Nice Guy/Playing With

Basic Trope: A guy/girl who is nice.
 * Straight: Bob is a friendly, well-rounded person with no overwhelming negative traits.
 * Exaggerated:
 * The Messiah
 * Incorruptible Pure Pureness
 * Downplayed:
 * Bob is on the whole a nice guy but is can be a jerk when stressed out too much.
 * Bob is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Justified:
 * Bob is sociable, and wants to make friends.
 * Bob doesn't see any reason to be mean to people.
 * Inverted:
 * Jerkass
 * Lack of Empathy
 * Subverted:
 * Bob turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
 * Bob Wants a Prize For Basic Decency.
 * Bob grabs the Jerkass Ball.
 * Double Subverted:
 * It was actually Bob's twin brother who was doing evil things behind people's backs - Bob himself wouldn't hurt a fly.
 * Super Dickery.
 * Bob has a Jerkass Realization and apologizes for his wrongdoings.
 * Parodied: Bob's constant attempts of being nice to people always fail miserably, due to misunderstandings that are never his fault.
 * Deconstructed:
 * People begin to take advantage of Bob's kind nature, and manipulate him into doing what they want.
 * Extreme Doormat
 * Reconstructed: Over time, Bob learns how to be a Nice Guy without being a pushover.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob has split personality disorder - one day he'll hold a door open for you, the next he'll slam it in your face.
 * Averted: Bob is sometimes nice, but not to the point where it defines his personality.
 * Enforced:
 * Bob, the main character, is intentionally made likable so that the audience will find it easy to sympathise with him.
 * Took a Level in Kindness
 * Lampshaded: "Bob, you're a pretty nice guy." "I know."
 * Invoked: Bob acts nice, so that no one will suspect that he's secretly Badass.
 * Defied: Despite being taught from a young age to act this way, Bob refuses to be a Nice Guy.
 * Exploited: The villain accomplishes a Batman Gambit based on Bob's predictable decency.
 * Discussed: "Bob is such a nice guy. If this was a story he'd probably be dead long ago."
 * Conversed: "Nice guys are pretty rare in fiction, aren't they?"
 * Played For Laughs: Bob is an Extreme Doormat who will do anything anyone asks him to do, regardless of how much trouble it causes him.
 * Played For Drama: Bob's niceness causes him much angst, because of all the people trying to take advantage of him.

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