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* AssholeVictim: An unlikable character suffers a horrible fate unrelated to their actual misdeed, but the other characters don't feel sorry for them because of how unlikable they are.
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* AssholeVictim: An unlikable character suffers a horrible fate related and/or unrelated to their actual misdeed, but the other characters don't feel sorry for them because of how unlikable they are.
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* DefusingTheTykeBomb: A character tries to get through to [[TykeBomb a messed-up kid who's used as a weapon]].
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* EnemyCompassion: Two characters with noted antipathy and hostility to one another showing compassion and mercy to one or the other.
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* SentimentalHomemadeToy: A homemade toy symbolizes the emotional connection between two characters, usually a parent and child.
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* SentimentalHomemadeToy: A homemade toy symbolizes the emotional connection between two characters, usually a parent and child. Often the last reminder of a dead parent.
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* SentimentalHomemadeToy: A homemade toy symbolizes the emotional connection between two characters, usually a parent and child.
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* LackOfEmpathy: A character is incapable of expressing sympathy for others.
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* LackOfEmpathy: A character is incapable of feeling or expressing sympathy for others.(most) other people.
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* TheWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for.
** IronWoobie: A character the audience sympathizes with takes things in stride.
** JerkassWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for despite their [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant qualities.]]
** StoicWoobie: The audience feels sorry for the character, but the character brushes it off.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character in a wheelchair draws sympathy from the audience.
** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic character who is driven to villainy.
** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or species are sympathized by the audience.
** IronWoobie: A character the audience sympathizes with takes things in stride.
** JerkassWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for despite their [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant qualities.]]
** StoicWoobie: The audience feels sorry for the character, but the character brushes it off.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character in a wheelchair draws sympathy from the audience.
** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic character who is driven to villainy.
** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or species are sympathized by the audience.
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* TheWoobie: A miserable, pitiable character whom the audience feels sorry for.
** IronWoobie: A sympathetic characterthe audience sympathizes with takes things who seems to take all their problems in stride.
*** StoicWoobie: Though we may feel sorry for this character, they just brush off whatever pain they feel inside.
** JerkassWoobie: A characterthe audience feels sorry for who is seen as sympathetic despite all their [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant qualities.]]
** StoicWoobie: The audience feels sorry for the character, but the character brushes it off.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character in a wheelchair draws sympathy from the audience.
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*** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic characterwho is whose misery has driven them to villainy.
** WheelchairWoobie: A disabled character draws sympathy from the audience.
** WoobieFamily: An entire family of people whom we can sympathize with.
** WoobieOfTheWeek: A minor one-shot character who exists mostly so we can feel bad for them.
** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or speciesare sympathized by the audience.who we can sympathize with.
** IronWoobie: A sympathetic character
*** StoicWoobie: Though we may feel sorry for this character, they just brush off whatever pain they feel inside.
** JerkassWoobie: A character
** StoicWoobie: The audience feels sorry for the character, but the character brushes it off.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character in a wheelchair draws sympathy from the audience.
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*** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic character
** WheelchairWoobie: A disabled character draws sympathy from the audience.
** WoobieFamily: An entire family of people whom we can sympathize with.
** WoobieOfTheWeek: A minor one-shot character who exists mostly so we can feel bad for them.
** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or species
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* TragicAbandonedToy: A sentient toy grieves after being lost or forgotten.
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*AlasPoorVillain: A villain's death garners sympathy from other characters or the audience.
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* AssholeVictim: An unlikable character suffers a horrible fate, but the other characters don't feel sorry for them because of how unlikable they are.
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* AssholeVictim: An unlikable character suffers a horrible fate, fate unrelated to their actual misdeed, but the other characters don't feel sorry for them because of how unlikable they are.
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* DelicateAndSickly: A character (usually, but not always, female) is sick, and this inspires sympathy from the audience.
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* IllGirl: A character (usually, but not always, female) is sick, and this inspires sympathy from the audience.
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* AppealToPity: Attempting to make someone feel sorry for either the arguer or the subject of the argument, in order to convince them to accept the argument, regardless of its validity.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The character doesn't sympathize the villain who had a FreudianExcuse, especially because it doesn't excuse the villain's horrible behavior or bad actions.
