History Main / YourWorstMemory

* In ''Series/{{Preacher}}'', the denizens of {{Hell}} are forced to relive the worst moments of their lives for as long as they're kept in their cells: [[ButtMonkey Eugene]] relives the moment of his crush's attempted suicide and his own facial disfigurement; the [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Saint of Killers]] repeats the day his wife and child died, then re-enacts the vengeful massacre he inflicted on the town of Ratwater; and [[spoiler: Adolf Hitler]] re-experiences the moment of rejection and humiliation that first drove him to get into politics.

* In the MindPrison arranged for her in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV,'' Shaundi is forced to witness the death of Johnny Gat all over again. [[spoiler: Unknown to her, Johnny is actually still alive and in a MindPrison of his own.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine,'' Captain Walker is left traumatized by [[spoiler: the White Phosphorous incident, particularly the sight of the mother and child he'd burned alive during the massacre.]] Not only does this cause him to experience flashbacks to the incident for the rest of the game, Colonel Conrad is able to get under Walker's skin by painting the incident on canvas. [[spoiler: And then it turns out that the Conrad you've been talking to for most of the game is nothing more than a hallucination, making the painting just another product of Walker's guilt-stricken mind.]]

The memory counterpart to YourWorstNightmare, this trope can occur through a number of different ways: on the simplest level, it can appear in the form of a dream, especially if the memory was traumatic enough; in more extreme cases, it can be brought back through magic, technology, or even an afterlife. In some cases, time travel may be involved. Whatever the case, the character is made to watch their worst memories play out all over again -- and if they're unlucky, more than once. If they're ''really'' unlucky, forever.

** The crux of ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]].'' After exploring the Castle at length, the Doctor learns that it's actually a PrisonDimension for a single inmate: [[spoiler: Eugene Tacitus, the court scribe]]. Most of the time it's a LotusEaterMachine to lull the prisoner's troubling memories; every few thousand years, however, [[HumanoidAbomination a new character]] appears in the Castle and forces the inmate to relive his crime "in every horrific detail": [[spoiler: the murder of his own son.]]
** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master Master]]'', after finally being forced to spill the beans on "[[AmnesiacDissonance John Smith]]'s" past, the Doctor recounts the Master's worst memory and allows John to experience it as flashback alongside the narration. Here, a young Time Lord murdered a bully to save his best friend's life: the guilt gradually transformed the murderer into the Master, the champion of [[HumanoidAbomination Death herself]], while his friend became the Doctor, his greatest opponent. However, when she later appears, Death reveals a hidden twist: [[spoiler: it's actually ''the Doctor's'' worst memory, for he was the one who murdered the bully to save the Master; realizing that Death was going to make him her champion, the young Time Lord [[DealWithTheDevil begged her to take the Master instead]] -- a deal that she accepted.]] For good measure, she forces the Doctor to relive the incident in flashback just so he knows she isn't lying -- leaving him ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone weeping with remorse]].''

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* In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Eddard "Ned" Stark is haunted throughout the story by his sister's death, continuously remembering a "bed of blood" and her last words to him: "Promise me, Ned." After getting his leg crushed under his horse in a street brawl with Jaime Lannister, Ned is given milk of the poppy for the pain, and experiences a dream in which he relives both Lyanna's death and the events leading up to it.

** In the episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS01E08ThatOldBlackMagic That Old Black Magic]]," [[EmotionEater Maldis]] taunts [[StarterVillain Captain Crais]] with a vision of the day he and his brother Tauvo were conscripted for Peacekeeper service, specifically the moment when his father entrusted him with keeping Tauvo safe. Already miserable enough on its own, the fact that Tauvo was killed in in an accident at the start of the series only makes the vision even more upsetting for Crais, fueling his hunger for vengeance against John Crichton -- who he blames for the accident.
** Zhaan's worst memory makes an appearance in "Rhapsody In Blue," deliberately shared with Crichton via her EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Zhaan was once the student and lover of Bitaal, spiritual leader of the Delvians. Not wanting to give up power, Bitaal and a small faction of conservative priests seized control of the planet with the aid of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Peacekeepers]] and instituted a reign of terror. Despite loving her tutor with all her heart, [[KillTheOnesYouLove Zhaan killed Bitaal to avenge the lives he destroyed]] -- while the two of them were sharing [[MindlinkMates Unity]], no less, a process that [[BrokenTears clearly left Zhaan devastated]]. She was immediately arrested and imprisoned by the Peacekeepers, of course, but the psychic backlash of succumbing to her darker impulses quickly drove Zhaan insane: she spent the next seventeen years in captivity as "[[AxCrazy a savage]]" before she was able to gradually return to her study of the Delvian Seek and regain her sense of self.

** In the episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E15MentalAsAnything Mental As Anything]]," D'Argo finally catches up with his wife's killer at a training camp equipped with a virtual reality machine. Macton, brother to the murdered Lo'Lann, at first appears to have the upper hand: ambushing D'Argo while he's using the simulator to overcome his rage, he gaslights him into thinking that his wife committed suicide after repeated DomesticAbuse, then traps him in his worst memory, namely his cell on Moya after he was framed for Lo'Lann's murder. However, D'Argo gets a HeroicSecondWind and turns the tables on Macton, forcing him to reveal that Lo'Lann's death was due to [[DamnYouMuscleMemory an accident]] in the middle of an argument over her marriage -- though the frame-up certainly wasn't. [[CruelMercy Deciding not to kill him]], D'Argo instead leaves Macton [[AndIMustScream comatose and reliving his worst memory for the rest of his life]]: disfiguring his sister's body so that D'Argo would be blamed.

* This is the main effect of the "A" pill in ''Series/Maniac2018.'' While under its influence, the test subjects relive their worst memory, allowing the researchers to map out their traumas for the next stage of the treatment. Here, [[{{Tsundere}} Annie]] repeats the last day she spent with her little sister Ellie, during which Annie [[PartingWordsRegret went out of her way to hurt her feelings]] -- right before their car veered into the path of a truck, killing Ellie. Meanwhile, [[ShrinkingViolet Owen]] recalls an incident in which he [[FreakOut suffered a psychotic episode]] and become convinced that a girl he had a crush on was spying on him -- resulting in a public meltdown that destroyed their relationship and left Owen forever in doubt of his own sanity. In turn, the "B" and "C" stages bring back elements of these memories, but in progressively more constructive ways until Annie and Owen should finally be able to confront and overcome them... [[spoiler: or at least that's their trajectory up until the computer in charge of the treatment starts developing personality problems of her own.]]
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "[[Recap/StargateSG1S2E4TheGamekeeper The Gamekeeper]]," SG-1 is unexpectedly captured and placed in a virtual reality simulation by the eponymous villain, each scenario modeled off a particularly traumatic moment from a team-member's past: Jackson and Carter relive the day when Jackson's parents died in an accident, while O'Neil and Teal'c repeat a disastrous mission from O'Neil's black ops days. The Gamekeeper initially claims to be giving them a chance to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong correct the mistakes of the past]], but in reality, he's just delaying them with a LotusEaterMachine to ensure that none of his captives wake up and spoil the paradise the planet has become. As such, every attempt at righting the wrongs ends in failure.

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* ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': In "The Cat's Car", Tulip is trapped by a device that sucks her into her own memories. It's pleasant at first, but then [[UncannyValley things get increasingly distorted]]. Tulip realizes she's romanticizing her pleasant memories and exaggerating her bad ones, and she has to remember what really happened. This includes facing her memories of the day her parents told her they were undergoing a separation, and confronting how bad she feels for lashing out at her parents and blaming herself for their divorce.

* In the [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie Steven Universe Movie]], Steven gets treated to a visit to [[spoiler: Spinel's]] worst memory: being abandoned on an empty garden planet for [[AndIMustScream 6000 years]] by [[spoiler: Steven's mother]].

* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' features this as an apparent effect of the villain's powers: Sybok has the ability to telepathically confront others with their "[[SingleIssuePsychology secret pain]]" and heal them of it, usually converting them to his side in the process. Bones relives the moment he was forced to take his father off life support, while Spock recalls his birth and the conflict between his human and Vulcan heritage that resulted; however, neither of them join Sybok -- apparently because Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/DeForestKelley rejected the idea entirely.

