I Wil Never Never Never Hurt Again

"That was just the first time I ever put myself out there, and and then you didn't even carp to testify up! So you left town without proverb bye, even though we were supposed to exist friends. I was humiliated! I felt like I wasn't important! I never wanted to let myself be injure like that once again!"

Throughout fourth dimension, at that place take been many things to which "never once again" would be applicative. For this fairly common stock motivation, characters who have been abused, betrayed, mistreated, or otherwise persecuted in the past are interim to make sure that this sort of matter never happens to them again. This can cover annihilation from taking a few levels in badass to ensure they'll exist able to defend themselves confronting future threats, to attempting to Take Over the World and overthrowing the oppressive institutions that made them miserable, to refusing to care enough about anyone or anything to be hurt. The characters may also wish to spare others from suffering like they did, only there needs to exist at to the lowest degree some element of preemptive cocky-protection involved to fit the trope.

It's a common motivation for the behavior of the Broken Bird. May atomic number 82 to Had to Exist Sharp. See besides 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'south The Kickoff Cut Is the Deepest and Delivery Bug. Run into also Hope Is Scary, where recovering from despair is feared because it doesn't allow this, and We Are Non Going Through That Once more 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's son is killed. In grief, Tenma builds a robotic replica of his son, Astro Boy, and because he has enough of Mad Scientist in him, augments the android with ridiculous amounts of weaponry so that his new son tin 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 become Apostles. Since a Behelit is certain to appear in the hands of its owner when they accomplish their Despair Event Horizon, it is but natural that most willingly sacrifice their loved ones in gild to become 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 begetter at home to the constabulary on the streets. Revy's obsession with power is a direct response to her feeling of powerlessness during those years as a kid, and she never wants to go dorsum to that again.
• The backstory for Crest of the Stars has the Abh overthrowing their homo creators and masters, and so going on to conquer almost of the known universe, while in the process of conquering the rest.
• This trope leads to the tragic catastrophe of Danganronpa three: Despair. Chiaki's friend Hajime disappears off the face of the earth, much to her sorrow. Months later, the same thing is near to happen to Chisa, then Chiaki panics and makes some really crappy decisions in an attempt to save her.
• This is the reason Minatsuki acts the way she does in Deadman Wonderland. To go on anyone from abandoning her the manner her mother did, she deliberately acts as crass and brutal every bit she can so that no one will ever go close to her.
• The manga tie-in for Devil May Weep 3: Dante's Awakening suggests that this is Dante's main motivation. After losing his female parent to demons, he didn't get stronger to protect other people, it was and then nothing like that could happen to him once again.
• In Dragon Brawl Super, this is the motivation for Jiren's Might Makes Right philosophy. After losing first his family and then his comrades to an evildoer, he decided that a person's own strength is all they can rely on in life. He then airtight himself off emotionally and pushed himself to go the strongest mortal in being, all so he would never be vulnerable like that once again. When Goku's Ultra Instinct form begins to overpower him, he starts having traumatic flashbacks, and eventually fires at the audience to spite Goku's belief in The Ability of Friendship.
• This is the reason why Haruka of Kotoura-san would decide to exist alone earlier the showtime of the story; several Despair Effect Horizons on, she cynically thinks she would doom every living beingness that she cares nearly, so she decided to be with nobody so that they would non be injure—and past extension, herself beingness hurt by abandonment from someone she cares nearly again. The down spiral was simply cleaved by Manabe.
• The central conflict of Neon Genesis Evangelion is essentially this, with every major character having some attribute of this as their motivation. Pretty much all of the characters' Malaise is caused by characters being unable to connect with other people for fear of existence hurt. Shinji and Asuka being in love with just also frightened of each other to attempt and have a relationship leads to The End of the World as We Know Information technology, which Shinji unleashes because he believes that no one loves him and everybody would hurt him. SEELE'southward end goal is substantially an attempt at this taken to its Logical Extreme.
• 1 Piece:
  • This is the reason behind Boa Hancock'south behaviour. Subsequently she and her sisters were made slaves in their childhood, she put on a strong, cruel image to forestall such a thing from always happening again. It caused her surrogate mother figure to fright Hancock had really grown cold as ice, but fortunately, Luffy's actions proved that it wasn't the case.
  • Charlotte Katakuri is a Slave to PR who has cultivated an prototype every bit The Paragon that he projects in public so he won't be ridiculed like he was as a child for his "pelican eel" oral fissure (which he now conceals with a scarf) — in reality, he is as equally gluttonous and hedonistic as the rest of his family. This is merely amplified by the fact that the Charlotte Family is a Big, Screwed-Up Family unit that has no effect mocking and demeaning whatsoever physical deformities their siblings have (as Pudding and her tertiary-eye can attest to). He only manages to pause out of this mindset during his fight with Luffy, who saw Katakuri'south true self (including his mouth) and didn't requite a damn about any of his flaws, merely about Katakuri's amazing combat ability as an opponent.
  • One of the nigh tragic and disturbing examples in the serial can exist found in Gecko Moria, who lost his dearly loved crew in a fight with Kaido, with him as the sole survivor. He became and then consumed past grief that he decided to make an ground forces of corpse puppets, or zombies, powered with the shadows of others, assertive it was better to have Most immortal zombie pawns he didn't have to care about rather than flesh and blood humans he could get attached to. Then he loses ane of the few living friends he still has (Absalom) to another Emperor, whose crew taunts him with the possibility he's nevertheless live before revealing they killed him and took his Devil Fruit.
• Oyaji'due south insanely abusive father was what made the male child grow into such a trigger-happy man, even if Oyaji only resorts to violence after being being on the receiving terminate of it himself, he can become a murder machine to make certain whoever started to mess with him and his family to be instantly incapacitated, or even killed. However, when Oyaji makes a a comeback to his family years later, he actually tries to forsake violence as much every bit possible, making sure to let his married woman and children know a human being who shows real dearest instead of simply trying to punch the issues away.
• In Pokémon, Goh used to distance himself from making human friends, except for Chloe, because he was usually at his home doing research. Despite this, Goh did make a friend in a boy named Horace during a family trip in Johto but believed he betrayed him when he bankrupt his discussion to meet upwards with him again, which solidified his belief in non making human friends, minus Chloe, as he didn't want to go hurt or betrayed again. However, after coming together Ash, Goh slowly started to open about making human friends once again as he has come to realize that he needs to have more than but Chloe in his life. In Time After Fourth dimension!, Goh found out that Horace was sick on the twenty-four hours they were supposed to meet up and ends up fully forgiving him.
• In Rebuild World, this is Akira's G.O. at the start of the story. When he was younger, he was suckered into accepting offers to live across the wall and eat good food from Con Artists before being abandoned 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 barbarous for a guy Playing with Syringes - now she is obsessed with controlling men.
  • In the Cacophony storyline, this is Batman's justification for saving The Joker'southward life at the finish, in spite of Gordon's protests. He tells Joker that he became Batman and then he could save people from dying, no matter what.
  • Some portrayals of Batman himself suggest that his tendency to remain emotionally distant is a defence against feeling the kind of pain he experienced watching his parents gunned down.
• In The Death of Superman, Doomsday's 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'south terrified of dying again.
• 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 never be hurt once again. For many of them, it doesn't end well.
• Magneto, when he's given sympathetic motivations. He's a Holocaust survivor who doesn't desire mutants to face the kind of genocidal bigotry he endured in his youth. Though it does kind of become confronting him when he has no qualms well-nigh doing that to humans.
• Supergirl story arc Red Daughter of Krypton starts out when Supergirl, who feels she'south been manipulated and betrayed by everyone since she showed upwards on World several months ago, promises herself that she'll not be hurt again, and if life tries to hitting her over again, she'south hitting dorsum.

  Supergirl: Dad. Kal. H'el. Siobhan. They ALL let me down. They all broke my heart. And now THIS. No more. Nobody gets away with hurting me ever once again. Not THIS fourth dimension!

• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: After Scrooge humiliates and arrests Flintheart Glomgold, Glomgold vows to become rich enough to avert being humiliated again.

