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** Bob uses the [[MacGuffin SnipeGuffin]] to [SecretTestOfCharacter test Alice's character]].

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** Bob uses the [[MacGuffin SnipeGuffin]] to [SecretTestOfCharacter [[SecretTestOfCharacter test Alice's character]].

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'''Basic Trope''': A character sends another (usually a rookie) off on an impossible errand to humiliate them.

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'''Basic Trope''': A character sends another (usually a rookie) off on an impossible errand to humiliate them.errand.



** Bob uses the [[MacGuffin SnipeGuffin]] [[SecretTestOfCharacter to test Alice's character]].

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** Bob uses the [[MacGuffin SnipeGuffin]] [[SecretTestOfCharacter to [SecretTestOfCharacter test Alice's character]].



* '''Parodied''': Alice travels around the world for three years to find a snipe, returning covered in [[NoodleIncident scratches, bruises, cuts, and burns.]]

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* '''Parodied''': Alice travels around the world for three years to find a snipe, returning covered in [[NoodleIncident scratches, bruises, cuts, and burns.]]burns]].



* '''Exploited''': Bob uses Alice to find rare object when she actually comes back with a snipe, making a fortune off the rare things.

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* '''Exploited''': '''Exploited''':
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Bob uses Alice to find rare object when she actually comes back with a snipe, making a fortune off the rare things.
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** Bob uses the [[MacGuffin SnipeGuffin]] [[SecretTestOfCharacter to test Alice's character]].
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** Bob is the BigBad and he wants Alice out of the way so she won't stop his plans.
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** Alice knows she has been sent on a fool's errand, and takes advantage of it by reading a book.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Bob sends Alice off to fetch magic dust from where the aurora touches the ten-mile-high mountain in the middle of Kansas.

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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** UriahGambit - Bob sends Alice to a quest that is impossible to survive.
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Bob sends Alice off to fetch magic dust from where the aurora touches the ten-mile-high mountain in the middle of Kansas.
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* '''Enforced''': Bob is setup as a JerkassWithAHeartOfgold, so they use the snipe hunt to show Bob's jerkassness and Bob's worry when Alice doesn't come back to show he really does care.

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* '''Enforced''': Bob is setup as a JerkassWithAHeartOfgold, JerkassWithAHeartOfGold, so they use the snipe hunt to show Bob's jerkassness and Bob's worry when Alice doesn't come back to show he really does care.
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* '''Straight''': Bob sends ensign Alice off to catch an evasive snipe in a bag, knowing full well that they are too fast to catch, or not found in the area at all.

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* '''Straight''': Bob sends ensign Ensign Alice off to catch an evasive snipe in a bag, knowing full well that they are too fast to catch, or not found in the area at all.
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* '''Discussed''': ???

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* '''Discussed''': ???Two soldiers are discussing the prankster in their unit who does this, mentioning the time they got sent to fill out ID-10-T forms.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a NaiveNewcomer. Bob sends her to look for a snipe. Alice does so in earnest. when she finally realizes that it was a SnipeHunt she [[BreakTheCutie is utterly humiliated]]. The incident permanently sours her relationship with bob.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a NaiveNewcomer. Bob sends her to look for a snipe. Alice does so in earnest. when she finally realizes that it was a SnipeHunt she [[BreakTheCutie is utterly humiliated]]. The incident permanently sours her relationship with bob.Bob.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a NaiveNewcomer. Bob sends her to look for a snipe. Alice does so in earnest. when she finally realizes that it was a SnipeHunt she [[BreakTheCutie is utterly humiliated]]. The incident permanently casts a shadow on her relationship with bob.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a NaiveNewcomer. Bob sends her to look for a snipe. Alice does so in earnest. when she finally realizes that it was a SnipeHunt she [[BreakTheCutie is utterly humiliated]]. The incident permanently casts a shadow on sours her relationship with bob.
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* '''Reconstructed''': ...until [[TheNewGuy Charlie]] comes along. Bob sends Charlie on a snipe hunt, and Alice sees that it's just a harmless prank and and ActuallyPrettyFunny one at that. [[EverybodyLaughsEnding All is forgiven]].

