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Backstory Horror

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Backstory Horror	comment	Backstory Horror is when something that seems harmless or is marketed as harmless has something horrible embedded in the Backstory, either by Word of God or All There in the Manual. It's a fully intentional hidden well of Nightmare Fuel on the part of the creators, almost like a creepy Easter Egg for the fans. Backstory Horror can lead to Fridge Horror, but the two are not the same; one's canonical by way of Word of God or All There in the Manual, while the other only exists in the audience's head as a result of thinking heavily about the implications the work presented. Related to Cerebus Retcon. Compare and contrast Dark and Troubled Past. It can lead to a Crapsaccharine World. Note: To be this trope, examples must be canon in some way. Fanon and dreams generally don't count! If it's implied but not confirmed canon by any source, it's Fridge Horror instead.
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Backstory Horror / int_10346672	comment	Skimming through unit bios in Tooth and Tail reveals some horrifying stuff. The Matriark is a mob boss of sorts who eats those unloyal to her, and somehow regurgitates the repentful to fight for her one last time. Uncle Butter was a chef before the war, and puts his skills to use flame-grilling those who oppose him. Morning Light Croakers are said to explicitly turn against their beliefs and succumb to fear in the last seconds before their suicide bombs go off. Those medicine packets the Volunteers drop are pigeon poop.
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Backstory Horror / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Word of God is that Ooo is After the End, a combination of the "Mushroom War" and the return of magic killing all humans (except for Finn) and transforming the planet into the weird, wondrous and dangerous place it is now. The show itself heavily implies this through numerous background details and references, until the fifth season premiere "Finn the Human"/"Jake The Dog" finally confirms it, shown in all its gory glory. The Ice King is a humorous Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, with one of the most tragic, terrifying cases of Loss of Identity as his origin story. "I Remember You" plays this for all its worth, contrasting his dark backstory with the incompetent clown he has become for full Tear Jerker effect. Marceline is a "radical dame who likes to play games" and a good contender for having the worst life out of anyone in the show. This includes a monster (literally) of an inattentive father, a Missing Mom, living through the aftermath of the aforementioned Mushroom War as a child, losing the Parental Substitute that got her through part of it, being abused by a boyfriend, and spending 1000 years with almost no friends until Finn came along. On top of that, she had a violent falling out with her ex-girlfriend, though the series thankfully ends with them on good terms and rekindling their relationship.
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Backstory Horror / int_1c1ceec7	comment	The Monster Hunter series has a historical backstory of dubious canonicity told in companion books. The Ancient Civilization was an extremely advanced society which kept Elder Dragons as slaves and would even slaughter them by the hundreds to build towers from their materials. Eventually they committed the Forbidden Act: The sacrifice of hundreds of dragons to create a new lifeform, the Equal Dragon Weapon. In response, Elder Dragons rose up and fought the Ancients in a war which left both sides nearly extinct. The Hunters are descendants of supersoldiers created to fight during the war while Elder Dragons still hate humanity for their ancestors' actions.
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Backstory Horror / int_27f4c7fb	comment	Coraline has one that doubles as a Genius Bonus: the medal worn by The Great Bobinski is a Liquidator's Medal, which was given to the clean-up crew of the Chernobyl Disaster. Many of these peoplenote Exact numbers and statistics are unknown due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union were left dead or permanently disabled from exposure to radiation, which casts Bobinski's blue skin, odd figure, and eccentricities in a much different light.
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Backstory Horror / int_291e9857	comment	Pretty much the entire point of the minimalist storytelling method used in Dark Souls. In the main game it's always clear you've arrived a long time after the party finished, draping everything in a serene, slightly melancholy atmosphere that only serves to make the backstory more impactful as you slowly piece things together from their remains.
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Backstory Horror / int_29d0348e	comment	In When Heaven Spits You Out, graphic details of Ryan's abuse at the hands of his father are shown through a flashback.
