Line #27 TheChewToy/VideoGames


1	* [[SmugSnake Edwin]] of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' fame is perhaps the unluckiest bastard in the universe, [[StupidEvil yet his stubborn determination]], [[SmallNameBigEgo raging superiority complex]], and [[AssholeVictim complete lack of any redeeming traits]] in the face of utter failure makes him a favourite character of many.
2	* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fandom being what it is, many characters get this at different times. Hong Meiling (who's always suffering Sakuya's stabbity wrath for sleeping on the job and allowing [[KleptomaniacHero Marisa]] into the Scarlet Devil Mansion to steal Patchy's books), Reisen Udongein Inaba (who's always getting punished by Eirin for Tewi's pranks, in addition to the sadistic attentions of Kaguya and others), Mystia Lorelei (who has to deal with Yuyuko and other youkai always trying to ''eat her''), and Wakasagihime (who is [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent half-fish]], extremely weak and was almost eaten once in canon) probably get the worst of it, though... Borderline canon in Reisen's case, too.
3	** Special mention goes to resident GreenEyedMonster Parsee, whose entire existence revolves around her being extremely, miserably jealous of ''everyone'', and her backstory is implied to be a major TearJerker. This is for the most part PlayedForLaughs by the fandom; it is telling that "paru paru" (derived from the Japanese spelling of her name) has been adopted by the fandom as the UnsoundEffect for jealousy.
4	** Another special mention goes out to {{Lunarian\|s}} [[OurGodsAreDifferent half-Goddess]] [[{{youkai}} half-Amanojaku]] Sagume Kishin. An Amanojaku is a being of contradiction, a CardCarryingVillain and a ConsummateLiar who lives to be hated by the rest of the world. Being the Goddess of Amanojaku, Sagume isn't quite like the others. Rather, she is hated ''by the world itself.'' Her innate special ability, The Power to Reverse any Situation By Speaking About It, isn't so much a "special ability" as it is the universe itself having decided to turn anything and everything she says into lies. This, too, is mostly played for laughs in the fandom.
5	* ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', [[IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels you will accept you are one]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin if you play on easy. Oh yeah.]]
6	* ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'': Poor Pit. There isn't a single character in the series who hasn't humiliated of our plucky angel hero. The list includes: [[VainSorceress The final boss]], [[TheGadfly the other final boss]], [[BrattyHalfPint a nature goddess]], [[DistractedByTheSexy her two]] [[AffablyEvil generals]], [[LargeHam the god of death]], [[WorldOfHam the god of the sun]], [[EvilKnockoff his own shadow self]], and even (Or perhaps especially) [[{{Troll}} his own patron goddess]]. And he's ''still'' the only angel that can't fly on his own.
7	* Many characters in the ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' series have moments of this:
8	** ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' has Almaz as the chew toy. He gets his title stolen, will slowly turn into a demon, is shot by his LoveInterest when she takes him for an enemy, nearly dies from poison, and other things. [[spoiler:In the Almaz ending, he becomes Overlord against his will and gets ditched by the party. In the normal ending however, he gets the bone thrown to him.]]
9	*** He's so much of a chew toy that he gets ''an entire song'' about how unfortunate he is in the former of the two mentioned endings.
10	** Vyers in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness''.
11	** Axel in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''. He later gets this treatment again to a lesser degree in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten''.
12	** Then there's the Prinnies, who are an entire race of ButtMonkey Chew Toys. They'd be sympathetic if they weren't mostly lazy reincarnated criminals, a fact which makes the fact they are LIVING GRENADES utterly hilarious.
13	** Etna in the second half of ''Disgaea 2''. Come on, she loses all her amazing levels, becoming a lv1 wimp that can't even beat Laharl (the first one she wish to kill in her list). And, the worst of all, her own prinnies ''mock her'' and go away. Do you know anything more humiliating to Etna?
14	* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' HK-47 seems to get smashed up, shut down and locked into a warehouse, zapped with ion beams, or be disassembled and have his parts shipped to opposite corners of the galaxy quite frequently.
