History PlayingWith / GotVolunteered

* '''Subverted''': Charlie the boss needs to assign a difficult job to his team and he thinks nobody will be too keen on it. However, when he brings it up, Alice and Bob see it as a challenge and enthusiastically want to do the job.
* '''Double Subverted''': Once they learn the details of the job, they try to back out only for Charlie to say "too late."

* '''Played For Drama''': Charlie hates Alice and Bob, wants them dead, and voluntells them to make a HeroicSacrifice.

%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
%%* '''Played For Drama''': ???

* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob sense that their boss Charlie wants to assign them on an unpleasant job. They promptly find something else to do, supervised by Charlie's superior.

** Alice and Bob volunteer Charlie to do the job.

** "You volunteered for this?" "I got volunteered. There's a difference."

** Charlie volunteers Alice and Bob in public, knowing that them backing out will make look bad in front of the company.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': When Charlie asks for three volunteers, no one raises their hands, so he assigns Alice, Bob, and Dana to the task.

** Nobody wants to do the job Charlie has asked them to do (mainly because it is dangerous), but ''someone'' has to do it.
** Due to a technicality, Charlie can't legally ''order'' his subordinates to do the job, but it needs to get done, so Charlie has them 'volunteer' for it.

** "You volunteered for this?" "I ''got'' volunteered. There's a difference."

* '''Lampshaded''': "Just once, I'd like to 'volunteer' for something and have it actually be voluntary."

* '''Discussed''': "You volunteered for this?" "I ''got'' volunteered. There's a difference."

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "You volunteered for this?" "I ''got'' volunteered. There's kind of a difference."

* '''Discussed''': "Nobody's willing to do the job. I bet Charlie's going to 'volunteer' one of us to do it."

'''Basic Trope''': A character "volunteers" for something against his or her will.
* '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are "volunteered" for a dangerous or humiliating job by their boss Charlie.

* '''Downplayed''': When Charlie asks for three volunteers, no one raises their hands, so he assigns Alice, Bob, and David to the task.

** No one is willing to do the job Charlie has asked them to do (mainly because it is dangerous), but ''somebody'' has to do it.
** Due to a technicality, Charlie can't legally ''order'' his subordinates to do the job, but it needs to get done, so Charlie has them "volunteer" for it.

* '''Inverted''':

* '''Parodied''':
** Bob does everything he can to avoid being volunteered for the job or activity. He gets slipped up and is volunteered any ways.
** Bob does everything he can to avoid being volunteered for the job or activity, [[LaboriousLaziness to the point where just doing the work or activity would have been much easier]].

* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob sense that their boss Charlie wants to assign them on an unpleasant job. They promptly find a different thing to do, supervised by Charlie's superior.
* '''Discussed''': "No one's willing to do the job. I bet Charlie's going to 'volunteer' one of us to do it."
* '''Conversed''': "Don't you just love it how [a boss character] from this comic strip always volunteers his team to do the most tedious jobs? And he always takes the credit for their work. What a guy!"

-> '''Charlie''': Alright, I need a volunteer to go back to {{Got Volunteered}}. ({{Beat}}) No? Bob! Thanks for being such a good sport.\\

* '''Inverted''': Alice and Bob volunteer Charlie to do the job.
* '''Subverted''':
** Charlie the boss needs to assign a difficult job to his team and he thinks nobody will be too keen on it. However, when he brings it up, Alice and Bob see it as a challenge and enthusiastically want to do the job.
** Alice and Bob are not volunteered. Instead, Charlie charges Dorothy with the task of doing the job.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...However, Dorothy needs assistants to actually do the job, so Alice and Bob are dragged along with her.

* '''Defied''': Alice and Bob sense that their boss Charlie wants to assign them on an unpleasant job. They promptly find a different thing to do, supervised by Charlie's superior. Charlie then tells his team that he needs volunteers, anyone but Alice and Bob who are already busy. Poor Dorothy is charged.

* '''Zig Zagged''':
** Charlie asks for volunteers and Bob steps up. However, it is later shown that Bob was forced into it off screen (Charlie told him before the meeting to volunteer or be fired). When Alice finds out, she prepares to confront Charlie, but Bob reassures her that he would have volunteered anyway. However, Bob's InternalMonologue hints that he only said this to keep Alice out of trouble.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Parodied''': Bob does everything he can to avoid being volunteered for the job or activity. He gets slipped up and is volunteered any ways.

* '''Subverted''': Alice and Bob are not volunteered. Instead, Charlie charges Dorothy with the task of doing the job.

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???

'''Charlie''': OhNoNotAgain

* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Zig Zagged''':

* '''Enforced''':
* '''Implied''':

* '''Invoked''':
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''':

* '''Conversed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''':
* '''Played For Drama''':

Aright, I need a volunteer to go back to {{Got Volunteered}}. ({{Beat}}) No? Bob! Thanks for being such a good sport.
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* '''Parodied''':

* '''Conversed''': "I didn't volunteer. I ''got volunteered.'' That's not the same thing."

* '''Justified''': No one is willing to do the job Charlie has asked them to do (mainly because it is dangerous), but ''somebody'' has to do it.

* '''Exaggerated''':
* '''Downplayed''':

Back to GotVolunteered

* '''Lampshaded''': "Just once, I'd like to volunteer for something and have it actually be voluntary."

* '''Discussed''':