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-->And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
-->And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16?

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-->And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep?
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* The inmates from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ivnvKIu4mg "Red Sector A"]] by Music/{{Rush}}.

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* The inmates from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ivnvKIu4mg "Red Sector A"]] by Music/{{Rush}}.Music/{{Rush|Band}}.
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** Discussed in Volume 3. When Emerald targets people on the battlefield [[MasterOfIllusion with her illusions]], they can exhibit symptoms that get diagnosed as "battlefield stress", which can affect both soldiers and Huntsmen. When it happens to Yang, Ironwood tells Team RWBY how stress and adrenaline can mke people see things that aren't there. Although he's trying to be understanding, it's strongly hinted by the way he touches his cybernetic arm that he's talking more about himself than Yang, and that he suffers from PTSD. Ruby later starts cluing into what Emerald's doing when she learns that Coco suffered "hallucinations" during her tournament match with Emerald and Mercury, which were dismissed with the same explanation.
** Yang spends Volume 4 traumatized by the events of the Battle of Beacon; simply dropping a glass on the floor triggers flashbacks to the injuries she sustained. [[spoiler:Once she gets back on her feet from losing an arm to Adam, some of her trauma lingers, causing her tremors when she fights. In Volume 6, she hallucinates Adam while searching Brunswick Farms and panics, visibly shaking afterwards. When Adam sees her tremors and tries to trigger her PTSD during their final fight, she is able to work past it and disarm him by out-thinking him rather than by overpowering him.]]
** In Volumes 2-3, it's heavily implied that Ironwood has PTSD from an incident that cost him most of the right side of his body. In Volume 4, his scruffy stubble and arguments with Jacques suggest he's haunted by the Battle of Beacon, and it's driving his more extreme decisions, such as enforcing a global Dust embargo and locking down Atlas' borders. Volume 5 reveals that Leo is disturbed by Ironwood's behaviour since Beacon, and Volume 7 confirms that he's struggling with paranoia and flashbacks. [[spoiler:He [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope spirals]] through increasingly draconian decisions to control the kingdom and its security until [[TheHeavy Cinder]] fully [[TraumaButton triggers his PTSD]] with a black queen chess piece, [[BigBad Salem's]] calling card. Once he [[KickTheMoralityPet turns his back on Oscar]], who was encouraging him to embrace his fear, he [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fully transforms]] into a villain and becomes as much a threat to the kingdom as Salem herself.]]
** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll on [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation consists of the heroes realising that managing his secret is harder than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking; it doesn't address his trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]

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** Discussed This is discussed in Volume 3. When Emerald Sustrai targets people on the battlefield [[MasterOfIllusion with her illusions]], they can exhibit symptoms that get diagnosed as "battlefield stress", which can affect both soldiers and Huntsmen. When it happens to Yang, Yang Xiao Long, James Ironwood tells Team RWBY how stress and adrenaline can mke make people see things that aren't there. Although he's trying to be understanding, it's strongly hinted by the way he touches his cybernetic arm that he's talking more about himself than Yang, and that he suffers from PTSD. Ruby Rose later starts cluing into what Emerald's doing when she learns that Coco suffered "hallucinations" during her tournament match with Emerald and Mercury, which were dismissed with the same explanation.
** Yang spends Volume 4 traumatized by the events of the Battle of Beacon; simply dropping a glass on the floor triggers flashbacks to the injuries she sustained. [[spoiler:Once she gets back on her feet from losing an arm to Adam, Adam Taurus, some of her trauma lingers, causing her tremors when she fights. In Volume 6, Two volumes later, she hallucinates Adam while searching Brunswick Farms and panics, visibly shaking afterwards. When Adam sees her tremors and tries to trigger her PTSD during their final fight, she is able to work past it and disarm him by out-thinking him rather than by overpowering him.]]
** In Volumes 2-3, the second and third volumes, it's heavily implied that Ironwood has PTSD from an incident that cost him most of the right side of his body. In Volume 4, his scruffy stubble and arguments with Jacques Schnee suggest he's haunted by the Battle of Beacon, and it's driving his more extreme decisions, such as enforcing a global Dust embargo and locking down Atlas' borders. Volume 5 reveals that Leo One volume later, Leonardo Lionheart is disturbed by Ironwood's behaviour since Beacon, and by Volume 7 confirms that 7, he's struggling with paranoia and flashbacks. [[spoiler:He [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope spirals]] through increasingly draconian decisions to control the kingdom and its security until [[TheHeavy Cinder]] Cinder Fall]] fully [[TraumaButton triggers his PTSD]] with a black queen chess piece, [[BigBad Salem's]] calling card. Once he [[KickTheMoralityPet turns his back on Oscar]], Oscar Pine]], who was encouraging him to embrace his fear, he [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fully transforms]] into a villain and becomes as much a threat to the kingdom as Salem herself.]]
** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll on [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8.two volumes later. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; leaving Ozpin traumatised; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation His reconciliation consists of the heroes realising heroes' realisation that managing his secret is harder than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking; it doesn't address his trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]
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** [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that even Caboose is shell-shocked to some degree due to Church's deaths, even claiming that "When someone dies, my brain likes to hurt me with memories."]]
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** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll on [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation consists of the heroes realising managing his secret is harder than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking; it doesn't address his wider trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]

