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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Henry has lost almost everyone he's ever loved, and knows that anyone left, he'll lose eventually. His first wife begged him to trust her with his secret! then when he told her about his resurrectiveImmortality she had him committed to an asylum. His wife Abigail left him with a letter promising she only needed a little time to think, then he never heard from her again. Various tortures that have resulted from his secret being discovered leave him almost pathologically unable to confide in anyone. At the start of the series, Henry is trying hard to wall himself off and not to allow anyone new to get close to him emotionally, but he's too good a person to stand by and let evil go unchallenged, so he ends up getting involved and becoming vulnerable again. TheOlderImmortal Adam engineers the extra-traumatic events of "Skinny Dipper" which leave Henry hurting even worse, at times seeming to no longer care if he dies in front of someone, exposing his secret. By the end of the season, Adam's manipulations have Henry so afraid of others getting hurt, yet so unable to confide in them, that his trying to deal with Adam on his own nearly destroys his relationship with Jo.
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* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' inflicts this on [[AdaptationalAngstUpgrade a lot of characters]], but most notably Rumplestiltskin. After receiving a prophecy that his actions in the war would "leave his son fatherless", he injured himself to get sent home to protect his son, only to be emotionally abused for his cowardice by his wife and the entire town. After his wife leaves him, his son is forcibly conscripted, and he takes on the Dark One's powers to end the war, but the powers constantly push his son away from him, culminating in his son disappearing through a magic portal without him (a ProphecyTwist he goes back and complains to the Seer about). His second love Belle is captured by the Evil Queen, who tells him she killed herself and [[VillainsNeverLie he believed it.]] And this was all ''before'' the curse was cast. After it was cast and then broken, he's captured and tortured by a wicked witch, loses Belle again several times, and sees his son killed in front of him.
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* ''Series/BronBroen'': Saga gets one of these in series 3: [[spoiler: Saga witnesses her first partner lose a foot in an explosion and feels responsible. Then her abusive mother, who had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, shows up and starts a campaign of intimidation, including blaming Saga for her sister's suicide. Saga's father, from whom she was also estranged, dies. Then Hans, her boss and friend, who always had her back, is kidnapped and tortured. Then she's mismanaged to the extreme by her new boss, who assigns an incompetent colleague who has a grudge against Saga to investigate her. Then her mother commits suicide in a way that frames Saga for murder. Hans dies. She forgets to search a suspect for weapons, and her colleague's daughter is consequently shot. Her new partner, whom she grew close to, turns out to be a drug addict. She inadvertently provides the murderer with the means to kill himself. And finally, she's suspended while being investigated for her mother's death. All this leads her to a very bad place.]]
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* ''Series/BronBroen'': ''Series/TheBridge2011'': Saga gets one of these in series 3: [[spoiler: Saga witnesses her first partner lose a foot in an explosion and feels responsible. Then her abusive mother, who had Munchausen syndrome by proxy, shows up and starts a campaign of intimidation, including blaming Saga for her sister's suicide. Saga's father, from whom she was also estranged, dies. Then Hans, her boss and friend, who always had her back, is kidnapped and tortured. Then she's mismanaged to the extreme by her new boss, who assigns an incompetent colleague who has a grudge against Saga to investigate her. Then her mother commits suicide in a way that frames Saga for murder. Hans dies. She forgets to search a suspect for weapons, and her colleague's daughter is consequently shot. Her new partner, whom she grew close to, turns out to be a drug addict. She inadvertently provides the murderer with the means to kill himself. And finally, she's suspended while being investigated for her mother's death. All this leads her to a very bad place.]]
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* ''Series/Babylon5'' creator J. Michael Straczynski once observed that one of the best ways to deepen a character is to "drop him down a few wells". He used this trope a ''lot'': Londo Mollari, G'Kar, and Delenn all endured repeated traumas throughout the thirty-odd years covered by the series' main timeline. Captain John Sheridan probably got it the worst, though: First his wife was killed in the backstory. On the show, he was captured and tortured by aliens, possessed by an unknown lifeform, nearly killed multiple times, found a new love, saw his wife return from the dead, lost her again, gave his life to stop the Shadows, came back from the dead himself, went to war against Earth, fought against and killed many former friends and fellow soldiers, was captured and tortured by Earthforce, and finally had to violate some of his most basic principles by using telepaths as living weapons in order to defeat Earth, knowing all the time that all of the telepaths would probably be killed as a result.
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* ''Series/Babylon5'' creator J. Michael Straczynski Creator/JMichaelStraczynski once observed that one of the best ways to deepen a character is to "drop him down a few wells". He used this trope a ''lot'': Londo Mollari, G'Kar, Garibaldi, and Delenn all endured repeated traumas throughout the thirty-odd years covered by the series' main timeline. Captain John Sheridan probably got it the worst, though: First his wife was killed in the backstory. On the show, he was captured and tortured by aliens, possessed by an unknown lifeform, nearly killed multiple times, found a new love, saw his wife return from the dead, lost her again, gave his life to stop the Shadows, came back from the dead himself, went to war against Earth, fought against and killed many former friends and fellow soldiers, was betrayed by a close friend, and finally was captured and tortured into near-insanity by Earthforce, and finally had to violate some of his most basic principles by using telepaths as living weapons in order to defeat Earth, knowing all the time that all of the telepaths would probably be killed as a result.Earthforce interrogators.
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* ''Series/Babylon5'' creator J. Michael Straczynski once observed that one of the best ways to deepen a character is to "drop him down a few wells". He used this trope a ''lot'': Londo Mollari, G'Kar, and Delenn all endured repeated traumas throughout the thirty-odd years covered by the series' main timeline. Captain John Sheridan probably got it the worst, though: First his wife was killed in the backstory. On the show, he was captured and tortured by aliens, possessed by an unknown lifeform, nearly killed multiple times, found a new love, saw his wife return from the dead, lost her again, gave his life to stop the Shadows, came back from the dead himself, went to war against Earth, fought against and killed many former friends and fellow soldiers, was captured and tortured by Earthforce, and finally had to violate some of his most basic principles by using telepaths as living weapons in order to defeat Earth, knowing all the time that all of the telepaths would probably be killed as a result.
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* ''Series/{{House}}'' doesn’t exactly make it easy on himself, even admitting in the last season that he’s self destructed most of his chances to be happy, but his life really genuinely sucks. First, throughout his childhood he was abused by his [[MilitaryBrat military father]]. Then, as an adult, he had a serious medical incident that deteriorated because the doctors [[MistakenForJunkie took him for a drug seeker]], and the initial procedure left him in agony, at which point his girlfriend Stacy decided to TakeAThirdOption without his consent, and the combination of the procedure and the damage done by the original incident leaves him crippled and in pain. Across the series, he tries several techniques to get rid of his pain, but they never quite work out; he tries ketamine which briefly seems to be working, but the pain comes back after a few months, and methadone, the one thing that seems to have long-term potential, ends up not being feasible due to the side-effects dulling his abilities in a way he feels is unacceptable, and an attempt to try out an experimental treatment for his leg ends up causing ''tumors'', leading him to attempt SelfSurgery to get them out. Meanwhile, he becomes the target of a vindictive policeman in Season 3 who tries to twist his Vicodin addiction into grounds to send him to prison and twists the knife further by briefly offering him a HopeSpot before snatching it away ''on Christmas Day'', leading House to intentionally overdose out of despair; then in Season 4 he gets into a bus crash that ends up killing Wilson's girlfriend Amber, leaving him with intense SurvivorsGuilt (since Amber was only on the bus because of him) and causing a rift in his friendship with Wilson; then Kutner dies which pushes him over the edge, leading to a psychotic break and hallucinations, and he's forced to check himself into a mental hospital. A season later, a case that he'd become emotionally involved with (due to the patient having to make a choice regarding amputation of a leg, which forced House to reflect on his own decisions regarding his leg) goes badly wrong resulting in the patient's death, which devastates him. He briefly gets into a relationship with Cuddy but this fails after only a few months, after which he starts using Vicodin again and much of his progress from the past year is seemingly undone overnight. Then he ''really'' screws things up by crashing his car through Cuddy's house, injuring Wilson in the process. For this he spends a year in prison, which he's revealed to have accepted without a fight as he rightfully feels like he deserves to be punished, and while most of his stay happens offscreen between seasons, we learn that at the very least he was bullied by the other inmates who forced him to give them some of his pain pills, meaning he was likely in agony the entire time, as well as that he spent at least a month in solitary (he also makes a reference to PrisonRape but it's not entirely clear if he's serious or joking). He finds a chance at happiness with Dominika only to end up sabotaging when his desperation not to lose her backfires. Then he finds out that Wilson -- the one person who's been a constant in his life and probably the person he loves most in the world -- is dying of cancer, and just as he's beginning to accept it, he learns that he's set to be sent back to prison for a parole violation, for a term that exceeds Wilson's life expectancy, and decides his only choice is to fake his own death and give up everything else he's ever had for the chance to be with Wilson in his final months. And if you believe [[WordOfStPaul Hugh Laurie]], he ultimately dies not long after Wilson does.
