The Deadfall

My leg!

The one who gets hurt and maybe even dies a lot. This constant injury has to go beyond simple slapstick where the butt of the joke, at worst, gets cuts and bruises. The damage tolled out on the Deadfall must either be nearly fatal (losing a hand and beginning to bleed out) or be fatal (getting blown up by an unsuspected land mine). The name "deadfall" is a portmanteau of the words "dead" and "fall guy" as the Deadfall is like a Fall Guy, but instead of being the target of someone else's witty remarks or other playful gestures, they get seriously physically hurt by the world around them.