Karmic Butt-Monkey in Western Animation.
- Adventures of the Gummi Bears: Duke Sigmund Igthorn becomes Laughably Evil for this reason. His schemes to gain access to the Gummiberry juice and/or conquer Dunwyn almost never work, and, frankly, he brings his numerous defeats on himself. Among other things, he's been flung from various Gummi devices, tied up by his own underlings, blown up, tarred and feathered, thrown into moats or mudholes, and had his vocal chords shrunk by a voice-altering spell.
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Master Shake is rude, greedy, selfish, lazy, arrogant, abusive, and he also frequently receives Laser-Guided Karma on a regular basis when he's not the Asshole Victim.
- Beavis and Butt-Head: The titular Beavis and Butt-Head are a duo of Insufferable Imbeciles who constantly cause chaos. However, that chaos will often affect them, too (especially Beavis), or result in them both being injured or punished by authority figures due to messing with the wrong people.
- Beverly Hills Teens: Bianca and Pierce, the two most selfish and narcissistic characters on the show, often suffer misfortunes and humiliations. The "karmic" part is especially true for Bianca, since she's the main antagonist of most episodes, and her misfortunes are usually just the result of her own schemes backfiring on her.
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: Crusher is the main antagonist of the series and always cheats to win every race. He's the Asshole Victim of every bad thing can happen in the series, which usually are his own invents or treats against Blaze and his friends, and different from his minion Pickle, he doesn't regret of his actions nor try to help his rival when something bigger occurs that affect both.
- Bob's Burgers: Mr. Frond is an egotistical Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who doesn't care about the students. All he wants is clout. As such, no one respects him, especially the Belcher kids, who frequently prank him (such as in "The Frond Files", where they write stories, and each one of them cast him in an unflattering light).
- Bunsen Is a Beast: Amanda Killman is a wicked girl who consistently does despicable deeds and stoops to any low she can to make the town of Muckledunk kick out Bunsen out of bigotry towards beasts. She's also a frequent target of slapstick injuries and misfortunes.
- The Buzz on Maggie: Zig Zagging with Maggie. Sometimes her misfortunes aren't her fault (i.e. being bullied by Aldrin and Dawn), while other times, she does deserve it for things such as manipulating others or trying to find loopholes around authority.
- Camp Lazlo:
- Lumpus is a corrupt scoutmaster who abuses his subordinate Slinkman, as well as the camp kids. However, he'll always meet his comeuppance with slapstick injuries.
- Edward is a braggart who thinks he's better than everyone else despite Lazlo doing better than him. As such, most of his focus episodes will have him suffer for his rudeness and boasting.
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Sly Sludge, one of the eco-villains, is constantly dumping trash in ways that are environmentally harmful (e.g., into a volcano or into the ocean) and is also constantly suffering every type of misfortune and humiliation the universe can throw at him, complete with his schemes backfiring on him and his archenemy Captain Planet needing to pull his fat out of the fire.
- CatDog: Zig Zagging with Cat. He will receive some kind of punishment for his selfish double-dealing and exploitative behaviour, but not all of it is karmic, like whenever Dog's recklessness puts them both in trouble.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog:
- Eustace is cruel to Courage and doesn't treat anyone else any better. He often pays for it by getting captured by the Monster of the Week, getting hit by Muriel's Rolling Pin of Doom (as punishment for bullying Courage), or even being killed.
- Di Lung is an arrogant and narcissistic asshole, and most of the injuries he endures is a result of his own actions.
- Darkwing Duck: The universe tends to pick on Darkwing anyway, but he's especially likely to suffer misfortune/humiliation if he's behaving more arrogant and jerk-like than usual.
- Dexter's Laboratory:
- Zig-zagged with Dexter. While his annoyance and distain for his sister’s bumbling antics that leave his inventions in pieces are kind of understandable, he’s kind of a Narcissist who thinks he’s better than everyone else because of his genius status, sees his family as morons, and claims that any interests and ambitions outside his own are frivolous and a waste of time.
- Against all odds, Dee Dee manages to be this in quite a few episodes. Sometimes, her trail of destruction is so extreme and disproportionate that it's next-to-impossible to justify, even when Dexter's ego and narcissism are taken into consideration, especially because, despite such personality flaws, Dexter wants to use his talents to change the world for the better. This makes the very few moments where Dee Dee gets punished all the more satisfying.
