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He's tall, charming, strikingly good-looking, well-spoken in five languages, and classically trained in even more instruments. He's the Big Man on Campus, former president of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council, valedictorian, and working on his doctorate in a scientific field that a peon like you can't even pronounce. He always wears a suit...until the inevitable Shirtless Scene during his (strenuous) exercise routine, that is. He has a lovely smile. But inside, he's an ugly, writhing mass of self-hatred, Parental Issues, past tragedy and whatever unpleasentries that life brought upon him. Expect him to have at least one bizarre trait or ability that should not be overlooked, as well as an unhealthy attitude about love, life, and humanity in general. He most likely doesn't have anyone that loves or respects him for what he really is. This may be justified. In the most cynical works on the sliding scale, he'll be a Serial Killer, or at least a future one. In works on the more idealistic end, he'll be struggling with a mental illness, a disorder, or some other demon that makes his life miserable but isn't his fault. This character is usually male (female characters tend to be Broken Birds instead), but not always. Also, he may just be a perfectionist crumbling under his own standards. The chief difference between the Broken Ace and the usually female Stepford Smiler is that the Stepford Smiler wants to appear normal at all costs, often to the point of hurting herself emotionally (or because she's sociopathic). This guy has the same setup but is more talented and wants to be the best, loved by all, and accepted. The debilitating personal issues which he's hiding are only getting worse because of being repressed and the stress of his efforts to excel, and these sorts of characters are prime Jerkass Woobie material. See also The Ace, who's still better than you at everything but isn't so prone to mental disorders or emotional problems, and the Byronic Hero, who's just as awe-inspiring and brooding but lacks the charming, polished façade and is rarely presented as pathetic. For plots where a character's idol is revealed to be this, see Broken Pedestal. Anyone who has experienced The Perils of Being the Best is likely to become this. Related to "Well Done, Son" Guy if the child has accomplished much and gained much respect from other people. In case you haven't noticed, this has nothing to do with asexuality. Compare Heartbroken Badass. In Real Life, this is common. Real people have flaws no matter how perfect and successful they seem to be at first glance. Moreover, high-performing people are often pushing themselves so hard to achieve professional goals that they are bound to either burn out physically or emotionally, or underinvest in (or even abandon) their friends and family. |
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Molly's Game: Harlan Eustice, unlike every other person who plays poker at the games Molly sets up, is a good and careful poker player, playing the cards rather than trying to bluff and challenge the other players. On the eve of a surprise birthday party he's planning for his wife, Harlan is playing with Bad Brad (nicknamed as such because he's an awful poker player), among others. Because Harlan isn't used to playing with Brad, when Brad goes all in on a bet, Harlan assumes he has a good hand, and being a Graceful Loser, bows out. It isn't until he gets a look at Brad's cards that Harlan realizes Brad was bluffing. As Molly tells us, from this point, it's as if a circuit shorted inside Harlan's brain, and for the rest of the night, he forgot every rule when it came to playing good poker, instead making bets indiscriminately and losing all of his money (even the money Molly ends up lending him). He never makes it to his wife's birthday party, and she ends up divorcing him, leading him to be totally dependent on Player X. | |
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Marina Diamandis: "Oh No" is a Broken Ace anthem of sorts, and is very popular for Fan Vids about this kind of character. "Are You Satisfied?" leans into this, with the singer even pondering if life would be easier for them if they were average. |
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Tyler Durden from Fight Club, being The narrator's subconscious conception of his ideal self, which he manifests as an alternate personality. | |
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Sherlock is, as always the world's greatest detective, he's both one of the smartest people you'll ever meet and a very capable fighter and regularly enjoys making the police look like idiots. But at the same time he's a self-destructive drug addict who can't measure up to his Aloof Big Brother, seems to have something of an Inferiority Superiority Complex and has a very co-dependent on his best/only friend John Watson (who is himself a bit of a broken ace) and that's not even mentioning his sister. | |
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Spencer Hastings from Pretty Little Liars. A perfectionist, beautiful Academic Athlete. She also comes from a wildly dysfunctional family (made entirely of other Broken Aces), suffers from a semi-dormant mental disorder as well as substance abuse, is in a very toxic Alpha Bitch vs. Starscream "friendship" with another Broken Ace, Allison, from whom she borrowed some disturbing Fille Fatale tendencies. As Hanna puts it, no one should have been surprised when Spencer was admitted to Bedlam House. All of the aforementioned Hastings family fit this category, as they unquestionably fit The Ace part in achievements, status and even looks, they also each carry a can of worms — Melissa with her secret pregnancy, Veronica with her secret illness, and Peter with his secret affair with the Dilaurentis twins, Jessica and Mary, with whom he had given birth to no less than three children out of wedlock — Jason, Alex, and Spencer herself. Even the two men who planned to marry into the Hastings family, the equally creepy Ian and Wren, could fit the trope, though Wren gets the prize for Foreshadowing his psycho Hidden Depths as early as Season 2, while the depths of his sketchiness are only revealed five seasons later. The Only family that can hold a candle to the Hastings are the Dilaurentis family, so chock-full of secrets and craziness each of them get Walking Spoiler status, even though they are — or used to be, the most beloved, respectable families in Rosewood. That applies even for the ones who didn't know they were part of the Dilaurentis family, like Spencer herself. |
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Artie of Narbonic has undertones of this. He is 6+ ft tall with a perfect body, has an IQ that is literally beyond human possibility, has won several genius grants, is quite successful as a novelist, and as of Skin Horse, is seen to have an endless stream of one night stands with other gorgeous men. Hell, as of Skin Horse he is described exactly by the trope description if you add Civil Rights Leader to the list. But on the inside, he is nearly continually disappointed with himself and struggles to deal with his dual nature as a human and a gerbil and his place in the transgenic community. He isn't quite completely broken, but he is as close as you can get without becoming so. | |
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Lance from the Gone series. He is smart, athletic, handsome, and was popular before the poof. He also suffers from Fantastic Racism. | |
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Worm: Taylor Herbert, a.k.a. Skitter develops into a version of this over time. She goes from a bullied, timid, and superpowered high-school girl to a powerful supervillain, defeating foes such as Lung, the Slaughterhouse Nine, and even Alexandria. However, as she does so, she begins to worry more and more about her actions and their consequences, ending up even more of a mental wreck than she was before. | |
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Othello is a successful and highly-respected general with a wife he loves and subordinates who would do anything for him. As it turns out, he is also totally taken in by a complete sociopath, and susceptible enough to jealousy and rage that he kills his wife in the mistaken belief she is cheating on him. | |
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Apt Pupil has an A student get fascinated with the local hidden Nazi's old war stories. This eventually causes him (and the Nazi) to snap. | |
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The new Phantom Lady is a Ph.D. multimillionaire who has been trained since birth to be a super spy superhero. Also canonically one of the most beautiful women in the DC universe. Yet she's constantly worried that people don't take her seriously and that being a superhero is eating her soul. | |
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Juan Cabrillo from The Oregon Files is a talented ex-CIA agent, A Father to His Men who are themselves a Badass Crew of former military and government men and women, and captain of the MV Oregon, a high-tech spy ship disguised as a rusting tramp steamer. However, he is deeply troubled by his wife's death, which, while caused by her own alcoholism and driving under the influence, he believes himself responsible for due to being away on "business" with the CIA for extended periods of time, thus causing her to take up the bottle out of loneliness. On top of (and possibly due to) this is his severe case of Chronic Hero Syndrome to the point that he must help someone need, even if doing so would result in worse consequences down the road. He also grapples with ethical issues stemming from his heroic tendencies clashing with the morally ambiguous nature of being a mercenary, at one point musing that if he killed someone in cold blood, even if the person deserved it, it could take away a part of his soul and take him down a path that would make him no better. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Thor certainly becomes this post-Original Sin. He loses his worthiness to wield Mjölnir and becomes way more cynical and melancholic. He admits that he's come to believe that Gorr was right about the gods, and that they don't deserve the praise and worship mortals heap on them. Far into the future, he has this even worse. He becomes the All-Father and lord of Asgard and inherits the Odin-Force (which he renames the "Thor-Force"), but his brother permanently turning to evil, the death of all life on Earth at Loki's hands, and Gorr's slaughter and enslavement of his people has reduced him to a near shell of himself who can barely muster the will to fight anymore. Thankfully, both the past and future versions of Thor eventually get better, though they still carry much baggage regarding their past failings and self-worth. | |
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Anna Scott from Notting Hill is the most successful actress in Hollywood but she is aware that her fame hinges on her looks. | |
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John Nash in A Beautiful Mind is a brilliant and successful graduate student and later mathematics professor but is a socially-clumsy loner with schizophrenia. | |
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X-Men: Cyclops. He's the leader of the X-Men and the leader of the mutant race, but oh boy, has Scott ever endured so much pain, chaos, and tragedy throughout the course of his life. Underneath that stoic facade is most definitely an emotionally broken and fragile man. Even before Cerebus Syndrome hit, Cyclops was this. A strong, versatile power came with a crippling inability to control it, and fear that someday he would hurt those he loved with it. Then there's the fact that he literally cannot make eye contact with anyone, a privilege everyone else takes for granted. Good strategizing skills coupled with terrible social skills isolated him from his teammates and made him a repressed, disliked, Sugar-and-Ice Personality who had barely any close relationships. Scott's fellow X-Man Wolverine is also one of these. He's got over a century's worth of accumulated skills, accomplishments, bedmates, friends, and is the poster-boy of "mutant cool". He's also got over a century's worth of painful memories, dirty business, lost loves, enemies, and is full of self-loathing. And Logan's own daughter/Opposite-Sex Clone, Laura Kinney a.k.a. X-23, who may pack even more angst into her seventeen short years than Logan has his entire 150 or more. She's without question one of the best fighters and most experienced members of whatever team she's assigned to thanks to being raised as a Living Weapon by the ones who created her. She was also horrifically physically and emotionally abused by her creators, forced to kill her own mother via a chemically-induced berserker rage which will make her turn on anyone no matter how much she cares for them, had to give up the relatively normal and happy life she was creating with her only other family when the ones who made her came looking for her in order to protect them, and spent an unknown period of time as a prostitute under a violently possessive and abusive pimp. Laura has been left a mess of confused emotions and finds establishing true friendships incredibly difficult as a result, and it's been very strongly implied she's prone to bouts of severe, if not outright suicidal, depression. And her solo series reveals she was left with so little sense of self during her captivity and days as a prostitute she never realized the horrible things done to her were even wrong! |
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Dr. Frankenstein goes through this in Season Two. In his cursed identity as Dr. Wael, he's a stereotypical arrogant hypercompetent surgeon, but when the curse is lifted he goes through a mini Trauma Conga Line and loses all confidence in himself and medicine in general, descending into alcoholism and depression. Which is a problem when an out-of-towner crashes his car and Wael is the only one who can save his life. Ruby helps him get over it and he resumes work as the town doctor, with some much needed perspective and humility. | |
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Shawn Michaels, considered to be one of the most talented performers to have ever stepped into a ring, had a terrible pain killer addiction on top of being a colossal jackass backstage who used his considerable pull to screw over several of his coworkers. After his four-year retirement and conversion to Christianity, he has since gotten rid of all his vices, became The Atoner, and all around committed to subverting this trope. | |
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Besides The Once and Future King, Lancelot also qualifies in Le Morte D Arthur, where he does all his fantastic deeds just to win Guinevere's attention. It does not end well. | |
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Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now was earmarked for command but he snapped after witnessing a massacre by the Viet Cong. At first he was horrified then he became fascinated. He thought the US army must embrace "The Horror" he had seen in order to make them into efficient killing machines. | |
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Lex Luthor: Lionel's son. On the surface, he's got it all: wealth, power, women, immunity from prosecution. Underneath, he's self-loathing, caught up in a desire for parental approval that he'll never get, before or post-Face–Heel Turn, haunted by the deaths of his mother and brother, and consumed by his need to control the people around him. He blows up every friendship he ever has in his drive for success and his eventual slide into cackling supervillainy is as tragic as it is inevitable. | |
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Roan Montgomery from Chuck is a Chick Magnet despite his age but beneath it, he's a Jaded Washout. | |
