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{{quote|''"Thanks for noticing me."''|'''[[Trope Namers|Eeyore]]''', ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]''}}
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{{quote|''"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."''|'''Marvin the Paranoid Android''''s first line in every incarnation of ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''}}
This character exists solely to bring everybody down, but not in the [[Deadpan Snarker]] sense; they are defined entirely by their complete inability to be happy for more than a few seconds at a time, an emotional state that usually arises from their only-[[Wangst|occasionally]]-[[Dark and Troubled Past|justified]] suspicion that they are the [[Butt Monkey]] of the [[Cosmic Plaything|entire universe]]. They are the walking [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of clinical depression. However, the few moments that they ''are'' [[OOC Is Serious Business|happy]] can be a [[
Sometimes overlaps with [[Sour Supporter]], but not often; they are generally too unhappy to be effective or active.
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When upset, the Eeyore may as well become [[Cute and Psycho]]. A stereotypical [[Goth]] will probably fit under this. An Eeyore with artistic talent will use it to [[True Art Is Angsty|express his overwhelming angst]].
If written a certain way,
Compare [[Grumpy Bear]]. [[The Pollyanna]] is the polar opposite of this trope.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Mesousa from ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]''.
* Shinji Ikari from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', though he has the excuse of genuinely [[Butt Monkey|not having much to be happy about.]]
** Ironically, the one time he's in a relatively good mood and tries to cheer Asuka up, this ends up being exactly the ''last'' thing Asuka needs, as her confidence and sense of superiority has been broken and having the unconfident Shinji trying to cheer her up pushes her to the brink.
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** Sasuke as well.
* Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' (in a virulently homicidal sort of way [[Distaff Counterpart|but also a girl]]).
* Sugata from [[Star Driver]] definitely fits this, going as far as inadvertently hurting Wako with with his downer behavior. However, considering that {{spoiler|he can't leave Southern Cross Island due to being the bearer of Samekh (if he does, his [[Ninja Maid
* Kohza from ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''.
* [[Sayonara, Zetsubou
** [[Played for Laughs]]. It doesn't help that his name, written in a certain way, literally translates as "zetsubou-sensei", or "Mr. Despair".
* [[Suzumiya Haruhi|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'s inner workings appear to be quite this at or before the beginning and episode 6 particularly. Being fed up with the boring world, just wishing for something interesting to happen when it just doesn't seem to happen, despite her efforts. In the end (or rather [[Anachronic Order|in the middle]]), she's so frustrated she subconsciously {{spoiler|begins to destroy the universe and create a new one}}. Of course, most of the time she's a genuine [[Genki Girl]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPki4iqs53I Kogepan]. Because he's a burned bread roll.
* Ryoga Hibiki of ''[[Ranma
* Enma Kozato of ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''.
* Hatsumi Narita of ''[[Hot Gimmick]]''.
* Miranda Lotto of ''[[D
* ''[[
* In a way, Chrona from ''[[Soul Eater]]''
** When Chrona shows off [[Ambiguous Gender|his/her]] poetry to the other cast members, it turns out to be so depressing that it makes everyone who reads it sit in the [[Corner of Woe]] and wish they were never born.
* Nazuna from ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''
* The Waddle Dees from [[Kirby:
* Due to being a headstrong, [[Loners Are Freaks|individualistic]] [[Butt Monkey]] and [[Yandere]] with an [[Stalker
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Cassie from ''[[Hack Slash]]'', in a virulently homicidal sort of way. The one and only time she was genuinely happy was when someone got her drunk at springbreak.
* Sometimes, ''[[
* Bertrand Labévue from ''[[Gaston Lagaffe]]''.
* In ''[[
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** The original book Eeyore was a very different character from [[Disneyfication|the toned-down Disney version]] though perhaps more similar to an actual donkey: [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic, rude, occasionally arrogant, but also somewhat intelligent]].
*** He's also a lot like this in the comic strips, appearing to get his jollies from being depressed, and receiving insults.
