History PlayingWith / ReassignmentBackfire

* '''Straight''': Officer Bob is ReassignedToAntarctica, which was a politically motivated assignment by his hostile superiors, and was a dead-end assignment. However, the Evulz Gang head out there and he catches them, making him a hero, setting his career back on track, and embarrassing his superiors.
* '''Exaggerated''': Officer Bob is demoted to meaningless janitorial duty at the worst post in the world -- which Emperor Evulz happens to be using as a base for his world destruction plans. Bob becomes the savior of the universe overnight.

* '''Defied''': Officer Bob's boss chooses not to reassign him anywhere, just deny him a raise and put derogatory comments in his yearly review, so as not to give him the chance to luck into a good case.

* '''Discussed''': "Bob got reassigned? Shouldn't be too long before he gets a ticker-tape parade then."
* '''Conversed''': "The brass sent Bob to Antarctica? Guess the brass expects somethin'." "What do you mean with that?" "Bob's luck is so bad he's like a dowsing rod: you put him in the middle of Antarctica during the worst part of winter, and he's still pretty big on chances of ending up on the opening battle of World War Three."

** Alternately, his boss Charlie didn't expect Bob having to do much of note during the "home office" month, but Charlie did hear a few rumors about the big-time crook back home, and brought Bob in just in case. Charlie still didn't expect the crook to be causing much trouble (or even be within the neighbourhood all that often), until Bob proved Charlie wrong.

* '''Implied''': The EstablishingSeriesMoment is Bob arriving to Base Mc-Butthole-Of-The-World (located in Thurston, Antarctica)... and every person that meets him takes a look at his file, reacts to something written on it, and becomes part of a MassOhCrap OverlyLongGag and making excuses to leave the base ASAP. We eventually discover that Bob is the Evulz Gang's most brutal enemy and the Gang has sworn to hunt him down to the ends of the Earth... which means that everybody who ran away from the base forty minutes prior was smart on doing so, because the Gang finally appears and the war is on.

** Alternately, the Evulz Gang go down there... and we are next shown the scene where the higher-ups discussed where else the gang members are over a table with a city map, with pen marks indicating that they knew the main gang were going to be there.

** (from Subverted #1)...because Bob's helping, every step of the way, from behind the scenes.
** (from Subverted #2)...but the higher-ups were still fuming, as Bob performed better than expected, he's treated as a hero, and he's about to promoted, all when the higher-ups wanted to politically get rid of Bob from HQ.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob gets sent to stations all over the world, some dull and some full of action. Sometimes the ones "full of action" are on a severe lull and he ends up doing nothing worthwhile on them, and sometimes the dull ones are very worthless... and sometimes the ones which are "dull" are ground zero for mayor events and sometimes the ones "full of action" are exactly as advertised.

** The Evulz Gang still tests their luck by trying to do a job in Bob's district. [[OneLittleMistake This is the end of them.]]

** Bob is given a quiet assignment at home...which he welcomed as it was a much-needed downtime after his gruelling mission. His boss Charlie similarly expected Bob to rest up a little before the next assignment, but Bob ends up busting a big-time crook that was not as bad as the mafioso godfather Don Evulz, but still dangerous enough to warrant attention.
** Alternately, Charlie didn't expect Bob having to do much of note, but Charlie did hear a few rumors about the big-time crook back home, and while he didn't expect the crook to be causing much trouble (or even within the neighbourhood), he did ask Bob to check in on that on his less busy periods.

** Bob is given a quiet assignment at home as downtime after his gruelling mission. His boss Charlie expected Bob to rest up a little before the next assignment, but Bob ends up busting a big-time crook that was not as bad as Evulz, but still dangerous enough to warrant attention.

* '''Subverted''': Bob is ReassignedToAntarctica, the Evulz Gang go down there... and someone else follows them and catches them.
* '''Double Subverted''': ...because Bob's helping, every step of the way, from behind the scenes.

** Bob is reassigned to a seemingly backwater place, but explicitly because he and his superiors found out that the "backwater town" was actually where one of Evulz Gang hideouts and gang activity was.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob is given a quiet assignment at home as downtime after his gruelling mission. The boss expected Bob to rest up a little before the next assignment, but Bob ends up busting a big-time crook.

