Basic Trope: A character gets upset enough to unleash everything they have on an opponent.
- Straight:
- After a particularly nasty taunt from Bob, Charlie shuts him up with a well-placed punch in the throat.
- Emperor Evulz kills Bob's wife, Alice. After this happens, Bob is so enraged that he beats the shit out of Evulz, not letting the man get a single blow in and not stopping until Evulz is either knocked unconscious or beaten to death.
- Exaggerated:
- Charlie hammer-tosses Bob into the Sun for his comment.
- Once Emperor Evulz dies, Bob travels to Hell to contiune his beatdown. So not even the afterlife can stop Bob's rampage.
- Downplayed: Charlie doesn't physically attack Bob, but he does give Bob a well-deserved dressing down for his bad behavior that leaves him cowed and humiliated.
- Justified: Everyone has limits.
- Inverted: Eric deescalates Bob and Charlie's argument, sharply appealing to both parties' sense of reason and the potential consequences of them duking it out.
- Subverted:
- Charlie looks like he's about to slug Bob, but relents at the last minute and punches a wall instead.
- Charlie looks like he's about to slug Bob, but calms down entirely.
- Charlie becomes enraged and attacks Bob, but far from being unstoppable, he's Blinded by Rage and easily defeated.
- Double Subverted: Then he slugs Bob.
- Parodied:
- Charlie turns into a Hulk-like creature whenever someone upsets him.
- Charlie's assault of Bob comes with WWE-style color commentary.
- Zig Zagged: Charlie doesn't want to hit anyone, and refuses to take Bob's bait. Since Bob can't get a rise out of Charlie, he starts picking on Alice, which finally gets Charlie to knock his teeth out.
- Averted: Bob doesn't push any of Charlie's buttons hard enough to provoke an extreme response.
- Enforced: Bob and Charlie are football players trying to psyche each other up for the big game.
- Lampshaded: Charlie's Rage Breaking Point is illustrated with a thermometer or some other kind of measuring device.
- Invoked: Charlie's newfound pacifism is counterproductive, so Alice asked Bob to rile him up.
- Exploited: Charlie has anger management issues, and Bob is trying to goad him into losing control.
- Defied: "Our target audiences is kids 7-10. They need to learn self-control is important."
- Discussed: "It's like Bob wants Charlie to kill him or something."
- Conversed: "What're you gonna do, loser? Kick the shit out of me or something?"
- Implied: Just as Bob starts another nasty comment, smash to him being carted away, unconscious.
- Deconstructed:
- No matter how good it feels to cut loose on someone, it can cause significant problems: Charlie is arrested for assault, sued by Bob, and all his friends are now terrified he may do the same to them.
- Charlie suffers an injury during his assault of Bob that cripples him for life.
- Reconstructed: Charlie manages to prove provocation in court and soften his sentence, as well as reassure the people he cares about that he's still on the level. Bob may win in a legal sense, but he's still a rotten little jerk hated and ostracized by everyone.
- Played for Laughs: Eric and Alice set up a video camera while Bob lays into Charlie, waiting for the inevitable to happen.
- Played for Drama: Bob believes his taunting to be all in good fun, and being on the receiving end of a physical beat-down shakes him to his core. He begins to distance himself from others on the off-chance they share similar feelings.
- Emperor Evulz, after killing Bob's wife, mocks Bob and the fact that he is now a widower. This causes Bob to suffer a Heroic BSoD before unleashing his Superpowered Evil Side. The proceeding beatdown is horrifically unlike Bob under normal circumstances.
"THAT DOES IT! I'M GONNA KNOCK YOU RIGHT BACK TO THE MAIN PAGE!"
