History Main / RussianGuySuffersMost

** A previous GuyRitchie film, ''{{Snatch}}'', has Boris the Blade, a [[strike:Russian]] Ukrainian who's captured, ran over, and takes an entire [[HandCannon Desert Eagle]] clip to be killed (the last, because his other nickname is "Boris the Bullet Dodger).

* [[TeamFortress2 Everybody's first instinct is to shoot at the Heavy...]] [[MightyGlacier but he can take it.]]
** ShootTheMedicFirst, you idiots!
** ''ZeroPunctuation'' did a short video of a [[HoYay Heavy and a Medic in love]], until the Medic was {{backstab}}bed by a spy.
*** Heavy/Medic shipping is quite popular with ''TeamFortress2'' fans. If fact it's even supported/referenced in game to some extent (e.g. the achievement for spearing both a heavy and a medic with one arrow is "Beaux and Arrows", the Heavy's Sandvich item is speculated to be made for the medic by him based in in-game evidence, etc).

** Heck, there's even an achievement for getting hurt a whole lot in one life as a heavy (and using medkits to heal), and [[RasputinianDeath one for being hurt in almost every way it is ''possible'' to be hurt in one life.]]

* RealLife, again: [[CriticalResearchFailure Do you know why slaves are called slaves? It because when the term was coined, many of them were Slavs, including, but not limited to, proto-Russians.]]
** It's the other way around.

** Finland. Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.
*** Of what?
**** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War The Winter War, that's what.]]
**** The Finns lost. ''Twice''.
**** Yes, but they incurred casualties on the Russians many times their own. Look at the Winter War's casualties!The Russians lost ten times as many men as the Finns!

**** Yes, but they incurred casualties on the Russians many times their own. Look at the Winter War's casualties!The Russians lost ten times as meny men as the Finns!

** For Russians themselves, there's the communist years.
*** Not exactly. The matter is ''very'' much YMMV and a subject of truly ''EPIC'' BrokenBase in the country.

* We don't really see the rest of the world, but the inhabitants of ''Metro2033'' certainly don't have it easy.

* RealLife, again: Do you know why slaves are called slaves? It because when the term was coined, many of them were Slavs, including, but not limited to, proto-Russians.

The reasons for this trope may originate from what actual Russians have been through; any fictional suffering they might endure can't compare to what they've gotten in real life. In short, they're AcceptableTargets through being overqualified.

** With the voice of [[BeautyAndTheBeast Cogsworth]], [[Pocahontas Radcliffe and Wiggims]], and many many more, no less.

* Investigator Arkady Renko in the GorkyPark series of books. His first wife cheats on him, he falls in love with a political dissident and ends up fleeing the country to protect her, eventually marries her only for her to [[DroppedABridgeOnHim catch a bridge]] due to a documented penicillin allergy that the nurse at their clinic was too lazy to notice in her records, and when he finally decides to [[DespairEventHorizion end it all by committing suicide]], he is interrupted by a would-be hitman sent to kill him and ends up using his instrument of suicide to [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption kill the hitman in self defense.]] Dude can't even catch a break when he tries to off himself. This is in addition to the various times he's been arrested, beaten, stabbed, shot at, or nearly frozen to death (more than once!).

** Many historians have argued that Russian culture and mentality were irrepairably damaged (in a HeWhoFightsMonsters sort of way) during the oppressive rule of Mongol conquerors in TheHighMiddleAges, when Russians lived in a constantly violent and wary symbiosis with them. The post-Genghis Khan "Golden Horde" empire turned Russians from conquered territories into bullied subjects, while the few Russian principalities that managed to hold on to independence became locked in a never-ending CycleOfRevenge with the empire. After the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kulikovo Battle of Kulikovo Field]] in the late 14. century, the Russians finally managed to liberate their territories and kicked out the remaining Mongol overlords. This eventually paved the road to the [[ItGotWorse bloody unification of the principalities]] into a single tsardom and the [[StartOfDarkness highly expansionist nature]] of the future [[TsaristRussia Russian empire]].

** Heck, there's even an achievement for [[RasputinianDeath getting hurt a whole lot in one life as a heavy, and one for being hurt in almost every way it is ''possible'' to be hurt in one life.]]

* Unlike most of his comrades, Nikolas Andreyvitch Kamarov, aka Winter, did survive the Xenomorph-invasion of Skywatch but shortly afterwards suffered a horrible FateWorseThanDeath after piloting the Xenomorph-infested Skywatch-station into the sun.

* Anime example: ''DigimonSavers'' has a QuirkyMinibossSquad made up of a BloodKnight who wants to kill TheHero ded, an ElegantGothicLolita [[TeenGenius teen super-genius]] who wants to rule the universe with TheLancer, and a PunchClockVillain who subjected himself to medical experiments and commits daily genocide to support his dozen siblings, and a never-gonna-be-reciprocated-in-snowy-hell crush on the TeamMom of the group, Yoshino. The last guy's name? Ivan.