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* Marona of ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' gets broken, put together, then broken again throughout the game due to her ability to manifest ghosts, which everyone hates her for. Poor [[The Woobie|Marona]]...
** For instance, in Episode 2, {{spoiler|she is refused a reward for her monster hunting job because someone who openly admitted to being a professional job thief (who didn't really DO anything) pointed out to the client that she was possessed. Without proof.}} Yeah, [[All of the Other Reindeer|people don't like her]].
* Isaac Clarke, the protagonist of ''[[Dead Space (
** You can find even more breaking events in her bio, it seems his father abandoned him when he was young and his mother preferred to spend the money which could have been for his education in to buy a good position in the [[Church of Happyology|Church of Unitology]].
** In Dead Space 2, [[It Gets Worse|it obviously gets worse]], and Isaac pretty much confirms the above example in a short speech early on:
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* Reversed (not averted) with Leliana from ''Dragon Age'', although YMMV on this one. Introduced as a chirrupy religious type who's a wee bit bonkers but handy with a blade - then if you speak to her enough to raise her approval she eventually reveals that {{spoiler|her former mentor sold her out to save her own skin to the Orlesian guards, who tortured her mercilessly and she pretty much resigned to dying a traitor's death. Considering some of the implements seen in the Arl of Denerim's dungeons during Rescue the Queen, it's safe to assume that the execution would have been pretty agonising as well.}} In the DLC (only-just-canon), this breaks Leliana so thoroughly that she can barely summon the will to escape her cell, even {{spoiler|with a little help. It doesn't stop her going on a homicidal rampage after Raleigh though.}} By the time you reach her in DA:O, she's had two years to start pulling her life together; and even that hasn't healed everything.
** As if that isn't bad enough, her {{spoiler|former mentor}} comes after her again in an effort to cut off all loose ends, absolutely certain (and absolutely wrong) that Leliana is working towards revenge. This little side quest is all it takes to completely shatter the life that Leliana had pieced together for herself and send her back into her old ways, unless you convince her not to.
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** A computer program in {{spoiler|fetal-position}}? That can't be good... I mean, she (it?) is a freaking computer program. Maybe Gravemind messed with her (it?) core programs, AKA {{spoiler|raped her}}?
* Despite being a borderline [[Villain Protagonist]], Kane from ''[[Kane and Lynch]]'' goes through this after {{spoiler|his wife is shot in the eye right in front of him, not to say of ''either'' of the endings}} or {{spoiler|his son's death before the game even starts}}. By the time the sequel rolls around, he is a shell of himself, growing a [[Beard of Sorrow]] and generally looking glum. [[It Got Worse|Not that Shanghai gave him anything to smile about.]]
* In ''[[
* Imoen from ''[[
** {{spoiler|But ''then'' she finds out she's one of the Bhaalspawn, and then has to deal with her newfound murderous impulses (she tells the protagonist at one point that during the last battle she suddenly had the urge to tear out the bad guy's throat with her bare hands.)}} Needless to say, she's not so chipper or upbeat anymore. Although given that it's Imoen, that's relative to herself, not anyone else. As one character notes well after she's found all this out, she "reminds [him] considerably of a squirrel on a sugar high with a death wish."
** In the middle of the "Throne of Bhaal", your party will encounter a wraith that impersonates Gorion and chews your main character out. While your character can take it, they will target the NPC your character is romancing and will proceed to ''break'' them down, ''hard''. For example, if your character is romancing Aerie, the wraith {{spoiler|conjured an image of her Avariel mother, and then said image told her how she tried looking for her daughter, then was captured with much more brutal slavers and killed, then pinned the blame on Aerie, who caused her to fly down to the ground and get caught in the first place. It's a lie, of course, but that was enough to break her down into tears and sobbing.}}
** Aerie's background story in the first place: A sweet, innocent little winged girl is living happily with her parents in a wondrous city. She loves to fly, but one time she sees a group of humans being attacked by slavers on the ground. Her taught fear of earthborne creatures overcome by her empathy, she swoops down to rescue a fleeing child. However, she is shot down, captured, caged, sold into a circus, kept on display, and held in such a small space she has no room to move. Her precious wings become infected and are crudely chopped off to save her life, leaving her crippled both emotionally and physically, having lost her home, sense of identity and ability to fly.
