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** Woodstock also is often bullied by Snoopy. Come to think of it, Snoopy has his moments as well.
** Woodstock also is often bullied by Snoopy. Come to think of it, Snoopy has his moments as well.
** Whenever Linus is in that pumpkin patch, you can't help but want to join him.
** Whenever Linus is in that pumpkin patch, you can't help but want to join him.
*** Apparently so much so, that in ''[[Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown]]'' Lucy even went so far as to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|take him home and put him in bed when she found him shivering in the pumpkin patch in the middle of the night.]]
*** Apparently so much so, that in ''[[It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown]]'' Lucy even went so far as to [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|take him home and put him in bed when she found him shivering in the pumpkin patch in the middle of the night.]]
* Barbara Gordon's teddy bear is gonna have to give up the title. Babs herself was humiliated and crippled by [[The Joker]] just to [[Mind Rape|torture her dad]]. Later she was sort-of reborn as Oracle, the [[Hot Scientist|best hacker in the world]], but lots of her fans [[Unpleasable Fanbase|still aren't pleased]].
* Barbara Gordon's teddy bear is gonna have to give up the title. Babs herself was humiliated and crippled by [[The Joker]] just to [[Mind Rape|torture her dad]]. Later she was sort-of reborn as Oracle, the [[Hot Scientist|best hacker in the world]], but lots of her fans [[Unpleasable Fanbase|still aren't pleased]].
** Her successor, Cassandra Cain, if anything, surpasses her. [[Training From Hell]] (to the point of shooting her [[Charles Atlas Superpower|until she learned to get out of the way]]) in isolation from human language, made all the more horrifying by starting from birth and only ending when she ran away at about eight, would be more than enough. The kicker is that she has yet to fully grasp on an emotional level that her upbringing was ''that'' bad aside from the killing thing (which was what prompted her to bolt).
** Her successor, Cassandra Cain, if anything, surpasses her. [[Training From Hell]] (to the point of shooting her [[Charles Atlas Superpower|until she learned to get out of the way]]) in isolation from human language, made all the more horrifying by starting from birth and only ending when she ran away at about eight, would be more than enough. The kicker is that she has yet to fully grasp on an emotional level that her upbringing was ''that'' bad aside from the killing thing (which was what prompted her to bolt).
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* Bruce Banner, A.K.A. the ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]]'', has to be one of the most unfortunate people ever born, even before the gamma bomb accident. His [[Complete Monster|father]] was a [[Abusive Parents|physically and verbally abusive alcoholic]] who was convinced that he was a "monster" just because he was so intelligent, from an early age, eventually murdered his mother right before his eyes by repeatedly smashing her head on the ground, and then browbeat him into not testifying against him in court otherwise he would go to hell; he repressed his emotions in order to avoid being like his father, which caused him to develop [[Split Personality|Multiple Personality Disorder]]; he was picked on and beaten up in school, he took his father in after he was released from a mental institution, only to end up accidentally killing him in self-defence when dear ol' dad reverted to type (he repressed the memory of this for years), and the father of the woman he was falling in love with considered him a milksop. Since becoming the Hulk, he's been constantly harassed and hounded by the military, superheroes, and supervillains, accused of treason, imprisoned, tortured, exploited, and had to spend years on the run from the authorities. Whenever things look like they're looking up for him, his world always gets ripped apart. Brutally. And people wonder what the Hulk's problem is...
* Bruce Banner, A.K.A. the ''[[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|Incredible Hulk]]'', has to be one of the most unfortunate people ever born, even before the gamma bomb accident. His [[Complete Monster|father]] was a [[Abusive Parents|physically and verbally abusive alcoholic]] who was convinced that he was a "monster" just because he was so intelligent, from an early age, eventually murdered his mother right before his eyes by repeatedly smashing her head on the ground, and then browbeat him into not testifying against him in court otherwise he would go to hell; he repressed his emotions in order to avoid being like his father, which caused him to develop [[Split Personality|Multiple Personality Disorder]]; he was picked on and beaten up in school, he took his father in after he was released from a mental institution, only to end up accidentally killing him in self-defence when dear ol' dad reverted to type (he repressed the memory of this for years), and the father of the woman he was falling in love with considered him a milksop. Since becoming the Hulk, he's been constantly harassed and hounded by the military, superheroes, and supervillains, accused of treason, imprisoned, tortured, exploited, and had to spend years on the run from the authorities. Whenever things look like they're looking up for him, his world always gets ripped apart. Brutally. And people wonder what the Hulk's problem is...
