The narrative trajectory — real or fictional — where a character, person, or situation spirals from manageable into completely, irreversibly cooked. Fans use cooked arc to describe the point in a show, sports career, or someone's online presence where the decline is so obvious it's almost poetic. It implies a story structure: things were fine, then they weren't, and now the audience is just watching the wreckage unfold in slow motion. Calling it an arc dignifies the disaster with structure.
His cooked arc started the moment he argued with the ref on live TV — it's been downhill every episode since.
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