coping with a massive loss of comrades theme

A character in a military-like outfit looses a demoralizing number of their comrades in some disastrous event, and must come to terms with this.

Examples

Commodore Matt Decker mourned the loss of his crew to the Planet Eater in tos2x06 "The Doomsday Machine".

9 total · 1 choice · 1 major · 7 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
tos2x06 choice Commodore Matt Decker was a wreck of a man after a giant, planet eating machine killed his entire crew down to the last man.
pieceofcake1988e1x06 major Hornet Squadron suffered heavy casualties. The surviving members were completely demoralized. In the end, Barton and Patterson were the only two surviving pilots.
apuleius180tgab7 minor Haemus of Thrace told of how his entire band had been decimated.
movie: CyberTracker (1994) minor Connie broke down after all her terrorist (or freedom fighter) friends perished in a firefight.
movie: Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) minor Lieutenant Akane Yashiro mourned the deaths of a number of her fellow soldiers whose deaths she'd inadvertently caused.
movie: Mission to Mars (2000) minor Luke was devastated that only he out of the crew of four on the first manned mission to Mars had survived the dust storm.
rd1988e1x01 minor The story ended with Lister waking up form stasis to find that all his former colleagues were dead.
tos2x19 minor Spock was deeply disturbed upon telepathically sensing the deaths of 400 fellow Vulcans aboard the starship Intrepid.
tos2x25 minor Captain Ron Tracey lost his entire crew to a virus.