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- Fëdor frequently ends up as a victim of the clones' bizarre antics, most prominently in Clones Order Pizza.
- Brolly often ends up bearing the brunt of whatever chaos is going on around him. For example, he tries to watch cartoons in Clones Make A Comic only for Waru to snatch the TV remote from him and change the channel, his soup is ruined by the other clones in Clones In The Soup, and he is the first one to be killed off in Mafia.
- In Clones Order Pizza, Kuromaku gets locked out on the balcony by Waru, who takes the opportunity to steal his share of the pizza. Waru and Spade also steal Kuromaku's belongings since he wrote them into his will, and Kuromaku is forced to watch from the window as Waru puts on one of his shirts that he stole from Fëdor's closet. While trying to keep warm, Kuromaku accidentally damages part of the balcony, and in his efforts to get down, he ends up falling from the balcony onto the ground.
- The Amazing Digital Circus: Pomni's subjected to slapstick and misfortune throughout the series more than the other players.
- The Annoying Orange:
- Pear is always looked down upon by the other foods for being "boring" and is frequently pranked by Orange. This is taken further in the Ask Orange segments.
- Grapefruit is always mocked for his "weight" and blown up, among other things. This is most prominent in the "Challenge" videos.
- AstroLOLogy: Every character suffers their share of abuse, but Capricorn easily has it the worst, with Aries and Virgo not too far behind. For Capricorn, it's usually the result of his overt sense of commitment putting him in bad situations or the universe simply being against him for that episode, for Aries, it's usually retribution for his competitive nature, and for Virgo, it's usually a product of her perfectionism or being around Sagittarius.
- Many characters from The Big Lez Show qualify, but most noticeably Clarence, Quintin, and Norton. Norton is justified in that literally everyone in the series hates him.
- In CPU Championship Series, for whatever reason, the Rosalina CPU can never win a match, which has made the audience occasionally question whether she's actually a Level 9 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate CPU or not. Alpharad and company start joking that while she's the greatest fighter in countless other worlds, she came to ours because it would be a real challenge. Then came the episode "TIMESKIP" and after Alpha and Jo joke that she's now a badass who has won dozens of unseen tournaments in a row, she actually goes on to win the tournament... only to be Killed Off for Real in a match against "Blood Falcon".
- Camp Camp: Given the show's nature, some people count
- Counselors David and Gwen are constantly tormented by the kids, especially Max. The former is insulted by the kids as a happy-go-lucky moron and gets mauled and insulted on a regular basis. The latter has a useless liberal arts degree, hates her job unlike David, and can't find a career outside of the camp.
- Neil. Aside from being a cowardly wimp, he's ridiculed for being a nerd and having a feminine side.
- Space Kid. In his first appearance, he's strapped to a spinning ceiling fan and used as a Human Shield by Cameron Campbell. In later appearances, he's used as a decoy and Unwitting Pawn thanks to his cheerful innocence.
- The title character in the Charlie the Unicorn videos. The blue and pink unicorns apparently come up with extremely convoluted and surreal plans just to make Charlie miserable. This is probably why Charlie is a Deadpan Snarker.
- Several characters from Combat Devolved qualify, but Rookie and Scout are most obvious, (Rookie verbally and Scout physically)
- A Day With Bowser Jr: The protagonist Bowser Jr fits this trope like a glove — there isn't one single episode in which he doesn't get beat up at some point.
- DSBT InsaniT: Frog! Even nice characters like Amber and Autumn treat him like dirt.
- Flashdeck Animations has Striker, who has a running gag of being the first to die in almost every video since his introduction in "de_Azetc", and early on at that. Sometimes he even winds up dying due to reasons that wouldn't be possible within the confines of the series, such as dying from a lightning strike in "de_Aztec"note . He does get A Day in the Limelight with "Striker's Rampage", in which he manages to singlehandedly defeat all but one of the Terrorists... but he then gets his ass handed to him by Hacker (as a chicken).note
- Grim Reaper Flag-chan!: Mobuo always gets subjected to all kinds of unpleasant situations. The Flag-chan girls can either cause it or share it depending on the episode.
- Everybody in Happy Tree Friends, given the shows style, but a few in particular pop out:
- Cuddles and Lumpy have some of the highest death counts of the whole show. Especially with Cuddles, as he never survived an episode which had him as the main character. As for Lumpy, he dies in some of the most gruesome ways yet, to compensate for his relatively high survival rate, and he died in a majority of his TV show appearances.
