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* While he was portrayed as a [[Butt Monkey]] in the canon series, [[Digimon Adventure 02|Daisuke]] [[The Hero|Motomiya]] is usually portrayed as a woobie in non-canon stories. Two of them which are so excellent written that you would believe that they're canon in the first place. The first one is ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1584078/1/Zero_2_A_Revision Zero 2: A Revision]'' and the second one is ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/81143/1/Walkabout Walkabout]''. In both of them, he's usually portrayed as a guy with an inferiority complex and behind his boasting and carefree nature is a [[Stepford Smiler|lonely boy who just pretend this facade]] in order to cope with his unpopularity within his Digidestined group, at school and at home. In ''A Revision'', his suffering at the hands of his nakama, who never seems to appreciate his hard work and [[Ungrateful Bastard|is always putting him down for the smallest thing]], allows the digivolved version of Devimon to put him through a [[Mind Rape]] which turned him into the [[Psycho for Hire|homicidal]], [[For the Evulz|ruthless]] [[Blood Knight|fighting]]-[[Complete Monster|killing-machine]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Darkheart]]. In ''Walkabout'', he didn't get promoted to a [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]] but he still kept his woobie status. In this story, he decided to do an "walkabout" through the Digital World in order to search his soul and improve himself so that he could be accepted by his peers. These stories are developed his character very well, making him an intelligent yet naive person who clearly has issues with himself and the others, and those who were disappointed on the canon's lack of [[Character Development]] on him should read these stories.

* In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles section on fanfiction.net, Donatello seems to be rather popular with being hurt in some fashion on top of being emotionally abused by Shredder, and in some cases, his own brothers. [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/931023/ lion-of-judah] is one author that pretty much attacks Donatello at every moment.

** It gets worse. It turns out that ND!Asuka is so emotionally messed up as to have developed multiple personality disorder. That doll the Canon!Kyoko talked do as if it were Canon!Asuka after {{spoiler|literally}} losing her mind? ND!Asuka talks to it... and it "talks" back.

* [[Team Fortress 2]] masterpiece ''[[Respawn of the Dead]]'' has the Medic as Herr Woobie. To only list a few of the horrible things that happen to the poor guy, he has to put down his pet zombie (is much more heartwrenching than it sounds), has to leave his beloved behind to die in a zombie attack, and is forced to decapitate the member of the team who was most depending on him so he doesn't become a zombie. The poor guy just can NOT catch a break.

* [[Star Trek (film)|Jim Kirk]] gets Woobified quite a bit in reboot fanfics. In fact, there is an entire comm on fanfiction.net entitled "Hurt!Jim fans unite" and it's gotten to the point Kirk-centered [[Hurt/Comfort Fic|Hurt Comfort Fics]] have become an in-fandom cliche. Spock and Chekhov get it alot, too, but in Spock's case it's justified since {{spoiler|he is an outcast due to his half-human heritage, has daddy issues, and [[Trauma Conga Line|his planet blew up.]]}} In Chekhov's case it's justified because Chekhov has [[The Cutie|big adorable puppy dog eyes.]]

* Poor, poor Rei Kakizaki, of ''[[Yukari Is Free]]''. Develop poor social skills due to crippling shyness? Check. Have father and sister killed in [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombie outbreak?]] Check. Be forced to [[Self-Made Orphan|beat her zombified mother to death]] with a bat to save her other sister? Check. Nearly [[Rape as Backstory|raped]] by one of the soldiers who saved her? Check. Be constantly harassed by the team [[Jerkass]]? Check. Further traumatized into becoming mute by {{spoiler|her sister [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificing herself]] to save her?}} Check. Attempt and fail suicide? Check. {{spoiler|Be told by a hideous demon that he's going take her to hell to serve as his endtable unless the man she [[All Love Is Unrequited|loves]] kills thirteen random people?}} Oh my goodness, Check. At any rate, she seems to be, at long, long last, getting better.

* Mao in [[Code Geass: Mao of the Deliverance|Code Geass Mao of the Deliverance]] becomes this in ''the very first chapter''! And from there it doesn't let up, all the way through a [[Trauma Conga Line]] of [[Doom Magnet|Doom Magnetism]], [[It Got Worse]], [[Love Martyr|Love Martyrdom]], [[Butt Monkey|Butt Monkeying]] and [[Love Makes You Crazy]], finally culminating in a [[Despair Event Horizon]], all the while he's hiding his mind numbing misery behind a [[Stepford Smiler|Stepford Smiling]] [[Jerkass Facade]]. [[Break the Cutie]]? Check. [[Troubled but Cute]]? Check.

* Heather is portrayed as one in many ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' fics, either what made her into such a cruel girl or after she got back from the show and is ridiculed by many.

* [[Collection of Sacrifices]], a [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|MLP: FiM]] fic, has Jadie. In the first two chapters alone, she's torn away from her family, kidnapped and forced into the army, forced to watch a public torture session on someone she presumably looked up to, has no friends in the camp (so far), and we leave off at chapter two with her being attacked. The one character who provides her '''any''' sympathy is still a rather large [[Jerkass]]. It seems like this many twists wouldn't work well, but the author(s) manage to pull it off spectacularly.

* Speaking of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fics, many of them portray [[Fan Nickname|Derpy Hooves]] this way, even though in canon, she's just one of several ponies who appear in the background, who just happens to have a strabismus. "[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-bubbles.html Bubbles]" and "[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-today-tomorrow-and-forever.html Today, Tomorrow, and Forever]" are two noteworthy examples.

** Splodge also gets the [[Break the Cutie]] treatment, considering the fact he has to be babysat FOR A MONTH by his psychopath cousin who plays Russian roulette with him. Jeromy is so terrifying to poor Splodge that he manages to reduce Splodge to tears and vomiting.

** Danny Dingo easily qualifies as a [[Jerkass Woobie]] in the fic after he {{spoiler|gets infected with AIDS/HIV}} In the final chapter, his tragic past is revealed, he {{spoiler|had an abusive father who locked him in a closet and once threw him off a cliff just cause Danny was born with black fur. Furtermore, Ma dingo bartered him off in exchange for sex only to buy him back after his father was institutionalized.}} No wonder Danny because such a scheming jerk.

* [[He's Back|Firefly]] from ''[[Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''. She lost [[Doomed Hometown|virtually]] [[Parental Abandonment|everything dear]] [[Trauma Conga Line|to her]] as a filly, thanks to {{spoiler|Black Star}}. It's understandable that her wingmares, especially [[The Heroine|Rainbow Dash]] sympathize with her greatly.