Category:Butt-monkeys

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Exhibit A: Krillin. A luckless scapegoat whose misfortune is often played for both, storytelling and comedic relief.

Exhibit B: Also Krillin. A well-written hero who is also a caring brother to Kid Gohan despite everything Krillin had to put up with.

The "Butt-Monkey" is a character who is the series' object of abuse and ridicule. Typically a large number of horrible things happen to them through bad luck or accidents, which is often played for comedy or drama.

Furthermore, not all butt-monkeys are just unlucky characters because they are frequently just prone to accidents and bad things often happen out of nowhere.

These characters, however, prove that butt-monkeys can be good characters who are sympathetic aside from just being schlimazels, scapegoats, and/or schlemiels that serve as the victim of demeaning jokes or being constantly put through hell by having something we should like or identify about them.