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** Don't forget Kageto, who is ignored by everyone in the series, despite keeping the store going while everyone jaunts off to the next [[Tournament Arc]].

*** Kageto practically defines this trope. He is so full of suck that he actually gets Yukino, the show's psychopathic Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, to pity him.

{{quote|'''Tomoyo''': [[Straw Loser|You]] really ''are'' useful for gags.<br />

'''Tomoyo''': [[Lampshade Hanging|You exist for that.]] }}

* ''[[Eureka 7]]'' starts main lead Renton Thurston as a Butt Monkey, particularly in episode 7, where he's given a completely bogus and embarrassing mission as a joke. (Namely, find an informant in the sauna that wears a toupee and has a legendary animal tattoo while wearing a fake mustache and a helmet.) People thought [[Dude, Not Funny|the comedy died]] when Renton ''starts crying from happiness'' that they trusted him to complete his mission, and gives a ''2 minute speech'' about how much he wants to protect everyone, even if the world turns on him, how he needs to become better to save innocent people, etc. And then ''they laugh at him.'' And put an embarrassing picture on a popular magazine. While his girlfriend was present.

* Geraba, Fatman, and occasionally Blume from ''[[Xabungle]]''. Geraba usually does nothing to incite Horra's wrath other than question his orders, but he still gets the crap kicked out of him on a regular basis. Fatman is Elche's loyal bodyguard and mute, but he usually gets shoved aside in times of need and constantly suffers physical abuse without striking back or saying a word. Blume is a much less extreme example, but he still manages to take the occasional bullet or strike without necessarily deserving it, while most of the others remain unharmed.

* Han-Kyul from [[Need a Girl]], the guy is nice at heart, is seen as handsome by his classmates, then he became acquainted with a group of perverts, he himself did not change, but his repultation in the other hand. Now Han-Kyul is the Butt of all Punishments for his friends actions: peeping on girls and harassing them, even when he had nothing to do with with, or was outright trying to prevent it; there are some who even credits him as being the group's leader and greatest prevert, the guy's repultation went downhill from thyat point on.

* Jonathan Joestar from ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. Dio made Jonathan's life absolute hell by [[Kick the Dog|burning his dog]], stealing his girlfriend's first kiss, turning his friends against him, and killing his father. This is all ''before'' he uses Jonathan's own blood to turn himself into a vampire. He almost gets his revenge,{{spoiler|until Dio beheads him in the last chapter of his story, while nothing more then a ''head'', and uses his body to kill his [[Death Is Cheap|grandson]], his great-great-grandson's friend, and almost the great-great-grandson himself.}}

* The ''[[Claymore]]s'' in the series titled after them are infused with the blood of Yoma, the monsters they are trained to fight and will eventually become them if they exert themselves too much; plus, if they start asking too many questions, the organization will send them on suicide missions to shut them up. The main character, Clare, generally has it the worst, since she started out as a human who was a companion to the most powerful Claymore, only to have her killed before her eyes. Her body is then used to turn Clare into a Claymore herself, except since she's only a quarter Yoma, she's the lowest ranked Claymore and everyone looks down on her.

* Tamaki from ''[[Code Geass]]''. He's not the butt of every joke, but he's disliked by the cast, and can't pilot a Knightmare to save his life, yet [[The Fool|never comes close to dying]].

** What about the main character? Lelouch "One the universe hates" vi Brittania? Everything Lelouch does just gets messed up, even if it's all treated deadly seriously. Save his best friend? Short-term, friend gets court-martialled for insubordination, long-term {{spoiler|Tokyo gets wiped out because of the Geass command he uses to do it.}} Everything eventually comes back to bite him in the ass. The only one that actually goes off without a hitch or a [[Butterfly of Doom]] chain of cause-and-effect is the plan where {{spoiler|he [[Zero-Approval Gambit|makes everyone hate him]], then ''[[Thanatos Gambit|dies]]''.}}

** And Shirley... Oh my gosh, Shirley... That poor girl ''cannot'' catch a break. Her butt monkeyness is both [[Played for Laughs]] ''and'' [[Played for Drama]].

** Not to mention when he was kidnapped, they kept talking about his belt, never him. And at one point, L says that Matsuda's death would prove the kidnappers to be the second Kira, and so, they should just wait to see how it plays out. Unlike all the other times L gets yelled at for being so casual about human life, no one yells. Even though, y'know, Matsuda, for all his faults, has repeatedly proven his bravery (despite several chances to honourably walk away, he risks his life every day trying to find and capture a supernatural serial killer) and ''is one of their own''. What The Hello Heroes.

*** They didn't call L out on it because he didn't ''say'' they should allow Matsuda to die; he suggested a wait-and-see course of action ''right'' after dispassionately noting that his death would prove Kira's identity. There's an obvious connection to be drawn, but it'd been pointed out before that L's willingness to see the upside of an otherwise grisly scenario didn't necessarily mean he was advocating it. They didn't know what to make of it, but they didn't see an alternative either, so they gave L the benefit of the doubt—and for what it's worth, he ''did'' launch a rescue mission.

** Kotegawa too.

*** Zastin gets it even worse. Especially in the Anime.

*** Motemitsu essentially exists solely to show up at random times, fail horribly at whatever it is he's doing, and have [[Phrase Catcher|everyone around comment on how they expected it.]]

* Partially, Dante in the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' anime. He says that people "usually leave him a bill instead of paying him".

* Officer Kuhou of ''[[Franken Fran]]''. A perfectly normal cop who managed to be a recurring character in a horror comedy manga. Poor girl had to be temporarily committed to the hospital for psychological analysis after witnessing [[Body Horror]], then later subjected to [[Cloning Blues]] by Fran. Each chance meeting with Fran after the first one has her going in sheer hysterics thanks to all her past experiences with her.

* Nami from ''[[Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo]]'' gets this treatment from her sisters—with [[Face Heel Turn|rather nasty consequences]].

* Agari Yamato from ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]''. In the time span of '''ONE DAY''', he had events ranging from having the girl he loves mistake him for a child molester, to being blamed for the earth's destruction. Seriously. Not one chapter can be made without something happening to Yamato.

** And then even after he hits the [[Reset Button]] (because of said earth's destruction), [[It Got Worse]]. So far, he has had a gun pointed to his head just because he's the master of the greatest good doji, got stabbed almost numerous times by one of the evil doji, got one of his comrades into a comatose state, failed to prevent his best friend from turning to [[The Dark Side]] ''again'', who later [[Attempted Rape|attempts to rape him]], before Yamato convinces him to come to the Good Side. We later learn that this [[Heel Face Revolving Door|fails too]]. And this took place in the matter of about ''five hours''.

** 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.

* Kelly of [[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]] is a rare female comedic Butt Monkey. She's not clumsy or unintelligent, just really, ''really'' unlucky. She's gone through more fancy cars an episode than some people do in a ''series'' (Yet still has enough money to buy more...), and always seems to become involved to the various antics of the Transformers. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Even running away into the middle of the Sahara Desert gets her caught up in Autobot/Predacon combat!]] She's trying to get out of the way, honest!!

* Zakuro from ''[[Saiyuki]]'' and sometimes Gojyo as well.

* Ueda in ''[[Japan Inc]]''.

* Ignoring the fact that all of [[Keroro Gunsou]]'s invasion plans never work, he is constantly put through tons of abuse, usually from Natsume, even when he [[Disproportionate Retribution|doesn't actually deserve it]].

* While Kotetsu experiences his fair share of being put through the wringer, the true Butt Monkey of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' is Antonio Lopez (Rock Bison). He winds up in last place in the Hero rankings, gets told off by his boss almost every day, has to put up with being shot out of a cannon (as a part of his grand entrance) despite being acrophobic, has a crush on a woman who barely acknowledges his existence, basically serves as a platonic [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] to Kotetsu (who ignores him in favor of [[Heterosexual Life Partner|Barnaby]]), is regularly sexually harassed by his other friend [[Camp Gay|Nathan]], and is the only HeroTV superhero who doesn't get so much as a single [[Day in The Limelight]] episode. [[Word of God|The writers say]] they actually like him quite a bit—which is why they torture him so much.

 

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