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** The torture was basically designed to invoke StockholmSyndrome, and involved MoreThanMindControl.

* '''Deconstructed''':
** Bob may have turned evil…[[EvilVersusEvil But that doesn’t make him loyal.]] [[TheDogBitesBack As soon as he has the power and the opportunity,]] [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters he turns against his master,]] and starts rampaging on his own.
** [[DentedIron Bob becomes too physically ruined by the torture to be an effective ally,]] even if his StockholmSyndrome induced loyalty is genuine.

* '''Double Subverted''': However, a RantInducingSlight by one of his allies makes [[DoubleAgent him turn evil for real]] and kill him in a fit of rage…just like [[TheChessmaster Alice]] [[OutGambitted planned.]]

* '''Enforced''': ???

'''Alice''': [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment No even after listening to 10 hours of Celine Dion?]]\\

** In a CrapsackWorld it is played for BlackComedy from tautologies. [[TheCaliuga King Bob]] decries [[InsaneTrollLogic people who are tortured are evil therefore it is wrong to release them and right to keep on torturing them.]] It is no wonder that anyone subjected to snaps and decides that killing everyone is the best option.

'''Basic Trope''': A Face-HeelTurn caused by torture.

'''Basic Trope''': A face-heel turn caused by torture.

** It’s still one less ally to the heroes, and Bob damages their psychological wellbeing just be existing: he’s a physical embodiment of [[MyGreatestFailure their greatest failure.]]

* '''Subverted''': It seems like Bob’s torture made him join Alice’s side, but when the rest of the heroes arrive he soon betrays her as they always planed.

** Bob may have turned evil…[[EvilVersusEvil But that doesn’t make him loyal.]] [[TheDogBitesBack As soon as he has the power and the opportunity,]][[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters he turns against his master,]] and starts rampaging on his own.

** Bob may have turned evil…[[EvilVsEvil But that doesn’t make him loyal.]] [[TheDogBitesBack As soon as he has the power and the opportunity,]][[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters he turns against his master,]] and starts rampaging on his own.

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "The tortured often become dependant on their captors…if only to make the pain stop."

* '''Exaggerated''': It takes the space of five minutes to make Bob switch.

* '''Downplayed''': DefeatMeansFriendship

* '''Justified''': The torture was basically designed to invoke StockholmSyndrome, and involved MoreThanMindControl.

* '''Inverted''': Alice is tortured, and [[TheAtoner then seeks redemption for her previous crimes.]]

* '''Double Subverted''': However, a RantInducingSlight by one of his allies makes [[DoubleAgent him turn evil for real]] and kill him in a fit of rage…just like [[TheChessmaster Alice]] [[OutGambited planned.]]

-->'''Bob''': I’ll never join you! Never!
-->'''Alice''': [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment No even after listening to 10 hours of Celine Dion?]]
-->'''Bob''': [[DirtyCoward …So, when do I start?]]

* '''Lampshaded''': “Why are you fighting me? I’m not the one who tormented you!”

* '''Invoked''': Alice thinks that she and Bob [[WeCanRuleTogether can rule together,]] and {{Yandere decides to show it the only way she knows how.}}

* '''Deconstructed''': Bob may have turned evil…[[EvilVsEvil But that doesn’t make him loyal.]] [[TheDogBitesBack As soon as he has the power and the opportunity,]][[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters he turns against his master,]] and starts rampaging on his own.

* '''Reconstructed''': [[XanatosGambit This is what Alice wanted all along]]; A WildCard, that unwillingly runs inference for her actual plans and [[WoundedGazelleGambit makes it seem like she’s on the back foot.]]

* '''Implied''': Bob is covered in scars and bondage gear, seems to have a manic fear of Alice despite being her loyal underling, and Alice is a well-known TortueTechnician.

%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Discussed''': The tortured often become dependant on their captors…if only to make the pain stop.

-->’’’Bob’’’: I’ll never join you! Never!
-->’’’Alice’’’: [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment No even after listening to 10 hours of Celine Dion?]]
-->’’’Bob’’’: [[DirtyCoward …So, when do I start?]]

* '''Invoked''': Alice thinks that she and Bob [[WeCanRuleTogether can rule together,]] and [[Yandere decides to show it the only way she knows how.]]

** [[DentedIron Bob becomes too physically ruined by the torture to be an effective ally,]] even if his Stockholm-Syndrome induced loyalty is genuine.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob may have turned evil…[[EvilVsEvil But that doesn’t make him loyal.]] [[theDogBitesBack As soon as he has the power and the opportunity,]][[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters he turns against his master,]] and starts rampaging on his own.

** It’s still one less ally to the heroes, and Bob damages their psychological wellbeing just be existing: he’s a physical embodiment of 99MyGreatestFailure their greatest failure.]]

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