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'', pictured above is the [[Unlucky Everydude]] king. He alternates between Woobie and [[The Chew Toy]] as Peter Parker, especially during his high school days. More recently, there's the problems his dual identity causes with his wife, and then there was the time he got [[Body Horror|turned into a grotesque spider-critter by a villain]] and then [[Mister Seahorse|impregnated]]. Then, the greater angst like [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|losing Gwen Stacy]], or Aunt May's [[Disney Death|"death"]], or her being shot more recently, or the aftermath of the Clone Saga (infant daughter kidnapped, never to be seen again. [[Word of God|Writers don't always agree]] on whether she's alive or not, but do agree that aging the character by adding a kid won't do. So worse in a way than a certain death is that Peter will never, ever know what happened to his daughter, who may be out there somewhere and just as likely may not. He gets to live the parent's worst nightmare for the rest of the foreseeable future.)
* ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'', pictured above is the [[Unlucky Everydude]] king. He alternates between Woobie and [[The Chew Toy]] as Peter Parker, especially during his high school days. More recently, there's the problems his dual identity causes with his wife, and then there was the time he got [[Body Horror|turned into a grotesque spider-critter by a villain]] and then [[Mister Seahorse|impregnated]]. Then, the greater angst like [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|losing Gwen Stacy]], or Aunt May's [[Disney Death|"death"]], or her being shot more recently, or the aftermath of the Clone Saga (infant daughter kidnapped, never to be seen again. [[Word of God|Writers don't always agree]] on whether she's alive or not, but do agree that aging the character by adding a kid won't do. So worse in a way than a certain death is that Peter will never, ever know what happened to his daughter, who may be out there somewhere and just as likely may not. He gets to live the parent's worst nightmare for the rest of the foreseeable future.)
** Nicely inverted in the ''[[Spider Man Loves Mary Jane]]'' series, in which Mary Jane is the insecure woobie who can't seem to catch a break with her love life.
** Nicely inverted in the ''[[Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane]]'' series, in which Mary Jane is the insecure woobie who can't seem to catch a break with her love life.
** Though, MJ's pretty Woobie-ish too in the main universe. Her dad's an asshole, her mom's dead, her sister and her stopped speaking years ago, the only family that she gets on with is her elderly aunt, she's been blacklisted by jeallous agents many times, nearly raped or kidnapped by villains or common creeps, and was once kidnapped and believed dead while being mindraped. And, even though she's recieved training by Captain America himself amongst others, pretty much everyone seems to think of her as a danger magnet Damsel. Then, when she was married, she spent ages waiting for her husband to come home from his duty, once waiting a whole four days while the news stories claimed he was dead. And, add to the fact that all the people Peter has lost (minus Uncle Ben) she was quite close to as well and it was her baby that was kidnapped as well, meaning she too is living every parents worst nightmare. Also, she was guilt-tripped into selling her marriage to save her aunt-in-law, at the cost of the child she was carrying. After this, she's still in love with Peter, but still feels guilty for breaking up with him and has had to resort as being just his best friend.
** Though, MJ's pretty Woobie-ish too in the main universe. Her dad's an asshole, her mom's dead, her sister and her stopped speaking years ago, the only family that she gets on with is her elderly aunt, she's been blacklisted by jeallous agents many times, nearly raped or kidnapped by villains or common creeps, and was once kidnapped and believed dead while being mindraped. And, even though she's recieved training by Captain America himself amongst others, pretty much everyone seems to think of her as a danger magnet Damsel. Then, when she was married, she spent ages waiting for her husband to come home from his duty, once waiting a whole four days while the news stories claimed he was dead. And, add to the fact that all the people Peter has lost (minus Uncle Ben) she was quite close to as well and it was her baby that was kidnapped as well, meaning she too is living every parents worst nightmare. Also, she was guilt-tripped into selling her marriage to save her aunt-in-law, at the cost of the child she was carrying. After this, she's still in love with Peter, but still feels guilty for breaking up with him and has had to resort as being just his best friend.
* [[Spider Girl]] confirms that Woobiehood is genetic. Although May doesn't have it quite as bad as Pete, just the usual life-complicated-due-to-heroics deal... until she finds out she [[Cloning Blues|might be a clone]] and is forced to fight [[People Puppets|Norman Osborn in her father's body]].
