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Mobile Suit Gundam 00

  • Louise Halevy falls into this trope after Nena Trinity obliterates her family at a wedding, leaving the girl without her left hand and completely distraught. Starting with the second season, she joins the A-Laws, the secret police of the Federation, as she tries to get revenge on Celestial Being for the murders of her family. She finally finds the said murderer and gets her revenge, but it only serves to BREAK her further. She didn't find any satisfaction, she didn't find any praises from her dead parents from avenging them, and she has become a murderer, just like the murdered. She got better, eventually.
  • Arguably Nena Trinity fulfills this category herself once we learn her and her brothers' backstories. The Trinity siblings are Artificial Humans only born and raised to be Gundam Meisters, and the DNA used to "create" them is... Ribbons Almark's own. And their "daddy" ultimately sets them up to kill them. While it's not an excuse, nor does it exonerate Nena from her actions, it does explain a lot, specially considering that the only persons they cared for were each other, and their mutual love was very genuine.
  • The other Gundam pilots also get quite broken. Examples?
    • Setsuna F. Seiei murders his family as part of a requirement to fight for God. Too bad the person who told him to do it really wasn't a messenger from God, and just got his kicks from killing people, something Setsuna finds out quite crappily when he finds this same person serving as a commander in an unrelated PMC.
      • Lockon Stratos (The first one) starts out as a cute kid who's life is torn apart when his family is killed in a terrorist attack perpetrated by someone who turns out to be one of one of Setsuna's True Companions. And then he dies, left as a wreck of a man who gave hope and help to others, but was himself consumed by his desire for revenge, and he actively refused to meet the only relative he had left: his twin younger brother.
      • The second Lockon (and said twin brother) didn't have it much better. He tried to get over his own revenge desire, but had to deal with his teammates distrusting him at first and comparing him to the first one for a while. And then his girlfriend turned out to be a Manchurian Agent, and when he was THIS close to subvert her brainwashing... she got brainwashed AGAIN, and Setsuna has to Shoot the Dog. He almost breaks.

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