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* Wally West is kind of the go-to Butt Monkey for ''Franchise/TheFlash'' writers. However bad any other speedster has it, they can always look at Wally and thank their lucky stars they're not ''him''.
* The poor ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when was a constant target of SuperDickery.
* The Jokester, a heroic doppleganger of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy, which makes sense, if the Joker is a terrifying villain who [[JokerImmunity never suffers any consequences]], his exact opposite would be a FailureHero who constantly takes it in the teeth. A brief synopsis of his life story:
* The poor ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when was a constant target of SuperDickery.
* The Jokester, a heroic doppleganger of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy, which makes sense, if the Joker is a terrifying villain who [[JokerImmunity never suffers any consequences]], his exact opposite would be a FailureHero who constantly takes it in the teeth. A brief synopsis of his life story:
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* Wally West is kind of the go-to Butt Monkey for ''Franchise/TheFlash'' writers. However bad any other speedster has it, they can always look at Wally and thank their lucky stars they're not ''him''.
* The poor ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when was a constant target of SuperDickery.
*''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'': The Jokester, a heroic doppleganger of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy, which makes sense, if the Joker is a terrifying villain who [[JokerImmunity never suffers any consequences]], his exact opposite would be a FailureHero who constantly takes it in the teeth. A brief synopsis of his life story:
* The poor ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when was a constant target of SuperDickery.
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* Garryn Bek from ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics 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.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' is convinced that her new homeworld hates her. Her schoolmates mock her, her teachers are sadistic jerks, and her powers malfunction at the most inopportune times.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' is convinced that her new homeworld hates her. Her schoolmates mock her, her teachers are sadistic jerks, and her powers malfunction at the most inopportune times.
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* Garryn Bek from ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': Wally West is kind of the go-to Butt Monkey for the writers. However bad any other speedster has it, they can always look at Wally and thank their lucky stars they're not ''him''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}'': Hacken. 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.
* ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N.]]'' ]]'': Garryn Bek 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.
*Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'': In ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', Supergirl is convinced that her new homeworld hates her. Her schoolmates mock her, her teachers are sadistic jerks, and her powers malfunction at the most inopportune times.
* ''ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}'': Hacken. 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.
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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.
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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': ComicBook/JimmyOlsen was a constant target of SuperDickery.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'', Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.
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* ''Series/WonderWoman'': Harold Farnum spends most of his time being an annoyance that is only barely tolerated due to [[{{ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections}} his father being a Senator]]. His one contribution was, while trapped in a locked cell, to make an arc pencil that would possibly free them in a few hundred years. Wonder Woman breaks the door open to save the audience from watching him grow old and die before escaping.
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* ''Series/WonderWoman'': ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': Harold Farnum spends most of his time being an annoyance that is only barely tolerated due to [[{{ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections}} his father being a Senator]]. His one contribution was, while trapped in a locked cell, to make an arc pencil that would possibly free them in a few hundred years. Wonder Woman breaks the door open to save the audience from watching him grow old and die before escaping.
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** Sid the Squid is a manchild and self-admitted idiot and the events of his only episode "The Man Who Killed Batman" sees him become a target for many of Gotham's other criminals after he seemingly kills Batman by accident. Yet, he may also be an inversion as despite going to prison after the still-alive Batman saves him from Rupert Throne, Bats himself points out that Sid might actually have a good reputation in prison after what's happened and Sid concludes that going to prison was WorthIt after he's greeted to cheers from his fellow inmates as the guy who almost killed Batman and made idiots of the Joker and Throne.
