History Main / MaddenIntoMisanthropy

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe is shown as a {{Manchild}}, StepfordSmiler and 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.

* In ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', ArcVillain Mr. Oz is revealed to have been the result of this. [[spoiler: His true identity is ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s father [[SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome Jor-El]], who was rescued from the destruction of Krypton by [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Dr. Manhattan]] and forced to continually bear witness to the worst mankind had to offer while already being embittered by [[IgnoredExpert his warnings about Krpyton being ignored]] and the Kryptonite shards lodged in his brain. He then becomes TheDragon to Manhattan and starts an ApocalypseCult on Earth in an attempt to [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism prove to Superman that]] HumansAreBastards.]]

Related to BeneathTheMask. WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is usually less fun than this. Compare the MirrorMoralityMachine and PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] VideoGame/MaddenNFL. [[SeriousBusiness Well, at least not for most of us]]... See also DidYouThinkICantFeel

* 4Kids's attempt at {{Bowdlerization}} actually had this happen to Rafael in ''Anime/YuGiOh'''s filler season. In the original version, Rafael's DarkAndTroubledPast was that he was the sole survivor of his family after the cruise ship he was on was driven into a tidal wave by Dartz... and after being rescued, he randomly decides [[PlotHole that humans are bastards, with no discernible reason as to why]] other than the news. The dub, however, didn't mention anything about his family dying, instead implying that they had moved on and weren't ready to accept him back into their lives... which pretty much maddened him into misanthropy.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', particularly in ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''

* BigBad [[spoiler: Adachi]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. As a result of his FriendlessBackground and being reassigned FromNewYorkToNowhere, he spent all his free time drinking and watching TV in his apartment out of SmallTownBoredom. The lack of positive outlets in his life alongside his sociopathic tendencies and superiority complex [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcmxrkHXD0 were the perfect ingredients to turn him into one of the more realistic depictions of a]] SerialKiller and a MisanthropeSupreme.

BigBad [[spoiler: Adachi]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. As a result of his FriendlessBackground and being reassigned FromNewYorkToNowhere, he spent all his free time drinking and watching TV in his apartment out of SmallTownBoredom. The lack of positive outlets in his life alongside his sociopathic tendencies and superiority complex [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkcmxrkHXD0 were the perfect ingredients to turn him into one of the more realistic depictions of a]] SerialKiller and a MisanthropeSupreme.

Start with a NiceGuy, maybe even a DeadpanSnarker, or any character who plays by society's rules. Mix with [[ButtMonkey frustration]], add a dash of [[NiceGuysFinishLast romantic rejection]] and [[EtTuBrute betrayal]], put him or her in the oven to 300 degrees {{Angst}}ius for a few years, months, weeks or, in some cases, ''days'' (indeed, the time to completion varies a ''lot'' by the main ingredient's willpower) and voilá! You now have a man or woman who has been maddened into misanthropy.

* All the Guardians in ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', but especially Japhet, who built the huge city that occupies Zone 2 and just wants acknowledgement for everything that he's done for the Elsens living there. The Elsens, meanwhile, have become far too paranoid and fearful of even the simplest things [[UngratefulBastard to appreciate anything he's done]], and in fact ''don't even recognize him'' (though [[spoiler:when the Batter finally meets him, he's occupying someone else's body]],) frustrating him to the point that now he just wants to destroy everything he's created.

* The final fame in ''VideoGame/TheBlackwellSeries'', ''Epiphany'', has this for [[spoiler:Madeleine, the spirit guide before Joey Mallone came into the picture. After meeting with Joey as a complete matter of routine, Madeleine is betrayed by her Bestower partner, Jocelyn, and trapped in the void unable to return. Being trapped there for 70 years, in addition to the perhaps centuries she worked as a spirit guide being denied the release of death she craved, she finally resolved to consume the spirits of a self-help group, then tear a hole in reality to overwhelm souls with void energy, in the hopes that she herself will be one of the annihilated.]]

