History ButtMonkey / Comicbooks

* Charlie Brown from ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. Woodstock and Snoopy have their moments as well.

** In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, Hank and ComicBook/TheWasp were the only founding Avengers not featured in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' movie, and it's been confirmed that the upcoming ''Film/AntMan'' movie is not about Hank, but instead features Scott Lang as the lead. That being said, it's {{Subverted}} this time around, as Hank is portrayed as a CoolOldGuy EccentricMentor to Scott.

* Tails in the Fleetway ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''. 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]].

* Garryn Bek from ''L.E.G.I.O.N.'' is almost always the most picked on member of the cast. Nobody in the whole galaxy takes as much punishment and humiliation as Garryn Bek, at least for the first forty issues or so.

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** Deciding he had no reason to stay on Earth-3, he joined up with [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner and Jason Todd]], stepping through an inter-dimensional portal just in time for Evelyn, who was alive and racing to get to him, to tearfully watch him disappear;

* The Jokester, a heroic doppleganger of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy. A brief synopsis of his life story:

* The Jokester, a heroic counterpart of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy. A brief synopsis of his life story:

** Deciding he had no reason to stay on Earth-3, he joined up with [[ComicBook/CountdownToInfiniteCrisis Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner and Jason Todd]], stepping through an inter-dimensional portal just in time for Evelyn, who was alive and racing to get to him, to tearfully watch him disappear;

** When he grew up, he found love with a beautiful woman who adored him, and then abruptly left him while pregnant with their daughter;

** {{Deadpool}} and Franchise/SpiderMan recently had a "Yo Momma" battle and guess who was the punchline of the joke?

* Weasel, Bob Agent of Hydra.... Any of {{Deadpool}}'s side-kicks really.

* [[ComicBook/AntMan 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''.

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

* Some writers seem to think that the biggest appeal of ''{{Spider-Man}}'' is that things constantly go wrong for him. As a result, we get countless stories of Peter suffering humiliation, lack of money, sickly aunt, girl trouble and just all around unpleasantness, to the point that reading the stories can actually get a little depressing. Note that after John Romita Sr started working on the title with Creator/StanLee, the book became much LighterAndSofter than it had been recently, a move which led most fans to label it as the golden age of Spider-Man.

* Scott Summers aka ''ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}'' has gone though more shit and mockery and ligtmate hatred than any of the long standing X-Men despite being TheLeader of the team for longest time. Even as a child he screws up his EyeBeams after falling off cliff and landing on his face, so he can't control the optic blast ''ever''. Scott still holds respect as leader of the X-Men, until ''ComicBook/Wolverine joins the team. Logan does his best to make Scott look like a ass and flirts with ''ComicBook/JeanGrey'' Scott's girl friend, not helped by fact every time Jean dies Scott [[YourCheatingHeart sleeps around with other women]] which leads to him getting brutalised by Wolverine or sometimes Jean herself. Scott's popularity takes a meteoric plunge in the Marvel universe when he kills Professor X while under the influence of the Phoenix Force, it's also worth noting Scott's was still in control of his actions and Phoinex Force hadn't completely taken him over, so it's a mix of helplessness and actual malice on Scott's part.

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInTheEightGrade'' is convinced that her new homeworld hates her. Her schoolmates mock her, her teachers are sadistic jerks, and her powers malfunction at the most inopportune times.

* Scott Summers aka ''ComicBook/Cycolps'' has gone though more shit and mockery and ligtmate hatred than any of the long standing X-Men despite being TheLeader of the team for longest time. Even as a child he screws up his EyeBeams after falling off cliff and landing on his face, so he can't control the optic blast ''ever''. Scott still holds respect as leader of the X-Men, until ''ComicBook/Wolverine joins the team. Logan does his best to make Scott look like a ass and flirts with ''ComicBook/JeanGrey'' Scott's girl friend, not helped by fact every time Jean dies Scott [[YourCheatingHeart sleeps around with other women]] which leads to him getting brutalised by Wolverine or sometimes Jean herself. Scott's popularity takes a meteoric plunge in the Marvel universe when he kills Professor X while under the influence of the Phoenix Force, it's also worth noting Scott's was still in control of his actions and Phoinex Force hadn't completely taken him over, so it's a mix of helplessness and actual malice on Scott's part.

