurt that Goh is obsessed with capturing Pokémon (especially Mew), jealousy that Ash has essentially taken over being Goh's BFF and her father not even noticing her problems and only about her being interested in Pokémon.

* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHero'', Izuku was abandoned by his parents and raised by the League of Villains to be a murderous HeroKiller. He was beaten, malnourished, [[spoiler:and forced to watch his sister get gruesomely murdered right in front of him and having a Quirk forced on him immediately after.]] He wouldn't have any brightness in his life until he was saved by Ingenium and adopted by Inko. Even then, all the torture he went through has reduced him to an emotionally stunted wreck who's completely unable to smile.

* ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'':
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Luna. Nightmare Moon never occurred. When Luna tried to overthrow Celestia, Celestia decided to banish Luna to space camp for one-thousand hours instead of one-thousand years in the moon. Luna still has a FriendlessBackground however she's more dorky than troubled.
*** Played straight with most other characters. Pinkie's parents are dead and she has [[StepfordSmiler deep issues]] due to growing up in an orphanage where she was looked down upon for her ethnicity and [[FantasticRacism Earth pony background]], Applejack and Rarity are {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s, Fluttershy had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, Spike is all-around [[ButtMonkey hated by everypony]], etc. They don't tend to [[AngstWhatAngst actively angst too much]] due to the comedic nature of the series.

* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'': Cody's backstory is pretty horrific and rather intense. First we learn that Cody had been suffering from child neglect and bullying which drove him into depression. Second just nearly gave up on his life and almost committed suicide once by shooting himself in the head by his father's revolver, but dropped it at the last second. He later adopted his optimistic persona to combat the world.

* ''Fanfic/TwinningWithATwist'':

* ''Webcomic/ScoobAndShags'': In addition to being a lot smarter than in [[WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory the cartoon]], Dee-Dee is much more aware of her lack of useful skills, and a flashback shows her crying as other people, including Dexter, point this out at various turns. The events of Part 1 also leave her with PTSD after she nearly dies and loses her right eye, which leaves her frozen in fear the first time she enters combat again.

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* The 1997 short story ''Fanfic/OzmaSeesHerself'' is about Ozma, who previously liked being [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender a boy]], trying to adapt to her new role as queen. In the original ''Oz'' canon, Ozma takes to the change [[SecondLawOfGenderBending just fine]]. In the story, Ozma tries her best to avoid her queenly duties, acts as a TomboyPrincess, and doesn't even recognize her own reflection anymore. Ozma [[TheRunaway runs away]] and it takes the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger's persuasion (along with Ozma gaining a near-narcissistic appreciation for her own [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman beauty]]) to make her go back home.

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* In ''Fanfic/ATriangleInTheStars'', Bill Cipher gets this treatment, [[spoiler: especially when he starts regrowing his empathy]].

* [[GeneralRipper Admiral]] [[HeroKiller Akainu]], of all people, gets one in ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'' via one of the [[BreatherEpisode Decks of the World intervals]]. [[spoiler: It reveals that he used to be a noble Marine and genuinely good person until his crew landed on an island whose people had been brainwashed by an ArtifactOfDoom. After said people took advantage of his kindness and killed his entire crew, he became the merciless KnightTemplar he is today.]]

* In the ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Journeys]]'' anime, Chloe's major problem is being pressured by her fellow classmates about getting a job involving Pokémon, particularly following in her father's foosteps. In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', she has ''all'' of her insecurities out in public: being the BlackSheep in the family because she's not interested in Pokémon, feeling hurt that Goh is obsessed with capturing Pokémon (especially Mew), jealousy that Ash has essentially taken over being Goh's BFF and her father not even noticing her problems and only about her being interested in Pokémon.

* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', the [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} characters]]' individual issues in greater depth.

* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku is a borderline invincible teenage Kryptonian. But when his powers first manifested at the age of four, he got into a fight with his pugnacious best friend, Katsuki Bakugou, which ended with Izuku accidentally throwing Katsuki through a concrete wall. If that was't enough trauma to fuel a guilt complex, his Super-Hearing ends up forcing his parents to tell him that he is in fact an alien on an Earth that hates aliens. He immediately brands himself a monster and swears off his dream of becoming a Hero out of fear of hurting others.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Dave. In this story, Dave was voted off first by his teammates for being a jerk. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that he was a jerk because he had a bad day, which did not improve in his first two days at Playa de Losers. Despite that, it implied that things improve for him after his bad two days, and he enjoys the rest of his stay at Playa de Losers. It is also shown that Dave is on good terms with the other castmates that were voted off. Compared to what happened in the canon, with Dave suffering painful humiliatingly, being rejected by his love interest, and finally losing his sanity and being left on the island, being voted off first was the best for him.]]

* ''Fanfic/TwinningWithATwist'': Ella, ThePollyanna in canon, is given a significantly more angsty backstory to the point of [[spoiler:[[SelfHarm cutting herself]] and suffering a FriendlessBackground]].

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* [[GeneralRipper Admiral]] [[HeroKiller Akainu]], of all people, gets one in ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'' via one of the [[BreatherEpisode Decks of the World intervals]]. [[spoiler: It reveals that he used to be a noble Marine and genuinely good person until his crew landed on an island whose people had been brainwashed by an ArtifactOfDoom. After said people took advantage of his kindness and killed his entire crew, he became the merciless KnightTemplar he is today.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''/''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' {{Crossover}}.
** In ''Fanfic/ATriangleInTheStars'', Bill Cipher gets this treatment, [[spoiler: especially when he starts regrowing his empathy]].
*** As if Pearl didn't have enough to suffer over, she has to deal with wanting to know exactly what happened in the Zodiac Temple, starting in Chapter Thirty-Eight, but no one, particularly Garnet [[spoiler: and Keyhole]], will tell her and keeps her LockedOutOfTheLoop, adding to her frustration. [[spoiler: And it also involves Rose]].
** ''Fanfic/UniverseFalls'' doesn't hesitate to play up the fact that the Mystery Kids (Dipper, Mabel, Steven, and Connie) are ''children'', facing all sorts of physical and mental trauma in investigating the mysteries surrounding either the town of Gravity Falls or the Crystal Gems. And among other things, the OddFriendship between Lapis Lazuli and Dipper makes the former's sacrifice in "Jailbreak" and the latter's desperate bargain with Bill Cipher in "Sock Opera" all the more hard-hitting.
* ''Fanfic/HarbingerFinmonster'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''): [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] and [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Norman Babcock and Mr. Prenderghast.

