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* Czeslaw Meyer from ''[[Baccano!]]''. He is {{spoiler|tortured to death several times throughout his life, including by his trusted guardian, and Vino}}. He seems to suffer the most out of any character in the series, {{spoiler|without much of a happy ending}}.
* The ''[[Berserk]]'' universe is rough on pretty much everyone.
** Guts and Casca, the [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] of the series have it especially bad. While Guts has shades of [[Jerkass Woobie]], his lover is more of a [[The Woobie|a complete woobie.]] Casca was sold by her parents to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for her to learn that he wanted her for sex, not cooking and cleaning. She was saved from being raped only by the arrival of Griffith. The two had it relatively easy during their time with the Band of the Hawk and things take a rare, optimistic turn for them when they admit their love for each other...[[It Got Worse|until the Eclipse went down, and it all went to hell.]] {{spoiler|Griffith sacrificed the Hawks, leaving them to get slaughtered by countless monsters. Casca lost everyone under her command, and was ultimately raped when Griffith, who had become the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|got his hands on her]]. Guts took down a multitude of demons and even chiseled off his own left arm in a furious bid to save her, but in the end, [[Senseless Sacrifice|it was all for nothing]]}}. And things only got worse for them after the Eclipse, with Casca {{spoiler|miscarrying and giving birth to a corrupted child as a result of Femto's rape tainting the child that she and Guts conceived}} and her [[Go Mad
* Hinako Aikawa suffered excessive sexual abuse from her stepfather that had gotten her pregnant ''twice'' before the age of 15. This troper was hooked on ''[[Bitter Virgin]]'' primarily because he wanted to see her be happy at the end. And even then, the main characters' [[Emo|hyper negativity]] makes them skeptical that they'll {{spoiler|be able to stay together forever}}, so it's hard to determine if the ending was really that happy...
* ''[[Black Butler]]'':
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** Kohane of ''[[xxxHolic]]'' in the style of [[Love Martyr]] for her mother. Her parents split up, possibly because of her. Her mother hasn't used her name since then. Her mother won't touch her, let others touch her, cook her food ''or'' let her eat anything she thinks is 'unclean' since it might take her power away. Then she has to go on TV, exorcise spirits and because she happens to be better at it than other mediums, she's called a fake and gets some [[Serious Business|rather nasty abuse]] including being pushed down stairs, possibly losing an eye and having her house covered with graffiti sporting charming slogans such as EVIL, LIAR and DIE. See also: Watanuki, although quite a lot of it is his own fault or is genuinely good for him.
** Even the extremely up-beat and idealistic ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' has its Woobies. Most prominent is Yukito/Yue, the former due to the lead-up and [[Tomato in the Mirror]] reveal of the latter's existence as a [[Split Personality]], and the latter because of how broken up he was when Clow died.
* [[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]], ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', '''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'''. If you appear in Clannad and have so much as a ''name'', you qualify for this trope. Everybody either has a tragically lost relative(s)/loved ones, health problems, social problems, broken dreams or any combination of them.
* Life sucks if you have a name in ''[[Code Geass]]''. Examples include:
** Nunnally Lamperouge. At the age of six or seven or so, she's crippled when her home is attacked by supposed terrorists. She is struck by forty-odd pieces of shrapnel, costing her the use of her legs, and witnesses the death of her mother, who then collapses on top of her. This psychological trauma renders her blind. She and her brother Lelouch (who is about nine at this point) are then sent to Japan to be political hostages, where they are both frequently bullied for being Britannian. They are then abandoned and left to die when Britannia declares war on Japan. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] once we move on from the backstory to the actual series. Despite all this, Nunnally maintains to cheerfully smile for those around her, seemingly willfully ignoring her brother's slow descent into darkness. {{spoiler|Until Season 2, that is...}}
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* ''[[D.Gray-man]]'':
** Allen Walker has his parents abandon him because of his freakish left arm, his adoptive father dies ''twice'', once by his own hand, his [[Trickster Mentor|teacher]] racks up debts of astronomical proportions and forces him to work to pay off said debts (keep in mind he's about elementary school age around that time); yet he still manages to stay [[The Messiah|one of the nicest characters in the entire series]].
** [[Action Girl|Lenalee's]] [[The Pollyanna|sunny disposition]] and the [[Training
** Lavi could possibly qualify for this. He was exposed to so much death and violence that by the age of sixteen he's emotionally barren and considers all humans to be mindless war-mongering idiots. Then after finally getting somewhat attached to the other Exorcists, his best bud Allen "dies". Then, even later, due to [[Mind Rape]] from [[Little Miss Badass|Road]], the embodiment of his sixteen-year-old self takes over Lavi's body and going on a murderous rampage to get rid of all Lavi's distractions, i.e friends.
** Also Krory ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|Or however you spell his frakking name]]). Spent years shunned by the local villagers, felt his only purpose in life was to protect his grandfathers posessions, had his teeth suddenly fall out and teeth made of Innocence instantly grow in, killed the woman he loved, found out that his loved one was an Akuma, and genuinely belived that he was a monster, but really didn't want to be. Seriously, how 'bout we label the entire Black Order as a [[Dysfunction Junction]]?
