This Troper has three dogs. One's an extremely loving guard dog black lab named Flower (we didn't name her), one's a cute little black and brown puppy-sized dog named Athena, and one's an overweight, kinda dim, corgi-terrier mix named Chenoa. Guess which one my entire family, myself included, makes fun of. They're all loving, but Chenoa gets jokes because she physically looks like a pig (she even has a curly tail!) and is quite stupid, often not eating until an hour after we put the food down and going outside, coming right back in and going out again.

Same troper, years previously, in 4th grade, I was this to my teacher. She'd insult me, blame me for everything, make fun of me, scream in my ear and generally fuck with me. Unfortunately for her, BullyingADragon with a MamaBear is hazardous to your job and reputation, especially if said MamaBear is able to terrify the School Board. Let's just say that those kind of organizations bow down to you when you threaten to reveal all the shit the teacher has put your kid through. She was fired/transfered to another school, where she, somehow, ended up being the teacher for the Special Needs kids. She's been fired from that, too.

This Troper has a friend who everyone says is ugly as sin. To add to that, he's not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer either.

My film group does this to Dennis; he dies in every movie.

This troper is killed in most of their student films too. Its actually more of an {{Ascended Meme}} than Butt Monkeyness

This troper and a few of his friends have been victims of bad luck pretty often... sometimes they have been at least partly responsible for their own screw-ups and mishaps.

In my circle of friends, I am the "karen" or something. This means that they make a bunch of mean jokes at my expense, which I really hate am trying to get to stop. maybe this is why I have such horrible nightmares.

It's from the Dane Cook Routine "the friend that nobody likes"

This troper is always the butt monkey at school.

This troper is the butt monkey of the universe. I also try to make others butt monkeys occasionally.

This troper (@/{{Cosman246}})is the ButtMonkey, always, especially at school .

Poor, poor, Kyle. He's in my group of friends and that I'm surprised that kid hasn't gone insane. He has an overbearing and embarrassing mother and is the butt of every joke, especially by Drew, his own cousin. He can never get a girlfriend, even the ''teachers'' don't like him even though he gets straight A's, and gets blamed for every wrong. Also, he's a literal RedHeadedStepChild. Sucks to be him.

This tropette is apparently a ButtMonkey herself. And it only leads to her getting angry.

This troper cannot resist using this trope. Before I became aware of this trope, I did it all the timbe, but the two most egregious examples are a character in a medieval story who was abused by her stepfather, dressed up as a boy to escape him and support her little sisters and was beaten nearly to death when discovered, was desperately in love with a man she couldn't have fo rmost of her adult life, was framed for adultery as a result of this, and then died in the arms of said man whose son she just sacrificed her life for without so much as a kiss and a teenager who became a vampire thanks to a jerky friend leading him into a bad situation and then continued to lose basically every person he's ever cared about in life. I became aware of this trope and decided to tone down both cases a bit, but couldn't resist intentionally creating a character named Murphy who embodies Murhpy's law. Please help me break this addiction!

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm the "Minion" of my group at school, which I often get puppy dog eyed, threatened to be thrown into a trash can (I can be Germophobic at times), tortured with yaoi (I DESPISE SasuNaru).

This troper feels like the ButtMonkey almost all of the time. At best it feels like some irony out of a sitcom, at worst it is downright depressing.

This troper is Shinji Ikari without the giant robot.

You too huh?

This troper's starting to think that Shinji might be a step ''up''.

Not sure if this counts, but there is a meme in my family: "Blame Kevin". No matter what happens, it's my brother Kevin's fault. Unfortunately, we need a new target, as he's now in the USAF.

Similarly with my family and "Nigel did it!"

This troper had the unfortunate last name of 'monk', which let him rather ironically being nicknamed 'Monkey Butt' through most of his childhood. Times were not good.

This troper's 8th grade health teacher turned 4 students into butt monkeys. Scratch that, most, if not, all of my teachers have at least one butt monkey in the class. Many students at my school turn a certain number of kids into a butt monkey. In my group of friends, my guy friend sometimes turns me into the butt monkey. All in all, my school just loves butt monkeys!

This troper's friend, at his college's computer science club. Most of the fellow club members frown upon him; they've scolded and admonished him more than anyone else, and on one occasion told this troper not to be friends with him due to him apparently being a ManipulativeBastard and an outright moron.

