Resurrecting this thread to add this 'Suffering Hall of Fame' a name that deserves to be here, so much the writers themselves made sure every season this character was tortured once or twice:

Ladies and Gentleman: Miles O'Brien, Chief of Operations, Starfleet, Deep Space Nine.


- Married to the most annoying wife in all of Star Trek
- His first child was born during a crisis, and had a Klingon midwife
- He was almost killed after helping a planet get rid of their bio-weapons
- He was cloned and even his cloned felt victimized of everyone else
- His wife was posessed by evil space ghosts
- His second child had to be born with a surrogate mother
- He dies! and gets replaced by his self from a few hours ahead on the future
- He gets convicted on a planet where they make him believe he spent 20 yrs in jail
- He loses his 9 year old child to a wormhole and a 20 yr old savage version of her appears.

And so on, and so forth, every season of DS9 has a 'Torture O'Brien episode'. So let's hear it for the Chief! Hear, Hear!

I just started watching Firefly , and thought someone would have nominated him already, but apparently not...

(Keep in mind, this is within the space of ten episodes...)

- Possible and more than probable PTSD from battle experience (at the very least, emotional issues stemming from it)
-Slipped a mickey from interstellar space whore/thief
- Near suffocation and possible hypothermia
-Shot in the gut, and subsequent long painful near bleeding to death
-Stabbed in the gut ( in the very next ep)
-Extended and painful electrocution, stabbing, and other assorted ( and weird) torture,including having his ear sliced off
-Died, and was subsequently revived to be tortured some more
-Beaten up , and dropped several feet onto his head on a metal deck , by a large non-sequitur spouting bounty hunter
-Miscenellous beatings in bar fights

Ladies and Gents , Cap'n Malcolm Reynolds!

(Jesus...just imagine what Joss would have done with him had Firefly had a full run.)

This probably won't mean much to a lot of posters, but I have to nominate Little Mo in EastEnders:

- Her mother dies of cancer.
- Marries scary man who beats her up regularly.
- Husband rapes her.
- Husband burns her with a clothes iron, then makes her eat her dinner off the carpet - on Christmas Day!
- Finds out husband has got another woman pregnant.
- Fights back against husband, leaving him for dead.
- Husband isn't dead, but presses charges against her.
- Found guilty and goes to prison for attacking husband.
- Released, but is then stalked by husband.
- Husband holds her hostage in a burning house which she barely escapes from and husband is killed in.
- Finally remarries new husband who's good to her.
- Gets a job as a barmaid, only to be raped by one of the customers.
- Finds out she's pregnant by the rapist, but decides to keep the baby.
- Second husband leaves her because she's having the rapist's baby.

How much can one woman take? I don't even like the character, but I wonder how much more the writers can pile on her.

Hunter's character on the show within a show Grosse Pointe. I get the feeling there was a much longer list than what they mentioned, but poor Becky had been gang-raped, aborted her child, and been cheated on by her alcoholic pedophile of a boyfriend many, many times.

You know for a second I actually thought you were going to call Lana a victim. And then I got a clue.

I nominate Larry, Curly and Shemp in a three way tie. Moe kicked their asses (and heads, legs, arms and torsos) for at least 30 years.

I definately agree on Little Mo Pooki but what about Sarah-Louise Platt on Coronation Street (again this probably won't mean much to most readers)

When she's born her mum isn't sure who her dad is
Her dad then dies when she's very young
She is barely seen for 12 years and then suddenly appears with a new face
Has a baby at 13
Is almost kidnapped by internet paedophile at 14
Her mum and stepdad divorce after he has an affair
Her new stepdad is a murderer and tries to kill her and the rest of her family
She almost dies in a car crash
Her daughter's dad dies
Her daughter is kidnapped by her crazy granny who tries to kill her
She fails most of her GCSEs
She has a crappy job in a cafe
Her mum tries to get her daughter taken into care
She lives in a crappy flat
She's pregnant again at 16
Her fiance is secretly gay
Her original stepdad starts dating one of her friends
She has an annoying little brother, her big brother is fucking Adam Rickett!
And to top it all off her mum is Gail Platt!

And she's still only 16!

If we were including books, I would so say Tobias of Animorphs. Okay, so I'm 12, but he has a crap-life with an alcoholic for a guardian, gets stuck in morph and can only be human for two hours (I think), blah, blah, and the only thing really good about his life (Rachel) dies. Greeeeat.

But we're not including books, so carry on.

Okay, what kind of evil gothic show is Coronation Street?

Animorphs was a show too. Okay, the show was horrible but it still counts.

