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** A MUCH less extreme example is Kara Thrace, aka "Starbuck" (at least in the {{Jerkass}} department, in TheWoobie department she easily matches anyone in the show). She can be a real bitch a lot of times but seeing her backstory and what happens to her, it's practically impossible not to want to give her a hug MANY times throughout the series.
** ''Battlestar'' has a lot of these, given the huge number of horrible things that happen to its characters. Gaius Baltar is another good example. He has an insufferably large ego, he is inadvertently responsible for enabling the Cylons' genocide of humanity, he is a serial womaniser, and the series seems to present him with a never-ending TraumaCongaLine. Felix Gaeta also qualifies. [[spoiler:By the time he is executed, his life had gotten so shitty that it almost comes as a relief.]]
** ''Battlestar'' has a lot of these, given the huge number of horrible things that happen to its characters. Gaius Baltar is another good example. He has an insufferably large ego, he is inadvertently responsible for enabling the Cylons' genocide of humanity, he is a serial womaniser, and the series seems to present him with a never-ending TraumaCongaLine. Felix Gaeta also qualifies. [[spoiler:By the time he is executed, his life had gotten so shitty that it almost comes as a relief.]]
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** A MUCH ''much'' less extreme example is Kara Thrace, aka "Starbuck" (at least in the {{Jerkass}} department, department; in TheWoobie department department, she easily matches anyone in the show). She can be a real bitch a lot of times but seeing her backstory (including a DisappearedDad and an abusive EvilMatriarch mother, and to say nothing of how she [[ItsAllMyFault blames herself for her fiance's death]]) and what happens to her, her during the series, it's practically impossible not to want to give her a hug MANY times throughout the series.
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**''Battlestar'' has a lot of these, given the huge number of horrible things that happen to its characters. Gaius Baltar is another good example. He has an insufferably large ego, ego and has done a lot of shamelessly selfish acts to save his own hide, but he is was inadvertently responsible for enabling the Cylons' genocide of humanity, humanity after being manipulated by a woman [[LadykillerInLove he is a serial womaniser, genuinely fell in love with]] and the series seems to present revel putting him with through a never-ending TraumaCongaLine. TraumaCongaLine.
** Felix Gaeta also qualifies. He starts off as a straight Woobie as a WideEyedIdealist, but after being put through the wringer himself, up to and including [[spoiler:painfully [[AnArmAndALeg losing his leg]]]], he begins turning more cynical, to the point that he launches a full-on [[TheMutiny mutiny]] that would only end up dooming everyone in the long run. [[spoiler:By the time he is executed, his life had gotten soshitty shitty]] that it almost comes as a relief.]]
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** Felix Gaeta also qualifies. He starts off as a straight Woobie as a WideEyedIdealist, but after being put through the wringer himself, up to and including [[spoiler:painfully [[AnArmAndALeg losing his leg]]]], he begins turning more cynical, to the point that he launches a full-on [[TheMutiny mutiny]] that would only end up dooming everyone in the long run. [[spoiler:By the time he is executed, his life had gotten so
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** Jesse Pinkman is a meth dealer and starts out as the closest thing the show has to a bad guy, but as the show progresses, the only people he cares about end up dead or injured, and it becomes clear that he's a scared and fundamentally decent kid in over his head. Crosses into [[TheWoobie regular Woobie]] in season 5, [[spoiler:when Todd enslaves and tortures him]].
** Skyler White has cheated on Walt, had an on-again, off-again relationship with his meth business, and blackmailed him about it in the earlier seasons, but it's hard not to feel bad for her: In Season 2, she gets a lot of undeserved hate for kicking Walt out of the house, and has to just sit there and let Walt Jr. curse her out because she can't tell him that his father is a drug dealer. In Season 5 Walt's Heisenberg (read: pure evil) alter-ego begins to show up in their domestic life and she's forced to leave her kids with Hank and Marie for their own safety, again opening herself up to hate from her son with no way to defend herself.
** Marie is a KnowNothingKnowItAll, refused to apologize for accidentally getting Skyler arrested, never shuts up, and generally gets involved in things that are none of her business, but in Season 4 it becomes clear she really loves Hank and wants him to get better [[spoiler:after he's left paralyzed from a shootout with the Cousins]]. Her reward for all of this is constant verbal abuse from her husband.
