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* Every major character (and most minor characters) in ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is fucked up in some way, shape or form.
** Blitzø Buckzo is the most obvious, by virtue of being an extremely prickly assassin for hire who DesperatelyCravesAffection but can't admit it and hides his insecurities under snark, and a lot of this stems from major past trauma involving the way his father Cash treated him, emotionally abusing him and manipulating him.
** Moxxie Knolastname is the son of a notorious gangster in the Greed Ring who murdered everyone who ever crossed him, including his own mother, leaving Moxxie with a whole mess of trauma that he is still trying to work through.
** Millie, Moxxie's wife, doesn't have much in the way of past trauma (that we know of), but is still highly AxCrazy.
** Loona, Blitz's adopted daughter, grew up alone on the streets, making her extremely defensive and abrasive toward everyone else, but she is slowly working toward having healthy relationships with friends like Vortex and her dad.
** Stolas was neglected by his father Paimon and is emotionally abused by his wife Stella, and this has an impact on their daughter Octavia, who is terrified that Stolas will leave the relationship and chase Blitz.
** Fizzaroli worked alongside Blitz in Cash's circus as a child, but ended up severely disfigured after being burned in a fire Blitz accidentally started, and it takes him a long time to make his amends.
** Verosika Mayday is a succubus who once dated Blitz and was head over heels for him, but Blitz failed to see to her needs and took off with her credit card, which he maxed out on horse-riding lessons. Needless to say, the experience left her highly bitter.
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*** Additionally, Qrow is an alcoholic who can't be around people because of his Semblance.

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*** Additionally, Qrow is an alcoholic who can't be around people because of his Semblance.[[TheJinx Semblance]].

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** ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Oh, where to start? Practically everyone on the server is traumatized in one way or another, whether by wars, betrayal, amnesia (in one way or another), abuse, toxic relationships, torture, deaths, etc. In fact, it's easier to list the perspective characters who ''are'' relatively well-adjusted and mentally healthy within the CrapsackWorld the roleplay series takes place in -- and that would be the characters who are either new to the server lore or otherwise mostly uninvolved in it. For reference, the series is infamous in the greater Minecraft roleplay community for its bleak plotlines and requiring every other content warning in the book, which really says something about the server with at least three suicidal characters.

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** ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Oh, where to start? Practically everyone on the server is traumatized in one way or another, whether by wars, betrayal, amnesia (in one way or another), abuse, toxic relationships, torture, deaths, etc. In fact, it's easier to list the perspective characters who ''are'' relatively well-adjusted and mentally healthy within the CrapsackWorld the roleplay series takes place in -- and that would be the characters who are either new to the server lore or otherwise mostly uninvolved in it. For reference, the series is infamous in the greater Minecraft roleplay community for its bleak plotlines and requiring every other content warning in the book, which really says something about book; one stand-out example for just ''how'' crapsack the server with world is that at least three suicidal characters.one point in Season 2, even ''the ghost of a suicide victim'' wanted to kill himself again.



** ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]

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** ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': As befitting of the setting, the number of POV characters who ''haven't'' experienced some sort of traumatic event during (or even before) the SMP can be counted on one hand. To check the rundown, we have had kidnappings in the double digits, curses, background [[DeliberateValuesDissonance prejudice]], watching friends and acquaintances die, ''actually dying'', all-round bad parenting, manipulative and/or exploitative bosses… the list goes on. It's quite telling that the most emotionally stable characters on the entire SMP include three kidnappees, a drunkard, and a scientist who hasn't shown up since Day 1, [[spoiler:and even among ''those'' characters, all but two of them have been implied or confirmed to be KilledOffForReal by the finale]].
** ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]
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* [[https://storygirl000.tumblr.com/post/639322289647779840/translation-person-behind-camera-knock-down-one This]] video on Website/TikTok (reposted on Tumblr) lampshades how ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' uses the trope. Two people are playing a game of "Guess Who" with characters from the show; one of them asks if the character in question has mental stability, the other says "yes", and the first person immediately slaps down nearly all their cards and (correctly) guesses that it's [[TeamPet Momo]].

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* [[https://storygirl000.tumblr.com/post/639322289647779840/translation-person-behind-camera-knock-down-one This]] video on Website/TikTok Platform/TikTok (reposted on Tumblr) Website/{{Tumblr}}) lampshades how ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' uses the trope. Two people are playing a game of "Guess Who" with characters from the show; one of them asks if the character in question has mental stability, the other says "yes", and the first person immediately slaps down nearly all their cards and (correctly) guesses that it's [[TeamPet Momo]].
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** The ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' is considerably more lighthearted than the ''Dream SMP'', but it doesn't stop the dark plotlines either.

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** The ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' is considerably more lighthearted than the ''Dream SMP'', but it doesn't stop the dark plotlines either.



** ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]

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** ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP [[WebVideo/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]
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** ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]

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** ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]
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%%* Most of the characters on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com.
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*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world where his friends seemingly don't recognize him anymore, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:whose closest friend died in the aforementioned ApocalypseHow and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.

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*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world where his friends seemingly don't recognize him anymore, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:whose closest friend died in his arms during the aforementioned ApocalypseHow and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.
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*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world where his friends seemingly don't recognize him anymore, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:who watched his closest friend die and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.

