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* The title character of Benjamin Britten's opera ''[[Peter Grimes]]''.
* Jack Point in [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]''.
* Tobias Ragg from ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''. A Victorian orphan, possibly mentally handicapped [[Alternate Character Interpretation|depending on the production]], abused by Signor Pirelli until he's taken in by Mrs. Lovett, for whom he develops a deep and sadly misguided devotion. When he discovers just what's been going into those meat pies of hers, he literally [[Go Mad
** The movie version makes it even worse, since the depictions of Pirelli's physical violence were so much more extreme (and bloody) than it generally is in stage productions. Not to mention the fact that in the movie, Toby really looks like a ''little kid'', whereas he's generally played by a guy in his mid- to late-teens or early twenties on stage, since it's really not child-appropriate material.
*** Toby doesn't ''look'' like a little kid, he ''is'' a little kid.
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