1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character has two mentors who're trying to bring him over to their point of view. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice and Bob are both masters of [[FooFu Trope-Fu]], however Alice is a lumper, while Bob is a splitter. They both try to convince Claire to be their student and adopt their chosen approach. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': An ancient curse means that Alice and Bob are complete opposites of one another. Whenever one says something to Claire, the other will appear via a ContrivedCoincidence to disagree. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob both mentor Claire together, giving her their differing opinions, but letting her choose her own path. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Alice and Bob are rivals and Claire is a promising student. She's really just another objective for them to quarrel over. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': Claire's two students, Alice and Bob, can't agree on what [[TricksterMentor her teachings are]]. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': Claire can't stand Alice and Bob's bickering and goes with her own philosophy. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': Dan shows up and it becomes a mentorship MeleeATrois as Alice, Bob and Claire try to make him their student. |
9 | * '''Parodied''': Alice and Bob both argue and fight with each other to try and give Claire her lesson for the day. |
10 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Bob sometimes agree to teach Claire and other times one of them can't teach her anything without the other butting in DependingOnTheWriter. |
11 | * '''Averted''': Claire chooses either Alice or Bob as a mentor and the one she doesn't choose respects the decision and looks elsewhere for a student. |
12 | * '''Enforced''': Since the villain isn't introduced, Alice and Bob are written in instead of a single mentor in order to create a conflict and give Claire a chance for some CharacterDevelopment. |
13 | * '''Lampshaded''': "So...are either of you going to teach me anything or are you just going to argue?" |
14 | * '''Invoked''': [[BigGood Dave]] picks both Alice and Bob to teach Claire to ensure that she is given a balanced look at Trope-fu. |
15 | * '''Exploited''': Claire plays on Alice and Bob's rivalry in order to get them to mentor her in order to one up each other. |
16 | * '''Defied''': Claire decides to learn something else to avoid being caught up in Alice and Bob's rivalry. |
17 | * '''Discussed''': "This is Alice and this is Bob. They're my [[FooFu Trope-Fu]] sensei when they aren't arguing." |
18 | * '''Conversed''': "Oh, a second mentor, I bet they aren't going to see eye to eye." |
19 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob spend more time bickering than teaching Claire anything. |
20 | * '''Reconstructed''': Through their bickering Claire is able to see both sides of the argument and ends up stronger than both of them as a result. |
21 | * '''Played for Laughs''': Claire often finds herself [[RuleOfSymbolism standing between]] Alice and Bob as they argue back and forth. |
22 | * '''Played for Drama''': Alice becomes furious that Claire doesn't drop Bob as a mentor [[MentorOccupationalHazard and kills him]] with a DangerousForbiddenTechnique, which causes her to given in to TheCorruption. |
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24 | ->'''Bob''': I suppose you could go back to OpposedMentors if you want, but why not use [[OpposedMentors this much cooler]] PotHole instead of that lame Administrivia/WikiWord?\ |
25 | '''Alice''': Use Administrivia/{{WikiWord}}s; PotHoles aren't a good choice for this sort of link.\ |
26 | '''Bob''': Says you. PotHoles avoid breaking the sentence!\ |
27 | '''Alice''': Yeah says me, cretin.\ |
28 | '''Bob''': You take that back!\ |
29 | '''Alice''': Make me, Pot [[CurseCutShort Wh-]]\ |
30 | '''ADMIN''': ''[[TakeAThirdOption Please be cool when you edit. Rudeness is not cool.]]'' |
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32 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
33 | %% |
34 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
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