Dysfunction Junction: Difference between revisions

* Oh, ''[[Saiyuki]]''. Much of it family-related. We have dead parental figures, sibling incest, parental incest, parents attempting to kill children, children killing parents, characters murdering entire villages and clans...

* ''[[White Album]]''. Touji is a slacker and seemingly can't take any kind of initiative, Yuki is an [[Extreme Doormat]], Yaoyi is... well, not particularly functional, Haruka seems to be something of a [[Wild Child]], Misaki is pretty much incapable of functioning, Mana is neglected by her parents, Eiji is... Well, just crazy. All in all not the most mentally stable of casts.

** ...and that even if you include two of them in the "weird, but ok" group, you can still count how many characters are in it with one hand.

** Technically, it's a love ''square''. What makes it a square, you ask? ''[[A Love to Dismember|A freaking head]]''. [[Cute and Psycho|The]] [[Ambition Is Evil|rest]] [[Stepford Smiler|of]] [[Abusive Parents|the]] [[Beware the Nice Ones|cast]] [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|isn't]] [[Lack of Empathy|really]] [[Yakuza|that]] [[Tin Man|much]] [[Dark and Troubled Past|better]], [[A God Am I|either]]. [[There Are No Therapists|And they're]] [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|only]] [[Awakening the Sleeping Giant|getting]] [[Serial Escalation|WORSE]].

* The majority of the villains in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' have a [[Freudian Excuse]], and given the series [[Deconstructor Fleet|usual penchant]], this is probably intentional. Then there's the Protagonist, Judai, who is far by the most mentally screwed up character in the series, and he only gets worse as time goes on.

** Examples of villains can be summed up in 4/7 of the 7 Stars. Camilla is a vampiress whose people have been killed by humans and took refuge in a coffin until Kagemaru found her. And Abidos III rebelled against his advisers over dueling. However, the worst cases are for Darkness and Amnael, better known as {{spoiler|Asuka's older brother Fubuki and Daitokuji-sensei.}} {{spoiler|Fubuki}} mysteriously vanishes in the abandoned dorm one night and became Darkness. And as for Amnael's origins... {{spoiler|Daitokuji}} was an alchemist. {{spoiler|Kagemaru}} funded his research, but {{spoiler|Daitokuji}} fell gravely ill and had to make a second body to continue. And it turns out all along that {{spoiler|Daitokuji wanted to stop Kagemaru.}}

** As a child, Yuri witnessed her three younger siblings' murder at the hands of a gang of robbers. This is the root of her anger towards God. It was also her "fault" that they died because she couldn't find money in the house to give to the robbers. They probably would've killed them all regardless, but that doesn't really help Yuri's feelings of guilt.

** Iwasawa had to deal with a drunk father who continually fought with her mother. She died from a cerebral contusion, caused by her own father who bashed her in the head with a beer bottle.

** Sam Braddock revealed in "Acceptable Risk" that {{spoiler|he saw his younger sister being hit by a car and killed instantly when he was nine years old.}}

** Kevin "Wordy" Wordsmith appears to be the most normal of the team, [[Happily Married]] and loving to his three daughters.

* ''[[I Love Money]]'' a VH 1 reality game show starring contestants from ''[[Flavor of Love]]'', ''[[I Love New York]]'', ''[[Rock of Love]]'', ''Real Chance of Love'', ''For the Love of Ray J'', ''Daisy of Love'' and ''Megan Wants a Millionaire'', who all immediately proceed to have sex with each other.

* In ''[[Community]]'''s group, pretty much everyone's banged up emotionally, resulting in the Spanish study group being a substitute family for most of them. (Britta says as much early on)

* ''[[Persona 3]]'' - Every major character in the game you can interact and build social links with has ''some'' kind of mental or physical disorder, tragic past, neglectful or dead parent or similar that they angst over. And the one to reach to them with [[The Power of Friendship]] or [[The Power of Love]] and make them get over it? [[There Are No Therapists|It sure isn't the town psychologist]].

* Most, if not all, of the major characters of the computer RPG ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' possess some manner of dysfunction, tragic past, or similar torment. The player character, The Nameless One, is an amnesiac immortal with [[Identity Amnesia|a large number of dark pasts]], and his party members range from an orphaned part-demon to an insane fire wizard who was turned into a living conduit to the elemental plane of fire. Most of the major NPCs are similarly tormented - many of them, it turns out, as a result of interactions with The Nameless One at some point. This turns out to be a major plot point - {{spoiler|one of the 'powers' possessed by The Nameless One as a result of his immortality is an unconscious dominion over torment, symbolized by a tattoo on his shoulder. Whether he likes it or no, his power draws troubled and dysfunctional souls to him like moths to a flame and binds their destinies to his}}. Furthermore, in several cases (notably {{spoiler|Ignus, Vhailor, Dak'kon, Morte and ''especially'' Deionarra}}) the Nameless One is the direct and intentional ''cause'' of this horrid past, in one of his [[Complete Monster]] or [[Chessmaster]] incarnations.

* Every non-Valkyrie character in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' has some sort of personal tragedy that ends in a convenient [[Karmic Death]]. Even the Valkyrie {{spoiler|was once a mortal girl who was raised by an abusive mother that was going to sell her into slavery. Her self-esteem was so low that she allowed herself to die in a field of poisonous flowers.}}

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' also has universal tragic past syndrome. All of the characters a)are being hunted by the Empire (even before the story begins), b)are imprisoned or harassed by the Empire, c)are misused by the Empire, d)have lost a loved one to the Empire, or e)some combination of the above.