History TraumaCongaLine / ComicBooks

* The BigBad of ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', Darth Krayt, went through nearly ''[[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld two centuries]]'' of suffering.

** He then ended up WalkingTheEarth as a BountyHunter before ending up on the Sith homeworld of Korriban and getting recruited. Then he fully embraced the DarkSide after getting [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil getting captured and tortured]] by the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Vong]].

!!Franchise/TheDCU
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Even ComicBook/TheJoker ''himself'' may not have started out as a bad person. Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' shows how losing your pregnant wife and getting disfigured on the '''same damned day''' can turn even a decent human being into a mass-murdering maniac. Bear in mind, however, that this story was the trope namer for MultipleChoicePast, as the Joker later admits he remembers his "bad day" differently from day to day.
--->"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once. Am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed."
** But contrary to this, Gordon fails to break under the Joker's torments. Batman tells the Joker: "Gordon's fine. Maybe it was just you all along."
** Pre-[=New52=] Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin}} III, was hit with an extreme angst upgrade. His mother was killed, then a couple years later his girlfriend was apparently killed and his father, stepmother, and both best friends and a number of his other friends were killed within a period of two months. He was adopted by Bruce to be greeted by two brothers making multiple attempts on his life. He blamed himself for the deaths of several innocent bystanders. After Dick fired him as Robin to replace him with his unrepentantly homicidal little brother he cut himself off from any ''healthy'' emotional support. Tim, as ComicBook/RedRobin, left Gotham City in search of the supposedly deceased Bruce Wayne while his old allies were worried for his sanity, due to his gradually declining composure. While it looked like he was about to become a FallenHero he determinedly kept himself from taking that plunge.
** Batman has lost sidekicks, allies both superpowered and non-, and has had multiple efforts to try to make something out of his life crushed. But he's still the same person he was at the beginning of his DarkerAndEdgier remake as he is now.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Not only is Krypton destroyed but ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} survives on Argo City but then it's destroyed. So she's orphaned twice [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber252 in]] [[ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton most]] [[ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton continuities]].
** In Post-Crisis continuity her parents survived Krypton and Argo City's destruction only to die on ''ComicBook/NewKrypton''. Which was subsequently destroyed. In other words, she has lost her home planet three times.
** Kara becoming a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]] in ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' is the result of one: In ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'', she wakes up with missing memories, on an alien world, all alone. She is promptly attacked by men in Powered Armour. Shortly after that, she encounters a grown man claiming to be her baby cousin. Shortly after that she's lured in and kidnapped by an amoral trillionaire who wants the secrets of Kryptonian technology, poisoned with Kryptonite, and then the guy who rescues her is murdered in cold blood. After she gets away from all of that, she's utterly alone in an alien world, then finds a link to her very dead home. She follows it... and finds that her home is basically a ghost city, whereupon she is beaten up by a Kryptonian supersoldier called a Worldkiller. After escaping all that, she has to fight four Worldkillers, then, exhausted, is promptly attacked by the US Army and Police, with only one human standing up for her (and is, conveniently, an Omniglot). Said human befriends her, then turns out to be the Silver Banshee, who is being hunted down by her father, the Black Banshee. After briefly being absorbed, body and soul, she fights her way out. Then she gets attacked again, while on a date. Oh, and the first man she falls in love with is ''[[ComicBook/HelOnEarth H'el]]'', who's manipulating her, using her affection for him to trick her into a brief FaceHeelTurn. Then, in defeating H'el, she's poisoned with Kryptonite. Again. And then there's the revelation that her father was experimenting on her. And then she ran into ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'', who taunted her until she blew up.
** ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'': Being exposed to the fire pits of Apokolips, a vault full of Kryptonite and Rao's energy has caused permanent cellular damage to Superman, which eventually killed him. In the end, the last few months of Post-Flashpoint Superman's life were one prolonged string of misfortunes that saw a tragic end.
* The 90s were a bad time for ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} with all the stuff that happened to him there. His infant son was murdered by Black Manta, and not only does his wife Mera blame him and his "weak genes" for their son's death, but she goes insane and has to be committed to an asylum. Oh, and Aquaman has his telepathy stolen and his hand eaten by piranhas. Not to mention nearly having his place as ruler of the seas almost stolen by the corrupt god Triton. And people wonder why Aquaman was so angry at this time in his life.
* Roy Harper, the former sidekick of ComicBook/GreenArrow, has had it pretty rough recently. In ''Cry for Justice'' he got his arm chopped off by Prometheus. Then Prometheus and his accomplice the Electrocutioner unleashed a KillSat on Star City, killing thousands including [[spoiler: Roy's daughter Lian]]. This drove him back to drug abuse, which just made things worse. To add insult to injury, when he and Cheshire got involved, he couldn't perform, so to speak. He became a Jerkass, railing against his former friends and teammates, going so far as to blame Mia for [[spoiler: Lian's death]] and calling Donna a whore when she tried to sympathize with him. Later he agreed to join Deathstroke's Titans (a team of assassins for hire), though this is because he is emotionally blackmailed into joining the team by Cheshire so they can kill Deathstroke. And then, he finds out Deathstroke had secretly gotten him addicted to an even worse drug, Bliss, which is literally made from human children. [[spoiler: Thankfully, the end of that volume of ''Titans'' had Roy stopping Deathstroke and reclaiming the Titans name. And it wasn't until ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' when it was shown that Roy had successfully managed to beat his addiction on his own, reconciled with his friends, and regained a semblance of peace leading into Lian being brought back to life.]]
* In ''ComicBook/TheTrialOfTheFlash'', the Rogues' Gallery and corrupt lawyer N.D. Redik make the Flash's life miserable. Redik arranges for Flash's lawyers to be killed, and while they're rescued, he's very shaken up by it, and the Pied Piper mind controls the mayor and innocent civilians to hate the Flash.

