Basic Trope: There are stories told and ballads sung about this character.
- Straight: There is a ballad inspired by Bob’s heroic struggle against the Evil Overlord.
- Exaggerated: All ballads sung in Tropetia are about Bob’s adventures.
- Downplayed: There are some rumors running around about a fellow named Bob Yellow Pants and his Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
- Justified: One of Bob’s friends was a bard and decided to write a song based on their adventures.
- Inverted: The Greatest Story Never Told
- Subverted: The ballad about Bob’s adventures never becomes popular and is quickly forgotten.
- Double Subverted: Then another song is written and this one gains popularity, making Bob famous.
- Parodied:
- Bob is especially famous for his yellow pants. There are even songs comparing them to the golden sun.
- There's a ballad about how Bob is not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken...
- Zig Zagged: Most songs about Bob are quickly forgotten, except for one, which is wildly popular for a while. Then Alice Green Jacket appears and Bob is left in the shadows. He does something even more spectacular and becomes famous again, just to lose his popularity to Susan Red Shoes.
- Averted: Bob doesn’t become famous and there are no stories told about his adventures.
- Enforced: The author wants to write Bob's story using the Framing Device.
- Lampshaded: “Let me tell you a story about Bob Yellow Pants, our greatest hero.”
- Invoked:
- Bob tells his story to a bard and asks him to write a ballad.
- Alice joins Bob's party to later write a song about him and his adventures.
- Exploited: Bob uses his popularity and fame to get free drinks.
- Defied: Bob eliminates all bards who wish to create songs based on his adventures.
- Discussed:
- “I wonder if someday someone will write a song about our adventures.”
- The bard sings a ballad about great deeds of the unnamed hero and his tragic death. Bob comments quietly that they got most of the details wrong and that hero is not dead, but sitting somewhere nearby, drinking the worst beer in his life.
- Conversed: “In all these books heroes always become famous and have stories told about them at the end.”
- Deconstructed: Bob is so famous and recognizable it becomes hard for him to fight crime, since villains hearing about his arrival tend to move to another area.
- Reconstructed: Bob uses his fame to encourage other people to take the mantle of crime-fighting.
- Played For Laughs: The ballad is sung by someone who is Hollywood Tone-Deaf.
- Played For Drama: The ballad greatly exaggerates Bob's deeds; when people meet him, they find out that he's not everything he was made out to be.
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