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6->''"Story of my life. No matter what I try, God's always got a custard pie up His sleeve."''
7-->-- '''Georgy''', ''Film/GeorgyGirl''
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9* ''Film/AfterHours'': Paul Hackett in this film. Going with a girl to Soho has him losing $20, running out because he thinks the girl is severly disfigured, doesn't have enough change to return back because it's past midnight, a bar owner unable to get into his cash register to get change so they exchange keys so he can get it, seeing a robbery take place and incapable of doing anything about it, the girl he ran away from committed ''suicide'' after he goes back to apologise, two girls who like him but later abandon him when he's mistaken for a burglar by a mob, going to a punk nightclub leads to his hair is forcefully shaken into a mohawk, finding out the bar owner he met previously is the ''boyfriend'' of the girl who committed suicide after seeing him grieving, chased back into the club which is now empty and after meeting a sculptor there he is hidden in papier mache, but it hardens and she won't let him get out, as she convinces the mob he's not there, and finally, he is ''stolen'' as artwork by the original two robbers, as they put him inside their truck. It gets better as he later falls out from the back of the van, as his casing cracks and he's nearby the gate to his office, and then simply goes back to work. This is the ''happy ending''.
10* The titular character in ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'' and the children's book which it is based off of. Although in the film, everyone in Alexander's family gets a turn in this role, too.
11* ''Film/AustinPowers'': Austin is often on the receiving end of being embarrassed.
12* In ''Film/BabePigInTheCity'', Esme Hoggett goes through one humiliating event after another in the city, but nevertheless [[{{Determinator}} she doesn't give up until her husband's beloved pig has been returned to her]].
13* ''Film/TheBadSleepWell'' has Shirai, the skittish Chief of Contracts. He's framed for embezzling by Nishi, tricked into thinking he saw the ghost of Wada (whom Nishi had secretly saved from death), has a hitman sent on him, is kidnapped by Nishi and almost killed, only to be floored by a swig of whiskey and sent to a mental asylum.
14* ''Film/BASEketball'': Kenny "Squeak" Scholarri is scapegoated and picked on nonstop by Trey Parker and Matt Stone's characters. It is implied that this is an exaggerated look at the real-life relationship between Dian Bachar and Parker/Stone.
15%%* Creator/BenStiller: The man is a distinguished career Butt Monkey.
16* ''Film/BigBully'': David Leary. Most of the crap he goes through was in his childhood, where he is picked on by the bullying Roscoe, A.K.A. Fang. However, young David eventually turns the tables on Fang by telling the school that the bully stole a moon rock that was shown on display one day, which Fang did, and got sentenced to reform school. Since then, David became a writer, as well as town hero, but he's still a Butt Monkey because people would rather buy the new Creator/StephenKing book than ''The Last Straw''. Also, his wife divorced him and his son Ben [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy is hardened and mean from said split, which makes him resent David]] and become a bully to a nerdy child named Kirby, who [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} turns out to be Fang's son]]]]. Worst of all, Fang himself, who was thought to be changed... [[spoiler: hadn't really changed since being sent to reform school and resumes picking on poor David, who is perceived as paranoid by the school staff.]]
17* ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'' does this to Death of all people. He is repeatedly humiliated, first when Bill and Ted wedgie him to escape. Then he undergoes a series of embarrassing defeats at board games, is forced to appear before God in drag, suffers repeated comedic injuries on earth, and finally he can't even catch a break when he becomes part of the band that saves the world (ItMakesSenseInContext). His solo albums fail spectacularly.
18* ''Film/TheBoatThatRocked'': Angus "Nutty" Nutsford. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5YH__XQKM Even the audience is in on it]].
19* ''Film/TheBradyBunchMovie'': Jan is treated like crap and overlooked to the point where she's hearing psychotic voices in her head.
20* ''{{Film/Boyhood}}'': The film's plot is based on this trope. Mason Jr. is being abused, mistreated or bullied by people (mostly women and girls) which includes his bratty sister Samantha, his stepdad Bill, his mother Olivia (who screamed at him ''just'' for leaving home to go to college) and a bundle of many others who aren't identified by name or only appear for seconds.
21* ''East Germany'' gets this role in ''Film/BridgeOfSpies''. The Americans treat the entire nation as nothing more than Soviet stooges, and the Soviets themselves couldn't care less about the East Germans' opinions.
22* ''Film/BruceAlmighty'':
23** Bruce is a token example of this trope, and while it's not a strong showing, the movie gets bonus points for having a ''Literal'' Butt Monkey: i.e. a ''monkey'' that emerged Bruce summoned from the ''anus'' of a man who was harassing him:
24-->'''Bruce:''' Hey, little anal-dwelling butt monkey. It's time for you to go home, little buddy!
25** Not a speaking role, and not human, but apparently, the "little anal-dwelling butt monkey" has a life something like this. Or at least has Word Of God going for categorizing it so.
