What Character Has Suffered More Than Jesus Christ?

Anthy Himemiya

Physically and sexually abused by her brother for hundreds of years

Forced to feel the pain of thousands of swords piercing her at all times

Brother forces her into being the bride of anybody who wins a series of duels

Must be subservient to her betrothed at all times

Constantly physically abused by the various people betrothed to her, as well as several jealous students at school

Not allowed to express a personality of her own

Attempts suicide due to guilt, is only stopped by her best friend

In love with her best friend, unable to express it

Coerced into betraying the woman she loves by her brother

Nearly murdered several times by duelists brainwashed into thinking their problems will be solved if she dies

True self is stuck in a coffin

Lover sacrifices herself in order to free her, and vanishes from the world

Phosphophyllite

Immortal being with literally no purpose

Lives on an island with only a few other people, who don’t like them very much

Is constantly hunted by space aliens due to being made up of gemstones

Is incredibly brittle and breaks easily

In pursuit of strength, they lose their legs, arms, head, and eye

Watches their first real friend die in front of them

Slowly uncovers that their guardian was lying to them about the truth behind the space aliens

Makes another friend, only for them to partially die and then turns into another person who hates them

Slowly loses all of the trust of their friends

Goes to the moon where the aliens live, and turns against the other gems

Learns that the aliens are trying to all die to finally move on and they need Phos’s guardian to do that

Accidentally becomes God and is abandoned as the last person on Earth

Eventually ends the existences of all remaining species

Alone on earth for 10,000 years

Eventually lets themself die in order to eliminate the last traces of humanity

Tried cutting off their arms once to become stronger to be more useful.

Keeps losing memories throughout the series due to losing body parts

Killed a close friend of theirs

Got heavily manipulated by the space aliens

Phosphophyllite

Immortal being with literally no purpose

Lives on an island with only a few other people, who don’t like them very much

Is constantly hunted by space aliens due to being made up of gemstones

Is incredibly brittle and breaks easily

In pursuit of strength, they lose their legs, arms, head, and eye

Watches their first real friend die in front of them

Slowly uncovers that their guardian was lying to them about the truth behind the space aliens

Makes another friend, only for them to partially die and then turns into another person who hates them

Slowly loses all of the trust of their friends

Goes to the moon where the aliens live, and turns against the other gems

Learns that the aliens are trying to all die to finally move on and they need Phos’s guardian to do that

Accidentally becomes God and is abandoned as the last person on Earth

Eventually ends the existences of all remaining species

Alone on earth for 10,000 years

Eventually lets themself die in order to eliminate the last traces of humanity

Tried cutting off their arms once to become stronger to be more useful.

Keeps losing memories throughout the series due to losing body parts

Killed a close friend of theirs

Got heavily manipulated by the space aliens

Homura Akemi

Queen of time loops

Yet another victim of a codependent homoerotic teenage friendship

Best friend saved her from suicide only to die like a week later

Made a contract with an alien to exchange her soul for magical time powers so she could save her friend

Forced to relive her best friend dying over and over again

Lived the same month for 10 years

Discovered that even if magical girls don’t die, their souls eventually turn them into evil monsters called Witches

Accidentally made her best friend the most powerful Witch of all time

Best friend eventually breaks the time loop by becoming a literal god and vanishing from the physical plane

Forgot her best friend

Started hallucinating her friend after she disappeared

Her grief created a pocket dimension where she and her friends could be happy

Ended up breaking the illusion herself

Becomes a witch after being driven to madness from her grief and unrequited love

When her friend comes down as a god, she steals her power and becomes the devil

Creates an entirely new timeline where her friend can be happy and normal, but they can never truly be together

Jonathan Sims

Is British

Burdened with the knowledge of the entire perceivable universe

Both parents died when he was a child but this is surprisingly not very relevant

Job is actually a front for a massive conspiracy involving the primal fears of humanity

Unable to quit said job

Mutilated by worms, his boss, himself, and an evil sun

Tormented by Eldritch abominations wearing human skin

He eventually becomes a vessel for one of these horrors

Driven to paranoid insanity

Watched all of his coworkers die one by one

Has to keep asking people about their trauma or he will literally starve to death

