The Chew Toy / Video Games

• Edwin of Baldur's Gate fame is perhaps the unluckiest bastard in the universe, yet his stubborn determination, raging superiority complex, and complete lack of any redeeming traits in the face of utter failure makes him a favourite character of many.
• Touhou Project fandom being what it is, many characters get this at different times. Hong Meiling (who's always suffering Sakuya's stabbity wrath for sleeping on the job and allowing Marisa into the Scarlet Devil Mansion to steal Patchy's books), Reisen Udongein Inaba (who's always getting punished by Eirin for Tewi's pranks, in addition to the sadistic attentions of Kaguya and others), Mystia Lorelei (who has to deal with Yuyuko and other youkai always trying to eat her), and Wakasagihime (who is half-fish, extremely weak and was almost eaten once in canon) probably get the worst of it, though... Borderline canon in Reisen's case, too.
  • Special mention goes to resident Green-Eyed Monster Parsee, whose entire existence revolves around her being extremely, miserably jealous of everyone, and her backstory is implied to be a major Tear Jerker. This is for the most part Played for Laughs by the fandom; it is telling that "paru paru" (derived from the Japanese spelling of her name) has been adopted by the fandom as the Unsound Effect for jealousy.
  • Another special mention goes out to Lunarian half-Goddess half-Amanojaku Sagume Kishin. An Amanojaku is a being of contradiction, a Card-Carrying Villain and a Consummate Liar who lives to be hated by the rest of the world. Being the Goddess of Amanojaku, Sagume isn't quite like the others. Rather, she is hated by the world itself. Her innate special ability, The Power to Reverse any Situation By Speaking About It, isn't so much a "special ability" as it is the universe itself having decided to turn anything and everything she says into lies. This, too, is mostly played for laughs in the fandom.
• Rise of the Triad, you will accept you are one if you play on easy. Oh yeah.
• Kid Icarus: Poor Pit. There isn't a single character in the series who hasn't humiliated of our plucky angel hero. The list includes: The final boss, the other final boss, a nature goddess, her two generals, the god of death, the god of the sun, his own shadow self, and even (Or perhaps especially) his own patron goddess. And he's still the only angel that can't fly on his own.
• Many characters in the Disgaea series have moments of this:
  • Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice has Almaz as the chew toy. He gets his title stolen, will slowly turn into a demon, is shot by his Love Interest when she takes him for an enemy, nearly dies from poison, and other things. In the Almaz ending, he becomes Overlord against his will and gets ditched by the party. In the normal ending however, he gets the bone thrown to him.
    • He's so much of a chew toy that he gets an entire song about how unfortunate he is in the former of the two mentioned endings.
  • Vyers in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
  • Axel in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories. He later gets this treatment again to a lesser degree in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten.
  • Then there's the Prinnies, who are an entire race of Butt-Monkey Chew Toys. They'd be sympathetic if they weren't mostly lazy reincarnated criminals, a fact which makes the fact they are LIVING GRENADES utterly hilarious.
  • Etna in the second half of Disgaea 2. Come on, she loses all her amazing levels, becoming a lv1 wimp that can't even beat Laharl (the first one she wish to kill in her list). And, the worst of all, her own prinnies mock her and go away. Do you know anything more humiliating to Etna?
• In Knights of the Old Republic HK-47 seems to get smashed up, shut down and locked into a warehouse, zapped with ion beams, or be disassembled and have his parts shipped to opposite corners of the galaxy quite frequently.
• Sandbag from Super Smash Bros.. Sandbag is a semi-sentient, well... sandbag, whose sole purpose is to be beat up upon (Its description as a trophy even states this). In Melee and Brawl, there exists a "Homerun Contest", where the player would beat up Sandbag, then see how far they could hit it with a Home-Run Bat smash, which is one of the hardest hits in either game. Furthermore, Sandbag, when it appears as an item in Brawl, will drop a bottomless supply of items when beat up upon. Sandbag also spawns in the Brawl online waiting room for the player to attack.
  • Sandbag doesn't actually mind being beaten up, though. It oddly enjoys it. He's something of a masochist.
• The village of Mile in Phantasy Star IV. The crops have all withered and died, the ranch owner can't seem to catch a break, and the village is steadily being covered with sand due to the encroaching quicksand field nearby. It doesn't help that they're located right across the sands from Zio's Fort. In the endgame every single inhabitant is wiped out by the Black Energy Wave emanating from the dimensional rift that the Profound Darkness has ripped open.
• In Live A Live, the Watanabe father-and-son pair lose its father or both in every single chapter. And how easy it can be seen depends wildly between chapters, from the Near Future chapter featuring a little boy named Watanabe wondering where his father is, to the Present chapter just about requiring you to get hit by a common attack in a specific angle to trigger the scene. They're mostly Played for Laughs, but in the Near Future chapter and the Distant Future chapter not only are they plot-relevant, they're also very serious.
