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- The Sopranos subverted this again, by showing that Tony's seven-year course of therapy had only partially untangled his neuroses.
- Subverted in Homicide Life On The Street in which Tim Bayliss is deeply affected by a crime that he investigated in the pilot episode because it calls back to something in his past and he never does manage to get over it.
None of these are subversions, just aversions. They don't use the trope, and they don't make you think they're going to use the trope.
