You would not believe what I've been through tonight!
— Mr. Potato Head, Toy Story 3 note
- Aladdin: Iago. "When in doubt, hurt the bird" was the actual mantra of the writing and animation teams. Though given that he's a jerk and a willing participant and contributor to Jafar's plots, and even after his Heel–Face Turn he keeps doing selfish things that backfire, he's also a Karmic Butt-Monkey.
- Alice in Wonderland: Alice, throughout the entire movie. She's trolled by nearly everything Wonderland can throw at her.
- The Aristocats: Edgar. He's the typical Harmless Villain who suffers comical abuse and Humiliation Conga in many scenes, especially in the climax. Napoleon and Lafayette's primary purpose in the film seems to be assaulting him.
- Beauty and the Beast:
- Maurice, Belle's father. His inventions misfire, he gets lost in the woods, he gets captured by a beast, his daughter takes his place, when he tries to get Gaston and the villagers to help him, they throw him out in the snow and later they even try to lock him up in the nuthouse.
- Cogsworth regularly suffers comic incidents. This is especially evident in the Updated Re-release, where his entire role in the added musical number seems to consist of nothing but him being picked on.
- Gaston's loyal sidekick Lefou. Gaston uses him as a punching bag ever so often. Lefou even means "the daft," "the crazy", "the demented" or "the fool", so it's even lampshaded.
- In The Black Cauldron, Creeper is always getting abused by the other henchmen, stepped on, strangled by the Horned King, and things tend to fall on his head.
- Dumbo: The title character is one of the saddest and cruelest examples of this trope, due to being mocked, ostracized, relegated to clown, etc.—all because of his large ears. This is Played for Drama and the story revolves around finding his Happy Ending.
- Anna becomes this in Frozen II, building on her previous Trauma Conga Line from the first film. It's initially Played for Laughs, but becomes increasingly deconstructed. She is subject to Slapstick, constantly reminded by the other characters of her abusive ex in ways which either blame her for it or remind her of the rejection she experienced. People she loves keep leaving her, usually in ways that end poorly for everyone, and implying that she's not important or competent. This affects her self-esteem and ability to recognize her own importance. She thinks her boyfriend is trying to break up with her when he actually wants to proposenote and she keeps risking her life unnecessarily just to help her sister. In the end, she learns to recognize her own worth outside of being her sister's helper and as a leader in her own right.
- How to Catch a Cold: Zigzagged. The man is sick, and he claims he's been having a lot of bad luck in general, though Common Sense thinks he just has bad judgement, and it's not revealed who's right.
- Ice Age:
- Sid. The majority of his problems are self-imposed, either through not being properly careful, or through having delusions of grandeur.
- Scrat. Nothing ever goes the poor guy's way. He exists only for the purpose of being a butt-monkey — er, squirrel. Thing. Butt-Saber-Toothed-Squirrel.
- Louis isn't given a lot of respect by the Herd.
- The Jungle Book (1967):
- Kaa. Especially in the sequel where every time he tries to eat Mowgli he suffers countless Amusing Injuries. Later on, he's brutally beaten up again when he tries to eat Shanti and his last appearance has him being threatened by Shere Khan.
- Bagheera has his fair share of Amusing Injuries. Over the course of the movie, he's hypnotised by Kaa, stumbles backwards into a stream and hits his head on a fallen tree when he tries to raise his head, is bellowed at by both Hathi and Baloo, is crushed by the door when Baloo opens it, is hit on the head by Baloo by accident and had a large rock fall on his tail.
- Kung Fu Panda: Deconstructs this trope. For most of the film, Po is always getting slapped around by fate and other characters. And sure, it's funny, but since he's the protagonist, we get to see what it's like form his point of view, even before he says this: "I stayed because every time you threw a brick at my head, or said I smelled, it hurt — but it could never hurt more than every day of my life just being me!" Then it's subverted in the sense that fate has actually been guiding him just in the right direction.
- Lilo & Stitch: Ice Cream Man. Doesn't possess the luck to get through his ice cream without losing it.
