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* Speaking of interns, Matt from ''TheSoup''.

* Ted from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Usually by Dr Kelso, but frequently by just about everyone else. To the extend that he constantly thinks about either killing Kelso or himself, and almost succeeds in the latter in one episode. It's played for tragic comedy, mostly. More comedy than tragic, though; on the one occasion he managed to jump, an enterprising custodial staff's scam was exposed by the fact that it saved Ted's life. And then the Janitor got mad at Ted for ruining his cushy gig.

* Matt from ''OperationRepo''.

* DJBJ from {{Pizza}} always gets bashed and robbed.

* Karen Ball from ''GreenWing'' gets her hair stuck in a copy machine, is ostracized after she gets [[Literature/HarryPotter Slytherin]] in an online "sorting hat," and is not noticed, for days, to have fallen out of an open window. However, once she falls out the window, she returns in the series-closing special as a much more aggressive person.

* Howard Steel in ''TheWorstWeekOfMyLife''.

* From "Series/Zoey 101"; Stacey would count as one of these. It seems that she doesn't really have any friends. To make it even worse, it is mostly because of her way of talking. Maybe something bad happened between her and everybody else a long time ago?

* From Zoey 101; Stacey would count as one of these. It seems that she doesn't really have any friends. To make it even worse, it is mostly because of her way of talking. Maybe something bad happened between her and everybody else a long time ago?

* ''LazyTown'''s Robbie Rotten. One of the show's main jokes is that something bad will ''always'' happen to him just before the credits roll. ''Always''.

* Quinn Fabray on ''Series/{{Glee}}''.

* Fat-Blue/Mr. Johnson in ''Series/SesameStreet.'' Can't Grover ever get his order right? Even when Grover isn't around, he has bad luck with other restaurants.

* Mikhail from ''{{Series/Lost}}''. His EyepatchOfPower seems to be the only thing that keeps him alive. Something bad happens to him in every episode in which he appears. He is, in order, beaten up, shoved into a sonic fence and [[NotQuiteDead apparently killed]], beaten up again, beaten up ''again'', and finally gets speared (and comes back five minutes later) and blown up in his final appearance. Even then, it took WordOfGod to assure fans that he was really dead.
** John "Don't tell me what I can't do!" Locke was the man was conned out of a kidney by his father whom he had never previously met and made it obvious that he wanted nothing more to do with John, thrown out an eight story window by said father and paralyzed from the waist down, rejected when proposing to the woman he loved, and when his paralysis is cured when arriving on the island thanks the island's miraculous healing powers and he begins to find a purpose in life, he is sent off the island and killed.

* Ted from ''{{Series/Scrubs}}''. Usually by Dr Kelso, but frequently by just about everyone else. To the extend that he constantly thinks about either killing Kelso or himself, and almost succeeds in the latter in one episode. It's played for tragic comedy, mostly.
** More comedy than tragic, though; on the one occasion he managed to jump, an enterprising custodial staff's scam was exposed by the fact that it saved Ted's life. And then the Janitor got mad at Ted for ruining his cushy gig.

* Bad things happen to ''{{Series/Firefly}}'s'' Jayne Cobb. But then again, being a borderline TokenEvilTeammate, he probably deserves it.

* With a heartbreakingly long list of characters lining up to tell him how worthless he is, Dean Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is walking an incredibly thin line between this and [[TheWoobie woobiedom]]. This was made especially clear by the episode where they have to go back to their old house; the first half went to great lengths to tell us how much it's upsetting him but then, suddenly, it switches to ''{{Series/Extras}}''-like comedy and Missouri seems to have it out for him, smacking him down every five minutes.
** If you disliked that then you must have hated ''Hunted''; He's at his lowest point (up until ''All Hell Breaks Loose'') but he's been reduced to begging Sam not to be mad at him (which, again, happens in ''All Hell Breaks Loose'') gets treated like an {{Extreme Doormat}} by a disturbingly John-like Sam and only loses his fight with Gordon (who he actually won against easily in ''Bloodlust'') because they needed him to be tied up and used as bait quicker.

* Karen Ball from ''GreenWing'' gets her hair stuck in a copy machine, is ostracized after she gets [[Literature/HarryPotter Slytherin]] in an online "sorting hat," and is not noticed, for days, to have fallen out of an open window. However, once she falls out the window, she returns in the series-closing special as a much more aggressive person

* In ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'', a regular's getting demoted? Not Sam, Gene, Annie, or Chris: Ray! Somebody's getting blown up? Ray! Somebody's going to be intolerantly racist? Ray!
** Then again, Ray arguably brings a lot of his own misfortune on himself rather than the universe just being cruel; he was demoted, for example, because he irresponsibly caused the death of a suspect in custody then tried to cover it up, and being racist isn't exactly something you can blame on the universe. Chris, on the other hand, is the guy ''Ray'' uses as a punching bag, and the guy everyone else uses to do the unpleasant menial work.

