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** Lust in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]].
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** Lust in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime version]].
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** [[HurtingHero Arcee]] as well. Her past involves her [[ForcedToWatch witnessing]] the death of her first partner, then things get progressively worse from there.
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** [[HurtingHero Arcee]] Arcee as well. Her past involves her [[ForcedToWatch witnessing]] the death of her first partner, then things get progressively worse from there.
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* Comicbook/IncredibleHulk counts as one in light of what's said in "Hulk: [[AfterTheEnd The End]]".
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* Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk counts as one in light of what's said in "Hulk: [[AfterTheEnd The End]]".''ComicBook/HulkTheEnd''.
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* ''Anime/FruitsBasket'':''Manga/FruitsBasket'':
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* YMMV/TheFly1986: Stathis becomes one near the end of the first movie after he gets his ''[[AnArmAndALeg hand and foot melted off]]'' by Brundlefly. In the sequel he's even [[JerkassWoobie worse off]].
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* YMMV/TheFly1986: Stathis becomes one near the end of the first movie after he gets his ''[[AnArmAndALeg hand and foot melted off]]'' by Brundlefly. In the sequel he's even [[JerkassWoobie worse off]].off]].
* Ramon from ''Film/{{Alligator}}'' counts as this to an extent. Flushed down the toilet and abandoned in a sewer all his life before he grows into a ''big'' friggin' gator with an appetite for humans.
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* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': The whole reason Jim eventually goes on a killing spree in the NYC financial district is because his life savings were wiped out by crooked financial advisors, causing him to lose his job, his home, and [[spoiler:even his wife Rosie after she kills herself.]]
* Asami in ''Film/{{Audition}}''. She endured a horrific childhood.
* Gurdy the Clown / [[spoiler:Luther Edward Baxter]] from ''100 Tears''.
* The Ymir from ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth''.
* [[spoiler:Brahms]] from ''Film/TheBoy'', [[spoiler: during the climax.]]
* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'': Candyman became an undead monster after he was murdered by a lynch mob because he was a cultured black man who fell in love with a white woman in the 19th century.
* The eponymous character of ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'' is certainly a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, even if she doesn't quite want to destroy ''worlds''... just most of her high school. Her rampage luckily ends before she gets the chance to do anything more.
** But only in the 1976 film. In [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book]] and the remakes, she wants to kill everyone at her school, everyone in her town, and everybody else. Fortunately, she dies before she can commit anything more than demolishing her school, giving her mom a heart attack that kills her, killing two horrible bullies in a car crash, electrocuting several people, and setting her town on fire.
** Spoofed in the zany teen comedy ''Zapped!'', in which science nerd Barney Springboro is similarly degraded at a prom when the AlphaBitch throws a watermelon at his head, almost knocking him out and causing almost everyone in attendance to laugh at him. Barney avenges himself by using his telekinetic powers to blow open the gymnasium doors and summon a hurricane-like wind that strips everyone except Barney's prom date and his best friend down to their underwear. Woobie, [[TheNudifier Nudifier]] of Worlds, perhaps?
* [[spoiler: Jack Brennan]] in ''Film/{{Calvary}}''
* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', Andrew is bullied and made fun of constantly through the movie, in addition to a sick mother and an abusive father. [[spoiler: After he gets his superpowers, he begins to snap, and starts to get involved in crime to save his mother's life, stealing money for her medicine and such. By the end of the movie, during the climax, [[UnstoppableRage he nearly destroys the city.]]]]
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
** Harvey Dent/Two-Face in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
** Both Bane and [[spoiler:Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* Bartleby in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': he eventually snaps, realizing that God always favored man above angels like himself, gives up hope that "He" will never forgive him and Loki for their menial transgressions, and so decides to kill everything.
-->'''Loki:''' My God. I've heard [[RageAgainstTheHeavens a rant like this]] before.
-->'''Bartleby:''' What did you say?
-->'''Loki:''' I've heard a rant like this ''before''.
-->'''Bartleby:''' Don't you fucking do that to me.
-->'''Loki:''' You sound like the [[FallenAngel Morning Star!]]
-->'''Bartleby:''' You shut your fucking mouth!
