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• Straight: Jason constantly slips into puddles of water...
• Exaggerated:
  • ...and constantly falls into the floor, table, and bookshelf.
  • Cosmic Plaything
• Downplayed: Humorous Butt Monkey
• Justified:
  • Jason is The Klutz.
  • Jason has done something horrible that the universe intends to give due retribution for.
• Inverted:
  • The Woobie
  • Creator's Pet.
  • Karma Houdini.
  • Complete Monster
• Subverted:
  • Jason might seem to be having a perpetual bad luck, but other than this unlucky day bad luck usually stay out of his way.
  • It goes too far once, and he starts becoming rather sympathetic
• Double-Subverted:
  • ...but it turns out he's cursed to have this kind of bad luck for the rest of his life. And it's funny.
  • ...but later it turns out he actually deserved what he got, and so it's back to the usual.
• Parodied:
  • Cosmic Plaything.
  • They Killed Kenny.
  • The series goes meta and the writer berates the viewers for taking amusement in a person's suffering.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Jason isn't any more or less lucky than the rest of the main cast.
• Enforced: "Hmm...We need a character for people to purge their sadistic tendencies on! That'll keep the ratings up!"
• Lampshaded: "I seem to spend most of the time getting the shit kicked out of me... and everyone likes it!"
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Deconstructed: The character gets depressed and is Driven to Suicide. Oh well, so much that.
• Reconstructed: He's an Iron Butt Monkey.