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Not always.
Sometimes, being [[The Chosen One]] is ''[[It Sucks to Be The Chosen One|hard]]'', especially when it puts your life in danger, consumes all your free time, and makes you choose between [[
Heroic powers can have a [[Super-Powered Evil Side|terrifying will of their own]] and be [[Power Incontinence|hard to control]] and demand that a [[Power At a Price|price be paid]]. If the Hurting Hero [[Jumped At the Call]], they'll probably wish they had [[Be Careful What You Wish For|Been Careful What They Wished For]] and think [[I Just Want to Be Normal]].
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Different heroes handle this different ways. Some get [[Anti-Hero|dark and broody]], some [[Drowning My Sorrows|drink]], some [[Beard of Sorrow|cease to care how they look]]. Some play the idiot, and some [[Stepford Smiler|force a smile]] and [[Sad Clown|crack bad jokes]] because if the whole world [[Becoming the Mask|thinks you're happy, that many people can't be wrong.]] [[Broken Hero|Can they?]]
Sometimes, the pressure gets too great, leading to anything from a [[Heroic BSOD]], to a full-on [[Fallen Hero]] [[Face Heel Turn]]. Some heroes go [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]], others are glad for a little comfort.
Still, heroes are heroes. They can and will rise above their weakness and pain and [[World of Cardboard Speech|declare for everyone and the villain to come and see what they can do.]] And [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|they'll do it]], thus [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earning their happy ending]].
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* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': {{spoiler|''Homura''. Oh man, Homura. The saddest part is that despite being [[The Stoic]] [[Anti-Hero]] she is clearly [[Not So Stoic|more emotionally fragile than she looks]].}}
** Mami and Sayaka too. {{spoiler|Mami regrets not saving her family with her wish, and Sayaka learns the truths about being a Magical Girl and it really gets to her.}}
* Van of ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' exemplifies the broody [[Anti-Hero]] version: he's one of the gloomiest heroes you'll ever see. It's implied that at one point, he dealt with his pain through drinking (hence the nickname "Hangover Van"); he also seems to use [[In
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* Doctor K and Dillon from ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''. [[The Woobie]] [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]] and the amnesiac [[Phlebotinum Rebel]], respectively.
* Jack Harkness from ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''. Just... In ''Children of Earth'' alone, {{spoiler|first we learn he has a daughter and a grandson; while the grandson thinks Jack is his uncle, the daughter just really doesn't want anything to do with Jack. Then he gets blown up and feels it, comes back to life screaming with all of his skin still burned off, gets drowned and trapped in concrete, is thrown off a cliff while in the concrete, has his daughter and grandson taken hostage, and learns that he is partially responsible for the latest alien threat because he once surrendered 12 children to them. Then, just when it looks like he might be able to stand up to the alien threat, Ianto (his lover) is killed because of his [[Idiot Ball|very bad plan]] and dies in his arms, something Jack blames himself for. Then, to finally save the world from the alien threat, he has to ''kill his grandson in front of his screaming daughter''.}}
* In ''[[
** Doctor number Ten, especially. "Born from war" is an apt description, and the guy sometimes comes across as just one big moving mass of pain. Hell, he can make grown men and women burst into tears just [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz_1HQY32LA by talking about his home planet].
{{quote| '''Doctor:''' [[Last Words|I don't want to go.]]}}
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{{quote| ''I'm a perfectly ordinary girl and I have an ordinary life... but I've also got another life. And I hate it. I hate every minute of it.''}}
* All four main characters in ''[[Broken Saints]]'' are like this--especially the men. Shandala has a [[Dark and Troubled Past]], but she doesn't let it haunt her everyday life until the plot gets going and bad shit goes down.
* Most of Team Kimba from the [[Whateley Universe]]. [[Person of Mass Destruction|Tennyo]] is regarded as a crazed menace even by most of the other supers at [[Super
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