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** Sid the Squid is a manchild and self-admitted idiot and the events of his only episode "The "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE51TheManWhoKilledBatman The Man Who Killed Batman" Batman]]" sees him become a target for many of Gotham's other criminals after he seemingly kills Batman by accident. Yet, A closer look at his character reveals that he may also be an inversion as despite going to prison after the still-alive Batman saves him from Rupert Throne, Bats himself points out that Sid might actually have a good reputation in prison after what's happened and Sid concludes that going to prison was WorthIt after he's greeted to cheers from his fellow inmates as the guy who almost killed Batman and made idiots of the Joker and Throne.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': The Flash tends to be seen as a clown and buffoon whose [[CasanovaWannabe interest in the ladies far exceeds his ability to impress them]]. However, it's mitigated by the fact that when push comes to shove his teammates really do trust and respect him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy. Poor guy even suffers in the DownerEnding. No wonder he's embarrassed that his first name is the same as that of [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a certain well-known cat]]. But he's much better off than Poor Doctor Light...
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy. Poor guy even suffers in the DownerEnding. No wonder he's embarrassed that his first name is the same as that of [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a certain well-known cat]]. But he's much better off than Poor Doctor Light...
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': [[Characters/DCAUTheFlash The Flash Flash]] tends to be seen as a clown and buffoon whose [[CasanovaWannabe interest in the ladies far exceeds his ability to impress them]]. However, it's mitigated by the fact that when push comes to shove his teammates really do trust and respect him.
*''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': [[Characters/TeenTitans2003BeastBoy Beast Boy.Boy]]. Poor guy even suffers in the DownerEnding. No wonder he's embarrassed that his first name is the same as that of [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a certain well-known cat]]. But he's much better off than Poor Doctor Light...
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'': Beast Boy, he's constantly punched and beaten. Most of it comes from Raven, from beginning to end.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'': Beast Boy, he's constantly punched and beaten. Most of it comes from Raven, from beginning to end.
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** Kite Man is the butt of many jokes because of his ridiculous-looking gimmick. Even in the late 2010's when Kiteman got a boost in popularity and a catch phrase ("Kite Man. Hell yeah") he still was derided.
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** Kite Man is the butt of many jokes because of his ridiculous-looking gimmick. Even in the late 2010's when Kiteman Kite Man got a boost in popularity and a catch phrase ("Kite Man. Hell yeah") he still was derided.derided.
** Normally, being part of Batman's rogue gallery grants you JokerImmunity, but not for Professor Milo, who has the dubious distinction of having been KilledOffForReal not once, but ''twice'' in truly gruesome deaths in two different animated series:
*** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "The Doomsday Sanction", Professor Milo is killed [[EvilIsNotAToy after awakening Doomsday]]. He thought he could convince Doomsday to kill Amanda Waller, whom he wanted revenge on, but he was gravely mistaken.
*** In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Gorillas in Our Midst!" ComicBook/TheSpectre converts him into cheese [[DeathByIrony and lets some of Milo's mutant rats feed on him]].
*** If we consider that in the novel ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', Milo is [[FateWorseThanDeath secluded in Arkham]] [[GuiltByAssociationGag while he insists]] [[GoAmongMadPeople he is perfectly sane]], that makes him the ButtMonkey of the [[RoguesGallery Batman villains]].
** Normally, being part of Batman's rogue gallery grants you JokerImmunity, but not for Professor Milo, who has the dubious distinction of having been KilledOffForReal not once, but ''twice'' in truly gruesome deaths in two different animated series:
*** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "The Doomsday Sanction", Professor Milo is killed [[EvilIsNotAToy after awakening Doomsday]]. He thought he could convince Doomsday to kill Amanda Waller, whom he wanted revenge on, but he was gravely mistaken.
*** In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' episode "Gorillas in Our Midst!" ComicBook/TheSpectre converts him into cheese [[DeathByIrony and lets some of Milo's mutant rats feed on him]].
*** If we consider that in the novel ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', Milo is [[FateWorseThanDeath secluded in Arkham]] [[GuiltByAssociationGag while he insists]] [[GoAmongMadPeople he is perfectly sane]], that makes him the ButtMonkey of the [[RoguesGallery Batman villains]].
