History ButtMonkey / AnimeAndManga

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has several primary examples:

** Vato Falman also qualifies. First he gets assigned the task of keeping an eye on Barry, which means he's stuck in his quarters with a crazy armored serial killer. His only contact with the outside seems to be Havoc, who just boasts about his new girlfriend. When he's transferred to Northern Headquarters, he does indeed get a promotion, but he has to constantly remind Ed and Al about it, and despite it his whole job seems to be picking ice off the ceiling. And believe it or not, readers who wanted to figure out [[spoiler:who Pride was]] had guessed him. But in fact, [[spoiler:Pride has a connection with Selim Bradley instead]].

* While Yokoshima Tadao from ''Anime/GhostSweeperMikami'' can be said to deserve a fair amount of the abuse Mikami sends after him (we're talking [[LovableSexManiac lust incarnate here...]]), it seems that misfortune makes a concerted effort to seek him out, ''even when he's not being that lustful''.

*** It's just as true even in the series proper. The only reason this is played up in the Abridged is based on the actual treatment of the real character from then on. That is to say, Raditz may as well have never existed. Despite being related, Goku never spares so much as a thought about him until the end of forever. Vegeta dismisses him from memory outright (albeit the same happens with Nappa, at least Vegeta and Nappa have scenes together). And worst (and most telling) of all, Raditz disappears from even the AFTERLIFE, never to so much as be heard from again.
*** Raditz is shown as one of the villains escaping Hell in ''GT''. Although, it's a very tiny cameo, he was still actually there.

*** In the original ''Manga/DragonBall'' there was an entire week worth of filler devoted to making Goku the Butt Monkey. All the fillers were based on his training with Kami and how bad he was at learning how to sense ki and predicting movements. To name a few, he got beat by his master's master who he was many times stronger than, got struck by lightning several times, got beat by a doll dummy of himself, and constantly owned by Mr. Popo. It was a good thing none of Goku's friends were around and Vegeta can take heart knowing that he easily learned how to sense ki.

** 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. He doesn't fare much better in ''Super'' either.

** 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 *pimp slaps* him away like a fly less than a minute into their "fight". 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.

* Karyl, from ''VideoGame.PrincessConnectReDive'', cannot catch a break. She's been [[IAteWhat unwillingly fed monsters]], unwillingly fed ''to'' monsters, operated on by [[MadDoctor Mitsuki]] despite there being nothing wrong with her (returning to the guild house the next day with a BrokenSmile and not remembering what happened to her the day after that), turned into pudding, and so much more.

* Kobeni in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' is introduced as a meek [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Devil Hunter]] who really doesn't want to be there. She only chose to be a devil hunter because it was the only path in life open to her. But despite this being the case in a series where [[AnyoneCanDie anyone can (and does) die]] she's one of the few characters who survives to the very end of Part 1. Her penchant for surviving situations she probably shouldn't have and the trauma it brings are treated as a running gag.

* In ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' Lancer [[TheyKilledKennyAgain dies once a episode]], the exception being the second one (where he didn't appear). The worst that happened to him was in ''Berserker's First Errand'', when Berserker (who is Herakles trading sanity and intelligence for [[UpToEleven increased strength]]) beat him up while 'playing with him' and ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody using him in place of the club he lost earlier in the segment]]''.

** Even Goku himself has had his fair share of pluckiness over the course of the entire series, often occurring when neither Krillin or Yamcha are present. 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 Goku having his hand be trampled on by a ''herd of elephants'', and the ''GT'' series takes Goku's abuse UpToEleven. Fortunately, Goku's brick-tough nature usually lets him shrug it all off.

** Nami is one of the rare female versions and one of the biggest '''''[[UpToEleven ever.]]''''' She's more so known as [[FieryRedhead that one chick who blows up at her crew mates idiocy]], and [[{{Greed}} a greedy pirate girl]], but whenever something goes wrong, ([[PlayedForLaughs which is all the damn time,]]) she'd be no better than ''[[CowardlyLion Usopp]]''. Best exemplified in the [[HalloweenEpisode Thriller Bark Arc]], where after Enies Lobby is all said and done, you would think that nothing could faze her. [[{{Bathos}} Cue the ghosts and zombies.]]

* Kobeni in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' is introduced as a meek [[EmpoweredBadassNormal Devil Hunter]] who really doesn't want to be there. She only chose to be a devil hunter because it was the only path in life open to her. But despite this being the case in a series where [[AnyoneCanDie anyone can (and does) die]] she's one of the few characters who survives to the very end of the series. Her penchant for surviving situations she probably shouldn't have and the trauma it brings are treated as a running gag.

