The Chew Toy / Western Animation

"The whole 'somebody needs to do something bad' before something bad can happen to them is not a rule that applies to comedy."

—Vincent Waller in response to the use of this in SpongeBob SquarePants

• Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Scratch and Grounder are chew toys, largely due to their stupidity and Genre Blindness.
• Aladdin: Iago is this throughout the entire franchise. He truly was the writers' designated Butt Monkey (their mantra was "When in doubt, hurt the bird"), but what keeps him from being a Designated Monkey is that he often brings it on himself from being a greedy manipulative Jerkass, albeit one with a heart of gold at times since his Heel–Face Turn.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • The title character and to a lesser extent, Darwin. This is perhaps best shown in one episode where the parts of Gumball's brain were shown, revealing that the part that felt embarrassment suffered so much damage, he was pretty much immune to it by now. To elaborate, he's had five accidental kisses and has been naked in public five times.
  • Tobias has been put through several humiliating situations as the show goes on and is seen as very unpopular in the school. In fact, Tobias in particular, is a frequent victim of Gumball's (usually painful and/or humiliating) antics. Unlike Gumball, though, it's kinda hard to feel bad for him, given how smug he is.
• American Dad!:
  • Steve Smith. The guy's been attacked by bees, cats, beaten up by cheerleaders and jocks with baseball bats, pantsed and given a swirlie at the prom, and had a beautiful woman willing to have sex with him killed, twice.
  • Francine seems to be getting this treatment more frequently as the show goes on, starting with "Flirting With Disaster" where she gets her face melted off with acid.
• Animaniacs:
  • Buttons from the Buttons and Mindy shorts gets thoroughly abused trying to keep his charge from getting killed, and then gets yelled at by Mindy's mom for some minor infraction at the end.
  • The Mime. Because Everyone Hates Mimes:
  Narrator: And so everyone in Acme Falls got his or her wish... [safe drops on Mime] except for the Mime, that is.
  Yakko: I don't know about him, but that sure was my wish.
  • Mr. Skullhead. Noted in "Good Idea/Bad Idea" segments. Though he seems generally unlucky no matter where he is. Not that it's likely he feels pain anyway being a merely a walking skeleton.
• Archer may qualify as a Sadist Show, but Cyril Figgis and Trinette stand out even in that beleaguered cast as characters who get dumped on by the entire universe. There's also the random ISIS employee who is constantly getting hit by Archer's stray gunfire offscreen, screaming. After a few episodes, Archer finally takes notice and learns the guy's name. Worst of all though has to be Woodhouse, Archer's personal butler. Archer, being Archer, subjects him to all kinds of humiliating and degrading treatments, such as eating a bowl of spider webs.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Sokka is a prime example. He's been smashed, splashed, slammed, tripped, bonked, nearly killed by his own master (this may not have been as bad as he thought), slapped, kicked, punched, jumped & tied-up (by his future girlfriend, no less), squished, gotten drunk/high on cactus juice, thwacked, and buried alive, just to begin the list, and all for our sadistic amusement. And that's only the show proper — the shorts involve Sokka being mangled in ways that would make Wile E. Coyote cringe. Though one may expect him to be The Woobie, and to a minor degree he is in some circles, the fact that he's shown to be able to take more physical damage than any other character in the series, combined with his cocky attitude and general c'est-la-vi demeanor, make for more hilarity than tragedy.
  • He even lampshades it in the Season 3 opening episode:
    Sokka: The Universe just loves proving me wrong doesn't it?
    Toph: You make it too easy!
    • Ironically, this turned out to be a subversion.
  • In fact, there was a full episode where Sokka gets stuck in a hole in the ground, unable to move... while the baby moose-lion (Foofoo Cuddlypoops, Aang. Aang, Foofoo Cuddlypoops) that he was hunting sticks around to keep him company, including sleeping on his head.
