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10TheWoobie is an individual who suffers. This trope is The Woobie on a wider scale, applying to an entire group. In particular, woobieness happens to be a trait of an entire species (alien or otherwise) or [[StandardFantasyRaces fantastic race]].
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12The reasons for this can vary. Maybe they are [[DyingRace endangered]]. Maybe they are [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch misunderstood]] or [[FantasticRacism discriminated against]]. Maybe they're [[SlaveRace enslaved]] or [[HenchmenRace made into hapless mooks]], [[SympatheticSentientWeapon especially if they're made sympathetic]]. Whatever the reason, the audience and/or the characters in-universe feel sorry for them.
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16* WoobieSpecies/VideoGames
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22* The cursed children from ''Literature/BlackBullet'', young girls born with the Gastrea virus in their blood, the same virus that turn people into {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. How society treats the cursed children is sickeningly in Jim Crow law levels (from public flogging and lynching to forced segregation and even PoliceBrutality). [[spoiler:And because the cursed children are born with said virus, they'll eventually turn into Eldritch Abominations anyways in a much slower rate. It gets worse for them when the government plans to strip them away from their citizenship and plan a genocide against them.]]
23* The title creatures in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', a race of battle aliens forced to participate in a game where ThereCanBeOnlyOne. This involves seeking out their OneTrueLove and then fighting to the death against the rest of their kind with the knowledge only one will be allowed to stay with their Ashikabi. Out of the 108, the vast majority are MonsterMunch or {{Red Shirt}}s with absolutely no hope of winning against their more powerful elders, the Single Numbers. This leads many pairs to attempt to flee the capital, only to be hunted down and slaughtered by the [[HeroKiller Discipline Squad]].
24* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has Beastmen, despite being the {{mooks}} of the first half's BigBad. They're an artificial species created by Lordgenome for the sole purpose of serving him and killing humans on the surface, incapable of reproducing without cloning, and because they lack spiral power they CantCatchUp to humans who've unlocked it, swiftly slaughtered and left irrelevant.
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28* The Jaguarians from ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' ''all'' suffer from birth a particular kind of sickness called "Chakounia", which causes them to turn into [[TheBerserker mindless blood-thirsty beasts]] whenever they are in proximity of other Jaguarians or anything related to their civilization; said sickness can only be contained thanks to a jewel called Katseye which acts as a RestrainingBolt, and being too brutally separated from their Katseye can cause serious psychological damages, from amnesia to flat out turning you AxCrazy. [[FantasticRacism Humans absolutely hate them and constantly hunt them down like beasts]], either to [[FinalSolution exterminate them]] or take them as slaves and force them to battle other monsters in bloody gladiator-like fights. By the time the series takes place, the whole species only managed to survive by turning their city into a HiddenElfVillage thanks to [[BargainWithHeaven a deal with a God]].
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32* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': The [[Film/KongSkullIsland Skullcrawlers]] end up being this. From the chapter they're introduced into the fic, their sole purpose in the plot is to fall prey to [[TheAssimilator the Many]] and their FateWorseThanDeath, practically becoming the Many's go-to source of fresh meat.
33* ''Roleplay/MassEffectAlteredHumanity'': The quest does this to the Batarians, surprisingly enough. [[spoiler:They make FirstContact with the warlike and more technologically advanced [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan]], who proceed to steamroll through their systems, eventually forcing the Batarians into vassalage. Then the Terran Dominion and Turians show up to liberate them, only for the Krogan to [[HumanShield use the Batarians as shields]] and [[TakingYouWithMe detonate nukes under Batarian cities if they lost to the Human-Turian ground forces]], which forces the Humans and Turians to use {{Orbital Bombardment}}s which results in the near-extinction of the Batarians. Then after the war the Batarians are given a handful of colonies to rebuild, but they eventually abandon them to become SpaceNomads and just want to be left alone. Unfortunately they keep running into every other race, meaning they have to give up their self-imposed isolation and join a galactic community they'd rather not be a part of. Then after they became member of the United Galactic Directorate, despite having the same amount of votes as Yahg Imperium, United Rakhana Nations, and Courts of Dekkuna combined, they don't have the same voting power as the three blocs, meaning they are subject to Directorate’s laws, but have no ability to determine which laws are ratified. One Batarian remarks that they saw their colony turn into a GhostTown due to the free trade legislation making it so there was nothing protecting local manufacturers from being driven out of business by imports.]]
34* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/87434/mirrors-in-shadows Mirrors In Shadows]]'' portrays changelings as this. They are every bit as intelligent as ponies but operate on BlueAndOrangeMorality, and drive themselves to enforce a HiveMind mentality (going so far as to not name themselves) to cope with how they constantly need to imitate ponies just to feed. Since they feed on love via VampiricDraining, a pony will die if they stay too long meaning if they ever actually find a pony they love, they have no choice but to abandon them.
35* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'' manages to [[UnintentionallySympathetic unintentionally]] turn the Equestrians into this. They're forced to undergo mutations into humanoid creatures, are having their culture and way of life erased, are seen as "inferior" by [[DesignatedHero Starfleet]], and the few that try to protest this new status quo are ''always'' defeated and/or subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath.
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39* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieCandaceAgainstTheUniverse:'' Phineas and Ferb encounter a species of cowards called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Cowards]] living in a hidden city called Cowardalia on the planet Feebla-Oot. The rest of the Cowards are a SlaveRace being mind-controlled.
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43* The Dragons in the ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' film series, they vowed to guide and protect humanity and in return they ended up being shunned, persecuted, hunted and driven to near extinction by humans.
44* The Thermians from ''Film/GalaxyQuest''. They all seem relatively peaceful and innocent, but they're also under attack by another alien species intent on wiping them out. On top of that, they have no concept of fiction, meaning that they end up mistaking a ''Franchise/StarTrek''-esque show from Earth as the real deal and model their entire society after it before finally recruiting the cast of the show to try and save them from the aforementioned genocidal aliens (and they take it pretty hard when they find out none of it was actually real).
45* In ''Film/TheHobbit'', the majority of the Dwarvish race who are displaced, nomadic, and downtrodden, yet choose to remain strong and proud.
46* The [=ISOs=] from ''Franchise/{{Tron}}''. Beautiful lifeforms that just [[CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen emerged spontaneously]] from Flynn's tinkering inside The Grid. "Naive and infinitely wise," Flynn called them, convinced they could rewrite everything from science to religion and change the world. Unfortunately, the Programs had no context for what to make of them. Worse, ''WesternAnimation/TronUprising'' and the ''Betrayal'' comic showed that just by existing, they were destabilizing the system and endangering every life on it. Add a magnificently done FalseFlagOperation from Clu that framed them as terrorists, and spread the lie that they could infect and kill Programs with just a touch, and the Programs were convinced that the only way to save themselves was siding with Clu and exterminating them all.
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50* In ''Literature/AllTomorrows'', the Mantelopes were the descendants of humans who lost a war against an alien race named the Qu. While the Qu punished most of the humans by turning them into animalistic {{Genetic Abomination}}s, the Mantelopes had a much more cruel fate; the Qu morphed their bodies into grazing quadrupeds but kept their human intelligence and cultural memories of what they once were intact. [[AndIMustScream Mantelopes cannot speak or interact with the world around them to any degree]], so their entire culture was built around ennui and singing wordless songs of lament and anguish over their pointless existence, before natural evolution took over and they devolved into dumb animals over thousands of years.
51* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'':
52** The Yeerks are the misunderstood variety... [[JerkassWoobie for the most part]]. They are basically blind, sapient slugs who only take hosts to compensate for their biology. Only those in power and those seeking power can be said to be really evil, as most of them are either swept up in the propaganda or afraid to challenge superiors.
