History ButtMonkey / AnimeAndManga

* ''Franchise/LupinIII'' has Inspector Zenigata, especially in the Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket series. This comes from trying to explain why Lupin is never caught, despite all the chances he gets. He tends to switch between "incompetent IdiotHero" and plain "OvershadowedByAwesome". Most of the post-2000 Lupin films have him learning Lupin's old tricks (showing him to be competent) and Lupin ''still'' making a fool out of him by being [[{{I Know You Know I Know}} one more step ahead.]]

* Nearly the entire [[FourIsDeath Fourth Division]] (the Captain is the only one who is spared, because [[BewareTheNiceOnes the bullies are afraid of her]]) from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', especially Hanataro Yamada, are frequently looked down upon by the Eleventh Division and are given grunt duties because their specialty is healing, not fighting. P.S. [[Creator/SpikeSpencer Guess who he's voiced by?]]

** All of them pales in comparison of the Butt Monkey-ness of Omaeda Marechiyo, Vice Captain of the 2nd squad. Aside of being abused daily by Soi Fon, he had the honor of being taken out in one punch by Ichigo. Then in the Arrancar invasion arc, he finally did a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome... only to negate it by reverting into his UpperClassTwit self and the Fraccion he just beat comes back ready to kick his ass and ends up dead by a thrown rock, not by his power. Then he ran off in full fear when Barragan chases him (it's justified, though). Then in the Zanpakutou Tales filler, [[spoiler:he didn't get to beat his Zanpakutou Gegetsuburi, Ichigo defeated him first, and then Ikkaku, a third seat officer, belittles him "It's Omaeda. Who cares about him." And then, Mayuri bissects and presumably destroyed Gegetsuburi, but since it's Ichigo who beats him, it doesn't return to Omaeda, now leaving him presumably without a Zanpakutou.]]

** My God, you've all forgotten the biggest Butt Monkey of Bleach...KON!! That guy was CONSTANTLY abused! After a while, it got tiring. He deserved more respect than he got, in the end.

*** [[spoiler: This could be seen as a brutal case of RealityEnsues, since what Furuichi experiences is technically bullying and many victims develop low self-esteem and become suicidal.]]

** Goku himself has had a fair share of pluckiness in his life, often occurring when neither Krillin or Yamcha are present, his brick-tough nature usually lets him shrug it off though. In fact, one of his first mishaps involved falling off a cliff as a toddler and nearly dying from the impact to his head. A scene later in the ''DBZ'' series involved his hand being trampled on by a herd of ''elephants''. And the ''GT'' series takes Goku's abuse UpToEleven.

** Vegeta himself in ''GT''. He gets called off by his own daughter for his mustache, and even if he shaved it off, neither Goten nor Chi-Chi notice the change.

** Mr. Satan, infamously known for taking the credit for killing Cell. He is often found in this trope for being a {{Muggle|s}} in a world full of superhumans and aliens. For starters, Cell bats him away like a fly when they "fought". He gets his jaw nearly broken by Trunks where he tried to stage "[[ILetYouWin I let you win]]", gets extorted by Android 18, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

** Kiichi Momozaki, Yugiri's lover in life, is victim to a series of slapstick misfortunes and gets the cold shoulder from everyone in Saga due to his lofty ideals.

* [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaFranchouchou Franchouchou]] as a whole seems to face nothing but setbacks and misfortunes in their road to success. Ai considers everyone of them to have been BornUnlucky given that they all died young.
* Poor [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaSakuraMinamoto Sakura]] usually gets the shortest end of the stick in most of the comical scenarios, [[LookBothWays to say nothing of how she died]].

* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga:'' Poor [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaSakuraMinamoto Sakura]] usually gets the shortest end of the stick in most of the comical scenarios, [[LookBothWays to say nothing of how she died]].

[[caption-width-right:350:The IdiotHero [[ButtBiter putting the bite]] on the Butt Monkey]]

* Shungo of ''LightNovel/GoshuushouSamaNinomiyaKun''.

