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** In ''Tiberium Wars'', Sandra Telfair becomes a complete woobie, with her being {{spoiler|wounded and captured by the Black Hand for interrogation, then being beaten and nearly raped by a Nod soldier, then having to slit ''another'' Nod soldier's throat and being horribly hurt psychologically by doing so}}. Commander Karrde goes through this too, [[The Chains of Commanding|regularly beating himself up over the deaths of his own men]].

* Anyone who's read a certain ''[[Pokémon]]'' fiction involving a boy named Tommy will feel horrible, burning sympathy for pretty much every character. Not only for what's happened in their past, but the fact that once the protagonist manages to escape from the deserted island the story takes place on, he can either leave behind his only friends that aren't dead, or live in ridicule by all other humans who know who he is. But hey, his parents would never reject him. Neither his presumed dead birth parents, or his for sure dead adoptive parents. Gotta catch em all.

* [http://freya-sacksen.livejournal.com freya_sacksen] likes hurting the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] cast. A lot. Especially of note is her [[That Guy with the Glasses in Space|"In Space" fic]], where everyone gets broken but probably the main two suffering in that one are [[Marz Gurl]] and the Nostalgia Critic. [[Marz Gurl]] is generally like [[Firefly|River Tam]] in an apocalyptic future and as for the Critic? {{spoiler|Well, you try being tortured for centuries by [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]] and Dr. Insano, end up failing to save the world and then actually give Ask That Guy the idea to start the whole thing off anyway and see how you feel.}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130416061958/http://freya-sacksen.livejournal.com/ freya_sacksen] likes hurting the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] cast. A lot. Especially of note is her [[That Guy with the Glasses in Space|"In Space" fic]], where everyone gets broken but probably the main two suffering in that one are [[Marz Gurl]] and the Nostalgia Critic. [[Marz Gurl]] is generally like [[Firefly|River Tam]] in an apocalyptic future and as for the Critic? {{spoiler|Well, you try being tortured for centuries by [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]] and Dr. Insano, end up failing to save the world and then actually give Ask That Guy the idea to start the whole thing off anyway and see how you feel.}}

** The Nostalgia Critic, Linkara and Spoony tend to the main woobies of the fanfic fandom, anyway. Spoony seems to [[Break the Cutie|suffer the most psychologically]], Linkara tends to be [[James Bondage|the one for bondage]] and the Critic gets the most [[The Chew Toy|humilation]] and [[Black Comedy Rape|physical]] [[Rape as Drama|torture]]. Although there is, of course, lots of overlap.

*** The Nostalgia Critic as a woobie is such a fandom cliche by now that it's starting to get played with, as in [[Lampshade Hanging|fourth-wall-breaking]] and him [[Subverted Trope|using his reputation to his advantage instead]].