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So they've been [[The Chew Toy|constantly injured]], the [[Butt Monkey|butt of every joke and misfortune]], and it seems [[Cosmic Plaything|the universe itself just likes screwing with him]]. So what's happening now? Huh... he's happy?

One way this can happen is if the "Dog" character [[Sexual Karma|gets a girlfriend]]. This can be very irritating to fans of the female character, who is considered a [[Standard Hero Reward|reward]] and objectified in particularly bad versions of this; by this trope's very metaphor, a "bone." (Even "better", listen to [[Unpleasable Fanbase|fans complain]] if this [[Entitled to Have You|doesn't happen]].)

 

 

Compare [[Karmic Jackpot]], [[Earn Your Happy Ending]].

 

* The [[Trix]] rabbit is occasionally given a chance to actually ''try'' the cereal depending on the outcome of a poll. People vote for him to get it ''every time'', and by now you would think the company would get that people [[The Woobie|really feel sorry for the guy]] and hate those [[Cereal Vice Reward|greedy kids]].

** They probably do and know that sympathy for the rabbit makes people remember the commericals more.

* One Christmas-themed Cocoa Pebbles commercial ends with the real Santa showing up, and [[The Flintstones|Fred and Barney]] for a change sharing a bowl of the cereal as friends.

* After attempting to get back together with the woman who rejected him for a Swiffer Wet-Jet (buying flowers, dedicating radio songs to her), the broom finally found a new girlfriend - the rake.

 

* In both versions of [[Trigun]], [[Determinator|Vash]] finally gets [[Big Bad|Knives]] to cut the crap after a ''very long time.''

* Viral of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is a victim of [[The Worf Effect]] instead of [[The Chew Toy]], but the effect is still the same when, after a constant string of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Dai-Gurren Brigade, he {{spoiler|pilots Gurren-Lagann with Simon}} and destroys an entire army ''by the sheer awesomeness of his presence''.

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' had Jeremiah Gottwald, who lost his rank, dignity, and honor after being Geassed by Lelouch, then was crippled trying to redeem himself while fighting against Lelouch, and then {{spoiler|was resurrected as a super-strong bulletproof cyborg, ''[[Heel Face Turn|willingly joined Lelouch]]'', became his dignified retainer, and might even have a romantic involvement with another of Lelouch's retainers, the beautiful [[Ninja Maid]] Sayoko.}} And in the end... {{spoiler|Not only he survives and plays quite the role in the final battle, but he's given a nice and quiet life in the countryside (orange farm included) and an adoptive daughter of sorts in Anya.}}

* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Shinji spends the whole series thinking of himself as worthless and unworthy of defending the Earth, largely due to his nasty relationship with his father his whole life. The final two episodes are one huge [[Mind Screw]] where he retreats inside his mind after being forced to kill his new <s>[[Ho Yay|boy]]</s>friend, and slowly comes to realize his relationship with his father is not his fault at all, and he does deserve to be happy. He then finds himself in a pastoral landscape where everyone, including his father, congratulates him on his epiphany. At least, that's one way to interpret what the hell's going on in those episodes.

** {{spoiler|Then ''End of Evangelion'' yanks it, horrendously.}}

** a similarly less-mind-screwy example is from the episode where they defeat the angel that was found in a volcano. After they've completed the mission, we briefly get to see Shinji relaxing in the hot-springs afterwards. In the English dub he even says, "this feels like Heaven..." with an almost goofy-looking grin plastered across his face. It's hard not to feel happy for him in the warm-fuzzies sense for that one brief moment. [[Too Good to Last|Too bad it doesn't last for him]].

** Another great example is Asuka. {{spoiler|After descending into a downward spiral for the entire course of the series, at the End of Evangelion, she finally learns that her mother really did love her, and decides to kick some ass! Of course, things sorta balance themselves out after awhile...}}

* After several episodes of Garu being forced to endure [[Pucca]]'s romance, one episode has Pucca accidentally giving Garu the power of astral projection, for once ending the episode with an unhappy Pucca and a happy Garu.

* ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]]'' eventually gets her [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|hug]].

