History Woobie / WebComics

** [[SuperOCD And hugging her]] just causes more problems.

* ''[[http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php Nana's Everyday Life]]'' takes this to ridiculous levels as it CrossesTheLineTwice. Imagine a comic about Nana from ''ElfenLied'' and Henrietta from ''GunslingerGirl'' constantly suffering undeserved divine punishments, one after another, in a constantly-repeating loop that only ends with [[spoiler:the title character dying alone in a cold alley, and everyone she ever loved either sadistically betrayed her or died violently.]]

* Jinx, the Cirbozoid technology officer in Kris Straub's ''Starslip''. He is often put down by Vanderbeam and is unfortunately unable to fight back in most circumstances due to the "natural subservience" of his species. The Cirbozoids' baffling physiology also tends to put off most personal involvement from other crew members, and when it does overlap, [[http://www.starslip.com/archive/20090528.shtml the trope is just magnified.]]

* Gaaranooki from ''Supah Nario Bros''.

* Dark Smoke Puncher is about the closest TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja gets to having a Woobie. He hides his intelligence behind false idiocy and slang, and his fantasy is apparently having his father hug him while expressing approval of computers. There's also Gordito, whose father was murdered by PETA.

* Sy, from the AlchemistMuse's webcomic "Asylum- Blacklight" is a woobie to an extreme (has even been declared so by word of god, when Muse listed the tropes Blacklight follows and subverts. [[http://The-Alchemists-Muse.deviantart.com/art/The-Cure-OCT-Audition-pg1-99060222 In the OC tournament "The Cure"]], Sy demonstrates his ability to fight and kill opponents, and yet end up still being the one you feel sorry for in the end.
* BobAndGeorge [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020120 take your pick]]

* Skylar, from ComingUpViolet is quickly becoming this almost as fast as the comics get posted. Seriously, this guy [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=24878 just]] [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=26689 can't]] [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=37342 seem]] to [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=38320 catch]] a [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=39237 break]]. Of course, he's also the resident ChewToy with the shippers.
* Vincent and Darrik from TheCyantianChronicles.

* Grimal's [[FurryComic Furry webcomic]] [[http://deo.comicgenesis.net Deo]] succeded in woobiefying the ENTIRE MAIN CAST. Every single one has something terribly, terribly wrong in their personal lives, and you keep reading just in the vain hope that something good happens to em at some point. This is a webcomic where you want to take the entire cast, put them in a room, and give them all blankets and hugs. And some group therapy.
* Ed from {{Digger}} (pictured... unless they've changed it). [[spoiler: Isolated for ''17 years''? After suffering spousal abuse for some time? And ripping his mate's throat out because she was beating their child ''because'' he loved her?]] Who doesn't want to give him a hug and some tea? At least Digger feels the same way.

* The whole main cast of HannaIsNotABoysName has their woobie moments, and they even come in several distinct flavors:

* Sir [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=724690 Muir]] in {{Harkovast}}
* Tavros from {{Homestuck}}, in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003836 this update]] especially. Basically an IneffectualSympatheticVillain with heavy emphasis on "sympathetic". Andrew just refuses to give the poor guy a break. [[spoiler: Accidentally running over his Lusus, forced to jump off a cliff in mockery of his greatest desire...]]

* No one here has mentioned poor Dina Sarazu of ItsWalky here? The love of her life dumps her for another girl, she gets ignored and overshadowed whenever she makes an important discovery, a few of the characters hate her because she got saved from being crushed [[spoiler: rather than big boss]] and she ends up in a relationship with a violent {{Jerkass}} who is only nice when he's drunk and thinks she's completely useless.
* Kano Jurgen, Kid, and ''especially'' Dark from {{Kagerou}}.

* Riley Zinc from "ALoonaticsTale". Death of his father... check. Several mental/physical complications from lack of sleep, eating, and anguish from said parental death? Check. Paranoia and extreme superstition? Check.... and he's a musician on top of everything else. Don't you just wanna make him feel better?

* Mika of MobTies. Cute little goth waif? Check. [[spoiler: Victim of a violent rape so traumatic that it left her in a coma for more than a year?]] Big check. Hates everything because of all the trauma she has been through? Double check. She will make you want to hug your monitor to death.

* Kevin J Dog from {{Newshounds}}. A hard luck ExtremeDoormat who recently gained weight after finding out Stormy got married.

* OpeyTheWarhead is about a boy named [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Opey_the_Warhead Opey]]... who also happens to (at least appear to) be a nuclear warhead. When the class realizes he doesn't explode on impact, he immediately becomes the victim of the entire classroom (well, three kids, but it's AfterTheEnd) of bullies. Despite not having a face, Opey is amazingly expressionate and totally woobie material being a generally sweet-natured kid.

