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** Similarly, Charbroil used to have to heat the water pipes in his family's basement as a kid with a blowtorch to keep them from freezing in the winter, and as a teenager worked at a mill, feeding coal into blast furnaces. When asked by the recruiting sergeant what kind of job he was interested in, he replied, "What have you got with open flames?"
* Subverted in the ''[[Mad]]'' parody of ''[[Touched By an Angel]]''. The somewhat jerky boss objects to a flashback of him being abused by his father that is used to explain his behavior, saying that it isn't real, but the angel showing it tells him that they need it for [[Tear Jerker]] material.
* ''[[Superman: Birthright]]'' gave [[Lex Luthor]] a small excuse. His father was emotionally distant and he felt alienated from everyone because of his money and intellect. However, he was also a raging sociopath with a superiority complex that dwarfed the heavens and many people point out that Luthor made his own choices.
* While not a villain persay, Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' was raised by a prostitute who never cared for him. The Comedian is implied to have had a rough childhood as well.
** Rorshach states his reason for becoming a crime-fighter in a deconstruction of the superhero origin story. The therapist he speaks with sees it as nothing more than a shallow excuse for his violent life.
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** Cobalt Blue was Barry Allen's twin brother, [[Switched At Birth|but at birth he was given to the abusive Thawnes]] and used as a living prop in their scams because the doctor who was overseeing both deliveries accidentally killed the Thawnes' baby and figured the Allens had one more kid than they needed.
** The first Trickster came from a family of aerialists and his father mocked him for his fear of heights--never mind that this fear came about partly because Dad was constantly [[Distracted by the Sexy]] and often came close to dropping his son from a height during their trapeze routines.
* In the [[New 52]], [[Nightwing|Nightwing's]] latest foe Saiko (which appropriately enough sounds a lot like "psycho") {{spoiler|is really his former friend and fellow former circus boy Raymond. The circus was a front for the Court of Owls who would repeatedly take children from the circus and put them through [[Training
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