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** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll on [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation consists of the heroes realising that managing his secret is harder than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking; it doesn't address his wider trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]
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** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll on [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation consists of the heroes realising his secret is harder to manage than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking, but doesn't address his wider trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]

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** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll on [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation consists of the heroes realising managing his secret is harder to manage than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking, but taking; it doesn't address his wider trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]

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** Given the events that happened near the end of Volume 3, several characters had suffered through this in various forms in Volume 4, especially noting that they were only [[ChildSoldiers seventeen years old]]. The most prominent example, however, would have to be [[spoiler: Yang Xiao Long, having [[AnArmAndALeg lost her arm]] at the hands of Adam Taurus and seeing Blake, who was abused by the latter, leaving the team, caused her to become such a nervous wreck that even merely dropping a glass was enough to trigger flashbacks of Adam cutting her arm]]. She eventually gets better, though.
** It's strongly implied that General Ironwood suffers from PTSD as a result of the incident that lost him most of the right side of his body, as he shifts his robotic shoulder subconsciously while talking to Team RWBY about how stress can make you see things that aren't there, "even after the battle has passed." And his mental state only gets worse after the events of Volume 3. Throughout Volumes 4 and then 7, he's shown to have become irritable, paranoid and prone to emotional outbursts, and at one point he's even shown experiencing a flashback to the attack on Beacon, all textbook indicators of PTSD.

