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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,155 posts)
6. They're intent on turning Spicey into a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds.
Wed May 24, 2017, 04:03 PM
May 2017
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds

"The essential element is that the destroyer has been pushed beyond all reason. This may or may not make them The Woobie, but either way they are portrayed as having a crappy existence. This is a character who, by definition, is constantly beaten up, kicked around, and lives an all-around miserable life. Should they lose everything and everyone they trust (be it through betrayal or in other cruel ways), and then just so happen upon the instrument of revenge against the cruel, heartless world that brought them so much pain, one need not be a genius to figure out whom the character will cast their hateful gaze upon. Think of this person as a Jerkass Woobie, only with the jerkassery replaced by insanity (though many characters do fulfill both tropes)."
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