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11->''"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 in essence, it's one and the same."''
12-->-- '''Bazarov''', ''Literature/FathersAndSons''
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14For almost any trope, there is a flip side.
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16A particular form of creatively reusing an existing trope: The {{trope}} is turned exactly on its head, or shown the other way around. 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, or the other way around (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.
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18Oftentimes it's PlayedForLaughs. Sometimes, however, it's not intended at all. For example, maybe a writer wanted to use brightness of hair to symbolize brightness of mind, not realizing that DumbBlonde and BrainyBrunette are much more common tropes.
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20See PlayingWithATrope for a comparison with many other ways that a trope can be used.
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22Oddly 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? See also RussianReversal.
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24SuperTrope to OppositeTropes which specifically focus on taking completely contrasting takes on the same idea.
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26Not to be confused with SubvertedTrope, AvertedTrope, or DefiedTrope. Compare SwappedRoles.
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28For the 2012 video game, see ''VideoGame/{{Inversion}}''.
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35* A poster parodying ''Film/KingKong'', where [[https://webtoolfeed.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/3.jpg a gorilla is terrorized by a giant human woman]].
36* Cadbury chocolate "Ultra Perk" had an entire campaign centering around this trope - [[https://d3nuqriibqh3vw.cloudfront.net/images/Monster.jpg a monster scared of the child under its bed]], [[https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/print/lumberjack the top half of a lumberjack's body falling to the ground after cutting through a tree]], [[https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/print/knot_0 arms being tied in a knot while trying to tie a shoelace]], [[https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/print/fly_8 a fly complaining about the human in its soup]] and [[https://www.adsoftheworld.com/media/print/balloon_9 a balloon running along while holding the string of a floating human]].
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40* In an inversion of {{Portmanteau}}, the show ''Animation/{{Nussa}}'' names its main characters as the split parts of one word: "Nusantara", the term for the Indonesian "outer islands" or archipelago. The titular boy is Nussa, his pet cat's name is Anta, and his sister's name is Rarra.
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44* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'':
45** [[spoiler:Nadeshiko]] inverts the OccidentalOtaku trope. As a child, she was raised to be a YamatoNadeshiko, but hated being forced into such a restrictive lifestyle. Then she discovered an American movie, and became so enamored with the freedoms American children were allowed compared to her own upbringing that she developed an obsession with America, to the point of dying her hair blonde and calling herself [[spoiler:"Naddy"]].
46** Yamame inverts the OneHeadTaller trope. Her exact height is 200 centimetres (6' 7"), which is taller than most men. She seems aware of the unusual nature of this trope being inverted, as she was insecure about bending down to kiss Rentarou until he stood all his other girlfriends on dirt piles to make them seem as tall as her to prove that he's willing to love girls of any height.
47* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' inverts HeroicCaninesVillainousFelines with the hero's and villain's Imperial Arms. Leone (one of the heroes) has an Imperial Arms that gives her cat-based powers, while Seryu (one of the villains) has one that looks like a dog.
48* ''Anime/AldnoahZero'' inverts TheWarOfEarthlyAggression: the colonists of Mars, using vastly superior LostTechnology and egged on by a MasterRace doctrine, invade and attempt to conquer Earth.
49* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' inverts TheButlerDidIt during a case... when the butler of a rich family becomes ''the murder victim''.
50* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Light Yagami is very deliberately a complete Inversion of the StockShonenHero. He's a VillainProtagonist; he's a TVGenius, instead of being BookDumb; he doesn't have to go through TrainingFromHell to [[TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential unlock his true potential]], he just finds a magic notebook randomly, his strong sense of justice leads to him turning into a villain; he's cool and calculated instead of being HotBlooded; where most Shonen protagonists are proponents of ThePowerOfFriendship, Light is almost completely sociopathic and rather than having a ToBeAMaster plotline he instead has a quest to get himself worshipped as a god via a prolonged spree of mass murder.
51* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
52** The franchise inverts AbsurdlyHugePopulation. According to Dragon Ball Minus, the Saiyan population was only a few thousand on their home planet before Frieza destroyed them. It implied because there was a warrior race constantly at war with other races and each other, it was difficult for them to increase their numbers.
53** Akira Toriyama also likes to invert LargeAndInCharge, as often when there is a pair or group of new characters (usually villains), the smaller, less intimidating-looking one is the leader (and often [[RankScalesWithAsskicking the most powerful]]). Examples include Commander Red compared to the rest of the Red Ribbon Army, Vegeta compared to Nappa, Freeza compared to most of his underlings like the [[EliteMooks Ginyu Force]], Babidi compared to Yamu, Spopovich, and Dabura, Beerus compared to Whis, and Zeno compared to all of his attendants and angels.
54* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Colonel Roy Mustang is a HeroKiller ''killer'', wiping the floor with Homunculi.
55* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': The animated adaptation reverses the "male predator = vampire" expectation in an early episode when a fat, lecherous man hires a prostitute and feels her up while leering at her. The viewer is cringing for the inevitable DisposableSexWorker scene when Alucard reveals himself and calls out the vampire... who is the prostitute. (Though [[TheVamp dangerously sexy women]] are also a trope, so...)
56* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' inverts SeeNoEvilHearNoEvil. In the 21st episode, Mion desperately yells "gomen-nasai" while [[FadeOut fading out]] as the camera view switches to Shion. And Shion isn't even paying attention anymore.
57* ''Anime/{{Interstella 5555}}'' reverses the AlienAbduction trope by having the humans abduct the aliens.
58* ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'': The [[AlternateContinuity 2009 TV Special]] inverts the AdaptationalBadass trope; the title character went from being the poster-cub of {{Killer Rabbit}}s to a wimpy coward.
59* ''Literature/OkamiSan'' inverts the GuysSmashGirlsShoot trope. Eponymous ActionGirl ÅŒkami relies on GoodOldFisticuffs, whereas Ryoshi Morino uses a slingshot initially.
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63* ''Art/TheFallenAngel'': Creator/AlexandreCabanel's {{painting|s}} inverts some tropes:
64** AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Lucifer has just been kicked out of the Christian {{Heaven}}. In other words, he has descended from a higher plane of existence and is now sulking at the top of an Earthly mountain.
