Line #8 PlayingWith/IWillWaitForYou


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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