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* '''Reconstructed''': ...until [[TheNewGuy Charlie]] comes along. Bob sends Charlie on a snipe hunt, and Alice sees that it's all just a harmless prank and and an ActuallyPrettyFunny one at that. [[EverybodyLaughsEnding All is forgiven]].
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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice is a NaiveNewcomer. Bob sends her to look for a snipe. Alice does so in earnest. when she finally realizes that it was a SnipeHunt she [[BreakTheCutie is utterly humiliated]]. The incident permanently casts a shadow on her relationship with bob.
* '''Reconstructed''': ...until [[TheNewGuy Charlie]] comes along. Bob sends Charlie on a snipe hunt, and Alice sees that it's just a harmless prank and and ActuallyPrettyFunny one at that. [[EverybodyLaughsEnding All is forgiven]].

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob sends Alice off on a difficult, but not impossible, errand.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob sends Alice off on a difficult, but not impossible, errand.errand, in order to get rid of her for a while.



* '''Parodied''': The character blatantly lampshades the futility of the snipe hunt before going on it.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob sends Alice on a snipe hunt. Snipes live in that area, none have the features bob described, but there is, in fact, one who does which alice brings back.
* '''Averted''': It never occurs to Bob to do something like that to Alice.

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* '''Parodied''': The character blatantly lampshades Alice travels around the futility of the snipe hunt before going on it.
world for three years to find a snipe, returning covered in [[NoodleIncident scratches, bruises, cuts, and burns.]]
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob sends Alice on a snipe hunt. Snipes live in that area, none have the features bob Bob described, but there is, in fact, one who does which alice Alice brings back.
* '''Averted''': '''Averted''':
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It never occurs to Bob to do something like that to Alice.Alice.
** The target of the hunt is perfectly logical and easily obtainable.

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* '''Justified''': Bob is finding ways to distract Alice so she won't be in the way for an event that's happening in town, adding "don't look in town for the snipe, somebody else would have found it if it was in town."

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Bob is finding ways to distract Alice so she won't be in the way for an event that's happening in town, adding "don't look in town for the snipe, somebody else would have found it if it was in town."



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* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???

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* '''Justified''': ???
Bob is finding ways to distract Alice so she won't be in the way for an event that's happening in town, adding "don't look in town for the snipe, somebody else would have found it if it was in town."
** Bob runs a camp for lucky people. Although Bob doesn't expect Alice to find a ''snipe'' he expects her to find something valuable on the snipe hunt to prove her luck.
* '''Inverted''': ???Alice comes back with a rare snipe after Bob asked her to go get groceries.



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* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Parodied''': ???
The character blatantly lampshades the futility of the snipe hunt before going on it.
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
Bob sends Alice on a snipe hunt. Snipes live in that area, none have the features bob described, but there is, in fact, one who does which alice brings back.
* '''Averted''': ???
It never occurs to Bob to do something like that to Alice.
* '''Enforced''': ???
Bob is setup as a JerkassWithAHeartOfgold, so they use the snipe hunt to show Bob's jerkassness and Bob's worry when Alice doesn't come back to show he really does care.
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
"So you sent Alice to hunt something that doesn't actually exist just to insult her when she doesn't find it?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
Bob wants Alice away for a bit doing something that shouldn't bother anybody.
* '''Exploited''': ???
Bob uses Alice to find rare object when she actually comes back with a snipe, making a fortune off the rare things.
* '''Defied''': ???"I'm not falling for that, I know snipes don't live around here."
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'''Basic Trope''': A character sends another (usually a rookie) off on an impossible errand to humiliate them.
* '''Straight''': Bob sends ensign Alice off to catch an evasive snipe in a bag, knowing full well that they are too fast to catch, or not found in the area at all.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob sends Alice off to fetch magic dust from where the aurora touches the ten-mile-high mountain in the middle of Kansas.
* '''Downplayed''': Bob sends Alice off on a difficult, but not impossible, errand.
* '''Justified''': ???
* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': Alice comes back after awhile, with the snipe in the bag.
* '''Double Subverted''': When she opens the bag, it turns out to be a chicken that she mistook for a snipe.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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