Tv Tropes I Dont Ever Want to See You Again

"That was but the first time I always put myself out there, and and so you didn't even bother to evidence up! And then you left town without maxim goodbye, even though nosotros were supposed to be friends. I was humiliated! I felt like I wasn't important! I never wanted to let myself be hurt like that again!"

Throughout fourth dimension, there have been many things to which "never once more" would exist applicable. For this fairly common stock motivation, characters who have been abused, betrayed, mistreated, or otherwise persecuted in the by are acting to brand sure that this sort of thing never happens to them again. This can encompass anything from taking a few levels in badass to ensure they'll be able to defend themselves against future threats, to attempting to Take Over the World and overthrowing the oppressive institutions that made them miserable, to refusing to care enough nearly anyone or annihilation to be hurt. The characters may also wish to spare others from suffering similar they did, merely there needs to be at to the lowest degree some element of preemptive self-protection involved to fit the trope.

It's a common motivation for the behavior of the Broken Bird. May lead to Had to Exist Abrupt. See also Safety in Indifference, Freudian Excuse, and My Greatest Failure. If the hurt is romantic in nature and new relationships are avoided for this reason, it's The Showtime Cutting Is the Deepest and Commitment Bug. See besides Hope Is Scary, where recovering from despair is feared considering information technology doesn't permit this, and We Are Non Going Through That Again for a (usually) more comedic accept on the same sentiment.

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    Anime and Manga

• In all adaptations of Astro Boy, Dr. Tenma'south son is killed. In grief, Tenma builds a robotic replica of his son, Astro Male child, and because he has plenty of Mad Scientist in him, augments the android with ridiculous amounts of weaponry and then that his new son can defend himself when threatened. In a more than direct version of this trope, Astro constantly sees robots getting mistreated or destroyed, frequently himself included, and spends much of his time defending robots without harming humans.
• In Berserk, the trope is invoked by those who go Apostles. Since a Behelit is sure to appear in the hands of its owner when they achieve their Despair Result Horizon, it is only natural that most willingly sacrifice their loved ones in order to go physically and emotionally invulnerable.
• Revy of Black Lagoon became what she is due to the horrible treatment she received at the easily of those in authority, from her drunken asshole of a father at dwelling house to the police on the streets. Revy'southward obsession with power is a direct response to her feeling of powerlessness during those years as a kid, and she never wants to go back to that once more.
• The backstory for Crest of the Stars has the Abh overthrowing their homo creators and masters, so going on to conquer most of the known universe, while in the process of acquisition the rest.
• This trope leads to the tragic ending of Danganronpa 3: Despair. Chiaki'due south friend Hajime disappears off the face of the earth, much to her sorrow. Months afterwards, the same thing is about to happen to Chisa, so Chiaki panics and makes some actually crappy decisions in an attempt to save her.
• This is the reason Minatsuki acts the way she does in Deadman Wonderland. To keep anyone from abandoning her the way her mother did, she deliberately acts as crass and barbarous as she can so that no ane will ever get close to her.
• The manga tie-in for Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Enkindling suggests that this is Dante's main motivation. After losing his mother to demons, he didn't go stronger to protect other people, it was then nada similar that could happen to him again.
• In Dragon Ball Super, this is the motivation for Jiren's Might Makes Right philosophy. After losing showtime his family so his comrades to an evildoer, he decided that a person'south ain strength is all they can rely on in life. He then closed himself off emotionally and pushed himself to become the strongest mortal in beingness, all so he would never be vulnerable like that again. When Goku's Ultra Instinct form begins to overpower him, he starts having traumatic flashbacks, and eventually fires at the audition to spite Goku's belief in The Power of Friendship.
• This is the reason why Haruka of Kotoura-san would make up one's mind to be alone before the start of the story; several Despair Consequence Horizons on, she cynically thinks she would doom every living being that she cares about, so she decided to exist with nobody so that they would not be injure—and past extension, herself being hurt by abandonment from someone she cares about again. The downwards spiral was only cleaved by Manabe.
• The central disharmonize of Neon Genesis Evangelion is substantially this, with every major graphic symbol having some attribute of this as their motivation. Pretty much all of the characters' Angst is acquired by characters being unable to connect with other people for fear of existence hurt. Shinji and Asuka being in love with just too frightened of each other to try and take a relationship leads to The End of the Globe every bit We Know Information technology, which Shinji unleashes because he believes that no ane loves him and everybody would hurt him. SEELE'due south terminate goal is essentially an endeavour at this taken to its Logical Farthermost.
• One Piece:
  • This is the reason behind Boa Hancock'south behaviour. Afterwards she and her sisters were fabricated slaves in their childhood, she put on a strong, cruel image to foreclose such a affair from ever happening once more. It caused her surrogate female parent effigy to fearfulness Hancock had really grown cold as water ice, but fortunately, Luffy's actions proved that information technology wasn't the case.
  • Charlotte Katakuri is a Slave to PR who has cultivated an image as The Paragon that he projects in public and then he won't be ridiculed similar he was as a child for his "pelican eel" rima oris (which he now conceals with a scarf) — in reality, he is every bit equally epicurean and hedonistic as the rest of his family. This is only amplified by the fact that the Charlotte Family is a Big, Screwed-Up Family that has no issue mocking and demeaning whatsoever physical deformities their siblings have (as Pudding and her third-eye can attest to). He simply manages to break out of this mindset during his fight with Luffy, who saw Katakuri's true self (including his mouth) and didn't give a damn nearly any of his flaws, only about Katakuri'southward amazing combat power as an opponent.
  • I of the most tragic and disturbing examples in the series can be plant in Gecko Moria, who lost his dearly loved crew in a fight with Kaido, with him as the sole survivor. He became so consumed by grief that he decided to make an army of corpse puppets, or zombies, powered with the shadows of others, assertive it was better to take Almost immortal zombie pawns he didn't take to intendance about rather than mankind and blood humans he could become attached to. So he loses one of the few living friends he still has (Absalom) to some other Emperor, whose crew taunts him with the possibility he's still live before revealing they killed him and took his Devil Fruit.
• Oyaji's insanely abusive father was what fabricated the male child grow into such a vehement human, fifty-fifty if Oyaji only resorts to violence after being existence on the receiving end of it himself, he can get a murder car to make sure whoever started to mess with him and his family unit to be instantly incapacitated, or even killed. Nonetheless, when Oyaji makes a a comeback to his family unit years subsequently, he really tries to forsake violence as much as possible, making sure to let his wife and children know a human who shows existent dearest instead of only trying to dial the problems away.
• In Pokémon, Goh used to distance himself from making human friends, except for Chloe, because he was usually at his domicile doing inquiry. Despite this, Goh did brand a friend in a boy named Horace during a family trip in Johto only believed he betrayed him when he broke his word to run across upwards with him again, which solidified his belief in non making man friends, minus Chloe, equally he didn't want to get hurt or betrayed again. Even so, after meeting Ash, Goh slowly started to open up about making human friends once again as he has come to realize that he needs to accept more just Chloe in his life. In Time Later Time!, Goh found out that Horace was sick on the day they were supposed to encounter up and ends up fully forgiving him.
• In Rebuild World, this is Akira's Thousand.O. at the start of the story. When he was younger, he was suckered into accepting offers to live across the wall and swallow good nutrient from Con Artists before beingness abased on the roadside when his usefulness ended. This left him a ruthless paranoiac who only looks out for himself until he meets Alpha.

