Line #11 PlayingWith/UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist


1	'''Basic Trope''': This character (usually a main character) is unlikable, but the audience puts up with them because they are funny.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob is an asshole to his so called friends. The audience loves him because of his antics.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** LaughablyEvil VillainProtagonist
5	** Bob [[HatesEveryoneEqually feels hatred towards the entire world]]. He is the most popular character in the show.
6	** [[VillainProtagonist Bob]] is an OmnicidalManiac SerialKiller in a BlackComedy. The fans think he is one of the funniest characters on the show.
7	* '''Downplayed''': While he can be harsh and judgmental, Bob is, for the most part, a GoodIsNotSoft NiceGuy who's InnocentlyInsensitive at worst.
8	* '''Justified''':
9	** Bob is very grumpy.
10	** He is SurroundedByIdiots.
11	** He is the ButtMonkey of the show.
12	* '''Inverted''':
13	** Bob is the AllLovingHero and his friends always want to hang out with him, and the [[TheScrappy audience hates him]].
14	** Sympathetic Drama Antagonist
15	* '''Subverted''': Bob is a [[HateSink completely and horribly awful person]], and the [[TheScrappy audience hates him]].
16	* '''Double Subverted''': But he later starts doing funny things and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescues himself from the scrappy heap.]]
17	* '''Parodied''': In a ShowWithinAShow, Bob says [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck"]] and the whole cast loves him.
18	* '''Zig Zagged''': DependingOnTheWriter, Bob can either be an AllLovingHero NiceGuy, or a HeroicComedicSociopath protagonist.
19	* '''Averted''': Bob is a nice guy, and has a modest sized fanbase.
20	* '''Enforced''': "The audience wants a character they can laugh ''with'' when he does bad things to people, and laugh ''against'' when things don't go his way. Let's make Bob a dick."
21	* '''Lampshaded''': "It's amazing how can people love Bob even if he is an asshole."
22	* '''Invoked and Exploited''': Bob intentionally peppers his unsavory moments with bits of stupidity and comeuppance so his friends grow conditioned to his attitude and actually [[WeWantOurJerkBack miss it if it goes away.]]
23	* '''Implied''': [[ChildrenAreInnocent Jim]] and [[MamaBear Alice]] watch an episode of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bob]]'' in one scene and, while everybody else in the room is laughing uproariously, [[HarmfulToMinors Jim]] looks disturbed and Alice [[MoralGuardians is visibly one second away from beginning a screaming tirade about how dare they watch this crap in front of the kid]]. Five scenes later, Alice also has to go to the principal's office to deal with something Jim did imitating Bob… and that it's gonna get him expelled.
24	* '''Defied''': Bob doesn't want to be a jerk, so he makes a conscious effort to be likeable.
25	* '''Discussed''': "People just tolerate Bob's antics because he is funny."
26	* '''Conversed''': "How can people like someone as horrible as him?"
27	* '''Deconstructed''':
28	** The writers of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Bob]]'' made Bob (and the other members of the cast [[WorldOfJerkass with the same mentality as Bob]]) ''[[TooBleakStoppedCaring too]]'' unsympathetic.
29	** StatusQuoIsGod is ''not'' in play in this comedy, which [[CerebusSyndrome becomes more of a drama]] as Bob's jerkassery repeatedly [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome blows up in his face]].
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31	Back to UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist to see the [[PokeThePoodle poodle poking]] [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal protagonist]] suffer from AmusingInjuries.
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33	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
34	%%* '''Implied''': ???
35	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
36	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist