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* Nanako Shichigusa from ''Amazing Nurse Nanako''.

* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' Shinji Ikari is constantly bullied and ignored ([["Well Done, Son" Guy|even by his father]]), even though he ''saves the world.'' Multiple times. And in the more light-hearted [[Sitcom]] scenes in the first half of the series, guess who is the butt of every humiliating joke? Imagine [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]] with a [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]].

** To be fair, Misato Katsuragi has her [[Butt Monkey]] moments, too. Mainly when she's on the receiving end of Ristuko or Shinji's snarky remarks.

* Nearly the entire [[Four Is Death|Fourth Division]] (the Captain is the only one who is spared, because [[Beware the Nice Ones|the bullies are afraid of her]]) from ''[[Bleach]]'', especially Hanataro Yamada, are frequently looked down upon by the Eleventh Division and are given grunt duties because their specialty is healing, not fighting. P.S. [[Spike Spencer|Guess who he's voiced by?]]

*** Though {{spoiler|recent manga events, including his being the first to regain consciousness in Karakura Town, his ability to withstand Aizen's reiatsu without being paralyzed, AND his ability to just pick up someone's zanpakutou and apparently be able to use the thing may be pushing him towards [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] territory.}}

** Among the Espada, Yammy. In all his fights with the good guys, he has made a fool of himself. To be fair, the two first times he ended up fighting [[Magnificent Bastard|Urahara Kiskue]], and when Uryu attacked him he was prepared, but still.

** 7th Division Lieutenant Tetsuzaemon Iba gets this quite a bit in the omakes, especially as president of the Shinigami Men's association, which ends up being pushed around and often having its funding cut. He also gets treated somewhat poorly in {{spoiler|the potentially last battle, where he ends up running from Poww until Komamura saves him, and then tries to attack Allon, but is blown away by a Cero in a matter of seconds}}.

*** And now, in the newest filler arc involving copies of the shinigami, after seeing identical (if a little crazy) copies we see....someone new. Turns out he's Omaeda's copy who refused to look like Omaeda, explaining exactly why. The real Ikkaku and Yumichika laugh uncontrollably, agreeing completely.

** Arisawa Tatsuki. Virtually every single time she has a close encounter with a spiritual being, she is either a) injured severely, b) being crushed by the person's reiatsu, or c) worse. Numb Chandelier {{spoiler|and Tsukishima}} provide an example of c).

*** Being around and eventually {{spoiler|in love with}} Keitarō seems to bring out Naru's inner Butt Monkey, and if she is not a victim of his being an [[Accidental Pervert]], then she is a victim of her friends' dubious efforts to "help" the would-be couple. This may also apply to Shinobu, whose own efforts to win Keitarō may have "infected" her. Almost any time she takes the other girls' advice to win their "game", she suffers some mishap, triply so if this help comes from Kaolla Su.

**** Then there's Motoko's "adventures" with her sister. Until [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|she was finally able to confess to Keitaro and beat her sister at the same time]]

* Manabu Kuchiki from ''[[Genshiken]];'' when he joins the Genshiken, he becomes the frequent recipient of Saki's violence, once simply for being there. The others have him do grunt work at Comifest, leading to him going a entire day buying their doujinshi without food or water. However, unlike most Butt Monkeys, he entirely ''deserves'' it, knows that, and accepts it all without complaint. In fact, he seems to like it; early on, he cheerfully declares himself to be a "shameless servant", and his masochistic streak causes him to smile whenever the Genshiken mistreat him. Except when they tied him to a lamp in volume 7 of the manga to keep him from peeping on the girls' bathing. ''Then'' he complained... for about ten seconds. And it was mostly acting.

** He's also highly self-sabotaging; the one time he was shown to be underneath a fairly <s>decent</s> human being, managing to stop a thief from stealing from their stall, his reaction to the [[Not What It Looks Like]] that inevitably followed was to... wear the dress. In the middle of the crowded university. And scare off potential members.

** Don't forget Kageto, who is ignored by everyone in the series, despite keeping the store going while everyone jaunts off to the next [[Tournament Arc]].