15	* Sandbag from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. Sandbag is a semi-sentient, well... sandbag, whose sole purpose is to be beat up upon (Its description as a trophy even states this). In Melee and Brawl, there exists a "Homerun Contest", where the player would beat up Sandbag, then see how far they could hit it with a Home-Run Bat smash, which is one of the hardest hits in either game. Furthermore, Sandbag, when it appears as an item in Brawl, will drop a bottomless supply of items when beat up upon. Sandbag also spawns in the Brawl online waiting room for the player to attack.
16	** Sandbag doesn't actually ''mind'' being beaten up, though. It oddly enjoys it. He's something of a masochist.
17	* The village of Mile in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV''. The crops have all withered and died, the ranch owner can't seem to catch a break, and the village is steadily being covered with sand due to the encroaching quicksand field nearby. It doesn't help that they're located right across the sands from Zio's Fort. In the endgame [[spoiler: every single inhabitant is wiped out by the Black Energy Wave emanating from the dimensional rift that the Profound Darkness has ripped open.]]
18	* In ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', the Watanabe father-and-son pair lose its father or both in every single chapter. And how easy it can be seen depends wildly between chapters, from the Near Future chapter featuring a little boy named Watanabe wondering where his father is, to the Present chapter just about requiring you to get hit by a common attack in a specific angle to trigger the scene. They're mostly PlayedForLaughs, but in the Near Future chapter and the Distant Future chapter not only are they plot-relevant, they're also very serious.
19	* Malygos and the rest of the Blue Dragonflight in ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}''. Without fail, everything Malygos has tried to do in the last ten thousand years or so has turned into a catastrophic event for his flight and sometimes for the world as a whole. Small surprise he ended up going a little insane... and when he recovered and tried to stop the madness mortals have unleashed with magic, the other dragonflights ally to fight, and ultimately kill, him.
20	** He did, mind, decide he was going to do that by ''killing'' every last magic-using mortal. Leaving aside the minor genocide aspect, this does have the small objection of guaranteeing the mortals of Azeroth become too weak to defend against the Burning Crusade. Oh, and there's also the part where one of his other plans is going to ''blow up the planet.'' He really didn't get much less insane at all.
21	* The Elven Race of the ''Disciples'' series gets ''well'' and ''truly'' hammered throughout their history. They were the first victims of the [[TheLegionsOfHell Legions of the Damned]] in the [[AllThereInTheManual backstory]], and fled into the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Mountain Clan's]] territory to escape the onslaught. The Dwarves, thinking the Elves were invading, attacked them right back. The Elves' patron God, Gallean, went to the Dwarves' god, Wotan, and demanded some repayment for the mistake. Wotan killed him for his troubles and threw his heart into the sun. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]] because from there, when Mortis, Gallean's wife, eventually got around to sending an Undead army on their lands as part of her plan to resurrect Gallean, in which they lost their Queen, and then they suffered the double-whammy of their High Prophet and ''another'' Queen falling to two different invasions of the Legions of the Damned, as part of ''their'' scheme to free their own god, part of which involved the Elves' lands getting turned extra-crispy, and meanwhile the newly revived Gallean went insane and went away for a while when he rejected Mortis. It was so bad that Strategy First gave them an expansion pack [[ThrowTheDogABone all for]] [[ADayInTheLimelight themselves]], during which they decided to get revenge on the human ''Empire'' of all people, the only people who never wronged them, at least not in a way that's not AllThereInTheManual.
22	* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' regular Glass Joe, with his 1-99 record and feeble attacks, as well as being something of a fan favourite is a perfect example. It has an even worse one, 1-99 that means somebody out there actually lost to Glass freakin' Joe. WordOfGod for the Wii version says it was Von Kaiser, who decided he could beat Joe with his mustache and got his face in the way of Joe's fist, ruining his career forever. [[spoiler:But when you get to Title Defense...]]
23	** ''Super Punch-Out'' for the SNES gives us Joe's student, Gabby Jay. Also 1-99, with Glass Joe being his only win.
