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Sad Clown

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Sad Clown	comment	Often found among troops and superhero teams, the Sad Clown is the wisecracking funnyman who copes with his hopeless position with humor — usually of the groan-inducing kind. He is totally insecure at heart and keeps on running his mouth to fool himself into thinking he's confident or to get people to like him. In the most tragic cases though, people do actually find them genuinely charming and likeable because of their humor and like being around them. This is usually of little comfort to the Sad Clowns, whose insecurities cause them to fear that people only really like the "Clown" part of them, and so they do their damnedest to always be the "Clown" in public, but bury and suppress the "Sad" side of them as deeply as possible, because they are afraid that people would like them less if they were to find out about it. This character tends to make Dude, Not Funny! jokes at inappropriate times to cope. But he is never deliberately a Monster Clown. Often put in more serious series to add some comic relief, while at the same time secretly revealing to the audience that the character is a simmering pot of hidden insecurities and angst, just like everyone else in the cast. Very commonly tragic Truth in Television, as it's actually very common for people afflicted with mental illnesses (especially Bipolar Disorder, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, Personality Disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders for example) to actually have a great sense of humor. It sounds contradictory, but mental illness isn't all sadness and darkness. One thing that is common to many people with mental illnesses is severe self-doubt about their value as a person. Cracking jokes and making people laugh can help temporarily ease some of those feelings. Not to mention that humor is a very effective coping mechanism; if one were to observe interactions between patients in a mental hospital, one would hear a lot of Gallows Humor that Crosses the Line Twice, leavened with a surprising amount of Sophisticated as Hell. Contrast Non-Ironic Clown. See also Gallows Humor which is often used about a grim subject whenever someone wants to lighten up the mood, Broken Hero, Inferiority Superiority Complex about people who mask their insecurities by acting self-assured in order to gain confidence, Stepford Smiler who pretend that they are happy with their lives often to themselves first and foremost and don't necessarily use humour, Stepford Snarker who has a lot of similarities but is more usually bitter at others and his remarks are generally more cutting, Sour Outside, Sad Inside when the character masks their inner trauma with cynicism and snark rather than humor, The Unwitting Comedian, who doesn't even bother hiding their sadness but is seen as a straightforward jokester anyway, The Comically Serious, where a character gets put in comedic situations but forces themselves to be serious, and Dreaded Kids' Party Entertainer Job, when someone who performs for kids' parties is abused, which may make them depressed or anxious.
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Sad Clown / int_10254bd5	comment	The Thick of It: Malcolm started simply as highly-strung and terrifyingly funny, but his characterization eventually developed into this as the series progressed. It soon becomes apparent that jokes come out of him constantly in all situations, he doesn't care whether or not they make people laugh, and it's entirely a cover for a yawning pit of stress and existential horror.
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Sad Clown / int_10401be7	comment	Season 2 of Batman: The Telltale Series has John Doe as this, and he only becomes worse when he becomes Joker. The main source of his anguish depends on whether you pick the Vigilante or Villain route. Harley is also this because of her father who "ate a shotgun lunch" when she was younger. In Episode 5, on the Vigilante path, Alfred of all people qualifies for this trope, welcoming Bruce with a joke about a man with shaky hands when Bruce comes to after having fallen several stories down a building and being impaled on a piece of debris, having been lifted off and carried to the Batmobile by Catwoman/Agent Avesta (whoever helps Batman depends on the path taken) right before losing consciousness. It is during this part of the story that Alfred is slightly more upbeat and funny than usual, but it's not hard to tell that it's a mere coping mechanism for being visibly fed up with the anxiety he gets from Bruce's stubborn crusade as Batman.
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Sad Clown / int_1215a23d	comment	Venti from Genshin Impact has a carefree surface, but under the surface, Venti has plenty of interactions with the Traveler to indicate he's quite sad inside and simply keeps a happy facade to keep others around him happy. He gets especially upset when recounting the deaths of friends that he lost to either battle or old age due to his very long lifespan.
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Sad Clown / int_12300cc3	comment	Mentioned in Watchmen throughout flashbacks of Eddie Blake (a.k.a. The Comedian). "But Doctor...I am Pagliacci!" (This joke has appeared in multiple forms, see below.)
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Sad Clown / int_12381dc	comment	Trompdoy in Divinity: Original Sin II was the court jester to the Evil Overlord Braccus Rex before being cursed with undeath and forced to guard his treasures for eternity. When the party encounters him in the present day he viciously mocks them with crude jokes before attacking them, only to have an emotional Villainous Breakdown after being defeated, leaving the player to decide his fate.
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Sad Clown / int_129c7b57	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): Spider-Man's wacky jokes and quirky personality are what he uses to shield him from a relentlessly unkind world.
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Sad Clown / int_1305c32	comment	Kamen Rider Fourze: Gentaro occasionally verges into this. Played straight in Movie War Mega Max.
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Sad Clown / int_1367cea0	comment	Teen superhero Clockblocker of Worm is this, as revealed to his therapist.
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Sad Clown / int_187d570a	comment	Though she is outwardly much peppier in Devil May Cry 4 and especially Devil May Cry 5 than she was during the events of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, supplementary materials and dialogue lines suggest that Lady isn't so over things internally. When Nero is struggling with possibly having to kill his father Vergil, Lady is quick to tell him that patricide is not something one easily gets over with, while having a sad look on her face as she says this, and as Nico states in her notes on Lady, someone who is as dedicated to demon hunting as she is can't be all that stable mentally.
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Sad Clown / int_19a42c6f	comment	A Hard Day's Night had a praised sequence in which Ringo Starr had an affecting performance as a sad clown, but Ringo was not so much acting as he was hungover and so his miserable air was real.
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Sad Clown / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins fits this trope perfectly (apparently, his personality was based on Xander from Buffy). He is arguably the biggest Woobie in the game but tries to compensate for his deep-seated insecurities and painful childhood through sarcasm and witty but misplaced one-liners. Zevran is somewhere between this and a Stepford Smiler — he acts like The Gadfly to cope with having hardly any agency in his entire life thus far. The Player Character can even lampshade it through a dialogue choice: Anders from the Awakening DLC expansion puts up a pretty glib front but doesn't exactly appreciate having been taken from his parents and locked in a Mage Tower (as evidenced by at least seven escape attempts). If you suggest mages should just accept the system, he reacts very angrily, and if you befriend him he half-seriously admits part of him wants to "rain fireballs on every Templar in creation". When he returns in the sequel, he makes good on this. In Dragon Age II when you play Hawke in a humorous and sarcastic style, s/he may very well come off as this, especially after his/her mother's murder. Aveline explicitly invokes this trope when she calls them out on this, telling them to stop pretending to be okay.
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Sad Clown / int_1adee40d	comment	The World Ends with You has Shiki, who is the first person Neku partners with in the UG. She seems to be energetic and playful but later on, she reveals that her personality was all an act, and her physical appearance in the UG is not that of her own because it was used as her entry fee in the Reaper's Game, but of her friend, Eri, a talented seamstress who she finds herself very jealous of. Shiki's angst is resolved when they overhear Eri talk about how greatly she looked up to Shiki before the day of her tragic accident, and Neku and Shiki become far more motivated to win the game. The sequel has Fret. He's as energetic as Shiki above, and a bit of a Casanova Wannabe who doesn't seem to take much in life seriously. After Kanon's death in Week 3, he confides in Nagi that he has long since stopped taking things seriously or being honest about his own feelings after he failed to talk his best friend out of killing himself — he couldn't "stomach anything heavy" after that.
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Sad Clown / int_1b4a1cef	comment	A clown in Fantasy Quest turns out to be sad indeed, mostly from his lack of a nose.
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Sad Clown / int_1b8c3429	comment	East of Eden offers this exchange about the stereotype of the Irish.
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Sad Clown / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Iceman. He has had a difficult life, starting in his origin story. He first used his powers to save his girlfriend Judy Harmon from a would-be rapist. She was scared of him and ended their relationship. His status as a mutant became public knowledge and he was targeted by a mutant-hating mob. He has had a difficult relationship with his father William Drake, who does not trust mutants. He has had many love interests but his love tends to be unrequited. Even his most successful relationships have ended in sad notes. He feels insecure about his position in the X-Men since the once tight-knit is more recently filled with people he barely knows. He still faces life and dangers with a series of wisecracks. And from X-Factor we have Guido (a.k.a. Strong Guy). Cracking dumb jokes helps ease the physical pain from his mutant powers.note Guido's hulking, disproportionate physique is the result of him getting hit by a bus the same day his powers manifested, and thus not being aware that he absorbs kinetic energy, which enhances his strength but that energy needs to be expended via physical exertion very quickly afterward. Thus he has permanently enlarged musculature, especially in his upper body where the bus hit him, but since the human body isn't supposed to be shaped like that he's in constant agony. To say nothing of the problems that come from just being a mutant. Nightcrawler. Despite being the Class Clown, he suffers from being a mutant even more than most as a result of his demonic appearance, and has a depressing backstory. Where he falls on the Fun Personified to Sad Clown scale depends on the writer.
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Sad Clown / int_1c552432	comment	Brett Hand of Inside Job (2021) is a cheerful, charismatic, dim-witted Lovable Jock whose optimistic Yes-Man attitude causes him to almost immediately win people over. However, it's quickly revealed that due to his rough upbringing and nature as a Ridiculously Average Guy, he has a pathological need to feel liked by everyone and stand out to the point that he experiences panic attacks. At one point he mentions lying awake at night on occasion because he fears his lack of a favorite color means he doesn't have a personality.
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Sad Clown / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach has Rangiku Matsumoto. Despite having a funny, carefree nature, she's actually deeply troubled, at least by Gin's behavior. You wouldn't know about her sad past from her attitude today....unless her Hard-Drinking Party Girl act is exactly that; an act to hide that she's really Drowning My Sorrows just like Izuru Kira, one of her regular drinking buddies.
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Sad Clown / int_1d6f193a	comment	Magilou from Tales of Berseria. She spends a lot of her time making sarcastic remarks and being The Gadfly to the rest of the party. There are multiple moments, however, where this facade slips and she becomes deadly serious. Notably, when the party encounters a Lotus-Eater Machine illusion, she doesn't make a single wisecrack or goofy comment for the entire ordeal. This stems from her backstory of being orphaned twice.
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Sad Clown / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Hercules: Hades is a villainous example of this trope, except unlike most villain examples, his humor is mostly to cope with the grim atmosphere of the Underworld he is forced to rule over rather than sadism.
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Sad Clown / int_1ea9e462	comment	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return: As much as the Jester really gets into his role, it's revealed in his Villain Song that he wanted to be a powerful and respected warlock, but his sister, the Wicked Witch of the West, cursed him to be a jester permanently because she was afraid he might overpower her. As a result, nobody takes him seriously, which he highly resents. The Jester has quite a sad tone as he sings about how he longs to have power like his sister's, although he goes back to a more clownish tone at the end of the song, as he accepts that he's still a jester.
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Sad Clown / int_1f818da5	comment	Most people on Channel Awesome are like this. They've gone through depression, abusive relationships, and illnesses, but use comedy to tear those taboo subjects down. Most notable was Jew Wario, who, until revelations of sexual misconduct allegations posthumously sprung up, had one of the cheeriest public personas out of all of them, and wound up dying of suicide in early 2014.
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Sad Clown / int_1ff419c5	comment	Axel in Kingdom Hearts II can definitely qualify. He seems the most laidback among the other Organization members and even makes jokes during meetings that can have other members tossing weapons at him. Never mind the fact that, like the other Nobodies, he can't have feelings, what truly causes Axel's sadness is his best and only friend, Roxas's departure from the Organization, and forgetting who Axel is. Deep down, Axel hates the other members and would join Roxas if it were up to him. Despite not being supposed to have feelings, Axel legitimately cries before both he and Roxas disappear from Twilight Town after Sora defeats Roxas in the Final Mix version. The Reveal in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] that Nobodies can gain hearts of their own explains this. He was less of this in his debut in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and gets softer in Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. In Kingdom Hearts III, Axel makes quite a few jokes among the rest of the seven guardians of light that seem to poke fun at the franchise as a whole and his funny persona comes back with a fiery vengeance. However, the same goes for his sadness when he finds himself remembering Xion during his time with Kairi. Finally, when he successfully reunites with Roxas and a tearful Xion, he jokes that he should've brought ice cream, right before he himself emotionally breaks down and hugs both of his best friends as the trio have the cry of their lives. Luxu is a villainous example. He's full of caustic wit and doesn't seem to take anything seriously... and his secret reports reveal that underneath his lighthearted, taunting exterior lies a broken, lonely old man weary of the years.
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Sad Clown / int_208a9877	comment	Keen Eddie: Throughout most of the show, Monty makes several ill-timed and insensitive jokes, warranting Eddie to suggest that he has no soul, but after getting snapped at for joking in the face of Eddie's life-or-death situation, Monty admits that he uses humor to cope with situations that worry or frighten him, citing how he laughed all through his uncle's funeral.
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Sad Clown / int_2172e43f	comment	Toward the end of Batman: Arkham Knight, it is played straight in the credits scene that features the Joker trapped in an Ironic Hell in Batman's subconscious. Being the literal Sad Clown that Joker is, his sad singing and sobbing tell that his final defeat, along with the knowledge that he will be forgotten after he has died, has utterly broken him. It is utterly painful to hear him cry while he sings.
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Sad Clown / int_21e4ee5c	comment	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Buck, as portrayed by Gil Gerard, really amped up the clowning aspect in the pilot. After the pilot, he still threw around jokes and One-Liner but more akin to the wisecracking Action Hero with a dash of Unfrozen Cave Man Lawyer. The made-for-TV pilot epilogue showed some quiet time after defeating the Big Bad where the reality was now sinking in of Buck having lost everything due to being a 500-year-old Human Popsicle. Wilma, who had now warmed up to him (after spending most of the pilot disliking him), understood the secret behind Buck's humor:
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Sad Clown / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: Lorne's perpetual comic persona starts turning into this in Season Five, mostly after Fred dies. He even gets a whole scene talking about this in "Underneath."
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Sad Clown / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: Adam Ross jokes around a lot at work, but inside he's harboring unresolved issues from his abusive father whom he describes as "a bully." He finally tries to confront him about it in season 9, but is unsuccessful due to the man having Alzheimer's and only having intermittent periods of lucidity, thus not remembering (much less acknowledging) his behavior. As a result, Adam has always looked up to his boss. Fortunately, underneath his tough exterior, Mac is indeed A Father to His Men and has a heart-to-heart with Adam about his issues in "The Lying Game."
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Sad Clown / int_22ab2c5	comment	Don't Call Me Ishmael!: While Razz is a genuine egotistical Class Clown in the present, he mentions that when he was younger, he felt like he had to make his mother laugh to cheer her up every time his father made her cry.
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Sad Clown / int_22cf7df9	comment	John Matuszak, who you may know as Sloth from The Goonies, was also a football player who was infamous for the heavy amount of drugs and alcohol he had consumed during his career, especially during said career's beginning, where he was traded constantly from one team to another for his habits despite his great talent. He didn't stop there. After his two Super Bowl wins with the Oakland Raiders, Matuszak was bringing women into his locker room and was incarcerated for public stunts such as firing a gun at street signs and bringing his team out dancing and drinking on Bourbon Street, racking in fines from $1,000-$15,000. In his childhood, John lost his two brothers to cystic fibrosis, and his sister also had the disease long after childhood. When his family moved from Milwaukee, WI, to Oak Creek (a suburb of metropolitan Milwaukee), his new classmates began ridiculing him and calling him a gawky beanpole. By the time his career ended, Matsuzak passed away from a painkiller addiction at 38.
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Sad Clown / int_22e860f4	comment	Psych: Shawn. He admits that he relies on jokes and inappropriate humor to defuse tough situations, and when his funny breaks in "An Evening With Mr. Yang", Gus takes up his Sad Clown mantle to help him stay calm.
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Sad Clown / int_2372359	comment	Silk from The Belgariad openly admits at one point that he makes jokes because the alternative is to break down crying. In a rare moment of honesty, he stated that one of the reasons for his sadness was that, being perhaps the greatest spy ever, he had so many multilayered cover-identities that he had lost himself somewhere under them. Then, on top of that, there's his relationship with his mother, who was the World's Most Beautiful Woman until she contracted a disease implied to be smallpox. The disease disfigured and blinded her, the latter being described as a "blessing", which says something about how bad the scarring was. Silk never lets any signal that anything is wrong slip when he meets her, but it's outright stated that the reason he remains a field operative in spite of an impressive track record and advancing age is so that he can spend as little time as possible lying to his mom. And then there's his unrequited crush on his uncle's wife... who also happens to be his boss' boss' boss, is very fond of him but not that way, and also married to the one person Silk genuinely respects.