    Comic Books

• Some portrayals of Toxicant Ivy in Batman - she got mutated when she vicious for a guy Playing with Syringes - at present she is obsessed with controlling men.
  • In the Cacophony storyline, this is Batman'south justification for saving The Joker's life at the end, in spite of Gordon's protests. He tells Joker that he became Batman so he could save people from dying, no matter what.
  • Some portrayals of Batman himself suggest that his tendency to remain emotionally distant is a defense force confronting feeling the kind of pain he experienced watching his parents gunned down.
• In The Decease of Superman, Doomsday'southward motivation for killing everything he sees is that he was created via a horrific experiment that involved dying multiple times (we're talking hundreds if not THOUSANDS of deaths). He thinks everything in the universe is a threat to his life and he'southward terrified of dying once more.
• In the ElfQuest: Siege at Blue Mountain arc, this seems to be Winnowill's motivation for wanting to take all of the pure-blooded elves somewhere they tin can never be injure again. For many of them, it doesn't end well.
• Magneto, when he'due south given sympathetic motivations. He's a Holocaust survivor who doesn't want mutants to face up the kind of genocidal bigotry he endured in his youth. Though it does kind of get against him when he has no qualms almost doing that to humans.
• Supergirl story arc Ruby-red Girl of Krypton starts out when Supergirl, who feels she's been manipulated and betrayed past everyone since she showed up on Earth several months ago, promises herself that she'll not be hurt again, and if life tries to hit her again, she's hit back.

  Supergirl: Dad. Kal. H'el. Siobhan. They ALL allow me downward. They all bankrupt my heart. And now THIS. No more. Nobody gets away with hurting me ever again. Non THIS time!

• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: After Scrooge humiliates and arrests Flintheart Glomgold, Glomgold vows to get rich plenty to avoid being humiliated again.

