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* Papageno from ''[[The Magic Flute]]''. Lips sealed with a magic lock; coerced into the initiation rites for an organization in which he has no interest; and taunted with the contrived inaccessibility of his love interest until he literally [[Interrupted Suicide|attempts suicide]]. To be fair, Papageno brings the magical lock thing on himself as punishment for lying, but throughout the opera the punishments for his actions tend to be disproportionate.
* Herman in ''[[The Most Happy Fella]]''.
* Stella in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. She's basically put between a rock and a hard place, forced to side with either her psycho, gold-digging, mooching sister Blanche or her boorish, abusive husband Stanley. Even after Stanley hits her ''while pregnant'' and later rapes Blanche, she ends up having to side with Stanley.
* ''[[Miss Saigon]]'': Kim. Orphaned when her parents and other family members are killed in an attack, forced to work as a prostitute to support herself--this is how she loses her ''virginity''--has the love of her life all but literally ripped away from her during the Fall of Saigon, has to endure pregnancy and childbirth all on her own, lives in poverty, has to kill her cousin when he tries to kill her mixed-race son, flees to Bangkok, finally thinks she's going to be reunited with her lover after three long years (and this belief is basically the only thing that has sustained her all this time), only to find that he's married and his wife doesn't want her or the kid around, and finally ''kills herself'' both out of grief and to force them to take the child to America with them. Oh, and by the time this is all done, she's all of 20-21 years old.
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