Basic Trope: Being good happens to be an unpleasant fate.
- Straight Trope: Bob, The Hero, always does the right thing, but feels uneasy about it as a result.
- Exaggerated: Bob, the All-Loving Hero, has done a lot of good things because he wants to, but it's greatly hurting him physically and emotionally.
- Downplayed: Bob does nice things to others, which made his mood a little uneasy, but gets over it eventually.
- Justified:
- Bob has to accept his destiny as the hero of the world.
- Bob feels even worse, sitting by and letting bad things happen. So he chooses to do the right thing even if it's hard at times.
- Being good requires for Bob to give up the pleasures of life, which are a distraction of doing good deeds.
- Being good requires for Bob to leave his loved ones for a heavy responsibility.
- Inverted:
- Subverted:
- Even if the right thing isn't easy, Bob has earned his reward for this heroism.
- Bob decides that, though he has suffered a lot from being a good person in the end it was all Worth It.
- Double Subverted: ...But his mentor scolds him for accepting the reward, so he has to tell the others that they can keep it.
- Parodied:
- Being good requires Bob to avoid using the bathroom for a half a day.
- The reason why Bob is a Perpetual Frowner is because he's doing good deeds.
- Zig Zagged: Depending on the situation, being good sucks, but then being it became awesome.
- Averted: How being good feels is never brought up.
- Enforced: The writer who is in favor of Evil Feels Good tries to make a point on how good deeds bring hardship in the world.
- Lampshaded:
- "Hey, Mr. Goody-Goody-Two-Shoes! Why aren't you happy?"
- "Yep, called it. Being a hero IS stupid."
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz, who's having a good time in being evil, deceives Bob into thinking doing good is stressing him.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "I don't care how bad doing the right thing is. I will still continue doing it until the day I die!"
- Discussed: "Wow. What a bunch of Ungrateful Bastards. Even I, Emperor Evulz, actually think you deserve some recognition for doing good, like fighting me."
- Conversed: "Don't you think people should be more grateful to you, Bob? You're really stressing yourself out like this."
- Deconstructed:
- The soul-crushing experience in doing good deeds has caused Bob to give up being a hero and develops into a villain who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
- Bob felt utterly cheated of the more fun things in life, turning evil out of the mind-numbing repetition of being a hero.
- After a life of doing only moral and good deeds, Bob spends his last moments being miserable and regretful of his actions since his actions haven't brought him the same positive emotions as those he helped before. He dies envying his less moral peers since they weren't restricted by moral obligations like his, and were happier that way. If there even is a heaven waiting for him at the end, he's unlikely to enjoy it.
- Reconstructed:
- But Being Evil Sucks too or he just can't bring himself to do any evil deeds. So he becomes a regular civilian instead, neither good nor evil while someone that is actually willing to sacrifice things for the greater good takes up the job of the hero.
- Because doing the right thing is hard at times, Bob will sometimes give in to his more selfish impulses and desires. However he still tries to do the right thing when it is easy on him or important to do so.
- Bob becomes a Knight in Sour Armor. He doesn't have to hold a positive outlook on life, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't do the right thing.
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