* Pretty much every single character that ''{{Series/Blackadder}}'' interacts with fits this bill, unless he/she is higher status than him. Baldrick is the shining example, though, seeing as he's in every single series.
* Ryotaro Nogami, the protagonist of ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'', is described by one of ThoseTwoGuys as having Guinness-level bad luck; in fact, the first time we ever see him, he's stuck up a tree because a sign randomly fell down in front of his bike and acted as a ramp, sending him flying - and that's just a mild example. However, he manages to be both TheChewToy and TheWoobie, as his antics tend to inspire chuckles followed by statements of pity; probably a combination of his DoggedNiceGuy personality and being played by a rather handsome actor. In one episode he tells a stunned onlooker that he doesn't give up because he knows things can only get better from here.

* As do the Divine Predecessors of ''{{Lexx}}''.

* Alan on ''TwoAndAHalfMen''. Although every once in awhile, they make sure you know that he brings it on himself. Every time he gets a slight advantage, he lets it go to his head and starts acting like the biggest jerk on the show. And that's saying something.

* ''{{Series/NCIS}}''

--> I am usually such a klutz, you know. I am always getting stuff dumped on me like guacamole or pies, but with this car I managed to stay perfectly clean! Looks like my luck is changing. Oh, the dipsticks a little bit out...
* Alex Krycek in ''Series/TheXFiles'' basically exists so people can beat him up. Granted, he's not a particularly nice man, but the dude spends every episode getting bitched.
** It almost winds up a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi9MX1xCsAs&list=FLigRN4Ui8IvQSh_o68X0wKw&index=4&feature=plpp_video running gag]].

* Beaker of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' was brought in as a lab assistant for Dr Bunsen Honeydew to test his inventions on. They invariably went wrong. Over time he began to be used in more skits outside of Muppet Labs, which usually also involved him getting hurt somehow, even if he was the only one taking part in the skit. He seems to be one of the more popular Muppets, however, judging by how frequently he is used (and tormented) in the Website/YouTube videos that The Muppets Studio are currently producing.
** Another in-universe example of the Muppets is Bean Bunny, either finding himself squished inbetween a wall and an opened door, or having piles of props crash on top of him. WordOfGod has it that it's become something of a [[BreakTheCutie break the cutie]] [[RunningGag running gag]] on the set of Muppet productions.

* Rebecca Howe from ''{{Series/Cheers}}'' has to go here. Over the course of the series, she has her heart broken multiple times, loses her job more than once, accidentally burns down the bar, her boyfriend cheats on her and steals her money, and she ends up such an emotional wreck that in the last episode she marries a man she just met solely because she's desperate to be loved (and in an episode of ''{{Series/Frasier}}'', it's casually revealed that the guy became a millionaire and dumped her). Throughout, and with very few exceptions, the rest of the characters seem utterly indifferent to her misfortunes, and they're almost always played for laughs.

* Although just about all the characters in ''{{Series/Mongrels}}'' get used like this (apart from {{Ka|rmaHoudini}}li) it's really poor Nelson who suffers the most, perhaps because he is the only character who actually cares about others. It makes him an easier target.

* Josh Lyman of ''Series/TheWestWing'' alternated between this and TheWoobie, depending on the cause and nature of the misfortunes he suffered. Anything stemming from the fact that he's a GeniusDitz who CantGetAwayWithNuthin always invokes this trope, but the universe would sometimes pummel him to the point where it became {{diabol|usExMachina}}ical (or even {{tear jerk|er}}ing), instead of funny. This was quite painfully deconstructed in season two, when his status as the chew toy combined the fact that he usually bounces back with perfect poise from every hilarious tragedy he suffers is implied to be the main reason why [[spoiler: no one noticed that he was having a slow mental breakdown due to PTSD after an assassination attempt]].
** However, he didn't ''stay'' this trope: eventually, he managed to become the campaign manager for the next Democratic presidential candidate, got a delightful RelationshipUpgrade with the woman who had been in love with him for years, and after winning the campaign, was appointed the president's chief of staff.