** Dipper and Mabel were simply staying with Stan over the summer. Here, their parents died before the start of the story and their Great Uncle was the only relative who could take them in.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''
** ''Fanfic/{{Syngenesophobia}}'': Granted, anyone would fear and resent their family if the said family has beaten them badly within an inch of their lives. But even before Lincoln's beating, his relationship with his sisters was already strained from their bullying and using him. While in the show, Lincoln shows only exasperations and annoyance.
** ''Fanfic/WhatIsAPersonWorth'': While in the show, Lincoln was more annoyed than showing general outrage. Here Lincoln explodes in rage towards his family and questions if his family ever loved him in the first place. Forcing him in the suit for several days didn't help either.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
** ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'':
*** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Luna. Nightmare Moon never occurred. When Luna tried to overthrow Celestia, Celestia decided to banish Luna to space camp for one-thousand hours instead of one-thousand years in the moon. Luna still has a FriendlessBackground however she's more dorky than troubled.
*** Played straight with most other characters. Pinkie's parents are dead and she has [[StepfordSmiler deep issues]] due to growing up in an orphanage where she was looked down upon for her ethnicity and [[FantasticRacism Earth pony background]], Applejack and Rarity are {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s, Fluttershy had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood, Spike is all-around [[ButtMonkey hated by everypony]], etc. They don't tend to [[AngstWhatAngst actively angst too much]] due to the comedic nature of the series.
** In the ''Fanfic/AftermathOfTheGames'' Universe, [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Starlight Glimmer's]] backstory (as shown in "The Cutie Remark") is expanded by the author to make her more sympathetic. Instead of simply [[spoiler: losing her OnlyFriend when he got his Cutie Mark before her]], this version of Starlight is an orphan who grew up in [[OrphanageOfFear extremely neglectful conditions]], and [[spoiler: that friend was literally the only one who cared about her]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''
** ''Fanfic/ATDALoveTriangleWithBettyCodyAndGwenny'': Bridgette. In canon, after Geoff realized he was becoming a jerk, he apologized to Bridgette and they got back together. In this story Geoff is even worse off-camera, and, while trying to be understanding, Bridgette was at wit end. When she tried to talk to him, Geoff got angry and, after hours of yelling at her calling her a harlot and whore, he broke up with her, leaving her heartbroken. And the producer heard about the fight and reminded Bridgette of the terms of her contract. If she acts any differently towards Geoff during the aftermaths, they can sue her mother. So she's pretty much trapped in an abusive relationship.
** ''Fanfic/TotalDramaCodysRedemption'': Cody's backstory is pretty horrific and rather intense. First we learn that Cody had been suffering from child neglect and bullying which drove him into depression. Second just nearly gave up on his life and almost committed suicide once by shooting himself in the head by his father's revolver, but dropped it at the last second. He later adopted his optimistic persona to combat the world.
** ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'': Cody, Duncan, and Tyler all have dark backstories in this story. Cody was bullied heavily during middle school, but then he befriended Cedric and [[spoiler: let him use his body, not knowing he was a SerialKiller and using his body to commit murders.]] Duncan went to juvie with Cedric and was nearly killed by him. Tyler's [[spoiler: mother and unborn sister were murdered by Cedric when he was a child.]]
** ''Fanfic/PredatorAndPrey'': Bridgette's guilt over allowing herself to be seduced by Alejandro is worsened in this story by the fact that Alejandro raped her, horrifically traumatizing her and causing her to develop StockholmSyndrome. This also leads to her and Geoff breaking up between her elimination and the first Aftermath, causing her to become extremely depressed to the point of briefly contemplating suicide.
** ''Fanfic/TwinningWithATwist'': Ella, ThePollyanna in canon, is given a significantly more angsty backstory to the point of [[spoiler:[[SelfHarm cutting herself]] and suffering a FriendlessBackground]].
** ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'': Cody, Heather, Gwen, and Samey.
*** In canon, Cody was a rich kid that grew up in the suburbs and went to private school. It was implied his parent neglected him when it was mentioned they forgot his birthday. But in this story, he went to private school and was a victim of bullying. More importantly, the implied neglect of his parents is outright stated.
*** In canon, it was implied Heather had a strained relationship with her parents, with them implying they disliked having her around, though Heather mentioned she the closest to her mother. In this story, Heather’s parents, in particular her mother, have cast a long shadow over their daughter that at least partially shows how she became the bratty Queen Bee from Total Drama’s first season.
*** Gwen's life went pretty much down the pooper after the events of Total Drama World Tour. Her relationship with Duncan caused a rift to develop between her and her family, which resulted in her mother kicking her out of her house when she turned 18. This was fueled in part by Gwen trying to avoid her mistake with Trent and ditching a great guy too soon because of a few rough edges. But as a result, she's entered an abusive relationship where she has little to no personal autonomy, at least partially by choice. The relationship has weakened Gwen's more noble features while adding to her preexisting negative ones.
*** In canon, Sammy had suffered implied years of abuse from her sister, but in the show, she was quick to stand up to Amy. In this story, all the abuse mostly destroyed her self-esteem. Though Jasmine seems to be helping her slowly recover from that.
* Quite a few characters in ''Fanfic/TFAKaleidoscope'' are given this.
** Wheeljack is exiled alongside Ratchet and the others on the Orion Crew whereas in the original, he was still living on Cybertron.
** Sari was forced to live on the streets after her father died due to not having any legal documentation to confirm her existence.
** Optimus is no longer the idealistic young bot he was in canon. Here, he's a much older ShellShockedVeteran, and the Great War has caused him quite a bit of trauma.
** Besides living through the Great War, Ratchet also lived through Cybertron's totalitarian caste-system before the war began, and it's clear that he remembers every horrible moment of it.
** Zig-zagged with Arcee. On one hand, she doesn't remember the war and isn't forced into serving as the Decepticons' access key to Omega Supreme. On the other hand, it's because she doesn't remember her past that she's part of the exiled Orion Crew and her inability to remember who she was causes her a lot of grief and frustration.
* Happens quite a lot in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''.
** Misty's backstory is considerably sadder than it was in [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} the anime]]. She was [[TheUnfavorite the least favorite child]], is confirmed to be an orphan, got kicked out by her sisters as soon as they were able to do so, and she has to deal with [[FantasticRacism anti-bloodliner prejudice]]. Really, it's no wonder she's falling for Ash, he was the best thing to happen to her in ''years''.
** While Brock's not as badly off as Misty, both of his parents are dead.
** Not much is known about Red yet, but if his dreams are any indication, his past is ''full'' of anguish, moreso than his counterpart in either [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue the games]] or ''Manga/PokemonAdventures''.
** [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11744064/1/Pokemon-Reset-Bloodlines-Johanna-Gaiden As detailed in a side story to Reset]], Johanna also had a rougher life than her canon counterpart.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''
** ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'' has more death and destruction than in [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} canon]], even ''before'' the [[DarkestHour Fall of Beacon]].
** ''Every'' character in ''Fanfic/RWBYScars''.
* {{Creator/madsthenerdygirl}}'s ''Fanfic/MCURewrites'':
** ''Age of Ultron: Redux'' [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron adds more detail as to what happened to Wanda and Pietro Maximoff after they were left orphans as children when a missile made by Stark Industries hit their home.]] This includes: being beaten and kicked out of foster homes; being accused of stealing; and being bullied because they were Romanian or Jewish or both. Wanda [[RantInducingSlight even goes on a rant]] about how horrible her and Pietro's lives were because of what happened.
** ''New Avengers'' does this to [[spoiler: Pietro's death. Wanda nearly killing her brother's murderer adds tension to the Sokovia Accords and the general public is feared by what Wanda's capable of. The other Avengers are shown to be devastated by Quicksilver being killed, especially Sam and Rhodey, who think that they practically sent Pietro to die and [[MyGreatestFailure deeply regret it]].]]