* The man in the back of the Ark in ''[[Natsu no Arashi]]!'' spends the entire series asking for salt, and never getting it. In the final episode of the second season, Arashi casually places a shaker of salt on his table. While she didn't know it, that was probably the greatest moment of his life.

* ''[[One Piece]]'''s Sanji has endured a great deal of suffering due to being the Straw Hats' resident [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]]. Not content to make him a [[Chivalrous Pervert]] who generally lucks out with women, Oda's killed his fantasies of mermaids with Kokoro, a fat old lady mermaid; dashed his dreams of getting a bounty with a [[Facial Composite Failure|horribly drawn Wanted Poster]]; stole his hope to exploit the [[Power Perversion Potential]] of invisibility through a villain with a one-of-a-kind invisibility Devil Fruit; and, finally, he was stuck on an island of transvestites for two years, where he was briefly forced to go native. However, with the crew's arrival at Fishman Island, Sanji has finally gotten to meet real life, ''attractive'' mermaids, and they ''like'' him. Granted, the [[Nosebleed]] that eventually resulted nearly kills him, but for him it was [[Worth It]].

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': [[Manga]] only: Homura finally reunites with Madoka in some kind of afterlife. The anime however, condemn her to walking the earth for a long, long time, with no guarantee to ever see Madoka again.

 

* At the end of ''[[Asterix]] and The Cauldron'', the eponymous (money-filled) cauldron falls off a cliff onto the pirates' ship. The panel even has a caption reading "And for once, the pirates are happy!" (though Asterix and Obelix DID kick their asses as usual earlier in the book, albeit unjustly).

** Is there any trope about such karmic reparations? An overlooked detail is the fact that they decided to go back to sea due to that very beating...

** There are also a few occasions in which [[Dreadful Musician|Cacofonix]] saves the day with his dreadful music, and the villagers reward him by letting him participate in the victory feast (as opposed to tying him up to prevent him from playing as per the usual [[Running Gag]]).

* [[Donald Duck]] did get the upper hand on [[Jerkass|Gladstone]] [[Born Lucky|Gander]] about 10% of the time in [[Carl Barks|classic Disney Duckverse comics]].

* There was a brief scene in ''Gotham Knights'' where for once, [[Batman]] accepted the Spoiler, even telling her that he doesn't mind the company.

* The tract Stinky from ''[[Jack Chick]]'' has a mild example: The [[Punch Clock Villain|title demon]] after failing his task, is seen happily slacking and relaxing at the end while his master is being punished by his boss, [[Satan]]. What makes this special is that all previous tracts ended with all the bad guys, without exception, being thrown to Hell or punished for their failure.

* In ''[[Garfield]]'', Jon is finally now dating Liz the veterinarian, after crushing on her without success for, what? Thirty years?

* Because of [[Spider-Man]]'s status as one the first [[Chew Toys]] of the [[Marvel Universe]], occasionally writers will throw him a bone here and there. Such as [[Stan Lee]] giving him a motorcycle, introducing him to Mary Jane, and generally making his life better after Stan's fellow plotter [[Steve Ditko]] quit Marvel.

* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Charlie Brown had some success in the '90s after decades of constant failure; he managed to hit a home run and win the game for his team not once but twice; he [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1995/04/11 defeated] a bully named Joe Agate in marbles; and he might even [http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1999/10/24 kick the ball for once.]

 

* Ragetti of ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' was given the honor of {{spoiler|releasing the goddess Calypso from her human form, in the hopes she would help the pirates defeat the [[Big Bad|East India Trading Company]]. The final requirement for her release was that someone had to say "Calypso, I release you from your human bonds" as if they were saying it to a lover. [[Large Ham|Barbossa]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|tried, very dramatically, and failed.]] Then Ragetti, surprisingly, stepped up and said it correctly.}}

* [[Trailer Park Boys|Corey and Trevor]] play this role in ''[[The Movie|Trailer Park Boys: The Movie]]''. When they're arrested along with Ricky for robbing a movie theater, they become the most popular guys in prison by yanking down the pants of the [[Jerkass]] head prison guard after he loses a ball hockey tournament between the guards and the inmates.

* Spud in the film ''[[Trainspotting]]'' spends most of the film getting humiliated. In the end, he is the only accomplice of the drug deal who receives his share from Renton.