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Sad Clown / int_261c8d3f	comment	In a more literal example, we have Krusty the Klown from The Simpsons This was also brought up in the episode "Tellow Subterfuge" when Krusty's supervisor asks him why he had become a clown. He simply responded with that he was meant to be one of the sad ones. Homer Simpson is a pretty good example of this trope. Though he's usually fairly exuberant, he's attempted suicide at least three times in the series, and during the early seasons, was often shown to be insecure about the way he looks, not to mention the stress related to his job. In the modern episodes, Homer's childhood was revealed with his parents constantly fighting and his father taking out his frustration on him, bringing about Homer's constant eating habits. Bart Simpson can also be viewed as a sad clown. In "Lisa's Sax", when he was in kindergarten, he was verbally abused by the teacher who told him he would always fail in life when he simply struggled with naming the alphabet, causing him to get depressed and draw a picture of him being dead. However, he cheered up when he started making jokes; this can be further proven given that Bart is constantly abused by Homer and is bullied on a regular basis. At one point he was bullied by the town and attempted suicide in "The Boys of Bummer" as an attempt for forgiveness for failing to catch a baseball that caused the team to lose the match, but still makes jokes and pranks every episode. In the episode "Jaws Wired Shut", Bart tells Homer that he realized he had become a Class Clown when he was pressured to make a joke about the fact that their substitute teacher that day was named Mrs. Doody, and he has gone on since then, ruing that fact.
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Sad Clown / int_28887316	comment	In the first arc of Cable & Deadpool, Cable asks why he's helping the villain's Assimilation Plot — it could be the first step to world peace, but falling in line and giving up his right to be different isn't Deadpool's style. Deadpool replies that all his crazy opinions just cover up the fact that he doesn't have anything.
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Sad Clown / int_29a0fea0	comment	In The Maximoffs (And Friends and Family) vs The Multiverse! (And Sometimes With) Peter and to a lesser extent Wanda are both this in spades. Wanda obviously has her sitcom reality to cope with her overwhelming grief, while Peter at one point discusses this, claiming that he has little hope for himself or that he will make any meaningful relationships besides Wanda, but keeps a joking demeanor because there's little use in angsting about it. Slightly deconstructed during different points in the story where they both seem determined to make light of their awful situations to push away going full Heroic BSoD.
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Sad Clown / int_29f7cd16	comment	This is the entire character of Yozo from No Longer Human; finding himself incredibly fearful of and completely unable to understand other humans, he puts on an outward facade of cheerfulness and jocularity to fake his way through life and social situations.
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Sad Clown / int_2a77a546	comment	Bing Bong in Inside Out. He is loud-mouthed and jolly, but we later learn that he is deeply saddened by the fact that his creator Riley doesn't remember him, despite spending many years of her childhood with him. He has been spending all his time wandering around in her memory bank to look at their memories together. Jangles is a more literal example—a birthday party clown who's suffering conflicting emotions in the epilogue. It's made clear that while Riley has a fear of clowns, Jangles himself is a normal guy who isn't trying to be scary. His emotions bemoan going to acting school just to be avoided by scared kids.
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Sad Clown / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	While Jerome Valeska of Gotham is usually much more of a monster clown, being an uncomfortably hilarious psychopath who was raised in a circus, sometimes his character has shades of this, especially when he's joking about his horrifically abusive childhood. Not to mention that, even though he seems to enjoy making his evil plans as funny and outlandish as possible, they are often a means of distracting the heroes so he can focus on his real objective of getting revenge on people who hurt him. This being Jerome, his revenge involves killing his entire family, except for his brother, who he drives insane with Joker venom, turning him into the show's final version of The Joker. Then there's the fact that he dies of suicide, even though it's implied that he did it at least partly because his death was part of his plan to get revenge on his brother.
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Sad Clown / int_2ce94f43	comment	Crossed: Skip from the Wish You Were arc is characterized as the dependable but somewhat laidback and goofy Australian member of the group for the first volume. However, he is later shown to be experiencing deep inner hurt from abandoning his injured brother in order to get out with the rest of his family before the mob of psychotic infected could reach the pier where their boat was, and raising a child who isn't his own.
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Sad Clown / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Zelos from Tales of Symphonia - seems the most cheerful and confident, constantly cracking jokes at inappropriate times, as well as being a Handsome Lech who will hit with any and all females he encounters. But once he opens up and reveals the resentment he feels about his position as Tethe'alla's chosen one, it becomes apparent that he's probably the most messed-up of the lot. And that's saying something. Magilou from Tales of Berseria. She spends a lot of her time making sarcastic remarks and being The Gadfly to the rest of the party. There are multiple moments, however, where this facade slips and she becomes deadly serious. Notably, when the party encounters a Lotus-Eater Machine illusion, she doesn't make a single wisecrack or goofy comment for the entire ordeal. This stems from her backstory of being orphaned twice.
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Sad Clown / int_2e1df124	comment	Vanellope Von Schweetz in Wreck-It Ralph teases Ralph with childish copycatting and crude humor constantly throughout the movie, much to his chagrin. However, deep down, she is tormented by the bullying she receives from the other racers. The most emotionally intense scene in the movie is when Ralph, tricked by King Candy into thinking Vanellope was a potentially fatal glitch in Sugar Rush's code, reluctantly wrecks her go-kart into little fragments right in front of her, and the immense pain emanates from her true psyche. In the sequel, this trope is averted with the resolution of the previous film.
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Sad Clown / int_2e1f122b	comment	And from X-Factor we have Guido (a.k.a. Strong Guy). Cracking dumb jokes helps ease the physical pain from his mutant powers.note Guido's hulking, disproportionate physique is the result of him getting hit by a bus the same day his powers manifested, and thus not being aware that he absorbs kinetic energy, which enhances his strength but that energy needs to be expended via physical exertion very quickly afterward. Thus he has permanently enlarged musculature, especially in his upper body where the bus hit him, but since the human body isn't supposed to be shaped like that he's in constant agony. To say nothing of the problems that come from just being a mutant.
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Sad Clown / int_2fcc38cb	comment	The 2000 live-action Jim Carrey version of the Grinch. He may be goofier in this adaptation, but he may be angrier and sadder than in the original book and animated short. His aura of misery and rage toward the Whos and Christmas deriving from the torment he received from his Who classmates as a child.
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Sad Clown / int_2feff3ce	comment	Grey's Anatomy: Amelia Shepherd is a former addict who lost her boyfriend and baby. She had a brain tumor for ten years and her brother died. She makes consistent, usually unfunny jokes (to the other characters) whenever possible, especially when upset.
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Sad Clown / int_30940081	comment	Grand Theft Auto V: Trevor has an obvious reason to make a fool of himself, setting aside from his homicidal tendencies, and being highly strung. It serves the purpose that Trevor underneath is a self-deprecating individual with mommy issues, as well his insanity was one of the factors behind his current behavior. Ironically enough, Trevor is scared of clowns! Michael himself also qualifies, especially in the first half of the game. He admits how he's messed up as a whole — his issues with his family, his return into the criminal world, and Trevor himself. His sarcasm is the only thing that locks him away from bad situations. He finally got better when he and his family got together. However, in the Kill Trevor ending, Michael relapses into this post-game, in reverence of his regret of killing his once best friend.
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Sad Clown / int_30963b69	comment	Doc Webster of Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is an archetypal example. The funniest man in the entire bar, who could recite his Social Security Number, deadpan, and have the audience in stitches, he found his way to Callahan's after a particularly traumatic night: his wife had broken up with him, simply saying that she couldn't stand him anymore. He'd tried for years on end to be the laughing, joking type, building up that wall between himself and everyone else — and he eventually learned better from a patient who was terminally ill, bedridden, and in constant care. That patient was the one who sent him to the eponymous saloon.
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Sad Clown / int_30a5ebfd	comment	The eponymous character of Naruto is partially this along with being a Trickster. Having grown up as something of a pariah for having the Nine-Tails Fox, he grows up to hate the harsh looks the villagers give him. He turns to be a brash prankster as it's still much less harsh than being viewed as something not meant to exist. He more or less grows out of it, though sometimes it's more than the reasons change.
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Sad Clown / int_310c9568	comment	In a literal example, a fire at the Hartford circus in 1944 killed 167 people. The tragedy is often called "The Day The Clown Cried" (not to be confused with the infamous movie), in reference to a picture of the aforementioned Weary Willie holding a bucket of water. This also affected Willie, who rarely spoke to anyone about the fire.
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Sad Clown / int_31e1eca3	comment	In PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl, Clown Lee (who shows up at Jubilife TV Station or at Pokemon Centers depending on the weekday) can have this line (paraphrased) upon defeat:
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Sad Clown / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: Roger Sterling uses humor to deflect or cope with many unpleasant aspects of his unbalanced life. Underneath the jokes and playboy exterior, he is a deeply unhappy man.
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Sad Clown / int_36111242	comment	The protagonist of The Last Circus is one.
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Sad Clown / int_37a71462	comment	Grantaire in Les MisÃ©rables plays this role in the Amis; his cynical wisecracking and ridiculous verbal antics mask his grim knowledge that he and his friends are about to give their lives for a cause he thinks is pointless and that his idol Enjolras despises him.
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Sad Clown / int_3c38c613	comment	Launcelot in The Merchant of Venice. His angst about wanting to leave his master vs. wanting to do the right thing gets Played for Laughs, as does his resentment of his father (who apparently cheated on his mother) and his sorrow at having to say goodbye to his only friend, Shylock's daughter Jessica. Alternative Character Interpretation has led to many a production implying that he's in love with Jessica, and he masks his sorrow that she chose Lorenzo over him by making some particularly cutting jokes about her parentage (as well as repeatedly trying to one-up Lorenzo in battles of wits).
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Sad Clown / int_3c69e536	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Sonic still has his signature cocky attitude and makes plenty of quips, but it's all to cope with the loneliness he suffers from, having escaped his home dimension and not allowing himself to befriend anyone lest he put everyone in danger. His only alternative to observing the people of Earth make friends and live their lives is to escape to a barren mushroom planet with absolutely no intelligent life aside from himself. It's not until he attempts to play a climactic inning of baseball with himself that his loneliness finally overwhelms him, causing him to unleash his stress by running fast enough to cause a nationwide blackout and kick off the plot.
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Sad Clown / int_3ccd4125	comment	The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Miss Naddy, real name Nadeshiko Yamato, is a reverse Occidental Otaku, a Japanese woman so enamoured with the United States that she dyes her hair, dresses as a hot cowgirl, speaks in horrifically mangled English, and considers Big Macs (the most American food she knows) the best thing ever. Behind the exaggerated stereotypes is a young woman who rejected her upbringing as a Yamato Nadeshiko because it made her miserable. Indeed, any time Naddy drops the act, she is noticeably sadder. In chapter 80, Naddy speaks normally because she's stranded in the woods with Yaku, who can't understand anything she says otherwise. Yaku notices, and encourages Naddy to be herself despite the "language barrier" because it obviously makes her happy and Yaku much prefers seeing that.
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Sad Clown / int_3ccfa555	comment	Luke Atmey in Trials and Tribulations describes himself like this. He may actually fit the definition, though not in the sense that he intends. It's all in the name.
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Sad Clown / int_3d512013	comment	In the Harry Hole novels, Bjorn Holm's role as a confident hipster and reliable sidekick is deconstructed in Knife, where he gets a monologue reflecting on how his quirks keep people from taking him seriously, hurting him both professionally and socially. Interestingly, Bjorn is a character whose Plucky Comic Relief role was originally played straight but secretly evolved into a sad clown after several books worth of off-screen disappointments.
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Sad Clown / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: Motor Mouth paramedic Denise, who keeps telling jokes and funny anecdotes as a way to cope with her son's death. Bob Kelso is similar. He's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who deliberately makes himself the one everyone hates so that they can put up with the fact that medicine is difficult. He's a Deadpan Snarker who pretends not to give a crap, but it's really hard for him to be the object of hate and make the painful money vs. life decisions. According to Dr. Cox, all successful doctors need to do this.
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Sad Clown / int_3e5f3f53	comment	SMG4 unveiled a literal example in the 2022 episode "Clown Fever" â€“ Depresso The Clown, who had been dumped by his girlfriend because he wasn't funny enough. While the episode ends on a Downer â€“ despite his best efforts, Depresso's ex falls for SMG4 and he seems to be on the path to becoming a Monster Clown â€“ subsequent episodes show he instead became a hobo and occasional Unwitting Instigator of Doom.
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Sad Clown / int_3f633fb4	comment	John Cheese of Cracked has long been like this due to his struggles with alcoholism, poverty, parental abuse, and depression. Despite this, his writing often reflects on such things in an extremely funny light and he has repeatedly claimed that he doesn't blame others for his problems and uses his writing to let people in similar situations know that they are not alone and things can get better.
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Sad Clown / int_41ae4397	comment	The title character of The Adventures of Mark Twain makes various humorous quips to Tom, Becky, and Huck through their journey to Halley's Comet. However, deep down, Twain suffers from a profound sense of loneliness from his wife's passing, and thus, chases the comet so he could finally be with her once more.
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Sad Clown / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files's Harry Dresden, who "follow[s] the tao of Peter Parker"; see the page quote. Everyone and everything in the universe appears to have it in for him because Being Good Sucks; he responds by making terrible jokes, even when this is not strictly in the interests of self-preservation.
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Sad Clown / int_41ecc735	comment	GB (a.k.a. 007) from Cyborg 009. His backstory changes in every animated continuity, and yet none of them are pretty.
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Sad Clown / int_42c05590	comment	Rocko's Modern Life references the trope, as Rocko had always wanted a portrait of "A Sad Crying Clown in an Iron Lung,"◊ but could never afford it - until he got a credit card.
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Sad Clown / int_43041cff	comment	This is implied to be the case for Oscar the Clown from the Olsen Twins Made-for-TV Movie Double, Double, Toil and Trouble:
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Sad Clown / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: As season one progressed, Dean went from pure comic relief to being a sad, lost little boy who really just wanted his family back together and who wise-cracks only to mask that nasty pain. The Trickster/Gabriel. He ran away from Heaven to escape the fight and spent a very long time teaching people the error of their ways through deadly pranks only for it to be discovered that, behind all the black humor, he was really just scared to get involved. All in all, he's just a heartbroken kid who invested too much of himself in his family to watch them destroy themselves. He spends much of his time onscreen trying to use the Winchesters to prove to himself that he was right to run.
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Sad Clown / int_43cce8e1	comment	The clown in The Illusionist (2010) who drinks and listens to happy circus music. He did try to kill himself at one point, but Alice unknowingly stopped him.
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Sad Clown / int_44e08ee8	comment	Homicide: Life on the Street: Lewis starts off the series as the resident Plucky Comic Relief, always ready with a joke and generally carefree. His best friend Crosetti's death puts a noticeable dent in his sunny demeanor, and later episodes reveal he had a Dark and Troubled Past that still haunts him. Kellerman is a lighthearted jokester, but occasionally reveals hidden insecurities and depression beneath the surface. When he's accused of corruption, these hidden issues start spiraling out of control. Crosetti spends most of his tenure being a goofy, scatterbrained Cloudcuckoolander, but after he commits suicide, it's revealed that he was a gambling addict who suffered from depression.
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Sad Clown / int_4589300c	comment	The mime Pierre Oe in Wizbit isn't usually an example, but one sketch has him as the clown in the Pagliacci joke. This is the only time he's seen without his makeup, and when he says "But doctor..." it appears.
