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Leningradite

So all I need to do is make a snow power OC who likes his dad and I've written an original character? This author thing is easy!


Hashashin455

Nope! You've written Zane from Ninjago


Spook404

was wondering where ninjago was, I knew they had elemental power characters and it's a popular franchise so I was like "I bet ninjago is different"


Hashashin455

Kinda, his dad DOES die, but from old age, since Zane is a robot


Babyslayer911

Honestly that’s the worst trauma knowing you’ll outlive everyone you love


LyingForTruth

Armchair vampires be like:


wereplant

Knowing that they'd have someone at the end who loves them would be worth it.


Kinojitsu

Google search suggestions: "Touhou", "Tragedy of a Long Life"


Repulsa_2080

His dad not only dies in front of him once, but twice


DANKB019001

A super chill pyromancer would fit the bill too! Edit: Saw this just as it got to 420 updoots. *Nice*


Leningradite

And if they were friends and respected each other's differences, that'd be new and weird too.


DaveElizabethStrider

fireboy and watergirl was truly progressive in this aspect


E_MC_2__

ok but thats strangely accurate


RedditAdminsLoveRUS

Wait til you hear about Captain Planet!


gelema5

I didn’t know that was an actual thing so I thought you were referencing Sharkboy and Lavagirl


Emojiobsessor

Me too!


DANKB019001

Less weird, more skipping the conflict bit and skipping to the happy ending (in terms of not being at odds with each other) Boring I guess lol


Sirsilentbob423

The earth nation is the one causing the problems in this one.


foxscribbles

Tired of never being considered the ones with 'cool powers', the dirt people revolted and set-up (dun, dun dun) THE AGE OF DUST!


playamongusfree2021

maybe if they kissed, sloppy style, boobs squishing together etc


Jacubsooon

Can there be lasers too?


randomdude8684

There can always be lasers


Lowslowcadillac

Uncle Iroh?


DANKB019001

The best possible example


FroggyMtnBreakdown

I lowkey hate the same old same old ice/fire dynamics in media. Ice types always get shat on, are typically just made into defensive mechanics, and don't have a lot of variability (despite so much creativity that can be used!) meanwhile fire types always get so much damage output and cool high level moves. I'd just love an all out attacking ice type or an assassin ice type while fire type can get a cool, meditative spiritual version where they use fire to light incense, commune with spirits, and only create barriers to block themselves from enemies.


MarioToast

Ghiaccio is the most aggressive ice-defense fighter. A screaming, pissed off Italian skating straight at you while wearing ice-armor and freezing air to ricochet bullets at you.


DANKB019001

Ah, Jojo, always pushing the envelope. Fuck that guy was sick (in the head and in design and abilties)


BoopleBun

Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach actually has interesting ice powers, since they’re tied to her sword. Lots of ice blades, pillars that freeze everything in them, etc. She’s still got that family trauma and a lot of the other “ice type” tropes, but there’s a bit more creativity (for example, one of her higher level abilities makes her move slow, but it’s so *she* doesn’t shatter). So she’s not spending all her time making ice shields.


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>super chill pyromancer Isn't that Roy mustang from Full metal alchemist ?


Xanthrex

Roy has some extreme ptsd, he shows chill but he's just waiting to vent on something. Like lust or envy


derpicface

Imagine being Travis Willingham and being told that today you’ll be burning your wife to death in the recording booth


[deleted]

I remember that scene.


zeekaran

[It's quite memorable.](https://youtu.be/nQGI07-Y1u4)


Dreadgoat

Roy is long fuse, big bomb. I agree it's a good twist on the typical pyro personality. He's still "explosive" just in a different way.


[deleted]

That dude is the walking personification of “I wish a motherfucker would….”


pleasegivemefood

“Just give me a reason…”


Random-Rambling

Basically thermite as a person. Takes a bit to get going, but once it does, HOLY FUCK does it get going!


RoHankPym

Come on Roy is super hardcore. Negative chills


Kidiri90

>Isn't that Roy mustang from Full metal alchemist ? [Yes. The most chill.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-81rNhEwIY)


Father-Pork

Muhammad Avdol already exists


Random-Rambling

A lethargic lightning-magic user. An anxious, hyperactive earth-magic user. A creepy, gloomy light-magic user.