* [[Spider Girl]] confirms that Woobiehood is genetic. Although May doesn't have it quite as bad as Pete, just the usual life-complicated-due-to-heroics deal... until she finds out she [[Cloning Blues|might be a clone]] and is forced to fight [[People Puppets|Norman Osborn in her father's body]].
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* ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' is the eponymous woobie of her series. In the first book, her boyfriend as much remarks that it's his desire to [[Hurt Comfort Fic|comfort]] her (as well as "Tap that @$$") that attracts him to her. And oh boy, does she ''ever'' need to be comforted; pretty much every day of her life is a blur of pain, failure, humiliation, and body-image issues, and that's just what's going on ''now''.
* ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'' is the eponymous woobie of her series. In the first book, her boyfriend as much remarks that it's his desire to [[Hurt Comfort Fic|comfort]] her (as well as "Tap that @$$") that attracts him to her. And oh boy, does she ''ever'' need to be comforted; pretty much every day of her life is a blur of pain, failure, humiliation, and body-image issues, and that's just what's going on ''now''.
** [[McNinja|Ninjette]] and [[Alpha Bitch|Sistah Spooky]] get their Woobie moments too. [[Troubled but Cute|ThugBoy's]] moment is [[Foreshadowing|coming]].
** [[McNinja|Ninjette]] and [[Alpha Bitch|Sistah Spooky]] get their Woobie moments too. [[Troubled but Cute|ThugBoy's]] moment is [[Foreshadowing|coming]].
** Sistah Spooky, while a bitch, falls firmly into the 'nobody deserves ''that''' camp in volume 6. {{spoiler|Her teammates do the sum total of asking Emp to keep an eye on her after the death of her girlfriend Mindf*** leaves her near-catatonic with grief. She can't talk to anyone except Emp, her worst enemy, because no other person knows. Mind' left a neural clone in her memories, twisting the knife further as she couldn't save the real one. Then Spooky's [[Deal With the Devil|Infernal Service Provider]] contacts her to [[Hannibal Lecture|say Mind's soul was in hell suffering unimaginable torture because she loved "a loathsome piece of shit like her." And BTW you're still damned, so call me?]]}} Get this woman some ther- [[There Are No Therapists|oh wait]].
** Sistah Spooky, while a bitch, falls firmly into the 'nobody deserves ''that''' camp in volume 6. {{spoiler|Her teammates do the sum total of asking Emp to keep an eye on her after the death of her girlfriend Mindf*** leaves her near-catatonic with grief. She can't talk to anyone except Emp, her worst enemy, because no other person knows. Mind' left a neural clone in her memories, twisting the knife further as she couldn't save the real one. Then Spooky's [[Deal with the Devil|Infernal Service Provider]] contacts her to [[Hannibal Lecture|say Mind's soul was in hell suffering unimaginable torture because she loved "a loathsome piece of shit like her." And BTW you're still damned, so call me?]]}} Get this woman some ther- [[There Are No Therapists|oh wait]].
* Even [[Crazy Awesome|Deadpool]] can be subjected to this. {{spoiler|His mother died of cancer when he was five, his father was possibly killed by a drunk in a bar fight, his wife was killed by a crazy mercenary, he joined Weapon X because they promised to make him a superpowered hero and cure his cancer (most likely the same cancer that killed his mother), but instead was thrown in the reject pile and experimented on by a mad scientist, began to wish for death so strongly that he ended up having a love affair with the anthropomorphic personification of Death, and when he stood up to the bully bodyguard Ajax the guy got back at him by torturing one of his friends to death and then killing him. Then his healing factor activated which allowed him to defeat Ajax and save everyone, but also caused him to be separated from his lover Death and suffer severe brain damage that screws up his memories and he's also horribly scarred from the cancer. During the series, he gets attacked by the guy who killed his wife, who now claims that he is Wade Wilson and Deadpool was the mercenary who killed his wife, and Deadpool can't refute his claims because his memories are so messed up, when he tries to stop killing people and become a hero, he's forced to kill Ajax to save the spirits of his old friends from Weapon X, then he's recruited to save the world by killing a being who stands in the way of the prophesied savior, but the savior "saves" the human race by sapping them of free will so he ends up killing the thing to save the world the whole time wondering if he's doing the right thing.}} And that's not even getting into Cable and Deadpool, which admittedly does make things a bit better for him, but seriously, the guy can't catch a break. Of course, this is subverted a bit because he's sensible enough not to angst about it all the time, but still.