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Played with. Trafalgar Law, a man nigh infamous for his cruelty, is still a rather laid back person, if a bit cold. Though, as bad he is, he was even ''worse'' as a child -- [[spoiler:if it weren't for Corazon showing him compassion and love]], he would've been a ''lot'' more cynical after [[spoiler:the world abandoned his city to burn a fiery death after using its people to dig up the poisonous Amber Lead for profit]]. Instead, while he still has a remarkably jaded a view of the world, he hasn't lost his capacity for mercy and compassion, even if he doesn't show it all the time. That being said, he's still a pirate, and he is primarily concerned with himself, those allied with him, and his goals: [[spoiler:particularly, his goal of killing Doflamingo for Corazon's death]].

* A {{deconstruction}} of this happens in the 2000's version of ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' with Mark, albeit he goes more to the {{Ubermensch}} side of the scale.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'' (both the film and comic) has Fox systematically madden and train Wesley into a badass who has zero regard for playing by the rules that made his pre-fraternity life miserable. Amazingly for a career killer, he handles the breakup with his girlfriend by casually breezing into and out of their apartment, much to her anger and confusion. The comic has Wesley brutally beaten weekly (only to later let him free to have a go at hurting his 'trainer'). The film adds a nice ShutUpHannibal confrontation with his former boss, and a keyboard comeuppance to the friend who was cheating with his girlfriend.

* In ''Fanfic/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything'' L already has this attitude from [[BreakTheCutie the things that have happened to him pre-story]] and Light is also {{s|anitySlippage}}lipping into this as his mask of perfection begins slipping. However the people around him frequently make excuses for his behavior [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem because of who he is]] and try their best not to notice--such as when his wife excuses his foul moods as "headaches."

** All of Danny Wallace's books (including ''Yes Man'') have something of this, though you would wouldn't call him "misanthropic".

* In ''Literature/{{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 into 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.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', George, unsatisfied with his lot, decides to take the opposite approach to everything he does, starting by asking a woman out by being honest and saying he's "unemployed and lives with his parents." Everything drastically improves for him from there: he ''gets'' the girl, moves out of his parents' apartment, and gets a job with the Yankees!

** A more clear cut example is H.G. Wells in Season 2. When her daughter died, she started seeing only the worst in people, and eventually had herself [[HumanPopsicle bronzed]], in the hopes that when she'd be eventually thawed, the world would be a better place. [[spoiler:When she figures that it's only gotten worse, she becomes a total StrawNihilist and attempts to cause a second Ice Age before Myka talks her down.]]

* After having been experimented on, used as a slave, paralyzed for 30 years in a small village and fully aware the entire time, [[VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins Shale]] has NOT come to have any love for "squishy" organic creatures.

* Jack from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' certainly qualifies; when she was just an infant, she was kidnapped from her parents by Cerberus due to her biotic potential. She subsequently spent her entire childhood being tortured and experimented upon in an attempt to make her some sort of Biotic super-weapon until she and the other captives finally rebelled. But even then she didn't catch a break, and basically spent the next few years being used and sold from one person to the next, from pirates to gangs and so on, and causing all sorts of havoc along the way until she was finally captured and locked in cryo on a prison ship. By the time Shepard actually meets her, she is so jaded that the mere concept of someone genuinely wanting to help her for reasons other than their own personal gain [[EvilCannotComprehendGood is practically foreign to her]].

* One of the central plot elements of the ''Videogame/ShadowHearts'' series is a TomeOfEldritchLore called the Émigré Manuscript -- a book that has all manner of dark spells, but is coded to the point where the spells are the diversion and anyone smart and self-less enough to ignore the spells and looks at the books, greater meaning recieves a revelation into the true nature of God's plan. Only three people in the entire series have achieved this level of clarity and all three have become complete Misanthropes, after realization basically how little the universe cares about petty human nonsense, aside from the tome itself, all three have had really messed up lives that did not mix well with said revelation.