* In ''[[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah]]'', the [[Red Shirt|Japanese]] [[Butt Monkey|military]] uses their weapons to [[Disney Villain Death|give death to]] [[Complete Monster|Destoroyah]] before the [[Tear Jerker|ending]].

 

* After ''The Last Continent'', [[Discworld|Rincewind]] returns to Unseen University to a position as Egregious Professor Of Cruel and Unusual Geography and lives a life as quiet and uneventful as he can manage. It doesn't completely work (talking himself onto a space flight in ''The Last Hero'', for instance), but his days as a [[Cosmic Plaything]] seem to be over. Unless Pratchett writes another Rincewind book.

** ''The Science of Discworld'' trilogy makes it clear that Rincewind is still being called on by the faculty to go on missions.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'': Neville Longbottom spends the first six books of the series as the sad sack of Hogwarts, being a klutz even when doing simple things like walking, being one of Snape's constant targets for abuse (second only to Harry), and only being good at one class: Herbology, arguable the only class in Hogwarts that doesn't require magic. Finally, the stars align for him in Book 7. With Harry and the gang out of Hogwarts trying to find the horcruxes, he and Ginny lead the resistance against Snape's new regime at Hogwarts. Though he does experience his fair share of torture throughout the year, he holds strong and keeps the resistance going. But his true [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] comes at the end of the book, when he {{spoiler|pulls the Sword of Griffindor out of the Sorting Hat and proceeds to lop the head off of Voldemort's snake, Nagini, destroying the Dark Lord's final horcrux and making him a mere mortal once again}}. Talk about [[Take a Level In Badass|taking a level in badass]]!

** To make it even more [[Badass]], Neville tells Voldemort ''[[Badass Boast|"I'll join you when Hell freezes over!"]]'' in front of everyone of importance in the Wizarding World, his friends, Hogwarts instructors and everyone in general. That was also a unified/''combined'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and Throw The Dog A Bone for the entire [[Cool Teacher|teaching staff at Hogwarts]]; in watching Neville and his stand against Voldemort, they got to see that everything they were all about - ''their entire careers'' - actually meant something.

* ''[[In Death]]'': Eve and Roarke certainly got this by meeting each other at the very beginning of the series. ''Interlude In Death'' even has Eve putting a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on this trope, with regards to their relationship.

 

 

* In the final season of ''[[The Wire]]'', {{spoiler|Bubbles finally sobers up and starts on the trail to a proper life}}, making him probably the only [[Woobie]] in the entire series to get a [[Happy Ending]].

* [[Butt Monkey|Xander]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' actually helped save the day in "The Zeppo", albeit he [[The Greatest Story Never Told|didn't tell anyone]].

** Similarly, when Xander saves the world by cooling down Dark Willow just before she blows up everything. Season 7 shows that he's been telling everyone about this ''too much''.

** And yes, [[It Got Worse]] {{spoiler|with a scoop of [[Eye Scream]]}}.

** Fozzie also gets revenge in another episode, in which that night's show is canceled as it was already scheduled for open auditions. One pair of auditioners are Statler and Waldorf; Fozzie goes up to their balcony to mock them.

** Also, any Swedish Chef sketch that doesn't end with him being attacked by his cuisine or otherwise harmed.

** The better example is "A Victory for Democracy" when Hacker, after being led around by Humphrey and the Foreign Office, manages to solve the pending international crisis and gets his Foreign Office liaison stuck in a posting which will end his career.

** Don't forget "The Skeleton In The Cupboard": Hacker is ordered to proceed with disciplinary action against the most efficient council in the UK for no reason other than political bickering. Then he learns that Sir Humphrey was responsible for an administrative blunder back in the 50s that has caused the government to lose £40 million over a real estate deal. Hacker then proceeds to blackmail Humphrey with this information to avoid the disciplinary action.

** It's worth noting however that {{spoiler|Prince George was probably not the sole casualty of the third series. [[Mac Adder]] strongly implies that Mrs Miggins' days are numbered: 'I look forward to burying you in the old Highland manner.'}}

** Wait, what? I (and the subtitles) thought that line was {{spoiler|'I look forward to ''bedding'' you in the old Highland manner.' Then again, he IS Scottish, so lives still may be lost.}}

* ''[[Extras]]'': The last episode of the second series ''doesn't'' end with Andy's abject humiliation, which is no small victory for his character.

