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** A group of {{Knight Templar}}s run around subjecting people to all kinds of trials (anything from stealing all of their money, dislocating their shoulders and [[KickTheDog running over their dogs]] up to subjecting them to ''Film/{{Saw}}''-style "maim yourself to break free" tortures) to teach them this lesson.

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** A group of {{Knight Templar}}s run around subjecting people to all kinds of trials (anything from stealing all of their money, dislocating their shoulders and [[KickTheDog running over their dogs]] up to subjecting them to ''Film/{{Saw}}''-style ''Franchise/{{Saw}}''-style "maim yourself to break free" tortures) to teach them this lesson.

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** Alice [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney avoided all hardships]] and became an [[EntitledBastard entitled]] WomanChild [[AesopAmnesia who never learns her lesson]]. Charlie, meanwhile, [[BreakTheCutie broke]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast under the weight of his misfortune]] and became a MisanthropeSupreme who [[AesopAmnesia never learns his lesson]]. Bob is relatively fortunate, experiencing enough suffering to learn and grow as a person, without being broken... yet Della was spoiled rotten by her parents yet still wound up as a [[SpoiledSweet good person]], who proves to be resilient [[ThePollyanna even in the face of adversity]] despite (or even ''because'') of the lack of adversity faced in her life.

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** Alice [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney avoided all hardships]] and became an [[EntitledBastard entitled]] WomanChild [[AesopAmnesia who never learns her lesson]]. Charlie, meanwhile, [[BreakTheCutie broke]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast under the weight of his misfortune]] and became a MisanthropeSupreme who [[AesopAmnesia never learns his lesson]]. Bob is relatively fortunate, experiencing enough suffering to learn and grow as a person, without being broken... yet Della was spoiled rotten by her parents yet still wound up as a [[SpoiledSweet good person]], who proves to be resilient [[ThePollyanna even in the face of adversity]] despite (or even ''because'') of the lack of adversity faced in her life, and Evan was pretty much {{abus|iveparents}}ed and pretty much gone through thousands upon thousands of {{Humiliation Conga}}s per ''hour'', yet still wound up as a [[GoodSamaritan good person]], who proves to be serene and cool-headed [[NervesOfSteel even in the face of adversity]] because (or even ''despite'') the sheer amount of adversity faced in his life.



** Bob, who is TheBigGuy and [[TheWorfEffect no stranger to eating humble pie]] or [[TraumaCongaLine suffering (either personally]] or [[HeroicSacrifice for the sake of his friends]]) spends a full season (and the five-year TimeSkip between seasons) on a wheelchair with an injured back, watching the world pass him by and [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding his friends achieving all of the objectives they set out to do from the beginning of the show]] without him, society again and again [[InnocentlyInsensitive trying and failing to not address his absence and apparent uselessness as the elephant in the room]], and every time he tries to [[HesBack return to the game]] in any way, shape or form [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome he just ends with egg on his face]]. And he is supposed to achieve... a better character from this. Bob is [[WhatTheHellHero completely nonplussed]].

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** Bob, who is TheBigGuy and [[TheWorfEffect no stranger to eating humble pie]] (with his job [[BigGuyFatalitySyndrome having a surprisingly high death count]]) or [[TraumaCongaLine suffering (either personally]] or [[HeroicSacrifice for the sake of his friends]]) spends a full season (and the five-year TimeSkip between seasons) on a wheelchair with an injured back, watching the world pass him by and [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding his friends achieving all of the objectives they set out to do from the beginning of the show]] without him, society again and again [[InnocentlyInsensitive trying and failing to not address his absence and apparent uselessness as the elephant in the room]], and every time he tries to [[HesBack return to the game]] in any way, shape or form [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome he just ends with egg on his face]].face or any other kind of humiliation and disrespect that would come his way]]. And he is supposed to achieve... a better character from this. Bob is [[WhatTheHellHero completely nonplussed]].



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** Bob is beginning to look like an InvincibleHero and boring the audience. The writers decide to break him a little and increase audience sympathy.

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** A group of {{Knight Templar}}s run around subjecting people to all kinds of trials (anything from stealing all of their money, dislocating their shoulders and [[KickTheDog running over their dogs]] up to subjecting them to ''Film/{{Saw}}''-style "maim yourself to break free" tortures) to teach them this lesson.



* '''Played For Drama''': The trials and tribulations a character goes through [[TearJerker break the audience's hearts]].

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The trials and tribulations a character goes through [[TearJerker break the audience's hearts]].hearts]].
** Bob, who is TheBigGuy and [[TheWorfEffect no stranger to eating humble pie]] or [[TraumaCongaLine suffering (either personally]] or [[HeroicSacrifice for the sake of his friends]]) spends a full season (and the five-year TimeSkip between seasons) on a wheelchair with an injured back, watching the world pass him by and [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding his friends achieving all of the objectives they set out to do from the beginning of the show]] without him, society again and again [[InnocentlyInsensitive trying and failing to not address his absence and apparent uselessness as the elephant in the room]], and every time he tries to [[HesBack return to the game]] in any way, shape or form [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome he just ends with egg on his face]]. And he is supposed to achieve... a better character from this. Bob is [[WhatTheHellHero completely nonplussed]].
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** Bob doesn't realise it's recovery, rather than trauma itself, that makes people stronger. He rejects people's kindness and [[TherapyIsForTheWeak refuses therapy]] in order to keep suffering, only to end up on a downward spiral that takes him over the DespairEventHorizon.

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