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* '''Played For Laughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b's]] heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
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* '''Played For Laughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b's]] heart's desire is... half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
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* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's hooked up to [[MadScientist Carl's]] machine!
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* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade... he's hooked up to [[MadScientist Carl's]] machine!
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** Carl realized that Bob would never stop until his work was done... and so made a world where it was.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's in a machine of Carl's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment machinations]], except that's the reality. But not really, that was a clever ruse. And now it's becoming nightmarish, but Bob saves the day and makes everything ''better''...but that pushes it into UncannyValley perfection, making it no longer perfect...
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's in a machine of Carl's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment machinations]], except that's the reality. But not really, that was a clever ruse. And now it's becoming nightmarish, but Bob saves the day and makes everything ''better''... but that pushes it into UncannyValley perfection, making it no longer perfect...
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** Bob's dream world is perfect...but [[TooGoodToBeTrue humans shouldn't be]], and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
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** Bob's dream world is perfect... but [[TooGoodToBeTrue humans shouldn't be]], and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
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'''Basic Trope''': A dream made to keep TheHero from returning to reality.
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's in [[MadScientist Carl's]] machine!
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's in [[MadScientist Carl's]] machine!
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'''Basic Trope''': A dream made dream/hallucination designed to keep TheHero from returning to reality.
you trapped there through sheer pleasantness.
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he'sin hooked up to [[MadScientist Carl's]] machine!
* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's
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** Carl puts Bob in this for the express purpose of [[SecretTestOfCharacter making him want to stop Carl.]]
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** Carl gets rid of Bob by making him leave the machine everyone in their world is in.
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** Carl puts Bob's mentor designs such a machine as a LeaveYourQuestTest to see whether Bob has enough HeroicWillpower.
** The entire story takes place inthis for the express purpose of [[SecretTestOfCharacter making him want to stop Carl.]]
**a simulated world, and Carl gets rid of Bob by making disconnecting him leave the machine everyone in their world is in.somehow.
** The entire story takes place in
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** Carl builds a happy-dream-machine, but decides that his hatred for Bob is too great and he won't give him a happy experience even as a trap. Instead, he starts working on a nightmare-machine.
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* '''Conversed''': "You'd think Carlos Carlps would know Bill's willpower is too strong for that sort of thing."
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** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
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** Bob's dream world is perfect...but [[TooGoodToBeTrue humans shouldn't be, be]], and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob falls into despair because he feels he's not worthy of living in a perfect world due to past mistakes.
** Although Bob returns to the real world, he becomeshorribly depressed at being because [[PerfectionIsAddictive it's so hopelessly terrible compared to the only person who ever makes a mistake.dream]].
** Bob falls into despair because he feels he's not worthy of living in a perfect world due to past mistakes.
** Although Bob returns to the real world, he becomes
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** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
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** Carl realizes this in a simulation, beta testing, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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** His allies [[DreamWalker travel into the dream]] to save him, but find it to be extremely unexpected for Bob's personality, such as a ManlyMan Bob dreaming of living in a SugarBowl, or NonActionGuy Bob dreaming of being a SuperSoldier. When they manage to wake Bob up, he coughs in embarrassment and says "LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain".
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. die without him. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].show]].
** Bob's unexpected dream illustrates his HiddenDepths desires that [[TragicDream he will likely never get to achieve in life]]. After being revived, he thinks back to his dream life and bursts into tears.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all
** Bob's unexpected dream illustrates his HiddenDepths desires that [[TragicDream he will likely never get to achieve in life]]. After being revived, he thinks back to his dream life and bursts into tears.
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Go back to LotusEaterMachine. It's so nice...
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Go back to LotusEaterMachine. It's so nice...nice and cozy...
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* '''Straight''': Bob is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's in Carl's machine!
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* '''Straight''': Bob [[TheHero Bob]] is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's in Carl's [[MadScientist Carl's]] machine!