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* ''Series/{{House}}'' doesn’t exactly make it easy on himself, even admitting in the last season that he’s self destructed most of his chances to be happy, but his life really genuinely sucks. First, throughout his childhood he was abused by his [[MilitaryBrat military father]]. Then, as an adult, he had a serious medical incident that deteriorated because the doctors [[MistakenForJunkie took him for a drug seeker]], and the initial procedure left him in agony, at which point his girlfriend Stacy decided to TakeAThirdOption without his consent, and the combination of the procedure and the damage done by the original incident leaves him crippled and in pain. Across the series, he tries several techniques to get rid of his pain, but they never quite work out; he tries ketamine which briefly seems to be working, but the pain comes back after a few months, and methadone, the one thing that seems to have long-term potential, ends up not being feasible due to the side-effects dulling his abilities in a way he feels is unacceptable, and an attempt to try out an experimental treatment for his leg ends up causing ''tumors'', leading him to attempt SelfSurgery to get them out. Meanwhile, he becomes the target of a vindictive policeman in Season 3 who tries to twist his Vicodin addiction into grounds to send him to prison and twists the knife further by briefly offering him a HopeSpot before snatching it away ''on Christmas Day'', leading House to intentionally overdose out of despair; then in Season 4 he gets into a bus crash that ends up killing Wilson's girlfriend Amber, leaving him with intense SurvivorsGuilt (since Amber was only on the bus because of him) and causing a rift in his friendship with Wilson; then Kutner dies which pushes him over the edge, leading to a psychotic break and hallucinations, and he's forced to check himself into a mental hospital. A season later, a case that he'd become emotionally involved with (due to the patient having to make a choice regarding amputation of a leg, which forced House to reflect on his own decisions regarding his leg) goes badly wrong resulting in the patient's death, which devastates him. He briefly gets into a relationship with Cuddy but this fails after only a few months, after which he starts using Vicodin again and much of his progress from the past year is seemingly undone overnight. Then he ''really'' screws things up by crashing his car through Cuddy's house, injuring Wilson in the process. For this he spends a year in prison, which he's revealed to have accepted without a fight as he rightfully feels like he deserves to be punished, and while most of his stay happens offscreen between seasons, we learn that at the very least he was bullied by the other inmates who forced him to give them some of his pain pills, meaning he was likely in agony the entire time, as well as that he spent at least a month in solitary (he also makes a reference to PrisonRape but it's not entirely clear if he's serious or joking). He finds a chance at happiness with Dominika only to end up sabotaging when his desperation not to lose her backfires. Then he finds out that Wilson -- the one person who's been a constant in his life and probably the person he loves most in the world -- is dying of cancer, and just as he's beginning finally starting to accept it, it (after almost a full episode of trying to convince Wilson to undergo life-prolonging treatment) and simply set his mind to getting the most out of what little time Wilson has left, he learns that he's set to be sent back to prison for a parole violation, for a term that exceeds Wilson's life expectancy, and decides his only choice is to fake his own death and give up everything else he's ever had for the chance to be with Wilson in his final months. And if you believe [[WordOfStPaul Hugh Laurie]], he ultimately dies not long after Wilson does.
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** The writers for ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' confirmed that Saul Goodman wouldn't exist if they didn't constantly try to break down Jimmy [=McGill=]'s brain with every horrible thing they could think of. His wife Kim Wexler leaving, not out of lack of love but hating herself and wanting to self-destruct is the final straw.
-->'''Gould''': I think as we went on we just kept piling more things onto this character, more horrible things and after each one we were like not quite enough, and we kept pushing it, and we finally got to the break up scene, it felt like this is the moment.
-->'''Gould''': I think as we went on we just kept piling more things onto this character, more horrible things and after each one we were like not quite enough, and we kept pushing it, and we finally got to the break up scene, it felt like this is the moment.
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* ''Series/{{House}}'' doesn’t exactly make it easy on himself, even admitting in the last season that he’s self destructed most of his chances to be happy, but his life really genuinely sucks: abused as a MilitaryBrat, kinda suicidal even before the infarction, the infarction itself where he was MistakenForJunkie and the doctors didn’t catch it in time, and Stacy/Cuddy decided TakesAThirdOption without consent, leaving him crippled and in pain (said pain gets worse when he has emotional pain), he tries ketamine which heals his leg but it fails and starts hurting again by the end of the second episode of the third season, he intentionally overdoses on Christmas, there’s the bus crash with Amber and both he and Wilson (who is hurting and doesn’t know about the SurvivorsGuilt) think he should have died instead, his abusive (non bio) dad dies, he tries Methadone which helps his leg but degrades his observation skills a little which is too much for him, he actually tries therapy but crashes his bike and quits the therapy as soon as Wilson finds out, Kutner dies which increases the SurvivorsGuilt and induces psychosis – Amber hallucinations and not being able to tell what’s real – and he goes into Mayfield. He admits to a patient that she needs to amputate because he wishes he had as the pain’s made him a worse person, and she dies due to a fat embolism because of that amputation. After a failed relationship with Cuddy he goes right back to the Vicodin, and an experiment drug for his leg ends up with it having tumors and having to commit SelfSurgery to get them out. After the awful crashing through Cuddy’s house by his car, he rightfully feels guilty and turns himself in to jail, spending a year there and suffers the HumiliationConga (including offscreen a month in solitary and PrisonRape on some level) cos he feels like he deserves it after what he did. He loses Dominika after some more self sabotage and struggles to deal with Wilson’s cancer, coming through for his friend by faking his death/ending his career to be with him in his final months. And if you believe [[WordOfStPaul Hugh Laurie]], he dies not long after Wilson does.
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* ''Series/{{House}}'' doesn’t exactly make it easy on himself, even admitting in the last season that he’s self destructed most of his chances to be happy, but his life really genuinely sucks: sucks. First, throughout his childhood he was abused by his [[MilitaryBrat military father]]. Then, as a MilitaryBrat, kinda suicidal even before the infarction, the infarction itself where an adult, he was MistakenForJunkie and had a serious medical incident that deteriorated because the doctors didn’t catch it in time, [[MistakenForJunkie took him for a drug seeker]], and Stacy/Cuddy the initial procedure left him in agony, at which point his girlfriend Stacy decided TakesAThirdOption to TakeAThirdOption without his consent, leaving and the combination of the procedure and the damage done by the original incident leaves him crippled and in pain (said pain gets worse when pain. Across the series, he has emotional pain), tries several techniques to get rid of his pain, but they never quite work out; he tries ketamine which heals his leg briefly seems to be working, but it fails the pain comes back after a few months, and starts hurting again by methadone, the end of the second episode of the third season, he intentionally overdoses on Christmas, there’s the bus crash with Amber and both he and Wilson (who is hurting and doesn’t know about the SurvivorsGuilt) think he should one thing that seems to have died instead, his abusive (non bio) dad dies, he tries Methadone which helps his leg but degrades his observation skills a little which is too much for him, he actually tries therapy but crashes his bike and quits the therapy as soon as Wilson finds out, Kutner dies which increases the SurvivorsGuilt and induces psychosis – Amber hallucinations and long-term potential, ends up not being able to tell what’s real – and he goes into Mayfield. He admits to a patient that she needs to amputate because he wishes he had as the pain’s made him a worse person, and she dies feasible due to a fat embolism because of that amputation. After a failed relationship with Cuddy he goes right back to the Vicodin, side-effects dulling his abilities in a way he feels is unacceptable, and an experiment drug attempt to try out an experimental treatment for his leg ends up with it having tumors and having causing ''tumors'', leading him to commit attempt SelfSurgery to get them out. After Meanwhile, he becomes the awful target of a vindictive policeman in Season 3 who tries to twist his Vicodin addiction into grounds to send him to prison and twists the knife further by briefly offering him a HopeSpot before snatching it away ''on Christmas Day'', leading House to intentionally overdose out of despair; then in Season 4 he gets into a bus crash that ends up killing Wilson's girlfriend Amber, leaving him with intense SurvivorsGuilt (since Amber was only on the bus because of him) and causing a rift in his friendship with Wilson; then Kutner dies which pushes him over the edge, leading to a psychotic break and hallucinations, and he's forced to check himself into a mental hospital. A season later, a case that he'd become emotionally involved with (due to the patient having to make a choice regarding amputation of a leg, which forced House to reflect on his own decisions regarding his leg) goes badly wrong resulting in the patient's death, which devastates him. He briefly gets into a relationship with Cuddy but this fails after only a few months, after which he starts using Vicodin again and much of his progress from the past year is seemingly undone overnight. Then he ''really'' screws things up by crashing his car through Cuddy’s house by his car, Cuddy's house, injuring Wilson in the process. For this he spends a year in prison, which he's revealed to have accepted without a fight as he rightfully feels guilty and turns himself in to jail, spending a year there and suffers the HumiliationConga (including offscreen a month in solitary and PrisonRape on some level) cos he feels like he deserves it after what to be punished, and while most of his stay happens offscreen between seasons, we learn that at the very least he did. was bullied by the other inmates who forced him to give them some of his pain pills, meaning he was likely in agony the entire time, as well as that he spent at least a month in solitary (he also makes a reference to PrisonRape but it's not entirely clear if he's serious or joking). He loses finds a chance at happiness with Dominika after some more self sabotage only to end up sabotaging when his desperation not to lose her backfires. Then he finds out that Wilson -- the one person who's been a constant in his life and struggles to deal with Wilson’s probably the person he loves most in the world -- is dying of cancer, coming through and just as he's beginning to accept it, he learns that he's set to be sent back to prison for a parole violation, for a term that exceeds Wilson's life expectancy, and decides his friend by faking only choice is to fake his death/ending his career own death and give up everything else he's ever had for the chance to be with him Wilson in his final months. And if you believe [[WordOfStPaul Hugh Laurie]], he ultimately dies not long after Wilson does.