* ''Fanfic/Team8'' is a ForWantOfANail fic with an altered history that makes Naruto and Hinata's life struggles significantly worse. The villagers are even more antagonistic to Naruto [[spoiler:and there is even hinted to be a conspiracy against him]], and Hinata's parental abuse is far worse. Consequently, both of them start out much more cynical and insecure than in canon. [[spoiler:At separate points, they both even have ''suicidal'' thoughts.]]
* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' story ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9658968/4/Enslaved Enslaved]]'' the usually cheerful Derflinger is often more melancholic than in canon because he forced himself to remember his entire history, knowing it'd be important in the future. This also means he remembers being used by Brimir's familiar Sasha to kill the man who then killed herself with Derflinger as well. Even worse, so far as Derf is concerned the two were his parents, making him a parricide.
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku is a borderline invincible teenage Kryptonian. But when his powers first manifested at the age of four, he got into a fight with his pugnacious best friend, Katsuki Bakugou, which ended with Izuku accidentally throwing Katsuki through a concrete wall. If that was't enough trauma to fuel a guilt complex, his Super-Hearing ends up forcing his parents to tell him that he is in fact an alien on an Earth that hates aliens. He immediately brands himself a monster and swears off his dream of becoming a Hero out of fear of hurting others.
* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHero'', Izuku was abandoned by his parents and raised by the League of Villains to be a murderous HeroKiller. He was beaten, malnourished, [[spoiler:and forced to watch his sister get gruesomely murdered right in front of him and having a Quirk forced on him immediately after.]] He wouldn't have any brightness in his life until he was saved by Ingenium and adopted by Inko. Even then, all the torture he went through has reduced him to an emotionally stunted wreck who's completely unable to smile.
** Kirishima suffers from neurosis, has to deal with the circumstances of his adoption, as well as the pressures of being [[spoiler:All Might's successor.]]
* Being a FixFic, ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'' fixes one issue with ''Into the Wild'': Rusty runs off without second thought about his housefolk. ''Redux'' adds drama by showing that Rusty is attached to his new owners and is confused about leaving them. But, he craves adventure and new smells so it's easy for the kitten to run away to [=ThunderClan=]. Rusty guesses that his owners aren't too attached to him yet so they won't mind ''too'' much if he disappears one day.

