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* If the car misses the pane of glass but a second car breaks it instead, it's a '''double subversion'''.

Bear in mind that, just as Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, subversions are not automatically good, witty, clever, or original.

MetaTropeIntro compares this with many other ways that a trope can be used.

* In ''Manga/SangatsuNoLion'', Rei's name uses the kanji for zero and nothingness. However, MyHeroZero is subverted when it just gives his adopted sister Kyoko fuel to taunt him with, as it is not played for RuleOfCool.

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* If the car hits the pane of glass because the driver thought it would be futile to attempt to avoid hitting the glass, it's '''enforced'''.

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* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Adrian Veidt is set up to be the ultimate in AmbiguouslyGay, with all of the preening attention to his own physical appearance and lack of fighting ability that is associated with that trope. Then somebody tries to shoot him, and he responds by ''picking up an eight-foot-tall floor lamp and using it to bash the gunman into a fountain'', then climbing in after him and demanding to know who sent him ''while shaking and choking him''. [[spoiler:Subverted even further when we find out that Veidt hired the assassin himself as a red herring, and when Veidt proceeds to beat the everloving crap out of Nite Owl and Rorschach ''simultaneously'', and then proves his skill further by catching a bullet.]]
** The ending is a subversion. [[spoiler:Rorschach and Nite Owl confront the now realized-to-be-the-evil-villain Adrian, he explains his master plan and when told that he will be stopped, he informs them that [[YouAreTooLate he carried out his plan before they even got there]]]].

* The film of ''Birdy'' subverts the DownerEnding. All through the film, Al has been trying to get his fellow traumatised Vietnam vet and childhood friend Birdy to respond to him as a human being, but he becomes increasingly convinced that Birdy is suicidal. By the end of the film, Birdy has built himself a pair of wings and is about to jump off a flat roof, so that he can fly. Al knows he's going to do it and races to the roof to stop him. He arrives just in time to see Birdy leap from the roof to certain death. Al screams a BigNo and runs to the edge of the roof...[[spoiler: only to find Birdy standing on a different part of the flat roof a few feet below, dusting himself down. Birdy turns around, looks at Al, smiles and says "What?"]]
* ''Nightlight'' (2015) subverts the trope of FoundFootageFilms. Trailers and excerpts make it ''look'' like it's viewed through an InUniverseCamera, but it's actually [[spoiler: an ImpendingDoomPOV sequence from the perspective of a haunted flashlight]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTheFatalFive'' subverts PowerTrio. Although Miss Martian, Jessica, and Thomas are the main three teen heroes of the movie, she's not as close to either of them as Jessica and Thomas are to each other. When she tries befriending Thomas, he's too out of it to respond to her but responds better to [[NiceGirl Jessica]], so Miss Martian leaves the two be.

* In "The Island and the Idol" story arc in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' when two SufficientlyAdvancedAliens depart abruptly and somewhat anticlimactically, Molly gripes that there's supposed to be a big lightshow when that happens, and cites [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture several]] [[Film/{{Starman}} movies]] to prove her point. The [[HigherTechSpecies less impressive aliens]] she's with at the time sympathize, and fire all of the ship's weapons at once to make a fancy display for her. She is pleased.

* In "The Island and the Idol" story arc in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' when two SufficientlyAdvancedAliens depart abruptly and somewhat anticlimactically, Molly gripes that there's supposed to be a big lightshow when that happens, and cites [[film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture several]] [[Film/{{Starman}} movies]] to prove her point. The [[HigherTechSpecies less impressive aliens]] she's with at the time sympathize, and fire all of the ship's weapons at once to make a fancy display for her. She is pleased.

* In "The Island and the Idol" story arc in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' when two SufficientlyAdvancedAliens depart abruptly and somewhat anticlimactically, Molly gripes that there's supposed to be a big lightshow when that happens, and cites several movies to prove her point. The [[HigherTechSpecies less impressive aliens]] she's with at the time sympathize, and fire all of the ship's weapons at once to make a fancy display for her. She is pleased.

* ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'' subverted BrutalHonesty. Noah doesn't hold back when telling Cody of all the instances that prove that Gwen would never love him back, and that Cody has an extremely idealized image of her. Partially subverted because Noah held back for a very long time to spare Cody's feelings, and only told him because of the story's events.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MonsterChronicles'' subverted KickTheSonOfABitch. Cedric's cruel and horrifying actions towards Alejandro and Duncan are not shown to be deserving and in fact invoke some sympathy for them.

* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' ''seems'' to have a straight example of PerspectiveReversal at first glance. Sully is generally mmore progressive than most of the other men in town about almost every issue: ethnical minorities, women's rights, controversial books in the new town library, the theory of evolution, homosexuality... But when it comes to the railway and other building projects, Sully is the one fighting "progress" and the other men are supporting it. Sully has good reasons to dislike that kind of "progress" though, because he knows how this would affect the local Cheyennes, all the animals in the nearby forest and the nature scenes. Which would have been a radical viewpoint in the 1860s/1870s. The other men on the other hand will only want to make a quick profit, and will not care too much about if other values can be lost. So it means that Sully ''still'' is the progressive one and the other men the more conservative ones.

* ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' ''seems'' to have a straight example of PerspectiveReversal at first glance. Sully is generally much more progressive than most of the other men in town about almost every issue: ethnical minorities, women's rights, controversial books in the new town library, the theory of evolution, homosexuality... But when it comes to the railway and other building projects, Sully is the one fighting "progress" and the other men are supporting it. Sully has good reasons to dislike that kind of "progress" though, because he knows how this would affect the local Cheyennes, all the animals in the nearby forest and the nature scenes. Which would have been a radical viewpoint in the 1860s/1870s. The other men on the other hand will only want to make a quick profit, and will not care too much about if other values could be lost. So it means that Sully ''still'' is the progressive one and the other men the more conservative ones.

Basically, this is playing bait and switch[[note]]in the ordinary sense of the term, not in the sense of the humor trope BaitAndSwitch[[/note]] with a trope. A work makes you think a trope is going to happen, but it doesn't.

Bear in mind that, just as TropesAreNotBad, subversions are not automatically good, witty, clever, or original.

** InVinoVeritas is subverted in the episode "Mountain of Madness," where a park ranger enters a cabin and finds it full of partying employees from the nuclear plant.
---> '''Ranger:''' Hey, what is going on here? Who are you people? This is a lookout post. Where is Ranger Mc Fadden?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'' is almost as good at doing this as ''The Simpsons'' is. In "The Slumber Party", Mr. Krabs enlists the help of [=SpongeBob=] to [[OverprotectiveDad spy on Pearl]] at the titular slumber party, from which her father has explicitly been forbidden. When the party starts, we see [[PaperThinDisguise what is obviously]] [[DisguisedInDrag SpongeBob dressed as a woman]], making no effort to disguise his voice and calling himself "Girly Teengirl from Farawayville." Pearl and her girlfriends [[GenreSavvy call him out on this]], and "Girly Teengirl" gets upset and runs off crying...right past a normally-dressed [=SpongeBob=] and Mr. Krabs, who wonder who that strange teenage girl was.

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': Does this with HumansAreNotTheDominantSpecies. The viewer is lead to believe that cyborg dogs have taken over the earth, usurping humans as the dominant species. Instead, it turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream designed to convince the leader of the dog rebellion that taking over the Earth would make them just like the humans, leading him to decide to colonize another dimension instead]].