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Sad Clown / int_468bebb0	comment	The Fools' Guild in Discworld produces nothing but this. Members of the guild are seen often forgetting if they're supposed to be "happy on the outside and crying on the inside, or the other way 'round." This is understandable since the Fools generally don't lead pleasant lives. Indeed, it is common knowledge on the Disc that Fools simply cannot be funny ("if it was funny, a clown wouldn't be doing it"), and clowns are regarded as inherently pitiful or scary, rather than comedic. Exemplifying this is the fact that the guildhall is often mistaken for that of the Assassins, which is actually the light, airy building next door. According to Word of God, it began as a monastery for a particularly sombre group of monks, and the founder of the Fools' Guild was shaped in his philosophy towards comedy by A: the fact that he was honestly nowhere near as funny as he believed himself to be, B: a mindset that convinced him that jokes and humor were Serious Business and should be treated with great dignity and respect, and C: the very pronounced trait of Discwolders, especially those in Ankh-Morpork, to be Literal-Minded to the point of being deliberately obtuse, which doesn't make joking an easy matter. The result is that generations of Fools have had their emotions crushed and any actual knack for humor (not to mention the desire to make people laugh) stamped out of them. No new material or humor is allowed in the guild, only impossibly tired jokes and routines that are centuries old and things nobody would ever laugh at. The head of the Fool's Guild is Dr. Whiteface, whose makeup has a big painted smile... while his actual expression is "as cold and proud as a prince of Hell". And to top it off, we find out in Making Money that the clowns are still very much Monks when we see a former clown who ran away from the lifestyle as a boy, still retaining only the basics of the skills he'd been taught with. Eventually, he demonstrates EXACTLY why Ankh-Morporkians are right to feel nervous and creeped out by clowns, in a demonstration of Battle Clowning that would make the Joker green with envy. Another book that featured a member of the Fools' Guild as a prominent member was Wyrd Sisters, with the official Fool to the king of Lancre. The story makes it clear that he's a very clever person, both with amusing wit and dangerous amounts of political insight as well as a genuine desire to help the people around him, but the Fools' Guild taught him to be deeply ashamed of these traits and turned him into an Extreme Doormat that just keeps his head down and does tired, guild-approved shtick. To make matters worse he's in the service of a mad, cruel, and humorless king who uses his political insight as a means to better torment the populace. Spending time with Magrat helps him grow a spine, and once she and the other witches depose the king he winds up being crowned Lancre's new ruler. Future books show that he's a capable and compassionate king who genuinely sees himself as a servant of the people.... but after years of pie-in-the-face routine he banned the sale of custard. It is mentioned in Men at Arms that the patrons of the Fools' Guild are genuinely good at their job in making people laugh. In the sense that talking to one is such a miserable, soul-crushing affair that by the time you're done literally anything will seem hysterical. Earlier in that same book, when a fool is murdered, he asks Death if he will still need to do his clown act in the afterlife. When Death reassures him that no, he won't, the dead clown replies, "I like it better already."
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Sad Clown / int_475972f0	comment	Yorick from Y: The Last Man continues to crack lame jokes despite being the only male survivor of the Gendercide, to the frustration of his traveling companions.
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Sad Clown / int_482ba098	comment	Break from PandoraHearts teases everyone mercilessly, smiles constantly, and has a ventriloquist (probably) act going with a doll he keeps on his shoulder. And is as utterly broken as if not more so than anyone else in the main cast.
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Sad Clown / int_49a87cb3	comment	What do Barret Wallace, Irvine Kinneas, Wakka, Balthier, and Sazh Katzroy have in common? They all use silly theatrics in one form or another in order to cover their personal tragedy—mainly losing loved ones to a devastating attack.
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Sad Clown / int_4ab2232e	comment	Shades of this can be seen in My Hero Academia â€˜s Present Mic. His public persona is that of an energetic, upbeat attention loving radio host who often makes jokes but he was hit hard by the loss of one of his best friends during his U.A. student days. He still cried hard and got angry trying to reach anything of Oboro that might be in Kurogiri, the nomu made from his corpse. And he can be brutal if Aizawa, whoâ€™s pretty much all he has left, gets hurt.
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Sad Clown / int_4c06d071	comment	X-Men: Evolution has Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler, who may as well be the poster boy for this trope. He's possibly the most sensitive, emotionally vulnerable character on the show (next to Rogue, his adopted sister), and spends a good deal of his time angsting over his appearance (in early episodes) and his mother, Mystique (in later episodes). Nevertheless, he is the resident "goof-ball", trying his best to appear the carefree joker when deep down, he's anything but carefree.
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Sad Clown / int_4d0612b6	comment	Jesus is one of the few sources of comic relief in Seis Manos, but there's hints at him having had a tough life before being adopted (besides his very obvious drinking problem, his sister Isabela briefly alludes to the both of them having troubled pasts when being interrogated by the cops). He's also clearly torn up about the death of his mentor/adoptive father as well as his brother Silencio's downward spiral into revenge as the series progresses.
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Sad Clown / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Most of the main characters can be called a sad clown. Leonard makes jokes but he sometimes breaks down when his emotionally detached mother is talked about or shown. Howard often makes the most jokes and insults towards his friends but he became upset when he saw an Alf toy and mentions that when his father abandoned him, his mother gave him the toy and told him that Alf took his father to his home planet and then cries after asking where his father is. Stuart is the depressed comic book store owner who often makes jokes about himself or others. this is even lampshaded by Sheldon who calls him a sad clown.
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Sad Clown / int_4e5b6428	comment	The head of the Fool's Guild is Dr. Whiteface, whose makeup has a big painted smile... while his actual expression is "as cold and proud as a prince of Hell". And to top it off, we find out in Making Money that the clowns are still very much Monks when we see a former clown who ran away from the lifestyle as a boy, still retaining only the basics of the skills he'd been taught with. Eventually, he demonstrates EXACTLY why Ankh-Morporkians are right to feel nervous and creeped out by clowns, in a demonstration of Battle Clowning that would make the Joker green with envy.
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Sad Clown / int_4f618d85	comment	Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers: Tina Williams has a scene where she breaks down crying after a conversation with Dr. Loomis, then composes herself, making sure to smile before rejoining the party nearby.
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Sad Clown / int_4f61b4c6	comment	In "Seventeen Going Under" by Sam Fender, he says he "armed [him]self with a grin, because [he] was always the fucking joker", then adds that despite this, the way others saw him was "canny chatter, but he looks sad".
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Sad Clown / int_4f8b8b91	comment	Bryan Stark, the main character in the teen series DRAMA!, is a mild example of this.
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Sad Clown / int_4f9064f5	comment	Kung Fu Panda has Po, a giant panda who was initially filled with a sense of self-loathing (which he hid well) so profound that it made his heroes' initial disdain for him feel positively kind.
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Sad Clown / int_4fe631e7	comment	Lewis Brindley openly admitted that he was suffering from depression during a charity livestream in 2015.
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Sad Clown / int_502cbd09	comment	Luke Cage (2016): Rafael Scarfe is described by Misty Knight as a guy who "cracks a lot of jokes, but he rarely smiles", and it's implied to be the result of his son Earl, who accidentally shot himself with his dad's gun.
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Sad Clown / int_51126d3c	comment	The Charles Mingus song "The Clown" is about a clown who becomes this by trying to be a Non-Ironic Clown, but finds that people only laugh when he hurts himself. Mingus himself has said that his original vision for the song ended with the clown killing himself. What is worse, the audience actually laughed, thinking it was just part of the act. The song was changed, leaving the meaning of the song to the listeners up to interpretation, but it could be quite possible, regardless, that people started laughing at the clown in the story because they somehow thought what he was doing was just for show.
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Sad Clown / int_5178149f	comment	In Batman: The Brave and the Bold Plastic Man admits to this himself in the episode "Cry Freedom Fighters!" after Batman expresses his skepticism about him joining the eponymous team.
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Sad Clown / int_52837809	comment	Kamen Rider Drive has a downplayed example in the form of Gou Shijima. Gou is jovial and goofy on the outside, but deep down, that exterior hides his innate hatred towards Roidmudes, and worse; after learning his father is revealed to be the Big Bad.
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Sad Clown / int_5286ec36	comment	Who Framed Roger Rabbit opens with the title character being chewed out by his director and co-Star over his constant inability to produce stars upon being struck on the head. Upon wrapping up shooting for the day, Roger is left helplessly begging the director for one more chance, desperately bashing himself with a frying pan in an attempt to prove he can give him stars. Doesnâ€™t help matters when his wife cheats on him by playing patty cake with someone else, which has him sobbing in an alley after having accepted a shot of whiskey from Eddie, following his receiving of the news. Then he gets framed for murder, being forced to turn to a detective who begrudges toons after one killed his brother. Despite all this, Roger still has an immense passion for comedy, even if the world around him isn't always on the same page.
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Sad Clown / int_53435bc5	comment	Don't Starve has Wes the Mime, who is a helpless Joke Character in a Death World. His special power is blowing balloons that can be used to distract hostiles... but each balloon eats into Wes's Sanity Meter, presumably because he's so depressed.
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Sad Clown / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" features a memorable clown played by Murray Matheson with a healthy dollop of Mood Whiplash. Directly inverted with Marvin the Butler in "A Piano in the House". Normally, he is pale and wrinkle-faced, with a frown and a lack of enthusiasm for everything he does for Fitzgerald Fortune. When Fitzgerald starts the self-playing piano to expose Marvinâ€™s personal secrets, he reveals that deep down, heâ€™s insanely happy-go-lucky, loves his job and his pay, and is overall very happy with his life. Fitzgerald cries that itâ€™s impossible because of how poorly he treats him, in which he responds that he finds his ego and temper amusing, and he must keep himself as grim as possible to keep from bursting into laughter.
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Sad Clown / int_54790179	comment	Ray Combs, a comedian best known for his tenure as host of the 1988 revival of Family Feud, would become another example beginning with his firing from that game show in 1994 due to declining ratingsnote (the network version airing on CBS had already been canceled by then, and many stations carrying the syndicated version had either dropped it or moved it to less desirable time-slots; that version would bring back Richard Dawson, host of the original 1976-85 version, for this version's 7th season; only for that version to be badly hurt by coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder trial, resulting in its ultimate cancellation); followed shortly afterwards by being badly injured in a car accident, financial difficulties after his home was foreclosed on and two comedy clubs he was involved with failed, career strugglesnote (Combs had taped a pilot for a talk-show that didn't get picked up; though he would be hired as host of the game show Family Challenge for the Family Channel - even reuniting him with Feud announcer Gene Wood) and a crumbling marriage led to Combs being placed under psychiatric observation after Combs' estranged wife Debbie - following reports of a disturbance where the house was ravaged and Ray was banging his head on a wall - alerted authorities that Combs was suicidal. Sadly, early on June 2, 1996, Combs would end up hanging himself while under psychiatric observation.
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Sad Clown / int_54f14719	comment	A Clash Of NEETS: Aqua is as much the unlucky goofball she always was, but she's strongly implied to be this. Unlike her days adventuring with Kazuma and the gang in Belzerg, she's painfully aware that her role as a goddess means any mistakes on her part have catastrophic consequences, something she learned the hard way when her well-intentioned decision to reincarnate Arthas Menethil led to the creation of a new Lich King, and all the death and destruction that followed. Combined with her loneliness now that all her mortal companions have reincarnated, and her antics come across more like she's trying to relive happier times.
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Sad Clown / int_55ce279	comment	Desmond Amofah, better known to the Smash community as Etika, gained popularity for his comedic reactions to Smash Bros. and other gaming-related premiere trailers among other content. Etika had struggled heavily with his mental health, and had several incidents relating to assaulting police officers and disappearances, even giving away large sums of money to people just for responding to people on Twitter. On June 25th, 2019, the NYPD reported he had committed suicide in the New York East River.
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Sad Clown / int_5613760	comment	Not Going Out: Lee in this Britcom has been accused of being one of these by other characters, to the point of being cajoled into seeing a therapist.
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Sad Clown / int_5685844c	comment	Adachi, who even has the Jester Arcana with his theme in Persona 4: Arena Ultimax and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being called "A Fool Or A Clown". The bumbling, comic relief Butt-Monkey who's revealed to be a lonely Broken Ace driven to Straw Nihilism by his isolated lifestyle and lack of meaningful relationships.
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Sad Clown / int_5921531a	comment	Junpei from Persona 3 makes terrible jokes, has all the sex appeal of a snail, and sometimes displays extremely poor judgment when fighting Shadows. However, all of this is simply an off-shoot of his personal insecurity, as he is fully aware of his own limitations and believes that he will never make anything out of himself in life. Similar to Yukari, he also comes from a one-parent household and lives in the dormitories just so he can get away from his alcoholic father.
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Sad Clown / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: Yosuke is similar in many ways to Junpei from the previous game, having a bad sense of humor and being an absolute lady-killer. This is to compensate for the fact that people in the town of Inaba don't care for him and his family, his father being the manager of the local Junes store which is blamed for killing off local businesses. Teddie is a pun-spewing Casanova Wannabe and the biggest source of comic relief in the party, but deep down struggles with an existential crisis and worries that his existence has no meaning at all. Notable is that, while most characters' Shadows are Laughably Evil to an extent, Yosuke's and Teddie's are the only ones with no comedic traits whatsoever. Adachi, who even has the Jester Arcana with his theme in Persona 4: Arena Ultimax and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being called "A Fool Or A Clown". The bumbling, comic relief Butt-Monkey who's revealed to be a lonely Broken Ace driven to Straw Nihilism by his isolated lifestyle and lack of meaningful relationships.
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Sad Clown / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: Ryuji Sakamoto is the resident goofball of the Phantom Thieves who is quick with a joke, but beneath his joking facade is a young man who has been downtrodden by the system, who in essence decided to act the part of the Japanese Delinquent because that's what the powers that be set him up as. His home life was not particularly ideal, with his father being an abusive drunk who walked out on his family, so he was raised by his single mother, who thankfully cares deeply for him. When Kamoshida learned of his home situation, he used it as ammo against Ryuji to provoke him into attacking him, and used the opportunity to not only break Ryuji's leg in "self-defense", ending his track and field prospects; but also disband the track and field team and pin the blame on Ryuji. Becoming a pariah among the student body afterwards, he would lean into the "delinquent" label that would be forced upon him. Morgana is the lovable mascot and strategic brains of the Phantom Thieves who fancies himself a debonair thief in his own right and often forms a comic relief pair with Ryuji. Beneath his bravado, however, lies anxiety about whether he can regain his human form (if he even has one at all) and, at one point, his usefulness to his friends and whether they actually need him or want him around. Token Evil Teammate Akechi was beloved by the public for his bright and cheery facade, and makes many jokes when speaking in public, as seen in his Talk Show appearances and when talking with the Thieves. However, beneath said facade is a tortured soul. His mother was a prostitute who conceived him with the Big Bad who abandoned her while she was pregnant, and she was Driven to Suicide sometime after giving birth, which led to Akechi being passed around from one foster home to the next.
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Sad Clown / int_599703c7	comment	Joseph Grimaldi was a pantomime actor from the days of Regency England who was the Trope Maker for many aspects of the modern circus clown. He was known for his jokes, slapstick, and acrobatics as much as he was known for his troubled personal life: his first wife suffered Death by Childbirth, his son Joseph Samuel Grimaldi died by complications of alcoholism, and he had his own struggles with depression and illness caused by the tremendous strain his brand of physical comedy put on his body. He was said to have joked "I am grim all day, but I make you laugh at night."
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Sad Clown / int_5a48e12b	comment	In XCOM: Chimera Squad, Terminal is one of the snarkiest operatives, who alternatively jokes with and trolls her squadmates. Her life has also been one long Trauma Conga Line: she was orphaned in the initial Alien Invasion when she was four, her uncle took her to a refugee camp but died of disease a year later, she was adopted by a doctor and taken to a Resistance haven only to lose everything when ADVENT razed her new home, and then she was taken in by a rebel cell and fought to liberate the planet. It took multiple psychological evaluations before she was cleared to join Chimera Squad, and while Terminal isn't a Death Seeker, she's accepted that, statistically speaking, she'll fall in the line of duty within five years, and is Not Afraid to Die.
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Sad Clown / int_5d880aee	comment	While we're in the opera world, there's also Rigoletto from Verdi's Rigoletto. Violence included, too. Costing him the life of his dear daughter Gilda.
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Sad Clown / int_5e17f6cd	comment	Weasel in The Animals of Farthing Wood is constantly making insulting wisecracks, more frequently when they are more inappropriate.
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Sad Clown / int_608089b6	comment	Iron Man verges on this at times, especially when Matt Fraction writes him.
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Sad Clown / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: Much of the humor in the film has a dark undertone to it as the characters realize how much trouble they are in, but no one gets hit worse than Thor. Following the events of Ragnarok, he lost his father (his mother died a few years ago), his planet, nearly all of his friends, and most of his people. This movie starts with most of the rest of his people, his brother, and one of his last friends killed by Thanos. He keeps trying to make jokes, but they keep becoming more and more strained. Rocket confronts him about it, and Thor admits that his life is at its worst right now, but insists that Thanos is going to end up dead just like every other enemy he has fought in the past fifteen hundred years. It's clear that he's trying to convince himself more than Rocket. There is a scene with a humorous tone when Thor meets the aforementioned Peter Quill for the first time and the two Sad Clowns converse on their respective grievances like they were talking about their kid throwing a tantrum at the supermarket the other day. Not that life gets any better for Quill when Gamora gets captured by Thanos and hurled over a cliff in Vormir. You can bet that revelation from Thanos created a saddening fit of rage that melted Quill's proverbial clown makeup.
