Line #14 PlayingWith/WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds


1	'''Basic Trope''': TheWoobie is driven to villainy as a result of their misfortune.
2	* '''Straight''': [[TheHero Bob]] loses [[TheLostLenore Alice]] and, in pursuit of [[RevengeBeforeReason his desire to avenge her]], becomes the BigBad Emperor Evulz as a result.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** WhosLaughingNow
5	** Bob sees Alice getting [[PokeThePoodle poked by a poodle]] and becomes an OmnicidalManiac as a result.
6	** Bob has suffered viciously at the hands of [[CrapsackWorld the world he lives in]], and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever can't simply kill himself.]] Solution: [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum END IT ALL!]]
7	* '''Downplayed''':
8	** Bob loses Alice and, despite trying to just move on with his life, becomes sufficiently twisted and embittered that if [[TheCorrupter someone]] put him in a position to turn his grief into destruction, there's no telling what he'd do.
9	** [[TheChainOfHarm Bob has been bullied so much that he becomes a bully himself.]]
10	** JerkassWoobie
11	* '''Justified''':
12	** Bob has suffered so much abuse, he snaps and is clinically insane.
13	** Bob lives in a CrapsackWorld, therefore he has no reason to believe that [[HumansAreBastards humans have any good in them]].
14	* '''Inverted''':
15	** IronWoobie
16	** MyGodWhatHaveIDone
17	** [[OmnicidalManiac Evulz]] kills [[BarrierMaiden Alice]] as part of his plan to destroy the galaxy and a grief-striken Bob [[ItsPersonal stops him]], going down in story as Bob Woobie, ''Savior of Worlds''.
18	* '''Subverted''':
19	** Bob [[BeneathTheMask is actually an]] AxeCrazy BloodKnight or PsychoForHire, and is [[WhatTheHellHero just using Alice's death as an excuse]] to [[SociopathicHero split some heads open]].
20	** Bob was lying.
21	** Bob starts muttering a MadnessMantra about getting revenge as he caresses Alice's dead body, and his friends are worried that he might snap. But after he finishes mourning, [[ThePollyanna he goes back to his normal, cheerful self]].
22	* '''Double Subverted''':
23	** Turns out, Bob ''is'' crazy, except that he [[MoralityPet truly, genuinely cared]] about Alice and was trying to [[BecomingTheMask Become His]] [[TheHero Heroic]] [[BecomingTheMask Mask]]. After losing the only one who saw the good in him, he's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge hell-bent on vengeance]].
24	** As it turns out, Bob's actual reasons are due to a frankly miserable existence; he didn't really care for Alice except as an acquaintance, but his life has taught him that since she's dead for no good reason, [[PayEvilUntoEvil he must repay it in full]].
25	** He's just [[BestServedCold hiding his revenge plot]] behind a [[StepfordSmiler disturbingly cheerful facade]].
26	* '''Parodied''': Someone shoots a spitball at Bob. [[DisproportionateRetribution He becomes a super villain in response.]]
27	* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
28	* '''Averted''': Any {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s have no particularly good justification; [[TheWoobie Woobies]] don't do anything homicidal.
29	* '''Enforced''': "We can't just have our OmnicidalManiac destroy [[FortheEvulz for the lulz]]!"
30	* '''Lampshaded''': "I'LL KILL EVERYONE BECAUSE SOMEONE KILLED ALICE!"
31	* '''Invoked''': Claire kills Alice to make Bob join TheDarkSide.
32	* '''Defied''': After Alice's death, Bob gets therapy so he won't engage in any of this type of behavior.
33	* '''Exploited''': After noticing Bob's newfound angst, the BigBad's next MonsterOfTheWeek is an EmotionEater.
34	* '''Discussed''':
35	-->'''Alice:''' Bob has gone [[DarkAndTroubledPast through so much]]; I wonder how he still didn't go crazy after this.\
36	'''Charlie:''' Eh, I suspect that by this point he's one particularly bad day away from snapping and lashing out against the world.
37	* '''Conversed''': "Why do the most remembered villains always symbolize [[DesignatedVillain the little guy being taken advantage of]]?"
38	* '''Deconstructed''':
39	** Alice was a PersonOfMassDestruction killed with the support of essentially the entire world, with only Bob [[EvenEvilCanBeLoved who looks up to her]]. As a result, nobody sympathizes with Bob's rebellion, and it ultimately comes across as pointless and stupid.
40	** The destruction and pain Bob has caused becomes [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate]] compared to their "[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse hardships]]" thus negates any merit and sympathy in the process.
41	* '''Reconstructed''': Bob has [[PersonOfMassDestruction same set of powers]], and now, the entire world, explicitly, has pissed him off by killing the one person who could sympathize with/restrain him. Because of Alice, though, he's gained quite a thick skin, so he's not normally easily enraged. This makes him all the more dangerous, because while he's [[UnderStatement upset]], he won't be easily goaded into anything that could prevent him from doing something really, [[ApocalypseHow really nasty to the world]].
42	* '''Implied''': Evulz is mainly a GenericDoomsdayVillain, but in one evil speech, he tearfully announces that the world deserves to die after what it has done to him.
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48	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
49	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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