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** Yoko Littner. Let's just say this woman's attempts at a love life are tragic as hell (especially the first time). After spending the first part of the series being in love and later part dealing with the death of said loved one, she then witnesses the death of {{spoiler|Kittan}} who admits his crush on her beforehand.
* Oh, Hayate from ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]''. [[Abusive Parents|Poor]], [[Cosmic Plaything|poor]] [[Moe Moe|Hayate]]... Okay, so we're usually [[The Chew Toy|laughing at his pain]], but sometimes it's just impossible to get through the episode without developing the overwhelming urge to hug him and coo that it'll all be okay. Episode 14, for example...
* ''[[Hellsing]]'s'' Seras Victoria, at least up through the seventh volume of the manga, just goes through one bad day after another. You know a girl's going to have it rough when she ''dies'' before the first chapter is even finished. By the end of the seventh volume, she's been repeatedly berated by Alucard for her weaknesses, repeatedly impaled with holy bayonets, {{spoiler|been dismembered and blinded, was [[Mind Rape|mindraped]] (in which she relived the murder of her parents and getting shot by the killers) ''and'' was forced to drink the blood of one of the only decent people she knew.}} Fortunately, that last bit had some... [[Took a Level
* Marie Moriya, the main character of ''[[Higanbana no Saku Yoru ni]]'', who is bullied by her classmates and her homeroom teacher.
* Anyone who is even remotely sympathetic in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. Special mentions go to:
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** And Sekai had it almost as bad. Whichever one you like better will probably be the Woobie for you.
* Lain of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'', who decides that the thing most wrong with the world is that {{spoiler|she was ever born/created in the first place}}.
** She qualifies for [[Woobie]]dom primarily when she starts to have to confront different aspects of her fracturing identity. And then when {{spoiler|she has to admit to herself that [[A God Am I|she is in fact a Goddess/Avatar]], she is [[Lonely
* Sylphiel in ''[[The Slayers]]''. When we first meet her, it's clear she's infatuated with Gourry, whose density can outmatch lead and thus doesn't notice it at all. She's also a [[Proper Lady|delicate, shy young woman who seems incapable of raising her voice]], in stark contrast to Lina. By the end of the series, her hometown has been wiped off the map ''unintentionally'' by the [[Big Bad]], and her beloved father killed. She reappears in ''Slayers NEXT'' when the group returns to her hometown of Sairagg, which has been rebuilt and repopulated by the imprisoned souls of its dead population via the new [[Big Bad]]'s power. She ''does'' get a brief reunion with her father, before the entire town is, again, killed off (or returned to being dead, whichever). Furthermore, [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|any hopes of a romance with Gourry]] are smashed by his last second realization of love for Lina.
** There's also a bit of this attached to Amelia, though in a far more disturbing, [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]] sort of way; due to the fact that she's energetic, optimistic, cute, chaste, and all around endearing, the production staff use her quite a bit in order to convince us that [[Kick the Dog|the villains are indeed villainous]]. A particularly chilling example is The Hellmaster ripping out her soul while she writhes in pain in her friend's arms. Rather than just [[Squick|be revolting]], however, it makes you want to [[Moe Moe|leap to her defense and give her a big protective hug]], or that's the intention anyway. When this is done twice in three episodes, it feels a little forced.
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** While the ''Sonic X'' ball is in play, Cosmo has to be the most woobified Sonic character to ever exist in any medium, having gone through so much (death of her entire family and destruction of her home leaving her the last remaining member of her species, spending months trying to deal with the ever complex bonds of [[Defeat Means Friendship]] in the Sonic crew, plus the fact that {{spoiler|she later discovers she's been used as a spy for the Metarex all along and the only solution is to either kick Metarex butt -a nigh impossible task- or destroy her vision and hearing}}) it's no wonder she has so many tearing up scenes.
** {{spoiler|And then, as if things couldn't possibly get any worse, Tails, who had developed an immense crush on Cosmo, is forced to [[Shoot the Dog|kill her]] in order to save the world. The scene in which he struggles to pull the trigger is an infamous [[Tear Jerker]]}}.
* Crona from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' is practically the living definition of this trope. Has a horrific backstory (it starts with having [[Ambiguous Gender|his/her]] [[Jerkass]] [[Equippable Ally]] implanted in his/her body and [[Training
** Eruka Frog could also be one, considering that she is working for Medusa ONLY because of snakes inside her body, and more recently {{spoiler|she is now capture by shibusen, and an explosive collar on her neck to enfore her help. One is worried what will happen considering [[It Got Worse|Medusa can see everything Eruka sees]], and [[Dead Man Walking|Medusa could kill her to ruin Shibusen's plans]].}}
* Kagura Tennouzou from ''[[Speed Grapher]]''. In her introductory episode we learn that Kagura's mother Shinsen, the wealthiest woman in the city, starves her own daughter out of jealousy. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]].
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