- Sniffles easily has among the most gruesome demises featured on the show, usually when against the Ants or when his own inventions backfire on him. "Tongue in Cheek" is a perfect example.
- Like Sniffles, Petunia suffers some of the nastier deaths. She has also been shown to have OCD, leading to her KILLING HERSELF on one infamous occasion.
- Cub, a young baby, keeps getting killed by Pop thanks to his sheer obliviousness and negligence.
- Flaky, the Only Sane Man, has died in some of the strangest deaths of the show, and like Petunia, has survived in only one episode that stars her.
- Handy is a repairman, yet doesn’t have any hands, which often ends up killing him. This also leaves him defenseless in catastrophic situations, and puts him as one of the characters with the lowest survival rate.
- Lifty and Shifty have died on every episode they appeared in, except for three TV series episodes. This is justified, since the duo are show's biggest jerkasses aside from Fliqpy and sometimes Lumpy.
- Helluva Boss: Moxxie is constantly on the receiving end of Amusing Injuries, Blitzo's verbal put-downs, sexual harassment, various moral dilemmas, Loona's bullying and the occasional Hell-shark People's Elbow. Despite all this, he is easily still the most altruistic character in the series, defending his values even when getting mocked by Asmodeus himself.
- Homestar Runner:
- Strong Sad, whose two brothers Strong Mad and Strong Bad enjoy heaping physical and psychological abuse on him.
- Homestar Runner himself can also qualify, considering how many times Strong Bad has insulted, assaulted and tricked Homestar for the sake of his own enjoyment. That and Marzipan keeps breaking up with him. Bubs also squeezes Homestar for all the money he can get, but Bubs does that to EVERYBODY.
- Nebulon, Rumble Red, the King of Town, Cartoon Mary Palaroncini, Coach Z, and 1-Up are also frequently abused. There's only one person who does like Nebulon's style... and she's an enormous alien cow. However, it's justified in Red, Mary's and 1-Up's cases, in that they're parodies of annoying cartoon sidekicks.
- John T. Hedgehog from International Moron Patrol. Issues with John's creator resulted in the series' creator, Roger, reducing John to basically a dumber version of Kenny (though the series explains that John has a guardian angel who revives him at some point after every death. In recent episodes, however, John's abuse has been reduced significantly.
- Level UP (Sprite Animations) typically has Toad, Goomba, or Waluigi suffer some form of comic mistreatment.
- Long Gone Gulch: The Mayor goes through a lot of pain, from losing his hair and an antler, to being used as a piñata by Mako's gang.
- Matt Carnegie from Matt 'n' Dusty. Even if something goes right for him, it doesn't last for long.
- So far, he's been threatened to have his esophagus ripped out, almost killed by an axe murderer, and barely survived the apocalypse, with the only other survivor being Dusty.
- Melvin's Macabre: Melvin finds himself having to endure unpleasant situations in which he gets belittled, insulted and terrorized by both dangerous monsters who threaten his well-being and regular people who are total assholes to him.
- Baysa in Minecraft For Noobs, his 1st appearance has him literally spawn inside the ground, and is often subject to physical abuse from the game, and occasional mockery from the narrator. Peter is also sometimes treated like this past episode 9.
- In Minilife TV, The Armless Guy goes through a lot of abuse, often due to him having no arms.
- Misadventures of Apu: Apu was abandoned as a child, has a love-hate relationship with his adoptive father, gets cheated on, dies over and over, gets repeated groin injuries, etc.
- The Most Popular Girls in School: "FUCKING RACHEL TICE!" And her friend, Judith.
- Compared to Trisha C., Trisha 2 is more prone to being on the wrong end of slapstick comedy moments, and once got an uncomfortable eyeful of a baby's head coming out of Saison.
- Kety Perr on The Nekci Menij Show. All she wants is for people to see her new film, Pert of Me. Everyone would rather be insulted in song by Beyonce's reunited Destiny's Child than see Pert of Me.
- Germaine in the Neurotically Yours cartoon series. She's a magnet to stalkers and perverted men, has trouble controlling her weight, is the butt of Foamy's criticisms and Jerkass rage, and can't get any of her poetry published. She recently shaved her hair and gained more weight as a desperate attempt to get men to stop hitting on her. It doesn't.
- Panathinaikos Bear: Pana and Meep frequently abuse Kurdt Kestrel (usually by kicking him) any time he challenges them.
