1 | '''Basic Trope''': Breaking a lull in the plot with a spontaneously chaotic event. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are at a fancy but uneventful party when [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous Chandler]] breaks down the door, brandishing a gun. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Chandler showing up wielding a gun is a OncePerEpisode occurrence, determined to stop even the slightest quiet time in the plot. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': The fancy party is interrupted by Daniel suddenly proposing to Alice, who was more interested in Bob than him, causing more down-to-earth drama. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Chandler understands the value of the element of surprise. |
6 | * '''Subverted''': Chandler busts down the party door with a gun, saying "THIS IS A STICKUP! I'M GOING TO STEAL ALL OF THAT DELICIOUS CAKE!" and everybody laughs it off. |
7 | * '''Double Subverted''': ...And then Eliza storms in, starting a real stickup. |
8 | * '''Parodied''': Chandler, Eliza, Frederick, Gracie, Harold, and Irene all bust into a room from a different angle, guns a-blazing, each trying to individually hold up the place. |
9 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': ? |
10 | * '''Averted''': There are no surprise bursts of drama in the plot. |
11 | * '''Enforced''': "People will get bored if there's nothing exciting happening!" |
12 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Wow, Chandler, how original. Bursting through the door like it's a movie." |
13 | * '''Invoked''': Chandler is an AttentionWhore and wants to be make a name for himself in the criminal underworld by having a dramatic heist. |
14 | * '''Exploited''': ? |
15 | * '''Defied''': A GenreSavvy character tries to prevent a trope from happening. |
16 | * '''Discussed''': "You know, I heard that in improv comedy circles, they really don't like it when you pretend to bust down the door with a gun..." |
17 | * '''Conversed''': "I love the novels of Creator/RaymondChandler, but he does tend to overuse the trope of people randomly pulling out guns for drama..." |
18 | * '''Implied''': ? |
19 | * '''Deconstructed''': This is Chandler's MO and he's so infamous for it that he gets captured by party goers expecting something dramatic to happen during a quiet moment. |
20 | * '''Reconstructed''': ? |
21 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Chandler breaks down the door wielding a banana like a gun. |
22 | * '''Played for Drama''': Chandler's gunplay at the once-pleasant party turns into a bloodbath. |
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