History PlayingWith / ChronicBackstabbingDisorder

* '''Inverted''': Every single time [[BornUnlucky Bob]] attempts to collaborate with someone, he always ends up getting betrayed at some point by the other party.

** Bob reveals that he only left the RagtagBunchOfMisfits after learning that their leader was a WellIntentionedExtremist, and he left TheEmpire after learning that joining them was also a mistake. Bob's loyalty is to his [[NeutralGood ideals]], not to any one group.

** [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands Bob can't stay loyal to any faction more than one episode at a time, sometimes even less.]]
** Bob is a PersonOfMassDestruction who turns on any faction that appears to be winning, [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction so the war will never end.]]
** Bob turns on his allies, [[StupidEvil even if doing so puts him at a disadvantage.]]
** [[MindScrew Bob betrays his allies every few seconds. How he accomplishes this is a mystery.]]

** Bob becomes a time traveler and even manages to backstab his future self. Then he goes ''back'' in time to backstab his past self. [[RunningGag But then he remembers that his past self was a loyal person, so he had already backstabbed his past self....except ]][[StableTimeLoop his betraying of his past self was the reason he's a chronic backstabber in the first place.]]

** Bob's agenda doesn't align perfectly to any of the factions-if something looks better for his plans than his current allegiances, he jumps ship.

* '''Double Subverted''': [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent ...until he goes rogue against them too.]]

** [[Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound Bob’s chronic backstabbing disorder is an actual disorder.]]

'''Basic Trope''': A character regularly betrays his allies.

* '''Inverted''': Every single time Bob attempts to collaborate with someone, he always ends up getting betrayed at some point by the other party.

* '''Implied''': A character will mention Bob has been in several alliances before, but Bob was never invited back due to bad blood.

** [[UpToEleven Bob becomes a time traveler and even manages to backstab his future self.]] Then he goes ''back'' in time to backstab his past self. [[RunningGag But then he remembers that his past self was a loyal person, so he had already backstabbed his past self....except ]][[StableTimeLoop his betraying of his past self was the reason he's a chronic backstabber in the first place.]]

* '''Inverted''': [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Every single time Bob attempts to collaborate with someone, he always ends up getting betrayed at some point by the other party.]]

** Bob is outfitted with an ExplodingLeash with too many safeguards for him or anybody else to ever be able to defuse, and set specifically to go off if he ever so much as thinks of betrayal.

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob reveals that he only left the RagtagBunchOfMisfits after learning that their leader was a WellIntentionedExtremist, and he left TheEmpire after learning that joining them was also a mistake. Bob's loyalty is to his [[NeutralGood ideals]], not to any one group.

* '''Defied''': TheEmpire tempts Bob to betray the RagtagBunchOfMisfits, but Bob stands strong and refuses.

* '''Subverted''': Bob is a DoubleAgent loyal to TheEmpire, and was only faking his betrayal towards them...

** [[NewJobsAsThePlotDemands Bob can't stay loyal to any faction more than one episode at a time, sometimes even less.]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob betrayed the RagTagBunchOfMisfits for TheEmpire, betrayed TheEmpire for TheFederation, then revealed that he never really betrayed the RagTagBunchOfMisfits and only partially betrayed TheEmpire on the Misfits' behalf. In consequence, betraying TheFederation. In the end, it turns-out he was a high-ranking member of TheCartel playing the RagTagBandOfMisfits for profit until his experiences "protecting" the misfits by pretending to betray them made him go-through a change of heart... and betray said cartel.

* '''Enforced''': Bob betrayed the RagTagBunchOfMisfits for TheEmpire, but wasn't originally supposed to betray TheEmpire as well, but when the producers wanted more drama out of Bob, they demanded he betray TheEmpire and work for TheFederation.

* '''Invoked''': Alice wants to betray the RagTagBunchOfMisfits and expects Bob to do so as well, so she prepares to betray the Misfits with him.

* '''Defied''': TheEmpire tempts Bob to betray the RagTagBunchOfMisfits, but Bob stands strong and refuses.

* '''Conversed''': "Bob already betrayed RagTagBunchOfMisfits and TheEmpire, he'll probably betray TheFederation, too".

** Bob and his "friends" [[WeAreStrugglingTogether are so busy backstabbing each other, jockying for power, and following their own agendas that nothing gets done]], and the "slow, inefficient, lesser" members of the QuirkyMinibossSquad manage to all but walk past them and get what they want without too much trouble.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

** Bob is actually SchrodingersCat: nobody knows which faction he's on until they observe him.

** "Whose side are you on?" "You mean right now?"

* '''Exploited''': Queen Alice of TheEmpire already knew Bob had ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, and ran a BatmanGambit hinging-upon the fact he would betray TheEmpire and defect to TheFederation.

** Bob and his "friends" are so busy backstabbing each other, jockying for power, and following their own agendas that nothing gets done, and the "slow, inefficient, lesser" members of the QuirkyMinibossSquad manage to all but walk past them and get what they want without too much trouble.

* '''Inverted''': Every single time Bob attempts to collaborate with someone, he always ends up getting betrayed at some point by the other party.

** Bob is a PersonOfMassDestruction who turns on any faction that appears to be winning, so the war will never end.
** Bob turns on his allies, even if doing so puts him at a disadvantage.

** Bob is actually Schrodinger's cat: nobody knows which faction he's on until they observe him.

* '''Double Subverted''': ...until he goes rogue against them too.

** He keeps a [[LongList enormous checklist]] of the people he's betrayed.