** Hank himself. He's rude, obnoxious, could use a refresher course on the 4th Amendment, and not above making incredibly racist jokes around his Hispanic partner. But between his nervous breakdown in Season 2 and [[spoiler:getting paralyzed]] in 3 he becomes actually quite sympathetic, especially when it becomes clear that his obnoxiousness is an act to cover up the uncertainty he feels about whether he's doing the right thing and his fear of getting shot or killed on the job.
** This was the second stage of Walt's transformation. He started off as a regular [[TheWoobie Woobie]], and then became this as his character darkened. After crossing what many consider his MoralEventHorizon at the end of Season 4, he left this territory behind as well. [[spoiler:He reverts to this in "Ozymandias": He has fled the state and done everything in his power to protect Skyler from prosecution, but Hank's death is his only regret. This continues in "Felina", where he reveals he's still a cold-blooded killer but tries to make everything right with his family before his death.]]
** Skyler White has cheated on Walt, had an on-again, off-again relationship with his meth business, and blackmailed him about it in the earlier seasons, but it's hard not to feel bad for her: In Season 2, she gets a lot of undeserved hate for kicking Walt out of the house, and has to just sit there and let Walt Jr. curse her out because she can't tell him that his father is a drug dealer. In Season 5 Walt's Heisenberg (read: pure evil) alter-ego begins to show up in their domestic life and she's forced to leave her kids with Hank and Marie for their own safety, again opening herself up to hate from her son with no way to defend herself.
** Marie is a KnowNothingKnowItAll, refused to apologize for accidentally getting Skyler arrested, never shuts up, and generally gets involved in things that are none of her business, but in Season 4 it becomes clear she really loves Hank and wants him to get better [[spoiler:after he's left paralyzed from a shootout with the Cousins]]. Her reward for all of this is constant verbal abuse from her husband.
** Hank himself. He's rude, obnoxious, could use a refresher course on the 4th Amendment, and not above making incredibly racist jokes around his Hispanic partner. But between his nervous breakdown in Season 2 and [[spoiler:getting paralyzed]] in 3 he becomes actually quite sympathetic, especially when it becomes clear that his obnoxiousness is an act to cover up the uncertainty he feels about whether he's doing the right thing and his fear of getting shot or killed on the job.
** This was the second stage of Walt's transformation. He started off as a regular [[TheWoobie Woobie]], and then became this as his character darkened. After crossing what many consider his MoralEventHorizon at the end of Season 4, he left this territory behind as well. [[spoiler:He reverts to this in "Ozymandias": He has fled the state and done everything in his power to protect Skyler from prosecution, but Hank's death is his only regret. This continues in "Felina", where he reveals he's still a cold-blooded killer but tries to make everything right with his family before his death.]]
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** Jesse Pinkman is a meth dealer and starts out as the closest thing the show has to a bad guy, but as the show progresses, the only people he cares about end up dead or injured, and it becomes clear that he's a scared and fundamentally decent kid way in over his head. Crosses into [[TheWoobie regular Woobie]] in season Season 5, [[spoiler:when Todd enslaves and tortures him]].
** Skyler White has cheated on Walt, had an on-again, off-again relationship with his meth business, and blackmailed him about it in the earlier seasons, but it's hard not to feel bad for her: In Season 2, she gets a lot of undeservedhate hatred from her son for kicking Walt out of the house, and has to just sit there and let Walt Jr. said son curse her out because she can't tell him that his father is a drug dealer. In Season 5 5, Walt's Heisenberg (read: pure evil) alter-ego begins to show up in their domestic life and she's forced to leave her kids with Hank and Marie for their own safety, again opening herself up to hate from her son with no way to defend herself.
** Marie is a KnowNothingKnowItAll, refused to apologize foraccidentally nearly getting Skyler arrested, never shuts up, and generally gets involved in things that are none of her business, but in Season 4 it becomes clear she really loves Hank and wants him to get better [[spoiler:after he's left paralyzed from a shootout with the Cousins]]. Her reward for all of this is constant verbal abuse from her husband.
** Hank himself. He's rude, obnoxious, could use a refresher course on the 4th Amendment, and not above making incredibly racist jokes around his Hispanic partner. But between his nervous breakdown in Season 2 and [[spoiler:getting paralyzed]] in3 Season 3, he becomes actually quite sympathetic, especially when it becomes clear that his obnoxiousness is an act to cover up the uncertainty he feels about whether he's doing the right thing and his fear of getting shot or killed on the job.
