Line #20 PlayingWith/TheChewToy


1	'''Basic Trope''': The character that everyone loves to see suffer.
2	* '''Straight''': Jason constantly slips into puddles of water...
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** ...and constantly falls into the floor, table, bookshelf, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and out the windows]].
5	** CosmicPlaything
6	** TheyKilledKennyAgain
7	* '''Downplayed''': ButtMonkey
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** Jason is TheKlutz.
10	** Jason is a {{Jerkass}}.
11	** Jason is the villain.
12	** God hates Jason for some reason.
13	* '''Inverted''':
14	** TheWoobie
15	** CreatorsPet.
16	** KarmaHoudini.
17	** CompleteMonster
18	* '''Subverted''':
19	** Jason might seem to be having a stroke of perpetual bad luck, but other than this unlucky day bad luck usually stay out of his way.
20	** It goes [[DesignatedMonkey too far]] once, and [[TheWoobie he starts becoming rather sympathetic]].
21	* '''Double-Subverted''':
22	** ...but it turns out he's cursed to have this kind of bad luck for the rest of his life. [[HilarityEnsues And it's funny.]]
23	** ...but later it turns out he actually ''deserved'' what he got, and so it's [[StatusQuoIsGod back to the usual]].
24	* '''Parodied''':
25	** CosmicPlaything.
26	** TheyKilledKennyAgain.
27	** The series goes meta and the writer berates the viewers [[YouBastard for taking amusement in a person's suffering]]. And then the writers [[HypocrisyNod admit it amuses them too]].
28	* '''Zig Zagged''': Jason can run the gamut from UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist CosmicPlaything to the show's biggest [[TheWoobie woobie]]...and back, all at the drop of a hat. He may or may not be a JerkassWoobie on average.
29	* '''Averted''': Jason isn't any more or less lucky than the rest of the main cast.
30	* '''Enforced''': "Hmm...We need a character for people to purge their sadistic tendencies! That'll keep the ratings up!"
31	* '''Lampshaded''':
32	** "I seem to spend most of the time getting the shit kicked out of me... and everyone ''likes'' it!"
33	** "Could you stop laughing long enough to call an ambulance, or is that too much to ask?"
34	* '''Invoked''':
35	** Jason is masochistic, and, consciously or otherwise, self-sabotages his life to indulge in this pleasure.
36	** The deity of luck spends a lot of time in his schedule getting Jason hurt in order to entertain himself.
37	* '''Exploited''': Jason step up to suicide missions regularly, knowing that he'd often get forced into them anyway, and would survive in order to suffer longer.
38	* '''Defied''': Jason refuses to play the fall-guy any longer, and in addition to wising up, he also recruits a group of fall-guys to take the hit for him.
39	* '''Discussed''': "I'm not sure whether to feel bad for Jason or laugh at him." "Can't we do both?"
40	* '''Conversed''': "Why should all of the characters poke fun at Jason!?"
41	* '''Deconstructed''':
42	** The character gets depressed and is DrivenToSuicide. Oh well, so much for that.
43	** The character is a victim of the Universe itself, who frames him up against the CosmicPlaything, who wants revenge on him. However, the CosmicPlaything only triumphs when he is disciplined, and always fails when he is emotional. Revenge is an emotional activity, so he only could torment TheChewToy, but never really kill him. In other words, he complies with the RuleOfDrama: All the things that happen to TheChewToy are ''bad enough to advance the plot, but never bad enough to kill him.''
44	* '''Reconstructed''':
45	** He's an IronButtMonkey.
46	** [[BlackComedy His suicide attempts fail hilariously.]]
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50	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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52	%%* '''Implied''': ???
53	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / TheChewToy