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-->''"Thanks for noticing me."''
-->--'''Eeyore'''

-->''"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."''
-->--'''Marvin the Paranoid Android''''s first line in every incarnation of ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

This character exists solely to bring everybody down, but not in the DeadpanSnarker sense; they are defined entirely by their complete inability to be happy for more than a few seconds at a time, an emotional state that usually arises from their only-[[{{Wangst}} occasionally]]-[[DarkAndTroubledPast justified]] suspicion that they are the ButtMonkey of the entire universe. They are the walking AnthropomorphicPersonification of clinical depression.

Note, though, that this does not mean they can't be ''[[HotBlooded manic]]''-depressive. Some Eeyores can be quite angry at the world for their situation, becoming a rebel without a cause or a loner in the LonersAreFreaks sense.

Sometimes overlaps with SourSupporter, but not often; they are generally too unhappy to be effective or active.

When upset, the Eeyore may as well become the {{Yandere}}. A stereotypical {{Goth}} will probably fit under this.

The exact opposite of the Eeyore is ThePollyanna.

Compare GrumpyBear.
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'''Examples:'''

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[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]

* Mesousa from ''PaniPoniDash''.
* Shinji Ikari from ''{{Neon Genesis Evangelion}}'', though he has the excuse of genuinely [[ButtMonkey not having much to be happy about.]]
* Gaara from ''{{Naruto}}'' (in a virulently homicidal sort of way).
* Lucy from ''ElfenLied'' (in a virulently homicidal sort of way).
* Kohza from ''SamuraiChamploo''.
* [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei Nozomu Itoshiki]], or, as he is better known as, "Mr. Despair".
* [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi Suzumiya]]'s inner workings appear to be quite this at or before the beginning and episode 6 particularly. Being fed up with the boring world, just wishing for something interesting to happen when it just doesn't seem to happen, despite her efforts. In the end (or rather [[AnachronicOrder in the middle]]), she's so frustrated she subconsciously [[spoiler: begins to destroy the universe and create a new one]]. Of course, most of the time she's a genuine GenkiGirl.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPki4iqs53I Kogepan]]. Because he's a burned bread roll.
* Ryoga Hibiki of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', who legitimately has a lot to be sad about, is nevertheless prone to such heavy depression he's able to use it to fuel a ki attack - one so powerful it leaves a massive, smoking crater and frequently demolishes his opponents in one go.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* Cassie from ''[[{{ptitle847h4r8c}} Hack/Slash]]'', in a virulently homicidal sort of way. The one and only time she was genuinely happy was when someone got her drunk at springbreak.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* Eeyore, obviously, from the ''WinnieThePooh'' books - which makes this OlderThanRadio. Though is also TheWoobie for his target audience.
** The original book Eeyore was a very different character from [[AdaptationDecay the toned-down Disney version]] thought perhaps more similar to an actual donkey: [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic, rude, occasionally arrogant, but also somewhat intelligent]].
* Puddleglum the Marshwiggle from CSLewis's {{Narnia}} book ''The Silver Chair'' - referenced in MoreThanMindControl. Puddleglum says at one point that his fellow Marshwiggles consider him to be a hopeless starry-eyed optimist.
* Dolorous Edd from ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. Of course, he may just be the only character in the books who realizes what a WorldHalfEmpty they really do live in.
* Denethor of ''TheLordOfTheRings'' certainly has real sorrows to contend with - losing his son and watching civilisation apparently crumble around him. But he's defintely a fatalistic old bugger on top of it. In both the book and the film he's summed up in the splendidly morose line: ''"Go now and die in what way seems best to you."''
* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' is perhaps the Eeyore-iest Eeyore in existence. He's very depressed, he feels under-utilized (''"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and..."''), and due to a series of circumstances involving time travel [[spoiler:he eventually gets to be thirty-seven times as old as the universe itself]] and throughout his entire existence he's had this terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side. His outlook on the universe is so depressing that he [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide drives a computer to suicide]] when he tries to share it with the poor thing. He later does the same thing with a bridge.]]
* One interpretation of the title character in {{Hamlet}}. That is, when he's not being the DeadpanSnarker.
** ... which makes this both OlderThanSteam and TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* Parodied by "Debbie Downer" from ''SaturdayNightLive''. Her theme song says it all:
-->''You're enjoying your day\\
Everything's going your way\\
Then along comes Debbie Downer\\
Always there to tell you 'bout a new disease\\
A car accident or killer bees\\
You'll beg her to spare you\\
"Debbie, please!"\\
But you can't stop Debbie Downer!''
* Bova from ''SpaceCases''.
** In one episode it's shown that his father is the same way so it might be a racial trait.
* Seaman "Doom & Gloom" Broom from ''OperationPetticoat''.
* Private James Frazer from ''DadsArmy''.
* [[TheShield Detective Ronnie Gardocki]]
* Ted, the completely unsuccessful, miserable, and suicidal ([[GallowsHumor in a humorous way]]) lawyer from ''{{Scrubs}}'', who serves as the show's ButtMonkey. Even TheWoobie Elliot casually acknowledges that she is nowhere ''near'' as miserable as Ted.
* Neil, the depressive hippy in ''TheYoungOnes'', who has made it his life's mission to inform everyone about how depressed he is.
* ''FraggleRock'' has Boober Fraggle; who is not only depressive and fearful, but is also an obsessive expert on diseases, superstitions, and laundry.

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[[folder: New Media ]]

* Hope from the internet comedy podcast ''Hope Is Emo'' is an example.
* There's a ''color'' dedicated to this trope in NeoPets, and it's gray. The Gray Faerie usually is portrayed with a cloud over her head, and never, ever says anything cheerful. Fandom has determined that both the faerie, pets and items are just all emo, as there's no reason to do so in such utopic setting.