53** The Taxxons suffer from HorrorHunger so overwhelming that any wounded will be quickly devoured by their brethren, and if they go too long without food they will eat ''themselves''. Eventually [[spoiler:the entire species {{Mode Lock}}s themselves in morph just to escape it.]]
54** The Hork-Bajir were peaceful, none-too-bright herbivores until the Yeerks wanted them as shock troops. Many were abducted and turned into hosts, and the remainder were wiped out in an attempt to deprive the Yeerks of hosts (which failed, as the Yeerks already had enough for a viable breeding population).
55* ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': The elves. In the WarArc, [[spoiler:their kingdom gets occupied by the Alacryans, who put many of them into slavery. Then the war ends with their king and queen being forced to sell out to Agrona, the ruler of Alacrya, when it is revealed that he has control over their princess's life and are executed afterwards. It only gets much worse for them from there, as said princess ends up going back to their homeland only to be captured by the Alacryans and turned into the vessel for an entity known as the Legacy. This is immediately followed by the Asuras unleashing a FantasticNuke in a failed attempt to kill off the Legacy which annihilates the elven homeland, leaving it a barren wasteland and driving the elves to near-extinction. Not to mention, almost all of the elven characters are killed off throughout the story, in particular when the Asuras send down one of their own to purge the Dicathian resistance. During said Asura's rampage, he ends up killing four named characters, all of them elves. The only surviving elven characters at this point in the novel are Tessia (the aforementioned princess, who as already stated is possessed by the Legacy), Virion, Camellia, and Saria]].
56* The Oompa-Loompas in ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' were this once upon a time. This tribe of unusually LittlePeople comes from Loompaland, a DeathWorld where they were constantly at the mercy of carnivorous beasts. They found some protection from them by building a TreeTopTown to live in, but they still faced a lack of palatable food for themselves -- they subsisted primarily on mashed green caterpillars -- and more than anything else they craved cacao beans, which were virtually nonexistent. When chocolatier Willy Wonka came along and offered them the chance to live in his chocolate factory and enjoy all the cacao beans they wanted in exchange for serving as his new workforce, they didn't hesitate to take him up on the offer!
57* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Of all the intelligent humanoids on the Disc, FantasticRacism may hit the goblins the hardest -- they face poverty and social marginalization wherever they live, and in many areas aren't legally considered people and can be murdered and enslaved with impunity.
58* The House elves in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' have a physiological compunction to serve and be ordered around by other species, to the point that they compulsively injure themselves if they so much as ''think'' of disobeying an order or express a less-than-flattering opinion about their master. There is a big element of HappinessInSlavery, but it's clear that most House elves outside of Hogwarts are viciously abused and mistreated.
59* ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': The [[spoiler:[=CunsnuC=], the native inhabitants of Cachalot]]. They have lived in agony for centuries after humanity colonized their world because human brain waves interfere with their natural telepathy and causes them pain. It's so bad that they can't be in close proximity to a human, so they're forced to hide themselves and aren't even able to fight back. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Until they're ready]].
60* The Nephilim of the ''Literature/HushHush'' series. Their entire purpose is to be tracked down by fallen angels and be {{Mind Rape}}d into spending the rest of their lives in the service of said fallen angels. Said service consists of the fallen angels possessing their bodies for two weeks out of every year, and using them for physical sensations that are usually sex. [[AndIMustScream While the Nephilim are still conscious in their possessed bodies]]. Also, WordOfGod states that Nephilim become immortal and frozen at the age they are when they are forced into the service of fallen angels, so they get to look forward to an eternity of this treatment.
61* ''Literature/ImminentDangerAndHowToFlyStraightIntoIt'' features the Claktills, small friendly beings whose SuicidalPacifism meant they didn't resist when the Rakorsians came to destroy their planet. They escaped its destruction, but have since become favourite victims of the Ssrisk, who exploit their pacifism by using them as slave labour and pets. The Psilosians have tried to help them, but the Claktill are now stuck on run-down Psilosian ships wandering through space without a home, slowly being picked off by criminals and still unable to defend themselves.