    • In the Avatar Extras, the creators had planned an episode were Sokka and Aang were handcuffed together for the whole episode but the idea was dropped later.
  • Any time the Cabbage Merchant shows up, you know something horrible is about to happen to a wagon full of cabbages.
  • Zuko gets it a little less frequently, but much more harsh and emotional than Sokka's physical comedy. His life has been dominated by getting worked over and failing.
• The MGM cartoon character Barney Bear went through this in almost every short he starred in — the outcome of his adventures never end positively for him. This is especially bad in "Barney's Hungry Cousin", where he's hauled off to jail by his own cousin after being framed by him for trying to feed him in a no-feeding area (by his cousin putting the sign there to begin with, after pestering Barney for his food the whole short, prompting Barney to offer the sandwich in defeat). His cousin doesn't even give Barney the pleasure of eating his stashed lollipop as he's dragged off!
• Batman Beyond has a recurring character, a soft-spoken, hapless bald businessman, who never seems to show up but to find himself somehow inconvenienced or terrorized by whatever threat has reared its head that day.
• Beavis and Butt-Head: Principal McVicker, Stewart Stevenson and sometimes Van Driessen and Beavis.
• Big City Greens: An in-universe version happens with Chip Whistler. By "Chipwrecked", Cricket has stopped taking Chip seriously and begins seeing him as an always-failing joke. He mocks him over his always failing schemes to run the Greens out of town, to the point of getting his tooth chipped in return. When his plot begins to flaw right before him, all Cricket does is just stare at Chip smirking, and keeps the chip of his titanium tooth for his collection. It all suddenly turns against him when Chip seizes control of Big Coffee and plots the destruction of the Greens' house, even mocking Cricket right back over the way he treated him.
• Blaze and the Monster Machines: Crusher, mixed with Butt-Monkey and Asshole Victim. Nearly all of the bad luck in the show falls upon him. He constantly loses to Blaze in races, gets hurt by animals a lot, never thinks his cheats properly to stop Blaze, need we go on?
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: XR was — inside the Canon — created to be destroyed. Usually by exploding. In fact, other characters have a tendency to think the 'X' stands for 'eXpendable'.^note Possibly because it actually does.
• Calling Cat 22!, a series of 90-second shorts dealing with the eponymous secret agent being sent undercover to figure out the many and various weird and disgusting habits of dogs. No matter how much he tries to avoid danger, or even the assignments themselves, every event surrounding his missions seems to end in his getting injured somehow. The last short — about burying bones, oddly enough — does indeed throw him a bone at the end.
• CatDog: Cat has it tough. He and Dog get made fun of and beaten up by almost everyone in Nearburg, and Dog keeps harming him accidentally, through sheer obliviousness.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog:
  • Many episodes end with Eustace suffering some horrible fate, such as Demonic Possession or getting Eaten Alive. Of course, since Status Quo Is God, he's shown to be alive and perfectly okay by the next episode.
  • Though nowhere near as much as Eustace, Courage suffers a lot throughout the show whenever he’s trying to save his family from the monsters. The poor dog gets flattened, blown up, and hit by an anvil, and has his fur shaven off.
• Cracked (2016): The show's comedy is mainly derived from the absurd and over-the-top ways in which he gets injured while protecting his eggs. Fortunately, he always ultimately succeeds in doing so.
• The Critic: Jay Sherman has had his fair share of troubles.
• Dan's Car and Chris from Dan Vs..
• Darkwing Duck: The titular hero is accident-prone, to say the least. Not that it ever stops him.
• Dexter's Laboratory: Dexter, sometimes. Though he has nothing on the ice-cream man in "Ice Cream". Turns out ever since Dexter bought ice cream from him, and paid him in pennies, a series of unfortunate events had happened to him since, including chipping his tooth while trying to put them in the safe due to tripping on his laces after counting them, dumped by his girlfriend, having his car towed away, getting kicked out of his apartment and being forced to live under a highway because of this one act. And to add insult to injury, once the Ice Cream Man forgives Dexter and allows him to purchase ice cream, Dexter pays the Ice Cream Man with a 100 dollar bill. Cue him screaming.