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** Kite Man to a lesser extent. Just like the other iterations of the character he's [[HarmlessVillain seen as a joke]] by pretty much every supervillain and is an ExtremeDoormat who rarely stands up for himself, [[CoolLoser but he doesn't let it get to him much]]. [[spoiler: However ComicBook/PoisonIvy, the only person who ever respected him, winds up cheating on him with Harley and ultimately leaves him for her.]]
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** Kite Man to a lesser extent. Just like the other iterations of the character he's [[HarmlessVillain seen as a joke]] by pretty much every supervillain and is an ExtremeDoormat who rarely stands up for himself, [[CoolLoser but he doesn't let it get to him much]].much. [[spoiler: However ComicBook/PoisonIvy, the only person who ever respected him, winds up cheating on him with Harley and ultimately leaves him for her.]]
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** While Killer Moth had a ridiculously bright costume when he first appeared, he was treated as a threat, an EvilCounterpart to Batman. Then, they made the mistake of having him be the first foe for the newest addition to the Bat-Family, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, the end result was turning him from a threat to a laughingstock instantly. No one took him seriously anymore. During ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', they tried to save his character by turning him into the monstrous Charaxes and he was still ignored even when he managed to ambush Tim in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'', only to be killed by Superboy-Prime in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
** While Killer Moth had a ridiculously bright costume when he first appeared, he was treated as a threat, an EvilCounterpart to Batman. Then, they made the mistake of having him be the first foe for the newest addition to the Bat-Family, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, the end result was turning him from a threat to a laughingstock instantly. No one took him seriously anymore. During ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', they tried to save his character by turning him into the monstrous Charaxes and he was still ignored even when he managed to ambush Tim in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'', only to be killed by Superboy-Prime in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
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''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
** While Killer Moth had a ridiculously bright costume when he first appeared, he was treated as a threat, an EvilCounterpart to Batman. Then, they made the mistake of having him be the first foe for the newest addition to the Bat-Family, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, the end result was turning him from a threat to a laughingstock instantly. No one took him seriously anymore. During ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', they tried to save his character by turning him into the monstrous Charaxes and he was still ignored even when he managed to ambush Tim in''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'', ''ComicBook/Robin1993'', only to be killed by Superboy-Prime in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
** While Killer Moth had a ridiculously bright costume when he first appeared, he was treated as a threat, an EvilCounterpart to Batman. Then, they made the mistake of having him be the first foe for the newest addition to the Bat-Family, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, the end result was turning him from a threat to a laughingstock instantly. No one took him seriously anymore. During ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', they tried to save his character by turning him into the monstrous Charaxes and he was still ignored even when he managed to ambush Tim in
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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.
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* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.escape.
!!Live-Action TV
* Tommy Merlyn on ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. The poor guy was just a lightning rod for bad luck and every time something good happened, something horrible was waiting around the corner to beat him down again. Before the series started, he saw his mother murdered and was neglected by his father, who simply abandoned him for two years. As an adult, he loses his best friend for five years, loses his fortune after his father cuts him off and then tries to make him close down a clinic that his mother cared about, he finds out Oliver and his father are both murderers, his relationship with Laurel falls apart because he can't keep Oliver's secret and she still has feelings for him and he gets beaten up and nearly murdered by Huntress. And then [[spoiler: he dies saving Laurel by being impaled and crushed by concrete]].
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s version of Jimmy Oslen becomes something of a snowballing butt monkey, especially once Lex the Woobie left the show after Season 7.
