History YMMV / MurderersRow

* JerkassWoobie: Wash. He's presented unsympathetically at first, being not only cold and prone to physically punishing prisoners, but also tormenting Donut in order to figure out how he killed his roommate, up to and including locking him in a room with O'Malley and not trying to intervene when it looked like O'Malley was going to rape him. But his past is filled with failure, emotional, physical and mental torture, mental illness, homelessness, suicidal inclinations and even more failure after all that.

* TheWoobie: Several characters could qualify.

** Doc, simply by virtue of being constantly hounded by O'Malley. He has to put up with psychological torture, rape and the occasional scarring, and O'Malley breaks him down into realising that he's harming people much more than helping them and also making sure that he can't leave the prison without causing the deaths of others through O'Malley going after them.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pre-rewrite!North. For a character who, at the time, was a whining ButtMonkey OCStandIn with little impact on the plot, he was strangely popular with the readers.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Caboose. Friendly and dim-witted as always, but also has a violent, even occasionally sadistic streak at times, a tendency to turn against people incredibly fast, never seems to realise how bad his actions are, at least until Church and Donut directly it out to him, and has a tendency to accidentally murder cats and pigeons and, in the latter case, keep the carcasses as pets.

* CompleteMonster: O’Malley. He’s the personification of the worst qualities of prison, being a sadistic, raping serial killer who torments people for fun. He also spearheads the torture of Wash [[spoiler:twice]] and repeatedly abuses Doc emotionally and sexually (and sometimes physically.) His actions cause the deaths of multiple inmates and staff members, simply because he was angry at Doc for leaving. In a prison of murderers, he stands out as the least sympathetic and most monstrous.

* HolyShitQuotient: The later flashback chapters tend to veer upwards with the HSQ. As did part 109/The Volume 2 Riot.

* HolyShitQuotient: The later flashback chapters tend to veer upwards with the HSQ. As did part 109.

** Donut. He's immediately subjected to being threatened and beaten by practically every person in prison, at one point hospitalized for thirty chapters because of O'Malley beating him severely, and tormented even by the occasional guard, with Wash purposefully trying to place him in dangerous situations just to see how he deals with it. On top of this, he was orphaned at a young age. Qualifies as an IronWoobie, seeing as through all this not only has he not died, but he stayed comparitively moral despite this (although he's gotten a little more bitter).

** Donut. He's immediately subjected to being threatened and beaten by practically every person in prison, at one point hospitalized for thirty chapters because of O'Malley beating him severely, and tormented even by the occasional guard, with Wash purposefully trying to place him in dangerous situations just to see how he deals with it. On top of this, he was orphaned at a young age and one of his adoptive mothers has (and eventually dies from) liver cancer. Qualifies as an IronWoobie, seeing as through all this not only has he not died, but he stayed relatively chipper and comparatively moral.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Caboose. Friendly and dim-witted as always, but also has a psychotic, even occasionally sadistic streak at times, a tendency to turn against people incredibly fast, never seems to realise how bad his actions are, at least until Church and Donut directly it out to him, and has a tendency to accidentally murder cats and pigeons and, in the latter case, keep the carcasses as pets.

* CompleteMonster: O'Malley. While he was in the original series as well, here he's not only much more effectual but is also prone to mind-fucking people, rape and doesn't have the excuse of being a program comprised entirely out of anger, being a flesh-and-blood human in this series. Perhaps the only even mildly good moment he has is [[spoiler:being clearly angry and upset when Delta guns Gary down on a perceived betrayal.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Wash. He's presented unsympathetically at first, being not only cold and prone to physically punishing prisoners, but also tormenting Donut in order to figure out how he killed his roommate, up to and including locking him in a room with O'Malley and not trying to intervene when it looked like O'Malley was going to rape him. But his past is filled with failure, emotional, physical and mental torture, mental illness, homelessness and even more failure after all that.

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Caboose. Friendly and dim-witted as always, but also has a psychotic, even occasionally sadistic streak at times, a tendency to turn against people incredibly fast, never seems to realise how bad his actions are, at least until Church and Donut directly it out to him, and has a tendendcy to accidentally murder cats and pigeons and, in the latter case, keep the carcasses as pets.