62* ''Literature/ManAfterManAnAnthropologyOfTheFuture'': The [[SpacePeople Vacuumorphs]] are exoskeletal humans designed to be living space probes, with all of their vulnerable parts sealed up so they can survive the natural elements of outer space without the need of a ship. It's never mentioned that anyone from Earth retrieves them. In other words, the Vacuumorphs are cursed to stay in high orbit without any way of directly seeing or communicating with the outside universe (except through their surgically-attached planetary surveying equipment) and are (presumably) forced to consume nothing but their own recycled natural waste until finally accidentally falling towards and burning up in a random planet's atmosphere. They cannot even travel through space — it's stated that they are high-orbit spaceship engineers only. Their bodies cannot operate or even survive in gravity at all — and that includes the artificial gravity of an accelerating spaceship. They're stuck in near-Earth space.
63* ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'':
64** The [[VoluntaryShapeshifting kandra]], once you get past the squickiness of how their powers work [[note]] A kandra can mold his or her body into any shape, but can't create a rigid skeleton of their own and can't imitate and individual without digesting them first, meaning that yes, they ''eat'' people to get both a model and the bones[[/note]]. Victims of extreme FantasticRacism from humans who fear and/or are squicked by their abilities, the only way they survive is by creating a Contract that allows individual kandra to rent themselves out as servants to powerful humans, who often abuse them horribly (since, as the kandra Ten Soon notes, you can beat a kandra to death at night and still have them ready to serve you next morning, so long as you give them new bones). [[spoiler: Oh, and their ancestors were human, and the process used to transform them leaves them open to mind control by an insane, nihilistic god]].
65** The [[AlwaysChaoticEvil koloss]] are a JerkassWoobie species. Created by [[EvilOverlord the Lord Ruler]] to act as shock troops, koloss [[spoiler:are humans who have been transformed into enormous, mentally-stunted berserkers. Only able to experience two emotions, apathetic and enraged, they vaguely remember that they were once human and still should be, but no longer know exactly what that was like. Like their "cousins" the kandra, they are also open to being controlled by the same dark god.]]
66* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
67** The obscure species known as the Evocii, the original inhabitants of the planet that would come to be known as Nal Hutta. The Hutts conquered them, stripped them of their rights, and polluted their planet so badly most of them become horribly deformed, and what's more unlike a lot of oppressed species such as the Chevs and the Nikto, they don't even get a happy ending under the New Republic, as it's implied that the [[Literature/NewJediOrder Yuuzhan Vong]] killed them all during their conquest of Nal Hutta.
68** [[YoyoPlotPoint No matter the time period]], Wookiees are almost always being [[WeWillUseManualLaborInTheFuture enslaved]] en masse or killed to the point of extinction. Even during times of relative safety the wider galaxy still views them as primitives or musclebound thugs.
69** The Nosaurians are a Woobie Species through and through. Their planet is economically struggling and the Republic puts restrictions on their one export product, causing the Nosaurians to join the Separatists out of economic desperation. After the Clone Wars, the Empire kills almost every single soldier in the Nosaurian Army and sells the families of said soldiers into slavery. ''Then,'' during the Yuuzhan Vong War, the Nosaurians put up such a resistance that the frustrated invaders kill about half of their population and render their home planet uninhabitable.
70* Creator/DavidBrin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' saga has humans themselves. Most aliens despise or hate them as an upstart rogue species that never had a proper upbringing, but even in-universe a few view them as TheWoobie.
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74* The Narns in ''Series/BabylonFive'' and the Bajorans in ''Franchise/StarTrek'' exist to fulfill this trope. They both represent oppressed and exploited peoples, cruelly invaded and enslaved by more powerful alien forces, fighting harshly for regain independence and suffering many setbacks in the reconstruction of their home worlds once freed.
75* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
76** The planet of the Tivolians is the most conquered in the galaxy. However, after one of them sacrifices an innocent person in attempt to save themself, the Doctor notes that they're also one of the ''oldest'' races in the galaxy. "Your cowardice isn't quaint, it's sly."
