Too Happy to Live: Difference between revisions

* You're a Vietnam vet with a good life with your lovely wife and adorable children. Then they all get murdered by a botched Mafia hit. So what do you do? Starting wearing a [[The Punisher|black shirt with a white skull]] printed on it, [[More Dakka|get as many guns as you can carry]], go [[Axe Crazy|completely nuts]] and [[Kill'Em All|kill everyone]] [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner|you believe might]] be even [[Disproportionate Retribution|vaguely criminal]].

* The [[Incredible Hulk]] is not the Hulk unless he's upset. Therefore it's kind of a [[Foregone Conclusion]] that any happy relationship he is currently in will end poorly at some point in the near future.

* The recent ''Death of Spider-Man'' arc's prelude in [[Ultimate Spider-Man]] was this for [[Genre Savvy]] readers - even without the title, the fact that everything in Peter Parker's life was going absurdly well was a big clue that there was much badness on the way...

 

* Everything [[Joss Whedon]] has ever written. If fans see someone happy, they know bad things are right around the corner.

** One of the cruelest examples happens in ''[[Dollhouse]]'', right after {{spoiler|Bennett and Topher kiss}}. They're both happy, he's bouncing around like a schoolgirl, she's actually smiling for once in the episode, and then {{spoiler|Saunders shoots Bennett right as Topher walks back in the room}}.

** I'll see your Saunders and raise you [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Willow and Tara]].

** [[Angel]] milks this for all it's worth with Cordelia and Angel at the end of Season 3. They've just independently realized they love each other! They're running (separately) to a romantic location where they can tell each other how they feel! So, naturally, one's going to ascend to the heavens, never to be seen again (sort of), and the other's going to be put in a box and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. And no, they never do express their love to each other.