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These are movie characters who are perpetual losers, because their life, their circumstances or
simply their environment is keeping them down. But they fight and some of them don't give up
aiming for a normal condition. Which of these struggling, losing characters below is the
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(The loser has to be from movies rated minimum 6.5/10 stars on IMDb. No animation allowed but
characters can be either from real life or fictional. One exception: When the loser is so significant
that he's worth standing next to the other losers below, the movie can be rated down to 5.5/10.)
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thomasakuhn
voted for #15
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zero177
voted for #4
Michael Douglas in Falling Down
(1993)
William 'D-Fens' Foster: Foster completely lost his mind in the daily kanertoil
voted for #21
traffic jam. He was always a ticking time-bomb but was pushed over
the edge when he was fired. He went to see his wife, disregarding the
order of protection she had taken out to protect her and their
daughter. In the course of his rampage he shocked some people and
killed some people until he finally got killed by a good officer's bullet. kennithramey
voted for #1
Suggested by jonzcliff
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lui-41877
voted for #22
afura-78800
voted for #9
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Margot Robbie in I, Tonya (2017) alirezabehradsaba

voted for
#19
Tonya Harding: Foiled by her mother, her husband, her husband's
dumb friend's plans, the police, the court of law, the press, the
audiences, she is still known as cheap white trash to the public.
trongtanvu
voted for #4
tusez
voted for #22
Vote!
Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years a Slave peoczpeter
voted for #4
(2013)
Patsey: A female black slave in 19th century in America. Despite
being the worker with the best results, she was put down by her slave
keeper, being whipped by another slave, and had to beg for soap to
clean her body.
Vote!
Choi Min-sik and Kang Hye-jeong in

Oldboy (2003)
Dae-su Oh: Held 16 years as a captive in a little room by evil forces,
not knowing what's up with his family, while his wife was killed, he was
officially falsely denounced as murderer and his little daughter was
abducted. Compulsory sedated by poisonous gases, hypnotized, and at
last set free for finding out why that happened to him. His daughter
was already grown up after the 16 years and hypnotized by the same
abductors. So they had sex while not considering each other as
relative. He later discovered that fact and that it all was done to them
because in earlier times as a student, he told a lie about a female
Vote! classmate, he therewith unintentionally caused her suicide and
induced the revenge by her incestuous brother who captured him later
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Robert De Niro in Mary Shelley's
Frankenstein (1994)
Frankenstein's monster: Doctor Frankenstein re-animated his
monster from body parts from the deceased. The monster suffered
from the pain of the scars, being lonely and being a monster. Normal
citizens feared and derided him with laughter. The monster’s heartache
arose from the desire for a mate. Suggested by BlackBolt-3
Vote!
Charlize Theron in Monster (2003)

Aileen Wuornos: Abused by her father and his friends as a kid, later
searching for love and kindness. In need of financial matters she
became a prostitute. While not being able to cope with that clientel,
she became a serial killer. She was torn away from her only love and
got killed by state run execution.
Vote!
Elliot Page in An American Crime

(2007)
Sylvia Likens: She was sent to a foster family that was abusive.
Beaten and tortured by other kids in that 'family', Sylvia suffered from
being hopeless. She died in the Baniszewski cellar.
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"Carrie" Sissy Spacek 1977 United

Artist
Carrie White: Oppressed by her religious mother, mobbed and
shunned in school, exposed and mocked by a cruel prank of dumb
classmates at the prom. Turned to a satanic mass murderer by using
psychic powers. Beside many victims in her psychic amok run, she
killed her mother and the teacher who mostly tried to help her.
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Smile, you're at Mr. Smiley's

Lester Burnham: Turned dull by disillusion in his job where he got
fired. After extorting the dismissal manager of his old job, he
completely lost his mind to oblivion. He was seduced from one 16 y.o.
classmate on a cheerleading school event of his daughter. Despised by
his daughter, cheated by his wife, suspiciously regarded by his
militaristic neighbour who killed him later.
Vote!
Angelina Jolie and Devon Conti in
Changeling (2008)
Christine Collins: After her son was lost for five month and then
'found' again, she realized he can't be her son. By remarking that he
obviously has shrunk, Christine faced an outraging system that
covered an absolutely criminally corrupted police system to keep the
cost and effort for finding missed children low. She even faced a
corrupted mental hospital for complaining about the circumstances
and got told by the doctor to give up to get free. She never gave up!
But after all it finally came up that her son was killed by a weird serial
killer.
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Tom Hardy in Warrior (2011)

