Playing With / Flag Bikini

Basic Trope: A swimsuit or similar garment boasting a flag design.

• Straight:
  • Alice wears an American flag bikini.
  • Annabelle wears a Union Jack bikini.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alice wears an American flag wetsuit.
  • All of Alice's clothes have the same American flag design.
  • Her American flag bikini is the only garment Alice owns, whether it's just one or many of them.
• Downplayed:
  • Alice wears a bikini with a red, white and blue design.
  • Alice wears a blouse with an American flag design.
• Justified:
  • It's the Fourth of July.
  • Alice is eye candy at a political convention.
  • Alice loves bikinis and her country.
• Subverted: The bikini only looks like an American flag from a distance, it's just blue and red.
• Double Subverted: Alice redesigns it to look like an American flag.
• Inverted: Alice has flag bikinis of every country but her own.
• Parodied:
  • Despite being a Euro-American, Alice wears a Jamaican flag bikini.
  • After she is disillusioned by her country, Alice's bikini disappears. She screams and runs off naked.
  • After she is disillusioned by her country, Alice's bikini fades to white.
  • When she realises that she was born in England, Alice's bikini turns into a Union Jack design and she starts to speak in an English accent.
  • When she is granted American citizenship, Ana's Mexican flag bikini (which she always wears) turns into an American one.
• Averted:
  • Alice is never seen wearing a bikini.
  • Alice's feelings towards the United States go unmentioned.
• Defied: Alice thinks flag designs are dumb and doesn't wear one.
• Zig-Zagged: In each of her appearances, Alice alternates between wearing the American flag bikini, a different swimsuit, street clothes, and just going naked.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded:
  Betty: There's the lovely Alice in her American flag bikini.
  Bob: You can tell she's an American patriot.
• Discussed: "It might be a bit over-the-top, but what better to wear to a Fourth of July pool party than a patriotic swimsuit?"
• Conversed: ???
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: Alice's American flag bikini is her Iconic Outfit and anybody looking for her can pick her out of a crowd with ease.
• Played for Laughs: Alice wears a Mauritanian flag bikini. She keeps having to explain to people what her bikini is supposed to look like.
• Played for Drama: ???
• Played for Horror: Someone whose country suffered because of official American activity has a Freak Out every time they see an American flag, and Alice in her American flag bikini is Accidental Nightmare Fuel.
• Implied: Alice brags that her bikini looks all-American and patriotic.
• Unparodied: ???
• Untwisted: ???
• Deconstructed: ???
• Reconstructed: ???