    Fan Works

• A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script: In this The Silmarillion fanfic, secondary character Maiwe did not want to give another chance to her formerly verbally abusive boyfriend, refusing to believe that Edrahil had changed during the state of war and was a different person now and having sworn that she would not be hurt over again. Beren warned her that attitude may hurt her anyhow.
• In The Bridge, Aria Blaze muses that she wants to go stronger so that no i will ever exist able to scare her again.
• Loved and Lost: After Twilight's friends, brother and mentor lose their social standing due to Prince Jewelius, her initial refusal to trust them stems from her wanting to avoid the heartache she felt after existence rejected at the wedding rehearsal. Subsequently, Jewelius urges her to requite up on them altogether by arguing that she will only invite more heartache past letting them dorsum in her life.
• In the Neon Genesis Evangelion fic A Crown of Stars, Asuka has been hurt by near everyone she knew (her parents, her pace-mother, her guardians, the boy she liked...). As a result of it, she does non want to let herself fall in love because she does not want to be hurt again. Some other character warns her that attitude will get her injure anyway.
• 1 of Harry/Tristan'south driving motivations in the Harry Potter fic The Jaded Optics Series. Though he believes it'southward too late for himself he figures he can still relieve other magical children from suffering the same fate at the hands of muggles.
• In the The Rex of Fighters fic Sore ga Ai, Deshou?, Andy, as a issue of constantly being shunted back and forth between numerous foster families, has difficulty opening up to people and forming whatsoever real attachments; his personal motto is "Don't go fastened, don't get hurt."
• 1000 Shinji, a Neon Genesis Evangelion/Warhammer 40,000 crossover fic: I of the reasons of Shinji to want to Take Over the World is he does non want everyone hurting him or Asuka ever once again.
• In WonderShock, this is Alice'south primary goal. She wants to become stronger in the existent globe to ensure that she'southward never a victim of the likes of Bumby ever once again.

    Films — Animated

• One thousand thousand from Hercules refuses to acknowledge that she may have feelings for Hercules due to the fact that her previous beau left her when she gave her soul to Hades to save his life.

  Meg: Sometimes, it'due south improve to be alone. Nobody can hurt you.

• In The LEGO Batman Moving picture, Batman is forced to admit that the reason he pushes people abroad is because he'south scared of losing people again.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Subsequently she lost her universe's Peter Parker, Spider-Gwen avoids getting attached to anyone to prevent feeling loss over again.
• Zootopia: After being bullied and rejected by prey animals as a kid, Nick decided to never let others get to him ever once more.

    Films — Live-Action

• Descendants three: Invoked by Audrey in "Queen of Mean":

  Existence dainty was my by time

  But I've been hurt for the last fourth dimension

• Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind: "As God is my witness, I'll never exist hungry once again!"
• Hitch: Part of Hitch's backstory - in his younger days he loved and was very devoted to a woman who broke his heart by cheating on him with a cooler guy, with the reason that he was besides average. In explaining it, he blatantly says he set out to ensure the same matter never happens to anyone else or himself - he reinvents himself to become the very tiptop of charm then becomes the "Date Doc" to give average guys real romantic chances that would otherwise never come up their way.
• The Pigeon Lady in Dwelling house Alone two: Lost in New York tells Kevin that she was hurt by a human being who didn't love her back, and then never let herself the possibility of having her middle broken once again. That's why she was alone, that, and the dove poop.
• In the Italian movie Il Primo Re, the would-be founders of Rome all but want to become a force strong enough to defend themselves: Romulus and Remus take lost their flock of sheep and their native village to the Albani, their offset followers were people the Albani wanted to sacrifice to the gods alongside the two brothers, and the Velientes are refugees from places raided by the Albani and lose their village to Remus' madness. They succeed even before founding Rome, as right before Remus' fated death they are reached past Albani horsemen chasing the would-be sacrifice victims and kill them all.
• This has been used as Spartacus' motivation in several fictionalisations.
• Magneto from the X-Men Pic Series is both a Holocaust Survivor and mutant "lab rat", which pushes him towards Do Unto Others Earlier They Practise Unto Us regarding mutant suppression by the humans.
• Star Wars: What Anakin'due south motivations boil down to mail service-Attack of the Clones: losing his female parent made him obsessed with becoming strong enough to protect the others effectually him, then he wouldn't take to suffer the hurting of losing them equally well. This obsession infamously and tragically costs him everything.

