Crossed. In the first volume when Allen and his wife and child are killed, it's a two page splash that honestly made me feel as though I would vomit. Like need-fresh-air type close call.
Oddly enough, it's not the deaths or even the rapes that had me so disturbed, but rather that while they are being raped/murdered, Allen's wife screams at him about it all being his fault. In a moment of horror like that, I just cannot imagine those being the final words you hear.
In the second volume of Crossed (Family Values) when the farm is first overrun, there is a scene where the young boys are caught. One Crossed grabs this boy by the head and another grabs his body and they essentially tug-of-war a small child in half. That was bad as well.
And back in my favorite old comic, Bill Willingham's Elementals by Comico Comics, there was an arc which was built too over a few YEARS which completely emotionally destroyed one of the main characters. Early on she faced a villain named Shapeshifter who could, no surprise, act as a shapeshifter. Morningstar believed she had killed Shapeshifter. Several years later, after an extended courtship and many beautiful dates, Morningstar finally married her longtime boyfriend. It was a great moment, not just for her, but for all the Elementals because normal humans were so afraid of them regularly that this was the first hope they had ever seen for a normal life.
After the wedding, the comic arc follows Morningstar to the honeymoon where her newlywed husband then reverts to the Shapeshifter form. Morningstar is horrified and believes Shapeshifter had kidnapped or murdered her husband to replace him. Shapeshifter then reveals that the man Morningstar had fallen in love with had simply never existed. From the very first time they met, it had been Shapeshifter. Every meaningful moment they had ever had together was a lie, designed to twist and manipulate her, and every expression of love or affection had been false, even down to Shapeshifter being intimate with her on many occasions. Shapeshifter drops all of this into Morningstar's lap with a grand "Nobody will ever love you. I have completely twisted you to do whatever I wanted. And you will never be able to trust another person again, because deep down you will never know if they are telling the truth or not, and at any given moment it could turn out to just be me messing with you."
Shapeshifter leaves Morningstar on the night of her wedding, completely emotionally destroyed and on the verge of suicide. For good writing and emotional abuse, nothing tops that.
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