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== [[Live
* Fat-Blue/Mr. Johnson in ''[[Sesame Street]].'' Can't Grover ever get his order right? Even when Grover isn't around, he has bad luck with other restaurants.
* Father Larry Duff in ''[[Father Ted]]'' suffers horribly on every appearance, usually as the result of the title character phoning him at an awkward moment; among other catastrophes he gets buried in an avalanche, mauled by his pet Rottweilers and trampled by a herd of stampeding donkeys.
* [[Jaded Washout|Al Bundy]] on ''[[Married... with Children|Married With Children]]'' is a perfect example of this trope. Berated by his neighbors, stuck in a dead-end minimum-wage job, and badgered by his freeloading wife for sex every night...it's no wonder he constantly [[Smite Me,
* Mikhail from ''[[Lost]]''. His [[Eyepatch of Power]] seems to be the only thing that keeps him alive. Something bad happens to him in every episode in which he appears. He is, in order, beaten up, shoved into a sonic fence and [[Not Quite Dead|apparently killed]], beaten up again, beaten up ''yet again'', and finally gets speared (and comes back five minutes later) and blown up in his final appearance. Even then, it took [[Word of God]] to assure fans that he was really dead.
** John "Don't tell me what I can't do!" Locke was the man was conned out of a kidney by his father whom he had never previously met and made it obvious that he wanted nothing more to do with John, thrown out an eight story window by said father and paralyzed from the waist down, rejected when proposing to the woman he loved, and when his paralysis is cured when arriving on the island thanks the island's miraculous healing powers and he begins to find a purpose in life, he is sent off the island and killed.
* Meredith from ''[[The Office]]''. She is usually the one to absorb all of the physical damage, from having a bat trapped against her head by Dwight, being hit by a car by Michael, resulting in a broken pelvis, being hit in the face with a football by Pam and setting her hair on fire during an office party. Poor Meredith just can't seem to catch a break.
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** More comedy than tragic, though; on the one occasion he managed to jump, an enterprising custodial staff's scam was exposed by the fact that it saved Ted's life. And then the Janitor got mad at Ted for ruining his cushy gig.
* Howard Steel in ''[[The Worst Week of My Life]]''.
* Bad things happen to ''[[Firefly]]'
* Blair Sandburg from ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]'' couldn't get through an episode without being captured, drugged, tied up, shot, held hostage or drowned by the criminal of the week. He even died from said drowning, though this [[Cliff Hanger]] was solved in the next season.
* With a heartbreakingly long list of characters lining up to tell him how worthless he is, Dean Winchester from ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is walking an incredibly thin line between this and [[The Woobie|woobiedom]]. This was made especially clear by the episode where they have to go back to their old house; The first half went to great lengths to tell us how much it's upsetting him but then, suddenly, it switches to ''[[Extras]]''-like comedy and Missouri seems to have it out for him, smacking him down every five minutes.
** If you disliked that then you must have hated
* Antonio on ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' in the later seasons. Although he was a reasonably contented homeowner during his few seasons, he was to become dirt poor, have his mental health collapse, lose his one true love, and be attacked by a pack of wild dogs.
* Karen Ball from ''[[Green Wing]]'' gets her hair stuck in a copy machine, is ostracized after she gets [[Harry Potter (novel)|Slytherin]] in an online "sorting hat," and is not noticed, for days, to have fallen out of an open window. However, once she falls out the window, she returns in the series-closing special as a much more aggressive person
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* As do the Divine Predecessors of ''[[Lexx]]''.
* Neil from ''[[The Young Ones]]'' flits between this and [[The Eeyore]], though some may see fit to make him into [[The Woobie]]. Stuck with all the drudge work, and mistreated at least once every episode, Neil's lot is not a happy one. He's also the show's resident [[Butt Monkey]].
* Alan on ''[[Two and
* If something bad is going to happen on ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]''—whether it be mildly unpleasant or a living nightmare of pain and degradation—smart money says it will happen to Howard Moon, even if it should logically happen to someone else. Howard's bad luck is one of the best [[Running Gag|running gags]] on the show and was [[Lampshaded]] in the third series, when, to Howard's utter disbelief, something bad happened to Vince for a change:
{{quote|'''Howard:''' [[Painting the Fourth Wall|Have you got my script?]]}}
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** It almost winds up a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi9MX1xCsAs&list=FLigRN4Ui8IvQSh_o68X0wKw&index=4&feature=plpp_video running gag].
* Mason of ''[[Dead Like Me]]''. He is ridiculed by his colleagues, shot at, run over and hurt in various other ways, he once had a stash of drugs dissolve in his anal tract, and he died from ''drilling a hole into his own head''.
* Beaker of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' was brought in as a lab assistant for Dr. Bunsen Honeydew to test his inventions on. They invariably went wrong. Over time he began to be used in more skits outside of Muppet Labs, which usually also involved him getting hurt somehow, even if he was the only one taking part in the skit. He seems to be one of the more popular Muppets, however, judging by how frequently he is used (and tormented) in the [[YouTube]] videos that The Muppets Studio are currently{{when}} producing.
* Victor Meldrew from ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]''.
** And Patrick, often a secondary victim of the weirdness affecting the Meldrews, including having his genitals attacked by a live crab, having a naked suicidal man hanging outside his office window whilst entertaining important clients and having his house flooded with a hosepipe. And Mrs. Warboys - in "The Return of the Speckled Band" Mrs. Warboys, already suffering from drawn-out food poisoning, ends up in hospital. Margaret, trying to cheer her up, brings her a video of ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'', having no idea of its content but knowing that Mrs. Warboys likes sci-fi "like ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''", leaving her unable to leave the bathroom for two and a half hours. In a second attempt to cheer her up, Margaret unknowingly boils developing alligator eggs and delivers them to her for breakfast. In fact, about the only non-Chew Toys in it seem to be Pippa and Mr. Swainey.
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* Nelson Van Alden on ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]''. Nothing ever goes his way, and any time he tries to fix anything he just makes it worse. All of this is played for comedy (admittedly, sometimes it is very dark comedy). That the character is a complete [[Jerkass]] and the very epitome of [[The Comically Serious]] just adds to the hilarity.
* Santana Lopez on ''[[Glee]]''.
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