Lost Souls.

MM13's Lost Souls:
- Quasimodo (The Hunchback Of Notre Dame). He's pretty much the first thing that comes into my head when someone asks me about tragic characters in media.
- Erik/Phantom Of The Opera (Phantom Of The Opera)
- Kenny (South Park).
- Mr Cellophane (Chicago). His song pretty much explains it all for us. Nobody even knows he's alive.
- Amalthea (Last Unicorn)
- King Haggard (Last Unicorn)
- Merton (Big Wolf On Campus)
- Gollum (Lord Of The Rings)
- Cameron Poe (Con Air). He was just trying to defend his wife..and he ended up on a plane full of convicts, and unlike the rest of the convicts on the plane he's genuinely nice and isn't unstable like they are.
- Francis (A Bug's Life). Poor Francis gets picked on by the flies just because he happens to be a ladybug and they think he's a woman. I always felt sorry for him because of that.
- The Monster (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein). Not just because of how beautiful Robert De Niro's performance was but also because of how sympathetic the monster was in general.
- Barbara and Adam Maitland (Beetlejuice). They're ghosts and they're trying to scare the Deitz family out of their house but nothing ever seems to work for them, and when they call on Beetlejuice to help them..it just makes things worse.
- John J. Rambo (Rambo franchise).
- Machete Cortez (Machete/Machete Kills).
- Maestro (Michael Jackson's Ghosts). This is now extremely Harsher In Hindsight considering MJ passed away in 2009,  poor Maestro was pretty much the town outcast and viewed as a monster by the Mayor who talked the townspeople into coming with him to the Maestro's mansion in order to shoo him out of town all because the Mayor views him as a 'freak'.
- Andrew (Bicentennial Man).  This is another Harsher In Hindsight one considering Robin Williams (who played this character) passed away in 2014.  All he wanted was to experience life as a human,  but it got more complicated for him as he wanted to petition world congress to recognize him as a human and not an android -  so that he can be legally married to Portia but congress doesn't allow it because while they have no problems with machines,  they feel an ageless human would result in anger and jealousy among the people so blood is put into his system,  this causes him to age slowly but surely and it's truly heartbreaking.  It's not until the very end where he dies at the age of two-hundred that he's recognized as a human.  Now if that isn't enough to make you cry,  I don't know what is.
- Mr Freeze (Batman: The Animated Series). Although the Schwarzenegger version in Batman and Robin has a bit of a tragic story as well, it's handled better in the animated series and it works for him.
- Golliath and the Manhattan Clan (Gargoyles).
- Both Blues Brothers..in particular Jake.
- Ritchie Gecko (From Dusk Till Dawn). I know he's a psychopath and a sex-offender, but still...he couldn't help himself, plus when he was killed and turned into a vampire..well, it was kind of moving.
- Kate Fuller (From Dusk Till Dawn) -  Because she loses not only her brother but her father as well.
- Aaron Green (Get Him To The Greek). I felt so bad for him, all he wanted was to get Aldous to put on a concert and yet Aldous put him through hell. It could have been so straightforward if Aldous didn't act like such a prick.
- Harold (Hey Arnold)
- Grim (The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy)
- The Grinch (How The Grinch Stole Christmas).
- Robbie Rotten (Lazytown). There are sometimes episodes in which you kind of feel bad for him.
- Doctor Doofenshmirtz (Phineas and Ferb). Where do I even begin with Doofenshmirtz? He's got so many sad and tragic backstories, like for example the story about him having to be the replacement for the garden gnome that was repossessed, he wasn't allowed to even play with the other kids because he had to stand still for hours.
- Joe (Help, I'm A Fish). It's easy to see where Joe is coming from, after all - we eat fish for dinner, and it's natural that he wants revenge.
- The Toymaker (Spy Kids 3D: Game Over). For one thing...he was trapped in cyberspace for so many years because of what happened between him and Valentin, and also out of fear that Valentin wouldn't forgive him for making him disabled in the first place.
- Josh (Drake and Josh). It's often Josh that gets the short-end of the stick, he's just one extremely unlucky brother. Another Josh Peck character I feel bad for is George from Mean Creek even though George was a bully - there was a softer side to him as well.
- Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder).  Mainly because he's the only sane person and yet he's stuck with either complete lunatics or in the case of Baldrick or Prince George, complete and total idiots.  I can relate.  Plus the Blackadder Goes Forth episode 'Goodbyeeee' is a real Tearjerker, especially at the end.
-  Eddy (Ed, Edd N Eddy).  Especially considering how awful his brother turned out to be,  yes...I feel bad for Eddy sometimes.
- Prince Vlad/Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula).  Especially because he lost his wife after his wife thought he was dead, the scene where he comes back to find out that she's passed on just made me cry on so many levels.
- Del Griffith (Planes, Trains and Automobiles).  Out of all of John Candy's characters, this is his most tragic one. Although he's a very happy character who likes to share his wisdom with everybody and his happy-go-lucky attitude towards life, he's actually a very tragic soul. Because poor Del has no place to stay for the holidays and his wife passed away,  he has no one to go home to on Thanksgiving. So it is very heartwarming at the end when Neal introduces him to his family and lets him spend the holidays with him.  I also would be remiss if I forgot to mention the pony version of him that appeared in the MLP: Friendship Is Magic episode Hearthbreakers.
