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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''.
** On that note:
{{quote|{{spoiler|"[[Famous Last Words|I don't want to go]]."}} }}
** Ten's Woobieness can actually be partly attributed to [[Puppy Dog Eyes|David Tennant's eyes.]] Those things are enormous. And beautiful, but we won't go into that.
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** "Amy's Choice". "There's only one person out there who hates me this much." Hint: {{spoiler|it's the Doctor}}.
** "The God Complex" points this out-after finally starving the Minotaur to death-[[Death Seeker|something the Minotaur wanted]], [[And I Must Scream|and who can blame him?]]-the dying Minotaur describes what sounds a lot like him...and then his [[Famous Last Words]] are "I'm not talking about myself". Guess who's translating for him?
* She'd been skirting woobiefication for a while, but Donna's {{spoiler|[[Mind Rape|mindwipe]]}} in "Journey's End" finally inarguably propelled her fully into this trope. In a way Donna might actually be a woobie from her first appearance, she has a horrible relationship with her mother, her shouting at everyone is a cover for her very low self esteem, and now she's in love and getting married... to a man who is poisoning her with the coffee he makes for her everyday (a gesture that probably touched her at the time), so she can be the chemical key to unlock the hatchery for a bunch of starving omnivorous spiders... She's always had it pretty bad when you think about it.
** "All that attitude, all that lip, because all this time... you think you're not worth it." Poor Donna.
* A number of companions fit into the woobie category as well, Victoria and Tegan being examples. (Deborah Watling, who played Victoria, has said as much in interviews.)
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'''Adric:''' Yeah, but not as often as me... }}
** 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
* 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
** 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.}}
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*** 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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LZomoBipI&feature=BFa&list=FLLksSqKDDR33Io0fu4YI47g&index=1 prequel] for {{spoiler|''Let's Kill Hitler''}}.
*** "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.
* Fitz Kreiner, from the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels, is such a woobie it's ridiculous. He's half-German and was born four years before [[World War II]] and therefore [[Kids Are Cruel|spent most of his childhood being beaten up by other kids]] and even [[Sadist Teacher|bullied by his schoolteachers]]. (No wonder he's [[Book Dumb]].) His dad died and his mum went insane and ''then'' died, and even though he's shown to have a very close relationship with her, he later makes [[Gallows Humor]] jokes about ''the fact she tried to kill him shortly before she died'', which, he ''says'', makes it better. (Actually, and quite understandably, he almost cried when she tried to kill him.) He is generally a total [[Sad Clown]]. And then he starts traveling with the Doctor, gets brainwashed by Chinese communists, gets separated from the Doctor and ends up [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|spending over a thousand years being utterly miserable]], is turned back into his normal self, the over-a-thousand-years-old version of himself is still out there and shows up and is [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|a total woobie]] [[Love Makes You Evil|who just misses the Doctor]] [[Redemption Equals Death|and]] [[Alas, Poor Villain|dies horribly]]... Then Fitz has a serious breakdown over the fact [[Loss of Identity|he's just a copy]], is brainwashed into being [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]] with a girl who just wants to use him... also, [[Chivalrous Pervert|more or less every other book, he gets a girlfriend]], and [[Girl of the Week|it never lasts]], sometimes because she dies. Also, he's everyone's [[Butt Monkey]], evil triplets made him remember being born, he [[Nice Guy|has moments of feeling really bad for dead evil monkeys]] and suchlike, he gets kicked around by nasty sorts a lot, he's [[The Klutz|really clumsy]], his relationship with the Doctor is adorable but horrendously codependent... There's even [http://kseda.livejournal.com/425309.html a poem] about his woobieness, and, good God, I somehow missed the Nazi thing! Long story short: you don't want to be Fitz, but you do want to give him a big hug and a [[Spot of Tea|cup of tea]].
* 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]] 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]]'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
** {{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."}}
*** And then there's the ''[[Fridge Horror|reason]]'' he commits suicide: {{spoiler|he has a vision of the TARDIS exploding, causing him to believe that the only two people who cared about him, who made a difference in his life, are dead. He dies without ever learning the truth.}}
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** Ianto's actor, Gareth David-Lloyd, stated in an interview that he believed that, in desperation to get and keep his job at Torchwood for Lisa's sake, his character had been getting it on with Capt. Jack since the beginning. After Lisa's death he just sort of never stopped sleeping with Jack because he needed something to hold onto. Which makes a heck of a lot more sense then Ianto just randomly hooking up with Jack a few episodes after his GF was murdered by his friends. Of course, by now feelings beyond "something to hold onto".
** He has a {{spoiler|controlling}} father who {{spoiler|Ianto says broke his leg}}. Or there's the way he {{spoiler|dies just as he's getting his life and relationships in order}}.
* Toshiko Sato spends most of her time pining for a man who makes no secret of the fact he's having sex with dozens of other women 24/7 yet doesn't even look twice at her. Falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a heart-eating baddy. Finally gets the man she loves to agree to go out with her and he winds up dying. He then comes back as a zombie, replete with heaping loads of angst. And finally she has to comfort him as he's about to die WHILE dying herself. Oh yes, and she also gets [[Brainwashed]] into falling in love with someone, so technically she's been raped as well. Seriously, if there's a female character in the history of the Whoniverse who's had it tougher I can't think of them.
{{quote|''Owen'': "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't keep screaming!!"
''Tosh'': [[Tear Jerker|"Because you're breaking my heart."]] }}
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== [[The Sarah Jane Adventures]] ==
* That Graske in the Trickster's service.
* [[wikipedia:Lady Jane Grey|Lady Jane Grey]].
* Sarah Jane herself. Her best friend, her parents and her fiancé all have to die as a result of the Trickster's interference (made worse because the Trickster ''brought them back'' as a part of his nefarious plans, forcing her to lose them all over again). Then there's ''The Lost Boy'', when she's so distraught by Luke being taken away (and her near incarceration) that she nearly shuts herself off from her team.
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