*** Kageto practically defines this trope. He is so full of suck that he actually gets Yukino, the show's psychopathic Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, to pity him.

'''Tomoyo''': [[Lampshade Hanging|You exist for that.]] }}

* Yamcha from [[Dragon Ball]] Z is one of the most extreme examples. He died from a single Saibaman. From then on Yamcha suffers permanent [[Can't Catch Up]], loses his girlfriend of 15 years to the biggest jerk(who was responsible for Yamcha's saibaman death) in their entire circle of acquaintances as the [[Plot Induced Stupidity|plot]] demanded another [[Kid From the Future|Saiyan baby]]., almost entirely stops training, and essentially pretty much all but gives up on life. At this point Yamcha, however, almost might as well cease to be. Except, that is, at the moment he does finally decide to do something helpful, he's the first to instantly suffer a near-fatal Dr. Gero salute through the chest. From this point on in the series, if he's ever shown, he's often commenting on the situation or lamenting about his life, having self-admitted later on to have completely given up ever trying to ever even spar again. Even his [[True Companions]] aren't really shown to be empathetic to him by this point in the series.

** Even in [[Dragon Ball]], Yamcha wasn't exactly lucky. He smashed crotchfirst onto his opponent's head once. [[Groin Attack|CROTCHFIRST]]. Which was made even worse by the fact that his opponent was a nerdy guy in glasses and a pocket protector ''possessed by God''. Hitting below the belt is usually against the rules in that particular tournament, but Kami was [[Obfuscating Stupidity|acting like it was an accident]] and he was a ''nerd in glasses'' at the freakin' World Martial Arts Tournament. The [[Combat Commentator|announcer]] let it slide.

** Episode 202 of [[Gintama]] lampshades Yamcha's miserable existence.

** To a lesser extent Krillin is one too. The man's died four times, he [[Can't Catch Up]] and his signature attack, likely the most deadly in the manga, just can't score a critical hit. However unlike Yamcha, Krillin continues to receive screentime, and plot importance, and he actually comes through with the occasional cool moment at several critical points.

** Actually both Krillin and Yamcha are in the same boat. The real [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours|cut off]] is between Krillin/Yamcha and Tien. Three years before the arrival of the Androids Piccolo lampshades that both Yamcha and Krillin [[Can't Catch Up]] and points out that [[This Loser Is You|acting cool wouldn't protect him from the Androids]].

** And in the [[Abridged Series]], Raditz is treated as a butt monkey for Vegeta and Nappa. They constantly mention how weak he is, and at one point, Nappa compares Krillin to Raditz, saying "He's like the Raditz of their group!" But eventually, Krillin shows he's stronger than Raditz, amusing Nappa.

*** It's just as true even in the series proper. The only reason this is played up in the Abridged is based on the actual treatment of the real character from then on. That is to say, Raditz may as well have never existed. Despite being related, Goku never spares so much as a thought about him until the end of forever. Vegeta dismisses him from memory outright (albiet the same happens with Nappa, at least Vegeta and Nappa share scenes together.) And worst (and most telling) of all, Raditz disapears from even the AFTERLIFE, never to so much as be heard from again.

* Keiichi from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''. Even in the pilot his life sucks so much that Heaven sends a goddess to grant him a wish to make up for it. Even though he gets a [[Magical Girlfriend]] out of the deal, he also becomes target number one for the former most popular girl at his school, Belldandy's sisters, a demon, the queen of Hell, and sometimes even Belldandy herself.

** On the other hand, he gets better digs (the temple), a job he likes (Whirlwind), a woman's love (Belldandy), and probably a life more interesting and enjoyable than he would have otherwise had. Not an easy one, but worth it perhaps?

* ''[[Eureka 7]]'' starts main lead Renton Thurston as a Butt Monkey, particularly in episode 7, where he's given a completely bogus and embarrassing mission as a joke. (Namely, find an informant in the sauna that wears a toupee and has a legendary animal tattoo while wearing a fake mustache and a helmet.) People thought [[Dude, Not Funny|the comedy died]] when Renton ''starts crying from happiness'' that they trusted him to complete his mission, and gives a ''2 minute speech'' about how much he wants to protect everyone, even if the world turns on him, how he needs to become better to save innocent people, etc. And then ''they laugh at him.'' And put an embarrassing picture on a popular magazine. While his girlfriend was present.

* Geraba, Fatman, and occasionally Blume from ''[[Xabungle]]''. Geraba usually does nothing to incite Horra's wrath other than question his orders, but he still gets the crap kicked out of him on a regular basis. Fatman is Elche's loyal bodyguard and mute, but he usually gets shoved aside in times of need and constantly suffers physical abuse without striking back or saying a word. Blume is a much less extreme example, but he still manages to take the occasional bullet or strike without necessarily deserving it, while most of the others remain unharmed.

* Tamaki from ''[[Code Geass]]''. He's not the butt of every joke, but he's disliked by the cast, and can't pilot a Knightmare to save his life, yet [[The Fool|never comes close to dying]].

** What about the main character? Lelouch "One the universe hates" vi Brittania? Everything Lelouch does just gets messed up, even if it's all treated deadly seriously. Save his best friend? Short-term, friend gets court-martialled for insubordination, long-term {{spoiler|Tokyo gets wiped out because of the Geass command he uses to do it.}} Everything eventually comes back to bite him in the ass. The only one that actually goes off without a hitch or a [[Butterfly of Doom]] chain of cause-and-effect is the plan where {{spoiler|he [[Zero-Approval Gambit|makes everyone hate him]], then ''[[Thanatos Gambit|dies]]''.}}

** And Shirley... Oh my gosh, Shirley... That poor girl ''cannot'' catch a break. Her butt monkeyness is both [[Played for Laughs]] ''and'' [[Played for Drama]].

** As the story advances, his [[Big Brother Mentor]] Inui is the one who becomes a Butt Monkey. How many times the guy has been punished for trying to sneak out of something and/or has lost his pants? Specially in the OAV, where the punishments he suffers are ''even more'' embarrassing [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and funny]]

* Sakuya from ''[[Candy Boy]]'' gets treated as such, only for being in love with one of [[Twincest|a very close pair of twin sisters]].

** {{spoiler|In the end, it's implied that his final visit to Japan led Kirihito to dare to hope again.}}

** Also, Chisame seems to be the person most likely to get put into humiliating situations; she's always the first to get caught by Nitta for breaking school rules and seems to always suffer her portion of [[Clothing Damage]] in front of the whole class or on stage at a cosplay contest. Not to mention that incident with the [[Clothing Damage|clothes eating]] [[Naughty Tentacles|octopus...]]

** In the alternate universe series ''Negima!?'', Makie is given the role of the Butt Monkey, especially when it comes to the [[Super Sentai|Baka Rangers]] segments that appear at the end of a number of episodes.

* Keiichi from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' seems to be a Butt Monkey sometimes. Though it may be due to [[Hot-Blooded|his]] [[Accidental Pervert|behavior]]. It may also have to do with the club's general creativity with their punishment games.

* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' has arguably a cast of them as there is probably none who doesn't get at least a [[Kick the Dog]] moment. Though the most suffering is probably Katou Yue, who is not only a drug addict in real life because his father hates him. He gets killed no less than four times throughout the series.

* Pedro from the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime. Practically tormented every episode, usually accompanied by his famous [[Big No]], but not often [[Played for Laughs]], unlike Excel and Watanabe.

* Patrick Colasaur and Saji Crossroads from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' have had ''[[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|very]]'' [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|embarrassing]] and ''[[Break the Cutie|very]] [[Break the Cutie|soul-crippling]]'' things done onto them, respectively. Patrick bounces back effortlessly every time; Saji [[Earn Your Happy Ending|has to work at it]].

* Mullin Shetland from ''[[Last Exile]]'' becomes the series' Butt Monkey when he joins the Silvana crew as a mechanic. Basically, he sucks at it, no-one bothers teaching him anything and every woman he falls for rejects him. A former rifleman who survived 19 battles (where riflemen have a 33% survival rate) he's remarkably [[Badass]] at other times of the series- after leaving the crew he ends up single-handedly saving the Anatoray flagship with his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] {{spoiler|(he gets better)}}.

* Hanai of ''[[School Rumble]]'' is usually the first target for pranks. In fact, when he tried to play the recorder to remind Mikoto of when they were kids, Mikoto laughed at how bad he was and had forgotten completely.

* Matsuda of ''[[Death Note]]''. Everyone on the investigative team doesn't hesitate to point out what an idiot he is. L especially treats him like crap. Of course, he does get his hero moments, particularly at the end.

** Not to mention when he was kidnapped, they kept talking about his belt, never him. And at one point, L says that Matsuda's death would prove the kidnappers to be the second Kira, and so, they should just wait to see how it plays out. Unlike all the other times L gets yelled at for being so casual about human life, no one yells. Even though, y'know, Matsuda, for all his faults, has repeatedly proven his bravery (despite several chances to honourably walk away, he risks his life every day trying to find and capture a supernatural serial killer) and ''is one of their own''. What The Hello Heroes.

** Kotegawa too.

*** Zastin gets it even worse. Especially in the Anime.

*** Motemitsu essentially exists solely to show up at random times, fail horribly at whatever it is he's doing, and have [[Phrase Catcher|everyone around comment on how they expected it.]]

* Partially, Dante in the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' anime. He says that people "usually leave him a bill instead of paying him".

* Officer Kuhou of ''[[Franken Fran]]''. A perfectly normal cop who managed to be a recurring character in a horror comedy manga. Poor girl had to be temporarily committed to the hospital for psychological analysis after witnessing [[Body Horror]], then later subjected to [[Cloning Blues]] by Fran. Each chance meeting with Fran after the first one has her going in sheer hysterics thanks to all her past experiences with her.

* All the Dinoforce in ''[[Transformers Victory]]'' suffer considerable humiliation, but Kakuryu takes the cake. It's a rare episode where he isn't embarrassed or hurt at least twice.

* ''[[Angel Densetsu]]'''s Kuroda ''seems'' one, but his [[Idiot Ball]] propels too much of the plot to count. Ogisu on the other hand...

* Mousse and Kuno, from ''[[Ranma ½]]'', are always knocked around or be played as the fool for laughs. Yes, Kuno is an idiot and sometimes that idiocy is the cause of it, but it doesn't mean that he deserves it.

* Aoki of ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'' gets no respect. He's Takamura's number 1 target of bullying (which means you [[Jerkass|won't live a good life]]) and he's the worst boxer of the gym. He is however, the only character in the story who has a girlfriend.

* ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'': Poor Gilbert Nightray. Even the mangaka goes out of her way to abuse him for everyone's amusement.

* While Yokoshima Tadao from ''[[Ghost Sweeper Mikami]]'' can be said to deserve a fair amount of the abuse Mikami sends after him (we're talking [[Lovable Sex Maniac|lust incarnate here...]]), it seems that misfortune makes a concerted effort to seek him out, ''even when he's not being that lustful''.

** One will also wish Yanda got ''more'' crap than he already gets.

* A rare example of a villainous [[Butt Monkey]] who nonetheless remains an effective and dangerous villain: Spandam from the Enies Lobby arc of ''[[One Piece]]''. Constantly abused by his subordinates, his enemies, and his teammates, his suffering evokes not a bit of sympathy or pity from the audience. Probably because his [[Establishing Character Moment]] involves him merrily skipping over the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and he [[Kick the Dog|kicks dogs]] [[Evil Is Petty|at every possible opportunity.]] {{spoiler|Snapping his spine in two was letting him off too easy, if you ask me.}}

** Luffy was this trope during his childhood. He had a [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] as a result of his grandpa's training, and even after that he was pretty weak. Wild animals and vitriolic brothers didn't really help either.

* K-2 in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' is a relatively appropriate example insofar as his defining characteristic is his gigantically swollen rear. Even his name is a pun off a Japanese word for butt. And that butt gets prodded, poked, stabbed, smacked, and generally attacked at every given opportunity.

