History Main / ConsolationBackfire

** In a Halloween episode, after an army of Homer clones destroys [[ButtMonkey Old Gil's]] farm, Old Gil sighs and says "At least I still have my health." Cue the Homers eating him alive. His skeleton is left behind to say "Awwww..."

A subtrope of TemptingFate. This trope also makes the character the ultimate ButtMonkey of the story. Compare RockBottom.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Faith and Dope", Stan tries to convert his atheist friend Brett by having him suffer so he'll turn to Jesus by blowing up his house and sabotaging his restaurant with ipecac. Afterwards, Brett looks on the bright side that he's still got his family.

* In ''Literature/TheSpaceMerchants'', the protagonist passes out on a glacier and wakes up in an unfamiliar and unfriendly setting. When he tries to protest that he is Mitchell Courtenay, a guard demands his Social Security number, and he rattles off eight digits. "You can lose money and health and friendship, but they can't take a low Social Security number away from you," the first-person narrator comments. The guard rolls up his sleeve to see where the number is tattooed and deals him a BitchSlap. Taking a look himself, he dumbfoundedly observes that his kidnappers falsified his number by adding thirteen extra digits.

* One ''Literature/DaveBarry'' column offered this ParodyCommercial for a soft drink:

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'''So:n''' ''[bursting into tears]'' Oh Dad, I struck out and lost the big game. ''[sobs]''\\

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-->'''Valentin Zukovsky''': The insurance company is ''never'' going to believe this!

''[As if on cue, the house collapses.]''

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* One Literature/DaveBarry column offered this ParodyCommercial for a soft drink:
-->''(The scene opens up with a boy in a Little League uniform, looking very sad. His father walks up.)''\\
'''Father''': What's the matter, Son?\\
'''Son''' ''(bursting into tears)'': Oh Dad, I struck out and lost the big game. ''(Sobs.)''\\
'''Father''' ''(putting his arm around the boy's shoulders)'': Forget it! Let's have a nice cold can of BiteTheWaxTadpole!\\
'''Son''': And then I murdered a policeman.

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-->"No, George--you ''haven't'' got a solid gold dinner set."

-->'''Hamilton''': Angelica, thank God somebody understands what I'm struggling here to do.
-->'''Angelica''': I'm not here for you.

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--->'''Jeriah''': Actually, the quarter turned out to be a worthless iron shard.\\
'''Gamal''': Oh, well... At least you still have your health.\\
'''Jeriah''': The shard gave me tetanus.

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* ''WebVideo/NarutoTheAbridgedSeries'':
** In episode 11, after being put down by Kakashi, Sakura comments, "At least I still have my fans." Sasuke immediately interjects [[TakeThat "What fans?"]]
** In episode 13, after being ignored by all the other characters, Kabuto consoles himself with, "At least Orochimaru still loves me." Cut to Orochimaru saying, "You're creepy, go away."
* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', after Yugi and the others leave Mako Tsunami (and call him a "freaky fishguy"), Mako comments, "At least the ocean will never leave me. Right, Ocean?" The ocean predictably doesn't respond, positive or negative, but in a later episode he has divorced the ocean and is now dating the Domino Aquarium. [[spoiler:He gets back together with the ocean in the end.]]

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* In a Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', after an army of Homer clones destroys [[ButtMonkey Old Gil's]] farm, Old Gil sighs and says "At least I still have my health." Cue the Homers eating him alive. His skeleton is left behind to say "Awwww..."

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': In [[Recap/TransformersPrimeS2E4OperationBumblebeePart1 "Operation Bumblebee Part 1"]], the kids try to make Bumblebee feel better about the loss of his vehicle mode by playing a [[EpicFail racing video game.]]

---> '''Commercial Announcer:''' The new [[CoolCar Urbana 500.]] It won't just rock your world...it will ''transform'' it.

---> '''Jack:''' Personal best, Arcee! You hit 120, easy!
---> '''Bumblebee:''' *DeathGlare*
---> '''Jack & Arcee:''' Oh / Uh-oh.

--> '''Tino:''' Um, is this dinner or a science experiment?
--> '''Tino's mom:''' Go on. It won't bite you.
--> '''Tino:''' That works out nicely, since I don't plan to bite it either.

-->'''Stan''': Yeah, I thought you'd say that.\\
''(Brett's wife comes up to him)''\\
'''Brett's wife''': Brett, I've realized I'm a lesbian, so I'm leaving you and taking the children.\\
'''Brett''': What?! When did you become a lesbian?!\\
'''Brett's Wife''': That is so ignorant! You don't ''become'' a lesbian! It's not like somebody shot an experimental beam into my head, and suddenly I'm gay!\\
''(Stan gives AsideGlance)''
* At the end of ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy Duck's Quackbusters]]'' Daffy is completely bankrupt and can't pay his rent, and a repo crew come in to take all his stuff. Daffy then says "One thing's for sure, I've got nowhere else to go but up!", then a wrecking ball crashes in his office [[ExactWords and sends him flying]].

