Basic Trope: Someone's birthday party goes wrong.
- Straight: During Chris's birthday party, his food spoils, the games turn out badly, and he gets multiple presents he doesn't want.
- Exaggerated: Chris's party is an outright Nasty Party, where the partygoers all get killed.
- Downplayed: Chris's party has some unpleasant moments, but he can deal with it for the most part.
- Justified: Can be Truth in Television.
- Inverted: Chris's birthday is a lot of fun.
- Subverted: Something goes wrong at the party, but Chris manages to make it work or even likes it in the end.
- Double Subverted: Then something even worse happens, which Chris couldn't prepare for.
- Parodied: Chris believes that his birthday party is ruined because he got a gift he didn't really want.
- Zig-Zagged: Chris thinks his birthday will be ruined because it's raining in the morning. But all his friends show up, which cheers him up. Turns out they don't like the party games or food he's prepared. However, his parents reassure him that just spending time with them can still be a special memory.
- Averted: No birthday parties happen.
- Enforced: "We need to have something go wrong at Chris's party—he is the Butt-Monkey, after all!"
- Lampshaded: "This has been a really bad birthday..."
- Invoked: Someone at Chris's party decides to be a huge jerk and ruin the party for no good reason.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Chris decides to have a good birthday party, no matter what.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: When Mary asks what Chris's party was like, he just sighs and says he doesn't want to talk about it.
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