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** Given Discussed in Volume 3. When Emerald targets people on the battlefield [[MasterOfIllusion with her illusions]], they can exhibit symptoms that get diagnosed as "battlefield stress", which can affect both soldiers and Huntsmen. When it happens to Yang, Ironwood tells Team RWBY how stress and adrenaline can mke people see things that aren't there. Although he's trying to be understanding, it's strongly hinted by the way he touches his cybernetic arm that he's talking more about himself than Yang, and that he suffers from PTSD. Ruby later starts cluing into what Emerald's doing when she learns that Coco suffered "hallucinations" during her tournament match with Emerald and Mercury, which were dismissed with the same explanation.
** Yang spends Volume 4 traumatized by
the events that happened near of the end Battle of Volume 3, several characters had suffered through this in various forms in Volume 4, especially noting that they were only [[ChildSoldiers seventeen years old]]. The most prominent example, however, would have to be [[spoiler: Yang Xiao Long, having [[AnArmAndALeg lost her arm]] at the hands of Adam Taurus and seeing Blake, who was abused by the latter, leaving the team, caused her to become such a nervous wreck that even merely Beacon; simply dropping a glass was enough on the floor triggers flashbacks to the injuries she sustained. [[spoiler:Once she gets back on her feet from losing an arm to Adam, some of her trauma lingers, causing her tremors when she fights. In Volume 6, she hallucinates Adam while searching Brunswick Farms and panics, visibly shaking afterwards. When Adam sees her tremors and tries to trigger flashbacks of Adam cutting her arm]]. She eventually gets better, though.
PTSD during their final fight, she is able to work past it and disarm him by out-thinking him rather than by overpowering him.]]
** It's strongly In Volumes 2-3, it's heavily implied that General Ironwood suffers has PTSD from PTSD as a result of the an incident that lost cost him most of the right side of his body, as he shifts his robotic shoulder subconsciously while talking to Team RWBY about how stress can make you see things that aren't there, "even after the battle has passed." And his mental state only gets worse after the events of body. In Volume 3. Throughout Volumes 4 4, his scruffy stubble and then 7, arguments with Jacques suggest he's shown to have become irritable, paranoid haunted by the Battle of Beacon, and prone to emotional outbursts, it's driving his more extreme decisions, such as enforcing a global Dust embargo and at one point locking down Atlas' borders. Volume 5 reveals that Leo is disturbed by Ironwood's behaviour since Beacon, and Volume 7 confirms that he's even shown experiencing struggling with paranoia and flashbacks. [[spoiler:He [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope spirals]] through increasingly draconian decisions to control the kingdom and its security until [[TheHeavy Cinder]] fully [[TraumaButton triggers his PTSD]] with a flashback black queen chess piece, [[BigBad Salem's]] calling card. Once he [[KickTheMoralityPet turns his back on Oscar]], who was encouraging him to embrace his fear, he [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fully transforms]] into a villain and becomes as much a threat to the attack kingdom as Salem herself.]]
** [[ForeverWar Thousands of years]] spent fighting [[BigBad Salem]] have taken their toll
on Beacon, [[BigGood Ozpin]], but aside a cryptic comment in Volume 2 about hoping the kids he's training will [[WarIsHell never fight a war]], he hides it so well that the AwfulTruth comes as an [[BrokenPedestal unpleasant shock]] to his allies in Volume 6; he doesn't [[RebuiltPedestal reconcile with them]] until Volume 8. [[spoiler:His [[ResurrectiveImmortality reincarnation]] into [[LegacyOfTheChosen Oscar]] leaves him at his most psychologically fragile for years. He's been betrayed so many times that he now refuses to share more than he has to. When [[GenieInABottle Jinn]] replays the most tragic parts of his life for all textbook indicators to see, he is left traumatised, on his knees and in tears; he numbly accepts their condemnation until he can no longer cope, retreating deep inside Oscar's mind, [[HeroicBSOD inaccessible to even Oscar]]. He has so much self-loathing that he blames himself for Beacon's fall, accepts Qrow's belief that he's the worst luck of PTSD. [[TheJinx Qrow's life]], and agrees with Hazel that he deserves to be tortured. Reconciliation consists of the heroes realising his secret is harder to manage than they thought, and him realising he's forgotten that trusting people is a risk worth taking, but doesn't address his wider trauma-induced GuiltComplex.]]

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* Music/SonataArctica's song ''Replica'' is about this.

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* Music/SonataArctica's song ''Replica'' Music/SonataArctica:
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is about this.a former soldier feeling like a hollow shell of himself because of severe PTSD.
** "What Did You Do in the War, Dad?" describes a child asking his father what he did in the war, triggering him to remember all the horrors he'd seen, and praying that the child never has to see such things.


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* Music/{{Sabaton}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhmHSAClG1c "To Hell and Back"]] recounts the story of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII veteran Creator/AudieMurphy, who earned every award for valor issued by the United States at the time, but struggled with PTSD and drug addiction from inept attempts at treatment for years afterwards.
-->''Oh gather round me\\
And listen while I speak\\
Of a war\\
Where Hell is six feet deep\\
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And all along the shore\\
Where cannons still roar\\
They’re haunting my dreams\\
They’re still there when I sleep!''
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* Flippy from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' is a vicious parody of this trope. Rather than breaking down when he sees a trigger, he efficiently eliminates any living being in the vicinity that could possibly pose a threat to him--and, for that matter, [[AxCrazy any living being that]] ''[[AxCrazy can't]]'' [[AxCrazy pose a threat to him]].

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* Flippy from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' is a vicious parody of this trope. Rather than breaking down when he sees or hears a trigger, he ends up going through a SplitPersonality change and efficiently eliminates any living being in the vicinity that could possibly pose a threat to him--and, for that matter, [[AxCrazy any living being that]] ''[[AxCrazy can't]]'' [[AxCrazy pose a threat to him]].
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** Given the events that happened near the end of Volume 3, several characters had suffered through this in various forms in Volume 4, especially noting that there were only [[ChildSoldiers seventeen years old]]. The most prominent example, however, would have to be [[spoiler: Yang Xiao Long, having [[AnArmAndALeg lost her arm]] at the hands of Adam Taurus and seeing Blake, who was abused by the latter, leaving the team, caused her to become such a nervous wreck that even merely dropping a glass was enough to trigger flashbacks of Adam cutting her arm]]. She eventually gets better, though.

