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** Also, Dwight in some episodes.
* Ken [[Titus]]. His own ''mother'' liked to play cruel pranks on him, [[For the Evulz|just for shits and giggles]], and his father was a drunken womanizing [[Jerkass]], [[Generation Xerox|just like him]].
* Randy Taylor on ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' was a wise-cracking [[Insufferable Genius]], but a handful of episodes either shed a glimpse on or were devoted to his insecurities over his small size or feeling like [[The Unfavourite]] now and then. Plus, there's "The Longest Day" in which he had to cope with the possibility of cancer.
* In ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "A Piano in the House", the owner of the titular piano is showing being a caustic [[Jerkass]] who delights in being the center of attention by tearing others down -- in this instance, through using a magic piano whose songs bring out the deeper personalities in people. However, when the tables are turned, he zips right into [[The Woobie|woobie]] territory, when he's forced (through the piano's magic) to reveal that he [[Freudian Excuse|has an inferiority complex]], and the reaction to his doing that...[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYQKiZ5eig#t=3m50s is for the party-goers to leave, his wife to finally divorce him], and his normally stoic butler to quit, saying, [[Kick the Son of a Bitch|"You're not funny anymore."]]
* Gul Madred, Picard's Cardassian torturer in the two-part ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Chain of Command", grew up on the streets as a poor boy, once beaten up over some food. Picard, however, calls him out on it in light of how he became a brutal torturer:
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