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* Erica Pierce from ''[[Doctor Solar|Solar Man of the Atom]]'' is a rather unlucky woman. First off, she was with Solar when he had his accident in the reactor which gave her powers as well (she doesn't notice...at first), she later tries to have sex with the titular Solar but is turned down, Solar takes Erica with him outside the universe where she ends up cracking up do to her self-esteem issues, she tries to kill Solar due to the previous trip, Solar later on goes haywire which results in the universe being sucked into a black hole, {{spoiler|she survives along with Solar, both of them being sent into a new universe}}. In the new universe, it's revealed that Erica (a another one albeit the same) has a abusive husband who impregnated her, said baby coming to life with powers similar to Solar, the baby ends up killing herself due to it's power which traumatizes Erica even more, and finally she kills her husband in a fit of rage. {{spoiler|She is then killed by the Erica from the previous universe, who takes her son Albert with her into hiding}}.▼
* Manhog from ''[[Frank]]'', he is shown to be quite bitter about his lot in life but is usaully to stupid to fix anything about it.▼
▲* Erica Pierce from ''[[Solar Man of the Atom]]'' is a rather unlucky woman. First off, she was with Solar when he had his accident in the reactor which gave her powers as well (she doesn't notice...at first), she later tries to have sex with the titular Solar but is turned down, Solar takes Erica with him outside the universe where she ends up cracking up do to her self-esteem issues, she tries to kill Solar due to the previous trip, Solar later on goes haywire which results in the universe being sucked into a black hole, {{spoiler|she survives along with Solar, both of them being sent into a new universe}}. In the new universe, it's revealed that Erica (a another one albeit the same) has a abusive husband who impregnated her, said baby coming to life with powers similar to Solar, the baby ends up killing herself due to it's power which traumatizes Erica even more, and finally she kills her husband in a fit of rage. {{spoiler|She is then killed by the Erica from the previous universe, who takes her son Albert with her into hiding}}.
▲* Manhog from [[Frank]], he is shown to be quite bitter about his lot in life but is usaully to stupid to fix anything about it.
* One of the last good things about ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' after all its old regular artists and writers started dying like flies, Monroe's title character is a definite example of a Butt Monkey, with ridiculously neglectful parents, a cruel bully who constantly leaves him battered and bloody, his only friend is a nerdy toadlike kid who is the only person liked even less than him, and any spot of hope for him is usually destroyed by the end of the story.
** While we're on the subject on Mad Magazine, I also want to point out that in [[Spy vs. Spy]], Whenever the Grey spy makes the scene, the black and white spies lose every time. When she isn't present, though, whenever one spy wins, the other looks fitting for this trope. But since the victor alternates, this randomly switches at will.
* Herr Starr from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' is the recipient of ever-increasing quantities of humiliating violence. As a child, he has one of his eyes put out and goes bald; during the plotline of the comic, he gets [[Black Comedy Rape|raped by a male prostitute]], has a large scar carved into his head (which makes it look like a [[Freud Was Right|giant... Uh...]]), has one ear shot off, narrowly escapes cannibals who eat his leg, and finally has his genitals eaten by a Rottweiler, leading to his forlorn use of the phrase "my cock is in the bitch's mouth and not in a good way".
** And finally, to add insult to injury - literally - at the crescendo of his crusade of vengeance against Jesse Custer, he is handed prank binoculars and winds up addressing his troops for his final battle with black circles inked around his eyes.
** Though one wonders why a trained military man, who never goes unarmed, who is the second most powerful man in the entire
* Filler Bunny from various [[Jhonen Vasquez]] comics was created purely to entertain the audience by being tortured. Appropriately enough, at one point he has a monkey climb up his butt.
