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* Elphaba from ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' is born with bright green skin.

* Pink, from ''[[The Wall]]'' is born into a broken home, his father having been killed in the war and his mother having become obsessively protective.

* Snow from the ~Spock's Beard~ album of the same name is a teenage albino who kept to him self as he grew up. He then realizes that in touching people he can see their past, present, and future and use that information as a form of ultimate Freudian analysis to heal them. He sets off to New York City to help people.

* Snow from the [[Spock's Beard]] album of the same name is a teenage albino who kept to him self as he grew up. He then realizes that in touching people he can see their past, present, and future and use that information as a form of ultimate Freudian analysis to heal them. He sets off to New York City to help people.

* The protagonist of [[Green Day]]'s ''[[American Idiot]]'' is introduced in his namesake track, "Jesus of Suburbia". He is dissatisfied with life in his city, being a powerless desensitized "everyman".

* Nikki, the protagonist of [[Queensryche]]'s ''[[Operation Mindcrime]]'', a drug addict who is dissatisfied with the current state of political affairs, joins a terrorist group.

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* Populism blows up in Jackson's face when the American people begin to resent bearing the guilt of bad policy decisions. Jackson disobeys the Supreme Court in order to relocate the Native Americans from their homes, polarizing the country, and Jackson alienates many of his former allies with his stubbornness and short tempter. Eventually he pronounces the country ungovernable and wallows in self pity.

* The Rake kidnaps Margaret and, with the Forest Queen's help, absconds across an impassable river. William follows and [[Deal with the Devil|begs the river to let him cross]], saying it may take his life when he returns. He arrives in time to save Margaret ([[Epileptic Trees|probably]]) and see the Rake dragged off by the ghosts of his children [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|or something along those lines]]. And then [[Downer Ending|William and Margaret drown together]], [[Tear Jerker|having married with the river as their witness]].

* A planned ATF raid goes horribly wrong, setting off a 50-day siege that ends in [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies|fire, blood, and death]] for most of those involved. Surveying the wreckage, Lois' ghost, or possibly just her vocalist, muses over what went wrong, while in the future, Timothy ~~[[Mc Veigh]]~~ wrecks ''more'' of the aforementioned fire, blood, and death on innocent bystanders in the Branch Davidians' name.

* A planned ATF raid goes horribly wrong, setting off a 50-day siege that ends in [[Rocks Fall Everybody Dies|fire, blood, and death]] for most of those involved. Surveying the wreckage, Lois' ghost, or possibly just her vocalist, muses over what went wrong, while in the future, Timothy McVeigh wrecks ''more'' of the aforementioned fire, blood, and death on innocent bystanders in the Branch Davidians' name.

An exception to this plot formula is ''[[The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway]]'', because [[Mind Screw|no-one really has a CLUE what that's about]].