* PennyArcade's "Automata" seems designed for this. If you can read [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/12/ the first strip]], and then [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/31/automata-page-two/ the other five]], and you don't want to give him a hug, well, [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/11/21/ you might just be a robot]].

* Germany from {{Scandinavia And the World}}. Just look at [[http://humoncomics.com/not-a-yahtzee this strip]].

* SluggyFreelance has Oasis being quite Woobietastic, when she's not being AxCrazy or BadAss. IdiotHero Torg gets a few moments of this during That Which Redeems. Even Aylee gets it during her visit to the parallel world where her species exists.
* Sawyer from ''Sore Thumbs''.
* Jinx, the Cirbozoid technology officer in Kris Straub's Starslip. He is often put down by Vanderbeam and is unfortunately unable to fight back in most circumstances due to the "natural subservience" of his species. The Cirbozoids' baffling physiology also tends to put off most personal involvement from other crew members, and when it does overlap, [[http://www.starslip.com/archive/20090528.shtml the trope is just magnified.]]
* Arcturus Winrock from SuicideForHire.
* Gaaranooki from Supah Nario Bros.

* The whole basis for WarbotInAccounting is how much it sucks to be the titular death robot. In just a single comic, he [[spoiler: sat silently in the corner pretending to eat lunch while his co-workers talked about their families, tried to fill out a profile on a dating site but failed due to his giant claw/gun hands, failed three dates by being unable to perform basic activities, tried to build a robotic child only to have it cry in agony and die, and sat in the corner alone ''again'' on "bring you daughter to work day."]]
* There is also Ashton from WintersInLavelle. It doesn't matter what he tries to do, he still looks like a beaten puppy, either that or in [[http://wintersinlavelle.com/?p=535 some cases]] a "sad lil praying mantis".
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover Spirit rover]] from [[http://xkcd.com/695/ this]] ''XKCD'' comic.

* BobAndGeorge [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020120 take your pick]]
* Sir [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=724690 Muir]] in {{Harkovast}}
* Kano Jurgen, Kid, and ''especially'' Dark from {{Kagerou}}.
* Germany from {{Scandinavia And the World}}. Just look at [[http://humoncomics.com/not-a-yahtzee this strip]].

* Jone White-Eye, from YAFGC. She successfully became the woobie in her [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1212 first page]]. [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1213 All the]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1213 others were]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1215 just icing]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1216 on the]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1221 cake]].

