History Woobie / DOCTORWHO

** There's also the fact that, out of The Tenth Doctor's three main companions, it's clear that he doesn't care about her as much as either Rose or Donna, despite her loving him at least as much as Rose did, instead being treated as essentially a rebound companion after Rose. This is exemplified by the fact that she is the only one of the three to outright choose to leave The Doctor when she realizes that she deserves to be around someone who will care for her as much as her for them, compared to almost all other major revival series companions who were treated well enough to have to be forcibly separated from The Doctor in order to leave. And although she's not present for it, the [[MilestoneCelebration 60th Anniversary Special]] also reveals that [[spoiler:she's the only one of the three to "not" get her own personal version of The Tenth Doctor to stay with her for life, with Rose getting the Meta-Crisis Doctor and Donna getting the Fourteenth Doctor respectively, both exact duplicates of Ten. As the one who probably became the most attached to him during her run, it is sad that she is the only one of the three to not get to remain with any version of him]].

* Mickey Smith. In his first episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]", he is attacked and eaten by a rubbish bin and replaced by a plastic duplicate. After he is rescued by the Ninth Doctor (who is always mean and condescending to him) and escapes in the TARDIS, he is dumped in an alley with his girlfriend, Rose, and is clearly traumatized by the ordeal. The Doctor then offers Rose, and only Rose, the opportunity to travel with him, leaving Mickey alone and the last person to have seen Rose before she disappeared. Over the next year, Rose's family make his life a living hell, as they believe he murdered her and are quite public in voicing this opinion. As a result, he becomes a embittered recluse. When Rose returns in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Aliens of London]]", she does not see him to apologize, although she is able to convince him she is sorry and the two briefly reconcile. However she still acts like a jerk, getting angry with him seeing someone else even when in the last story she considered herself "available".

** The end of "Journey's End" is especially sad when you take into that this episode was the first time we see her actually feel good about herself for once [[spoiler: then her memories are ripped away from her]]. And despite massive fan outcry over this, any chance of this being corrected died with Ten's regeneration. [[spoiler: She does marry a loving man and lives very comfortably, the latter thanks to the Doctor, but she doesn't regain the character development she lost]].

** In Series 8, he starts off recuperating uneasily from a particularly difficult regeneration -- he narrowly escaped ''his actual death''. At first he's at somewhat of a loss when it comes to who he is, what he was, and what he should do now. He inadvertently alienates a lot of his friends and allies with his colder and detached demeanour -- while not fully grasping why. We accidentally learn on one occasion that fear ''really has'' been one of the driving forces behind his life, ever since he was a scared little child. He and Clara run into serious trust issues. As if that wasn't enough, the season's StoryArc sees an old and familiar adversary surface once again, tease him about the current location of Gallifrey, threaten him with a nearly no-win scenario, outright kill some of his allies, and make a creepy revelation about cunningly manipulating him and Clara from behind the scenes. The cavalcade of misery culminates in the post-season ChristmasEpisode, where he very nearly breaks down into tears [[spoiler:while meeting a dream version of Clara who's elderly -- alone for many decades and wondering whether her friend would ever visit her again]]. The resigned and quiet way he apologises, calling his own mistakes and misunderstandings stupid and being visibly desperate for a miracle, could melt the heart of even Twelve's biggest detractors. Luckily, the moment when he feels nothing could get possibly worse, is when things ''finally'' start turning for the better.