* Not played for laughs at all with the protagonist of ''Manga/Life2002''; nothing can seem to go her way. Ayumu's middle school best friend broke ties with her after she got into the high school she was aiming for instead of her and Ayumu started cutting herself due to that. Her first friend in high school, Manami, turned out to be a manipulative bitch. Manami's boyfriend MindRape's Ayumu and sexually abuses her, she's the target of bullies due to them thinking she tried to take Manami's boyfriend, her mother doesn't trust her, and that's not even half of her problems.

** Veronica Madaraki, Fran's younger sister. She's constantly used as a guinea pig by Fran, their older sister Gavrill literally tore her to pieces in their first fight and happily mops the floor with her in subsequent ones, she's constantly bullied at school, and all of the friendships she manages to make end in tragedy: mainly because most of said friendships turn out to be [[YankTheDogsChain the other party taking advantage of and manipulating her to their own ends]]. At least the final bonus chapter of the original run throws her a bone; after spending much of the chapter cruelly teasing their baby sister to tears, the final panel has them consoling her with [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther a hug and apology for going too far]].

* Officer Kuhou of ''Manga/FrankenFran''. A perfectly normal cop who managed to be a recurring character in a horror comedy manga. Poor girl had to be temporarily committed to the hospital for psychological analysis after witnessing BodyHorror, then later subjected to CloningBlues by Fran. Each chance meeting with Fran after the first one has her going in sheer hysterics thanks to all her past experiences with her.

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'':
** Makoto is undoubtedly the biggest butt-monkey of the series. Eikichi and Ryuji bully him a lot, like forcing him to drop his pants in front of girls. He does get quite lucky with the ladies though, compared to those two.
** Nanno gets flanderized into one after his VillainDecay. He went from TheDreaded SadistTeacher to a pushover after his students blackmailed him, and his attempt to get revenge ended up with him [[EpicFail hitting the principal in the face, jumping off the roof and injuring his leg, and accidentally kidnapping a little girl]].

** [[CosmicPlaything Yamcha]] is one of the most extreme examples. He's insanely powerful by any reasonable standard, but the bar keeps getting raised.

*** In the Saiyan Saga, he dies from a single Saibaman, who catches him off-guard with a suicide attack. He stays dead until the end of the Saiyan Saga.

*** Come the Tournament of Power, the Dragon Team is scrambling to pull together ten fighters. He keeps waiting to be asked, but Goku decides bringing a sadistic psychopath back to life is a better idea.

*** It's just as true even in the series proper. The only reason this is played up in the Abridged is based on the actual treatment of the real character from then on. That is to say, Raditz may as well have never existed. Despite being related, Goku never spares so much as a thought about him until the end of forever. Vegeta dismisses him from memory outright (albeit the same happens with Nappa, at least Vegeta and Nappa share scenes together.) And worst (and most telling) of all, Raditz disappears from even the AFTERLIFE, never to so much as be heard from again.

** Even Goku himself has had his fair share of pluckiness over the course of the entire series, often occurring when neither Krillin or Yamcha are present. 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 Goku having his hand be trampled on by a ''herd of elephants'', and the ''GT'' series takes Goku's abuse UpToEleven. Fortunately, Goku's brick-tough nature usually lets him shrug it all off, though.

* Not played for laughs at all with the protagonist of ''Manga/{{Life}}''; nothing can seem to go her way. Ayumu's middle school best friend broke ties with her after she got into the high school she was aiming for instead of her and Ayumu started cutting herself due to that. Her first friend in high school, Manami, turned out to be a manipulative bitch. Manami's boyfriend MindRape's Ayumu and sexually abuses her, she's the target of bullies due to them thinking she tried to take Manami's boyfriend, her mother doesn't trust her, and that's not even half of her problems.

** [[CosmicPlaything Yamcha]] is one of the most extreme examples. In the Saiyan Saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', he died from a single Saibaman, who caught him off-guard. From then on Yamcha suffers permanent CantCatchUp along with the rest of the human cast, loses his girlfriend of 15 years to a big jerk (who was partly responsible for Yamcha's Saibaman death), and almost entirely stops training. Except, that is, at the moment he does finally decide to do something helpful, he's the first to instantly suffer a near-fatal Dr. Gero salute through the chest. From this point on in the series, if he's ever shown, he's often commenting on the situation or lamenting about his life, having self-admitted later on to have completely given up ever trying to ever even spar again. Even his TrueCompanions [[WithFriendsLikeThese aren't really shown]] [[NoSympathy to be empathetic]] to him by this point in the series. As Yamcha is shown to have done nothing nothing to deserve this, and nothing good happens to him to balance it out, this can come off as unnecessarily mean spirited to some viewers.