* Ah ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'', where to start?
** How about {{spoiler|The sweet little girl who loved The Nameless One? Who was willing to do anything, anything at all for him? Even become a ghost inside a horrible, horrible place... Only, damn, the guy she loved had intended for her to die and become a ghost * as a way of spying on his adversary* and that was the reason he talked to her in the first place. When you meet Deionarra she's understandably very bitter about it. Gets even more heartbreaking if you are evil though.}}
** An odd example is the Night Hag Ravel, somehow proving that even someone so incredibly creepy can be a Woobie.
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** [[Mysterious Waif|Ninian]] and Nils, also from Fire Emblem 7, are no slouches in this either. {{spoiler|Children of a human druid and a female dragon who disappeared during the Scouring? Check. Had to pass through the Gate when Dad went missing too? Check. Missed home so much they jumped at the call when they were invoked, only to be trapped by the Black Fang whose leader is hinted to be ''their father''? Check. Had to run away for years, with the Black Fang on their heels? Check. Recaptured, befriended Eliwood's [[Disappeared Dad]] only to be partially guilty of his death? Check. Ninian falling for Eliwood but being unable to tell him because of her heritage? Check. Ninian being forced by Nergal to return to her dragon form, only to be slain by Eliwood? Check... Not to mention Nils' [[Heroic BSOD]] that comes soon after.}}
** Also averted with Lucius. Being orphaned at a young age, teased all his life for his feminine appearance, ''and'' mistreated by a teacher shaped him into... one of the most faithful and reverent characters in the entire ''game''. {{spoiler|When he meets the now-reformed killer of his father and he breaks down crying and begging for Lucius' forgiveness... he does.}}
** [[Fire Emblem Tellius
* Oichi in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', in her story mode (she didn't break in other stories). Starting out as an introverted woman with casual dark powers, she got a very sadistic son of a bitch for a brother that is [[Oda Nobunaga]], who tried to kill her, and then her husband [[Tsundere|Azai]] [[Love Freak|Nagamasa]] [[Taking the Bullet|takes a deadly shot from Nobunaga meant for her]]. And then he forcefully drafts her into his army and makes her do many killings in his name, careless if she feels really guilty on the mass murdering. [[Beware the Nice Ones|And she finally snaps, taken over with her evil side]] and kills her brother and his subordinates, all with a twisted [[Evil Laugh]]. She finally returns to her gentle self and cries over her atrocity, but even fate wants to ''break'' her. So, the ceiling in the temple where she killed her brother finally falls on her and the whole temple is completely consumed with fire, killing her.
* This happens to Sera, the cute and innocent [[Mysterious Waif]] of ''[[Shin Megami Tensei|Digital Devil Saga]]''. {{spoiler|Whilst undergoing a series of experiments designed to exploit her psychic powers to talk to "God", she slowly falls in love with the lead scientist. When she simultaneously discovers that he was actually a [[Magnificent Bastard]] using her for his own ends ''and'' witnesses the murder of the only person who genuinely ''did'' care for her}}, her resulting emotional backlash causes [[The End of the World
* This is basically what your character does, over and over again, to the remaining cast of ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' if you choose the evil path. Usually with [[Hilarity Ensues|hilariously morbid results]]. The exception to this is Tricia, whose breaking (or pre-breaking, as it is in the evil path) is not particularly hilarious in either storyline.
* Yukari Takeba and Mitsuru Kirijo in ''[[Persona 3]]''. Mitsuru falls into [[Heroic BSOD]] after {{spoiler|Chairman Ikutsuki murders her father right before her eyes}}.