• Who gets stuck with all the bad luck? No one, but Donald Duck.
• Drawn Together: Every character falls under this category at one point or another. Xandir especially is Captain Hero's favorite Chew Toy.
• DuckTales (2017): Whenever Flinthart Glomgold appears, expect him to fill this role. Being a Harmless Villain who always fails to match up with Scrooge and his family, he’ll always be the one to get the short end of the stick whenever they cross paths.
• Jimmy in Ed, Edd n Eddy.
  • Eddy always falls into this trope. Edd falls into this at times, and Ed occasionally.
  • "Cry Ed" had Eddy and Jimmy compete over who was the bigger Chew Toy and therefore deserved the most attention from the kids. The episode ended with Eddy beaten up by Rolf and Kevin (again) while Jimmy was mauled by a dog.
• Evil Con Carne: General Skarr suffered this role every time he tried to formulate his own plans to take over the world behind Con Carne's back, or simply followed Con Carne's orders. It always led to no end of suffering for him. When he finally quit after being fed up with his dumbbell dictator, he migrated over to The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy... and, you guessed it- his luck got worse... MUCH worse.
• The Fairly OddParents!: Binky. Every appearance has something bad happening to him
  • And Timmy, Chester, Crocker, and sometimes Cosmo.
• Family Guy:
  • Meg, in order to compensate for her lack in popularity, is often abused and injured to the point of being a Butt-Monkey. There are those Family Guy fans who love Meg, and there are those fans who love to see Meg suffer.
  • Mort and Neil Goldman never catch a break.
  • Brian suffers this in later seasons to the point he becomes the second "Meg" (which was even lampshaded at one point). Has no luck with women due to bad luck, his own insecurities, or bad dating advice (thank you Stewie). An attempt to get someone to like him ends in a "The Reason You Suck" Speech (by the most hypocritical person on the show no less). Never finished college costing him a posh job. His book bombs horribly and the people who'll celebrate it are "special" kind of readers, and any projects he tries to go for always ends in ruin. Granted some of these actions are well deserved due to either being cocky or following along with someone he likes who go against his beliefs. But half the time, the writers just seem to make him the designated victim for no reason solely to get some cruel laughs.
    • The audience seems to like the abuse Brian goes through due to various Anvilicious episodes led by him.
  • Connie often goes through hell from other characters: she's been knocked unconscious by Meg (then tongue kissed), accused of pedophilia by Stewie, bloodily slammed into a fire extinguisher case by Peter, traumatized by Quagmire, etc. Considering the fact that she constantly bullies Meg, it's pretty satisfying to watch.
• Fangface has an almost literal example with Puggsy, the grouchy Bowery Boys-inspired Deadpan Snarker of the group. Whenever Fangs transforms into his werewolf alter ego, Fangface, his first action is usually to try to eat Puggsy whole.
• Father of the Pride: Hunter.
• Futurama: Fry was initially cast as a Fish out of Temporal Water unfamiliar with all the strange and very dangerous things his new-found friends had grown up with. As the series progressed, this was gradually turned up to eleven as the show decided to throw every possible outlandish scenario directly into his face. He's also a case of someone who can encompass both this trope and The Woobie, as his fellow employees' berating of the aloofness, ignorance and absent-mindedness that continually harm his friendships and self-esteem—all of which he sometimes does his best to overcome—garners a lot of viewer sympathy.
  • "Don't forget, you still have Zoidberg! YOU ALL STILL HAVE ZOIDBERG!"
  • Zoidberg's Chew Toy status can be easily summed up by this exchange:
    (A blind Leela flies the ship through the roof, creating a big hole.)
    Hermes (points at Zoidberg): That's coming out of your pay!