** Not to mention the Team Rocket trio in the anime, who have sad back stories, are poor, incompetent, hated by their boss, and, oh yeah: they get blasted off at the end of almost every episode.

*** However, this is slowly changing as the trio is becoming more competent.

** Bill in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' was this for a little while. He seems to become less and less of this as the series goes on (and seems to have gotten Daisy Oak as a [[Throw the Dog a Bone|girlfriend]]), but Pika still shocks him for the fun of it.

* Nagasumi of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' is one of these, when he isn't being [[Badass]].

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': Poor [[Shrinking Violet|Canada]] and [[The Woobie|China]]. No one ever pays attention to Canada, either not realizing he's there or mistaking him for his brother America. China constantly gets picked on by the rest of the allies, even his own younger siblings.

** Also, [[Tsundere|England]] in [[Fanon]]. Fans make use of his magical powers by making him fail in order to create a plot, while implying that England does ''every'' spell wrong. They also endlessly poke fun at his [[Big Ol' Eyebrows|eyebrows]], [[Lethal Chef|cooking skills]], eyebrows, [[Can't Hold His Liquor|alcoholistic tendencies]]...did I mention eyebrows?

* Vincent in ''[[Bizenghast]]'' tends to be treated like this. He has been shot at, [[Burn the Witch|hung for witchcraft]], infected with plague, slammed against a wall while airbourne, enslaved, eaten by a giant Venus Flytrap, stuck up a tree, and finally {{spoiler|stabbed in the chest with a rigging pin and killed}}. Edrear has taken over now (knocked out twice in a row).

* Insector Haga and Dinosaur Ryuzaki in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. They were considered to be the top two duelists in Japan, until the main characters showed up, at least. They never quite make it back to their former glory, even after ulitizing an [[Artifact of Doom]]. They end up constantly humilated by the main characters, and even Filler villians.

** Among the Arcobaleno, Skull definitely counts. He doesn't exactly have it easy in the manga, but the anime's Arcobaleno filler arcs abuse him beyond belief.

* Yukinari of ''[[Girls Bravo]]''.

* After his [[Character Development]] from [[Jerk Jock]], Jun Manjoume in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' tends to have ridiculosly bad luck, from his [[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited crush]] on Asuka to [[The Worf Effect|being the first of the main cast to lose to the new villian]]. Occasionlly, he'll return to his [[Badass]] self, but it always falls apart in the end, until his final steps of [[Character Development]] in Season 4.

** [[Catch Phrase|FUKO DA]]!!! (Such misfortune!)

** The only thing he's lucky on, however, is that his life is a [[Dating Sim]] where he gets an [[Unwanted Harem]], which is pretty much a good reason why many of his male classmates are ''jealous'' of him.

* Agari Yamato from ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]''. In the time span of '''ONE DAY''', he had events ranging from having the girl he loves mistake him for a child molester, to being blamed for the earth's destruction. Seriously. Not one chapter can be made without something happening to Yamato.

** And then even after he hits the [[Reset Button]] (because of said earth's destruction), [[It Got Worse]]. So far, he has had a gun pointed to his head just because he's the master of the greatest good doji, got stabbed almost numerous times by one of the evil doji, got one of his comrades into a comatose state, failed to prevent his best friend from turning to [[The Dark Side]] ''again'', who later [[Attempted Rape|attempts to rape him]], before Yamato convinces him to come to the Good Side. We later learn that this [[Heel Face Revolving Door|fails too]]. And this took place in the matter of about ''five hours''.

** Ash has become more of this in the recent series, ''Best Wishes'', though even he looks good in comparasion to Cilan's [[Unknown Rival]] Cabernet, who has bad things happen to her every other minute or so.

* One could argue Simon of [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] fits this trope well. Early in the series, he {{spoiler|contributes to the death of his best friend/brother figure}}. Then, years later, {{spoiler|his wife-to-be is kidnapped, and he has to fight to rescue her, and all of humanity. Once he succeeds, they're married, and she promptly vanishes.}} The series ends with {{spoiler|humans (and Viral, now immortal) going out to explore the galaxy. Simon is, by this point, an old man, alone, and will probably be forgotten by almost everyone before long.}}

* Chuck and Brief share this role on ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]''.