** In ''Literature/ADanceWithDragons'', Tyrion Lannister is haunted by the memory of [[spoiler:killing his lover and father.]] Whether or not it's his worst memory, it's definitely the major drive behind his complete breakdown in that book.

* Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, aka PTSD, is based largely on this. It can be triggered by something relatively mundane, ie. first-responders at the Pulse nightclub massacre being triggered by cell phones, and sufferers often feel like they're back at the traumatic event.

In the [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie Steven Universe Movie]], Steven gets treated to a visit to [[spoiler: Spinel's]] worst memory: being abandoned on an empty garden planet for [[AndIMustScream 6000 years]] by [[spoiler: Steven's mother]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveForever'': In "Secrets Forever", Reggie, Todd and Esther comes across a grocery store in the middle of Endless that doesn't seem to have any groceries within initially. However products with their faces on the labels start popping up and they find that anytime they they open them, it plays a embarrassing memory from their lives. Todd and Esther's aren't too bad on the first few products, but when they get to Reggie's, hers turns out to be a memory she's not keen on. Namely that on her eleventh birthday, she tried to invite her class to her party, but no one other than her mom's friend showed up. It does end up subverted in the end as, while disappointed her classmates didn't come, her mother and said friend did cheer her up.

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* Throughout ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen,'' visitors from Oz begin to receive the memories of their counterparts in the alternate universe, experienced as dreams and nightmares. Through this process, Dorothy eventually finds herself reliving the worst moment of her other self's life: [[spoiler: the destruction of Kansas, the death of her family, and her agonizing transformation into [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds the Hellion]].]]

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* [[TheTrickster Loki]] inflicts this on [[ActionGirl Valkyrie]] during their fight in ''Film/ThorRagnarok.'' During the backstory, her fellow Valkyries were all wiped out in a hopeless battle against [[BigBad Hela]], leaving the future "Scrapper 142" as an alcoholic ShellShockedVeteran: a little MindRape from Loki brings back the memory in exquisite detail, giving her an extended flashback of all her friends being slaughtered en mass, portrayed in eerie slow-motion glimpses that make it look all the more like a nightmare. For good measure, it's also implied (and later confirmed) that Valkyrie [[BuryYourGays lost a lover]] in this fight, given her devastated reaction to a fellow soldier TakingTheBullet to save her from one of Hela's blades. However, instead of stopping her, the mind rape just pisses Valkyrie off: kicking Loki's ass, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain she then decides to give up the life of an outcast and join Thor]].

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** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'', Harry view's Snape's worst memory using the Pensive, a MemoryJar containing Snape's unwanted memories, during occlumency class. The chapter is even called "Snape's Worst Memory". The memory involves [[spoiler: Snape being brutally bullied by Harry's father, which horrifies Harry.]] Later revelations in the seventh book reveal that the real reason it was his worst memory was because [[spoiler: it was the day he lost Lily, the love of his life, for good.]]

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** Scorpius later subjects ''himself'' to this in "[[Recap/FarscapeS03E11Incubator Incubator]]." Here, in an effort to persuade Crichton's neural clone of the threat posed by the Scarran Imperium, Scorpius shares the memories of his past as a Scarran test subject. Out of all his memories, the most prominent is the point when his "nanny" forced him to watch recorded footage of his mother being raped by a Scarran soldier -- in other words, the only video footage Scorpius has of [[ChildByRape his parents]]. The experience of reliving it is so traumatic that the present Scorpius begins to suffer a fit, endangering his life and actually [[SympathyForTheDevil prompting genuine concern from Crichton]].