-->'''Loki:''' You sound like [[{{Satan}} LUCIFER]], man! You've fucking lost it! You're not talking about going home, Bartleby, You're talking about fucking war on God! Well ''fuck that!'' I have seen what happens to the proud when they decide to [[CurbStompBattle take on the throne!]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm goin' back to Wisconsin. ]]
-->'''Bartleby:''' We're going home, Loki! And no one, not you, not even the Almighty himself is going to make that otherwise!
* Grace in ''Film/{{Dogville}}''. Made all the more ambiguous by the discussion just before the ending, where it suddenly becomes very clear that she's only a child.
* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': EVE III is somewhat of a tragic villain in that she's mostly just confused and kills people who she thinks have either wronged or upset her while believing that she's the real Dr. Eve Simmons. It's not even clear if the robot itself is aware that the nuclear device inside it has been triggered at all.
* Bill Foster in ''Film/FallingDown'' goes on a rampage of terror after his wife left him and would not allow him to see their daughter. He is fired from his job in the defense industry due to post-Cold War budget cuts and is generally just pissed off with the state of the world and takes his anger out on every issue, whether minor (foreign shopkeepers, high prices, poor fast-food service) or major (racism, social class, unemployment). While he is overly violent, he is representative of the everyday man pushed too far by the world.
** Also a Decontruction of the trope, as his police officer counterpart, Prendergast, is experiencing similar bad fortunes, with co-workers who don't respect him and can't wait to usher him off to retirement, a wife who walks all over him, and a general sense of fatigue for most of the film. However, he doesn't break, and in fact, delivers a beautiful TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Foster.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** [[Film/{{Gojira}} The original film]] shows Godzilla as a TragicVillain, just as much a victim of nuclear weaponry as anyone else. This is especially evident in the Heisei films, where he's portrayed as more of a "force of nature" rather than an outright villain.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' this is taken to its most literal extreme when [[spoiler:Junior's death]] causes him to go into a grief-stricken meltdown [[HeroicRROD (As it causes him to go into a nuclear meltdown)]].
* Oddly enough, Michael Myers is one of these in the ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' remake. Director Rob Zombie tried to portray him in a much more sympathetic light.
* Big Daddy from ''Film/KickAss'' is a rare heroic version when you find out what Frank D'Amico did to his life.
* The infant(s) of ''Film/ItsAlive'', whose homicidal rampage turns out to be birth trauma and separation anxiety, and who longs only to be reunited with his family.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' has ''the Joker'', of all people. The movie opens with Batman foiling his attempt to take over Gotham City, as ever...but when Joker tries waxing lyrical about how Batman's his ArchEnemy, Batman flatly denies there's anything special about Joker and outright states the villain means nothing to him, [[https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/batman-lego-trailer.jpg?fit=740%2C%209999&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C309px reducing him to tears.]] Joker then decides the best way to make Batman hate him is [[spoiler:siccing a [[LegionOfDoom legion]] of [[BigBad Big Bads from across the multiverse on Gotham,]]]] which nearly wipes out the whole city. By the end of the movie, [[DespairEventHorizon Joker's fine with destroying everything in Gotham, himself included,]] as long as it proves he was Batman's Greatest Enemy.
* Eli in ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'', a vampire who is trapped not just physically in a 12-year old body but apparently emotionally as well, forced to kill to survive, whose only friend is an equally screwed up boy.
* Francis Dolarhyde from ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (1986) and ''Film/RedDragon'' (2002): actually lampshaded by Will Graham; he says that he feels a lot of sympathy for the child he once was, but thinks someone should put a bullet in the adult Francis' brain.
* ''Film/{{May}}'' is a particularly heartbreaking-cum-vicious example.
* Seymour Parrish (Creator/RobinWilliams) in ''Film/OneHourPhoto''. He starts out sympathetic, if a little deranged, then you find out [[ParentalIncest what]] [[AbusiveParents made]] [[FreudianExcuse him]] [[BrainBleach crazy]].
* '''The Moorwen'''!!! In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', its species is destroyed for being less intelligent than man, and its only offspring is killed off brutally. You should give it a hug...if you believe you won't get torn apart.
* Norman Bates in the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' series is practically the TropeCodifier.
* Sadako in ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' and her counterpart, Samara, in the US remake, ''Film/TheRing'', considering that both were mistreated and murdered.
