1 | '''Basic Trope''': TheWoobie is driven to villainy as a result of their misfortune. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] loses [[TheLostLenore Alice]] and, in pursuit of [[RevengeBeforeReason his desire to avenge her]], becomes the BigBad Emperor Evulz as a result. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** WhosLaughingNow |
5 | ** Bob sees Alice getting [[PokeThePoodle poked by a poodle]] and becomes an OmnicidalManiac as a result. |
6 | ** Bob has suffered viciously at the hands of [[CrapsackWorld the world he lives in]], and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever can't simply kill himself.]] Solution: [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum END IT ALL!]] |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': |
8 | ** Bob loses Alice and, despite trying to just move on with his life, becomes sufficiently twisted and embittered that if [[TheCorrupter someone]] put him in a position to turn his grief into destruction, there's no telling what he'd do. |
9 | ** [[TheChainOfHarm Bob has been bullied so much that he becomes a bully himself.]] |
10 | ** JerkassWoobie |
11 | * '''Justified''': |
12 | ** Bob has suffered so much abuse, he snaps and is clinically insane. |
13 | ** Bob lives in a CrapsackWorld, therefore he has no reason to believe that [[HumansAreBastards humans have any good in them]]. |
14 | * '''Inverted''': |
15 | ** IronWoobie |
16 | ** MyGodWhatHaveIDone |
17 | ** [[OmnicidalManiac Evulz]] kills [[BarrierMaiden Alice]] as part of his plan to destroy the galaxy and a grief-striken Bob [[ItsPersonal stops him]], going down in story as Bob Woobie, ''Savior of Worlds''. |
18 | * '''Subverted''': |
19 | ** Bob [[BeneathTheMask is actually an]] AxeCrazy BloodKnight or PsychoForHire, and is [[WhatTheHellHero just using Alice's death as an excuse]] to [[SociopathicHero split some heads open]]. |
20 | ** Bob was lying. |
21 | ** Bob starts muttering a MadnessMantra about getting revenge as he caresses Alice's dead body, and his friends are worried that he might snap. But after he finishes mourning, [[ThePollyanna he goes back to his normal, cheerful self]]. |
22 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
23 | ** Turns out, Bob ''is'' crazy, except that he [[MoralityPet truly, genuinely cared]] about Alice and was trying to [[BecomingTheMask Become His]] [[TheHero Heroic]] [[BecomingTheMask Mask]]. After losing the only one who saw the good in him, he's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge hell-bent on vengeance]]. |
24 | ** As it turns out, Bob's actual reasons are due to a frankly miserable existence; he didn't really care for Alice except as an acquaintance, but his life has taught him that since she's dead for no good reason, [[PayEvilUntoEvil he must repay it in full]]. |
25 | ** He's just [[BestServedCold hiding his revenge plot]] behind a [[StepfordSmiler disturbingly cheerful facade]]. |
26 | * '''Parodied''': Someone shoots a spitball at Bob. [[DisproportionateRetribution He becomes a super villain in response.]] |
27 | * '''Zig Zagged''': ??? |
28 | * '''Averted''': Any {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s have no particularly good justification; [[TheWoobie Woobies]] don't do anything homicidal. |
29 | * '''Enforced''': "We can't just have our OmnicidalManiac destroy [[FortheEvulz for the lulz]]!" |
30 | * '''Lampshaded''': "I'LL KILL EVERYONE BECAUSE SOMEONE KILLED ALICE!" |
31 | * '''Invoked''': Claire kills Alice to make Bob join TheDarkSide. |
32 | * '''Defied''': After Alice's death, Bob gets therapy so he won't engage in any of this type of behavior. |
33 | * '''Exploited''': After noticing Bob's newfound angst, the BigBad's next MonsterOfTheWeek is an EmotionEater. |
34 | * '''Discussed''': |
35 | -->'''Alice:''' Bob has gone [[DarkAndTroubledPast through so much]]; I wonder how he still didn't go crazy after this.\ |
36 | '''Charlie:''' Eh, I suspect that by this point he's one particularly bad day away from snapping and lashing out against the world. |
37 | * '''Conversed''': "Why do the most remembered villains always symbolize [[DesignatedVillain the little guy being taken advantage of]]?" |
38 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
39 | ** Alice was a PersonOfMassDestruction killed with the support of essentially the entire world, with only Bob [[EvenEvilCanBeLoved who looks up to her]]. As a result, nobody sympathizes with Bob's rebellion, and it ultimately comes across as pointless and stupid. |
40 | ** The destruction and pain Bob has caused becomes [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate]] compared to their "[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse hardships]]" thus negates any merit and sympathy in the process. |
41 | * '''Reconstructed''': Bob has [[PersonOfMassDestruction same set of powers]], and now, the entire world, explicitly, has pissed him off by killing the one person who could sympathize with/restrain him. Because of Alice, though, he's gained quite a thick skin, so he's not normally easily enraged. This makes him all the more dangerous, because while he's [[UnderStatement upset]], he won't be easily goaded into anything that could prevent him from doing something really, [[ApocalypseHow really nasty to the world]]. |
42 | * '''Implied''': Evulz is mainly a GenericDoomsdayVillain, but in one evil speech, he tearfully announces that the world deserves to die after what it has done to him. |
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46 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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48 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
49 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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