This troper knows a guy who is kind of awkward and makes bad jokes, but he is generally a nice guy. However, he has been harassed by almost every girl he's ever met(this troper herself did it too, but we're cool now), teased by all his friends, picked on by teachers for no reason, and has the strictest, pushiest parents ever. This troper's friend is a total {{Tsundere}} to him and verbally abuses him quite harshly.

This Troper had always wondered why, such an interesting child as I was, was not this trope during my days of public school. It wasn't ''years'' until I found out my mom learned from my teacher that my classmates were afraid of me. It made my life easier, but I sure as heck didn't have a clue. I think one of the reasons I don't have much fondness for this word/trope is because I can't relate to it (But shouldn't it be the opposite?).

This troper both in real life, and in nearly every play she's been in. Let's see, there's...

Clov from ''Endgame''.

The king's assistant (but not Sebastian, darnit!) in a non-Disney version of ''The Little Mermaid''.

A nameless background girl with an ad-libbed crush on the town JerkAss in ''LilAbner''.

Oh, how we lament the life and times of Erik Tolls. Srrgth's first 2nd edition D&D character. Poor Erik's life dream is to use magic to travel through time. However, he's...Not the luckiest of wizards.

At character creation, his Charisma was...Low. Deciding to run with it, Erik is portly, pale enough to show the veins under his skin, and not very...socially adjusted. Which is to say he spent 20 years in a tower, hunched over a book.

Why did Erik start adventuring? Why, because his master saw his notes for temporal spells and kicked poor Erik, ass-over-teakettle, out into the streets.

Now we get into Erik's adventures. In the two months (in-game) that Erik has been out and about, he's:

Been sucker punched by a Wraith. Which lowered his Con. Which was low FOR A WIZARD.

Been shot at by gnolls. Which is cool, everyone gets shot at by gnolls sooner or later. That was, until the DM CRIT the bolts. TWICE! Not many people get to see their insides become their outsides. Much less twice in the space of a dozen seconds.

Got hit by a door. Okay, not so bad. But he was in the midst of quaffing a brew. And he was standing behind the door. The heavy, oak door. That got kicked by the minuteman's heavy, iron-laden boot. Result? Pancaked, brew-soaked wizard.

Had a mental breakdown because the Swashbuckler walked up to the ANCIENT AMETHYST WYRM AND BOLDFACED ASKED HIM FOR MONEY!

Walked in on the king taking a leak. Note to self: Saying "I detect magic and walk towards the strongest source" can get you killed.

And lastly (for now), getting thrown through a circus tent. Both sides of it. From the same throw.

Oh my, [=DnD=]. This troper had no idea what was in store for him the day he decided to roll a pixie character in a minicampaign...

This Tropette and her former group of friends all took turns in this role. Most recently, it was me, and not in the light-hearted, "Why Must You Break My Life?" way other Butt Monkeys were treated. All because I had the audacity to be ProudToBeAGeek. And come out of the closet as Asexual.

This troper's family is full of Butt Monkies, including himself. Let me describe it to you: If there was a truck sized comic hurtling toward Earth, and the chances of it hitting any populated areas was one in fifty trillion, well, guess whose house would be replaced with a giant smoking crater the next day. We're just that unlucky.

This troper is pretty much a dye job away from being the real life Meg Griffin, in both appearance and treatment by the universe. At least she had a cheap Halloween costume in 2009.

And as of today, [[strike:her]] MY (screw this third person crap) cookie somehow got deleted and I can't bake a new one because I forgot my password. '''FUCK. MY. LIFE.'''

GET IN THERE BERRIMAN! I could explain this. I won't.

This troper. This socially awkward, shy, klutzy (in the annoying way), frequently-nauseous, headache-afflicted, emotionally "fragile", divorced-parent and asshole-tastic other family members-having, constantly nervous troper.

She's learned to laugh at this, however, and constantly tries to tell people (mostly friends) it's FINE to laugh at her, but they never do. >:U

This troper used to be this. After the Disney World incident, people had a tendency to simply avoid him, or face the consequences.

Although this troper is not the Butt Monkey himself, he did know one in 9th grade. He left when this troper moved on to 10th.

This troper is this most of the time, but some times someone else will steal that title and god help you if you become our ButtMonkey because we really are merciless but there are ways to make this title go away

Laugh at yourself once in awhile, If you become our ButtMonkey It's most likly because your too Emo.

Don't take us too seriously, If we offend you with our DeadBabyComedy we're sorry, but actually own up to being offended.

I have been this much more several times than I'd like to admit and sometimes it's been because of my thoughtlessness and recklessness that have led me to making a dork of myself. Amazingly, I've also known a few Butt Monkeys who were still treated kindly every now and then.

