History Woobie / StarWarsLegends

* [[Literature/DarkRendezvous Scout]], poor kid. She's a Jedi Padawan who is the epitome of WeakButSkilled, having little Force ability but ridiculously determined to make up for it by perfecting all other skills. She lives in fear of being washed out of the Padawan ranks and sent to labor in the less-glorious Agricultural Corps; she was ecstatic when a Master picked her as Padawan... and then that Master died early in the Clone Wars. Scout tried harder, [[CombatPragmatist tricking her way into winning]] a tournament of unattached Padawans, and ended up with a reluctant new Master... who only finally accepted her in the moments before he died. She gets some happiness in the last book of the ''Literature/RepublicCommando'' series, [[spoiler:when she becomes the unexpected guest of Kal Skirata and his Mandalorian clan.]]

** And then there's ''Stealth'' and ''Siege'', which basically amount to two entire books of Obi-Wan getting seriously injured and mentally exhausted, but retaining his status as both a MessianicArchetype and a DeadpanSnarker. He gets a few hugs from [[IllGirl Taria]], but she's going to [[YankTheDogsChain die very soon]]. And knowing what lies in his [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith future]]... The poor man is in serious need of a hug, [[StoicWoobie not that he'd ever admit it]].

* The ''Dark Times'' comics, which take place right after ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', regularly put characters through the wringer, but minor character [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crys_Taanzer Crys Taanzer]] probably takes the cake. Poor woman's life since her appearance in the comic has been nothing but {{Tear Jerker}}s, {{Hope Spot}}s, and [[ShootTheDog dog]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog shootings]] (yes, both kinds). It culminates with [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding her being infected by Raghoul Plague, and her captain being forced to shoot her dead before she finishes transforming into a mindless murder machine]]]]. Poor woman definitely deserved a lot more hugs.

* ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'':

* No love for Jacen? Sure, he turned out to be a [[spoiler:horrible, evil Sith tyrant similar to his grandfather]], but he did it because ''he genuinely thought'' it was the only way to save the galaxy--and his daughter. Really, the only thing his lives for in the end is his daughter. He nearly ''obliterates'' [[spoiler:Aurra Sing when she tries to kill poor Allana]], and, when he finds out about the [[spoiler:deadly virus bioengineered to kill Allana and his lover, Tenel Ka]], instead of defending himself from [[spoiler:his sister's]] [[ShootTheDog killing blow]], he ''screams'' a warning to them through the Force, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath becoming his old Jedi self the instant before he dies]].

'''Mij Gilamar''' (Mandalorian): Of course you can.

** "Happiness". [[spoiler: Mandalorians]], as written by that author, are universally deeply anti-Jedi, and Jedi universally either get proven wrong by them constantly, or don't even protest the vitriol that's chucked at them, tucking their chins and accepting that they're inferior morally, philosophically, and so on. Scout is described as looking and ''acting'' very similarly to [[spoiler: Etain]], a young Jedi who fell in with them and quickly learned her place, that she should never question them, and that they're all smarter than her and should be able to govern her life and body. Scout goes from an assertive girl who ''Master Yoda'' says has impressive spirit and determination, and isn't to be underestimated, to someone the Jedi think are useless. In ''Literature/DarkRendezvous'' she ''loves'' being a Jedi and considers them her family. If she becomes passive and happy with people who hate her family and make jokes about killing them, it's only by destroying a fundamental part of herself.

* Ben Skywalker, who is remarkably aloof about working for an SS-like organization, until, of course, his mother is killed and his father and Jacen are openly in conflict. That, [[HeroicBSOD and the implication of having emotional fragility after violent events.]]

* Ben Skywalker, who is remarkably aloof about working for an SS-like organization, until, of course, his mother is killed and his father and Jacen are openly in conflict. That, [[Heroic BSOD and the implication of having emotional fragility after violent events.]]

* [[XWingSeries Tycho Celchu's]] extremely unfortunate backstory - Pilot for the Empire who had been talking to his entire family on Alderaan when it [[EarthShatteringKaboom was destroyed]] and initially thought it was normal comm breakdown - combined with his near-breaking in a secret prison and his incredible patience when he's believed to be an Imperial double agent and comes under heavy suspicion, particularly being framed for [[spoiler: Corran's apparent death]], is probably a good percentage of the reason why he ended up [[EnsembleDarkhorse being far more popular than his creator ever imagined]].
* Quietly lampshaded in ''Starfighters of Adumar'', quoted above. By that point, while Tycho's not as tragic as he used to be, having picked up the pieces and made a new life, he still looks sad, and his history is there to see.
* You really have to feel at least a little sorry for Lorana Jinzler, a young Jedi from ''OutboundFlight''. She's got a domineering Master with no confidence in her, and so she has little confidence in herself and not much say in what she does and where she goes. A man confronts her and turns out to be the brother she never knew, angrily telling her that the parents who never knew her [[TheUnFavorite loved her more than they loved him]]. She wants peace and acceptance and to get along, but her Master is totally blind to that, starts all kinds of conflicts, and eventually indirectly dooms Outbound Flight despite her efforts. Lorana steals a [[LastKiss hand-holding]] with a Chiss syndic as they [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice themselves]] to save all the survivors. No one ever knows what she did, and the survivors she died to save curse her name for decades.
* Poor [[Literature/DeathStar Tenn Graneet]]: The guy spends the first half of the novel as a [[BoisterousBruiser carousing]] badass in love with {{BFG}}s and MoreDakka whose main ambition is to pull the trigger on the biggest {{BFG}} he can get his hands on. Then he [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor gets transferred]] to the Death Star and get ordered to [[DoomedByCanon blow up Alderaan]]. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone It]] [[HeelRealization doesn't]] [[HeroicBSOD end]] [[ForegoneConclusion particularly well]].

* [[DarkRendezvous Scout]], poor kid. She's a Jedi Padawan who is the epitome of WeakButSkilled, having little Force ability but ridiculously determined to make up for it by perfecting all other skills. She lives in fear of being washed out of the Padawan ranks and sent to labor in the less-glorious Agricultural Corps; she was ecstatic when a Master picked her as Padawan... and then that Master died early in the Clone Wars. Scout tried harder, [[CombatPragmatist tricking her way into winning]] a tournament of unattached Padawans, and ended up with a reluctant new Master... who only finally accepted her in the moments before he died. She gets some happiness in the last book of the Republic Commando series, [[spoiler:when she becomes the unexpected guest of Kal Skirata and his Mandalorian clan.]]
** "Happiness". [[spoiler: Mandalorians]], as written by that author, are universally deeply anti-Jedi, and Jedi universally either get proven wrong by them constantly, or don't even protest the vitriol that's chucked at them, tucking their chins and accepting that they're inferior morally, philosophically, and so on. Scout is described as looking and ''acting'' very similarly to [[spoiler: Etain]], a young Jedi who fell in with them and quickly learned her place, that she should never question them, and that they're all smarter than her and should be able to govern her life and body. Scout goes from an assertive girl who ''Master Yoda'' says has impressive spirit and determination, and isn't to be underestimated, to someone the Jedi think are useless. In DarkRendezvous she ''loves'' being a Jedi and considers them her family. If she becomes passive and happy with people who hate her family and make jokes about killing them, it's only by destroying a fundamental part of herself.
* No love for Jacen? Sure, he turned out to be a [[spoiler:horrible, evil Sith tyrant similar to his grandfather]], but he did it because ''he genuinely thought'' it was the only way to save the galaxy - and his daughter. Really, the only thing his lives for in the end is his daughter. He nearly ''obliterates'' [[spoiler:Aurra Sing when she tries to kill poor Allana]], and, when he finds out about the [[spoiler:deadly virus bioengineered to kill Allana and his lover, Tenel Ka]], instead of defending himself from [[spoiler:his sister's]] [[ShootTheDog killing blow]], he ''screams'' a warning to them through the Force, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath becoming his old Jedi self the instant before he dies]].