- Donald Duck: The eponymous Donald Duck. There is a very good reason his theme song says, "Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? No one but Donald Duck." A lot of his problems are self-inflicted due to his bad temper and the fact that he imposes on other people for his own sick kicks.
- Doug: Roger Klotz can often end up on the receiving end of humiliation and embarrassment whenever he takes his bullying ways to immoral levels that would often cross the line.
- Drawn Together: Princess Clara especially stands out in a World of Jerkass for her bigoted, fundamentalist ways, and for being the character who tends to be the most physically abused when the situation calls for it.
- Urpgor of The Dreamstone is arguably the one genuinely evil Urpney Zordrak has, being treacherous, bullying and sometimes just outright psychotic towards other Mooks below him. He also seems to get the most abuse from his master and tends to suffer just as much as the others in failed schemes.
- Eddy in Ed, Edd n Eddy gets picked on by the rest of the kids in the neighborhood, though the cause is that he keeps trying to scam them out of their money. Eddy frequently winds up poorer than before he starts his scams.
- The Fairly OddParents!: Crocker is a Sadist Teacher who takes a lot of enjoyment in giving his students F's. Naturally, almost no one respects him and people view him as crazy for believing in fairies. He also gets injured quite frequently.
- Family Guy:
- Peter Griffin is known, especially in later episodes, to be a Fat Bastard Insufferable Imbecile towards his family and friends and tends to cause a lot of death and destruction through his crazy antics. A lot of times however it all comes back to bite him in the form of slapstick injury and humiliation. The rest of the Griffin household are also this, as they all show that they can be just as bad or even worse than Peter and almost always receive comeuppance for their actions.
- Brian Griffin is an egotistical Know-Nothing Know-It-All with a Never My Fault complex. He thinks highly of his (actually terrible) writing skills. To compensate, after the fourth season, he's become more prone to getting injured, being dumped by other women, and being disrespected for not being human.
- Garfield and Friends: Roy is a Troll who likes to prank his friends. Oftentimes, his own pranks will backfire on him, and even besides that, he's prone to Amusing Injuries and humiliation.
- Goof Troop: Pete is prone to a lot of slapstick and humiliating situations as punishment for his abuse towards his son PJ and scams.
- Grojband: Trina Riffin is a colossal Jerkass and Alpha Bitch with a massively self-centered attitude and a Hair-Trigger Temper who abuses her best friend and treats her as a slave while also doing everything she can to ruin her brother Corey's life and crush his dreams. However, the show's very premise is that Corey and his band need to steal her diary for lyrics, which means they put her through constant Muse Abuse to drive her nuts so that she'll get mad enough write in her diary.
- Invader Zim: Zim is a Villain Protagonist with plans for world domination. However, he's usually a Harmless Villain who brings a lot of his own failures on himself.
- Jimmy Two-Shoes: Lucius is a cruel, corrupt dictator who loves making people suffer, but he suffers just as often as those he torments, often from Jimmy's shenanigans.
- Alexandra Cabot is often a subversive glory-hog in the Josie And The Pussy Cats cartoons. Her efforts to displace or humilliate Josie always backfire. However, though Alexandra dislikes Josie, she abhors villains.
- Kaeloo: In the later seasons, Stumpy becomes this. Sure, he has terrible luck and often gets bullied by the other characters, but he's also a spoiled, lazy, rude, immature, selfish jerkass who often brings bad things upon himself.
- Men in Black: The Series: Jeebs is a frequent victim of this trope whenever he is coerced into helping the villains on the show or feigning ignorance regarding information crucial to an MIB investigation. For his troubles, he’s either given a blast to the head, arrested, or a full body splatter.
- Most of the Looney Tunes Butt-Monkey cast at least give some amount of provocation to their abuse (if not always completely proportionate). Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck (especially in later shorts) are iconic jerkasses and often mean terrible harm on their foes for the large part, however their schemes are more likely to blow up on them instead. Porky Pig is about the one innocent Butt-Monkey, though even he has his moments.
- Wile E. Coyote plays with this. As Chuck Jones stated, Wile is supposed to be sympathetic in the disproportionate torture and abuse he goes through, however another stated rule is that Wile could give up on chasing the Road Runner any time he wants, implying he brings it all on himself.
