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Cynicism Catalyst
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The Cynicism Catalyst is a traumatic, disillusioning event that drives many heroes to more morally dubious methods or outright antivillainy. Before, they were more idealistic, but after this event they became more cynical and felt that the current way things are done just wasn't enough. Frequently, this means either picking up less traditionally heroic methods or deciding the established way of doing things is simply not good enough. It won't happen again. Frequently, the event is the death of an innocent family member (like a parent or beloved sibling), a close friend, or a love interest. Apart from this, a Broken Pedestal can cause this sort of personality change if the character lets it affect them too strongly. After the catalyst takes effect, the character will generally turn broodier and less open to companionship. Many works will be dedicated at least in part to getting this character to open up, let it go, and move on. This makes them vulnerable to Morality Pets and sudden bursts of moral insight. Sadly, sometimes they just can't do it or they feel that it's too late. Expect a Hollywood Atheist to have one of these to explain why he or she does not believe in God. An outright villain will generally not have a Cynicism Catalyst: The trope is reserved for those who are still attempting to do good, leaving it the domain of the Anti-Hero, the Anti-Villain, and the Well-Intentioned Extremist. Compare Death by Origin Story for something that spurred a hero into action, Took a Level in Cynic for a character who becomes more cynical but may remain a good person, and Freudian Excuse for pure villains. For a more prolonged wearing down of idealism into cynicism, see Stopped Caring. Also compare Heroic BSoD and Despair Event Horizon for more seriously disabling breaks. Some of the examples that follow also fall under one or more Death Tropes. Most spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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On We're Alive, Todd's death at the hands of the zombies is Lizzy's main reason for wanting to kill every zombie she sees. After Samantha's Death, Datu spends a lot of time being generally depressed and hopeless. During The War and its aftermath he is completely convinced that everyone is going to die and begins leading some of the other Tower members in prayer rather than trying to help fend off the Mallers/zombies/fire. It isn't until Michael, Pegs and Kelly return from the Colony with Samantha's daughter, Hope, that he really gets better. |
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In Twig, Sylvester's upbringing being used as a test subject for the experimental Wyvern Formula served to make him automatically distrustful of kindness, since he knew it was always followed by pain. Jamie even calls it a "compulsion to attack people who are kind to him," no matter if their kindness is genuine or not. | |
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Split Second (1992): In a flashback, it's shown how Stone was fairly well-composed before his partner was killed by the monster he has since been pursuing. Stone blamed himself (especially because he was having an affair with his partner's wife) and became a paranoid, rude gunslinger in response. | |
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Seth Rollins rode high off his betrayal by joining The Authority — only for his first world title reign to end in disaster after he got injured towards the end of 2015. After that, he was never able to recapture his previous success and was eventually betrayed by his Evil Mentor Triple H, at which point he was left on his own in the middle of a hostile locker room. He spent the next several years trying to redeem himself and reconcile with his two "brothers", but only managed that with Ambrose, and his big face run collapsed thanks to terrible booking and his own out-of-kayfabe behavior, forcing him to make a Face–Heel Turn just to save his character. These days he functions as a delusional Psychopathic Manchild with a messiah complex who is one of the most hated and despicable wrestlers on the roster. | |
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In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the death of Harmony's little sister Jenna drives the plot. What made Harmony all kinds of screwed up and guilty was that she couldn't protect Jenna from their father, and then Harmony skipped town as soon as she was sixteen, leaving Jenna alone with him. | |
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Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline: The United States entering the First World War much earlier, and seeing a significantly higher death toll as a result, was this for a great many Americans. The individual character most directly affected by this in the narrative is George Patton, of all people: The horrors of trench warfare were enough to throw cold water on even his Blood Knight tendencies, and the lack of any clear reason why this whole war started and what America is getting out of sending thousands of its young men to their deaths every day forced him to do some serious self-reflection about his Patriotic Fervor and the gulf between the country the United States was and the country he wanted it to be. He returned home from the war a very changed man, but not necessarily for the worse: Losing a lot of his idealism about his country was what prevented him being drawn into the proto-fascist movement that was developing around General MacArthur. | |
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The death of Max Rockatansky's wife and child at the hands of Toecutter and his gang in Mad Max drives him to become a burnt out, shell of a man. | |
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I'm the Grim Reaper: Scarlet’s comes very early in the story. At first she’s more apprehensive about killing sinners, but when the seemingly nice young man she meets who’s marked as one turns out to be a cold-blooded serial killer, she quickly becomes more jaded and willing to do the job. | |
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The opening of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse reveals that seeing her best friend Peter Parker die at the school ball and being framed for his death by her own father is what led to her sarcastic nature and "lone wolf" approach on superheroing. | |