* Even [[Crazy Awesome|Deadpool]] can be subjected to this. {{spoiler|His mother died of cancer when he was five, his father was possibly killed by a drunk in a bar fight, his wife was killed by a crazy mercenary, he joined Weapon X because they promised to make him a superpowered hero and cure his cancer (most likely the same cancer that killed his mother), but instead was thrown in the reject pile and experimented on by a mad scientist, began to wish for death so strongly that he ended up having a love affair with the anthropomorphic personification of Death, and when he stood up to the bully bodyguard Ajax the guy got back at him by torturing one of his friends to death and then killing him. Then his healing factor activated which allowed him to defeat Ajax and save everyone, but also caused him to be separated from his lover Death and suffer severe brain damage that screws up his memories and he's also horribly scarred from the cancer. During the series, he gets attacked by the guy who killed his wife, who now claims that he is Wade Wilson and Deadpool was the mercenary who killed his wife, and Deadpool can't refute his claims because his memories are so messed up, when he tries to stop killing people and become a hero, he's forced to kill Ajax to save the spirits of his old friends from Weapon X, then he's recruited to save the world by killing a being who stands in the way of the prophesied savior, but the savior "saves" the human race by sapping them of free will so he ends up killing the thing to save the world the whole time wondering if he's doing the right thing.}} And that's not even getting into Cable and Deadpool, which admittedly does make things a bit better for him, but seriously, the guy can't catch a break. Of course, this is subverted a bit because he's sensible enough not to angst about it all the time, but still.
** Deadpool ''[[Cloudcuckoolander|isn't]]'' [[Chaotic Neutral|sensible]], he just avoids [[Wangst|Wangsting]] about it because [[Medium Awareness|he knows what it'll do to his sales]].
** Deadpool ''[[Cloudcuckoolander|isn't]]'' [[Chaotic Neutral|sensible]], he just avoids [[Wangst|Wangsting]] about it because [[Medium Awareness|he knows what it'll do to his sales]].
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** {{spoiler|And now she's gotten the Mark of Cain on her face from Vandal Savage, causing those who see her to fear and distrust her.}} Poor Renee...
** {{spoiler|And now she's gotten the Mark of Cain on her face from Vandal Savage, causing those who see her to fear and distrust her.}} Poor Renee...
* The [[Green Lantern]] Guy Gardner can count as this, although it's not that obvious. I came to this revelation mostly due to an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] that has developed after some psychology classes and a new understanding of brain damage. [http://kalinara.blogspot.com/2006/04/so-whats-up-with-guy-gardner-obsession.html This] article (not mine) outlines a lot of my reasons for this. I don't think the poor [[Incredibly Lame Pun|guy]] ever caught a break for a long time...
* The [[Green Lantern]] Guy Gardner can count as this, although it's not that obvious. I came to this revelation mostly due to an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] that has developed after some psychology classes and a new understanding of brain damage. [http://kalinara.blogspot.com/2006/04/so-whats-up-with-guy-gardner-obsession.html This] article (not mine) outlines a lot of my reasons for this. I don't think the poor [[Incredibly Lame Pun|guy]] ever caught a break for a long time...
* Jules Hedgehog from [[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Book)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]. he had to stay a robot, and thus can not eat or sleep. Poor guy needs a hug..
* Jules Hedgehog from [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]. he had to stay a robot, and thus can not eat or sleep. Poor guy needs a hug..
** [[Artificial Intelligence|NICOLE]] built an impenetrable city out of nanites for her friends, constructed a holographic body so she could interact with her friends more intimately, and went through the start of the whole [[Become a Real Boy]] process. {{spoiler|And then she gets brainwashed by a [[Technopath]], traps everyone inside the city, and starts converting everyone into cyborg slaves. She gets freed an issue later...but has to pretend nothing's changed, [[Forced to Watch|meaning she's fully conscious as more and more citizens get "Legionized."]] Once that's all over, [[All the Other Reindeer|just about every non-Freedom Fighter is terrified of her]], which then gets manipulated into a full-on [[Hate Plague]] by ''another'' villain. By the time she's reduced to a sobbing mess in a server room, she's more than earned her place in the entry.}}
** [[Artificial Intelligence|NICOLE]] built an impenetrable city out of nanites for her friends, constructed a holographic body so she could interact with her friends more intimately, and went through the start of the whole [[Become a Real Boy]] process. {{spoiler|And then she gets brainwashed by a [[Technopath]], traps everyone inside the city, and starts converting everyone into cyborg slaves. She gets freed an issue later...but has to pretend nothing's changed, [[Forced to Watch|meaning she's fully conscious as more and more citizens get "Legionized."]] Once that's all over, [[All the Other Reindeer|just about every non-Freedom Fighter is terrified of her]], which then gets manipulated into a full-on [[Hate Plague]] by ''another'' villain. By the time she's reduced to a sobbing mess in a server room, she's more than earned her place in the entry.}}
*** Don't forget {{spoiler|Her best friend and the person who was most likely to be able to help her was recently captured and Robotized by Robotnik, with her possibly having been able to help and stop it from happening if the person who started the hate plague didn't intentionally interupt her actions...}}
*** Don't forget {{spoiler|Her best friend and the person who was most likely to be able to help her was recently captured and Robotized by Robotnik, with her possibly having been able to help and stop it from happening if the person who started the hate plague didn't intentionally interupt her actions...}}
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* ''[[Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' turned former Generation-2-toy-only-character-that-was-only-available-in-Europe-and-Australia Ironfist into this. Considering the bios of Generation 2 toys are basically just big [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasts]]... that's something.
