Basic Trope: Someone hates their birthday, for whatever reason.
- Straight: Bob hates his birthday.
- Exaggerated: Bob considers his birthday the worst day of the year, to the point in wanting it to be removed from the calendar. On his birthday, he spends the entire day locked in his house.
- Downplayed: Bob simply doesn't like having a massive birthday party. He'd simply prefer to celebrate with his family/close friends.
- Justified:
- Something traumatic happened to Bob on his birthday.
- Bob’s last birthday was a Birthday Suit Surprise Party.
- Bob's birthday happens to be on a date such as September 11 and doesn't want to be reminded of that.
- Bob is The Killjoy, so he's not really a person to like most things in general.
- Bob is old and doesn't like to be reminded that he's getting older.
- Inverted:
- Bob considers his birthday to be the best day of the year.
- Bob hates every other day except for his birthday.
- Bob is The Undead, and hates the anniversary of the day he died. Considering this may be something traumatic or embarrassing for him, though, this is understandable.
- Every birthday Bob has was a Birthday Suit Surprise Party and he always gets paranoid on that day.
- Subverted: Bob reveals that he doesn't actually hate his birthday - he just doesn't like the place he's always had his birthday parties at.
- Double Subverted: After going somewhere else for his birthday, though, he still finds that he doesn't like it.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Bob hates his birthday, and sometimes he doesn't.
- Averted:
- Nobody hates their birthday.
- Birthdays are not mentioned.
- Enforced: "We need to add some drama to Bob's Birthday Episode. How about a plot where he doesn't like his birthday?"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Charlie does something horrible to Bob on his birthday so that he'll hate having his birthday.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides to make Bob's birthday the best day ever.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do some characters hate their birthday?"
- Implied: Bob never gets any Birthday Episode, but does appear upset/uncomfortable when people mention his birthday.
- Played For Laughs: Bob hates his birthday because it's yet another day he is on the wrong end of a Humiliation Conga.
- Played for Drama:
- This is the conflict for Bob's Birthday Episode; getting him interested in birthdays again.
- Bob reveals that the reason he hates birthdays is because his Arch-Enemy does anything in his power to sour the date, from making him trip and fall on the cake to robbing all of the stuff on his apartment.
- Bob reveals that he hates his birthday because his dysfunctional family arrives to his house to celebrate it, but in reality it's just one more spread of glitter of their Stepford Smiler mask.
- Played for Horror:
- Bob hates his birthdays so much that he snaps and becomes a Theme Serial Killer, and the theme is "kill all who celebrate birthdays on the same day as mine" or "kill anybody who is too loud when celebrating birthdays".
- Bob reveals that the reason he hates birthdays is because his Arch-Enemy makes sure to sour the day by providing two "surprise presents"; that being murdering a random person Bob got attached to during the year and keeping the location of the corpse(s) a secret to tell Bob next year.
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