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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.

** 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.

* Sarah Jane Smith. She spends most of her time with the Doctor being beaten up, tied up, blinded, and otherwise abused, and the capstone is that when at the end of her time, instead of dropping her home in South Croydon, he leaves her in {{spoiler|''Scotland''.}}

** [[Fauxtastic Voyage|Fauxtastically]] shanghaied by a [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]? Check. Possessed by Shelobus of Borg? Check. Made to hallucinate some of her worst fears by a military scientist seeking to facilitate the conquest of humanity? Check. Nearly turned into a psychotic Audrey II? Check.

* Fans of Adric tend to see him as a woobie rather than [[The Scrappy]]; his parents died at some point before his first appearance <ref> the show never elaborates on this, but the [[Expanded Universe]] and [[Word of God]] say it was a forest fire</ref>, then his brother was killed in front of him. He's constantly trying to prove himself to the Doctor only to be scolded when he messes up (and even sometimes when he ''doesn't''; there's a moment in the novel ''[[Virgin Missing Adventures|Cold Fusion]]'' where the Doctor ignores and then chides him for ''asking if he's okay after having a seizure''), repeatedly fails to save people (including his mentor and his brother ''in his introductory story'', which itself contains a bit of [[Reality Subtext]] since Matthew Waterhouse's own older brother had committed suicide just 2 years earlier), spends ''nearly all'' of ''Castrovalva'' being [[Mind Probe|Mind Probed]] by the Master while desperately fighting to keep him from hurting his friends, pretty much everything that happens to him in "Kinda" (is left to his own devices by the Doctor, which included being a played-completely-straight [[Only Sane Man]] trapped in a research station with at least one [[Ax Crazy]] and being assaulted by ''an entire native tribe intent on killing him'' while stuck in a transport robot that feeds off his brain waves) and then he [[Dying Alone|dies alone]] thinking he'd just ''failed to save the world''. Oh, and he was almost turned into a vampire. And when he was tired of being an outcast (see quotes below) and wanted to leave the TARDIS crew to go back to E-Space, the Doctor blew up and argued something to the extent of "you can ''never go home again.''"

{{quote| '''The Doctor:''' What's the matter?<br />

'''Barbara''': So he took her?<br />

'''Haroun''': Yes. Well, when Safiya and I were away he came and burned my house. My wife and son were put to the sword. }}

* Ace reaches this a few times in her last season, especially in ''Ghost Light'' when she tells the Doctor about how her best friend Manisha was killed by racist boys who firebombed her flat when she was 13.

* That female slave in ''The Romans''. Also Tigellinus. And super-woobiedom is likely in store for Tavius, as well.

* 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.

 

* Ianto Jones is a very woobie character in the [[Whoniverse]]. Let's see...

** 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".

** According to John Barrowman himself, to Jack, Owen and Toshiko were his students, almost like adopted children - he was "guiding them", so to speak, something which upon examination can be seen in his relationships with them (while Gwen and Ianto are more like partners to him, to Owen and Tosh he was frequently [[The Mentor]]). Ponder that, and then consider how much it must have hurt to lose them the way he did (through his own failings).

** Speaking of ''Children of Earth'', [[Anti-Villain]] John Frobisher, most especially in his final scene.

 

* 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.

* 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}}.