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** Given the events that happened near the end of Volume 3, several characters had suffered through this in various forms in Volume 4, especially noting that there they were only [[ChildSoldiers seventeen years old]]. The most prominent example, however, would have to be [[spoiler: Yang Xiao Long, having [[AnArmAndALeg lost her arm]] at the hands of Adam Taurus and seeing Blake, who was abused by the latter, leaving the team, caused her to become such a nervous wreck that even merely dropping a glass was enough to trigger flashbacks of Adam cutting her arm]]. She eventually gets better, though.
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* ''{{WebAnimation/RWBY}}'' Given the events that happen near the end of Volume 3, it will ultimately surprise nobody to learn that quite a few of the central characters suffer from this in various forms in Volume 4. It might be a surprise to discover that one of the characters to suffer the most is the third volume's main villain, however.
** Made all the more heartwrenching because the "veterans" here are [[ChildSoldiers seventeen year old girls]]. [[spoiler:They have visibly gotten somewhat better by the end of Volume 4 though, thankfully. Especially [[TheWoobie poor]] [[AnArmAndALeg Yang]]]].

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there were only [[ChildSoldiers seventeen year old girls]]. [[spoiler:They years old]]. The most prominent example, however, would have visibly gotten somewhat better by the end of Volume 4 though, thankfully. Especially [[TheWoobie poor]] to be [[spoiler: Yang Xiao Long, having [[AnArmAndALeg Yang]]]].lost her arm]] at the hands of Adam Taurus and seeing Blake, who was abused by the latter, leaving the team, caused her to become such a nervous wreck that even merely dropping a glass was enough to trigger flashbacks of Adam cutting her arm]]. She eventually gets better, though.
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* One of the key points of departure in the AlternateHistory timeline ''Literature/{{Reds}}'' is the United States entering the First World War on the side of the Allies in 1915, participating in the bloodiest engagements of the war and taking much worse losses than in our timeline. Even the less thoroughly traumatised veterans return home feeling very bitter indeed towards their political leadership. One of the most notable cases? ''George Patton''. Yep, old Blood and Guts himself came back a deeply changed man, his faith in God and his old ideological beliefs lying buried in Flanders fields along with roughly a million of his fellow soldiers.

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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KtyMcb86go Action Man: Battlefield Casualties]]'', a PSA presented as a BlackComedy parody of ''Toys/ActionMan'' commercials, has PTSD Action Man. "Danger lurks behind every turn!" (mistakes his reflection for an intruder and punches the mirror), and [[DrowningMySorrows drinks heavily and does cocaine to drown out the pain]]. "PTSD Action Man now comes with ThousandYardStare action!"
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* In ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'' were guilt-tripped into fighting a war against the Tree People who were allegedly a threat to their families. Fred and Barney are still messed up from it, and the [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes]] is a support group for them and other participants.

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* In ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'' ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'', the men of Bedrock were guilt-tripped into fighting a war against the Tree People who were allegedly a threat to their families. Fred and Barney are still messed up from it, and the [[BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes]] is a support group for them and other participants.
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* In "The Silent Avenger", Radio/TheShadow is up against one of his deadliest opponents: a shell-shocked WWI sniper whose condemned gangster brother has set him loose on the judge, jury, and governor.

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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers:''
** The UK series' introduction of Kup details that troops suffer from "combat fatigue", where they're simply unable to fight anymore. Since ThereAreNoTherapists, command gives them a spaceship and lets them wander off into space for their final years. And Kup is no exception, though an encounter with Hot Rod gives him a HesBack moment.
** Dogfight's ADayInTheLimelight issue suggests he's got some of this going on.
-->'''Dogfight:''' We live and breath warfare day in, day out. For some of us, it's the only life we've ever known! We know exactly how to fight - we just don't like doing it.
* IDW's run on ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' comics winds up with a lot of such characters due to being a darker look at the effects of a species going through a ForeverWar. Characters range from the psychotic war criminal Sandstorm who turns into a serial killer to the hilariously dysfunctional Scavengers who'd just like it if they could be left alone (except for one, who thinks maybe it'd be a good idea to start up a support group, which the others mock him for).
* ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'' turns Cyclonus into this. He's a veteran of the last war who lives in seclusion and is haunted by images of his dead comrades, who chide him over his failings and sometimes urge him to get therapy.
* ''Comicbook/{{Saga}}'' has Prince Robot IV, who fought at the battle on Threshold None and was seriously wounded in the fighting which also claimed the lives of many comrades. Even long after the battle, his personality has been seriously destabilized. He also suffers flashbacks and night terrors of the battle [[spoiler:as well as an orgy he participated in during his time there]].

