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* Judy from ''Film/{{Dolls}}''.

*** In ''X'', Gazelle deserved a ''bone-crushing'' hug (don't worry about hurting him; he's a cyborg, remember?). After being reformatted as a cyborg, his fiancée was horrified by his new appearance. Devastated, Gazelle became a (tragic [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of a) BloodKnight and turned his attention to ''F-Zero'', [[TearJerker as it was the only thing left in life that he had to live for]]. He came ''dangerously close'' to playing CyberneticsEatYourSoul straight. By the time of ''GX'', however, he seems to have gotten out of his funk, [[EarnYourHappyEnding with a new girlfriend and a more positive outlook on life]]. Heck, [[MachineWorship he even seems to enjoy his new body]]!
-->'''Mr. Zero:''' "[[SenseLossSadness Don't you miss having a human form?]]"
-->'''Mighty Gazelle:''' "[[AngstWhatAngst Not at all.]] You have no idea how good a coat of oil feels or a good jolt of electricity!"

** IronWoobie: Leon. This guy will never lament his lot in life, preferring to stay optimistic. He also happens to be ''extremely'' selfless, perhaps more so than ''any other character''.

* Erik from ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.

* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': [[ParentalAbandonment Vin]][[DeathSeeker cent]] [[ApocalypseMaiden Nightray]]. Sociopathic AxCrazy {{Yandere}} with a brother complex and [[DarkAndTroubledPast one of the most fucked-up backstories ever]].

* Tetsuo from ''Manga/{{Akira}}'', when he can no longer resist the urge to lash out and employ his full powers.

* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'': Averted with Jack Frost, who remains happy and joyous, making kids happy despite having no one believe in him.

** TheWoobie: Misaki Haruka, ''especially'' once a) we see the flashback of her reaction to Ryu's "death" and b) she [[spoiler:breaks free of Black Shadow's control. She is utterly ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone mortified]]'' by her time as Miss Killer.]]

** And let's not forget a certain Princess of the Night.

** Leah, Balaam's Donkey, Eli, Tamar, Uriah, Job, Jeremiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, Mary, Abel, Tobit, Sarah...

--> '''Hotsuma''': "Akagane... Shirogane... not you too!"

* YMMV/Shinobi: If the [[MultipleEndings bad ending]] of ''Revenge of Shinobi'' is canon, Joe Musashi would be this in ''Shinobi III''.

** Kyouko has some of this as well, since she [[HopelessSuitor just can't give up on Yasuko]], who keeps giving her the cold shoulder.

* YMMV/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas: Crane Yuzuriha in the Lost Canvas Gaiden.
** Gemini Defteros's backstory.

* Sam Tyler from ''Series/LifeOnMars2006''. There's his FishOutOfTemporalWater predicament, the ensuing angst and SanitySlippage, and all the abuse he has to put up with. Yet he's still a capable police officer and unwavering in his principles.

*** The Chipper Chums, for their grizzly fate, ironically being the most innocent of the sort of characters you get in this series, yet having the worst outcome.

** The Merrick Institute are children who were abducted by an US government organization and put through trauma-inducing experiments, gaining dream powers at the cost of being for the most part crippled or vegetative, just because said organization was trying to find a way through them to exploit [[TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial Beasts]] as military weapons. Now that they overthrew their captors and organized themselves into their own conspiracy, they have to fight Beasts on regular basis on their own turf, all while still being on the run from their former captors.

YMMV/TheCaligulaEffect:
* IronWoobie: Kuchinashi. Even in spite of all the awful things that have happened to her, she remains loyal to the Musicians and determined to take down the Go-Home Club.

* TheWoobie: The Fugitoid and Splinter.

** IronWoobie: Wretch.

* YMMV/HexyzForce: Surprisingly, Levant's violent monster personality is this.

** TheWoobie: Melanie/Elle

** JerkassWoobie: Mio; she gives off such a sad image on several occasions throughout the series.Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon. An outcast in his village, even his dad thinks he's a failure, he thinks the only way anyone will respect him is if he kills a dragon, and at the end, even after he's gotten all the respect, love, and friendship he'd wanted for the whole movie. He loses his left leg saving pretty much his entire tribe and a whole lot of dragons from a massive Green Death dragon.

And for that matter, much of the Draenei race as a whole, whom the Broken devolved from. Pursued across the universe for centuries and hunted down to near-extinction by the Burning Legion and its minions, simply for daring to reject the temptation of its corrupting power.

* Alys Brangwin from PhantasyStarIV. True, she often cons Hahn out of his money and one time punched a DirtyOldMan for revealing her measurements but did she deserve to be killed by Zio's Black Wave technique? No, no she didn't.

* YMMV/DetectivePikachu: When interrogating [[{{CreepyCute}} Mimikyu]], its subtitle is "Dreams of being popular". Awwww.

* Kenny from ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' is practically the definition of this trope. He is supremely hot headed and often selfish, but that's mostly because the guy has been through a lot, including [[spoiler:losing his entire family]].

** JerkassWoobie: Alys Brangwin. Constantly extorts money out of Hahn? Check. Threatens violence to the principal? Check. Has an attitude in general? Check. Is discriminated for being a female in a male dominated profession? Check. [[spoiler: Dies from a painful illness after being hit with a powerful magic attack?]] Check. Yep, she qualifies as one.

