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1	Here is an index dealing with characters expressing sympathy towards others and the lack thereof as well as characters who inspire the audience's sympathy. Don't you just feel sorry for this index?
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3	Contrast ApathyIndex. May overlap with ThisIndexHasHadAHardLife.
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6	!!Characters who express sympathy (or the lack thereof):
7	[[index]]
8	* AlasPoorVillain: A villain's death garners sympathy from other characters or the audience.
9	* 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.
10	* CondescendingCompassion: A character shows sympathy for another in a manner that's intended to insult them.
11	* DefusingTheTykeBomb: A character tries to get through to [[TykeBomb a messed-up kid who's used as a weapon]].
12	* DontYouDarePityMe: A character rejects the sympathy from other characters.
13	* EnemyCompassion: Two characters with noted antipathy and hostility to one another showing compassion and mercy to one or the other.
14	* 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.
15	* LackOfEmpathy: A character is incapable of feeling or expressing sympathy for (most) other people.
16	* NoSympathy: A character shows no sympathy for another character's plight.
17	* NoSympathyForGrudgeholders: A character shows no sympathy for another character holding a grudge against someone who wronged them badly.
18	* PitySex: Sleeping with someone out of pity.
19	* PlayingTheVictimCard: A villain or an unsympathetic character plays victimhood to gain sympathy from others in order to avoid taking responsibility for their actions.
20	* PunishedForSympathy: A character is rebuked for expressing sympathy for another character who is considered undeserving of it.
21	* RevengeIsNotJustice: A character isn't given sympathy for taking revenge against someone who wronged him.
22	* QuitYourWhining: A character expresses a lack of sympathy for another character by telling them to stop wallowing in their sorrows.
23	* SympathyForTheDevil: A hero shows sympathy for a villain.
24	* SympathyForTheHero: A villain shows sympathy for a hero.
25	[[/index]]
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27	!!Character who inspire sympathy from the audience:
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29	* AdaptationalSympathy: A villain who had no sensible motive in the original work is rewritten in an adaptation so the audience can identify with him or her.
30	* AdoptTheFood: Characters are meant to eat an animal, but one feels sorry for it and decides to keep it as a pet instead.
31	* AngstDissonance: The character is angsty, but the audience doesn't sympathize with him.
32	* BrokenBird
33	* ChildhoodFriends (the [[DidNotGetTheGirl unlucky kind]], or if they're LockedOutOfTheLoop)
34	* CryForTheDevil: The audience sympathizes with the villain for his dark past.
35	* TheCutie (in BreakTheCutie scenarios)
36	* DelicateAndSickly: A character (usually, but not always, female) is sick, and this inspires sympathy from the audience.
37	* DesignatedMonkey: An unlucky character who the audience feels sorry for, even though that wasn't the author's intent.
38	* HeartwarmingOrphan: An orphan, who is usually also poor and a child, is meant to inspire sympathy in the audience.
39	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: The villain fails so often that the audience feels sorry for him.
40	* LittlestCancerPatient: A child with a terminal illness, meant to make the audience cry.
41	* SentimentalHomemadeToy: A homemade toy symbolizes the emotional connection between two characters, usually a parent and child. Often the last reminder of a dead parent.
42	* SympatheticMurderer: The audience sympathizes with a murderer if he had a SympatheticMurderBackstory.
43	* SympatheticPOV: Audience sympathy depends on the point-of-view of a character.
44	* SympatheticSentientWeapon: A sentient weapon is unhappy with their role, and the audiences feels sympathetic for them.
45	* TinyTimTemplate: A character based on Tiny Tim from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', usually being a little kid with a serious injury or illness that makes him sympathetic.
46	* TragicAbandonedToy: A sentient toy grieves after being lost or forgotten.
47	* TroubledAbuser: An abusive character can inspire sympathy from the audience by his abusive background.
48	* TroubledSympatheticBigot: A character is sympathetic, though their bigoted views are not.
49	* UnintentionallySympathetic: The character is intended to be unsympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
50	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The character is intended to be sympathetic, but the audience thinks otherwise.
51	* UnpopularPopularCharacter: The audience feels sorry for a character who isn't liked InUniverse.
52	* TheWoobie: A miserable, pitiable character whom the audience feels sorry for.
53	** IronWoobie: A sympathetic character who seems to take all their problems in stride.
54	*** StoicWoobie: Though we may feel sorry for this character, they just brush off whatever pain they feel inside.
55	** JerkassWoobie: A character who is seen as sympathetic despite all their [[{{Jerkass}} unpleasant qualities]].
56	*** WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: A sympathetic character whose misery has driven them to villainy.
57	** WheelchairWoobie: A disabled character draws sympathy from the audience.
58	** WoobieFamily: An entire family of people whom we can sympathize with.
59	** WoobieOfTheWeek: A minor one-shot character who exists mostly so we can feel bad for them.
60	** WoobieSpecies: An entire race or species who we can sympathize with.
61	[[/index]]

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