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Eeyore: *Glares at Pooh*
Pooh: I'm so sorry! It just slipped out! }}
* Puddleglum the [[Fish People|Marshwiggle]] from [[
** Not to mention the [[Jerkass]] [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarfs]] in the last book.
* Dolorous Edd from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' pretends to be this way, but he's really just a [[Deadpan Snarker]].
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* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' is perhaps the Eeyore-iest Eeyore in existence. He's very depressed, he feels under-utilized (''"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and..."''), and due to a series of circumstances involving time travel {{spoiler|he eventually gets to be thirty-seven times as old as the universe itself}} and throughout his entire existence he's had this terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side. His outlook on the universe is so depressing that he {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|drives a computer to suicide]] when he tries to share it with the poor thing. He later does the same thing with a bridge.}}
* Worvil in Jennifer Trafton's novel ''The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic.'' {{spoiler|At one point, "Worvil's upside-down stomach turned inside out, split into a dozen pieces, and started a civil war."}}
* Billy Jack, Dusty's sergeant major in the Civil War novels of [[
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Parodied by "Debbie Downer" from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''. Her theme song says it all:
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Everything's going your way
Then along comes Debbie Downer
Always there to tell you 'bout a new disease
A car accident or killer bees
You'll beg her to spare you
"Debbie, please!"
But you can't stop Debbie Downer!'' }}
* Bova from ''[[Space Cases]]''.
** In one episode it's shown that his father is the same way so it might be a racial trait.
* Seaman "Doom & Gloom" Broom from ''[[Operation Petticoat]]''.
* Private James Frazer from ''[[
* [[The Shield|Detective Ronnie Gardocki]]
* Ted, the completely unsuccessful, miserable, and suicidal ([[Gallows Humor|in a humorous way]]) lawyer from ''[[Scrubs]]'', who serves as the show's [[Butt Monkey]]. Even [[The Woobie]] Elliot casually acknowledges that she is nowhere ''near'' as miserable as Ted.
* Neil, the depressive hippy in ''[[The Young Ones]]'', who has made it his life's mission to inform everyone about how depressed he is.
* ''[[Fraggle Rock]]'' has Boober Fraggle; who is not only depressive and fearful, but is also an obsessive expert on [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|diseases, superstitions, and laundry.]] This actually proves very useful to the other Fraggles, as Boober is always the first to sense impending disaster.
* Howard Moon from [[The Mighty Boosh]]. He's self-described as "dark, fractured, broken, paranoid" and has always been the [[Stop Having Fun Guy]] in all of the show's incarnations. Somewhat justified as the
* Fisher, one of the interns on ''[[Bones]]''. [[Running Gag|Most of his lines involve death, misery, and dying]] and he states that he is jealous of the corpses they work with. After the timeskip between seasons 5 and 6 it is revealed that he spent a year in a mental hospital for being too depressed to do anything but sleep 20 hours a day. Even Cam goes out of her way to try to get him to smile.
* The Reverand Giles Shawcross in the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "The Sword of Guillaume".
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* Hope from the internet comedy podcast ''Hope Is Emo'' is an example.
* There's a ''color'' dedicated to this trope in [[Neopets]], and it's gray. The Gray Faerie usually is portrayed with a cloud over her head, and never, ever says anything cheerful. Fandom has determined that both the faerie, pets and items are just all emo, as there's no reason to do so in such utopic setting.
* Despair from ''[[Descendant of a Demon Lord]]''. Despair isn't just mopey in her day to day behavior. She also captures it in depressing poetry, play scripts, ect...
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Porky Pine from ''[[Pogo (
== [[Radio]] ==
* Marvin the Paranoid Android from ''[[The
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** According to the biography of Douglas Adams written by Neil Gaiman, Marvin was originally based on a friend of his, a manic-depressive named Marshall who could only ever be cheered up by his long-suffering wife; he changed the name from "Marshall" to "Marvin" out of kindness.
