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---> '''The Doctor''': There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy - and this little boy can.

* Willow, in the season 6 finale of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Her RoaringRampageOfRevenge over [[spoiler:the death of Tara]] ended with a magical overload that briefly attuned her to the thoughts and feelings of everyone else on the planet. Overwhelmed by the world's collective pain, she decided that [[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery "your suffering has to end"]] and turned her newfound power towards bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. She was finally stopped by the ThePowerOfLove.

* Richard Harrow in BoardwalkEmpire. Also, Jimmy is revealed to be one in season 2.

* ''Series/TwentyFour'':Jack Bauer almost winds up becoming this. Throughout the entire series he's been betrayed, used, exploited, and almost all his friends and loved ones have wound up dead. In season 8 his last potential love interest is killed and the President betrays him which proves to be the last straw, sending on him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to expose the conspirators behind the day's events which in turn lead to his love interest dying and then mercilessly '''slaughter''' them, which turn out to be [[spoiler: former President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov]]. What sets him apart from most of the others is he does still have some rationality and does overall still refuse to harm any innocent life; when pressured into the fact that going down this path would lead to several casualties in the ensuing war between the United States and Russia, he realized what he was doing was in the wrong.
** He may have stopped himself after ''realizing'' what he was doing would kill more innocent than guilty, but prior to that he pulled some pretty risky moves, including opening fire on a crowd of civilians in order to get to said [[PresidentEvil corrupt President]] which could have backfired horribly and killed someone. I'd say he qualifies.
** Depending on how you view him,Tony Almeida.
* Regina, a.k.a. The Evil Queen, from ''Series/OnceUponATime''. She is a powerful sorceress who has murdered several innocent people, has an [[RevengeBeforeReason irrational grudge against SnowWhite]], and wipes the memories of everyone in her ''world'' because of that grudge. [[spoiler:But she was also [[FreudianExcuse raised by a literally heartless queen]] who murdered the [[InterClassRomance servant boy]] she was in love with after a young Snow was manipulated into revealing their relationship]]. Also, the adoptive son she genuinely loves is disgusted with her past and (at least at the beginning of the series) wants nothing to do with her. She tries to reform, but [[BeingGoodSucks things always seem to get worse for her when she does]]. And it helps that actress Lana Parilla is an absolute ''master'' of making kicked-puppy-dog-faces.

* Morgana from ''{{Series/Merlin}}. she has magic, in a place were that is a death sentence. aims to stop this. is turned on by her former friends, as they ignore her and keep things she really should have been told. Merlin is the worst in this.

* Morgana from Merlin. she has magic, in a place were that is a death sentence. aims to stop this. is turned on by her former friends, as they ignore her and keep things she really should have been told. merlin in the worst in this.

** Mr. Gold, a.k.a, Rumpelstiltskin,. He started out as a normal, but weak-willed, husband, but when he left the Ogre Wars because of a self-fulfilling prophecy in order to go home to his new son, his wife practically forsook him because of the shame of being married to a "coward". Years later she left him and their son, Baelfire, for [[spoiler: Captain Hook]]. When Bae became of age to be drafted for the Wars, he became The Dark One to prevent this, which he did. But he became cruel with his power, enjoying taking revenge on those who walked all over him before, and when his son begged for them to go a land without magic, he couldn't bring himself to go at the last second, and only Bae went through the portal. Rumple immediately regretted this, and has been trying to find Bae ever since. He eventually helped and fell for a young [[spoiler: Cora]], but she [[spoiler: took out her heart]] and married a prince instead because she wanted power and revenge. Later he fell in love with [[spoiler: Belle]], who Regina [[spoiler: kidnapped, but made him believe was DrivenToSuicide]]. And this was all before the series proper started.

* Walter White in ''BreakingBad'' could be interpreted as this. He is an extremely intelligent and skilled man, but works as a high school chemistry teacher and has to watch his former classmates and business partners from [=Caltech=] become multimillionaires off the company he co-founded. After a lifetime of this kind of indignity, without ever fighting back, he gets diagnosed with lung cancer; this humiliation collectively pushes him over the edge into cooking meth so he can make back the money he lost and get even with a world that continually screwed him over.

* The Greeed from ''KamenRiderOOO'' are monsters whose MO is consuming the world and are generally causing massive pain to everyone. Then we find out why they're doing it. Their 10th Core Medal was destroyed, leaving them sentient, but even if they get all 9 of their remaining Cores, they have a void inside them that can never be filled due to the destruction of the 10th. They've been that way since they've become sentient, they're only trying to consume the world to fill a void inside them that they were born with. If that hunger is enough to drive them to the extremes they go to, then they definately qualify.

* [[Series/AmericanHorrorStory Tate Langdon]]. He's mentally damaged, neglected by his parents, and clearly depressed...and also a seemingly sweet boyfriend. And he cries so prettily! On the other hand, he's a [[spoiler:mass-murdering, stalking ghost]].

* Regina, a.k.a. The Evil Queen, from ''Series/OnceUponATime''. She is a powerful sorceress who has murdered several innocent people, has an [[RevengeBeforeReason irrational grudge against SnowWhite]], and wipes the memories of everyone in her ''world'' because of that grudge. [[spoiler:But she was also [[FreudianExcuse raised by a literally heartless queen]] who murdered the [[InterClassRomance servant boy]] she was in love with after a young Snow was manipulated into revealing their relationship]]. Also, the adoptive son she genuinely loves is disgusted with her past and (at least at the beginning of the series) wants nothing to do with her. She tries to reform, but [[BeingGoodSucks things always seem to get worse for her when she does]]. And it helps that actress Lana Parilla is an absolute ''master'' of making kicked-puppy-dog-faces.

* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Jack Bauer almost winds up becoming this. Throughout the entire series he's been betrayed, used, exploited, and almost all his friends and loved ones have wound up dead. In season 8 his last potential love interest is killed and the President betrays him which proves to be the last straw, sending on him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to expose the conspirators behind the day's events which in turn lead to his love interest dying and then mercilessly '''slaughter''' them, which turn out to be [[spoiler: former President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov]]. What sets him apart from most of the others is he does still have some rationality and does overall still refuse to harm any innocent life; when pressured into the fact that going down this path would lead to several casualties in the ensuing war between the United States and Russia, he realized what he was doing was in the wrong.

** Drusilla, (after what Angelus [[BreakTheCutie puts]] [[TortureMakesYouEvil her through]]) [[WaifProphet so]] [[TheWoobie very]] [[FemmeFatale very]] [[TheOphelia much]].

** Drusilla, (after what Angelus [[BreaktheCutie puts her through]] )[[WaifProphet so]] [[TheWoobie very]] [[FemmeFatale very]] [[TheOphelia much]]

* Walter White in ''BreakingBad'' could be interpreted as this. He is an extremely intelligent and skilled man, but has to settle for working in a job far below his skill level. Also, he just found out that he has terminal cancer and is afraid that his death will leave his family in position of extreme poverty. He decides to use his skill in chemistry to manufacture crystal meth and sell it to support his family.

** He may have stopped himself after ''realizing'' what he was doing would kill more innocent than guilty, but prior to that he pulled some pretty risky moves, including opening fire on a crowd of civilians in order to get to said [[PresidentEvil corrupt President]] which could have backfired horribly and killed someone. I'd say he qualifies.

* [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] almost winds up becoming this. Throughout the entire series he's been betrayed, used, exploited, and almost all his friends and loved ones have wound up dead. In season 8 his last potential love interest is killed and the President betrays him which proves to be the last straw, sending on him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to expose the conspirators behind the day's events which in turn lead to his love interest dying and then mercilessly '''slaughter''' them, which turn out to be [[spoiler: former President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov]]. What sets him apart from most of the others is he does still have some rationality and does overall still refuse to harm any innocent life; when pressured into the fact that going down this path would lead to several casualties in the ensuing war between the United States and Russia, he realized what he was doing was in the wrong.

* [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] almost winds up becoming this. Throughout the entire series he's been betrayed, used, exploited, and almost all his friends and loved ones have wound up dead. In season 8 his last potential love interest is killed and the President betrays him which proves to be the last straw, sending on him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to expose the conspirators behind the day's events which in turn lead to his love interest dying and then mercilessly '''slaughter''' them, which turn out to be [[spoiler: former President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov]]. What sets him apart from most of the others is he does still have some rationality and does overall still refuse to harm any innocent life; when pressured into the fact that going down this path would lead to several casualties in the ensuing war between the United States and Russia, he realized what he was doing was in the wrong.

* Played with in ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' episode ''Absolute Power'' with Daniel Jackson, the show's typical {{Woobie}} of various other types. [[spoiler:In the episode, Daniel is trying to sensitively obtain information about the Goa'uld from a small child, who touches his head in an apparently hostile act, as it renders him unconscious. When he awakens, he proceeds to have all of the needed knowledge revealed to him and proceeds to build the weapon that would apparently defend the Earth, but at the cost of having become at least a JerkassWoobie if not outright evil. He fantasizes about very violent things until, finally, his goal is met. He then proceeds to take over the most powerful weapon in the world from his SupervillainLair and destroy Moscow before waking up and realizing that having absolute power to defeat the Goa'uld in one fell swoop is not such a good idea after all. He wakes up to discover that it was AllJustADream, but during]] the episode, it was implied that WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds is actually simply a part of his subconscious, with or without special knowledge. Not surprising, really.

** Davros gave the Doctor this title in "Journey's End." As of Asylum of the Daleks, [[spoiler: the Daleks have no memory of The Doctor, the Oncoming Storm, Destroyer of Worlds, the Predator, etc., thanks to Oswin who, while a Dalek herself, managed to wipe their "Hive-Mind". [[TitleDrop Doctor Who]] indeed.]]

* ''{{Warehouse 13}}'' had a textbook example in [[spoiler:H.G. Wells. It started out with her daughter being murdered, who proceeded to hunt the killers down and cause them more pain than she felt. Then, after being turned into a statue for a century ([[FateWorseThanDeath while still awake the whole time]]), she found today's world [[HumansAreBastards even more lacking]], and decided to explode the Yellowstone supervolcano to start an ice age. In a twist similar to the ''{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' example above, HoYay saved the day.]]

* [[AmericanHorrorStory Tate Langdon]]. He's mentally damaged, neglected by his parents, and clearly depressed...and also a seemingly sweet boyfriend. And he cries so prettily! On the other hand, he's a [[spoiler:mass-murdering, stalking ghost]].

* [[TwentyFour Jack Bauer]] almost winds up becoming this. Throughout the entire series he's been betrayed, used, exploited, and almost all his friends and loved ones have wound up dead. In season 8 his last potential love interest is killed and the President betrays him which proves to be the last straw, sending on him on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to expose the conspirators behind the day's events which in turn lead to his love interest dying and then '''slaughter''' them, which turn out to be [[spoiler: former President Charles Logan and Russian President Yuri Suvarov]]. What sets him apart from most of the others is he does still have some rationality; when pressured into the fact that going down this path would lead to several casualties in the ensuing war between the United States and Russia, he realized he was in the wrong.

* [[VeronicaMars Cassidy Casablancas]] He was molested, belitted, picked on by his family, and abandoned by his mother. It causes him to go crazy and a blow up a BusFullOfInnocents