    Zoidberg: (bursts into tears)
• Futz!: NOTHING ever seems to go right for the titular character. Whenever he tries to do something, it usually goes wrong somehow.
• George of the Jungle: In the Super Chicken segments, the hero's poor assistant Fred is pulled through the wringer in every episode, although, as he's constantly reminded, he knew the job was dangerous when he took it.
• Godzilla: The Series: The N.I.G.E.L. unit is destroyed at least once an episode, to its creator's dismay.
  • Adding to the amusement is that it's usually Godzilla that does it.
• Goof Troop: Pete falls victim to painful accidents or embarrassing situations about every five minutes, often caused accidentally by Goofy. This is the standard structure for almost all of his focus episodes, mainly as retribution for being a Jerkass in other characters' focus episodes.
• Gorillaz's 2D. He got run over twice in a single year, by the same person. And that was only the start of his problem.
• Everyone in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
  • Grim often gets the very worst of it, given his luck from episode one, where he loses a bet to two children and is stuck their best friend forever — after Mandy pulled a dirty trick on him. From there, he's doomed to be a Designated Victim over and over, getting smashed apart, beaten, set on fire. Finally, it hits Humiliation Conga territory in the later seasons — most evident when he's given a thorough pummeling by underworld executives with flails and bats, incinerated until he's completely charred black, extinguished, and drenched with every executive's cup of hot coffee.
  • Billy, is by far, the reigning champ of the Chew Toys. He's subjected to all of the following: fathering a spider egg by accident (he's deathly afraid of spiders), undergoing occasional Body Horror in the form of grotesque mutations like a squid tentacle nose or tumorous growth that morphs into a mini-Billy named "Yop Yop" and sprouts free, possessed by an evil power and rejected by an equally evil underworld, attacked by plagues from a mummy's curse that leave him butt-naked, set on fire, transformed into a were-alien, blown up, electrocuted, and lots of horribly over-the-top beatdowns. A look-see into a future ruled by Mandy reveals, he's so prone to bad luck, the old Billy is now long gone and lives on as a clone... until said clone is promptly wasted by some form of disaster, resulting in the unfreezing of one of tens of thousands of Billy clones to replace that one, which get progressively dumber down the line... over and over again.
  • Likewise, Irwin is prone to every form of humiliation and injury this show can dish out, (including his long-awaited kiss with Mandy, which gives him mono and cooties)- until the Grand Finale movie rolls around and he takes a major level in badass (his combo of mummy/vampire powers inherited from Dracula and a mummy as a mommy manifests). Said movie was going to be a spinoff that showcased this. Too bad it never got off the ground.
  • The Boogey-Man eventually gets this after his status as a Karma Houdini finally gives way to Laser-Guided Karma in his expository movie as the Big Bad. By the end, he's suffered the ultimate Humiliation Conga, turning him into a laughingstock to his own men, and left so badly banged up by his utter pulverizing and dethroning moment of suck, he, the fear-monger of humans, suffers trauma-induced amnesia and becomes afraid of everything. Even himself.
• Heckle and Jeckle had Dimwit Dog as their chew toy, although in a few cartoons (like 1960's "Mint Men") Dimwit actually came out on top.
• Hey Arnold!: Eugene.
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi:
  • Each episode has something bad happening to Kaz, such as getting attacked by Jang Keng and Tekirai, getting turned into a chicken, or getting hit on the head by an umbrella repeatedly by Ami's aunt.
  • Yumi has suffered several Amusing Injuries like getting struck by lightning, falling down whenever trying to ski, getting stung by bees, getting attacked by numerous animals, getting burned to ashes, and getting flattened after getting trampled by her fans along with Ami.
• In the Ice Age movies, Scrat. All he wants is to have his acorn in peace. The Ice Age world will never let him have it. Until it did at the end of Scrat Tales.
• The Inspector: The titular inspector Closeau always has it rough. He has to work for a short-tempered boss, most of the criminals he's supposed to arrest beat him up, and he often gets blown up.
