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[[File:cubonewoobie_2889.gif|link=Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|frame|The cause of many [[Game Boy]]s hugged in public.]]

 

 

 

* [[Arc Rise Fantasia]] gives us the final boss of the game, the [[Designated Villain]], {{spoiler|Eesa}}. Unfortunately for the heroes, they either have a choice of letting most of mankind die off, or kill {{spoiler|Eesa}}, who is only in the situation she is in because mankind wanted her to {{spoiler|become God}} in the first place. The reason she even ended up as an antagonist is because the same humans who {{spoiler|made her into a God later decided they no longer needed her and decided to kill her.}} While she {{spoiler|survived their attempts to kill her}}, the aftermath is the world covered in hozone, and the only way {{spoiler|Eesa}} can save mankind while keeping herself alive is to either {{spoiler|reset the world(killing everything), or wipe out 90% of humans stuck on the ground.}} The party's solution in order to save humanity? Kill the {{spoiler|God they created who is only doing everything in her power to save humanity}} while desperately trying to preserve her own life at the same time. The cutscene after beating her only hammered down the fact that she never wanted to be like this in the first place and that she wanted to live.

** Cirno is a bit cocky in the earlier games, but is often mistreated and ridiculed, [[Fantastic Racism|partly because she's a fairy]]. A particular example occurs in Unthinkable Natural Law, in which Cirno is significantly less cocky and more intelligent than in previous games. While looking for the Daidarabotchi, Cirno asks Marisa is she's seen anything, and Marisa tells her she's seen what she's looking for, but won't tell her because she's a fairy. This results in a fight between the two, which Cirno wins. Afterward, Cirno rightfully demands Marisa tell her where the Daidarabotchi is, and Marisa purposefully misleads Cirno into a boiler that nearly gets her killed.

** Reisen Inaba's woobie-ness is often played for comedy in fanon. In canon, she's also subject to lots of Punishment Time by Eirin, and constantly gets pranked by Tewi.

** In their own way, the Aki Sisters are also woobies in a few ways - to wit, they [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|don't have as much faith]] as they used to have in the old days, so their powers are diminished; due to their comparatively smaller fanbase in proportion to the more popular characters, they're often forgotten. And then there's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40fwAWEiE3M S Complex]'', which plays up Shizuha's woobieness to a [[Tear Jerker|heart-breaking]] degree.

** And then there's the poor girl who [[Cute Ghost Girl|Yuyuko Saigyouji]] was when she was alive, whose powers over death [[Break the Cutie|were too much for her to take]], and were enough to [[Driven to Suicide|drive her to suicide]]. The fan manga [[Touhou Tonari]] cranks her woobie-ness [[Up to Eleven|up a lot]].

** Byakuren Hijiri used to be a Youkai exterminator, but grew to love her quarry as much as the humans she was protecting, so she started covertly helping them hide away safely instead of killing them. She ended up imprisoned in Makai for more than a millenium for her troubles. Oh yeah, and [[Dead Little Sister|her little brother died too]].

** Fujiwara no Mokou certainly counts. Her father was humiliated by Kaguya, and she wound up stealing the Hourai Elixir (and in the process, murdering someone who'd previously saved her life) and became completely incapable of dying. She's unable to exact her desired revenge because her rival is ''also'' immortal, and basically the only friend she's ever really had is a mortal half-beast... and she ''still'' gets picked on by the main characters in the Extra stage.

** And of course, there is the Absolute Grand Champion of ''Touhou'' Woobies, Flandre Scarlet: a little girl with [[Person of Mass Destruction|immense destructive powers]] she [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|can't control in the slightest]], so her older sister Remilia, whom Flandre loves with all her heart, [[Madwoman in the Attic|locks her in the basement]]. For '''''five hundred years''''' (and counting). Expectedly, she not only still has the mind of a child, but her grip on reality has been completely shattered, only wanting to play but barely even recognising that those she plays with tend to break rather easily. And she doesn't even get to do that, as no-one aside from Remilia wants anything to do with her, with even Marisa, who has fought gods and demons with irreverence, avoiding her entirely. She is the ultimate Woobie, [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/925561/absurdres-armor-blonde_hair-blood-crossover-dead_s as any attempt by anyone to give her a hug will most probably result in their death].

** Shion Yorigami from ''Antinomy of Common Flowers'', as a goddess of poverty, is a [[Walking Disaster Area]] who [[Power Incontinence|automatically]] accumulates a curse of misfortune within herself and spreads it to everyone around her at regular intervals. This gets her hated by everyone and keeps her in perpetual misery as everything she plans always fails due to sheer bad luck. The only friend she could make is Tenshi Hinanawi, whose supernatural good luck grants immunity to the curse.

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