Basic Trope: Cruelly telling people to stop wallowing in their sorrows.
- Straight: Bob is under depression and wallows in despair. In response, Alice bluntly tells him to shut up and get over it.
- Exaggerated:
- Anytime Bob complains about the bad things happening to him, Alice will always tell him to get over it.
- Bob utters "life sucks". This was enough to anger Alice who not only yells at him for complaining, but also beats him up.
- Bob had just lost his entire family, his house burnt down, and he has a broken leg. Upon seeing his tears of pain, Alice tells him to stop whining and get over it.
- Downplayed: Alice only tells Bob to stop complaining, though in an slightly exasperated tone.
- Justified:
- Alice is a completely unsympathetic bitch. She wanted an excuse to kick Bob when he's down.
- Alice thinks that whatever happened to Bob isn't all that bad.
- Alice thinks that being hard on Bob is more effective than being gentle.
- Alice genuinely doesn't care about Bob's situation and is only annoyed by his moping.
- Alice and Bob have bigger problems to deal with and Bob's moping isn't helping them.
- Bob's hardship is the result of him habitually making poor decisions, and Alice is getting sick and tired of hearing him complain every time he suffers the consequences of his mistakes.
- Inverted: Bob tells Alice about how positive he is in the face of adversity. In response, Alice bluntly tells him to stop being so optimistic.
- Subverted: Bob is nervous Alice will tell him this due to her rude personality, but she is actually sympathetic.
- Double Subverted: ..For a little while, before she gets fed up.
- Parodied: Alice says this to a bleeding, dying man.
- Zig Zagged: Alice shifts between acting harsh and being sympathetic.
- Averted:
- Alice cheers up Bob sympathetically and kindly.
- Alice ignores Bob.
- Enforced: To show how Alice is a pitiless character, the author writes a moment where she tells a depressed Bob to get over it.
- Lampshaded: "So much for being a caring individual."
- Invoked: Carlos is also tired of Bob's depressive state, but is not sure he can help Bob out of it in a meaningful way. He nudges Alice to do it because her bluntness will get the point across quickly.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice doesn't want to be harsh with Bob, knowing it will make the situation worse.
- Discussed: "So you berated Bob in order to make him stop wallowing? You'd make a great therapist."
- Conversed:
- "It's about time someone told him to suck it up."
- "Is telling him to repress these feelings really gonna help them in the long run?"
- Deconstructed:
- Alice's harshness towards Bob increases his depression rate and made him decide to break off his friendship with her.
- Bob soon gets tired of hearing this response, so he punches Alice out.
- The knowledge that Alice does not cares about what is happening to him (maybe she is, to some degree, but certainly a lot less than what Bob hoped for) only makes Bob more hysterical.
- Reconstructed:
- Alice doesn't care and says that she never liked Bob anyway because he was a whiner.
- Bob is the first to apologize, saying that he was overreacting and that while he didn't like how Alice put it, he really did need to take time to get over his problem. The two reconcile.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice telling Bob to quit whining makes Bob change attitudes as fast as a light being switched off.
- Alice does increasingly rude and painful things to Bob to make him stop whining, but all this does is make Bob say an increasingly Long List of things affecting him (wet, wounded, deafened, etc.) that he keeps finishing off with "AND I'M STILL HYSTERICAL!".
I don't care about your whining! Shut up and get back to the main page, you big baby!