26%%* ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'': The protagonist is a Butt Monkey taken to the extreme.
27%%* ''Film/{{Casper}}'': Paul "Dibbs" Plutzker in the 1995 film.
28* ''Film/ClerksII'': Elias, Randall and Dante's nerdy co-worker at Mooby's, is frequently teased and picked on by Randall for his devout Christian beliefs, his fandom of ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Transformers'', and his lack of sexual experience. Although he loosens up quite a bit after he [[spoiler:watches a homosexual donkey show under the influence of pot and alcohol.]]
29* ''Film/CatsAndDogs'': In the beginning of the film, while chasing after a cat, Buddy gets wacked by a tree branch and is constantly hit by a woman with a broom for ruining her pie.
30* ''Film/{{Clue}}'': Mr. Green spends the entire movie being verbally and occasionally physically abused by the other characters and/or falling victim to his own klutziness. [[spoiler:He gets his payoff in the third ending, when it's revealed that he was a DeepCoverAgent for the FBI, and he gets to shoot the BigBad and make a few pithy one-liners of his own.]]
31* ''Film/TheCourtJester'': Alas for poor Fergus the Hostler. Sneaks into the castle, but only gets to be a hostler, so they have to send somebody else in after him. Ignored by everybody, including Hawkins and Jean, when listening to him could have ended the movie in five minutes, and saved many lives including his own. And capping his misfortunes, he is ''tortured to death'' by Ravenhurst's henchmen; although it happens mercifully off-screen, the dialogue makes it pretty clear what happened: "Fergus is dead." "Did he talk?" [Whispers].
32* Challenging the conventional nature of comedies in which the young attractive female tends to be immune from such a trope, in ''Film/DesktopDesperadoes'' Linda the Secretary barely makes it through a single scene without being at the butt of at least a single gag of humiliation. In her first few seconds of screentime, she is spun to a state of dizziness during a dance routine, during her spotlight scene on the beach she is squashed flat by a drawbridge from a castle created by Pointer, shattered into a million pieces by a volleyball travelling at an insane velocity and almost guzzled up by a shark. There's also her later scene when the printer is used on her (stripping Linda of her three dimensional shape) to demonstrate the existence of graphics and finally there's an insanely awkward moment when Pointer staggers off in a daze from stench after Pointer falls into a pile of rubbish and tumbles on top her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1tr1cwiZs
33%%* ''Film/DisneysRocketMan'': Hackman, being the blunt of the catastrophes caused by Fred.
34%%* ''Film/DraftDay'': Rick the intern.
35* ''Film/TheDuff'': Bianca. She is always being ignored in favor of her much more popular best friends. At one point she's humiliated in front of everyone and becomes the school's resident laughing stock. She finally gets a date with her crush, Toby, but later finds out he was just using her in order to connect with her friends Jess and Casey, just like everyone else.
36* ''Film/EDtv'': Ed's brother Ray, who not only fails to gain the fame his brother has, but is called a "[[LousyLoversAreLosers terrible lay]]" by Shari on live television (which leads to the show's success). These actions hurt Ray so much that he ends up writing a book to combat the negative press, "How My Brother Pissed On Me".
37%%* Max from ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. Zero Context Example. Please add context if you can.
38* ''Film/{{Feast}}'': In this film, the character "Beer Guy" is a hapless loser from the get-go. It only goes downhill for him; a monster vomits on him, causing him to become infected with maggots and rot away slowly for the rest of the film. Nobody ever takes him seriously, and he never does anything right; the film treats him like a punching-bag.
39* ''Film/{{Flodder}}'': Sjakie is a well-intentioned klutz who constantly suffers abuse from those around him. The second movie in particular makes it seem [[CosmicPlaything like the universe just has it out for him]]. He loses the Flodder family at the airport, then he gets stuck in a traffic jam in New York City and can't reach his local contact's downtown office until it's already past closing time. Every hotel in the area is completely booked, so he's forced to sleep in a brothel. After he's discussed the Flodders' disappearance with his American colleagues the next day, he loses his glasses and gets his hands stuck in a storm drain for hours and is also mugged. Every passerby ignores him until a helpful homeless person helps him get out after about a day, but Sjakie is subsequently imprisoned after a riot breaks out in a food court and he's held responsible. Finally, he's hit by a car and then mistaken for a gender reassigment patient at the hospital. He's ''[[RageBreakingPoint not]]'' [[RageBreakingPoint happy when he wakes up]]...
40* ''Film/ForrestGump'': Jenny Curran (Robin Wright). Played straight. She gets occasional breaks when she's in Forrest's close proximity, though she keeps moving away from him. She would have been touched by Forrest's charmed life if she'd only stayed with him all along.