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* ''Series/TheMick'': Played for laughs, but Ben goes through mental trauma at seven years old that war vets might have trouble handling. He is constantly killing his pets by accident as he doesn't understand the concept of mortality. He sees his aunt getting shot, parents getting arrested, Jimmy getting his teeth removed with pliers by his brother, getting a large tattoo on his back at the prison, pushed to act like a girl as Mick does not want to commute, watching 18+ movies days in a row and regularly is witness to extreme violence. He doesn't seem to be affected (and is especially [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity okay with presenting as a girl]]) but it might well mess him up later.
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** In ''Curse Of The Tiger Woman'', Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement and a staff mutiny. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.
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** In ''Curse “Curse Of The Tiger Woman'', Woman”, Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out that he is the father to of Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement and a staff mutiny. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.
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** In ''Curse Of The Tiger Woman'', Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.
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** In ''Curse Of The Tiger Woman'', Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement.retirement and a staff mutiny. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.
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* Jake Peralta from ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''. Starting it off, in season one, it was revealed that Jake's dad abandoned him when he was 7 and his mom was a workaholic and was never there for him despite loving him dearly. In one episode, he was bankrupted and was being evicted from his apartment. Then the writers gave him no mercy in season two: He has been rejected by Amy, a woman he has a mad crush on, because she's dating someone else. He finally met another woman, Sophia, whom he really clicked with, only for her to break up with him, because Jake arrested her boss and it turns out that she wasn't all into him, despite Jake developing some serious feelings for Sophia. He was the main suspect for the mole investigation and was suspended when an Internal Affairs agent saw him in the evidence lockup, has been outed by [[SitcomArchNemesis the Pontiac Bandit]] ''twice'', had a '''major''' falling out with his best friend, had his crushing debts from his friends and colleagues bite him back, lost in his Halloween bet with his captain [[spoiler: after his friends betray him, because they just want to see Jake get humiliated]]. His [[DisappearedDad dad]] came back to visit him, only for him to use his son's cop status and abandon him ''again''. Jake also suffered from a string of bad luck in one week that ended with him getting suspended from the NYPD ''then kidnapped'' by Sophia's ex-boss. He also sustained multiple injuries (broken ribs and toes, hairline fracture) within ''a month'', and when it looks like something is ''finally'' right in his life...[[spoiler: Captain Holt, his father-figure and mentor, suddenly leaves the Nine-Nine.]]
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* Jake Peralta from ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''. Starting it off, in season one, it was revealed that Jake's dad abandoned him when he was 7 and his mom was a workaholic and was never there for him despite loving him dearly. In one episode, he was bankrupted and was being evicted from his apartment. Then the writers gave him no mercy in season two: He has been rejected by Amy, a woman he has a mad crush on, because she's dating someone else. He finally met another woman, Sophia, whom he really clicked with, only for her to break up with him, because Jake arrested her boss and it turns out that she wasn't all into him, despite Jake developing some serious feelings for Sophia. He was the main suspect for the mole investigation and was suspended when an Internal Affairs agent saw him in the evidence lockup, has been outed by [[SitcomArchNemesis the Pontiac Bandit]] ''twice'', had a '''major''' falling out with his best friend, had his crushing debts from his friends and colleagues bite him back, lost in his Halloween bet with his captain [[spoiler: after his friends betray him, because they just want to see Jake get humiliated]]. His [[DisappearedDad dad]] came back to visit him, only for him to use his son's cop status and abandon him ''again''. Jake also suffered from a string of bad luck in one week that ended with him getting suspended from the NYPD ''then kidnapped'' by Sophia's ex-boss. He also sustained multiple injuries (broken ribs and toes, hairline fracture) within ''a month'', and when it looks like something is ''finally'' right in his life...[[spoiler: Captain Holt, his father-figure and mentor, suddenly leaves the Nine-Nine.]]]] Then, he has to go into [[spoiler: witness protection after bringing down a dangerous mafia network, and has to stay 6 months away from his friends and family.]] ''Then'', [[spoiler: he gets arrested for a crime he didn't commit and is almost murdered in prison only surviving at the last minute due to Holt taking help from TheDon]]. Fortunately for him, [[ThrowTheDogABone things get better and better for him during the rest of the series]].
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** Nobody really fares too well in this series, but Jesse Pinkman seems to get the absolute worst of it starting from season 2: he has to deal with his parents giving up on him and kicking him out, leaving him homeless; the death of his girlfriend Jane to an overdose that he feels responsible for; Hank beating him into unconsciousness, leaving him hospitalized; having to go on the run after he reaches his rage breaking point and tries to kill a group of men who murdered a little kid; having to murder an unarmed person in order to save the life of an increasingly abusive surrogate father, which causes a HeroicBSOD so strong he pretty much gives up on his life for a few episodes afterwards; having to deal with a kid he's befriended being poisoned and thinking said surrogate father is the cause; [[spoiler:seeing a kid get killed unnecessarily ''again'' and finding out that his partner has killed a whole bunch of other people as well; and figuring out that his partner actually ''did'' poison the kid, which drives him to a self-destructive rage so intense he comes very, very close to burning Walt's house down.]] And just when you think things couldn't possibly get worse, [[spoiler:he's forced into slavery by the same guy who killed the kid earlier, and when he tries to escape one time they react by murdering Andrea, the woman he loves.]] And all the while dealing with continual threats to his own life and abuse from Walt. It's no wonder he's so often considered a Woobie despite being an {{Antivillain}}.
*** The conga line doesn't even stop with the series finale and continues in ''Film/ElCamino'': [[spoiler:Now on the run from the police for his connection to Walt (who died in a machine-gun-turret-induced massacre on the aforementioned slavers) and haunted by memories of his captivity, he goes to take some of his now dead captor's money so he can start fresh, only for some friends of said captor to get the drop on him while disguised as crime scene investigators. While he's able to get ''some'' of the money, it's not enough to pay the local "disappearer" to help him leave (on account of the disappearer demanding payment for the last time he was called out in addition to now), forcing Jesse to confront the crooks who have the rest of the money he needs one last time. Then, and ''only then'', does he finally catch a break after hightailing it to Alaska.]]
