Butt Monkey/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
(Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta10ehf1)) |
No edit summary |
||
Line 115:
** Luffy was this trope during his childhood. He had a [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] as a result of his grandpa's training, and even after that he was pretty weak. Wild animals and vitriolic brothers didn't really help either.
* K-2 in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' is a relatively appropriate example insofar as his defining characteristic is his gigantically swollen rear. Even his name is a pun off a Japanese word for butt. And that butt gets prodded, poked, stabbed, smacked, and generally attacked at every given opportunity.
** Before it [[Took a Level in Badass]], Ash's Chimchar 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 started off as such due to his ineptness and impulsive behaviour usually causing him constant problems (keep in mind Pikachu violently hated him initially). It came back a bit in the Best Wishes series, though even he looked good in comparasion to Cilan's [[Unknown Rival]] Burgundy, who had bad things happen to her every other minute or so.
** Out of Ash's many companions, Misty was near equally prone to slapstick and ego-denting humiliation as he was.
** May is possible runner up due to being most liable to hold the Distress Ball and get endangered, kidnapped or tied up.
** Dawn isn't too far behind them in [[Butt-Monkey]] status. She’s easily the least respected main character in the series. Numerous characters (Ash, Brock, and her own Pokémon included) have made fun of and dissed her, is near-widely labeled as an incapable coordinator, and has her hair constantly ruined after being shocked numerous times. Oh, and not to mention that she has to go through [[Break the Cutie|a lot]] [[The Woobie|of crap]].
** Dawn's Piplup was pretty much the designated slapstick magnet for the Diamond and Pearl series, most notably getting nailed by Draco Meteor from Ash's Gible on a regular basis in the latter half. He's also probably the only Pokémon in the entire series to get [[Curb-Stomp Battle|Curbstomped]] by a Magikarp.
** Not to mention the Team Rocket trio in the anime, who have sad back stories, are poor, incompetent, hated by their boss, and, oh yeah: they get blasted off at the end of almost every episode.
*** However, this is slowly changing as the trio is becoming more competent.
*** Their Pokemon aren't much better off either. The best examples would probably have to be Arbok, Weezing, and Seviper. They will always end up taking a lot of beatings from other Pokémon and on the recieving ends of their attacks in every single episode.
** In the XY series, Clemont has assumed this role. Among other things, he's in poor physical condition and his inventions constantly blow up in his face. One of his most unfortunate moments, however, was in XY018 where the group had to pretend to trade him to Princess Ally for a PokéFlute. They were planning on going back for him, but forgot about him and so he had to make a decoy of himself with his clothes and escape on his own, [[Comedic Underwear Exposure|in his underwear and undershirt]]!
** The Sun and Moon series introduced Team Skull. Basically everyone and their mother ([[Action Mom|literally]] in Ash's case) has kicked their asses in a Pokemon battle. They've been curbstomped so many times, that Tupp is ecstatic at the mere fact that he managed to land a [[Curb-Stomp Battle|single attack]] on Ilima's Eevee.
** Bill in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' was this for a little while. He seems to become less and less of this as the series goes on (and seems to have gotten Daisy Oak as a [[Throw the Dog a Bone|girlfriend]]), but Pika still shocks him for the fun of it.
* Nagasumi of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' is one of these, when he isn't being [[Badass]].
| |||