Basic Trope: A character is hostile against members of a group that they know they are a member of.
- Straight: Bob the Troper thinks Tropers are horrible people. He harasses other Tropers he meets, and badmouths them to others.
- Exaggerated: Bob the Troper starts a genocidal campaign against other Tropers.
- Downplayed: Bob the Troper is slightly disdainful or otherwise just has a rather negative view towards other Tropers.
- Justified:
- Bob is really ashamed that he's a Troper and doesn't want to be one. This is how he copes.
- Bob knows first-hand about how much of a jerk Tropers are.
- Bob is unaware that he is a Troper or thinks that it is no reason to deny how "bad" (most) Tropers really are.
- Bob didn't choose to be a Troper.
- Bob feels that as a fellow Troper, he has a duty to hold himself and his fellow Tropers accountable, and not be a chauvinist twit in representing Troperland. Thus, all other things equal, he systematically and rigorously judges Tropers' transgressions/mistakes harsher, and downplays their achievement.
- Other Tropers were jerks to Bob in the past, so therefore, Bob hates Tropers.
- Inverted:
- Bob isn't a Troper... but he wants nothing more than to be one.
- Bob the Troper thinks Tropers are superior to everyone else, he may plan to kill Non-Tropers altogether.
- Subverted:
- Disparaging Tropers is an In-Joke among Tropers, so they take Bob's rants in stride.
- It's revealed that he really isn't a troper, there forth, not a hypocrite. People leave out an "O" in Bob the Trooper.
- Bob thinks Tropers are horrible people, but he loves being a horrible person.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob really does hate Tropers, but lets them believe his harsh insults are just part of the In-Joke.
- And Bob the Trooper hates other Troopers too.
- Parodied: When Bob joins a group, he immediately hates members of the group, regardless if he liked said members before.
- Zig Zagged:
- It's never made expressly clear whether or not Bob's supposed bigotry is an in-joke among Tropers or not.
- It's never made expressly clear whether or not Bob is a Troper, despite obviously hating them.
- Averted:
- Bob the Troper hates tropers, but he hates everyone else too.
- Bob isn't a Troper. He just hates them.
- Bob doesn't hate Tropers.
- Enforced:
- "So, OK, get this - this guy hates a group he's a part of. Whatever they're paying me, it isn't enough!"
- Rule of Funny
- Lampshaded: "Wait, what the hell, dude? Aren't you a troper yourself?" "Yes, but that doesn't mean I can't hate them."
- Invoked: Harry tries to convince Sarah that Tropers are bad people, so she will leave their group.
- Exploited: Jerry tries to get Bob to self-destruct and implode by turning his hatred of his group into Internalized Categorism.
- Defied: "You know, railing against a group I'm a part of might not be the best course of action. Maybe I'll just chill out and look at things in perspective."
- Discussed: "Stupid Tropers. I hate them so much. I'm gonna become one to infiltrate them."
- Conversed: "(sigh) Great, another one of those 'guy in the group hates members of that group' plotlines. It's just like something out of Law & Order."
- Deconstructed:
- Bob's hatred of Tropers while being a Troper himself causes him a great deal of anguish and mental conflict. He eventually turns to destructive habits to cope.
- Tropers are the majority, using Tropes as tools to keep down people from Wikilandia. Bob finds it outlandish that Tropers would do such a thing and distances himself from them. Other tropers call Bob a self-hating Troper and insult him in the same way Tropers do Otherwikilandians.
- It does not matters how much Bob toes the anti-Troper line, how many Tropers he destroys and how much he tries to pretend he is not a Troper, and most importantly how pure is his hate, the anti-Tropers only see a Troper when they see Bob, and none of his efforts to be accepted will come to fruition.
Bob: They still hate you! - Reconstructed:
- Bob finds a way to reconcile to his hatred of Tropers with his identity. Either he stops being a Troper, or gets over his hatred of them.
- Bob thinks of himself as an exception to the rule and sees himself as not bad as most Tropers.
- Played For Laughs: It's painfully obvious that Bob is a Troper from the get-go. He rails against Tropers while wearing a Troper Badge.
- Played For Drama: For a long time, people suspected Bob was a troper despite him hating them. When he finally admits he is a troper, people think he finally changed his mind, only for him to reveal he hates them just as much if not more.
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