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick,'' Durkon being kicked out of his homeland without any notice or explanation was the worst day of his life. The experience left him miserable and bitter for decades until he met Roy and became friends with him. [[spoiler: The vampire spirit controlling his body then forces him to relive that memory, using it as the basis for a BreakingSpeech that leaves Durkon unable to speak back.]]
** He [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1130.html later inverts this]], [[spoiler: regaining control long enough to let Belkar [[DyingAsYourself stab his vampirized form]], as EvilCannotComprehendGood. So badly, in fact, That he ASSIMILATES the vampire spirit!]]
--->'''Durkon''': Thar's na much ta explain. Ye told me b'fore tha ye are who ye are on tha worst day o' yer life. An' tha's true. Tha's 100% true. But ye know who else ye are? Ye are who ye are on the '''next''' day. Tha day ye wake up an' haf ta decide: are ye gonna make this tha '''new''' worst day o' yer life, or na? An' ye are who ye are the day after tha, which can also be yer new worst... or na. Ye are who ye are on '''''all''''' o' yer days. All o' em. Includin' tha worst an' tha best. Ev'ry single one counts. All tha way ta tha end.

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** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfPhoenix'', Harry view's Snape's worst memory using the Pensive, a MemoryJar containing Snape's unwanted memories, during occlumency class. The chapter is even called "Snape's Worst Memory". The memory involves [[spoiler: Snape being brutally bullied by Harry's father, which horrifies Harry.]] Later revelations in the seventh book reveal that the real reason it was his worst memory was because [[spoiler: it was the day he lost Lily, the love of his life, for good.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveForever'', Reggie, Todd and Esther comes across a grocery store in the middle of Endless that doesn't seem to have any groceries within initially. However products with their faces on the labels start poping up and they find that anytime they they open them it plays a embarrassing memory from their lives. Todd and Esther's aren't too bad on the first few products, but when they get to Reggie's, hers turns out to be a memory she's not keen on. Namely that on her eleventh birthday, she tried to invite her class to her party, but no one other then her mom's friend showed up. It does end up subverted in the end as, while disappointed her classmates didn't come, her mother and said friend did cheer her up.

The memory counterpart to YourWorstNightmare, this trope can occur through a number of different ways: on the simplest level, it can appear in the form of a dream, especially if the memory was traumatic enough; in more extreme cases, it can be brought back through magic, technology, or even an afterlife. In some cases, time travel may be involved. Whatever the case, the character is made to watch their worst memories play out all over again - and if they're unlucky, more than once. If they're ''really'' unlucky, forever.

** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho049Master Master]]'', after finally being forced to spill the beans on "[[AmnesiacDissonance John Smith]]'s" past, the Doctor recounts the Master's worst memory and allows John to experience it as flashback alongside the narration. Here, a young Time Lord murdered a bully to save his best friend's life: the guilt gradually transformed the murderer into the Master, the champion of [[HumanoidAbomination Death herself]], while his friend became the Doctor, his greatest opponent. However, when she later appears, Death reveals a hidden twist: [[spoiler: it's actually ''the Doctor's'' worst memory, for he was the one who murdered the bully to save the Master; realizing that Death was going to make him her champion, the young Time Lord [[DealWithTheDevil begged her to take the Master instead]] - a deal that she accepted.]] For good measure, she forces the Doctor to relive the incident in flashback just so he knows she isn't lying - leaving him ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone weeping with remorse]].''

* Across the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' franchise, the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents serves as the most consistent example of this trope. Numerous works depict Batman still occasionally suffering nightmares and flashbacks when reminded of the event, while hallucinogenic substances - like Scarecrow's fear gas - may force him to relive it in detail.

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* As part of the ongoing MindRape of the rescue team in ''Film/EventHorizon'', the eponymous ship summons up illusions of their most traumatic memories: Captain Miller experiences visions of an ensign he was forced to leave behind in a spaceship fire, while Dr Weir repeatedly hallucinates his dead wife - until he relives the moment she committed suicide. Everyone ends up deeply disturbed by what they witness, except for Weir, [[spoiler: who crosses the DespairEventHorizon and [[EyeScream tears his eyes out]], before becoming a thrall of the ship.]]

* ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' features this as an apparent effect of the villain's powers: Sybok has the ability to telepathically confront others with their "[[SingleIssuePsychology secret pain]]" and heal them of it, usually converting them to his side in the process. Bones relives the moment he was forced to take his father off life support, while Spock recalls his birth and the conflict between his human and Vulcan heritage that resulted; however, neither of them join Sybok - apparently because Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/DeForestKelley rejected the idea entirely.

