Butt Monkey/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** In a game play example, we have the Pyro and Engineer, more specifically the players of said classes. The Pyro gets next to no screen time in any of the "meet the X" vids or even the trailer, is constantly whacked with the nerf bat whenever the class starts to become something better than mediocre, suffers from its after burn mechanic being on other classes but better (bleed does more damage AND is harder to treat), and is labeled with a W+M1 label that is very untrue (the class is ambush based) yet no one calls out classes in which W+M1 is more accurate (Heavy, Soldier). The Engineer suffers from being [[The Unfavourite]] from a development standpoint, and thus is grossly neglected when it comes to class updates. To date, Engineer is the only class to only have one Class Set update, while other classes like Soldier have three.

* Rufus the Gargoyle in ''[[A Vampyre Story]]''. A significant amount of progress is made just by ruining his day. Over the course of the game you threaten him with a mace, get a bird to crap over his head, reduce him to a disembodied head (mocking him once you've reached this point is optional but entertaining), plug his nose, and {{spoiler|turn him into a golem. This last one annoys him on multiple levels, because he's forced to do your bidding, and the body you use is rather portly.}} It's not as though he wasn't asking for it, though-he's kind of a jerk and refuses to help out voluntarily. He doesn't make the greatest impression on Mona and Froderick, so the constant torment starts out as "if he won't help willingly we'll take what we need by force", but by the time you're finished with him it's become "Hey, we have another problem. Let's see if we can solve it by pissing off Rufus."

* Quaver of the ''[[Overlord]]'' series. It gets particularly blatant in the early levels ''[[Overlord II]],'' when he manages to [[Eye Scream|lose an eye]] merely by inspecting the block of ice the [[Creepy Child|Overlad]] arrived in. Also in the early levels, he gets knocked down a chasm when he tries to sing a ballad in the newly-crowned Overlord's honour.

* Link from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' is a Butt Monkey to Midna for the first half of ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', a Butt Monkey to Linebeck and Oshus (and occasionally Tetra) in the first half of ''[[Phantom Hourglass]]'' and a Butt Monkey to ''everyone'' in the first half of ''[[The Wind Waker]]''. After that, he always gets so [[Badass]], that nobody even ''dares'' anymore to put him down in the slightest possible way.