Sandbox / Chew Toy Wick Check

The Chew Toy wick check. Potholes and sinkholes will be bolded when hidden behind other text.

Not enough context on whether the character is meant to suffer for the amusement of the audience (30/ 69

• (Beary Funny) Cartoons from MGM would typically display ursine characters in this manner. To wit:
  • Barney Bear is an unlucky, long-suffering bear in the vein of Donald Duck.
    • One short with Barney is called "Barney's Hungry Cousin", which involves another, skinnier, goofier-looking bear that goes to great lengths to steal Barney's picnic food.
• (Ignored Raised Hand) In the Kaeloo episode "Once Upon a Time", Kaeloo is telling a bedtime story but gives up halfway through and asks for someone else to take over. The only person who wants to is Stumpy, and Kaeloo exasperatedly asks "Nobody?"
• (Used to Be a Sweet Kid) The Doomy Adventures of Irken Doominess:
  • Gar, who was normal as a smeet, got ridiculed by everyone, was singled out to be the tallest's personal Chew Toy, started Hearing Voices, and got a major Sanity Slippage which resulted in her trying to kill the tallest.
• (Characters.Bunnicula) Weirdness Magnet: Can be prone to this when suffering or out of his control like "Wag the Dog" where Harold's tail came to life to manipulate his body while Harold himself becomes the tail in a villainous manner, this was fortunately backfired.
• (Characters.Erins Total Magical Adventure Wise Sorcerers) The Chew Toy: More often than not, he brings his pain upon himself.
• (Characters.Fred The Chew Toy: The viewers are clearly supposed to be amused by the immense amount of hell and misfortunes he's subjected to.
• (Characters.Judge Dredd Civilians) The Chewtoy: Poor guy really can't catch a break, as the whole world seems intent on making his life miserable. Even Dredd treats him like crap, though in his case, it has nothing to do with Otto's looks, which Dredd couldn't care less about, and more that Otto is a constant headache that insists on acting like he and Dredd are old friends.
• (Characters.Kaeloo 1/4) Jerkass: As Bad Kaeloo. And, Depending on the Writer, sometimes even as "normal" Kaeloo.
  • Jerkass to One: Kaeloo is a nice person who generally acts kind and caring to everyone except Stumpy, to whom she does things like deliberately ignoring him as he is drowning, cruelly smiling as she watches him fall off a cliff, and openly mocking him for losing a game.
• (Characters.Kaeloo 3/4) The Chew Toy: Being Mr. Cat's main torture victim will do that to you.
• (Characters.Kaeloo 4/4) Brutal Honesty: When Mr. Cat actually bothers to be honest, it tends to be very negative. For example, when he gets invited to a dinner party by Kaeloo, the first thing he does is criticize the dining room's decor. He also tends to tell Stumpy to his face that he's ugly, stupid, and/or a loser.
• (Characters.Kamen Rider Geats Keiwa Sakurai) The Chew Toy: In-Universe, he's this to Kekera — Kekera's firm belief that Misery Builds Character leads him to put Keiwa through constant suffering in an attempt to make Keiwa grow into his ideal type of hero.
• (Characters.Kubera Human Realm 1/2) The Chew Toy: Atera and Kalibloom do not have a good time. Whereas the other cities are attacked only once or twice (and often with minimal damage or focus), Atera and Kalibloom have been attacked no less than three times so far, and suffer quite a bit of destruction in the process.
• (Characters.Life Lessons With Uramichi Oniisan) The Chew Toy: Uramichi is always beating him up, for good reason. The others will often get in on the bullying.
• (Characters.Monster Blood) The Chew Toy: Evan. When he's not being beaten up, he's being used by his obnoxious cousin Kermit for experiments or enduring something horrible thanks to Monster Blood, or just plain treated like crap by his parents, aunt or teacher.
  • Evan becomes a literal chew toy in the third book. When the Monster Blood turns him into a giant he uses his cousins shrinking potion to be restored to his normal size. But later that night he wakes up and to his horror he sees that it worked too well; he's now shrunk to the size of a mouse. And to his greater horror, his dog Trigger notices him in his shrunken state. The book ends with Trigger picking up the bite-sized boy in his mouth and carrying him away.