* ''{{Drowtales}}'' has several varieties of Woobie, since it's set in a CrapsackWorld where [[BreakTheCutie cuties get broken]] on a regular basis. There's the main character Ariel, her friend Faen who can't control her empathic powers, Naal'suul, who shouldn't even be alive, and JerkassWoobie Syphile as well.
* Riley Zinc from "ALoonaticsTale". Death of his father... check. Several mental/physical complications from lack of sleep, eating, and anguish from said parental death? Check. Paranoia and extreme superstition? Check.... and he's a musician on top of everything else. Don't you just wanna make him feel better?
* Mika of MobTies. Cute little goth waif? Check. [[spoiler: Victim of a violent rape so traumatic that it left her in a coma for more than a year?]] Big check. Hates everything because of all the trauma she has been through? Double check. She will make you want to hug your monitor to death.
* Dark Smoke Puncher is about the closest TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja gets to having a Woobie. He hides his intelligence behind false idiocy and slang, and his fantasy is apparently having his father hug him while expressing approval of computers. There's also Gordito, whose father was murdered by PETA.
** Hell, the doctor himself. His entire childhood was an exercise in TrainingFromHell, and he's had to lose his mentor to death ''three'' times. The ''same'' mentor. One of those times involved [[spoiler: Ben Franklin II's zombie re-dying in his arms after Gordito shot him.]] His parents disapprove of his job as a doctor. When all the drug-ninjas he killed [[spoiler: came back as zombies]], he blamed himself, thinking they wanted revenge. The list goes on.
** Mongo the uber-ninja, when he learned [[spoiler: all life is precious.]]
*** Actually, if all of the characters weren't awesome incarnate, about half of them would qualify as Woobies.
* OpeyTheWarhead is about a boy named [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Opey_the_Warhead Opey]]... who also happens to (at least appear to) be a nuclear warhead. When the class realizes he doesn't explode on impact, he immediately becomes the victim of the entire classroom (well, three kids, but it's AfterTheEnd) of bullies. Despite not having a face, Opey is amazingly expressionate and totally woobie material being a generally sweet-natured kid.
* Tavros from {{Homestuck}}, in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003836 this update]] especially. Basically an IneffectualSympatheticVillain with heavy emphasis on "sympathetic". Andrew just refuses to give the poor guy a break. [[spoiler: Accidentally running over his Lusus, forced to jump off a cliff in mockery of his greatest desire...]]
** And as of recently, we get more information on the other trolls; it establishes them as closer to [[CharacterAlignment the neutral end]] (with the exceptions of [[LawfulEvil Terezi]] and [[ChaoticEvil Vriska]]): [[spoiler:Sburb is destroying their home planet as well, and the reason they harass the protagonists is that the heroes' session is so screwed up it breaks their game as well]].
** Sollux and Aradia are probably second only to Tavros in terms of {{Woobie}}-ness among the trolls. Aside from being responsible for the software's creation, both are CursedWithAwesome {{Mad Oracle}}s; Aradia [[HearingVoices hears voices]] [[spoiler: and is a ''[[KillTheCutie ghost]]'' after Sollux was mind-controlled into killing her during a flashback]], and Sollux has [[HeroicSelfDeprecation serious self esteem issues]].
** WV as well, [[spoiler:once we saw what [[BigBad Jack Noir]] [[KillEmAll did]] to the army that rose up and followed him.]] It also turned his antics with Can Town into a huge (and hugely depressing) FunnyAneurysmMoment.
* There is also Ashton from WintersInLavelle. It doesn't matter what he tries to do, he still looks like a beaten puppy, either that or in [[http://wintersinlavelle.com/?p=535 some cases]] a "sad lil praying mantis".
* Jonas Faulkner of ''ThePhoenixRequiem'' is not having a great time of it. His friend shoots him after he escapes from an insane asylum. And then [[ItGetsWorse it gets worse]].
* Jacob and Vincent share the role in ''{{Precocious}}'' as they somehow keep optimistic and cheerful in a world of cynicism and cognitive dissonance.
* David Andrew Bartlett, protagonist of ''OwMySanity''

* Kevin J Dog from {{Newshounds}}. A hard luck ExtremeDoormat who recently gained weight after finding out Stormy got married.
** And now his new girlfriend's {{Jerkass}} sister is making his life worse.
** [[OnlySaneEmployee Lorna]] and Rochelle also have some woobieish traits.

* in ''TheZombieHunters,'' James, a [[NewMeat trainee]] in a team of [[AfterTheEnd Post]]-ZombieApocalypse DisasterScavengers, ostensibly begins as a ChewToy, due to comically "[[HeroicBSOD freezing up]]" at the sight of a few [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Crawlers]], a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie class]] that doesn't pose much of a threat. He's enough of a [[TheKlutz klutz]] that he even ends up falling into a CreepyBasement, but he's injured in the fall, and becomes solidly a Woobie. After ''that'' [[spoiler:he suffers a [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]] that makes his earlier designation [[RedShirt become]] [[FacialHorror horribly]] [[ImAHumanitarian awfully]]]] ''literal.'




* PennyArcade's "Automata" seems designed for this. If you can read [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/12/ the first strip]], and then [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/31/automata-page-two/ the other five]], and you don't want to give him a hug, well, [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/11/21/ you might just be a robot]].
* Jone White-Eye, from YAFGC. She successfully became the woobie in her [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1212 first page]]. [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1213 All the]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1213 others were]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1215 just icing]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1216 on the]] [[http://yafgc.shipsinker.com/index.php?strip_id=1221 cake]].
* Jinx, the Cirbozoid technology officer in Kris Straub's Starslip. He is often put down by Vanderbeam and is unfortunately unable to fight back in most circumstances due to the "natural subservience" of his species. The Cirbozoids' baffling physiology also tends to put off most personal involvement from other crew members, and when it does overlap, [[http://www.starslip.com/archive/20090528.shtml the trope is just magnified.]]
* Vincent and Darrik from TheCyantianChronicles.
* Arcturus Winrock from SuicideForHire.
* Lynn in ''UnionOfHeroes'' but what else do you expect from a superheroine called "The Eternal Victim"?.
* Quentyn in ''TalesOfTheQuestor''. In fact, this trope is specified by the bully, Rahan, of why he picked on Quentyn: everyone feels so sorry for Quentyn that he gets away with ''everything'' no matter how outrageous the trouble he stirs up in Rahan's eyes.
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover Spirit rover]] from [[http://xkcd.com/695/ this]] ''XKCD'' comic.