24	* Winston Payne in the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' games. In every single appearance, he is always the first prosecutor the player faces and is usually the easiest one to win against due to flaws in his logic and reasoning and he is quick to make excuses or give sloppy explanations when he is losing his case. Payne gets treated so badly from the story writers that in the 3rd game, [[spoiler: he loses most of his hair after losing his case to Mia Fey several years before Phoenix Wright became an attorney]], and in the 4th game, the story in the first case shifts away from Payne and onto Phoenix Wright and Kristoph Gavin, causing Payne to say in the end "What about me!? Don't I get to prosecute anyone!?"
25	* Roxix, TheRival to TheHero Vayne in ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis''. Some of the ''extremely'' funny moments in the game are at the cost of his dignity, courtesy of his {{Familiar}} who admits to humiliating Roxis ''as a hobby''.
26	* The Black Baron[[note]]Stop starin'.[[/note]] of ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' has the honor of introducing the newest {{death trap}} in each Bloodbath Challenge... and the misfortune of being used to demonstrate each and every one, courtesy of his female assistant. [[spoiler:He's also the FinalBoss.]]
27	* Nathan Drake from the ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' series has a habit of taking lots and lots of physical abuse. For example, the second game opens with him shot and in a wrecked train hanging over the edge of a cliff.
28	* The ship captain in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series, who has the misfortune of being killed no fewer than ''three times'' by our bloodthirsty NominalHero, Kratos.
29	* Beatrix of ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' is this both lore-wise, and for the fans:
30	** You can choose to make fun of her in her Fate Episode. From what it seems, Zeta and Vaseraga can also make fun of her at times because of her ego and her cooking.
31	** She gets harassed by lots of children who want candy in a Phantom Banquet cutscene and she's still being harassed by them as depicted in her Halloween version's second artwork.
32	** During the Platinum Sky event, Beatrix winds up being the first racer to be eliminated from the race thanks to her cocky behavior and her paintjob on her ship. She even crashes twice during the race.
33	** In the comics, her appearances tend to result in her genuflecting as she usually says something she shouldn't.
34	** In her swimsuit sprite, she's huddled in the freezing cold. This is in reference to her fate episode where she puts on a swimsuit in the middle of winter to retrieve her sword from a '''frozen''' lake.
35	* [[JokeCharacter Dan Hibiki]] from ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. His father died fighting [[NobleDemon Sagat]], [[ComedicSociopathy constantly abused in the animated series]], and can never catch a break. However, his [[SmallNameBigEgo cockiness]] and [[PluckyComicRelief goofy attitude]] has led him to become [[EnsembleDarkhorse one of the most popular characters in the game]].
36	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims3'', you can design your own Chew Toy by assigning a Sim either the Unlucky or the Loser trait. (Bonus points for assigning both) The Sim will forever be surrounded by bad juju but will be literally unable to die by anything except old age.
37	* Norman Jayden from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain''. Every chapter he's in involves withdrawals and attacks, both physical and verbal.
38	-->'''Jayden:''' [[LampshadeHanging I seem to spend most of this case getting the shit beaten out of me...]]
39	* Brad Vickers, helicopter pilot for S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. He's basically shown to be a DirtyCoward in [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 the first game]], abandoning his teammates to the horrific mansion, only returning at the very end. In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', he returns in the form of a zombie who the player has to kill if they want to acquire the key to the locker where Claire or Leon can change their outfits, and even worse, ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' shows '''how''' he was zombified -- by being killed by the Nemesis.
40	* Nuts in the EdutainmentGame ''VideoGame/KidsOnSite''.
41	* Mitsumoto from the ''VideoGame/IzunaLegendOfTheUnemployedNinja'' series is casually dismissed, ignored, or made fun of by all those around him, including the rest of his own party (Izuna, Shino, and Gen-An). This extends to his PlayerCharacter status in ''Izuna 2'', where he can use every available weapon but isn't good with any of them, and can form a powerful tag attack with any of the other characters...which always results in him getting hurt and taking damage. Ouch.
42	* ''VideoGame/{{Thrillville}}'' has Mortimer be one because of his crazy expirements.
