Basic Trope: Tickling is used just for fun.
- Straight: Alice and her friend Stacy are hanging out, and Alice decides to tickle Stacy’s ribs just for fun.
- Exagerated:
- Alice tickles Stacy for several hours.
- Alice uses tools on all the different parts of Stacy’s body.
- Alice uses a machine.
- Alice tickles Stacy until she pees.
- Downplayed: Alice playfully tickles Stacey's foot for a few seconds to get her attention.
- Justified:
- Alice is tickling Stacy as a Prank Punishment.
- Alice has a tickling fetish.
- Inverted:
- Subverted: Alice suddenly grabs Stacy’s ankles and removes her shoes and socks. Stacy is afraid she’s going to tickle her feet, but instead she gives her a massage.
- Alice is actually trying to torture Stacey for information.
- Double Subverted: Alice was massaging Stacy’s feet to get her in a vulnerable position, and surprise her when she begins tickling her bare feet like crazy.
- The information is something inconsequential.
- Parodied: Alice is giving Stacy’s feet a pedicure, but it ends up tickling instead.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Stacy have a tickle fight.
- Averted: Alice and Stacy do not tickle each other.
- Enforced: Author Appeal
- Lampshaded: "Look out, Stacy! The tickle monster is here!"
- Invoked: Bob tells Alice to tickle Stacy because he wants to see her smile.
- Exploited: Alice sees that Stacy is a bit down and does this to cheer her up.
- Defied: "Don't even think about it. I will kick you in the face."
- Discussed:
- Conversed:
- Deconstructed:
- Stacy isn’t ticklish.
- Stacy hates it.
- Stacy passes out from laughing.
- Stacy enjoys it at first, but after a while she can’t stand it.
- Stacy is just not in the mood.
- Reconstructed:
- ...So she tickles Alice back, knowing she is very ticklish.
- Stacy knows that Alice meant well and is not angry at her.
- Alice has a My God, What Have I Done? moment when she realizes Stacy has fainted and tries to make it up to her.
- Alice and Stacy use a Safe Word.
- Alice understands, and waits for a better time.
- Played for Drama:
- Stacy dies from lack of oxygen.
- Stacy is captured by the villain, and has a robot tickle her ribs as torture.