Coronation Street is a very down-to-earth British soap. If I were to compare it to an American show, the best comparison I could muster would be to maybe As The World Turns or Guiding Light.

Personally, I have no sympathy for Sarah Louise. These last few years, most of the victimizations she's underwent, she's really brought on herself.

I second the nomination for Miles O'Brien of DS9, but would also like to nominate Harry Kim from Voyager.

It seems like every episode there would be a tragedy or injury surrounding Harry. It was actually part of my drinking game for everyone to drink every time Harry gets knocked around.

ETA: Almost three years to the day and I'm FINALLY a loyal viewer. Yay me!

Don't forget all the bunnies she had to face every year at Easter time. ;)

Anya, Tara and Cordelia are the three most victimised characters in the Buffyverse, IMO. They are followed by Angel, Dawn, Xander and Giles.

Didn't he never get a promotion after all that time on the ship?

Okey, so I have to mention Connor on Angel.

He gets kidnapped by a vengence obsessed lunatic - Holtz - and grows up in a hell dimension where he's taught to hate his real father and told he never loved him (which Angel did and still does). Holtz then tricks Connor into thinking Angel killed him, so Connor dumps Angel to the bottom of the ocean. He finds out Holtz lied and tries to be a good person. But he then gets manipulated into impregnating an evil higher being (which is what Cordy was possessed with), manipulated into almost killing Angel AGAIN, manipulated by Jasmine (jeez, the kid was manipulated since birth!) and after realising that he will never be loved or have a family, or be happy he decides to blow himself up with a bunch of other people, thus forcing Angel to kill him in order to give him a new happy life, with no memories of the painful real one. He then, one year later, gets said horrendous memories back.

It's a miracle that kid hasn't jumped of a building yet.

Bianca Montgomery of All My Children, this is your thread.

In the past year alone she has:
- fallen in love with a woman who was using her to steal from her mother's company and sleeping with Bianca's sister's boyfriend
- been raped by her sister's now ex-boyfriend
- become pregnant as a result of that rape
- shot her rapist, repressed it, watch her sister go on trial for the murder and then finally realize she could have prevented it
- been berated by her mother for even considering keeping the baby
- decided to keep the baby anyway, but hide it from her mother because Erica Kane if a frickin' psycho
- been berated AGAIN by her mother for keeping the baby and basically was told that her child was going to live a horrible life and she was a selfish, irresponsible person for keeping her (I just can't describe how awful Erica was in this scene)
- given birth in the middle of the woods in a storm
- had her baby switched with another child and told she was dead
- been abandoned by her mother, who is pretending to be a showgirl in Las Vegas

This isn't even touching on the stuff from before I was watching, which I believe includes catching her mother in bed with her father's brother, getting kidnapped by a child molester, developing anorexia, being blackmailed with the secret of her sexuality, and having Erica Kane as a mother.

Also, as much as I hated her by the end of her run, I would say Lindsay, from The Practice. She was date raped by an ex-boyfriend, stabbed by a guy wearing a nun-suit who wasn't even out to get her (he was coming after her friend), stalked by a serial-killing weirdo (whom her husband sort of accidently had killed), and then stalked again by another weirdo, whom she killed herself.

I've gotta add Frank Burns from MASH. Poor guy, albeit not very likable. All he's got at home is a loveless wife and a soulless medical practice, so he enlists, thinking of his country blah, blah. Then he is totally and completely harrassed by the drunken asshats who are supposed to be his comrades. Just off the top of my head:

Drugged, Toetagged and sent to the front
Blood stolen and given hepatitis
Snakes in bed
Lovemaking broadcast all over camp
Publicly jilted
And publicly insulted in front of people he commands - constantly.

They harrassed him into a mental breakdown, and then laughed about it. Ah, good times.

re Major Frank Burns...

I remember reading an interview with Larry Linville wherein he talked about that episode. Hawkeye & BJ invite Frank to drink with them for the first time because they feel sorry for him after getting dumped by Hot Lips.

The original script called for Frank to choke on the martini and cough/gag have some reaction like that.

But, Larry insisted that Frank just down the drink without a problem and be 'a natural' at it. I'm glad they let him have his way. It also allowed the following exchange which amused me no end.

FRANK: (knocks back martini, smiles a little) MMM! It's lemony!

Hawkeye: That's the cough drops we put in it.

He didn't say it in the interview- but I think Larry was pretty disgusted with the role after awhile and even more put-out by the fact his character was being bounced & replace by someone who was a seen as a 'better' foil for Hawkeye. Can't says I blame him.

"You tell 'em, Ferret Face!"

He also stated in some M*A*S*H* retrospective that the show was getting "messagey", which was one of my major complaints as well.

