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* YMMV.SydneyWhite
** TheWoobie: Sydney, George, Jeremy. Any of the seven dorks and their reason for being in the Vortex, really.

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YMMV/SydneyWhite:
** TheWoobie: Sydney, George, Jeremy. Any of the seven dorks and their reason for being in the Vortex, really.really.
* YMMV/KazeNoStigma:
** JerkassWoobie: Kazuma Yagami
** TheWoobie: [[CloningBlues Ayumi Tsuwabuki]]
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* YMMV/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku: Izuku might not be powerless this time around, but his deep-set trauma, huge identity crisis, and refusal to follow his dreams out of fear of the harm he can do just makes you want to hug him all the same.

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* YMMV/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku: Izuku might not be powerless this time around, but his deep-set trauma, huge identity crisis, and refusal to follow his dreams out of fear of the harm he can do just makes you want to hug him all the same.same.
* YMMV.SydneyWhite
** TheWoobie: Sydney, George, Jeremy. Any of the seven dorks and their reason for being in the Vortex, really.
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** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds:
*** Macc, the robot from the future when he becomes BrainwashedAndCrazy due to Krang's docilizer.
*** Also the Starchild.
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** The Thanagarians, especially after they lost the war.

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** The Thanagarians, especially after they lost the war.war.
* YMMV/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku: Izuku might not be powerless this time around, but his deep-set trauma, huge identity crisis, and refusal to follow his dreams out of fear of the harm he can do just makes you want to hug him all the same.
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*** Andre Bourgeois as revealed in "Malediktor" who is severely disrespected by his wife and daughter to the point where it can be considered emotional abuse.

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*** Andre Bourgeois as revealed in "Malediktor" who is severely disrespected by his wife and daughter to the point where it can be considered emotional abuse.abuse.
* YMMV/JusticeLeague
** Flash, Superman, Green Lantern, and Hawkgirl in "Only A Dream". The four are stuck in dreamscapes of their worst nightmares.
** The Ultimen become this after they find out their origins. Unfortunately, all but Longshadow become a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
** The Cheetah is one as well (If you don't count her as a JerkassWoobie that is). Considering that all she wanted to do was [[IJustWantToBeNormal be human again]], is [[FantasticRacism ostracized by society]], and ForcedIntoEvil, it's very tragic she has to live this way. ThatPoorCat ...
** The Cheetah and Ultra-Humanite are not [[JerkassFacade really evil]] and [[IJustWantToBeNormal just want normal lives]].
** The Thanagarians, especially after they lost the war.
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* YMMV/DateAReLive:
** IronWoobie: [[spoiler:Origami, who goes through much worse suffering than her canon counterpart, and yet still finds something to make her hold onto life.]]
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** JerkassWoobie: As cruel as the Boos are in this game, the helpless squeaks they make as Luigi crams them through the Poltergeist's nozzle do manage to make you feel bad for them, if only a little.

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** JerkassWoobie: As cruel as the Boos are in this game, the helpless squeaks they make as Luigi crams them through the Poltergeist's nozzle do manage to make you feel bad for them, if only a little.little.
* YMMV/MiraculousLadybug
** JerkassWoobie:
*** XY, the young and upcoming pop star in "Guitar Villain". He makes catty remarks about Jagged Stone being a dinosaur, but Guitar Villain trying to kill him for those remarks is DisproportionateRetribution. He also doesn't seem to be much older than Marinette, which could be a factor in him being a SpoiledBrat.
*** Aurore in the scene where she gets akumatised - while her SoreLoser ranting wasn't exactly endearing to the audience, she does earn some sympathy for the fact that she tried to fight off the butterfly out of fear when she saw it coming for her, especially if we assume that she had some idea of what it was going to do to her after the events of "Stoneheart".
** TheWoobie:
*** Master Cheng, Marinette's uncle. He doesn't speak French well, gets his prize-winning soup sabotaged by a bratty teenager, and then [[spoiler:gets turned into an akuma]]. At least the other characters could speak French and knew about Ladybug, but he looks traumatized when he wakes up [[spoiler:next to the pool]] and doesn't know what happened.
*** Nooroo, [[spoiler:Hawk Moth's kwami. He, like all kwamis, wants to use his powers to help people, but Hawk Moth basically enslaved him and forces him to do evil.]]
*** Andre Bourgeois as revealed in "Malediktor" who is severely disrespected by his wife and daughter to the point where it can be considered emotional abuse.
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** Winston, who has to deal with The Fat Controller's terrible driving.

