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* The title character of ''[[The Intrepid Girlbot]]'' is a big ball of woobie-ness, but be careful not to hug her too long or [https://web.archive.org/web/20131012134902/http://www.intrepidgirlbot.com/2009/03/25/hello-hug/ you might get zapped].
* White Mage is the closest thing to a woobie in ''[[8-Bit Theater
* Ryan/Rachel Hawke in ''[[
** Rayne, the author of ''Abstract Gender'', also almost qualifies in some people's minds, what with the Curse and all.
* Roast Beef from ''[[Achewood]]'', who is "from circumstances" which cause him to suffer from depression and possibly avoidance disorder, and is subjected to a constant stream of bad luck in life in general. This is made all the more noticeable given that his best friend is Ray, who becomes rich without trying and was only prevented from becoming President because of {{spoiler|his mother's disapproval}}.
* Dark Smoke Puncher is about the closest ''[[
** Hell, the doctor himself. His entire childhood was an exercise in [[Training
** Mongo the uber-ninja, when he learned {{spoiler|all life is precious.}}
*** Actually, if all of the characters weren't awesome incarnate, about half of them would qualify as Woobies.
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* [[Archipelago]] has Blitz. The poor guy has [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]], [[Ocean Madness]] (though there were a few other factors), [[Eye Scream|is missing an eye]] (which he took out by himself, by the way), and mind is broken completely beyond repair. It's even stated that even if he was 'fixable', he may not like what he finds. Add the fact that he's a total sweetheart who just wants to be helpful, and you can't help but want to give him a hug.
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020120 take your pick]
* The Sorrow, in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' fancomic ''[[The Cobra Days]]''. Partly due to the abuse he takes from his [[Heroic Sociopath]] comrades, partly because his spirit-medium powers have a distinct element of [[Blessed
** And then there's the fact that he's [[Doomed
* Dave Jones in ''[[
** This is an example of a character's fan-inspired Woobieness saving them from scripted death.
*** The above is somewhat of an apocryphal tale; Dave was actually saved from death because the author thought of a better plotline.
* Skylar, from ''[[Coming Up Violet]]'' is quickly becoming this almost as fast as the comics get posted. Seriously, this guy [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=24878 just] [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=26689 can't] [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=37342 seem] to [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=38320 catch] a [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/bdaniel/violet/series.php?view=archive&chapter=39237 break]. Of course, he's also the resident [[Chew Toy]] with the shippers.
* Vincent and Darrik from ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]''.
* Abel from ''[[Dan and
** [[Butt Monkey|Jyrras]] might count as well.
** [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_857.php Comedy is hard when it doesn't involve physical/emotional pain]
* Komiyan from ''[[Darken]]'' qualifies. He's a cowardly drow with bad eyesight who wears glasses and has a courageous side. He looks absolutely adorable. And he rarely gets to do any badassery for long before being whomped by something. Or stabbed, or shot, or tortured.
* Grimal's [[Furry Comic|Furry webcomic]] ''[http://deo.comicgenesis.net Deo]''{{Dead link}} succeded in woobiefying the ENTIRE MAIN CAST. Every single one has something terribly, terribly wrong in their personal lives, and you keep reading just in the vain hope that something good happens to em at some point. This is a webcomic where you want to take the entire cast, put them in a room, and give them all blankets and hugs. And some group therapy.
* Ed from ''[[
* Angel from ''[[Domain Tnemrot]]'' has been revealing [http://www.tnemrot.com/?p=129 her back story lately].
* [[Nightmare Fuel|Scapegrace]] from ''[[Daddy Long Legs (
* The titular character of ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', who seems to run into more problems than he knows what to do with, and always thrusts himself headlong into them, to the point where he eventually traded the "crippled" role with his own younger brother. Of course, there's also a good portion of the fanbase who just want to [[What the Hell, Hero?|punch him instead]].