!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse
* Franchise/SpiderMan. [[CartwrightCurse Repeatedly loses loved ones?]] Check. [[HeroWithBadPublicity Hated by the city he's sworn to protect?]] Check. [[BoringFailureHero Makes no progress whatsoever in his life?]] Check. Has Spider-Man really changed for the better or worse, though? Not really. Spidey has lost, in no particular order, his robo-parents, his actress-aunt, his first true love, his marriage (talking about the brief separation that ended through the Straczinsky run), his best friend Harry, some love interests and pals (we still miss you, Captain [=DeWolff=]), has suffered by every one of them, and then he grew a few more.
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, especially after Kingpin put him through the wringer in ''ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain''.
* It would take an entire page to describe the shit ''ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}'' has put up with, all to push him down deeper the AntiHero scale, and he gets blamed for each and every action and reaction, whether he's accountable or justified or not.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane. To say she's had it rough is putting it lightly. When killing and eating your [[AbusiveParents monster of a father]] is considered one of the better moments in your life (by anyone who isn't you; you were heartbroken about his death even before realising you were responsible), well...
* Ultimate Reed Richards, as of the end of ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''.
* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Tony Stark's ''entire life'' consists of one traumatic event after another, mixed with a morass of personal issues covering everything from alcohol to troubled romantic relationships, an angst-and-tragedy-ridden personal and professional life that include, but is not limited to, traitorous/murderous friends and business partners who have tried to destroy him and his friends multiple times, all combined with a ridiculous amount of overwork [[note]](running Stark Industries, churning out new inventions to keep it running, managing the Avengers' legal and financial problems, being constantly on-call to consult other superheroes on technology-related crises, being a founding Avenger and occasionally the group's leader, being a superhero on his own time, and dealing with enemies who want to kill him on both superhero and business fronts)[[/note]] that is directly responsible for most of the aforementioned trauma, to the point where he has had to basically completely rebuild his life from the ground up on several different occasions.
** His origin story alone is pretty terrible, but it's never addressed that, after going through that trauma conga line[[note]]Being kidnapped by terrorists, being in fear of his life every day for months while being forced to build highly destructive weapons with his own tech, watching his only ally die and then suffering severe SurvivorsGuilt over that ''which he has not gotten past'', having to kill at least fifty people while escaping, and his heart being severely damaged to the point that he was only being kept alive by his own tech.[[/note]], he had to go back to the States and ''run a company''. A company that was in severe danger of collapsing after he pulled the plug on the weapons department. He couldn't afford to show weakness, ThereAreNoTherapists, and his only support system at the time was his secretary and his chauffeur. Let's not even get into the lack of support he gets from ComicBook/TheAvengers, who seem to operate on the general policy of "if Tony's issues aren't affecting us, we aren't going to ask."
* When Creator/JohnByrne took over ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'', his first act was to put ComicBook/ScarletWitch through a seemingly endless trauma conga line: first her synthezoid husband, the Vision, was dismantled and his personality erased, effectively ending her marriage. Then she was kidnapped by a secret society trying to use her to create a race of super-mutants. Then her children were revealed to be made from ''pieces of the devil's soul'' and erased from existence. Then her memories were erased, and she was driven to catatonia and temporary insanity. Byrne managed to do all this in only a little over a year on the title.
* ComicBook/{{X 23}}. It starts with her being created to be the perfect assassin and a LivingWeapon, and just goes downhill from there. She's abused and tortured physically, mentally and emotionally for ''thirteen years''. When she finally escapes, she's forced to kill her own mother with a chemical trigger that sends her into an UnstoppableRage. She eventually finds her way to her only other family and starts to build a happy life, until her creators come looking and she's forced to send them into hiding and never see them again to protect him. Then she spends a year or two as a StreetWalker under a sadistic and violent pimp. After joining the X-Men (who could probably provide a whole ''page'' of examples themselves) she's nearly killed by Nimrod, joins X-Force and is recaptured by the Facility and tortured ''with a chainsaw'', leading her to a mini-HeroicBSOD over how she'll never be able to escape them, is driven into an existential crisis by a demon over whether she has a soul, and just as she's starting to piece things together gets shanghai'ed by Arcade to [[ComicBook/AvengersArena fight other teens to the death for his amusement]]. And after ''that'' she's tortured by Purifiers, who reveal that ''the whole world'' has seen her in a trigger scent rage. The poor girl just can't catch a break!
* [[ComicBook/XMen Rachel]] [[ComicBook/{{Excalibur}} Grey]]. Oh ye Gods, Rachel Grey. Put succinctly, dying was ''not'' the worst thing that ever happened to this poor girl. She grew up in a dystopian hellhole, has seen her loved ones killed before her very eyes more than once, been brainwashed and MadeASlave repeatedly, and almost never seems to catch more than a few seconds break before the next horrific thing comes along.
* ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'': Teen ComicBook/JeanGrey, a 16 year old girl, has her powers blooming early, with her attempts to deal with PowerIncontinence adding to her troubles. She finds out she is going to die (repeatedly) and is, as far as she knows, still dead, while her teammates survive to the current day.

