Woobie / Big Brother

• Some houseguests can be this due to mean spirited houseguests like Jon from BBC2 who is left out of alliances and hurt both physically and mentally by other houseguests. (Sarah scalding him with boiling hot spoons, anyone?) Also Alec from BBC1 after the aftermath of the shower incident.
• Another example is Candice from the BB15 who was relentlessly bullied by Aaryn and Amanda especially after her bed was flipped by Aaryn's fit of rage.
• Another Big Brother 15 rep is McCrae. He's a good guy deep down, but a horrible judge of character and everyone he likes is voted out and/or betrays him. Thankfully, he was thrown a bone by Spencer who helped him start a youtube channel which is fairly popular.
• Also from BBC2, Heather received a huge brunt of the bullying from most of the the girls in the house inexplicably.
• Donny. Every single person he got close to has been voted out, he's left out of alliances, and was constantly targeted.
  • Zach Rance. Mocked by his alliance, Kathy Griffin, and even voted out by his closest friend and ally Frankie. If that wasn't enough, every person he tries to make friends with has betrayed him and was accused by everyone of being the saboteur. On top of it, Victoria, (who is also a woobie) ended up destroying Zach's favorite pink hat in which Victoria told Zach he could borrow or have all to get back at him.
  • Hayden Voss, betrayed by people he thought were his friends. He and Nicole are eventually put up against each other in nominations. He eventually does win Nicole's affections, but Nicole wonders if they can be together due to them living so far apart. Things do work out for him, though - he wins a luxury competition and gains $5000.
  • Victoria Rafaeli. Targeted and seen as weak from day one, almost everyone she allied with belittled her and insulted her game. Any accomplishments she achieves are swept under the rug or recognized as other people doing the work for her. To top it all off, the editors go out of their way to make her seem as dumb as possible and show off her failures. And despite all this, she at least tries to keep positive about it all. Plus, with her secret shame of her hair loss coming to light, we learn that she has deep insecurities about her looks.
• Big Brother 17, Audrey reveals in the season premiere that her parents were not initially supportive of her struggles with gender identity prior to her transition from male to female. As Adam, she was taken to a wilderness program for troubled youth against her, which didn't help. Thankfully, Audrey's parents have since acknowledged that the mistakes they made and began supporting her upon her transition into a woman.
  • John MacGuire. He's lost everyone close to him, he's kept out of alliances, always put up every week, and his only friend in the house is Steve. With that said, he's destroying everyone else in the popularity polls for his No Indoor Voice diary room sessions, funny dialogue, and other characteristics. And yet he still lost to James.
  • Meg Maley, who takes a fierce header on the OTEV competition slope and is in tears at Jason's and Jackie's evictions and feeling powerless to stop her friends from being picked off and sent out of the house and utterly in ruins when her status as a pawn turns into an easy boot by Austwins.
• From BBC3, we have Brittnee Blair. Disliked by nearly everyone (the one person who likes her was at one point only using her as a vote) for almost no reason, she's been the biggest pawn of the season going up almost every HoH. The editors seem to make her seem really dumb despite the fact she's one of the more intelligent females this season and have a failure montage for her each episode. Add all that to the fact she's a plus sized model (which means she likely was heavily bullied as a young woman, outright stated by her in her intro video) and you'll want to hug her more than ever. Things changed within the past few weeks - where Sarah, Brittnee's only ally, starts to legitimately come to like her.
• Big Brother 18. Poor Bridgette. She's easily one of the most genuinely sweet girls especially with Natalie and Nicole arguably taking a level in jerkass in the house this season, and yet everyone with the exception of James and Frank (though Frank could have been thought to be using her) hates her for no real reason. She's ostracized and voted out by a near unanimous vote, but thankfully seems to be getting some friends in the jury house, who originally couldn't stand her, like Da'Vonne and Zakiyah.
  • Michelle as well from the same season - she is very prone to crying already, couldn't handle a lot of things. She's evicted for a personal vote (being the odd-one out when everyone else had a nigh-unbreakable bond with someone else), and when she called Nicole and Corey out on it, Corey just shouted her to tears about how wrong she was.
• Jillian and Ramses. Two legit nice people trapped in one of the most hated houses since BB9 and BB15, yet evicted early because the head of households during their weeks were total idiots.
  • While he was a minion of Paul originally, Kevin becomes this in Week 7 where he's constantly mistreated by his fellow houseguests, betrayed by Jason (even if Jason secretly wanted to not use the Veto and didn't, that's still harsh) and like the above, a genuinely nice guy who hasn't won any competitions and is trapped in a house where everyone wants him gone, eventually going to a Jury house where no one likes him.