** The second character encountered is heroine of the first game, Koudelka Iasant. Koudelka was hardly a fan of humanity, being a Roma witch with a DarkAndTroubledPast, but when she channels the knowledge of the Émigré Manuscript, her investment in man-kind completely dries up. While in the first game she is a cynic, she wants to help people, but come the second game (after her revelation) we see her learning of a plan to wipe out the world and basically only care enough to try to stop it because that's where her son lives.
** Our third and final comprehender of the Émigré is a student of Roger, Albert Simon, who was thrown into misanthropy ''before'' his revelation; He tried to use his position in the Vatican to stand-up for civil-rights, only to find the people in the Vatican, were very much against it. After that he tried to make his own revival movement... only for his star-acolyte to go full evil -- which broke the last of his idealism. By the time he decided to read the Émigré Manuscript, he was already ready to wipe out humanity to keep from being disappointed in it anymore, the book wound up not only telling him how to do exactly that, but gave him a form of clarity so that he goes about it in a TranquilFury.

** The backstory for the Sith Inquisitor is that they were MadeASlave by the Empire before it was discovered they were Force-Sensetive. It's apparently the reason why nearly every line out of their mouth is pure, unadulterated [[TheSnarkKnight sardonicism]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'', Creator/EdgarAllanPoe is shown as a {{Manchild}}, StepfordSmiler and 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.

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* From [[Music/JoyDivision Joy Division's]] [[Music/UnknownPleasures "She's Lost Control"]]:
-->''And how I'll never know just why or understand''
-->''She said I've lost control again.''
-->''And she screamed out kicking on her side''
-->''And said I've lost control again.''
-->''And seized up on the floor, I thought she'd die.''
-->''She said I've lost control.''
-->''She's lost control again.''
-->''She's lost control.''
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Related to BeneathTheMask. WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is usually less fun than this. Compare the MirrorMoralityMachine. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] VideoGame/MaddenNFL. [[SeriousBusiness Well, at least not for most of us]]... See also DidYouThinkICantFeel

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* 4Kids's attempt at {{Bowdlerization}} actually had this happen to Rafael in ''Anime/YuGiOh'''s filler season. In the original version, Rafael's DarkAndTroubledPast was that he was the sole survivor of his family after the cruise ship he was on was driven into a tidal wave by Dartz... and after being rescued, he randomly decides [[PlotHole that humans are bastards, with no discernable reason as to why]] other than the news. The dub, however, didn't mention anything about his family dying, instead implying that they had moved on and weren't ready to accept him back into their lives... which pretty much maddened him into misanthropy.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Played with. Trafalgar Law, a man nigh infamous for his cruelty, is still a rather laid back person, if a bit cold. Though, as bad he is, he was even ''worse'' as a child -- [[spoiler:if it weren't for Corazon showing him compassion and love]], he would've been a ''lot'' more cynical after [[spoiler:the world abandoned his city to burn a fiery death after using its people to dig up the poisonous Amber Lead for profit]]. Instead, while he still has a remarkably jaded a view of the world, he hasn't lost his capacity for mercy and compassion, even if he doesn't show it all the time. That being said, he's still a pirate, and he is primarily concerned with himself, those allied with him, and his goals: [[spoiler:particularly, his goal of killing Doflamingo for Corazon's death]].

* A {{deconstruction}} of this happens in the 2000's version of ''ComicBook/SupremePower'' with Mark, albeit he goes more to the {{Ubermensch}} side of the scale.

* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'' (both the film and comic) has Fox systematically madden and train Wesley into a badass who has zero regard for playing by the rules that made his pre-fraternity life miserable. Amazingly for a career killer, he handles the breakup with his girlfriend by casually breezing into and out of their apartment, much to her anger and confusion. The comic has Wesley brutally beaten weekly (only to later let him free to have a go at hurting his 'trainer'). The film adds a nice ShutUpHannibal confrontation with his former boss, and a keyboard comeuppance to the friend who was cheating with his girlfriend.

* ComicBook/{{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 Anya, and the abandonment of his wife Magda, 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.

%%* ''Film/HowToLoseFriendsAndAlienatePeople''.