    Literature

• In A Brother's Price, after her abusive married man Keifer Porter died, Princess Trini does not want to ally over again, every bit a new husband could be just the same. (While he was bad for the whole family, he raped and tortured only Trini, and was more subtle with the others) This causes problems because information technology prevents her sisters from marrying, too - all sisters marry i hubby, due to male person Gender Rarity Value in the setting. She is also protective of people who are in danger of facing the same fate she did - when she is told that the Porters intend to brand an offer for Jerin, she neglects her own safety to aid. Past agreeing to marry Jerin herself.
• This is what sparks Tiffany Aching's desire to become a witch in her Discworld books. Specifically, in that location was an incident in which an odd but otherwise harmless former woman was turned out of her home, mistreated by the locals, and eventually died out in the common cold because they believed her to be a witch. Tiffany'due south response was to want to become a real witch so anyone who ever wanted to pull a stunt like that again would have to go through her first.
• Although she says "never exist hungry over again", a proficient deal of Scarlett O'Hara's ruthless behavior throughout the 2d one-half of Gone with the Wind can exist attributed to this, equally it'due south repeatedly stated that she's genuinely terrified of returning to the days of cold and poverty.
• The main character of The Kingkiller Chronicle mentions this as one of several motivations for attention Wizarding Schoolhouse. (How truthful he was being is currently unknown—especially since the series isn't finished however.)
• Alan Dean Foster's The Man Who Used The Universe. Kees vaan Loo-Macklin creates a criminal empire and a legitimate business empire and manipulates too many beings to name (both human and alien). He does this because he was abandoned as a child and grew up in a serial of foster homes where he was mistreated because of his appearance and was determined never to be helpless and mistreated again.
• In This Immortal, Diane lets slip that she used to be a pleasure girl on Taler and it wasn't a pleasant experience, which caused her hatred of all Vegans and was her motivation to bring together Radpol's Returnist movement.
• Deconstructed in The Warrior'south Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles muses that the weak always desire power because they think it ways that they can't be hurt again.
• Words of Radiance (second book of The Stormlight Archive): Kaladin is terrified that if he lets any lighteyes know about his new Surgebinding powers, they will somehow take them abroad. He knows it'south impossible, but that does not ease his worries in whatever way. This leads to him breaking his vows and losing his powers. He recovers them after he realizes what he did wrong and swears a new Ideal.

    Live-Action TV

• On The 100, Lexa's response to the torture and murder of the girl she loved was to stop caring nigh anyone on an private level and devote herself entirely to the well-beingness of her people as a whole.

  Lexa: I thought I'd never get over the hurting, but I did.
  Clarke: How?
  Lexa: By recognizing it for what it is: weakness.

• The Narn from Babylon 5, in the early seasons. Their motivation, which prompts their bullying, their expansion, their want to trounce the Centauri, is largely about ensuring that they'll never again exist at the mercy of the Centauri. Commander Sinclair even explicitly compares them to abused children who have learnt to hit dorsum and now corruption others in turn.
  • Ironically, the Centauri themselves: they used to be a peace-loving race before the Xon, the other sentient race from their homeworld, literally showed upwardly from nowhere to enslave the Centauri and kill anyone who opposed. Later the invasion (and a brief conflicting invasion), the Centauri killed every concluding Xon, took the stars as conquerors, and invented the mass drivers (whose utilise is considered a war law-breaking).
  • As well, the reason many Humans despise aliens and/or are obsessed with acquiring overwhelming armed services force: during the World-Minbari War, Mankind was brought to the verge of extinction by the Minbari, and Earth's allies deserted them out of fear of the Minbari, and no Man desire that to repeat.
    • It's also the reason Babylon 5 exists at all: the Earth-Minbari State of war started due to a formidable instance of Poor Communication Kills ^note When EarthForce encountered the transport of the Grey Council, the Minbari transport opened the gunports as a sign of respect. The Minbari leader, fearing this would exist misinterpreted, ordered to shut the gunports as soon equally he found out, but a power fasten was mistaken for the weapons existence charged, and, as the Minbari had not replied to earlier attempts at communication (mainly because they didn't understand English), the Human captain ordered to open up fire right equally the Minbari were being ordered to shut the gunports, killing their leader, and afterward the war, the Humans built the Babylon Stations as a meeting point where all races would exist able to encounter in peace and learn about each other.
• Cobra Kai: Hawk initially joins Cobra Kai for this very reason. Having been much abused simply for his lip, he was ane of the original students of the Guild Reborn and, transforming himself into "Militarist," proved himself to be a solid Determinator despite a rocky second season. All-time exemplified in the 3rd flavour, when Brucks (1 of his tormentors) shows up at Kreese'south tryouts and ends up on the other side of his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown without getting in then much as a single hit to Hawk.
• Doctor Who:
  • John Lumic, who has some undisclosed and presumably painful concluding illness, decides to enforce Unwilling Roboticisation upon himself and humanity in order to eradicate death and emotion.
  • Professor Lazarus from "The Lazarus Experiment" tried to create a device to avoid expiry due to his experiences during World War Ii. Information technology didn't quite piece of work out.
• The Gua in First Wave were in one case enslaved by another race only somewhen drove their oppressors off their earth. They even renamed their entire race based on their victory: "Gua" means "the power to overcome". They pre-emptively conquer other worlds to ensure no one else is ever able to threaten them again. I of their leaders, Joshua, eventually sides with humanity when he realizes that humans also possess "Gua".
• Firm in House seems to exist like this at times. His relationship with Stacy sent him into one period of emotional disengagement. Then when after his human relationship with Cuddy goes bad, he refuses the affections of his greenish-card wife, patently out of fear that sex with anyone who really likes him (rather than hookers) might lead to attachment which will hurt him over again. Of course, if you showed him this page on Tv set Tropes and said that it applied to him, he'd probably give you a Breaking Spoken communication nearly what a moron you lot are for thinking information technology.
• In one case Upon a Fourth dimension: Several characters, but special mention goes to Cora, who, after existence forced to kneel and apologize to Eva, decides not to stop until anybody else is on their knees.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
  • The Founders (a race of changelings) utilise this as justification for running the Rule. They tell Odo that millennia earlier, they were peaceful, just were met with barbarous distrust and were hunted downward. Thus, they founded the Dominion to ensure they would never be in a position of weakness always again, breeding the remorseless Jem'Hadar to do their bidding on bottom species. However, there are subtle hints throughout the show that the prejudice against changelings did not beginning until after the Founders started their empire-edifice.
  • The Bajorans suffered a brutal l-year occupation at the hands of the Cardassians and ex-freedom fighters similar Major Kira get in quite clear they will never suffer such an indignity over again. Indeed, this is what kick starts the series, every bit the first step to guaranteeing the Cardassians stay away is the Bajoran provisional government requesting Starfleet establish a naval presence at Bajor, so whatever attacks on Bajor will be an automatic deed of war against the Federation.

