History ButtMonkey / WesternAnimation

*** From the same series as these two, Thundercracker. Dear Primus, Thundercracker. Having [[BadBoss the worst boss ever]] doesn't help. He gets lit on fire by Scourge ''twice''. ([[AmusingInjuries "Would somebody ]][[AmusingInjuries''please'' ]][[AmusingInjuries put me out?"]]) At the end, after Ransack, Crumplezone, and [[EvilIsSexy Thunderblast]] go back on their {{Heel Face Turn}}s and sneak off in homemade rocket, poor Thundercracker gets shanghaied aboard when goes to investigate. The Hasbro version of his toy's mold was a major-league example of quality-control failure. (PRIMUS DAMNIT HASBRO!)

** Also from the ''{{Transformers}}'' verse are [[TranformersCybertron Ransack and Crumplezone]], a [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]-like duo. Quoth Crumplezone:

*** From the same series as these two, Thundercracker. Dear Primus, Thundercracker. Having [[BadBoss the worst boss ever]] doesn't help. He gets lit on fire by Scourge ''twice''. ([[AmusingInjuries "Would somebody ''please'' put me out?"]]) At the end, after Ransack, Crumplezone, and [[EvilIsSexy Thunderblast]] go back on their {{Heel Face Turn}}s and sneak off in homemade rocket, poor Thundercracker gets shanghaied aboard when goes to investigate. The Hasbro version of his toy's mold was a major-league example of quality-control failure. (PRIMUS DAMNIT HASBRO!)

** You think Candace has it bad? Doofenshmirtz has it worse. His parents weren't there when he was born, he was forced to be a lawn gnome, and his brother is the favourite of his mother. However, this is all played for laughs since Doofenshmirtz is the bad guy (even though he's more pathetic than evil).

* Coconuts on ''The Adventures of SonicTheHedgehog'' (who actually ''was'' a monkey). He appeared the least out of the Badnik Trio, and when he ''did'' appear, he would always get defeated by Sonic and Robotnik would demote him to janitor duty. His catchphrase is even, "I hate (insert noun here)! Hate it, hate it, hate it, '''HATE IT!!!'''"

** Similarly, Antoine in the ''SATAM'' version was the usual butt of Sonic's jokes, constantly reprimanded, and only [[ObliviousYoungerSibling Tails]] ever listened to his stories.

* Both Twilight Sparkle and Spike shares this role in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', depending on the episode.
** Luna for the fandome

* Both Twilight Sparkle and Spike shares this role in ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', depending on the episode.

** Though oddly enough he wasn't one in "Team Penguin" simply because Killer Moth was.

* Pick a male character from KingArthursDisasters. Anyone will do.

* Like [[SuperMarioBros Luigi,]]Meg Griffin on ''FamilyGuy'' goes through all kinds of crap, primarily being ignored, neglected, and ridiculed by her own family.

* Meg Griffin on ''FamilyGuy'' goes through all kinds of crap, primarily being ignored, neglected, and ridiculed by her own family.

** In turn, Archer abuses Woodhouse, seeing him as some kind of unbearable {{Baldrick}} despite all evidence to the contrary. In one notable example, he is tied up in a hotel room by the villains. Archer is completing his mission, and suddenly realizes that Woodhouse is still tied up, alone, hungry, and probably dehydrated...and laughs his ass off.

** In the earlier, better-written seasons Squidward would bring much of this on himself. For example, he turned Spongebob and Patrick into enemies as a practical joke, tricked them into being his slaves and pulled a really nasty and harmful April Fool's gag on Spongebob.

** Pip, the little British kid from the earlier seasons was a definite Butt Monkey before he was phased out of the show. He was so unpopular with the other school kids that in one episode they tried to see who could spit on him the most. In another episode, Cartman makes fun of him because his parents are dead. Like Butters, he had a polite and pleasant disposition and generally took all the abuse with good nature.

** Sokka's bad luck was [[Lampshaded]] in the Season 1 episode "The Fortuneteller," where the titular fortune-teller Aunt Wu tells Sokka "Your future is full of struggle and anguish ... most of it self-inflicted." Aunt Wu's point is soon demonstrated when Sokka, complaining about her prediction for him, vigorously kicks a small stone, which ricochets violently off a sign and strikes him.

** Sokka's bad luck was [[Lampshading|Lampshaded]] in the Season 1 episode "The Fortuneteller," where the titular fortune-teller Aunt Wu tells Sokka "Your future is full of struggle and anguish ... most of it self-inflicted." Aunt Wu's point is soon demonstrated when Sokka, complaining about her prediction for him, vigorously kicks a small stone, which ricochets violently off a sign and strikes him.

* [[Jimmy Neutron]]. He always gets the heat on him when it comes to anything that's not involving an invention. And when it DOES come to inventions...things always go wrong in some way.

** To be fair, Clover's [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting transformation]] into a CatGirl may not necessarily have been a bad thing, [[FetishFuel if you get my meaning]].

