Basic Trope: A changing painting or photo gets Played for Horror.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are exploring a supposedly haunted house. Bob sees a painting on the wall develop a Slasher Smile after he turns his back for few minutes.
- Exaggerated: Alice and Bob are exploring a supposedly haunted house. Bob sees a painting of a beautiful, innocent-looking young woman turn into a painting of a slavering monster.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Bob are exploring a supposedly haunted house. Bob sees a small detail in the background of the painting has changed after he turns his back for a moment.
- The innocent smile of the young woman changes into a smirk while Alice and Bob turn their backs the painting.
- Justified: The specter of lord of the mansion Hortensius Malicus rests in that painting.
- Inverted: A changing painting or photo is Played for Laughs.
- Subverted: Alice and Bob are exploring a supposedly haunted house. Bob sees a painting develop a Slasher Smile after he turns his back...but it turns out the house had a gas leak and Bob was hallucinating.
- Double Subverted: But after the leak gets dealt with, he comes back, and the paintings still change.
- Zigzagged: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Averted: No paintings or photos change in a creepy way.
- Enforced: The author is doing a spoof of scary movies and knows this is a common trope.
- Lampshaded:Bob: A minute ago, that painting didn't have that smile...I'm getting creeped out.
- Invoked: Dracone swaps out paintings while Bob isn't looking to gaslight him.
- Exploited: Bob takes pictures of the changing painting to prove that the house is haunted.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Ho-hum, the old 'creepy changing painting.' That's old as silent movies!"
I-I'm not trying to be funny, but I feel like the picture on the main page changed...
