Basic Trope: Nice Guys being put through hell, Played for Laughs.
- Straight: Bob sees Charlie stealing Alice's bag and stops Charlie and recovers Alice's bag. When Bob tries to return the bag, Alice thinks Bob was trying to steal it, and Bob ends up in jail.
- Exaggerated: The millionaire Bob makes a shelter to receive in his country the thousands of homeless orphaned hungry kids from third world Alice Republic which is devastated after a war with Charlie Republic. This drives Charlie Republic, as feeling unfair that the shelter was only given to the kids of Alice Republic, decide to make war on Bob's country, causing Bob's family to die on a bombing. Unfortunately the children were kidnapped by a human trafficking group on the way to the shelter, making the United Nations believe that Bob was cooperating with the traffickers. In response, his fortune is confiscated and he is sentenced a lifelong sentence in a horrible prison for terrorists where he is tortured for decades in search he may tell the identities of the other traffickers and the location of the children, without ever knowing where they are. All of this is played for the sheerest form of Black Comedy imaginable.
- Downplayed:
- Alice accidentally slips, Bob tries to help her and accidentally drops her when he was picking her up. Alice ends up thinking he is a jerk.
- Every time Bob gives a compliment to Alice, she thinks he is being sarcastic and in fact a jerk.
- Justified: Bob tries to be nice to his classmates but everything he does is seen as mean because he used to be a bully and nobody believes that he changed.
- Inverted: A jerk has a Plague of Good Fortune, Played for Drama.
- Subverted: Bob sees a Charlie stealing Alice's bag and stops Charlie and recovers Alice's bag. When Bob tries to return the bag, Alice thinks Bob was trying to steal it, but Bob manages to explain himself and Alice sees he is her hero, and goes out on a date with him.
- Double Subverted: Bob sees a Charlie stealing Alice's bag and stops Charlie and recovers Alice's bag. When Bob tries to return the bag, Alice thinks Bob was trying to steal it, but Bob manages to explain himself and Alice sees he is her hero, and goes out on a date with him. But Charlie managed to take Alice's money on the bag before Bob recovered it and on the date Alice offers to pay and realizes she has no money on her bag, and she just received her monthly salary, this causes Alice to think Bob and Charlie organized a plan to steal from her, and Bob ends in jail.
- Parodied: Kefka Komedy
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes the world treats Bob awfully. Sometimes Bob is able to fight back.
- Averted: Nice Guys are not necessarily tortured all the time.
- Enforced: Executives believe that making Bob's life a sadistic hell will bring an audience.
- Lampshaded: “I feel like the protagonists in Franz Kafka’s stories.”
- Invoked: Charlie perceives Bob as having a Holier Than Thou attitude, so he decides to frame Bob for a crime so he'll learn the lesson that No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob fights back against the Kafka. If that means he will have to brutalize half of the nation with his bare hands while explaining to every single person that the circumstances that they are mocking him for are not funny to him or deserve such an awful (to him) resolution because (up until the moment he had enough) he was dealing with everything in a polite, civilized and maybe even push-over fashion that would have benefited the people who torment him much more hadn't they decided to be tormentous dicks, and intimidate the other half by presenting them the results of his bloodbath, then that is what he will do.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Turns out that there is such a thing as "too" much Kafka.
- Reconstructed: The darker bits of comedy are there to offset some genuinely sweet moments, some of which are directed toward Bob.
- Played For Drama: Bob is incredibly cynical due to the Kafka circumstances he’s in. He finally snaps and becomes Emperor Evulz.
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