Butt Monkey/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character who is constantly put through hell for laughs.
 * Straight: Bevis T. Monkey's day was unlucky: He got hit in the groin and was stung by bees.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Bevis T. Monkey's day was unlucky: He got mugged and was stabbed.
 * Generally, Iron Butt Monkey.
 * Poor Bevis T. Monkey was hit on the groin by bees.
 * Justified:
 * God likes to make Bevis T. Monkey's life miserable for kicks.
 * Or for Bevis being a Jerkass to everyone, it was karmic retribution.
 * Inverted:
 * Bevis T. Monkey's day was very lucky: He got a million dollars and was treated as a king soon afterward.
 * Arguably, Mary Sue and God Mode Sue could be considered the polar opposite(s) of a Butt Monkey.
 * Invincible Hero.
 * Karma Houdini.
 * Subverted: A truck was about to hit Bevis T. Monkey when he was crossing the street but stopped at the last minute...
 * Double Subverted: It was the bus next to the truck that ran Bevis over.
 * Parodied: Pretty much everything Bevis T. Monkey does fails spectacularly. And his life is a seemingly endless chain of Disaster Dominoes and Humiliation Conga. He's got to have sanity (or faith) made of iron if he's not screaming Smite Me Oh Mighty Smiter by now.
 * Deconstructed:
 * The constant unluckiness kept bothering Bevis with increasing levels of misfortune to the point of breakage.
 * One day, Bevis gets a shotgun and, without hesitating, starts to chase the people who makes his life hell, killing them mercilessy.
 * All the abuse Bevis goes through causes him to become very bitter and cynical to the point where he's afraid of being happy lest something bad happens as a result. Whenever anything goes his way, he becomes paranoid that its merely a set up for him to be knocked down in an exceptionally cruel way.
 * Reconstructed:
 * Even after the breakage, the unluckiness kept happening.
 * Alternatively, in spite of all his bad luck, Bevis is The Stoic or manages to keep a Stiff Upper Lip. Due to this mentality, he never sees his bad luck as anything more than a bother or annoyance (even if logic says he really should). His low key reaction to the bad stuff that happens to him only serves to enhance the comedy.
 * Zig Zagged: Bevis almost gets hit by a car, but the car stops. What does hit him is the baseball that rolls off the roof of a nearby building. But it turns it to be autographed, and worth thousands of dollars! Then he trips and falls down a hill. Into a river. But he finds a gold ring in the bottom of the stream! So he goes to the pawn shop... and gets mauled by a bear on the way.
 * Averted: Bevis T. Monkey is not particularly unlucky, nor is he especially lucky.
 * Enforced: The creators needed comedy relief so they created Bevis
 * Lampshaded: “Why do these bad things keep happening to me?”
 * Invoked: "I'm bored let's go pick on Bevis T. Monkey because that's always good for a laugh."
 * Defied: "Mock me will you? I'll kill you! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"
 * Discussed: "Is it just me or does God seem to hate Bevis T. Monkey?"
 * Conversed: "Maybe we should cut Monkey some slack." Beat "Naaaaaahhhh..."
 * Played For Laughs: The Chew Toy
 * Played For Drama: The Woobie

Back to Butt Monkey, if God doesn't smite me first...