Me. I've noticed a pattern. The people at my table take my stuff. I get in trouble. Two guys throw paper balls back and forth behind the math teacher's back. I get in trouble for laughing.

Also, the Jewish from what we've studied in History. They were blamed for everything, including the Black Death.

And my bud, Brent. Me saying 'Yeah, BRENT!' has become my latest catchphrase. I enjoy blaming him for stuff. And NO, we don't ''like'' each other.

45}} This troper, full stop. Nothing ever goes right for this young man. A lot of moments in my life feel like a yanking of the dog's chain. T_T At school, work, or home, you can depend on this troper to provide you with much comic relief, even if I can't join in on the laughing. Oh well, its OK. :) I still love my life. :D

This troper is a pretty good example of this trope. Socially awkward and physically weak, regarded as a freak by pretty much anyone who doesn't know him very well, and some who do, and is paranoid, depressed, quiet, mentally messed up and frequently deviating between unrealistic pessimism and unrealistic optimism as a result. I even have scars on my leg for an operation I had to get after being pushed over several times...an operation that involved a frame being put on my leg for several months. Add in a shitty family and various other problems, I'm surprised I ain't either homicidal or suicidal yet.

And a couple of other examples from my life: a REALLY socially awkward and meek boy in my class who is the butt of many jokes and many other problems of life, and another boy who, while not socially awkward, is the butt of even more jokes (including being called Horseface, maths geek and one memorable day where everyone treated him like he was Hitler.) Despite what it sounds like, the first one is much more sympathetic, but the second one is better at conversation.

You guys think you suffer? I have friends that sometimes call me "Grapes" because I spilled grape juice on myself in the third grade and they won't stop and I don't want to make new friends because everyone is a big, fat meanie! One time I got a A- on a test, and when I wanted the teacher to change it, everyone called me a grade grubber! And I don't shower and I'm socially awkward, and no one will talk to me so I don't have any reason to shower or practice not being awkward! None of my problems are my fault and there's no way I can fix any of them! The universe just hates me and I hate everyone because they stink!

OK, are you a StealthParody or just that whiny and un-self aware.

I thought you were serious until you said you had no reason to shower...

This trope describes me when I'm with my friends, mostly because I'm not quick or clever enough to think of a clever comeback, so I just take most of the stuff they say to me. It mostly doesn't bother me, but it can get annoying at times

Among my group of friends, Squeek suffers from this. High-pitched voice, consistently bad grammer and a total lack of personality leave him often challenged by kids three years younger than him. Also, whenever he feels his masculinity is challenged he will threaten to expose himself to the crowd, to the horror of all concerned. He borders with UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist.

This troper's Spanish teacher is the ButtMonkey, funnily enough. She's a pushover and our class takes advantage of her. Of the many things the class has done to her:

Locked her out of the classroom

Taped her desk drawers shut

Rather than call her "Ms" we just scream her last name or sometimes when we're feeling particularly disrespectful, her first name.

Make fun of her clothes

Steal her car keys

Steal her Speedy Gonzales plushie

She rarely gives us any work, but when she does, no matter how easy it is, we bitch until she just gives us the answers

Ask to play volleyball instead of take a test. When she says no, we steal the volleyball from her closet and play anyway, refusing to do any work no matter how much she scolds

...Wow. Just don't be surprised if she shows up with a machete one day. I know I would.

She teaches Spanish. She deserves it.

Wow that's not even funny nor she deserves it

This troper. Is it any wonder that he winds up being silent around most people, ''especially'' his family, where his sister flat out vents on him and, when she's angry, ''seeks him out to snap at him''.

This troper was the butt of jokes from her middle school gym teacher, just because she was the bottom of the class. the standout was when he was talking about how if he covered someone's mouth and nose with duct tape and made them run the mile, they'd collapse about 1/4 of the way and be dead if he didn't get the duct tape off in time. this troper doesn't remember why he was talking about that but she ''does'' remember him saying "We're going to try that with...[this troper's last name]" and that's just one example.

This troper's friend in an especially cruel example, in that she already has Aspurgers, and as such its worse for her than it would be for others. But, in a DoubleSubversion, she also ends up being the baby, and in a VitriolicBestBuds kind of way (the second variant), no one else but our {{Nakama}} is allowed to tease her. If they do, bad things will happen.

