1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character manipulates others in order to further their goals. |
2 | * '''Straight''': |
3 | ** Bob tells [[TheAtoner Alice]] that if she doesn't help him defeat [[BigBad Emperor Evulz]], she will never be forgiven for her past misdeeds. |
4 | ** Bob hatches a plan to manipulate Alice into doing what he wants. |
5 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
6 | ** Bob can manipulate TheSpock. |
7 | ** Bob manipulates every other character, both good guys and bad guys, and [[WildCard everything in between]]. |
8 | ** DidYouJustScamCthulhu |
9 | * '''Downplayed''': |
10 | ** Bob [[ThePrankster pulls pranks]] by playing on his subjects' minds. |
11 | ** Bob is very reluctant to manipulate people, but he will do so if necessary. |
12 | * '''Justified''': |
13 | ** Bob is TheEmpath, which allows him [[GoodPowersBadPeople to take advantage of others' feelings]]. |
14 | ** Bob's manipulation was for a good cause. |
15 | ** Bob is TheSociopath. |
16 | ** Bob is educated in [[PsychoPsychologist psychology. ]] |
17 | ** Bob had a [[FreudianExcuse tough childhood]] where manipulation was needed to obtain his basic needs. |
18 | * '''Inverted''': ExtremeDoormat |
19 | * '''Subverted''': |
20 | ** Bob wasn't trying to manipulate Alice. He genuinely feels that way. |
21 | ** Bob wants to be this trope, [[BigBadWannabe but is TERRIBLE at it]]. |
22 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
23 | ** Bob is manipulating Alice into thinking he genuinely feels that way. |
24 | ** [[ObfuscatingStupidity Being terrible at manipulation was what Bob wanted everyone to think all along...]] |
25 | * '''Parodied''': Bob manipulates people into doing things he could do himself in a few seconds: such as picking up a pencil. |
26 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice manipulates Bob into thinking he's manipulating her. |
27 | * '''Averted''': Bob never manipulates others. |
28 | * '''Enforced''': |
29 | ** "We need someone to take advantage of TheHero's kindness." |
30 | ** "We need a master manipulator-type AntiHero." |
31 | * '''Lampshaded''': "All you told me were lies! You were just using me!" |
32 | * '''Invoked''': Bob studies psychology and applies it to the people he knows. |
33 | * '''Exploited''': Alice knows Bob is trying to manipulate her, but plays dumb so that Bob lets his guard down. |
34 | * '''Defied''': |
35 | ** Alice knows Bob is trying to manipulate her, and calls him out on it. |
36 | ** Alice's immediate response to suspecting she is currently a pawn in any of Bob's schemes (even if she isn't, and most specially [[DisproportionateRetribution when she isn't]]) is to [[TalkToTheFist break Bob]]. Bob does tries at the beginning [[WoundedGazelleGambit to factor this into his schemes]], but after a hundred times [[PyrrhicVictory of the price of dealing with Alice becoming too high]], he [[TheDreaded decides to avoid dealing with her and anything related to her]]. |
37 | * '''Discussed''': Bob and Steve talk about the moral implications of manipulating Alice. |
38 | * '''Conversed''': "This show is just plain sick! Bob manipulates Alice into doing everything he wants her to do, and Steve treats him like he's in the right." |
39 | * '''Implied''': Alice says she'll never perform Action A, but then she does it under Bob's seemingly benevolent gaze. |
40 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
41 | ** Nobody trusts Bob because he keeps manipulating them. |
42 | ** Bob eventually finds a person TooDumbToFool; FeralVillain (And TheBrute in Emperor Evulz's general scheme of things) Clay. TalkToTheFist ensues. |
43 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
44 | ** Bob plays the long game with his [[EvilGenius evil]] or [[GuileHero not-so-evil]] plans and frames other people, so nobody catches on. |
45 | ** Because no one trusts him, Bob relies almost entirely upon ReversePsychology instead, to much the same effect as if they did trust him. |
46 | ** Bob commits using his plans and improvisations to manipulate villains and no one else. The heroes regain their trust in him. |
47 | * '''Played for Laughs''': [[LaughablyEvil Bob]] [[PokeThePoodle manipulates Alice into doing barely villainous things, like not recycling.]] |
48 | * '''Played for Drama''': Bob manipulates Alice into killing her friend David. When Alice [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realizes what she's done]], she murders Bob. |
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