• (Characters.Survivor Blood Vs Water) The Chew Toy: As of Episode 4, they have not won a single Immunity Challenge, even with the physical advantages.
• (Characters.The Boys 2019 The Boys) Foil:
  • To A-Train. Hughie is a working-class tech store salesman, while A-Train is a famous super-athlete. Both men have killed people, but while A-Train put the blame on his victim to rationalize his kill (presumably because this is something he's likely to do again), Hughie came to terms with what he did and avoids killing anyone else. Both also have super girlfriends, but while A-Train hides his relationship with Popclaw out of cowardice and yields to Vought’s demands about their love, Hughie isn't the least bit ashamed of dating Starlight and furiously goes against Butcher for threatening her. Also, while both have had moments of impairment due to being high on Compound V/V-24, Hughie retains better control of his faculties, and while Hughie does punch A-Train while the latter is offering a sincere apology for Robin's death, Hughie is still cognizant despite the high and refuses to go any further than a punch. Hughie's teleportation ability also makes him essentially an upgraded version of A-Train's speedster gimmick. Additionally, while A-Train is a complete kiss-up to Homelander, Hughie will challenge Butcher when the latter goes too far. Tellingly, A-Train later becomes The Chew Toy for Homelander while Hughie is Butcher's Morality Pet.
• (Characters.The Most Popular Girls In School Overland Park High School Cheer Squad) Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • The team has been cut in half by Season 3. Ashley Katchadourian quit because she was The Chew Toy, Jenna Darabond quit because of her evil schemes, and Jenna Dapananian finally quit because she was tired of being Locked Out of the Loop.
• (Characters.Trails Series Rean Schwarzer) The Chew Toy: An In-Universe example. As much as he's adored by his companions, everyone in Class VII, his students, and his friends often take great pleasure in making fun of him for various things such as his ability to come up with dorky speeches on the spot or his ability to attract women. Best shown during Cold Steel IV where the story of his deeds aboard the Pantagruel (entering Duvalie and Altina's room unannounced, the latter while she was sleeping, and his daring rescue of Alfin) is revealed and results in everyone having something to say. Rean, for his part, can only facepalm as he says the following:
  Rean: Instructor Sara, Towa. Requesting permission to burst in to tears.
  Sara: Permission denied.
• (Dirty Coward.Literature) Rincewind from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series tries to play it straight (all he wants is to stay out of danger and doesn't particularly care what happens to anyone else), but subverts this because he's both The Chew Toy (which means the world really is out to get him) and a Cosmic Plaything of Lady Luck, doomed to repeatedly save the world by performing absurdly dangerous heroics.
• (Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male.Webcomics) Toyed with in Homestuck, though not so much in-story as in the fandom's interpretations of it. Vriska harasses and torments Tavros from the very start of the troll's arc, having paralyzed him and then demanding he apologize for being handicapped because he was weighing her down. This is all presented up-front without comment, since most of the trolls are somewhat morally dubious by human standards. But some fans have responded that Vriska's actions were justified, since she was 'only trying to help.' But if the genders were reversed, most readers would find Vriska's psychological abuse to be outright unacceptable, opening up a whole minefield of Unfortunate Implications.
  • Played sort of straight with Spades Slick and Snowman, but only because Slick is The Chew Toy who suffers abuse from everyone. Usually bringing it upon himself. Not to mention Slick is just as capable of dealing out punishment as Snowman and he ends up shooting her dead at the end of Act 5 (though not because of her tormenting behavior).