*** The conga line doesn't even stop with the series finale and continues in ''Film/ElCamino'': [[spoiler:Now on the run from the police for his connection to Walt (who died in a machine-gun-turret-induced massacre on the aforementioned slavers) and haunted by memories of his captivity, he goes to take some of his now dead captor's money so he can start fresh, only for some friends of said captor to get the drop on him while disguised as crime scene investigators. While he's able to get ''some'' of the money, it's not enough to pay the local "disappearer" to help him leave (on account of the disappearer demanding payment for the last time he was called out in addition to now), forcing Jesse to confront the crooks who have the rest of the money he needs one last time. Then, and ''only then'', does he finally catch a break after hightailing it to Alaska.]]
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** Nobody really fares too well in this series, but Jesse Pinkman seems to get the absolute worst of it starting from season 2: he has to deal with his parents giving up on him and kicking him out, leaving him homeless; the death of his girlfriend Jane to an overdose that he feels responsible for; Hank beating him into unconsciousness, leaving him hospitalized; having to go on the run after he reaches his rage breaking point and tries to kill a group of men who murdered a little kid; having to murder an unarmed person in order to save the life of an increasingly abusive surrogate father, which causes a HeroicBSOD so strong he pretty much gives up on his life for a few episodes afterwards; having to deal with a kid he's befriended being poisoned and thinking said surrogate father is the cause; [[spoiler:seeing a kid get killed unnecessarily ''again'' and finding out that his partner surrogate father has killed a whole bunch of other people as well; and figuring out that his partner he actually ''did'' poison the kid, which drives him to a self-destructive rage so intense he comes very, very close to burning Walt's house down.]] And just when you think things couldn't possibly get worse, [[spoiler:he's worse and [[spoiler: [[HopeSpot Jesse gets some semblance of peace after helping Hank arrest Walt]], he's forced into slavery by the same guy who killed the kid earlier, earlier and his gang while said surrogate father coldly informing him that ''he'' was behind the death of the said girlfriend above due to overdose, and when he tries to escape one time they react by murdering Andrea, the woman he loves.]] loves, at which point the ringleader threatens him to continue cooking or her child will be next. And all the while dealing with continual threats to his own life and abuse from Walt. the Neo-Nazis.. It's no wonder he's so often considered a Woobie despite being an {{Antivillain}}.
{{Antivillain}}.]]
*** The conga line doesn't even stop with the series finale and continues in ''Film/ElCamino'': [[spoiler:Now on the run from the police for his connection to Walt (who died in a machine-gun-turret-induced massacre on the aforementioned slavers) and haunted by memories of his captivity, he goes to take some of his now dead captor's money so he can start fresh, only for some friends of said captor to get the drop on him while disguised as crime scene investigators. While he's able to get ''some'' of the money, it's not enough to pay the local "disappearer" to help him leave (on account of the disappearer demanding payment for the last time he was called out in addition to now), forcing Jesse to confront the crooks who have the rest of the money he needs one lasttime.time, by lying to his parents one last time so that he can get the guns he hid there long ago. Then, and ''only then'', does he finally catch a break after hightailing it to Alaska.]]]] Even then it's implied he will be haunted by the events above forever.
*** The conga line doesn't even stop with the series finale and continues in ''Film/ElCamino'': [[spoiler:Now on the run from the police for his connection to Walt (who died in a machine-gun-turret-induced massacre on the aforementioned slavers) and haunted by memories of his captivity, he goes to take some of his now dead captor's money so he can start fresh, only for some friends of said captor to get the drop on him while disguised as crime scene investigators. While he's able to get ''some'' of the money, it's not enough to pay the local "disappearer" to help him leave (on account of the disappearer demanding payment for the last time he was called out in addition to now), forcing Jesse to confront the crooks who have the rest of the money he needs one last
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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Happens twice:
** In "Blind Devotion", Colin becomes temporarily blinded, and loses his aunt, pet canary, and life savings in quick succession. This is also revealed to occur ''on his birthday'' no less.
** In ''Curse Of The Tiger Woman'', Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.
** In "Blind Devotion", Colin becomes temporarily blinded, and loses his aunt, pet canary, and life savings in quick succession. This is also revealed to occur ''on his birthday'' no less.
** In ''Curse Of The Tiger Woman'', Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out he is the father to Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.
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* ''Series/TheOutpost'': Poor Talon. As a young girl, her father disappeared, but at least she had a loving mother and brother. Then they were murdered, along with her entire village. However, she's then adopted by a kind human family.... until they were all murdered too. Then her mentor Wolf is also murdered. [[spoiler:Years later, it turns out that her father is alive, but she's only briefly able to see him before he dies too]]. No wonder she's aloof, cynical and leery of making connections at first.
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* Jake Peralta from ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''. Starting it off, in season one, it was revealed that Jake's dad abandoned him when he was 7 and his mom was a workaholic and was never there for him. In one episode, he was bankrupted and was being evicted from his apartment. Then the writers gave him no mercy in season two: He has been rejected by Amy, a woman he has a mad crush on, because she's dating someone else. He finally met another woman, Sophia, whom he really clicked with, only for her to break up with him, because Jake arrested her boss and it turns out that she wasn't all into him, despite Jake developing some serious feelings for Sophia. He was the main suspect for the mole investigation and was suspended when an Internal Affairs agent saw him in the evidence lockup, has been outed by [[SitcomArchNemesis the Pontiac Bandit]] ''twice'', had a '''major''' falling out with his best friend, had his crushing debts from his friends and colleagues bite him back, lost in his Halloween bet with his captain [[spoiler: after his friends betray him, because they just want to see Jake get humiliated]]. His [[DisappearedDad dad]] came back to visit him, only for him to use his son's cop status and abandon him ''again''. Jake also suffered from a string of bad luck in one week that ended with him getting suspended from the NYPD ''then kidnapped'' by Sophia's ex-boss. He also sustained multiple injuries (broken ribs and toes, hairline fracture) within ''a month'', and when it looks like something is ''finally'' right in his life...[[spoiler: Captain Holt, his father-figure and mentor, suddenly leaves the Nine-Nine.]]
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* Jake Peralta from ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''. Starting it off, in season one, it was revealed that Jake's dad abandoned him when he was 7 and his mom was a workaholic and was never there for him.him despite loving him dearly. In one episode, he was bankrupted and was being evicted from his apartment. Then the writers gave him no mercy in season two: He has been rejected by Amy, a woman he has a mad crush on, because she's dating someone else. He finally met another woman, Sophia, whom he really clicked with, only for her to break up with him, because Jake arrested her boss and it turns out that she wasn't all into him, despite Jake developing some serious feelings for Sophia. He was the main suspect for the mole investigation and was suspended when an Internal Affairs agent saw him in the evidence lockup, has been outed by [[SitcomArchNemesis the Pontiac Bandit]] ''twice'', had a '''major''' falling out with his best friend, had his crushing debts from his friends and colleagues bite him back, lost in his Halloween bet with his captain [[spoiler: after his friends betray him, because they just want to see Jake get humiliated]]. His [[DisappearedDad dad]] came back to visit him, only for him to use his son's cop status and abandon him ''again''. Jake also suffered from a string of bad luck in one week that ended with him getting suspended from the NYPD ''then kidnapped'' by Sophia's ex-boss. He also sustained multiple injuries (broken ribs and toes, hairline fracture) within ''a month'', and when it looks like something is ''finally'' right in his life...[[spoiler: Captain Holt, his father-figure and mentor, suddenly leaves the Nine-Nine.]]
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** Dean just keeps getting hit by more and more tragedies and still has to stumble to get up and go on. Let's recap shall we? First off, his mother dies when he's a kid, leaving him to be dragged across the country in pursuit of {{revenge}}, then [[DisappearedDad his father goes missing]], so he has to team-up with his estranged brother to find him; next his father dies [[DealWithTheDevil exchanging his soul for Dean's]] leaving him with horrific SurvivorGuilt; his brother dies, leaving Dean to make ''another'' DealWithTheDevil and 1 year to live (being constantly tormented by his upcoming damnation); next he is ripped to shreds by hell-hounds and spends 40 years equivalent in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]]. Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside. Then, he must endure [[spoiler: knowing his beloved brother is in Hell and he can do nothing about it]] while he attempts to live a normal life with a woman and her son he has come to genuinely love. He finds out his brother is alive, something that prompts him to return to hunting and eventually destroys his attempt to be a family man. Then, he learns his brother's soul remains in Hell and his body is soulless. He's [[spoiler: betrayed by his best friend Castiel, who gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide and destroys Sam's mind]] before watching him attempt to die in a failed HeroicSacrifce. Sam eventually goes insane, until Castiel absorbs the insanity for himself. Dean and partially recovered Castiel manage to kill the head Leviathan, only to be transported to Purgatory. Dean gets out but Castiel stays behind, breaking Dean's heart. Dean eventually takes on the Mark of Cain to defeat a powerful demon but goes demon himself and must cope with very dark actions because of it. This just takes him though Season 10, and there are five more.
