Basic Trope: Enjoying getting dirty.
- Straight: Alice rolls happily around in the mud.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone likes rolling around in the mud.
- Getting dirty is all Alice is interested in and she's sad if she's clean.
- Alice likes to roll in rotten meat.
- Downplayed: Unlike Bob the Neat Freak, Alice doesn't mind getting dirty, but she doesn't actually think it's fun.
- Justified: Alice is a small child, only five or six years old.
- Inverted:
- Alice is a huge Neat Freak and doesn't like getting a single bit of dust on her.
- Alice really likes getting clean.
- Subverted: Alice is rolling in the mud, but later expressed that she didn't like it.
- Double Subverted: She was lying.
- Parodied: Alice is a pig, hence why she likes getting dirty.
- Zigzagged: Sometimes, Alice seems to like getting dirty, sometimes she doesn't.
- Averted: Nobody gets dirty and enjoys it.
- Lampshaded: "What's so great about dirt, Alice?"
- Enforced: "Bob is too cautious and paranoid. Let's get him out of his shell a bit by having Alice invite him to play in the mud."
- Invoked: Bob tries to make the mud fun for Alice.
- Exploited: A supervillain creates magical mud puddles in the yard, enticing the children to jump in them. But the puddles are a trap, and the children are turned into pigs.
- Defied: Alice refuses to get dirty.
- Discussed: "Why do some people like to get dirty?"
- Conversed: "Why does that character like the mud so much?"
- Implied: Alice is seen in the mud. She never expresses emotion, but she wouldn't be doing it if she didn't like it.
- Deconstructed: Alice ends up getting germs and/or smelling bad.
- Reconstructed: She likes getting dirty, but doesn't mind getting clean afterwards.
- Played for Laughs: Alice is comically The Pigpen thanks to her habit.
- Played for Drama: Alice has sensory issues and rolling in the mud is the only thing that can calm her down. She hates being dirty afterwards, but it's necessary for her.
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