Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Origin Stories That Are Over-The-Top Dark (For No Reason)

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Creative types love to craft deep, loving histories for their characters. The wikis are literally full of them. But sometimes those back stories are inexplicably, unnecessarily dark. And it's not just the tortured vigilante types. Sometimes well-known, seemingly well-adjusted characters have stupidly dark origin stories.

For example:

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