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The UK series' introduction of Kup details that troops suffer from "combat fatigue", where they're simply unable to fight anymore. Since ThereAreNoTherapists, command gives them a spaceship and lets them wander off into space for their final years. And Kup is no exception, though an encounter with Hot Rod gives him a HesBack moment.
** *** Dogfight's ADayInTheLimelight issue suggests he's got some of this going on.
-->'''Dogfight:''' ---->'''Dogfight:''' We live and breath warfare day in, day out. For some of us, it's the only life we've ever known! We know exactly how to fight - we just don't like doing it.
* IDW's run on ''Franchise/TheTransformers'' comics ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' winds up with a lot of such characters due to being a darker look at the effects of a species going through a ForeverWar. Characters range from the psychotic war criminal Sandstorm who turns into a serial killer to the hilariously dysfunctional Scavengers who'd just like it if they could be left alone (except for one, who thinks maybe it'd be a good idea to start up a support group, which the others mock him for).
* ** ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'' turns Cyclonus into this. He's a veteran of the last war who lives in seclusion and is haunted by images of his dead comrades, who chide him over his failings and sometimes urge him to get therapy.
* ''Comicbook/{{Saga}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' has Prince Robot IV, who fought at the battle on Threshold None and was seriously wounded in the fighting which also claimed the lives of many comrades. Even long after the battle, his personality has been seriously destabilized. He also suffers flashbacks and night terrors of the battle [[spoiler:as well as an orgy he participated in during his time there]].

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* "War Inside My Head" part of the second disc of Music/DreamTheater's "6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence" is about a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran who has hallucinations of the war.
** "The Enemy Inside" from [[SelfTitledAlbum Dream Theater]] is about a veteran, probably of the Iraq war, suffering from PTSD finding himself unable to reintegrate into society. It comes with a music video showing exactly how crippling this can be, with actual veterans providing some commentary.

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** "The Enemy Inside" from [[SelfTitledAlbum Dream Theater]] their SelfTitledAlbum is about a veteran, probably of the Iraq war, suffering from PTSD finding himself unable to reintegrate into society. It comes with a music video showing exactly how crippling this can be, with actual Iraq veterans providing some commentary.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Lemuel has been a soldier since he was twelve, and spending his teenage years putting down and then culling the survivors of a rebellion was not good for him. He jumps at [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch14/ch14_32.html loud bangs]] and stares into the distance when he can on campaign.
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"Shell shock" is a nickname for what was eventually termed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorder post-traumatic stress disorder]], a [[TruthInTelevision real]] condition [[note]] the name is from World War I, where it was thought that the concussive force of artillery shells exploding caused the condition. Hence the soldiers were "shocked" by artillery "shells" [[/note]] that participants in a war commonly acquire, but that can also be caused by a multitude of other means, often involving high-stress situations.

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* ''Series/TheCryOfMann'': Jouglat has a very hard time adjusting to being away from the warr, suffering from flashbacks and finding his house uncomfortably quiet.

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** [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that even Caboose is shell-shocked to some degree due to Church's deaths, even claiming that "When someone dies, my brain likes to hurt me with memories.]]

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* The sanity rules in ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' include some symptoms that leave the characters Shell-Shocked Veterans. Not all triggers for [=SAN=] checks are even necessarily supernatural.



* The sanity rules in ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' include some symptoms that leave the characters Shell-Shocked Veterans. Not all triggers for [=SAN=] checks are even necessarily supernatural.



* It is possible to see ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}'' as this. Even though it was written and set long before shell-shock was understood or the weapons that usually caused it had been developed, Coriolanus' public and point-blank refusal to talk about his many battles (even though he knows his refusal will severely damage him,) might indicate trauma. The Ralph Fiennes film version (which was set in modern times,) heavily implied this.



