History Characters / KevinCanFuckHimself

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Sort of. Of the boorish, lazy, and immature husband from many domestic sitcoms. Kevin is an example of how horrible it would be to actually be married to such a person and how flaws that would usually be played for laughs have a serious and damaging effect on people around him, especially his wife. Although it should be pointed that that unlike all of the other DomCom husbands, Kevin lacks '''all''' the usual sympathetic qualities and tropes that come with the archetype, which makes Kevin a ''very toxic'' example of one.

* BornLucky: While he might suffer his share of pain and humiliation along the way, things ''always'' ultimately turn out for the best for Kevin. Allison is increasingly driven crazy by just how much the entire universe seems to be conspiring to help him.

* VillainyFreeVillain: While Kevin isn't really evil, he's the primary source of Allison's misery for the past ten years and he has a clearly unhealthy influence on those around him.
** [[spoiler: Subverted over the course of Season 2 as Kevin's grasp on the people around him starts to slip, so too does his mask, and his malice becomes more obvious and deliberate.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Kevin's inane schemes don't just blow up in his face, but put him in real danger. His escape room plan in "Live Free or Die" causes him to swallow a key, which is clearly painful for him, and then get stuck in a window (and that's not getting to the roast beef that's been left burning in the oven). And in "The Grand Victorian", his antics on his birthday cause him to consume so much food that it threatens his health, to the point where he actually begins choking on a piece of meat and would have died if not for Sam's intervention. This sort of behavior contributes to Allison's SanitySlippage since the show depicts how such behavior would be mentally and physically exhausting to put up with on a daily basis.
** It also implies that all the energy Allison spends on plotting Kevin's demise is actually wasted, because he is ultimately so helpless without her that if she ever got the courage to just leave him for good, it would in all likelihood not take very long for him to end up getting himself killed through his own stupidity. [[spoiler:This ultimately comes into play in the series finale, as he accidentally burns down his house in a drunken attempt to get rid of Allison's belongings after Allison leaves Kevin for good, killing himself.]]

* FreudianExcuse: Kevin is the way he is in no small part due to Pete never providing him with real discipline or positive guidance and being a lousy role model in general. He's still an awful person it's not hard to see how he ended up as bad as he did.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: She is on the receiving end several times through the series, especially in "Fixed" where Sam chews her out for refusing to take responsibility for her life and Patty angrily chastises her for manipulating her into searching through Tammy's notebook.

* BreakTheHaughty: {{Subverted|Trope}}. After [[spoiler: shooting Nick]] before the first season finale, Kevin seems genuinely shaken and horrified by the real life-threatening situation he was in. [[spoiler: He quickly finds a way to profit from the situation and stroke his own ego by running for city council, proving that he didn't learn a thing and merely felt threatened by the change in his status quo.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Is completely oblivious to any of his wife's needs, or what she is going through. He makes their anniversary party a raging kegger, refuses to allow Allison to have a dog, and also categorically rejects the idea of having children because he doesn't want anything stealing focus from him (and only sort of warms up to the idea at one point out of a narcissistic view of his child being an extension of himself).

* KarmicShunning: [[spoiler:In Season 2, everyone gets sick of his toxic behavior and cuts him off]].

* KnightOfCerebus: He's a weird inversion of this trope. Whenever he's on camera, the world around him looks like a sitcom. Whenever he's out of sight, though, the show becomes significantly more dramatic.

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* ButtMonkey: While it's not as obvious as it is with Allison, it's clear Neil is frequently a victim of Kevin's antics, which sometimes involve Neil getting physically injured or humiliated. Neil is too clueless and blindly loyal to Kevin to ever realize it, though. For example, "We're Selling Washing Machines" reveals at one point, he tried to help Kevin hang a giant banner advertising a Kevin Hart stand-up show on his house, resulting in Neil breaking a leg.

* ImportantHaircut: Not one he chose for himself, but in Season 2, he gets his long shaggy hair shorn down to a buzzcut following his hospital stay.

* ForTheEvulz: [[spoiler: He confesses that he is fully aware of how horrible he and his actions are, but he goes ahead anyway since it's very amusing and exciting to make others suffer, especially Allison.]]

* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:Over the course of the second season, his former ironclad grasp on the narrative slowly starts to loosen, with more and more of his friends realizing what a toxic person he is and subsequently getting more sick of his shenanigans. By the end, his former best friend openly hates him, his father's cut all ties and his girlfriend has left him without even the dignity of an actual rejection. Notably, just before he's [[WhamShot forced into the real world]], ''his own studio audience'' turns against him, cheering for Allison when she says she's divorcing him.]]

* InsufferableImbecile: He's incredibly stupid and is also an arrogant, self-serving jerk. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, as Kevin's ignorance and selfishness makes him intensely toxic to everyone around him, including Allison and his friends.

* TheChewToy: She takes the brunt of the physical comedy on both sides of the story.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Sort of. Of the boorish, lazy, and immature husband from many domestic sitcoms. Kevin is an example of how horrible it would be to actually be married to such a person and how flaws that would usually be played for laughs have a serious and damaging effect on people around him, especially his wife. Although it should be pointed that that unlike all of the other DomCom husbands, Kevin lacks ''all'' the usual sympathetic qualities and tropes that come with the type of character, which makes Kevin a ''very toxic'' example of one.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Sort of. Of the boorish, lazy, and immature husband from many domestic sitcoms. Kevin is an example of how horrible it would be to actually be married to such a person and how flaws that would usually be played for laughs have a serious and damaging effect on people around him, especially his wife. Although it should be pointed that that unlike all of the other DotCom husbands, Kevin lacks ''all'' the usual sympathetic qualities and topes that DotCom husbands usually have, which makes Kevin a ''very toxic'' example of one.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Sort of. Of the boorish, lazy, and immature husband from many domestic sitcoms. Kevin is an example of how horrible it would be to actually be married to such a person and how flaws that would usually be played for laughs have a serious and damaging effect on people around him, especially his wife. Although it should be pointed that that unlike all of the other DotComs, Kevin lacks ''all'' the usual sympathetic qualities and topes that DotComs husbands usually have, which makes Kevin a ''very toxic'' example of one.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the boorish, lazy, and immature husband from many domestic sitcoms. Kevin is an example of how horrible it would be to actually be married to such a person and how flaws that would usually be played for laughs have a serious and damaging effect on people around him, especially his wife.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Kevin frequently employs this when he feels he's been wronged.

* KnightOfCerebus: He's a weird inversion of this trope. Whenever he's on camera, the world around him looks like a sitcom. Whenever he leaves the room, though, the show becomes significantly more dramatic.

* EntitledBastard: No matter how poorly he treats them, Kevin still expects everyone to move heaven and earth for his own benefit and doesn't see an issue with such a mentality.

* {{Expy}}: A pointed TakeThat at the titular sitcom husband of ''Series/KevinCanWait'' (note the shared names/titles), being a loutish and emotionally neglectful husband to his abused wife.
** Perhaps most pointed in the finale [[spoiler:when he thinks Allison is dead. Just like his inspiration, he makes a few passing references to grieving before immediately moving on with a new love interest and barely mentioning her for the rest of the episode.]]

* MoneyDumb: Big time. Unlike a lot of examples of this, Kevin doesn't come from a rich background, but he's simply such an insanely reckless moron that he sees no problem with blowing his and Allison's savings on parties, sports memorabilia, and his idiotic scams. Meanwhile, he tries to {{gaslight|ing}} Allison into thinking that their financial troubles are [[NeverMyFault actually her fault]].

* TooDumbToLive: Kevin's inane schemes don't just blow up in his face, but put him in real danger. His escape room plan in "Live Free or Die" causes him to swallow a key, which seems to cause some pain, and then get stuck in a window (and that's not getting to the roast beef that's been left burning in the oven). And in "The Grand Victorian", his antics on his birthday cause him to consume so much food that it threatens his health, to the point where he actually begins choking on a piece of meat and would have died if not for Sam's intervention. This sort of behavior contributes to Allison's SanitySlippage since the show depicts how such behavior would be mentally and physically exhausting to put up with on a daily basis.
** It also implies that all the energy Allison spends on plotting Kevin's demise is actually wasted, because he is ultimately so helpless without her that if she ever got the courage to just leave him for good, it would in all likelihood not take very long for him to end up getting himself killed through his own stupidity. [[spoiler:This ultimately comes into play in the series finale, as after Allison leaves Kevin for good, he accidentally burns down his house in a drunken attempt to get rid of Allison's belongings, killing himself.]]