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** She was broken even before that point, as Lisa was also experimented on with the Progenitor virus, breaking her mind to the point that she killed her own mother by ''tearing off her face'', believing she was an 'imposter'. Thirty years later when she finds her mother's remains, she moans 'mother' before grabbing her skull and leaping into a bottomless pit.
* From ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]: Shadows of Almia'', {{spoiler|Isaac is a surprisingly good example. He was [[Batman Gambit|tricked]] by [[The Dragon|Kincaid]], his teacher from Ranger school, into working for Team Dim Sun, thinking that they were the good guys. During his time there, [[Xanatos Gambit|he ''made the Miniremo units you have to fight against throughout the game'',]] as well as working on most of the Altru Tower's design. (It turned out that Kincaid was only teaching at the school to find the kind of genius that could do those things.) He was understandably hit hard when he found this out. To make matters worse, it was Kincaid who broke it to him, and not too kindly, either. A short [[Heroic BSOD]] ensues. [[It Gets Worse]], though--afterwards, his little sister Melody is kidnapped by Team Dim Sun and used as bait to get him to finish the machine.}} In the end, though, [[Angst? What Angst?|he seems to be just fine]].
* {{spoiler|Sakura}} from ''[[Fate/stay
* ''[[Iji]]'' does this to [[Action Girl|the titular character]], who somehow, despite [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|an increasing guilt complex]], [[Fetch Quest|hallucinations]], and [[Last of His Kind|one of the only two humans she knows isn't dead]], [[Plucky Girl|remains sane]]... {{spoiler|Until [[Arch Enemy|Asha]] [[Moral Event Horizon|kills Dan]], at which point she [[Heroic BSOD|throughly becomes Psych Ward material]] and [[Dead Person Conversation|convinces herself he's still alive]]}}. Thankfully, this event [[Multiple Endings|isn't set in stone]], in which case she remains sane. Ish.
* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'': {{spoiler|Aribeth.}} {{spoiler|Fenthick's death}} causes her to go from patriotic, god-loving Paladin to god-forswearing general of the [[
** The above, while certainly not a high point for the said character, is only the beginning. {{spoiler|Dread Queen Morag's sending false visions of her god abandoning her and the ensuing self-doubt/loathing is likely much more damaging to her already weakened psyche.}} So much for the Paladin's high will save...
*** And all of that doesn't even include all of the torments she underwent trying to rebel against Mephistopheles while in hell...
* Lili from ''Senko No Ronde'' is such a case. Apparently having been given to a laboratory by her family prior to the events of the game she still acts rather cute at first. She's shy, very insecure and easily scared... until she battles Ernula and it triggers something within her, causing a 180° turn in her personality and transforming her into an insane, blood-thirsty killing machine obsessed with beautifully destroying everything she can. As she gains an utterly evil look and an insane laughter she first starts by just beating up foes until she eventually resorts to even attacking her own comrades to satisfy her urge to destroy. She returns back to normal though when {{spoiler|Mika defeats her in combat and she dies}}.
* ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' series take it bad, [[
* [[Suikoden V]]. While the Godwins fail to break Lymsleia, the same can't be said of [[Genki Girl|Miakis]], given that {{spoiler|1=she's forced to watch as the Godwins use Lymsleia under threat of being stripped of her guardianship of her. When Lym refuses mourn her parents deaths (to deny the Godwins the satisfaction of seeing her cry), Miakis does so in her stead. She's eventually removed as Lym's guardian anyway, following her coronation and denied access to her; which causes Miakis to become increasingly despondent. Gizel finally orders her to aid Alenia in Doraat's defense; a calculated move to isolate Lymsleia from all support, aware Miakis would likely switch alliances and join Frey's army. But not before buying Alenia time to escape, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxuufS4-5kc resulting in this.]}} [[Tear Jerker|And we all cry with Miakis.]]
* ''[[
* The [[Final Fantasy VII
* ''[[
* In ''[[
** And let's not even start with Vivi. Finds out he's a prototype model of mindless magical soldiers, watches his own kind get killed or sacrificed like cannon fodder, and then learns that {{spoiler|all the black mages have a ''very'' short lifespan and his time could come any moment}}. No wonder he's [[The Woobie]].