41* Louis Tully frm ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''. Let's see... he has a crush on Dana Barrett, a cellist who lives in the same apartment complex as him, [[AllLoveIsUnRequited but she initially shows no interest towards him.]] He is also often locked out of places, in particular, his apartment room. To add insult to injury, [[spoiler: Gozer's minions Zuul and Vinz Clortho enter the human world via the apartment complex and proceed to possess Dana and him respectively. During their demonic possession Louis finally gets to hook up with Dana but after Gozer is defeated neither can remember any of it]]. However, he redeems himself in ''Film/GhostbustersII'' by [[spoiler: helping the Ghostbusters take down Vigo!]]
42* ''Film/TheGodfather'': Fredo Corleone. He's considered too soft for a responsible position in the family business. On the other hand Michael, not he, is sent to college so he can get a profession. Then Michael takes over the business anyway. When Fredo tries to get his own back [[spoiler: Michael assassinates him.]] That must count.
43* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': Rodan qualifies. He loses his mate to a volcano [[Film/{{Rodan}} in his debut]] and he is left for dead by Godzilla and he is also losing battles against Mechagodzilla. His fans think of him as TheWoobie.
44** Gigan, especially in ''Final Wars''; he's built up as Mothra's mortal enemy and a very serious threat... and [[CurbStompBattle is decimated by a freshly-woken Godzilla]] [[OffWithHisHead when his head is blown up by Godzilla's atomic breath]]. Later, he reappears in the final battle to aid Monster X in battling Godzilla; but Mothra intervenes, is lit on fire, and then Gigan's ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard own razor disks]]'' come flying back through his neck, decapitating him ''again'', and Mothra slams into Gigan, [[MadeOfExplodium making Gigan explode in a ball of fire.]] Mothra lives, of course.
45** Anguirus can count as well. He's a little guy compared to the rest of the Kaiju and does not possess any special abilities and gets pushed around very easily such as when the JSDF fires at him [[HelpMistakenForAttack thinking he came to human territory to cause trouble]] when Godzilla sent him to check if there's trouble going on, King Ghidorah drops him from the sky and [=MechaGodzilla=] [[KickTheDog beats him up senselessly]].
46** The [[MultipleHeadCase left head]] of [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', named "San" or "Kevin". He gets pushed around a lot and picked on by the middle head for getting distracted. Unlike Ghidorah's other two heads, he gets decapitated ''twice'' onscreen[[note]]This version of Ghidorah can grow severed heads back if he isn't vaporized completely[[/note]], both times by Godzilla, and it's implied that Kevin didn't even want to face Godzilla as much as the other two heads anyway. The director even claims that this head got decapitated a ''lot'' more frequently than Ghidorah's other two heads did in the past.
47* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': Six words: Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez. He isn't successful for any more than twenty consecutive minutes in the film. The sum of Tuco's troubles? Nearly hanged twice, left alone in the desert, sent crashing through a floor, getting distracted from killing Blondie, getting the dying Bill Carson water and come back to find that Blondie got information to the gold first, accidentally getting them both arrested, getting beaten up by Wallace ''twice'', gets hit full-on with cannonfire, and then nearly getting hanged a third time, before being left by himself in the cemetery, alive but stranded. Of course, he is a vengeful, opportunistic bandit who probably deserved what he got in the end.
48** On the other side of the law we have Sheriff Edward Gideon, "The Black" from ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'', also played by Creator/EliWallach. He has to put up with a crafty Swiss-Italian outlaw and an [[EthnicScrappy annoying]] samurai impersonator... and that's the start of his troubles.
49* ''Film/TheHangover'':
50** Stu is the designated ButtMonkey of these films. In the first movie, he is henpecked by his horrid and unfaithful bitch of a girlfriend, loses a tooth, and accidentally marries a HookerWithAHeartOfGold while under the influence of date rape drugs.
51** In the sequel, his soon to be father-in-law humiliates him in a pre-wedding speech. Then, after [[spoiler:ManChild Alan drugs them yet ''again'', he gets a PERMANENT Creator/MikeTyson tattoo and nearly has his wedding ruined. Oh, and he receives anal sex from a transvestite.]]
52* ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'': Harold Lee. Not only does he get no respect at work, but Kumar often steals his stuff, and throughout the movie, Harold is the one who gets victimized by extreme sports enthusiasts, the police, tree branches, raccoons, and Neil Patrick Harris.
53* ''Film/TheHeat'':
54** Rojas the drug dealer. He gets chased, knocked down, terrified, dangled off a building and (accidentally) dropped onto a car while being questioned.
55** Also Ashburn, it seems nothing ever goes right for her.
56* ''Film/HocusPocus'': High-school student Max. [[VirginShaming His virginity is repeatedly invoked and commented on.]] The biggest offender is his [[BrattyHalfPint eight-year-old sister, Dani]].