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Dr. Gregory House from House. Not only is he the greatest diagnostician, but he has also mastered all the manipulative aspects of human sociology and psychology. In addition, he speaks several languages, plays a mean guitar, and has the expertise needed to turn his own apartment into an ICU. Despite all this, he still manages to have no social skills, has no friends, and is an unapologetic, drug-addicted criminal. | |
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Euphoria: On the field, Nate Jacobs is a star quarterback for his high school football team. Off the field, he's a mess of neuroses. | |
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Sting is a subversion: In the mid-1990s he struggled with substance abuse and his family life, but like Shawn Michaels above, became a Born-Again Christian and turned his life around. | |
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"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig could do just about anything, except put down the bottle which led to his death. | |
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Grant Ward from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starts off as the perfect spy, The Big Guy for Coulson's team of specialists. He wasn't the most sociable, but even that gave him a James Bond-like quality, forgoing a social life for king and country. Still, he becomes friends with the rest of Team Coulson and has a budding romance with Skye. Then it later turns out that he's The Mole working for HYDRA, and he betrays SHIELD and his friends. Then we learn the circumstances of his recruitment and just how screwed up his life was up to that point. At the end of the season, Ward's mentor is killed and he's arrested for his crimes and attempts suicide in jail. In the second season, Coulson and his crew make it very clear that they do not trust or forgive him for his actions. When circumstances require them to work together again, pretty much everyone wants to kill him. Even when he gives some Freudian Excuse, he's shut down by Agent May, whose PTSD is often a plot point ("We all have our traumas, Ward, didn't turn any of us into psychopaths.") He escapes at the end of that mission and became a recurring villain until his death in the third season. | |
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Jeff Hardy and his battles with drug addictions will very likely land him in jail in the near future. Not to mention, his already terrible reign as TNA World Champion was capped off with one of the worst title matches in history (see the So Bad It's Horrible TNA page for more details). | |
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Jack of Check, Please! is a Tall, Dark, and Handsome hockey prodigy — and also a mess of anxiety, perfectionism, and "Well Done, Son" Guy issues. | |
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Stacee Jaxxx from Rock of Ages is a famous rock star but his solo career is stalling thanks to writer's block. | |
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Graf von Krolock from Tanz Der Vampire. Suave, unflappable vampire, seducer of the young and beautiful, dominating and powerful...and then, come The Eleven O'Clock Number, we see him practically writhing in the dirt of the castle graveyard as he castigates himself for being driven to destroy what he loves and never rising to the true pinnacle he always wanted to achieve. | |
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James Gordon of Gotham. Gordon might be a rookie detective, but he's a former soldier and a very good hand-to-hand combatant, effortlessly disarming and taking down a large heavily-armed man and then later delivering a beatdown to two mob enforcers among other badass moments. He's also good looking with a laundry list of admirers who will always strive to do what is right and clean up Gotham. However, most of his admirers are Ax-Crazy and he's constantly fighting with his own dark side which others take note of. Also, there are frequent hits on his life (by two of his admirers even) and the lives of those close to him. In addition, Galavan worming in his way out of justice, combined with Gordon netting a 40-year sentence for his vigilante execution, seems to have stripped Gordon of any notion that the law can work in Gotham which is what he firmly believed separated the villains from the heroes. | |
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This seemed to be a central theme in the NBC series Heroes. Having superpowers didn't cure the characters of their painful pasts, past mental issues, or dark secrets. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara has more than a few elements of this. He's a nice-looking hero with wonderful toys and True Companions around him — but he wants so badly to be a good guy and to think that he's much more than his Channel Awesome co-workers. He has a Small Name, Big Ego: his number one priority seems to be whether the fans watch him or not and his Comedic Sociopathynote Wanting to rule the nation on his own turns into "I am the liberator of Kickassia" is far creepier than the others because whereas they embrace it, he denies it. The post-Entity storyline has people calling him out on how broken he is, and tell him that he's close to becoming an outright villain. | |
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Don Draper of Mad Men. Creative director/shaman of both the older Sterling Cooper and the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Incredibly handsome and charismatic. Able to bed any woman pretty much just by looking at her. Has won multiple advertising awards and manages to accept them while cutting a dapper figure. He achieved this by stealing another man's identity to get away from his dirt poor abusive upbringing. His marriage to Betty showed the consequences of a Broken Ace marrying a Stepford Smiler. A major part of Season 4 was about surveying the wreckage of that union. | |
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This is how Bruce Wayne is portrayed in Batman Forever. The most well-known man in Gotham but still wrestling with his childhood demons. | |
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Jeff Winger from Community is good-looking, has a gift for gab, and is liked by everyone — but his masculinity hides his issues with his estranged father and his fear that no one will like his vulnerable side. He calls himself "broken" in Season 4. Even more so Rich from pottery class, who has a load of mother issues after his brother died. On the outside, he comes over as the allegedly most charismatic and cool character on the show. |
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Hamlet is a brilliant young scholar-prince who’s good with a sword and has a girlfriend who loves him. He’s also wracked with grief and paranoia in the wake of his father’s murder, obsessed with the idea of revenge but too indecisive to make it happen, and (at least by the end of the play) more than a little bit insane. Laertes would also qualify, for many of the same reasons. |
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Green Arrow/Oliver Queen: A heroic example. In one life Oliver is the heir to an immense fortune, a oligarch playboy with more women than he can handle and a life most people only dream of. In his other life, he moonlights as a Badass Normal Superhero saving more lives before nine A.M. than most people do before lunch. And yet neither of these is the real Oliver Queen. Inside he's hollow, convinced that his life is a sham, and manifests numerous self-destructive tendencies including alcoholism, the inability to commit to anything, and a total disregard for his own safety that's both impressive and frightening. His commitment to saving the world overshadows everything else he does, leading to bouts of drinking, a temporary drug addiction, and culminating in his Interrupted Suicide in Season 9. | |
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RWBY: Pyrrha Nikos is a world-renowned fighter who has kept her title as Mistral Regional Tournament Champion for a record-breaking four years. She is beautiful, talented, has been blessed with incredible opportunities and a supportive family. Everyone worships her, and that's the problem. Having been placed on such a high pedestal, it's impossible for her to make any friends at all. She's a very lonely person who just wants to be treated like a normal person. Upon meeting Jaune Arc, the fact he doesn't know who she is and therefore treats her like anyone else attracts her to him, and enables her to finally start making friends. Qrow Branwen was a member of the elite Team STRQ as a student. Despite being famous and respected as one of Remnant's top Huntsmen, he's a sarcastic, pessimistic loner. An alcoholic struggling with an uncontrollable Semblance that brings misfortune to himself and those around him, he tries to avoid hanging around those he cares about to spare them the harm he can accidentally bring their way. Upon realising in Volume 6 that everything he's been fighting for might have been a lie, he descends into an alcoholic spiral that makes him a problem to the students he's supposed to be supporting. By Volume 7, he gives up alcohol and starts turning his life around, despite the uphill struggle. |
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Nikita is the best covert operative Division created but she hates them for turning her into a killer who is unable to live a normal life. | |
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Prince Charming in the Shrek movies is a parody of this type that acts like and actually thinks he is a standard heroic Ace, but really is a vain, juvenile Mama's boy once you scratch the surface. | |
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Played with in unOrdinary. Before Seraphina met John, she was indisputably the top student in school in abilities, academics, and reputation. However, this came with a greater deal of pressure and judgment from her peers. In the present story, Seraphina's peers in Wellston see her like this since she started hanging around with John and no longer caring too much about her grades or reputation. However, Seraphina feels a lot better about herself than she did before. As it turns out, John himself is also one of these. While a skilled hand to hand fighter and owner of one of the most powerful abilities seen so far in the series, he also has serious trust issues and a vicious Hair-Trigger Temper that is in no way whatsoever Played for Laughs. There are several signs that he's suffering from PTSD. He's an interesting case in that he's perfectly aware of it, hence why he refuses to make his The Ace status public because he knows he's the worst possible person to be saddled with the social status and authority that comes with being King — worse, he knows it from experience. It's implied in one conversation that this is enforced among god-tiers. As described, Seraphina used to be obsessed with perfection, while Arlo's obsessive drive to maintain social hierarchy essentially kickstarts the plot. In both stances it is much for the worse of the both of them. Some characters briefly wonder if crippling god-tiers psychologically is not a way to keep them under control. |
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Les Misérables: Mayor Madeleine is the most beloved man in town, but he's actually Jean Valjean, an ex-convict with a compulsion for self-sacrifice bordering on madness. His nemesis Inspector Javert is also an example of this. Javert is the most feared policeman in France. He is described as a "monstrous Saint Michael". But his zealotry is motivated by the fact he is the bastard son of a convict and a fortune teller, which he is deeply ashamed of. He seems to have some sort of mental illness and suffers from Black-and-White Insanity so bad that when his worldview is destroyed he kills himself rather than compromise any further. |
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Cyclops. He's the leader of the X-Men and the leader of the mutant race, but oh boy, has Scott ever endured so much pain, chaos, and tragedy throughout the course of his life. Underneath that stoic facade is most definitely an emotionally broken and fragile man. Even before Cerebus Syndrome hit, Cyclops was this. A strong, versatile power came with a crippling inability to control it, and fear that someday he would hurt those he loved with it. Then there's the fact that he literally cannot make eye contact with anyone, a privilege everyone else takes for granted. Good strategizing skills coupled with terrible social skills isolated him from his teammates and made him a repressed, disliked, Sugar-and-Ice Personality who had barely any close relationships. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Diana is incredibly powerful, skilled, kind and respected but when Steve Trevor is killed by her villain Dr. Cyber she questions and even temporarily leaves her role as the Amazon's champion. Her mother, in a not well thought out plan, kidnaps an injured version of Steve from the multiverse, overwrites what is left of his memories with ones that won't contradict Diana's and then erases her own daughter's memories of Steve's death. | |
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Harry Potter: The titular character excels in Defense Against the Dark Arts and Quidditch, and, to a lesser extent, other fields in magic. However, Harry develops major insecurities as a result of his abusive childhood and the pressures the wizarding world dumps on him. Albus Dumbledore is talented, powerful, and famous bordering on revered for defeating Grindelwald and leading the fight against Voldemort, both of whom are said to have only feared him out of all wizards. As the books go on, it becomes clear that he's also a deeply lonely man whose intelligence does not prevent him from making emotional mistakes. The "broken" part really kicks when his Dark and Troubled Past is revealed in book seven. Tom Riddle was an example during his schooldays — a prodigy, incredibly popular, disguising his true nature. In this case, he's an out-and-out murderous lunatic instead of just "messed up" or "morally ambiguous", driven by his fear of death. Severus Snape. Brilliant student who improved his potion textbook. But he was also a non-socialized Creepy Child, allegedly created many curses alongside his potions,note In actuality, it was several helpful spells and only a single Curse, destroyed his one chance of a happy life upon using a massive slur against his Only Friend, and is so bitter over his bullying at the hands of the hero's father and the abuse he suffered at the hands of his parents and everyone around him... that he takes up to use his position as a Hogwarts teacher to torment not only The Hero, but his friends, and especially an innocent boy named Neville Longbottom. |
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Rush (Band)'s song "Mission" is about being inspired by people who have made an impact on history, but ends with the singer reflecting that their achievements came through personal sacrifice: | |
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Dream Machine: Ryan Dresden. He was a hotshot Hollywood film producer, but eventually his drug habit got so bad he destroyed all his personal and professional relationships. He ends up working at Dream Machine because a third-rate cable network is the only place that will take him. | |
