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* Julie, one of the protagonists of the '70s pop song "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes. Her dad finds out she and the eponymous Joey have been up to things that the dad doesn't approve of and beats the crap out of her. Then when Dad goes hunting for Joey, rifle in hand... [[TheyGotWorse things got worse]] for poor Julie. The song's a bit on the manipulative side, but oh, how the listener feels for Julie! (And -- the hell? This song was performed on "Glee"?)
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* Richard Marx's song "Hazard" portrays a guy who grew up with his single mother in a town where everybody refused to believe that there was any good in him. Eventually, he meets a woman who sees him for who he really is, but when she is murdered, the whole town naturally blames him. But the music video shows that [[spoiler: the sheriff killed her, seeking to blame it on the protagonist and get rid of him for good. Fortunately, they can't prove him guilty, so he is released, and he packs his bags and leaves town for a brighter future.]]

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* Richard Marx's RichardMarx's song "Hazard" portrays a guy who grew up with his single mother in a town where everybody refused to believe that there was any good in him. Eventually, he meets a woman who sees him for who he really is, but when she is murdered, the whole town naturally blames him. But the music video shows that [[spoiler: the sheriff killed her, seeking to blame it on the protagonist and get rid of him for good. Fortunately, they can't prove him guilty, so he is released, and he packs his bags and leaves town for a brighter future.]]
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* The sauce packets at Taco Bell.
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** The protagonist of "Jump They Say" (''Black Tie White Noise''), specifically in the video version. A businessman (Bowie, looking as elegant as he ever has) is taken captive by his peers because he's...''different'' from them; the song implies the difference is mental. He is subjected to shock therapy; driven around the bend he jumps from the building to his death, where horrified bystanders offer concern and compassion he could not find in life.

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** The protagonist of "Jump They Say" (''Black Tie White Noise''), specifically especially in the video version. A The song is about a man who is DrivenToSuicide by a world that does not understand him due to an unspecified mental condition that makes him "different". The video expands on this by establishing him as a businessman (Bowie, looking as elegant as he ever has) (played by Bowie) who has done no one any harm, has not rocked anyone's boat, yet is taken captive by his peers because he's...''different'' from them; the song implies the of this difference is mental. He is and subjected to shock therapy; driven around the bend he jumps from the building therapy. This is suggested to his death, where horrified bystanders offer concern and compassion he could not find in life.
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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's [[NorseMythology half-giant]] or something, and not just the only one. He poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition (or poisons a dart with miseltoe and gets Baldur with it, anyways, he uses miseltoe to shut him up permanent-like), and so he gets tossed from Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]

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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's [[NorseMythology half-giant]] or something, and not just the only one. He poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition (or poisons a dart with miseltoe and gets Hod to shoot Baldur with it, anyways, he uses miseltoe to shut him up permanent-like), and so he gets tossed from Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]
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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's [[NorseMythology half-giant]] or something, and not just the only one. He poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition (or poisons a dart with miseltoe and gets Baldur with it, anyways, he uses miseltoe to shut him up), and so he gets tossed from Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]

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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's [[NorseMythology half-giant]] or something, and not just the only one. He poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition (or poisons a dart with miseltoe and gets Baldur with it, anyways, he uses miseltoe to shut him up), up permanent-like), and so he gets tossed from Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]
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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-giant or something, and not just the only one. He poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]

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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-giant [[NorseMythology half-giant]] or something, and not just the only one. He poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, competition (or poisons a dart with miseltoe and gets Baldur with it, anyways, he uses miseltoe to shut him up), and so he gets tossed from Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]
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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-giant or something, and not just the only one. He drugs Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asgard, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]

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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-giant or something, and not just the only one. He drugs poisons Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asgard, Asgard into the Netherworld, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's he's]] [[{{Understatement}} kinda bitter.]]
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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-giant or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asgard. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]

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* [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-giant or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze Baldur's ale with miseltoe to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asgard.Asgard, and chained to a stone while a snake drools acid in his face until the end of the world. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]

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* From the songs of DavidBowie:
** The "Wild Eyed Boy from Freecloud" (''Space Oddity'') is an innocent "missionary mystic of peace/love", but feared, imprisoned, and sentenced to hang by the denizens of a village simply for his oddness. He accepts this fate, but the titular mountain sends down an avalanche to save him, despite his cries for it to stop -- he lives, but the village is destroyed and he's in tears as he heads home.
** The protagonist of "Jump They Say" (''Black Tie White Noise''), specifically in the video version. A businessman (Bowie, looking as elegant as he ever has) is taken captive by his peers because he's...''different'' from them; the song implies the difference is mental. He is subjected to shock therapy; driven around the bend he jumps from the building to his death, where horrified bystanders offer concern and compassion he could not find in life.
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* Len from {{Vocaloid}}. There's hardly a song without him dying in some way, like in the Story of Evil series, for example.
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** Some versions of Medusa are this in a nutshell. When you're punished by being made a gorgon because Poseidon couldn't keep it in his pants and raped you in the temple of Aphrodite, let's just say you definitely deserve a hug, even if the hugger is likely to get poisoned or turned to stone for his or her trouble.

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** Some versions of Medusa are this in a nutshell. When you're punished by being made a gorgon because Poseidon couldn't keep it in his pants and raped you in the temple of Aphrodite, Athena, let's just say you definitely deserve a hug, even if the hugger is likely to get poisoned or turned to stone for his or her trouble.
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* Richard Marx's song "Hazard" portrays a guy who grew up with his single mother in a town where everybody refused to believe that there was any good in him. Eventually, he meets a woman who sees him for who he really is, but when she is murdered, the whole town naturally blames him. But the music video shows that [[spoiler: the sheriff killed her, seeking to blame it on the protagonist and get rid of him for good. Fortunately, they can't prove him guilty, so he is released, and he packs his bags and leaves town for a brighter future.]]

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* Richard Marx's song "Hazard" portrays a guy who grew up with his single mother in a town where everybody refused to believe that there was any good in him. Eventually, he meets a woman who sees him for who he really is, but when she is murdered, the whole town naturally blames him. But the music video shows that [[spoiler: the sheriff killed her, seeking to blame it on the protagonist and get rid of him for good. Fortunately, they can't prove him guilty, so he is released, and he packs his bags and leaves town for a brighter future.]]
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* The titular character of SteelyDan's song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnnDDnTSuxE Charlie Freak]]".
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* Richard Marx's song "Hazard" portrays a guy who grew up with his single mother in a town where everybody refused to believe that there was any good in him. Eventually, he meets a woman who sees him for who he really is, but when she is murdered, the whole town naturally blames him. But the music video shows that [[spoiler: the sheriff killed her, seeking to blame it on the protagonist and get rid of him for good. Fortunately, they can't prove him guilty, so he is released, and he packs his bags and leaves town for a brighter future.]]

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** Played straight in ''GodOfWar 3''. Even [[HeroicSociopath Kratos]] was disgusted by the Olympians' treatment of him and his "daugther".

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** Played straight in ''GodOfWar 3''. Even [[HeroicSociopath Kratos]] was disgusted by the Olympians' treatment of him and his "daugther"."daughter."


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** Some versions of Medusa are this in a nutshell. When you're punished by being made a gorgon because Poseidon couldn't keep it in his pants and raped you in the temple of Aphrodite, let's just say you definitely deserve a hug, even if the hugger is likely to get poisoned or turned to stone for his or her trouble.
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* Dr. Light in {{The Protomen}}'s rock opera. That poor man spent pretty much his whole life enduring tragedy after tragedy.

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* Dr. Light in {{The Protomen}}'s rock opera. That poor man spent pretty much his whole life enduring tragedy after tragedy.tragedy, the abbreviated list including [[spoiler:the death of his love, being framed and arrested for said killing, narrowly escaping the death sentence, getting chased out of town by a lynch mob that believed he deserved the death sentence, sending an innocent teenager to his death for a plan that didn't work anyway, losing his first son to the tyrannical dictator suppressing the city, having to watch his second son kill his first, then watching his second son abandon mankind to it's doom.]] Someone give the old lump a hug already.

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** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-titan or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asgard. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]

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** Medea has a bit of this going on. She was a princess of a foreign country, and when Jason arrived to get the [[MacGuffin Golden Fleece]], she fell in love with him and used her magic powers to help him accomplish his quest on the condition that he'd marry her. They wound up fleeing the country to escape her father's anger, and in a lot of stories Medea had to kill her brother to distract the king long enough for them to get away. Okay, all well and good. But fast-forward a few years, and now she's a foreigner alone in xenophobic Greece aside from her husband and two children, estranged from her family and friends, and her husband has just announced that he's leaving her to marry the (younger, prettier) princess of Corinth for political gain and oh, by the way, she's going to have to be exiled from the country now but Jason is totally going to try to let her come back to be his mistress. Medea was not pleased at all and poisoned the princess before fleeing the country... so the Corinthians killed her kids.
*** Though she loses most of her {{woobie}} cred in Euripides' version and the variations that follow, where instead of her children being murdered by the angry populace, ''she'' [[MoralEventHorizon kills them herself to get back at Jason]].
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* EvelynEvelyn's Eva and Lyn Neville.
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* The titular character of {{The Who}}'s {{Tommy}}. First he's rendered deaf, dumb and blind after he witnesses a murder as a young child. Then he gets tortured by his [[CompleteMonster cousin]]. Then he's given tons of drugs by the 'Acid Queen.' And then he gets molested by his [[CreepyUncle Uncle Ernie]]. Eventually his sight, voice, and hearing are restored, and he becomes a Messiah figure to the fans he gained playing pinball. His followers turn on him shortly after.
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* All three girls mentioned in the song "Runaway Love" by Ludacris and Mary J. Blige.
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* The eponymous subject of {{Blutengel}}'s song "Broken Girl".
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** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-titan or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asguard. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]

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** [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-titan or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asguard.Asgard. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]
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* The runaway girl from Nuclear Death's "Days of the Weak". Overlaps very strongly with HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
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**Bizarrely enough, her stand up act runs on this as well.
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* The Trix Rabbit. You got to feel bad for a rabbit that has to put with years of selfish kids.
* PC in the Mac vs. PC commercials. If you're thinking of the commercials in a plot-based kind of way, he seems to have gotten progressively desperate. One can only guess that he'll end the commercial runs [[LuckyStar Lucky Channel]]-style.
* The various rejected cleaning supplies in the Swiffer commercials.
* The pea in the old Batchelor's advert (UK), made to think about the "old days on the farm, in the pod with all your friends", etc. Its own tears turn it to mush and this is supposed to make you want to eat mushy peas!
** Oh God, I remember that one ... that gave me ''nightmares'', I swear!
* "Nobody ever pays me in gum!" Complete with "Aww..." from the other characters in the commercial.
* The Geico commercial where the drill sergeant is a therapist. His poor client!
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* St Kilda in AustralianRulesFootball. Also Fitzroy, before they merged with Brisbane.
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* The Geico commercial where the drill sergeant is a therapist. His poor client!

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* Probably the point of the Grey Faerie in ''{{Neopets}}''.
* New ''TheDailyShow'' correspondent Kristen Schaal is making a career out of being one of these. See [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=166245&title=olympic-mascots here]] what happens to her when she learns the truth about Chinese female babies. In another segment, she was forced to strip off an article of clothing for every baseless accusation made against a presidential candidate. Needless to say, that episode, everybody found out that Kristen wears a WonderWoman costume under her suit.
* ''{{Bionicle}}'' has Lesovikk and [[spoiler:Krika]].

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* Probably the point of the Grey Faerie in ''{{Neopets}}''.
* New ''TheDailyShow'' correspondent Kristen Schaal is making a career out of being one of these. See [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=166245&title=olympic-mascots here]] what happens to her when she learns the truth about Chinese female babies. In another segment, she was forced to strip off an article of clothing for every baseless accusation made against a presidential candidate. Needless to say, that episode, everybody found out that Kristen wears a WonderWoman costume under her suit.
* ''{{Bionicle}}'' has Lesovikk and [[spoiler:Krika]].
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* The Dierks Bentley song "Settle For a Slowdown". [[{{tearjerker}} The lyrics]] almost make the poor guy sound like an abandoned puppy...
* The girl from Martina [=McBride's=] "Concrete Angel" song and video. Full stop.
* Hephaestus needs a hug. Stable, hard-working guy who's horribly ugly, born crippled, kicked out of Mount Olympus, possibly by his own mother, married to the goddess of beauty who never cared about him.
** Played straight in ''GodOfWar 3''. Even [[HeroicSociopath Kratos]] was disgusted by the Olympians' treatment of him and his "daugther".
** Cassandra. Just [[CassandraTruth Cassandra]].
**[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-titan or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asguard. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]



* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY&feature=related Doll Face]]. Poor thing. Probably comes second to WALL-E on the 'robots you most want to hug tightly' list.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY&feature=related Doll Face]]. Poor thing. Probably comes second to WALL-E on the 'robots you most want to hug tightly' list.
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* "Nobody ever pays me in gum!" Complete with "Aww..." from the other characters in the commercial.

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* The Dierks Bentley song "Settle For a Slowdown". [[{{tearjerker}} The lyrics]] almost make the poor guy sound like an abandoned puppy...
* The girl from Martina [=McBride's=] "Concrete Angel" song and video. Full stop.



* Kermit the Frog. He tries so hard to be cheerful, friendly and positive that when he does become sad or even just exasperated by the madness going on around him, you just want to give him a hug.
** His friend Fozzie Bear probably falls under this too. He just wants to be funny, but he keeps falling on his face.



*Dr. Light in {{The Protomen}}'s rock opera. That poor man spent pretty much his whole life enduring tragedy after tragedy.

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*Dr.* Dr. Light in {{The Protomen}}'s rock opera. That poor man spent pretty much his whole life enduring tragedy after tragedy.tragedy.
* The subject of the song "Carry You Home" by James Blunt. The poor kid's apparently never had any friends, and seems to have leukemia or something. The only one with her when she Shuffles Off is James.

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* Probably the point of the Grey Faerie in ''{{Neopets}}''.
* New ''TheDailyShow'' correspondent Kristen Schaal is making a career out of being one of these. See [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=166245&title=olympic-mascots here]] what happens to her when she learns the truth about Chinese female babies. In another segment, she was forced to strip off an article of clothing for every baseless accusation made against a presidential candidate. Needless to say, that episode, everybody found out that Kristen wears a WonderWoman costume under her suit.
* ''{{Bionicle}}'' has Lesovikk and [[spoiler:Krika]].
* Hephaestus needs a hug. Stable, hard-working guy who's horribly ugly, born crippled, kicked out of Mount Olympus, possibly by his own mother, married to the goddess of beauty who never cared about him.
** Played straight in ''GodOfWar 3''. Even [[HeroicSociopath Kratos]] was disgusted by the Olympians' treatment of him and his "daugther".
** Cassandra. Just [[CassandraTruth Cassandra]].
**[[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Loki]] needs a hug. No-one likes him just because he's half-titan or something, and not just the only one. He drugs one guy's booze to get revenge during the spear-throwing competition, and so he gets tossed from Asguard. [[FreudianExcuse No wonder he's kinda bitter.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl6hNj1uOkY&feature=related Doll Face]]. Poor thing. Probably comes second to WALL-E on the 'robots you most want to hug tightly' list.
* Kermit the Frog. He tries so hard to be cheerful, friendly and positive that when he does become sad or even just exasperated by the madness going on around him, you just want to give him a hug.
** His friend Fozzie Bear probably falls under this too. He just wants to be funny, but he keeps falling on his face.



*The subject of the song "Carry You Home" by James Blunt. The poor kid's apparently never had any freinds, and seems to have leukemia or something. The only one with her when she Shuffles Off is James.



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* Bean Bunny in ''{{Muppet Vision 3D}}'' at the DisneyThemeParks, who pretty much spends the entire show getting ostracized by Piggy and Sam.

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