1 | '''Basic Trope''': An alien gets high on a mundane substance. |
2 | * '''Straight''': [[BizarreAlienBiology Alice]] gets [[IntoxicationEnsues high]] on vinegar. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice gets high on water and oxygen. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice gets pleasurable sensations from vinegar, but not to the point of intoxication. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Alice has BizarreAlienBiology. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': |
7 | ** Alice takes marijuana and complains that she can't get high while humans can. |
8 | ** Drinking olive oil sobers Alice up. |
9 | ** [[HumansThroughAlienEyes Bob]] eats something that is [[WeirdWorldWeirdFood a delicacy on Alice's planet]] and proceeds to get high. |
10 | ** A mundane substance that is the alien equivalent of table sugar gets humans high. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': Alice is given vinegar for this reason, but it doesn't work. |
12 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...because Alice has some weird recessive gene, and it ''would'' work like that on anyone else of her species. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': Alice gets high on fine wine and lobster, but doesn't think to mention it until she happens to attend a banquet. |
14 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice drinks vinegar and gets high, but it is revealed this was just an act. Later she eats cinnamon and gets high, but only because she has a special condition that makes this effect only in her, not the rest of her species. Another alien mentions that Jello is what ''really'' gets to them. |
15 | * '''Averted''': Alice gets high only on human drugs and nothing else. |
16 | * '''Enforced''': The main characters need a clue that Alice is not as human as she seems to be. |
17 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
18 | ** "Alice is acting really weird after drinking that vinegar; what is she, an alien?" |
19 | ** "You know you're not supposed to drink that, right?" "...But it makes me feel all sparkly inside..." |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Evil humans serve food with vinegar in it at a banquet, knowing that Alice will be intoxicated and no one else will. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': Bob keeps a small bottle of olive oil on his person whenever Alice is nearby, just in case. |
22 | * '''Defied''': Alice consciously sticks to food and drink from her own planet, knowing the possible side-effects human food may have on her. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "Hey, guys, do you have any vinegar around here?" "No...not since Alice moved in." |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "Hey, look, the [[RubberForeheadAlien strangely-human alien]] is looking at the vinegar, I bet [[HilarityEnsues hijinks]] are about to ensue!" |
25 | * '''Implied''': Alice is acting like she is drunk, and there's an empty vinegar bottle on the table. |
26 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice gets high on vinegar, and it's presented in the same way as an actual drug addiction would be, complete with disheveled appearance and damage to her brain. |
27 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice realizes she has a problem, attends a clinic and then from then on is able to use vinegar in moderation with the addictive side-effects. |
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33 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Untwisted''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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