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* Mariavel Varella, the primary villain of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]] v2'', has something of a [[Freudian Excuse]] to justify her actions. She was raped by her father as a child (although this may have since been the subject of a [[Retcon]]). However, what does remain Canon is the other abuse she suffered at the hands of her father - as well as him killing her brother.

* Steff in ''[[Tales of MU]]'': "Don't you think I've earned a chance to be the one at the top of the shitheap for a while? Three more years and then nobody's going to fuck with me, ever again."

** Also, Marik was forced to undergo having markings burned into his backside as a child... [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|as well as having to watch Beverly Hills Chihuahua]]. He was a bit of a dick before then, though.

* [[Stalker with a Crush]] Zaboo from ''[[The Guild]]''. Dead father, [[Evil Matriarch|Mother From Hell]], it's amazing he isn't more messed up than he is. Although he's pretty damn messed up.

* [[Gaia Online]]'s current [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|1=was neglected by his [[Cloning Blues|"father"]], Johnny K. Gambino, in favor of his natural son Gino. This led him to found his own [[Mad Scientist]] corporation, NeXus, to study the Animated and eventually use them to try and take over the world.}}

* Lord Doom, an [[Evil Overlord]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] supervillain from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' was nine years old when he became the only member of his family to survive internment in a Nazi concentration camp (his father was executed right in front of the boy by a camp guard who was "merely testing his newly-issued pistol"). He didn't even have the consolation of a community of Holocaust survivors to relate to as his family wasn't Jewish, or Gypsy, or Slavs... there were merely politically inconvenient. His campaign to take over the world is founded on his very real, very sincere, and very, '''''very''''' obsessive wish that no more children suffer the loss of their Mommy and Daddy and little sisters like he did.

* The [[Affably Evil]] [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] apparently had an awful childhood, with being sexually abused by a doctor and losing his virginity to a gym teacher. And while they're not ''evil'' (more like a [[Cute and Psycho]] and [[Psychopathic Manchild]], respectively), [[The Nostalgia Chick]] and [[The Nostalgia Critic]] both have a lot of issues from bad things happening to them too. This is all [[Played for Laughs]], naturally.

* Parodied in the Christmas Special of [[Dragonball Z Abridged]]: Turles hates Christmas because Santa never visited Planet Vegeta, and so their only holiday was [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Freeza's Day.]] Also his henchmen all did horrible things, including dropping a whole truck of coal on a naughty child's house and [[Black Comedy Rape|raping Rudolph]].

* [[Echo Chamber]]'s Tom and Zack have Freudian excuses.

** Tom tries to be better than his {{spoiler|younger}} brother, who was superior to him in every way since they were kids. {{spoiler|As you might expect, this doesn't justify why he picks on Zack}}.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] mentions that part of the reason he has such a [[Bias Steamroller]] over ''[[Doug]]'' is that when he was younger (When the show was popular) a lot of people would tease him about it and constantly bring it up, saying "If you were named 'Doug', you were ALWAYS associated with this show."