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* In IDW's recent ''Godzilla'' comics, one of the characters is a young girl who ends up losing her entire family in a kaiju attack. She also witnesses some pretty fucked up stuff during the course of the first series like brutal fistfights and violent kaiju battles. The main protagonist {{Shell-[[Shocked Veteran]] Frank Woods}} even admits that he dosen't think she'll be able to have a normal childhood after all this.

 

* Boreas from ''[[The Surprising Adventures of a Glaceon in Unova]]'' saw his parents and brother killed before his very eyes when he was "just a little cub, a few weeks old."

 

* Then there's Great Aunt Ada Doom of ''[[Cold Comfort Farm]]'', who "saw something nasty in the woodshed". We never find out what, although [[Raymond Briggs]] suggests it was Fungus the Bogeyman.

* ''[[Dexter]]'''s backstory includes {{spoiler|him witnessing his mother being murdered by chainsaw, then spending two days locked in a shipping container with her body (among other ex-people), in a three-inch deep pool of blood. He was three at the time.}} This is used as a [[Freudian Excuse]] for Dexter {{spoiler|and his brother both becoming serial killers}}.

* Aral Vorkosigan, of ''[[The Vorkosigan Saga]]'', was 11 when he his mother and siblings were all killed in front of him. He then fights a bloody civil war, which they win and is given first cut in the execution of the leader of the other side, at about 13.

 

* ''[[Lost]]'': Sawyer's father killed his mother, then shot himself in the head. The latter he did while sitting on Sawyer's bed, unaware Sawyer (who was about eight years old) was hiding underneath it.

* Emily Yokas, of ''[[Third Watch]]'' was held hostage by armed robbers in a bank during Season 4 and saw her mother Faith, an NYPD cop, kill the hostage taker. She later asked her mother how many people she'd killed when on the job, and it was later mentioned she'd been seeing a shrink to help her get over this.

* In ''[[Vanguard Bandits]]'', little girl Nana {{spoiler|witnesses her father's murder after [[You Have Failed Me...|he's failed in his goals.]]}}

* Esperia has the worst background of the cast in ''[[Eien no Aselia]].'' All spirits are raised as weapons, but as the oldest spirit she was the only one trained by Soma. Spirits 'tuned' by Soma end up as soulless living weapons. {{spoiler|Details on the process are vague, but it appears to basically involve utterly destroying a person's spirit and sense of worth with sexual abuse implied. Everyone she knew became a soulless thing that would not hesitate a moment to kill her and she was beaten and tortured frequently. Without Rask she would have ended up just like them.}}

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

 

== Kids being exposed to sexuality ==

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'': The [[Creepy Twins]] Yu Fan and Yu Lan have been repeatedly raped by [[Ax Crazy|Gates]] ever since they were young.

* Kira of ''[[Mars (manga)|Mars]]'' was raped by her stepfather when she was fourteen years old. As a result, she became [[Does Not Like Men|averse to male touch]] and [[Shrinking Violet|shy to the point of muteness]]. When her [[Easily Forgiven|mother asked the stepfather]] back into their home, Kira did not [[Improvised Weapon|react well]].

** On the other hand, he claims that when he did work it out, he was cheered by the health of his parents' relationship. Or at least by the fact that they weren't crippled by the shame of sexuality, other than the conception of children, that he perceived as dominating middle-class Americans at the time.

 

* On ''[[Todd and the Book of Pure Evil]]'', the main character and his friend Curtis once watched a home-made sex tape starring Curtis' grossly obese parents. The experience scarred Todd for life, giving him a crippling fear of fat people. (Which was a plot point, as that episode's [[Monster of the Week]] was turning people fat.) [[Cloudcuckoolander|Curtis]] was unaffected, only commenting that the pacing of the video was too slow.

* In the infamous ''[[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' an elderly Wookie is watching some strange thing with a human(ish) female, and is implied to be masturbating. Not only is that just gross in general, but his grandson is in the same room. Not to mention the special was generally made for a younger audience.

* A probably-unintentional example in ''[[Kit N Kay Boodle]]'': the title characters live in a town where everyone goes around naked and everyone is expected to have random sex in public at any time. Mostly we simply don't see any children, but there's been at least one panel showing a family with small children. The [[Fridge Horror]] is staggering - since people in Yiffburg are looked at strangely for choosing ''not'' to have sex in public, how the hell is it possible to avoid child molestation running rampant?

* It's no wonder that ''[[Homestuck]]'''s Vriska Serket is so messed up - her role model as a kid was the [[Villain Protagonist]] of a book of mind-control pirate erotica.

 

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

* ''[[In Death]]'': Oh, lord! Eve Dallas was beaten and raped by her father when she was 3 years old. He intended to turn her into a prostitute and sell her to child molesters. Her mother had mistreated her and then left her with her father, and she had to have known what the man had intended to do to his own daughter. The abuse continued until she was eight years old, when she managed to stab her [[Complete Monster]] of a father to death while he was trying to rape her again. She also had to face more problems after that. Roarke was beaten up by his [[Complete Monster]] of a father and his non-biological mother left him because she cared nothing for him. Nixie Swisher from ''Survivor In Death'' witnessed murder when her entire family was slaughtered in one night. It shouldn't hurt to be a kid!

 

* The crew on ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' have to deal with cases of one or the other just about [[Once an Episode]].

* Michael of ''[[The Wire]]'' was molested by his stepfather at a young age, and was also exposed to the gang violence and drug culture of West Baltimore. {{spoiler|He becomes a hardened hitman, drug dealer, and stick-up artist by the time he's fifteen}}.

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* As becomes aptly clear during the game, Jennifer in ''[[Rule of Rose]]'' has survived ''two'' distinct massacres in her childhood, and she's implied to have witnessed the sexual abuse of some of her fellow orphans as well. The game basically revolves around dealing with her traumas and helping her to face the future.

* '[[Drakengard]]'' The game involves a mission in which you must you kill {{spoiler|Child Conscripts}} with which the main character shows practically no remorse over slaughtering. As well as this, the Main antagonist is a {{spoiler|Six year old Enfant Terrible}} Add to the fact that one of the party members is a Pedophile while the other is a child Murdering Cannibal. The final party member? A six year old boy.

 

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