• Malygos and the rest of the Blue Dragonflight in Warcraft. Without fail, everything Malygos has tried to do in the last ten thousand years or so has turned into a catastrophic event for his flight and sometimes for the world as a whole. Small surprise he ended up going a little insane... and when he recovered and tried to stop the madness mortals have unleashed with magic, the other dragonflights ally to fight, and ultimately kill, him.
  • He did, mind, decide he was going to do that by killing every last magic-using mortal. Leaving aside the minor genocide aspect, this does have the small objection of guaranteeing the mortals of Azeroth become too weak to defend against the Burning Crusade. Oh, and there's also the part where one of his other plans is going to blow up the planet. He really didn't get much less insane at all.
• The Elven Race of the Disciples series gets well and truly hammered throughout their history. They were the first victims of the Legions of the Damned in the backstory, and fled into the Mountain Clan's territory to escape the onslaught. The Dwarves, thinking the Elves were invading, attacked them right back. The Elves' patron God, Gallean, went to the Dwarves' god, Wotan, and demanded some repayment for the mistake. Wotan killed him for his troubles and threw his heart into the sun. It got worse because from there, when Mortis, Gallean's wife, eventually got around to sending an Undead army on their lands as part of her plan to resurrect Gallean, in which they lost their Queen, and then they suffered the double-whammy of their High Prophet and another Queen falling to two different invasions of the Legions of the Damned, as part of their scheme to free their own god, part of which involved the Elves' lands getting turned extra-crispy, and meanwhile the newly revived Gallean went insane and went away for a while when he rejected Mortis. It was so bad that Strategy First gave them an expansion pack all for themselves, during which they decided to get revenge on the human Empire of all people, the only people who never wronged them, at least not in a way that's not All There in the Manual.
• Punch-Out!! regular Glass Joe, with his 1-99 record and feeble attacks, as well as being something of a fan favourite is a perfect example. It has an even worse one, 1-99 that means somebody out there actually lost to Glass freakin' Joe. Word of God for the Wii version says it was Von Kaiser, who decided he could beat Joe with his mustache and got his face in the way of Joe's fist, ruining his career forever. But when you get to Title Defense...
  • Super Punch-Out for the SNES gives us Joe's student, Gabby Jay. Also 1-99, with Glass Joe being his only win.
• Winston Payne in the Ace Attorney games. In every single appearance, he is always the first prosecutor the player faces and is usually the easiest one to win against due to flaws in his logic and reasoning and he is quick to make excuses or give sloppy explanations when he is losing his case. Payne gets treated so badly from the story writers that in the 3rd game, he loses most of his hair after losing his case to Mia Fey several years before Phoenix Wright became an attorney, and in the 4th game, the story in the first case shifts away from Payne and onto Phoenix Wright and Kristoph Gavin, causing Payne to say in the end "What about me!? Don't I get to prosecute anyone!?"
• Roxix, The Rival to The Hero Vayne in Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis. Some of the extremely funny moments in the game are at the cost of his dignity, courtesy of his Familiar who admits to humiliating Roxis as a hobby.
• The Black Baron^note Stop starin'. of MadWorld has the honor of introducing the newest death trap in each Bloodbath Challenge... and the misfortune of being used to demonstrate each and every one, courtesy of his female assistant. He's also the Final Boss.
• Nathan Drake from the Uncharted series has a habit of taking lots and lots of physical abuse. For example, the second game opens with him shot and in a wrecked train hanging over the edge of a cliff.
• The ship captain in the God of War series, who has the misfortune of being killed no fewer than three times by our bloodthirsty Nominal Hero, Kratos.
• Beatrix of Granblue Fantasy is this both lore-wise, and for the fans:
  • You can choose to make fun of her in her Fate Episode. From what it seems, Zeta and Vaseraga can also make fun of her at times because of her ego and her cooking.
  • She gets harassed by lots of children who want candy in a Phantom Banquet cutscene and she's still being harassed by them as depicted in her Halloween version's second artwork.
  • During the Platinum Sky event, Beatrix winds up being the first racer to be eliminated from the race thanks to her cocky behavior and her paintjob on her ship. She even crashes twice during the race.
  • In the comics, her appearances tend to result in her genuflecting as she usually says something she shouldn't.
  • In her swimsuit sprite, she's huddled in the freezing cold. This is in reference to her fate episode where she puts on a swimsuit in the middle of winter to retrieve her sword from a frozen lake.
• Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter. His father died fighting Sagat, constantly abused in the animated series, and can never catch a break. However, his cockiness and goofy attitude has led him to become one of the most popular characters in the game.