• Invader Zim: The incredibly minor, infrequently recurring character Invader Skooge is absolutely nothing but a chew toy. In his few appearances, he was assigned to the planet of the slaughtering rat people; shot out of an orbital cannon; and in an episode designed to showcase Zim being a Jerkass, he was pushed into a canyon, attacked by the Meat-Thirsty Hogulus, landed on by a drill sergeant and wedged in his rear, then used as a weapon to bludgeon the aforementioned Hogulus.
  • Most of the characters on Invader Zim can be thought of as chew toys, especially Zim himself. That's what happens when you live in a Crapsack World.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes is full of Butt Monkeys, but the biggest of them all is Lucius' toady, Samy Garvin, whose sole purpose is to receive the worst torment from the hands of Lucius (and sometimes other characters) the writers can imagine up.
• Johnny Bravo: The title character suffers several humiliating and Amusing Injuries. Among other things, he gets smashed into several small pieces, crushed by a fat man, attacked by a cat, stomped on by elephants, run over by stampeding buffalo, mauled to death by a tiger, electrocuted, blown up, beaten up by a rhino, launched into outer space, flattened by a giant hammer, pinched by a crab and struck by lightning. He gets bitten by a clown and has his butt set on fire, and is attacked by several women that he tries to flirt with.
• Josie And The Pussy Cats: Alexandra Cabot. At least Once per Episode something awful happens to her, like her failing to get Alan's attention, trying to upstage Josie but failing in various humiliating ways, getting stuck in a log, having a bucket of glue stuck on her head, getting attacked by a tiger and falling down an elevator shaft.
• Kaeloo: Everybody is a chew toy to some extent, but Stumpy (who happens to be a literal Cosmic Plaything) gets the worst of it. For example, he gets the flu, eats a poisonous mushroom, breaks his leg and gets a concussion... in the span of one episode.
• The main cast of King Arthur's Disasters. Hey, it's called King Arthur's DISASTERS for a reason, you know.
• Kung Fu Panda: Po is an interesting case because he's the lead character. Partially justified in that he lives in a place which is not at all designed for his size, but there are times when it's pure Rule of Funny.
• Looney Tunes:
  • Daffy Duck. Especially in stories co-starring Bugs Bunny. The earlier, more screwball Daffy was less of a Chew Toy; it seems that Chuck Jones' recasting Daffy as a foil to Bugs' Heroic Trickster spurred the move.
  • Three words: Wile E. Coyote. The sheer ridiculousness of the inventive, diligent Coyote who invests so much time and effort always losing to a simple bird capable of exactly one act in the most bizarre of ways makes it both hilarious and physically painful to watch. According to Chuck Jones, the "rules" of Road Runner cartoons are actually built to keep this theme lighthearted — the major one being that the Coyote could give up at any time but doesn't, making it very much his own fault.
  • Sylvester the Cat is usually one of these.
  • Elmer Fudd is almost always this when pitted against Bugs, and sometimes even opposite Daffy. Yosemite Sam isn't safe from this trope either.
• The Mighty B!: Bessie Higgenbottom. You would be this too if you attended an all bully school.
• The Mr. Men Show: Mr. Bump and Little Miss Calamity. Since it's a sketch comedy show, almost all the characters experience this from time to time, but these two have their characters entirely built around being the chew toy.
• The Owl & Co largely revolves around the Owl suffering various mishaps, including being dismembered, often due to the stupidity of the other animals.
• The Penguins of Madagascar: Mort — a bit of a Zoidberg-esque example, as he happily accepts the role of The Chew Toy since it means he gets noticed.
  "Hooray! I'm expendable!"
  • Kowalski has his fair share of Amusing Injuries, too. He's been beaten, thrown halfway across the zoo, shrunk, blown up and had his inventions backfire on him constantly. Given that he's an Insufferable Genius, he deserves half of it.
  • Skipper once explained to Private that he is one of these because he is both "gullible and expendable!"