    Fan Works

• A Male child, a Girl and a Canis familiaris: The Leithian Script: In this The Silmarillion fanfic, secondary graphic symbol Maiwe did not want to requite another chance to her formerly verbally abusive beau, refusing to believe that Edrahil had inverse during the war and was a different person now and having sworn that she would not be hurt again. Beren warned her that attitude may hurt her anyway.
• In The Bridge, Aria Bonfire muses that she wants to go stronger so that no one volition always exist able to scare her again.
• Loved and Lost: After Twilight's friends, brother and mentor lose their social continuing due to Prince Jewelius, her initial refusal to trust them stems from her wanting to avert the heartache she felt after existence rejected at the wedding rehearsal. Afterwards, Jewelius urges her to give upwardly on them birthday past arguing that she will but invite more heartache by letting them dorsum in her life.
• In the Neon Genesis Evangelion fic A Crown of Stars, Asuka has been hurt by nearly everyone she knew (her parents, her step-mother, her guardians, the boy she liked...). As a result of it, she does not want to let herself autumn in beloved because she does not want to be hurt again. Another character warns her that mental attitude will go her hurt anyhow.
• One of Harry/Tristan'southward driving motivations in the Harry Potter fic The Jaded Optics Series. Though he believes it's too late for himself he figures he can still save other magical children from suffering the same fate at the hands of muggles.
• In the The King of Fighters fic Sore ga Ai, Deshou?, Andy, as a result of constantly being shunted back and forth between numerous foster families, has difficulty opening up to people and forming any real attachments; his personal motto is "Don't get fastened, don't get hurt."
• Yard Shinji, a Neon Genesis Evangelion/Warhammer 40,000 crossover fic: One of the reasons of Shinji to desire to Take Over the Globe is he does non desire everyone pain him or Asuka always again.
• In WonderShock, this is Alice's chief goal. She wants to get stronger in the real world to ensure that she's never a victim of the likes of Bumby ever again.

    Films — Animated

• 1000000 from Hercules refuses to admit that she may have feelings for Hercules due to the fact that her previous young man left her when she gave her soul to Hades to salvage his life.

  Meg: Sometimes, information technology's better to be alone. Nobody can hurt y'all.

• In The LEGO Batman Movie, Batman is forced to acknowledge that the reason he pushes people away is because he'due south scared of losing people once again.
• Spider-Human: Into the Spider-Verse: Later she lost her universe'south Peter Parker, Spider-Gwen avoids getting fastened to anyone to prevent feeling loss over again.
• Zootopia: After being bullied and rejected by prey animals every bit a kid, Nick decided to never allow others get to him e'er over again.

    Films — Alive-Action

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

  Beingness squeamish was my past time

  Simply I've been hurt for the final fourth dimension

• Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind: "Equally God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"
• Hitch: Part of Hitch'southward backstory - in his younger days he loved and was very devoted to a woman who broke his heart by cheating on him with a libation guy, with the reason that he was too boilerplate. In explaining it, he blatantly says he set out to ensure the same thing never happens to anyone else or himself - he reinvents himself to become the very summit of charm then becomes the "Appointment Doctor" to requite average guys real romantic chances that would otherwise never come their mode.
• The Dove Lady in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York tells Kevin that she was hurt by a man who didn't love her back, and then never permit herself the possibility of having her heart broken again. That's why she was lonely, that, and the pigeon poop.
• In the Italian movie Il Primo Re, the would-exist founders of Rome all just want to become a force stiff enough to defend themselves: Romulus and Remus take lost their flock of sheep and their native village to the Albani, their first followers were people the Albani wanted to sacrifice to the gods aslope 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, every bit right earlier Remus' fated expiry they are reached by Albani horsemen chasing the would-be cede victims and impale them all.
• This has been used every bit Spartacus' motivation in several fictionalisations.
• Magneto from the X-Men Film Series is both a Holocaust Survivor and mutant "lab rat", which pushes him towards Exercise Unto Others Before They Do Unto The states regarding mutant suppression by the humans.
• Star Wars: What Anakin's motivations boil down to post-Set on of the Clones: losing his mother made him obsessed with becoming stiff enough to protect the others around him, so he wouldn't have to suffer the hurting of losing them besides. This obsession infamously and tragically costs him everything.

