Butt Monkey/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

** It's still in effect, even though it usually only appears at Pay-Per-Views these days, if you see it, you know it isn't surviving the night.

* For [[TNA]] it's Eric Young, at least until he pulled a [[Who's Laughing Now?]] style [[Face Heel Turn]].

** Only to return after spending about two months "disguised" in a biker outfit, win the Knockouts title in her first pay-per-view match back, and then drop the title on the ensuing edtion of Impact by BEING FORCED TO LAY DOWN FOR MADISON. And let's not even start with the majority of her run in WWE as Victoria, where she would job to anything that moves, wear ridiculous Haloween outfits, and even dance like a fool at one point with no explanation.

* Believe it or not, this trope also applies to WWE Chairman [[Vince McMahon]] himself! He ''never'' wins at ''WrestleMania'' (go ahead and check), was the personal punching bag of [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] for a good two years, and was subjected to a seemingly never-ending [[Humiliation Conga]] (having crap dumped on him, getting peed on, nearly getting blown up, etc.) when [[D Generation X]] took over ''Monday Night Raw'' in the summer of 2006. Granted [[Bad Boss|he brought it on himself a lot of times]] and on occasions often dished out as much as he took (the DX feud for example was in retaliation to an endless amount of abuse and humiliating stipulations handed to both [[Shawn Michaels|HBK]] and [[Triple H|HHH]] after they [[Disproportionate Retribution|got a little too impudent around him]]) but still his indignities often overshadow the majority of examples here.

** Vince comes off as almost heroic in these cases when you remember that this punishment he takes is completely by his own choice. Look it up, he never, ever comes out ahead in a feud. Even in the rare cases where he's the face, [[The Bad Guy Wins]]. Vince pretty much says that he's a natural villain and shouldn't come out on top.

** His daughter, the Billion Dollar Princess [[Stephanie McMahon]], was also a Butt Monkey herself during much of the attitude era, especially at the hands of [[Chris Jericho]] and [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] who never missed an opportunity to give her a verbal beatdown. One year, they even made a compilation of her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnohiXG0T68 most embarrassing moments.]

* Oh, boy Jillian Hall. Hell she could even be the new trope namer. Around 2007 they gave her a [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]] gimmick as a [[Take That]] to Brooke Hogan who was trying to have a music career. When she got moved to Raw she became a joke and jobber and existed for four years being mad fun of for her bad singing. In both 2009 and 2010 she had only one pinfall victory that she got herself. She actually managed to capture the Divas' title from Mickie James...only to lose it to Melina about two minutes later. Then there's that one-sided feud with the [[Jerk Sue|Bella Twins]].

* [[Zack Ryder]] seems to have been reduced to this as well in recent times, as he has been getting repeatedly pummeled by [[Kane (wrestling)|Kane]], humiliated and used by a scheming [[Eve Torres]], and jobbing to wrestlers who are less popular than him (usually after a crowd-pleasing Broski Boot and a failed attempt to pull off a Rough Ryder).