Line #16 PlayingWith/SmiteMeOMightySmiter


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character dares ThePowersThatBe to do something, usually after a series of unfortunate events.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob the Hero yells toward the skies with complaint after he failed to stop the army of the BigBad from invading his hometown.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob the Hero yells all sort of profanity directed at ThePowersThatBe after he failed to save his friends, his family, and his dog from the army of the BigBad.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Bob breaks his leg, and says [[SarcasmMode "Really? Just broke the one?"]] to the ceiling. At that moment one of his friends accidentally breaks his other leg.
5	* '''Justified''': Bob the Hero's hometown is where his significant others live, and all this time he had persevered so that he can return there someday.
6	* '''Inverted''': ThePowersThatBe give Bob a WhatTheHellHero speech. Bob replied by declaring a RageAgainstTheHeavens.
7	* '''Subverted''': Bob the Hero yells the line, a bolt of lightning strikes... but at several meters from where Bob stands. [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry He then starts laughing maniacally, declaring that The Powers That Be doesn't exist.]]
8	* '''Doubly Subverted''': ...at which time Bob the Hero is really struck by lightning.
9	* '''Parodied''':
10	** Bob the Hero yells in great detail the many, many awful way ThePowersThatBe should strike him with to the point that it become an OverlyLongGag. ThePowersThatBe give him a MagicalGirlfriend instead.
11	** Bob rages against the heavens and they smite him as "requested". Bob survives it all with only a coat of soot and frazzled hair, and angrily follows it up with [[MyGrandmaCanDoBetterThanYou My Granny Can Smite Better Than That]]!
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': As the DoubleSubversion, but then Bob [[AllJustADream wakes up]]. But [[OrWasItADream he's missing]] [[BodyHorror half his torso, and the rest is horribly burned from the lightning.]] The doctor says he's pretty much held together by [[DeadBabyComedy twine and dumb luck.]]
13	* '''Averted''':
14	** Despite the awful turn of events and it's raining, Bob the Hero ''doesn't'' yell the line.
15	** Alternatively: There's no ThePowersThatBe in the setting.
16	** Rather than waste his breath, Bob [[{{Pun}} deicides]] that [[RageAgainsttheHeavens actions speak louder than words]].
17	* '''Enforced''': "Let's show the audience that Bob the Tough Hero is beyond the DespairEventHorizon!"
18	* '''Lampshaded''': "It must be so painful for Sir Bob, I won't be surprised if he begs to be smitten by the mighty smiter".
19	* '''Invoked''': "ThePowersThatBe didn't save my people! Since I don't have anything else to live for now, I might as well wish to die!"
20	* '''Exploited''': Bob, whose powers are fueled by [[ShockAndAwe electricity]], tries to goad God into hitting him with lightning.
21	* '''Defied''': "I watch what I say, knowing that The Powers That Be listen".
22	* '''Discussed''': Alice: "Bob aren't you over reacting?"
23	* '''Conversed''':
24	--> God: "Don't push me, I just might do it".
25	--> "You still have a role to play, little one. Once your enemy is cast down, you will indeed be granted your wish. Your family will all be waiting for you. Mourn them not, for their suffering is at an end. Now go! And fear no darkness! For Death himself shall not claim you until that hour, for my will shall be done in all things".
26	* '''Deconstructed''': Bob spends so much time raging at the heavens that he fails to rescue the town's survivors, including his own loved ones. His loss doesn't come from any higher power; it comes from his ''belief'' in an unjust higher power.
27	* '''Reconstructed''': The above happens, but the PowersThatBe [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifest themselves]] to give him a peptalk to persevere.
28	* '''Played For Laughs''':
29	** Bob the Hero just got a stomachache from over-eating his TrademarkFavoriteFood, and he yells the line. [[DisproportionateRetribution He got struck with lightning anyway]].
30	** [[KingOfAllCosmos God]] turns to be a big fan of ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', so when Bob uses the line, he takes the chance to fry him with a [[FinishingMove "Thunder Break!"]]... Complete with [[CallingYourAttacks mandatory name shout]], of course!
31	* '''Played For Drama''':
32	** He yells the line. He is struck by lightning, but not killed. He awakens, burnt, scarred, and damned, with the BlackSpeech [[MarkOfTheBeast etched into his flesh declaring him as such]].
33	** He screams the line at the heavens... and absolutely nothing happens.
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35	What's that? You'll zap me with lightning if I don't go back to SmiteMeOMightySmiter? Bring it on!
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37	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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39	%%* '''Implied''': ???

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