Never Be Hurt Again: Difference between revisions

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== Comics ==

* [[Magneto]], when he's given sympathetic motivations. He's a Holocaust survivor who doesn't want mutants to face the kind of genocidal [[Fantastic Racism|bigotry]] he endured in his youth.

* Some portrayals of Poison Ivy in [[Batman]] - she got mutated when she fell for a guy [[Playing ~~With~~ Syringes]] - now she is obsessed with controlling men.

* Some portrayals of Poison Ivy in [[Batman]] - she got mutated when she fell for a guy [[Playing with Syringes]] - now she is obsessed with controlling men.

* In the ''[[Elf Quest]]: Siege at Blue Mountain'' arc this seems to be Winnowill's motivation for wanting to take all of the pure-blooded elves somewhere they can never be hurt again. For many of them it doesn't end well.

== Film ==

* Scarlett O'Hara in ''[[Gone ~~With~~ the Wind]]'': "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"

* Scarlett O'Hara in ''[[Gone with the Wind]]'': "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"

* This has been used as [[Spartacus]]' motivation in several adaptations.

== Literature ==

* The main character of ''[[The ~~King Killer~~ Chronicle]]'' mentions this as one of several motivations for attending [[Wizarding School]]. (How truthful he was being is currently unknown--especially since the series isn't finished yet.)

* The main character of ''[[The Kingkiller Chronicle]]'' mentions this as one of several motivations for attending [[Wizarding School]]. (How truthful he was being is currently unknown--especially since the series isn't finished yet.)

* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''The Man Who Used The Universe''. Kees vaan Loo-Macklin creates a criminal empire and a legitimate business empire and manipulates too many beings to name (both human and alien). He does this because he was abandoned as a child and grew up in a series of foster homes where he was mistreated because of his appearance, and was determined never to be helpless and mistreated again.

== Live Action TV ==

* House in ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' seems to be like this at times. His relationship with Stacy sent him into one period of emotional disengagement. Then when after his relationship with Cuddy goes bad, he refuses the affections of his green-card wife, apparently out of fear that sex with anyone who actually likes him (rather than hookers) might lead to attachment which will hurt him again. Of course, if you showed him this page on TV Tropes and said that it applied to him, he'd probably give you a [[Hannibal Lecture]] about what a moron you are for thinking it.

* House in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' seems to be like this at times. His relationship with Stacy sent him into one period of emotional disengagement. Then when after his relationship with Cuddy goes bad, he refuses the affections of his green-card wife, apparently out of fear that sex with anyone who actually likes him (rather than hookers) might lead to attachment which will hurt him again. Of course, if you showed him this page on TV Tropes and said that it applied to him, he'd probably give you a [[Hannibal Lecture]] about what a moron you are for thinking it.

* ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'':

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':

** John Lumic, who has some undisclosed and presumably painful terminal illness, decides to enforce [[Unwilling Roboticisation]] upon himself and humanity in order to eradicate death and emotion.

** Professor Lazarus from "The Lazarus Experiment" tried to create a device to avoid death due to his experiences during [[World War II]]. [[Gone Horribly Wrong|It didn't quite work out.]]

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== Tabletop Games ==

* [[Warhammer ~~40 K~~]] and [[Warhammer]]: several justifications for falling to Chaos are protection against that god's particular domain. Mostly seen with Nurgle, the god of disease, whose followers are infested with pus-filled growths and oozing sores, but are no longer negatively affected by them, instead reveling in every new pox they develop.

* [[Warhammer 40000]] and [[Warhammer]]: several justifications for falling to Chaos are protection against that god's particular domain. Mostly seen with Nurgle, the god of disease, whose followers are infested with pus-filled growths and oozing sores, but are no longer negatively affected by them, instead reveling in every new pox they develop.

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* Squall Leonhart of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. The reason for his cold, detached demeanor was because {{spoiler|his fellow orphan and sister, Ellone, left him alone as a child and he developed abandonment issues. He feels that, eventually, all friends and family die or go away, and the only way to avoid the pain from that is to never let anyone in again.}}

* The main antagonists in ''[[Star Control II]]'', the Ur-Quan, have this motivation: they were once enslaved and hideously mistreated by [[The Hypnotoad|the Dnyarri]], and after winning back their freedom while suffering constant excruciating pain (which protected them from [[Mind Control]]), they decided the only way to make sure it never happened again was to enslave (Kzer-Za) or exterminate (Kohr-Ah) everybody else first.

* This is Drakath's motivation to become the Champion of Chaos in ''[[~~Adventure Quest Worlds (Video Game)|~~Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', according to the end of the [[They Might Be Giants]] event, which saw him being kidnapped (along with the Hero and the TMBG members) by a crazy alien [[The Collector|collector]].

* This is Drakath's motivation to become the Champion of Chaos in ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'', according to the end of the [[They Might Be Giants]] event, which saw him being kidnapped (along with the Hero and the TMBG members) by a crazy alien [[The Collector|collector]].

* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', after Professor Stanwick Pididly stole credit for both the creation of [[Robot Buddy|Blitzcrank]] and the technology that revived [[And I Must Scream|Urgot]], Viktor decided to protect himself from this happening again with his newest accomplishment - the transformation of himself into a killer cyborg. This both [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|removes]] (mostly) the pain and anger he feels over his inventions being stolen, and demonstrates his own skill in a way that can't be stolen.