* JerkassWoobie: Wash. He's presented unsympathetically at first, being not only cold and prone to physically punishing prisoners, but also tormenting Donut in order to figure out how he killed his roommate, up to and including locking him in a room with O'Malley and not trying to intervene when it looked like O'Malley was going to rape him. But his past is filled with failure, emotional, physical and mental torture, homelessness and even more failure after all that.

* HarsherInHindsight: Grif once references the high rate of injuries and speculates that Simmons will be next because he hasn't been hurt yet. [[spoiler:Not long afterwards, Simmons is disemboweled and KilledOffForReal.]]

* CompleteMonster: O'Malley. While he was in the original series as well, here he's not only much more effectual but is also prone to mind-fucking people, rape and doesn't have the excuse of being a program comprised entirely out of anger, being a flesh-and-blood human in this series.

* HarsherInHindsight: Grif once references the high rate of injuries and speculates that Simmons will be next because he hasn't been hurt yet. [[spoiler:Not long afterwards, Simmons is disemboweled and KilledOffForReal. In the same vein, Grif says that Sister can't call her future son Simmons because you can only name children after dead guys.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Wash. He's presented unsympathetically at first, being not only cold and prone to physically punishing prisoners, but also tormenting Donut in order to figure out how he killed his roommate, up to and including locking him in a room with O'Malley and not trying to intervene when it looked like O'Malley was going to rape him. [[spoiler:However, in the past he failed to prevent the death of his co-worker/friend, Carolina, was locked in a dark basement for three months by Church's group of criminals and relentlessly tortured to the point of madness, which was followed by a few years of alternating between being left in hospitals, both mental and otherwise, and ending up homeless because no-one would hire him due to the insanity induced by the torture. Even once he had a decent life again, he was obsessed with finding the people who ruined him and killed Carolina, which leads to a lot of his current cruel actions.]]

* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Caboose. On one hand, he's still the friendly, dimwitted guy he is in canon. However, here he has a psychotic, even occasionally sadistic streak at times, and he has a tendency to turn against people incredibly fast (especially if he thinks they've been harming Church or Donut.) Add to this that he never seems to realise how bad his actions are, at least until Church and Donut directly it out to him, as well as his tendency to accidentally murder cats and pigeons, and in the second case even keep their carcasses in his cell until the guards make him throw them out.

** Donut is the only one in prison who is still morally decent and not a criminal beforehand, having killed in self-defence. He's immediately subjected to being threatened and beaten by practically every person in prison, at one point hospitalized for thirty chapters because of O'Malley beating him severely, and tormented even by the occasional guard, with Wash purposefully trying to place him in dangerous situations just to see how he deals with it. On top of this, he was orphaned at a young age and one of his adoptive mothers has (and eventually dies from) liver cancer. Qualifies as an IronWoobie, seeing as through all this not only has he not died, but he stayed relatively chipper [[spoiler:until the riot where Simmons was killed, which seems to have induced a more depressed, cynical side to him.]]

* IronWoobie: Donut. He goes through a lot of shit in the prison, including being a magnet for vicious attacks that leave him hospitalized for 35 chapters. But he never, ever gives up and just continues toughing it out. To put it in his own words, 'If I gave up whenever things got difficult, then I would have kicked the bucket when my roommate attacked me.'
* JerkassWoobie: Wash. There's no denying that the guy is a complete asshole, and half-psychotic to boot. But factor in the backstory and it's easy to see why. Whether he's more Jerkass or Woobie depends on the chapter.

** Much to do with Tucker being separated from Junior is somewhat tearjerking, but the worst is when Tucker gets blinded and realises that he'll never be able to see Junior's pictures again or see Junior grow up.

* TheWoobie: Several characters could qualify. Donut is the Iron variety, as mentioned above. Doc is another example, especially considering O'Malley's constant hounding of him. Caboose could qualify, but considering how violent and twisted Caboose is in this, his woobie status is more questionable.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: North. For a whining ButtMonkey OCStandIn with little impact on the plot, he's strangely popular with the readers.
* HarsherInHindsight: Grif once references the high rate of injuries and speculates that Simmons will be next because he hasn't been hurt yet. [[spoiler:Not long afterwards, Simmons is disembowled and KilledOffForReal. In the same vein, Grif says that Sister can't call her future son Simmons because you can only name children after dead guys.]]

* ArchiveBinge: There's over a hundred and fifteen chapters, plus eight ridiculously long flashback chapters and some one-shots. It'll suck you in.