Tommy Conlon: Put down by his boozing father, put down in a fair
MMA-fight by his brother for giving his brother's family a chance. Then
going to jail by the military law for deserting.
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Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

(1992)
Ash: He just wanted to spend a nice weekend at the woods with his
fellows. It turned out to be a horrific weekend with his friends turning
to zombies after hearing a man on tape reading a strange old text. He
killed them and got into other troubles with demons possessing him
after and making him cut of his right arm with a chainsaw. After
connecting the chainsaw on the stump of his arm, coincidentally and
magically appearing wormhole, lead him to medieval ages and places.
He was forced to fight the evil army of death from a necromancer he
accidently conjured while trying to come back home. When he got
Vote! home in normal times after all, he was followed by a bad witch that
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Mads Mikkelsen in The Hunt (2012)
Lucas: Smeared by an innocent lie. Fired by his superior, scorned by
his friends. Dragged into a battue by his environment. Got shattered
by circumstances he had no control of. Suggested by BlackBolt-3
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Lin Shaye and Leigh Whannell in

Insidious (2010)
Elise Rainier: Had paranormal visions of victims. Her father was not
abusive to her but captivated other young women. She never coped
with it, but had continuosly other paranormal visions. She tried to help
people when endangered by demons of a strange twillight zone
between life and death. She never got happy without deeper sorrows
about this hidden sinister realm.
Vote!
Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk

About Kevin (2011)
Eva Khatchadourian: Put down by her psychopathic son by trying to
reach him and getting demeaned by him. In between he hurt his little
sister intentional badly. As a reward for her efforts, someday he killed
a bunch of his classmates by a calculated rampage with bow and
arrows. While trying to cope with his evil deeds, she got avoided and
hated by her environment while her house got vandalized by
strangers.
Vote!
Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables

(2012)
Fantine: Her curse was her beauty. Slandered by the envy women at
work, she was thrown out of the factory so that she couldn't any
further buy the medicine for her son. She had to become a prostitute
to make the money for her son and was shattered down by losing her
dignity.
Vote!
Jason Statham in Crank (2006)
Chev Chelios: Low down gangster, was poisened by some lower
gangster because his boss cheated on him. Losing mind, losing time,
losing the game; He hurt or killed people to revenge himself, was
taking illegal drugs to lower the poison's effect for some time, causing
chaos, havoc and devastation while being sure to die at the end. And
then he died spectaculary at the end. (Just concluding first movie.)
Vote!
Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Sonny: Sonny wanted to rob a bank for his lover's sex change
operation. There was not enough money because so many people
withdrew money, that it wouldn't be enough for the operation. While
he realised that fact, he got a phone call by police inspector Moretti
who told him he was surrounded by the cops outside. So he took
hostages and the situation turned to a media circus, everybody had
fun to watch. At the end he was shot to death. Suggested by Silitonga
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Ben Affleck, Lisa Banes, and David

Clennon in Gone Girl (2014)
Nick Dunne: Nick dated a perfect female psychopath. He was
suspected of murdering his wife while she was hiding. He suffered the
social pressure while no one knew that he was innocent. Not able to
prove his innocence he had to bluff to get her back to public, alive. To
get out and come back to him, she atrociously murdered an innocent
man and lied about him, that he would have abducted and raped her.
To get out of this foul game Nick had to play the loving husband
further, while knowing to live with a total psychopath. She played
Vote! perfect with the media, he had no chance. Suggested by Silitonga
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine (2013)

Jasmine French: She was a successful socialite in New York, but got
utterly ruined. She tried to reunite with her estranged sister and son
while her proud commanded her to prevent showing the abominable
truth. After she couldn't hide it anymore, she lost her family ties.
Suggested by Silitonga
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Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in Home

Alone (1990)
Harry & Marv: Low down gangsters, searching for abandoned houses
on Christmas holidays to break in and steal worthy things from the
owners. They got burned, punched, electrified, glued and feathered,
etc. - by a 6 year old! The boy helped to get those dumbnuts caught.
They went to jail. Losers! Suggested by Jen
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Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

Jack Torrance: Jack signed a contract as a janitor for looking after
the old Overlook Hotel while concentrating on his writing. The
loneliness made him dull and mean. He turned mad about anything,
then his delusion turned worse. He spoke to ghost appearances in his
mind. At last he hunted his wife with an axe and died on the hunt by
freezing to death. Suggested by Jen
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Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters (1984)