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** Winston, who has to deal with The Fat Controller's terrible driving.driving.
* YMMV/LuigisMansionDarkMoon:
** JerkassWoobie: As cruel as the Boos are in this game, the helpless squeaks they make as Luigi crams them through the Poltergeist's nozzle do manage to make you feel bad for them, if only a little.
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* YMMV/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast:
** Link(Also appearing in Link's Awakening; Oracle of Seasons and Ages; and Link's Awakening. Plus maybe A Link Between Worlds as an old man) who went from a young kid just trying to find and protect his Uncle/guardian to being wrongfully accused of abducting Princess Zelda and being attacked or harassed by basically everyone and everything he encounters.
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** Flute Player gets trapped in the alternate world [[AndIMustScream and turned into a tree]].
** Flute Player's Father [[AdultFear has to endure both the pain of worrying about his whereabouts]] [[TearJerker and learning of his fate.]]
** The bullied young man on top of Death Mountain is now an anthropomorphic ball being helplessly kicked around by a devil-looking creature.
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* YMMV/DateALiveRinneUtopia: Shido becomes one at the end of Rinne's route. Turns out that she's creating the illusion world and that by kissing her, Shido comes back to reality at the cost of her fading away. The result is Shido crying with a SkywardScream.

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ComicBook/LesNombrils
* JerkassWoobie: Vicky in later albums. Volume 7 pushes Jenny there to, though its almost entirely her own fault.
* TheWoobie: Karine

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* ComicBook/LesNombrils
* ** JerkassWoobie: Vicky in later albums. Volume 7 pushes Jenny there to, though its almost entirely her own fault.
* ** TheWoobie: KarineKarine
* YMMV/ThomasTheTankEngine
** JerkassWoobie:
*** Gordon, James, and Henry, especially in the latter two's {{Story Arc}}s. After having TookALevelInKindness, Henry is now more just a straight up Woobie.
*** A lot of fans think of Smudger this way, thanks to his AndIMustScream fate.
*** Hurricane and Frankie in ''Journey Beyond Sodor''. They are lonely, overworked engines who trick and ultimately force any visitors to stay and help them. When Thomas and James have escaped and seem ready to leave them to their fate, Frankie breaks down sobbing, gaining their sympathy.
* TheWoobie:
** Both Henry and Peter Sam have had their moments.
** In the episode ''[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS2E13DirtyWork Dirty Work]]'', Duck could certainly count for this. Diesel's lies, the big engine's accusation, even the Fat Controller seemed to be against him... [[https://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ttte/images/e/ef/DirtyWork52.png/revision/latest?cb=20170429194330 he really needs a hug, poor guy.]]
** Percy is practically ''the designated chew toy'' of the show. It's especially apparent in ''Day of the Diesels'' and ''Tale of the Brave''.
** Toby, after his more jittery characterisation was established.
** Sidney, who spent two years on a hoist in the Dieselworks waiting for a new set of wheels that had supposedly failed to be delivered, to the point even the above Woobie Percy feels sorry for him and takes action.
** Winston, who has to deal with The Fat Controller's terrible driving.
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*** Irma could also be seen as this, seeing as how she can never quite seem to have a decent boyfriend.

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*** Irma could also be seen as this, seeing as how she can never quite seem to have a decent boyfriend.boyfriend.
ComicBook/LesNombrils
* JerkassWoobie: Vicky in later albums. Volume 7 pushes Jenny there to, though its almost entirely her own fault.
* TheWoobie: Karine
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*** The Zoras, considering ''something'' happened to their deity figure Lord Jabu-Jabu, and they were all trapped and left to die in their frozen home.