77** Cybermen are people jammed into metal life support suits, stripped of all emotion ([[InformedAbility supposedly]]) and sensation, with no goal other than converting more people to Cybermen. The original Cybermen from Mondas were ordinary people who went the {{Transhuman}} route to try and save their species from the degrading conditions on their world, but because CyberneticsEatYourSoul they [[MotiveDecay no longer recall]] why they did this to themselves and now seek only to survive and propagate their "species".
78** The revival series frequently attempts to portray the Daleks as a JerkassWoobie species, deliberately designed to feel nothing but hate for all other life and having no purpose other than [[CatchPhrase extermination]].
79-->'''The Doctor''': Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything, ''ever'', from birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. That explains your voice. No wonder you '''scream'''.
80** The Ood are born with one of their two brains ''outside of their bodies'', forcing them to hold them in their hands at all times. They are also ruled by a HiveMind with a powerful one easily being able to dominate them. Their normal HiveMind is a benevolent (ish) BrainInAJar but anybody [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit Satanic]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife enough]] can subjugate them. Never mind the fact that [[HumansAretheRealMonsters human beings essentially lobotomise them and replace their brains with electronic voice boxes]] turning them into a SlaveRace. Ood, as far as we know, just want to ''be''. The universe doesn't seem to want to let them.
81* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': There are entire species of Wesen whose grief and suffering far exceeds their good fortune.
82** Folterseele emit pheromones which cause people to rape them, and which also kill anyone who touches them. It's implied that every Folterseele is a ChildByRape, and their parents constantly disfigure them with hot branding irons to discourage rapists.
83** Glühenvolk and Willahara are hunted and killed by other Wesen for their body parts, and the survivors of both races have little hope of survival besides constantly running or living in seclusion.
84** El Cuegle are plagued by physically painful visions of the future showing young children committing vicious murders when they grow up. El Cuegles can only prevent these crimes and stop the painful visions by killing those children as babies, which also causes them to be hated and feared in the Wesen community.
85** The Bauerschwein have spent their entire existence being slaughtered for food and sport by Blutbaden, although some of them enter FromNobodyToNightmare territory by retaliating in ugly ways.
86* The ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise is quite fond of applying this trope to a number of its villainous factions, particularly in the Heisei era. You can generally tell if a series will use this trope if one or more of the main characters is a member of the villainous factions' species. Notable examples include:
87** ''Series/KamenRider555'': The Orphnochs are humanity's next evolutionary step, but in order to achieve this step, most Orphnochs will have had to have die once, and to make matters worse, all Orphnochs suffer from an extremely limited life-span that can only be fixed if the Orphnoch King corrects their genetic deformity which also prevents them from being able to assume a human form again. While most Orphnochs are depicted as wanting to live in peace with humanity, many are coerced by villainous Orphnochs into attacking humans lest they themselves be targeted, and when their existence becomes known to the public? Humanity attempts to exterminate them.
88** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'': The Greeed are Homunculi born of pure desire, created by a King 800 years ago. Their creation involved 10 Core Medals which contain their essence, but the King removed and destroyed one Core Medal from each set, thus resulting in an innate desire within the Greeed to fill the gap that is the loss of their tenth Core Medal. Existing as a Greeed is depicted as having an extremely distorted experience of reality, and as their very nature is to desire their lost Core Medal which had already been destroyed, they are quite physically incapable of ever achieving any sense of satisfaction, even if they were to possess the other 9 of their Core Medals.
89** ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'': The Roidmudes are a species of android designed by a scientist by the name of Dr. Banno. Banno corrupted the Roidmudes by influencing them with negative human emotions, thereby forcing them into conflict with humanity. With no means to reproduce, their numbers dwindle as the series goes on, and their eventual extermination is treated as a tragedy that could have been avoided had Banno not abused them. [[note]]The sole exception is Paint Roidemude, who manages to disgust even other Roidemudes.[[/note]]
90* For the first time, the Orcs of the ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' are presented as such in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' to the point where the both the fans and the haters of the show are rooting for them. They are introduced as the AlwaysChaoticEvil race like in the movies and books, seeing other races as animals to exploit and enslave, but as the show goes, they are shown to be more {{Tragic Monster}}s. The show goes with one of Tolkien's ideas for their origins, where they are Elves corrupted by Morgoth. After Morgoth's defeat, they followed Sauron hoping to be better treated only for Sauron to use BloodMagic on them for his own ambitions. Adar, getting tired of seeing the Orcs constantly exploited, kills Sauron and does anything in his power to make sure the Orcs have a home, too. Sure, their treatment of the people they kidnapped is not nice; they are just as guilty of FantasticRacism, but they had to resort to such methods because they cannot live in the sun. And when the other races think you are only capable of evil, need to be exterminated no matter what, and would more likely refuse any sort of cohabitation, you can only make a place for yourself in the world by using force and taking their home if necessary. What's even more tragic is that Sauron is back in the game, ready to subjugate them again, right when they finally got a home without any other master to corrupt them to even more evil, crushing any change hope for them to develop into a proper society or even civilization.
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94* Myth/RomaniMythology: The Keshali are nature spirits. Once, the King of the Loçolici (humans cursed by Satan) took a fancy to their queen, Ana. When she refused, he decided to hunt them down and eat them. Seeing the slaughter of her people, she agreed to marry the King, which led to the horrific multiple rapes that produced every disease known to man. Tired of their queen's suffering, the Keshali baked the King a cake made of cat and dog hairs that impregnated him with Poreskoro, the spirit of TheBlackDeath. With this attempt on his life, the King agreed to divorce Ana, but only on the condition that she kept herself alive forever by drinking the blood of three of her own kind. As soon as she dies, all Keshali will belong to the king by default and he will use that right to exterminate them for once and for all. Now, the Keshali are mostly reclusive, living in the forests and mountains. They bless and curse humans as fit, sometimes warding off the disease demons and sometimes killing them with avalanches if they encroach on their domain.
95* Cryptid: The [[TheEeyore Squonk]] is a United States cryptid that was practically built off this trope. Specifically, it is said to be [[JustForFun/TheUglyBarnacle so ugly]] that it [[CryingARiver constantly cries]], to the point that it can be ''tracked'' by following its ''trail of tears'' ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not that]] [[UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans Trail of Tears]]). Further, if captured, it is said to be able to [[CrossesTheLineTwice dissolve itself in its tears]].
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99* ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'': While few supernaturals in the setting [[BlessedWithSuck could consider themselves lucky]], two especially stand out:
100** [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost Changelings]] are former humans who suffered what might be the worst variation possible of TouchedByVorlons, being abdcuted and forcefully reshaped into faeric beings by TheFairFolk, who then proceeded to use them as slaves, objects or or pets. They escaped and clawed their way back to the human world, only to find out nobody missed them because they had been replaced for years by duplicates. Unable to return to their old lifes due to the time they missed and because of all the alterations they suffered, they end up having to build a new life here, constantly in fear of their former masters coming back for them.
101** [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Prometheans]] are {{Artificial Human}}s who due to being unnatural in their very being trigger a HatePlague toward themselves everywhere they go. They also are unwilling {{Walking Wasteland}}s, because even ''nature itself'' rejects them, meaning they are forced in a WalkingTheEarth lifestyle due to being unable to settle down or have relationships. The only way out is a long and dangerous quest to learn about humanity in order to improve themselves and BecomeARealBoy- which they can only do by interacting with the very humans who instinctively hate them. On top of that, there is [[AngelicAbomination an entire species of monsters]] out to devour them.
