Basic Trope: One person gets mad at another for not contacting them.
- Straight: Bob comes back from a three-day trip and Alice chews him out for not calling her or leaving any messages.
- Exaggerated: Bob comes back later from work than usual one day because he went to the store on the way home. Alice immediately chews him out the second he is back home.
- Downplayed: Bob comes back from a three-day trip. Alice grumpily tells him he could have called but quickly moves on to other topics.
- Justified:
- Bob has a dangerous job; not hearing from him makes Alice fear he died.
- Bob is still relatively inexperienced.
- Alice is a Clingy Jealous Girl.
- Inverted:
- Bob comes back from a three-day trip and Alice is happy he didn't contact her.
- Bob gets mad at Alice for giving him well over a million calls.
- Subverted: Bob comes home to find an annoyed Alice. It turns out that the boiler just happened to break earlier that day and that is why she seems irritated.
- Double Subverted: ... But Alice then turns around as they are looking at the boiler and grumbles "if you had just called to let me know you left, maybe I'd have gotten this fixed by now rather than waited for you..."
- Parodied:
- Bob goes out briefly to check the mail, returning to a theatrically enraged Alice, who castigates him for not calling her while he was gone.
- Bob is gone for several years, but all it takes to placate Alice is a simple text message where he just says “Hey”.
- Zig Zagged: Bob goes on multiple unannounced trips; sometimes Alice minds, sometimes she doesn't.
- Averted: The characters contact each other before going on long trips.
- Enforced: The author wants to show how much Alice cares about Bob.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Let me guess — I should have called?
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Charles tries to drive a wedge between Alice and Bob by pointing out that Bob never seems to call her.
- Defied:Alice: Bob is an adult. He’ll call me whenever he’s ready.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: The lead-up to Bob’s return is shown, with Alice angrily looking up at her phone.
- Played For Drama: ???
How dare you spend five minutes on this subpage without calling? Calling Out for Not Calling is furious!
