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* Hachiken Yugo from ''[[Silver Spoon]]'' has this as one of his major problems.
* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Shinji gets assigned to save the world from aliens starting in the first episode, but he still feels like he doesn't know what his purpose in life is. Pretty much the entire show becomes about this. Midway through the show, he discovers that piloting the Eva gives him purpose, and the [[Gainax Ending|last two episodes]] are all about him now trying to find meaning without it. Other characters have arcs likes this too.
* A darker example happens in ''[[Zombie Loan]]'', where {{spoiler|Reiichirou Chiba}} becomes so jaded with his boring life and how predictable his future will be that he kills himself. At which point he comes back to life as a superpowered zombie and becomes a serial killer. So... he did kind of get his wish.
** He is an ''extremely'' happy character. So, yeah. Cruel, psychotic bastard, but quite happy.
* In ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]'', the main character Touma bemoaned his lack of ability, with his [[Anti-Magic|power]] not able to fight thugs, help his test scores, or get him a [[Irony|girlfriend]]. That is until Index falls onto his balcony and he is suddenly thrust into a world were his ability is the only thing keeping him alive as he desperately tries to save people.
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** He was quite depressed, and worked through it quite well, but his lack of real interest in anything still showed. After being that powerful, you can't really go back.
** Luckily, all his friends in the Gotei 13 got together to restore him, and his dad stabbed him [[It Makes Sense in Context|helpfully]] [[In the Back]] in an utterly literal sense!
* This is Yagami Light's state of being as ''[[Death Note]]'' opens. He despises most people, especially his school friends, finds no challenge or meaning in anything, has no hobbies, views his highest ambitions as a matter of the course of time, and yet ''always does everything perfectly'', like laughing at jokes that aren't funny told by people he loathes because good, clean-cut students socialize, and studying for exams he could pass in his sleep. He's probably a clinically depressed clinical psychopath, with reputation-defense and control issues to beat the band. It's no wonder really he wound up finding his purpose in conquering the world by fear and murder once he got his hands on an [[Artifact of Doom]] that removed the consequences from hurting people.
* This trope is what at least [[Akumetsu|Niikura Shou]] was experiencing when he discovered his origins and Akumetsu the clone army was born. Most other Shous are only shown after a lot of brainsharing, body-replacement, and Akumetsu's launch, so [[Send in the Clones|they aren't really individuals anymore]], but him at least, and probably Hazama too.
* In ''[[Kyou Kara Maou]]'', Shibuya Yuuri (Harajuku Fuuri) of [[Wide-Eyed Idealist|all]] [[The Messiah|people]], was like this before stepping into his role as king of Shin Makoku. Typified by his not actually playing any baseball even though he likes it and trying to walk away and let Muraken get bullied, but not being able to go through with it once he realizes he's been recognized. ''Then'' he gets himself swirlied into another dimension while {{spoiler|Murata apparently cravenly abandons him, presumably runs straight for the cops, and in ''[[The Reveal|reality]]'' must have stood right beside the toilets facilitating the dimensional leap from his side to make it possible.}}
** But he doesn't take the kingship because they're offering him power and meaning; the whole deal freaks him out, until he can only influence whether there's war by accepting. It takes him a while after that to adapt, and even then it's largely less him 'growing up' than him forgetting to whne or worry about himself because he [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|MUST SAVE THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD AS SOON AS HE NOTICES EVERY PROBLEM IT HAS]]. If he weren't such an unobservant moron, he'd work himself to the bone. As it is, he almost-dies way too often for his [[Mr. Fanservice|retainers']] comfort.
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