** In the MarvelNow Amazing Spider-Man, it hasn't even been ''ten minutes'' since being Spider-Man again before he has his suit unravel by a villan's power, and having him nude except for his mask being posted all over the internet. [[HesBack This convinces '''everyone''' that the real Spider-Man is back.]]

* Jon Arbuckle of {{Garfield}} is an extreme example, as seen to the right.

** Deadpool himself is one too. Everyone hates him, He has awful luck with women and is subjected to all sorts of Slapstick.Oh and also , ya know being [[BlessedWithSuck living Stage 4 and all]]
* The life of Remy Lebeau alias ComicBook/{{Gambit}} (X-Men) starts by not being Remy LeBeau - he was kidnapped as a baby because of a prophecy and will never know his real parents. He was brought up as a thief, never having a chance to a normal life and we don't know about normal education. He was regularly targeted by the Assassins Guild and other bad people because he was designated a successor to his "adoptive" father, the head of the Thieves Guild. Then he had to marry his best childhood friend out of political reasons, only to be ordered to a duel by her evil brother which he couldn't refuse without banishment. He took the duel, killed the brother and... was banished. Later it is revealed that his wife even planned all that and was very happy about it, no matter making his life hell for years and trying to kill him. His powers are burning him out, so he gets a power limiter, only the price for that is leading people somewhere where these people kill a whole folk - the Morlocks- without knowing. He saves one kid who will become a mass murderer later. When he tries to steal paintings, he meets Storm who is made into a kid and stumbles into danger. Later he joins the X-Men but is never really a part of it, always an outsider among the outsiders. He falls in love with the only women never able to touch (Rogue) who plays on- and- off with him, dumping him regularly for other people (Joseph, Fantomex, etc.) leaving him to die in Antarctica. Now he is a character that hardly appears at all, only to have his love life telepathically broadcasted by Rogue, who he can now touch but who dumped him yet again. On top of all of that, he has spent the majority of hero-life wearing a pink breast plate, what made him ambivalent among X-Men fans.

* What's the most thankless job at [[MarvelComics Marvel's]] biggest newspaper, the ''Daily Bugle'', the guy who has the biggest reason to shout DudeWheresMyRespect? The guy who writes obituaries! Seriously! His name is Dilbert Trilby, and in ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' #1 after ComicBook/DoctorOctopus was killed (and subsequently resurrected by the Hand) he had a meltdown that you just ''have'' to sympathize with at the prospect of having to retract an obituary of the villain that he claimed was Pulitzer material, ranting in despair to Ben Ulrich how he has files full of past ones he had written on guys like ComicBook/SpiderMan, [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]], and the ComicBook/FantasticFour. ("Don't even get me started on the ComicBook/XMen!" he moans). all of which he painstakingly worked on after researching the lives of the subjects, only to have to retract them. In a universe where DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist, someone like him just can't catch a break.

* Filler Bunny from various JhonenVasquez comics was created purely to entertain the audience by being tortured. Appropriately enough, at one point he has a monkey climb up his butt.

* Herr Starr from ''ComicBook/{{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 [[BlackComedyRape 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".

* Wally West is kind of the go-to ButtMonkey for ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' writers. However bad any other speedster has it, they can always look at Wally and thank their lucky stars they're not ''him''.

* Charlie Brown from ''{{Peanuts}}''. Woodstock and Snoopy have their moments as well.

* ''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.

* ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'' has Kombo, an African witch-doctor and [[NominalHero reluctant ally]] to Violine, who always causes or gets in trouble.