    Music

• The Simon & Garfunkel song "I Am A Stone" seems to describe the feelings of someone who doesn't want to love anymore because they were hurt past it in one case.

  Don't talk of love,
  But I've heard the words before,
  Information technology's sleeping in my retentiveness.
  I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that accept died.
  If I never loved I never would have cried.

• The Wall: Pinkish gradually builds a wall throughout his life to protect him from existence hurt emotionally, ultimately culminating in "Another Brick in the Wall (Office III)", where he decides that he doesn't need annihilation at all. Unfortunately, the instant he really completes the wall, he realizes that information technology wasn't such a good idea, equally this basically isolates him from everyone and drives him mad.
• At the end of "Ruiner" by Nine Inch Nails the narrator denies even having been hurt declaring:
• Mary J. Blige's song, aptly titled "Hurt Again."
• "How to Be a Heartbreaker" past Marina Diamandis espouses this attitude:

  Girls, we exercise
  Whatsoever it will take
  'Cause girls don't desire
  Nosotros don't want our hearts to break
  In two
  And then it'south better to be fake
  Can't adventure losing
  In love again, babe

• "Snowflakes" by Simply Jack seems to be most a combination of this and depression in general:

  Do you count the flakes when it snows,
  And can you feel the rut or merely the afterglows?
  Do yous count the flakes when it snows
  And do y'all count the leaves when they fall?
  And tin you feel annihilation at all?
  Do you lot count the leaves when they fall?

• In "Kaltes Herz" ("Cold Centre" in German) past Subway to Sally, the narrator says he inverse his old heart, so information technology is cold and hard as stone and doesn't hurt anymore.

    Roleplay

• In Dawn of a New Historic period: Oldport Dejection, Josephine's motivation for distancing herself from other people is due to her backstory, where she was offered friendship that was just a ruse to bully her. Nadine is the first person that manages to make a dent in her cocky-inflicted ostracisation.

    Tabletop Games

• Warhammer twoscore,000 and Warhammer: several justifications for falling to Anarchy are protection against that god's particular domain. Mostly seen with Nurgle, the god of disease, whose followers are infested with pus-filled growths and oozing sores, merely are no longer negatively affected by them, instead reveling in every new pox they develop.
  • It'due south too the reason why Imperium hates aliens so much: during the Age of Strife, aliens, who were allies of us, turned on humanity, caused great devastation, enslaved people, etc. The Emperor decided that all aliens should be destroyed to brand humanity'southward time to come safe, and frighteningly, his extremist views aren't very incorrect. Subsequently his incapacitation even peaceful races are exterminated equally a matter of policy.
• In BattleTech, this pretty much describes the national grapheme of the Taurian Concordat. Having been the subject of decades of raids by the Capellan Confederation and the Federated Suns earlier being bloodily invaded and subjugated by Star League during the War of Reunification (and subsequently winning their liberty by aiding in Star League's overthrow by Stefan Amaris), the Concordat is a small Periphery nation with universal Conscription, an oversized armed forces focused entirely on national defence and a huge nuclear stockpile they're willing to unleash on anyone who violates their borders, Honours of War exist damned.

