History ButtMonkey / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': Gimli seems to always be the butt of the comic relief.

* ''{{Film/Boyhood}}'': The film's plot is based on this trope. Mason Jr. is being abused, mistreated or bullied by people (mostly women and girls) which includes his bratty sister Samantha, his stepdad Bill, his mother Olivia (mainly at the end who screamed at him ''just'' for leaving home to go to college) and a bundle of many others who aren't identified by name or only appear for seconds.

* 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.

** In addition to getting kidnapped a lot, Princess Leia is the butt of sexual harassment, regarding the way Han talked to her in "The Empire Strikes Back" and Jabba making her his sex slave, fitted with the highly popular/infamous metal bikini, in "Return of the Jedi".

* ''Film/HocusPocus'': High-school student Max. [[AManIsNotAVirgin His virginity is repeatedly invoked and commented on.]] The biggest offender is his [[BrattyHalfPint eight-year-old sister, Dani]].

* ''Film/TheLoneRanger'': The Lone Ranger himself throughout a massive portion of the film, until he finally becomes the BadAss we know and love.

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

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': The Chinese in the third film.

* ''{{Film/Horrible Bosses}}'': All 3 protagonists, Nick, Kurt and Dale are butt monkeys to their terrible bosses in the first film and then to [[spoiler:Bert]] screwing them over with a $500,000 debt in the second film (with Dale pointing out he'll suffer the most cause he's married with 3 triplet daughters).
** Dale himself is a Loser Protagonist, as he was registered as a sex offender despite being innocence even before the first film's events.
** Jason Bateman (who plays Nick) usually plays a butt monkey.

* ''Film/StarTrek'': 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.

** [=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.
** In addition to getting kidnapped a lot, Princess Leia is the butt of sexual harassment, regarding the way Han talked to her in "The Empire Strikes Back" and Jabba making her his sex slave, fitted with the highly popular metal bikini, in "Return of the Jedi".

* ''TheBradyBunch Movie'': Jan is treated like crap and overlooked to the point where she's hearing psychotic voices in her head.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'': Louis Tully. Let's see... he has a crush on Dana Barrett, a cellist who lives in the same apartment complex as him, [[AllLoveIsUnRequited but she initially shows no interest towards him.]] He is also often locked out of places, in particular, his apartment room. To add insult to injury, [[spoiler: Gozer's minions Zuul and Vinz Clortho enter the human world via the apartment complex, so Clortho chases poor Louis down (at a party he was holding) and possesses his body]]. However, he redeems himself in ''Ghostbusters 2'' by [[spoiler: helping the Ghostbusters take down Vigo!]]

* ''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''.

* ''{{Film/Transformers: Age of Extinction}}'': poor, tiny Brains lost one of his legs and Joshua tortures him with electric shocks.

* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Six words: Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez. He isn't successful for any more than twenty consecutive minutes in the film. The sum of Tuco's troubles? Nearly hanged twice, left alone in the desert, sent crashing through a floor, getting distracted from killing Blondie, getting the dying Bill Carson water and come back to find that Blondie got information to the gold first, accidentally getting them both arrested, getting beaten up by Wallace ''twice'', and then nearly getting hanged a third time, before being left by himself in the cemetery, alive but stranded. Of course, he is a vengeful, opportunistic bandit who probably deserved what he got in the end.

* ''Film/TheAvengers'': 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.

* Park Gang-du from ''Film/TheHost''. Absolutely nothing goes right for him.

* ''Film/{{Mortdecai}}'': Jock, who gets shot ''twice '''by Charlie himself,''''', attacked by a dog, and nearly gets his finger chopped off by Fang's {{Mook}}s.

** Poor [=R2D2=], he is always blasted, and [=C3PO=] blames him for everything. But this is mostly a result of what happens to [=C3PO=].
*** Nah, he just gets too many 'save everybody' moments (in Episode 1 he saves the queen's starship, in 3 he redirects the elevator, in 4 he stops the trash compactor and in 5 he re-activates the Falcon's hyperdrive), as well as any number of other moments when he ''only'' makes badass.

* Kershaw spends most of his screentime in ''Film/PainAndGain'' being tortured or made fun of. Also the Sun Gym manager that is coerced into participating the scheme by Daniel.

* ''{{Film/Horrible Bosses}}'': All 3 protagonists, Nick, Kurt and Dale are butt monkeys to their terrible bosses in the first film and then to Bert screwing them over with a $500,000 debt in the second film (with Dale pointing out he'll suffer the most cause he's married with 3 triplet daughters).