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* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': [[TheAlcoholic Barbie]]'s [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked'', thanks to her EvilMatriarch Margaret and absentee father George.

* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': Let's face it; [[TheAlcoholic Barbie]]'s [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked''.

* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': Let's face it; [[TheAlcoholic Barbie's]] [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked''.

* Website/GaiaOnline's current BigBad [[spoiler:was neglected by his [[CloningBlues "father"]], Johnny K. Gambino, in favor of his natural son Gino. This led him to found his own MadScientist corporation, [=NeXus=], to study the Animated and eventually use them to try and take over the world.]]

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'':

** [[BigBad Salem]] was locked in an isolated tower by her cruel father at a young age and grows up, longing for freedom. Anything that threatens her ability to be free is therefore retaliated against viciously and vindictively. She'll control or even destroy the entire world if she thinks it's the only way to obtain her freedom. [[spoiler:She was originally rescued by the legendary hero, [[BigGood Ozma]], with whom she fell in love as her definition of 'freedom'. After his death, the gods [[BarredFromTheAfterlife punished her]] for trying to trick them into resurrecting him. Her [[LoveMakesYouEvil descent]] into bitterness and evil became worse after a brief taste of a perfect life when Ozma was [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrected]]; when Ozma himself turned against her because of her evil, her campaign began in earnest: now she seeks to destroy the world both to spite Ozma and the gods, and because she thinks it's her only route to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever freeing herself]] from her [[CompleteImmortality immortal existence]].]]

** Emerald and Mercury are both very nasty people, but their {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s at least partially explain their behavior. Emerald grew on the streets and it seems like she was made very cynical and desperate by the experience. Mercury on the other hand, was raised in isolation in the mountains by his abusive, alcoholic father, who was also an assassin.

** Salem was locked in an isolated tower by her cruel father at a young age and grows up, longing for freedom. Anything that threatens her ability to be free is therefore retaliated against viciously and vindictively. She'll control or even destroy the entire world if she thinks it's the only way to obtain her freedom. [[spoiler:She was originally rescued by the legendary hero, Ozma, with whom she fell in love as her definition of 'freedom'. After his death, the gods [[BarredFromTheAfterlife punished her]] for trying to trick them into resurrecting him. Her [[LoveMakesYouEvil descent]] into bitterness and evil became worse after a brief taste of a perfect life when Ozma was [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrected]]; when Ozma himself turned against her because of her evil, her campaign began in earnest: now she seeks to destroy the world both to spite Ozma and the gods, and because she thinks it's her only route to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever freeing herself]] from her [[CompleteImmortality immortal existence]].]]

** Salem locked in an isolated tower by her cruel father at a young age and grows up, longing for freedom. Anything that threatens her ability to be free is therefore retaliated against viciously and vindictively. She'll control or even destroy the entire world if she thinks it's the only way to obtain her freedom. [[spoiler:She was originally rescued by the legendary hero, Ozma, with whom she fell in love as her definition of 'freedom'. After his death, the gods [[BarredFromTheAfterlife punished her]] for trying to trick them into resurrecting him. Her [[LoveMakesYouEvil descent]] into bitterness and evil became worse after a brief taste of a perfect life when Ozma was [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrected]]; when Ozma himself turned against her because of her evil, her campaign began in earnest: now she seeks to destroy the world both to spite Ozma and the gods, and because she thinks it's her only route to [[WhoWantsToLiveForever freeing herself]] from her [[CompleteImmortality immortal existence]].]]

** As a young woman, Salem was trapped in a tower by her cruel father, living an isolated existence until rescued by a legendary hero. [[spoiler:When Ozma dies from a fatal sickness, she begged the gods to restore his life and manipulated them to ensure she got her way. Upon discovering the deceit, the divine brothers cursed her with immortality to prevent her reuniting with her lost love in the afterlife. Trapped in isolation once more, Salem descended slowly through bitterness and anger into destruction and evil.]]

** Weiss harbours a strong distrust of [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]]. This is because the White Fang, a terrorist group that fights for Faunus rights, has terrorised her and her family for years. The White Fang have kidnapped several of her friends and family, and it's implied that [[AbusiveParents she was a victim of her father's temper brought about by the White Fang's actions]]. The thing is, a later scene reveals that Blake is a Faunus and a former White Fang member, as she blurts out after a heated argument. Weiss' FantasticRacism is wrong, sure, but it's easy to sympathise with her if her backstory truly was that crapsack. The whole aforementioned scene is quite a [[TearJerker tragic]] example of two victims of a very [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey conflict]] butting heads.
** Weiss' younger brother Whitley is in the middle of one. Ever since his first appearance, Whitley has been antagonistic towards Weiss under a thin veneer of being a supportive sibling catching up with and checking on her sister, but otherwise wants nothing to do with her. When Weiss confronts Whitley in Volume 4 about his false affection for her, Whitley reasons that they must follow their father's expectations. In volume 7, Weiss' mother gently reminds Weiss that both his sisters abandoning Whitley with his emotionally abusive father and neglectful mother certainly isn't helping.
** [[CoDragons Emerald and Mercury]] are both very nasty people, but their {{Dark And Troubled Past}}s at least partially explain their behavior. Emerald grew on the streets and it seems like she was made very cynical and desperate by the experience. Mercury on the other hand, was raised in isolation in the mountains by his abusive, alcoholic father, who was also an assassin.
** [[spoiler:As a young woman, Salem was trapped in a tower by her cruel father, living an isolated existence until rescued by a legendary hero. When Ozma dies from a fatal sickness, she begged the gods to restore his life and manipulated them to ensure she got her way. Upon discovering the deceit, the divine brothers cursed her with immortality to prevent her reuniting with her lost love in the afterlife. Trapped in isolation once more, Salem descended slowly through bitterness and anger into destruction and evil]].