• (FridgeBrilliance.Pokemon The Series) The reason Team Rocket are able to survive so many encounters with Bewear, a Pokemon that's known for being dangerously strong even to its friends, is because they already have so much experience being pummeled to total oblivion. A bear that can knock down trees with a single swipe isn't actually all that much compared to the countless beatdowns they've experienced in previous series. Admittedly, Team Rocket's suffering is played for laughs, but it fits best here
• (Funny.Enter The Arena As Your Avatar) There's something oddly comical about the Yamcha vs. Sarah fight (also featured on the Awesome page), from an OOC standpoint if not an in-universe one. Aside from the crazy premise of The Chew Toy and the epitome of Future Badass going completely toe-to-toe, there's also the matter of KiriK choosing to play Bolded's near-signature boss fight theme, Rivers In the Desert, in exchange for Bolded playing Live and Learn later on in the fight.
• (MemeticMolester.Anime And Manga) Haruhi Suzumiya. Then again◊, also sort of canon with her cosrape of Mikuru. In the novels, she actually reaches up Mikuru's skirt before Kyon intervenes. At one point in the 8th novel, Haruhi also wrestled Kyon to the ground and stripped his blazer off of him. The grappling techniques she used were mount◊ and guard◊. Kyon thought "Is stripping Asahina-san not enough for you, you perverted girl!?" and called it "reverse sexual harassment". It, of course, leads to a classic Not What It Looks Like scene◊.
• (Music.DJ Jazzy Jeff And The Fresh Prince) Hero Stole My Bike: "Just One Of Those Days" has a scenario where Fresh Prince is on the verge of being late for work, and gets increasingly desperate to get there on time:
  I started hiking it
  I wasn't liking it
  I saw a little kid, I stole his bike and started biking it!
  • Of course, this being the Fresh Prince, it immediately goes awry:
    I thought I got away,
    But when I ducked around the corner, there was twelve cop cars,
    I said "Man, I'm a goner!"
    Slammed on the brakes, did a 180 turn,
    Peddled the bike so fast I heard the rubber burn!
• (Series.The Drew Carey Show 2/2) The Chew Toy:
  • The protagonist, Drew.
  Drew: I'm gettin' screwed by the system. I'm always gettin' screwed by the system. That's my role in life: I'm the system's bitch.
  • Best described by Bad Boss Mr. Wick
  Mr. Wick: "Oh look everybody, Carey's detected an irony! He's smart, smarter than me... and yet, I make more money. *deadpans* Oh look, now I've detected an irony."
• (TheCinemaSnob.Tropes A To H) Deconstruction: One-off joke "Cinema Bum" being him dressed in the usual Bum Reviews-style outfit... Being depressed about being homeless and having no comment on the movie. Thus the character only returns to be abused.
• (TheyKilledKennyAgain.Western Animation) Family Guy: Peter, Meg, Chris, Brian, Stewie, Lois, Cleveland and Joe have all been killed at least once.
  • Happens occasionally to Brian as his status as The Chew Toy has been amped up. In "La Famiglia Guy", he is killed in three different ways.
• (UnstoppableRage.Western Animation) Happens when Cat from CatDog snaps at a Monster Truck Rally, and proceeds to kick the shit out of everyone who has ever crossed him over the course of the series.
• (Webcomic.Nanas Everyday Life) The Chew Toy: Why yes, it can be counted with one hand the few times Nana does not get verbally or physically abused in this comic. Rico is also subjected to a lot of torture by Henrietta and Triella.
• (YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle.Video Games) Lampshaded (along with everything else) by Mao in Disgaea 3, where he pulls of his wicked theft of the Hero title from the hapless Almaz, and apparently goes to face the final boss at the end of the first chapter. Disgaea 4 does it so often it becomes a Running Gag, in how episode 7 and everything after it is labeled as the "Final Episode", and the stakes just keep getting raised every single time it appears that the heroes have won. The game doesn't actually end before episode 10, which is aptly labeled as the "Real Final Episode".