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** Dean just keeps getting hit by more and more tragedies and still has to stumble to get up and go on. Let's recap shall we? First off, his mother dies when he's a kid, leaving him to be dragged across the country in pursuit of {{revenge}}, then [[DisappearedDad his father goes missing]], so he has to team-up with his estranged brother to find him; next his father dies [[DealWithTheDevil exchanging his soul for Dean's]] leaving him with horrific SurvivorGuilt; his brother dies, leaving Dean to make ''another'' DealWithTheDevil and 1 year to live (being constantly tormented by his upcoming damnation); next he is ripped to shreds by hell-hounds and spends 40 years equivalent in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]]. Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside. Then, he must endure [[spoiler: knowing his beloved brother is in Hell and he can do nothing about it]] while he attempts to live a normal life with a woman and her son he has come to genuinely love. He finds out his brother is alive, something that prompts him to return to hunting and eventually destroys his attempt to be a family man. Then, he learns his brother's soul remains in Hell and his body is soulless. He's [[spoiler: betrayed by his best friend Castiel, who gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide and destroys Sam's mind]] before watching him attempt to die in a failed HeroicSacrifce.HeroicSacrifice. Sam eventually goes insane, until Castiel absorbs the insanity for himself. Dean and partially recovered Castiel manage to kill the head Leviathan, only to be transported to Purgatory. Dean gets out but Castiel stays behind, breaking Dean's heart. Dean eventually takes on the Mark of Cain to defeat a powerful demon but goes demon himself and must cope with very dark actions because of it. This just takes When the mark is removed, it unleashes The Darkness, who threatens to destroy the world. Dean offers to sacrifice himself to stop her, but she decides to spare him though Season 10, and there are five more. even resurrects his TheLostLenore mother to "thank" him. So Dean spends season 12 learning his mother is an imperfect woman, rather than the paragon of his imagination. Then he loses her and Castiel right after Lucifer's son, Jack is born. Castiel and Mary eventually return, but Jack kills Mary and causes a rift between him and Castiel. Castiel finally admits to [[spoiler: being in love with Dean and is dragged to the Empty before Dean can even respond.]] Eventually, Dean helps defeat God, but he [[spoiler: never gets his dreamed-of retirement from hunting and is instead killed and sent to heaven.]]
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* ''Series/PrincessAgents'':
** In the space of mere days Yan Xun is arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, is confronted with their decapitated heads, witnesses his mother's suicide, thrown back in prison, forced to cut off his own finger, and learns Yuwen Yue -- someone he considered his best friend -- knew about the plot against him and didn't warn him. Any one of those events would be deeply traumatic. All of them, one after another... No wonder Yan Xun [[BreakTheCutie snaps]].
** Yuan Chun learns her fiancé is rebelling right before the wedding. She begs Yan Xun to stop it, but he coldly tells her he never loved her and rides away. Shortly afterwards her brother tries to kill Yan Xun. In retaliation Yan Xun's men beat him up and [[RapeAsDrama rape Yuan Chun]]. Like Yan Xun, [[BreakTheCutie it's no wonder she snaps]].
** In the space of mere days Yan Xun is arrested, thrown in prison, accused of treason, learns his family have been murdered, is confronted with their decapitated heads, witnesses his mother's suicide, thrown back in prison, forced to cut off his own finger, and learns Yuwen Yue -- someone he considered his best friend -- knew about the plot against him and didn't warn him. Any one of those events would be deeply traumatic. All of them, one after another... No wonder Yan Xun [[BreakTheCutie snaps]].
** Yuan Chun learns her fiancé is rebelling right before the wedding. She begs Yan Xun to stop it, but he coldly tells her he never loved her and rides away. Shortly afterwards her brother tries to kill Yan Xun. In retaliation Yan Xun's men beat him up and [[RapeAsDrama rape Yuan Chun]]. Like Yan Xun, [[BreakTheCutie it's no wonder she snaps]].
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** Dean just keeps getting hit by more and more tragedies and still has to stumble to get up and go on. Let's recap shall we? First off, his mother dies when he's a kid, leaving him to be dragged across the country in pursuit of {{revenge}}, then [[DisappearedDad his father goes missing]], so he has to team-up with his estranged brother to find him; next his father dies [[DealWithTheDevil exchanging his soul for Dean's]] leaving him with horrific SurvivorGuilt; his brother dies, leaving Dean to make ''another'' DealWithTheDevil and 1 year to live (being constantly tormented by his upcoming damnation); next he is ripped to shreds by hell-hounds and spends 40 years equivalent in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]]. Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside.
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** Dean just keeps getting hit by more and more tragedies and still has to stumble to get up and go on. Let's recap shall we? First off, his mother dies when he's a kid, leaving him to be dragged across the country in pursuit of {{revenge}}, then [[DisappearedDad his father goes missing]], so he has to team-up with his estranged brother to find him; next his father dies [[DealWithTheDevil exchanging his soul for Dean's]] leaving him with horrific SurvivorGuilt; his brother dies, leaving Dean to make ''another'' DealWithTheDevil and 1 year to live (being constantly tormented by his upcoming damnation); next he is ripped to shreds by hell-hounds and spends 40 years equivalent in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]]. Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside. Then, he must endure [[spoiler: knowing his beloved brother is in Hell and he can do nothing about it]] while he attempts to live a normal life with a woman and her son he has come to genuinely love. He finds out his brother is alive, something that prompts him to return to hunting and eventually destroys his attempt to be a family man. Then, he learns his brother's soul remains in Hell and his body is soulless. He's [[spoiler: betrayed by his best friend Castiel, who gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide and destroys Sam's mind]] before watching him attempt to die in a failed HeroicSacrifce. Sam eventually goes insane, until Castiel absorbs the insanity for himself. Dean and partially recovered Castiel manage to kill the head Leviathan, only to be transported to Purgatory. Dean gets out but Castiel stays behind, breaking Dean's heart. Dean eventually takes on the Mark of Cain to defeat a powerful demon but goes demon himself and must cope with very dark actions because of it. This just takes him though Season 10, and there are five more.
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** Sam went through life fearing he was some kind of freak, and then it turned out he [[DarkSide really]] ''was''. His fiance-girlfriend dies at the very beginning of the series; every other woman he has ever gotten close to has died a horrible death or betrayed him, leading him to be emotionally scarred and introverted; he never lived up to the expectations of his family; was constantly denied the chance to live a normal life because of [[CorruptTheCutie demons]]; was forced into hunting and the family lifestyle; his dad disowned him ''for going to college''; his father ''told his brother to kill him''; he's apparently an abomination of God because his mother made a deal to sell him to a demon when he was born; he never got to know said mother as she died when he was a baby ''because of him''.
When Sam's murdered, Dean sells his soul to bring him back (and spends 40 years in hell because of it, while Sam spends that 4-month period [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] and becomes addicted to [[PsychoSerum demon blood]]); he accidentally starts the apocalypse trying to stop it, and then in season five [[spoiler:finds out he's the vessel for Lucifer and that he was destined to be the AntiChrist]]; at the end of season five, [[spoiler:he sacrificed himself to lock Lucifer away, knowing he'd be tortured by Archangels Lucifer and Michael for averting the Apocalypse]]; and as of season seven [[spoiler:had some version of schizophrenia/mental illness due to nearly two centuries of torture in which his soul was effectively flayed and then pushed back into him after centuries of mutilation done to it]]. Conclusion: It's not fun to be a Winchester.
