Punishment Detail/Playing With

Basic Trope: Bob is a bad soldier, so his superiors always gives him the nasty jobs

• Straight: After going AWOL for a few hours, Bob gets assigned to latrine duty for a month.
• Exaggerated: Bob's punishment is to clean an entire city's sewer system by himself. With a toothbrush.
• Justified: Giving Bob an unpleasant task as a punishment disciplines Bob, gets an unpleasant but necessary task taken care of.
• Subverted: Bob actually enjoys latrine duty more than his normal duties, making the punishment worthless.
• Double Subverted: Turns out, he was just pretending to enjoy it so his superiors would decide that there was no point in trying to punish him with latrine duty.
• Deconstructed: ?
• Reconstructed: ?
• Zig Zagged: ?
• Averted: Discipline is either non-existant, or uses some other method of punishment for misbehavior like A Taste of the Lash.
• Lampshaded:
• Discussed:

Lt. Alex:' "You disobeyed my orders."
Bob:' "Let me guess, I'm on latrine duty again?"

• Played For Laughs: Bob tries a number of wacky methods to try and make his boring and incredibly unpleasant job less intolerable
• Played For Drama: Bob constantly being subjected to the nastiest, most degrading jobs as punishment for his lax attitude towards following the rules slowly wears him down and breaks his will.