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== Anime and Manga ==

* Dragon Ball, with Vegeta having his home planet destroyed at around age 5, and being a forced underling of the creature who massacred his people for most of his life.

* Kenshin Himura from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' and ''[~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Samurai_X~~:~~_Trust_~~%~~26_Betrayal~~ Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal].'' After the death of his parents, Kenshin (a child at the time) is taken by slavers, who are later violently killed in front of him by bandits. After burying the mutilated victims alone, Kenshin is resolute to “create a peaceful world where people could live without fear”. To accomplish his ideal, Kenshin trains with the master of the “Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū” (a fighting style so deadly that, to truly master, it means death to the teacher) and, at 14, became the legendary assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai”. {{spoiler|Kenshin goes into hiding years later and marries a mysterious woman named Tomoe for appearance only, but they later fall in love. After a series of events, Kenshin kills Tomoe unintentionally in battle. As Tomoe died, she gave Kenshin half of the X shaped scar on his cheek. Kenshin later finds out, after reading Tomoe’s diaries that he had killed Tomoe’s fiancé (a man who years earlier, gave Kenshin the other half of the X shaped scar) before he met her and she only married Kenshin out of revenge, but, after living together, fell in love with him.}} Broken and filled with remorse for killing countless people, Kenshin wanders off wielding a sakabatō or reverse blade sword. He is determined to never kill again and to aid those in need, as atonement for the murders he committed.

* Kenshin Himura from ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Samurai X: Trust %26 Betrayal|Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal]].'' After the death of his parents, Kenshin (a child at the time) is taken by slavers, who are later violently killed in front of him by bandits. After burying the mutilated victims alone, Kenshin is resolute to “create a peaceful world where people could live without fear”. To accomplish his ideal, Kenshin trains with the master of the “Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū” (a fighting style so deadly that, to truly master, it means death to the teacher) and, at 14, became the legendary assassin "Hitokiri Battōsai”. {{spoiler|Kenshin goes into hiding years later and marries a mysterious woman named Tomoe for appearance only, but they later fall in love. After a series of events, Kenshin kills Tomoe unintentionally in battle. As Tomoe died, she gave Kenshin half of the X shaped scar on his cheek. Kenshin later finds out, after reading Tomoe’s diaries that he had killed Tomoe’s fiancé (a man who years earlier, gave Kenshin the other half of the X shaped scar) before he met her and she only married Kenshin out of revenge, but, after living together, fell in love with him.}} Broken and filled with remorse for killing countless people, Kenshin wanders off wielding a sakabatō or reverse blade sword. He is determined to never kill again and to aid those in need, as atonement for the murders he committed.

* Hiei from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. {{spoiler|Being tossed away by your clan, brought up by bloodthirsty thieves who later abanndon you, and going through torture just to find your homeland only to learn that your mother committed suicide and your twin sister has been kidnapped by a sadistic psycho will make you be just a little bit dark.}}

* Vash the Stampede from ''[[Trigun]].'' He was born as an artificial human on a space cruiser transporting most of humanity to a distant world, where the crew was paranoid of him. Thanks to his brother, he got to watch the cruiser destroyed, killing millions, including his mother figure. Years later, after the discovery of his destructive powers, he unwittingly caused the annihilation of an entire city.

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* ''[[Kyon Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'' has {{spoiler|Michikyuu Kanae}}, who, as a slider, has gone through hundreds of worlds, only to have them invaded by aliens and everyone she loved killed. Again. ''[[Doom Magnet|Hundreds of times]]''.

* Some ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama Island]]'' fanfics give the characters tragic pasts.

* All of the main characters in the fanfic ''[~~http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/~~Freefall Freefall]'' have tragic childhoods, to a varying degree of "tragic"; not surprising, since the fic features [[CLAMP]] characters.

* All of the main characters in the fanfic ''[[Freefall (Fanfic)|Freefall]]'' have tragic childhoods, to a varying degree of "tragic"; not surprising, since the fic features [[CLAMP]] characters.

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', there's Trixie's portrayal in some of the better [[Portmanteau Couple Name|Twixie]]<ref>Twilight/Trixie</ref> shipping fics. At least two fanfics - ''[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-out-in-cold.html Out in the Cold]'' and ''[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/06/story-of-mares-and-magic.html Of Mares and Magic]'' - gave her a parent who inspired her to take up magic, then went and died on her and left her traumatised. This not only provides a [[Freudian Excuse]] for why she acts like such a jerk in-series, but also provides grounds for the eventual [[Shipping]].

* In ''A New Face In Ponyville'', Joshua Rocket is revealed to have shadows of one of them in chapter 9<ref>Counteraction</ref>. This could also be a case of Mysterious Past since not a lot of concrete details were given and even what WAS said could be put up for speculation considering {{spoiler|it was under heavy sedation after an attack from the Equestrian Pony Alliance}}