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Line 2: So we have [[Mystery of the Week]], where the heroes solve a new mystery ever week. And we have [[Monster of the Week]], when the heroes fight a new bad guy every week. We even have [[Patient of the Week]], when the heroes are doctors and they help out a new sick person every week. And then there's this guy. He's not dead or in danger of ~~dying-- he~~dying—he's just [[The Woobie\|troubled]] in some way. Maybe he's angry at God because his wife died, or he's in debt and needs help, or [insert touching story here]. Whatever the problem, our main character has to figure out how to help him. [[One -Shot Character\|And then the Woobie promptly disappears]], and [[Index of the Week\|next week]] our hero finds someone like him [[Status Quo Is God\|all over again]]... These series tend toward being spiritual and [[~~Glurge\|glurgey~~glurge]]y, but really it's up to the skill of the writer. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * ''[[~~XXX Holic~~×××HOLiC]]'': The heroes go about, helping addicts of various types. * In ''[[Ballad of a Shinigami]]'', Momo the shinigami finds some way to relieve the pain of the dead or the ones they are leaving behind each week. * ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'' has A LOT of these. * ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' is mostly this sort of thing in the beginning, with the heroine helping people solve their issues through dancing. It's [[Better Than It Sounds]]. * Basically, every other [[One -Shot Character]] in the [[Sailor Moon]] anime is one. It get annoying after a while, as the Senshi are perfectly fine helping out the character they barely know, but they spend no time with their actual friends. Remember [[Brother Chuck\|Naru]]? Usagi probably does not. * ''[[Mushishi]]'' combines this with [[Mystery of the Week]]. Most episodes feature people in incredibly unfortunate circumstances due to the effects of various mushi. Then Ginko arrives, figures out what kind of mushi he's dealing with and sees if he can help. Sometimes, he can't. * ''[[Hibiki no Mahou]]'' has these, one of whom is Hibiki herself. Line 26: * ''[[The Love Boat]]'' likewise has a new set of guests every week, all of them looking for love on the cruise ship. * ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' has this built into its premise: Bakula jumps into a new body every episode, and that person, or someone around him, is ''always'' in distress. The series catchphrase, his mission, is to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]; once that's accomplished, he leaps into the next body. It's heavily implied to be the result of divine intervention. * ''[[~~Twenty One~~21 Jump Street]]'', the episode where the cops go undercover and there's this chick who's all introverted but seems to know about the crimes that are going on, and she's all disturbed. Turns out she's psychic. ** Season 4, an episode called "Haunts in a New Age"... A psychic teen says she can predict when an arsonist will next strike during a Halloween dance. * ''[[~~Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)\|~~Kamen Rider Fourze]]'' has an interesting twist on this, combining [[Monster of the Week\|Monster]], [[Victim of the Week\|Victim]], '''and''' Woobie of the Week into a single package. The MOTW is created by a human "Switcher" using a device called an Astro Switch; the Switcher is someone with a grudge who's so hell-bent on revenge that they're blinded to the fact that the Switch will eventually kill them. So instead of just beating up the MOTW, Fourze and his team reach out and try to befriend the Switchers so that they know there's somebody who cares. {{reflist}} [[Category:Index of the Week]] [[Category:Woobie Ofof ~~The~~the Week]] [[Category:~~Trope~~One-Shot Character]]