History ButtMonkey / LiveActionFilms

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Tony Stark. A great deal of the humor in the various action sequences involve him first being genuinely badass, but then casually getting the shit kicked out of him (once by an inanimate propeller) because he a) is incredibly smart-alecky and boastful, and getting smacked around stops him from coming off as annoying, and b) wears a suit of PoweredArmor, so getting the shit kicked out of him doesn't actually hurt anything but his pride all that much.
** Despite being the BigBad Loki seems to have a few spells of being one of these, especially towards the end of the film. Every Avenger gets his goat once. Even [[spoiler:Phil Coulson]] gets in a good shot. And when he [[HeelFaceTurn gets his act together]] [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar later on]], [[spoiler: he ends up being one of the first to be killed by [[BigBad Thanos]].]]
** Poor Happy Hogan in ''Film/IronMan2''. If only he was in ''Film/DieHard'' rather than a superhero movie... He manages to catch a break when he starts dating [[AdaptationalAttractiveness Aunt May]] in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', but quickly gets dumped and reduced to a DoggedNiceGuy.
** Star-Lord ended up becoming one after ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. [[spoiler: He always had to put up with ribbing from Rocket & Drax but as time went on his team seems to think so little of him that they entertain the idea of making him knife-fight Thor for position of leader. When Rhodey and Nebula go back in time to retrieve the Power Stone they call him an idiot before sucker-punching a past version of him, knocking him out cold. After losing his girlfriend Gamora and then his life in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' he's brought back in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' only to almost die again fighting Thanos' Sakaarans before being immediately [[GroinAttack kneed in the groin twice]] by a past version of his girlfriend who wants nothing to do with him.]]
** Wanda is perhaps the biggest example. The poor woman lose her parents, her brother Pietro, her lover Vision (''three'' times, and from her perspective all three in the span of a month) and her kids. Then, a dark magical book show up and erased what's left of her sanity.

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** After his initial appearance in ''Film/XMen1'', things go downhill for Senator Kelly. [[spoiler:Kidnapping, being transformed into what he hates, dropped into the ocean and finally a painful death.]]
** The Man in Black from ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. Mocked by his colleagues, lightly manipulated by the mutants and eventually [[spoiler:murdered by Azazel.]]
** Despite his prominence in the overarching franchise (and his role as TheDragon to Trask), William Stryker suffers the most injuries and beatdowns out of anyone in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', including being blasted by Havok in the opening scene, being tasered after Mystique's failed assassination of Trask, and being beaten again when Nixon and his team discover Mystique is in the room with them. It's really no wonder he seems to hate mutants so much later on, when he spends all of his screen time in this one getting his ass beaten by them.

* ''Film/HomeAlone'': Harry and Marv in the films, especially Marv. Also, the hotel staff in the second film.

* Creator/RobSchneider: Several of his roles, most notably the bellboy from ''Film/HomeAlone2'', Fergie from ''Film/JudgeDredd'', the titular character from ''Film/DeuceBigelow'', Marvin from ''Film/TheAnimal'', and the male version of Jessica from ''Film/TheHotChick''.

* Creator/RobSchneider: Several of hiss roles, most notably the bellboy from ''Film/HomeAlone2'', Fergie from ''Film/JudgeDredd'', the titular character from ''Film/DeuceBigelow'', Marvin from ''Film/TheAnimal'', and the male version of Jessica from ''Film/TheHotChick''.

** ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Bumblebee, he can't get a break as Seymour and Sector 7 capture then torture him and after he escapes, Starscream breaks his legs.

** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': poor, tiny Brains lost one of his legs and Joshua tortures him with electric shocks. Bumblebee also counts as Drift goads Bee on unimpressive leadership just so Drift can beat him up and being verbally insulted upon by Shane and the Chinese executives promoting his knock-off "Stinger".

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Captain James T. Kirk of the ''USS Enterprise''. Many of the film's action sequences, and much of its humor, involve him getting owned in one way or another. He also gets stranded on planets and has freaky and potentially embarrassing reactions to vaccines.
** He [[spoiler:gets choked by Spock at one point and by a Romulan at another]]. Both times with some pretty good acting by Pine. It ''hurts'' as you try to catch your breath afterwards. Pine actually mentioned in an interview that he admires Harrison Ford for his ability [[WrestlingPsychology to take a beating like it really hurts]], and that he considered that an underrated skill.
** Kirk getting repeatedly owned in hand-to-hand combat with [[spoiler: Spock and the Romulans]] is somewhat justifiable, considering they're meant to be [[MadeOfIron three times stronger]] than humans.