- Paranormal High School: When Hikaru isn't busy being the Only Sane Man, he's usually this instead. A particularly egregious example was when he got immobilized by 5 different abilities at once, causing everyone to spend the entire video trying to fix him.
- The Pink City: Elain has not only failed to catch every bounty she has gone after, but has been grievously injured, traumatized and humiliated in the process.
- Red vs. Blue. Pretty much all the characters get their turn, but Grif probably qualifies the most, getting yelled at, insulted, threatened, beat up and even shot on occasion, all because he didn't want to risk his life in a war. Oh and because he's snarky. And that's not even getting into his (and the rest of the Reds plus Tucker)'s "fight" with Tex. If he's not sterile after that, it's a miracle.
- Washington sort of strays into the territory when you consider his speech at the end of Recreation, leading to a possible case of The Dog Bites Back:
Chairman: Agent Washington, when you find these blue soldiers that you're talking about, what makes you think that they are just going to give you the Epsilon unit when you ask for it?Washington: Heh heh. For as long as I can remember, I've been lied to, taken advantage of, shot in the back and left for dead. And now, I have a way out of all of this. What in the hell makes you think that I'm going to ask for it?- The Project Freelancer Saga flashbacks expand on this. Past!Wash was the naive rookie of his Freelancer team. He's constantly attacked by cars, teased by his compatriots, and was best known for the time Carolina had to attach a grappling hook to his codpiece to save him from a jetpack accident. And then he has Epsilon implanted, which causes a mental breakdown.
- Church is kinda the universe's Butt Monkey. He's been tortured so his mind fragments into pieces, killed more than once, had his girlfriend die more than once, trapped — forever, as far as he knows — in a virtual world, and just generally always been smacked down again every time he thinks life is starting to look up.
- Jaune Arc from RWBY counts as a deconstruction of the so-called "lovable idiot". Initially, his battle incompetence is Played for Laughs, but during Episode 12, it is revealed that his lack of combat savvy gets him bullied by Cardin, and it shows as he has absolutely no self esteem. He even revealed to Pyrrha that he'd actually stolen some transcripts to get into Beacon Academy and has had no experience fighting whatsoever. He'd been blackmailed into doing Cardin's essay along with his own in a very cramped schedule and is forced to stay up very late.
- Shadows of the Past has a few but the most notable ones are Sage and Delta.
- Sage is the king of the butt monkeys. He has been shot in the same knee cap. twice. He has been shot with a tank twice once that was driven by his very drunk "friend". And then she proceeded to bury him alive. He was also shot again by his "friend" Zero when Venus gave the FIRE! command. Before he was shot by yet another tank she'll he was shot by an unknown sniper in the knee cap...again. He has also been transported to another dimension where he was knocked out and dragged to a torture basement.
- With Sage being the king. Delta would be the prince. DeWitt was abandoned by his parents on a planet dubbed "Delta" where he was raised by a colony of tentacle monsters, at age eight he married his wife "Keeglor" and by age nineteen he ate his wife. At age twenty he was rescued. During season one he became a drug addict living under a bridge eating rats and snorting cocaine. His drugs are stolen from him and an Intersexual southern red neck promises she can recreate the sex he had with his old wife. In return he has to go to Tank and say the following.
"Delta:" Hey baby, you gonna keep all that hot spice to yourself or are you gonna give daddy a piece of that hot jalapeño ass.- This did not end well. He wakes up from a coma after Tank skinned him alive and burned his body. Scoots and Dinky bring him back from the brink and force him to be their slave after a life debt. He becomes a sex slave to Scoots and a guinea pig to Dinky.
- Ultra Fast Pony has a few. Spike is viewed by nearly everyone as a source of unpaid labor and physical humor. (It's lampshaded at one point with his line, "I swear, it's like everyone hates me or something!") Fluttershy is a former slave who continues to get exploited because she lacks a backbone. Rainbow Dash has never friends or family for any length of time — partly because of her obnoxious personality, and partly because she's blue. Both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash know how unpopular they are: at separate points they each try to coerce Twilight by threatening to hang out with her. When Princess Luna isn't getting banished to the moon for no reason, she's forced to live in the castle basement where no one visits her, and her sister sends her letter bombs. Twilight starts off somewhat well-liked in Ponyville, then loses respect as the series goes on, until no one's willing to come to her birthday party. When Luna comes to Ponyville, Twilight is ecstatic that "Someone is even more hated in Ponyville than I am!"
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