Dark and Troubled Past: Difference between revisions

* Lexx's past in ''[[Alien Dice]]'' takes this up to eleven. Lexx's [[Parental Abandonment|father died young of an illness and his mother, a fighter for the space station they lived on, was killed defending their home]]. He was then raised in an [[Orphanage of Fear|orphanage from hell]] where he was forcibly turned into a [[Mon]]-like thing (the titular Dice). He [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|attempted suicide several times, but failed]], and has faced numerous other tragedies, including rape, slavery (or, the threat of it, actually), and {{spoiler|being forced to kill his fellow Dice, Riane, who then decides [[Our Souls Are Different|to haunt his mind]].}} That's only hitting the highlights. Lexx is better at remembering happy moments than he is at remembering truly tragic ones, though [[Bad Dreams|nightmares say otherwise]].

* Grace, Susan, and Tedd in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', though Grace appears to have been the only one who suffered physical abuse. "Lord Tedd" from the alternate universe seems to have a dark and troubled past of truly epic proportions.

* Galatea in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' who spent her one-month childhood being treated literally as a lab animal in a pen. She didn't [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|take it well.]]

* Parodied in ''[[The Noob]]'' [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/245/ here] (continued [http://thenoobcomic.com/comic/248/ here]).