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** The device is Bob's way of taking a vacation. A dream lasts 10 seconds, but can feel like ages. A quick nip into WhatMightHaveBeen so he can remember what he's fighting for, and he's right as rain.
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** The device is Bob's way of taking a vacation. A dream lasts 10 seconds, but can feel like ages. A quick nip into WhatMightHaveBeen WhatCouldHaveBeen so he can remember what he's fighting for, and he's right as rain.
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The Matrix wasn\'t an example. There has to an idyllic or Happy Place element for it to count.
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** [[Film/TheMatrix All of society is inside a giant virtual reality machine.]]
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** [[Film/TheMatrix All of society is live inside a giant virtual reality machine.]]machine that allows people to live out their fantasies.
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** Bob ''thinks'' Carl has put him in a LotusEaterMachine, but the audience knows that this is reality.
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* '''Exploited''': ???Bob realizes early on he's in a fake world, but loves it so much he decides to just stay.
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is in a simulated world that's pretty much the same as the real world. * '''Justified''':
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* '''Downplayed''': Bob is in a simulated world that's pretty much the same as the real world. world.
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* '''Downplayed''': ???
Bob is in a simulated world that's pretty much the same as the real world. * '''Justified''':
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** Carl puts Bob in this for the express purpose of [[SecretTestOfCharacter making him want to stop him.]]
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** Carl puts Bob in this for the express purpose of [[SecretTestOfCharacter making him want to stop him.Carl.]]
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* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
** Carl mass-produces these machines as "mini-vacation machines".
** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
** Carl mass-produces these machines as "mini-vacation machines".
* '''Exploited''': ???
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b's]] heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
* '''PlayedForDrama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
* '''PlayedForDrama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
** Carl mass-produces these machines as "mini-vacation machines".
* '''Played For Laughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b's]] heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
*'''PlayedForDrama''': '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
** Carl mass-produces these machines as "mini-vacation machines".
* '''Played For Laughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b's]] heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
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** [[TheMatrix [[Film/TheMatrix All of society is inside a giant virtual reality machine.]]
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b]]'s heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
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* '''PlayedForLaughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b]]'s b's]] heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is spontaneously good at everything he wants to be and can do no wrong, because Carl put a hallucinogenic microchip in his wristwatch.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob is spontaneously good at everything he wants to be and can do no wrong, because Carl put a hallucinogenic microchip in his wristwatch.
** Bob is spontaneously good at everything he wants to be and can do no wrong, because Carl put a hallucinogenic microchip in his wristwatch.
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* '''Justified''': Carl realized that Bob would never stop until his work was done...and so made a world where it was.
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** Carl realized that Bob would never stop until his work was done...and so made a world where it was.
** Carl realized that Bob would never stop until his work was done...and so made a world where it was.
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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
** Carl traps Bob in his worst nightmare.
** Carl traps Bob in his worst nightmare.
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* '''Subverted''': The machine was the fantasy, the paradise ''is'' reality.
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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
** The machine was the fantasy, the paradise ''is'' reality.
** The machine was the fantasy, the paradise ''is'' reality.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Except that was [[DreamWithinADream layering]] Carl used to trick Bob.
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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
** ...Except that was [[DreamWithinADream layering]] Carl used to trick Bob.
** ...Except that was [[DreamWithinADream layering]] Carl used to trick Bob.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob's dream world is perfect...but humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
** Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
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* '''Invoked''': "I won't ''make'' you stay. I'll just make you ''want'' to."
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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
** "I won't ''make'' you stay. I'll just make you ''want'' to."
** "I won't ''make'' you stay. I'll just make you ''want'' to."
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* '''Defied''': "You can't give me a perfect world. [[WorldHalfEmpty Such things cannot be obtained,]] only [[WorldHalfFull sought after.]]"
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** "You can't give me a perfect world. [[WorldHalfEmpty Such things cannot be obtained,]] only [[WorldHalfFull sought after.]]"