* Things regularly go horribly wrong for the two leads of ''[[Peep Show]]''. The series 7 opener seems to be building up to things being worse than ever, with Mark [[Heroic BSOD|dazedly walking out on the birth of his child]] and a subplot about the flat being flooded and Jez's unreliable junkie friend Superhans being sent to fix it. But {{spoiler|Jeremy finds Mark before the baby's born, Sophie didn't realise he was gone, the baby's fine and the flat has "minimal water damage". It's the latter that seems to please Mark the most.}}

** In the second episode, he ends up being invited to a night out with the other Misfits, and even though he gets [[Slipping a Mickey|his drink spiked]] with the same party drug that the rest of the team are taking voluntarily, he ends up as the only person who enjoys it, because the drug ''reverses'' their powers: while [[Telepathy|Kelly]] is voicing everything that comes to mind, [[Love Potion|Alisha]] is repulsing anyone who touches her, [[Mental Time Travel|Curtis]] is teetering on the edge of a building in the future, and Nathan {{spoiler|has lost his immortality}}, Simon has become noticed and adored by everyone around him.

** Third episode: Alisha actually apologises for how she treated Simon in the past.

** Finally, during the Christmas special, after the Misfits' community service is over and done with, Simon ends up living {{spoiler|Superhoody's underground lair}} and spends his days trying to become a proper superhero.

 

** If the mediocre IG became a powerhouse, one can only hope they never do get around to that Dark Eldar thing they keep promising.

 

* Johnny Sasaki of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' finally gets some luck in ''Guns of the Patriots''. {{spoiler|He gets cured of his bowel problems, stars in his own [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], and then marries his commanding officer/long-time crush Meryl in the ending of the game.}}

* Steiner, [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knight In, er, Cheap and Rusty Armor]], [[The Big Guy]] (and also [[The Lancer]]) spends a good portion of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' as the [[Butt Monkey]] to [[The Hero|Zidane]] as well as a [[Chew Toy]]...BUT! He also manages to {{spoiler|hook up with his long-time rival [[Lady of War|Beatrix]] in the end (it turned out that ''she'' had a crush on him, and then it might actually be mutual).}} Still feel sorry for the guy?

** Unfortunately, as [[Status Quo Is God]], they seem to be [[Just Friends]] again by the time of ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'', barely a month later.

* In the sequel to [[Prinny]], [[Recurring Extra]] Asagi finally gets a starring role in the extra content of the game. It's called Asagi Wars, where her main opponents are- of course -alternate versions of herself.

 

* "Phoenix Rising" is so far the only story arc in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' that ends with Oasis in a healthy emotional state. While she ''does'' leave behind the friends she made in Podunkton to [[Walking the Earth|Walk The Earth]], she's at least on good terms with them and seems to have gotten some peace of mind. Beats the hell out of her previous appearances, which all ended with her either [[Left for Dead]] or locked up in an insane asylum.

** {{spoiler|However it's recently been revealed that after she left all her friends bar the old martial artist have been kidnapped and locked up by hereti corp, the source of all her problems}}.

* In ''[[Ansem Retort]]'', Riku spends the whole strip being [[The Chew Toy]] to a degree that makes you feel the [[Emo Teen]] qualities are [[Justified Trope|justified.]] Then Yuffie comes along. There are exactly two official couples (Zexion/anything female does not count) and he's now one of them. Enjoy your bone, doggie.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Tavros is almost certainly the greatest [[Woobie]] in a whole species of woobies: he was cripped by [[Killer Game Master]] Vriska [[For the Evulz]], rendering him in a wheelchair on a planet that includes mandatory tests of physical ability as a requirement to merely ''survive'' to reach ''childhood'', and is mocked cruelly by Vriska afterwards by shooting down his attempts at self-confidence and creating for him a house ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|full of stairs]]''. And then Kanaya intervenes, persuading her to do something nice, and she alchemizes a rocket chair for him to realize his dream of flying. D'awww.

