childhood trauma theme
A child suffers a traumatic experience of the kind that can haunt you for the rest of your life.
35 total · 13 major · 22 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e1x11 | major | In 1933, as an orphan, Sheriff Horace Smyvie wrote to Santa asking for a Buck Roger's ray gun for Christmas. Horace's request was overlooked by Santa, in spite of Horace having been a good boy that year. The experience had left Horace a cold-hearted and cynical man in his adult life. |
| bbf1x16 | major | Ivanova was haunted over her mother's suicide. |
| movie: AI Artificial Intelligence (2001) | major | Monica drove David to the forest and abandoned him there with only his AI teddy bear teddy. |
| movie: Red Beard (1965) | major | several girls told of bad things that had been done to them when they were kids |
| movie: Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) | major | Tomoo inner rage was bound up with his having repressed the memory of having witnessed, when he was still a young boy, his father blow his own mother's brains out in a bizarre sex ritual. |
| movie: The Final Cut (2004) | major | Alan was haunted by a childhood memory of having left a boy to die in an abandoned factory. He was motivated throughout the film by a desire to find out the identify of the boy. It was strongly implied that young Isabel was having issues on account that she'd been molested by her father. |
| movie: Xtro (1982) | major | Tony spent three years struggling with the reality that his father might have abandoned him and his family. |
| rbt1985e1x02 | major | It became clear that Charles had suffered a repressed but lifelong trauma from being regularly bullied as a kid. |
| rbt1985e5x06 | major | Doug was tormented by memories of being bullied as a child, and plotted revenge even five decades later. |
| rbt1985e6x05 | major | In the story, a man recollected how his disciplinarian father raised him as if he were a military cadet. Later in life, the man struggled with the effects of this harsh upbringing. |