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* ''[[Tuca & Bertie]]'':

** This is what leads to the season one fight between the title characters. Tuca has a phobia of hospitals because her mother died in one after suffering a car accident. She also overhears Bertie calling her "clingy" which Tuca is, and stubbornly refuses to see a doctor about a sudden pain. Her virtual sex client has to drive seven hours to save her when she collapses on a call, and he notifies Speckle about the situation when Speckle mistakes the call for a videogame and starts "playing". While Bertie is relieved that Tuca pulls through a terrifying surgery, she's annoyed that Tuca didn't come to her for help earlier because she was doing a pastry event that could boost her career and had to leave to check on her dying best friend. When a recovered Tuca notices that she's upset, Bertie says all of this, that she would have been fine with taking Tuca to a doctor before the problem became serious, rather than Tuca endangering herself the one time Bertie wasn't available to bail her out of her immaturity. Tuca goes [[Never My Fault]], and they have a huge argument.

** Comes up during the series finale arc, when Bertie {{spoiler|ghosts her longstanding boyfriend of several years in favor of confronting a childhood trauma at Jelly Lakes. When she returns, she finds herself unable to explain to Speckle why she didn't his calls and blew off work at the same time, right before Molting Day, this world's version of Christmas. Speckle gets mad at her and calls her out, saying that he can't be the "rock" in their relationship all the time. While they do make up thanks to Bertie visiting the fixer-upper he bought and admiring it, Bertie herself admits that she was a bad girlfriend and seeks therapy next season to try and "fix" herself and not repeat this incident. Therapy doesn't work that way, but she does make progress}}. Season two shows that they finally talked about it, which was all Speckle wanted; {{spoiler|Bertie didn't tell him about being molested as a twelve-year old, or having a weird attraction to Pastry Pete after he manhandled her, because she thought that not getting over trauma or irrational feelings made her weak and morally bankrupt. Speckle reassures her that it's not her fault that the lifeguard that molested her or Pastry Pete took advantage of her, and her therapist Joanne says it's normal to have trauma recur years later}}.

** Comes up during the series finale arc, when Bertie {{spoiler|ghosts her longstanding boyfriend of several years in favor of confronting a childhood trauma at Jelly Lakes. When she returns, she finds herself unable to explain to Speckle why she didn't his calls and blew off work at the same time, right before Molting Day, this world's version of Christmas. Speckle gets mad at her and calls her out, saying that he can't be the "rock" in their relationship all the time. While they do make up thanks to Bertie visiting the fixer-upper he bought and admiring it, Bertie herself admits that she was a bad girlfriend and seeks therapy next season to try and "fix" herself and not repeat this incident. Therapy doesn't work that way, but she does make progress}}. Season two shows that they finally talked about it, which was all Speckle wanted; {{spoiler|Bertie didn't tell him in season one about being molested as a twelve-year old, or having a weird attraction to Pastry Pete after he manhandled her, because she thought that not getting over trauma or irrational feelings made her weak and morally bankrupt. Speckle reassures her that it's not her fault that the lifeguard that molested her or Pastry Pete took advantage of her, and her therapist Joanne says it's normal to have trauma recur years later}}.

* ''[[Steven Universe]]'' has this trope crop up from time to time:

** Part of the reason why Pearl is occasionally insecure, jealous and catty is that she's mourning Rose, the leader of the Crystal Gems and her lover, and sees a lot of her in Steven. Rose died to have Steven, a morally questionable decision but her choice to make. Garnet calls out Pearl for getting jealous when they learn that Steven's lion belonged to Rose and contained her scabbard; she says Rose kept secrets from all of them them, and Pearl is no different. Steven is furious when Pearl during Connie's fencing lessons is turning his squishy human friend into a martyr and talks her down. {{spoiler|When Pearl can finally reveal the full truth -- that she belonged to Pink Diamond, who ''became'' Rose Quartz-- she is able to tone this down.}}

** Steven and Amethyst in season two find out that {{spoiler|Pearl was rebuilding Peridot's distress signal tower so as to keep fusing with Garnet}}. They bust her before it happens again, but try to break it gently to Garnet. "Gently doesn't work"; Garnet becomes infuriated, but Amethyst says that it's because Garnet's love makes her and Pearl feel strong. Immediately, Garnet orders Amethyst, "Don't defend her!" before fusing with her to destroy the tower once and for all. {{spoiler|It takes several episodes for Garnet to forgive Pearl, when Pearl admits that she lied to Garnet because without Rose, she feels like she's nothing.}}

** Peridot has a hard time adapting to Earth life when {{spoiler|the Gems learn they need to keep her unpoofed when she talks about an event called the Cluster that will cause an apocalypse, and she's the only one with expertise to stop it}}. She's still rude, bitter and condescending towards the "clods," with her warming up to Steven after he gives her prosthetic foot back. The season two finale has her explain to Steven that she stole a Diamond communicator to try and convince Yellow Diamond that this planet "is of use" to the Diamond Authority. Steven takes this to mean that Peridot is selling them out and tries to stop her, thinking that her fear of the Cluster is no excuse for this betrayal. {{spoiler|Ends up subverted; Peridot was trying to ''reason'' with Yellow Diamond to spare the Earth and use its resources for the Diamond Authority without disturbing its natural life, and doesn't reveal that the Crystal Gems survived. When YD refuses, Peridot calls her a clod and refuses to make the Cluster go on as scheduled.}}

** ''Steven Universe Future'' has Jasper stubbornly refuse to listen to either Steven or Amethyst {{spoiler|when they try to convince her to not spend the rest of her existence on a barren piece of land training for a new war. Steven goes in the premiere to invite her to Little Homeschool but gets irritated as Jasper says that he is not her Diamond and he can't order her around. It's understandable that Jasper is hurt on learning that Pink Diamond lied and was Rose Quartz the whole time, but not-so-much that she is being a giant jerk about it to Steven, who helped undo her corruption and just wants her to be happy. Steven says as much, pointing out to Jasper that she got herself corrupted and has rebuked all offers for the Gems to help her, because she wasn't the only one that Rose deceived. Jasper only listens after he beats her in a fair sparring match, tries her best to train him to control his surging powers when he comes to her for help, and the finale has them part as friends at least}}.

** Steven calls himself out for this and represses his guilt and trauma after {{spoiler|shattering Jasper during a training bout gone wrong. It was an accident, and he quickly revives her while crying [[Tears of Remorse]] and apologizing to her, but Steven is horrified that he became even worse than his mother, because Rose only lied about shattering someone. He tries to isolate himself from his friends and go to the Diamonds for help with his spiraling, but ultimately the ensuing meltdown causes him to proclaim [[I Am a Monster]] and saying he has no reason for what he did, which leads to his corruption and turning him into Steven-zilla. To get him back, Connie realizes that Steven were handling a Corrupted Gem who couldn't be poofed, he would empathize with them. So she rallies the Gems, Diamonds, and Greg to do what Steven would do and show love for him, warts and all. Doing so allows Steven to shrink back to his human self. Even so, the finale shows that he's seeing a therapist via telecall and has to check in with them during her road trip.}}

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