• In The Sims 3, you can design your own Chew Toy by assigning a Sim either the Unlucky or the Loser trait. (Bonus points for assigning both) The Sim will forever be surrounded by bad juju but will be literally unable to die by anything except old age.
• Norman Jayden from Heavy Rain. Every chapter he's in involves withdrawals and attacks, both physical and verbal.
  Jayden: I seem to spend most of this case getting the shit beaten out of me...
• Brad Vickers, helicopter pilot for S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team in Resident Evil. He's basically shown to be a Dirty Coward in the first game, abandoning his teammates to the horrific mansion, only returning at the very end. In Resident Evil 2, he returns in the form of a zombie who the player has to kill if they want to acquire the key to the locker where Claire or Leon can change their outfits, and even worse, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis shows how he was zombified — by being killed by the Nemesis.
• Nuts in the Edutainment Game Kids on Site.
• Mitsumoto from the Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja series is casually dismissed, ignored, or made fun of by all those around him, including the rest of his own party (Izuna, Shino, and Gen-An). This extends to his Player Character status in Izuna 2, where he can use every available weapon but isn't good with any of them, and can form a powerful tag attack with any of the other characters...which always results in him getting hurt and taking damage. Ouch.
• Thrillville has Mortimer be one because of his crazy expirements.
• Enzo from Bayonetta, a seedy, foul-mouthed, Joe Pesci-esque wise guy scraped from the bottom of New York's criminal underbelly. The poor guy is completely unprepared when what seems like a simple enough job makes him literally an enemy of Heaven and all its angels, who make a habit of wrecking his Cool Car. His allies, Bayonetta herself especially, also torment him whenever it amuses them.
• Ryuji Sakamoto from Persona 5. If anyone is bound to face humiliation, whether that be because he brought it on himself, insuts from the rest of the Phantom Thieves (especially from Morgana), or any other reason really, it will always be Ryuji.
• Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty was intentionally designed to be a Chew Toy as form of mocking players who saw Metal Gear Solid as a Power Fantasy. Birds can crap on Raiden's head or face, he can slip on bird poop (one area makes this lethal since the slip knocks you off the ledge and into the ocean below), he can be urinated on by an unsuspecting guard, he has information withheld from him by various people, he is mocked by nearly everyone (his superiors, his girlfriend, Solid Snake himself, and even the freaking President of the United States), he gets stripped down naked when he is captured (and is forced to sneak around in such a state), and then is told at the very end that he was manipulated and conditioned from the very beginning to be the perfectly trained soldier like Solid Snake, but without free will. Naturally, most fans missed the point and simply saw it as "Raiden is not Solid Snake, therefore, he's a shit character." Kojima apologized by making a character in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater who looks like Raiden and gets abused regularly — Raiden himself gets more awesome by Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, but at a heavy price.
• This is the whole point of the online game Mutilate a Doll.
• BlazBlue: Seriously, don't even get us started on how REALLY BAD Ragna the Bloodedge's entire life is. Just ask the community.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Tails is this in the 2D games in co-op mode when he's controlled by the computer, constantly running into hazards and occasionally dying. This is compounded by the fact that he can take infinite hits and respawns almost immediately upon dying.
• Britannic: Patroness of the Mediterranean, and it's pseudo-prequel Titanic: Honor And Glory Demo 3, features a standi-in player Character named Robin Darcy - an oblivious, foolish fop with terrible luck that only really shows itself through reading between the lines of his commentary.
• Scarlet Nexus: Depending on which protagonist’s story you’re going through, Shiden. In Yuito’s route, Shiden is essentially a Jerkass with a Hidden Heart of Gold who eventually admits to being too prideful to admit he was wrong in thinking Yuito was weak, while Yuito lets him walk all over him most of the time. But in Kasane’s route, Shiden serves as this by facing the full brunt of Kasane’s Brutal Honesty, as well as Sarcasm Mode teasing by Kagero.
• Claptrap of the Borderlands series (primarily the sole remaining Claptrap unit by the time of Borderlands 2) has a pretty rough time all around, no doubt thanks to being stuck on Pandora. He gets treated by a majority of allies with disdain for how annoyingly chipper he is, has an embarrassingly crippling weakness to stairs, and whenever bandits get a hold of him, they beat him up just for fun. In one case, Claptrap's attempt to reason with his torturers leads to him concluding all on his own that since they get genuine enjoyment out of it and Claptrap only feels a simulation of pain, they have the moral high ground, and thus Claptrap allows them to pummel away.
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky: The trilogy has Gilbert, an egotistical Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain sympathetic villain who keeps on getting himself into trouble before running away. Gilbert gets bullied by his bosses in Ouroboros, and every time you hit him in combat, he stammers out a pathetic line. 

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