    Literature

• In A Brother's Toll, after her abusive husband Keifer Porter died, Princess Trini does not desire to marry over again, as a new husband could be merely the aforementioned. (While he was bad for the whole family, he raped and tortured merely Trini, and was more subtle with the others) This causes bug because information technology prevents her sisters from marrying, too - all sisters marry one husband, due to male Gender Rarity Value in the setting. She is besides protective of people who are in danger of facing the aforementioned fate she did - when she is told that the Porters intend to make an offer for Jerin, she neglects her ain safety to help. By agreeing to marry Jerin herself.
• This is what sparks Tiffany Aching'southward desire to become a witch in her Discworld books. Specifically, there was an incident in which an odd but otherwise harmless old woman was turned out of her home, mistreated by the locals, and eventually died out in the common cold considering they believed her to be a witch. Tiffany'south response was to desire to become a existent 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 again", a skilful deal of Scarlett O'Hara's ruthless beliefs throughout the 2d half of Gone with the Wind tin exist attributed to this, every bit it's repeatedly stated that she'south genuinely terrified of returning to the days of common cold and poverty.
• The main character of The Kingkiller Chronicle mentions this as one of several motivations for attending Wizarding Schoolhouse. (How truthful he was existence is currently unknown—particularly 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 besides many beings to name (both human and conflicting). He does this considering he was abandoned as a child and grew upwards in a series of foster homes where he was mistreated because of his appearance and was adamant never to be helpless and mistreated again.
• In This Immortal, Diane lets slip that she used to be a pleasance girl on Taler and it wasn't a pleasant experience, which caused her hatred of all Vegans and was her motivation to join Radpol's Returnist motion.
• Deconstructed in The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. Miles muses that the weak e'er want power because they think it means that they can't be injure over again.
• Words of Radiance (2d book of The Stormlight Archive): Kaladin is terrified that if he lets any lighteyes know about his new Surgebinding powers, they volition somehow take them abroad. He knows it's impossible, but that does not ease his worries in whatever manner. 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 finish caring virtually anyone on an private level and devote herself entirely to the well-being of her people as a whole.

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

• The Narn from Babylon 5, in the early seasons. Their motivation, which prompts their bullying, their expansion, their desire to crush the Centauri, is largely about ensuring that they'll never once more be at the mercy of the Centauri. Commander Sinclair even explicitly compares them to driveling children who take learnt to hit back and now abuse others in plough.
  • Ironically, the Centauri themselves: they used to be a peace-loving race before the Xon, the other sentient race from their homeworld, literally showed up from nowhere to enslave the Centauri and impale anyone who opposed. Subsequently the invasion (and a brief alien invasion), the Centauri killed every last Xon, took the stars equally conquerors, and invented the mass drivers (whose use is considered a state of war crime).
  • Also, the reason many Humans despise aliens and/or are obsessed with acquiring overwhelming armed forces force: during the Earth-Minbari War, Mankind was brought to the verge of extinction past the Minbari, and Earth'southward allies deserted them out of fright of the Minbari, and no Human desire that to echo.
    • It's too the reason Babylon 5 exists at all: the Earth-Minbari War started due to a formidable case of Poor Advice Kills ^note When EarthForce encountered the ship of the Grey Council, the Minbari ship opened the gunports as a sign of respect. The Minbari leader, fearing this would exist misinterpreted, ordered to close the gunports as soon as he found out, merely a power fasten was mistaken for the weapons being charged, and, as the Minbari had non 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 beingness ordered to close the gunports, killing their leader, and after the war, the Humans built the Babylon Stations as a meeting point where all races would be able to run across in peace and larn about each other.
• Cobra Kai: Militarist initially joins Cobra Kai for this very reason. Having been much abused simply for his lip, he was i of the original students of the Social club Reborn and, transforming himself into "Hawk," proved himself to be a solid Determinator despite a rocky second season. All-time exemplified in the third flavor, when Brucks (one of his tormentors) shows up at Kreese's tryouts and ends up on the other side of his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown without getting in then much as a single hit to Militarist.
• Doctor Who:
  • John Lumic, who has some undisclosed and presumably painful last illness, decides to enforce Unwilling Roboticisation upon himself and humanity in society to eradicate death and emotion.
  • Professor Lazarus from "The Lazarus Experiment" tried to create a device to avoid decease due to his experiences during World War II. Information technology didn't quite work out.
• The Gua in Get-go Wave were once enslaved by another race merely eventually collection their oppressors off their earth. They even renamed their unabridged race based on their victory: "Gua" ways "the power to overcome". They pre-emptively conquer other worlds to ensure no one else is ever able to threaten them over again. One of their leaders, Joshua, eventually sides with humanity when he realizes that humans also possess "Gua".
• House in Business firm seems to be like this at times. His relationship with Stacy sent him into one period of emotional disengagement. So when after his relationship with Cuddy goes bad, he refuses the angel of his green-card wife, apparently out of fear that sex with anyone who really likes him (rather than hookers) might lead to attachment which volition hurt him once again. Of course, if you lot showed him this page on Idiot box Tropes and said that it applied to him, he'd probably requite you a Breaking Speech about what a moron you are for thinking information technology.
• Once Upon a Time: Several characters, but special mention goes to Cora, who, after being forced to kneel and apologize to Eva, decides not to stop until everyone else is on their knees.
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
  • The Founders (a race of changelings) use this as justification for running the Rule. They tell Odo that millennia earlier, they were peaceful, merely were met with brutal distrust and were hunted down. Thus, they founded the Rule to ensure they would never be in a position of weakness ever again, breeding the remorseless Jem'Hadar to do their bidding on lesser species. However, there are subtle hints throughout the show that the prejudice against changelings did non outset until after the Founders started their empire-building.
  • The Bajorans suffered a roughshod 50-twelvemonth occupation at the hands of the Cardassians and ex-freedom fighters like Major Kira brand it quite articulate they volition never suffer such an indignity once more. Indeed, this is what boot starts the serial, as the first step to guaranteeing the Cardassians stay away is the Bajoran provisional government requesting Starfleet establish a naval presence at Bajor, so any attacks on Bajor will be an automatic act of state of war against the Federation.

