Generalized angst

There's so many stituations and contexts for angst, that it's really hard to list them all.

So here is a space for indiscriminate angst.

Check the **complete Tropes index** for more.

## Animes

**Akatsuki no Yona | Yona of the Dawn**

* **OVA 3:** This one is focused on **Zeno's** backstory, as an immortal being who has to watch everyone around him die and spend centuries alone, waiting for something he's not even sure if it'll come.

**Ao no Exorcist | Blue Exorcist**

* **1x09:** **Okumura Rin** is attacked (more than once) by a teacher, for being the son of Satan, and when he founds out that he's been the target the whole time, he let's the teacher injuries him, and says he's used to the hate and fear, so he shouldn't involve anyone else.
* **1x24:** Yukio is possessed by Satan, and **Rin** refuses to fight his brother, getting beaten up, and pleading for him to wake up.
* **2x07:** Afraid he might end up hurting Shiemi, **Rin** yells to her stay away, calling himself a monster. He's crying, defeated on his knees.

## TV Shows

**Andromeda**

* **1x14: Seamus Harper** (Gordon Michael Woolvett) is suffering from an information overload, and keeps having visions and nightmares of all kind of knowledge. Besides exhausted, he is terrified of all that he can see now, of all the deaths and destruction.

**Arrow**

* **1x14: Oliver Queen** (Stephen Amell), as the vigilant, goes after his mother, in search of answers. She starts begging for her life, for the sake of her children.
* **1x23: Oliver** has to see his best friend die.

**Atiye | The Gift**

* **1x06:** Atiye has a vision and tells **Erhan** (Mehmet Günsür) that his sister might not be dead like thought. He goes out in the rain to check her grave.

**Bones**

* **1x21: Seeley Booth** (David Boreanaz) shares with Brennan a story from his time as a sniper, something he never shared with anyone before.

**Charmed (1998)**

* **6x18: Chris** (Drew Fuller) tells his father why he has so much anger and resentment towards him.

**Class**

* **1x08: Charlie** (Greg Austin) is stuck with a terrible "pick one" situation, involving his people's souls, the trust and love of his boyfriend, the lives of his friends, and a possible genocide.

**Crossing Jordan**

* **1x21: Woody Hoyt** (Jerry O'Connell) shots someone for the first time. It's Jordan who makes him lower his arms afterwards.

**Cursed**

* **1x05: Arthur** (Devon Terrell) shares the story behind one of his scars, of a time when he sekeed revenge for his father, and killed a man. The wrong man.

**Dark**

* The whole show is a big soup of generalized angst, for literally all characters.

**Doctor Who (2005)**

* **The Runaway Bride (Special 2):** The **10th Doctor** (David Tennant) is hurting a lot for the recent loss of Rose, now trapped at an alternative reality and out of reach.

**Grey's Anatomy**

* **2x03: Meredith Grey's** (Ellen Pompeo) mom, Elis, is admitted at the hospital and everyone finds out about her Alzheimer condition. Also, she might have liver cancer.
* **2x24: Denny Duquette** (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) tries to make the most of the heart battery he was given, but collapses at the hospital halls. Izzie tries to be sympathetic, but he just lets out how impotent and tired he feels.
* **3x08: George O'Malley** (T.R.Knight) receives the news on his father's health, who went to the hospital after collapsing. And he is the one to tell the same news not only to his father, but to his brothers as well.

**Heroes**

* **1x19: Nathan Petrelli** (Adrian Pasdar), hugging and crying over Peter's body, apparently murdered by Sylar.

**Jupiter's Legacy**

* **Ep 8: Brandon Sampson** (Andrew Horton) is grabbed by the enemy, who gives his father a "pick one" situation: Brandon's life or protect the code of not killing he so much cherish. And Brandon sees the hesitation (or the choice?) on his father's face.

**Kyle XY**

* **1x06:** With all the Josh talk about aliens plus the angst of not getting his memories back, **Kyle** (Matt Dallas) finally bursts out his frustration and yells at Josh, *"not wanting to be the freak on his notebook"*.

