Anime Fans Discuss Which Main Character with an Idyllic Childhood Had No Business Snapping and Going Crazy

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Jan 5, 2025 1:00 PM EST

Welcome, anime fans and stans. Us well-seasoned otakus know that most main characters have a breaking point where they snap and go absolutely berserk. They absolutely go blind with rage and lock in on their target, often hurting the people that they love along the way. In real life, snapping like that is a result of trauma. Of course, it is a common trope that anime protagonists have horrifying childhoods — childhoods filled with betrayal, alienation, and even torture! In the real world, they'd probably need years of therapy and rehabilitation to move on from their pasts. However, there are some MCs that do not fulfill this trope. They led normal, even happy lives, before going absolutely crazy over the course of the anime. Down below, netizens discuss which anime characters should have by all rights been a little more mentally stable given their idyllic upbringings. Scroll down to check out the discussion.

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    r/animequestions u/Apprehensive Ring_39.6d Which anime character fits this description?
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    When the MC with NO Sad backstory, LOVING PARENTS, and a stable income starts crashing out
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    hamburm 5d What does crashing out mean exactly? Reply 73
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    Right, let's establish the definition here first.

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    blackBugatti Veyron • 5d It's hard to explain it, but my definition someone who just "snaps" ... Q 16
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    hamburm 5d • Snaps as in goes crazy? Dr 8 5 ♡
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    blackBugatti Veyron • 5d yes, but I think a good example is Isagi from Blue Lock. The guy is a pretty normal guy with a loving family and a pretty good background with what little we're shown from his childhood. However, when he plays Football the guy just goes absolutely crazy. ← 9 3
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    Destro061 . Light Yagami 6d via GIPHY Reply 1.3k
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    This guy had it all and still managed to go absolutely bonkers.

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    gin_-iro .6d Sasuga Ainz-sama! Real. Bro had a normal high school life and just woke up one day to choose violence. 568
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    Вітус • 6d I think he listened a bit too much from his father about how criminals are dangerous. ... 268
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    That's the only thing Light inherited from his father.

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    Confident-Ninja2092 • 6d A big theme in De th Note is the corrupting influence of power. Lights father said it best, "Kira isn't what's evil. The power to k ll is evil." 91
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    Cool-Direction-5275 • 5d Yeah but he isn't normal emotionally or psychologically tho, he's literally insane unlike most MC 14
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    Destro061 5d I would argue that isn't true. At the beginning of the show he is really a somewhat normal teen apart from he's greater intelligence. It's only until he becomes obsessed with the de th note and being a god that makes him insane. This is proved later in the series when he chooses to forfeit the de th note and loses his memory, in which his personality changes back to before he encountered it. His morals are back, he refuses to use people's lives to solve the case and doesn't take adv
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    Even the shape of Light's eyes change when he briefly forfeits the notebook; they go from cat-like and cunning to round and innocent like they were in the first episode.

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    Cool-Direction-5275.5d No I mean he only starts crashing out the more he loses it. He literally loses his sanity because of the de th note and I think that's why he's crashing out and not too much by emotions ... 10
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    DarkSlayer3142 • 4d In his defence, he was bored and he wanted to see if the notebook was just a prank. He did that in the most moral way he could do. Then finding out it was real he was too far in so might as well go off the deep end G ↑ 33 зд
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    That's true — who would take something like that seriously? Once he had used it, his soul was already doomed, so he might as well have kept going.

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    More-Highway 5338 · 6d Rock from black lagoon. Just go back to Japan dude Reply 187
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    MasterKaein • 4d I mean dude is down bad for Revy and after seeing her, I don't blame him. ... ← D û 6 3
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    madeat1am • 6d Bakugo is main supporting character but him Reply 488
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    DarkNishiKarot Tatsumaki MyWife Yoichi Isagi 6d Reply 345
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    His whole personality was freaking out.

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    BingusBongus Bongus • 6d Fr he got a loving family and a house over his head yet he's genuinely tweaking on the pitch 176
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    Monkey_D_Himmy • 6d I mean you could factor in the fact that his father wasn't really there and you could say he struggled with Star Platinum before it was explained as he even refused to leave jail just to keep people safe 116
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    RigbyEleonora • 5d When did he even start crashing out? Bro has the emotional spectrum of a potato. ... Q Ŵ 14 ♡
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    Unique_Outside_2516.5d This thing ← Reply 44
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    That was kind of the point of Boruto, though. 

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    Emm_withoutha_L-88.4d Actually what I liked about it, he's exactly the kinda little sh that growing up super rich and with too much social power (being the hokage/ world savior's kid) would cause. He grows up to kinda s k until things start getting sh tty in his life. Then he starts growing into less of a little sh. 16 ←
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    MrUnparalleled ⚫ 6d Gon didn't have parents but he had a great life at home with his Aunt Mito. Reply û 22 ♡ Д
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    Morbelius 2d . I think theres something straight up broken with Gon's brain from the get-go. Aleczandr or however its spelled in youtube has a really nice analysis on his psychology and morality, which seems to be really childlike in the sense that all that matters to him is how close and friendly someone is to him and anyone outside of that doesnt deserve empathy from him. B ← Dr û 2 3
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    MrUnparalleled ⚫ 1d • I remember watching that video a year or two ago. Gon is a really weird character and we typically support his actions because we're following his perspective. In the CA arc we see less of Gon which lets us empathize with the ants, mostly meruem. With outside perspective we see Gon act more deranged and that his actions thus far haven't been coming from your typical shonen good guy, but instead a hypocritical and unstable child. Togashi is a genius for that. Д 13
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    Gon was always a menace, we just didn't see it at first because we were on his side and he has those big, brown eyes and spunky personality. 

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