Butt Monkey/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

*** Calamity and Furrball too.

*** Fifi La Fume as well, especially on Out of Odor.

*** Although most of Rita the Cat's misfortunes are taken in a more sympathetic light.

*** Don't forget poor Mr. Skullhead from the "Good Idea, Bad Idea" sketches.

** ''[[Histeria!]]'' has Pule Houser for this.

* Tom, in the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' shorts. Sometimes this will catch up to Jerry, too (Most notably when Tom gets his revenge on him).

* Wally Walrus would more often than not wind up as this, with him being at the mercy of [[Woody Woodpecker]]'s antics.

** To be fair, a lot of what Timon goes through is karmic retribution for some recent act of Jerkassery, usually by being overly rude, selfish, or proud. When using his powers for good such as {{spoiler|dressing in drag and doing the hula to distract hungry, bi-curious hyenas}}, he's untouchable.

*** Zazu was the original Buttmonkey for [[The Lion King]] such as almost being eaten by Scar, being pounced on and having his tail bitten by Simba, being swatted away by an elephant after he blew his nose on the elephant's ear, being stepped on by ostriches, being shoved up a rhino's ass, being pooped on by zebras, having a crowd of animals trample him, having monkeys touch him, being forced to go into his [[Primal Fear|childhood horror, the Birdie Boiler]], being swatted by Scar into passing out and being locked up in a cage! See when Disney means when he adds the comic relief!?!?!?!

* Greasepit from ''[[Biker Mice From Mars]]''.

* Mr. Luntz in ''[[Veggie Tales]]''. He is often cast as the villain's sidekick, and occasionally as an incompetent villain himself. When cast in a positive role, Mr. Luntz is infallibly the Butt Monkey. On at least two occasions he cross-dresses, once portrayed Gollum (Middle-Earth's butt monkey), and once lamented the fact that his entire life only included one half hour of happiness. The only story in which Mr. Luntz has ''not'' been the Butt Monkey was in the Don Quixote story.

* The script writers for ''[[The Simpsons]]'' never seem to run out of new afflictions to plague Milhouse with. Perhaps the greatest insult to Milhouse comes from behind the scenes. In the movie's DVD commentary, the writers stated that originally Milhouse was going to be portrayed as "finally getting a break" with Lisa, even [[Took a Level in Badass|getting to the point]] where he would help save Lisa and the rest from the angry mob and generally being all around useful in the second half. However, due to fear that Milhouse' long, long-time infatuation with Lisa would go over viewers' heads... this story was toned down and Milhouse was replaced with [[Marty Stu|Colin]]... now making the subplot seem tacked on. It just really isn't ever coming up for poor Milhouse, is it?

** No, the worst insult to Milhouse is in a [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] episode where Lisa is getting married, and discusses her wedding plans with Marge:

** Speaking of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', need we mention Hans Moleman?

** From about seasons 9/10, Moe and Kirk van Houten become two of the major Butt Monkeys of the show.

** Homer himself has his moments of [[Butt Monkey|Butt Monkeying]]. From his frequent injuries (which reached the point that the ''Behind the Music'' parody stated that Homer became addicted to painkillers due to said injuries), humiliating situations (such as losing his clothing, getting covered in mud, running into other campers which led to him being chased and captured, and being examined by scientists because they thought he was '''Big Foot''') and general bad luck and mistreatment. Granted [[Asshole Victim|he usually really deserves it]] (and most of the time ''[[Kafka Komedy|causes]]'' it).

*** Many of the couch gags end with him killed, maimed, or humiliated.

** Frank Grimes. Right to the grave.

** Perhaps the most notable recurring example is that of Gil, a character whose only reason to exist is to fail at everything he does.

{{quote|'''Bart''': I don't know how we ever had fun without him.}}

** Bart has his moments as the Butt Monkey too.

** Irwin is twice the Butt Monkey Pud'n is. Let's see: he's in love with Mandy, who hates him and hurts him commonly; he goes through torture like being eaten, made fun of, physically attacked in every way, ended up in a few downer endings, and more; he got caught in the tub twice both in court and a warp hole. He's like the black equivalent to Milhouse.

*** Granted, at least he [[Took a Level in Badass]] in Underfist.

* [[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron|Jimmy Neutron]]. He always gets the heat on him when it comes to anything that's not involving an invention. And when it DOES come to inventions...things always go wrong in some way. It's pretty rare for the main character to get this trope.

* Kif Kroker of ''[[Futurama]]'' is a bit of a cross between a Butt Monkey and the Eeyore. He is put upon a lot because Zapp blames him for his own failings, and he's gotten a bit depressive as a result.

** Oh, [[And Zoidberg]], the most common recipient of the trope. In one episode Leela crashes the Planet Express ship through the roof. Hermes turns to Zoidberg and promptly docks his pay.

*** Inverted once (and only once) in the [[You Mean "Xmas"|Xmas]] episode, where Robot Santa tries to kill everyone for being naughty, except Zoidberg, who has been very good, and gets a pogo stick.

** Lemongrab has only appeared in one episode so far, yet he cranked this trope up to 11 in the span of 11 minutes. He gets pranked, insulted, assaulted, fed extremely spicy food, bullied by his own mother, falls out of a window, falls out of a tree... And at the end, he's fired, and his mom calls him a "butt."

* Cat from ''[[CatDog]]''.

* ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' has Kaz and sometimes even Ami and Yumi.

* Samson from ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'', he keeps getting hit by volleyballs.

** Angelica, despite being the antagonist, gets her comeuppance a lot (eg: sitting in time out and pizza falling on her hair, causing her to cry as she hates the stress of having her hair washed), but sometimes, she can be the show's butt monkey, even when she isn't the antagonist.

** Chuckie is very often this, due to his lack of confidence, though not to Angelica's extent.

* Almost every character from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''

** Cuddles is basically the show's ''[[South Park|Kenny]]'', since he has the most deaths out of all the cast.

** Sniffles suffers a lot of humiliating deaths, usually when against the Ants.

** Handy, due to not having any hands and usually doing tasks that require using hands that end up killing him.

** Out of all the female characters, Giggles usually gets the worst of it.

*** Petunia as well.

** Lifty and Shifty, who have died on every episode they appeared in, except for three TV series episodes.

** Even Lumpy is this at times, especially in Letter Late Than Ever and Out on a Limb.

* The title character of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''.

* Bluto and Olive from ''[[Popeye (cartoon)|Popeye]]''.

* Fauntleroy Fox from ''[[The Fox and The Crow]]'' cartoons, though he does get the best of Crawford Crow at the end at times.