Here's an index about characters doing things that are above or below what is appropriately proportional.
Tropes:
- Berserk Button: Someone is enraged by a minor trigger.
- Budget-Busting Element: Spending a lot of money on a relatively minor aspect of a production.
- Cherry Tapping: Someone is defeated by a weak attack to humiliate them.
- Comical Overreacting: When characters overreact about something is Played for Laughs.
- Disproportionate Celebration: Characters celebrate over minor achievements.
- Disproportionate Restitution: Compensation far less than what is deserved.
- Disproportionate Retribution: An excessive punishment for a minor slight.
- Disproportionate Reward: The reward is much greater than the action that the receiver did.
- Easy Road to Hell: A character ends up going to Hell all because of one bad thing they did in life.
- Felony Misdemeanor: When a minor crime is treated like a serious offense.
- Finger Poke of Doom: A weak attack (usually a finger poke) does more damage than intended.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: Older siblings doing more than necessary to protect their younger siblings.
- Knight Templar Parent: Parents doing more than necessary to protect their children.
- Law of Disproportionate Response: The importance of an event is inversely proportional to how intensely the characters react to it.
- Longer-Than-Life Sentence: Criminal got sentenced to prison terms going beyond what any normal person can serve.
- Major Injury Underreaction: A character who is severely harmed reacts less proportionately than expected.
- Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Two characters break up over something that is trivial.
- Minor Injury Overreaction: A character overreacts badly over a minor injury.
- Minor Insult Meltdown: A character hurts another character more than they had intended with their choice of words.
- Overdramatic Dating Commotion: Seeing two characters being lovey-dovey leads to exaggerated comical reactions from everyone.
- Rationalizing the Overkill: A character justifies their excessive punishments they inflict.
- Restrained Revenge: A character dishes a lesser form of revenge against another right before forgiving him.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: More force is used more than necessary.
- Trivial Tragedy: The loss of something mundane is treated as a great tragedy.