* The Jensaarai. Coerced into helping a {{Pirate}} queen pull her {{mooks}}' choobies out of the conflagration (or else their {{Protectorate}} will be annihilated), and the Saarai-Kaar herself has lost her (evil, but she didn't know it) mentor to a Jedi team and her son to Darth Vader.

** Mara Jade, at the end, waiting for [[spoiler:the Hand of Judgment]] to come back, and missing them. Despite the fact that she basically conscripted them and never told them her first name, she trusts them and is unhappy when they don't come back. It's an unfamiliar feeling. There are two constants in her life - the Emperor, who she could never miss because he's always there, and people like Vader, who she could take or leave. It really illustrates how she really does have no other friends or allies - when she [[TheThrawnTrilogy later tells Luke that he destroyed her life]], she wasn't exaggerating.

--> Car'das stared at him, some of his own self-pity fading away into a fresh pool of shame. Thrawn had left everything: his home, his people, his prestige, his life. He'd dedicated himself to protecting the civilized parts of the galaxy against pirates, warlords, and distant, nameless nightmares that Car'das could barely even imagine.
--> And yet, in the end, all that work and sacrifice had come down to this. The greatest military mind of the age, with only a single, solitary, worthless man whom he could trust.

--> Skywalker lifted his face from his hands, and his eyes were dark. Wounded. Haunted by shadows. "My best trick is to do one thing - to make one small move, even a simple ''choice'' - [[spoiler: and kill thousands of people. ''Thousands.'']]"
* In the CloneWarsGambit novels, Obi-Wan is even more of a woobie than he is in the films. In ''Wild Space'', he spends several days on a Sith planet getting tortured by a Sith device with the ability to dredge up his worst memories and make him experience them all over again as if it were the first time. In addition to getting really badly injured physically, he has to repeatedly experience the death of Qui-Gon, Xanatos drowning in acid, the grisly torture of a man called Tayvor Mandirly, the battle of Geonosis, Anakin losing his arm and a multitude of other traumatic memories. Add to that the incessant murmur of ''die Jedi, die Jedi, die Jedi, die'' and it's a wonder that he managed to stay sane.
** And then there's ''Stealth'' and ''Siege'', which basically amount to two entire books of Obi-Wan getting seriously injured and mentally exhausted, but retaining his status as both a MessianicArchetype and a DeadpanSnarker. He gets a few hugs from [[IllGirl Taria]], but she's going to [[YankTheDogsChain die very soon]]. And knowing what lies in his [[RevengeOfTheSith future]]... The poor man is in serious need of a hug, [[StoicWoobie not that he'd ever admit it]].
* Poor [[ComicBook/XWingSeries Lara Notsil]]. A former Imperial Intelligence agent who, after infiltrating the Wraiths, ends up [[HeelRealization realizing]] her leaders are morally bankrupt while at the same time [[BecomingTheMask coming to love her cover identity and want to stay in that life]] thanks to ThePowerOfTrust. Then her identity is exposed...causing [[DramaticIrony the last surviving member of a squadron her espionage had helped kill, who had been falling in love with her]], [[CycleOfRevenge to try to kill her in turn]]. Couple this with her Intelligence training having completely messed up her head and ruined her life so [[LossOfIdentity she has no idea who she is]] or how to be happy, and she's a prime source of Woobie material. It's only the fact she manages to survive her final battle and escape [[spoiler:to a new identity, where she eventually reunites with Donos and they marry and have kids]] that saves her story from having a complete DownerEnding.
-->'''Lara''': There was never a time I saw a file labeled 'How to Destroy Talon Squadron' and thought to myself, 'Oh, that's what I want to do.' To me it was just data about occupied territories and interplanetary borders. Then I infiltrated Wraith Squadron, just a ploy to make myself more valuable to prospective employers, and things started happening. All the furniture that made up the way I'd thought and felt about things all my life started coming loose in my head. Nowadays it slides around and breaks into pieces and I have no idea what parts of it are real and what aren't. It hurts, and a lot of the time I don't know who I am anymore. But I know what I have to do. Whoever I am, I'm staying here, like a vibroblade right next to Zsinj's vitals, and when the right time comes [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters I'm going to stab him deep]]. [[HeroicSacrifice That'll probably be the last thing I do]]. I don't have any friends here, except one droid, and I don't have any where you are, or anywhere else in the galaxy, so when I'm gone there isn't going to be anyone to remember me kindly. So I was just sort of hoping you wouldn't hate me anymore. I really can't stand thinking that's the only way I'll be remembered. I wish I'd been someone else. To give you that chance you wanted.
** Donos himself counts as well, first due to the loss of said squadron, then his HeroicBSOD when he loses his droid Shiner who had been the last Talon in his mind, who as long as he lived would keep him from being a complete failure. His squadmate Falynn Sandskimmer [[FlorenceNightingaleEffect falls for him while helping him recover from this loss]], but by the time he realizes and is in a state to even consider returning her feelings, [[HeroicSacrifice she's died bringing down]] the ''Implacable''. [[HopeSpot Then he falls for Lara]], [[FromBadToWorse and it all goes downhill from there]]. He does finally manage to put his sanity and life together again, [[spoiler:[[EarnYourHappyEnding and finds her in her new identity so they can start a family and a shipping company together on Corellia]]]].