* ''[[Transformers Last Stand of the Wreckers]]'' turned former Generation-2-toy-only-character-that-was-only-available-in-Europe-and-Australia Ironfist into this. Considering the bios of Generation 2 toys are basically just big [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasts]]... that's something.
* [[Runaways]] is what happens when you have an entire ''team'' of woobies. [[Parental Abandonment]] is sort of built into the premise.
* [[Runaways]] is what happens when you have an entire ''team'' of woobies. [[Parental Abandonment]] is sort of built into the premise.
* Cassie Hack of ''[[Hack Slash|Hack/Slash]]''. Abandoned by her father, relentlessly bullied, raised by an overbearing, somewhat unstable and possibly abusive mother who committed suicide in front of her when it was discovered she was a [[Serial Killer]], with Cassie later being forced to personally kill her (by ''shooting her in the face'') when she returned as an undead monster. Oh yeah, and when she finally does meet her father and learns [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]], he gets killed... by her resurrected mother... who she is forced to kill again. Really, its no wonder she's a bit of a [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]].
* Cassie Hack of ''[[Hack Slash]]''. Abandoned by her father, relentlessly bullied, raised by an overbearing, somewhat unstable and possibly abusive mother who committed suicide in front of her when it was discovered she was a [[Serial Killer]], with Cassie later being forced to personally kill her (by ''shooting her in the face'') when she returned as an undead monster. Oh yeah, and when she finally does meet her father and learns [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You]], he gets killed... by her resurrected mother... who she is forced to kill again. Really, its no wonder she's a bit of a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]].
* The membership of the Red Lantern Corps is full of these. According to Atrocitus himself, the specific rage powering the Red Lanterns stems from personal pain, "those whose lives were ravaged by greed, lust, and control." One really notable example of this would be Dex-Starr a.k.a. Ruffles the Rage Kitty {{spoiler|who, as we learn, was once a simple house cat named Dexter that was rescued as a kitten by an impoverished woman in New York, and one of the few things that made her life bearable. One night, Dex-Starr wakes up his master when a burglar breaks into her apartment, which results in the burglar killing the woman and running off before the police arrive. When the police do arrive, they toss Dex-Starr away so that he doesn't contaminate the crime scene, forcing him to live as a stray. And then [[It Got Worse]]. Some thugs stuff him into a bag and drop him from the Brooklyn Bridge to his almost certain demise... until the Red Ring looking for a recruit in Sector 2814 shows up and chooses Dex-Starr. At this point, he was the angriest thing in our sector of the universe. Think about that for a second. His first act of business is to incinerate the thugs that tried to kill him. The last few panels of his origin story are him sleeping on the streets, curled around a human skull, remembering his owner and promising revenge on the one who killed her, complete with actual tears of grief which should technically be impossible for a Red Lantern and a housecat.}}
* The membership of the Red Lantern Corps is full of these. According to Atrocitus himself, the specific rage powering the Red Lanterns stems from personal pain, "those whose lives were ravaged by greed, lust, and control." One really notable example of this would be Dex-Starr a.k.a. Ruffles the Rage Kitty {{spoiler|who, as we learn, was once a simple house cat named Dexter that was rescued as a kitten by an impoverished woman in New York, and one of the few things that made her life bearable. One night, Dex-Starr wakes up his master when a burglar breaks into her apartment, which results in the burglar killing the woman and running off before the police arrive. When the police do arrive, they toss Dex-Starr away so that he doesn't contaminate the crime scene, forcing him to live as a stray. And then [[It Got Worse]]. Some thugs stuff him into a bag and drop him from the Brooklyn Bridge to his almost certain demise... until the Red Ring looking for a recruit in Sector 2814 shows up and chooses Dex-Starr. At this point, he was the angriest thing in our sector of the universe. Think about that for a second. His first act of business is to incinerate the thugs that tried to kill him. The last few panels of his origin story are him sleeping on the streets, curled around a human skull, remembering his owner and promising revenge on the one who killed her, complete with actual tears of grief which should technically be impossible for a Red Lantern and a housecat.}}