** Not to be left out, the Winchesters' angel ally, Castiel, has been through it. He was always a rebellious angel and even before rescuing Dean from Hell, [[spoiler: has been subject to torturous angel deprogramming.]] When he does meet Dean and Sam, he begins to question whether or not his superiors are in the right and when he's about to reveal their evil plans to Dean, he's captured and [[spoiler: tortured into submission yet again.]] Dean eventually convinces him to betray heaven and try and stop the apocalypse, is gruesomely killed in the process. God brings him back, but he's cut off from Heaven, resulting in him becoming a FallenAngel and losing much of his power. He searches for God, only to find out God has abandoned them. Then, he dies again while helping Dean and Sam put Lucifer and Michael in the cage. He's resurrected more powerful than ever, but he must fight a lonely war in Heaven, which the Winchesters are frankly dismissive of, to try and prevent Raphael from restarting the apocalypse. He succeeds but gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide, [[spoiler: kills his friend Balthazar, destroys Sam's sanity, and goes power-mad. He then goes on a smiting spree, resulting in thousands of deaths and he releases the Leviathans into the world. Only a series of extreme measures of atonement, including dying yet again, being resurrected and becoming a healer, absorbing Sam's memories and going insane, killing Dick Roman, ending up in Purgatory, being brainwashed and breaking the programming and having his grace ripped out and becoming human for a time allows him to be forgiven.]] Finally, years later, he admits [[spoiler: he's done all of this because he's in love with Dean, who doesn't have time to respond before watching Castiel be dragged to The Empty, which is angels' version of hell.]]
When Sam's murdered, Dean sells his soul to bring him back (and spends 40 years in hell because of it, while Sam spends that 4-month period [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] and becomes addicted to [[PsychoSerum demon blood]]); he accidentally starts the apocalypse trying to stop it, and then in season five [[spoiler:finds out he's the vessel for Lucifer and that he was destined to be the AntiChrist]]; at the end of season five, [[spoiler:he sacrificed himself to lock Lucifer away, knowing he'd be tortured by Archangels Lucifer and Michael for averting the Apocalypse]]; and as of season seven [[spoiler:had some version of schizophrenia/mental illness due to nearly two centuries of torture in which his soul was effectively flayed and then pushed back into him after centuries of mutilation done to it]]. Conclusion: It's not fun to be a Winchester.
** Not to be left out, the Winchesters' angel ally, Castiel, has been through it. He was always a rebellious angel and even before rescuing Dean from Hell, [[spoiler: has been subject to torturous angel deprogramming.]] When he does meet Dean and Sam, he begins to question whether or not his superiors are in the right and when he's about to reveal their evil plans to Dean, he's captured and [[spoiler: tortured into submission yet again.]] Dean eventually convinces him to betray heaven and try and stop the apocalypse, is gruesomely killed in the process. God brings him back, but he's cut off from Heaven, resulting in him becoming a FallenAngel and losing much of his power. He searches for God, only to find out God has abandoned them. Then, he dies again while helping Dean and Sam put Lucifer and Michael in the cage. He's resurrected more powerful than ever, but he must fight a lonely war in Heaven, which the Winchesters are frankly dismissive of, to try and prevent Raphael from restarting the apocalypse. He succeeds but gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide, [[spoiler: kills his friend Balthazar, destroys Sam's sanity, and goes power-mad. He then goes on a smiting spree, resulting in thousands of deaths and he releases the Leviathans into the world. Only a series of extreme measures of atonement, including dying yet again, being resurrected and becoming a healer, absorbing Sam's memories and going insane, killing Dick Roman, ending up in Purgatory, being brainwashed and breaking the programming and having his grace ripped out and becoming human for a time allows him to be forgiven.]] Finally, years later, he admits [[spoiler: he's done all of this because he's in love with Dean, who doesn't have time to respond before watching Castiel be dragged to The Empty, which is angels' version of hell.]]
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** Sam went through life fearing he was some kind of freak, and then it turned out he [[DarkSide really]] ''was''. His fiance-girlfriend dies at the very beginning of the series; every other woman he has ever gotten close to has died a horrible death or betrayed him, leading him to be emotionally scarred and introverted; he never lived up to the expectations of his family; was constantly denied the chance to live a normal life because of [[CorruptTheCutie demons]]; was forced into hunting and the family lifestyle; his dad disowned him ''for going to college''; his father ''told his brother to kill him''; he's apparently an abomination of God because his mother made a deal to sell him to a demon when he was born; he never got to know said mother as she died when he was a baby ''because of him''.
him''. When Sam's murdered, Dean sells his soul to bring him back (and spends 40 years in hell because of it, while Sam spends that 4-month period [[DeathSeeker suicidal]] and becomes addicted to [[PsychoSerum demon blood]]); he accidentally starts the apocalypse trying to stop it, and then in season five [[spoiler:finds out he's the vessel for Lucifer and that he was destined to be the AntiChrist]]; at the end of season five, [[spoiler:he sacrificed himself to lock Lucifer away, knowing he'd be tortured by Archangels Lucifer and Michael for averting the Apocalypse]]; and as of season seven [[spoiler:had some version of schizophrenia/mental illness due to nearly two centuries of torture in which his soul was effectively flayed and then pushed back into him after centuries of mutilation done to it]]. Conclusion: It's not fun to be a Winchester.
** Not to be left out, the Winchesters' angel ally, Castiel, has been through it. He was always a rebellious angel and even before rescuing Dean from Hell, [[spoiler: has been subject to torturous angel deprogramming.]] When he does meet Dean and Sam, he begins to question whether or not his superiors are in the right and when he's about to reveal their evil plans to Dean, he's captured and [[spoiler: tortured into submission yet again.]] Dean eventually convinces him to betray heaven and try and stop the apocalypse, and he is gruesomely killed in the process. God brings him back, but he's cut off from Heaven, resulting in him becoming a FallenAngel and losing much of his power. He searches for God, only to find out God has abandoned them. Then, he dies again while helping Dean and Sam put Lucifer and Michael in the cage. He's resurrected more powerful than ever, but he must fight a lonely war in Heaven, which the Winchesters are frankly dismissive of, to try and prevent Raphael from restarting the apocalypse. He succeeds but gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide, [[spoiler: kills his friend Balthazar, destroys Sam's sanity, and goes power-mad. He then goes on a smiting spree, resulting in thousands of deaths and he releases the Leviathans into the world. Only a series of extreme measures of atonement, including dying yet again, being resurrected and becoming a healer, absorbing Sam's memories and going insane, killing Dick Roman, ending up in Purgatory, being brainwashed and breaking the programming and having his grace ripped out and becoming human for a time allows him to be forgiven.]] Finally, years later, he admits [[spoiler: he's done all of this because he's in love with Dean, who doesn't have time to respond before watching Castiel be dragged to The Empty, which is angels' version of hell.]]
** Not to be left out, the Winchesters' angel ally, Castiel, has been through it. He was always a rebellious angel and even before rescuing Dean from Hell, [[spoiler: has been subject to torturous angel deprogramming.]] When he does meet Dean and Sam, he begins to question whether or not his superiors are in the right and when he's about to reveal their evil plans to Dean, he's captured and [[spoiler: tortured into submission yet again.]] Dean eventually convinces him to betray heaven and try and stop the apocalypse, and he is gruesomely killed in the process. God brings him back, but he's cut off from Heaven, resulting in him becoming a FallenAngel and losing much of his power. He searches for God, only to find out God has abandoned them. Then, he dies again while helping Dean and Sam put Lucifer and Michael in the cage. He's resurrected more powerful than ever, but he must fight a lonely war in Heaven, which the Winchesters are frankly dismissive of, to try and prevent Raphael from restarting the apocalypse. He succeeds but gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide, [[spoiler: kills his friend Balthazar, destroys Sam's sanity, and goes power-mad. He then goes on a smiting spree, resulting in thousands of deaths and he releases the Leviathans into the world. Only a series of extreme measures of atonement, including dying yet again, being resurrected and becoming a healer, absorbing Sam's memories and going insane, killing Dick Roman, ending up in Purgatory, being brainwashed and breaking the programming and having his grace ripped out and becoming human for a time allows him to be forgiven.]] Finally, years later, he admits [[spoiler: he's done all of this because he's in love with Dean, who doesn't have time to respond before watching Castiel be dragged to The Empty, which is angels' version of hell.]]
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** Dean just keeps getting hit by more and more tragedies and still has to stumble to get up and go on. Let's recap shall we? First off, his mother dies when he's a kid, leaving him to be dragged across the country in pursuit of {{revenge}}, then [[DisappearedDad his father goes missing]], so he has to team-up with his estranged brother to find him; next his father dies [[DealWithTheDevil exchanging his soul for Dean's]] leaving him with horrific SurvivorGuilt; his brother dies, leaving Dean to make ''another'' DealWithTheDevil and 1 year to live (being constantly tormented by his upcoming damnation); next he is ripped to shreds by hell-hounds and spends 40 years equivalent in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]].\\
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Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside.