In the last four months this troper had

Crippling infection in both legs (wheelchair bound for 3 weeks)

Pneumonia landing him in the hospital

Rendered mostly deaf by fluid buildup behind eardrums

Double myringotomy (basically, they cut your eardrum open and place a tube in it to let whatever fluid is behind it out, no anesthesia)

Grandpa died

Bronchitis (still stuck with it now) it hits you in the face. Take 4d6x2 damage.

As a result, fluid built up again (no idea why tubes don't work) and I am mostly deaf again.Fuck my life

I'm going to remove my entry now because I feel like I'm whining. Sympathy web hug?

Sympathy Web Hug, definitely. That's just a bitch of year, honey.

I am always the Butt Monkey of my friend's [=DnD=] group. Someone critically misses? @/HarDHarKoopa gets hit. I'm not even near his sword! He loses his grip and it

This troper has Aspergers. And then my family ''wonders'' why he doesn't bother socializing with other people and sticks to isolationism all the time and seem to be just ''dandy'' with it. Yeah, if you had been the victim of harmful {{DoubleStandard}}s all your life due to being male ''and'' being an AcceptableTarget in ''so'' many ways. His sister is also ''always'' seeking him out to just be an asshole, and even if she's the ''SLIGHTEST'' bit cheesed, she'll bite my head off if I even so much as breathe the wrong way. (And because she did it, she'll ''never'' get in trouble for it.)

Nair in shampoo. There's no way to prove to everyone she isn't a dumb bitch if you do that. If someone blames you, just yell "TUCKER DID IT!" and they'll be so confused it won't matter.

This troper's circle of friends has one of these. He is constantly mad fun of for various reasons. He lacks a penis (not true, I assume). He is albino (and has horrible vision because of it). He's also 6'2", rail thin, and has almost no discernible muscle mass. It's so bad that one of the clauses in a recent round of truth or dare was that no dare was aloud to involve him an any way! It's strange and disturbing and this troper can't help but wonder how the poor man puts up with it...

This troper knew this kid in middle and high schools who was always getting picked on for being a "nerd." Since And Nerdy}} I could relate, and so could my two girlfriends, we accepted him into our {{Nakama}} for a while. However, this was subverted when we found that the reason he was ostracized was that he was a smug, abrasive, somewhat sexist jerk who seemed to be teetering on the brink of insanity. So, we kicked him out.

For a straight example, I myself often feel like the brunt of jokes, anger, and flat out nagging from everyone (I get nagged and nitpicked by my parents, Done Son Guy}} especially my father, who seems to think everything I do is worthless if it's not perfect; my boss yells at me over small things (Mode}} oh no, I did not use the right scissors to cut the fabric. I am the second coming of Hitler), at my last internship, the (adult) employees made fun of Sane Man}} me for actually taking the job too seriously (Mode}} an intern who takes her internship seriously? Stop the presses!.) So yeah, on one hand, I get nagged for not doing enough. On the other hand, i get made fun of for being too serious. Yikes...

Everyone's probably gonna wonder why I even show up on the registry at college. Every semester I've spent in college, I've pretty much hidden myself away from the rest of my peers. Because guess what? I'm one of those people who carries a mark - It's just "Disrespect me". Whenever the family gets together, his sister is ''always'' rude to him. Not to mention, they ''never'' seem to acknowledge that sometimes, if they don't think teasing them is funny, then it's ''probably not a good idea'' to do it. Almost all of the time, they tease the hell out of me and mention stuff that I've been trying for ''years'' to forget. Meanwhile, using the same Parentism to justify teasing ''them'' on ''similar things'' that ''they'' did and wanted to forget earns me a lecture on how "We don't find it funny, you shouldn't tease us on it". (See the DoubleStandard here?) I was pretty much ''relentlessly'' abused in school, and the adults did ''NOTHING'' except feed bullshit excuses, parents didn't stick up for me even when I was confronted ''outside of school'' and assaulted. (Oh, it's a RiteOfPassage...oh yeah? From that RiteOfPassage I learned that AdultsAreUseless, 90% of HumansAreBastards, and KidsAreCruel), and almost all the time I try to vent it...People are just rude to me and say "oh it's not ''that'' bad" Well how do you know? I don't see ''you'' out here trying to prove me otherwise.