** Don't forget Todd (Squee) from Jhonen's comic ''[[Squee (comics)|Squee]]''; throughout the series, he gets frequently harassed by space aliens who want to probe him, a gigantic dust mite, and his cyborg-Grandpa; his parents continuously ignore him, the worst offender being his dad, who constantly says stuff like, "I haven't smiled since the day you were born" (at one point he's even seen watching a video of Squee's birth being played in reverse); his classmates constantly pick on him and laugh at him for no apparent reason whatsoever; his only real friends are Shmee (his stuffed bear), Pepito (the son of Satan), and Johnny (Nny); heck, {{spoiler|at the end of the series, his parents place him in a mental institution!}}
* Marvel's Trapster, favored punchline of heroes (especially Spider-Man), despite being reasonably dangerous with his glue-based weaponry. He simply [[Never Live It Down|can't live down]] his initial moniker of "Paste-Pot Pete" (or the costume he wore with it). Just [[Berserk Button|calling him "Pete"]] usually puts the fight half in the bag.
** The Ringmaster flirts with this status as well; he was once beaten by ''[[Howard the Duck (comics)|Howard the Duck]]''.
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** In the Ultimate comics, [[Captain America (comics)]] gave him a serious beatdown for beating up his wife. Just an example.
** This has gotten kind of ridiculous in recent years, perhaps epitomized by this quote from ''Mighty Avengers'' #23 (to give it a certain amount of context, Iron Man has showed up and told Hank he's going to now lead Hank's newly assembled team):
{{quote|'''Hank Pym:''' ''You'' can take over from here? ''You''? Tony Stark? Mister Fought-against-Cap-in-the-civil-war, shot-Hulk-into-space-and-caused-World-War-Hulk, gave-the-Skrulls-everything-they-needed-to-invade-Earth. ''You're'' taking over? Come on, give me ''one'' good reason why--
'''[[Iron Man]]:''' Three words. You're. Hank. Pym.}}
** Speaking of that, during the Skrull's infiltration, one Skrull impersonated Pym. Then he complained to the Queen why Pym got no respect, because by impersonating Pym, he's got the butt-end of jokes by many heroes. The Queen's response? "Nobody cares about Pym/Ant Man"
** Pym ''does'' have his moments of awesome. For example, the efforts he went to in redeeming himself after his period of psychosis that brought about the original Yellowjacket identity, and his current run with the Mighty Avengers. However, these come so few and far between that it's like every "badass" period is just set up as another grace for him to fall from.
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* The aforementioned Stature really deserves her own bullet. Her former team, the Young Avengers, were anti-reg and the others stayed anti-reg after she left. It's possible that the popularity of other members over her and the former cohesiveness of the team made her betrayal seem particularly outrageous, which would explain her treatment in the later comics. Stature was kidnapped by Puppet Master, almost sold into slavery and had to fight Ms. Marvel. During this fight, she had a [[Car Fu|car hit her in the face]]. She joined a superhero boot camp some unspecified time after Civil War. Other instructors included former supervillains, including Taskmaster, who had fought Stature's superhero dad (Ant Man). New Ant Man [[Jerkass|Eric O'Grady]] mocked the former Ant Man to ingratiate himself with Taskmaster. Stature promptly [[Who's Laughing Now?|tried to kill him]], only for O'Grady to grow to giant size and smack her with a bus. They both were taken down by Taskmaster without Stature hitting O'Grady once. Later at the camp, a clone gone wrong combined with an alien weapon ran around maiming and beating trainees, including her. When she was eventually sent home, she had a screaming fight with her mother and stepfather and accidentally crippled her stepfather during a fight with a supervillain. Just prior to the ''Siege'' crossover, she discovered that her teammate Scarlet Witch was really Loki in disguise, but was unable to reveal this potentially life-saving information to her teammates because of a magical mental gag that was placed on her. And then after the Avengers reformed, she tried out to become the nanny of [[Luke Cage, Hero for Hire|Luke Cage]] and [[Alias (Comic Book)|Jessica Jones]]' baby, and was even denied that. The only good things were off-screen reconciliations with the other Young Avengers and some [[Epiphany Therapy]]. Keep in mind that the last time we were updated on her age, ''she wasn't even fifteen''.
** Though after she returned to the Young Avengers full time, things did finally start picking up for her. The biggest win for her? During the ''Children's Crusade'', she was able to reunite with her dead father after he was resurrected by the real Scarlet Witch.