** Weiss harbours a strong distrust of [[LittleBitBeastly Faunas]]. This is because the White Fang, a terrorist group that fights for Faunas rights, has terrorised her and her family for years. The White Fang have kidnapped several of her friends and family, and it's implied that [[AbusiveParents she was a victim of her father's temper brought about by the White Fang's actions]]. The thing is, a later scene reveals that Blake is a Faunas and a former White Fang member, as she blurts out after a heated argument. Weiss' FantasticRacism is wrong, sure, but it's easy to sympathise with her if her backstory truly was that crapsack. The whole aforementioned scene is quite a [[TearJerker tragic]] example of two victims of a very [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey conflict]] butting heads.

* Lord Doom, an EvilOverlord WellIntentionedExtremist supervillain from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' was nine years old when he became the only member of his family to survive internment in a Nazi concentration camp (his father was executed right in front of the boy by a camp guard who was "merely testing his newly-issued pistol"). He didn't even have the consolation of a community of Holocaust survivors to relate to as his family wasn't Jewish, or Gypsy, or Slavs... there were merely politically inconvenient. His campaign to take over the world is founded on his very real, very sincere, and very, '''''very''''' obsessive wish that no more children suffer the loss of their Mommy and Daddy and little sisters like he did.

** Weiss harbours a strong distrust of [[LittleBitBeastly Faunas]]. This is because the White Fang, a terrorist group that fights for Faunas rights, has terrorised her and her family for years. The White Fang have kidnapped several of her friends and family, and it's implied that [[AbusiveParents she was a victim of her father's temper brought about by the White Fang's actions]]. The thing is, a later scene reveals that [[spoiler:Blake is a Faunas and a former White Fang member, as she blurts out after a heated argument.]] Weiss' FantasticRacism is wrong, sure, but it's easy to sympathise with her if her backstory truly was that crapsack. The whole aforementioned scene is quite a [[TearJerker tragic]] example of two victims of a very [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey conflict]] butting heads.

* Mariavel Varella, the primary villain of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest v2'', has something of a FreudianExcuse to justify her actions. She was raped by her father as a child (although this may have since been the subject of a {{Retcon}}). However, what does remain Canon is the other abuse she suffered at the hands of her father - as well as him killing her brother.
* Steff in ''Literature/TalesOfMU'': "Don't you think I've earned a chance to be the one at the top of the shitheap for a while? Three more years and then nobody's going to fuck with me, ever again."
* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Tristan asks Bakura why he is so evil, to which Bakura replies "Well, I guess my mummy didn't love me enough. Did you know she wanted to name me Florence? Who names a boy Florence?!"
** Also, Marik was forced to undergo having markings burned into his backside as a child... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as well as having to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua]]. He was a bit of a dick before then, though.
* StalkerWithACrush Zaboo from ''WebVideo/TheGuild''. Dead father, [[EvilMatriarch Mother From Hell]], it's amazing he isn't more messed up than he is. Although he's pretty damn messed up.
* Website/GaiaOnline's current BigBad [[spoiler:was neglected by his [[CloningBlues "father"]], Johnny K. Gambino, in favor of his natural son Gino. This led him to found his own MadScientist corporation, [=NeXus=], to study the Animated and eventually use them to try and take over the world.]]
* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': Let's face it; [[TheAlcoholic Barbie's]] [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked''.
-->'''Ken:''' What's the most traumatic memory for you?
-->'''Barbie:''' My ''whole'' childhood!
-->'''Ken:''' Be specific.
* Lord Doom, an EvilOverlord WellIntentionedExtremist supervillain from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'' was nine years old when he became the only member of his family to survive internment in a Nazi concentration camp (his father was executed right in front of the boy by a camp guard who was "merely testing his newly-issued pistol"). He didn't even have the consolation of a community of Holocaust survivors to relate to as his family wasn't Jewish, or Gypsy, or Slavs... there were merely politically inconvenient. His campaign to take over the world is founded on his very real, very sincere, and very, '''''very''''' obsessive wish that no more children suffer the loss of their Mommy and Daddy and little sisters like he did.

