The Wimp

Weakling, eat your heart out.

The one who's pathetically weak, even more so than the average Weakling. They, like their ever-so-gently stronger cousin, can be recurrently found with the Good Guys. Unlike their cousin, the Wimp is typically unaware of their weakness or unwilling to admit to it. Such blatant ignorance is quick to wearing on the audience's nerves and make them cheer for the Wimp's demise. The Wimp is prone to making the wrong move and getting themselves in trouble, a flaw that gets the audience to wonder how they aren't Too Stupid To Be Alive. The Wimp's antics create problems for their friends by being too weak to fight off kidnappers or fend for themselves against enemies. Speaking of "friends", the rest of the Good Guys very rarely discuss how the the Wimp is unable to do anything right. This level of patience is remarkable considering how the Wimp is essentially the embodiment of flimsiness and poor decision making.

The Wimp is a real troublemaker for the Good Guys. It's a character quirk that compels so many writers to throw them onto the Main Team very much at the expense of the audience's not-being-annoyed-ness. The Wimp apparently loves being rescued by their friends no matter how much they want to do anything else with their lives. Their utter helplessness can become such a recurrent issue that the Bad Guys begin devising strategies centering on their capture. They know that the Wimp will fold to any incoming offense and that the Good Guys will rush to their aid in spite of their complete worthlessness to the team. A plan like this can be the set-up to a Surprise Attack where the Wimp sits just in the mouth of the trap. As though the Wimp couldn't possibly do anything more to get under the audience members' skin, they can have a bad attitude coupled with their nonexistent fighting capabilities. They can take on the personality of a Hothead who's annoyed by the Good Guys taking "too long" in saving them for the umpteenth time. They can also choose to be a real Crybaby who bursts into tears at the sight of any danger.