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** King Bob has a servant whose entire job description involves handing him lamp stands to smash when he is angry.

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* '''Justified''': This lampstand is a cause of Bob's frustrations.

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** Bob has SuperStrength, and doesn't know any healthier coping mechanisms.



* '''Defied''': Bob puts away his lampstands and other furniture away whenever he feels himself getting riled up. This actually helps him calm down as he's too tired to get angry by the time he's don.

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* '''Defied''': Bob puts away his lampstands and other furniture away whenever he feels himself getting riled up. This actually helps him calm down as he's too tired to get angry by the time he's don.done.



* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is having financial trouble due to the cost of buying new lampstands to smash.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is having financial trouble due to the cost of buying new lampstands to smash.
smash, and has to constantly ask his family to bail him out. However, he ends up accidentally revealing the cause of his financial struggles to his family one day, and they refuse to help him out.
--> "Bob, we're not going to keep bailing you out if the cause of your problems is your inability to effectively manage your anger."
* '''Reconstructed''':'''Reconstructed''': Bob takes anger management classes so that he'll stop wrecking his stuff.



* '''Played for Laughs:''' Bob has an entire closet filled with lampstands, and goes ham on them whenever he gets angry.



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* '''Enforced''': Bob's therapist has given up hope of finding more conventional means of relieving his stress, and has prescribed weekly lampstand smashing.

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* '''Enforced''': Bob's therapist has given up hope of finding more conventional means of relieving his stress, and has prescribed weekly lampstand smashing.???



* '''Invoked''': Bob: "Excuse me for a moment, I need to go smash that lampstand."
* '''Exploited''': Bob has a stockpile of lampstands to vent his frustrations on.
* '''Defied''': "Bob, smashing lampstands isn't going to make you feel any better!"

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* '''Invoked''': Bob: "Excuse me for Bob comes home looking angry and Alice gives him a moment, I need lampstand to go smash vent his anger on, believing that lampstand."
letting him let out his steam in this manner is better than having him suppress his anger and blow up in a much worse manner later on.
* '''Exploited''': Bob has Bob's neighbor Charlie is a stockpile sculptor / artist who makes millions by using the remains of Bob's broken lampstands to vent his frustrations on.
make unique masterpieces.
* '''Defied''': "Bob, smashing Bob puts away his lampstands isn't going and other furniture away whenever he feels himself getting riled up. This actually helps him calm down as he's too tired to make you feel any better!"get angry by the time he's don.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob grabs a baseball bat and repeatedly bashes the lampstand.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob grabs a baseball bat and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill repeatedly bashes the lampstand.lampstand]].



* '''Inverted''': Bob hits ''himself'' with the lampstand. (Which is just as likely to work, honestly.)
* '''Subverted''': Bob angrily picks up the lampstand... then gently places it back down.

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Bob hits ''himself'' with the lampstand. (Which is just as likely to work, honestly.)
** Bob hits the lampstand to make himself angry.
* '''Subverted''': Bob angrily picks up the lampstand...lampstand ... then gently places it back down.



* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob finds that smashing lampstands just doesn't have the same effect anymore. So he takes up smashing mailboxes.

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* '''Parodied''': ???
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** Bob keeps trying to do this even after he finds that he doesn't feel any better after doing it.
** Bob marks household objects "To Be Smashed" and "Not to Be Smashed."
* '''Zig Zagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob finds that smashing lampstands just doesn't have the same effect anymore. So anymore, so he takes up smashing mailboxes.



* '''Enforced''': Bob's therapist has given up home of finding more conventional means of relieving his stress, and has prescribed weekly lampstand smashing.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob - "Excuse me for a moment, I need to go smash that lampstand."

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* '''Enforced''': Bob's therapist has given up home hope of finding more conventional means of relieving his stress, and has prescribed weekly lampstand smashing.
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Bob: "It feels good to hit this thing."
* '''Invoked''': Bob - Bob: "Excuse me for a moment, I need to go smash that lampstand."



* '''Conversed''': Bob - "Smashing lampstands always seems to perk me up."

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* '''Conversed''': Bob - Bob: "Smashing lampstands always seems to perk me up."



* '''Played For Drama''': Bob breaks his hand from smashing too many lampstands.

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* '''Played For for Drama''': Bob breaks his hand from smashing too many lampstands.lampstands.
* '''Played for Horror''': Bob starts taking out his frustrations on organisms and doesn't care that he's hurting and, in some cases, killing them.



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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob invests in a nigh indestructible lampstand that can handle the punishment.

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Bob invests in a nigh indestructible lampstand that can handle the punishment.punishment.
** Bob buys a punching bag.
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-->''Bob is feeling angry and frustrated in the vicinity of a lampstand.''

* '''Straight''': Bob smashes the lampstand against the wall.

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* '''Straight''': Bob
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%%* '''Played For Drama''': Bob breaks his hand from smashing too many lampstands.???

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%%* * '''Played For Drama''': Bob breaks his hand from smashing too many lampstands.???
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* '''Inverted''': Bob hits ''himself'' with the lampstand.

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* '''Inverted''': Bob hits ''himself'' with the lampstand. (Which is just as likely to work, honestly.)
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-->'''Bob is feeling angry and frustrated in the vicinity of a lampstand.'''

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-->'''Bob -->''Bob is feeling angry and frustrated in the vicinity of a lampstand.'''
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-->Bob is feeling angry and frustrated in the vicinity of a lampstand.

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'''Basic Trope''': Hitting something to relieve negative emotions.

-->Bob is feeling angry and frustrated in the vicinity of a lampstand.

* '''Straight''': Bob smashes the lampstand against the wall.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob grabs a baseball bat and repeatedly bashes the lampstand.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob gently pushes the lampstand over.
* '''Justified''': This lampstand is a cause of Bob's frustrations.
* '''Inverted''': Bob hits ''himself'' with the lampstand.
* '''Subverted''': Bob angrily picks up the lampstand... then gently places it back down.
* '''Double Subverted''': After placing the lampstand down gently, Bob kicks over through a doorway.
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob finds that smashing lampstands just doesn't have the same effect anymore. So he takes up smashing mailboxes.
* '''Averted''': Bob isn't feeling stressed, the lampstand is in no need of smashing.
* '''Enforced''': Bob's therapist has given up home of finding more conventional means of relieving his stress, and has prescribed weekly lampstand smashing.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob - "Excuse me for a moment, I need to go smash that lampstand."
* '''Exploited''': Bob has a stockpile of lampstands to vent his frustrations on.
* '''Defied''': "Bob, smashing lampstands isn't going to make you feel any better!"
* '''Discussed''': "Bob really seems to like smashing lampstands."
* '''Conversed''': Bob - "Smashing lampstands always seems to perk me up."
* '''Implied''': Alice arrives at Bob's apartment. Bob welcomes her in cheerfully. There is a smashed lampstand in the corner.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob is having financial trouble due to the cost of buying new lampstands to smash.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob invests in a nigh indestructible lampstand that can handle the punishment.
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%%* '''Played For Drama''': Bob breaks his hand from smashing too many lampstands.???
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