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25th May '13 8:02:48 AM thenightmareman

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* Tommy Merlyn on ''Arrow''. The poor guy was just a lightning rod for bad luck and every time something good happened, something horrible was waiting around the corner to beat him down again. Before the series started, he saw his mother murdered and was neglected by his father, who simply abandoned him for two years. As an adult, he loses his best friend for five years, loses his fortune after his father cuts him off and then tries to make him close down a clinic that his mother cared about, he finds out Oliver and his father are both murderers, his relationship with Laurel falls apart because he can't keep Oliver's secret and she still has feelings for him and he gets beaten up and nearly murdered by Huntress. And then [[spoiler: he dies saving Laurel by being impaled and crushed by concrete]]. 
* ''The Vampire Diaries'' brings us multiple examples:
** Jeremy Gilbert loses his parents, has a girlfriend who is openly jerkish to him die and is made to forget it, he has a teacher who dislikes him enough to keep a file on him, he meets a girl who has manipulating him for his family journal (She develops genuine feelings for him and then dies too), he is openly insulted, abused and even murdered by resident jerkass Damon (He got better), he is killed again at the end of the second season, and has to be sent away to avoid being murdered and [[spoiler: is then betrayed and killed by Katherine in Season four.
** Caroline Forbes seems to be the go to girl for kidnappings, tortures, and general mistreatment.
** Bonnie Bennett has a mother that abandoned her, loses her grandmother, nearly dies multiple times and seems to only be used when her friends need something from her before [[spoiler: dying at the end of season four]].
** Matt Donovan has been abandoned by both parents, works a deadend job, fears being left behind when his friends leave for college, is often beaten up and insulted by other characters, has to put up endless bad luck and [[spoiler: loses his best friend Jeremy in season four]].

20th May '13 2:27:47 AM AnotherGamer

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16th May '13 11:56:05 AM PeteU

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* Theon Greyjoy of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Its not just that he's grown up as a hostage of the Stark family to keep his once-rebellious father in line. When he goes home at the behest of Robb Stark to secure an alliance between the Starks and Greyjoys, he gets scorned right off the docks when he first arrives. Instead of a royal welcome, the only two people who are there are an old man who is entirely unimpressed by Theon, and a flirty young woman who he manages to feel up and then discovers [[spoiler: was his sister]]. Things get progressively worse for Theon as he gets snubbed by his own father multiple times until he [[spoiler: accepts his place as a Greyjoy and works with his father to conquer the North, including the very Starks that raised him.]] He gets a single small ship and is ordered to harass small fishing villages, gets disrespected by his own crew, and when he [[spoiler: invades Winterfell, Bran Stark, a young crippled boy, drives Theon to total exasperation by refusing to yield.]] And he can't even [[spoiler: execute a man right, as it takes four swipes with his sword and a bunch of kicking to get Ser Rodrick's head severed]], and this is before he [[spoiler: gets made a complete fool of by Osha who sleeps with him just so she can slip out of the castle with the Stark boys, Hodor, and the two direwolves.]] That's right: Theon managed to turn a flawless, audacious conquest into a ''massive'' HumiliationConga... which continues over the next few episodes, beginning with his attempt to save face: [[spoiler: it results in him being manipulated by [[TheDragon his right-hand man]] into killing two children and making it look as they were the Stark boys.]] Not only does it fail to get him any respect whatsoever, but it also gives his sister the opportunity to drop a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech barrage of insults in his lap]] and tell him that all of his successes are for nothing because he won't be able to maintain any of them for long- [[spoiler: especially since his father refused to send him any reinforcements.]] After being driven half-insane over the next few days by the horn-blowing of [[spoiler: the Stark bannermen marching on Winterfell]] he tries to rally his men to go down fighting, even delivering an impressive RousingSpeech to that end, and for a moment it looks as though he's finally earned their respect... [[spoiler: And then he gets knocked out by his own treacherous right-hand man and left to face to the approaching army while his own men retreat.]] He's then captured and mercilessly tortured, only to be rescued by Ramsay Snow, a man claiming to be sent by his sister, [[spoiler: only to be re-imprisoned and tortured even more heinously by Ramsay.]] After enduring more heinous torture, Theon is taken off his wooden cross by two women, who start to seduce him, only to reveal that [[spoiler: it was nothing more than an excuse by Ramsay to torture him even further by appearing to castrate him.]]

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* Theon Greyjoy of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Its not just that he's grown up as a hostage of the Stark family to keep his once-rebellious father in line. When he goes home at the behest of Robb Stark to secure an alliance between the Starks and Greyjoys, he gets scorned right off the docks when he first arrives. Instead of a royal welcome, the only two people who are there are an old man who is entirely unimpressed by Theon, and a flirty young woman who he manages to feel up and then discovers [[spoiler: was his sister]]. Things get progressively worse for Theon as he gets snubbed by his own father multiple times until he [[spoiler: accepts his place as a Greyjoy and works with his father to conquer the North, including the very Starks that raised him.]] He gets a single small ship and is ordered to harass small fishing villages, gets disrespected by his own crew, and when he [[spoiler: invades Winterfell, Bran Stark, a young crippled boy, drives Theon to total exasperation by refusing to yield.]] And he can't even [[spoiler: execute a man right, as it takes four swipes with his sword and a bunch of kicking to get Ser Rodrick's head severed]], and this is before he [[spoiler: gets made a complete fool of by Osha who sleeps with him just so she can slip out of the castle with the Stark boys, Hodor, and the two direwolves.]] That's right: Theon managed to turn a flawless, audacious conquest into a ''massive'' HumiliationConga... which continues over the next few episodes, beginning with his attempt to save face: [[spoiler: it results in him being manipulated by [[TheDragon his right-hand man]] into killing two children and making it look as they were the Stark boys.]] Not only does it fail to get him any respect whatsoever, but it also gives his sister the opportunity to drop a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech barrage of insults in his lap]] and tell him that all of his successes are for nothing because he won't be able to maintain any of them for long- [[spoiler: especially since his father refused to send him any reinforcements.]] After being driven half-insane over the next few days by the horn-blowing of [[spoiler: the Stark bannermen marching on Winterfell]] he tries to rally his men to go down fighting, even delivering an impressive RousingSpeech to that end, and for a moment it looks as though he's finally earned their respect... [[spoiler: And then he gets knocked out by his own treacherous right-hand man and left to face to the approaching army while his own men retreat.]] He's then captured and mercilessly tortured, only to be rescued by a man claiming to be sent by his sister, [[spoiler: only to be re-imprisoned and tortured even more heinously by him.]] After enduring more heinous torture, Theon is taken off his wooden cross by two women, who start to seduce him, only to reveal that [[spoiler: it was nothing more than an excuse by his new captor to torture him even further by appearing to castrate him.]]

16th May '13 11:52:54 AM PeteU

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12th May '13 5:58:37 PM Lanthanide

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10th May '13 12:56:16 PM MountainMan