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** Once you get glimpses of their backstories as {{spoiler|[[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]] who were bred ''only'' to pilot Gundams}}, the Trinity siblings from [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]] come off a pretty damn pitiful. Of course that does '''not''' excuse the heaps of shit they pull on everyone [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones|except for each other]].

*** [[The Smart Guy|Tieria Erde]]. At first, he's cold, stern and the most dedicated to Celestial Being's mission. However, after (thefirst) Lockon's death in season 1 and the separation from VEDA, we see that Tieria is a very insecure man.

** Ranma Saotome has had a ''horrible'' childhood that, among other things, means that he has been inflicted with a [[Gender Bender]] curse that not only embarrasses him and frequently gets him into strife, but puts him at the risk of having to commit [[Seppuku]] at the hands of his [[Yamato Nadeshiko|good-hearted]] but [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Hot Mom]] -- which means that he will not only die painfully, but die knowing that he disappointed his beloved mother so badly that she thought it would be best to die. He also routinely harasses his (admittedly, no saint herself) fiancée by hitting her where it hurts her the most (her ''relatively'' small chest [in comparison to his [[Gender Bender]] form and the rest of his fiancees]] and her inability to be properly feminine no matter how hard she tries), sometimes actively encourages his fiancées, and loves to harass and torment his rivals, despite ''knowing'' that they'll come after him with the aim of brutally thrashing him.

** Ryôga Hibiki has terrible luck, is cursed to assume the form of a [[Baleful Polymorph|small, defenseless pig]] when he gets wet, has one of the worst ever seen cases of [[No Sense of Direction]], the direction issues are inherited from both his parents and so he almost never sees his family, is a [[Courtly Love|dedicated romantic]], is too shy to even talk to other girls (despite the fact most would probably find him [[Mr. Fanservice|highly attractive]]), and the one girl he's in love with is engaged to someone else. He's also bad tempered and masquerade as her pet to get affection from her, even if it's only as her pet.