* [[Inuyasha]] himself has a bad habit of falling into butt-monkey territory, especially if it involves Kikyo. Any time he goes off to see Kikyo, his first love, and having trouble deciding between her and Kagome, everyone will treat him like he's been cheating on Kagome. Kagome herself does nothing to help this, often hitting him with a sit.

* Nobita Nobi from ''[[Doraemon]]'', [[This Loser Is You|so much]] that his ancestor has to send him his robot to help dealing with that. Not that it's getting any better unless [[Non-Serial Movie|when they're going on an adventure.]]

* Meiling from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. She exists primarily to be the overactive idiot.

* Did I have to mention [[Catch Phrase|the genius]] [[Idiot Hero|Sakuragi Hanamichi]] from ''[[Slam Dunk]]''?? He even got a nickname "Red-headed monkey"!!

* Fate Testarossa-Harlaown of ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' gets this sometimes, being socially awkward and easily embarrassed into adulthood. She gets teasing from Signum about their new relationship (in which Fate is reluctantly Signum's superior officer in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|StrikerS]]), is not told about a final mock battle between the captains and forwards that includes her or her daughter Vivio's ability to turn into her [[Older Alter Ego]] at will, and occasionally gets subject to loving teasing by Vivio, particularly in the "[[Has Two Mommies|2nd Mother's Day]]" one shot.

* Due to his status as [[The Comically Serious]] and as [[I Just Want to Be Normal|a chimera who desperately seeks a cure for his appearance]], [[I Work Alone|which often makes him try to ignore or belie his comrades]], [[Slayers|Zelgadis]] is this in multiple filler episodes. One memorable episode from the second season had him being used as an ''anchor'', nearly get killed twice by a [[Our Dragons Are Different|Lake Dragon]], and almost drown. In the latter scenario, he winds up getting [[Squick|CPR from the elderly (male) captain]] of the boat they were on instead of [[Genki Girl|Amelia]], whom he secretly hoped would do it...

* Bucky from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]''.

* Zakuro from ''[[Saiyuki]]'' and sometimes Gojyo as well.

* Ueda in ''[[Japan Inc]]''.

* Ignoring the fact that all of [[Keroro Gunsou]]'s invasion plans never work, he is constantly put through tons of abuse, usually from Natsume, even when he [[Disproportionate Retribution|doesn't actually deserve it]].

* Not played for laughs at all with the protagonist of ''[[Life (manga)|Life]]''; nothing can seem to go her way. Ayumu's middle school best friend broke ties with her after she got into the high school she was aiming for instead of her and Ayumu started cutting herself due to that. Her first friend in high school, Manami, turned out to be a manipulative bitch. Manami's boyfriend [[Mind Rape]]'s Ayumu and sexually abuses her, she's the target of bullies due to them thinking she tried to take Manami's boyfriend, her mother doesn't trust her, and that's not even half of her problems.

* Sasazuka from ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro]]''. His teachers love to pick on him, and force him to [[Standing in the Hall|stand in the hall]] at the slightest provocation, even before he's even said anything.

** And to a lesser extent, Yuuji

* The Producer in ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'', although watered down a little. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the final episode by the Futami Twins.

* [[Lupin III]] has Inspector Zenigata, especially in the second series. This comes from trying to explain why Lupin is never caught, despite all the chances he gets. He tends to switch between "incompetent [[Idiot Hero]]" and plain "[[Overshadowed by Awesome]]". Most of the post-2000 Lupin films have him learning Lupin's old tricks (showing him to be competent) and Lupin ''still'' making a fool out of him by being [[I Know You Know I Know|one more step ahead.]]

* Akari Akaza from ''[[Yuru-Yuri]]''. Poor girl.

* In ''[[Saint Beast]]'', Shiva's a less-than-stellar example of angelic goodness but he gets a ''lot'' of flak from the other characters and rarely gets anything he wants including a coveted position as a Saint Beast. Some fans see him more as [[The Woobie]] because he is so unlucky he's empathetic.