** Rilian, of all people, might count as one. He seems to have had all of three good friends in his life, {{spoiler|two of whom he's had to ''kill'' to save the world, both times from the same threat while being unable to prevent the death of the third}}. Nobody else seems to like or trust him because he's a spooky looking necromancer. Then there's the {{spoiler|time he spends as "Brian"}}, when he acts friendly and gregarious and just plain ''likable''; followed by the revelation that {{spoiler|''that's who he actually is at heart''. His cold [[Shoot the Dog|Dog Shooter]] nature is a facade he uses to deal with his trauma}}. His woobiedom can be seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20171012130906/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2005-04-15 here].
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'''Rilian:''' My roles requires me to be cold. Otherwise I would be overcome by the immense sadness it brings me to have to kill you, {{spoiler|Leaflette}}. }}
** Luna. Let's see, born with a set of rather unappealing tusks, bullied and belittled by her entire family throughout her entire life as a result, {{spoiler|gave her virginity to a man she was in love with who returned the favor by sleeping with her sister the very next day, was rejected by ANOTHER man she had a crush on when he catches sight of her tusks, learns that her own mother set up those last two points in an attempt to get her to KILL HERSELF for MONEY (an attempt that very nearly succeeded, as she was preparing to hang herself with Dominic stumbled upon her), watches as said mother get decapitated right in front of her, learns two days later that her mother left her NOTHING in her will out of pure spite, and tops it all off by trying to kill herself AGAIN. And really, can you BLAME her?}} Forget one hug, this woman needs, nay, deserves a hundred of them.
* ''[[
* Pretty much everyone in ''[[
** Ellen, at least when she's introduced (as an [[Opposite
** Recently Susan has been getting another good Woobie streak, not to mention Catalina...
*** To summarize Susan's Woobieness (which in it's own way is as bad as Grace's), she {{spoiler|1=first sees her father cheating on her mother with a blonde woman, who looks ''very, very similar to how Susan does when she's older'', which causes her to develop a hatred of men and to dye her hair. Next, on a trip to France, she's attacked by a Vampire ([[Our Vampires Are Different|well not quite a vampire, but...]]) because she had the ''potential'' to kill it, not the ability. She's then recruited, as a [[Child Soldier]], buy a group of Immortals to kill said vampire, which she does, but the [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-31 event leaves her traumatized]. In more prsent times, she's alienated for her feminist veiws, and when her school brings in uniforms she's attacked by the other students for not trying to completely remove them, but to just make them better. Then, a few years later, when she's started to come to terms with this and open up again, she's then told that she didn't actually need to kill the vampire because there where governmental forces nearby the Immortals could have contacted, which would have been faster, more effective, and not relied on two fifteen year old girls. And then the Immortal who revealed all this kinda dies. Ouch}}
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** Tedd too. [[Mysterious Past]] indeed. Or at least [[Evil Overlord|Lord]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Tedd]].
** Grace. Oh poor, poor Grace. She's {{spoiler|watched her "father" (He provided the egg, long story) die brutally in front of her at a young age, been abused by her brother ("Only when I was bad"), and, even when she escapes, is still hounded.}} Dan even draws a sketch where [http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2002-09-15 he apologizes.] He even titles it "It's my comic, and I'll cry if I want to."
* Rumiko Takahata in ''[[Fans
* Florence in ''[[
** Methinks that position is covered by the [[The Faceless]] security guard who chewed out said [[Mad Scientist]] for just that.
** [[This Troper]] doesn't just want to threaten the [[Mad Scientist]], but to actually blow off a kneecap and then trade Florence's memory restoration for calling an ambulance. Sadly, blood loss might make his hands shake or something.
*** I doubt he could. He seems more like a middle manager who knows enough about how Florence works to explain it to Sam than somebody who could do brain surgery (or whatever discipline of science fixing Florence would fall under, if not that).
** The Ecosystems Unlimited security computer made me want to hug it in [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01620.htm this strip]. It's incredibly incompetent at its job and the humans it works with [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|don't really recognise it as a person]], so I can understand why that would have happened, but that was literally the only compliment it's ever received. Poor little buggy AI. It doesn't seem overly bothered by being treated with exasperation, contempt, and the occasional death threat, though. In fact, it's more of a [[Large Ham]] than anything ("Security guard: RECOGNIZED! Room 101 door: OPENED! [[With Catlike Tread|Element of surprise:]] '''[[With Catlike Tread|RETAINED!]]'''").