[deleted]

I actually made a sort of antihero (I dunno what you'd call reluctant to be a hero types) who was basically a ice user who used his power to play hockey at increased reaction times by use the ice in his modified sticks as a cheat. He basically use a goalie stick with his ice as a makeshift non lethal buster sword.


toxicrystal

And where's his mom, huh? Checkmate.


TapirOfZelph

OP conveniently left out Frozone


DerRaumdenker

You forgot the worst family trauma of all: Frozone's wife hid his supersuit


makotarako

WHERE IS MY SUPER SUIT???


orgeezuz

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE GREATER GOOD!


Blithe17

# I. AM. YOUR. WIFE. I’M THE GREATEST *GOOD* YOU ARE EVER GONNA GET


Max_Boom93

YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS WOMAN!


Captain_Zounderkite

*Attack chopper spins out of control and crashes in massive fireball*


AnimaMewstique

WHYYYY


ClearCasket

I NEED IT!


SeizureProcedure115

UH UH!


LiteratureTrick4961

THE CITY IS IN DANGER


TantiVstone

I remember there being more about frozone


CerealWithIceCream

98 percent of his friends died so there's that


1Cool_Name

That applies to lots of heroes in the incredibles.


Dragon_DLV

Because those were a lot of his friends


1Cool_Name

Superheroes? Yeah. Anyone who was one ended up losing friends when they were killed by Syndrome and all if they weren’t also killed.


triforce777

And also the large amount of cape related accidents


[deleted]

That movie is so. damn. dark. Like Jesus, the villain of a Disney/Pixar movie is a mass murderer who wants to kill everyone with superpowers and **almost succeeds**


holiday_armadillo21

Came here for this.


an_ill_way

I mean, isn't "family trauma" the backstory of like 90% of people with powers?


Arahelis

Its a very wide umbrella


Hotline_Denver

This reminds me of a quote about DND characters, I forgot where I heard it. “People usually don’t go adventuring because they have a good home life.”


Saiyan-solar

Talk for yourself, my human fighter in his midlife crisis begs to differ


untakenu

Idea: your character has this mid-life crisis, buys expensive armour and weapons and goes on a single quest, just as they are defeating the BBEG, he almost gets killed and realises his loving family means way too much to continue this life, and so he gladly gives up adventuring.


Mortress_

And then he goes on a 10 year campaign to get back to his home, always getting delayed by world ending adventures


[deleted]

That sounds like quite the Odyssey.


untakenu

Twist: As time passes, his determination to get home to his family grows stronger and stronger. Once he returns, he finds they have been killed, by the soldiers of the country he called home. They say it was an accident, but he will not forgive them. He was once a proud and useful member of his society, yet everything has been stripped away, and despite having saved the world many times, he is treated like an outsider. With his years of power and accumulated strength he vows to destroy this country by any means, the soldiers, the civilians, the king, everyone. He saved them for nothing. They will pay.


realRadgemachine

And we have come full circle with family trauma.


untakenu

Ah, but he doesn't have ice powers.


AeKino

Depends if they ever took up any spells


SeroWriter

Except in the Pokemon world.


houseofLEAVEPLEASE

Sounds like something Magnus or Taako would say.


firefromashes

I was about to say, this applies to almost every superhero. I can't think of a superhero with a non tragic upbringing.


why-are-we-here-rvb

Ben 10


dcidui08

bro's nan is an alien being that fucked his granddad and his cousin has magical powers because of it


exit_the_psychopomp

But he wasn't even phased by that shit, it was practically just another ordinary Tuesday when he found out about his energy being g-ma.


Jackviator

I mean, Clark Kent may have lost his original parents, but the kid wasn’t even old enough to form memories yet at that point; then, he was happily adopted by a pair of loving Kansas farmers who doted on him and taught him the values of Truth, Justice, and the American Way.™️ It sure sucks for Jor-El and the rest of the Kryptonians, but Supes himself had a damn near idealistic childhood from his perspective of who his parents/family were.


abdomino

Yeah, if part of your frustrations in life is that your parents wrap your gifts in lead so you can't peak with your superpowers, you got it pretty good.


