History Woobie / Other

* The runaway girl from Nuclear Death's "Days of the Weak". Overlaps very strongly with NightmareFuel.

* 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.

** Then, there's [[spolier: Ye Lai. Being an annoying CuteGhostGirl, she always felt in love with her alive younger brother Ye Ren. Then after such HeelRealization, she is impaled InTheBack by a classmate of his who she also loved (depspote him not knowing). Her last few moments with Ye Ren are as depressing as a fan ofthe series could possibly get.

** On that note, Protoman himself arguably counts. He might not think humanity's worth saving (in fairness, they did just watch Wily's robots 'kill' him) due to their refusal to fight for themselves, but he wants so ''desperatley'' to be proven wrong. Especially in "The stand", where humanity proves him right, again, and he's genuinley heartbroken- "They'll watch you ''die'' to save their lives! They will not stand here by your side..."
*** TheMegas version of Protoman, too, due to some pretty impressive ParentalAbandonment issues.

* 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... [[ItGotWorse 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"?)

* Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins. He watched his teammates be traded away in one huge trade and then had to hear that the team wouldn't trade him when he obviously no longer wants to be there.

* 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.

** The protagonist of "Jump They Say" (''Black Tie White Noise'') is a mentally disturbed man who is DrivenToSuicide. The video expands on this by establishing him as a businessman (played by Bowie) who has done no one any harm, has not rocked anyone's boat, yet is taken captive by his peers and subjected to shock therapy. (RealitySubtext: This song was inspired by the suicide of Bowie's schizophrenic half-brother.)

** The protagonist of "Jump They Say" (''Black Tie White Noise''), especially in the video version. 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 (played by Bowie) who has done no one any harm, has not rocked anyone's boat, yet is taken captive by his peers because of this difference and subjected to shock therapy. This is suggested to be what pushes him to that fateful jump. (RealitySubtext: This song was inspired by the suicide of Bowie's schizophrenic half-brother.)

* The runaway girl from Nuclear Death's "Days of the Weak". Overlaps very strongly with HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

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* 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.
** Bizarrely enough, her stand up act runs on this as well.
* ''{{Bionicle}}'' has Lesovikk and [[spoiler:Krika]].
* [[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.
* [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/25514-lil-orphan-orange Lil' Orphan Orange.]] An orphan who looked strangely unhappy who a children's snack food mascot. Later incarnations of Otter Pops made her more cheerful, though.
* Bean Bunny in ''{{Muppet Vision 3D}}'' at the DisneyThemeParks, who pretty much spends the entire show getting ostracized by Piggy and Sam.
* St Kilda in AustralianRulesFootball. Also Fitzroy, before they merged with Brisbane.
* The sauce packets at Taco Bell.
* Martin Crieff in ''CabinPressure''. The poor guy lives in an attic, lives in PerpetualPoverty and doesn't get paid to fly, but he does anyway because it's the only thing he's wanted to do since he was six years old. His father always disapproved of his dreams, and passed away four months before Martin got his pilot's license and proved his father wrong. Oh, and what does he actually do to support himself? He does removals with the van his father bequeathed him in his will, rather than the 5000 pounds each of his siblings got. So, even though he did become a pilot, his father was still right about him. All of this is played for laughs.

** The protagonist of "Jump They Say" (''Black Tie White Noise''), especially in the video version. 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 (played by Bowie) who has done no one any harm, has not rocked anyone's boat, yet is taken captive by his peers because of this difference and subjected to shock therapy. This is suggested to be what pushes him to that fateful jump.

* The eponymous subject of {{Blutengel}}'s song "Broken Girl".

* Probably the point of the Grey Faerie in ''{{Neopets}}''.

* 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 "daughter."
** Cassandra. Just [[CassandraTruth Cassandra]].
** 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]].
** 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 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.
* [[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]]kinda bitter.

* [[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.]]

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

* 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"?)