* As we learn more of Darryl Revok's backstory in ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', it becomes increasingly apparent that he became a psychic supremacist with ambitions of world conquest due to all the abuse he suffered because of his supernatural abilities. He tranformed his inferiority complex into a superiority complex to cope with being called a freak and locked up in a mental asylum for years, as pointed out by Dr. Paul Ruth:
-->'''Dr. Ruth:''' At the age of 22 he was extremely self-destructive; now at the age of 35 he is ''simply'' destructive.
* [[TokenGoodTeammate Glen Ray]] from ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' briefly fell into this when [[DespairEventHorizon he saw his father, Chucky, murdering his mother, Tiffany]]. Despite being the kindest living doll that had the [[FaceOfAThug face of a demon, but the mind of an angel]], seeing his father murdering his mother hit him hard because of his love of life. It's no wonder why he snapped and killed Chucky for doing this. He's not like his sister, Glenda (who's just like Chucky); his love for his mother broke him down and seeing his father do such a thing eventually made him turn against him. He slices off Chucky's arms and legs and as he's doing this [[WellDoneSonGuy he asks his father if he's proud of who he is]] and then decapitates and kills him.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/TheShining'' (1997), Jack Torrance is portrayed sympathetically. His turn to {{Ax Craz|y}}iness is tragic AND terrifying.
* In ''{{Film/Sicario}}'', Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) was once a criminal prosecutor, until the murder of his wife and daughter by a drug lord pushed him into becoming a relentless, revenge-seeking assassin on the payroll of the CIA [[spoiler:and a rival US-backed cartel]].
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin Skywalker's final transformation into Darth Vader is shown to be caused by losing everything and everyone he cares for, albeit due to his own actions.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Also see the theatre page.
* Kim Jong Il from ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''. He's plotting the destruction of society as we know it, but deep down, he's just "a rittre ronery" (read: little lonely).
* The [[spoiler:female]] BigBad in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Being [[spoiler:abandoned to be repeatedly raped by terrorists ''by your own father'', and at the advice of ''the BigGood'' no less]], certainly won't do wonders for your sanity.
** Likewise, Silva in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}.''
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Magneto. Holocaust survivor. Extremist willing to kill lots of people. Highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
*** Intensified in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', to the point where it matches the image on the main page.
** Jean Grey in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
* Ramon from ''Film/{{Alligator}}'' counts as this to an extent. Flushed down the toilet and abandoned in a sewer all his life before he grows into a ''big'' friggin' gator with an appetite for humans.
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* ''Film/AssaultOnWallStreet'': The whole reason Jim eventually goes on a killing spree in the NYC financial district is because his life savings were wiped out by crooked financial advisors, causing him to lose his job, his home, and [[spoiler:even his wife Rosie after she kills herself.]]
* Asami in ''Film/{{Audition}}''. She endured a horrific childhood.
* Gurdy the Clown / [[spoiler:Luther Edward Baxter]] from ''100 Tears''.
* The Ymir from ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth''.
* [[spoiler:Brahms]] from ''Film/TheBoy'', [[spoiler: during the climax.]]
* ''Film/{{Candyman}}'': Candyman became an undead monster after he was murdered by a lynch mob because he was a cultured black man who fell in love with a white woman in the 19th century.
* The eponymous character of ''Film/{{Carrie 1976}}'' is certainly a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, even if she doesn't quite want to destroy ''worlds''... just most of her high school. Her rampage luckily ends before she gets the chance to do anything more.
** But only in the 1976 film. In [[Literature/{{Carrie}} the book]] and the remakes, she wants to kill everyone at her school, everyone in her town, and everybody else. Fortunately, she dies before she can commit anything more than demolishing her school, giving her mom a heart attack that kills her, killing two horrible bullies in a car crash, electrocuting several people, and setting her town on fire.
** Spoofed in the zany teen comedy ''Zapped!'', in which science nerd Barney Springboro is similarly degraded at a prom when the AlphaBitch throws a watermelon at his head, almost knocking him out and causing almost everyone in attendance to laugh at him. Barney avenges himself by using his telekinetic powers to blow open the gymnasium doors and summon a hurricane-like wind that strips everyone except Barney's prom date and his best friend down to their underwear. Woobie, [[TheNudifier Nudifier]] of Worlds, perhaps?