Louis Tully: Louis was a dumb boring loser and just wanted to date
the exciting Dana Barrett, but he locked himself outside from his own
party. When Dana was ready to date him, she already turned to a
higher demon. So she forced Louis to be possessed. After the whole
story, he was the same old loser. Suggested by Jen
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Anthony Perkins in Psycho (1960)
Norman Bates (also contains spoiler of 'Psycho II): Owned and
operated a motel. Spyed on naked people. His hobby was taxidermy.
He was a milksop who murdered people. At last he went totally nuts,
turned to his mother by schizophrenia and was sent to an asylum.
Later, when he was cured, he was tempted to kill again and did it.
('Psycho II') Based on a suggestion by Jen
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Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)

Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: Randy 'The Ram' Robinson: Spent his
life with Wrestling, sex, drugs and show until he was to old. At his last
days he wanted to reunite with his estranged daughter, who tried to
help, but then he messed up with drugs and a one night stand and
forgot their dinner. His daughter despises him for not being reliable
even at this point of his life. His only friend was a pole dancer who
didn't want to be romantically involved with him. When he had a heart
attack, he shouldn't have worked any further as wrestler, but did.
Supposedly, he died in the ring. Suggested by SeventhAr7
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Randy Quaid at an event for Hannibal

(2001)
(In lack of a better image) Russel Casse from 'Independence
Day': Alcoholic. Mocked by his environment for the story of his alien
abduction. Lost everything: His wife, his job, his dignity, the respect of
his peers and at the end his life (even if he gained the respect of his
son again). Suggested by BlackBolt-3
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Al Pacino and John Cazale in The

Godfather: Part II (1974)
Fredo Corleone: Always was selfish, weak, a betrayer. He had no
guts and betrayed his own brother to another mafia boss. He had to
need help from his sister to reunite to his family and was assassinated
on his brother's order after his mother's death. Suggested by
SeventhAr7
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Joaquin Phoenix in Her (2013)

Theodore: Theodore was tempted by a clever artificial intelligence. He
built a relationship to her, Samantha. She gained not only his
attention. She gained his sexual fantasies and the control over all
aspects of his life, while he more and more departed from reality.
When 'she' was sure about his addiction, she revealed on the side,
that she did the same project with thousands of other people at the
same time. He was shocked. Suggested by Jen
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Gene Hackman in The Royal

Tenenbaums (2001)
Royal Tenenbaum: Left his family without a cause. On that turn his
talented kids started struggling with problems until they were
grownups. For reuniting he lied about having cancer. Neither his sons,
nor his wife believed in his dubious story. His wife even gave a task to
a private detective. As the truth came up, he signed the divorce
proceeding papers for his wife and reunited with his descendants, but
then died of a heart attack. Suggested by Jen
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Gene Hackman in The Chamber (1996)

Sam Cayhall: He was a member of the KKK. When he was a young
adult father, burning with hatred and racism, he shot a black boy of
the same age like his daughter, who simply was a neighbor's son, a
playmate to his daughter. That threw his daughter and his son into
deeply mental problems. His son killed himself because he couldn't
cope with his father's crime. Cayhall killed two Jewish siblings by a
cowardly bombing attack for the Klan. He was convicted to jail - the
death row. Even when his grandson, who was a lawyer, came to
prevent him from execution, he denied his help and was angry, ranting
and insulting. At his last day he repented, but was executed in the gas
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Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket
(1987)
Pvt. Pyle: Didn't make it in real life. Didn't make it in basic training.
Despaired, became nuts about his situation and shot his drill instructor
and himself. Suggested by Jen
Vote!
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Make Your Choice See results without voting »

Margot Robbie in I, Tonya (2017) alirezabehradsaba

Choi Min-sik and Kang Hye-jeong in

Charlize Theron in Monster (2003)

Elliot Page in An American Crime

"Carrie" Sissy Spacek 1977 United

Smile, you're at Mr. Smiley's

Tom Hardy in Warrior (2011)

Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness

Lin Shaye and Leigh Whannell in

Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk

Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables

Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Ben Affleck, Lisa Banes, and David

Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine (2013)

Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in Home

Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980)

Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters (1984)

Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008)

Randy Quaid at an event for Hannibal

Al Pacino and John Cazale in The

Joaquin Phoenix in Her (2013)

Gene Hackman in The Royal

Gene Hackman in The Chamber (1996)

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