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* 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:
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** And all of this is just the ''emotional'' trauma. Throw in all the times he's been electrocuted, irradiated, exsanguinated, electrocuted, possessed, poisoned, [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]], [[Overly Long Gag|electrocuted,]] and otherwise subjected to physical agony, and the Woobieness reaches epic levels.
*** And [[Distressed Dude|kidnapped and]] [[Bound and Gagged|tied up]]. A lot.
** Don't forget molested by Amy [[Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)|when he didn't want it]].
** The interesting thing about Eleven is that he tries not to let himself be the Woobie too much of the time. "The Lodger" in particular shows him putting on a brave face. This probably makes him a [[Stoic Woobie]].
*** It comes through even clearer later; not only does he face a situation that {{spoiler|he ''knows'' will kill him}} three or four times (depending on how you count it), on the few occasions when events from his previous regenerations have come up, it's clear that he's still just as tormented by guilt as Ten was- he's just much better at hiding it.
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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
* 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
** 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?! }}
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* 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
** {{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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* The Master! Especially [[John Simm]]'s Master. Okay, so he's an insane rogue Time Lord determined to take over the universe and make us all do horrible things, but he has issues!
* Jackson Lake in "The Next Doctor". First off, he found he is not in fact the Doctor - who he thought he was is one big lie. Why does he think he is the Doctor? Not just because of a Cyberman data base, no; he saw his wife get killed, and the trauma of it made him WANT to be the Doctor so he didn't have to face the pain. Don't worry, in the end it turned out okay. {{spoiler|The Cybermen kidnapped his son and the Doctor saved said son. Now Jackson Lake can have a family with his son and Rosita.}}
* [[Brave Scot|Jamie]] plays the jumpy, overprotective, hopelessly loyal [[The Team Normal|Team Normal]] (he's a ''piper'') to two super-geniuses, which more than occasionally gets him treated as [[Butt Monkey|useless]] -- and then his woobiness is cemented by his ultimate fate: he's subjected to [[Victory
* River had a pretty awful childhood, to say the least. The rest of her life was spent watching the man she loved, along with her parents (who never got a chance to raise her), forget about her. Also, she died after having her worst fear come true and ends up trapped in a virtual world. As subjective as she is, it is hard to not feel a bit sorry for her.
* Winlett and {{spoiler|Keeler}} from ''The Seeds of Doom''. Imagine being transformed into a crazy plant with a [[Utopia Justifies the Means]] instinct. And it's even worse for {{spoiler|Keeler}} because his boss ''wanted'' to see what would happen.
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== [[The Sarah Jane Adventures (TV)|The Sarah Jane Adventures]] ==
* That Graske in the Trickster's service.
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* 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.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Clyde Langer]], as seen in "The Mark of the Berserker". His dad (a [[Parents As People|loving but often rather selfish man]]) walked out on the family when Clyde was ten (with his wife's sister), and moved to Spain. Because of this, he tries to act tough to the point that [[Hidden Depths|he hides some of his talents]] (such as skill at cooking and talent at art) from his friends out of insecurity. When said [[Disappeared Dad]] returns (having run away because {{spoiler|his girlfriend is pregnant}}), he's forced to confront these issues... which results in temporary [[Mind Rape]] and emotional manipulation before he's finally able to reconcile with his dad and realise that his friends are still there for him... It's for all these reasons that this troper considers "The Mark of the Berserker" to be one of ''the'' most powerfully emotional SJA stories ever made (after the "Trickster" stories, of course).
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