65** ClimbingClimax: While it's true that Lucifer is lying on top of a mountain, the painting details the aftermath of his rebellion against God, not the actual fight. Furthermore, a mountain might usually be regarded as a high place, but it's a considerable downgrade if compared to Heaven.
66** NudityEqualsHonesty: Lucifer is tensely lying naked in the foreground, while the loyal-to-God angels appear fully robed in the background. Here, nudity equals shameful behavior --in this case, rejecting and questioning the Christian God-- as well as betrayal.
67** RaysFromHeaven: The yet to rise sun casts crepuscular rays over Lucifer, but they do so from behind. This serves to [[DarkIsEvil pool the shadows on Lucifer's face]] and to signify that he has turned his back on God, therefore God's influence and divinity cannot reach him anymore.
68* ''Art/TheFightingTemeraire'': RidingIntoTheSunset is partially inverted. the vessels are coming ''out of'' the sunset, but the significance -- the sunset is beautiful and represents finality -- stands.
69* ''Art/TheProblemWeAllLiveWith'': Inversion of SceneryCensor. One of the federal marshals' arms in the foreground partially obscures the racist graffiti that's scrawled on the wall in the background. Not enough that there's any doubt about what it says, but at least the slur is a bit less visible.
70* ''Art/TheSin'': The devil's temptation is what causes Adam and Even to be cast from an immortal life of prosperity. So, it's the opposite of a SerpentOfImmortality.
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74* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': ComicBook/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''.
75* Darryl Cunningham's comic book ''Psychiatric Tales'' is an attempt to demystify mental illnesses and change their perception in media and in society. The trope InsaneEqualsViolent is played straight only in chapter "Antisocial Personality Disorder" (also known as "Mad Or Bad" on Darryl's blog). Other stories are actually an inversion, stating that people suffering from mental illnesses are more likely to be a victim of crime or harm themselves rather than anyone else.
76* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The series inverts StoodUp. In a recent issue of ''Spider-Man'', where Peter Parker is (unintentionally) stood up by ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson after spending the day trying to remember where he agreed to meet her. Of course, Peter has had to ditch a fair number of dates while trying to save the day.
77* An issue of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' reverses the usual formula of the main character's superhero duties getting in the way of their civilian obligations by having the civilian obligations get in the way of their superhero duties. In it, Peter tries to go stop the Rhino's rampage, but finds himself constantly waylaid for various reasons (attending a Parent-Teacher conference with Aunt May, comforting a crying Gwen Stacy, having a run-in with Flash Thompson) and by the time he's finally able to suit up, the Rhino had already been defeated by Iron Man.
78* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'': The series inverts AFormYouAreComfortableWith. The One Below All uses avatars to avoid breaking mortal minds because it wants them to suffer instead. It most often is shown using David Banner, specifically because it unnerves the Devil Hulk. For others it uses a NightmareFace.
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82* [[https://www.gocomics.com/yaffle/2018/04/23 This]] ''Yaffle'' strip features a fully dressed man "flashing" people at a nudist colony.
83** And [[https://www.gocomics.com/yaffle/2019/05/13 this one]] depicts horses playing "horseshoes" with human shoes.
84** [[https://www.gocomics.com/yaffle/2018/11/18 This one]] depicts nude artists painting a fully dressed man.
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88* ''Fanfic/HuntingTheUnicorn'' plays a lot with its [[{{Troperiffic}} many, many tropes.]] But as a DeconstructionFic of [[Series/{{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 [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome real life]] as opposed to a fairy tale, [[BreakTheCutie it didn't work at all]] and left him with [[TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest deep emotional scars]]--leading to a very painful inversion of ''YouNeedToGetLaid.'' This is one of the biggest {{Cerebus Retcon}}s for Blaine's RelationshipSue status in canon, and [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap reviewers frequently want to give Blaine a hug.]]
89* ''Fanfic/TheGamesOfTheGods'': In Book One, chapter 54, Kari invokes DuckSeasonRabbitSeason. Rachel, who is smarter than Daffy Duck, inverts this trope. Kari says "No" and Rachel says "Yes". When Kari switches to "Yes", Rachel wins by not switching to "No". An identical example appears in ''FanFic/{{Vortex}}'', chapter 8, when Anne says "No" and Revdur says "Yes". Again, Anne switches to "Yes" and Revdur wins.
90* ''Fanfic/{{Shatterheart}}'': In a reversal of CloneAngst [[spoiler:the real]] Syaoran is initially seen as an shallow imitation of [[spoiler:his clone]] and Kurogane has to learn that he's a separate person from the boy he first knew.
91* ''Fanfic/WanderOverFostersAUOneshot'': Inverts MistakenForAliens. Wander is an alien, but no one but Bloo believes him. They just think he's an abandoned imaginary friend who thinks he's an alien.
92* The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' fanfic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/5979817 Cross-Cultural Contamination]]'' inverts AccidentalProposal -- Mirage eats a box of electric blue candy given to him by Trailbreaker, but has no idea that Trailbreaker was proposing to him using Gygax tradition (which involves making electric blue candy as a proposal gift) and that by eating the candy, he was accepting said proposal. In other words, Mirage made an Accidental Acceptance.
93* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'' Inverts CharacterExaggeration in-universe. TheStoryteller tends to depict the contestants more realistically and multidimensionally than the canon does, due to her insider perspective. She also makes references suggesting that the finished episodes mentioned in the reimagining don't depict the contestants any more multidimensionally than the canon episodes do.
94* ''Fanfic/TwinningWithATwist'' Inverts AdaptationalAngstUpgrade. In this story, Dave was voted off first by his teammates for being a jerk. [[spoiler:It is later revealed that he was a jerk because he had a bad day prior to the start of the show, which did not improve during the two days he spent on the island. Despite that, it is implied that things did improve for him after he arrived at the Playa des Losers, and he enjoys the rest of his stay there. It is also shown that Dave is on good terms with the other castmates that were voted off. Compared to what happened in canon, with Dave suffering painful humiliation, being rejected by his love interest, and finally losing his sanity and being abandoned on the island, being voted off first was probably the best for him.]]
95* ''Fanfic/UnbreakableRedSilkenThread'' inverts XanatosSpeedChess. When it comes to Heather, she is quick to take advantage of anything that comes her way, though often times the results backfire in her face, sometimes quite literally.
96* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'' comically inverts DramaticUnmask thanks to the series' focus on nudity. Kay'la is a nudist paladin who goes around claiming to be "the world's first naked knight," until the day a mysterious adversary challenges her to a duel in the local gladiatorial arena. Mid-fight, he reveals his true intentions by casting ''dispel glamour'' on her to reveal she's secretly been wearing full plate mail the whole time!
97* ''Fanfic/WhereTheSunlightEnds'' inverts MistakenForGay. Peter Three assumes that Bobby is straight, based on Bobby's Instagram pictures depicting him drinking out with girls at a bar, but Bobby reveals he has a boyfriend, and the women are just his friends.
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101* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' films invert the classic [[WesternAnimation animation]] trope MickeyMousing. Each of the animated segments is produced to correspond to a piece of existing music.
102* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'' Inverts many tropes, a few examples are:
103** Inverts CatsAreMean with Clawhauser, the cast's most prominent feline who is [[AllLovingHero the nicest character in the movie]].
104** Inverts UsedToBeASweetKid with minor character Gideon Grey, as he goes from a violent WouldHitAGirl school bully to a well-adjusted and successful pastry chef as an adult.
105* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' is about a living boy venturing a realm inhabited by [[DemBones dead spirits]], the inverse of a ghost in the living world.
106* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' inverted AllOfTheOtherReindeer. [[spoiler:When recounting his backstory, [[UnreliableExpositor Bowler Hat Guy]] claims that his classmates "all hated [him]." However, the footage clearly shows that, in reality, said classmates were trying to invite him to be their friend, but ''he'' shut ''them'' out. When you consider that a real-life ChildHater [[JerkassWoobie may have had such a bad experience with]] AllOfTheOtherReindeer as a child that they [[EvilCannotComprehendGood cannot see when kids, or any other people, are trying to be genuinely nice]], you'll realize that even the inversion of AllOfTheOtherReindeer is TruthInTelevision]].
107* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' inverts the IWantSong trope with "All I Ever Wanted." Rather than singing about wanting more out of life, the song is about Moses trying to convince himself that he already has everything he could ever want and has no reason to be dissatisfied.
108* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' has a couple:
109** TheChainOfHarm is inverted in the climax: after being forgiven for her betrayal by her friends, Mei repays that debt by extending a hand of caring and understanding to her traumatized mother. That support gives Ming the inner strength she needs to apologize to ''her'' mother Wu for losing control and scarring Wu so long ago.
110** The movie also inverts MiddleSchoolIsMiserable. Mei actively enjoys school, enjoys learning, and enjoys getting good grades. Her friends are there, and going to school means she's out from under [[MyBelovedSmother her mother's control]] for at least a few hours. After she begins transforming, school also means [[spoiler:the panda hustle, having fun and earning money toward the 4*Town concert tickets]].
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114* In the beginning of ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace'', the Jedi are trying to get into the control room where the Neimodians are. Lucas explained that this is an inversion of typical scene where a monster tries to get into the room where the protagonists are. And just like the monster may be scared away at the beginning of the film, so are the Jedi.
115* ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' inverts the ArtificialLimbs trope with the [[http://www.filmjunk.com/images/weblog/treknobabble12_firstcontact.jpg android Data]] by [[spoiler:having living flesh grafted onto his body by the Borg queen.]] It doesn't last.
116* ''Film/AKidInKingArthursCourt'', 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.]].
117* Sweet Pea in ''Film/SuckerPunch'' goes through most of the story being the stereotypical SourSupporter, reluctantly joining the team, reminding everyone of how dangerous and stupid the plan is, and eventually calling it quits when things get too dangerous. When it is revealed that the Sour Supporter -- which is usually a left of center character at most -- is actually the [[DecoyProtagonist plot central character]] and the HeroicSacrifice is made ''for'' her instead of ''by'' her, the trope inverts.
118* ''Film/TheCavemansValentine'' inverts the generally parent-to-child SoProudOfYou by having Lulu say this to her [[Creator/SamuelLJackson crazy father]].
119* Whereas in Hollywood armies which relied heavily on formation [[CallThatAFormation seem to often forget all their training at the drop of a hat]], 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!
120* 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.
121* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' inverts the GuysSmashGirlsShoot trope. ActionGirl Rita Vrataski uses a CoolSword as her preferred weapon, whereas Cage uses machine guns for most of the film.
122* ''Film/{{Planet of the Apes|1968}}'' inverts EscapedAnimalRampage: instead of an animal breaking loose from captivity and causing panic among humans, it's a human (Taylor the astronaut) who escapes from the apes' science facility and causes panic among the civilized apes.
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126* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' inverts pretty much every gender-related trope, ''except'' the one about polygamy -- they do have the many women, one man model. Because men are [[GenderRarityValue rare]], women do all the fighting and stuff, while their husband sits well-protected in a comfy home and cares for the children. Then there is the protagonist Jerin, who inverts everything again by being a [[SpiritedYoungLady spirited young gentleman.]]. Notable inversions include the one of AManIsAlwaysEager -- Jerin is not very happy about the prospect of marrying thirty women, and comments that he would feel like a prostitute. He ''is'' fine with ten wives, however.
127* ''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'' inverts WeaponRunningTime. The ''Red October'' survives a torpedo hit because the torpedo doesn't run long enough. Its safety systems require a run of at least 400 meters before the warhead would arm, and it hits Red October just 350 meters after it's launched.
128* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror'' inverts CaptainColorbeard by giving the most infamous and feared pirate in its setting the name "Blackheart."
129* Terry Jones' ''VideoGame/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.
130* Marc in Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath is a classic BigGuy, but he fakes [[TheBerserker berserker rages]] so he doesn't have to fight.
131* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' inverts CrystalDragonJesus. In the straight trope, the religion resembles Christianity, but the deity is not the Christian God. In ''The Silmarillion'', Eru Ilúvatar is much like the Christian God, but the way to worship Eru is very different from Christianity.
132* ''Literature/WetGoddess'' inverts DirtyMindReading: Ruby the bottlenose dolphin reads Zack's mind and is terrified when he shows her the full range of [[SexIsEvil humans' sexual taboos and inhibitions]].
