Line #2 PlayingWith/KeepAway

Context PlayingWith / KeepAway

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1	'''Basic Trope''': A group of characters try to prevent another character from obtaining an artifact by tossing it from one to another.
2	* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob toss a DoomsdayDevice to each other away from Emperor Evulz.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Every hero tries to keep the doomsday device from Emperor Evulz.
4	* '''Downplayed''': Alice holds up the doomsday device high over her head where [[TheNapoleon Emperor Evulz]] can't reach.
5	* '''Justified''': Well... It's a DoomsdayDevice! They pretty much ''need'' to pass it back and forth to ensure Evulz won't get ahold of it and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
6	* '''Inverted''': HotPotato
7	* '''Subverted''': Bob and Alice start to play keep away from Emperor Evulz, but hand it to him [[MacGuffinDeliveryService after being threatened]].
8	* '''Double Subverted''':
9	** But the doomsday device they handed him was a fake.
10	** They returned it after removing the batteries.
11	* '''Parodied''': The heroes and villains act like schoolchildren at a playground.
12	* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob and Alice play keep away for a while, then let Emperor Evulz have the doomsday device, but they've reprogrammed it to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blow up only a very specific spot]] -- and since Evulz is holding it, goodbye to the BigBad.
13	* '''Averted''':
14	** Alice and Bob just run away from Emperor Evulz with the doomsday device as quickly as they can.
15	** Alice and Bob don't have a doomsday device.
16	* '''Enforced''': ???
17	* '''Lampshaded''': ???
18	* '''Invoked''':
19	-->'''Bob''': I can't outrun him.\
20	'''Alice''': Neither can I.\
21	'''Both''': But he can't outrun the joint power of our arms!
22	* '''Exploited''': ???
23	* '''Defied''':
24	** Alice and Bob destroy the doomsday device as soon as they receive it so Evulz can't use it.
25	** Evulz is much larger, faster, or more agile than Alice or Bob, so their tossing it to each other to keep it away from him doesn't work.
26	* '''Discussed''': ???
27	* '''Conversed''': ???
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29	Back to KeepAway
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31	%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
32	%%* '''Implied''': ???
33	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
34	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
35	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
36	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / KeepAway