57* ''Film/HomeAlone'': Harry and Marv in the films, especially Marv. Also, the hotel staff in the [[Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork second film]].
58** Also, Kevin to his family.
59* Park Gang-du from ''Film/TheHost2006''. He's already a loser by the time the film starts; his wife left him, his siblings don't respect him, and his daughter gets abducted by a monster. And as though that wasn't enough, he's targeted for a virus ([[spoiler: which turns out to be nonexistent]]) and while in the hospital, gets tissue samples painfully removed from his neck, and needles injected into his head so they could probe the virus.
60* Throughout the course of ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine'', Lou receives the most physical injuries of the protagonists, including being chased by a gang of {{Knight Templar}}s accusing him of being a Soviet spy.
61* Cook's character in ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959'', though hardly villainous, is quite ineffectual and sympathetic. He just had the right face for the part.
62%%* ''{{Film/Identity Thief}}'': Sandy Patterson. The real one, not the imposter.
63* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
64** Poor Arthur. Especially when it comes to testing out the "kicks", somehow Arthur's always the one getting his chair knocked over, his gun dissed by Eames, and so on. His awesomeness at the end makes up for it, though.
65Not to mention he gets shot twice at the beginning. Once just to cause him pain, and once BY HIS OWN TEAMMATE (admittedly to wake him up).
66* ''Film/IShotJesseJames'': After killing UsefulNotes/JesseJames, Robert Ford can't catch a break at all. He doesn't get the money the reward promised, and people now try to shoot him in the street because of his reputation. On top of all of this, his girlfriend [[LoveInterest Cynthy]] dances around trying to marry him, then [[spoiler: dumps him for [[TheRival John Kelley]]]]. Even if [[JerkassWoobie he's a bit brash]], the world still seems overly harsh on Robert Ford.
67* ''Film/JesusChristVampireHunter'': The unnamed assistant of the Mexican professional wrestler El Santo, whom [[KungFuJesus Jesus]] calls in halfway through the film to help him defeat the vampires preying on the local lesbian population, serves as one of these, having no lines and being observed piled with luggage that weighs more than she does, rolled over and flattened into the mud under her boss's (substantial) weight, and otherwise subjected to various humiliating and unpleasant mishaps for no apparent reason. A somewhat literal example, as the most common mishap to befall her is having her ample and shapely posterior randomly fondled by any of the other members of the cast, which she accepts with a sigh of quiet annoyance.
68* Leo Getz (Joe Pesci) in the sequels to ''Film/LethalWeapon'' movies, starting with ''[[Film/LethalWeapon2 2]]''. Granted, he's a bit annoying but his heart's in the right place and he is actually useful. Despite this, he's treated horribly. [[spoiler: At one point Riggs alters his medical chart in hospital so that he has to undergo unnecessary RECTAL surgery]].
69* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'': The chubby nurse during the "Dentist" song, first Orin Scrivello casually punches her when he talks about how he loves to cause things pain, then later he knocks her out when he slams a door in her face.
70* ''Film/TheLoneRanger'': The Lone Ranger himself throughout a massive portion of the film, until he finally becomes the badass we know and love.
71%%* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Max himself is a major one, getting a huge HumiliationConga in the first act.
72* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
73** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': Tony Stark. A great deal of the humor in the various action sequences involve him first being genuinely badass, but then casually getting the shit kicked out of him (once by an inanimate propeller) because he a) is incredibly smart-alecky and boastful, and getting smacked around stops him from coming off as annoying, and b) wears a suit of PoweredArmor, so getting the shit kicked out of him doesn't actually hurt anything but his pride all that much.
74** Despite being the BigBad Loki seems to have a few spells of being one of these, especially towards the end of the film. Every Avenger gets his goat once. Even [[spoiler:Phil Coulson]] gets in a good shot. And when he [[HeelFaceTurn gets his act together]] [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar later on]], [[spoiler: he ends up being one of the first to be killed by [[BigBad Thanos]].]]
75** Poor Happy Hogan in ''Film/IronMan2''. If only he was in ''Film/DieHard'' rather than a superhero movie... He manages to catch a break when he starts dating [[AdaptationalAttractiveness Aunt May]] in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', but quickly gets dumped and reduced to a DoggedNiceGuy.
76** Star-Lord ended up becoming one after ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. [[spoiler: He always had to put up with ribbing from Rocket & Drax but as time went on his team seems to think so little of him that they entertain the idea of making him knife-fight Thor for position of leader. When Rhodey and Nebula go back in time to retrieve the Power Stone they call him an idiot before sucker-punching a past version of him, knocking him out cold. After losing his girlfriend Gamora and then his life in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' he's brought back in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' only to almost die again fighting Thanos' Sakaarans before being immediately [[GroinAttack kneed in the groin twice]] by a past version of his girlfriend who wants nothing to do with him.]]