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* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The character doesn't sympathize with the villain who had a FreudianExcuse, especially because it doesn't excuse the villain's horrible behavior or bad actions.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: The character is said to be unsympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: The character is said intended to be unsympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
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* RevengeIsNotJustice: A character isn't given sympathy for taking revenge against someone who wronged him.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: A villain who had no sensible motive in the original work is rewritten in an adaptation so the audience can identify with him.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: A villain who had no sensible motive in the original work is rewritten in an adaptation so the audience can identify with him.him or her.
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* AdaptationalSympathy: A villain who had no sensible motive in the original work is rewritten in an adaptation so the audience can identify with him.
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* AngstDissonance: The character is angsty, but the audience doesn't sympathize with them.
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* AngstDissonance: The character is angsty, but the audience doesn't sympathize with them.him.
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* CryForTheDevil: The audience sympathizes with the villain for their dark past.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The villain fails so often that the audience feels sorry for them.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The villain fails so often that the audience feels sorry for them.him.
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* TinyTimTemplate: A character based on Tiny Tim from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', usually being a little kid with a serious injury or illness that makes them sympathetic.
* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience by their abusive background.
* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience by their abusive background.
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* TinyTimTemplate: A character based on Tiny Tim from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', usually being a little kid with a serious injury or illness that makes them him sympathetic.
* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience bytheir his abusive background.
* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience by
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* Heartwarming Orphan: An orphan, who is usually also poor and a child, is meant to inspire sympathy in the audience.
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* Heartwarming Orphan: HeartwarmingOrphan: An orphan, who is usually also poor and a child, is meant to inspire sympathy in the audience.
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Here is an index dealing with characters expressing sympathy towards others and the lack thereof as well as characters who inspire one's sympathy. Don't you just feel sorry for this index?
Contrast ApathyIndex. May overlap with ThisIndexHasHadAHardLife.
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!!Characters who express sympathy (or the lack thereof):
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* AppealToPity: Attempting to make someone feel sorry for either the arguer or the subject of the argument, in order to convince them to accept the argument, regardless of its validity.
* AssholeVictim: An unlikable character suffers a horrible fate, but the other characters don't feel sorry for them because of how unlikable they are.
* CondescendingCompassion: A character shows sympathy for another in a manner that's intended to insult them.
* DontYouDarePityMe: A character rejects the sympathy from other characters.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The character doesn't sympathize the villain who had a FreudianExcuse, especially because it doesn't excuse the villain's horrible behavior or bad actions.
* LackOfEmpathy: A character is incapable of expressing sympathy for others.
* NoSympathy: A character shows no sympathy for another character's plight.
* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: A character shows no sympathy for another character holding a grudge against someone who wronged them badly.
* PitySex: Sleeping with someone out of pity.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: A villain or an unsympathetic character plays victimhood to gain sympathy from others in order to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
* PunishedForSympathy: A character is rebuked for expressing sympathy for another character who is considered undeserving of it.
* QuitYourWhining: A character expresses a lack of sympathy for another character by telling them to stop wallowing in their sorrows.
* SympathyForTheDevil: A hero shows sympathy for a villain.
* SympathyForTheHero: A villain shows sympathy for a hero.
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!!Character who inspire sympathy from the audience:
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* AdoptTheFood: Characters are meant to eat an animal, but one feels sorry for it and decides to keep it as a pet instead.
* AngstDissonance: The character is angsty, but the audience doesn't sympathize with them.
* BrokenBird
* ChildhoodFriends (the [[DidNotGetTheGirl unlucky kind]], or if they're LockedOutOfTheLoop)
* CryForTheDevil: The audience sympathizes with the villain for their dark past.
* TheCutie (in BreakTheCutie scenarios)
* DesignatedMonkey: An unlucky character who the audience feels sorry for, even though that wasn't the author's intent.
* Heartwarming Orphan: An orphan, who is usually also poor and a child, is meant to inspire sympathy in the audience.
* IllGirl: A character (usually, but not always, female) is sick, and this inspires sympathy from the audience.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The villain fails so often that the audience feels sorry for them.
* LittlestCancerPatient: A child with a terminal illness, meant to make the audience cry.
* SympatheticMurderer: The audience sympathizes with a murderer if he had a SympatheticMurderBackstory.