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Scrubs: An early episode had J.D. competing (purely in his own mind) with another intern named Nick to see who was the best between them and who should be the unofficial leader of their group of interns. Eventually, J.D. has to concede defeat, as Nick can match JD's medical knowledge while also being more handsome, less socially awkward, more charismatic, less of a suck-up and even has the girl J.D. likes interested in him. Hints are dropped throughout the episode, however, that Nick is a Stepford Smiler who is barely repressing all his insecurities and inner turmoil. At the end of the episode Nick realizes he's not going to be able to save the life a 7-year-old kid, (who likely couldn't have been saved because sometimes that's the reality of medicine and health care) and Nick completely breaks down as a result and quits working at Sacred Heart. A little later in the series, they brought in Doctor Kevin Casey. He was played by Michael J. Fox, and they gave the character severe OCD to help explain the tics caused by Fox's Parkinson's Disease. His OCD made him an incredible doctor and surgeon, as his compulsive need to study meant that he had read every book he could get his hands on multiple times and perfected his physical dexterity, performing complex operations in a fraction of the time a normal surgeon would require. He's also incredibly nice and wise, giving helpful advice to everyone in the hospital, helping them fix their lives. So, having humiliated Turk in the OR, Cox in front of his interns, and JD by destroying his ego with an off-hand comment, all three seek him out to confront him. And they find him trapped in the scrub room outside the OR, unable to leave because he's been compulsively washing his hands for hours. He's on the verge of tears but he just can't leave. Dr. Cox himself could be seen as this. He's intelligent, witty, well respected, perhaps the best Doctor at Sacred Heart and keeps in fantastic shape for a man his age. However, he's also bitterly lonely, broken shell of a man who hasn't had a meaningful relationship in years. He gets somewhat better as the show goes on, after his ex-wife returns, and he becomes a father. |
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Political Animals: Douglas Hammond appears to be the responsible and successful twin. He was his mother's campaign manager for her presidential run, is her right-hand man while she is Secretary of State, and is about to marry his beautiful and accomplished fiancee. However, he also displays serious self-doubt and anxiety and seems compelled to take on responsibility for his dysfunctional family's well-being. An argument with his father revealed that he feels responsible for the failure of his mother's presidential campaign and he later reveals to Susan Berg that he's even having cold feet about his engagement. | |
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A Frozen Heart, a half-Perspective Flip literary adaptation of Frozen (2013), Hans is handsome, charming, and a prince. However, desperate hunger for recognition, severe Daddy Issues, and seeking glory corrupt him. He's ignored and overshadowed by his 12 older brothers. In the book, which gives him a more expansive backstory, most of his brothers constantly bully him, ranging from verbal abuse to throwing items at him for simply daydreaming. His mother loves him but is too weak to spend time with him, and his father coldly regards him as a nuisance and sends him to do horrific tasks. Despite this, Hans often daydreams about having a loving and caring father, even as an adult. It's even heavily implied that he is a self-harmer. He ends up becoming more and more power-hungry until he becomes cruel and willing to kill to fulfill his ambition. By the time the book ends, Hans is starting to regret his actions, but has done enough damage to be sent back to the Southern Isles to be humiliated and punished by his family.]] | |
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Deverry: Rhodry ap Maelwaedd. A brilliant fighter and battle leader, he is very intelligent, willing to work past cultural and societal constraints and bias, successfully ruled a rhyn for many years, and can be very quick to notice small things and take advantage. Also severely prone to terrible bouts of depression called hiraedd, often takes on far more responsibility then is remotely necessary, blames himself for things that are in no way his fault, is often subject to severe honor before reason and becomes a Death Seeker, with only his honor keeping him from suicide. | |
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Raven Reyes from The 100 had, by age 18, become quite possibly the best mechanic on the Ark, a master at operating in Zero-G, and a certified badass, who traveled down to Earth solo in a space shuttle she rebuilt herself. Yet almost everything in her life not related to those skills is a complete mess. She was abandoned by her mother, loses her boyfriend to another girl after just two weeks of separation, becomes paralyzed in her left leg and resists others' attempts to help with her condition, acts distant towards the men she sleeps with so she won't become attached, and tends to put all other moral concerns on the backburner when her (former) boyfriend's safety is at stake. | |
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"Boy" Staunton from Fifth Business, with a side of Manchild as his chosen name indicates. | |
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High School Musical: Gabriella. She's portrayed a very attractive Teen Genius, but underneath is extremely lonely from constantly moving schools, insecure about everything outside of studying and hides her intelligence to avoid being labelled the 'freaky math girl'. She does become more comfortable with herself after the first film. Troy has it even worse. Big Man on Campus and super-talented basketball captain, but also increasingly uncomfortable with the expectations of his parents, friends and the rest of the school. In the third film, after a song which screams self-loathing (to the point of him ripping down posters of himself), he decides to go to a different college than expected, thousands of miles away from his hometown, partly to get away from the spotlight and pressure. In fact, a huge part of his and Gabriella's initial attraction is that they accept each other as themselves and not the hyped up perfect people everyone sees. |
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Kvothe from The Kingkiller Chronicle is pretty, magically-gifted, superlative at everything he does, but poor, arrogant and a wreck in the present day. | |
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Supernatural: Dean Winchester is handsome, charming ladies' man and badass hunter on the outside, self-loathing bundle of PTSD and daddy issues on the inside. His brother Sam is the brains of the operation (but no less badass) and tends to be much more empathetic towards people in need, but is a nest of hatred, anger, and self-loathing and is driven primarily by revenge for much of the show. Every hunter is this in spades, to the point of only being good at what they do by being so horribly broken. Capable of fighting monsters, demons, and undead nightmares, hiding from (or staying on the run from) the police and FBI for the crimes they commit doing their jobs, and all of them make the hardiest survivalist look like a pansy. The only reason any of them live the life they do is that either they were raised into it, which is a whole mess of issues right there, or they experienced firsthand losing someone close to them because of the things that go bump in the night and became obsessed with revenge. John Winchester was arguably the worst we've seen, often being remarked on as a hunter of unparalleled skill but uncaring of anything that wouldn't lead him to the Yellow-Eyed Demon, to the point of being abusive and neglectful towards his sons and raising them as soldiers to fight an unending daily war (which Sam and later Dean resent him for). |
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Freddie Trumper in Chess, though his ace reputation is also notoriously short-tempered and cocky. Still, he drove himself to be a chess champion due to his rather hellish childhood and doesn't want anyone seeing his weakness. The audience only finds out during "Pity the Child". Anatoly Sergeievski counts too if the lyrics of "Where I Want To Be" are any indication. Figures that in a show where the two female leads are broken birds, the men would be broken aces. |
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Applies to roughly half the cast on Homicide: Life on the Street, with the other half simply being broken. Frank Pembleton is a brilliant detective whose analytical mind is unparalleled. He's also an arrogant, snobby moral absolutist who is hated by everyone except for his immediate family and his partner Bayliss. Kay Howard is one of the best detectives in the department. However, having spent a lifetime of having to be One of the Guys to get respect from her male colleagues has left her out-of-touch with her own feminity and unable to relate to other women. Al Giardello and Stanley Bolander are the most wizened and experienced out of the cast and pretty much universally beloved by the squad. They're also self-loathing wrecks of human beings, and working Homicide for decades has left their personal lives entirely destroyed. |
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Phase (Ayla Goodkind) of the Whateley Universe. He's Exemplar hot, he has a gorgeous girlfriend, he's made himself a fortune in the past year, he speaks multiple languages, he has superpowers that make him a threat against most mutants, he's a gourmet... and he is tortured by the fact that his family hates him because he turned into a mutant. | |
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Jack Bauer from 24 is lauded by his colleagues for his service to his country, but his penchant for justice has made him do terrible things. | |
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Kayfabe-wise, Randy Orton portrays this with some Reality Subtext. Orton was the talented athlete that most of WWE's higher-ups envisioned at the top of the company back around 2003-2005, but never surpassed John Cena's status mostly because of his inability to stay out of his own way. In kayfabe, especially, most of his heel turns are marked with bouts of insecurity and paranoia, and his recent bout as a face portrays him as a skilled athlete, but a stoic Sociopathic Hero. And, both in and out of kayfabe, Orton still occasionally dips into anger and behavioral issues. | |
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Bret Hart for a long, long time following the Montreal Screwjob fit the bill. Widely considered by most as the most skilled technical wrestler to ever lace up a pair of boots, (his nickname as “The best there is, there best there was, and the best there ever will be was well earned), one need only read his autobiography to see the man was at a point a walking, talking ball of pent up bitterness and resentment. Despite his decorated wrestling career, significant points of Bret’s life are marred by family and marriage problems with ex-wife Julie and the other Harts, getting screwed out of multiple title runs by the likes of Hogan or Michaels and capping off the late 90s into the mid 2000’s with his concussion and forced retirement, the tragic death of his youngest brother Owen Hart, a stroke, and the deaths of several other close friends and family. It’s no wonder the Hitman was left embittered for so long. | |
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In The Dead Center, Dr. Forrester is excellent at what he does, and he has a kind heart. But he has trouble expressing emotions, is a loner, and will resort to illegal methods to get patients the care he thinks they need. | |
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Captain Jack Harkness, later of Torchwood. Dashingly handsome, brave, cocky and nigh-immortal...but after being abandoned by the Doctor for being "wrong", suffering trauma after his repeated deaths, seeing everyone he loves die in battle or of old age, and now having being forced to allow his own grandson to be killed he's definitely a Broken Ace. He also has a Dark and Troubled Past. He still feels guilt over getting his brother captured by a vicious alien race. Even during his time as a temporal agent, it wasn't all gallivanting through history and screwing anyone and everything (although there was a fair bit of that too). He has a chunk of memory the size of 2 years missing, although he completely forgets about it after meeting the Doctor. | |
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Tiberius from Robert Graves' I, Claudius is portrayed this way — he's immensely strong and healthy, one of Rome's greatest generals, an excellent administrator, and a student of philosophy. Unfortunately, he's cursed with moral weakness and a domineering mother, and he ends up becoming a reclusive, paranoid, murderous pervert. | |
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Sgt. Angel from Hot Fuzz is the best cop in London but his perfection gets him Reassigned to Antarctica. He can't hold down a relationship because he's Married to the Job. | |
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In Supergirl (2015), Lena Luthor is the CEO of a large successful business who's able to develop technological advances beyond what most of humanity can conceive. But an abusive family, several painful betrayals, and the world's judgment of her based on her last name has left her full of self-hatred. It first comes out prominently in a season 2 episode when Lena drunkenly reveals that deep down, she believes all the bad things people have said about her. | |
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Daily JoJo: Wan Jo successfully projects an image of being perfect, and is admired by those around him. However, he's actually petty and judgmental. | |
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The Nero Wolfe book Where There's a Will has Eugene Davis. A "brilliant" attorney who was considered the best in the city, and with the potential to make history before he fell in love with a Gold Digger who dumped him for a wealthier man, leaving Davis as a self-loathing alcoholic who can't find joy in anything anymore. | |
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Of The Three Musketeers: Athos is outstanding for his looks, thorough education, martial prowess, and social graces. Unfortunately, he is also a somewhat misogynistic alcoholic with truly terrible luck. He is less misogynistic then horribly distrustful of women because he married the patron saint of Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, Milady de Winter. Athos really achieves Broken Ace in the later books, when his faith in Royalty is shattered when the king takes his son's fiancee as his mistress. | |
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Erik, aka The Phantom of the Opera, is a genius in nearly every field of science and art, and posseses the most beautiful voice of anyone on the face of the earth. But due to his deformities, he is shunned by society, and holes up in the shadows and catacombs of Paris, becoming a psychopathic murderer. | |
