History PlayingWith / ShowerOfAngst

'''Charlie''': "And you're complaining about it?! Dude, you're weird!"

* '''Inverted''': After accepting Bob's marriage proposal, (with [[TheStoic an astonishing calm]]) Alice goes to her home to wash away the sweat generated from her restrained excitement. And then, while she's under the stream of water, [[NotSoStoic she overflows in joy and happiness]], even breaking into spontaneous dancing and [[HollywoodToneDeaf (bad) singing]].

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice uses Showers Of Angst as a coping mechanism so often that she develops a psychological dependency on them whenever anything she doesn't like happens.

* '''Reconstructed''': Alice feels better after using Showers Of Angst, in conjunction with more healthy ways of coping.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Straight''': Alice witnesses Bob's HeroicSacrifice to take down a powerful villain, but she doesn't react at all. After it, she arrives home and decides to take a shower to wash away the dirt from the previous battle. And then, while she's under the stream of water, she finally breaks into tears.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice witnesses Bob's horrible torturing and death at the hands of a sadistic villain; it's a scene so twisted and violent that she gets unwillingly stained in her friend's blood. After the villain escapes, a frightened and confused Alice strips herself naked and goes into the nearest shower to wash away Bob's blood. There her emotions explode, going from total despair to blind anger as she trashes the whole room. After this outburst of destruction she just collapses into the floor, [[TroubledFetalPosition curled into fetal position]] and broken in tears.

'''Basic Trope''': A character, after facing a harsh event, sucumbs to sorrow while taking a shower.

** Several characters lock themselves in several bathrooms for their own personal Shower of Sorrow; much to the dismay of Steven, [[PottyEmergency that really needs to use a bathroom, and fast!]]

* '''Enforced''': Alice is our series' ActionGirl, we can't have her reduced to tears at the death of a male teammate, the audience will think we're trying to turn her into a DistressedDamsel.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** Ergo, the water bill skyrockets, forcing Alice and her housemates to skimp on other luxuries at the very least.

** They install a water-saving device in the shower.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

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

* '''Justified''': While Alice is deeply affected by Bob's death she, as the TrueCompanions' leader, cannot let her emotions overflow in front of her comrades because that would unsettle them, she has to show emotional strength from them to overcome it. However, the shower it's a private place, water's noise mitigates the sound of her lament, and it can help to mask and / or wash away the tears.

* '''Parodied''': Alice sorrow invokes a PersonalRaincloud over her head, so she decides use this chance to take a shower.

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice uses Showers Of Angst as a coping mechanism so often that she develops a psychological dependency on them whenever anything she doesn't like happens.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice feels better after using Showers Of Angst, in conjunction with more healthy ways of coping.

* '''Lampshaded''': "The tears just won't stop... I might as well shut the water and wash myself on this stream of despair... [[LaughingMad Ha ha ha ha ha ha!]]"
** "I scrubbed untill a bit of skin came off..."

-->'''Steven''': "I've heard Alice crying on the shower... Do you think she'll be all-right?"
-->'''Claire''': "Let her be, it will help her to ease her emotion after Bob's death. Everyone else is discharging their emotion on their own particular way; it helps the body and spirit"
-->'''Steven''': "What about you Claire? I haven't seen particularly affected for it."
-->'''Claire''': "Oh, but I am. In fact, [[TranquilFury I'm actually enraged beyond the breaking point right now]]. But just like Alice that restrained her sorrow up until now, I'm just containing my rage to release it on the worthless [[PrecisionFStrike son-of-a-bitch]] that killed Bob."

-->'''Johnny''': "I don't mind {{Fanservice}} from time to time, but was this scene really necessary? I mean, what could have been a powerful and emotional scene gets overshadowed for the unsettling attention on her nude body"
-->'''Charly''': "And you're complaining about it?! Dude, you're weird!"

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* '''Justified''': While Alice is deeply affected by Bob's death she, as the {{Nakama}}'s leader, cannot let her emotions overflow in front of her comrades because that would unsettle them, she has to show emotional strength from them to overcome it. However, the shower it's a private place, water's noise mitigates the sound of her lament, and it can help to mask and / or wash away the tears.

* '''Exaggerated''': Alice witnesses Bob's horrible torturing and death at the hands of a sadistic villain; it's a scene so twisted and violent that she gets unwillingly stained in her friend's blood. After the villain escapes, a frightened and confused Alice strips herself naked and goes into the nearest shower to was away Bob's blood. There her emotions explode, going from total despair to blind anger as she trashes the whole room. After this outburst of destruction she just collapses into the floor, [[TroubledFetalPosition curled into fetal position]] and broken in tears.

* '''Deconstructed''': ???
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???