Threw My Bike on the Roof: Difference between revisions

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Here's a situation this could apply to: A [[Jerkass]] character is walking down a sidewalk when he sees a group of young little kids playing with a certain toy, such as a ball or a remote-controlled plane. He goes to them all casual-like and asks them what they're up to. The kids explain that they had just bought a new toy and are now playing with it. The [[The Bully|Jerkass]] then calls the kids "cute" and some other innocent hullabaloo, the kids being oblivious to what he's planning to do. Next thing you know though, the [[Rule of Three|Jerkass]] either borrows the toy or takes it by force and then either breaks it, throws it on top of a roof or in a body of water, takes it for his own, or whatever other nasty things a [[Overly Long Gag|Jerkass]] is proud of doing. After he does this, he walks away laughing at what he's done while the poor little kids cry or shout angrily at him, hopelessly unable to do anything to fix or retrieve their toy.

 

 

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Kick the Dog]]. [[Sister Trope]] to [[For the Evulz]].

 

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* This is how ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' starts. Yugi is working on his [[Artifact of Doom|puzzle]] when bullies Honda/Tristan and Jounichi/Joey start picking on him and playing [[Keep-Away]] with it. Then Joey throws a piece of the puzzle into the pool. This is the start of a beautiful friendship. No, seriously.

** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|"We're tormenting you~!"]]

** The beautiful friendship only starts when Yugi decides to [[Save the Villain]] (not that either of them could count as villains, but still), Jonouchi/Joey has a [[Heel Face Turn]] and ''dives into the pool to get the missing piece back for Yugi.'' THAT'S the start of the beautiful friendship.

 

* Industrial-grade asshole, Biff, does this in ''[[Back to The Future]]''.

** It is also subverted when Marty takes the kid's scooter then turns it into a skateboard, making it ''way cooler''. After kicking some serious ass he gives the cooler toy back to the kids.

* ''[[Despicable Me]]'': Gru's [[Establishing Character Moment]] is when he gives a young boy a balloon animal... and pops it with a pin. He ''sets up'' this trope just for fun.

 

* In the ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode "The Tale of the Dark Music", a bully takes a kid's bike and throws it onto the street where it gets run over by a passing bus.

** This is a rare example of Charles being the victim rather than the snob.

 

* In Yuuko's chapter of ''[[Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two.]]'', bullies do this with Yuuko's indoor shoes, hiding them on top of the lockers, which causes her to have to go around all day in her socks. {{spoiler|Eventually subverted--Yuuko hid them up there herself to create the illusion that she was being bullied, so that she could better manipulate Yuu.}}

* In ''[[Fallout]] 2'', you can break a kid's toy in a small sidequest. You even get [[Experience Points]] for teaching him that "life is cruel and unfair".

 

''Nelson takes the remote and gives a more spectacular stunt. ... it finally ends its trip crashing on the roof of a mysterious old house.'' }}

** Another, though this time subverted, example from the show is when Mr. Burns does this simply out of curiosity, but he's so old and decrepit that "[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/like_taking_candy_from_a_baby taking candy from a baby]" is not as easy as he had thought.