The Eeyore: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Grumpy Bear]]. [[The Pollyanna]] is the polar opposite of this trope.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* 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.

* 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 [[The Eeyore]], as he really ''is'' the [[Butt Monkey]] of his entire universe. In ''The Power of The Crimp,'' usually cheerful Vince is depressed and starts rattling off bleak imagery, to which Howard responds, "Have you got my script?"

* 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.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** Subverted when he won a million bazillion dollars. He smiled ear to ear, and leaped across the screen.

* Toot from ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is an example, though she is so bitter and repulsive that she really garners no sympathy whatsoever.

* 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?"

* 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 Clenched Teamwork|four other belligerent, hardly-cooperative maniacs]] into [[Combining Mecha|one particularly large maniac.]]

* [[My Life As a Teenage Robot|Jenny's]] "sister" XJ-7, who has a built-in slouch and frowning expression.

* 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]].

* Fans have viewed [[The Mr. Men Show|Mr. Grumpy]] as this as well.

* Karl Pilkington from [[The Ricky Gervais Show]].