Basic Trope: Gems produce light of their own.
- Straight: Tropeite glows rather then just refracting light.
- Exaggerated: Tropeite glows so bright that it makes almost everyone who sees it blind.
- Downplayed: Tropeite has a dim glow.
- Justified:
- Tropeite comes from a world of Crystalline Creatures or is one itself, and glows using bioluminescence.
- Power Glows in the setting.
- Inverted: Tropeite absorbs light from it's environment.
- Subverted: Tropeite appears to glow, but it's just refracting light.
- Double Subverted: When the light is removed, it ends up glowing after all.
- Parodied: Tropeite sometimes goes out like a broken lightbulb and needs changing.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Tropeite glows, sometimes it doesnt. Occasionally regular gems glow as well.
- Averted: Tropeite doesn't glow.
- Enforced: "We need to make Tropeite feel special. What if we made it glow?"
- Lampshaded: "Some gems really do shine."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: People use Tropeite as a Fantastic Light Source.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "I've never seen a gem that bright." "Well, Tropeite doesn't just refract light, it produces its own."
- Conversed: "Why do gems always glow in these fantasy works?" "Cos they look cool."
- Deconstructed: People who mine Tropeite go blind over time.
- Reconstructed: Unless they have good eye protection, that is. And Tropeite helps them see what they're doing as it illuminates caverns.
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