History Woobie / Fanfiction

* [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Socrates]] from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' is starting to become this in Season 5, as things start to come to a head and he begins to have a central part in the plot.
** Frank Brainstorm in the [[SeasonFinale 3rd season finale]] "Thunderstorm", as he spends a good portion of the plot fighting against his [[WeUsedToBeFriends once best friend]] (who was [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter always one step ahead of him]]).
** Then there's Susie in "Chains", whose bad luck (which may or may not have been a direct result of her ripping up a ChainLetter) goes to incredibly extreme lengths.
* Princess Luna from [[FanFic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed Equestria: A History Revealed]] when every character, including the LemonyNarrator, seemed to keep on forgetting about her existence. Add onto that the populace's general dislike of her, her social inability to make any friends, and her self-perceived HumiliationConga after she tried, in which she thought her sister no longer loved her anymore, she fits the bill quite nicely. That all changes when she tries to go DarkerAndEdgier though.
* The ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' bloodswap AU fanfic ''FanFic/RedDeadVirgo'' has a red blooded Kanaya fit this trope very, very well. Due in no small part to copious amounts of well written but heart-breakingly tragic {{break the cutie}}.
* The author behind ''[[FanFic/TiberiumWars Tiberium Wars]]'' and ''[[FanFic/{{Forward}} Forward]]'' has a borderline obsession with Woobies, pointing out in one of his author's notes that (paraphrased) "if I like a character, I hurt them. A lot." This is especially prevalent in ''Forward'', where [[Series/{{Firefly}} River Tam]] is regularly put through the wringer, suffering constant mental breakdowns, injuries, and at one point [[spoiler:is tortured by Niska.]]
** In ''Tiberium Wars'', Sandra Telfair becomes a complete woobie, with her being [[spoiler:wounded and captured by the Black Hand for interrogation, then being beaten and nearly raped by a Nod soldier, then having to slit ''another'' Nod soldier's throat and being horribly hurt psychologically by doing so]]. Commander Karrde goes through this too, [[TheChainsOfCommanding regularly beating himself up over the deaths of his own men]].
* Anyone who's read a certain ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fiction involving a boy named Tommy will feel horrible, burning sympathy for pretty much every character. Not only for what's happened in their past, but the fact that once the protagonist manages to escape from the deserted island the story takes place on, he can either leave behind his only friends that aren't dead, or live in ridicule by all other humans who know who he is. But hey, his parents would never reject him. Neither his presumed dead birth parents, or his for sure dead adoptive parents. Gotta catch em all.
* [[http://freya-sacksen.livejournal.com freya_sacksen]] likes hurting the Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses cast. A lot. Especially of note is her [[FanFic/ThatGuyWithTheGlassesInSpace "In Space" fic]], where everyone gets broken but probably the main two suffering in that one are MarzGurl and the Nostalgia Critic. MarzGurl is generally like [[Series/{{Firefly}} River Tam]] in an apocalyptic future and as for the Critic? [[spoiler: Well, you try being tortured for centuries by [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]] and Dr. Insano, end up failing to save the world and then actually give Ask That Guy the idea to start the whole thing off anyway and see how you feel.]]
** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, Linkara and Spoony tend to the main woobies of the fanfic fandom, anyway. Spoony seems to [[BreakTheCutie suffer the most psychologically]], Linkara tends to be [[JamesBondage the one for bondage]] and the Critic gets the most [[TheChewToy humilation]] and [[BlackComedyRape physical]] [[RapeAsDrama torture]]. Although there is, of course, lots of overlap.
*** The Nostalgia Critic as a woobie is such a fandom cliche by now that it's starting to get played with, as in [[LampshadeHanging fourth-wall-breaking]] and him [[SubvertedTrope using his reputation to his advantage instead]].
** Fanfiction about Film Brain falls into two categories: HurtComfortFic and [[{{WAFF}} tooth-rotting fluff]]. In fact, when [[OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs some of the people from the site found the]] KinkMeme, Film Brain's woobie status was one of the first befuddled observations they made. I blame WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}.
** While WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick is sometimes ''causing'' the woobie-dom in others, she gets this too occasionally: there's a certain FanFic/HookerVerse which turned her relationship with Nella around and [[BreakTheCutie broke the cutie]] massively.
* [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Kaorin, Sakaki and Chiyo]] get a bit of this in Fanfic/DifferingPaths, though partially undone by the series' BlackAndGreyMorality.
* Challenge: step 1 - log into Fanfiction.net, step 2- search National Treasure fics step 3- try to find a fic that IS NOT about Riley Poole tragic past, tragic present or tragic future...mixed with healthy doses of whumpage and comfort.
* Flash and Spyro in the Legend of Spryo fanfic The Broken Line. Flash is close to only his grandmother, who died when he was young, and his brother, who goes missing. Then, after a lot of searching, Flash finds him dying. Spyro, on the other hand, is framed for the massacre of half a village, before being tortured for information by said village. Meanwhile, Nexus, the actual killer, is pretending to be Spyro and attacking the guardians while his mate and friends think that Spyro is attacking them. The actual Spyro enters Warfang while Nexus and the Grublins are attacking it. Cynder is the first to find him, and almost cripples his leg.
* Read [[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Letter this]] ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' story and tell me you don't feel sorry for Melanie.
* While he was portrayed as a ButtMonkey in the canon series, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis]] [[TheHero Motomiya]] is usually portrayed as a woobie in non-canon stories. Two of them which are so excellent written that you would believe that they're canon in the first place. In both of them, he's usually portrayed as a guy with an inferiority complex and behind his boasting and carefree nature is a [[StepfordSmiler lonely boy who just pretend this facade]] in order to cope with his unpopularity within his Digidestined group, at school and at home. These stories developed his character very well, making him an intelligent yet naive person who clearly has issues with himself and the others, and those who were disappointed on the canon's lack of CharacterDevelopment on him should read these stories.
** The first one is ''FanFic/Zero2ARevision''. In ''A Revision'', he is constantly suffering at the hands of his own comrades, especially [[HairTriggerTemper Yolei]] who enjoys picking on him, never seems to appreciate his hard work and [[UngratefulBastard is always putting him down for the smallest thing]], he also experienced a PainfulTransformation when he obrained his own crest as it is carved into his own body instead of being turned into a trinket like the other Digidestined. His jealously and hatred for TK for spending more time with Kari allows Umbradevimon to put him through a MindRape which turned him into the [[PsychoForHire homicidal]], [[ForTheEvulz ruthless]] [[BloodKnight fighting]]- killing-machine [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Darkheart]] and he has to watch him assimilate the Digidestined and destroyed entire continents just because he feels like it. And just when you thought he has gotten a break [[spoiler: his parents ended up being indirectly murdered by Gravemon resulting him and Jun becoming orphans]]. [[spoiler: Oh, and he also have to share an apartment with Yolei after the series ended whom to him, is the most annoying girl to ever existed and vice versa]].
** The second one is ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/81143/1/Walkabout Walkabout]]'' In ''Walkabout'', he didn't get promoted to a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds but he still kept his woobie status. In this story, he decided to do an "walkabout" through the Digital World in order to search his soul and improve himself so that he could be accepted by his peers.
* In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles section on fanfiction.net, Donatello seems to be rather popular with being hurt in some fashion on top of being emotionally abused by Shredder, and in some cases, his own brothers. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/931023/ lion-of-judah]] is one author that pretty much attacks Donatello at every moment.
* ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'': Asuka. Having her parents divorce early, being rejected from the Evangelion program and treated like shit by her mother in favor of a surrogate son shook her up so badly that she permanently scarred her back and neck so that it might look like she had a contact experiment. Problem is, everyone thought that Kyoko beat her at first. When Asuka confessed, Kyoko got drunk and lapsed into a five-minute MyGodWhatHaveIDone. Even during the school dance (which might very well be Asuka's first real moment of joy in her life), the bitch couldn't resist to hint that there's no way Shinji might actually love her, he's probably only taking advantage of her; the poor girl fell for the trick and got so spooked that she ran away screaming. Rei and Kensuke retaliated by filming Kyoko and her ex-husband going into a storage closet and getting it on, then ''putting the footage onto Youtube''. Even better, Yui completely agreed with their initiative and '''forbid removing it from the site!!!'''
