The Chew Toy/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character who is loved by misery.
 * Straight: Jason constantly slips into puddles of water...
 * Exaggerated: ...and constantly falls into the floor, table, and bookshelf.
 * Cosmic Plaything
 * Downplayed: Humorous Butt Monkey
 * Justified: Jason is The Klutz.
 * Or, Jason has done something horrible that the universe intends to give due retribution for.
 * Inverted: The Woobie
 * Creators Pet (sometimes, if the author lets everything go their way).
 * Karma Houdini.
 * Complete Monster
 * Subverted: Jason might seem to be having a perpetual bad luck, but other than this unlucky day bad luck usually stay out of his way.
 * It goes too far once, and he starts becoming rather sympathetic
 * Double-Subverted: ...but it turns out he's cursed to have this kind of bad luck for the rest of his life. And it's funny.
 * ...but later it turns out he actually deserved what he got, and so it's back to the usual.
 * Parodied: Cosmic Plaything.
 * They Killed Kenny.
 * It's really hard to parody something that was already funny
 * Deconstructed: The series goes meta and the writer berates the viewers for taking amusement in a person's suffering.
 * Lampshaded: "I seem to spend most of the time getting the shit kicked out of me."