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this is ashley with watchmojo and today
we're counting down our picks for the
top 10 heartbreaking anime flashbacks
frankly you're not even worth the
trouble of taking as a hostage
so unless you want a pointless death
leave now
for this list we'll be looking at the
memoirs of anime characters
that were wholly upsetting to watch play
back did this harrowing trip down memory
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number 10 todoroki's past my hero
academia
fair warning you're going to see plenty
of abuse on this list
with this being one of the most shocking
examples we've seen inflicted on a
character
in the shonen genre
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raised to be a weapon that could
dethrone all mites endeavour never
showed his son affection
disciplining him to the point of cruelty
all the while pushing the rest of his
family to their breaking point
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the biggest victim here was todoroki's
mother who was so mentally shattered
she ended up scaring her own son in a
moment of madness
you can see why some people are a little
uneasy about endeavour now standing as
the new number one hero
number 9. mime's past saint-saer
as is usually the case with norse
mythology
sons often find themselves killing their
fathers often caught in a continuous
cycle of vengeance
and rage
when it comes to mime he had always
believed that he was justified in his
murdering of falcon
after it was revealed that he had slain
his parents years earlier
however icky eventually reveals that it
had been an accident
and that falcon had loved mime like a
true son from the day he adopted him
that's some terrible communication right
there typical asgardians
number eight say is past cautious hero
the hero is overpowered
but overly cautious for the most part
sail was an izakaya protagonist who for
lack of a better term
was a bit of a prick all throughout his
adventure
oh sure he somehow swooped in the final
moment to save the day
but that didn't mean his endless hours
of preparation and dismissive nature of
his own party
didn't great on everyone especially his
poor waifu of a goddess
then we learned why he was such an
uptight bastard
turns out back during his first time as
an izakaya
sayya was more akin to your typical
optimistic and gung-ho hero
gonna be okay at least until a demon
king devoured everyone he loved
right in front of him
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number seven zero two's past darling in
the franxx
we're just gonna say it young02 is the
absolute cutest thing ever
stolen from the claxure experimented on
her whole life
the little red princess had never known
a single kindness
at least until she escaped and ran into
hiro who immediately built a friendship
with her during their time
in the wilderness that was so pure it'll
make you cry
his genuine affection combined with her
introduction to fairy tales became zero
two's first
and only beloved memory so of course the
scientists who captured her forcibly
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erased
assassination classroom before he was
the mass of smiles and tentacles that we
all know him to be
classy's resident homeroom teacher was
an infamous assassin
though still very much human
revealing to his students who he truly
was before becoming koru sensei
we learn that due to extensive
experiments and the madness of a certain
scientist
the once feared killer was transformed
into a monster
but not before he had given his heart to
the one woman
who saw past his crimes and fell in love
with the man within
frankly you're not even worth the
trouble of taking as a hostage
so unless you want a pointless death
leave now
naturally she didn't live long enough to
grant him a happy ever after
if you could sacrifice a little bit of
your time
give the children the tools to succeed
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in a way they're like you wandering in
the dark
waiting for someone to turn on the light
number five
raphtali has passed the rising of the
shield hero
given how raccoon girl will always be
best girl
seeing her in any sort of pain will
always break our hearts
alas for all her smiles and strong will
raphtalia had a tragic childhood
one filled with death and imprisonment
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after losing her parents during the
waves slavers trampled her village
and locked raftalia and her best friend
away subjecting them to frequent abuse
and starvation
the only reason she lived while her
friend perished was due to her refusal
to scream
and give her sadistic owner the pleasure
he wanted
now for me you'd best keep her safe
going forward
the seven deadly sins while initially
coming across as more dull than man
whose perception of morality were askew
at the best of times
gotham seemed like the last of the sins
that we'd have any kind of sympathy for
alas we were proven wrong when we got a
good look at why he was so messed up
created by a magician to resemble the
woman he loved but with a male body
gautha was nothing more than an alter
ego of a madman
yet he still found love with someone and
a princess at that
he had found true happiness at least
until she died and he was blamed for it
sending him into a spiral of pain
and confusion that's haunted him ever
since
dust number three
gara's past naruto what does it take to
turn an innocent child
into a bloodthirsty monster well making
him feel utterly alone and despised is a
great start
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unable to control the sun demon locked
inside him gara's childhood was one
filled with isolation
with the rest of the village fearing his
destructive power
things only escalated when on orders
from his father
an assassin was sent to terminate gara
mortally wounding his attacker in
self-defense
they were revealed to actually be his
uncle the one person who gara trusted in
the world
who would go on to tell how much he
despised the poor boy
before dying
yep that's bound to mess up a kid number
2.
mcgillis's past mobile suit gundam
iron-blooded orphans
while often employing manipulation and
showed zero hesitation about killing his
allies to achieve his goal
mcgillis was still shown to be a man
with his own sense of integrity
wishing to abolish earth's corrupt
system while serving as a beacon of
change
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what caused this righteous crusade
how about the fact he was adopted into a
noble house
but not to serve as a legitimate heir
but so the man
he now called father could abuse him
when he was no more than a child
mcgillis's rise and fall is woven with
suffering
making him one of gundam's characters of
shakespearean proportions
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laws passed one piece let's face it
everyone in oda's sprawling world has a
terrible history
that being said we can't help but feel
that lord takes the cake in terms of
soul-shattering tragedy
first he loses his family to a plague is
scorned by the survivors
and is destined to die horrifically
sooner rather than later
then he formed an unorthodox friendship
with corazon
who gave him a second chance at life by
giving him
the up up fruit of course whatever
future they could have had
as comrades was snatched away when
doflamingo shot him down
right in front of lore that's an intense
amount of misery to happen
in such a short amount of time
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