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** By not helping Alice, villains with already high potential, such as [[PsychoElectro Electro]][[EmpoweredBadassNormal -]][[TheBrute Man]], who's normally a threat to [[SpiderManSendUp Tarantu-Dude]], starts targeting ''her'', and proceeds to [[CurbstompBattle absolutely bulldoze her out of the city]]. And with nobody left to protect that city, other villains see it as a ''perfect'' opportunity to take it over and get even stronger, which means by the time Bob decides to ''finally'' help Alice, [[YouAreTooLate he's too late]], and now every villain that would normally be on the wrong end of a CurbstompBattle with him could easily turn the tables and put ''him'' in a CurbstompBattle.

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* '''Defied''': Bob decides to help Alice.

** By not helping Alice, villains with already high potential, such as [[PsychoElectro Electro]][[EmpoweredBadassNormal -]][[TheBrute Man]], who's normally a threat to [[SpiderManSendUp Tarantu-Dude]], starts targeting ''her'', and proceeds to [[CurbstompBattle absolutely bulldoze her out of the city]]. And with nobody left to protect that city, other villains see it as a ''perfect'' opportunity to take it over and get even stronger, which means by the time Bob decides to ''finally'' help Alice, he's too late, and now every villain that would normally be on the wrong end of a CurbstompBattle with him could easily turn the tables and put ''him'' in a CurbstompBattle.

* '''Inverted''': Bob helps Alice with everything, even the things she's perfectly capable of handling on her own with minimal effort.

** Jester sabotaged the engines of a Metro-bound 747 to distract Bob with while he was doing his latest crime spree in Goddamn City

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob gets a bad reputation for not helping Alice.

** Alice doesn't calls on Bob because whenever he deals with her enemies, he seems to unleash his inner [[ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}} Plutonian]].

* '''Straight''': The main character is Amazing Girl, real name Alice. A sort of wannabe-superhero, who is a competent heroine and quite acrobatic, but [[BadassNormal she doesn't have any powers]] or super-technology to speak of. In the same universe, Bob, A.K.A Superio exists, who has a few nifty gadgets, a handful of useful superpowers, and is also a hero, but Bob never helps Alice.

** Bob is too busy solving other problems to help Alice.

** The "Superior Superio" franchise is a PG-rated tale of superhero derring-do. The "Alice" franchise is an R-rated vigilante war with the villains being [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer hyper-violent]], [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sex-crazed]] drug dealers that will only stop if your splatter their brains all over a wall. As cool as fanfiction writers think it would be, there is no way Superio would be allowed to appear in the "Alice" series without [[AudienceAlienatingPremise grossing out or even scaring away some of the audience]] by [[DemographicDissonantCrossover the sudden influx of violence and the inevitable argument of why Superio doesn't deals with this kind of crap more often]].

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

** Alice doesn't calls on Bob because whenever he deals with her enemies, he seems to [[BewareTheSuperman unleash his inner]] [[ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}} Plutonian]].

** The bad guys are actually hoping Alice arrives because they have a trap set for her. Bob deciding not to get her involved [[SpannerInTheWorks really screws up their plans]], especially if the resources they put in place for the "destroy Amazing Girl" part [[CripplingOverspecialization greatly exceeds the ones for the "deal with the Muggles" part]].

** Things go FromBadToWorse and [[UpToEleven from worse to straight up brutal]], Bob is literally ''right there'' and does not pay Alice any mind, and she shouts at him for being lazy.

** The "Superior Superio" franchise is a PG-rated tale of superhero derring-do. The "Alice" franchise is an R-rated vigilante war with the villains being [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer hyper-violent]], [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil sex-crazed]] drug dealers that will only stop if your splatter their brains all over a wall. As cool as fanfiction writers think it would be, there is no way Superio would be allowed to appear in the "Alice" series without [[AudienceAlienatingPremise grossing out or even scaring away some of the audience]] by the sudden influx of violence and the inevitable argument of why Superio doesn't deals with this kind of crap more often.

* '''Played for Drama''': Alice resents Bob for not helping her.

* '''Played for Laughs''': Things go FromBadToWorse and [[UpToEleven from worse to straight up brutal]], Bob is literally ''right there'' and does not pay Alice any mind, and she shouts at him for being lazy.

** The writers decide that [[StoryBreakingPowers Bob would solve the problem too quickly]] if he helped Alice.

** Bob doesn't know that Alice exists.
** Bob lives far away from Alice.

** The writers decide that Bob would solve the problem too quickly if he helped Alice.

** Bob is employed by the MutantDraftBoard and confined to its jurisdiction. Alice as a BadassNormal is exempt from this but, and moreover operates as a vigilante which the authorities don't support.

* '''Straight''': The main character is Alice, a sort of wannabe-superhero, who is a competent heroine and quite acrobatic, but [[BadassNormal she doesn't have any powers]] or super-technology to speak of. In the same universe, Bob exists, who has a few nifty gadgets, a handful of useful superpowers, and is also a hero, but Bob never helps Alice.

* '''Enforced''': The writers decide that Bob would solve the problem too quickly if he helped Alice.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Where's Bob when you need him?"

* '''Implied''':

* '''Played for Laughs''':