* Black from [[Grey Is
* When this troper first saw Zimmy in ''[[
** Boxbot would be a woobie, but he is disqualified for being terrible.
** Annie herself qualifies pretty well. Her mom's dead (and up until then lived most of her life in the hospital with her) and her dad's disappeared without a trace. Comparatively, that doesn't sound so bad until you learn that {{spoiler|none of the [[Psychopomp|Psychopompoi]] were willing to lead her mother to the afterlife, so she had to do it herself.}}
*** Annie recieves an even worse revelation later on in the story. {{spoiler|She was the cause of her mothers death.}}
** Gamma, too. Because of Zimmy, she barely gets any sleep and she thinks everyone hates her (because she doesn't speak English - Zimmy doesn't want her to learn - and Zimmy lies about what other people are saying because she thinks that Gamma would abandon her if she had the chance to make other friends), but she's so sweet and so devoted to Zimmy that she doesn't mind any of it. And when [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=455 her feelings] [http://gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/City_Face_comments#Page_6 get hurt] you just want to give her a big hug and tell her everything's okay.
* The whole main cast of ''[[Hanna Is Not a
** Although he constantly insists that its [[Definitely Just a Cold]], Hanna makes for a good classic woobie at times.
** Conrad walks the line between [[Jerkass Woobie]] and [[The Chew Toy]], depending on [[Your Mileage May Vary|the viewer]] and whether it's [[Played for Laughs]] or [[Played for Drama]].
** And finally, Veser is just an archetypal [[Jerkass Woobie]].
* Sir [http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=724690 Muir]{{Dead link}} in ''[[Harkovast]]''
* Tavros from ''[[
** What's worse, Tavros' eventually discovers his primary tormentor has actively created the unstoppable monster endangering them all. He finally decides to challenge her, not for his own sake, but for everyone's. As soon as she realizes he means it for once, {{spoiler|she promptly kills him for actually standing up to her.}}
** And as of recently, we get more information on the other trolls; it establishes them as closer to [[Character Alignment|the neutral end]] (with the exceptions of [[Neutral Evil|Eridan]] and [[Chaotic Evil|Vriska]]): {{spoiler|Sburb is destroying their home planet as well, and the reason they harass the protagonists is that the heroes' session is so screwed up it breaks their game as well}}.
*** Hell, even Vriska, [[Fan Nickname|HUGE 8ITCH]] though she is, winds up being almost tragic. While she's done a number of [[Moral Event Horizon|really awful things]], it eventually becomes clear that {{spoiler|she's basically trying to cover up her self-hate and loneliness by turning herself into a [[Jerk Sue]]. The [[Jerkass|bitchiness]], [[Large Ham|hamminess]], and attempts to make herself the central character in everything are all because she's trying to live up to what she thinks her ancestor was like, and it's not until after she kills someone she knew well that she starts to realize that she doesn't actually like being the person she's always tried to be. Then, [[
** Sollux and Aradia are probably second only to Tavros in terms of [[Woobie]]-ness among the trolls. Aside from being responsible for the software's creation, both are [[Cursed
** WV as well, {{spoiler|once we saw what [[Big Bad|Jack Noir]] [[Kill'Em All|did]] to the army that rose up and followed him.}} It also turned his antics with Can Town into a huge (and hugely depressing) [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]].
** The latest addition to Homestuck's woobie list is most definitely Karkat. {{spoiler|His team is falling apart, killing each other and going insane before his eyes. He just watched one of his best friends being killed, and the killer's past self is ''hitting on him''. He's being mindgamed by a murderous, ridiculously powerful psychopath who knows exactly where he is, could destroy him in one hit, and could even be ''in the room with him right now''. Sooner or later he's going to hit his [[Despair Event Horizon]].}}
*** Later on, he watches {{spoiler|yet ''another'' friend [[Heroic Sacrifice|die]] in front of him,}} and starts openly sobbing when {{spoiler|he finally does die.}} It got better, but still.
** On a related note, Katia Managan from ''[[Prequel (
* King from ''[[
* ''[[Inhuman]]'' has several of these. In the main comic, Kyotoshi and Soshika Lypha, whose parents were murdered in front of them, and (arguably) Grey.