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Hoh from Tower of God feels guilty for not being strong enough to protect his friends from a berserk stray warrior. It has made him rather jealous and loathing towards anyone with greater power than him, especially Bam. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Eddie Valiant's bitter grudge against toons is revealed to have begun after his brother was murdered by one. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Roy Greenhilt has a dead little brother named Eric. Eugene's magic experiments were responsible, but Roy blames himself to a certain degree for failing to get his arrogant father's attention before the lab exploded. His comment on Eric's love of music and potential future as a bard may also provide insight into his relationship with Elan. Redcloak, the Anti-Villain, is revealed to have a dead little sister in the prequel book Start of Darkness, and at the end of the book, he's forced to kill his brother too. Varsuvius really screws up with that deal with the three fiends, but after they find out that their purge to end the cycle of revenge killed a LOT of humans (and their many, many in-laws), whose ancestor fell in love with a dragon, the cynicism kicks in and makes them much less of a Large Ham and more of a Vulcan. In the next book, they don't show ANY haughtiness or flashy gestures at all when casting spells. |
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Pacific Rim: Pentecost's sister was one of the fighter jet pilots who lost her life during the first Kaiju attack. Her death was what caused her brother to work with the military to find the best way to combat the Kaiju. Yancy is this for Raleigh. Tendo Choi lost his grandfather to Kaiju blood in the prequel comic. |
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Big Hero 6: Professor Callahan became the villain Yokai to avenge his daughter, who was enveloped in a malfunctioning experiment of Allstair Krei, whom he held responsible for it. | |
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In Errant Story, Ian set off on his quest to find the elven gods because his older sister was dying and he wanted to find a way to heal her. When he achieves godlike power and returns home to find that she died while he was away, he snaps and blows up a few cities. | |
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Ema Skye also goes through a cynicism phase in Apollo Justice where it's revealed she failed her forensics exam, thus she is shunted over to detective work instead of the forensics detective that she dreamed of becoming. Ema wanted to be in the field of forensics ever since she was a teenager, but her dreams being crushed left her very bitter and irritable. By the time of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, she retakes her exam and passes it, becoming happy and chipper like she used to be. | |
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In Noob, after years of being the Only Sane Man of a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, Arthéon got an in-game girlfriend with whom he got along perfectly well. The girlfriend interrupted their in-game wedding because she found out something more interesting to her was happening elsewhere. This prompted Arthéon to question all his current friendships lash out on pretty much everyone, including his own guild by disbanding it. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Antimony being forced to lead her own mother to the afterlife. | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): For Mark Russell, the main reason why he hates the Kaiju and thinks all of them instead of just some of them are monsters that should be killed is because he saw the destruction that the MUTOs and Godzilla's battle in the first film caused, and his son died in the destruction. It's also revealed by the website promoting the film's release that Griffin also saw the destruction in the first film and has since been skeptical of Serizawa's claims that humans can find ways to share the planet with the more benevolent monsters. | |
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The Mrs. Hawking play series: For Malaika in Gilded Cages, when their plan to feed her starving village fails, Victoria disappears on her, and her entire life is ruined when she is arrested for what they did. She loses all faith in being able to count on others, particularly white people or those more privileged. | |
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Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane: Flinheart McCoy, the victim of Case 1, developed a grudge against mages and magic in general because he used to be friends with Garrick Pierce as a child, but one day, Garrick started practicing magic without the presence of an instructor. Flinhart and Garrick found out why an instructor is necessary the hard way, because Garrick lost control of his magic and accidentally killed Effie, Flinhart's sister. Ruby used to be a more straightlaced, upstanding lawyer, until she was unable to acquit Tyrion's mother and save her from execution. After that, she decided to fight just as dirty as the corrupt nobles do. |
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Manchester by the Sea: The death of his three children, which he accidentally caused, is what caused Lee to go from the outgoing and friendly guy shown in flashbacks to the depressed shell of a man he is in the present. | |
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Secondhand Lions: The loss of Uncle Hub's wife Jasmine in childbirth. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Agent Washington was shown in the Project Freelancer sections to have been a fairly idealistic and warm guy. However, having an AI go mad inside his head and show him all that had happened to the Alpha AI and the Director turned him into the bitter, cynical man he is in the present. He's gotten much better (at least on the warm end) thanks to his interactions with the Reds and Blues, but it's clear the man he used to be is gone. | |
