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* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fanfics about [[Cheerful Child|Keef]] are pretty rare, but those that exist often portray him as having neglectful of abusive parents. Given [[Jhonen Vasquez]]' style, this is entirely plausible (compare ''[[Squee]],'' for example.)
* [[Harry Potter (novel)|Draco Malfoy]] often gets this treatment in sympathetic fics that don't actually [[Draco in Leather Pants|put leather pants on him.]] I.e., he's spent his whole life trying to be what his father expects him to be and has no idea what he is. More of a Stepford ''Smirker'', of course, but it's entirely possible he does smile at people who aren't Harry Potter and his friends; we'd never know.
* In the ''[[Redwall]]'' fanfic [https://web.archive.org/web/20140216040628/http://www.rovl.org/vi/?p=display&e=8482 It Makes Me Happy That I'm Not Them], Swartt Sixclaw's [[Ironic Hell]] involves him being forced to become one of these. He's stuck with demonic copies of the wife and son he abused, and is forced to perpetually be the perfect husband and father figure to them. It's not really shown what'll happen if he doesn't, but considering [[Gorn|what happens to the point-of-view character later]], we can guess it's not good.
* In the few fics that actually center around and/or care to develop Big Macintosh from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'', he's generally portrayed as being a Depressed Type or B for one reason or another. Hinted at in the example below, from the heretofore-unfinished shipfic "Like I Imagined":
{{quote|Applejack glanced at her friend. "Usually he's just all plain an' sleepy-like, but sometimes he gets this look on his face like..."
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