** The final stretch of Series 8, starting with "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]", turns her into an explicit {{Woobie}} with more than a bit of BrokenBird subtext. By the next episode, while she and the Doctor narrowly succeed in saving the Earth and humanity, she has lost the man she loved (and ''thrice'' in a row, at that !), she's been in a state of shock and depression, and she is showing minor signs of SurvivorGuilt or [[ItsAllMyFault blaming herself for things that she ultimately couldn't change]]. To top it all of, though the Doctor made sure nothing can happen, she nearly betrayed him, out of anger, grief and confusion. As annoyed as he is that she would dare to try such a thing, he forgives her instantly, recognising that she's simply not thinking straight and is on the verge of completely losing it. Though he helps her as best as he can whenever they're together throughout the two-parter, it's clear from the ending of the second episode that both of them have been deeply shaken by recent events. Though they eventually reunite for a Christmas adventure, both of them had inadvertently lied to each other about being fine and needing to move on, and parted ways for six months. One can only imagine what a hard time they had with coping, especially Clara. She's parted with her best friend, lost her loved one, gained a new duty she needs to sort out, and was thoroughly traumatised by her experiences; that she holds up at all is a minor miracle. The Twelfth even overcomes his deep-seated aversion to hugging and ''gives her a kind hug'' before they part, sensing that poor Clara needs it more than ever. Yes, the ''[[GrumpyBear Twelfth]]'' [[GrumpyBear Doctor]]. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness That says]] [[TearJerker a lot !]]

* Fitz Kreiner, from the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novels, is such a woobie it's ridiculous. He's half-German and was born four years before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and therefore [[KidsAreCruel spent most of his childhood being beaten up by other kids]] and even [[SadistTeacher bullied by his schoolteachers]]. (No wonder he's BookDumb.) His dad died and his mum went insane and ''then'' died, and even though he's shown to have a very close relationship with her, he later makes GallowsHumor jokes about ''the fact she tried to kill him shortly before she died'', which, he ''says'', makes it better. (Actually, and quite understandably, he almost cried when she tried to kill him.) He is generally a total SadClown. And then he starts traveling with the Doctor, gets brainwashed by Chinese communists, gets separated from the Doctor and ends up [[WhoWantsToLiveForever spending over a thousand years being utterly miserable]], is turned back into his normal self, the over-a-thousand-years-old version of himself is still out there and shows up and is [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds a total woobie]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil who just misses the Doctor]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath and]] [[AlasPoorVillain dies horribly]]... Then Fitz has a serious breakdown over the fact [[LossOfIdentity he's just a copy]], is brainwashed into being SickeninglySweethearts with a girl who just wants to use him... also, [[ChivalrousPervert more or less every other book, he gets a girlfriend]], and [[GirlOfTheWeek it never lasts]], sometimes because she dies. Also, he's everyone's ButtMonkey, evil triplets made him remember being born, he [[NiceGuy has moments of feeling really bad for dead evil monkeys]] and suchlike, he gets kicked around by nasty sorts a lot, he's [[TheKlutz really clumsy]], his relationship with the Doctor is adorable but horrendously codependent... There's even [[http://kseda.livejournal.com/425309.html a poem]] about his woobieness, and, good God, I somehow missed the Nazi thing! Long story short: you don't want to be Fitz, but you do want to give him a big hug and a [[SpotOfTea cup of tea]].

* A number of companions fit into the woobie category, Victoria and Nyssa being examples. (Deborah Watling, who played Victoria, has said as much in interviews.)

--->[[spoiler: "[[FamousLastWords I don't want to go]]."]]

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" points this out: after finally starving the Minotaur to death - [[DeathSeeker something the Minotaur wanted]], [[AndIMustScream and who can blame him?]] - the dying Minotaur describes what sounds a lot like him...and then his FamousLastWords are "I'm not talking about myself". Guess who's translating for him?

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** And then there's the ''[[FridgeHorror reason]]'' he commits suicide: [[spoiler: he has a vision of the TARDIS exploding, causing him to believe that the only two people who cared about him, who made a difference in his life, are dead. He dies without ever learning the truth]].

* Captain Jack Harkness. [[spoiler: He lives for millions of years, ends up as a giant face, his friends die on him, and the Master kills him painfully and repeatedly. Poor Jack!]] But at least two of his best friends, The Doctor and Martha, [[spoiler: were at his side when he finally did die for good]].