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** Sesshomaru's abuse of Jaken in his early appearances was threatening to kill him; it was other characters that beat up Jaken. But as Sesshomaru become less of a villain and started to care about Jaken after a fashion, his abuse of Jaken started to descend into slapstick beatings and verbal abuse.
* Keitaro in ''[[Love Hina]]''. He moved in to the place of his childhood, only to find it to be turned into a [[Unwanted Harem|girls-only pension]]. When he is accepted as a legitimate resident [[It Makes Sense in Context|(it's a long story)]] he is then forced to work like a slave for roommates who constantly beat him up for his [[Accidental Pervert|bad luck]], when they're not doing it ''for fun''. It gets better, but [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male|for some reason]], [[Karma Houdini|none of the girls ever get any retribution]] [[Awesome Moments|except one]].
* In ''[[
** It's later either [[Justified Trope]] or made worse, depending on perspective, when it is [[The Reveal|revealed]] that ''he is literally {{spoiler|not supposed to exist}}'', and he knows it. Those invisible horrors stalking him? They're only doing it due to his supernatural nature combined with ''{{spoiler|subconscious suicidal desires}}''.
* Lancer from ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' may have been a credible threat in the original work, but subsequent sequels and fan works often portray him as largely useless, particularly whenever Archer is around. In the recent ''[[Carnival Phantasm]]'' series, he's killed off more or less [[Once Per Episode]], and his 'guest appearance' on the (fake) preview for Arcueid's magical girl show has his silhouette dramatically show up... before instantly being hit by a car. Assassin has been entirely replaced with a cardboard cutout.
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* In the Robots in Disguise comics in the IDW continuity; Zetca and Dirge have become this. Zetca (A former Autobot) gets beaten almost to death by two Decepticons after getting into an argument, and then beaten up by another, and almost framed for murder. Dirge (A Decepticon) finds himself bored with the war and makes friends with an Autobot. That Autobot is killed by explosions from the planet (which wasn't his fault), and he's almost killed by the Autobot's superior because he survived. Later, he gets a job at a garbage plant, then witnesses a murder, gets mind controlled, and beaten up. When the autobot Prowl breaks the mind control by killing the bot controlling him, he tries to kill Dirge because he witnessed another murder.
== Fan Works ==
* [[Overshadowed by Awesome|Krillin]] (pictured above), from ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' goes through some physical/verbal abuse that is actually lampshaded by the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Krillin Owned Count]]▼
** Vegeta applies as well.▼
* Snape from ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]''. If you need proof, look no further than this diary entry: "Today, the orange one accidentally drank one of my more expensive elixirs. He promptly vomited a glittering rainbow of foul waste, and the classroom erupted with applause, triggering my migraine. I aborted the class and was left to clean the boy's sick. Halfway through, Argus Filch showed up and bragged about his many affairs with Hogsmeade barmaids. Then he told me I smelled of broccoli and left [[Forgotten Birthday|without wishing me a happy birthday]]. Later, I noticed my bottle of sangria was gone. I settled for a cup of coffee, scalding my writing hand in the process and spilling it on my pants. I walked to the hospital wing, covering the wet spot with a book. Madame Pomfrey laughed and made me wait while she treated a student's runny nose. After an hour it became apparent that she had forgotten about me, so I returned to my room and found that I had locked myself out. I called for Filch, who turned up covered in lipstick and clearly having finished the sangria. He broke open my door, laughed at me, punched me in the shoulder too hard, and left me alone. I thought of my father."▼
** "I cried."▼
== Film ==
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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 ''never'' happens to Gibbs or Ziva. They are just too cool. (And too hot.) Not that they avoid drama, though.
* Fredward Benson from ''[[iCarly]]''. Constantly rejected romantically by his best friend, his mother is insane, is constantly beaten up and insulted by his [[With Friends Like These...|other best friend]], can never win something without losing something else. This is played for laughs in all but one episode. And because that resolution was private, he still would have had to deal with the consequences anyway.
* On ''[[The Jersey]]'', Nick's older sister Hilary is the victim of most [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM4CyacD3Cc slapstick gags which usually leaves her wet or messy]. She has even [[
{{quote|I am usually such a klutz, you know. I am always getting stuff dumped on me like guacamole or pies, but with this car I managed to stay perfectly clean! Looks like my luck is changing. Oh, the dipsticks a little bit out...}}
* Alex Krycek in ''[[The X-Files]]'' basically exists so people can beat him up. Granted, he's not a particularly nice man, but the dude spends every episode getting bitched.
** 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]]''.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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* In ''[[The Kingfisher]]'', Darren seems to only serve the purpose of being humiliated for the audience's amusement. He may be working his way up to [[Bumbling Sidekick]].
* Charles' girlfriend from ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' exists only to be insulted and cuckolded by her boyfriend. She always ends the strip with the same frown on her face.
* Mordecai in ''[[Lackadaisy]]'' is mostly a stuck-up and astoundingly apathetic triggerman who doesn't inspire much sympathy, so seeing him get repeatedly embarrassed and ridiculed in bonus comics is nothing short of hysterical. Rocky also suffers [[Amusing Injuries]] on a regular basis and displays a ridiculously upbeat attitude at all times {{spoiler|at least until he suffers one injury so nasty it cannot be construed as amusing in any context, and character development kicks in and we get to see how miserable his life truly is}}.