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Phoenix Wright in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney became very aloof, snarks openly instead of restricting it to First-Person Smartass, and makes jokes at Apollo's expense. Due to Phoenix losing his ability to practice law after being set up with false evidence, it's not hard to imagine him being at least bitter about it. By Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, he returns to his old chipper self after his innocence is proven and he returns to the world of law. | |
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Tarzan: After his biological son is killed by a leopard, the silverback gorilla Kerchak becomes much more sour and cold. | |
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Red Lights: Both Margaret and Tom have these as motivations to debunk paranormal claims. Margaret's son is in a coma, which apparently caused a loss of faith and firm disbelief in all things supernatural or paranormal. Tom's mother died due to trusting in a faith healer rather than medicine, with the same results. | |
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Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie: Why is the Angry Video Game Nerd so angry? Because as a child, he played Eee Tee, an experience so traumatic that it mentally scarred him for life. | |
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On Star Trek: The Original Series, Captain Kirk would sometimes regard the Klingons as Worthy Opponents. But after his son David Marcus gets slain by Klingons in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Kirk would start harboring a deep hatred of the Klingons, which wasn't resolved till Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, when Kirk's hatred made him the prime suspect of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon's assassination, almost sparking a war between the Klingons and the Federation. | |
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In Top Gun, Maverick's angst during the second half of the movie comes from his feeling of responsibility for his RIO Goose's death. | |
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Nebula: Witnessing Sun kill Ceres (the only other member of his species he'd ever seen) is what drives Pluto to abandon hope of befriending the rest of the group and makes him leave to go join Black Hole. | |
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In Ice Age, one of the protagonists of the trio, Manny, was revealed to have his little son and wife killed by a group of Neanderthals. | |
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Dreaming Freedom: Jeongmin was already jaded, but finding out that Juhyeon had sent two girls to “befriend� her in order to make her slip up makes her give up on finding true friends in general and sets her off on getting revenge. | |
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George Weathermay, one of the Ravenloft setting's greatest werebeast hunters, began a downward spiral into self-recrimination and depression when he brought his new fiancee home to meet the family, only to have her reveal herself as a lycanthrope and attack his young nieces. Neither girl died, but he blames himself and is now obsessed with tracking down and destroying this treacherous werewolf, whom he fears may have infected one of the twins with lycanthropy. | |
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Colonel O'Neil from Stargate originally left the military and went basket case because his son accidentally killed himself with O'Neil's own gun. He only joins the mission to the alien planet (from which there is little chance of returning) because he's downright suicidal. | |
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Animamundi Dark Alchemist: Its Villain Protagonist Dr. Zaberisk make a deal with Mephistopheles after the ungrateful villagers beheaded his very naive sister for supposedly having a book of witch recipes. This sent him on a series of mass murders and horrible experiments to try to save her. She was indeed a dark sorceress. It's revealed in the end game that she sold her soul to the very same devil to save her brother several years back. | |
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In Solo, the previously optimistic and happy-go-lucky Han Solo is abandoned and betrayed in quick succession by his new friend Lando, his mentor Beckett, and his love interest Qira. Dealing with these leaves him as the cynical mercenary of A New Hope. | |
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Dean Ambrose ended up with a major chip on his shoulder (to accompany the one he already had before the Shield) that persisted throughout even the Shield's second run, while also becoming disillusioned with the company altogether and leaving in 2019 to jump ship to AEW. Despite that, he was the only one to really make peace with what happened and overall it left him jaded, (more) violent, and, ironically, stabler than he was before. | |
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Darby has the older brother version in TRU-Life Adventures. Watching how others got hypocritical in response had more of an impact than the actual death, though. | |
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Clara: It's revealed that the source of Isaac's bitterness was his infant son's death. Though not explicit, it's implied this is why he's an atheist and sees no meaning in the universe. | |
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In Signs, Graham Hess (Mel Gibson) lost his faith and quit being a reverend after his wife's death feeling betrayed as his service toward God was "rewarded" by him taking the love of his life. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Susan has had two of these; the first was the aftermath of her father cheating on her mother and the second was when she had to kill the aberration. | |
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Street Angel: For Angela, her mother's death. For Gino, Angela disappearing without a word right after agreeing to marry him. | |
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Underworld (2003): Selene's entire family was brutally murdered by Lycans, leading her to mercilessly hunt them once she became a vampire. Turns out Viktor, who turned her, was the one who actually killed her family. | |
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Strange Magic: Marianne, after seeing her fiancée with another woman right before their wedding. She gives up on love and becomes a sword-wielding warrior. | |