- Numb Chucks: Buford is a huge Jerkass to everyone around him, but his attempts to manipulate and prank the Chucks always backfire and end with him suffering some form of punishment.
- Oggy and the Cockroaches: Zig Zagging. The eponymous cockroaches sometimes get away with irritating Oggy and Jack, but in many episodes (especially in seasons 4 and 5), they get what's coming to them when Oggy gets his revenge on them.
- The Owl House: Kikimora, Emperor Belos' personal attendant who seeks to earn his favor, starts to suffer a lot of misfortune in Season 2. She goes through Sanity Slippage, gets defeated by Luz on a regular basis with or without help, and worse, she gets easily tricked by Terra Snapdragon due to being Super Guillible and gets herself banished from her home of Palm Stings for life due to not attending a family meeting. Not to mention that she later got demoted for her repeated failures, leading the division of the Emperor's Coven that handles the transport of Abomatons. She does get a bone thrown when Odalia reveals the Abomatron, allowing her to overpower and kidnap Luz, but she initially thought that it was Hunter and was aiming for him specifically. Then in "King's Tide", Belos makes it clear that he has no appreciation for her loyalty or work at all and tells her to go die in a hole, finally forcing her to realize that all her attempts to earn his favor was for nothing. This would make one feel sorry for her if it weren't for the fact that Kiki is an arrogant and self-centered backstabber who tried to murder Hunter out of petty jealousy, cruelly betrays Luz after she went out of her way to help her attend her family meeting in Palm Stings without jeopardizing her career, and being complicit in Belos' plan for the Draining Spell under the delusion she would be spared.
- PAW Patrol: Mayor Humdinger's schemes to outdo Mayor Goodway almost always result in him embarrassing himself and being forced to clean up the mess afterwards, especially if he was caught cheating. It's how he's punished in the series, as he never gets arrested for his worst deeds.
- Candace from Phineas and Ferb is a snide killjoy who brings most of her misfortune on herself with her pointless and spiteful appointed mission of putting a stop to her brothers' daily activities. She's not an outright asshole and does care deep down, but it's shown she wouldn't suffer as much humiliations if she would leave well enough alone.
- This trope is zig-zagged with Oscar Proud from The Proud Family. While half of the abuse Oscar goes through is undeserved, some of the Oscar abuse comes off as karmic and cathartic due to how much of a jerk Oscar can be at times. The trope is played straight in season 1 of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, where he more consistently endures slapstick as a result of his own actions.
- Random! Cartoons: The title character of the short "Bradwurst" goes out of his way to ruin a party he hears about just because he believes he isn't invited. His jerkassery is rewarded when he gets beaten by the guests mistaking him for a pinata, is forced to drink the punch he had contaminated by putting hot sauce, sweaty socks and a skunk in it and learns that the presents he destroyed were for him.
- Regular Show: Rigby is a lazy, rude idiot who always looks for the easy way out, therefore most of his Amusing Injuries and humiliations come from that.
- Rocko's Modern Life: Ed Bighead is an ill-tempered Cranky Neighbor who is rude to Rocko. Ed gets even more slapstick than Rocko does, though, leading him to say his catchphrase, "I hate my life!"
- Rugrats: Angelica bullies the babies, but she usuallynote gets some kind of mortifying comeuppance afterwards, such as a pizza falling on her head after she lied to the babies that she was a psychic.
- Samurai Jack: The fifth season introduces Scaramouche, a robotic assassin of Aku that Jack would defeat in his first appearance. After surviving as a head, Scaramouche would attempt to reach Aku to tell him that Jack has lost his sword, all the while suffering from misfortune throughout the journey. By the time he finally does tell Aku the news, Jack already managed to reclaim his sword, leading Aku to kill Scaramouche. Considering that the assassin is a mass murderer and an unpleasant Jerkass, it's hard to feel sorry for Scaramouche.
- South Park: Eric Cartman seems to get the worst of most situations, but he tends to either cause or exacerbate them anyway. This is played with in "Scott Tenorman Must Die" in which Cartman is bullied and humiliated by an older kid with no provocation. His attempts to get revenge all end up with him getting tortured again, with even Kyle and Stan later siding with Scott against Cartman out of sheer spite. However by the time you almost end up feeling sorry for Cartman, he reveals a deadly gambit against Scott involving his parents and a chili cookoff, at which point we realise why Cartman is rarely made to win in the first place. That episode was followed up later when Scott organizes all the Gingers of South Park, whom Cartman relentlessly teased and bullied, to sic Mecha-Streisand on him.
