Basic Trope: A crossdresser is portrayed as weird and creepy.
- Straight: Bob dresses as a woman, and his clothing and makeup make him look very frightening and weird.
- Exaggerated: Bob dresses as a woman, and it turns into a Brown Note.
- Downplayed: Bob's crossdressing is mildly creepy, but it's not hard to get used to.
- Justified:
- Bob doesn't know how to dress as a woman, and he gets it wrong in a very unsettling way.
- Bob is intentionally crossdressing badly in an attempt to be funny but it just comes off as creepy instead.
- Inverted:
- Bob is absurdly masculine to the point it becomes creepy.
- Bob is a lot more normal-behaved and even attractive when crossdressing.
- Bob becomes the target for perverts when crossdressing.
- Gender Inverted: Alice crossdresses as a man and the result is disturbing.
- Subverted:
- Charlie worries Bob will turn out to be creepy when crossdressing, but Bob is actually quite attractive in drag.
- Bob is initially viewed as creepy by other character because he is a crossdresser, but he turns out to not be as creepy of an individual as he seems.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob is an attractive crossdresser, but it's still a little unnerving.
- But then Bob turns into a extremely hideous monster.
- Parodied: Bob is among Bird People who have colorful males and consider bright colors masculine. Bob wears camoflague in a stealth mission and every birdman is utterly creeped out.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob sometimes crossdresses creepily and other times not creepily.
- Averted: Bob's crossdressing is not creepy.
- Enforced: The producers have noted that crossdressers have become a subject of media attention, and demand the show include a creepy crossdresser.
- Lampshaded: "Ugh, those crossdressers freak me out."
- Invoked:
- Bob is deliberately gearing his style of crossdressing towards make someone uncomfortable.
- As a mean-spirited prank, someone gives Bob bad advice about how to crossdress, causing him to look creepy.
- Exploited: A Heteronormative Crusader uses Bob's creepy appearance as evidence crossdressers are bad.
- Defied: Someone gives Bob good advice about how to crossdress without looking creepy.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Charlie meets a creepy woman. At the end of the conversation, "she" talks in a lower tone, implying the woman may actually be a crossdresser.
- Deconstructed: Innocent crossdressers are viewed with suspicion because of Bob's creepiness. This goes especially to those who are accidentally creepy because of poor style choices.
- Reconstructed: People are able to distinguish a Wholesome Crossdresser from people like Bob, and help unintentionally creepy crossdressers improve their style.
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