True that! I think you're right -- I do think there's some kind of kinship between "character is woobie" and "character can never do anything wrong or morally questionable, therefore is totally passive and reactive" but you're right, it's not 1:1!

Though idk if I'd call Hydra Trash Party/Dead Dov kinds of fics woobie, necessarily? Something about the focus just seems sort of different, not that I could really explain why!