History ButtMonkey / LiveActionFilms

* ''Film/{{Revolution 1989}}'': Wallace is the put-upon sidekick of the duo.

** On the other side of the law we have Sheriff Edward Gideon, "The Black" from "The White, The Yellow, the Black", also played by Eli Wallach. He has to put up with a crafty Swiss-Italian outlaw and an [[EthnicScrappy annoying]] samurai impersonator... and that's the start of his troubles.

** 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 Mike Tyson tattoo and nearly has his wedding ruined. Oh, and he receives anal sex from a transvestite.]]

* ''Film/ClerksII'': Elias, Randall and Dante's nerdy co-worker, is frequently teased and picked on by Randall for his devout Christian beliefs, his fandom of ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Transformers'', and his lack of sexual experience. Although he loosens up quite a bit after he [[spoiler:watches a homosexual donkey show under the influence of pot and alcohol.]]

** Despite his near-dragon status (and undisputed [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing psychosis]]) in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', General Hux is rapidly and unceremoniously demoted to Butt-Monkey right at the outset of ''Film/TheLastJedi''. From second-in-command planet-destroying madman to all-around punching bag is a precipitous drop, and Hux feels every thump on the way down: insultingly crank-called by a borderline-jerkass pilot, Force-slapped by his boss then [[spoiler:Force-strangled by his upstart intern who decides to take over when the boss is killed]], to finally being [[spoiler:humiliated ''in front of his own troops'' by being flung into a console and knocked out as he was delivering sound military advice to the maniac in charge]]. Overall, his descent into Butt-Monkeydom probably qualifies as a HumiliationConga in its own right.

** Not a speaking role, and not human, but apparentlythe "little anal-dwelling butt monkey" has a life something like this. Or at least has Word Of God going for categorizing it so.

* Louis Tully frm ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''. 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 ''Film/GhostbustersII'' by [[spoiler: helping the Ghostbusters take down Vigo!]]

** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' has Starscream turned into Megatron's personal punching-bag and scapegoat for anything gone wrong, much like G1 Starscream was in the 1984 cartoon's first 2 seasons.

** Optimus spends nearly half his screen time in ''The Last Knight'' getting beaten the crap out of him either by Quintessa or the Guardian Knights.

* ''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 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/{{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.

* ''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.

* ''Film/StarTrek'' (the 2009 film): 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.

** It helps that he is [[FanPreferredCouple clearly]] [[YaoiFangirl sleeping with]] [[BelligerentSexualTension Eames]].
** Not to mention he gets shot twice at the beginning. Once just to cause him pain, and once BY HIS OWN TEAMMATE (admittedly to wake him up).

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'': Gimli seems to always be the butt of the comic relief. The Fellowship of the Ring: in the mines of Moria, Gimli explicitly says not to throw him, but he ''is'' thrown across a crevice - and upon landing, grabbed by the beard (all justified, as he would have died otherwise). Actually, more in general in Middle Earth the Dwarves as a race were pretty much Butt Monkeys; this ranged from them having terrible table manners, the Elves clearly looking down upon them, to their women having beards and being indistinguishable from the men.

** Despite his near-dragon status (and undisputed [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing psychosis]]) in ''TheForceAwakens'', General Hux is rapidly and unceremoniously demoted to Butt-Monkey right at the outset of ''TheLastJedi''. From second-in-command planet-destroying madman to all-around punching bag is a precipitous drop, and Hux feels every thump on the way down: insultingly crank-called by a borderline-jerkass pilot, Force-slapped by his boss then [[spoiler:Force-strangled by his upstart intern who decides to take over when the boss is killed]], to finally being [[spoiler:humiliated ''in front of his own troops'' by being flung into a console and knocked out as he was delivering sound military advice to the maniac in charge]]. Overall, his descent into Butt-Monkeydom probably qualifies as a HumiliationConga in its own right.

* ''Film/SouthlandTales'': When Officer Ronald Taverner is first introduced to the audience, he's been kidnapped, sedated and (humorously) tied-up. When the hideout he's in is raided, he's still groggy from the sedatives but manages to escape being killed... albeit by falling into a dumpster and unceremoniously pasing out. Much later on he wakes up with a renewed sense of purpose to find his twin brother Roland, only to end up being held at gunpoint, and then tased and knocked-out once more. He wakes up hours later to find himself tied-up (once again) in a gun-runner's ice cream truck, heading into one of the worst riot wars that the city has seen. He finally manages to free himself when the truck he's in takes a direct hit from a bomb, only to be taken down by gunfire from the city's riot police. In the end, he does manage to find his brother, but by that time he's all bloodied-up, bruised and ''missing his left-eye''... [[spoiler:But, thanks to both of the Taverners finally joining hands, all of that misery and humiliation Ronald endured might just be the least of his troubles... maybe.]]

** Despite his near-dragon status (and undisputed [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing psychosis) in ''Film:TheForceAwakens'', General Hux is rapidly and unceremoniously demoted to Butt-Monkey right at the outset of ''Film:TheLastJedi''. From second-in-command planet-destroying madman to all-around punching bag is a precipitous drop, and Hux feels every thump on the way down: insultingly crank-called by a borderline-jerkass pilot, Force-slapped by his boss then [[spoiler:Force-strangled by his upstart intern who decides to take over when the boss is killed]], to finally being [[spoiler:humiliated ''in front of his own troops'' by being flung into a console and knocked out as he was delivering sound military advice to the maniac in charge]]. Overall, his descent into Butt-Monkeydom probably qualifies as a HumiliationConga in its own right.

* ''Film/ATaxiDriver''Kim Man-seob. Not only does he got short-changed by customers on a daily basis (if not hourly basis), but he even gets his taxi fare swiped out of hand in the hospital scene. At least journalist Jürgen Petersen tries to drown out Man-seob's misery with money.

* Kenny from ''Film/WereTheMillers''.

* ''Film/XMen'':

* ''East Germany'' gets this role in ''Film/BridgeOfSpies''. The Americans treat the entire nation as nothing more than Soviet stooges, and the Soviets themselves couldn't care less about the East Germans' opinions.

* Rob Schneider: 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/MeetTheParents'' (and its sequel, ''MeetTheFockers''): These films are ''all about'' making poor Greg Focker [[spoiler:actually, Gaylord]] as miserable as possible, having ''everything'' that could possibly go wrong, go wrong when he's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin meeting his girlfriend's parents]].