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** Can't have a [[ComingOfAgeStory growing up story]] without the kid ...well, [[ShapedLikeItself growing up]].
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** CharacterDerailment

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** CharacterDerailmentCharacterDerailment [[invoked]]
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob inconsistently alternates between getting nicer and meaner throughout the story.
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* '''Subverted''': [[BitchinSheepsClothing Bob seems to be getting nicer, but quickly returns to his jerkish ways.]]

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* '''Subverted''': [[BitchinSheepsClothing [[BitchinSheepsclothing Bob seems to be getting nicer, but quickly returns to his jerkish ways.]]
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* '''Subverted''': Bob seems to be getting nicer, but quickly returns to his jerkish ways.

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* '''Subverted''': [[BitchinSheepsClothing Bob seems to be getting nicer, but quickly returns to his jerkish ways.]]
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** StatusQuoIsGod.
* '''Subverted''': Bob stays a jerk throughout the story.

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** StatusQuoIsGod.
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* '''Subverted''': Bob stays a jerk throughout the story.seems to be getting nicer, but quickly returns to his jerkish ways.



** Bob was a character created by a writer with the intent of being a Jerkass, but one of the execs wants Bob to be a Nice Guy, so the writers make him a nicer person.

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** Bob was a character created by a writer with the intent of being a Jerkass, but one of the execs wants Bob to be thinks he's too much of a Nice Guy, buzzkill, so the writers make him a nicer person.



** Bob: "Have I actually Progressed my life?"
** Alice: "Of course, who would want to say no."

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** Bob: "Have I actually Progressed progressed my life?"
** Alice: "Of course, who would want to say no."they haven't?"
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** Bob starts off as a {{Villain}}. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.

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** Bob starts off as a {{Villain}}. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.pope once he dies.
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** Bob starts off as a Jerkass. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.

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** Bob starts off as a Jerkass.{{Villain}}. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.

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* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the only one who hated him?"



** Alice: "Of course, who would want to say no."

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** Alice: "Of course, who would want to say no.""
* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the only one who hated him?"
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* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the only one who hated him?"

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* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the only one who hated him?"him?"
* '''Lampshaded''':
** Bob: "Have I actually Progressed my life?"
** Alice: "Of course, who would want to say no."
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** StatusQuoIsGod.

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* '''Inverted''': CharacterDerailment

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* '''Inverted''': CharacterDerailment'''Inverted''':
** CharacterDerailment
** Bob is introduced as a NiceGuy. Then a prequel is released showing him in his Jerkass phase.
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* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the one who hated him?"

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* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the only one who hated him?"
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* Bob starts off as a Jerkass. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.
* Every single one of Bob's personality traits has been replaced with an opposite one. He lost all of his skills and acquired new ones, changed his stances on pretty much everything, switched to opposite side of MoralityKitchenSink etc.

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* ** Bob starts off as a Jerkass. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.
* ** Every single one of Bob's personality traits has been replaced with an opposite one. He lost all of his skills and acquired new ones, changed his stances on pretty much everything, switched to opposite side of MoralityKitchenSink etc.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob starts off as a Jerkass. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
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Bob starts off as a Jerkass. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.pope.
* Every single one of Bob's personality traits has been replaced with an opposite one. He lost all of his skills and acquired new ones, changed his stances on pretty much everything, switched to opposite side of MoralityKitchenSink etc.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character changes during the events of a story.



* '''Exaggerated''': Bob starts off as a {{Jerkass}}. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob, a {{Jerkass}}, becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as a result of being surrounded by kind people.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob starts off as a {{Jerkass}}.Jerkass. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob, a {{Jerkass}}, Jerkass, becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as a result of being surrounded by kind people.people.
* '''Justified''': Bob belongs to a minority of Jerkasses (or is the only one) in a town of kindness. He is eventually influenced by them.
* '''Inverted''': CharacterDerailment



* '''Inverted''': CharacterDerailment.
* '''Justified''': Bob, a {{Jerkass}} is not TheChosenOne, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial but really wants to be]], and the the prophecy states that the chosen one is a very kind soul.

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* '''Inverted''': CharacterDerailment.
* '''Justified''':
'''Invoked''': Bob, a {{Jerkass}} Jerkass is not TheChosenOne, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial but really wants to be]], and the the prophecy states that the chosen one is a very kind soul.



** Bob was a character created by a writer with the intent of being a Jerkass, but one of the execs wants Bob to be a NiceGuy, so the writers make him a nicer person.
** Audiences complain about Bob because he is a jerk, but the writers cannot kill him off.

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** Bob was a character created by a writer with the intent of being a Jerkass, but one of the execs wants Bob to be a NiceGuy, Nice Guy, so the writers make him a nicer person.
** Audiences complain about Bob because he is a jerk, but the writers cannot kill him off.off.
* '''Discussed''': "Did Bob just congratulate [[TheHero Hiro]]? Wasn't he the one who hated him?"
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* '''Double Subverted''': However, he did become a much more reliable person. People are willing to put up with his attitude just because of how good of a worker he is.

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* '''Double Subverted''': However, he did become a much more reliable person. People are willing to put up with his attitude just because of how good of a worker he is.is.
* '''Averted''': Bob doesn't appear enough in the story for his character to change, and when he does appear, it's in situations that won't change him as a person.
* '''Inverted''': CharacterDerailment.
* '''Justified''': Bob, a {{Jerkass}} is not TheChosenOne, [[IJustWantToBeSpecial but really wants to be]], and the the prophecy states that the chosen one is a very kind soul.
* '''Enforced''':
** Bob was a character created by a writer with the intent of being a Jerkass, but one of the execs wants Bob to be a NiceGuy, so the writers make him a nicer person.
** Audiences complain about Bob because he is a jerk, but the writers cannot kill him off.
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* '''Straight''': Bob is a {{Jerkass}} at the start of the story. However, events in the course of the story cause him to become a NiceGuy by the time the story is over.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob starts off as a {{Jerkass}}. He ends the story as someone who is so nice that he ended up being made a Saint by the pope.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob, a {{Jerkass}}, becomes a JerkWithAHeartOfGold as a result of being surrounded by kind people.
* '''Subverted''': Bob stays a jerk throughout the story.
* '''Double Subverted''': However, he did become a much more reliable person. People are willing to put up with his attitude just because of how good of a worker he is.

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