    Music

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

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

• The Wall: Pink gradually builds a wall throughout his life to protect him from being injure emotionally, ultimately culminating in "Another Brick in the Wall (Part III)", where he decides that he doesn't need anything at all. Unfortunately, the instant he actually completes the wall, he realizes that it wasn't such a good thought, as 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 Once more."
• "How to Be a Heartbreaker" past Marina Diamandis espouses this attitude:

  Girls, we do
  Whatsoever information technology will take
  'Cause girls don't desire
  We don't desire our hearts to break
  In ii
  And so it'south improve to be false
  Can't hazard losing
  In love once more, babe

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

  Do you count the flakes when it snows,
  And can y'all feel the heat or only the afterglows?
  Practice y'all count the flakes when it snows
  And do you count the leaves when they fall?
  And can you feel anything at all?
  Practise you count the leaves when they fall?

• In "Kaltes Herz" ("Common cold Middle" in German) past Subway to Sally, the narrator says he changed his old centre, so it is common cold and hard every bit stone and doesn't hurt anymore.

    Roleplay

• In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Josephine'south 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 start person that manages to make a dent in her self-inflicted ostracisation.

    Tabletop Games

• Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: several justifications for falling to Chaos are protection against that god'due south particular domain. By and large seen with Nurgle, the god of illness, whose followers are infested with pus-filled growths and oozing sores, but are no longer negatively afflicted past them, instead reveling in every new pox they develop.
  • It's too the reason why Imperium hates aliens so much: during the Age of Strife, aliens, who were allies of the states, turned on humanity, caused not bad destruction, enslaved people, etc. The Emperor decided that all aliens should exist destroyed to make humanity'due south future safe, and frighteningly, his extremist views aren't very wrong. Afterwards his incapacitation fifty-fifty peaceful races are exterminated as 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'south overthrow past Stefan Amaris), the Concordat is a small Periphery nation with universal Conscription, an oversized armed forces focused entirely on national defense force 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's motivation to become the Champion of Chaos in AdventureQuest Worlds, according to the terminate of the They Might Exist Giants event, which saw him existence kidnapped (forth with the Hero and the TMBG members) by a crazy alien collector.
• In Devil May Cry, Dante's antagonistic twin brother Vergil became obsessed with obtaining ability after his human mother was killed by demons, his drive fueled by a want to never again experience such powerlessness. Unfortunately, because power corrupts, he soon began to seek power for its ain sake, leading to him being led astray by Arkham, so brainwashed by Mundus. And so he used Yamato to cut his humanity out of himself, leading to the creation of V from his discarded humanity and Urizen from his now-pure demonic nature. Urizen also reveals his (and by extension, Vergil's) reason for antisocial Dante coming from a belief that Dante should non be the stronger of the 2 because he never suffered similar 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 main can proceed to control her. By doing this she knows that she can never be used to hunt her ain kind again.
• Squall Leonhart of Terminal Fantasy Viii. The reason for his cold, detached demeanor was because his young man orphan and sister, Ellone, left him alone as a child and he developed abandonment issues. He feels that, somewhen, all friends and family will die or become away, and the only way to avoid the pain from that is to never permit anyone in again. Even from the beginning of the game, nonetheless, it'southward clear that he'due south fooling himself, and can't help only care virtually people.
  • Elsewhere in the series, Shuyin in Final Fantasy X-2 was subjected to a 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 but goal is to active Vegnagun and reduce Spira to its component atoms and then that this can never happen to him over again.
• Halo Infinite: This is shown to be the motivation of the Banished. They're a group of Covenant rebels who turned long earlier the Great Schism in Halo 2, and their goal is to never, EVER, be oppressed and under anyone's heel over again.