* In the ending of ''The Fractured Atlas - Five Fragments'' by Creator/JohnConnolly, the protagonist is psychically imprisoned in his memories of World War One, specifically the catastrophic battle of High Wood. Indeed, the HumanoidAbomination presiding over his sentence notes that the memory was so horrific that there honestly wasn't much more that the [[EldritchAbomination Not-God]] could do to him other than make him relive it.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD:'' In "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E8TheWell The Well]]", Ward touches an Asgardian staff and is forced to relive what he describes as his worst memory and the first time he felt hate - namely the moment his older brother told him to leave his little brother at the bottom of a well. May picks up the staff later and is able to handle it. When Ward asks her about it, she explains that she sees her memory every day.

** In the episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS01E08ThatOldBlackMagic That Old Black Magic]]," [[EmotionEater Maldis]] taunts [[StarterVillain Captain Crais]] with a vision of the day he and his brother Tauvo were conscripted for Peacekeeper service, specifically the moment when his father entrusted him with keeping Tauvo safe. Already miserable enough on its own, the fact that Tauvo was killed in in an accident at the start of the series only makes the vision even more upsetting for Crais, fueling his hunger for vengeance against John Crichton - who he blames for the accident.
** Zhaan's worst memory makes an appearance in "Rhapsody In Blue," deliberately shared with Crichton via her EnlightenmentSuperpowers: Zhaan was once the student and lover of Bitaal, spiritual leader of the Delvians. Not wanting to give up power, Bitaal and a small faction of conservative priests seized control of the planet with the aid of [[PrivateMilitaryContractors the Peacekeepers]] and instituted a reign of terror. Despite loving her tutor with all her heart, [[KillTheOnesYouLove Zhaan killed Bitaal to avenge the lives he destroyed]] - while the two of them were sharing [[MindlinkMates Unity]], no less, a process that [[BrokenTears clearly left Zhaan devastated]]. She was immediately arrested and imprisoned by the Peacekeepers, of course, but the psychic backlash of succumbing to her darker impulses quickly drove Zhaan insane: she spent the next seventeen years in captivity as "[[AxCrazy a savage]]" before she was able to gradually return to her study of the Delvian Seek and regain her sense of self.
** "[[Recap/FarscapeS01E20TheHiddenMemory The Hidden Memory]]" brings back Crais' worst memory when he's tortured for information by [[BigBad Scorpius]], the memory-extracting Aurora Chair [[ClipShow replaying the moment on a nearby screen]]. Already in agony, Crais spends the next few seconds screaming at Scorpius to turn the machine off - much to Scorpy's amusement. Ironically, this isn't the memory he ''really'' wants to keep hidden: [[spoiler: as it turns out, it's the moment Crais murdered his loyal first officer to [[HeKnowsTooMuch keep his dereliction of duty a secret]].]]
** Scorpius later subjects ''himself'' to this in "[[Recap/FarscapeS03E11Incubator Incubator]]." Here, in an effort to persuade Crichton's neural clone of the threat posed by the Scarran Imperium, Scorpius shares the memories of his past as a Scarran test subject. Out of all his memories, the most prominent is the point when his "nanny" forced him to watch recorded footage of his mother being raped by a Scarran soldier - in other words, the only video footage Scorpius has of [[ChildByRape his parents]]. The experience of reliving it is so traumatic that the present Scorpius begins to suffer a fit, endangering his life and actually [[SympathyForTheDevil prompting genuine concern from Crichton]].
** In the episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS04E15MentalAsAnything Mental As Anything]]," D'Argo finally catches up with his wife's killer at a training camp equipped with a virtual reality machine. Macton, brother to the murdered Lo'Lann, at first appears to have the upper hand: ambushing D'Argo while he's using the simulator to overcome his rage, he gaslights him into thinking that his wife committed suicide after repeated DomesticAbuse, then traps him in his worst memory, namely his cell on Moya after he was framed for Lo'Lann's murder. However, D'Argo gets a HeroicSecondWind and turns the tables on Macton, forcing him to reveal that Lo'Lann's death was due to [[DamnYouMuscleMemory an accident]] in the middle of an argument over her marriage - though the frame-up certainly wasn't. [[CruelMercy Deciding not to kill him]], D'Argo instead leaves Macton [[AndIMustScream comatose and reliving his worst memory for the rest of his life]]: disfiguring his sister's body so that D'Argo would be blamed.

