...is someone who is not only frequently victimized or in a very bad situation, but the woobie in question is specifically vulnerable, psychological so (taking them into a better situation would not necessary help).
Fantastic Four: Reeds Richards (especially zombieverse, I can't believe that fandom remembered Richards as the jerk for turning everyone into zombies - when great General Nick Fury was the one who had Richards autopsy the zombies alone RIGHT AFTER Richards's children were eaten)
The Avengers: Tony Stark Suicide Bingo (http://tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com/209409.html)
...and then,
Criminal Minds: Jason Gideon and Spencer Reid.
I don't count Penelope Garcia as a woobie, though she was at times (or every time she has to view the violent footages) a victim of a "Break the Cutie" attempt. That Garcia is as well adjusted as she is in spite of the things she have seen, that Garcia and Rossi are the molasse that holds the cracker team together, is a testament to what a strong girl she is.
Morgan was a woobie in "Profiler, Profile", that's it, his mother raised a very strong son - he's not inherently broken.
Hotch and Emily, maybe, but they don't risk their lives as willy nelly as Gideon and Reid does. They don't do self-neglect (a staple of woobieness).
Elle is like, ???? she left too quickly.
JJ is most definitely, definitely, NOT a woobie, she's like female Hotch, but I actually read her as even stronger.
While a slight built has a factor in how fandom likes their woobie (plus physical fight does factor in), that ain't it. Hell, in Stargates SG-1, Daniel is frequently written as a woobie (I thik they were the fandom who came up with whump!), and fannish perceptions of what a woobie should look like created a warped memory of Daniel Jackson as a waif, when in actuality he's like this:
About TWICE as bluff as Colonel O'Neil (so I'm also ???? over the fics where O'Neil easily overpowers Jackson or can carry him with ease).
Reid has about the same built as Hotch really. It's the increasingly level of self-neglect, the give all to others but /resistance/ towards accepting help (except when he was crying at JJ's house), that make me class Reid as a woobie.
Another thing about woobies is The Guilt, I think to this date, Spencer still blames himself for not taking better care of his mother.
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My definition of woobie
Date: Dec. 21st, 2011 02:30 am (UTC)Fantastic Four: Reeds Richards (especially zombieverse, I can't believe that fandom remembered Richards as the jerk for turning everyone into zombies - when great General Nick Fury was the one who had Richards autopsy the zombies alone RIGHT AFTER Richards's children were eaten)
The Avengers: Tony Stark Suicide Bingo (http://tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com/209409.html)
...and then,
Criminal Minds: Jason Gideon and Spencer Reid.
I don't count Penelope Garcia as a woobie, though she was at times (or every time she has to view the violent footages) a victim of a "Break the Cutie" attempt. That Garcia is as well adjusted as she is in spite of the things she have seen, that Garcia and Rossi are the molasse that holds the cracker team together, is a testament to what a strong girl she is.
Morgan was a woobie in "Profiler, Profile", that's it, his mother raised a very strong son - he's not inherently broken.
Hotch and Emily, maybe, but they don't risk their lives as willy nelly as Gideon and Reid does. They don't do self-neglect (a staple of woobieness).
Elle is like, ???? she left too quickly.
JJ is most definitely, definitely, NOT a woobie, she's like female Hotch, but I actually read her as even stronger.
While a slight built has a factor in how fandom likes their woobie (plus physical fight does factor in), that ain't it. Hell, in Stargates SG-1, Daniel is frequently written as a woobie (I thik they were the fandom who came up with whump!), and fannish perceptions of what a woobie should look like created a warped memory of Daniel Jackson as a waif, when in actuality he's like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Doctor_Daniel_Jackson_(Michael_Shanks)2.jpg
About TWICE as bluff as Colonel O'Neil (so I'm also ???? over the fics where O'Neil easily overpowers Jackson or can carry him with ease).
Reid has about the same built as Hotch really. It's the increasingly level of self-neglect, the give all to others but /resistance/ towards accepting help (except when he was crying at JJ's house), that make me class Reid as a woobie.
Another thing about woobies is The Guilt, I think to this date, Spencer still blames himself for not taking better care of his mother.