Character with the saddest past life

[ClockHand]

No one should forget arseface.

[Bacon_Barbarian]

You're making it hard to.

[Lucy]

Saddest character with past?
Lucy/Nyu-chan/Kaede from Elfen Lied.
Why does everyone hate Elfen Lied....?

It's a broken base. People's opinions on Elfen Lied are primarily formed based on two things: whether they stay with it through the gore and nudity to the tragedy parts at the end, and whether they can forgive Lucy for becoming a sadistic hyperaggressive psycho after what she went through. And then, of course, you also have to be a sucker for sad stories. On top of that there's very little instant gratification in Elfen Lied (besides gory decapitations and such). It's a masterpiece to a specific kind of person, but then so is everything. It's a work with VERY subjective quality.