* ''Film/FightClub'': That's pretty much the whole point. (Apart from the "only mildly rejected" part.)
* ''Film/TheBraveOne'': At the very beginning of the film, Erica Bain spouses a great love for New York and the people in it on her radio show. By the end of the first act, what has happened to her ([[spoiler:thugs killing her husband, taking her dog, and beating her within an inch of her life]]) had driven her to spouse that she is ''terrified'' of the city, and what she does to the people who had done said wrong [[VigilanteMan is not pleasant at all]].
* ''Franchise/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). However, by the time he really starts getting into it, he turns to TheDarkSide thanks to the influence of Palpatine.
* Played for [[HilarityEnsues laughs]] in ''Film/AngerManagement'', where bringing the timid [[Creator/AdamSandler David Buznik]] to this point is the goal of the entire movie. It's very strongly implied, without browbeating him into learning a better way to [[TeachHimAnger deal with his emotions]], he might [[GoingPostal do something far worse than misanthropy]].
* After a few nights of wearing ''Film/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.
* ''Film/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]]]].
* Ash in ''Franchise/EvilDead'' series is a sensitive, fairly average man in the [[Film/TheEvilDead1981 first movie]]. Then over the course of a weekend which consists of all of his friends and loved ones [[EvilHand (even his own hand!)]] possessed by ancient demons and MindRape, he's turned into a callous badass fountain of one-liners. Though during the adjustment period between the two he's reduced to a gibbering lunatic...
* ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'': John Rambo is practically the poster boy of this trope, In [[Film/FirstBlood the first film]] he is a cynical Vietnam Vet. By the [[Film/RamboIV fourth movie]] he has abandoned civilization and humanity almost entirely.
* ''Film/TheDivide'' is a long view into the ride of a bunch of people trapped in a New York bunker after a nuclear attack into this. The ones that do not are dead ([[FateWorseThanDeath or taken for something probably worse]]) by film's end.

* At the conclusion of ''Literature/GulliversTravels'', Gulliver sees humans as nothing more than Yahoos who talk and wear clothes. He avoids human contact, including from his own family, as much as possible.
* In ''Literature/{{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 into 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.]]

* ''Series/{{House}}'': Dr. Gregory House, though he suggests he was always like this. "Since age 4."

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', George, unsatisfied with his lot, decides to take the opposite approach to everything he does, starting by asking a woman out by being honest and saying he's "unemployed and lives with his parents." Everything drastically improves for him from there: he ''gets'' the girl, moves out of his parents' apartment, and gets a job with the Yankees!
* Blair attempts this in season two of ''Series/GossipGirl''. Chuck seems to be heading down this route in season three.
* Koga Saejima, the hero of ''Series/{{GARO}}'' has this as one reason behind his {{Tsundere}} attitude-- losing his father at a young age and assuming the family mantle makes him rather... impatient with anything not to do with hunting Horrors. It also allows him to cut directly to what needs to be done in that hunt.
* The premise of ''Series/TheFallAndRiseOfReginaldPerrin'' is Reggie just getting sick of his pointless job and diving into eccentricity.
* Claudia Donovan in the third season finale of ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' 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. Fortunately, things actually start to look up and, if anything, Claudia actually gets a lot more mature for all the effort. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Artie is warned of an unspeakable evil created by his use of the [[ResetButton astrolabe]] to restore the destroyed Warehouse, and acutely fears that this evil may manifest through Claudia]].
** A more clear cut example is H.G. Wells in season 2. When her daughter died, she started seeing only the worst in people, and eventually had herself [[HumanPopsicle bronzed]], in the hopes that when she'd be eventually thawed, the world would be a better place. [[spoiler:When she figures that it's only gotten worse, she becomes a total StrawNihilist and attempts to cause a second Ice Age before Myka talks her down.]]

