Heroic Team Revolt/Playing With

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Basic Trope: The Hero goes too far; team leaves in disgust. Results vary.

  • Straight: Dirk refuses to rescue annoying Princess Wendy after she's kidnapped by Emperor Evulz; his friends get mad and head off to save her themselves.
  • Exaggerated: Dirk refuses to help Princess Wendy tie her shoes; the team shake their collective heads in disgust and they start shooting at him.
  • Justified: Dirk is being amazingly selfish and needs a wake-up call.
  • Inverted: Dirk the Magnetic Hero draws allies to his side through his heroic deeds.
  • Subverted: At first his allies plan to save Wendy, but Dirk makes a persuasive argument as to why his allies shouldn't.
  • Double Subverted: Dirk isn't as persuasive as he thinks.
  • Parodied: The team revolts frequently, for many frivolous reasons.
  • Deconstructed: The party was only held together by very breakable threads in the first place. Dirk is kind of a jerk. Dirk decides he doesn't need them, and strikes out on his own. Without the support of the rest of his party, he gets his ass kicked, but survives, and tries to seek out his old party mates. Unfortunately, Brik and Vespa are dead, Tec no longer cares, Xid is working for Evulz, and Lotan never forgave him for the decision that broke the the party and tries to kill him.
  • Reconstructed: Lotan and Vespa wait until the rest of the party's asleep, then go and find Dirk and tell him in no uncertain terms that without him, they will lose the coming battle, but the way he's acting, he can't keep being leader. He agrees to try to do better.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Dirk's allies agree with Dirk's decision.
  • Enforced: "We're looking for an aesop on friendship, and Character Development for Dirk... why not have the team get so pissed off with Dirk that they leave and he has to win them back?"
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Defied: The others don't agree with Dirk's decision, but stay by his side anyway in hopes of changing his mind that way.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Played For Laughs: Everyone leaves over a laughably minor matter; i.e. he accidentally underpaid the innkeeper by one coin. While the problem is easily and immediately corrected, Dirk still has to bend over backwards to get the team back together before they can move on.
  • Played For Drama: The heroes split up at the worst possible time, as Emperor Evulz cranks his campaign to conquer the world into high gear. Dirk not only has to earn back his friends' regard, but rush to do so before the scattered team is completely wiped out.

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