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Homestuck's Dirk is a perfect example. At first glance, he appears to be completely flawless—he is a badass of the highest caliber, is an incredibly-skilled engineer capable of creating fully-sentient virtual clones of himself, and has his group's session of Sburb all planned out. The reality, though, is quite different: he suffers from severe psychological trauma from being born in a Bad Future, and is one of only two humans left alive on Earth. His Bro, his one guardian figure who he clearly adored, was murdered prior to his birth, leaving him forced not only to raise himself with nothing but a Demonic Dummy for company but to live up to the legacy of his heroic and Shrouded in Myth ancestor. Due to the pain, this famous ancestor inflicted upon the ruling empress, Dirk is top on her hit list. On top of all this, he has developed a crush on Jake, who was born 400 years in the past and who he may not even meet, let alone get to confess his feelings to. As The Stoic, he's unable to confide in anyone, leaving him the heroic equivalent of a ticking time bomb — though from what we've seen so far, he'll probably be okay. We get to see this ace break in-story — not especially dramatically (little in Homestuck is played for drama), but, for the work, pretty hard. At least, falling into a depressive, self-loathing fit so deep that not even a magically-induced sugar high can bring him out of it certainly looks like this. Just a bit before this, we see him lamenting how his emotionlessness and manipulative bastardry have alienated him from his friends and boyfriend, and displaying some ambiguously-suicidal impulses in nearly destroying his robotic personality copy. If this wasn't enough, afterward we find out that he has a fair-sized insecurity complex about his sexuality and the fact that he'll never be able to love his dearest friend in the way she wants (and deserves) because of it. Give this kid a hug already! Vriska could also count. From the outside, she's a wild, powerful, intensely-confident Pirate Girl who has her friends wrapped around her little finger. As time goes on, though, it becomes more and more clear that her desire to live up to what she believes her ancestor is has turned her insensitive to the point of a Jerkass, which has driven away all of her friends, including her crush and her moirail, something she claims to not care about but which she really does. Despite acting confident, she lapses into worrying Self-Deprecation at times. Also, as Terezi points out, she can only manipulate people through mind control, since she's too impatient and reckless to actually play people properly. Basically all of her plans fail, and the one thing that actually does go right for her — becoming God Tier — only happened when Aradia beat her up in revenge for killing her and left her to bleed to death slowly...and then it all ended up being pointless anyway, since the one time it would have actually helped, she is killed beforehand, since, even if she won, Karkat and Terezi would still have died. In the end, the one person who had ever believed in her, John, later admits that she was just some weird psychotic girl who kind of had a crush on him one day a long time ago. Ouch. |
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In Space Marine Battles, Cato Sicarius becomes this after Fall of Damnos. He considers Damnos to be his greatest failure (it is, in fact, the first time he's ever lost as a Captain) and is tormented by the fact, has Past Experience Nightmares about the Undying and believes that he'll be punished severely for what happened there. He's not, and manages to dig out of his Heroic BSoD when the Ultramarines retake Damnos. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Hiiro Kagami/Kamen Rider Brave, genius surgeon with a stellar career at an age where most other doctors are starting out as interns (like his colleague Emu Hojo). His coldly perfect exterior covers a mass of issues from being unable to relate to people on a personal level, defending against the pressure of his job and having no life outside of it as a result to blaming himself for his girlfriend's death. Taiga Hanaya/Kamen Rider Snipe, genius radiologist and CR's first Kamen Rider, able to spot an early phase of Game Disease with ordinary technology of his field. Fast forward five years, he is a broken shell of a once-kind man fighting for revenge — the only thing he can do after he lost everything. |
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In the Dreamblood Duology, Ehiru is introduced as Hananja's favourite and the best Gatherer currently alive. However, messing up only once eats almost all of his confidence away and his lauded incorruptibility and devotion to Hananja's Law make him susceptible to being manipulated, creating a downward spiral of insecurity about his abilities and worth. | |
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The protagonist of Imaro is the greatest fighter in the world, bigger and stronger than just about everyone, and seems to quickly become great at everything he puts his hand to. He wins every battle, however impossible. But all the pain and horror he has to go through wears him down more and more, as does the fact that he keeps getting rejected by everyone he seeks acceptance from — and the mental scars just make him even more incapable of really reaching out to someone, leading to more rejection. At one point, his love interest knows that when he starts thrashing in his sleep she has to clamp her hand over his mouth because the ruthless mercenaries he leads must not know that their supposedly fearless leader suffers from nightmares that cause him to wake up screaming in terror. | |
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The Godfather Don Vito Corleone is a fearsome, wise and respected crime lord but in his final days expresses his regret to his son Michael that he couldn't turn the family legit. | |
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Raymond Shaw from The Manchurian Candidate is a war hero and a rising star in politics, but his issues with his mother allow him to become a brainwashed assassin. | |
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When Rabbit Howls: Not so much a broken ace as a fractured one. Truddi Chase is a successful real estate entrepreneur and talented artist, but the psychological aftermath of her horrifically abusive childhood has left her with paranoia, emotional distancing, and difficulty with relationships. Then there're the ninety-and-change multiple personalities. | |
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Kathryn from Cruel Intentions falls between this and Stepford Smiler. She must be considered a lady (smiler) and that requires being a role model who's the best at everything (this). | |
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Speaking of James Bond, while he's known to be a suave agent known to use cutting Bond One Liners to enemies and his status as The Casanova, he's sometimes portrayed like this, especially in the rebooted films. In Spectre, it's sad to see Bond's virtually character-less apartment, as it reveals how little of a life he has beyond MI6, and what a lonely and broken man he is. Moneypenny's sarcastic remark about Bond's life in Spectre when he hears her boyfriend over the phone almost sounds like a much harsher jab. Even the rejected song by Radiohead is depressing as hell. It pretty much is a summation of Bond's character and all of the tragedies he suffered over the years. Just read here. | |
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Mei in Turning Red is shown to be quite academically skilled and talented, getting straight-A's, being musically talented, and fluent in French. However, all the perfectionism gets to her after her transformation, as she gets tired of being "perfect little Mei-Mei" all the time. She eventually admits that she'd actually been feeling the pressure long before she started transforming. | |
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Scott's fellow X-Man Wolverine is also one of these. He's got over a century's worth of accumulated skills, accomplishments, bedmates, friends, and is the poster-boy of "mutant cool". He's also got over a century's worth of painful memories, dirty business, lost loves, enemies, and is full of self-loathing. | |
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Red Dwarf's Arnold J. Rimmer is a literal example of the trope. Sucked dry of his negativity and neuroses (themselves powerful enough to destroy a Lotus-Eater Machine) by an Emotion Eater, he immediately turns into Ace Rimmer (what a guy!). Eventually, he becomes the next Ace Rimmer — as each one dies, he recruits the next, and so on, until it finally reaches Arnie himself. It is mostly his neuroses that hold him back — but, luckily for him, the Red Dwarf universe has it set that pretty much every Rimmer gets redeemed. Before then, he makes an awesome Last Stand at the end of Series 6. | |
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In The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent is quickly established as The Ace, though with a problem with his temper. He's crippled organized crime in the city and is close to finishing the job. Then he loses the woman he loves, has half his face burned off, succumbs to The Joker's More than Mind Control and crosses the Despair Event Horizon becoming Two-Face. | |
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Maxim from the first Night Watch (Series) novel is good-looking, fairly intelligent, and a very successful businessman and he looks down at the less successful. While some of his murdering of Dark Others isn't his fault (he had Detect Evil ability and wasn't in on The Masquerade), it's noted that he has no real comprehension of love — pretty much, when given a choice between punishing evil and doing good, he chose the former. | |
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Exalted: The Unconquered Sun himself. Created by the Primordials to be the embodiment of absolute perfection, he turned out to be perfect in four different ways that didn't always get along. Combined with his addiction to the Games of Divinity and the Great Curse driving his Exalts into depravity, he essentially suffered a nervous breakdown and locked himself up in the Jade Pleasure Dome. | |
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There's a definite trend of portraying Superman as this in popular music, too Five for Fighting's "Superman": Superman has still won the Superpower Lottery (of course) but is portrayed as lamenting being considered as the people's hero to the exclusion of anything else about him and thoroughly depressed by the loss of his home planet, but being unable to take any time out for grieving. |
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Denth from Warbreaker is friendly, charming and good with words, despite being a mercenary. He also happens to be obsessed with revenge, and will do anything to get it, including torturing and killing innocent people. He can't move past the issue that broke him in the first place, even when given the opportunity to heal. | |
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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin has several times been detained on domestic violence charges. | |
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Owen from Moonflowers is a handsome, talented mage at twenty-five. He's also gay in a rural part of Ireland, and faces a lot of homophobia for it: He was nearly killed five years pre-story, can't find work, and has a tendency to call himself homophobic slurs. Despite only remarking that the attack was his "worst birthday ever", he's clearly more affected than he claims: getting attacked in Galway ends even more badly than expected when one of the men chops off his shoulder-length hair, reveals his head-scar from the first attack, and triggers the previously-calm Owen into hurling profanity-filled death threats. | |
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Iron Man: Did you see the image at the top of this very page? Tony Stark is one of the smartest, richest, and most popular people on Earth, witty, a ladykiller who had everything anybody could ever want in their life. However, deep inside he suffers from self-hatred (which has even developed into suicidal tendencies), alcoholism, control issues, and the scars left by his abusive father. He has even stated he feels he doesn't deserve the friends and good things in life he has. Following the Civil War, Tony's guilt over Captain America's death and the actions he took would make him occasionally break down. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Kaladin is an interesting version of this trope. He starts out as an Ace, charismatic leader, excellent spearman, trained in medicine, pays bribes to protect his men and get new untrained boys into his squad where he can watch over them. But after he's betrayed he's definitely broken. The skills are all still there, but he has trouble finding the will to use them anymore. As it turns out, all of the Knights Radiant are this. Being broken is a prerequisite to being a surgebinder, as the "broken" bits are what allow Spren in to form the bond that gives them abilities. |
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Chuck Hansen in Pacific Rim. He's one of the youngest Jaeger pilots and has the highest Kaiju kill count in history. However, he's also a Child Soldier who has a Hair-Trigger Temper, terrible communication skills, and a double dose of Daddy Issues and Survivor's Guilt with regards to his father choosing to save him over his mother. It's also heavily implied that he believes his only purpose in life is to live and die fighting the Kaiju, which comes true by the end of the film. | |
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The Umbrella Academy (2019) has a few examples of this. Allison Hargreeves. Rich and famous actress, with a handsome husband and a little daughter, beautiful and adored. But underneath that, she's a mess. And she loses both the husband and daughter pre-series. In reality, she's got issues galore, refuses to use her powers thanks to what it's done to her family, and more and more shows her cracks as an ex-child soldier from a dysfunctional family. Luther Hargreeves is a superhero, has superstrength, and is incredibly isolated thanks to his siblings leaving the Academy. He's never left home, he doesn't understand the world outside, and he clings to his father and the notion of saving the world. By Season 2, he's got a better understanding of how the world works, but he's still bad at interpersonal relationships and is spiraling hard over his father's abuse. Number Five seems cool, calm, and collected as he puts down anyone and everyone around him and works to prevent the apocalypse. But in reality, he's spiraling, PTSD-ridden, terrified of failure, desperate to protect his siblings, and talks to a mannequin (and thinks it talks back). Some of his scenes are heartbreaking, like the one in Season 2 where he tells his siblings, voice breaking, that he had to watch them die again. Diego Hargreeves is a skilled fighter, a witty person, and determined to save people and fight crime. He's desperately clinging to the idea of being a hero so that his childhood doesn't feel wasted. |
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Daylen in Shadow of the Conqueror, due to having both the experience of age and the vigor of youth, excels at a number of things: swordsmanship, engineering, mathematics, sunforging, Lightbinding, flying, and military tactics. He's also a former Evil Overlord whose empire collapsed when the entire world declared war against it, and who is currently ravaged by the soul-crushing guilt at the epicenter of the story's Dysfunction Junction. | |
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Skulduggery Pleasant is the best detective the Irish Sanctuary (or possibly any sanctuary) has, is skilled with both magic and hand-to-hand combat, and was one of the best soldiers during the war, being part of a seven-man cell called the Dead Men who went on suicide missions but always survived. He's also a living skeleton. His friends and allies all warn his new protégé that he is horribly damaged by his family's murder and is renowned for his Unstoppable Rage when people he cares about are in danger. This doesn't worry Valkyrie at all until she learns that Skulduggery is so broken his darker thoughts and desire for revenge turned him into Lord Vile, the most infamous general of Mevolent's armies, who was hell-bent on the annihilation of all life. Made worse because the Faceless Ones spent a year torturing Skulduggery, making him a little bit more unhinged than normal (including threatening someone sent to keep an eye on him with a gun) and separating the Lord Vile part of Skulduggery's psyche into a separate Ax-Crazy entity. | |
