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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:16 pm Post subject:

Meg from Family Guy Charlie Brown (I LOVED in Family Guy when Peter roundhouse kicked Lucy for pulling the ball away from Charlie! ) Krillin from Dragonball. In Dragonball Z he dies the most times out of everyone and is generally disrespected by a lot of people (except his circle of friends) Hyatt from Excel Saga since she was always suffering, although it was shown in a comedic way Ranma from Ranma 1/2, at least when he is falsely accused of cheating Naruto in, well, Naruto. For the first, like....110 chapters he is seen as a monster and shunned by everyone but Iruka and Kakashi. Butters from South Park. He gets unfairly grounded by his parents all the time, has had a ninja star in his eye, got mistreated by a couple girls...... Daniel in the first three Karate Kid movies, though he always gets his revenge in the end Shinji Ikari in Evangelion. In fact I'd say his emo-ness is somewhat well-deserved. Irwin from Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy Robbie Hart from The Wedding Singer. But everything works out in the end. Harper from Wizards of Waverly Place

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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject:

Meg from Family Guy, Butters from South Park, Hotaru Tomoe from Sailor Moon because she's always got health problems.

9512
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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:05 am Post subject:

George McFly from Back to the Future (though his son Marty does protect him from Biff). My favorite moment was when he punched Biff to save Lorraine (future wife) from being raped. He was a geek who loved Sci fi and was generally a good guy.

Zokk
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Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject:

Well, if computer games count: Alma Wade from F.E.A.R., and Lt. Stokes from F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. Maybe Becket, from Project Origin, too. Alma: As a psychic, she was treated as an anomaly and a science experiment from a very early age, in a program headed by her own father. When her powers became too dangerous, she was put in stasis from the time she was eight to the time she was twenty six, only being removed from stasis to give birth to two sons, at the age of fourteen and sixteen, respectively; and only to have them immediately taken away from her to be raised as psychic soldiers. Finally, after a synchronicity event with her younger son that resulted in the brutal killings of a number of security personnel and scientists, her father pulled the plug on her in stasis, and it took six days for her to die in there, alone. Lt. Stokes: She isn't even technically a part of Dark Signal, and has no psychic abilities what-so-ever, but ends up being dragged into the Project Origin investigation anyway, and suffering greatly for it at the end. In the psychic amplification chamber, she's confronted by Genevieve Aristide, who proceeds to shoot her point-blank in the stomach, despite the fact that she wasn't explicitly posing any great threat to her, and leaves Stokes to bleed out on the floor right in front of Becket while he can't do anything to help her. Becket: Although in the grand scheme of things, he really only seemed like some random doofus (or, Delta Force grunt, if you want to be specific) who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, I do kind of feel sorry for him, in a way. I mean, he did get raped by a ghost (read that again if you have to; yes, I'm serious, that's what happened) and then later possessed by the ghost of a homicidal, misanthropic, cannibalistic psychic and then exploded from the inside out. _________________ It takes a village to raise an idiot, but it only takes one idiot to raze a village. Last edited by Zokk on Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:27 pm; edited 4 times in total

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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:01 am Post subject:

Anakin Skywalker from the Star Wars prequels: Maybe this is undeserved seeing how everyone else regards him as an obnoxious and immature brat, but I've always felt a strange sympathy for him while seeing the prequels. Sure, he had his character flaws, but I for one thought it was uniquely tragic how his love for Padme was one of the factors (albeit not the only one) that turned him to the Dark Side. King Kong: He is the last of his kind on an island full of dinosaurs that want to eat him, and the moment he meets a creature who shows any empathy for his condition, he is taken far from his home, exploited for entertainment, and killed. The Hyenas from The Lion King: You'd be pissed off too if you were confined to a barren and geothermically unstable wasteland with no food save for the odd dead elephant, and yet the movie wants you to think that the hyenas being allowed into the Pridelands was a bad thing. If the lions and hyenas acted more like real animals, I wouldn't mind this so much, as lions and hyenas are enemies in real life, but the animal characters are so anthropomorphized that you'd expect them to rise above this quasi-racism.