  Escharum: We practise not bow our heads. We practise not kneel earlier imitation idols. We stand together! Fight together! [...] No more prophets! No more lies! We stand together! Brothers to the finish!

• In Harvest Moon: A New Beginning, Bastard Boyfriend Allen and Jerkass with a Heart of Aureate Neil behave aloof and well-nigh 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 exist him trying to exist blunt, to avoid letting people too shut too soon, and Neil mentions that, unlike humans, animals never betray someone.
• Haven (2020): Yu refuses to go back to the Apiary. When Kay asks what she'll practice if agents notice them, she says either (depending on player option) that she'll kill them or kill herself.
• In League of Legends, later on 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 hurting and acrimony he feels over his inventions beingness stolen and demonstrates his own skill in a fashion that can't be stolen.
• In Persona Q2: New Movie house Labyrinth, the reason why the game's setting, the Theater District exists is ensure those who were emotionally driveling in a conformist lodge will never get hurt by information technology once more...bated that its deity-in-charge Nagi/Enlil decides to practise that by enclosing the souls of these people in meaty theaters where they volition have to watch the collective negativity of people taking the form of a documentary that portrays them as failures that cannot do anything correct, inadvertently giving them more pain.
• In The Undercover Globe, reclusive property mogul Nathaniel Wintertime is revealed to exist secretly motivated by this: having grown up neurotic and frightened of about everything, he resolved to never be afraid again - namely by seizing power by whatsoever ways available to him. For a while, being rich and continued was enough - but then he discovered the Clandestine World, and realized that magic could make him even more powerful than before. Unfortunately, with no innate magical talent, he'd demand to report for years to harness the power he desired; impatient to go 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 Island Park, and the procedure transformed him into the Bogeyman.
• The main antagonists in Star Control II, the Ur-Quan, have this motivation: they were once enslaved and hideously mistreated by the Dnyarri, and after winning back their freedom while suffering constant excruciating pain (which protected them from Mind Control), they decided the simply fashion to make sure it never happened again was to enslave (Kzer-Za) or exterminate (Kohr-Ah) everybody else first.
  • What makes this and then much more tragic is twofold. 1 is that due to the Ur-Quan's Genetic Memory all that torture they endured under the Dnyarri and and then endured to free themselves? That's been experienced by each and every Ur-Quan that lived afterward and will be experienced past any Ur-Quan that come afterwards. Secondly? The Ur-Quan know it'south wrong. They know that it'southward incorrect to either enslave or kill every other species simply to prevent themselves from suffering. But they take no existent option, not with centuries of agonizing torture forever in their retention.
• Lambda of Tales of Graces. His program to Kill 'Em All is because everyone he ever knew as a child was either manipulating him for their own ends or they died trying to protect him. Main grapheme Asbel, who went through similar circumstances, breaks downward Lambda's plan past asking a simple question: "And Then What?" The hesitation on Lambda's part shows he'due south really having a Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum.
• The World Ends with You: It's heavily implied with Neku in Some other Mean solar day, due to the death of his friend, Neku took it upon himself to block out society in a misguided attempt to spare himself from even more emotional damage.