** This was the second stage of Walt's transformation. He started off as a regular [[TheWoobie Woobie]], and then became this as his character darkened. After crossing what many consider his MoralEventHorizon at the end of Season 4, he left this territory behind as well. [[spoiler:He reverts to this in "Ozymandias": He has fled the state and done everything in his power to protect Skyler from prosecution, but has Hank's deathis weighing on his only regret. conscience after genuinely doing ''everything'' he could to save him. This continues in "Felina", where he reveals he's still admits that whatever noble intentions he might have had at first were quickly left by the wayside when he became addicted to the rush of being a cold-blooded killer criminal but tries to make everything right with his family before his death.]]
** Skyler White has cheated on Walt, had an on-again, off-again relationship with his meth business, and blackmailed him about it in the earlier seasons, but it's hard not to feel bad for her: In Season 2, she gets a lot of undeserved
** Marie is a KnowNothingKnowItAll, refused to apologize for
** Hank himself. He's rude, obnoxious, could use a refresher course on the 4th Amendment, and not above making incredibly racist jokes around his Hispanic partner. But between his nervous breakdown in Season 2 and [[spoiler:getting paralyzed]] in
** This was the second stage of Walt's transformation. He started off as a regular [[TheWoobie Woobie]], and then became this as his character darkened. After crossing what many consider his MoralEventHorizon at the end of Season 4, he left this territory behind as well. [[spoiler:He reverts to this in "Ozymandias": He has fled the state and done everything in his power to protect Skyler from prosecution, but has Hank's death
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** Say what you like about Faith's brash, tactless attitude, her willingless and lack of shame at using people like tampons and her psychotic murderous qualities, but even her most zealous of haters (as well as [[BaseBreakingCharacter her most dedicated fans]]) admit that it must have '''sucked''' to be her. To have abusive, alcoholic parents who are strongly implied to be dead, to see your watcher die in front of your eyes and to never of had a real father figure must have stung pretty badly. [[spoiler: And of course, there's the whole being stuck in a coma for months thing, before awakening to find the only person who ever cared for you is dead. Truly the cherry upon the crappy cake that is Faith's life.]] [[BrokenBase The real question among the fandom is]] whether Faith uses all her misfortune as a excuse to be a heartless, violent bitch or if she is genuinely a victim who has been pushed off the rails and needs all the support she can get. Of course, then there are the people who argued that she ''was'' offered support, but chose not to take it, preferring to resume her sociopathic, reckless lifestyle for her own selfish benefit. Or even if she was so unused to being offered friendship and understanding that the poor mess couldn't process it. Either way, definitely a Jerkass, definitely a woobie.
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** Say what you like about Faith's brash, brash and tactless attitude, her willingless willingness and lack of shame at using people like tampons and her psychotic murderous qualities, but even her most zealous of haters (as well as [[BaseBreakingCharacter her most dedicated fans]]) admit that it must have '''sucked''' to be her. To have abusive, alcoholic parents who are strongly implied to be dead, to see your watcher die in front of your eyes and to never of had a real father figure must have stung pretty badly. [[spoiler: And of course, there's the whole being stuck in a coma for months thing, before awakening to find the only person who ever cared for you is dead. Truly the cherry upon the crappy cake that is Faith's life.]] [[BrokenBase The real question among the fandom is]] whether Faith uses all her misfortune as a excuse to be a heartless, violent bitch or if she is genuinely a victim who has been pushed off the rails and needs all the support she can get. Of course, then there are the people who argued that she ''was'' offered support, but chose not to take it, preferring to resume her sociopathic, reckless lifestyle for her own selfish benefit. Or even if she was so unused to being offered friendship and understanding that the poor mess couldn't process it. Either way, definitely a Jerkass, definitely a woobie.
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*** The Twelfth Doctor is can be mean spirited, insulting and is less likely to weep over the deaths he sees. This is partly because he knows grieving will not help anyone and is likely to get more people killed and partly due to being racked by insecurities and having lost so many people already.
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*** The Twelfth Doctor is can be mean spirited, insulting and is less likely to weep over the deaths he sees. This is partly because he knows grieving will not help anyone and is likely to get more people killed and partly due to being racked by insecurities and having lost so many people already.
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** Benny was a horrible mother to George, no bones about it. But her parents were ''much'' worse, and she had to raise a kid on her own without help.
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** Benny was a horrible mother to George, no bones about it. But her parents were ''much'' worse, and she had to raise a kid George [[StrugglingSingleMother on her own without help.help]].
