Break the Cutie/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* Lisa Trevor of the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' remake. Her mother is murdered with a virus and her father is killed by Umbrella after building the Mansion. Then Umbrella discovers that she is nearly immortal, and begins injecting her with insane viruses ''just to see what would happen.''

** 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.

* {{spoiler|Sakura}} from ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'', as revealed in the game's final route, Heaven's Feel.

* ''[[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.

* 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 Pain]] has, well, just about everyone in the main cast. [[The Hero|Atsuki]], [[Cheerful Child|Natsuki]] and [[Broken Ace|Hibiki]] were broken in their backstories. During the game, this happens to two of the female leads: [[Genki Girl|Mika]], who was {{spoiler|targeted by a serial killer (twice) causing Officer Mako Ando to be fatally wounded, and her best friend sent to the hospital}}, [[The Chick|Yayoi]] who {{spoiler|is driven mad by a mind parasite causing her to be jealous of her sister. She also tried to consult with a bunch of people she met online who were suicidal, but they ended up killing themselves.}} A few other Cuties, both male and female, end up snapping, like [[The Big Guy|Akira]], [[Meganekko|Sayuri]], [[Defective Detective|Yui]], [[Hospital Hottie|Honoka]], and the list goes on. Forget curing Silent, that entire town needs one big hug.

* In ''[[Nie R]]'', Gideon from the Junk Heap is broken badly during the [[Time Skip]] by the death of his brother {{spoiler|that he unwittingly caused.}} In the same game, {{spoiler|Emil}} very nearly breaks after {{spoiler|he is transformed into a skeletal robot after his [[Fusion Dance]] with his sister}} but Nier, Kaine, and Weiss' unwavering friendship keeps him aloft.

* {{spoiler|Dehl}}'s [[Dark and Troubled Past]] in ''[[The Reconstruction (Video Game)|The Reconstruction]]'' has this, ''in spades''. Possibly subverted, though, as it's part of the [[Backstory]] that is only revealed near the end of the game; most of what we see of him is after the fact.

* 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|Narmy]] cutscene); and finally, she is shot by the [[Big Bad]] just to make him more of a [[Jerkass]], and left for dead by the Players as the game ends.}}

** 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 [[Dragons Dogma]]. You are first introduced to her as the competent, and confident commanding officer of the Recruitment Corp, she even helps you repel a Hydra when it tries to destroy the encampment. However, it's when you get to meet the Duke that her insecurities show themselves. {{spoiler|She's the daughter of the lord of Hearthstone, and was sent to help stop the Dragon and aid the Arisen. In ''reality'' though, it turns out he only sent her there to be rid of her, and so that one of his favourite sons wouldn't go to get killed instead. Lord Julien's speech to her during their duel completely stops her cold. If she survives she heads back to Hearthstone, to ask for a real army from her Father to help the Arisen.}}