Anti-Anti-Christ/Playing With

• Basic Trope: A character who is destined to end the world but does not want to.
• Straight: Alice is the antichrist, but she likes humanity.
• Exaggerated: Alice the Eldritch Abomination and The Devil him/herself is practically The Messiah who tries to please humanity and stops The End of the World as We Know It that she is destined to bring forth, even becoming a full-blown Christ Figure in the process.
• Justified:
  • The Power of Love shows her that Humans Are Special.
  • Alice has free will, and ended up being raising by caring parents.
• Inverted:
  • Dark Messiah.
  • Alice is a Messianic Archetype, but she decides she wants to do evil.
• Subverted: The Big Bad raises Alice thinking she's the Anti Christ and Alice, being a Extreme Doormat, reluctantly goes along with it, but really wants to be a normal girl.
• Double Subverted: She develops a spine and Calls the Old Man Out.
• Parodied: "I am Alice the Antichrist, here to save the day from Pollution!"
• Deconstructed: Alice learns You Can't Fight Fate.
• Reconstructed: But what about respecting their elders?
• Zig-zagged: "I don't want to end the world, until my favorite show ends."
• Averted:
  • There is no Antichrist.
  • Alternatively, Alice is destined to end the world and totally wants to.
• Enforced: We have to show people that you can Screw Destiny.
• Lampshaded: "So you're the Antichrist, but you're saving kittens from trees?"
• Invoked: "Don't worry, the Antichrist never likes their job."
• Exploited: "I knew you wouldn't do it, you like us too much."
• Defied: "You are going to destroy the world and like it."
• Discussed: "You don't have to destroy the world, Alice."
• Conversed: "Why did they bother making her the Antichrist?"
• Played for Laughs: "I don't wanna destroy the world! *throws a temper tantrum*"
• Played for Drama: "Alice is at a children's hospital: "I can't hold it off forever.""

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