* [[spoiler: Jack Brennan]] in ''Film/{{Calvary}}''
* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', Andrew is bullied and made fun of constantly through the movie, in addition to a sick mother and an abusive father. [[spoiler: After he gets his superpowers, he begins to snap, and starts to get involved in crime to save his mother's life, stealing money for her medicine and such. By the end of the movie, during the climax, [[UnstoppableRage he nearly destroys the city.]]]]
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
** Harvey Dent/Two-Face in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
** Both Bane and [[spoiler:Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''.
* Bartleby in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'': he eventually snaps, realizing that God always favored man above angels like himself, gives up hope that "He" will never forgive him and Loki for their menial transgressions, and so decides to kill everything.
-->'''Loki:''' My God. I've heard [[RageAgainstTheHeavens a rant like this]] before.
-->'''Bartleby:''' What did you say?
-->'''Loki:''' I've heard a rant like this ''before''.
-->'''Bartleby:''' Don't you fucking do that to me.
-->'''Loki:''' You sound like the [[FallenAngel Morning Star!]]
-->'''Bartleby:''' You shut your fucking mouth!
-->'''Loki:''' You sound like [[{{Satan}} LUCIFER]], man! You've fucking lost it! You're not talking about going home, Bartleby, You're talking about fucking war on God! Well ''fuck that!'' I have seen what happens to the proud when they decide to [[CurbStompBattle take on the throne!]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm goin' back to Wisconsin. ]]
-->'''Bartleby:''' We're going home, Loki! And no one, not you, not even the Almighty himself is going to make that otherwise!
* Grace in ''Film/{{Dogville}}''. Made all the more ambiguous by the discussion just before the ending, where it suddenly becomes very clear that she's only a child.
* ''Film/EveOfDestruction'': EVE III is somewhat of a tragic villain in that she's mostly just confused and kills people who she thinks have either wronged or upset her while believing that she's the real Dr. Eve Simmons. It's not even clear if the robot itself is aware that the nuclear device inside it has been triggered at all.
* Bill Foster in ''Film/FallingDown'' goes on a rampage of terror after his wife left him and would not allow him to see their daughter. He is fired from his job in the defense industry due to post-Cold War budget cuts and is generally just pissed off with the state of the world and takes his anger out on every issue, whether minor (foreign shopkeepers, high prices, poor fast-food service) or major (racism, social class, unemployment). While he is overly violent, he is representative of the everyday man pushed too far by the world.
** Also a Decontruction of the trope, as his police officer counterpart, Prendergast, is experiencing similar bad fortunes, with co-workers who don't respect him and can't wait to usher him off to retirement, a wife who walks all over him, and a general sense of fatigue for most of the film. However, he doesn't break, and in fact, delivers a beautiful TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Foster.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''
** [[Film/{{Gojira}} The original film]] shows Godzilla as a TragicVillain, just as much a victim of nuclear weaponry as anyone else. This is especially evident in the Heisei films, where he's portrayed as more of a "force of nature" rather than an outright villain.
** In ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' this is taken to its most literal extreme when [[spoiler:Junior's death]] causes him to go into a grief-stricken meltdown [[HeroicRROD (As it causes him to go into a nuclear meltdown)]].
* Oddly enough, Michael Myers is one of these in the ''Film/{{Halloween 2007}}'' remake. Director Rob Zombie tried to portray him in a much more sympathetic light.
* Big Daddy from ''Film/KickAss'' is a rare heroic version when you find out what Frank D'Amico did to his life.
* The infant(s) of ''Film/ItsAlive'', whose homicidal rampage turns out to be birth trauma and separation anxiety, and who longs only to be reunited with his family.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'' has ''the Joker'', of all people. The movie opens with Batman foiling his attempt to take over Gotham City, as ever...but when Joker tries waxing lyrical about how Batman's his ArchEnemy, Batman flatly denies there's anything special about Joker and outright states the villain means nothing to him, [[https://i2.wp.com/www.tor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/batman-lego-trailer.jpg?fit=740%2C%209999&crop=0%2C0%2C100%2C309px reducing him to tears.]] Joker then decides the best way to make Batman hate him is [[spoiler:siccing a [[LegionOfDoom legion]] of [[BigBad Big Bads from across the multiverse on Gotham,]]]] which nearly wipes out the whole city. By the end of the movie, [[DespairEventHorizon Joker's fine with destroying everything in Gotham, himself included,]] as long as it proves he was Batman's Greatest Enemy.