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*** The Zoras, considering ''something'' happened to their deity figure Lord Jabu-Jabu, and they were all trapped and left to die in their frozen home.home.
* YMMV/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987:
** JerkassWoobie Shredder is a {{Jerkass}} who wants to TakeOverTheWorld, but he's working with a partner who was absolutely no respect for him (even one the rare moments when his successful), is constantly humiliated by the turtles and has his plans thwarted by the sheer stupidity of his two minions.
** TheWoobie:
*** Michaelangelo has his moment of this when he thinks everyone forgot his birthday in "Michaelangelo's Birthday", which makes it even worse when he runs into Shredder.
*** Splinter in "Splinter No More".
*** Donatello in "Donatello's Duplicate" ''easily'' counts for this.
*** Leonardo in "Take Me To Your Leader". Even this Leonardo-neutral fangirl wanted to hug him.
*** Raphael in the beginning of "Raphael: Turtle Of A Thousand Faces".
*** Baxter Stockman, even when he was a JerkAss. Some scenes where he's abused and mistreated are actually pretty uncomfortable to watch.
*** Krang sort of was one in "Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X". It's the sadness in his voice when he tells General Traag how he lost his body when they "banished him to this [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet miserable mud-ball]]" as well as how upset he was about Traag and Granitor seeing him without his body.
*** The Neutrinos also count considering they're just kids in a [[CrapsackWorld war filled world like Dimension X]], and are hunted down because they don't want to join in on the fighting. Especially [[TheChick Kala]].
--> '''Kala''': "You don't know what it's like.... living in a place where everyone wants to do you in....just for the crime of being ''young''." [[TearJerker (She starts to cry.)]]
*** Irma could also be seen as this, seeing as how she can never quite seem to have a decent boyfriend.
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* Characters/DateALiveMainCharacterAndSpirits:
** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Courtesy of being persecuted by the AST and DEM. And several of them have some kind of ([[FreudianExcuse justified]]) resentment against humanity.
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** The bullied young man on top of Death Mountain is now an anthropomorphic ball being helplessly kicked around by a devil-looking creature.

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** The bullied young man on top of Death Mountain is now an anthropomorphic ball being helplessly kicked around by a devil-looking creature.creature.
* YMMV/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime:
** IronWoobie: Link. On the one hand, he goes through enough crap to potentially drive him insane in terms of issues. On the other hand, being the [[AudienceSurrogate Player Surrogate]] and a HeroicMime, he [[AngstWhatAngst doesn't seem too concerned with this.]]
** WoobieSpecies:
*** The Gorons. A race of peaceful, welcoming mountain dwellers, who in the future are reduced to imprisoned, quivering wrecks after Ganondorf tries to feed them all to Volvagia to set an example for everyone else.
*** The Zoras, considering ''something'' happened to their deity figure Lord Jabu-Jabu, and they were all trapped and left to die in their frozen home.
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** Flute Player gets trapped in the alternate world [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream and turned into a tree]]
** Flute Player's Father while his father [[AdultFear has to endure both the pain of worrying about his whereabouts]] [[TearJerker and learning of his fate.]]]]

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** Flute Player gets trapped in the alternate world [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream and turned into a tree]]
tree]].
** Flute Player's Father while his father [[AdultFear has to endure both the pain of worrying about his whereabouts]] [[TearJerker and learning of his fate.]]]]]]
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** Saber has several moments: Not getting to nap with Shirou, getting curb stomped by Berserker, putting up with Gilgamesh in episode 8, having all of her hopes about the Holy Grail War being an honorable battle between knights being shattered, being denied food from not getting 1st place in the Illya Castle Special stages, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having to potentially live on just tea and rice after Shirou spends all his money]]!

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** Saber has several moments: Not getting to nap with Shirou, getting curb stomped by Berserker, putting up with Gilgamesh in episode 8, having all of her hopes about the Holy Grail War being an honorable battle between knights being shattered, being denied food from not getting 1st place in the Illya Castle Special stages, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having to potentially live on just tea and rice after Shirou spends all his money]]!money]]!
* YMMV/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast:
** Link(Also appearing in Link's Awakening; Oracle of Seasons and Ages; and Link's Awakening. Plus maybe A Link Between Worlds as an old man) who went from a young kid just trying to find and protect his Uncle/guardian to being wrongfully accused of abducting Princess Zelda and being attacked or harassed by basically everyone and everything he encounters.
** Flute Player gets trapped in the alternate world [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream and turned into a tree]]
** Flute Player's Father while his father [[AdultFear has to endure both the pain of worrying about his whereabouts]] [[TearJerker and learning of his fate.]]]]
** The bullied young man on top of Death Mountain is now an anthropomorphic ball being helplessly kicked around by a devil-looking creature.
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** JerkassWoobie: The Joker becomes this after we see flashbacks that detail his slow fall into madness.