* SympatheticPOV: Audience sympathy depends on the point-of-view of a character.
* SympatheticSentientWeapon: A sentient weapon is unhappy with their role, and the audiences feels sympathetic for them.
* TinyTimTemplate: A character based on Tiny Tim from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', usually being a little kid with a serious injury or illness that makes them sympathetic.
* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience by their abusive background.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: A character is sympathetic, though their bigoted views are not.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The character is said to be unsympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The character is intended to be sympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The audience feels sorry for a character who isn't liked InUniverse.
* TheWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for.
** IronWoobie: A character the audience sympathizes with takes things in stride.
** JerkassWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for despite their [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant qualities.]]
** StoicWoobie: The audience feels sorry for the character, but the character brushes it off.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character in a wheelchair draws sympathy from the audience.
** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic character who is driven to villainy.
** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or species are sympathized by the audience.
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!!Characters who express sympathy (or the lack thereof):
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* AppealToPity: Attempting to make someone feel sorry for either the arguer or the subject of the argument, in order to convince them to accept the argument, regardless of its validity.
* AssholeVictim: An unlikable character suffers a horrible fate, but the other characters don't feel sorry for them because of how unlikable they are.
* CondescendingCompassion: A character shows sympathy for another in a manner that's intended to insult them.
* DontYouDarePityMe: A character rejects the sympathy from other characters.
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: The character doesn't sympathize the villain who had a FreudianExcuse, especially because it doesn't excuse the villain's horrible behavior or bad actions.
* LackOfEmpathy: A character is incapable of expressing sympathy for others.
* NoSympathy: A character shows no sympathy for another character's plight.
* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: A character shows no sympathy for another character holding a grudge against someone who wronged them badly.
* PitySex: Sleeping with someone out of pity.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: A villain or an unsympathetic character plays victimhood to gain sympathy from others in order to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
* PunishedForSympathy: A character is rebuked for expressing sympathy for another character who is considered undeserving of it.
* QuitYourWhining: A character expresses a lack of sympathy for another character by telling them to stop wallowing in their sorrows.
* SympathyForTheDevil: A hero shows sympathy for a villain.
* SympathyForTheHero: A villain shows sympathy for a hero.
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* AdoptTheFood: Characters are meant to eat an animal, but one feels sorry for it and decides to keep it as a pet instead.
* AngstDissonance: The character is angsty, but the audience doesn't sympathize with them.
* BrokenBird
* ChildhoodFriends (the [[DidNotGetTheGirl unlucky kind]], or if they're LockedOutOfTheLoop)
* CryForTheDevil: The audience sympathizes with the villain for their dark past.
* TheCutie (in BreakTheCutie scenarios)
* DesignatedMonkey: An unlucky character who the audience feels sorry for, even though that wasn't the author's intent.
* Heartwarming Orphan: An orphan, who is usually also poor and a child, is meant to inspire sympathy in the audience.
* IllGirl: A character (usually, but not always, female) is sick, and this inspires sympathy from the audience.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The villain fails so often that the audience feels sorry for them.
* LittlestCancerPatient: A child with a terminal illness, meant to make the audience cry.
* SympatheticMurderer: The audience sympathizes with a murderer if he had a SympatheticMurderBackstory.
* SympatheticPOV: Audience sympathy depends on the point-of-view of a character.
* SympatheticSentientWeapon: A sentient weapon is unhappy with their role, and the audiences feels sympathetic for them.
* TinyTimTemplate: A character based on Tiny Tim from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', usually being a little kid with a serious injury or illness that makes them sympathetic.
* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience by their abusive background.
* TroubledSympatheticBigot: A character is sympathetic, though their bigoted views are not.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The character is said to be unsympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The character is intended to be sympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The audience feels sorry for a character who isn't liked InUniverse.
* TheWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for.
** IronWoobie: A character the audience sympathizes with takes things in stride.
** JerkassWoobie: A character the audience feels sorry for despite their [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant qualities.]]
** StoicWoobie: The audience feels sorry for the character, but the character brushes it off.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character in a wheelchair draws sympathy from the audience.
** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic character who is driven to villainy.
** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or species are sympathized by the audience.
[[/index]]
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