* Eli in ''Film/LetTheRightOneIn'', a vampire who is trapped not just physically in a 12-year old body but apparently emotionally as well, forced to kill to survive, whose only friend is an equally screwed up boy.
* Francis Dolarhyde from ''Film/{{Manhunter}}'' (1986) and ''Film/RedDragon'' (2002): actually lampshaded by Will Graham; he says that he feels a lot of sympathy for the child he once was, but thinks someone should put a bullet in the adult Francis' brain.
* ''Film/{{May}}'' is a particularly heartbreaking-cum-vicious example.
* Seymour Parrish (Creator/RobinWilliams) in ''Film/OneHourPhoto''. He starts out sympathetic, if a little deranged, then you find out [[ParentalIncest what]] [[AbusiveParents made]] [[FreudianExcuse him]] [[BrainBleach crazy]].
* '''The Moorwen'''!!! In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', its species is destroyed for being less intelligent than man, and its only offspring is killed off brutally. You should give it a hug...if you believe you won't get torn apart.
* Norman Bates in the ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' series is practically the TropeCodifier.
* Sadako in ''Film/{{Ringu}}'' and her counterpart, Samara, in the US remake, ''Film/TheRing'', considering that both were mistreated and murdered.
* As we learn more of Darryl Revok's backstory in ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', it becomes increasingly apparent that he became a psychic supremacist with ambitions of world conquest due to all the abuse he suffered because of his supernatural abilities. He tranformed his inferiority complex into a superiority complex to cope with being called a freak and locked up in a mental asylum for years, as pointed out by Dr. Paul Ruth:
-->'''Dr. Ruth:''' At the age of 22 he was extremely self-destructive; now at the age of 35 he is ''simply'' destructive.
* [[TokenGoodTeammate Glen Ray]] from ''Film/SeedOfChucky'' briefly fell into this when [[DespairEventHorizon he saw his father, Chucky, murdering his mother, Tiffany]]. Despite being the kindest living doll that had the [[FaceOfAThug face of a demon, but the mind of an angel]], seeing his father murdering his mother hit him hard because of his love of life. It's no wonder why he snapped and killed Chucky for doing this. He's not like his sister, Glenda (who's just like Chucky); his love for his mother broke him down and seeing his father do such a thing eventually made him turn against him. He slices off Chucky's arms and legs and as he's doing this [[WellDoneSonGuy he asks his father if he's proud of who he is]] and then decapitates and kills him.
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Film/TheShining'' (1997), Jack Torrance is portrayed sympathetically. His turn to {{Ax Craz|y}}iness is tragic AND terrifying.
* In ''{{Film/Sicario}}'', Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) was once a criminal prosecutor, until the murder of his wife and daughter by a drug lord pushed him into becoming a relentless, revenge-seeking assassin on the payroll of the CIA [[spoiler:and a rival US-backed cartel]].
* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Anakin Skywalker's final transformation into Darth Vader is shown to be caused by losing everything and everyone he cares for, albeit due to his own actions.
* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Also see the theatre page.
* Kim Jong Il from ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''. He's plotting the destruction of society as we know it, but deep down, he's just "a rittre ronery" (read: little lonely).
* The [[spoiler:female]] BigBad in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. Being [[spoiler:abandoned to be repeatedly raped by terrorists ''by your own father'', and at the advice of ''the BigGood'' no less]], certainly won't do wonders for your sanity.
** Likewise, Silva in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}.''
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** Magneto. Holocaust survivor. Extremist willing to kill lots of people. Highlighted in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
*** Intensified in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', to the point where it matches the image on the main page.
** Jean Grey in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''.
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* YMMV/GranblueFantasy: Sara. And '''how'''. Burdened with being given the role of the sand priestess at a young age, she is later [[AllTheOtherReindeer shunned by everyone]] in the island simply because she survived a deadly tradition and was called ''cursed'' for it. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds All this contributes to the "Teardrop In The Sand" event where the primal beast Branwen feeds on her grief and despair at the mistreatment she faced to create more Nox]].
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* YMMV/GranblueFantasy: Sara. And '''how'''. Burdened with being given the role of the sand priestess at a young age, she is later [[AllTheOtherReindeer shunned by everyone]] in the island simply because she survived a deadly tradition and was called ''cursed'' for it. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds All this contributes to the "Teardrop In The Sand" event where the primal beast Branwen feeds on her grief and despair at the mistreatment she faced to create more Nox]].Nox]].