{{quote| '''Dex-Starr:''' {{spoiler|I find one who hurt you. I kill. I good kitty.}}}}
{{quote| '''Dex-Starr:''' {{spoiler|I find one who hurt you. I kill. I good kitty.}}}}
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* Eliot, from issue 4 ("Between The Cracks") of volume 1 of [[Generation X]]... {{spoiler|He isn't even a mutant, he's "just ugly" according to Synch, but that doesn't stop everyone from [[Kick the Dog|hating him]].}}
* Eliot, from issue 4 ("Between The Cracks") of volume 1 of [[Generation X]]... {{spoiler|He isn't even a mutant, he's "just ugly" according to Synch, but that doesn't stop everyone from [[Kick the Dog|hating him]].}}
* Matt McLimore from ''[[Dork Tower]]''. He is part of a gaming group that drives him nuts with their insane tactics, anything he enjoys is instantly discredited as outdated or dull, his blog gets ''zero'' hits, his attempts at self-publishing have yet to succeed, the girl he has a crush on is only vaguely aware of his existence, and his on-again off-again girlfriend is a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who belittles everything he does and everyone he associates with.
* Matt McLimore from ''[[Dork Tower]]''. He is part of a gaming group that drives him nuts with their insane tactics, anything he enjoys is instantly discredited as outdated or dull, his blog gets ''zero'' hits, his attempts at self-publishing have yet to succeed, the girl he has a crush on is only vaguely aware of his existence, and his on-again off-again girlfriend is a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who belittles everything he does and everyone he associates with.
* [[Captain Atom (Comic Book)|Captain Atom]] in his Charlton Comics period was a fairly average stock hero. Upon being incorporated into [[The DCU]], Captain Atom started closely fitting the trope. His heroic Charlton past rewritten as a Metafictional story baked for the general public, young soldier Nathaniel Adam was framed for a crime he never committed. Desperate to get back to his family, Nathaniel agreed to be strapped to an atomic bomb, acting as a guinea pig for an alien alloy. Upon waking up as a superpowered powerhouse, twenty years later, he finds that his Jerk superior, Colonel Wade Eiling (the same dude framing him, by the way) had married his beloved wife, who died sadly of old age believing Nathaniel dead, and a traitor. Due to Nathaniel having been pronounced dead after his disappearance, Eiling never got his pardon sent, thus he becomes literally a pawn in his hands, forced to act as a mole in the superhero community for his power-hungry commanding officer. From there, Captain Atom's life becomes a never ending series of pain and suffering, briefly summarized in: his only son, raised by his worst enemy, hating him as a traitor to everything the All-American boy Adam used to stand for, being constantly blackmailed into obedience by Eiling, getting married again, and dumped, by a Canadian Terrorist, sacrificing his life to save the universe without ''anyone at all caring about'', save for Superman and Batman, getting shunted into a parallel dimension of Jerks (the [[Wildstorm]] universe) and becoming a Big Fat [[Reset Button]] for that reality, being shunted back to his Earth, getting [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|enough battleaxe crazy to amass an army of enslaved superheroes to take back the Multiverse]], falling into a coma, being enslaved by a magic evil chick from another world, and getting back to normal just to find how everyone hates his guts now. Just to make his life more miserable, during the [[Brightest Day]] storyline {{spoiler|Captain Atom finds out that his quantum energized body is still evolving, so he's [[Not Even Human]] anymore}}.