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*''Series/AlRawabiSchoolForGirls'': Ruqayyah. Her IAmNotPretty mindset drives a lot of her issues, from feeling like the odd one out because she's the only one of the trio who doesn't have a boyfriend, from her mother telling her that her sisters are much prettier. When it comes to her best friends, even they're not supportive to her at times, like shutting her down from joining the football team because they want her spots, and deserting her when they're going partying while making her carry the drinks. Her self esteem is so bad that Mariam is able to manipulate her into taking off her hijab. When pictures of her circulate online, we see her horribly abusive mother's vitriol increase tenfold, and she forbids her from going back to school because she's DefiledForever. Sure, she's a terrible person who assaulted an asthmatic child, and was part of the gang that brutalized Maryam into needing hospital care. But the way her mother reacts to her photos being leaked is utterly cruel.
-->[[spoiler:'''Ruqayyah's mother''']]''':''' [[spoiler:Nobody wants [[DefiledForever damaged goods]], do they? [[MadonnaWhoreComplex A girl's reputation is all she has. It's just like a glass vase. If you break it, it can't be fixed, and even if you do fix it, it will never be the same.]] And now, Ruqayyah, [[KickTheDog you're just a broken vase]].]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Ruqayyah's mother''']]''':''' [[spoiler:Nobody wants [[DefiledForever damaged goods]], do they? [[MadonnaWhoreComplex A girl's reputation is all she has. It's just like a glass vase. If you break it, it can't be fixed, and even if you do fix it, it will never be the same.]] And now, Ruqayyah, [[KickTheDog you're just a broken vase]].]]
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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E22APianoInTheHouse A Piano in the House]]", the owner of the titular piano is showing being a caustic {{Jerkass}} who delights in being the center of attention by tearing others down -- in this instance, through using a magic piano whose songs bring out the deeper personalities in people. However, when the tables are turned, he zips right into [[TheWoobie woobie]] territory, when he's forced (through the piano's magic) to reveal that he [[FreudianExcuse has an inferiority complex]], and the reaction to his doing that... is for the party-goers to leave, his wife to finally divorce him, and his normally stoic butler to quit, saying, [[KickTheSonOfABitch "You're not funny anymore."]]
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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E22APianoInTheHouse A Piano in the House]]", the owner of the titular piano is showing being a caustic {{Jerkass}} who delights in being the center of attention by tearing others down -- in this instance, through using a magic piano whose songs bring out the deeper personalities in people. However, when the tables are turned, he zips right into [[TheWoobie woobie]] territory, when he's forced (through the piano's magic) to reveal that he [[FreudianExcuse has an inferiority complex]], and the reaction to his doing that... is for the party-goers to leave, his wife to finally divorce him, and his normally stoic butler to quit, saying, [[KickTheSonOfABitch "You're not funny anymore."]]"
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** Lestat de Lioncourt is an awful, ''awful'' person, but his backstory is genuinely horrific. He was abused by his father and brothers, and then was kidnapped by a SerialKiller who turned him into a vampire and then killed himself in front of him, leaving Lestat to figure out the "rules" of vampirism by himself. It doesn't excuse his actions one bit, but still, ''no one'' deserves what he went through.
** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by [[AbusiveParent Lestat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by [[AbusiveParent Lestat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
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** Lestat de Lioncourt is an awful, ''awful'' person, but his backstory is genuinely horrific. He was [[AbusiveParent abused by his father father]] and brothers, [[BigBrotherBully brothers]], and then was kidnapped by a SerialKiller who turned him into a vampire and then killed himself in front of him, leaving Lestat to figure out the "rules" of vampirism by himself. It doesn't excuse his actions one bit, but still, ''no one'' deserves what he went through.
** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by her vampire father [[AbusiveParent Lestat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by her vampire father [[AbusiveParent Lestat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E87APianoIntheHouse A Piano in the House]]", the owner of the titular piano is showing being a caustic {{Jerkass}} who delights in being the center of attention by tearing others down -- in this instance, through using a magic piano whose songs bring out the deeper personalities in people. However, when the tables are turned, he zips right into [[TheWoobie woobie]] territory, when he's forced (through the piano's magic) to reveal that he [[FreudianExcuse has an inferiority complex]], and the reaction to his doing that... is for the party-goers to leave, his wife to finally divorce him, and his normally stoic butler to quit, saying, [[KickTheSonOfABitch "You're not funny anymore."]]
