History TheEeyore / Literature

* ''Literature/{{A Man Called Ove}}'': The title character, Ove, borders on this. He's a jaded man of 60+ years of age who is [[spoiler: down in the dumps after losing his beloved wife Sonja. Due to being overwhelmed with grief over Sonja's death, Ove has even attempted suicide.]] However, his personality may alternate between this and GrumpyBear, much like the TropeNamer.

* ''Literature/{{A Man Called Ove}}'': The title character, Ove, borders on this. He's a jaded man of 60+ years of age who is [[spoiler: down in the dumps after losing his beloved wife Sonja. Due to being overwhelmed with grief over Sonja's death, Ove has even attempted suicide.]] However, his personality may alternate between this and Grumpy Bear, much like the Trope Namer.

* ''Literature/{{A Man Called Ove}}'': The title character, Ove, borders on this. He's a jaded man of 60+ years of age who is [[spoiler: down in the dumps after losing his beloved wife Sonja. Due to being overwhelmed with grief over Sonja's death, Ove has even attempted suicide.]] However, his personality may alternate between this and [[GrumpyBear]], much like the [[TropeNamer]].

* Puddleglum the [[FishPeople Marshwiggle]] from Creator/CSLewis's [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] book ''Literature/TheSilverChair''--referenced in MoreThanMindControl. Puddleglum says at one point that his fellow Marshwiggles consider ''him'' to be a hopeless starry-eyed optimist.

* Denethor of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' certainly has real sorrows to contend with -- losing his son and watching civilisation apparently crumble around him. But he's definitely a fatalistic old bugger on top of it, thanks to [[spoiler:repeatedly using a palantír and getting into mental fights with Sauron]]. In both the book and the film he sums up his attitude towards humanity's future in the splendidly morose line: ''"Go now and die in what way seems best to you."''

* Dolorous Edd from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' certainly presents himself this way, but he's either a DeadpanSnarker with this as [[TheJester a shtick]] and a massive lean towards BlackComedy or the Eeyore-ist SadClown trying to cope through deflection and humour with living in a world chock-full with a range of thoroughly mundane, highly visceral, blatantly Kafkaesque and subtlety Lovecraftian horrors. It's hard to be certain which is the case. Or if both.

* Dolorous Edd from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' certainly presents himself this way, but he's either a DeadpanSnarker with this as [[TheJester a shtick]] and a massive lean towards BlackComedy or the Eeyore-ist SadClown trying to cope through deflection and humour with libing in a world chock-full of a range of thoroughly mundane, highly visceral, blatantly Kafkaesque and subtlety Lovecraftian horrors. It's hard to be certain which is the case. Or if both.

* Dolorous Edd from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' pretends to be this way, but he's really just a DeadpanSnarker with this as [[TheJester a shtick]] and a yen towards BlackComedy.

* Eeyore, [[TropeNamers obviously,]] from ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. Though he's also TheWoobie for his target audience. The original book Eeyore was a very different character from [[{{Disneyfication}} the toned-down Disney version]] though perhaps more similar to an actual donkey: [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic, rude, occasionally arrogant, but also somewhat intelligent]].

* Melinda Sordino from ''Literature/{{Speak}}''.

* Eeyore, obviously, from ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. Though he's also TheWoobie for his target audience. The original book Eeyore was a very different character from [[{{Disneyfication}} the toned-down Disney version]] though perhaps more similar to an actual donkey: [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic, rude, occasionally arrogant, but also somewhat intelligent]].

* Dolorous Edd from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' pretends to be this way, but he's really just a DeadpanSnarker.

* Gil Peaply from ''FelsicCurrent'' falls under just about every trope that involves depression, cynicism, jadedness, whining and sarcasm, but The Eeyore is perhaps the best match for him.

* Melinda Sordino from ''{{Speak}}''.
* Ann from the ''GemmaDoyle'' trilogy.
* Puddleglum the [[FishPeople Marshwiggle]] from Creator/CSLewis's {{Narnia}} book ''Literature/TheSilverChair''--referenced in MoreThanMindControl. Puddleglum says at one point that his fellow Marshwiggles consider ''him'' to be a hopeless starry-eyed optimist.