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*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world where his friends seemingly don't recognize him anymore, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:who watched his [[spoiler:whose closest friend die died in the aforementioned ApocalypseHow and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.
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*** In Season 1, at least a third of the main cast goes through some form of trauma even ''before'' the events of the series: Lizzie and Jimmy have prophecy-induced IdentityAmnesia with implicit BackstoryHorror, Shrub fled to the Empires server after her home dimension was corrupted by the BigBad who was banished there[[note]]and [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally brings the villain back]] to the Empires world with her[[/note]] and is possibly the LastOfHerKind, and Scott was forced to step up as king after his older sibling got corrupted by the resident GodOfEvil, murdered their parents, and was banished to Shrub's home dimension.

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*** In Season 1, at least a third of the main cast goes through some form of trauma even ''before'' the events of the series: Lizzie and Jimmy have prophecy-induced IdentityAmnesia with implicit BackstoryHorror, Shrub fled to the Empires server after her home dimension was corrupted by the BigBad who was banished there[[note]]and [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally brings the villain back]] to the Empires world with her[[/note]] and is possibly the LastOfHerKind, and Scott was forced to step up as king after his older sibling got corrupted by the resident GodOfEvil, murdered their parents, and was banished to Shrub's home dimension. Oh, and that's not going into [[spoiler:the series ending in an ApocalypseHow]] where everyone else who somehow ''hasn't'' been traumatized by this point yet gets traumatized as well.
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*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:who watched his closest friend die and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.

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*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world, world where his friends seemingly don't recognize him anymore, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:who watched his closest friend die and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.

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* The ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''-based content creator community has a tendency to put their characters through the wringer, in the backstory or the plotline itself.
** ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Oh, where to start? Practically everyone on the server is traumatized in one way or another, whether by wars, betrayal, amnesia (in one way or another), abuse, toxic relationships, torture, deaths, etc. In fact, it's easier to list the perspective characters who ''are'' relatively well-adjusted and mentally healthy within the CrapsackWorld the roleplay series takes place in -- and that would be the characters who are either new to the server lore or otherwise mostly uninvolved in it. For reference, the series is infamous in the greater Minecraft roleplay community for its bleak plotlines and requiring every other content warning in the book, which really says something about the server with at least three suicidal characters.
** The ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' is considerably more lighthearted than the ''Dream SMP'', but it doesn't stop the dark plotlines either.
*** In Season 1, at least a third of the main cast goes through some form of trauma even ''before'' the events of the series: Lizzie and Jimmy have prophecy-induced IdentityAmnesia with implicit BackstoryHorror, Shrub fled to the Empires server after her home dimension was corrupted by the BigBad who was banished there[[note]]and [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom accidentally brings the villain back]] to the Empires world with her[[/note]] and is possibly the LastOfHerKind, and Scott was forced to step up as king after his older sibling got corrupted by the resident GodOfEvil, murdered their parents, and was banished to Shrub's home dimension.
*** The Season 2 characters don't have it much better either: False had her memory wiped and was banished to the Empires world [[spoiler:by her sister under the belief that she was dangerous, though the details are murky]], Joel has alleged to be the LastOfHisKind as gods, Katherine's kingdom was cursed to deteriorate from the time of her birth and is implied been blamed for it for years for the "crime" of being born, Oli's the SoleSurvivor of an adjacent server who gets "isekai'd" to the Empires world, Sausage is a GenocideSurvivor with PastLifeMemories as his Season 1 incarnation [[spoiler:who watched his closest friend die and spent the remainder of his life trying and failing to save her by time- and dimension-travelling]], among other traumatic incidents, and Shelby has been kicked out of school and branded a criminal for a complete and utter magical accident.
** ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': Among the eight Witches recruited for the competition, only Tiff and Shelby seem to be in any relatively healthy state of mind. As for everyone else, Joey and Pris were kicked out of their homes for not living up to their family's and/or community's expectations (with Pris holding the additional baggage of [[spoiler:being born to be a ReplacementGoldfish for her late "golden child" of an older sister]]), El and Lauren had a FriendlessBackground from their respective upbringings, Scott is bereaving his way into a corruption arc and was [[spoiler:questionably suicidal from grief]], and Cleo has the memories of countless lifetimes, [[spoiler:several of which involve {{Deadly Game}}s.]] Even then, [[LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP supplementary material]] reveals that Shelby herself had [[CharacterOverlap quite the colourful past]] as [[spoiler:an ex-outlaw who was briefly possessed by a malevolent Fog fueled by thousands of restless souls]].[[note]]Same content creator/actor as the Scott from Empires, but different character.[[/note]]












* ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'': Oh, where to start? Practically everyone on the server is traumatized in one way or another, whether by wars, betrayal, amnesia (in one way or another), abuse, toxic relationships, torture, deaths, etc. In fact, it's easier to list the perspective characters who ''are'' relatively well-adjusted and mentally healthy within the CrapsackWorld the roleplay series takes place in -- and that would be the characters who are either new to the server lore or otherwise mostly uninvolved in it. For reference, here's the [[https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/743832 Does the Dog Die page (spoilers in the link)]] for the DSMP, and the series is infamous in the greater Minecraft roleplay community for its bleak plotlines and requiring every other content warning in the book.
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