Okay, let me give it a shot:

Born into a military family, so that she never lives in the same place for more than a year growing up--and therefore finds it difficult to be friends with anyone.

It is implied that she ended up having flings with many older military men, possibly in an attempt to capture some Freudian daddy love.

Has an affair with a married man who absolutely refuses to leave his wife (and accidentally throws it in her face on a regular basis).

Is constantly harrassed by two colleagues for attempting to display a certain level of professionalism.

Is given an insulting and derogatory nickname by said colleagues.

Becomes engaged to a military man who begins to cheat on her the moment she turns her back.

Has a one-night stand with one of the aforementioned colleagues, and it is implied that she maintains an attraction that is never consumated again.

I introduce to our lineup one Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, RN.

Baxter Stockman, from the new Ninja Turtles.

• Loses company.
• Pisses the Shredder off, loses eye.
• Pisses Shredder off again, loses left arm and the use of his legs and neck.
• Fights the Shredder and the Turtles, losing his body in the process (only his head remains).
• After achieving some sort of independence and aquiring a robotic body, is captured by the Shredder again, and is forced to work for him again. Oh, and he's now a talking brain.
• Is left for dead in the middle of the ocean.

Phoebe Buffet!

Her mother committed suicide when she was a child. She never knew her father, and when she finally met her brother, he was an idiot who was marrying a woman twice his age, and Phoebe had to carry their triplets. Her grandmother repeatedly lied to her about her family history. She lived on the streets for many years. The first love of her life left the country for some obscure research grant. Her apartment burned down. And the worst part, for a brief time, she had to live with Monica.

Good one with Phoebe. But let's not forget about Mom's suicide or the jail time.

I want to say any character that had anything to do with Michael Landon on any series. But I'll narrow it down to Mary Ingalls.

Family loses home in Kansas, moves to Minnesota with nothing
Ostracized by townfolk for being a "country girl"
Nearly dies of scarlet fever
Little brother dies
Sister kidnapped
Other sister falls down well and mother blames her
Gets kicked by horse & nearly dies from infection & repetitive surgeries
Comes from impoverished family
Parents frequently procreate without a bedroom door
Accidently burns barn down and is blamed by mother
Gets lost in blizzard *twice*
Ostracized for wearing glasses
Fiance moves away and has affair then dies
Goes blind
Has miscarriage
Has healthy child and stands helpless while Mrs. Garvey uses child to break window and child dies in fire.
Home and workplace burn down
Goes insane

Hard choice. There is also that guy in Walnut Grove whose entire family died from typhoid when the evil businessman sold rat infested wheat and then a few seasons later the same guy had a whole new family that died off when the evil businessman sold him anthrax infected mutton. (or was it anthrax, then typhoid?)

Carl on Aqua Teen Hungerforce. Besides suffering numerous property damage, he has also been visciously maimed and/or killed in varous episodes.

Monitor and Keyboard? Meet Diet Coke. BWAH!

I know I shouldn't laugh, but I'm starting to think that Alice Garvey breaking the window with the baby may just need it's own thread, it's appeared in so many of the other ones....

Don't forget Carl was also decapitated and his head was put on a body made of just eyes.

I've seen this scene mentioned every where as well, but I've never seen the episode. Right now, I'm picturing a woman throwing a baby through a window in order to escape a fire. Is that really what happened? And why did it happen? Was there nothing else available to break the window?

On Phoebe Buffay, don't forget that she married the gay ice dancer who went straight and married another woman.

Add for Phoebe - caught hepatitis when a pimp spit in her mouth. Lived with Monica not once, but TWICE.

Alice Garvy didn't throw the baby through the window or anything, but based on the angle of the camera and the way the baby was being held in the crook of her arm, it appears that she is using the baby and not her elbow to break out the window.

I must nominate Kevin Kinkirk. Married to Lucy Camden, need I say any more? :)

Actually she didn't so much throw the baby as hold it and repeatedly beat the window with it to clear out the glass. It was one of those multi-paned windows so it took a good thrashing before all the little panes were broken. She was on the 2nd floor and yes, there was plenty of furniture around. And she didn't bother jumping out the window once the glass was cleared. So I'm guessing that Alice Garvey had a lifelong ambition to bash a baby into a window, saw that the fire was closing in and realized this was her last chance.....

Oh, and the image of Alice & baby thrashing against the window and screaming isn't complete unless you know that the camera cuts to Blind Mary, outside the building yelling "My Baaaa-by. My Baaaa-by. My Baaaa-by."

Oh. That's really disturbing. I'm kind of glad I've never seen it.

And when you throw in the fact that they live over her family's garage and he has to deal with all of them on a daily basis he wins hands down.