- The Hessian Horseman (Sleepy Hollow).  Now THIS is how you humanize the Headless Horseman (Take that, writers of the Sleepy Hollow tv show!).  I just feel so bad for the Hessian,  especially seeing as he's just a Blood Knight doing his job and he only kills because he loves gore and violence and blood so much,   I mean his horse got shot and everything.  If it hadn't been for young Lady Van Tassell ratting him out like that he wouldn't have ended up the way he did.
- Sherman Klump (Nutty Professor 1996). As I mentioned in my favorite remakes list, I like the remake of the Nutty Professor better than the Jerry Lewis version because it's got more depth than the original. For one thing, Sherman's a lot more likable than Julius in the original, Julius was basically a nerdy, socially awkward teacher who got picked on a lot and invented a potion to make himself attractive just to impress a woman he had a crush on.  Sherman on the other hand..he's much more relatable,  while he is a teacher/professor type, he's genuinely a good-hearted man who is made the butt of the joke because of his weight and I know there are a lot of people who can relate to this because there may have been a time in which they have struggled with their weight too, also in the end he learns that he's better just being himself and that's a good lesson for all of us.  This is especially effective in this day and age considering the whole 'body-shaming' thing and the recent South Park episode that lampooned it.
-  Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (Lost).  Hurley is another one of those unlucky characters who gets treated badly despite the fact he's a very nice person and he does his best to help the other members of his group.  It's just he never seems to catch a break.  Poor Hurley.
- Seth Brundle/Brundlefly (The Fly 1986).  All Seth Brundle wanted to do was change the world with his telepod invention.  Yes, he was drunk when he was in the telepod and all,  but still...had it not been for that telepod door being open and that house-fly buzzing in - he wouldn't have found himself losing his humanity and becoming a human/insect hybrid..and that ending,  talk about heart-breaking. I've heard some compare what he goes through to either aging,  cancer - or some kind of disease like AIDS and it does sort of make sense since this movie was made by David Cronenberg after all,  who specializes in Body Horror and mutations of the flesh.
-  The Penguin (Batman Returns).  I know a lot of hardcore fans out there objected to Devito's portrayal,  but I liked it...it was an unique take on the character.  There really wasn't much to the Penguin in the comics other than the fact he had a bird motif,  a beak-like nose and he carried around umbrellas and was a pseudo-parody of high-class society.  Devito's version makes the character a tragic misunderstood monster type with a heartbreaking backstory.  He was dumped into the sewers when he was a baby...by his own parents,  and why?  Because of his deformity.   I mean what kind of heartless person dumps their own child into the sewers just because they're different?  That's just plain cruel.
- Annie Wilkes (Misery). Granted she's an obsessive stalker/fan-girl type, but she's more complex than that,  she's got a variety of personality disorders and she sometimes can't help it if she has mood swings. Plus, we all know fans like that who can't tell the difference between fact and fiction.
- Matilda (Matilda).
- Carrie White (Carrie).  She didn't do anything wrong,  yet everyone in her class picked on her and she was treated unfairly and bullied because not only was she different from everyone else but because she had trouble fitting in and due to her uncontrollable powers,  also considering her upbringing...ouch.  Poor girl.
- Chip Douglas (The Cable Guy). I know i've said he's a creepy stalker,  but I don't hate this character..in fact I LOVE him. It's just I get conflicted,  I don't know whether to run away from him or give him a hug.  All this guy wanted was a friend but he went about it the wrong way. I just feel so bad for him. Leave it to Jim Carrey to make a character not only creepy but also kind of sad, Chip never actually had any real friends and his parents never paid attention to him, it's understandable why he acts the way he does.  I can understand why people didn't like this movie,  it's probably because they've known someone like this.
- Courage (Courage The Cowardly Dog). Where do I even begin? He lives in a town that has pretty much nobody else in it except for him, Eustace and Muriel. All kinds of horrific abominations try to come after them,  he gets put through hell and all for defending the farm that he calls home.  He's pretty much like the character in horror movies who knows something's wrong but nobody ever listens to.
-  Eric Draven/The Crow (The Crow series).
- David Kessler (An American Werewolf In London). Poor David.  One night he's walking through London with his best bud Jack Goodman and the next he's being visited by an undead version of said friend and undergoing a horrific transformation into a fierce bloodthirsty beast every night. Being a werewolf isn't all fun and games,  it can be torturous too.
- Ash Williams (Evil Dead trilogy).
-  Maximillian (Vampire In Brooklyn).  He's the only one left of his kind which is why he has to go and find someone to bite and convert into a vamp before the next full moon,  and that's the reason why he goes after Rita Vedder.
-  Anna Valerious (Van Helsing).
- Julie Walker (Return Of The Living Dead III).  Once Julie becomes a zombie,  it becomes very tragic as she finds that only pain can keep away the zombie-like urges and the insatiable Horror Hunger, in the first movie the 1/2 Lady Corpse states that they eat brains to keep the pain away,  I used this several times in my Hessian Hex saga and also with my Chrysalis RPs.
-  Jun/Unknown (Tekken Tag 1 and 2).  She always looks so saddened and afraid before she gets ready to battle,  and I get a Carrie White meets Samara vibe from her.