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BattleMaster
Since: Feb, 2015
6th Feb, 2019 12:35:04 AM
Dark and Troubled Past or Freudian Excuse, depending on the severity of the character's behavior.
Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
6th Feb, 2019 06:55:27 PM
This also describes a huge cross-section of Anti Heroes and Hurting Heroes, particularly the Byronic Hero and '90s Anti-Hero
See Parental Issues for the many forms that part can take.
Edited by Scorpion451
Anyone got an idea of what the trope for a brooding antihero with mommy issues would be? Or just the brooding antihero with a troubled past?