Designated Victim/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character that villains target significantly more than anyone else
 * Straight: Cherry finds herself being targeted by the Monster of the Week more so than any other member of her Five Man Band.
 * Exaggerated: Cherry is literally the only person the Monster of the Week ever goes after.
 * Justified:
 * Cherry is considered to be the biggest threat out of all the main protagonists, and thus getting rid of her would be more worthwhile.
 * Cherry is The Heart of the group, and the villains believe that, without her, the Five Man Band will fall apart.
 * Inverted: Cherry is never targeted by the Monster of the Week, in contrast to everyone else in the Five Man Band.
 * Subverted: Cherry appears to be frequently kidnapped by the Big Bad, but it turns out that this is so they can meet in private and carry out their passionate love affair
 * Double Subverted: It turns out that Cherry was being brainwashed into this affair, and thus the Big Bad is effectively raping her.
 * Parodied: The villains form a "We All Hate Cherry" alliance, and explicitly ignore everyone else in their attempts to capture her.
 * Deconstructed: Cherry is so sick of being targeted all the time that she grows tired of being good and does a Face Heel Turn.
 * Reconstructed: Even after her Face Heel Turn she's targeted just as much as ever, so she decides to return to being good once again.
 * Zig Zagged: Cherry's Designated Victim status varies drastically at the writer's whim.
 * Averted: Cherry is targeted more or less the same amount as everyone else.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "Why do they always go after me?"
 * Invoked: Cherry is always going out of her way to get captured by the Monster of the Week, either to protect the others, or to provoke the heroes into action.
 * Defied: Cherry takes self defense classes, and suddenly, the villains don't want to approach her anymore.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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