History Main / WoobieFamily

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* The Eraliths of ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd''. Both the grandmother and her sister died due to overexerting their [[{{Seers}} divination]] powers (which were CastFromLifespan), the former to save the grandfather from assassins and the latter to save everyone she knew from the [[JerkassGods Asuras]] who planned to exterminate them all (on top of being a disciple of a benevolent Asura who was UnPerson[=ed=] after he went against his people, which forced her to live out her remaining days as a hermit), the father and mother were forced to make a deal with the BigBad after it was revealed that he had control over their daughter's life and were ultimately executed in the aftermath, the daughter was [[ReforgedIntoAMinion captured and turned into]] [[GrandTheftMe the vessel for an entity]] known as the Legacy (though with a silver lining that she is still FightingFromTheInside through the same means the BigBad had control over her). Only the grandfather has avoided his family's unfortunate fates. Even then, he had been forced not only to watch the Asuras destroy his homeland (and most of his people) via a FantasticNuke in a futile attempt to prevent the Legacy from being summoned, but was forced to work with them in the aftermath only for them to ultimately betray him as well once they deemed [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he had outlived his usefulness to them]].

* The Windrunners in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''/''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' lore. Parents and brother were killed by the orcs, oldest sister disappeared while exploring a dying world, middle sister was killed and turned undead by the Scourge, grandfather had to fight nephew-turned-undead, and two brothers ended up essentially killing each other.

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* The Bakers in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'' were nothing like they are during the events of the game before Eveline's arrival at their home and their subsequent infection and mutation by The Mold. You briefly get to see and speak to their old selves during the hive-mind dream sequence.

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* Myth/GreekMythology: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atreus Atreides]] are a family that seems to go out of their way to receive LaserGuidedKarma via murder, cannibalism, betrayal, adultery, incest, and familicide (often combined). It only ends when Orestes (whose only crime was killing his mother in revenge for killing his father, and even then had been ordered to do so by Apollo) after going mad and being pursued by the Furies, is acquitted by the gods.
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* Rule of thumb: if you're a member of the Yagami family and your name isn't Reinforce Zwei, the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fanbase has probably wanted to give you a hug (they wanted to hug Rein too, but for [[FunSize entirely different reasons]]). Hayate was a paraplegic orphan suffering from a terminal illness, the Wolkenritter were basically slaves for centuries, [[spoiler:Reinforce Eins is a literal WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds]], and the plot of ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs A's]]'' is kicked off by fate (not [[DarkMagicalGirl that Fate]]) threatening to take away the happy life they managed to build together in spite of all of that. This stops applying in later seasons, though not before their joined by Agito, a LivingWeapon who was experimented on for an unspecified period of time and found herself unable to properly repay the man who saved her life despite her best efforts.

* The Souma of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' fame take the Hereditary Curse avenue. If you count all of the non-Souma characters who end up marrying into the family, the angst level skyrockets even further. No one had a happy childhood, no one got their happy ending without a pound of flesh.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The Hotakainen family seems to be quite prone to tragedies. When first introduced, the family consists of a pair of siblings (Onni and Tuuri) and their younger cousin (Lalli). At ages sixteen, ten and eight respectively, they were the only survivors of an outbreak of ThePlague on their home island that resulted in the death of their parents. The supernatural entity that made the outbreak happen is implied to have assimilated their grandmother, and seems to be intermittently hunting for surviving mages in the family in a way that makes it more dangerous for Onni and Lalli to communicate via the TalkingInYourDreams system than it already it for most mages. In the first arc of the story proper, Tuuri drags Lalli into participating in a expedition in the [[DeathWorld Silent World]] and ends up [[spoiler:dying there and leaving Lalli alone with a handful people he can't speak with]]. Lalli himself ends up in a very crippling PowerStrainBlackout no less than twice during the trip, with the second one being of a type that very narrowly avoided being outright fatal to him. During the story's second arc, events from the first arc result in Onni leaving on an adventure whose SuicideMission is implied by the fact that he goes out of his way to make sure Lalli doesn't follow him on it.