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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' plays this for drama.
* ''[[Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Haré+Guu]]''. Guu uses her logic-defying powers just to fuck Hare's life up. His mother is not much nicer to him. Seriously, asking him if he saved his game, and then turning it off for no apparent reason? He never knew his father most of his life, and it turns out that it was the school doctor, who looks at pornography and hates him with a passion.
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'': It's like ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[South Park]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', Japanese Anime Style.
* Pick a harem series. Any. You'll be lucky if it ''isn't'' this trope.
* ''[[School Days]]''. Maybe the ONLY harem series that takes itself seriously.
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* [[Its Not My Fault That I Am Not Popular]]!, the semireal tales of a mangaka who went through a loss of humiliation and abuse.
* [[Keroro Gunsou]]. Being a space frog with inferiority complex, while trying to take over Earth, only to be at the mercy of the pink-haired Natsumi Hinata, who you live under and forces you to do chores can suck big time.
* [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]], considering everything that has happened to the Elric brothers and the people they have to associate with, especially the State Military of Ametris.
* [[Paranoia Agent]]. This applies to the lives of nearly every main character that is featured in each episode, up until Lil' Slugger comes by and puts them out of their misery.
* [[Jigoku Shoujo]]. That. is. all.
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* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' sometime dips into this. "Anti-Life justifies my hate", anyone?
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] is all about watching the titular Nerd play through [[So Bad It's Horrible|craptastic]] games just to show us everything that's wrong with them. Doing so must cost him his sanity and self-respect.
** AVGN's French counterpart, ''[[Joueur Du Grenier]]'', created a spinoff series to his angry review videos called "JDG La Revanche" that consists entirely of him losing his mind trying to beat games he already tested but couldn't beat back then because of how absurdly difficult or just plain awful they are, and it's absolutely hilarious to watch.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] will dip into this, especially when she reviewed the [[Interquel]] to her all-time favourite Disney movie, ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''. She didn't have fun.
** Increasingly so as the character develops, really taking off with her [[All Take and No Give|casual abuse of her best friend]]. The Chick has coalesced into a geeky shut-in [[Closet Geek|in denial about her nerdy nature]], and an insecure [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]] who [[Inferiority Superiority Complex|needs to beat down her friends to boost her]] own [[Broken Bird|broken self-esteem]]. The "Dark Nella Saga" tried breaking her down instead, but she was too oblivious for it to work.