* Gundam 00: After learning their full backstory, one has to feel sorry for the ELS. Their homeworld was annihilated in a supernova, and the flashback showing this shows swarms of them flying about in confused, panicky patterns, obviously not knowing what to do in the face of this gigantic wall of fire bearing down from the sky. They then head out into unknown space to find new homes, and when they meet humanity, they started getting shot at and destroyed in large numbers simply for trying to talk to humans (they were unaware that the assimilation process was both extremely painful and usually lethal to humans).

JerkassWoobie: Mio; she gives off such a sad image on several occasions throughout the series.Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon. An outcast in his village, even his dad thinks he's a failure, he thinks the only way anyone will respect him is if he kills a dragon, and at the end, even after he's gotten all the respect, love, and friendship he'd wanted for the whole movie. He loses his left leg saving pretty much his entire tribe and a whole lot of dragons from a massive Green Death dragon.
X-Files: The Greys, who used to be a kind and peaceful race until they were corrupted and twisted into monsters by the Black Oil.
SimEarth: The obscure, long-extinct Trichordates were included in the game because the developers "felt sorry for them."
One of the most impressive achievements possible in the game (although no special events occur) is developing trichordates into the dominant form of life on the planet, and the resulting "alien" civilization that results from their sentience, given their extreme difference from all the other lifeforms in both nature and appearance.
Neverwinter Nights: In the realm of fan-created modules, Alexandra de Velan of the Bastard of Kosigan series. Her lover was exiled, and she entered into a relationship with another man afterwards who had her beated until she miscarried once he discovered she was pregnant. Also an example of Beware the Nice Ones.
The Darkspear Trolls up until now deserve a mention as a whole. Their entire tribal history is essentially a list of places they used to live and who drove them out until they were relegated to sleeping on Orgrimmar's couch. Come Cataclysm, however, they're officially done taking this crap.

The Frankenturrets in Portal 2, which are made from two turrets and a cube, are creepy, but you can't help but feel bad for them. Not only are they constantly abused by their creator and entirely unaggressive toward you, but they also tremble with fear when you pick them up. Poor little guys...
Rosenkreuzstilette: And last but not least...believe it or not, IRIS HERSELF, who becomes reduced to a Jerkass Woobie in Tearis. After having lost the final battle to Tia, Iris finds herself under Tia's care, laying in bed thinking that Tia probably hates her for everything she had done in the game and wondering by whose hands she may die. When Zorne and Freu start fighting, Iris, knowing of said battle, desperately asks Tia to end her life to truly end the chaos. Naturally, of course, Tia refuses, because she believes that killing Iris anyway may just make things worse than things already did by her hands in the game.(This is a doushinji and set in a different continuity.)
The Pikmin. Cute, adorable little plant creatures that gladly put themselves in the line of fire (and water, poison and electricity) and freely face the open maws of carnivorous insects, mollusks, bird-snakes and everything in-between, in order to help you rebuild your ship and profit your capitalist society. But they won't ask you to love them.
Binding of Isaac: ** On the enemy side, there's the Mulligans, who also look like sobbing children, but with deformed heads as a result of slowly becoming a walking fly's nest. The lower level ones don't even try to attack you, instead running away and cowering when you approach them, while the higher level ones are slowly rotting alive and coughing up flies.

''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Cataclysm'': And for that matter, much of the Draenei race as a whole, whom the Broken devolved from. Pursued across the universe for centuries and hunted down to near-extinction by the Burning Legion and its minions, simply for daring to reject the [[TheDarkSide temptation of its corrupting power]].

YMMV/House:
* JerkassWoobie: House, occasionally.
** Chase and Foreman also have their moments.
TheWoobie:
** Most especially House himself (e.g first episode of Season 6).
** Martha Masters whenever House unloads on her.
** Chi Park fills the woobie role in season 8, especially her rambling at her disciplinary committee.
The lack of dialogue makes this highly reliant on Alternate Character Interpretation, but in Yume Nikki, Madotsuki's dreams (which make the entirety of the game) are filled with nightmares that may or may not be indicative of a past involving isolation, gender identity disorder, neglectful or possibly abusive parents, and possibly rape. Any of which may help explain why she refuses to leave her room when awake.
Yume Nikki: Within the dreams themselves, there's Masada, who plays the piano on a spaceship, and generally seems to be very lonely in space, and is completely harmless to the player, and is easily one of the least threatening looking characters in the game. He will also run from you if you equip the knife. Whilst many characters do run from you if you equip the knife, Masada is easily the most obvious in this behavior, and looks terrified when doing so, thus often being assumed to be the only one who does so.
Thomas the Tank Engine:
Peter Sam, especially around Season 4. For proof of his adorable Woobie-dom, see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2eHouZvFek here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK8HW81dHhg here]]. It doesn't help that he looks really cute with his Giesel ejector-style funnel.
Percy gets in on this at times, due to the excessive number of accidents he suffers (only a few being his own fault). He's also one of the younger, more naive engines and frequently gets dismissed or bullied around because of it.
Toby becomes one in later episodes, where he suddenly gains a huge inferiority complex and is rather meek and cowardly. He is also occasionally picked on for his outdated build and being a tram.
Thomas himself in later seasons. He is extremely loyal to his friends and insists on making them happy and being useful, however his naivete and carelessness almost always leads to him making matters worse, setting up a Break the Cutie moment by getting chewed out by the Fat Controller or upsetting one of the other engines.
Furrball and Fifi from Tiny Toon Adventures. Furrball is usually homeless or one of Elmyra's pets, and is often abused. Fifi lives in the junkyard and is usually lonely and upset due to every male running away from her because she is a skunk, and usually isn't much better off than Furrball, often also being abused and ignored.