Took a Level In Kindness/Playing With

Basic Trope: Character becomes nicer over time.

• Straight: Bob used to be a Jerkass, but now he's a pretty nice guy
• Exaggerated: Bob goes from being a Complete Monster to The Messiah
• Justified: A big part of Bob's Character Development over the course of the series is learning to trust other people after his Dark and Troubled Past.
  • Bob becomes friends with Charlie, whose attitude slowly rubs off on Bob.
• Inverted: Took a Level in Jerkass.
• Subverted: It turns out Bob hasn't gotten any nicer; he was only pretending to be nice.
  • Bob always was nice, he just didn't know how to show it.
• Double Subverted: ...But then then he discovers that Good Feels Good, and decides to be nicer to everyone.
• Parodied: ???
• Deconstructed: Bob tries to be a nicer person, but can't manage to pull it off because nobody will forgive him for being a jerk in the past.
  • Alternately, Bob tries to be better person, only to discover that Humans Are the Real Monsters, and trying to be nice makes him vulnerable.
• Reconstructed: However, despite all his problems Bob persists in trying to be a better person, and eventually succeeds.
• Zig Zagged: Bob alternates between Took a Level In Kindness and Took a Level in Jerkass on a regular basis.
• Averted: Bob never becomes less of a Jerkass.
• Enforced: Circumstances outside of his control force Bob to be nicer than he usually is.
• Lampshaded: "Bob has gotten a lot nicer lately, hasn't he?"
• Invoked: Bob declares that he's going to start being nicer to people.
• Defied: People keep expecting Bob to turn nicer eventually, but he never does.
• Discussed: "You know Bob, you've been acting a lot nicer lately."
• Conversed: ???
• Played For Laughs: ???
• Played For Drama: ???

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