*** He's genetics are quite interesting: his mom is a mummy and his grandfather is Dracula.

* Kif Kroker of ''{{Futurama}}'' is a bit of a cross between a Butt Monkey and the Eeyore. He gets put upon a lot because Zapp blames him for his failings, and he's gotten a bit depressive as a result.
** Oh, and Zoidberg, the most common recipient of the trope...
*** The fact that Zoidberg wasn't even identified ''first'' from this show is merely another example of his status as that universe's King Butt Monkey.
*** In one episode Leela crashes the Planet Express ship through the roof. Hermes turns to Zoidberg and promptly docks his pay.

** Fry also gets a fair bit of this, although not the the extent of the other two.
** As a matter of fact, the time Amy snuck onto the Nimbus was probably the ''only'' time Kif ''gladly'' obeyed Zapp's command.

** Martin Prince, Springfield Elementary's resident nerd and perhaps second only to Lisa in terms of intelligence at the school is a textbook example of the Butt Monkey. The boy is a generally nice, gentle person but is berated, beaten, and tormented to almost sadistic reaches. Although the characters' occasionally pandering ways does bring this on himself sometimes.
** Actually, Martin can be seen as smarter than Lisa, as in "Homer's Enemy", Homer tells Frank Grimes her IQ is 156 (and Lisa doesn't correct him) and in "Bart the Genius", Homer, thinking Martin's IQ test is Bart's, reveals that "Bart's" IQ is 216 (at first, Homer thinks it's 912 because he was reading it upside down).
*** Thankfully, Martin got some much needed vengeance and a temporary [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass]] near the end of the Simpsons Movie.
** Pretty much every character in this show could be considered a Butt Monkey at one time or another.

** Also, Skinner, in every instance of interaction with Chalmers.

* Meg Griffin on ''FamilyGuy'' goes through all kinds of crap, primarily being ignored, neglected, and ridiculed by her family.
-->''(hanging off the edge of a cliff, being held only by Lois's hand)''\
'''Joe:''' Pretend I'm your child, Lois!\
''(hand begins slipping)''\
'''Joe:''' Not Meg! Not Meg!\
''(she pulls him up)''
** With everything that she deals with for no particular reason, it seems quite possible that she's a parody of the trope.
*** WordOfGod seems to indicate that it's played straight, and the only thing the writers can think of to do with the character.
** Peter goes so far as BreakingTheFourthWall to tell the viewer that no-one'd blame them for changing the channel, as it's a "Meg episode".
** Meg is probably in DesignatedMonkey territory, in large part because of her parents' FaceHeelTurn. Before cancellation, Lois and Peter weren't especially fond of their daughter, but at least show enough love that Lois conspired to get revenge at high school kids who pranked her, and Peter tries to share some of his popularity when he goes undercover at high school (despite some jailbait temptation). After the show's return, though, they become the main source of Meg's suffering, from agreeing to abandon her in case one of the kids can't be saved, to the above incident with Lois and Joe (which was during the first post-cancellation season). It's impossible to imagine Peter and Lois lifting a finger for their daughter now.
** When she almost died, Peter actually defended Meg once, when Connie insulted her. However, it was most likely done so that she can still be tortured by Peter and Lois.
*** In "Stew-Roids", Meg is sobbing in her room, upset that she is not invited to a party in her own house. Lois, meanwhile, is comforting her, but eventually gets bored and ''suggests she commits suicide.''
** Thanks to a mix of {{Flanderization}} and Peter's {{Jerkass}} nature, the paraplegic Joe Swanson has also become quite a Butt Monkey for most DeadBabyComedy in the show following its return. A quick gag in a recent episode reveals that he retains suicidal intentions.
** Brian [[strike:is]] [[AuthorAvatar was]] also a very big Butt Monkey on the show. Let's see, his mother got turned into a table, bad things always happen whenever he's left in charge of the house, his brief stint as a cop inadvertently made him a drug addict, he dated a woman whose stupidity rivals that of RalphWiggum. It probably explains why he drinks wine out of Big Gulp cups. Oh, and he once got the everloving crap beaten out of him by an ''infant''. Granted, he's hardly the first of Stewie's victims, but still.
*** Brian still is the shows Butt Monkey, second only to Meg. He gets beat up more times than anyone else, usually for rather flimsy reasons. The universe conspires against him to make sure he can't hold a single meaningful relationship with another girl (though his family does a very good job of driving away potential suitors on thier own). To this date, he's pretty much the ONLY character in the seris to have a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tossed at him, to say nothing of the rampart Flanderization of Lois and Peter into CompleteMonster territory. In the old seasons he was treated as a respected member of the family, now Lois and Peter go out of their way to berate him and even tell him that [[CharacterDerailment they don't care]] [[MoralEventHorizon if he]] [[WhatTheHellHero DIES.]]
** Also, his neighbor -- a heartless sex maniac -- hates him for dating airheaded women while claiming to love women for their souls(while his neighbor dates women for their bodies, but is honest about it), being a SoapboxSadie and a "big, sad, alcoholic bore," not caring for his son, hitting on his best friend's wife while basically owing everything to him, and sleeping with [[spoiler: his male-to-female transsexual father]].
** I think it's pretty safe to say the entire cast is ButtMonkeys.