** Wet-Haired Caribou is one as well. He gets trapped in a barrel by the Straw Hats while on their ship planning to kill them, escapes from the barrel to capture mermaids on Fish-man Island only to get beaten down by the Straw Hats. Tries attacking one of Big Mom's crewmates only to get one-shotted again. Tries to capture mermaids again, only to have Jimbei find him and beat him down before taking him to Marines. Is almost burned alive at the stake, but escapes thanks to his crew saving him and sets out to sea alone, only to end up in a terrible storm. He survives this and is taken care of by a kindly old woman.

** Dawn isn't too far behind them in ButtMonkey status. She’s easily the least respected main character in the series. Numerous characters (Ash, Brock, and her own Pokémon included) have made fun of and dissed her, is unanimously labeled as an incapable coordinator, and has her hair constantly ruined after being shocked numerous times. Oh, and not to mention [[BreakTheCutie all the]] [[StepfordSmiler hell]] she went through.

* ''Manga/BlackClover'': Chances are if someone is going to have their intelligence insulted, their appearance mocked, or [[ItMakesSenseInContext their fundoshi set on fire]] for cheap laughs, it's going to be the Black Bull's resident [[JapaneseDelinquents Japanese Delinquent]] Magna Swing.

* Partially, Dante in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' anime. He says that people "usually leave him a bill instead of paying him".

* The Producer in ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'', although watered down a little. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the final episode by the Futami Twins.

** And then even after he hits the ResetButton (because of said earth's destruction), it goes FromBadToWorse. So far, he has had a gun pointed to his head just because he's the master of the greatest good doji, got stabbed almost numerous times by one of the evil doji, got one of his comrades into a comatose state, failed to prevent his best friend from turning to TheDarkSide ''again'', who later [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape him]], before Yamato convinces him to come to the Good Side. We later learn that this [[{{HeelFaceRevolvingDoor}} fails too]]. And this took place in the matter of about ''five hours''.

* Natsuki in both ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MaiOtome''. Having one's [[PantyThief underwear stolen]] and ''eaten''? Being forced to ShowSomeLeg to hitch a ride back to school/town? Falling into an easily-avoidable trap set by [[spoiler:a [[GreatGazoo Trickster Goddess]]]]? It's funny how the most [[TheComicallySerious serious]] member of the cast is always the one to take the comedic pratfalls.

* Does Okayado have a male protagonist who, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe thanks to his niceness,]] finds himself [[UnwantedHarem the head of a harem of]] [[CuteMonsterGirl monster girls?]] Kimihito Kurusu of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', and his [[AlternateUniverse fantasy]] [[{{Expy}} counterpart]] Mamoru Onodera of ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner'' just cannot catch a break.

*** As of the TimeSkip, this seems to be [[InvertedTrope flipped:]] When her doppelgänger pointed a gun at her ''head,'' she didn't even flinch. Yes, Nami the [[{{Greed}} greedy]] [[FieryRedHead red head]], pulled a [[TheStoic Stoic.]] That goes thrown right out the window as soon as Luffy starts doing his usual antics because she doesn't have to put on a brave face anymore (and Nami didn't fear Chocolat one bit for pretending to be her and was actually rather annoyed), but Nami can still stare daggers when the moment counts.

* One could argue nearly the whole cast of ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' consists of Butt Monkeys rather than humans (or other species). Let's list them: "[[{{CatchPhrase}} Maho]]" girl Himeko, plain girl Kurumi, super forehead Miyako, small girl Akiyama and clumsy girl Miyata are prone to this a lot. Even the main character and child genius Rebecca Miyamoto gets her fair share. The actual incarnation of this trope though is Mesousa, a bunny not even capable of HOLDING stuff, getting used as guinea pig by nearly everyone, harassed by a strange catlike entity and is the target of a goddess of bad luck in training.