* Nathan from ''{{Series/Misfits}}'' has been beaten up, maimed, humiliated, [[spoiler: and killed]] more often than the rest of the main cast put together. He occasionally strays into woobie territory when something ''really'' bad happens to him, but more often than not his horrendous misfortune is played solely for laughs - perhaps partly because said misfortunes can usually be traced directly back to some act of blatant stupidity and/or jerkassery on his part.

* Nelson Van Alden on ''BoardwalkEmpire''. Nothing ever goes his way, and any time he tries to fix anything he just makes it worse. All of this is played for comedy (admittedly, sometimes it is very dark comedy). That the character is a complete JerkAss and the very epitome of TheComicallySerious just adds to the hilarity.

* In ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'', this is the main role of Jackie Wright -- the small, bald old man, whom Benny regularly slaps the head for luck. His characters are put to constant, hilarious abuse throughout the show.

* Tony [=DiNozzo=] of ''{{Series/NCIS}}'' is tormented for your amusement throughout the series. It's played for laughs (and as just comeuppance) even when it crosses over into sadism (and the punishment far exceeds the crime).

* The luckless Tyrone in ''CoronationStreet''. His first girlfriend cheated on him with a footballer. His second girlfriend was having an affair with his boss and carrying his boss's baby. She died in a train smash. His third girlfriend battered the crap out of him and walked out with their unborn child.

* Roy from ''TheITCrowd''.

** And Patrick, often a secondary victim of the weirdness affecting the Meldrews, including having his genitals attacked by a live crab, having a naked suicidal man hanging outside his office window whilst entertaining important clients and having his house flooded with a hosepipe. And Mrs. Warboys - in "The Return of the Speckled Band" Mrs. Warboys, already suffering from drawn-out food poisoning, ends up in hospital. Margaret, trying to cheer her up, brings her a video of ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'', having no idea of its content but knowing that Mrs. Warboys likes sci-fi "like ''Series/MorkAndMindy''", leaving her unable to leave the bathroom for two and a half hours. In a second attempt to cheer her up, Margaret unknowingly boils developing alligator eggs and delivers them to her for breakfast. In fact, about the only non-Chew Toys in it seem to be Pippa and Mr. Swainey.

* In ''LifeOnMars'', a regular's getting demoted? Not Sam, Gene, Annie, or Chris: Ray! Somebody's getting blown up? Ray! Somebody's going to be intolerantly racist? Ray!

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* Meredith from ''Series/TheOffice''. She is usually the one to absorb all of the physical damage, from having a bat trapped against her head by Dwight, being hit by a car by Michael, resulting in a broken pelvis, being hit in the face with a football by Pam and setting her hair on fire during an office party. Poor Meredith just can't seem to catch a break.

* Ryotaro Nogami, the protagonist of ''{{Kamen Rider Den-O}}'', is described by one of ThoseTwoGuys as having Guinness-level bad luck; in fact, the first time we ever see him, he's stuck up a tree because a sign randomly fell down in front of his bike and acted as a ramp, sending him flying - and that's just a mild example. However, he manages to be both TheChewToy and TheWoobie, as his antics tend to inspire chuckles followed by statements of pity; probably a combination of his DoggedNiceGuy personality and being played by a rather handsome actor. In one episode he tells a stunned onlooker that he doesn't give up because he knows things can only get better from here.

* Alex Krycek in ''{{Series/The X-Files}}'' basically exists so people can beat him up. Granted, he's not a particularly nice man, but the dude spends every episode getting bitched.

* Mason of ''DeadLikeMe''. He is ridiculed by his colleagues, shot at, run over and hurt in various other ways, he once had a stash of drugs dissolve in his anal tract, and he died from ''drilling a hole into his own head''.

** And Patrick, often a secondary victim of the weirdness affecting the Meldrews, including having his genitals attacked by a live crab, having a naked suicidal man hanging outside his office window whilst entertaining important clients and having his house flooded with a hosepipe. And Mrs. Warboys - in "The Return of the Speckled Band" Mrs. Warboys, already suffering from drawn-out food poisoning, ends up in hospital. Margaret, trying to cheer her up, brings her a video of ''{{Film/Alien}}'', having no idea of its content but knowing that Mrs. Warboys likes sci-fi "like ''Series/MorkAndMindy''", leaving her unable to leave the bathroom for two and a half hours. In a second attempt to cheer her up, Margaret unknowingly boils developing alligator eggs and delivers them to her for breakfast. In fact, about the only non-Chew Toys in it seem to be Pippa and Mr. Swainey.

* Quinn Fabray on ''{{Glee}}''.

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-->'''Howard:''' [[PaintingTheFourthWall Have you got my script?]]