Those who have been Conditioned to Accept Horror in Webcomics.
- Atshi of Anecdote of Error suffers from a recurring nightmare of a fiery demon dismembering a girl who looks just like her, and even has these visions while awake, but this has gone on for so long that they no longer affect her anymore.
- Fern Green of Awful Hospital is a veritable valedictorian of the Laurie Strode
◊ School of Character Development.Fern: (upon seeing a dead clone of herself) ...Fine. Whatever. - Batman: Wayne Family Adventures: Batman's kids have seen so much crap that it takes a lot to phase them. In one of the series' earlier episodes, they make a game out of telling Duke some of the crazier things they've been through (which included being trained by assassins and/or dying and being brought back). Most of them treat it fairly nonchalantly, but Duke is horrified. A much later episode, "Kidnapping Clinic", reveals that all of the kids have been kidnapped (in their civilian identities) at least once (Tim's kidnapping was actually shown in an earlier episode), and the only reason any of them get upset about it is because Jason won't let Tim forget about the time that Red Hood had to save Tim from his kidnappers.
- Erma: Having grown used to the various horrifying things that Erma either does or attracts, either causally or as part of pranks, most of the recurring cast shrug off the many unnatural things that occur with slight shock or annoyance at best unless the actual threat of death is involved. This is even used as a plot point in one story arc, where the principal points this out to a society of rat people that live underneath the school as a sign that the world may be ready to accept them. The page image comes from an early strip, with Erma trying to spook her human father, who has naturally gotten used to such antics thanks to his experience raising the little monster with his Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl wife.
- Benni from Forest Hill was raised by his abusive father to think that Parental Incest and child prostitution was normal. What he did not accept was being forced to rape other children, and the physical abuse he took from trying to refuse to do so.
- Girl Genius: When Mechanicsburg, a town long ruled by a dynasty of psychopathic Mad Scientists, is under siege the children are sent to the crypts and guarded by undead monstrosities. On seeing a little girl tell off the reanimated corpse of her great-great-great grandpa for embarrassing her the seneschal wonders if growing up in town might have made them a little weird.
- In Goblins, Biscuit's orc tribe conditions its young to stoically cope with loss by deliberately confiscating each orc child's favorite plaything and destroying it while the child watches. Their conditioning methods seem to be effective, as Biscuit endures untold years of demonic torture, followed by the loss of his leg without complaint or even disappointment. Note that this mindset also compels him to help someone driven insane by her crippled deformity by crippling her even further and telling her to get over losing everything. This just makes her insanity worse, even though he genuinely thought he was healing her mind.
- Very nearly everyone who lives long enough to develop a discernible personality in Gone with the Blastwave, but unlike most of the examples on this page, this is not a result of some kind of supervillain scheme or Government Conspiracy. (Well, not as far as we know.) It's just that they've been fighting this apparently endless war that's long past the point of being winnable -by any of the participants- for so long and seen so much death and mutilation and human misery in all its myriad forms that they've become completely desensitised to it all. The more normal squaddies seem to be operating on a mild form of Heroic Safe Mode, whilst a couple have descended into outright Comedic Sociopathy, and all but the sniper (the closest thing the comic has to an Only Sane Man) have a highly-developed death wish. War Is Hell.
- Homestuck:
- The trolls live in a brutally Social Darwinist Crapsack World where, had SGRUB not taken place and destroyed the planet, most of them would've probably been culled for being disabled like Terezi and Tavros or low-blooded mutants like Karkat. Daylight brings rainbow (blood)-drinkers and the undead, while they sleep in a tub of tranquilizers to make sure they don't get nightmares from the Eldritch Abominations that live in the sea.
- In "[S] Jade Wake Up", Jade meets Feferi and they both meet, essentially, the "relative" (after passing through a tunnel of similar creatures) of Feferi's lusus. Jade is disturbed while Feferi thinks they're nothing to be scared of since the creature that is effectively her foster mother is essentially a small version of the one they encounter. Feferi's lusus is also the one who killed all the rest of the entire troll species after unleashing a Brown Note of galactic proportions.
- I Don't Want This Kind of Hero: It becomes clear that Raptor has a rather different standard of what's acceptable and what isn't, especially relating to her own experiences. For one, she doesn't consider her past as a Child Soldier or her master's abuse to be traumatizing, simply because she has no real understanding of anything else/as far as she's concerned, it could've been worse—to which Haze points out that even if she wasn't leashed, she was still treated as subhuman.
- In Sleepless Domain a nameless City of Adventure is protected at night by teenage Magical Girl Warriors who are frequently injured or killed in the line of duty. At least one outside observer is appalled by the residents' "business as usual" attitude towards casualties among their adolescent protectors. Undine also expresses sadness at how quickly everyone got over the deaths (or loss of powers, in one case) of her friends, with her staring in wide eyed horror at a sign proudly touting that all the Team Alchemical merchandise was now half off.
- Played for laughs with Cheram Han from Surviving Romance. She isn't particularly afraid of the zombies and also has no qualms about using the necessary amount of violence to deal with them because of all the zombie horror video games she has already played.
- True Villains: Six-year-old Mia's Orphan's Ordeal background is Played for Laughs as she happily joins the Villain Protagonist, and she's a cheerful Pollyanna on his team, but hints of the horrors she's endured come through when she murders a woman with the same childlike satisfaction she'd find in winning a board game.Villager: You killed the Chosen One!
Mia: (Confused) Yeah? So what? People die all the time. - Unsounded: In the Gefendur religion twins are taken from their parents, placed in service to a temple and, when they turn 22, one of them is ritually killed and cannibalised. The twins not only know this is going to happen but are fully aware which one of them is going to get the chop, and they regard it as a great honour. However the practice of 'kept twins' does creep out certain otherwise devout believers, such as Sette, Matty and Jivi.
