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''': ??? |
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