* Amber O'Malley in ''{{Shortpacked}}!'', although in the most recent story, she's starting to throw this off.
** Leslie seems to picking up whatever Woobie-ness Amber is throwing off.
* Gaaranooki from Supah Nario Bros.

* Skylar, from ComingUpViolet is quickly becoming this almost as fast as the comics get posted. Seriously, this guy [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=24878 just]] [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=26689 can't]] [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=37342 seem]] to [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=38320 catch]] a [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=39237 break]]. Of course, he's also the resident ChewToy with the shippers.
* SluggyFreelance has Oasis being quite Woobietastic, when she's not being AxCrazy or BadAss. IdiotHero Torg gets a few moments of this during That Which Redeems. Even Aylee gets it during her visit to the parallel world where her species exists.
* Sawyer from ''Sore Thumbs''.
* Buwaro from ''SlightlyDamned'' counts. [[spoiler:Something went wrong when he was born, leaving him a bestial, rage-crazed creature that attacked everything in sight. He wears an amulet that clears his mind and calms him down, but if it's ever removed, he'll go back to being a monster. His biological family is dead, and his adoptive father, brother and sister are gone, disappeared, and murdered, respectively. Oh, and one of his closest friends, who he may have feelings for, is now afraid of him because she's learned of his aformentioned rage. Oh, and [[http://www.sdamned.com/2007/10/10162007/ just look at his childhood]]]]
* Jeremy from ''PlatinumGrit''. And if the abuse he suffers over the course of the comic isn't enough, his backstory involves a childhood of being tormented by his AxeCrazy cousin while the rest of the family shunned him as a simpleton.
* No one here has mentioned poor Dina Sarazu of ItsWalky here? The love of her life dumps her for another girl, she gets ignored and overshadowed whenever she makes an important discovery, a few of the characters hate her because she got saved from being crushed [[spoiler: rather than big boss]] and she ends up in a relationship with a violent {{Jerkass}} who is only nice when he's drunk and thinks she's completely useless.

** From the same authour, "Warbot in Accounting" manages to make a death robot wobbie-tastic, [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/04/22/warbot_004-print-shop/ viz.]] That's not the only scene.

