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Author: Knight9910
Jul 15th 2013
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4:53:04 PM
I think I might be having trouble explaining this. It's not SadistShow or ComedicSociopathy because it's not strictly about ''people getting hurt''. I've read Comedic Sociopathy's description and it's basically a simpler way of saying "schadenfreude" with a hint of AssholeVictim thrown in. Similarly, SadistShow is essentially an entire work built on the premise of Comedic Sociopathy, where all the entertainment value of the show comes from seeing objectively horrible individuals get their comeuppance. This trope is not that. Again, take Bender from Futurama as an example. Does he sometimes fall victim to Comedic Sociopathy? Yes. But it's not the point. In fact, he usually gets away with whatever bad thing he does. Instead, the point is simply to ''watch him do bad things and laugh about it.'' That's LaughablyEvil, but then when we stretch that out to a point where ''everyone'' involved is either that at most, or a total {{Jerkass}} at the least, that is this trope. To put it another way, you see that Sadist Show is basically the trope of Comedic Sociopathy extended from something that is about single characters and made into the basic foundation for an entire show. This trope is basically the same thing being done to the LaughablyEvil trope: taking what usually applies to one single character (often the TokenEvilTeammate) and stretching it out to be the basis of an entire work - a vast majority of the characters are either LaughablyEvil or at least Laughably Jerkasses. Is that more clear?
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