History TheChewToy / VideoGames

* Poor [[VideoGame/KidIcarus 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.

* 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.

-->'''Jayden''': [[LampshadeHanging I seem to spend most of this case getting the shit beaten out of me...]]
* Brad Vickers, helicopter pilot for S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. He's basically shown to be a DirtyCoward in the first game, abandoning his teammates to the horrific mansion, only returning at the very end. In ''[=RE2=]'', 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, ''[=RE3=]'' shows '''how''' he was zombified -- by being killed by the Nemesis.

* Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'' was intentionally designed to be a chew toy as form of [[TakeThatAudience mocking players that saw ''Metal Gear Solid'' as a power fantasy]]. 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), get urinated on by an unsuspecting guard, has information withheld from him by various people, get mocked by nearly everyone (his superiors, his girlfriend, Solid Snake himself, and even the freaking President of the United States), gets stripped down naked when he is captured (and is forced sneak around in such a state), and then told at the very end that 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/MetalGearSolid3'' who looks like Raiden and gets abused regularly and Raiden himself gets more awesome by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', but at a heavy price.
* This is the whole point of the online game Mutilate A Doll.

* ''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, and their exchanges almost come off as Kasane bullying Shiden, which the TeamMom Major Kyoka has to mediate.

* ''VideoGame/ScarletNexus'': Depending on which protagonist’s story you’re going through, Shiden. In Yuito’s route, Shiden is essentiallya {{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 faces the full brunt of Kasane’s BrutalHonesty, and their exchanges almost come off as Kasane bullying Shiden, which the TeamMom Major Kyoka has to mediate.

* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' 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.

* 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.

* 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.

* In ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' 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.

* ''VideoGame/BritannicPatronessOfTheMediterranean'', and it's pseudo-prequel Totanic: 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.

* 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. The third time he gets killed, he even says, "Oh no...not you again!"

* The ship captain in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series.

* Mitsumoto from the ''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.

* Nuts in the EdutainmentGame ''Kids on Site''.

* Enzo from ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', a seedy, foul-mouthed, {{Joe Pesci}}-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.

* 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 Dwarve's 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 Elve's 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.

* The Black Baron 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 a tall woman in a spiked bustier. [[spoiler: Did I mention that he's also the FinalBoss?]]

* Enzo from ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', a seedy, foul-mouthed, {{Joe Pesci}}-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. His allies, [[HeroicComedicSociopath Bayonetta herself especially]], also torment him whenever it amuses them.

* VideoGame/{{Thrillville}} has Mortimer be one because of his crazy expirements.

* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' 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), and Mystia Lorelei (who has to deal with Yuyuko and other youkai always trying to ''eat her'') probably get the worst of it, though.. Borderline canon in Reisen's case, too.
** 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. All of this is completely 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.

* Winston Payne in the ''VisualNovel/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!?"

** Axel in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''. He later gets this treatment to a lesser degree in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten''.

** Axel in ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''.