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Backstory Horror / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	The 80s My Little Pony line had ponies with gems for eyes called the Twinkle-Eyed Ponies. Their eyes were almost never mentioned in-series and were mostly there as an interesting visual. The comics associated with the franchise stated that the Twinkle-Eyed Ponies got their gem eyes because they were enslaved in a gem mine by an evil wizard, where they toiled in the dark for so long that their eyes atrophied. When the wizard was defeated by Applejack smashing his gem throne, the gems of his throne were embedded into the ponies' eye sockets, enabling them to see again. This explains why none of their children have gem eyes like their mothers.
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Backstory Horror / int_347ec243	comment	Monster Rancher's backstory has humans who grew proud and destructive, creating Monsters for anything that would suit their wants. Eventually they created Moo in an attempt to end the Final War, which ended up nearly destroying the entire planet until they created the Phoenix to stop him—and what it took to defeat Moo involved destroying virtually everything. Enough humans were left to rebuild civilization, but far less advanced than it had been before.
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Backstory Horror / int_3558eaa2	comment	In her character profile on NBC's website for Community, it is stated that Britta was molested on her eleventh birthday by a man in a dinosaur costume, and her dad didn't believe her when she told him. This incident has been only vaguely alluded to on the show.
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Backstory Horror / int_36395288	comment	This has been showing up more often in the Kirby series as of late. Kirby: Planet Robobot and Kirby: Triple Deluxe in particular. Especially with their main villains. Queen Sectonia is the cruel queen of Floralia. Obsessed with beauty and control, she only cares for herself. However, her descriptions reveal that she was not always this way. In fact, she wasn't always a giant bee, as shown in Planet Robobot when you defeat her clone. Queen Sectonia was corrupted by the Dimension Mirror that appeared back in Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, and was cruel ever since. Even sadder is that, in the Japanese version, Soul of Sectonia's description reveals that she truly regrets all she's done. President Max Profitt Haltmann is a dirty businessman who attempts to take over Planet Popstar for its resources. However, if you look up Haltmann 2.0's description in Meta Knighmare Returns, you find out that he was quite the researcher back in his hayday. In fact, he was a family-man as well, as he had a daughter. Then it's found out said daughter vanished in an accident involving the Big Bad, Star Dream. Haltmann became desperate, and became a cold man. This is worsened when he's absorbed into Star Dream. To Kick the Dog even further, said daughter is working for him, and backstabbed him just before the final battle.
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Backstory Horror / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan eventually reveals that the two special Titans who brought down humanity's outer defence walls are not only both human, but close friends of the main protagonists. This is later followed by the revelation that ALL Titans, including the completely mindless ones who gorge themselves on human flesh, were originally human beings. Specifically, they are members of a demi-titan race called the "Eldians" that were injected with titan spinal fluid and transformed into mindless man-eating monstrosities because of discrimination against their kind. The world outside is ruled by the Nazi-like Marleyans, is on the brink of war, and the antagonists are cruel and ruthless to the protagonists because if they don't steal the power to control titankind, their race will be exterminated and the war will engulf their home country.
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Backstory Horror / int_43576f5	comment	Although they were never harmless, the demons of Supernatural were nothing more than hated, powerful monsters for the first couple of seasons. Then the protagonists are gifted with the revelation that nearly every single demon was once human, tortured in Hell until they became twisted shells of their former selves. Since even sympathetic characters can go to Hell for ambiguous crimes like being tricked into a demon deal or accidentally worshipping a demon while performing supposedly harmless magic, this significantly ramped up the Fridge Horror for the Supernatural universe and laid out darker implications for God even before it came out that He abandoned Heaven, leaving the angels confused and with severe daddy issues.
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Backstory Horror / int_437c83b7	comment	My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic explored the backstories of many of the show's villains, making them nastier in the process. King Sombra's involves him realising he is an Equinoid Abomination and deciding Then Let Me Be Evil and inflicting a horrible And I Must Scream fate on a benevolent queen, and Tirek's involves kidnap and torture. The origin of Chrysalis and the Changelings may be the worst, being essentially a fusion of insects and pony corpses. Also, those swiss cheese-like holes in their bodies on the show? Those are scars from when Celestia blasted them with magic hundreds of years ago.
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Backstory Horror / int_476eb43	comment	Early in Autobiography of Red, we learn about the main character being sexually abused as a young child. The rest of the book is a mostly gentle Coming of Age Story; the abuse is never mentioned again.