* [[Captain Atom]] in his Charlton Comics period was a fairly average stock hero. Upon being incorporated into [[The DCU]], Captain Atom started closely fitting the trope. His heroic Charlton past rewritten as a Metafictional story baked for the general public, young soldier Nathaniel Adam was framed for a crime he never committed. Desperate to get back to his family, Nathaniel agreed to be strapped to an atomic bomb, acting as a guinea pig for an alien alloy. Upon waking up as a superpowered powerhouse, twenty years later, he finds that his Jerk superior, Colonel Wade Eiling (the same dude framing him, by the way) had married his beloved wife, who died sadly of old age believing Nathaniel dead, and a traitor. Due to Nathaniel having been pronounced dead after his disappearance, Eiling never got his pardon sent, thus he becomes literally a pawn in his hands, forced to act as a mole in the superhero community for his power-hungry commanding officer. From there, Captain Atom's life becomes a never ending series of pain and suffering, briefly summarized in: his only son, raised by his worst enemy, hating him as a traitor to everything the All-American boy Adam used to stand for, being constantly blackmailed into obedience by Eiling, getting married again, and dumped, by a Canadian Terrorist, sacrificing his life to save the universe without ''anyone at all caring about'', save for Superman and Batman, getting shunted into a parallel dimension of Jerks (the [[Wildstorm]] universe) and becoming a Big Fat [[Reset Button]] for that reality, being shunted back to his Earth, getting [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|enough battleaxe crazy to amass an army of enslaved superheroes to take back the Multiverse]], falling into a coma, being enslaved by a magic evil chick from another world, and getting back to normal just to find how everyone hates his guts now. Just to make his life more miserable, during the [[Brightest Day]] storyline {{spoiler|Captain Atom finds out that his quantum energized body is still evolving, so he's [[Not Even Human]] anymore}}.
* Rosemary Almond from ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', whose whole life looks like a [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]], except it's done well and ''without'' the [[Straw Feminist]] undertones. She once was a happy housewife and had a man she loved but then [[It Got Worse|shit happened]] and her husband, Derek, went to serve the totalitarian regime that took over UK. Derek began to drink and grew into a full-blown [[Domestic Abuser]], who would batter and neglect his gentle and faithful wife every evening. Then Derek dies at [[Anti-Hero|V]]'s hands and the government refuses to give her any pension. She resorts to going out with one of her husband's co-workers, Roger, who was hitting on her, but his sole purpose was to sully the memory of Derek by fucking his widow. Roger is also killed some time later. She is then expelled from the high society she was a part of and resorts to being a showgirl to support herself. Think it ends here? [[It Got Worse|Think again]]. Having lost everything and everyone that mattered to her, Rosemary eventually decides to make somebody pay for all what was done to her. She utterly shoots dictator Adam Susan in the head, who failed to even recognize her even though they had met many times before. She ends up tortured by the Fingermen, the state's police, knowing full well it would happen to her but preferring to [[Heroic Sacrifice|die with honour]] rather than being just another victim of the state. Poor, ''poor'' Rosemary...
* Rosemary Almond from ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', whose whole life looks like a [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]], except it's done well and ''without'' the [[Straw Feminist]] undertones. She once was a happy housewife and had a man she loved but then [[It Got Worse|shit happened]] and her husband, Derek, went to serve the totalitarian regime that took over UK. Derek began to drink and grew into a full-blown [[Domestic Abuser]], who would batter and neglect his gentle and faithful wife every evening. Then Derek dies at [[Anti-Hero|V]]'s hands and the government refuses to give her any pension. She resorts to going out with one of her husband's co-workers, Roger, who was hitting on her, but his sole purpose was to sully the memory of Derek by fucking his widow. Roger is also killed some time later. She is then expelled from the high society she was a part of and resorts to being a showgirl to support herself. Think it ends here? [[It Got Worse|Think again]]. Having lost everything and everyone that mattered to her, Rosemary eventually decides to make somebody pay for all what was done to her. She utterly shoots dictator Adam Susan in the head, who failed to even recognize her even though they had met many times before. She ends up tortured by the Fingermen, the state's police, knowing full well it would happen to her but preferring to [[Heroic Sacrifice|die with honour]] rather than being just another victim of the state. Poor, ''poor'' Rosemary...
* To be a member of The [[X Men]], one must have 3 things: An X-Gene, a need to learn how to control their abilities and use them to better mankind, and a very depressing origin story. Name ONE character who's an X-Man but not a woobie, Name ONE! Hard, ain't it? Even [[The Scrappy|the scrappies]] and Creators pets are woobies.
* To be a member of The [[X-Men]], one must have 3 things: An X-Gene, a need to learn how to control their abilities and use them to better mankind, and a very depressing origin story. Name ONE character who's an X-Man but not a woobie, Name ONE! Hard, ain't it? Even [[The Scrappy|the scrappies]] and Creators pets are woobies.
