27 Fictional Characters Who Had The Most Unnecessarily Brutal, Depressing Lives

Are you ever watching a TV show and thinking to yourself, damn, this character really can't catch a break? Like, it's just one horrible thing after another, even after they've seemingly hit rock bottom, and you start to wonder if the writer just really hates this character?

Well, recently, Reddit user IllFaithlessness5500 asked, "What fictional character had the saddest, most miserable life?" and people had a ton of contenders for the award of Worst Life. Here are the characters they submitted!*

*Along with a few of my own.

1. Jesse from Breaking Bad

2. Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars

3. And Anakin from Star Wars

5. The air conditioner in The Brave Little Toaster

6. Nell from The Haunting of Hill House

7. Sirius Black from Harry Potter

8. Bonnie from The Vampire Diaries

9. Johanna from The Hunger Games

11. Ripley from the Alien series

12. Doctor Who from Doctor Who

13. Smeagol/Gollum from The Lord of the Rings

14. Seymour from Futurama

15. Pepper from American Horror Story

16. Viktor from The Umbrella Academy

17. Peter Parker from the MCU (and also the Sony movies and the comics)

19. James from James and the Giant Peach

20. Charlie Brown from the Charlie Brown cartoons

21. Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel

22. And Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

23. Christina from Ugly Betty

24. Fantine in Les Misérables

26. Theon from Game of Thrones

27. And finally...The Little Matchstick Girl from the Hans Christian Anderson story/the animated shorts

What other characters had such a sad life, you feel like the writers had it out for them? Let us know in the comments!

Submissions have been edited for length/clarity.