A genuinely good hero gets crushed by responsibility and slowly goes insane

[u/Outrageous_Gene_7652]

Hal Jordan (Green Lantern): Civilian life in shambles, overworked superhero life, spiralling mental health for years and unable to cope with the fact that he was'nt able to save his city because he was on another mission, Hal loses his mind, literally trying to bring back the dead, killing the entire corp and later literally erasing space and time to rewrite the universe

Zero (To Be Hero X): Being the first hero of the world and being worshipped for being so since he was 10, Zero achieved Godhood as a 15 year old but ultimately the pressure got to him and he went mad at 17 and nearly caused the end of humanity.

[u/Remote-Monk-8542]

Hiromi Higuruma was a lawyer who dedicated himself towards taking nearly unwinnable cases to defend 'the weak,' ie people who nobody was willing to defend.

It tanked his public reputation because nobody is willing to believe his clients are innocent, so the public hates him and assumes foul play/corruption when he succeeds and gets an innocent verdict. The same clients also hated him and crashed out on him when they were found guilty, despite him doing everything he can to help and constantly fighting uphill battles. The court system was blatantly unjust, and gave a client he knew was innocent a guilty verdict based on bogus trials. The client in question immediately looked at him with resentment and betrayal.

This made him finally hit his breaking point. He slimed out the judge and prosecutor of that case then and there, and went on a killing spree right after, convinced that all people are 'ugly' no matter how badly he wanted to fight for the small chance that they might be good deep down.

[u/pichael289 → u/Remote-Monk-8542]

You didn't say the series this is from so I read this like it happened in real life. And ehh, kinda can't blame him. That's a Japanese name and as bad as American courts they aren't nearly Japanese bad