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** BoJack himself has a few moments. He hopes that by opening up to Diane about his traumatic childhood, after she encourages him to give a real story for his ghostwritten biography, that it means they have become closer. Instead, it makes Diane realize he is a big jerk, and she puts that in her book ''One Trick Pony''. Later, Todd after suffering two seasons of abuse from BoJack hits his [[Rage Breaking Point]] in "It's You" after learning that {{spoiler|BoJack slept with his crush Emily. BoJack blames it on the drugs and Oscar stress while apologizing. Todd spells it out: BoJack can't keep blaming his actions on his addictions or bad childhood. In the end, it's him. He has to take responsibility for his actions. "Fuck man, what else is there to say?"}}.
** BoJack at {{spoiler|his mother's funeral acknowledges that Beatrice Horseman had a hard life. She had him when she was too young to know better, and didn't have the resources that his generation did to talk about independence, mental health, divorce, or self-actualization}}. As he discusses while {{spoiler|popping pills}}, that his mother suffered does not excuse {{spoiler|the way that she treated him as a kid, or how she poisoned Hollyhock with diet pills to "help" her lose weight}}.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'': This is essentially Demona's deal, something that both Goliath and the Weird Sisters note. She reveals that she was part of the plan to betray the castle in the pilot, believing that the invaders would treat the gargoyles better. When the invaders smashed most of them instead, making her think they killed Goliath, she went [[Never My Fault]] and went off to find another clan. She scarred a boy while stealing food, who would become one of her nemeses the Hunter. Her betrayal of Macbeth led to them both becoming immortal, and she refuses to acknowledge that Macbeth wouldn't be hunting her down to finally die if she hadn't sold him out. In the modern day, she blames Eliza
* ''[[Infinity Train]]'' has heroes and villains which discuss this trope. Facing it allows their numbers to go down.
** Tulip is a jerk, who resents her parents for divorcing. She blames them for ruining her life. Then a tape in the Cat's Car gives her the courage to see what really happened, without her [[Nostalgia Filter]] or catastrophizing; her parents were actually fighting all the time, she just blocked it out and ignored the red flags. During the actual scene where they break the news, they also were as broken up over the separation as she was, and it wasn't their intent to ruin her life. Tulip leaves the tape with a [[Jerkass Realization]] that she needs to go easier on her parents when she gets home.
** When Tulip sees {{spoiler|Amelia's tape, she acknowledges that it is traumatic to lose the love of your life. Amelia had a breakdown after Alrick died, planning to jump off the roof of their complex if not for the Train. Tulip, however, also calls out Amelia for turning Atticus into a Ghom for the crime of helping Tulip achieve her quest and protecting One-One. She says that change is possible, but it has to come with facing the future and making a conscious choice.}}
** Season 3 brings us Grace, the leader of the cultist children the Apex. Simon {{spoiler|traps her in a loop of her worst memories when believing that Grace betrayed him by lying about Hazel's origins. Hazel left with a reformed Amelia because she felt the worst Amelia would do is experiment on her, while Simon clearly had murderous intentions towards the "null" Hazel. Grace had neglectful parents that gave her everything they wanted but refused to see her was she was; she shoplifted to get their attention. They didn't even notice when the Train entered indoors and she boarded it. A Hazel hallucination calls out Grace for how she used her fear of neglect to gain power over the other kids, and let Simon kill Tuba, Hazel's protector. She says Grace's past was no excuse for the pain she caused in the present}}.
** We also have Grace's [[Number Two]], Simon. They met as children on the train {{spoiler|after the Cat accidentally left Simon behind as Ghom fodder, and Grace lied that she knew how the train worked. The more denizens or "nulls" they killed, the higher their numbers would go and they're winning. Simon has bad abandonment issues and becomes an Apex fanatic, wiping out train denizens mercilessly. As a result, he and Grace start to grow apart after she meets Hazel, as they mistake her for a human, and he defies orders by killing Hazel's guardian Tuba. Then the three of them meet Amelia; she laughs in their faces about the Apex's teachings, and informs them the truth of the situation. Rather than One-One the false conductor usurping the train, ''Amelia'' was the one who usurped One-One in a selfish quest to get her husband back. Grace gets a [[Heel Realization]] on learning she had construed the train all wrong; Simon doubles down and insists that Amelia is lying. The season three finale features the two friends fighting, where Grace apologizes to Simon for all those lies but also points out he denied the truth of the situation. Simon proves her point by trying to kill Grace after she saves him, something that horrifies the Apex followers watching, and she's too far away to rescue him from a Ghom. Given Simon dies while [[Cry Laughing]], he may have realized it towards the end}}.
* ''[[The Legend of Korra]]'' would continue this trend with some of the heroes and villains:
** When we learn Amon's real backstory, that {{spoiler|his father abused him and his brother Tarlok by training them to become weapons against the Avatar}}, Korra says she has never heard such a sad story. Mako and she resolve nevertheless to use this information to stop Amon and save Republic City, because he's trying to wipe out all the benders.
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