Basic Trope: A threat to a certain area.
- Straight: Alice threatens to castrate Bob.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice threatens to cut off Bob's legs as well.
- Alice graphically demonstrates her threat by carrying it out on an anatomically correct male statue.
- Downplayed: Alice threatens Bob with a Groin Attack.
- Justified:
- She actually means to do it.
- Alice knows that the threat of genital mutilation will persuade Bob to keep his nose clean.
- Inverted: Alice bribes Bob with an implant.
- Gender-Inverted: Bob threatens to cut Alice's breasts off.
- Subverted: Alice threatens to make Bob sing soprano for a year. Alice is a wonderful vocal tutor.
- Double Subverted: Her tuition methods include castration.
- Parodied: Alice threatens Bob with several metaphors, which he doesn't get.
- Zig Zagged: Alice keeps changing her threats.
- Averted: No one is threatend with castration.
- Enforced: "We need a good threat for this threatening threatener to threateningly threaten the threatened guy with"
- Lampshaded: "Real original threat there, pal."
- Invoked: "Okay Alice, threaten this guy the classic way."
- Exploited: Bob has had a long time fear of castration.
- Defied:
- "I'd cut your balls off, but what is there to cut?"
- Bob threatens to call the police on Alice if she threatens to castrate him.
- Discussed: "People always seem to go with the nether area for threats. Not me. Hearts tend to be more effective."
- Conversed: "Oh, that threat. Really original writing there.'
Go back to Freudian Threat or I'll get you where it don't grow back.