* '''Averted''': Bob is ReassignedToAntarctica, where nothing of note happens for the rest of his career.

* '''Straight''': Officer Bob is ReassignedToAntarctica, which seems like a waste of time until the Evulz Gang head out there and he catches them, making him a hero.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob is given a menial assignment at home but ends up busting a big-time crook.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob TheLancer is established as a serious badass and a DoomMagnet on the first act of the film, a man that will find a war to fight anywhere he goes no matter how unlikely, and has come to enjoy it. RealityEnsues when he insults a superior officer and he's sent to Antarctica and everything hints that he will somehow appear on the third act, either fighting ''in'' Antarctica, pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment and saying that he was fighting in Antarctica before arriving, or being part of the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue showing him doing something important in Antarctica. Instead, [[PutOnABusToHell he never appears again]] and Bill TheHero instead learns a valuable lesson about making sure his company doesn't acts so blatantly disgraceful, even as he's kicking the ass of every terrorist on the planet.

* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's heroism makes all the cops fight with each other, which causes the suits upstairs to realize that they have a serious infighting problem with their force, and they address it as needed.

* '''Played For Horror''': Bob's reassignment is either the direct cause of a colossal massacre and/or apocalyptic event or Bob gets the kind of first-row seats nobody ever wants.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob TheLancer is established as a serious badass and a DoomMagnet on the first act of the film, a man that will find a war to fight anywhere he goes no matter how unlikely, and has come to enjoy it. RealityEnsues when he insults a superior officer and he's sent to Antarctica and everything hints that he will somehow appear on the third act, either fighting ''in'' Antarctica, pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment and saying that he was fighting in Antarctica before arriving, or being part of the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue showing him doing something important in Antarctica. Instead, he never appears again and Bill TheHero instead learns a valuable lesson about making sure his company doesn't acts so blatantly disgraceful, even as he's kicking the ass of every terrorist on the planet.

** The Evulz Gang has targeted Antarctica, expecting their opposition to be another incompetent idiot. They got Bob instead.

* '''Justified''': The Evulz Gang deliberately followed their old nemesis, Bob, looking to destroy him now that he's far from home and far from help. He still turns the tables on them, because he's just that badass.

* '''Invoked''': Bob knows that the Evulz Gang is hiding out in the middle of nowhere, so he intentionally screws up to get assigned there.

* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': Bob TheLancer is established as a serious badass and a DoomMagnet on the first act of the film, a man that will find a war to fight anywhere he goes no matter how unlikely, and has come to enjoy it. RealityEnsues when he insults a superior officer and he's sent to Antarctica and everything hints that he will somehow appear on the third act, either fighting ''in'' Antarctica, pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment and saying that he was fighting in Antarctica before arriving, or being part of the WhereTheyAreNowEpilogue showing him doing something important in Antarctica. Instead, he never appears again and Bill TheHero instead learns a valuable lesson about making sure his company doesn't acts so blatantly disgraceful, even as he's kicking the ass of every terrorist on the planet.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob's heroism turns the meaningless post into the hot new destination. This means all the best officers then fight tooth and nail to get that spot, and Trope City is left without a cohesive police force...which the Evulz Gang uses to take over the city.

* '''Justified''': The Evulz Gang deliberately followed their old nemesis, Bob, looking to destroy him now that he's far from home and far from help. He still turns the tables on them, because he's just that BadAss.

* '''Defied''': Officer Bob's boss chooses not to reassign him anywhere, just deny him a raise and put derogatory comments in his yearly review, so as not to give bob the chance to luck into a good case.

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Straight''': Officer Bob is ReassignedToAntarctica, which seems like a waste of time until the Evulz Gang out there and he catches them, making him a hero.
* '''Exaggerated''': Officer Bob is demoted to meaningless janitorial duty at the worst post in the world - which Emperor Evulz happens to be using as a base for his world destruction plans. Bob becomes the savior of the universe overnight.

* '''Justified''': No one knew what things would hold for Bob in the future.

* '''Subverted''': Bob is ReassignedToAntarctica - and nothing happens.
* '''Double Subverted''': Because he already took out the bad guys, and his superiors hadn't discovered it yet.

* '''Averted''': His reassignment is more or less uneventful.
* '''Enforced''': ???

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