 

* ''[[Erikas New Perfume|Erika's New Perfume]]'' sees the eponymous character, after various failures at related concepts, learn to tie her shoes. The author even admits this is the happiest he's ever seen her.

* In ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', Cuddles (the character who has died the most) and Giggles (the runner-up) are in a relationship. Episodes showing this, however, end with both of them dying horribly...except for one. The recent episode "I Nub You" had them as a counterpoint to the romance between Handy and the newly-handless Petunia. (Cuddles pushes Giggles on a swing: Handy finds doing the same tricky, so they just ride a see-saw; Cuddles and Giggles hold hands: Handy and Petunia tie their bandages together, and so on) Although Petunia and Handy, as the stars of the episode, die horribly, Cuddles and Giggles get to live. I thought it was [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|rather sweet]].

** The ending of his "Commercials Special" is more obvious. After being nearly completely broken, he gets his confidence back through [[The Cast Showoff|a song]].

 

** Also, whenever he fights Silverbolt. Silverbolt ''never'' beat Waspinator in combat or even landed a real hit. Waspinator, on the other hand, beat him three separate times.

** And now he's an official member of the Transformers [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Hall_of_Fame Hall of Fame], through ''fan votes''. Happy at last Waspinator, Happy at last...

** And another episode has Spongebob destroy Squidward's house while he's trying to make it more fancy than Squillam's... only for the resulting rubble to indeed beat Squilliam's house.

**** The Tiki Island episode is pretty much dedicated to this. Even when it looks like it's undone in the end, it turns out that it's not.

** There was also had Rita and Runt being adopted by Dr. Scratchinsniff and Brain getting a position of significant power.

** The [[Acceptable Targets|Mime]] still got the shaft though. In fact {{spoiler|dropping a safe on him was ''Yakko's'' wish}}.

** A Christmas episode has Chicken Boo posing as... [[Mall Santa|oh, try to guess]]. When his disguise fails, he escapes the usual torrent of abuse when rescued by the real Santa Claus, who says he deserves a happy ending just this once.

* In the "Peter's Daughter" episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter treats Meg kindly after she goes into a coma.

** A more recent episode features Meg getting her chance to abuse everyone else on the show for once, and the episode ends with Brian revealing that he wrote a nice article about her for Teen People magazine, describing her as being far sweeter and kinder than the typical American girl.

** It should be noted that, due to his [[Chew Toy]] status, many fans expected one of the letters of "Merry Christmas" to fall on him.

** In "Poor and Stupid", Kenny falls in the middle of a Nascar race track, two cars are coming straight a him at full speed, Kenny braces for the inevitable... and then the drivers notice him and manage to dodge him crashing and burning at the sides of Kenny.

**** Not to mention ascending into a land of giant breasts in the clouds. (Were we watching the same movie?)

** His performance in "Eugene, Eugene" counts, too.

** In ''"Helga's Love Potion"'' Brainy, after countless [[Offhand Backhand]] from Helga, is kissed by her (in his forehead). He faints.

* ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' does this once with Swiper. In the Halloween episode, they successfully stop him from swiping (it's normally a crapshoot whether they succeed or not depending on where they want the episode to go). After the usual "Swiper no Swiping!" and "Awww, maaaan!" exchange, they teach him how to trick or treat, then proceed to give him some candy after he asks for some.

** "Destination Imagination" is also a bone for Frankie. After years of cooking, cleaning, taking care of numerous imaginary friends, and pretty much running the house single-handedly without a bit of gratitude from anyone or an ounce of respect from her slave driving anal bunny boss, she is rewarded when Mr. Herriman acknowledges her importance to the home and has the chores spilt up amongst everyone. Whether the change sticks in the last episodes of the series remains to be seen.

*** The second-to-last episode of the series "Fools and Regulations" was yet another for Frankie. Bloo's ridiculous antics, established as a major source of grief for Frankie, actually help her in the end by earning some badly-needed fundraising donations for the house. Funny enough, Frankie punishes Bloo anyway for being such a jerkass.