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[[folder: Radio ]]

* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.
-->"Life! Don't talk to me about life!"
** According to the biography of Douglas Adams written by Neil Gaiman, Marvin was originally based on a friend of his, a manic-depressive named Marshall who could only ever be cheered up by his long-suffering wife; he changed the name from "Marshall" to "Marvin" out of kindness.
*** However, after talking about this in an interview, Adams was called by his mother, who claimed that he was totally wrong - Marvin was Eeyore. Adams went to look at some older copies of ''Winnie the Pooh'', "...and blow me down, so he was!"
*** Adams also said that the story he based Marvin on Andrew Marshall was one he'd told so often he no longer remembered if it was true or not. Marshall, he claimed, really was like that, but this proved nothing because ''all'' [[SadClown comedy writers are Eeyores]].
* Red Symons, former guitarist for the Skyhooks, cultivated this persona for his radio and television career.
* Wartime SitCom ''{{ITMA}}'' had [[PunnyName Mona Lott]], whose CatchPhrase was "It's being so cheerful that keeps me going".

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Xan, the morbidly depressed elven enchanter from the first ''BaldursGate'' game. A typical line is "Our Quest is in Vaaaain" and "Oh what is the point". He is later referenced in the first Iceland Dale game when finding a diary of an elf, who feared he "Had become as miserable as my cousin Xan".
* Vincent Valentine from ''FinalFantasyVII'' could be seen as one. Though he may be more of a brooding DeadpanSnarker.
* Nearly non-player elf character in the ad-on ''DungeonSiege 2: Broken World'' is morbidly depressed, especially Amren, who whines about the loss of his clairvoyant powers ''every time'' you talk to him, no matter what topic you wanted to discuss. Considering what [[CrapSackWorld crappy state]] the world is in due to the [[DownerEnding cataclysm after the end of the second game]], they may have a point, but it quickly gets annoying.
** The dryads... well, most of the dryads have just gone nuts, but ''they'' have to cope with the loss of their forest and most of their population, so their destructive mood is at least justified.
* In ''StarControl 2'' the Utwig, after losing the Ultron, their source of motivation, are an entire ''species'' of Eeyores, to the point that they ponder whether to commit mass suicide with a giant bomb, but decide not to because they deserve to suffer. They get better once you fix the thing. In the [[DisContinuity mythical]] third game, they go Eeyore again when they lose the Ultron; one of the few good ideas the game has is that when you return it to them, they become audibly happier.
-->Ugh. I suppose, as a courtesy, I should extend an appropriate greeting. On behalf of the Utwig Proctors I truly hope, for your sake, that your day has been better than ours, although this really isn't saying that much.

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[[folder: Webcomics ]]

* Davan from ''SomethingPositive'' fits the profile to a tee. The sympathy stays with him mostly because every [[CrapsackWorld other person in the webcomic universe is depicted as an asshole]].
** Considering that he is too, the sympathy usually doesn't stay for long.
* Jeriah from the webcomic ''MenInHats''.
* Petitus from [[OneOverZero 1/0]]. In fact... [[http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=549 see for yourself]].

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* DroopyDog always seemed to be in a really sad and gloomy state. When he was happy, he would just say "I'm so happy..." in his usual morose tone. When sufficiently provoked, he would just say "You know what? You made me mad" and [[BewareTheNiceOnes beat the other guy to a pulp.]]
** Subverted when he won a million bazillion dollars. He smiled ear to ear, and leaped across the screen.
* Toot from ''DrawnTogether'' is an example, though she is so bitter and repulsive that she really garners no sympathy whatsoever.
* Twinkle the Marvel Horse in ''DaveTheBarbarian''.
* Happy Time Harry in the ''AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode "Dumber Dolls" takes this to comically dark extremes. He's a children’s action figure who is depressed, addicted to pain pills, has a pile of unpaid “Action Bills” as his main accessory and routinely threatens to commit suicide. In later appearances, he mentions he’s on probation too. .
* Stork in ''StormHawks''.
** Mentioned or at least implied to be a cultural trait common to ''all'' Merbians. Terra Merb is so riddled with dangerous creatures, dangerous terrain, dangerous weather, and dangerous combinations of all three that Merbians have simply come to expect the worst out of everything, since it usually happens to them. It's so bad that when something nice happens to the Hawks, Stork can't enjoy it because he's too busy waiting for the punchline. Unfortunately, since Merbians developed their pessimism as a survival mechanism, he has a distressing habit of being right.
* TV viewers of a certain age may (vaguely) remember Hanna-Barbera's ''Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har''; the latter was a "laughing" hyena who never smiled, much less laughed.
** Another Hanna-Barbera property the same era was a reworking of ''GulliversTravels''. One of the Lilliputians who hung out with the hero was a hard-core Eeyore named Glum; for many, including [[{{Geoduck}} this troper]], he was by far the most memorable thing about the show.
* Misery from ''RubyGloom''.
* Meg from ''FamilyGuy''.

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[[folder: Web Animation ]]

* Strong Sad from ''HomestarRunner''; notable in so far as he really ''is'' the ButtMonkey of the entire universe... or at least his brothers' most readily available ChewToy. His 1936 counterpart, Sickly Sam, is like this trope times two. Or more.
** However, some CharacterDevelopment has turned him from what the fans call "Depressing Strong Sad" into "Whiney Strong Sad", and is [[http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14704 now liked more by the fandom]] than when he had his old personality.
** ''I don't like food anymore!''
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