77** Wanda is perhaps the biggest example. The poor woman lose her parents, her brother Pietro, her lover Vision (''three'' times, and from her perspective all three in the span of a month) and her kids. Then, a dark magical book show up and erased what's left of her sanity.
78* ''Film/TheMask'':
79** Stanley tends to get treated like crap by almost everyone other than his closest friends, though he learns to stand up for himself as the film goes on.
80** The Mask can have bad luck as well as he tends to be too strong towards any woman he meets across or gets ruined by his enemies but he does get them eventually thanks to his sweet nature and his charisma. Given he's a living, breathing cartoon character, this was mandatory for him to be one.
81* ''Film/MeanGirls'': Regina George. Half the plot and humor of the movie is about trying to mess up her life, for goodness sakes. Cady [[spoiler: gives Regina foot cream disguised as face-wash, gives her high-calorie weight-gain chocolate bars, claiming that they'll help her ''lose'' weight, reveals to Regina's boyfriend that she's cheating on him, then proceeds to ''come on to said ex-boyfriend'', and secretly turns her GirlPosse against her. Oh, and Regina also gets hit by a bus and survives.]] And of course, this is all PlayedForLaughs. Since Regina is a total {{Jerkass}}, however, [[JustifiedTrope she probably deserves it]]. Oh, and one more thing. A particularly humorous line is made at the expense of [[spoiler:Regina's near-death experience]]. Yeah:
82-->'''Cady''': [[spoiler:(after Regina gets hit by a bus) And that's how Regina George died. *Chuckle* No, I'm totally kidding!]]
83* ''Film/MeetTheParents'' (and its sequel, ''Film/MeetTheFockers''): These films are ''all about'' making poor Greg Focker [[spoiler:actually, Gaylord]] as miserable as possible, having ''everything'' that could possibly go wrong, go wrong when he's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin meeting his girlfriend's parents]].
84* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': The eponymous team, but especially Duncan. The trio takes a lot of abuse, but probably nothing tops Duncan being [[{{Squick}} forced to plunge his hand into a gentleman's club toilet in order to retrieve a ring that may or may not be the one they were looking for]]... and then refusing to help him out the window as the angry bouncer chases after them.
85* ''Film/TheNakedGun'': Nordberg. In the first movie, he ends up in the hospital after getting shot, stepping on a bear trap, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking running into a wall with wet paint]]. In the second, he ends up stuck under a bus and dragged all the way to Detroit. Becomes HilariousInHindsight considering what happened to OJ Simpson.
86%%* Assjuice from ''Film/{{Neighbors|2014}}''.
87* ''Film/{{Nope}}'': [[spoiler:The TMZ reporter isn't around for long, but in that time he reveals himself as completely out of his element (showing up with electronic cameras on an electronic motorcycle), gets flung from said motorcycle at high enough speed that Emerald assumes he must be dead from impact, ''doesn't'' die from said impact, gets painfully picked up by OJ in an attempt to save him, and then gets left behind to be eaten when Jean Jacket suddenly reappears. And the whole time, he seems more concerned about getting footage of the alien than his clearly broken limbs.]]
88* ''Film/OfficeSpace'': Milton, who gets fired but not told about it, has his pay suspended without his knowledge while they allow him to keep on working for free, gets bullied by his supervisor into working every weekend, has his favorite red stapler stolen, and is never allowed to have any cake at office parties. He does get even however when [[spoiler:he makes good on his threat to set the office on fire and burns the building down, making off to an exotic beach club with the proceeds of Peter and Michael's ill-formed scheme]]. And they even [[spoiler: get his stapler back for him.]] Aww.
89* Kershaw spends most of his screentime in ''Film/PainAndGain'' being tortured or made fun of. Also John Mese, the Sun Gym manager that is coerced into participating the scheme by Daniel.
90%%* The Chinese in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd''.
91* ''Film/TheProposal'': Creator/RyanReynolds in [[http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e8cdc3db45/sandra-bullock-ryan-reynolds-behind-the-scenes-of-the-proposal this trailer]].
92* The cab driver from ''Film/RaisingTheWind'' suffers in every scene he's in - he gets his cab collided with twice, drives his own cab into Jill's car, and gets run over by a runaway bass drum.
93* Creator/RobSchneider: Several of his roles, most notably the bellboy from ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', Fergie from ''Film/JudgeDredd'', the titular character from ''Film/DeuceBigelow'', Marvin from ''Film/TheAnimal'', and the male version of Jessica from ''Film/TheHotChick''.
94* ''Franchise/RoboCop'': Lewis varies in degrees. She gets a few pretty good moments beating up street level mooks, but generally she seems to exist to show how awesome Robocop is. In [[Film/RoboCop2 the second movie]] she nearly gets strangled to death by a twelve year old. And let's not forget [[Film/RoboCop3 the third movie]] when Lewis refuses to take her body armor.