* YMMV/TheFly1986: Stathis becomes one near the end of the first movie after he gets his ''[[AnArmAndALeg hand and foot melted off]]'' by Brundlefly. In the sequel he's even [[JerkassWoobie worse off]].
* YMMV/TheFly1986: Stathis becomes one near the end of the first movie after he gets his ''[[AnArmAndALeg hand and foot melted off]]'' by Brundlefly. In the sequel he's even [[JerkassWoobie worse off]].
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'''Hulk''': [[spoiler: Hulk doesn't want friends, because friends will hurt him. Everyone hurts him. Everyone hurts Hulk.]]
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'''Hulk''': [[spoiler: Hulk doesn't want friends, because friends will hurt him. Everyone hurts him. Everyone hurts Hulk.]]]]
* YMMV/GranblueFantasy: Sara. And '''how'''. Burdened with being given the role of the sand priestess at a young age, she is later [[AllTheOtherReindeer shunned by everyone]] in the island simply because she survived a deadly tradition and was called ''cursed'' for it. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds All this contributes to the "Teardrop In The Sand" event where the primal beast Branwen feeds on her grief and despair at the mistreatment she faced to create more Nox]].
* YMMV/GranblueFantasy: Sara. And '''how'''. Burdened with being given the role of the sand priestess at a young age, she is later [[AllTheOtherReindeer shunned by everyone]] in the island simply because she survived a deadly tradition and was called ''cursed'' for it. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds All this contributes to the "Teardrop In The Sand" event where the primal beast Branwen feeds on her grief and despair at the mistreatment she faced to create more Nox]].
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* {{WesternAnimation/Goofy}} as he appears in WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse. Turns out he wasn't meant to be head waiter.
* Tina from WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers
* Bessie Higgenbottom from WesternAnimation/TheMightyB.
* Tom Peters from WesternAnimation/TomGoesToTheMayor.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' sometimes falls into this category. The beginning of the episode, Monster, as well as Boxing Daria give a bit of a glimpse as to why she acts the way she does.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
** [[NobleDemon Dreadwing]] would most definitely qualify.
** [[HurtingHero Arcee]] as well. Her past involves her [[ForcedToWatch witnessing]] the death of her first partner, then things get progressively worse from there.
** The biggest example is [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] himself. Despite seeing so much war and destruction in his lifetime, he maintains his optimistic hope for a better future for his people and allies.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy. He has constant bad luck for no apparent reason, but he is able to survive being struck by lightning, getting hit by a flying car and '''''[[spoiler: being left on an exploding planet which gets hit by a meteor]]'''''.
* Pictured above: Killy from ''{{Manga/Blame}}'', especially near the end when it is clear his mission is finally [[DentedIron taking a toll on his nigh indestructible body]].
* Hei and Yin from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' are rather woobieish once [[DarkAndTroubledPast their backstories]] come out. [[AntiHero Hei]] [[spoiler:was dragged into a war [[ChildSoldiers as a child]] while trying to [[BigBrotherInstinct protect his little sister]], who he had to watch turn into a sociopathic killing machine. He was then (apparently) betrayed by the only other person he trusted, leaving him the sole survivor of his team, lost and alone with his sister's powers, no idea what happened to her, and the Syndicate holding a gun to his head to make sure he stays [[PunchClockVillain working as their assassin]].]] Yin is an EmotionlessGirl due to MindRape, is blind, and [[spoiler:lost both her parents in tragic circumstances. Her father died in a plane crash, and shortly afterward, she realized her mother and piano tutor were in love and tried to run away; her mother had to sacrifice herself to save her from an oncoming truck after Little Yin ran into the road, and Yin holds herself responsible for this.]] No wonder Hei's a [[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] {{stoic}}.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Rei Ayanami, ExtremeDoormat, EmotionlessGirl, {{woobie}} extraordinaire, and in some adaptations, [[spoiler:[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds woobie re-maker of world]]... [[MindScrew I think]]?]] [[spoiler:[[ExpendableClone Your mileage may vary depending on whether or not you consider her human.]]]]