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Sad Clown / int_6276800c	comment	Related to the example below, a lot of the comedy (the character-based, at least) in The Nostalgia Critic is based on how unhappy he is with his life.
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Sad Clown / int_629cd094	comment	Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins fits this trope perfectly (apparently, his personality was based on Xander from Buffy). He is arguably the biggest Woobie in the game but tries to compensate for his deep-seated insecurities and painful childhood through sarcasm and witty but misplaced one-liners. Zevran is somewhere between this and a Stepford Smiler — he acts like The Gadfly to cope with having hardly any agency in his entire life thus far. The Player Character can even lampshade it through a dialogue choice:
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Sad Clown / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Cracking awkward, horribly inappropriate jokes seems to be how Krillin deals with all the crap he's put through.
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Sad Clown / int_6365ff3a	comment	Dragon Quest V: Sancho is clearly the game's comic relief character; however, he's generally such a broken man that you feel more sorry for him than anything.
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Sad Clown / int_63773e18	comment	Kano from Kagerou Project is the very definition of this. He cracks jokes all the time, laughs at the most inappropriate times, and loves teasing others. Underneath it all is a broken teenager with little to no self-worth and believes he doesn't deserve anything.
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Sad Clown / int_6566e35a	comment	In TFS at the Table (Team Four Star's Dungeons & Dragons campaign), recurring side-character Skrung is a snide, cynical smart-ass who typically serves as the Butt-Monkey of the heroes' group. He's also the prince of the goblin kingdom, forced into exile and stranded in the human world because the royal signet ring that identifies him and lets him teleport was stolen, and he's spent billions of Gold Pieces trying to recover it. And if that wasn't enough, partway through the campaign he loses an arm when his magical pistol backfires. After his backstory is revealed, the players and DM all crack jokes comparing Skrung to Pagliacci (in one session Lanipator quotes the punchline to the Watchmen scene quoted at the top of this page), and he even ends up adopting the identity of "Skrungliacci" in the group's traveling show.
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Sad Clown / int_66be8ed0	comment	In Peter Parker: Foreign Exchange Student, Ochako notices that Peter sometimes gets awfully quiet while "reminiscing" about something before he covers it up with a bad joke or two.
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Sad Clown / int_67db138a	comment	Nico Yazawa from Love Live! has a goofy personality that mostly hides her insecurities of being unable to form her own idol group, which has made her very snarky and cynical towards the other members of Î¼'s. This makes it all the more heartwrenching when she breaks down crying along with the other girls in the penultimate episode.
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Sad Clown / int_68d06fd2	comment	In Marvel Zombies, Spidey drives the other zombies crazy with the constant, irritating jokes he keeps making. When told to cut it out, he informs them that he makes jokes to help himself forget that he's become a flesh-eating evil lunatic.
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Sad Clown / int_68f45eab	comment	Nick Sagan's Idlewild has Mercutio, who describes his coping methods as "Humor? That's my lizard tail. You can look at that while I run away."
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Sad Clown / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Tony Stark has solemn moments of his own due to his massive Guilt Complex as well as personal issues and tends to hide it by being the smartass snarker as he is. Peter Quill (aka "Star-Lord") from Guardians of the Galaxy had a rough youth. His father was never in his life, his mother died in his presence when he was just a child—and just moments after that, he was abducted by a brutal gang of pirates who apparently wanted to eat him,note Though the actual validity of this claim seems to be wishy-washy; Yondu's been lording the fact he stopped them from doing so over Peter since that day, but there seems to be a deeper understanding between them as well. and never got to see his family or his home planet again. Still, despite his unpleasant youth, he grew up to be a relatively well-adjusted Handsome Lech Loveable Rogue who loves pop music from The '70s (the memoir mixtape his mother gave him) and all around is a jokey, easygoing guy, even though he still lives with the pain of his mother's death. Loki becomes this in Thor: Ragnarok after all the painful lessons in humility he suffered throughout the MCU, plus having to deal with being the least favorite in the household, on top of knowing he was adopted. In Ragnarok, he's comic relief with some very serious moments. Thor thankfully convinces him to make a Heelâ€“Face Turn with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech after Loki's failed attempt at betraying Thor right before the climax. Avengers: Infinity War: Much of the humor in the film has a dark undertone to it as the characters realize how much trouble they are in, but no one gets hit worse than Thor. Following the events of Ragnarok, he lost his father (his mother died a few years ago), his planet, nearly all of his friends, and most of his people. This movie starts with most of the rest of his people, his brother, and one of his last friends killed by Thanos. He keeps trying to make jokes, but they keep becoming more and more strained. Rocket confronts him about it, and Thor admits that his life is at its worst right now, but insists that Thanos is going to end up dead just like every other enemy he has fought in the past fifteen hundred years. It's clear that he's trying to convince himself more than Rocket. There is a scene with a humorous tone when Thor meets the aforementioned Peter Quill for the first time and the two Sad Clowns converse on their respective grievances like they were talking about their kid throwing a tantrum at the supermarket the other day. Not that life gets any better for Quill when Gamora gets captured by Thanos and hurled over a cliff in Vormir. You can bet that revelation from Thanos created a saddening fit of rage that melted Quill's proverbial clown makeup. Avengers: Endgame pushes Thor to the next level, as he becomes a shut-in who wastes away playing video games and drinking beer. He ends up nursing an unkept Beard of Sorrow, and cannot brief the other Avengers without meandering off into a rambling discourse about old girlfriends.
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Sad Clown / int_6a2d31a6	comment	Odd Thomas, in the series of novels of the same name by Dean Koontz, a First-Person Smartass who notes early on that he will be keeping the tone of the books light, otherwise what he has to say would be too painful to tell, and in-story (in other words, in the actual situations) he covers up his sadness, fears, etc. with a healthy dose of snarking or silliness.
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Sad Clown / int_6b49466	comment	Chip, the protagonist of Baskets is an especially literal example: He started clowning as a way of coping with his father's suicide and keeps it going as a way of fighting his insecurities. His initial clown character "Renoir" is even a stereotypical sad French clown.
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Sad Clown / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: The Sole Survivor can be played like this. The Sarcastic dialogue choices very often stem from how pissed off, disappointed, or done with the world they've become. Potential companion and Railroad operative Deacon turns out to be this. He constantly wisecracks and puts up a facade of easygoing nonchalance, but in reality, he has deep-seated self-loathing as a result of his past, in which his former affiliation with an anti-synth gang got his wife Barbara, who was a synth, murdered. Although he killed all the gang members and does everything in his power to save the synths of The Commonwealth with The Railroad, he still hasn't forgiven himself for who he used to be; he doesn't even enjoy being a Consummate Liar as part of his job, calling himself a fraud and claiming that he's everything wrong with the Commonwealth.
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Sad Clown / int_6da4c85c	comment	American Horror Story: Freak Show: Twisty. For the first episodes, you would probably only refer to him as the evil clown. But once his backstory is revealed, he truly becomes the sad clown. Perhaps the saddest clown ever.
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Sad Clown / int_70407188	comment	The Biggest Loser: It's pretty much a guarantee that male contestants who have boisterous, jokey personalities are hiding major self-esteem issues caused by their weight.
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Sad Clown / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Jack O'Neill, a rare commanding officer example, owing in part to his backstory from the original film: He had been on the verge of suicide after his son accidentally killed himself with Jack's gun before being recruited for the Stargate mission.
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Sad Clown / int_7110fae1	comment	Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica: She's not in any way insecure (the contrary, in fact), but the combination of absolutely bad jokes and absolutely tragic backstory puts the Big Bad Infel straight in this territory.
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Sad Clown / int_7257afca	comment	Sword Art Online Abridged's take on Kirito is a snarky Jerkass who can keep up the insults and sarcasm even in combat. But in Episode 8 it's all but explained that this is in part a coping mechanism from spending years trapped in The Most Dangerous Video Game, as seen when Kirito cracks a joke after watching Corvatz die in front of him during a boss fight gone wrong.
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Sad Clown / int_733f2aaf	comment	Cradle Series: Eithan Arelius seems happy, as he is constantly smiling and telling jokes. In fact, his most common criticism is that he never takes anything seriously. But the truth is that this is just a mask to cover the isolation that his incredible talent has granted him; he has spent his entire life separate from everyone else because he was advancing in his world's Power Levels at a breakneck pace. In Reaper, he mentions that the Icon (platonic ideals of reality that grant the ability to enforce your will on the world directly) he's holding out for is the Joy Icon. Everyone else treats this as a joke, but it's pretty clear that he's being serious. You earn an Icon when you become a symbol of it to the universe itself. Eithan can do nearly anything, but he can't convince the universe that he's happy.
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Sad Clown / int_738d0007	comment	Spider-Man (Insomniac): As mentioned above and below, the eponymous Spider-Man from the Insomniac title of the same name is this, and it even seeps through the mask and into Peter Parker. When Dr. Otto Octavius loses his temper during a failed experiment and starts cursing out Mayor Osbourne, Peter is quick to burst out a joke about said mayor, to which he admits in the ensuing awkward silence afterward that he has a habit of joking in tense situations. Otto calmly commends him for the joke he told, averting how one would normally respond to this trope. Averted for MJ in this, who is a lot calmer than she is in the comics, again as mentioned above.
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Sad Clown / int_743277aa	comment	Cooro from +Anima. He's the story's resident Cheerful Child Genki Guy, but a mix of him being born a +Anima, the resulting inability to understand his own humanity and a toxic relationship with one of his caretakers means that he's hiding a fair amount of sadness, some of which he's implied to have not even realized he had.
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Sad Clown / int_7485e16e	comment	Animaniacs (2020) implies that Yakko Warner is this; in "Fear and Laughter in Burbank", the Pennywise Expy reveals that his greatest fear is that people don't find him funny.
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Sad Clown / int_75149ccd	comment	In the X-Wing Series, we get Ton Phanan, though we don't really see the "sad" part until we get to Iron Fist.
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Sad Clown / int_761813a6	comment	Band of Brothers: George Luz has shades of this after the company goes through the hell that is the Battle of the Bulge (during which Luz had to witness Muck and Penkala get blown to bits by a shell that landed in their foxhole). His jokes and wisecracks become more bitter and weary than before.
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Sad Clown / int_7764d786	comment	In The Ninth Configuration, the astronaut Captain Cutshaw wears ridiculous outfits, speaks in absurd non-sequiturs, and makes himself a comical nuisance at the mental hospital, all in an effort to mask his despairing worldview and his guilt over having to abort a NASA lunar mission due to a mental breakdown.
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Sad Clown / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: Amethyst is extremely flippant and laid-back compared to Garnet or Pearl but hides a lot of insecurity that only becomes apparent on episodes that focus on her. And then there is Smoky Quartz, a combination of Amethyst and Steven who shares both of their fun-loving natures and is almost always smiling, but also shares both of their insecurities. When Smoky fails, the self-deprecating jokes are noticeably harsh.
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Sad Clown / int_78744ce3	comment	Writer and movie critic Mikey Neumann, of Movies with Mikey fame, is famous for his outgoing personality, his surreal sense of humor, and generally maintains the public persona of a lovably weird goofball. He's also been battling Multiple Sclerosis for most of his career, and ultimately left his job at Gearbox Software as a result of complications from the disease; among other things, he was hospitalized for over a week in 2011 after collapsing from a sudden stroke. He occasionally lampshades this in his video essays, noting that he enjoys approaching difficult subjects in a humorous manner.
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Sad Clown / int_791e7b7f	comment	Downplayed with Nick Wilde, the snarky, cynical con-fox of Zootopia. His smug mannerisms and snarky comments mask a childhood trauma that turned his youthful idealism into cynicism. Throughout the film, we see hints that his kindness and idealism weren't completely destroyed, just buried, and his adventure with Judy helps that side of him re-emerge by the end of the film.
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Sad Clown / int_792239e5	comment	Zelos from Tales of Symphonia - seems the most cheerful and confident, constantly cracking jokes at inappropriate times, as well as being a Handsome Lech who will hit with any and all females he encounters. But once he opens up and reveals the resentment he feels about his position as Tethe'alla's chosen one, it becomes apparent that he's probably the most messed-up of the lot. And that's saying something.
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Sad Clown / int_7a4375df	comment	21 Jump Street: Doug Penhall is revealed to be this in the second season. He's a jolly guy, but has a tragic past; amongst other things, his mother committed suicide when he was 6 and he's estranged from his brother.
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Sad Clown / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Dick Grayson has been retconned into this in his youth. He was the first Robin, and his history is largely unchanged: he was the same person cracking jokes and facing down villains and making terrible, terrible puns. However, his parents were killed in front of him, and his adoptive father figure has been transformed into always having been a brooding creature of darkness, so he was covering for something. As Nightwing, he's less of this, being relatively well-adjusted, all things considered. If the memories of The Joker in The Killing Joke (wherein "Jack" loses his wife, the baby inside her and his face in one day) are to be believed, he plays this trope straight. The heartbreaking finale wherein both the Monster Clown and Batman hysterically laugh at the cruelty of their lives drives in just how deeply both these men have been hurt; Joker in particular must substitute laughter for tears, or the ponderous weight of his sadness would crush what little will to live there is left inside. Toward the end of Batman: Arkham Knight, it is played straight in the credits scene that features the Joker trapped in an Ironic Hell in Batman's subconscious. Being the literal Sad Clown that Joker is, his sad singing and sobbing tell that his final defeat, along with the knowledge that he will be forgotten after he has died, has utterly broken him. It is utterly painful to hear him cry while he sings. In Death of the Family, Harley Quinn shows indications of this. She has tears marking her face, and she cracks jokes as she tries to survive to be around Joker. Joker, once again, implies this about him. Catwomanâ€™s overtly snarky personality is a very obvious defense mechanism to hide the fact Selinaâ€™s a deeply traumatized and broken woman whoâ€™s so desperate to survive in a city like Gotham and have meaning in a life that was defined by tragedy.
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Sad Clown / int_7aba404	comment	Tae-goo from The Good, The Bad, The Weird comes off as all happy-go-lucky, but Song Kang-ho stated in an interview that for whatever reason, he's the most miserable of the trio.
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Sad Clown / int_7c9864d1	comment	Feste from Twelfth Night is very often played this way, although there's no real evidence for it in the text. It's particularly common for his final song ("For the rain, it raineth every day...") to take on a melancholy slant.
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Sad Clown / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): Ralph Dibny uses humor and sarcasm to quote with his childhood trauma and his dad leaving him when he was a kid.
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Sad Clown / int_7d1c83da	comment	Better Call Saul: Amoral Attorney Saul Goodman was originally introduced to Breaking Bad to act as Plucky Comic Relief for a show that was going to become very dark. His prequel spin-off depicts an utter Trauma Conga Line of betrayals, attempts to become a better man thwarted by a combination of his own tragic mistakes and those who don't believe he deserves a chance to be better, PTSD-inducing experiences, abandonments from everyone he loved and his own inability to overcome his Fatal Flaws despite his desire to be better. By the end of the show, it becomes quite clear that Jimmy McGill's persona as the sleazy showman that is Saul Goodman is largely a way to distract himself from all his personal guilts, traumas, and self-loathing.
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Sad Clown / int_7de1376e	comment	Another book that featured a member of the Fools' Guild as a prominent member was Wyrd Sisters, with the official Fool to the king of Lancre. The story makes it clear that he's a very clever person, both with amusing wit and dangerous amounts of political insight as well as a genuine desire to help the people around him, but the Fools' Guild taught him to be deeply ashamed of these traits and turned him into an Extreme Doormat that just keeps his head down and does tired, guild-approved shtick. To make matters worse he's in the service of a mad, cruel, and humorless king who uses his political insight as a means to better torment the populace. Spending time with Magrat helps him grow a spine, and once she and the other witches depose the king he winds up being crowned Lancre's new ruler. Future books show that he's a capable and compassionate king who genuinely sees himself as a servant of the people.... but after years of pie-in-the-face routine he banned the sale of custard.