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Backstory Horror / int_4cd4392	comment	The Slim Shady LP is a comedy rap Concept Album about the antics of an over-the-top Toon Heroic Comedic Sociopath and his Hilariously Abusive Childhood, but it is also a Life Embellished version of the life of the real Eminem, whose extremely unfunny Dark and Troubled Past of childhood abuse, poverty and suicidality is similar to that of the character. Although he talked about this in interviews (and some of the songs), this was lost on a certain number of listeners, who viewed it as an annoying, squeaky-voiced novelty album — or a malign influence on the youth of America. Later Eminem albums would incorporate more literally autobiographical and confessional elements that would make his real life backstory into the main event — as the Tabloid Melodrama that emerged around his life made it impossible to ignore even if he hadn't.
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Backstory Horror / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: The Tin Man lost all his body parts one by one. They were replaced by metal so he could survive long enough to see his love again. By the time he was whole, she had already fallen in love with a man made out of the Tin Man's lost body parts. To the shock of many, Wicked with its twisted fantasy dystopia is actually a more faithful adaptation of the original book than the 1939 movie.
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Backstory Horror / int_56f42de7	comment	Casper the Friendly Ghost: Though it is sidestepped by the creators of the original comic and later cartoon, Casper is actually about a dead, lonely and suicidal child. Sidestepped in the movie, where Casper died when he wouldn't come in from sled riding and caught pneumonia.
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Backstory Horror / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale has several characters who have incredibly dark and often disturbing backstories: Alphys conducted experiments using Determination, a fantastical human power, in an attempt to break the barrier between the underworld and the human world. This resulted in the creation of the Amalgamates, horrific (though surprisingly friendly) chimeras that are under great suffering, the creation of Flowey, and possibly the fate of W.D. Gaster. No wonder Alphys is so screwed up after all of this. Flowey or rather, Asriel, was killed by humans while trying to return his dead friend to their home village. He was then unintentionally resurrected into the body of a flower through Alphys' Determination experiments (due to Asriel's dusty remains being on the flower used for the experiments), but this left him without a soul, leaving him incapable of feeling love or compassion—even from his parents—which eventually lead to him falling into deep enough despair to commit suicide. Realizing moments before death that he didn't actually want to die, he woke up safe and sound at his "save point". He began experimenting with this ability by bringing himself to the brink of death multiple other times, followed by using his newfound saving ability to help those around him, and then proceeding to kill out of sheer curiosity after becoming sufficiently bored, eventually realizing that everyone around him was completely predictable like an actor in a game. His constant resetting of the timeline, coupled with his inability to feel any sort of compassion or empathy and boredom from having exhausted every option he can think of, resulted in his transformation from a kindhearted child to a twisted, insane sociopath by the time the player arrives. Sans is one of the few monsters in the underworld aware of Flowey's time-manipulating shenanigans, but is unable to stop him, only being able to harass him into resetting. Despite Sans' best efforts to fight back, he has never been able to truly stop Flowey, knowing that all his hard work will inevitably be reset. That's why he's so lazy. Oh, and everything above about Flowey (save the suicides, hopefully) applies to you, the player. He knows this too. The mysterious W.D. Gaster fell into the CORE and was scattered across time and space, with nobody being aware of his presence afterwards. Even those who knew about him (except perhaps Sans) were erased. Only data-miners have been able to find out about him in a complicated Alternate Reality Game-like manner.
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Backstory Horror / int_62bf541	comment	Super Mario Bros., mentioned above, is actually a surprising subversion. Although the brick blocks that give power-ups or coins, are transformed mushroom people, the manual states that hitting the blocks will free the victims. In fact, this is exactly the reason why those blocks contain special items: it is a token of gratitude.
