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• Straight: Alice has a crisis of conscience. A good angel with wings and a halo dressed in a modest white kimono appears on her right shoulder, appealing to her good or nice side. A demon with a skimpy top, fishnet stockings, and a miniskirt and stiletto heels appears on the other, appealing to her selfish or mean side.
• Exaggerated: Other Exposition Fairy type characters (representing all aspects of her personality) appear to offer their two cents.
• Downplayed: ???
• Justified: Alice is having a crisis of conscience; caught between what she should do and what she maybe wants to do.
• Inverted:
  • The Devil is the one who gives good advice The Angel is the one who gives evil advice
  • Alice counsels the angel and the devil.
• Subverted:
  • The devil character attacks the angel character. (Or the other way around.)
  • Bad Angel, Worse Angel or Good Angel, Better Angel.
  • The two angels represent opposite ends of a Blue and Orange Morality scale.
  • Alice has a crisis of conscience. An angel and a devil appear on her shoulders and start arguing about what she should do. Alice tells them to shut up and makes the decision without their help.
  • One of the angels shrugs and goes along with the other side.
  • Alice is on such an extreme that the angel representing the opposite of her extreme either is extremely ineffectual or encourages the extreme behavior to a slightly lesser extent.
  • The angel and devil turn out to be illusions cast by a low-level mage looking to manipulate Alice
• Double Subverted:
  • But the angel character fights back. (Or the other way around.)
  • The low-level mage is Alice herself, and the images are projected by the lighter and darker sides of her own subconscious.
• Parodied:
  • The appearance of the angels is set up like the beginning of a wrestling or boxing match: "In this corner, from the Superego, representing virtue and selflessness, Angelica! And her opponent, from the Id, representing vice and selfishness, Diabolica!" *ding, ding!*
  • The ensuing battle sets Alice's head on fire and she runs away screaming.
  • The two characters' fighting literally gives Alice a headache.
  • The only character to appear is Diabolica. (Angelica is duct taped to a chair.)
  • Diabolica raises a valid point, and Angelica takes her side.
  • Or, alternatively, Angelica raises a valid point, and since Even Evil Has Standards, Diabolica sides with her.
  • The shoulder angels have shoulder angels of their own advising them.
  • The shoulder angels that appear aren't Alice's.
• Zig Zagged: ???
• Averted: No conceptual representations of conscience appear on Alice's shoulder or anywhere else.
• Enforced: "We need to show an abstract concept like a crisis of conscience in a way the audience can understand."
• Lampshaded: "Hey Angel, Devil, what advice do you have for me?"
• Invoked: Alice is faced with a tough moral decision to make.
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Alice decides for herself, rather than letting an Exposition Fairy make the choice for her.
• Discussed: "Man, I wish we had those shoulder angel things that help you with moral decisions."
• Conversed: "Alice is just staring off into space, muttering to herself. You think she has those two things on her shoulder that tell her what's good or bad?"
• Deconstructed: Alice actually has a mental disorder. When she tells her family that there is an angel and a devil telling her what to do, the family gets worried and puts her on medication.
• Reconstructed: Alice is actually getting counseling from her parents. She just happens to think of her mother as an angel and her father as a devil or vice versa.
• Played For Laughs: The two characters have an Escalating War going on, and focus on attacking each other more than helping Alice think.
• Played For Drama: Both raise equally valid points, and so neither one is particularly helpful.