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Sad Clown / int_7f39a041	comment	Possibly everyone from Gintama. Strangely for a comedy series, most of the cast have a very dark and depressing background.
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Sad Clown / int_7f640c57	comment	In The Sims, if a Sim has a clown painting on their lot, and becomes depressed, the painting will summon Tragic Clown to cheer them up. Unfortunately, as the name would suggest, Tragic Clown is also very depressed and any attempt he makes to cheer your Sim up only makes things worse, that is when he isn't off on his own sobbing.
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Sad Clown / int_7f6eb95d	comment	Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet makes Incredibly Lame Puns even as he lies dying, along with a Dying Curse. Comedy dies with him; the rest of the play is an inexorable spiral into tragedy.
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Sad Clown / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Duo Maxwell from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing tries to be the mood maker for the Gundam pilots, and is certainly the cheeriest and goofiest of the group. He's also got a particularly tragic past (orphan, lost his best friend to disease because only the rich people got the vaccine, bounced between foster homes before settling in a church with a caring priest and sister, only to lose them to a pointless battle) and refers to himself as "Shinigami", not boasting about his ability to kill enemy pilots but because the specter of Death seems to hover around him at all times. A more literal example is Trowa Barton Triton Bloom, who works in a circus as a clown, but is as far from goofy as one can get.
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Sad Clown / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider Kamen Rider Drive has a downplayed example in the form of Gou Shijima. Gou is jovial and goofy on the outside, but deep down, that exterior hides his innate hatred towards Roidmudes, and worse; after learning his father is revealed to be the Big Bad. Ryoma Sengoku of Kamen Rider Gaim inverts this trope with sociopathic spades. Whatever childish and Black Comedy antics he'll throw at you can give you a bad day. Just ask Kouta, then Micchy in episode #43, with him snarking at the latter after killing Kouta was the last straw for Micchy to break down like a hysterical child. Kamen Rider Fourze: Gentaro occasionally verges into this. Played straight in Movie War Mega Max. The titular hero of Kamen Rider OOO, Eiji Hino is considered to be this, with Stepford Smiler in spades. Though he is rather optimistic as a whole and is always traveling around the world in an outlandish fashion, and a Butt-Monkey on some occasions. In actuality, Eiji is haunted by the traumatic experiences that resulted in civil war in a nation where his father was a political leader.
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Sad Clown / int_82c75863	comment	Scientist Paul Beaumont in He Who Gets Slapped became a clown after his patron stole his work and wife. As a clown, Beaumont falls in love with another performer who is in love with someone else.
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Sad Clown / int_83d41855	comment	In the Gargoyles spin-off Gargoyles: Bad Guys, Fang is revealed to be a Sad Clown. He's just as shocked and horrified as everyone else to find out Tasha hung herself. He just dealt with it by making an inappropriate light bulb joke.
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Sad Clown / int_848f1fe1	comment	The Moviegoer has Kate, an ill girl who has pseudo-religious experiences one after another to stave off the mundanity of her boring life.
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Sad Clown / int_84d1021b	comment	The sequel has Fret. He's as energetic as Shiki above, and a bit of a Casanova Wannabe who doesn't seem to take much in life seriously. After Kanon's death in Week 3, he confides in Nagi that he has long since stopped taking things seriously or being honest about his own feelings after he failed to talk his best friend out of killing himself — he couldn't "stomach anything heavy" after that.
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Sad Clown / int_84e19652	comment	Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus: Yvonne Maxa is a snarky puppeteer who usually smirks or smiles at things that go her way, even if said thing happens to be dueling against Zarc and Yuya. Despite her jokes and wit, she has a lot of baggage she's hiding. Aside from losing her older brother when he crashed his motorcycle and landed himself in a coma, only to die a year later, her best friend being repurposed — that is, dead and brought back to life stuck at the age of eleven — but she's been tasked to kill Yusho Sakaki (who she idolized a lot) so he could be brought back as the Dark Signer of the Condor and ends up screaming in agony at what she did.
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Sad Clown / int_8516bd41	comment	Amos's solo "Mr Cellophane" in Chicago is usually performed in costume as one of these, though the actual character isn't particularly clownish.
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Sad Clown / int_865ba491	comment	Although he is a genuinely happy-go-lucky person, Morph has instances of this in both his Age of Apocalypse and Exiles incarnations, which results in teammates telling him to shut up and be serious for once. When he does, it tends to be heartbreaking. His original incarnation (at least, the first to use the name Morph) in X-Men: The Animated Series was like this too, and it was just as sad to see his real psyche.
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Sad Clown / int_86814e56	comment	Then there's the villain Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI, who is given this as an Alternative Character Interpretation in Dissidia Final Fantasy. He's trying to kill everyone and destroy everything while laughing maniacally because he can no longer see the point in anything else, and his last laugh (after he dies) is a sobbing, sad one.
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Sad Clown / int_86814ea1	comment	Prompto from Final Fantasy XV spends a lot of time cracking jokes and being the Plucky Comic Relief, covering up his insecurities and his origins as a clone created for military purposes by the Niflheim Empire.
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Sad Clown / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Othar Trygvassen (Gentleman Adventurer), a Mad Scientist who wants to kill off all other mad scientists (and then himself) in order to eliminate the threat they pose forever. He spends most of his time as a goofy hero who gets by due to an annoying amount of Plot Armor, but on the rare occasions he gets a chance to explain his mission, it becomes clear that he is filled with self-loathing and knows that he'll most likely never succeed in his quest. The novels, especially, emphasize a few times that the cheerful facade is exactly that, an act to make himself feel better. He's especially disturbed whenever he realizes he's made friends with someone he is going to have to kill.
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Sad Clown / int_880cfa15	comment	Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes, was Jewish and an actual victim of Nazi persecution, leaving Germany right at the dawn of the Third Reich when he was thirteen. This was a major reason why he portrayed Klink the way he did; he specifically demanded that Colonel Klink never be portrayed as a Worthy Opponent, instead being a pathetic fool who never, ever won.
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Sad Clown / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Eclipsa is known for having a whimsical and carefree personality when interacting with others. But given how much she and her family have suffered throughout the series, it's implied that it's her way of coping with the trauma.
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Sad Clown / int_8b4e057	comment	Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger features Bandora as the main antagonist, who is one of the more humorous Sentai villains, who develops stress headaches whenever the Zyurangers beat a monster of the week, goes on a comedic crash diet and even has her own comical theme song she performs when things go her way. However, she is an evil witch who became that way after she went mad with grief when her son was killed by a T-Rex 170 million years ago for smashing its eggs, causing her to sell her soul to Satan and drive dinosaurs on the brink of extinction. This is what drives her burning hatred for children in present-day 1992.
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Sad Clown / int_8b4f76b	comment	Kaleido Star: Rare female example: Anna Heart, a Bifauxnen artist from the Kaleido Stage who wants to be a comedian, but hides how deeply hurt she's been after her father Jack (a.k.a. "Baron Jack") left her and her mother Julia. Jack was one of these too. The reason why he left is that he was swindled by his manager, and left home because he couldn't face Julia and Anna as well as the crash of his dreams. And he was getting worse, evolving into a very embittered Stepford Snarker who told cruel jokes that mocked everyone (something he had never done in the past) until Anna got to Calling the Old Man Out in front of him. Thankfully, they got better.
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Sad Clown / int_8c371d03	comment	The World's End: Gary, and how. He puts on a thin facade of party guy fun and pep, but he's, in reality, a clinically depressed Disco Dan who hates where his life ended up. The entire pub crawl is hinted to be one final night of fun before he kills himself.
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Sad Clown / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: Hawkeye Pierce was once accused of this. He was quite offended and spent the rest of the episode refusing to joke. This gets parodied in an episode of Futurama where a robot based on Hawkeye could go from irreverent to maudlin with the literal flip of a switch. However in another episode, he freely admits to being one in response to a general's Armor-Piercing Question about his constant joking. And in the final episode, we see what happened to Hawkeye when that coping mechanism ceases to be effective. And anyway, he's not alone. BJ Hunnicutt, Trapper John McIntyre, occasionally Margaret Houlihan and even Charles Winchester and Colonel Potter join in the antics to keep from walking into chopper blades. It's pretty much established that Frank Burns was already too far gone to be able to do this and he did crack up in the end. This may be part also of Klinger's continuous Section-8 ploys.
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Sad Clown / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: Hurley is usually seen as a jovial, Plucky Comic Relief kind of character, especially in the first season. In his flashbacks, however, he is portrayed in a much more serious manner and develops into one of the most solution-oriented survivors.
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Sad Clown / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: Depending on the Writer, Tony can fit this to a T or seem more genuinely clownish. Lampshaded by Gibbs when he was talking with Tony's father.
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Sad Clown / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	In The Wide Window, the characters patronize a rather miserably awful restaurant called The Anxious Clown. Guess what all the waiters are dressed up as.
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Sad Clown / int_8eb018a3	comment	In the Plague of Shadows DLC for Shovel Knight, Plague Knight is implied to be this by Specter Knight in his "The Reason You Suck" Speech during their confrontation. Plague Knight's silence indicates Specter may have a point. While Specter never mentions the trope, he does interpret this.
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Sad Clown / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Junpei from Persona 3 makes terrible jokes, has all the sex appeal of a snail, and sometimes displays extremely poor judgment when fighting Shadows. However, all of this is simply an off-shoot of his personal insecurity, as he is fully aware of his own limitations and believes that he will never make anything out of himself in life. Similar to Yukari, he also comes from a one-parent household and lives in the dormitories just so he can get away from his alcoholic father. Persona 4: Yosuke is similar in many ways to Junpei from the previous game, having a bad sense of humor and being an absolute lady-killer. This is to compensate for the fact that people in the town of Inaba don't care for him and his family, his father being the manager of the local Junes store which is blamed for killing off local businesses. Teddie is a pun-spewing Casanova Wannabe and the biggest source of comic relief in the party, but deep down struggles with an existential crisis and worries that his existence has no meaning at all. Notable is that, while most characters' Shadows are Laughably Evil to an extent, Yosuke's and Teddie's are the only ones with no comedic traits whatsoever. Adachi, who even has the Jester Arcana with his theme in Persona 4: Arena Ultimax and BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle being called "A Fool Or A Clown". The bumbling, comic relief Butt-Monkey who's revealed to be a lonely Broken Ace driven to Straw Nihilism by his isolated lifestyle and lack of meaningful relationships. Persona 5: Ryuji Sakamoto is the resident goofball of the Phantom Thieves who is quick with a joke, but beneath his joking facade is a young man who has been downtrodden by the system, who in essence decided to act the part of the Japanese Delinquent because that's what the powers that be set him up as. His home life was not particularly ideal, with his father being an abusive drunk who walked out on his family, so he was raised by his single mother, who thankfully cares deeply for him. When Kamoshida learned of his home situation, he used it as ammo against Ryuji to provoke him into attacking him, and used the opportunity to not only break Ryuji's leg in "self-defense", ending his track and field prospects; but also disband the track and field team and pin the blame on Ryuji. Becoming a pariah among the student body afterwards, he would lean into the "delinquent" label that would be forced upon him. Morgana is the lovable mascot and strategic brains of the Phantom Thieves who fancies himself a debonair thief in his own right and often forms a comic relief pair with Ryuji. Beneath his bravado, however, lies anxiety about whether he can regain his human form (if he even has one at all) and, at one point, his usefulness to his friends and whether they actually need him or want him around. Token Evil Teammate Akechi was beloved by the public for his bright and cheery facade, and makes many jokes when speaking in public, as seen in his Talk Show appearances and when talking with the Thieves. However, beneath said facade is a tortured soul. His mother was a prostitute who conceived him with the Big Bad who abandoned her while she was pregnant, and she was Driven to Suicide sometime after giving birth, which led to Akechi being passed around from one foster home to the next.
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Sad Clown / int_90244489	comment	In Blood Harvest, the lonely, brain-damaged retired clown Marvelous Mervo covers his misery with a very thin veneer of jolliness.
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Sad Clown / int_90c73dda	comment	Marco from Animorphs. It's stated many times that joking is the only way he can deal with the difficult and dangerous situations he's constantly put in and the fact that his mother is Visser One's host. What really kills about this one is that it clearly doesn't work; over the course of the series, he goes from being incredibly emo and depressed to losing his humanity to the point that even Rachel was occasionally horrified by his actions. Another K. A. Applegate example, Christopher from Everworld is almost an Expy of Marco, but with a darker personality, being a budding alcoholic and purposefully making racial or gender-based comments to offend people. And he's not funny.
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Sad Clown / int_9193f21e	comment	Buttons the Clown from The Greatest Show on Earth certainly qualifies: he's a former doctor on the run from the law for mercy-killing his wife. The fact that Buttons is played by Jimmy Stewart makes it awesome.
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Sad Clown / int_9247fa59	comment	Ebisu from Dorohedoro shows signs of this after getting Chota's hairclip stuck in her brain. In the aftermath of Kai's attack on the En household, Fujita notes that while Ebisu laughed, as usual, she actually looked very sad.
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Sad Clown / int_9284ad43	comment	In Dual Destinies, the DLC Case, "Turnabout Reclaimed" introduces Marlon Rimes, who bursts into some random, rather entertaining bouts of rap on some occasions. It's revealed late in the case that Marlon is struggling hardest of all to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Azura Summers, Orla's previous trainer, and only joined the aquarium in an attempt to have Orla killed, deeming her responsible, only to end up causing the Captain's death, bringing about the Orca Whale's framing.
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Sad Clown / int_93221cce	comment	The titular hero of Kamen Rider OOO, Eiji Hino is considered to be this, with Stepford Smiler in spades. Though he is rather optimistic as a whole and is always traveling around the world in an outlandish fashion, and a Butt-Monkey on some occasions. In actuality, Eiji is haunted by the traumatic experiences that resulted in civil war in a nation where his father was a political leader.
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Sad Clown / int_942349dc	comment	Polnareff from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders often plays the comic relief role, acting quite impulsive and has a running gag with toilets. He's also one of the characters who has the worst lives in the series. Before the story, his little sister was raped and murdered, prompting him to go on a 10-year adventure to find the culprit. In Egypt, he was hypnotized and brainwashed into becoming DIO's minion. Within part 3, Polnareff saw Avdol died trying to save him twice, had to kill the reanimated image of his sister, then Iggy also died trying to save him. He developed Survivor's Guilt and wished the two had left him to die. After part 3, he returned to his hometown and lived alone... or so we thought. In part 5, it was revealed that he was almost murdered by Diavolo, losing his eye, legs, and hand. He barely survived and had to hide for 14 years, cutting off all contacts with his last remaining friends Jotaro and Joseph.
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Sad Clown / int_97ce01ba	comment	In Bee Movie, Barry B. Benson's entire hive, including himself, apparently falls under this, judging by his first conversation with Vanessa. The bees' comedic underreactions when they hear about one of their co-workers dying on the job definitely show signs of desensitization to psychological trauma as well.
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Sad Clown / int_9a8e1605	comment	Carl from Soul Symphony constantly cracks jokes and makes fun of others, but gets a little more serious when discussing the near-extinction of his race of creature.
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Sad Clown / int_9aac0273	comment	It is mentioned in Men at Arms that the patrons of the Fools' Guild are genuinely good at their job in making people laugh. In the sense that talking to one is such a miserable, soul-crushing affair that by the time you're done literally anything will seem hysterical. Earlier in that same book, when a fool is murdered, he asks Death if he will still need to do his clown act in the afterlife. When Death reassures him that no, he won't, the dead clown replies, "I like it better already."
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Sad Clown / int_9acb82d3	comment	In Aftermath: Empire's End it is revealed that Jar Jar Binks has become this. He was ousted from the Senate and exiled for his unwitting role in Palpatine's rise to power and now spends his days as a clown entertaining refugee children. Bringing happiness in small ways is his way of atoning.
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Sad Clown / int_9c1b9880	comment	In Digimon Survive, Plucky Comic Relief Minoru constantly cracks wise because he feels as though he has to take it upon himself to lift everyone's spirits while they're Trapped in Another World as he believes he's too weak-willed to contribute more than that despite being a skilled survivalist. His partner Falcomon frequently gives him You Are Better Than You Think You Are speeches to keep him going.
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Sad Clown / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire has Dolorous Edd, a member of the Night's Watch prone to making morbid quips. He adopts a persona of The Eeyore, but his Deadpan Snarker observations and anecdotes make him one of the funniest characters in the series.