* ''Manga/SchoolRumble''

* Kawachi from ''Manga/YakitateJapan''. Though in the beginning he was a bit of a {{Jerkass}}, the series soon began abusing him seemingly for the hell of it. If there was something painful or humiliating happening, it happened to Kawachi. The people that were supposed to be his friends and supporters without fail insulted, dismissed, and derided him behind his back, or sometimes to his face. One entire plot point was even dedicated to him having to be a complete screwup ''on purpose''... after which the characterization was apparently absorbed utterly and his {{Flanderization}} was complete. To hammer it home, the very last panel of the entire series is Kawachi getting beaten up for no reason.
** Don't forget Kageto, who is ignored by everyone in the series, despite keeping the store going while everyone jaunts off to the next TournamentArc.
*** Kageto practically defines this trope. He is so full of suck that he actually gets Yukino, the show's psychopathic Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, to pity him.

* Being a deconstruction of the FightingSeries PlayedForLaughs, ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'' deconstructs this trope with Akihiko and Kankuro, two {{Nice Guy}}s that become {{Butt Monkey}}s for no other reason than that the rest of the cast are {{Arrogant Kung Fu Guy}}s.

* Nobita Nobi from ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', [[ThisLoserIsYou so much]] that one of his descendants has to send him his robot to help dealing with that. Not that it's getting any better unless [[NonSerialMovie when they're going on an adventure.]]

* Tsuna and Kozato Enma of ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''.
** Among the Arcobaleno, Skull definitely counts. He doesn't exactly have it easy in the manga, but the anime's Arcobaleno filler arcs abuse him beyond belief.

** Then there's Motoko's "adventures" with her sister. Until [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome she was finally able to confess to Keitaro and beat her sister at the same time]].

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':
** [[WeaselMascot Chamo]] is a mild case; he's constantly abused (punched, stepped on, squashed, etc.) by everyone (mostly Asuna), although [[PantyThief he probably]] [[DirtyOldMan deserves it.]] A battle has an opponent impale him on her horn, where he hangs for a while. He's [[AmusingInjuries perfectly fine afterward, of course.]]
** Chisame seems to be the person most likely to get put into humiliating situations; she's always the first to get caught by Nitta for breaking school rules and seems to always suffer her portion of ClothingDamage in front of the whole class or on stage at a cosplay contest. Not to mention that incident with the [[ClothingDamage clothes-eating]] [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles octopus...]]
** [[AxCrazy Secundum]] seems to have a habit of being {{Megaton Punch}}ed [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Across The Room]] in a very undignified way. It happened around three times (by Nagi, Takamichi and Rakan) in seven chapters.
** In the alternate universe series ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'', Makie is given the role of the Butt Monkey, especially when it comes to the [[{{Sentai}} Baka Rangers]] segments that appear at the end of a number of episodes.
** In one of ''the other'' alternate universes ''Negiho (Ito) Bun'' (otherwise known as ''Mahora Little Girls''), Konoka, of all people, takes this place for Asuna, usually saying or doing silly, childish things which annoy Asuna, who promptly reprimand her for it[[note]]This could be a consequence of her proximity to a wacky girl like Asuna, and her scheming. Admittedly she brings some (only some) of it on herself[[/note]]. Even her bodyguard Setsuna, due to her lack of experience, can find herself inflicting this on the girl by accident, attempting to save her from minor incidents but making things much worse. Her track record includes a bop on the head, being scaffolded, tied to a RTS package, being drawn-on/tickle tortured/forcibly dressed up all at once, dropped into a lake, having ruined cookies left over her desk and being sucked into a vacuum cleaner in the space of 4 chapters.

* Re:Zero: Subaru is one during it's more lighthearted moments

* Natsuki in both ''Anime/MaiHime'' and ''Anime/MaiOtome''. Having one's [[PantyThief underwear stolen]] and ''eaten''? Being forced to ShowSomeLeg to hitch a ride back to school/town? Falling into an easily-avoidable trap set by [[spoiler:a [[GreatGazoo Trickster Goddess]]]]? It's funny how the most [[TheComicallySerious serious]] member of the cast is always the one to take the comedic pratfalls.

