Jerkass Woobie/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

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Examples of [[Jerkass Woobie]] in [[Anime and Manga]].

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* From ''[[Darker ~~Than~~ Black]]'', [[The Handler|Huang]] {{spoiler|was a cop until his best friend was horribly killed... by the woman Huang loved, who he discovered had just been using him to get to said best friend. He was left with no choice but to join the Syndicate or have his memories wiped, which he feels would be like killing his friend all over again.}} Tis resulted in Huang being a [[Noble Bigot|bigotted]] [[Jerkass]], all things considered.

* From ''[[Darker than Black]]'', [[The Handler|Huang]] {{spoiler|was a cop until his best friend was horribly killed... by the woman Huang loved, who he discovered had just been using him to get to said best friend. He was left with no choice but to join the Syndicate or have his memories wiped, which he feels would be like killing his friend all over again.}} Tis resulted in Huang being a [[Noble Bigot|bigotted]] [[Jerkass]], all things considered.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Asuka Langley Soryuu. She is an insufferable bitch from hell, but she has an ''incredibly'' heartbreaking [[Freudian Excuse]]: {{spoiler|when she was very young, her mother went insane and ceased to recognize her as her daughter, and Asuka found her body when she committed suicide, with a doll she believed to be her own daughter ''hanged right beside her''. Her father seemingly never cared about her mother in the first place, and begun having an affair with the head nurse in charge of her. Her stepmother made it very clear that she disliked her and considered her an imposition. So far in her life, the people she cared about a) killed themselves and b) revealed that they didn't care at all. Asuka threw herself into learning how to pilot EVA-02 in a desperate attempt to earn affection from others. She also feels that anyone she cares about will leave her, so she pretends not to care about anyone who she sees as weak.}} [[It Got Worse|And then the events of the series kicked in]]. Including the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Mind Rape]].

** Not to mention that, in End of Evangelion, {{spoiler|she finally gets to see her mother inside Unit 02 and feel love and acceptance from her...only to be shortly thereafter forced through the experience of being eaten alive by vultures. If that's not punishment enough to make everyone feel sorry for her, I have no idea what is.}}

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** Kanda Yu turns out to have a very good reason for being so cynical and rude to nearly everyone. {{spoiler|Namely, [http://www.mangareader.net/210-43761-16/dgray-man/chapter-190.html this], over and over again for ''months''. Additionally, he was created artificially and ''knows it'', grew up with very little human affection, and was eventually forced to kill his only friend, who had [[Break the Cutie|gone berserk and killed 40-some people]].}} Also, {{spoiler|the Second Exorcist project, which Kanda is a product of, involved ''implanting the brains of dead Exorcists into new bodies'', and he eventually started ''regaining memories of his own death''.}} Kanda's life sucks so much that using an [[Exposition Beam]] to show someone his memories qualifies as [[Mind Rape]], and the local [[Creepy Child]] [[Even Evil Has Standards|feels sick when she sees them]].

** If you don't feel bad for Kanda after seeing [http://www.mangareader.net/210-46708-37/dgray-man/chapter-191.html this], you're a horrible person.

* Kaede from ''[[~~Shuffle~~]]''. You feel bad for her for how messed up in the head she became following her mother's death and how she lost the will to live. But you also hate her for treating Rin like shit all throughout their childhood, because he decided to take the blame on himself so she wouldn't figure out that the death of her mother was actually her fault. For what it's worth, when she finds out the truth, she ends up hating herself for how she treated Rin and decides to [[The Atoner|try to atone for her bad actions by devoting herself to Rin]]. Rin does not really want this, but he is afraid of making Kaede have a relapse by not allowing her to punish herself in this way. Kaede is also shown to have romantic feelings for Rin, but considers herself unworthy to be loved by Rin or to stay by Rin's side, and acts like a [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] (in the anime) when she finds out he and Asa are a couple. There's also the fact that Kaede has feelings for Rin and is hopelessly devoted to him, but Rin is Asa's boyfriend, so Rin will never return Kaede's feelings.