Combines with Butt Monkey (2/69)

• (Black Comedy) Kafka Komedy: A form of dark comedy where the humor is based more on people's constant misery and misfortune, rather than death or violence.
  • The Chew Toy: Especially if an unfortunate loser's suffering is taken to extreme levels, and played more often for laughs than drama. Not misuse by the definition
• (In-Universe) Butt-Monkey/The Chew Toy — Memetic Loser

Explaining how a trope could apply (1/69)

• (Broken Aesop) Inconsistently applied morals:
  • A 'character who's being put through unwarranted cruelty or annoyance by the supposed heroes of the work is punished for standing up for themselves, even if they had to resort to more direct methods only to try to stop the other characters from ruining their day yet again. It's okay to make someone's life hell, but it's not okay if they give their tormentor a taste of their own medicine because... because the writers said so, that's why!

Character suffers in a way that might be covered by other tropes (2/69)

• (Chickification) The second season of Corrector Yui has both a straight example and a subversion.
  • Played straight with Freeze, the only female of the Corruptor team, who was an extremely efficient Dark Action Girl with ice-based powers. When she switched sides for the second season, she walked the thin wire between Action Girl and Faux Action Girl, with more emphasis given to her clumsiness outside of the battlefield and comical inability to keep a stable work in the Com.Net, which ultimately makes her liable to be manipulated by her more stable boss... who was working for the Big Bad. George Jetson Job Security?'
• (Cue the Flying Pigs 2/2) The 2016 World Series ultimately came down to a Chew Toy showdown: Cleveland Indians (last final: 1997; last title: 1948) and Chicago Cubs (last final: 1945; last title: 1908). While the mayor of Hell said the town only gets really cold by November, jokes calling it the "Hell Freezes Over series" soon emerged. In the end, the world's longest championship drought was finally over as the Cubs won in extra innings on Game 7. Every Year They Fizzle Out or something else? Either way, their suffering was not played for laughs

Character suffers misfortune, seemingly played for laughs, maybe enough context (10/69)