    Video Games

• This is Drakath'southward motivation to become the Champion of Chaos in AdventureQuest Worlds, co-ordinate to the end of the They Might Be Giants effect, which saw him existence kidnapped (along with the Hero and the TMBG members) by a crazy alien collector.
• In Devil May Cry, Dante'due south antagonistic twin brother Vergil became obsessed with obtaining power after his human mother was killed by demons, his drive fueled by a desire to never again experience such powerlessness. Unfortunately, considering power corrupts, he shortly began to seek ability for its own sake, leading to him existence led astray past Arkham, and so brainwashed by Mundus. So he used Yamato to cut his humanity out of himself, leading to the creation of 5 from his discarded humanity and Urizen from his at present-pure demonic nature. Urizen as well reveals his (and by extension, Vergil'due south) reason for hating Dante coming from a belief that Dante should not be the stronger of the 2 because he never suffered like Vergil did.
• Sebille a (sort-of) former slave in Divinity: Original Sin II is trying to remove the final vestige of her slavery, the living scar on her cheek, with which her master can continue to control her. By doing this she knows that she can never be used to hunt her own kind once more.
• Squall Leonhart of Concluding Fantasy 8. The reason for his cold, detached demeanor was considering his fellow orphan and sister, Ellone, left him alone as a child and he developed abandonment issues. He feels that, eventually, all friends and family will die or go away, and the merely way to avoid the pain from that is to never allow anyone in again. Fifty-fifty from the beginning of the game, however, it's clear that he's fooling himself, and can't aid but care about people.
  • Elsewhere in the series, Shuyin in Final Fantasy X-2 was subjected to a one thousand years of Mind Rape, forced to relive the murder of his lover and himself over and over again. By the time he escapes, his just goal is to active Vegnagun and reduce Spira to its component atoms so that this can never happen to him again.
• Halo Infinite: This is shown to be the motivation of the Banished. They're a grouping of Covenant rebels who turned long before the Great Schism in Halo 2, and their goal is to never, EVER, be oppressed and under anyone's heel once again.

  Escharum: Nosotros practise non bow our heads. We do non kneel before false idols. We stand together! Fight together! [...] No more prophets! No more lies! Nosotros stand together! Brothers to the end!

• In Harvest Moon: A New Commencement, Bounder Boyfriend Allen and Jerkass with a Heart of Gold Neil behave aristocratic and almost rude towards the farmer for some time, and both have dialogue that implies they had been betrayed or otherwise emotionally hurt previously — Allen's entire Brutal Honesty could be him trying to be edgeless, to avoid letting people too shut too shortly, and Neil mentions that, dissimilar humans, animals never betray someone.
• Haven (2020): Yu refuses to become dorsum to the Apiary. When Kay asks what she'll do if agents find them, she says either (depending on player selection) that she'll kill them or kill herself.
• In League of Legends, after Professor Stanwick Pididly stole credit for both the creation of Blitzcrank and the technology that revived Urgot, Viktor decided to protect himself from this happening again with his newest achievement - the transformation of himself into a killer cyborg. This both removes (mostly) the pain and anger he feels over his inventions being stolen and demonstrates his own skill in a style that can't be stolen.
• In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, the reason why the game's setting, the Theater Commune exists is ensure those who were emotionally abused in a conformist club volition never get hurt by it again...aside that its deity-in-charge Nagi/Enlil decides to exercise that by enclosing the souls of these people in compact theaters where they volition have to watch the commonage negativity of people taking the form of a documentary that portrays them as failures that cannot do anything right, inadvertently giving them more than pain.
• In The Underground Earth, reclusive property mogul Nathaniel Wintertime is revealed to be secretly motivated by this: having grown up neurotic and frightened of almost everything, he resolved to never be agape once again - namely by seizing power past any means bachelor to him. For a while, beingness rich and connected was plenty - just then he discovered the Cloak-and-dagger World, and realized that magic could make him even more powerful than earlier. Unfortunately, with no innate magical talent, he'd need to study for years to harness the ability he desired; impatient to become the greatest magus who ever lived, Winter decided to take a unsafe shortcut and infuse himself with magic via mechanical ways. The means of harvesting and infusion was Atlantic Isle Park, and the procedure transformed him into the Bogeyman.
• The main antagonists in Star Control 2, the Ur-Quan, have this motivation: they were in one case enslaved and hideously mistreated by the Dnyarri, and later on winning back their liberty while suffering abiding excruciating pain (which protected them from Listen Control), they decided the just way to make sure it never happened again was to enslave (Kzer-Za) or exterminate (Kohr-Ah) everybody else start.
  • What makes this and then much more tragic is twofold. One is that due to the Ur-Quan's Genetic Retentiveness all that torture they endured nether the Dnyarri and and then endured to costless themselves? That'due south been experienced by each and every Ur-Quan that lived subsequently and will exist experienced by any Ur-Quan that come after. Secondly? The Ur-Quan know it's wrong. They know that it's incorrect to either enslave or kill every other species just to prevent themselves from suffering. Just they have no real option, not with centuries of agonizing torture forever in their memory.
• Lambda of Tales of Graces. His program to Kill 'Em All is considering anybody he ever knew as a child was either manipulating him for their own ends or they died trying to protect him. Main character Asbel, who went through like circumstances, breaks down Lambda's plan by asking a simple question: "And And so What?" The hesitation on Lambda's part shows he's really having a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
• The World Ends with You: Information technology's heavily implied with Neku in Some other Day, due to the death of his friend, Neku took it upon himself to block out social club in a misguided attempt to spare himself from even more emotional damage.