== Web Original ==
▲* [[Overshadowed by Awesome|Krillin]] (pictured above), from ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' goes through some physical/verbal abuse that is actually lampshaded by the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Krillin Owned Count]]
▲** Vegeta applies as well.
▲* Snape from ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]''. If you need proof, look no further than this diary entry: "Today, the orange one accidentally drank one of my more expensive elixirs. He promptly vomited a glittering rainbow of foul waste, and the classroom erupted with applause, triggering my migraine. I aborted the class and was left to clean the boy's sick. Halfway through, Argus Filch showed up and bragged about his many affairs with Hogsmeade barmaids. Then he told me I smelled of broccoli and left [[Forgotten Birthday|without wishing me a happy birthday]]. Later, I noticed my bottle of sangria was gone. I settled for a cup of coffee, scalding my writing hand in the process and spilling it on my pants. I walked to the hospital wing, covering the wet spot with a book. Madame Pomfrey laughed and made me wait while she treated a student's runny nose. After an hour it became apparent that she had forgotten about me, so I returned to my room and found that I had locked myself out. I called for Filch, who turned up covered in lipstick and clearly having finished the sangria. He broke open my door, laughed at me, punched me in the shoulder too hard, and left me alone. I thought of my father."
▲** "I cried."
* American President [[George W. Bush]] in a series of [[The Onion]] News In Brief [https://web.archive.org/web/20090213194335/http://www.theonion.com/content/search/onion/advanced?search=%22Bush+is+resting+comfortably%22 starting just over a week after the election of Barack Obama.]
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]], overlapping with [[Jerkass Woobie]]. He's not based on [[Daffy Duck]] for nothing, y'know.
* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'': Considering [[Kill'Em All|the setting]], it's almost impressive that any one person could stand out above the rest as an example, but the world really just seems to exist entirely to make Jimmy Brennan miserable.
* Chase of the [[College Humor]] series "Troopers" seems to be shaping up as a [[South Park|Kenny]]-style Chew Toy, having already died more than once.
* Evan Guido from ''[[Shiny Objects Videos]]'' is a minor example, though mostly he's just on the receiving end of Matt's tormenting.
* [[True Capitalist|Ghost]] is a special example, in that it's the audience that ''makes'' him suffer, through [[Manipulative Editing|embarrassing splices]], [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]]es, and generally [[Troll]]ing him.
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* In the ''[[Ice Age]]'' movies, Scrat.
* Jay Sherman of ''[[The Critic (animation)|The Critic]]'' has had his fair share of troubles.
*
** Both Milhouse Van Houten and his father Kirk in are frequently used as chew toys.
** Good old Gil was used as a chew toy in every episode he appeared in.
** Hans Moleman, who seems to have very narrowly escaped death ([[Negative Continuity|or not]]) several times by now.
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{{quote|'''Sokka''': The Universe just ''loves'' proving me wrong doesn't it?
'''Toph''': You make it too easy! }}
* XR from ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'' was literally - inside the [[Canon]] - created to be destroyed. Usually by exploding. In fact, other characters have a tendency to think the 'X' stands for 'eXpendable'.<ref>Possibly because it ''actually does''.</ref>
* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Buttons from the Buttons and Mindy shorts [[Badly-Battered Babysitter|gets thoroughly abused trying to keep his charge from getting killed]], and then gets yelled at by Mindy's mom for some minor infraction at the end.
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* Ren from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]''. Stimpy is more of a [[Butt Monkey]] because of the abuse he gets from Ren.
* Cat from ''[[CatDog]]'' usually due to everyone in Nearburg hating on him and Dog and Dog's obliviousness towards Cat.
* A lot of characters on ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Spike the Bulldog (later known as Butch the Irish Bulldog to avoid confusion with the bulldog of the same name from Tom and Jerry) from the ''[[Tex Avery MGM Cartoons]]'' suffers several [[Amusing Injuries]].
* The title character of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]''.
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* Ol' Mr. Jolson from the 1988 cartoon''[[The Cat Came Back (film)|The Cat Came Back]]'' due to how he tries to dispose of the unnamed kitten in several ways, but all of his plans keep backfiring on him.
* In the Super Chicken segments of ''[[George of the Jungle]]'', the hero's poor assistant Fred is pulled through the wringer in ''every'' episode, although, [[Once Per Episode| as he's constantly reminded]], he knew the job was dangerous when he took it.
* "Torture Squidward Episodes" of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' are oddly common, as are "Torture Ms. Puffs Episodes".
* From ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'':
** The [[Idiot Hero]]'s loyal dog Brain always had to be on the front lines in Penny's attempts to keep her uncle out of trouble, and as a result, always took the brunt of Gadget's bumbling.
** Also, poor Chief Quimby would be caught in the explosion of the self-destructing message he gave Gadget [[Once Per Episode|in every single episode]], and in the episodes where he had a larger role, he'd be lucky if that was ''all'' that happened to him.
== Real Life ==
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