1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character underestimates or is unaware of a badass' strength. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice is short and [[MusclesAreMeaningless not very muscular]], [[MuggingTheMonster but when Bob attempts to rob her]] (assuming she's weak), she easily defeats him. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** KillerRabbit |
5 | ** [[TokenMiniMoe Alice]] could [[Website/ChuckNorrisFacts strangle you with a cordless phone]]. [[MuggingTheMonster Too bad for Bob...]] |
6 | * '''Downplayed''': When Bob attempts to rob Alice (assuming she's weaker), she easily defeats him with karate. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** MusclesAreMeaningless when you [[WeakButSkilled have skills]]. |
9 | ** Alice is an undercover agent running a sting. Not only is she trained in [[SheFu martial arts]] she has six big mean cops with billy clubs waiting in the shadows behind her for would-be assailants. |
10 | ** Alice is a superhero. Probably not a very powerful or blatant one, but Bob is a plain-jane Muggle that doesn't understand you don't survive long in that kind of game without becoming ''[[HadToBeSharp mean]]''. |
11 | * '''Inverted''': |
12 | ** Alice is TheDreaded. |
13 | ** Bob did not dare to attack a FakeUltimateMook as he assumed that he is strong. |
14 | * '''Subverted''': Alice was only boasting about her strength. When Bob attempts to rob her, he succeeded. |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': He seemed to succeed, but Alice turned the tables around and defeated Bob in the end. |
16 | * '''Parodied''': An AcademyOfEvil teaches newbie criminals about picking their targets based on their danger level, ranking [[TokenMiniMoe a sweet]] [[SuperStrongChild little child]] as more powerful than an EldritchAbomination. |
17 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is more dangerous than she looks and has wiped the floor with Bob and his friends a few times because they keep forgetting it, but Bob has also managed to get the drop on her and exploit his natural advantages as a StrongButUnskilled fighter a few times, which Alice also keeps forgetting whenever she gloats on the inside about being the better warrior. |
18 | * '''Averted''': |
19 | ** Alice isn't badass at all, and just as weak as she appears. |
20 | ** Bob refuses to underestimate anyone, regardless of how weak they may appear, including (or especially) Alice. |
21 | * '''Enforced''': Alice is the protagonist and an ActionGirl. The writer doesn't wants to show her as weak in any way except by some guy's (about-to-be-eaten) word. |
22 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
23 | -->'''Bob''': Alice looked so weak...but how can she beat me? |
24 | * '''Invoked''': |
25 | ** Alice started learning karate, knowing even seemingly weak people have a chance to win a fight, doubly so if they have the element of surprise. |
26 | ** One of Alice's allies deliberately downplayed her abilities so that she could exploit the element of surprise. |
27 | * '''Exploited''': Alice robbed Bob back for extra pocket money. |
28 | * '''Defied''': |
29 | ** Alice got a muscular boyfriend to protect her instead. |
30 | ** Bob ''over''estimates Alice's badassery, and brings along all kinds of overkill just in case. |
31 | * '''Discussed''': (after Alice beats a low-class, unskilled thug) "He thought I was some easy mark ripe for a mugging. Well, what he didn't know was that I had proper, extensive training in the department of martial arts." |
32 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
33 | * '''Implied''': Alice isn't shown to be badass on-screen, but Bob thought twice before going to the next victim. |
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35 | Back to UnderestimatingBadassery. |
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37 | |
38 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
39 | %% |
40 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
41 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
42 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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