1 | '''Basic Trope''': A character is turned into stone. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice, a BlackMagicianGirl, casts a spell on Bob Coolson and he turns into stone. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Alice casts a spell and everyone on the planet except her turns into stone. |
5 | ** Alice turns a water elemental into a stone elemental with her spell. ''[[SympatheticMagic All]]'' [[SympatheticMagic water in the world becomes stone.]] Including the water in human bodies. |
6 | ** [[BodyToJewel Alice turns Bob into diamond.]] |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': |
8 | ** Alice's magic causes paralysis in her victims. They become as immobile as a statue, but are still flesh and blood (although they might even be as resistant as stone in this form, as opposed to non-magical paralysis). |
9 | ** BasiliskAndCockatrice in this word breathe a strange gas that acts like quick-drying concrete on contact with skin: the victim doesn't turn to stone, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath but is engulfed in a stone-like cocoon, quickly suffocating.]] The basilisk then carries its quarry back to its lair, cracks open the 'stone' and eats the victim at its leisure. |
10 | * '''Justified''': |
11 | ** Alice dislikes Bob, who cannot bother her if he is a statue. |
12 | ** Alice is [[{{Medusa}} some kind of mythical monster]] whose gimmick is turning people to stone. |
13 | ** Bob just [[WhyWontYouDie won't stay down]] after being burnt, sliced, electrocuted etc, so Alice turns him into immobile stone to finally stop him from fighting. |
14 | * '''Inverted''': |
15 | ** Alice turns herself to stone in order to protect herself from Bob. |
16 | ** David Atlas [=McMichaelangelo=] is actually a stone statue that can take on a human form. |
17 | ** Alice can turn stones into people. |
18 | ** Alice turns a LivingStatue into living flesh and tissue. |
19 | * '''Subverted''': |
20 | ** Bob knew about Alice's magic, and has made himself immune to petrification. |
21 | ** Alice's spell fails to work because Bob is an elemental. |
22 | ** Bob is turned to stone, [[RockMonster but thanks to a misscast he's still mobile.]] |
23 | ** Bob is still able to move. |
24 | * '''Double Subverted''': Bob's clothes are still affected, effectively imprisoning him. |
25 | * '''Parodied''': |
26 | ** Alice's spell only takes partial effect; Bob is unharmed but his mineral deficiencies have been corrected. |
27 | ** Birds poop on Bob. |
28 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice changes Bob back to normal just long enough for him to answer a quick question, after which she thanks and re-petrifies him. |
29 | * '''Averted''': Alice kills Bob [[PlayingWithFire with]] [[AnIcePerson another]] [[ShockAndAwe method]]. |
30 | * '''Enforced''': Alice and Bob are in a series that is, naturally, [[MerchandiseDriven Merchandise Driven]]. The toy manufacturers realize it's a lot easier to [[DeadGuyOnDisplay emboss Bob on a plastic rectangle]] than to mold him into something more three-dimensional. |
31 | * '''Lampshaded''': Bob is frozen in place with a curiously [[{{Pun}} stony-faced]] expression. |
32 | * '''Invoked''': Alice studies the spell because she is vain and likes to have her conquests on display. |
33 | * '''Exploited''': |
34 | ** Bob lets himself be turned to stone, so that another spell [[TheLancer Drake]] cast on him would make Bob [[ElementalShapeshifter a mobile statue and that much stronger]]. |
35 | ** Bob gets Alice to petrify him so he can be snuck in somewhere as part of a TrojanHorse gambit. |
36 | ** Alice turns Bob to stone in order to save him as he has suffered a mortal wound or curse. This way she can buy time for a potential fix. |
37 | * '''Defied''': Alice passes over learning a petrification spell for one that kills people with other methods. |
38 | * '''Discussed''': "So she beats people and... turns them into lawn decorations?" |
39 | * '''Conversed''': "These fantasy books are too clichéd with transformations. They only turn living beings into stone." |
40 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice comes to realize that petrifying others is a terrible way to solve a verbal conflict and the guilt of Bob's permanent fate catches up with her. |
41 | * '''Reconstructed''': Alice overcomes this temporary bout of indecisiveness. She becomes a world-renowned sculptor and her [[WaxMuseumMorgue immaculate works]] are on display in world-class gardens and museums the world over. |
42 | * '''Played For Laughs''': |
43 | ** Other than being a mage, Alice is a painter. When she has to make a painting for someone, she petrifies the subject to make him or her stand still for the best result. She's a world-class thanks to this technique. (Of course she de-petrifies them later, otherwise she will be known as a world-class sculptor and a fugitive.) |
44 | ** Alice uses her statues as towel racks, hat racks, to tie up clotheslines, for her hammock... |
45 | ** Alice ''sleeps'' by petrifying herself. |
46 | ** Alice starts to petrify only to sneeze mid process, freezing her in an awkward pose that when OnceDoneNeverForgotten after she is freed. |
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50 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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52 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
53 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
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