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alt title(s): Subverted; Subversion In other words, the story does not trick the player, it is the player that tricks himself.
No one expects the subverted inquisition!
Tropes live in the minds of the audience. When a screenwriter successfully builds an expectation that a trope is coming, then wrests the situation into a very new shape, invalidating the expectation and surprising the viewer, you have a Subverted Trope.
This is one method of leveraging a trope to give a story texture. It certainly isn't the only way.
A subversion has two mandatory segments. First, the expectation is set up that something we have seen plenty of times before is coming, then that set-up is paid off with something else. The set-up is a trope. The "something else" is the subversion.
Meta Trope Intro compares this with many other ways that a trope can be used.
See also Discredited Trope, Dead Horse Trope, Double Subversion.
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