- Prince Tolten from Lost Odyssey.
- Chibi-Robo: The pleasantly bubbleheaded, lives-to-dance Funky Phil averts this. His admirer Dinah and not exactly acknowledged son Freaky Phil... not so much. To say the least, something always seems to come up to disturb the former's peace of mind, usually related to Phil, and as for the latter, he's the odd one out of his siblings, seems to be a little stupid, is somewhat implied to start off as not much of a dancer, and accidentally "kills" his father, and his body language after Dinah finds him dead and asks the kids what happened suggests that he knows it was his fault. Though he's eventually revealed to be fine, in a rather hilarious fashion.
The player character in A Dance with Rogues, also known as "How much more screwed up can this girl's life
get?"Knights of the Old Republic: Bastila becomes one during the endgame, after her shell is completely stripped away.Reese Worthington of Backyard Sports. Tortured just for being a massive nerd.
- Dragon Age Origins: Zevran
- Dragon Age 2:
- There's the main character, Hawke, who is forced to flee his home to one of the most despicable cities in the world and loses almost his entire family over the course of the storyline; Merrill, the adorable, scatterbrained Elvish blood-mage who is demonized by her own clan for her experiments and bullied viciously by Fenris and Anders; Aveline, the hard-as-nails guardswoman who's forced to perform a mercy-kill on her own husband; Anders, the renegade mage who's driven mad by the corrupted spirit possessing him... in fact, the only people who manage to keep relatively light-hearted are Varric and Isabella, and they spend most of the game playing Team Dad and Cool Big Sis to the others.
- Even Isabela's past is rather depressing and Varric ends up betrayed by his own brother and left in the Deep Roads to die, either forced to mercy-kill him later or spending years trying to nurse him back to sanity (probably in vain). There's also * Sebastian... Pretty much everyone the man could call family by the end of the game has been murdered.
- After playing Fable III, you will not look at a chicken McNugget the same way again.
Also a Tear Jerker. - NieR: the Shades.
- Except for Rucks, every character in Bastion has some kind of tragic backstory. The Kid served a turn on the Rippling Walls to raise money for his sick mother, only to find out when he came back that she'd already died and someone ran off with all of the money. Zulf lost his fiancee in the Calamity, and then found out that Caelondia, who he'd been working with all this time to foster peace between them and his own race, the Ura, had accidentally caused the Calamity in an attempt to wipe the Ura off the map. Zia and her father were immigrants to Caelondia and were the victims of racism against the Ura, and her father was forced to be the one who pulled the trigger on the superweapon that caused the Calamity after a failed attempt to take her and flee back to their homeland.
- Planescape: Torment'': Everyone to some extent: Deionarra and Dak'kon deserve special mention though.
- Both Roxas and Namine qualify. The other Nobodies are sympathetic too, though can be made out to be much moreso than they actually are, and can only be counted as Jerkass Woobies at best.
- The Relyimah in Myst: The Book of D'ni. Even the bitter psycho Ymur.
- Fate/stay night: There are several other somewhat less drastic cases like Ilya as well.
- Eternal Darkness:
- What about Ellia, who only wanted some excitement in her life and ended up killed for it, not allowed to just die but instead turned into a defenseless brand of undead by the fact that only about ten minutes ago she'd been forced to place an enchanted artifact, one of the necessary items to prevent a future apocalypse, until someone else found her a millennium later and she was finally able to pass it on? Or better yet Anthony, whose only goal was to serve his king and got a vital chance to do that after getting cursed by a scroll he was meant to deliver to him and fighting to warn him about treachery only to find out that he wouldn't be allowed to do so unless he took the most drawn-out, inconvenient route possible, gradually turning into a zombie as he went, and after completing that, finding out that he was too late and that the king was already dead? And even that wasn't the end of it. After failing his only goal, his curse kept him undead for hundreds of years to come, locked all alone in one small, disused room to dwell on that until Paul finally comes along to put him out of his misery. Brr.
- Alex & Ellia still succeeded in their missions, & Anthony's soul eventually found rest once Paul performed rites on him. In fact, with one exception, all of the characters succeed, die, or both. That one exception is the biggest (literally) woobie in the game, Max Roivas, who is attacked by the possessed servants of the cursed mansion he just inherited from his father who died fighting the Darkness. Max is forced to kill all of his servants after discovering the ancient city full of monsters beneath his home, not knowing how many of them were actually possessed (some weren't). After trying to get help in attacking the monsters and the discovery of the murdered servants, he is thrown into an asylum for his trouble, where he spends the rest of his life having to wallow in his madness and in the sorrow of his own failure.
- The fan manga Touhou Tonari cranks her(Yuyuko's original incarnation) woobie-ness up a lot.
- Zelda in Twilight Princess, for various reasons.
- Prince Tolten from Lost Odyssey.
- Type Moon: Satsuki is the Chew Toy. Len and Nanako however are legitimate examples. The biggest woobie in Tsukihime is however the real SHIKI. This will not make the slightest bit of sense until you've beaten every route of course.
- The player character in A Dance with Rogues, also known as "How much more screwed up can this girl's life ''get''?"
- Evanine and Persey of Tales of Arterra, the first a princess whose family was killed and who was forced onto the run by a stereotypical evil uncle, the second a succubus sold to a mortal who used her as the star attraction in a brothel and possessed of little or no concept of self-worth.
- Wally
- Barry (Damion)
- Fall Out: The X-13 Stealth Suit from Old World Blues because of some of her lines. See "Will you love me if I help you hide?"
- Warcraft: Farseer Nobundo
- The schoolteacher Westin Phipps assigns you to torture in City of Heroes.