* in ''TheZombieHunters,'' James, a [[NewMeat trainee]] in a team of [[AfterTheEnd Post]]-ZombieApocalypse DisasterScavengers, ostensibly begins as a ChewToy, due to comically "[[HeroicBSOD freezing up]]" at the sight of a few [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Crawlers]], a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie class]] that doesn't pose much of a threat. He's enough of a [[TheKlutz klutz]] that he even ends up falling into a CreepyBasement, but he's injured in the fall, and becomes solidly a Woobie. After ''that'' [[spoiler:he suffers a [[FateWorseThanDeath fate]] that makes his earlier designation [[RedShirt become]] [[FacialHorror horribly]] [[ImAHumanitarian awfully]]]] ''literal.''
* Therkla in ''OrderOfTheStick''. She's sweet, likable, and a fan favorite from almost her introduction. Then she falls head over heels in love with [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter the guy she's been told to kill]], only to have him go "Sorry, already spoken for". She then risks her life for him, and ends up [[spoiler: being killed by her own boss for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness not being a reliable tool to him anymore,]] and dies in the arms of the man she loves.]] Ouch.
** Even much-hated KnightTemplar paladin Miko got a Woobie moment... [[spoiler:just before [[AlasPoorScrappy she died]].]]
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0641.html this strip]] [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius]] manages to go from near-genocidal maniac to woobie in three panels.
*** [[spoiler:Vaarsuvius's]] woobie status had already been established [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0623.html in this strip]], though ItGotWorse after that.
**** The climax of the arc in particular gives us plenty of [[spoiler:Woobie moments for Vaarsuvius. It's beginning to seem like the character exists only to be beaten up... Being zapped by runes? Being hit with ''a frikin' huge rock''? Having his/her windpipe slowly crushed by a Lich's bony fingers in a sort of Redemption Equals Strangulation moment? Woobie, definitely.]]
***** And it still goes on. [[spoiler: Finally recognising the raven familiar as an companion and an equal, only to have everyone else think that the raven is an illusion and that Vaarsuvius is crazy? Having Inkyrius sue him/her for divorce and full custody of the children? V truly cannot get a break.]]
** To this troper, [[spoiler: Redcloak]], during the prequel [[spoiler:Start of Darkness]]
** Haley, at times. Especially when you find out that [[spoiler:she is obsessed with money because she wants to save her dad, who is being held captive by a country that will release him only if Haley pays them an outrageous sum of money. The events leading up to her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove also count.]]
*** Er, not quite. As we see in On the Origins of [=PCs=], Haley was obsessed with money even before that.
* When this troper first saw Zimmy in ''GunnerkriggCourt'', she seemed like the ''last'' character she'd want to give a big hug out of sheer sympathy. Well, recent chapters, especially [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=464 this page]], have proven that wrong.
** Boxbot would be a woobie, but he is disqualified for being terrible.
** Annie herself qualifies pretty well. Her mom's dead (and up until then lived most of her life in the hospital with her) and her dad's disappeared without a trace. Comparatively, that doesn't sound so bad until you learn that [[spoiler:none of the [[{{Psychopomp}} Psychopompoi]] were willing to lead her mother to the afterlife, so she had to do it herself.]]
** Gamma, too. Because of Zimmy, she barely gets any sleep and she thinks everyone hates her (because she doesn't speak English - Zimmy doesn't want her to learn - and Zimmy lies about what other people are saying because she thinks that Gamma would abandon her if she had the chance to make other friends), but she's so sweet and so devoted to Zimmy that she doesn't mind any of it. And when [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=455 her feelings]] [[http://gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/City_Face_comments#Page_6 get hurt]] you just want to give her a big hug and tell her everything's okay.
* Florence in ''{{Freefall}}'' has been skirting this trope lately, what with the MadScientist [[spoiler: having fritzed her short-term memory, not to mention '''turning her off''' (just her consciousness, fortunately) more than once]]. Averted because she's approached the situation as a problem to be solved with her usual level-headed good cheer, but geez, this troper can't be the only one who wants to hug her with one arm and use the free hand to hold a blaster on said MadScientist until he fixes her.
** Methinks that position is covered by the TheFaceless security guard who chewed out said MadScientist for just that.
** ThisTroper doesn't just want to threaten the MadScientist, but to actually blow off a kneecap and then trade Florence's memory restoration for calling an ambulance. Sadly, blood loss might make his hands shake or something.
*** I doubt he could. He seems more like a middle manager who knows enough about how Florence works to explain it to Sam than somebody who could do brain surgery (or whatever discipline of science fixing Florence would fall under, if not that).
** The Ecosystems Unlimited security computer made me want to hug it in [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01620.htm this strip]]. It's incredibly incompetent at its job and the humans it works with [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman don't really recognise it as a person]], so I can understand why that would have happened, but that was literally the only compliment it's ever received. Poor little buggy AI. It doesn't seem overly bothered by being treated with exasperation, contempt, and the occasional death threat, though. In fact, it's more of a LargeHam than anything ("Security guard: RECOGNIZED! Room 101 door: OPENED! [[WithCatlikeTread Element of surprise:]] '''[[WithCatlikeTread RETAINED!]]'''").
* Sy, from the AlchemistMuse's webcomic "Asylum- Blacklight" is a woobie to an extreme (has even been declared so by word of god, when Muse listed the tropes Blacklight follows and subverts. [[http://The-Alchemists-Muse.deviantart.com/art/The-Cure-OCT-Audition-pg1-99060222 In the OC tournament "The Cure"]], Sy demonstrates his ability to fight and kill opponents, and yet end up still being the one you feel sorry for in the end.
* Secret from ''KeychainOfCreation'' is very much the Woobie - though one of the Exalted, she's been given the Black Exaltation, turned into basically a superpowered, {{Exalted}} vampire cursed and doomed to bring death and destruction to the world - and she hates it. Worse, she has serious self-confidence issues, and is really kind of a hopeless, lovable klutz when separated from her malevolent, sentient shapeshifting sword in a world where epic heroes do violent things to each other all the time.
* The whole basis for WarbotInAccounting is how much it sucks to be the titular character. In just a single comic, he [[spoiler: sat silently in the corner pretending to eat lunch while his co-workers talked about their families, tried to fill out a profile on a dating site but failed due to his giant claw/gun hands, failed three dates by being unable to perform basic activities, tried to build a robotic child only to have it cry in agony and die, and sat in the corner alone ''again'' on "bring you daughter to work day."]]
* Abel from ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. Dear God, Abel. [[spoiler:Picked on as a kid because he's different; his one friend from his old hometown eventually commits suicide; he gets stuck in a battle alongside two of his former tormentors, both of whom end up ''dead''; his father turns out to be a 'cubi who killed his mom's actual husband and masqueraded as him in order to get a child; said 'cubi-dad proceeds to smack his mom around, kills his friend in a fit of rage, and threatens to kill his mom in order to keep him at SAIA.]]
** [[ButtMonkey Jyrras]] might count as well.
** [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_857.php Comedy is hard when it doesn't involve physical/emotional pain]]
* Kevin J Dog from {{Newshounds}}. A hard luck ExtremeDoormat who recently gained weight after finding out Stormy got married.
** And now his new girlfriend's {{Jerkass}} sister is making his life worse.
** [[OnlySaneEmployee Lorna]] and Rochelle also have some woobieish traits.
* Gaaranooki from Supah Nario Bros.
* Ed from {{Digger}} (pictured... unless they've changed it). [[spoiler: Isolated for ''17 years''? After suffering spousal abuse for some time? And ripping his mate's throat out because she was beating their child ''because'' he loved her?]] Who doesn't want to give him a hug and some tea? At least Digger feels the same way.

