Basic Trope: A character behaves uncharacteristically as part of a group action.
- Straight: When Alice slips on a Banana Peel, a crowd laughs, including Bob, who's usually The Stoic.
- Exaggerated: The crowd laughs, even though none of them would usually laugh at someone.
- Downplayed: Most of the crowd laughs uproariously, but Bob just does a dry chuckle.
- Justified:
- Bob is drunk, high, or had hit his head or been under anaesthesia, so he's not all there.
- Bob fell victim to herd mentality.
- Inverted: When Alice slips on a banana peel, a whole crowd of people, except Bob, who are usually stoics, don't react, unlike Bob, who busts his gut laughing at the sight.
- Subverted:
- It then turns out this was not Bob, but his identical twin brother Charlie.
- Bob turns out to have been possessed.
- Double Subverted:
- Charlie turns out to be just as stoic as Bob usually.
- ...By recurring demon character Galvuman, who is normally a very snobby demon who is above human frivolities like humour.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged: The whole episode is based around why Bob laughed, and whether it was really Bob or an impostor, and some of the potential subjects would have also been acting out of character had they laughed.
- Averted:
- Bob is the only one in the scene who does not laugh.
- Bob is not in the scene, so it makes more sense to have everybody laugh.
- Enforced:
- "The audience isn't gonna laugh unless everyone is laughing!" "But Bob's The Stoic, he wouldn-" "Did I stutter? Everyone!"
- In an animated show, it's cheaper to have the whole group be animated as laughing.
- Lampshaded: "Et tu, Bob? I thought I could trust you of all people not to laugh at me."
- Invoked:
- Exploited:
- Defied: Bob stops himself from laughing when the others laugh.
- Discussed: "...And then they all started laughing at me! Even Bob, who usually never even cracks a smile!"
- Conversed: "I've seen it all the time on TV. You'll have these groups, all doing something, even the one who'd normally never be caught dead doing something like that."
- Implied: Alice is never seen slipping on the banana peel, but after it happens, she is angry with some other characters for laughing at her, including Bob.
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Laughs: After laughing, Bob clears his throat and looks awkward.
- Played for Drama: Bob laughing when he wouldn't normally is a sign he's been traumatised.
- Played for Horror: Supernatural forces cause people to mimic the personalities of everyone around them.
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