"Life Invasion" flicks

OK - fans of the movie, i'm talking to you. (And i KNOW that you must exist) ... What is it about these kind of "comedies" wherein a morally sound, relatively innocent person, whose only missteps are (usually) merely coming into random contact (usually) with the "comedic" antagonist of the film, only to have every aspect of their lives systematically obliterated by said antagonist. You know, for laffs. In my estimation, it's usually a LOT more fun (and funny) to see that innocent person who IS placed in that spot where their lives and livelihood are in danger FIGHT BACK. i'm talking about PROACTIVE vs. REACTIVE. D'ya follow?? Amusingly enough, i can think of a good example of this, and it relates to Jim Carrey as well:

Think to the Jim Carrey smash hit "Bruce Almighty". He's given all the powers of God after going through a some cruel and unfair instances in his life. So we get to see a newly emboldened, all-powerful Carrey get even with those who attempted to destroy him (a bunch of Latino Hoods), his career (a fantastically cast Steve Carell as his brown-nosing professional rival) as well as attempt to fix a middling relationship with That Girl From "Friends". (Hell, this plot? it's the friggin' 'Mask'! Jim Carrey knows what's up!)

i bring up "Bruce Almighty", because it was a) a huge, huge hit for all concerned, and it featured a PROACTIVE story about someone TAKING CHARGE of things. and also, because b) a film that was followed by a hugely inferior, critically and commercially lambasted sequel featuring a REACTIVE story. Evan, Jim's former rival, goes off to congress or whatever. Anyway, the point is, he's somewhat randomly assigned by God (that is, the same "God" from the first) to build an Ark, in the tradition of the biblical story of Jonah and his and his family's Ark... you know, two animals of each species on earth(!), all aboard a single craft built only by he and his family(!!!) - all before a great flood God had planned in order to 'reset' existence on Earth, it having gotten so exceedingly lame, in the extremely short time the Bible plays with. Now, to the point - for NO reasons AT ALL, aside from script reasons, and hilariously lousy script reasons, at that, it's deemed by the powers above that Evan, in ADDITION to the incredible burden of actually building such a feat of engineering, must also look the part i.e. a magical beard that will always, always grow back, plus f--king... whatever-B.C. style robes. So people think he's incredibly unstable and insane. at his the new job he's wanted his whole life - ha ha, what a winner! So instead of our hero DOING funny things in an active and amusing manner, we have instead "funny" things happen TO our hero. Like incredibly dangerous animals following him around. i believe there's a "huge horrifying Spider" Gag at one point; you know - to f--k with the arachnophobes! one of the most common AND nightmarish fears one can have! ITS COMEDY GOLD!