Basic Trope: A character/individual, often on a reality show, states that they're not there to make friends.
- Straight: Jane Ima Bich states in a confessional that everyone in the game thinks they're making all these great friends, but she's not there to make friends, she's there to win.
- Exaggerated:
- Jane not only doesn't want to make friends, she wears a button to that effect and actively eschews friendly relationships.
- When Jane is not actively competing, she goes around breaking other contestants' friendships.
- Jane deliberately seeks out people who have become friends and sabotages them so they won't win.
- Downplayed:
- Jane says she isn't there to make friends, but she's not mean about it, just distant.
- When she says that she isn’t there to make friends, Jane doesn’t actually mind if she does end up making friends, she just never loses sight of her goals and will always prioritize winning.
- Justified:
- Avoiding deep friendships really does get Jane further in the game, or whatever her goal might be.
- Jane believes that making friends would only cause her to let her guard down, leading a more opportunistic character (maybe even the friends themselves) to stab her in the back.
- Jane is asocial and very straight-forward.
- Jane is very competitive and the game is starting to get to her.
- Jane feels she might have to betray the other contestants to win. So to make herself feel better about it, she tries not to think of them as her friends.
- Jane wants to appear serious about winning. She chooses against any actions that'll help her make friends because she's afraid doing so will make her appear less serious.
- Jane is well aware that friendships developed during the game don't always last, and sometimes end poorly.
- Inverted:
- Jane is there to make friends and couldn't care about winning the game or whatever else might be at stake.
- Jane isn't there to make enemies, she's there to win. And maybe make some friends.
- Subverted:
- "I'm here to win... But making friends would be a nice bonus."
- Jane has No Social Skills; she's not here to make friends because she doesn't actually know how to make friends!
- Jane says she isn’t there to make friends, but she acts reasonable and polite about it.
- Double Subverted:
- Everyone decides Jane is a threat anyway after hearing her say this.
- Jane adamantly refuses to learn how to make friends.
- Jane was a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who winds up stabbing her “friends” in the back.
- Parodied:
- Jane is an archetype on a fake reality show.
- Jane says the eponymous line... While being at a "How To Make Friends" seminary!
Bob: That kinda defeats the whole point of this exercise, don't you think?- Or Jane says that she's not here to make friends on a Reality Show where all the competitions revolve around being able to make friends.
- Zig Zagged: Jane is nice and friendly one minute, but in the next displays Not-Here-To-Make-Friends sort of behaviors.
- Averted: Everybody on the program is reasonably sociable and understands that this sort of behavior can come to no good end.
- Enforced: The show's producers deliberately manipulate and manage events to encourage this kind of behavior.
- Lampshaded: The contestant's behavior is mocked by other contestants in confessionals.
- Invoked: A contestant gets Jane to say this to turn everyone against her.
- Exploited: Jane is featured in most footage because the producers think the behavior makes for good ratings.
- Defied: Jane is cast for this purpose, but does everything to avoid it, and if portrayed this way in confessionals, argues against it later.
- Discussed: “Jane, you realize we’re all here to win?”
- Conversed: “Why does every reality show have that one contestant who says they’re not there to make friends? They never win!”
- Deconstructed: Jane loses the competition because she alienated everyone with this attitude, turning them against her.
- Reconstructed: Next season, another contestant comes and says the same thing word-for-word.
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