• (Cue the Flying Pigs 1/2) Rankin/Bass Productions: In the "It's the Truth" song in Pinnochio's Christmas, Fox is trying to convince Pinnochio of his latest scam "Or may lightning strike me down!" Naturally, he spends the entire number narrowly dodging lightning bolts. To be fair, none of the lightning actually hits him- Cat, on the other hand, isn't so lucky.
• (The Beautiful Elite) Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Since this is a Media Transmigration story taking place in an Otome Game, protagonist Leon vocally resents the five dating sim capture targets for being this, while he's stuck poor and undesireable at the bottom of a Fantastic Caste System in a school for nobles:
  • The game's protagonist Olivia was a Penny Among Diamonds amongst a Themed Harem of Knight in Shining Armor Sheltered Aristocrat boys who protect her from bullying and enemies. These guys have bad It's All About Me tendencies and are too In Love with Love to really listen to the object of their affection's needs, which makes Marie, who pulled a Hijacked Destiny on Olivia, into The Chew Toy, thanks to those boys being Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense and disinherited. As a group they and Marie serve as The Rival.
• (Writer Revolt) Sometimes, this can lead down a path nobody expected, as in the case of Waspinator. At the start of Beast Wars, the writers hated Waspinator, feeling that his odd speech pattern was a pain in the ass to deal with and took up too much screen time. But Hasbro wanted Waspinator in the show due to merchandise, so the writers decided that if Waspinator had to show up, he'd show up in pieces, and had him violently removed from the episode whenever he appeared. The fandom noticed this pattern... and thought it was hilarious. Because of this, the writers wound up increasing Waspinator's screen time rather than decreasing it, and even convinced Hasbro not to kill him off because the fans were so fond of him.
• (Characters.DCEU Billy Batson) The Chew Toy: Massive amounts of the humor in SHAZAM! come from the physical mishaps of the nearly-indestructible hero.
• (Characters.Henry Stickmin Series Henry Stickmin 2/2) Laughably Evil: A Villain Protagonist who's also The Chew Toy thanks to all the amusing fails and deaths that can happen to him in the series.
• (Characters.Hololive Holostars English Tempus) The Chew Toy: Axel is on the receiving end of a lot of crude jokes from both his genmates (especially Magni) and girls from other branches like EN (Calli and Bae) or ID (Zeta, Kobo, and Ollie). For one he has been branded a dog and a furry, which he is not pleased about.
• (Characters.The Railway Series) The Chew Toy: Constantly gets reminded of his accidents, sometimes without others knowing.
  Douglas: I heard tell aboot an engine an' some tar wagons.
  [Gordon and Henry laugh]
  James: Shut up! It's not funny.
  Douglas: Weel, weel, weel. Shairly Jeames, it wasna you? Ye dinna say!
• (Characters.Trauma Center Atlus) The Chew Toy: Let's see here: He was almost hit by an arrow in Tomoe's storyline, got hit by a bus at a mall, his 'safe' landing got him in the trash at the last chapter, etc. And that's discounting the far more serious part about having to examine his own son and discovering he was not only relapsing but had an incredibly deadly and hard to cure disease. The developers surely love messing with him, and for our amusement, at least when it doesn't come to his patient's fates.
• (Series.The Drew Carey Show 1/2) A Dilbert-esque look at office life created by and starring Drew Carey, about a guy named Drew Carey living in Cleveland, Ohio working middle management of the Winfred Louder department store as the Assistant Director of Personnel. There is no Director of Personnel, he has all the responsibility but none of the pay. As part of his job Drew has to deal with his Mean Boss Mr. Wick with a perpetually conniving secretary, Mimi, both of whom hate Drew's guts just because he's there. And that is all on top of general office bureaucracy.
• (WebVideo.On Cinema) The Chew Toy: Tim, usually made worse by his embrace of alternative medicine:
  • During Season 2, he gets several blood clots in his brain that he refuses to get an operation for, and ends the season visibly impaired and close to dying.
  • In Season 3 he gets the operation in-between seasons, but prematurely returns to the show with bandages wrapped around his head and suffers various neurological problems.
  • In Season 4, he develops diabetes and initially attempts to treat it with acupuncture from Dr. San, only to develop a facial infection from his unclean needles.
  • In Season 5, he gets into a motorcycle accident while parked that temporarily blinds him and fractures his wrist.
  • In Season 8, he gets hooked on the "nutritional vape system" developed by Dr. San consisting of various illegal drugs, consequently spending several episodes drugged out of his mind before the vape explodes in his sleep, setting him and the VFA on fire, with Tim describing that his right hand was burnt "basically to the bone" and that his clothes have fused with his skin.
  • In Season 9, he stops taking the topical antibiotic for his face, leading to it starting to rot off, and eventually getting transplant skin from Manuel's lower back and butt.
  • In Season 10, he begins taking sponsor Rio-Jenesis' products meant to block germs, leading to his immune system basically shutting down.
  • In Season 11, he accidentally shoots himself in the neck with a shotgun while cleaning it, and spends the finale with it wrapped around a bandage.
  • During the 8th Oscar Special, he gets burns all over his face from putting on one of Toni's facial cleaner masks.
  • In Season 12, Tim replaces his diet again with RJ's Shakes, but takes in so few nutrients that he has a stomach pump improperly installed to get more RJ's in, leading to both infection at the entry point and causing septic shock thanks to it missing organs completely.
  • In the 9th Oscar Special, Tim and the other characters are attacked by the locals near the HEI Ranch. While everyone else flees for safety, Tim stays behind to try and fight them, only to suffer from multiple broken ribs.
  • In Season 13, Tim gets into a car accident, later revealed in the 10th Annual On Cinema Oscar Special to be a Bungled Suicide while driving Gregg's VFA Tours van for a Dekkar tour, knocking out his front teeth and giving him whiplash, blinding Axiom and putting Manuel in a coma that causes him to lose his ability to speak and understand English. Tim, following an operation that incorrectly reset his teeth, later begins drinking "Grain Water" from the HEI Ranch, consisting of Lithium and "thousands of minerals" but implied to be sewage that causes him to repeatedly throw up live and leaves him in his own weeks-long coma following a "lethal injection"^note  that the "Doctor" on site off-handedly states is simply saline solution. meant to prove Grain Water's effects of achieving immortality, after running the risk of developing meningitis and toxoplasmosis.

