Basic Trope: A character gives out threats of punishments to discourage immoral behavior.
- Straight: Friar Fearsome gives out threats to his followers who aren't as moral as he is.
- Exaggerated:
- Friar Fearsome threatens to send his followers to eternal damnation for their poor moral character.
- Friar Fearsome regularly preaches sermons to Satan. The Devil begs to be sent back to Hell rather then having to hear Friar Fearsome.
- Downplayed: Friar Fearsome mostly acts threatening to his followers when the time was needed.
- Justified:
- Friar Fearsome believes that being nice to them isn't enough to stop them from doing evil.
- Friar Fearsome happens to be a strict religious follower who believed vices will send people into hell, and he wishes to save them, no matter the cost.
- Inverted:
- A villain uses politeness and pleasure to convert people to an evil cause.
- A moral leader teaches his followers by performing good deeds, hoping they'll learn by following the example.
- Friar Fearsome's followers are the ones who scare him into being a good leader.
- Friar Fearsome attempts to scare his followers away from doing good.
- Subverted:
- Friar Fearsome feels that he was too harsh on them, so he decides to treat them gently, hoping they won't leave his side.
- Friar Fearsome's followers call him out on being a bully, and turn their back on him.
- Double Subverted: But realizes that they return indulging to their vices, and now Friar Fearsome returns to his scare tactics.
- Parodied: Friar Fearsome puts on the most scariest costumes possible as a ruse to scare people from eating pizza, which he considers horribly evil.
- Zig Zagged: Friar Fearsome switches between kindness and hostility as he deems appropriate for the follower in question.
- Averted: Friar Fearsome doesn't discourage his followers from doing evil in a harsh manner.
- Enforced:Moral Guardian: "These heroic yet flawed characters are not leading a good example to our children. We need a character who can strike fear into our children to do the right thing!
- The author wants to create a Good Is Not Nice character, so he thought up of a character named Friar Fearsome.
- Lampshaded: "God didn't want to punish any of you. That's why he sent me for the job."
- Invoked:
- Friar Fearsome dresses in a black costume to make himself appear scary and intimidating.
- "Mr. Sinnerman, I want you to meet my good friend Friar Fearsome."
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Friar Fearsome quits when he realizes what he is becoming.
- Reactions to fear aren't always predictable. Instead of being cowed they rise up and Friar Fearsome is lynched by an angry mob.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I piss on my pants every time I see Friar Fearsome on TV."
- Implied: Everyone who attends Friar Fearsome's sermons comes out looking traumatized.
- Deconstructed:
- Friar Fearsome's harsh teachings begin to take a toll on him as his followers felt like they were abused, they all decide to abandon him and follow their new leader in the Affably Evil Emperor Evulz.
- Friar Fearsome's followers became angry with the way he has been treating them, only for him to respond that they will follow his example whether they like it or not. They strongly object, which causes he to give up on leading them and lets them enjoy indulging themselves to the temporary and immoral pleasures of life.
- Friar Fearsome's dark and cynical methods in leading his sheep has made him into a dreadful, psychotic, self-righteous Knight Templar. Even Emperor Evulz thought he has gone off the deep end. In short, he's even more fearsome than ever before.
- Friar Fearsome's bullying does nothing to change their character. While it may get them to change quicker as soon as he's gone, they return to their old ways. Discouraging immoral behavior gets tarred with the same brush as tyranny.
- Reconstructed: In a dark setting where Hobbes Was Right, while being far from a perfect solution, scaring people into acting decent is the best solution available.
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