1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character waits for a very, very long time for their beloved to return. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob goes off to war and is killed; Alice never gets the news and waits at home for years and years for him to return. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Bob goes off to war and gets killed; Alice is cryogentically frozen so that she can literally wait forever. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': For the duration of the war, Alice holds out hope that Bob might return, but eventually accepts that he is not coming back, and moves on. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice was truly and deeply in love with Bob and feels like life isn't even worth living without him. |
7 | ** Alternatively: Alice was [[RedStringOfFate prophesied to live with Bob]]. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder |
9 | * '''Subverted''': Alice says she will wait forever, but after a few years finally gives up and begins a new relationship with a man. |
10 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
11 | ** Alice's relationship with the second man fails because she's still in love with Bob, and no-one else can make her happy. |
12 | ** The second man is actually Bob, finally back from the war, but drastically changed. |
13 | * '''Parodied''': |
14 | ** Alice's story sparks a reality TV show where viewers tune in to watch Alice wait for her love, hoping to see the ultimate reunion. |
15 | ** Bob goes out to the shops and Alice stands on the balcony gazing wistfully after him until he gets back a couple of hours later. |
16 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice waits for decades for Bob to come home, but he actually does. However, the next day, Alice is shipped off to war as a nurse, so Bob ends up having to wait around... when she gets back, it's revealed she had left because she'd finally gotten over him, and while overseas she met someone else. |
17 | * '''Averted''': Bob is never killed and comes home right after his time in the war is over. |
18 | * '''Enforced''': The writer lost a loved one in a war who they are still waiting for. |
19 | * '''Lampshaded''': "What are you going to do, Alice, wait around forever?" |
20 | * '''Invoked''': Alice and Bob promise each other to wait for the other one forever. |
21 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
22 | * '''Defied''': After a year or so of not hearing from Bob, Alice gets sick of waiting and goes off to look for him. |
23 | * '''Discussed''': "You see Alice? She's been waiting for her lost husband for 25 years now..." |
24 | * '''Conversed''': "If I went off to war and went MIA, how long would you wait?" |
25 | * '''Deconstructed''': The years of waiting with no other contact have taken a toll on Alice's psyche, so by the time Bob does get home, Alice is clinically depressed. Having pinned all her hopes on their relationship, she's built up what has been a fairly minor fling into a Love Story for the Ages, while Bob has seen her as little more than a glorified penpal - the discrepancy causes a lot of tension, with Bob feeling obliged to stay with a woman he doesn't really love because of the sacrifice she made. |
26 | * '''Reconstructed''': She may have blown the relationship out of proportion in her mind, but Bob is of a similarly romantic nature and is all the more in love with her for the fact that she waited. |
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32 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
33 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
34 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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