* This is the main effect of the "A" pill in ''Series/Maniac2018.'' While under its influence, the test subjects relive their worst memory, allowing the researchers to map out their traumas for the next stage of the treatment. Here, [[{{Tsundere}} Annie]] repeats the last day she spent with her little sister Ellie, during which Annie [[PartingWordsRegret went out of her way to hurt her feelings]] - right before their car veered into the path of a truck, killing Ellie. Meanwhile, [[ShrinkingViolet Owen]] recalls an incident in which he [[FreakOut suffered a psychotic episode]] and become convinced that a girl he had a crush on was spying on him - resulting in a public meltdown that destroyed their relationship and left Owen forever in doubt of his own sanity. In turn, the "B" and "C" stages bring back elements of these memories, but in progressively more constructive ways until Annie and Owen should finally be able to confront and overcome them... [[spoiler: or at least that's their trajectory up until the computer in charge of the treatment starts developing personality problems of her own.]]

** Spinoff game ''VideoGame/ThePark'' is eventually revealed to be an entire instance of this trope for Lorraine Maillard. In the aftermath of her visit to [[AmusementParkOfDoom Atlantic Island Park]], during which [[spoiler: she suffered a MindRape and was forced by Nathaniel Winter to murder her own son]], she repeats the opening lines: "in my heart and mind, I always return to Atlantic Island Park." Then, once the credits are over, you have the option of [[HereWeGoAgain "continuing" the finished game]]; this, combined with your inability to leave the area on the grounds that you "[[ButThouMust still have things to do]]," indicates that the whole game was just Lorraine reliving the events of her visit to the park in her nightmares... and she will continue to do so for the rest of her natural life - [[spoiler: and given the fact that she becomes effectively immortal in the main game, [[WhoWantsToLiveForever this may be a while]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS3E1TheRickshankRedemption The Rickshank Redemption]]" features this courtesy of a VirtualRealityInterrogation: imprisoned by the Federation, Rick is grilled for info on the physics behind his portal gun and sent back through his memories to find out how he got it to work. As it turns out, ''our'' [[FromNobodyToNightmare Rick was once an unambitious family man]] who gave up on interdimensional physics when he saw what the other dimension-hopping Ricks across the multiverse [[HisOwnWorstEnemy were like]], even turning down an offer of assistance from the Council of Ricks. Unfortunately, the Council retaliated [[KickTheDog by murdering his wife and daughter]], leaving Rick with nothing left to do but work out the calculations in the ashes and cobble together his first portal gun. It's made abundantly clear that his present self is left absolutely devastated from re-witnessing this moment - not helped by the fact that the agent supervising the interrogation [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting couldn't give a damn about any of it]]. [[spoiler: And then subverted when it turns out that Rick faked the memory from beginning to end just so he could hack the MindProbe and steal the supervising agent's body.]]

* ''Literature/HarryPotter:'' the Dementors are {{Emotion Eater}}s who suck out all joy from humans, leaving them with nothing but their worst memories. Harry, when attacked by the Dementors, hears the voices of his parents right before their murder at the hands of Voldemort.

** He [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1130.html later inverts this]], [[spoiler: regaining control long enough to let Belkar [[DyingAsYourself stab his vampirized form]], as EvilCannotComprehendGood. So badly, in fact? That he ASSIMILATES the vampire spirit!]]

** He [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1130.html later inverts this]], [[spoiler: regaining control long enough to let Belkar [[DyingAsYourself stab his vampirized form]], as EvilCannotComprehendGood]].

--->'''Durkon''': Thar's na much ta explain. Ye told me b'fore tha ye are who ye are on tha worst day o' yer life. An' tha's true. Tha's 100% true. But ye know who else ye are? Ye are who ye are on the '''next''' day. Tha day ye wake up an' haf ta decide: are ye gonna make this tha '''new''' worst day o' yer life, or na? An' ye are who ye are the day after tha, which can also be yer new worst... or na.