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In Face/Off, Castor Troy's accidental murder of Sean Archer's son is a key event in the backstory of the two characters. Later in the film, Sean!Troy kills Castor!Archer's younger brother and partner-in-crime Pollux. Castor!Archer also killed his ex-girlfriend Sascha's brother Dietrich. When they confront each other in a church all three of them bring this up. | |
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Wyatt Earp's vendetta against The Cowboys, following his brother Virgil's permanent injury and Morgan's death. It's known for being retold in the film Tombstone. | |
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Casablanca: When Ilsa abandoned Rick in Paris (though as Louis notes, Rick's cynicism was never as thorough as he liked to believe). When Rick and Ilsa reconcile, Rick is able to drop the cynicism and become a straight-up hero. | |
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The Wotch: It is strongly implied that Miranda West's distance is because she blames herself for her friends' deaths. | |
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The old man in Steven Wilson's "The Raven That Refused to Sing" was emotionally damaged by the death of his sister when they were both kids and is now afraid to commit himself to any other type of relationship. | |
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Ace Attorney: Miles Edgeworth was an excitable and energetic child that strove to defend the innocent like his father was doing as a defense attorney. One day, Edgeworth's father was killed and he was taken in by Manfred von Karma, who raised him to be a ruthless prosecutor. Edgeworth grew up thinking defense attorneys were scumbags and the guilty should be punished. His personality also changed greatly where he is very stoic, rarely emotes, and always tries to keep up a professional front instead of just being himself. Edgeworth does lighten up a little bit after some Character Development, but he's no longer the energetic and eager person he once was. Phoenix Wright in Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney became very aloof, snarks openly instead of restricting it to First-Person Smartass, and makes jokes at Apollo's expense. Due to Phoenix losing his ability to practice law after being set up with false evidence, it's not hard to imagine him being at least bitter about it. By Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, he returns to his old chipper self after his innocence is proven and he returns to the world of law. Ema Skye also goes through a cynicism phase in Apollo Justice where it's revealed she failed her forensics exam, thus she is shunted over to detective work instead of the forensics detective that she dreamed of becoming. Ema wanted to be in the field of forensics ever since she was a teenager, but her dreams being crushed left her very bitter and irritable. By the time of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, she retakes her exam and passes it, becoming happy and chipper like she used to be. The "Dark Age of Law" brought out the cynical side of a few people in Dual Destinies. First there's Professor Aristotle Means, a professor and defense attorney that saw how twisted the courts became under the dark age. Rather than trying to fight it, Means believed the twisted version of the law is something to embrace and he adopted the mantra of "the end justifies the means" where one will do anything it takes to win a case in their favor. There's also Aura Blackquill who saw her brother being charged with a murder he did not commit and despite her demands for a retrial, she was ignored due to lack of evidence proving her brother's innocence. She then grew up becoming extremely bitter and distrusting towards the law and anyone that practices it. |
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In Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi, Dexter seems to be collecting these. First of all he's got the haunting death of Dee Dee, his dead sister (ironically a dead big sister) hanging over him. Then, not long after, he develops a secondary complex involving his guilt over Mandark's death in light of Mandark's own little sister promptly moving to Dexter's school after the loss of her sibling. One way or another, he’s suffering a lot of angst these days. | |
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In Revenge of the Sith, the fear of the loss of Padmé Amidala by childbirth is what drives Anakin Skywalker over the edge to The Dark Side. Before that, there was the death of his mother in Attack of the Clones which started his descent. For extra irony, she dies from childbirth because she loses her desire to live after seeing the monster Anakin becomes in trying to prevent her death. | |
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In Lady in the Water, after reading Cleveland Heep's diary, Story learns that he became depressed and withdrawn from society after a burglar broke into his house, robbed him, and murdered his wife and children all while he was not home (which he blames himself for). | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: Something, that is most likely linked to the Promotion to Parent in his backstory, has caused Onni to fear the Silent World to the point that he hasn't left his home military base in 11 years when the story starts and he has been doing all he could to keep his younger sister in there as well. Whatever means he used for this apparently backfired, as the younger sister in question is now fascinated with the Silent World and accepts a job to explore it. Onni can't bring himself to accompany her there, even if it means getting separated from her. | |
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Can You Spare a Quarter?: Jamie began to run away from home after his uncle died; he had been the only relative to treat him well and until then Jamie thought he might be taken by his uncle. | |
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Lakeview Terrace is about a cop (played by Samuel L. Jackson) who will go to any lengths, including intimidation, violence, and murder, to get the interracial couple who just became his new neighbors to move. The event that ultimately drove Turner to focus his rage on the couple is revealed to be the death of his wife, who was killed in a car accident while on her way to meet her white boss with who she was having an affair with. | |
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