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'''Basic Trope''': An adaptation explains something that was left unexplained in the source material.
* '''Straight''': In the novel ''Alice and Bob'', Alice is [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes afraid of swimming]]. The novel is adapted into a movie, which establishes that the reason for her fear is because she nearly drowned when she was a little girl.
* '''Exaggerated''': The book is a total MindScrew, and the movie's main purpose is to [[MindScrewdriver make sense of it]].
* '''Downplayed''':
* '''Justified''':
** The movie is a prequel, taking place in Alice's childhood.
** [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange Alice is more introspective and prone to looking back on the past in the movie]], so a {{Flashback}} is more in-character for the Alice in the movie than the Alice in the book.
* '''Inverted''': In the book, Alice's fear of swimming is explained as the result of almost drowning as a young girl. In the movie, [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication she's still afraid of swimming, but there's no indication that the accident happened.]]
* '''Subverted''': The movie shows Alice almost drowning as a kid, and it seems as though that's why she's afraid of swimming, but another flashback later in the movie shows that she was afraid of swimming even ''before'' she almost drowned.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** That wasn't a flashback -- it was either a FantasySequence, a dream, or a real, present scene of Alice's niece Carol.
** The girl in the second flashback wasn't Alice -- it was her sister Diane.
** The second flashback then shows that the only reason Alice was afraid to swim in this particular lake pre-accident was because Diane was teasing her about lake monsters.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': The movie offers five potential reasons Alice is afraid of swimming -- either it's because she almost drowned as a child, because [[DisappearedDad her father died]] from a shipwreck, because the local bodies of water have dangerous animals, because someone scared her with horror stories of people drowning, or because she heard a song about a drowning as a kid.
* '''Averted''': The movie does not explain Alice's fear of swimming, if it even crops up at all.
* '''Enforced''': Readers had been writing to the novel's author, asking why Alice is afraid of swimming, but [[ShrugOfGod the author refused to give a straight answer]], so the movie writers thought the viewers deserved one.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, ''that's'' why!"
* '''Invoked''': "[[BreakingTheFourthWall I bet you're wondering why I'm afraid to swim. Well, here's why!]]"
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': "Nope! Not telling why I'm afraid of swimming!"
* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''': "Why is Alice afraid of swimming?" "Well, in the movie it's because she almost drowned, but they never say why in the book."
* '''Implied''': The movie ''hints'' that Alice had a near-drowning in her childhood, but [[AmbiguousSituation doesn't say it definitely happened]].
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''': It turns out that the reason Alice is afraid of swimming is because she fell hook line and sinker for a story Diane told her about some made-up monster who pulls people underwater.
* '''Played for Drama''': The reason Alice is afraid of swimming is because her father drowned.
* '''Played for Horror''': The reason Alice is afraid of swimming is because [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange she's actually a demon]] whose WeaksauceWeakness is getting wet.
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* '''Straight''': In the novel ''Alice and Bob'', Alice is [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes afraid of swimming]]. The novel is adapted into a movie, which establishes that the reason for her fear is because she nearly drowned when she was a little girl.
* '''Exaggerated''': The book is a total MindScrew, and the movie's main purpose is to [[MindScrewdriver make sense of it]].
* '''Downplayed''':
* '''Justified''':
** The movie is a prequel, taking place in Alice's childhood.
** [[AdaptationalPersonalityChange Alice is more introspective and prone to looking back on the past in the movie]], so a {{Flashback}} is more in-character for the Alice in the movie than the Alice in the book.
* '''Inverted''': In the book, Alice's fear of swimming is explained as the result of almost drowning as a young girl. In the movie, [[AdaptationExplanationExtrication she's still afraid of swimming, but there's no indication that the accident happened.]]
* '''Subverted''': The movie shows Alice almost drowning as a kid, and it seems as though that's why she's afraid of swimming, but another flashback later in the movie shows that she was afraid of swimming even ''before'' she almost drowned.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** That wasn't a flashback -- it was either a FantasySequence, a dream, or a real, present scene of Alice's niece Carol.
** The girl in the second flashback wasn't Alice -- it was her sister Diane.
** The second flashback then shows that the only reason Alice was afraid to swim in this particular lake pre-accident was because Diane was teasing her about lake monsters.
* '''Parodied''':
* '''Zigzagged''': The movie offers five potential reasons Alice is afraid of swimming -- either it's because she almost drowned as a child, because [[DisappearedDad her father died]] from a shipwreck, because the local bodies of water have dangerous animals, because someone scared her with horror stories of people drowning, or because she heard a song about a drowning as a kid.
* '''Averted''': The movie does not explain Alice's fear of swimming, if it even crops up at all.
* '''Enforced''': Readers had been writing to the novel's author, asking why Alice is afraid of swimming, but [[ShrugOfGod the author refused to give a straight answer]], so the movie writers thought the viewers deserved one.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, ''that's'' why!"
* '''Invoked''': "[[BreakingTheFourthWall I bet you're wondering why I'm afraid to swim. Well, here's why!]]"
* '''Exploited''':
* '''Defied''': "Nope! Not telling why I'm afraid of swimming!"
* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''': "Why is Alice afraid of swimming?" "Well, in the movie it's because she almost drowned, but they never say why in the book."
* '''Implied''': The movie ''hints'' that Alice had a near-drowning in her childhood, but [[AmbiguousSituation doesn't say it definitely happened]].
* '''Deconstructed''':
* '''Reconstructed''':
* '''Played for Laughs''': It turns out that the reason Alice is afraid of swimming is because she fell hook line and sinker for a story Diane told her about some made-up monster who pulls people underwater.
* '''Played for Drama''': The reason Alice is afraid of swimming is because her father drowned.
* '''Played for Horror''': The reason Alice is afraid of swimming is because [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange she's actually a demon]] whose WeaksauceWeakness is getting wet.
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