1 | '''Basic Trope''': A previously comical moment is {{retcon}}ned/[[CrapsaccharineWorld revealed]] 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''': |
17 | ** "All right, gang, we need to make this show more serious. What gags have we done that are actually quite deadly?" |
18 | ** The writers want to shame the audience for believing that slapstick has no consequences. |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "Who'd have thought bananas would be so dangerous?" |
20 | * '''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. |
21 | * '''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. |
22 | * '''Defied''': "If I slip on that banana, I'll get badly hurt! I'll just step over it then." |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "I don't care what Cerebus would do. Me slipping on a banana is ''not'' deadly." |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "In shows where everything starts getting serious, nothing's allowed to be a joke anymore." |
25 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
26 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
28 | %%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ??? |
29 | %%* '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
30 | %%* '''Played for Drama''': ??? |
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