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[[File:Edwoobie.png|link=Digger|frame|What every woobie needs]]
 
* 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 (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''.
* Ryan/Rachel Hawke in ''[[Abstract Gender]]''.
** 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 ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' gets to having a Woobie. He hides his intelligence behind false idiocy and slang, and his fantasy is apparently having his father hug him while expressing approval of computers. There's also Gordito, whose father was murdered by PETA.
** Hell, the doctor himself. His entire childhood was an exercise in [[Training Fromfrom Hell]], and he's had to lose his mentor to death ''three'' times. The ''same'' mentor. One of those times involved {{spoiler|Ben Franklin II's zombie re-dying in his arms after Gordito shot him.}} His parents disapprove of his job as a doctor. When all the drug-ninjas he killed {{spoiler|came back as zombies}}, he blamed himself, thinking they wanted revenge. The list goes on.
** 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 with Suck]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305190551/http://thecobradays.net/view.php?date=2006-02-06 at times].
** And then there's the fact that he's [[Doomed by Canon]] to die at the hands of his lover once the Cold War breaks out.
* Dave Jones in ''[[College Roomies from HellCRFH|College Roomies From Hell!!!]]''; the whole main cast have moments like that, really, but Dave is the designated woobie most of the time.
** 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 Mab's Furry Adventures]]''. Dear God, Abel. {{spoiler|Picked on as a kid because he's different; his one friend from his old hometown eventually commits suicide; he gets stuck in a battle alongside two of his former tormentors, both of whom end up ''dead''; his father turns out to be a 'cubi who killed his mom's actual husband and masqueraded as him in order to get a child; said 'cubi-dad proceeds to smack his mom around, kills his friend in a fit of rage, and threatens to kill his mom in order to keep him at SAIA, and the next time he sees her is when she is on her deathbed.}}
** [[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 ''[[Digger]]'' (pictured... unless they've changed it). {{spoiler|Isolated for ''17 years''? After suffering spousal abuse for some time? And ripping his mate's throat out because she was beating their child ''because'' he loved her?}} Who doesn't want to give him a hug and some tea? At least Digger feels the same way.
* Angel from ''[[Domain Tnemrot]]'' has been revealing [http://www.tnemrot.com/?p=129 her back story lately].
* [[Nightmare Fuel|Scapegrace]] from ''[[Daddy Long Legs (webcomic)|Daddy Long Legs]]'' has shades of this at times, with his extremely sad and depressing dreams, which indicate his childhood was not exactly nice and his family was [[Dysfunctional Family|dysfunctional]] and screwed up. Oh and he's probably having the same sickness his dad had, [[Incurable Cough of Death|showing the same symptoms]], so there's the possibility that [[Your Days Are Numbered|his days are numbered]]. And really, Harvestman and Crane are pretty much his [[Only Friend|only friends]], and even Crane thinks him to suspicious and creepy, such as the scene where he immediately thought Scapegrace to be the cause of his missing son. It's hard not to feel sorry for him.
* 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].
{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Leaflette}}:''' You are as cold as always Rilian.<br />
'''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.
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' has several varieties of Woobie, since it's set in a [[Crapsack World]] where [[Break the Cutie|cuties get broken]] on a regular basis. There's the main character Ariel, her friend Faen who can't control her empathic powers, Naal'suul, who shouldn't even be alive, and [[Jerkass Woobie]] Syphile as well.
* Pretty much everyone in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', to some extent, but Grace and Justin in particular.
** Ellen, at least when she's introduced (as an [[Opposite SexGender Clone]] who remembers everything the original does... as far as she's concerned, her body was changed, ''then'' her life is no longer hers, ''then'' it turns out she's probably going to die within a month... she was having a ''seriously'' bad week.) From this point on, some think she stays the Woobie, while others think she turns into a Jerkass. Others [[Jerkass Woobie|take a third option.]]
** 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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*** 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...|Grey Is]] every time you hear more about his past you just want to hug him and make it all better. Luckily White is there to do it for us
* When this troper first saw Zimmy in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', she seemed like the ''last'' character she'd want to give a big hug out of sheer sympathy. Well, recent chapters, especially [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=464 this page], have proven that wrong.
** Boxbot would be a woobie, but he is disqualified for being terrible.
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* The whole main cast of ''[[Hanna Is Not a Boy's Name]]'' has their woobie moments, and they even come in several distinct flavors:
** 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 ''[[Homestuck]]'', in [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003836 this update] especially. Basically an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] with heavy emphasis on "sympathetic". Andrew just refuses to give the poor guy a break. {{spoiler|Accidentally running over his Lusus, forced to jump off a cliff in mockery of his greatest desire, his one attempt to to be assertive and helpful on his own ending up killing the grandfather of the human he had hoped to befriend...}}
** 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, [[HeelDeadly Face Door SlamChange-of-Heart|when it starts to seem like she's considering redemption]], she tries to go and confront Bec Noir, and Terezi kills her to stop her from leading him back to murder the rest of them.}}
** 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 with Awesome]] [[Mad Oracle|Mad Oracles]]; Aradia [[Hearing Voices|hears voices]] {{spoiler|and is a ''[[Kill the Cutie|ghost]]'' after Sollux was mind-controlled into killing her during a flashback}}, and Sollux has [[Heroic Self-Deprecation|serious self esteem issues]].