*** It's also heavily implied that his "Grandfather" was planning on eating him.
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** As it turns out, Walter Sullivan, though at the time of ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'' his time as the Cutie is [[Serial Killer|already way gone by]].
* Gwen from ''[[Guild Wars]]'', you first meet her at the beginning of the first campaign ''Prophecies'' as a cute, cheerful and lovely little girl, soon after her (and yours too) [[Doomed Hometown|hometown is destroyed]] by the Charr and Gwen's fate is unknown, until years pass and you meet her again as a young woman in the expansion pack ''Eye of the North'', it is revealed that she was brutally tortured and enslaved by the Charr and she bitterly harbors hate and desire of revenge against them.
* ''[[
** Not to mention Genis Sage from ''[[
* {{spoiler|Schala}} from ''[[
* [[Knights of the Old Republic]] subjects Bastila and Mission to this treatment. Most of Bastila's occurred off-screen, while Mission's experiences having her home planet glassed and her brother, the only family she had left, revealed as a lying scumbag give her a much nastier temper than she had at the beginning.
** And yet, despite all of this, Mission is still one of the most pure hearted characters in the game, as is obvious in the scenes where {{spoiler|the player reveals that he is Revan}} and her attempt to bring you back to the Light if you go Dark near the end. She gets broken, but inevitably bounces back to her feet.
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' does this to several characters, most notably Roxas and Xion. Roxas is a curious case in that he's broken {{spoiler|posthumously}} and only to the player's point of view. He's established as a normal kid not unlike Sora who just has fun hanging out with his friends during summer until the Keyblade enters his life. Then ''358/2 Days'' came out, and it turns out {{spoiler|Roxas spent his entire life as the Organization's [[Unwitting Pawn]], and besides Axel and Xion no one cared about him and in fact they frequently insulted and abused him. That blissfully ignorant week where he had his memories erased and replaced with fake memories from Namine was the happiest time in his life--which by the way, was barely a year long.}}
** Ventus starts as an [[Adorkable]], cheerful little boy who "views every day as a new discovery". {{spoiler|By the end of Birth by Sleep, he's literally nothing but an [[Empty Shell]], and he was a [[Death Seeker]] for a brief period of time before that.}}
** Ienzo is introduced in [[Birth By Sleep]] shortly after his breaking, an adorable little boy lost and confused, not speaking out of depression and fear. [[From Nobody to Nightmare|To say he doesn't quite recover]] [[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|would be something]] [[Kingdom Hearts II
* Unbelievable as it may seem, [[Memetic Badass|Big Boss]] of ''[[Metal Gear]] [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|Solid 3]]'' counts as a broken cutie. He starts the game with an adorable, almost geeky personality (he's afraid of cheesy horror films), and the events of the game put him through the wringer. By the end he's angry enough to turn his back on his country and [[Unstoppable Rage|plunge the world into chaos]].
** Oh, Otacon. Otacon, Otacon, Otacon. He's an [[Adorkable]] nerd-boy who loves all things nerdy and Japanese, is enthusiastic about his work, and genuinely believes in people. {{spoiler|Also, he's a statutory rape victim, his father committed suicide, he's inadvertently responsible for the creation of one of the deadliest weapons mankind has ever known, his crush was shot, his long-lost sister was killed, his ''other'' crush was killed, and his [[Heterosexual Life Partner]]/[[Ho Yay|possible lover]], the ''only person who's ever stuck by him,'' is doomed to die of old age at forty-five.}} This series might as well be called ''Metal Gear Horrible Things Happen to Hal Emmerich.'' It's to the point where the ten years of happiness he gets {{spoiler|with Snake}} between ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' and ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' feels almost like a slap in the face--"We're giving you a break from your horrible life. Enjoy it while it lasts, 'cause it's not going to last long!"
