Basic Trope: The leader and most powerful of the good guys.
- Straight: Bob is the leader and the most powerful and respected member of the Alliance of Heroes. Only Emperor Evulz is capable of challenging him in battle.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob is literally God.
- Bob is the Anthropomorphic Personification of Good
- Downplayed:
- Bob is a powerful hero who has a lot of good strategies for the team but is usually depicted as peer among the others.
- The Hero
- Justified: Having trained Bob since he was a child, Master David handpicked him to succeed him as leader of the Alliance of Heroes.
- Inverted: Big Bad
- Subverted:
- Bob dies and the Alliance is left leaderless.
- Bob is a hero, until he does what he needed to do and pulls a Face–Heel Turn.
- Bob turns out to be the Big Bad.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob returns from the dead, stronger than ever.
- ...until he realized that being Good Feels Good, and stays a good guy.
- Bob is later revealed to be both the Big Good and the Big Bad, by way of Good Running Evil. All the evil minions have no idea that their boss is sabotaging them.
- Parodied: Bob's superhero outfit has the words BIG GOOD on the front. In fact, that becomes his name.
- Zig Zagged: Bob turns out to be bad but not the Big Bad. In fact he was not that powerful at all and turns out to be a highly clumsy villain. His clumsiness actually sabotages the Big Bad thus sort of making him a hero. Then it turns out he did this all on purpose because he truly is the Big Good. Everyone cheers as Bob turns out to be a great guy after all. However, in the final stages of the adventure it becomes clear that while Bob was a great guy with great morals he is still a clumsy, lazy, unreliable person with no power whatsoever. The epilogue makes clear that his real power was in gathering the truly competent and reliable heroes for the Alliance of Heroes.
- Averted: Bob is just one of many heroes in the setting.
- Enforced: The writers want to create a legendary hero the rest of the team looks up to in order to show what sort of person a superhero would admire.
- Lampshaded: "It's Bob! The world's greatest hero!"
- Invoked:
- Bob sees that the heroes lack leadership and steps up to the plate.
- God or some other cosmic deity purposefully sent Bob to Earth in order to lead the heroes, knowing exactly what sort of person they would look up to via mind-reading and simple spying.
- Exploited: The Big Bad or Greater-Scope Villain mind-controlled or infiltrated the Big Good and used this to their advantage, commit their evil deeds, get their opponents out of the way or simply For the Evulz.
- Defied: The team agrees to share their power and influence equally.
- Discussed: The team discusses why they look up to Bob so much.
- Conversed: Bob's fans read his comic and talk about how much of a natural leader he is.
- Implied: No one ever specifically mentions Bob is the leader but they always follow his orders and seem pretty lost without him.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob is so iconic amongst his fellow heroes that the others cannot hope to be as effective as him. They quit in disillusion, fragmenting the Alliance.
- Bob is so central to the Alliance of Heroes that, if he should ever become a Fallen Hero, it would completely shatter the hopes and principles of the Alliance who think that if even the Best has fallen, it's only a matter of time before they suffer the same fate, leading to them either joining the bad guys or giving up completely.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob sees his role as helping others overcome their doubts, and so perpetually restoring the alliance when heroes fall.
- The Heroes are called out on their behavior by a less pessimistic / more idealistic person, who tells them that while Bob may have become a bad guy, the principles they all believed in are still meaningful and worth fighting for, encouraging them to be better than Bob currently is and become better than he ever was.
- Played For Laughs: Everyone comments how great Bob is, with heavy doses of Ho Yay thrown in.
- Played For Drama: Bob is the reluctant leader who secretly has doubts about his role and fears failure.
Lead the good guys to victory at Big Good.
