Basic Trope: Due to circumstances out of a character's control, they eat lunch alone.
- Straight: While at Troper High, Bob eats lunch alone - against his will.
- Exaggerated: Bob is desperate for human contact, but he eats every single meal alone his entire life.
- Downplayed: Bob is part of a small, ever-changing clique throughout his high school years - sometimes he's eating alone, other times he's not.
- Justified:
- Bob has poor hygiene.
- Bob is a Jerkass.
- Bob is smarter than his classmates and isolates himself.
- The Alpha Bitch started a cruel rumor about Bob.
- Troper High currently has Bob as its one and only pupil.
- Inverted: Bob eats lunch at the biggest table in the school.
- Subverted:
- Bob is seen eating alone on Monday. The other people in his clique were out that day, though, and they're shown eating with him Tuesday.
- Bob only looks sad to be eating alone. When someone tries to sit near him, he tells them to go away as he prefers the solitude.
- Double Subverted:
- Bob's seen eating alone again Wednesday.
- Bob truly does hate eating alone; he just didn't like the pity.
- Parodied: Every student at Troper High goes to do their own thing for lunch; despite this, Bob is still singled out as a loner for some reason.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: The fact that Bob is eating lunch alone isn't brought up.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Since he eats alone, the Alpha Bitch is able to easily turn others against Bob - after all, "we don't know what he's plotting there".
- Defied:
- "Fine, you got me. I hate eating alone. Mind if I sit with you?"
- "You always eat alone. I'm sitting with you and I'm not taking no for an answer."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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