  • Mark becomes one due to being one of the very nicest people in real life and in the house, but always being ragged on for siding with Cody and Jessica, and Josh annoying the crap out of him after the two get on each others' nerves and Mark makes some really poor decisions that only fuel the fires.
  • Josh himself because he takes a lot of flak from nearly every other player, especially his own power alliance of Paul and Christmas. This ultimately led to those two being denounced and Josh winning the season.
• Justin from Over the Top. He basically hid behind bigger targets and got to the final four. He spiraled into depression during his last week of the game and kept away from the other three to not ruin the mood... and Jason and Kryssie pretty much bashed the hell out of him. Only Morgan came around to make sure he was alright. His last week in the house was pretty much Jason and Kryssie non-stop hating him. Which more or less cost them the game.
• Sam Bledsoe achieves this status just days into BB 20 because a mountain of bad luck falls on her and she feels ostracized by the house, along with being forced to communicate through a robot drone that doesn't adequately show her expressions and going up on the block for eviction. Sam's first week in the house sucked.
• Angie "Rockstar" Lantry joins Sam as another woobie when Brett bullies her into a full-force breakdown and she begins to resort to Josh-like antics in retaliation, as well as the matching crying fits.
• Rachel Swindler suffers a really nasty blindside at the end of Week 5 and storms out of the house, then later learns her entire alliance sold her up the river, and sits through a completely savage and douchey goodbye message from Angela.
• Bayleigh Dalton turned into one when she broke down near the end of Week 6 and went out of her mind yelling at Tyler. After several weeks of unlikable behavior, she pivoted into straight-up scary as she fell apart at the seams. Given her behaviour in the house, it's more or less a Jerkass Woobie.
• Haleigh Broucher. She's part of an alliance that could never get anything to go her way, has her head of household stolen from her, gets blamed for events she had no way of controlling. No matter how hard she tries to get herself in with everyone else or even win to save herself, she just can't. By her final week, she's practically reduced to an Empty Shell.
• JC is a Base-Breaking Character at best, and a Scrappy at worst, but being the only member of the Final 7 of BB 20 to not get a video greeting from his family (his relationship with them was strained after coming out to them; a friend sent in a video greeting) earns him some serious Woobie points.
• David Alexander from Big Brother 21 and 22. Mistreated from Day 1, in his first season he is a huge victim of racism from Michie and Jack and only Michie apologizes. His second season doesn't go much better being constantly mocked for his newbie strategist self which is strange considering this was the first season he actually got to PLAY, bullied by Nicole F and Team Freeze was not fond of him.
  • Ian Terry rockets into this from the same season for being a victim of a massive mocking of him being on the spectrum by the big alliance, with only Cody and Tyler (and later Memphis after he received death threats) apologizing. If anyone knows how difficult it is to be mocked for something that's not your fault, they can sympathize with Ian.
• In CBBUK 22, Ryan Thomas became this after the false physical assault allegation that Roxanne Pallett made, which caused him to receive a formal warning from Big Brother. Viewers, as well as his former co-stars from Coronation Street quickly came to his defence.
• Lucas from Big Brother Brasil 21 earned the empathy of the audience after being ganged up on by almost everyone in the house, led by Projota and Karol Conká, the latter who openly humiliated and emotionally abused him for almost the entirety of his stay in the house. It only got worse after Lucas came out as bisexual in a party and kissed Gilberto, which prompted Lumena, Karol and Pocah to question his bisexuality and accuse him of using racial and LGBT+ issues to promote himself. That incident was too much for him, and after suffering for two weeks straight, he couldn't endure it anymore and ended up resigning.
• Hannah from Big Brother 23, easily one of the kindest houseguests of her season, during the second double eviction episode. She spent the entire episode looking so scared that she was about to cry. And she had good reason. She was the house’s biggest target and knew it, all because she didn’t abandon her friend who just got unfairly targeted and sent out before her. Even worse, three of the four remaining houseguests each have their own Kick the Dog moment toward her when she’s already visibly trying not to cry. Derek F responds to getting put on the block next to her with excitement and laughter, driving home the point that she had no chance of staying over him. Kyland makes a speech about how much more Derek F did in the game than her, even though Derek F didn’t do much of anything while Hannah clearly worked very hard to get as far as she did. And Azah, when putting her on the block, lies to her face about her not being the target even though she clearly was, which wouldn’t have been so bad if not for the fact that Azah frequently talked about her inability to lie to anyone that she respects, and Hannah turning out to be the only person on the entire cast that she ever lies to. And then she also mocks Hannah for looking so scared during the feeds afterward. Xavier was the only houseguest who didn't mock or berate her. Between the perpetually devastated look on her face and the lack of sympathetic or kind moments from anyone, Hannah comes across as very Woobie the entire time.
