Nice Guy/Playing With
< Nice Guy
Basic Trope: A guy/girl who is nice.
- Straight: Bob is a friendly, well-rounded person with no overwhelming negative traits.
- Exaggerated:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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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