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Sad Clown / int_9d60e7f8	comment	Romeo and Juliet (1968): Mercutio. He's the jokester among Romeo's friends, cracking jokes that amuse them and is constantly sarcastic. At heart, though, he's troubled for unspecified reasons, and briefly shows it during his speech on Queen Mab, covering this with humor. When he's mortally wounded, he angrily denounces both the Capulets and Montagues. The Nurse becomes this by the final scene. We see her ashen-faced and trying to comfort Benvolio as she accompanies the funeral procession inside.
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Sad Clown / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: Dante might be known as the "wacky wahoo pizza man" who's always the life of the party, but he's also someone who's suffered a lifetime of tragedy and sorrow. His mother was killed by demons at a young age, he's chosen a life upholding the legacy of a father he hated, unable to live a normal human life like his mother, and ultimately had to choose between his twin brother Vergil and his duty to protect humanity. Because of his tragic life, it's hard not to imagine that Dante's over-the-top antics and personality are a way to cope with his lot in life. One of the most underplayed parts of Dante's character is that despite his over-the-top thrill-seeker persona, he's actually rather distant towards his companions. He barely tries to keep in touch or even attend any social functions, and despite his occupation and business as a demon slayer, he never really makes any attempt to get out of his Perpetual Poverty status. All very common symptoms of depression. Though she is outwardly much peppier in Devil May Cry 4 and especially Devil May Cry 5 than she was during the events of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, supplementary materials and dialogue lines suggest that Lady isn't so over things internally. When Nero is struggling with possibly having to kill his father Vergil, Lady is quick to tell him that patricide is not something one easily gets over with, while having a sad look on her face as she says this, and as Nico states in her notes on Lady, someone who is as dedicated to demon hunting as she is can't be all that stable mentally.
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Sad Clown / int_9dc586c8	comment	Red Skelton, who was known for TV and film comedy, plays one of these in 1953's "The Clown" (a remake of The Champ), where Red plays Dodo Delwyn, a washed-up clown who struggles with alcoholism. Even though his son Dink is slightly amused by his dad's antics at first, Dodo gets an offer from his agent Goldie Goldenson and his ex-wife's new husband gives him $200 which he squanders in a dice game along with the watch that he had given to his son earlier. After he gets arrested in a strip club raid and bailed out by his agent, Dodo realizes his son would be better off living with his mother and her new husband. Just when Dodo is about to make a comeback, he gets dizzy, collapsing and dying on stage.
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Sad Clown / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Possibly Luffy, considering the things we've learned about his past in the last few years. After his complete and utter breakdown after Ace's death, it becomes devastatingly clear that underneath his cool, strong Idiot Hero exterior, can awaken a scared boy who's terrified that he's too weak to protect his loved ones and that he's generally nowhere near as innocent, carefree or stupid as he might want you to believe. Brook practically runs on this trope, being a walking pun factory on the subject of his supernatural disfigurement. At inappropriate times? You bet. He is also quite the pervert. We discover that he and his crew died in the most dangerous sea before being able to fulfill their promise to return to the friend they left behind. Only Brook's Devil Fruit which allowed him to come back from death just once offered the slightest chance of fulfilling their promise, and since then he had waited 50 years alone on the corpse-filled ship before the Strawhats came. In the flashback, it seems like Brook was actually quite serious when he was alive, but in 50 years of solitude, he made jokes and thought of puns in order to distract himself from suicidal thoughts. After a major loss for the crew leading to a separation arc, he was put on display in a freak show cage for crowds to scream at in disgust. Then he met the "get people to like him" criteria in truly epic fashion. It's good to be the Soul King. Doflamingo and his brother Corazon fit this trope in different ways. The former always wear a smug grin on his face, while the latter actually wears clown makeup. They both have a traumatizing childhood. Luffy's brother Ace is a pretty jovial guy, much like Luffy. And just like Luffy, he's got a lot of hidden insecurities. He spent his entire life thinking that he didn't deserve to be born. Technically everyone who has eaten a fail SMILE, as they will be forced to smile and laugh forever, even if they want to cry. The most gruesome example is Toko, a little girl who ate the SMILE and now couldn't stop laughing, even as her father is executed.
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Sad Clown / int_9e8d7ed0	comment	Simon Lane is best known for being one half of the main channel and the main goofball of the group. However, he appeared to suffer from a Creator Breakdown in early 2015, which culminated in him insulting former friend TotalBiscuit and then mocking the Yogscast subreddit when they thought his behaviour was out of line. His declining health (both mentally and physically) forced him to take time out from March until September of 2015, and while he's on the mend his appearances on the main channel aren't as frequent as before.
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Sad Clown / int_9f3bc7e3	comment	Generation Kill: Ray Person, although his insecurity isn't the only thing fueling his hilarious, uber-offensive humor—it's also the fact that he's generally on almost no sleep and a near-permanent caffeine high thanks to his ever-present bottle of Ripped Fuel. Averted in the finale (and, after the war, in real life) when extra interviews show the real Ray as a generally quiet yet outspoken man.
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Sad Clown / int_9f48001f	comment	The entire premise of Joker (2019), with a proposed origin for Mister J (the character is otherwise a prime example of Multiple-Choice Past). He's introduced as Arthur Fleck, a somewhat optimistic but down-on-his-luck comedian and clown-for-hire with a mental condition that causes him, among other things, to laugh uncontrollably. A combination of awful events coupled with bad decisions both from himself and from people around him (in particular, his boss) cause him to snap completely.
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Sad Clown / int_a0ae46f	comment	Toy Story 2 has Jessie. When she's not fun and boisterous, her mind recedes back to the cold dark place where she spent much of her life after being abandoned by Emily and discovered by Al, only for her, the Prospector, and Bullseye to be left in storage until Al kidnapped Woody. As a result, she has a lot of anxiety and sadness deep down. Her writers even called her a character with "high highs" and "low lows". She's none of the clowns and doubles the sad in the first act of Toy Story 3. Having experienced abandonment from Emily and negligence from the greedy toy collector has left her very convinced that Andy intended to have the toys thrown out when he had them placed in a garbage bag he was trying to bring to the attic before his Mom mistook it for trash, even ignoring Woody's equally insistent reassurances.
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Sad Clown / int_a23b15c8	comment	Rudy Strongwell from Rain (2010) seems to be your typical sassy Camp Gay archetype and the comicâ€™s Plucky Comic Relief. But underneath is a kid trying his best to deal with the depression from all the abuse he gets for his orientation, not to mention his sister eventually running away from home. He aims to cope with all this pain by making others laugh.
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Sad Clown / int_a4212b4	comment	In Red Hood and the Outlaws Arsenal tries to chat and make jokes whenever he can, but it's fairly obvious that he's practically dead on the inside. He admits this in Issue 5 to Starfire, saying he believes that as a team the three of them could help each other. Hell, the entire team is dead on the inside and trying to cover it up.
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Sad Clown / int_a43c65b6	comment	Plastic Man from DC Comics is often accused of this, denying it every time. Whether he is lying or not depends on your interpretation.
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Sad Clown / int_a4689068	comment	Nova AKA seventeen-year-old Richard Rider, definitely fits the bill here. Similarly to Spider-Man, he makes various quips with his enemies, but he is far more insecure, with failing school grades and his family's financial issues, and the fact that just about everyone in his family is some sort of punctual, successful go-getter except him. If not for his girlfriend, Ginger, who knows how mentally worse off he'd be?
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Sad Clown / int_a5963cd4	comment	Mela of We Are The Wyrecats is the most outwardly perky and cheerful member of the team, but sometimes she uses that bright demeanor to hide her feelings of sadness, worry, and resentment.
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Sad Clown / int_a5e160e0	comment	Lucifer (2016) is a man ripe with sarcasm and hilarious antics who badgers Chloe during her police operations, and seems to always know exactly what to do and say to people to get what he wants, whether it be to charm his way into getting himself laid or intimidate criminals and suspects. His therapy sessions reveal deep down how enraged he is about having been cast to Hell by the man upstairs, and he's been running away from his given destiny of running the Underworld, casting away his wings and staying put on Earth no matter how hard his brother tries to get him to come back.
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Sad Clown / int_a660fd96	comment	Avengers: Endgame pushes Thor to the next level, as he becomes a shut-in who wastes away playing video games and drinking beer. He ends up nursing an unkept Beard of Sorrow, and cannot brief the other Avengers without meandering off into a rambling discourse about old girlfriends.
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Sad Clown / int_a7aeb689	comment	The Tigger Movie takes this a step further, when Tigger comes to realize the ramifications of being the only one of his kind in the Hundred Acre Wood, and starts longing to find out where his family might be.
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Sad Clown / int_a81325d3	comment	This type of archetype is present in Final Fantasy, usually on the party members' side. What do Barret Wallace, Irvine Kinneas, Wakka, Balthier, and Sazh Katzroy have in common? They all use silly theatrics in one form or another in order to cover their personal tragedy—mainly losing loved ones to a devastating attack. Prompto from Final Fantasy XV spends a lot of time cracking jokes and being the Plucky Comic Relief, covering up his insecurities and his origins as a clone created for military purposes by the Niflheim Empire. Then there's the villain Kefka Palazzo from Final Fantasy VI, who is given this as an Alternative Character Interpretation in Dissidia Final Fantasy. He's trying to kill everyone and destroy everything while laughing maniacally because he can no longer see the point in anything else, and his last laugh (after he dies) is a sobbing, sad one.
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Sad Clown / int_a851d974	comment	The Nostalgia Chick is also deeply depressed and tries to hide it with Black Comedy and cynical sarcasm. Made Harsher in Hindsight when you consider what went on behind the scenes. She's in a better place now, but don't expect her to talk openly about her Channel Awesome days any day soon.
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Sad Clown / int_a869f91d	comment	Carlo Moss, one of the creators and writers for The Most Popular Girls in School and Dr. Havoc's Diary, suffers from anxiety.
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Sad Clown / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: One of the original Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts had Timmy go to a birthday party. The clown at Tootie's party clearly regrets his life choices.
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Sad Clown / int_aca7b22d	comment	The Amazing World of Gumball: Zig-zagged in "The One", where the layers of Gumball Watterson's personality are dissected. Beneath the surface is Humor, a clown who makes a self-deprecating joke about himself the moment he surfaces, but reveals himself to just be Anxiety wearing a flimsy disguise. The layer beneath him is Fear, who is the way he is to hide his hilariously massive and monstrous Ego.
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Sad Clown / int_acf64e6a	comment	Albert Campion, Gentleman Detective and Gentleman Adventurer created by Margery Allingham, constantly and compulsively makes jokes and does things For the Funnyz simply because that's part of his personality, but he also uses it to keep people away from what's really going on inside of him.
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Sad Clown / int_ad04e73b	comment	Steve-O is one who suffers from depression, mood swings, and drug addiction. He dropped out of University due to poor grades and disobedience, was rejected from Ringling Bros. Circus after graduating clown college, and his mother passed away in 2003 after an aneurysm. His crazy stunts help him to escape.
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Sad Clown / int_ad41ee71	comment	In the SuperMarioLogan plush toy series, the eponymous Doofy the Dragon of the Show Within a Show of the same name that Bowser Jr. loves, is pretty much coated in this trope. Almost every episode of the show features Doofy coping with a nasty divorce, eviction, or legal problems through suicide attempts, right after he sings the audience a song about it in the style of public domain (or, for his slower methods, during the song), unless he's committing murder or violently beating his ex-wife with a bottle of Jack Daniels.
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Sad Clown / int_af457929	comment	Davey Stone of Eight Crazy Nights is known for his drunken, destructive antics in the community, especially during the holidays. When he was a child, his parents were killed in a car crash during Hanukkah, so his cynical, mean-spirited mischief became an integral coping mechanism.
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Sad Clown / int_af583f46	comment	Moe the circus clown in Justice For All is definitely a good guy at heart, but his jokes are bad and everybody ends up hating him. The problem was that he was so stressed in court he veered wildly between trying to turn his testimony into a comedy act and behaving like a put-upon child. Outside of court, he's at least tolerable and there are flashes of maturity there.
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Sad Clown / int_b00aafbe	comment	The zombie-like Ghoul of The Ultraverse, who does it to cope with being The Grotesque.
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Sad Clown / int_b0bc227d	comment	In The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger is a hyperactive Cloud Cuckoo Lander and forever jolly and unflappable. When the others finally succeed in un-bouncing him, however, the result is such a depressed broken shell, they are left heartbroken and completely go back on it. The Tigger Movie takes this a step further, when Tigger comes to realize the ramifications of being the only one of his kind in the Hundred Acre Wood, and starts longing to find out where his family might be.
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Sad Clown / int_b0fc9724	comment	A number of Saturday Night Live castmembers have had troubled private lives: Chris Farley struggled with his weight throughout his life and had low self-esteem as a result. Even at the height of his career, he felt people only liked his comedy because he was fat. Eventually, he turned to alcohol and drugs and it killed him. To wit: Conan O'Brien paid tribute to Farley by playing a clip from a past appearance in which he sang "I'm a Clown, But I Cry". John Belushi started doing drugs because being as funny as he was got exhausting. Molly Shannon was in a car accident when she was four years old that claimed the lives of her mother, younger sister, and cousin. She was left to be raised by her single father, who had frequent emotional outbursts thanks to the combination of his feelings of guilt for being the driver as well as struggling with being a closeted gay man. The emotional trauma followed her for most of her life and it wasn't until she reached adulthood that she was finally able to come to terms with her experiences. Darrell Hammond is famed for his wide variety of impressions and being on SNL for fourteen years (longer than anyone else). His backstory reveals a long history of extreme parental abuse; his mother has been mentioned as slamming his fingers in car doors as a child and cutting his tongue. In fact, he started doing impressions to please his mother to avoid the abuse. Alcoholism, cocaine addiction, and mental illness (he suffers from bipolar disorder, has a long history of self-harm, and has sought treatment for schizophrenia) are also part of his backstory. Remarkably, he has still spoken very openly about it and is far more well-adjusted than anyone in his position should be expected to be. Pete Davidson, whose firefighter father died in 9/11, has talked openly about his struggles with borderline personality disorder and drug addiction. As we're finding out now thanks to her autobiography, Cecily Strong. Lampshaded with an appearance on Weekend Update, where she played "Goober, The Clown Who Had An Abortion When She Was 23". Chevy Chase. He grew up in a very wealthy family, but was subjected to horrific abuse at the hands of his mother and stepfather, was expelled from a prestigious school, found success in comedy, but has lost several friends in the business (including the aforementioned John Belushi) and his own abrasive and unpredictable personality caused him to burn a lot of bridges in television and the silver screen throughout the years, including being banned from hosting SNL again.
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Sad Clown / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Tyrion's joking, fun-loving nature masks the Trauma Conga Line of abuse he suffers from both his father and society. This becomes apparent in his trial, where he's not at all funny, but deadly serious and frightening.
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Sad Clown / int_b37304ba	comment	Leo from The Heroes of Olympus. He jokes to deal with the loss of his mom. And they're actually funny, unlike most Sad Clowns. Even worse, Leo has been pushed from foster home to foster home, due to people seeing him as a "demon child" (he is the first son of Hephaestus who can control fire in over 300 years. And the one before him started The Great Fire of London.)
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Sad Clown / int_b40554c8	comment	Black Dynamite explored this when Dynamite had to help Richard Pryor. At one point going into a very scary in-depth look into the comedian's psyche. This was based on Pryor's real-life stint with cocaine (though oddly that took place in the '80s; the series is set in the '70s).
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Sad Clown / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Spider-Man himself is a rare example of a main character being the sad clown. At his healthiest, his notorious mid-fight quips are still as much about coping with how scary his life is as distracting his enemy. In Marvel Zombies, Spidey drives the other zombies crazy with the constant, irritating jokes he keeps making. When told to cut it out, he informs them that he makes jokes to help himself forget that he's become a flesh-eating evil lunatic. Mary Jane Watson was one of these in her backstory - she kept up a constant Fun Personified party-animal persona to cover up for how miserable her home life was.
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Sad Clown / int_b7c6d75b	comment	START AGAIN START AGAIN START AGAIN: a prologue: The Traveler Siffrin was once a Lovable Rogue who enjoyed one-liners, puns and quips of all sorts. He still is, on the outside, or tries to be... but being trapped in a "Groundhog Day" Loop where he and his friends die whenever they reach the King has been wearing him down, and he's desperately trying to keep up the act so that the others don't catch on and realize that their quest is All for Nothing.
