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* Captain Jack Harkness from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Between "Exit Wounds" and ''Children of Earth'', it's no wonder he [[spoiler:gave up and left to travel in space]].

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* Captain Jack Harkness from ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Between "Exit Wounds" and In ''Children of Earth'', Earth'' alone, he loses the Hub, is subjected to a particularly brutal death and healing process from it, loses his boyfriend Ianto, is forced to kill his own grandson, and loses the relationship he had with his daughter. With this in mind, it's no wonder he [[spoiler:gave up and left to travel in space]].

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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Happens twice:
** In "Blind Devotion", Colin becomes temporarily blinded, and loses his aunt, pet canary, and life savings in quick succession. This is also revealed to occur ''on his birthday'' no less.
** In "Curse Of The Tiger Woman", Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out that he is the father of Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement and a staff mutiny. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose and then finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.

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* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Happens twice:
''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'':
** In "Blind Devotion", Colin becomes temporarily blinded, and loses his aunt, pet canary, and life savings in quick succession. This is also revealed to occur ''on his birthday'' no less.
** In "Curse Of The Tiger Woman", Gordon Brittas loses his only friend to cursed cooking, finds out that he is the father of Carole's twins, and is threatened with early retirement and a staff mutiny. Capping things off, the centre is about to explode, he is attacked by a goose goose, and then he finds out that the past seven series were AllJustADream.AllJustADream.
** Carole in general. Firstly, her husband cheats on her with her best friend and runs off to Spain with their savings, leaving her both having to raise a baby on her own and with an unpaid mortgage on their house. Then she loses the opportunity to get back together with him after he gets the mistaken belief that she not only cheated on him, but spread untrue rumours about his impotency. Then she falls pregnant to twins, the father of which is actually her boss Gordon Brittas (not that she knows this). Then she loses her house and is forced to move her family into the leisure centre. Carole goes on to have her budding dreams of becoming a writer crushed by Brittas, is led to believe that an OldFlame had stood her up (when he had been really trapped in the vents), briefly loses her job and ends up moving into the Brittas family house, downright sees a boyfriend accidentally killed, has almost everyone forget her birthday (except for her son Ben, who [[BrattyHalfPint instead insulted her in his birthday card to her]]), and seemingly finds love and a steady home with a man, only for him to ditch her for a nun. This isn't getting into her tragic childhood, where her parents crushed her dreams of becoming a pianist, and the fact that Brittas tends to call her unattractive. Fortunately, "In the Beginning..." shows that she does eventually manage to get a happy ending as an international pianist.
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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Oliver. First, while on his dad's boat, it suddenly tears apart and his friend is ripped away by a current. He makes it to a life raft with his dad and the captain. Subsequently, with supplies dwindling and Oliver refusing to take them all for himself, his father shoots the captain and then himself. Oliver nearly dies of exposure regardless, then makes it to an island and has to bury his father's body. It goes downhill from there. Five years of hell, including watching a child he cares for die horribly and painfully, and he morphs into a cold-blooded killer. Even when he finally returns home, things only get worse: the next four years see him lose his best friend, his mother, his FirstLove's sister (''again''), and eventually said FirstLove herself. By the time the show has ended, he had already lost the mother of his child and his half-sister, but he ends up having to leave behind his son, his wife, his newly born daughter, his best friend, his allies, and even his city when he strikes a bargain with [[spoiler: The Monitor]] to save the multiverse itself, and ends up [[spoiler: dying not once, but twice]].

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': Oliver. First, while on his dad's boat, it suddenly tears apart and his friend lover is ripped away by a current. He makes it to a life raft with his dad and the captain. Subsequently, Days later, with supplies dwindling and Oliver refusing to take them all for himself, his father shoots the captain and then himself. Oliver nearly dies of exposure regardless, then makes it to an island and has to bury his father's body. It goes downhill from there. Five years of hell, including watching a child he cares for die horribly and painfully, and he morphs into a cold-blooded killer. Even when he finally returns home, things only get worse: the next four years see him lose his best friend, his mother, his FirstLove's sister (''again''), and eventually said FirstLove herself. By the time the show has ended, he had already lost the mother of his child and his half-sister, but he ends up having to leave behind his son, his wife, his newly born daughter, his best friend, friends, his allies, and even his city when he strikes a bargain with [[spoiler: The Monitor]] to save the multiverse itself, and ends up [[spoiler: dying not once, but twice]].
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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Henry has lost almost everyone he's ever loved, and knows that anyone left, he'll lose eventually. His first wife begged him to trust her with his secret! then when he told her about his resurrectiveImmortality she had him committed to an asylum. His wife Abigail left him with a letter promising she only needed a little time to think, then he never heard from her again. Various tortures that have resulted from his secret being discovered leave him almost pathologically unable to confide in anyone. At the start of the series, Henry is trying hard to wall himself off and not to allow anyone new to get close to him emotionally, but he's too good a person to stand by and let evil go unchallenged, so he ends up getting involved and becoming vulnerable again. TheOlderImmortal Adam engineers the extra-traumatic events of "Skinny Dipper" which leave Henry hurting even worse, at times seeming to no longer care if he dies in front of someone, exposing his secret. By the end of the season, Adam's manipulations have Henry so afraid of others getting hurt, yet so unable to confide in them, that his trying to deal with Adam on his own nearly destroys his relationship with Jo.

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* ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': Henry has lost almost everyone he's ever loved, and knows that anyone left, he'll lose eventually. His first wife begged him to trust her with his secret! secret, then when he told her about his resurrectiveImmortality ResurrectiveImmortality she had him committed to an asylum. His wife Abigail left him with a letter promising she only needed a little time to think, then he never heard from her again.again, leaving him not knowing if she's alive or dead, still cares or has forgotten him. Various tortures that have resulted from his secret being discovered leave him almost pathologically unable to confide in anyone. At the start of the series, Henry is trying hard to wall himself off and not to allow anyone new to get close to him emotionally, but he's too good a person to stand by and let evil go unchallenged, so he ends up getting involved and becoming vulnerable again. TheOlderImmortal Adam engineers the extra-traumatic events of "Skinny Dipper" which leave Henry hurting even worse, at times seeming to no longer care if he dies in front of someone, exposing his secret. By the end of the season, Adam's manipulations have Henry so afraid of others getting hurt, yet so unable to confide in them, that his trying to deal with Adam on his own nearly destroys his relationship with Jo.

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