History ButtMonkey / Comicbooks

* The aforementioned Stature really deserves her own bullet. Her former team, the Young Avengers, were anti-reg and the others stayed anti-reg after she left. It's possible that the popularity of other members over her and the former cohesiveness of the team made her betrayal seem particularly outrageous, which would explain her treatment in the later comics. Stature was kidnapped by Puppet Master, almost sold into slavery and had to fight Ms. Marvel. During this fight, she had a [[CarFu car hit her in the face]]. She joined a superhero boot camp some unspecified time after Civil War. Other instructors included former supervillains, including Taskmaster, who had fought Stature's superhero dad (Ant Man). New Ant Man [[JerkAss Eric O'Grady]] mocked the former Ant Man to ingratiate himself with Taskmaster. Stature promptly [[WhosLaughingNow tried to kill him]], only for O'Grady to grow to giant size and smack her with a bus. They both were taken down by Taskmaster without Stature hitting O'Grady once. Later at the camp, a clone gone wrong combined with an alien weapon ran around maiming and beating trainees, including her. When she was eventually sent home, she had a screaming fight with her mother and stepfather and accidentally crippled her stepfather during a fight with a supervillain. Just prior to the ''Siege'' crossover, she discovered that her teammate Scarlet Witch was really Loki in disguise, but was unable to reveal this potentially life-saving information to her teammates because of a magical mental gag that was placed on her. And then after the Avengers reformed, she tried out to become the nanny of [[LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and [[Comicbook/{{Alias}} Jessica Jones]]' baby, and was even denied that. The only good things were off-screen reconciliations with the other Young Avengers and some EpiphanyTherapy. Keep in mind that the last time we were updated on her age, ''she wasn't even fifteen''.

** Hank Pym's ButtMonkey status was cemented when he recently met Eternity, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of '''everything'''. The first thing Eternity does after saying "Hi!" is punch Hank in the gut. That's right: the universe itself is literally hostile to Hank Pym.
** ItGotWorse; {{Deadpool}} and {{Spider-Man}} recently had a "Yo Momma" battle and guess who was the punchline of the joke?

*** His ''MarvelZombies'' counterpart was fairly respected amongst his comrades, although he was a CompleteMonster even for zombie standards.

* Hank Pym is the Butt Monkey for the Marvel superheroic community. In ''multiple'' universes. And it's carried over into the animated adaptations too, thanks to ''UltimateAvengers''.

** Not helping matters is that he somehow acquired reputation as a wife-beater along the way, making him an AcceptableTarget. People don't seem to remember that Hank only hit Janet once, he was under extreme stress at the time, and he [[WhatHaveIDone immediately felt awful afterwards.]] Hell, ''Reed Richards'' has hit his wife more often than Hank.

** Though after she returned to the Young Avengers full time, things did finally start picking up for her. The biggest win for her? During the ''Children's Crusade'', she was able to reunite with her dead father after he was resurrected by the real Scarlet Witch.

** ItGotWorse; {{Deadpool}} and {{Spider-Man}} recently had a "Yo Moma" battle and guess who was the punchline of the joke?

** The main reason people use Hank as a Butt Monkey is because of his reputation as a wife-beater, making him an AcceptableTarget. People don't seem to remember that Hank only hit Janet once, he was under extreme stress at the time, and he [[WhatHaveIDone immediately felt awful afterwards.]] Hell, ''Reed Richards'' has hit his wife more often than Hank.
*** Except Hank had been the Butt Monkey of the Marvel Universe for almost 2 decades when the wife-beating arc happened. By the second issue of Avengers, he was already well on his way.

* BlackCanary becomes this whenever she pairs with GreenArrow. Every. Single. God. Damn. Time. Their first pairing? Kidnapped by drug lords in a botched sting operation and physically tortured so bad it renders her infertile and strips her of her superpower. (Both would eventually be restored). Rejoins Ollie after he gets resurrected? Her adopted daughter is kidnapped and Ollie himself makes her believe she's dead. Despite that, she still marries him - and proceeds to be reduced to a DistressedDamsel who's Canary Cry accidentally causes an innocent bystander's hearing loss. And then Ollie leaving to form a second Justice League team somehow devastates her so much that she breaks up the primary team that she the leader of. Suffice it to say, there are likely a lot of BirdsOfPrey fans who really really don't like seeing Dinah and Ollie together.

* Brainy Smurf of ''TheSmurfs'' is the village's butt monkey.

