Butt Monkey/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

** 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:

{{quote|'''Lisa:''' I don't know, Mom. I feel kind of uncomfortable wearing white. You know, Milhouse...\}}

** Lisa might enter this trope soon. Her family is a bunch of idiots, she gets insulted for her gifted status, she is a loner and an outcast, and in an episode where Lisa finds out one of her ancestors helped a black slave become free, she tries to use that. However, Milhouse, who had loved Lisa, and married her in the future(if the latest episode on the future counted) said that her ancestor didn't do that, called the story a fairy tale and a fake, and basically betrayed her. The only redeeming part is that it wasn't her ancestor Eliza, but Mabel who freed the slave and coincidentally helped make the Simpson family 1/64th black.

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

** 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.