History Woobie / MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

* [[TheBeastmaster Fluttershy]] is the weakest physically of the mane six. She was heavily bullied in both past and present by flight camp, and the townsfolk of Ponyville besides the mane six, giving her severe PTSD having the only pony to ever defend her, Rainbow Dash, suddenly forgets about her after she falls off a cloud during a race. She is assertive, but kind, and often lets herself be a doormat on multiple occasions including the episode Putting Your Hoof Down. Due to the aforementioned PTSD, she prefers the company of her animals to her friends or other equines. While very few ponies prank her (and when Rainbow Dash did the one time, she was harshly chewed out) or even be the least bit mean to her due to her pure heart, she only admitted her weaknesses and not strengths, when cornered by a God of Chaos, and regretted acting mean when she was turned evil, she even redeems the aforementioned [[MixAndMatchCritters draconequuis]] God of Chaos and becomes his only friend for a while. She cares so much for animals that when she was herding ducks, the poor girl got roared at by a Gilda, who at the time was a JerkJock. When her new friend Discord ends up joining Tirek, he immediately regrets it as poor Fluttershy is beside herself thinking he had changed for the better. Compared to the other ponies who are better at holding it in, Fluttershy was labeled "The Misfit" by Discovery Family, and cries often whenever she has to relive her time at flight camp.

[[caption-width-right:311:[[TearJerker Rated D for depression.]]

[[caption-width-right:311:[[TarJerker Rated D for depression.]]

[[caption-width-right:311:[[TheWoobie Poor, poor]] [[TearJerker Fluttershy.]]]]

* Despite being the main protagonist, Twilight Sparkle has plenty of issues herself. One is her obvious PTSD from Magic Kindergarten, and her fears about having to be the model student for Celestia, causing her to create problems like enchanting her prized doll to cause an entire town (besides her friends) to go insane. She has an extreme fear of failure as shown in "Lesson Zero" and "The Crystal Empire Part 1". She begs her friend not to hate her, and has ObsessivelyOrganized tendencies. Come "A Canterlot Wedding" Queen Chrysalis evilly gets her friends and even brother and mentor to turn on her. She was also worried about Celestia dying despite it being a flashback.

* In [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017 the movie]], all the Derpy-like foals we've seen on the show. That's Mom[=/=]Auntie[=/=]Big Sis [[spoiler:trapped in stone]].
* Gallus is a griffon who doesn't have a family. When the school is closed for Hearth's Warming vacation, he creates a mess in the common room in order to delay having to leave the only people who care about him.

* Despite being the main protagonist, Twilight Sparkle has plenty of issues herself. One is her obvious PTSD from Magic Kindergarten, and her fears about having to be the model student for Celestia, causing her to create problems like enchanting her prized doll to cause an entire town (besides her friends) to go insane. She has an extreme fear of failure as shown in "Lesson Zero" and "The Crystal Empire Part 1". She begs her friend not to hate her, and has SuperOCD. Come "A Canterlot Wedding" Queen Chrysalis evilly gets her friends and even brother and mentor to turn on her. She was also worried about Celestia dying despite it being a flashback.

* Shining Armor himself could qualify in a few episodes. He is getting married to the love of his life who was not only kind to him, but also to his beloved sister, Twilight. But then, Twilight viciously insults Cadence out of (seeming) petty jealousy. And since he was brainwashed, he was not only unable to defend Cadence, [[WhatTheHellHero he lashes out at Twilight for upsetting the bride, not realizing he she was only trying to protect him]], and ends up causing both to be trapped by the imposter. [[FridgeHorror Imagine]] if he ended up killed because of Chrysalis and could never see his beloved real bride nor his sister again and realizing what a [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrible mistake he made]]. There's also the comics where he's just as (if not moreso) {{Adorkable}} as Twilight being a D&D nerd who lives in his parents basement desperately trying to get the attention of bombshell princess Cadence, who was his sister's foalsitter. It even exists in the show. Just look at how he complete geeks out in ''The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows''. Shining Armor is probably a case of a HollywoodNerd though, as he is far from ugly. But still, you can't help but feel for the guy when you know his backstory and considering what happened at his wedding, you can understand why he'd cry at weddings. And in ''The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows'' it's revealed he and his wife earned their happy ending and are having a foal of their own.

** "The Last Crusade" finally explored Scootaloo's actual home life. It turned out [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated her parents are very much alive]], but their line of work takes them to farr-off and dangerous places, such that they could not bring Scootaloo along. She was being taken care of by her aunts (who were first introduced in the "Ponyville Mysteries" comic), but even they did not actually live in Ponyville, leaving Scootaloo to le raised mostly by whatever local adults weren't busy. And when her parents arrive, it turns out they plan to bring Scootaloo along of their next assignment (fearing for her safety after the events of "The Beginning of the End"), taking her away from the ponies who had ''actually'' served as her family. [[spoiler:Fortunately, they change their minds after seeing what the Cutie Mark Crusaders had done for Ponyville. Her aunts also move to Ponyville, letting them be with her full-time.]]

** In ''For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils'', it's revealed that on her fifth birthday, she thought that Rarity was taking attention away from her and learned that she shouldn't try to shine when Rarity is around. It was all a misunderstanding, but that must mean that for at least a few years, Sweetie Belle thought that she would always be stuck in Rarity's shadow.