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Not quite. It's on the No Real Life Examples index, which means real people cannot be listed as The Woobie. Not sure where this intentional choice thing is coming from.
The Woobie is indexed as YMMV, meaning it's an audience reaction and not intentional.
I didn't choose the troping life, the troping life chose me
Probably by the linked page starting with "These tropes require an author of a story to make a conscious storytelling decision" line.
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That's only a description of why they can't have real people as examples, because real people aren't part of storylines designed to make them suffer.
The Woobie has it's own trope page, and the first paragraph states:
Now that you mention it, The Woobie is in that liminal space between audience reaction and objective trope like Magnificent Bastard and Complete Monster, where all the pieces are there in canon but we're cataloguing how people feel about them.
I'd ask this in Trope Talk, but nobody as of late seems to be replying to my questions about certain tropes.
The trope is in NoRealLife.Narrative Characterization And Plot Tropes, meaning it's an intentional choice that the author makes a character to feel bad for. Does this be intentional for characters within the narrative of a work too?