95%%* ''Film/RomanHoliday'': Irving. Endlessly.
96* ''Rookie of the Year'': Goofball coach Phil Brickman. Poor Brickman having to get himself locked between two hotel doors connecting both rooms and inside a storage cage locker during the final game.
97* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': Several scenes were actually cut to avert this. While Mal generally has a lot of these anyways, the producers of the film felt that Whedon was taking things too far (which, arguably, he was), and asked him to remove some of the scenes to make his hero more of, well, a hero. This also serves as one of the few (or perhaps only) instances where a Joss Whedon project actually ''benefited'' from ExecutiveMeddling.
98* Anything unpleasant that happens in ''Film/{{Sheitan}}'' is almost guaranteed to happen to Bart. A lot of it he does bring on himself, however.
99%%* Sid Melton: Famously from ''The Creator/DannyKaye Show'' and a ''lot'' of B-movies.
100* ''Film/SinginInTheRain'': The diction coach serves no other function other than being the victim of Don and Cosmo's tap-dancing stunts in the number "Moses Supposes".
101* In ''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'', the others keep making fun of Henrik for studying theology and being romantically inept.
102* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'':
103** Agent Stone's only purpose is to be the doctor's punching bag both verbally and, in at least one instance, physically.
104** Rachel spends the entire second half of the movie tied to a chair where nobody, not even her own daughter, will listen to her. Given her nasty behavior, it's hard to blame them.
105* ''Film/SouthlandTales'': When Officer Ronald Taverner is first introduced to the audience, he's been kidnapped, sedated and (humorously) tied-up. When the hideout he's in is raided, he's still groggy from the sedatives but manages to escape being killed... albeit by falling into a dumpster and unceremoniously pasing out. Much later on he wakes up with a renewed sense of purpose to find his twin brother Roland, only to end up being held at gunpoint, and then tased and knocked-out once more. He wakes up many hours later to find himself tied-up (once again) in a gun-runner's ice cream truck, heading into one of the worst riot wars that the city has seen. He finally manages to free himself from his captivity when Roland's truck dragging a stolen ATM machine, ends up decimating the ice cream truck Ronald is riding in. In the ensuing chaos, Ronald is finally taken down by gunfire from the city's riot police. Finally in the end, he does manage to find his brother, but by that time he's all bloodied-up, bruised and ''missing his left-eye''... [[spoiler:But, thanks to both of the Taverners finally joining hands, all of that misery and humiliation Ronald endured might just be the least of his troubles... maybe.]]
106* ''Film/{{Stardust}}'':
107** Bernard gets kidnapped by the witch Lamia, turned into a goat, put into a girl's body, almost trapped in a burning inn, kidnapped and kicked around by Septimus, before finally making an appearance at the end sequence looking surprisingly happy for all he's been through.
108** Probably because everybody who did those things to him had died horribly and the people who were nice to him just became King and Queen. I'd be happy, too.
109** Also, he dies in the book, so he's probably thankful for living at all.
110** According to the DVD commentary he was found by Captain Shakespeare and joined his crew.
111* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
112** In the original series films Chekov continues the tradition of being the ''Enterprise'' butt monkey, getting injured in three of the six films and brainwashed in two of the films.
113*** ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'': When V'ger fires its plasma weapon at the ''Enterprise'' the new shields manage to stop the torpedo but there is still some feedback from the shields into the ship's systems and out through some consoles. One of Chekov's hands is burned when the tactical console shorts out, but he is back on duty a short time later thanks to a stop in sickbay.
114*** Then in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' Khan puts [[PuppeteerParasite alien eels]] in both Chekov and Captain Terrell, turning both men into unwilling accomplices of Khan and his people. Khan explains that the eels eventually kill their hosts but before that makes the hosts quite open to suggestion. Terrell [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] after his eel drives him insane while Chekov's eel leaves his body, and he is beamed back to the ''Enterprise'' for treatment. The novelization goes on to state that Chekov had been ''very'' lucky that the eel left when it did and that he got relatively prompt medical attention.
115*** In ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' Chekov falls off the deck of the aircraft carrier ''Enterprise'' while being pursued by ship's security, causing him to suffer severe head injuries. Fortunately [=McCoy=] arrives with 23rd century medical tools to help heal the injuries before 20th century surgeons drill some holes in Chekov's head.
116*** And then Sybok brainwashes him (along with almost the entire crew) in ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''.
117** ''Film/StarTrek2009'': Captain James T. Kirk of the ''USS Enterprise''. Many of the film's action sequences, and much of its humor, involve him getting owned in one way or another. He also gets stranded on planets and has freaky and potentially embarrassing reactions to vaccines.