* It is possible to see ''Theatre/{{Coriolanus}}'' as this. Even though it was written and set long before shell-shock was understood or the weapons that usually caused it had been developed, Coriolanus' public and point-blank refusal to talk about his many battles (even though he knows his refusal will severely damage him,) might indicate trauma. The Ralph Fiennes film version (which was set in modern times,) heavily implied this.



* ''VisualNovel/CodeRealize'' depicts [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Abraham Van Helsing]] as a former soldier who was comprehensively broken into a "human weapon" by his experiences during the Vampire War. Most of the British public considers him a hero, but Van Helsing is clearly haunted by what he's done to the point of not caring if he dies.



* ''VisualNovel/CodeRealize'' depicts [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Abraham Van Helsing]] as a former soldier who was comprehensively broken into a "human weapon" by his experiences during the Vampire War. Most of the British public considers him a hero, but Van Helsing is clearly haunted by what he's done to the point of not caring if he dies.



* The PTSD episode of ''WebAnimation/TheDamnFew'' discusses and attacks this trope, or at least exaggerations of this trope as applied to Real Life.



* It's hinted that [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] is this in ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' -- and given what happened to him and everyone on Mobius at the hands of Mecha Sonic, one can hardly blame him.



** Also on Chorus, we have [[CuteAndPsycho Dr. Emily Gray]]. She's been a doctor in a ForeverWar since she was young, and it's done a number on her. WordOfGod is that one early plan for season 13 would have Epsilon find her journal, which would show that she was once mentally stable, but as the entries went on she would slowly break and start retreating to her happy place until there was no going back, which is how she became like she is now.

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** Also on Chorus, we have [[CuteAndPsycho Dr. Emily Gray]]. She's been a doctor in a ForeverWar since she was young, and it's done a number on her. WordOfGod is that one early plan for season Season 13 would have Epsilon find her journal, which would show that she was once mentally stable, but as the entries went on she would slowly break and start retreating to her happy place until there was no going back, which is how she became like she is now.



* The PTSD episode of ''WebAnimation/TheDamnFew'' discusses and attacks this trope, or at least exaggerations of this trope as applied to Real Life.



* It's hinted that [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] is this in ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' -- and given what happened to him and everyone on Mobius at the hands of Mecha Sonic, one can hardly blame him.



* ''Webcomic/AnnaGalactic'': Dilvan Ceylon has been a veteran of a war and he has troubles trying to cope with it.
* Thaco the monk, from the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', is the oldest of the main cast; in fact, the barbarian is his son. He was held captive and tortured some years ago. It took him long enough to get over it that his eventual recovery -- [[NotWorthKilling by ignominiously beating down]] the person responsible -- was a major character development point.



* Thaco the monk, from the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', is the oldest of the main cast; in fact, the barbarian is his son. He was held captive and tortured some years ago. It took him long enough to get over it that his eventual recovery—[[NotWorthKilling by ignominiously beating down]] the person responsible—was a major character development point.

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* Thaco the monk, Webcomic/HalfMan: Major Koda, has been experimented on/tortured by aliens for years, retrieved and then experimented on by humans when they got him back, and then frequently flung in battle after. His stability is...questionable.As he commanding officer puts it "I'm sure that if I'd been though a quarter of what he's been though, I'd be stuck in a hospital somewhere, screaming my lungs out night and day".
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Dave Strider shows signs of this, mostly
from his [[AbusiveParents upbringing with Bro]], who regularly beat the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', is shit out of him.
* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': [[https://killsixbilliondemons.tumblr.com/post/148104833550/considering-how-nadia-described-jagganoth-as-not According to Word Of God]], and at least one of his former companions InUniverse,
the oldest of Demiurge Jagganoth suffers from PTSD. Supplemental materials reveal he was a ChildSoldier in something called the main cast; in fact, "Corpse Legions" during [[TheGreatOffscreenWar the barbarian is his son. He was held captive and tortured some years ago. It took him long enough to get over it that his eventual recovery—[[NotWorthKilling by ignominiously beating down]] the person responsible—was Universal War]] before he became a major character development point.Demiurge.
* Aiden from ''Webcomic/LaMacchinaBellica'' has a pretty bad (and well [[ShownTheirWork researched]]) case of this combined with SurvivorsGuilt



* Aiden from ''Webcomic/LaMacchinaBellica'' has a pretty bad (and well [[ShownTheirWork researched]]) case of this combined with SurvivorsGuilt

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* Aiden from ''Webcomic/LaMacchinaBellica'' has a pretty bad (and well [[ShownTheirWork researched]]) case ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Bubbles the ex combat unit was an AI version of this combined with SurvivorsGuiltthis, to the point [[spoiler: she let Corpse Witch "encrypt" (actually erase) a chunk of horrific memories]].