* Piro and Kimiko from ''{{Megatokyo}}''. Also, Ping, Yuki and [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation maybe Miho]]. Largo and Erika also have their moments. Hell, let's just declare the entire cast to be woobies and get over it. Except [[PsychoForHire Dom and Ed]]. [[DracoInLeatherPants Not that it'll stop people from trying.]]
** Junko has recently been hit with the Woobie stick really hard with [[spoiler:her father being revealed to be an alcoholic and coming to her school to quite openly leech money from her]]. Seeing what up till now was a strong, spunky female character looking like she's about to burst into tears combined with the implication that [[spoiler:Junko was practicing EnjoKosai to sustain this guy]] has made many people ''[[MoralEventHorizon ANGRY]]''.
** It is worth noting that Nanasawa Kimiko crosses into Woobie territory in universe as well as out. Not only does one of her senior colleagues ask their boss if [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/813 a hug would be appropriate]], she is later horrified to find she has attracted an army of sympathetic minor characters, calling themselves the [[FunWithAcronyms Nanasawa Protection Coalition]].
* Rumisiel in ''{{Misfile}}'' is at first glance an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent apathetic, alcoholic, drugged up, loser]] who couldn't even manage to put [[CelestialBureaucracy files back in the right cabinet]], since then however he's gained an emotionally distant father, a screwed up overachieving (and formerly mass murdering) brother, [[PsychoExGirlfriend an Ex from hell]] (almost literally), but on occasion shown a surprisingly intelligent, loyal and tender side and has become a textbook woobie.
** ...or [[YourMileageMayVary not]]. A better case can be made for Ash being the {{Woobie}}, considering that the condition that has caused [[GenderBender so much]] [[Wangst angst]] also makes the impulsive to give a hug both stronger and...[[FanService appealing]].
* Keith Keiser of ''TwoKinds'': Accused of murdering his parents (He did kill his father - in self-defense, his father murdered his mother), exiled in order to protect his father's reputation (he was a high ranking military leader), manages to fulfill the impossible conditions of his exile (capture the Grand Templar, which happens to be Trace), only to be ordered to betray Trace (who he considers a friend) to the Bastians. And along the way, he develops feelings for the Kedrian assassin, Natani... self-loathing, misogynistic, gender-confused, biologically female Natani (Made worse because Bastians are prudish and xenophobic by nature and culture), and has been ordered to kill her to be accepted back into society.
** You forget being engaged to a Keidren who then gets cold feet, goes into hiding and avoids him for several days. Her village turns him out saying she doesn't love him anymore. Finally, when he and Natani might have a relationship potential, she shows up, asking for forgiveness. On another note he has just had to [[spoiler:kill his longtime childhood friend]]. Poor, poor, Keith.
* Slick of ''{{Sinfest}}'' fits perfeclty in this category during the deeper moments of the comic. The guy honestly ''loves'' Monique to the point that [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2888 he was willing to sell his soul in exchange for her shallow happiness... and a pony]]. Yet he can rarely catch a break or even express himself with her, mostly due to his own libido and ego, but lately not even when he's [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2574 honestly trying]].
** [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2609 This comic further confirms said woobiness]]. Jesus, someone hug him.
** Squig also [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3163 has]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3165 his]] [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3116 moments]].
** As does [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3146 Fucshia]], due to FantasticRacism, [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3666 like here]]

* Grimal's [[FurryComic Furry webcomic]] [[http://deo.comicgenesis.net Deo]] succeded in woobiefying the ENTIRE MAIN CAST. Every single one has something terribly, terribly wrong in their personal lives, and you keep reading just in the vain hope that something good happens to em at some point. This is a webcomic where you want to take the entire cast, put them in a room, and give them all blankets and hugs. And some group therapy.