Tricked into starting the apocalypse

Is now Schrodinger's dead guy

Anthy Himemiya

Physically and sexually abused by her brother for hundreds of years

Forced to feel the pain of thousands of swords piercing her at all times

Brother forces her into being the bride of anybody who wins a series of duels

Must be subservient to her betrothed at all times

Constantly physically abused by the various people betrothed to her, as well as several jealous students at school

Not allowed to express a personality of her own

Attempts suicide due to guilt, is only stopped by her best friend

In love with her best friend, unable to express it

Coerced into betraying the woman she loves by her brother

Nearly murdered several times by duelists brainwashed into thinking their problems will be solved if she dies

True self is stuck in a coffin

Arthur Lester

Has died at least 6 times

Vision stolen by the eldritch entity that got stuck in his head

Hunted by the god of madness for having a fragment of him stuck inside his head

Is drawn into a conspiracy involving the cult that worships the eldritch entity that’s stuck in his head

Literally has gone to hell and back TWICE

Constantly stalked by cultists, other eldritch gods, and hitmen

Injuries include: slit throat, several broken legs, being shot several times, being stabbed several times, strangulation, punctured lungs, ect. (the universe's walking pincushion)

Wife died in childbirth, and his baby daughter accidentally drowned herself in a bathtub while he was in the other room

Blames himself for everything bad that’s ever happened to him

Lost everyone he's ever cared about

Parents committed suicide when he was young

Canonically described as ‘80 pounds sopping wet’.

Every single other version of him that exists within the multiverse has been brutally murdered by his best friend while they were separated

Got sent back to the 15th century once for some reason

Everyone is either mean to him, or mean to him (sexual)

Is British

Homura Akemi

Queen of time loops

Yet another victim of a codependent homoerotic teenage friendship

Best friend saved her from suicide only to die like a week later

Made a contract with an alien to exchange her soul for magical time powers so she could save her friend

Forced to relive her best friend dying over and over again

Lived the same month for 10 years

Discovered that even if magical girls don’t die, their souls eventually turn them into evil monsters called Witches

Accidentally made her best friend the most powerful Witch of all time

Best friend eventually breaks the time loop by becoming a literal god and vanishing from the physical plane

Forgot her best friend

Started hallucinating her friend after she disappeared

Her grief created a pocket dimension where she and her friends could be happy

Ended up breaking the illusion herself

Becomes a witch after being driven to madness from her grief and unrequited love

When her friend comes down as a god, she steals her power and becomes the devil

Phosphophyllite

Immortal being with literally no purpose

Lives on an island with only a few other people, who don’t like them very much

Is constantly hunted by space aliens due to being made up of gemstones

Is incredibly brittle and breaks easily

In pursuit of strength, they lose their legs, arms, head, and eye

Watches their first real friend die in front of them

Slowly uncovers that their guardian was lying to them about the truth behind the space aliens

Makes another friend, only for them to partially die and then turns into another person who hates them

Slowly loses all of the trust of their friends

Goes to the moon where the aliens live, and turns against the other gems

Learns that the aliens are trying to all die to finally move on and they need Phos’s guardian to do that

Accidentally becomes God and is abandoned as the last person on Earth

Eventually ends the existences of all remaining species

Alone on earth for 10,000 years

Eventually lets themself die in order to eliminate the last traces of humanity

Tried cutting off their arms once to become stronger to be more useful.

Keeps losing memories throughout the series due to losing body parts

Killed a close friend of theirs.

Got heavily manipulated by the space aliens.