This troper used to be one in middle school, but has moved past it. He does know a couple of guys who match this quite well. However, they mostly bring it on themselves, the first one is a borderline pathological liar and a complete TedBaxter, who basically makes himself out to be a god: he boasts about scoring with dozens of girls, being an outstanding athlete, bench pressing 250 lbs, having an 11-inch penis, making thousands of dollars, and having pro-level drumming abilities. All of those things have been disproved at least once, with the exception of the penis part (which no one wants to disprove), and the drumming part, which I can personally vouch for, the only thing that stops him from being completely unlikeable is the fact that he is still basically a nice guy. The other butt monkey is ''much'' less sympathetic, simply because he is meaner than a snake, and doesn't even think that he is a butt monkey, unlike the other one, who is at least aware of it when he is being made fun of. He seems to think that other kids (this troper included) are the butt monkeys, even if they are fairly well-liked, or just ignored. He will harass his personal butt monkeys, and has once even assaulted one of them (a particularly shy and helpless kid). He has almost no allies, and the ones that he does have are too nice to tell him that they don't like him or too dumb too realize that he is such a douche.

Not quite a 'true story', but in our Pathfinder game I'm in, we've an NPC that we're dragging along, sort of using him to help carry stuff and as a second watch, also that my character doesn't want to just hang him for being a bandit (He's funny and has been cooperative). The first thing that goes wrong for him is that the moment we get to camp he's almost hanged... by the horse we had him riding. Then, when we're ambushed by a boar, he's drug a good 100 feet before we calm his horse down there. Deciding that maybe having him on one of our horses isn't the best, we tie him to the cart (Since we still don't trust him, even though we like him). Well... after we start getting chased by a Warg, we get to a bridge, and, without really checking it first, we send the cart across first. The cart falls through like it were made of paper, killing the horse attacted to it, and dragging our prisoner into the raging river. By this point, we're pretty sure that the guy is convinced that he died when he fell from his tree, and that he is now in hell.

Man, poor Blake Hedgepeth. Everyone he meets despises him from the get-go and I think it's safe to say that I'm his only genuine friend. He can be annoying and tells bad jokes, sure, but he's still a nice guy. He has more of a personality than most of the jocks at my school, but for some reason he's the only one taking abuse. He also sucks at playing the trombone. Sam Peddicord is a butt monkey too, but too a lesser extent: He's an awkward nerd with no hopes of ever getting a girlfriend, but he's just so outlandish that he has more appeal, and therefore more friends than Blake. He also sucks at playing the trombone.

This troper's group of friends has everyone take turns to be their buttmonkey. We all gang up on one person and make fun of their "never live it down" moments, but since we take turns, nobody puts up with too much of it in any given day. One friend's verbal habits and sense of humor get mocked viciously, another is the butt of any racial jokes people want to get out, and I take flack for my terrible dating choices and my taste in women specifically. The rest get made fun of for mumbling, stuttering, or silly things they've done.

Any time this troper has to fill out paperwork, through no fault of her own, it will get screwed up. Partial list: wrong middle name on social security card (they failed twice) and driver's license, last name misspelled, address not changed even when that's the reason she was processing the paperwork in the first place and (personal favorite), getting the car mileage wrong on the registration document due to an extra zero. It's happened so often it's become a running gag in her family. She's become surprisingly calm about it, since she knows it'll happen 99% of the time.

This Troper's brother was one when he was going through Boot Camp in the Marine Corps... Well, at least he was until he destroyed them by scoring near perfectly in the platoon's PFT. And then again during the famed Crucible. May God have mercy on the Insurgents he runs into.

This Troper and her friends have a running joke about how if she were ever in a book/movie/TV show/anything else that would be covered on This Very Wiki, she would ''always'' be the first one out of the main characters to die. The sad part is that she agrees with them.

Two years in a row, this Troper had a ButtMonkey month: September (with a little overflow into late August and early October). In total, these two months contained: a car crash, my dog dying, my house being burgled, the worst flu of my life, losing my job (due to flu and lack of car), resulting financial crisis, and a further resulting clinical depression episode. The following year, I half-jokingly asked my wife to put me in a coma in August and wake me in October. I broke the curse one year after that my making that September one of the best months of my life!

I was treated as a ButtMonkey during most of my high school years. Snubbed by nearly all the girls in favor of the more athletic guys...treated with disdain by my schoolmates even when I was made a prefect in Grade 11...beaten up by bullies frequently during my Grade 7 and Grade 8 years...because of this, I have...''issues'' with people being treated this way, whether in real life or fiction. (Yes, ''HayateTheCombatButler'' and ''AxisPowersHetalia'', I am looking at ''YOU''.)

This troper is one and hates it. She doesn't bother to say it to anyone IRL, though, because she knows that it will only make things worse.