!DC
* Quite surprisingly, even ComicBook/TheJoker ''himself'' may not have started out as a bad person. Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' shows how losing your pregnant wife and getting disfigured on the '''same damned day''' can turn even a decent human being into a mass-murdering maniac. Bear in mind, however, that this story was the trope namer for MultipleChoicePast, as the Joker later admits he remembers his "bad day" differently from day to day.
-->"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once. Am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed."

* Pre-[=New52=] Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} III, was hit with an extreme angst upgrade. His mother was killed, then a couple years later his girlfriend was apparently killed and his father, stepmother, and both best friends and a number of his other friends were killed within a period of two months. He was adopted by Bruce to be greeted by two brothers making multiple attempts on his life. He blamed himself for the deaths of several innocent bystanders. After Dick fired him as Robin to replace him with his unrepentantly homicidal little brother he cut himself off from any ''healthy'' emotional support. Tim, as ComicBook/RedRobin, left Gotham City in search of the supposedly deceased Bruce Wayne while his old allies were worried for his sanity, due to his gradually declining composure. While it looked like he was about to become a FallenHero he determinedly kept himself from taking that plunge.
* Weirdly enough, Tim Drake's mentor, the goddamned Franchise/{{Batman}} himself is a type F. He's lost sidekicks, allies both superpowered and non-, and has had multiple efforts to try to make something out of his life crushed. But he's still the same person he was at the beginning of his DarkerAndEdgier remake as he is now.
** His transition from young Bruce Wayne to Batman is type E though. But when he is Batman, he stays at type F.
* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Not only is Krypton destroyed but Supergirl survives on Argo City but then it's destroyed. So she's orphaned twice in most continuities.
** In the Post-Crisis continuity her parents survived Krypton and Argo City's destruction only to die on ''Comicbook/NewKrypton''. Which was subsequently destroyed. In other words, she has lost her home planet three times.
** Kara becoming a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]] in ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' is the result of one: she woke up with missing memories, on an alien world, all alone and was promptly attacked by men in Powered Armour. Shortly after that, she encountered [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a grown man claiming to be her baby cousin]]. Shortly after that she's lured in and kidnapped by an amoral trillionaire who wants the secrets of Kryptonian technology, poisoned with Kryptonite, and then the guy who rescues her is murdered in cold blood. After she gets away from all of that, she's utterly alone in an alien world, then finds a link to her very dead home. She follows it... and finds that her home is basically a ghost city, whereupon she is beaten up by a Kryptonian supersoldier called a Worldkiller. After escaping all that, she has to fight four Worldkillers, then, exhausted, is promptly attacked by the US Army and Police, with only one human standing up for her (and is, conveniently, an Omniglot). Said human befriends her, then turns out to be the Silver Banshee, who is being hunted down by her father, the Black Banshee. After briefly being absorbed, body and soul, she fights her way out. Then she gets attacked again, while on a date. Oh, and the first man she falls in love with is ''[[Comicbook/HelOnEarth H'el]]'', who's manipulating her, using her affection for him to trick her into a brief FaceHeelTurn. Then, in defeating H'el, she's poisoned with Kryptonite. Again. And then there's the revelation that her father was experimenting on her. And then she ran into ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}'', who taunted her until she blew up.