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** JerkassWoobie: The Joker becomes this after we see flashbacks that detail his slow fall into madness.madness.
* YMMV/CarnivalPhantasm:
** Lancer gets ''abused'' in this OVA, so much so that people might actually start feeling bad for the guy, since most of the time he is just minding his own business.
** Shirou and Shiki become this in the second half of the Hibi-Chika Special, especially with all the torment their love interests have put them through.
** Saber has several moments: Not getting to nap with Shirou, getting curb stomped by Berserker, putting up with Gilgamesh in episode 8, having all of her hopes about the Holy Grail War being an honorable battle between knights being shattered, being denied food from not getting 1st place in the Illya Castle Special stages, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having to potentially live on just tea and rice after Shirou spends all his money]]!

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** Ash's Charmander. The poor guy first loses his original trainer, and then ends up in the care of [[{{Jerkass}} Damian]]. His gaiden shows that his first year as a starter Pokémon was nothing but a TraumaCongaLine.

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** Ash's Charmander. The poor guy first loses his original trainer, and then ends up in the care of [[{{Jerkass}} Damian]]. His gaiden shows that his first year as a starter Pokémon was nothing but a TraumaCongaLine.TraumaCongaLine.
* YMMV/BatmanTheKillingJoke:
** JerkassWoobie: The Joker becomes this after we see flashbacks that detail his slow fall into madness.
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** Roo only wants to have quality time with Tigger, but he doesn't even get attention until the very end. When Tigger outright turns his back on the others for tricking him, poor Roo spends most of the climax in tears.

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** Roo only wants to have quality time with Tigger, but he doesn't even get attention until the very end. When Tigger outright turns his back on the others for tricking him, poor Roo spends most of the climax in tears.tears.
* YMMV/PokemonResetBloodlines:
** Misty, ''big time''. Between her family's mistreatment, living in constant fear of FantasticRacism, and getting kicked out at the age of fourteen, it's little wonder she spent some time as a BrokenBird.
** Johanna. [[spoiler:Even winning the Grand Festival isn't enough to save her parents, and she ends up in serious financial straits. And that's before you factor in the implications that the U.T.P. may not have had her best interests at heart]].
** Ash's Charmander. The poor guy first loses his original trainer, and then ends up in the care of [[{{Jerkass}} Damian]]. His gaiden shows that his first year as a starter Pokémon was nothing but a TraumaCongaLine.
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* Characters/Tsukihime: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The real Shiki.

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* Characters/Tsukihime: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The real Shiki.Shiki.
* YMMV/TheTiggerMovie:
** The usually happily unique Tigger becomes this when he begins to genuinely consider the implications of being the [[LastOfHisKind "only one"]].
** Roo only wants to have quality time with Tigger, but he doesn't even get attention until the very end. When Tigger outright turns his back on the others for tricking him, poor Roo spends most of the climax in tears.
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* YMMV/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero: Raphtalia. Lost her parents at a young age, forced to be a slave, having constant nightmares about her parents' death.

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* YMMV/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero
** NAOFUMI. Sent over to a random world where he's a hero, violently looked down on for being the [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Hero of Shield]] and everything gets worse when Malty gets him framed for rape. It's REALLY hard not to feel sorry for the guy.
** Raphtalia. Lost her parents at a young age, forced to be a slave, having constant nightmares about her parents' death.

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* YMMV/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero
** NAOFUMI. Sent over to a random world where he's a hero, violently looked down on for being the [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Hero of Shield]] and everything gets worse when Malty gets him framed for rape. It's REALLY hard not to feel sorry for the guy.
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YMMV/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero: Raphtalia. Lost her parents at a young age, forced to be a slave, having constant nightmares about her parents' death.
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** TheWoobie: Akira, Ryou and Erina in {{Flashback}}s as children: Akira was a street kid being mercilessly beaten by a shopkeeper, Ryou had bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms accompanied by the phrase "I have to win. If I don't win, I'll die.", and [[spoiler:Erina was physically and psychologically abused by her father as a child in order for him to hone her God's Tongue]].

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** TheWoobie: Akira, Ryou and Erina in {{Flashback}}s as children: Akira was a street kid being mercilessly beaten by a shopkeeper, Ryou had bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms accompanied by the phrase "I have to win. If I don't win, I'll die.", and [[spoiler:Erina was physically and psychologically abused by her father as a child in order for him to hone her God's Tongue]].Tongue]].
* Characters/Tsukihime: WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The real Shiki.
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* YMMV/{{Tsukihime}}: Oh where to start? There's all 5 main heroines to start with. Then there's Len, Sacchin, and Nanako.

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* YMMV/{{Tsukihime}}: Oh where to start? There's all 5 main heroines to start with. Then there's Len, Sacchin, and Nanako.Nanako.
* YMMV/ShokugekiNoSoma:
** JerkassWoobie: Akira, Erina and Ryou are highly competitive and can be very arrogant and condescending to their peers, [[spoiler:yet each of them had a hard time growing up in their own hellish, rough environments]]. It's hard not to feel at least a little sorry for them, [[spoiler:especially when one of them was explicitly abused by a parent]].
** TheWoobie: Akira, Ryou and Erina in {{Flashback}}s as children: Akira was a street kid being mercilessly beaten by a shopkeeper, Ryou had bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms accompanied by the phrase "I have to win. If I don't win, I'll die.", and [[spoiler:Erina was physically and psychologically abused by her father as a child in order for him to hone her God's Tongue]].
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* WoobieSpecies: You kinda feel sorry for every Cursed Child in this series. Specific mention to Enju Aihara, one of the most [[NiceGirl kind-hearted]] characters in the series, has a lovable CheerfulChild personality, and that [[HeroWithBadPublicity she's an academic and social pariah]] [[spoiler:and that she only has about 500 days to live as a human]] makes you want to really hug this poor young girl.

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* WoobieSpecies: You kinda feel sorry for every Cursed Child in this series. Specific mention to Enju Aihara, one of the most [[NiceGirl kind-hearted]] characters in the series, has a lovable CheerfulChild personality, and that [[HeroWithBadPublicity she's an academic and social pariah]] [[spoiler:and that she only has about 500 days to live as a human]] makes you want to really hug this poor young girl.girl.
* YMMV/{{Tsukihime}}: Oh where to start? There's all 5 main heroines to start with. Then there's Len, Sacchin, and Nanako.
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** Depending on your POV, Norman's father. Yeah, he's intolerant of Norman claiming to be able to communicate with ghosts and actually admits that he wishes his son was different. However, he knows that his son is ostracized by most of town due to his claimed ability to see and talk to ghosts (which makes them think Norman is either lying for attention or genuinely crazy), he honestly has no idea how to connect to his son, and Perry admits at one point that he's scared of Norman becoming just like Uncle Pendergast. His mother also died from an unspecified illness a few weeks before the events of the film and the fact that from his POV Norman is pretending that she's still around as a ghost isn't helping that much with his grief.

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** Depending on your POV, Norman's father. Yeah, he's intolerant of Norman claiming to be able to communicate with ghosts and actually admits that he wishes his son was different. However, he knows that his son is ostracized by most of town due to his claimed ability to see and talk to ghosts (which makes them think Norman is either lying for attention or genuinely crazy), he honestly has no idea how to connect to his son, and Perry admits at one point that he's scared of Norman becoming just like Uncle Pendergast. His mother also died from an unspecified illness a few weeks before the events of the film and the fact that from his POV Norman is pretending that she's still around as a ghost isn't helping that much with his grief.grief.
* Date A Live
** IronWoobie: Shido. He puts himself in danger to protect the Spirits, either from their own unstable powers or people who wish to take advantage of them; but that never stops him from enjoying life with the Spirits at his side.
** JerkassWoobie: Miku and Natsumi. The former is BrokenBird who pretty much lost all hope in humanity before Shido came along, and the latter is extremely self-deprecating, [[spoiler:taking on a fake appearance just for shallow praise]].
** StoicWoobie: Origami. The girl's parents were killed by a Spirit, yet she dutifully carries on as an AST soldier, silently waiting until she gets the chance to get back at the murderer. [[spoiler:Then she finds out that ''[[TomatoInTheMirror she]]'' was the Spirit.]]
** TheWoobie: [[WoobieSpecies The Spirits in general]], but Yoshino fits the description best; a ShyBlueHairedGirl with PowerIncontinence [[ReluctantWarrior who doesn't even want to fight back]] against the humans who intend to eliminate her regardless of circumstances? Yep.
* YMMV/BlackBullet:
** IronWoobie: Rentaro really take the ride here.
** StoicWoobie: Kayo Senju[[spoiler:, her death makes it really more tear breaking]].
* WoobieSpecies: You kinda feel sorry for every Cursed Child in this series. Specific mention to Enju Aihara, one of the most [[NiceGirl kind-hearted]] characters in the series, has a lovable CheerfulChild personality, and that [[HeroWithBadPublicity she's an academic and social pariah]] [[spoiler:and that she only has about 500 days to live as a human]] makes you want to really hug this poor young girl.