* ''Manga/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Poor [[ShrinkingViolet Canada]] and [[TheWoobie China]]. No one ever pays attention to Canada, either not realizing he's there or mistaking him for his brother America. China constantly gets picked on by the rest of the allies, even his own younger siblings. There's also The Baltics, particularly [[TheChewToy Lithuania]]

* ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'': Poor [[ShrinkingViolet Canada]] and [[TheWoobie China]]. No one ever pays attention to Canada, either not realizing he's there or mistaking him for his brother America. China constantly gets picked on by the rest of the allies, even his own younger siblings. There's also The Baltics, particularly [[TheChewToy Lithuania]]
** Also, [[{{Tsundere}} England]] sometimes in {{Fanon}}. Fans make use of his magical powers by making him fail in order to create a plot, while implying that England does ''every'' spell wrong, which isn't true in Canon. They also poke fun at his [[BigOlEyebrows eyebrows]], [[LethalChef cooking skills]], eyebrows, [[CantHoldHisLiquor alcoholistic tendencies]]...did I mention eyebrows?
** [[SpoiledBrat Pru]][[BoisterousBruiser ssia]] often gets poked fun at a lot and is treated as a MemeticLoser in {{Fanon}}, which usually has him in a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine with either Germany or Hungary as the Tsukkomi and giving him a DopeSlap (or FryingPanOfDoom). It’s to the point that one of his Japanese {{Fan Nickname}}s is basically this trope.

* Ogata of ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'' is the embodiment of this whether due to screwing up, coming in late, forgetting important information or just saying the wrong thing; and each time this happens he gets one of Icchan's Penalties.

** And Hajima might well be the biggest ButtMonkey of them all, always on the bad end of some serious misunderstandings, one of them making Tenko (the girl he's had a crush on forever) believe him to be a pervert when he'd just saved her from a gang of them.
** Tenko doesn't have the best luck either -- all her attempts to confess to Karasuma go wrong and she's always overshadowed by her beautiful, cool, popular friends, with most of her classmates besides Hajima regarding her as plain and goofy and preferring either her friends or younger sister over her.

* ''LightNovel/RokujyoumaNoShinryakusha:'' Poor Yurika gets no respect. During the race in episode 3, her cosplay club dresses her up, but then brings her to the race course tied up in a bag. No one gets to see her outfit, which appears to be a maid outfit, before she's trampled on by other students during said race. And in episode 9, Maki makes her escape and takes away the memories of all the residents of room 106, including where they finally acknowledged her as a MagicalGirl, so they assume [[StatusQuoIsGod she's cosplaying again.]]

** Jonathan Joestar from ''Manga/PhantomBlood''. Dio made Jonathan's life absolute hell by [[KickTheDog burning his dog]], stealing his girlfriend's first kiss, turning his friends against him, and killing his father. He almost gets his revenge, [[spoiler:until Dio beheads him in the last chapter of his story, while nothing more then a ''head'', and uses his body to kill his grandson ([[DeathIsCheap though he gets better]]), his great-great-grandson's friend, and almost the great-great-grandson himself.]] On the plus side, the two times he got into a straight-up fight with Dio, he beat the ever-loving hell out of him to the point Dio burst out ''crying'' after his first beating. [[spoiler:Dio had to ambush him to kill him.]]

** Rudolf von Strohiem from ''Manga/BattleTendency''. For all his bluster about [[LargeHam GERMAN SCIENCE BEING THE GREATEST IN THE WORLD]], he always ends up being the first to be taken out of the fight, usually being reduced to a torso and becoming a CombatCommentator.
** ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'':

** [[IdiotHero Okuyasu Nijimura]] from ''Manga/DiamondIsUnbreakable'', as like Polnareff before him, he tends to be the first to be subjected to the more dangerous effects of the enemy Stand.
** ''Manga/VentoAureo'':

** ''Manga/{{JoJolion}}'' has both Hato and Joshu Higashikata, with both of them providing a large amount of the Part's comic relief. In Joshu's case, however, this trope is actually [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]], as the constant mistreatment he receives from others has led to him developing an [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex inferiority complex]].