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136* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
137** In the pilot, an apparently high-school-age couple is in the school at night; the girl is nervous about being out at night while the boy reassures her. Since it's clear from the title that this is a vampire show, the expectation is the boy will suddenly reveal himself as a vampire and bite the girl; instead the opposite happens, and the girl is the vampire.
138** Buffy herself is an inverted trope. Blonde teen girl who hunts down monsters, when normally they would hunt her. WordOfGod states that this was the entire point of the story.
139* Invoked by Gregory Series/{{House}}: "[[NotWhatItLooksLike It's not what you think!]] I know it looks like we're cleaning dishes, but actually we're having sex."
140* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
141** In the episode "There all the honor lies," a gift shop opens in the space station that sells [[RubberForeheadAliens human masks for space aliens to wear]].
142** 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 sticking out of its sides!
143* Quite a lot of instances on ''Series/{{Friends}}''. An example would be Phoebe's husband, in season 2, quoting stereotypical 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 realizing that they are gay. Here it's the other way around.
144* Normally, complaints about TV programs concern inappropriate content. With the British broadcast of Creator/MontyPython's final show, [[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a591076/monty-python-show-investigated-by-ofcom-over-lack-of-swearing.html?rss the complaints concerned the lack thereof]].
145* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Tomb of the Cybermen" inverts BlackDudeDiesFirst by having the only black character in the story be the ''last'' to die.
146* ''Series/{{Victoria}}'':
147** HollywoodOld: Diana Rigg plays a character, who in real life was much younger than the actress.
148** ManicPixieDreamGirl: It is the brooding and more serious young man (Prince Albert), who changes the life of the lively and more spirited young woman (Queen Victoria).
149* ''Series/{{Spartacus}}'' in the end inverts the BuryYourGays trope ([[spoiler: Agron and Nasir, major characters and a gay couple, are the only male characters on the good side to survive the show. In fact, the only other named characters to get out alive are two non-combatant women who were only introduced in the last season.]]). This was partly due to realism (most of the other male characters were real historical people whose deaths during the rebellion were documented), but also likely meant as an apology to LGBT+ fans, who had complained that [[spoiler: the first couple of gay characters to be introduced died early and violently in the middle of the first season.]]
150* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'' inverts both the mechanics and the theme of the fading of the Elves. In this version, Elves are only immortal due to the ImmortalityInducer of the Light of Valinor derived from the now-deceased Two Trees without which they will ultimately die, thus making their quest to create the Rings akin to {{Immortality Seeker}}s striving for the ElixirOfLife. Tolkien himself, [[SpiritualAntithesis in complete contrast]], described immortality as just as inherent to Elves as mortality is to Men, and the Elves' fading as the ever-increasing weariness and sorrow inherent in their misguided and futile attempts to stop the changes wrought by time and embalm the living earth to preserve its beauty and thus assuage [[WhoWantsToLiveForever their own angst about existing forever]], with the Rings as their most erroneous attempt to "fix" the mortal world by coercing it into a sterile facsimile of the bliss and beauty they knew in Valinor.
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154* Magazine/{{MAD}} used to feature a recurring "scenes we'd like to see", which often featured subverted or inverted tropes (for example, the (in)famous "car races train" film ends up with train hitting car, car survives, train gets smashed to smithereens).
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158* ''Series/BetweenTheLions'' inverts the DumbDinos trope. Heath the Thesaurus is one of the smartest characters on the show.
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162* ''Franchise/ForgottenRealms'' inverts WhiteMagicianGirl with the orc goddess Luthic. She's a part of the AlwaysChaoticEvil pantheon, is evil aligned herself, but actually has the Healing Domain at her disposal.
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166* ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' inverts WhiteMagicianGirl with the Drow Cleric Viconia. She is an excellent healer, but is evil-aligned and a bit of a bitch.
167* ''VideoGame/Bomberman64'' inverts EarlyBirdBoss. Initially, Sirius will give the player remote bombs for each of the large bosses, but not for the very last one in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon. By this point, [[spoiler:Sirius had revealed himself as EvilAllAlong, and isn't willing to help Bomberman any longer]]. Thus, Bomberman will be forced to fight the penultimate boss, [[spoiler:[[MagicalClown Spellmaker]]]], with the default bomb.
168* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' inverts the trope TerminatorTwosome, both in terms of where the twosome goes and what happens when they get there. [[spoiler: Succoria, Emperor of the Tainted Coil, goes to the future to retrieve its technology; Riggnarok, humanity's champion, uses the opportunity to assassinate her by masquerading as one of her slaves. However, Succoria has a VillainousBSOD upon realizing that the future belongs to humankind, and Riggnarok takes pity on her. LoveRedeems, but in this case, [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption Equals]] DeathByChildbirth, and Riggnarok ended up raising protagonist Eddie Riggs in the modern world on his own.]]
169* ''VisualNovel/ClassOf09'' is an inversion of a DatingSim, and has been advertized as a Rejection Sim. It's basically playing as an anime girl and causing chaos and destruction for her potential suitors in a WorldOfJerkass school.
170* ''VideoGame/CustomRobo'' ties HumongousMecha into knots by having a tournament-arc style FightingSeries with knee-high customizable bots that one psychically controls.
171* ''VideoGame/DefaultDan'' inverts your average 2D ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' game.
172* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' inverts HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:Galuf's HeroicSacrifice against Exdeath is an automatic success, since Galuf [[{{Determinator}} won't die at zero hit points]].]]
173** Likewise, ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has [[spoiler: a FinalBoss battle where your entire party automatically has auto-life cast on them, meaning you can't lose.]] [[note]]Unless you're all petrified. In which case you probably did it on purpose.[[/note]]
174* EasyModeMockery is inverted in ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' and ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan10 10]]''. You cannot earn Achievements in the harder difficulty modes, or when playing as Proto Man in ''9''.
175* ''[[VideoGame/BatenKaitos Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean]]'' inverts the ShopFodder trope. A certain item from a random drawer in [[KleptomaniacHero someone's house]] (called the Small Debt) actually ''removes'' money from your wallet if you sell it. Holding on to it will cause it to evolve into [[FromBadToWorse Large Debt]], which removes more money from your inventory if sold, and finally into the [[OhCrap Snowballing Debt]], which removes a tremendous amount of money. Fortunately, you don't have to sell it, and the game shows the price of selling it clearly.
176* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'' your morally ambiguous mentor Kreia routinely gives you ANTI-friendship speeches, and your relationship values go down for answering like a LoveFreak.
177** Kreia is just as disdainful of ForTheEvulz actions, very unusually so as she is a [[spoiler: ToxicFriendInfluence, BigBad and a MagnificentBastard]] herself.
178* In ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'', those who played this game consider Superfly's and Mikiko's deaths to be the best part of the game, inverting the AlasPoorScrappy trope. Mind you, this isn't ''really'' an example, since this was unintentional; players just hate the game so much they take cynical glee in the suffering of its characters.
179* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', Fall-From-Grace is a Succubus. You'd expect a tragic backstory about how her Succubus nature caused her to commit some wrong that justified her current tragic state of being cast off from her more judgmental deva peers who rejected her for being so disgraceful which led to her suppressing her darker Succubus side or some such, but no. She's very polite and graceful the entire time.
180* [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Gameplaywise]] RedemptionDemotion appears in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' in the Scourge campaign. [[FallenHero Arthas]], the main character in the human campaign, by the end will have likely maxed out, acquired a number of really strong items, and as part of his StartOfDarkness, [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Frostmourn]], giving him a massive boost to melee damage Chaos-type damage for his attacks that allows him to deal full damage to all armor types. By the start of the Scourge campaign, he's just an ordinary Death Knight, and will never be as strong as he was before.
181** Another case of this with Illidian going into ''Frozen Throne''. When the player controls him in the original campaign, he'll be able to go into a permanent demon form, which he loses in Frozen Throne, where the player is fighting him more often then using him, though he's still a level 10 demon hunter.
182** Yet another case, this time with the gameplay itself in the Scourge campaign from the Frozen Throne expansion. Arthas starts as a level 10 Death Knight, but he ''loses'' levels from one stage to the next, going from level 10 to level 2 as his power source (The Lich King, before Arthas merged with him) grows weaker. He gets all his levels back in time for the last stage of the game.
183* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' Saix inverts XMarksTheHero.
184* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' inverts CensoredChildDeath once, in the prologue, when Joel's daughter, Sarah, is fatally shot and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in his arms]][[note]]this scene is also the page image[[/note]]. The entire scene is shown on screen.
185* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet 3'' inverts the GrindBoots trope by allowing Sackboy to use a helmet to ride the rails.
186* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' inverts MalignedMixedMarriage by having the asari ostracize asari who have romantic relationships with other asari.
187* ''VideoGame/{{Outcore}}'' has everyone's favorite TechnicolorNinja SelfInsert, Doctor Shinobi, withhold their name and past without anyone asking, only to reveal his name and past anyways. He goes through another 16 tropes in his '''''eight''''' dialogue lines, too, but that's a topic for another page.
188--> '''Doctor Shinobi:''' [[WithholdingTheirName My name and past are irrelevant]].
189--> '''Lumi:''' I didn't ask about them.
190--> '''Doctor Shinobi:''' My name is Doctor Shinobi. Ever since I was born, I was [[ProfessionalKiller trained to assassinate people]]...
191* [[NubileSavage Krystal]] from ''Franchise/StarFox'' inverts DigitalBikini. When she first appeared, her pubic area (which her impressively short loincloth fails to cover) was rendered as a [[BarbieDollAnatomy completely featureless]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190420031948/https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/1ec06389-f4ab-497e-a62f-e26f580ff146/dcdwg1h-2e838433-d9ee-43b2-97ba-0db87673525f.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzFlYzA2Mzg5LWY0YWItNDk3ZS1hNjJmLWUyNmY1ODBmZjE0NlwvZGNkd2cxaC0yZTgzODQzMy1kOWVlLTQzYjItOTdiYS0wZGI4NzY3MzUyNWYuanBnIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.kftPPYmtciq_xj4K7Ob2SW5npLpWxDD-W1KYLKp-qMo white patch]] that somewhat resembles panties. ''Videogame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' replaced the simple white texture with ''[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1NEb5AXcAATaog.jpg detailed]] [[https://i.imgur.com//OffoMLh.jpg labia]].''
192* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' hands out an achievement for infiltrating the homeworld of a pre-[[FasterThanLightTravel FTL]] Reptilian species while playing as a Humanoid species, which would mean pulling off the exact opposite of a ReptilianConspiracy.
193* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' inverts the intended usage of the trope ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated by revealing that [[spoiler: Konrad]] had been DeadAllAlong. The ghost of [[spoiler:Konrad]] amused by Walker's reaction to this revelation says, "Looks like reports of my ''survival'' were greatly exaggerated."
194* ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' has 3 auto scrolling levels; the autoscrolling is justified by an AdvancingWallOfDoom, and an inversion (Retreating Wall of Doom).
195* TacticalShooter games often invert InsurmountableWaistHighFence by having fences be the ''only'' obstacle you can hop over. This is done not so much for the purpose of trope play but rather for purposes of realism.
196* The Flash game ''VideoGame/DontEscape'' is an inversion of the RoomEscapeGame--the protagonist is a werewolf whose goal is to lock himself in as best he can before he transforms and becomes a danger.
197* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', [[spoiler:Lilly's good ending]] inverts YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle. [[spoiler:The good and bad endings play out exactly the same, except the former has a few additional scenes.]]
198* ''VideoGame/InvisibleInc'' inverts ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. Guards and drones will ''never'' miss a shot.
199* ''VideoGame/PapersPlease'' has you playing as a border inspector and making sure everyone's papers are in order before letting them through. One ending inverts RunForTheBorder where [[spoiler: you (and your family if you can afford to bring them along) flee your increasingly totalitarian country and cross into another country for safety. This time, ''you'' are the one trying to cross the border with fake documents while dealing with an inspector that does not care about your reason for crossing the border. He lets you pass.]]
200* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'''s Switch version has an inversion of SecretAIMoves with the assist Horse Whispering/Horseplay, which can only be used by the player when Autobattle is turned off- AI-controlled characters cannot use it.
201* ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'' Episode 1: ''Homestar Ruiner'' inverts JustifiedTutorial as Strong Bad (under the guise of Homestar Runner) asks for instructions before a big race, which only confuses Coach Z as "Homestar" was training for the event for weeks, leading the player (and by extension Strong Bad) to make an embarassing attempt at it and lose terribly. [[AllAccordingToPlan (As Strong Bad intended.)]]