* Roy Harper, the former sidekick of ComicBook/GreenArrow, has had it pretty rough recently. In ''Cry for Justice'' he got his arm chopped off by Prometheus. Then Prometheus and his accomplice the Electrocutioner unleashed a KillSat on Star City, killing thousands including [[spoiler: Roy's daughter Lian]]. This drove him back to drug abuse, which just made things worse. To add insult to injury, when he and Cheshire got involved, he couldn't perform, so to speak. He became a Type E Jerkass, railing against his former friends and teammates, going so far as to blame Mia for [[spoiler: Lian's death]] and calling Donna a whore when she tried to sympathize with him. Later he became a full-on Type B when he agreed to join Deathstroke's Titans (a team of assassins for hire), though this is because he is emotionally blackmailed into joining the team by Cheshire so they can kill Deathstroke. And then, he finds out Deathstroke had secretly gotten him addicted to an even worse drug, Bliss, which is literally made from human children. [[spoiler: Thankfully, the end of that volume of ''Titans'' had Roy stopping Deathstroke and reclaiming the Titans name. And it wasn't until ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' when it was shown that Roy had successfully managed to beat his addiction on his own, reconciled with his friends, and regained a semblance of peace leading into Lian being brought back to life.]]

!Marvel Comic
* ComicBook/SpiderMan is also a Type F. [[CartwrightCurse Repeatedly loses loved ones?]] Check. [[HeroWithBadPublicity Hated by the city he's sworn to protect?]] Check. [[BoringFailureHero Makes no progress whatsoever in his life?]] Check. Has Spider-Man really changed for the better or worse, though? Not really.
** Blame ExecutiveMeddling for that. Spider-Man has progressed in his life - he was happily married, and he may be a HeroWithBadPublicity but other heroes know perfectly well how amazingly good he is, both as a person and at what he does. And he even made some improvements here and there on the publicity. But then ComicBook/OneMoreDay came and reset most of the above.
*** Before that, Spidey had a Type A origin, and has lost, in no particular order, his robo-parents, his actress-aunt, his first true love, his marriage (talking about the brief separation that ended through the Straczinsky run), his best friend Harry, some love interests and pals (we still miss you, Captain [=DeWolff=]), has suffered by every one of them, and then he grew a few more. In fact, before ComicBook/OneMoreDay, this trope could have been called "The Parker".
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} on the other hand is a Type E, especially after Kingpin put him through the wringer in his excellent ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]'' series.
* It would take an entire page to describe the shit ''Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}'' has put up with, all to push him down deeper the AntiHero scale, and he gets blamed for each and every action and reaction, whether he's accountable or justified or not.

* Ultimate Reed Richards, as of the end of ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', cementing himself as a hybrid between Types B & F.

** His origin story alone is pretty terrible, but it's never addressed that, after going through that trauma conga line[[note]]Being kidnapped by terrorists, being in fear of his life every day for months while being forced to build highly destructive weapons with his own tech, watching his only ally die and then suffering severe SurvivorsGuilt over that ''which he has not gotten past'', having to kill at least fifty people while escaping, and his heart being severely damaged to the point that he was only being kept alive by his own tech.[[/note]], he had to go back to the States and ''run a company''. A company that was in severe danger of collapsing after he pulled the plug on the weapons department. He couldn't afford to show weakness, ThereAreNoTherapists, and his only support system at the time was his secretary and his chauffeur. Let's not even get into the lack of support he gets from ComicBook/TheAvengers, who seem to operate on the general policy of "if Tony's issues aren't affecting us, we aren't going to ask." He basically spends his life swinging between Type A, then Type C when some new trauma occurs, then back to Type A.

* Pre-[=New52=] Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} III, was hit with an extreme angst upgrade. His mother was killed, then a couple years later his girlfriend was apparently killed and his father, stepmother, and both best friends and a number of his other friends were killed within a period of two months. He was adopted by Bruce to be greeted by two brothers making multiple attempts on his life. He blamed himself for the deaths of several innocent bystanders. After Dick fired him as Robin to replace him with his unrepentantly homicidal little brother he cut himself off from any ''healthy'' emotional support. Tim, as ComicBook/RedRobin, left Gotham City in search of the supposedly deceased Bruce Wayne while his old allies were worried for his sanity, due to his general dispositiom. While it looked like he was about to become a FallenHero he determinedly kept himself from taking that plunge.