** And there's Gendo, who converts the pain of his loss into [[BatmanGambit long-term]] [[{{Necromantic}} plans]].
* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'': The eponymous Lain, who may look like an EmotionlessGirl but... [[{{Kuudere}} well, isn't]].
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Many characters who were involved in the Ishval campaign, particularly Scar, Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang.
** Lust in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]].
* Any sympathetic character, particularly Ichise in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''. These characters show less emotion on average than a two-by-four, but damn are they ever hurting.
* ''Anime/FruitsBasket'':
** Rin Sohma has been through LOTS of shit in her life, but once she meets the sweet and gentle Tohru, she despises herself for even wanting to cry on her shoulder.
** An earlier example would be Hatori. Under that sand-dry demeanor is a deeply scarred heart.
* Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton of ''GundamWing''
* Kuroo Hazama, aka Dr. Manga/BlackJack.
* C.C. from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' combines this trope with JerkassWoobie.
* [[AntiVillain Keith Anyan]] from ''Manga/TowardTheTerra'' hits this trope hard when he's at his most vulnerable. [[KnightTemplar And then he tries to commit genocide]].
* Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler''... poor, poor Ciel.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has Homura Akemi, who also crosses the line as an IronWoobie who has [[SeenItAll been]] [[BreakTheCutie through]] [[ShellShockedVeteran a]] [[GroundhogDayLoop lot]].
** Mami is another somewhat lesser example, as she isn't as stoic as the former.
* Integra Manga/{{Hellsing}}.
** Alucard for that matter when you take a look at his childhood.
* Anime/TekkamanBlade D-boy. Other than for convenience, there IS a reason why he pretend to be amnesiac.
* Both Ritsuka and Soubi from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' could qualify when you look at their backgrounds, though Soubi is arguably more of a StepfordSmiler than legitimately stoic.
* Chirico Cuvie in ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVotoms''.
* Eiri Yuki of {{Manga/Gravitation}} counts.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}. First ''[[OrphansOrdeal his parents are killed before his eyes,]]'' and then his sidekick and ward, Jason Todd, is '''''brutally killed''''' by none other than the Joker. But Batman never complains- If he did, he wouldn't be [[TheDeterminator Batman.]]
* Hit Girl from ''ComicBook/KickAss''. She was trained by her father to be a weapon since she was a child and kills hundreds of people for him without question, never once experiencing a normal childhood. [[spoiler:However, not so much after her father died]].
* Comicbook/IncredibleHulk counts as one in light of what's said in "Hulk: [[AfterTheEnd The End]]".
-->'''Hulk''': [[ShutUpKirk No]]! [[spoiler: For years... forever... Hulk has listened to Banner, and Banner's friends, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil talking about how Hulk ruined Banner's life]]! Hulk made Banner's life! Banner was nothing before Hulk... nothing!]]\\
'''Banner''': It'll be different, Hulk! You'll have peace... friends...\\
'''Hulk''': [[spoiler: Hulk doesn't want friends, because friends will hurt him. Everyone hurts him. Everyone hurts Hulk.]]
* Tina from WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers
* Bessie Higgenbottom from WesternAnimation/TheMightyB.
* Tom Peters from WesternAnimation/TomGoesToTheMayor.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' sometimes falls into this category. The beginning of the episode, Monster, as well as Boxing Daria give a bit of a glimpse as to why she acts the way she does.
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'':
** [[NobleDemon Dreadwing]] would most definitely qualify.
** [[HurtingHero Arcee]] as well. Her past involves her [[ForcedToWatch witnessing]] the death of her first partner, then things get progressively worse from there.
** The biggest example is [[BigGood Optimus Prime]] himself. Despite seeing so much war and destruction in his lifetime, he maintains his optimistic hope for a better future for his people and allies.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Stumpy. He has constant bad luck for no apparent reason, but he is able to survive being struck by lightning, getting hit by a flying car and '''''[[spoiler: being left on an exploding planet which gets hit by a meteor]]'''''.
* Pictured above: Killy from ''{{Manga/Blame}}'', especially near the end when it is clear his mission is finally [[DentedIron taking a toll on his nigh indestructible body]].