BigBadBrad
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 12:31 am Post subject:

Did I miss it or has no one said Eeyore? I always got sad reading or hearing or watching Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.

rocklobster
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:57 am Post subject:

Lain from Serial Experiments Lain (Because she basically erases herself from existence) Reki from Haibane Renmei (an angel who believes that she isn't forgiven and isolates herself. How can you not feel sorry for this character?) Vash from Trigun (All the dude wants is friends and donuts, but no, everyone wants to get that bounty!) Chi from Chobits (poor girl can't even feel love because if she does, every persocomm shuts down) Rosette from Chrono Crusade (she lives on borrowed time--literally. Her contract with Chrono means every time he tries to protect her by going demon mode, it shortens her life span. And yet she's doing it all to save her brother from the devil, literally) Superboy--he wants to be his own hero w/o being in Superman's shadow Raven--her dad's a demon and wants to make her evil. Sheesh

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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:01 am Post subject:

rocklobster wrote:

Chi from Chobits (poor girl can't even feel love because if she does, every persocomm shuts down)

I think Chi is ok now. The reason why she was shutting down other Persocomm was because Hideki was not sure of her love for her. Once he resolves what is really in his heart she releases the control she had over other persocoms. So CHi can love now that she has found the one and he has responded with love back to her. BTW all that is in the manga, and the only thing that I can see she could be sad about is not being able to have intercourse with Hideki since her on/off switch has been placed in that place. Maybe the one too be a bit sad would be Hideki.

Almighty_CRJ
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:18 pm Post subject:

The Doctor of Doctor Who fame. It's rarely actuality his fault I mean: You accidentally strand a young lady in another dimension, not your fault. Your mortal enemy tortures a young ladies family, technically not your fault. Your time machine goes funny & you leave someone behind for nearly 15 years (even though you saw them 3 minutes ago) Twice. Not your fault.

rocklobster
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:34 pm Post subject:

Almighty_CRJ wrote:

The Doctor of Doctor Who fame. It's rarely actuality his fault
I mean:
You accidentally strand a young lady in another dimension, not your fault.
Your mortal enemy tortures a young ladies family, technically not your fault.
Your time machine goes funny & you leave someone behind for nearly 15 years (even though you saw them 3 minutes ago) Twice. Not your fault.

And let's not even bring up how long it's been since we last saw poor Susan.

PHISHA51
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Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:43 pm Post subject:

Permafrost aka Maurine Connor in Static Shock. In case you don't know: Static Shock is a cartoon series about a superhero with a power to manipulate electricity. He is also a part of the DC universe. In this one episode, it shows Permafrost as a small homeless girl who lost her mother at a young age and was abandoned by her step-father. She was supposed to be taken into child services but she escaped and ended up living on the streets. Because she is homeless, she lived in an abandoned repair depot along with the other homeless people and walks around begging people to give her some change. She also had a superpower to create ice and snow and that caused her to become alienated to everyone around her. With no friends and no solution to her problem, she eventually finds static and He resolves the problem by sending her to church with a homeless program. Although she was fiction, I did felt really sorry for the character that her past was a tragic one and it continued to her present state. _________________ ADHD-PDD/NOS//AS (I am a friend and a menace to society) Autism, is it in you?

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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 1:16 am Post subject:

Titangeek wrote:

Reginald "Broccoli" Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation, poor nerves dude.

Seconded. I always felt he needed a friend--and wished I could have been that friend (aside from Geordi, of course).

I LOVED that he was the one to bring the U.S.S. VOYAGER back home. cheers

He changed a lot--for the better--over the course of the two series.

9512 wrote:

George McFly from Back to the Future (though his son Marty does protect him from Biff). My favorite moment was when he punched Biff to save Lorraine (future wife) from being raped.

He was a geek who loved Sci fi and was generally a good guy.

Yep. If I had known someone like that, I would have wanted to go out with him. Smile

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rocklobster
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Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 7:37 am Post subject:

How about any Dickens character? Seriously, the guy loved to torture his protaganists. And the villain I really feel sorry for? Mr. Freeze.