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* In ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E87APianoIntheHouse "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E22APianoInTheHouse A Piano in the House]]", the owner of the titular piano is showing being a caustic {{Jerkass}} who delights in being the center of attention by tearing others down -- in this instance, through using a magic piano whose songs bring out the deeper personalities in people. However, when the tables are turned, he zips right into [[TheWoobie woobie]] territory, when he's forced (through the piano's magic) to reveal that he [[FreudianExcuse has an inferiority complex]], and the reaction to his doing that... is for the party-goers to leave, his wife to finally divorce him, and his normally stoic butler to quit, saying, [[KickTheSonOfABitch "You're not funny anymore."]]
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* ''Series/PicketFences'': Bill Pugen is an enormous MayorPain 90% of the time and guilty of things like building a golf course over sacred Native American land and eventually shooting an unarmed carjacker, but he also has moments that show his confusion and misery as he tries to figure out just what he is doing wrong with his job to make his constituency so hostile toward him, and his spontaneous human combustion fate right after the implosion of his career can evoke additional pity.
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* ''Series/NorthernExposure'':
** Joel can be a whiny know-it-all who constantly tries to assert his superiority over other people, but him being forced to be a smalltown doctor for years due to a ReadTheFinePrint contract, suffering from a sense of isolation due to there not being other Jews in Cicely, being dumped by his fiancee, and his CosmicPlaything status can all make him pitiful.
** Maurice is a greedy and arrogant racist, homophobe, and DirtyOldMan, but some episodes give him major LonelyAtTheTop vibes, and he is incapable of seeing generous and thoughtful actions by important people in his life for what they are and is obsessed with the idea that people have an angle while viewing some of his most selfless actions as moments of weakness. He also has some regrets about his relationship with his late brother and is unlucky in love (although this is often his own fault).
** Joel can be a whiny know-it-all who constantly tries to assert his superiority over other people, but him being forced to be a smalltown doctor for years due to a ReadTheFinePrint contract, suffering from a sense of isolation due to there not being other Jews in Cicely, being dumped by his fiancee, and his CosmicPlaything status can all make him pitiful.
** Maurice is a greedy and arrogant racist, homophobe, and DirtyOldMan, but some episodes give him major LonelyAtTheTop vibes, and he is incapable of seeing generous and thoughtful actions by important people in his life for what they are and is obsessed with the idea that people have an angle while viewing some of his most selfless actions as moments of weakness. He also has some regrets about his relationship with his late brother and is unlucky in love (although this is often his own fault).
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* ''Series/MonarchLegacyOfMonsters'': Cate Randa is aloof and a little rude towards others around her and her relationship with her mother appears strained and very terse on her end, but after what she's been through, it's very hard not to understand her: a survivor of [[Film/Godzilla2014 G-Day]], she grapples with [[TraumaButton non-marginal PTSD which causes panic attacks]] after she was at ground zero of the Golden Gate Bridge destruction, watched the school-kids evacuees she was looking after as their teacher plummet to their deaths in front of her and subsequently received the cold shoulder from the Monarch mooks who she ran around crying to for help. Cate also thinks the worst about her and Kentaro's presumed-dead father [[DisappearedDad Hiroshi]] and doesn't make much effort to hide it; but considering that the man was chronically absent throughout her life, the last time she saw him alive was in the wake of G-Day, when he approached her ''only to tell her that he was '''immediately''' going away again''; and now she's found out that he was leading a double life for decades with [[SecretOtherFamily another wife and kid]] whom are just as shocked as she is, Cate's view of Hiroshi and her bitter feelings about him are more than reasonable.
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* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'':
** Cheryl Blossom seems like a stereotypical and unsympathetic AlphaBitch in the first episode, but her grief over Jason's death as well as her mother's incredibly harsh treatment of her that almost makes ''Alice Cooper'' seem like a loving parent, makes it hard not to feel sorry for her. Her moments of genuine empathy as the show progresses makes her increasingly sympathetic with each appearance, especially once it becomes clear that she suffers from some extreme mental issues that are largely being untreated and ignored by everyone around her.
** Penelope Blossom herself, to a lesser extent. She’s a god awful human being and a worse mother, but it slowly becomes apparent that she’s faced a lot of hardship in her life. Losing her clear favorite child [[spoiler: at the hands of her own husband,]] being burned to the point of needing a full body cast for weeks, and it’s revealed in Season Three that she [[spoiler: was an orphan who grew up at the Sisters Of Quiet Mercy- which a horrified Sierra notes has violated just about every humanitarian code- until she was adopted by the Blossoms at age nine, afterwhich she was groomed to become Clifford’s eventual wife.]]
