Basic Trope: A fight during a legislative meeting.
- Straight: During the People's Congress, Alice's party gets into a fight with Bob's.
- Exaggerated:
- The fight lasts for hours and results in several deaths.
- The fight results in injuries, deaths, a rape, bestiality, the Capitol being burned down, littering, embezzling, and jaywalking.
- Every meeting ends with a Brutal Brawl.
- The legislative meeting ends in a full-blown war.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Bob get into a small fight which is broken up.
- The parties get into a shouting match.
- Justified:
- Political tensions are at an all-time high.
- The current form of government is in a post-apocalyptic era where standards have been lowered, so legislative meetings turning into wars has become the norm between Alice and Bob’s opposing parties due to the lack of order and restraint in such times.
- A real-life brawl just broke out in a legislative meeting.
- Inverted:
- The opposing parties hug it out and talk about how much they like each other.
- During a debate, Alice has a heart attack. Bob gives her CPR.
- Alice and Bob make out or have sex during a meeting.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob gets into a verbal argument, but don't physically fight.
- Double Subverted: Until Alice slaps Bob and Bob hits her back, both joined by their parties.
- Parodied:
- A fight breaks out between the two sides of a middle school debate team.
- Politicians are elected on the basis of their fighting ability.
- All the legislators wear Ice Hockey jerseys, and the presiding officer is dressed like a referee. Fights break out on a daily basis (they grab onto each others' jerseys and punch each other in the face), and the participants are then taken to a penalty box.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: A legislative meeting takes place, and no violence occurs between the parties.
- Enforced: "Hey, did you hear about that big fight in the Parliament of —" "Oh yeah. We gotta cash in."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob intentionally goads Alice into physically lashing out so he can run a smear campaign against her.
- Exploited: Alice wins the fight against Bob and creates a smear campaign calling Bob a "loser."
- Defied: When Alice and Bob fight, the Speaker commands them to stop, has security drag them out, and suspends them from future meetings.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Legislators are seated according to their party affiliation and a line of guards separates the two groups.
- Deconstructed: The legislators spend so much time getting into physical fights that they forget to actually, y'know, legislate.
- Reconstructed: Trial by combat is used to resolve partisan deadlock. It's far from ideal, but it lets legislators blow off steam, and it's clearly the only way to get things done at this point.
- Played For Laughs: A legislative meeting on the federal level turns into a violent brawl. The meeting was to determine the country’s national butterfly.
- Played For Drama: Alice and Bob are the leaders of two opposing political parties in an unstable country. Tempers are running hot and any hostility from either side could result in war being declared.