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205* In ''WebAnimation/FallOfTheCrystalEmpire'', Princesses Celestia and Luna ''begin'' the battle against King Sombra by [[DestinationDefenestration smashing through a stained glass window]].
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208[[folder:Web Comics]]
209* ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' shows [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1850/ a cake bursting out of a stripper.]]
210* It's one thing to wake up in a tub of ice [[OrganTheft missing your kidneys]]. As ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' shows, it's quite another to [[http://xkcd.com/914/ wake up in a tub of kidneys missing your ice]].
211* ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'' shows [[http://endstone.net/comic/10-20-endstone/ a knight getting saved by dragon,]] who is actually a maiden temporary transformed in a dragon form.
212* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' has an inversion of BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: While Hashim's father's restaurant does make really spicy food, Hashim keeps a bottle of [[http://ennuigo.thecomicseries.com/comics/389/ extremely mild sauce]] behind the counter that he uses to trick some people who ask for their food to be super spicy. Sybil knows he has "white people spicy" and "REAL spicy" sauces, and nearly [[http://ennuigo.thecomicseries.com/comics/949/ breaks his arm]] for trying to give her the former.
213* Webcomic/GreyIs inverts the HairContrastDuo trope. While Black and White do have contrasting hair colors, it is short tempered Black who has the white hair and introspective White that has black hair
214* In a strip of ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'', a dog by the name of Tiger [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2010/06/07/stale-jokes-for-stale-mallows/ procured an unstamped sheet of Peeps marshmallow]] that he was going to stash under his pillow to cut out later. The next morning, [[MarshmallowDream he had eaten the Peeps marshmallow while dreaming he was eating his pillow]].
215* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' misadventures [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0328.html sometimes end up like this]]:
216-->'''Elan:''' So we thought our way past the test of the body -- and fought our way past the test of the mind.
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219[[folder:Web Original]]
220* Pictures by Gleb Androsov about [[http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/vampires/vampire01.jpg vampire surgery]], [[http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/buratines/buratino01.JPG pinocchio pirate]], [[http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/dragons/dragon02.JPG a dragon]] and [[http://www.androsov.com/cartoons/ratcatchers/ratcatcher03.JPG Hameln chapel-master]].
221* "[[http://leelaforge.deviantart.com/art/Reversal-186587606 Reversal]]" -- the picture of nudes painting an artist (obviously, {{NSFW}})
222* [[https://genesischant.deviantart.com/art/Christmas-Presents-6-106652333 This picture]] of squids being attacked by a giant pirate captain.
223* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsZYjDo-ky0 reverse fanfiction tropes]] by WebVideo/ColeyDoesThings is, as the title would imply, all about Inverted Tropes. ThereIsOnlyOneBed becomes '''There Are Too Many Beds''', HanahakiDisease becomes '''Ikahanah Disease''' (causes those who are in a reciprocal relationship to eat flowers), '''Sold To A Boy Band''' becomes '''Bought a Boy Band''', [[FromRoommatesToRomance And They Were Roommates]] becomes '''And They Were In Separate Rooms''', FoundFamily becomes ''Found Foes'' (complete with VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 reference), HurtComfortFic becomes '''Comfort/Hurt Fic''', [[LoveIsInTheAir Sex Pollen]] becomes '''Abstinence Pollen''', [[WillTheyOrWontThey Slow-Burn]] becomes '''Speed Inferno''', ChildhoodFriends becomes '''Childhood Enemies''', '''Gang Leader Kidnapping''' (being kidnapped my a gang leader) becomes '''Gang Leader Kidnapping''' (''kidnapping'' a gang leader), and LoveTriangle becomes '''Hate Triangle'''.
224%%if anyone has the proper trope page for the sold to a boyband one and the gang leader kidnapping one please add those
225* On this very Wiki:
226** AmericanKirbyIsHardcore and {{Bowdlerise}}
227** DistressedDude inverts DamselInDistress, especially in cases where the man in distress is otherwise shown to be able to defend himself.
228** {{Xenafication}} and {{Chickification}}
229** CharlesAtlasSuperpower and BoxingLessonsForSuperman
230** InvincibleHero and FailureHero
231** InvincibleVillain and IneffectualSympatheticVillain
232** CharacterDerailment and CharacterRerailment
233** MundaneObjectAmazement and WorthlessYellowRocks
234** HypeAversion and BileFascination
235** AcclaimedFlop and CriticProof
236** EnsembleDarkhorse and TheScrappy
237** SugarBowl and CrapsackWorld
238** CerebusSyndrome and ReverseCerebusSyndrome
239** DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter
240** TomHanksSyndrome and LeslieNielsenSyndrome
241** DeadUnicornTrope and UnbuiltTrope
242** DownplayedTrope and ExaggeratedTrope
243** AnimationAgeGhetto and AnimatedShockComedy
244** GenreKiller and GenreRelaunch
245** InvokedTrope and DefiedTrope
246** {{Deconstruction}} and {{Reconstruction}}
247** SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome and DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible
248** BadassDecay and TookALevelInBadass
249** TheOneGuy and TheSmurfettePrinciple
250** MarySue and AntiSue (FlameBait)
251** ShutUpKirk and ShutUpHannibal
252** ComingOutStory and ComingStraightStory
253** NoGuyWantsAnAmazon and AmazonChaser
254** AdvancingBossOfDoom and GetBackHereBoss
255** TheFilmOfTheBook and {{Novelization}}
256** TookALevelInKindness and TookALevelInJerkass
257** SurroundedByIdiots and SurroundedBySmartPeople
258** OppositesAttract and BirdsOfAFeather
259** TokenMinority and TokenWhite
260** EverybodyLives and EverybodyDiesEnding
261** SaveTheVillain and VillainousRescue
262** OhCrap and HellYesMoment
263** SillyLoveSongs and AntiLoveSong
264** ChristmasSongs and AntiChristmasSong
265** ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and BreadEggsMilkSquick
266** SiblingsWanted and IWantGrandkids
267** AliensNeverInventedTheWheel and InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien
268** DroppedABridgeOnHim and DyingMomentOfAwesome
269** CruelMercy and CruelToBeKind