** Chuck Clayton. He's a misogynistic jerk and bully but he didn't really deserve the torture Veronica and especially Betty (who he did nothing wrong to) put him through (said torture was him being ''drugged without his consent'' and ''waterboarded'' with maple syrup while being ''boiled alive in a hot tub''). He then got punched out by Jughead when he revealed it to everyone and when he returns to school from his suspension he genuinely wanted to redeem himself and make amends to everyone he hurt (he even apologized to Ethel in person) only for that to be ruined by Cheryl.
** Cheryl Blossom seems like a stereotypical and unsympathetic AlphaBitch in the first episode, but her grief over Jason's death as well as her mother's incredibly harsh treatment of her that almost makes ''Alice Cooper'' seem like a loving parent, makes it hard not to feel sorry for her. Her moments of genuine empathy as the show progresses makes her increasingly sympathetic with each appearance, especially once it becomes clear that she suffers from some extreme mental issues that are largely being untreated and ignored by everyone around her.
** Penelope Blossom herself, to a lesser extent. She’s a god awful human being and a worse mother, but it slowly becomes apparent that she’s faced a lot of hardship in her life. Losing her clear favorite child [[spoiler: at the hands of her own husband,]] being burned to the point of needing a full body cast for weeks, and it’s revealed in Season Three that she [[spoiler: was an orphan who grew up at the Sisters Of Quiet Mercy- which a horrified Sierra notes has violated just about every humanitarian code- until she was adopted by the Blossoms at age nine, afterwhich she was groomed to become Clifford’s eventual wife.]]
** Chuck Clayton. He's a misogynistic jerk and bully but he didn't really deserve the torture Veronica and especially Betty (who he did nothing wrong to) put him through (said torture was him being ''drugged without his consent'' and ''waterboarded'' with maple syrup while being ''boiled alive in a hot tub''). He then got punched out by Jughead when he revealed it to everyone and when he returns to school from his suspension he genuinely wanted to redeem himself and make amends to everyone he hurt (he even apologized to Ethel in person) only for that to be ruined by Cheryl.
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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has a few, mostly due to having to have antagonistic main characters who can be protagonists at other points in a given season:
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* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'': Kathleen is a snooty bitch, but her life is such a wreck - alcoholic mom, absentee dad, abusive boyfriend, anorexia...
** Stephanie is shallow, and mean to people she considers unworthy of her company, but at the end of season 1 tearfully reveals that she just wanted to be loved.
* ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' has a few, mostly due to having to have antagonistic main characters who can be protagonists at other points in a given season:
** Stephanie is shallow, and mean to people she considers unworthy of her company, but at the end of season 1 tearfully reveals that she just wanted to be loved.
* ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' has a few, mostly due to having to have antagonistic main characters who can be protagonists at other points in a given season:
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* ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'': Kathleen is a snooty bitch, but her life is such a wreck - alcoholic mom, absentee dad, abusive boyfriend, anorexia...
** Stephanie is shallow, and mean to people she considers unworthy of her company, but at the end of season 1 tearfully reveals that she just wanted to be loved.
** Stephanie is shallow, and mean to people she considers unworthy of her company, but at the end of season 1 tearfully reveals that she just wanted to be loved.
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** Stephanie is shallow, and mean to people she considers unworthy of her company, but at the end of season 1 tearfully reveals that she just wanted to be loved.
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* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Both Regina/The Evil Queen and Gold/Rumpelstilstkin have signs of this, both being [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk jerk-hearted jerks]] who have a tendency towards being cruel to the few people they actually care about. But seeing their [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] for their behavior (Regina had a cruel, controlling mother who murdered Regina's fiance, while Rumple gained magic [[LoveMakesYouEvil to save his son]], was corrupted by the magic until his son left their world in disgust, and was manipulated by Regina into believing that his {{Love Interest|s}} [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] after he made her leave under the suspicion that she was working for the Queen.) make them both [[CryForTheDevil sympathetic]] to varying degrees. (Note that Rumple seems to fit this trope the best, as Regina has so many KickTheDog moments with other characters, KickTheSonOfABitch / KickTheDog (depending on the day) moments with Rumple, and MoralEventHorizon moments that even [[TheChessmaster h]][[ManipulativeBastard e]] tends to come off as having the more sympathetic background.)
