Line #23 PlayingWith/TheWonka


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character at the top of the business and successful because of their own weird form of logic.
2	* '''Straight''': Alice has odd behavior and dresses eccentrically, thus confusing those new to her. She's run her business for three decades because her unique way of thinking enables her to come up with ideas others don't have.
3	* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is likened to a mad artist that defies social expectations all the time. [[{{Fiction 500}} She's also the head of one of the biggest companies that exists]] and [[SelfMadeMan made it with her own hands.]]
4	* '''Downplayed''':
5	** Alice is slightly eccentric but can otherwise fit in easily. She is a trader working by herself and regularly finds herself able to think up different ideas that don't make sense until those around her stop to think about them.
6	** Alice isn't at the top of the company, but she is a high-powered executive who is very respected despite her eccentricity.
7	* '''Justified''': Alice's odd form of logic is what lets her see what others don't - ideas you can't think of until you think along her lines.
8	* '''Inverted''':
9	** OnlySaneMan, where one character is sane and everybody else is mad, making them successful at that moment in time.
10	** TheCaligula, whose insanity makes them a danger to others while they are at the top.
11	* '''Subverted''':
12	** Alice has a few bad ideas... which bring down the company, in the process.
13	** Alice isn't really the boss of the company... the executives regard her as an office pet, keeping her around for what amusement she may provide.
14	** Alice's "madness" is actually knowing counterintuitive truths and arrived at very logically. Shrinking the shovel sizes and shortening shifts while expanding the work targets sounds insane but it turns out that she did the math on efficiency and found that the smaller shovel load is made up for by the increased number and better rested workers perform better.
15	* '''Double Subverted''':
16	** ... But Alice has other ideas which allow her to rise again.
17	** They're lying. She actually IS the boss and claiming she's an office pet is to see how others will react to her at first and also to judge newcomers.
18	* '''Parodied''': Alice is a floating, purple cloud which spouts brilliant ideas and logic as if she were a business oracle. Her caretakers charge to let others see her, as she gives them ideas.
19	* '''Zig Zagged''':
20	** Alice's ideas are so numerous and varied that the company keeps quickly rising and falling.
21	** Alice is a PointyHairedBoss but the previous management had such toxic mentalities that she improved things largely by accident since her incompetence isn't nearly as bad as the horrible 'conventional wisdom'.
22	* '''Averted''': The company was founded and is currently managed by someone sane.
23	* '''Enforced''':
24	** The story has a executive in it, and the writers add in eccentric behavior to spice her up to avoid having her being boring.
25	** The writers are worried their comic relief characters will become annoying, so they make sure their weird eccentric is useful and competent.
26	* '''Lampshaded''': "Am I the only one who finds it strange that having a crazy person in charge of the company is useful?"
27	* '''Invoked''': Alice decides to try ignoring all conventions unless they are actually proven useful in some way. Her outside the box thinking repeatedly pays off.
28	* '''Exploited''': Someone infiltrates the companies just by dressing up ridiculously (like Alice), since people just ignore anyone out of place. They assume it must have something to do with Alice's eccentricity.
29	* '''Defied''': Alice decides she has to be mature and think straight instead of mucking around like she used to.
30	* '''Discussed''': ???
31	* '''Conversed''': ???
32	* '''Implied''':
33	** Alice the executive is not given much characterization, but her dress sense is very strange.
34	** Alice the CloudCuckoolander mysteriously has many admirers and lots of money.
35	* '''Deconstructed''': Beneath her superficial charm, Alice is in fact a CorruptCorporateExecutive who harms her workers and customers by spending money and resources on her eccentric obsessions.
36	* '''Reconstructed''': Alice operates her company according to a consistent code of BlueAndOrangeMorality, and once her workers decipher it, they enjoy working under her.
37	* '''Played For Drama''': Alice was an outcast when she was younger and she made her money so she could be considered "eccentric" instead of "weird." For the most part, it worked, but she still has lingering trauma from the bullying.
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