** Speaking of ''MGS4'', this is revealed to be in the backstories of all the Beauty and the Beast unit girls after they are defeated. {{spoiler|One girl was forced to kill off her people [[Nightmare Fuel|while laughing]]. One accidentally smothered her own brother to keep him from crying after escaping a raid and then killed an entire refugee camp's worth of kids [[Mind Screw|while hallucinating that a wolf did it]]. One found herself among kids that were kidnapped, abused, then abandoned to be eaten by ravens, [[Because Destiny Says So|somehow]] ended up being cut free instead of raven food, and [[Unstoppable Rage|hunted down the soldiers responsible, innocents be damned]]. And the leader was the only one who didn't kill anybody before being turned into her B&B self, but it's not like she got off any better. She was forced to run for her life after her village got burned to the ground, eventually got herself locked in a torture chamber, and only survived through the horrible conditions and the screams of villagers by drinking dirty water and hallucinating about a mantis teaching her to block out sound and feed like it. Combine all that with their [[Ms. Fanservice|gratuitous good looks]], it's enough to make someone wish the ''Metal Gear''-verse were [[Apocalypse How|destroyed emphatically]].}}
* The traitor in ''[[Wing Commander (
* [[The Woobie|Poor Lucas]] from ''[[
** {{spoiler|After the three year time skip, things don't improve for the poor kid. If anything, [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]]. His father still goes out searching, the beloved [[Doomed Hometown|village]] slowly changes from a into a more modern town before being abandoned completely, it is revealed that everything he knows has been a elaborate lie to prevent another Armageddon, and that game's final [[Big Bad]]? His missing twin brother, now a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] cyborg.}}
** {{spoiler|A [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Cyborg who ''kills himself. [[Tear Jerker|In front of Lucas.]] '' And he doesn't even get to kill the real [[Big Bad]], who caused all this...}}
* Depending on the events of ''[[
* The plot of ''[[
* Merrill in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' has a lot of this in her backstory, and even more in-game, especially if you take the Rivalry path.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' isn't nice on anyone and nobody makes it through the series without marks (literally with Garrus, who loses half his face in his case), but following the themes of the series, they all learn to cope with it. Because there really is no coice. Some have it worse than others, though:
** While Liara takes the death of her estranged mother reasonably well, she is barely recognizable after Shepards return from the dead two years later. From a hopeful and socially akward scientists, she turns into a ruthless and occasionally mean leader of her very own spy ring [[Took a Level
** Kelly is probably the minor character for which Cutie is the most appropriate. In the third game you can find her again and she refuses to set foot on the Normandy due to PTSD, but she still manages helping refugees who had it as bad as her.
** And then there's Talitha, one of the few minor characters that you can comfort, and given the utter hell she's gone through -- {{spoiler|being captured from Shepard's village by Batarian slavers at the age of six after watching her parents burned alive and spending thirteen years as a slave during which she was abused severely}}
* City of Heroes Mission Architect Arch ID: 266877....title: The Most Important Thing.
* Pretty much ALL of the assistants in the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' games. From Maya, {{spoiler|who finds her sister murdered, is then accused of her murder, tasered, accused of another murder which is set up by her AUNT, kidnapped, involved in another murder where it's revealed the victim is her mother who's been missing for most of Maya's life}}, to Ema, Pearl and Trucy (forgive this troper, remembering just all of these deeds is a bit beyond her). It's just cruel.
** The trope is actually ''invoked'', by {{spoiler|Moe the clown}} (of all people!) in regards to {{spoiler|Regina, by bringing her to the trial of her father's killer. This seems rather harsh but part of the reason is so Regina can understand her role in the case and just plain grow up.}}
** {{spoiler|Yumihiko Ichiyanagi: Ace [[The Woobie|Woobie]].}}
* This may sound like a rather odd example, given his role and the system, but {{spoiler|Psaro}} of ''[[
* The asylum area in ''[[
** [[Cloudcuckoolander|Gloria]] {{spoiler|developed an abandonment complex after her mother sent her to a [[Boarding School of Horrors]] to turn her into a star - said mother's [[Bastard Boyfriend]] had promised to deliver letters between the two of them. [[Blatant Lies|Guess how that turned out]]. She could have gotten past that, since she did grow into a famous actress, but her mother became depressed, implied largely from their estrangement, and killed herself, causing Gloria to snap and sending her to the asylum for severe bipolar disorder}}.
