'''Basic Trope''': The responsibility, isolation and pressure of being in charge causes someone a great deal of stress.
* '''Straight''': After one SadisticChoice too many, TheCaptain suffers from a HeroicBSOD.
* '''Exaggerated''': The captain {{Wangst}}s over every little decision.
* '''Downplayed''': After a successful mission, the team's BingeMontage is intercut with the cap [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] alone in his office.
* '''Justified''': He genuinely is SurroundedByIdiots, and yet held entirely responsible for every mistake they make. He's AFatherToHisMen but it's his job to put them in harms way.
* '''Inverted''': The PointyHairedBoss was KickedUpstairs into a position of minimum power for maximum prestige. He doesn't have a lot to worry about.
* '''Subverted''': The captain likes the men to believe that he has the weight of the world on his shoulders, as they respect him more and are less likely to want to [[TheStarscream usurp his position]]. But really, he loves being able to boss people around and eat off the good china while [[CaptainSmoothAndSergeantRough Sgt. Rough]] does his dirty work for him.
* '''Double Subverted''': [[MultilayerFacade ...but this is just another facade]], this one for the benefit of his fellow officers. The nightmares he suffers from every night show him to be more conflicted than he lets on.
* '''Parodied''': An AffablyEvil character angsts about the stresses of being the BigBad. He doesn't ''enjoy'' [[YouHaveFailedMe shooting loyal servants in the face]] while [[BondVillainStupidity putting deadly enemies in easily-escapable traps]], but it's what's expected of him...
* '''Zig Zagged''': Depending on the severity of the situation and how much is at stake, it's either [[Creator/MelBrooks good to be the king]] or it sucks to be the king.
* '''Averted''': TheCaptain's job isn't shown to be any harder than anyone else's.
* '''Enforced''':
** [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic Fans have taken against the Captain]] for being too cold and bloodthirsty, while in the writers' heads he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure. They decide to give him ADayInTheLimelight to try to make him more sympathetic by showing the kind of problems he has to handle.
** The plotline, culminating in the Cap taking leave to sort his head out, is an excuse for the character to be PutOnABus that can be [[TheBusCameBack easily recalled later]] if needs be.
* '''Lampshaded''':
** "AsTheGoodBookSays, "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"." "That was Shakespeare. [[SurroundedByIdiots Can you numbskulls]] get ''nothing'' right?"
** "I've got a phone call in five minutes that could determine whether millions of people live or die. I get that you're pissed, but could you come back later? I'm a little busy right now."
* '''Invoked''': The crew dislike their new boss, and try to stress him into stepping down.
* '''Exploited''': TheStarscream notices the cracks beginning to show, and tries to get his boss to break so the spot will be open to him.
* '''Defied''': "I knew the pressure of command when I took the job, I'm not going to whine about it now"
* '''Discussed''': "Hey, [[TheLancer Lance]], lay off the Cap. You couldn't do the job he does."
* '''Conversed''': "How does this guy have any time to plan missions with all the angsty brooding he does?"
* '''Deconstructed''': The captain has a mental breakdown. He comes to realise that if he's going to be an effective commander he has to learn to compartmentalise this stuff, and if he can't do that he might be better off letting someone else lead.
* '''Reconstructed''': The captain has a mental breakdown. He decides that as long as he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Does What He Has To Do]], if he beats himself up about it afterward that's his problem.
* '''Played For Laughs''': The Captain is TheEeyore, and his incessant ineffectual grumbling about how hard his job is is a RunningGag.
* '''Played For Drama''': The captain's leadership becomes affected by his mental state, and he tries to hide what he perceives as "weakness" from everyone else, only giving him further stress to deal with.
* '''Implied''': TheCaptain is a depressed JerkAss, and when a private asks why, someone just says, "He's got a lot to deal with."
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