* In any work by Creator/DakariKingMykan, the characters of [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis Motomiya]] and [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Beast Boy]] are given this over the mere fact that they [[DidNotGetTheGirl didn't end up with Kari and Terra]]. It gets to the point where [[FlatCharacter this is their only character trait]].
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', the [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} characters]]' individual issues in greater depth.
** Pyrrha is constantly annoyed and troubled by her fame. Her old manager to tries to harass her into returning to the tournament circuit, she's constantly stopped by fans asking her for her autographs and laments that she was a SlaveToPR and couldn't do things she wanted to do like wolf down greasy hamburgers or just hang out with people her age.
** Blake is implied to have committed actual murder, direct or indirect, during her time in the White Fang. Her self-esteem is even worse than in-canon because of this and she constantly pushes people away when they try to help her.
** Nora is terrified of pushing Ren away and CannotSpitItOut because she doesn't want to change the dynamic between them.
** Yang's ParentalAbandonment issues are more pronounced and she struggled with the pressure of keeping her remaining family together after losing both Raven and Summer. She also feels betrayed by her father and uncle Qrow for [[spoiler:not revealing that Raven was excited to have her and letting Yang feel as though she was the reason why Raven vanished for years.]]
* ''Fanfic/DragonBlade'': Toushiro is psychologically scarred and has PTSD due to the events of the Winter and Thousand Year Blood Wars. When Aizawa tries to get him to open up, Toushiro has a breakdown and cries. In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', he keeps it together and has no severe psychological issues.
* Compared to Franchise/{{Touhou}} canon, ''Fanfic/{{Suikakasen}}'' puts Kasen through a lot more misery to the point where she could be considered a BrokenBird. She was [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned by her mother as a child]] when official materials make no mention of her parents, she suffers from LossOfIdentity resulting from the extra backstory given to her, and she is put through so much emotional pain over the course of the story that she cries onscreen, something she has yet to do in canon.

* ''Fanfic/VigilantesDawn'': Not to say Laurel had it all that easy in canon, but here she has canon Sara's backstory, due to Oliver inviting her instead of Sara like in canon. That means she has all of Sara's hangups, including being gaslighted and suffering StockholmSyndrome under Ivo's care, the guilt over her time in the League of Assassins -- everything. In exchange, this is inverted for Sara, who only suffered grieving for the "deaths" of her older sister and another close friend.
* Played with in the ''Manga/OnePiece'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ThisBites'' with Gecko Moria's backstory: whilst the fact he had been the SoleSurvivor of his crew after they were brutally slaughtered by Kaido is part of the canon, the anime and manga actually don't focus on this facet of Moria's history very much, and the Straw Hats barely learn anything about it. In this fic, far greater emphasis is placed on how this has screwed Moria up and left him [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen a twisted shadow of his former self, with little left to him but pain and hate]]. It even results in him undergoing a VillainousBSOD... followed by a TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening.

