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* ''[[Chirin no Suzu]]''. Chirin loses his mother the [[Big Badass Wolf|Wolf King]]. He spends the rest of the movie, corrupted by his own desire for revenge. Unfortunately, it doesn't end well.

* The main characters of ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' are an example of how truly tragic this trope can be.

* Fievel from ''[[An American Tail]]'', who suffers disappointment after disappointment as he searches for his family in New York, to the point where he completely gives up trying to search for his family and decides to become a [[Street Urchin]]. Cue [[Gray Rain of Depression]] as he [[Tear Jerker|curls up and cries himself to sleep]].

* In the same manner Littlefoot does the same thing in ''[[The Land Before Time]]'',suffering the death of his mother partially by his own doing,then completely separated from everyone else in his herd,then suffering nothing but disappointment from disappointment,eventually he gives up on finding the Great Valley. [[Deus Ex Machina|Luckily,]] [[Earn Your Happy Ending|that is exactly when his mother finally shows him the last steps to The Great Valley]].

* 5 from ''9'' is a very sweet and trusting character, but that doesn't stop him from getting abused. First he loses his eye. And then {{spoiler|his best friend is killed right in front of him}}. And then, right when it seems like everything is going to be all right, {{spoiler|he dies.}}

* Arguably, ''[[WALL-E]]''. Let's see, the main character gets rejected by his love, multiple times, and ends up risking his life to help her; said girl is called dysfunctional, is classified a rogue robot, and watches the robot she finally loves get squashed; and that's not counting the myriad of possibilities in the repair ward.

* James and Hilda Bloggs of ''[[When the Wind Blows]]'' are a nice retired British couple who could be your grandparents. They really don't understand the implications of surviving [[World War III]], so we're going to see them die of radiation poisoning, still believing that the Government will collect them.

* Simba of ''[[The Lion King]]'' was once a fun-loving and somewhat immature little lion cub who just couldn't wait to be king. The former pic for the trope page (which is now the pic for the [[Please Wake Up]] page) is of the poor kid trying to get his father, Mufasa, to [[Please Wake Up|wake up]] after his [[Complete Monster|evil bastard uncle Scar]] sent him off a cliff to be trampled to death by a wildebeest stampede that his hyenas set off in a dastardly scheme to take the throne of the Pride Lands for himself. And just for added [[Kick the Dog]] measure, the son of a bitch then makes Simba believe that ''he'' was responsible for his father's death before then encouraging him to leave the Pride Lands and never return, while at the same time sending his hyenas to kill him. It takes a number of years with Timon and Pumbaa, a reunion with his childhood sweetheart Nala, and a fateful meeting with the ghost of his father before he's finally ready to take back his home, and even then, it was only after learning the truth of who was responsible for Mufasa's death that he truly manages to turn things around emotionally.

* ''Bambi''. He loses his mother and has to live with someone who doesn't seem to care about him at all. He gets better.

* Happens to Mater in ''[[Cars 2]]'' after he discovers that everyone else views him as a clueless [[The Ditz|ditz]], good only at distracting others while ''real'' heroes get things done.