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* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Both Regina/The Evil Queen and Gold/Rumpelstilstkin have signs of this, both being [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk jerk-hearted jerks]] who have a tendency towards being cruel to the few people they actually care about. But seeing their [[FreudianExcuse excuses]] for their behavior (Regina had a cruel, controlling mother who murdered Regina's fiance, while Rumple gained magic [[LoveMakesYouEvil to save his son]], was corrupted by the magic until his son left their world in disgust, and was manipulated by Regina into believing that his {{Love Interest|s}} [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]] after he made her leave under the suspicion that she was working for the Queen.) make them both [[CryForTheDevil sympathetic]] to varying degrees. (Note that Rumple seems to fit this trope the best, as Regina has so many KickTheDog moments with other characters, KickTheSonOfABitch / KickTheDog (depending on the day) moments with Rumple, characters and MoralEventHorizon moments that even [[TheChessmaster h]][[ManipulativeBastard e]] [[ManipulativeBastard he]] tends to come off as having the more sympathetic background.)
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* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}''
** Jackie. She's portrayed as somewhat spoiled and egotistical, but overall a very nice and charming girl before the crash. Though she TookALevelInJerkass during their time in the wilderness, she dealt with a lot on top of the brutal situation: Shauna cheating with her boyfriend Jeff and then gets pregnant with him, a fact she only finds out because she reads her diary. She goes through SanitySlippage and pettily [[spoiler:tries to throw Shauna out of the cabin in a fit of anger, only for Shauna to turn it back on her and throw her out in a tantrum, forcing her to sleep outside. Jackie then freezes to death and dies a pretty slow and unpleasant death.]] [[spoiler: And if that isn’t bad enough, to rub salt in the wound, her starving teammates resort to eating her corpse after their attempt to cremate her goes wrong and ends up cooking her instead.]]
** Callie becomes one in Season 2. While the first season had shown her as a standard BrattyTeenageDaughter with only one PetTheDog moment, she quickly realises that [[spoiler: her mother is a murderer and her father is complicit in covering the crimes up]], not to mention she gets strung along by an adult man. While her [[spoiler: lying to the police]] doesn't make her 100% sympathetic, the fact that she spends most of her screen time being used by everyone, and the implications of having Shauna as a mother can't help but make one sympathise with her.
** Shauna herself follows the same line as her daughter in terms of audience sympathy. Her jerkass credentials include sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend, being responsible for [[spoiler: said friend freezing to death]], and in the present manipulates her teenage daughter, has an affair just to spite her husband, and [[spoiler: murders an innocent man]]. But in the present, it's clear she feels her best years are behind her, she admits that she didn't want to be a mother or married to Jeff, she clearly carries the guilt of [[spoiler: Jackie's death]] and to cap it off, [[spoiler: the baby she gave birth to in the woods was stillborn]].
** Natalie is something of a {{Jerkass}} in the beginning, with her BrutalHonesty and penchant for violent solutions, but she becomes a bigger Woobie as more of her backstory is revealed. Her father was abusive, and she had to witness him accidentally killing himself with his own shotgun, it's implied she's been sexualised by adult men, and in the present she is heartbroken over [[spoiler: Travis's suicide]]. Season 2 even reveals that [[spoiler: she was nearly hunted down and killed by the other girls for food, and carried the guilt of letting Javi drown when he tried to save her.]]
** Jackie. She's portrayed as somewhat spoiled and egotistical, but overall a very nice and charming girl before the crash. Though she TookALevelInJerkass during their time in the wilderness, she dealt with a lot on top of the brutal situation: Shauna cheating with her boyfriend Jeff and then gets pregnant with him, a fact she only finds out because she reads her diary. She goes through SanitySlippage and pettily [[spoiler:tries to throw Shauna out of the cabin in a fit of anger, only for Shauna to turn it back on her and throw her out in a tantrum, forcing her to sleep outside. Jackie then freezes to death and dies a pretty slow and unpleasant death.]] [[spoiler: And if that isn’t bad enough, to rub salt in the wound, her starving teammates resort to eating her corpse after their attempt to cremate her goes wrong and ends up cooking her instead.]]
** Callie becomes one in Season 2. While the first season had shown her as a standard BrattyTeenageDaughter with only one PetTheDog moment, she quickly realises that [[spoiler: her mother is a murderer and her father is complicit in covering the crimes up]], not to mention she gets strung along by an adult man. While her [[spoiler: lying to the police]] doesn't make her 100% sympathetic, the fact that she spends most of her screen time being used by everyone, and the implications of having Shauna as a mother can't help but make one sympathise with her.
