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* [[Professional Wrestling]] is crammed with such characters. One need only mention [[WWE|World Wrestling Entertainment]] Superstar Colin Delaney, who repeatedly got [[Curb Stomp Battle|squashed by wrestlers a great deal bigger than he was]], only to [[The Determinator|be back to wrestle the next week with increasingly more bandages covering his body]]. Perhaps the most notorious example is former United States Women's Champion Mae Young, especially at the start of her WWE career in the late 1990s. Already well into her seventies by that point (she's 87 as of this writing), Mae's initial gimmick was that she was an Iron Buttmonkey senior citizen who constantly took bumps on behalf of her best friend, The Fabulous Moolah. (She once even was smashed through a conference table by the Dudley Boys!) As if that weren't demeaning enough, Mae was also made into an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] / [[Christmas Cake]] stereotype who (among other exploits) {{spoiler|almost}} gave birth to Mark Henry's baby, French-kissed Vince McMahon, and was revealed as the object of Jerry Springer's (reluctant) lust on an unforgettable episode of ''Monday Night Raw''. The sad thing, really, is that Mae was actually an accomplished wrestler back in the day (starting her career during [[World War Two]] when many male wrestlers went off to Europe or Japan), but that younger viewers watching WWE programming are likely to think she's just some repellent old lady that's kept around backstage purely for comedy purposes.

* Tiff of both ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'' and ''[[Magick Chicks]]'' is showing signs of this. Her first appearance in ''Cuties'' had her spend the day dead after accidentally impaling herself, and so far in her first arc in ''Chicks'' she's busted her nose and been knocked senseless by a miss aimedmisaimed spell.