** Two of Inhuman's [[B
* No one here has mentioned poor Dina Sarazu of ''[[
* Kano Jurgen, Kid, and ''especially'' Dark from ''[[Kagerou]]''. And [[Split Personality|they're all the same guy]].
* Secret from ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' is very much the Woobie - though one of the Exalted, she's been given the Black Exaltation, turned into basically a superpowered, [[Exalted]] vampire cursed and doomed to bring death and destruction to the world - and she hates it. Worse, she has serious self-confidence issues, and is really kind of a hopeless, lovable klutz when separated from her malevolent, sentient shapeshifting sword in a world where epic heroes do violent things to each other all the time.
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* Piro and Kimiko from ''[[Megatokyo]]''. Also, Ping, Yuki and [[Alternate Character Interpretation|maybe Miho]]. Largo and Erika also have their moments. Hell, let's just declare the entire cast to be woobies and get over it. Except [[Psycho for Hire|Dom and Ed]]. [[Draco in Leather Pants|Not that it'll stop people from trying.]]
** Junko has recently been hit with the Woobie stick really hard with {{spoiler|her father being revealed to be an alcoholic and coming to her school to quite openly leech money from her}}. Seeing what up till now was a strong, spunky female character looking like she's about to burst into tears combined with the implication that {{spoiler|Junko was practicing [[Enjo Kosai]] to sustain this guy}} has made many people ''[[Moral Event Horizon|ANGRY]]''.
** It is worth noting that Nanasawa Kimiko crosses into Woobie territory in universe as well as out. Not only does one of her senior colleagues ask their boss if [http://megatokyo.com/strip/813 a hug would be appropriate], she is later horrified to find she has attracted an army of sympathetic minor characters, calling themselves the [[Fun
* Rumisiel in ''[[Misfile]]'' is at first glance an [[Our Angels Are Different|apathetic, alcoholic, drugged up, loser]] who couldn't even manage to put [[Celestial Bureaucracy|files back in the right cabinet]], since then however he's gained an emotionally distant father, a screwed up overachieving (and formerly mass murdering) brother, [[Psycho Ex-Girlfriend|an Ex from hell]] (almost literally), but on occasion shown a surprisingly intelligent, loyal and tender side and has become a textbook woobie.
** ...or [[Your Mileage May Vary|not]]. A better case can be made for Ash being the [[Woobie]], considering that the condition that has caused [[Gender Bender|so much]] [[Wangst|angst]] also makes the impulsive to give a hug both stronger and… [[Fan Service|appealing]].
* Mika of ''[[Mob Ties]]''. Cute little goth waif? Check. {{spoiler|Victim of a violent rape so traumatic that it left her in a coma for more than a year?}} Big check. Hates everything because of all the trauma she has been through? Double check. She will make you want to hug your monitor to death.
* Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Renoir from ''[[Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden]]''; although they are going through [[Character Development]], they're still woobies at heart.
* ''[[
** Though it must be said that {{spoiler|her death resurrects a one-eared kitten who died just a couple pages earlier and fills the alley she died in with flowers.}} Which, in my mind, makes it that much more tragic.
* Kevin J Dog from ''[[Newshounds]]''. A hard luck [[Extreme Doormat]] who recently gained weight after finding out Stormy got married.
** And now his new girlfriend's [[Jerkass]] sister is making his life worse.
*** And it seems things were awful [https://web.archive.org/web/20110407154035/http://newshounds.keenspot.com/d/20110404.html before] Lorna adopted him.
** [[Only Sane Employee|Lorna]] and Rochelle also have some woobieish traits.
* ''[[Opey the Warhead]]'' is about a boy named [https://web.archive.org/web/20130403011013/http://www.drunkduck.com/Opey_the_Warhead/ Opey]... who also happens to (at least appear to) be a nuclear warhead. When the class realizes he doesn't explode on impact, he immediately becomes the victim of the entire classroom (well, three kids, but it's [[After the End]]) of bullies. Despite not having a face, Opey is amazingly expressionate and totally woobie material being a generally sweet-natured kid.