270** MacGuffin and ClingyMacguffin
271** ChuckCunninghamSyndrome and RememberTheNewGuy
272** SpinoffBabies and TimeSkip
273** PurpleProse and BeigeProse
274** TooDumbToLive and IdiotHoudini
275** OneSteveLimit and PlanetOfSteves
276** BitchInSheepsClothing and HiddenHeartOfGold
277** AdaptationalWimp and AdaptationalBadass
278** DeusExMachina and DiabolusExMachina
279** DracoInLeatherPants and RonTheDeathEater
280** CondemnedByHistory and VindicatedByHistory
281** AmericansHateTingle and GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff
282** AntiHero and IdealHero
283** TheyChangedItNowItSucks and ItsTheSameNowItSucks
284** ItsEasySoItSucks and ItsHardSoItSucks
285** GeniusDitz and DitzyGenius
286** BadassBookworm and GeniusBruiser
287** FragileSpeedster and MightyGlacier
288** StoneWall and GlassCannon
289** ViewersAreGeniuses and ViewersAreMorons
290** {{Jossed}} and ShrugOfGod
291** InstantExpert and HowDoIShotWeb
292** TheEeyore and ThePollyanna
293** EndingFatigue and ItsShortSoItSucks
294** LetsMeetTheMeat and YouWontLikeHowITaste
295** WhoWouldBeStupidEnough and NobodysThatDumb
296** GentleGiant and TheNapoleon
297** HePannedItNowHeSucks and ReviewsAreTheGospel
298** GrowingTheBeard and JumpingTheShark
299** BloodlessCarnage and HighPressureBlood
300** GoshDangItToHeck and ClusterFBomb
301** HumbleHero and GlorySeeker
302** DoNotTauntCthulhu and DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu
303** NiceJobBreakingItHero and NiceJobFixingItVillain
304** GenreBlindness and GenreSavvy
305** {{Fanservice}} and FanDisservice
306** CultClassic and QualityByPopularVote
307** BigBad and BigGood
308** HarmlessVillain and KnightOfCerebus
309** BloodKnight and ReluctantWarrior
310** UnintentionallySympathetic and UnintentionallyUnsympathetic
311** CopKiller and KillerCop
312** DickDastardlyStopsToCheat and DudleyDoRightStopsToHelp
313** BigNo and BigYes
314** FormerlyFit and FormerlyFat
315** FatAndProud and WeightWoe
316** HollywoodPudgy and HollywoodThin
317** DesignatedHero and DesignatedVillain
318** BetterAsFriends and JustFriends
319** JumpingOnPoint and SeriesFauxnale
320** PullARabbitOutOfMyHat and RabbitMagician
321** TheGrinch and TheAntiGrinch
322** ChildrenAreInnocent and KidsAreCruel
323** BlessedWithSuck and CursedWithAwesome
324** MageBornOfMuggles and MuggleBornOfMages
325** HugeGuyTinyGirl and TinyGuyHugeGirl
326** UglyGuyHotWife and HotGuyUglyWife
327** CastIncest and IncestuousCasting
328** CriticalStatusBuff and FullHealthBonus
329** CampStraight and StraightGay
330** BullyingTheDisabled and DisabilityAsAnExcuseForJerkassery
331** FakeRelationship and SecretRelationship
332** DealWithTheDevil and BargainWithHeaven
333** PlayingSick and FeigningHealthiness
334** TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong and TheDissenterIsAlwaysRight
335** EverybodyLovesZeus and EverybodyHatesHades
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339* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' inverted BetaBitch. The most popular girl at Lucky Junior High, Courtney, is quite nice. It's her NumberTwo, Miranda, who's the mean one, particularly because Miranda is jealous of Courtney's friendship with Ginger.
340* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' inverted ActorAllusion. Ozai, who's voiced by Creator/MarkHamill, is both the ArchnemesisDad of one of the heroes who maims his son and an EvilOverlord who can shoot lightning from his fingertips. That's right, [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]] is voicing a [[CompositeCharacter composite]] of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine.
341* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' inverted KafkaKomedy. The title character thinks that everything that happens to him is the fault of some obscure thing, when in reality he's just a {{Jerkass}} ([[WeirdnessMagnet most of the time]]). Oddly enough, 90% of the time, he's right. The first episode alone has him chasing down a real live werewolf, after roughly half the episode his friend [[OnlySaneMan understandably]] tries to convince him that a werewolf [[ItMakesSenseInContext didn't scratch his car]].
342* ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'' inverts the SecretKeeper trope with Nereus. He often keeps many details about certain things secret from the Nekton family, which often causes them to distrust him.
343* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' inverted AdaptationalComicRelief. Peter Parker in this series is one of the least jokey incarnations of Spider-Man, though he's still pretty quippy and snarky (it ''is'' Spider-Man, after all).
344* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' played straight the HideYourLesbians trope throughout the series, giving only the tiniest of hints that Maggie Sawyer was gay, despite her status as an out-lesbian in the comics since 1988. However, the series not only subverted, but ''inverted'' the BuryYourGays trope when it came to Maggie. The opening scene of ''Apokolips...Now!'' contained a perfect set up for [[BuryYourGays her death]], she is blown out of her car during an attack by Intergang and the next shot has her badly burned and motionless beneath a crushing pile of rubble, ''without'' [[EyeAwaken moving her eyes]] or [[FingerTwitchingRevival her fingers]], but she ultimately survives the encounter. That is a straight subversion of the BuryYourGays trope. However, the show then went on to invert the trope as well, as the same scene that revealed that Maggie had survived (Subverting the trope) was also the first scene to hint at her sexuality, when she was visited in the hospital by a woman the DVD commentary and credits reveal to be Toby Raines, her partner from the comics. BuryYourGays is often used as a way of getting rid of homosexual characters, of obscuring their nature before it could be brought into the story, but here it is used as a way to ''reveal'' a homosexual character. Also Inverted when [[spoiler: her straight beat partner Dan Turpin is KilledOffForReal.]]
345* As is partially expected given the circumstances of his creation as a diametric opposite to a [[WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} classic Disney villain]], ([[CharacterizationMarchesOn in his current form at least]]), PJ from ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' inverts multiple tropes:
346** OverlordJr: He is completely opposite from his father in all but the shallowest sense, fearful and resentful of him, and an entirely sympathetic character... speaking of which...