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Sad Clown / int_b8c3cc30	comment	In Young Justice (2010), Beast Boy is usually seen as very cheerful, cracking jokes, and keeping Kid Flash's tradition of collecting souvenirs from their mission, but we learn that he's deeply haunted by the death of his mother, and upon coming across a location that looks identical to the spot where she died, he's reduced to tears.
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Sad Clown / int_ba58e347	comment	Discussed in Stevie Nicks' "Mabel Normand", which compares herself to the silent movie star Mabel Normand:
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Sad Clown / int_bbc842d0	comment	The 1930 German film The Blue Angel uses this trope for dramatic effect, as the main character's loss of dignity, fall in society, and descent into madness are punctuated by his donning of a clown costume. His first performance in full clown make-up, where he is continually debased and forced to crow like a cock, is the climax of the movie and shows just how pathetic the once proud man has become.
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Sad Clown / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants becomes this in the Season 1 episode, "Ripped Pants", after bending over and ripping his pants while straining to lift a stick with two marshmallows after seeing Larry the Lobster and Sandy Cheeks show off their strengths when lifting dumbbells. Seeing everyone laugh at him gave him the idea to turn his embarrassment into a comic act in which he incorporates his ripped pants. He goes too far when he fakes drowning and succumbing to the water(?) in his lungs, only to tell the shocked lifeguard and the bystanders he ripped his pants, making the entire beach mad with him, killing the joke. It's then that SpongeBob meets with other misfits on the beach who consider themselves losers that they form a band, SpongeBob admitting the lyrics in the song they perform that he became this trope.
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Sad Clown / int_bd0677	comment	Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy", which is about an entertainer who's always sad when he performs, even as his fans tell him to be happy.
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Sad Clown / int_c0869433	comment	More than a few members of the Yogscast have opened up about suffering from mental health issues: Zoey Proasheck has openly admitted to being depressed at various points in her life despite her supposedly being The Pollyanna. Simon Lane is best known for being one half of the main channel and the main goofball of the group. However, he appeared to suffer from a Creator Breakdown in early 2015, which culminated in him insulting former friend TotalBiscuit and then mocking the Yogscast subreddit when they thought his behaviour was out of line. His declining health (both mentally and physically) forced him to take time out from March until September of 2015, and while he's on the mend his appearances on the main channel aren't as frequent as before. Lewis Brindley openly admitted that he was suffering from depression during a charity livestream in 2015. InTheLittleWood is known by his fans for generally being upbeat and a good sport but suffered from a breakdown in late 2014 which required him to take time out and drop out of a livestream he was meant to be hosting. He claimed that he had been depressed for some time and in denial about it.
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Sad Clown / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Appleoosa's Most Wanted" Trouble Shoes is this played as straight as they come. He's constantly getting into accidents through either his terrible clumsiness or just plain bad luck, and bemoans his fate just as often, even when he's not at fault! Some fans have pegged Pinkie Pie as one of these. In "Party of One", the constantly cheerful party pony is quick to fall into a funk when she thinks her friends don't want to come to her parties or be friends with her anymore. In the episode, "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", it is revealed that she was raised on a rock farm with her family, who never laughed or smiled, and were constantly in a state of colorless sadness until she saw Rainbow Dash make a Sonic Rainboom, which immediately inspired her to throw a party. Without parties or friends, she'll go right back into the endless, cold, black abyss inside the heart of herself and everyone else in her naturally sad family tree.
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Sad Clown / int_c42d9d5d	comment	In Karma in Retrograde, Touya Todoroki tends to default to bad jokes and beating around the bush when there's something on his mind. When they were younger, Touya would also wear smiles on his face and goof off to cheer up his younger siblings even as they all suffered under Endeavor's abuse.
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Sad Clown / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor, in some incarnations more than others. This is especially true in the revived series, which added a traumatizing war to their backstory to represent the years the show was off-air. Directly addressed in "Robot", where one of the outfits the recently regenerated Fourth Doctor attempts to wear is a fancy clown suit with "teardrops" painted on his cheeks. In the words of Eleventh Doctor actor Matt Smith: Steven Moffat was once asked which incarnations of the Doctor were happiest and came to the conclusion that Fourth laughed too quickly, and Seventh's comedy business was deflection.
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Sad Clown / int_c4771251	comment	Mistborn: The Original Trilogy: Kelsier has this down to a philosophy: he smiles and cracks jokes as a way to rebel in a Crapsack World.
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Sad Clown / int_c6325e26	comment	In Death of the Family, Harley Quinn shows indications of this. She has tears marking her face, and she cracks jokes as she tries to survive to be around Joker. Joker, once again, implies this about him.
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Sad Clown / int_c7f59f7d	comment	Beast Boy/Changeling from Teen Titans, in both the comic and the animated series. An Emergency Transformation turned him into a green shapeshifter. He watched his biological parents die in a boating accident. An Evil Uncle got custody and abused him. He ran away and found the Doom Patrol, who were more than happy to show the Evil Uncle why he ought to pick on someone his own size. Rita Farr adopted him, but she was (apparently) killed with the rest of the original Patrol, which made Mento (Gar's adopted father) even more mentally unstable. And his first serious girlfriend turns out to be Terra. He fully admits that his options are "laugh or cry" and he's choosing the former.
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Sad Clown / int_cba3559b	comment	Sean O'Cann of Survival of the Fittest, to which the above quote applies almost perfectly. Prior to the point in the game (Day 3) that he found out his best friend, boyfriend, and cousin died (three different people, before anyone says anything) he still cracked a joke every now and then. Afterward, though, Sean begins making all sorts of remarks, not all of which are in the best taste, and sometimes are just plain offensive.
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Sad Clown / int_cc32f7c3	comment	When he was in Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne was considered the "clown" of the group, constantly playing pranks on the other members and performing outrageous stunts and parties to get attention. Once he went solo he became famous for his debauched personal life and shocking onstage antics. His public persona is mostly an act, and in his personal life, he has often struggled with depression, anxiety, and alcoholism.
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Sad Clown / int_cceb25de	comment	The Locked Tomb: Gideon the Ninth: Gideon will make inappropriate jokes in the most dire of situations, mostly because her whole life has been a fairly dire situation. Palamedes observes that Gideon, underneath her bluster, absolutely hates herself. She can't deny he's right.
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Sad Clown / int_cd8d0838	comment	Allie Brosh, creator of the comedic webcomic Hyperbole and a Half, suffers from depression, which has resulted in several long absences from the webcomic. She wrote a two-part entry in the series about her struggles with the condition (which actually manages to be very funny in spite of the subject matter).
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Sad Clown / int_d11e211f	comment	Ryoma Sengoku of Kamen Rider Gaim inverts this trope with sociopathic spades. Whatever childish and Black Comedy antics he'll throw at you can give you a bad day. Just ask Kouta, then Micchy in episode #43, with him snarking at the latter after killing Kouta was the last straw for Micchy to break down like a hysterical child.
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Sad Clown / int_d1ad2f1d	comment	Doki Doki Literature Club! has Sayori, the protagonist's best friend since childhood, who is a fun, lazy, and somewhat clumsy Genki Girl at heart. Later during the game's first act, she reveals her energetic spirits to be a mask she had worn in front of him for years, as it turns out she's been suffering from depression for her entire life. Whether you confess your love to her or put her in the friend zone doesn't matter, since, in the end, she is very displeased in both you and herself and has more than enough guilt to, soon after, be found having hanged herself on the day of the festival.
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Sad Clown / int_d23e6c9a	comment	In Amazing Fantasy, Peter Parker keeps up a chipper and joking persona around Izuku, but weeps at night out of worry for his ex-wife and daughter as well as the stresses of being a superhero.
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Sad Clown / int_d2ef54a3	comment	Dumbing of Age: Becky MacIntyre on the surface is an obnoxious in-your-face lesbian unable to take things seriously, but every once in a while the faÃ§ade cracks and we get glimpses of a broken homeless teenager with a dead mom and an abusive dad.
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Sad Clown / int_d494343b	comment	Iron Maiden's "Tears of a Clown", about Robin Williams. It even wonders if his suicide could have been "all just for the best, lay his weary head to rest".
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Sad Clown / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin has Genie as a very likely example, who humors himself and his friends to cope with the fact that he has just been imprisoned within a magic lamp for 10,000 years and will most likely be there for another 10,000 once Aladdin's done with him, as with every master he's had before him. Fourtunately, he is proven wrong about this at the end, and his happiness becomes far more genuine after Aladdin frees him for his final wish.
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Sad Clown / int_d5164c46	comment	Zagreus of Hades tends to use humor and cheerful snark both to hide how much his father's emotional abuse gets to him and to win the affection he's starved for. Hades, unfortunately, can see right through him.
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Sad Clown / int_d5fcae4e	comment	The titular Ted Lasso is a cheerful Nice Guy who provides much of the series' humor with his near-constant quips and pop culture references, but it's eventually made clear that his cheerful demeanor hides a lot of trauma. Dr. Sharon Fieldstone correctly deduces that he uses jokes and references to deflect from talking about his issues.
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Sad Clown / int_d603791d	comment	Jack Frost in Rise of the Guardians. On the outside, he's a carefree prankster who wants everyone around him to enjoy themselves. On the inside, being Invisible to Normals and ignored or rejected by all abnormals has taken its toll on him, leaving him depressed and convinced that no one will ever care that he exists if they notice him at all.
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Sad Clown / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends has Galio, an enormously powerful gargoyle-shaped colossus who protects Demacia from mage threats with very goofy overenthusiasm... which is specifically because that's the only time he's awake — without magical presence nearby, he reverts to being an inert statue, and since Demacia's hat is all about denying magic, he stays asleep for up to centuries. The fact he's fully aware of this creates a tragic dissonance to his jolly persona and also informs his refusal to form any actual personal attachments with humans since they'll very likely be dead by the time he next wakes up.
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Sad Clown / int_d70941dd	comment	There's a female one in Hana no Ko Lunlun. Sophia the Norwegian Circus Brat is embarrassed about working as a clown in her family's circus (despite having the talent to do so) and lies to Lunlun about actually being a Cute Monster Girl instead. With Lunlun's help she discovers that it's actually fun to make people laugh.
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Sad Clown / int_d7ce6479	comment	Hello Mary-Lou: Prom Night II: Kelly Henenlotter is an interesting combination of this and a Lovable Alpha Bitch, acting supremely confident in a playful, sometimes goofy way (except around her enemies) but showing some signs of self-loathing and concern that she's not as well liked as she thinks (and since someone else wins prom queen she may have a point).
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Sad Clown / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, though hammy and emotional on the outside, when one of Enmu's henchmen breached Zenitsu's subconscious, it was a pitch-black blank devoid of any hopes and dreams made manifest like the subconsciousness of Rengoku, Tanjiro and Inosuke's. A life of abandonment, loss & betrayal had left Zenitsu's heart so hollow and bereft of hope for the future, all he has to live for is the present; until he met Nezuko.
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Sad Clown / int_d9c602eb	comment	Randy Marsh of South Park admits in the episode "You're Getting Old" that the reason for his crazy antics was that he was deeply unsatisfied with his mundane life, and was the first to overreact to different fads out of hope that it would give his life a little more meaning.
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Sad Clown / int_de8f1f24	comment	In Kingdom Hearts III, Axel makes quite a few jokes among the rest of the seven guardians of light that seem to poke fun at the franchise as a whole and his funny persona comes back with a fiery vengeance. However, the same goes for his sadness when he finds himself remembering Xion during his time with Kairi. Finally, when he successfully reunites with Roxas and a tearful Xion, he jokes that he should've brought ice cream, right before he himself emotionally breaks down and hugs both of his best friends as the trio have the cry of their lives.
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Sad Clown / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II when you play Hawke in a humorous and sarcastic style, s/he may very well come off as this, especially after his/her mother's murder. Aveline explicitly invokes this trope when she calls them out on this, telling them to stop pretending to be okay.
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Sad Clown / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Xander is generally the group's wise-cracker, and while it's mostly genuine, it's also how he copes with being The Team Normal in a world of terrifying monsters (and that's not going into his dysfunctional home life).
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Sad Clown / int_e5bcaba6	comment	The Fruit of Grisaia: Michiru does a very convincing clown act. However, it is revealed on her route that there is a rather depressing reason why she acts like this. Basically acting like a clown is the only thing she feels she is not completely useless at, making people laugh, and making them at least that much happier.
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Sad Clown / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Moe the circus clown in Justice For All is definitely a good guy at heart, but his jokes are bad and everybody ends up hating him. The problem was that he was so stressed in court he veered wildly between trying to turn his testimony into a comedy act and behaving like a put-upon child. Outside of court, he's at least tolerable and there are flashes of maturity there. Luke Atmey in Trials and Tribulations describes himself like this. He may actually fit the definition, though not in the sense that he intends. It's all in the name. Ace Attorney Investigations 2 has Souta Sarushiro/Simon Keyes, both literally and figuratively. On the outside, heâ€™s a shy, easily frightened man. But inside, heâ€™s cold, manipulative, vengeful, and untrusting of others. Not only was he abandoned by his father when he was kidnapped by his own best friend, but he was also a key witness to a presidential assassination and forced into silence by three figures of high authority. In Dual Destinies, the DLC Case, "Turnabout Reclaimed" introduces Marlon Rimes, who bursts into some random, rather entertaining bouts of rap on some occasions. It's revealed late in the case that Marlon is struggling hardest of all to cope with the death of his girlfriend, Azura Summers, Orla's previous trainer, and only joined the aquarium in an attempt to have Orla killed, deeming her responsible, only to end up causing the Captain's death, bringing about the Orca Whale's framing.
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Sad Clown / int_e6f1b188	comment	707/Luciel from Mystic Messenger is a Playful Hacker with a zany sense of humor who regularly trolls the other RFA members with practical jokes and appears to take nothing seriously. Underneath that silly exterior, however, is a man who had to give up his identity and birth name to escape his abusive mother, unknowingly abandoning his twin brother to a Brainwashed and Crazy fate in the process, and lives with the constant threat of being made to "disappear" by the intelligence agency he works for if he slips up which has left him reluctant to get truly close to anyone in case he might have to disappear from their lives one day. He only shows the fun side of himself to the RFA because there is no other place for him to find fun in his life.
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Sad Clown / int_e7a55d4d	comment	Kindling Ashes: Frang is constantly making jokes to cope with the fact that he could go up in flames at any moment and a family tragedy in his past.
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Sad Clown / int_e7fd1468	comment	Ray William Johnson hasn't had an easy life. His father was a drug addict who was eventually disowned after he stole from Ray's college fund (which was created with the help of his grandparents) to buy drugs. When his father was dying, Ray refused to see him one last time. In light of this revelation, jokes about his parents have become significantly more sombre.
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Sad Clown / int_e91a216a	comment	Parodied by RÃ©mi Gaillard. Remi dresses up like a depressed suicidal clown and random bypassers stop and try to talk him out of suicide. When they let their guard down, he throws a pie in their face and runs away.
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Sad Clown / int_e996c9bb	comment	An older, calmer, more mentor-like version is Doctor Abel Geiger from Ashita no Nadja. Complete with one of the saddest backstories in the series.
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Sad Clown / int_e9ec19e1	comment	The Radioman from Spec Ops: The Line is a wise-cracking, sarcastic asshole who gives Delta Squad no shortage of trouble. His audiotapes heavily imply that it's all an act; a coping mechanism to help him deal with the horrors of Dubai.
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Sad Clown / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The hedonistic and womanizing behavior of Glenn Quagmire is largely a way to cope with his failed relationship with Cheryl Tiegs. In one episode, Quagmire has his penis bitten off by a shark in a motorboat accident, and at one point, attempts suicide through a ventriloquist routine where he has the puppet threaten him with a pistol. His friends hastily stepped in before he could ultimately pull the trigger. Peter Griffin may definitely fit the bill. He's had a father and a stepdad, neither one whom he'd formed a healthy, long-term relationship with. His Irish dad dumped his mother while she was pregnant with Peter, and his stepdad was a religious fanatic who despised him right up to the day of his passing. In the episode "Peter's Sister", it is revealed that Peter's bullying antics toward his daughter Meg are due to the humiliating abuse he got from his older sister.