* Hei and Yin from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' are rather woobieish once [[DarkAndTroubledPast their backstories]] come out. [[AntiHero Hei]] [[spoiler:was dragged into a war [[ChildSoldiers as a child]] while trying to [[BigBrotherInstinct protect his little sister]], who he had to watch turn into a sociopathic killing machine. He was then (apparently) betrayed by the only other person he trusted, leaving him the sole survivor of his team, lost and alone with his sister's powers, no idea what happened to her, and the Syndicate holding a gun to his head to make sure he stays [[PunchClockVillain working as their assassin]].]] Yin is an EmotionlessGirl due to MindRape, is blind, and [[spoiler:lost both her parents in tragic circumstances. Her father died in a plane crash, and shortly afterward, she realized her mother and piano tutor were in love and tried to run away; her mother had to sacrifice herself to save her from an oncoming truck after Little Yin ran into the road, and Yin holds herself responsible for this.]] No wonder Hei's a [[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] {{stoic}}.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Rei Ayanami, ExtremeDoormat, EmotionlessGirl, {{woobie}} extraordinaire, and in some adaptations, [[spoiler:[[WoobieDestroyerofWorlds woobie re-maker of world]]... [[MindScrew I think]]?]] [[spoiler:[[ExpendableClone Your mileage may vary depending on whether or not you consider her human.]]]]
** And there's Gendo, who converts the pain of his loss into [[BatmanGambit long-term]] [[{{Necromantic}} plans]].
* ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'': The eponymous Lain, who may look like an EmotionlessGirl but... [[{{Kuudere}} well, isn't]].
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Many characters who were involved in the Ishval campaign, particularly Scar, Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang.
** Lust in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]].
* Any sympathetic character, particularly Ichise in ''Anime/{{Texhnolyze}}''. These characters show less emotion on average than a two-by-four, but damn are they ever hurting.
* ''Anime/FruitsBasket'':
** Rin Sohma has been through LOTS of shit in her life, but once she meets the sweet and gentle Tohru, she despises herself for even wanting to cry on her shoulder.
** An earlier example would be Hatori. Under that sand-dry demeanor is a deeply scarred heart.
* Heero Yuy and Trowa Barton of ''GundamWing''
* Kuroo Hazama, aka Dr. Manga/BlackJack.
* C.C. from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' combines this trope with JerkassWoobie.
* [[AntiVillain Keith Anyan]] from ''Manga/TowardTheTerra'' hits this trope hard when he's at his most vulnerable. [[KnightTemplar And then he tries to commit genocide]].
* Ciel from ''Manga/BlackButler''... poor, poor Ciel.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has Homura Akemi, who also crosses the line as an IronWoobie who has [[SeenItAll been]] [[BreakTheCutie through]] [[ShellShockedVeteran a]] [[GroundhogDayLoop lot]].
** Mami is another somewhat lesser example, as she isn't as stoic as the former.
* Integra Manga/{{Hellsing}}.
** Alucard for that matter when you take a look at his childhood.
* Anime/TekkamanBlade D-boy. Other than for convenience, there IS a reason why he pretend to be amnesiac.
* Both Ritsuka and Soubi from ''Manga/{{Loveless}}'' could qualify when you look at their backgrounds, though Soubi is arguably more of a StepfordSmiler than legitimately stoic.
* Chirico Cuvie in ''Anime/ArmoredTrooperVotoms''.
* Eiri Yuki of {{Manga/Gravitation}} counts.
* Franchise/{{Batman}}. First ''[[OrphansOrdeal his parents are killed before his eyes,]]'' and then his sidekick and ward, Jason Todd, is '''''brutally killed''''' by none other than the Joker. But Batman never complains- If he did, he wouldn't be [[TheDeterminator Batman.]]
* Hit Girl from ''ComicBook/KickAss''. She was trained by her father to be a weapon since she was a child and kills hundreds of people for him without question, never once experiencing a normal childhood. [[spoiler:However, not so much after her father died]].
* Comicbook/IncredibleHulk counts as one in light of what's said in "Hulk: [[AfterTheEnd The End]]".
-->'''Hulk''': [[ShutUpKirk No]]! [[spoiler: For years... forever... Hulk has listened to Banner, and Banner's friends, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil talking about how Hulk ruined Banner's life]]! Hulk made Banner's life! Banner was nothing before Hulk... nothing!]]\\
'''Banner''': It'll be different, Hulk! You'll have peace... friends...\\
'''Hulk''': [[spoiler: Hulk doesn't want friends, because friends will hurt him. Everyone hurts him. Everyone hurts Hulk.]]