** [[Butt Monkey|Fred]] {{spoiler|used to be one of the asylum orderlies and, from the looks of things, quite the [[Nice Guy]], who one fine day tried to cheer up a withdrawn patient by challenging him to his favorite board game. He was beaten repeatedly and developed a dominating [[Split Personality]] in the form of his ancestor [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], trying to knock him into shape for being a "loser". [[And I Must Scream|And he's completely aware of and horrified by his problem, but can't do anything about it, since Napoleon takes over any time he tries to help himself]]. When you find him, Dr. Loboto has appointed the patient who literally beat him at his own game as a fake orderly who stands off the the side mocking him from a distance as he watches him play the game against himself}}.
** [[Gentle Giant|Edgar]] {{spoiler|was his school's liked and respected wrestling team captain in his teens when he fell in love with a girl, <s> at once and a-most completely</s>. They were boyfriend and girlfriend for a while until she very abruptly dumped him for a [[Prince Charmless]] male cheerleader, which caused him to completely lose focus and cost him an important match. The whole school turned on him for it, and he made a shift in attitude from [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|apparent Manly Man to obvious Sensitive Guy]], became isolated, and switched hobbies to painting, also ruined when at some point he became obsessive-compulsive and couldn't make himself paint anything but bullfights as a metaphor for his high school blues}}. [[Berserk Button|Conscious anger management issues]] possibly unrelated or part of the package.
* {{spoiler|MB}} in Metroid: Other M. O boy, was she broken. Hint: {{spoiler|It set up the events of the game}}.
* A variation of this in [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]] involves breaking a large group of lovable characters called the Gorons. A peaceful, friendly group, they just want to live in peace and harvest their crops, but are content to welcome outsiders as well. However, when [[Complete Monster|Ganondorf]] shows up and demands they turn over their spiritual stone, they refuse to do it and he punishes them by sealing off their primary food source. Later in the game, when Ganondorf takes over, he has several Gorons locked up in cages in the Fire Temple, and is going to feed them to a dragon as a warning to those who might oppose him. Once you get to the Fire Temple, you see the Gorons trembling in their cells, evidently terrified, begging for mercy, and not being given any. This is arguably the most likely candidate for [[Moral Event Horizon]] on Ganondorf's part in the entire game.
** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And then you get to march in there, save each and every one of them, and literally smash the dragon's head in with a shiny new hammer.]]
* Ezio Auditore in ''[[
** Also, {{spoiler|his girlfriend Cristina}} was shown to be killed in Assassins Creed Brotherhood in one of the flash-back missions.
* Almost every, single, girl in [[
** In [[Cute Monster Girl|Mak]][[Ms. Fanservice|oto]]'s notoriously nightmarish [[Bad End]], Relius does this via prolonged and precision-guided [[Mind Rape]]. Makoto apparently [[Your Soul Is Mine|does not survive the experience]].
** On the male end of the spectrum, there is Carl Clover, who witnessed his sister being turned into a machine by his father, and was scarred for life.
** Ragna went through this in his backstory. He loses his home, his foster mother, his sister, his brother to insanity, and his
** Litchi went for two tiers. The reveal that the corruption was getting to her in a quick succession that she could effortlessly beat down Tager shocks her, but on the reveal that Kokonoe just plain refused to help her drove her further to the deep end, now knowing that the only one she could think of to help just plain refused her and left her to slowly wither and die. And then, the rest is taken care of by Hazama. {{spoiler|Her rant towards Rachel after signing up to NOL shows just how broken she is and is trying the best to keep herself together with just no one to help... and Rachel's response and reprimanding, practically saying what the [[Hate Dumb]] perceive about her that she's just plain obsessed and selfish, ''did not help'' at all...}}
* Rose. Poor, poor, Rose. She gets to meet her [[Alan Wake|hero]], and then she gets [[Mind Rape|mind raped]] by the [[Big Bad]].