  • While none of the moments are as sad as the double eviction episode, Hannah came across as a Woobie at several other points throughout the season as well. There’s her dealing with Brent following her around and touching her inappropriately on many, many occasions when she clearly doesn’t want him to (especially when he pressures her for a hug, and she has a very defeated-sounding tone to her voice when she says “sure Brent... let’s do it”), along with some of the other houseguests treating her as immature for having a problem with this instead of empathizing with her, Azah trying to exclude her from the Cookout by insistently saying they’re “the five” and not “the six” (Even going so far as to say she didn't count because she was only half black) and speaking so negatively of her behind her back, her crush Derek X explaining his type to the group... which is nothing close to what she looks like, her crying and feeling guilty about helping her alliance get Derek X evicted (“no I’m actually the worst”), the time she was accidentally knocked out of the hammock and got a concussion, the Zingbot leading her to believe she didn’t have fans, Kyland insisting she wasn’t good enough to be the season’s winner... there were a lot of moments where viewers felt bad for her. She somehow even managed to keep having Woobie moments after the game was over when the Big Brother social media pages made posts giving credit to all five other Cookout members but not her, to the extent that it seemed they were excluding her on purpose, despite her being one of the alliance members who did the most work.
• Tiffany from Big Brother 23 for creating and carrying the main alliance to the end of the season, only for all of them except Hannah to turn on her and evict her the moment they no longer need her while also ignoring her accomplishments and acting like she betrayed them despite her clearly being completely loyal to them, even heavily sabotaging her own game just to make sure they succeeded.
• Britini from Big Brother 23 got put on the block no less than four times within the first six evictions before the last one finally got her, meaning that most of her time in the house was spent under fear of eviction, with the only reason for targeting her so much being that she was too loyal to unpopular houseguests and nothing else. As a result, most of her time as a houseguest consisted of her being scared or crying despite being a Nice Girl for the most part. At least she seemed to enjoy her time in the Jury House a lot more than being a houseguest, though.
• Mirai from Celebrity Big Brother 3 quickly became this when the first two Head of Households both targeted her, and then the house as a whole seemed to just give up on even trying to work with her due to the constant targets on her back, leading to her feeling isolated from the whole house and resigning herself to just playing games alone to pass the time. Considering how nice she was to everyone, fans were sad to see how quickly she became a social outcast despite doing nothing wrong. It seemed to be caused by a mix of the age gap (Mirai was very young on a cast of mostly older celebrities) and her strict Olympics training making her less relatable to the cast of entertainment personalities, but nonetheless fans felt that her cast mates could have made more of an effort to include her to at least make her experience on the show a happy one even if they were still trying to get her out. Additionally, the first evicted houseguest mentioned that Mirai had a huge crying session that went unaired, implying that she had even more sad moments than what the viewers saw.
• Multiple contestants in Celebrity Big Brother 3 US also apply. Between Todd having watched everyone he acted with in Diff'rent Strokes die of old age and prematurely, Chris Kattan having to have multiple surgeries that leave him in pain and doing a Silly Walk unintentionally, Lamar Odom having had twelve strokes and SIX heart attacks... And that's just the start. It got even worse later on.
• Shanna from Celebrity Big Brother 3 had such a terrible last few days in the house that she became this. After using the Veto to save Carson in a clear display of loyalty to him and Cynthia, and Carson winning Head of Household next, her safety should have been guaranteed. However, Todrick and Miesha convince Carson and Cynthia that Shanna is a snake and that she should be targeted instead of them, so Carson comes up with the plan to backdoor her. Cynthia also yells at Shanna for “playing them” even though Shanna clearly was on their side, and Cynthia talks over Shanna so that she can’t even refute Todrick’s lies of her “untrustworthy” behavior. Todrick and Cynthia also start Slut-Shaming her for her outfit choices for even more unnecessary digs at her character. When Shanna realizes that no one even cares to hear what she has to say anymore, she gives up on trying to work with anyone and just decides to try to go forward by herself. Then she’s not even chosen for the Veto competition, leading to her successfully being backdoored and having no ability to prevent any of this from happening. She has so little faith in anyone by the end that her speech on the block is just her thanking production and talking about how excited she is to see her family, not even trying to make a case for herself at that point. On her way out, she only hugs Lamar and Todd because literally every other person in the house had been treating her like complete garbage nonstop. Even after she leaves, the houseguests continue trash talking her too, including Todd, one of the only two people she was willing to hug on her way out, leaving Lamar as the only one in the house who was never truly mean to her. And for the cherry on top, one of her final Confession Cam segments has her say “Oh my God, I will get to see my man tonight. It's going to be amazing. On Valentine's Day.” Except, as the viewers already knew, her boyfriend had already broken up with her publicly while she was in the house because he perceived her mild flirting with Lamar as unforgivable. By the end, viewers were pretty much crying for her over just how much crap she went through due to the idiocy of other people.
