Basic Trope: A fictional drug.
- Straight: Bob ingests TR-0PEs, a drug that causes the user to edit TV Tropes for a day, or else they will be weak and sickly.
- Exaggerated: Bob takes TR-0PEs, a drug that makes the user edit TV Tropes for the rest of their life, or else they will die.
- Downplayed: Bob takes TR-0PEs, a drug that makes the user have an affinity for editing TV Tropes.
- Justified: It's set in the near future, so it's not unreasonable that they would have new drugs.
- Inverted: Bob ingests a real-life drug with all its realistic effects.
- Subverted: Bob says he's taking TR-0PEs, but it's actually a slang term for a real life drug.
- Double Subverted: Except the effects are entirely different, essentially calling a smeerp a rabbit.
- Parodied: Bob snorts TR-0PEs, which takes the form of a white powder causing cocaine-like effects, and repeatedly insists that the drug he's taking isn't cocaine.
- Zig Zagged: Bob takes TR-0PEs, a fictional variant of a real-life drug but isn't the same drug in the fiction, but the effects are practically the same, apart from a few minor ones.
- Averted: Bob doesn't take any drugs.
- Enforced: The author wants to do a hard-hitting exposé of drugs, but the age ratings for his work would go up if he showed real drugs, so he makes up a fictional one.
- Lampshaded: "Huh, I never heard of TR-0PEs. Must be a new designer drug."
- Invoked: In a Very Special Episode, a character is seen ingesting TR-0PEs, and later being unable to stop editing TV Tropes.
- Exploited: The fact that the drug is unknown means that there isn't any laws against it, so head shops and drug dealers make a killing by selling them and don't get caught by the police.
- Defied: TR-0PEs is mostly ignored because everyone is under its effects anyway.
- Discussed: "Funny how popular these TR-0PE things got. I mean, last week, never heard of it. Now every dealer's slinging it."
- Conversed: "Jeez, why can't the writers just say it's PCP and get it done with?"
- Implied: The drug's name isn't mentioned, but the effects don't match any real drug.
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