    Web Blitheness

• RWBY:
  • In Volume half dozen, the heroes confront Ozpin about his secrets, lying and truth-hiding, with Yang claiming they'll stand by him even knowing the truth. Ozpin reveals that a close friend of his once promised the same matter, but to betray him to Salem, and that wasn't fifty-fifty the starting time time such a thing had happened; while he doesn't recall Team RWBY's betrayal is a certainty, this has happened too many times for him to chance it. They inquire the Relic of Knowledge to reveal the truth anyway, then turn on Ozpin exactly as he expected, causing him to retreat into the back of Oscar's listen in despair. In Volume seven, the heroes struggle with the same dilemma of whether to share the truth with Ironwood or go along it secret, learning the difficult style just how piece of cake it is to brand the wrong decision. In Volume 8, they reconcile with Ozpin after he apologises for his secrecy, and they admit they've at present learned just how complicated trust and the truth really are.
  • Volume iii reveals that Cinder is motivated by the desire to exist strong, powerful and feared. Volume eight reveals that it'southward because she knows what information technology'south like to be weak, powerless and fearful. An orphan "adopted" by an Atlesian hotelier to work equally a legal slave, Cinder was subjected to abuse and torment. Her only hope of escape lay with a Huntsman who secretly trained her to pass the Huntsman Academy entrance exam; the catch was that she'd accept to suffer years of torture until she was old plenty to have the test. She eventually snaps and slaughters her adoptive family unit, and also her mentor when he tries to arrest her. Since then, she has sought to become as powerful and dominant as possible to ensure she's never vulnerable again, even if it turns her into a monster; unfortunately, Salem is a far more intelligent and manipulative abuser than her adoptive mother was, and is likewise impossible to impale.

    Webcomics

• Big Ethel Energy: Ethel swears off dating to focus on her journalism career, merely another big reason for this is because Jughead's cruelty for misinterpreting a request from Archie as an invitation to hang with them made her agape to put herself out at that place once more.

    Western Blitheness

• Marceline from Adventure Time went through a LOT, and frightens people to show them she had enough past pretending she's a jerkass.
• Animaniacs (2020): This is why The Encephalon wants to Have Over the World. As a immature lab mouse, he was used in experiments focused on educational activity him learned helplessness via an electrified cheese plate. After a young Brain was likewise traumatized to try to go the cheese in one case the plate was de-electrified, he vowed he would be the i in command, of himself, his surroundings, and the world, and as such, never be helpless once again.
• In Danny Phantom, this trope is the origin of Dark Danny. Afterward losing his parents, sister, all-time friend, and teacher, Danny (with sometime nemesis and new guardian Vlad's help) sought to remove his human half to get rid of the hurting and grief that plagued him. Unfortunately, the process turned his ghost half into a remorseless sociopath, who killed his human being one-half, tore out Vlad's ghost side and absorbed it, and went on a ten-year-long binge.
• In Green Lantern: The Animated Series, later having her heart cleaved by Razer, Aya deactivates her emotions to get rid of the pain. Then things go even worse.
• Harley Quinn (2019): Poisonous substance Ivy's fear of Harley hurting her again is why she is against the idea of them beingness in a relationship, despite her besides having repressed feelings for her. She decides to stick with Kite-Human because he is a more reliable partner. Kite-Man finally realizing that she's simply settling for him is what causes him to break their hymeneals.
• My Piffling Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Babs Seed. She was bullied mercilessly for her lack of a cutie mark in Manehattan, and during a visit to Ponyville, joined upwards with resident bullies Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to avert getting bullied there too. Fortunately, the Cutie Mark Crusaders show kindness and acceptance to her condition, and she becomes much happier and calls them her friends.
  • Moondancer. After Twilight, the pony she considered her best friend, didn't prove up for her kickoff party and moved to Ponyville without a word, Moondancer was so heartbroken that she decided friendship just wasn't for her. Fortunately, Twilight somewhen realizes she'd wronged Moondancer and their other friends in Canterlot and returns to make apology. Afterward much endeavour, her apologies eventually get through to Moondancer and bring her out of her shell.
  • Starlight Glimmer was heartbroken when her foalhood friend Sunburst moved to Canterlot to report magic once he got his cutie marking, which she blamed for their separation. Starlight vowed to never make another friend fearing that another cutie marker would end those friendships equally well, and this event inspired her to purge all ponies of their cutie marks.
• In Star Wars Rebels, this is Ezra Bridger's motivation, although the way he goes virtually it evolves. His parents were taken past the Empire when he was 7, and he survived past refusing to rely on or connect to anyone. When he joins the Ghost crew and eventually adopts them as his new family, he becomes very protective of them, and trains to be a Jedi so he won't be helpless to salve the people he cares about.
• Steven Universe: Yellow Diamond wants to destroy everything related to Pink Diamond with the total intention that she and Blue Diamond will stop grieving over her.
• Voltron: Legendary Defender: In Keith'south official vlog, he comes to the realization that the reason he's seldom able to connect with other people was due to his abandonment as a child; at present, he pushes other people away before they get the chance to decline him.