* Unsurprisingly, this is implied to be the reason WebVideo/RedLetterMedia's [[VillainProtagonist Mr Plinkett]] is a mentally unstable kidnapper and murderer. He mentions attacking a doctor who asked about his "dear old mother", then we are shown a brief flashback of his mother telling him to "bury the bodies under the floorboards".
* WebVideo/EchoChamber's Tom and Zack have Freudian excuses.

* From ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'':
-->'''[[spoiler: Souichiro's ghost possessing]] Aizawa''' (to Light): Shut up! I knew I shouldn't have pushed your mother down the stairs while she was pregnant with you!
** Also Mikami:
-->'''Narrator:''' Mikami grew up in an abusive household. His father was a professional badger wrestler too busy on the road to come home. His mother had a rare disease [[OffModel that left her with no eyes or upper face]] and she drank ''to excess''... And now your mother's dead. She died while you were still in school and it scarred you FOR LIFE!
* In 'LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut [=WWF=] No Mercy', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] revealed that the very reason why he does not like pro wrestling was because when he was a kid, his friends had gotten into trading collectible [=WWF=] stickers and essentially alienated Yahtzee out of their social groups. His commentary partner Gabriel summed it up pretty nicely:
--> '''Gabriel''': WRESTLERS TOOK MY FRIENDS!

* Weiss of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' harbours a strong distrust of [[LittleBitBeastly Faunas]]. This is because the White Fang, a terrorist group that fights for Faunas rights, has terrorised her and her family for years. The White Fang have kidnapped several of her friends and family, and it's implied that [[AbusiveParents she was a victim of her father's temper brought about by the White Fang's actions]]. The thing is, a later scene reveals that [[spoiler:Blake is a Faunas and a former White Fang member, as she blurts out after a heated argument.]] Weiss' FantasticRacism is wrong, sure, but it's easy to sympathise with her if her backstory truly was that crapsack. The whole aforementioned scene is quite a [[TearJerker tragic]] example of two victims of a very [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey conflict]] butting heads.
** [[CoDragons Emerald and Mercury]] are both very nasty people, but their {{DarkAndTroubledPast}}s at least partially explain their behavior. Emerald grew on the streets and it seems like she was made very cynical and desperate by the experience. Mercury on the other hand, was raised in isolation in the mountains by his abusive, alcoholic father, who was also an assassin.
* The ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article [[http://www.cracked.com/article_24760_how-historys-bad-guys-got-to-be-that-way.html "5 Famous Historical Bad Guys (And Their Side of the Story)"]], which based on the url may have been called "How History's Bad Guys Got to Be That Way" previously. You can't put real life examples in "bad guy" tropes, but here it's the article ''saying'' they were bad guys, so whether you agree with it or not, it's clear the article is doing this trope.
** The Koch brothers were raised by a literal Nazi nurse and a [[SocialDarwinism Social Darwinist]] father who made them fight each other.
** Wayne Wheeler was a major force behind the Prohibition, inspired by being mildly injured by a drunk person when he was little.
** Kaiser Wilhelm's crippled arm and terrible mother made him a total jerk.
** George Wallace became a total racist after losing an election by not being racist.
** Joseph Stalin basically declared war against all mankind after his girlfriend died.
* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': If you had either [[RichBitch Shay's]] or [[AlphaBitch Mackenzie's]] [[ParentalNeglect family lives]], would ''you'' be the most pleasant people in the world?
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Killer Monster spent 10,000 years in what is pretty much Hell, which made him insane and bloodthirsty.

* Weiss of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' harbours a strong distrust of [[PettingZooPeople Faunas]]. This is because the White Fang, a terrorist group that fights for Faunas rights, has terrorised her and her family for years. The White Fang have kidnapped several of her friends and family, and it's implied that [[AbusiveParents she was a victim of her father's temper brought about by the White Fang's actions]]. The thing is, a later scene reveals that [[spoiler:Blake is a Faunas and a former White Fang member, as she blurts out after a heated argument.]] Weiss' FantasticRacism is wrong, sure, but it's easy to sympathise with her if her backstory truly was that crapsack. The whole aforementioned scene is quite a [[TearJerker tragic]] example of two victims of a very [[GreyAndGrayMorality morally grey conflict]] butting heads.

* We have this with [[http://tokiandcowiki.wikidot.com/wiki:toki Toki]], who, throughout numerous stories in which her backstory was mentioned, was noted to have been abused by her adopted mother, which lead to her seeing the world as she does (Toki was very naive at the time), giving her a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality fairly warped up sense of right and wrong]], and causing her to develop mental illnesses. Amoridere did note [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Psychology-Notes-I-Freudian-Excuse-405214322 here]] that it doesn't justify her actions, rather, it explains them.

* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': Let's face it; [[TheAlcoholic Barbie's]] [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked''; DisappearedDad, and a alcoholic abusive mother and aunt certainly didn't help.

* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': If you had either [[RichBitch Shay's]] or [[AlphaBitch Mackenzie's]] family lives, would ''you'' be the most pleasant people in the world?

* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': Let's face it; [[TheAlcoholic Barbie's]] [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked''; DisappearedDad, alcoholic abusive mother and aunt...