* At the end of ''[[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Daffy Duck's Quackbusters]]'' Daffy is completely bankrupt and can't pay his rent, and a repo crew come in to take all his stuff. Daffy then says "One thing's for sure, I've got nowhere else to go but up!", then a wrecking ball crashes in his office.

-->'''Valentin Zukovsky''': The insurance company is NOT going to believe this!

* In ''Film/TheRoom'', after [[spoiler:Johnny's]] suicide, [[spoiler:Lisa]], leaning against [[spoiler:Mark]], sobs, "[[spoiler:Johnny's]] dead, but I still have you, right?" This is a little [[TooSoon too soon]] after [[spoiler:Johnny's]] death for [[spoiler:Mark]] (they're ''standing over his corpse''), and he recoils in disgust, saying that she doesn't "have him".

'''Father''' ''(putting his arm around the boy's shoulders)'': Forget it! Let's have a nice cold can of {{Bite the Wax Tadpole}}!\\

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has a brutal deconstruction in form of [[spoiler:Oersted. After everyone turned his back on him because of an accident he committed (killing the king), he is convinced (by his remaining friend, who died soon after) that there's one person that believed in him: The Princess. So long as she believes in him, he kept fighting. So he set off to save her, only to find out that the accident was orchestrated by a jealous friend, and when he killed the friend, the Princess said that she already lost faith on him and committed suicide in front of him. Oersted in turn ''[[DespairEventHorizon snaps]]''. Then in retaliation, [[FallenHero he becomes the Demon King that he fought all this time]] [[FaceHeelTurn and then killed everyone there and then tried to kill everyone from different timelines]].]]

* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', after Yugi and the others leave Mako Tsunami (and call him a "freaky fishguy"), Mako comments, "At least the ocean will never leave me. Right, Ocean?"

* In one episode of ''Series/FullHouse'', Joey has a lucky day. First there's a newspaper strike, delaying publication of a review of a disastrous comedy show the night before, he wins two tickets to a concert after getting a call from a radio station and correctly getting the answer right, gets a date with the attractive cable lady who also installs a channel the household didn't have, free of charge, and he is given the opportunity to audition to replace a longtime children's TV show host. However, Joey doesn't know that the host HatesBeingTouched and after he's hired gives him a big hug, after leaving the host tells Danny that Joey is fired. This then starts his bad luck, as the newspaper strike is settled, he doesn't qualify for the prize tickets due to a relative being employed at the radio station, the cable lady has to uninstall the free channel and breaks off their date upon hearing that he can't have the tickets, which gets Joey to mention to Danny that he at least he got the job that he's unaware he was fired from, right before Danny breaks the news to him.

A subtrope of TemptingFate. This trope also makes the character the ultimate ButtMonkey of the story.

* ''Theatre/Hamilton'': When Hamilton publishes the Reynolds pamphlet, declaring while his wife was away he had an affair with Maria Reynolds, his wife's sister Angelica returns all the way from London [[note]] DAAAYUM!! [[/note]] as soon as she hears.

* ''Hamilton'': When Hamilton publishes the Reynolds pamphlet, declaring while his wife was away he had an affair with Maria Reynolds, his wife's sister Angelica returns all the way from London [[note]] DAAAYUM!! [[/note]] as soon as she hears.

* ''Theatre/Hamilton'': When Hamilton publishes the Reynolds pamphlet, declaring while his wife was away he had an affair with Maria Reynolds, his wife's sister Angelica returns all the way from London [[note]] DAAAYUM!! [[/note]] as soon as she hears.

* ''Theatre/Hamilton'': When Hamilton publishes the Reynolds pamphlet, declaring while his wife was away he had an affair with Maria Reynolds, his wife's sister Angelica returns all the way from London [[note]] Damn! [[/note]] as soon as she hears.

'''Angelica''': I'm not here for you.

* One DaveBarry column offered this ParodyCommercial for a soft drink:

* ''[[Series/HellsKitchen Hell's Kitchen]]'': In season 11.

* In ''OnceInALifetime'', when George's movie appears to be a fiasco, May tells him that "we've got a gold dinner set, anyway. A hundred and six pieces, and every piece with your initials in diamonds. That's not bad for two months' work." This is the cue for two pages to appear, carrying said dinner set out.

A subtrope of TemptingFate.