Basic Trope: Something is desirable because it is not allowed.
- Straight: Alice tells Bob not to open a specific door. Bob is overtaken by the desire to open it. Turns out the door was holding a Sealed Evil in a Can and Bob opening the door released it.
- Exaggerated: Alice puts Bob in a room, tells him he must never leave it, and then leaves the door unlocked. Him leaving the room brings forth The End of the World as We Know It.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified:
- People naturally want freedom. When Bob was forbidden from opening the door, his instinctual desire was to regain the "right" he was denied.
- The Masquerade is in effect and Bob doesn't know about the existence of the supernatural. He wouldn't have believed Alice if she told him what was behind the door.
- Inverted: Alice encourages Bob to open a door. But he refuses, fearing that there is a monster behind the door.
- Subverted: Alice tells Bob that he must not open a specific door. Bob asks her why that is, and she explains that it holds a Sealed Evil in a Can. This satisfies Bob and quells his curiosity.
- Double Subverted: Bob starts to doubt if Alice's claims are real.
- Parodied: The door is covered in signs that say "Trust me! You really don't want to open that door! There isn't any good stuff in there! I promise, you won't like it!"
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice asks Bob not to open the door. Bob accepts this.
- Enforced: "We need to give the kids An Aesop about how listening to authority is important, even if it doesn't always make sense."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked:
- The door doesn't have anything dangerous behind it; only a device that will alert Alice if it is opened. Alice set up the door as a Secret Test of Character to see if Bob is trustworthy.
- Alice has become too corrupt to open that door, so she uses reverse psychology to get Bob to do it, while technically being blameless herself.
- Exploited: Alice is secretly a servant of the Sealed Evil in a Can that is unable to open the door herself, so she instead tempts Bob into opening it by forbidding him without good reason.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Whatever you do, you must not go back to Forbidden Fruit!
