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''[[Doctor Who]]'' has its share of Woobies.
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== [[Doctor Who]] ==
* The Doctor. ''Particularly'' his [[David Tennant|tenth incarnation]]. The Series 4 finale, "Journey's End", gave him so many examples of this in one episode, it managed to top the last three seasons ''combined''.
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** The [[Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio ''The Boy That Time Forgot'', debatable canon aside, cranks it up quite a few notches, especially when we learn the true nature of {{spoiler|how he survived ''Earthshock'': The Doctor's subconscious guilt had taken over during block transfer computations, creating an alternate universe for the freighter to crash in harmlessly, leaving our young Alzarian all alone in a jungle world without humanoid contact for ''500 years''}} and eventually turning him into a crazed insect-king abomination in time obsessed with revenge and just wanted someone to love him again. Oh, ''Adric...''
** In the end, the worst part is ultimately the fact that you can't take Adric in your arms and tell him everything's going to be okay...[[Doctor Who/Recap/S19/E06 Earthshock|because it won't be.]]
* Rory's also a case of going from a [[Butt Monkey]] to a Woobie. The first time we see him, he's just Amy's (pathetic) male friend (the one the Doctor identifies as not being the "good-looking one"), who seems to be an [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]], perpetually bound to come in second to the Doctor. Amy leaves him on her wedding night to go travel the universe with the Doctor. When they finally pick Rory up to go along with them, he ends up basically being the [[Butt Monkey]] for all of his first episode. By [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E07 Amy's Choice|Amy's Choice]], though, we grow to see him more as a Woobie who barely believes his luck that he's the [[Victorious Childhood Friend]] and just wants things to be normal. By [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E09 Cold Blood|Cold Blood]], his woobie-fication is complete: {{spoiler|he pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] for the Doctor and dies telling Amy that she's beautiful. When he returns at the end of the series, Amy can't remember him, and just after she does, he accidentally kills her. Then he spends 1894 years guarding her body waiting until she comes [[Back
** There's [http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/the-killing-game-19667.htm a tweet out there] where a fan asked Moffat if he was going to kill Rory once every season.
{{quote|Moffat: Once? JUST once??? Where's the fun in that?! }}
* Amy herself hasn't had an easy time of it- abandoned by the Doctor as a child, growing up obsessed and thought to be mad with ''four'' psychiatrists, gets [[Mind Rape|mind raped]] by an angel, gets dragged underground thinking she's going to be buried alive, fails to save van Gogh, has {{spoiler|her boyfriend die in her arms before being erased from history}}, then she {{spoiler|finds him apparently revived, and just after she manages to remember who he is, is shot and killed by him. To top it all off, her family got eaten by a crack in time before she ever met the Doctor.}}
** No wonder Eleven/Amy/Rory has become such a popular [[One True Threesome]] in fandom. These 3 Woobies suffer so ''beautifully'' together.
*** Then there was "A Good Man Goes to War". [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|Dear]] [[Tear Jerker|God]] was she put through the wringer in that one. And just watch this [https://web.archive.org/web/20110819152339/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LZomoBipI&
*** "The Girl Who Waited" and "The God Complex" make a near-perfect double whammy. After "The Girl Who Waited", {{spoiler|you want to hug Rory and the two Amys}}. Not so much the Doctor, but don't worry, he's likely added it to the near-endless list of things he hates himself for. Then comes "The God Complex": {{spoiler|The Doctor breaks Amy's faith in him, and breaks a part of himself too}}.
* A [[Lone Dalek|Dalek]] as a Woobie? Tortured into near-insanity; alone in the universe of space and time; cut off from orders and companionship; forced to pollute itself to regain power; adapts to survive, in the process becoming "no longer pure Dalek". Cannot kill its enemies; admits fear and disgust at itself. Then is finally [[Driven to Suicide]]. "This is not life. This is sickness." A different set of values, but ''definitely'' a Woobie.
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* Let's talk about Rose for a sec, shall we? It's one thing to know that your dad's been dead since you were a baby, but suddenly being able to go back in time and save his life only to find out that he's ''supposed'' to die ''in order to keep the timeline stable and save'' '''''the rest of that reality from being eaten by [[Clock Roaches]]? JESUS.''''' On top of that, she later gets separated from the man she loves by a <s> supposedly unbreakable</s> barrier between dimensions, and nearly ''two seasons later'' when she finally crosses the universes to see him again, {{spoiler|he's dead. "But I came all this way..." Luckily, she helped repair the timeline}}.
* Also there's Martha, who only thinks of the Doctor but he [[All Love Is Unrequited|never returns her affections]]. Her most woobie-tastic moment is probably when they land in the early 1910s and the Doctor becomes human. Martha's a servant and isn't treated well because she's black (or a Londoner she jokingly claims) but doesn't leave the Doctor's side. She's then forced to watch him fall and love and says quietly "He had to go and fall in love with a human... [[Tear Jerker|and it wasn't me."]]
** Not to mention [[Walking the Earth]] during "The Year That Never Was", needing to live in constant fear of [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] as she travels the planet constantly, telling people stories about the Doctor... who is being tortured aboard the ''Valiant'', with her family also there being treated as [[The Master (trope)|The Master]]'s slaves and her being aware of it all this time... Of course, by this point she's graduated to [[Iron Woobie]] due to her enduring courage and resilience.
* Vincent van Gogh, from the Eleventh Doctor episode [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E10 Vincent and The Doctor|Vincent and the Doctor]], does a pretty good job of solidifying himself as a Woobie even though he only appears in one episode. Everyone he knows hates/fears him for being insane, the villagers blame him for {{spoiler|the deaths of the Krafayis's victims}}, he curls up on a bed crying when he learns Amy and the Doctor are leaving because they're the only people who have ever been really nice to him, he mentions, 'in passing', that children throw rocks at him because they're "frightened" of him, and when Amy and the Doctor refuse his parting gift of a painting (they think it's too valuable), he assumes it's because they hate it. {{spoiler|This results in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when they take him to the present-day art gallery and show him that everyone will love his work.}}
** {{spoiler|The crowning moment gets partially dethroned to a [[Tear Jerker]]. Amy, fully aware of van Gogh's impending suicide, spends the episode dedicated to convincing him not to do so. She and the Doctor are so convinced they've succeeded, they rush back to the museum to see the "new" van Goghs... only for the museum to be exactly as they left it. Amy, having recently and unknowingly lost her One True Love, gets a [[Heroic BSOD]] as she realizes van Gogh still commits suicide, and she's saved only when the Doctor delivers his Aesop: "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things."}}
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* The {{spoiler|Skullion slaves}} from ''The Man Who Wasn't There''. Made to {{spoiler|operate a simulation of a dead man (lest they be tortured, maybe lethally if Harrison got really mad at them) so that their tormentor to make us want Frick and Frack's computer}}.
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