Author Topic: Most depressing characters of all time  (Read 5586 times)

Shaggy 2 Grote

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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2015, 07:32:43 PM »
How is Bartleby depressing? He's one of my heroes!
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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2015, 10:04:49 PM »
Gonna go with Jimmy Corrigan, of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan,  the Smartest Kid on Earth.

Krokodil_Gena

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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2015, 12:36:16 AM »
Billy Pilgrim through most of Slaughterhouse Five.

Doc Daneeka in Catch-22, especially later in the novel.

Private Leonard Lawrence aka "Gomer Pyle" both in Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers and Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket.

Seaman Larry Meadows in The Last Detail, aka the movie where Jack Nicholson slams a .45 pistol on the bar and screams "We ARE the Shore Patrol!" at an addled barkeep.

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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2015, 09:07:34 AM »
Larry Alder in "Hello, Larry."
Carl Kanisky on "Gimme a Break."
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2015, 10:33:36 PM »
How is Bartleby depressing? He's one of my heroes!

I ain't no hater, I strive to be more like Bartleby every day, but he has a serious case of the do nuthin' blues.

JonFromMaplewood

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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #20 on: November 23, 2015, 07:38:06 AM »
Larry Alder in "Hello, Larry."

His kids walked all over him. They didn't care that he had given his life in the Korean War.
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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2015, 10:17:14 AM »
"I have a message. Lieutenant Colonel ... Larry Adler's plane ... was shot down ... over the Sea of Japan. It spun in ... there were no survivors."
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

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Re: Most depressing characters of all time
« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2015, 12:33:29 PM »
Gonna go with Jimmy Corrigan, of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan,  the Smartest Kid on Earth.

Oh, wow.  Yes.