* Therkla in ''[[Order of the Stick]]''. She's sweet, likable, and a fan favorite from almost her introduction. Then she falls head over heels in love with [[In Love
** Even much-hated [[Knight Templar]] paladin Miko got a Woobie moment... {{spoiler|just before [[Alas, Poor Scrappy|she died]].}}
** In [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0641.html this strip] Vaarsuvius manages to go from near-genocidal maniac to woobie in three panels.
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** Haley, at times. Especially when you find out that she is obsessed with money because {{spoiler|she wants to save her dad, who is being held captive by a country that will release him only if Haley pays them an outrageous sum of money. The events leading up to her [[Anguished Declaration of Love]] also count.}}
*** Er, not quite. As we see in On the Origins of PCs, Haley was obsessed with money even before that.
* David Andrew Bartlett, protagonist of ''[[Ow
* Ceasar Wolfe from ''[[Pandect]]'' would be a normal 17-year-old boy except that he's infected with a Virus that overwhelms him with uncontrollable feelings of lust. Naturally, no one trusts him, no one wants to be around him, and his name has become a synonym for "pervert". When he finally gets a genuine offer of friendship, it takes him completely by surprise.
* Charlotte in ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' is an interesting case. At first, she seems simply angry and bigoted, but we gradually learn more about her, her woobieness becomes quickly apparent. And then there's {{spoiler|the "Missing Person" arc, where she appears to have hit a [[Moral Event Horizon]]... only for things to drastically turn around and her woobie status becomes weapons-grade - almost literally, as it led to massive fan outcry for the ''death'' of [[Manipulative Bastard|Cyndi]], something almost never before seen in the fandom}}.
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'s'' "Automata" seems designed for this. If you can read [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/12/ the first strip], and then [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/7/31/automata-page-two/ the other five], and you don't want to give him a hug, well, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/11/21/ you might just be a robot].
* Jonas Faulkner of ''[[The Phoenix Requiem]]'' is not having a great time of it. His friend shoots him after he escapes from an insane asylum. And then [[It Gets Worse
* Jeremy from ''[[Platinum Grit]]''. And if the abuse he suffers over the course of the comic isn't enough, his backstory involves a childhood of being tormented by his [[Axe Crazy]] cousin while the rest of the family shunned him as a simpleton.
* Jacob and Vincent share the role in ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]'' as they somehow keep optimistic and cheerful in a world of cynicism and cognitive dissonance.
* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1075 Hannelore] in ''[[
** [[Super OCD|And hugging her]] [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=907 just causes more problems].
** Before Hanners arrived, and {{spoiler|he hooked up with Dora}}, Marten was pretty much [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=365 the strip Woobie].
** Lately, Marigold has taken a sharp turn in that direction as well, to the point that Hannelore [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1633 gives *her* a hug].
* Germany from ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]''. Just look at [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123214042/http://humoncomics.com/not-a-yahtzee this strip].
** Estonia [http://satwcomic.com/no-flag-for-you just never gets a break].
* Leonard in ''[[Sequential Art (
* Amber O'Malley in ''[[
** Leslie seems to picking up whatever Woobie-ness Amber is throwing off.
* Slick of ''[[Sinfest]]'' fits perfectly in this category during the deeper moments of the comic. The guy honestly ''loves'' Monique to the point that [
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20100617075511/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2609 This comic further confirms said woobiness]. Jesus, someone hug him.
** Squig also [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111015718/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3163 has] [
** As does [
* Buwaro from ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' counts. {{spoiler|Something went wrong when he was born, leaving him a bestial, rage-crazed creature that attacked everything in sight. He wears an amulet that clears his mind and calms him down, but if it's ever removed, he'll go back to being a monster. His biological family is dead, and his adoptive father, brother and sister are gone, disappeared, and murdered, respectively. Oh, and one of his closest friends, who he may have feelings for, is now afraid of him because she's learned of his aformentioned rage. Oh, and [http://www.sdamned.com/2007/10/10162007/ just look at his childhood]}}
** Things have gotten both better and worse for Buwaro. Worse: {{spoiler|he found out that both his sister and his brother, who he looks up to, hated him as a baby, and his sister is responsible for the rip in his ear. He also thinks his adoptive angelic father is dead ([[God Job|though he really isn't]]) and seems to be unable to grasp the basics of combat to defend himself.}} Better: {{spoiler|he is learning, though, and at least he knows he had a father. Also, aforementioned friend has [http://www.sdamned.com/2010/03/03122010/ admitted her feelings for him.] [http://www.sdamned.com/2011/01/01292011/ Repeatedly!]}}
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has Oasis being quite Woobietastic, when she's not being [[Ax Crazy]] or [[Badass]]. [[Idiot Hero]] Torg gets a few moments of this during That Which Redeems. Even Aylee gets it during her visit to the parallel world where her species exists.
