Butt Monkey/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

*** Being around and eventually {{spoiler|in love with}} Keitarō seems to bring out Naru's inner Butt Monkey, and if she is not a victim of his being an [[Accidental Pervert]], then she is a victim of her friends' dubious efforts to "help" the would-be couple. This may also apply to Shinobu, whose own efforts to win Keitarō may have "infected" her. Almost any time she takes the other girls' advice to win their "game", she suffers some mishap, triply so if this help comes from Kaolla Su.

**** Then there's Motoko's "adventures" with her sister. Until [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|she was finally able to confess to Keitaro and beat her sister at the same time]]

* Manabu Kuchiki from ''[[Genshiken]];'' when he joins the Genshiken, he becomes the frequent recipient of Saki's violence, once simply for being there. The others have him do grunt work at Comifest, leading to him going a entire day buying their doujinshi without food or water. However, unlike most Butt Monkeys, he entirely ''deserves'' it, knows that, and accepts it all without complaint. In fact, he seems to like it; early on, he cheerfully declares himself to be a "shameless servant", and his masochistic streak causes him to smile whenever the Genshiken mistreat him. Except when they tied him to a lamp in volume 7 of the manga to keep him from peeping on the girls' bathing. ''Then'' he complained... for about ten seconds. And it was mostly acting.

** He's also highly self-sabotaging; the one time he was shown to be underneath a fairly <s>decent</s> human being, managing to stop a thief from stealing from their stall, his reaction to the [[Not What It Looks Like]] that inevitably followed was to... wear the dress. In the middle of the crowded university. And scare off potential members.