'''Basic Trope''': A person who gets angry all the time and about ''anything''.
* '''Straight''': Bob takes offense to almost anything someone says.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The rage Bob takes for someone saying something is enormous.
** Alice accidently knocks over Bob's drink. He tortures and beats her to death with a hammer for it.
** A gentle breeze blows against Bob. He reacts by destroying existence.
** Bob is permanently locked in a state of UnstoppableRage because ''everything'' thoroughly angers him.
* '''Downplayed''':
** While not outwardly aggressive, Bob isn't a difficult person to rile up.
** BerserkButton
* '''Justified''':
** Bob has severe anger management issues and is overly sensitive to the things others say.
** Bob is deliberately acting this way in order to pick a fight or intimidate someone.
** A few too many blows to the head makes it harder to stay calm.
** All of the words towards Bob are ''meant'' to [[{{Troll}} upset him]].
** Bob has post-traumatic stress disorder, in which he struggles with on a daily basis.
** Bob is on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge (or [[RoaringRampageOfRescue Rescue]]) and he has absolutely zero tolerance to everything that doesn't provide him a means to accomplish his goals quickly and efficiently.
* '''Inverted''': [[EmotionlessGirl Bob is never angry or upset]], [[TheStoic calmly accepting things]] [[AngstWhatAngst that would upset a normal person.]] "My friend died and you just killed him in front of me? [[ThePollyanna Oh well, it happens.]]"
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob, known for his violent overreactions, actually handles Charlie's latest slight in a calm, reasonable manner.
** Bob gets very mad at Charlie's slight, but it turns out he isn't always that angry. Charlie just hit Bob's [[BerserkButton sensitive spot]].
* '''Double Subverted''':
** Later that night, Charlie is rushed to hospital after being [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beaten into a stinking pulp]] by an unknown and ''very annoyed'' assailant.
** Bob was lying, he just gets mad at everything.
* '''Parodied''':
** A person's temper is literally set off by a hair trigger on his body.
** Bob's temper gets on [[ForTheEvulz Emperor Evulz's]] nerves so much [[PityTheKidnapper that he's let go]].
* '''Zig Zagged''':
** After overreacting too many times, Bob takes anger management classes to help him become a calmer person. This works for a while, but something triggers his rage [[HereWeGoAgain again]] and he relapses into his old ways, only to retake his anger management classes. Rinse 'n' repeat as many times as you like.
** Charlie's attacker turns out to not be Bob, it is someone trying to frame Bob. Of course, the FrameUp was very easy to pull off considering that Bob at his most calm still gave Charlie a DopeSlap for taking the last cup of Kool-Aid and at his most angry (after all of the crap he had to deal with because of said framing) the very fact he has to enter a hospital (as a visitor, not a patient) is enough reason for him to bodyslam Charlie off the bed and pummel him straight into a coma.
* '''Averted''': Alice slights Bob. Bob calmly shrugs it off.
* '''Enforced''': Bob needs to be humorously over-the-top so that when Dave has road rage later in the series and needs Anger Management classes, people will take it seriously.
* '''Lampshaded''': [[ClusterBleepBomb "Are you seriously trying to stiff me on this ''[Bleep]'' payment? You've known me for ten ''[Bleep]'' years and you think I'm gonna take that ''[Bleep]'' quietly?"]]
* '''Invoked''': Bob is in a show-within-the-show where he plays the HairTriggerTemper and does the routine so he can stay in character.
* '''Exploited''': Emperor Evulz knows about Bob's temper-issues and [[IShallTauntYou actively enrages him]] and gets him to chase him into a situation where Bob can be framed, or otherwise used for his purposes.
* '''Defied''':
** Bob [[TameHisAnger takes Anger Management classes]] and resolutely tries to control his temper.
** "[[TranquilFury Bob... if you yell at me]] ''[[TranquilFury ever again]]'', [[TranquilFury I will demonstrate how angry]] ''[[TranquilFury you]]'' [[TranquilFury make me, by using this]] [pulls out HandCannon] [[TranquilFury to put you down like the]] ''[[TranquilFury rabid fucking dog]]'' [[TranquilFury you act like.]] [[TranquilFury Have I made myself]] '''[[TranquilFury perfectly clear]]'''?"
* '''Discussed''': "Watch what you say to Bob. He's got a short fuse."
* '''Conversed''': "Ever notice how some people seem to blow up at the smallest thing?"
* '''Implied''': Bob enters the room with [[PerpetualFrowner an angry scowl on his face]] and everybody starts acting nice to him in ways that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness go completely against their regular nature]] -- such as the team's DeadpanSnarker [[HatesSmallTalk sticking to monosyllabic and to-the-point statements]].
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob's blowing up on people for the slightest things rubs the wrong person - a BadassBystander, a [[GangBangers gangbanger]], a [[TheMafia mobster]], etc. - the wrong way and the "victim" [[AssholeVictim Kicks The Son Of A Bitch]], making him learn a painful lesson about the stupidity of his behavior.
** Bob's habit of attacking people for petty reasons gets him arrested and imprisoned on multiple counts of assault and battery.
** Bob's violent demeanor means that [[AssholeVictim no one misses him]] when he gets captured by Emperor Evulz after finding out his latest nefarious plan.
** All of Bob's friends get tired of his anger issues and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ditch him]], leaving him all alone.
** Bob gets so angry so often that he suffers a heart attack.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Bob, after recovering from his ordeal, decides to undergo TrainingFromHell or find a BiggerStick so that no one can stop him again. Not only is he no calmer - he may, in fact, treat the beatdown as MyGreatestFailure, but as another reason for rage instead of sorrow - but he now also has more violent power to back up his temper. NiceJobBreakingItHero.
** Bob escapes his captivity with his hair-trigger shaved down to a ''monomolecular wire'' size because he now has a very great slight to avenge and whatever kind of bad things he assumed out of everybody else now have a very solid basis. Those who are smart move ''very'' far away.
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Bob's [[{{Angrish}} explosive outbursts]] [[ComicalAngryFace of anger]], [[ComedicSociopathy as well]] [[PokeThePoodle as the consequences]], are ridiculously over-the-top and funny.
** One of Bob's friends carries a fire extinguisher everywhere and doses Bob with it every time he gets slightly miffed.
* '''Played For Drama''':
** Bob snaps so badly that he hurts or ''[[OffingTheAnnoyance kills]]'' someone...and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone comes to regret]] [[IDidntMeanToKillHim what he's done]].
** Sick and tired of Bob losing his temper at everything, one of his friends -or his LoveInterest- snaps at Bob, telling him to get a grip on his temper, or they're through being friends.
* '''Played For Horror''': There is an underlying sense of dread in every scene someone shares with Bob, because the other characters keep fearing that anything they say or do will set off Bob somehow, or even that anything they ''don't'' say or do (because of trying to play it safe) [[MortonsFork will set off Bob anyway]].
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