• Phineas and Ferb: Both Candace and Doofenshmirtz frequently find themselves under this trope.
• The Pink Panther:
  • The Little White Man often has to deal with the Pink Panther's antics. The Pink Panther paints the Little White Man's house pink, bothers him when he's trying to fly a kite, steals his entire house and generally drives him crazy.
  • The Aardvark from The Ant and the Aardvark always tries to catch the ant, but most of the time either his plans backfire or he gets attacked by other animals.
• Fuzzy Lumpkins in The Powerpuff Girls. Sometimes he gets beaten in a humiliating manner.
• The Proud Family:
  • Oscar Proud, even when he does NOTHING to deserve it.
  • Penny as well. The fact that she's Oscar's daughter doesn't help, as she's hurt emotionally and/or physically 70% of the time.
• ReBoot: Hack and Slash were smashed in nearly every episode they appeared in. It's only done for drama in the third season, but afterward it's right back to laughs with these guys. You could say they were Mainframe Entertainment's prototypes for Waspinator.
• Regular Show: Rigby is frequently beaten up by everyone.
• The two titular characters from The Ren & Stimpy Show.
• Rocko's Modern Life: Nothing ever seems to go right for Mr. Ed Bighead. But, he usually deserves it for his Jerkass behavior. But even when he's NOT being a jerkass, like in the golf episode, he'll still get blamed for something that wasn't his fault and get horribly injured by it.
  "I hate my life."
• Misery from Ruby Gloom. Name notwithstanding, she somehow takes it all in stride.
• The titlure Scaredy Squirrel. Karma's a bitch if you mistreat the only characters who were nice to you.
• Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. In addition to generally acting as bait along with Scooby (despite their terror), he routinely has his food stolen from him by the latter. It's no wonder Shaggy is hungry — he rarely seems to manage to eat anything at all.
• Sidekick:
  • The main protagonist, Eric.
  • Maxum Man's former sidekick Golly Gee Kid was definitely this as well.
• The Simpsons:
  • Homer is the prime example. He is constantly hurt for the sake of funny. Lampshaded in a special episode that shows a series of clips of Homer getting hurt.
  • Milhouse Van Houten is frequently used as a chew toy. A particularly good example is in "I, D'oh-bot"; Milhouse zooms over to Bart to show off his new bike decorations, hits himself on their door hard enough to knock himself out, and stays out just long enough for Bart to take it while he's unconscious.
  • Principal Seymour Skinner is frequently nagged by his overbearing mother Agnes who thinks he's a wuss and a failure, Edna Krabappel jilts him at the altar on their wedding day when he mentions getting cold feet, and Chalmers chews him out whenever he makes a really big blunder. Frankly, for all the divisiveness of "The Principal and The Pauper", it's no wonder the moment he saw a chance to go back to his old life, he did.
  • Good old Gil Gunderson is used as a chew toy in every episode that features him. In addition to being homeless, he has been trampled by bulls, had his eyes gouged out, broke his back slipping on amniotic fluid while mopping the floor, shot to death in a bank robbery, was presumably burnt to a crisp when his car exploded, tried to sue Homer for running him over and ended up losing the case, etc.
  • Hans Moleman, who has died on many occasions.
  • Sideshow Bob. Many of his appearances involve some physical or mental suffering. "Cape Feare" may be the best example, given what he goes through under the car or when a parade (complete with several elephants) tramples him.
  • Frank Grimes from "Homer's Enemy" starts out as an orphan who struggles through childhood, and after being self-educated, he gets a job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. As he witnesses Homer's incompetence, he's shocked to see how dimwitted and accident-prone Homer ever became a safety inspector. Later, Homer invites Frank over to his house in the hopes of relieving the tension, but Homer's list of unlikely accomplishments including being an astronaut, winning a Grammy, and befriending Gerald Ford fails to impress Frank. He borrows a "Design Your Own Power Plant" contest flyer from Springfield Elementary, and when Homer wins it, Frank has a Sanity Slippage which results in him grabbing electrical wires that shock him to death.
