Basic Trope: The jock is a Nice Guy.
- Straight: Bob is an athlete who plays quarterback for the high school football team. He's also nice to everyone he meets.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob, the high school quarterback, is 6'6, 240 pounds, the local Mr. Fanservice, and an All-Loving Hero.
- All the jocks at the school are nice.
- Downplayed:
- While Bob is a bit arrogant and temperamental at times, he still is nicer than the other jocks.
- Bob is the jock in a rival team, but he's a Friendly Enemy.
- Justified:
- Bob doesn't let his status as a football player go to his head.
- Bob's team enforces responsibility, because they don't wish to be seen as mindless brutes that attack its own.
- Bob hates how the jerks on his team make all athletes look bad, so goes out of his way to avoid being like them.
- Inverted:
- Bob is a Jerk Jock.
- Bob is an Endearingly Dorky nerd or geek.
- Bob is a Nerdy Bully.
- Subverted: Bob appears to be nice only towards the school staff, but outside of that, he delights in bullying others.
- Double Subverted: It turns out that Andy had made this lie to get him kicked out of the football team. Bob remains innocent.
- Parodied: Bob is the Big Man on Campus, is really popular, but gets featured on a Yaoi or Bara porn video, as the Seme. It actually makes him even more popular, and makes him the Closet Key for all of the guys at school.
- Zig-zagged: Bob has a split personality.
- Averted: There are no jocks.
- Enforced:
- "I'm creating Bob as a foil for Andy."
- "Ugh, there's so many Jerk Jocks nowadays, they're so unoriginal... I know! I'll make a jock who's actually a Nice Guy!"
- Lampshaded: "Good thing you're not like the other jocks."
- Invoked:
- Bob is a jock and is the Big Man on Campus, so he makes it his responsibility to look out for the less popular kids and be nice to everyone.
- Bob is a Nice Guy and has the physical conditioning to be an Accidental Athlete, so he is put on the sports team because “we need at least one jock who is not a total jerkass!”
- Exploited: People use Bob as a personal bodyguard against potential bullies.
- Defied: "I'm not gonna be Mr. Nice Guy to those geeks!"
- Discussed: "Wow! Bob's such a dream! He's big, handsome, and best of all: He's super sweet!"
- Conversed: "Wow! Bob's such a refreshment from all these Jerk Jocks!"
- Deconstructed: Bob has to deal with the inevitable bad apples on his team, who give athletes a bad name, view his kindness and support for the less popular as weakness, and relentlessly bully him. This is especially true if he's part of a minority group (black, gay etc) and experiences the racism/homophobia that team sports are all too often rife with. He ends up quitting athletics, either because he's sick of the mistreatment, or he's developed Internalized Categorism towards jocks.
- Reconstructed: Bob campaigns for gym coaches to teach responsibility and respect for others (teammates and opponents alike). He gets a significant amount of backing thanks to his popularity, succeeds in his campaign, and ultimately gets the jerks kicked off of the team.
- Played For Laughs: Bob Does Not Know His Own Strength and keeps hugging people way too hard, to the point that they have to breathlessly tell him to stop.
- Played For Drama: Colin falsely accuses Bob of an act of cruelty. Everyone believes Colin and turns against Bob despite the latter's kindness, because of the stereotype that all jocks are jerks.
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