* FreudianExcuse: The creators of the series are blunt in describing him as the reason Kevin is the way he is. If he isn't ''responsible'' for Kevin turning out the way he is due to his terrible parenting, then he certainly failed to ''prevent'' it. He's also no prize as an individual either, being personally unpleasant, bigoted, and takes poor care of himself, making him a lousy role model. He's even been described as "Kevin in 30 years".[[note]]This turns out to be false - Kevin doesn't live to old age.[[/note]] Until he meets Lorraine, he doesn't seem to have any friends his own age and is forced to hang around his son and his friends to have any kind of social life at all. It should be noted that he's the only major character we never see outside of the sitcom filter, even though Neil and even Kevin break out of it eventually. In fact the filter is on even in the few scenes he has where Kevin is not present, suggesting that, like Kevin (and Allison's mother Donna), he generates his own.

* HappyEnding: Of all people, Pete probably gets the best ending. [[spoiler:He is the only character to end the series in a relationship (with Lorraine), he successfully leaves Worcester (for sunny Florida), and he escapes his son's toxic influence so cleanly that he doesn't even break the sitcom filter, leaving him the only character who ends the series in the sitcom reality.]] Pete, unlike Kevin, is savvy, self-reliant and genuinely cares for his partner, suggesting that he'll also avoid his ultimate fate.

* KarmaHoudini: Pete, while not actively malignant like Kevin, is an unpleasant character whose spectacular failure at parenting is largely responsible for the monster his son has become. Although he finally sees and acknowledges Kevin's darker side and even has to wait on him hand and foot for six months after Allison's "death", he ''still'' is able to exit his son's life to live with his girlfriend in a sunny Florida condo in so clean a getaway that his sitcom filter doesn't even break. We can only hope that his last several months seeing the worst of Kevin have encouraged him to be a better person to Lorraine than Kevin was to Allison.

* {{Pyromaniac}}: While he accuses Neil of being one, Kevin is actually the only person to set fires in the series, simply because he enjoys it, [[spoiler: culminating in his death in the GrandFinale]].

* SmallNameBigEgo: Kevin thinks he is "winning" at life, despite all evidence to the contrary. Being enabled by everyone around him, who are often cowtowed into going along with his self-image, doesn't help with this perception.

* {{Pyromaniac}}: An InformedFlaw. According to Kevin, Neil really wants to light stuff on fire sometimes, and terrible as Kevin and Pete are, [[EveryoneHasStandards even they realize that this is bad]], to the point where they and Patty have [[NoodleIncident made various efforts to keep fireworks away from him in the past]]. However, at no point is this actually ''shown'' to be the case, with Kevin being the one to start ''all'' of the fires in the series, [[EpilepticTrees perhaps implying]] that Neil was just taking the fall for Kevin.

* {{Pyromaniac}}: An InformedFlaw. According to Kevin, Neil really wants to light stuff on fire sometimes, and terrible as Kevin and Pete are, [[EveryoneHasStandards even they realize that this is bad]], to the point where they and Patty have [[NoodleIncident made various efforts to keep fireworks away from him in the past]]. However, at no point is this actually ''shown'' to be the case, with Kevin being the one to start ''all'' of the fires in the series, [[WildEpilepticTrees perhaps implying]] that Neil was just taking the fall for Kevin.

* {{Narcissist}}: He's a massive one. Kevin genuinely believes the world revolves around him and perceives the world around him as a sitcom where he's the main character. He's also extremely overconfident and self-absorbed while demanding everyone's devotion and attention while treating everyone around him terribly and expecting them to love him anyway.

* TheGhost: Is this in the "real world" segments. On multiple occasions she is left behind in a room when the other sitcom characters leave and the filter disappears... but then so does she, always ''just'' offscreen (and ''silent'', despite her grating laugh being her most prominent trait).

* IRejectYourReality: Kevin doesn't do well with anyone intruding on his self-image as a lovable goofball.

* LackOfEmpathy: He's largely incapable of understanding the needs and feelings of his wife or his friends and only cares about himself.

* {{Narcissist}}: He's a massive one. Kevin genuinely believes the world revolves around him and perceives the world around him as a sitcom where he's the main character. He's also extremely overconfident and self-absorbed while demanding everyone's devotion and attention.