The Woobie/Video Games: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 261: Line 261:
** 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.
** 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.
** 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.
** Kogasa Tatara, by her very nature as a karakasa obake, is an emotional wreck who harbors some resentment against humans for being thrown away and forgotten when she was still a simple umbrella. At the same time, she is [[I Just Want to Have Friends|desperate for acceptance]] and [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life|a fulfilling purpose in her life]] other than trying - and mostly failing - to scare humans. Despite her being the most harmless and one of the nicest youkai (until she gets upset at someone and throws a tantrum), the protagonists seem to enjoy beating her up and rubbing more salt in her wounds, particularly Sanae. Even when Kogasa finally finds a new purpose - as a blacksmith - and things seem to get better, she still has to suffer at the hands of Reimu, who uses her services to get her badly damaged needles fixed and then beats Kogasa up so she doesn't have to pay.
** Kogasa Tatara has very little going for her: her very nature as a karakasa obake makes her [[I Just Want to Have Friends|terminally afraid of being abandoned and unwanted]] like she was as an inanimate umbrella, she needs to surprise people to sustain herself except [[Seen It All|no one in Gensokyo is easily surprised anymore]], and her stubborn attempts get her ridiculed by other youkai, treated as a bother by humans and brutally bullied by youkai exterminators (Sanae is her most infamous tormentor) despite her friendly and peaceful disposition. No wonder she started questioning the meaning of her life and her worth as a youkai, sometimes even wishing to go back to being a simple tool again [[Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life|so she would finally be useful to someone]] and cherished in some capacity. The Myouren Temple residents are the only friends she has, although they might just tolerate her presence or pity her.
** 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.
** 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]].
** 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]].
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/The_Woobie/Video_Games"