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* [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Touma]] [[JapaneseDelinquents Kamijou]] from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Virtually everyday is a bad day for Touma and nothing ever goes right for him. On the first chapter alone he was chased by other deliquents, breaking his own credit card, having his refrigerator break down, losing 2000 yen in a vending machine, ending up in the same hospital and treated by the same doctor in nearly every story arch's end, [[spoiler: ''and losing his memories'']]. Justified though, considering what his AntiMagic [[BlessedWithSuck right hand]] [[PowerIncontinence is capable]] [[CosmicPlaything of doing]]. The only thing he's lucky on, however, is that his life is a DatingSim where he gets an UnwantedHarem, which is pretty much a good reason why many of his male classmates are ''jealous'' of him.
** [[CatchPhrase FUKO DA]]!!! (Such misfortune!)
** [[BadassNormal Shiage Hamazura]] is even more of one. He's had his ass kicked by Touma, bossed around by a bunch of bitchy girls who call him "Lackey", and has been sentenced to death by the city's ruler. Like Touma, he's defied all odds, turned his life around, and gotten an UnwantedHarem.

* Poor Mitsuhide of ''Manga/SnowWhiteWithTheRedHair'' is always being picked on. Zen and Kiki always take the chance to casually dismiss his importance and competence.
** And then there's Prince Raji, who absolutely no one takes seriously. Even the narration refers to him as "the stupid prince".

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Cadet Daz. He's first seen puking all over his shoes during the Battle of Trost, and later blubbering like a baby over the mere prospect of being sent back into battle. In chapter 40, he is shown being literally dragged through the snow by Krista and Ymir, having passed out from exhaustion. All in all, the guy seems remarkably unfit for the life of a soldier.

** What about the main character? Lelouch "One the universe hates" vi Brittania? Everything Lelouch does just gets messed up, even if it's all treated deadly seriously. Save his best friend? Short-term, friend gets court-martialled for insubordination, long-term [[spoiler:Tokyo gets wiped out because of the Geass command he uses to do it.]] Everything eventually comes back to bite him in the ass. The only one that actually goes off without a hitch or a ButterflyOfDoom chain of cause-and-effect is the plan where [[spoiler:he [[ZeroApprovalGambit makes everyone hate him]], then ''[[ThanatosGambit dies]]''.]]

* Manabu Kuchiki from ''Manga/{{Genshiken}};'' when he joins the Genshiken, he becomes the frequent recipient of Saki's violence, once simply for being there. The others have him do grunt work at Comifest, leading to him going a entire day buying their doujinshi without food or water. However, unlike most Butt Monkeys, he entirely ''deserves'' it, knows that, and accepts it all without complaint. In fact, he seems to like it; early on, he cheerfully declares himself to be a "shameless servant", and his masochistic streak causes him to smile whenever the Genshiken mistreat him. Except when they tied him to a lamp in volume 7 of the manga to keep him from peeping on the girls' bathing. ''Then'' he complained... for about ten seconds. And it was mostly acting.

* Nami from ''Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace'' gets this treatment from her sisters--with [[FaceHeelTurn rather nasty consequences]].

* Mullin Shetland from ''Anime/LastExile'' becomes the series' Butt Monkey when he joins the Silvana crew as a mechanic. Basically, he sucks at it, no-one bothers teaching him anything and every woman he falls for rejects him. A former rifleman who survived 19 battles (where riflemen have a 33% survival rate) he's remarkably badass at other times of the series- after leaving the crew he ends up single-handedly saving the Anatoray flagship with his HeroicSacrifice [[spoiler:(he gets better)]].