• Chris Kirkpatrick also got woobiefied when it's revealed he was dirt poor as a teenager and studied in a SHACK with an outhouse. Like Shanna he was also ousted by a unanimous vote with everyone remaining aside from Shanna disliking him. How he managed to pick himself back up and become one of the most genuinely humble celebrities out there is a miracle. And Todrick decided to emulate Kyland's game by saying to his face he was not a good role model to his son. Is it any wonder why he willingly sacrificed his game so the "good" side had a shot?
• Jess from Big Brother Canada 10 was alienated by the rest of the house because they were smart. Almost nobody talked game with them except for Marty and occasionally Kevin. Multiple players cast dummy votes specifically to frame Jess and make them an easy target. When the House's alliances were revealed in the first double eviction, surprising nobody Jess as well as Gino&Jacey Lynne are on the outs, and Jess is promptly targeted by players who even rubbed it in their face and cheered when they cast their vote, with only Haleena, Josh, and Kevin seeming to hold any regret. It's amazing that Jess didn't break down crying after watching their head of household get blown up and then promptly getting targeted - some even saying that they were worse than Kyle. What's more, Jess finished eleventh - ordinarily the start of the Jury, but not here.
• Tynesha as well. She was nominated as a pawn specifically to target Moose, a much more powerful threat. She was quite annoyed not just at Jess, but half the house as she was evicted by a vote of 5-4. She even seemed to know that she would be leaving - as everyone else dressed up for a competition yet she dressed for a show. She later revealed why she only hugged half the houseguests and decided to give a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the house on their way out, since voting to evict her (Who hadn't posed any threat whatsoever) over Moose was admittedly an even worse decision than Jess nominating her as a pawn when the house was pushing towards Haleena.
• Taylor on Big Brother 24 very quickly became this when, right after the game started, several of the women in the house became catty toward her behind her back and rallied to get her out while some of the men stereotyped her as probably (as in, they were only guessing) being an Angry Black Woman Stereotype who would become scary if they kept her in the game, leading to the entire house targeting her despite her never actually doing anything wrong. The house’s primary stated reason for disliking her was her showing the house the dress she planned to bring to the finale, which was viewed as conceited, but something that her housemates encouraged her to do in the first place. When she realizes that she has zero allies and fifteen enemies on only day three of the game, she breaks down crying. After this, instead of being angry at her cast, she blames herself for the situation and asks “who did I hurt?” as she earnestly tries to figure out what she did wrong, only for the house to blatantly avoid her and her questions, leading to her having multiple more crying sessions by herself. Thankfully, she eventually manages to find friends with The Leftovers alliance, her bullies get picked off one by one, and she soon goes on to win the game.
• Bowie Jane from 25. She was consistently Locked Out of the Loop by people who would later run to her for votes. The same people then gave her a nickname of "FBJ" - meaning "Fucking Bowie Jane". Others started talking about how horrible she was (Which never made the edited show) and even the viewers treated her as one of the worst people to play the game. And not one of the worst players - one of the worst people as a person. Part of this was because she decided to take a shot at Cameron (Who won America's Favourite Player), while others was because she aligned with two male players - who actually treated her as a person. Bowie may not be perfect by any means, but her making it to the final three can be seen as The Dog Bites Back.
• Dinis from 12 Canada. He won two veto comps early on (making him seen as a comp threat) and his sole ally in the house, Vivek, put him up on the block and got him evicted unanimously. Dinis's main crime? He was considering evicting Anthony - which seems to be the obvious move. In his post interview, he admitted that he was truly seen as alone in the house. At least Vivek got some Laser-Guided Karma the following week.
• Tola from 12 Canada. He revealed that his mother was actually Cambodian - who was shielding kids from the Khmer Rouge and trying to help them get into Thailand. He had a rough childhood trying to emigrate to Canada. Couple this with him (allegedly) being framed for going against the house and earning the ire of Kayla.