* Ryan/Rachel Hawke in ''AbstractGender''.
** Rayne, the author of ''Abstract Gender'', also almost qualifies in some people's minds, what with the Curse and all.
* Ceasar Wolfe from ''{{Pandect}}'' would be a normal 17-year-old boy except that he's infected with a Virus that overwhelms him with uncontrollable feelings of lust. Naturally, no one trusts him, no one wants to be around him, and his name has become a synonym for "pervert". When he finally gets a genuine offer of friendship, it takes him completely by surprise.
* Komiyan from ''{{Darken}}'' qualifies. He's a cowardly drow with bad eyesight who wears glasses and has a courageous side. He looks absolutely adorable. And he rarely gets to do any badassery for long before being whomped by something. Or stabbed, or shot, or tortured.
* Jake Miller in ''UmlautHouse''; in the second series, Pierce Lee takes this role up.
* Rumiko Takahata in ''[[{{Fans}} Fans!]]'', especially regarding her romantic relationships, so often that the rule 'Rumy must suffer' became an in-joke in the fan forum.
* The whole main cast of HannaIsNotABoysName has their woobie moments, and they even come in several distinct flavors:
** Although he constantly insists that its DefinitelyJustACold, Hanna makes for a good classic woobie at times.
** Conrad walks the line between JerkassWoobie and TheChewToy, depending on [[YourMileageMayVary the viewer]] and whether it's PlayedForLaughs or PlayedForDrama.
** And finally, Veser is just an archetypal JerkassWoobie.
* ''[[http://manga.clone-army.org/nana.php Nana's Everyday Life]]'' takes this to ridiculous levels as it CrossesTheLineTwice. Imagine a comic about Nana from ''ElfenLied'' and Henrietta from ''GunslingerGirl'' constantly suffering undeserved divine punishments, one after another, in a constantly-repeating loop that only ends with [[spoiler:the title character dying alone in a cold alley, and everyone she ever loved either sadistically betrayed her or died violently.]]
** Though it must be said that [[spoiler: her death resurrects a one-eared kitten who died just a couple pages earlier and fills the alley she died in with flowers.]] Which, in my mind, makes it that much more tragic.
* ''AlienDice'' has Lexx as a main character who grows up in an uncaring orphanage and is forced to fight as a pokemon/gladiator (really). Lisaan, supporting character, gets rejected for being a half-blood and then sold into slavery. Cue much angsting which contrasts nicely with most of the other cast's cheerful attitude and grand stand in society.
* White Mage is the closest thing to a woobie in ''[[EightBitTheatre 8-bit Theater]].''
** From the same authour, "Warbot in Accounting" manages to make a death robot wobbie-tastic, [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/04/22/warbot_004-print-shop/ viz.]] That's not the only scene.
* Roast Beef from ''{{Achewood}}'', who is "from circumstances" which cause him to suffer from depression and possibly avoidance disorder, and is subjected to a constant stream of bad luck in life in general. This is made all the more noticeable given that his best friend is Ray, who becomes rich without trying and was only prevented from becoming President because of [[spoiler:his mother's disapproval]].
* The titular character of ''{{Dominic Deegan}}'', who seems to run into more problems than he knows what to do with, and always thrusts himself headlong into them, to the point where he eventually traded the "crippled" role with his own younger brother. Of course, there's also a good portion of the fanbase who just want to [[WhatTheHellHero punch him instead]].
** Rilian, of all people, might count as one. He seems to have had all of three good friends in his life, [[spoiler: two of whom he's had to ''kill'' to save the world, both times from the same threat while being unable to prevent the death of the third]]. Nobody else seems to like or trust him because he's a spooky looking necromancer. Then there's the [[spoiler: time he spends as "Brian"]], when he acts friendly and gregarious and just plain ''likable''; followed by the revelation that [[spoiler: ''that's who he actually is at heart''. His cold [[ShootTheDog Dog Shooter]] nature is a facade he uses to deal with his trauma]]. His woobiedom can be seen [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-04-15 here]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Leaflette]]:''' You are as cold as always Rilian.
-->'''Rilian:''' My roles requires me to be cold. Otherwise I would be overcome by the immense sadness it brings me to have to kill you, [[spoiler: Leaflette]].
** Luna. Let's see, born with a set of rather unappealing tusks, bullied and belittled by her entire family throughout her entire life as a result, [[spoiler:gave her virginity to a man she was in love with who returned the favor by sleeping with her sister the very next day, was rejected by ANOTHER man she had a crush on when he catches sight of her tusks, learns that her own mother set up those last two points in an attempt to get her to KILL HERSELF for MONEY (an attempt that very nearly succeeded, as she was preparing to hang herself with Dominic stumbled upon her), watches as said mother get decapitated right in front of her, learns two days later that her mother left her NOTHING in her will out of pure spite, and tops it all off by trying to kill herself AGAIN. And really, can you BLAME her?]] Forget one hug, this woman needs, nay, deserves a hundred of them.
* The Sorrow, in the ''{{Metal Gear Solid}}'' fancomic ''TheCobraDays''. Partly due to the abuse he takes from his HeroicSociopath comrades, partly because his spirit-medium powers have a distinct element of BlessedWithSuck [[http://thecobradays.net/view.php?date=2006-02-06 at times]].
** And then there's the fact that he's DoomedByCanon to die at the hands of his lover once the Cold War breaks out.

