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[ SECRET POST #3332 ]

⌈ Secret Post #3332 ⌋

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(David Bowie)

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(Great British Bake Off for Sports Relief, Ed Balls)

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[Pokemon]

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[Star Wars: TFA]

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[Damian Lewis, Dick Winters, Band Of Brothers]

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[Daughter of the Lilies]

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[David Eddings]

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[Sengoku Basara]

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[JJBA]

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[Men In Black I, II, III]

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Who are your favorite fandom underdogs? The poor bastards who it seems like the series writer just seriously hates and everything bad that could possibly happen seems to happen to them? Their lives constantly suck throughout the entire story? They are just so pitiful that even when they occasionally get shoved into the villain role, you can't help but just feel bad for them? Bonus points if they cry all the time.

Ted from Scrubs. It was done comically though.

Dean Winchester for a more serious one. He is always having some kind of catastrophic thing happening.

I guess Eeyore is the quintessential character who is always having something bad happen and who can never quite be happy.

Seconding you on Ted.

Eeyore was happy sometimes. I remember an episode where everyone was worried about Eeyore sitting alone on a hill, thinking he was really sad. Turns out it was to getting a good view of something really beautiful (it might have been shooting stars?).

I'm glad Ted got such a nice ending. It was well deserved.

If this were an encyclopedia entry, I suppose Breaking Bad's Jesse Pinkman would be its reference image?

Spoilers - seriously though. It's true that Jesse was constantly making bad choices but he wasn't a bad kid, and it got to the point where he was clearly just too deep in the shit, and too emotionally weak to do anything but fall back time and time again on Walter. He never caught a break the entire time. Even though he, at very least, managed not to die in the end, his life is still fucked and he basically has no choice but to run away and start a new life - while leaving with literally nothing and probably being totally crazy after everything.

Reid from "Criminal Minds". The poor guy's been through A LOT over the years, to where it's almost a miracle he hasn't gone all villain by this point :p.

Doesn't cry all the time, though. He's gotten emotional on occasion, sure, but he also has a tendency to bottle up his emotions a lot of the time.

I've been binge watching this show, and there was seriously a moment near the middle of the series where I was certain a combination of a major stressor and always being the one who reads through the journals of the killers at incredible speeds, getting further into their heads than the others have, to was going to make him snap and become a background mastermind that the team hunts between cases without knowing its him.

But I'm only in season 7, and I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that hasn't happened.

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After just watching Alnoah.Zero... Slaine Troyard fits this to a T. (spoilers) Basically a slave, constantly beaten, tortured, put down, etc. Even when he starts taking control of things, he's not even doing it for his own happiness but for the princess, he's purposefully setting himself up to be the bad guy. The ending of the series just left me feeling really terrible for him.

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I think Baxter from Blandings counts. I find his whole character idiosyncratically charming, but the fact that whenever he tries to do anything, the plot basically spits on his efforts, makes me feel even more for him. It's actually one of the reasons I don't like Blandings as much as I might (I've read up til the fourth book, I'll probably read the others eventually, but ...)

Jeb Bush. Please clap.

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Maedhros and Maglor from the Silmarillion. They brought a lot of it on themselves (though not all, Maedhros in no way deserved what happened to him in Angband).

Elrond. The fact that he was actually still sane by the time of Lord of the Rings is pretty impressive considering how much his life sucked.

Turin brought it on himself. His sister and father did not. I wish Hurin was more appreciated by the fandom because I want Hurin fics. Watching all of that must have been horrifying. And that's after being tortured by Morgoth and still refusing to give in to him.

Obvious answer coming from me, but Valmont from Jackie Chan Adventures. All of his appearances from season 2 on are basically exercises in "how can we make this guy's life suck even worse than we already have?" Poor dumb jerk.

I know this is going to be going back to OLD shows and OLD fandoms but...

Major Winchester from M*A*S*H. To the point that I just want to HUG him sometimes.

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Yamcha's the only one who currently comes to mind for some reason.

Jerry from Parks and Rec.

Derek Hale. The writer really hated him.

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The guy with the stapler from that one movie!

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Viral from TTGL. God I loved him. I watched the whole show only for him. And it was also hilarious how they kept escalating the suckitude of his life.

That moment when the entire army was wiped out and he was the only survivor and he just sat there on the beach punching the sand furiously and wondering WHY IS HE STILL ALIVE was the moment I fell in love.

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Mallory Pike from the Babysitter's Club. Poor girl can't catch a break. Something embarrassing happens to her practically every time she leaves the house.

For all my childhood I thought she was an Author Avatar for a number of reasons, but apparently with the recent reprints, Ann M. Martin said she never really cared for her?

They seldom lose harder than good ol' Charlie Brown.

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The fat guy with the ice cream cone from Lilo & Stitch.

I don't know all of them, but Dean Winchester, Spenser Reid, and Derek Hale are not whipping boys (at least not by the original commenter's definition). They are woobies. The writers don't hate them, they love them. They pile all of this stuff on them so they can focus the story on them and make the audience feel for the character.

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The blond kid from the second season of Black Butler, as I recall, fits the bill. Alois, I believe his name was? It's been years since I've seen it, but I just remember spending a lot of time feeling really awful for him and I don't think he got a happy ending.

Maybe Ken from Digimon Season 2? Probably not since the series redeems him and basically loves him but he did have to go through a lot of crap and was the villain for awhile, so we were set up to hate him from the start.

Meg from Family Guy? I haven't watched the show in a very, very long time but I always felt they were ridiculously cruel to her.

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