History Main / MaddenIntoMisanthropy

* TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea: Captain Nemo’s BackStory is not full revealed in this novel, but [[ButtMonkey He declares he has lost all his family because of ]] TheEmpire, and definitely he shows {{Angst}} about it. [[HandOff He never shake hands with Professor Aronnax]], he [[LonersAreFreaks has severed all contact with the “civilized” world]] [[BeyondGoodAndEvil and his morality]], and [[StartMyOwn creates his own society]] of people that also had been MaddenIntoMisanthropy that will become a NGOSuperpower. Oh, and he tries to become an {{Ubermensch}}. When Aronnax call him out about the cruelty implied in never let them go out the Nautiuls, he answers:

* In {{Heidi}}, this happened to the main character's grandfather in the past, after the death of his son Thomas (Heidi's dad) followed soon by Heidi's mother Adelheid kicking the bucket as well. The old man never was one for socializing, but after ''that'' he went up the mountains and left everything, until he starts defrosting when Heidi goes live with him. [[spoiler: It happens again when she's taken away from him by aunt Dete, apparently becoming even worse than in the past, until Heidi comes back to his side.]]

* After a few nights of wearing ''TheMask'', Stanley Ipkiss can't stand living a normal life and begins doing things like threatening to call the IRS when his boss attempts to give him a hard time.

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* Claudia Donovan in the season finale of ''Warehouse13'' is suffering an acute version of this, being so angry and hurt over [[spoiler: the death of her friend Steve Jinks]] that she lashes out at the Regents and everyone around her, while simultaneously [[spoiler: saving an artifact to try and SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong]] against the laws of the organization.

** OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!OHMYGOD!

* [[StarWars Anakin Skywalker ]]has a little of this. His ego and arrogance lead him to believe he's being held back purposely by the Jedi, creating some resentment and giving him a more aggressive, angrier and distant demeanor (for a Jedi). By the time he really starts getting into it though he turns to {{the Dark Side}} thanks to the influence of Palpatine.

Related to BeneathTheMask. WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is usually less fun than this. Compare the MirrorMoralityMachine. [[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] JohnMaddenFootball. [[YourMileageMayVary Well, at least not for most of us...]] See also [[{{Ptitled0rvujns}} Did You Think I Can't Feel?]]

* Toph Bei Fong in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' was treated as a helpless little girl by her parents. She [[DisabilitySuperpower went on to master Earthbending despite being blind]], becoming a boisterous and HotBlooded wrestling sensation by night. Though she kept up the charade for some time, she eventually ran away with Aang and co. She does regret doing it, though.
** More to the point, Toph comes from an extremely wealthy and influential family that tried to ingrain in her all the virtues of ladylike behavior. She felt so repressed by this that she deliberately develops a number of crude habits, including picking her nose, picking her toes, belching loudly, and rubbing her dirty hands on her shirt. She essentially becomes, for all intents and purposes, TheBigGuy, despite actually being physically the exact opposite.

Related to BeneathTheMask. Compare the MirrorMoralityMachine. [[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] JohnMaddenFootball. [[YourMileageMayVary Well, at least not for most of us...]] See also [[{{Ptitled0rvujns}} Did You Think I Can't Feel?]]

* [[{{X-Men}} Magneto]] had this happen to him ''twice:'' once when he was driven into his supervillainous status by his experiences in the Holocaust, the death of his daughter, and the abandonment of his wife, and a second time after [[ILetGwenStacyDie losing two of his students]] and being [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured almost to the breaking point]] by someone trying to steal his powers.

It's not all an ego trip though. They may act like a JerkAss, but just as often they will be unrestrained in their positive impulses and aspects as well, seeing no reason not to do a nice thing for someone they like, helping them to release their own inner fears and limitations, and even [[TeachHimAnger "teaching them"]] they can ignore social convention every once in a while. If they have been pining for someone, they will now proceed to confidently and unconventionally romance them.