* Sawyer from ''[[Sore Thumbs]]''.
* Jinx, the Cirbozoid technology officer in Kris Straub's ''[[Starslip]]''. He is often put down by Vanderbeam and is unfortunately unable to fight back in most circumstances due to the "natural subservience" of his species. The Cirbozoids' baffling physiology also tends to put off most personal involvement from other crew members, and when it does overlap, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090602090717/http://www.starslip.com/archive/20090528.shtml the trope is just magnified.]
* Arcturus Winrock from ''[[Suicide for Hire]]''.
* Gaaranooki from ''[[Supah Nario Bros]]''.
* Quentyn in ''[[Tales of the Questor]]''. In fact, this trope is specified by the bully, Rahan, of why he picked on Quentyn: everyone feels so sorry for Quentyn that he gets away with ''everything'' no matter how outrageous the trouble he stirs up in Rahan's eyes.
* Keith Keiser of ''[[
** You forget being engaged to a Keidren who then gets cold feet, goes into hiding and avoids him for several days. Her village turns him out saying she doesn't love him anymore. Finally, when he and Natani might have a relationship potential, she shows up, asking for forgiveness. On another note he has just had to {{spoiler|kill his longtime childhood friend}}. Poor, poor, Keith.
* Jake Miller in ''[[Umlaut House]]''; in the second series, Pierce Lee takes this role up.
* Lynn in ''[[
* The whole basis for ''[[
* There is also Ashton from ''[[
*
* Jone White-Eye, from ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]''. She successfully became the woobie in her [http://yafgc.net/?id=1212 first page]. [http://yafgc.net/?id=1213 All the] [http://yafgc.net/?id=1213 others were] [http://yafgc.net/?id=1215 just icing] [http://yafgc.net/?id=1216 on the] [http://yafgc.net/?id=1221 cake].
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Zombie Hunters]],'' James, a [[New Meat|trainee]] in a team of [[After the End|Post]]-[[Zombie Apocalypse]] [[Disaster Scavengers]], ostensibly begins as a [[Chew Toy]], due to comically "[[Heroic BSOD|freezing up]]" at the sight of a few [[Night of the Living Mooks|Crawlers]], a [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie class]] that doesn't pose much of a threat. He's enough of a [[The Klutz|klutz]] that he even ends up falling into a [[Creepy Basement]], but he's injured in the fall, and becomes solidly a Woobie. After ''that'' {{spoiler|he suffers a [[Fate Worse Than Death|fate]] that makes his earlier designation [[Red Shirt|become]] [[Facial Horror|horribly]] [[I'm a Humanitarian|awfully]]}} ''literal.''
* Poor, poor Sizemore Rockwell from ''[[Erfworld]]''. He's a pacifist in a world where nothing but war exists, and he lacks the free will to exercise his beliefs and is forced to kill. He's interested in all sorts of magic, but is only talented in his own field, and his boss considers him useless and can't even remember his name. Did we mention he's one or two deaths away from being the [[Last of His Kind]]?.
** He's also one of the greatest examples of the [[Stoic Woobie]] ever. To sum it up perfectly is this simple quote "when life gives you crap, you make crap golems". He's being very literal...
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' got [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-03-16 Leutenant Sorlie]. If suddenly being thrown at a band of mercenaries as a spy/nonsensical "cultural liaison" without any privacy at all was not enough, there's [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-09-14 more]... And then [[It Got Worse]], though she seems to [[Took a Level in Badass|get tougher]] now.
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