* Erica Pierce from ''{{Solar Man of the Atom}}'' is a rather unlucky woman. First off, she was with Solar when he had his accident in the reactor which gave her powers as well (she doesn't notice...at first), she later tries to have sex with the titular Solar but is turned down, Solar takes Erica with him outside the universe where she ends up cracking up do to her self-esteem issues, she tries to kill Solar due to the previous trip, Solar later on goes haywire which results in the universe being sucked into a black hole, [[spoiler: she survives along with Solar, both of them being sent into a new universe]]. In the new universe, it's revealed that Erica (a another one albeit the same) has a abusive husband who impregnated her, said baby coming to life with powers similar to Solar, the baby ends up killing herself due to it's power which traumatizes Erica even more, and finally she kills her husband in a fit of rage. [[spoiler: She is then killed by the Erica from the previous universe, who takes her son Albert with her into hiding]].

* One of the last good things about ''{{Mad Magazine}}'' after all its old regular artists and writers started dying like flies, Monroe's title character is a definite example of a Butt Monkey, with ridiculously neglectful parents, a cruel bully who constantly leaves him battered and bloody, his only friend is a nerdy toadlike kid who is the only person liked even less than him, and any spot of hope for him is usually destroyed by the end of the story.

** Though one wonders why a trained military man, who never goes unarmed, who is the second most powerful man in the entire WORLD...could get overtaken by a male prostitute.

*** His ''{{Marvel Zombies}}'' counterpart was fairly respected amongst his comrades, although he was a CompleteMonster even for zombie standards.

* The aforementioned Stature really deserves her own bullet. Her former team, the Young Avengers, were anti-reg and the others stayed anti-reg after she left. It's possible that the popularity of other members over her and the former cohesiveness of the team made her betrayal seem particularly outrageous, which would explain her treatment in the later comics. Stature was kidnapped by Puppet Master, almost sold into slavery and had to fight Ms. Marvel. During this fight, she had a [[CarFu car hit her in the face]]. She joined a superhero boot camp some unspecified time after Civil War. Other instructors included former supervillains, including Taskmaster, who had fought Stature's superhero dad (Ant Man). New Ant Man [[{{JerkAss}} Eric O'Grady]] mocked the former Ant Man to ingratiate himself with Taskmaster. Stature promptly [[WhosLaughingNow tried to kill him]], only for O'Grady to grow to giant size and smack her with a bus. They both were taken down by Taskmaster without Stature hitting O'Grady once. Later at the camp, a clone gone wrong combined with an alien weapon ran around maiming and beating trainees, including her. When she was eventually sent home, she had a screaming fight with her mother and stepfather and accidentally crippled her stepfather during a fight with a supervillain. Just prior to the ''Siege'' crossover, she discovered that her teammate Scarlet Witch was really Loki in disguise, but was unable to reveal this potentially life-saving information to her teammates because of a magical mental gag that was placed on her. And then after the Avengers reformed, she tried out to become the nanny of [[LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and [[Comicbook/{{Alias}} Jessica Jones]]' baby, and was even denied that. The only good things were off-screen reconciliations with the other Young Avengers and some {{Epiphany Therapy}}. Keep in mind that the last time we were updated on her age, ''she wasn't even fifteen''.

* Tails in the Fleetway ''{{Sonic the Comic}}''. He's frequently the victim of Sonic's "[[{{Jerkass}} strange sense of humour]]" and the people he rescues tend to complain that [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike they wanted to be saved by Sonic]].

* Hacken from {{Comicbook/Hitman}}, perhaps the best defining moment of his crappy luck was when the characters were fighting their way out of an aquarium full of zombie sea animals (Long Story) he gets his hand bitten by a baby seal and in panic chops it of only to find out a few scenes later that these zombies aren’t contagious, cue to panel of him staring sadly at his new stump.
* Sonny Tuckson from the {{Buck Danny}} series.

-->'''Hank Pym:''' ''You'' can take over from here? ''You''? Tony Stark? Mister Fought-against-Cap-in-the-civil-war, shot-Hulk-into-space-and-caused-World-War-Hulk, gave-the-Skrulls-everything-they-needed-to-invade-Earth. ''You're'' taking over? Come on, give me ''one'' good reason why--\

* Herr Starr from ''{{Preacher}}'' is the recipient of ever-increasing quantities of humiliating violence. As a child, he has one of his eyes put out and goes bald; during the plotline of the comic, he gets [[RapeAsComedy raped by a male prostitute]], has a large scar carved into his head (which makes it look like a [[FreudWasRight giant... Uh...]]), has one ear shot off, narrowly escapes cannibals who eat his leg, and finally has his genitals eaten by a Rottweiler, leading to his forlorn use of the phrase "my cock is in the bitch's mouth and not in a good way".