** Sam went through life fearing he was some kind of freak, and then it turned out he [[DarkSide really]] ''was''. His fiance-girlfriend dies at the very beginning of the series; every other woman he has ever gotten close to has died a horrible death or betrayed him, leading him to be emotionally scarred and introverted; he never lived up to the expectations of his family; was constantly denied the chance to live a normal life because of [[CorruptTheCutie demons]]; was forced into hunting and the family lifestyle; his dad disowned him ''for going to college''; his father ''told his brother to kill him''; he's apparently an abomination of God because his mother made a deal to sell him to a demon when he was born; he never got to know said mother as she died when he was a baby ''because of him''.\\
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Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside.
** Sam went through life fearing he was some kind of freak, and then it turned out he [[DarkSide really]] ''was''. His fiance-girlfriend dies at the very beginning of the series; every other woman he has ever gotten close to has died a horrible death or betrayed him, leading him to be emotionally scarred and introverted; he never lived up to the expectations of his family; was constantly denied the chance to live a normal life because of [[CorruptTheCutie demons]]; was forced into hunting and the family lifestyle; his dad disowned him ''for going to college''; his father ''told his brother to kill him''; he's apparently an abomination of God because his mother made a deal to sell him to a demon when he was born; he never got to know said mother as she died when he was a baby ''because of him''.\\
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** Dean just keeps getting hit by more and more tragedies and still has to stumble to get up and go on. Let's recap shall we? First off, his mother dies when he's a kid, leaving him to be dragged across the country in pursuit of {{revenge}}, then [[DisappearedDad his father goes missing]], so he has to team-up with his estranged brother to find him; next his father dies [[DealWithTheDevil exchanging his soul for Dean's]] leaving him with horrific SurvivorGuilt; his brother dies, leaving Dean to make ''another'' DealWithTheDevil and 1 year to live (being constantly tormented by his upcoming damnation); next he is ripped to shreds by hell-hounds and spends 40 years equivalent in [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]].\\
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Then he is resurrected by [[LightIsNotGood angels]] to [[DestructiveSavior serve their purpose]], constantly being haunted by the memories of his [[ColdBloodedTorture soul-destroying torture]] with ''more'' guilt pertaining to the fact that he broke the first seal for the Apocalypse; next he tries to handle his brother becoming a junkie addicted to demon blood; and finally he fails to ''stop'' his brother setting off the [[ApocalypseHow apocalypse]], resulting in him spending the 5th season hunting down the four horsemen of the apocalypse and [[spoiler:trying to put Lucifer back in his cage, so far losing hope that he agrees to let Michael possess him to defeat Lucifer even though that will raze the world. His brother's faith makes him take it back, but then Dean loses his brother ''again'']]. Also, his childhood was filled with neglect and emotional abuse. Natch. It's no wonder Famine told him that he was dead and empty inside.
** Sam went through life fearing he was some kind of freak, and then it turned out he [[DarkSide really]] ''was''. His fiance-girlfriend dies at the very beginning of the series; every other woman he has ever gotten close to has died a horrible death or betrayed him, leading him to be emotionally scarred and introverted; he never lived up to the expectations of his family; was constantly denied the chance to live a normal life because of [[CorruptTheCutie demons]]; was forced into hunting and the family lifestyle; his dad disowned him ''for going to college''; his father ''told his brother to kill him''; he's apparently an abomination of God because his mother made a deal to sell him to a demon when he was born; he never got to know said mother as she died when he was a baby ''because of him''.\\
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** Sam went through life fearing he was some kind of freak, and then it turned out he [[DarkSide really]] ''was''. His fiance-girlfriend dies at the very beginning of the series; every other woman he has ever gotten close to has died a horrible death or betrayed him, leading him to be emotionally scarred and introverted; he never lived up to the expectations of his family; was constantly denied the chance to live a normal life because of [[CorruptTheCutie demons]]; was forced into hunting and the family lifestyle; his dad disowned him ''for going to college''; his father ''told his brother to kill him''; he's apparently an abomination of God because his mother made a deal to sell him to a demon when he was born; he never got to know said mother as she died when he was a baby ''because of him''.
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** Not to be left out, the Winchesters' angel ally, Castiel, has been through it. He was always a rebellious angel and even before rescuing Dean from Hell, [[spoiler: has been subject to torturous angel deprogramming.]] When he does meet Dean and Sam, he begins to question whether or not his superiors are in the right and when he's about to reveal their evil plans to Dean, he's captured and [[spoiler: tortured into submission yet again.]] Dean eventually convinces him to betray heaven and try and stop the apocalypse, is gruesomely killed in the process. God brings him back, but he's cut off from Heaven, resulting in him becoming a FallenAngel and losing much of his power. He searches for God, only to find out God has abandoned them. Then, he dies again while helping Dean and Sam put Lucifer and Michael in the cage. He's resurrected more powerful than ever, but he must fight a lonely war in Heaven, which the Winchesters are frankly dismissive of, to try and prevent Raphael from restarting the apocalypse. He succeeds but gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide, [[spoiler: kills his friend Balthazar, destroys Sam's sanity, and goes power-mad. He then goes on a smiting spree, resulting in thousands of deaths and he releases the Leviathans into the world. Only a series of extreme measures of atonement, including dying yet again, being resurrected and becoming a healer, absorbing Sam's memories and going insane, killing Dick Roman, ending up in Purgatory, being brainwashed and breaking the programming and having his grace ripped out and becoming human for a time allows him to be forgiven.]] Finally, years later, he admits [[spoiler: he's done all of this because he's in love with Dean, who doesn't have time to respond before watching Castiel be dragged to The Empty, which is angels' version of hell.]]
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* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': This is naturally a part of the series. June is fired, stripped of rights, has to flee along with her family, separated from her husband, then her daughter, ritually raped each month, escapes, gets captured again etc. Of course this also goes for other characters as well, like Luke and her fellow Handmaids.
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* ''Series/CobraKai'': The end of season 2 is one for Johnny. First, the rivalry between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-do, which he was to some extent responsible for fuelling, breaks out into an outright war on the first day of school with multiple injuries on either side. His estranged biological son, Robby, whom he has spent the entire season reaching out to and almost succeeded in building a budding relationship with, throws his prize pupil Miguel off a balcony and leaves him in a coma with a broken spine, and is now on the run from the law. Then Johnny's girlfriend, Miguel's mother, blames him for her son's injuries and cuts him off. Then his students also blame him for Miguel's injuries, saying Johnny weakened Miguel by teaching him "honor", and abandon him in favor of his EvilMentor, John Kreese. In one fell swoop, Johnny has lost his job, his girlfriend, his students, his son and his self-respect, everything he spent two seasons building.
** Daniel doesn't have it that much better. With his daughter Sam also being treated to the hospital, [[WhatTheHellHero his wife gets it through his head that he's just as responsible for the whole conflict and should stop teaching Miyagi-Do]]. All he can do now is apologize to a portrait of his beloved teacher for being an InadequateInheritor, leaving him just about as powerless to stop Kreese.
** Daniel doesn't have it that much better. With his daughter Sam also being treated to the hospital, [[WhatTheHellHero his wife gets it through his head that he's just as responsible for the whole conflict and should stop teaching Miyagi-Do]]. All he can do now is apologize to a portrait of his beloved teacher for being an InadequateInheritor, leaving him just about as powerless to stop Kreese.
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* ''Series/CobraKai'': The end of season 2 is one for Johnny. Johnny Lawrence. First, the rivalry between Cobra Kai and Miyagi-do, which he was to some extent responsible for fuelling, fueling, breaks out into an outright karate war on the first day of school with multiple injuries on either side. His estranged biological son, Robby, whom he has spent the entire season reaching out to and almost succeeded in building a budding relationship with, throws his prize pupil Miguel Diaz off a balcony and leaves him in a coma with a broken spine, and is now on the run from the law. Then Johnny's girlfriend, Miguel's mother, blames him for her son's injuries and cuts him off. Then his students also blame him for Miguel's injuries, saying Johnny weakened Miguel by teaching him "honor", and abandon him in favor of his EvilMentor, John Kreese. In one fell swoop, Johnny has lost his job, his girlfriend, his students, his son and his self-respect, everything he spent two seasons building.
** Daniel [=LaRusso=] doesn't have it that much better. With his daughterSam Samantha also being treated to the hospital, hospitalized for broken ribs and lacerations as a result of her fight with Tory Nichols, [[WhatTheHellHero his wife gets it through his head that he's just as responsible for the whole conflict and should stop teaching Miyagi-Do]]. All he can do now is apologize to a portrait of his beloved teacher for being an InadequateInheritor, leaving him just about as powerless to stop Kreese.
