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So, you've got a funny character in a Slapstick, just lining up a wave of truly incredibly bad and unlucky physical traumas for the character to wade through for your audiences twisted amusement. Just one problem. The things your character is about to go through would kill any normal being. The solution? Enter the Iron Butt Monkey. Obviously a form of Acceptable Breaks From Reality. Primarily an animation trope, Western Animation is particularly fond of this one. Not to be confused with Iron Monkey, a Hongkong action film set within the mythology of Once Upon a Time in China. Examples:

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  • So, you've got a funny character in a Slapstick, just lining up a wave of truly incredibly bad and unlucky physical traumas for the character to wade through for your audiences twisted amusement. Just one problem. The things your character is about to go through would kill any normal being. The solution? Enter the Iron Butt Monkey. Obviously a form of Acceptable Breaks From Reality. Primarily an animation trope, Western Animation is particularly fond of this one. Not to be confused with Iron Monkey, a Hongkong action film set within the mythology of Once Upon a Time in China. Examples:
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  • So, you've got a funny character in a Slapstick, just lining up a wave of truly incredibly bad and unlucky physical traumas for the character to wade through for your audiences twisted amusement. Just one problem. The things your character is about to go through would kill any normal being. The solution? Enter the Iron Butt Monkey. The Iron Butt Monkey is, simply put, practically immune to harm... purely for the purpose of having hilarious injuries happen to him. Drop an anvil on him? He simply gets a nasty looking lump. Throw him off a cliff and watch him bounce down in a brutal manner? He'll be carted off to the hospital, maybe. Incinerate him? He'll reform from the ashes, or even simply be back next episode. One wonders how many lives this guy could save in the military. Obviously a form of Acceptable Breaks From Reality. Primarily an animation trope, Western Animation is particularly fond of this one. A relation of Butt Monkey, Made of Iron and Slapstick. See also They Killed Kenny, when the comedy buttmonkey is not immortal but merely gets revived ready to get killed again like something from Valhalla. See also Iron Woobie, for when this is Played for Drama. Not to be confused with Iron Monkey, a Hongkong action film set within the mythology of Once Upon a Time in China. Examples:
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