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A "woobie" is a name for any type of character you feel extremely sorry for. Woobification of a character is a curious, audience-driven phenomenon, sometimes divorced from the character's canonical morality.

A story with The Woobie allows the audience to vicariously experience relief from some pain by fantasizing about relieving The Woobie's pain. (No, not that way! Well, okay, sometimes.) Woobification can also tie into a disturbing hurt/comfort dynamic, in which fans enjoy seeing the Woobie tortured so they can wish the hurt away. This is often explored in Hurt/Comfort Fic.

An important aspect of The Woobie is that their suffering must be caused by external sources. A character who suffers as the result of their own actions is a Tragic Hero and does not qualify.

Subtropes include Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, Iron Woobie, Stoic Woobie, Jerkass Woobie.


Examples:
Amongst all of the characters of every Anime or manga qualify but some more the others like:
Crona from Soul Eater.
Gelus from Death Note. Also L would be a Stoic Woobie as well as a mix of a Jerkass Woobie and a Jerk With a Heart of Gold.
Everyone on CLANNAD.
Allen Walker from D. Gray-Man.
Alphonse Elric, Edward Elric, Hohenheim, and almost every character in Fullmetal Alchemist.
The two main characters of Grave of the Fireflies.
None Anime/manga examples are:
Batman
Robin
Spiderman
In Teen Titans there's Terra, Raven. And Starfire and Beast Boy have there moments.
Aang and Zuko and many more characters from Avatar The Last Airbender.
Flint Lockwood and Sam Sparks from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
the Other Father and The Other Wybie from Coraline.
Victoria and Emily from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
Quasimodo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Tod the fox of The Fox and the Hound.
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Poor Oswald, he needs a hug so damn bad 😔