118*** He [[spoiler:gets choked by Spock at one point and by a Romulan at another]]. Both times with some pretty good acting by Pine. It ''hurts'' as you try to catch your breath afterwards. Pine actually mentioned in an interview that he admires Harrison Ford for his ability [[WrestlingPsychology to take a beating like it really hurts]], and that he considered that an underrated skill.
119*** Kirk getting repeatedly owned in hand-to-hand combat with [[spoiler: Spock and the Romulans]] is somewhat justifiable, considering they're meant to be [[MadeOfIron three times stronger]] than humans.
120* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
121** [=C-3PO=]. He gets little camera time in Episode 1 and the camera time he does get, he's not covered, and starts off missing an eye. In Episode 2, he falls down a shaft and switches bodies with a droid. In Episode 3, he gets his mind wiped. In Episode 4, he is captured by Jawas, gets an arm broken off by Tusken raiders, and trapped under several wires. In Episode 5, he is blasted into several pieces and rebuilt with his parts backwards by Chewbacca. He is given a break in Episode 6 when the Ewoks treat him like a god, though he does get briefly get sold off to and abused by Jabba the Hutt and his eye bitten out by Salacious Crumb during the sail barge scene on Tatooine.
122** The Stormtroopers in the original trilogy are usually shown to be pretty incompetent, due to being infamous for [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy not being good shots]]. This was later decreased in the Sequel Trilogy with the First Order versions of the Stormtroopers, where they come off as considerably more competent, using strategic position on the battlefield and generally being less goofy on the job (in fact the contrast in their performance vs. their usual appearance can be somewhat jarring since people have come to expect the Stormtroopers to be fairly ineffective). They still miss against the heroes but that's more due to PlotArmor than straight out being bad shots.
123** Despite his near-dragon status (and undisputed [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chewing psychosis]]) in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', General Hux is rapidly and unceremoniously demoted to Butt-Monkey right at the outset of ''Film/TheLastJedi''. From second-in-command planet-destroying madman to all-around punching bag is a precipitous drop, and Hux feels every thump on the way down: insultingly crank-called by a borderline-jerkass pilot, Force-slapped by his boss then [[spoiler:Force-strangled by his upstart intern who decides to take over when the boss is killed]], to finally being [[spoiler:humiliated ''in front of his own troops'' by being flung into a console and knocked out as he was delivering sound military advice to the maniac in charge]]. Overall, his descent into Butt-Monkeydom probably qualifies as a HumiliationConga in its own right. By ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', [[spoiler: [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal he's had enough and sells out the First Order to the Resistance]]. Just because he hates Kylo Ren that much. This doesn't make things any better for him though, he tries to get Finn to shoot him in the arm as a "cover story", only for Finn to shoot his leg... and said cover story doesn't hold up for a moment and he's unceremoniously found out and killed.]]
124** The ''[[WhatAPieceOfJunk Millennium Falcon]]'' spends two trilogies suffering numerous [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking beatings, malfunctions, and insults]], and ''Film/{{Solo}}'' reveals that she used to be a luxury craft before Han shredded her on the Kessel Run. That being said, she makes up for it by dishing out as much punishment as she takes.
125* ''Film/SteelMagnolias'': Ouiser is an eccentric grouch in a [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine town]] and often becomes the butt of [[DisproportionateRetribution cruel jokes and outright mocking, whether she provokes it or not.]]
126* ''[[Film/StuartLittle Stuart Little 2]]'': Snowbell becomes this way. Almost every scene with him has him getting some sort of bad luck.
127* ''Film/ATaxiDriver'': Kim Man-seob. Not only does he got short-changed by customers on a daily basis (if not hourly basis), but he even gets his taxi fare swiped out of hand in the hospital scene. At least journalist Jürgen Petersen tries to drown out Man-seob's misery with money.
128* ''Film/TigerCage'': Inspector Yau from the second movie is the most unfortunate and accident-prone character Creator/DonnieYen has portrayed in his entire career, what with getting dragged into the mob's money laundering project, getting handcuffed to an annoying female lawyer who keeps nagging him the same time he's in the middle of a fight while being chained with her, getting pulled down in the middle of executing a jump-kick due to the cuffs, nearly getting run over by a truck, getting tortured by gym equipment, having dishwasher water emptied on his head during a stakeout and being forced to take cover in a water tank loaded with kitchen waste.
129* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
130** ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'': Bumblebee, he can't get a break as Seymour and Sector 7 capture then torture him and after he escapes, Starscream breaks his legs.
131** ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' has Starscream turned into Megatron's personal punching-bag and scapegoat for anything gone wrong, much like his Generation One cartoon counterpart.
132** ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'': Poor, tiny Brains lost one of his legs and Joshua tortures him with electric shocks. Bumblebee also counts as Drift goads Bee on unimpressive leadership just so Drift can beat him up and being verbally insulted upon by Shane and the Chinese executives promoting his knock-off "Stinger".
