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Woobie of the Week
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So we have Mystery of the Week, where the heroes solve a new mystery every week. And we have Monster of the Week, when the heroes fight a new bad guy every week. We even have Patient of the Week, when the heroes are doctors and they help out a new sick person every week. And then there's this guy. He's not dead or in danger of dying— he's just troubled in some way. Maybe he's angry at God because his wife died, or he's in debt and needs help, or [insert touching story here]. Whatever the problem, our main character has to figure out how to help him. And then the Woobie promptly disappears, and next week our hero finds someone like him all over again... These series tend toward being spiritual and glurgey, but really it's up to the skill of the writer. |
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Kamen Rider Fourze has an interesting twist on this, combining Monster, Victim, and Woobie of the Week into a single package. The MOTW is created by a human "Switcher" using a device called an Astro Switch; the Switcher is someone with a grudge who's so hell-bent on revenge that they're blinded to the fact that the Switch will eventually kill them. So instead of just beating up the MOTW, Fourze and his team reach out and try to befriend the Switchers so that they know there's somebody who cares. | |
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Hibiki's Magic has every chapter focus on a different woobie whose life tends to be either improved or ruined by magic and its applications, one of whom is Hibiki herself. | |
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Smiling Friends is a Deconstructive Parody of this. The Smiling Friends's job is to help troubled people smile, but while their clients are often legitimately sympathetic and troubled, their issues tend to be too complex and deep-rooted for the main characters to really fix, and their issues are often solved by accidents or circumstance the Smiling Friends had nothing to do with. And while some of their clients are decent people just struggling with things the main characters aren't equipped to deal with, some of them are legitimate terrible people whose misery is their own fault. | |
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Care Bears episodes often consist of a bear or group of bears going to Earth to help a child that is having difficulties in their life and teach them to care. | |
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Characters in Paranoia Agent are this, except most of them don't get happy endings, while others receive Gainax endings. | |
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Princess Tutu is mostly this sort of thing in the beginning, with the heroine helping people solve their issues through dancing. | |
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The Love Boat has a new set of guests every week, all of them looking for love on the cruise ship. | |
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In Ballad Of A Shinigami, Momo the shinigami finds some way to relieve the pain of the dead or the ones they are leaving behind each week. | |
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Mushishi combines this with Mystery of the Week. Most episodes feature people in incredibly unfortunate circumstances due to the effects of various mushi. Then Ginko arrives, figures out what kind of mushi he's dealing with and sees if he can help. Sometimes, he can't. | |
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Ghost Whisperer: "Distressed ghost who refuses to pass on" of the week. | |
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) sees David Banner (arguably The Woobie himself due to being presumed dead and on the lam because of his "condition") coming to the aid of a new character of the week each episode who have somehow found themselves in messes they need help getting out of. To name a few: "Final Round' has him talk a boxer out of continuing to fight because if he does, he will likely end up being killed in the ring. "A Child in Need" sees him make an abusive father realize the physical and emotional harm he's causing his wife and grade-school-age son, ask for their forgiveness, and seek help. In "King of the Beach", he assists an up-and-coming partially deaf bodybuilder (Lou Ferrigno in a double role) with not only trying to win a local contest in spite of it being fixed, but also fulfilling his dream of opening a restaurant. |
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Quantum Leap has this built into its premise: Bakula jumps into a new body every episode, and that person, or someone around him, is always in distress. The series catchphrase, his mission, is to Set Right What Once Went Wrong; once that's accomplished, he leaps into the next body. It's heavily implied to be the result of divine intervention. | |
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xxxHolic: The heroes go about, helping addicts of various types. | |
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Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist combines this with Patient of the Week, as the eponymous doctor deals with people suffering from spiritual afflictions that manifest as strange symptoms that normal medicine can't cure. These afflictions are often caused by abuse, trauma, toxic relationships, etc. | |
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Twice in a Lifetime, where an angel allows a one-shot character to revisit a moment in his life when things started going wrong. | |
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21 Jump Street, the episode where the cops go undercover and there's this chick who's all introverted but seems to know about the crimes that are going on, and she's all disturbed. Turns out she's psychic. Season 4, an episode called "Haunts in a New Age"... A psychic teen says she can predict when an arsonist will next strike during a Halloween dance. |
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Wonder Egg Priority has, on average, about one suicide victim per episode whom one of the girls must "save". To be clear, the victims are already dead, and the girls are just helping their souls to find peace, but nonetheless their tragic backstories are often enough to make the viewer cry for them; they are suicide victims, after all. | |
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Parker Pyne Investigates is a series of short stories starring the titular Parker Pyne, who runs an agency that claims to solve unhappiness. Each story features a character struggling with various issues (usually relationship problems), which they eventually resolve with Pyne's help. | |
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Wonderfalls: A bunch of animal figurines that may or may not be God annoy heroine Jaye into helping strangers on a weekly basis. | |
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Done briefly in the third season of The Good Place, where the main cast tries to help a new person every episode become good enough to get into The Good Place when they die. However the premise is quickly dropped due to the plot taking a new turn. | |
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This trope is one of two main gimmicks of Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, along with Magic Kisses. Every arc revolves around at least one character with a hard life - usually one of the titular witches - that Yamada needs to help. The series is not afraid to play the Jerkass Woobie card, though - many of the woobies of the week are rather uncooperative or even villainous until Yamada finds out what is troubling them and gets through to them. | |
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Each Hell Girl episode would focus on various troubled characters who is tormented by someone else, and how they are eventually driven to make a Deal with the Devil to send their tormentors to hell. | |
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Joan of Arcadia: Joan helps a new stranger every week at the suggestion of God himself. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, after the end of the fourth season where the main cast obtains their new castle with its map, they are alerted by the map in several episodes to ponies and other creatures in trouble who need to learn a lesson about friendship, and travel to the place indicated to help out. | |
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On Fantasy Island, each week a different group of guests come to the island and learn some sort of life lesson. | |
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Its predecessor Kamen Rider Den-O had a similar format where the Monsters of the Week were Jerkass Genies who took the Victim's wish and warped it for their own ends, usually Woobie-fying them in the process. Protagonist Ryotaro would try to help the victims, initially taking some flak from some of his allies who insisted his only job is to protect the timestream, but his response was that helping the victims was part of that job too. | |
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Burn Notice — not every episode has Mike and the others helping someone in need, but many do, particularly in the first few seasons. The standard formula is Two Lines, No Waiting with the Woobie being the A Plot and the progress of the Myth Arc being the B Plot, or sometimes vice versa. | |
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Every Midnight Caller episode has at least one, since it's about a radio host who gets involved in his listeners' problems. Even the villains are usually somewhat sympathetic. | |
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