**Loki**

* **1x01: Loki (Tom Hiddleston)** watches the film about his life - or rather, the life he should had lived at the right timeline. He watches his mother dying, his father saying he loves him before fading away, and the gradual reconciliation with his brother.
* **1x04: Loki**, at least at 3 different moments: trapped in the scene loop with Lady Sif hitting and repeating that he deserves to be alone; when he thinks the Variant has been killed; and when the agents attacks his friend right in front of him.
* **1x06: Loki**, at the ultimate moment where he and the Variant need to make a huge decision about what to do next... considering that both have difficulties accepting the other's point of view.

**Lucifer**

* **1x07: Lucifer** (Tom Ellis) found out that Amenadiel was the one behind his wings being stolen, and he feels manipulated and betrayed.
* **1x09:** Father Lawrence is killed and dies on **Lucifer's** arms, the first human to acknowledge him as the Devil, and acceptting him as such. Angry and hurt words to God afterwards.
* **1x13: Lucifer** is framed for murder, and when Chloe apparently believes the ideia that he might be guilt, the angst is high. He even tries to provoke the officers into shooting him.
* **5x09: (SPOILER)** The whole episode is a big angst mix for **Lucifer** (Tom Ellis), with his father being now so close to them all. The highlight definitely being the family dinner with all the tough questions.

**Merlin**

* **2x08:** Being told how his mother died and the role of his father on it, enraged, **Arthur Pendragon** (Bradley James) challenges him to a duel and almost kills him, struggling internally on what to do.
* **2x09:** Meeting Freya, **Merlin** (Colin Morgan) finally feels a true connection with someone similar to himself, and he helps her to hide from the bounty hunter, eventually falling for her. So when later she disappears and is mortally wounded, he worries, he suffers, and he cries.
* **2x13: Merlin,** dealing with the revelation of who his father is, as he and Arthur goes on a quest to find the man.

**New Amsterdam**

* **1x09: Max Goodwin** (Ryan Eggold) finds out that a new patient at the hospital is the woman who received, as a kid, his sister's heart.

**Poldark**

* **1x06: Ross Poldark** (Aidan Turner), as he sees himself powerless to help a young man, who had been sentenced to prison and fell ill in there. He curses his social class, his origins, and his lack of power to change anything.

**Prison Break**

* **1x02: Michael Scofield** (Wentworth Miller) gets back into his cell, blood all over his hands and clothes, and sits on the ground, hugging his knees and shaking, after witnessing the brutality of the attempt riot.

**Salvation**

* **1x05: Liam Cole** (Charlie Rowe), after being forced (by the circunstances) to shot a former friend in order to survive and escape captivity. Comfort moments when he is found.

**See**

* **1x03:** Kofun has been captured by slavers, and **Baba Voss** (Jason Momoa) reveals to his daugther about his family history: his father and grandfather were slavers, and he too was trained to torture and kill, but abandoned all of that long ago. And now, in order to save his son, he would have to remember it again.

**Shadowhunters**

* **1x07: Simon Lewis** (Alberto Rosende) is terrified by the realization that he might be turning into a vampire.

**SS-GB**

* **Ep 6: Douglas Archer** (Sam Riley) watches as his friends are killed during the escape mission, and doesn't move or say anything for a while, even when hit and captured by german soldiers.

**Star Trek: Picard**

* **1x08: Elnor** (Evan Evagora) is alone at the borg cube after his only companion is killed and he has to fight outnumbered, so when Seven of Nine appears (and save him), the first thing he does is hug her.

**S.W.A.T.**

* **1x18: Daniel Hondo** (Shemar Moore), letting his father know - for the first time - how he felt being abandoned by him as a kid. He brings this up as part of his talk to convince the father to move to L.A., where he and his sister can visit and take care of him now that he is old and sick.

