Is there a character who has suffered more than him?

Rewatch Dark and pay some attention this time.
Love is what Hannah was all about.
She most definitely was head over heels in love with Ulrich, she most definitely loved Michael (S2E6) and both her children. The main problem was that Ulrich didn't love her and that Michael was a nervous wreck, the more so the older he got.

>Then why lie about Ulrich raping Katharina in high school?
To potentially break them up? It was pretty obvious, anon.

>That's not love.
It's infatuation. Jealousy, certainly. And, yes, that's not healthy, but it's definitely a form of love.

>loves in silence
Well, that would be Thorben Wöller towards Hannah. That kind of behaviour doesn't ever get you anything, unless Ulrich isn't around to mess things up.

>Do people who genuinely love another person let them be or try to take them by force? And this is assuming that it's unrequited love?
That depends on whether or not you're a hopeless romantic or a pragmatist. Again, Thorben Wöller was pretty miserable because he never acted on his feelings/desires. And Hannah was miserable, arguably because she did.
Now, Ulrich on the other hand just always took what he wanted and got away with it for the first 50 years of his life. Then his bad decisions (and how he treated people) started catching up with him, all of them in pretty quick succession (Regina, Helge, Egon, Hannah). To be fair though, trying to kill Helge is what sealed his fate, no matter what any of the other characters did from that moment on. It's kinda funny that people seriously think Hannah could have gotten him out of prison had she wanted to.

>I don't see how him beating Helge was uncalled for.
Holy shit. You're a horrible human being.

>the point of the show is to sympathize with him.
No. It really is not.
>Helge's life for his son. That's a really difficult dilemma
Except that Ulrich was wrong about the very premise of that "dilemma" and didn't care that he acted on incomplete and even contradicting (remember he had already confirmed that his son wasn't either of the found bodies) information. He basically wanted to kill a child on the off-change that said child might be guilty of something in the future. And, no, that's no dilemma, that's being an immoral piece of shit.

>Except Helge *was* the one abducting kids
So? Does that justify killing him long before he could even consider doing anything like that? Based on no evidence nonetheless?
>Of course that only happened because Ulrich damaged his brain by attacking him.
Oh, I wouldn't blame that on any brain damage from the attack, Helge was notoriously simple-minded even before that. But the attack did make sure that Helge would end up in the bunker and is what led him onto that path.

>It was the attack that led him to fall into Noah's clutches, anon.
Which is a different issue from his mental capabilities. That's my point.
>I think it's supposed to feel cathartic when Helge eventually fricks him up later in both timelines.
Agreed.

>diminished in the attack
I don't think we have enough evidence to conclude that.
>He was slow before, but a full-on moron after.
That's according to his mother, yes, but she comments on how he stopped talking, which is not a result of any brain damage, hence why he could speak with Noah.

>screwed around with Egon in the past?
And you think that was manipulative because ... erm ... why exactly? Do you think Egon didn't get to make any decisions there?
>She even manipulated Jonas and stole the time machine.
Again, how and when did she "manipulate" Jonas. I get the feeling that you do not know what that word even means.

>Egon thought he was banging a ho.
Nope.
>I'm your mother, it's totally safe and you can trust me.
"It's totally safe"? What the hell are you talking about?
Also, she did not ask to be introduced to time travel. That was him coming to her with it. Again, you're completely moronic about your irrational hatred of a character that didn't treat your favourite child-murderer with the slavish devotion you wanted to see.
>you wiki-reading piece of shit.
Oh, the irony ...

>Egon knew Hannah was from the fricking future.
Why does it matter to Egon where Hannah came from? If that's your threshold for manipulation, everyone in Dark manipulated everyone else, and at times themselves.
>Because she was his mother.
So she "manipulated" him not because of anything she did, but by being his mother, which prompted him to act on his own volition. Interesting.

>t. simping for Ulrich

That could be implied by her showing up there alone, yes, but it could also mean that she's divorced (like in Eva's world), widowed or simply that the husband didn't have time to attend.
There's a much stronger case for Regina not being married (and childless) since the gathering takes place at her home, and the only photos we see are of her and her parents. But even then there's the fact that she's living in a house that's too big for a single person, so she might also have or have had a family of her own at some point.
The simple reason not to show them with partners from a filming/writing perspective is that they did not want to bloat the scene by introducing new characters/actors that add little value to the whole.

>She has no wedding ring, anon.
True. But, again, she might be divorced. Doesn't necessarily mean she doesn't have children.