The world of fiction always lures the practical world, and these fictional characters and their path have been treated in a way people tend to overlook their misery.
Characters like Walter White Professor Snape, or even the Joker have their fan base due to obvious reasons, but not the following characters mentioned in this blog. These characters have been treated like props and less like any other actual characters. If you have some empathy left for the fictional world then these characters should have your support, things that they have gone through due to their inconsiderate writers are just extremely painful to watch. They are widely popular yet at the same time they all have been the punching bag for the other characters of their series or show.
- Frodo from The Lord of the Rings
This crooked-looking gold-greedy person ends up burnt to death in a volcano-like thing, or a volcano, people are still confused. Supposedly he has PTSD which has made him this weird yet spiteful and toxic. He surely is someone with a lot of wisdom but his voice doesn’t allow him to share the fame in any way. His achievements are unknown to the Shire and he is just a causality of this movie series and nothing else. Well, this may be an unpopular opinion but Frodo needed to have a better ending.
- Louise Griffin from Family Guy
Louise Griffin, the poor Louise, with a family full of nutheads and abusive people, should have better than a dog abusing her and fantasizing about her most erotically. Louise, being the only resolved person in the series should have got a divorce and freshly started things. For being reasonable, the universe hates her.
- Most of the Kids of The Wizarding World (during Harry Potter’s academic years)
Yes, we all love and celebrate Harry Potter and his quest to not have fame and do everything just out of curiosity, for school, or from his bad luck, but, what about the other students and sometimes faculty of Hogwarts? Ron almost got killed while finding the philosopher’s stone, Lockhart lost his memory and Cedric Diggory died. Unfortunately, everything ends well for Harry, but people have been miserable since he attended Hogwarts.
- Jack’s friend in Titanic
The movie starts with the bond Jack and his friend had, and once Rose comes into his life, this friendly character’s tales sidelines in mostly in the background in some rare cases. Kate Winslet is a beautiful girl but, ignoring your friend for a girl who will not let you on the floating door is just sad. Jack might have got what he deserved to ignore his friend but his friend, Fabrizio surely should have a better ending than being drowned by a funnel.
- That particular lady who gets picked up in Jurassic World
Do you remember the lady who first gets picked up by pterodactyls and then almost gets drowned but her fate is some bad that she finally gets eaten up by a Mosasaur? This is what sheer doomed luck feels like. It is bad enough to face death not once and she faced it not once, not twice, but thrice. The only bad thing she said was that her fiancé shan’t have a bachelor’s party. It clearly seems that someone in the maker’s team was really annoyed at his fiancé and predicted her death in a tridimensional way.
- Goofy in A Goofy Movie
Let’s acknowledge it first, everyone who has seen A Goofy Movie is 30 years old or even older, and the unlovable aspects of Goofy have somehow transmitted to them as well. And people, who call themselves millennials, know this feeling exactly well enough. Unfortunately, the goofy side has met with Charlie Brown from Peanuts to create an entire age group of devoted canton lovers.
- Ice King from Adventure Time
It is sad yet very relatable that the Ice King just wanted someone to love and whoever came his way he would try to convey his love in the most impossible eccentric way. But, who can love when someone looks like that? Yet, he too has his penguins. As for some people, it is mostly cats to whom they show their bizarre devotion in the utmost unimpressive way.
- Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy
Yondu played by Michael Rooker has something about him, whether it is his tragic role in The Walking Dead or as Yondu. He has been the man who chooses death with zero regrets or maybe a few. He starts as someone emotionless and with time he starts to care for Quill which compels him to save Quill’s life in Guardian of Galaxy Vol. 2. His death scene is something that makes everyone cry and considers that he might not be a bad person after all.
- Joey Tribbiani from Friends
For some, it is exhausting to see Joey from being dumb to getting dumber with episode and season. And by the time it reached his new-found feeling for Rachael and the entire proposing scene, it kept on growing on your nerves to see how a person could be this unfailingly dumb. This unfortunate outcome of this otherwise hot and healthy person is extremely pitiful or rather just sad.
- Edward Scissorhands from Edward Scissorhands
Having hands made out of scissors is something extremely horrible, and he has suffered a lot for that. Starting from getting his face almost chopped up by his own Scissorhands to falling in love and left alone, this movie becomes are more tragic when he finally gets his real hands and his pop has died. And the entire plot of the movie is extremely disheartening.
- The Little Match Girl in The Little Match Girl
This 1902 movie has been one of the most heart-touching releases. This movie shows the girl homeless, freezing, hallucinating, lonely, and freezing to death. And finally, she dies, and before that another boy of her age takes the only shoe has been wearing. She starts to light matches and starts to hallucinate about better times, foods, Christmas, and someone who might give her comfort.
- Butlers in South Park
He was a poor kid who always has been manipulated by his friends and his always serious attitude has put him in various situations that have made his parents ground him in several cases. Being curious is good and owning up to things is even better, no one seems to appreciate this quality about Little Butlers throughout the series.
- Charlie Brown from Peanuts
Not just his psychiatrist, in the series of Peanuts, Charlie Brown was one of those people who always fell for the trauma bond. Everyone was mean and he found out the reason to trust them every time and he sort of practiced his trust he failed miserably and something bad happened to him. This is the classic case of trusting the person you shouldn’t have and the writers of Peanuts have crafted a pun out of his misery each time.
- The Cabbage Cart Guy from Avatar: The Last Airbender
In more than one instance in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the poor cabbage guy has lost a full cart of his cabbages which might have fed his family and earned for the day. But every time he appeared on screen his cabbage cart went astray. Sometimes it was pushed down the cliff or in other instances it was used by the hero to save his day from villains. Whatever the case may be the cabbage guy lost his way livelihood until he finally gave up and let his cabbages meet its formidable fortune.
- Jerry from Parks and Recreation
Yet, being one of the most undertreated characters of the show, people start to empathize with Jerry and Rec. At least for a time, until it was revealed that he might have been the most exhilarating married life with his enormous d!ck and his extremely seductive wife. Or at least, it is for those people who might think that this is what it takes to have a happy marriage.
- Here are a few more characters that deserved a better ending or at least your pity
- Thomas from Maze Runner
- Everdeen from The Hunger Games
- The Girl Squirrel from The Sword in the Stone
- Klaus from Umbrella Academy
- Woodhouse the butler from Archer
- The Fish from SpongeBob SquarePants
They are the ones you feel bad for, they are the ones who are less treated well in their respective movies or series. And above all, they are the ones who might have everything but hardly have the screen time to show the potential for their character. These characters in most cases don’t even have enough social media mentions as well. Except for “Joey Doesn’t Share Food”, even a simple line like this can make people hate him so much, what is so bad about not sharing your food? They are not the good guys or the bad guys they are just characters written in a manner that will not engage you in any way, yet they are a part of the show to make others better or sometimes worse.