* ''Film/SteelMagnolias'': Ouiser is an eccentric GrumpyBear in a [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine town]] and often becomes the butt of [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel jokes and outright mocking, whether she provokes it or not.]]

* Assjuice from ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}''.

* ''Film/TheCourtJester'': Alas for poor Fergus the Hostler. Sneaks into the castle, but only gets to be a hostler, so they have to send somebody else in after him. Ignored by everybody, including Hawkins and Jean, when listening to him could have ended the movie in five minutes, and saved many lives including his own. And capping his misfortunes, he is ''tortured to death'' by Ravenhurst's henchmen; although it happens mercifully off-screen, the dialogue makes it pretty clear what happened: "Fergus is dead." "Did he talk?" [Whispers].

** The sequel takes it UpToEleven, in which his soon to be father-in-law humiliates him in a pre-wedding speech. Then, after [[spoiler:ManChild Alan drugs them yet ''again'', he gets a PERMANENT Creator/MikeTyson tattoo and nearly has his wedding ruined. Oh, and he receives anal sex from a transvestite.]]

* ''Film/VetHard'': Vuk is Milo's "[[MistakenNationality Yugoslavian]]" cousin who is dumped by Milo at Bennie's. Vuk is a PsychoElectro who obsessive-compulsively plays with electricity, causing a lot of havoc on the other characters (who don't want anything to do with him in the first place). He is repeatedly beaten up by Bennie. The end of the movie takes it UpToEleven, when [[spoiler: he is already wearing casts all over his body, ''and then'' run over with Bennie's car]].

** [=C3PO=]. He gets little camera time in Episode 1 and the camera time he does get, he's not covered, and starts off missing an eye. In Episode 2, he falls down a shaft and switches bodies with a droid. In Episode 3, he gets his mind wiped. In Episode 4, he is captured and trapped under several wires. In Episode 5, he is blasted into several pieces. He is given a break in Episode 6 when the ewoks treat him like a god, though he does get his eye being bitten out by Salacious Crumb during the sail barge scene on Tattooine.
** The stormtroopers in the original trilogy are usually shown to be pretty incompetent, due to being infamous for [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy not being good shots]]. This was later decreased in the Sequel Trilogy with the First Order versions of the stormtroopers, where they come off as considerably more competent, using strategic position on the battlefield and generally being less goofy on the job (in fact the contrast in their performance vs. their usual appearance can be somewhat jarring since people have come to expect the Stormtroopers to be fairly ineffective). They still miss against the heroes but that's more due to PlotArmor than straight out being bad shots.

* Creator/BenStiller: The man is a distinguished career Butt Monkey.

* ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'': The protagonist is a Butt Monkey taken to the extreme.
* ''Film/{{Casper}}'': Paul "Dibbs" Plutzker in the 1995 film.

* ''Film/DisneysRocketMan'': Hackman, being the blunt of the catastrophes caused by Fred.
* ''Film/DraftDay'': Rick the intern.

* ''{{Film/Identity Thief}}'': Sandy Patterson. The real one, not the imposter.

* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Max himself is a major one, getting a huge HumiliationConga in the first act.

** ''Film/IronMan1'': "Dummy", the robotic arm that Tony regularly calls useless and threatens to donate to a city college.
** ''Film/IronMan2'': Poor Happy Hogan. If only he was in ''Film/DieHard'' rather than a superhero movie....
** ''Film/IronMan3'': Has the [[InstantArmor Mark XLII armor]], which, because of its many technical difficulties (such as its tendencies to delay Tony's TransformationSequence and to get hit by things and fall apart), comes off as a strange kind of comic relief character.

* Park Gang-du from ''Film/TheHost''. He's already a loser by the time the film starts; his wife left him, his siblings don't respect him, and his daughter gets abducted by a monster. And as though that wasn't enough, he's targeted for a virus ([[spoiler: which turns out to be nonexistent]]) and while in the hospital, gets tissue samples painfully removed from his neck, and needles injected into his head so they could probe the virus.

* ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'': Does this to Death of all people. He is repeatedly humiliated, first when Bill and Ted wedgie him to escape. Then he undergoes a series of embarrassing defeats at board games, is forced to appear before God in drag, suffers repeated comedic injuries on earth, and finally he can't even catch a break when he becomes part of the band that saves the world (ItMakesSenseInContext). His solo albums fail spectacularly.

* Challenging the conventional nature of comedies in which the young attractive female tends to be immune from such a trope, In ''Film/DesktopDesperadoes'' Linda the Secretary barely makes it through a single scene without being at the butt of at least a single gag of humiliation. In her first few seconds of screentime, she is spun to a state of dizziness during a dance routine, during her spotlight scene on the beach she is squashed flat by a drawbridge from a castle created by Pointer, shattered into a million pieces by a volleyball travelling at an insane velocity and almost guzzled up by a shark. There's also her later scene when the printer is used on her (stripping Linda of her three dimensional shape) to demonstrate the existence of graphics and finally there's an insanely awkward moment when Pointer staggers off in a daze from stench after Pointer falls into a pile of rubbish and tumbles on top her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs

* ''Film/RomanHoliday'': Irving. Endlessly.

* Sid Melton: Famously from ''The Creator/DannyKaye Show'' and a ''lot'' of B-movies. There's a reason his FanNickname (inspired by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]) is "Little Monkey Boy".

* ''Film/UndercoverBlues'': Muerte (Stanley Tucci) is established as a borderline AxCrazy after his first encounter with Jeff Blue (Randy Quaid) but by the end of the film, most people I know are feeling a little bit sorry for him because of the sheer amount of hell the Blues put him through.

* ''Film/VetHard'': [[UnfortunateNames Vuk]] is Milo's "[[MistakenNationality Yugoslavian]]" cousin who is dumped by Milo at Bennie's. Vuk is a PsychoElectro who obsessive-compulsively plays with electricity, causing a lot of havoc on the other characters (who don't want anything to do with him in the first place). He is repeatedly beaten up by Bennie. The end of the movie takes it UpToEleven, when [[spoiler: he is already wearing casts all over his body, ''and then'' run over with Bennie's car]].

* Max from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''.

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* ''Film/AfterHours'': Paul Hackett in this film. Going with a girl to Soho has him losing $20, running out because he thinks the girl is severly disfigured, doesn't have enough change to return back because it's past midnight, a bar owner unable to get into his cash register to get change so they exchange keys so he can get it, seeing a robbery take place and incapable of doing anything about it, the girl he ran away from committed ''suicide'' after he goes back to apologise, two girls who like him but later abandon him when he's mistaken for a burgular by a mob, going to a punk nightclub leads to his hair is forcefully shaken into a mohawk, finding out the bar owner he met previously is the ''boyfriend'' of the girl who committed suicide after seeing him grieving, chased back into the club which is now empty and after meeting a sculptor there he is hidden in papier mache, but it hardens and she won't let him get out, as she convinces the mob he's not there, and finally, he is ''stolen'' as artwork by the original two robbers, as they put him inside their truck. It gets better as he later falls out from the back of the van, as his casing cracks and he's nearby the gate to his office, and then simply goes back to work. This is the ''happy ending''.

** [=C3PO=]. He gets little camera time in episode 1 and the camera time he does get, he's not covered, and starts off missing an eye. In episode 2 he falls down a shaft and switches bodies with a droid. in episode 3, he is gets his mind wiped. in Episode 4, he is captured, and he is trapped under several wires. in episode 5, he is blasted into several pieces. He is given a break in episode 6 when the ewoks treat him like a god, though he does get his eye being bitten out by Salacious Crumb during the sail barge scene.

** Anguirus can count as well. He's a little guy compared to the rest of the Kaiju and does not possess any special abilities and gets pushed around very easily such as when the JSDF fires at him [[HelpMistakenForAttack thinking he came to human territory to cause trouble]] when Godzilla sent him to check if there's trouble going on, King Ghidorah drops him from the sky and MechaGodzilla [[KickTheDog beats him up senselessly]].