I would agree, but he is a condescending jerk who got what he deserved by marrying a girl-woman instead of a grown-up. As you doubtless know, he gets off on bossing her around. And he's rich enough to move, so screw him! Ack; they're all hateful on that show!!

If it makes you guys feel any better, in real life Mary Ingalls never even had a baby, let alone a dead one. She was a spinster at her death.

Then again, it's not that much more rosy of a life.

Oooh, Mary Ingalls--good one. I remember being really young and being traumatized myself, after watching all the shit she went through.

Re: Mary Ingalls.

Did they ever explain why Mrs. Garvey used the baby instead of the furniture? Because that sounds just horrendous. And what exactly happened to her after that because I can't exactly see everyone beeing a-okay with that.

I realized that it is completely obvious who the king of this thread is: Kenny from South Park. The kid dies in every. single. episode. Is it even possible to be more victimzed than that?

I was 9 when the show started, watched just enough to get me to read the books, at which point I gave up on the show in disgust. Judging by how often the show turns up on this and "scarred for life", my 9-yo self was pretty damn smart.

(Just looked it up on tvtome - it ran for 10 years???)

The first person she lived with after she moved to New York killed himself. She was stabbed by a cop. She has a twin sister that avoids and mistreats her. Aforementioned twin sister sold her birth certificate, "forgot" to tell Phoebe about their mom's suicide note and the fact that they were adopted, and impersonated her in order to be a porn star. Finds out that she was adopted after she is far into adulthood. Was hinted that she had romantic feelings for Joey that were never returned or consummated. Grew up poor and stepfather spent many years in jail.

And all of you thought Friends was a comedy.

Okay, I'll bite. ER's Carol Hathaway.

Father dies when she is a child under mysterious circumstances, possibly suicide. Raised by a bitter, overprotective mother. Ends up with Doug Ross at a young age, and is cheated on and dumped. Has to sleep with Rick Rossovich. Attempts suicide. While she is in a coma after said suicide attempt, her former bosses talk about her as if she is already dead, saying they only need to pretend otherwise for "morale". Survives, but later on loses bid to adopt Russian orphan due to suicide attempt. Dumped at the alter because she didn't love her fiance as much as he loved her. Has to sleep with Ron Eldard. Boyfriend eventually goes cuckoo after being responsible for the death of best friend/partner in apartment fire, and she is forced to dump him. Has financial troubles due to cut shifts. Finally ends up in stable relationship with Doug Ross, which is put on hold due to work scandal which causes him to leave town and implicates her clinic, which she is forced to hand over to others. Gives birth to Doug's twins alone and barely survives childbirth. Has single mother related woes. End of bad luck is remedied when she decides to stop jerking everybody else around and move to Seattle with Doug Ross.

(Yes, I know that Julianna Margulies had a lrelationship with Ron Eldard at the time he was on the show. But for ME, personally, I have to say that I would consider it victimizing to have sex with him).

I include this character with reservations. She isn't well-liked on these boards, and that's because she did a lot of victimizing herself. She cheated on her first fiance and Doug Ross. She spent a lot of time jerking the men in her lives around because she could not make a decision about Doug. She totally used and manipulated Luka because she couldn't deal with her own issues. The giving birth in isolation/single mother woes are difficult to sympathize with since it was well established that she ignored Doug's attempts to help her out during her pregnancy and resisted reconciling with him after the kids were born, although she alter admitted that she really wanted to all along. Whatever you think about that last part, whether it was right or not, the truth is that she could have helped herself out a bit.


There is also the fact that the woman gets to spend the rest of her life having (apparently) mind-blowing sex with a man who happens to look just like George Clooney. That is not too victimizing at all. Perhaps we can say, for her, that it evens out :)

I don't exactly see that as a hardship. Of course I go to a school known for its aviation program so Top Gun is practically required viewing for anyone attending school here.

Amen to that, Threve. I'll take a double dose of Dr. Taglieri, stat.

Agree with Jenna 47 on Sydney Bristow, but adding more reasons to pity the 'gal.


SEASON 1
-Mother dies at young age
-Grows up without love of a father
-Finally gets her life back on track, only to have her fiance murdered
-And it's her fault, because she told him she was working for the "CIA"
-Finds out the "CIA" she's been working for is actually an EEVIL agency and becomes a double agent.
-Father figure to her is actually evil.
-Finds out her dad is a spy.
-Finds out her mother is alive - and evil.

