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'''Aversions should ''ALMOST NEVER'' be listed on trope pages. 99.9% of the time they are the exact same thing as just not using the trope. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes or aversion-only tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] [[VideoGame/{{Eversion}} a completely unrelated game where you "evert" to reach the goal.]]

Using words like averted ''hard'', brutally averted, and other such intensifiers is considered WordCruft, and thus should be avoided.

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes, a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a SubvertedTrope, because the lack of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a DefiedTrope because the trope is never acknowledged and avoided by the characters. The trope just isn't there.

* Averted: A villain plants a bug on a chair. It is small, camouflaged and unobtrusive, and goes undetected by the hero. The trope never comes into play.

Example of the difference between [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] and averting a trope:

* Subversion: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. {{The hero}} finds it and throws it out, muttering, [[WhatAnIdiot "Does he think I'm blind?"]]
* Averted:
** A villain plants a bug on a chair. It is small, camouflaged and unobtrusive, and goes undetected by the hero. The trope never comes into play.
** Alternatively, no bugging is done at all.

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes, a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a DefiedTrope, because the characters try to get rid of the trope after it is pointed out. Nor is it a SubvertedTrope, because the lack of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. The trope just isn't there.

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes, a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a SubvertedTrope, because the lack of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a DefiedTrope, because the characters try to get rid of the trope when it is pointed out. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. The trope just isn't there.

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes, a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a SubvertedTrope, because the lack of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. The trope just isn't there.

'''Aversions should ''ALMOST NEVER'' be listed on trope pages. 99.9% of the time they are the exact same thing as just not using the trope. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes, or aversion-only tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

* Averted: A villain plants a bug on a chair. It is small, camouflaged and unobtrusive, and goes undetected by the hero. The trope never comes into play.

[[caption-width-right:350:As you can clearly see, she is not [[PeopleSitOnChairs sitting on a chair]].]]

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused with]] [[VideoGame/{{Eversion}} a completely unrelated game where you "evert" to reach the goal.]]

So aversions worth mentioning will generally follow this pattern: A supermajority of works that have element A will also have trope A, but work W has element A without trope A. If the number of aversions on a tropes page consist of at least a third of the examples, perhaps averting the trope isn't as notable as initially thought.

In some occassions, an averted trope is basically in between the straight and the inverted trope. This doesn't count as downplay as long as the trope isn't there.

'''Aversions should ''ALMOST NEVER'' be listed on trope pages. 99.9% of the time they are the exact same thing as just not using the trope. Generally, only nigh OmnipresentTropes, or aversions only tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

* Played straight: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. Despite the green flashing light and periodic beep, {{the hero}} [[FailedASpotCheck does not notice it]].

'''Aversions should ''ALMOST NEVER'' be listed on trope pages. 99.9% of the time they are the exact same thing as just not using the trope. Generally, only nigh universally used tropes, or aversions only tropes should have aversions listed as examples. Simply not using a trope does not mean a work is an example of a trope.'''

* Played straight: A villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug on a chair. Despite the green flashing light and periodic beep, {{the hero}} does not notice it.

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a SubvertedTrope, because the lack of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. The trope just isn't there.

See MetaTropeIntro for a comparison with the ways that a trope can actually be used.

** Alternatively, a villain plants an IncrediblyObviousBug and it's quickly detected without problems.

That is the core meaning of "averted". The writer just went past the trope. He ignored it, he forgot it existed, or it wasn't even a trope at all in his culture.

Even though ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability, averting is generally not an example for mentioning on a trope page, except for tropes that are [[OmnipresentTropes so common]] that the list of aversions is actually shorter, such as LimitedWardrobe. The reason is that different people have different expectations. For example, say there is an action movie that does not have a single instance of StuffBlowingUp. Just because you expect it does not mean that it was subverted or used in any manner. If it was not used, then it is not an example. We don't want to have to scroll through examples like:

{{Trope}}s have exceptions. Sometimes, a writer uses a situation that seems indelibly married to a trope, but the trope never appears. It's not a SubvertedTrope, because the lack of trope is never pointed out. Nor is it a LampshadeHanging, because the presence of trope is never pointed out. The trope just isn't there.