Laura Palmer

Famous for being murdered at 17

Abused physically and sexually by her father while he was possessed by a malicious spirit throughout her childhood

Targeted by supernatural entities that feed off of her suffering

Suffered from extreme nightmares

Develops a sex addiction due to her father’s abuse

This opens her up to be constantly taken advantage of by the men in her life emotionally and sexually

Ended up working at a brothel

Develops a cocaine addiction

Abandoned by her friends

Driven to despair and paranoia due to abuse and supernatural hauntings

Eventually murdered by the spirit possessing her father

Part of her spirit ends up stuck in surrealist purgatory

Guts

Literally called “The Struggler” in canon

Orphan, his mother was dead when he was born, surrogate mother died when he was 3

Assaulted by a mercenary as a child after the man who took him in sold him off for a night

Abused by the man who took him in and ended up killing him

Enlisted as a child soldier

First real friend ended up going off the deep end and trying to become a god

Found family was slaughtered by a bunch of demons summoned by his first real friend as a sacrifice for him to become a god

Forced to watch his lover be assaulted by his friend during said sacrifice

Lost an arm and an eye

Cursed to be hunted by monsters all across the earth

Lover can't be around him after being assaulted due to it triggering extremely intense ptsd episodes

Anthy Himemiya

Physically and sexually abused by her brother for hundreds of years

Forced to feel the pain of thousands of swords piercing her at all times

Brother forces her into being the bride of anybody who wins a series of duels

Must be subservient to her betrothed at all times

Constantly physically abused by the various people betrothed to her, as well as several jealous students at school

Not allowed to express a personality of her own

Attempts suicide due to guilt, is only stopped by her best friend

In love with her best friend, unable to express it

Coerced into betraying the woman she loves by her brother

Nearly murdered several times by duelists brainwashed into thinking their problems will be solved if she dies

True self is stuck in a coffin

Shinji Ikari (Note: this is only discussing his character in the original series and End of Evangelion.)

Forced into being a child soldier at the age of 14

Dead mother, famously neglectful dad

Consistently pressured into fighting against literal eldritch abominations by the adults in his life

Emotionally abused and neglected by the people around him

Constantly chasing after affection he’s never gonna get

Seriously maimed one of his good friends

Got absorbed inside one of the eldritch abominations he had to fight, was stuck there for several days slowly suffocating to death

Forced to kill the first person who really cared about him

Watched his surrogate mother bleed out on top of him

Witnessed his other friend’s maimed corpse being paraded around by monstrous robotic angels

Mental illness literally triggered the end of the world

Ends up one of the last people alive on earth

Jonathan Sims

Is British

Burdened with the knowledge of the entire perceivable universe

Both parents died when he was a child but this is surprisingly not very relevant

Job is actually a front for a massive conspiracy involving the primal fears of humanity

Unable to quit said job

Mutilated by worms, his boss, himself, and an evil sun

Tormented by Eldritch abominations wearing human skin

He eventually becomes a vessel for one of these horrors

Driven to paranoid insanity

Watched all of his coworkers die one by one

Has to keep asking people about their trauma or he will literally starve to death

Tricked into starting the apocalypse

Homura Akemi

Queen of time loops

Yet another victim of a codependent homoerotic teenage friendship

Best friend saved her from suicide only to die like a week later

Made a contract with an alien to exchange her soul for magical time powers so she could save her friend

Forced to relive her best friend dying over and over again

Lived the same month for 10 years

Discovered that even if magical girls don’t die, their souls eventually turn them into evil monsters called Witches

Accidentally made her best friend the most powerful Witch of all time

Best friend eventually breaks the time loop by becoming a literal god and vanishing from the physical plane

Forgot her best friend

Started hallucinating her friend after she disappeared

Her grief created a pocket dimension where she and her friends could be happy

Ended up breaking the illusion herself

Becomes a witch after being driven to madness from her grief and unrequited love

When her friend comes down as a god, she steals her power and becomes the devil

Creates an entirely new timeline where her friend can be happy and normal, but they can never truly be together

Denji

Emotionally and sexually groomed by nearly every single woman in his life

Forced to murder his father at a young age

Taken in by the yakuza and forced to fight devils

Lived in a rundown shack while starving and poor

Was murdered by the yakuza’s zombie devil, and was only saved by his own devil fusing with his heart

Regained his freedom, only to immediately fall into the clutches of the literal control devil