347** CatsAreMean: Cats Are Harmless Victims.
348** Both FatBastard ''and'' BigFun: He's kind and friendly... while also being a withdrawn StraightMan and the series' biggest downer. If his CharacterDevelopment in the second movie is taken into account, he qualifies as an ''[[ZigZaggingTrope inversion of a subversion]]'' of the latter.
349** EvilSoundsDeep: Actually inverts ''both'' parts of it by being very kind and having a very high voice, even as an adult.
350** NoGuyWantsToBeChased: Not only does he ''need'' to be chased, but his girlfriend doesn't want to be chased by his friend.
351* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}'' inverts ObfuscatingDisability. The main character ''is'' disabled (paraplegic for [[NoodleIncident nebulous reasons]]), but is afraid that a girl he met online won't like him if she finds out, especially since she loves to dance, so he gets robotic legs in order to pretend to be able to walk. HilarityEnsues. [[spoiler:She never discovers the ruse, but dumps him anyway [[{{Irony}} for not being "laid-back" enough.]]]]
352* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' inverts BondingOverMissingParents. The thing that bonded Spear (a caveman) and Fang (a tyrannosaur) was that they both lost their families. One day while hunting for food for his family, Spear hears screaming and runs to see his wife and children being eaten alive by a pack of Horned Tyrannosaurs. Then after some time has past, he sees the same Horned Tyrannosaurs attacking Fang and her babies. Spear steps in and teams up with Fang to fight them. When it appears that they have slain all the Horned Tyrannosaurs, Fang's babies come and gently play with Spear's hair. Then the Horned Tyrannosaurus alpha appears and before Spear or Fang can do anything, it eat Fang's babies alive, to their shock and horror. Spear and Fang fight together and kill the alpha. Nether of them are satisfied, having both failed to protect their families. Fang just lays down while Spear sadly walks alway. Later, while walking on a beach, Spear sees Fang following him, and after a moment of consideration, Spear accepts Fang, and the two head off into the night as a new family.
353* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
354** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11KeepCalmAndFlutterOn "Keep Calm and Flutter On"]] inverts DefeatEqualsFriendship with [[MadGod Discord]] and Fluttershy. Discord, who seconds before had been ready to go out on another [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] rampage, realizes that his new-found friendship with Fluttershy is too precious to him to risk losing, and he concedes his defeat. Thus, Friendship Equals Defeat.
355** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E21LeapOfFaith "Leap of Faith"]] inverts several tropes about honesty and truth, including CryingWolf and BrutalHonesty, so that Applejack and [[OneShotCharacter Silver Shill]] can [[DoubleAesop both learn]] that honesty is always the best policy.
356* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' inverts TigerVersusDragon. Among the 12 talismans based upon the Chinese Zodiac, the tiger talisman possesses the power of [[LiteralSplitPersonality balance]] and the dragon talisman possesses the power of [[PlayingWithFire combustion]]. The episodes in which the two talismans were found, "The Tiger And The Pussycat" and "Bullies", respectively deal with this. In "The Tiger", the last episode in the "Talismans" arc, Jackie accidentally gets split into Yin and Yang, the latter of which sides while the Dark Hand tries to forcibly take the talismans in Section 13's possession. In "Bullies", after Captain Black is injured by Valmont wielding the dragon talisman, Jackie struggles to control his anger whenever someone mentions Black's injuries and/or Valmont.
357* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' inverts UnbalancedByRivalsKid. [[BigBad Vlad]] actually ''likes'' Danny, in a twisted, FauxAffablyEvil way. His big dream is basically to steal Maddie back from Jack and make Danny (and Jazz, to a lesser extent) his own adopted children, something which ''they'' understandably find unsettling.
358* ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'' inverts WifeHusbandry in the episode "Callie's Sister". The titular character, Lilith Maggotbone, is given in arranged marriage to Dwayne Boneraper when she becomes of age and in the meanwhile, Mark Lily is more than happy to raise her as his daughter (made easier because she ages one year per day). However, during the wedding ceremony, she reveals she wants to marry her adopted father, so first she tries to kill both Callie and Dwayne.
359* Francine of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' is an inversion of the typical 'Chinese baby raised by white people' scenario - she's a white woman who was raised by Chinese people.
360* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' inverts ManicPixieDreamGirl. While Star does seem to make Marco's life more interesting, the show is more about her growing as a character by toning down her chaotic overenthusiasm by being with the safety-minded, level-headed Marco.
361* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' inverts BlueIsHeroic. After Cassandra becomes corrupted by the Moonstone Opal, her attire become an indestructible set of black and dark blue armor.
362* ''{{WesternAnimation/Villainous|CartoonNetwork}}'' inverts HateSink. There is literally nothing remotely good in Black Hat, as far as we've seen. He's nailed down kicking dogs and generally being unpleasant to an art form. However, how he carries himself due to how powerful and impressive he is, along with being a VillainProtagonist, means the audience can't help but like how inexplicably awesome he is.
363* The 2003 ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'' cartoon "WesternAnimation/TheWhizzardOfOw" inverts ''BinomiumRidiculus''. Unlike other cartoons in the series which give the protagonists fake scientific names in faux Latin, this one uses the ''actual'' scientific names:
364-->''ROAD RUNNER (Geococcyx californianus)''
365-->''COYOTE (Canis latrans)''
366* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': The episode [[Recap/WinxClubS1E5DateWithDisaster "Date with Disaster"]] inverts ConfoundThemWithKindness. After kidnapping Stella, Darcy disguises herself as her. She then infiltrates Alfea (the fairy school Stella attends) and looks for Solaria's ring scepter. When she doesn't find it, Darcy angrily and forcefully demands it from Stella's friends. Although puzzled over their friend's previous behavior, this is what ticks them off something's not quite right.
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370* The real-life phenomenon of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaking streaking]] was beautifully inverted in June 2009 when a [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/14/naked-rugby-new-zealand fully-clothed person]] ran across the field at an annual naked rugby game in New Zealand.
371* While Creator/CartoonNetwork US is trying to bury the existence of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'', their European feeds once seemed to believe it's the only' version ever made of the Powerpuff Girls![[note]]Not true anymore as of September 2023.[[/note]]
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