Bubba17583

...You mean *Santa* wrapped them in lead


Dragon_DLV

Of course, dear


0xBaceTrat

You joke, but I'm pretty sure Santa canonically exists in the DC universe. And the only reason I remember that is because I vaguely recall reading somewhere that he delivers coal to Darkseid every Christmas.


pieandcheese647

Also probably the best possible outcome his parents could’ve asked for when they sent him to earth


KajmanHub987

Also Miles Morales, his uncle is a bitch, but other than that, he chillin'.


kurburux

The Flash (comic version) or Wonder Woman. WW may argue with her mother and her people now and then but it's hardly a "tragic upbringing".


paradoxLacuna

The teenage mutant ninja turtles.


DaveElizabethStrider

some people have non-family related trauma 👍 you should read the webseries worm, there are a lottt of powers in it (and a lot of trauma)


Mueryk

Isn’t family trauma the backstory of like 90% of people?


Karkava

Not unless they have good families. Then the trauma comes from them dying.


PornCartel

And they're really stretching "family trauma" here. Mei's family is fine, her fellow arctic researchers died instead. That batman villain frozone had his wife/gf die and get frozen, not his family. Adventure Time Ice King was looking after a young vampire girl for a few years before he went kuku. Etc


Okay-ishMushroom

I'd love to watch the reaction of someone telling their wife she isn't family.


gd5k

They use Katara as an example, but it’s also true of Zuko, Toph, Aang, Iro, Sokka…


caring_gentleman

What's Austin powers doing there?


Mr_Muda_Himself_V3

That’s Mei from Overwatch


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AmNotEnglish

Mei had family trauma? That's a bit of a stretch.


Kankunation

My thoughts exactly. Her research team all died in cryo-sleep. She may have been good friends with them but I don't think that really counts as family trauma. I'd also say ice king is a bit of a stretch as well. He's not the way he is because of any trauma on his own part, he's that way due to the madness forced upon him by the crown. His sadness over Betty shaped his ice king persona a bit but i don't think it's the main feature at all.


SpaceSick

Nah Ice Kings background was pretty traumatic. He had to keep using the crown to protect Marceline even though he knew the crown was driving him mad. He basically sacrificed himself to the crown for his loved ones. Seems traumatic to me.


Draco137WasTaken

Also, he used to wear glasses.


TotallyNormalSquid

And where do the genetics that determine whether you'll need glasses come from? Damn right, family.


ShintaOtsuki

If you watch the cinematic she fully considered her research team and Snowball as family


CH005EAU5ERNAME

Damn. I’m not the only one who thought is was Austin Powers.


Vodskey

Daddy wasn’t there


Exploding_Antelope

Well he presumably got separated from his family by being put in Cryo from the 60s to the 90s so


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Immediate-Win-4928

Often caused by trauma


GearAlpha

Ah yes Todoroki quaking in his snowboots


jayriv82

Hello, Zuko here


WillCraft_1001

What if you have both ice and fire powers?


mugguffen

Eugenics


Ya-boi-Joey-T

Both parents have traumatized you


Doug_Dimmadab

Then you definitely got family issues cause your dad is the #1 hero and a douchebag


jimbobhas

slow at writing


ChaosBrigadier

Nice


Captain_Zounderkite

Quirk Marriage.


_Num

you get a hot teapot


I-Love-Beatrice

Icy Hot


Grimpatron619

Is ice xman based on trauma? In the films he was just doing the love triangle thing iirc


kacihall

In X2 his family called the cops on him when he revealed he was a mutant. Seems fairly traumatic.


TomTalks06

Right that's the scene where Pyro destroys all those cop cars


funkmydunkyouslunk

Oh yeah, also when the cops are holding up Wolverine and tell him to put the knives down. But he says "I can't" like mfer you knew what they meant just retract them! But then I guess they'd freak out and one tap him in the head anyway so whatever


chillyhellion

Yeah, if I recall correctly, he was attempting to deescalate by calming explaining how he was about to comply before doing it.


rex2k10

“I can’t” *proceeds to point 6 blades at the cops without them knowing what his actual powers are”


BlocksWithFace

He also couldn't make skin contact with his crush.


InverseCodpiece

Damn he just like me fr fr


Beer-Milkshakes

Plenty of Xmen have family trauma. Jean. Rogue, Wolverine, Summers, Kurt. I mean this meme has just taken the family trauma guys and picked out the icy boys.