- The Lion King movies:
- The Lion King (1994):
- Banzai, who gets claw-marks and thorns in his butt.
- Zazu who starts out as Mufasa's PR guy and constantly finds himself at the butt of Simba's antics. After Scar takes over, he is reduced to being in a cage and is almost eaten by the hyenas on several occasions.
- Timon and Pumbaa ain't slouches on this department, either, surviving humiliation and pain for a quite significant amount of their screen-time.
- The Lion King II: Simba's Pride: Nuka is a deconstructed example. Scrawny, neurotic, and high-strung, with barely any mane on his neck, he's The Unfavorite of Zira's children. As a result, he is subject to constant abuse from his mother, both physical and emotional, and his siblings make no effort to stand up for him. He constantly tries to gain his mother's approval, and it ends up killing him.
- The Lion King 1 ½: Timon due to all the Amusing Injuries he suffers throughout his misadventures. Pumbaa is also this to a slightly lesser extent.
- The Lion King (1994):
- 101 Dalmatians: Cruella often treats Horace and Jasper this way. Also, Jasper treats Horace like this, too.
- Peter Pan:
- Wendy. She almost falls to death after being shot by the Lost Boys, she's hated by Tinker Bell, picked on and insulted by the mermaids, forced to work at Tiger Lily's party (while watching Peter and Tiger Lily flirting), and captured by Hook who also tries to kill her.
- Captain Hook regularly suffers Amusing Injuries, especially in his combat against the crocodile.
- Pocahontas:
- Percy the pug. He's quite frequently tripping, falling from high heights, or smashing into things, all because he happens to be the villain's dog at least before he switches owners. However, no one likes torturing him more than Meeko the raccoon. Whenever Percy has the chance to eat something, Meeko is always there to snatch it away from him. On one occasion, after he hordes a pile of bones intended for the two of them to share, Meeko offers a single bone to Percy. Then he breaks it and offers him a smaller piece, before finally eating it just as Percy was about to grab it.
- Flit, who despite his caution and practical edge. He is often comically abused by Meeko, almost drowns, and John Smith later catches him in a cookie, which was virtually inescapable for him.
- Thomas throughout 3/4 of the movie — he nearly drowns, is clumsy, can't shoot and is manipulated by Ratcliffe. Even when he thinks he's doing right by shooting Kocoum to save John's life, he only manages to make things worse.
- Rover Dangerfield. He says so himself: "I get no respect. No respect at all." It's even the tagline of the movie poster: "The dog who gets no respect."
- Robin Hood (1973): Sir Hiss is always the target of Prince John's temper tantrums.
- The Secret of NIMH: Jeremy Even sweet Mrs Brisby wants a restraining order from him.
- The Snow Queen (2012): Orm is this. When he tries to reject his duty to the Snow Queen and save Gerda, she calls him a coward.
- Son of the White Horse: If someone's to be humiliated, it'll be Kőmorzsoló.
- Storks:
- As a Broken Ace, Junior receives several hilarious injuries and hi jinx. It starts from injuring his wing when attempting to turn off the baby-manufacturing machine. He also gets whacked on the head several times, runs smack into many sheets of glass (which birds can’t see), and gets captured by Hunter when falling into his trap.
- Tulip, although a victim to this trope to a lesser extent than Junior, is a clumsy girl whose inventions always backfire. She's also nicknamed "Orphan Tulip," a constant reminder from other people that her family hasn't been found.
- WALL•E:
- WALL•E gets blasted at, crashed into, broken, and tossed into walls regularly.
- BURN-E. He's just trying to do his job and fix the ship, but the events of the film keep causing chaos for him.
- M-O's job is to keep the ship spotless, but once WALL•E comes aboard, he's left with a near-endless trail of "foreign contaminant" to clean up, which, naturally, taxes his sanity.
- The Wild: The slightly oddball koala Nigel (voiced by Eddie Izzard). Nigel never gets any respect and gets made fun by some of the animals at the zoo because he's a cute, furry koala bear. This is mainly because of a doll of him that is sold in the zoo shop and says "I'm so cuddly I like you!" when someone pulls his string.