* Zayne Carrick from Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is the woobie for the first 2 years of the comics main story: he's framed for murder, forced to learn that his friends never believed in him, is thrown in prison, and towards the end his girlfriend tries to kill him twice. After proving his innocence to said girlfriend and getting a real lead in clearing his name his luck slowly picks up until he earns his happy ending after the Vindication arc.
* The ''Dark Times'' comics, which take place right after ''Revenge Of The Sith'', regularly put characters through the wringer, but minor character [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Crys_Taanzer Crys Taanzer]] probably takes the cake. Poor woman's life since her appearance in the comic has been nothing but {{Tear Jerker}}s, {{Hope Spot}}s, and [[ShootTheDog dog]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog shootings]] (yes, both kinds). It culminates with [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding her being infected by Raghoul Plague, and her captain being forced to shoot her dead before she finishes transforming into a mindless murder machine]]]]. Poor woman definitely deserved a lot more hugs.

* Prince Kaspar. He wanted to get married and do his planet a good turn. He met Leia, who promised to marry him (this was before she got together with Han), and helped arrange for the Rebels to have a base set up on his planet. Unfortunately, traitors within his palace alerted the Empire and killed both his parents. On his wedding day, his palace was bombed, his bride attacked ([[ForegoneConclusion but escapes, obviously]]), and his mentor turned on him (and stated outright that he was responsible for the deaths of the king and queen). Kaspar was forced to shoot said mentor in the face — and the look on Kaspar's face implies that either he was so overcome with grief that he pulled the trigger in a fit of rage, or that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he was horrified by the act he was committing]]. Within a matter of hours, his bride has fled the planet, his home is in shambles, and he now has to lead his people...who are no doubt going to be targeted by the Empire. The best part? He sends a message to Leia, who refuses to answer it (although she does admit she should be the one to blame for what's going to happen).

* Zaalbar from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' is a Woobie who ''is'' a hairy bipedal humanoid from the planet Kashyyyk. His brother betrays him, his father exiles him, he's sold into slavery, escapes to help out a little girl on a planet which hates aliens, gets captured again, swears the life debt that is the Wookiees' [[PlanetOfHats hat]] when rescued, and comes back to his homeworld only to find himself in prison while corporate scum ravage the planet.