  • Scratchy the Cat from The Itchy & Scratchy Show.
• South Park: Kenny has been injured, beheaded, burned, shot, run over... hundreds of times.
  • However Kenny's status as the Chew Toy was toned down and Butters replaced him as the show's standard Chew Toy.
  • Nathan in "Crippled Summer". He was raped by a shark, attacked by Tardicaca Indians, bitten by a black mamba, blown up, and had all of the above happen to him again all at once.
  • Kyle can also count, as he has been kidnapped by Apple to be part of a gruesome experiment amongst other things.
  • Stan Marsh can also be this, especially in regards to his sister's abuse towards him (which includes running over him with a lawnmower, and crushing him with a piano).
  • Eric Cartman also counts. He's endured many humiliations, been beaten by Wendy Testaburger in front of the whole school, and at one point was struck by lightning. He's probably the biggest example in this show since his suffering is completely deserved and satisfying given the person Cartman is.
• Spliced: Fuzzy Snuggums seems to exist solely for the sake of getting beaten up by scenery and/or the other characters.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton, Patchy, Squidward, Mrs. Puff, and Gary.
  • SpongeBob himself is one when he's not causing it on other people. One of the biggest examples is "Party Pooper Pants", where he gets locked out of his house, and spends the rest of the episode trying to get back in. He gets his metal door slammed in his face by Patrick, his fingers broken when Larry closes the bathroom window, stomped on by everyone doing the bunny hop, then he gets sent to jail for the night by police officers for a hilariously childish reason (not inviting them to his party). When he gets back to his house in the morning, he finally realizes the key was under the doormat the entire time. All this might be somewhat justified, because he was an (unintentional) jerkass during the party.
  • Fred Rechid. "MY LEG!!!"
• Tiny Toon Adventures: Plucky Duck, as the Spiritual Successor to Daffy, is also a victim to this, especially around Buster and Babs Bunny, whenever he gets crushed by an anvil, shot out of a cannon, crushed by an anvil, beaten up over treasure, crushed by an anvil, flattened by a monster, lost the money he made in a boxing match, and lost an award to another monster.
• Tom and Jerry: Tom is much the same way, and in an even more agonizing fashion: A large number of episodes have Tom chasing Jerry strictly so that Jerry will not mess up the house he's living in, thus resulting in not only Tom not getting dinner, but being beaten with whatever is handy by his owner.
• Total Drama: The show is loaded with Amusing Injuries and Butt-Monkey characters, but there are definitely those who qualify more than others.
  • Heather for the girls. Probably the most consistent across the first three seasons.
  • Owen in Island has fallen of a cliff (several times), impaled his foot on a rake, been stung by swarms of hornets multiple times in the same episode, had some Contrived Coincidence cause one bad thing happening to him make something even worse happen two seconds later more times than we can count, and in general has had ridiculously bad luck, even more so than the rest of the cast.
  • Trent gets the raw end of the deal as well. The poor guy has suffered a concussion, been poisoned, put in a full body cast after falling out of a plane, landed on a fence post crotch first, and finally suffers a mental breakdown. All of this is Played for Laughs.
  • Ezekiel. It gets worse every season, though he usually has it coming.
  • Harold has been injured the most out of any Total Drama contestant.
  • If Tyler is competing, expect him to be hurt the worst out of all the contestants. He couldn't even debut without getting hurt.
  • Blaineley becomes one of these both figuratively and literally, in World Tour. However, considering that she's a jerkass on the level of Chris, she deserves 100% of it.
  • Scott from Revenge of Island figuratively and literally, especially so in All-Stars. His Iron Butt Monkey status and increased stupidity has earned him a lot of fans from his very large hate base.
  • Max in Pahkitew Island; more often than not, he brings his pain upon himself, due to his incompetence at being a Card-Carrying Villain.