** Apart from getting his share of the standard amount of grievous physical trauma experienced by most characters on the show, Jimmy's buttmonkeyness was evident early on by his being generally treated like dirt as the designated love interest for Chloe Sullivan, but ballooned in Season Eight, where [[spoiler: his not-unfounded jealousy over Clark is the least of his problems, what with getting constantly and very obviously lied to by everyone and most especially by his fiancée. His joy at discovering that Clark is the Red-Blue Blurr is crushed through an elaborate deception by his closest friends, and his boss refuses to take him seriously.]] Things ratchet up several notches when [[spoiler: his wedding gets literally crashed by Doomsday who just about eviscerates him. After being thus benched for a good chunk of the season (in which his wife oddly does not seem to spend much time visiting him in hospital), he becomes addicted to painkillers, discovers that Davis Bloom is a serial killer and when he tries to warn his friends ''nobody believes him'', not even his wife. He gets repeatedly beaten, tortured and tied up, keeps getting lied to over and over again by Chloe, is dismissed as a crazy junkie by all his friends, even witnesses that Chloe apparently has romantic feelings for the guy he discovered is a killer, precipitating the total collapse of his marriage (which doesn't even rate more than a handwaved mention of their divorce).]] To top it all off, [[spoiler: gets gratuitously murdered in the finale by the same guy he tried to warn everyone about.]] To add insult to injury, [[spoiler: his funeral scene reveals that he wasn't even the "real" Jimmy Olsen from the comics that he had hitherto been presented as being, but rather a "Henry James Olson", evidently an older brother to the canonical "James Bartholomew Olsen".]]
*** Apparently it ''really'' sucks to be Jimmy Olsen, [[spoiler: even when you're actually not.]]
** Lana Lang is supposed to be TheWoobie, but really comes off more like this. Of course, given many fans' opinions of her, this also makes her TheChewToy.
* ''Series/WonderWoman'': Harold Farnum spends most of his time being an annoyance that is only barely tolerated due to [[{{ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections}} his father being a Senator]]. His one contribution was, while trapped in a locked cell, to make an arc pencil that would possibly free them in a few hundred years. Wonder Woman breaks the door open to save the audience from watching him grow old and die before escaping.
!!Western Animation
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** Whoever wants to be the Mayor of a WretchedHive like Gotham is asking for it: Mayor Hill even once was [[InvokedTrope framed up]] by the ClockKing to be a ButtMonkey in revenge for an AdviceBackfire.
** Harley Quinn was a relatively rare female example before she TookALevelInBadass.
** Harvey Bullock is an out-of-universe example. He's given token respect by the characters, but part of the fun for the audience of seeing any episode with Bullock in it is waiting for him to stuff junk food in his face or say or do something stupid. Kudos to ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' for doing its part to salvage this much-maligned character.
** Sid the Squid is a manchild and self-admitted idiot and the events of his only episode "The Man Who Killed Batman" sees him become a target for many of Gotham's other criminals after he seemingly kills Batman by accident. Yet, he may also be an inversion as despite going to prison after the still-alive Batman saves him from Rupert Throne, Bats himself points out that Sid might actually have a good reputation in prison after what's happened and Sid concludes that going to prison was WorthIt after he's greeted to cheers from his fellow inmates as the guy who almost killed Batman and made idiots of the Joker and Throne.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': The Penguin seems to be the Butt Monkey of almost every episode he's ever made an appearance in, no matter how short it was. Heck, he was the movie's Butt Monkey! Though oddly enough, he ''wasn't'' one in "Team Penguin", simply because [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Killer Moth was.]]
* ComicBook/{{Bane}} of all people is this in ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'', being an AdaptationalWimp [[ExtremeDoormat (in terms of spirit)]] who gets pushed around by all the other villains despite the fact that he [[BullyingADragon could easily break any one of them in half]].
** Kite Man to a lesser extent. Just like the other iterations of the character he's [[HarmlessVillain seen as a joke]] by pretty much every supervillain and is an ExtremeDoormat who rarely stands up for himself, [[CoolLoser but he doesn't let it get to him much]]. [[spoiler: However ComicBook/PoisonIvy, the only person who ever respected him, winds up cheating on him with Harley and ultimately leaves him for her.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': The Flash tends to be seen as a clown and buffoon whose [[CasanovaWannabe interest in the ladies far exceeds his ability to impress them]]. However, it's mitigated by the fact that when push comes to shove his teammates really do trust and respect him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy. Poor guy even suffers in the DownerEnding. No wonder he's embarrassed that his first name is the same as that of [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a certain well-known cat]]. But he's much better off than Poor Doctor Light...
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': Robin is generally disrespected by the other Titans and is mocked, injured, or ignored at least OncePerEpisode. But then again, Robin's a total jerk and control freak to his teammates who won't hesitate to whack them with his staff or foist laundry duties on Raven when it's his turn. Robin gets this doubly in crossover episodes where the rest of his team will faun over the guest stars and Robin is ignored by them.
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* Tommy Merlyn on ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. The poor guy was just a lightning rod for bad luck and every time something good happened, something horrible was waiting around the corner to beat him down again. Before the series started, he saw his mother murdered and was neglected by his father, who simply abandoned him for two years. As an adult, he loses his best friend for five years, loses his fortune after his father cuts him off and then tries to make him close down a clinic that his mother cared about, he finds out Oliver and his father are both murderers, his relationship with Laurel falls apart because he can't keep Oliver's secret and she still has feelings for him and he gets beaten up and nearly murdered by Huntress. And then [[spoiler: he dies saving Laurel by being impaled and crushed by concrete]].
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'''s version of Jimmy Oslen becomes something of a snowballing butt monkey, especially once Lex the Woobie left the show after Season 7.
** Apart from getting his share of the standard amount of grievous physical trauma experienced by most characters on the show, Jimmy's buttmonkeyness was evident early on by his being generally treated like dirt as the designated love interest for Chloe Sullivan, but ballooned in Season Eight, where [[spoiler: his not-unfounded jealousy over Clark is the least of his problems, what with getting constantly and very obviously lied to by everyone and most especially by his fiancée. His joy at discovering that Clark is the Red-Blue Blurr is crushed through an elaborate deception by his closest friends, and his boss refuses to take him seriously.]] Things ratchet up several notches when [[spoiler: his wedding gets literally crashed by Doomsday who just about eviscerates him. After being thus benched for a good chunk of the season (in which his wife oddly does not seem to spend much time visiting him in hospital), he becomes addicted to painkillers, discovers that Davis Bloom is a serial killer and when he tries to warn his friends ''nobody believes him'', not even his wife. He gets repeatedly beaten, tortured and tied up, keeps getting lied to over and over again by Chloe, is dismissed as a crazy junkie by all his friends, even witnesses that Chloe apparently has romantic feelings for the guy he discovered is a killer, precipitating the total collapse of his marriage (which doesn't even rate more than a handwaved mention of their divorce).]] To top it all off, [[spoiler: gets gratuitously murdered in the finale by the same guy he tried to warn everyone about.]] To add insult to injury, [[spoiler: his funeral scene reveals that he wasn't even the "real" Jimmy Olsen from the comics that he had hitherto been presented as being, but rather a "Henry James Olson", evidently an older brother to the canonical "James Bartholomew Olsen".]]
*** Apparently it ''really'' sucks to be Jimmy Olsen, [[spoiler: even when you're actually not.]]
** Lana Lang is supposed to be TheWoobie, but really comes off more like this. Of course, given many fans' opinions of her, this also makes her TheChewToy.
* ''Series/WonderWoman'': Harold Farnum spends most of his time being an annoyance that is only barely tolerated due to [[{{ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections}} his father being a Senator]]. His one contribution was, while trapped in a locked cell, to make an arc pencil that would possibly free them in a few hundred years. Wonder Woman breaks the door open to save the audience from watching him grow old and die before escaping.
!!Western Animation
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
** Whoever wants to be the Mayor of a WretchedHive like Gotham is asking for it: Mayor Hill even once was [[InvokedTrope framed up]] by the ClockKing to be a ButtMonkey in revenge for an AdviceBackfire.
** Harley Quinn was a relatively rare female example before she TookALevelInBadass.
** Harvey Bullock is an out-of-universe example. He's given token respect by the characters, but part of the fun for the audience of seeing any episode with Bullock in it is waiting for him to stuff junk food in his face or say or do something stupid. Kudos to ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' for doing its part to salvage this much-maligned character.