* ''Webcomic/AnnaGalactic'': Dilvan Ceylon has been a veteran of a war and he has troubles trying to cope with it.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Dave Strider shows signs of this, mostly from his [[AbusiveParents upbringing with Bro]], who regularly beat the shit out of him.
* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Bubbles the ex combat unit was an AI version of this, to the point [[spoiler: she let Corpse Witch "encrypt" (actually erase) a chunk of horrific memories]].
* Webcomic/HalfMan: Major Koda, has been experimented on/tortured by aliens for years, retrieved and then experimented on by humans when they got him back, and then frequently flung in battle after. His stability is...questionable.As he commanding officer puts it "I'm sure that if I'd been though a quarter of what he's been though, I'd be stuck in a hospital somewhere, screaming my lungs out night and day"
* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': [[https://killsixbilliondemons.tumblr.com/post/148104833550/considering-how-nadia-described-jagganoth-as-not According to Word Of God]], and at least one of his former companions InUniverse, the Demiurge Jagganoth suffers from PTSD. Supplemental materials reveal he was a ChildSoldier in something called the "Corpse Legions" during [[TheGreatOffscreenWar the Universal War]] before he became a Demiurge.
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** There are hints that [[spoiler:the AI of Project Freelancer have PTSD. Due to the nature of the ColdBloodedTorture used to create them, they (or at least Delta and Theta) are always afraid that something bad will happen at any moment, and keep their owners awake at night worrying about it]].

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** Quackity's an interesting case, as he was apparently diagnosed with PTSD (due to the fact that he was able to name the disorder outright) from being on the receiving end of Techno's [[CurbStompBattle rampages]] during [[CerebusRetcon Minecraft Mondays]] before he even joined the server. It's implied that he was handling it fairly well in his early days on the SMP... [[spoiler:until the [[DomesticAbuse Schlatt adminstration]], combined with [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Techno]] joining the server, which caused even more trauma for him... and then [[TraumaCongaLine everything just went downhill from there]], to the point that he, following in Wilbur's footsteps, ended up [[DespairEventHorizon snapping]] as well and turning into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].

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** Quackity's an interesting case, as he was apparently diagnosed with PTSD (due to the fact that he was able to name the disorder outright) from being on the receiving end of Techno's [[CurbStompBattle rampages]] during [[CerebusRetcon [[CerebusCallback Minecraft Mondays]] before he even joined the server. It's implied that he was handling it fairly well in his early days on the SMP... [[spoiler:until the [[DomesticAbuse Schlatt adminstration]], combined with [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Techno]] joining the server, which caused even more trauma for him... and then [[TraumaCongaLine everything just went downhill from there]], to the point that he, following in Wilbur's footsteps, ended up [[DespairEventHorizon snapping]] as well and turning into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].
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** Quackity's an interesting case, as he was apparently diagnosed with PTSD (due to the fact that he was able to name the disorder outright) from being on the receiving end of Techno's [[CurbStompBattle rampages]] during [[CerebusRetcon Minecraft Mondays before he even joined the server. It's implied that he was handling it fairly well in his early days on the SMP]]... [[spoiler:until the [[DomesticAbuse Schlatt adminstration]], combined with [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Techno]] joining the server, which caused even more trauma for him... and then [[TraumaCongaLine everything just went downhill from there]], to the point that he, following in Wilbur's footsteps, ended up [[DespairEventHorizon snapping]] as well and turning into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].

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** Quackity's an interesting case, as he was apparently diagnosed with PTSD (due to the fact that he was able to name the disorder outright) from being on the receiving end of Techno's [[CurbStompBattle rampages]] during [[CerebusRetcon Minecraft Mondays Mondays]] before he even joined the server. It's implied that he was handling it fairly well in his early days on the SMP]]...SMP... [[spoiler:until the [[DomesticAbuse Schlatt adminstration]], combined with [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Techno]] joining the server, which caused even more trauma for him... and then [[TraumaCongaLine everything just went downhill from there]], to the point that he, following in Wilbur's footsteps, ended up [[DespairEventHorizon snapping]] as well and turning into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]].

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