Line #14 FreudianExcuse/NewMedia


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7	{{Freudian Excuse}}s in NewMedia.
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10	* The AffablyEvil WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses apparently had an awful childhood, with being sexually abused by a doctor and losing his virginity to a gym teacher. And while they're not ''evil'' (more like a CuteAndPsycho and PsychopathicManchild, respectively), WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic both have a lot of issues from bad things happening to them too. This is all PlayedForLaughs, naturally.
11	* The ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article [[http://www.cracked.com/article_24760_how-historys-bad-guys-got-to-be-that-way.html "5 Famous Historical Bad Guys (And Their Side of the Story)"]], which based on the url may have been called "How History's Bad Guys Got to Be That Way" previously. You can't put real life examples in "bad guy" tropes, but here it's the article ''saying'' they were bad guys, so whether you agree with it or not, it's clear the article is doing this trope.
12	** The Koch brothers were raised by a literal Nazi nurse and a [[SocialDarwinism Social Darwinist]] father who made them fight each other.
13	** Wayne Wheeler was a major force behind the Prohibition, inspired by being mildly injured by a drunk person when he was little.
14	** Kaiser Wilhelm's crippled arm and terrible mother made him a total jerk.
15	** George Wallace became a total racist after losing an election by not being racist.
16	** Joseph Stalin basically declared war against all mankind after his girlfriend died.
17	* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
18	** Daigo received physical, racist, and biphobic abuse from his [[AbusiveParents father and step-mother]]. Then, when his step-mother passed away, his father blamed him for it. It's not hard to see why he would fall down a dark path as a result, though it doesn't excuse his murderous actions.
19	** The horrible trauma that Jessica's mother was put through (having her boyfriend and parents killed in a botched burglary), and the ensuing responsibility that was put onto Jessica's shoulders, along with suddenly gaining purple skin as part of her superpower, paints a clear picture of why Jessica is such a jerk without excusing her from it.
20	* ''WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv'':
21	-->'''[[spoiler: Souichiro's ghost possessing]] Aizawa''' (to Light): Shut up! I knew I shouldn't have pushed your mother down the stairs while she was pregnant with you!
22	** Also Mikami:
23	--->'''Narrator:''' Mikami grew up in an abusive household. His father was a professional badger wrestler too busy on the road to come home. His mother had a rare disease [[OffModel that left her with no eyes or upper face]] and she drank ''to excess''... And now your mother's dead. She died while you were still in school and it scarred you FOR LIFE!
24	* Parodied in the ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged: The Christmas Tree of Might'': Turles hates Christmas because Santa never visited Planet Vegeta, and so their only holiday was [[EarthShatteringKaboom Freeza Day]]. Also his henchmen all did horrible things, including dropping a whole truck of coal on a naughty child's house and [[BlackComedyRape raping Rudolph]].
25	* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Killer Monster spent 10,000 years in what is pretty much Hell, which made him insane and bloodthirsty.
26	* ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'''s Tom and Zack:
27	** Tom tries to be better than his [[spoiler: younger]] brother, who was superior to him in every way since they were kids. [[spoiler: As you might expect, this doesn't justify why he picks on Zack]].
28	** Zack's father dictates his life, so he's never had to make a decision before. That's why, when he begins working with Dana and Tom, he acts like a ManChild.
29	* Website/GaiaOnline's current BigBad [[spoiler:was neglected by his "father", Johnny K. Gambino, in favor of his natural son Gino. This led him to found his own MadScientist corporation, [=NeXus=], to study the Animated and eventually use them to try and take over the world.]]
30	* StalkerWithACrush Zaboo from ''WebVideo/TheGuild''. Dead father, [[EvilMatriarch Mother From Hell]], it's amazing he isn't more messed up than he is. Although he's pretty damn messed up.
31	* In ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut [=WWF=] No Mercy'', [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben Yahtzee Croshaw]] revealed that the very reason why he does not like pro wrestling was because when he was a kid, his friends had gotten into trading collectible [=WWF=] stickers and essentially alienated Yahtzee out of their social groups. His commentary partner Gabriel summed it up pretty nicely:
32	--> '''Gabriel''': WRESTLERS TOOK MY FRIENDS!
33	* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': If you had either [[RichBitch Shay's]] or [[AlphaBitch Mackenzie's]] [[ParentalNeglect family lives]], would ''you'' be the most pleasant people in the world?
34	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic mentions that part of the reason he dislikes ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' is that when he was younger (when the show was popular) a lot of people would tease him about it and constantly bring it up, saying "If you were named 'Doug', you were ALWAYS associated with this show."
35	* Unsurprisingly, this is implied to be the reason WebVideo/RedLetterMedia's [[VillainProtagonist Mr Plinkett]] is a mentally unstable kidnapper and murderer. He mentions attacking a doctor who asked about his "dear old mother", then we are shown a brief flashback of his mother telling him to "bury the bodies under the floorboards".
36	* ''Creator/SamAndMickey'': [[TheAlcoholic Barbie]]'s [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood childhood]] ''sucked'', thanks to her EvilMatriarch Margaret and DisappearedDad George.
37	-->'''Ken:''' What's the most traumatic memory for you?\
38	'''Barbie:''' My ''whole'' childhood!\
39	'''Ken:''' Be specific.
40	* Mariavel Varella, the primary villain of ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest v2'', has something of a FreudianExcuse to justify her actions. She was raped by her father as a child (although this may have since been the subject of a {{Retcon}}). However, what does remain Canon is the other abuse she suffered at the hands of her father - as well as him killing her brother.
41	* Steff in ''Literature/TalesOfMU'': "Don't you think I've earned a chance to be the one at the top of the shitheap for a while? Three more years and then nobody's going to fuck with me, ever again."
42	* We have this with [[http://tokiandcowiki.wikidot.com/wiki:toki Toki]], who, throughout numerous stories in which her backstory was mentioned, was noted to have been abused by her adopted mother, which lead to her seeing the world as she does (Toki was very naive at the time), giving her a [[BlueAndOrangeMorality fairly warped up sense of right and wrong]], and causing her to develop mental illnesses. Creator/{{Amoridere}} did note [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/art/Psychology-Notes-I-Freudian-Excuse-405214322 here]] that it doesn't justify her actions, rather, it ''explains'' them.
43	* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':
44	** Tristan asks Bakura why he is so evil, to which Bakura replies "Well, I guess my mummy didn't love me enough. Did you know she wanted to name me Florence? Who names a boy Florence?!"
45	** Marik was forced to undergo having markings burned into his backside as a child... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking as well as having to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua]]. He was a bit of a dick before then, though.

Context FreudianExcuse / NewMedia