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Hurting Hero
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Good guys are happy, right? Good Feels Good, and, as such, a hero should always feel spectacular, right? Not always. Sometimes, being The Chosen One is hard, especially when it puts your life in danger, consumes all your free time, and makes you choose between being alone or putting your loved ones in danger. Heroic powers can have a terrifying will of their own, be hard to control, or demand that a price be paid. If the Hurting Hero Jumped at the Call, they'll probably wish they had Been Careful What They Wished For and think I Just Want to Be Normal. Heroes are also not immune to personal tragedy, and the memory of certain events and people can haunt them like everyone else. A Dark and Troubled Past can make them not even find peace in their sleep. The audience will love them for it, in that twisted and tender way they love The Woobie. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Different heroes handle this different ways. Some get dark and broody, some drink, some cease to care how they look, some play the idiot, and some force a smile and crack bad jokes, because if the whole world thinks you're happy, that many people can't be wrong. Can they? Sometimes, the pressure gets too great, leading to anything from a Heroic B.S.O.D. to a full-on Fallen Hero Face–Heel Turn. Some heroes go Don't You Dare Pity Me!, others are glad for a little comfort. Still, heroes are heroes. They can and will rise above their weakness and pain and call for everyone and the villain to come and see what they can do. And they'll do it, thus earning their happy ending. Eventually. Compare Being Good Sucks. May cause a villain or bystander to express Sympathy for the Hero. |
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Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Saga. Very, very much. | |
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Nearly every major character in Worm qualifies as this trope to some extent, as superpowers in the setting mainly come from a Traumatic Superpower Awakening, which tends to shape their thinking and affect them for some time after the fact. Nearly everyone is dealing with some form of trauma or angst. | |
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Samurai Jack: While Jack occasionally showed traits of this whenever reminded of his past, he is hit with this trope hard in Season 5. Having spent decades trying to return to the past and undo the future with no success have left him a embittered shell of his former self, specially since he has lost his sword - the one weapon capable of killing Aku. | |
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John McClane from Die Hard. | |
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Subverted in Justice League, when Orion thinks that Flash covers this trope, but is proven wrong: | |
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Lexx from Alien Dice. He starts out broken and hurting anyway, but it continues to get worse as the series goes along. He tends to hide it, but private moments and internal conversations show how much he's afraid of what will happen to him next. | |
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Most of Team Kimba from the Whateley Universe. Tennyo is regarded as a crazed menace even by most of the other supers at Whateley Academy. Generator was regularly beaten and verbally abused by her father before her powers emerged, and because of her diminutive size is often seen as an easy target by bullies - even after she's demonstrated the ability to defend herself effectively. Bladedancer has just had to separate herself from all her friends because of her prophetic dreams. And Phase... Poor Phase. He has become a mutant, been kicked out of his mutant-hating family, lost the wealth and protection that gave him, been tortured by a Mad Scientist, been turned into an intersexed mostly-female form, and been sent to Whateley Academy. But his last name (Goodkind) represents everything mutants hate and fear. People come out of the woodwork to attack him, either verbally or physically. sometimes both. And that isn't even counting having nearly gone insane while being pummeled to the edge of death by an Eldritch Abomination over Christmas vacation. | |
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Iron Man 3 has Tony suffering from PTSD-like symptoms following his near-death experience in The Avengers and is obsessed with keeping his loved ones safe to the point where he has upgraded his armor 40 times since The Avengers. | |
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Good lord, Black Panther. In his debut, he was a man driven by revenge over the murder of his father, but by the start of his own movie the culprit has been brought to justice and he is crowned king. Smooth sailing from here? No. The villain of the film is T'Challa's long-lost cousin, the son of his uncle who betrayed Wakanda and was killed by his father in self-defence. The villain, a child at the time, was completely abandoned to keep what happened a secret. The villain challenges T'Challa to the right to the throne and wins, nearly killing him in the process. His spirit as beaten as his body, T'Challa only returns to the world of the living after calling out all the previous kings of Wakanda for their policy of isolationism leading to this tragedy, as well as confronting his beloved father for abandoning an innocent child, thus causing his Start of Darkness. He wins and regains the throne in the end, of course, but even the villain's death is a moment of tragedy, not celebration. Notably, T'Challa spends several scenes of the film in tears, but Chadwick Boseman pulls it off, his open display of gentler emotions not making him look weak in the slightest. | |
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In the opening two-part episode of Batman Beyond, Terry infers this when Bruce Wayne initially refuses to get directly involved to stop Powers' nerve-gas project: | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: The introduction of Steve Rogers in The Avengers shows him beating a punching bag until it bursts while remembering the war and his... vacation. Iron Man 3 has Tony suffering from PTSD-like symptoms following his near-death experience in The Avengers and is obsessed with keeping his loved ones safe to the point where he has upgraded his armor 40 times since The Avengers. Thor has to watch as his little brother goes insane and becomes a megalomaniac, and then he is personally tasked with bringing that little brother to justice. Then he is kept away from his sweetheart by the long, draining intergalactic war his brother's actions kick-started. Then he watches his mother die right in front of him, as he is seconds too late to save her. Then his father becomes suicidal due to the grief of his recent loss, forcing him to commit treason in order to preserve his homeworld's safety. And then his brother apparently bleeds to death in his arms after saving his life. It's no small wonder that the poor guy needs a break by the end of Thor: The Dark World. Good lord, Black Panther. In his debut, he was a man driven by revenge over the murder of his father, but by the start of his own movie the culprit has been brought to justice and he is crowned king. Smooth sailing from here? No. The villain of the film is T'Challa's long-lost cousin, the son of his uncle who betrayed Wakanda and was killed by his father in self-defence. The villain, a child at the time, was completely abandoned to keep what happened a secret. The villain challenges T'Challa to the right to the throne and wins, nearly killing him in the process. His spirit as beaten as his body, T'Challa only returns to the world of the living after calling out all the previous kings of Wakanda for their policy of isolationism leading to this tragedy, as well as confronting his beloved father for abandoning an innocent child, thus causing his Start of Darkness. He wins and regains the throne in the end, of course, but even the villain's death is a moment of tragedy, not celebration. Notably, T'Challa spends several scenes of the film in tears, but Chadwick Boseman pulls it off, his open display of gentler emotions not making him look weak in the slightest. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang is the last of his people alive and under tremendous pressure to save the world. Zuko, as Aang's foil, suffers from his own version. Though a substantial amount of it is self-inflicted and it takes a while for him to accept himself and his actions. |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past: The younger Charles Xavier has completely fallen apart at the seams, haunted by the hardships he had suffered during the Cuban Missile Crisis and losing most of his students and staff to the Vietnam War. | |
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Batman is in mourning for his deceased sidekick Robin, who was killed by the Joker. | |
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Goliath, if not the rest of his clan, perfectly embodies this trope on Gargoyles. | |
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Most particularly, in his Transformers Prime incarnation. It's significantly increased in his non G1 performances, possibly because the Film and Prime versions have Cybertron ruined by the war, whereas G1 still had the hope of things eventually getting back to normal (and indeed they eventually do in the finale). In G1, Prime would occasionally crack a few dry jokes, insult or taunt the cons, and hang out with the bots, watching TV or playing basketball. 2007 and beyond Prime is all business. He'll make heroic speeches and cheer people up, and is badass in battle, but is almost always all business. He also sounds older, not exactly old, but more like a general in his late 40s to 50s, though that's probably because Peter Cullen is 20 years older. |
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Believe it or not, Axe Cop. As Malachi Nicolle, the child who writes the comic, is growing up and maturing, it's becoming clearer that Axe Cop isn't really able to enjoy himself. | |
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Optimus Prime in Transformers. See Western Animation for more detail. | |
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DC Extended Universe: Superman is put through the wringer in both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. First, he has to endure being ostracized because of his powers, but when the Kryptonian invasion starts, Superman is forced to fight members of his own species and has to kill General Zod to save an innocent family. Things get worse in the sequel, as Superman has to deal with skeptics who are afraid of his power and want him to answer to the government. Batman is in mourning for his deceased sidekick Robin, who was killed by the Joker. |
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In Compañeros however, one hero is a cheery Mexican rebel who hurts plenty when he is tortured by having his belly clawed open by a rat in a basket. | |
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Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon spends most of the movie suicidally depressed after the death of his wife. | |
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Himei of Sailor Nothing. | |
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In Spaghetti Westerns, heroes hurt in more ways than one. Generally they are near-invincible gunslingers who are nonetheless subject to the most horrible of tortures. The titular character in Django embodies this, his invincibility almost becoming a curse to him because he is trapped in a cycle of violence he cannot get out of. The best-known one of those, the Man with no Name from the Dollars Trilogy, only escapes extreme hurt in For a Few Dollars More, being brutally beaten in A Fistful of Dollars and forced to wander in a desert in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Subverted or turned Up to Eleven in Corbucci's own The Great Silence, where the hero is killed brutally in the final fight, not that he's really happy at any point in the film. In Compañeros however, one hero is a cheery Mexican rebel who hurts plenty when he is tortured by having his belly clawed open by a rat in a basket. |
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Thor has to watch as his little brother goes insane and becomes a megalomaniac, and then he is personally tasked with bringing that little brother to justice. Then he is kept away from his sweetheart by the long, draining intergalactic war his brother's actions kick-started. Then he watches his mother die right in front of him, as he is seconds too late to save her. Then his father becomes suicidal due to the grief of his recent loss, forcing him to commit treason in order to preserve his homeworld's safety. And then his brother apparently bleeds to death in his arms after saving his life. It's no small wonder that the poor guy needs a break by the end of Thor: The Dark World. | |
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The introduction of Steve Rogers in The Avengers shows him beating a punching bag until it bursts while remembering the war and his... vacation. | |
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End of Days: Jericho is reeling from the untimely deaths of his beloved wife and child in a robbery home invasion while he was working on a security job. He's clearly depressed and contemplates shooting himself when his best friend visits him at the start, and it's a plot point that he's not really cut out to fight the Devil because he doesn't believe or think there's much worth saving. | |
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Superman is put through the wringer in both Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. First, he has to endure being ostracized because of his powers, but when the Kryptonian invasion starts, Superman is forced to fight members of his own species and has to kill General Zod to save an innocent family. Things get worse in the sequel, as Superman has to deal with skeptics who are afraid of his power and want him to answer to the government. | |
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All four main characters in Broken Saints are like this — especially the men. Shandala has a Dark and Troubled Past, but she doesn't let it haunt her everyday life until the plot gets going and bad shit goes down. | |
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