* In ''Series/{{The Librarians|2014}} and the Curse of Cindy'', the titular Cindy was a sweet girl who was cruelly turned into the resident ButtMonkey on a reality TV show, and was completely unaware that her castmates were using her until after they voted her off the show. Naturally, she didn't take it well, and then a seemingly sympathetic member of the production crew offered her the chance to be adored forever, and all she had to do was help create a missle...

* The BigBad of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' is an {{exaggerated}} example. [[spoiler:John was, once, an ordinary human man who contemplated the truth of existence and the nature of death, and found the notion of eternity--be it eternal life or [[CessationOfExistence eternal nothingness]]--''horrifying'', and decided that if this was the cost of existing, it was too high. Not only did he go completely insane and come to view everything as utterly meaningless, he also felt he had to convince every single thing--not just every person, but ''every single thing''--on his plane of existence of this point. And somehow, he ''succeeded'', thus allowing the entire plane to become [[EldritchAbomination the Hunger]].]]

* ''[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Timon of Athens]]''. He likes people and people like him, and he gives people money & lavish gifts; then he gets in some financial trouble and his friends won't help him, so he becomes a misanthrope and lives in a cave. His one true friend, an actual misanthrope, berates him for being a copycat.

%%* [[spoiler:The BigBad]] of ''AceAttorneyInvestigations 2''.
* ''Videogame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': [[spoiler:Jaesa Wilsaam]] if you take the dark side option in the Sith Warrior story. This trope is also how Kaliyo in the Imperial Agent story comes across.
** The backstory for the Sith Inquisitor is that they were MadeASlave by the Empire before it was discovered they were Force-Sensetive. It's apparently the reason why nearly every line out of their mouth is pure, unadulterated [[TheSnarkKnight sardonicism]].
* [[spoiler:Oersted]] from ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', after being shunned by his kingdom for accidentally killing the king, decides that if [[ThenLetMeBeEvil the world views him as a villain, he might as well become one]] and becomes the BigBad. Unfortunately for all of time and space, he had the powers of a demon king at his disposal.
* All the Guardians in ''VideoGame/{{OFF}}'', but especially Japhet, who built the huge city that occupies Zone 2 and just wants acknowledgement for everything that he's done for the Elsens living there. The Elsens, meanwhile, have become far too paranoid and fearful of even the simplest things [[UngratefulBastard to appreciate anything he's done]], and in fact ''don't even recognize him'' (though [[spoiler:when the Batter finally meets him, he's occupying someone else's body]],) frustrating him to the point that now he just wants to destroy everything he's created.

* One of the central plot elements of the ''Videogame/ShadowHearts'' series is a TomeOfEldritchLore called the Émigré Manuscript - a book that has all manner of dark spells, but is coded to the point where the spells are the diversion and anyone smart and self-less enough to ignore the spells and looks at the books, greater meaning recieves a revelation into the true nature of God's plan. Only three people in the entire series have achieved this level of clairty and all three have become complete Misanthropes, after relization basically how little the universe cares about petty human nonsense, aside from the tome itself, all three have had really messed up lives that did not mix well with said revelation.
** First we have the translator of the text Roger Bacon - a former philosopher who upon trying to share his enlightenment with man-kind received nothing but fear-mongering and elitist gatekeeping to the point where he no longer views humanity with anything but disappointment, that only occasionally produces genuinely worth-while people.

** Our third and final comprehender of the Émigré is a student of Roger, Albert Simon, who was thrown into misanthropy ''before'' his revelation; He tried to use his position in the Vatican to stand-up for civil-rights, only to find the people in the Vatican, were very much against it. After that he tried to make his own revival movement... only for his star-acolyte to go full evil - which broke the last of his idealism. By the time he decided to read the Émigré Manuscript, he was already ready to wipe out humanity to keep from being disappointed in it anymore, the book wound up not only telling him how to do exactly that, but gave him a form of clarity so that he goes about it in a TranquilFury.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' has a hilarious, and disturbing, example from the episode "Hermit Ren," in which Ren becomes so infuriated by his best friend's obnoxiousness that he decides to lock himself in a cave, with only the company of his hallucinations.