* Billy Jack, Dusty's sergeant major in the Civil War novels of JTEdson. He believes every mission is doomed before it starts. A sample of his dialogue from ''Under the Stars and Bars'':

* ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': The LemonyNarrator Lemony Snicket, who would ''much'' rather be doing something else - like enjoy the sun or the grass or actual conversation - than follow two miserable children in a miserable, unfortunate story.

* Puddleglum the [[FishPeople Marshwiggle]] from Creator/CSLewis's {{Narnia}} book ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' - referenced in MoreThanMindControl. Puddleglum says at one point that his fellow Marshwiggles consider ''him'' to be a hopeless starry-eyed optimist.

--> '''Marvin:''' What's the use of trying to please a robot that doesn't have any pleasure circuits?

* Gil Peaply from ''{{Felsic Current}}'' falls under just about every trope that involves depression, cynicism, jadedness, whining and sarcasm, but The Eeyore is perhaps the best match for him.
* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': The LemonyNarrator Lemony Snicket, who would ''much'' rather be doing something else - like enjoy the sun or the grass or actual conversation - than follow two miserable children in a miserable, unfortunate story.

* Puddleglum the [[FishPeople Marshwiggle]] from Creator/CSLewis's {{Narnia}} book ''The Silver Chair'' - referenced in MoreThanMindControl. Puddleglum says at one point that his fellow Marshwiggles consider ''him'' to be a hopeless starry-eyed optimist.
* Dolorous Edd from ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' pretends to be this way, but he's really just a DeadpanSnarker.

-->"Damned if I wasn't certain sure we'd all get blowed up, being so close," Billy Jack wailed and, in expression of his delight, continued, "I dropped on to a rock 'n' must've caved my ribs in. Likely I'll be dead from my hurts come morning."
* Mundo Cani Dog in ''TheBookOfTheDunCow'' is permanently depressed and self-hating, accepting and agreeing with any insults. He only laughs once in the entire book.
* Mrs. Yorke from Charlotte Bronte's ''Shirley'' is one, and considers it morally wrong to be anything else. Unfortunately, she has six children whom she is trying to convince to be as miserable as she is.

* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is perhaps the Eeyore-iest Eeyore in existence. He's very depressed, he feels under-utilized (''"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and..."''), and due to a series of circumstances involving time travel [[spoiler:he eventually gets to be thirty-seven times as old as the universe itself]] and throughout his entire existence he's had this terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side. His outlook on the universe is so depressing that he [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide drives a computer to suicide]] when he tries to share it with the poor thing. He later does the same thing with a bridge.]]

* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is perhaps the Eeyore-iest Eeyore in existence. He's very depressed, he feels under-utilized (''"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and..."''), and due to a series of circumstances involving time travel [[spoiler:he eventually gets to be thirty-seven times as old as the universe itself]] and throughout his entire existence he's had this terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side. His outlook on the universe is so depressing that he [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide drives a computer to suicide]] when he tries to share it with the poor thing. He later does the same thing with a bridge.]]

* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': We're given the LemonyNarrator Lemony Snicket, who would ''much'' rather be doing something else - like enjoy the sun or the grass or actual conversation - than follow two miserable children in a miserable, unfortunate story.

* Eeyore, obviously, from ''Literature/WinnieThePooh''. Though he's also TheWoobie for his target audience. The original book Eeyore was a very different character from [[{{Disneyfication}} the toned-down Disney version]] though perhaps more similar to an actual donkey: [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic, rude, occasionally arrogant, but also somewhat intelligent]].

* Eeyore, obviously, from ''WinnieThePooh''. Though he's also TheWoobie for his target audience. The original book Eeyore was a very different character from [[{{Disneyfication}} the toned-down Disney version]] though perhaps more similar to an actual donkey: [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic, rude, occasionally arrogant, but also somewhat intelligent]].

* ''ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'': Lemony Snicket. So much.