* Kaede from ''[[SHUFFLE!]]''. You feel bad for her for how messed up in the head she became following her mother's death and how she lost the will to live. But you also hate her for treating Rin like shit all throughout their childhood, because he decided to take the blame on himself so she wouldn't figure out that the death of her mother was actually her fault. For what it's worth, when she finds out the truth, she ends up hating herself for how she treated Rin and decides to [[The Atoner|try to atone for her bad actions by devoting herself to Rin]]. Rin does not really want this, but he is afraid of making Kaede have a relapse by not allowing her to punish herself in this way. Kaede is also shown to have romantic feelings for Rin, but considers herself unworthy to be loved by Rin or to stay by Rin's side, and acts like a [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] (in the anime) when she finds out he and Asa are a couple. There's also the fact that Kaede has feelings for Rin and is hopelessly devoted to him, but Rin is Asa's boyfriend, so Rin will never return Kaede's feelings.

* Akira Inugami from ''[[Wolf Guy|Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]''. He rescues his [[Morality Pet]] teacher from baddies regularly, gives hope to his oppressed fellow classmates, and stops an [[Ax Crazy]] psycho from gunning down the student body vice president at point-blank range, but he can be a cold-hearted snarky jerk to everyone. He also lost his parents at a very young age, has a habit of making enemies who want to violently beat him up and murder him, and is pursued and lusted after by ''two'' [[Ax Crazy]] psychos who are major threats to anyone he is close to or not. Basically, he's a nice guy [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|underneath]] it all, but he spares NO ONE the [[Deadpan Snarker|snark]] and is literally the [[Doom Magnet|unluckiest bastard walking.]] Which backfires horribly when {{spoiler|his beloved teacher becomes his [[Morality Chain]] -- and one of the [[Ax Crazy]] psychos has her kidnapped and gangraped. Which causes Inugami a heartbreaking [[Heroic BSOD]].}}

* ''[[Berserk]]'':

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** Hitagi Senjougahara. She acts cold and abusive towards others, especially towards her eventual boyfriend, Koyomi Araragi. She also pulls out a stapler and a box cutter, threatens Koyomi with them by shoving them in his face, and promises to disfigure him with them if he reveals her secret, then uses them anyway (stapling his face as a warning). All this within minutes of the start of the first episode. In episode two, Hitagi recounts how her mother joined a cult when Hitagi was sick, and that one night, her mother brought a higher up from the cult home. Hitagi injured him as he attempted to sexually assault her, while her mother watching without aiding her. As a result, her family was broken apart with Hitagi feeling that she's responsible. After that, she met a crab which took her feelings(weight) and memories of her mother. Hitagi begs the head crab to return to her the lost memories of her mother and her feelings(weight), but despite this, she has forever lost her mother.

** Mayoi Hachifuji. She knows that she is caught in or actually is a supernatural event and doesn't want anyone else to have to get involved. She's a 'snail,' otherwise known as a spirit that distracts people who are avoiding going somewhere and makes them follow her. She knows that she's dead and won't reach her destination, so she tells anyone who talks to her that she hates them so they'll leave her alone and not waste their time on her.

* ''[[Durarara]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima. Underneath the [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] and violent, vending-machine-throwing rages is a guy with a severe impulse control disorder that knows fully well that his behavior and strength hurts other people, [[I Am a Monster|hates himself for it]], and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|wants nothing more than to be able to stop and control himself]], but has no idea how.

* ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima. Underneath the [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] and violent, vending-machine-throwing rages is a guy with a severe impulse control disorder that knows fully well that his behavior and strength hurts other people, [[I Am a Monster|hates himself for it]], and [[I Just Want to Be Normal|wants nothing more than to be able to stop and control himself]], but has no idea how.

* ''[[Baccano]]'': hey, everyone, meet Czeslaw Meyer. A [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] [[Crazy Survivalist]] who uses [[Adorably Precocious Child|his appearance]] to manipulate people. Tried to get someone to kill dozens of people in the hope of finding one immortal. Is a [[Crazy Survivalist]] because {{spoiler|the guardian he'd trusted [[Fate Worse Than Death|spent 200 years torturing him]] in every way he could think of, supposedly to "test the limits" of their immortality. Czes only escaped by ''eating him'', absorbing all his memories of gleefully tormenting the poor kid [[For the Evulz]].}}

* ''[[Baccano!]]'': hey, everyone, meet Czeslaw Meyer. A [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] [[Crazy Survivalist]] who uses [[Adorably Precocious Child|his appearance]] to manipulate people. Tried to get someone to kill dozens of people in the hope of finding one immortal. Is a [[Crazy Survivalist]] because {{spoiler|the guardian he'd trusted [[Fate Worse Than Death|spent 200 years torturing him]] in every way he could think of, supposedly to "test the limits" of their immortality. Czes only escaped by ''eating him'', absorbing all his memories of gleefully tormenting the poor kid [[For the Evulz]].}}

* Sae Kashiwagi of ''[[Peach Girl]]''.

* ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'':

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** George Schyuter keeps Muhyo and Roji out of the investigation largely out of pride and the belief that they're unable to help, and even puts a sword to Roji's throat when he tries to help. It turns out, however, that his attitude and belief in working alone was the result of losing all of his partners and being blamed for it. He found a way to practice Magical Law alone, but derived no satisfaction from it, since no one was with him to share his defeats or victories.

* Arguably, [[Haruhi Suzumiya]]. She learns, rather painfully, that she isn't all that special, and in her quest to make her life special, goes on a hunt for aliens, time travellers, and ESPers after some inspiration from Kyon. This leads to her general sociopathy and her obsession with cosplaying Mikuru. Kyon says that, through her [[Character Development]], she's not exactly turning into a good person, but is ''returning'' to be the kind kid she once used to be.

* Ayato Naoi of ''[[Angel Beats]]''. He's kind of a [[Jerkass]] to everyone, [[Ho Yay|except Otonashi]], but when alive, his brother was his father's apprentice in pottery, while he remained in his room, ignored by the world. Then his brother died and he had to take his place, but wasn't nearly as good at the craft as his brother. Having no choice but to live his life as someone else, he began to think that his entire life was a charade.

* Ayato Naoi of ''[[Angel Beats!]]''. He's kind of a [[Jerkass]] to everyone, [[Ho Yay|except Otonashi]], but when alive, his brother was his father's apprentice in pottery, while he remained in his room, ignored by the world. Then his brother died and he had to take his place, but wasn't nearly as good at the craft as his brother. Having no choice but to live his life as someone else, he began to think that his entire life was a charade.

* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'': [[Dysfunction Junction|Pick a character, any character]]. The entire freaking cast is full of [[The Woobie|woobies]] ({{spoiler|[[God Is Evil|save for God Himself]]}}), the overwhelming majority of which are [[Jerkass|jerkasses]] ''[[Black and Grey Morality|at best]]''. One character wins gold on both counts, however. Is it [[Brother-Sister Incest|Setsuna or Sarah]]? [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Kurai]]? [[Noble Demon|Kato]]? [[Stalker with a Crush|Kira]]/[[Empathic Weapon|Nanatsusaya]]/{{spoiler|[[Because Destiny Says So|Lucifer]]}}? [[The Atoner|Zaphkiel]]? [[Unwitting Pawn|Raziel]]? [[I Just Want to Be Loved|Astarte]]/[[Sharing a Body|Astaroth]]? [[Broken Bird|Alexiel]]? [[Tragic Monster|Rosiel]]? [[Mad Love|Katan]]? [[All Love Is Unrequited|Belial]]? [[Can't Catch Up|Michael]]? [[The Unfavourite|Arachne]]? [[Lonely Rich Kid|Metatron]]? [[And I Must Scream|Sandalphon]]? No. Believe it or not, it's [[Evil Chancellor|Sevothtarte]]/{{spoiler|[[Break the Cutie|Lailah]]}}. {{spoiler|As an up-and-coming scientist, [[Shrinking Violet|Lailah]] was outshone ([[Unknown Rival|unintentionally]]) by [[The Ace|Anael]] in both work and love. When she finally rose in status, jealous co-workers [[Rape as Drama|raped]] [[Rape as Backstory|her]]. Though she murdered them and [[The Scapegoat|successfully blamed]] [[Love Martyr|Nidhogg]], [[No Sex Allowed|losing her virginity]] (even non-consensually) left her branded a [[Fallen Angel]]. [[Freak-Out|Her entire world crashing around her]], Lailah [[Deal with the Devil|sold herself to Sandalphon]], taking a new face to [[Villainous Crossdresser|impersonate a dead male soldier]]. As Sevothtarte, Lailah became a Seraph, Chairman of [[Council of Angels|The High Council]] and caretaker of [[Regent for Life|Metatron]]. From there, Lailah tried to "purify" heaven of all sinful/deformed angels. However, [[The Hero|Setsuna]]'s interference and [[Evil Versus Evil|Rosiel's return]] [[Laser-Guided Karma|publicly]] [[Humiliation Conga|exposed her fraud]] and freed Sandalphon, who [[The Dog Bites Back|raped her]] and [[Villainous BSOD|destroyed her psyche completely]].}}

* Kevin of ''[[Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru]]'' is established as one of these in chapter 66.