** Daniel [=LaRusso=] doesn't have it that much better. With his daughter
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** More than once, JD has wryly noted that sometimes the hospital doesn't space out tragedies and disasters so that the doctors have time to pull themselves together after each one--sometimes it just piles the suckitude on until you can't take it anymore (for example, "My Lunch").
* Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in ''Series/StElsewhere''. Let's see. His wife dies, his son gets kidnapped (though later returned), he gets raped while volunteering in a prison infirmary, the rapist breaks out of prison and comes after him, his girlfriend aborts his baby over his objections...when does anything go right for Boomer?
* Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in ''Series/StElsewhere''. Let's see. His wife dies, his son gets kidnapped (though later returned), he gets raped while volunteering in a prison infirmary, the rapist breaks out of prison and comes after him, his girlfriend aborts his baby over his objections...when does anything go right for Boomer?
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** More than once, JD has wryly noted that sometimes the hospital doesn't space out tragedies and disasters so that the doctors have time to pull themselves together after each one--sometimes one -- sometimes it just piles the suckitude on until you can't take it anymore (for example, "My Lunch").
* Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in ''Series/StElsewhere''. Let's see. His wife dies, his son gets kidnapped (though later returned), he gets raped while volunteering in a prison infirmary, the rapist breaks out of prison and comes after him, his girlfriend aborts his baby over his objections... when does anything go right for Boomer?
* Dr. Jack "Boomer" Morrison in ''Series/StElsewhere''. Let's see. His wife dies, his son gets kidnapped (though later returned), he gets raped while volunteering in a prison infirmary, the rapist breaks out of prison and comes after him, his girlfriend aborts his baby over his objections... when does anything go right for Boomer?
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** Randy Wagstaff in Season 4, who is only 13 to 14 years old. He confesses to knowing about a murder to his school principal to avoid getting in trouble and the drug kingpin in the streets, Marlo Stanfield, finds out about it and decides to ruin his life and puts out the word that he's a snitch. Everyone avoids Randy or beats him. Then in the WhamEpisode, his house is firebombed, his foster mother brutally burned, and despite all the help of a police sergeant, he is sent to a foster home where other kids, knowing he's a snitch, beat him daily.
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** Randy Wagstaff in Season 4, who is only 13 to 14 years old.14-years-old. He confesses to knowing about a murder to his school principal to avoid getting in trouble and the drug kingpin in the streets, Marlo Stanfield, finds out about it and decides to ruin his life and puts out the word that he's a snitch. Everyone avoids Randy or beats him. Then in the WhamEpisode, his house is firebombed, his foster mother brutally burned, and despite all the help of a police sergeant, he is sent to a foster home where other kids, knowing he's a snitch, beat him daily.
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Jack Bauer is a Type E. While he put up with a lot of crap in the first season (including the kidnapping of his wife and daughter, the police chasing him, duplicitous co-workers and obstructive bureaucrats), he arguably triumphed...until the final minutes of the season finale, when he finds his (pregnant, unbeknownst to him) wife tied up and gutshot in the CTU server room. From that point on, ''Series/TwentyFour'' becomes "The Tragedy of Jack Bauer"--over the course of the series, most of his friends have died (Season 5 could unofficially be called "Let's Kill Jack Bauer's Support Network"), he's been tortured multiple times, gets little respect from government agencies because he's perceived as a loose cannon and generally has to go on the run at the end of most seasons because of the circumstances leveled on him. At the end of the series, he's almost executed and forced to flee the country, beaten and battered, with his new love interest dead.
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Jack Bauer is a Type E. While he put up with a lot of crap in the first season (including the kidnapping of his wife and daughter, the police chasing him, duplicitous co-workers and obstructive bureaucrats), he arguably triumphed...until the final minutes of the season finale, when he finds his (pregnant, unbeknownst to him) wife tied up and gutshot in the CTU server room. From that point on, ''Series/TwentyFour'' becomes "The Tragedy of Jack Bauer"--over the course of the series, most of his friends have died (Season 5 could unofficially be called "Let's Kill Jack Bauer's Support Network"), he's been tortured multiple times, gets little respect from government agencies because he's perceived as a loose cannon and generally has to go on the run at the end of most seasons because of the circumstances leveled on him. At the end of the series, he's almost executed and forced to flee the country, beaten and battered, with his new love interest dead.
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* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Jack Bauer The titular Kimmy of ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt''. She has a [[ParentalNeglect hot mess of a mother]] and a DisappearedDad. As an eighth grader, she gets kidnapped and is brainwashed to believe that the apocalypse has occurred and stays hidden in a Type E. While he put up with a lot of crap bunker for the next fifteen years. Once she is rescued, she has to learn to make her way in the first season (including the kidnapping of his wife and daughter, the police chasing him, duplicitous co-workers and obstructive bureaucrats), he arguably triumphed...until the final minutes of the season finale, world as a functioning adult when he finds his (pregnant, unbeknownst to him) wife tied up and gutshot in she hasn't had the CTU server room. From that point on, ''Series/TwentyFour'' becomes "The Tragedy opportunity to emotionally develop properly since she was thirteen. All of Jack Bauer"--over the course of the series, most of his friends have died (Season 5 could unofficially be called "Let's Kill Jack Bauer's Support Network"), he's been tortured multiple times, gets little respect from government agencies because he's perceived as a loose cannon and generally has this leads Kimmy to go on the run at the end of most seasons because of the circumstances leveled on him. At the end of the series, he's almost executed and forced to flee the country, beaten and battered, StepfordSmiler tendencies so she can cope with his new love interest dead.her trauma.
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** Chuck as well. Her father is accidentally killed by Ned when conjures his own recently deceased mother BackFromTheDead as a child. She has to move away from Ned and her old home to go live with her agoraphobic aunts. Tired of the SmallSecludedWorld of her aunts' house, she decides to take an adventure by going on a cruise... and gets murdered while on the trip. She gets revived by Ned, but this means she can't touch him (which is a difficult situation when you're in a ChildhoodFriendRomance together), she can't reveal her real identity to anyone outside of Ned and Emerson, and she can't be seen by her aunts, who still grieve her and keep in contact with the rest of the cast.
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** Chuck as well. Her father is accidentally killed by Ned when he conjures his own recently deceased mother BackFromTheDead as a child. She has to move away from Ned and her old home to go live with her agoraphobic aunts. Tired of the SmallSecludedWorld of her aunts' house, she decides to take an adventure by going on a cruise... and gets murdered while on the trip. She gets revived by Ned, but this means she can't touch him (which is a difficult situation when you're in a ChildhoodFriendRomance together), she can't reveal her real identity to anyone outside of Ned and Emerson, and she can't be seen by her aunts, who still grieve her and keep in contact with the rest of the cast.
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** Chuck as well. Her father is accidentally killed by Ned when conjures his own recently deceased mother BackFromTheDead as a child. She has to move away from Ned and her old home to go live with her agoraphobic aunts. Tired of the SmallSecludedWorld of her aunts' house, she decides to take an adventure by going on a cruise... and gets murdered while on the trip. She gets revived by Ned, but this means she can't touch him (which is a difficult situation when you're in a ChildhoodFriendRomance together), she can't reveal her real identity to anyone outside of Ned and Emerson, and she can't be seen by her aunts, who still grieve her and keep in contact with the rest of the cast.
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** Olive's life could also count. She grew up a LonelyRichKid with two [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] parents. At one point as a child, [[spoiler: she is kidnapped by two thieves, and they treat her with more care than her parents ever did. Unfortunately, her parents find out and have the men arrested]]. Olive's [[spoiler: first career is as a jockey, but it goes horribly awry when a fellow jockey gets trampled to death during a race. Out of guilt, Olive quits her jockey career and]] ends up as a waitress at the Pie Hole. She falls in love with her boss, Ned, but it is an UnrequitedLove as Ned only has eyes for Chuck. Olive then has to watch the man she loves fall deeper in love with someone else for the rest of the series. Additionally, by season two she unwillingly becomes the series SecretKeeper, which stresses her out so much she has a HeroicBSOD and [[spoiler: joins a convent to escape her troubles. The reprieve is not for long though as a fellow nun gets murdered while she's there]], and she's saddled with even more secrets by the rest of the cast.
