Basic Trope: Good guys find pleasure in punishing evil.
- Straight: Bob finds enjoyment in punishing evildoers.
- Exaggerated: Bob feels great in sadistically murdering every single villain, even those who aren't completely evil.
- Downplayed:
- While Bob doesn't express it, he shows a slight grin after punching the villain square in the face.
- Bob isn't doing the punishing, but he feels satisfied whenever Laser-Guided Karma hits others for committing bad deeds.
- Justified:
- Bob is driven by revenge, so paying the villain back is the only way for him to feel better.
- Bob is a Blood Knight who limits himself to people he thinks deserve to be beaten up.
- The evildoer in question was a rapist/murderer with his next victim in his sights. Bob takes pleasure in the fact that smiting him meant saving an innocent life.
- Inverted:
- Evil Feels Good
- Good Feels Good
- The villain doesn't find any satisfaction in punishing the heroes.
- Subverted:
- Bob becomes pleased in punishing the villains until he becomes shocked of this feeling.
- Bob thinks that the pleasurable feeling he gets when he fights is this but in reality he just likes hurting people in general.
- Double Subverted: ...but he soon gets over it as he beats two thugs who have robbed a bank.
- Parodied: What makes Bob a happy person is dishing out over-the-top punishments to those who jaywalk.
- Bob treats his fights with criminals and villains as Orgasmic Combat.
- Zig Zagged: Bob gets satisfaction from punishing some villains, but not others.
- Bob gets no satisfaciton from punishing evildoers...but the mere existence of evil causes him intense, all-consuming anger that can only be quelled by hunting them down and smiting them.
- Averted: Bob doesn't get any satisfaction of hurting evil.
- Enforced: The author has revenge fantasies.
- Lampshaded: "I never thought that heroes like you enjoy making bad guys suffer a lot."
- Invoked: Charlie encourages enjoying punishment of bad people as a way to channel aggression positively.
- Exploited: Evulz turns Bob's tendency to enjoy smiting evil into true sadism, causing Bob to pull a Face–Heel Turn.
- Defied:
- Feeling that this would go against his kind-hearted nature and strong moral code, Bob avoids the satisfaction of punishing evil.
- Bob rejects the idea that he's any sort of hero; he just likes hurting people, and people who "deserve" it give him a convenient excuse.
- Discussed: "I thought good people hate making people suffer, even their enemies."
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob seems to be happier after fighting villains.
- Deconstructed: Bob loves making the villains suffer so much that this has gradually made him as bad as they are, making him question his heroism.
- Reconstructed: Bob enjoys punishing wrongdoers as an arguably twisted version of the rush from doing a good deed and never gives in to the temptation to smite people who don't deserve it, since that would be pointless cruelty and therefore completely unsatisfactory.
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