    Existent Life

• Many nations with a recent or ancient history of beingness oppressed have carried this sentiment into the modern day, which results in rather thorny foreign policy. The problem is specially severe in Africa and the Heart East where this trope often leads to violence simply many other countries with reputations for beingness 'hard' or 'rugged' have felt this influence at some point.
  • Case in bespeak: Israel, which actually went so far as to print the words "never again" on their kickoff (totally hypothetical) nuke, and mostly have it every bit a sort of unofficial motto. This is what happens when your country is founded entirely by hundreds of thousands of shell-shocked survivors of one of the most horrific genocides in man history. And add to those numbers the Mizrahi Jews who fled or were expelled from the Islamic earth. And that's not fifty-fifty getting into all of the Jews that had in the Centre Ages and other periods in history been used as scapegoats for things similar the Black Plague and seen equally targets by wayward Crusaders.
  • Finland. Basically every athletic male Finn (and a lot of women) is trained to be a soldier.
  • The Haitian revolution was originally put down under Napoléon Bonaparte, merely after the French let their intent to re-enslave the Haitians be known, the war re-ignited and somewhen led to the stop of French rule.
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion, which involved killing all of the whites the rebels came across, was started for similar reasons.
  • The Philippine President has to get the approval of the Congress if the leader wants to declare martial law. This is considering of abuses committed by security forces during the dictatorship of then-President Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s up to the mid-1980s. When Corazon Aquino took over following the 1986 People Power Revolution, the state's constitution was rewritten and one of the changes was to remove the power of the President to declare martial police force or append the constitution solely by decree. Marcos' wife and descendants are still active in politics and the battle cry of their critics is "Never again" alluding to the Martial Police era.
  • Russia doesn't have much in the mode of natural borders to preclude or ho-hum an invasion, as seen when the Aureate Horde rolled in from the east back in the Middle Ages, so after that trauma and centuries spent nether the Mongol Yoke, its leaders' best defensive strategy was to push button Russian federation'south borders as far from Moscow as possible, which naturally led to conflict with Russia's neighbors. Then after the communist revolution, the Nazi invasion during World War Ii was so horrific that the now Soviet Spousal relationship built up a glacis of subjugated satellite states, a devastating nuclear arsenal, and a military and so large that it contributed to the USSR's collapse, all so it wouldn't have to become through something similar that again.
• This is ofttimes the case with scholarly-minded children, peculiarly boys, when they abound up. They are often mercilessly bullied and picked on at schoolhouse, and in one case they graduate or otherwise become out of school, they oft begin to train in martial arts, cocky-defence skills, and some kind of armed combat to never allow the childhood trauma renew. At best, the person may become a Badass Bookworm. At worst, a Cleaved Ace.
  • Bas Rutten, one of the well-nigh famous MMA fighters and commentators, was bullied equally a child for his skin condition and scrawny constitution, and it fabricated him kickoff grooming. One of his partners in Japan, Minoru Suzuki, had a similar babyhood.
  • Many join the armed services for this very reason.
  • Some therapists and social workers go into their line of work to forestall what happened to them (whether it be abuse, debilitating mental illness, or attempted suicide) from happening to anyone else.
  • This is also what happens with a number of bullied students that go on school shootings, which normally target their tormentors first in a desperate effort to make the bullying stop. On the other end of the spectrum, they may go the nonviolent route and instead take their own lives to continue information technology from continuing.
• After losing a beloved pet, some people refuse to ever adopt a new one because this will inevitably pb to going through the same pain again.
• It'south been argued that sociopathy and other personality disorders are behavioral adaptations that people develop to cope with extreme situations in childhood and adolescence but which are maladaptive when trying to fit in or survive in society. Anti-social personality disorder sufferers have incredibly diminished empathy and a desire for control, paranoid personality disorder sufferers are pathologically unable to trust and always suspect people are taking advantage of them, Schizoid personality disorder sufferers use fantasy and withdrawal to cope with loneliness, etc.
• The horrid affect of World War I brought about a common sentiment of "never again" (which was also repeated in a sense after the second War to Stop all Wars). As history showed, it did.

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