** Mission Vao, street-smart teen, was brought to Taris at age 5 by her con artist brother, stowed away on a cargo ship - ''and then he left her there'', to deal with the gangs and flesh-eating mutants by herself.
*** Worse, after you leave Taris, she doesn't even have a what little she had anymore. The Sith pretty much reduced Taris to rubble. When you meet her she's probably a bit overconfident. When Zaalbar is captured she panics and acts a few years younger than she is, but bounces back once you go after the Wookie. Once you escape Taris, though, she's very quiet. Playing light side you can really help her out both then and throughout the game, but Mission sure had it rough.
** Carth Onasi [[spoiler: held his wife in his arms as she died in an attack on their home world led by his former mentor, then couldn't find his teenage son. During the course of the game, you can find his son on Korriban - as a member of the Sith.]]

** Juhani. When she was a baby, the Mandalorians started a genocide of the Cathar, decimating her homeworld; her parents fled with her but were only able to get as far as Taris, the same human-dominated cityworld Mission hails from. All of her life, the only other Cathar she's ever known has been those two. The massive FantasticRacism on Taris, and the stigma of being part of a species [[PlanetOfHats believed to be made entirely of violent warriors]] meant they had to live in the worst slums. Her father turned to stimulants and was shot by a human. Her mother broke inside after that, wasn't able to make enough money to feed herself and her daughter even after turning to a LoanShark, and died of illness. Immediately after that the loan sharks, settling the debt, took her as a slave, bound her like a beast and treated her like one. She was almost bought by the man who killed her father, who had helped with the genocide on her homeworld. The Jedi came and saved her, and said she could become a Jedi too, but it wasn't over for her.
*** She made some friends at the Jedi Academy, but one of them ran away and joined the Sith when she couldn't return his feelings. Her Master goaded her into lashing out and allowed Juhani to believe that she'd killed her own Master; horrified, Juhani ran away to lurk in a meditation grove and tried to convince herself that now that there was no turning back, she had to embrace her darkness. The player character can convince her to stop and go back to the Academy, at which point she finds that ''it was all a lesson'', to show her how easy it was to fall. Then, hastily promoted from Padawan to Knight, she is sent to join the player character, partly as a lesson to them about the Dark Side.
*** Bastila; barely-trained Padawan with the weight of the whole war effort dumped on her shoulders before even finishing her training. Learns that her father, whom she missed terribly when she became a Jedi, has died without ever seeing him again. Reconciles with her mother only to learn mom has a terminal disease so she might never see ''her'' again. Has [[spoiler:a direct mental link to an ex-Sith Lord]] exacerbating her existing problems with resisting TheDarkSide. Probably scared stiff, and acting like an IceQueen as a coping mechanism.

*** Visas Marr as well. Feels her homeworld destroyed around her through the Force which damages her Force Sight in the process and is then taken by [[HumanoidAbomination Darth Nihilus]], the being responsible for the destruction of her homeworld, as his servant. Nihilus then crushes her spirit so utterly that by the time the gameplay starts she is begging him to kill her. When she fights the Exile the implication is that she wants to be killed by him/her. And to cap it all when she [[spoiler: joins your crew]] she seems surprised and confused that the Exile would take the time to show some basic human decency and ask if she's alright.

-->'''Juno's voice''': Who are you?
-->'''Starkiller''': Juno, it's me!
-->'''Juno's voice''': You're a monster, a thing.
-->'''Starkilller''': (''sounding like he's about to cry'') Juno, please!
-->'''Kota's voice''': You're Vader's puppet. Just a body filled with the memories of a dead man.

* In LukeSkywalkerAndTheShadowsOfMindor, the BookEnds, taking place after the main story, have Luke hiring a private investigator to build a case that he's committed ''war crimes'', then later finding that the investigator had decided to write a swashbuckling holothriller script based on the events instead. The whole time there's the sense that he's on the brink of despair, as when he describes his 'best trick'.

* From TheForceUnleashed, Starkiller, without a doubt.

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