** To a lesser extent Krillin is one too. The man's died three times, he CantCatchUp and his signature attack, likely the most deadly in the manga, just can't score a critical hit. However unlike Yamcha, Krillin continues to receive screentime, and plot importance, and he actually comes through with the occasional cool moment at several critical points. He also got to marry Android 18, and have a daughter with her.

*** Hell, TheAbridgedSeries even has the ''Krillin Owned Count'' (a running gag where anytime Krillin is beaten up, disrespected[[note]]in episode 2, Master Roshi told him to shut up after Krillin blamed him for letting Piccolo escape with Gohan[[/note]], or acts like a loser [[note]]in episode 13 from season 2, Krillin gets owned after failing to come up with a witty one-liner[[/note]], a little counter appears featuring a silhouette of Krillin with a Band-Aid on his head and the words: "Krillin Owned Count" followed by the number of times he's been owned. He once found his new girlfriend is a government agent sent to bust him on insurance fraud charges, then telling him that he has to pay back all the money he spent on her out of his own pocket. Also, in the first episode, Goku compares Radditz's power level as stronger than "Krillin's losing streak" (to which Krillin replies: "You know, you guys are the reason I go to therapy"). Odd upside: He eventually reveals to Trunks that he can tell, even from a distance, when someone's ''holding back.''

** Even Goku himself has had his fair share of pluckiness over the course of thje entire series, often occurring when neither Krillin or Yamcha are present. 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 Goku having his hand be trampled on by a ''herd of elephants'', and the ''GT'' series takes Goku's abuse UpToEleven. Fortunately, Goku's brick-tough nature usually lets him shrug it all off though.

** 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. He doesn't fare much better in ''Super'' too.
** In the original series, Bulma was the Butt Monkey whenever Goku was around. Just in the first arc alone she had her panties taking off by Goku and then flashed Master Roshi, being unable to ride the Nimbus, had to rough it when she wasn't use to it, and being turned into produce.

** Indy Jaws gets this treatment in Episode 179. His sister gets turned into a human, forcing him to go into a life threatening adventure to turn her back into a Yo-Kai. There, he meets Jibanyan and Komasan, baffled to learn that they went on the same adventure to *become* human. Afraid to go alone, he convinces them that he's a "Great Great Great Adventurer" and teaches them to avoid traps like Boulders. Cue {{parody}} of [[IndyEscape that one scene]] from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' with the poor shark being repeatedly [[SquashedFlat squashed]] by a [[HomingBoulders boulder that chases him]]. It happens so frequently that [[ClothingDamage the back side of his clothes get torn off]] [[JokeOfTheButt leaving his butt cheeks exposed]].

** [[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.

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'':

* ''Manga/ShonanJunaiGumi'': Makoto is undoubtedly the biggest butt-monkey of the series. Eikichi and Ryuji bully him a lot, like forcing him to drop his pants in front of girls. He does get quite lucky with the ladies though, compared to those two.

** His ButtMonkey status becomes Deconstructed big time when we see what kind of effects it has on a person, in Chapter 173. [[spoiler: The tissues mentioned prior are Demon Tissues. By using them as nose plugs, he could channel the power of a demon, specifically from Behemoth's gang, up to ''Behemoth'' himself. He uses this to effortlessly win against several powerful characters before fighting Oga. Oga tried telling him that the tissues are poisonous (and we do get to see Furuichi begin to succub to the side-effects such as delirium), only for Furuichi to reveal he knew from the start because the first demon told him. More importantly, ''he doesn't care.'' All the experiences, insults and mocking have taken a toll on him and being the ButtMonkey was as good as being dead in his eyes. This desperate determination is so potent that when he actually gets ''Behemoth himself'' as the demon of that bit, he lends him some of his power, understanding his pain, but also knows that Behemoth's power could ''destory Furuihci.''.]]

** Omaeda Marechiyo, Vice Captain of the 2nd squad, aside of being abused daily by Soi Fon, 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.]]
*** And now, in the newest filler arc involving copies of the shinigami, after seeing identical (if a little crazy) copies we see....someone new. Turns out he's Omaeda's copy who refused to look like Omaeda, explaining exactly why. The real Ikkaku and Yumichika laugh uncontrollably, agreeing completely.

* ''Webcomic/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]]

** As the story advances, his BigBrotherMentor Inui is the one who becomes a Butt Monkey. How many times the guy has been punished for trying to sneak out of something and/or has lost his pants? Specially in the OAV, where the punishments he suffers are ''even more'' embarrassing [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and funny]]

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' newcomer Fong-Fong has taken a lot of abuse since his debut, and generally receives very little respect. [[CornerOfWoe His reactions]] are usually amusing.