From Bad to Worse/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

*** It gets ''even'' worse when he finds out that his brother {{spoiler|was ordered by the village's elders to kill the Uchiha clan, then prompting Sasuke not to want revenge against his brother but the entirety of Konoha}}.

* The first half of ''[[Tsubasa Chronicle]]'' starts off like your average action/adventure story where a group of characters fated to meet go on a journey together to find the pieces of Sakura's lost memories that have taken the shape of unique feathers. Their journey sends them to all sorts of interesting and diverse dimensions. Sounds like a light-hearted series, especially considering it includes Syaoran and Sakura from another [[Cardcaptor Sakura|very well known]] [[CLAMP]] work, right? Wrong. After the Rekord Country arc [[It Got Worse]], just watch the Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations [[OVA]]s—that's where the series took a very dark turn. The manga continues with the darkness through several arcs, including [[Stepford Smiler|Fay]]'s past which is anything but pleasant. Along with things getting darker, toward the end it turns into a massive [[Mind Screw]].

* ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'' - Except for {{spoiler|the ending.}} Maybe.

* ''[[D.Gray-man]]'''s protagonist, Allen Walker's entire life is this trope. He's abandoned by his parents at birth because of his apparently deformed arm. As a very young child he works at a circus where he's beaten by the clowns. He's finally adopted by Mana at the age of seven, only to lose him three years later. Then Allen makes a contract with the Millennium Earl to [[Came Back Wrong|bring his foster father back]], only to have Mana [[Cursed with Awesome|curse him]] before Allen unwillingly kills his now-Akuma father with his own Anti-Akuma weapon arm. The trauma turns his hair white. Then he goes through hellish training with General Cross for four years, which leads to him becoming an exorcist. After that it's just one horrible situation after another, including: {{spoiler|losing his arm, and Innocence, and getting a hole torn out of his heart thanks to Tyki}} and {{spoiler|seeing the only place that he could ever call home, the Order, almost be destroyed by a Level Four Akuma attack}}. [[The Woobie|Think he deserves a break?]] Too bad: [[It Got Worse]]. The night before {{spoiler|his mentor dies}} he is told that {{spoiler|he is [[Tomato in the Mirror|the host of the batshit evil Fourteenth Noah]] who wants to [[Enemy Within|take over his body and personality]] in order to become the Millennium Earl... and he'll have to kill someone who he loves dearly}}. It hasn't gotten any better since then.