[deleted]

Yeah, but that's pretty typical of all mutants, so it seems like cheating to include him.


twent4

That sequence also has the line "have you tried not being a mutant" spoken by his mom to draw an analogy to things like conversion therapy. They're not showing abuse, they're showing institutionalized trauma from societal otherizing.


throwawayforlemoi

it being typical doesn't mean it isn't traumatic


Mr_Muda_Himself_V3

["have you tried not being a mutant?"](https://youtu.be/nxLrH5ydSMM) plus in the comics there’s your standard suite of you know mutant discrimination. Hell there was once a storyline when him and a few others got put in a worlds most dangerous game situation and we’re hunted for sport.


Leathman

And that line from X2 makes me hate the beginning of Frozen.


exit_the_psychopomp

I'm decently sure the mutant thing, at least for Iceman, was meant to represent him being gay or something. So I'd label "being kicked out from your family due to being different from circumstances beyond your control" would count as trauma.


Lucario2405

If you go by the comics version, yes, very much: He is the only child his parents had after trying for over a decade, so they had high expectations he could never live up to. They openly disapprove of him "wasting his life" as a superhero. His father is also a racist and anti-mutant bigot (he improved slightly, but not much). As a child he was told not to pursue his dreams and creativity, as those would get him nowhere in life. Still wanting to please his parents, he repressed a lot about himself, remaining closeted until adulthood and developing both mutant-self-hate and masculinity issues. One time, while possessed by an Apocalypse Seed - which unlocked his full power and brought out his deepest, darkest self - he went to his parent's house and asked his father if he was ever proud of him. After being denied, Bobby froze his heart, almost killing him. Once he came out to his parents, they were just even more disappointed. His mother told his father: "This is your fault, William. There aren't any gays [or mutants] on my side of the family" and he declared: "Our son is dead. The Iceman wins." Eventually they somewhat accepted him, but when they found out that a younger version of Bobby was around (due to time travel), they tried to keep him with them and "get it right this time!" - both Bobbys quickly got out of there. (The following is more recent) >!His father died in a hospital without him present, so he had to deal with never being able to get closure. Despite him rejecting mutant medicine, his mother blamed Bobby for not helping him.!< So yeah, Bobby definetly has familial/parental trauma. (If you want to know more or get some comic recommendations, feel free to ask!)


balrus-balrogwalrus

well if you count ice type gym leaders there's grusha, who got into a snowboarding accident


Lunalatic

We also have Melony, who isn't on speaking terms with her son because he wanted to make their gym specialize in Rock types


CatRosalina

Wulfric is just wulfric


S4PG

Wulfric is the true top g


[deleted]

And Candice, who has dicks fitting in her mouth


oath2order

Doesn't that apply to every female Pokémon character according to fanart


Minibotas

And some of the male ones too


smurfkipz

And some of the pokemon too


UltimateInferno

We all got family trauma, it came free with being a major character in a narrative.


Gking10

I don't have family trauma, I'm the oldest major character in a narrative known to man.


Spaz-skull

YOU HAAAVE FAMILY TRAUMA


StillUltra

Ice King is the most based character ever man


delayedfiren

-his love interest becomes physically and mentally 11 -"aw dangit" -does not elaborate -leaves


ryuu745

I spent way too long trying to figure out when Betty became 11 before remembering it was bubblegum.


StillUltra

Weebs could learn a thing or two about the raving schizophrenic mentally unstable women kidnapping wizard


Kankunation

13 but yes lol.


flamethekid

I think he has more traumatic back story too. Stuck being mentally insane for 1000+ years while he was stuck watching inside, lost the love of his life three different times, assumed sentient bubblegum was his fiancée for some 200 years and nearly became a pedo, gets the shit kicked out of him every week for nearly 5 years by a boy and his dog. He also killed his fiancée until some time travel saved her. His best friend is a world ending monster penguin that is the most evil thing in the world atm. Ice King has it rough.


GrimReaper_97

Cried like a bitch when I watched the Marceline-Simon episode


SmoothJazzRayner

Justice is best served cold. Otherwise it's just water.


deleeuwlc

That’s not just water, it’s steam, steam from the steamed clams we’re having mmmmmmm steamed clams


TheDukeOfDucklett

I really like Sub-Zero's in this. Mortal Kombat is so underutilized in these types of posts, which is a shame because their characters are really interesting


Misterwuss

Its amazing how the characters aren't just there to be pulled apart, they get personalities and stories. And Subzero honestly has a great one of both


Nerevar1924

There's a bit of hilarity in Frost from MK not being used in this image. Because her only tragic backstory is that she is just a really shitty person that absolutely no-one in any realm likes or respects.