** It gets worse. It turns out that ND!Asuka is so emotionally messed up as to have developed multiple personality disorder. That doll the Canon!Kyoko talked do as if it were Canon!Asuka after [[spoiler:literally]] losing her mind? ND!Asuka talks to it... and it "talks" back.
* VideoGame/TeamFortress2 masterpiece ''Fanfic/RespawnOfTheDead'' has the Medic as Herr Woobie. To only list a few of the horrible things that happen to the poor guy, he has to put down his pet zombie (is much more heartwrenching than it sounds), has to leave his beloved behind to die in a zombie attack, and is forced to decapitate the member of the team who was most depending on him so he doesn't become a zombie. The poor guy just can NOT catch a break.
* The ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' Fanfic The Power of Light, which can be found on the game's FanFicRecommendations page, has a huge case in [[spoiler:Black Mage, who has attracted the attention of Kary, the [[PlayingWithFire Fiend of Fire]], from since he was a young child. Ever since, she has [[BadDreams haunted his dreams]] making him feel as if he is [[AndIMustScream burning for all eternity]]. Needless to say, once he puts two and two together with the help of the [[TheHero team leader]], he's more than ready for a little payback. Especially when she [[ItsPersonal harms his sister and two other teammates]].]] Cue CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* ''FanFic/{{Morphic}}'' has Gabriel, a Slugma pokémorph who struggles with daily life due to his screwed up biology. Being a mix between a human and a blob of lava, he's basically at risk of overheating and dropping dead. And the chances of overheating heighten when he experiments with his Pokémon side.
* ''FanFic/TravelsThroughAzerothAndOutland'' portrays the draenei as a borderline StepfordSmiler society focused on always remaining joyous and faithful to the Light (not to mention, as [[TheEmpath empaths]] who can ''tell'' if someone's slipping). However, draenei who suffer great trauma, especially while isolated from their fellows, can end up very unhinged. These draenei are called ''ashem''. While not exactly shunned by society, they are kept at arm's length for fear that their unhappiness will spread to others. Balaa, an Ashem that the narrator meets in Azuremyst Isle, has struck at least one reader as a Woobie: One of the few survivors of a major orc attack, she's battle-scarred, missing a horn, and is painfully ashamed of what seem—to the narrator and the reader—to be perfectly understandable flash points and minor freak-outs.
* This is a common AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Britney from ''Fanfic/MyImmortal''. She's cast as a DesignatedVillain for simply [[FanHater not sharing the protagonists' tastes in fashion and music]]. Until the very end of the story, she does absolutely nothing else to warrant the abuse and bullying which she constantly receives from the "heroes". Instead, the mere fact that she exists is considered an offense all by itself. And her behavior at the end can easily be interpreted as a response to the abuse leveled at her for the whole story.
* The ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5991044/1/Revolution Revolution]] (a side-story to a much longer fanfic that basically lives off the continuity of TheLastDaysOfFoxhound) takes BigBad Extrodinaire Liquid Snake and turns him into the woobiest woobie that ever did woobie. If anything, this is probably the first fic to ever attempt that feat.
* Another ''Franchise/MetalGear'' fic, [[FanFic/TheJoyOfBattle The Joy of Battle]] presents all of the Cobra Unit members with woobie moments but none so bad as the Fury who is injured and emotionally tortured to the point where he breaks, only to be sedated by the End's tranquilizer rifle.
* ''Everybody'' in the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6277702/1/Second_Chances Second Chances]]'' -- but especially L. The author's putting the poor guy [[WildMassGuessing (maybe literally)]] through hell. Without even going into detail about the way his bad sleeping and eating habits are finally taking their toll on his body, he doesn't make friends easily and knows it, so his habit of losing left and right the few people he comes to care about hits hard.
* In the Kingdom Hearts fanfic ''Fill the Moon'', the author's mantra seems to be, "make the entire cast suffer until they break down and cry. [[{{For the Evulz}} Then sell ringside seats.]] You think this is an exaggeration? ''Please.'' Literally EVERYONE in the cast is given a day as a Woobie, and some of the cast just push down on the Woobie button and don't let up.
** The best example is the little OC Nobody, the {{Cute Monster Girl}} Senayax. While being basically seven years old and trapped in a body that's just going through puberty already nets some major Woobie points, the author just ''will not stop making her suffer.'' To date, after around one hundred and fifty chapters of fanfiction, she has [[spoiler:been both {{driven to suicide}} and murdered before being brought {{back from the dead}}, been forcibly impregnated on orders ''from her father'' by her lover, Zexion--who, as it should be noted, is around five years older than her--been forced to ''eat her beloved grandfather'' to survive after murdering him due to being an UnwittingPawn in one of her parents' schemes to get her grandfather's money, being subject to an incredibly nasty and disgustingly sexual {{Mind Rape}} from the ''giant fucking {{Eldritch Abomination}} that lives inside of her body,'' almost ''dying'' due to the consequences of the previously mentioned forced pregnancy, and spending around four months in agony due to treatments designed solely to keep her alive during this pregnancy while the MessianicArchetype completely forgets her existence. To top it off, she watches her lover perform a {{Heroic Sacrifice}} to save her life, and thus get murdered by Sora before she decides to follow in his footsteps and commit suicide using the Keyblade as her murder weapon.]] Despite all this, she remains an eternal {{cheerful child}} who is a {{friend to all living things}} and tries to put on a happy face for her family, [[spoiler:including the father figure who ordered her to be impregnated]]. Want to hug her yet?
** Considering the above troper's remarks on Xemnas, this troper feels it's appropriate to bring up the fact that the author makes him out to be a woobie on occasion. Sure, she doesn't [[spoiler:exactly justify or excuse his impregnating of Senayax, but considering he hadn't been around when the original experiment failed horribly, he wasn't out to murder her. If anything, the author makes him incredibly sympathetic with his {{My God What Have I Done}} freak outs and habit of becoming {{The Atoner}}.]] While what he did is certainly horrible, he's not as much of a monster as, say, Hollowmoon, and it wasn't on purpose. If anything, he's there to represent the consequences of being the leader and Superior. Despite the fact that he's incredibly flawed, this troper firmly believes he's still a woobie, (although definitely not to the extent of the rest of the cast.)
** Pff, please. While Senayax certainly gets the worst of it, Demyx is probably the one who gets hit the hardest aside from her. After [[spoiler:being emotionally, mentally, and physically abused by an older brother who he was desperate to gain the approval of for ''his entire life as Myde,'' he is suddenly and brutally almost-murdered by said older brother, who would have finished the deed had a Heartless not come along. Afterwards, he has such deep emotional and mental scars that he has a major {{Freak Out}}-cum-{{Minor Injury Overreaction}} on Xigbar's behalf after the other man is mildly wounded on a mission, not to mention a downright suicidal attempt to clean the entire castle using lye. Which is corrosive and leaves behind horrible chemical burns and open sores. And this is all due to his older brother beating him and breaking him down until he was horribly, horribly mentally scarred, enough so to believe that he deserved to be bitten and beaten by Xigbar.]] Of course, he eventually gets better, but that doesn't change the fact that ''he still needs hugs.''
** Larxene actually might tie for second place with Demyx. Yes, ''that'' Larxene. Considering she [[spoiler:was raped and abused for three years by her ex-husband, who she brutally murdered in self-defense after he attempted to rape her for a fourth time, and is implied by {{Word of God}} to have had many, many abusive relationships, and, due to the fact that the author of the fic is open about being a rape survivor, has very realistic reactions to traumatic triggers or events.]] Despite this, she manages to maintain her normal {{Deadpan Snarker}}-slash-{{Dark Action Girl}} personality, albeit with a bit more depth under her sarcastic and caustic surface. [[spoiler:She really, really deserved all the {{Cooldown Hug}}s from Lexaeus that she got. Poor girl.]]
** Hell, the author just likes taking the strangest of characters, and turning them into massive, ''massive'' woobies. Case in point; the next biggest woobie in the story? ''Xaldin.'' And because of the way that the Mooniverse's canon works, ''this makes perfect sense.'' Let's see...
*** [[spoiler:Before he finds his "soulmate," Luxord,]] he is twenty-nine, and quite blatantly a virgin. Now, that isn't a bad thing, per se, but considering his older brother, who he [[{{Ho Yay}} loves more than anyone else in the whole world]] is implied to [[{{Really Gets Around}} basically do anything that moves]], the pressure to find a lover wears down on him, especially considering he doesn't have a heart to really experience love. It takes him a long time, but [[spoiler:he does finally accept Luxord's love and does end up happy.]] However, considering the author plans on going into their backstory as Apprentices to Ansem, in which Braig is still a slut and he's still a loveless virgin, expect him to get even ''more'' Woobie-fied later on...
** You know who else gets beaten with the {{Break the Cutie}} stick? Of all people, once again, ''Vexen.'' He's constantly stalked by a lover he doesn't want, [[spoiler:well, initially, at least]], he's thirty-four and alone, and is shown to be cracking under the strain of [[{{Team Mom}} having basically raised the other five Apprentices by himself.]] While he's not tortured as much as some of the other members of the cast, (perhaps due in part because of the author's ''major'' PSL for him), when he ''is'' hit with the woobie treatment, the author hits him ''hard.''
** You think Vexen being a Woobie is bad? Try Axel. Yes, badass {{Deadpan Snarker}} Axel. While the author doesn't turn him into a {{Draco In Leather Pants}}, and actually makes him out to be the violent, dangerous, deadly-loyal man that he was supposed to be in Kingdom Hearts, his friendship with Isa/Saix, who is now in love with Xemnas, (whom Axel is not exactly on the best terms with), nets him some woobie moments, especially when he feels like [[{{Tear Jerker}} Isa has stopped caring about him]]. And as of the more recent chapters, [[spoiler:his pining for Roxas, who doesn't even exist yet]], might qualify.
** Ansem can definitely count as this on occasion. Considering [[spoiler:Ansem watched his sons lose their hearts by basically being ''eaten alive'' right in front of his eyes, while he was powerless to do a thing,]] it's no small wonder that he's more than a little messed up by the time he's introduced in Fill the Moon.
** To sum it up short, ''everyone in this fic is a Woobie of epic proportions.''
* Rain Nook in the ''[=YoshiEgg=] Series'', up until you find out that she's being manipulated through her stone by an {{Eldritch Abomination}}-like demon. [[spoiler:But you start loving her again in the beginning of ''Fantendo Chronicles: Episode 1'', where she and Unten paired up and "went forward" after the Chaoti swarm, Rain supposedly still alive and not possessed anymore.]]
* The fanfiction ''Street Sharks: Redux'' is basically the result of rewriting a silly cartoon in a way that's actually kind of [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] and scary. As a result, the heroes have to go through a ''lot'' of nasty stuff, what with being kidnapped and mutated and all. Of particular note are [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3442555/2/Street_Sharks_Redux them turning into sharks]] [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3442555/3/Street_Sharks_Redux and flashing back to how it happened]], and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3442555/6/Street_Sharks_Redux chapter six]], which is the start of a story arc that gives a lot of unpleasant details about how Slamu gets kidnapped ''again'' and painfully experimented on a second time.
* [[Film/StarTrek Jim Kirk]] gets Woobified quite a bit in reboot fanfics. In fact, there is an entire comm on fanfiction.net entitled "Hurt!Jim fans unite" and it's gotten to the point Kirk-centered {{Hurt Comfort Fic}}s have become an in-fandom cliche. Spock and Chekhov get it alot, too, but in Spock's case it's justified since [[spoiler: he is an outcast due to his half-human heritage, has daddy issues, and [[TraumaCongaLine his planet blew up.]]]] In Chekhov's case it's justified because Chekhov has [[TheCutie big adorable puppy dog eyes.]]
* Poor, poor Rei Kakizaki, of ''YukariIsFree''. Develop poor social skills due to crippling shyness? Check. Have father and sister killed in [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak?]] Check. Be forced to [[SelfMadeOrphan beat her zombified mother to death]] with a bat to save her other sister? Check. Nearly [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by one of the soldiers who saved her? Check. Be constantly harassed by the team {{Jerkass}}? Check. Further traumatized into becoming mute by [[spoiler:her sister [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing herself]] to save her?]] Check. Attempt and fail suicide? Check. [[spoiler:Be told by a hideous demon that he's going take her to hell to serve as his endtable unless the man she [[AllLoveIsUnrequited loves]] kills thirteen random people?]] Oh my goodness, Check. At any rate, she seems to be, at long, long last, getting better.
* If the title character “[[http://fanfiction.net/s/5673079/1/The_Harper_Drudge The Harper Drudge]]" in this ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' fic isn't a Woobie, then I don't know what is!
* Mao in Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance becomes this in ''the very first chapter''! And from there it doesn't let up, all the way through a TraumaCongaLine of [[DoomMagnet Doom Magnetism]], [[LoveMartyr Love Martyrdom]], [[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeying]] and LoveMakesYouCrazy, finally culminating in a DespairEventHorizon, all the while he's hiding his mind numbing misery behind a [[StepfordSmiler Stepford Smiling]] JerkassFacade. BreakTheCutie? Check. TroubledButCute? Check.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** In ''Fanfic/KeepersOfTheElements'', you can't help but feel sorry for Carl. The man got kidnapped by [[BigBad Radcliffe]] himself, put under constant mind control, and used as target practice for Courtney's training. It's scarcely surprising that his health is declining rapidly.
** Invoked in ''Fanfic/CourtneyAndTheViolinOfDespair'' to subvert the “[[RevengeFic Courtney bashing]]” setup. Beneath the "bash fic" veneer, Courtney is depicted as generally undeserving of the misfortunes which befall her.
* ''Roleplay/DCNation'' featured a series of [[http://dc-nation.livejournal.com/tag/%22flashback%22 flashbacks]] involving the life of Tempest focusing on the courtship and loss of Tula towards the end of a 5 year story arc involving bad things constantly happening to the character. The intent had been to show why Tula rocks and to break with the path DC comics had him on. What the writers ended up doing was causing Garth to earn the nickname "King of the Woobies" among the player and reader base.
* And ''then'' there's poor Nyx from FanFic/PastSins. She starts out as a sweet, shy, curious little [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic filly]] who just happens to have been created from a failed attempt to resurrect the evil Nightmare Moon. After Princess Celestia, terrified by the possibility Nyx could become Nightmare Moon, accidentally delivers her into the hooves of ''exactly'' the wrong people, things get very bad very quickly. When she seeks out the kazoo she had during her abbreviated childhood and gives it a mournful toot, it's hard to want to do anything but give her a hug and tell her everything will be all right.
* The Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia fanfic Fanfic/{{Debt}} gives this treatment to England and America. By the end of the first chapter, they'd had their limbs cut off, had been raped multiple times, were utterly humiliated, and had their [[{{EyeScream}} eyes torn out.]] That's barely scratching the surface of all that they go through in that fanfic.
** There's also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5769940/1/Feverish Feverish]], which takes poor Canada's tendency to be overlooked and makes it even worse, as [[spoiler:his ''actual government'' begins to forget about him.]] This leads to him getting horrifically sick (vomiting, flue-like symptoms, passing out, extreme nosebleeds, paralysis, panic attacks, and, at one point, respiratory arrest) while America, Britain, and France try their best to keep him alive.
** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5399721/1/Awakening Awakening]] does this to America and Canada. They were captured in battle and delivered to infamous concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele. The story begins with Russia finding them dead. [[spoiler:In flashbacks, we find out everything that happened, including Canada having his eyes injected with dye to "correct" the color and America being infected with diseases and vivisected. They are rescued, but then they have to live with the knowledge that they couldn't stop Mengele or save any of his prisoners.]]
** By the same author who did Awakening, there's [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6137770/1/White_Winter White Winter]], which woobie-fies America as he is kidnapped by General Winter and used as a toy for his amusement. The Nordic countries, Canada, and Russia can all be seen as this as well, given that the fic says how they all went through the same things America did when General Winter was interested in them.
*** As far as White Winter is concerned, Russia gets extra woobie points. Sure, all of the above were abused by General Winter, but he was a child for it, and the other nations don't trust him at all.
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'''s ''FanFic/HuntingTheUnicorn'': Blaine starts out as a RelationshipSue for Kurt--and then we find out all the shit that happened to [[DeconstructionFic turn Blaine into one]]. It involves {{Love Martyr}}dom, ParentalNeglect that [[WellDoneSonGuy he's at least slightly in denial about]], and a healthy dose of FridgeHorror. When [[OfficialCouple Kurt]], a ParentalSubstitute, and [[TrueCompanions the Warblers]] are the only people who care about you (that aren't [[WhenYouComingHomeDad traveling or halfway across the US]]), the general consensus is that Blaine needs a hug.
* [[CollectionOfSacrifices Collection Of Sacrifices]], a [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP: FiM]] fic, has Jadie. In the first two chapters alone, she's torn away from her family, kidnapped and forced into the army, forced to watch a public torture session on someone she presumably looked up to, has no friends in the camp (so far), and we leave off at chapter two with her being attacked. The one character who provides her '''any''' sympathy is still a rather large JerkAss. It seems like this many twists wouldn't work well, but the author(s) manage to pull it off spectacularly.
* Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fics, many of them portray [[FanNickname Derpy Hooves]] this way, even though in canon, she's just one of several ponies who appear in the background, who just happens to have a strabismus. "[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-bubbles.html Bubbles]]" and "[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-today-tomorrow-and-forever.html Today, Tomorrow, and Forever]]" are two noteworthy examples.
* Several in FanFic/TheTaintedGrimoire.
** Luso: His mom, sister and grandfather died in the first chapter and his dad died before that. There is hope for him as Luso wrote his grandfather's and sister's name in the book so there is the chance that they are alive.
** Adelle: Her father was [[spoiler: brutally murdered]] in front of her. She understandably still has nightmares about it.
** Kanin: Has been on the receiving end of FantasticRacism, due to being a [[spoiler: Feol Viera]].
* [[{{HesBack}} Firefly]] from ''[[{{Fanfic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar}} Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. She lost [[{{DoomedHometown}} virtually]] [[{{DeceasedParentsAreTheBest}} everything dear]] [[{{BreakTheCutie}} to her]] as a filly, thanks to [[spoiler: Black Star]]. It's understandable that her wingmares, especially [[{{TheHeroine}} Rainbow Dash]] sympathize with her greatly.
** Derpy becomes one after [[{{TearJerker}} chapter 15]], where [[spoiler: her two best friends die]]. Cloud Kicker qualifies as well.
* Literature/SherlockHolmes in the ''Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries'', '''especially''' ''Mortality''. He's poisoned, then gets better, then he's captured, then he's tortured over and over and over to the point where [[DeathSeeker he wants to die]], and [=THEN=] when he's ''[[BigDamnHeroes rescued]]''... He's half-dead and suffers from [[FlashbackNightmare Flashback Nightmares]] and panic attacks. Seriously, the entire fic is one big Holmes [[TraumaCongaLine torture-fest]]. Understandably, his friend [[BewaretheNiceOnes doesn't react too well to seeing his friend being tortured. Do that, and this sweet guy WILL actually want to kill you.]]
** Another Holmes torture-fest is ''Fanfic/AStudyInRegret'', in which, yes, he's tortured ''after'' having ''watched'' [[TheWatson his dearest friend]] [[KilledOffForReal die from a bullet to the heart]]. His recovery is ongoing as of this writing, and he's still suffering greatly. (He also says "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" almost word for word several times.)
*** Marcel Bernier is very much the woobie, as well, being the UnwittingPawn and TheAtoner, and having a criminal older brother. He and Holmes have a woobie-to-woobie discussion that's just one big TearJerker.
** Both Holmes and Watson in ''Fanfic/TheGhostMap'' - true, Holmes is the one [[DeliberateInjuryGambit to be shot]] and injected with cocaine over-dosage, but Watson is the one to be helpless while Wiggins dies and to watch Holmes hover at death's door.
** From the authors of ''Mortality'' and ''A Study in Regret'' comes the ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'' series, a {{Crossover}} with ''Series/DoctorWho'' and Literature/SherlockHolmes. The Tenth Doctor's woobie status is quickly established in the first episode, having just come out of the events of "Doomsday" and "The Runaway Bride", and Holmes's status is cemented after a BreakTheCutie experience mid-series. Watson falls into this category two episodes later, and [[WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury Beth Lestrade]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Sally Sparrow]] achieve this in the three-part finale. Beth quite possibly outranks them all, being the only character to actually [[spoiler:[[KillTheCutie die]] [[BackFromTheDead and then come back to life]]]].
* Eri from ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'' fanfic, ''[[FanFic/ErisGame Eri's Game]]''.
* Erin Frame in the first few chapters of ''[[Fanfic/ForGood Breakaway]]'', being TrappedInAnotherWorld and all.
** [[TheDragon Warp]] [[TheAtoner Darkmatter]] in the series' one-shots, ''especially'' in the [[LoveHurts Ships 50 collection]].
* The ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfiction [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6263110/1/Raven_Tears Raven Tears]] gives us Gaho and her sister, Nahuatl.
** Nahuatl is the personification of the southern portion of the North American continent. When we first see her, she is a friendly woman who loves her sister. Then, Spain comes across her and beats her, steals her gold, and infects her with diseases that leave her fevered and raging.
** Gaho is the personification of the northern portion of North America. At the beginning of the story, she gives birth to twin boys and is very happy with them. Then, the European nations start coming into her land. First she runs into Spain, who tries to force her to give him one of the twins. She fights him off, but is beaten unconscious and has her arm slashed with a knife. Then, she realizes that France and England are both occupying her land, and she is unable to drive them out. No matter what she does, her people turn against her to side with them. [[spoiler:And as the story goes on, her children turn from looking like Native American boys to having white skin and blond hair, symbolizing how Gaho no longer has control of her land. She is forced to give one of the boys (Canada) to France, and the other (America) to England, because neither of the children remember her or how to speak her language. The story ends with her as an old woman, living on a reservation and hoping that one day, her children will remember and go back to her.]] The story was so depressing that the author finally gave in and wrote a [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7006076/1/Eagle_Smiles sequel]], where [[spoiler:Canada remembers Gaho and brings America to find her.]]
* Stephanie Salvatore in "To Build A Home", first she has her mind messed with by Katherine. Then develops an addiction to blood living by her own with anguish for every person that she kills. She then falls in love with Klaus only for him to abandon her on multiple occasions and make her forget him and that's just her backstory. In the story she gets raped and is eventually forced to leave by Klaus to save her dying brother.
* Bentley the hyena from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' fic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8039814/15/Rango-Snakes-With-Guns "Snakes With Guns".]] He watched his own father's execution, grew up a slave, went insane and tries to mask his angst with a SadClown routine. Sometimes he can't take the pain anymore and breaks down crying. At least Priscilla is there to comfort him.
* The WesternAnimation/YinYangYo AlternateUniverse {{Doorstopper}} fanfic, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5626292/2/ Re: Yin Yang Who? or Yin Yang Yo! Forever]] has a fair share of them from the start (so far) such as:
** Yin - Started out being nearly killed by [[BigBad Eradicus]]' Woo Foo Aura Drain at the beginning of the story, [[DiabolusExMachina she falls into a coma alongside with Yang after getting blown away by the explosive shockwave]] [[PyrrhicVictory that destroys their hometown completely, following the Night Master's defeat]]. She starts coming to terms with the fact that their [[DisappearedDad biological father]], [[OldMaster Master]] [[GrumpyBear Yo]], [[FakingTheDead committed pseudocide]] [[MoralEventHorizon so he can go on vacation]] [[ParentalAbandonment to escape from his responsibilities as a father]] [[DisproportionateRetribution out of frustration for his children's week-long losing streak against]] Eradicus' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad minions]] [[ContinuityNod early in the last episodes of Season Two]]. Yin gets kidnapped by a criminal gang at a hotel reception at the near end of chapter six along with foster sister Suzie, kicking off the initial plot arc [[spoiler:only to turn out alive and well and then rescued by big brother Yang in chapter fourteen, thanks to a BigDamnHeroes moment]].
** Yang - [[HeroicSacrifice Watching Yin absorb a fatal attack meant for him that]] [[SubvertedTrope nearly kills her]], he, alongside with Yin and Master Yo are, forced to fight alone against the aforementioned opponent that destroys the hometown. [[{{Wangst}} He copes with the realization of his true father's identity]] (and failure) by [[SelfHarm cutting himself]], as mentioned earlier in the same chapter; later on, he watches Yin and Suzie being kidnapped and gets entangled into a criminal plot the morning after that causes him serious injury. Yang, in essence, becomes the DoggedNiceGuy BoxedCrook just to save them, only to fail and [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown be punished with a brutal beating]]; [[spoiler:thankfully, he achieves a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming awesomeness that saves them]].
** Coop - Started out [[MyBelovedSmother being restrained by his biological mother]] while the aforementioned HeroProtagonists hopelessly fought against the griffin. He lives with a foster family of antelopes as TheUnfavorite [[{{Goth}} goth]], in essence, consisting of: [[AbusiveParents verbally abusive]] and implied to be CorruptCop father Stephen, [[TheMentallyDisturbed borderline mentally unstable mother]] [[YamatoNadeshiko Lan]], and LoserSonOfLoserDad [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer outcast]] foster brother Burton. [[spoiler:Coop later learns in chapter twelve that his adoptive dad died in the line of duty in the massacre at previous chapter before it from his adoptive mom, resulting from Chip turning him into a ManOnFire.]]
** Dave - Being TheChewToy ButtMonkey in {{Canon}} he is, the poor PlantPerson guy ends up as the BrokenBird at the beginning of it. [[KillItWithFire Aside from being forced from his family's home due to a forest fire that killed many of his relatives, including his grandmother,]] he mentioned having to deal with his girlfriend leaving him instantly and the relationship with his brother Chip turning into a borderline CainAndAbel esque kind. Even so, Dave [[BeeAfraid recently gets attacked by honeybees]] that leaves him [[SymbolicBlood bleeding some kind of what seems to be orange tree sap]] and [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming be nursed by his]] [[GoodParents loving mother]].
** Jobeaux - To a lesser extent somehow; thankfully (so far), he gets better, marries Annie, and [[BabiesEverAfter has a daughter]].
** Roger Jr. - Other than being forced out of town due to a house fire alongside his parents and sister, he becomes a [[JustifiedCriminal thief]] to support the family. It is implied that hopefully the relationships are perhaps anything but strained thanks to their parents' BigDamnHeroes moment before.
** [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lena]] - [[BrokenBird Suffers the most]] [[MoralEventHorizon since her father crushed her hopes at the worst moment of all in front of everyone]]. She had developed from a supposedly twelve-year-old CryingLittleKid into a teenage FragileFlower whom still cries BrokenTears frequently in between the TimeSkip to the point of where she is literally TryingNotToCry later on in her adolescence; oh and the worst part? Lena is now the IllGirl of the story (so far).
** Suzie - Although an otherwise minor character, she seems to be heading that route lately as of now: her [[BigBrotherInstinct older brother Henry's]] HeroicSacrifice has left her shellshocked and on the verge of tears. The implication that she could still be hunted down by those same kidnappers doesn't go well for the little girl.
* In ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'', Once [[WesternAnimation/MegasXLR Megas]] arrives in Gensokyo, it's just one thing after another for Patchouli. Between needing to make a trip in post-storm weather (a combination of heavy moisture and sunshine, the latter of which she canonically detests), almost getting run over by super-sized fairies, getting trapped inside Megas for the duration of its battle against Suika, dealing with asthma aggravation and Coop's refusal to heed her advice... When she finally returns to the SDM, she's stressed out enough to intimidate Remilia and Sakuya into shutting up.
* Lind's BackStory in ''Fanfic/AhArchfall'' reveals that up until the original Angel-Eater incident, she has had a VERY hard life. [[spoiler: Jago isn't much better but somehow he's still smiling.]]
* ''Pikachu'' of all Pokemon is this in [[FanFic/APikachuInLove A Pikachu In Love]]. After spending the entire fic questioning his bond with Ash and worrying that one day Ash will grow up and forget about him, when he finally realizes how much Ash and Co. do love him, he ''still'' has to decide between them and his new love Pichi. [[spoiler: When he finally ''does'' decide to stick with Ash and Co., the scene where he has tell Pichi this is really [[TearJerker heartwrenching]], especially Pichi had just told Pikachu she loved him not a second later. And ''then'' there's the NoHoldsBarredBeatDown he suffered from that Ursaring earlier in the fic that nearly killed him. It's a good thing Misty finally gave him a hug and told him it was alright at the end of the fic, since by the point the audience would have likely done the same...]]
* [[OriginalCharacter Amanda Adams]] from WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents fanfic ''[[Fanfic/NeverHadAFriendLikeMe Never Had A Friend Like Me]]''. Her parents are well to do, but totally neglect her, seeing '''any''' attempt at interaction with her or spending any cent on her to be a waste of time and money. ''[[AbusiveParents And they've told this to her face so often that she knows it by heart.]]'' As a result her self-esteem is so low, she doesn't feel she should be upset by it, so she can't qualify for a Fairy Godparent, and sees ''Timmy's parents'' as perfect . Even [[JackassGenie Norm]] feels sorry for her, and a lot of his development comes from realizing that he would torture such a girl in the first place. [[spoiler: Her reaction when Timmy tells Amanda the truth about Norm is just heartbreaking.]] Thankfully Timmy's friendship, and Norm's own growing affection help her get better.
* In ''FanFic/{{Horseshoes and Hand Grenades}}'' Yuki Jojima gets hits hard. Her best friend (Gentaro) is dead and resurrected by a serpent, her other friend (Kengo) brainwashed and serving him and she is currently blaming herself for not being able to save her best friend because, as she states, all she did was yell "Stop!". To twist the knife further, almost every villain she's encountered will mock her and remind her that she's pathetic and she's not strong enough to save anyone.
* In FanFic/LostSouls, [[PunctuatedForEmphasis every. Single. Character]] is this.
** [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Meiko]] had everyone she loved killed when she was eight.
** IA was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer ostracized and attacked because of her powers]].
** Miku was given up by her own mother to be [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured.]] And, to twist the knife, [[spoiler: ''her own brother'']] was implied to have done it.
** Gakupo's family was killed, and he believed [[spoiler: his best friend]] did it.
** Teto was ostracized like IA, but she turns it UpToEleven by believing that she was the cause of Gakupo's family being murdered.
** And let's not even get into Rin and Len. Those kids [[StreetUrchin have]] [[ParentalAbandonment been]] [[RapeAsBackstory through]] [[ColdBloodedTorture hell and back.]]
* Much of the main cast of {{Fanfic/Brainbent}} being as its set in a psychiatric hospital. Some more prominent examples include:
** Gamzee, a friendly, easy-going stoner type-A StepfordSmiler with a DarkAndTroubledPast and resultant ptsd and depersonalization issues who believes that if he just keeps on smiling and trying to love everything (to ExtremeDoormat lengths) it will all work out okay.
** Dave, an albino 15 year old who self-harms and is in denial that he was ever abused by his brother.
** Vriska, an [[JerkassWoobie unrepetant asshole]] with no sense of personal identity, a DarkAndTroubledPast to rival Gamzee's, and a history of suicidal behaviour.
* Another Homestuck fanfic, {{Fanfic/Hemostuck}} plays it very well with [[RapeAsBackstory Kanaya, Eridan]], and [[TheOphelia Feferi]].
* [[RuleOfThree Homestuck AU]] {{Fanfic/Hivefled}} has more than it's fair share as well. For starters, there are the Kin, the trapped ghosts of teenagers kidnapped, raped, tortured and eventually killed by the Condesce and Grand Highblood.
** The Psiioniic. [[AndIMustScream Wired into an engine]], raped repeatedly for centuries by a crazed {{Yandere}}, and [[spoiler: forced into having sex with his equally unconsenting daughter]].
** Tsukey. A member of the sufferist cult and Tavros' former palecrush. [[spoiler: Captured and tortured for information, ended up as one of the aforementioned kin]].
** Gamzee straddles the line between this and {{Jerkass Woobie}}, but no matter how big an ass he can be you can't help but feel sorry for the guy after [[AbusiveParents everything]] [[RapeAsDrama he's]] [[ParentalIncest been]] [[ColdBloodedTorture through]].
* In Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX, just about the everyone is to an extent but the most noticeable ones are Reimu, Chen, Rumia, and Eirin, though in the sequel, Eirin takes the cake in that just about everyone she knows is pretty much hostile towards her, due to the stress, she begins developing anemia and has lost most of her hair to alopecia, and in the end she commits suicide and, wanting to die that badly, she succeeds.
* ''FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' has so many that it's a convincing argument to make "World of Woobie" a trope again.
** Let us start with our hero, Marcus. The TCB War has turned him into a [[ShellShockedVeteran nearly empty]] and [[SociopathicSoldier almost psychotic]] shell of a man. And even before that, he lost his dad at a young age and witnessed the worst of mankind during his time as a soldier during the wars in the Middle East. The war itself also caused the deaths of the rest of his family, forced him to MercyKill his ponified brother, and that's not even getting to the downright horrific things he's seen and done throughout it.
** TCB!Spike. [[spoiler: When he and Rarity realized what was happening to the other Elements of Harmony, they tried to escape, but failed. Not only were his friends and the mare he was in love with corrupted by darkness to be the Queen's tools of evil, but he himself was imprisoned and [[ColdBloodedTorture horribly tortured]] for going against the Queen. When Trixie finds him, he's pretty much a shell of his former self]].
** Then there is Trixie. A PHL spy who appears to be BecomingTheMask to the personae used in her spy work and fears she is becoming [[HeWhoFightsMonsters just as bad, if not worse than the people she fights against]].
** [[spoiler: TCB!Bon-Bon]], whose [[DrivenToMadness mind was]] [[BreakTheCutie broken]] after the Queen executed [[spoiler: Lyra]]. Nowadays she's just a babbling mess diagnosed with chronological lobular desync disorder (think of it as a stroke, [[DisSimile that lets you view both the present and any point of history at the same time]], [[DrivenToMadness with everything]] [[MadOracle that implies]]).
--> ''Sometimes she babbled about events that had yet to happen, or screamingly re-experienced past horrors, not just from her own life, but of Eldritch nightmares from eons before Equestria's founding.''
** TCB!Cadence, who was betrayed by her true love thanks to him being brainwashed into an unshakable fanatic for the Queen's cause. In Marcus' words, TCB!Shining Armor "attempted to subdue [Cadence] and drag her to the Tyrant with a smile."
** TCB!Luna, who was sickened and wracked with guilt by what Celestia was doing, and tried to help the humans... [[spoiler: and was turned to stone for it. By Celestia herself.]]
** Every surviving human. No, ponified ones don't count. And the pony sympathizers who work with them who have seen what happened to Equestria, and hate every minute of it.
*** The war started in 2020, the story itself is set in 2023. Millions of people were made refugees in that time, this is because of the The Barrier, which ''annihilates'' any human or human-made object in its way (not even leaving dust behind). Even if you haven't lost your home yet, that's billions more counting down until the barrier is on their front lawn. Try living three years, attempting to go about your daily routines, knowing ''that'' is your world's fate, ''dying by inches.''
** TCB!Scootaloo [[spoiler: suffers from a [[BodyHorror disease causing the tissues of her wings to become necrotic]] and ends up needing them amputated. The fact that [[HopeSpot she had]] [[AllJustADream an elaborate dream]] of gaining use of them only ramps up the sympathy for her.]]
** TCB!Sweetie Belle and TCB!Applebloom as well, [[spoiler: who could only helplessly watch as their beloved sisters became hateful xenocidal nutjobs hellbent on destroying all of humanity.]]
** Hyong-Jin from the Asia Side Story. His father died when he was young, then he discovers his mother and little sister (whom he vowed to watch over after his dad's death) were ponified with the rest of North Korea, and ''then'' he finds that his home country was [[NukeEm nuked to the ground]]. And according to the author, the TraumaCongaLine will probably only keep going for him for a while...
** King Spykoran can count. In order to ensure the Bag of Tirek would never be used again, he was forced to [[spoiler: annihilate all of Dream Valley. Let that sink in. He was [[ShootTheDog forced to kill everyone he knew and loved and their entire families]] all to prevent the bag from ever harming anyone else again]]. His [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt is so massive]], that he can't even take his 100 year nap because he's [[OutDamnedSpot still haunted by what he did]], even though he maintains [[IDidWhatIHadToDo he did what he had to do]].
** Shockingly, ''[[WhamEpisode For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' reveals that [[spoiler: the TCB!Mane Six are this. TCB!Twilight was initially against the ponification plans, and ended up getting horribly {{Mind Rape}}d by the Queen, and [[AndIMustScream was imprisoned in her own body]] while a dark personality was implanted to take over it. All she could do was helplessly watch as her friends all suffered the same fate, and all of them committing MoralEventHorizon grade acts against the humans. When Luna [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind explores her mind to get some information]], TCB!Twilight desperately begs Luna to kill her. Special mention goes to TCB!Rarity, who was the last one to be corrupted; she realized what was happening and tried to escape with Spike's help, but failed]].
** Viktor Kraber, a [[AxCrazy borderline-psychotic]] officer in the Bundeswehr. It's pretty clear that losing his children to TCB!Pinkie Pie drove him over the edge.
* In ''FanFic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace'', Mega Man, Roll, and [=ProtoMan=] all have moments of this at times.
** Peekaboo the Met, whose timid personality came about due to torture at the hands of Wily.
** Nomad is activated by mistake, feels pain almost immediately upon waking, is unable to speak, overhears Wily talking about wiping her memory, and doesn't get a name before running off.
* ''FanFic/MegaManRecut'' has Mega Man. The poor kid just wants to perform science experiments but instead is constantly forced to fight Dr. Wily and his forces, with all the physical and psychological issues that entails. He develops massive self esteem issues and begins to wonder whether he's a human or a robot. He has to deal with constant family problems and his brother tries to kill him on a regular basis. It's very hard not to feel bad for the guy.
* Poor Grace Wayne in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' fanfiction ''Question of Honor''. First she has to flee her wartorn homeland, leaving the few family and friends that had survived behind, knowing full well she probably won't see them again, married to somebody who is distant to her, falls in love with him while he's in love with another woman and later has to support him while all of Gotham turns against him.
* Taken UpToEleven with John Gage in [[http://www.tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/storiesbytammy.htm this]] series of ''{{Series/Emergency}}'' fics. His parents died when he was young and his uncles terribly abused him. During the series, he gets beat up several times,tortured at least twice,mauled by a bear,shot,stabbed,infected with malaria,infected with measles encephalitis,sick several times with other stuff(triggered by losing his spleen in canon,which leaves a person prone to illness)gets dragged through the snow tied to a horse,is temporarily blinded,gets in several mishaps with Roy,...and has a mild autism condition through it all'. The author openly admits that a real person who suffered all that would end up in a padded room someplace.
* In the WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck fanfiction, ''FanFic/NegaverseChronicles'', every single member of the Friendly Four qualifies.
** '''Megavolt''': His best friend and several classmates were killed when Drake/Negaduck burned down the school at prom, hasn't dared to go near his parents since that night since Negaduck promised to kill anyone important to Megavolt, has been trying to stop Negaduck for years before the others arrived on the scene, and is gradually having his memory destroyed by his powers with no way to stop it.
** '''Quackerjack''': Mother died when he was born, his father was poisoned by Negaduck, his brother Bobby tried to take care of him when his sanity originally began to fray until the day Negaduck killed Bobby right in front of him and pushed him completely into insanity to the point where it took a lot of work to return him to even a state of semi-stability, lost absolutely anything from his life to the point where the only things he could lose are his new friends.
** '''Bushroot''': Originally didn't get his doctorate because of sabotage, had all credit for his work stolen, forced to experiment on himself by Negaduck and turned himself into a mutant plant/duck, and had his two friends killed and was framed for the crime initally. Oh, and it turns out his family [[spoiler:are a bunch of criminals who don't associate with the WhiteSheep of the family and have to eventually leave the city to avoid Negaduck killing them.]]
** '''Liquidator''': Shoved into contaminated water that mutated him into his current liquid state, had his wife killed because of Negaduck, his son was kidnapped and sold off to [=SHUSH=] in order to be used for mutation experiments, and the only possible lead that he's found so far was lost.
* Ursa from the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' fanfic ''FanFic/GuideMeHome''; it's mentioned that she was happy once, but being beaten and burned by her power hungry husband (who later goes on to be the EvilOverlord), murdering her father-in-law in order to save her son, being forced to abandon her children, and going into exile has turned her into a rather bitter and cynical woman by the time the story begins. It gets worse, with her home being burned down, the closest thing to a friend she has being kidnapped by the Fire Nation, her own capture and torture at the hands of [[SmugSnake Admiral Zhao]], and she sees just how twisted her daughter has become under the "care" of Ozai. It takes some time before she even begins to heal, and [[EarnYourHappyEnding it is not a quick or easy process, but she makes it]].
* Read any of TheRaccoons fanfics by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1423968/Ralph-Jr Ralph Jr]] and expect Ralph, Melissa and even [[FunPersonified Bert]] to all be painted as woobies in them:
** Ralph had a crummy childhood, sobbed his heart out in high school for being dateless, got beaten to a bloody pulp and almost killed by a bully who temporarily stole his girlfriend and has low self-esteem issues in general.
** Melissa lost her mother, grew up an only child and her uncle was killed in combat. On top of all this, she loses her father to lung cancer in Beat The Clock and has to deal with pregnancy.
** Bert is quite the SadClown. He wanted to strike it big and become a famous musician only to have his hopes and dreams crushed. On top of all this, in Beat The Clock, Lisa rejects him which actually reduces the poor guy to tears. [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Beat-The-Clock-Title-Card-9-299398092 This]] title card pretty much says it all.

* So far, all the main characters from [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2183676/chapters/4780236 What The King Loved The Most]] . Special mention goes to [[spoiler: Hearne. He had to see his whole village being burned, lost his adoptive brother who also was his lover, his whole family actually. And he became the Rebellion's leader out of bitterness. Oh, and he hates the current governement because they were "useless".]] Tiam is also a full-fledged woobie, considering what happened to him in his childhood. To make it clear [[spoiler: his father used him as a lab rat for his magical experiments, he was forced to kill everyone is his village, his memories were changed so that he couldn't remember anything. In a flashback in Chapter 7 we have a manipulated Tiam, as a child. Who brutally slaughers a little boy. Ouch.]] His kind nature also make his suffering worse [[spoiler: since he wanted to save Hearne, but had to let him die.]]
* Let's face it: Pretty much all of the old animatronics in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10800735/1/Brothers-of-Circuits Brothers Of Circuits]] could use a hug but Bonnie is perhaps the most notable. As one fan put it in a review: "I feel sorry for them all, but especially Bonnie. He had to experience the same as Freddy, but he actually tried to stay himself. While it was Freddy who should have lead the family, it was actually Bonnie who became their anchor. Bonnie tried protect the family, to keep them together. The friendly and cheery "low fat ice-cream" animatronic was entrusted with the role as leader. He did what he could, being a peace-maker, supporting the others and acting as a lightning rod for Freddy's countless rage fits. He did everything he could until the very end." On top of all this, he has his voice box damaged from Freddy's rage fits and at the end of the story, his face removed. He gets [[UpToEleven pushed even deeper into woobie territory]] in the FourthWallMailSlot. After the fans made [[http://ask-the-fazbear-bros.deviantart.com/art/Freddy-Confesses-504721316 Freddy confess his romantic feelings for Bonnie]], Bonnie ran off in shock and [[http://ask-the-fazbear-bros.deviantart.com/art/Question-50-504739713 several fans sent hate mail and death threats to Bonnie, reducing him to tears and making him shut himself off.]] Despite all this, he's portrayed as a lovable, wisecracking comic relief. SadClown much? Let's face it, Bonnie could use a good cuddle, a gift basket of cookies and maybe even a grief counselor.
** [[http://ask-the-fazbear-bros.deviantart.com/art/Error-5-508922018 Shadow Bonnie]] also qualifies as this, considering he is a manifestation of Bonnie's depression and fear as well as Clyde's insanity. He's basically insane, full of anxiety and usually has [[http://ask-the-fazbear-bros.deviantart.com/art/Error-3-508825821 tears running down his face]] and is [[http://ask-the-fazbear-bros.deviantart.com/art/Error-4-508829498 abused by Shadow Freddy.]]
* From ''Fanfic/MaimDeMaim'', we have poor Nui and, unlike Ryuuko, her life was never good to begin with and just as things were starting to look up for her, she gets knocked down pretty hard when [[spoiler: her prescriptions were canceled against her will by her own mother]]. ''Damn''.
* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'' has two: Arizona and Oklahoma. Both of them are the [[BornUnlucky unlucky ones]] among the US Navy ship girls, who are both based on the two US battleships lost during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Especially moreso for the former, who thanks to PastLifeMemories refuses to talk about anything related to the incident.
* In the fanfic, "Fanfic/WhenAPonyCalls, we have Soren.(Not to be confused with the character from the show.) The story starts off with him naively agreeing to an offer made by, what he thought was a random fan, claiming to be Lyra from the show, before his computer explodes in his face and he's suddenly in Lyra's body. Things go down hill from there: [[spoiler: He is permanently separated from his family and home, is put through sanity slippage, after a defense mechanism in Lyra's horn mistakes his memories as a parasite, and his human body morphs into a pony too, do to exposure to Equistria's magical environment.]] That's not even the worst part.
* Amy, a.k.a. Panacea, is often treated as a Woobie in {{Literature/Worm}} fanfic due to her tragic backstory: she was the child of a supervillain who was nevertheless very loving; her father was locked up forever when she was six; she was raised by a clinically depressed adoptive father and a neglectful adoptive mother; and she fell in love with her adoptive sister, possibly due to accidental MindRape. In canon, she is rude and abrasive with an extremely black-and-white view of the world, but in fanfiction she is often written as sad and lonely with a friendly personality just under the surface.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' fans seem to love putting young Obi-Wan Kenobi in this position. A whole page could be made out of all the fics where he's beaten,kidnapped, becomes a slave, abused by hurtful masters prior to becoming Qui-Gon's padawan, made sick, ect. Much of the material is inspired by the ''Literature/JediApprentice'' book series.
* While all three of Kiryuuin sisters from ''Fanfic/CellarSecrets'' are woobies in their own right, the youngest sister, [[spoiler: Ryuuko]], is an even bigger woobie than either of the former two due to being treated like a dirty secret, locked away in a cellar, made to live in a cage, and had suffered ''very'' severe neglect and abuse at the hands of their mother. What makes her situation worse is that some people have treated their children like that with said children not recovering very well from that, either.
* Veronika of ''FanFic/SolitaryPinion'' is an interesting case in that while she does arguably count as this trope, the doctors [[EntertaininglyWrong incorrectly yet justifiably]] consider her the biggest Woobie they have ever met.
** Everything the doctors know about her points to her [[AbuseMistake having suffered severe abuse]] throughout her childhood. Her bones and flesh appear fresh, which would indicate her having been repeatedly tortured and much of her body tissue thus been replaced via healing magic - for the sole sake of going through the same torture again. Not only that, but her apparent limited talking skills, lack of a cutie mark, and her [[TheJoyOfFirstFlight downright marvel]] at her own supposedly natural [[HowDoIShotWeb ability to fly]] would imply developmental abnormalities. This inspires major worry and outright disgust in the doctors about who could've possibly done such things to a little filly.
** The truth of the matter, of course, is that she was born a [[WasOnceAMan different kind of creature]] from her [[BalefulPolymorph current]] [[{{Animorphism}} form]]. Her limited capabilities of walking and talking are the result of possessing a completely different physiology [[DamnYouMuscleMemory than what she has taken 14 years to get used to]]. As for the flying thing, her original species can't fly and based [[FlyingTropes much of their culture]] on [[CallOfTheWildBlueYonder their obsession and envy towards all flying creatures]].
* Any ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' post-canon fanfics would usually portray [[TheAtoner Mitsuzane Kureshima]] as this.
** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': This revolves more of Mitsuzane's habit of HeroicSelfDeprecation, and spends most of his time thinking that that [[BeAllMySinsRemembered his old friends still hate him]]. WordOfGod states that Mitsuzane had a hard time getting over his past. [[spoiler:Good thing, he finds a company of a {{Heterosexual Life Partner}} in the form of [[Series/KamenRiderDrive Gou]]/Kamen Rider Mach to keep him in check, and a new LoveInterest in [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] to confide his insecurities with and help him cope with it.]]
--->'''Zack''' (to [[Series/KamenRiderGhost Alain]]): [[SadClown Micchy screws around... when he cries. When he feels so sad, he starts making jokes at anyone’s expense.]] It all started two years ago, when the Overlords began to conquer Earth, [[FaceHeelTurn he aligned himself]] [[TheQuisling with them and betrayed all of us]], [[BrokenPedestal this is the reason why him and Kouta became bitter enemies]]. Two months after Helheim was removed from Earth, and Kouta, Mai, and Kaito were presumed dead, [[EmptyShell Micchy is but an apathetic shadow]] of his former self, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ashamed of what he have become]]. He feels like we shunned him for the sins he committed, [[TheAtoner though he was given a chance to redeem himself]]. Since then, his past would come to haunt him, [[StepfordSnarker which is the reason why you can hear he jokes around at anyone to hide his pain. In such away that protects him from a relentlessly and unkind world]].
** This canon divergence fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4222647 Requiem]]'' by Perditus.
* The [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic MLP:FIM]] story ''FanFic/HarmonyTheory'' has several examples:
** Rainbow Dash. She wakes up stranded in a CrapsackWorld and BadFuture for Equestria, on the brink of war, [[spoiler: Celestia and Luna are gone]], she is thrown in the middle of a conspiracy involving a {{War God}}ess and a ruthless criminal mastermind, and with none of her old friends to help her.
*** [[spoiler: When Rarity and Applejack started waking up, they had to face the same problems, but with one sad difference: Their families are gone.]]
*** [[spoiler: Fluttershy. She comes in on Max Cash's disemboweled corpse, and later sees Rainbow Dash kill Charisma.]]
** Star Fall: Being the first Pegasus in modern Equestria, with magic talents, has caused her to be a political pawn in the kingdom for a large portion of her life. Starting with her being taken from her parents (Though at least, by a future parental substitute.) and later, leading to her being forced into an ArrangedMarriage by the king, hoping she could produce an Alicorn offspring. [[spoiler: Later, she's forced to banish her own parents, so they can't be used to get to her, while they think she's simply disowning them. Then, it's revealed that her mentor/ParentalSubstitute was a traitor.]]
** Calumn: As a Changeling, he naturally relies on deception to achieve his goals. But, after he starts to become attached to [[spoiler: the mother of the soldier he's impersonating]] and finds a Morality Pet in Trail Blazer, he has a huge identity crisis and questions what it means to be part of his species.
** Melody losses everything she cares about, is betrayed by a pony she trusted and looked up to, and is driven insane, after Max Cash manipulated her master into helping him. He then [[spoiler: brainwashed her into standing by her dead master, even after he is nothing more than a rotting corpse, and she can do nothing about this but wait for help.]] After she finally catches up with Max, he bluntly tells her [[ButForMeItWasTuesday that he does not even remember who she is]], [[spoiler: before killing her in cold blood.]]
* The ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheDayEverythingChanged'', has Kagami becoming thoroughly woobified during Chapter 4, when she suffers the beatdown of her life at the hands of [[BigBad Sakura Takahashi]], the school bully. She might have been killed if Konata [[BigDamnHeroes hadn't intervened]].
** Due to her inability to tell Kagami her true feelings and the fact that she suffers more than a few brutal hits trying to protect Kagami from further harm but still keeps fighting back, Konata also qualifies as this, especially being more of an IronWoobie.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/RequiemForALoud'' turns both Lincoln and all his siters into Woobies. Lincoln since he is being diagnosed with terminal brain tumors, and things only go further downhill from there. From being told that he will die in 2 weeks’ time, to finding out how a series of freaky coincidences lead to him being in his current condition, to having to watch his sisters sink into a depression because of this sad news, to having his girlfriend break up with him due to a misunderstanding; the universe really has it out for him. The Loud Sisters meanwhile, knowing that they're going to lose their one and only brother at a very young age, turn into [[BreakTheCutie absolute wrecks]].
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* The ''Manga/LuckyStar'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheDayEverythingChanged'', has Kagami becoming thoroughly woobiefied during Chapter 4, when she suffers the beatdown of her life at the hands of [[BigBad Sakura Takahashi]], the school bully. She might have been killed if Konata [[BigDamnHeroes hadn't intervened]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/RequiemForALoud'' turns both Lincoln and all his siters into Woobies. Lincoln since he is being diagnosed with terminal brain tumors, and things only go further downhill from there. From being told that he will die in 2 weeks’ time, to finding out how a series of freaky coincidences lead to him being in his current condition, to having to watch his sisters sink into a depression because of this sad news, to having his girlfriend break up with him due to a misunderstanding; the universe really has it out for him. The Loud Sisters meanwhile, knowing that they're going to lose their one and only brother at a very young age, turn into [[BreakingTheCutie absolute wrecks]].

** You think Vexen being a Woobie is bad? Try Axel. Yes, {{Badass}} {{Deadpan Snarker}} Axel. While the author doesn't turn him into a {{Draco In Leather Pants}}, and actually makes him out to be the violent, dangerous, deadly-loyal man that he was supposed to be in Kingdom Hearts, his friendship with Isa/Saix, who is now in love with Xemnas, (whom Axel is not exactly on the best terms with), nets him some woobie moments, especially when he feels like [[{{Tear Jerker}} Isa has stopped caring about him]]. And as of the more recent chapters, [[spoiler:his pining for Roxas, who doesn't even exist yet]], might qualify.

** Melody losses everything she cares about, is betrayed by a pony she trusted and looked up to, and is driven insane, after Max Cash manipulated her master into helping him. He then [[spoiler: brainwashed her into standing by her dead master, even after he is nothing more than a rotting corpse, and she can do nothing about this but wait for help.]] After she finally catches up with Max, he bluntly tells her [[ForMeItWasTuesday that he does not even remember who she is]], [[spoiler: before killing her in cold blood.]]

** ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'': This revolves more of Mitsuzane's habit of HeroicSelfDeprecation, and spends most of his time thinking that that [[BeAllMySinsRemembered his old friends still hate him]]. WordOfGod states that Mitsuzane had a hard time getting over his past.

** This canon divergence fic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/4222647 Requiem]] by Perditus.

-->'''Zack''' (to [[Series/KamenRiderGhost Alain]]): [[SadClown Micchy screws around... when he cries. When he feels so sad, he starts making jokes at anyone’s expense.]] It all started two years ago, when the Overlords began to conquer Earth, [[FaceHeelTurn he aligned himself]] [[TheQuisling with them and betrayed all of us]], [[BrokenPedestal this is the reason why him and Kouta became bitter enemies]]. Two months after Helheim was removed from Earth, and Kouta, Mai, and Kaito were presumed dead, [[EmptyShell Micchy is but an apathetic shadow]] of his former self, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ashamed of what he have become]]. He feels like we shunned him for the sins he committed, [[TheAtoner though he was given a chance to redeem himself]]. Since then, his past would come to haunt him, [[StepfordSnarker which is the reason why you can hear he jokes around at anyone to hide his pain. In such away that protects him from a relentlessly and unkind world]].

-->'''Zack''' (to [[Series/KamenRiderGhost Alain]]: [[SadClown Micchy screws around... when he cries. When he feels so sad, he starts making jokes at anyone’s expense.]] It all started two years ago, when the Overlords began to conquer Earth, [[FaceHeelTurn he aligned himself]] [[TheQuilsing with them and betrayed all of us]], [[BrokenPedestal this is the reason why him and Kouta became bitter enemies]]. Two months after Helheim was removed from Earth, and Kouta, Mai, and Kaito were presumed dead, [[EmptyShell Micchy is but an apathetic shadow]] of his former self, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone ashamed of what he have become]]. He feels like we shunned him for the sins he committed, [[TheAtoner though he was given a chance to redeem himself]]. Since then, his past would come to haunt him, [[StepfordSnarker which is the reason why you can hear he jokes around at anyone to hide his pain. In such away that protects him from a relentlessly and unkind world]].

** Yin - Started out being nearly killed by [[BigBad Eradicus]]' Woo Foo Aura Drain at the beginning of the story, [[DiabolusExMachina she falls into a coma alongside with Yang after getting blown away by the explosive shockwave]] [[PyrrhicVictory that destroys their hometown completely, following the Night Master's defeat]]. She starts coming to terms with the fact that their [[DisappearedDad biological father]], [[OldMaster Master]] [[GrumpyBear Yo]], [[FakingTheDead committed pseudocide]] [[MoralEventHorizon so he can go on vacation]] [[ParentalAbandonment to escape from his responsibilities as a father]] [[DisproportionateRetribution out of frustration for his children's week-long losing streak against]] Eradicus' [[QuirkyMinibossSquad minions]] [[ContinuityNod early in the last episodes of Season Two]]. Yin gets kidnapped by a criminal gang at a hotel reception at the near end of chapter six along with foster sister Suzie, kicking off the initial plot arc [[spoiler:only to turn out alive and well and then rescued by BigBrother Yang in chapter fourteen, thanks to a BigDamnHeroes moment]].