* Pre-[=New52=] Tim Drake, ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} III, was hit with an extreme angst upgrade. His mother was killed, then a couple years later his girlfriend was apparently killed and his father, stepmother, and both best friends and a number of his other friends were killed within a period of two months. He was adopted by Bruce to be greeted by two brothers making multiple attempts on his life. He blamed himself for the deaths of several innocent bystanders. After Dick fired him as Robin to replace him with his unrepentantly homicidal little brother he cut himself off from any ''healthy'' emotional support. Tim, as ComicBook/RedRobin, left Gotham City in search of the supposedly deceased Bruce Wayne while his old allies tried to convince him he'd gone mad rather than listen to his reasoning. While it looked like he was about to become a FallenHero he determinedly kept himself from taking that plunge.

* Tim Drake, the current-- er, former ComicBook/{{Robin}}, is going through a rather rough time, with the predictable result that Tim's mental state and judgement are starting to slip. Several innocent bystanders have already been accidentally killed due to his negligence, and he's cut himself off from any ''healthy'' emotional support to instead seek an alliance with mass murdering vigilante Jason Todd. After Jason pulled his sudden yet inevitable betrayal and, after murdering a couple dozen people, stabbed Tim through the chest with a batarang when Tim attempted to register his objections, Tim, now as Red Robin, left Gotham City in search of Bruce Wayne and reached Jason levels of brutality. Aside from this, here's some other trauma that has occurred to him, listed in no particular order: his parents have died, his stepmother died, he thought his girlfriend died, his friend Cassandra Cain went MIA and apparently pulled a type B, Bruce Wayne was thought to have died, and Dick Grayson fired him as Robin. For some good news, at the end of his first (real-time) year as Red Robin, Tim actually makes it to type A.

** His transition from young Bruce Wayne to Batman is type E though. But when he is Batman, he stay at type F.

** Kara becoming a [[Franchise/GreenLantern Red Lantern]] in ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' is the result of one: she woke up with missing memories, on an alien world, all alone and was promptly attacked by men in Powered Armour. Shortly after that, she encountered [[Franchise/{{Superman}} a grown man claiming to be her baby cousin]]. Shortly after that she's lured in and kidnapped by an amoral trillionaire who wants the secrets of Kryptonian technology, poisoned with Kryptonite, and then the guy who rescues her is murdered in cold blood. After she gets away from all of that, she's utterly alone in an alien world, then finds a link to her very dead home. She follows it... and finds that her home is basically a ghost city, whereupon she is beaten up by a Kryptonian supersoldier called a Worldkiller. After escaping all that, she has to fight four Worldkillers, then, exhausted, is promptly attacked by the US Army and Police, with only one human standing up for her (and is, conveniently, an Omniglot). Said human befriends her, then turns out to be the Silver Banshee, who is being hunted down by her father, the Black Banshee. After briefly being absorbed, body and soul, she fights her way out. Then she gets attacked again, while on a date. Oh, and the first man she falls in love with is ''[[Comicbook/HelOnEarth H'el]]'', who's manipulating her, using her affection for him to trick her into a brief FaceHeelTurn. Then, in defeating H'el, she's poisoned with Kryptonite. Again. And then there's the revelation that her father was experimenting on her. And then she ran into ''Comicbook/{{Lobo}}'', who taunted her until she blew up.

* If the Joker thought ''he'd'' had one bad day, he should've seen what happened to Zomax, the villain of a 1941 ''Jungle Comics'' story by the notoriously grim cult-favourite cartoonist Fletcher Hanks. It begins when Zomax goes hunting in the jungle and is [[SuperPersistentPredator jumped and mutilated]] by a lion he'd mortally wounded and was about to finish off when his [[ThrowAwayGuns gun jammed]]. Then a "[[KillAllHumans man-hating]]" elephant tosses him into a pond where he's stung by poisonous gnats, causing his face to swell. Upon crawling out of the water, he encounters a boa constrictor that crushes several of his bones. Next, an [[ManiacMonkeys ape]] takes him to its lair, where for several months it beats him like a drum with bones. Small wonder that Zomax, after escaping the jungle and emerging from the hospital severely crippled, vows to exact [[AnimalNemesis revenge on all jungle animals]] by causing a massive tidal wave.