* After a long, long chain of failures, there are ''two'' occasions late in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' where the method home ''isn't'' irrevocably lost. In the first case, Jack is defeated by an invincible warrior guarding it... but the warrior spares his life and explicitly sees a [[Future Badass]] Jack coming back to use the portal at some point ahead. In the second, the portal is destroyed (by Jack [[Grand Theft Me|possessed by Aku's evil]]), but Jack is told that it will be rebuilt in due time, at which point he may use it. Sadly, neither one truly paid off because Cartoon Network let the show fall through.

* [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]] achieved this trope in two of the animated specials: ''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'' (where, in spite of [[Never My Fault|being blamed for causing his team to lose a football game]], he actually gets to kiss [[He Who Must Not Be Seen|The Little Red-Haired Girl]]) and ''It's Magic, Charlie Brown'' (where he takes advantage of being turned invisible and actually kicks Lucy's football).

*** Charlie Brown does get at least one victory in the comics. During the last part of its run, he helps Rerun by defeating a bully in a game of marbles.

*** Another time was when Lucy was berating Charlie Brown at her psychology booth for wasting his life he spent the morning cleaning his closet shelf. To prove her point, she asked Linus what he was doing that morning. When he said he just watched TV, Lucy was humiliated seeing her argument explode in her face while Charlie made the most of this great turn of events with a smug "My closet shelf is real clean!"

* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'': Lumpus has a mad crush on Jane Doe, but his efforts to get her to realize that always backfire hilariously. Jane frequently misinterprets his motives, leading her to see him as A) a friend, or B) a jerk. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Failure]] is Lumpus' only option, as Jane gets together with and even ''marries'' everyone except Lumpus. The second-to-last episode focuses on the two, and is called {{spoiler|Wedding Bell Blues}}. [[Happily Married|Guess]] [[Official Couple|what]] [[Happily Married|happens]] at the end?

* The last season of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is basically this for Ron.

** The final episode is this for Dr. Drakken, whose invention defeats the [[Tripod Terror|alien war machines]], getting him the recognition he always craved.

* [[King of the Hill]]: When Bill Dauterive is staying at his rich family's mansion, two eligible bachelorettes vie fiercely to seduce him. The outcome? {{spoiler|"Both of 'em!"}}

** Also, the episode where Bill temporarily adopts a soldier's dog, Buddy. Most of the episode revolves around Hank realizing (to his dismay) that the animal that he adopted is a {{spoiler|cat}}, but Bill and Buddy spend the entire episode happy. And then, at the end of the episode, he gets a salute from the entire crew of the aircraft carrier that Buddy's owner works on as he returns Buddy, and gets a ride home on a fighter jet.

* After being a [[Butt Monkey]] for nearly ten seasons, Kirk Van Houten (Milhouse's dad from [[The Simpsons]]) finally caught a break in a recent season when he married Luanne again and moved back to his old home, and essentially, recovering his good old life.

** This happens occasionally for Grandpa Simpson, who is usually ignored by his family. This usually happens with Bart helping him do something cool, like trying steal the Hellfish treasure, running away to Branson, MO, or escaping the nursing home.

** Excepting that he's happy the girlfriend (Mai) is dating him, and she's still with him at the end.

*** One could also assume that Zuko's ''real'' bone is after the ending, where he's the ruler of the Fire Nation, heralded as one of the heroes of the world at the same level as Aang, finally got to show his sister she wasn't so much better than him as she first thought and married to Mai. Life dosen't get much better than that.

** In retrospect: the [[Butt Monkey|Cabbage Guy]]. After years of having his cabbage cart smashed every time he appears on screen, he becomes founder of one of the most successful businesses in the world. {{spoiler|His successor unfortunately inherits his bad luck when he gets framed for supplying the Equalists. "Not my Cabbage Corps!"}}

* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]],'' [[Single Woman Seeks Good Man|cute, ridiculously-nice Jeremy]] embodies this trope for [[Butt Monkey|Candace]]; many episodes have Candace accidentally putting herself through all sorts of grief trying to bust her brothers, only for Jeremy to show up in the last sixty seconds and somehow manage to make her day brighter.

** Also, every now and then this is also delivered by her brothers themselves.

 

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[[Category:Tropey the Wonder Dog]]