History Woobie / Overwatch

* Also known as Jack Morrison, Soldier: 76 is a FallenHero who once put all of his heart into commanding Overwatch and making it the best it could possibly be. But his success came at the expense and resentment of his best friend and former commander, Gabriel Reyes, who felt passed over. Reyes secretly betrayed them by leaking Overwatch's DirtyBusiness (which he himself had performed) and turning public opinion against Overwatch. Then Reyes outright betrayed them by attempting to murder Jack and destroying Overwatch from the inside. After this, Jack not only received a disfiguring scar, but watched the world fall into chaos. No longer considering himself a hero, or seeing the point of being a "hero" at all, his attitude has regressed to that of just a nameless soldier, fighting an endless, unwinnable war because it's all he knows. He also has to live with the fact that most of the world thinks he's dead, and FromACertainPointOfView, Jack would [[ThatManIsDead agree]].

* Yes, ''Bastion'' of all people has become one, following "The Last Bastion", as the animation portrays it as a good-natured, friendly bot who is forced into murder and violence by old programming. Scenes of it having PTSD-like flashbacks to the Omnic Crisis and finding countless dead Bastion models which it naïvely attempts to repair also come across as very sad and borderline traumatic. It's actually to the point where the whole ordeal [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap redeemed it]] in the eyes of many gamers, despite its status as a TierInducedScrappy.

* [[BaseBreakingCharacter Regardless of how you think of]] [[TierInducedScrappy her as a hero in gameplay,]] it's been unanimously agreed upon that Mei's gone through one hell of a traumatic experience. Being a climatologist in an Ecopoint in [[MysteriousAntarctica Antarctica]] would probably already be a strenuous enough task, but having to brave a sudden polar storm that leaves you stranded from civilization, forcing you into [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic stasis]] waiting for rescue is a whole different ballpark. Waking up years later with rescue never coming, finding out all of your other coworkers are dead, the world climate you've been researching to solve [[FromBadToWorse has gotten even worse]], and all the other Watchpoints have since disbanded? [[IronWoobie It's a wonder how the hell Mei manages to still act so upbeat at all.]]

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* He who wanted no part in his family's illegal business and instead pursued the life of a playboy. This did not sit well with the clan elders, who forced Hanzo into killing him for his "disobedience". Genji was left horribly injured, and only survived because Overwatch rescued him -- but at a great cost. He was turned into a cyborg, forced to live as an outcast to both humans and Omnics, unable to fit in anywhere. He can't even eat because of it, lamenting that he can't even enjoy [[TrademarkFavoriteFood ramen]]. Even after meeting his brother again, the revelation that he was alive only made Hanzo treat him as even ''more'' of an outcast.

* Meta Example: Hanzo is incredibly dislike by a good portion of the Overwatch gaming community. If a team he's on loses, he is often blamed for it and the term "''Hanzo Main''" [[https://mic.com/articles/171482/hanzo-main-insult-explained-here-s-what-that-viral-overwatch-tweet-is-all-about#.lgUSH4rbj has been used as an insult]].

* Yes, even ''Reaper'' can be this. Albeit, as a major JerkassWoobie. He is one of the most callous assholes and when he was Gabriel Reyes, it's clear that he's just drafted for his skills, not his personality. But one thing, back in those days, he still socialized with the other Overwatch member, and he's just as dedicated as the others to protect the world from the rampaging Omnics rather than a justified reason to kick something he hated. And yet for his dedication for his world, and probably risking his life the most in the battlefield as the Strike Commander, he got no respect, and instead got rewarded with the DirtyBusiness part of the job which went against the image of the organization he worked for. Sure, the way he struck back was not that good, but rather than getting killed, he ended up getting sentenced to a life where every steps he walked proves to be really painful. Yeah, uh, there's no wonder he decided that the only way he can get around this is to relish being a CardCarryingVillain. And to make matters worse, after all these, a lot of people, including his former teammates, still think he's a joke. There is also some hint that whatever caused him to get his powers wasn't something he chose, and not only do they have some [[BlessedWithSuck implied nasty side-effects]], but some of his voice lines[[note]]One of his lines after a respawn is "this is my curse..."[[/note]] indicate that he has a DeathWish his powers can't ever allow him to fulfill.

** ''Honor and Glory'' expands on this further: Balderich's death wasn't a result of Reinhardt's absence, but rather because he was badly wounded saving Reinhardt from a mess he'd gotten himself into with his LeeroyJenkins attitude and sacrificed himself holding the Omnics back for Reinhardt and the soldiers serving with them to escape. And it was Balderich, ''not Reinhardt'', who was originally chosen to join Overwatch, only to hand the responsibility to Reinhardt before his LastStand. Not only does Reinhardt bear the SurvivorGuilt of being the last of the Crusaders, but he lives knowing it was his recklessness that resulted in Balderich's death, and then the purpose Balderich charged him with was taken from him when he was forcibly retired.

* While they are unarguably very violent and remorseless men, watching their home get turned into a nearly-uninhabitable, irradiated wasteland probably had something to do with why they are like that. Not helped by the fact that the former inadvertently caused the whole mess when a desperate attempt to free his home from the Omnics went [[GoneHorriblyWrong horribly wrong]] or that the latter was barely five years old when it happened...

* Alejandra, the teenage girl in the short ''Hero'', grew up in a violent, lawless neighborhood overrun by the crime ring Los Muertos with seemingly no hope of getting a good direction in life. Just in this short alone, [[TraumaCongaLine she almost got pressured to join in a beating of an Omnic by the gang members (one of whom knows her by name, imply that he is either family or an acquaintance), got her money stolen, witness a gun onslaught, a man being brutally beat by a piñata all the while being scared to death by 76]] and ''[[WouldHurtAChild almost got killed by a grenade]]''. Luckily for her, 76 rescued Alejandra in time, showing her heroism maybe for the first time in her life and inspire her to made a choice to hope and look up to the Overwatch heroes as evidence by her removing the old Overwatch poster on the wall and take it home with her.