1 | '''Basic Trope''': A group of characters try to prevent another character from obtaining an artifact by tossing it from one to another. |
2 | * '''Straight''': AliceAndBob toss a DoomsdayDevice to each other away from Emperor Evulz. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Every hero tries to keep the doomsday device from Emperor Evulz. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice holds up the doomsday device high over her head where [[TheNapoleon Emperor Evulz]] can't reach. |
5 | * '''Justified''': The heroes know that it will be bad if Emperor Evulz gets a hold of the doomsday device, and thus decide to work together to keep it away from him. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': HotPotato |
7 | * '''Subverted''': Bob and Alice start to play keep away from Emperor Evulz, but hand it to him [[MacGuffinDeliveryService after being threatened]]. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
9 | ** But the doomsday device they handed him was a fake. |
10 | ** They returned it after removing the batteries. |
11 | * '''Parodied''': The heroes and villains act like school children at a playground. |
12 | * '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob and Alice play keep away for a while, then let Emperor Evulz have the doomsday device, but they've reprogrammed it to blow up only a very specific spot -- and since Evulz is holding it, goodbye to the BigBad. |
13 | * '''Averted''': Alice and Bob just run away from Emperor Evulz with the doomsday device as quickly as they can. |
14 | * '''Enforced''': ??? |
15 | * '''Lampshaded''': ??? |
16 | * '''Invoked''': ??? |
17 | * '''Exploited''': ??? |
18 | * '''Defied''': ??? |
19 | * '''Discussed''': ??? |
20 | * '''Conversed''': ??? |
21 | ---- |
22 | Back to KeepAway |
23 | ---- |
24 | %%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
25 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
26 | %%* '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
27 | %%* '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
28 | %%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ??? |
29 | %%* '''Played for Laughs''': ??? |
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