* {{Spider-Man}} is also a Type F. [[CartwrightCurse Repeatedly loses loved ones?]] Check. [[HeroWithBadPublicity Hated by the city he's sworn to protect?]] Check. [[BoringFailureHero Makes no progress whatsoever in his life?]] Check. Has Spider-Man really changed for the better or worse, though? Not really.
** Blame ExecutiveMeddling for that. Spider-Man has progressed in his life - he was happily married, and he may be a HeroWithBadPublicity but other heroes know perfectly well how amazingly good he is, both as a person and at what he does. And he even made some improvements here and there on the publicity. But then ComicBook/OneMoreDay came and reset most of the above.
*** Before that, Spidey had a Type A origin, and has lost, in no particular order, his robo-parents, his actress-aunt, his first true love, his marriage (talking about the brief separation that ended through the Straczinsky run), his best friend Harry, some love interests and pals (we still miss you, Captain [=DeWolff=]), has suffered by every one of them, and then he grew a few more. In fact, before ComicBook/OneMoreDay, this trope could have been called "The Parker".
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} on the other hand is a Type E, especially after Kingpin put him through the wringer in his excellent ''[[ComicBook/DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]'' series.
* Robert Kirkman's ''ComicBook/TheAstoundingWolfMan''. Hoo boy, it's impressive how crappy the title character's life got so quickly. So he was a wealthy CEO shredded by a werewolf, became one himself, lost his multi-million dollar company, got an oh-so-brief respite of awesome when he got some control over his wolf form and became a superhero, found out he still became a murderous beast during a full moon by killing a well-known superhero, became estranged from his wife and daughter, found out that his vampiric mentor killed his wife, got framed for said murder (including, worst of all, in the eyes of his daughter), became a fugitive, got another minor respite when he became friends with a prominent superhero, reluctantly got a minor alliance with someone he already knew was hugely bad news, was thrown into prison, and was stabbed in the chest by his own daughter, who'd turned to the previously mentioned vampiric mentor to avenge her mother's death (and let him drink some blood from her), not knowing she was training with the real killer! Whew! It was only in issue 17 that his life took any appreciable change for the better.
* It would take an entire page to describe the shit ''Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}'' has put up with, all to push him down deeper the AntiHero scale, and he gets blamed for each and every action and reaction, whether he's accountable or justified or not.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane. To say she's had it rough is putting it lightly. When killing and eating your [[AbusiveParents monster of a father]] is considered one of the better moments in your life (by anyone who isn't you; you were heartbroken about his death even before realising you were responsible), well...
* Ultimate Reed Richards, as of the end of ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'', cementing himself as a hybrid between Types B & F.
* [[IronMan Tony Stark's]] ''entire life'' consists of one traumatic event after another, mixed with a morass of personal issues covering everything from alcohol to troubled romantic relationships, an angst-and-tragedy-ridden personal and professional life that include, but is not limited to, traitorous/murderous friends and business partners who have tried to destroy him and his friends multiple times, all combined with a ridiculous amount of overwork [[note]](running Stark Industries, churning out new inventions to keep it running, managing the Avengers' legal and financial problems, being constantly on-call to consult other superheroes on technology-related crises, being a founding Avenger and occasionally the group's leader, being a superhero on his own time, and dealing with enemies who want to kill him on both superhero and business fronts)[[/note]] that is directly responsible for most of the aforementioned trauma, to the point where he has had to basically completely rebuild his life from the ground up on several different occasions.
** His origin story alone is pretty terrible, but it's never addressed that, after going through that trauma conga line[[note]]Being kidnapped by terrorists, being in fear of his life every day for months while being forced to build highly destructive weapons with his own tech, watching his only ally die and then suffering severe SurvivorsGuilt over that ''which he has not gotten past'', having to kill at least fifty people while escaping, and his heart being severely damaged to the point that he was only being kept alive by his own tech.[[/note]], he had to go back to the States and ''run a company''. A company that was in severe danger of collapsing after he pulled the plug on the weapons department. He couldn't afford to show weakness, ThereAreNoTherapists, and his only support system at the time was his secretary and his chauffeur. Let's not even get into the lack of support he gets from ComicBook/TheAvengers, who seem to operate on the general policy of "if Tony's issues aren't affecting us, we aren't going to ask." He basically spends his life swinging between Type A, then Type C when some new trauma occurs, then back to Type A.
* When Creator/JohnByrne took over ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'', his first act was to put ComicBook/ScarletWitch through a seemingly endless trauma conga line: first her synthezoid husband, the Vision, was dismantled and his personality erased, effectively ending her marriage. Then she was kidnapped by a secret society trying to use her to create a race of super-mutants. Then her children were revealed to be made from ''pieces of the devil's soul'' and erased from existence. Then her memories were erased, and she was driven to catatonia and temporary insanity. Byrne managed to do all this in only a little over a year on the title.

