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* ''The Caveman's Valentine'' inverts the generally parent-to-child SoProudOfYou by having Lulu say this to her [[SamuelLJackson crazy father]].

* FanFic/HuntingTheUnicorn plays a lot with its [[{{Troperiffic}} many, many tropes.]] But as a DeconstructionFic of [[{{Glee}} Blaine and Kurt]]'s canonical ButNotTooGay status, it turns out that Blaine [[spoiler: lost his virginity at sixteen because he wanted to invoke SexEqualsLove]]. Being [[RealityEnsues real life]] as opposed to a fairy tale, [[BreakTheCutie it didn't work at all]]--leading to a very painful inversion of ''YouNeedToGetLaid.''

* {{Anime/Interstella5555}} reverses the AlienAbduction trope by having the ''humans'' abduct the ''aliens''.

* It's one thing to wake up in a tub of ice missing a kidney. It's another to... well, I'll let ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' [[http://xkcd.com/914/ take it from here.]]

* In Film/AndJusticeForAll, the trope of a guilty person getting OffOnATechnicality gets cruelly inverted with Jeff, who's innocent but can't get out of prison ''because'' of a technicality.

* In ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', BlackCanary [[InvokedTrope deliberately tries to reform]] Comicbook/LadyShiva [[MoralityPet by giving her honest friendship and human contact]]. Shiva, however, is perfectly aware of Dinah's intentions, and lets Dinah get a good look at her real personality and history for one reason: she wants to make her ''stop''.

->''"To say, for instance, that education is beneficial, it's a commonplace; but to say that education is harmful, it's a contrary commonplace. It's ostensibly more foppish, but [[NotSoDifferent in essence it's one and the same]]."''
-->-- '''Bazarov''', ''Fathers and Children'' (a.k.a. ''Fathers and Sons'')

* JamesBuchanan knew upon leaving office that he was unpopular, and that he was blamed by many for the [[AmericanCivilWar national crisis]] that was starting. Buchanan said at the time [[VindicatedByHistory "history will vindicate me"]]. No such luck, as he's still considered one of the worst American Presidents, 150 years after leaving office.

* Marc in ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath is a classic BigGuy, but he fakes [[TheBerserker berserker rages]] so he doesn't have to fight.

* TerryJones's ''StarshipTitanic'' inverts the AliensSpeakingEnglish trope. When one of the protagonists, aboard a Blerontinian spaceship, asks how can aliens speak English, he's told that actually, thanks to AppliedPhlebotinum, he's currently speaking and understanding Blerontinian.

** Similarly, Londo takes issue with the state of the genitalia present on the dolls made in his likeness; when it's assumed he's upset about a breach of decency, he clarifies that he's upset ''because'' there are none shown. It turns out that ALL Centauri depictions of a nude form are anatomically correct, and he feels he's being literally portrayed as dickless. And due to Londo's BizarreAlienBiology, being "dickless" means the doll is missing six tentacles sicking out of its sides!
* Quite a lot of instances on ''Series/{{Friends}}''. An example would be Phoebe's husband, in season 2, quoting stereotypic lines like "experimenting in college" to excuse himself for going out with women, a trope used the other way around for straight men or women realising that they are gay. Here is the other way around.

** Likewise, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has [[spoiler: a FinalBoss battle where your entire party automatically has auto-life cast on them, meaning you can't lose.]] [[hottip:*:Unless you're all petrified. In which case you probably did it on purpose.]]

* ''A Kid In King Arthur's Court'' while having a lot of Chickification manages to invert a lot of tropes surrounding the two Princesses. Princess Katie is established as a capable swordswoman and horse rider - the tomboy of the pair. [[FauxActionGirl She is then abruptly kidnapped and must be saved by the heroes]]. We are led to believe that Katie was the toughest of the two sisters while her older sister Princess Sarah was a typical medieval lady. [[spoiler: The end reveals that Sarah was the one who had been dressing as The Black Knight and stealing from the rich to give to the poor. That's right: the ladylike princess turned out to be the badass one afterall]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' inverts MalignedMixedMarriage by having the Asari ostracize Asari who have romantic relationships with other Asari.

* PersonalSpaceInvader and GetBackHereBoss

* In ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'', BlackCanary [[InvokedTrope deliberately tries to reform]] [[DarkActionGirl Lady Shiva]] [[MoralityPet by giving her honest friendship and human contact]]. Shiva, however, is perfectly aware of Dinah's intentions, and lets Dinah get a good look at her real personality and history for one reason: she wants to make her ''stop''.

Oddly enough, this page is still pretty tiny, despite inversions of tropes constantly being mentioned on other pages. Let's add in as many as we can, shall we? Of course, [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou "In Soviet Russia, example writes you."]]

* CustomRobo ties HumongousMecha into knots by having a tournament-arc style FightingSeries with knee-high customizable bots that one psychically controls.

* ''{{VVVVVV}}'' has 3 auto scrolling levels; the autoscrolling is justified by an AdvancingWallOfDoom, and an inversion ([=RetreatingWallOfDoom=]).

* Whereas in Hollywood armies which relied heavily on formation [[CallThatAFormation are often depicted without any formation whatsoever]], in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' an assortment of random fighters manage to form a very tight and cohesive formation, and even adapt it at a second's notice with no prior drilling!

* Whereas in Hollywood armies which relied heavily on formation [[CallThatAFormation are often depicted without any formation whatsoever,]] in ''[[Film/Gladiator Gladiator]]'' an assortment of random fighters manage to form a very tight and cohesive formation, and even adapt it at a second's notice with no prior drilling!

A particular form of creatively reusing an existing trope: The {{trope}} is turned exactly on its head. For example, a trope that typically applies to heroes is applied to a villain, or a trope that typically applies to males is applied to a female character (GenderInvertedTrope). Some good examples are also in GenreBlindness, where rather than being blind to the conventions of the story-type they are in, the characters are presented as [[GenreSavvy being hyper-aware of the conventions]]. A trope can often be inverted in more than one way. Indicative of PostModernism.