SEASON 2
-Finally regains relationship with mother, only to be betrayed and shot by her. Again.
-Best friend dies.
-Other best friend almost dies and is put into witness protection.
-Is tortured by Suit&Glasses. A lot.
-Passes out during fight with clone of her best dead friend and wakes up two years later and her boyfriend is married.
-House burns down

SEASON 3
-Character assasinated.
-Baddie steals her eggs during two years in order to create Rambaldi's heir.
-Kisses boyfriend only to have him return to Whoren the Wife of Woe after they get out of the life-threatening part of the ep.
-Boyfriend's wife turns out to be an evil spy trying to kill them both (actually, kind of a good thing for the Syd-Vaughn-shippers)
-Finds out her mother had an affair with the main baddie.
-Finds half-sister from said affair only to have her abducted.
-Gets sister back, but all the baddies want her and she is destined due to some prophecy to kill her.

Poor Syd...

Doyle on Angel. The poor guy dies in episode 9.

I must nominate Lucy Camden. Starts out sweet, but slightly stupid girl. Is overshadowed by pretty sister. Looks very much like a troll doll. Rebuilds a car - mother gives car to idiot brother, because a boy needs a car, a girl doesn't.

Is at some point lobotomized. Parents encourage her to marry a cyborg. Marries a cyborg who emotionally abuses her for being lobotomized. Now looks like a pumpkin.

LMAO. Thought I was the only one who thought she looked like something from british mythology. I used to like that there was a teenager on tv who looked average. What happened?

Don't forget:

Best friend dies in car accident
Harrassed by sisters collection agency
Tampon falls out of pocket in front of cute boy
Abused by hair and wardrobe staff

Bianca on All My Children.

Abandoned by her mother while she was young, she comes back to town, and is blackmailed for being gay. She comes out of the closet, deals with all that comes along with that, and right as she's getting happy she's raped and becomes pregnant due to the rape. She gets stranded having the baby, and while she's being rescued the helicopter pilot stages a crash so he can give her baby to someone else, and she's told that her baby died in the crash. Then everyone treats her like she's crazy when she thinks her baby should still be alive.

IIRC, Bianca chose to have this baby, so I don't think this is something we can pin on her as a hardship. The abortion option was there, wasn't it?

If we're going with ER characters, hands down, Kerry Weaver.

Has mysterious limp which caused her pain in her hip but was never explained, adopted as a child, adoptive parents died, never able to find birth parents despite searching, hated by the staff so much they threw a party on a day she wasn't there, didn't have sex or date anyone for years, when she finally did it was a skeevy guy from a managed care type organization that only used her for sex and dumped her, didn't date anyone after that until she suddenly becomes a lesbian with the great Kim Legaspi who on one of their first dates invites all of her exes to join them, gets dumped by said wonderful lover because she doesn't back her up enough with TPTB (although she tries), targeted by Romano, her boss because of her sexuality, mocked by coworkers throughout her career (including Doug, Susan and Dave. Doug went as far as to actually mock her limping and speech), gets a girlfriend in Sandy, who outs her in front of the entire ER, they get back together and Weaver gets pregnant and loses the child, has a baby with Sandy and Sandy dies in a fire, then Sandy's family tries to take custody of the baby away from Kerry.

Also? She found the bodies of Lucy and Carter in S6, stabbed and on the floor. Had to deal with Dead!Lucy as well. Oh, and she gets no screentime in favor of more annoying people like Abby, that's the worst injustice of all.

ETA: Re: Mrs. Garvey, My god, she actually beat the baby against a window? Oh my god, I'm glad I never saw that... *shudders*

Josh Lyman(West Wing)

His older sister died in a fire when he was a kid
his father died when he was working on the Bartlett campaign
he almost died after being shot at rosslyn
had post stress traumatic syndrome after being shot
he was involved with Amy(enough said)
his assistant that he is in love with almost died and screwed another guy
he is constantly screwing his job up
his second father Leo turned into a jack ass all of the sudden

Hmm... when I think about it, maybe Wesley from Angel is the most victimized - although most of it is brought about because of his stupidity.

- Gets fired from Watcher's Council.
- Gets shot in the gut from zombie cop.
- When finally in leadership position, finds a prophecy that states Angel will kill his son, so he kidnaps him only to get his throat slit.
- Finds that the prophecy was completely false and then Angel tries to suffocate him.
- After getting involved with Lilah, she's killed and he has to cut off her head.
- After getting involved with Fred, she's killed and her body possessed by Illyria.
- When Angel tells everyone to live the day as if it was their last, he has no where to go, so he just stays with Illyria and tends to her wounds.
- Finally, when his last job is to just kill Vail, he completely fails in that before he dies. Instead, Illyria punches right through Vail's head.

Oh yes, and he has a Patented Joss Whedon Bad Dad©.

Can't forget all the times he "helped" Faith, either.