**The Boys**

* **2x06:** The group investigate a kind of experiment facility, and found Lamplighter there. Angst for **Frenchie** (Tomer Capon), who feels responsable for the man killing innocent children.

**The Flash**

* **1x09: Barry Allen** (Grant Gustin) faces, for the first time, the man who murdered his mother so many years ago.
* **7x06: Chester P. Runk** (Brandon McKnight) is trapped with Cisco at the 90's thanks to a Force's power... and it just happens to be the same year his father died.

**The Man in the High Castle**

* **1x03: Frank Frink** (Rupert Evans), freed from the government facility where he have been held. Many good scenes, like he looking himself on the mirror afterwards, or trembling so much that he couldn't even light a cigarette.

**The Night Shift**

* **1x02: TC Callahan** (Eoin Macken) takes over the case of Nick, a soldier friend that years back got Thad's (TC's brother) heart transplanted, and now needs a new one.

**The Vampire Diaries**

* **1x14: Damon Salvatore** (Ian Somerhalder) finds out that it wasn't Katherine in the tomb he tried so hard to go in to.

**Westworld**

* **2x08:** This episode is focused on **Akecheta** (Zahn McClarnon), and the whole process of how he figured out that his world was not what apperared to be, as he searches a way to find his wife and retain his memories of her.

**Young Wallander**

* **1x06: Kurt Wallander** (Adam Pålsson) loses someone because of a explosion.

## Movies

**Avengers 2 - Age of Ultron (2015)**

* **All** of the present Avengers, caught for the first time on Wanda's mind powers. Each one sees something different, being hints of future events, reminders of the past, or just plain painfull visions.

**Entre Abelhas**

* **Bruno** (Fábio Porchat) throughout the whole movie, as he suddenly stops seeing and hearing more and more people as if they had ceased to exist. (This movie might be triggering, regarding isolation and loneliness/hopeless themes).

**Thor (2011)**

* **Loki** (Tom Hiddleston), when he finds out the truth about his origins and confronts Odin about it.

**Torden (2020)**

* **Eric Bergland** (Nat Wolff) doesn't understand how he can do the things he can, or how to stop it from hurting other people. He is often seen curled up at a corner, and barely talks.

## Dramas

**Sweet Home**

* There's a lot of it for all main characters. Originated by grief, fear, suicidal thoughts, or you know, by the reality of a monster apocalypse.
* **Cha Hyun Soo** (Song Kang) is infected, but resists the transformation, which does little to make people stop seeing him as a threat for a while. When he actively resists the effects, he is forced to revisits painful memories and his own guilty and self depreciative thoughts.

**The Untamed**

* **Ep 15: Jiang Cheng** (Wang Zhuo) and **Wei Wu Xian** (Xiao Zhan) are put on a boat by Madam Yu (Jiang Cheng's mother), and she forces them to escape and survive, binding them together with the energy whip, as their clan is about to be heavily attacked.

**W (2016)**

* **Ep 4: Kang Chul** (Lee Jong Suk), processing the big revelation about the true nature of his world, since he is the only one "alive" there as everyone and everything else is somewhat frozen before his eyes. This extends even more at the next episode.

**Word of Honor**

* **Ep 14: Wen Ke Xing** (Gong Jun) sees for the first time the nails scars on Zhou Zishu's body, and hears about the implications of what they are doing with his health.

## Gallery

"We all die a little bit, Bones. With each shot, we all die a little bit." - Seeley Booth to Temperance Brennan, Bones 1x21"I'v buried that part of me, that man, deep down in a hole. But now I must do something I swore I would never do. Wake him up." - Baba Voss to his daughter, See 1x03"All right. I'm here. It's all right." - Seven of Nine to Elnor, Star Trek Picard, 1x08"Because you can't trust. And I can't be trusted" - Loki to the Variant, Loki 1x06"Time slips away, squandered. I want to be with you through life and death, but what a pity that we met so late" - Wen Ke Xing about Zhou Zishu, Word of Honor Ep.14