Basic Trope: Someone who constantly looks out for others learns to take time for their own well-being.
- Straight: Bob starts to burn out from his heroism duties. After the events of the episode, he learns that he needn't push himself too hard, for his physical and mental well-being is also important. The episode ends with Bob taking up a new hobby to give himself some downtime.
- Exaggerated: Bob cares for others to the point that he hasn't eaten anything for 10 years. Literally everyone he knows yells at him to take a vacation for several months.
- Downplayed: Bob still overworks himself, but starts eating a bit more healthily.
- Justified:
- Bob has a heart condition and too much stress could kill him.
- Others are taking advantage of Bob's lack of boundaries.
- If Bob collapses under the strain, so does the entire group.
- In the setting, ignoring one's negative emotions and letting them fester (as opposed to acknowledging and dealing with them in a healthy way) can create literal monsters.
- Since Bob is so devoted to helping others, he thinks it'd be hypocritical to not accept help.
- Inverted: Bob, a self-centered slacker, learns to look out for others.
- Subverted: The "hobby" Bob takes up turns out to be volunteering.
- Double Subverted: He finds volunteering personally fulfilling and a chance to make new friends and experience something fresh.
- Parodied: Bob starts acting like a self-indulgent jerk and calls it self-care.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob starts out taking more breaks, but keeps falling back into old habits. Finally the lesson sticks - only for circumstances to begin demanding more time and energy from him than ever before.
- Averted:
- Bob continues to overburden himself, and nobody calls him out on it.
- Bob never overburdened himself in the first place.
- Enforced: Moral Guardians claim Bob's character is holding audiences to unrealistic and destructive standards of altruism and productivity. The show is pressured to have Bob learn about the importance of self-care.
- Invoked: Alice finds Bob collapsed on the floor and gets panicked about how he's destroying himself.
- Discussed: "Bob, if you don't look after yourself now and again, how are you going to be able to look after others?"
- Conversed: "Finally, Bob's learned he doesn't have to take on the weight of the world."
- Deconstructed: Bob realises he sorely needs self-care... but between having to work 80 hours a week and look out for his family, it isn't going to happen.
- Reconstructed: Bob's loved ones offer to share some of his duties.