ZCE (8/69)

• (Anime.The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) The Chew Toy: Poor, poor Takase... Found commented out, and based on how it's written may actually qualify for The Woobie
• (Characters.Chalk Zone) The Chew Toy: His humiliation is satisfying because he otherwise isn't punished for his bullying. Also an audience reaction masquerading as an objective trope
• (Characters.Henry Stickmin Series Henry Stickmin 1/2) The Chew Toy: Almost all of the humor in this series stems from Henry's suffering.
• (Characters.How I Met Your Mother Other Characters) The Chew Toy: She seems to get hurt a lot at MacLaren's, often because of the gang.
• (Characters.Mighty Morphin Mecha Rangers) The Chew Toy
• (Characters.Welcome To Beacon School) The Chew Toy Found commented out
• (Fanfic.The Prince Of Death) The Chew Toy: Malum Norio. Found commented out
• (Series.Drop The Dead Donkey) The Chew Toy: Dave, and especially Jerry.

In a chained sinkhole (2/69)

• (Characters).Kaeloo 2/2[The Ace Super-talented]] duck covered in stitches and obsessed with yogurt. The only word he ever says is "quack", though everyone seems to understand what he means by that... or sometimes they don't. The stitches all over his body are explained by the fact that he is actually indestructible, and thus able to survive any injury. He is Stumpy's best friend, Eugly's boyfriend and Mr. Cat's favorite punching bag.
• (Funny.The Nostalgia Critic) The video opens with the Critic waking up, having breakfast and eagerly going to play this game. Ten minutes later, however, he is practically a wreck from playing this game. It leads to his opening lines, which acknowledge this is a DVD bonus item:
  Critic: Well, you did it. You bought the DVD; good for you. I guess that means we have to give you something extra, don't we? How about a review? Yes, we all enjoy reviews, don't we? Now, what should it be? Hmm... I know! How about a video game that REALLY PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF??! 'CAUSE THAT'S ALL YOU WANNA SEE, ISN'T IT?! You just wanna see me be angry! (raises his arms in the air) DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE!
• (WebVideo.Alternate Reality DBZ) Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Gohan, who can never win a fight. But, if you mispronounce manga or add a widescreen feature on the Dragon Ball Z DVDs, he can kick anyone's ass.

Character suffering not played for laughs (9/69)

• (Characters.Kubera Human Realm 2/2) The Chew Toy: A rather sad example. Everything she's known and loved has been destroyed, and her primary protector, Asha, doesn't show the least bit of respect for her. She knows at some level that Asha is not trustworthy, but she's so desperate to avoid being abandoned that she keeps playing the ditz act and suffers whatever criticism comes her way. To top it off, seven years spent in the sura realm meant she ended up being the target of several powerful suras.
  • There is a high chance that her soul is that of the Agni's and Ancient Brilith's unborn child, which was cursed to live a profoundly unhappy existence much like her mother. The other strong possibility for this souls current residence is Asha.
• (Memes.Twig Poor Duncan. ^Explanation Duncan, a latter addition to the Lambs, found himself in a unique position of being the Chew Toy both In-Universe and for the readers. Coined by Helen.
• (Recap.Fudencio E Seus Amigos S 1 E 13 Cotas De Cocotas) The Chew Toy: Deconstructed.After being verbally abused by his father for not getting money for his poor family, Conrado is thrown out of home. Now extremely upset, he starts walking by a rainy street and looks at a rich couple dining by the window of a restaurant. He then proceeds to grief remembering all the bad things that happened to him in the previous episodes, to the point of crying. After that, Fudêncio steals his already empty money box.
• (Series.Animal Planet Heroes) The Chew Toy:
  • Literally, and some of the worst cruelty cases involve "bait dogs," dogs used as bait and "practice" for fighting dogs.
  • Small dogs left in the company of larger ones with little or no food tend to catch the worst of it from their competitors.
• (TearJerker.Dragon Ball Z Abridged) Just like in the source material, the Bad Future Trunks comes from. Especially Yamcha's fate. This fate is the picture at the top of the page.
  • A Deleted Scene separately posted by TFS suggested Puar was the rope.
• (TearJerker.The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh) In "A Day for Eeyore", the red balloon Piglet brought for Eeyore's birthday pops. Eeyore can't catch a break at all!
• (Wrestling.Sgt Slaughter) The Chew Toy: From mid-oughties to this date, every time you see him wearing his fatigues and walking down the aisle, he is heading to a 6 minutes-or-less beat-up in order to put over some new talent (Your heel of the week, more often than not).
  • Averted when he's helping out another brand's legend like himself.
• (YMMV.Das Sporking) Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • The sporkers feel deep sympathy for Gwen in the The Mists of Avalon sporking, seeing her as a mentally ill woman who's being constantly tormented by the narrative and the people around her for the crime of not being Morgaine. They even start the "I Didn't Vote For You" counter for whenever she's treated unfairly.
• (YouHaveFailedMe.Western Animation) In Voltron: Legendary Defender, Emperor Zarkon eventually does this to Commander Prorok. He strips him of his rank and has Witch Haggar turn him into a Robeast, than flings him at the Paladins as cannon fodder. Zarkon claims it was because Prorok was the prime suspect for being The Mole, but the investigation to find the mole continues after Prorok dies. Zarkon actually wanted to punish and get rid of an incompetent commander, and the mole thing just happened to be a good excuse.
  • This also ends up happening to Throk; after he fails to defend his base against an assault, Haggar tortures the poor guy to near-death. An interesting and especially cruel example, as the "you have failed" angle turns out to be a pretense; the base attack that got Throk punished was staged as part of a Xanatos Gambit by Prince Lotor and Throk had previously been considering overthrowing Lotor. The torture was just to ensure Lotor's plan worked while removing a potential rival for the throne.

Character suffering played for laughs, not enough context (2/69)

• (Characters.Yatterman) The Chew Toy: They are continuously victim of every type of Amusing Injuries, both from the heroes and their sadist boss.
• (WesternAnimation.Zig And Sharko) The Chew Toy: Being a slapstick cartoon, basically everyone will get hit with Amusing Injuries.

Unhelpful sinkhole (2/69)

• (WsternAnimation.Jungle Cubs) Took a Level in Badass: Happens to Arthur and Cecil of all characters in “The Great Kaadinii” after accidentally getting hypnotized by Kaa into thinking they are “great hunters” (Kaa was trying to do that to himself). They proceed to cause mayhem in the jungle and attack all the other cubs, including Hathi (an elephant) and send Shere Khan packing.
• (YMMV.Daffy Duck) Fandom Rivalry: Unlike Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, who despite being from rival companies are shown to actually get along in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Daffy doesn't get along with Donald Duck at all.
  • Though in an earlier draft of the screenplay, their intense battle on the piano proves to be only a stage act, and the two Ducks are revealed as quite good buddies off-stage.
    • An even earlier draft written by Chuck Jones involved a "Show Biz Bugs" type scenario with Daffy and Donald battling for audience appeal, while Donald is met with applause and roses, Daffy is met with the usual cricket chirps. Daffy was apparently such a Straw Loser he made even Disney's biggest Chew Toy and Unpopular Popular Character look like a winner.

May as well be YMMV (1/69)

• (YMMV.Gran Turismo) Memetic Loser:
  • The notorious Ford GT40 that spawns in the Rome Circuit during the "Historic Car Cup" event gets this treatment as 2 playerbase's 'punching-bag.