* Quite surprisingly, even SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker ''himself'' may not have started out as a bad person. Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' shows how losing your pregnant wife and getting disfigured on the '''same damned day''' can turn even a decent human being into a mass-murdering maniac. Bear in mind, however, that this story was the trope namer for MultipleChoicePast, as the Joker later admits he remembers his "bad day" differently from day to day.

* Ultimate Reed Richards, as of the end of ''{{Ultimatum}}'', cementing himself as a hybrid between Types B & F.

* [[Comicbook/XMen Madelyne Pryor]] is a full-on Type D. After her husband abandons her and her infant son for reasons unexplained, she tries to get on with her life. Then she's ambushed by a squad of superpowered assassins out to kill her and steal her baby. They only succeed in the latter. Then she goes on the run with the X-Men...no one's idea of a relaxing vacation at the best of times...and starts falling in love with her ''brother-in-law.'' After finding some semblance of equilibrium with the team, she starts working as their tech support, and just happens to find her disappeared husband on a news broadcast...standing alongside a woman who looks just like her. Cue BSOD, and DealWithTheDevil. Finally to top everything off, she meets a man who claims to be responsible for cloning her from the same woman her husband ditched her for! The resulting RoaringRampageOfRevenge comes as a surprise to no one.
** Though, you can't ignore her Husband, [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers/Cyclops]], either here. It would take an entire page to describe the shit he's put up with, all to push him down deeper the AntiHero scale, and he gets blamed for each and every action and reaction, whether he's accountable or justified or not.

* [[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Madelyne Pryor]] is a full-on Type D. After her husband abandons her and her infant son for reasons unexplained, she tries to get on with her life. Then she's ambushed by a squad of superpowered assassins out to kill her and steal her baby. They only succeed in the latter. Then she goes on the run with the X-Men...no one's idea of a relaxing vacation at the best of times...and starts falling in love with her ''brother-in-law.'' After finding some semblance of equilibrium with the team, she starts working as their tech support, and just happens to find her disappeared husband on a news broadcast...standing alongside a woman who looks just like her. Cue BSOD, and DealWithTheDevil. Finally to top everything off, she meets a man who claims to be responsible for cloning her from the same woman her husband ditched her for! The resulting RoaringRampageOfRevenge comes as a surprise to no one.

* When Creator/JohnByrne took over ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers West Coast Avengers]]'', his first act was to put ScarletWitch through a seemingly endless trauma conga line: first her synthezoid husband, the Vision, was dismantled and his personality erased, effectively ending her marriage. Then she was kidnapped by a secret society trying to use her to create a race of super-mutants. Then her children were revealed to be made from ''pieces of the devil's soul'' and erased from existence. Then her memories were erased, and she was driven to catatonia and temporary insanity. Byrne managed to do all this in only a little over a year on the title.

* Tim Drake, the current-- er, former {{Robin}}, is going through a rather rough time, with the predictable result that Tim's mental state and judgement are starting to slip. Several innocent bystanders have already been accidentally killed due to his negligence, and he's cut himself off from any ''healthy'' emotional support to instead seek an alliance with mass murdering vigilante Jason Todd. After Jason pulled his sudden yet inevitable betrayal and, after murdering a couple dozen people, stabbed Tim through the chest with a batarang when Tim attempted to register his objections, Tim, now as Red Robin, left Gotham City in search of Bruce Wayne and reached Jason levels of brutality. Aside from this, here's some other trauma that has occurred to him, listed in no particular order: his parents have died, his stepmother died, he thought his girlfriend died, his friend Cassandra Cain went MIA and apparently pulled a type B, Bruce Wayne was thought to have died, and Dick Grayson fired him as Robin. For some good news, at the end of his first (real-time) year as Red Robin, Tim actually makes it to type A.

** Blame ExecutiveMeddling for that. Spider-Man has progressed in his life - he was happily married, and he may be a HeroWithBadPublicity but other heroes know perfectly well how amazingly good he is, both as a person and at what he does. And he even made some improvements here and there on the publicity. But then OneMoreDay came and reset most of the above.
*** Before that, Spidey had a Type A origin, and has lost, in no particular order, his robo-parents, his actress-aunt, his first true love, his marriage (talking about the brief separation that ended through the Straczinsky run), his best friend Harry, some love interests and pals (we still miss you, Captain [=DeWolff=]), has suffered by every one of them, and then he grew a few more. In fact, before OneMoreDay, this trope could have been called "The Parker".