    Web Blitheness

• RWBY:
  • In Book 6, the heroes face up Ozpin about his secrets, lying and truth-hiding, with Yang claiming they'll stand by him even knowing the truth. Ozpin reveals that a shut friend of his once promised the same matter, only to betray him to Salem, and that wasn't fifty-fifty the start time such a thing had happened; while he doesn't think Team RWBY's expose is a certainty, this has happened as well many times for him to chance it. They ask the Relic of Noesis to reveal the truth anyhow, and then plow on Ozpin exactly as he expected, causing him to retreat into the back of Oscar's mind in despair. In Volume seven, the heroes struggle with the same dilemma of whether to share the truth with Ironwood or keep it hugger-mugger, learning the hard way just how easy information technology is to make the wrong determination. In Book 8, they reconcile with Ozpin after he apologises for his secrecy, and they admit they've now learned but how complicated trust and the truth actually are.
  • Volume iii reveals that Cinder is motivated by the desire to be strong, powerful and feared. Volume 8 reveals that it'due south because she knows what information technology'due south like to be weak, powerless and fearful. An orphan "adopted" by an Atlesian hotelier to piece of work every bit a legal slave, Cinder was subjected to corruption and torment. Her merely promise of escape lay with a Huntsman who secretly trained her to pass the Huntsman Academy entrance test; the take hold of was that she'd have to endure years of torture until she was sometime enough to accept the exam. She eventually snaps and slaughters her adoptive family, and too her mentor when he tries to abort her. Since so, she has sought to become as powerful and dominant as possible to ensure she'south never vulnerable again, fifty-fifty if it turns her into a monster; unfortunately, Salem is a far more intelligent and manipulative abuser than her adoptive mother was, and is also incommunicable to impale.

    Webcomics

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

    Western Blitheness

• Marceline from Adventure Fourth dimension went through a LOT, and frightens people to bear witness them she had plenty past pretending she's a jerkass.
• Animaniacs (2020): This is why The Encephalon wants to Take Over the World. As a young lab mouse, he was used in experiments focused on teaching him learned helplessness via an electrified cheese plate. After a young Brain was too traumatized to endeavor to get the cheese once the plate was de-electrified, he vowed he would exist the 1 in control, of himself, his surroundings, and the world, and as such, never be helpless once again.
• In Danny Phantom, this trope is the origin of Night Danny. Subsequently losing his parents, sister, all-time friend, and teacher, Danny (with erstwhile nemesis and new guardian Vlad'due south help) sought to remove his human one-half to get rid of the pain and grief that plagued him. Unfortunately, the process turned his ghost one-half into a remorseless sociopath, who killed his human half, tore out Vlad's ghost side and captivated it, and went on a ten-twelvemonth-long rampage.
• In Dark-green Lantern: The Animated Series, afterward having her heart broken by Razer, Aya deactivates her emotions to become rid of the hurting. Then things go even worse.
• Harley Quinn (2019): Poisonous substance Ivy's fear of Harley hurting her once more is why she is against the idea of them being in a relationship, despite her also having repressed feelings for her. She decides to stick with Kite-Man considering he is a more reliable partner. Kite-Man finally realizing that she's but settling for him is what causes him to interruption their wedding.
• My Niggling Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Babs Seed. She was bullied mercilessly for her lack of a cutie marker in Manehattan, and during a visit to Ponyville, joined upward with resident bullies Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon to avoid getting bullied there also. Fortunately, the Cutie Mark Crusaders bear witness kindness and credence to her status, and she becomes much happier and calls them her friends.
  • Moondancer. After Twilight, the pony she considered her best friend, didn't show up for her first party and moved to Ponyville without a word, Moondancer was so heartbroken that she decided friendship just wasn't for her. Fortunately, Twilight eventually realizes she'd wronged Moondancer and their other friends in Canterlot and returns to brand apology. Later on much effort, her apologies somewhen get through to Moondancer and bring her out of her shell.
  • Starlight Blink was heartbroken when her foalhood friend Sunburst moved to Canterlot to study magic one time he got his cutie mark, which she blamed for their separation. Starlight vowed to never make some other friend fearing that another cutie marker would terminate those friendships equally well, and this issue 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 about information technology evolves. His parents were taken by the Empire when he was 7, and he survived by 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 nigh.
• Steven Universe: Xanthous Diamond wants to destroy everything related to Pinkish Diamond with the full 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'south seldom able to connect with other people was due to his abandonment as a child; now, he pushes other people away earlier they go the run a risk to reject him.