*** However, after talking about this in an interview, Adams was called by his mother, who claimed that he was totally wrong - Marvin was Eeyore. Adams went to look at some older copies of ''Winnie the Pooh'', "...and blow me down, so he was!"
*** Adams also said that the story he based Marvin on Andrew Marshall was one he'd told so often he no longer remembered if it was true or not. Marshall, he claimed, really was like that, but this proved nothing because ''all'' [[Sad Clown|comedy writers are Eeyores]].
* Red Symons, former guitarist for the Skyhooks, cultivated this persona for his radio and television career.
* Wartime [[
* The Happy Postman, played by [[Mel Blanc]] on [[The George Burns And
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* [[Older Than Steam]]: Jacques in ''[[As You Like It]]''. The [[Zeroth Law of Trope Examples]] strikes again!
* Henrik in ''[[A Little Night Music]]''.
* Sam in ''[[
* George Washington in ''[[
* This is one interpretation of the title character in ''[[Hamlet]]''. That is, when he's not being the [[Deadpan Snarker]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Xan, the morbidly depressed elven enchanter from the first ''[[
* Vincent Valentine from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' could be seen as one. Though he may be more of a brooding [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* Nearly every non-player elf character in the add-on ''[[Dungeon Siege]] 2: Broken World'' is morbidly depressed, especially Amren, who whines about the loss of his clairvoyant powers ''every time'' you talk to him, no matter what topic you wanted to discuss. Considering what [[Crapsack World|crappy state]] the world is in due to the [[Downer Ending|cataclysm after the end of the second game]], they may have a point, but it quickly gets annoying.
** The dryads... well, most of the dryads have just gone nuts, but ''they'' have to cope with the loss of their forest and most of their population, so their destructive mood is at least justified.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' not only has the original [[Trope Namer]], but also has Namine in ''[[Chain of Memories]]'', though she is considerably happier in ''[[
* In ''[[Star Control]] 2'' the Utwig, after losing the Ultron, their source of motivation, are an entire ''species'' of Eeyores, to the point that they ponder whether to commit mass suicide with a giant bomb, but decide not to because they deserve to suffer. They get better once you fix the thing. In the mythical third game, they go Eeyore again when they lose the Ultron; one of the few good ideas the game has is that when you return it to them, they become audibly happier.
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* In ''[[Wing Commander (
** Also played straight in the ''[[Wing Commander (
* Despite the fact that he's the [[Big Bad|main villain]] in the ''Mario Series'', Bowser sometimes makes a good example of this trope.
* Clive Handforth from ''[[
* [[Meaningful Name|Negative Man]] from ''[[
* [[Meaningful Name|Schwer-Muta]] Casasola Merkle <ref>the German word "Schwermut" means "gloom"</ref> of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' fits this trope. Basically, she always carries a depressed look on her face, she's reclusive and distrusts everyone she meets, and not to mention she's also very shy. She thinks her only friend is her pet squid, Zeppy.
* The Waddle Dees from the [[Kirby]] series.
* The Crestfallen Warrior of ''[[Dark Souls]]'' is content to rest at Firelink Shrine and regale you with his pessimism.
** He eventually gets over it after you ring both bells of Awakening, being inspired and trying to make something of himself. {{spoiler|He promptly goes Hollow in the ruins of New Londo.}}
* Fenris from ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' is this to [[
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Strong Sad from ''[[
** However, some [[Character Development]] has turned him from what the fans call "Depressing Strong Sad" into "Whiney Strong Sad", and is [http://forum.hrwiki.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=14704 now liked more by the fandom] than when he had his old personality.
** ''I don't like food anymore!''
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Davan from ''[[Something
** Considering that he is too, the sympathy usually doesn't stay for long.
* Jeriah from the webcomic ''[[Men in Hats]]''.
* Petitus from ''[[
* Aradia of ''[[Homestuck]]'' is [[Catch Phrase|okay with a lot of things]], including the Trolls' unavoidable failure and the destruction of their universe. Which she likes to remind the others of ''constantly''. The sheer depressing nature of her conversations is probably one of the reasons why she's not very popular in the fandom at large.