• The Transformers mythos has Waspinator, who was crushed, blown up or shredded in nearly every episode of Beast Wars. In multi-part episodes, Waspinator is often blown apart just as he's finished putting himself back together. It happens so much he actually quits the Predacons in a furious rant over getting blown to scrap all the time... which earns him one last dose of chew toy treatment. In the final episode, he got his reward, left alone by the other Transformers and being worshiped by a tribe in a tropical paradise; naturally, this was reversed when the sequel series started up. Waspinator is referred to as the "chew-toy of fate" or other such nicknames often amongst fans, and thus this entry is partly in his honor. He was slated to be Killed Off for Real in the second season, but his popularity with the fans spared his life... or prolonged his suffering, depending on how you look at it. The funny thing about the quote in the Quotes page is that it comes from one of the few episodes where he didn't blow up.^note Rather, he "fell apart" due the proto-human he'd abducted attacking his joints.
  • He was originally chosen for this kind of role because the story editors didn't like how he talked and felt it took up too much time. Since they had to have him appear regularly, they decided the best course of action was to have him make these appearances in pieces. When they want a Predacon to be seen in a mirrored alien pod and shredded by Rhinox? Waspinator. Someone needs to get his shiny metal ass fragged by a flying island? Waspinator (OK, and Terrorsaur, but mainly Waspinator). They weren't counting on this constant abuse making him popular with the fans, though.
  • Though Waspinator is most remembered for this, in the first season Terrorsaur and Scorponok seem to be blown up just as much as he did. Then at the beginning of the second season they died in the same accident that was originally supposed to kill him, leaving him to take the abuse for all three of them.
    • As if to rub it in, it's worth noting that he garners no sympathy even from his fellow Predacons (when Waspinator reported he was being damanged by a protohuman, Megatron shrugged it off as business as usual). Half the time, they're the ones who blow him up (Wonder why one time he was bent on tearing Tarantulus a new waste disposal unit? Tarantulus locked him in a room with a bomb!). The rest of the time, they just ignore him ("Oh sure, don't mind Waspinator. Waspinator just lie here and suffer, drag himself to CR tank!").
  • Transformers: Animated has Sari's Tutor Bot, who's smashed in most of his appearances, and who Sari seems to dislike. For example he was crushed under some dinosaur models that would later become the Dinobots, then the few functioning parts that were being repaired were incinerated by the same Dinobots. When Bulkhead's body was stolen, they gave him Tutor Bot's and presumably decapitated him off screen. Tutor Bot is a regular robot, and thus, unlike Waspinator, doesn't feel any pain. Incidentally, he got his revenge of sorts when he was upgraded by a villain to fire powerful lasers. They also have their version of Waspinator (known simply as "Wasp"), but is more of a Cosmic Plaything as the extent of his misfortune is much more serious.
    • Another character that happens to be this is Jerkass Sentinel Prime. It seems everytime Sentinel tries to enforce his order onto others, something bad seems to happen to him. From getting crushed by a building, to falling off a highway, to even losing his head to The Headmaster. Maybe if he was a little nicer, he wouldn't be in this rut. Oh well, that's Reverse Karma for ya.
    • Another example is Starscream.
  • The original series has Cosmos, who, in almost every appearance he makes, manages to crash and/or have something even more horrible happen to him — such as getting eaten alive by metallic weeds or spending an episode paralyzed and worshipped by primitives. One of the few times he doesn't crash made it seem like Optimus Prime was tempting fate by sending Cosmos out three times on a dangerous mission against his will. Poor, poor Cosmos.
    • Cosmos seemed to be infectious, too, often anyone around him will suffer a similar fate. Even the awesome and magnificent Sky Lynx wasn't immune.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: Kitty Katswell, despite being a competent agent, is subjected to a lot of Amusing Injuries. Of course, most of the injuries she suffers are usually Dudley's fault.

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