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* Flute, from ''[[Violinist of Hameln]]'' (manga continuity only). Despite being the story's heroine, she's constantly bullied around by Hamel -- dressed in embarrassing costumes, forced to dance for change, ignored in favor of more attractive characters and even used as a weapon with some frequency. Luckily for her, when things get desperate or when Hamel gets ''too'' mean, she usually triumphs thanks to the Divine Cross of Retribution.

* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' has arguably a cast of them as there is probably none who doesn't get at least a [[Kick the Dog]] moment. Though the most suffering is probably Katou Yue, who is not only a drug addict in real life because his father hates him. He gets killed no less than four times throughout the series.

* Pedro from the ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' anime. Practically tormented every episode, usually accompanied by his famous [[Big No]], but not often [[Played for Laughs]], unlike Excel and Watanabe.

* Patrick Colasaur and Saji Crossroads from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' have had ''[[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|very]]'' [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|embarrassing]] and ''[[Break the Cutie|very]] [[Break the Cutie|soul-crippling]]'' things done onto them, respectively. Patrick bounces back effortlessly every time; Saji [[Earn Your Happy Ending|has to work at it]].

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': Poor [[Shrinking Violet|Canada]] and [[The Woobie|China]]. No one ever pays attention to Canada, either not realizing he's there or mistaking him for his brother America. China constantly gets picked on by the rest of the allies, even his own younger siblings.

** Also, [[Tsundere|England]] in [[Fanon]]. Fans make use of his magical powers by making him fail in order to create a plot, while implying that England does ''every'' spell wrong. They also endlessly poke fun at his [[Big Ol' Eyebrows|eyebrows]], [[Lethal Chef|cooking skills]], eyebrows, [[Can't Hold His Liquor|alcoholistic tendencies]]...did I mention eyebrows?

* Vincent in ''[[Bizenghast]]'' tends to be treated like this. He has been shot at, [[Burn the Witch|hung for witchcraft]], infected with plague, slammed against a wall while airbourne, enslaved, eaten by a giant Venus Flytrap, stuck up a tree, and finally {{spoiler|stabbed in the chest with a rigging pin and killed}}. Edrear has taken over now (knocked out twice in a row).

* Insector Haga and Dinosaur Ryuzaki in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. They were considered to be the top two duelists in Japan, until the main characters showed up, at least. They never quite make it back to their former glory, even after ulitizing an [[Artifact of Doom]]. They end up constantly humilated by the main characters, and even Filler villians.

** Among the Arcobaleno, Skull definitely counts. He doesn't exactly have it easy in the manga, but the anime's Arcobaleno filler arcs abuse him beyond belief.

* Yukinari of ''[[Girls Bravo]]''.

* After his [[Character Development]] from [[Jerk Jock]], Jun Manjoume in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' tends to have ridiculosly bad luck, from his [[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited crush]] on Asuka to [[The Worf Effect|being the first of the main cast to lose to the new villian]]. Occasionlly, he'll return to his [[Badass]] self, but it always falls apart in the end, until his final steps of [[Character Development]] in Season 4.

* [[Ordinary High School Student|Touma]] [[Japanese Delinquents|Kamijou]] from ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]''. Virtually everyday is a bad day for Touma and nothing ever goes right for him. Some of his miserable moments includes being chased by other deliquents, breaking his own credit card, having his refrigerator break down, losing 2000 yen in a vending machine, ending up in the same hospital and treated by the same doctor in nearly every story arch's end, {{spoiler|and losing his memories}}. Justified though, considering what his [[Anti-Magic]] [[Blessed with Suck|right hand]] [[Power Incontinence|is capable]] [[Cosmic Plaything|of doing]].

* Before it [[Took a Level In Badass]], Ash's Chimchar ([[Incredibly Lame Pun|haha]]) in the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime was this. It was knocked out in almost every battle it participated in, had a [[Jerkass]] for its first trainer that called it pathetic even when it won, and nearly ''died'' in the Hearthome Tag Battle Tournament. In short, it was not only the butt monkey of the series, but [[The Woobie]] as well.

** Ash has become more of this in the recent series, ''Best Wishes'', though even he looks good in comparasion to Cilan's [[Unknown Rival]] Cabernet, who has bad things happen to her every other minute or so.

* One could argue Simon of [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] fits this trope well. Early in the series, he {{spoiler|contributes to the death of his best friend/brother figure}}. Then, years later, {{spoiler|his wife-to-be is kidnapped, and he has to fight to rescue her, and all of humanity. Once he succeeds, they're married, and she promptly vanishes.}} The series ends with {{spoiler|humans (and Viral, now immortal) going out to explore the galaxy. Simon is, by this point, an old man, alone, and will probably be forgotten by almost everyone before long.}}

* Chuck and Brief share this role on ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]''.

* [[Inuyasha]] himself has a bad habit of falling into butt-monkey territory, especially if it involves Kikyo. Any time he goes off to see Kikyo, his first love, and having trouble deciding between her and Kagome, everyone will treat him like he's been cheating on Kagome. Kagome herself does nothing to help this, often hitting him with a sit.

* Nobita Nobi from ''[[Doraemon]]'', [[This Loser Is You|so much]] that his ancestor has to send him his robot to help dealing with that. Not that it's getting any better unless [[Non-Serial Movie|when they're going on an adventure.]]

* Meiling from ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]''. She exists primarily to be the overactive idiot.