Jerkass Woobie/Fan Works

Examples of Jerkass Woobie in Fan Works.


 * Rika Nonaka from the Tamers Forever Series. Oh dear god, RIKA!! She is self-centered and mean, with an outrageous competitive streak. But it is physically impossible to read Silent Sorrow and not have your heart ache for her after seeing what the author puts her through.
 * In the Twilight fanfiction The (Not So) Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and its companion piece Ashes through an Hourglass'', the offered back story of the Volturi's evil twin enforcers, Alec and Jane, helps rationalize their monstrous personalities in ways that elicit understanding and pity from the readers without undermining their sinister deeds. This more applies to Alec, though, since he has been featured far more than Jane and has demonstrated occasionally redeeming qualities through an amoral lens.
 * Another Twilight fanfiction: Luminosity.
 * Allirea is at best amoral For Science!, and once sent a five-year-old to be tortured. She also has a personality-based power that allows her to hide and a Stalker with a Crush who regularly kidnaps her. And, since powers are personality-based, that means that what Allirea probably wants the most is some time by herself.
 * Chelsea is a Mind Rapist, and screws up people's relationships regularly. She also has a desperate need to be loved, to the point that anyone she passes who doesn't love her disturbs her.
 * Dawn Schafer from the Babysitters Club fanfic When Forever Wasn't Enough. She starts out as the closest thing to an Alpha Bitch the story has, attempts to further drive the already-existing wedge between the former BSC members, and is incredibly self-absorbed the point where  However, she is also shown to be struggling with self-esteem issues, and longs to go back to California where she feels she belongs. But the part where this trope really kicks in?
 * The Penguins of Madagascar fanfic Princess shows Julien with a bit of this. He's still his usual ditzy egotistical self, but he's going through a lot.
 * The Green Goblin from I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC. The poor guy is always getting beaten up (even though this is Played for Laughs) and the object of his affection is hopelessly devoted to her abusive boyfriend (the Joker). Of course, he does treat his son like garbage.
 * from the Pony POV Series. She is most certainly a Jerkass, but that's not entirely her fault as
 * Angel, from the AU Roleplayverse Otherborn, is a half-demon who physically, mentally, and emotionally abuses his charge, Namine, who he claims to be in love with. In fact, he's come close to pushing her over the Despair Event Horizon more than once, and the general reaction to this was to declare him a Complete Monster. It Got Worse when he was revealed to have killed his best friend in a jealous rage over the girl they both liked. And then... well, then the author started writing oneshots and revealed that Angel was, actually, so completely broken by this event that he literally went crazy. Namine was the only person who could put him back together again, but the damage done to his psyche was so immense that his demonic instincts began to take over, turning him into the Jerkass he is today. To the point where when Namine's abusive parents kidnap her back to their mansion, Angel goes into a catatonic state where the only thing he is capable of forming into a coherent thought is that he wants to die. The poor guy just seriously needs a hug.
 * In Connecting the Dots, Sasuke spends the first half of the fic with one foot over the Moral Event Horizon, but after an unfortunate encounter with Kyuubi-Naruto, gets a visit from The Spectre who gives him an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech and then strips him of his chakra...In the middle of Gotham City. No prizes for guessing what happens next.
 * New Dawn: Shuuji Muzoku / Kazeshima. Emotionally reclusive, a bully early on, and does not really say much when him saying something might help.
 * Queen Anathema herself. The Big Bad, yeah, but what she wants is
 * Shira.
 * Rai-Dei Kurai. Yeah, he is basically Slenderman or something, annihilating almost everyone who knows about him.
 * Mare Do Well from the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Games We Play. Not only is she devious, selfish, and manipulative, but she delights in messing with Rainbow Dash's head as much as possible. She's also a desperately insecure Stepford Smiler with No Social Skills who just wants Rainbow Dash to like her.
 * Light in A Cure for Love. He really does care deeply for L and loves him very much but things just aren't working out too well for them because Light is a crazy mass-murderer who wants to be God. Misa as well- she too is very much in love but her affections for Light are not returned  Also  . And then there's Mello who is a Jerkass but then
 * While in canon she's a Hate Sink, Bonnie Rockwaller fits this trope in the Kim Possible/Resident Evil crossover fanfic Resident Evil Apotheosis. She ends up losing her home (and her friend Josh) when the T-Virus hits Middleton. Incidentally, she happens to be one of the characters to survive the events of the fanfic.
 * There's also original character Vin. While he's definitely an example of Good Is Not Nice, he was a survivor of a T-Virus outbreak (meaning that he experienced first-hand what kind of monstrosities the T-Virus can create) who was forced to kill his best friend when he turned into a zombie. He also manages to survive the events of the fanfic, but barely.