* Alibaba, the main character of ''Manga/MagiLabyrinthOfMagic'',because the mangaka enjoys trampling on his inability to do the do with attractive females, which becomes comedic highlight--at the expense of the poor guy's pride.

* Boss from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': He helps the heroes to save the world, risking his life on a daily basis. What does he gets in return? He gets constantly mocked, ridiculized and berated by everyone -and beaten by {{Robeast}}s-, and he is treated like a joke or even a nuisance. He has absolutely NO respect.
* ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'' gives us Iwanoi (or "Spike" in the dub); while he first enters the series as part of the gang of delinquents and bullies that make the main protagonist's life a misery, he is soon revealed to be a fairly good soul who is more or less bullied into being part of the gang, gets kicked out of it in one episode, and who is so terrible at meda-fighting that he is ranked among the worst players in the '''world'''. And the latter isn't just because he's lacking in skill, no, the problem is as much because of his Medabot, the only real friend he has. The Cyandog model of Medabot is a Dog Type Shooting Model, designed to attack from a distance with built-in guns, as is the Crosserdog model he eventually upgrades to. But his Medabot's Medal is a Monkey Type Medal- even without the reference to Japanese mythology of dogs and monkeys being enemies, the Monkey Type Medal is intended for ''melee'' models of Medabots, mainly wrestlers. Needless to say, it's no wonder that his Medabot can't fight.

* The title character of the anime ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is the resident Butt Monkey at the beginning of the series, and relapses in this role in the more comedic fillers and episodes as the manga --and anime-- went on.
** Yamato is looking to be the next ButtMonkey. First, he was tricked by Naruto's clone into believing he was still asleep when he was, in fact, long gone. Next, Kakashi teases him about the fact that Naruto got away from a tracker and ANBU member. Third, when Naruto pretends his head gets cut off in the training chamber in episode 245 (manga chapter 496). [[spoiler: Not to mention he's been captured for 100 chapters straight now and no one either remembers him, or cares enough to mount a rescue!]]

** [[spoiler:Hashirama the First Hokage]] doesn't get any respect whatsoever in chapter 619.

*** Well, it's lucky then that during [=CP9=]'s cover story, [[spoiler: Spandam decides to frame [=CP9=] for the disaster at Enies Lobby. This backfires spectacularly when the Marine force sent to capture [=CP9=] are brutally curbstomped, and now Spandam has six of the most dangerous assassins in the world out for his head. Nice work idiot.]]

** Luffy was this trope during his childhood. He had a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood as a result of his grandfather's training, and even after that he was pretty weak. Wild animals and vitriolic brothers didn't really help either.
** Wet-Haired Caribou is one as well. He gets trapped in a barrel by the Straw Hats while on their ship planning to kill them, escapes from the barrel to capture mermaids on Fishman Island only to get beaten down by the Straw Hats. Tries attacking one of Big Mam's crewmates only to get one-shotted again. Tries to capture mermaids again, only to have Jinbei find him and beat him down before taking him to Marines. Is almost burned alive at the stake, but escapes thanks to his crew saving him and sets out to sea alone, only to end up in a terrible storm. He survives this and is taken care of by a kindly old woman.

** Tenko doesn't have the best luck either - all her attempts to confess to Karasuma go wrong and she's always overshadowed by her beautiful, cool, popular friends, with most of her classmates besides Hajima regarding her as plain and goofy and preferring either her friends or younger sister over her.