** "You can't give me a perfect world. [[WorldHalfEmpty Such things cannot be obtained,]] only [[WorldHalfFull sought after.]]"
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* '''Played For Laughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b]]'s heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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* '''Played For Laughs''': '''PlayedForLaughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b]]'s heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
*'''Played For Drama''': '''PlayedForDrama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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** Carl mass-produces these machines as "mini-vacation machines".
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* '''Parodied''': Carl suggests that it would be easier for Bob if he didn't hero, and the mere suggestion causes him to fall into a dream.
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* '''Parodied''': Carl suggests that it would be easier for Bob if he didn't weren't a hero, and the mere suggestion causes him to fall into a dream.
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** [[theMatrix All of society is inside a giant virtual reality machine.]]
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** [[theMatrix [[TheMatrix All of society is inside a giant virtual reality machine.]]
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** [[theMatrix All of society is inside a giant virtual reality machine.]]
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's dream world is perfect...but human's shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's dream world is perfect...but human's humans shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
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** All of society is inside a giant virtual reality machine.
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** A huge amount of money is invested in creating a perfect virtual reality.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnuishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnuishedDeclarationOfLove [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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* '''Straight''': Bob is in a world that is paradise to him, but fade...he's in Carl's machine!
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is spontaneously good at everything he wants to be and can do no wrong, because Carl put a hallucinogenic microchip in his wristwatch.
* '''Justified''': Carl realized that Bob would never stop until his work was done...and so made a world where it was.
* '''Inverted''': Carl traps Bob in his worst nightmare.
** Carl puts Bob in this
* '''Subverted''': The machine was the fantasy, the paradise ''is'' reality.
** Bob's paradise becomes a nightmare.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Except that was [[DreamWithinADream layering]] Carl used to trick Bob.
** ...And then is paradise again as soon as he deals with the threat. People love him even more now!
* '''Parodied''': Carl suggests that it would be easier for Bob if he didn't hero, and the mere suggestion causes him to fall into a dream.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's dream world is perfect...but human's shouldn't be, and the fact that they are makes everything ''[[UncannyValley creepy]]''.
** Bob becomes horribly depressed at being the only person who ever makes a mistake.
* '''Reconstructed''': Carl realizes this in a simulation, and makes everything ''just'' imperfect enough.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob's in a machine of Carl's [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment machinations]], except that's the reality. But not really, that was a clever ruse. And now it's becoming nightmarish, but Bob saves the day and makes everything ''better''...but that pushes it into UncannyValley perfection, making it no longer perfect...
* '''Averted''': Carl doesn't use this sort of manipulation.
* '''Enforced''': "We need Bob to be out of the way for the first half of the episode, but he would ''never'' let this happen..."
* '''Lampshaded''': "Ah, yes. Put me in a perfect world. I'll ''never'' figure it out."
* '''Invoked''': "I won't ''make'' you stay. I'll just make you ''want'' to."
* '''Defied''': "You can't give me a perfect world. [[WorldHalfEmpty Such things cannot be obtained,]] only [[WorldHalfFull sought after.]]"
** "What? No! I do have ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]]'', you know."
* '''Discussed''': "And now you're going to get me out of the way by offering me a fake image of my heart's desire."
* '''Conversed''': "You'd think Carlos would know Bill's willpower is too strong for that sort of thing."
* '''Played For Laughs''': [[AntiHero B]][[DarkAndTroubledPast o]][[BlackAndGrayMorality b]]'s heart's desire is...half a cup of sugar. Turning it into a nightmare is spilling water into the sugar. Cue BigNo.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob desperately wants to stay, and no one can manage to get him to leave even though they'll all ''[[WhatTheHellHero die]]''. Then [[LoveInterest Alice]] [[CannotSpitItOut spits]] [[AnuishedDeclarationOfLove it out,]] [[WhamEpisode forever changing the show]].
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