102* To some extent, the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' version of halflings tends to be this : way too nice for their own good, often working for humans and easily taken advantage of, even enslaved on a wide scale in half the nations where their population is significant. No wonder most halfling adventurers tend to be of the GuileHero type, with racial bonuses that truly help with that. Thankfully there is an organization in-universe (the Bellflower Network) which serves the same function the Underground Railroad did in RealLife.
103* The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are more of a "JerkassWoobie Species", but after their ancestors birthed the [[GodOfEvil god of depravity]] which destroyed their empire they're a DyingRace, scattered into tiny pockets and inevitably falling into extinction as they're killed off by the [[CrapsackWorld ludicrously hostile galaxy]]. And after they die, said depravity god is waiting to claim their souls.
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107* The gods of ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' created several humanoid species in horrible living conditions so they could serve as experience fodder for the clerics of PlayerCharacter races. As the goblin high priest Redcloak puts it, they were betrayed by their creators the moment they sprang into existence.
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111* ''Website/{{Serina}}'':
112** The porplets are are aquatic penguin-porpoise canary descendants that are near-sapient and have the intellect of small children. [[CarnivoreConfusion They are also farmed as livestock]] and eaten by their fully-sapient relative the seastriker, who often consume their squealing babies alive and use them like toys.
113** The [[https://sites.google.com/site/worldofserina/the-ultimocene-250-million-years/the-mourner-in-the-mist mourner-in-the-mist]], last of the boomsingers. Being confined to a small, mostly barren island has led them to grow stunted and inbred, and it's noted that they only survive at all due to a total lack of predators and competitors there. No more than 150 of them are alive at any given time, with short life expectancies and high rates of stillbirth. While their cries may sound as though they're lamenting their fate, at least they lack the intelligence to be aware of it.
114** In the Ultimocene multiple apex predator endlings such as the last Sea Rex and the last scissortooth may count, given their status as among the greatest of carnivores, and seeing HowTheMightyHaveFallen is a surprisingly heartbreaking conclusion given that they too were the last remnants of entire clades.
115* ''Blog/HamstersParadise'': The splintsters are bipedal rodents resembling a trunked kangaroo, which are the second species on the planet HP-02017 to attain sapience. However, their budding society is cruelly cut short by the ''first'' sapient species, the brutal, BloodKnight harmsters, who hunt them for sport and ultimately eradicate them just at the dawn of their civilization.
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119* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': The Goblins. Their society embodies a more tragic take on HobbesWasRight. Their monarchy is bound by a [[BigBookOfEverything giant rulebook]] that [[LawfulStupid prevents the current ruler from doing... well, anything]]. If the king breaks these rules, the goblins instantly assume he's an EvilOverlord out to [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff spank every last one of them raw]] (an assumption that has, presumably, [[ProperlyParanoid been vindicated by their experience]]). If you're stupid enough to depose the current ruler and [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt refuse the crown yourself]], the Goblins will basically commit [[DrivenToSuicide collective suicide]]. ''[[ColdBloodedTorture Violent]]'' [[SelfHarm collective suicide]].
120* The G4 iteration of the Breezies in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Apparently they are so fragile and helpless that even the SugarBowl that is Equestria is a DeathWorld to them. A single leaf can somehow disrupt their flight path and can blow them off course. Bees are extremely dangerous, and their lifestyle involves making dangerous journeys across this DeathWorld to gather food and ensure their species's continued survival.
121* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', the surviving Clone Troopers have become this even after Order 66. [[DudeWheresMyReward In addition to getting no compensation for their services and being resigned to menial labor duty in their old age]], [[ShellShockedVeteran some of them]] have to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone live with the guilt of being forced to kill the Jedi generals]] they bonded with, [[ManchurianAgent all because of bio-chips planted in their brains before they were even born]]. Even the Clones who had the bio-chips removed, allowing them to subsequently escape the Empire, have it rough -- Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor live on a backwater planet away from civilization to escape being forced back into service.
122* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': The Merpeople spend decades, if not centuries, as a horribly mistreated SlaveRace. Then, after escaping and making a new life for themselves, they find themselves becoming a DyingRace due to industrial pollution.
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