43	* Enzo from ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', a seedy, foul-mouthed, Creator/JoePesci-esque wise guy scraped from the bottom of New York's criminal underbelly. The poor guy is completely unprepared when what seems like a simple enough job makes him literally an enemy of Heaven and all its angels, who [[RunningGag make a habit]] of wrecking his CoolCar. His allies, [[HeroicComedicSociopath Bayonetta herself especially]], also torment him whenever it amuses them.
44	* Ryuji Sakamoto from ''VideoGame/Persona5''. If anyone is bound to face humiliation, whether that be because [[LaserGuidedKarma he brought it on himself]], insuts from the rest of the Phantom Thieves (especially from [[JerkassToOne Morgana]]), or any other reason really, it will ''always'' be Ryuji.
45	* Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' was intentionally designed to be a Chew Toy as form of [[TakeThatAudience mocking players]] who saw ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' as a PowerFantasy. Birds can crap on Raiden's head or face, he can slip on bird poop (one area makes this lethal since the slip knocks you off the ledge and into the ocean below), he can be urinated on by an unsuspecting guard, he has information withheld from him by various people, he is mocked by nearly everyone (his superiors, his girlfriend, Solid Snake himself, and even the freaking President of the United States), he gets stripped down naked when he is captured (and is forced to sneak around in such a state), and then is told at the very end that he was manipulated and conditioned from the very beginning to be the perfectly trained soldier like Solid Snake, but without free will. Naturally, most fans missed the point and simply saw it as "Raiden is not Solid Snake, therefore, he's a shit character." Kojima apologized by making a character in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' who looks like Raiden and gets abused regularly -- Raiden himself gets more awesome by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', but at a heavy price.
46	* This is the whole point of the online game ''Mutilate a Doll''.
47	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Seriously, don't even get us started on how [[SerialEscalation REALLY]] [[CosmicPlaything BAD]] [[NinetiesAntiHero Ragna the Bloodedge]]'s entire life is. Just ask the community.
48	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': [[{{Sidekick}} Tails]] is this in the 2D games in co-op mode when he's controlled by the computer, constantly running into hazards and occasionally dying. This is compounded by the fact that he [[IronButtMonkey can take infinite hits and respawns almost immediately upon dying]].
49	* ''VideoGame/BritannicPatronessOfTheMediterranean'', and it's pseudo-prequel Titanic: Honor And Glory Demo 3, features a standi-in player Character named Robin Darcy - an oblivious, foolish fop with terrible luck that only really shows itself through [[FridgeHorror reading between the lines]] of his commentary.
50	* ''VideoGame/ScarletNexus'': Depending on which protagonist’s story you’re going through, Shiden. In Yuito’s route, Shiden is essentially a {{Jerkass}} with a HiddenHeartOfGold who eventually admits to being too prideful to admit he was wrong in thinking Yuito was weak, while Yuito lets him walk all over him most of the time. But in Kasane’s route, Shiden serves as this by facing the full brunt of Kasane’s BrutalHonesty, as well as SarcasmMode teasing by Kagero.
51	* [[RobotBuddy Claptrap]] of the ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series (primarily [[TheLastOfHisKind the sole remaining Claptrap unit]] by the time of ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'') has a pretty rough time all around, no doubt thanks to being stuck on [[DeathWorld Pandora]]. He gets [[TheFriendNobodyLikes treated by a majority of allies with disdain]] for how [[ThePollyanna annoyingly chipper he is]], has [[CantUseStairs an embarrassingly crippling weakness to stairs]], and whenever bandits get a hold of him, [[ColdBloodedTorture they beat him up just for fun]]. In one case, Claptrap's attempt to reason with his torturers leads to him concluding ''all on his own'' that since they get genuine enjoyment out of it and Claptrap only feels a simulation of pain, ''they'' have the moral high ground, [[ExtremeDoormat and thus Claptrap allows them to pummel away]].
52	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': The trilogy has Gilbert, an egotistical IneffectualSympatheticVillain sympathetic villain who keeps on getting himself into trouble before running away. Gilbert gets bullied by his bosses in Ouroboros, and every time you hit him in combat, he stammers out a pathetic line.

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