Line #17 PlayingWith/CerebusRetcon


1	'''Basic Trope''': A previously comical moment is {{retcon}}ned as having been very serious.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob trips up on a banana, not even necessarily a BananaPeel, for a gag. Later, it's revealed to have caused brain damage that made him comatose.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Bob trips up on a banana and falls onto a spiked ball nearby, causing him to jump up and hit his head on the fan. [[AmusingInjuries At first it's just a gag]], but later it's revealed [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Bob died from it]], and was a [[TheUndead zombie]] this whole time, living in constant pain from the wounds he received but unable to say anything about it because he was under magic control.
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Bob slips on a banana for a gag. Later, Alice chews out Mike for not having disposed of it properly.
6	** Bob trips on a banana for a gag. Later, it's revealed that he still has a scar from that incident but it's not serious.
7	* '''Justified''': [[TruthInTelevision Some supposedly wacky stunts really]] ''[[TruthInTelevision are]]'' [[TruthInTelevision dangerous.]]
8	* '''Inverted''': Bob finds out he has cancer. At first, it's played [[TheTopicOfCancer completely seriously]], but then they start playing it for BlackComedy and he recovers.
9	* '''Subverted''': It appears as though Bob was put in a coma from tripping on the banana, but then it turns out he's just faking.
10	* '''Double Subverted''': Then he trips on another banana. It's meant to be a joke, but the next episode reveals it put him in a coma for real this time.
11	* '''Parodied''': Bob trips on a banana, which is played as a gag. However, it's later revealed that it gave him... a skinned knee. Bob cries and whines about how "everybody thought it was funny but I actually sustained an injury" but no one notices, so he gives up.
12	* '''Zig Zagged''': The consequences of Bob's having tripped on a banana are depicted as funny or heartbreaking DependingOnTheWriter or the situation.
13	* '''Averted''':
14	** There are no jokes.
15	** The jokes don't turn serious.
16	* '''Enforced''': "All right, gang, we need to make this show more serious. What gags have we done that are actually quite deadly?"
17	* '''Lampshaded''': "Who'd have thought bananas would be so dangerous?"
18	* '''Invoked''': The EvilOverlord deliberately plants bananas all over the floor to make everyone think he's {{harmless\|Villain}} before [[FridgeHorror realizing]] that tripping over a banana is exceptionally deadly.
19	* '''Exploited''': The villian knows that you can be horribly injured by slipping on a banana peel, but that because it's a well known cartoon trope, no one takes the possibility seriously. He thus takes steps to put banana peels unexpectedly in Bob's path and it pays off.
20	* '''Defied''': "If I slip on that banana, I'll get badly hurt! I'll just step over it then."
21	* '''Discussed''': "I don't care what Cerebus would do. Me slipping on a banana is ''not'' deadly."
22	* '''Conversed''': "In shows where everything starts getting serious, nothing's allowed to be a joke anymore."
23	%%* '''Implied''': ???
24	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
25	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
26	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
27	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
28	%%* '''Played for Drama''': ???
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