Interestingly, they will only get mildly rejected for this behavior. Lifelong friends will be weirded out by the change but nonetheless happy for their friend's newfound assertiveness and happiness. Of course, since they don't usually cause stress they will avoid the sharp end of this knife. {{Love interest}}s who are shrewish will be horrified away, while those who were [[LoveIsOblivious oblivious]] to them now take notice. While the PointyHairedBoss will want to fire them, his bosses will find his attitude refreshing and promote him up against the annoying middle-manager's wishes.

->For as there are misanthropists or haters of men, there are also misologists or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world. Misanthropy arises out of the too great confidence of inexperience;—you trust a man and think him altogether true and sound and faithful, and then in a little while he turns out to be false and knavish; and then another and another, and when this has happened several times to a man, especially when it happens among those whom he deems to be his own most trusted and familiar friends, and he has often quarreled with them, he at last hates all men, and believes that no one has any good in him at all.

* At the conclusion of GulliversTravels, Gulliver sees humans as nothing more than Yahoos who talk and wear clothes.

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What comes next is usually pretty fun. They will systematically deconstruct the parts of modern living, culture, work, and their own life that they dislike, and rebuild these relationships from their end into something workable (again, for them). They will reject conventions like white lies, saying exactly what they feel and think. They will not dress to expectation, going unkempt, wearing only things that are comfortable, or switching to a highly unique personal style. If someone annoys them, they won't bother acknowledging their presence. If they try to pester the misanthrope they won't hesitate to tell them exactly how much of a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] they are. If the misanthrope dislikes them enough or outright ''hates'' them, they will use threats or slapstick level physical comedy to subdue or chase them off. They won't kill anyone, but likely because they now have such an efficient way of venting their anger they either don't ''get'' that angry anymore, or don't stay angry long enough to cause them stress.

** [[ArchEnemy She especially hates birds for crapping on her all the time]]...and hated the villagers even more for encouraging them -- you can see a basket of birdseed right next to Shale.

* In an episode of ''TimeSquad'', it's shown that EdgarAllanPoe was basically TastesLikeDiabetes Incarnate whose writings were all about {{Sugar Bowl}}s and other cute, fluffy things. However at the end, the main characters openly criticize a pink cake he baked for them, which eventually drove him into becoming... Well, Edgar Allan Poe.

Have you ever been '''''so''''' annoyed with life you just want to forget about "civilized" culture and become ADarkerMe? or [[BeneathTheMask a diferen you?]] [[{{Ubermensch}} The kind of person]] [[BeneathTheMask who couldn't care less about social conventions]] and went about exacting [[DisproportionateRetribution Disproportionate]] (but poetic) Retribution?

Related to BenathTheMask when this was caused by being represed and not by being corrupted
Compare the MirrorMoralityMachine. [[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] JohnMaddenFootball. [[YourMileageMayVary Well, at least not for most of us...]] See also [[{{Ptitled0rvujns}} Did You Think I Can't Feel?]]

Have you ever been '''''so''''' annoyed with life you just want to forget about "civilized" culture and become ADarkerMe? [[{{Ubermensch}} The kind of person]] who couldn't care less about social conventions and went about exacting [[DisproportionateRetribution Disproportionate]] (but poetic) Retribution?

** More to the point, Toph comes from an extremely wealthy and influential family that tried to ingrain in her all the virtues of ladylike behavior. She felt so repressed by this that she deliberately develops a number of crude habits, including picking her nose, picking her toes, belching loudly, and rubbing her dirty hands on her shirt.

** Well, [[spoiler: the neighbor did try to kiss him.]]

* ''AmericanBeauty'': The whole point of this movie, too, ultimately played for tragedy. At least, the implication is that Lester's misanthropy leads him to a much greater understanding and acceptance of himself, up until [[spoiler:his homophobic, in-the-closet neighbor shoots him dead after [[MistakenForGay mistaking him for being gay]]]].