** Sid the Squid is a manchild and self-admitted idiot and the events of his only episode "The Man Who Killed Batman" sees him become a target for many of Gotham's other criminals after he seemingly kills Batman by accident. Yet, he may also be an inversion as despite going to prison after the still-alive Batman saves him from Rupert Throne, Bats himself points out that Sid might actually have a good reputation in prison after what's happened and Sid concludes that going to prison was WorthIt after he's greeted to cheers from his fellow inmates as the guy who almost killed Batman and made idiots of the Joker and Throne.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': The Penguin seems to be the Butt Monkey of almost every episode he's ever made an appearance in, no matter how short it was. Heck, he was the movie's Butt Monkey! Though oddly enough, he ''wasn't'' one in "Team Penguin", simply because [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Killer Moth was.]]
* ComicBook/{{Bane}} of all people is this in ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'', being an AdaptationalWimp [[ExtremeDoormat (in terms of spirit)]] who gets pushed around by all the other villains despite the fact that he [[BullyingADragon could easily break any one of them in half]].
** Kite Man to a lesser extent. Just like the other iterations of the character he's [[HarmlessVillain seen as a joke]] by pretty much every supervillain and is an ExtremeDoormat who rarely stands up for himself, [[CoolLoser but he doesn't let it get to him much]]. [[spoiler: However ComicBook/PoisonIvy, the only person who ever respected him, winds up cheating on him with Harley and ultimately leaves him for her.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': The Flash tends to be seen as a clown and buffoon whose [[CasanovaWannabe interest in the ladies far exceeds his ability to impress them]]. However, it's mitigated by the fact that when push comes to shove his teammates really do trust and respect him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Beast Boy. Poor guy even suffers in the DownerEnding. No wonder he's embarrassed that his first name is the same as that of [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} a certain well-known cat]]. But he's much better off than Poor Doctor Light...
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': Robin is generally disrespected by the other Titans and is mocked, injured, or ignored at least OncePerEpisode. But then again, Robin's a total jerk and control freak to his teammates who won't hesitate to whack them with his staff or foist laundry duties on Raven when it's his turn. Robin gets this doubly in crossover episodes where the rest of his team will faun over the guest stars and Robin is ignored by them.
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* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** While Killer Moth had a ridiculously bright costume when he first appeared, he was treated as a threat, an EvilCounterpart to Batman. Then, they made the mistake of having him be the first foe for the newest addition to the Bat-Family, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, the end result was turning him from a threat to a laughingstock instantly. No one took him seriously anymore. During ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', they tried to save his character by turning him into the monstrous Charaxes and he was still ignored even when he managed to ambush Tim in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'', only to be killed by Superboy-Prime in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
** Kite Man is the butt of many jokes because of his ridiculous-looking gimmick. Even in the late 2010's when Kiteman got a boost in popularity and a catch phrase ("Kite Man. Hell yeah") he still was derided.
* Wally West is kind of the go-to Butt Monkey for ''Franchise/TheFlash'' writers. However bad any other speedster has it, they can always look at Wally and thank their lucky stars they're not ''him''.
* The poor ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when was a constant target of SuperDickery.
