Characters You Feel Sorry For

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The Joker-even though he is twisted, he must have had a really depressing childhood...

That´s kinda pathetic and egoistical, drawing attention to yourself while we are talking about FICTIONAL characters!

^That's the joke.

Roy Neary (Close Encounters of the Third Kind), a large portion of that movie involved his family going to s**t after he saw the UFOs and everyone thought he was crazy, and instead of sticking around and helping him through things his wife walks out on him and takes the kids. But in the end he does get to go to space at least.

Scott Tenorman (South Park), from the episode 'Scott Tenorman Must Die', he was a douchebag, but that episode was one of the most f****d up episodes of South Park and Catman's revenge on him was just wrong on so many levels.

Read the Batman graphic novel, The Killing Joke, that has the Joker's origins. You come away with seeing him as not originally evil, but having had "just one bad day."

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Actually, DC won’t confirm the origin in The Killing Joke. It might be true, or it might be a delusion or just a story that Joker made up. Kinda like all the stories Heath Ledger made up about his scars in The Dark Knight.

“True” or not, The Killing Joke is a great read. I’d put it just behind Year One and The Long Halloween among Batman stories.

Well, I'd like to believe it's the truth.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

^^^ Sure, I understand...


I was just being a comic book geek because, well, I'm a comic book geek.

Nothing wrong with being a comic book geek - so am I. So is our president.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Nailed it in the third post. I didn't read any further because you're absolutely right.

Evangelion is an amazing work of art for me, not because of the blah blah giant robots schoolkids blah blah nonsense, but because the end of the series isn't about any of that. Instead, it's about Shinji's discovery that the sad little boy he was, was not the boy he had to be.

It was a magnificent conclusion that could only have been written by a director who had been in that kid's shoes. And he was; Evangelion's director had at the time just completed therapy for clinical depression.

If you edited 20 or 22 episodes out of that series, and just left 4 or 5, you'd have a must-see series for any person who feels depressed or inferior.

I've just been rewatching Rome (HBO/BBC) and I gotta say.... Poor Octavia! She has such a sweet, trusting and sad disposition.

She is treated as a commodity to be exploited and abused by everyone--Atia, Pompey, Servilia, and even Octavian. The only one who truly loved her, Galbius (her first husband) gets slaughtered in the streets by Atia's minions.

Will Kane from High Noon.

The long-time marshal faces an old foe and when he asks the people he has protected and served for years for help, they refuse to do so.

- Butters- south park
- Kurt- glee
-Linus - peanuts
-Jakes father - touch
-Tutie- fairy odd parents
-Ralph and Vanellope- Wreak it ralph
-Timothy -the odd life of Timothy green
-All of the greasers- the outsiders
-Babs- my little pony friendship is magic

David in the movie AI

Pi from Life of Pi. He lost his family when the ship is sunk, and after their journey at sea is over, Richard Parker does not acknowledge Pi before they part ways.

Oh my gosh, YES! I mean to think that you lost your family all at one time, so quickly...and his only "friend" forsook him at the end and he cried so hard over it. (I would too)

I feel bad for him for nearly the entire movie. All of the unfortunte things he has to go through. (I heard the book was more in-depth about his suffering too. Poor Pi. )