* YuMeDream has pretty much all the humans end up in woobie positions: Fiona, Lia, even [[BigBad Sadako]] in her viewpoint chapter.
* Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Renoir from ''MutantNinjaTurtlesGaiden''; although they are going through CharacterDevelopment, they're still woobies at heart.

* Grimal's [[FurryComic Furry webcomic]] [[http://deo.comicgenesis.net Deo]] succeded in woobiefying the ENTIRE MAIN CAST. Every single one has something terribly, terribly wrong in their personal lives, and you keep reading just in the vain hope that something good happens to em at some point. This is a webcomic where you want to take the entire cast, put them in a room, and give them all blankets and hugs. And some group therapy.
* [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1075 Hannelore]] in ''QuestionableContent''. Even [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1019 turkeys]] agree.
** [[SuperOCD And hugging her]] just causes more problems.
** Before Hanners arrived, and [[spoiler:he hooked up with Dora]], Marten was pretty much [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=365 the strip Woobie]].
** Lately, Marigold has taken a sharp turn in that direction as well, to the point that Hannelore [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1633 gives *her* a hug]].
* Amber O'Malley in ''{{Shortpacked}}!'', although in the most recent story, she's starting to throw this off.
** Leslie seems to picking up whatever Woobie-ness Amber is throwing off.
* ''{{Inhuman}}'' has several of these. In the main comic, Kyotoshi and Soshika Lypha, whose parents were murdered in front of them, and (arguably) Grey.
** Two of Inhuman's BSideComics, [[http://www.hekshano.com/jetstory1.php Jet's Story]] and [[http://www.hekshano.com/cemetery1.php The Cemetery]] seem to be designed to Woobiefy Jet and Koji, respectively.

* James, Milo's new trainee, in ''TheZombieHunters'' has "[[TheWoobie Woobie]]" written all over him...
** Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how much you hated him), James has graduated to [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] status...[[http://www.thezombiehunters.com/index.php?strip_id=156 literally!]]

*** Er, not quite. As we see in On the Origins of PCs, Haley was obsessed with money even before that.

***** And it still goes on. [[spoiler: Finally recognising the raven familiar as an companion and an equal, only to have everyone else think that the raven is an illusion and that Vaarsuvius is crazy? Having Inkyrius sue him/her for divorce and full custody of the children? V truly cannot get a break. ]]

* Buwaro from ''SlightlyDamned'' counts. [[spoiler:Something went wrong when he was born, leaving him a bestial, rage-crazed creature that attacked everything in sight. He wears an amulet that clears his mind and calms him down, but if it's ever removed, he'll go back to being a monster. His biological family is dead, and his adoptive father, brother and sister are gone, disappeared, and murdered, respectively. Oh, and one of his closest friends, who he may have feelings for, is now afraid of him because she's learned of his aformentioned rage. Oh, and [[http://raizap.com/sdamned/pages.php?comicID=214 just look at his childhood]]]]

* Rumisiel in ''{{Misfile}}'' is at first glance an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent apathetic, alcoholic, drugged up, loser]] who couldn't even manage to put [[CelestialBureaucracy files back in the right cabinet]], since then however he's gained an emotionally distant father, a screwed up overachieving (and formerly mass murdering) brother, [[PsychoExGirlfriend an Ex from hell]] (almost literally), but on occasion shown a surprisingly intelligent, loyal and tender side and has become a textbook woobie.

* There is also Ashton from Winters in Lavelle. It doesn't matter what he tries to do, he still looks like a beaten puppy, either that or in [[http://wintersinlavelle.com/?p=535 some cases]] a "sad lil praying mantis".

** Ellen, at least when she's introduced (as an OppositeSexClone who remembers everything the original does... as far as she's concerned, her body was changed, ''then'' her life is no longer hers, ''then'' it turns out she's probably going to die within a month... she was having a ''seriously'' bad week.) Lately she's more of an unlikeable {{jerkass}}, {{or so I heard}}.