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Backstory Horror / int_73dd20d1	comment	Bottersnikes and Gumbles is a very lighthearted show of which the primary drive is comedy and silliness. One of the main characters, however, has a bit of a... questionably bleak backstory. Namely, one of the Gumbles - Toot to be exact - is revealed to once have been swallowed by the Bottersnike King before managing to escape alive (by using the "less clean" way to do so), but not without becoming horribly traumatized in the process and earning himself a paralyzing fear of Bottersnikes that would stick with him for the rest of his life. Although Getting Eaten Is Harmless came into play that time, a couple of episodes suggest that dying this way is a possibility, meaning that Toot's life was in danger despite the show rarely (if ever) portraying characters at risk of perishing. Then there's the official website that hosts lore from the show, and in Toot's biography detailing his story, they also make it clear that this is why he can only say "toot".
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Backstory Horror / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: The show is mostly about Steven going on fun adventures with his magical alien guardians. We soon learn that two of those are the last survivors of an army that rebelled against their homeworld, their allies either shattered or corrupted into the monsters they spend most of the show fighting. And who arrived on Earth in the first place because they were part of an invasion force that planned to devastate Earth in the process of creating new gem armies. The third and youngest of his guardians, Amethyst, is one of the products of this. In fact Amethyst suffers from deep-seated self-hatred and insecurity due to her creation, which she usually hides behind her facade of a mischievous older-sister type. She hates that her birth was part of a practice that would have destroyed the planet Earth, and learning that she wasn't even made properly makes her doubt her own abilities constantly. Pearl's tendency to obsess over minute details, keep things clean, a near-pathalogical devotion to keeping Steven safe, and dislike for his father Greg are played for laughs and she seems like the stereotypical overprotective mom. After many hints, it's revealed she was made as a member of a Servant Race; Pearls are the Gem equivalent of a Beautiful Slave Girl: pretty, attractive objects that indicate a higher Gem's status and are made to follow orders without question. During the Rebellion, she met Rose Quartz, who convinced her she could become her own Gem, and transferred her obsessive devotion to the only person to ever show her kindness. Pearl pointlessly sacrificed herself constantly in battle if it meant there was a chance to keep Rose safe. And thousands of years after the war, she had to see a human man walk into her life and romance her love away from her, and said love later deciding she wanted to become human, effectively killing herself to reincarnate as her half-Gem son Steven. Pearl's still trying to work through her complicated emotional baggage, especially because "A Single Pale Rose" reveals one of Pearl's biggest secrets: Rose Quartz was Pink Diamond, her former master who lead a double-life as both the tyrant who was supposed to colonize Earth and the rebel leader, and Pearl was sworn to secrecy after helping Pink fake her death. While not as traumatic, Garnet didn't have it easy during the war either. Technically. She's the fusion of two other Gems, Ruby and Sapphire. As Ruby, she was one of many disposable soldiers sent to bodyguard the high-ranking Sapphire, a member of Blue Diamond's court. When Sapphire used her future vision powers to predict the outcome of the war where the rebels would be captured and this did not come to pass, Blue Diamond was furious. What's more, part of this divergence was because Ruby refused to let Sapphire be "poofed"note Unless you shatter the gemstone on their bodies completely, a gravely injured Gem will simply retreat into the gemstone to regenerate rather than die. Being put into a regenerative state is called "poofing" by Steven, because of the poof of smoke that occurs when it happens, leading to the two fusing during a moment of shared protection. Blue Diamond ordered Ruby to be shattered for her actions, to which Sapphire spirited her away, fleeing the Homeworld's base and eventually carving a shared identity as Garnet on the side of the Crystal Gems.
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Backstory Horror / int_791e7b7f	comment	In Zootopia, it is made clear (via a Lecture as Exposition at the very beginning) that that the inhabitants of this world had evolved from ordinary wild animals, which naturally tended to kill and eat each other on a regular basis. In addition, an exhibit in the Natural History museum at the end of the film shows that the evolution of sapience did not occur to all mammals at the same time indicating that there was a period of time where sapient prey were still being hunted by non-sapient predators. And until their technology advanced to abolish the food chain, sapient obligate carnivores would have been forced into a Sapient Eat Sapient situation with evolved prey.
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Backstory Horror / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario Bros., mentioned above, is actually a surprising subversion. Although the brick blocks that give power-ups or coins, are transformed mushroom people, the manual states that hitting the blocks will free the victims. In fact, this is exactly the reason why those blocks contain special items: it is a token of gratitude. Luigi is shown to be a Classical Anti-Hero known for being insecure about his relative anonymity compared to his famous brother, and prone to jealousy, cowardice and attention-seeking. However, he's said in supplemental material to have a very dark secret somewhere in his past (said to be the power behind his incredibly odd Limit Break in Super Smash Bros. Brawl in which he seems to summon a portal to a dark and distorted dimension). Though this may be a case of American Kirby Is Hardcore, since this detail isn't mentioned in the European version.
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Backstory Horror / int_83c29c63	comment	In Zuma's Fear, Zuma once had an excellent life, only to be sabotaged by just one person, by killing his family. Technically averted for the rest of the fic as it undergoes a Cerebus Syndrome, though.
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Backstory Horror / int_8d50e6ff	comment	Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. Aww, look, it's an Alternate Continuity to those sweet little games that star an adorable hero who looks like a wad of pink chewing gum. Sure, those games had some truly disturbing final bosses, but most of them don't exist in the anime. Then you find out that a massive war took place at some unspecified time before the series began, and the side of good lost. Meta Knight was one of the few survivorsnote various others are seen over the course of the series, along with the children of some of his dead buddies. His faithful companions Sword and Blade had to become bandits to keep from starving to death during said war. Kirby himself is an alien destined to save the universe from Nightmare, but unfortunately the Call to Adventure came ahead of schedule and he has to fight while still essentially a baby. Most of this is forgotten during the average episode, which instead focuses on sillier things such as a fish falling in love with Fumu, Wacky Racing, or King Dedede trying to make an anime about himself, with the Monster of the Week thrown in somewhere.
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Backstory Horror / int_99e49e94	comment	In Bug Fables, the Day of Awakening that made bugs sentient is heavily implied to be the day of reckoning for the Giants who all mysteriously disappeared without any trace. The final lore book implies that they were driven to extinction in the cataclysmic war or they left the planet to live in the stars, but, either way, the things that live in the Giant's Lair are definitely non-human in the nature, which implies something went very, very wrong with their world.
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Backstory Horror / int_9e1e1974	comment	Asia Ellis' backstory in morphE. Nowhere in the main comic has the subject of this segment of her personal Ask Blog come up. Those who don't follow it would have no idea to the extent of her troubled past.
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Backstory Horror / int_9e845561	comment	The Mask: In the original comic, the Mask was a psychotic killing machine similar to The Joker, but with horrific supernatural powers.
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Backstory Horror / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project. The actual narratives (the games and the manga) rarely get worse than a bit morbid, but the backstories and Worldbuilding contain a parade of murder, deception, bigotry, and confusing metaphysics. Of particular note since these two elements are roughly equal in size. Gensokyo was created as a Fantastic Nature Reserve to preserve youkai from humans' waning belief in the supernatural and the impending The Magic Goes Away. Much of the world was once like Gensokyo, but now aside from a few persistent stragglers all those mystical beings are either extinct, or endangered and confined to one small region. Youkai didn't stop eating humans once the barrier went up, they just had more restrictions on it. Anyone caught outside designated safe areas at night are fair game, as are any humans from outside the barrier, with youkai going on not-infrequent trips to abduct and eat people. Most of the human characters are friends with youkai without this ever being brought up. Oni were driven away from the surface and haven't been seen in so long most believe they're extinct. Suika seems like a typical Hard-Drinking Party Girl given her scheme in Immaterial and Missing Power is to force Gensokyo into an endless kegger, but she's doing so in the hopes she can draw her people out from hiding. Fortunately there are some living in the Underground, Suika reuniting with an old friend in Subterranean Animism. Flandre was isolated in her mansion's basement for nearly 500 years due to her sister's fears about her powers, but looking at her you'd never know it. Parsee is a Hashihime, a youkai that is made when her husband left her for another woman, lurking near a bridge and threatening to kill any loving couple that passes if they don't break up immediately (and in some versions of the legend also kills her ex and his new wife). She's treated as a joke by the cast. Even in the Underground, a place were youkai who are despised by other youkai are sent, there are some who are pariahs. One of them, Koishi, was so impacted by the Fantastic Racism inflicted on her because of the fear of her Psychic