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* YMMV/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread: Cody and Sammy. Both characters, at least until Heather helped Cody “man-up,” had sad home lives, shy personalities, and just made you want to hug them. Sammy in particularly elicits this reaction from many characters in the story.

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* YMMV/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread: Cody and Sammy. Both characters, at least until Heather helped Cody “man-up,” had sad home lives, shy personalities, and just made you want to hug them. Sammy in particularly elicits this reaction from many characters in the story.story.
* The hyenas from ''Disney/TheLionKing''. Their hatred for the lions isn't such a surprise given how they were segregated by Mufasa and forced to live in a barren wasteland with barely any food. They support the main antagonist, Scar, who promises a better life for them (and also revenge against the ruling family who've caused them so much suffering). It's only later that they learn Scar is utterly inept as a ruler and is willing to sell them all out to save his own skin.
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'':
** Tigress as well, at least in the second half of the movie.
** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Depending on your interpretation]] of him and his FreudianExcuse, Lord Shen of the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 second movie]]. Considered too weak and sickly to warrant his parents' attention, Shen was left to the care of the Soothsayer. [[WellDoneSonGuy He strove to earn his parents' approval]] and ended up discovering the explosive potential behind fireworks. When the Soothsayer foretold his defeat at the hands of a warrior of black and white if he continued down his dark path, Shen slayed the pandas, believing averting his fate would finally earn his parents affection. They instead banished him and Shen saw this as the final sign that his parents did not and would never love him. He spends the rest of the movie killing and destroying out of a desperate need to fill the void in his life, knowing full well there is nothing he can do to make himself happy but also knowing there is nothing he can do to justify his actions.
* Mirage from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Sure, she had a hand in leading numerous superheroes to their deaths, but [[spoiler: she's [[EvenEvilHasStandards against killing children]], nearly dies twice, and her supposed boyfriend, Syndrome, is shown to not care about her when he sadistically goads Mr. Incredible into trying to crush her to death.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And Elastigirl punches her in the face when she's least expecting it.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Prince Charming. After enduring grief and humiliation now that he no longer has the power his mama gave him, all he wanted was his own Happily Ever After... which he probably would have gotten had he not stayed a ''villain'' by choice.
* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': The ant colony itself as a whole. Sure, they brought the DarkestHour on themselves by ostracizing Flik and PT Flea's entire circus after they hear the truth about the "warriors". But do they deserve the treatment Hopper gave to them afterwards?
* Lampwick and the other Stupid Little Boys in ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}'' are a bunch of punks who enjoy destroying property, fighting, smoking, and drinking, but their ultimate fate ([[spoiler: being transformed into donkeys and sold into slavery]]) is far beyond what they deserve.
* Miss Friezenda, the angel ornament from the Christmas Special movie "Noel" acts like a complete bitch throughout the whole movie but her horrified reaction to getting thrown out for being too old of an ornament kind of makes her pitiful in a way.
* ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' seems to love this trope.
** [[spoiler:Agatha Prenderghast]], the DarkMagicalGirl who serves as Norman's EvilCounterpart. She was very vengeful to the townspeople for what they did to her[[spoiler:, but she was ostracized by everyone for her ability to [[ISeeDeadPeople talk to the dead]]]].
** Depending on your POV, Norman's father. Yeah, he's intolerant of Norman claiming to be able to communicate with ghosts and actually admits that he wishes his son was different. However, he knows that his son is ostracized by most of town due to his claimed ability to see and talk to ghosts (which makes them think Norman is either lying for attention or genuinely crazy), he honestly has no idea how to connect to his son, and Perry admits at one point that he's scared of Norman becoming just like Uncle Pendergast. His mother also died from an unspecified illness a few weeks before the events of the film and the fact that from his POV Norman is pretending that she's still around as a ghost isn't helping that much with his grief.
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** Raphtalia. Lost her parents at a young age, forced to be a slave, having constant nightmares about her parents' death.

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** Raphtalia. Lost her parents at a young age, forced to be a slave, having constant nightmares about her parents' death.death.
* YMMV/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread: Cody and Sammy. Both characters, at least until Heather helped Cody “man-up,” had sad home lives, shy personalities, and just made you want to hug them. Sammy in particularly elicits this reaction from many characters in the story.

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