Characters You Feel Sorry For

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Raziel (Legacy of Kain series): He's been taken advantaged of too many times than I can count, even after he's been resurrected as a vampiric wraith.

Frodo Baggins (Tolkien-verse): He's been through so much pain and hell carrying the accursed One Ring, and hasn't been any better since even after that quest ended. It's no wonder he wanted to sail to the Undying Lands at the end of the series.

Jack O' Neill from Stargate SG-1. He always seems like a sad character somehow (probably something to do with his son having died under tragic circumstances) - and when he nears death, I feel bad for him.

winston smith, "1984."

Don't forget Linus and Sally.

As for others,
Sirius Black
Marge Simpson
Abe Simpson
Gollum
Bubba (From Forrest Gump)
Jenny Gump
El Mariachi

Fitz, the hero of Robin Hobb's "Farseer" and "Tawny Man" books. She really does love to torture the guy. The illegitimate son of a prince who was raised from childhood to be an assassin, he gives up everything for his country again and again, not always willingly. His reward is usually yet more pain, both physical and psychological.

The shark in Jaws. He's just doing shark stuff.

Considering the sz its prolly a female shark

Carrie from the movie of the same name. Bullied at school, abused at home. I can't blame her for snapping and murdering everyone the way she did. If she didn't have telekinetic powers I image she would have brought a gun to school the next after after what those nasty b*****s did to her at her prom.

Which has become something of a f****d up American tradition.

Also I felt sorry for all four girls in The Craft.

And Rosemary in Rosemary's Baby. Her husband was a real scumbag selling his soul for fame and offering his own wife up as an incubator for the Antichrist and gaslighting her throughout the entire movie.

hedwig in the angry inch

Was there a particular version of Carrie you enjoyed more than the others, or is it Carrie's story, in general?
I really enjoyed your comments about Rosemary. Well said.

Characters You Feel Sorry For

Fantine played by Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables.

I think i most prefer both the book version and the original movie version of Carrie. Didn't care much for the remakes.

Her story was really more like a tragedy than pure horror but that's why I liked it so much.

Edit: As for Rosemary, let's just say her situation hit close to home with me as my mom was married to a man who at first seemed a genuinely good guy until we found out he had been lying to us about everything throughout the entire marriage. He was also a crackhead who abused her and cheated on her, stole money from my grandfather, etc. All while convincing everyone he was such a great guy.

I saw a lot of him in Rosemary's husband which is why I realized he was such a well-written villain. I can imagine other women have had husbands just like that too?

Have I been spelling Sidney's name wrong this entire time?

Bob Harris (played by Bill Murray) and Charlotte (played by Scarlett Johanasson)
from the film Lost in Translation.

Del Griffith in Planes Trains.




https://youtu.be/CFh5FzXIeBg

Jared Dunn from Silicon Valley

A running gag in the series is that he's had a horrifically tragic backstory, but the audience (and the other characters) only ever hear snippets of it that he mentions in passing, not realizing how unrelatable it is.

He's also just an all-around kind, sensitive, selfless person who is always focused on supporting the other characters in the show, which they don't reciprocate.

I wish they would all just give him a hug and tell him they appreciate him

Trixie Franklin (Call the Midwife)

Sure, she IMO came off as having a "bad girl" vibe to her personality at first,
but her first two relationships didn't work out, but she is now a married woman, so maybe third time could be the charm?