Found family was built up by control devil, only to all of them to be killed for the express purpose of controlling him

Wanted to go to a normal school, only to be harassed by devil hunters looking to use his powers

Love interest is possessed by the personification of war

Tommyinnit (note: this is referring to the real youtuber Tommyinnit's roleplay character of the same name)

Became a revolutionary at a young age

Died multiple times, only to be brought back to life and then die again

Died the first time so his country can gain independence

Immediately loses the next election and is exiled from his own country

Watched his brother figure spiral into insanity before killing himself

Watched best friend be executed live on stage

Watched country blow up

Exiled from his country AGAIN, this time by his best friend after everybody is turned against him

Forced to live in the wilderness under the care of an EXTREMELY abusive menace

Driven to nearly kill himself

Turned against his best friend and country by an anarchist living in the wilderness

Country is blown up for a final time

Gets stuck in prison with abusive menace and then is killed by him before being brought back to life

Watched all his friends fall apart due to trauma from the revolution, or from an egg that’s possessing everybody

Brother figure is brought back to life, only for him to traumatize him one last time and leave for Utah forever

Forced to launch a nuke on both himself and his abuser in order to finally get rid of him

Arthur Lester

The universe’s walking pincushion 

Has died at least 6 times

Vision stolen by the eldritch entity that got stuck in his head

Hunted by the god of madness for having a fragment of him stuck inside his head

Is drawn into a conspiracy involving the cult that worships the eldritch entity that’s stuck in his head

Literally has gone to hell and back TWICE

Constantly stalked by cultists, other eldritch gods, and hitmen

Injuries include: slit throat, several broken legs, being shot several times, being stabbed several times, strangulation, punctured lungs, ect.

Wife died in childbirth, and his baby daughter accidentally drowned herself in a bathtub while he was in the other room

Blames himself for everything bad that’s ever happened to him

Canonically described as ‘80 pounds sopping wet’.

Got sent back to the 15th century once for some reason

Everyone is either mean to him, or mean to him (sexual)

Laura Palmer

Famous for being murdered at 17

Abused physically and sexually by her father while he was possessed by a malicious spirit throughout her childhood

Targeted by supernatural entities that feed off of her suffering

Suffered from extreme nightmares

Develops a sex addiction due to her father’s abuse

This opens her up to be constantly taken advantage of by the men in her life emotionally and sexually

Ended up working at a brothel

Develops a cocaine addiction

Abandoned by her friends

Driven to despair and paranoia due to abuse and supernatural hauntings

Eventually murdered by the spirit possessing her father

Part of her spirit ends up stuck in surrealist purgatory

2B

Combat android made to serve a false cause

Watches her squadron die

Watches her close robot and android friends die/cannibalize each other because of a virus

Doomed to execute her close companion every time he learns that their military is lying about their cause

constantly mischaracterized by her fandom to be reduced to "cutesy girlfriend" because she's hot? for some reason?

Dies over and over

Murdered by another rogue android after she contracts the virus

Forced to keep the secret that all of humanity is dead from everyone

Charlie Brown

Another famous struggler

Can’t kick a football

Can’t pitch a baseball

Has the world’s worst therapist

His dog is constantly doing weird stuff

His friends are constantly mean to him

Failed the easiest word in the world during the spelling bee finals

Probably dealing with undiagnosed clinical depression

He got a rock :(

Phosphophyllite

Immortal being with literally no purpose

Lives on an island with only a few other people, who don’t like them very much

Is constantly hunted by space aliens due to being made up of gemstones

Is incredibly brittle and breaks easily

In pursuit of strength, they lose their legs, arms, head, and eye

Watches their first real friend die in front of them

Slowly uncovers that their guardian was lying to them about the truth behind the space aliens

Makes another friend, only for them to partially die and then turns into another person who hates them

Slowly loses all of the trust of their friends

Goes to the moon where the aliens live, and turns against the other gems

Learns that the aliens are trying to all die to finally move on and they need Phos’s guardian to do that

Accidentally becomes God and is abandoned as the last person on Earth

Eventually ends the existences of all remaining species

Alone on earth for 10,000 years

Eventually lets themself die in order to eliminate the last traces of humanity

Tried cutting off their arms once to become stronger to be more useful.

