Basic Trope: A series that is originally grounded in reality starts incorporating more and more fantastical elements
- Straight: Alice and Bob starts in Season 1 with the main cast of Alice and Bob - two regular humans who both work at a coffee shop. However, by Season 3, a coworker named Charlie is hired, who is a wizard who uses his magical abilities on the job to speed things up.
- Exaggerated: Episode 1 of Alice and Bob follows the two titular characters working at their Troperville coffee shop, but in Episode 2, both Alice and Bob become wizards who have to stop the dark lord.
- Downplayed: Charlie was a member of the cast since Episode 1, but as the series goes on, he gains more and more magical powers.
- Justified:
- Inverted: Alice, Bob, and Charlie starts in Season 1 with the main cast of Alice and Bob, two regular humans, and Charlie, a wizard. In Season 3, Charlie's magical abilities are removed.
- Subverted: Charlie only claims to be a wizard, and is actually just a skilled gadgeteer.
- Double Subverted: Later in Season 3, he makes a machine that turns him into a genuine wizard.
- Parodied:
- Zig-Zagged: Charlie gets Put on a Bus before he could use the machine on himself, and the machine is destroyed soon after.
- Averted: Alice and Bob stays completely grounded in reality throughout its run.
- Alternatively, Alice and Bob is fully fantastical throughout its run.
- Enforced: The company that produces Alice and Bob thinks that viewers will be more interested in fantasy fiction than realistic fiction.
- Lampshaded: "You're a wizard, Charlie?! I thought magic was something you only saw in fiction!"
- Defied: The government outlaws all forms of magic.
- Conversed: "Isn't it weird how nobody's questioning how Charlie's a wizard, even though magic has never existed in this show before?"
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