* Inverted in ''Webcomic/LsEmpire'', where constantly exposure to {{Small Annoying Creature}}s caused [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Phala]] to ''regain'' her sanity.

* One of the central plot elements of the ''Videogame/ShadowHearts'' series is a TomeOfEldritchLore called the Émigré Manuscript - a book that has all manner of dark spells, but is coded to the point where the spells are the diversion and anyone smart and self-less enough to ignore the spells and looks at the books, greater meaning recieves a revelation into the true nature of God's plan. Only three people in the entire series have achieved this level of clairty and all three have become complete Misathropes, after relization basicly how little the universe cares about petty human nonsense, aside from the tome itself, all three have had really messed up lives that did not mix well with said revelation.
** First we have the translator of the text Roger Bacon - a former philospher who upon trying to share his enlightenment with man-kind received nothing but fear-mongering and elitist gatekeeping to the point where he no longer views humanity with anything but disappointment, that only occasionally produces genuinely worth-while people.

** Our third and final comprehender of the Émigré is a student of Roger, Albert Simon, who is was thrown into misanthropy ''before'' his revelation; He tried to use his position in the Vatican to stand-up for civil-rights, only to find the people in the Vatican, were very much against it. After that he tried to make his own revival movement... only for his star-acolyte to go full evil - which broke the last of his idealism. By the time he decided to read the Émigré Manuscript, he was already ready to wipe out humanity to keep from being disappointed in it anymore, the book wound up not only telling him how to do exactly that, but gave him a form of clarity so that he goes about it in a TranquilFury.

** First we have the translator of the text Roger Bacon - a former philospher who upon trying to share his enlightenment with man-kind recieved nothing but fear-mongering and elitist gatekeeping to the point where he no longer view humanity with anything but disappointment, that only occationally produces genuinely good people.
** The second one encounter is heroine of the first game, Koudelka Iasant. Koudelka was hardly a fan of humanity, being a Roma witch, but when she channels the knowledge of the Émigré Manuscript, her investmant in the planet completely dries up. While in the first game she is a cynic, she wants to help people, come the second game (after her revelation) we see her learning of a plan to wipe out the world and basicly only care enough to try to stop it because that's where her son lives.
** Our third and final comprehender of the Émigré is student of Roger, Albert Simon, who is was thrown into misanthropy ''before'' his revelation, when he tried to use his position in the Vatican to stand-up for civil-rights, only to find the people in the Vatican, were very much against it. After that he tried to make his own revival movment... only for his star-acolyte to go full evil - which basicly broke the last of his idealism. By the time he decided to read the Émigré Manuscript, he was already ready to wipe out humanity to keep from being disappointed in it anymore, the book wound up not only telling him how to do exactly that, but gave him a form of clairty so that he goes about it in a TranquilFury.

* Once of the central plot elements of the ''Videogame/ShadowHearts'' series is a TomeOfEldritchLore called the Émigré Manuscript - a book that has all manner of dark spells, but is coded to the point where the spells are the diversion and anyone smart and self-less enough to ignore the spells and looks at the books, greater meaning recieves a revelation into the true nature of God's plan. Only three people in the entire series have achieved this level of clairty and all three have become complete Misathropes, after relization basicly how little the universe cares about petty human nonsense, aside from the tome itself, all three have had really messed up lives that did not mix well with said revelation.

** Our third and final comprehender of the Émigré is student of Roger, Albert Simon, who is was thrown into misanthropy
''before'' his revelation, when he tried to use his position in the Vatican to stand-up for civil-rights, only to find the people in the Vatican, were very much against it. After that he tried to make his own revival movment... only for his star-acolyte to go full evil - which basicly broke the last of his idealism. By the time he decided to read the Émigré Manuscript, he was already ready to wipe out humanity to keep from being disappointed in it anymore, the book wound up not only telling him how to do exactly that, but gave him a form of clairty so that he goes about it in a TranquilFury.

* From [[Music/JoyDivision]]'s [[Music/UnknownPleasures "She's Lost Control"]]: