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* ''{{Bionicle}}'' has Lesovikk and [[spoiler:Krika]].

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* ''{{Bionicle}}'' ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' has Lesovikk and [[spoiler:Krika]].
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* The Girl in the Slayer Jacket from the PigDestroyer song of the same name. Just go read the lyrics, man.

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* The Girl in the Slayer Jacket from the PigDestroyer Music/PigDestroyer song of the same name. Just go read the lyrics, man.
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* From the songs of DavidBowie:

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* From the songs of DavidBowie:Music/DavidBowie:
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** The Detroit Lions in the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague, especially the 2008 season that saw them finish 0-16, blowing several fourth leads in the process.

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** The Detroit Lions in the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague, especially the 2008 season that saw them finish 0-16, blowing several fourth quarter leads in the process.
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** The Detroit Lions in the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague, especially the 2008 season that saw them finish 0-16, blowing several fourth leads in the process.
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* The supporters of any [[EveryYearTheyFizzleOut underwhelming]]\[[ButtMonkey bottom-feeder]] sports team (except if the fanbase is mostly [[MilesGloriosus people who brag and\or are obnoxious despite the team's inability to win]]).
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** Music/Michael Jackson himself is considered to be one.

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** Music/Michael Jackson Music/MichaelJackson himself is considered to be one.one to some extent.
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** Music/Michael Jackson himself is considered to be one.
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* St Kilda in AustralianRulesFootball. Also Fitzroy, before they merged with Brisbane.

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* St Kilda in AustralianRulesFootball.UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball. Also Fitzroy, before they merged with Brisbane.
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* [[TheProtagonist Camilo]], the young boy in Music/SaidTheWhale's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0bmGshhTs Camilo (The Magician)]]. [[spoiler:He [[SurgarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments falls in love with a girl by the end, though.]]]]
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* Melanie Martinez's ConceptAlbum "Cry Baby" is about a woman named Cry Baby, loosely based on Melanie herself. Her [[http://melanie-martinez.wikia.com/wiki/Cry_Baby_(Character) story]] is really messed up. To start things off she had a [[HappyMarriageCharade really crappy family life]] which ended in her mother murdering her husband and his mistress. She's had an unlucky love life and after having a OnePersonBirthdayParty she snaps.

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* Melanie Martinez's Music/MelanieMartinez's ConceptAlbum "Cry Baby" is about a woman named Cry Baby, loosely based on Melanie herself. Her [[http://melanie-martinez.wikia.com/wiki/Cry_Baby_(Character) story]] is really messed up. To start things off she had a [[HappyMarriageCharade really crappy family life]] which ended in her mother murdering her husband and his mistress. She's had an unlucky love life and after having a OnePersonBirthdayParty she snaps.
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* Melanie Martinez's ConceptAlbum "Cry Baby" is about a woman named Cry Baby, loosely based on Melanie herself. Her [[http://melanie-martinez.wikia.com/wiki/Cry_Baby_(Character) story]] is really messed up. To start things off she had a [[HappyFamilyCharade really crappy family life]] which ended in her mother murdering her husband and his mistress. She's had an unlucky love life and after having a OnePersonBirthdayParty she snaps.

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* Melanie Martinez's ConceptAlbum "Cry Baby" is about a woman named Cry Baby, loosely based on Melanie herself. Her [[http://melanie-martinez.wikia.com/wiki/Cry_Baby_(Character) story]] is really messed up. To start things off she had a [[HappyFamilyCharade [[HappyMarriageCharade really crappy family life]] which ended in her mother murdering her husband and his mistress. She's had an unlucky love life and after having a OnePersonBirthdayParty she snaps.
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\n* Melanie Martinez's ConceptAlbum "Cry Baby" is about a woman named Cry Baby, loosely based on Melanie herself. Her [[http://melanie-martinez.wikia.com/wiki/Cry_Baby_(Character) story]] is really messed up. To start things off she had a [[HappyFamilyCharade really crappy family life]] which ended in her mother murdering her husband and his mistress. She's had an unlucky love life and after having a OnePersonBirthdayParty she snaps.
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* Bean Bunny in ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' at the DisneyThemeParks, who pretty much spends the entire show getting ostracized by Piggy and Sam.

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* Bean Bunny in ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' at the DisneyThemeParks, Ride/DisneyThemeParks, who pretty much spends the entire show getting ostracized by Piggy and Sam.
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\n* 2D of Music/{{Gorillaz}}: when he was nineteen, he was run over, put into a coma, and left with a [[EyeScream fractured eyeball]] by Murdoc. Murdoc then got stuck as his caregiver (and the SlashFic writers have some rather horrible ideas about [[DudeShesLikeInAComa what may or may not have happened during that time]] - Murdoc probably ''is'' enough of a bastard to pull a stunt like that if he knew nobody would find out). A year later, Murdoc ran 2D over ''again'', bringing him out of the coma and fracturing his ''other'' eyeball. 2D's birth name is Stuart Pot, a.k.a. Stu-Pot, which is a bad enough PunnyName in itself, but Murdoc nicknamed him 2D, short for "Two Dents", after what happened to his eyes. Murdoc then stole 2D's girlfriend Paula, ruined his later relationship with Rachel Stevens, and regularly uses him as a verbal and physical punching bag. Despite all this, 2D never lost his sunny disposition and never seemed to harbour any real resentment. The band broke up for a while before "Demon Days", and 2D apparently went a bit wild during that time; he was told later via email that he'd fathered ten illegitimate children, and the lawyer who told him asked for his autograph in the same email. He was also being held captive by Murdoc on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17379_6-real-islands-way-more-terrifying-than-one-lost_p2.html Plastic Beach]].

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* The title character in "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles

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The title character in "Nowhere Man" by Man".
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main character of the song of the same name from ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour''. No one likes him, no one accepts the fact that he's wise, and no one listens to what he has to say.

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* The title character in "Nowhere Man" by the Beatles
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* Music/GaryBarlow of Music/TakeThat became a RealLife woobie when he was utterly humiliated by the public and had a massive breakdown when his solo career didn't take off as he'd hoped. While Gary had some initial success, he was quickly overtaken by Music/RobbieWilliams, who took every opportunity to air his grievances in public and humiliate Gary whenever the chance arose. The music press also jumped on the bandwagon, labeled Gary as being a talentless hack, and criticized everything he did simply because he was involved. Gary calls this period his 'wilderness years'. It would be more than a decade before people realized just how much Gary suffered because of their ridicule.
** Unable to take the humiliation, Gary completely withdrew from public life and fell into depression. He gained a large amount of weight from stress eating during this time, so much so that people wouldn't even recognize him on the street because of the dramatic change in appearance. Once he got his weight under control and started looking like his old self, however, he still wouldn't go out in public without at least wearing a hat and sunglasses because, by his own admission, he wanted to be anyone but Gary Barlow.
** Gary tried to move forward with his life and decided to focus on being a songwriter and producer, music labels refused to accept his submissions simply because of who he was. Furthering the humiliation, the labels would enthusiastically accept his songs when he submitted them under an assumed name.
** It wasn't until a retrospective in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Take That's break up did people start to reassess how Gary had been treated and come to admit that it was Gary who was responsible for Take That's success. Since Take That's reformation, public opinion of Gary swung so much in his favor that music journalists have said that if a negative story about him ever came up, they'd have to think very carefully about running it because the public would come after them rather than Gary.
** To his credit, Robbie Williams has been genuinely apologetic for his behavior towards Gary and they made amends before Take That reformed as a five-piece.
** Nigel Martin-Smith, Take That's creator and first manager, has said that Gary's initial lack of success was actually to Gary's benefit because while Robbie Williams had immense success, Gary settled down to a genuinely happy marriage and started a family whereas Robbie had an extremely tumultuous public life and has been in and out of rehab. Robbie has also said that he'd have traded his solo success for Gary's family life[[note]]Robbie's since gotten married and started a family of his own[[/note]].

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* 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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* RichardMarx's Music/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.]]



* The title character from Donovan's "Laléna".

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* The title character from Donovan's "Laléna". "Laléna".
* [[{{Music/Nightwish}} Tuomas Holopainen]] while composing "The Poet And The Pendulum."
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* 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.

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* Martin Crieff in ''CabinPressure''.''Radio/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.
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* Bouygues Telecom (I'm informed that it is [[{{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}} pronounced]] like "[[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench bweeg]]") has a help forum called "Woobees" (http://forum.bouyguestelecom.fr/). For a Troper, this is part BilingualBonus and part MindScrew. But, then, they ''are'' tech support for a mobile (cellphone) company, so maybe they are TheWoobie until they've had enough and evolve into WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.

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* Bouygues Telecom (I'm informed that it is [[{{ItIsPronouncedTro-PAY}} [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY pronounced]] like "[[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench bweeg]]") has a help forum called "Woobees" (http://forum.bouyguestelecom.fr/). For a Troper, this is part BilingualBonus and part MindScrew. But, then, they ''are'' tech support for a mobile (cellphone) company, so maybe they are TheWoobie until they've had enough and evolve into WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds.
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* The Girl in the Slayer jacket from the PigDestroyer song of the same name. Just go read the lyrics, man.

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* The Girl in the Slayer jacket Jacket from the PigDestroyer song of the same name. Just go read the lyrics, man.
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* The girl in the Slayer jacket from the Pig Destroyer song of the same name. Just go read the lyrics, man.

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* The girl Girl in the Slayer jacket from the Pig Destroyer PigDestroyer song of the same name. Just go read the lyrics, man.
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* The titular character in "Little Susie" by Michael Jackson.
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* TheDecemberists' song "The Chimbley Sweep". Poor, poor kid. [[LyricalDissonance And the tune is so frickin' addictive ...]]

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* TheDecemberists' Music/TheDecemberists' song "The Chimbley Sweep". Poor, poor kid. [[LyricalDissonance And the tune is so frickin' addictive ...]]
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* Kermit the Frog off ''PuppetShow/TheMuppetShow''. 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.

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* Kermit the Frog off ''PuppetShow/TheMuppetShow''.''Series/TheMuppetShow''. 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.



* 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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* Bean Bunny in ''{{Muppet Vision 3D}}'' ''Ride/MuppetVision3D'' at the DisneyThemeParks, who pretty much spends the entire show getting ostracized by Piggy and Sam.



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** Don't forget Gonzo! In the first two series and the first film especially. He gets booed off stage every week, has a perminantly sad expression on his face and has his heart broken by Madaline Kahn. I mean, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCtDHjuF8ik just]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Htx3HoM5w watch]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEjm3k6uY0 these]]. Not to mention [[ this clip from Jim Henson's memorial/funeral]]

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** Don't forget Gonzo! In the first two series and the first film especially. He gets booed off stage every week, has a perminantly sad expression on his face and has his heart broken by Madaline Kahn. I mean, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCtDHjuF8ik just]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Htx3HoM5w watch]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEjm3k6uY0 these]]. Not to mention [[ [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpijusoWosU this clip from Jim Henson's memorial/funeral]]

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* 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.

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* Kermit the Frog.Frog off ''PuppetShow/TheMuppetShow''. 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.


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** Don't forget Gonzo! In the first two series and the first film especially. He gets booed off stage every week, has a perminantly sad expression on his face and has his heart broken by Madaline Kahn. I mean, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCtDHjuF8ik just]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Htx3HoM5w watch]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryEjm3k6uY0 these]]. Not to mention [[ this clip from Jim Henson's memorial/funeral]]
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* In Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG we have Kate Bishop. Oh boy... Kate Bishop, the poor innocent teen who was never really cut out for life on the battlefield, not to mention had a very difficult childhood because of massive debt her mother owed various people as a result of her brother [[spoiler: performing a lobotomy on ''himself'']]. [=PeabodySam=] even turned her crying into a DrinkingGame just to lighten the mood.
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* [[UsefulNotes/{{Tennis}} David Ferrer]]. He's one of the most likeable and humble guys on the men's tennis tour and has a well-earned reputation as TheDeterminator against 99% of the tour, but [[BreakTheCutie his fighting spirit gets broken over and over again]] by the remaining 1% of the tour and it's tantamount to watching an adorable terrier start out yipping eagerly and end up a whimpering wreck on the floor after the inevitable beatdown. His Woobieness probably reached its peak during the Miami Masters final against Andy Murray, where the sight of him [[http://i43.tinypic.com/34srxu9.jpg hiding his face]] after he let a match point for his biggest-ever win slip away and his tearful apology to the crowd afterwards, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. One point...," made dozens of fans want to give him a giant hug.

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