Got Volunteered/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character "volunteers" for something against his or her will.

• Straight: Alice and Bob are "volunteered" for a dangerous or humiliating job by their boss Charlie.
• Exaggerated: Alice and Bob get volunteered for something that is patently illegal, suicidal, or just plain nuts.
• Downplayed: When Charlie asks for three volunteers, no one raises their hands, so he assigns Alice, Bob, and David to the task.
• Justified:
  • No one is willing to do the job Charlie has asked them to do (mainly because it is dangerous), but somebody has to do it.
  • Due to a technicality, Charlie can't legally order his subordinates to do the job, but it needs to get done, so Charlie has them "volunteer" for it.
• Inverted: Alice and Bob volunteer Charlie to do the job.
• Subverted: Alice and Bob are not volunteered. Instead, Charlie charges Dorothy with the task of doing the job.
• Double Subverted: ...However, Dorothy needs assistants to actually do the job, so Alice and Bob are dragged along with her.
• Parodied:
• Deconstructed:
• Reconstructed:
• Zig Zagged:
• Averted: Alice and Bob volunteer for the job out of their own free will.
• Enforced:
• Implied:
• Lampshaded: "Just once, I'd like to 'volunteer' for something and have it actually be voluntary."
• Invoked:
• Exploited:
• Defied:
• Discussed: "No one's willing to do the job. I bet Charlie's going to 'volunteer' one of us to do it."
• Conversed: "I didn't volunteer. I got volunteered. That's not the same thing."
• Played For Laughs:
• Played For Drama:

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Aright, I need a volunteer to go back to Got Volunteered. (Beat) No? Bob! Thanks for being such a good sport.