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** This troper knows that the point of the show is that [[Adults Are Useless]], but even as a teenager it was hard not to feel sorry for Wendla's mother too. [[Fridge Logic]] ahoy!: Wendla's mother is a woman in the nineteenth century herself- how much preparation do you suppose ''she'' was given about matters of sex as a young girl? Isn't it more likely than not that she just told Wendla what ''she'' was told years ago?
* It's certainly very debatable, but depending on where you stand, Malvolio of ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' might well be this, despite having likely been written as a [[Butt Monkey]] (understandably, considering how unpopular puritans were at the time). If you're sympathetic to his conservative social views (which really don't seem unreasonable in practice), in particular, you'll likely see him as a very loyal, if somewhat dour, butler who was simply doing his duty in reprimanding his mistress's blatantly rude jester and arrogant drunkard of an uncle...and he gets rewarded by being humilated in front of his mistress, locked up in a mad house (notoriously horrible places at the time, of course), and victimised by his tormentors. And even after his innocence comes out, no one seems willing to offer him any real apology for any of this. May also depend somewhat on how serious or comical the particular production plays his character, but still...
** Similarly, many productions make an effort to play up Sir Andrew Aguecheek, another [[Butt Monkey]] and the plucky comic relief, as one of these, the key often being his line 'I was adored once, too', combined with an emphasis on the abuse he recieves at the hands of [[With Friends Like These...|Sir Toby]]. Some of the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest and edgiest]] adaptations have managed to crank him up to an all-out tragic character.
* Go see [[Chicago]] some time. When Amos finishes singing "Mister Cellophane", listen to the crowd (and probably yourself) as they go "Awwww!". Pure woobie.
* Depending on your interpretation, Harry Beaton of [[Brigadoon]]. Forced to stay within his hometown for the rest of his life, can't go and get a university degree and make something of his life, and is forced to watch the one girl he likes marry another man. It's no wonder why he snaps.
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