Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170509004154

It may well work sometimes, but overdoing it can be disastrous. When done right the writer can even make it seem like it if for the best.

Mable Pines is one of the better examples of this. Loses frequently to the local blonde-one-dimensional stereotype but finds joy in the effort. The audiences expectation she will come-out ahead is dashed, but she makes it her own to at-least have fun in-spite of losing.

And see Charlie Brown and his foot-ball if you want to see how horribly it can go wrong. Getting the football pulled away by another kid can work once, twice, maybe thrice for set-up and payoff against type, but when Susie pulls a football away during the big game just to go haha and everyone blames Charlie instead of her, well that isn't playing with your audience's expectations, that is just unnecessary and unreasonable sadism.