Keeps losing memories throughout the series due to losing body parts

Killed a close friend of theirs.

Got heavily manipulated by the space aliens.

Pearl

Fumbled a BBW after the world’s longest situationship, over five thousand years

Must reckon with grief despite her species being ageless and semi-immortal

Was created to serve her master, Pink Diamond, only to fall in love with her, and help her lead a revolution as Rose Quartz

Forced to pretend to kill Pink Diamond

Also forced to keep it a secret that Pink Diamond was actually the leader of the rebellion

Watched all of her comrades turn into mindless monsters

One of four survivors of a planet-wide gem genocide

Has to help raise a human despite not knowing how

Watched as her only love sacrifices her life to birth a half human, half gem child, and wasn’t able to talk her out of it

Is a defected member of a servant class, and believes that she is useless alone

Anthy Himemiya

Physically and sexually abused by her brother for hundreds of years

Forced to feel the pain of thousands of swords piercing her at all times

Brother forces her into being the bride of anybody who wins a series of duels

Must be subservient to her betrothed at all times

Constantly physically abused by the various people betrothed to her, as well as several jealous students at school

Not allowed to express a personality of her own

Attempts suicide due to guilt, is only stopped by her best friend

In love with her best friend, unable to express it

Coerced into betraying the woman she loves by her brother

Nearly murdered several times by duelists brainwashed into thinking their problems will be solved if she dies

True self is stuck in a coffin

Guts

Literally called “The Struggler” in canon

Orphan, his mother was dead when he was born, surrogate mother died when he was 3

Assaulted by a mercenary as a child after the man who took him in sold him off for a night

Abused by the man who took him in and ended up killing him

Enlisted as a child soldier

First real friend ended up going off the deep end and trying to become a god

Found family was slaughtered by a bunch of demons summoned by his first real friend as a sacrifice for him to become a god

Forced to watch his lover be assaulted by his friend during said sacrifice

Lost an arm and an eye

Cursed to be hunted by monsters all across the earth

Lover can't be around him after being assaulted due to it triggering extremely intense ptsd episodes

Ruby Rose

Mother died when she was young and father became emotionally unavailable, leading to her being raised by her sister

Has the pressures of leadership placed on her by an immortal wizard

Born with magical eyes, and is subsequently hunted by an evil immortal witch

Watched her good friend be murdered in front of her when she arrives a second too late

Forced to carry morale when teammates fall into a deep depression

Bottles up multiple years of trauma and never expresses it

Emotionally overlooked by the people in her life due to their own trauma

Watches several of her friends nearly die in front of her several times

Forced into the ethical dilemma of having to abandon an entire kingdom and evacuate its population across the globe

Best friend died TWICE, once right in front of her

Kicked into an alternate dimension

Tormented by all of her past failures

Attempts to commit metaphysical suicide

Shadow the Hedgehog

An experimental living weapon born in captivity

Watched his surrogate sister get shot in front of him

Manipulated multiple times into committing war crimes

Constantly compared to the guy he’s a clone of

Died

Came back as a clone of himself with no memories

Banished 200 years into the future

Forced to fight at least 2 separate clones of himself

Watched the world get taken over by the evil scientist whose father created him

Forced to relive his trauma by an evil alien

Is finally able to reunite with his surrogate sister, only to be forced to leave her behind

Jonathan Sims

Is British

Burdened with the knowledge of the entire perceivable universe

Both parents died when he was a child but this is surprisingly not very relevant

Job is actually a front for a massive conspiracy involving the primal fears of humanity

Unable to quit said job

Mutilated by worms, his boss, himself, and an evil sun

Tormented by Eldritch abominations wearing human skin

He eventually becomes a vessel for one of these horrors

Driven to paranoid insanity

Watched all of his coworkers die one by one

Has to keep asking people about their trauma or he will literally starve to death

Tricked into starting the apocalypse