** 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]].
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** On a related note, Katia Managan from ''[[Prequel (webcomic)|Prequel]]'' is ''designed'' to be this trope; "Making a cat cry" is actually in the subtitle. Everything in the universe seems hellbent on making her miserable. She grew up with horrifying nightmares every night for most of her young life, blamed by her family for said nightmares forcing them to live in poverty, never been hugged once, become a homeless alcoholic and generally seen as a slut for her drunken misadventures and, despite her best efforts, never made any money. And that's just the ''backstory''; [[Beyond the Impossible|it gets worse]] once she tries reinventing herself. Recently, after a long time when it looked like everything was going to be alright for her, [[Yank the Dog's Chain|it was all cruelly snatched away]].
* King from ''[[Housepets]]''. He was once a human who was a member of PETA. Now he's become fate's doormat.
* ''[[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 -Side Comics]], [http://www.hekshano.com/jetstory1.php Jet's Story] and [http://www.hekshano.com/cemetery1.php The Cemetery] seem to be designed to Woobiefy Jet and Koji, respectively.
* No one here has mentioned poor Dina Sarazu of ''[[ItsWalkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' here? The love of her life dumps her for another girl, she gets ignored and overshadowed whenever she makes an important discovery, a few of the characters hate her because she got saved from being crushed {{spoiler|rather than big boss}} and she ends up in a relationship with a violent [[Jerkass]] who is only nice when he's drunk and thinks she's completely useless.
* 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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* 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 with the Mark|the guy she's been told to kill]], only to have him go "Sorry, already spoken for". She then risks her life for him, and ends up {{spoiler|being killed by her own boss for [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|not being a reliable tool to him anymore,]] and dies in the arms of the man she loves.}} Ouch.
** Even much-hated [[Knight Templar]] paladin Miko got a Woobie moment... {{spoiler|just before [[Alas, Poor Scrappy|she died]].}}
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** 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 (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' is a tiny [[Everything's Better with Platypi|platypus]] with a seriously bad case of bad luck, usually in form of unintentional starvation and [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=526 this kinds of events?] They are '''''regular occurences.''''' It should be funny, but there's that utterly pitiful [[Puppy Dog Eyes]] that really makes the reader want to hug him.
* Amber O'Malley in ''[[Shortpacked]]!'', although in the most recent story, she's starting to throw this off.
** 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 [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209192023/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2888 he was willing to sell his soul in exchange for her shallow happiness... and a pony]. Yet he can rarely catch a break or even express himself with her, mostly due to his own libido and ego, but lately not even when he's [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171441/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2574 honestly trying].
** [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] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209193714/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3165 his] [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209171407/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3116 moments].
** As does [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209190633/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3146 Fucshia], due to [[Fantastic Racism]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110629032948/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3666 like here]
* 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 ''[[Two KindsTwokinds]]'': Accused of murdering his parents (He did kill his father - in self-defense, his father murdered his mother), exiled in order to protect his father's reputation (he was a high ranking military leader), manages to fulfill the impossible conditions of his exile (capture the Grand Templar, which happens to be Trace), only to be ordered to betray Trace (who he considers a friend) to the Bastians. And along the way, he develops feelings for the Kedrian assassin, Natani... self-loathing, misogynistic, gender-confused, biologically female Natani (Made worse because Bastians are prudish and xenophobic by nature and culture), and has been ordered to kill her to be accepted back into society.
** 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 ''[[Union of Heroes]]'' but what else do you expect from a superheroine called "The Eternal Victim"?.
* The whole basis for ''[[Warbot in Accounting]]'' is how much it sucks to be the titular death robot. In just a single comic, he {{spoiler|sat silently in the corner pretending to eat lunch while his co-workers talked about their families, tried to fill out a profile on a dating site but failed due to his giant claw/gun hands, failed three dates by being unable to perform basic activities, tried to build a robotic child only to have it cry in agony and die, and sat in the corner alone ''again'' on "bring you daughter to work day."}}
* There is also Ashton from ''[[Winters in Lavelle]]''. It doesn't matter what he tries to do, he still looks like a beaten puppy, either that or in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120103134832/http://wintersinlavelle.com/?p=535 some cases] a "sad lil praying mantis".
* The''[[xkcd]]'' presents the [[wikipedia:Spirit rover|Spirit rover]] fromas [http://xkcd.com/695/ this] ''[[Xkcd]]'' comic.
* 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].
* ''[[YU+ME: dream]]'' has pretty much all the humans end up in woobie positions: Fiona, Lia, even [[Big Bad|Sadako]] in her viewpoint chapter.
* 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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