** {{spoiler|Until she resurrected into the [[Came Back Strong|God Tiers]] and lost the Eeyore-ness.}}
* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2296/ Dan the Downer] from ''[[Cyanide
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* Toot from ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is an example, though she is so bitter and repulsive that she really garners no sympathy whatsoever.
* Twinkle the Marvel Horse in ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]''.
* Happy Time Harry in the ''[[
* Stork in ''[[
** Mentioned or at least implied to be a cultural trait common to ''all'' Merbians. Terra Merb is so riddled with dangerous creatures, dangerous terrain, dangerous weather, and dangerous combinations of all three that Merbians have simply come to expect the worst out of everything, since it usually happens to them. It's so bad that when something nice happens to the Hawks, Stork can't enjoy it because he's too busy waiting for the punchline. Unfortunately, since Merbians developed their pessimism as a survival mechanism, he has a distressing habit of being right.
* TV viewers of a certain age may (vaguely) remember Hanna-Barbera's ''Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har''; the latter was a "laughing" hyena who never smiled, much less laughed.
** Another Hanna-Barbera property the same era was a reworking of ''[[
** [[Catch Phrase|"We're dooooommmmmed."]] (Note lack of exclamation mark. That's just the way Glum rolls.)
* Misery from ''[[Ruby Gloom]]''.
* Meg from ''[[Family Guy]]''.
** Who veers strongly into [[The Woobie]] category, depending on how the writer treats her. There's a [[Face Heel Turn|post cancellation episode]] where Peter acknowledges that she's not as bad as she deserves to be treated and promises to be nice to her... when nobody else is around. When Lois then enters, Peter proceeds to throw his drink in her face to keep in character.
*** It's worth noting that she occasionally borders on [[Jerkass Woobie]]; since everyone treats her like crap regardless, she eventually goes on a [[Only Sane Man]] rant about how she is essentially [[The Scapegoat|a victim]] of [[Wham! Episode|a variety of domestic abuse]] as everybody downright hates her for no reason. However, she reverts back to the Eeyore role ''again'' when she realizes being the Eeyore is pretty much keeping the family together.
* Mentioned above under Literature, there's Eeyore. [[Tear Jerker|Not that anybody cares about ol' Eeyore.]]
** Ironically, during one episode of the cartoon series, the entire cast notices Eeyore, just sitting on a hill and staring and try to cheer him up. The episode ends with Piglet asking Eeyore why he was so sad while Eeyore is still sitting on the hilltop, watching a beautiful sunset, and Eeyore simply asks "What makes you think I'm sad?"
* [[Toy Story 3|Chuckles the Clown]] is a subversion: [[Expy|he acts much like Eeyore]], [[Hey, It's That Voice!|to the point of sharing a voice actor]], but then you hear his [[Start of Darkness|backstory]].
* A lot of [[Transformers]] have elements of the [[Sour Supporter]] or being real complainers, but Dead End of the Stunticons is known for almost never smiling (lack of a mouth aside) and constantly believing and declaring that their collective doom was at hand. The end result is a character who handily combines fatalism, vanity, and the ability to merge with [[Teeth
* [[My Life
* Mr. Ten from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is eternally depressed. It's eventually revealed that {{spoiler|it's Heloise's fault}}.
* Tina from [[Bob's Burgers]] always has a sad look on her face.
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* Bill Dauterive from ''[[King of the Hill]]'', who fell from being a handsome star linebacker to being a fat, balding, divorced sad sack. In particular the Christmas episode "Pretty Pretty Dresses" where he's fixating on his divorce and spends the first half of the episode reminding everyone of their own failed relationships.
* Shady from ''[[My Little Pony]] and Friends'', not helped by the fact that she was apparently [[Born Unlucky]].
* Cranky Doodle Donkey from the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Fans have viewed [[The Mr. Men Show|Mr. Grumpy]] as this as well.
* Karl Pilkington from [[The Ricky Gervais Show]].
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