** Proof in point, the first of the X-Men: Cyclops lost his parents in an accident and was seperated from his only family and grew up in a foster home where he was bullied by kids and staff alike because one mutant was obsessed with his genes. He also can't control his power either due to brain damage, psychological repression, or because someone made him unable to. This is worse since his power is to shoot a neverending, potentially unlimited ammount of destructive energy from his eyes, meaning he hasn't been able to look anyone in the eye since he was forteen. As the leader, he's had to repress every emotion he has, causing most to view him as cold or distant, which is followed by the woman he loved dying, his marriage breaking down (for which he's blamed for), before the love of his life to die AGAIN while everyone blames him for a psychic affair he didn't actually consent to. Oh, and everybody seems to hate him because he had to [[I Did What I Had to Do|cross the line]] in order to save everyone, and since he's basically sacrificed everything in order to keep the few mutants left alive, its caused his best friend to abandon him, his rival to take moral superiority, all the children he worked to protect sided against him, his girlfriend and his only friend left only sided with him out of loyalty, and throughout all of this, he's constantly ignored in favour of a hairy Canadian bloke who heals fast.
** Proof in point, the first of the X-Men: Cyclops lost his parents in an accident and was seperated from his only family and grew up in a foster home where he was bullied by kids and staff alike because one mutant was obsessed with his genes. He also can't control his power either due to brain damage, psychological repression, or because someone made him unable to. This is worse since his power is to shoot a neverending, potentially unlimited ammount of destructive energy from his eyes, meaning he hasn't been able to look anyone in the eye since he was forteen. As the leader, he's had to repress every emotion he has, causing most to view him as cold or distant, which is followed by the woman he loved dying, his marriage breaking down (for which he's blamed for), before the love of his life to die AGAIN while everyone blames him for a psychic affair he didn't actually consent to. Oh, and everybody seems to hate him because he had to [[I Did What I Had to Do|cross the line]] in order to save everyone, and since he's basically sacrificed everything in order to keep the few mutants left alive, its caused his best friend to abandon him, his rival to take moral superiority, all the children he worked to protect sided against him, his girlfriend and his only friend left only sided with him out of loyalty, and throughout all of this, he's constantly ignored in favour of a hairy Canadian bloke who heals fast.
* Poor [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]]'s never-ending train of life-suckitude is probably second only to that of [[Spider Man]], especially before the [[Modern Age]], living through kidnapping, torture, heart problems, evil girlfriends, murderous ex-friends, alcoholism, brainwashing, terrible luck, and dozens of plots to make his life a living hell that would put Daredevil's iconic torment by the Kingpin to shame, all sprinkled with [[Survivors Guilt]].
* Poor [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]]'s never-ending train of life-suckitude is probably second only to that of [[Spider-Man]], especially before the [[Modern Age]], living through kidnapping, torture, heart problems, evil girlfriends, murderous ex-friends, alcoholism, brainwashing, terrible luck, and dozens of plots to make his life a living hell that would put Daredevil's iconic torment by the Kingpin to shame, all sprinkled with [[Survivors Guilt]].
** It gets worse: Remember, Tony's a genius, so he knows the dangers of alcohol poisoning. You know what motivated him to drink? He hated himself that much he wanted to die, and tried to litterally kill himself with booze.
** It gets worse: Remember, Tony's a genius, so he knows the dangers of alcohol poisoning. You know what motivated him to drink? He hated himself that much he wanted to die, and tried to litterally kill himself with booze.
** And, to make life worse, after one drink during [[Apocalypse How|The apparant end of the world]] during The Serpent's invasion, where he gave up everything he could to make Odin see that humanity wasn't worthless, he's now being blackmailed by the Mandarin-controled American govornment, they've somehow managed to twist one drink during the end of the world into permission for them to attatch a power limiter to Iron Man which can shut off his powers (when the General doing so in question deserted during fear itself...). Due to this, he's had to watch {{spoiler|his best freind die jsut a few feet away from him}}.
** And, to make life worse, after one drink during [[Apocalypse How|The apparant end of the world]] during The Serpent's invasion, where he gave up everything he could to make Odin see that humanity wasn't worthless, he's now being blackmailed by the Mandarin-controled American govornment, they've somehow managed to twist one drink during the end of the world into permission for them to attatch a power limiter to Iron Man which can shut off his powers (when the General doing so in question deserted during fear itself...). Due to this, he's had to watch {{spoiler|his best freind die jsut a few feet away from him}}.
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