Basic Trope: A customer that, no matter how hard someone tries, can not be appeased.
- Straight: Bob heads to a diner and ends up becoming a nightmare to the staff as he makes contradictory requests under the guise of "the Customer is Always Right".
- Bob heads to Tropers Inc. to repair a piece of equipment. They fail to greet him at the gate for over fifteen minutes and fail to respond to attempts to contact them, and are rude and hostile when they finally do let him in. Once he is in and begins doing the work, they constantly nitpick and criticize every last aspect of his work until he threatens to stop working and leave, which makes them back off in the moment. After he leaves, Tropers Inc. emails Bob's supervisor to complain about his behavior, and when they get the invoice a few days later, they immediately call to angrily refute and contest numerous charges (like they have done many times before).
- Exaggerated:
- Bob threatens to file a Frivolous Lawsuit against the restaurant if they don't fulfil his demands.
- Bob gets kicked out of the restaurant for disrupting the peace, and in response he burns it (and ALL the employee's houses!) to the ground.
- Bob murders the waitress after they inform him that they can't serve his meal for reasons.
- Downplayed: Bob makes some demands, but ends up giving up after all the staff refuse.
- Justified: Bob is a Jerkass.
- Inverted: Bob is the nicest customer in the world, but all the staff hate him for whatever reason.
- Parodied: The waiter refuses to fold Bob's pizza up like a paper aeroplane and fly it into his mouth, so Bob hijacks a real plane and crashes it into the restaurant.
- Deconstructed: Bob pisses off someone in the same establishment as him, such as the Mama Bear boss, Alice. Saying that it was a Curb-Stomp Battle implies Bob actually put up a fight and didn't just get folded by one hit, go down and beg for his life like a Dirty Coward, and was met with more severe blows from a pissed off Alice until he either got sent out via ambulance or via hearse.
- Tropers Inc. has long been Bob's least favorite customer and a massive thorn in his side, but their service contract brings in enough revenue on paper for Bob's company to justify keeping them on their roster. After one of their reps is so rude and abusive to a representative that she runs away in tears and almost quits (at the same time that Tropers Inc. is being so difficult about paying an invoice that litigation is beginning to look like a possibility), Bob's company finally accepts that their account is vastly more trouble than it is worth, and they terminate the service contract and tell them to find a new provider. Their reputation for being a nightmare to deal with is so firmly established that most decent contractors either refuse to work with them or quote them exorbitant rates to send a message (or, on the off chance that they accept, to justify the headaches they cause), and the only people who seem willing to enter into a service agreement with them are notorious themselves for their poor work.