* Jadeite and Sailor Iron Mouse from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' - both try their hardest and get no respect for their efforts. Jadeite gets imprisoned in a crystal, and Iron Mouse just gets killed as she is pleading for mercy.
* Alba from ''Senyuu'' is this for pretty much the entirety of volume 1, however it significantly decreases in volume 2, seeing as he [[TookALevelInBadass Took A Level In Badass]], but the amount of physical abuse he goes through due to the sadistic tendencies of the solder Ros are definitely something to behold. Other characters both physically and verbally abuse him, intentionally or not. He was even [[spoiler:killed by Dezember]] before being brought back by [[spoiler:Ros after revealed his identity as the hero Creashion]]. Some other examples of abuse include Ros stabbing him with a knife on their way out of the cave in episode 2, Ros calling Alba useless only for Ruki to scold him then begin listing many ways Alba is useless in episode 6, and Alles accidentally shooting Alba out of the cannon of the bike in episode 19(?).

** Tsubaki is a ForgettableCharacter, and he is - especially in Yamada's absence - made to do a lot of work for the Supernatural Studies Club without much recognition.

* Naru-chan in ''Manga/GirlFriends''. Her students don't respect her, since they call her by her nickname when they ''should'' be calling her "[[LastNameBasis Narumatsu]]-sensei," talk to each other when she's conducting homeroom and make fun of her behind her back. It gets even worse when you learn that [[spoiler:she had a bad breakup in the past, losing her friends when they took her ex's side, and later on in the story, she ends up getting pregnant and forced into a ShotgunWedding with a rather unattractive man]].


* Pretty much all of Cinnamoroll and his buddies have some of their comedic bad luck moments in ''Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamoroll'' from {{Creator/Sanrio}} but especially Mocha who gets many mishaps that causes her to be so {{prone to tears}}.

** Being around and eventually in love with Keitarō seems to bring out Naru's inner Butt Monkey, and if she is not a victim of his being an AccidentalPervert, then she is a victim of her friends' dubious efforts to "help" the would-be couple.

* Hanai of ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' is usually the first target for pranks. In fact, when he tried to play the recorder to remind Mikoto of when they were kids, Mikoto laughed at how bad he was and had forgotten completely.

* Pretty much all of Cinnamoroll and his buddies have some of there comedic bad luck moments in ''Fluffy Fluffy Cinnamoroll'' from {{Creator/Sanrio}} but especially Mocha who gets many mishaps that causes her to be so {{prone to tears}}.

* While it's not apparent in the anime, LightNovel/SwordArtOnline has Kirito show shades of this occasionally. Made most apparent in the supplementary material for the Blu-Ray releases, ''Sword Art Offline''. To note, Kirito suffers multiple embarassing, frightening or painful situations. For instance, having Asuna act like a Yandere, getting stabbed by Asuna (on no less than four seperate occasions), getting beaten up by Leafa thrice, getting shot by Sinon, constantly being either insulted or made fun of, getting hypnotised by '''his own sleeping face''' and promptly getting his face drawn on, slashed by Yuuki, and, most strangely, [[ArsonMurderandJayWalking getting an envelope lodged in his head]]. Kirito himself lampshades it when the physical abuse slows down in the second season, but the psychological abuse doesn't. Specifically in Season 2, Episode 2:

* While it's not apparent in the anime, LightNovel/SwordArtOnline has Kirito show shades of this occasionally. Made most apparent in the supplementary material for the Blu-Ray releases, ''Sword Art Offline''. To note, Kirito suffers multiple embarassing, frightening or painful situations. For instance, having Asuna act like a Yandere, getting stabbed by Asuna (on no less than four seperate occasions,getting beaten up by Leafa thrice, getting shot by Sinon, constantly being either insulted or made fun of, getting hypnotised by '''his own sleeping face''' and promptly getting his face drawn on, slashed by Yuuki, and, most strangely, [[ArsonMurderandJayWalking getting an envelope lodged in his head]]. Kirito himself lampshades it when the physical abuse slows down in the second season, but the psychological abuse doesn't. Specifically in Season 2, Episode 2:
-->Kirito: "I feel like I'm not being physically abused so much this season, but the psychological abuse seems to be increasing. Am I going to be okay?"

* Ritsu from ''Manga/KOn'' is often beaten by Mio (for good reasons), and her friends sometimes make fun of her. She also suffers from never getting compliments by them.