Line #27 PlayingWith/KeepAway

Context PlayingWith / KeepAway

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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''': ???
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24	%%Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
25	%%* '''Implied''': ???
26	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
27	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
28	%%* '''Plotted a Good Waste''': ???
29	%%* '''Played for Laughs''': ???

Context PlayingWith / KeepAway