'''Basic Trope''': A character is humiliated by being treated as a spectacle.
* '''Straight''': Bob is displayed to the public, or characters come to see him in his cell.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is crucified naked in the centre of the public square, and everyone in the kingdom has to stop by the square to see and ridicule him.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob is made to do a brief public "perp walk" and then removed from view.
* '''Justified''':
** Standard punishment in the kingdom (as, indeed, it has been in RealLife).
** The Dark Lord has such a big ego he wants to show off his prisoners.
* '''Inverted''':
** Bon is displayed to the public to excite their admiration. (ErmineCapeEffect is one possibility.)
** The ManInTheIronMask's very existence is kept secret from the public.
* '''Subverted''':
** The people who come festoon him with flowers instead of throwing rotten fruit, and the PowerOfFriendship strengthens him.
** Turns out [[AttentionWhore Bob]] doesn't mind that much.
* '''Double Subverted''': The supportive characters are just trying to get something from him, and drop him the instance they get it.
* '''Parodied''': The DarkLord opens a zoo of all his captives. And sells tickets.
* '''Zig Zagged''': A character comes to smash a rotten fruit in his face. Another one intervenes and beats his attacker up. The prisoner realizes that the rotten fruit held the key to his chains.
* '''Averted''': No one looks at a prisoner.
* '''Enforced''': "We have to show him in some humiliation and discomfort because it leads to CharacterDevelopment later on, and this is a relatively humane way".
* '''Lampshaded''': "So you're going to parade him before the populace?"
* '''Invoked''': "Displaying him like this will make them realize how weak he is".
* '''Exploited''': A villain commits a minor crime in order to be put on display. He can then use his hypnotic powers on the crowd that gathers to taunt him.
* '''Defied''': "I don't care whether people will believe he was really my prisoner unless they see him; he's too dangerous to live!"
* '''Discussed''': "They'll put him in the stocks. King Evilbeard likes to do that the day before an execution".
* '''Conversed''': "Bet you the DarkLord will parade him before anyone to prove he caught him -- and give the BigDamnHeroes a chance to rescue him".
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob is convinced that everyone was staring at him, when it was really his paranoia.
** Alternatively, the humiliation was just to teach him a lesson and he was meant to be released, but it was so severe it causes him to be DrivenToSuicide. The punishment then suffers such severe bad publicity it becomes useless.
* '''Reconstructed''': But given the way the king's been treating him, he really has grounds for paranoia.
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