Powers she permanently closed her third eye, turning her into an Empty Shell with no emotions or thoughts beyond the surface. Again, you wouldn't know it looking at her. The backstory of Byakuren and her followers is that they were protecting youkai from human persecution and trying to find a peace between the two groups, and they ended up persecuted themselves and sealed in Makai for their troubles. The backstory of Miko and her followers is them exacerbating a religious war and manipulating the beliefs of the people so they could install themselves as unquestioned immortal rulers of Japan. It's no wonder that Byakuren and Co. are rather unhappy when they get resurrected. Junko's motivation for invading the Moon: In Chinese myth, the Earth once had multiple suns, which threatened to scorch away all life, so the archer Hou Yi shot them all down (he also received an elixir of immortality that was drunk by his wife Chang'e, who escaped to the Moon). Unfortunately, one of the suns crashed onto Junko's son, killing him. Since then she has become a pure spirit... of pure vengeance, that is. She already killed Hou Yi, but now is fixated on killing Chang'e as well (despite Chang'e being imprisoned by the Lunarians for drinking the elixir). Her power is to make anything pure, which she plans to do by bringing fairies made of pure lifeforce to the Moon, functioning as a Brown Note for them. Because of the Lunarians' particular form of immortality (there are several kinds in Touhou), the very concept of life and therefore death is utterly alien to them (it's also why said fairy is Wearing A Flag On Her Head: it reminds them of the time mortals landed on the moon). The reason the fairy (a spirit from Greek Myth called a lampad who can cause madness) is working for her is because of her own master, the goddess Hecatia who wants revenge for Hou Yi shooting her cousin Apollo.
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Backstory Horror / int_a7657e73	comment	One of the more quiet and slow-paced scenes in Gremlins (1984) has Kate telling Billy just what happened to make her hate Christmas: Her father tried to enter the house's chimney dressed as Santa when she was a kid, but broke his neck in a fall and got stuck. They thought he was missing for a few days, until they smelled something awful in the fireplace. In a horror comedy that already has plenty of Nightmare Fuel, this scene especially seems to stick with viewers.
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Backstory Horror / int_ac7fd385	comment	The wacky pigeon-dominated world of Hatoful Boyfriend has a backstory of biological warfare recent enough that the human species faces extinction in the present day, the bird society is on the verge of civil war, and the only way you can stop either is by dating birds and trying not to die.
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Backstory Horror / int_bd310eaa	comment	Grace in El Goonish Shive is a Keet squirrel-girl who was created to be a Super-Soldier, but grew up under extra-horrifying conditions after most of the scientists involved in her creation were slaughtered by Damien, a chimera bent on world domination who planned to use Grace for breeding purposes. Hugs?
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Backstory Horror / int_bfb483af	comment	Splatoon: Over the course of the first game, you can find documents called Sunken Scrolls that detail the history and culture of the Inklings, the anthropomorphized squid creatures that serve as the playable characters. Some of the documents, however, reveal that the series takes place After the End. Global warming caused the ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise, driving humans and all other mammals to extinction. Afterwards, sea life evolved to the point where it started walking on land and became sapient, beginning civilization anew. This goes on to become a major plot point in following installments, with the exact details being expanded upon in the process.
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Backstory Horror / int_c0ed3f7a	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: In the original comic they are raised with one purpose: to murder Shredder, which they do in issue one.
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Backstory Horror / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The ponies have been on the brink of extinction on numerous occasions. Equestria only exists in the first place because a horde of monsters that feed on hatred and cause fierce blizzards devastated the ponies' original home, and almost froze their new home after they followed the ponies. Then Discord arrived to cause an "eternal state of unrest and unhappiness", which only stopped when the princesses arrived to lay the smack down. Then one of said princesses went mad with jealousy and almost froze Equestria again by trying to enact The Night That Never Ends. Most of this is used to show how The Power of Friendship can triumph over anything, but it's rather jarring to consider how many potential apocalypses the ponies have narrowly avoided. This series gets a double-dose of this in the Season 5 Finale, particularly in the Sombra Takeover timeline where it implies some serious crap has gone down in the span between Sombra's awakening and Twilight's arrival in the new "present". Firstly we only see Princess Celestia in this timeline, and considering that Princess Cadance and Shining Armor were in the now conquered Crystal Empire when Sombra escaped it's likely they (and possibly Princess Luna as well) have all been killed. Another blink-and-you'll-miss-it flashback when Applejack is describing the war effort shows a filly amongst the lineup of ponies going to fight in the war. The implications are deeply disturbing.