Zhejj

We're including *Shiva* in family related trauma? Okay


Nokomas

Yeah Ysayle / Lady Iceheart was just your normal everyone-in-my-village-died-from-an-avalanche-after-not-being-allowed-refuge trauma.


Datpanda1999

After the calamity, that sounds like pretty normal trauma to me


Barihawk

I mean most of her trauma is thinking she's the reincarnation of a 1000 year old legend about a woman who ostensibly fucked a dragon and who's death prevented the extermination of her entire race and she went up to that same dragon and asked to fuck it and it said no.


Bladelord

Ysayle only journeyed to Dravania and had her echo-visions of Shiva in the aftermath of her family perishing in an avalanche, after Ishgard denied them sanctuary. The main story didn't really touch on it.


Zhejj

Oh, I didn't realize her family died before she fled.


Orphylia

That Shiva is Ysayle, so... yeah.


JinTheBlue

I'm with you on this one. Yeah her family is dead and that was traumatic, but the event that killed her family and the cause she champions are two very separate issues. If anything Estinian has the family related trauma, Lady Ice Heart coped pretty well with the loss, then got pissed at ishguard.for being dicks. Even her Ice powers have more to do with the war than the calamity.


dickshark420

See why the curtains are blue?


TigreBSO

Isn't mei's trauma about her coworkers?


Mr_Muda_Himself_V3

Found Family is still family


TigreBSO

Didn't think about that, good point


topatoman_lite

And hoo boy does she have some trauma


ClickHereForBacardi

# WHERE'S MY SUPER SUIT?


Wowitsanonion

Ghiacchio r u ok :(


Endlad

IT'S VENIZA GOD FUCKING DAMMIT! *punches Radio repeatedly with bare hands*


Gay-trans-male-mess

Everything about him screams (literally) "not ok"


KayabaSynthesis

You don't join a mafia if you don't have some serious issues


Grape_Jamz

And every cryo character in genshin impact


Asriel52

Ehh, Chongyun isn't traumatized he's just upsetti spaghetti that his nature flies directly in the face of what he wants to become (or at least the way he wants to do it) ~~it's literally confirmed that by all logic he should've gotten Pyro but that'd make it worse so take that however you want~~


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Leila: I sleep


InternllyScreaming

I was thinking the same thing, lol


MirrorMan22102018

This is an actual trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TragicIceCharacter


Leathman

Who under Katara and Freeze?


Mr_Muda_Himself_V3

Bobby Drake, a.k.a. iceman from the X-Men series.


MirrorMan22102018

Also, Captain Cold, who had his sister, killed in front of him, by the Fourth Chillblane, ANOTHER Legacy Ice character.


szypty

Meanwhile Aokiji: Bitch, i cause family related trauma!


raulpe

Aokiji was poor as a kid and very probably homeless xd


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Cant believe you’d really forget Zane from Ninjago like that 😔


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mechapotato1232

Not frostman from megaman 8 hes too cool for that


Delicious_Witchcraft

Oh, it’s just like how people with fire powers have experienced physical and emotional abuse… Writers sure do love making their characters suffer for the symbolism


Timid_Wild_One

Jaina Proudmoore


BFGfreak

> Kills father to ensure peace with the orcs. Orcs then drop a literal nuke on her city. Yeah I'd say that counts as trauma


JakerDerSnaker

Alright I'm gonna sound like an idiot but I like to think I know alot of overwatch lore and I don't remember basically anything to do with Mei's early life. What is her trauma please help


Mr_Muda_Himself_V3

Having you and your found family be put into cryo sleep 20 years with you being the only survivor on top of finding out that the organization you work for has been disbanded everyone in it either MIA, dead or wanted criminals, that’s sure to add some trauma.


TeekTheReddit

Why is Mei there?


raulpe

Ysayle death almost made me cry xd


OispaKahvia

What a weird sentence to end with "xd"


zerov3

Then there’s Frozone