History Main / HeartbrokenBadass

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fic ''Fanfic/TheVow'': Lord Shen becomes this when he's banished from home for his crime of [[spoiler:massacring pandas]] while his parents and Lady Lianne, his fiancée, act in an outwardly cold way while doing that (in reality, they're sad at having to do it). Viewing it to be an unjust response to [[IDidWhatIHadToDo his efforts to prevent his fate]], Shen [[FaceHeelTurn swears to conquer China and have his revenge]]. Later, near the end of the story, Shen suffers a VillainousBSOD after [[spoiler:he releases his newlywed wife Lianne [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy out of love]]]] and [[WhatHaveIBecome ponders on how far he has fallen]]. It [[InSpiteOfANail doesn't]] prevent him from engaging in his final confrontation with Po in the same way as in canon though. [[spoiler:However, he [[SparedByAdaptation survives]], returns to Lianne and [[BittersweetEnding resigns to live with her]].]]

** Which is eerily similar to a photo of a firefighter holding the body of a victim of the Oklahoma City bombing [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Firefighterbabyocb.jpg here]]. [[{{TearJerker}} Damn]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Tim Drake's longtime girlfriend Stephanie Brown was tortured to death by Black Mask. To make matters worse this happened right before his father and two best friends were killed, all of which combined caused a drastic permanent change in his personality. Stephanie's death was eventually retconned to have been faked so she was able to return and, after a lot of discussions about trust and betrayal, they resumed their relationship.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man lost Gwen Stacy to the Green Goblin in ''ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied''. It's one of the most iconic moments in his history but damn, poor Peter. Meanwhile, in stories set in the future/{{Alternate Universe}}s/{{What If}}s, it's common for his most famous love interest, Mary Jane Watson, to die or disappear. (Just see the page image with Spidey doing a CradleOfLoneliness on Mary Jane's headstone.)
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}: In ''ComicBook/YoungLove'', Dick Malverne, Pre-Crisis Supergirl's childhood crush died after confessing he loved her and he knew her SecretIdentity all along, leaving her heart-broken.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol. 1]]: Wonder Woman had her heart broken when the love of her life ComicBook/SteveTrevor died. Then, because this is comics we're talking about, Eros possessed Steve's body and tried to recreate Steve's personality and then Steve was reanimated using a version of himself from another universe.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} has lost ComicBook/JeanGrey ''twice'' (and He's often misblamed for her loss the second time around). He also lost his first wife, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePrior Madelyne Prior]].

* ''Theatre/MissSaigon'': Given that three years after being forced to abandon her in war-torn Vietnam, Chris is still having nightmares about Kim, he counts as this. His troubled marriage and Kim dying in his arms at the end of the show cinches it.

* It happens several times in ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'' that ComicBook/CarolDanvers loses some loved one. Her lover Mike Barnett is beaten to death by Mystique, her dear friend and sometimes crush Mar-Vell dies from cancer...

-->-- '''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''Comicbook/YoungLove''

* ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeDevilsDue G.I. Joe: America's Elite]]'' shows Flint to be utterly devastated by the murder of his wife Lady Jaye, his loss causing him to be more violent and ruthless than before. He's even shown to blame himself for sparing his wife's killer.

* Zoe is this in the ''[[{{Franchise/Firefly}} Serenity]]'' comics that are set after the movie, due to her husband Wash dying in the film.
* Marv of ''ComicBook/SinCity''. His only starring role in a full length story starts with him discovering the first woman to ever sleep with him has been murdered. Seeing how he normally responds to violence against women and violence against friends.... [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge you get the idea.]]

* Franchise/SpiderMan: Spider-Man lost Gwen Stacy to the Green Goblin. It's one of the most iconic moments in his history but damn, poor Peter. Meanwhile, in stories set in the future/{{Alternate Universe}}s/{{What If}}s, it's common for his most famous love interest, Mary Jane Watson, to die or disappear. (Just see the page image with Spidey doing a CradleOfLoneliness on Mary Jane's headstone.)
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}: In ''Comicbook/YoungLove'', Dick Malverne, Pre-Crisis Supergirl's childhood crush died after confessing he loved her and he knew her SecretIdentity all along, leaving her heart-broken.

* Hamato Yoshi of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' in various continuities, including the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 second animated series]]. He loved a woman named Tang Shen who ended up being murdered.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': ComicBook/WonderWoman had her heart broken when the love of her life ComicBook/SteveTrevor died. Then, because this is comics we're talking about, Eros possessed Steve's body and tried to recreate Steve's personality and then Steve was reanimated using a version of himself from another universe.
* ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} from ''ComicBook/XMen'' has lost ComicBook/JeanGrey ''twice'' (and He's often misblamed for her loss the second time around). He also lost his first wife, Madelyne.
* Zoe in the ''{{Franchise/Firefly}}'' comics. She’s hit hard by losing Wash in TheMovie and it’s likely just discovering she’s pregnant that keeps her going.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim Drake's longtime girlfriend Stephanie Brown was tortured to death by Black Mask. To make matters worse this happened right before his father and two best friends were killed, all of which combined caused a drastic permanent change in his personality. Stephanie's death was eventually retconned to have been faked so she was able to return and, after a lot of discussions about trust and betrayal, they resumed their relationship.