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Backstory Horror / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who is fairly dark but still an idealistic children's show. Some parts of it are unexpectedly horrible: The novelisation of "The Time Warrior" initially contained a very detailed and Squickily sexual account of how Sontarans reproduce through probic vent fluids, straight from the mind of their creator Robert Holmes. It got cut by the publisher due to being virtually unprintable, although the new series vaguely alludes to it when Strax mentions being so excited that he clogged his probic vent. According to the novelisation, the Argolins were a race initially so violent that they were forced to develop a ridiculous and incoherent code of chivalry just to give themselves an outlet. The greatest act of chivalry in Argolin culture was a duel in which both participants both hacked bits off their own bodies to death in order to even the odds and then both died of shock and blood loss. What we see of the Argolins in "The Leisure Hive" is from many centuries after this in which they are a dying race. The Fifth and Sixth Doctor companion Peri was repeatedly raped by her uncle as a child, who told her it was their secret. The novelisation of "The Twin Dilemma" goes into Body Horror territory about what regeneration actually does to you, through telling the story of a Time Lord who tried to kill himself repeatedly until he regenerated into someone more attractive, with some very unpleasant results. The idea in production was that Ace had lost her virginity to Sabalom Glitz at some point during "Dragonfire", although this is only implied onscreen. The much darker Expanded Universe picks up on this idea and runs with it. Vastra is said in supplemental materials to have met Jenny by eating the Chinese gangsters who were about to gang-rape her.
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Backstory Horror / int_c51a81a0	comment	In A Witch's Tale, every kingdom has a horrific backstory. Rem Sacchras was created by Queen Alice to make a seventh kingdom in order to complete the seal on the Eld Witch. But the land was ruled by evil, and to appease the evil being, she chose to sacrifice the younger twin princess from Rem Boreas, and the younger sister's bitterness towards being sacrificed manifested in poison. The Eld Witch's daughters wreaked havoc on Rem Boreas, killing the Ice Queen's two daughters in the process. It's treated as a legend, but the shadow blocking the way to the Shadow Lands in Shadow Town speaks of her home freezing over and how the Ice Rune killed her and her sister. The Eld Witch ruined Florin, which was then occupied by the Winged. When they began to suffer, they turned their faces to the moon and cried out for help. The residents of the moon kingdom, who also worshipped the moon, sent down plants to soothe the Winged. The Eld Witch succeeded in wiping the Winged out. Oceria was a surface kingdom, but got submerged when the Eld Witch's third daughter grew jealous of its magic. In Al'Sahra, the Eld Witch's daughters cursed the land to burn forever. The Eld Witch killed Princess Shahrazad the day after she was crowned, and Lyra is tormented with nightmares of what happened. Artis fought in the war without magic at all, using machines. They were all turned into scrap, including Dorothy's dear friends.
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Backstory Horror / int_c9b98f4e	comment	In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, it's amazing how most of the Smurfs under Papa Smurf's care live happy, carefree lives like in the cartoon show, given that the parents who were the Smurfs of Papa Smurf's generation have all died in The Plague that is Only Fatal to Adults back when the Smurfs were just little Smurflings. And of course, there's Papa Smurf subjecting his only begotten son Empath to 150 years of living in Psychelia with a group of xenophobic emotionless telepaths whose leader had Mind Raped him as an infant.
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Backstory Horror / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil: During the Daredevil: Father miniseries, Joe Quesada retconned that the old man Matt saved (in the accident that blinded Matt as a kid and gave him his radar sense) was molesting his own daughter. That's right, Matt's crappy luck didn't just start with the accident that blinded him, but the good deed he was trying to do ended up saving a monster.
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Backstory Horror / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Pokémon: The Series: James from Team Rocket is an escapee from a Gilded Cage. Becoming a criminal was his only way out.
