Line #13 PlayingWith/YouAndWhatArmy


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character challenges another with the phrase, or some variation of the phrase, "You and what army?" in which afterwards, an army then shows up.
2	* '''Straight''': Bob challenges Alice to stop editing a trope entry. Alice asks "You and what army?!" Bob points to a legion of tropers as they march over a nearby hill with TorchesAndPitchforks, and says "That army!"
3	* '''Exaggerated''': It literally is an army; tens of thousands of people with embedded support, helicopters, artillery, armor, all to stop [[DisproportionateRetribution Alice from editing TV Tropes.]]
4	* '''Downplayed''': A small group, such as the TV Tropes administration team, shows up.
5	* '''Justified''':
6	** Bob knew Alice would not be easily convinced without a superior display of force, and made sure he had an army beforehand.
7	** Bob is a general and ''literally'' has an army at his command.
8	* '''Inverted''':
9	** The person who asks this question is the one who has the army.
10	** Bob has a platoon of soldiers come with him to help him threaten Alice. But after he makes his statements, Alice asks him “You and What Army?” Confused, Bob turns around, and sees that his soldiers left him.
11	* '''Subverted''':
12	** Bob says "That army!" and points to empty space. The army doesn't show up, having run off when he wasn't looking.
13	** Bob says "That army!" and points to the troopers... who then turn on him. Alice had blackmailed them all along.
14	* '''Double Subverted''':
15	** They come back.
16	** They hadn't run off, they were just invisible.
17	** The army was stalled so they do arrive, but just a little later than Bob had planned.
18	** The army did run off... to invade Alice's house.
19	* '''Parodied''': A good number of gun barrels[=/=]blades are put up to the characters' neck midway through their attempt to say the phrase.
20	* '''Zig Zagged''': The army doesn't arrive... but then it actually does, after a fair bit of time. But then, the newly-arrived soldiers realize it's lunch time and call a break.
21	* '''Averted''': The phrase isn't used at all, or there is no army.
22	* '''Enforced''': "We need a moment to bring in TheCavalry and people have seen it already, write it in."
23	* '''Lampshaded''':
24	** "Where were you hiding all these guys?!"
25	** "Why did I say that? It never ends well."
26	* '''Invoked''': Charlie [[BatmanGambit sets this up as he knows Alice and Bob will go through this exchange]]...
27	* '''Exploited''':
28	** ... and uses it to wipe out Alice, Bob and Bob's army all in one fell swoop.
29	** Alice uses this as a way to get Bob's forces out in the open rather than risk an ambush.
30	* '''Defied''':
31	** Alice realizes Bob is about to call in his army, so simply keeps him talking, making it seem as if he might very well convince her to stop without having to call them in. Then she finishes her edit and runs.
32	** [[OneManArmy Not]] even an [[PersonOfMassDestruction army]] will be [[NotHyperbole enough]] to [[{{Determinator}} deter]], let alone ''[[TheJuggernaut stop]]'', Alice.
33	* '''Discussed''': "Dude, you probably should have told me he was an army general before you let me say that."
34	* '''Conversed''': "You know, is there ever any actual time when someone says 'You and what army' and it just ends there?"
35	* '''Played For Laughs''': The army retreats, is incompetent, is composed of bizarre elements, or is otherwise a bother.
36	* '''Played For Drama''': The army is there to enforce things. [[GunboatDiplomacy Violently]].
37	* '''Played For Horror''': It's not an "army", it's a ''[[TorchesAndPitchforks lynch mob]]'' one million strong.
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39	So you wanna go back, huh? [[YouAndWhatArmy You and what back button?]]
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41	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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43	%%* '''Implied''': ???
44	%%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
45	%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
46	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
47	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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