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Purple Hyacinth: Lauren is an investigator in the country's Secret Police, and is secretly a Super. But she's also guilt-ridden at making a series of mistakes as a child that led to her parents getting murdered andh her best friend getting caught in a terrorist explosion. This definitely applies to Kieran as well: During the explosion, the terrorists' secondary goal was to kidnap the child of a VIP. They couldn't identify the right boy and ended up kidnapping a bunch of surviving children - Kieran especially - and eventually decided to give the disposable children Tyke Bomb Training from Hell that got most of the kids killed, some in front of Kieran's face, until the survivors were hardened into ruthless killers. Despite his status as a legendary serial assassin and mastery over dozens of skills, Kieran depreciates himself as a psychotic monster who can't help but follow the wrong people. |
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Several examples on Smallville: Lionel Luthor: Of the Villain with Good Publicity variety, Lionel is the Big Bad of Seasons 1-3. He's a Magnificent Bastard, Corrupt Corporate Executive, and Cultured Badass with more money than God, and the ears of kings, sultans, and presidents. He's respected by those who don't know how evil he is, feared by those who do and has the entire world at his beck and call. He's also a damaged, empty man who has immense difficulty identifying with other people and is trapped in a mutually self-destructive relationship with his son, a relationship he is unable to salvage even after a Heel–Face Turn. He's burned every bridge he's got to get where he is and is revealed to be a Self-Made Orphan who's still running away from his abusive, drunken parents. Lex Luthor: Lionel's son. On the surface, he's got it all: wealth, power, women, immunity from prosecution. Underneath, he's self-loathing, caught up in a desire for parental approval that he'll never get, before or post-Face–Heel Turn, haunted by the deaths of his mother and brother, and consumed by his need to control the people around him. He blows up every friendship he ever has in his drive for success and his eventual slide into cackling supervillainy is as tragic as it is inevitable. Jason Teague: He's a good-looking football coach, secretly dating one of the hottest girls in the school. His family is rich, he's a former star player himself, and he's able to lie and cheat at Lex's level. Unfortunately, he's pretty eaten up by his mommy issues, has no self-esteem, and is nearly incapable of taking any action his mother (Season 4 Big Bad Genevieve Teague) doesn't approve of. Green Arrow/Oliver Queen: A heroic example. In one life Oliver is the heir to an immense fortune, a oligarch playboy with more women than he can handle and a life most people only dream of. In his other life, he moonlights as a Badass Normal Superhero saving more lives before nine A.M. than most people do before lunch. And yet neither of these is the real Oliver Queen. Inside he's hollow, convinced that his life is a sham, and manifests numerous self-destructive tendencies including alcoholism, the inability to commit to anything, and a total disregard for his own safety that's both impressive and frightening. His commitment to saving the world overshadows everything else he does, leading to bouts of drinking, a temporary drug addiction, and culminating in his Interrupted Suicide in Season 9. Tess Mercer: A female variant. Much like Lionel and Lex, whom she succeeds as leader of LuthorCorp, Tess is an incredibly rich young woman, who has successfully escaped an abusive home life. She speaks two or three different languages, is extremely attractive, and has the money and power to do whatever she wants. She also has horribly low self-esteem, no faith in humanity, and a fatalistic need for a Messiah, all stemming from having given up on her former idealism and desire to change the world in favour of moving up in the world. As the show progresses, her ace facade disintegrates more and more, and the Broken Bird underneath is increasingly exposed. Alliances with Checkmate and Major Zod, and an eventual Heel–Face Turn have all failed to give her the sense of self-worth she's seeking. |
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Dead Poets Society: Neil Perry is bright, popular, sporty, in numerous clubs, Harvard-bound, and clearly the leader in his group of friends, yet he is trapped in a troubled relationship with his overbearing and controlling father and sees no way out except suicide. | |
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The Saber of the related Fate/strange Fake (aka Richard the Lionheart) initially appears to be a handsome Knight in Shining Armor who is as clever, multiskilled, and charming as he is chivalrous and noble. However, many of the characteristics that made him likable as a person also made him an unstable and destructive ruler who bled his country dry and dragged it into war for thoughtless and ultimately pointless reasons, and Saber himself readily admits that his eventual assassination was entirely deserved. | |
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Dr. Bashir, CMO of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: brilliant, charming, funny, athletic, genuinely caring enough to make ex-torturers Heel–Face Turn out of love... and needy as hell, ignorant of his own privilege, and convinced that he's a fraud and that everything he's achieved is fake due to his extremely illegal genetic enhancements, which were given to him by his parents without his consent and if discovered will lead to him losing everything. | |
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The stars of Tropic Thunder. Alpa Chino is a successful rapper/entrepreneur but he is also homosexual and has to hide behind an ultra-masculine facade. Jeff Portnoy is a successful comedian but he thinks no one respects him as a person because of his persona. This leads him to drug addiction. Kirk Lazarus is one of the most talented and award winning actors in the world but he is afraid he has no real personality. Tugg Speedman is an actor/philanthropist who is desperate for the movie to succeed not just to save his flagging career but also to prove to the world that he is a real actor. |
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The titular Haruhi Suzumiya. Talented in pretty much everything she does (especially music and studies), bright, cheerful, charismatic — and dangerously out of reality, as well as so spoiled and pushy that she treats other people like toys. (Poor Mikuru). And then we have her massive Reality Warper powers. The series is about Kyon and the SOS Brigade attempting to keep her worst traits at bay. | |
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Ant-Man: The original Ant-Man, Hank Pym, had it bad. Despite being the fifth smartest human in the universe, due to his bipolar disorder that went undiagnosed for years he had a crippling inferiority complex that spiraled into several mental breakdowns. He struggled for years to make up for what he did when he was Not Himself, but unfortunately he could Never Live It Down. | |
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Batman. Wealthy enough to do whatever he wants to do, can have beautiful ladies by the score, highly educated, is as strong and smart as a non-metahuman can get, can outthink pretty much every other superhero (including Mr. Terrific and J'onn J'onzz), and can flatten Lex Luthor at his own games. Permanently scarred by the blood and death of his parents, driven to protect as many as possible to keep others from feeling that horror, finds it incredibly difficult to completely trust himself, and has had terrible romantic relationships due to the second identity, which eventually became his first. | |
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Hannibal Lecter takes on shades of this in the Hannibal Rising prequel novel, when his Freudian Excuse of horrific childhood ordeals is revealed. In his adulthood, he is quite happy where he is. Within the same series, the titular villain of Red Dragon sees himself as hideous due to a childhood of abuse from fellow children and parental figures for his then-severe cleft palate and inability to speak clearly. It's gradually revealed that—as an adult—he's grown into a handsome bodybuilder with a good career, a large estate, enough intelligence and technical know-how to elude top FBI agents for months, and only a small facial scar and slight lisp left of his initial deformation. Tragically, he's so emotionally damaged he remains mostly unable to benefit from all this, if not outright oblivious to it. |
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Ginger from Casino is Vegas' top casino hustler. She's beautiful and smart. She marries Ace and becomes respected among Vegas' elite. But she also has a troubled relationship with her pimp Lester and as the years pass she succumbs to substance abuse. | |
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Dear White People: Troy. He's very much the Big Man on Campus, beloved by the majority of the Student Body. It quickly becomes apparent during his spotlight episode that his father puts an insane amount of pressure on him to be the model black student, to the point that Troy resorts to drugs to help cope with the stress. | |
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Frozen: Elsa. As shown in supplementary material, her little sister Anna views her as The Ace, and with good reason. Elsa is intelligent, elegant, graceful, beautiful...and constantly living in fear of hurting people with her ice powers, having to keep up a facade of perfection and stoicism to protect people, only to have it all completely backfire, meaning her life spent in silent misery was for nothing. Needless to say, Elsa finally gets pushed over the edge, though her intentions are always good. Word of God confirms that she has depression and anxiety issues. Prince Hans is outwardly handsome, charming, honourable and a prince. However, desperate hunger for recognition corrupted him and led to him becoming cruel and willing to kill to fulfill his desire for such. He spent much of his life ignored and overshadowed by his older brothers, and it's been confirmed by Word of God that he indeed grew up without love, sparking his desire to take the Arendelle throne in the first place. His actions are still inexcusable, but taking his depressing backstory into account, you can't help but feel sorry for the guy anyway. |
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The Glass Scientists: Dr. Henry Jekyll is handsome, wealthy, smart and a pilar of both Victorian society and the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits scientists he protects from the law. He’s also a depressed and emotionally repressed man who created Hyde as a borderline suicide attempt. | |
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Also Boromir from The Lord of the Rings. He's a proud and gallant warrior, greatly admired for this by his people (and his younger brother) but the pressure put on him by his position as heir to Gondor's ruler and his belief that Sauron could never be beaten fed his obsession with the Ring and made it easy for him to fall for the temptation. | |
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Scott Hall had been wrestling with alcoholism for quite some times, yo-yoing back and forth for almost two decades. WCW even made his drunken behavior into a character trait. He was fortunately able to get his act together on his final years. | |
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Blades of Glory: Chazz's image as the lone wolf of the skating world is a product of his abandonment issues. Jimmy is a world class athlete and humanitarian but he is awkward in real life. He is also bad with children, unlike what the media says. |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Luke Castellan is this trope all over. He's handsome, popular, talented, and a trusted authority figure. He's also a manipulative turncoat who's trying to overthrow the gods, and he seems increasingly scared and unhinged with each book. This is later revealed to be because his mother was cursed and went completely insane when he was a baby and his father, Hermes, left him with her. Associating with an evil primordial entity who hurt him from the start probably didn't help. Percy himself becomes this by the sequel series, and even he admits his unhappiness let him understand Luke better. Sure, he's powerful, handsome (albeit obliviously), and respected by pretty much everyone around him — but it's because he's saved the world twice over, and that doesn't come cheap. It's made clear by the end of The Blood of Olympus that the events of the series have left him even more depressed, angry, and insecure than ever. |
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Macbeth is an honorable and valiant general who receives the king’s favor for his loyalty and prowess in battle. He’s also power-hungry, easily swayed by his even more ambitious wife, and eventually so guilt-ridden by his many murders and so paranoid about losing power than he can’t even appreciate his kingship. | |
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The Walking Dead (2010): Carol is one of the best fighters on the team; skilled, pragmatic, smart. She's a One-Woman Army with a track record of being very deadly and very sly. But despite her status as The Unfettered, she suffers from a crippling Guilt Complex that slowly eats away at her, eventually causing her to run away. After being incapacitated by a Savior, Carol has a brief Death Seeker moment when she admits that death would free her from all the horrible things she's had to do. | |
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MonsterVerse: Emma Russell, who features prominently in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), is seen In-Universe as this by some of her colleagues, such as Dr. Brooks in the Godzilla: Aftershock graphic novel. She's looked up to and considered one of the best in Monarch, despite the death of her son in 2014 which turned her into a Workaholic and clearly still haunts her at the start of King of the Monsters. Then her Face–Heel Turn is revealed. | |
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M*A*S*H: In the haunting episode "Heal Thyself," the camp's talented and charismatic new surgeon, a veteran of a front line aid station, has a complete mental breakdown during a particularly long and gruesome O.R. session that stretches across a couple of days. They find him crouched down in the Col. Potter's tent, doing the Thousand-Yard Stare, and compulsively scrubbing his hands to wipe off the imaginary blood that he is convinced they are still coated in. Hawkeye has signs of this through the mid and late seasons from the stress of saving the lives of soldiers that are just going to get killed later anyway. But the final episode is when he really is broken because he inadvertently caused a mother to kill her own child. |
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Jack Shephard of Lost — brilliant, handsome, athletic, charismatic doctor on the outside. Angry, emotionally-abused, masochistic, repeatedly-relapsing addict with a messiah complex on the inside. | |
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NCIS: Leory Jethro Gibbs is a Memetic Badass, famed for his abilities as an investigator and looked up to as a father figure by his team; he's the best agent NCIS has, and the only reason he's not the director of the whole organization is because he doesn't want to be. He also has three broken marriages behind him, a wealth of dead friends, and never truly got over the murder of his first wife and daughter, with his career at NCIS being quite literally all he's got left in his life. He himself admits this, and tries to keep the yougner agents he takes under his wing from following in his footspets. | |
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Rake has a few: Misty Partridge goes from being a highly respected ex-prostitute / lawyer who returns from America addicted to drugs and even makes a drunken pass at Barney in an attempt to get drugs. Cleaver Green, himself to a much lesser extent as he is more able to bounce back, despite being a drunken, drug-addicted Jaded Washout. David Potter becomes a tragic version in Season 4. After Scarlet's sudden death, he goes to trial for murder, is accused of being a domestic abuser, and loses his reputation. |
