The Slacker/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character, who is determined to get by with the least amount of effort.

• Straight: Dale postpones important tasks and mostly goes through the motions, never staking himself on anything or doing more than the required minimum.
• Exaggerated: Dale's working days consist of clapping some keys here and there, frowning, walking around the room feigning frustration, sighing and slacking off when no-one's watching.
• Downplayed: Dale may go an extra mile if you persuade him with a tempting offer, but otherwise he isn't going to do anything more than the absolute minimum.
• Justified: Dale lives by the motto of not making waves.
• Inverted: Dale is an ambitious workaholic, who invests in everything he does like crazy.
• Subverted: Dale suddenly volunteers in an important group project.
  • Alternately, Dale is just bored out of his mind with whatever tasks he's normally saddled with. When he finds something that interests him, he actually puts in a worthwhile effort.
• Double Subverted: Because he knows it will get him some credit with him doing the least amount of work in the group.
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed: Dale appreciates nothing because of how little effort he put in, so he becomes extremely stand-offish and even less motivated.
• Reconstructed: In the process Dale realizes how much he just couldn't care less and likes it that way.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: Dale does put in a fair amount of effort.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: ???
• Discussed: ???
• Conversed: ???
• Plotted A Good Waste: ???
• Played For Laughs: ???
• Played For Drama: ???

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Back to doing what I've been doing the whole time - almost nothing.