The Chew Toy/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character who is loved by misery.

• Straight: Jason constantly slips into puddles of water...
• Exaggerated: ...and constantly falls into the floor, table, and bookshelf.
  • Cosmic Plaything
• Downplayed: Humorous Butt Monkey
• Justified: Jason is The Klutz.
  • Or, Jason has done something horrible that the universe intends to give due retribution for.
• Inverted: The Woobie
  • Creator's Pet (sometimes, if the author lets everything go their way).
  • Karma Houdini.
    • Complete Monster
• Subverted: Jason might seem to be having a perpetual bad luck, but other than this unlucky day bad luck usually stay out of his way.
  • It goes too far once, and he starts becoming rather sympathetic
• Double-Subverted: ...but it turns out he's cursed to have this kind of bad luck for the rest of his life. And it's funny.
  • ...but later it turns out he actually deserved what he got, and so it's back to the usual.
• Parodied: Cosmic Plaything.
  • They Killed Kenny.
    • It's really hard to parody something that was already funny
• Deconstructed: The series goes meta and the writer berates the viewers for taking amusement in a person's suffering.
• Lampshaded: "I seem to spend most of the time getting the shit kicked out of me."