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The alternate Superman from Injustice, as presented in the comic prequel. It's explained that despite being the world's greatest superhero, Kal/Clark has harbored Survivor Guilt over losing his original family and homeworld. Things got worse when he lost Lois, his unborn baby, and the city of Metropolis thanks to the Joker. This sent Clark off the deep end, leading him to gradually turn the world into a dictatorship under his "protection". | |
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Canada's Drag Race: Tynomi Banks is one of the most famous drag queens in Canada after making a name for herself in the crowded Toronto scene, and she was long considered a shoo-in for the inevitable Canadian remake of RuPaul's Drag Race. When she made her entrance in the Season 1 premier, all the other queens shat themselves because Tynomi's reputation preceded her. But once the season was underway, it became clear that while Tynomi is a skilled performer, competition is not her strong suit. She only lasted four episodes and performed poorly enough to land in the bottom for three of them, and you could see her resolve crumble each episode until her elimination. | |
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Sweet Home (2017): Hyun used to be popular, smart, athletic and an all round good guy. Then another classmate came and made everyone else in the class beat him up and cut him off, making him the sullen, cut off jerk he is at the beginning of the story. | |
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Among all the imps in Hell, Blitzo from Helluva Boss would undoubtedly be considered the prime specimen. He's big (by imp standards), strong (by imp standards), immensly successful (by imp standards) and an absolute Sex God (by any standard) who has bedded both the popstar succubus Verosika Mayday and Prince Stolas of the Ars Goetia... He is also very fiscally irresponsible and an absolute mess of psychological issues, ranging from a raging self-contempt which drives him to selfsabotage any relationships he gets into, to a deep-seated fear of Dying Alone which is the end his selfsabotaging ways are pushing him towards. Also, did you notice all the "by imp standards" up there? Blitzo did. He's well-aware of the fact that, in Hell's hierarchy, he is below even the sinners condemned there to suffer. This means that all relationships he's been in (and especially so his current one with Stolas) have an inherent power imbalance. The fact that he also fears that Stolas doesn't respect him but only considers him a plaything does not help. Combine all that with his evident goofiness, and few people even notice how good he is; ironically, the one time someone does, that guy (Striker) is The Ace himself, and he is just about the only one who acknowledges the fact Blitzo is just as good at himself when they compete, even though he is also so full of himself he's not likely to do that easily. Some of Blitzo's achievements in themselves embody both the "ace" and "broken" aspects: his aforementioned affairs with a pop star and a prince that were/are also really messed up, and the fact that he's able to out-drink the archdemon of gluttony (which he explicitly boasts is because he had such an awful day). | |
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Interstellar brings us Dr. Mann. Everyone speaks of him as if he was a hero, the best scientist and most driven member of the Lazarus Project. Unfortunately, by the time the main characters reach him, the isolation, fear, and frustration over the planet he was assigned to survey being completely uninhabitable have driven him mad. | |
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Accidental Detectives: In Madness at Moonshiner's Bay, Sheriff Leroy was a rising FBI star (and a pretty athletic-looking guy) before he was forced to arrest his own brother Clem for murdering his uncle — although he was actually framed — and also compromised his principles by hiding evidence in the case in a failed attempt to keep Clem from going to prison. When Clem was convicted anyway, he felt that he'd betrayed his principles for nothing, causing him to resign from the FBI and become an apathetic, rural sheriff who doesn't watch his weight. | |
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I Don't Want This Kind of Hero: Young Jeong strove to be The Cape to the extreme—someone so utterly devoted to heroics that they discarded their personal humanity. To the extent that she had her lover (willingly) kill himself so that he could never tie her down. Unsurprisingly, she's now barely better than the villains she's supposed to be against. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire Robert Baratheon is remembered as a handsome, virile warrior but he degenerated physically and morally after becoming king. He understands how out of depth he is with running a kingdom and would have preferred a life of wandering. Eddard Stark is seen as the model of a liege lord, but he is plagued by feelings of inferiority and fears his family will pay for the things he allowed to happen during the rebellion against the Targaryens. Tywin Lannister is the most powerful and rich lord in Westeros but in reality, he's a man who still resents his father's past failings and remains broken by the death of his wife (and resents the son who whose birth caused her death). Jon Snow is easily the most talented swordsman around, one of the smartest recruits, honorable and dutiful but he's also conflicted, with insecurity issues and carries burdens he's probably too young for. Jaime Lannister, who's renowned as the greatest swordsman in the kingdom and a member of The Beautiful Elite, but had his reputation permanently soiled in his youth by one dishonourable act that he nonetheless regards as the finest thing he ever did, increasingly falling under Then Let Me Be Evil as a result. And that's before his Break the Haughty ordeal that culminates in him losing his sword hand, and hence the one ability he's always defined his self-worth by. Robb Stark becomes this as the books progress, becoming a Young Conqueror at the age of 15 and gaining a fearsome reputation as 'The Young Wolf' who's never lost a battle, but he frequently comes across as being overwhelmed by the pressure he's under. This worsens when despite all his success in the field, his own political errors cause the war to slip away from him. Perhaps the clearest illustration of this comes in A Game of Thrones when Robb, in a Moment of Awesome, successfully earns the Greatjon's respect by having his direwolf chew off two of the man's fingers for bearing steel against him... and later confides in his brother Bran that he was terrified throughout, that he's scared of a lot of his bannermen, and he wishes their father was still there. Oberyn Martell. A dashing Lothario, prince, peerless warrior, poet, scholar, and a whole bunch of other impressive talents. He is also utterly consumed with avenging his sister's death even 15 years later. Said obsession with revenge costs him his life, even if his poisoned spear finished off Gregor Clegane later on. |
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Crowley from Good Omens. He's a Noble Demon, with a confident, attractive facade (implied to even have an aggressively cool haircut that only looks good on someone like him) and a quick wit. He has a relentlessly stylish apartment full of fancy gadgets, he always seems to have the best of everything and drives the coolest of Cool Cars. However, in spite of the book's ensemble cast, he stands out as pretty much the main viewpoint character, whose thoughts we hear the most, and behind the painfully cool exterior, he's frightened, weary, and eventually very angry, which causes him to rebel against both Heaven and Hell. He's definitely not the slick bastard he appears to be on the outside, but unlike a lot of these characters it ends up making him stronger and extremely sympathetic. | |
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The title character from The Stepfather film franchise. He's very good with this hands, able to create works of art with just a couple pieces of wood and an hour's worth of time. He's also very intelligent and charismatic. Unfortunately, he's also an Ax-Crazy sociopath and psychopath who's obsessed with creating the perfect family seen in the television sitcoms of the 50s and 60s. | |
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The Plutonian of Irredeemable is slowly revealed by flashbacks to have formerly been this. Underneath his standard smiling, selfless persona, he was actually resentful of his life as a superhero, stuck saving people he felt were ungrateful, being totally unable to cope with any critics, and needing to be compulsively loved and adored by everyone in the world. When he realized that wasn't going to happen he wound up even more broken. | |
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Jake "The Snake" Roberts has struggled with alcoholism as well. Several times during his career he's shown up to an arena fully drunk. He was one of the first wrestlers to take advantage of WWE's drug rehab program for current and former wrestlers in the wake of the Chris Benoit situation. | |
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In Fate/Zero, practically every Ace among the Masters. Kiritsugu and his status as the number one competitor, along with everything else, including Saber? Horrible life prior to meeting Maya and Iri, emotional issues, has no choice but to sacrifice his family for his dream, has the worst compatibility with his Servant out of the seven Masters. Kayneth and his prestigious magical talent and status as a Lord? Horrible luck, his fiancée is in love with his Servant, overwhelmingly arrogant. Kotomine and his superhuman abilities and immense talent for anything and everything he does? None of it means anything to him because of his soul-afflicted emptiness. Tokiomi and his incredible magical skill and having the strongest Servant in the entire Nasuverse? His Servant fully plans to betray him, and he tore apart his own family due to his misguided attempts to make his daughters "equals" while holding true to Magus philosophy. Among the Servants, Lancer, Berserker, and Saber all qualify. Lancer is easily the most skillful combatant out of the lot, but he has terrible luck, bad compatibility with his Master, and a curse that makes women fall in love with him, including said master's fiancée. Berserker is one of the strongest Servants in the Nasuverse, capable of giving even Archer a hard time even while handicapped by a sickly Master, but he's insane, and so fixated on Saber that he tends to have tunnel vision and thus get blindsided whenever she's around because of his intense guilt over betraying her and sleeping with Guinevere. Also, again, he's handicapped by his Master's frail condition. Saber is the best all-around combatant, and has the strongest overall abilities statwise, but she has the worst Master/Servant compatibility in the war bar none, and is consistently a victim of circumstances, or her Master's underhanded tactics. In addition, she's badly hampered by her guilt complex over her kingdom's fall, and her worry over Irisveil, who is literally dying in front of her with no way to stop it. And that's just how bad things are for them at the start of the conflict; by the end, everything is at least an entire order of magnitude worse for all three of them. |
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Brave New World: Helmholtz Watson is intelligent and handsome, but he's also depressed because of his soul-crushing job that revolves around mindless propaganda. He needs to create something meaningful, but that's not an option in a society where everyone's a hedonist. | |
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Dreaming Freedom: Siyun is handsome, smart, and charismatic, becoming the most popular member of his idol group before they debuted. However, his parents’ abuse and later, his idol team members and classmates turning on him left him with severe abandonment issues and a tendency to become overly reliant on and desperate for others’ attention. | |
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Love Never Dies, the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, expects us to believe Raoul de Chagny was one of these all along. Anything for a ship. | |
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(The real) Jerome Morrow in Gattaca. Once a champion swimmer on top of the world, he lost the use of his legs in an accident and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He's still a brilliant and remarkably gifted individual (with an ego to match), but he's also internalized a lot of their culture's demands for absolute perfection. As a result, he's got a lot of anger with himself and everyone else. Anton Jr. (Vincent's younger brother) turns out to be something like this as well. The audience doesn't get to know him very well, but he's definitely the Ace in their father's eyes, and seems at least a little Broken considering his issues with the fact that his non-engineered brother beat him in a swimming race once after years and years of beating him every time since they were little kids. |
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"Where Do You Go To My Lovely?" by Peter Sarstedt is about a woman (Marie-Claire) who is beautiful and witty ("You talk like Marlene Dietrich and you dance like Zizi Jeanmaire..."), intelligent and with excellent taste (she's a graduate of the Sorbonne, owns a Picasso, dresses in Balmaine, listens to the Rolling Stones and drinks Napoleonic brandy) has famous friends and is famous in her own right. However, the narrator, who is a childhood friend, recalls their shared origins as beggar children in Naples and suggests that beneath her incredibly glamorous life Marie-Claire still bears the scars of life on the streets. | |
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Ender Wiggin from Ender's Game may be only 10, but he is one of these. Everyone in Battle School (with some exceptions) loves him. He is the best in the standings, his free-time practice sessions are attended by many people throughout the school, he has the best army in the school and is one of the best tacticians ever. But he feels isolated from his friends and unloved. This becomes very apparent in Ender's Shadow, as Bean is really Ender's only confidant. He is a poor, lonely boy with the weight of the world on him. | |
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Nina from Black Swan. She's a young ballet prodigy who is a natural for the lead role of Swan Lake, is very sweet and incredibly beautiful...who's also incredibly socially awkward, emotionally stunted, self-loathing, is implied to have an eating disorder, and is completely batshit insane. | |
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Forrest Gump is a sports star, war hero and entrepreneur but he's also just a confused simpleton who had to do all of those because other people told him to. He never knew what he wanted. | |
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Horatio Hornblower is a brilliant sea warrior whose men are devoted to him, who managed to make several women fall in love with him, and who managed to manipulate the French into two of their greatest military disasters in history (Trafalgar and Russia). He also absolutely hates himself. | |
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Attorney Mickey Haller from the Bosch series. Despite being a crack defense attorney with a well-known reputation for his veracity in defending his clients (especially in later books), he is full of self-loathing for defending the guilty and the strain his work puts on his relationship between his first ex-wife and their daughter. Doesn't help that his personal life is somewhat of a trainwreck — something always seems to knock him down when things start to go well. | |
