Nice Guy/Playing With

Basic Trope: A guy/girl who is nice.

• Straight: Bob is a friendly, well-rounded person with no overwhelming negative traits.
• Exaggerated: The Messiah
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness
• Downplayed: Bob is on the whole a nice guy but is can be a jerk when stressed out too much.
• Justified: Bob is sociable, and wants to make friends.
  • Bob doesn't see any reason to be mean to people.
• Inverted: Jerkass
• Subverted: Bob turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• Double Subverted: It was actually Bob's twin brother who was doing evil things behind people's backs - Bob himself wouldn't hurt a fly.
• Parodied: Bob's constant attempts of being nice to people always fail miserably, due to misunderstandings that are never his fault.
• Deconstructed: People begin to take advantage of Bob's kind nature, and manipulate him into doing what they want.
  • Extreme Doormat
• Reconstructed: Over time, Bob learns how to be a Nice Guy without being a pushover.
• Zig Zagged: Bob has split personality disorder - one day he'll hold a door open for you, the next he'll slam it in your face.
• Averted: Bob is sometimes nice, but not to the point where it defines his personality.
• Enforced: Bob, the main character, is intentionally made likeable so that the audience will find it easy to sympathise him.
• Lampshaded: "Bob, you're a pretty nice guy." "I know."
• Invoked: Bob acts nice, so that no one will suspect that he's secretly Badass.
• Defied: Despite being taught from a young age to act this way, Bob refuses to be a Nice Guy.
• Exploited: The villain accomplishes a Batman Gambit based on Bob's predictable decency.
• Discussed: "Bob is such a nice guy. If this was a story he'd probably be dead long ago."
• Conversed: "Nice guys are pretty rare in fiction, aren't they?"
• Played For Laughs: Bob is an Extreme Doormat who will do anything anyone asks him to do, regardless of how much trouble it causes him.
• Played For Drama: Bob's niceness causes him much angst, because of all the people trying to take advantage of him.

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