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* The re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'' plays this for drama. It got excruciatingly (and brilliantly) dark at points.
* Teen soaps are prone to this half of the time, apparently to show you that some [[Teens Are Monsters]]. [[Nickelodeon]] usually leads this trope, as well as [[Dan Schneider]] shows that employ [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]/
** The [[Dan Schneider]] shows ''[[
* Almost any Indonesian TV.
* The series ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' finds its characters, particularly Michael Bluth, constantly having brief opportunities at success yanked away from them. Often times, it will be the culmination of the decisions of everyone in the house working against each other to completely void any progress they may have made. The mildly likable Michael Bluth often finds that as soon as he himself is willing to be the slightest bit lax in his principles he is karmically punished, as when he condemns his family for spending their shares of company stock only to have it immediately revealed that he has used his shares to buy a new car.
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