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Sad Clown / int_eb66065e	comment	John Kennedy Toole was a renowned comedic stage performer for most of his life, winning much admiration from his fellow academics for his quick wit and skill at mimicry. He also suffered from serious depression and was continually haunted by his failure to get any of his novels published. His despair ultimately got the better of him, and he died of suicide at the age of 31. 11 years later, though, his mother successfully got his last novel published posthumously; that novel was A Confederacy of Dunces, which is widely considered one of the funniest novels ever written. It's also notable for breaking out of the Comedy Ghetto, being one of the few purely comedic novels ever to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Sad Clown / int_eb830b93	comment	In Requiem for a Loud, Luan Loud is revealed to be one. Beneath her constant pranks, bad puns, and quirky personality, she's actually a depressed and lonely girl who is considered a freak by her classmates.
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Sad Clown / int_ec2531c4	comment	Hector from Coco seems like a carefree, charming con-artist who just wants to go to the Land of the Living like everyone else on the holiday. Then it's revealed that he is a deeply tragic character who has been unjustly hated and separated from his family for decades, and all that energetic silliness was a front to cover up a lot of sadness and shame.
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Sad Clown / int_eeaaec28	comment	Izumi from Martian Successor Nadesico is a one-woman Hurricane of Puns. We never get the full story, but one episode reveals she only became like this after her fiance died in an accident. When she's forced to relive it she nearly turns suicidal. It wasn't even the only boyfriend she'd lost!
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Sad Clown / int_eef77dd5	comment	Raimi Matthews from Broken Saints does not have a happy past, and probably turned into a Deadpan Snarker to dull the pain of reality.
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Sad Clown / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Neelix is one of these when he's at the top of his game. After spending seven years on TNG bouncing between Jerkass God and Trickster Mentor, Q is revealed to be one of these when it's shown that his people have seen and done everything and have nothing to look forward to but perpetual boredom.
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Sad Clown / int_ef4cccbd	comment	Suggested as the In-Character motivation of Giacomo the Jester (Well... Hubert Hawkins' interpretation of Giacomo anyway) in The Court Jester, via the song The Maladjusted Jester. In brief, he was a morose child who didn't laugh much, to the concern and frustration of his parents. They consulted a witch who foresaw his talent for performance and comedy, much to the bafflement of everyone.
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Sad Clown / int_ef4fd083	comment	The Brave Little Toaster has Air Conditioner, who taunts the protagonists for their ongoing faith in the Master's return until Kirby reminds him he's stuck in the wall. Also, the mangled up appliances from Elmo's parts shop with their Gallows Humor could qualify.
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Sad Clown / int_efa49b17	comment	The Mentalist: Patrick Jane fits perfectly. He hardly ever STOPS smiling no matter what, but the man is ridiculously full of self-loathing and guilt for his role in the death of his family. He can't sleep at night, he still wears his wedding ring eight years after the death of his wife, and his only home beside the CBI headquarters is his broken-down old house where his mattress is right up next to the smiley face on the wall that is Red John's signature.
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Sad Clown / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: Barney Stinson, whose constant self-aggrandizing wisecracking, over-the-top stunts (everything from magic tricks to kidnapping his friends), and ridiculous womanizing antics are a mask to hide how utterly insecure and self-loathing he is inside, and how desperately dependent on his friends he is, by trying to make himself look like a loose cannon who is too awesome and confident to need anyone.
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Sad Clown / int_f0aae232	comment	Canio, from the opera Pagliacci, is without a doubt the sad clown. Literally. In fact, he's so sad that he gets violent and turns into a Monster Clown - the quote at the top is when he's just found out about his wife's infidelity, but still has to get ready because The Show Must Go On. Note that this applies on multiple levels though Pop-Cultural Osmosis has garbled the name of the protagonist: the sad clown actor Canio plays Pagliaccio, a stock sad clown character whose name just means "clown", in the Show Within a Show. (He's not named Pagliacci either because that's just the plural of the term. So the opera's title is just "Clowns" in Italian.)
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Sad Clown / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: Two of the main characters hide their sad nature under a postureing exterior. Hank is introduced as a loudmouth, boisterous, almost oafish DEA agent. Starting around season two, he starts suffering PTSD and panic attacks from the stress of his job but keeps up the same old persona in front of almost everyone. Jesse Pinkman is introduced as a clownish Pretty Fly for a White Guy. But this trope becomes especially apparent in later seasons as he endures more and more trauma, making his jokiness feel forced and out of character to signify his deteriorating mental health.
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Sad Clown / int_f2dcf0cd	comment	Kiara Strings of The Music Video Show made a video that reveals that she is this, where she explains a suicide attempt. Looking at the Creator Breakdown page, all but 4 seasons have been made out of anger, depression, or suicidal thoughts.
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Sad Clown / int_f51c266d	comment	Dr Glaucomflecken: Dr Bill making a student loan payment, and contemplating the remaining loan balance.
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Sad Clown / int_f6ae74a7	comment	Del in Planes, Trains and Automobiles presents himself as a cheerful man who likes to tell anecdotes and jokes that only he finds interesting or funny. Towards the end of the film, we find out that he's a desperately lonely homeless widower.
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Sad Clown / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Chandler is a rare example from a comedy series. This was lampshaded quite early on, when Phoebe's psychiatrist boyfriend, as part of his schtick of alienating everyone by pointing out uncomfortable truths, said, "I wouldn't want to be there when the laughter stops." Chandler himself says later that he's using humor as a defense mechanism. He's scarred from his thoughtless parents and neglected upbringing when it was implied he was used as a pawn in their divorce. He has serious self-esteem issues because of it and it's only through his relationship with the other friends (particularly his girlfriend Monica), that he gains confidence.
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Sad Clown / int_f6eed39	comment	The Sopranos: While talking to his therapist, Tony Soprano describes himself as a "Sad Clown": putting on a happy, joking face to his family and friends while keeping his pain locked away. His claims come across more as self-pitying than anything else, given his behavior throughout the series.
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Sad Clown / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5 creator/comic writer/screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski is a genuinely funny guy who is well-known for his extremely quick-witted Deadpan Snarker tendencies both on social media and in person. While he'd always talked in vague terms about an unhappy early life, his 2019 memoir Becoming Superman laid bare the depths of the hell his childhood was, including domestic, emotional, sexual, and verbal abuse, child molestation, rape, incest, attempted murder, suspected infanticide, and attempted suicide. He is still relatively sane, by the way, if a bit asocial.
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Sad Clown / int_f8df4747	comment	Much of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye is about lonely people communicating in snark, so there's a fair amount of this, whether it's Whirl being abrasive to cover up his traumas to Rodimus hiding his insecurities behind a flamboyant display of charismatic goofiness, but the grand prize goes to Swerve, the Motor Mouth bartender, who turns out to be so lonely and isolated that a thirty-second conversation convinced him that Blurr was going to be his lifelong friend. At one point, it turns out that he was running his bar with a holomatter avatar for some time while essentially comatose in his room, having created an entire holomatter Earth based on sitcom tropes because he found them more comforting than actually experiencing his life.
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Sad Clown / int_f929518c	comment	Succession: Roman Roy is a carefree, hedonistic jokester who's lonely, insecure, and terrified of his abusive father.
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Sad Clown / int_f9368d52	comment	He was less of this in his debut in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and gets softer in Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days.
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Sad Clown / int_fa3976bb	comment	Many characters in the more recent Wolfenstein games exhibit this to one degree or another. Fergus Reid is a wisecracking, cool-as-ice badass whose straight-man persona riffs off the outlandish situations he finds himself in. He's also barely hanging on psychologically, occasionally breaking down into screaming tears as he laments that his entire life has been dedicated to violence and nothing ever seems to go his way. Bombate is constantly chipper and cheerful, because it's the only way he can cope with the pain of his family being killed in front of him. Even BJ Blaskowicz himself fits this. He has his fair share of one-liners and dark witticisms, but he's also deeply traumatised by his abusive childhood, the deaths of almost everyone he's ever known, and the crushing responsibilities that he has taken on as a soldier.
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Sad Clown / int_fad3d14c	comment	My Dinner with Andre: Andre seems chipper, but one of the running themes of the film is about wearing a mask. When Wally first greets Andre, "You look great!", Andre cheerfully replies, "I feel terrible!" Andre then shows a picture of himself during his experiences in Poland, and he looks desperately unhappy, despite being "reborn" there. He then notes that a picture he had of Chiquita which he thought looked sexy now looked, with his more experienced eyes, as very sad. Later, Andre notes that he's more open with his emotions - when he's annoyed by his family, he tells them they're annoying him (to their shock).
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Sad Clown / int_fb6471d6	comment	AMC Squad: Geoffrey is normally a pretty affable agent and even cracks jokes from time to time, but some of his reactions to certain events imply a level of melancholy. While the other agents complain about rainfall, he wistfully states that he never gets any rain on Mars, and his drunken laughter sounds more like he's crying than actually laughing. Given the circumstances that led up to his current life, it's not hard to see why he's like this.
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Sad Clown / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool: Deadpool is often written like this. It is frequently implied that all of his Motor Mouth and Deadpan Snarker tendencies and constant Casual Danger Dialogue are really all a massive coping mechanism for not only his borderline Body Horror condition of having cancer in, well, his entire body, which causes him near-constant pain but also the existential terror he feels from being aware of the fact that he is a fictional character. In the first arc of Cable & Deadpool, Cable asks why he's helping the villain's Assimilation Plot — it could be the first step to world peace, but falling in line and giving up his right to be different isn't Deadpool's style. Deadpool replies that all his crazy opinions just cover up the fact that he doesn't have anything. He actually lampshades this trope in his arc in X-Men Origins, when he is telling a screenwriter about his less-than-ideal home life.
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Sad Clown / int_fc439a61	comment	Ace Attorney Investigations 2 has Souta Sarushiro/Simon Keyes, both literally and figuratively. On the outside, heâ€™s a shy, easily frightened man. But inside, heâ€™s cold, manipulative, vengeful, and untrusting of others. Not only was he abandoned by his father when he was kidnapped by his own best friend, but he was also a key witness to a presidential assassination and forced into silence by three figures of high authority.
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Sad Clown / int_fd289bb0	comment	Revolution: Aaron Pittman, played by Zak Orth, is the comic relief of the show. He was once the Google CEO, he had a beautiful wife, lots of money, and simply had it all...until the blackout. Then he pretty much got left with nothing, and while his wife didn't leave him, he ended their marriage and struck off on his own because he realized that he wasn't going to be able to protect her ("Sex and Drugs"). He has a lot to be sad about. The episode "No Quarter" had him say rather bitterly, "And the punchline was the Blackout. When the world went back to being one giant schoolyard, and the Billy Underwoods are in charge and I am weak and afraid."
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Sad Clown / int_fd4f7569	comment	Zoey Proasheck has openly admitted to being depressed at various points in her life despite her supposedly being The Pollyanna.
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Sad Clown / int_fdbace96	comment	Supplementary (and ambiguously canon) material for Gravity Falls indicates that while Bill Cipher puts himself up as a Laughably Evil and carefree trickster, deep down he actually despairs over the destruction of his home dimension and everyone in it, and the fact he can never go home again, even if he'll never admit he alone is responsible for all of it.
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Sad Clown / int_fe5fdb32	comment	Evan in Everyman HYBRID is the most affected by the Sanity Slippage caused by the group's dealings with the Slender Man and other assorted problems; he also tries to lighten pretty much every situation, cracking jokes while exploring creepy abandoned buildings or even while dealing with a monster literally hiding in a closet at a friend's house. The latter is likely the best example of his humor backfiring for those around him, as he pulled this after said monster violently assaulted his friend's brother.
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Sad Clown / int_ff9ca30	comment	Ghor considers himself to be this when he is brought back to life. But, when he joins Samus and the party, we also find out that behind his gentle and kind exterior, he also has a well-hidden guilt and regret because of the gruesome fate that he, Gandrayda, and Rundas fell during the Phazon skirmish. His personality alteration in his armor also does count, to which Ghor needs to accept one day as a part of himself.
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La Soupe aux choux / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
La Strada / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Mank / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Mary Poppins / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Misery Loves Comedy / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Murder on the Orient Express (2017) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
My Dinner with Andre / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Outbreak / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Planes, Trains and Automobiles / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Quick Change / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Rocketman (2019) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Romeo and Juliet (1968) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Roxanne / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Spider-Man: Far From Home / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Strange Days / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Strange Gardens / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Blue Angel / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Day the Clown Cried / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Front / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Greatest Show on Earth / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Last Circus	seeAlso	Sad Clown
The Last Circus / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Ninth Configuration / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Rules of the Game / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Sunshine Boys / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The World's End / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Uncle Buck / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Wonka / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Persona (Franchise) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Simon Lane (Lets Play) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
A Light in the Attic / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Aftermath: Empire's End / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
All Quiet on the Western Front / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Book of Proverbs / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
DramaSeries	seeAlso	Sad Clown
Dreamcatcher (Stephen King) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Eighth Doctor Adventures / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Ellen and Otis / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Geist Series / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Harry Hole / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Idylls of the King / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Jacky Ha Ha / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Life in the Fat Lane / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
No Longer Human / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The American Credo / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Enemy / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Famous Five / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Wyrd Sisters / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Catzalcoatl	seeAlso	Sad Clown
Perpetual Frowner / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Ptitleehxc0bye	seeAlso	Sad Clown
SPStudio	seeAlso	Sad Clown
TheBookOfStoriesOCT	seeAlso	Sad Clown
TheCorneliusChronicles	seeAlso	Sad Clown
TonyNola	seeAlso	Sad Clown
Cyborg 009 (Manga) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Deadpool: Samurai (Manga) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
How Do We Relationship? (Manga) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Psychic Squad (Manga) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Real Mo Tamani Wa Uso Wo Tsuku (Manga) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Tekken Chinmi (Manga) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Bad Lip Reading (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Beatles for Sale (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Eagles (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Fearless Fred Fury (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Highway 61 Revisited (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
In Extremo (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Iron Maiden (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
John Martyn (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
John Wesley Harding (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Journey (Band) (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Ozzy Osbourne (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Postmodern Jukebox (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Stereophonics (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Storm Front (Album) (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Take That (Band) (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Man Who Sold the World (Music) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Behind the Bastards (Podcast) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Class Trials Season 8 (Roleplay) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Hazbin Hotel: Lucifer's Folly (Roleplay) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
NoPixel (Roleplay) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
American Vandal / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
America's Got Talent / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Band of Brothers / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
China Beach / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Disasters of the Century / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Even Stevens / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Flander's Company / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Freaks and Geeks / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Gen V / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
How I Met Your Mother / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Keen Eddie / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Please Like Me / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Pose / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Room 222 / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Succession / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Biggest Loser / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Comic Strip Presents / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Curse (2023) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Goodies / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Hollow Crown / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Late Show with David Letterman / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Midnight Club (2022) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Sopranos / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Thick of It / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Untold Stories of the E.R. / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
All Flesh Must Be Eaten (Tabletop Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Theatre) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Legally Blonde (Theatre) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
MANKAI STAGE A3! (Theatre) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Pagliacci (Theatre) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Yeomen of the Guard (Theatre) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Theatre) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Armored Core: Verdict Day (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Batman: The Telltale Series (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Darksiders (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
HoloFunk - Pre-6.0 (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Identity V (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Jazztronauts (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
LittleBigPlanet (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Mega Man Rock Force (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
[MODE] (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Mystery Case Files (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Night in the Woods (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Regretevator (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Spider-Man (PS4) (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Splinter Cell (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
START AGAIN START AGAIN START AGAIN: a prologue (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Frontier (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Jackbox Party Pack (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Sims (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Whispered World (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
To the Moon (Video Game) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Child of Light / Videogame / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Sims 3 / Videogame / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Blooming Panic (Visual Novel) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Doki Doki Literature Club! (Visual Novel) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Psycholonials (Visual Novel) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Broken Saints (Web Animation) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Animation) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Cyanide & Happiness Show (Web Animation) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Ask That Guy with the Glasses (Web Video) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
boogie2988 (Web Video) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Half in the Bag (Web Video) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
LA By Night (Web Video) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Matthew Santoro (Web Video) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Satellite City (Web Video) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Beyond the Western Deep (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Close to Your Heart (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Clown Corps (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Fur Will Fly (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Hooky (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Maddie on the Island Hue (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
QUILTBAG (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
TwoKinds (Webcomic) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Channel Awesome (Website) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Green Eggs and Ham (2019) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Hilltop Hospital / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Leo / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Mars Needs Moms / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Merry Little Batman / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Mulligan / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Norman Normal (1968) / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Rover Dangerfield / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Steven Universe: The Movie / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The LEGO Batman Movie / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Toy Story 2 / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Toy Story 3 / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Wander over Yonder / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
X-Men: Evolution / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Ashita no Nadja / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Everworld / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown

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