133** Optimus Prime spends nearly half his screen time in ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight'' getting beaten the crap out of him either by Quintessa or the Guardian Knights.
134* ''Film/TheTroubleWithAngels'': Rachel to some extent; but more obviously, Marvel-Ann.
135* ''Film/UndercoverBlues'': Muerte (Stanley Tucci) is established as a borderline AxCrazy after his first encounter with Jeff Blue (Dennis Quaid) but by the end of the film, most people I know are feeling a little bit sorry for him because of the sheer amount of hell the Blues put him through.
136* ''Film/{{Underground}}'': the Balkan brass band that follows Marko and Blacky around to provide jaunty tunes for their various adventures always seems to suffer the brunt of the repercussions. In the opening scene, members of the band have to dodge as Blacky drunkenly fires in random directions. During Blacky's wedding, the band leader is the only one alarmed by the fact that Nazis are surrounding them. He starts firing at them, but also accidentally shoots one of his band mates in the leg. During Jovan's wedding, kids keep aiming the tank's gun at the band leader as a prank, to his annoyance. The band leader is also the only one alarmed by the fact that the chimp later jumps into the tank and starts piloting it.
137* ''Film/VetHard'': Vuk is Milo's "[[MistakenNationality Yugoslavian]]" cousin who is dumped by Milo at Bennie's. Vuk is a PsychoElectro who obsessive-compulsively plays with electricity, causing a lot of havoc on the other characters (who don't want anything to do with him in the first place). He is repeatedly beaten up by Bennie. In the end of the movie, [[spoiler:he is already wearing casts all over his body, ''and then'' run over with Bennie's car]].
138* ''Film/VictorVictoria'':
139** The private investigator is an example of a tertiary-character ButtMonkey. Every single scene featuring him (all four of them) involves slapstick at his expense.
140** In his first scene:
141---> '''Club owner:''' Be careful.\
142'''Private eye:''' I am ''always'' careful.\
143'''Club owner:''' [[PreemptiveDeclaration That chair is broken.]]\
144'''Private eye:''' It is? ''(chair collapses)''
145** Later he hides outside Victoria and Toddy's apartment during a thunderstorm and is struck by lightning.
146** He later hides in Victoria's bathroom closet, with his finger stuck through the door so he can see out. Guess what happens.
147** To add insult to injury, when he presents the club owner who hired him with the bill, said club owner takes out a hammer and brings it down on the already-broken finger. Hard.
148* ''Film/WeddingCrashers'': Vince Vaughn's character, especially during their stay with the family.
149* ''Film/WelcomeToTheDollhouse'': Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener. Especially if her bratty tutu-wearing kid sister Missy has anything to do with it.
150%%* Kenny from ''Film/WereTheMillers''.
151* ''Film/WhatAboutBob'': Psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), whose life as he knows it is ruined when one of his patients (Creator/BillMurray) follows him on his vacation. It could be argued that Dr. Marvin brings his misfortune on himself, as he is revealed through the course of the movie to be a closet {{Jerkass}}. As much of a {{Jerkass}} as Leo arguably is, many of the bad things that happen to him are the result not of LaserGuidedKarma but of Bob being a total pest and occasional idiot. Ironically, Bob actually ''likes'' Dr. Marvin for helping to cure him of his anxieties, and his attempts to be friends with the doctor and his family ''inadvertently'' cause all the trouble for Leo.
152* ''Film/WildChild'': In this 2008 film, whenever the plot calls for (or even when it doesn't call for) a student of Abbey Mount to make a fool of herself, get hopelessly drunk and pass out in a puddle of vomit, someone other than Poppy to be bullied or even for someone to be in a life-threatening situation, it WILL be Drippy.
153* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
154** After his initial appearance in ''Film/XMen1'', things go downhill for Senator Kelly. [[spoiler:Kidnapping, being transformed into what he hates, dropped into the ocean and finally a painful death.]]
155** The Man in Black from ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. Mocked by his colleagues, lightly manipulated by the mutants and eventually [[spoiler:murdered by Azazel.]]
156** Despite his prominence in the overarching franchise (and his role as TheDragon to Trask), William Stryker suffers the most injuries and beatdowns out of anyone in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', including being blasted by Havok in the opening scene, being tasered after Mystique's failed assassination of Trask, and being beaten again when Nixon and his team discover Mystique is in the room with them. It's really no wonder he seems to hate mutants so much later on, when he spends all of his screen time in this one getting his ass beaten by them.
157* ''Film/YouAreSoNotInvitedToMyBatMitzvah'':
158** Aaron, a classsmate of Stacy, who gets called out by Cantor Jerry and Rabbi Rebecca for not paying attention, and catches the ire of DJ Schmuley by requesting Music/{{Journey|Band}}'s "Don't Stop Believin'."
159** DJ Schmuley gets into two car accidents over the course of the film.

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