* As depicted on [[
* Some writers seem to think that the biggest appeal of ''[[Spider-Man]]'' is that things constantly go wrong for him. As a result, we get countless stories of Peter suffering humiliation, lack of money, sickly aunt, girl trouble and just all around unpleasantness, to the point that reading the stories can actually get a little depressing. Note that after John Romita Sr started working on the title with [[Stan Lee]], the book became much [[Lighter and Softer]] than it had been recently, a move which led most fans to label it as the golden age of Spider-Man.
** Originally, Peter Parker and Scott Summers of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] had something in common, their characters were supposed to be guys who things often tended go wrong for, but not ''just for the sake of that'', and they were impressive, each in his own way, in how they dealt with it. But too many writers just can't grasp the difference between that and 'kick them harder!'
* Tails in the Fleetway ''[[Sonic the Comic]]''. He's frequently the victim of Sonic's "[[Jerkass|strange sense of humour]]" and the people he rescues tend to complain that [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like|they wanted to be saved by Sonic]].
* Detective Soap from the Garth Ennis era of ''[[The Punisher]]''. Just a few of many examples; Assigned to a joke squad to catch the Punisher after the brass is blackmailed. Sleeps with a convict and his own mother, both of which could have been avoided if the one person he thought was his friend said anything. Intimidated by the Punisher into feeding him info on crooks to kill. Regularly gets splashed in bodily fluids. Gets blackmailed himself, left and right. His love interest turns out to be gay. As a CHILD... dropped on his head as a baby, avoided rape because the pastor thought he was ugly... In the end, though, he gets his just rewards. It {{spoiler|turns out he has a huge penis and is now a porn star.}}.
* Weasel, Bob Agent of Hydra.... Any of [[Deadpool]]'s side-kicks really.
** With the possible exception of [[Cool Old Lady|Blind Al]], who dished it out as much as she took it.
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** Tryco Slatterus (a.k.a The Champion) in ''Deadpool Corps'' is also one. Considering he's always humiliated at the end of each issue he appears in.
* Garryn Bek from ''L.E.G.I.O.N.'' is almost always the most picked on member of the cast. Nobody in the whole galaxy takes as much punishment and humiliation as Garryn Bek, at least for the first forty issues or so.
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* The life of Remy
* Hacken from [[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]], perhaps the best defining moment of his crappy luck was when the characters were fighting their way out of an aquarium full of zombie sea animals (Long Story) he gets his hand bitten by a baby seal and in panic chops it of only to find out a few scenes later that these zombies aren’t contagious, cue to panel of him staring sadly at his new stump.
* Sonny Tuckson from the [[Buck Danny]] series.
* Walter The Softy and Cuthbert Cringeworthy from ''[[The Beano]]'' have to undergo torment, harassment and bullying that would destroy any normal boy their age
** To say nothing of Calamity James!
* ''[[Transhuman (comics)|Transhuman]]'' by [[Jonathan Hickman]] has a group of literal butt-monkeys. That is they are supposedly the showcase for a new type of genetic modification designed to give you superpowers, yet upon being sent to recapture a group of escaped, enhanced intelligence monkeys, they are captured and anally raped these monkeys live on TV. People make jokes about this, even to their faces, for the rest of their lives. The genetic modifications eventually have horrible side effects as well.
* Captain Haddock, Cuthbert Calculus and Thomson and Thompson are the Buttmonkeys from [[Tintin]].
* [[Black Canary]] becomes this whenever she pairs with [[Green Arrow]]. Every. Single. God. Damn. Time. Their first pairing? Kidnapped by drug lords in a botched sting operation and physically tortured so bad it renders her infertile and strips her of her superpower. (Both would eventually be restored). Rejoins Ollie after he gets resurrected? Her adopted daughter is kidnapped and Ollie himself makes her believe she's dead. Despite that, she still marries him - and proceeds to be reduced to a [[Damsel in Distress]] who's Canary Cry accidentally causes an innocent bystander's hearing loss. And then Ollie leaving to form a second Justice League team somehow devastates her so much that she breaks up the primary team that she the leader of. Suffice it to say, there are likely a lot of [[Birds of Prey]] fans who really really don't like seeing Dinah and Ollie together.
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* Brainy Smurf of ''[[The Smurfs]]'' is the village's butt monkey.
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