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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: A parent suffers the tragedy of outliving their child.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: A parent suffers the tragedy of outliving their child.child(ren).
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring

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* OutlivingOnesOffspringOutlivingOnesOffspring: A parent suffers the tragedy of outliving their child.
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* CaregiverAngst
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* TragicTimeTraveler: A time traveler whose travels through time have brought them no end of misery.
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* BrokenHero
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* CripplingCastration


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* DidNotGetTheGirl


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* ImmortalityHurts


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* OutlivingOnesOffspring


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* ReducedToRatburgers
* ResurrectionDeathLoop
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* HillariouslyAbusiveChildhood

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* TheAloner
* AndIMustScream



* BadlyBatteredBabysitter



* BeingEvilSucks
* BeingGoodSucks
* BornIntoSlavery



* CartwrightCurse
* TheChainsOfCommanding



* CruelAndUnusualDeath
* CynicismCatalyst



* DespairEventHorizon
* DeusAngstMachina
* DomesticAbuse
* DoomMagnet



* DreamCrushingHandicap
* DrivenToSuicide



* ElderAbuse



* FaceDeathWithDespair



* FatalAttractor
* FateWorseThanDeath



* FriendlessBackground



* {{Gayngst}}



* HellholePrison: A horrible place to be for the people who were imprisoned.
* HerHeartWillGoOn



* HillariouslyAbusiveChildhood



* ILetGwenStacyDie



* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne
* JaywalkingWillRuinYourLife



* LastOfHisKind
* TheLostLenore: For the person who lost the love interest.
* MadeASlave



* ParentalAbandonment



* RapeAsDrama



* SurvivorGuilt



* TorturedMonster



* TragicIceCharacter



* TragicVillain: Someone turned evil because their life really sucked.

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* TragicVillain: Someone turned feels they have no choice but to be evil and is miserable because their life really sucked.of it.
* TransTribulations


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* TheUnfavorite
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+ TheUniverseHatesThisIndex
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* TreatedWorseThanThePet: Someone's status in their family is so low that even animals are treated better or valued more than they are.
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+ TheWoobie
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* WoobieOfTheWeek

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* WoobieOfTheWeekWoobieOfTheWeek: A one-shot character who needs the hero's help to resolve their personal distress.
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* WoobieOfTheWeek
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* TragicAbandonedToy: A sentient toy grieves after being lost, abandoned, or forgotten.
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* SoullessBedroom: Someone who lacks emotions has an unnaturally clean bedroom with few or no personal possessions.

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** TheChewToy: When their misfortune and suffering is usually PlayedForLaughs.
** IronButtMonkey: A character suffers tons of physical injuries, but manages to get through all of them unscathed.



* TheChewToy: When their misfortune and suffering is usually PlayedForLaughs.
* ChildSoldiers: When very young people are forced to fight in wars, well needless to say it will ruin their childhoods.



** FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Whatever happened to them sucked, but it's no excuse for them to not take responsibility for their own misbehavior, let alone a license to mistreat other people.

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** * FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Whatever happened to them sucked, but it's no excuse for them to not take responsibility for their own misbehavior, let alone a license to mistreat other people.



* IronButtMonkey: A character suffers tons of physical injuries, but manages to get through all of them unscathed.
* IronWoobie: Despite how much their life sucks, this character [[{{Determinator}} refuses to give up and just keeps carrying on]].
* JerkassWoobie: Despite their bad behavior, we still end up feeling sorry for a jerk or villain because of all the bad things they've been through.



** ChildSoldiers: When very young people are forced to fight in wars, well needless to say it will ruin their childhoods.
** TheVietnamVet: American veterans of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar are especially stereotyped as being sufferers of PTSD.



* StoicWoobie: An miserable character who [[TheStoic tries their hardest to hide how much they're really hurting on the inside]].



** TroubledSympatheticBigot



* TroubledSympatheticBigot



* TheVietnamVet: American veterans of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar are especially stereotyped as being sufferers of PTSD.



* WheelchairWoobie: A character's mental or physical disability is played for sympathy points.



** IronWoobie: Despite how much their life sucks, this character [[{{Determinator}} refuses to give up and just keeps carrying on]].
*** StoicWoobie: An miserable character who [[TheStoic tries their hardest to hide how much they're really hurting on the inside]].
** JerkassWoobie: Despite their bad behavior, we still end up feeling sorry for a jerk or villain because of all the bad things they've been through.
*** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: When someone's misery drives them towards a path of evil and destruction.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character's mental or physical disability is played for sympathy points.
** WoobieFamily: An entire family full of miserable people who've been through a lot of pain together.
** WoobieSpecies: A whole ''species'' full of beings that have suffered a lot in a world out to get them.

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** IronWoobie: Despite how much their life sucks, this character [[{{Determinator}} refuses to give up and just keeps carrying on]].
*** StoicWoobie: An miserable character who [[TheStoic tries their hardest to hide how much they're really hurting on the inside]].
** JerkassWoobie: Despite their bad behavior, we still end up feeling sorry for a jerk or villain because of all the bad things they've been through.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: When someone's misery drives them towards a path of evil and destruction.
** WheelchairWoobie: A character's mental or physical disability is played for sympathy points.
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* WoobieFamily: An entire family full of miserable people who've been through a lot of pain together.
** * WoobieSpecies: A whole ''species'' full of beings that have suffered a lot in a world out to get them.
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See also MadnessTropes - a tragic past ''can'' lead to mental disorder, but [[AngstWhatAngst not all characters who experience tragedy go mad]], and [[SingleIssuePsychology not all madness is the result of a tragic past]]. The former goes here, but the latter does not.

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See also MadnessTropes - -- a tragic past ''can'' lead to mental disorder, but [[AngstWhatAngst not all characters who experience tragedy go mad]], and [[SingleIssuePsychology not all madness is the result of a tragic past]]. The former goes here, but the latter does not.
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Addressing that there are some examples of the first trope on this index where both the characters' parents are horrible people.


* AbusiveParents: Being raised by a terrible father or mother can cause a lifetime of angst.

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* AbusiveParents: Being raised by a terrible father or and/or mother can cause a lifetime of angst.
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