** She kept this ''in'' Birds of Prey, what with being held hostage by Savant and stuff like that.

* BlackCanary becomes this whenever she pairs with GreenArrow. Every. Single. God. Damn. Time. Their first pairing? Kidnapped by drug lords in a botched sting operation and physically tortured so bad it renders her infertile and strips her of her superpower. (Both would eventually be restored). Rejoins Ollie after he gets resurrected? Her adopted daughter is kidnapped and Ollie himself makes her believe she's dead. Despite that, she still marries him - and proceeds to be reduced to a DistressedDamsel who's Canary Cry accidentally causes an innocent bystander's hearing loss. And then Ollie leaving to form a second Justice League team somehow devastates her so much that she breaks up the primary team that she the leader of. Suffice it to say, there are likely a lot of BirdsOfPrey fans who really really don't like seeing Dinah and Ollie together.

[[FoxTrot http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/buttmonkey_3097.png]]

* Peter Fox was proven to be the Butt Monkey of FoxTrot by the strip's first week. A small gallery of his moments can be seen to the right.

* ''Transhuman'' by JonathanHickman has a group of literal butt-monkeys. That is they are supposedly the showcase for a new type of genetic modification designed to give you superpowers, yet upon being sent to recapture a group of escaped enhanced intelligence monkeys, they are captured and anally raped these monkeys live on TV. People make jokes about this, even to their faces, for the rest of their lives. The genetic modifications eventually have horrible side effects as well.

** Though after she returned to the Young Avengers full time, things did finally start picking up for her. The biggest win for her? [[Spoiler: She was able to reunite with her dead father after he was resurrected by the real Scarlet Witch]].

* The aforementioned Stature really deserves her own bullet. Her former team, the Young Avengers, were anti-reg and the others stayed anti-reg after she left. It's possible that the popularity of other members over her and the former cohesiveness of the team made her betrayal seem particularly outrageous, which would explain her treatment in the later comics. Stature was kidnapped by Puppet Master, almost sold into slavery and had to fight Ms. Marvel. During this fight, she had a [[CarFu car hit her in the face]]. She joined a superhero boot camp some unspecified time after Civil War. Other instructors included former supervillains, including Taskmaster, who had fought Stature's superhero dad (Ant Man). New Ant Man [[{{JerkAss}} Eric O'Grady]] mocked the former Ant Man to ingratiate himself with Taskmaster. Stature promptly [[WhosLaughingNow tried to kill him]], only for O'Grady to grow to giant size and smack her with a bus. They both were taken down by Taskmaster without Stature hitting O'Grady once. Later at the camp, a clone gone wrong combined with an alien weapon ran around maiming and beating trainees, including her. When she was eventually sent home, she had a screaming fight with her mother and stepfather and accidentally crippled her stepfather during a fight with a supervillain. The only good things were off-screen reconciliations with the other Young Avengers and some {{Epiphany Therapy}}. Keep in mind that the last time we were updated on her age, ''she wasn't even fifteen''.

* Dinah Lance becomes this whenever she pairs with Green Arrow. Every. Single. God. Damn. Time. Their first pairing? Kidnapped by drug lords in a botched sting operation and physically tortured so bad it renders her infertile and strips her of her superpower. (Both would eventually be restored). Rejoins Ollie after he gets resurrected? Her adopted daughter is kidnapped and Ollie himself makes her believe she's dead. Despite that, she still marries him - and proceeds to be reduced to a DistressedDamsel who's Canary Cry accidentally causes an innocent bystander's hearing loss. And then Ollie leaving to form a second Justice League team somehow devastates her so much that she breaks up the primary team that she the leader of. Suffice it to say, there are likely a lot of Birds of Prey fans who really really don't like seeing Dinah and Ollie together.

** The Ringmaster flirts with this status as well; he was once beaten by ''{{Howard the Duck}}''.

* Captain Haddock, Cuthbert Calculus and Thomson and Thompson are the Buttmonkeys from {{Tintin}}.

* ''Transhuman'' by JonathanHickman has a group of literal butt-monkeys. That is they are supposedly the showcase for a new type of genetic modification designed to give you superpowers, yet upon being sent to recapture a group of escaped enhanced intelligence monkeys, they are captured and anally raped these monkeys live on TV. People make jokes about this, even to their faces, for the rest of their lives. The genetic modifications eventually have horrible side effects as well.

** To say nothing of Calamity James!

* Sonny Tuckson from the {{Buck Danny}} series.

* Hacken from {{Comicbook/Hitman}}, perhaps the best defining moment of his crappy luck was when the characters were fighting their way out of an aquarium full of zombie sea animals (Long Story) he gets his hand bitten by a baby seal and in panic chops it of only to find out a few scenes later that these zombies aren’t contagious, cue to panel of him staring sadly at his new stump.

[[caption-width:318:Is Peter unlucky or WHAT?]]


* Oh, god, Peter in FoxTrot.

* Peter from FoxTrot.