- Spliced: Entrée is often an idiotic Fat Bastard to everyone around him, to the point where even his best friend Peri barely tolerates him. A lot of his stunts and schemes end in severe humiliation and slapstick.
- Squidward Tentacles started off this way in SpongeBob SquarePants, being a narcissistic grouch who hated his neighbours somewhat disproportionately (and sometimes played cruel pranks to be rid of them). As the show became more sadistic however, Squidward's treatment became more disproportionate and his hatred towards SpongeBob became more justified as he increasingly made his life a genuine hell. This also counts for Plankton.
- Thomas & Friends:
- James the Red Engine suffers from a lot of misfortunes such as getting himself into a mess with tar trucks, getting himself dizzy on the turntable, and being stung by a bee. Most of this happens due to him being rude and arrogant towards the other engines.
- Also Gordon the Big Engine under similar situations. Some others such as Henry, Sir Handel and even Thomas himself started off as such, but tamed into more well intentioned (if still sometimes luckless) characters.
- Tiny Toon Adventures:
- Just like his counterpart, Plucky Duck would often suffer a Humiliation Conga or various Amusing Injuries for his egotistical and selfish ways.
- Likewise, Montana Max often finds himself on the receiving end of physical punishment that would often have him Hoist by His Own Petard (which was, at one point, even lampshaded by Buster) for being a selfish, greedy, unempathetic jerk towards the other characters.
- Tom and Jerry: Tom's attempts to catch Jerry result in him getting hurt or beaten up in every short. The fact that he doesn't know when to quit doesn't help his case. He usually only wins when Jerry goes too far in his retribution, since then karma turns on the mouse instead.
- Total Drama:
- Duncan, usually, this comes in the form of a Groin Attack, courtesy of Courtney. In All-Stars, misfortune befalls him during his entire run.
- Heather, the haughty, ruthless, and manipulative Big Bad of the first season (and still something of a jerkass even after her Character Development into an Anti-Hero in later seasons), is also the most frequently injured female contestant on the show. A few episodes of Island ended with her getting a big does of karma for her misdeeds of the episode (like having red ants dumped on her bed in "Not Quite Famous" or having the contents of a septic tank back up on her in the showers in "Search and Do Not Destroy").
- Revenge of the Island gives us Scott. As this season's Big Bad, Scott is responsible for much of the drama on the island, by getting several of his teammates eliminated through manipulation or sabotage, and by forcing others into one-sided alliances by threatening to spill their secrets. That said, he's also the contestant who suffers the most humiliation and injuries, and gets his comeuppance by the end of the season.
- Starscream (at least his G1 form) in Transformers is the infamously treacherous little Bastard Understudy of the Decepticons. He's also a cowardly Smug Snake that takes a lot of comical poundings, with most of his defiancies or attempts at usurping Megatron's position failing miserably.
- Transformers: Animated: Sentinel Prime is an arrogant, fame-thirsting jerkass who is extremely prejudiced against organic life. He also ends up constantly suffering from Humiliation Congas, including having his head cut off and the body stolen, losing prisoners on his watch and having his ship taken over (then getting beaten flung and frozen), and accidentally getting a beating from his allies when a Starscream clone uses him as a shield.
- Unikitty!: Master Frown's schemes to make others miserable always blow up in his face and he ends up being the miserable one.
- Wander over Yonder: Lord Hater is a Card-Carrying Villain with ambitions to conquer and enslave various planets. He puts on a front as a menacing, tyrannical dictator whose confidence and decorum cannot be shaken. But then Wander enters the picture and foils his plans almost every episode without actually trying to in his efforts to befriend the Big Bad, and Lord Hater loses his cool and reveals himself to be an insecure and immature Manchild and Sore Loser who throws a tantrum like a five-year-old whenever Wander messes things up for him.
- Zig & Sharko: Zig's main motivation in the series is to catch and eat Marina. As such, he gets beaten up by Sharko or injured by something else (such as other animals) for his trouble.