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Game of Thrones: It is shown that Jaime is incredibly bitter about his reputation as the 'Kingslayer' and that no matter what he does, he'll always be remembered as someone who will change sides at the drop of a hat. Oberyn Martell is by most measures one of the biggest Aces seen in the series, being charismatic, an extremely adept politician, an incredibly skilled fighter, and a big hit with ladies and men alike (and yes, the feeling is mutual). However, the brutal death of his sister at the hands of a Lannister-hired assassin is shown to be eating away at him from the inside. And it ends up manifesting itself in a case of Revenge Before Reason that sees him being killed in a manner every bit as horrific as his sister, by the same man nonetheless, all because he refused to kill an injured but still very combat-capable warrior until he'd admitted that Tywin Lannister ordered the death of Oberyn's sister. |
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Percy himself becomes this by the sequel series, and even he admits his unhappiness let him understand Luke better. Sure, he's powerful, handsome (albeit obliviously), and respected by pretty much everyone around him — but it's because he's saved the world twice over, and that doesn't come cheap. It's made clear by the end of The Blood of Olympus that the events of the series have left him even more depressed, angry, and insecure than ever. | |
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Spider-Man: Peter Parker is strong, smart, witty, and has a list of accomplishment that most other heroes with ten times his strength would be envious of. But a lot of people in his city are suspicious of him due to an unflattering press, his personal life is a wreck because he often has to abandon social events to respond to emergencies, and underneath that all is the crushing guilt over his failure to save his father figure when he first got his powers, and later, when his girlfriend died from the whiplash. | |
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Prince Geordo in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! is skilled at absolutely everything, such as being more efficient in Catarina's farm than the girl herself, but his lack of struggles left him with an inability to understand those of others (especially Alan's), as well as being bored at everything since all things come off as too easy for him. | |
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Hamilton: Applies to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. | |
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Critical Role gives us Percival de Rolo. The character in the party with the best rolled stats, the first person in the world to invent a gun, an objective genius in several ways, lucky beyond belief, and lethal enough to keep up with the rest of his party despite lacking all but a few magic powers. But he's also obsessed with revenge, struggles to relate to even his best friends, shows a heavy disregard for his own life and soul, has panic attacks behind closed doors, and for much of the campaign believes redemption is impossible for both himself and his enemies. | |
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The Primarchs of Warhammer 40,000 are gods among men and strong charismatic leaders of their adopted planets but many harbor serious issues like insecurity (Fulgrim), inferiority complex (Perturabo) or a need for revenge (Angron) which led half of them to commit rebellion. Their father/creator the Emperor of Mankind. The most powerful psyker to ever live, a brilliant scientist, a ruler who united humanity in a golden age, practically a living god...but his inability to be the father his sons needed dooms himself and the Imperium to a slow wasting death. All that is left of the once-mighty Emperor is a decaying husk trapped between life and death that can only watch as the Imperium falls apart over ten thousand years. This is practically mandatory for anyone competent of high rank in the Imperial Guard and to a lesser degree the Imperail Navy. |
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In El Goonish Shive, Nanase is, in the words of her cousin, "athletic, smart, trilingual, can kick the ass of anyone who messes with her, is theoretically good looking enough that most people are nice to her by default (I wouldn't know because she's my cousin) and when she's not burned out, she's an insanely potent magic user." However, she deals with serious self-confidence and honesty issues brought on by her mother's less-than-stellar parenting, and her initial attempts at proving her self-worth and becoming independent really only succeed in pushing away and hurting the people around her (Ellen especially). After Sister II, she starts to rectify the "Broken" part, ironically as part and parcel of temporarily losing access to her magical powers. | |
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Unsounded: Lemuel is a very skilled warrior, able to defeat his rather skilled brother Duane in duels with no pymary involved most of the time and outperform even more experienced fighters. He is also an extremely skilled Vliegeng rider, something that his fellow soldiers assumed he would never be able to achieve due to his caste. However, he is mentally broken due to an abusive grandfather and the horrors of war he experienced as a child soldier, so he assisted Bastion in the murder and resurrection of his own brother in a mad attempt to create an undead who could breach Heaven and ask God why all of this happened to him. | |
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This is apparently how Robert Pattinson plays Edward Cullen in the Twilight films. It's an Alternative Character Interpretation that Stephenie Meyer wouldn't endorse, but arguably it makes a lot more sense. | |
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Haru's friend Taku from Accel World is a friendly, smart, athletic...pretty much everything Haru wishes he was. All of this masks Taku's extreme resentment and jealousy of Haru. Taku is horribly insecure about his relationship with his girlfriend Chiyu because he believes that Chiyu secretly loves Haru instead of him. In his eyes, Chiyu always looks happier hanging out with Haru than she does when she is with him. All of Taku's achievements — athletics, academics — were done for the sole purpose of making himself better boyfriend material than Haru. Taku even went so far as to use Acceleration to improve his performance — he didn't actually achieve anything through effort alone. He also installed a virus in Chiyu's neuro-link so he can spy on her at any time, making him borderline Stalker with a Crush material. While Taku does turn over a new leaf after Haru forces him into a tie, it's later revealed that he was hazed during kendo practice when he was younger,with other students practicing thrusting techniques on his neck so much that he became suicidal at times, and given that a thrust attack triggers him, he suspects he won't be able to do kendo in high school, since thrusting is legal in high school competitions. Subsequent arcs reveal that he's ultimately just as capable of self-loathing as Haru is, but doesn't deal with it in as constructive of a manner. | |
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Possibly Charlie Harper from Two and a Half Men. Despite being a rich, handsome womanizer, many episodes indicate or imply that he is riddled with mommy issues. There is the possibility that his womanizing is a means of acting out said mommy issues or is even a means of overcompensating for repressed homosexuality/bisexuality or having been more abused or neglected than Alan when they were kids. | |
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Hulk Hogan has gone through a very messy, very public divorce, not helped by his son Nick getting involved in a car crash that left the other driver in a vegetative state. Hulk at one point said he gets why OJ Simpson did what he did. | |
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Marble Gate Dungeon: Randulf is one of the most skilled and experienced delvers in Marble Gate, but these days he spends most of his time blind drunk, only delving to get more money for booze. It's hinted that something went catastrophically wrong with one of his delves, something he drinks to forget. | |
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Doctor Who: Some incarnations of the Doctor from fall under this trope, especially in the revived series, which starts with the premise of the Doctor being forced to kill his own species offscreen. The First Doctor begins to develop into one of these once Ian and Barbara leave the crew and the Doctor begins to come to terms with the massive predicament he's in, while simultaneously suffering a string of adventures with major Downer Endings. After Steven says Screw This, I'm Out of Here! at the end of "The Massacre", he has a full-blown Heroic BSoD and is far more delicate and fearful afterward. The revived series has gone on to show he was broken before he became an ace, growing up he spent his nights in a barn crying himself to sleep, his Only Friend eventually went insane and became his Arch-Enemy and he eventually admitted the real reason he left Gallifrey was that he was scared. The Tenth Doctor is confident and cavalier on the outside, but he suffers from survivor's guilt and verges on self-loathing on the inside. The Eleventh Doctor is a charming, charismatic, moral, slightly eccentric, Chaste Hero on the outside. At first, his confidence seems genuine, but as time passes it quickly becomes apparent that Eleven is just as riddled with grief, rage and self-loathing as Ten. The War Doctor is the only doctor who is openly this. The ultimate Nice Guy Fifth Doctor had become this by the end of his run resulting in him becoming the Darker and Edgier 6th and 7th Doctors. The same thing then happened when the Eighth Doctor transitioned to the War and 9th Doctors. "The Daleks' Master Plan": Sara Kingdom is Mavic Chen's best agent, a hero in her organisation, said in awed tones to have "The Strength of Ten Men". She shoots Bret Vyon (a "traitor" allied to the Doctor) and was sent to murder the Doctor and his companion too, and would have done it if they hadn't been accidentally teleported to the planet Mira. While on Mira, the Doctor confronts her, clearly in a disturbed psychological state, and she eventually admits Bret was her brother. She joins the Doctor's side soon afterward. Captain Jack Harkness, later of Torchwood. Dashingly handsome, brave, cocky and nigh-immortal...but after being abandoned by the Doctor for being "wrong", suffering trauma after his repeated deaths, seeing everyone he loves die in battle or of old age, and now having being forced to allow his own grandson to be killed he's definitely a Broken Ace. He also has a Dark and Troubled Past. He still feels guilt over getting his brother captured by a vicious alien race. Even during his time as a temporal agent, it wasn't all gallivanting through history and screwing anyone and everything (although there was a fair bit of that too). He has a chunk of memory the size of 2 years missing, although he completely forgets about it after meeting the Doctor. |
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Song at Dawn: Dragonetz appears to be the perfect knight: strong, gallant, and handsome, but he's also bitter, disillusioned, and afraid of marriage because he thinks he'll screw it up. | |
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Nathan Ingram from Person of Interest was a world-renowned software engineer and CEO, but he's actually covering for the real genius, his friend Harold Finch. Nathan was actually The Alcoholic and his family life was in shambles. | |
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A Court of Thorns and Roses: Rhysand is incredibly skilled but also very, very broken. Beyond the trauma of being a Sex Slave, he's got a shockingly low sense of self-worth, feeling that he's never given enough for his people, and puts on so many masks because he's afraid no one will love what they see underneath. | |
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Jason "Ace of" Spades in Last Res0rt has this one all wrapped up. Celebrity soldier-turned-Second-in-Command Executioner? Check. Crack shot? Check. Looks great shirtless? Check. Always, always insists on wearing — or at least carrying around — that fur-trimmed jacket? Check. Beaten as a child by his Djinn mother? Che—wait, what was that last one again? | |
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Zohan from You Don't Mess with the Zohan. He's a superhuman Badass Israeli who can get any girl he wants. But the film establishes that he has grown disillusioned with the Forever War that is the Arab–Israeli Conflict, and that he would rather follow his dream of being a hair stylist. He fakes his own death just so he doesn't have to fight people. | |
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Cheon Song-Yi from My Love From Another Star is one of the most famous actresses in Asia but her money is being squandered by her mother and her father was driven out due a misunderstanding, and she misses him terribly. She is also worried about her appearance to the point where she has to be camera ready even when she is going to the hospital. | |
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Rick Flag from Suicide Squad initially seems like a roundly masterful military officer and one of the most competent members of the team, but as time goes on, it becomes increasingly clear that he is massively insecure, riddled with trauma, unable to handle the job, and eventually becomes a Death Seeker. | |
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The Victors of The Hunger Games. Everyone celebrates their triumph except... most of them. | |
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Kara "Starbuck" Thrace from Battlestar Galactica (2003). Top notch pilot, expert markswoman, fine brawler—but suffering from memories of an abusive childhood, a morass of self-esteem and self-loathing issues, and unsure of how to have a life beyond being The Ace. And of course it just gets worse halfway through the fourth season when she finds out she's been Dead All Along. | |
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Huxley sees Spartan from Demolition Man as what a cop ought to be; strong, brave and a believer of justice. Spartan is however aware that his violent ways have hurt innocents and if the world were perfect, he wouldn't exist. | |
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Big Z in Surf's Up, who threw a race and pretended to be dead when he found he was getting too competitive (and someone was actually capable of beating him). | |
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Fortress Maximus was a strong, noble warrior prior to The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers. Now he's a traumatised, rage-driven wreck who takes the ship's psychiatrist hostage because his need to beat Prowl into a metallic smear as payback for abandoning him to Overlord's tender mercies for three years is just that all-consuming. When he takes over from Ultra Magnus as the enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, he totally lacks Magnus's By-the-Book Cop traits, instead defaulting to a much more brutal approach to the Decepticons (at least until the Scavengers show him the potential for something better). | |
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Wander, in Wander. She's skilled enough to have survived since she was eleven, but it comes at the extent of nearly all her interpersonal skills. Dagger is horrified by how far she’s willing to go at times, and it’s outright stated that a part of the reason she decided to save him was that she hoped he could teach her to be around people again. | |