* ''Fanfic/BlackbirdArrow'':
** On top of what she went through in canon (Oliver and Sara's infidelity and "deaths", her mother abandoning her, and her father's shoddy treatment of her), being handed over to the League by her own mother has left Laurel in a ''much'' worse state than her show counterpart.
** Sara as well, who is still traumatized by the ''Amazo'' and has been eaten alive by guilt for years.
* [[GeneralRipper Admiral]] [[HeroKiller Akainu]], of all people, gets one in ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'' via one of the [[BreatherEpisode Decks of the World intervals]]. [[spoiler: It reveals that he used to be a noble Marine and genuinely good person until his crew landed on an island whose people had been brainwashed by an ArtifactOfDoom. After said people took advantage of his kindness and killed his entire crew, he became the merciless KnightTemplar he is today.]]
* From ''Fanfic/{{Precipice}}'', Captain Rex is hit with this. In canon, he was able to get his inhibitor chip removed before he had the chance to kill any Jedi. In this fic, he led the attack on the Jedi Temple and killed dozens of Jedi and younglings. The weight of what he did hits him '''hard''', as he spends the next few years moving from place to place and suffering from frequent PTSD induced nightmares about how he murdered the men and women he fought alongside as well as several innocent children.

* [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku]] receives a major one in ''Fanfic/ViridianTheGreenGuide'' - whilst he had confidence issues in canon, here he blatantly thinks of himself as complete garbage both as a person and a son, with the only thing keeping him from committing suicide being that it would negatively affect Bakugou's chances of becoming a Hero.
* ''Fanfic/NumberFourteenMHA'': After causing Izuku to commit suicide, Bakugou is rendered mute from the guilt, and begins writting him letters as part of therapy.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Hiccup usually responded to his village's scorn with a clever quip and went on with his day. In ''Fanfic/{{What Lies Beneath|OrangeCat64}}'', continued psychological abuse from the villagers and his father turned him into the quiet, cynical and anti-social young man he is today.
* ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'': Compared to Gudako, Rikku has many more self-esteem issues resulting from her darker personality traits, such as wondering if [[ShootTheDog killing people to save others is really the right thing or not]] or taking issue with not being able to fight on the front lines like her Servants.
* In the ''[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Journeys]]'' anime, Chloe's major problem is being pressured by her fellow classmates about getting a job involving Pokémon, particularly following in her father's foosteps. In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', she has ''all'' of her insecurities out in public: being the BlackSheep in the family because she's not interested in Pokémon, feeling hurt that Goh is obsessed with capturing Pokémon (especially Mew), jealousy that Ash has essentially taken over being Goh's BFF and her father not even noticing her problems and only about her being interested in Pokémon.
* ''FanFic/TalesOfSonicTheHedgehog'':
** Sticks the Badger, thanks to her actual backstory being explored here. [[spoiler:She grew up under the thumb of her father Jebediah Badger, a CorruptCorporateExecutive who groomed her into taking over his empire. Having only seen the bad side of Mobius' citizens through him, eventually Sticks ran away, shedding her birth name and becoming the WildChild she is.]]
** Sonic’s adventures get to him in this story along with having the world on his shoulders and his failure to save Kat and her family on the Death Egg. This eventually leads him to start taking therapy.
* ''FanFic/KingMHA'': While Shouto already had a DarkAndTroubledPast, it gets expanded upon courtesy of [[AmoralAttorney Fujimori Hiroji]], who was hired by U.A. to ensure that [[AbusiveParents Endeavor]]'s treatment of his family wasn't exposed after the incident that gave Shouto his scar. To this end, Fujimori isolated the five-year-old Shouto, grilling him about the incident for hours on end and {{Gaslighting}} him until he gave a version of events that satisfied him. This led to Shouto's twisted-around testimony being used to ensure his mother was blamed for everything while Endeavor got away clean, with full custody of his children.