    Real Life

• Many nations with a recent or ancient history of existence oppressed have carried this sentiment into the modern twenty-four hours, which results in rather thorny foreign policy. The problem is peculiarly severe in Africa and the Middle Due east where this trope often leads to violence but many other countries with reputations for beingness 'difficult' or 'rugged' accept felt this influence at some point.
  • Instance in point: State of israel, which really went and so far as to print the words "never once more" on their first (totally hypothetical) nuke, and generally have it every bit a sort of unofficial motto. This is what happens when your state is founded entirely by hundreds of thousands of shell-shocked survivors of 1 of the most horrific genocides in man history. And add to those numbers the Mizrahi Jews who fled or were expelled from the Islamic world. And that's non even getting into all of the Jews that had in the Heart Ages and other periods in history been used as scapegoats for things like the Blackness Plague and seen as targets past wayward Crusaders.
  • Finland. Basically every able-bodied male person Finn (and a lot of women) is trained to be a soldier.
  • The Haitian revolution was originally put down under Napoléon Bonaparte, only after the French permit their intent to re-enslave the Haitians be known, the state of war re-ignited and somewhen led to the end of French dominion.
  • Nat Turner'southward 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 constabulary. This is considering of abuses committed by security forces during the dictatorship of and so-President Ferdinand Marcos in the 1970s up to the mid-1980s. When Corazon Aquino took over following the 1986 People Ability Revolution, the country'due south constitution was rewritten and ane of the changes was to remove the ability of the President to declare martial law 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 Law era.
  • Russian federation doesn't have much in the fashion of natural borders to prevent or tiresome an invasion, as seen when the Gilded Horde rolled in from the east back in the Middle Ages, so after that trauma and centuries spent under the Mongol Yoke, its leaders' all-time defensive strategy was to push Russian federation'southward borders as far from Moscow as possible, which naturally led to conflict with Russia's neighbors. And then after the communist revolution, the Nazi invasion during Earth State of war II was then horrific that the at present Soviet Union built upwards a glacis of subjugated satellite states, a devastating nuclear arsenal, and a armed services so large that it contributed to the USSR's collapse, all so it wouldn't have to go through something similar that over again.
• This is often the instance with scholarly-minded children, especially boys, when they grow up. They are oft mercilessly bullied and picked on at schoolhouse, and once they graduate or otherwise go out of school, they often begin to railroad train in martial arts, self-defence skills, and some kind of armed combat to never let the childhood trauma renew. At best, the person may become a Badass Bookworm. At worst, a Broken Ace.
  • Bas Rutten, one of the most famous MMA fighters and commentators, was bullied as a child for his peel condition and scrawny constitution, and information technology made him beginning grooming. One of his partners in Japan, Minoru Suzuki, had a similar childhood.
  • Many join the armed forces 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 likewise what happens with a number of bullied students that go on school shootings, which usually target their tormentors showtime in a drastic effort to make the bullying stop. On the other cease of the spectrum, they may go the nonviolent route and instead accept their own lives to keep it from continuing.
• Afterward losing a beloved pet, some people pass up to ever adopt a new one because this will inevitably atomic number 82 to going through the same pain over again.
• It's been argued that sociopathy and other personality disorders are behavioral adaptations that people develop to cope with farthermost situations in babyhood and adolescence but which are maladaptive when trying to fit in or survive in guild. Anti-social personality disorder sufferers have incredibly macerated empathy and a desire for command, paranoid personality disorder sufferers are pathologically unable to trust and ever doubtable people are taking advantage of them, Schizoid personality disorder sufferers utilize fantasy and withdrawal to cope with loneliness, etc.
• The horrid impact of Earth War I brought about a common sentiment of "never again" (which was as well repeated in a sense later on the 2nd War to Finish all Wars). As history showed, it did.

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