Basic Trope: A character asks a question expecting a no or a vague/complicated answer, but instead gets a yes.
- Straight:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: Yes. - Exaggerated:Alice: Do you think that everyone besides yourself is just pond scum that you can do what ever you want to do with?
Emperor Evulz: Yes, Isn't it obvious? - Downplayed:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: …it is a bit more complex that. But let's keep it simple and say: Yes. - Justified: To Evulz, the answer to the question is so obvious it seems pointless to ask in the first place.
- Inverted:
- A person asks a rhetorical question and gets an answer they didn't expect.
- A person asks a question expecting a yes or a vague answer, but instead get a rather blunt no.
- A person asks a question, excepting a simple yes or no, get a vague answer instead.
- Subverted:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: Yes! Well… no of course not! - Double Subverted:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: Yes! Well… no of course not! Some people die to serve me. - Parodied:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: Hmm, let me think about—yes. - Zig-Zagged:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: Yes… wait, no… wait, that means it's a yes… but then what about… - Averted:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: No, just my Elite Mooks. - Enforced: The writer wanted to establish Emperor Evulz as a Deadpan Snarker, and this was the quickest and most potent way to do it.
- Lampshaded: "You really don't care about your people? I should have expected something from a Tyrant like you!"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited:
- Someone tries to get the conversation on tape to show how little Emperor Evulz cares for their followers.
- Bob previously set the MacGuffin's self-destruct activation code to "Yes".
- Defied:Alice: Do you think that everyone lives to serve you?
Emperor Evulz: Of course not! What do you think I am, some kind of monster?! - Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I really expected Evulz to simply say 'yes'—a villain like him wouldn't care about his people."
- "Do you think this link leads back to Blunt "Yes"?"
"Yes."