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Veronica Mars : Princely Young Man Duncan is a straight A student, student newspaper editor, student body president, handsome, popular, and the son of the wealthiest, most beloved man in town — he also has a particularly nasty type of epilepsy that causes violent fits, a pretty vicious mother, a recently murdered sister whose death caused him hallucinations, a need for antidepressants, and an ex who might be his half-sister. to further Break the Cutie, just when everything sorts itself out and it turns out he and Veronica aren't related, his other ex falls into a coma while pregnant with his baby. Sheesh. | |
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Manolo in The Book of Life. After refusing to kill the bull, the whole town (sans Maria, the Rodriguez brothers, and Joaquin) ridicule him. His own father practically disinherits him. If it couldn't get worse, Manolo thought that Maria, the only woman he's ever loved, died by protecting him from a snake bite. Leading to her father, Joaquin, and himself to mourn her "death" and blame himself for it. Manolo then indirectly asks Xibalba (who concocted the whole thing) to kill him so he could be with her. Poor guy... | |
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Once Upon a Time: Zelena is an incredibly talented witch, one of the most powerful magic users in the series, and is smart enough to create a spell powerful enough to overwrite one of the Laws of Magic. She is also incredibly bitter due to being abandoned by anyone who could love her and is desperate to find anyone who could unconditionally love her. Dr. Frankenstein goes through this in Season Two. In his cursed identity as Dr. Wael, he's a stereotypical arrogant hypercompetent surgeon, but when the curse is lifted he goes through a mini Trauma Conga Line and loses all confidence in himself and medicine in general, descending into alcoholism and depression. Which is a problem when an out-of-towner crashes his car and Wael is the only one who can save his life. Ruby helps him get over it and he resumes work as the town doctor, with some much needed perspective and humility. |
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Eddie Felson is this at the start of The Color of Money, after the events of The Hustler (1961). He ekes out a living selling liquor, and no longer plays pool or hustles people for money. | |
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Jerry Maguire was the best sports agent in the game until the son of one of his clients called him out for his lack of concern for his injured father. It gave him a crisis of conscience which led to his Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Ozymandias from Watchmen AKA Adrian Veidt, a seemingly-forever-young (he's 46 and looks about 25) blond supergenius who is insanely rich, pretty much has America in his hands, and defeats Rorschach, Silk Spectre, and Nite Owl at the end...he's also persuasive enough to talk Dr. Manhattan around at least to the point of not turning him into a rapidly expanding cloud of superheated plasma. He is also the antagonist and portrayed as deludedly-idealistic to believe that his plan will work. He even has a slight Villainous BSoD after enacting his plan, although the film version ramps his emotional broken-ness up several levels. He shows approximately three times the guilt, self-loathing and painful isolation of his comic book counterpart, even saying he "often [feels] stupid at being unable to relate to anybody". He spends his last few minutes of screentime in a Villainous BSOD, staring into space and looking about ready to fall over as the camera zooms out on him. | |
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Ric Flair has a litany of broken marriages, money problems, and substance abuse demons. | |
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Encanto: Isabela Madrigal is praised for her beauty, her grace, and her magical talent for growing beautiful flowers. Mirabel is shown to be rather envious of her status as the family's "golden child", but it turns out Isabela is tired of having to live up to everyone's expectations of her and longs to be someone else, to be her true self, and to be free to even find out who she really is. | |
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John Sheppard on Stargate Atlantis is undeniably a Colonel Badass and Ace Pilot who's not afraid to kick some ass in order to defend the city of Atlantis. He also has severe self-loathing, intimacy, trust, and abandonment issues which come into play when people under his command or close to him die because of the inherent danger of his job. | |
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Ciaphas Cain. Capable, intelligent, handsome — and a compulsive liar desperately trying to hide what he sees as his own fundamental lack of courage and decency in a culture obsessed with martyrdom. It's fairly obvious in his memoirs that Ciaphas is incapable of giving himself credit for any achievement because he has to justify any noble act with ignoble intentions. | |
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Kazuo Kiriyama from Battle Royale can master almost any skill. Combined with his inability to feel emotion due to brain damage which makes him the perfect killer. It's only as he dies does he regain emotion and the first thing he feels is regret over everything he's done. | |
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Vitaly from Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. Outwardly brash, confident, coldly competent, intelligent, sophisticated, cynical, and extremely strong...but inside a lonely, insecure, broken tiger who is secretly afraid of both fire and failure thanks to having gone too far with his ring jump and ruining both act and circus. Luckily other than being a bit too talented and threatening with knives, he isn't a sociopath nor a villain. And unlike most examples of this trope, he actually gets healed and unbroken once Alex gives him a Rousing Speech to restore his confidence and inspire him with a new and safer way he can reinvigorate his act. | |
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Durarara!!: Seiji Yagiri. Handsome, smart...and huge Yandere for a girl's head. Namie, as well. In the novels, she's always described as an incredibly stunning young woman and she has enough smarts to give Izaya a run for his money. She's also rich, as well as the previous head of Yagiri pharmaceuticals. Oh, and did we mention she's a virtually emotionless Jerkass who's madly in love with her brother? Another example is Shizuo Heiwajima's younger brother, Kasuka. Rich, talented, brilliant, beautiful and...off. The fact that he hooked up with a serial killer should tell you just how off. Even said Serial Killer, Ruri, described him as being out of his mind. Izaya Orihara. Smart, rich, connected, Bishōnen, good at fighting, and an incredibly awful sociopath underneath, who will go as far as tricking girls into making Suicide Pacts with him For the Lulz and manipulate other people for the same reason. If not for Shinra, he'd be a downright monster. |
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Fantastic Four: This is largely the point of Doctor Doom. He's a scientific genius to rival Reed Richards, a magical prodigy who approaches Doctor Strange in power, and physically fit enough that he can kill lions bare-handed; he rules a nation as semi-benevolent dictator, adheres to a code of always repaying his debts, has enough willpower to stare down the Purple Man without flinching, and wears a suit of armour on par with that sported by Iron Man. He could, in theory, be one of the Marvel Universe's greatest forces for good, because in power level you can pick almost any three superheroes and he's the equal of all of them. Unfortunately for the Marvel Universe, his egomania will never stop clouding his judgment. When Reed Richards pointed out a mistake in Doom's calculations, he spat in Reed's face, and when his experiment went wrong and scarred him, he blamed Reed rather than admit, even to himself, that he screwed up, and dedicated the rest of his life to a needless revenge for a nonexistent crime. His hideous scarring is his own fault because believing his good looks to already be ruined by the thin scar he had received, he donned the iron mask to his first suit of armour without waiting for it to cool first. His people fear him more than love him; he has no friends; most of his intellectual equals are superheroes who would be suspicious at an invitation to discuss something; he's a pariah on the international stage. All because of his swollen ego. | |
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Rebecca Bunch from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a fantastic lawyer who has graduated from both Harvard and Yale. She is also filled with self-doubt, self-hatred, massive anxiety, and depression. When she screws things up with Josh Chan (the guy who she moved to West Covina for), she sings to herself, "You Stupid Bitch," which is all about her self-loathing: | |
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Barney Stinson of How I Met Your Mother tries very hard not to be this trope, but he isn't nearly as good as hiding this fact as he thinks he is. His over-the-top, self-aggrandizing "awesomeness" is his way of overshadowing all his emotional issues. | |
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Seth Carl from Isobelle Carmody's The Gathering. He's described by protagonist Nathaniel as "looking like one of those perfect guys from coke ads". He's popular, attractive, the son of a local police Sargent and almost everyone likes him. He's also a struggling abused teenage alcoholic who almost sells the group out to the titular Gathering. | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Cyrano, Reinassance man, (legendary poet, duelist, soldier, philosopher, physicist, musician, playwright, novelist and excellent actor) who also is an ugly, writhing pile of mommy issues, who systematically throws away every chance of success he has, prefers to help a fair guy get the girl he loves instead of confessing to her, abuses everyone who is not his friend and an assiduous killer of Asshole Victims because his enormous Gag Nose. | |
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Limitless: a former government investigator who Rebecca remembers as an intelligent peer and who went into the private sector for a seven figure salary. After going on the run from Morra and losing her access to the NZT pills he gave her, she's a physical and mental wreck with a string of arrests for petty crimes and is living in a trailer in the woods. | |
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The Crane brothers in Frasier. For all their success as psychiatrists, it doesn't spare them from the fact that both of them suffer from deep-seated parental issues and are both hapless with women, even though, oddly, they never seem for want of one. | |
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Mission to Mars: Jim McConnell is one of the best astronauts of the space program and wrote books on Mars, which he and his wife Maggie were meant to visit through the first human mission to the red planet. But then she died from an illness turning Jim into a heartbroken and psychologically unfit widower, ending up being washed out of the program. He gets a second chance when he participates to a rescue mission, and in the end he decides to leave towards the new homeworld of the Martians to honor his late wife. | |
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In The Sopranos, Tony Soprano is the mob boss of all New Jersey; charismatic, powerful, ruthless, and has keen business acumen. Underneath it all, he suffers from some serious Parental Issues and other mental problems, which cause him to have panic attacks. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Skids is a smart, likeable superspy with the Outlier power to master any skill in no time. He also has some really awful repressed memories. His memory of having been tricked into helping the Decepticons murder 500 prisoners at Grindcore is so traumatic that when it's fully restored, he undergoes Death by Despair. Getaway is a charming, funny, quirky escape artist who joins the team as a Sixth Ranger, immediately gets them out of a prison cell, and gets some funny snark about Rodimus. Once you get underneath that, though, he's driven by an all-consuming inferiority complex and obsession with being recognised as "special", especially since his name comes from him panicking in his first battle. He ends up self-destructing by inches, alternately driving away and betraying anyone who actually liked him, until eventually he's left with nothing but the desire to kill Rodimus...and when he thinks he's about to, his death arrives, cloaked in his dream of God anointing him a worthy Prime. Fortress Maximus was a strong, noble warrior prior to The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers. Now he's a traumatised, rage-driven wreck who takes the ship's psychiatrist hostage because his need to beat Prowl into a metallic smear as payback for abandoning him to Overlord's tender mercies for three years is just that all-consuming. When he takes over from Ultra Magnus as the enforcer of the Tyrest Accord, he totally lacks Magnus's By-the-Book Cop traits, instead defaulting to a much more brutal approach to the Decepticons (at least until the Scavengers show him the potential for something better). |
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Tybalt in Gerard Presgurvic's musical Romeo et Juliette: De La Haine a l'Amour , especially in the Hungarian production, where he's an epileptic pyromaniac on top of being obsessed by family honor and in love with Juliet. | |
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Under all his wealth and prestige, Charles Foster Kane is a broken man who can't hold down a relationship with anyone and desperately longs for his stolen childhood. | |
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In modern takes on the Transformers character Optimus Prime, Optimus is often presented as being a great warrior, inspiring leader, brilliant commander, and so on, but also has hints of some sort of personality disorder or otherwise being neuro-atypical. Most commonly it's presented as depression (despite his reputation, someone he commands always dies) or post-traumatic stress (four million years of war can do that to you). There are also some who argue that in various elements of the Transformers Aligned Universe, including High Moon Studios' games and the Transformers: Prime series, Optimus is subtly coded as being autistic. Some critics of Michael Bay's movies even snark that the long war has unhinged that Optimus into a psychopathic monster. | |
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Die Another Day villain Gustav Graves is charming, talented, and insanely rich (from blood diamonds). However, he is really a North Korean with plastic surgery building a Kill Sat to help his faction finally win the war. He has daddy issues too, and really really hates anything Western. He admits to having based the Graves persona partly on Bond. Speaking of James Bond, while he's known to be a suave agent known to use cutting Bond One Liners to enemies and his status as The Casanova, he's sometimes portrayed like this, especially in the rebooted films. In Spectre, it's sad to see Bond's virtually character-less apartment, as it reveals how little of a life he has beyond MI6, and what a lonely and broken man he is. Moneypenny's sarcastic remark about Bond's life in Spectre when he hears her boyfriend over the phone almost sounds like a much harsher jab. Even the rejected song by Radiohead is depressing as hell. It pretty much is a summation of Bond's character and all of the tragedies he suffered over the years. Just read here. |
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Seiji Yagiri. Handsome, smart...and huge Yandere for a girl's head. | |
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