** Shauna herself follows the same line as her daughter in terms of audience sympathy. Her jerkass credentials include sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend, being responsible for [[spoiler: said friend freezing to death]], and in the present manipulates her teenage daughter, has an affair just to spite her husband, and [[spoiler: murders an innocent man]]. But in the present, it's clear she feels her best years are behind her, she admits that she didn't want to be a mother or married to Jeff, she clearly carries the guilt of [[spoiler: Jackie's death]] and to cap it off, [[spoiler: the baby she gave birth to in the woods was stillborn]].
** Natalie is something of a {{Jerkass}} in the beginning, with her BrutalHonesty and penchant for violent solutions, but she becomes a bigger Woobie as more of her backstory is revealed. Her father was abusive, and she had to witness him accidentally killing himself with his own shotgun, it's implied she's been sexualised by adult men, and in the present she is heartbroken over [[spoiler: Travis's suicide]]. Season 2 even reveals that [[spoiler: she was nearly hunted down and killed by the other girls for food, and carried the guilt of letting Javi drown when he tried to save her.]]
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* Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from ''Series/PrisonBreak'' certainly fits this. He's an unrepentant AxCrazy psychopath, murdered children, is a racist, and is a DepravedBisexual of the highest order who will get it on with AnythingThatMoves. But his horrible childhood (being the [[InbredAndEvil product of incest]] and [[ChildByRape rape]], [[ParentalIncest being molested by his own father]], and being forced to memorize entire dictionaries) combined with some of the horrible things that happen to him in the series (having his hand cut off, for starters) really stirs up some pity for the bastard. It becomes more apparent in the fourth season when T-Bag slowly starts BecomingTheMask after taking on a fake identity, genuinely wanting redemption, only for it to just not work out in the end. Robert Knepper (who played him) noted this pretty well.
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* Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell from ''Series/PrisonBreak'' certainly fits this. He's an unrepentant AxCrazy psychopath, murdered children, is a racist, and is a DepravedBisexual of the highest order who will [[ExtremeOmnisexual get it on with AnythingThatMoves.anything that moves]]. But his horrible childhood (being the [[InbredAndEvil product of incest]] and [[ChildByRape rape]], [[ParentalIncest being molested by his own father]], and being forced to memorize entire dictionaries) combined with some of the horrible things that happen to him in the series (having his hand cut off, for starters) really stirs up some pity for the bastard. It becomes more apparent in the fourth season when T-Bag slowly starts BecomingTheMask after taking on a fake identity, genuinely wanting redemption, only for it to just not work out in the end. Robert Knepper (who played him) noted this pretty well.
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** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by [[AbusiveParents Letsat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
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** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by [[AbusiveParents Letsat]] [[AbusiveParent Lestat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
** Lestat de Lioncourt is an awful, ''awful'' person, but his backstory is genuinely horrific. He was abused by his father and brothers, and then was kidnapped by a SerialKiller who turned him into a vampire and then killed himself in front of him, leaving Lestat to figure out the "rules" of vampirism by himself. It doesn't excuse his actions one bit, but still, ''no one'' deserves what he went through.
** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by [[AbusiveParents Letsat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
** Lestat de Lioncourt is an awful, ''awful'' person, but his backstory is genuinely horrific. He was abused by his father and brothers, and then was kidnapped by a SerialKiller who turned him into a vampire and then killed himself in front of him, leaving Lestat to figure out the "rules" of vampirism by himself. It doesn't excuse his actions one bit, but still, ''no one'' deserves what he went through.
** Claudia is a SerialKiller, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by [[AbusiveParents Letsat]] and the loss of her FirstLove, and the realization that she will ''never'' get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
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** Stephanie is shallow, and mean to people she considers unworthy of her company, but at the end of season 1 tearfully reveals that she just wanted to be loved.
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* LesYay: Isabela and Alex attending the NONA party and dancing together.
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* ''Series/LazyTown'': Robbie is a pretty big jerk, but still a very lovable one that displays occasional hints of loneliness. In an AMA, his actor revealed what he really thinks of the other characters, underneath it all: "I wish I could be their friend." In "The First Day of Summer", everyone but Robbie goes to the beach and Robbie says "I never thought I'd say it, but I really, really miss those guys" when he thinks he made them disappear forever.