* Roy Harper, the former sidekick of GreenArrow, has had it pretty rough recently. In ''Cry for Justice'' he got his arm chopped off by Prometheus. Then Prometheus and his accomplice the Electrocutioner unleashed a KillSat on Star City, killing thousands including [[spoiler: Roy's daughter Lian]]. This drove him back to drug abuse, which just made things worse. To add insult to injury, when he and Cheshire got involved, he couldn't perform, so to speak. He became a Type E Jerkass, railing against his former friends and teammates, going so far as to blame Mia for [[spoiler: Lian's death]] and calling Donna a whore when she tried to sympathize with him. Later he became a full-on Type B when he agreed to join Deathstroke's Titans (a team of assassins for hire), though this is because he is emotionally blackmailed into joining the team by Cheshire so they can kill Deathstroke. And then, he finds out Deathstroke had secretly gotten him addicted to an even worse drug, Bliss, which is literally made from human children. [[spoiler: Thankfully, the end of that volume of ''Titans'' had Roy stopping Deathstroke and reclaiming the Titans name. And it wasn't until ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'' when it was shown that Roy had successfully managed to beat his addiction on his own, reconciled with his friends, and regained a semblance of peace leading into Lian being brought back to life.]]

* Roy Harper, the former sidekick of GreenArrow, has had it pretty rough recently. In ''Cry for Justice'' he got his arm chopped off by Prometheus. Then Prometheus and his accomplice the Electrocutioner unleashed a KillSat on Star City, killing thousands including [[spoiler: Roy's daughter Lian]]. This drove him back to drug abuse, which just made things worse. To add insult to injury, when he and Cheshire got involved, he couldn't perform, so to speak. He became a Type E Jerkass, railing against his former friends and teammates, going so far as to blame Mia for [[spoiler: Lian's death]] and calling Donna a whore when she tried to sympathize with him. Later he became a full-on Type B when he agreed to join Deathstroke's Titans (a team of assassins for hire), though this is because he is emotionally blackmailed into joining the team by Cheshire so they can kill Deathstroke. And then, he finds out Deathstroke had secretly gotten him addicted to an even worse drug, Bliss, which is literally made from human children. [[spoiler: Thankfully, the end of that volume of ''Titans'' had Roy stopping Deathstroke and reclaiming the Titans name. And it wasn't until ''{{Convergence}}'' when it was shown that Roy had successfully managed to beat his addiction on his own, reconciled with his friends, and regained a semblance of peace leading into Lian being brought back to life.]]
* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'''s Rahne Sinclair/Wolfsbane. To say she's had it rough is putting it lightly. When killing and eating your [[AbusiveParents monster of a father]] is considered one of the better moments in your life (by anyone who isn't you; you were heartbroken about his death even before realising you were responsible), well...

* ComicBook/{{X 23}}. It starts with her being created to be the perfect assassin and a LivingWeapon, and just goes downhill from there. She's abused and tortured physically, mentally and emotionally for ''thirteen years''. When she finally escapes, she's forced to kill her own mother with a chemical trigger that sends her into an UnstoppableRage. She eventually finds her way to her only other family and starts to build a happy life, until her creators come looking and she's forced to send them into hiding and never see them again to protect him. Then she spends a year or two as a StreetWalker under a sadistic and violent pimp. After joining the X-Men (who could probably provide a whole ''page'' of examples themselves) she's nearly killed by Nimrod, joins X-Force and is recaptured by the Facility and tortured ''with a chainsaw'', leading her to a mini-HeroicBSOD over how she'll never be able to escape them, is driven into an existential crisis by a demon over whether she has a soul, and just as she's starting to piece things together gets shanghai'ed by Arcade to [[AvengersArena fight other teens to the death for his amusement]]. And after ''that'' she's tortured by Purifiers, who reveal that ''the whole world'' has seen her in a trigger scent rage. The poor girl just can't catch a break!

* Roy Harper, the former sidekick of GreenArrow, has had it pretty rough recently. In ''Cry for Justice'' he got his arm chopped off by Prometheus. Then Prometheus and his accomplice the Electrocutioner unleashed a KillSat on Star City, killing thousands including [[spoiler: Roy's daughter Lian]]. This drove him back to drug abuse, which just made things worse. To add insult to injury, when he and Cheshire got involved, he couldn't perform, so to speak. He became a Type E Jerkass, railing against his former friends and teammates, going so far as to blame Mia for [[spoiler: Lian's death]] and calling Donna a whore when she tried to sympathize with him. Later he became a full-on Type B when he agreed to join Deathstroke's Titans (a team of assassins for hire) [[spoiler: though it's heavily implied that this was an act he and Cheshire cooked up together in a bid to kill Deathstroke.]]