Hurt-Comfort Fic: Difference between revisions

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A [[Fanfic]] about comforting one who is hurt. Usually based on either [[Stoic Woobie|Break The Stoic]] or [[Break the Cutie]], often to the point of [[The Woobie|Woobiefication]]: a regular character is damaged, either emotionally or physically, and another character (usually the character's [[Buddy Cop Show|partner]], [[One True Pairing|love interest]], a [[True Companions|teammate]], or a [[Mary Sue]]) must comfort them. This comfort ''can'' become...[[Intimate Healing|intense]]. Alternatively, the author can create a [[Sympathetic Sue]] to get damaged so the author's favorite canon character can comfort him/her. A story can take place after specific episodes or installments of canon, or else the writer creates a new predicament. (The real trouble arises when they're [[Cliché|not very novel]] about it, or pick a [[Rape as Drama|sensational situation]] that [[Mood Dissonance|doesn't really fit the mood]] of the original series.)

* [[Mind Rape]]

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]

 

* Chapter 15 of the ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]'' novel ''Set Piece'' by Kate Orman is actually ''called'' "Hurt/Comfort". In fact ''most'' of Orman's ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novels have at least one chapter like this.

** As is Chapter 5 of ''Human Nature''.

* This trope is what makes all [[Butt Monkey|Shinji]]/[[Tsundere|Asuka]] shipping from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' possible since Shinji is too cowardly to make advances while Asuka hates his guts with a passion (plus she's afraid of getting too close to someone in the first place). Results may vary from [[WAFF]] to [[Nightmare Fuel]], depending on the writer.

* [http://pennies-4-eyes.livejournal.com/13831.html#cutid1 This] fancomic for the ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' movie. Notable because both characters [[Medium Awareness|know perfectly well]] that they're in a Hurt/Comfort fanfic. Holmes isn't too pleased about always having to be the sick one.

** In an interesting variant, not only does the rescuer immediately find the rescued a doctor rather than trying to physically heal her himself, the story only really starts years later, as they both begin to heal the emotional wounds of the other.

* A lot of [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] fic falls under this category, mostly helped on by his [[Break the Cutie]] arc in ''[[Kickassia]]''. As an interesting contrast, the [[The Nostalgia Critic|other main woobie]] of the fandom is usually left broken.

* The [[Ace Attorney]] fandom is a hurt/comfort goldmine, in part because the "hurt" part is as easy as [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|trapping Edgeworth in an elevator or earthquake]]. One popular example of the genre is a (clean) [[Kink Meme]] fill called [http://bludhavens.livejournal.com/17966.html?thread=4621614#t4621614 Sleepless].

* There's a recurring '''Hurt Comfort Fic''' plot in the Carly/Freddie fic fandom in ''[[iCarly]]'', that involves having Freddie hooked up with Sam, then playing Sam's violent and abusive tendencies from the show straight, without any of the [[Rule of Funny]] that it has on the show itself. An example can be found here: [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5600467/1/Candles Candles].

* [[Rent]] has '''Hurt Comfort Fic''' that's practically built in, with about half the cast having AIDS and Roger being a recovering drug addict ''on top'' of having HIV.

* Kurt from [[Glee]] is tailor-made for this, being an out-and-proud [[Camp Gay]] who was [[Stuffed Into a Trashcan|bullied]] ''[[Teens Are Monsters|severely]]'' for it, especially by Karofsky {{spoiler|who was revealed to be an [[Armored Closet Gay]] himself}}. Blaine is by far the comforter in the romantic fics, while Finn is the comforter in platonic fics.

** There's also a number of fics in which Rainbow Dash pushes her flight training too far and injures her wings, either threatening or outright [[Incredibly Lame Pun|dashing]] her dream of joining the Wonderbolts. "Rainbow Dash breaks her wings" fics became so ubiquitous that they were eventually banned on Equestria Daily.

*** Arguably, the concept itself was Jossed- Dash does break her wing in one episode, [[Reality Ensues|but she is taken to a hospital]] instead of cared for by another, and her wing heals just fine.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7867999/1/Ice_Cream This] ''Axis Powers Hetalia'' fanfic. England visits America's house a few days after 9/11.

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6857894/1/Lara_Croft_Tomb_Raider_Force_of_Good Force Of Good], a [[Tomb Raider]] fanfic that has Lara visited by an angel-like being after the death of her mother in ''Legend''.

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