Punishment Detail/Playing With
Basic Trope: Bob is a bad soldier, so his superiors always gives him the nasty jobs
- Straight: After going AWOL for a few hours, Bob gets assigned to latrine duty for a month.
- Exaggerated: Bob's punishment is to clean an entire city's sewer system by himself. With a toothbrush.
- Justified: Giving Bob an unpleasant task as a punishment disciplines Bob, gets an unpleasant but necessary task taken care of.
- Subverted: Bob actually enjoys latrine duty more than his normal duties, making the punishment worthless.
- Double Subverted: Turns out, he was just pretending to enjoy it so his superiors would decide that there was no point in trying to punish him with latrine duty.
- Deconstructed: ?
- Reconstructed: ?
- Zig Zagged: ?
- Averted: Discipline is either non-existant, or uses some other method of punishment for misbehavior like A Taste of the Lash.
- Lampshaded:
- Discussed:
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Lt. Alex:' "You disobeyed my orders." |
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- Played For Laughs: Bob tries a number of wacky methods to try and make his boring and incredibly unpleasant job less intolerable
- Played For Drama: Bob constantly being subjected to the nastiest, most degrading jobs as punishment for his lax attitude towards following the rules slowly wears him down and breaks his will.