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Backstory Horror / int_d8534d26	comment	To the shock of many, Wicked with its twisted fantasy dystopia is actually a more faithful adaptation of the original book than the 1939 movie.
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Backstory Horror / int_dbce0953	comment	Pikmin has Word of God stating that the Pikmin planet of the main games, PNF-404, is the planet Earth hundreds of millions of years in the future, after the extinction of most current species.
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Backstory Horror / int_dc25de3f	comment	Portal. On the surface, it's a puzzle game with the player as a tester of a gun. Beneath the layers though shows an incredibly twisted place caused by Mad Scientists, the player had her entire life robbed from them, many were murdered For Science! - there's no way of knowing how many people have died in the facility before you, the entire situation with Cave Johnson, and that the A.I. that guides the player through each test area unfolds throughout the first game as rather homicidal with a fatally cavalier approach to human life. (And this is in the same universe as Half-Life, with the Combine's Alien Invasion and subsequent dictatorship over all Earth where people are slaughtered en-masse regularly, so all of that happened too.) This is made more explicit in Portal 2, balanced by a more wacky view of the Aperture Science backstory, but parts of it are even bleaker than the original. Like the fate of poor Caroline, for an example.
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Backstory Horror / int_ea0de5f1	comment	Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures is generally a lighthearted kids' show full of silly villains, Toilet Humour, and not taking itself seriously, but the backstory is ridiculously dark—the main villain, General Betrayus, started a world war between ghosts and Pac-Worlders, and the Pacinator committed genocide on all the yellow Pac-Worlders except for Pac himself.
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Backstory Horror / int_ef4c300f	comment	Invoked in the multiplayer mode of Assassin's Creed III, which is marketed as a This Is Reality version of the Animus Database that allows people to relive the past. As the player levels up, they unlock cheesy, happy-go-lucky meta-commercials promoting it; completing difficult challenges, however, unlocks hacked versions, which contain "Erudito" pointing out true motives, hired actors, careful marketing and blatant lies to hide the truths about it.
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Backstory Horror / int_f0688fff	comment	The remakes of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire do this to a once-minor NPC, Professor Takao Cozmo, but you only learn this through a post-game sidequest. Originally, he just appeared as a theft victim of Team Aqua/Magma's plots. In the remakes, not only does both he AND the MacGuffin linked to him get increased importance, you learn his backstory: As a child, his father Raizo was an extreme workaholic, enough that he noticed that his mother was spending more time with her "friend". Eventually, Raizo stopped coming home and, at the end of the sidequest, when you meet him, you discover he's grown so senile that he imagines a stuffed toy Takao once gave as his son. Given that in the post-game, your own father, Gym Leader Norman, is also presented as a workaholic, the latter's still being able to be there for his family, with only his position necessitating his family move with him from Johto to Hoenn, and blowing off a date with your mother (the tickets of which are passed to you and your neighbor), Raizo is played as Norman who couldn't control his work. The same sidequest also reveals something just as horrible, and is actually connected to the X and Y example above. Hinted during the main post-game story with Devon Corporation, you discover through letters that Mauville Corporation once also employed the same Pokemon life force-based energy system as the Ultimate Weapon for its development, explaining why Mauville City is far more developed in the remakes. However, Gym Leader Wattson, who was also CEO of the corporation regretted the use of such energy and shut down their projects, forcing massive layoffs. One of the Non Player Characters in the city is implied to be a man who wrote about the burden of laying off those people under Wattson's orders. He himself has a sidequest that saves him from his funk, turning him into Mr. Bonding from X and Y.
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Backstory Horror / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts has the Keyblade War, an apocalyptic Great Offscreen War that led to the current era setting. It is described in the Seekers Of Darkness arc to be a conflict caused by evil and greedy Keyblade wielders who wanted to own the Light of Kingdom Hearts, and took to using Darkness to take it by force. In the prequels Union Cross and X we finally get to see at least part of it and like many cases of Unseen Evil, it's left as ymmv whatever it lives up to the built up or if it comes across as an Anti-Climax. Although according to the Master Of Masters, who used the conflict as part of his Gambit Roulette, the war has been going on for a while even before the prequels.
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