1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character is humiliated by being treated as a spectacle. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob is displayed to the public, or characters come to see him in his cell. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Bob is crucified naked in the centre of the public square, and everyone in the kingdom has to stop by the square to see and ridicule him. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Bob is made to do a brief public "perp walk" and then removed from view. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Standard punishment in the kingdom (as, indeed, it has been in RealLife). |
7 | ** The Dark Lord has such a big ego he wants to show off his prisoners. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** Bon is displayed to the public to excite their admiration. (ErmineCapeEffect is one possibility.) |
10 | ** The ManInTheIronMask's very existence is kept secret from the public. |
11 | * '''Subverted''': |
12 | ** The people who come festoon him with flowers instead of throwing rotten fruit, and the PowerOfFriendship strengthens him. |
13 | ** Turns out [[AttentionWhore Bob]] doesn't mind that much. |
14 | * '''Double Subverted''': The supportive characters are just trying to get something from him, and drop him the instance they get it. |
15 | * '''Parodied''': The DarkLord opens a zoo of all his captives. And sells tickets. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': A character comes to smash a rotten fruit in his face. Another one intervenes and beats his attacker up. The prisoner realizes that the rotten fruit held the key to his chains. |
17 | * '''Averted''': No one looks at a prisoner. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': "We have to show him in some humiliation and discomfort because it leads to CharacterDevelopment later on, and this is a relatively humane way". |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "So you're going to parade him before the populace?" |
20 | * '''Invoked''': "Displaying him like this will make them realize how weak he is". |
21 | * '''Exploited''': A villain commits a minor crime in order to be put on display. He can then use his hypnotic powers on the crowd that gathers to taunt him. |
22 | * '''Defied''': "I don't care whether people will believe he was really my prisoner unless they see him; he's too dangerous to live!" |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "They'll put him in the stocks. King Evilbeard likes to do that the day before an execution". |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "Bet you the DarkLord will parade him before anyone to prove he caught him -- and give the BigDamnHeroes a chance to rescue him". |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
26 | ** Bob is convinced that everyone was staring at him, when it was really his paranoia. |
27 | ** Alternatively, the humiliation was just to teach him a lesson and he was meant to be released, but it was so severe it causes him to be DrivenToSuicide. The punishment then suffers such severe bad publicity it becomes useless. |
28 | * '''Reconstructed''': But given the way the king's been treating him, he really has grounds for paranoia. |
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32 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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34 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
35 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
36 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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