Basic Trope: A person who gets angry all the time and about anything.
- Straight: Bob takes offense to almost anything someone says.
- Exaggerated:
- The rage Bob takes for someone saying something is enormous.
- Alice accidently knocks over Bob's drink. He tortures and beats her to death with a hammer for it.
- A gentle breeze blows against Bob. He reacts by destroying existence.
- Bob is permanently locked in a state of Unstoppable Rage because everything thoroughly angers him.
- Downplayed:
- While not outwardly aggressive, Bob isn't a difficult person to rile up.
- Berserk Button
- Justified:
- Bob has severe anger management issues and is overly sensitive to the things others say.
- Bob is deliberately acting this way in order to pick a fight or intimidate someone.
- A few too many blows to the head makes it harder to stay calm.
- All of the words towards Bob are meant to upset him.
- Bob has post-traumatic stress disorder, in which he struggles with on a daily basis.
- Bob is on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge (or Rescue) and he has absolutely zero tolerance to everything that doesn't provide him a means to accomplish his goals quickly and efficiently.
- Inverted: Bob is never angry or upset, calmly accepting things that would upset a normal person. "My friend died and you just killed him in front of me? Oh well, it happens."
- Subverted:
- Bob, known for his violent overreactions, actually handles Charlie's latest slight in a calm, reasonable manner.
- Bob gets very mad at Charlie's slight, but it turns out he isn't always that angry. Charlie just hit Bob's sensitive spot.
- Double Subverted:
- Later that night, Charlie is rushed to hospital after being beaten into a stinking pulp by an unknown and very annoyed assailant.
- Bob was lying, he just gets mad at everything.
- Parodied:
- A person's temper is literally set off by a hair trigger on his body.
- Bob's temper gets on Emperor Evulz's nerves so much that he's let go.
- Zig Zagged:
- After overreacting too many times, Bob takes anger management classes to help him become a calmer person. This works for a while, but something triggers his rage again and he relapses into his old ways, only to retake his anger management classes. Rinse 'n' repeat as many times as you like.
- Charlie's attacker turns out to not be Bob, it is someone trying to frame Bob. Of course, the Frame-Up was very easy to pull off considering that Bob at his most calm still gave Charlie a Dope Slap for taking the last cup of Kool-Aid and at his most angry (after all of the crap he had to deal with because of said framing) the very fact he has to enter a hospital (as a visitor, not a patient) is enough reason for him to bodyslam Charlie off the bed and pummel him straight into a coma.
- Averted: Alice slights Bob. Bob calmly shrugs it off.
- Enforced: Bob needs to be humorously over-the-top so that when Dave has road rage later in the series and needs Anger Management classes, people will take it seriously.
- Lampshaded: "Are you seriously trying to stiff me on this ''[Bleep]'' payment? You've known me for ten ''[Bleep]'' years and you think I'm gonna take that ''[Bleep]'' quietly?"
- Invoked: Bob is in a show-within-the-show where he plays the Hair-Trigger Temper and does the routine so he can stay in character.
- Exploited: Emperor Evulz knows about Bob's temper-issues and actively enrages him and gets him to chase him into a situation where Bob can be framed, or otherwise used for his purposes.
- Defied:
- Bob takes Anger Management classes and resolutely tries to control his temper.
- "Bob... if you yell at me ever again, I will demonstrate how angry you make me, by using this [pulls out Hand Cannon] to put you down like the rabid fucking dog you act like. Have I made myself perfectly clear?"
- Discussed: "Watch what you say to Bob. He's got a short fuse."
- Conversed: "Ever notice how some people seem to blow up at the smallest thing?"
- Implied: Bob enters the room with an angry scowl on his face and everybody starts acting nice to him in ways that go completely against their regular nature — such as the team's Deadpan Snarker sticking to monosyllabic and to-the-point statements.
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's blowing up on people for the slightest things rubs the wrong person - a Badass Bystander, a gangbanger, a mobster, etc. - the wrong way and the "victim" Kicks The Son Of A Bitch, making him learn a painful lesson about the stupidity of his behavior.
- Bob's habit of attacking people for petty reasons gets him arrested and imprisoned on multiple counts of assault and battery.
- Bob's violent demeanor means that no one misses him when he gets captured by Emperor Evulz after finding out his latest nefarious plan.
- All of Bob's friends get tired of his anger issues and ditch him, leaving him all alone.
- Bob gets so angry so often that he suffers a heart attack.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob, after recovering from his ordeal, decides to undergo Training from Hell or find a Bigger Stick so that no one can stop him again. Not only is he no calmer - he may, in fact, treat the beatdown as My Greatest Failure, but as another reason for rage instead of sorrow - but he now also has more violent power to back up his temper. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero.
- Bob escapes his captivity with his hair-trigger shaved down to a monomolecular wire size because he now has a very great slight to avenge and whatever kind of bad things he assumed out of everybody else now have a very solid basis. Those who are smart move very far away.
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob's explosive outbursts of anger, as well as the consequences, are ridiculously over-the-top and funny.
- One of Bob's friends carries a fire extinguisher everywhere and doses Bob with it every time he gets slightly miffed.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob snaps so badly that he hurts or kills someone...and comes to regret what he's done.
- Sick and tired of Bob losing his temper at everything, one of his friends -or his Love Interest- snaps at Bob, telling him to get a grip on his temper, or they're through being friends.
- Played For Horror: There is an underlying sense of dread in every scene someone shares with Bob, because the other characters keep fearing that anything they say or do will set off Bob somehow, or even that anything they don't say or do (because of trying to play it safe) will set off Bob anyway.
Hurry up and press the friggin' button to go back to Hair-Trigger Temper or else I'll kill you!