* The Jokester, a heroic doppleganger of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy, which makes sense, if the Joker is a terrifying villain who [[JokerImmunity never suffers any consequences]], his exact opposite would be a FailureHero who constantly takes it in the teeth. A brief synopsis of his life story:
** He was a friendless, bullied loser throughout his childhood;
** When he grew up, he found love with Evelyn Dent, the future Three-Face, who abruptly left him while pregnant with their daughter;
** He became a successful standup comedian by mocking [[EvilTwin Owlman]], only for Owlman to murder his manager[=/=]OnlyFriend and disfigure his face;
** He then became a vigilante hero and reunited with his daughter and Evelyn, only to learn that she had remarried and had left him because she had developed Multiple Personality Disorder and two out of her three personalities hated him;
** He began to build a relationship with his daughter and even managed to woo Evelyn's other personalities, only for the Crime Syndicate to attack their hideout, leaving Jokester as seemingly the sole survivor;
** Deciding he had no reason to stay on Earth-3, he joined up with [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner and Jason Todd]], stepping through an inter-dimensional portal just in time for Evelyn, who was alive and [[RaceForYourLove racing]] to get to him, to tearfully watch him disappear;
** On his first dimension hop he was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremoniously shot in the back]], and died on a world that was not his own, far away from anyone who ever loved him, unmourned and never spoken of again, having achieved nothing.
* Garryn Bek from ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics 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.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' is convinced that her new homeworld hates her. Her schoolmates mock her, her teachers are sadistic jerks, and her powers malfunction at the most inopportune times.
-->'''Supergirl:''' This planets hates me.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** While Killer Moth had a ridiculously bright costume when he first appeared, he was treated as a threat, an EvilCounterpart to Batman. Then, they made the mistake of having him be the first foe for the newest addition to the Bat-Family, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, the end result was turning him from a threat to a laughingstock instantly. No one took him seriously anymore. During ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', they tried to save his character by turning him into the monstrous Charaxes and he was still ignored even when he managed to ambush Tim in ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'', only to be killed by Superboy-Prime in ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis''.
** Kite Man is the butt of many jokes because of his ridiculous-looking gimmick. Even in the late 2010's when Kiteman got a boost in popularity and a catch phrase ("Kite Man. Hell yeah") he still was derided.
* Wally West is kind of the go-to Butt Monkey for ''Franchise/TheFlash'' writers. However bad any other speedster has it, they can always look at Wally and thank their lucky stars they're not ''him''.
* The poor ComicBook/JimmyOlsen when was a constant target of SuperDickery.
* The Jokester, a heroic doppleganger of ComicBook/TheJoker from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]]. The entire multiverse really has it in for this guy, which makes sense, if the Joker is a terrifying villain who [[JokerImmunity never suffers any consequences]], his exact opposite would be a FailureHero who constantly takes it in the teeth. A brief synopsis of his life story:
** He was a friendless, bullied loser throughout his childhood;
** When he grew up, he found love with Evelyn Dent, the future Three-Face, who abruptly left him while pregnant with their daughter;
** He became a successful standup comedian by mocking [[EvilTwin Owlman]], only for Owlman to murder his manager[=/=]OnlyFriend and disfigure his face;
** He then became a vigilante hero and reunited with his daughter and Evelyn, only to learn that she had remarried and had left him because she had developed Multiple Personality Disorder and two out of her three personalities hated him;
** He began to build a relationship with his daughter and even managed to woo Evelyn's other personalities, only for the Crime Syndicate to attack their hideout, leaving Jokester as seemingly the sole survivor;
** Deciding he had no reason to stay on Earth-3, he joined up with [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner and Jason Todd]], stepping through an inter-dimensional portal just in time for Evelyn, who was alive and [[RaceForYourLove racing]] to get to him, to tearfully watch him disappear;
** On his first dimension hop he was [[DroppedABridgeOnHim unceremoniously shot in the back]], and died on a world that was not his own, far away from anyone who ever loved him, unmourned and never spoken of again, having achieved nothing.
* Garryn Bek from ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics 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.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} in ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'' is convinced that her new homeworld hates her. Her schoolmates mock her, her teachers are sadistic jerks, and her powers malfunction at the most inopportune times.
-->'''Supergirl:''' This planets hates me.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Virginia True is one of the Holliday Girls, but unlike the others never really gets a chance to shine while fighting bad guys. She gets knocked out and nearly drowns during an underwater fight, kidnapped and replaced by an agent of the Saturnian Empire without her friends even discovering the deception and then knocked out of the fight during her escape.