* [[Lux
* Poor Guybrush Threepwood. He starts off as [[Adorkable]] and happy-go-lucky in ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'', but then {{spoiler|1=he sees his wife Elaine seemingly willing to trust a human LeChuck over Guybrush's objections.}} As if that wasn't bad enough, {{spoiler|1=he ends up getting his hand cut off by Morgan LeFlay; breaks down in grief after failing to protect her from being fatally stabbed by LeChuck; gets stabbed in the back (and [[In the Back|in the chest]]) twice (or maybe three times if you count the Voodoo Lady); and suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] when it looks like Elaine has done a complete [[Face Heel Turn]] to leave him for LeChuck. It all ends with one [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|terribly brutal beatdown]] from LeChuck that leaves zombie Guybrush in such physical agony he can't even joke anymore. [[The Woobie|The poor dear]] really just needed a hug at the end.}}
* In ''[[
* {{spoiler|Dehl}}'s [[Dark and Troubled Past]] in ''[[
** Happens to {{spoiler|Xopi}} as well, who, as {{spoiler|another Sikohlon child}}, is quite identical to how {{spoiler|Dehl}} used to be.
* In [[Fallout: New Vegas]], this is a possible fate for Veronica Santangelo. A member of the Brotherhood of Steel who wishes that the Brotherhood actually uses their technology to help others, if she's encouraged to leave them and join the Followers of the Apocalypse, she'll be told to wait a day before they sign her up. One day later, {{spoiler|she returns to find the Followers and their patients dissolved into ash, with Brotherhood Paladins stating that they've come to kill her for [[He Knows Too Much|spreading knowledge to outsiders.]] After they're dealt with, she ends up blaming herself for causing the death of innocents.}}
* Jin from ''Dead Island''. She starts as a [[Tomboy]]/[[Wrench Wench]] of unstated but clearly juvenile/young adult age. Her introduction as an NPC is occasioned by the revelation that her father was bitten by a zombie and has mere hours to live. She is a near-stereotype of the annoyingly naive [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]] (which has earned her no small amount of hate from online fans of the game). Then, in short order: {{spoiler|she is forced to join the Player group by said father in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]; she naively takes supplies to a gang, who immediately kidnap and (it is heavily implied) rape her (from which the Players must rescue her); she nearly faces the same situation from a gang of renditioned terrorists/prison inmates; she must kill her now-zombified father (and decides she must do it by herself in a [[Narm
* {{spoiler|Pit}} from [[Kid Icarus: Uprising]] goes through hell during [[Wham! Episode|chapter 18]]. {{spoiler|Pit's entire faith in Angel Land and fighting for justice is destroyed in a blink of an eye, the people that considered him Captain are now attacking him, and the Brainwashed and Crazy Palutena calls him a "puppet" and says she doesn't want to deal with him anymore. He gets over it (for the most part) in the next chapter, but it doesn't change the fact that those words will probably stick with him for a long time.}}
** It gets worse. {{spoiler|Chapter 19, Hades and Viridi constantly lay the smack down of insults on him and without Palutena to support him, Pit progressively gets quieter with the chapter (but he does get louder when he's asking Viridi if he's at the top of the tower yet). And then comes Chapter 20, where some of his insecurities are let lose as Palutena continues to berate him for being useless and naive. When he finally saves her from Chaos Kin though, he has to watch as her soul is ripped out of her and she turns to stone. And when he spends chapter 21 trying to get it back and succeeds with the help of Dark Pit, Chaos Kin wanted to make sure Pit suffered and tried to take Dark Pit down with him. Pit's response is to dive in and save him causing his wings to burn up in the process. And even though chapter 23 treats Pit's [[Sanity Slippage]] moment lightly, given what happened in the previous chapters, it's not hard to think he actually lost it.}}
* Mercedes Marten from [[
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