History PlayingWith / RiseAndFallGangsterArc

* '''Played For Drama''': At the start of the film ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up to becoming a ''capo'' of the family, becoming fabulously wealthy and powerful in the process. This success comes at a cost: Bob's relationship with his wife is heavily strained after she finds out the dirty work he does. Bob himself is heavily conflicted about whether his riches are worth the dozens of rival gangsters he has had to murder. Over time, Bob's physical and mental health worsens as he suffers both stress from the daily burdens of being a criminal boss as well as constant assassination attempts by rival gangs. This turns him into a paranoid wreck, and in the second half of the film, we see Bob snapping at his subordinates and making paranoid, irrational decisions. Bob soon suffers a mental breakdown after one of his best friends (who isn't even in the family) is killed in a drive-by shooting, causing him to launch an ill-advised [[GangWar gang war]] out of a desire for revenge. The gang war bankrupts the Romano family, and Bob can only painstakingly watch as the Romano family slowly collapses day after day until eventually, it's down to just Bob and a few of his most loyal subordinates. He tries to escape to a different country, but fails and is caught by the police. By the end of the film, we see Bob spending his days in a maximum security prison having constant nightmares about his friends being gunned down in the streets.

* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Justified''': Bob lives in an authoritarian state which takes a zero-tolerance policy towards drug peddling, prostitution and racketeering. His downfall was only a matter of time.

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* '''Exploited''': ???

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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

* '''Conversed''': "[[PlagueOfGoodFortune I'm starting to feel a little nervous about how good times are rolling right now]]. I just know that any moment now someone -- hopefully not me, but ''someone'' -- is [[JustOneLittleMistake going to do something stupid]] and I'm going to end up in jail."

* '''Conversed''': "[[PlagueOfGoodFortune I'm starting to feel a little nervous about how good times are rolling right now]]. I just know that any moment now someone -- hopefully not me, but ''someone'' -- is [[JustOneSmallMistake going to do something stupid]] and I'm going to end up in jail."

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Defied''': At the start of ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up to becoming a ''capo'' of the family, becoming fabulously wealthy and powerful in the process. As a fan of gangster movies, he is well aware of the various ways that gangsters have met their downfall in the past, so he takes care not to [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply use his own product]] or allow his men to, keeps his [[HairTriggerTemper temper]] in check, and maintains cordial reciprocal relationships with rival gangs.

* '''Defied''': At the start of ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up to becoming a ''capo'' of the family, becoming fabulously wealthy in the process. As a fan of gangster movies, he is well aware of the various ways that gangsters have met their downfall in the past, so he takes care not to [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply use his own product]] or allow his men to, keeps his [[HairTriggerTemper temper]] in check, and maintains cordial reciprocal relationships with rival gangs.

* '''Downplayed''': At the start of ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up within the family to the point where he can afford a comfortable, but hardly decadent, lifestyle. In the second half of the film, things start to go wrong for Bob, some members of the Romano family are sent to prison, others drift away from the lifestyle and the police begin to cause more trouble for the gang. By the end of the film, Bob is still in a position of relative comfort, his relationship with his wife is intact (albeit strained), and he often finds himself looking over his shoulder or getting startled by loud noises.

* '''Straight''': At the start of the film ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up to becoming a ''capo'' of the family, becoming fabulously wealthy in the process. In the second half of the film, everything starts to go wrong for Bob, his friends get murdered left and right, rival gangs begin muscling in on his territory, and he winds up getting shot dead by a close confidant.

* '''Downplayed''': At the start of ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up within the family to the point where he can afford a comfortable, but hardly decadent, lifestyle. In the second half of the film, things start to go wrong for Bob, some members of the Romano family are sent to prison, others drift away from the lifestyle and the police begin to cause more trouble for the gang. By the end of the film, Bob is still in a position of relative comfort, his relationship with his wife is intact (albeit strained) and he often finds himself looking over his shoulder or getting startled by loud noises.

* '''Defied''': At the start of ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a low-level gangster in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, he works his way up to becoming a ''capo'' of the family, becoming fabulously wealthy in the process. As a fan of gangster movies, he is well aware of the various ways that gangsters have met their downfall in the past, so he takes care not to [[GettingHighOnTheirOwnSupply use his own product]] or allow his men to, keeps his [[HairTriggerTemper temper]] in check and maintains cordial reciprocal relationships with rival gangs.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Bob, you own three houses, a dozen flash cars and you've got the south side tied in a knot. ThisIsThePartWhere everything starts going wrong for you."

* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A story arc which depicts a gangster rising to, then falling from, power.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': ... then Bob gets shot dead by a random nobody looking to make a name for himself.

* '''Inverted''': At the start of ''Tropefellas'', Bob is a successful ''capo'' in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, everything starts to go wrong for him until he is alone and friendless, without a penny to his name, and hunted by the police and rival gangs. The second half of the film chronicle him clawing his way back up the ladder, and he ends the film in a similar position to how he started.

* '''Inverted''': At the start of ''Tropefellas', Bob is a successful ''capo'' in the Romano family. Over the course of the first half of the film, everything starts to go wrong for him until he is alone and friendless, without a penny to his name, and hunted by the police and rival gangs. The second half of the film chronicle him clawing his way back up the ladder, and he ends the film in a similar position to how he started.